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6 Sep 2021

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In the middle of the Argentina-Brazil game authorities walked on the field and attempted to arrest Argentinian players for not complying with covid protocols. Things keep getting crazier: https://t.co/Osok6PYAK8

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) September 6, 2021

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Tired Old Joe Spins Incredibly Weak Jobs Report

3 Sep 2021

BUCK: The big news this morning, of course, was the incredibly weak jobs report for the Biden administration. They’re going to try to spin this in every way that they can. They’re saying, “Oh, it’s just a function of…” Well, as you know, it’s covid. It’s always about covid. Whenever something goes wrong, that’s going to be the go-to. But initially, the expectation was that they were going to have over 700,000 jobs — 720,000 jobs was the economist’s estimate.

As you know, economists are not particularly good at predicting things. They make weathermen look like geniuses, because weathermen are actually pretty good for the most part. But economists are often way off. So 235,000 jobs last month, was the actual number according to the labor department. So we were expecting 720,000 jobs, under this Biden administration; we got 235,000 jobs.

Now, what’s also really interesting here, is that you have a lot of open jobs out there. Millions and millions of open jobs. So what’s going on here? The demand for workers persists, but job gains are slowing up. Now, they’re going to say that this is, of course, a function of covid. Here’s Joe Biden, just this morning before I came on-air to speak to all of you saying that. Play 19.

BIDEN: There’s no question that the Delta variant is why today’s jobs reports isn’t stronger. I know people were looking — and I was — hoping for a higher number. But next week, I’ll lay out the next steps that are going to — we’re going to need to combat the Delta variant to address some of those fears and concerns.

BUCK: I can tell you, I actually have a preview for you of the Joe Biden speech next week. This came to me. I have well-placed sources. I have people that know people. You know, all that stuff, and here’s a summary of what you’re going to be told by Joe Biden as he’s trying to spin this weak recovery, which is barely even feeling like a recovery. It’s something else. It’s going to go something like this.

(impression) “You know, we’re going to get middle class. Middle class jobs. Coal miners. Good wages. Jobs. Jobs. Middle class. You know, it’s all about investments. Investments in our future. Talk about those good jobs for the wages, for the middle…” He’s just going to say the same thing that he said for, well, pretty much his entire political career. Buzzwords and phrases that makes it sounds like, you know, “He’s Joe. He’s Amtrak Joe. Just one of the folks!”

No, he’s not. Joe Biden lives in, what? A three, $4 million mansion in Delaware? This guy has been the senator from Delaware, the vice president for eight years, and now the president of the United States. When was the last time you think Joe Biden had to go buy his own groceries or drive a car? “But, oh, here I am. Look at you! I’m going to use the phrase ‘folks.’ I’m going to say ‘folks’ a lot so you feel like I’m connecting to you, so you feel like I’m not a front for a bunch of socialists — a bunch of people who actually don’t care your values at all who run the Democrat Party.

“But I’m here to say ‘jobs,’ ‘middle class,’ ‘hard-workin’, hard-payin’ jobs.” You know Joe Biden is pushing when he starts pushing his Gs off of verbs. “Hard-workin’. Good-payin’.” He’s from Delaware. He’s not from the heartland or the South. He’s from Delaware. But he kind of gets this tone. He’s kind of got an almost notwithstanding. But it’s not quite there, “Because he’s just connectin’ man. He’s just… You know, he’s Joe!”

You say to yourself, “I would rather you just be good at your job, Biden. How about that? I would rather you turn things around so that we don’t all have to sit here and say, ‘What are you doing well?'” The border? It’s not the like the border — the U.S./Mexico border — is bad right now. It’s the worst that it’s ever been. It’s the most open. We have the most drugs flooding across. We had 90,000-plus Americans die of overdose the last year, the highest it’s ever been.

In part, of course, also driven by the despair of the unnecessary lockdowns. But the drugs are flooding across. Fentanyl and opioids and heroine. And also 200,000 a month illegal immigrants now — and, yes, it is illegal. It’s illegal to cross over into America. Despite what the libs think, they are breaking the law. The people who are doing this are breaking the law, enriching the cartels. But Biden doesn’t care.

They’re already telling you that Afghanistan is a success. Huge success. A stunning success. Beyond its wildest expectations of this administration. Yeah, sure, there were some things here or there but to make an omelet, you have to break a few eggs. That’s the Biden response do all of this. The economy is weak. But, you know, who wants that rearing Trump economy? Oh, no. All the prosperity and the jobs?

The all-time record low unemployment especially all-time, record-low unemployment for black and Latino Americans. You know, that kind of stuff. No. Let’s have the Biden economy. Where it just never really gets up and going. You have people staying home to collect a $300payc heck still. They’re sending that out. You have the CDC acting like a tyrannical health policy DMV that can tell you that you’re not allowed to collect rent on property that you own.

Oh, yeah. It’s all fat cats who are the landlords. Sometimes the landlord actually has less money than the tenant. But the Democrats feel like that redistribution of wealth, benefits them. So they seize your property. There’s no due compensation for this. This is unfair. This is wrong what they’re doing. The CDC can tell you what you can and can’t do with can’t private property by fiat? I know the Supreme Court, thankfully, has said no.

But that the Democrats would even try that just shows how completely out of line and extra-constitutional they are. We live now… Thanks to Biden providing cover as the Trojan Horse for Democrats, we live in an increasingly post-constitutional order that we’re just supposed to accept for some reason. Oh, but the only thing that they’re going to talk about for the Constitution in the days ahead has to do with the right to an abortion which does not actually exist in the Constitution.

The left is completely freaked out about that. We will get into the challenge there, what they will do. But when Biden comes under criticism, whether it’s Afghanistan or anything else, what does he do? Well, he finds a way to claim he’s doing a good job, but then also places the blame for the great job he’s doing, on something else. Look what he’s doing on Afghanistan. Afghanistan was really well executed except the bad parts and that was Trump’s fault.

Everybody being honest looked at him and said, “Wait a second. How could that be? Wait. So only the good parts, you get credit for; the bad parts are somebody else’s fault? That seems a little bit too convenient to me.” Oh, and then there’s also the usual. What is the ultimate — when the economy is bad, the ultimate Democrat go-to? Because the Democrats are socialist. It’s just a question of how socialist now.

What is the go-to maneuver? Oh, that’s right. Envy and class warfare. Right? Oh, it’s these big, bad corporations. Remember, the biggest, most powerful corporations in America, overwhelmingly are basically Democrat super PACs. They’re enforcing Democrat speech regulations. They’re enforcing Fauciite orthodoxy. They’re doing all these things, but that’s what we’re supposed to take from these things.

“The corporations are the bad guys,” even the big corporations, Apple and Google and Uber — and you go down the list — are complete Democrat monocultures, politically. That’s all that’s allowed. And yet, they’ll trash corporations because that’s the usual class warfare move. Yet somehow the left thinks they’re against… There’s all the wokeness in the corporations, but the left still believes that they’re still the bad guys in all this? Play 18.

