Suffering Socialism's Horrors

What magnor mistake American? You're a great American? Again, the Buck Sexton Show begins. Analysts, remember no, welcome to the Buck Sexton Show. Hundreds of thousands of protesters weeks now of this in France, and you might be saying, well, Buck, what does France have to teach us about anything? We'll let me tell you a few things. One if France, as you know, is more of a democratic socialist country than we are, though not that much more to the French.

The Europeans in general, but also the French in particular, are very into their social welfare state and their benefits and their government interventions. And also the green movements. Remember it is the Paris Climate Accords that President Obama was so very, very proud of. It is the French and the Europeans who were said to be leading the way on the environment. Well, it's a very important lesson as these protesters are battling an out with French police on

the streets of major cities across that whole country. And the lesson is summarized as follows. When people who are having a hard enough time paying their bills are told that they're going to have to pay even more for gas and yes, other goods that are made with or transported with gas with oil because of the need to fight climate change, those people tend to get pretty annoyed.

And that's what's happening right now in France. The way the media is reporting on this is just classic, instead of making it clear to your casual observer that this is really a reaction to the ineffectual bureaucraticism of Emmanuel Makran, who was the centrist left favorite candidate of the elites and of the establishment in the most recent election. This is somebody who is supposed to be a political tacticians, supposed to understand markets, supposed to know how to engage

in good governance. This is what the state is so always say they want they want someone who is calm, cool and collected, has the right views and understands systems and bureaucracies well enough to implement them. It's really the progressive dream in this country, mc kroll. It's kind of like Beato, except mc crals actually had to earn a living. From what I understand, Beato just got to marry a billionaire. That's a fun job. I should I should try that

job that I'm going to marry a billionaire routine. Nonetheless, you have these yellow jackets, no relation to the bees. It is because they are in fact wearing these high visibility jackets as a symbol of their of their protests in France. And they're running around and they're very upset, and they're upset because mac kroll, in his infinite wisdom sarcasm, has raised the price of a gas producer. Mike, what is it now? You said right before we came on,

seven dollars seven dollars a gallon? Right now in the US there are a number of states with gas stations with at least one gas station. Heard this today on Fox Business. I think you're at under under two dollars a gallon. You're paying seven dollars a gallon for gas in France and they just added a thirty cent per gallon climate change fighting tax. And then there's a fight, as this always happens, right, they take the money and

just parallel all the things I'm talking about. The Democrats in this country are basically the French political establishment in their own country. Right. The Democrats here mirror image everything that the French political establishment wants that the European elites won. In fact, democrats in this country often point to countries like France but more soda, Denmark and Sweden with their massive social welfare state, their tremendous government intervention in the markets.

They see, we could do it like them. And this is always the response to look at Venezuela, it's a socialist hellscape. Now they say, well look at ten market. I say, okay, well, let's let's look at these places. Let's look at what's going on in France and sure off on the issue of climate change. People who are having a hard time don't want to be told they have to pay more money in a way that's really going to affect them. It's really money out of their

pocket because there's a need to fight climate change. This climate change thing really is some kind of a mental illness at this point. I the fight climate change, how why? Because we're going to stop the temperature from being raised one degree or two in a hundred years. Does anybody really think the different technologies we use today for energy are going to be the same in twenty years, in

five years. Does anyone really think that there's a human being alive today who knows what a modern economy looks like, how it functions, what it's right. Think back, I think back seventy years from where we are right now, and then look seventy years in the future. I don't think anybody could have imagined if if they were to go back to nineteen fifty, that I'd be sitting here talking to you while I have, you know, a computer. I have two computers, one on my desk, one in my hand,

my phone, both of which are more powerful. Either which more powerful than all the computing power of the entire modern world. Right, I mean, you know that's we have changed so dramatically. Mean this idea they can project in the future. This is why that climate change report that came out last week or the week before it was just such nonsense. It's look at the most dire prediction possible, look seventy years out in the future, and and then tell us that we need to change our lives now. No,

and the French have had enough. They're they're up at arms about this, and some of these protests got really nasty. Mean now there's there's footage you can see it. It's tear gas and there protests are getting beat with batons. I mean, they're really going after the cops. Some woman was an elderly woman was killed. You actually got hit

by a tear gas canister in her home. But you know, these protests are ugly, and there's they're vandalizing the Arc de Triomphe, you know, up there with the Eiffel Towers, the most famous and visible symbols of all of France. I mean, this is really combustible stuff there. And do you know who's the most upset by this? I mean, do you know who's at the core of the so called yellow jacket movement in France? People who don't make so little that they qualify for government assistance, but don't

make enough that they can pay their bills. Kind of reminds you of the people that don't like Obamacare in this country, right, not enough that you get free stuff for subsidies you know you got you've got too much money for that, but not enough that you can comfortably pay your bills and be independent, even though you're working, even though you're producing, even though you're being a productive member of society. You know, the government can make things

just too hard. The government is not always helpful. In fact, that government is generally unhelpful when it comes to you paying your bills. The government wants to take from you. It is not assisting you in paying your bills. And the French people know this, and you know this is the group. Also, I would note that in a in a social socialist democrat or democrat socialist, all the same crap state, the people that really suffer the most are those who are struggling but working. They're the ones who

really suffer. And you see this and with the Occasio Cortez and the Bernie Sanders just mythology. I mean, they're either so bad at math that they can't be very smart, or they're just kind of being cynical and really lying to all of us all the time. Because this idea that the numbers can work out. It's just flatly, simply

not true. It is inaccurate to pretend that all you have to do is have the rich pay for the kinds of programs that people want in France to fight climate change, an issue that shouldn't even be under discussion. I mean, this is just nonsense. Fight climate change. You know that. You know that they push fighting climate change to justify the gas tax raise. And then the media in this country is saying, oh, that it's just because gas prices are going up, that's why they're riding. No,

they're forcing. This is just like what Obama want to do. Remember you know electricity prices will skyrocket. That's what Obama said. This is what they want to do. This is destructive

to productivity, This is destructive to wealth. But they think they're so smart they know better than you, whether it's Matt kran or Obama or Sanders or you name it, that the pain that you have to suffer and the private property that the state is appropriating from you, stealing from you, the theft that's occurring under the guise of combating an imaginary foe climate change that's going to melt the world, that upsets people, right, It upsets people when

this happens, and that the theory that the people that are making these decisions are so smart, so much better than all the rest of us, that they know better, and that your suffering doesn't matter, Your pain at the pump for your gas or just trying to pay your bills doesn't really matter because they've got something bigger and better in mind. That is the root fallacy from which

all the rest of socialism's misery grows. That collectivist impulse Oh okay, well this is gonna this is gonna harm some people, but it's gonna be better in the long run, and we know better, so we're just gonna do this thing. No, no, this is this is state intrusion into the market. This is the state involving self in ways that is just damaging. There's no offsetting gain here. This is not oh, we need taxes for a military. This is some of us have this idea and we want the people to fund it.

And the elites don't really care about this, because you know, the real difference in society that you get from those who are working in those who are don't have to care about these democratic socialist policies are. You know, the people that a little more or a little less money doesn't really change their lifestyle. You know, their taxes go up, a little bit down a little bit doesn't affect them, versus people with taxes going up or down means they're

going into debt or not. They can get that house payment down or not, they can send their kid maybe to school or not. I mean, it really matters. And so when you look at these protests in France, I mean it's it's I think a warning of what is to come in this country because when people start to understand what the real costs of these very appealing slogans. Remember Thomas Soul, the great part about socialism is that it sounds good. The bad part about socialism is that

it doesn't freaking work. And in France, you know, they they tend now, they're tending toward bigger government, raising taxes, doing these things. And sure enough, you know people, Yeah, combatant climate chain sounds great until you actually have to pay some money in combatant Then you realize it's all a big joke. You don't want to do it anymore. So I understand the frustration of these yellow jacket protesters by the way, it's they're far left and far right,

as I understand that they're represented in this. This is an uprising of everyday folks. This is an uprising of people, a political insurgency of people who recognize that the French state is messing up. They want mccron to stop, to step down. They're sick of this ineptitude on display from the government. The government isn't giving them, is making promises that it can't follow through on. People's taxes keep going up.

The taxes people can keep going up. Their quality of life is going down, their expenses are going up all the time. You know, remember the current generation of youth activist types, you know, people in their twenties and their thirties. They're the ones who are just realizing, oh, the modern welfare state as we know it. Those bills are really just coming due ten twenty thirty years from now, and these states to meet their obligations are going to have

a crushing tax burden on the youth. I hate to say it, but you know, like the boomers in this country of kind of looted the national treasury, and the future generations the ones that have to make up for

the shortfall. That's just the truth. In the French and European states, they're realizing they've got the same problem that have enough young people working, that have enough people paying in and you can raise taxes and raise taxes, and they created this millionaire's tax was a disaster because they're

really rich. People just leave this is there's there's something going on to you, there's something very troubling about this, this movement in France because it's also coming out of time, just like how they point to the rise of nationalism in Europe and Trump and you know, oh gosh, there's a correlation between this discontent and the recognition that the social democrat state in Europe is crumbling and also doesn't give people a sense of purpose and isn't culturally vibrant

enough to sustain itself over the long term, especially with large amounts of immigration coming from very disparate cultures. There's echoes of what's going on here in this country with the rise of socialist movements. All right, I have to

I've am passionate about this stuff. We'll get into more of this um and uh, you know, I just I find that so I apologize by other guys as you can tell them I'm coming down with a cold, so my voice is it's going to be a little to be a little sketchy during the show today, I'm trying to drink as much teas as they possibly can. But these these socialists in Europe versus the socialists here, they're going to have a very big problem to deal with them.

