Florida Happens When You Make Good Decisions

20 Dec 2021

DESANTIS: First of all, November job report nationally about 200,000 jobs nationwide. In Florida alone in November we did over 50,000 new jobs created in Florida. So, that’s over 25% of the total job output just in one state. My budget is about $99.7 billion. I mean, you mentioned New York. New York’s budget’s like $230 billion. And yet I think most people that come here would say we have better road, infrastructure, services, our K-12 schools perform higher, we have the number-one rated public university system in the country. And we do all that with no state income tax and in fact have the lowest per capita tax burden in the country, and we have over $15 billion in surplus revenue.

BUCK: I mean, Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida isn’t just taking a much deserved victory lap. It’s as though he’s just spiking the football in the other team’s end zone running up into the stands and, you know, high-fiving all of his buddies. This is what happens when you make good decisions. Welcome back to the Clay and Buck show. I want to be hopeful here as well. There are better ways. We are seeing it, and we’re gonna continue to see it. There are people who have been wrong in how they have, in positions of authority, whether it’s in the media or in the government, approached the last now almost two years.

They’ve just been wrong time and again. They have not given deference to individual freedom, to the Constitution, to human liberty, to facts, to data. They have pushed based upon their lust for power and their anxiety disorder that was largely created as a weapon against Trump in 2020, they’ve refused to listen to reason. But there are better times ahead, and there are better places to be than what you’re seeing right now in places like New York City and Los Angeles, Boston, D.C., the Democrat-controlled cities are deteriorating very rapidly.

And the population flow and the economy is showing all of this. Why is Florida right now doing as well as it is? Because leadership matters, because Ron DeSantis as the governor has created a bulwark of freedom in an increasingly insane, commie-driven America, especially under the Biden regime, right? That’s what we’re seeing play out. And so we know that it can be better. It doesn’t have to be what you’re seeing with all the propaganda coming out of this White House and they’re all so upset about the Build Back Better agenda. Just more free stuff. Trillions of dollars of free stuff. But it doesn’t work that way. It’s not free. It always comes from somewhere. Just because it makes them feel good the libs can’t suspend the laws of basic economies, of supply and demand. Inflation is always a government and monetary policy problem. This is not something that comes out of nowhere. It’s a function of math. And while Democrats can pretend that they don’t understand the math or they say math is racist or whatever, at the end of the day the results will be in; and we are seeing it right now.

And I am hoping, as we get close to the end of this year, that next year we all understand it is absolutely essentially to take this as far as we possibly can with the, not just defeat of, but the repudiation, the political and ideological annihilation of what we’ve been put through for now the entirety of the covid pandemic. Yeah, there was of course Trump in charge for year one of the pandemic; but they pushed a lot of lunacy and a lot of lies in order to get Trump out. And we were dealing with the undermining of police and BLM and the mask mania and Fauciism and all of this because they took this as a crisis that was really an opportunity. All along you’ve seen this. So we can say enough is enough, and I think look at is a vision of that.

I’m worried about Texas going into this winter period here. I hope Governor Abbott keeps this where it is. I hope he doesn’t start to lose his nerve on this issue. We’ll have to see about other states as well because we’re going into, I mean, the period that we are entering is going to be probably the worst we’ve seen in at least 12 months, right, from the pandemic perspective. The all-time high that we’re gonna have for this 12-month period or rather since the last all-time high is gonna be in January. And they can’t stop it. They’ve told people they can; they can’t. They can say, oh, everyone has to get the boosters. They know that’s not going to be fast enough.

They know that that’s not going to be enough to stop the spread. And we have to just remind ourselves there are better ways and there are better times ahead. We are right. More people are figuring that out. And that’s the good thing, you know. And for those of you in New York I know I’ve been giving a tough time here for my WOR family listening all across the Tri-State area but at least de Blasio’s gone out of New York City at the end of this year. It’s a Christmas miracle. Yay. And I think Eric Adams will be better. I can’t promise you. Maybe I should say I hope. I don’t know if I could say I think. I hope he will be better. We shall see.