BIDEN: Fifty-five of the largest corporations in America, last year paid zero — zero — in federal taxes. I don’t care what your position is. It just seems to me, it’s time they start to pay their fair share like everybody else. Just pay a little bit here and it comes up to billions of dollars if they paid. The irony of ironies is during the recession and the pandemic — you’ve heard me say this before; I apologize for repeating it — when the vast majority of Americans are struggling just to hang on, the number of billionaires in America actually grew. (snickers)

BUCK: (impression) “Yeah, you know, we hate the billionaires. It’s the rich guys. The rich fat cats. You know, they’re the problem. Blame them for…” Blame them for the Biden economy for being so weak. This is pretty straightforward. They’re spending a lot of money. They’re spending money unnecessarily. They’re redistributing wealth by fiat. They’re encouraging people to stay home and get paid $300 instead of going to a job. Some people, it financially makes sense for them.

There’s plenty of reasons to want to get paid for doing nothing instead of making less money to do something. And then he wonders why, with also all the panic… Ultimately, there’s a refusal here to accept that we have to learn to live with covid instead of in fear of covid. And so the of Democrat mentality, Fauciism — all of it — is a huge drag on the economy right now. People are more scared than they should be and they need to be, and that affects all of our lives.

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Fauci’s Latest Flip-Flop: 3-Shot Regimen Is All You Need!

3 Sep 2021

BUCK: I gotta say, Fauci is out there, and I’m in Florida right now, and it’s a little bit more, shall we say, “free and open” than New York, which is always a reminder that would be possible. It would be possible to be living a better, freer existence, if it wasn’t for the Fauciism. But he’s already telling you a few things you should be very aware of.

Remember, the Biden administration is pointing at the jobs number right now and saying, “Oh, it’s the fault of covid,” and then they turn around and say, “It’s the unvaccinated that are to blame for this,” as you know, “but only the unvaccinated Trump supporters.” And there’s a lot of questions that I have about this. There are a lot of aspects of the covid politics at work that I don’t think we should just let it go.

For example, why is it that they never want to discuss those who have already had covid and, therefore, have natural antibodies? Are they being reckless? Even if you accept, which I do not, that it is reckless for people to make their individual health decisions. I think that’s totalitarian actually to force these things upon people. But what about those who have natural immunity?

They just did some serology testing and who wants to guess if what I’ve been telling you for the last two/three months now is correct or not that about 100 million people have had covid in America? Yup! Thirty-seven million, I think, confirmed cases. That say it’s at least — at least — double that. So, give or take, we’re at 80-90 million, probably more like 100 million. But that’s a pretty good estimate of where we are with covid cases.

And that’s based on antibody testing, which, remember, they can’t always detect antibodies. The real number could be much higher. We don’t know. But a lot of people have obviously already gotten covid despite all the masking, (Fauci impression) “the mitigation measures meant to stop the droplets from coming out through your mask. You know, I just… I am science!

“I am not Fauci. I speak for science. I speak in sciencese. I don’t even. I just… I go to bed at night and instead of counting sheep, I am mouthing the periodic table of the elements, because I am science.” Here he is telling everybody that you better get ready for the covid vaccine as a three-dose regimen. Play 12.

FAUCI: And if it is durable, then you’re going to have very likely a three-dose regimen being the routine regimen. But we’ll just have to wait to make sure that that’s the case when the data get presented to the FDA.

BUCK: “The three-dose regimen.” Wait a second. How many months ago were you told, “Get it and you’re done”? I know a lot of you did get the shot — or, shots, generally, unless you got the J&J. But if you didn’t get the shots…? How many of you were told that if you did get it, you were done? Right? That was the story. And then also, you don’t have to mask up indoors anymore. It’s safe. It’s fine. That’s what they told us.

Now it’s three shots. In fact, in Israel, they no longer consider you — and Israel has the most granular data on vaccination. Did it on the exact schedule they set out to do. And that’s how we’ve known that vaccine failure was coming. Now, remember, this is where it’s so important. The language. They’ll trash you. “You’re saying that vaccines don’t do this!” No, no, no.

When we’re talking about vaccine failure. What we’re discussing is the end of the protection that you would get at whatever level it was, which now even Fauci and the left admit is true. Otherwise, you wouldn’t need a third shot. Otherwise, there wouldn’t be a reason for all this. Clearly, the vaccine effectiveness wanes, which is not what they told us — which means they either he didn’t know or they lied.

And it’s tough to know with all the covid madness out there, which is preferable, right? Would you rather the Fauci-ites were just too incompetent to tell you what was true? Or would you rather that they were just lying to your face? Remember, Fauci even admitted — in the earliest days of the creation of this secular religion of covid mitigation — that he lied to you about masks because they thought they were going to run out of the surgical masks.

They’ve also just done the big study out of Bangladesh — hundreds of thousands of people in different villages — and the study showed that cloth masks basically do nothing. Once again. But does anyone care? No. No. Still, you get into an Uber and they’ll tell you to mask up. Actually, I had a Cuban Uber driver this morning. We had a great talk. I was asking… He was in contact. He was texting a family member back in Cuba when I got into the car.

I said, “First of all, how is it going there?” Unfortunately, the situation in Cuba is the repression that we expected is in full effect, and you don’t even really know how many people have been thrown into cells and how many people have their family members threatened. But it was not the end of the communist regime there when there was what felt like an uprising in the streets, weeks ago.

But he also told me something that I think deserved more attention than it gets. He said that someone got into his car and was unmasked, and so he took off his mask and the rider — and this is a part of it. This isn’t just a one-off. This is the mentality of the Fauciite. The rider reported him for not having a mask, because I said to him, “Sir, do you want me to wear masks?” He says, “No, I don’t care. But I’ll wear one.”

I said, “Well, you don’t have to wear one. I don’t care. Give me a break.” He goes, “No, no, no. I feel better. Not because of the virus, but because I don’t want to get in trouble.” I said, “What do you mean you don’t want to get in trouble?” There is a widespread sentiment among the most devoted, Fauci-loving libs that you’ll find — and I’m sure a lot of you see this in your own town, your own city.

Just look for it. The quote-unquote “servant class,” right? The people that are in the service industry. The ones who are doing the job. The people delivering the food. The people who are operating the checkout counters. All these libs are insistent that they will wear masks even when they themselves sometimes will be unmasked. I think there’s something very creepy about that. I think there’s something really unsettling.

You know, the people that do the things for me as I’m watching… Not for me. But speaking as a lib. The people that do the things for me as I’m watching my Maddow and clicking on my New York Times articles about another variant, they need to be masked up because I can’t trust that they’ve gotten the vaccination. But I might be unmasked, because I’m… Oh, yeah. What was it that they said about the Obama Party again on Martha’s Vineyard?

Sophisticated, vaccinated crowd, right? Ah. You’re sealing the class divide. The real class divide playing out in a way that makes the libs uncomfortable. Should make them uncomfortable. But only when it’s exposed. They like the way that it is. But when people like me show what’s really going on here, oh, they hate that. Because, oh, they care so much about the working class.

