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Taliban Tells Biden to Go Pound Sand

24 Aug 2021

BUCK: Here’s from the Associated Press: “Biden Decides to Stick with the August 31st Final Pullout from Kabul.” You might think to yourself, “Well, hold on a second. Why would Biden do that? I mean, he must have come up with some new, ingenious plan to get greater efficiency out of the evacuation flights they’re running.

“Maybe they have some secret contingency, Operation XYZ, that they’re now instituting that’s gonna get people out even faster.” You might think that because of the way the stories are posed here. But that’s actually not what’s happening. There’s also reporting on how the CIA director, William Burns, met with Mullah Baradar, the head of the Taliban, and asked, “Hey, can we have an extension?” So on behalf of the Biden administration, Clay, there’s a request for an extension for the evacuation for what people are calling Biden’s Dunkirk, which it does certainly feel a lot like that.

CLAY: Yeah.

BUCK: And the Taliban said “no.” And now the compliant media is reporting on this as though the Biden administration made this decision. This is like someone who gets fired saying, “You can’t fire me. I’ve already quit.” That’s not how it works.

CLAY: Are you suggesting, Buck Sexton, that our strongly worded letter to the Taliban letting them know that if they didn’t play nice, that there were gonna be significant U.N. consequences did not make the Taliban actually play nice? This is embarrassing. This is a complete failure, an abrogation of leadership by Joe Biden.

And the rule used to be “we don’t negotiate with terrorists.” Now, we are not only negotiating with terrorists, Buck, we are allowing the terrorists to dictate terms to us. This is humiliating, and if Joe Biden had a spine or a functional military that had a spine, this would not be happening.

BUCK: I think the Taliban understands U.S. politics on this issue pretty well, and they realize that the last thing Joe Biden wants to have to do is go on TV and say, “We are reopening major hostilities against the Taliban because we’ve suffered” —

CLAY: You’re right.

BUCK: — “major U.S. casualties, civilian and military, on the ground from a massive Taliban assault.” So they’ve got ’em. My friend Jim Carafano from the Heritage Foundation wrote a piece in the New York Post where he called the biggest hostage crisis ever.

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: They haven’t quite been taken hostage, but they aren’t just hanging out because they missed their flight to the Bahamas. And if you listen to Jen Psaki talking about this, which we should get to in a moment here, she really does seem to take this attitude of “no big deal!” It’s like they missed their Southwest flight and there will be another one any moment now.” No, Clay, they’re in imminent danger, and the White House isn’t instilling a whole lot of confidence that they’re gonna get every American out by August 31st.

CLAY: Yeah. And, honestly, she’s arguing about whether or not Peter Doocy can use the word “stranded,” when I think it’s pretty fair to say that the literal definition of the word “stranded” would reflect that if you are unable to leave the place that you are currently in, that you are, in fact, stranded. And I think that that’s a valid position that she could put in place.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

CLAY: One of the biggest issues the Biden White House has — aside from a president who can barely read or walk or maintain functional capabilities — is even the people who surround Joe Biden keep saying dumb things. The president is having to bail out some of his spokespeople, including Jen “I was on vacation during the biggest collapse in American foreign policy in my life” Psaki who said two really stupid things, Buck, yesterday in the press conference.

BUCK: Only two?

CLAY: The first one… Yeah, only two. I’m only gonna focus on two. These are demonstrably false statements that are incredibly dumb. The first one — you can play cut 5 here — is arguing that there are not American citizens and translators and people who have assisted us “stranded” in Afghanistan. Listen to this — when we know and in fact in hour 2, we’re going to talk to one person who is stranded in Afghanistan. We know that this is actually true even though Jen Psaki says it’s false.

PSAKI: First of all, I think it’s irresponsible to say Americans are “stranded.” They are not! We are committed to bringing Americans who want to come home, home. We are in touch of them via phone, via text, via email, via any way that we can possibly reach Americans to get them home if they want to return home.

DOOCY: There are no Americans stranded is the White House’s official position on what’s happening in Afghanistan right now?

PSAKI: I’m just calling you out for saying that we are stranding Americans in Afghanistan when I suh — when we have been very clear that we are not leaving Americans who want to return home. We are going to bring them home, and I think that’s important for the public to hear and understand.

BUCK: (impression) “They’re just, like, not stranded, Clay. They’re, like, a little delayed.”

CLAY: (laughing)

BUCK: You’ve gotta be kidding me. Tthe fact that you have the White House press secretary here, first of all, clearly just taking a swipe at the only guy who consistently gets to ask or is willing to ask real questions in the press corps that make the Biden administration a little uneasy and that she would dig it on this, Clay, it’s definition-of-stranded.

CLAY: I’ve got the definition of stranded right here in front of me, Buck. Here is the definition of stranded. “Left without the means to move from somewhere.” There are a lot of people, it seems to me, Buck Sexton, who are left without the means to move from somewhere right now in Afghanistan. Literally, they are stranded.

BUCK: I can only imagine if you’re an American right now and you’re already, first of all, very frightened — and I’ve talked to people who in contact with Americans on the ground still just in the last couple of days. You’re very concerned about what’s gonna happen — and it is very concerning. There’s no way around this, right? This is a dangerous situation. It’s a volatile situation, fissile, and those people are concerned.

They’ve already gotta be fuming over the idiocy of the Biden administration — the grotesque incompetence, the monumental stupidity — and then you add this into the mix? You know, you start to wonder, are they just thinking, “I’m just gonna… I’m gonna walk over the border of Pakistan and take my chances. These people are out of their minds.”

CLAY: Choose your battles, right? Arguing over the definition of the word “stranded” when you are in the wrong is just flagrantly inaccurate. You can say, “Hey, I understand some people who want out are not able to get out right now. We are going to try, and we are going to get everyone out,” right?

This is not a… I’m always astounded. We talk for a living, Buck. Simon always astounded by the incompetence of people who talk for a living in government. I feel like I could go do a press briefing for a Democratic or a Republican president, prepare for a couple of hours, and doing a good job. As a lawyer, you advocate for things all the time that you may not personally believe in. This is not the world’s most difficult job.

BUCK: But I think it’s also the White House here showing you and White House staffers showing you that there’s a sensitivity to, “Oh, gosh. Fox News has a reporter who’s got me cornered here,” and that upsets them almost more than anything else. It’s the optics control that they’re so worried about because now they’re finally in a place, how do they handle the border? They have the media not cover it.

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: That’s an enormously consequential editorial decision made by major newspapers and cable news channels —

CLAY: Just pretend it doesn’t exist.

