The Left's War On The First Amendment

matters with actionable intelligence. Mag no mistake American, bring You're a great American again? The buck Sexton Show begins. Analyst, He's a great guy. Now, Welcome to the buck Sexton Show. Everybody back here in the Freedom huod in NYC from my trip in Vegas. Big thanks to Stansborough Research. Great week out there, lots of phenomenal guests. Dennis Miller, Tommy Lara, Nick Irving, the Reaper, Noril Rubimi from NYU Doctor Doom. We had a really, really fun time out there. But

let's get to business, folks, I have missed you. Two days away from the show feels like far too long. And by the way, we are going to be bring you a live show here from New York City on Monday, even though it is do we call it? Do we have to officially call it Indigenous People's Day yet? Or is it? Can we still say Columbus Day? Is that a microaggression? Maybe it's a macroaggression. But my, oh my, we have so much to get you today. I don't

even know if we will fit it in. I haven't said that in a while because I've been drilling down deep into certain topics, and but today there's just so many different things. I didn't even mention at the top of the show we have Chelsea Clinton possibly running for Congress. Up we do that was coming telling men to lean out.

This is the new radical left feminism on display in a New York Times editorial, and just one of the most incredible moments yet with the Messieur Justin Trudeau, who he's trying to be still so woke and so left wing, but he's very hard because of the horrific debuckles of the last couple of weeks. Anyway, but let's let's get into the important stuff here for a moment. The President, so I just gave you a little sense of what's coming up later on there President Trump is under siege

and has been for the entirety of his presidency. There was never a honeymoon period. There was not a moment of introspection from the institutional left, the political establishment, the

Democratic Party. They all right away decided that this was not just an aberrant moment, that this was an outlier, a black swan situation, that President Trump had been able to defeat Hillary Clinton with all of the backing that she had from the media, the establishment, all those forces I just brought up, including some never Trump Republicans and former Republicans now who make me question whether they ever really believed any of the things that they had espoused

over the course of their adult lives. But there was not a moment of let's see how the president does and judge him based on that. It has been from the start. Trump is illegitimate. The left will not accept him. They will not move past this. They have dug in. They are the resistance, as they call themselves, and that

means that the president has his handsful. Not only is he trying to govern, not only is he trying to be the commander in chief of United States Armed Forces and the single most powerful figure in the executive branch of our already far too large and far too expensive federal government. He has to deal with forces arrayed against him. That simply put previous presidents who where Democrats, don't have to deal with at all, and even who are Republicans,

haven't seen in such a ferocious way. This is enough. This is a whole other level, folks. I mean, people are willing to violate their oaths of office, willing to break the law, criminal leaks, commit felonies, whatever they have to do to try and stop Trump. And you think that in that environment, it's going to be very hard for the president to make his case for reelection. Right there, they're doing everything they can so that he won't be

judged based on what he has done as president. The plan that the left has with Pelosi leading this impeachment inquiry, not not even a true impeachment process yet, just kind of sticking their foot in the pool with that will being willing to jump in all the way. But as that marches along, you might think, hold on a moment, this is going to spell trouble for a president Trump.

How could he possibly overcome this? You have the weaponization of the bureaucracy against him, Have the entirety of the establishment media trying to destroy him, actively working toward the destruction of his presidency. Ah, what comes into play all of a sudden? What is the X factor here that the left does not think about? Or rather the left can't really take into account because I suppose there's not

much that they'll be able to do about it. How is it that I'm so confident on the president Trump is likely to win? Oh? That's right. The left is crazy, absolutely bonkers. They believe things that no sane person could believe. They say things that no rational person could say, and this has now become orthodoxy on the left. If you deviate from this, even as a Democrat, you do so

at your peril. So, just when it feels like with all this Ukraine gait and impeachment inquiry and subpoenaing Trump's tax returns, all these things that are right against the president, how could he overcome? Is even Trump is not invincible? Right? Ah?

Like the cavalry coming over the hill, the left wing democrats show up and, courtesy of a platform given to them on CNN, show everybody just how absolutely nuts the left has gone on issues of religious freedom, on issues of rule of law, on transgender rights as they call it. There's just so much here that any normal person would listen to and say, hold on a minute, what has what has gone wrong? How could this be one of the two major political parties in the most powerful, wealthy

country in the history of the planet. There were some real moments last night at this CNN the CNN town Hall. There was a lot of dishonesty, a lot of disingenuousness. Will work through some of the parts of this, but I would tell you that Beto O'Rourke has become the Democrat candidate who says what the left believes deep down but is unwilling to say aloud. And increasingly I think that even though it won't mean that, buttu becomes a viable presidential candidate in order to not get left out

of the wokeness. More candidates on the left are now saying the things that many of us on the right believe that they want to do, but they're unwilling to say it because it would frighten most Americans, it would shock a lot of people. The single most troubling moment last night, well, actually, I'm not even sure we could pick just one necessarily there there were so many, but

there were nine presidential candidates there. Do you think religious institutions like colleges, churches, charities, should they lose their tax exempt status if they oppose same sex marriage. Yes. Betto doesn't believe in the First Amendment at all, doesn't believe in freedom of expression, doesn't believe in Sorry, I'm a little raspi after Vegas folks, doesn't believe in freedom of religion.

And many of us were saying this right after the Obergfell decision the Supreme Court that just wait the left that they don't just want marriage equality, They're going to want people to in the religious establishment across the board. They're gonna want them to bend. They what will be fascinating and it would be a fascinating Now, even if we had a real media that asked questions, not acted as propagandist for the left, would Bettos say that about

a mosque? Really, Betto's to tell mosques across the country that they cannot oppose rather that they do not have the right to support traditional marriage and oppose same sex marriage. Oh no, only Christian churches. I think Betto willing to say that to. Why is that? Why does Petto? Why would he be allowed to get away with the bigotry

of different expectations there? Oh, we all know why. That is because they view this as political warfare, and they view churches that still support traditional marriage as a major bulwark against the left's full on authoritarian stadism. Whether you support same sex marriage or not is irrelevant to the fact that Betto O'Rourke in this case is saying churches are going to do what the state tells them to do. They're going to support what the state tells them to support. This.

Even a few years ago, people like me were saying would happen, and the left claimed that that was fearmongering. Now you have a presidential candidate for the Demo, aocratic party, in front of the whole country, who's saying exactly what we were saying. What we were saying, what happened during the Obama administration. It was just a matter of time. And that's really what was on display last night at the CNN town hall. That's what's on display has been

on display for the entirety of this Democrat primary. Democratic Party has lost its mind. Things that are common sense, things that we all understand to be true, They all of a sudden reject They have different priorities, they have a different lens through which they see all these things. And then there's also just their inability at CNN to we even understand what the new rules are. Because the rules are changing so quickly, they try to be woke,

but sometimes they end up just looking clownish. How are you and my pronouns? Are she? Her and hers? Mine too? All right? Hey, bro Cuomo wanted to make a joke. Dare you hear it? Hey? Bro Cuomo's on a national platform. You know he just finished taking some creety. He's working out, you know, he's looking good. He's like, hey, I'm gonna make a pronoun joke. Who bro Cuomo? Your brother? The government New York could come in and just tell you

nobody makes pronoun jokes in America today. If you make a joke about a pronoun, they will destroy you, far you from your job, tar and feather you, and then put more feathers on top of the tar in case there were insufficient feathers. Bro Cuomo had to apologize as a result, maybe we should start calling him Fredo, But he had to apologize after that, because you're not allowed

to make any jokes about any of this. That was, in fact the third rail that Dave Chappelle was willing to touch in his most recent and quite spectacular comedy special. He just talked about and didn't do it in a degrading or a nasty way. He made some jokes dealing with the LGBTQ community. There are no jokes if you're outside the community that the left will allow you to make.

They think that they can shut down any discussion, any commentary that isn't full of reverence and the desire to obey whatever the dictates of leftist orthodox he may be. There were things that were said last night at CNN that were hard to believe. There were moments like when a biological male took the microphone from a biological female.

Actually know, we can just say male and female, and I guess we'll say trans female to signify when someone is at biological male who now whole has the identity of a trans woman. But a trans woman took the microphone away and said the following without I would not without any challenge from CNN anchors is multi millionaire glorified actors on CNN their actors without acting talent. Really, this

is what that went like, Play twenty nine. Next to the Secretary Castro, I want to bring in Shade Diamond, a singer songwriter from Los Angeles. She currently supports Mayor Pete bog Shaye. What's your question, Um, it's she a diamond, Diamond, put that on record, Okay, thank you, Yes, honey. It's violence to miss gender or to alter a name of a trans person, So let's always get that right first. It is violence. That was what we said that it

is violence to use the wrong name for a transgender person. No, violence is violence. Right. You can say you don't like it if someone calls you the wrong name. You can't say it's the same as punching you. You can't say it's the same as physically harming you. Violence is violence. And if we allow leftist ideology to corrupt these very basic concepts, then they can say anything is anything. Then they've completely perverted logic, facts, reason, and the exchange of ideas.