That’s the ultimate pretense of the elite in this country is that they care about those below them economically. That’s the great lie of the Democratic Party. They like to pretend that they care. They don’t actually care. They don’t care at all. And Fauci certainly doesn’t care about any of this. He’s getting ready to tell you for a whole series of new lockdowns, new mandates, all of it.

It’s all coming. It’s all coming, because we refuse to learn the lesson. The lesson is the state cannot protect you from this. The state cannot save you, and all we do is hand over our rights and our freedoms for a false promise of security. (impression) “But, you know, it will maybe mitigate, uh, and the parabola of the cases…” You know, the whole thing from Fauci is just…

I don’t know how anyone can keep listening to this guy. I find Fauci to be… It is an intelligence test to continue do think that this guy is worth listening to, and a lot of people fail. It’s also virtue signaling. It’s a social thing too. “Oh, I listen to the science!” That’s right. The same people who tell you that men can get pregnant — and I’m not exaggerating. You know that. The same Democrats that say, “Men can have babies,” believe that they follow the science, and you don’t.

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Texas Abortion Law Sparks Epic Political Battle

3 Sep 2021

BUCK: Let’s get into Texas here, because the Democrats have been pushing in the last couple of days — and I have to give credit to the Texas legislature and Governor Abbott for signing this. This is a very, very clever way to start to get the ball rolling toward state restriction of abortion, which is the central moral fight. Look, if you’re not pro-life, I don’t think you’re a conservative. I don’t think it’s possible.

You’re pro-life or you’re not really a conservative, because if you’re not willing to conserve innocent life in the world, what are you conserving? So, this is central. This is about the moral character of the nation, and this is about setting things right. You can never set it right. But at least setting us in the right direction after the evil turn of Roe v. Wade in the last 50 years.

So, Texas has this law now that we’ve discussed with you a little bit earlier in the week. Just a quick review of it. Don’t mess with Texas. They have deputized individuals to effectively bring suit against abortion providers. Not the women who get abortions. They are not touched by this law. Abortion providers can be sued for up to $10,000, and because this does not involve the state directly, there’s some standing issues.

And it’s more difficult for the usual abortion lobby machinery to kick into effect. And create this continued regime of absolutism on the issue of abortion. Which is a terrible moral stain on the country and something that needs to be addressed as soon as possible. Democrats view it as a sacrament. They view it as something that is central to, not just their party, but to their moral and philosophical identity.

You really cannot be a Democrat today and be in good standing with the Democrat Party and the left unless you are pro-abortion. There is no way. I mean, they make some exceptions in a purple state here or there for somebody. But they would assume that when push comes to shove, that person would vote in line with Pelosi and the rest. And I just want to say this too.

There’s a lot of hypocrisy, a lot of just falseness around Joe Biden. That’s not a surprise. His whole presidency is built around really him as a fraud, presented as one thing while he pushes for another as a public official. But among the most annoying and the most dishonest things that he and Nancy Pelosi like to do, is hide behind this rhetorical shield of — in the case of Nancy Pelosi — (impression), “I’m a devout Catholic, a devoted Catholic. I’m totally so Catholic.

“I’m like the pope but with more Chanel scarves.” Joe Biden will do the same thing. (impression) “Oh, I’m a Catholic! (mutters) I… I love, love of church! I just push policies in direct contradiction of essential church teaching, but I’m all about it,” right? They’re both Catholics, and they will use that as a means of political currency, and also a political shield. But they are ardently pro-abortion, both of them, and I think it’s disgusting, and I think that they should be denied communion.

I know a lot of you listening… I’m a Catholic. I know a lot of you listening are not Catholics so this is a little bit of an inside-the-Catholic Church issue, but they should be denied communion, and they’re not. I don’t know why not. But that’s something I’ll have to think of. But they’re ready to wage a real fight against it. I mean, first off, Pelosi, oh, my gosh, she’s the ultimate lib from California. Limousine liberal Pelosi. She’s going to do everything she can. She’s already saying they’re putting a Roe v. Wade codification on the floor of the House as soon as possible. Play five.

PELOSI: Well, the Supreme Court making the decision that it did not only disrespected women, it disrespected the Supreme Court and its former decision, its precedent that it establishes Roe v. Wade. When we go back to Washington, we will be putting Roe v. Wade codification on the floor of the House to make sure that women everywhere have access, uhh, to that reproductive health that they need.

BUCK: Think about the words that are used here: “Access to the reproductive health.” Abortion access. Say it! If it’s no big deal, if you’re fine with it, why not just speak the words? Why all the euphemisms? Why all the tricks of language? If they’re going to celebrate — as they do — abortion in this country, why not just come out and do it? Why always play the game?

We know why, we know the answer, because this relies on people turning the blind eye to it, and I’ve said it before. It’s a frustration that on this issue, sometimes — even people on the right, even conservative media — this is known. I’ll tell you this: It’s known to get people, “Oh, it’s too intense. I don’t want to talk about it. You know, the ratings… Let’s talk about the Durham report instead. Let’s take on our watches and look at when the Durham Report is going to happen, you know?”

Okay. Still waiting on that one. Just know that there are other ways — I’ll just tell you — to get ratings. But I just think this is too important. I just believe this is too central, not just to our identity as conservatives, but to our soul as a nation. And I don’t think that’s overstated even a little bit. And yet, on the other side, there is a ferocity that they will come after this issue with.

They will do everything they can. Remember the way that they were willing to just destroy Brett Kavanaugh based on lie, and think they were virtuous in the process? Right? Whether it was Christine Blasey Ford or the second accuser that came out — or the third one, Swetnick, who was just clearly bonkers — that didn’t matter. They thought that lying about an innocent man was the honorable thing to do in the Democrat’s minds.

Because they don’t have honor, and they want to protect Roe at all costs. Now with Kavanaugh in the court, they are worried about Roe. They are worried about this. Because remember, it’s not just what the future would mean, which would be states determining — like they do in many things — whether this is a procedure that is a medical procedure or whether it’s terminating human life without cause, whether it’s killing the unborn.

State by state, we would have laws on this issue. New York could do what it wants to do. But Texas and other states could do what they want to do as well. But, no. You see, it’s the same mentality where it’s not enough for just person to double mask and have to live with all the Fauciism they want everyone else to as well. They want to make us all complicit in that insanity.

The left wants us all to be complicit in the regime of infanticide. They want to make everyone a part of it, just by paying your taxes to the state you’re in, just by living in the United States of America — and with all the funding that goes to Planned Parenthood, by the way — they make us all complicit. They never want to look back at what they’ve done over the last 50 years.

And what science shows us, by the way. You want to talk about science? I mean, it was always clear, but now it’s glaringly obvious that there’s a human life in here that is not the woman carrying it. And yet, this is an issue that Democrats will throw everything they have at, ad they will say things that are just… I mean, here is Nicolle Wallace, who used to be a Republican!

I’m just going to put that out there. But whoever pays her the most. Whoever. You see so many of these Bush Republicans who will go out there now and whatever gets them on TV and gets the biggest paycheck, they’ll say it. What are their principles? It would be fascinating to have a conversation with them.

