The Anti-Trump Rage Mob

actionable intelligence magnor mistake America. You're a great American again. The Buck Sexton Show begins. Analysts, no, welcome to the buck sex And Show everybody. It's increasingly obvious that the left doesn't really care what the truth is about the targets of their hatred so long as they are able

to vent their fury at them. And there is some connection to Trump and conservatism and the white male patriarchy in America and all these other things that the left just hates, one would think, although maybe not, but it would be understandable for anyone to assume. In the aftermath of this Covington High School fake news extravaganza right where you had this short clip that showed a student looking into the eyes of a Native American man banging his drum.

Everybody jumped to it as, oh my gosh, look at these racist white kid Trump supporters and the history of oppression of the Native American peoples, and it was all all this narrative backstory got funneled into it and then was ignited, of course, as all issues are now with just the the insane rage of the anti Trump left. I mean, they hate this guy. They hate him so much. They act like a combination of frightened and nasty children when it comes to Trump. You know, one second they're crying,

the next second they're bullying. I mean, they just can't get a grip. But then the video came out and many people, including a number of conservatives, including a number of conservative friends of mine, who I think, and I know this because I've spoken to someone them, feel like they've really learned a lesson here. Don't be part of the online lynch mob ever if you can, but certainly until you know the facts and always keep things in perspective.

What was all the anger about here in the first place. Nobody was certainly no indigenous person or left wing victim group meaning this Native American or the black Israelites who were right there with them and really partaking in this protest alongside him. Nobody was injured, nobody was attacked, nobody was threatened, nobody used no no, None of the children that were there, they're children, by the way, when you're fourteene or fifteen, you're a kid. They didn't use any

racial slurs, they didn't even say anything hostile. How was this even a news story? Well, because people projected the media, The Washington Post, the New York Times, CNN, they projected onto this really inconsequential encounter, all of their own neuroses and anger and feelings of intellectual insufficiency, I mean, just everything put onto these kids. And then the video came out and it showed that if we're going to talk about hostility and racism and threats, it was all directed

at the kids. So the apologies started coming, and there were people who I think were earnest in that, and you can tell for yourself who they are and who they are not and who's just sort of saying it. But what is truly amazing is that there are efforts underway right now from major media outlets, most notably The Daily News, which is a burning dung heap of journalism to begin with. I mean the Daily News had to

cut half its staff not long ago. It should have cut all of its staff because it is a terrible, garbage, non journalistic organization. I mean, it's just tabloid trash, trash, bad writers, bad editorial, bad news coverage. It's garbage. The Daily News instead of saying wow, now that we have additional context, now that we see what really happened in this, as I've said, inconsequential incident, until the media blew it

up into a national news story, nothing really happened. It was the optics and the construct around the optics that got people so energized and freaked out about this. But the Daily News decided to do a deep dive, effectively, to do oppo research into the lives of fifteen year

old kids. So what did that entail, Well, they went back and they looked at all the photos they could find, and all the stories they could find, and everything they could about Covington High School in Kentucky, Catholic school for boys who had just marched for life by the way. God bless you and good for you Cumington High School.

Thank you. It's reassuring to know they're fifteen year olds who are marching for life in this country, that they're not all a bunch of little automatons who believe everything that they've been told by the left wing authority, figures that are foisted upon them, not just in public schools, unfortunately in Catholic schools too. We're gonna have to take a priest a task here in a few minutes. That's

coming up. Welcome back to him. Sorry, we had a little miscommunication there, so I wasn't quite done with my thought. But we went into break but that such as life in live radio. So where was I opo research from the media. Okay, we've talked about what happened with Comington High School of the weekend. All of the different political biases involved the way that people view things, that the perspectives that they bring to this and they saw what they wanted to see. The media saw what they wanted

to see and without a trace of humility. After the BuzzFeed debacle, I mean, one of the premier online left wing sights in the country, such as it is, falls faced first after claiming to have a story that likely would have, if true, ended the Trump presidency. I mean effectively, whether it actually meant he was pushed out of office or not. It would have been all over for twenty to twenty if he had truly committed a federal felony, that that's a problem. But he didn't, and the Special

Council says he didn't. This was just a big lie. No humility, no lesson learned from that situation, whatsoever. So now the media has collectively received a chastening from what happened with BuzzFeed. They jump on the look at these racist at these racist Catholic school kids staring at at a Native American man, disrespectful all he was, look at him. They didn't even say anything, They just looked at him. A look is now a thing and people worth threatening

to hit the kids. A writer for Saturday Night Live offered, all I can say on air is a sexual favor in response to anybody who would physically harm the kids. I mean, these people are psychopaths. They've really got a problem. Kath Griffith said something, I'm trying to remember what it was, something just horrifically stupid, oh. She she also found a photo of these kids from before speaking of the OPO research, and she said that they were giving a Nazi saluted

a basketball game. It's actually the hand symbol for a three pointer. Well known to anybody who I actually used to play basketball growing up, but well known to anybody who watches basketball or plays. It's a symbol for a three pointer. Okay, this is like somebody giving somebody else a thumbs up and someone's like, oh my gosh, just like Stalin would have done. What what do you mean the thumbs up? We all know what that means. We all know what the three point hand signal is. These

are these are high school kids. They're a basketball game. Of course, it's what they're doing. Unless you're a moron, you know that's what they're doing. Oh but then enter the Daily News. I'm not to be confused with the Delhi Beasts, another terrible left wing rag that shouldn't exist for any real reason. You know, it shouldn't exist, but

for some reason it does. The Daily News comes out and finds photos of students at Covington High School in black paint, their whole bodies in black paint, and they run students in the story is you know students used to wear black face too, heckel black basketball opposition player. That was the story they ran with. It is a

complete and utter lie. It is a smear. What was happening, which is apparent from the photograph, is that the students were in a blackout game where everybody, as a show of solidarity, dresses in terms of clothing and yes, body paint sometimes in one color. There are all blue games, there are all red games, there are blackout games. This

is just a school spirit cheer thing. Now you can say, you could argue if you wanted to with me and say, buck, it's bad form for high school kids to have black paint all over their bodies, even though it's clear that they're on a sea of people wearing black clothing, or that this is for everybody, and that it's just about the unity of the color in the stands as a school spirit thing. They do this in college games too, and you and with a thirty second Internet search, you

would see that that's what this was. For the Daily News to run that they were the students were heckling a black player in blackface as they did, is racial incitement of the worst kind. It is horrifying. The Daily Beast and everyone who works there should be ashamed. I'm sorry. The Daily News, well, the Daily Beast too. The Daily News should be ashamed of what they have done. And there are real consequences. There are now death threats against

parents of these students, real death threats. Law enforcement in northern Kentucky is worried about this. They're not saying, yeah, you know, just you know, it'll probably blow over there, and they're saying that they're going to prosecute because it's a felony. It's a felony. I saw on Twitter someone tweeted out, why can't a school shooting happen at the Covington High School? I mean, this is what people are writing,

This is what people are saying. You have adults who are professional journalists who are advocating for these kids to get punched, these kids to get threatened, to get attacked. They've docked them, they've put their information out there online. And let's remember for what it didn't even do anything.

They were actually, if anything, the victims here. Let's also note that the basketball game where the students weren't all black was from twenty eleven, which means that not a single student in the basketball game that they showed would have had any anything, None of the students that were at this march for life and the aftermath and this whole thing with Phillips, this activist, there's no crossover, so it is not so what they did was they said, let's just find a way to call these kids racists,

and they did it. They're doing APO research, media organizations doing APO research against teenagers, and the Washington Post, the New York Times they're saying, well, new evidence has come to light that complicates No, it's not complicated, You guys lied. It's not complicated. Media's a bunch of liars, a bunch of cowards who will sacrifice the reputations and the futures of children in order to satisfy their political blood lust.

For getting a trumpet any way they can, and all those who support him, and for putting their bizarre interest where where cry baby social justice beliefs into action? All the poor Native Americans? Okay, what is that these fifteen year old kids? Nothing? Nothing? And now Covington High School has police that are stationed at the school. Now they're expectations of protesters showing up there. There are real security

concerns for these kids. They are worried, and it's understandable why they are worried, because people are crazy and there have been some very very scary thing said and written about these young men. And this is now turned. This has gone from a national scandal into a into a national media shame. People should be shamed over this, and as I've said, people should be fired over this too.

This is inexcusable conduct. How is it that you have celebrities who are calling these kids Nazis and saying they should be punched and they suffer no consequences. They're advocating violence against children. These are little kids. These aren't eighteen year old. They're fourteen and fifteen year olds under any legal definition, their children. And yet there's still this clinging to the old narrative from many in the media. Well, it's a more complicated story now, but we still think

something happened there. I would note they there are some dead enders on the Duke Lacrosse hoax. There are some dead enders on the UVA hoax. Well, maybe the story all fell apart and it was lies in fabrication, but there's still something there. People will say that they have said that I when I say people, I mean those with platforms who have a greater responsibility to the truth.