That is, they're creating this sense of impending utopia, but they're telling me, they're not talking about how we're going to pay for this. And once, you know, once they if they get into powers they have in Europe as they have in France, if they get into power here, if in twenty twenty we have the rise of social socialist democrats in America and in a more open fashion, um, we're going to see a lot of discontent similar to what's happening on the streets of Paris and across France.

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fed up with paying so much all the time. It's become the new normal. By paying so much, it's just not possible anymore, that's right, a bunch of French people, one hundreds of thousands. By the way, the support for this, just so you know that I'm not This isn't like some little small group of radicals. The support for these yellow vest protests that they've been able to measure via polling in France is like seventy to eighty so most of the country, a huge majority of the country supports this.

They're saying, these guys are right, this is bull crap. What's going on? And you hear are these French people that any who are saying they're taxing is too much, They're taking too much of our stuff. Remember in this country, we started a revolution because the man was taking too much of our stuff. In fact, also the man had given a monopoly for the East India Company with tea. But the man was taking too much of our stuff, eating out our substance. I believe from the Declaration of

Independence is the verbiage used. People don't like it when the state is getting too greedy, and the state in France isn't just getting greedy, it's delusional. You're gonna start taking people's money to fight climate change. This is like saying, Hey, I've got an idea. Let's have a forced collection of citizens where we take money from them and then we make a big bonfire and light it on fire. Yeah, that sounds like a great idea. That's what they're doing

in France under the guy's a climate change. This movement has given rise to major demonstrations and also unacceptable violence. I have understanding for these fellow citizens, but I will not give anything to those who want destruction and disorder, because the republic is both public order and the free

expression of opinions. It's not quite as a not quite as catchy when the translator, as I say, but that was Emmanuel Macron, Emmanuel Macron, who is saying, of course, you know, the violence is bad, but he has simply for the people, blah blah, all the things you would expect. This is what's happening, is that the the in the modern, the modern social democrat state, he's running into the issue of how do we pay for all this stuff? And

how does unsustainable debt get handled? I mean, this is where you also have Occasio Cortez say, yeah, let's just spend thirty trillion dollars, want to make it one hundred trillion. The people that are pushing these policies don't understand what these kinds of numbers would do to the overall economy. They just don't have enough of an understanding of how this would affect the private sector, the pressures this would put on investment, on hiring, on innovation, on productivity, on

doing stuff that people want. I mean that the basis of commerce. You know, there can be a level at which it is just simply too much, and we're quickly approaching that. But there is a really interesting piece and made me think of all this over the weekend, called the tax the rich delusion of the Democratic Left by this guy Brian reedal Ever, hear anyone left spell out exactly how they're going to pay for Medicare for all, free college and the rest didn't think so, And he

just he just crunches the numbers. And it's not really that hard and exercise to do. And remember, you've got people rioting on the streets of major French cities, defacing the arc that we offen, squaring off in pitch street battles with riot police, and it's because of a raise in the gas tax. Now, and you have widespread national support for the people that are doing this right, I love in the media says raising gas prices. No, it's

the government camelot, it's exactly. It's essentially a carbon tax, that's all it is. It's the French version of a carbon tax. It's okay, we don't like CO two in the air, so we're gonna tax it. You know, you tax more of it, you get less of it. That's the idea. It's it's a punitive tax for the environment.

And people are already struggling and they're like the environment. Really, he's just gonna make everything more expensive so we can all what have you know, solar panels on our rooftops everywhere. Whenever I make jokes about solar those two with solar panels live in Arizona or something that always write me a a book. My solar panels are great. I'm sure they are. I'm just saying when you start to look at the numbers, here's here's what really comes into comes into stark relief

right away. Here's what he writes. Quote, let's again with income taxes. Remember this is to pay for all the stuff that the social democrats want in Europe, and in this case, this is to pay for the Occasio Cortez Sanders war in wing of the Democrat Party. Free college, free healthcare. What else is free? There's something else that I'm missing. Now those are the big ones. Free college, free healthcare, other free stuff too. They'll figure that out in time. When you start to look at it, it it

gets scary, though. Here you go. Let's begin with income taxes, he writes. Imagine one hundred percent tax rates on all income earned over the one million dollar threshold. That's politically impossible, but for the sake of argument, imagine it. Even that would add just five percent of GDP and revenues until people quickly stopped working at that income. Slightly more realistically, doubling the top tax two taps brackets to seventy and seventy four percent would raise at best one point six

percent of GDP. Show you might say, okay, Bucky raised one point six percent of GDP and taxes to deal with things, all right, So let's now look at what it would cost. When you look at what it would cost, you find out that even if the twenty seventeen and twenty eighteen tax cuts in defense spending hikes expired, The CBO projects a baseline budget deficit running to five percent of GDP over the next decade. And that's when you start to get into the far left wish list that

we're talking about here. Forty two trillion dollars democratic agenda so far the left and Okazio Cortez I've come with two trillion dollars in tax increase. And now why I am we talk about Okasio quartets. She's just saying what other Democrats want but aren't willing to say yet. All right, you know she also wants free electricity. There you go, free electricity. That's gonna be great, universal jobs and housing.

As a human writer, just a few more things on our platfor Oh dude, free, it's gonna be free, every free. Everything's going to be amazing. And what do they want? Forty two trillion dollars of a democratic socialist agenda, single pair of healthcare thirty two trillion, A federal jobs guarantee six point eight trillion, student loan forgiveness one point four trillion, free public college, eight hundred billion, infrastructure a trillion. How the heck do you pay for all that? Will? They say?

Tax the rich? But as I explained before, even if even if you took every single dollar earned over a million dollars, which would actually be a tax on the rich. Usually what they do is say we're going to tax rich people, and then all of a sudden, you got people that are making two hundred grands who are being taxed like they're rich. Well, you know, I got news for them. The average janitor in the New York this

is a true story. The average janitor in the New York City public school system with overtime makes ninety three thousand dollars a year. So if you have a janitor, let's say, married to a school administrator with some seniority in the New York City public school system, that's a household income of let's say, easily one hundred and fifty to one hundred and sixty thousand dollars a year, maybe a little more, maybe a little less. We call it one hundred and fifty k. Are people making one hundred

and fifty k living in a major city rich. I'm not saying that not doing well. They're doing well, but are they rich? Should be paying sixty seventy eighty percent of their income above you know, fifty grand in taxes or above forty grand in taxes because because here's where we're all and here's where this is all heading. This is where things are going to get really ugly. The numbers don't add up. The rich can't pay for this. I don't mean can't like it's not fair. I don't

mean can't like politically it won't happen. I mean they do not have the money to pay for this. It does not exist. You could confiscate every dollar that the rich earn over a million dollars a year, and you would not be able to fund all of these proposals because, you know what, there are a whole lot more people making sixty sixty grand than there are people making six hundred grand. For obviously, the real money is the middle class. That's where the real tax dollars can get got if

you will, that's where they can get the money. And we already have the most progressive tax code of any of the OECD countries. We already have. Trying to you know, these are I'm trying to remember the numbers of the the top of my head, but I don't want to give you the wrong ones. The top twenty percent of taxpayers earned fifty three percent of income but pay sixty nine percent of all federal taxes, including eighty eight percent of all income tax So basically twenty percent of the country

is paying ninety per cent of the income taxes. The bottom forty percent of earners earned fourteen percent of the income will paying no income tax and less than five percent of all federal taxes. So we already have a very progressive tax code. So see, this is where this whole movement and this is big, this is this is going to be at the center of the fight for twenty twenty and you're seeing it play out in a different context and they've got their own political ecosystem. But

in France right now, people want stuff. It sounds good, but they don't want to pay for it. People want free stuff that somebody else is going to pick up the tab for this. This is sound. They got healthcare through This is the whole premise of wealth redistribution. The government knows how much you need, what you need to have, and will be better at allocating those resources than you or than market. This is collectivism. Now people would say

to me, Buck, what about social security? We already have a Yeah, I know, we're already trending toward a democrat socialist state. That's happening. It's been happening after the last sixty years or so, maybe more than that. Some whould argue the last hundred years, but certainly last fifty or sixty years, since the nineteen sixties, the Great Society programs, we have been moving in this direction. And the time when you get real revolutionary fervor is when it's not

when people are just scared or when there's deprivation. Yeah, obviously people can get unsettled, and there can be unrest just because of scarcity because people are destitute or you have enough of a net. But but that also can keep people busy because they're trying to make ends meet. You have real revolutionary, combustible stuff when people have unmet expectations and a sense that they have been wronged. That's

when they mobilize. And what you're going to see with the middle class in this country if the Democrats have their way, is there are all these promises, and if they start to get more of them, if they start to implement some of this, what will happen very quickly is they'll realize, oh, we can't pay for this, and then either the tax rates on the middle class will become outrageous. So it'll be what they have in Sweden or Denmark and a sixty seventy percent, and you know,

go spend some time or there. Not a lot of people that I think you'd really, you know, really want to change places with if you're somebody that enjoys individual rights and freedom and private property. I'm not saying it's a bad place. I'm saying I don't think as an American and that's what you'd want. But the middle class is gonna have to pay sixty percent of their income, all income to the state, and then they'll realize, we'll

hold on a second. Now, my quality of life is really going down, and we don't have a government bureaucracy that's efficient enough to deliver on these services. So then the services aren't going to be as good as we're promised. So now you're gonna have people that are paying more money than they were told they'd have to pay, getting services that aren't nearly as good as they were told

they would be. And we're talking about tens of millions, we're talking maybe the majority of the American people, at least the majority of the American taxpayer. And then things go one of two ways. They either realize the error of this trajectory and scale it back, or they double down. They do what democrats always do. Oh, the only answer is a bigger state, even more taxes, even more government control. And this is to borrow from Hyak, the road to serfdom.

