00:17:34.880But trying to take a step back and look at this as honestly as possible, if the Democrats had a day fact to Taiwan,
00:17:44.240but the brutal experience of reading Kamala's 107 days, and it felt like it took 107 days to read, so the title is apt.
00:17:53.240And really, I think she did not endear herself to anyone in the Democrat Party or the reader.
00:17:58.760I came away from it thinking this is a person who has never really been tested, has been elevated by the system for superficial characteristics all along.
00:18:12.600And you have somebody who's just not a talented politician, got way beyond her skill set.
00:18:19.900And so I don't think that she's going anywhere in politics, meaning I don't think she's going somewhere, it's off the stage.
00:18:45.240Donald Trump is using our service members as political props and as pawns in his illegal effort to militarize our nation's cities.
00:18:55.220For weeks now, Donald Trump, Kristi Noem, and Gregory Bovino have brought their militarized CBP and ICE agents to the streets of Chicago to cause violence and chaos in this city.
00:19:08.560They need to stop inciting our city's residents.
00:19:12.560Since the beginning of this invasion, families have been snatched up off the streets or removed from their homes, zip-tied and detained for hours, including especially U.S. citizens and legal residents of our state.
00:19:44.360The problem isn't the lawlessness and the disrespect shown to federal officers.
00:19:51.240It's that they're there and Democrats in Chicago are having some kind of collective nervous breakdown in response to it.
00:20:02.100And so they can't be held accountable for their actions.
00:20:04.700The real problem here, the real issue is the deployment in the first place.
00:20:10.620That's a pretty crazy point of view, isn't it?
00:20:15.840And yet this is the governor of Illinois, who certainly thinks of himself as a contender for the mantle of Democrat leadership.
00:20:25.720Chuck Schumer, as Trump and others have been discussing, he's just trying to hold on.
00:20:29.960Because the Democrat Party that he has managed to sit atop in different ways for a long time now, he's been involved in this longer than I've been alive, actually.
00:20:51.660Chuck Schumer has been in the Senate longer than I have been on this earth.
00:21:09.660They can't reason with their left wing base any more than we can because they're lunatics.
00:21:15.380And so, by definition, there's no way, there's no common ground to have with them.
00:21:21.720The only thing that they can do is try to keep them at bay long enough to fool enough voters to keep the Democrat seats in more purplish areas.
00:21:35.300And this is the game every election cycle.
00:21:38.240Democrats, to win enough votes to have power, have to pretend that they're not actually Democrats.
00:21:42.400Democrats, it's certainly what's going on with Allison, whatever her name is, in Virginia.
00:21:47.840And by the way, it might as well be whatever her name is, her last name, because her whole game is nobody knows anything about this lady, really.
00:22:07.200Well, if you really were to dig into it, it would be probably abortion all nine months of a pregnancy, and DEI, and transgender stuff, and all the...
00:22:49.820I wish everybody was very informed on these things, but, you know, you got lives to lead.
00:22:54.360And so they just, whatever's on the TV, they go, okay, this person seems pretty moderate.
00:23:00.380I mean, what is a moderate Democrat these days?
00:23:02.400Chuck Schumer is starting to look like a moderate Democrat these days, just because he's not insane.
00:23:07.140I mean, he's bad news, but he's not as loony as some of these others, and he's maybe going to lose his job because of it.
00:23:14.920So, we go back to the initial question, or the initial premise by President Trump, who is the leader of the Democrat Party.
00:23:20.360This is the first time in a long time there has not been an, nobody would have asked that question, obviously, for the eight years of Obama.
00:23:30.240And if it wasn't Obama, the answer was Clinton.
00:23:33.980And somehow, believe it or not, when the answer wasn't Clinton, the answer became Biden.
00:23:38.560So, there has been a leader of the Democrat Party for a long time now.
00:23:44.300And I would argue that in the Bush years, even, the answer was still Clinton for a lot of people.
00:23:49.680That's why that show, The West Wing, where that half-wit Martin Sheen plays the, like, brilliant scholar president, it was really just this stealth presidency for Libs during the Bush years.
00:24:01.840And I remember, I was in the CIA at the time, and so, yeah, I would flip this thing on sometimes.