BUCK: — except for one all across the country. It’s as if there’s no problem at the border ’cause they just won’t talk about it, right? Similar thing with crime going on right now. If you’re a Republican president and you would have the rise in crime you have that continued into this year after the lockdowns ended, you would have stories about it all the time. This is one of those issues where, because we have Americans who are imminently in harm’s way.

Thousands of them — we don’t even know — 10,000, 15,000; who knows? — are in contact with people back in the states ’cause they still have comms, they still have phones. They can’t ignore this, Clay. And they were ready to take a victory lap on it, too, right? Joe Biden’s speech a month ago was supposed to set up how he was a great leader on foreign policy.

CLAY: September 11th. The reason he wants out by August 31st is because 20 years after September 11th he wanted to be able to have a speech saying, “I ended this war. We’re all back in America now.”

BUCK: And this has blown up in the administration’s face in a way that even their staunchest allies in the media cannot hide, cannot cover up for, and that’s why there is this scramble. That’s why you have a circumstance where the White House press secretary will get caught up in saying something so dumb because her first goal… You know this.

Her first goal is not to provide information necessary for the proper consideration of America as a republic where people actually elect their leaders. Her primary goal is to try to crush Fox News, prevent conservative media from scoring points against Biden, and lead the easily misled into thinking that Joe Biden is not a blanking moron.

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: That’s her primary goal.

CLAY: That is accurate. And what I would say, Buck, is significant here is, this failure is cutting through. Even without the media having aggressively covered Joe Biden, he has a 32% approval rate among independents, Buck. Twenty-six percent approval rate for the Afghanistan withdrawal. (laughing) And, by the way, I’d like to know who the 26% are. You know, most people are busy. Most people are busy in their day-to-day life, Buck.

They don’t have time to sit around and monitor every little nuance of the news. But when you see that the Taliban took over Afghanistan, when you see the footage — even if it’s just an occasional still photograph — and you see the incompetence, it is cutting through. And I think a lot of Americans are watching Joe Biden speak. Again, they hid him, and they kept him in the basement and he barely talked for his entire campaign. And they’re thinking, “My God. I don’t even know if this guy’s gonna be able to finish reading what’s off the teleprompter in front of him every single day.”

BUCK: I keep seeing headlines: “Biden won’t extend deadline” is what they report.

CLAY: Yeah. They’re trying to spin it.

BUCK: That is not the headline. The headline should be, “Taliban will not extend deadline.” That’s the world we’re actually in right now, folks.

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: I hate having to say that out loud, but they have, on this issue, checkmated the Biden administration. There’s no way around this. There’s no reality in which they aren’t having to go and ask… I mean, they’re already in communication with Taliban checkpoints and Taliban leadership saying, “Please, please, let the Americans through,” and now we’ve asked for an extension on the deadline. They’ve said “no.”

I gotta tell you, I just feel like in Donald Trump were commander-in-chief, there would be a very different feeling here, because the Taliban would have to take into account, “Oh, this guy might actually decide that he’s gonna punch back and punch back even harder if we so much as harm one hair on one head of an American.” I just think it would be a different conversation underway. I think they can see… Because they’re not watching MSNBC and believing that it’s objective, I think the Taliban can see that Joe Biden is a clown and they’ve got him. That’s what I think.

CLAY: I think you’re right. You don’t have to be a genius to recognize when you have a strategic advantage at play. Think about it, Buck. They know that Joe Biden is an incompetent leader, because they made the decision to take over Afghanistan before August 31st. They could have just waited and said, “Hey, we’ll try to take over this country come September 1.”

Instead, with the Americans all still there, they had so little respect for us and our leadership that they decided to go over and begin the process of overrunning the entire country. I don’t know how much more clear-cut the lack of respect could be. You saw the picture of the Taliban reenacting Iwo Jima.

BUCK: They are trolling us.

CLAY: They’re mocking us.

BUCK: They are trolling us.

CLAY: Yep.

BUCK: That’s absolutely what’s going on right now.

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Fascist Fauciites Gear Up to Bar Unvaxxed Kids from School

24 Aug 2021

BILL DE BLASIO: Overwhelmingly, what I expect is that the adults who work in schools who actually do love kids — the vast majority of them are there ’cause they care about children — that they’ll ultimately do the right thing. Now, look, human beings do well when they have carrot and stick. So a mandate helps people to realize it’s time. FDA final approval on Pfizer said, “It’s time.”

Now, the Biden administration can do something else that would really help us all move forward: Speed approval of the vaccine from the 5- to 11-year-olds. They’ve gotta make this a central priority. Get that vaccine ready for the 5- to 11-year-olds, and then there’s not even a question anymore about our schools. Everyone in the school building at that point could be vaccinated.

BUCK: Welcome back to the Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show. I wanted you to hear it from that appalling fascist, Bill de Blasio, the mayor of New York City who’s got one more year, and I gotta tell you, this guy is the absolute worst, the absolute worst. It’s amazing that he could be in the position he’s in for as long as he’s been. It’s honestly depressing for the City of New York, although there are bad mayors in major cities ’cause they’re Democrats.

Let’s be honest, they’re leftists. And here he is saying probably something that you would have thought even a few months ago would have been… First of all, his carrots and stick thing makes me enraged. Like, the sticks that they’re beating people in Australia with because they want to say stop acting like we have to be under martial law for two people a day dying from what is essentially now not even a really bad flu season in Australia?

It’s not even a flu season. The whole thing is crazy. I think that’s outrageous for an American politician at any level to speak that way. But, Clay, they want to vax up your 5-year-old. They want to make your 5-year-old — not that you have only 5-year-old. I know you got three other kids. But you see what I’m saying. Young kids must get this shot that we know does have some pretty annoying side effects in general for adults and that lasts eight months at best.

CLAY: And for an illness that has zero impact on them. I mean, I think this is important. And look, every parent has the right to make choices about their own kids’ health, right? So I’m not telling you what you should or should not do. I’m just telling you this. I believe in vaccination. My kids got measles, mumps, rubella, chicken pox, all those things, as young children.

I’m not getting a covid vaccine for my 6- and my 11-year-old — or, for that matter, for my 13-year-old. It doesn’t make sense based on risk analysis. And, again, this matters, and I don’t know why people are so unwilling to discussing it. Kids are not under risk, by and large, from covid at all. Kids are under less risk from covid than they are from the seasonal flu.

And I don’t know about you, Buck. But I talk to a lot of parents. I’ve never heard any parent worried about the health of their kid from the seasonal flu. Yet the seasonal flu kills far more people on average every year — young people — than covid does, and so this was… You know, when I talked at the Williamson County school board, this was the argument I made.

