Herschel Walker Enters Georgia Senate Race

25 Aug 2021

CLAY: Good news, I think, for those of you who want the Republicans to take back the Senate in 2022. There are gonna be a lot of battleground states, and one of them is certain to be the state of Georgia where Democrats were able to sweep through and win two different elections to get it to a 50-50 Senate. And one of those wins was the Reverend Raphael Warnock who was going up against Kelly Loeffler.

And it was an incredibly tight election. And remember one of the big difficulties of that election was there was a lack of faith in the outcomes in Georgia and, therefore, the Republican overall number of voters was down at a lower level than maybe you would have anticipated. And so this is pretty exciting news.

Herschel Walker, legendary former Georgia running back, also big-time NFL star — a guy who is as beloved in the state of Georgia as any athlete is in any state in America — has officially announced that he is going to be running for that Senate seat against the Reverend Raphael Warnock. The hope would be that by the time that actually gets decided next enough, that Hershel Walker is going to be able to punch back and retake that seat for the Republicans. So, Buck, when you hear the name Herschel Walker, I know you’re not a die-hard sports fans.

BUCK: Like the sports. I’m an American. I just don’t follow the spread for the game and all this stuff.

CLAY: Would you know Herschel Walker if you saw him?

BUCK: Of course. Herschel Walker is one of the two greats. I know Herschel. I’ve seen clips on YouTube like compilations of Herschel Walker doing amazing stuff.

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: People just talk about his level of just physical giftedness as though it’s one of the greatest the game has ever seen.

CLAY: Yes. He’s also a guy who is in many ways self-made and that’s why I think he’s such a good Republican candidate is he believes in individual excellence and individual freedom. Sso the big question that is going to be out there is, “Can he help to bring back…?” Because there’s a lot of different races out there that are going to be incredibly challenging, and, frankly, the board — if you look at the overall seats that are up in the states where they’re available — is not necessarily wildly favorable for the Republicans. Whereas the House, it’s pretty easy to forecast, I would say Senate control is gonna be 50-50, and you need to flip back some of these places.

BUCK: Clay, it’s gonna be a tight election and having somebody that will all, as you say, just get buzz, get attention on the Republican side is clearly gonna be helpful. The Democrats, I think, recognize right now the razor-thin margin that they currently have to get anything done, and how they’re not looking good at all for what’s gonna happen here in the next cycle. That’s part of why I think they’re still pushing to get budget stuff done.

While Afghanistan is happening right now and people are saying, “Why isn’t the Congress all hands on deck?” Democrats are going, “Oh, we better do this stuff now,” because they want to, one, get it through. But I think they’re also trying to control the optics. They have very few people they can lose in either the Senate side or the House side to get things done right now.

CLAY: Yeah, and I also think the interesting thing about Herschel Walker and Warnock is — and I’m not a hundred percent sure on this. But I don’t think we’ve ever had a Senate race, certainly not in the South, to my knowledge, that was two black candidates. So when you think about the Democratic Party’s entire campaign being “everything is racist,” seems like it’s kind of hard to argue everything is racist when you got a black candidate on both sides.

BUCK: But you saw Tucker did a great job with this on his show last night where you had Larry Elder being called the —

CLAY: Yes. That’s true.

BUCK: In the Los Angeles Times, folks, there was a piece that referred to Larry Elder as, quote, “the black face of white supremacy.”

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: So you can imagine the kind of racist crap that the Democrats ’cause they feel so safe doing this —

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: — because if you’re not part of the Democrat progressive machine, all the sudden, they get to negate things about you like your race and ethnicity which as we know and race ethnicity is so central to Democrats. So as you can imagine there’s gonna be a lot of nasty, ugly stuff said about Herschel Walker on this specific issue —

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: — with no consequences for the cancel culture left ’cause it’s all about power and control.

CLAY: That’s right. But the easy take-away here if you look at the breakdown of voters is, if Herschel Walker can get 20% of the black vote, just the 20%, then he will win the state of Georgia by a substantial margin against the Reverend Raphael Warnock. So, to your point, they are going to try to paint him in the same way that is happening with Larry Elder. That is an unbelievable headline in the L.A. Times, “The black face of white supremacy.” Man, we talked about this a little bit yesterday and I’m sure we’re gonna talk much about this in weeks ahead. What’s gonna happen in that recall election?

BUCK: Oh, man.

CLAY: That will be a seismic win.

