Verdict with Ted Cruz - August 04, 2026


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00:01:11.780 Welcome in.
00:01:13.860 We are rolling with the Tuesday edition of the Clay and Buck Show.
00:01:19.200 A lot of big stories to follow.
00:01:21.840 We have got Michigan primary day.
00:01:25.240 Haley Stevens going up against Abdul El-Sayed on the Democrat side.
00:01:31.440 They will face on the Republican side, Mike Rogers.
00:01:36.880 And Abdul El-Sayed is right now, Buck, a 98% according to the prediction markets to win,
00:01:46.700 which means the far left wing candidate is likely to be picked today by Michiganders.
00:01:53.420 And that will then lead to, I believe, a very winnable race for Mike Rogers.
00:02:00.060 Also, Republicans selecting their GOP nominee for governor.
00:02:06.340 John James is favored in that race to be the Republican nominee.
00:02:11.740 That is an open seat after Gretchen Whitmer is term limited out.
00:02:17.420 So we will be talking some about the fact that that is going on and what the significance of the Michigan primary vote could tell us about how popular the Democrat socialists are outside of places like Los Angeles, New York, certainly, and other big blue locales.
00:02:36.140 what is going to play in a purple state we've got a crazy speaking of purple states we've got a
00:02:41.900 francesca hong who is emerging as one of the craziest potential uh major party nominees that
00:02:48.960 we have seen in a very long time uh as she is favored to be the democrat nominee in the state
00:02:54.860 of michigan a little bit of a panic is starting to set in there uh buck super positive right off
00:03:01.120 the top record high stock prices as I am talking to all of you this morning never before have your
00:03:09.760 401ks have your stock holdings been more valuable S&P 500 surging to as we speak a new all-time
00:03:18.340 record high we also have the Dow Jones at an all-time record high and Buck just tooting our
00:03:25.800 own horn a little bit here uh back in april of 2025 which wasn't very long ago uh the economic
00:03:33.720 geniuses of the expert class told all of us that the economy was headed for a recession and things
00:03:41.240 were going to collapse at that point in time uh the s p 500 had dropped to around 5 000 on this
00:03:49.080 program last year in april we said hey it's probably a good time to buy stocks don't listen
00:03:55.800 to the panic ins out there don't allow yourself to be motivated by emotion here at a minimum hold
00:04:02.600 on to your stocks if you have extra money on the side this would be a good time to buy stock prices
00:04:08.680 up nearly 3 000 points in the s p 500 since that day well over 50 percent returns just in the past
00:04:18.200 year now what is the stock market going to do on a day-to-day basis nobody knows uh but over time
00:04:23.940 you're going to make about 10 a year in s&p 500 index funds and if you are a stockholder if you
00:04:29.920 have retirement accounts if you have a 401k if you have opened a trump account uh for your young
00:04:36.160 children out there as many of you have grandchildren as well like buck did for his own uh one-year-old
00:04:43.360 It is a good time to be invested in America.
00:04:46.720 Things are very positive out there when it comes to stock market prices as we begin the show today.
00:04:53.260 It's a lot of positivity for you, Buck.
00:04:55.220 Is that setting off your negativity alarm bells?
00:04:59.380 Is that too much positive news right out of the gate here?
00:05:03.160 Yeah, I'm hearing people say that the Texas Senate seat is going to be competitive, Clay.
00:05:07.860 I'm hearing crazy talk.
00:05:09.880 By the way, we have Ken Paxton joining us.
00:05:12.220 Yes.
00:05:13.360 That's what we call a tease in the business.
00:05:14.740 We have Ken Paxton joining us to dispel these rumors,
00:05:18.640 although he does want as many of you to show up as possible for that Senate race to vote for him.
00:05:22.820 But he, I'm sure, is going to give us a different take than what the Democrat media has been saying about that race.
00:05:30.960 We've got the Michigan Senate race today.
00:05:33.140 We have the Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate who is a total whack job, okay,
00:05:39.360 a really Looney Tunes level candidate, and she could win.
00:05:46.340 She well could be the next governor of Wisconsin,
00:05:49.580 and obviously that affects what is a very important,
00:05:52.360 a critical toss-up purple state for the next election cycle for president,
00:05:57.300 plus more people talking about Clay's $10 million WNBA offer.
00:06:01.260 So we have a lot of things to get to.
00:06:03.220 I will also note, thank you for joining us for the live stream yesterday.
00:06:05.540 Sorry the live stream didn't get so live,
00:06:07.600 But we do have on YouTube a special with our friend Erin Wexler.
00:06:12.700 By the way, her name is spelled A-R-Y-N-N-E.
00:06:15.900 And she wants, she says, her only request, Clay, is for our audience to follow her on Facebook.
00:06:20.320 I said, really, Facebook?
00:06:21.380 She said, yes, please follow Erin Wexler on Facebook.
00:06:24.300 But it's a great interview.
00:06:25.820 We talked to her for a while after the show.
00:06:27.320 You should go check that out on YouTube.
00:06:30.040 That's the place to find it because we continue the show after the show.
00:06:34.320 Now, Clay, I now it is dealer's choice.
00:06:37.280 By the way, it's very true that the stock market is super high.
00:06:40.220 It is a moment where I think it's worth reminding people, by the way, Bitcoin down 50 percent from its high.
00:06:47.480 Bitcoiners are having a rough one.
00:06:50.420 I have never been some people.
00:06:52.860 Here's what I don't want to make this a divert our segment here into crypto talk.
00:06:58.380 I've never been a crypto person.
00:07:00.040 I owned a little bit for a short period of time.
00:07:01.800 It went up and I sold it because I fundamentally do I'm not a believer.
00:07:06.340 And I think the fact that you're even using terms like belief, like people out there are saying they are crypto believers when it's about your money and it's about investing.
00:07:16.040 You should be able to explain why you're in it, why it makes sense and why, you know, what you just said, Clay, bet on America.
00:07:24.600 This is really straightforward.
00:07:25.820 America is the greatest wealth generation machinery ever on the planet, period, full stop.
00:07:31.920 It's not even close.
00:07:33.620 So you're betting on the horse that has won more races than any other horse ever, right?
00:07:38.740 I think that's a pretty safe place to be.
00:07:41.000 It doesn't mean it's going to necessarily pan out, but it's a smart bet.
00:07:44.760 A lot of the stuff that people have been sold on with the doomerism out there of, say,
00:07:50.260 oh, my gosh, we're going to have a total collapse and everything else of our economy and of the dollar.