First of all, yesterday I would encourage people to go listen to the podcast. Great discussion about the scientific evidence to support masks in schools. There is none. But this was the argument I made. Everyone has failed their kids. If the standard is you have to wear a mask and you have to get vaccinated for covid, that standard never existed for the seasonal flu, which is far more dangerous to kids than covid is. And I’ve never even heard the argument.

BUCK: Clay, we’ve got Fauci saying we might achieve some degree of normalization if everyone does — and that’s going to include your kids. See, folks, what they’re gonna do is they’re gonna exclude your children from school unless they get the covid shot. That’s where this is all heading. And they would say, “Oh, but we do this with MMR. We do this with other vaccines.”

But this isn’t MMR. This is a very different virus with a very different reality of longevity of giving them this vaccine. And, Clay, I just… I think that we have to see this very clearly now. They’re gearing up for a winter where the mitigation measures — and I hate that term, but you know that’s what they say — will be used regardless of what the numbers actually are because it’s going to be, “We can’t allow for a surge. We can’t allow for another variant,” as Fauci will say.

CLAY: They keep moving the goalposts. Seventy-three percent, Buck, of adults 18 and up have been vaccinated now. Seventy-three percent. We were initially told if we got to 70%, we’d get back to normal. That obviously hasn’t happened. Ninety-two percent, I believe, of all people 65 or older have received the vaccination. What they’re trying to do is argue that the number of Americans now is not high enough because they’re including people under the age of 12 in these numbers. Adults are the ones at risk, not kids. We have to have rational decision-making.

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Psaki Spouts Mask Lies from White House Podium

24 Aug 2021

CLAY: I wanted to make sure that I didn’t let Jen Psaki get away with one more lie. We caught her in the lie earlier in the show when she said that no one was “stranded in Afghanistan.” They’re supposed to be focused on telling the truth in the White House. Another lie from Jen Psaki, this time dragging her own daughter in kindergarten into the story. Let’s play cut 20.

PSAKI: It would be incredibly scary to me, as my daughter is preparing to go to kindergarten next week, if there were not masks in elementary school. And I know a lot of parents in Florida, Texas, and other states around the country are confronting that. And some kids are getting sick. Umm, we have talked a bit about, umm, steps we have taken to ensure that the superintendents in school districts and teachers are kept whole financially.

CLAY: There are and have never been any scientific studies to ever exist, Buck Sexton, that have said that kids in masks are safer! When you are in a position of prominence like this and you spread falsehoods and lies and fears, you deserve to be called out because every parent is terrified of something bad happening to their kid. When you unfairly and without basis exaggerate those fears from a public perspective, you are a tyrant.

I am fired up about the stupidity of this, Buck. Yesterday, I’d encourage people to go listen to our conversation with the New York Magazine article writer who was really good. We tweeted out the link there. These are just lies. There’s no scientific basis from the, quote, “party of science” that wants to listen to the, quote, “experts” to support masking children in school.

BUCK: Beyond that, the people who have been pushing for this all along, Clay, are generally very arrogant and they’re very smarmy about how certain they are that the science is settled on masks.

CLAY: Yes. They lecture you.

BUCK: There is no world in which they don’t feel like utter idiots if they ever admit that what they were… Think about this. It’s like they’ve been walking around for now a year and a half saying, “Ha-ha! You fools who think the earth is round, the earth is clearly flat, you morons.”

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: That’s what the maskers have been doing for a year.

CLAY: That’s right.

BUCK: They’re never going to turn around and say, “Wow, Clay, Buck, and all of your listeners and everybody that was willing to look at this objectively from the beginning and say things like, ‘Is it really plausible that Fauci went from “masks don’t do anything” to “masks are the most essential mitigation step possible” in 30 or 60 days without any rigorous study whatsoever using a control group of this, or was it just about the symbolism and the political messaging and the subjugation of people’s minds from the very beginning?'”

They will never admit that, because the people that have been masking up all along, a lot of people are just anxiety riddled and can’t actually handle that we’re all going to die and that life is finite and the government, the states can’t protect you. There’s a lot of that but for the people that are running around the blue checks especially Clay — you and I have dealt with pleasant of this —

CLAY: Oh, yeah.

BUCK: — who thought they were just so much smarter than everybody else, “Wear a mask, it’s the right thing to do,” they’re pathetic, and they’re not nearly as smart as they thought they were. That’s the part of it that they’ll never concede on.

CLAY: It’s just so frustrating to me that Jen Psaki, who has access to every bit of information she could possibly want, would use her own daughter in kindergarten as evidence of what she’s fearful of if her daughter goes to school without masks being worn, as if those masks are protecting her. Because what she’s doing is calling out any parent that actually looks at the data and tries to say… Hey, I’m not even telling her her kid can’t wear a mask, Buck. All I’m saying is, every parent should have the right to make a choice.

BUCK: You remember the libs for a while under Trump would do this thing on Twitter where they would say, “Oh, my gosh. My 8-year-old just said that Trump’s destruction of the separation of powers would have the Founding Fathers rolling over in their graves and his collusion with Vladimir Putin.”

CLAY: Yes. Yes. (laughing) Yeah.

BUCK: I’m like, “I don’t think your 8-year-old, New York Times writer, actually said that.”

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: They love to use children at political props in that way, and they love to continue to put children forward here as the reason, the rationalization for their overreach and their tyranny. They don’t really care. If they cared about kids, Clay, they’d take a long, hard look at what it’s done to children across the country who were kept out of school for over easier based on junk science and bull crap.

CLAY: And those kids that were kept out of school for over a year were overwhelmingly the poorest, the least advantaged in the entire country, a/k/a the kids who could least afford to miss school and most needed it. Not just for the education, but for the free meals, for the support from teachers and the staff there that might recognize if they were being mistreated at home. It is the biggest failure of American public policy in most of our lives, what we’ve done to kids, in relationship to covid, and Jen Psaki should be ashamed of herself for many answers she gives every single day in the White House but in particular for that one yesterday.

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Curious Cali Bust: Drugs, Guns and 300 Recall Ballots?

24 Aug 2021

BUCK: I just saw this one on IndependentChronicle.com, Clay. I thought this is interesting. I don’t know how big a deal it is, but it’s one of these things where you gotta sometimes just put it out there. We got the California recall coming up —

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: — for Gavin Newsom, and he’s in trouble.

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: I think it’s looking like it’s gonna be a tight one here. It’s gonna be interesting.

CLAY: Oh, it would be amazing, Buck, if he lost.

BUCK: Can you think about that?

CLAY. Oh, my God.

BUCK: They have Cuomo resigning in disgrace and maybe Newsom being recalled? Really largely as a result of what buffoonish, tyrannical hypocrites they’ve been during the pandemic.

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: I’m sorry. I still remember — I know you do, too — back in June of 2020 when those two guys were —

CLAY: Heroes!