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Impeach! Afghanistan Debacle Is Worse Than a Phone Call

25 Aug 2021

CLAY: So we’ve got all sorts of chaos outside of the airport in Kabul as the American soldiers are beginning to be recalled. The expectation is we have a deadline of August 31st because the Taliban said, “No, you can’t extend it.” They are the captains of the Afghanistan ship, basically. They’re the captains now. Joe Biden has no control. Let’s play cut 5 here, and the danger zone is all of these people desperately trying to get into the airport are an incredibly, incredibly unprotected target for many of the terroristic elements inside of Afghanistan. Let’s play cut 5 here.

REP. JASON CROW: This is not without risk. I think we should be extremely clear about this. This is a very complicated, very high-risk mission. But I think we also have to be clear that if we aren’t willing to use the U.S. military to protect U.S. citizens and our partners and our friends, then what will we use our military for? This falls squarely within the wheelhouse of why we have the biggest, strongest military in the world, and that is to protect our people.

CLAY: Total issue here now, Buck, is, as we have said, Biden’s presidency is hanging by a thread, because if Donald Trump can get impeached for a phone call with a Ukrainian president, how in the world can Joe Biden not have his entire presidency on the precipice here based on what might happen? And as you said, during this hour there have been reports — and you used to study and analyze and sometimes write these reports — about the threats that are emanating potentially in Afghanistan. What is the latest about the dangers in Kabul?

BUCK: We have to understand that while we have thousands and thousands of people that will gather at Kabul international airport — and I’m in email contact with folks who are directly trying to advise people about how to get around checkpoint. People are calling this “the Digital Dunkirk.” They’re telling them, “Go here, don’t go there,” using commercially available satellite imagery.

All this is happening. But, Clay, when you’re thinking about a counterterrorism mission, you immediately go to soft targets, places that will be easy to hit with mass casualty effect. And there’s reporting right now, a credible threat stream and a specific one — this is what CNN was saying a moment ago; now it’s catching on and other places are saying it, too — that there may be targeting going on of the crowd that are stuck trying to get into Kabul international airport.

Let’s just take a step back and think about what’s really going on here. We are reliant — and this is the reality. We are reliant right now on Taliban checkpoints preventing, let’s say, the deployment of many suicide bombers or who knows what the possible plot could be here. We’re relying on Taliban checkpoints to stop that.

Now, as crazy as this may sound with the Taliban trying to establish itself as the legitimate government of the country of Afghanistan, which is now going to be the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan — I don’t think anybody denies or doubts that — they may not see it in their immediate interests. I don’t think they do see it in anywhere in their interests — otherwise, obviously, they would have already started going after these Americans themselves, right? — to allow something like that to happen.

Keep in mind, allowing someone to slip through, they would pretend is not the same thing as doing or planning the attack themselves. Although we would view it largely, I think, the same way. This is something where we all just have to sit with, honestly, our fingers crossed and saying our prayers that there is not a mass casualty attack perpetrated by elements of ISIS in Khorasan, Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan.

Some faction within the Haqqani Network could decide that they’re just going to attack. There’s all these different possibilities. And we’re effectively helpless to protect people who are stuck outside the gates, right? Military’s protecting the airport and the interior. Outside those gates, we’re at the mercy of the Taliban, Clay, and we’re just hoping that they can keep security enough that there won’t be this kind of an attack.

CLAY: Yeah, and this is the great fear going forward is even if there isn’t an attack outside of the airport now, that in pulling out as ridiculously and haphazardly as we have, we have created an incredible breeding ground for terrorists of many different organizations. And whether or not the Taliban is gonna have any ability to control them or any desire to control them is a major part of this issue going forward.

Again, I would just circle back to the question. Obviously, we have a Democratic House and we have a Democratic Senate and that factors in in a big way. But if the standard for impeachment is a phone call that Donald Trump had with the president of Ukraine, how in the world is all of the failure in Afghanistan not even infinitely more of grounds for potential impeachment? Now, the answer can be, well, again, the Republicans don’t control the House or the Senate.

BUCK: And stupidity is not the same thing as corruption. That’s what the Democrats will say.

CLAY: (laughing)

BUCK: I mean, they won’t say that, I should add. But that’s what the answer effectively will be. “This is for the voters to decide. This is not for the process.” Now, I’m with you. The phone call, the report that was put out by the Mueller probe — which, the whole thing was a sham — they’ve debased impeachment such that if we were using a uniform standard, yeah, of course.

CLAY: He’d be impeached hundred percent.

BUCK: But they’ll fall back on the, “Okay. So Joe Biden’s the most incompetent commander-in-chief since Jimmy Carter,” maybe before that, actually, if we’re really gonna say it.