But no one challenges it is violence. But words equals violence is one of the favorite tactics of the authoritarian left, because if words equals violence, two things happen. One, they can regulate whatever words they want, however they want. And two, if in fact they choose to use violence in response to words, they're just defending themselves. They're just responding in kind. So this is a deeply dishonest trick, but one that the left polls on a regular basis and embraces. It's

true on college campuses across the country. Speech equals violence is one of the great one of the fundamental fallacies of the American left today. Now I switched up by clips for a second here. I mentioned the grabbing of the microphone, that that was the speech egles violence. That was one thing, and then you add something that was much more, much more physically aggressive than just saying that

speech speech equals violence. That's that's concerning enough. But a a then a black trans a black trans woman exploded at this event with with anger and indignation that CNN had put on here, and there was this moment was it was it was wow, it just just play play clip thirty. But let me tell you something. Black trans women are being killed in this country, and CNN, you ever raised black trans women for the last time. Let me tell you something, black trans women. I died our

lives matter. I'm a extraordinary black trans woman, and I deserved to keep here my black tress. Look at her hair. I am tired. I am full tired. I'm just saying that's my black trans woman. My black tress. Brothers too. Say what I'm gonna say. I don't know. No, I let you come here. No, No, I just want to ask you something. Come here, tell me, come here. I want you to talk. What's your name? I'm Blossom, see Brian Blossom. Let me ask Blossom, Blossom, thank you. Let

me tell you something. Let me let me. No, don't come on the stage. Don't come in and say so ken. May I have the mic? Man, I have the mic, Blossom, let me tell you something. The reason that we're here is to validate people like you. Ah, yes, you see. CNN wants to be very clear, the whole purpose of this is to tell people who are on you would think, the extreme left of the ideological spectrum, whether it's on transgender issues or on religious freedom or transgender children, which

also came up last night. There were two at least east transgender kids who were there. I think one of them was nine years old. Always left wing parents, by the way for the transgender kids. Isn't that a coincidence? You never have two parents who are you know, conservative churchgoing Republicans who have a transgender kid. So it's always people who are you know, anti fur activists who don't want their children being misgendered. I guess we're just supposed

to think that's a coincidence. But there was so much, so much that we need to go through here, so much that requires discussion. I mean, CNN is an embarrassment start with that. So CNN is accused at its own town hall of being a of erasing I believe black

trans women was the quote, and nullifying them. They're they're holding a nationally televised special specifically for the LGBTQ community and are and people in the audience, or at least one person in the audience is very upset at what CNN is doing because they're not giving enough attention to the black transgender woman cause. And I would just say,

I've heard this before, I've seen stories. You know, this is all part of the the patting them patting, the mentality, you know, adding to the mentality of victimology that the Left is so dependent on. So what they do is they say that black trans women are are being killed and that this is a You are led to believe that this is an epidemic, that this is happening at

rates that are are shocking to the conscience. Uh, this is and no one's paying attention to the the murder of um of not just by the way, not just like anyone who is transgender, not of any of any ethnicity. Well, if you look at the numbers, you have roughly fifteen thousand or so homicides in America every year. So about fifteen thousand people are killed in this country every year. And of that fifteen thousand you had about to give or to I mean, depending on the year, twenty or so.

Last few years, transgender people have been killed in this country. So there are three hundred and twenty million people in America, fifteen thousand of them are killed in any given year. Of that fifteen thousand, about twenty are transgender. And it has somehow become a national media narrative that transgender individuals

are being murdered and being targeted for being transgender. Now, if you also add into the circumstances that we're talking about here, how many of the transgender individuals were employed in or engaged in very high risk professional transactions at the time of their of their death. You would see that there is no statistical significance through this claim whatsoever

that transgender individuals are being targeted. But if you say that, that's an offense against wokeness, because the narrative is that transgender individuals are being targeted and murdered. Now, no individual should be targeted and murdered in this country. Murder is the most heinous of crimes. And every transgender person in this country, regardless of of anything, deserves all the legal protections of their personhood, of their physical safety that anyone

else does. And anyone who harms anybody who is transgender should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, and that will include hate crime statutes. That all said, can we just operate in the in the realm of facts. We can we have discussions about what's what's really happening. Where's the CNN opioids town hall. I'm just I'm just wondering, not that you can't have or shouldn't have an LGBTQ town hall, but we've had LGBTQ, we've had climate change.

You get if we're going to talk about body count, seventy thousand people a year are dying from what is a true epidemic? And yet why is it just not an issue that gets the same kind of attention from Democrats The most urgent public health crisis in the country after probably obesity, But people are dying by the thousands. You don't hear much about it. Do you surely don't have a town hall on fixing it? Conservatives? The right Republicans find the opioid crisis to be of much higher,

much higher urgency. All right, but back to this town, because it was there were just some wow moments here. I mentioned before the transgender the young transgender kids who were there. And here's Democrat presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren who is talking about tax dollars going to prison inmates for transgender surgery. Play twenty six in the twenty twelve campaign for Senate, you criticize the judge's ruling that granted transition

related surgery to a transgender inmate. You said, I don't think it's a good use of taxpayer dollars. Right, Do you regret that? Ye? No, it's a bad answer, And I think it was a bad answer. And I believe that everyone is entitled to medical care and medical care that they need, and that includes people who are transgender who it is the time for them to have gender affirming surgery. I just think that's important and the appropriate medical care. Look at all the changes that are made

to the left. It happened so fast that it's hard to even keep up with it. Elizarth warreds Now, it's a bad answer. Did she learn something new or what happened? Oh no, the left just changed, became more extreme. The

demands of wokeness grew. That's all that happened. The progressive orthodoxy has shifted into a realm where if you question anything about transgender surgery, if you point out, for example, that transgender surgeries are they involved the mutilation of healthy tissue, and there is no such thing as a transgender surgery that results in an actual switch of gender when someone

does not have the biological parts of another gender. Now, for people who are going to bring up intersects, which is also formally called to be when someone is a hermaphrodite, that's not what transgenderism is, folks. That's not what they're

talking about. They're talking about these specifically emotional and psychological need for a switch of gender that is physiologically impossible and not physiologically based and involved surgery that has tremendous complications, long term challenges that come with it, and the long term happiness rates after these surgeries, not just of the individuals in terms of their general life satisfaction, but transgender individuals who feel that they should never had had the

surgery is very high. If you bring this up, you're a bad person. If you look at the facts, You're not somebody that's allowed to have an opinion, go along with this or else you're either part of the wokeness leftist revolution or you are to be destroyed, pushed aside, ruined. That's it. Those are the new rules we're dealing with. It's not just Trump who deals with us, it's all of us. Now, I mentioned the transgender children issue. Here we have where was this? We had a transgender nine

year old I believe at the event. Play a play clip twenty twenty four and let's bring in Jacob Lama. He's here with his sister Ella and Lucia and his mom Mimmi, who is an advocate for transgender youth and active with the Human Rights Campaign. Jacob is an elementary school student from Massachusetts likes to play hockey. Jacob all right, Jacob all right. Um, my name is Jacob and I

am a nine year old transgender American. My question is, all right, hold on, what were you doing your first week as president to make sure that kids like me feel safer in schools? And what do you think schools need to do better to make sure that I don't have to worry about anything but my homework. Oh, I

like that question, Jacob. We're gonna do this, So let me start by saying I want to have a Secretary of Education who both believes in public education and believes in the value of every one of our kids, and is willing to enforce our civil rights laws. Now, there's nothing in that answer that's worth hearing from Elizabeth Warren. And this is where you always have to be careful, because criticizing kids is wrong. I don't criticize kids. I

criticize adults who are exploiting children. I criticize the left desire to put children forward as advocates, as actives for a cause. And then when people disagree with the message or say I'm not going to go along with this. I do not take orders politically or otherwise from children. Then they start saying, you're a child passer? How dare you? How dare you? The adults who do this are morons

and they should be ashamed of themselves. But in this specifics here, in the specifics of this case of the this nine year old who says that he or she I actually I'm being serious, I don't know what the chosen pronoun was in the situation this nine year old says claims to be they claim to be a Transamerican. There, that's now the safe way of saying it. And I wonder how long before I have to say that, And then if I don't say these things, I'll get in trouble.

At what point is this required the same way that I can't yell curses over the radio without endangering my job and perhaps being suffering economic consequences being boycott. Do I have to use that the chosen words of the transgender or the chosen pronouns, et cetera the transgender community, or face professional sanction. I think the answer is we're pretty much right on the edge. I'm not quite sure, and I don't plan to charge the machine gun nest alone,

so to speak on this one. Friends, So we'll have to see. But I would want to know this. This is a parent transgender individual who is nine years old. And when I was nine, the most and I mean this, the most exciting thing that I can remember was I think that I got to wear a dinosaur costume that year for Halloween. Children or children, it's a wonderful time.