But this is an unfortunate but perhaps necessary reminder for all of us that the other side, that the left is unethical, disgraceful, not to be trusted, and does not approach issues with honor and decency that conflict with their political goals. They just don't. No adult human being could be part of the rage mob against these kids, learn the full facts, and then continue to be a part of that rage mob and consider themselves to be honorable

and decent. It is among the most disgusting things I have seen, and honestly, it's the most disgusting the media has been since the Kavanaugh hearing. It's true. The last time I was this furious and just this completely beyond beyond words gross stout by the conduct of the national media was the Kavanaugh hearing. And there are similarities here too. Cavanaugh didn't do anything wrong. Kavanaugh, there was no evidence against him. In fact, all the evidence pointed in the

opposite direction that he didn't do anything. They still wanted to destroy him and anybody around him, and anybody who would defend him. Look what's going on with Covington. Covington High School in Kentucky. A bunch of Catholic boys trying to have a trip to DC, march for life, mind their own business where they're maga hats. But oh they're white, they support Trump. They're Catholics who march for life, So they're real Catholics. You know. Oh, media hates them, absolutely

hates them. And there's no other explanation that you could come up with for this preposterous, preposterous effort to try to now justify the sliming of these kids in the media after the fact by finding something else to get them on. These are not public figure years, These are not people who asked for this. This is why I make the point to you. It's only a matter of

time before the online rage mob comes for you. You could be walking to the grocery store and someone picks a fight with you, and then all of a sudden, when you defend yourself, that person says, well, they used a racial slur. They used a uh, you know, an anti you know, anti Muslim slur. They you know, they're a sexist, they made a trans joke, whatever it is, and now you're on defense. And now you're a national totem for hate. It's a problem, the problem. The fact

shouldn't matter, but they don't matter to this media. We've got more teams there with me. He's holding the line for America, Buck Sexton his back. Tell you the fact. God, yeah, but a shot that you won't burn, and the like with everybody in America. That's right, American is going down. Right if your point you do right? America? Great, that's right,

that's right, that's right. When is the America have a big blake to the North American India come and asking this question, Billy, what is the America ever been great? Put us so called black man? That's right, American never

been quake. I'm just wondering where are the efforts to Not that I'm advocating for this, I'm just observing not a lot of nastiness, uh, not a lot of effort to um docs or track down or even do any research I mean, which would be completely legitimate for the media into the black Israelites who were yelling at these kids. We don't know their names, we don't know their names, we don't know what their backgrounds are or what their

situation is. But they'll look at a photo of a basketball game from eight years ago, eight years ago when the kids who were at this most recent rally were six. They'll look at that photo to determine racism in Covington. Right though, this just shows you this is why we don't trust the media. This is why with the media winds and says what is Trump calls figures. It's because you're bad, It's because you are not ethical. It's because you don't approach your work the way any normal, responsible,

healthy adult would you. People have all been brainwashed by each other. You live in this echo chamber where you know, you think there's narrative that you're taught by your women's in gender studies professor at Brown is the way the world works, and it's not. And this is why conservatives don't end up buying into these stories early on. We we don't up getting swindled because we know we're like, wait, does this doesn't make any sense? His kids are going

to pick a fight with these guys. This doesn't make any sense. And the more we find out about this guy Phillips speaking of the lack of oppo research interests right, so they'll they'll opo research docs and smear the kids completely unfairly. Now they have threats against their parent I mean, if somebody threatened my parents, I don't want to tell you what I would do to them if I found out who the person was. Okay, but let's just say

it would be bad. But they're threatening people's parents. They're having to post armed guards and police at the school. They've never had to do this before because of threats against the school. And meanwhile, this guy Phillips, the media is holding him up as you know, some kind of a hero, a native American combat veteran from Vietnam. Oh wait a second, turns out he wasn't a combat veteran. He did serve in the Marine Corps. We thank him for his service, but why do they think that he

was a combat vet from Vietnam? And I won't get into this old distinction. I always think it's interesting, you know, I was a civilian in war zones, but I always I kind of say I didn't really, you know, I served my country. I certainly didn't serve in the military. Was I I was in combat zones, but I was in a analyst and a really intellectual role. I did carry lots of weapons. I did go on the red Zone. I did move around with SF teams and did things

that you put me in harm's way. But you know, I always kind of just because people all if CIA, you're just eating donuts and sitting at a desk. Final leave that there. But are we allowed to make this distinction. I think we are. There's a difference between serving and serving in a war zone. I think that's fair. It's just for the purposes of accuracy, right, I don't think and I defer to anybody listening who actually served the military. You know, if you served on the Air Force for

ten years, thank you for your service this country. It's necessarily we appreciate that. But if you serve the Air Force for ten years and you said you were kicking indoors in Fallujah and you never said foot in Iraq, I think people would have an issue with that. I think that's a little weird. And this guy falls into that category. But the media is not particularly interested in that story. Oh yeah, they just a little correction appended

to the Washington Post story on him. Initially Phillips the Native American activist, and you also see he's a bad person. He is not trying to tamp this down at all. He has no interest in trying to make sure that these kids are are protected and that you know, and that temperatures go lower. In fact, one of the one of the kids who is being interviewed, who's been interviewed by Savannah Guthrie, she is, or rather he is saying that he would like to have a Nick Sandman is

his name. He was the one that was shown staring at at Phillips, the activist. He wants to have a sit down with, you know. He wants to kind of have a beer summit, although they can't drink, so it would have to be like a Martinelli's sparkling cider. Don't you guys all agree with the best when your kid whenever, when all the adults at Thanksgiving having like beer or wine, you got your Martinellis, and you feel pretty good about that. I love that stuff. It's liquid candy. But Phillips doesn't

want to sit down with them. In fact, he's advocating for them to be expelled even still, and he's still telling these self serving narratives about how he didn't feel safe, you know, And Savannah Guthrie asked, this kid, do you feel from this experience, you owe anyone an apology? Do you see your own fault in any way? The answer those questions are no and should be no. And Savannah Guthrie, of course, is trying to take that media line of you know, I'm just asking questions, when don't you stop

beating your wife fifteen year old kid? These people are disgusting. They're disgusting. You wouldn't want to You wouldn't want to leave your kids in their care over the weekend. You wouldn't want to trust your family members to them. They are bad. They are self righteous and yet deeply unethical and lacking in righteousness, the very toxic combination and some of the biggest people in the mainstream media are in

fact the absolute worst. They are the worst, and I do not think we should be shy by calling this out anymore. I don't care how big their platforms are, how rich they are, how important or powerful they are. A lot of people at the biggest newspapers in the country and the biggest news networks in the country are scummy. They're bad people, and they should be held to account. Go more. Coming up, Team stay with me. We are a guest that he wants this giant, thirty foot wall

to be the symbol of America. I tell President Trump, I've told him to his face. We want this symbol of America to remain the statue of liberty, freedom, equality, not a divisive wall, and we will fight for that. Fight for that we will. There have been negotiations, but there will be no successful negotiations until the government results. The reason we're in this dilemma is that the president has made demands and is simply insisting on a vanity project,

a campaign promise, or a clauseline. And no president should be allowed to take the nation hostage to achieve a personal triumph. Schumer and Blumenthal denang Dick, as Trump likes to call him, are just slimy liars. They are. They're just liars, just gross, oiaginous fabricators. We should just say it. This idea that it's a vanity project for Trump to build a wall is completely contradicted by facts, by experts, by any real familiarity with what's going on at the border.

The border is a border barrier is immensely helpful where it exists. And if this is about symbolism, as Chuck Schumer says, the statue of liberty. Well, you know, the statue of liberty is a statue. It's not a policy. It's not the government. Ah, these people, I swear just waiting for him to refer to the Emma Lazarus poem as though that we all have to live by the words of Emma Lazarus. Everyone's like, who most of you know?

But most of the country doesn't. You know? This is this is where you say to yourself, hold on a second, if if what Trump says, I'm sorry, if what Schumer says is true, and the border barrier is this terrible symbol of our divisiveness and all the bad, bad stuff about America. Right this border wall is so unwelcoming and it's racist. As Pelosi said, it's immoral. That was what she initially went with it, that the border wall itself is immoral. Well, if that is true, shouldn't we take

down the bearer we already have in place. Shouldn't then Nancy Pelosi have to face the members of border patrol that she pretends to care about. Now, the federal workers that are not getting paid because of the shutdown. Right now, the Democrats love to talk about how much they care about these federal workers. But do they care about their mission? I can tell you they don't care about border patrol's

mission at all. And in fact, I think if Democrats could have their way, they were just band border patrol just set up checkpoints that process people as they come in. Nobody gets turned away unless they're an imminent national security threat, and people come and go as they please. That's what the Democrats really want. They may not openly say it, but all of the policies they support are geared toward that and making it impossible to have a border that

we actually control. But if we shouldn't be forced to destroy the barriers we already have, I want to know why, because Pelosi and Schumer think that the barrier at any barrier at the border is itself day facto racist, dumb and wrong. In reality, the only thing that's dumb and wrong or Pelosi and Schumer. But they should have to explain why we don't tear that stuff down. I remember we had Max's boot on Rising and I asked him his question. He looked at me like I was us.