CLAY: I think he’s way more incompetent than Jimmy Carter because Jimmy Carter, for all the insults that you can levy his way, certainly his tenure as president was a mess and the only reason he got elected was because of Watergate, but Jimmy Carter was incredibly intelligent —

BUCK: Yeah, a smart guy.

CLAY: — and was involved in being able to make intelligent decisions inside of the White House during his presidency. I don’t believe either of those things are true of Joe Biden.

BUCK: One of the great frustrations that I think — and I know we have a lot of callers who’ve been calling in and voicing this — some making it on the air, others just talking to our team here and letting it be known — this was all so predictable.

CLAY: Yeah.

BUCK: I mean, not just the debacle of Joe Biden in charge of Afghanistan but we were all sitting here, waving our arms, jumping up and down saying, “Guys, Joe Biden is a clown! Joe Biden is a sub-mediocrity. This guy was rejected resoundingly by Democrat voters numerous times before this most recent election.”

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: They all knew that he wasn’t up for this, but this time around during covid as you and I discussed many times, hiding in the basement, “How bad can he be? Return to normalcy.” This became the pitch and so all the sudden he’s the guy. But not only was this predictable, Clay, we predicted it, meaning that the people that were trying to raise the left arm bells about what Biden would mean for national security, the border, the economy, the regulatory state, covid lockdowns, all of this. What we’ve said is coming to pass already and actually, I think, maybe the only criticism we could have of ourselves is maybe it’s even worse than we said it would be.

CLAY: I think it is even worse, because I think it’s even worse eight months in, because I watch Joe Biden every time he has a press conference, and I legitimately wonder whether he’s going to make it through or not. And I can’t imagine he’s gonna make it through four years.

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Horror: Cuomo Hid 12,000 Additional Nursing Home Deaths

25 Aug 2021

CLAY: We know that Andrew Cuomo — the Cuomosexual Brigade has diminished, I would say, substantially — is now out of the New York governor’s mansion and immediately upon his departure, his successor announced that they have found 12,000 more covid deaths. As of Monday, Cuomo had reported that 43,400 people died of covid.

The new governor says the actual number is 55,400. She says, “There’s a lot of things that weren’t happening. I’m going to make them happen. We’re releasing more data than had been released before publicly, so people know the nursing home deaths and the hospital deaths are consistent.”

There was a large discrepancy found from people that Cuomo was trying to keep from tallying because he didn’t want to hurt his overall book sales when he got $5 million to write about what a hero he was in responding to covid. And now, by the way, he’s also lost his Emmy. Your reaction as a New Yorker, Buck Sexton.

BUCK: The new governor is not much better than the old governor when you look at the policies.

CLAY: (laughs) Yeah.

BUCK: But I don’t think she’s gonna be groping female state troopers or doing some of the stuff that Cuomo was accused of. But that was by far a lesser issue for me. People hear that and say, “What do you mean?” It’s a lesser issue than the catastrophic decision made to send covid-positive seniors into nursing homes where we still now look at this, and it’s either New York or New Jersey, which everyone has to think of —

CLAY: It’s one conglomerate, yeah.

BUCK: It’s northern New Jersey, the New York metropolitan area. The New York City metropolitan area was the epicenter of the whole covid pandemic in the beginning, the worth per capita death rate of anywhere in the country within — one of the worst in the world, if you were to separate out New York and New Jersey. And think of how obtuse it was, Clay. He got an Emmy! He got a multimillion-dollar book deal!

CLAY: (laughing) I know.

BUCK: The only thing weirder than Cuomosexuals were the Faucisexuals because there were some of them, too. (impression) “Fauci’s so hot, look at him with those glasses.”

CLAY: He said he wanted Brad Pitt to play him.

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IQ of a Toaster: Oregon Governor Orders Outdoor Masks

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BUCK: Clay, we keep thinking — or at least a lot of well-intentioned, smart people on the right, just reasonable people… Forget about the politics of it. Eventually the lockdowners will be too crazy, and they’ll have their jump-the-shark moment. All right?

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: We keep thinking we’ll get to this place like when I was saying that Fauci was going to call for double masking months before he did, I thought, “At that point, people will realize this is all idiocy.”

CLAY: They’ll stand up.

BUCK: Didn’t happen. We keep thinking the incrementalism will finally cross that red line even if it’s just a little bit more, just two weeks, just whatever. Here is a moment where any reasonable human being, regardless of their politics, should say that the political leadership, elites in this country, the apparatus of control has completely lost its mind. I mean, the people that are making these decisions are crazy. Here’s Oregon governor Kate Brown, who is among the worst governors in the country. Now that Cuomo’s gone and Newsom’s hanging on, would you put her up there?

