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On this episode of the show, Clay and Buck discuss the latest in the latest CNN poll numbers on the Democratic Party. They also discuss the firebombing of a Jewish restaurant in Colorado, and what that tells us about anti-Semitism in America.


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00:00:00.000 This is an iHeart Podcast.
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00:00:04.220 Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show podcast.
00:00:09.160 Welcome everybody to the Tuesday edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show.
00:00:15.480 Clay is having a great time on vacation.
00:00:18.080 He was in the Bahamas.
00:00:19.240 He's working on his tan.
00:00:20.960 He wears sandals year round, so nothing new there.
00:00:23.600 But he's having a good time.
00:00:25.160 He'll be back with us on Friday.
00:00:26.520 Just me today, tomorrow, and Thursday.
00:00:30.000 You are riding with the Buckster, and we have much to discuss here.
00:00:35.820 Our friend Ryan Gruduski will also be with us of the Clay and Buck Podcast Network,
00:00:40.060 talking to him about the latest data from CNN.
00:00:42.900 It just keeps getting worse for the Libs and the Democrats,
00:00:46.380 the numbers increasingly showing that wherever it is that you poll
00:00:51.840 on any important issue in the country right now,
00:00:54.520 Trump is much stronger, is doing much better than the Democrats anticipated, hoped for,
00:01:02.320 and have tried very hard to prevent from being the overall perception.
00:01:07.580 So we'll get into some of that.
00:01:09.360 More on the immigration and border issue.
00:01:11.580 Tom Homan, the guy's just an all-star.
00:01:16.240 You know, it's so nice to see, and this is true in a number of the senior Trump administration roles.
00:01:23.000 It's just so nice to have people who know exactly what they're doing
00:01:28.680 and are totally in line with the Trump agenda, and they're making moves every day to that end.
00:01:36.160 So I just think that is critical, and on the border, there may be nothing,
00:01:40.040 maybe no issue that is honestly more important.
00:01:43.500 I think the border and the economy are side by side.
00:01:46.520 You know, thanks to Trump, we're not getting involved in any crazy wars anytime soon.
00:01:50.120 So we shall dive into that.
00:01:52.480 But I did want to take a few moments here to update the story we talked about yesterday
00:01:58.480 about this firebombing terror attack in Colorado
00:02:05.140 and what this tells us about not only the kinds of ideological hatred
00:02:15.100 that are spreading in this country under this, I think, often this shield of,
00:02:22.040 oh, I'm not anti-Jewish or anti-Semitic.
00:02:27.440 I think, I'm just anti-Zionist.
00:02:31.160 Well, I don't know a lot of Zionists who aren't Jews.
00:02:34.240 I think the I'm just anti-Zionist or even anti-Israel is doing a lot of work in that sentence.
00:02:41.920 What is it that they really object to?
00:02:44.640 And as I have pointed out to you, and I will continue to do so,
00:02:47.740 there are many places around the world where there is extreme violence,
00:02:51.940 there is very real oppression,
00:02:54.660 and there are plenty of ways you could argue we should put more pressure on
00:03:01.000 or we should do something out, whether you believe we should or not is a separate issue,
00:03:04.200 but we could theoretically do more.
00:03:07.420 And yet, because it cannot be blamed on the Jewish people,
00:03:11.640 you know, the situation in South Sudan, because it is very tough to make that about Zionism,
00:03:18.100 these individuals who are so upset on college campuses and just on streets in cities across America,
00:03:24.980 they have nothing to say about it.
00:03:27.120 It doesn't even register with them.
00:03:29.500 The realities of Middle East totalitarianism, as it pertains to places like Iran, for example,
00:03:38.860 that is not a problem that gets protests in the streets.
00:03:42.060 People who think they care about women's rights on the left have no issue with Iran,
00:03:47.180 at least no issue they're willing to speak about publicly,
00:03:49.680 but endless issues with Israel and endless issues with Gaza.
00:03:55.120 And I think we all see what that's all about.
00:03:58.740 You'll also notice this, and as I've told you before,
00:04:02.340 this was the first issue of foreign policy that I ever spent real time on.
00:04:07.920 It was going on now over 20 years.
00:04:11.740 When I first, I worked at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
00:04:16.660 I was an intern for Clinton's ambassador, Dennis Ross,
00:04:20.520 who was, Ambassador Ross was the negotiator on the Arab-Israeli peace accords
00:04:24.580 under the Clinton administration.
00:04:25.780 Camp David didn't work, but they tried.
00:04:28.740 I also worked at the Council on Foreign Relations.
00:04:31.540 Council on Foreign Relations, you know, they got the Bilderbergs, the Illuminati.
00:04:35.000 No, Council on Foreign Relations, I did work there as an intern.
00:04:38.400 So trust me, I didn't know the secret handshakes or the secret tunnels or any of that stuff.
00:04:42.100 But I worked there on the U.S. Middle East project,
00:04:45.480 which was also an Arab-Israeli peace project initiative.
00:04:48.140 So I started, as many do, my academic background in Middle East studies on this issue of Israel-Palestine.
00:04:56.520 And so I do have some institutional memory.
00:04:58.940 I do have some recall, not just of how it is now, but how it has been the last 20 years.
00:05:04.980 And what you see is that there are a lot of people who care not a bit about foreign policy as a general matter,
00:05:13.460 but they care so much about what's going on with Israel.
00:05:18.200 And you say, well, why is that?
00:05:21.440 Why is Israel the place?
00:05:23.200 And, you know, we say these things rhetorically.
00:05:25.260 I think we know why.
00:05:27.240 And I think that in the context of America, first of all,
00:05:31.160 there's a tremendous amount of anti-Jewish feeling throughout the Muslim world.
00:05:35.140 That is just a reality.
00:05:36.100 That is a truth.
00:05:37.740 You could even think to the character Borat.
00:05:40.480 I always thought this was fascinating.
00:05:41.960 Remember Ali, number one, Ali G was another one of his characters.
00:05:44.380 Sasha Baron Cohen, who is Jewish, last name is Cohen, a common Jewish last name.
00:05:49.940 Sasha Baron Cohen playing the Ali G character, playing Borat, and Borat became this big famous movie.
00:05:56.660 Kazakhstan is a Muslim country.
00:05:59.580 And one of the bits that Sasha Baron Cohen would do was constantly kind of satirizing
00:06:08.040 the just blatant anti-Semitism of the supposed Kazakh Borat.
00:06:15.040 Now, he got away with this because he never got away with it.
00:06:17.720 You know, the left didn't get angry about it because he never mentioned this was a effectively a Muslim character that he was playing.
00:06:24.680 But there's a tremendous amount of anti-Semitism throughout the Muslim world.
00:06:27.520 And no serious person would argue otherwise or no person who knows what they're talking about.
00:06:32.240 Now, there's a lot of anti-Semitism in Europe and clearly a lot of anti-Semitism in America, too.
00:06:36.500 But it is worse in the Islamic world, by far.
00:06:39.520 And ask any Jew you know who knows anything about these regions, and they'll say, yeah, that is certainly the case.
00:06:45.540 But why is it that this goes to the front of the line?
00:06:48.220 Why is this so important to the American left?
00:06:50.640 Well, as I've discussed here, as I've laid forward, and I know Clay has adopted this to his own thinking as well,
00:06:57.400 this is a white versus brown conflict in the minds of the American left.
00:07:01.560 The Israelis are white.
00:07:02.720 The Palestinians are brown.
00:07:03.920 Therefore, the moral high ground is set and unchangeable in favor of the brown Palestinians.
00:07:12.160 Whatever they have to do is justified.
00:07:14.340 They are oppressed.
00:07:15.940 They are the ones who are suffering any action, including the most heinous and vicious actions,
00:07:21.020 humanly possible or thinkable, which Hamas and affiliated and assorted terrorist groups on behalf of the Palestinians,
00:07:29.280 comprised of Palestinians, have engaged in, is inherently justified because they're so oppressed.
00:07:35.120 And I've said this before, if October 7th wouldn't turn people against the Palestinian cause such as it is,
00:07:43.620 because the cause is not an independent state.
00:07:45.400 The cause is the eradication of the Jewish state.
00:07:47.140 That is the truth.
00:07:48.400 It is obvious to anyone paying attention and who is being honest.
00:07:51.740 But if that won't turn you against the cause, or if there won't be criticism from people after that,
00:07:58.480 there is nothing that will make them critical of this.
00:08:01.440 There is nothing that will turn them and make them think that the Palestinians perhaps should look inward and take a different approach.
00:08:08.600 And I think that couldn't be more clear than it is right now.
00:08:12.940 This is why I remind everyone the so-called glorious martyrs and the resistance of groups like Hamas stretching back into the second intifada in the early 2000s
00:08:23.400 was just a series of suicide bombings meant to bring Israeli life to a halt, to a standstill,
00:08:29.660 to destroy the daily lives of Israelis and to murder as many Israelis, women and children as possible.
00:08:35.760 A moral person, a moral person from any country, from any culture, of any religion or skin color,
00:08:43.820 a moral person does not go into a crowded restaurant with a suicide vest on, packed with ball bearings,
00:08:51.260 killing himself and everyone else there because they think that somehow this is going to achieve what exactly?
00:09:00.920 Revenge? A state?
00:09:02.900 No one's even clear what they want because what they want is the manifestation of and the right to act on deep hatred.
00:09:12.960 And that brings me to Colorado.
00:09:15.000 And this individual, Egyptian national, came to this country claiming he wants asylum.
00:09:21.100 Think about that for a moment.
00:09:22.580 You know, this reminds me of, there's something particularly heinous.
00:09:29.140 And you see this playing out in a number of different very, you know, well-known and well-made movies about World War II.
00:09:37.520 But it was well-known, and some of those of you who had, you know, veteran, particularly a Marine and Army dads fighting in World War II,
00:09:47.820 it was well-known that the Japanese, as one of their tactics, would claim that they were wounded and surrender,
00:09:55.680 and then they would actually have a grenade.
00:09:57.060 And so they would say, please, please don't kill me.
00:10:00.240 I'm wounded.
00:10:00.820 I can't fight.
00:10:01.720 And then our GIs would go over because our people were always trying to be humane in the most inhumane circumstances.
00:10:09.180 And they would go, and then they would be blown up by this person.
00:10:11.760 And this was common.
00:10:12.680 You see this in a whole, you see this in Thin Red Line.
00:10:15.460 You see this in Letters from Iwo Jima.
00:10:16.880 Somebody who claims asylum in your country is on that same moral plane.
00:10:23.780 They're saying, please, I need to skip the line.
00:10:26.900 I'm in a desperate situation.
00:10:28.960 I have to get away from my home country.
00:10:31.240 My home country is so awful that if you send me back, I could be tortured and killed.
00:10:38.340 Please, out of the kindness of your heart, take me in.
00:10:41.560 This individual, this terrorist in Colorado, said that he wanted asylum, used our process,
00:10:49.980 used the goodness of the American people, used our mercy against us
00:10:54.960 and against our Jewish brothers and sisters in Colorado who were burned severely in this attack.
00:11:04.740 And now we have more details.
00:11:06.700 We know this was absolutely not just an act of terror,
00:11:09.440 but a premeditated and particularly vicious one.
00:11:13.460 It is hard to think of something that is more awful than intentionally lighting defenseless people on fire.