She's like, all right, the border while his racist Max Boot is he really kind of a disturbed individual. He's you know the things that Trump is a racist. The border wall is idiotic and dumb. I won't work. And I said, so, should we tear down the two hundred plus miles of fencing that we already have? I think it's actually even more than that. I can't remember at the top of my head. We have hundreds of miles of existing barrier, that's for sure. Should we tear down

those hundreds of miles? It's so stupid. Why wouldn't we want to get rid of it? Him? And it's just a blight on our border, right, there's no reason for it. Oh, it's not stupid, that's right. And if you talk to anybody in border patrol or Immigrations and Customs Enforcement for

five minutes, they'll tell you it's not stupid. I've even asked former senior Obama appointees from Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, who were people that really worked in that area for a while, right, not somebody who sort of comes and goes for a moment. And I've asked them and they won't even say They won't even say that the walls don't work, because they know they know the moment that you turn into one of these people it says that a border barrier is racist and ineffective. You say, first

of all, it's a wall. A wall. A wall is an inanimate object, so I mean a wall can't be racist. The purpose of the wall is to prevent the violation of our laws. So really, any member of Congress who says that a barrier or the wall is racist is saying that the law that justifies that wall is racist, which means that Congress, that's right, the sitting Congress, it's racist because they're the ones that have the legal justification in place for the building of the wall. They could

change that. They could say that anybody who wants to come to America is a you know, you said foot here, you're a citizens. The more the barrier. They could do that. Why not do that? By asking the left questions on immigration, You'll see how quickly they get flustered because they don't have any They don't have any answers, or at least they don't want to share the answers that come to mind.

Because I do think that they have some understanding of the fact that their policies, their ideas are very radical. The American people are not with them on this stuff, and If the American people were by and large more aware of where Democrats stand on these issues, they wouldn't support the Democratic Party on immigration, and probably enough of them would realize how important an issue this is that they wouldn't support the Democratic Party period. If we know

the more truth you know about the border. And I've been seeing this trend for years, but the last year it's more true than ever. The more somebody learns about immigration, immigration law, and our southern border, the more they recognize that the Republicans are correct and the Democrats or really Trump, I shouldn't even say the Republicans. Trump is correct and the Democrats are lying, and they I think they know

that they're lying, and they don't care. I think that they are trying to get their way in the short term here, and it really just for them, is all about this is all just about twenty twenty and control the government once again. They want to throw their you know, fancy left wing inauguration parties here in DC again, all the big entertainers. They want their people in positions of power all across the government agencies. And however they have to get there, whatever they have to do to get

there is really it's not even a secondary consideration. It just doesn't really matter to them. They just don't care. They will oppose anything no matter how important it is for the nation. I gotta tell you, I do like this idea. I'm seeing that there's a and it's it's a very trumpy and maneuver, this possibility that Donald Trump is going to give a State of the Union address that is not the typical in front of a joint Houses of Congress, you know, a joint session of Congress.

Rather pardon me, you know that the president might do this in some other capacity, or I think that's a great idea. I think that the State of the Union with one side sitting, the other side standing up every five seconds, I think it's just it's kind of it's kind of been I should think it's kind of beneath our government, meaning that it's just it's such obvious theater

and the theatricality of it overrides any policy importance. I wish that they would just go back to the old days where they would have a written State of the Union address. And I think if Trump would help us get to that, and that's probably a good thing, you know, I would prefer that to what we have now where it just turns into this this you know what, like school spirit rally for either the Democrats or the Republicans, depending on who's in charge. So I think that's probably

a good thing. And if you wanted to just do it and written format, just release it and it'd be a document we could all read it, I'd say that's fine too. You know, we get a lot of Trump unplugged, and I don't think that the state of the Union right now. It just gives Democrats more stuff to work with to try to tear down this president as they have the House of Representatives, and they're just going to

go on this wild, you know, white whale chase. And that is not a comment on Trump's wait for destroying this presidency, and you know that they are. They're going to go all in on using the powers of the House of Representatives, the investigative processes that are at their disposal to tear down Trump and all those people around him, and that's really going to be their main effort going into twenty twenty. I do think that. And we'll talk more about some of the candidates. We'll talk a bit

about Biden today on the show. You where's Biden in all this. I've got some thoughts for you on Biden, But I will say that the candidates who are who are in UM, I think Democrats know deep down that there's a very real possibility that none of these candidates are going to be sufficient on their own, none of

them are gonna be sufficient to take down Trump. They're gonna have to They're gonna have to push along whoever the Democrat candidate is with something substantive, something that really wounds the Trump administration, from the Muller probe or from congressional investigations or something. They're gonna have to stack the deck because these these people, they're trotting out as I mean, this guy, what's his name, Castro, this is, this is all of this so far, it's really just a warren

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in twelve years if we don't address climate change. And your biggest issue is your biggest issue is how are we going to pay for it? And like this is the war, this is our world War two, And I think for younger people, we're looking at this and we're like, how how are we saying let's take it easy when three thousand Americans died last year? How are we saying, let's take it easy when the end person has just

died from our cruel and unjust criminal justice system. How are we saying take it easy when the America that we're living in today is so dystopian, with people sleeping in their cars so that they can work a second job without healthcare, and we're told to settle down. I don't. It's a it's a fundamental separation between you know, that fierce urgency of now, the why we can't wait? That

can we spoke of that? At some point, these chronic realities do reach a breaking point, and I think for our generation it's reached that what the heck is she talking about? Welcome back to the buck sex and show everybody that that was Alexandria, Yes, oh, Alexandria, Ocazio Cortez, Alexandrocazio Cortez whatever. AOC. That's the easy way to say it now. AOC, which also refers to where a wine

comes from. Fun fact, but AOC is saying some really crazy stuff here, like the world is going to end in twelve years if we don't address climate change, and people clap for this. Now, before I dive deeper into the analysis that this young woman offers up, and before we go too far down this road, because I think

some of you have even written to me. In fact, I know some of you have saying, don't give aoc much attention, don't you like, oh my gosh, like is like doing her analysis and she kind of sounds like that. Sometimes you don't like this because you think that it's some of you think that this is elevating her profile

even more. We'll let me tell you that the latest polling national polling shows that if Democrats could vote for her, just shy of seventy five percent of Democrats polled said they would want Alexandra Ocasio Cortez to run for present. Now she can't constitutionally prohibited because of her age, but oh my gosh, they want this person to be president. I wouldn't leave this person in charge of my summer

hotdog stand. They want her to be president. These are the people that lecture us about how Trump is not intellectual enough and isn't thoughtful Enferer, This is who they want now Again, I know they can't vote for her and she can't run, but the fact that the Democrat I'm not saying five or fifteen percent want her to run, seventy five percent say that they want her to run for president if she could, and she says things like

the world is going to end in twelve years. How do you have a productive discussion with people who think that this is intelligent policy. How do you have a productive, you know, way of meeting in the middle with someone who believes that climate change is our World War two? Sixty million people died in World War Two, tens of millions viciously murdered, exterminated, tens of millions more died on the battlefield, and then millions and millions of civilians just

killed by bombs and warfares, collateral damage. You're going to compare climate change to this, you think that that's a reasonable thing to say. And this is why, you know, in the minds of the progressive left, giving speeches in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York where you talk about tackling climate change, it's basically like the equivalent of

being on a Higgins boat. And like storming Omaha Beach, although the people who talked that way wouldn't know what a Higgins boat is and also wouldn't know it Omaha Beach was. But you get what I'm saying. They really think that they're the saviors of the planet and this climate change philosophy that is so incredibly important to them. I mean, it is their religion. I often hear people say that climate change is a religion, but really, climate

change for the left is the religion. It is their religion. This is their existential belief system made real, which is why you just can't have a reasonable discussion with them about this. I mean, I've tried to talk to some liberals and say, you know, what is it that you think makes me not because because I listened to so well I am a talk radio host. It's not that I just listened to so much talk radio because I'm conservative. I'm right wing. I've been propagandized too. I don't want

the world to end either. I don't want our waters to turn to toxic waste and our air to be black with soot either. But that's a question of pollution and conservation, that's not a question of climate change. These are very different things, right, These are very different circumstances to discuss, and yet you know, here's here's a perfect example. Oh, by the way, al Gore in two thousand and six, producer Mike just sent me this one, Producer Mike is kind of like my pop up video from VH one.