00:07:55.820 and they rush into this crypto stuff i'm i'm not a believer so i just glad i just want to
00:08:00.300 reiterate which reiterate what you're saying which is bet on america because if your bet on america
00:08:04.260 fails you're not even going to care that you bet on america you're going to have other problems
00:08:09.920 you're going to the world is going to be in a scary scary place trust me you know if the treasury bond
00:08:14.500 becomes worthless uh it's not going to you're going to you're going to care about how much
00:08:18.200 drinkable water and how much ammunition you have truly um so with that in mind clay i would say
00:08:24.520 also ai is going to increasingly become very positive and productive for all of us and that's
00:08:29.980 a really good thing so i'm taking some of your positivity and then i am turning it into
00:08:34.940 the reality of some of these lunatics out there i'm gonna i'm gonna do this as artfully as i can
00:08:42.180 i i think we should play i i saw this and i shared it and i do think that this is a representative
00:08:48.900 sample jumping in because i'm pulling up the the same uh quotes that you are this is um this is i
00:08:55.900 think indicative of how crazy this francesca hong uh candidate is for democrats she's going to be
00:09:02.840 their nominee for governor and she went on with caitlin collins last night on cnn and caitlin
00:09:09.500 she said francesca hong did that thanksgiving should be canceled and it was a racist uh holiday
00:09:16.520 and we should not celebrate it anymore this is what the democrat candidate for wisconsin governor
00:09:22.960 said buck here she is cut eight caitlin collins said hey you said this crazy thing in the past
00:09:29.760 would you now like to say maybe canceling thanksgiving not the right way to go listen
00:09:34.920 to this kamala harris word salad-esque answer where she basically says yeah i mean it cut eight
00:09:42.520 Do you still believe that Thanksgiving should be canceled?
00:09:45.640 I'm a chef, and one of the first meals that I made that was for the community when I was 16 was a Thanksgiving meal.
00:09:55.040 I always think my hospitality background and owning a restaurant for seven, eight years,
00:10:01.160 that bringing folks around the table to share conversation and build community is always a good thing.
00:10:07.000 but thanksgiving is also a time that's incredibly painful for many people in our communities and so
00:10:13.500 i think there i wanted to make sure that people understood that there are multiple views but
00:10:18.800 views can evolve and the position that i'm running for right now and i think my background as a chef
00:10:25.760 will actually help me become a better governor that's able to bring more people to the table
00:10:31.060 This is one of the worst answers I've ever heard.
00:10:33.220 First of all, Buck, and I will open this up, 800-282-2882.
00:10:38.680 Have you ever heard anyone say that Thanksgiving is an incredibly difficult time for them?
00:10:42.960 And I don't mean when you've had a lost loved one in your family and you're sitting at the table
00:10:48.220 and you're thinking, man, a lot of times holidays can be difficult because of lost family members,
00:10:53.460 lost friends.
00:10:54.460 That is not what I'm talking about.
00:10:56.500 that Thanksgiving itself is a traumatic experience because of American...
00:11:01.420 I've legitimately never heard anyone actually say this.
00:11:04.700 I'm just curious. Have you?
00:11:06.160 I feel like I know a lot of left-wing people.
00:11:09.020 I've never actually heard anyone make the argument
00:11:11.860 that Thanksgiving should be canceled.
00:11:13.960 I've never heard that.
00:11:15.660 She's taking what's usually the Columbus Day argument,
00:11:18.660 which is we need to weep for the indigenous people,
00:11:23.680 the pre-Columbian people, living in the Stone Age as they were,
00:11:26.900 the literal Stone Age, I might add, in terms of technology.
00:11:30.840 So we are supposed to weep for them, and that is one thing.
00:11:34.560 I've never heard somebody say Thanksgiving is problematic,
00:11:36.600 although, Clay, in a twist of irony, it is people like Francesca Hong
00:11:41.420 who make Thanksgiving painful by saying incredibly stupid left-wing things
00:11:47.580 at the table about Thanksgiving.
00:11:50.200 So we have now actually brought this full circle.
00:11:53.180 Do you think that she got Thanksgiving and Columbus Day confused initially
00:11:57.600 when she was saying cancel Thanksgiving?
00:11:59.980 Because I do think that she might just not be aware that Thanksgiving is typically not canceled.
00:12:07.300 And I do love the fact that she tried to pivot to I'm a chef.
00:12:11.680 As if that's what I want to say is now if anyone asks me, like, what do you think?
00:12:15.200 Do you think Thanksgiving is problematic the same way they do with the biologists and trans?
00:12:18.580 Like, well, I'm not a chef, so I can't have a view on Thanksgiving.
00:12:22.000 I'm not a professional
00:12:23.880 Clay she is a race communist
00:12:26.580 There's actually a very good essay
00:12:28.480 I was up last night reading it
00:12:29.940 I want to give credit for it that I read
00:12:32.280 I think it was in tablet mag
00:12:33.860 But I have to track it down
00:12:36.080 Team help me find it
00:12:37.760 A very good essay just delving into how
00:12:40.640 Race communism
00:12:41.780 Which started really just more as a
00:12:44.540 Kind of a catch all pejorative for left wing
00:12:46.640 Idiocy online
00:12:47.580 I use it though knowing quite a bit
00:12:50.500 about the history of actual communism and this author she did the same thing that is what we
00:12:55.780 are seeing it is race instead of class infused in every policy in every action and every thought
00:13:01.820 of government of society and it can never be fixed it can there is no right so it's a it's
00:13:08.760 an excuse for constant agitation and constant self-victimization the pretense of victimization
00:13:15.500 And Francesca Hong of Wisconsin is a race communist.
00:13:20.160 That is her ideology.
00:13:21.700 So everything has to be seen through this lens of race.
00:13:24.440 And what's fascinating is that the race communists are coming about now in this country at a time when there are so many different races and new arrivals here as well that how are they piling into the history of oppression in America or the Native Americans?
00:13:41.880 You know, this Francesca Hong. I'm going to go out on a limb here. Is her parentage Asian or, you know, she have Asian background. I'm going to take a guess. She care about like Mao's murder of 60 million people in her country. Does that ever? No, only the Iroquois. She weeps for the Iroquois, not her grandparents generation who were probably being murdered by Chinese communists and by Mao.
00:14:02.760 So, you know, I think we're seeing how this is completely spiraling into nonsense and absurdity, but also a lot of their clay.
00:14:11.040 There are a lot of believers. She might become the governor. Right. So it's two sided.
00:14:15.140 This is where I think this ties in with the primary that's going on in Michigan today, because I think Democrats in their anger and in their far left wing leadership of the socialist are potentially leading their party off a cliff.
00:14:32.760 and they may be nominating people that cannot win in purple states.
00:14:38.720 Why do you think, after Mamdani became the most powerful, prominent Democrat in the whole country,
00:14:43.460 after winning the mayorship of the biggest city in America, being an abject race communist loon,
00:14:49.000 why do you think that this woman's probably going to be the governor?
00:14:51.780 New York City is probably an 80-20 Democrat locale.
00:14:56.380 Michigan and Wisconsin is a 50-50 state.
00:14:59.600 So I think the moderate voters who ultimately decide these elections remember Trump won Michigan he won Wisconsin Ron Johnson our buddy is capable of getting elected in Wisconsin.
00:15:11.120 And I think that New York City is crazy. And this is actually where I would argue my suggestion that by picking a crazy left winger, it might actually lead New York City off the deep end, but be utterly destructive for the Democrat Party overall.
00:15:30.420 So I'm optimistic that what works in New York City is not going to work in Wisconsin and Michigan.
00:15:36.620 If Mom Donnie-like candidates like Hong and El-Sayed win in Michigan and Wisconsin,
00:15:43.300 then I will start to hit the panic button here because it would suggest that a candidate like that can win nationwide.
