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Clay Takes On ESPN Trans Swimmer Silence on Tucker

22 Dec 2021

Clay appeared on Tucker Carlson Tonight to discuss the UPenn transgender swimmer controversy, which is pitting lib vs. lib: Feminists who support Title IX are on one side and the transagenda on the other.

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Nothing New: Biden Blames Unvaxxed for His Failure

21 Dec 2021

BUCK: I start to wonder if really the president is all there, Joe Biden. They’re talking about getting shots for 6-year-olds. Remember that we got way beyond the level of shot they said was necessary — Fauci said was necessary to prevent surges and to give us a degree of herd immunity, and we’re setting all-time records for cases in places like New York State, all-time records.

You have people all over the place who are getting sick who are vaccinated. And their plan is to get your 4-year-old as soon as possible vaccinated as soon as the shots are out for them. The statistical threat to your child is somewhere in the realm of one in a million.

They just pulled the Johnson & Johnson shot and said that they’re concerned about, you know, the safety profile of it, right? That just came out recently. Weren’t even allowed to talk about that months ago. Remember when they stopped it even early on and then they brought back, not allowed to talk about any of this. Boosters. How much testing have they really done on the safety and long-term impact of these booster shots?

You know, for the vaccine that they rushed out in about a year, how much of the booster long-term data are they really — they don’t know. They don’t know. But you’re supposed to trust them, and if you don’t you’re a bad person and not a patriot. Get your third shot. Really get your fourth shot, double mask when you’re outside and be terrified.

This is what the president — this is shameful. I’m sorry. I wanted to send everybody off for, you know, Christmas in a happy mood and I will stop here with the Biden stuff just because, but he infuriates, absolutely infuriates me. Nothing new, more of the same, doesn’t take any responsibility for being wrong on a lot of stuff — and that he has failed. Biden has failed. Oh, boy.

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Our Mission On the Conservative Media Mothership Rush Built

21 Dec 2021

BUCK: We’re going into 2022 here, and we’re six months, basically, on the air here on the Clay and Buck show. And we really mean it from the bottom of our hearts, thank you all for listening, for giving us a chance. We know what we were stepping into here.

We know how much respect and how much gravitas this position deserved because of what Rush turned it into over the course of decades. And I’ve been saying to people, and it sort of sticks, no one can fill Rush’s shoes so I just figured I’ll try to fill one and Clay will try to fill the other and we’ll do the best we can, and you’ve given us a shot and we really do appreciate the response you had because, you know, we’re here for the mission.

I’m here for the mission every day, right? Clay and I are going after it, trying to spread the truth, trying to defend freedom in this country and to speak for a lot of you, millions of you, literally millions of you across the country who don’t have a radio show but share our beliefs, share our principles and know how important these fights are. And to that end we have to understand this as a strategy. We are in a battle for the future of this country. And we need to do a lot more than just talk about what’s going wrong with the left.

People say, “What can we do? How do we change things?” And, sure, the communists want to ruin things, but how we make everything better? Well, one way is to build our own platforms and systems and support each other. Every time I listen to the show, every time you — and, by the way, I am a capitalist; so I say this unabashedly, every time you check out and support one of our sponsors, you’re voting in favor of what we talk about, the principles, views, and values of this show. Every day, every phone call, every person, every time you do. Every time you tell somebody about it.

But the right needs to do more than just what has existed in the past. And we view this, Clay and I, here on this show as, honestly, a sacred obligation to conservatism and to America to use this incredible — I say the Unsinkable Aircraft Carrier of Free Speech — to try and help others also in the fight, to build out.

You know, I’m somebody — one of knocks on me in the business is I don’t view other conservatives as competitors. I view them as allies and people along the way — so that’s why you don’t hear — I don’t trash other conservatives, I don’t go after them. And people along the way have given me tremendous help, none more so than Rush but also Glenn Beck was enormously helpful to me in the early days, always thankful to Glenn for that, giving me my first real shot and Rush giving me my first real break; so we want to build out more.

Rush understood this. Rush agreed with this. I want to play for you what he said. It’s gonna be a little bit of a segment here. I want you to hear what Rush said in June of 2020 about the creation what we could call a conservative media mothership here and expanding it out and how we could win the future with it. Here’s what he said

RUSH: Many of you might remember the former guest host on this program, Buck Sexton of the CIA. Buck now tweets a lot. Does he have his own show now? (interruption) Yeah, he does. And he ran for office — or am I confusing him with Jason Lewis? It was Jason Lewis that ran. Jason Lewis is not CIA. Buck was CIA. (interruption) Jason Lewis was CIA, too? So we’re not getting our guest hosts from the CIA, then? All right.

Well, anyway, Buck has been on a tweet storm and had to put it in one of those thread apps ’cause there’s so many tweets, and he’s ticked off at how conservative everything has just given up, has just ceded the country, ceded Hollywood, ceded music, ceded television, ceded the media, ceded everything. Doesn’t understand it.

“If one of the conservative billionaires out there has any stomach for saving their country from the mob, they should buy and flip a major media platform, or fund a new one, and make it an unsinkable aircraft carrier of true free speech.”

And I get this a lot. I’ve had this question, “Why doesn’t some wealthy conservative come along and buy CBS or ABC or anything else?” I don’t know. I have no idea. I happen to know that a bunch of people who have bought networks are not flaming leftists and they never do anything to change the news networks that are part of the corporations that they have purchased.

Buck Sexton continues. “We are completely outgunned in the platform wars, and it’s only getting worse. All the major social media and streaming content companies are part of the lib Death Star. Stop sending checks to think tanks that overpay 2nd tier scholars to churn out policy papers five people read.”

He’s thinking about people like Bill Kristol and Jonah Goldberg and the Never Trump contingent who at one time or another have worked at think tanks, where they have sought your donation on the basis that they and they alone are carrying the conservative banner into battle, when in fact most people have never heard of ’em.