As I'm doing the show, I don't want to interrupt my flow. That's right, Mike. You make the magic happen with a little boo, you know, a little pops up. Yeah, you say these things, and it's like this thing's pop in my head and I was like, wait a minute, I'm like, this is reminding me of al Gore in two thousand and six. Oh yeah, oh yeah, I did. We're already passed the point of no return already. That's

that's the important point. But now now they're going to give themselves a mulligan, and it's actually twelve years out. Al Gore in two thousand and six, producer Mike wrote here said that quote, unless we take drastic measures regarding greenhouse gases, the world to reach a point of no return in ten years. Well we're past that point by two years, and we did not take those drastic measures. So so what am I supposed to do? And so is Algre a liar or a moron? Just one little

add on to that. At the time when he said that he was promoting the documentary and Inconvenient Truth, so hey, yeah, well, of course, of course, I mean he's a charlatan, he's he's a fraudster. But nonetheless, here we are. You know, I had a very interesting and we're also we're just talking about the the Okazo Cortez Green New Deal climate change in sanity, we're going to talk more about the the Marxist the rise of social justice based Marxism within

the Democrat Party. Now this is real, folks. We are we are heading headlong into a future of the country deciding intellectual combat with socialism. We are doing that right now. That is underway. We're in the opening stages of it's

really a renewed battle. But this is a new phase, a phase where the American experiment in constitutional limited government in this republic is going to come under assault from people who want to turn it into a a socialist Democrat experiment in redistributing wealth and intersectional politics based on identity and grievance culture. So that we're heading into that. But put just another moment here on on Okazia Cortez

and the whole green movement. I had a guy today on rising I don't even know if I think they aired this today from the Environmental Defense Fund. He's a lawyer at the Environmental Defense Fund. So you know, these are environmentalist lawyers that basically all they do is sue industry to get them to do more expensive stuff. So, and I'm not opposed to all, you know, I don't. I don't think the company should be able to dump

their toxic waste in the rivers. But you see, what's interesting to me is that when somebody tells me there's a regulation about thumbas waste in a river, right, so just to take an example, or just just dumping their trash in a river system, I say, no, that's a bad idea, that that's I'm not I'm not okay with that, and I think that that should be you know that that is a place where a regulation is necessary. Right.

I don't want companies taking their industrial waste and leaving it in a backyard somewhere where it seeps into the groundwater and poisons people's kids. Right, But you see. Notice, I'm not opposed to environmental regulation. I know i'm because I'm a right wing radio host supposedly bought off by the fossil fuel industry and have bought into the right wing propaganda of climate denialism. But I'm I'm completely I'm

in favor of conservation. I'm in favor of anti pollution measures because, of course I want people to have access to you know, healthy drinking water. Of course, Hey, you

know what happened Flint is terrible, terrible. By the way, I have actually done research into the New Orleans water system and the housing projects of New Orleans and very bad stuff going on there with lead poisoning two that nobody's paid any attention to, very little media coverage of it, but if you look into it, it's been really bad. But that's real stuff. Those are obvious scientific facts about

the human consequences of slowly poisoning people. When they're talking about the Environmental Defense Fund suing the Trump administration, they're talking about less CO two in the air, about regulating CO two, which which literally is regulating air because plants emit CO two through photosynthesis or rather, I'm sorry, take in CO two through photosynthesis and emit oxygen, and they need the CO two to be able to do that. So CO two is a necessary part of our of

our ecosystem, our global ecosystem. But it's a pollutant. They want to regulate methane. Will methane from cows butts, that's right. Cow farts is a huge greenhouse gas problem. But what are we gonna do tell the cows they can't fart? I mean, you know, they don't actually think through these policies. But I asked this guy from the Environmental Defense Fund, I asked them, what is it that you think the Trump administration they're just so in the pocket of industry

that they don't care about the world ending? I mean, that's that's how much you care about the world ending? And we don't. What's more likely that you guys have bought into a theory that is inaccurate and we really just don't believe it, or that we don't care on our side that the world is going to end. The Environmental Defense Fund guy, he can't even tell me why the right doesn't agree on this COEO two stuff. They really just result, they really just resort to this, Oh

you're bought off by fossil fields. It's nuts, absolutely nuts. But this is the stuff that they tell themselves. They are serious about this, and Okasio Cortez is serious about bringing Marxism soon to a district near you. So I don't think that that's not that's not going to be happening. I'll talk a little more about how I mean. Look, she's that, she's the most h she is the most influential in the national conversation and a most influential democrat

in the country. A know nothing millennial who has a very flimsy grasp of history and facts and information, But she is the most influential democrat the country right now. I'm telling you it's true. More on her when we come back. Do you think it is moral for individuals to for instance, do we live in a moral world that allows for billionaires? Is that a moral outcome inself?

It's not. It's not. And the system that allows billionaires to exist when there are parts of Alabama where people are still getting ring one because they don't have access to public health is wrong. It not only doesn't make economic sense, but it doesn't make moral sense. She does not really understand anything about economics. She does not understand

anything about how capitalism works. And she is somebody who just says things that she has picked up from the Salon dot com, Nation dot com left wing Marxist social justice warrior apparatus. She does not have any real understanding of these issues at all. The emergence of billionaires in the world has also coincided with the pulling up from poverty globally of more people in the last call it eighty years than in all of preceding human history combined.

There has been because of a system that privileges individual ingenuity and hard work and ability capitalism and the ability to enjoy the fruits thereof, we have had an explosion of wealth over the last century or so that is unprecedented in human history. That's the only reason we even

have billionaires now. And to say that it is a moral question that one person who has legally acquired billions of dollars is that they are there's something inherently immoral about that undermines the very system of economics that has done more for people all over the world than anything else in all of human history before. There's just no question.

I mean, you look at the numbers. Nothing else even comes close but she is kicking at the load bearing walls of not just Western civilization but modern civilization here. I mean, she's somebody who clearly has been radicalized by the college professor Obama wing of the Democrat Party, and also by the way she said people are still getting ringworm. Ringworm is like a is like a skin rash that people can get. It's a fungal infection. So I don't know what and it's just a weird an I think

anyone can get it. It's not some you know, if you want to talk. There are diseases that we could talk about that people get in some parts of the country that are really disconcerting, measles being one of them. That have to do with vaccinations, the lack thereof, and also the southern border and how it's open and people are coming across with no medical history, established, no vaccinations.

We don't know anything. And then we got to put them into the school system, right, we got to put them into the you know, into communities without being able to check for what's going on. But Ocasio Cortez is just appealing to envy here, and that's what I want you all to be very aware of and on guard for is that the Ocasio Corteses of the world ultimately are in the game of exacerbating envy for political gain because envy is very powerful. There's a reason why, you know,

do not covet thy neighbor's wife. It's really do not covet thy neighbor's wife or stuff or anything. You know, don't just desire what other people have. Because there's another part of this philosophically, which is everyone's got it tougher than you think. And I've seen this time and time again in my life. You think somebody has it completely worked out and they're just so lucky and everything's perfect,

and then you find out the truth. You're wow, that person's been carrying a heavy burden for a long time. You just don't know. Be kind because everyone carries a heavy burden. It's a very important, a very important principle for all of us to live by. But envy as a political tool is dangerous because it can lead to dehumanizing attitudes toward the other. It can lead to a lack of connection to the political policies that, at first, in the in the general sense right theoretically seem like

they're justified. But you know there's a human cost. Well, you could ignore the human cost if it's those other bad people that you need to take their stuff. They owe you stuff. You know, Envy is the root, is the root emotional impulse that is behind the kind of anti colonial rhetoric you here out of the Academy and from the left, the Marxist social justice rhetoric from the left, a lot of the intersectional racial grievance stuff that comes out of left. Envy is a major component of major

emotion that the left exploits. And Ocasio Cortez is going to be in that business in a big way. And as I've been saying, whether you like her or not, whether you think she's important or not, she has a major impact right now on the national conversation about politics. Pretty big Supreme Court decision came down today on transgender service in the military. Now this is really just a decision on a previously implemented stay. I know, something like, oh gosh, all this legal ease, But I'm good at

pretending to be a lawyer on radio. What happened was that a number of well as by way of review, the Trump administration had changed the regulations on transgender service in the military. Trump said on Twitter in July twenty seventeen, the military would not permit trans personnel to be a part of the to be serving in the military. And then Defense Secretary maddis former or soon to be former Defense Sectary, Oh is he out? I forget, he's obviously resigned.