This is how it happens. No one gets on the road to serfdom thinking, you know, what's going to be awesome when the state controls every aspect of my life and I have no real control over my destiny and the property that I have is just what the state allows me to allows me to keep. Now that's a it's a it's generally a gradual process toward that from a free society, and it's descent into into fascism from a free society or relatively free society as those freedoms

are lost. Most places never even get to that point. But this is this is the macro dynamic that's playing out in America, in Europe, and it is going to be It's going to get ugly. It is going to get ugly. I've got more on this than Also I'm gonna talk about immigration and Trump's discussion with Shiji and Ping about China and where all that's going. We have a Jampack show. We'll be back in just a moment. But Buck, you might say, we don't have people as

crazy as some of these street protesters in France. We don't know, oh no, But of course we do, right We already have an anti fum movement in this country right now, anti fuzz pretty fringe. But what if we did have a major economic recession, downturn, collapse. What if their revolutionary rhetoric all of a sudden was supported not just by hard left democrats but by mainstream democrats as well. Do you think that they are committed enough to go the distance and try for real unrest. I can't answer

the question. I can only say that they certainly are crazy enough. Our friend Andy No, who some of you know from Quilette, which is an online publication of a journal of I think controversial thought might be a good way of putting it, which means it's interesting to read. Andy was out at Seattle anti FA protest over the weekend and we had to bleep some of this out, but they recognized our friend Andy. We had a moment last week, I think, to talk about what he saw

in Portland. Well, this is now in Seattle, and this is what one of the American Antifa Seattle protesters said to And you know about this moment in our politics, play one. I can see in your eyes that you've got in Asian descent. Check your history. The history shows you that you can't trust your enemy, but that you're using your enemy against us, spying. Because it's coming. It's coming. I'm bringing the energy. That's why they keep checking on you.

You understanding because they want to know, because I'm known to do this for real, because some of us didn't really come to talk. So it's really come to die. I dude, are you willing to die for a YouTube? Yeah, but that's what's gonna come. That's coming to you, dude, to fill that energy. So your heart's pounded. I'm here to let you know judgments here and he's spying and doing his part. It's gonna get you. End up, death is coming to you. The anti foot protester says, some

of us are ready to die for this stuff. He says now might just be rhetoric. Probably is, but he's certainly not a very well adjusted individual. And it's troubling that there are so many people. I mean, if he were to say that over a loudspeaker in front of ANTIFU, do you think any of them would have told him, Oh, no, we're not about that, We're not about threats or violence. They run around in paramilitary gear, pushing stuff, lighting stuff

on fire, breaking things, tackling people, punching people. Pretty sure they're okay with violence. Now, when you have a revolutionary faction in a country like ours that is stable and doing well, you could say, oh, we can ignore them. It's fine, but things change. Small factions of hardliners and extremists can be very opportunistic. And go back and read the history of revolution in Russia. You'll see the Bolsheviks were never very popular, never had widespread support, but they

were very committed. I'm not saying that Antifa is about to take over roughly half the world, but we do need to keep an eye on the more extreme leftists while we have this problem of a crushing debt and a social welfare state that can't pay for itself. Looming big hour or two coming up, Ho ho ho at. A merry Christmas. If you want the most patriotic, freedom loving Christmas spectacular coffee black rifle coffee is what you need. My friends, I drink it every day. It's how I

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make any firm predictions. I'm just saying the timetable matters. The immediacy of their actions matter. The broad scope, both structural A three discussed as well as the tariffs and the lord tariff bearers. All that needs to start fast, and we will be tracking it. We will be tracking it because we've had promises in the past from China. Okay, okay,

and the promises have not worked out. Now, in the spirit of goodwill, and again the president, she's amazing presentation to President Trump Saturday night, in that positive, optimistic spirit. We have strong expectations, but we must track this on the China issue. He's been talking about this way before he ran for president, and this is a major issue for him. And again, I think this was a breakthrough

moment for the two presidents reaching this agreement. The President is determined to continue to move forward on our economic path and I think this was a great breakthrough. And now the two teams have a lot of work to turn this into a real agreement. So President Trump met with his counterpart, Chinese Premier, President Shi Jinping by it's always great to go with president because that way, I'm sorry to go with premier because that could be the

Prime Minister or the president depending on the country. Otherwise you end up talking about you know, President Merkel or something, and that everyone makes fun of you. But you say premier instead of prime minister, then you're fine. So that's a that's an important, little little trick. Anyway, Chancellor Miracle is really I think the way she's referred to. So you know, there you go. Where were we? Oh? Yes,

talking about China. So China and the US have agreed to a short term diplomatic trade ceasefire, if you will. They've decided they're going to give this three you know, the ninety days, three months to try to work something out here where they're not going to just keep on slapping bigger and bigger tariffs on each other. This was down in Buenos Aires. I really want to go by the way. I always want to check out one sr was here, really good things, but Trump also did something

that might put the Chinese somewhat on edge here. Um, they remember their economies that are really really toughier, Their markets gotten walloped. It's been bad. But Trump appointed Lightheiser to run this whole thing. And you know he's gonna be Robert Lightheiser, who was a US trade representative. He's gonna be the guy negotiating with Beijing. This means that you're not going to see Trump back down. I think you're gonna see or you're not gonna see the administration

back down. They still think that they're going to win this thing. That's why Trump tweeted out my meeting in Argentina with President she Off China was an extraordinary one. Relations with China taken a big leap forward. Very good things will happen. We're dealing from great strength, but China likewise has much to gain if and when a deal is completed level the field. So here is how I see.

Here's a concern that I have. China is playing a long term game, and we are operating not just in four year election cycles, but really in twenty four hour news cycles. China views itself as our only real strategic or rather they are only real strategic threat over the long term, and they're right. The Chinese economy US economy for single nation states, the EU is the technically the largest economy in the world. Well that's not really fair.

I mean, because the EU is a whole lot of countries and they don't get along a lot of things, and their separate nation states. For single nations, China and the China and the United States or are the biggest, and the Chinese view their economic power as essential to their long term hard power military military force. That understand that if they become dominant as an economic power, that

essentially military power will follow. Because one, they got a massive and disproportionately male population, a young and male population, and they're going to have very advanced armaments, and you know they could if they eclipse us economically, the assumption is that they will also eclipse US militarily. It's just a question of when. And that also factors into what they're really willing to do here. I think that there is a zero sum nature and much of the Chinese

thinking on this. They're not looking and this is where I think there might be a flaw in the administration's approach, although maybe Trump understands this very well and that's why he's taking this approach so that they expose this mentality from the Chinese. The Chinese are not looking to find a world I mean, this is a very America. We're number one, but we want everyone to be great kind

of view. The Chinese government, you know, the Standing Committee and Chiesi and Ping, they're not hoping that America and China come to some agreement where everyone's just making more money and everything is cool. They want to beat us. They want they want to win. They're not just looking for win win. They want to win. And that is a different mentality and a different strategic goal than certainly what previous administrations have gone and they're trying to achieve.

You know, it's it's not enough to just say to them, well, if if you stop this and we have much freer free trade, not perfectly free trade, but we have much free or free trade, then then there's the real Then there's the real possibility that you know, everybody will be wealthier, everybody will be better off. The truth is that they want I think that the intellectual property theft, it's a perfect example I'm talking about because that involves also military

and trade secrets. They're not going to stop doing that. They're not going to stop. They may try to put in place some public modifications to those policies so they can say they've stopped. Well, there's no way they're gonna stop.

I mean, there's there's no aspect of the Chinese government that has any authority, what sevice gonna say, Yeah, you know what instead of getting closer and closer to America in terms of its military, it's trade secrets, it's commercial applications of technology all the time, and doing so for pennies on the dollar of what the US spends an R and D and just the you know, blood, sweat and tears of its entrepreneurs. We could just take that. Instead of that, we're going to do it ourselves and

try to catch up in the old fashioned way. Let's have a fair fight. China doesn't want a fair fight. They don't want to fair fight economically, and eventually they're not gonna want to want a fair fight militarily, either whether it's with US or the Indians or who knows. But you know, the Chinese have grand ambitions as a people and as a nation, and they want to be number one, and that means number one at our expense. I think that's that's what our side hasn't really grasped yet.