I don’t want to name them all, because I don’t want to give them the pub of being talked about on this show — although, I know I’m about to play a clip of one of them. But here’s the kind of language that was used. Here’s Nicolle Wallace. I’ll let her say it for herself. Play seven.

WALLACE: (sputtering) Uh, again in this — in this moment, umm, male governors in Florida and Arizona and Texas don’t want the body to be covered by a four-inch piece of cloth, against mask mandates. They’re going to reach deep into the uterus of a woman and tell all of them to carry — 85% of abortions take place after the six-week, ummm, mark that — that the Texas law bans.

BUCK: You heard what she said, and this was on cable news, right? “Reach deep…” I’m not even going to repeat it, but this is the kind of language they’ll use. These people are sick. There’s something wrong with them. There’s a problem here, friends. We have to file this one. I know. It’s probably… We’re going to have… The nastiness you will see from the left is going to be something that a lot of people will shirk from this, shirk from this debate, from this challenge.

I think it’s too important. I think it’s too essential. Sometimes something is about more than ratings. Sometimes it’s about more than clicks. And on the right to life, this is one of those issues. You’re either in this fight — you’re either a conservative who believes in this — or I don’t know. You’re either a libertarian or something else. But I don’t see how there could be anything but clarity on this for all of us.

And the left certainly sees it as such. They are going to go scorched earth, up to and including fundamental change. They will be pushing for fundamental change in our system of government itself. The institutions they pretend to care so much about, they’re willing to dramatically transform, undermine, even abolish them.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

BUCK: Jen Psaki has been asked already in light of the Texas abortion restriction — which, God bless Texas. Jen Psaki is reminding everybody that there is this Biden commission on — oh, that’s right, courting packing. Why not?

PSAKI: The president’s view on the expansion of courts has not changed. Uhh, he also wants this group, this commission, to take a close look at a range of issues, not just court expansion — which is an important question for them examine — to examine — but term limits and a range of questions that are, uhhh, the commission is looking at. I will also note, though, Jeff, that in the president’s statement today, he also made very clear — in — in pretty strong terms — uhh, his viewpoints on the, uh — the ruling of the Supreme Court in this case.

BUCK: Court packing back on the menu. At least they’re going to pretend that they’ll do it. Will they go through it? Could they go through it? Well, they would have to eliminate the filibuster, right? They want to eliminate the filibuster as well. They’ve talked about it for HR1, which is the change all election laws at the federal level for every state until the Democrats never lose another election.

And there’s plenty of rampant cheating and we’ll never find it because it’s all mail-in ballots with no with no checks and balances and no ID. That’s what the HR1 is. It’s the Make It Easy for Democrats to Cheat and Win Act. They thought about maybe pushing hard to get rid of the filibuster on that one. Didn’t have it. Could they get rid of the filibuster in the Senate over the possible overturning of Roe v. Wade?

Welllll, maybe. Probably not. But maybe. AOC has already said that clearly — of course, she’s in the House; she can say whatever she wants, so it doesn’t matter. But clearly the filibuster should be eliminated over the threat to Roe. I’m going to tell you this right now, because much of the conservative media doesn’t really spend time on this issue.

This upsets and enrages and makes Democrats crazier than I think any other issue. You know, they’re very willing to embrace absurd thinking and Critical Race Theory, and there’s a race obsession among Democrats, that will make them illogical and very, very nasty to people, who say, “Hold on. Maybe we shouldn’t be teaching CRT to our kids.” That’s all there. But when abortion is threatened, Democrats will pull out all the stops. They’ll do anything. They’ll do anything that they can in order to keep it as it is.

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Buck Sexton, True Believer, on Current Issues and Vital History

3 Sep 2021

BUCK: I was very agitated yesterday, because I’m a… You might know this about me. I’m a true believer. I come here to do this show every day as a true believer, as a conservative since I was 13 or 14 years old, as somebody who was reading National Review and reading Milton Friedman and Buckley when I was a junior and senior in high school.

I went off to college and I studied under professor — conservative professor — of political science Hadley Arkes from Amherst College. He was my thesis adviser. This is just… It’s who I am. It’s who I’ve always been. So you do have a true believer here every day. So, yes, I do get fired up because I think of these things really matter and I care.

And I think we are in a fight for the soul of this country, for the future of this country. I think the forces of the organized, activist left are tearing apart some of the foundational elements of America. In ways that really do distress me. And I think there’s so much lying in the media, and one of the things that I seek to do here every day is to be an antidote to those lies.

I seek to be somebody who will take them on and hold them to account. And that’s why when I heard all this stuff about that the horse deworming medicine known as ivermectin… I took ivermectin when I had covid, because an M.D. that I trust very much, said, “It won’t hurt you and it may help you, so it’s worth a shot.” That was it.

There was no one promising me a miracle cure or anything else. But it was either taking ivermectin, and just take Tylenol and hope the pain goes down and suffer in silence, and hope that the covid goes away — which, of course, it did, and I was fortunate in that regard. But I hear stuff like this. This was actually the former Obama chairman of economic advisers guy, Goolsbee.

Look, I’m sure he’s a nice enough guy. I’ve heard he’s a nice enough guy. I don’t know him. I’ve never met him. I like to tell you when I know people and don’t know them because I have a rule that I don’t trash my friends on-air, even when I disagree with them, even if I think they’re wrong on something. I won’t agree with them because they’re my friend, but I won’t trash my friend.

I believe in personal loyalty to friends and family, but being honest about it, being up front about it all the time. Anyway, Goolsbee really annoyed me about this one. Here he is trying to help me spin the disastrous, uh, jobs report. (chuckling) I keep waning to say, “the bad Obama jobs report,” but that’s just because we got so used to talk about the Obama bad jobs report for eight years of the Democrats in charge, and the lowering of expectations about the economy.

And the furious spin cycle of the media trying to tell you that what you know, you don’t really know. And we’re seeing the same thing with Biden. Gosh, it’s almost like the philosophy of big government hyper regulation and social justice above the Constitution doesn’t work out well for us. You always get that feeling, based on the results that we’re seeing day in and day out. But here’s Goolsbee, play 23.

AUSTAN GOOLSBEE: But the thing to remember is that last month, we had more than a million jobs got added! And over the course of this year, we were booming and the thing that has changed in the last month is the virus has got out of control. We need to stop taking horse dewormers. We need to stop telling people that they can’t have mask mandates. We need to get people vaccinated and we need to get the spread of the virus down. The economy wants to come back.

BUCK: Well, the economy is being held back by Biden’s stupid policies. And you can now see this at some level just because anybody who refers to ivermectin as “horse dewormer medicine” is a propagandist fool and a buffoon. It’s an excusably dishonest thing to say, all right?

It’s a medicine, that, as I said to you, the discoverer of ivermectin — I believe it was a Japanese individual — got the Nobel Prize for medicine as a result of this, because particularly for river blindness — for human beings, preventing it — incredibly effective treatment, as well as other parasitic infections. So this would be like someone saying if you’ve taken Lariam or Mefloquine — for any of you who have been to some pretty sketchy parts of the Third World, know what I’m talking about.