He convened these experts and they said, Okay, well, now the actual policy is going to be you can serve, you just have to serve with your biological gender. So if you're a transgender female and that means you're biologically male, you have to serve in a male unit. That was the way that they they settled on. Ongoing forward, and the various courts Washington, DC, California, federal judges said, oh,

that's discriminatory, you can't do that. Which is interesting is that because now you have federal judges effectively saying that that one, the military doesn't get to determine what is best for military readiness, and military policy is now being infringed on by federal judges. And two are now federal judges taking the position that a biological male is actually a biological female. Because I'd like them to try to defend that in court. I'd like them to explain how

that is supposed to work. Look, this is where the left has just gone too far. They're wrong, They're scientifically wrong. They are wrong. For perspective of reason and logic, men and women are different, We are biologically distinct, and there are from a battlefield perspective, many many differences that matter. Okay, this has been shown in every time that an all female unit, or even a mixed male female unit is measured in terms of combat readiness against a male combat unit.

And I'll say the same thing that a lot of the guys I know who are door kickers and who served and who know this stuff firsthand say, which is, if you are a woman and you can absolutely keep up with the men in terms of endurance and physicality, strength, speed, all of those things, shooting great, serve along right with them. The moment that somebody is whether a judge or somebody else, is mandating that the standards have to be changed, we've

got a problem. And the moment that a judge comes along and says that for purposes of military cohesion and the separation of sexes, especially on base or abroad, on a battlefield situation, the separation of sexes is now going to be overruled by what is essentially a kind of cultural fad, which is the notion that transgender rights are the new civil rights crusade. That's what the left is saying. I think this is insanity, but they do say this.

The Supreme Court, by five four just said sorry, federal judges who overruled the Department of Defense. Remember this isn't just the Trump administration or Trump himself. The federal judges who overruled the Department of Defenses views on this that overruling of DoD by these federal judges must be overturned.

So the overrule is effectively overrule old, so that the judge judges in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the most liberal one of the country, of course, can look at this issue more fully and then it can be appealed up to the Supreme Court. But because this five four decision already favored the DoD policy, essentially deferring to the DoD when it comes to military readiness, readiness and capability and unit cohesion, these are things that judges do

not know about. These are things that judges do not understand overwhelmingly because of all of that, it's very likely that you'd have a five four decision here that it's not the transgender people can't serve. And I think that that's what really you know, it's not a discriminatory policy. This is what the left really gets gets deep down a road of dishonesty on this stuff. It's the problem

that they have. The real problem or the issue is that they want people who are biologically male to be able to serve with a female unit and people who are a biologically female to be able to serve with a male unit based upon their transitioning status. And you know this is this is a problem for a whole bunch of reasons. You know, this is why you know you have the separation of sexes in the military, this

is why frater you have, fraternization is an issue. It look, I never served, so I just know about this stuff from reading about it. But I've been on a lot of military basis and spend a lot of time around the military in combat zones. And you know, there are reasons for these policies. And it's not to be mean to transpeople. It's not to be bigoted or nasty or make anyone feel less than it's we need to have the best military fighting force on the planet. We do,

but we want to keep it that way. And we also can allow the tinker of social justice warriors and various liberal judges to decide how the Department of Defense should be conducting its business without a clear you know, look, people say, oh, buck, but what about if there was going to racial discrimination. There's no discrimination here, Okay. People who are female served with females, people who are male

served with males. If you've got some other psychological need or issue, that's something to be dealt with, but it's not the military's problem. Okay. This is where we have to draw lines, okay, And the left won't draw these lines because they like to live in this delusional state where male and female are not really different things. They are white americasted men. There's still a systematic racism, and it goes almost unknoticed by so many of us when

all that is surrounding us. Is there any wonder that there is still that spirit of restlessness there? How do we ensure that every American can live a life of dignity? How do we fulfill the promise at working people who still go to bed like my dad used to staring at the ceiling, thinking, God, if I get prostate cancer or if my whitecasts presscats, we lose everything. We lose single biggest reason for bank We lose everything. How can we stand by guaranteeing that every single American can get

affordable healthcare and medications? Because your health shouldn't depend on the color of your skin to your zip code, but it does. Wow, Okay, Joe Biden, We're gonna have to have some straight talk here on Joe Biden, folks, he is not yet one of the candidates for the presidency on the Democrat side in twenty twenty, has not officially announced. People are saying, you know, they wonder why, and I'm gonna tell you why. Joe Biden hasn't announced yet. Maybe

he still will. There's a lot of pressure on people still say that he is a favorite. You know, he is the one that in the polls who can actually can actually run on Michael Kazio Cortez, who is in fact constitutionally barred from running because of her age. Because I get like, I'm not like old enough to like Ron. But Biden is someone who benefited tremendously from being a

visible but inconsequential component of the Obama administration. Biden when he ran for president, people will forget this is a guy who was polling at like one or two percent the whole time. Okay, before that, he has been a largely inconsequential at best senator from Delaware who's actually very coy with some of the corporate interest in Delaware. As much as he'll speak sometimes like a social justice warrior as he just was, Biden's a guy who does whatever's

best for Biden. I mean, he is the quintessential career politician. Okay, this guy is as inside the belt Way and as much about the career of Joe Biden as any human

being could be in the swamp. And yet because he was the vice president for the Obama administration, because he you know, has involved himself in foreign policy matters for a long time, has terrible foreign policy judgment, by the way, and look at when when Biden takes a position on something, it's overwhelmingly in retrospect and at the time the wrong position. But he's a guy who's essentially failed upward in a lot of ways. Has never been an impressive and impressive

honestly anything. And yet we're being told he the next president United States. And I think that that I think that was from MLK Day when he was giving that speech on white America. There. This is not what white America needs to hear or wants to hear right now

in parts of the country where they're struggling. And that's part of what was so powerful about Trump's message was he was saying, look, if you're if you're in Michigan, if you're in Pennsylvania, if you're in West Virginia and you feel like your community has been flooded with drugs and there's nothing for you there, and the elites in DC who are who are influencing markets, it's not just the free market that does all this. With policy, with regulation,

with government action, don't care about you. You have a point. Now we can argue whether that's true or not, but or how true it is, because there's at least some truth to it, but at least Trump was making an effort. Biden's version, apparently, is that quote white America has to admit there is still systematic rays end quote. I always wondering is it systemic or systematic or both or those both seem to get grown in there all the time.

No one in white America says there isn't racism, and nobody i think would even argue with the notion of systematic racism. It just depends on what your definition of systematic racism is. Right, If you're going to tell me that the murder rate in the South Side of Chicago is a function of systematic racism, I'm going to need an explanation as to why that is. I'm going to need someone to explain what the system is doing there, because there's a lot of you know, people say, oh,

it's poverty. Hmm. Interesting because the poorest per capita country I'm sorry, county in the country is Harlan County, Kentucky, Eastern Kentucky, which is overwhelmingly white in terms of the ethnic makeup of that county. It's a very white, very rural part of the state, poorest in the country. Not a lot of gang violence going on. There a lot of opioid problem, but there definitely not a lot of

gang violence, not a lot of violence in general. So why are we told that it's systematic racism or are we being told that, you know, where do we draw the lines on what is systematic racism and what is a broader societal or cultural failure that manifests itself with a greater preponderance in minority communities than in other communities

across the country. You know, how do we draw those But just you see, that's having a real discussion about it, trying to discuss the problem, trying to discuss the issues from the perspective of wanting to make it better. Joe Biden just wants to say things that make Joe Biden sound like he cares and he's smart, and he's one of the good guys. Whether it has any effect on anyone's life in a meaningful way, whether it does anything

for anybody, that's pretty irrelevant. You know, he does not particularly care what the result of the words that he uses is. He really just cares of what the perception of him is as a result of the things that he says. You know, he's just kind of a grinning used car salesman politician. I'm sorry, but it's true. And I just think it's so funny that there's this this early effort out there for people to try and come come out and say that, you know, Biden would be

this great leader. There is no evidence, no evidence whatsoever that that is the case. None, okay, no evidence that Joe Biden would be some great president or even some great presidential candidate. And I just think that, you know, the Democrats, they're gonna they're gonna create some narrative around someone, you know, They're they're going to find a way to prop somebody up and convince the Democrats will all vote

for a Democrat. So it's really just can they make some story up about how wonderful somebody is and convinced enough people in swing states to vote for them. But I don't think it's gonna be Biden. And you know, if it's if it's Kamala Harris, she's the default candidate at this point. She's though, we don't have anybody great, so we'll go with her. There's a little I hate to be the one to say this, there's a little bit of Hillary reducts, you know, or you know Hillary

part two. Here it's it's Hillary all over again. You know, she's the establishment is rallying around Harris. They're really because they want it to be Biden. But it's just not gonna fly. It's not gonna work. And he's certainly not endearing himself. Biden's not endearing himself to rural communities by trying to pretend like he's got this this social justice streak in him where he really he really cares so deeply about, you know, minorities who are living in poverty