It's great. They're growing, they're learning. They should be taken care of, and they should not be subject to adults using the most political pawns and perhaps even worse in this case. What I would want to know is the parents of this child are transactivists involved in the human rights campaign? Were they transactivists before their nine year old decided that a transgender life was what he or she

again chosen pronoun? I don't know, want it. I'm just wondering, and if so, are we to believe that that's a coincidence, because here's what I'm willing to bet. I'm willing to bet that the parents here were far left wing activists, transgender activists, probably before they even have this nine year old. And then that raises the question of is it a form of child abuse to inflict the ideology of the left on a kid such that that nine year old now will perhaps want to take hormones and go through

you know, at a prepubescent stage. That's what's happening on the left is advocating for this stuff. And this is where they'll say, oh, but the science or the scientists, any doctor and doctors now are all afraid. They're all running scared on this. They don't know what to do. The doctors who actually know anything about transgender surgery, they

run and hide now. And so you have these activist doctors who come forward we were saying, oh, well, of course, because they want to look like heroes and they want their practices to flourish. The ones who are basing this in medicine and medical outcomes, they just don't want to

deal with the politics anymore. But any doctor who comes forward and tells you that they know what the long term consequences of ender, any gender reassignment activity, including just hormonal therapy for a young child, would be is lying. They don't know. You know how I know they don't know because it's never been done before. We are an uncharted territory now, and people like me, who are saying five, six, seven years ago, this is where it's going. This is

where it's going. Transgender kids. We were told that was fearmongering. What was fearmongering according to the left about the left during the Obama administration is now mainstream policy in the Democrats. And it just happened in the blink of an eye, and we're supposed to forget that. We all saw this coming. Yeah, I mock Beto O'Rourke, but the truth is Betto O'Rourke has made a very clear decision that he because he has there's no reason to vote for the sky. There's

nothing compelling about him. His position is just to be the distilled it the true psychological core of the democratic left, of the socialist left in America. That's what he's doing. That's where he's going. And you're seeing this now, and Elizabeth Warren and all these other candidates, Oh, they're saying whatever they have to say in order to stay on the correct, on the acceptable side of wokeness. And not even the Democrat media knows necessarily how to play this

out of me. You know, pro Cuomo made a fool of himself. But my friends, this is this is heading straight into madness, and there will be real consequences. People will suffer as a result of these decisions. Children will suffer. Transgender nine year old I don't even remember having a defined sexuality or gender or thoughts about gender identity at age eight age nine. This could only come from parents.

Parents who are so ideologically driven that they would inflict their own self satisfied virtue signaling political beliefs on little kids, their own kids, troublesome stuff. I attended an all girls Catholic high school in Bergen County, New Jersey, where during my years there proposals for an LGBTQ plus club or gay straight alliance routinely rejected, despite the school's messaging of

acceptance and love. A few towns away, at another Catholic high school, a female teacher was fired for being married to a woman. How about you address the at times juxtaposing issues of religious freedom and LGBTQ rights. It's a great question, and thank you very much. Look, this is something that I've been dealing with all my life as a Christian. People who want to use religion as a justification for discination and often are creating environments are so

contrary to my religious beliefs. As it said in Michael, what do you want from your Lord? What does what you want from your people? Which is to do justice, love kindness, and walk humbly, walk humbly. And so for me, I cannot allow as a leader that people are going to use a religion as a justification for discrimination. I could respect your religious freedoms but also protect people from discrimination.

And as I said in an earlier answer, I grew up in a household where my parents talk to me about how people used to use religion to justify the discrimination against African Americans. Is he what he's telling you there?

That's Corey Booker, very mainstream Democrat presidential candidate. If you are a traditional Christian who believes that marriage is between a man and a woman, not only do you just accept now that you live in a country where, because of a Supreme Court fiat it was this was not legislated, this was not passed by Congress. Because of the Supreme Court. Just you now have what is called marriage equality, what was formerly called gay marriage across the country as the

as the law of the land. But if in your own institution, Catholic school, Christian, Christian Church, if you have any problem, or if you have any policy that conflicts with marriage equality, you're a bigot. That's what the Democrats really think. And you know this is the overwhelming majority of Democrats. If you ask them, they will tell you that a church, any Christian church, only Christian churches, though they won't they won't say that about any other religion.

If you don't support same sex every either, same sex ideology across the board, you're a bigot. Welcome back to the buck sex and show, everybody. So President Trump had a rally last night. You had you had CNN do it's town hall style show with nine Democrat candidates. They're all Los Angeles, and we talked quite a bit about that.

But then you also have the Trump rally last night, which was a nice reprieve I think for those of us who support the president from what we've been forced to endure in the news cycle of the last week or so, which is all this hysterical, oh my gosh, the Republic is at stake stuff about Trump and Ukraine. We will speak more about that. But Trump was doing his thing last night. He decided that he wasn't going

to hold back at all. Play clip twenty two. He was only a good vice president because he understood how to kiss Barack Obama's ass. This is what the Democrat nominee, whoever he or she may be, is in for a president who is not going to hold back, who is going to fight fire with fire and then some and the media can wave a finger and say, how dare you? As much as they want, he's not going to stop. I think that the president, how could he not have taken all of the stuff that has gone on here

very personally. Remember, the Democrats aren't just going after this president politically, they're going after him personally. They want to humiliate him. They want to imprison him if they can. They want to incarcerate his family members, his advisors, prison, everyone has to go to prison. That's what they want.

Anything short of an official repudiation of the twenty sixteen election, and Donald Trump, at least threatened with the possibility of incarceration and some of his senior advisors and family members going along with him is flatly unacceptable to the Democrat left. They just won't. They will not go along with it. They'll say that it's an insufficient situation. And so that's why that's why. I think we need to understand what's really going on here with the Ukraine scandal. Oh, the

Ukraine scandal. I keep seeing people who are they're falling for it all over again. I don't care that it looks rough. I don't care that it's it feels a little bit politically dirty for the President to bring up Joe Biden's name in a conversation with a foreign head of state. There is a predicate, there is a basis, a legitimate suspicion, and basis for investigation. We know that because there already was some investigation going on. The President

raised concerns. There has not been the establishment, despite what you're reading the media, of any quid pro quo. And Joe Biden does not have immunity, nor does his son have immunity, because they happen to be the best hope right now of Democrats defeating Trump. Sorry, I know that it bothers people. I know that they'd like to believe that. Oh, you b but our president. You know, the founding fathers, the founding fathers, I mean Aaron Burr shot Alexander Hamilton.

We were really going to talk about this, and this is politics is an ugly messy business people act like in the earliest days, the rumors that different politicians at the time of the American founding were spreading about each other, rumors that are being spread about Thomas Jefferson, rumors that are being spread about John Adams. You go through this, it was Noah holds barred man. I mean, the Democrats love to do this to us, though, because Republicans, or

at least the right, is highly imperfect. Trump is highly imperfect. But there's at least some belief that there are rules, that reality exists, and reality doesn't conform to whatever you say. It is that the law is the law. You can't just pretend to law is something else because you wish it to be so. And while we may fall short of our ethical goals, at least we have ethnical goals. The left is like, whatever works power, go for it, do it, get it. Stunning to see this continue to

play out. Everyone says, oh, look at what Trump has done here, Look at how how horrible it is that he has gone gone after Biden in this way. Here Joe Biden is saying that there are are violations of his oath of office. Of course, he is twenty one Donald Trump has violated his oath of office, betrayed this nation, and committed impeachable acts. To preserve our constitution, our democracy, our basic integrity, he should be impeached to preserve our democracy.

I mean they use these words, they trot out these slogans, and that they can keep a straight face. I just find remarkable. Ah. Yes, to defend our democracy, we must impeach this president. Yeah, that's right. To defend the democracy, you have to pretend that this guy never won the election the last time around and isn't about to win this election this time around unless the Democrats played dirty tricks.