00:15:50.340 But that's what I'm telling you.
00:15:51.500 I think they're competitive, Clay.
00:15:53.000 I don't think they're a joke even in Michigan or Wisconsin.
00:15:56.820 I don't know that they're a joke.
00:15:58.120 I mean, it's going to come down to two or three points either way in a 50-50 state.
00:16:03.980 But I don't think Hong will win, and I don't think El-Sayed will win.
00:16:08.200 But shouldn't it be a little alarming to you that 48% of Wisconsinites might vote for a race communist?
00:16:14.220 You may be right, but you're talking about a goal line stand like this is something to celebrate.
00:16:20.020 This is not ideal, but if they had nominated a normal Democrat, I think the Democrats would win Wisconsin, and I think they would win Michigan.
00:16:33.020 I think they may lose both over the choices that they're making, which I do think are Mamdani-influenced, but don't play as well there as they do in New York City.
00:16:43.180 I like that.
00:16:43.640 You're going to have to keep this optimism up because I am very concerned about the midterms.
00:16:47.800 Very concerned.
00:16:48.340 So you're going to be our optimistic guy.
00:16:50.020 I was not concerned about 24 for these nominees.
00:16:52.580 I told you guys almost exactly two years ago, Trump is going to Trump is going to absolutely kick ass in the 24 election.
00:16:59.340 We are going to smoke these fools.
00:17:01.260 They are toast.
00:17:02.740 Kamala has no chance.
00:17:04.160 I am very worried about this midterm.
00:17:05.900 I will just tell you right now, I am I am highly concerned.
00:17:08.300 I'm just expressing concern.
00:17:09.620 I want the messaging to be good.
00:17:10.820 I want things to be good going into it.
00:17:12.740 By the way, the piece was the racial crossroads compact mag, not tablet mag, compact mag dot com by Helen Andrews.
00:17:18.660 very much worth reading we could put it up on maybe clayandbuck.com to make it easy for you to
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00:20:06.460 everybody say dad can we say get something if you're on youtube you'll be able to see him he
00:20:11.620 is sitting on my lap right now so i can describe what's going on soon to be 16 months old hearty
00:20:18.360 hefty healthy i think uh all accurate adjectives robust oh blowing kisses now he likes to blow
00:20:25.280 kisses this is that again blow kisses for the youtube people blow kisses oh that is awesome
00:20:32.160 ball ball that's important yeah yeah that's a sign that you're a little boy you like to play
00:20:39.220 we have a copy of balls right over here and he talks about ball he likes he would probably be a
00:20:44.540 big fan when he gets a little bit older of the nashville balls franchise which is an incredible
00:20:48.860 yeah there you go smiling on about it got a great sense of humor already um we have our friends
00:20:54.860 In the WNBA world, as the WNBA has decided to welcome men into women's sports,
00:21:03.220 James will probably enjoy our friend, yes,
00:21:06.960 Megyn Kelly decided to weigh in on this
00:21:11.820 and my attempt to buy a WNBA expansion franchise for my hometown of Nashville.
00:21:17.400 Listen.
00:21:17.920 Clay Travis today of Outkick and now with Fox was tweeting,
00:21:23.040 he wants to start a league.
00:21:24.540 His own team in the league.
00:21:26.820 He wants to start his own team within the league,
00:21:28.480 and it's going to be all trans people.
00:21:30.320 It's going to be all dudes posing as women.
00:21:32.620 They will kick the asses of every team out there.
00:21:35.820 I beg him to do it.
00:21:37.060 Beg.
00:21:38.120 Beg.
00:21:38.540 I'm in.
00:21:39.260 He's also saying the number one team, I think he's saying the all-stars,
00:21:43.600 but the number one team in the WNBA,
00:21:46.640 if they will play any team of high school boys,
00:21:49.880 like high school all-stars, he'll pay the winner $10 million.
00:21:54.540 That, that, I'm sorry, but that's what needs to happen.
00:21:57.860 That kind of display, that just shows how absurd this is.
00:22:03.340 That is fun.
00:22:04.580 This is everywhere, Buck.
00:22:05.840 Here is Studio 6B's Damon Roberts, cut four, talking about this as well.
00:22:13.720 Play it.
00:22:14.300 So Cheryl Reeve is there with a trans women belong, whatever shirt she's wearing,
00:22:19.980 saying that it's basically okay for men to play in women's sports.
00:22:23.740 If Clay Travis, who rightly comes out today and says, okay, WNBA, I want to open up a new team in Nashville
00:22:31.220 and call it the Nashville Balls, and it's going to be 100% trans team,
00:22:37.940 first most inclusive team ever in the country.
00:22:41.560 There we go.
00:22:42.740 My franchise, where is it?
00:22:44.360 My team will be 100% trans.
00:22:46.040 The Travis-owned Nashville Balls will be the most inclusive women's men's team in NBA history.
00:22:50.880 Stop discriminating against us.
00:22:52.240 Where is my team?
00:22:53.280 Yeah, they want to belong.
00:22:54.460 Right.
00:22:54.700 So these coaches are okay with this.
00:23:00.300 Now, they won't be okay with that, of course.
00:23:02.600 They'll never win a game.
00:23:03.940 For the obvious reasons.
00:23:05.140 Because if that was ever to come to fruition,
00:23:07.160 they'd lose every game 600 to nothing.
00:23:10.240 Buck, one more here.
00:23:11.840 As we have taken over the entire talking head space,
00:23:16.480 chicks on the right cut 33.
00:23:19.340 This is them also reacting.
00:23:21.320 Play it.
00:23:21.600 Clay Travis, first of all, was like jumping all over this.
00:23:25.220 And he said, WNBA coach says men should be able to play in the WNBA.
00:23:29.120 Finally, where's my franchise?
00:23:31.360 My team will be 100% trans.
00:23:34.400 The Travis-owned Nashville Balls will be the most inclusive women's slash men's team in WNBA history.
00:23:42.780 Stop discriminating.
00:23:44.500 You know who should play on that team is Brittany Greiner.
00:23:47.500 Yes.
00:23:48.020 I mean, clearly, she would be the first recruit.
00:23:52.500 Clearly.
00:23:53.880 Clay went a little further and said, important announcement, I am upping my offer $10 million
00:23:59.240 for a head-to-head basketball game between the defending WNBA champion Las Vegas Aces
00:24:04.080 and a boys' high school state title team of my choice.
00:24:08.440 If the Aces beat my team, I will give them $10 million.
00:24:13.000 Yeah, remember when they did this with soccer?
00:24:14.500 and they played against like Megan Rapinoe and that is a disaster absolute disaster they kicked
00:24:20.680 out of them I will say this buck um absurdity oftentimes cuts through the noise because we
00:24:29.200 can sit here and say well the chromosomal abnormalities the average muscle mass like
00:24:33.540 you can run through all the factual reasons sometimes the best way to respond to absurdity
00:24:39.740 is by layering another level of absurdity on it buck a ton of high school boys basketball
00:24:47.520 state championship teams have reached out wanting to play in this game the wnba las vegas aces have
00:24:54.440 been completely silent that kind of tells you everything right the boys and their coaches are
00:25:00.240 aware that they would dominate these girls um and these grown women would lose to a team of boys
00:25:06.260 And so it illustrates perfectly the absurdity of trying to allow men to compete in women's sports.