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The Buckster Gets a New Scooter for His 40th Birthday!

17 Dec 2021

BUCK: I just had Congressman Louie Gohmert of Texas come right into the studio here in EIB NYC. We got EIB Nashville, EIB NYC going strong — or actually today, it’s EIB Key West.

CLAY: Not a bad place to be.

BUCK: Not a bad place to be hanging out this time of year. They brought me a… Congressman Gohmert and, of course, our team here — Ali and Crash and Greg — all brought me a gluten-free, believe it or not, smores cookie pie.

CLAY: That sounds amazing.

BUCK: So, I’m going to look more like Santa in time for Christmas. That is the good news. I got the beard coming back and the beer belly. So it’s fantastic. Thanks, everybody, for all the birthday wishes and Christmas wishes.

CLAY: You’re 40 years old on, what, the 28th?

BUCK: Gonna be 40 on the 28th, yeah — 40 on the 28th.

CLAY: What are you actually doing on your 40th birthday? Do you have an actual plan?

BUCK: I’m gonna be on the beach in Miami with some friends taking naps and drinking. That’s it. That’s all. I’ll probably go out to dinner. I’m very low-key. I’m not a big birthday guy. I’ve thrown big birthdays for other people.

CLAY: Right.

BUCK: I have never been a big birthday guy myself.

CLAY: Forty is a big one. It’s kind of a line of demarcation in many ways. Like, were you nervous when you went 29 to 30? Did that feel like a big step to you out of your twenties?

BUCK: I don’t really remember that one very well. So maybe that’s part of becoming 40 is you forget these things.

CLAY: Yeah, I remember thinking 29 to 30 felt like a bigger deal than 39 to 40. By the time I was 39, I was so busy with all the kids and everything else that it didn’t… I felt like a super adult, right?

BUCK: I feel like in your twenties, it’s whatever you want. You do your thing. You’ve kind of found out what you want. In your thirties, you are building, and in your forties and your fifties and your sixties, you are playing the hand that you pulled together.

CLAY: You are a man in full. Yeah.

BUCK: Yeah, exactly. That’s kind of how I’m feeling about it, and you know I was gonna go beardless for the 40th, but, man!

CLAY: You got some negative reviews.

BUCK: I wouldn’t like to think of them as negative, Clay, but just the preference was made clear for bearded Buck. I was like, “Really?” I didn’t even think it made that much difference, and all the guys listening to this are like, “Buck, we don’t care. Talk about the news,” and they’re right.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

BUCK: My birthday is coming up on December 28th.

CLAY: Not just your birthday, your 40th birthday. That’s a big one.

BUCK: You’re making me feel older every time you say it.

CLAY: There are some people who are obsessed with their birthdays and, like, “Hey, you’re gonna be 44 this year, you’re gonna be 30,” and those numbers really don’t matter. But the big round numbers, I think, are significant mileposts and cultural signifiers. So, 40 is a big deal. So, we’ve got you maybe the greatest 40th birthday party present that has ever been given. You just got it during the break.

BUCK: EIB NYC just unveiled a brand-new, souped-up, ready-to-rock electric scooter for the Buckster to replace the one that was so shamefully stolen from me right before Thanksgiving. So now I’ll be scoot-scooting all over New York City, although it is really cold on a scooter when it’s sub-50 degrees, sub-40 degrees, so I might wait a little bit on that one.

But it’s very kind of the team here. Thank you all so much for that — and maybe I’ll get a helmet this time. I’ll definitely get a better lock, that’s for sure, a better lock for the scooter. I don’t know. Maybe I’ll get me so the decals for it, some flames. Maybe throw some hydraulics on the scooter. I don’t know. I got a whole bunch of things. I’m gonna try to avoid putting a basket on the front of it, although it would be very convenient.

CLAY: Do people age out of scooters?

BUCK: There are people wearing —

CLAY: I don’t know, in New York City.

BUCK: There are people in New York City you’ll see flying around in full on scooters, like jacket and tie, on their way to their jobs on these scooters now all the time because your alternative, the subway here, is like a scene from Mad Max.