It’s a pretty heavy. It’s a malaria medicine. I had to take it when I was in sub–Saharan Africa years ago. And you take it, and it gives you crazy dreams. Sometimes crazy good dreams. Hey-ho! Sometimes not good dreams at all. But you go on these medicines because they prevent malaria, right? So that’s really important. That saves a lot of lives.

Ivermectin also saves a lot of lives — and using it off label in the hopes that it maybe has some effect on a virus like covid is not some crazy idea. But that’s what they’ve been saying. That’s what the left’s talking points are, and there are people now who might actually refuse or not want to take ivermectin, because they’ve heard from (impression) “the really smart science people.

“The people who believe in the science. Men can get pregnant! I believe in science!” That’s Democrats, in case you didn’t know how they sound. At least that’s how they sound to me. They have said things like Ivermectin is a horse dewormer, which is just absurd. You know, there’s plenty of antibiotics and treatment that human beings take that you can also give to animals.

I’m sure there are, right now, some veterinarians who are nodding their head going, “Yep. We use a lot of the same stuff. Same stuff I use for people, you can use for animals.” Anyway, speaking of science, if you want a really good take on the Green New Deal and the importance of it, you have to go with AOC.

You got to remember, these are the people that want you to believe that they are so well-informed on the science, and you are not, because you don’t believe them. You don’t agree with them. Or maybe there’s a couple of libs listening to this and I’m trying to convince them not to agree. But 99.9% percent or you know this is crazy. And here is just a moment of this with AOC saying, you know what, I don’t want to get ahead of it. I want you to hear it. Play 17.

AOC: The fossil fuel industry and the future of humanity are fundamentally inhabitable. They just are! I mean, that’s not a political opinion. That is the science. We continue to burn fossil fuels, our planet will become inhabitable, especially what’s happening with Hurricane Ida. I mean, this is climate change.

I don’t know what more people need to see. Um, and I’m very sad to say they’re going to see a lot more, uh, in our lifetime to understand that this is this is human-caused. We are at the brink. The U.N. IPCC report was released this year saying we are a culprit for humanity.

BUCK: (impression) “Yeah, we’re totally at the brink. I remember freshman biology, when I was at high school and I got, like, a B+. So, like, I’m like super good into science. The world will end unless you pass my Green New Deal!” That’s pretty much what you’re being told. Remember, if there’s anyone in the Democrat Party who can move the national conversation in the news media, it is Ms. AOC.

Which tells you a lot about the intellectual worth and merit of the Democratic Party platform these days. Isn’t that remarkable? The future of humanity, she says, is fundamentally incompatible with fossil fuels. Fossil fuels give us so much. (chuckles) Fossil fuels are truly the lifeblood of a modern economy.

And why does this matter so much right now? Because they’re going to try to super charge the Green New Deal madness with the $3.5 trillion of spending the Democrats are trying to ram through without anyone really understanding what is in it. The stakes, my friends, are very, very high on this.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

BUCK: I appreciate you hanging out with me today here as I get to sit in the EIB chair and address you about all the things going on here. You know, Labor Day… I’m sure some of you have some fun Labor Day plans. For me, fun plans involve not a whole lot of plans, just trying to relax, read. I’m in the middle of a book right now I’m sure a lot of you have read.

It’s With the Old Breed about the Marines in World War II and the Pacific theater. It’s such a… It’s a memoir. It’s such a great book. Almost done with it. I believe it’s the basis for the The Pacific series on HBO, or somehow tied into that. But irrespective of that, it’s just a great book. With the Old Breed is a great book. (chuckles) That’s my beach read.

That’s my version of long weekend time. I like to read history books. As some of you know, I’ve even done whole history podcasts on the Battle of Lepanto 1571, the Siege of Malta 1565. I actually own the Siege of Malta part two podcast in the Buck Sexton podcast feed. So if you haven’t heard it, you can look up Buck Sexton Siege of Malta. The first part of it kind of gives you the preamble to the actual siege.

I’m still trying to finish up the second part. I like to do history things, which is my way of telling you I’m diving into the history of Labor Day. It was assigned as a federal holiday — or Congress, rather, passed an act, making Labor Day a legal holiday — on June 28, 1894. President Grover Cleveland signed it into law. So there you go.

It’s been around for quite a while, a time when there was quite a lot of strife between those working particularly for the railroads but also just industry in general. Railroads really were the first major industry that allowed for true industrialization in this country. I’m reading another book, Iron Empires, about the railroad industry in this country.

I read multiple books at once. That’s another great beach read. That one is about basically building the transcontinental railroad and it’s fascinating. If you’ve ever seen the show — which I do really recommend — Hell on Wheels, I really enjoyed that show a whole lot. I think you will do. It’s not for kids. It has a lot of violence and stuff like that.

But it’s a great series on AMC, and the book I’m reading goes along with it quite well. So you have Iron Empires. These are the Buck beach reads of the weekend: Iron Empires and then With the Old Breed. I bet a huge portion of you listening have already read With the Old Breed and you’re going, “Yeah. Buck, you’re a little late to the party.” But glad you’re enjoying it. It’s a really, really good book. Really excelling, amazingly well-written.

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Words of Wisdom from Our Friend Larry Elder

3 Sep 2021

LARRY ELDER: As to this business about paying criminals not to shoot each other, why didn’t we think of that before? Why don’t we pay shoplifters not to shoplift? I mean, this is just madness. This is California and this is the kind of stuff that Gavin Newsom has been doing. And you are quite right about him shutting down the state and denying kids in-school education while his own kids were enjoying in-person private education.

And I mentioned to you before — the last time, I think, I was on, Sean — nearly 80% of the kids educated in government schools are black and brown. These are the ones that the left prides itself on caring about, and 50% of third graders before the pandemic could not read at state levels of proficiency, and the math scores are even worse, even though we’re spending about 15 grand per student per year. I’m gonna be championing choice in education, which is why the left and Gavin Newsom has absolutely gone ballistic.

BUCK: Larry Elder on a roll. Welcome back to the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. This is Buck. That was Larry. And this is a really big moment, I think, for the future of political parties in this country — for the Democratic Party for sure — insofar as it would be a bit of a seismic shock (pardon the expression) in the state of California if there was a Larry Elder victory over Gavin Newsom.

It would be a big one, because remember, just like Andrew Cuomo, Gavin Newsom was doing a whole covid victory dance. (impression) “Yeah, we in California, we were wearing those masks. We listened to science. We’re, you know… We’re slick. We’re working on our tan in Malibu, doing the French Laundry.” You know Gavin Newsom. You know his whole spiel.

And he’s a guy who just represents so much of what is wrong about the Democratic Party. He’s a huge phony. He’s just a big phony. He mouths all the preferred, progressive slogans. But he lives the life of an elite, cloistered, rich person who does not have to suffer the consequences of the absurd socialist policies that are truly ruining California.

I mean, you know, Florida is a place where people want to go and move. Texas, they want to go and move. Tennessee. You can see there’s a very clear trend here. California should be like the American version of Paris. I feel like when I when I grew up watching… Because I was big into movies growing up. Because Hollywood was a thing that mattered at the time.