“It doesn’t even have to be –” he says, this new enterprise “– doesn’t even have to be ‘conservative’ in mission, it would soon become dominated by conservatives though if it adamantly refused to censor speech for the woke mob. The Left can no longer debate like sane people, but they don’t have to. They just point, scream, and cancel. Meanwhile, I know ultra-wealthy conservatives who are terrified of anyone finding out what their politics are, because to be accepted among the elites, you have to at least allow those around you to believe you’re woke and lib.”

And, by the way, I can confirm that. I have over the course of my career, I have met and been introduced to some of the wealthiest conservatives, I didn’t even know they existed, in real estate and high finance in California, in whatever business in New York. And the last thing they ever wanted anybody to know was their politics. Some of them didn’t want anybody to know that they supported George W. Bush.

And I remember scratching my head, I said, “Why?” (interruption) They said, “Well, you know, Bush is stupid, he’s an embarrassment. I have a tough time explaining him.” That wasn’t it. That was just a convenient excuse. They valued their social status more than their political portfolio.

He says, “All of this adds up to a massive cultural failing of the right. And where are the older leaders in conservative media building up the next generation? Folks on our side seem obsessed with their own brands, and protecting their turf, which is a small slice of the media landscape. We need more voices with serious platforms that we control.”

Here again I know exactly what he’s talking about. There was a seminal moment — now, you may not agree with this. There was a seminal moment with the passing of William F. Buckley Jr. Now, William F. Buckley Jr. had retired years before he passed away, but he was the, quote, unquote, father of the intellectual conservative movement. And the thing that Buckley had the ability to do was anoint and grant approval to newly arrived young conservatives, and he did, and he bestowed upon them credibility that resulted from him.

He had that kind of credibility. He had that kind of juice that if somebody new came along, he wasn’t threatened by their existence. His National Review empire, he didn’t think, “Oh, my God. I gotta protect — this guy could overtake.” He didn’t think that way. He was truly a movement guy. But when he passed away, all that ended. And what happened, what replaced Buckley was a battle that’s still raging over the smartest conservative in the room and who is it and who gets to decide it.

And there isn’t a conservative movement that has a force leader individual who is attempting to encourage younger members, and even the younger members don’t seem to have much of an ambition. The joke around Washington today among young conservatives is if they can get a Fox News gig and a book deal, they consider their careers to have been made. There’s enough money and enough prestige there to say they’ve made it. Well, what’s not included in a Fox News gig and a book deal is no persuasion, no expanding the universe, no expanding a movement. That’s what Buck Sexton, formally of the CIA, is talking about here.

Where are the older leaders in conservative media who are welcoming and building up the next generation? We have people more concerned with protecting their own brands and their own turf, which individually these conservatives we’re talking about are so tiny and small that nobody knows who they are anyway.

We need more voices. And we need more encouragement for those voices. But the same time the young arrivals are not completely immune from the problem, you know, a book deal and a Fox News gig and that’s the definition of making it. And the two do go together. But it is not the kind of stuff that a building, growing, planting deep roots kind of movement is based on.

He says “When I first got into media -” this is Buck Sexton here, formally of the CIA “–when I first got into media, I thought our side would be like pro sports, generally the veterans would want to bring up the rookies as part of the natural order, to help their team win. Conservative media is more like warring cartels. Many of the big names just want to stamp out the upstarts.”

And Buck Sexton, formally of the CIA, says, “I know you could say, ‘That’s just business,’ but this is supposed to be about more than that too. And in fact some big names out there pretend the fame and money don’t matter at all. It’s just ‘the cause.’ They build brands on that promise to their audience. They’re full of it.

“Our side is losing right now. We have the Left going on a mad cancel spree, nobody is safe from it, the Supreme Court is a lib super legislature, corporate America is in the radical left’s pocket… and we are hoping Trump pulls off a miracle this fall. What if he fails? Whoever wins this fall, we will still be living in a country where you will be tweeting, facebooking, Amazon priming, YouTubing, Instagram posting, Netflix watching, and Hulu streaming based on the curated tastes and activism of the left. We lose if this continues. Full stop.

“And honestly,” writes Buck Sexton formally of the CIA, “if we don’t do something about this, we deserve to lose. Who thought it was a sustainable plan to just cede 90% of media, all of Hollywood, academia, and now corporate America to the woke mob? We need to build conservative media motherships, right now.”

BUCK: This, my friends, is our Conservative Media Mothership. Rush is the one who built it, and we will continue to fly it, do the best we can, fight for those causes. And, of course, as Rush was talking about that older generation bringing up the young guns, mentoring, teaching, building, that was Rush. That’s what he did for me. That’s what he’s done for so many others. So know I thought you should hear that. What’s our mission? The Conservative Media Mothership in 2022 that builds up conservatives, that holds politicians to account, including on our side and tries to win the fight for this country. That is our mission. And we take it directly, as you heard there, from Rush himself.

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AZ Senate Candidate Blake Masters on Fighting Corruption

21 Dec 2021

BUCK: We’ve got a special guest with us now, Blake Masters is the president of the Thiel Foundation and COO of Thiel Capital. He’s a Tucson native running for U.S. Senate seat in the great state of Arizona. And he joins now to talk about a whole range of issues. Blake, thanks so much for calling in.

MASTERS: Absolutely, Buck, thanks for having me.

BUCK: And to all our KFYI listeners there in the Phoenix area, thanks for tuning in, of course. Blake, I want to start with this because you are somebody who thinks it is absurd, based on what you’ve tweeted and I’ve heard you say, that members of Congress effectively can get away with insider trading. I’ve had a lot of people calling in today that are asking, hey, how many members of Congress right now own stock in companies that produce these vaccines?