BUCK: — the smug, arrogant Democrat covid superstars, man. Oh, they were so down with the science! Turns out not so much. But here’s the story, again, on the IndependentChronicle.com. “California police find hundreds of recall ballots, guns and drugs inside sleeping mans car.” Thomas McDonald here the author. “Authorities are investigating 300 unopened mail-in-ballots for the upcoming recall election found inside a parked car at a convenience store in Torrance, California.

“‘Inside the vehicle, the officers found a loaded handgun,'” in California, that’s usually a big no-no, “‘some narcotics,'” occasionally a no-no (it really depends on the narcotics in California these days), and “they found a bunch of mail and what turned out to be over 300 election ballots in the backseat.’ … They appeared to be in a box, but they were also kind of strewn across the backseat of the vehicle, and so there was just a large portion of mail in that backseat…

“‘The election ballots, they were un-tampered with, unopened, a little over 300 of them found, primarily from addresses in Lawndale. … There were some from Compton. We’re still trying to figure out where all these belonged to at this time, so we’re working with the Los Angeles election office as well as the U.S. Postal Inspector.'” Clay, I thought that there was never a worry? I was told by many, many very smart media journos whose apartments smell of rich mahogany — I was told by many of them — that there is no election fraud.

CLAY: Mail ballots are secure.

BUCK: Super secure. And this guy with the loaded handgun and the drugs has 300 recall ballots in his car? I just want to ask the question: What is that funky smell?

CLAY: I want to know. I legitimately would like to know, how do you get 300 ballots? Irrespective of the guns and the drugs and everything else that were allegedly found in this traffic stop, I’m way more interested. Guns and drugs are commonplace. Aren’t you way more…? For better or worse, in the criminal element, aren’t you way more interested in how this guy came to end up with 300 ballots?

BUCK: Well, that’s the only reason this is a news story —

CLAY: That’s right.

BUCK: — a crime blotter item that nobody paying attention to. Yeah. It’s just interesting that this is the guy. The only reason the guns and the drugs are interesting is —

CLAY: ‘Cause of the ballots.

BUCK: — because of the ballots. That’s right. This guy’s really. He’s going for a whole bunch of things here. He’s got illegal narcotics, he’s got loaded handgun that I’m sure is… I’m guessing — I shouldn’t say I’m sure — is not legally held in California. Plus if you’re that car with a loaded gun in California, it’s an anti-gun state; I’m sure that’s a big no-no. So 300 ballots.

It’s just a reminder, folks, that when you’re doing mail-in ballots and especially what could be a very close election, not a whole lot of security around those mail-in ballots, is there? And when you think about Senate… Three hundred ballots, Clay? I think was more than the eventual margin of victory. It was definitely more than the initial margin in the Al Franken, Norm Coleman Senate race in Minnesota. It was less than 300 ballots that separated those two at one point. This guy had 300 ballots in his car. Oh, gee.

CLAY: Less than a month now, this is such a seismic potential event. You know, you want to talk about we began the show talking about Joe Biden 41% approval rating, but you want to talk about something that would send Democrats running for the hills, it would be Gavin Newsom losing a recall election in California. By the way, we didn’t talk very much because we weren’t doing the show then.

But one of the most fascinating parts about the California election was the fact that race in schools got destroyed in California, right? They had a ballot measure whether or not they should basically bring back affirmative action. And it got crushed in California, even as otherwise a lot of progressive and left-wing candidates won. And so I really think there’s a good chance that Gavin Newsom is gonna lose this race. I do. I don’t think it’s a crazy belief that he could lose this race. Because everybody’s so fed up with covid and crime in California, they just want to lash out at someone and find someone to blame. And I think Gavin Newsom might be that target.

BUCK: I think that Gavin Newsom, though, will be told, the story on this will be that Newsom, this is because of his own… It never is allowed to turn into —

CLAY: A larger story.

BUCK: Yeah, this guy was a hero of the lockdown Democrat Party in 2020, and it turned out that didn’t save the state, those weren’t good ideas, sucking up to Fauci is pathetic and intellectually dishonest, we should repudiate not just those ideas, but anybody that was engaged in that Fauci worship. It’s never that, Clay.

They’re gonna say, “Oh, it’s because of his dinner at French Laundry, the very fancy Napa Valley restaurant.” I remember I tried… I had a girlfriend’s birthday over a decade ago. I tried to get a reservation. Were gonna be out there. They were like, “We’re sorry. Six months in advance.” I said, “Ooh. So it’s that kind of a place, right?” “Oh, yeah.” “Ooh. So fancy.”

CLAY: Do you even want to be in a restaurant that requires you to have a reservation six months in advance?

BUCK: Not any more. I just want something that makes a really good cheeseburger with no bun, ’cause I can’t eat the bun. That’s my exciting story.

CLAY: Oh, you poor, poor man.

BUCK: Celiac disease is a bummer. For anybody else who has it out there, I’ve got it. It’s a bummer. Also means no beer which makes me feel like a communist. I can’t drink beer. Think about that. You gotta say no to beer everywhere you go and people think that I turn my nose up ’cause I will drink wine. “I’m sorry, no beer for me. Only wine.”

CLAY: I don’t even know. Can you drink, like, bourbon or whisky or scotch?

BUCK: Very interesting. Within the celiac community, there’s a lot of back-and-forth over whether the distillation process officially removes the gluten from the elixir that you will be drinking. I will drink that stuff. But, really, it just gives me an excuse to drink tequila all the time. I’m like, “Sorry. Only tequila for me, medical reasons.”

CLAY: What’s your favorite tequila, by the way?

BUCK: Well, Casa Dragones.

CLAY: I gave you an opportunity to give a shout-out to a tequila company that’s owned by our boss.

BUCK: The best tequila in the world owned by our boss.

CLAY: Casa Dragones is really incredible tequila, by the way.

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James Miervaldis of No One Left Behind Joins C&B

24 Aug 2021

CLAY: We bring in now James Miervaldis, who knows a lot about this process in terms of what’s going on. James, appreciate you joining us here. What can you tell us about the situation in Afghanistan based on your knowledge?

JAMES: Yeah, thank you so much for having me. I think your listeners can hear how hoarse I am. We’ve been on no sleep the last eight days, ever since everything went south, and inundated with calls and messages from Afghans on the ground. We’re actually FaceTiming with a U.S. citizen who is protecting families in a place — we’re not gonna say where, but, yeah. That’s overseas in Afghanistan. This is a complete and utter tragedy and failure. So, right now, the gate issue is still the major problem of getting people into the airport. But inside the airport, you have a humanitarian crisis. You have people who are… (chuckles) There’s no water. There’s no A/C. You really have a very serious situation all caused by the United States.