But I can tell you that you know that I'm a I've been reading up and doing some research on I was gonna say I'm a fan of but that's not really the right right way to say it. I've I've been deep diving into the Committee of Public Safety

of the French Revolution. Now this all makes sense in a second, but the Committee of Public Safety became a committee of dictatorship, send people off to the guillotine execution for any number of real or imagined crimes, overwhelmingly imagined crimes, and it was always justified though along the way by some of the most intelligent, erudite statesman you'd find anywhere

in France in the seventeen nineties. Right, That's that's the truth, is that these were people that were supposed to be the best and the brightest, as we see time and again. But one of the working theories, especially when the Committee of Public Safety turned against the National Assembly and there were there were there was infighting, political infighting, was the rejection of the charges. When somebody would say, I am

not guilty of treason, how dare you? That rejection was taken by the real center of power, which was this dictatorial committee that could have anyone executed. As see, he doesn't even respect the will of the people as evidence through these charges, and therefore the verdict must come swiftly. In essence your rejection of the accusation, it is proof that the allegation must be true. So this is not a new phenomenon. It's exactly what they did to Brett Kavanaugh, right,

remember that whole he got mad. Yeah, when the crazy ladies were lying about him being a rapist, he got mad. That's that's a normal thing for any guy to do. That's that's a normal thing for any guy to do. People were pretending like it wasn't do you see how angry he was, Yeah, of course he was. They say this about Trump when he's the obstruction counts and the Malla report. It's all, oh, how how could Trump have said, Oh,

shut this down, fire this person. This is crazy. Yeah, because he was innocent, because it was a witch hunt, because it was all a lie. Ah. But his rejection of their effort to destroy him was further evidence that he should be destroyed. That's that's the position that they were taking. And now we have the exact same circumstance

with Ukraine. Right now, it's the president wants to look into the effort to take him down, has the dj already and Durham, the US attorney for Connecticut, and Bill Barr has them looking into this situation and the fact that he wants to know the facts of how they tried to destroy his presidency and the last off coup effort,

how it failed, but how it even got started. That is being taken as evidence that he's corrupt and he's guilty all along at any effort to push back against this, this soft coup, this conspiracy to destroy a president and undo the results of the twenty sixteen election, any effort that you'll see, they try to an Elynsky style frees it, isolate it, destroy it. They try to make it seem like that alone is evidence that Trump is guilty and

has been guilty all along. This is kafka esque. But when you deal with a totalitarian mentality, when you're subjected to people who are so ideologically driven that nothing else

matters except them getting their way. Because they're so marinated in their own self righteousness all the time that they have no sense of anything else, anything beyond their own desires or the desire of the collective that they represent, some small piece of well, then you have people who will do exactly what we're seeing here, which is abandoned forget about abandoning objectivity, abandoned rationality. Oh, the president is not allowed to look into why they try to destroy

his presidency. He's not because he's not really the president. You see, there's always a justification, there's always another layer, and all the president can't ask for further information. Remember, it could have been Zelenski, the Presidy of Ukraine, could have come back and said, yeah, well well we'll take a look, I'll talk to my guys come back to the day say sorry, there's nothing there. Man. We really did do the Biden investigation and I've got nothing for you. Okay.

You know, for Trump to have they're acting And if for Trump have really been corrupt, it would have had to be a different situation. They're acting like he called and said, I'm running against this guy. You know what I need you to do? Arrest him and fabricate some charges. I then, would I defend the president doing that? No, I would not. Will I defend the president saying there's

real reason I believe? Of course, this reason. I believe Hunter Biden's making millions of dollars from you created gas company that's desperate to avoid the ire of corruption prosecutors in the United States government. Oh, there's plenty of reason. There is more. There's more of a basis for continued investigation of Barisma and Hunter Biden and Joe Biden's involvement here than there is Donald Trump Russia collusion. But look what Congress was doing all summer, bringing more witnesses, just

keep the whole charade going. It's a circus. It's ridiculous. Ah, but the whistleblower, let's spend some time now on the specifics of the whistleblower. I don't want to have spies in the White House. I want to be free to make calls. I don't think it's fair that somebody interprets a call. He didn't interpret it wrong. I don't mind a misinterpretation. This was a fraud because that call was perfect, and if you read the whistle blower's report, that was no,

it bore no resemblance to what the call was. The whistle blower. It turns out, Oh, I shouldn't even say it turns out we kind of knew this all along, didn't we. There's really it's really no surprise here when we find out that the whistle blower reportedly worked at the White House under the Obama aministration and would have worked closely with Vice President Biden. Does anybody think that the whistleblower is not a Democrat partisan? Oh oh, but

there's a there's a second whistleblower, they tell us. Now, so that's supposed to be that's supposed to make us think that there's a real, a real legitimacy here, because there's yet another person who has come forward and said, look at what is look at what is going on with this Trump phone call. It means nothing. We already have the transcript, We already know what was said, So

what how is the person even a whistle blow? By the way, the whistleblower report had falsehoods in it, which tends to happen when you're going on hearsay when you don't know what was said. You're just hearing from other people what was said. Right. So we look now at this, at this whistleblower situation with more facts, and the more we learn about it, the more clear it is that this is someone who has a political acts to grind against the president's reelection, does not believe the president of

the United States should have ever won. And there are now other people that are coming forward to speak to the press and say that they were really bothered by the phone call that Trump had with Zelenski as well in the intelligence community. I'm here to tell you that most of the senior bureaucrats of the intelligence community have the same basic worldview and political beliefs as a gender studies professor at a small liberal arts college somewhere who

self identifies as a socialist. Government is full of people like that at the top levels and I know because I was there. I was in the CIA. I remember what some of the top people in that organization were like. I'm not saying all, but a lot of them. Especially if you're a careerist, if your career state department, for example, the chances of you being a lib are upwards of eighty or ninety percent. It's like the media. Yeah, not all of the media, obviously I work in media. Not

all of the media's left wing, socialist insanity. But if you are somebody who has chosen to work in journalism, chances are about eighty ninety percent you're a lib. Same thing in the state department. So that there are more people that are coming forward now to say, oh, I'm so angry, I'm so concerned what the president did. Well, this is their moment to pile on to try to give greater legitimacy to what is in inherently weak story week allegation, which is that the president what did he do?

There isn't a quid pro quo. They can keep pretending it was implicit or implied, But guess what you could do that with any conversation between a leader and someone else, and between world leaders on any number of issues. Oh well, you know he didn't. He didn't say, do this and then do this other cool thing for me to help my reelection. But it was implied. Implied is not a fancy word for these are the words that I wish that person had said. So I'm going to pretend that

they said it. You have the ex Ambassador Yavanovich who has been called today in Capital all behind closed doors. Of course, we're gonna get leaks as soon as as soon as people can print them. They're going to be leaks from this testimony behind closed doors on Capitol Hill. You know you didn't hear about last week a diplomat because immedia wanted to suppress this. What are they put forward?

What are they suppressed? Senior diplomat last week was saying that there was no quid pro quo when the President made it very explicit, there was no quid pro quo. And when the President of Ukraine, Zelenski, had the phone call with Trump, they didn't the creating government didn't even know that there would be any delay in aid. By the way aid that was given to them, the military aid did go through, and there wasn't some special investigation of Biden that we you know, that was launched as

a result of the Trump phone call. So there's no quid, there's no quo. What are we even talking about? This is insanity, it really is. It's it's bizarre. But you're gonna have ambassad you have an Ovi who I'm sure is a big lib big Democrat. It's gonna say, oh yes. And it was really troubling. We were also troubled by this. You know, these the same people who tell you that everything Trump does is unprecedented, everything Trump does is unconstitutional.

That you know, the Russians handed Trump the election, even though not a single vote was changed. They say crazy stuff about everything. But now we're supposed to believe them, you know, on these issues, we're supposed to think that they aren't partisans. I'm just it's just absurd. The whole thing is absurd. Now, I did see that there's some issue with some Giuliani associates, Rudy Giuliani's associates who have been arrested. Play that audio, my friend, I don't know

those gentlemen. Now it's possible I have a picture with them, because I have a picture with everybody. I have a picture with everybody here. But somebody said there may be a picture or something where at a fundraiser or somewhere. So, but I have pictures with everybody. I don't know if there's anybody, I don't have pictures. I don't know them. I don't know about them. I don't know what they do, but I don't know. Maybe they were clients of Rudy.

You'd have to ask Rudy. I just don't know. Watch how much the media invests and digs in on finding about the ruddy Rudy Leani's associates here, the stories they run versus the complete lack of interest in Joe Biden's activities in Ukraine, the lack of interest in Hunter Biden any in any context, and the way that Biden has has gotten away with verbally slapping around reporters who even even raised this issue, like, oh, it's ridiculous that you would ask a question about how when I was Vice

president and running foreign policy for the US government in a country my son was getting paid by a gas company fifty thousand dollars a month and my son is an imbecile who doesn't know anything about gas or Ukraine? How dare you ask that question? The media goes, oh, we're you know, We're sorry. We shouldn't we shouldn't have asked that question. I guess I don't want to follow up on that, because you know, the truth is most

journalists are cowards. Welcome back the Buck Sexton Show. The NBA is putting on a clinic for how not to handle hey, a pr disaster, for how not to stand up for core values and to show the world the process that all of you, all of the corporate grand standing from the NBA about freedom of freedom of this or freedom of that, whatever it may be, or are about different political causes, or it doesn't really matter. It's not serious, or at least it's only serious when there's

no consequence there are. They only mean it if there's no downside. So the virtue signaling stuff. The NBA loves things that look woke and left wing and progressive and cool. They're all about that. But protesters in Hong Kong. NBA has a very different view on this. I gotta say the President, I think is totally right here to just Trump smash all the nonsense that's being put out by people from the NBA. Instead of hulk smash. We could we could start to think Trump Smash kind of like

that Trump Smash play twenty. I watch this guy, Steve Kerr, and he was like a little boy. He was so scared to be even answering the question. He couldn't answer the question. He was shaking, Oh, I don't know, I don't know. He didn't know how to answer the question. And he'll talk about the United States very badly. I watched Popovich sort of the same thing, but he didn't look quite as scared. Actually, but they talk badly about the United States, but when it talks about China, they

don't want to say anything bad. I thought it was pretty sad. Actually, it'll be it'll be very it'll be very interesting. Excuse me, are you okay? Then with the Chinese government pressuring the NBA over Hong Kong, they have to work out their own situation. The NBA is they know what they're doing. But I watched the way that like Kerr and Popovich and some of the others were pandering to China and yet to our own country they don't. It's like they don't respect it. It's like they don't

respect it. I said, what a difference, Isn't it sad? It's very sad to me. It's very said. Trump is absolutely correct. They do like to trash America. They're very quick to criticize this country. And in fact, I think I've seen that the was the Portland Trailblazers. An NBA team has just joined a a BDS boycott, divest, sanctions campaign issue against Israel. So they won't do business anymore with a company that does business with the IDF, the