00:25:14.080 I actually think, Clay, I think the first part of your proposition for me is far more poignant mockery or satire or whatever,
00:25:23.200 because we've already had, we mentioned the women's national soccer team playing against the U-16.
00:25:30.500 I think it might have even been U-15.
00:25:31.780 U-15 from only Dallas, and they crushed the Women's World Cup winning championship team.
00:25:39.780 So we know that.
00:25:41.320 I mean, we know that a team of skilled adolescent athletes who are men,
00:25:47.900 or young men, soon-to-be men, whatever, would beat the best women's teams in the world
00:25:53.980 in these events because of strength and speed disparity.
00:25:57.760 What I find so interesting about the Nashville Balls and, of course, beyond even just its fabulous mascot and the many other merch opportunities that it presents, by the way, I think we're really just scratching the surface here.
00:26:13.180 As a matter of commerce, the Nashville Balls would do phenomenally well, and I think it would become kind of a lifestyle brand.
00:26:19.960 But the other part of this is on what basis would the WNBA, given its current leadership decisions and policies, on what basis would they allow or exclude somebody from being a self-described trans player?
00:26:41.640 As in, could you have Charles Barkley put on a wig and be like, yeah, I'm a woman now.
00:26:47.380 Let's play.
00:26:47.880 you know how could they say no what would the they're not going to do um like testosterone
00:26:56.660 testing or any of these things so i i think that you would write what you run into is what is the
00:27:03.740 current first of all what are the current regulations for whether somebody would be
00:27:07.860 considered a trans player who could play in the wnba and really really what we need we need a
00:27:13.900 trans player in the wmba who is completely dominant and makes a mockery of that we just
00:27:18.720 need one the team thing is is fun and and i get why everyone's enjoying talking about that
00:27:23.420 including us but all you need is one entirely dominant player because we saw this in mixed
00:27:28.320 martial arts and there was a there was a male to female mixed martial arts competitor and it was
00:27:33.900 dangerous for the women oh it was dangerous yeah they were being extremely severely harmed and
00:27:39.980 beat up in a way that was not normal for women fighting against other women and that kind of
00:27:44.760 brought an end to that um i'm somebody who doesn't enjoy women and mixed martial arts personally at
00:27:50.100 all period i don't think women's women's physiology is meant for that people can get mad at me i don't
00:27:54.660 care they're wrong um but nonetheless that's the only way this goes away yeah look i i think that
00:28:02.520 is a certainty that it needs to happen here's another fun thing we're gonna do nashville balls
00:28:08.180 merchandise in fact i'm texting about making nashville balls merchandise during the course
00:28:13.180 of this program let me hit you with this buck if we brand the nashville balls wnba champions
00:28:20.760 will the wnba sue and how amazing would that lawsuit be if i would then get to depose the
00:28:29.920 wnba commissioner about trans related uh issues in the sport i'm basically just telling you that
00:28:37.660 i'm going to set a legal trap for the wnba to sue me and argue that my nashville balls team is not
00:28:45.240 actually the wnba champion um which will set up a series of profoundly absurd legal situations if
00:28:53.400 they elect to sue over nashville balls wnba champion merchandise here's the other thing buck
00:28:59.360 let me i think we have do we have arena sabalinka uh do we have the audio of this the wta the women's
00:29:07.500 The Women's Tennis Association has come out and said, hey, we're not going to allow men to compete in tennis.
00:29:14.080 The NCAA, because Trump won the election and issued an executive order in the wake of Leah Thomas winning a women's title as a man tucking his penis into a women's bathing suit somehow.
00:29:27.680 I don't know how that works. It's just a patently absurd situation.
00:29:31.640 Riley Gaines has talked a lot about that.
00:29:33.260 um all of these uh women's organizations that actually want to fight against it including the
00:29:38.960 olympics have just come out and said we're not going to allow men who identify as women
00:29:44.200 to be able to do this all they have to do all they have to do in the wnba is say
00:29:50.860 the wnba is for women they won't say it um here is cut five uh with arena sabalinka who is i
00:29:58.680 believe the number one women's tennis player in america courageous in the world in the world
00:30:04.360 sorry yes in the world also in america um here she is getting in line behind sophie cunningham
00:30:10.560 and saying yes this is the right thing to do for women's sports cut five the wta recently announced
00:30:16.540 that players will take a one-time gender test how do you feel about that the first pro league to go
00:30:20.960 in that direction i think it's really important to keep the fairness in our tour and it's obvious
00:30:26.220 that biologically right the men are way stronger than women so i feel like it would be not really
00:30:30.960 fair for the woman to compete against biological men so it's i believe it took them a little while
00:30:38.200 to make the decision and i i support it but for me i'm focusing on myself on my goals you know
00:30:47.220 whatever it takes if they want to test us all i'm happy to do that it's pretty fair and let's keep
00:30:53.400 that way and she's russian so she she's not uh you know she's not subjected to the same kind of
00:31:00.400 nonsense uh left-wing wokeism on a regular basis and also they've been they've been blacking out
00:31:07.380 the flag next to her name for years i think they still do that as if that's going to teach putin
00:31:11.900 a lesson uh it's not her fault that her country is embroiled in a in a very nasty war with ukraine
00:31:17.040 she didn't start the war uh but anyway um she clay this is all i think it's even more important
00:31:22.900 for tennis to draw this line or rather more urgent because okay if you're going to allow
00:31:29.360 men to compete against women in tennis first of all it's very similar to if you have a high level
00:31:35.560 male college tennis player he's going to pretty much smoke all but maybe the top 20 or 30 women
00:31:43.460 in the world all i mean if you would smoke them we had this discussion i talked to a bunch of
00:31:48.000 tennis players they said any starting male college tennis player would beat venus and serena williams
00:31:54.320 at the apex of their ability beyond a shadow of a doubt yeah i mean because they just they move
00:31:58.620 faster they hit harder all the balls have more weight behind them um and and yeah the whole thing
00:32:04.400 but so think about this you could be i think the the men's purse and the women's purse by the way
00:32:09.140 which are equal in tennis now i will say women's tennis is actually unlike the wmba a a i think an
00:32:15.440 excellent spectator experience like you can and i think it's even better in some ways than the male
00:32:20.460 experience of of tennis because people can get mad at me for this too but the serve is such a
00:32:25.600 if you're a tennis player the serve is such a big deal in men's tennis and the points are much
00:32:29.620 shorter in women's tennis the serve is much less of a thing so you can appreciate the crafting of
00:32:34.200 the points and and and you can kind of watch a little more and you can follow it a little bit
00:32:38.300 better than you're not hitting 140 mile an hour sir i would also add in buck i mean two out of
00:32:43.880 three tennis sets is actually for most viewers way better than three out of five because you don't
00:32:49.180 want to sit and watch a five hour to most people don't want to watch a five hour tennis match so
00:32:53.540 women so women's tennis having equal purse i'd i that actually i have no problem women's tennis
00:32:57.900 gets great ratings and women's tennis is a great watch um but i just think that if you were off
00:33:03.880 if you're a guy you could make you could show to the u.s open and you could just beat all the women
00:33:07.840 and make $3 million, which is, I think, what the purse is, $3 million.