00:11:20.320 But that is what Mohammed Saliman, who disguised himself as a gardener in an orange vest
00:11:26.920 so he could get as close as possible to these individuals in Boulder, Colorado,
00:11:31.820 that is what Mohammed Saliman wanted to do.
00:11:34.120 And he believed his actions just, not just then, but after the fact.
00:11:39.960 He believes, because he has said it to law enforcement,
00:11:43.340 that this was vengeance for, quote, his people.
00:11:48.580 His people.
00:11:50.820 He's Egyptian.
00:11:52.460 You might say to yourself, what is he talking about?
00:11:54.720 Oh, okay.
00:11:56.100 You mean Muslim, brown, non-Jews.
00:12:00.460 That's essentially what he means by his people.
00:12:04.200 Or rather, the people that he associates with who hate the Jewish people.
00:12:08.320 If you do not understand these hatreds and see how they are,
00:12:11.880 for one side, immovable and unfortunately central to the society,
00:12:16.640 the hatred of Jews is central to the people of Gaza.
00:12:19.980 Look at their textbooks.
00:12:21.200 There are whole initiatives that have been going on for years to show people
00:12:24.040 what is taught about Jews in the schools,
00:12:27.860 such as there are schools in places like Gaza and in the West Bank.
00:12:31.960 And it couldn't be more clear which side of this issue all of us should be on,
00:12:39.040 and yet you have not just radical fringe elements of the left,
00:12:42.460 you have the Democrat Party itself,
00:12:45.360 sympathetic to and making room for this virulent anti-Semitism.
00:12:50.540 This has now replaced the kneeling for George Floyd, you have to understand.
00:12:58.100 This is filling that hole in the soul of all of these leftists in America
00:13:03.780 who think that we must always be having some sort of racial reckoning.
00:13:08.820 I know it isn't reasonable or even logical,
00:13:14.420 but they view the Israelis fighting Hamas as a racial reckoning of white oppression
00:13:21.560 against the non-white adversary here.
00:13:25.380 And so this is why they attach themselves to this.
00:13:28.540 They feel so, people don't know,
00:13:30.560 they don't know anything about the Balfour Declaration,
00:13:33.420 about the Nakba, about 1948,
00:13:35.600 about UN Resolution 242 or UN Resolution 338
00:13:39.500 or the 1973 war or the, I mean, go down the list.
00:13:43.820 They don't know anything about the removal of Israelis,
00:13:47.500 of settlers from Gaza
00:13:48.720 and the destruction of greenhouses
00:13:50.840 and the destruction of infrastructure
00:13:52.420 and all the, they don't, no.
00:13:55.820 They don't, all they know is
00:13:58.200 they have been told
00:14:00.320 the Jews, the white people here
00:14:03.400 who are Jews, are the bad people
00:14:05.500 and they are obsessed
00:14:07.120 with the virtue signaling
00:14:08.800 of marching around campus
00:14:10.540 proclaiming to care so much
00:14:12.420 about the oppressed and the dispossessed.
00:14:15.320 And that ideology, unfortunately,
00:14:18.680 also inspires and creates
00:14:21.260 far too much room for maniacs
00:14:23.680 like this Molotov cocktail throwing
00:14:26.220 murderer or attempted murderer
00:14:29.280 who thought that lighting defenseless people
00:14:33.080 on fire was people
00:14:35.300 he had never met before
00:14:36.520 who had never done anything to him.
00:14:39.360 And here we are now
00:14:41.520 seeing once again,
00:14:42.640 just like we saw on October 7th,
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00:14:46.120 and a side of decency here.
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00:16:35.880 We've been talking about
00:16:36.900 this terrorist attack
00:16:38.740 in Colorado and Boulder.
00:16:40.620 The guy was an illegal,
00:16:43.660 a visa overstay illegal.
00:16:45.860 And I can tell you
00:16:46.700 that in the pre-Trump era,
00:16:49.140 I'm pretty familiar
00:16:50.360 with these stats.
00:16:51.400 They would estimate
00:16:52.100 something like
00:16:52.640 a half a million visa
00:16:53.880 overstays a year.
00:16:55.960 That's not even a number
00:16:57.060 that you think of
00:16:58.020 when you're generally
00:16:59.860 considering illegals
00:17:01.060 in the country, right?
00:17:01.780 You think of the people
00:17:02.520 that come across the border,
00:17:03.920 which was about
00:17:05.680 10 million under Biden.
00:17:07.460 We'll call it 10 million.
00:17:08.660 I think that's right.
00:17:09.820 8 million officially,
00:17:11.040 plus you add up
00:17:11.600 all the gotaways.
00:17:12.720 9 or 10 million
00:17:13.480 is where it is.
00:17:15.380 And we have
00:17:17.000 more people
00:17:19.420 and more ways
00:17:20.380 that they are
00:17:22.160 gaming our immigration system
00:17:23.760 and staying in this country
00:17:24.780 illegally.
00:17:26.380 This is a massive problem.
00:17:28.160 Last time,
00:17:28.560 we were talking about
00:17:29.140 the anti-Semitism
00:17:29.840 and the components
00:17:31.480 of the ideology
00:17:35.360 of anti-Semitism
00:17:36.900 against, well,
00:17:38.560 against the Jewish people
00:17:40.040 and why so many Americans.
00:17:42.800 I mean, think about this
00:17:43.540 for a second.
00:17:44.180 A lot of these college kids
00:17:45.620 who take this
00:17:47.060 very anti-Israel
00:17:48.540 and very pro-Palestine
00:17:51.480 or pro-Palestinian
00:17:52.380 point of view.
00:17:53.140 And I know there's
00:17:54.780 something deeply unfair
00:17:55.980 about the same way
00:17:57.420 I said this with Iran.
00:17:58.660 I extend the same thing
00:17:59.720 to there are people
00:18:01.540 in Gaza who,
00:18:03.160 you know,
00:18:03.400 there are children there.
00:18:04.180 There are people
00:18:04.520 who have no choice.
00:18:05.400 There are people
00:18:05.700 who have no political agency
00:18:07.520 and they're stuck there
00:18:09.240 and it's unfair.
00:18:11.740 But there are also
00:18:12.540 a lot of adults
00:18:13.240 who are there
00:18:14.100 and aren't doing anything.
00:18:15.600 And then there are
00:18:16.200 a lot of adults
00:18:16.860 who are doing terrible things,
00:18:17.960 right?
00:18:18.460 Or rather,
00:18:19.500 there are adults
00:18:20.000 who could do more
00:18:21.200 to try to bring about
00:18:23.120 something else.
00:18:23.660 Somehow there's always
00:18:24.500 there's always somebody
00:18:25.480 who will fire a rocket
00:18:27.720 at the Israelis in Gaza.
00:18:29.300 There's not somebody
00:18:30.060 who will,
00:18:31.440 let's just say,
00:18:32.420 try to change up
00:18:33.760 the Hamas leadership situation.
00:18:36.040 You know what I mean?
00:18:37.460 Somehow there are
00:18:38.780 plenty of people
00:18:39.460 willing to be,
00:18:40.140 you know,
00:18:40.260 brave martyrs,
00:18:41.000 so to speak,
00:18:41.440 against the Israelis,
00:18:42.500 but they won't do anything
00:18:44.240 to stop the madmen
00:18:45.900 in their midst
00:18:46.740 who are running the country.
00:18:47.700 But the same thing
00:18:49.580 is true in Iran, right?
00:18:50.460 If we had to do strikes
00:18:51.420 in Iran for some reason,
00:18:53.260 it wouldn't be the fault
00:18:54.700 of every Iranian,
00:18:56.000 but this war is hell
00:18:57.520 and war is unfair
00:18:58.460 and this is reality.
00:19:00.120 And we have to operate
00:19:01.260 within that reality.
00:19:03.580 And, you know,
00:19:04.440 you do the best
00:19:05.100 that you can.
00:19:05.860 We didn't want to be
00:19:06.560 bombing villages
00:19:07.360 in Afghanistan
00:19:08.120 until 9-11,
00:19:09.440 quite honestly.
00:19:10.160 We didn't really care
00:19:11.100 very much about Afghanistan.
00:19:13.060 But then they made us care.
00:19:15.020 Well,
00:19:15.920 the Israelis have been
00:19:17.160 made to care more than ever
00:19:18.380 about their own safety
00:19:19.540 and security
00:19:20.100 after October 7th.
00:19:22.320 So,
00:19:22.840 there's the immigration
00:19:24.160 part of this.
00:19:24.740 So,
00:19:24.820 that's the ideological
00:19:25.900 Mideast foreign policy
00:19:27.260 part of it.
00:19:27.760 Now,
00:19:27.940 let's look at the
00:19:28.820 truth of what's going on
00:19:32.340 here with our border.
00:19:33.100 It's wide open.
00:19:34.660 And,
00:19:34.900 I'm sorry,
00:19:35.300 has been wide open.
00:19:36.220 Of course,
00:19:36.580 it's not wide open anymore.
00:19:37.540 Trump has brought
00:19:38.040 the numbers down
00:19:38.760 99%,
00:19:40.900 something unfathomable.
00:19:42.620 I thought Trump
00:19:43.480 would do a good job.
00:19:44.840 And if I'm just being
00:19:45.780 honest with you,
00:19:46.280 I thought we would see
00:19:47.080 a 90%,
00:19:48.020 something like that,
00:19:49.340 a 90%.
00:19:49.880 I didn't think it would
00:19:50.640 be almost zero.
00:19:52.640 And the numbers now,
00:19:53.780 I think they can count
00:19:54.480 in the hundreds
00:19:55.000 on a monthly basis
00:19:55.940 how many are entering
00:19:56.740 the country illegally.
00:19:57.500 I mean,
00:19:57.660 it is.
00:19:58.640 And this frees up.
00:20:00.340 This is what I have said
00:20:01.300 all along.
00:20:02.020 This is so important.
00:20:03.840 This frees up
00:20:05.520 the resources
00:20:06.940 at Border Patrol.
00:20:08.000 And I've spent time
00:20:10.020 with our Border Patrol guys.
00:20:11.560 You got,
00:20:11.880 it's,
00:20:12.220 you know,
00:20:12.800 the more people know
00:20:13.440 about Border Patrol,
00:20:14.100 I think the more respect
00:20:14.960 for those men and women
00:20:15.880 they have.
00:20:16.600 They do a tough job.
00:20:18.520 Something like a third
00:20:19.680 of Border Patrol
00:20:20.460 are United States
00:20:21.780 military veterans.
00:20:23.480 Maybe 25%
00:20:24.780 are Latino
00:20:26.280 as well,
00:20:27.300 are Latino Americans.
00:20:28.820 So,
00:20:29.340 this notion
00:20:30.300 that,
00:20:30.980 you know,
00:20:32.200 that Border Patrol
00:20:33.020 is in some way
00:20:33.780 a racist enterprise
00:20:35.800 or that these aren't
00:20:36.700 people that are,
00:20:37.560 you know,
00:20:37.720 they're demonized
00:20:38.660 by the left
00:20:39.380 as though they're
00:20:40.000 doing something terrible.
00:20:41.560 You know,
00:20:41.780 they're rounding people up
00:20:42.800 and putting them
00:20:43.220 into these camps.
00:20:44.600 They're protecting us.
00:20:46.440 And as we see
00:20:47.400 with this terrorist,
00:20:49.720 I know that he's
00:20:50.260 a visa overstay,
00:20:51.320 but okay,
00:20:52.300 Immigrations and Customs
00:20:53.320 Enforcement
00:20:53.680 is supposed to
00:20:54.560 and should have
00:20:55.420 gotten this guy
00:20:56.660 out of the country.