Israeli Defense Forces in Zrael. So NBA teams they'll take political stance. They'll just take left wing ones, and they'll take ones that undermine America, that talk about what a bad, racist, oppressive country America is. But China, whoa, I mean, China, come out. China's a big market. They can't they can't say that it's going to upset China. I want to do that when there's money at stake for the NBA. Because remember, conservatives, the right, we don't we don't pressure

people the way that the left does. We don't do these campaign of do as we say or else we will bring your business to its knees. That's really a left wing thing. And so they can do this with impunity. Usually they can trash the right. They can trash traditional American values and American freedoms without it being a problem for them and feel really brave in the process. But China actually is gonna clap back, so to speak. China is gonna punch back and say, oh, okay, you you

say something about us we don't like. Guess what now, Now you don't have access to our markets. Now your dollar signs are in trouble. And that's why the NBA, for example, has canceled media availability for the rest of

a China trip. ESPN just reporting on that today of a trip to China, and you're just not seeing anyone in the NBA willing to say, willing to I don't know, how about where something in solidarity with the protesters in Hong Kong on the court and take a fine for that, you know, maybe maybe even do something, take some social media active protest or just any anything in solidarity with the people of Hong Kong who just want basic freedom,

rights and dignity and are standing up against and increasingly tyrannical and violent Chinese authoritarian police force in Hong Kong. Where's the where's the love, where's the support, where's the help? These NBA guys. But they're all they're all multi millionaires. It's so rich they can they can be locked through the Chinese market forever and still never have to think about money the rest of their lives, to be super successful and globally famous. And so what what are they really?

What are the real risks they're taking? That's what this Isn't some small business that's going to fold at the Chinese say so. But they like to make a lot of money. They don't want to make just a lot, They want to make a lot a lot. Huh. It's almost like greed over rides or I should say capitalism, but the desire for accumulation of wealth overrides wokeness. I don't think it's the first time we've seen that on

the left. But the best example of how not to speak about this issue and to show what a silly, ignorant hypocrite one can be when while the NBA's dealing with this debacle, which it is, the NBA should never have backed down, should never have placated the Chinese they did right off the bat. Here is former was he a three point shooter for the Bulls back in the day. Isn't that what is this guy's the worst? Here's the coach of I think it's the Golden State words. I

don't really watch. Thank you producer Marks here to make sure I know sports stuff. Here's what he had to say about the China situation. Basically, Yeah, America's really bad too play it. It has not come up in terms of people asking me about it, people discussing it. No, Nor has our record of human rights abuses come up either. You know, things that our country needs to look at

and resolve that hasn't come up either. So none of us are perfect, and we all have different issues that we have to get to and saying that is my right as an American doesn't mean that I hate my country and means I want to address things right. But people in China didn't ask me about you know, people owning a or fifteens and mowing each other down in

a ma all. I wasn't asked that question. So we can play this game all we want and go all over the map, and you know, there's this issue and that issue, and the world is a complex place and there's more gray than black and white. Oh wow, Thank you so much, Steve Kerr for the most intellectually flimsy, cowardly moral relativism that anybody he could ever conjure up on the spot. That was amazing, wasn't it. Here's the

guy he could say. Look, by the way, if somebody ever wants to take the position, guys, I'm here to play basketball to entertain people. I you know, I don't have a I don't have a comment to make on politics. If if that's someone's position, I can always respect that. You know, we don't have to make everybody a player in the political realm. You don't have to do that.

The problem I have is that NBA players and the NBA's as as an organization overall, are very politically active, have all kinds of thoughts and ideas on politics that they must share with us all the time, right whether it's you know, wearing the hoodies for Trayvon Martin or you know, all any number of things. You know, Lebron

James really likes to have his say about politics. Among others who are you know, also superstars and worth unimaginable amounts of money, But but do complain about America a lot for people that are living in the free u's best most prosperous country in the history of the world. Like someone like Steve Kerr, for example, guys, a millionaire famous played in the NBA before. Now he's a player and he's trashing America. But but the moral relatives relativism

here is what's really so it's just so just enraging. Really, if you wanted to say, guys, I don't know much about China, I leave that to other people, and I just want my players to, you know, focus on what they do and I want us to be the greatest league in the world. And fine, but don't don't say, yeah, I don't have anything to say about China, you know whatever, because like everyone does bad stuff, man, Like you know, people are just like no one's perfect. Man, really, Oh

that's I mean, Steve Kerr is apparently a moron. That's your gonna louse. We're not perfect either. We're not talking about perfect their, dude. We're talking about a country that has violated its covenant with its own people and is now ending out thugs, sometimes in uniform, sometimes not to beat, bludgeon and shoot them because they don't want the eradication of individual rights and democracy in a place that has had at least a taste of those freedoms in Hong Kong.

I mean, you either believe that human beings should have some sense of some ability to have autonomy and self determination or not. But don't do this. Oh well we're not perfect either. And the pivot, by the way to a R fifteens, what does that have to do with anything, you Steve Kerry, You unbelievable idiot. And this is a guy who's got a lot of ideas. He'll talk about politics obviously switches so so he wants to, you know, weigh in on a R fifteen owners. But he doesn't

have anything bad, doesn't have anything bad to say about China. No, no, of course not, of course not. There's a tough situation and we'll try to figure that out. But this is like the leftist that I know who when they talk they'll talk about women's rights in this country, and then you bring up, say the horrific oppression of women, particularly in the Muslim world and especially in places like say Afghanistan.

They say, well, you know, yeah, but the burka is a cultural thing, and yeah, you know, the abusive women is a high level, but they have a different culture. You know, all this kind of wishywashy mealy mouthed on the one hand, on the other cowardice cowardice. And I can't tell Steve Kerr if I had to find it come up with the formula. I don't know how much of what he said is just stupidity versus just being a whimp. But the pivot to air fifteens is just perfect,

isn't it. Oh? Yes, Let's compare the violence against citizens and oppression of people in Hong Kong as a top down policy of the largest country in the world with the second biggest economy in the world. Let's compare that to the random criminal acts of some individuals in this country who have gone on mass shooting spreeze. Hong Kong

is operating concentration camps. Hong Kong is imprisoning Wagers, an ethnic minority who are Muslims in the west of the country and putting them in re education camps, torturing them, doing all kinds of terrible stuff. And Steve Kerr is like, yeah, but America is not so great either. This is the idiocy of the left. I mean, this is and it's a it's a common refraineal here. Well, sure, they're doing

terrible things in this or that country. You know, they're they're mutilating people for minor offenses against the Quran in this country. But you know America has its demons in its past. Two Huh, what does that have to do with anything? But the left embraces more relativism all the time. They don't understand that there are universal truths that human dignity and human rights. They talk about human rights, but then they don't really think that all humans should have them.

They just use that as a tool as a cudgel to bash people or regimes that they don't like, and to make excuses for regimes that they do. Steve Kerr, that's right. We can't criticize we're in the NBA, for example, shouldn't criticize China because you know, we have people who own AAR fifteens. One of the dumbest things I've I've heard of public figure say at a long time. And that's that's impressive because in a moment we're going to

hear from Missieur Justin Trudeau. It looks like Missieur Justin Trudeau, who's very woke, very left wing, very liberal. He is a male feminist. He is the anti chauvinist. He does not like mankind the only legs humankind. He does not really sound like this, But now we've created a fake version of Trudeau for only this show. Trudeau is everything that people on the right like me, have been saying about him for a very long time. But now we just add into that that he didn't he didn't dress

in black face, period. He had a dressing in black face problem, like this is something that he thought was clearly thought was really funny or clever or he was all He did his numerous times. He did it so many times, my friends. And this is on the record. He did it so many times that he doesn't even remember how many times he did it. That tells you a lot. Well. He looks to be I think he's still leading in the post. I think he's gonna win again in Canada, which is stunning Canada. What are you

doing up there, my friends? What is going on? But Trudeau is the problem is that people know this thing now and they can ask him as the questions. So they asked him about Oh, I'm sorry, A young person asked him about this situation. And here's how Trudeau tried to explain to a child in a classroom his black face his black face incidents plural. And so, Lara, do you want to stand up and ask a question? Why did you pick your face? Far? Oh? It was something

I shouldn't have done because it hurt people. It's not something that you you should do. And that is something that I learned. I didn't know it back then, but I know it now and I'm sorry I hurt people. But did you pick your note in your hands? Fan? H Yeah, and it was the wrong thing to do. I mean the kid, the kid. I know that I've been saying kids shouldn't be involved in politics. Maybe this is he's at a classroom, the kids are asking questions.