There were all these movies that were filmed in California, and it just looked like paradise. Everybody was surfing and looked healthy and happy. And it was great. All the beautiful people in California. And now you got special apps in San Francisco to help you find and avoid the human stuff on the streets that happens. Los Angeles, they’re thinking about paying people to not shoot people.

That was what Larry Elder was referring to. “You know, avoid shootings somebody. Avoid violent crime! We’ll give you a couple hundreds dollars a month.” Okay. I guess that’s the way to go. Tonight prosecute people to go. You know, there are progressives right now, that are going after district attorneys. They’re mounting — and, of course, it will be a Soros-backed initiative, just like getting progressive prosecutors into offices like Chesa Boudin in San Francisco.

Like… What’s that guy? Krasner in Philadelphia. They want prosecutors… The left wants prosecutors, who don’t prosecute criminals, basically, who try to find ways to avoid the actual enforcement of the law — and they wonder why we say they’re a bunch of commies who want to kick at the loadbearing walls of our civilization and tear everything down.

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Zach Van Meter on His Rescue Mission in Afghanistan

3 Sep 2021

BUCK: I want to tell you about this story. “Trapped in Afghanistan, Rescued by Volunteers: How a Handful of Americans Freed 5,000 Afghans — From a lounge at the Willard Hotel in Washington, a group of men and women mobilized a global network to conduct a two-week military-style rescue operation,” which is known as the Commercial Task Force. We have Zach Van Meter with us now, who is a member of that Commercial Task Force and was heavily involved in coordinating this. He dispatched former commandos to Kabul on this two-week operation. Zach, thanks for being with us.

VAN METER: Thanks for having me.

BUCK: How did this all come together? Give folks a sense of who you are and what the genesis of the task force was.

VAN METER: So, I have no military background or Intel or anything, just in private equity. We looked at defense manufacturing, and in that business, you got to kind of hire the guys who used to work in that space. So, back up a couple years ago, we met this gentleman named Sean, who is heavily featured in the article. Sean called me one day and said, “Hey, you want to save 3,500 orphans?”

So, of course I said yes. Then he told me he’s in Afghanistan. So, I got a big lump in my throat and said, okay. You know, I was following the news as well. And then it kind of unfolded from there. So, we needed a place to put them. So, we called the UAE. And they said they would take them graciously.

And then Sean and a team went over to first Abu Dhabi and then to Kabul. Then we set up our joint center in D.C. to coordinate everybody from people trying to get their family members rescued to former SOF guys trying to get their troops out to, you know, people just trying to help American citizens, and it just evolved.

You had a mix of guys from two-star retired General Jim Linder in there, to people that worked at Goldman Sachs, to ex-military, former state people. You had the embassy of Afghanistan in there as well. And it was, you know, an incredible display of, you know, American pride and patriotism and everybody giving a part of their soul to try to help and save these heroes.

BUCK: We’re speaking to Zach Van Meter. He’s a volunteer for the Commercial Task Force, which was responsible for getting thousands of people evacuated out of Afghanistan. Zach, can you just give us a sense of was the government — I mean, the actual, U.S. federal government, the Biden administration, were they encouraging, helpful, or in the way? How did you play in the sandbox, so to speak, with them?

VAN METER: Well, they were helpful in so much as they, after the fact, helped us in Abu Dhabi. After we got the Abu Dhabi guys to send these guys on a plane over, they came in afterwards. They were helpful in that that the DOD allowed our task force to help navigate and coordinate the issuance of flight controls for the commercial charters they were in. So, they helped.

I think they were completely caught off guard, like most everyone else, by how rapidly everything just devolved, and it was — you know, it was chaos. So trying to organize chaos is never easy. I don’t think anybody was prepared in D.C. or Kabul, or even just by nature of the fact that the Afghanis were fleeing, you know, for their lives. You got pictures and videos of these people being seven-, 800-meters deep, packed against the walls of the airport. Everybody trying to get out. So it was… It was chaos. I don’t want to criticize the government, because I still need them to help us. But the reality is, it was chaotic. And it was very, very, very disorganized.

BUCK: What were some of the…? Just give us a sense of, as you’re together… You’re saying you were working with the former special operations folks, former special operations folks, former generals, private sector people. The biggest challenges you face in getting people out. Just give us a sense. As you’re gathered together at a hotel in D.C. at the command center, you’re trying to conduct exfiltration operations on the other side of the world in Kabul, Afghanistan. The whole country is falling into the hands of the Taliban. As you say and we all saw, there’s tremendous chaos in Kabul airport. What are some of the things you had to troubleshoot on the fly?

VAN METER: Well, one of it was people not getting through the gates. Literally American citizens with blue passports getting through the gates. People with permanent residency cards. People on Taliban kill lists who were trying to escape, not being able to have access. And the Taliban were, I guess, negotiating with the State Department, not letting people through, letting people through.

Everything was shifting. It was… It was.. literally chaos. You know, one hour, everybody is going through one gate and then that stops. Then the next hour, we’re told to go through this gate. So we’re trying to assist people in navigating that chaos. At the same time we’re trying to, you know, facilitate getting flights in, getting cleared.

And a lot of these flights were funded by donors. Like, people that probably watch your show sent in money. I know Glenn Beck’s Mercury One funded the first flight in. And so, you know, they funded these flights for particular individuals. But individuals can’t get to the airport. So they’re also taking anybody and everybody.

BUCK: I saw in the article, Zach — I saw in the article — you actually put some of this on your own credit card, because you said it was the right thing to do, which is a very gallant move.

VAN METER: I did, yeah.

BUCK: I know a lot of people pitched in money. Glenn told me, I think, you raised over $20 million in just a couple of days. We had Glenn Beck on the show, earlier in the week. Glenn is an old friend of mine, an old mentor of mine. Did you get all the orphans out and where are the evacuees now?

VAN METER: So unfortunately, we left a lot of people behind, Buck. A lot. And a lot of heroes that helped our service men over there are still there. We got some of the orphans out. There’s some in Abu Dhabi now. The majority of people that we helped by putting on charter flights, we pushed them to Abu Dhabi. So there’s approximately 3,900 left with orphans, mostly families. I think the numbers I got from one of the organizations was about 80% are women and children that were taken out. Yeah, it’s… (sigh) We left a lot of people behind.

BUCK: So what’s the…? We’re speaking to Zach Van Meter, that was working, and did work to get thousands evacuated out of Afghanistan. And, Zach, what happens now? You said we left the people behind. The Taliban is in charge. They are now the government of Afghanistan. We all know that. What are we doing…? Does the work of the Commercial Task Force continue on? I know there might be operational sensitivities and, of course, I respect that. To whatever degree you can tell us what’s going on, what are they?

VAN METER: Yes. So we are focused on resettlement, relocation, and humanitarian activities. A lot of the members are now… First off, this is not an organized thing. It was just ad hoc. Anybody and everybody come help. So a lot of those guys that can still help are working on things like helping relocate and resettle Afghan nationals. We even got a request from, I guess, the still government abroad of Afghanistan, help them with, you know, getting passports printed and other things, because they have no foreign ministry now.