00:24:06.060I'm like, oh, this is where the Libs get to feel safe and warm.
00:36:12.100I would also note that if there was a starvation genocide underway, the photos of it would be everywhere accessible and obvious.
00:36:23.240It would not be in the least bit difficult in the social media Internet era that we all live in to see this.
00:36:29.300And yet the reliance on photos by the biggest newspaper in the United States, for example, that is essentially a falsified premise.
00:36:38.640I think that speaks very loudly about what is going on here.
00:36:42.120What are the chances they just happen to pick a photo that doesn't depict what's going on if there are endless photos that would.
00:36:48.580Right. I mean, that just makes it makes no sense.
00:36:50.440So you can supply logic to this and it falls apart.
00:36:53.260Yeah. And they cropped out his healthy looking brother out of the photo because they wanted to project that the starvation thing was happening.
00:37:00.240And the very healthy brother would show that that wasn't going on.
00:37:04.460What is going on on the right with and you know what I'm going to ask you, Carol, but to the degree that we can cover some of this now,
00:37:13.180there seems to be some how some questioning and even some hostility to Israel specifically that I haven't seen from the right on the left.
00:37:26.560It's been there for a long time. Yeah. And but on the right, it seems like there's some problems bubbling up.
00:37:33.620Where is that coming from? You know, I don't want to ascribe bad motives to people.
00:37:39.440I'm not going to say they're all paid by Qatar, although kind of seems like they're paid by Qatar.
00:37:45.000It really could be any number of things. I understand questioning foreign aid, for example.
00:37:51.520But if you're questioning a foreign aid means that Israel should be the first country stripped of it.
00:37:57.520I'm sorry. That is not a real argument. And a lot of the time there'll be people saying we're allowed to criticize Israel.
00:38:04.100Of course, you're allowed to criticize Israel. I criticize Israel.
00:38:06.600There's a million mistakes that I think Israel has made before and since October 7th.
00:38:11.540And you're absolutely allowed to criticize any number of things.
00:38:15.740But the idea is that Israel is allowed to exist and should exist. And that is Zionism.
00:38:21.760So it's really not that crazy to say Israel is a country. It exists.
00:38:26.820It's going to continue to exist. And we should support that.
00:38:29.320I hope the right doesn't get wound up in conspiracy theories, which is largely what a lot of this comes down to.
00:38:35.520And I get where it comes from. We were lied to again and again and again over the last decade.
00:38:40.760And I feel like people have lost all faith in everything. But you have to remember, not everyone is lying to you all the time.
00:38:48.080And you have to find the people that you trust. And they shouldn't be people who lie to you.
00:38:53.220If your favorite podcaster is telling you things that you know to be a lie, they're probably lying about other things as well.
00:39:00.740And that's how you should look at it. You should trust the voices that you listen to.
00:39:04.920And if you can't do that, then you shouldn't do it on anything.
00:39:08.180You know, I've begun to see finally, because I've been trying to make this case for a while.
00:39:15.740As somebody who was involved in some capacity among millions of other Americans, including those who actually served in the military,
00:39:23.280I was a civilian trying to do a part of what we call the GWAT, the Global War on Terror.
00:39:28.440But the the level of violent hate that has been inculcated in some of these Middle Eastern societies and specifically in the case of Gaza,
00:39:39.820I'm a little surprised that so many people on the right seem to have either forgotten or aren't able to draw the obvious parallels that these they're not upset about foreign aid in Gaza.
00:39:53.580They're not upset about the lack of of some, you know, my some agreement that would move things forward.
00:40:01.240They actually have been trained and taught to hate Jews and Israelis.
00:40:05.900Yeah, this is this is very straightforward.
00:40:07.880And I think this has gotten lost in the conversation, even on the right for some in a way that bears reminding everybody.
00:40:15.860Yeah, I will say that poll after poll continues to show that the people on the right support Israel.
00:40:22.100And so no matter how many loud voices are trying to change, I think that's an important distinction you're making.
00:40:27.780It's not to interrupt you. So far, it hasn't moved the needle at all.
00:40:31.100I would say that abortion is a more contentious issue on the right than Israel is.
00:40:35.180It's an overwhelming, positive, supportive point of reference for the right on Israel.
00:40:41.800And so, you know, I I don't know what again what the motivations might be.