BUCK: James, you know, you’re the chairman of No One Left Behind, an organization that has been working for years to prevent, essentially, what is happening here, right? You’ve been trying to get translators to America, Afghan translators to America as promised by the defense department. But it seems like there’s been a long time for the Biden administration, for any administration to get this right. Did they just have no process in place whatsoever for the exfiltration of both Americans and Afghans who wre promised safe harbor? How could this have happened, James? That’s what we just can’t seem to wrap our heads around.

JAMES: Sure. Yeah. So we’ve been around for… No One Left Behind has been around for eight years, right? And we’ve been in three administrations, seven Congresses, seven secretaries of defense, and five secretaries of state. So there’s a lot of blame to go around. But this law started under President Obama and what is not being reported according to the State Department’s only resettlements numbers President Trump brought in more Afghan SIVs than President Obama did in eight years.

So, again, these are people who are the best examples of legal, merit-based immigration. They followed the law, which is a 14-step process. It’s interagency process. Buck, I know you’re familiar with that. But the problem was no one was ever in charge of overseeing it or had the authority to cross over between the State Department, DHS, U.S. (garbled), the intelligence community, DOD.

There’s no super-SES that could do any of this stuff so the process itself was a deterrent. But just to get to this level on this evacuation, it’s very clear that this was an afterthought about taking care of our American citizens and our allies. We tried. We tried talking to the new administration right in January to say, “Hey, look, if you’re serious about getting out of Afghanistan, you gotta take care of our allies.” They were very cognitive and aware of it. They just chose not to do anything about it.

CLAY: James, when you hear that Jen Psaki says no one is stranded in Afghanistan, one part, what is your answer there? And second part of this: What are the odds that we’re going to be able to get everybody out by August 31st based on the conversations and the stories that you’re hearing?

JAMES: Well, love for her to talk to the young woman we just FaceTimed with. She’s a (garbled). She’s a U.S. citizen who hails from Lawrenceville, New Jersey. And she’s scared to death, hiding with sheltering families somewhere. I don’t want to be specific. But yeah. No, within the last hour we just had that conversation. Jen said a number of things. The biggest issue I had that she brought a couple, say two months ago.

She said that there would never be — or there wouldn’t be a “mission accomplished” moment in Afghanistan. And I disagree with that. But we actually had a success. We got a family over here on June 15th, which is a beautiful picture of this amazing little girl who has no fear in her eyes. She literally came off the plane laughing, smiling. She was so excited to be in America. That right there is mission accomplished for this generation of Americans. And I put that up on Fox yesterday because I want people to see that image and say that… You know, hey, have an idea of what we can actually achieve.

BUCK: James, it’s Buck again. And thank you for being here with us. James Miervaldis for everybody that’s on the line is the chairman of No One Left Behind and knows very well exactly what the situation is on the ground and how people are struggling who are supposed to, based on U.S. promises and U.S. laws and regulations, be able to get out of the country.

What could be done now? Is there anything, James, that you are trying to get the word out about in the terms of the processes, the resources, just the bureaucracy involved in processing and then exfiltrating people out of Afghanistan that needs to be done? Essentially, if we could get you a few minutes in the Oval Office with Biden — assuming he’d listen — what would you tell him?

CLAY: (chuckles)

JAMES: Well, we lost leverage to dictate any of the terms. So this die is cast, the decision has been made. So how do we do anything? What can we do to help those that are gonna get stranded after the 31st? And the answer is, please tell me if you think this is wrong, but we really need the Taliban to keep the airport open. I think it’s in their best interests.

I think the Chinese, the Russians were the first few to recognize this new government. The Taliban has to govern. They have to function. We just saw their statement that they don’t want Afghans going to the airport, ’cause they want to use their smarts and their brains to help build Afghanistan. Well, they gotta figure out what they want because if they’re gonna go around killing people, they’re not gonna get that brain power and everything’s gonna be go back to where it was in the nineties.

So with that, we really need the airport functioning. We need commercial flights being able to come in. Whether that’s another country managing the airport, the air traffic control, whatever, that really needs to happen, at least for the next 60 days and what we can… We can fly out as many people as possible. Actually, Buck, to that point we had a donor reach out to us saying, “Why is this taking so long?

“Why don’t I just fly these people out on Turkish Airways or Emirates?” We said, “You know what? You’re right.” These families all have SIV. They were waiting for what evacuation flight they’d be on. They didn’t hear anything, which caused nor confusion and anxiety so we just started putting them on planes.

It takes $10,000 to fly a family, and we were ready to fly up a hundred families out of Afghanistan when the airports shut down. So, we’re standing by to restart that program. We’ll fly up to 500 families out. That’s what we think, based on Joe Biden’s numbers and timeline, which, by the way — or, President Biden, excuse me. By the way, his numbers and timeline have never added up. So even over the conversation the last two months, there’s just been more questions than answers about this whole thing.

BUCK: James, just want to also ask you about what you’re hearing from those who are on the ground here. There seems to be discussion in this country as to, “Is this Taliban going to be markedly different even in just the short term, let’s say the next few months from the Taliban that we came to know as the close allies and defenders of Al-Qaeda leading up to and after 9/11?” Is your expectation…? I mean, I’ve just gotta ask you, James. Is your expectation that Afghans left behind in this process, if we don’t get them out, who worked with Americans, are they going to be tracked down, found, and we can expect the worst from this Taliban?

JAMES: Yes.

CLAY: That’s pretty straightforward. You, James… I appreciate all the work you guys are doing, by the way. You were just laying out how long you thought it might take to get everybody out. When you hear the Biden administration basically acquiescing to an August 31st deadline, what is Afghanistan going to look like on September 1st for purposes of your job in terms of still trying to get people out?

JAMES: Yes. So, art of the possible, right? And it all comes back to the airport. So if the airport is still viable, then we’re standing by, we’re working with a number of different groups on charter aircraft. We’ve already secured agreements. We are just waiting for permission. So, does that permission come from the Taliban?

This is gonna be really tough to explain on our security clearance forms but, look, we’re ready to do what we need to do to get flights and get our people out. We have a list right now of 1,200 SIVs — not including family members — who are hiding around Kabul who are not inside the airport. So, they are left behind at this moment and we’re sharing lists; we’re trying to do the right thing. We’re doing as much as we humanly possibly can, but it is become increasingly difficult to get any success out of here.

BUCK: James, we really appreciate you joining us. Please keep us up to date on how these efforts are coming along. If there’s any way we can help and get the word out more, perhaps even share ideas about how to make this process run better than it is with those who can actually implement it, we’ll do that.

JAMES: Yeah.