00:33:12.900 I think that somebody at some point would be like,
00:33:15.480 I'm going to grow my hair long, say my name is not Tony, it's Tanya,
00:33:20.000 and I'm going to make that $3 million and laugh at everybody about it.
00:33:23.520 I think you would have that problem.
00:33:25.820 Yeah, look, I think it 100% is necessary.
00:33:29.440 I give credit to Sabalenka and others and for brave women who are speaking out.
00:33:35.200 But, again, all the WNBA would have to do.
00:33:37.320 This ties in with the clip we played yesterday, Buck, of Caitlin Clark.
00:33:40.580 And you said, hey, you know, her deciding not to weigh in.
00:33:43.420 She said the league should make that decision.
00:33:47.320 That would protect all the players and coaches from having to take the heat.
00:33:51.140 This should be a commissioner-based decision where the commissioner should just say, hey, biological women only, period.
00:33:58.720 We're putting this to rest.
00:34:00.360 We're never going to consider this any further.
00:34:02.880 They won't say it.
00:34:04.560 That's significant, I believe.
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00:35:15.860 or wherever you get your podcast welcome back in clay and buck rolling through the tuesday edition
00:35:21.700 of the program uh we are rolling into the senate primary season the uh midterms in general and one
00:35:32.000 of the nominees that is going to be we believe in the united states senate starting in january of
00:35:36.900 2027 is our friend ken paxton who is on the program now uh okay let's uh let's start with
00:35:45.540 some of the numbers that are out there and let you kind of dive into them i understand there
00:35:49.900 is skepticism of polls fox news has james crazy man talarico uh leading you ken uh i also saw
00:35:58.360 another poll from a texas location this morning as i was doing prep for the show uh which had james
00:36:04.280 tallarico up do you believe you're behind right now uh and uh what do you think the average texan
00:36:11.440 knows about james tallarico as we start to enter official campaign season uh do you believe that
00:36:17.660 there is much still that you have uh to to be done to make the average texan aware of just who
00:36:24.580 James Tallarico actually is yeah we I think it is close I don't know whether the numbers are I'm
00:36:31.000 I've seen polls where I'm up a few points I've seen polls where I'm down a few points I think
00:36:35.940 this is a close race but we came out of the primary on May 26th and I had I had no money so
00:36:41.580 we've been trying to raise money so that we can we can compete on and all forms of media obviously
00:36:47.000 he didn't have the runoff he had three extra months to raise the money so he accumulated
00:36:50.220 through Ag Blue and through some very liberal donors from California, like $30 million.
00:36:56.140 And so he's been up on TV, and that obviously is helpful to him.
00:37:00.220 At some point, though, we are going to be explaining to the voters what he actually believes.
00:37:05.200 He's running from every position that he held in the Texas House, everything he talked about.
00:37:10.760 He's running away from those issues, and I get it.
00:37:13.160 His issues are not popular with Texans.
00:37:16.200 He wants to fool the people of Texas about what he actually believes,
00:37:19.640 what he's actually voted for, but we highlight that.
00:37:22.420 I cannot believe that Texas will support this guy.
00:37:26.180 We have been talking on this program quite a lot.
00:37:28.860 You may have seen that I put $10 million on the table for a boys' high school team
00:37:36.200 to be able to play against the WNBA.
00:37:38.840 There's been a lot of controversy since Sophie Cunningham came out and said
00:37:42.420 men should not be able to compete in in women's sports which is a crazy thing that anybody would
00:37:48.080 have to say but james tallarico guys cut 20 he says men and women's sports is just a culture
00:37:55.240 war fight to tear us apart i want to let you react to it cut 20 i think people are really tired of
00:38:01.520 these culture war fights that are designed to tear us apart designed to get us angry i mean there are
00:38:08.300 there are difficult issues trying to figure out trans athletes in sports that's an issue where we
00:38:13.560 could actually come to a policy solution okay what are your thoughts is this a difficult one
00:38:18.960 do you think that uh that it's very complicated not difficult for me i mean as a father of three
00:38:24.880 daughters who competed in athletics i certainly would have been opposed to boys men in the locker
00:38:31.760 rooms i would have been opposed to them competing against my daughters it's not a fair fight
00:38:36.020 and this is a guy that doesn't obviously have children doesn't have daughters so maybe he
00:38:40.660 doesn't understand what it means to say this isn't complicated we should be able to come to
00:38:44.880 some compromise there is no compromise men need to compete against men and women need to compete
00:38:49.240 against women and and those two should not cross paths it's just not fair to to women
00:38:54.760 ken thanks for being here with us wondering if you could give us a sense of the difference
00:39:00.040 between you and your opponent, Mr. Tallarico, on immigration issues?
00:39:05.860 And what kind of things has he been saying about that?
00:39:08.200 Because not only is Texas a huge state,
00:39:10.720 so there's just a lot of population to deal with the illegal immigration issue.
00:39:15.400 You guys are along the border.
00:39:16.460 So where are you and where is he on this?
00:39:20.340 We couldn't be more different.
00:39:21.820 And I would say that about every issue.
00:39:23.580 Obviously now he's changed his position on some of these issues,
00:39:27.580 like the transgender issues.
00:39:29.120 suddenly he's not he's not for that he's changed his position on the border saying he wants a
00:39:34.440 secure border but the reality is i sued i think joe biden and barack obama almost 20 times trying
00:39:40.980 to protect our border i'm still in you know finishing some of those lawsuits trying to
00:39:45.100 protect our ability to build a wall and have have border security and protect our people
00:39:49.360 he voted against every single bill that would have protected our border whether it was money for
00:39:54.720 for border security our own our own border patrol whether it was uh for helping uh border federal
00:40:00.300 border arrest people for state law crimes whether it was building detention centers whether it was
00:40:05.560 building a wall anything that would help prevent illegal immigration james tallarico voted against
00:40:11.900 so that's the reality he can say what he wants now but the reality is he fought us as i was over
00:40:17.800 there fighting the biden administration to protect and work with the texas legislature protect our
00:40:22.300 borders. He was doing everything within his power to stop that from happening. The president endorsed
00:40:28.580 you. You were drastically outspent in the Republican primary by John Cornyn. You just
00:40:36.500 mentioned that you've been outspent already early. Tallarico has been running a lot more ads. He's
00:40:41.900 raising money mostly from outside of Texas. Do you expect President Trump, who has a huge war
00:40:47.800 chest to come in and be able to help you fight back with these ads curious what sort of conversations
00:40:53.680 you might have had about that because you've been one of his staunchest allies in all of politics i
00:40:59.120 know you went to some of the criminal trials that he was facing when a lot of people were running
00:41:03.520 away from him you've been defending him uh and what sort of support do you expect from the republicans
00:41:09.460 and for people out there that are listening to us right now and know james tallarico is a crazy
00:41:15.040 left-wingers what can they do to help you be able to make sure that texans are aware of the stakes
00:41:21.500 of this race let me just start with saying i am a huge fan of president trump i think he's done
00:41:26.580 an amazing job and i know what i love about him the most is that he cares so much about the
00:41:30.980 american people and and he's fighting to to make things better for americans and it's the whole
00:41:35.900 american first agenda and i love that i love that that attitude i love that fight and uh yeah i i'm
00:41:42.440 Obviously, we'd love to have financial support from as many sources as possible, from donors, from people all over Texas, from the president, from our Senate leadership fund.