CLAY: Yeah. I’ve seen.

BUCK: The subway is a mess, it’s dangerous, it’s super slow. The subway’s in bad shape these days. I was just on it last week, and the street traffic is horrible. So if you want to get through Midtown Manhattan, I will say it is a good way. This is true of a lot of cities. Look, Nashville, which is like Disneyland for bachelorette parties, they’ve got those scooters all over the place.

You just pick one up and just go. They’ve got the scooters share program. They have them in Austin, Texas, too. I think they used to have them in Miami. I don’t know if they still have them in downtown Miami or not. In L.A., there was a big anti-scooter move because there were so many on the streets on Santa Monica and Venice, and the only thing they want on the streets are tents and waste and vagrancy on the streets. They don’t want scooters.

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17 Dec 2021

CLAY: I want to play Joe Biden. I was having this discussion with my wife this morning, and I’m curious what you think about this, Buck. Is Joe Biden so mentally not there that he is just reading whatever his associates give to him, or does he really believe the nonsense that he is spewing? Because he’s talking about a Winter of Death, which is the exact opposite of when he took over as president back almost a year ago and he said he was gonna solve covid, no issues at all. Let’s listen to cut 9. This is Joe Biden yesterday letting you know that a Winter of Death is coming.

BIDEN: For unvaccinated, we are looking at a winter of severe illness and death — unvaccinated — for themselves, their families, and the hospitals they’ll soon overwhelm. But there’s good news. If you’re vaccinated, you have your booster shoot, you’re protected from severe illness and death. Period.

CLAY: It’s not true. It’s just not true.

BUCK: This debate is going to be so muddled on purpose by the people in charge. And I’m here in New York, and I gotta tell you just so people across the rest of the country know. Obviously, we have our WOR family of listeners here all across, really, the Tri-State Area. The signal doesn’t quite reach to Cuba, but it reaches all across the Tri-State area and beyond, and they’re dealing with what I’m dealing with which is a city that is going into full-on panic right now.

People are completely freaking out. It’s interesting. Not everyone is freaking. It’s different than it was in March of 2020 when there really was a sense of general fear and despair descending on the city. I still remember the hospital ship, seeing it in real time floating past my window on the Hudson River here and also the photos friends of mine were taking of the hospital tents in Central Park. It’s not like that.

There is a portion of this city — and I’m sure it’s true in Los Angeles. I’m sure it’s true in Houston and a lot of other cities across the country. There’s a portion that are Democrats who are just completely losing their minds over this. And everyone’s asking me, “Do you think that we’re gonna go into shutdowns again? Do you think we’re…?” and I’ve been holding back. Privately, I’ve been saying to people, basically, “We’re screwed this winter,” for months now, but I wasn’t sure.

So I didn’t want to add to the anxiety. I was like, “I just think this is gonna be bad. It’s gonna get worse.” But here on the show I said, “I don’t know,” ’cause I didn’t know, right? I mean, what you think you might happen possibly… I didn’t want to do a Fauci and unnecessarily freak people out. But, Clay, people are asking. We have possible restrictions on capacity coming our way now. We got masking up everywhere. There’s been a tripling of the positivity rate in two days in this city —

CLAY: Yep.

BUCK: — and 20% of the cases of covid are already Omicron. It’s gonna be way higher than that. But here is the problem. They aren’t dealing with the fact that they promised the vaccines would stop spread. And they keep acting like, “Oh, we really just meant that it would protect you.” If it just protects you, the basis for the mandates falls apart, right?

If it’s just about individual protection, it should be left up to choice. They’re conflating these things on purpose because the stopping of the spread through a mandate of vaccination has, as a policy, clearly failed in New York and other places. Doesn’t mean it didn’t help at all, but it didn’t work if it was to stop a surge ’cause we’re in the middle of a tsunami of covid right now.

CLAY: Yeah. And, Buck, this is where you and I overlapped even when I was doing sports, because sports has often been a canary in the coal mine letting us know where people might be going with covid. And there’s a couple things that have happened here recently that I think are really seismically important. The NFL is 95% vaccinated, Buck. The NBA is 97% vaccinated and the NHL is nearly 100% vaccinated. Okay?