And then there’s a lot of people who still want to help those people, talking to people communicating with them daily. But we need guidance from the State Department. We need a procedure in place to put them on commercial flights. And at this moment, our single biggest issue is navigating the bureaucracy that our governments put in place that makes it very difficult for people who are willing — are ready, willing, and able — to help put people on flights to bring them here, bring them anywhere outside of Afghanistan to do so. So there’s a whole lot of blocks in place. Hopefully, with the help with groups like yourself. And other viewers who can call into your congressional office and knock those down.

BUCK: That’s what I wanted to ask you. Because this audience you’re speaking to is in all 50 states. You got a lot of former military listening, a lot of family members of military, just people who want to get in the fight and help and do the right thing. You’re saying, call your congressmen. Is there anything else that the Commercial Task Force needs? Any other way that people should reach out?

VAN METER: So there’s a lot of NGOs set up for this particular case. I would say if you want to donate time or energy, you can find these NGOs. There are hundreds of them. Call your congressmen. Call your senators. Write them letters. Tell them, you know, that we need to get these people out. These people fought alongside us. I know you were in foreign services at some point too. And you understand the sensitivity of what these guys went through.

They secretly sometimes at night helped people. They helped us hunt down Osama bin Laden, they helped us hunt down the terrorists, and we promised them that we would build them a nation, and now we’ve left them at the mercy of those who previously occupied them. So we have a responsibility to them. And at the same time, we have people who want to pull them out, who do not have the capability because we’re diplomatically stalemated. So unblocking that is a priority, as well as trying to figure out how to bring them back here or put them into a nation that they can thrive and grow in.

BUCK: Right. It’s interesting you brought up this, and people have been saying, there are friendly nations in the region where resettlement is also a very… You know, they’d be safe and it’s a sound option. Muslim majority countries, for a lot of the Afghan refugees who are getting out, would certainly make sense as well. So, Zach — Zach Van Meter of the Commercial Task Force, I appreciate so much, sir, you giving us some insight and perspective on this one. Thanks for what you’ve done.

VAN METER: Thank you, Buck. I appreciate you putting the message out and telling our story. You know, one last thing: There are people still trying to leave the country who are walking through Tajik or Uzbek or Pakistan and they can’t get out. There are people there that are trapped. You know, we need to do something about it. So any help you can get, any advocation you can do, we appreciate it and they deserve it.

BUCK: Absolutely. Zach, thank you so much, and please thank all the service members who helped you out too. Tell them we’re thinking about them and asking for them here. Thank you.

VAN METER: Thank you, sir. Bye.

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Fact Check of the Fact Check: Yes, Biden Looked at His Watch

3 Sep 2021

FORMER CONGRESSMAN AND AFGHAN VET MAX ROSE: In a word, yes, he did. And, look, we’ve spoken about this before. I’ve got the scars of this war, on my body, on my soul. I’ve seen people who I absolutely love get hurt in Afghanistan. And so this is personal. And the last month has been in a way triggering. But I won’t let that emotion cloud my reasoning here. President Biden did the absolute right thing and we’re all safer as a result. You know, we have basically three different groups or camps right now. We have those who supported this decision, those who previously supported Donald Trump in his vision of leaving Afghanistan and now they flip flop. Those people are frauds.

BUCK: I told you they would be saying this. I thought they would wait a few days maybe. But they went to it right away. Joe Biden should be beyond criticism for the withdrawal now. I know. I know. We can all be angry about this technology. Welcome back to the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. We can all see this for what it is. But now it is that Joe Biden did a great job.

The propaganda machinery is in full swing already. We are safer because of Joe Biden. The world sees us now as an even stronger partner because of Biden. This is key to the kind of authoritarian control that Democrats seek so much in our society. It’s not enough to say things that are debatable and to misrepresent them. It’s not enough to lie to you. They insist on ramming the lies down your throat, on forcing them in front of your eyes so often, that you start to question what the heck is really going on.

How could it be possible, for them to lie so aggressively about something so obvious? Ah. Okay. Because this is the plan. This is how it was always going to work. Biden can just send everybody to lifeboats. And then pretend that he’s not the one that steered us into the iceberg of this evacuation. I know the withdrawal decision is something that is bipartisan overall. Largely. I know that Trump set up a timeline, but Trump did not preside over this disastrous withdrawal situation.

A withdrawal, by the way, that not only looked chaotic, and — and ridiculous from the respect of lack of planning, but also tragically cost the lives of 13 of our best. Marines, navy Corp men. And brings they then to the Biden — you know I said Biden said the same stuff. He’s had the same routines over and over, for decade, you know. He’s just got… It’s like he’s playing a character, and the character is Good Old Joe Biden, the guy down the street with the rolled-up sleeves.

And you can count on good old Joe. And he rides the choo-choo to work, and the whole thing. During the transfer ceremony, there was a little bit of back and forth over whether Joe Biden was actually looking at his watch. Because people thought, “Hold on a second. You’re the commander-in-chief. You’re supposed to be representing the American people here in the most solemn of acts, paying respects to our heroes.” And they said, “Oh, no. Biden would never do that!”

A fellow named — by the way, the fact-checkers in the media business are the dumbest and most dishonest people you’ll ever come across, which is saying a lot — Daniel Funke. Funke. Funke. I don’t know. “New fact check: A viral photo makes it look like President Biden checked his watch during a ceremony honoring U.S. service members killed in Kabul. But that’s misleading.” That was the fact-check. It was from USA Today.

Oh, but they had to do a little update on this one late last night. “Fact-check: Biden honored service members killed in Kabul, checked watch during ceremony.” Yeah. They tried to tell you that your lying eyes were lying to you. “Of course, he didn’t check his watch! That’s not what you saw.” And then the fact-checkers realized, “Hold on. There’s only so much propaganda. He was checking his watch. He did have somewhere better to be, in his own mind, apparently in that moment.”

I’m not letting this go, folks.

I’m not letting it go at all.

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Manchin Puts the Brakes on Democrat Spending Plans

3 Sep 2021

STEVE MOORE: I think what you’ve got is a problem with policy right now where, Bill, we are paying people — continue to pay people — to stay unemployed. Not just through unemployment benefits, expanded food stamps, rental assistance, $300-a-month-per-child benefits. All the free cash to people encouraging them not to work and then we’re taxing people who do work. I believe we would have 5 million more Americans working today, Austan, if we had cut the payroll tax rather than expanded unemployment benefits. You want to give people an incentive to go back to work. We’re giving people incentive to stay on the sidelines.

BUCK: Steve Moore droppin’ some truth bombs there, as he’s often fond of doing on economic issues. Welcome back to the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. This is Buck, and we’re headed for a number of big political fights. Well, that’s probably true at any point in time. But I’ve been talking about the Supreme Court battle looming over Roe and abortion. But let’s get into something that is more imminent for a moment here, and that is what happens with the entirety of the Biden agenda.