I just wanted to lay it out, you’re a guy who really understands these things. Why the heck can members of Congress essentially use inside information to enrich themselves? We know a lot of them do. And also, what do you think about members of Congress owning stock in companies? Because there’s been some research into this. They do own, some of them, stock in companies that produce vaccines.

MASTERS: And, Buck, if you look at the returns that these lawmakers make they’re outperforming the market, man, these people ought to be professional hedge fund executives because they know how to trade stocks. I think it’s disgusting. It’s corrupt. It’s disgusting. Certainly it appears corrupt. And so that’s corrosive to our politics. But just look at how much Nancy Pelosi and her husband have made creating public equities about which they have material nonpublic information. I mean, it’s just completely corrupt. I think this should be banned. Individual lawmakers should not be able to own and trade individual stocks.

BUCK: Nancy Pelosi responded, I think, in part, maybe, to some of the noise and criticism you’ve rightly been making on this issue, Blake. She said something along the lines of — I think we played it on the show last week — you know, members of Congress should be able to participate in the free market.

I mean, you know, there’s a free market in illegal drugs, too, right? There’s a lot of rules out there that people have to obey when it comes to “the market,” and it seems to me that material nonpublic information, especially when Congress is spending trillions of dollars and having all kinds of carve-outs for different industries, protection from lawsuits from, I don’t know, vaccine makers, things like that, there should be some accountability here.

MASTERS: That’s right. It’s ridiculous for her to talk about the free market. It’s just outrageous. She’s a politician who’s getting rich off of her position, right? There’s obviously terrible incentives around allowing the same people who make tax and regulatory policy, allowing them to benefit from it. So I think, you know, it’s time to recognize this has just gone on way too long. This is why Congress has, like, what is it, a 6% approval rating?

Everybody knows and everybody feels like these people are just corrupt. Increasingly, it feels to me like the only difference between our country and a Third World dictatorship is we have to pretend our leaders aren’t corrupt. Well, Nancy Pelosi is, and she shouldn’t be allowed to trade individual stocks.

BUCK: We’re speaking to Blake Masters, COO of Thiel Capital. He’s running for Senate in Arizona, to our Arizona team of Clay and Buck listeners out there. And also want to know what you think just about year one Biden economy, inflation, the Biden agenda stalled out. What’s going on, from a guy who actually understands how markets function and what works in the economy and what doesn’t?

MASTERS: Well, look. I knew it was gonna be bad. If I’m honest, though, it’s been a lot worse and a lot faster than even I would have guessed, right, on day one, what did Biden do? The first thing he did was halt construction, finishing of the border wall.

The second thing he did was he canceled the Keystone pipeline. You know, that’s bad for the tens of thousands of Americans who lose their jobs. But think about what that does to people who are trying to build long-term projects. If the government can just come and cancel your pipeline that you invested, you know, hundreds of millions of dollars and 20 years in, think about what that does to the business environment. So, of course, we’re now seeing supply shocks, we’re seeing inflation, we’re seeing shortages. I mean, this is the 1970s all over again. And unfortunately, Biden is so incompetent or maybe he wants this to happen — I don’t know — I think it’s gonna get a lot worse. I really do.

BUCK: Speaking to Blake Masters running for Senate U.S. Senate in Arizona. Blake, what would you want to do? I mean, let’s say that we’re heading in here and you are elected and we have a Republican — now, I know obviously we still have Biden is a president, but you can still push ideas in the Senate when you have a majority, those ideas can get a little bit further. What has to happen now to get the economy to, oh, I don’t know, the feeling and the numbers that we had in 2019 under Trump before the pandemic and Biden and all the rest of it? What would you want to see happen?

MASTERS: Well, the first thing we need to do is to stop printing trillions of dollars, right? It’s common sense that if you do that, you’re going to get inflation, you know, officially inflation is 6 or 7% right now. Unofficially I think it’s a lot higher than that, and that is a deadly, silent tax on so many tens of millions of hardworking Americans.

So first thing we do is stop the bleeding, stop printing money. Government has enough money, right? The problem is it’s so inefficient and so broken that they just don’t do anything well with it. So stop the bleeding and then reimplement President Trump’s economic policies. You know, under President Trump we had a roaring economy right before covid. Median wages in this country had started to rise for the first time in like 50 years. It was getting easier, not harder, for normal people to make ends meet and to raise a family. And this isn’t rocket science. We know what to do. We just have to get the Democrats out of power and reimplement these great policies.

BUCK: Blake, as we hear some of the more open socialist members of the United States Congress right now saying things like Elon Musk is a freeloader, who doesn’t pay taxes, and then it comes out that Elon is supposed to pay about — I think it’s 11 or $12 billion in taxes for this year alone.

MASTERS: Yes.

BUCK: You think folks are starting to realize that the collectivist, redistributionist, left-wing Democrats are either lying or just don’t know what the heck they’re talking about when it comes to this?

MASTERS: I do. I think people are realizing it. It’s why I think we’re gonna crush the Democrats in 2022. And look. Elizabeth Warren was saying this. She was calling Elon Musk a parasite. No. Elon paid more taxes this year, or will, than any American in history. And he’s built great companies. Right? He’s done a thousand times more in a day for this country what Elizabeth has done her whole life. And this is champagne socialism, right? This is limousine liberalism.

Elizabeth Warren flies on private jets. She I think has like $12 million in individual equities, right, public stocks that she should not be allowed to own. She’s a hypocrite. And she’s a wealth destroyer, not a wealth creator. And I think people are on to it.

BUCK: Blake Masters, everybody. Blake, where should folks go to learn more about your campaign for Senate in Arizona?

MASTERS: Thanks, Buck. You can go to BlakeMasters.com, sign up to volunteer. You’ve got five or 10 bucks you can throw my way, Christmas gift for the campaign, I will put it to good use, we will crush the Dems in 2022. Buck, thank you.

BUCK: Thanks so much. Good luck to you, also thanks to our great affiliate out there in Phoenix, KFYI, and all the folks listening in Arizona right now.