CLAY: Whitmer. Yeah, Whitmer in Michigan.

BUCK: We put her top five, though?

CLAY: Yeah, she’s top five, worse. She’s top five. We still gotta get to what Cuomo’s been accused of, by the way, as they now found more covid deaths that he’s responsible for. But this is emblematic to me, Buck, of where we are. Everybody’s answer now, when you look at Oregon — which has record hospitalization rates despite high vaccinations and constant mask wearing — is, “We just gotta lock down harder,” even though there’s no data to support it.

BUCK: And here’s a perfect example. Oregon governor Kate Brown has imposed — get ready for it — an outdoor mask mandate!

BROWN: I’m announcing that effective Friday, August 27th, masks will be required in all public outdoor settings where physical distancing is not possible regardless of vaccination status. Masks have proven to be effective at reducing transmission and are a necessary measure right now, even in some outdoor settings, to help us fight covid and to protect one another.

Oregon’s governor, facing a new high in covid hospitalizations, imposes a new outdoor mask mandate to add to the indoor mask mandate. When are people going to realize masks don’t work? The data doesn’t lie. pic.twitter.com/Y3PYQ4je2c

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) August 25, 2021

BUCK: Everything she says there is a lie. Everything.

CLAY: All of it!

BUCK: All of it. All of it. There’s no data to prove this. In fact, the CDC… We are now at the point, Clay, where they’re just saying things that everyone knows are false, but they expect you to comply because they think we’ve been trained to do that. We’ve been forced and coerced to do that. Outdoor masks? No one thinks that that’s helping anything. No one actually can believe that who has an IQ above that of a toaster.

CLAY: And here’s also what is happening. We are increasingly diverging from what other intelligent European countries are doing. England yesterday, Buck, with all of their kids going back to school, implemented no mask mandate because there’s not science to support it. And yet you’ve got Oregon and many other states out there where they are just masking down harder, and there’s no data.

Let me say this. I don’t know if you saw this, but a couple of my followers came and said, “Hey, we’re being quizzed by Twitter about anti-mask tweets that you are putting up,” meaning me. I know we talked about this before. I think Twitter is trying to set up an opportunity to ban me from Twitter, because I’m not toeing the company line, arguing that masks actually work because there’s no data at all that they work in schools for kids.

And the cloth masks, as was recently proven, are virtually worthless. And the idea that masking up outdoors? This is like you see somebody driving in their car by themselves with the mask on. There are so many people who have bought in to the mask brigade, and they are completely loony bin insane because there’s no data to support what they’re doing. But even worse than making that personal choice themselves, they’re lecturing everybody else not making the same choice.

BUCK: Also, I think at some level, the people that are doing this stuff, it’s like they’re pursuing themselves through these absurd measures. They think that they’re showing they’re better people. They think that by taking these steps, they’re setting an example for others even when it doesn’t make scientific sense. They’ve started to see this in different places here and there. They act like the mere… Look, it’s religious ritual, is basically what I’m saying.

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: This is now religious ritual time where instead of —

CLAY: Wokeism is a religion. It’s replaced many other religions that used to be important in the United States.

BUCK: And we have to see it as such because we’ve now gotten to the point where pointing out to them what their own data and their own statements say, it does not matter. In fact, the more they’re willing to reject what is rational and true, the more devoted they are to the religion of Fauci-ism. This is what this has turned into.

Otherwise, Kate Brown saying that you have to mask up outside…? How is it these people get away with never being called on the carpet, so to speak, on this one? How is a journalist not asking the first time that they get an opportunity, “What the heck are you talking about, Kate Brown?”

CLAY: It’s a fantastic question.

BUCK: “What are you smoking?” It is Oregon; so probably a lot.

CLAY: It’s what journalists should exist to do, right? In the old days, journalists existed to challenge people in positions of power. Now journalists primarily exist to make sure that the only opinions that are allowed are whatever the consensus opinions are, Buck. I mean, I sit around and I think about this a lot. Social media has so become a rush to consensus, right? Conflict can be good. Conflict is healthy.

People disagreeing is good because typically it leads to a stronger agreement in the long run. That’s the entire basis of the marketplace idea’s theory. Social media is the opposite of that, Buck. People like you and me who are sharing a minority opinion — which, by the way, is correct — that masks don’t work, that masks don’t work in school; that’s what all the data is.