and systematic racism. And also this comment that your health shouldn't depend on the color of your skin or your zip code. What does that mean, because that he makes it sound like hospitals. You know that that to me is a statement that's a little a little reckless. He makes it sound like hospitals or doctors turn people away because they have the wrong skin color. You know, Biden likes to play these games. Remember you know he said

quote put y'all back in chains. I mean, Biden likes to be an agitator on some of these issues of race to make up for the fact that he's basically the quintessential boring, middle age boomer white guy. That that's what he is. But he tries to play up this, you know, other part of himself. And I just you know, your health shouldn't depend on the color of your skin or your zip code. Sure our our health outcomes, at least in some way correlated to someone's socioeconomic status. Yes,

is that fair or right? No, it is not. But it's also a function of a very complicated system we have that involves aiment for services and the choices that people make with the money that they have. I mean, I get I have some I guess somewhat radical ideas about about some of these things, because I want to just tell people, you know, we all approach healthcare like

somebody else should be paying for it. Meanwhile, I mean I would advocate for you know, your healthcare is probably what you should be concerned about paying for ahead of anything, you know, other than your house and your food. You know. I know people that will spend ten thousand dollars on

a vacation without, you know, without blinking their eyes. But then when you tell them they have to pay a fifty dollars co pay to go to the doctor, They're like, oh, why gosh, you know you're gonna need to pay for these things if you want the quality of service that we've all come to expect in this country. And you know the other side of it. I'll tell you anytime I've been in an erm, they're miserable, dysfunctional places that are deeply depressing, and you only want to be in

one if you have absolutely no choice. And it's a desperate that you and I wish that medicine could get better than that, you know, And that's a view and I'm talking about as somebody who can pay that doesn't even matter. Still terrible. So there's a lot going on here, But the bottom line is I don't think it's going to be Biden, and if it is Biden, he's gonna lose. Maybe you've heard of the AARP, You or somebody you know it could already be a member, right, But did

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am Ac dot us slash Buck. I just want to take a moment to wish all the best and send the thoughts and prayers to Brett Baer who he's okay and his family's okay. But I don't know how many of you saw this. He is, of course, the host of Special Report on Fox News, which is on it during the six o'clock Eastern hour every night. I think it's the best panel and probably the single best non

non opinion based news show on television. And you know, he's as nice a guy and as much of a of a gentleman and a professional as any Brett as anybody that you'd come across in the business. He was on a family vacation with his wife and his two children. He's got a you know, he's got a lovely family, and you know, he's a he's a real family man. And he was driving car out in Montana and they just hit an icy patch of road things. I know,

the weather out there has been really cold. The country has been hit with a real cold snap and icy patche wrote, and the car just flipped right over. I mean, it's just flipped over on its back. They all had to go to the hospital, but they're okay. You know. It's just it's a reminder for all of us that you know, you just don't know. I mean, for one thing, and I hate to be this now, I really do

sound like I'm Team Buck's grandmother or something here. But the most dangerous thing you're going to do is drive for the most part. I mean, some of you listening, I know are are green Berets downrange. But for the rest of us, okay, the most dangerous thing you're going to do, for the most part statistically is driving a car. But also I think there's just a heightened sensitivity and conservative media and in DC right now. Brett's a DC guy.

He does a show out of here. Ever since Bree Peyton's passing a few weeks ago from just a freak influenza influenza infection, I mean, just out of nowhere. As December twenty eighth, which also happens to be my birthday, I'll never forget getting the news. So I guess just a moment to wish thoughts and prayers to Bretton's family.

They're all okay, nobody was severely injured, but obviously it's terrifying to be in your family, being in the car with your family and flip the car, and just to remind everybody, you know, be safe out there, to be careful and just remember, you know, you know, you don't know, you know, you don't know what's going to happen, so

keep your loved ones close. That's sorry. I know that's a little a little out of maybe out of left field, but I was thinking, I was thinking about it today and I had I have a lot of friends who were still a rattled by would happen with Brie. And you know, she does a lot of Fox. She did a lot of Fox News, and you know, Brett obviously has had many of us on his show in our little conservative media community down here in d C. So

it was another one of those moments. Gosh, you know, it's another another story that just reminds you you don't know. All right, let me get into some some policy stuff here China. Larry Cudlow is talking a bit about what's going on here with the China negotiations, because this does have a pretty major effect on our our overall economy, and it does affect what's going on in the global

economy for sure, and the US economy here. You know, Culdlow Kudlow is a great messenger for the administration's position on this stuff. He's very effective, he's savvy, sharp, and comes across it's very warm to reporters. Reporters tend to

really like this guy. But the China situation is obviously a point of a lot of tension because people are saying that Trump administration has picked this fight, although I think it's only fair to point out that China has really been the one picking the fight, and they've been picking it for last oh thirty years or so. They're the ones that have been engaged in the predatory and just deeply unfair trade practices that are getting a ride

off our back without our say so. But here's how could Low sets this up place sixteen We're making progress in negotiating on the grandest scale between the two countries. Ever, Okay, we're covering everything technology, theft IP, forced transfers, family jewels, cyber intervention, commodities, industrial supplies, financial services, ownership. Nothing like this has ever been undertaken. This is good. Negotiations are good.

You know. He lays out all this stuff, talks about intellectual property theft and all these different aspects of the economic and trade relationship that we have with China, and as he brings them up, I think it's worth noting that no one really had a until Trump came along. No one had the political will to deal with these issues. Neither Republicans nor Democrats were taking any strong action to

stop this from continuing. And I think it's it's particularly noteworthy that many of the folks, many of the voices that you're hearing now that are saying that what Trump is doing is so reckless, are among those of the so called expert class that had absolutely no solutions, nothing to bring to the table to fix anything with China, and now that they're not in power and their way is not the way that the administration's going, we have to be told, Oh, it's so crazy, it's so dumb.

I think I've been pretty consistent on this one all along. We're gonna know whether this works or not, and Trump will be judged, and I think in twenty twenty. Even part of this will be part of how he's judged relates directly to China. Will be judged on whether this works, doesn't work, or not. And if the answer is yes, well then we'll know that Trump was able to pull this off in the face of incredible bipartisan intellectual opposition

and political opposition. But people just saying, oh, the experts all agree, there is a consensus on this one. It is crazy to do what he's doing. Well, it turns out that we have some information coming in that shows that I don't think he's crazy. It's risky, but that's different than crazy. We do have though, just earlier today reporting for the Wall Street Journal of China's annual economic growth rate is the slowest since nineteen nine. Now, there

are a lot of different parts of this. There's a lot of different ways to analyze that. You could say where you could point to the fact that China, in order to avoid some long term economic risks financial risks,

has decided that government borrowing needs to be curbed. There's a drop in large capital expenditures on things like infrastructure projects and big new factories, and you know, China has had to rein in some of this stuff because if it's just ferocious growth rate the last twenty years or so. But it also shows us that the leverage to try to get a change in Chinese behavior right now is pretty good. We're a pretty good position to do so. Now. Is it having a little bit of pain for the

US economy, for our markets? Yeah, I think so. But anytime you get into a fight, you know, if you get into a boxing match and you think that you're just being able to knock the other guy out without getting punched, you know, you're usually delusional. That's usually not a good thing to think when you go in. And if we are going to get a change in Chinese behavior, I don't think anybody should have expected it to happen in a way that wouldn't have any at least short

term negative financial and economic implications for US. And I think we are seeing that right now. You know, the administration has said that they are willing to take some of these measures off the table right that there's that they may pull back. We the US may take some of these tariffs back in order to chill markets out as long as we feel like the Chinese are going

to play ball. We'll see, We'll see. But you know, in the meantime, I would just note that the Trump administration is taking action on problems that exist, that everyone knows exist, and that previously nobody seemed to want to take any action on. You know that that to me is significant, and that's also why all along I felt like we should give the administration some leeway and the benefit of the doubt, uh, you know, to find a way through this. By the way, I'm not yet finished

with a book that I find very interesting. I find the thesis of it very interesting, called one hundred Year Marathon by Michael Pillsbury that takes just a contrarian view of Chinese national top down policy and strategy. It's really about strategy and civilizational strategy for China, and the hundred Year Marathon I'd say about a third through it right now, and it the the thesis and I'm reading as it

expands on this one. But the thesis from the Hundred Year Marathon is that China has been engaged in a massive campaign of global deception and deception, particularly aimed at the United States, to make us treat the Chinese like there's some developing og Gali gosh, you know, we don't know how we're going to become a superpower country when all along they've been hoping to leverage that and to use that to harness the kind of American globalist let's

bring everybody up and free trade is going to make us all rich attitude, and you know, if we need to help some of the Third world catch up to us, all the more the better. And you know, and and

China use all this stuff is very zero sum. And there's there's a whole conversation in the book around or a lot of exposition around the idea of deception as central and strategy and how in Chinese culture they're even some of their their folk heroes, and they go back to the period of the warring states, which is also when you have Sunsue writing is you know, eternally famous the art of war and all these warring factions within the Chinese or the Chinese state, and there's all these lessons.