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The Collapse of the Biden Covid Narrative in Real Time

21 Dec 2021

BUCK: I’m seeing lines of hundreds of people on my way into the studio today to get covid tests. And what you are seeing is the collapse in real time all of a major narrative — and I think you could even argue a collapse of the Biden regime’s overarching promise, which is that they would get this under control. They said it from the very beginning. That was the plan, right?

First thing they were gonna do, the first thing that they were going to accomplish was knock out the virus. Remember a hundred days of masking, that was gonna do it? (impression) “Call everybody mask for a hundred days.” Yeah. How’d that turn out?

Remember when they decided that they would switch their idea from we won’t mandate vaccines. That seems authoritarian and excessive. We’re gonna make it easy for people. We’re gonna make it free for people and have a lot of public information. And, I mean, the Democrats were saying that, I mean Biden and Fauci and all the rest. And then they switched. Why? Because wasn’t good enough. Not enough people got it. And then it turned into “you are a threat to public health if you don’t get the shot because the unvaccinated” — Biden makes it sound like the unvaccinated are the unwashed, the uneducated, the evil, right? The unvaccinated are the ones that we all have to be so scared of. Except now we find out that many, many vaccinated people get it and spread it.

The collapse of the narrative in real time. You see this all around you if you’re in one of these cities, one of these states where they have surge in cases. New York is in the midst of the biggest covid wave — think about this. We’re already two years into the pandemic, right now the biggest covid wave in terms of cases ever. Ever. Set an all-time record just a few days ago. And it keeps going up and up and up. Wait a second. But New York is so heavily vaccinated. It has vaccine passports. Hold on a second. There are vaccine passports for people to go into restaurants. They excluded people.

The idiot authoritarians backed and encouraged by the Biden regime, the idiot authoritarians in New York and Los Angeles and San Francisco and go down the list made all these restrictions, and in New York they said you can’t go into a restaurant unless you have a vaccine passport. Well, you can be vaccinated and still get it and still spread it, and that’s happening all the time. It’s not aberrant. It’s not unusual. It’s not rare.

So what exactly is the purpose of a vaccine mandate now with passports attached to it? You go into a restaurant, you could be surrounded by a bunch of people with Omicron, all of them vaccinated. You don’t know. So what’s the difference? You think they’re gonna admit any of this? You think they’re gonna step back from it? See, here’s the problem, though. They’re cornered, in a sense, right? The authoritarians, the Fauciites, the apparatus, as I often refer to it, because of the distinct Soviet undertones, they no longer can tell you –the narrative has to shift. They can’t say don’t get it, don’t spread it. Just get the shot.

Now they’re saying get three shots. But the problem with that is people who are getting three shots are still getting sick. Yes, protected from hospitalization and death at a high level, but understand the policy differential here. If it’s about protection from hospitalization and death primarily or even almost entirely at this point the policy justification for firing people from their jobs, excluding them from public life, forcing them to get the shot to go to school, falls apart because they made that whole case based upon you can’t spread it to other — you’re a risk to other people unless you get the shot. Well, how does that look now?

You’re gonna see Joe Biden today — we’re not exactly sure when it will occur because, you know, the Biden regime will do whatever. He is speaking today, could occur during the show, and so we’ll pick it up live if it does — about the new plan. And let me tell you, the new plan is moronic. I said that about test-and-trace in New York City in June of 2020. All this is a matter of record.

I found out I’ve got something like 20 strikes on social media — I’m serious — in the last couple of months for trying to tell you the truth via social media, Facebook and Twitter, fact-checkers. They always rely on these fact-checkers who are just the quislings of the left online doing their bidding. It’s all partisan opinion bull crap posing as fact-checkers. But I tell you the truth about masks, I get hit. They restrict it, they won’t let people see it. I tell you the truth about vaccines, I get hit, they won’t let people see it.

Thank heavens I have this show with my main man Clay to address all of you across the country, and they can’t actually throttle my words because if Facebook and Twitter and the libs could, they would. So that’s why this unsinkable aircraft carrier we will have here of free speech on the Clay and Buck show is more important to me now than ever because we can actually talk about this stuff. Look at what is going on. They have lied to you. Are they sheepish about it at all? They were catastrophically wrong.

Biden, all of his cronies and advisers, the people around him, a bunch of morons. And it’s all falling apart. You see it falling apart right before your very eyes. What are they doing in response? Telling you that you have to listen to them — even more now, even more extreme restrictions are necessary. Here is just an example of it on — I think this was on — I don’t know — CBS, CNN, one of them, doesn’t even matter. On one of the cable channels. Zeke Emanuel. Here he is telling everybody that now is the time to double and triple and quadruple down on all of the things that did not stop this current pandemic wave in the first place.

EMANUEL: There are four things that we can do to really fight this virus. Number one is vaccinations. We have to get more they feel. I do think we’re gonna need more mandates. We’ve tried everything else. We’re gonna need mandates, and that’s — you know, we’re not gonna get past the 61, 2% just by asking people. So we are definitely going to need to have more mandates. Then we have testing. We have to flood the zone with tests, and then you have masking. We have to upgrade from sort of flimsy cotton masks to really serious N95, KN95 masks, wear them indoors, wear them outdoors if you’re going to a crowded situation, and then we have ventilation.

BUCK: Listen to goalpost moving as it happens in real time there, friends. Break this down piece by piece for a moment. And you know as you listen to me all across America right now that everything I’m about to tell you is true. You know that you can see this yourself. We’ve been going through this. The results are in. They failed. Biden, his cronies, his Build Back Better, “Oh, we’re so smart we’re gonna fix covid and we’re gonna fix the economy.” They failed. Okay.