All three pro sports leagues are now overwhelmed with their highest level of covid positive cases that they have ever seen. So this, to me, is a direct assault upon the idea that Joe Biden is selling, Buck. This is a control group that is highly tested, that is very well medically treated because of the value of high-end athletes to the franchises and to the leagues. Fortunately, those players are under virtually zero risk.

But those players were bullied into getting covid vaccine because they were told, “Hey, if you get the covid vaccine, you’re not gonna test positive, you don’t have to wear masks, you can have a normal season,” and so most NFL, most NHL, and most NBA players did it. Now, there have been a few — and we’ve talked about some of those guys. The Kyrie Irvings, the Aaron Rodgers of the world that have refused to do it. But all the guys who did it, Buck?

Joe Biden is basically saying, “Hey, if we had a hundred percent vaccination rate,” Dr. Fauci is saying the same thing, “covid would go away,” right? What do we keep hearing them say? “Oh, this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated.” I am here to tell you that is a lie, and you can look at the references, the data coming out of the sports leagues where almost every single player is vaccinated and yet they are setting all-time highs.

And here’s the big question that I think Dr. Fauci should have to answer and Joe Biden too. Last year with no vaccine, the NFL had far fewer covid-positive cases than they have this year with everybody vaccinated. Why and how is that possible, Buck? Same thing in the NHL, same thing in the NBA. How have all these players got more covid with the vaccine than they had without it?

BUCK: Some of us were warning about this all along because we looked at the situation of the seasonal flu that we deal with and we know that decades and decades of the flu has resulted in substantial loss of life, but we can’t actually come up with a vaccine that truly defeats the flu. It can mitigate the risk for seniors and a lot of seniors should and do. My own parents, your own parents, right?

We’re so anti-vax that we’re constantly talking about all the people we know who are vaxxed in our own lives. Right? These are slurs people at that people throw around now to shut down debate intentionally dishonestly, and Fauci is among the worst offenders on this one. You’re even seeing, Clay, that he’s willing to try to change the language. Did you see this? He’s talking about how who doesn’t want people using the word “mandate” anymore. He wants people to actually start changing how they describe it — so it’s less problematic — to “requirement.”

FAUCI: I mean, “mandates,” (sputtering) that’s a radioactive word. Requirements! People seem to respond better to that. They work, if you look at companies like United Airlines that require their people to get vaccinated, they’re about 99% vaccinated. The federal government, the federal workers, we have about 97% vaccinated — 99% compliant.

BUCK: Okay, Clay, he goes on and more babble from Fauci. They work? It works to force people to get the shot if you say you’re fired if you don’t.

CLAY: Yeah.

BUCK: Does it work to stop the spread of covid? That’s what people think of when they use the term “work,” and beyond that, mandate or requirement? He’s playing word games Soviet style ’cause he knows people are starting to clue in. More and more people are on to him.

CLAY: Buck, it is so one billion percent true that — and I’ll point this out. I mean, the pro sports league data that I just shared you? Over 50,000 people liked this on Twitter in the last 24 hours. The number of athletes that are reaching out and saying, “We don’t feel like we can speak out and even raise these questions. You told us, ‘Hey, if you get vaccinated this is not going to be an issue.’

“Now we’re setting all-time highs.” Why are we not using this control group of athletes which have almost a hundred percent vaccination rates to figure out what’s really going on here? That’s the very definition of science. You look at the data and you hypothesize based on that data. You don’t have to be a scientist to do it. You don’t have to be a doctor to do it. You have to be somebody with a functional brain who is willing to ask questions.

And the number of people that are even willing to ask questions associated with these vaccine mandates, not requirements — sorry, Dr. Fauci — is minuscule. I just don’t know where we’re going, Buck, but I feel like the next month is going to be an ugly, ugly mess for many people all over the country in terms of normalcy. I think it’s gonna get worse and worse on a daily basis from this point for at least the next month and maybe beyond.