It's essentially like the Chinese version of Machiavelli on steroids. But either when you get a sense of what their philosophy is and also the aggression, the long term aggression behind it to supplant America and really become a hedgemon unlike any of the world has ever seen. You get kind of a different view about Yeah, you know, China's just ripping off some of the intellectual property. You don't know. Big deal. Actually it is a big deal, And these

are issues we should be paying close attention to. And I think that the hundred Year Marathon, which's written by an expert in China policy of many decades, really interesting stuff. So when I finished that, we'll have a longer discussion. Maybe I'll bring on one of my favorite East Asia experts. But keep that in mind. One hundred year Marathon. I think you'll find it interesting. We've got more coming up, Teams,

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That's from Black Panther, the trailer for it. And why am I talking about Black Panther Because I want a lot of you to boo at me when I tell you that I've been waiting for a superhero movie to

be nominated for an oscar. Even though conservatives we all make fun of the oscars all the time, but it is this this cultural phenomenon that you know, we tend to mock them, but we tend to also talk about them because I think it's a reflection of what the at a minimum, of what the Hollywood elites think about the culture right now and what matters and what doesn't

and what kind of stories they want to tell. But Black Panther was nominated for an Oscar and I feel like I'm the only person that I know who will just come out and say it's just not a good movie. And there's some look, you know, there's some very cool scenes in it, and I think that the guys, you know, the guy who's the lead actor, is very charismatic and does a great job. But the storyline is just bad. It's just not a good storyline. It doesn't really hold together.

You know, this whole thing about what is it? What is it called Brandon Unobtainium? That sounds about right, what's the like? I only saw one thing, you know, it's like or is that from Avatar? I can't I think no, I think Avatar is unobtainium. Whatever they have like the secret whatever, the secret sauce magic stuff is that they have, you know, and they don't want other people to get I see. I haven't seen it that many times anyway. I don't know why everyone has to pretend they think

it's such a good movie. I mean, they're freaking giant cgi Rhinoceros is running people over in the Final Battle Secrets. Brandon, do you agree with me on any of this or do you like Black Panther? You probably like brand Now. I agree with you. It's an average you do hear a movie? It was average there. It's a totally average super Brandon, thank you. It's a totally average superhero movie. Into the Spider that's a good one. The New Spider

Man people tell me that's amazing. Actually, my co host Crystal Ball told me she thought it was incredible, and I'm like, really, because she's not into cause superhero stuff, but she said, visually it's amazing. Yeah, it's it's not it's more than you think it's. It's really good. But no, I agree with you with Black Panther for sure. And one of my family members told me that Green Book is actually a pretty good movie. So you know, I'll definitely watch that when it's I only watch things at home.

I don't do this as I've told you I'm way too grumpy from movie theaters. Somebody's always talking, somebody's and I have a giant head, but somebody's even more giant head is always in the way of my view of the screen. There's just always a problem, you know, And I just i'd just learned my lesson too many times. I only watch things at home where I control the environment, and that's that. So I'll watch Green Book when it comes out. A Star is Born, I feel like, you know,

this is you know, just a Lady Gaga. Did you see that one? Brandon? I'd haven't, but I want to. I just don't want to pay for it, so I'm waiting for it to come out. At first, it's pretty good, um, so you know, yeah, he's I guess that one's decent. I'm trying to think what else get this movie? Roma is apparently the favorite for a lot of these things

I haven't. I don't even know anything about it. I mean there were movies nominated like the Favorite, which I didn't even know was a movie until now, so I'm not I'm not up on this stuff at all. I just think that TV, as I've told you before, is in this Golden Age where it's just way, way better than that. The quality of top TV shows right now is blowing the quality of top movies out of the water.

It's just not even comparable. I mean, there's so many good I'm discovering TV series that are even a few years old, and I'm like, uh, this is this is an a plus. I mean, I think Peaky Blinders is a phenomenal TV show. I hadn't and ended if you have you seen that one, Brandon, No, but I've heard good things for sure. It's very dude, you'd like it. Actually, it's got good music. The soundtrack is good too. You

dig it. So I would if I may make a recommendation for you, DJ Brandon, I would say, put Peak Blinders on your list. It is really good. It's a little bleak in the beginning, but it gets it's really solid. But you know, Black clans But these are the Best Picture nominees. Black Clansmen, Bohemian Rhapsody, The Favorite Roma, Green Book, A Star Is Born, and Vice. Oh my gosh, you know,

there's such a bunch of clowns. They really are going to nominate h They're really going to nominate Vice for Best Picture it's ridiculous, a movie just trashing Dick Cheney, you know where it's it's all a Dick Cheney is this is this super villain? Yeah, it's it's it's total nonsense. You know, I did not see a single good movie this Did you see anything that was good this year? I did not see a in theaters good movie this year? You did you sly go see one movie a year?

I didn't see one. This ye and se Bohemian Rap City. No? It was it good? Yeah, it's a fun uh. You know, if you like the music of Queen, you'll like it. And the league guy Remedy, what's his name is? It does a great job. So it was good. When are they gonna make the Guns and the Pivotal Guns and Roses movie? My man? I mean that's that's actually been asked for many years. But I'm looking forward to seeing the Motley Crue movie coming out on Netflix in a

month or so. The Dirt I'm looking forward to that too. You should read the book, guys. This guy's partied heard so anyway, the Oscars, who cares, we care a little bit, just to make fun of it. We'll be right back. All these models like in the Bahamas, the most insane festival the world has ever seen. Island getaway turned disaster. It became very far bearing. So you know, that's the beginning of the introduction for the documentary on Fire Festival. F y r E and a lot I had heard

about this. It became kind of a big news story for a little bit because it touched on some Silicon Valley stuff. It touched on some h you know, entrepreneurial kind of may off scheme like questions, and you know, so it really did get into the mainstream news for all, but it was really big among the social media influencer set. And it's an amazing story. I mean, I'm just gonna tell you this right now. If you there's a documentary on Fire Festival right now on Hulu and a documentary

on Netflix. Here's the basics of what happened. I've seen the Netflix one I have. I'm in the middle of the Hulu one, and you'd think, oh my gosh, buck, why would you watch two documentaries but the same thing. But they're actually covering different aspects of the story. And the Hulu one actually has the main guy, the bad guy, the the evildoer in his sense he gives an interview to them words in the first one. There's no interview on Netflix. But the basics are that this charlatan, I mean,

this fraud. This guy is just an outright fraud. The fact that people couldn't see it. I could sit down with this guy and have a two minute conversation with you and tell you this guy's full of it. But his name is Billy McFarlane and he's serving a six year sentence in federal prison right now, by the way, And he had run a couple of kind of you know, social media influencer almost pump and dump type scams before he began this app that was supposed to allow for

booking talent like you book uber. So, oh, you want to have jay Z come to your birthday party? This is you know. All you have to do is get this appen, have all the money. It probably costs you a million bucks, but you know jay Z will come to your birthday party. Right That's that was the basics

of it. But to launch this thing, he created this ad campaign with true supermodels, I mean world class, top tier in terms of their pay scale supermodels, and they went to this deserted, beautiful island and they frolic around in the beach and they just do this brilliant. It was brilliant social media campaign for this music festival called fire fy R, And then the documentary is just about how there was no reason to believe that they could pull this off. It would be like having some of

you probably you know Woodstock for sure. You may know what Coachella is too. I've never been. I just know it's a big, kind of fancy hipster music scene, music festival. But imagine doing the equivalent today of Woodstock on a tiny island in the Bahamas with no running water, no infrastructure, just a basic landing strip for an airport, and you're going to fit six thousand people on an island that is like the size of a couple of football fields put together. I mean, it's just it was insane. It

was insane. But the way that people get conned, I mean, I think it's really important. I also read this book The Billion Dollar Well recently, which is another guy who used celebrity and salesmanship to engage in a multi billion dollar fraud. I still hasn't seen any justice, by the way.

He's hiding out in China. But it's important to see how people scam people, and it's important to see also that sometimes the people that get scammed, including some of the promoters and other people involved in this, are smart

people or good people. You know. Oftentimes, what allows you to get scammed like this fire festival guy did these people is your belief that other people are going to operate the way that you operate, right, that other people want to be ethical and keep their promises and are decent, and you give them the benefit of the doubt when they're trying to create something that's really you know, successful or meaningful or whatever it may be. So, I mean

it's a real cautionary tale. But also just imagine you're a guy who is throwing a thirty five million dollar one or I guess it was a couple of days, but a thirty five million dollar party with six thousand attendees, and the day before they're scheduled to arrive. I mean, I don't want to give away too much, but let's just say they have they have some tents on some concrete on an island next to a Sandals resort. I mean, it's just crazy, Brandon, what would you give it out

of ten? I gave it an eight point five. I as far as a documentary go, yeah, I can say that, but it just made me feel really a documentary. It's not like the most entertaining movie I've ever seen, But for a documentary, I thought it was pretty good. No, it was good. I just feel I can't. I just left feeling so bad for the people on the island, the ones who really, yeah that's I diagree. The woman who had to pay fifty thousand dollars out of her own pocket to pay or works. He's a restaurant worker.