Let’s start with notice what he says about masks. Flimsy cloth masks. We’ve gotta upgrade from that. Wait. Why? I thought the cloth mask was so effective. And I thought that — and of course, you know, I never thought that, not even day one when they pretended to think that as part of the Fauci apparatus. But I have all these fact-checkers, all these people that come after me, oh, we know cloth masks work. Zeke Emanuel just said basically don’t work, right?

This is where they’re playing games with the English language. If it reduces the spread 1%, is that considered effective? Are they serious? If I gave you an antibiotic and it says it has a 1% chance of curing your strep throat, does that work? Well, I guess one in a hundred; so I guess that works. This is what they do. They constantly move the goalposts. They are constantly lying to you. And then they get upset when you look at them and say, hey, why trust you anymore.

How can anyone trust Fauci, that little tyrant? He thinks he’s the grand general of this thing, the generalissimo, can’t get Fauci out of the way. He’s already said he thinks this is a war and he has to see it through until the very end. Oh. Oh, okay. So he can be wrong all the time. His pronouncements can be proven false, but it doesn’t matter. He has to be in the center of it, almost like what really matters is he’s powerful and important and that matters more than anything else.

So let’s just start there with the cloth mask comment because that’s interesting to me. Now they’re talking about N95 mask upgrades. Remember this is what you’re gonna hear from the Biden regime today as their new plan. And I’m telling you already based on what we are being told about what’s in the plan, it’s moronic, it’s not going to do it, it’s not going to stop this, but it is going to harass you, be very expensive, intrude on your civil liberties, intrude on your basic dignity, create a lot of unnecessary anxiety, it will do all of those things, hurt businesses, hurt the economy, just hurt America.

They’re gonna tell you — oh, do they even say flatten the curve anymore? You know why they don’t say flatten the curve? Because they’ve never flattened the curve with this stuff. They do it and the cases go up and then eight weeks or so later it starts to come down in place after place, almost like there’s a cyclical and season nature to this and that all these “interventions” as Fauci calls them and “mitigations” don’t do a darn thing. Masking.

You know, Germany has an N95 medical-grade mask mandate. Look at German cases right now. It’s worked so well for Germany to have this mandate. All it does is mean that neurotic lib Biden voters feel more empowered to walk around and say, “Where’s your mask?”

Oh, and then testing. Oh, testing is going to be the big thing, Biden’s telling them they’re going to send 500 million testing kits or they’re getting together 500 million testing kits. I mean, he hasn’t said it yet but that’s what people are reporting on. Test-and-trace. Let me tell you what test-and-trace was like in New York in June of 2020. ‘Cause I remember this is when they were really rolling it out big time. You’d get a call when you came into New York from another state fu you returned from a foreign country, about a week to 10 days after you returned asking you about your symptoms, are you really sick. Oh, gee, that’s really effective.

I think one time I got the call about two weeks after I came back as if, one, travel outside of New York was somehow indicative of being infected but, two, I’m so glad that they called me to ask me if I’m really sick because that’s going to do something. “Oh, my gosh. I just got a call from some slovenly bureaucrat who works for New York. I never thought that maybe I was sick until they asked me about my symptoms. Maybe I should get a covid test.” It was stupid beyond words. Big program. They pushed it all over the place. Think this one through. We’re gonna send at-home testing kits to people all over. By the time a lot of people are sick they’ve already been viral shedding for a day, maybe two days, maybe three. Do you think everyone’s going to test for this? You think everyone’s gonna test in time? What do they think this is really going to accomplish? How is this going to stop the spread of the virus, which is what we’re talking about.

Individual protection, you know what to do. You know what the options are. You’re at risk, get a vaccine. If you’re at really high risk get a vaccine, a booster, get ready for monoclonal antibodies if you get sick. That’s what the science actually tells us, sending testing kits to everybody, talking about the possibility of shutdowns, Fauci talking about masks forever on planes? These people are out of their minds. But they’ll never accept this.

That’s the part of it that I think, unfortunately, our side is waking up to now. It’s a little bit like, you know, the transgender swimmer issue, whatever. We have to deal with Democrats who are completely set in an alternate reality, in a version of the truth that does not exist. They think that they are right even when they’re wrong, and we have to look at them and say, “Stop being crazy.”

The most important thing that Joe Biden and Fauci and the rest of them could do right now if they really wanted the best for America would be to say, “Guys, please get that vaccine if you’re at risk and be careful if you’re sick, stay away from people, but go live your life otherwise because this is with us forever and the opinions and the lunacy needs to stop. We will get through this, it is imperfect, life is short, life is precious, do your best, the government cannot protect you.”

The government is lying when it says it can from this virus. They are lying to you when they say they can give you real protection. They don’t know. They can’t stop this. But they can trample on your freedoms and ruin your day-to-day life and destroy your business and take away your right to religious freedom and expression and freedom of speech and due process and stick shots in your arms that a lot of you do not need. They can do that for sure.

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How Buck’s Big Showbiz Break Was Almost Silenced

21 Dec 2021

BUCK: I was gonna tell you all a little story here because some of you may recall this listening to this show. The first time I ever was on the EIB about seven years ago I think it was now, I had the honor of being a guest host for Rush, and it’s just, there is no greater honor as a radio host, right? This is — it couldn’t be anything bigger, cooler, more important in your radio career; so to say I was super excited about it is an understatement. And I still remember, and may he rest in peace, a great man, Kit Carson calling me, Rush’s chief of staff, I get thought it was someone playing a joke on me. I’ve never had that in my life where I thought somebody was messing with me.

I actually thought it was someone pretending to be Kit Carson saying, you know, “Hi, Buck, would you like to fill in” I whoa, wait, what? So of course I said yes. I tried to be cool too about it, yes, I think that, and, you know, I was doing mental back flips. We get a couple of days out and this is why I’m thinking this, scratchy throat and feeling a lot off. We get a couple days out from the first ever fill-in I’m gonna do for Rush’s EIB here, and I have a little bit of a cold and I knew I figured I’ll be okay, you know, maybe I’m three or four days out, it will mostly be passed by then and I thought to myself, I don’t care. You know, what caffeine and Tylenol concoction I have, I’m gonna do a great job, gonna get through it. Get 48 hours out and I’m telling you, this is the truth. I have never had total laryngitis before in my life. I don’t mean my voice — you guys heard me do the show recently.