00:20:57.460 Now,
00:20:57.620 I know he's,
00:20:58.660 he has claimed asylum.
00:20:59.980 I think that we just need
00:21:01.080 to have a shutdown
00:21:01.640 of the asylum process
00:21:02.680 in this country
00:21:03.380 for a while
00:21:04.020 until we figure things out.
00:21:05.600 That's really where we are.
00:21:06.760 And all pending
00:21:07.920 asylum claims
00:21:08.660 just need to be,
00:21:09.540 you know,
00:21:10.420 maybe they come up
00:21:11.780 with some very high
00:21:12.820 threshold for it,
00:21:13.820 but there are.
00:21:15.360 And I know
00:21:16.200 that's unfair too,
00:21:17.220 right?
00:21:17.420 Because there are people
00:21:18.600 who need a place
00:21:20.920 to go,
00:21:21.340 but we're not
00:21:21.720 the only place
00:21:22.580 they can go.
00:21:24.280 The more you
00:21:25.260 dig into this,
00:21:27.000 almost all
00:21:28.020 of the asylum claims
00:21:29.200 that are making
00:21:29.780 their way
00:21:30.180 through our courts
00:21:30.960 are invalidated
00:21:32.740 by one thing
00:21:33.740 alone.
00:21:34.900 And that is
00:21:35.860 that these people
00:21:36.500 came via Mexico.
00:21:39.220 They are not
00:21:40.280 supposed to pick
00:21:41.360 which country
00:21:42.160 they want to get
00:21:43.840 to for asylum.
00:21:45.460 It's which country
00:21:46.540 they get to first
00:21:47.760 where they can be
00:21:48.620 considered safe.
00:21:51.020 So,
00:21:51.740 if we were serious,
00:21:53.880 and I think the Trump
00:21:54.340 administration will be,
00:21:55.240 but if the Biden
00:21:55.760 administration
00:21:56.320 had any intention
00:21:57.320 of enforcing
00:21:58.020 actual asylum law,
00:21:59.280 right,
00:21:59.480 think about it.
00:22:00.060 If you're fleeing,
00:22:01.720 you know,
00:22:03.140 I don't know,
00:22:03.440 you're fleeing
00:22:03.880 oppression in Indonesia
00:22:05.220 as an ethnic minority,
00:22:07.980 and you make
00:22:09.040 your way to Mexico,
00:22:10.340 you're supposed
00:22:11.340 to say,
00:22:12.260 hey, Mexico,
00:22:12.880 I need asylum.
00:22:14.340 You're not supposed
00:22:15.400 to go,
00:22:16.400 hey,
00:22:16.860 you know what would
00:22:17.340 be really cool?
00:22:17.980 If I can make it
00:22:18.600 to America
00:22:19.180 because they're rich
00:22:20.640 and they have
00:22:21.080 a big fat welfare state.
00:22:23.400 That's not how
00:22:24.400 it is supposed to go.
00:22:26.180 And so,
00:22:26.960 all of these people
00:22:28.520 that are saying
00:22:29.000 they claim asylum,
00:22:30.060 they write on its face.
00:22:32.820 We should be able
00:22:33.380 to just say to them,
00:22:33.980 okay,
00:22:34.140 well,
00:22:34.260 did you,
00:22:34.660 show me your
00:22:35.260 asylum paperwork
00:22:35.940 from Mexico?
00:22:36.820 Wait,
00:22:37.060 you didn't,
00:22:37.680 you didn't try
00:22:38.180 to get asylum in Mexico?
00:22:39.080 Why?
00:22:40.200 Oh,
00:22:40.440 because you want
00:22:41.180 to just jump the line
00:22:42.400 and go to America
00:22:43.120 and you're,
00:22:43.660 and then that's not
00:22:44.320 even looking at
00:22:44.900 whether they have
00:22:45.440 a legitimate claim
00:22:46.400 of asylum,
00:22:46.900 which they don't.
00:22:48.240 Because there's not
00:22:49.000 a hundred and,
00:22:49.660 if a hundred and eighty
00:22:50.440 countries around the world
00:22:51.580 all have asylum seekers
00:22:52.740 all coming to America,
00:22:53.940 it just means that
00:22:54.400 every country,
00:22:55.180 you know,
00:22:55.420 pretty much,
00:22:56.380 you know,
00:22:56.600 we don't have a lot
00:22:57.040 of asylum seekers
00:22:57.760 from Liechtenstein
00:23:00.060 Denmark,
00:23:00.540 but we've got
00:23:01.700 a lot of asylum seekers
00:23:02.800 from everywhere else.
00:23:04.320 Tom Homan
00:23:05.040 is pointing out
00:23:07.420 that this has created
00:23:09.620 the Biden administration
00:23:10.640 problem
00:23:12.060 is something
00:23:13.060 that is going
00:23:13.680 to plague this country
00:23:14.960 for years to come.
00:23:15.880 No matter how fast,
00:23:17.360 no matter how efficient
00:23:18.640 the Trump administration
00:23:20.200 border policies are
00:23:21.920 and the enforcement
00:23:23.140 mechanisms are,
00:23:24.700 it is just
00:23:25.980 mathematically impossible
00:23:27.940 to fully handle
00:23:30.000 and turn around
00:23:31.020 just what Biden did.
00:23:33.280 Think about that.
00:23:34.220 If I said to you
00:23:35.180 the Trump administration's
00:23:36.640 mandate is to return
00:23:37.740 everybody who came
00:23:38.740 under Biden
00:23:39.520 in those four years
00:23:41.340 illegally,
00:23:42.880 never mind everyone
00:23:43.760 who came before
00:23:44.400 Biden illegally,
00:23:45.180 we'll put that
00:23:46.320 to the side
00:23:46.780 for a second.
00:23:48.080 That number
00:23:48.880 is probably too much.
00:23:50.820 Just logistically
00:23:51.980 too much.
00:23:53.800 I'd like to think
00:23:54.720 that I'm wrong,
00:23:55.260 but I don't think
00:23:55.760 I'm wrong.
00:23:57.000 Because if we ramped
00:23:57.980 it up and you got
00:23:58.600 to a million deportations
00:23:59.840 a year under Trump,
00:24:00.700 which would be a lot,
00:24:02.260 let's say you get
00:24:02.620 to a million,
00:24:03.380 and these are real
00:24:04.140 deportations,
00:24:04.820 people are going
00:24:05.200 to say,
00:24:05.520 but Buck,
00:24:06.260 what about in the 2000s
00:24:08.800 or what about in the 90s
00:24:09.840 when we were deporting?
00:24:10.760 No, a lot of that
00:24:11.900 was people who were
00:24:12.760 turned away.
00:24:14.940 The immigration,
00:24:16.100 illegal immigration,
00:24:17.000 particularly into California
00:24:18.040 in the 90s,
00:24:19.960 was single adult males
00:24:21.140 crossing the border,
00:24:22.900 working,
00:24:23.460 and then going off
00:24:24.320 and going back,
00:24:25.060 and then coming back
00:24:25.920 again seasonally.
00:24:27.320 So yeah,
00:24:27.900 they were breaking
00:24:28.440 our laws,
00:24:29.220 but there were
00:24:29.920 multiple crossings
00:24:31.120 and they were
00:24:33.100 single adult males.
00:24:33.820 Now it's turned
00:24:34.340 into a lot of family units,
00:24:35.640 women,
00:24:36.220 women showing up
00:24:36.840 with children,
00:24:37.360 and they plan
00:24:38.860 to stay forever
00:24:39.440 and they're from
00:24:39.800 all over the world.
00:24:41.000 What the Obama
00:24:42.500 administration did
00:24:43.540 to make the numbers
00:24:44.680 seem much more robust
00:24:46.800 than they were
00:24:47.360 was,
00:24:47.900 oh,
00:24:48.420 Border Patrol
00:24:48.980 stopped you
00:24:49.820 and just sent you
00:24:51.260 back to Mexico?
00:24:52.660 That's a deportation.
00:24:54.760 That was how we got
00:24:55.660 to the deporter-in-chief.
00:24:56.600 They changed the way
00:24:57.300 that they,
00:24:57.900 so if we got to a million
00:24:58.860 real deportations a year,
00:25:01.260 meaning people picked up
00:25:03.380 from the interior,
00:25:04.700 put on a plane,
00:25:05.680 and sent to their
00:25:06.280 country of origin,
00:25:07.060 that would be pretty impressive.
00:25:08.000 Okay, well that's four million.
00:25:09.640 He had six million to go.
00:25:11.820 Here's Tom Homan,
00:25:12.880 this is cut ten,
00:25:14.140 just laying this out
00:25:15.080 so everybody understands
00:25:15.900 the scale of this problem.
00:25:17.420 Play it.
00:25:17.680 We are going to be dealing
00:25:19.040 with this for the next ten years
00:25:20.640 because of the chaos
00:25:22.400 they created in four years.
00:25:23.880 We're out there kicking butt.
00:25:24.900 We're arresting a lot
00:25:25.620 of criminal aliens.
00:25:26.800 We're out there looking
00:25:27.340 for the bad guy,
00:25:28.620 and when we're out there
00:25:29.280 doing that,
00:25:29.960 we've got protesters
00:25:31.000 assaulting ICE officers.
00:25:32.920 We've got members of Congress
00:25:34.020 all over the country
00:25:35.320 going to ICE facilities,
00:25:36.640 raising hell,
00:25:37.460 saying this is
00:25:37.960 their oversight responsibility.
00:25:39.680 Where was their
00:25:40.260 oversight responsibility
00:25:41.560 when 10.5 million
00:25:43.320 illegal aliens
00:25:43.840 came across the border?
00:25:45.080 Where is their
00:25:45.560 oversight responsibility?
00:25:46.660 I'm releasing
00:25:47.740 over 8 million
00:25:48.500 illegal aliens
00:25:49.080 in this country.
00:25:50.080 Where is their
00:25:50.440 oversight responsibility then?
00:25:51.700 This is an attack
00:25:52.360 on ICE.
00:25:53.080 This is an attack
00:25:53.700 on the Trump administration.
00:25:54.940 We're trying to fix
00:25:56.020 the damage done
00:25:56.760 by Biden.
00:25:58.820 An attack
00:25:59.720 on the Trump administration
00:26:01.880 and fixing the damage
00:26:03.440 done by Biden.
00:26:04.220 So true.
00:26:05.600 And I just think
00:26:06.700 that we all need
00:26:08.380 to understand
00:26:09.640 it was a choice
00:26:11.340 made by Biden
00:26:12.260 and his team.
00:26:13.180 It was not
00:26:13.800 a failure
00:26:15.120 of policy.
00:26:16.380 It was the
00:26:17.080 enacting
00:26:17.840 of policy.
00:26:19.260 They wanted
00:26:20.200 the illegals
00:26:20.880 in this country.
00:26:21.580 They wanted
00:26:21.980 millions and millions
00:26:23.440 of illegals
00:26:24.180 to pile into the country
00:26:25.080 to overwhelm
00:26:26.200 the system.
00:26:27.340 Rules for radicals.
00:26:28.540 Saul Alinsky
00:26:29.160 overwhelmed
00:26:30.340 the system.
00:26:31.940 And then once
00:26:32.760 you break it
00:26:33.500 through overwhelming
00:26:34.280 it,
00:26:34.580 you can remake it.