The kid there does raise a very very interesting point there, which is it wasn't just black face. The guy painted painted like his whole body a body part. It's just this he didn't know was a problem. Justin Trudeau, the guys this much of an idiot. He didn't know it was. This is the answer he gives this kid. I feel like the kids probably his head thinking who is this? Who is this imbecile? So anyway, I'm you know Trudeau, Yes, I did not know it then, but I'm sorry or sorry,

trying to say the way the Canadians. He's sorry, He's not that sorry. He's gonna step down. He still thinks he should be the leader of a major Western country, and Liberals are still going to vote for him. If he were a conservative, he would never be allowed to show his face in public again without being yelled at. But this is why just the hypocrisy thing keeps coming up. Liberals don't really believe in the things they say. They believe, and they believe it in so far as it makes

them feel good and it's politically advantageous. But the belief can always be put aside. The belief is always secondary to the need for power and the acquisition of political and cultural authority that can be wielded against other people. There is a petty authoritarianism at the heart of every left winger. Never forget that Trudeau is one of them. There are many many others. But I just thought that that the kid asking that question was just was quite

a moment. Apparently Canada's Prime minister once again. Folks. I don't know what I gotta do to get my Canadian brothers and sisters to wake up here you are now entering the Freedom Hot Titical Operation Center, all sensitive programs musty keeps strictly need to know Team Buck is cleared and ready for the Buck Brief. President Trump's recent announcement that he will abandon the Kurds at the Syria Turkey border is another example of how President Trump's reckless foreign

policy mirrors his reckless domestic policy. He even deserts his friends, both at home and abroad. Let me be clear, I believe we can't stay in the Middle East indefinitely, but abandoning the Kurds, especially so precipitously, who have fought shoulder to shoulder with our troops against ISIS, is morally wrong and could put American lives in danger. Abandoning the Kurds

is the wrong thing, the wrong thing to do. It should not have come to this, But Republicans in Congress, by repeatedly demonstrating that they're unwilling to hold President Trump accountable when he does something wrong, have established a permission structure for President Trump's reckless actions in Syria. Republicans in Congress need to put their country over Trump. The president likes to say he puts America first. In this case, President Trump has put putin and Urduwan first, and America

and its security interests second. Turkey knows where I stand. And the last thing, okay, very simple. We had a big victory. We left the area. I don't think the American people want to see us go back in with our military go back into that area again. We won, we left the area. I don't think we want to go back in. Let's see what happens. We are going to possibly do something very very tough with respect to sanctions and other financial things. The situation in northern Syria

right now is a mess. Okay, let's just let's establish right now there are no easy answers. This is complicated, and anyone who tells you that they know exactly what should be done here doesn't know what they're talking about because there are too many different variables, too many pitfalls, too many things that could go wrong, and right now it's just turned into yet another moment to bash Trump.

For most people rights, that's what most of the commentary, the analysis you hear on the issue of the Kurds in Syria is really all about. Let's let's step back and look at a few core things. First of all, you have the possibility of what would be an ISIS jailbreak in northern Syria if the eleven thousand or so ISIS fighters currently being held by YPG, Kurdish militia and

Syrian Defense forces. Really so the Syrian Defense Forces are about half Kurdish, half Arab, but the Kurdish fighters are really the backbone of it, especially in these northern areas of Syria, and they have in their custody eleven thousand

ISIS fighters. The Turks have already launched an incursion into northern Syria and are clearing out some areas, and now the belief is that they're just going to create They're going to carve out a Turkish protectorate in northern Syria and push out the Kurds from that area to give them a buffer zone, effectively, so that they don't have what they believe to be and what is technically listed as a terrorist group, the PKK on their border, a

separatist Marxist guerrilla group that's been around for decades. So that's what the Turks are doing now. The Turks are being unhelpful in this regard, but the Turks also just like the Russians in Ukraine, The advantage that they have over us in Ukraine is that they care a lot more, and they're right there. The advantage the Turks have in the situation over us is they care a whole lot more and this is on their doorsteps. So we can try to back them off, and the President was talking

about that there. We can push them with economic sanctions perhaps, but are Touan from what I saw reported today, is threatening to say, you know what, if you guys try anything with us, We're just going to open the floodgates of refugees from the Syrian Civil War into Europe. How about that? So er Towan is also willing to play rough, make things, make things tougher on us. It's a very

complicated situation. I have a tremendous amount of sympathy for and feel very badly about what's going on for Kurdish fighters in northern Syria right now. I believe they've been eleven or twelve casualties from the Turkish incursion so far as the numbers are very low, but that could escalate rapidly. But the truth is the Kurds fought beside our soldiers in Iraq bravely. Kurds have fought beside our soldiers in

Syria bravely. All the troops that I know, and I know many of them who have worked alongside Kurds, say that they are honorable, they are good fighters, and they don't have these these same penetration problems where you have some radical will. This has happened many times with Sunni Arabs in Iraq with different different groups, usually Pashtuns in Afghanistan, who will infiltrate the armed forces that we're trying to train, and then we'll turn on our trainers, so called green

on green on blue incidents. We don't. We haven't had that with the Kurds, and they they prevented likely hundreds, if not perhaps even thousands of casualties. Probably would have been hundreds, but hundreds of casualties if the US had to do the house to house fighting and clearing of Rocca. Okay, now, so I understand these different namics, but let's also remember that the Kurds needed to defeat ISIS too. ISIS would come in after the Curds, so we help them defend

themselves and their territory. So they weren't just some proxy force for US that had no skin in the game. They had all their skin in the game, so to speak. They were all trying to fight against the Islamic State, and usial forces in the United States Air Force gave them critical advantages in the battlefield that kept their casualties from me much higher than they would have otherwise been.

But now we look at okay, fine, what are we really Trump has said that fifty soldiers or so will be US soldiers really moved out of these areas, which means that the trip wire for Turkish forces isn't in place the way that it was. We still have about a thousand troops down from I think about two thousand in Syria. And I've been I've been advocating for we've

got to get them out. What is the let's go through the alternative, because I keep seeing this said and written that the endless war trope is unfair and not true. And you know, you can't just say, oh well, if you don't, if you don't want our troops to come out, then you're in an advocate for endless war. Okay, Well, what is the alternative? Remember, it's not the same thing, and this is very important, It's not the same thing to leave troops behind in a country at peace, who

are the guests of that nation? Okay? Then it is to leave troops in a war, in an active war zone with multiple parties vying for territory, vying for power, and support of different factions on the ground, and they're still blood being shed. This is just a fancy way of saying We're a long way, not a fancy way of saying that. Syria, South Korea, it's not Japan, it's

not Germany. We're not at the end of some massive war where now we have established a regime and there's the establishment of a regime in place that wants US troops there or that has allowed a US base to be there. We are in a war zone in Syria, Okay, We're in the middle of an active war. And what are we supposed to do it? How long are we

supposed to stay there? Where people keep saying that precipitous withdrawal. Okay, Well, is there such a thing as is there any future in which if we remove all one thousand troops from Syria it does not seem like a participious withdrawal. Well, the only way that could happen is if Syria is at peace and the factions that are there are no longer fun. Does anyone think that's going to happen anytime soon? The civil war in Lebanon raged on for about fifteen years.

Syria has been going on for about five You have the Russians there, the Turks are involved, the Iranians are involved, all these different regional players, and we think we should just leave a thousand troops there because what, what do we even want the future of Syria to look like? Why haven't we heard about that? But we want there

to be elections. If Syria is no longer really a country, as I keep saying, there is still a Syrian national government, it happens to be the Assad regime, and they maintain control over most of the major population centers. But so are we committed to stay in because we helped the courage to feed iis? Are we committed to stay forever? Okay, We're committed to stay based on conditions on the ground, because that's what we committed to an Afghanistan. We've been

there for almost twenty years. It's always ground based conditions, folks. The national security establishment seems to never want us to stop having troops in any place. I think it's so rich too that Chuck Schumer. They're saying, oh, we're pulling out our troops, We're bannoning at Kurdish illas. What was it when Obama pulled out troops, didn't want a status of forces agreement, didn't want to have troops behind in Iraq, and did a victory lap for pulling troops out. What

was that? Was that? Abandoning the Iraqi military, the Iraqi troops that we were training and police and what was that exactly? Oh, and then the rise of ISIS. By the way, ISIS is not going anywhere really, it's an ideology. So there will continue to be ISIS in surgeon elements operating in Syria for the foreseeable and across the region. But now if Turkey's involvement in the area means that the Turks are going to take control or take some responsibility for some area of Syria, we don't want it

to be our responsibility. And that's what I think people keep forgetting here. We just don't want ISIS to be there. You know, look at Afghanistan, we didn't want al Qaeda and the Taliban to be there, and all of a sudden that turned into well, now let's rebuild this country and make it a functional place where there's democracy and human rights and sovereignty and territorial integrity and can defend itself against outside invaders. All of a sudden, we're rebuilding Afghanistan.