BUCK: This is gonna be so different for people at the state level, at the local level depending where you are. And you all who live in Tennessee, Florida, Texas, and every other red state that’s listening to us right now, you’re gonna be living a very different life —

CLAY: There’s no doubt.

BUCK: — over the next 90 days than people who live in New York and California and all over New England. So Massachusetts and Vermont and very, very different experience, and I think what you’re gonna find after all this is done is the Fauciites are gonna have even less ground to stand on pause you’re gonna look at Florida and say, “So they live their lives normally, Texas lives their lives pretty much normally, California and New York don’t. For what benefit? For what benefit?”

CLAY: Exactly right.

BUCK: And the data will not support them. Fauci is on this debate an absolute disaster. He has been horrific, top to bottom.

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Clay and Buck Wrap Up Their Final 2021 Show Together

17 Dec 2021

BUCK: I want to take a moment, just ’cause this is the last time in 2021 Clay and I will be talking to you together. Obviously, we’re already fired up. Next year is gonna be huge. It’s gonna be an amazing year of just so many things that we know are gonna happen, not just in the news and politics and who knows where all this stuff is going right now. We just want to say thank you to all of you who have been with us for about six solid months at this point, tuning into the Clay and Buck show.

You all… You are Rush’s extended family, and you have embraced us as one of yours and we so greatly appreciate affiliates that have put their faith behind us and lent Rush’s audience to us for this period of time to prove ourselves and to carry on those fights. Clay, it’s awesome, especially when I get down into some of the redder parts of the country. The Clay and Buck show, we’ve got great people all over the place.

CLAY: No doubt, and you and I had never done a show together before. So, Julie Talbott brought us together. She knew how important Rush was and what his legacy was and how much his audience needed people who would continue to fight for him. We know what a tremendous privilege it is to be able to do this job every day. And we have had a tremendous amount of fun in the first six months, and 2022 is going to be one of the most important elections of any of our lives. I know that’s a cliche, but it’s really true, especially for a midterm, and we are going to help make sure that sanity wins and we kick some ass, and I can’t wait to get rolling in 2022.

BUCK: I think we can get big wins for freedom next year that you will feel, folks, will matter to you, that will be meaningful. The fights we’re talking about here, it’s not just theoretical, it’s not just philosophical. This is about your day-to-day and about the country we’re gonna be living in going forward, and Clay and I promise you this unsinkable aircraft carrier of freedom right here on the Clay and Buck show on the front lines with all of you, bringing you everything you need to know day in and day out, and Clay and I just want to say thanks again to all of you.

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J&J: The Hindenberg of Vaccines

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CLAY: Failures raining down everywhere from the so-called vaccine. Buck’s Johnson & Johnson vaccine not exactly being well received by the CDC. We should probably mention this. CDC saying that they are now going to stop recommending it. A year after they have been telling you that it was okay basically to take the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, they’re now saying the blood clot risk… (laughing)

I hate to laugh, but it’s just so utterly ridiculous. The blood clot risks for the Johnson & Johnson vaccine are significant and so they are now telling people that they shouldn’t get the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Buck, I’m sure that makes you feel good since you were forced basically to get the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. It’s not even the Spirit Airlines of vaccines. It’s the Hindenburg of vaccines.

BUCK: Yeah. So let’s just review reality for a moment. A few months ago, the City of New York — along with some other places, but the City of New York and a lot of employers — were saying, “Get the J&J shot at a minimum or else you’re fired, or else you can’t go anywhere, see anyone.” Now it’s been — let me see: September, October, November — four months and they’re like, “Actually, on second thought, we got another thing we gotta tell you about the risks of making you take that shot. But, oh, now everybody who is at low risk from their health profile should get the booster.” This is what they’re telling you this is the situation.

CLAY: Also, the other failures that were going on. Remember when the NFL told its players, “Hey, if you get the vaccine, we can have a normal season; we won’t have to worry about covid anymore”? Yeah, that’s not true. They’re having to postpone games because the NFL, despite 95% of all players having gotten the covid vaccine. Yeah, they’re moving the games because too many players have it and they won’t otherwise be able to field normal teams.”