00:26:36.580 That's what they
00:26:37.400 were trying to do
00:26:38.280 here.
00:26:38.960 And they got
00:26:39.720 very far
00:26:40.340 in that process.
00:26:41.160 And we are
00:26:42.600 playing catch-up
00:26:44.020 and then some.
00:26:44.940 Even this administration
00:26:45.920 has dialed in
00:26:46.960 as they are.
00:26:48.320 But now we look
00:26:49.020 at the,
00:26:49.780 what about the fact
00:26:50.980 that we were wide
00:26:51.720 open for terrorist
00:26:52.460 infiltration?
00:26:53.660 We just had
00:26:55.020 an illegal alien
00:26:56.000 terror attack
00:26:56.780 lighting Jewish
00:26:58.160 people on fire
00:26:58.960 in Colorado.
00:26:59.440 We just had one.
00:27:01.360 We're going
00:27:02.100 to have more.
00:27:03.440 There will be
00:27:04.340 more.
00:27:05.160 If you were
00:27:05.940 a foreign terrorist
00:27:06.820 organization
00:27:07.540 and you just
00:27:08.700 had access
00:27:09.380 to the internet,
00:27:10.320 you would have
00:27:10.820 seen what was
00:27:11.400 going on under
00:27:12.020 Biden and known
00:27:12.820 it is open
00:27:13.480 season for
00:27:14.500 infiltration
00:27:15.360 of the United
00:27:16.760 States.
00:27:17.860 And this is
00:27:18.580 why the
00:27:18.940 gotaway issue
00:27:19.860 is so problematic
00:27:21.880 or so concerning
00:27:22.880 for us.
00:27:23.880 Because remember,
00:27:25.440 under Biden,
00:27:26.680 and I saw this
00:27:27.520 with my own eyes
00:27:28.240 at the border
00:27:28.800 many times,
00:27:30.020 they were
00:27:30.920 surrendering
00:27:32.140 at the border.
00:27:33.960 It's not,
00:27:35.120 oh, I think
00:27:35.680 the coast is clear.
00:27:36.560 I'm going to
00:27:36.780 make a run for
00:27:37.480 it and border
00:27:37.960 patrol is
00:27:38.560 coming after
00:27:39.640 you in the
00:27:40.060 pickup truck
00:27:40.660 and they're
00:27:40.960 running after
00:27:41.400 you on foot.
00:27:42.140 No, no, no.
00:27:43.180 That's only
00:27:43.740 for the
00:27:44.060 gotaways,
00:27:44.860 which were a
00:27:45.580 small percentage
00:27:46.440 overall of those
00:27:47.440 who crossed.
00:27:47.920 Most people,
00:27:48.460 they would show
00:27:49.040 up, they would
00:27:50.000 find a hole
00:27:50.600 in the fence
00:27:51.200 or a gap
00:27:51.780 in the fence
00:27:52.320 or they'd
00:27:52.640 show up at
00:27:53.020 a port of
00:27:53.380 entry or
00:27:53.780 whatever.
00:27:54.620 They'd say,
00:27:55.180 here I am.
00:27:56.440 I'm claiming
00:27:57.040 asylum.
00:27:58.360 Oh, okay,
00:27:59.060 now we have to
00:27:59.640 put you through
00:28:00.000 the whole process.
00:28:00.880 Now you get to
00:28:01.280 get released
00:28:01.880 into America,
00:28:02.820 we'll give you
00:28:03.080 a bus ticket,
00:28:03.740 we'll give you
00:28:04.060 food, that
00:28:05.620 whole thing.
00:28:06.540 So if you
00:28:07.080 know that's
00:28:07.520 the process,
00:28:08.080 why would
00:28:08.420 you make a
00:28:08.760 run for it?
00:28:10.420 You make a
00:28:10.840 run for it if
00:28:11.520 you happen to
00:28:12.700 be in that
00:28:13.080 category of
00:28:13.900 you can't
00:28:15.160 claim asylum
00:28:15.760 because you're
00:28:16.160 going to come
00:28:16.460 up on that
00:28:16.920 database and
00:28:18.220 they know
00:28:18.440 you're a
00:28:18.740 risk, you're
00:28:19.100 a problem.
00:28:20.020 You're either
00:28:20.300 a convicted
00:28:20.680 murderer, and
00:28:21.460 by the way,
00:28:21.820 there were
00:28:22.000 convicted
00:28:22.300 murderers who
00:28:22.740 got in the
00:28:23.060 country anyway,
00:28:23.580 but you're
00:28:24.200 somebody that
00:28:24.820 could get
00:28:25.100 flagged or
00:28:25.560 somebody that
00:28:25.980 didn't want
00:28:26.300 to have any
00:28:26.760 scrutiny on
00:28:27.280 him whatsoever.
00:28:28.640 This is
00:28:29.000 cut 11.
00:28:30.120 Tom Homan,
00:28:30.740 the guy who I
00:28:31.260 think knows
00:28:31.660 the border better
00:28:32.340 than anybody
00:28:32.860 else on the
00:28:33.920 scene right
00:28:34.520 now, here's
00:28:35.560 what he says,
00:28:36.120 play it.
00:28:36.620 Why did 2
00:28:37.360 million illegal
00:28:38.120 aliens pay
00:28:39.400 more to get
00:28:39.940 away?
00:28:40.740 They could
00:28:41.180 have paid
00:28:41.560 half of what
00:28:42.480 they paid,
00:28:43.620 cross the
00:28:44.120 border, turn
00:28:44.520 themselves into
00:28:45.100 a border
00:28:45.380 agent, get
00:28:46.040 released that
00:28:46.580 same day, get
00:28:47.320 a free airline
00:28:47.980 ticket to the
00:28:48.720 city of their
00:28:49.200 choice, get a
00:28:50.100 free hotel room,
00:28:50.940 get three meals
00:28:51.640 a day, plus
00:28:52.440 free medical
00:28:52.940 care and work
00:28:53.920 authorization.
00:28:54.980 2 million people
00:28:55.780 paid more to
00:28:56.780 get away.
00:28:57.460 They didn't
00:28:57.760 want to be
00:28:58.080 vetted, they
00:28:58.760 didn't want to
00:28:59.060 be fingerprinted.
00:29:00.280 Why?
00:29:01.100 This scares the
00:29:01.720 hell out of me.
00:29:02.220 I've been
00:29:02.460 doing this
00:29:02.720 for 40
00:29:03.260 years.
00:29:04.020 It should
00:29:04.380 have scared
00:29:04.760 the hell
00:29:05.100 out of every
00:29:05.500 American, what
00:29:06.320 the Biden
00:29:06.660 administration
00:29:07.040 did.
00:29:07.680 This 2
00:29:08.200 million known
00:29:08.760 gotaways scares
00:29:09.880 the hell out
00:29:10.540 of me, so I'm
00:29:11.360 convinced something's
00:29:12.760 coming unless we
00:29:13.460 can find them.
00:29:15.400 He's right, and
00:29:17.240 they're tracking
00:29:17.700 them down as fast
00:29:18.420 as they can, but
00:29:19.900 we had, it was
00:29:20.960 open season on
00:29:22.280 America for four
00:29:23.500 years of Biden, and
00:29:25.240 now we're trying
00:29:26.360 to play catch-up,
00:29:27.900 and the Trump
00:29:28.980 team is doing
00:29:29.520 everything they
00:29:30.100 can, but it
00:29:31.600 you could have
00:29:33.180 never imagined
00:29:34.060 that the
00:29:35.160 Democrats would
00:29:35.880 so grotesquely
00:29:38.240 sell out their
00:29:39.020 country, and
00:29:40.360 sell out our
00:29:40.940 sovereignty the
00:29:41.500 way they did
00:29:42.200 for all of
00:29:43.720 Biden's time
00:29:45.000 in office.
00:29:46.320 It's intentional.
00:29:48.340 They did this
00:29:49.320 on purpose.
00:29:50.340 you know, it's
00:29:53.440 just sabotage.
00:29:55.200 It's sabotage, and
00:29:56.720 that's one of the
00:29:57.380 reasons I think so
00:29:58.260 many people have
00:29:59.000 seen that the
00:29:59.480 Democrats are a
00:30:00.480 malignant force.
00:30:01.480 They sabotage this
00:30:02.920 country's border and
00:30:04.760 our security, and we
00:30:06.100 do not know the full
00:30:07.140 consequences yet, and
00:30:08.600 I pray that we never
00:30:10.100 find out, but we
00:30:12.320 have a big problem on
00:30:13.360 our hands.
00:30:14.480 This terrorist, this
00:30:15.420 guy lighting people on
00:30:16.400 fire, he's just, that's
00:30:17.800 just the beginning.
00:30:18.420 We're going to get
00:30:19.740 hit again, unless the
00:30:22.700 people in charge now
00:30:23.540 are able to figure
00:30:24.300 out who's where and
00:30:25.460 stop them, and
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00:33:03.500 YouTube channel.
00:33:04.760 Ryan Gurdusky joins us
00:33:06.000 now.
00:33:06.460 He is of the Clay and
00:33:07.840 Buck podcast network.
00:33:09.820 It's a numbers game, a
00:33:11.500 great podcast.
00:33:12.120 Some people are
00:33:12.940 saying it's a big,
00:33:14.000 beautiful podcast,
00:33:15.500 certainly worth all of
00:33:16.380 you checking out.
00:33:17.160 Breaks down a lot of
00:33:17.780 the data, the numbers.
00:33:19.080 Mr. Gurdusky, great to
00:33:20.400 have you with me, sir.
00:33:21.500 Thanks for having me
00:33:22.620 on.
00:33:22.920 I'm so excited.
00:33:24.120 I wanted to, look,
00:33:25.940 there's, I like to just
00:33:28.080 get this out of the way
00:33:28.780 first and foremost.
00:33:30.100 You know, there are
00:33:30.780 some bootleg Gurduskys
00:33:33.500 out there, including
00:33:35.240 CNN's Harry Anton,
00:33:37.080 right?
00:33:37.260 I mean, it's like, he's
00:33:38.080 a, he's a fine guy.
00:33:39.460 I think he does okay data
00:33:40.400 analysis, but he's a poor
00:33:41.500 man's Gurdusky, but he did
00:33:43.420 say some, yes, sir.
00:33:45.720 Yeah, no, yeah.
00:33:46.160 Yes.
00:33:46.420 That's a hundred percent
00:33:47.060 true.
00:33:47.380 Yes.
00:33:47.900 Yes.
00:33:48.160 He's a poor man's Gurdusky.
00:33:49.420 We have, we have the, uh,
00:33:50.440 we have the original deal,
00:33:51.560 right?
00:33:51.720 We've got the, the real deal
00:33:53.160 here with Ryan Gurdusky, but
00:33:54.700 he, he's been saying some
00:33:55.860 stuff about the numbers as
00:33:57.500 it pertains to Trump.
00:33:58.660 Let's start this one with,
00:33:59.980 with, uh, with cut 21.
00:34:02.520 Here's CNN's data guy.
00:34:03.960 And then Ryan, I want you to
00:34:04.720 explain what's going on
00:34:05.660 here and what you see play
00:34:06.620 in the party that is closest
00:34:07.640 to your economic views in
00:34:09.060 November of 2023, it was
00:34:10.360 the Republicans by 11
00:34:11.360 points.