We've been rebuilding it for twenty years almost. We don't want to be rebuilding Syria. Enough is enough. We never I just see this player. We'd never learned a lesson. And of course it's going to be hard. Of course, it's going to be a challenge. You're gonna have to make trade offs. They're going to be losses. Bad things happen at the end of wars. That's just that's true. You know. We we like to think of World War Two is the kind of victory that we want to have.

Right in many ways, absolutely the case defeated Nazi Germany, defeated imperial Japan. We also carved up the world then condemned about half of the world to communist slavery and totalitarianism. Yeah, that's what happened after the Second World War, you know we Yeah, it was a big victory for us, and it led to American prosperity. On these great things had also almost led to a nuclear war that would have destroyed the world because we didn't say afterwards, a whole

on a second Eastern Europe. We're not you know we we East of Europe needs to have elections, Soviets you need to back off. Come on, No, we said, all right, well, you know, you take your half, We'll take our half. See you later. Was the Korean War a huge a huge success. Well, we save South Korea from being a part of North Korea. But we also eventually said, okay, well, I guess North Korea is staying. Find me a war and I'll find you difficult choices that had to be

made at the end of it. This stuff is never easy. It's never straightforward. Do I think that it stinks that we are leaving Kurdish allies in the battlefield in a position where they have to fend for themselves. Absolutely, But do I understand why the president is just heat? They never tell them that the troops can come home, folks. Can they come up from Afghanistan? Oh no, you can't do that. Can they come up from a rock? Oh no,

that's a terrible idea, because they come home from Syria. No, when I say come home, I don't I don't mean they have to go actually home. I just bean not deployed in a forward country in a war zone. Do we ever get to scale down? Do we have to continue the spread of our military commitments all over the globe and make them permanent? I mean, I remember this was what John McCain was saying, Yeah, fifty years in Afghanistan. Whatever we have to do. No, no, we don't want

to do that. That was a bad idea. And I think that in no small part there are a lot of people who don't want there to be a change here because then they might have to do a little bit of self reflection. What half the neo cons what half the half the interventionists, the military interventionists wrought in the Middle East and around the world. And the last twenty years some of you are saying about the last you know, seventy years, But let's say the last twenty years.

Has it been a history of successes? Is this something you want to continue to do? And I always think about it this way. I mean, I joined up with the CIA after nine eleven because I wanted to help my country. I wanted to fight al Qaeda and the terrorists. But would I go to northern Syria. Would I go to northern Syria and try to get involved in this is the civil war? I mean, as much as I like the Kurds, I think the answer is no, because I don't think we have a core national security interest

still at stake in Syria. Has the United States broken its commitment to the Syrians as a result of political and battlefield realities? Now, yeah, I think that's true. And is that fair? No, it is not. But this is a nasty and messy business. And until somebody comes up with an answer that doesn't involve all troops stay forever. I'm sorry. I think the President has the right instinct here,

which is we've got to stop doing this. The alternative to not stopping is to keep going, And to keep going means the continuation of US military commitments far in excess of what is wise. And I think what is really possible for us to continue. The Clinton dynasty is not over, my friends, This is true on a couple of levels. First off, I don't think that Harry has

completely abandoned all hope of running in twenty twenty. And I know I'm not the only one who says it, but I used to ask a few people that would come on the Hill TV show in DC when I was the host there, I used to ask Hillary are going to run? And they would look at me like, oh, such a ridiculous question. Of course Hillary is not going to run. Well, now she's talking about how she could beat Trump again, and she's out there in public and

she's part of the hashtag resistance. And I don't think anybody who understands who Hillary Clinton really is deep inside knows that she's holding out that there's a some chance. I've just been saying ten percent. I think that's about right. There's about ten percent shot she gets back into it. Anne has the backing of establishment Democrats and it's not a total farce. But speaking of total farces, now in Westchester, the powers that be in the Democratic Party are pitching

Chelsea Clinton. That's right. Now, we have to have Chelsea Clinton going to enter politics. I knew this would happen. I've been predicting it all along, and I do just think this is gross. Now, gross doesn't mean she can't do that or it's legal. I'm not saying that, of course she can run, right. Nepotism in politics in general is gross. It's not good when it's Chelsea Clinton. It's not good when it's a Bush. It's not good anywhere across the board. We do not have feudal lords in

this country. We are we're not in a monarchy. We shouldn't think that people should get our vote based upon their last name being the same as somebody else who once got our votes. It's true for Clinton's, It's going to be true for Trump's too, my friends. I'm sorry, I'm I'm not a dynasty person. I think it's just wrong. It shows you that celebrity and influence and power matter much more in our politics than ability, merit, hard work. Chelsea Clinton has never had a real job in her life.

All the jobs she had she got she's at Clinton All, Waltson this place, Waltson in that place. Never lasted anywhere for more than a couple of years. You know, she got paid to ba I think she got paid seven hundred thousand dollars to be a special correspondent at NBC News. The worst on air performance I've ever seen on national TV from a paid correspondent was Chelsea Clinton seven hundred grand folks, as if she needed the money just to

pay off to the Clinton Dynasty courtesy of NBC. Oh, but she's gonna run because her whole life, people have been telling her how special she is, even though she's never done anything really special and her parents are really corrupt. We just completed a negotiation with China. We're doing very well. We're having another one tomorrow. I'm meeting with the Vice Premiere over at the White House, and I think it's going really well. I will say, I think it's going

really well. So we had a very very good negotiation with China. They'll be speaking a little bit later, but they're basically wrapping it up and we're going to see them tomorrow right here, and it's going very well. Trump administration hoping to get sub kind of deal with China. The markets surging today, people are saying because of optimism on the possibility of a trade deal. Chinese Vice Premier

Lie Hey will be in Washington. Is in Washington today, the first time they've been high level trade talks with American officials in months. And there's a new set of tariffs for on all Chinese exports the US. They're they're gonna hit in the middle of December. So this is perhaps a last moment in time where you might get some kind of deal, and if you don't, you're gonna have tariffs that hit both sides and could have some

really nasty effects on both economies. Although it has so far hurt China's economy more than it has hurt ours, I think that's that's very very much the case. It's

true the not necessarily conventional, but the smart wisdom. I'd say the people that pay attention that I think know what they're talking about, have been anticipating the possibility of a Chinese a piecemeal deal or the start of a piecemeal deal with China on trade to stall the next round of tariffs from coming in and also to give a little bit more political breathing room for the president. I have to say, I think that there will not be a deal. I don't even think there'll be a

deal of any kind. There might be a stall of the tariffs, but that's not really a deal. That's just kicking the can down the road. I don't see anything substantive, substantive either of those ways. I like to say it, well, we'll take it either way, buck. I don't see either one of those things happening at this juncture, at this time, so we'll see if I'm right. I tend to be right.

You know that speaking of China, one thing I did not get you before I meant to get to were these uh, was what happened when you had a journalists asking James Harden Russell Westbrook about the China situation. Here's how those two NBA superstars reacted Play three Hi Christina mcfallin CNN. The NBA has always been a league that prides itself on its player and its coaches being able

to speak out openly about political and societal affairs. I just wonder, after the events of this week and the fallout we've seen, whether you would both feel differently about speaking out in that way in future questions. It's a legitimate question. This is an event that's happened this week during during the NBA and the answer this particular question has not been answered. Yep, NBA trying to shut it

down basketball questions only basketball questions only. Have you ever heard that, by the way, have you ever heard that before? When when a journalist has asked NBA players, would completely I agree with to see ann reporter there, It's a

completely legitimate question. You ever heard that about presidential election, about Black Lives Matter, about you know, police brutality, you know, name an issue that has come up in politics that where there has been a really widespread and clear voice from the from people within the NBA ranks speaking out, and I've never seen that before. All basketball questions, Aliva, that PR person was, oh my gosh, she's obviously a little bit freaked out the prospect of Russell Westbrook and

James Harden answering questions about the NBA. I've just I've just got to tell you, it's it's a shame. It's a shame that this is the way it is. Um. I would really like to see you know, you know who, you know who really could do it. I just just have Lebron James come out and say that we believe that all people deserve freedom and we stand with the desires of the people of Hong Kong. Such an easy

thing from to do. Think about what that would mean, because you know, these plays NBA players, we always they're superstars in this country, sure, but in China because you know, these American athletes, especially in the NBA, they're like gods. I mean, they're they're just they're so revered because they're the best in the world right and they have a

lot of cultural residence over there. I mean, if I'm Lebron James and I'm already worth for all intents and purposes, I mean, I don't know if he's worth a billion dollars yet, but he's pretty much worth a billion dollars if he is, and he will be thanks to compound interest in continuing endorsements. You know, you're already basically a billionaire. You never have to work another day in your life. You're gonna want to. You're the best basketball player in

the world. Someboud say the best basketball player ever. You have a huge platform, and you could really inject hope into the hearts of the people of Hong Kong who are fighting for not remember it's not just their freedom. This has implications for Taiwan, has implications for China internally, has implicated. I mean, people are gonna watch what happens here and it will matter to future generations. What's the worst they canna happen is if Lebron James says that,

what are they what are they gonna do? They they are fire Lebron James. I don't think so. People aren't gonna watch him play basketball. People aren't going to support of course not. You know, there's a greater burden on the truly powerful and the truly wealthy and influential to show I mean, I think there should be a greater

burden from to show courage because if they don't. You know, it's one thing to say I don't want to get involved in politics because I don't want them to shut down my bakery, and then I you know, I can't pay my bills and feed my family. I get that not everybody should have to be in politics, but if you are a public figure, and now I sound a little bit like Spider Man, with great power comes great responsibility. Previously Mark knew it was going there. But it's true.