00:41:52.680 All of it would be helpful given the fact that my total time to raise money from May 26th to the election is only five months.
00:42:00.480 It's a challenge in the summer to raise money in Texas because a lot of people are gone on vacation trying to avoid some of the heat, as you know.
00:42:06.560 And so we have a limited amount of time, and it will take us a while to accumulate.
00:42:10.820 You said we're running limited ads.
00:42:13.360 We're not running really any ads at all because we are accumulating to spend that money more like mid-September on,
00:42:20.000 assuming we raise what we want to raise.
00:42:21.480 So we need help before that to compete with James Tallarico, who had the extra three months,
00:42:26.740 plus has the AgBlue network, plus has these huge liberal out-of-state donors from California that pop money in them.
00:42:34.360 Ken, that's what I was going to ask you, actually.
00:42:36.400 Can you give us a sense as to the scale and how much money is California and New York pouring into Texas to try to help Tallarico?
00:42:46.020 I think more than half his money is coming from Ohio State.
00:42:49.280 I would have to go back and look at the last report, June 30th.
00:42:51.820 I know he received $10 million from a California liberal tech guy.
00:42:55.840 And then of his $30 million total raise, most of it was on Act Blue, which was mostly out of state.
00:43:02.400 So I would say a very high percentage of his money is coming from out of state.
00:43:07.900 And I think that makes sense.
00:43:08.980 I think Texans don't necessarily believe in James Salarico, and they're not going to once they know the truth.
00:43:15.580 So he is being bolstered by out-of-state liberal socialist Democrats because that is effectively what he is.
00:43:23.900 He's trying to act like he's a moderate Democrat.
00:43:25.920 He is much more in the Mondani wing of the party than he is some moderate Democrat.
00:43:31.700 He says there are six genders.
00:43:33.620 We've played that audio before.
00:43:35.320 He believes that people are being too cruel when it comes to shutting down borders.
00:43:41.080 He's not even a guy that enjoys eating meat.
00:43:44.460 That seems like a really difficult proposition for Texas.
00:43:47.820 And again, I think it comes back to a large extent on do you have the ability to get all of those statements out for the average Texan to see?
00:43:57.680 in particular as you well know a lot of people just aren't paying attention right now and the
00:44:02.400 democrat crazy wing is so committed to their side that making everybody understand the stakes is
00:44:09.620 sometimes one of the biggest aspects of this right yeah no doubt about it first of all i'd love to
00:44:15.040 know what the six genders are i'm still waiting for him to tell us um this idea that he somehow
00:44:19.500 loves meat now when he was running a vegan campaign and he announced it wearing a mask
00:44:25.100 saying that it was you know meat was hurting you know climate change problems so this idea now
00:44:30.700 suddenly eats meat it's just it's typical he's doing the flip-flop because he knows that those
00:44:36.060 positions were popular with leftist democrats socialist democrats in the primary but they're
00:44:40.980 not popular with most texans and so he's changed his positions but there's no doubt that there is
00:44:46.220 a challenge of convincing people that we do have a close race and it's it's largely about you know
00:44:52.360 funding the race. If people, I truly believe, we have the resources to, as you said, highlight what
00:44:58.580 he actually has said, his own words, his own votes, his own videos, his own interviews. I think we win
00:45:05.820 the race by not, actually it won't be a close race. We will win by a very decent margin. It's just a
00:45:10.700 matter of getting people to pay attention. And as you know, where midterm elections tend to favor
00:45:16.200 the party not in power and they're motivated, we need to make sure every single Republican gets out
00:45:21.520 to vote if they don't then we've got problems i'm wondering what your sense is for the texans that
00:45:28.860 you talk to the the everyday texan the rank and file about how are they feeling about this economy
00:45:35.100 and how is that affecting how they view your senate race the gop more broadly as president
00:45:41.960 trump is in charge stock market is at an all-time high today but there's a lot of chatter online
00:45:46.260 about people feeling the heat or rather feeling the pinch
00:45:49.420 from high prices for groceries, high rent prices.
00:45:53.860 So how do you describe the feeling of the average Texan about the economy
00:45:58.360 and what do you think could be done when you're in the Senate to help?
00:46:04.220 Yeah, I do think it's a legitimate issue.
00:46:06.660 Obviously, the Biden administration, when they were in office,
00:46:08.820 spent a lot of money, they created a lot of inflation,
00:46:11.100 drove up the cost of housing, drove up the cost of groceries,
00:46:14.520 drove up the cost of gas, if you remember.
00:46:16.260 Gas was very high during the Biden administration.
00:46:18.640 So, you know, they did it on purpose by borrowing money and spending it and giving it away to all kinds of different projects.
00:46:26.020 But it hurt the American people.
00:46:28.000 And, of course, with this war going on with Iran, we now have high gas prices again.
00:46:32.720 They'd come down.
00:46:33.940 And so it is definitely having an impact because gas prices, energy prices affect the entire economy.
00:46:38.420 They increase the cost of goods in all kinds of different environments, including groceries and other things that people care about.
00:46:45.640 So we definitely have some things to deal with, and I'm certainly hopeful that this thing with Iran can come to an end successfully.
00:46:54.180 And, of course, I don't have the intelligence on how that's working, but I'm very optimistic that President Trump understands this situation, understands what Americans are dealing with.
00:47:03.540 And when I have the opportunity, we're actually going to announce an economic plan that I think will help.
00:47:07.340 We're going to do that later today, so stay tuned on that.
00:47:10.760 All right, I've got the toughest question for you in the state of Texas.
00:47:15.380 The coaches poll just came out for college football.
00:47:19.560 I'm not sure if you've seen this yet, so nobody's been able to maybe get you breaking news.
00:47:24.360 All right, so here's breaking news for Texans out there.
00:47:27.360 This is the coaches poll.
00:47:29.380 Texas Longhorns preseason number four.
00:47:32.320 Texas A&M preseason number eight.
00:47:35.240 Texas Tech preseason number 12.
00:47:38.220 SMU preseason number 20.
00:47:41.080 Houston preseason number 24.
00:47:43.660 So for state of Texas, five of the top 24 teams in the nation are right now ranked.
00:47:51.720 Buck will have no idea on this, but for you, I'm putting you on the hot seat here.
00:47:57.820 Which of the Texas top 25 football programs I just ran through is going to have the best season this fall?