00:34:11.860 Now it's still within that
00:34:13.220 range, still within that
00:34:14.240 margin of error, plus eight
00:34:15.720 point advantage for the
00:34:17.040 Republican party.
00:34:17.960 How is that possible?
00:34:19.220 Democrats, how is that
00:34:20.240 possible after all the
00:34:21.420 recession, because after the
00:34:22.660 stock market's been doing
00:34:23.660 all of this, after all the
00:34:25.220 terrorists that our
00:34:25.840 Americans are against and
00:34:26.820 Republicans still hold an
00:34:27.940 eight point lead on the
00:34:28.920 economy.
00:34:29.440 Are you kidding me?
00:34:31.340 I don't think it's that
00:34:32.380 surprising.
00:34:33.200 I just think it's interesting
00:34:34.200 that Democrats have to
00:34:35.400 reckon with this.
00:34:36.180 What do you make of the
00:34:36.840 numbers on Trump support
00:34:38.840 with the economy right now
00:34:39.880 being just as strong as
00:34:41.020 when he got elected?
00:34:42.560 Well, I mean, Harry lets it
00:34:44.480 out.
00:34:44.860 The recession fears, the
00:34:47.000 fear.
00:34:50.960 Did we just lose Ryan?
00:34:54.160 He just dropped.
00:34:55.280 He was about to get to all
00:34:56.400 the nuggets of wisdom.
00:34:58.220 I don't know where he was
00:35:00.160 going with that.
00:35:00.760 We'll take him back here in
00:35:01.860 a second.
00:35:02.840 I don't know.
00:35:03.200 Maybe my comments about
00:35:04.440 Harry Enten somehow have
00:35:06.500 backfired and we are now
00:35:09.320 dealing with the ghost in
00:35:10.980 the machine here that has
00:35:11.880 kicked Ryan off the air.
00:35:12.760 Let me know when we get him
00:35:13.380 back, guys.
00:35:13.980 Got teed him up so well for
00:35:15.080 this.
00:35:15.300 He's about to tell us all
00:35:15.940 about the data.
00:35:16.720 I'm not surprised that Trump
00:35:19.260 is in a better spot or in as
00:35:21.200 strong a spot because he was
00:35:22.200 in a great spot at the time.
00:35:23.720 What is the Democrat message
00:35:25.520 on the economy other than
00:35:27.800 professing or prophesying that
00:35:32.260 there will be, is it
00:35:33.540 prophesying or prophesying?
00:35:35.620 Help me out with that one,
00:35:36.700 team.
00:35:37.220 You know, if I get this wrong,
00:35:39.040 pronunciation police or maybe
00:35:41.520 they're the lexicon, the, you
00:35:43.680 know, the word usage police on
00:35:46.280 this show, man, pronunciation
00:35:47.380 police is rough.
00:35:48.640 They're waiting for you
00:35:49.220 everywhere.
00:35:49.520 They got pronunciation police on
00:35:51.000 the Klan Buck show have speed
00:35:52.220 traps like every two miles.
00:35:54.000 You guys got those mirrored
00:35:55.500 aviators on.
00:35:56.460 I know I know your type.
00:35:57.860 I know what's going on.
00:35:58.480 You pull us over the second
00:36:00.400 you can.
00:36:01.460 But I think that the Democrats
00:36:03.860 claims for how things are
00:36:06.100 going to go poorly and then
00:36:09.500 not go and then they don't go
00:36:11.060 poorly are the primary reason
00:36:13.120 that the numbers are where they
00:36:14.320 are, because they don't even
00:36:15.920 really have a counter message
00:36:18.100 here.
00:36:18.600 They don't even have something
00:36:19.740 to say to point out.
00:36:22.060 OK, Ryan, you are about to
00:36:23.620 share your brilliance with us.
00:36:25.000 Hopefully you have a cell phone
00:36:26.040 that works now.
00:36:27.160 Let's hear what you've got.
00:36:29.920 So, yes, there is.
00:36:31.140 What is the what is the
00:36:32.620 Democrats economic message?
00:36:34.200 I know hating Trump has been
00:36:35.620 their political message, but
00:36:36.660 what is their economic message?
00:36:38.480 What are they focused on?
00:36:39.580 Aside from keeping Medicare
00:36:41.160 spending and Social Security,
00:36:42.380 I don't ever hear of it.
00:36:44.440 And also the voters are
00:36:46.820 against the against the
00:36:48.680 retaliatory efforts of tariffs.
00:36:50.700 They don't want to pay higher
00:36:51.400 prices.
00:36:51.820 That's understandable.
00:36:53.000 But they are for the message of
00:36:54.360 reshoring manufacturing.
00:36:56.400 They were for the efforts of
00:36:57.660 trying to bring back economic
00:36:59.280 patriotism.
00:37:00.060 So they're not against the
00:37:01.740 overall idea of it.
00:37:03.040 They just don't want to pay
00:37:03.660 higher prices.
00:37:04.200 But higher prices didn't come.
00:37:06.280 So, of course, Trump's numbers
00:37:07.440 are not that bad.
00:37:08.780 And also, and I think this is a
00:37:10.140 very big point of why Trump's
00:37:11.540 poll numbers are so high right
00:37:13.100 now.
00:37:13.780 No one is talking about Trump in
00:37:15.340 the media.
00:37:15.820 What are they talking about?
00:37:17.020 They're talking about Biden
00:37:17.900 still.
00:37:18.520 They're talking about his mental
00:37:19.480 health.
00:37:19.800 They're talking about what
00:37:20.240 Democrats lied about.
00:37:21.440 So the Republicans are still
00:37:23.640 getting dividends from the bad
00:37:26.180 governance and the lies of the
00:37:28.140 Democratic Party over Biden's
00:37:29.720 administration.
00:37:30.480 That does matter.
00:37:31.720 And they don't have an
00:37:32.620 alternative.
00:37:32.920 They don't they don't have a
00:37:33.760 leader.
00:37:34.160 They have nothing.
00:37:35.000 I mean, it's AOC running
00:37:36.160 around with our and Gavin
00:37:38.260 Newsom with his podcast.
00:37:39.280 And, you know, what else is
00:37:41.080 there?
00:37:41.840 So I think that they have a lot
00:37:43.020 of problems as far as just
00:37:44.260 what is their message.
00:37:45.260 I don't know what the
00:37:45.880 alternative is.
00:37:47.060 Now, we'll get into because you
00:37:48.920 you sat down with or did an
00:37:51.580 interview, right, with Alex
00:37:53.080 Thompson and Tapper or just
00:37:54.960 Alex Thompson.
00:37:55.820 Just Alex Thompson.
00:37:57.640 Yeah.
00:37:58.040 Oh, OK.
00:37:58.900 I actually that actually I would
00:38:00.020 have been more amenable to
00:38:00.860 myself than having to, you
00:38:02.300 know, listen to Tapper's
00:38:03.200 nonsense.
00:38:03.660 But we'll get to that in a
00:38:05.460 second.
00:38:06.240 First, that is more of of
00:38:08.680 poor man's Gerdusky, Harry
00:38:09.980 Enten talking about who looks
00:38:12.560 out.
00:38:12.880 I mean, because this is if
00:38:13.860 you're a Democrat and you've
00:38:15.100 bought into the Democrat
00:38:15.940 messaging for a long time or
00:38:18.100 maybe you've been a purveyor of
00:38:19.220 the Democrat messaging, their
00:38:21.100 whole thing is this make
00:38:21.980 believe that they're the ones
00:38:22.920 that care about the middle
00:38:23.540 class.
00:38:24.420 Here's the latest on the
00:38:26.060 numbers when it comes to
00:38:27.160 middle class and looking out
00:38:28.960 for them.
00:38:29.360 This is cut 20.
00:38:30.120 Play it.
00:38:31.640 Which is the party of the
00:38:32.580 middle class has been a huge
00:38:33.860 advantage for Democrats.
00:38:35.020 I have polling from NBC going
00:38:36.340 all the way back since 1989
00:38:37.700 when Democrats had a 23 point
00:38:39.560 advantage, 2016, a 17 point
00:38:41.560 advantage.
00:38:41.900 But by this decade, we already
00:38:43.480 started seeing declines back in
00:38:45.060 2022 where you saw that
00:38:46.720 Democrats led, but only by
00:38:48.180 four points, well within the
00:38:49.420 margin of error.
00:38:50.340 And now in our latest CNN poll
00:38:51.760 among registered voters, which
00:38:53.300 is the party of the middle
00:38:54.080 class, it is tied.
00:38:55.540 This, I think, speaks to
00:38:56.620 Democratic ills more than
00:38:57.720 anything else.
00:38:58.480 They have traditionally been the
00:38:59.920 party of the middle class.
00:39:01.220 No more.
00:39:02.160 Donald Trump and the Republican
00:39:03.100 Party have taken that mantle
00:39:04.260 away.
00:39:04.760 And now a key advantage for
00:39:06.360 Democrats historically has gone
00:39:07.700 adios amigos.
00:39:08.740 And now there is no party that
00:39:10.060 is the party of the middle
00:39:10.800 class.
00:39:11.180 Republicans have
00:39:11.840 completely closed the gap.
00:39:12.940 And Ryan, what do you make of
00:39:14.520 that?
00:39:14.780 Because that's got to be, you
00:39:16.160 know, given the election they
00:39:17.660 just had, the fact that they've
00:39:19.120 also got to contend with this in
00:39:20.600 a broader messaging sense, rough
00:39:22.520 days for the Democrats.
00:39:24.720 Yeah, they're having this and
00:39:25.680 they're going through it.
00:39:26.740 And they but they're very
00:39:28.480 publicly admitting that they're
00:39:30.040 going through it right now.
00:39:31.480 They can't admit to the fact that
00:39:32.840 they lied that Biden's health was
00:39:34.420 so bad.
00:39:35.200 They can't find a leader and
00:39:37.140 their only message is I hate
00:39:39.080 Donald Trump.
00:39:39.580 And maybe that'll be enough to
00:39:41.180 win them back to the House.
00:39:42.560 But overall, that long term
00:39:44.500 vision, there is none.
00:39:47.240 It's it's remarkable that this is
00:39:48.880 the situation they find
00:39:49.800 themselves in and that they've
00:39:51.540 had so little introspection.
00:39:52.760 I mean, they still have things
00:39:54.140 like Gavin Newsom's California
00:39:55.860 pretending that having a guy
00:39:58.260 beat all the girls in the state
00:39:59.480 champion track meet that this is
00:40:00.860 not like this makes their party
00:40:02.520 look crazy that they can keep
00:40:04.000 pretending otherwise.
00:40:05.180 But to 80 percent of the country,
00:40:07.520 even people that vote Democrat,
00:40:08.840 80 percent of the country look at
00:40:10.720 some guy who now wants to be
00:40:12.120 called a B who's beating all these
00:40:13.520 girls in a track meet and says
00:40:14.760 there's something wrong
00:40:17.140 with these Democrats.
00:40:19.260 But to that end, though, also on
00:40:20.980 the Biden stuff and
00:40:22.720 and the so you you talk
00:40:25.060 to Alex Thompson has got this book
00:40:26.460 out now.
00:40:27.520 And, you know, we've talked about,
00:40:28.780 you know, Tapper particularly with
00:40:29.960 it. By the way, I think
00:40:31.060 that it should have been Thompson
00:40:32.520 solo.
00:40:34.020 I would have been far more open.
00:40:35.480 Well, my this is what I think.