I mean, I, you know, had to get covid tested, I had a cold, I felt like crap, my voice was all messed up. So, I’ve done radio sick as sick can be many times. I did radio when I had covid ’cause I was doing it from home. So I’ve done radio sick many times. But when you have actually no voice, when all that’s coming out is this, no matter how much you push or try, that’s about the worst nightmare somebody who’s about to fill in on the biggest radio show in the country for the first time ever can possibly have. Because we all know, you can imagine you’re me, you’re young Buck and you get this opportunity and this was when I was working at The Blaze for Glenn Beck, and I’m thinking to myself, oh, this is amazing, right, this is a game-changer, I’m two days from it, what am I gonna say? Oh, I can’t fill in I have laryngitis? Yeah, that would, that’s gonna go over really well. Would say, oh, wow, cold — I’ll tell you this, you know, there are — I have my flaws like everybody else and I have my flaws in this business. Fear is not one of them. Right? Being nervous is not one of them. Never has been, never will be.

So, I mean, I want the ball, I’ll take the shot, I mean, hopefully I make it but I always want the ball, right? And that’s an important thing I think in life, winners want the ball, and you gotta take your shot. So, I remember thinking to myself, what the heck am I gonna do? You imagine you’re me, right? You’re going into — you’re going into what should be the sort of radio debut on the biggest platform. You have no voice. You cannot speak. And I don’t want to tell everybody this really ’cause I don’t want them to cancel on me, and my mom, God bless her, I mean my mom is a supermom. I mean, truly she should have a cape, she’s a supermom ’cause that’s when like there’s no hope and no one can fix anything I’m sure you all have people like this, mom is like the commando center of the Sexton family. So, like I call the command center. She can hear, I can’t talk, like I cannot allow this opportunity to — what do we do? And she got into the research and all the stuff.

We found in New York the morning of the fill-in ’cause I was like I’m just gonna show up and throw myself on the mercy of the EIB audience ’cause they’ll hear that I have no voice but at least then they’ll know I’m not a chicken! At least then they’ll know that, you know, I love and respect Rush and his audience and this is like being in — you know, this is like being invited to Valhalla like I’m showing up even if, you know, my sword is a little dull and my shield is cracked, you know? So I say I’m gonna go, and my mom figures out that that morning there is a doctor who specializes, specializes in opera singers who have to have vocal cord treatment of some kind, right. Or have to have something done because they’ve got a flu or the cold and they’ve gotta go on, the show must go on, you gotta go on stage, my mother reaches out, convinces this doctor to — she was actually on her way to her country home, okay, convinces her — and I still don’t even know how this conversation went. My mom’s very persuasive.

She goes, look. My son’s — I’m like, this is amazing that she’ll open her practice just for me in the morning, the morning of the fill-in at about 10 a.m. And you all know this show goes on at noon Eastern time. So I’m gonna see this doctor two hours before and basically tell her, you know, I don’t care if you have to turn me into Frankenstein but whatever you got, I know Frankenstein is the doctor, not the monster. Everybody, you know what I mean, you know what I mean, okay? I don’t care what you have to put the bolts in my neck and, you know, electrocute my voice, I don’t care, I gotta do this show. She goes, all right. There’s only one there’s only one thing we can do. But you gotta understand something. It’s only gonna last about three hours. Like, wait a second. You gotta be kidding me. There’s only one thing we can do, it’s not gonna be perfect, and it’s basically going to fade over the course of me doing a three-hour radio program? She’s like, that’s it. That’s what we got.

So, she gave me a nice, big, old injection of cortisone ’cause she said your vocal cords are so swollen and inflamed not only will you be unable to do the show without this, but you could actually do real damage and scarring to your vocal cords if you try to push through this, so I’m glad I didn’t do that. I said, all right. So she gives me the shot. And so I sit down for the first time ever, 2014 EIB, and at the Golden Mic, and the whole time I’m trying to do the best show I can, and it was not my best show, but, you know, under the circumstances I was pretty proud of myself just for getting through. But the whole time I’m thinking, at any moment my voice could disappear. At any moment this could basically — ’cause it wasn’t a scratchy voice. It was whisper. It was no voice. And I will tell you the last 30 minutes of that show on this platform on the biggest radio show in the country my first time ever out, most of you — some of you heard that show, I’m sure, by the way, probably a pretty good number of you did.

The last 30 minutes I could actually feel my voice going and by the time I got home about 30 minutes after 3 Eastern time when the show ended, my voice was entirely gone. So we managed to get the vocal cords open for just the window on the EIB to do the show and thankfully was good enough but all of you are kind enough listening and the response from you was strong enough that then they had me back many, many times to fill in for Rush over the years. But that was about the most stressful live performance I ever had to do, and thank you, Mom. Merry Christmas, love you, the best. She, you know, it was amazing how it all worked out. But I guess that’s my way of saying, Christmas miracles are possible and the show must go on, friends, the show absolutely must go on.

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Psaki’s Latest Covid Rx Is Deja Vu All Over Again

21 Dec 2021

BUCK: We’re awaiting the White House speech. And right now there’s a briefing underway. Let’s see what Psaki is staying about the long lines at covid testing centers because a lot of people are saying, “I thought you were supposed to be prepared for this.”

PSAKI: It includes quadrupling, not even including the president’s speech today, our testing capacity over the course of the last couple of months. It includes the 50 million tests that we made available to rural community health centers and community health centers, all components that I talked about exactly on that day in the briefing. If anything, it was a lesson to me to always include the context and make sure you use every opportunity of questions you all ask to do exactly that.