But instead of saying, “Hey, look at what these guys Clay and Buck are talking about,” there are relatively few journalists that will even acknowledge or question. This is like the conversation we had with the New York Magazine guy. He says, “I get crushed for actually talking about the data. We’re in a scary place where facts don’t matter.”

BUCK: The people who push this stuff never have to be challenged live and in real time on what they’re doing.

CLAY: It’s true.

BUCK: This is one of the enormous failures of our entire media apparatus at this point because it used to be — and you and I have talked about this, Clay, just as guys chatting about the business we’re in offline. It used to be that they would have people that disagreed with orthodoxy on CNN.

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: They didn’t treat them well. They weren’t fair to them. But they would put them on air. Maybe they would throw tomatoes at them, so to speak. It used to be that there was some impulse among people that call themselves journalists to ask real questions even of those who are within their party. We all know journalists pretend they’re all independents. That’s a lie. But now we’re at that point where the only person…

This is why it’s so cathartic to watch Dr. Rand Paul slap around the little totalitarian Smurf Fauci for a bit, and it’s because that’s the only time we get to see somebody who is challenged on making these decisions that are so stupid, do not work. We have the proof’ we have the receipts. How do they still get away with this? Because a lot of people of goodwill all along have thought, “Okay. Just two weeks. Oh, it’s not gonna happen in my state. Oh, this is somebody else’s problem.” This is everybody’s problem, folks. Don’t even get me started (’cause we will get started) on the vax mandates that are coming, ’cause it’s coming everywhere.

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Oregon’s governor, facing a new high in covid hospitalizations, imposes a new outdoor mask mandate to add to the indoor mask mandate. When are people going to realize masks don’t work? The data doesn’t lie. pic.twitter.com/Y3PYQ4je2c

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Blockbuster: Biden Approval Drops to 41% in USA Today Poll

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CLAY: I want to begin here with a pretty, I think it’s fair to say, blockbuster poll finding. It’s rare we say a blockbuster poll finding from USA Today. Joe Biden’s approval rating has fallen all the way down to 41%, according to USA Today. Only 32% of independents say Biden is doing a good job; 55% of people disapprove of the job that Joe Biden is doing. Again, this is a USA Today poll.

Only 26% of Americans approve of the job Biden has done withdrawing from Afghanistan, 39% approval on the economy, and even covid — which was to be the saving grace of Joe Biden — 50% now approval and falling there. A bunch of other stories that we are gonna hit. I’m gonna hit Buck with all that data and see what he thinks here momentarily.

You got doctors saying they don’t want to serve the unvaccinated in South Florida. Budget drama in the House of Representatives with more Democrats demanding a vote on infrastructure before they will support the $3.5 trillion Bernie Sanders budget. Afghanistan mess. A debate over what the word “stranded” means. That’s how strangled the messaging has become in Joe Biden’s White House. And we’ve got more covid madness.

LSU. LSU, yes! The Bayou Bengals are now requiring either vaccines or negative tests to go to college football games this fall. They join Oregon and Oregon State. This is going to be wildly controversial all over the South where people are not supporting vaccine passports. But, Buck Sexton, we have been talking about what the impact of Afghanistan — this unmitigated disaster from Joe Biden — would be.

And whether it might connect to failures on the border, failures on the economy, failures on covid, failures across the board when it comes to public safety, murders in particular. He’s at 41% approval, 32% among independent voters. This is unheard-of-level collapse for a Democratic president. I can’t even remember in your and mine’s lives any Democratic president who was ever this low on the flowchart.

BUCK: Remember back in the day when there was that moment with the State Department, Clay, where Hillary Clinton was the secretary of state, and a question — a pretty innocuous question, it would seem — came up? “Well, what did Hillary Clinton…?” This was toward the end of her tenure. “What did Hillary Clinton accomplish?” As in, what are the things that she did?

‘Cause we heard about how she traveled everywhere. And there was the most telling silence and then stumble, stumble, nonsense, nonsense that I think occurred in the entirety of the Clinton era in the State Department. The answer was there was no answer because there were no accomplishments. Nothing. Nothing that anybody would recognize as such. We are at the place already — and this is what you’re getting into with this polling data.

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: Early on we saw with Biden, with the executive orders, the kind of things that he signed, that he was willing to be a pass-through and a Trojan horse for the left, right? It was right in the beginning. Keystone XL pipeline. Why do you do that? Why do you get rid of that? Well, because you want to just throw something to your left-wing environmentalist base. There’s no rational policy reason.

And that was just one of many, right? Remember the executive orders? So we saw that he was that but there was still this belief that could linger that he would follow through on the promises he made of the campaign. “I’m gonna crush the virus, not the economy. We’re gonna restore normalcy! We’re gonna restore America’s standing in the world,” whatever that really means.