00:40:37.160 And he didn't say this, but this
00:40:38.400 is what I think when you write a
00:40:39.720 book and you don't have a big
00:40:40.700 name. When I wrote my one, I
00:40:42.020 wrote my book.
00:40:42.600 I had like no social media
00:40:43.860 following.
00:40:44.440 And they said to me, if you can
00:40:46.420 get someone with the name,
00:40:47.960 we'll publish your book.
00:40:49.400 That's what the publishers told
00:40:50.820 me when I wrote my book.
00:40:52.160 I think the same thing probably
00:40:53.740 happened. Alex Thompson.
00:40:55.180 I think that he was told if you
00:40:57.080 can get a name, we'll publish
00:40:58.840 your book.
00:41:00.020 And I mean, he should have he
00:41:01.480 should have gone with Wolf Blitzer
00:41:02.680 or somebody who's considered a
00:41:04.040 little bit more of a neutral.
00:41:05.040 Well, you will know, but nobody
00:41:06.860 would think that Wolf Blitzer
00:41:07.800 wrote a word of it.
00:41:08.680 I don't know if they think Jake
00:41:09.400 Tapper wrote a word of it
00:41:10.220 either, but definitely not
00:41:10.980 Blitzer.
00:41:11.800 You know, that guy, he looks
00:41:13.160 about as confused as Biden
00:41:14.400 sometimes, just being honest.
00:41:16.140 But he's been going for 40
00:41:17.940 years on air.
00:41:19.000 So, I mean, he's done his time.
00:41:21.440 Yeah, he's done his time for
00:41:22.400 sure.
00:41:22.680 But OK, so you sat down with
00:41:23.960 Thompson, this book, Original Sin
00:41:25.360 that's out there.
00:41:26.580 What did you gather from it that
00:41:28.800 was interesting?
00:41:29.700 Like, we already know.
00:41:30.620 Yes, they all, you know, they
00:41:32.080 missed all the stuff about
00:41:32.860 Biden.
00:41:33.160 What was insightful?
00:41:34.620 And anyone wants to hear the
00:41:35.420 interview, it's on the it's a
00:41:37.320 numbers game, Clay and Buck
00:41:38.360 podcast network.
00:41:39.160 Go subscribe to Clay and Buck
00:41:40.300 show and it'll be right in your
00:41:41.400 feed.
00:41:42.220 But Ryan, what did you what did
00:41:44.780 you learn from it that was
00:41:45.580 interesting or where'd you get
00:41:46.640 into that was worth talking
00:41:47.820 about?
00:41:48.900 Well, one, the fact that Mrs.
00:41:51.060 Biden, Jill Biden was I did not
00:41:53.240 know that she was a school
00:41:54.460 teacher, a professor the entire
00:41:56.100 time she was second lady of the
00:41:57.500 United States.
00:41:58.060 she taught at a community
00:41:59.480 college and apparently she hated
00:42:01.100 being a politician spouse, which
00:42:03.540 is not unoriginal because a lot
00:42:05.660 of people hate being politician
00:42:06.780 spouses.
00:42:08.000 But the fact that she went from
00:42:10.200 doing that to being one of the
00:42:11.720 most powerful for second first
00:42:13.580 ladies in American history and
00:42:15.880 essentially running large
00:42:17.520 portions and being the one who
00:42:18.860 say, no, Joe, you can't drop
00:42:20.180 out her transformation.
00:42:21.900 I think it's fascinating.
00:42:23.320 I asked him specifically about
00:42:25.120 how much it went into why how
00:42:28.000 much was considered the fact
00:42:29.160 that the Biden family needed
00:42:30.960 Joe.
00:42:31.720 And I I put the idea up there
00:42:33.640 was both supposed to have
00:42:36.100 Bo lived, which is always the
00:42:37.580 essential question of the Biden
00:42:39.000 legacy and the Biden family
00:42:40.980 have Bo lived.
00:42:42.600 Was he supposed to be the
00:42:43.800 politician to grant them access
00:42:45.460 so that they continue to live
00:42:48.300 with a lot of economic, you know,
00:42:50.880 flourishment and millions of
00:42:52.060 dollars coming in because
00:42:53.580 that's how that entire family
00:42:55.480 makes money.
00:42:56.400 It's political connection.
00:42:58.520 Did Joe have to do this because
00:43:00.160 he needed to bring money in?
00:43:01.380 And apparently now there's
00:43:02.560 reporting that the Bidens are
00:43:03.820 basically broke, that they
00:43:05.480 that they want Joe out there
00:43:07.380 more because they need a way to
00:43:09.260 make money.
00:43:10.040 They can't do it.
00:43:11.480 You know, I don't know, other
00:43:13.460 other ways.
00:43:14.340 So was that the entire premise
00:43:16.880 of why Joe had to run from the
00:43:18.980 family's perspective is they
00:43:20.180 needed millions to come in
00:43:22.080 every year.
00:43:23.140 They didn't want a Clinton
00:43:24.000 Foundation situation where all
00:43:25.480 of a sudden all the money's just
00:43:26.780 gone and dried up and they have
00:43:28.400 to pay for everyone because they
00:43:29.960 pay for the grandkids.
00:43:30.860 They pay for the cousins, the
00:43:32.160 brothers.
00:43:33.020 Everyone lives off the Biden
00:43:34.600 teeth.
00:43:35.580 So that was a big, big part of it.
00:43:37.560 Also with the book, the people who
00:43:39.660 even after the debate had come out
00:43:42.580 and said, no, Biden's our ticket.
00:43:44.500 John Fetterman screamed at every
00:43:47.840 Democratic, they had a big meeting
00:43:49.720 with Democratic senators and they
00:43:50.780 said, who is still with Biden?
00:43:52.480 Every one but three said no.
00:43:54.500 And Fetterman got up and started
00:43:56.280 screaming and saying, how effing
00:43:57.960 dare you betray our great president
00:43:59.900 like this?
00:44:00.680 And he was the only one in the room
00:44:03.740 still defending Joe Biden, even
00:44:06.240 with the poll numbers bad, even with
00:44:07.860 everything.
00:44:08.440 So I thought that was fascinating,
00:44:09.880 which alliances remain close to Joe
00:44:12.080 long afterwards.
00:44:13.860 Now, I mean, I have to, first of all,
00:44:15.560 Ryan, that is really interesting.
00:44:17.160 And I hadn't heard that.
00:44:18.060 And that's that's something that
00:44:19.540 should should certainly be better
00:44:20.840 known.
00:44:21.880 Fetterman has been getting a lot of
00:44:23.240 credit because of the stuff he says
00:44:24.420 on Israel from people on the right.
00:44:26.800 And I mean, I don't know how to say
00:44:28.320 this.
00:44:28.520 Do you think Fetterman just took a
00:44:29.580 person that people were saying the
00:44:30.880 guy's brain didn't work because of
00:44:32.120 his own stuff?
00:44:32.860 Or why would Fetterman it?
00:44:34.920 So it was just he just took that
00:44:35.940 personally.
00:44:37.100 Yes, I think that that's I think
00:44:38.260 that's exactly what it was.
00:44:39.520 I think Fetterman said, you know, if you
00:44:41.640 were to judge everybody by how their
00:44:42.940 brain operates allegedly, then I
00:44:45.240 wouldn't be here.
00:44:46.860 But to be the most vocal and curse
00:44:49.820 out your I mean, he cursed out
00:44:51.580 Chuck Schumer.
00:44:52.140 He cursed out everybody that you
00:44:53.620 betrayed him, that you betrayed Joe
00:44:55.180 Biden.
00:44:56.340 And he was the only one in the room.
00:44:57.660 He stood by himself.
00:44:58.460 So I give him credit for that.
00:45:00.020 But it was an explosive scene.
00:45:02.240 So he talked to Alex Thompson about
00:45:03.380 that, which I thought was fascinating
00:45:04.860 how he was the sole voice to stand
00:45:07.640 with Biden when they said, hey, you're
00:45:09.080 going to lose New Jersey.
00:45:10.440 Fetterman said we ride with him till
00:45:12.060 the very end.
00:45:13.440 And everyone else at that point was
00:45:15.020 trying to, you know, get him to drop
00:45:16.760 out.
00:45:17.180 So that was really interesting.
00:45:18.860 I think it's fascinating that right
00:45:20.460 now, Joe Biden's team is still leaking
00:45:22.500 information before this came out
00:45:24.200 yesterday.
00:45:24.980 Before the debate, Biden had a
00:45:27.760 one point five percent lead in
00:45:29.480 Minnesota and Virginia.
00:45:31.140 That was before the debate.
00:45:32.400 Had Biden been on the ticket, it would
00:45:34.340 have been, you know, not 1984
00:45:36.440 landslide, but 1988 landslide.
00:45:38.720 It would have been a serious
00:45:39.840 contention where New York and
00:45:41.160 Illinois would have been in close
00:45:42.340 single digits and New Jersey would
00:45:44.620 have just been gone.
00:45:46.220 So I don't I don't I think that
00:45:48.520 right now they're rather than looking
00:45:50.280 for a leader, looking for a mess,
00:45:51.840 looking for something.
00:45:53.200 They're still kind of there and
00:45:54.800 blaming each other and who gets to
00:45:56.640 inherit the throne of a
00:45:58.120 of a dead party.
00:46:00.080 That's fascinating.
00:46:00.940 But I will say one thing.
00:46:02.480 I think if they did a poll, they
00:46:04.200 did a study, Democrats did.
00:46:05.560 What is the message
00:46:07.040 going forward?
00:46:08.120 Ezra Klein has this stupid book out
00:46:10.160 about abundance and all this
00:46:11.260 rest of it didn't respond at all.
00:46:12.640 Voters didn't care.
00:46:13.320 They still want a populist message.
00:46:15.400 I think if I was advising a
00:46:17.120 Democrat what they would be doing,
00:46:18.880 there's big the big, beautiful bill
00:46:20.900 that's coming out.
00:46:21.640 There is a provision in it that
00:46:23.440 forbids states to sit there and
00:46:25.360 enforce a I
00:46:26.780 technology, any any enforcement, a I
00:46:29.400 reforms,
00:46:30.500 any I development, anything.
00:46:33.780 I prevent states from even doing
00:46:34.960 enacting any of that or any
00:46:36.040 protections from A.I.
00:46:37.360 That's what they should be jumping
00:46:38.920 on right now, because that's where
00:46:40.560 the fears are.
00:46:41.260 That's my next episode.
00:46:42.060 The podcast comes on Thursday on a
00:46:43.860 numbers game is about the genuine
00:46:45.800 fears of A.I. and job loss.
00:46:47.620 And the populist backlash from that
00:46:49.120 will be as severe, if not more
00:46:51.240 severe, than immigration itself.
00:46:53.520 That's really interesting.
00:46:54.280 Go check out.
00:46:55.060 It's a numbers game on the
00:46:56.780 Clay Buck podcast network.
00:46:57.880 Ryan Gerdusky is the host.
00:46:59.640 Ryan, before I let you go, quick
00:47:00.660 one, kind of a lightning round
00:47:01.700 question here.
00:47:03.020 Who's the most powerful Democrat in
00:47:04.420 America right now?
00:47:06.020 A.I.
00:47:06.240 A.I.
00:47:06.480 and Bernie Sanders.
00:47:07.040 Bernie Sanders, number one, and
00:47:08.100 then A.I.
00:47:08.440 is number two.