But today what the president is announcing — and this is, again, to Jeff’s question and to yours as well, to be clear, we’re not sending a test to every single home in the country. We are providing an opportunity, another opportunity or ability for people to, an important one, go on a website and request a test if their preference is to get that test to their home. Not everybody will do that, but we want people who want to do that, who want to get tested, who want to request tests that way to have that ability to do.

REPORTER: And obviously this, you know, new push for — for testing is a big component of this strategy —

BUCK: Okay, can I just jump in here. Testing is not going to stop this thing. It’s not going to bring the curve down. It’s not going to even dramatically impact the trajectory of the pandemic right now — unless you think that everything we’ve seen before doesn’t count and somehow this is entirely different. This is deja vu all over again, to borrow from Yogi Berra. This is utter madness.

What else are they gonna say? We screwed up? We were wrong? We fired doctors and nurses and first responders ’cause they wouldn’t get a shot that doesn’t actually stop the spread; now we want you to get more shots and more shots and more tests? Pretty much.

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Will Blue-State Schools Start to Close Again?

21 Dec 2021

HOCHUL: We are keeping our schools open. Let me repeat that. We are keeping schools open. Because we’re dealing with a very different variant at this time, we believe that it’s critical important that our children not end up in the same situation they were for so many months when they were so displaced from their normal environment. We’re in a different environment, a different circumstance and so part of our winter surge plan is we are committed to keeping our schools open.

BUCK: I hope that holds. Welcome back to the Clay and Buck show. That was the governor by happenstance of the state of New York, Kathy Hochul saying schools are gonna stay open but some seem like they may go remote, make the choice to, maybe some of the private schools. We’ll see.

Remember private schools and parochial schools in New York were open pretty much the entire pandemic for, starting in the fall of 2020, right? So there were places that were just open while the public school system in a lot of places as some kind of — well, it’s very obvious what it was. The teachers unions called the shots in the Democrat Party. It’s a huge source of funding and political muscle and no Democrat politician will cross the teachers unions. They do so at their peril. They know that.

So that is why they had shutdowns as widely as they did. And we have still not really come to grips with the reality of what that has done, particularly to children from disadvantaged or low-income households, disproportionately affecting children who are even more dependent on school just for stability and for their overall development.

So it was really cruel, what was done by these teachers unions. And Randi Weingarten of — I forget if she’s with the AFT or the other one. But the head of one of the big unions where what they’ve done is awful. They put neurotic, lazy adults ahead of kids; and millions of children suffered as a result of it.

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A Kid With a Speech Impediment Can Become a Radio Host

21 Dec 2021

BUCK: Some of you listening may know this; a lot of you listening across the country won’t. But for the parents out there I tell this story ’cause I hope that it’s one of those things that will, for some of you, give you just a little bit of reassurance and just to stay on it and when it comes to education and making sure that, you know, that believing in your kid is so critical, right?

Believing in them in an educational way. I mean, of course you love your children, will do anything for them, but, you know, believing in them and pushing them and giving them every opportunity to succeed in an academic environment. So I sit here with you now, and obviously Clay is out today on vacation, but this platform that we share that Rush built on the EIB is the biggest single talk radio show in the country. What you may not know, some of you might, is that I was somebody who actually had a speech impediment as a kid. I had an enunciation disorder. So I was falling behind in class. I could not pronounce my own name when I was in the second grade. I would mispronounce my own name. And I won’t even tell you how I pronounced it, but it was not good. And you can image when you’re a kid and you say your name to people and they laugh at you, that’s not particularly confidence boosting or inspiring.

And I also, because of this, I think, was falling behind in school as well. So going into second grade, third grade I was a kid who was at the bottom of the class, they thought about, they told my parents, I was at a Catholic school here in New York. They told my parents that I might have to go to a special school and that I needed speech therapy.

Now, the head of the lower, they called it the lower school at the time, so the part of the schools that goes up to, I guess, third or fourth grade was a great woman named Jane Warwick who is well known here in New York City education circles, and she, with my parents, backed me. She said, no, no, no, we’re gonna actually, we’re gonna fix this. We’re gonna get him speech therapy and we’re going to encourage him and maybe give him some extra, extra tutoring, right, for academics. So I went from being a kid who couldn’t pronounce his own name, literally could not do it. I mean, I would miss — enunciation disorders are tough.

You hear some people just say a consonant wrong or something, but if you do that enough, it sounds weird, and people, when you’re a kid, make fun of you. Right? That was what was happening to me.

So I’m a kid with a speech impediment at the bottom of the class. But my parents, my mom and my dad say, “We’re with you no matter what on this one, and we’re gonna keep him in normal school,” you know, the school that I was in, I should say, not a special education program outside of it. And within about 18 months it two years the speech thing was totally fixed and within three years I wasn’t at the bottom of the class, I was number one in my class. By the time I got to the eighth grade I got a hundred thousand-dollar scholarship to a private high school in New York called Regis and was a standout on the debate team.

And I will tell you a quick, fun story about that. Of course now I’m here on the Clay and Buck show, the biggest talk radio program in the country. So you can imagine quite a storyline arc here, from speech impediment to biggest radio show in America. I always remember that I had just won, it may have been my second, but I think my second, I think. I wish I could tell you it was my first, speech and debate tournament as a high school freshman. And I got to run up to — I thought she was so pretty, a couple years older than me, my speech therapist’s daughter was at a party. She was a year or two older than me the time. I always thought she was, you know, I had a, like a, kind of a crush on her. And I remember I went up to her and I was like, hey, you know, I was a patient of your mom’s, and I just won my debate tournament. And I can tell you she did not care at all. She’s like, who is this younger guy who’s talking to me at a party, like, where’s the captain of the football team? Get out of here, speech nerd.