00:48:05.000 you know i uh i am gonna guess that and i it looks like the rankings have texas
00:48:12.580 with arch uh manning uh i guess gonna be their quarterback this year i think they have a pretty
00:48:19.240 good chance of of having a really good season i i was a little more optimistic for them last
00:48:25.280 last season they didn't perform like i think we all hoped and expected but i think texas got a
00:48:30.420 really good chance and i would never count a&m out they always are recruiting well um they have
00:48:35.300 a big reach and uh any of these schools in texas that are ranked um as you know have an opportunity
00:48:41.500 to finish uh very well this year all right i'm gonna go do you have a strong take he took the
00:48:47.160 words right out of your take look marcel reed uh who went to my kids high school awesome guy texas
00:48:53.200 a&m's coach i love arch manning and his family too um i can't wait for college football to kick
00:48:58.560 I'm sure you're going to be campaigning at a bunch of these stadiums during the fall.
00:49:02.360 Let us know how we can help because we'll be at a bunch of these games.
00:49:05.700 I'm going to try to get bucked down for some of these big games again in Texas this fall.
00:49:10.760 I will be likely at a college football game every Saturday,
00:49:15.360 different stadiums obviously around the state,
00:49:17.760 meeting people and enjoying the scene with my constituents.
00:49:22.900 Amen. Good luck. Let us know how we can help.
00:49:25.180 And everybody out there, Ken Paxton on the ballot, needs to make sure that James Crazy Freak Tallarico is not representing the Lone Star State come January.
00:49:36.040 Well, thank you for having me on.
00:49:37.540 We've got a fight ahead of us, but we're going to win this.
00:49:39.940 I just encourage people to, every day, spend five minutes telling people about this race and telling them about the real James Tallarico, not the fake one that's running right now.
00:49:51.120 Ken Paxton, appreciate you, sir.
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00:52:34.920 clay travis we are rolling through the tuesday edition of the program ton of different stories
00:52:42.420 that we are following let me kind of give you a little bit of a rundown where we are uh michigan
00:52:47.900 primary season underway. The big one on the Democrat side, Haley Stevens versus Abdul
00:52:54.940 El-Sayed. That is going to determine who runs against Mike Rogers. Also, John James
00:53:01.820 going up in the Republican side of the governor's race in an open side seat with we have the
00:53:11.800 two-term incumbent governor now having to step down um and the expectation is that republicans
00:53:20.540 can actually be somewhat competitive uh in that state with gretchen whitmer on her way out we have
00:53:28.320 as i speak to all of you at this exact moment record high stock prices being set all-time high
00:53:35.540 in the S&P 500 and also in the Dow Jones.
00:53:42.900 We have a continued fallout of our fund surrounding the ridiculousness of men being able to compete
00:53:50.780 in women's pro basketball.
00:53:52.400 The Nashville Balls, as you heard in the last hour, continue to provoke a lot of reaction.
00:53:59.040 And we have in Wisconsin this crazy Democrat candidate, Francesca Hong, who has managed to put together a series of the most improbable, crazy, insane left-wing talking points that anyone has been able to put together anywhere.
00:54:20.800 Now, other aspects out there, Todd Blanche, the next attorney general, his nomination has made it out of committee.
00:54:31.500 It does appear that he will be officially confirmed and will be able to take over there.
00:54:38.580 But, Buck, I do think some of these stories about Francesca Hong are so crazy that I want to play a few more of these cuts.
00:54:50.800 Earlier, we had Francesca Hong choosing not to say that she made a poor decision when she said we should cancel Thanksgiving.
00:55:00.400 She also wants to end all prisons, defund the police.
00:55:05.940 This chick is crazy.
00:55:07.860 Here is cut nine on that.
00:55:10.940 And I'm going to just run through a bunch of these crazy socialist positions that she has.
00:55:15.560 Let's listen to cut nine.
00:55:17.020 You said you don't support abolishing prisons.
00:55:19.320 do you still hold the view that you laid out in May, which was that in a perfect world,
00:55:24.960 it would be a world without prisons? I think talking about what may be aspirational and
00:55:30.060 then understanding the role of the governor, what they can and cannot do and what is implementable
00:55:35.980 right now. These are different conversations. If we're going to be serious about public safety
00:55:41.540 and ensure that everyone's human right to feel safe is what we are trying to do,
00:55:46.900 We have to make sure that the system right now that is incarcerating more black and brown men than any other state in the country right now, where we have our schools are having to go to referenda just to try to figure out if they can keep the lights on, making sure that we are delivering solutions, not focusing on labels or slogans, because governing ultimately is about making sure that we're working with our partners in communities on the issues that they care about.
00:56:16.900 A lot of word salad there, Buck.
00:56:19.340 But she got to the staples of black and brown people are being put in prison more.
00:56:25.020 That's because black and brown people commit more crimes than, for instance, Asian people do.
00:56:30.400 Right?
00:56:30.760 I mean, this whole argument...
00:56:32.900 A lot more.
00:56:33.560 Way more.
00:56:34.180 Yes, if you look at murder, murder overwhelmingly committed by young black men.
00:56:40.500 That's why young black men are in prison for murder more than Asian men are.
00:56:45.100 In fact, if we had the murder rate of Asian men across the entire United States for both Hispanic, white and black, there would be almost no murder rate at all.
00:56:56.760 If you actually do the research to look at, for instance, the rate of violent crime that Asian men are involved in, the whole United States would effectively have no violent crime if we had the Asian male violent crime rate.
00:57:11.840 i told you when i was in taiwan i looked up the stats because it is a everyone should experience
00:57:18.840 you should find a country or a place you can go to where there is essentially no violent crime
00:57:26.260 and so little property crime as to be like a lightning strike situation you did with your
00:57:32.840 cell phone in a coffee shop in taiwan well i i didn't do it but i saw people doing it meaning
00:57:38.440 yeah people leave there so if you're at a coffee shop in taipei which has six million people the
00:57:44.200 capital of taiwan you can uh and steve yates our buddy nation states with yates great podcast he
00:57:50.200 was my my sherpa my guru through all things taiwan he was there with me um but clay people
00:57:56.720 would leave their phone down to hold their spot just to let somebody know oh this chair is taken
00:58:01.340 so they'd get up they'd go to the bathroom they'd leave their thousand dollar phone or by the way
00:58:06.300 their their fancy handbag whatever it is without a second thought and the part of it that was even
00:58:12.900 funnier to me was how funny it was to the time when he's like we had a you know a guide with us
00:58:19.560 a minder um and and i said you know what are they doing and she's what do you mean what are they
00:58:24.020 doing i said aren't they aren't they worried she's why why would they be worried well like
00:58:29.460 like it's this whole we have been raised to think or rather we have lived in a society where it is
00:58:35.460 normal to think that we just have to have people who murder people for no reason who steal things
00:58:41.620 constantly who have no regard for the laws no accountability for themselves whatsoever
00:58:47.480 and that that's just going to be by the way it's less than one percent even in a high crime city
00:58:52.520 it's less than one percent of the overall population doing the violent crime so that
00:58:57.160 should be really heartening to everybody but there's a disparity and the disparity is that
00:59:01.820 an overwhelming majority of the violent crime in every major American city
00:59:05.320 is black and Latino or black and Hispanic, same thing,
00:59:09.100 black and brown people, effectively.
00:59:11.800 And this is why she immediately, she's just trying to say that.
00:59:16.420 Clay, like I said, she's a race communist,
00:59:18.640 so this is what she's supposed to say.