And it’s pretty much the whole thing is riding on this $3.5 trillion Democrat spending wish list of all sorts of stuff. Oh, there’s green new deal stuff, and there’s massive social spending. This is the Biden stealth-socialism plan. That’s what the $3.5 trillion is. Now, he’s not writing it. He doesn’t even really know what it’s it. He just knows (impression) “That’s where I’m supposed to sign? All right.” That’s what he’s going to do.

“Hey, man, I’m here! I’m… I’m… Amtrak Joe. I’m awake. You thought I was nappin’, didn’t ya?” But the truth is, he’s going to sign whatever they put in front of him, so it doesn’t really matter what’s in it as far as Joe Biden is concerned. As long as Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi are smiling, he knows they’re gonna give him a cookie and that’s that. But Biden was going all-in this morning on the $3.5 trillion spending plan, and they have to get this thing done by September 15th.

Because that’s the deadline for committees to finish the drafting of the legislation. Then Democrats are going to have to go and push all out to get this thing through, on their side. Remember, we got a 50-50 Senate. So they have a de facto majority, thanks to Kamala. By the way, where is Kamala? Anybody? Anybody seen Kamala these days? I haven’t really heard much about our vice president.

I haven’t really heard much about her. What’s…? I thought she was in a charge of the border. Oh, the border last month was over 200,000 illegals crossing and it’s as bad as it’s ever been. So maybe we won’t hear from Kamala. It’s interesting. Kamala’s numbers when it comes to approval and likability are worse than Joe’s — and Joe’s are the worst that they’ve been in a very long time.

So I guess that’s really not all that surprising. But, anyway, because of Kamala, 50-50 means the Democrats can still get it through with a tie-breaking vote of the president. But even a Democrat majority in the House, it’s only 220 to 212. Eight seats in the House of Representatives. So if they just lose four, they don’t get this thing through. So this is going to be on a razor-thin margin.

And when you look at the $3.5 trillion that they want to spend, they’re acting as though they have a mandate. They’re acting as though we didn’t have a very close and very contested — to put it mildly — presidential election outcome. They’re acting like we don’t have 50-50 in the Senate and close to it in the House, and that the American people are crying out for some kind of a transformation-through-spending fiat, using the parliamentary trick essentially of budget reconciliation.

They didn’t just get some big mandate. They didn’t just have everyone say, “Oh, the Trump economy was horrible.” Now they’ve got 60 Senate seats, and they’ve got a 30-seat majority in the House or something. No, that’s not what happened at all. In fact, it was pretty… For a pandemic year, it was a weak showing for Democrats in the House and in the Senate — a weak showing, indeed.

We should have won one of two Senate seats in Georgia, my fellow Republicans. But that’s a conversation… We could have some whisky and cry about that another day. That was pretty depressing. But there is hope on this. I would like to send you off into your weekend with hope, and this was just published in the Wall Street Journal yesterday:

“Why I Won’t Support Spending Another $3.5 Trillion — Amid inflation, debt and the inevitability of future crises, Congress needs to take a strategic pause,” by — yes, that’s right — good old Joe Manchin. Joe Manchin is like, “You know what? I don’t know if I want to go along with this full-on socialism thing.” First of all, I’m still kind of surprised that Manchin hasn’t switched parties.

But remember, he also was a critical vote in favor of confirming Kavanaugh. But I know that internally the polls in West Virginia showed a huge support for Kavanaugh. I don’t think people realized that now-Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh was just getting ambushed with lies. They didn’t know that in some of the blue states, of course, because it wasn’t about the reality.

But anyway, Manchin has held the line against the true lunacy of his party on occasion, and here’s what he says. Now, writes — and of course, the staff… I’m not pointing this out… Everyone’s staff in the Senate is actually writing their editorial, and this is just like they write their speeches. Anyway, here’s what’s in the article under his name in the Wall Street Journal.

“I, for one, won’t support a $3.5 trillion bill, or anywhere near that level of additional spending, without greater clarity about why Congress chooses to ignore the serious effects inflation and debt have on existing government programs. This is even more important now as the Social Security and Medicare Trustees have sounded the alarm that these life-saving programs will be insolvent and benefits could start to be reduced as soon as 2026 for Medicare and 2033, a year earlier than previously projected, for Social Security.

“Establishing an artificial $3.5 trillion spending number and then reverse-engineering the partisan social priorities that should be funded isn’t how you make good policy. Undoubtedly some will argue that bold social-policy action must be taken now. While I share the belief that we should help those who need it the most, we must also be honest about the present economic reality.”

Well, Senator Manchin, I can tell you, that is where you and the Democrats have a serious disagreement. They don’t want to be honest about the present economic reality. The Democrats recognize that when it comes to spending and the size of government, math is the enemy. Math is not on their side. Remember when we were told just a few months ago that inflation would be transient, temporary?

It turns out, it will keep going up because math. We spent a whole lot of money in excess of what we’ve already spent, and some people are starting to recognize that this is a problem, especially for those who don’t have a lot of assets and rely on wages. So while Joe Biden can run around and talk about (impression), “(mutters) Middle class and jobs! Class! Jobs. Middle class. You know, here I am!

“I got the blond hairs on the legs, and they touched the hair that was bleached by the sun while I — I was at the community pool.” Some of you will remember that that’s actually pretty much a direct quote of Joe Biden’s — one of his weirdest speeches. “Legs on my hair would stand up all…” So weird. But he sniffs people’s heads, grabs them, does all kinds of weird things — and Democrats have no problem with that whatsoever.

Anyway. “For those who will dismiss my unwillingness to support a $3.5 trillion bill as political posturing, I hope they heed the powerful words of Adm. Mike Mullen, a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who called debt the biggest threat to national security.” That’s also from this op-ed in the Wall Street Journal by West Virginia senator Joe Manchin.

Look, friends, they are going to try to do everything they can to try to get this through, because everything else that the Biden administration touches is in a state of free fall or has already collapsed. It’s a mess. They’re not making things better for you, they’re making things worse, and people see it. The economy is weak. Inflation is rising. Gas prices are high. The border is a disaster.

Our Afghan withdrawal was a catastrophe in the way that it was executed. Crime in major U.S. cities way up. An all-time high for overdosed debts, last year in this country and continuing to be very high this year. And the Biden administration is not doing anything about the border that is feeding this problem. In fact, they’ve kicked it wide open, and what did they say they were going to do?

He said he was going to “shut down the virus not the economy.” How is that going for us? Well, let’s take Mu variant as well as the Delta variant. You can see, nope, they have not figured that out either. So what exactly have we gotten here? A constant… Biden promised the American people normalcy when he ran in 2020. That was the big pitch. He was going to hide in the basement and promise things are going to go back to normal.

And his version of normal, as we all see it, is dysfunction that forces the American people, who are honest, to lower their expectations constantly, about their day-to-day lives and about the future of America. That’s what normalcy means for Biden: “Lower your expectations, folks. It’s going to get worse.”

I think we should fight against that. I don’t think that we should concede that that is the future under a Biden adminis… Well, it is the future under the Biden administration, but it doesn’t to have be the future, which is why we have take power away from them in the midterm election and then shut down the socialist madness here.

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