So the Raiders-Browns game has been moved to Monday. Washington football team at Philadelphia — for those of you who are football fans, as I know Rush used to be a big football fan — moved to Tuesday. So there are multiple games that are being moved in an effort to try to avoid having to cancel them because too many people have tested positive for covid. So that is the absolute the latest in terms of information that is out there. Failure is raining down in every direction as it pertains to the covid vaccines. This is an unmitigated disaster.

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17 Dec 2021

CLAY: Build Back Better. Remember that, Buck? It was supposed to happen.

BUCK: There has not been building, it has not been back, and it is clearly not better.

CLAY: 0-for-3 for Build Back Better, and Bernie Sanders, he ain’t happy about it. Let’s play cut 19. We gotta update you. It’s not happening before Christmas. BBB, it may not be happening at all.

SANDERS: You’ve got 48 people in the Democratic caucus who are prepared — and a president of the United States prepared — to think big. And you have two Democrats who in my view are kind of acting like Republicans. You got two people saying, “Hey, if you don’t do it my way, I don’t care what the president wants. I don’t care what 48 of my colleagues want. It’s my way or the highway,” and that I regard as arrogance. You can disagree. Look, I have disagreements, as you well know. All right? You fight for your ideas. But you don’t say, “My way or the highway.”

BUCK: (impression) “My way or duh highway.” Can we just be clear? He’s focusing on the two that are Democrats, and he’s saying, “You know, 48 of your colleagues want…” But there’s also a whole bunch of Republicans that don’t want this to go forward. He makes it sound like one senator was Manchin — or two senators if you add in Kyrsten Sinema — are standing in the way of what everyone wants.

No, half the Senate doesn’t want this. That’s the whole point, Bernie. That’s why we have the system we do. If it were such a great idea, it wouldn’t be such a hard sell even to those two Democrats. Inflation is the number one, by far, economic concern people have in the country right now in the most recent polling. And when you look at this, you say they’re trying to do the one thing — the Democrats want to ram through the one thing — that is most assuredly going to make inflation worse.

CLAY: No doubt. And I think we need to give credit to Joe Manchin from West Virginia and to Kyrsten Sinema from Arizona. First of all, Joe Manchin, he’s where the country is. Joe Manchin is concerned about inflation. The country is overwhelmingly concerned about inflation. Joe Manchin is concerned. By the way, so are the 50 Republicans, but I’m talking about Joe Manchin from the Democrat perspective from stopping this from happening.

Joe Manchin is also concerned that by spending $5 trillion additional dollars and blowing up the debt even more than it already is, that we are going to create more inflationary pressures and inflationary spiral. By the way, so is the country — and it’s worth mentioning that Joe Manchin is in a state that Donald Trump won by 39 points in the 2020 election.

So if Joe Manchin is supposed to be representing the people of West Virginia, and if he wants to run for reelection in 2024, he better not roll through a $5 trillion massive governmental expansion when you truly have a majority that is almost nonexistent in the House and the Senate. I think this is a rational move by Joe Manchin. I think it actually helps the Democrats in all the swing districts and all the purple states. It doesn’t help Bernie Sanders.

He’s gonna win in Vermont no matter what. But for the rational people out there who are sitting around looking at the rise of costs for their gas and the rise in cost of their grocery bills and recognize that even if they’re making more money at their jobs, inflation makes them have less to take home. Joe Manchin is toeing the line and actually protecting them from Democratic economic insanity.

BUCK: He may save them in fact.

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: They’re all whining. They’re all complaining. But what stops… Look, Democrats are on track to lose the House big, to lose the Senate by, who knows, three, four seats, five seats, who knows? That’s all reality. Are they on track for annihilation in the House, though? Are they on track for the biggest defeat we’ve seen perhaps in decades, many decades? That is going to be tied in directly to the question of inflation and the perception that the American people have about the economy right now.