And all these things that he said, we are already seeing in year one, it’s not that he’s not following through on this and accomplishing it, he’s going in the opposite direction. There’s no good case to be made that Biden is not year one a disaster on everything that matters, including the promise to get us back to normal from covid, by the way.

CLAY: He can’t even, Buck, read off of a teleprompter now without me thinking he might collapse. The way he walks when he leaves the teleprompter. He’s eight months in, and I don’t want to overexaggerate here, because I don’t think we are. A 41% approval rating is an unmitigated disaster for Democrats.

And I have to wonder whether they are going to question a lot of these moderates — Kyrsten Sinema, Joe Manchin, the 10 House Democrats, the seven who are in districts that were won by Donald Trump that they are still representing in the House, whether some of these people — are gonna say, “We’re not going to support this three and a half trillion-dollar budget bill.” Look, 41% is… Even with the failed polling that was surrounding Donald Trump, Trump almost never got down that low.

I just don’t see anything that’s gonna happen that’s gonna raise Biden back up. There have to be so many people in the White House now… ‘Cause they do their own polling, right? And they have some version of this. But to have a 41% approval rating in USA Today — which it’s important to note, Buck, is not exactly known as a rabidly conservative polling organization. This is every alarm bell known to mankind has to be going off in the White House.

BUCK: The silver lining… Far be it for me to find the silver lining from the Biden administration and this White House, Clay. But if you were asked to find one, it would be of course, for us, for people on the right, there’s… I don’t know. It’s bittersweet because there’s the victory dance moment of, “We were right. This guys a deteriorating, bumbling, stumbling clown.

“It was reckless and dishonest to foist him… After his basement hiding and all the election changing and rule breaking that was going on, it was reckless and dishonest to foist him upon the American people.” So you and I can sit here and say —

CLAY AND BUCK: We told you so.

BUCK: — but we also want what’s best for the country. I see what’s going on in Afghanistan. I see what’s going on in the southern border. I see what’s going on with the rise in crime in major U.S. cities and now that level staying far elevated above where it was in terms of shootings and murders. And I say, these are the things — these are the nuts and bolts of what you really care about when it comes to political leadership. And the Biden administration is failing. The silver lining, if I can find one, for the Biden team is that, Clay, it’s so bad in year one.

To what you were saying a second ago, how do you turn this around? It’s so bad in year one that year two it feels like there’s nowhere to go but up. He’s not facing a midterm election this fall. If he were, I think so anybody who’s being honest would say it would be a catastrophic loss for Democrats. They’re lucky that he’s screwing up so badly year one because year two, you gotta think, is gonna be better. Although what has Afghanistan shown us? This Biden administration is capable of going below our lowest expectations when it comes to competence, wisdom, and strategy.

CLAY: Yeah. And I actually think, Buck, things can get worse. Because if you dive into these numbers… First of all, you know how hard it is to have a 26% approval rating on something? He’s at 26% approval on his Afghan withdrawal right now. I mean, that means that Democrats are all refusing to even stand by him.

BUCK: Yeah. I think cold sores have a 26% approval rating.

CLAY: Yeah. That’s what I’m saying. That’s hard to get 26% approval rating. Thirty-two percent approval rating for independents. These are people who are not affiliated with one party or the other. And the only thing that’s holding up for him right now, Buck — and this is why I think it can get a lot worse. He’s still got a 50% approval rating on covid. And let me play this from Dr. Fauci, your boy, saying that things (chuckles) might be getting able to get back to normal by the spring of 2022! Play cut 12.

FAUCI: If we could do that with the people who’ve been infected — get them revaccinated; the people who are unvaccinated now, that 90 million people, get them vaccinated — I think we can get a degree of overall blanket protection of the community that, as we get into the early part of 2022, getting through the winter — which could be complicated by influenza, by respiratory syncytial virus, that as we get into the spring, we could start getting back to a degree of normality.

BUCK: (impression) “You know, he likes to use the longer version of words — interstitial whatever, whatever — ‘influenza’ instead of ‘flu,'” ’cause, Clay, he wants you to think that he’s still smart and you should listen to him. This guy… I swear, there are very few people in government who make me angry to the point where I want to start breaking things and cursing loudly. That they still put him on TV is just horrific. That anyone listens to him is mind-blowing. I just feel like never has a man so unimpressive been wrong so often with terrible consequences for so many. I’ve never seen anything like this before.