BUCK: Thank you, first of all, for your service, and thanks for your work as chairman of No One Left Behind. We appreciate it.

JAMES: Yeah, thank you, guys. Really appreciate your time. If your listeners want to, please visit SaveOurAllies.org.

BUCK: SaveOurAllies.org. James, thanks so much.

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Will LSU Fans Get the Shot to Watch Football?

24 Aug 2021

CLAY: I want to go ahead and X out the phones, because I want to request a specific caller. I don’t know how many of you have been paying attention to this, but I only want people in New Orleans or in the state of Louisiana to call in right now. And you’re gonna understand what I mean once you hear this next story. So last night, Buck — and I know you’re not a wild football fan — they had a Monday Night Football game in New Orleans.

The New Orleans Saints were playing against the Jacksonville Jaguars. And in order to get into the Superdome now where the Saints play, you either have to have a covid vaccine (a/k/a a covid vaccine passport) or you have to have a negative test that’s been taken in the last three days, or — and this was even wilder — they had a vaccine clinic, Buck, set up where if you got vaccinated, you could then go into the stadium.

Now, this defies all logic as it pertains to the vaccine because you might already have covid and your vaccine doesn’t start working the minute that you get it popped into your arm. So, this doesn’t really make any sense, but that’s what they were doing to try to encourage people to get vaccinated.

BUCK: Well, it’s just about getting you to do it, right?

CLAY: They’re trying to coerce you.

BUCK: They are coercing compliance, and so it’s not about “the science.”

CLAY: Yes. So now, right before we came on the air, LSU, the major university in the state of Louisiana, has announced that everybody going to Tiger Stadium… This is a hundred thousand seat stadium in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It’s a fabulous place to go watch a college football game. In order to enter, you will either have to be vaccinated or you will have to have a negative covid test, Buck, for all people ages 12 and up.

So this is the vast majority of people that would be going into the stadium, either visiting fans or local fans in Louisiana. So my question is, how many people out there who are LSU or New Orleans Saints fans are willing to change your opinion on covid in order to go to a game and/or how many of you have tickets and are now not gonna go? Because, Buck, remember they sold all the season tickets this year predicated on the idea, “We’re gonna have a full stadium; there’s not gonna be any vaccine requirement,” and then the week before the season starts they drop this on everybody.

BUCK: They gave a few days’ notice before my brother’s wedding that some of the venues and some of the places involved were going — and they did — to check vaccine passports and IDs. As everyone knows at a wedding, there’s thousands and thousands of dollars involved.

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: This is expensive and you gotta get the venue and the permits and everything else, and there was no consideration given whatsoever. It was, “Sorry. This is our new rule.” The city wasn’t demanding enforcement until I think it’s September 13th, but they decided to go with it anyway and get ahead of it, because there are people for whom they just think anything that they can do — no matter how annoying, arbitrary, or useless it is — as long as it falls under this general rubric of Fauci-ite mitigation, as long as it falls into this bucket of, “we’re fighting the virus,” they’ll go with it.

And the fact that… I gotta assume, Clay, a lot of people that would want to go to NFL games or college football games who aren’t vaccinated, don’t want to get vaccinated and now something that matters a whole heck of a lot to them may be taken away from them because, as de Blasio says, carrots and sticks. And this is one of the sticks that the Democrat politicians are gonna whack you in the face with, everybody.

CLAY: And it’s also expensive to go get those negative covid tests. Mind you, there are hundreds of thousands of people who are gonna show up and tailgate outside the stadium, right? Massive crowds of people. It’s not as if they’re stopping the spread of the virus. In fact, they’re only impacting it for three hours inside of the stadium.

But outside, packed tailgates, packed bars, everything else, that’s still a go. So, I only want to hear from people from Louisiana, LSU fans as well as fans of the New Orleans Saints. If you have tickets, what are your thoughts on this? ‘Cause I think this is a big battleground that is coming. I know SEC and NFL fans pretty well, Buck, and they’re not going to take very kindly to this requirement.

BUCK: Is there anything that you think could be coming where you say, “All right. I might have to get the shot,” Clay, even though you’ve had covid? Is there something where you think it would be finally…? If you couldn’t fly on planes, would you get the shot?

CLAY: I think that’s it. I think that is the requirement where I would say, “Okay. Maybe I have to get the vaccine,” even though I’ve already had covid and there’s no benefit. In fact, it could be detrimental, according to some studies, to combine the vaccine with natural immunity.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

BUCK: You want to get to Chuck in Louisiana about his season ticket situation with LSU? Let’s do it.

CLAY: Yeah. Let’s see. I’m curious, Chuck. What’s your reaction so far as you can tell among LSU season ticket holders as LSU has become… I know Oregon and Oregon State have done it, but I don’t think that really surprised anyone. I think the idea that you have to have a vaccine passport or a negative test to go to an LSU Tiger game surprised a lot of people. Chuck, what’s the reaction you’re hearing?

CALLER: I’m not really hearing anything yet. But I just heard it earlier and I tried to call in to the ticket office, and I could not get in. So, I imagine that the reaction is not a favorable one from many people, because normally you can get hold to a ticket agent there in the athletic department.

But phones with quite tied up right now so I imagine people aren’t really happy. I think it stems from the fact that they either said or insinuated that we were gonna be in there full capacity, no restrictions, and here it is that a couple weeks before the first home game, people are being told differently, and so the reaction is gonna be poor, certainly.

CLAY: What were you calling the ticket office to say?

CALLER: I just want to find out what… I have eight tickets and several kids. So my concern was around the kids. I wanted some explanation. I hadn’t had a chance to look at email. I did, in fact, have an email that explained it, certainly understand. But my younger kids aren’t gonna wear a mask throughout the whole game outdoors, in Louisiana heat. So I want to know, “Hey, how’s this gonna be enforced, and what are the restrictions gonna be for kids?”

You know, my wife and I are in health care, been vaccinated. That was my choice. But I firmly believe like you guys do that it should be a choice for somebody and you shouldn’t be forced to do things that you don’t feel comfortable with, and this is a state university. Our elected officials are making decisions that maybe half the constituents don’t agree with.

So to hang people out there in the wind and not knowing exactly what’s gonna happen ’til the last minute, especially since the opening game is in Los Angeles and people have travel plans and they weren’t told in advance what’s gonna go on yet, there might be a lot of fallout. So I’m sure the local news will have it all covered later today. I’m anxious to see what they have to say.

BUCK: Chuck, thanks for calling in from Louisiana, man.

CLAY: Thanks for the call.

BUCK: We appreciate it. We’ve also got Andy in Louisiana, another LSU season ticket holder. What’s up?