But point being for me it was a big moment. It was a big moment. And I really appreciated that. So to all the parents out there, look. I think especially now given how much a lot of kids have had to, you know, step away from the classroom, they’ve been forced to be masked up away from their friends, away from normal learning, away from their favorite teachers, you know, you might require a little extra, you know, you might have to do more at home than you have in the past and maybe some of the test scores that you’re gonna see in the next year or two aren’t what they, aren’t what they, you know, were before or maybe you’re a little concerned about it. Stay on it. Stay with it. I think the single most important thing that parents can do — and this is just for my own experience for a kid.

Especially a kid who’s struggling a little bit, whether it’s with a speech issue or just school in general or behavioral issue, is stay with them, stay on it, and believe in them. If you do that, it’ll be fine. You know. Will it turn, will the person turn into a talk radio host? I don’t know. Maybe. Will your son or daughter go that route? I mean, I wouldn’t, it’s not an easy life, by the way. I wouldn’t recommend it, necessarily. But stay with them, stay on it, believe in them, and it will all be fine. That’s all you gotta do. That’s what my parents did ’cause I got great parents. Very lucky.

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Buck Predicts What We’ll See Over the Next Six Weeks

21 Dec 2021

BUCK: So now what do we do? We gotta take our country back, folks. This apparatus of Fauciism, it’s not going to go away until we make it go away. Sure, eventually, we’re gonna get into April. I can sketch out, you know, the next six months for you right now as a prediction. Okay, so, you know, I can’t see the future but I kind of can. I can sketch out what it will look like. The next 90 days or so — I shouldn’t say 90. It’s more like 60. But the next six to eight weeks we’ll say in the blue states of New York, New England, New Jersey, getting into some of the industrial Midwest and into parts of Northern California, it’s gonna be really rough with covid cases, and there are gonna be a lot of people who get sick and unfortunately gonna be a lot of people who die.

Most of the people who die as a percentage will be among the people who are in the high risk category and are unvaccinated but there will be people in the high risk category and a considerable percentage who are vaccinated who also die. We know this from the data as it’s been seen in the U.K., in Israel, and elsewhere. This is the reality that we face. There will be more and more natural immunity built up over time, the Omicron variant still seems — I know there’s one death in Texas now that Omicron is apparently responsible for, but it still seems substantially less lethal thus far than the Delta variant did. And it will hopefully outcompete as viral spread goes the Delta variant such that you’ll have many people at much less — with a much less lethal disease who then have an immunity that will protect them from Delta.

That is the hope going forward. Caseload will drop in April and into May. What do you think they’re going to say to you in New York and California and the major blue states? And for those of you who live in Texas and Florida and, you know, you’re not gonna have to go through the same madness that we are, but the federal government’s not done with you. Think the Biden regime is gonna say, you know what? “We were wrong that federal mask mandate — sorry — federal vaccine mandate, we’re gonna drop that whole thing. That was crazy. That was overreach. Clearly didn’t work.” Of course not.

You know what they’re gonna say? Now we have an even better vaccine. Now we’re going to be prepared for next year. And they keep all this in place, and all the health apparatchiks and the vaccine makers and everybody else gets to keep this system going, unless we stop them, unless we say, “This is just not going to go forth anymore. Can’t allow it. Can’t have it.”

They’re going to claim victory, by the way. The Biden regime that has seen more people die with the vaccination program in place in their first year in office than Trump saw with no vaccine program in place. And I understand there’s a lot of ways people can explain this, the Delta variant, whatever, but those are the cold, hard facts, that’s the cold, hard reality of this. The Biden regime this spring going into the midterm election I can assure you will try to claim victory against the virus. “It would have been so much worse,” they will say.

They’re talking about shutting down schools now in New York. That will do nothing. We’ve run the experiment. We’ve seen the data. But you see what we’re dealing with is a mass hysteria that is enabled by mass media and that is also part of a mathematician political movement and you add all these things together and reality and facts and reason and logic can’t necessarily penetrate. It becomes very difficult because the people that are pushing this stuff don’t really care how it all works out. They care about who’s in charge, who’s blamed, who has power. That is at the most foundational level, that is what matters to them. And so they’ll say whatever they have to say.

We see these situations playing out now, and there’s this moment of panic, New York, D.C., the whole Northeastern seaboard just totally overrun with covid cases right now, setting all-time highs. And you’re not hearing anyone say, “Wow. We really underestimated what we’re in for here.” Biden giving a speech today, 500 million testing kits starting in January, by the way. Oh, that’s really gonna slow everything down.

This virus is in hyperspread mode right now. It’s all over the place. I’ve had multiple people text me during this show saying they either have or almost certain they have covid because someone else that they, you know, in their household or whatever just tested positive. It’s all over the place. So what are we gonna do, we gonna live in fear? And they’re vaccinated, by the way. The people telling this are vaccinated; just want to be very clear.

We gonna live in fear? We’re gonna band together and say, “We’re going to have Christmas, we’re going to have our lives, we’re going to have freedom.” Take responsible measures and live your life. This is what was said — and protect the vulnerable. The state should focus on protection of the vulnerable, and we know who they are. And that doesn’t mean lock them up in facilities like they do in Australia. Means get them the facilities, make sure there’s the hospital capacity, make sure there are the therapeutics.

When I start hearing that they’re essentially worried about running out of monoclonal antibodies in D.C. because they didn’t stockpile them, they have a distribution problem, I said that’s absolutely reckless. How are they not ready for this? Well, ’cause they didn’t want to believe the people that were looking at the data. They wanted to believe Fauci and all the people around him.

I ask you this. And you know how I feel about this guy. Has Fauci ever been right about anything? Think about that one for a second. Let that one just bounce around for a moment. And why isn’t he speaking out against New York shutting down some schools? It’s not the whole city shutting it down. Why isn’t he speaking out in defense of sanity? Does he ever do that?

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