Because everybody else is young and has all this money, and I don't really feel that bad for them, but I felt bad for her, and there was a lot of that. There's a lot of schadenfreud at the dumb millennials that came out of this too. But anyway, everybody, I recommend if you have Netflix or Hulu, watch either or both of these Fire Festival documentaries. They're fantastic. Roll is up next, Hey, team Buck, It's time for roll call.

People upset about the BuzzFeed situation. Still a lot a lot of things to get to here on the roll Call. Let's let's get to it. Kirk Rights First up, the left's fake news has gone too far. There needs to be a law if anyone's spreading fake news, they will be fined or jailed or both and can never do that kind of work. Ever. Again, fake news needs to be silenced. It's not freedom of speech, it's provoking others to do harm. I enjoy your show, Buck, I listen everyday. Kirk. Well, Kirk,

you have fantastic tape east in radio shows. I do not think that you necessarily have spot on First Amendment jur's prudence. However, think about the possibility for abut if we were to open up charges of fake news to any kind of sanctions by the state. You mentioned being fined or jailed. There are some legal remedies for what we would consider the spreading of fake news, but they are from the individuals affected by them. Notably, if it's spoken,

it's slander, if it's written, it's libel. And there's also the broader charge of defamation of character, and this goes to a jury. And these are civil not criminal offenses, but it can go to a jury and the payouts can be very high. So there is some check on this, but the check on a news organization just lying unless there are specific damages against an individual, is that we do not listen to and do not support give our dollars to or our eyeballs or ears to that media outlet.

This is why when I tell you things like please do support the sponsors on this show, that's the way you vote for what kind of media you want there to be out there. You know, every time you buy some black rifle, every time you type in my UURL for zip recruiter, you're voting for this show to stay on the air. And yeah, if you buy something, you know,

you get a product. It costs a little money, but you can just go to the UURL and show that sponsor that we are helping create broader awareness of their products. You know, the same thing is true unfortunate whenever you turn on MSNBC or CNN, or if you're a I must admit I'm a New York Time subscriber. Even though I think The New York Times does a lot of really harmful and dishonest reporting, I feel like I have to be aware of what the flagship paper of the

enemy is putting out there every day. So I do spend a fair amount of time rooting around in the left's internet ecosystem, including The Times, the Washington Post, you know, huff Posts, Slate, you know, you name it. I mean all these different sites out there. I have saved a lot of them. I always find actually the Daily Mail as a surprisingly fun read, ABC, NBCCBS, They're all pretty much the same. But yeah, that's that's what I would

say about those topics. David Right buck Shields ye podcast listener here, you said on Monday, the media is so Trump obsessed they don't bother to fact check. I disagree. I think they are so far gone they are reporting things they know are false because pushing the false narratives of the left is their secret job description. What's going on today is far worse than willful ignorance. David. I think what you are saying. I think we're both correct.

I would offer to you that you're right and I'm right, meaning that I believe that there is, because of the ideological fervor of the left to try to destroy Trump via the media, there is a lack of the due diligence that you would usually expect from the press, or at least that the press pretends that they engage in

um and it is sometimes just that. And I think there are times where they realize what they're saying is most probably going to turn out to be fake, and then it is not fake, or sorry, then then it is fake, rather then it is miraculously true. No that they know that it's probably not true, and they run with it anyway. I think that it's tough for them to run things that are they know they know to be untrue to a degree where they would be it. See the press, the press has to protect some degree

of factual accuracy or else they lose their power. It's not because they have some ethical objection to lie. It's that the narrative is built because of the editorial decisions, the language used, what stories they cover, how they cover them, how they describe things, what words they use. That's how the left wing narrative is solidified through the media, and oh and the selective presentation of facts. But if they get observable, demonstrable facts wrong, that they do take a hit.

And they do take a hit. Now I'm not saying that means they don't do it. I'm just saying they have to be aware of that. Right, it is not in here's a shorter way of saying what I'm trying to hear. It's not in the New York Times interest to say that there are fifty seven states, you know, so that just makes them look bad. There are plenty of instances, plenty of things that we can look at where it is clear that it's not the facts that

are the problem. It is so it is the presentation of analysis as objective news that's the problem, all right. As you can see, I find this topic fascinating, but other people like move on to the roll call. Nathan writes a nice shout out from Bill O'Reilly social media assaults by Bill O'Reilly. This is from Bill O'Reilly dot com. Everybody, here's what Bill O'Reilly wrote about yours truly today, there's a good column on The Hill dot Com by Buck Sex and Entitle. It's only a matter of time before

the social media mob comes for you. It basically says Americans have few protections from smears. You can be accused by a liar using a device and lose your job, reputation, and friends. No one is immune from this unless you're a millionaire. Suing for definition defamation is useless because of the great cost. That's completely true. By the way, it takes years to wind through the courts, which generally cannot

care less about these cases. Then if the person defaming you loses, even if you win, they have so few assets you can't collect. We are living in a dangerous time where hateful people have more power than ever before. The legal system is corrupt in many areas, so we basically have no way to protect our reputations from social media assaults. High tech has destroyed due process and the reputations of its avenues of people. There's no solution to this.

That's all on Bill O'Reilly dot com. But he starts it off talking about my column, which I hope you all have read on The Hill dot com. It's only a matter of time before the social media mob comes for you. That's it's gone viral. It's gotten retweets and likes and things from you know, Bill O'Reilly and Meghan Kelly and lots of different folks out there. So I would I would recommend that you recommend that you check it out. You know, I always have to say this,

Meghan whatever something. I know some of you are probably Megan fans still, and some of you very much are not. But I always appreciate it that she used to have me on very early in my career and really put me on for substantive segments on Fox News in primetime and was the first person to ever do so, and for while she was a Fox, the most consistent person

to do so. Now it's Tucker, which is great because Tuck and Buck were like, it's like a buddy comedy, But it was Megan Kelly, and so I am always thankful and appreciative of that. Uh, Kim right, Buck, Tell all those having trouble with the I heeart app to try the Stitcher app. I've always used Stitcher for your podcast and haven't had any problems. Well, I think that that sounds like a great idea. Um let's uh, that

sounds good to me. Um, try try Stitcher if you If you're having problems with the I Heeart app, go for Stitcher for sure. Jonathan right, Tucker glazed Tucker gazed on your beard with jealousy. I'm glad your border reporting is getting traction shields. Hi u Jonathan. You know, first of all, your beard is awesome. I got a baby beard right now, guys. I don't know, I don't know if I'm gonna make it to full beardom I'm trying.

I'm trying. I know, don't get mad at me. I'm trying to push through for at least another week, maybe two, to see if I can actually make a go of this. But I just right now it kind of looks like a bad goatee. You know. It's it's just building around the chin area and not enough on the jaw line. And I don't know if I need to take some you know, some testosterone shots or something here. I don't know what to do because it's just not coming in fully on the jaw line. You know. Look, I got

a lot of hair on my head. I don't I don't know if God gave me a full the full spectrum of facial hair along with the swoop, because the swoop really does. I mean, you know, I'm I'm follicularly blessed up top. I don't think I'm facially follicularly blessed. I don't even know if the I don't even know if that's a word, but you know what I'm talking about. Any of you who have beard tips, by all means share them with me. We'll see if I can make

it through. I also I don't know it. All it's gonna take is one person that I respect to be like, your beard looks bad when I'm on TV, and I don't have to be like, all right, fine, um, but I did. I will tell you I did. I got to the gym three days in a row last week, and uh, and I'm gonna get three to four times a week for the next month and I'm gonna build from there. The first workouts are the hardest. Everything hurts. I'm like, my back hurts, my knees hurt, my shoulder hurts.

But now I'm actually feeling a little bit of a tiny, tiny tinge of muscle fiber coming back, and I'm like, oh, this is probably a good thing. I should probably keep this going. Many of you know, many of you know what I'm talking about. Come on, Maria, writes Buck, I was wondering if you knew of any issues with your podcast on Stitcher. I've not been able to play for several weeks. Love the show. You give us a voice

to continue when Rush can no longer do it. First of all, Mario, thank you for even mentioning me the same sentence as Rush. That is very high praise, and I think we are fine on stitcher, Brandon, that should be good, right, I don't I'm not aware of any problem on stitch. Stitcher should be fine. Or spreaker, Yeah, you guys are a spreaker. Okay, well we will have to see. We will close up shop for tonight in the Hut With that, and thank you so much team

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