CALLER: Yeah. Guys, no. I am absolutely livid about what is transpiring right now. I live in the city of New Orleans. I’ve been a season ticket holder for LSU tickets since 2005. I bought some Saints season tickets this year from a friend and they pulled the rug out on us from under there; so lost money there. And now, now LSU — like the first caller said — in February, they put out a statement saying there will be no restrictions.

So all of us season ticket holders sit there and read that and say, “Okay, here’s our money. Take it,” and then two weeks before the season starts they’re gonna do the same thing and they’re gonna pull the rug out from underneath us. So I don’t know why… You guys know this as much as I do, vaccines have now proven over the last couple weeks that they don’t work. So I don’t know why it makes a difference if I go inside that stadium with a vaccine or not.

And furthermore, the masks have shown — in the Tri-State area of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi — that masks aren’t working, either. So, yeah, it’s an outside venue. The vaccines aren’t working. There’s no reason LSU should be implementing this. This is completely political, and I’m sure me like the rest of the Tiger Nation is extremely livid over this whole situation.

BUCK: Thanks, so much.

CLAY: Andy, we hear you, man.

BUCK: Thanks so much for calling and joining us. I’d be livid too.

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Cuomosexuals Take Back Their Emmy

24 Aug 2021

CLAY: A little bit of a funny story now. Do you remember, Buck, when Andrew Cuomo was in office, all the Cuomosexual shirts were selling and he was doing his daily briefings?

BUCK: (impression) “He was the handsomest governor in America, the savior of New York state. He was grabbing people by the thousands, by their heartstrings and occasionally by other places as well.”

CLAY: (laughing) That is Governor Andrew Cuomo stepping in the studio there for a moment to address the nation. I have to say that Cuomo — we didn’t really talk much about this — at midnight last night, he left. I think it was just this morning, right? The new Kathy Hochul is now the governor. Cuomo has officially left the mansion. They have now stripped, Buck…

It was always one of the most ridiculous things that was out there that they had done this in the first place. But they have now stripped the honorary Emmy that they gave to Andrew Cuomo for his updates during the height of the covid crisis in March and April of last year. I guess they’re rescinding the Emmy, which is pretty funny in and of itself. I mean, the fact that he ever got an Emmy was an incredible indictment, to the extent that there’s any legitimacy to the Emmy in the first place. But they’ve taken it away.

BUCK: Did you watch in real time? He would sit there — this is during covid — and at first everyone was like, “Oh, my gosh, covid! We got to beat it!” But after a while it was (impression), “Okay. So what are we gonna talk about today? Today, we will discuss the origin of what it means to be the governor of New York. “I have slides,” and he would just go on and on and on.

CLAY: (laughing)

BUCK: There wasn’t that much. (impression) “Okay, we’re gonna do more talking. What does it mean for having a normal life again at some point? What do I mean by ‘normal life’?” You know this was the daily rhythm. But people got so dependent on this because we’re all locked at home.

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: I think they started to feel like this was somehow comforting.

I was looking at this saying, shouldn’t this guy be doing stuff other than reading weird slides? They could just send out or just post the data on covid. But he was this comforter for so many people. He was the security blanket. He liked to hold people close, as we know.

CLAY: Yeah, and this still is blowing up on Chris Cuomo, his brother — who is the one that’s still in the public arena now — because of the memes that are out there now of the two Cuomo brothers on CNN for so long like they were, it’s impossible, basically, to escape. So I just thought that was a funny little anecdote.

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House GOP: Drop Budget, Focus on Afghanistan

24 Aug 2021

BUCK: Our government, the White House, asked the Taliban for permission to extend the August 31st deadline. They’ve given up on this notion of using — meaning America has given up on — September 11th as being some kind of a symbol of the end of the war and the beginning of something new. Now the Taliban is the one that is going to be using that symbolism for their own purposes.

In fact, there’s a Wall Street Journal op-ed referring to “A Taliban 9/11” and going into that in some detail. We can talk about that with Clay here in just a few moments. But before we came back here to join you and bring everyone up to speed on what’s going on, you had Representative Mike Waltz.

He’s a former Special Forces guy. He was SF and a good guy. I know him, and know that he’s a straight shooter, so to speak. And he’s warning about the possibility already of this going so badly that we could have to send soldiers back into Afghanistan. Not for evacuation, perhaps, but even for direct combat roles.

WALTZ: This isn’t about politics. This is about the fact that America now is less safe. Here’s why we’re in even a worse position than we were in 2001. Because now we have no bases in the region. The intelligence community has been very clear they have the will and the intent to hit us again. So as we head into the 20th anniversary, the 20th anniversary of 9/11, we now face a prospect of our soldiers having to go back in.

BUCK: Clay, that’s what I think is in the back of a lot of people’s minds here. On the one hand, there’s just the… Look. This is one of those moments where this isn’t about politics. This is about what’s really important, which is getting every American out of Afghanistan safely. That’s what you and I care about. That’s what we’re sitting here hoping for, first and foremost.

If that doesn’t happen and something goes bad — and we all know what that would mean here in the context of a place like Afghanistan run by the Taliban — there’s the additional possibility of, we go in and we start trading blows with the Taliban again in direct combat operations. That’s not gonna be a short, quick thing, Clay.

CLAY: No doubt. And I think to your point, Buck, the biggest failure of the Biden administration is not necessarily the evacuation itself, although we know how much of a failure that evacuation has already been. It’s creating a situation where the Taliban has all of the control, and we have none of it.

And we’ve hit on this for the past couple of weeks as this maelstrom of disaster has continued to unspool itself. You’ve got situations where 19-year-old kids with guns who are Taliban really have the fate of the Biden administration on their trigger finger. Because if those kids — and I say “kids,” ’cause you’re 18, 19 years old — suddenly lose their cool or even accidentally start firing on crowds.

Then you got Benghazi on steroids for Joe Biden. And what is so humiliating about this is we have no plan for departure, and we have said — and this is the biggest failure of all — hey, we have to be out of there by August 31st. So, Buck, what happens if, as seems likely, there are still many people left in Afghanistan?

BUCK: Well, that’s essential, Clay, because we’re all wondering: Are we going to be able to get everybody out? And when you start to look at what the answer to that question is based on the numbers, the logistics, the realities on the ground, some are already saying, “No, in fact, we need to be prepared for the eventuality here, the imminent reality of Americans being stranded.” Yes, the word “stranded” would certainly apply.

If the Taliban shuts off all access the airport and says, “Sorry, you missed the deadline,” now we are talking about a mass hostage situation for could be 50, could be 500, who knows, could be 5,000 Americans stuck there, and we won’t be able to have the kind of visibility to know what’s even happening to them, necessarily, and Representative Mike McCaul, he’s just straight up saying, “We’re not gonna be able to get out,” and Biden may have blood on his hands.