CLAY: Fifteen days to stop the spread has now turned into two years to stop the spread and here’s what I think —

BUCK: At best, by the way.

CLAY: At best, two years. And so that’s why I think things can get worse for Biden because you and I have been saying the expectation — I think it’s reasonable — is that as we go into the fall and the winter, that the Delta variant, covid, whatever other variant is gonna be circulating by then is probably going to continue to rise. That’s what the data would reflect, the number of cases.

And Biden is just going to be sitting there, sort of impotently without any answers. And the only thing that he’s been able to stay a bit above water on is covid? But by the fall-winter, people are going to say, “Hey, it’s on you now. Eight months in, 10 months in, a year in, you can’t point to any issues now with Donald Trump. You told us you were going to fix this, and you haven’t.” And combining that with all the other failures — Buck, you were saying, “Hey, if I’m a Democrat, here’s why I’m optimistic.”

BUCK: No, no, no, no. (laughing) Not optimistic. Silver lining.

CLAY: Silver lining. Right? Things can’t get worse. I think some Democrats right now as they work through the budget, I think that wouldn’t may just say, “Screw it. We’re gonna get destroyed next year, but we’ve gotta get through this budget right now because otherwise we’re not gonna be able to accomplish anything.” And the thing I wonder is whether all these moderates — and they do exist in the Democratic Party — are gonna say, “Hey, we’ll support you on infrastructure, but this budget is dead on arrival.”

That’s what they should be saying if they want to keep their seats next year. I’m not sure whether they’re going to be willing to do it. But that’s what they should be saying. And this is… I mean, 41% approval, that’s unheard of for a Democratic president. Think about all the positive media attention he’s gotten, Buck, and that still we’ve reached that level.

BUCK: Can it get worse for Biden? We can put that one to all of you out there.

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24 Aug 2021

BUCK: We had a caller, if you recall, last week named Josh who was a veteran who served in Afghanistan who said he was in contact with his interpreter that he’s been trying to help get out. Josh joins us now on the phone. Josh, we appreciate your time. Give us an update as to where things are right now.

JOSH: Hi, guys. So, I ended up making contact with the interpreter again. He waited at the airport for four days with his family — little bit — almost no food, no water, and the military ended up kicking him out of the base. And when he went through the base, outside, the Taliban started searching people and started kidnapping people. And he made it through because he hides all of his documents in his wife’s burqa.

So, luckily, they didn’t search his wife. They searched him and his other family members. But he got through, got home, and now he has no idea what to do. He’s stuck there. I filed for SIV for him to get him here two to three months ago, and so Biden’s saying, “Oh, a lot of Afghans don’t want to come here.” That absolutely isn’t true. There’s been a wait list for Afghans to come here for months. It isn’t like a new thing. “Oh, now the Taliban are taking over. Now they want to come here.”

BUCK: Josh, I want to… We actually have… I know that you’re able to be in some contact with your translator. We’re gonna call him “Mike.” It’s not his name, folks. We’re trying to create some operational security baseline here. But “Mike” is the Afghan translator who is on the ground there just dealing with what Josh told us about. This audio… We have a recording, and this is what he had to say.

“MIKE”: I help American people. Right now, I need the help. Someone from America help me! Help me someone, please! Help my life from here. But I go there at the Kabul airports but I don’t have any good documents. You know, I have a, just copy of the paper and it, my badge. I have HR letter from floor company, and I have a signed document from SIV company. He needs a passport from me, American passport. He needs a visa. He needs a green card. But I don’t have any. Please, I need help from American peoples. Help me! Someone, help for me please! I’m going to die here. You know? I’m targeted by the Taliban here. I’m targeted. Maybe, maybe they are kill me.

BUCK: Josh, it’s heartbreaking, man. I know this was your translator. This was somebody that was alongside you over there and trying to help our country and keep our people alive in Afghanistan. What has to happen here for him to be able to get through?

JOSH: I mean, other interpreters have been allowed to fly out. I don’t get why they kicked him out. He told me they’re only allowing Americans or people with visas to leave. But I don’t get that. He has paperwork from me. I’ve sponsored him. He has all that paperwork from the embassy from months ago. It makes no sense why they would kick him out of the base. They’re sending him to his death, almost.

CLAY: Have you, Josh, had any contact with American politicians? I know a lot of different — and maybe we can help you get in touch with American political helpers here because a lot of them who have come on our show and certainly there have been a lot of people active on social media — senators, congressmen — who are able to help get people out. Where are you based, Josh? Where are you located?