00:47:09.320 Wow.
00:47:10.300 Bernie Sanders and A.I.
00:47:11.280 Bernie's number one, for sure.
00:47:12.820 All right.
00:47:13.420 Ryan Gerdusky, always insightful.
00:47:15.040 Good to have you on, my friend.
00:47:15.920 Thank you.
00:47:16.620 Thank you.
00:47:17.280 Bye.
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00:49:19.320 Got a ton of calls.
00:49:20.820 I knew that last segment would
00:49:21.960 get some of you fired up.
00:49:23.360 So, you know, you know,
00:49:24.840 sometimes I got to poke you a
00:49:26.000 little bit.
00:49:26.440 Sometimes the buckster just has
00:49:29.520 to be like, you know what?
00:49:30.620 We're getting a little too
00:49:31.420 chummy around here.
00:49:32.140 I want to fight.
00:49:33.160 That's what happens with
00:49:34.000 Ginger sometimes.
00:49:34.980 She's so cute.
00:49:36.080 I miss her.
00:49:36.580 She's at a doggy camp today
00:49:38.580 because we're traveling.
00:49:39.940 But it's a lovely camp.
00:49:40.900 She's like playing with golden
00:49:41.800 retrievers and pugs.
00:49:42.820 It's very nice.
00:49:43.880 She has a good time.
00:49:44.660 When we go to pick her up,
00:49:45.580 she's like, I don't even know
00:49:46.180 who you are anymore.
00:49:47.700 But she comes over and she gets
00:49:49.620 all like nice and snuggly.
00:49:51.620 And then she kind of looks at me
00:49:53.160 and I'm like, oh, oh, it's on.
00:49:54.640 And then she wants to, you know,
00:49:55.560 and she wants to like jump all
00:49:57.100 over me and like that.
00:49:58.480 So sometimes, you know, you get a
00:49:59.800 little chummy.
00:50:00.220 You got to throw down a little
00:50:01.020 bit.
00:50:01.240 So some of you are a little
00:50:03.320 frustrated over the comments on
00:50:05.000 how to fix the debt.
00:50:06.580 I'm just I'm just telling you
00:50:07.660 the numbers.
00:50:08.160 I don't even have much of a much
00:50:09.540 of a dog in this fight, so to
00:50:10.860 speak.
00:50:11.380 Well, I do because America and I
00:50:12.840 don't want it to collapse.
00:50:13.580 But it's going to be a while
00:50:14.640 before I'm getting Medicare
00:50:17.260 or Social Security.
00:50:19.360 And I know we're going to have
00:50:20.600 to go over some of these things
00:50:21.500 like, no, it doesn't mean people
00:50:23.220 don't get Medicare who are
00:50:24.380 on Medicare now.
00:50:25.080 No, it doesn't mean that if
00:50:26.280 you're supposed to get Social
00:50:27.360 Security, you know, starting in
00:50:29.060 five years that all of a sudden
00:50:30.200 you're going to get like a
00:50:30.940 fraction of.
00:50:31.480 It means that, you know, if
00:50:33.600 you're a prime working age
00:50:35.280 now, we could start to set up
00:50:37.300 different programs and we could
00:50:38.920 start to prepare people for
00:50:40.500 means testing and, you know,
00:50:42.640 and change.
00:50:44.200 Like, there are ways to fix this
00:50:46.400 thing that don't hurt people
00:50:49.560 who were promised and paid in
00:50:51.580 good faith and are on it or about
00:50:53.520 to be on it.
00:50:54.200 But if you're 25, it's not going
00:50:57.060 to work for you to say, oh, well,
00:50:59.600 from age 65 to 100, because that's
00:51:02.800 how long people are going to start
00:51:04.140 to live, by the way.
00:51:05.760 I'm just going to get paid this or
00:51:07.440 I'm going to have everything paid
00:51:08.240 by the government.
00:51:09.040 It's going to have to change at
00:51:10.160 some point.
00:51:10.700 So I just I want to be clear.
00:51:12.860 You know, my dad's, you know, he
00:51:14.820 gets Social Security, right?
00:51:16.420 I he deserves it.
00:51:17.800 No one's touching anyone's
00:51:19.100 Social Security that's getting it
00:51:20.280 now.
00:51:20.580 No one's touching anyone's
00:51:21.360 Medicare is getting it now.
00:51:22.300 Now, the change would come over
00:51:24.660 a 10 year horizon, a budget set
00:51:27.280 in place now that makes some of
00:51:29.120 the switches necessary to allow
00:51:33.220 us to be on a sound fiscal
00:51:34.760 foot or just don't we just let
00:51:36.140 just, you know, Thelma and
00:51:36.980 Louise, baby, let's hit the
00:51:38.160 accelerator and let's just take
00:51:39.780 this guy off a cliff.
00:51:40.900 Let's just go.
00:51:41.940 You know what I mean?
00:51:42.340 We'll hold each other's hands.
00:51:44.280 We'll look at each other and
00:51:45.140 we'll just take this thing off
00:51:46.140 the cliff together.
00:51:47.400 It was fun while it lasted,
00:51:48.740 America.
00:51:50.120 Jay in Ohio.
00:51:51.420 Here we go.
00:51:51.980 Six months from turning 65.
00:51:53.880 What's going on, Jay?
00:51:55.700 Well, yeah, you don't have to
00:51:56.880 poke me.
00:51:57.320 The government's doing that
00:51:58.160 well enough already.
00:51:59.800 Yes, I'm months away from being
00:52:02.220 forced onto Medicare and I don't
00:52:05.380 want to.
00:52:06.100 I want to take care of it myself,
00:52:07.860 but I am not allowed.
00:52:09.260 If I don't enroll for Medicare,
00:52:12.440 they'll penalize me anyway.
00:52:14.380 What kind of a perverse system is
00:52:16.060 that?
00:52:16.640 So, you know, Mr.
00:52:17.360 President, Mr.
00:52:18.400 Vice President, if you're
00:52:19.460 listening, this grow our way out
00:52:21.520 of the debt isn't going to
00:52:24.360 happen.
00:52:24.840 It's about force.
00:52:25.920 And the other thing is the
00:52:27.160 insurance industry, and I'm
00:52:29.060 wired about this, the insurance
00:52:30.440 industry loves the concept of
00:52:32.100 Medicare because they can
00:52:33.100 offload all the old schmucks like
00:52:35.000 me and the government will take
00:52:36.920 care of us, quote unquote.
00:52:38.240 It's all about force.
00:52:39.520 I don't have any freedom.
00:52:40.840 I want the freedom to not enroll in
00:52:42.740 Medicare.
00:52:43.280 And I don't have that at this point.
00:52:44.940 And it's infuriating.
00:52:46.400 Jay, you're spot on and an
00:52:48.600 excellent call.
00:52:49.480 And you're seeing this with clear
00:52:50.720 eyes.
00:52:51.440 Full hearts can't lose.
00:52:52.640 And thank you for thank you for
00:52:54.340 the call.
00:52:54.620 Thanks for being in.
00:52:55.200 Look, it's a mess, everybody.
00:52:56.360 It's a mess.
00:52:56.920 Elon knows it's a mess.
00:52:58.720 All he does is look at balance
00:53:00.400 sheets and look at, you know,
00:53:01.760 projections based on numbers into
00:53:04.240 the future and figure out how to
00:53:06.460 fix things.
00:53:07.360 And he told us we got to fix this
00:53:09.060 and we're not fixing it.
00:53:10.460 And he just said that.
00:53:11.820 And he said that people that are
00:53:12.880 voting for this should be ashamed,
00:53:14.140 ashamed on the Republican side.
00:53:16.680 I don't know.
00:53:16.920 Just what Elon's saying.
00:53:18.700 So he's a smart guy.
00:53:21.680 I think that's putting it mildly.
00:53:23.300 Michael in Oswego, New York.
00:53:26.400 What's going on, Mike?
00:53:28.540 Hi, Buck.
00:53:29.580 Second time caller.
00:53:32.500 Apparently you had fun the first
00:53:33.720 time.
00:53:34.000 So that's good news.
00:53:35.000 I sure did.
00:53:36.380 I listen to you guys every day.
00:53:37.940 Thank you.
00:53:38.480 Anyway, I was calling to jump back
00:53:40.960 to the segment about income taxes.
00:53:42.820 Um, and I told the guy that I first
00:53:46.280 talked to, I said, you know, well,
00:53:48.120 anyway, my mother and father were
00:53:50.120 both teachers, you know, um, high
00:53:53.400 school and junior high.
00:53:55.320 Sure.
00:53:56.620 So, I mean, when I needed help with
00:53:59.720 my homework and that, you know, my
00:54:02.360 mother was a specialist in history.
00:54:04.360 She's still after she retired.
00:54:06.120 So I got a lot of that, but to my
00:54:08.940 memory, um, didn't FDR Institute
00:54:12.940 income taxes at the time that world
00:54:16.740 war two with the U S was imminent, or
00:54:20.320 we had already gone into the war and
00:54:22.840 they've been to get more money to
00:54:25.480 hire people and build the bombs and
00:54:27.780 all that, the planes.
00:54:28.840 And it was never supposed to be a
00:54:31.340 permanent thing.
00:54:33.460 Now that's what I remember reading in
00:54:35.520 history.
00:54:35.900 Now, I don't know if that's true.
00:54:38.020 I mean, you're making, well, the
00:54:39.040 first, the first income tax was
00:54:40.620 actually back in, it was the revenue
00:54:42.420 act of 1861 to fund the civil war.
00:54:44.960 So it is war.
00:54:45.840 So if you're, if you're thinking about
00:54:47.300 it in this context, it was wars that
00:54:49.620 got us to, uh, or a major war that
00:54:51.780 got us to a tax in the first place.
00:54:53.560 Um, but the federal income tax then
00:54:56.160 kind of disappeared.
00:54:57.560 It comes back in 1894 with the
00:54:59.980 Wilson, uh, tariff act, 2% tax on
00:55:02.800 incomes over $4,000, but the modern
00:55:05.440 federal income tax is the 16th
00:55:07.240 amendment, 1913.
00:55:08.920 So the history of taxation, I mean, I
00:55:11.400 think what you're raising here is
00:55:12.380 interesting, uh, Michael, thank you
00:55:13.540 for calling in the history of
00:55:14.900 taxation is one of, uh, your fits and
00:55:19.440 starts or, uh, you know, two steps
00:55:21.740 forward, one step back.
00:55:23.560 And, but once they got us with the
00:55:25.300 16th amendment, then, uh, that was
00:55:27.540 rough.
00:55:28.740 That was rough.
00:55:29.880 That was when the bad things
00:55:31.080 started.
00:55:31.400 That was when the bad stuff with the
00:55:33.000 taxes started to happen.
00:55:34.620 I mean, it, you know, it bums me
00:55:35.900 out.
00:55:36.080 I'll tell you this now that I live in
00:55:37.340 a zero state income tax place, it's
00:55:40.660 just unthinkable to go back to one of
00:55:42.440 these super high tax dates like New
00:55:44.020 York or California, uh, because you're
00:55:46.760 just, you're paying so much more of
00:55:48.880 the money you work for and getting
00:55:50.300 nothing additional, you're, you're
00:55:51.500 getting nothing.
00:55:52.060 In fact, I would argue that the
00:55:53.680 services that I get in South Florida,
00:55:55.600 um, uh, from, you know, on, on a
00:55:59.160 whole range of things, uh, is better
00:56:02.180 than what I was getting in New York
00:56:03.160 city.