Lebron James has has tremendous power. I don't just mean to pick on him, I'm just but any number of these players, now, I'm sure they'd say, oh, but back there are other players who would suffer the cut out of the Chinese market. I know that there's but these these things either matter or they don't. Because it didn't, it doesn't matter to you know, the Portland Trailblazers that Israel is being treated like a pariah state. You know, they're they're fine with that. So it's not like they

won't do politics. They just won't do these politics. They won't do the let's help the protesters in Hong Kong politics. And I think that we're forced to ask the question why, and I think we have a whole bunch of very clear but troubling and disappointing answers. That's what we'll see this. This would be the opportunity Alitics is one major player to stand up, and I think it would really mean a lot, not just to our perceptions of the NBA, I think we mean a lot to the protesters themselves

in Hong Kong. I think it would I mean, look, this all started with one tweet from somebody I'd never heard of before. It was a Houston Rockets generalman, right thing. I've never even heard of the guy before, and that's how this whole thing got going. Imagine what a true superstar could do if he's willing to stand up and support them. But so, I don't think there's gonna be a trade deal with China anytime soon. And I also think that you're not going to have anyone from within

the NBA stand up and really show some courage. But man, it would be it would be quite a moment. It would be one for the history books. I'm hoping they proved me wrong on some of these things. I like to be proven wrong. I would I would be celebrating a prediction that I finally was on the wrong side of. But I think you're likely to see the situation with the NBA just continue as is where now they're just on lockdown and hoping that they can make this whole

thing pass. Except for Steve Kerr. Maybe he'll say something stupid tomorrow. It's time for roll call. Oh, team, I missed you, so I don't like being away for a couple of days. Vegas, Baby Vegas. I was there. It was fun. I came, I saw I conquered the buffet table. I'm not a gambler, so I can't pretend that I don't gamble. And it's not for I don't have a moral more. What's the word a rejection of it or

in a objection objection? Thank you? Look at you coming up with the words for the radio host on the spot, Well, don't, sir, I don't have a moral objection to it. I just I don't understand. I don't well, I don't understand it is, and I don't know the rules really, and also I don't see how it's fun. But I don't you know, if people like it, they like it. Although the slot machine thing, I just don't get that at all. You're just giving somebody your money to stare at a screen.

That's not that exciting. I'd rather play a video I'd rather play video games for money, no question. And I totally understand. I mean, I I got way too good at FIFA on PlayStation for a while for my own good. I was spending my life talking trash to you know, kids in Germany and Japan and wherever, you know, playing them online. And FIFA the soccer soccer video game, I got quite good. I had skills ski lllz because that's how the cool kids spell it, all right. So I

was in Vegas. There was a lot of fun, had a great time. Glad to be back though, and we've got exciting things going forward to talk to you about here on the show, Like, for example, we are going to be launching the stream of the show on Pluto on Pluto TV starting Tuesday, Folks, download the Pluto TV app and you can watch the show will be a video of everything you're hearing here. Also, the podcast numbers are going up, but I need them to go up

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to fact check me. Uh, here we go. Let's get back into it. Kristen remember team buck at iHeartMedia dot com anyway, Hey Buck, Christen, here Oss and gen x Mom. This one got me to write finally must been in my vote. I love your bad singing, Yes you do, especially when it makes you laugh. It always makes me laugh,

and these often contentious times a laugh is needed. Thanks for continue to bring us the best research, news and information with supreme intellect and fun impressions, bad singing, unintentional rhyming, accents, et cetera. Love it all. Oh yes, and bring back commy bear, God bless you. She'll tie Christ and well Christ and thank you so much. Take my breath. Though I know, I know, I know, I was about to go there. I was about to go there, but I decided.

I think she said she enjoys laughing at you. Yeah, yeah, fine, she's probably wouldn't take that as a compliment. Probably correct. Yeah. But but if I sing enough, the singing will get better. I try that in the shower, just not in front of a microphone, please. Alright, alright, somebody wrote something in here about Oh here we go, tim right. Chadwick Moore

was an excellent choice as guest host. His humor, sarcasm, and insights regarding political power as a driving force behind lgbt Q activism our confirmation of what I have observed having my two children in major university campus environ. I particularly enjoyed his conversation with Rick Grinnell, who seems to

be an outstanding representative for US values overseas. The initiative to promote human rights for homosexuals globally, specifically among you on members states with questionable human rights records is somehow revolved by the Libs, which seems grossly antithetical to the hard left virtue signaling and goes largely unreported in the fever to disrespect anyone who breaks with intersectional political orthodoxy. Thanks for having Moore and Grinnell in the Freedom Hunt.

These two guys are thought provoking, brave conservative, and seemed like they'd be cool to chat with over a whisky or two shields high. Tim oh Man, thank you so much. I'm I'm glad that you uh, I'm glad that you enjoyed the guest hosting, so thank you. Good to go. Let's here, I've got I've got to switch to so we get the unread filter. So otherwise I'm going through things we've already done here on the show. Albert rides buck love the show. Been trying to get my right

wing best friend to listen to you, but he's a jackass. Okay, I'd tune in on a regular basis. Let's talk about forgiveness. You mentioned the other day about the forgiveness of the brother the victim the woman cop who she shot in his own home when she entered the wrong apartment. Although this person gave her the forgiveness she maybe or maybe not have deserved. My point is, when it comes to forgiveness, we all need to look at Reginald Denny. There was

no greater forgiveness than his. I really think we should honor him as a great human being. You have a good audience, but I fear your listeners don't know the story of Reginald Denny. Please gave them the story. His is truly of forgiveness. Albert In Austin, Albert. If memory serves, Reginald Denny was a truck driver who during the LA riots after the Rodney King verdict, was pulled out of his vehicle and viciously assaulted. I think he had brain

damage from it. And he came out and he later said Mark was he can't didn't he say, can't we all get along? I believe Oh yeah, Mark. Sorry, Mark is legitimately too young to remember that. But yeah, Reginald Denny did forgive his attackers, and I'll have to look more into that story. I don't know more about more about that one, Benjamin Buck. Sorry, I'm a little late on this one, but I want to weigh in the question of whether to take callers on your show. I

have loved your show since the early Saturdays. I download your podcast every day because, like you, hear inside an analysis. I also appreciate the quality of your informed and intelligent guests. However, I do not want to listen to people mumble nonsense about how the income tax is unconstitutional or how you may or may not remember me but I met you that one time on the street outside of a restaurant somewhere. Buck. Please do not take callers on your show. Sincerely, longtime listener,

first time caller Ben See Mark. I always say this. The non caller crowd is very they're very vocal about this. They do not The anti callers are like, don't you dare take callers on the show. I agree with him, Yeah, I like the role call. Everyone likes the role call. We get to it. Man, your voice will be heard here on the show. Unless you're crazy, then we just won't read it. Yeah, that's true. Then sometimes you do have to skip. We do get the crazy people are always.

It's amazing to me how some folks are just so nuts, Tim Buck, I'm curious, how is that guy who has now signed on the Green New Deal crowd, or rather, how is it that a guy who has signed on the Green New Deal crowd? How can you have a sum with a fifty thousand dollars per month no show job as the director of a fossil fuel natural gas company. I'm shocked that a fellow Democrats haven't gone after Joe

over this hypocrisy. Yeah right, Maybe they think Hunter Biden, who doesn't speak Ukrainian and has no background of the natural gas energy industries, in fact a genius who figured out how to profitably reclaim cow farts for electric generation. Otherwise, forget the appearance of corruption, how can he be possibly be a highly compsiated director market segment? That is, father vows to shut down Shield's Hi, Tim, well, Tim, you

said up my man? All right, everybody. So we are on the air on Monday, so get excited about that. We are on the air Monday, and we will be on Pluto TV Tuesday. Do we know the channel yet Its channel two hundred something on Pluto TV. I'll find out.

And we also are hoping to see a big spike in downloads of the Buck Sex and Show over this weekend because I know those of you listening, especially those of you who are original Squad have been with me for a little while now you know how important it is that this new initiative with the earlier podcast time, that it works. So tell everybody my Birthday and Christmas president from Team Buck this year, get one person you know to download the Buck Sexton Show and if you

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