JOSH: I’m located in California. I’ve emailed a bunch of senators. I’ve gotten no replies. I emailed a major that helped someone on another radio station, and I’ve gotten no reply from him, either. I’m guessing they’re extremely busy right now. But —

CLAY: All right. Here’s what we’re gonna do. Ali, who is on our staff, has been working hard on this. Ali, we’re gonna put more onto your plate here. I’m betting if we reach out to some of our guests of late, Senator Marsha Blackburn, Senator Haggerty, one of those individuals. I know Senator Tom Cotton has been very active in trying to help people get out there who are “stranded,” despite what Jen Psaki has said.

So we may need to reach out to one of those politicians that has been involved with our show to maybe help this man get out of Afghanistan, Josh. So we’re gonna try to work, and we’ll keep people updated on the show. You called in, for people who are not familiar with this story, to tell us about this man’s story last week, I think it was, or the week before. So thank you, Josh. We’re gonna continue to track this and we’ll try to reach out direct to politicians to see if we can help him get onto a plane and not get killed, frankly, by the Taliban, which you heard his voice yourself. He sounds like he is terrified it’s gonna happen.

JOSH: Yeah, he’s scared, and I’m scared to death for him because I feel like his life is almost in my hands. No one else is helping him, and I’m like a nobody. I got medically retired as an E5. So who am I?

BUCK: Well, you’re on the biggest radio show in the country now telling a lot of people listening about what’s going on here who care about it, Josh —

JOSH: Thank you.

BUCK: — and we’re gonna do what we can to try to get this resolved.

JOSH: Thank you.

BUCK: There’s a lot of folks who are in a similar situation to your “Mike” over there, but we’re gonna try to drill down into this case and see if we can move any levers to help your guy and to help others there, we’ll do so. And we appreciate you, Josh, first of all, for your service and for bringing this to our attention for joining us here on the air. Thank you very much.

JOSH: Thank you guys. You guys have a great day.

BUCK: Clay, it’s heartbreaking man. You could hear in that guy’s voice, that’s just a human being who’s got a wife and kids who’s terrified.

CLAY: Yeah.

BUCK: And here we are now also having to focus on the fact we got thousands of Americans still in harm’s way.

CLAY: Yeah.

BUCK: We gotta get our Americans out first. We want to get as many Afghans out as we can. It just — it defies belief that this could be as badly handled as this. I know that that’s not a helpful line of analysis now, but I do think it’s necessary to just put that out there. How the heck is the Biden administration messing this up so badly?

CLAY: Yeah. I talked about this on Sunday when I was speaking to a large group. We’ve talked a lot about CRT and the failures of America and the people who want to denigrate our country. You hear that voice from that Afghan man, and you see the imagery of people literally falling to their deaths as they were attempting to hang onto airplanes to leave Afghanistan.

And you see how much these people are willing to give up their entire lives to be able to have a scintilla of the freedom that we take for granted every day. And that’s why I know for many of you out there and certainly for Buck and I, we get so fired up at the constant derogation, denigration, attacks that are leveled upon the United States.

When you hear that man’s voice, you have to recognize that we are and have always been the greatest hope for freedom in all of human history. And the fact that the Biden administration could bungle this for tens of thousands of people just like that translator you heard talking to us, is just disgraceful and disgusting at an elemental level. They have fundamentally broken in many ways the compact of American excellence by their futility. It’s just… It’s infuriating.

BUCK: I’m hopeful that we’ll at least get some good news in the days ahead. Hopeful. It’s just like I said with, what was it, get them McCall where he said he feels there’s no way we’re gonna get all the Americans out. And if we’re not getting all the Americans out, Clay, I think it’s very clear we’re also not gonna get out all the Afghans.

CLAY: No doubt.

BUCK: There are Afghans who just want to get out of the country ’cause they hate the Taliban. I’m sympathetic to them. But that’s not the same thing as an Afghan who worked with our military and —

CLAY: Risked their lives.

BUCK: — risked their lives, risked their family’s lives, and was promised that when the time came, they would gut out. If we’re not gonna all the Americans out, we’re not getting them out.

CLAY: Yeah.

BUCK: That’s for sure. So now it’s just a question of how bad it’s gonna be. Folks, this is not gonna be a story with an ending that America is proud of at all. That’s what I see coming here. We’ll continue to follow it. I would be overjoyed if on the first week of September — the first day we do the show in the middle of next week — I can say, “Wow, Clay. Biden really got it together and surprised me. They actually were able to mount up and get this done.” Eating my words on this one being fantastic. I think the chances of that are very slim, and I think you and I both know that.

CLAY: Yeah. I don’t think there’s any doubt.

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