00:56:04.120 And so with that, you say, well, why
00:56:06.940 am I paying more?
00:56:07.780 It's just because Democrats have bad
00:56:08.920 ideas and they're in charge.
00:56:10.580 And so they just take more of your
00:56:11.940 money.
00:56:12.560 Um, I wish that we, we, you know,
00:56:14.580 the notion that we have all these
00:56:15.700 states where you have state income
00:56:17.280 tax, some of which tax you by the day.
00:56:20.960 I, I was, I was have this thing where
00:56:22.940 I tell people this, I think Utah is one
00:56:24.680 of them, but Utah, what is going on
00:56:26.300 with you, Utah, a lot of great stuff
00:56:28.740 about Utah, beautiful state, lovely
00:56:30.700 people.
00:56:31.540 But I think you get taxed by the day
00:56:33.920 you work there.
00:56:34.920 Cause I, I think I had to pay like, you
00:56:36.820 know, $50 to the state of Utah once.
00:56:38.880 And I had to have like a little, um,
00:56:40.900 you guys would, we have a huge audience
00:56:42.280 in Salt Lake city.
00:56:42.900 You know what I'm talking about?
00:56:44.220 Um, I, I think that, uh, definitely
00:56:47.680 New York per day.
00:56:49.840 You are taxed in New York city.
00:56:51.320 If you work, right.
00:56:52.540 If you're there with your family over
00:56:53.660 a weekend on vacation, of course, you
00:56:55.020 don't know, but if you're there and,
00:56:57.800 and, you know, you fly into New York
00:56:59.140 and you do work out of your New York
00:57:00.880 office or something, they can tax you
00:57:02.760 for that day and every day that you're
00:57:04.860 there.
00:57:05.820 So you just feel like, all right, well
00:57:08.400 that's pretty annoying.
00:57:10.280 You don't want more of that.
00:57:11.200 Jack in Ohio wants to weigh in.
00:57:13.140 What's going on, Jack?
00:57:14.860 Hey, happy anniversary a week ahead
00:57:16.820 of time.
00:57:17.820 Uh, real quick.
00:57:18.880 Just want to talk about, uh, like
00:57:21.260 what the, you, you mean the clay and
00:57:22.600 buck anniversary, right?
00:57:23.620 Cause like the carry and buck
00:57:24.840 anniversary of getting married was
00:57:26.080 back in February.
00:57:27.360 Just making sure I'm like, I have to
00:57:29.040 get my wife a gift.
00:57:29.860 Uh-oh.
00:57:31.280 No, not again.
00:57:32.960 If you want to stay in good graces.
00:57:34.680 Yeah.
00:57:34.840 Uh, my major concern, okay.
00:57:37.180 And Carolyn Lovett just even announced
00:57:39.340 it, you know, on a clip that you
00:57:40.700 just played where she was talking
00:57:42.720 about, um, what Trump inherited.
00:57:45.420 Okay.
00:57:45.820 From the Biden Harris regime.
00:57:48.380 Okay.
00:57:49.160 My point is Biden and Harris in
00:57:52.300 Mallorca.
00:57:52.900 Okay.
00:57:53.420 Who caused a great problem with the
00:57:55.320 immigration.
00:57:56.160 Okay.
00:57:56.560 Are not running for office.
00:57:58.360 Yes.
00:57:59.000 We need to hang this on them.
00:58:00.800 Okay.
00:58:01.260 However, there are 260 Democrats, okay.
00:58:05.360 In Congress right now.
00:58:06.820 And I can't remember hearing any one
00:58:09.160 of them, maybe except Fetterman talking
00:58:11.480 about the problem.
00:58:12.980 Okay.
00:58:13.320 Of immigration.
00:58:14.760 And I'm looking at the midterms.
00:58:17.360 Okay.
00:58:17.760 That's right around the corner.
00:58:18.980 And I would like to hear the media talk
00:58:21.880 about all of the Democrats who've been
00:58:24.320 sitting on their hands and they're going
00:58:26.400 to be up for reelection and let's not
00:58:28.800 forget them.
00:58:29.760 Biden and Harris, they're not running
00:58:31.500 again.
00:58:32.500 So, and you even have the down ticket.
00:58:35.320 Okay.
00:58:35.700 Which goes to state and local.
00:58:37.700 So I would like to hear more about all
00:58:40.760 the Democrats.
00:58:41.500 We have somebody here in our office.
00:58:44.220 Okay.
00:58:45.080 In Ohio, where she's been in office 40
00:58:47.940 years as a Congresswoman.
00:58:50.520 And she goes, she votes 90, 95% of the
00:58:53.860 time, right along with the ticket.
00:58:55.620 Okay.
00:58:56.060 A few things.
00:58:56.520 Thank you, Jack.
00:58:57.220 Thank you, Jack in Ohio.
00:58:58.180 A couple of things on what you're saying.
00:58:59.520 One is you'll be a lot more talk about
00:59:01.420 this as we get closer to the midterm.
00:59:02.920 So this is your, you're right now calling
00:59:05.260 in at the, um, the absolute low point,
00:59:09.160 I think of a political midterm
00:59:12.080 conversation.
00:59:12.760 June after a presidential election is,
00:59:16.320 is when you're going to hear probably
00:59:18.180 the least, uh, well, I mean, right
00:59:20.540 after an election, maybe, but I'm
00:59:21.900 just, there's so much talk about
00:59:23.360 politics in general, that'll be going
00:59:24.560 on and all the thinking about the
00:59:26.460 last election.
00:59:27.480 But as we get into, uh, certainly the
00:59:30.260 beginning of next year and then into
00:59:31.760 next summer, you're going to have a
00:59:33.020 lot of talk about all, and we're going
00:59:34.240 to be talking about them on this show.
00:59:35.540 So that's part one.
00:59:36.720 Part two is the reason the Biden
00:59:39.500 revelations matter, uh, is that it's
00:59:42.740 goes to one, the fact that more, more
00:59:46.500 people than ever should wake up to the
00:59:49.140 fact that the media is the corporate
00:59:51.520 Democrat media lies and has no integrity
00:59:54.640 whatsoever.
00:59:55.420 That CNN as an entity has no integrity.
00:59:58.840 The people who call themselves
01:00:00.760 journalists are not journalists.
01:00:03.480 They are propagandists.
01:00:04.600 And I know that you all know that, but we
01:00:08.020 need not 51%, but 54% of the country to
01:00:12.100 know that.
01:00:12.620 And maybe 57% of the country.
01:00:14.580 Now, you know, this is, this is why I
01:00:17.080 think it does matter, uh, because they've
01:00:19.320 relied on a media industrial complex for a
01:00:22.740 long time to do their heavy lifting for
01:00:25.220 them as Democrats.
01:00:26.080 And we want to make that harder.
01:00:27.820 And they all lied about Biden and we caught
01:00:30.000 them and we know, and now they're trying to
01:00:32.140 wriggle out of any kind of accountability.
01:00:33.820 So I don't think it's just a, uh, kind of
01:00:37.380 like a parlor game here that we on the
01:00:39.060 right are playing.
01:00:39.660 I think there is real meaning to it.
01:00:41.940 And also just shows you that how ruthless
01:00:43.520 the Democrats are.
01:00:44.780 I mean, you should all know every day there
01:00:47.120 was, there was a right choice and a wrong
01:00:49.340 choice in this last election.
01:00:50.900 And if you voted for Trump, you made the
01:00:52.380 right choice.
01:00:53.040 That's it.
01:00:54.400 That's it.
01:00:55.480 Uh, you know, there, there's no, there's
01:00:56.840 no other way around it.
01:00:57.780 I, you know, I, I, I view that as, as
01:01:00.240 clear as day.
01:01:01.700 Um, let's take, uh, here we go.
01:01:04.220 Gigi, Dave from North Carolina listens
01:01:05.980 on WPTI play it.
01:01:10.240 Please.
01:01:10.680 So, but, uh, Dave from North Carolina,
01:01:13.820 retired Navy, I'm turning 70, limited
01:01:17.420 income.
01:01:18.540 You guys get rid of Medicare, social
01:01:20.820 security, the thing that I have to
01:01:23.240 support me for my last 10 years.
01:01:25.540 What the hell am I supposed to do if
01:01:27.420 you change the system?
01:01:29.080 Uh, nobody has an answer.
01:01:31.400 Well, Dave, the, the way the, the
01:01:34.260 answer is you don't change it for
01:01:36.680 people who are on it right now.
01:01:38.800 That would be wrong.
01:01:40.400 That would be unfair.
01:01:42.280 You made your plans and you paid your
01:01:44.860 taxes and you did your planning with
01:01:47.620 the belief that it would be there for
01:01:49.280 you.
01:01:50.180 That is a covenant that the state, so
01:01:53.560 to speak, the big S state, right?
01:01:54.960 That the, that the government has
01:01:56.480 made with you.
01:01:57.980 You're not going to, you know,
01:01:59.240 that's not what anybody who talks
01:02:01.780 about reforming the system in a
01:02:03.760 serious way, but see what they hope.
01:02:05.920 And this is what Democrats will do is
01:02:07.640 that they want, they want the reaction
01:02:09.220 from Dave.
01:02:09.700 Oh, they're going to take away your
01:02:10.700 social security.
01:02:11.320 Oh, they're going to take away your
01:02:12.220 Medicare.
01:02:13.040 Now vote in the communists, you know?
01:02:16.780 No, it's not about taking it away
01:02:19.360 from people who have it now.
01:02:20.540 It's about looking back with, with the
01:02:23.960 numbers in front of you, where can we
01:02:26.560 begin to create changes here and off ramp
01:02:29.940 so that people have plenty of time and
01:02:32.260 plenty of notice for their financial
01:02:34.180 future that, you know, there's going to
01:02:36.220 be means testing for Medicare.
01:02:38.240 If you're, you know, a very wealthy
01:02:39.840 person, you're not going to get Medicare
01:02:41.880 or you'll get some, you know, different
01:02:43.280 level of Medicare.
01:02:44.280 There's going to be a raise in the
01:02:45.580 retirement age.
01:02:47.140 That's not fair if you're 64, but if
01:02:50.040 you're my age and you're told, you know
01:02:51.940 what, you're going to, you're not going
01:02:53.100 to retire at 65, you're going to retire
01:02:54.360 at 67.
01:02:55.840 You know, that's something, that's
01:02:58.140 something that I think my generation
01:02:59.880 should just say, you know what, we're
01:03:02.160 going to live longer than the generation
01:03:03.460 before us on average.
01:03:05.140 So I think it's fair that we actually
01:03:07.220 start a little later in retirement, you
01:03:08.960 know, a year or two.
01:03:10.080 These are the things that we're talking
01:03:11.780 about, but see, it upsets people and
01:03:14.340 they don't want to hear it.
01:03:15.220 And they get told the fear-mongering
01:03:16.940 and say, all right, look, we go full
01:03:19.120 Thelma and Louise.
01:03:20.040 We're in the convertible.
01:03:21.520 Let's take it off the cliff.
01:03:22.820 Let's spend ourselves into a big fireball
01:03:25.340 at the bottom, you know, and let AOC
01:03:28.520 and Bernie Sanders stare at us over the
01:03:31.200 cliff like, no, we're in charge.
01:03:33.500 What are you going to do about that?
01:03:35.780 It's not going to be good.
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