That's what our team, uh, you know, in this country, not just the Trump administration, but I think in general, just American foreign policy has a hard time dealing with you know, we like to think of this world, you know, one where nationalism is is considered a bad thing. Meanwhile, the rest of the world that is perfectly willing to embrace nationalism. Um, you know in the e the EU being the only place we'd say, oh no, buck, they

like their super super state. Well one is you know, the Brexit with the UK, but also all those countries within the U s to all have a very strong sense of their own national identity. You know, they have an economic union, but not a political union. So there's just not it's not the same approach that the Chinese are taking to this that we would if we were in their shoes, which is just let's just aim for overall prosperity and favorable relationships with our you know, with

other countries and all the rest of it. No, no no, no, they actually want dominance, and dominance is going to cause you know that the quest for cominence with China is going to cause friction. One more point here about the Chinese talks that are just wanting to throw in there before we get onto a little bit of a discussion about what's going on in the border, and that has

to do with actually the fentyel epidemic. Plate ten. One topic that we'll bring up will be the fentinel problem that we have in the United States, which is a tremendous problem. Asking the President to do something about that, I think you'll be able to. If you put that on a restrictive category, we'll be able to pretty much shot the great deal. To criminalize it in China would

be a great fate. See what's happening is fentanyl as being made in commercial style laboratories in China, transshipped from China to Mexico, and then from Mexico, the cartels are moving fentanyl illegally in the United States and selling it's killing a lot of people, a lot of Yeah, the opid epidemic is partially hero which is also coming via Mexico.

But for the opioids that are in pill form fentyl and car fentyl, which is even more powerful than a normal fentyl, that stuff is being made in China and somewhat in Mexico itself and then going across the border. So you know, the Chinese have a hand in preventing the poisoning over seventy thousand Americans. Do I think that they're really going to crack down on this all that much? No, I think China is just fine. As a general notion, of you know, it's better for my enemy to be suffering.

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is doing actually creating the animosity against his people. He's not acting in the best interests of the Russian people, and he is actually causing NATO to rearm and to strengthen the democracy stance, the unified stance of all the democracies together. Dealing with someone that we simply cannot trust. Has the relationship worsened since you've been Defense Secretary, There is no doubt the relationship has worsened. He tried again to muck around in our elections this last month, and

we are seeing a continued effort along those lines. Lots to unpack from what Secretary of Defense Maddis said. Theres lots that we have to get into now. One, let's just get right to it so we don't let this. You know, we don't miss a beat. Russia meddled in the midterm of life. How many people have heard that anywhere before? Why do you why do we all think that's why is that we're just hearing now about Russian meddling in the midterm election, and in such a kind

of a blase who cares way right? I mean, I'm not saying Maddis doesn't care, but this isn't the usual hair on fire, Oh my gosh, Russian meddling in the election. You know, Maddis is saying, this guy's being a punk, he's being difficult, he's causing problems for us. But he's also saying, look, you know, this is the sort of the way, this is kind of the way it is, and when we're trying to deal with Putin, we need

to understand that he's a bad guy. But if the Democrats hadn't just picked up almost forty seats in the House of Representatives, don't you think we'd be told all over the place, Oh my gosh, there was an attempt at Russian meddling, and almost certainly an additional Russian meddling beyond that, of course we would this would be there would be a non style story if Republicans had held

the House and gained seats in the Senate. The Russian medalings just like with Hillary, and when she lost the election, everyone knew there was Russian medaling beef I ever knew the Facebook. It was only after she lost that there was this need to oh my gosh, what are we gonna do? And so terrible, Oh Hillary, sorry, might because of my scratchy voice right now, I can't do the Hillary voice. We'll just come out like a like a wounded duck noise or something. Does that even sound like

a wounded duck? I don't know what that was. But Maddis, though, never wanted to shy away from a great one liner. He said the following play fifteen. We are Americans. We are not spectators in the art of history. We make history. Reagan said it best. I do not believe, he said, in a faith that will befall us no matter what we do. I do believe in a faith that will befall us if we do nothing. America will sustain our

military's warrior ethos because we must. With Congress and industry partners, we will hold the line, and we will send a simple message to any potential advertary not today. Your military cannot win it, so don't even try it. That is absolutely the case right now. That's good that we have somebody of Maddie's stature, and who commands as much respect within the military as he does to say it that said, this is this is not inevitable. Our economic dominance is inevitable.

Our military dominance is certainly not inevitable. And you know, there's a lot that's in the process of changing right now that people don't spend much time thinking about. But you know, here's an example. Hypersonic weapons sound like they're going to be increasingly a large part of the offensive military capabilities of major developed nations, and that changes the

game in terms of missile defense technology. You know, what's what is possible when you have missiles, including nuclear missiles, that go a whole lot faster and can get around traditional defenses. Think about how that begins to change the dynamic of what we have had for a while here, which is a sense of relative stability among the at least the nuclear armed states with the exception of North Korea.

And the only thing really keeps Pakistan stable in our eyes is that India's right next door looking at them like you want to go, we can go, we can do this, and everyone just sits around them holding their breath saying, oh my gosh, please don't do this. I guess you can't say anything and hold your breath. You get the basic idea. Oh, and then speaking about future nuclear states and how things could go very badly, very quickly.

You have a General Keen and General Jackino or Fox talking about what's going on with the Iran I've got to say this is I've got to say, this is one of the areas where the administration has received you received all this pushback. Oh, our European allies, and you know with the randal, if we if we step out of the Randal, all these terrible things are going to happen. None of these terrible things happen. None of these terrible

things happen. Play seven, three weeks after the president was inaugurated, iron test fire a ballistic missile, and clearly what he did is he sanctioned them right away and told them that we were not going to stand for their continuing aggressive and malign behavior in the region. We're slapping some pretty hard sanctions on the Iranians. And now we're now we're into the energy and the oil part of it. Their economy is struggling, their currency is in free fall,

their inflation is spiraling out of control. There's fuel, food shortages on a regular basis, that there's power shortages that are coming up almost weekly, and civil unresting the nation is growing. So the Iranian regime, for the first time since they took power in nineteen eighty, they clearly are feeling pressure that they have never ever felt before. He said, it's the most pressure Iran's ever been under. And this

is why the Obama deal was so egregious. Now, never mind just that the palates of cash traded for US hostages and the decision to essentially allow the rest of US media's policy and interest just fall into disrepair because they didn't the Obama team didn't want to upset the

Irani and Molas. The sanctions were working, I mean the Iranian the Iranian government was in really bad shape, and there was a sense that, you know, unrest was coming, and you know, it would be great if we could mean it would be such a fantastic thing for the Irani and people and for the whole world if there could finally be you know, how about a revolution where the good guys win. You know, we're the result, our country is the result of a revolution. We're the good guys.

Weren't How about that in Iran, it would really be a counter revolution in a sense that what happened in nineteen seventy now but pressure on the regime to get them to comply with the reasonable expectations of the international community. I mean, this is good, not sending US troops, not putting our people in arms way, you know, economic warfare, which is what we're doing. We're waging economic warfare against the Iranians and doing so right now pretty successfully. But

not a lot of media coverage of it. Because can you imagine if people become aware that Trump's policy in Iran is just more sounds, just better decision making than anything the Obama team with Kerry and the rest of them were able to cook up. I mean, I think that is one of the nightmares of the establishment left. It turns out Trump is a great foreign policy president and that Obama isn't even in the same league. Well, definitely, we need more wall, we need more manpower, We need

Congress to fix the loopholes in the laws. Until those loopholes are fixed, this situation is not well, in particular with the family units and the ability to come to this country and be released into the United States while awaiting a court date that is long down the road. We need Congress to act and deal with the immigration laws and see if they can fix that situation for us. Otherwise, the pole factor is going to continue to be there and these individuals are going to keep coming. So that

was a border patrol Carlo Provost. I remember interviewing her not long ago. It's a very serious lady, very very much all about law enforcement. And this migrant caravan folks has not gone away. The media coverage of it has temporarily died down, but this is still very much an issue that needs to be resolved. You have, just the last day, you have a group of Hondurans in the caravan scale the Mexico border wall in Tijuana and then they were taken into custody. So people are still trying

to sneak across. And what I'm hearing, and I was speaking to some sources today about this, I'm still really hoping to be able to get to the border. I try to go last week. Of course, this week I've got I'm sick. I got a Christmas party every day pretty much this week, and you know, I guess partied a little hard this past weekend for miss Molly's birthday. So I'm trying to play a little bit of catch

up now. But you know, I want to get down to the border and see for myself what's going on and bring you all that firsthand knowledge about the caravan. So I'm working on that. I'm gonna try to talk to the powers that be tomorrow about getting me down there, even even just for a few days, to really see with my own eyes what's going on, and I would just do the show from don't worry, I'll do the show from down there. We've got a good station at San Diego that I can I can be be live

at her for a few days. But you've got people scaling this fence. What I'm being told by my sources, and I mean there's all there's photos this by the way, I mean, this is happening. People are sneaking across the border at the fence. And what you're finding out is that there's all so an effort right now, there's a there's an effort to kind of gather together at one part of the border, and more people are showing up.

You know, you have six thousand of them that were that have gathered together and more showing up, and the idea is that if enough of them get to the border, to just think about how this plays out, and it's really very it's very Ilynsky, it's very Elynskyite, and what's going on here. If enough people get to the border at one time, and then they strategically pick weak parts of the wall, they pick weak parts of the wall to go to, and then all at once they rush, right,

they try to rush the border. A lot of them are going to get in, a lot of them will get border patrol because there's simply too much border, not enough agents. And once they get into the interior of the United States, I mean, it's it's all over here. You're never going to find them. By the way, I saw the Pew survey data that just I think it just came out today about illegal illegal particularly illegal immigrant Mexicans in the United States. And sure enough, who wants

to guess, who wants to guess? How many? There are? Eleven million? Oh wow, the number is the same as it was last year and the year. You know, they have these charts that show up and down, and their claim is that there are a million fewer illegal alien Mexicans in the country now. And there were in two thousand and seven, but that there are I guess a million more non Mexican illegal aliens the country. That's why that the number essentially stays static at eleven million total.