00:40:46.720But I will say that anti-Semitism is not a bigotry.
00:40:50.720And I think when people think of it as a bigotry, they get it all wrong.
00:40:57.140Once it grabs people, it's all they can think about.
00:41:00.380So, again, if you think if you're if your favorite podcaster has suddenly become multiple wall Israel, every single episode is Israel, Israel, Israel.
00:41:08.300They're on a dark path. And it's not about Jews as a kind of culture.
00:41:14.320It's about a larger mind virus that will really swallow them up.
00:41:19.380And you've seen this happen in societies in history where once it gets going, it really doesn't stop.
00:41:25.300So I hope that the trend where the larger right just blocks out those voices continues.
00:41:32.120And that's what I'm going to be looking.
00:41:33.980What are you going to be talking about this week on on normally, Carol?
00:41:37.160So normally just celebrated our one year anniversary, Buck.
00:41:41.080Mary Catherine Hamm and I completely didn't realize the date.
00:41:45.360So it's actually a year and a week and a half or so.
00:41:49.240But we're really thrilled to be on the Clay Travis Buck Sexton podcast network.
00:42:10.840Two years ago, we woke up to the horrific news from Israel that terrorists were on a rampage slaughtering innocent civilians.
00:42:17.320By the end of the day, the death toll was 1,200 with 250 people taken hostage.
00:42:21.260The equivalent to that in the U.S. would be 40,000 Americans, to give you a sense of the magnitude.
00:42:25.720Americans have supported the people of Israel for the past two years in big and small ways with the help of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews.
00:42:34.200One way is by joining a growing movement called Flags of Fellowship.
00:42:37.840The Flags of Fellowship unites churches across America, planting over one million Israeli flags across our country.
00:42:43.980Show the world that Israel is not alone.
00:42:46.240To get more information about how you can join the Flags of Fellowship movement, visit ifcj.org.
00:44:33.000So, Buck, Born Lucky is the story of my father, when I was diagnosed with autism, choosing to adapt me to the world rather than the world to me.
00:44:45.640And this book is for every parent of a kid having a hard time.
00:44:49.240It doesn't matter if it's a parent of a kid on the autism spectrum, ADHD, anxiety, social issues, bullying at school.
00:44:56.420It is proof to parents of how much agency they have and how much hope there is for a loving parent to really dedicate to their kid and help their kid be more and achieve their full potential in a way they never would if they listened to the experts.
00:45:14.840Like, what are some of the hurdles, the artificial hurdles that are put in place by expert opinion about autism, how to deal with this?
00:45:24.000Look, there is a movement in America, and the experts will tell you, to meet kids where they are, right?
00:45:30.680So you just sort of put little Sally in bubble wrap and tell her that she's perfect and everything's great and we're so proud of you and everything else.
00:45:40.6201988, 89, my parents are told that I have to be evaluated.
00:45:45.320So they take me to one of those little medical centers.
00:46:00.820And the woman says to my parents, we have no idea what's going on inside his head.
00:46:04.720Well, can I ask, what were some of the signs?
00:46:06.260How did they know that you needed to be tested?
00:46:08.920So, you know, I had terrible behavioral issues.
00:46:11.220So if a kid touched me in the lunch line, I'd turn around and slug them.
00:46:13.760I had awful behavioral issues, sensory issues, couldn't really wear a lot of clothes or socks or anything else because I didn't like how it felt on my skin.
00:46:55.380And my dad said, if I meet him where he's at and I adapt the world to him and I give him extra time on tests and behavior modification plans in school and tell everybody what's happening, he's not going to know how to operate in the real world.
00:47:06.840So this was my dad's quest to adapt me to the real world.
00:47:10.220What were some of the things that, in that process, he did, he learned, and congratulations to your father.
00:47:16.780I mean, I also just, so I have no personal experience of anyone in my family with autism.
00:47:23.560I have people in my extended family that have serious mental health challenges, people who have, we have my, I have a second cousin with Down syndrome, but I've never experienced somebody close to me with autism.
00:47:35.720And so my knowledge of it is really just from reading, picking things up in the media, we'll hear about the spectrum.
00:47:44.380What are some of the things that your father had to learn and had to understand to push you through this process?