MCCAUL: The president just announced a firm withdraw date of August 31st. I can tell you there is no way we can humanly get all of our American citizens and Afghan partners out of country by that time. I’ve called it, consistently, an unmitigated disaster of epic proportions. It will be a stain on this presidency — and particularly after the decision made today and what we heard today, he will have blood on his hands. People are gonna die, and they’re going to be left behind.

BUCK: Clay, I hope Representative McCaul is wrong. I hope he’s wrong. I do not think he will be.

CLAY: And that, again, goes to the essence of this failure of Joe Biden and the fact that, as we started the show talking about this, this is resonating in a big way with the American people without necessarily a tangible disaster occurring in terms of loss of life of Americans. Twenty-six percent, Buck, approval according to the most recent USA Today poll of our withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Now, you can quibble and say, “How many times did they poll Nancy Pelosi to find out that 26% is valid?” But 74% of people in a highly polarized American environment disagreeing with the president of the United States is really unheard of. And I think one of the questions we have to start to ask is — and we’ve been asking this, but I think it’s starting to become more and more apparent.

With that 41% approval rating for Joe Biden according to USA Today that just came out earlier today, how is this going to implicate everything in the Biden administration? Buck, you’ve talked about the failures at the border. We know about the murder rate skyrocketing. We know about inflation. How is this all going to factor in? The covid failures. How is this going to impact the three and a half trillion-dollar Bernie budget?

Literally, the argument for most people is foreign affairs doesn’t drive the ship when it comes to the American state. But I kind of feel like the failure in Afghanistan when it is a representative sample of the failures that are occurring everywhere just kind of becomes the cherry on the top of the crap cake that Joe Biden is baking for America right now.

BUCK: There’s also the issue of focus Clay and what are the people that have been entrusted with power and with the still awesome resources of the United States government and the United States military intelligence apparatus really doing right now? What is Congress doing? You’re bringing up some of the machinations behind the scenes around the budget issue.

CLAY: Yeah.

BUCK: Shouldn’t this be a moment where, instead of Congress…? I think there’s even some briefing this week from the select committee on the January 6th Commission. No, that’s the fake insurrection.

CLAY: Yeah.

BUCK: Maybe we could actually look at the real insurrection in Afghanistan that’s put thousands and thousands of American lives in imminent peril. Not getting some pepper spray in the face. Not being assaulted. But maybe not making it back home at all. I think that the Congress would shift their focus on that, and Kevin McCarthy, as a member of Congress, is saying, “What are we even doing here? How is this not the one and only — between now and August 31st — goal of Congress and the United States federal government?”

MCCARTHY: Our entire focus — Republican, Democrat, independent alike — should be nothing else than bringing our Americans home. We shouldn’t work on other items, especially the spending of trillions of dollars. That should be our only focus. We shouldn’t cut off our briefing with the administration because they have to get back to vote on their rule.

CLAY: I think that’s a strong argument.

MCCARTHY: This is what we should be voting on. I looked to the U.K.; they brought their Parliament back to work on bringing their citizens home. We should be doing the exact same.

BUCK: All hands on deck in the U.K., Clay. Pelosi wants to have fancy fundraisers and talk about trillions of dollars of spending.

CLAY: I think McCarthy is making the right decision here in saying, “Hey, shouldn’t we be focusing on the biggest foreign policy disaster in most of our lives as opposed to trying to cram a budget through where, frankly, a lot of Americans aren’t necessarily paying attention — and for those of you out there who have not been paying attention, there are around 10 moderate Democrats that are standing up to the idea of this $3.5 trillion bill in the House.

The question is whether or not the votes are there for Nancy Pelosi in the House and Chuck Schumer in the Senate. But really this shouldn’t be a debate that’s taking place while there are this many Americans in harm’s way in Afghanistan. I think Soon-to-Be Speaker McCarthy is right. They should stand down and wait to see what actually happens in Afghanistan before they’re debating whether or not to pass this $3.5 trillion Bernie budget bill.

BUCK: How could anybody, Clay, who draws a paycheck from the federal government and has any national security role — which Congress certainly is supposed to! We got the Defense Committee. We’ve got the Intelligence Committee. Congress is supposed to matter with these things. How could they have split focus right now? I know they’d say, “Oh, we walk and chew gum at the same time.” No. We’re actually looking at a clock here that is running out and we can all see it where if we’re not out within a week — a week from today —

CLAY: Yeah. That’s right.

BUCK: — August 31st, we’re in a whole other situation. What do we do then? When the Taliban says to this administration, “Sorry, guys. Now we’re gonna process all those Americans ’cause we don’t know who might be a spy for the other side or who might be” whatever. They can make up things. They can say whatever they want. They’re gonna hold people, and what are we gonna do about it? Deny them greater legitimacy to the international community?

CLAY: Write mean letters?

BUCK: They’re gonna be saying, “We made a deadline. The U.S. didn’t meet it. We were still working for with them.” We will all know it’s bull, but Russia and China won’t care. Other countries are gonna say, “Well, it’s not our problem,” and this is what the Biden administration’s facing. So I’m curious what the folks out there who have any experience in Afghanistan, with Afghanistan think about this one-week deadline and what it feels like to hear after we have so many people listening to the show who fought and went toe-to-toe with the Taliban.

CLAY: No doubt.

BUCK: And now we’ve got the Biden administration begging, basically, for the ability to get American civilians out of this country. Taliban says “no.”

CLAY: And, by the way, we’re gonna talk at the bottom of this hour… Remember, for people who recall last week we got a call specifically focused on one individual that was trying to get out. One of our listeners called in. We’ve got an update from him. We’re gonna play that at the bottom of the hour, what it’s actually like on the ground right now in Kabul.

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EIB 24/7: Clay & Buck’s Stack of Stuff

24 Aug 2021

  • USAToday: Americans’ harsh judgment on Afghanistan costs Biden’s approval, down to 41%
  • Breitbart: NBC Poll Is All Bad News for Biden, Congressional Democrats
  • Breitbart: Taliban: No Extensions for U.S. Evacuations in Afghanistan
  • Heritage: Call Afghanistan What It Is: The Worst Hostage Crisis in American History – James Carafano
  • Federalist: Here’s The Full List Of Every Lie Joe Biden Has Told As President: Part 60
  • Federalist: The Afghanistan Debacle Is Exposing President Biden’s Descent Into Unreality
  • Daily Wire: ‘Humanitarian Disaster’: U.S. Shelters For Afghan Evacuees Rat-Infested, ‘Awash With Loose Feces,’ Report Says
  • New York Post: Even a biased press is calling Biden out on his Afghan debacle

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