It's just more Central Americans and fewer fewer Mexicans overall sold. I just I don't believe the number, and not because I'm a conspiracy theorist. I don't believe the number because the number doesn't make any sense. It's unrealistic to believe that that number just stays where it is for all that time, just because I just don't believe that. I just don't think that that may for all the reason I've told you. And also those math nerds at mit UM,

you know, they crunch the numbers. I'm sorry, not MT at Yale. They crunch the numbers, they realize. But what happens if we're at the border. Here's the other, the other possibility. What happens if at the border the sorry, my voice is starting to film me a little bit. Team the different groups that have gathered there rush and

let's say there's an incident. You know what if somebody in the border patrol tries to stop a few migrants and they you know, a group of them, attack of border patrol agent and he feels like his life or her life, whichever we're talking about, with that border patrol agent is truly in jeopardy and draws a firearm and shoots. You know this, this can happen. I mean, this is not an unforeseeable situation. And now, I mean, the moment you have any kind of lethal force incident at the border,

you're going to have them. You're going to have the activist left completely lose their mind, and then they're gonna be talking about, you know, shoot on site, militarized border, you know, racist, Nazi border patrol, all of this stuff. And meanwhile, you know, no one is forcing Democrats to answer hard questions about what should be done with these thousands of people who have gathered there. The Trump administration said, you have to show up at a legal port of

entry to get into the United States. You can't just run into the country and at any point along the US Mexico border. And we've got thousands of people that think that they're just going to come through, and there are probably thousands more gathering. We're not even really sure think about how quickly they went from a remember this, how quickly did they go from a thousand miles away to at the border. It was a matter of days,

you know. Oh god, there were so many, so many stupid pundits out there running around talking about how you know they're they're so far away, and the people that are making an issue of this, or you know, they're they're just fear mongering. And I'm no, they're not fear mongering.

It was true, as we know. And that's why I was happy that I had a chance to go on The Tucker Show and talk with him about how we've just been lied to all along about this caravan and and you know, we're being lied to about it right now. We're being lied to about it, and the Congress isn't doing a damn thing about it. Congress is just it's just so useless on the issue of immigration, just so so worthless. They don't take enough action when it come well on immigration in any in any way, you know.

And now, but we're being told that they've they've pushed off, they've pushed off dealing with the possible government shut down, the budget fight till the friday, the Friday before Christmas. Oh, the Friday before Christmas. That's because that's when they're going to really take a they're gonna take a stand. That's

when they're going to decide. Oh, I've I'm gonna, you know, create a big political storm right before Christmas and New Year's Eve and Buck's Birthday by the way, very important day. You know that's not gonna that's not gonna happen. You know, there's not going to be any fight really over the book. I mean, I guess, I guess I could be right here. Here's what they're saying. Lawmakers plan to extend funding through

December twenty first. Okay, so they're passing a very short budgetary fix, and the disagreements over whether whether to fund President Trump's proposed border wall are what's pushing this right. So, so here's what CNBC says. The Republican controlled Congress hope to strike a deal with Democrats this week, even as President Trump's demand for five billion to fund his proposed border wall raised the prospect of a partial government shutdown.

George HW. Bush's death and funeral range and shifted focus. Trump was set to meet with Senator House Democratic leaders and Chuck Schumer and Nancy Plosi on Tuesday morning. That's layed until next week because of the death year, and Senate Democrats have said the old greeted, but no more than one point six billion dollars towards border security and fencing, but not the physical wall that Trump seeks. This is just this is just Democrats not wanting Trump be able

to follow through on a campaign promise. This is just Democrats deciding that the President of the United States shouldn't be able to adequately defend our southern border. Because if you think about this for a moment, if President did get that wall built, I think then he even cruises

to reelection. If we're in the midst of over session, I think, if President Trump gets that wall built, where we're in for four more years at Trump and the Democrats know that if you can't make the argument now, meaning if Republicans aren't willing to explain why we need a border wall right now, it's it's never going to happen.

And it's never going to happen because there's no better time, and time is running out, and once once you have even more Democrats in the House, then it's even less likely that you would get any kind of concession because right right now, it's really just about how much money and where the money is going to be spent. But there's supposed to be some kind of action on the border wall they're supposed to be or not on the wall on the border. They're willing to pay for some

security measures. But what we see is in real time a case study of how effective a wall would be. In real time, we see that the places in the Tijuana California corridor here you know, outside San Diego, sanny Cedro, port and MEXICALI that the places with good with a good wall, with a good barrier don't have crossings. The places where the barrier has been breached, our places where the barrier is either in disrepair or unfinished or incomplete.

Of course, of course the barrier matters. And you see border patrol right now gathering in such a way as to leverage as much as possible this protection or this barrier to entry that they have, and places where they don't have it, obviously there are at a greater disadvantage to do their jobs. So we have essentially and I wish Republicans would just make this case. I wish they would be more clear in this We have a running advertisement for a wall happening right now with this caravan.

I don't just mean, oh my gosh, we have a caravan. We need to build a wall to prevent people from illegally come to the United States. I mean that the caravan is being stopped from coming into the United States by a wall. So we see that it works. There's no question that it works. You know, we don't have you know, one hundred border patrol agents linking arms on the border and saying well, you can't run through us like that. That that's not gonna work. There's not sufficient

manpower there to do that. But this requires a fix. And you know, and the Democrats are going to challenge us in court. They're gonna say that Trump doesn't have the right, doesn't have the executive authority to say that you have to show up at a port of entry. You can't just cross the border and then claim asylum. A lot of them are doing that, claiming defensive asylum. People say, why would you do that? If you could show up a port of entry, why go through the

asylum process. You can just walk into America obviously, and if you get caught, you just say, oh I fear violence in my country, and ultimately, I just democrats are never asked any of the hard questions here. They don't have to go on the record. Why doesn't all of Honduras qualify? For a second? Could all of Honduras show up at the US Mexico border and say we want to flee our country. What if a million Hondurans march to the US Mexico border and said our country too dangerous,

we need it, we need to get out. Do they all get to get put through the process? The asylum process. Is our asylum process essentially a suicide pack for our immigration laws? Is that what it's supposed to be? No one's ever asking in these questions Democrats. All they do is talk about women and children and tear gassing. Oh gosh, just cry lots of tears for all the people that you know. Nancy Pelosi's been in their neighborhoods. She's not

dealing with them. She doesn't care what the difference in the job or the labor market is as a result of a huge influx of illegal aliens. She doesn't care. It doesn't affect her one bit, right. In fact, it's better for her more of a servant class to wait on her. It's true of a lot of these elite lives. By the way, they love illegal immigrant labor because they like the ebing of the hire people who basically have no choice but to work for less than market wages.

That's the way that it goes. I want to say one thing about him that was not picked up really because as a candidate he said, those who think we're powerless to do anything about the green House effect off forgetting about the white House effect. And then he signed into law the Clean Air Act Amendments of nineteen ninety one of the most sweeping environmental statutes ever. Yeah, this president that we have now is trying to unravel everything

that he did and Obama did. And if I ever become a one issue voter, it will be about pollution and the greenhouse effect, and we focus on the president. Please, I don't want to talk about trouble. We're honoring a great Please. I want to talk about honoring, but I'm not interested in your one issue. I don't care. Right boy, Wow, got a little a little tense there on the view, And that was Megan McCain, who some of you might recall, formerly hosted this time on radio getting into it with

Joy Bayer. I can't do Joy's voice right now because my throat is swollen up because I'm sick. But just know, just know that in my head, I'm doing the Joy be Har voice, which I've been told is actually one of my better impressions. And Joy Behar got very upset there because she was getting called out, and she should get called out. She should get called out because what she's doing is what all these lib journal types. She's not even journals. I don't know what she is kind

of a I don't know, just she's just annoying. But she does this thing where, okay, we're talking about Bush forty one, and then all of a sudden it has to be Trump is bad, bashed Trump. Can we just say, what can we at least if we're gonna bash somebody, can at least be a fight of the legacy of George HW But you know, you know it say you know,

they don't compare. They don't say George H. W. Bush, unlike Obama, who had no ability whatsoever to kid Republicans, to meet Republicans halfway, to work across the aisle, to be bipartisan. You know, Obama was a scorched earth partisan president, so you know, very different from what George HW. Bush was. Like. You know, they don't do that. They just do it.