00:47:50.680And this was much less about autism, because at the time autism was really not understood very well, to a father leaning in and saying, I am going to push my son to be more, right?
00:48:02.500So he knew I couldn't get self-esteem from school because of learning disabilities.
00:48:06.260I wasn't going to have any friends, so I couldn't be the popular kid.
00:48:08.900And I couldn't do athletics because I was completely uncoordinated.
00:48:11.260So at six years old, he started me doing 200 push-ups a day as a way to start earning self-esteem, 200 push-ups a day, five days a week.
00:48:20.260Now, what expert would ever tell a parent to do that, right?
00:48:23.420But it was to teach me effort in equals real results and real achievement.
00:48:31.560He said the two things you can control are your character and your work ethic.
00:48:34.700That was something that he forced me to take a lot of pride in.
00:48:38.040And then it was trying to teach me almost minute by minute the social skills that come naturally to people and the human equation.
00:48:45.440So he would take me out to lunch with one of his friends.
00:48:47.460I had a lot of free time because no kid wanted to hang out with me.
00:48:50.280And we'd show you in Born Lucky, he would take me out and he would sit me down at lunch with one of his friends.
00:48:56.760I'd start talking to the guy and badgering him, and my dad would tap his watch.
00:48:59.720And that was a signal for me to stop talking, number one.
00:49:02.940But in Born Lucky, then we take you into the postgame, right, where he would sit there and be like, okay, when Mr. Sexton, never buck, never by a first name.
00:49:11.460But when he was talking about his new child and his dog, why did you want to talk about how many commercials are in his radio show?
00:49:50.220And again, I'm somebody who, there's a lot of people listening who have autistic children or grandchildren or have dealt with this themselves.
00:49:56.000So they have a much higher understanding of it.
00:49:58.280But in layman's understanding of it, I would never have known that you struggled with autism.
00:50:05.400Is your level of functionality in day-to-day unusual for somebody who's ever been diagnosed with autism?
00:50:12.820I mean, people always talk about this spectrum.
00:50:14.700I mean, how do you describe that so that there's an understanding?
00:50:38.740I would say it's still a struggle every day, every hour to force your mind to think through the way that my dad taught me to think rather than the way my mind normally would think.
00:50:49.280In the book, in Born Lucky, he compared a little bit almost like to alcoholism, that it's never a cure.
00:50:56.320But, sure, you know, my dad used to always tell me when I was bullied and isolated and alone in middle school and high school,
00:51:02.800what's making you bullied and isolated and alone is what's going to help you succeed later in life.
00:51:09.560And there was a time, sure, once I got into TV and started working, that hard work, good character made up for a lot of the emotional intelligence that I didn't have.
00:51:22.240But certainly it's something I still deal with every day.
00:52:34.900So why would we not try to solve this problem?
00:52:37.480And I wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal before Born Lucky came out, effectively saying,
00:52:42.440you know, does the left or does the anti-Trump crew hate Trump more than they love our kids?
00:52:48.380Because if all you're going to do is demonize RFK and Trump on the search for this answer, that's the only explanation.
00:52:54.000So you believe, obviously, that the public focus, well, the Trump administration focus on this is clearly a good faith effort to try to get an answer that we should all want.
00:53:04.020But, of course, this becomes politicized because anything Trump and RFK Jr. now are involved in, people view through a partisan lens.
00:54:51.920And I went to speech therapy, and I had tutors after school and all of this because she didn't want me to be one of those kids who felt like he couldn't be with the other kids.
00:55:23.420And so radio, which is obviously about the ability to verbalize and communicate, is how I make a living.
00:55:29.760And I started out with a speech impediment.
00:55:31.280And then with the tutors, by the way, they got me to the point where I was about two years ahead of grade level in terms of academics within 18 months.
00:55:37.820So went from you can't speak, you need to go to a special place, you can't stay with your friends, to my mom saying, just like your dad did, we're going to figure this out.
00:55:47.580And I think that that really does resonate with people.
00:56:33.260Goldman Sachs is saying it's going to go higher.
00:56:35.180I mean, a lot of people see this as just the continued thesis of gold has value in a world where the printing presses of the central governments are going off.
00:56:45.560So central banks are flocking to gold.