00:59:20.800 Do you remember the Sokol hoax?
00:59:23.220 You heard of this before?
00:59:24.260 I just think this is such a, so the Sokol hoax was this guy back in the late 90s.
00:59:29.640 he was a physicist and he uh wanted to prove how stupid and how stupid this the post-modernist
00:59:38.220 departments of these different universities were and how if you just put a bunch of words together
00:59:44.560 that they know the buzzwords yeah like you know like black and brown people abolish prison blah
00:59:50.060 blah you say these things right communities communities of color and and social justice
00:59:55.860 and reparative justice and all these things.
00:59:58.000 You say these things.
00:59:58.860 So this guy wrote a paper meant to be completely absurd,
01:00:01.940 and it got published right away in some elite academic journal.
01:00:05.860 And the guy's name was Sokol.
01:00:07.460 That's why it's called a Sokol hoax.
01:00:08.900 When you hear this woman talking, it's like she's running a Sokol hoax.
01:00:12.600 It's just a bunch of words put together to show I'm a social justice warrior.
01:00:17.540 I'm a race communist.
01:00:19.740 So Caitlin Collins, that was her CNN show.
01:00:22.820 I give her credit for asking the questions.
01:00:24.960 Buck, you know this to be true, too. If Caitlin Collins, as a white woman, given the standards of race and identity politics on the left, if she pushed back and she said, well, you say that black and brown people are being over overly put in prisons.
01:00:44.460 Here are the data. Are you suggesting that people who commit violent crime shouldn't be put in prison? Here's the data. I'm going to run through it and push back against this.
01:00:54.960 She would be in danger of losing her job because it might go viral.
01:00:58.900 And they would say, how dare a white woman push back against the idea that there isn't a mass incarceration issue here, by the way, Buck.
01:01:08.680 Speaking of race politics, Francesca Hong is married to a white man, as often many of these race communists are.
01:01:17.840 Isn't Ilhan Omar married to a to a white man?
01:01:21.460 Rashida Tlaib. AOC is married to a red.
01:01:23.840 see uh kamala harris is married to a jewish lawyer a white guy um here is francesca hong
01:01:32.240 describing having a half white son and so she lives in proximity to whiteness i wasn't always
01:01:41.160 aware of the struggles of other communities of color because for me assimilation always kind of
01:01:45.960 took over and so um i i did marry uh um my proximity to whiteness continues right i i'm
01:01:54.060 my son is biracial he's he's half white and half korean and um i think navigating um you know what
01:02:01.920 his identity is and how people perceive him is always at the back of my mind as well
01:02:06.400 proximity to whiteness is such a ridiculous phrase that could only come out of these race
01:02:13.040 communists so they don't talk like normal people it's like latinx remember when they tried to
01:02:17.480 decide that everything was going to be latinx proximity to whiteness proximity to blackness
01:02:22.460 like this is just absurd here's another couple by the way buck just to get all these in she also
01:02:27.920 said well we've got to expand the supreme court cut 10 so you do support the senate the supreme
01:02:35.800 court and prisons the existence of prisons yes i support all those things right now that are
01:02:42.360 helping to ensure that there is public safety but i do believe right now in our supreme court that
01:02:47.780 we should be working to expand the court expand the court she does now support the senate that's
01:02:52.900 nice to know because a bunch of the democrats socialists say that the senate should be abolished
01:02:57.180 that's their new argument as well as uh the courts buck here's one more she says tipping is racist
01:03:04.260 tipping giving people money to provide a service this is cut 12 in the service industry we are
01:03:10.900 finally having this conversation about you know how our industry really did come from um it and
01:03:17.340 kind of is rooted in white supremacy that tipping in itself um if we look at the history of tipping
01:03:23.240 and how racist it is and how it has kept wages low for um black people for a very long time and
01:03:29.800 if you look at tipping now um how different the scales are in terms of who receives um higher
01:03:35.280 percentages of tips over other folks first of all if you're going to talk about black people
01:03:40.840 in tipping uh i would submit that a lot of people would say black people do not tip on the same
01:03:46.720 level as other people which uh i don't know if that's considered to be racist but that's the
01:03:52.040 flip side of tipping itself being racist of course here is the reality everything is racist every
01:03:59.320 single thing for these race communists is racist again buck i am optimistic that republicans are
01:04:08.220 going to be able to win this race you know who says that he thinks republicans are going to win
01:04:13.020 the race when this chick is uh is nominated fuck the current democrat governor just came out and
01:04:20.680 said if she's the nominee republicans are going to win the governor's uh office in wisconsin which
01:04:26.820 would be huge coming into 2028 when we're talking about having wisconsin being yet again one of the
01:04:35.560 must-win states for democrats and republicans but i would remind everyone that once again to
01:04:40.780 to our race communism uh discussion here within the soviet union within true communist countries
01:04:49.340 everything is always through the lens of how do we center this around marxism how do we also use
01:04:57.100 language that is jargon meant to give some veneer of rationality or even science uh to what we're
01:05:06.440 doing like scientific um uh elevation to what we're doing and you see this with the way that
01:05:13.280 they talk about all this stuff it's always it's always about centering proximity to all this stuff
01:05:20.320 it's jargon because it's all through the u.s is everything racist yes fundamentally that is their
01:05:27.560 position the race communists of america which is a primary ideological underpinning a foundational
01:05:34.640 element of the modern democrat party after it was the party of slavery and abject actual racism for
01:05:40.200 a long time whole other discussion the modern democrat party is a raced communism obsessed
01:05:47.000 party and it would it it has to be because race communism is inherently an obsession everything
01:05:52.120 has to be seen through clay tipping is racist school is racist how education housing is racist
01:05:59.100 criminal justice obviously racist um uh you know beauty standards race everything's racist
01:06:05.780 everything is racist and you realize how oppressive this ideology is for the people who believe it
01:06:14.100 first of all because they're psychos and also for the rest of us because we have to try to cater to
01:06:18.900 this everything is racist all the time even really good thing nfl draft clay people being elevated to
01:06:25.360 the pinnacle of our society and wealth and fame racist if the nfl draft is racist yeah right i
01:06:33.040 mean we could we could play this game all day what is not medical uh doctors medical school racist
01:06:37.460 what is not racist to these people every her own family proximity to whiteness racist everything
01:06:44.260 is racist this is a mental illness everybody just like communism is actually really a corrosion of
01:06:50.180 the soul more than it is a political system um that's what you see here and it's unfortunately
01:06:56.420 spread deep in this country i hope that the people of wisconsin clay will reject this because it is
01:07:00.320 flatly and clearly insane but uh yeah you're nervous that they're not i'm gonna rely on our
01:07:06.540 good friends in wisconsin to actually be willing and able to reject this crazy chick but to your
01:07:13.280 point the risk reward here best case scenario these people lose can you imagine what wisconsin
01:07:20.280 would be like with this chick in power i mean this is i i that how could she handle being in
01:07:29.580 so much proximity to whiteness there's a lot of white people in wisconsin a lot of proximity to
01:07:33.360 A lot of proximity to whiteness.
01:07:34.860 It's really crazy.
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