They just do it to bash Trump. They don't say, oh well, look at look at how different Bush forty one was from that philandering, sexual assaulting, you know, skirt chasing maniac Bill Clinton. Look look at what a difference in terms of the dignity of the office. No, no, they only do it when it comes to Bush. But that that few We'll get more into the passing of the president. By the way, coming up at the top of the hour, I just wanted to talk about this

for a minute. Apparently this is a sort of gossip. You now, we're doing gossip on the Buck Sexton Show. Hey, ladies, who wants to talk about some gossip? But get this B word under control. Joy Behart tears into Megan McCain off air after the conservative host lashed Adder for throwing shade on President Trump during the view's tribute to George HW. Bush. Yeah, I mean, of course Joy bathed all. All All she knows it gonna do is just trash trash Trump, and so

that's why she went in that direction. WHOOPI Goldberg cut the mic. Show insiders tell Dailymail, I know, but some of you are like Buck, why do you care about the view? I don't, except usually to make fun of it, because it deserves to be made fun of, show insiders tell dailymail dot Com. At the exchange continued off air with Bihar fuming quote, If this blank doesn't stop, I'm quitting this damn show. I can't take this much more. Yeah,

I'm sure. I'm sure she can't take it. Given the how how over how overpaid she is not a lot of not a lot of intellectual heft on the view. I gotta say it's a pretty pretty soft, pretty weak show when it comes to the thought processes involved in political analysis. But nonetheless good for Megan standing up there

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The President for his nice best wishes to the Bush family on behalf of a man that we always expected and liked very much President Bush, and we very much appreciate that the president. We will be going back, I will be going back to Washington right after Ktany, and he will be spending three days of morning and three days of celebrating a really great man's life. So we look forward to doing that, and he certainly deserved he

really did. He was a very special person. I spoke with Jeb and George today and we had great conversations, and we discussed actually for quite some time, the father and how much they loved him, and how much said he loved them. Words from the current president about the passing of George Herbert Walker Bush, forty, first President of the United States. As you no doubt heard, he passed away on November thirtieth in Houston, Texas. He was ninety four years old and had one of the most impressive

resumes you could imagine. He had been a war hero, a congressman, vice president Cia door, and he was a guy who in retrospect, a lot of people realized it was kind of an underrated an underrated president, you know.

He had he had all the right academic pedigree and served as country, was a war hero, signed up, i think, for the Navy when he was eighteen, and you know, had his political challenges, had two unsuccessful runs for the Senate, but he managed to impress people at the senior reaches of the r NC, and he got into the Nixon and Ford administrations as an appointee, including being a chairman of the Republican National Committee, US amboy to China and

then director of the CIA. And he announced his candidacy in nineteen eighty loss to Reagan, but it was okay because Reagan was pretty awesome, and then he was the VP for Reagan obviously and then later served one tour. Only two presidents in history had been vice presidents before they became president right away. That's only twice, and the

other one was Martin Van Buren. So you gotta go quite a ways back, quite a ways back for somebody who was a VP who became president, which was pretty funny even thinking about it, you think that usually the VP would be that the easiest stepping stone for anybody would be vice president to president, but it's just not

how it works usually. Here's you know, you have a lot of people on the media in the media right now, and one of the reasons why I am handling this later on in the show is because one, I feel like a lot of you My main contention here is just a lot of what you're hearing about George HW Bush is just meant to bash Trump, and a lot of it also Now when we go back and look at it, we realize that the media were vicious to George Bush, just like they were vicious to his son

later on, and they're vicious to Trump now. Nothing has really changed. They've just gotten nastier, crazier, and more transparent about those things in the media. So but there are a lot of people that are running around in the media right now who have great stories about, you know, fly fishing with HW. I mean, I was I was a little kid when HW was was president, So I don't really have any great personal stories of hanging out with him or anything like that. Actually never met the man.

And but here's somebody who certainly knew him very very well, and that is former Vice President himself, Dick Cheney play clip twelve. Well, he had this amazing ability to sort of for the personal touch, might get a note from him on something you've done. I remember two thousand and four election night, we were upstairs in the residents at the White House and less one President Bush forty three and I were running for reelection, and Lena and I were there with the bushes and the big crowd, but

we had our granddaughter, their oldest granddaughter. She was about seven years old at the time, and the President walked over to her and said, you're the youngest person here. I'm the oldest less chat. He sat down and spent a long time talking with the youngest person in the room at that time. She's never forgotten it. Oppositly, she's got a picture of it and everything else. But he had that people touch. I guess that he want to

put it there where. There was no gesture that was too small or insignificant in terms of what he was willing to do to make peel people feel comfortable, to help when he could help. Oh, he just was one of the most thoughtful people I ever knew. So a lot of kind words there from Dick Cheney about push forty one, and I think that that's pretty pretty much echoed throughout them from the people who knew him, that he was a really good guy and a nice guy.

But then you also get into what's happening, and it was worse during the McCain funeral and that era. But the notion of everything about about Bush is really, you know, all the all the different stories and all the different anecdotes are an opportunity to just beat up on Trump. And I find that very tiring, and I also find it to be really a little exploitative. But that's not a surprise at all when you look at the media

that we have and the way they conduct themselves. And speaking of the media and the way they conduct themselves, you know, negative coverage that favors the Democrat over the Republican. Uh dare I even say fake news? This is not a this is not a new phenomenon. And I think that's that's important for everybody to know. To remember, here's what Bush was saying back in nineteen ninety two when

he was talking about the economy play clip thirteen. I think they're feeling negative about the economy because they hear ninety two percent of the coverage on the television where a lot of people get their news from, on the economy has been negative. If there are some good things, interest rates are down, people aren't being robbed by inflation anymore. Inventories are down, we have it. I think we're pois for a dramatic recovery. Yeah, there were pois for a

dramatic recovery. I mean then you got into the nineties and the markets were absolutely booming. Of course Bill Clinton gets credit for that, right, I mean, you know who gets credit for what? Economy? This is one of the great games that everyone the media likes to play because it has so much political power. You know, when things are good, do you want to have your team get credit? When things are bad, you want to blame the other guy. And that's that's quite obvious, and that's what happens all

the time. But you know, you look, you look at the way that now we're being told, oh, well Bush. You know, Bush was a coalition builder. Look how he handled the First Persian Gulf War. Look at look at the way that he handled himself in the world stage and with you and some people would would actually criticize a little bit of the Uh, what's what's the best way of saying this? His willingness to give away some

degree of US sovereignty to these multinational bodies. I mean, I think that there are people who have a real un understandable had had a real problem with that. That that's a legitimate criticism, a criticism of his legacy and a criticism of of how he acted on the world stage. I don't think it's a damning one. But he was certainly a guy who was ja I say, a globalist. He took a very internationalist worldview, and his decision to

raise taxes was a promise that he broke. Right, he broke is you know, read my lips, no new taxes, and then raised taxes. And then thanks to Ross Pero and you know, the third party candidate mess, you get President Bill Clinton, who comes along. I mean, I just I gotta think in retrospect, whoever voted for Bill Clinton

over George H. W. Bush. That's such a fascinating who looks at those two guys, Who looks at these two men and says, yeah, you know what I want to I want to go with that guy, the governor of Arkansas, who you know, Paro got nineteen percent of the vote.

Everybody nineteen percent of the vote. So you know, the whole Clinton presidency for all the talkie here now from Libs about how you know they they've won every popular vote and the whole Clinton presidency was really only popular, only possible rather because of a fluke, because of a fluke um. But that's that's what. But at least we don't blame the Russians. I mean, I'm not saying it

was an illegitimate election anyway. George H. W. Bush a great man by by all standards, I think, and uh, you know who'll be missed, and the country is in a feeling of mourning right now. But you know, I like to think more about about the legacy of individuals. I will say the only because I have no emotional attachment to a man that I didn't know personally. But the one thing that really kind of choked me up, I think something you know what I'm talking about is

his dog lying by the casket. Man. That just I don't know what it is about dogs and their and their owner, and there the bond between them and you know it was a service dog. But if you haven't seen it, look at that. Just look at that photo for a moment of George H. W. Bush and in the casket and his service dog right next to him. I had a friend asked me recently, Buck, what what do you do if you get hacked, and I said, well, Snapper one is, don't get hacked, don't expose your stuff.

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express vpn dot com slash buck to learn more. This idea that the media used to be fair or even a little friendly to Republican presidents is a joke. I just want everyone to know that. And as we're talking now about George HW. Bush and some of the revisionism around how the media treated him. Just remember that it's it's not a new thing for the media to be fake news. It's not a new thing for him to

be disrespectful to Republicans. All dynamics that you see with CNN now and with MSNBC and with others, but particularly with CNN, n ABC and NBC, you know, the network broadcast NCBs, all the dynamics of bias in the coverage, of the whole notion of being objective journalists. It's just one big lie. All of that has existed all along, and this moment where we're all talking about George H. W. Bush, I think it's a it's a good time to remember.

I mean, here's when he was vice president running he had just been vice or yeah, it was vice president

running for the presidency. He went on Dan Rather show CBA on CBS eaving news, and they were talking they're supposed to talk about, you know, what he wants to do as president wise running for president, but Dan Rather, in classic I'm a big you know, big jay liberal journo, decides to just dig in and go after him, I mean, really try to go after the president on Iran Contra, which is something that now Libs just bring up as

a short Haliburton. It's just like Haliburton, you know, when Libs want to when they want to bush George W. Bush, when they want to bash, when they want to bush George W. Bash, they just say Haliburton. When they want to bash Cheney, they just say Haliburton's shorthand they don't even know what it really means. It's just bad Haliburton, bad,

Iran Contra bad. They don't want anything beyond that. And in this exchange you kind of get that sense because remember, I mean, Dan Rather's really drilling down and it's kind of nothingness. But he's just trying to get it's a cross examination. It's not really a normal journalistic exchange. He's trying to get George HW caught up in a lie. Did we call him forty one instead of forty three? You gotta have a better way of talking about this. But here's how it goes. Play the clip, discuss what

I talked to the president. Because there's a principle in Nothing to do with You Ron contract, it's the principle of confidentiality between the president presient president. Mister president, the President himself, who said he wants all the facts out. He gave up such things as even his own diary, every principle, including scire diaries. He gave her some brief Well, Dan, let's be careful here, because you're sure I want you to be careful, President, because will be careful, but I will.

Problem here is that you repeatedly set it into meetings. You set in the meeting in which secretary shoots in the most forceful way, rage registers objections, and then you said you never heard anybody rester if it was the most forceful way, I'd heard George be very very forceful. And if I were there and he was very very forceful at that meeting, I would have remembered that. I don't remember that. And how do you explain that you can't remember it? The other people of the meeting said

he was apppresident there at that point. You weren't that you weren't in the meeting, suggesting I'm just saying I don't remember it. I don't want to be orgumented, mister Dan, is not a because I want to talk about why I want to be president. Plaus it for a second. Did have you ever heard Dan Rather get like that with anybody who wasn't a Republican, you know, just contradicting him,

essentially going on hearsay. Well, other people who were in a meeting said that somebody was upset about something, and you're saying he wasn't upset about it, so you must be you must be lying. This is what he's saying. And he's really and he's just do you just tell he's just argumentative, he's under money. It's not it's not just Q and A. It's Q and attack. It's question and ambush, not question and answer. And this was what Dan Rather of course built his career on, which was

being a democratic pretends to be a journalist. Rather's a huge lib, huge lib and not a very impressive one either, not a very smart one, very lucky right place, right time, made a lot of money because of it, but not somebody that the generation currently of media person ladies, writers on air has anything to learn from. And this guy is just lucky he came along when he did and got the jobs that he did. But continue on with this, by the way, you notice how Bush, who you don't

think of as feisty, Bush, fights back. He's like you want a peace on Let's go play it. Percent of the people are supporting me and US President judge a whole career. It's not fair to judge my whole career by a rehash on Irun. How would you like it if I judge your career by those seven minutes when you walked off the set in New York? Would you like that much? President? For you? But I don't have respect for what you're doing here tonight, mister mush President.

I think you'll agree that your qualification for president and what kind of leadership you would bring the country, what kind of government you to have, what kind of people to have around him? It is much more just pausiveryone's saying just for those you don't know, which you all probably know, it's better than me. But Dan Rather was angry because CBS Even News decided to broadcast the end of a tennis match on a Friday, and he walked off set during it, and it was six minutes, actually

six minutes without any picture being transmitted. That was according to people at CBS. So so Dan Rather throw it through a tantrum because they wanted to finish a professional tennis match instead of going to him with the news. You know, I mean Dan Rather is a is a big, self indulgent, classic liberal journal narcissistic baby, overpaid baby, and he threw a tantrum. And that's what Bush was referring to there. So you know Bush, Bush is like, you

want to you want to play someone, let's play. You want to mix it up, Let's mix it up, all right, go back, John, play more than what you just referred to. I'd be happy to. I want to be judged on the whole record. Well, and you're not. And I'm trying to set the record straight. You invited me to come here to talk about I thought the whole record. I want you to talk about the record. You set up

a meeting with George Schulz. Yes, he got av eplectic when he found out that you were when the president were being party of sending missiles to the Aetola Iran. Can you explain how you were supposed to be the you are? You're an any terrorist expert. We Iran was officially a terror state. You went around question but in the face in the world, how could you how could you sign on the state? Pause pause pause, Who does

this remind you of? Who does this remind you of getting a little bit of an a Costa tingle, aren't you. He's not waiting for answer, he's this is a this is a debate, this is this is a a punditry battle. Now, Dan rather was the was the main news anchor for CBS, a quote news anchor, and he's saying, quote, you made us look hypocritical in the eyes of the world. You might as well have said, you know, the caravan's not going to come to the border. It's not an invasion,

it's not that's not questions. You're speaking the Vice president the United States, and you're you're talking down to him and getting snippy with him like he's some schoolboy. This is not new. It is not new. So I think that's very important for everybody to recognize um and just the way that he injects his opinion. We just know about it now. We have alternatives now. But anyway, and he goes on to say, I thought this was a news program. It's a great line. That's what I mean.

They're there, there's they're snippy with each other. They're they're you know, or rather, he's being snippy with Bush and bushes, you know, fighting back. But This is nothing new, folks. I just want to point that out. They don't like any Republicans. The lib media, they don't like Republicans. They're nasty than they undermine them. You know. They they've already been going after Bush for a for ae hundred different reasons. There's no honeymoon period of saying nice things that don't

wait till the Uluji comes out. No, no, no, they they just go right into God to establish the narrative. Got to create a history that is damaging for this guy. And that's the that's their number one priority. That's how they go about it. That's what they're trying to do. So, you know, we got to defend his legacy or else nobody else will. And he's a great man, not perfect,

but really a really, really solid dude. I feel like this happens every year, but now that we've got the me too movement going on, people are even more attuned to this. Perhaps I think we're before songs that are no longer okay because of the sexual aggressiveness or the the undertones of them. And and I sit here and I just you know the one that that came up most recently, and it's now being kicked off of certain radio stations. Is Baby It's Cold Outside, which if you've

never John are you familiar with this one? Do you know this song? I've heard it, but I'm not really a fan of it, don't really so yeah, I mean so so Baby It's Cold Outside is. It's an old song from nineteen forty four, written by Frank Looser, and it's a back and forth conversation with a guy who's trying to convince a woman to basically stay. And you know, initially, initially I thought, ah, well, you know, how bad could this really be? I went through the lyrics may be Honestly,

the lyrics this are are interesting. I'm not saying it should be bad from the radio. Here's why. For one, it shouldn't be bad from the radio. It was a it was a sweeter, gentler time in the media, and people didn't you know that, they didn't think of these things as quite as literally as we do now. For one,

they thought it was entertainment. And two, you know, if you're gonna ban Baby It's Cold Outside, then I feel like you probably also have to ban the time is classic by DJ Khalid Bitches and Bottles, which Johnny familiar with that one. Never heard of it. That's that's a song that you could hear on the radio right now. In fact, it was on a workout back when I used to have the time and energy to work out. It was on a workout mix that I downloaded from the internet and I said, oh my gosh, the song

is so misogynistic. But baby it's cold outside. The lyrics are I really can't stay and the guy says, baby, it's cold outside, and she says, I gotta go away. He says, baby, it's cold outside. Uh, my mother will start to worry, and then he says, beautiful, what's your hurry? My father will be pacing the floor. Listen to the fireplace roar. So really, i'd better, I'd better scurry, Beautiful, please don't hurry. Well, maybe just a half a more drink.

I'll pour, I'll put on some records while I pour, And it just kind of goes on and on and uh, you know it's it's supposed to be cute. I mean it's not. But you know, he's he's he would I feel like you read the lyrics to baby it's cold outside, and you think this guy would take no for an answer. She's just being a little uh, you know, a little playing. She's playing a little hard to get, you know, in

the old school fashion. And I feel like people just no longer are able to look at anything in their context. I mean, when you when you look at pep Peppy a pew um, when you look at Peppi lapew you see that he said things, for example, that would have and did things. Remember Pep Lepu? I am shy, but WILLI John you know Peppy Lapu? Right? I'm not? Yeah, I remember that. I remember watching those cartoons as a kid. I mean, I gotta I wish we had Do we have some? Is there some Peppy Lapu that I could

even sort of remind myself of? Here I don't even know, you know, Peppi Lapu was a guy who was a cartoon. It used to be very kind of grabby and kissy and everything else. And uh, here you a home of spring flowers that bloom in the spring. Come my little peanut of brittle. Hello, I am z lucksmist of love. No, I am she broken out of love. I am c dissolution. I am broken out of love. It is not even

really French. It's kind of like a mishmash European accent, like, I don't know, that's not really that doesn't strike me. That's French. I feel like also, they've had many different voice actors do him over the years. Well you know, producer, Mike, where'd you go? I'm here? Man? Oh, okay, there you are. Um, so what is this about about the teacher that says no, uh no Santa Claus. Yeah, and this quick little disclaimer

to those who might be traveling around with little kids. Um, yeah, there's a new Jersey teacher who told her first graders that there's no Santa Claus. I mean, what's up with that? I mean, are we really you know, I'm a little bit I'm a little bit of a heretic on this. So, Mike, are we really supposed to keep lying kids and telling him verus the Santa Claus? Why why do we do that? I don't really know about this, you know, because kids

love it, and we do things that kids love. I feel like I feel like we shouldn't tell kids lives. Let's see, I kind of agree with this teach We can lie, we can lie. We can stop telling them lies when they're a little older. But why they're like in the bliss of their youth and and believing in things that make them feel good, you know. And is it really up to her to burst the bubbles? Well, I guess that's parents should be the ones that make

the decision. But a New Jersey substitute teacher shattered the hearts of first grade as a court of the New York New York Post here by telling him Santa Claus and his reindeers were reindeer Reindeer's Good God book Reindeer were and we're not real. And then she unleashed on them. She told him Santa isn't real and parents just buy presents and put them under the tree. Oh wow, So

she went on like an anti Christmas rant. So she really is a grinch correct in fact that there's probably another word that one might be able to use, But we have children listening, and so we'll just say she's a grinch. Um. But indeed, yes, I think that it's up to parents. If I had kids, which you know, hopefully one day, I feel like I would tell them the I would tell them the whole truth and nothing about the truth about Santa and then just let them

go into the mythology of it. But yes, it is not up to teachers to tell people, Wow, we covered a lot of ground here. We've got Peppi lapew, we got Santa's reindeer, and we really a lot today. We do have roll call coming up in a moment, though, which will be fun, so stay with us. Hey, teen buck, it's time for roll call. The dubstep roll call gets it done. Oh man, my voice a little raspy. It's a little bit of I got a little sick this weekend,

so hopefully tomorrow it will be better. Sometimes it gets worse, you know, a couple of days into it. Your voice really your voice box really drives up. But today it's a little been a little uh, a little gravelly. All right, Facebook dot com, slashbucks accident for all your role call needs, Let's get to it, Keith, writes Buck. If the Special prosecutor's final report turns out to be political in nature rather than a standard prosecutorial report, would it be subject

to the OSC's new Hatch Act guidelines. Keith, it sounds like you may know more about this than me. New Office of Special Counsel Hatch Act guidelines, don't I don't know. I don't know what those guidelines are, but I'm guessing no, I'm guessing that somehow this won't be a problem for the Special Counsel, no matter what they write in that report. And I think I'm on pretty solid ground in making

that prediction. Jackie writes, Buck, it would appear we have the same Netflix watch lists even before you mentioned them on the podcast. We watch Penny Dreadful, Peaky Blinders, and just started season one of The Last Kingdom this past weekend. We recently watched Nightfall, which I think is worth of view. I really enjoy your podcasts and your humor. Look forward to more Netflix show recommendations. Thanks for a great show

of your own, Jackie. Well, Jackie, you clearly have fantastic taste in radio shows as well as Netflix fair I will say I did not really like Nightfall. I tried. It's about knights Templar after the period of the Crusades, but I just thought it was took itself a little too seriously. It was a little kind of overwrought for

my taste. But you know, to each his own, Peaky Blinder's, Penny Dreadful, and Last Kingdom are all great, so I'm glad you're liking those if you have not already watched Ozark, I highly, I highly recommend you put that one into the mix too. And Narcos obviously, which is my fate of all the Netflix originals. Narcos is my favorite, my

favorite show. But Jackie, thank you so much for writing in. TJ. Wright, tell jam all way to go to make that rising panel entirely about Donald Trump instead of hw Bush this morning. It was quite annoying and disrespectful. He needs to work on containing his hatred for Trump. He's really annoying to watch sometimes. Well, TJ, I'm gonna I'm gonna leave that one to you if you want to pass that a log to Jabal, I don't. I am first and foremost obligated to be to get along with my my liberal

colleagues at the Hill. So that's that is my mandate for for my time there, and that is what I will always try to do. That all said, as a general matter, as I have been saying this show, I find it very annoying and yes, very tiresome that people take every operatuny everything is a commentary on Trump. A lot of a lot of folks out there are really more obsessed with Trump than Trump is. They can't help themselves but turn every conversation into a referendum on all

things Trump. And I just wish, I just wish they would realize how weird it has become. Now, you know, George hw Bush passes away, it's a commentary on Trump. Jamal Kashogi gets murdered. It's a commentary on Trump. You know there are forest fires in California, it's a commentary on Trump. I mean everything. People really need a bit more perspective. Jar rights on the whole Rudolph, the Red

Nose Randeer fiasco. Why do people always have to make it some all encompassing big picture instead of looking at the story in light that is one individual lesson. Rudolph is a heartwarming story about how people are jerks until you need something from them, like when you're moving and your co worker owns a truck. Absolutely Jar And let me say I can add to that the very very

important role that the shagging wagon played. When I was in college, my wood paneled Buick Roadmaster station wagon in a pale blue It was very popular among my dorm mates because it was one of the few cars that could really handle a queen size Futon in the back, no problem. I mean to move the futon, not to leave. I know we call the shagging wagon, but that's because there was no shaggin in that wagon, but the futon in the back that was for moving purposes, not for

any other kind of purpose. Yes, indeed, so a jar. I agree with you. On Rudolph, Steve says crazy uncle calls Diehard a Christmas movie. In fact, it's more of a Christmas movie than Bells of Saint Mary. All of Diehard's action happens on Christmas Eve, whereas only one brief scene in Bells happens on Christmas. So why is one considered a Christmas movie but not the other. Merry Christmas? And don't shoot your eye out? Okay, Steve, thank you

speaking to shoot your eye out. You know, I was watching Tombstone, which the movie that I just I just love. I've seen it so so many times. I think it's Val Kilmer's single best role ever in anything. And people always say Jim Morrison the Doors, so I think that's a lot of nostalgia stuff. And the depiction was very accurate, I know, and some people were really impressed by that. But the Doors movie kind of stunk. The doors were I know I'm gonna lose some of you right now,

some of you getting annoyed at me. But the doors a little overrated. There's only there's only so much. There's only so much organ music you can handle before it sounds like you're at a ball game. And as to die Hard, will die Hard is amazing and perfect. Oh but in in Tombstone, there's a scene where some of you recall this, you've seen the movie many times. There's a play and they're doing uh like saying crispin speech and it's actually Billy Zane from Sniper and also Titanic.

Remember Billy Zane on hand heard you filth look at me when I'm speaking to you filth or whatever. You know. He's talking to Leonardo DiCaprio and Titanic. Yeah, I saw a Titanic a lot. Make fun of me. Go ahead, we've all you've seen. You've seen Titanic too. Don't don't give me that. Don't try that. Some of you out there right now or oh, buck, I never said everybody

saw a Titanic at Billy Zane in Tombstone. Curly Bill who's in the audience of a play in the town of Tombstone just pulls out his gun and starts shooting at Billy Zane on stage, and he doesn't really miss a beat. He kind of just like, you know, it says, yeah, whatever, I don't care where you are. If someone pulls out a six shooter and starts firing rounds over your head, you don't just sort of go, oh, well, that was kind of funny. That's part of the movie is a

little weird. If you go back and watch, you'll know exactly some of you think I'm being weird right now, go back and watch them exactly what I'm talking about. Jenna writes, Don't you think these extra Twitter terms of service and banning are because they ultimately hate Trump and how and conservatives and how they use Twitter. Wouldn't they just love to ban the president for crossing an arbitrary line? Well, Jen, I don't think they want to ban the president because

Trump has has made Twitter necessary. I mean, Trump has made Twitter more than relevant. You can't be a journalist now and not have access and not be aware of Twitter. You just can't because the president is putting out his thoughts. I mean, you're getting essentially presidential proclamations via Twitter, which is pretty amazing Kevin and Rights. I'm glad to watch The Last Kingdom. It's awesome. You should try Frontier two.

Thank you for what you do or I enjoy your show as well as others than them Blaze keep up the good work. Well, thank you, Kevin. I will try Frontier. I know it's got. It's got. The guy who plays um what's his name from? I ask my brain? Is my brain is having a tough time with recall today the show Game of Thrones. He plays drug Carl Drogo Cal Drogo. That guy is in the show Frontiers. So yeah, I could, I could check it out. I'll give it a shot. I'll give it a whirl. Steve writes buck

love the show. Just diving into Friday's podcast, when is a lie a lie? Love the comparisons depending on which side of the Trump aisle you're standing on. As for the Model report, I think it's going to be replete with could have been, may have been, possibly had, and appears to have type qualifiers throughout because they got nothing about the so called collusion, well unless you look at the Hillary camp. But those are the not the droids we're looking for a side note, have you watched Frontier

on Netflix? I love it and the only complaint is there only six episodes per season. Shields way high. Well, Steve, you are on this show the second person to give me a recommendation for Frontier on Netflix. I'm going to have to check it out. It sounds like this is something I need to see. I will give it a go. Where do we have here, Michael writes, mister Sexton, I've been a loyal listener for a while. Your voice is

when I lean on when I need clarity. Your pragmatic is refreshing me, even if your impressions aren't quite rich little sorry, Michael, that's okay, I do miss your history lessons. As a founder of a veterans nonprofit, I am coming to you with frustration. You've put yourself out as a spokesman of Black Rifle Coffee Company, and we've been attempting to contact them with no success. I'm turning to you to ask you to facilitate a phone call a Black Rifle.

I understand you're a busy man. I'm working all hours the day, but i'd appreciate your assistance from Michael, who is a veteran Michael, I will give you in this message here the email that I think would be the best one for you to use for Black Rifle. That will get right through to them and hopefully they can help you out. I'm sure it wants they know that you're a veteran, you've got something to talk to them about, or you need either help or some kind of partnership

or whatever it may be. I'm sure they'll hear you out. And they're great guys who run that company, so I'll make sure that you can at least get in touch with them effectively. Ethan writes Buck, just wanting to say I couldn't agree more with the assessment of Batman Begins easily the best movie of that series. Dark Knight had some excellent scenes, but the story just lack cohesion and flow of the first Dark Knight rises. Don't get me started. I prefer to pretend that movie never happens, sort of

like every Terminator movie. After T two Shields, hie Ethan in Pittsburgh. Well, Ethan, you're totally right, So I think I'll just leave it that you're just totally right. Everything you wrote there is correct. Well done. High five team every day this week from the Freedom Hup. We are going to be rocking out together. Thank you so much for being here. Hopefully my voice will be a little bit better tomorrow. I'll drink some tea until next time.

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