And Manchin is standing athwart socialist lunacy — while they’re yelling at him — perhaps saving them from their own ideas, their own policies. You know, if AOC actually got her way, folks, I assure you Democrats would be miserable too (laughing) economically. That’s what they don’t understand, most of them, not all of them. The rich wouldn’t care.

CLAY: Look, the lesson of 2021 should be to Democrats. If Virginia, which Joe Biden won by 10 points, can swing 10 points to Glenn Younkin — and if New Jersey, which I think was like a 16-point state, if I’m not mistaken, in terms of Biden beating Trump — if that can nearly swing to the Republican column as well — we’re not just talking, Buck, about purple states that are in play.

We’re talking about states that Democrats aren’t even considering as threats and congressional seats that Democrats aren’t even considering as threats. This is a 1994-style implosion that the Democrats are squarely staring down. Joe Biden’s best protector in terms of the midterms, whether they want to admit torrent, might end up being Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema who are gonna protect the Democrats from destroying themselves.

BUCK: We’ve been talking about what the plan will be, what they’re gonna try to do given that there’s not a record to push. They can’t even come up with coherent talking points to tell people why they should vote Democrat again the next time around based on the achievements of the Biden regime, right? So what are the areas of agitation and mobilization they’re gonna go for?

Well, you brought up abortion, the Supreme Court case. Clearly that’s gonna factor in next year. We also see they want to talk about changing some of the rules about voting and how all that’s gonna go. They’ll justify that, of course, by saying that there is voter suppression and all kinds of racist schemes underway by Republicans to prevent people from voting. Here’s Mitch McConnell talking about it.

MCCONNELL: I noticed the emphasis on the other side seems to have changed from a reckless tax-and-spending spree to the voting issue again. So let me repeat for the umpteenth time: There’s not a single state in America that has passed a law that is making it more difficult to vote based upon race. The Voting Rights Act is still fully intact. It’s been against the law since the sixties — and remains against the law today — to discriminate against people based upon race. There are, however, things that states do engage in to ensure ballot security, things like voter ID at the polls that most Americans think is a perfectly reasonable suggestion.

BUCK: Showing your papers to get a cheeseburger in New York totally, fine. Showing voter ID to ensure the integrity of our elections, racist. They’re so dishonest, Clay. The Democrats are such liars on the issue of voter expression that they will claim voter suppression schemes in states where the African-American vote turnout increased after these laws.

Which I believe either… I think it was South Carolina. Might have been North Carolina, where they made all this complaint, “Oh, it’s so racist what they’re doing in voting,” and then they set an all-time record in the next election for African-American turnout. So, you know, if they’re trying voter suppression, they’re pretty darn bad at and you can just expect more and more of those lies out there.

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17 Dec 2021

CLAY: We’re joined now by Karol Markowicz, who is fired up. She is a New York Post columnist and also a Fox News contributor. Just fantastic work. And she, like Buck Sexton, is fed up with all of the covid insanity and beyond in New York City. Karol, thanks for joining us and hope your Friday is going well. You have made a decision for you and your family. What is it and how did you come to that decision?

MARKOWICZ: Well, that’s right, and I’m taking Buck with me. (laughing)

BUCK: (laughing)

MARKOWICZ: We’re leaving New York and we’re going to the free state of Florida. It’s a long time coming, but we finally pulled the trigger on it. We’re selling our house and we’re getting out.

BUCK: What was the breaking point, Karol? ‘Cause we’ve been talking about this for a while. You’ve been an early on… I remember before Clay and I even teamed up on this show I had a guy, my producer, Mark, who is really into sports. So he’s like, “Hey, you gotta talk to Clay Travis ’cause he’s like the only other guy that thinks that this Fauci stuff is nuts and you have to stop with this mask insanity.” You were also in that very small group in April of 2020 already saying, “Hold on a second. Something’s funky here.” But what was the breaking point for you? What changed that finally made you say I’m not gonna be the last one in this New York bunker fighting against the madness?

MARKOWICZ: (laughing) Right. So there wasn’t any one thing. It was just a buildup for a while. We had moved into our dream house in March 2020. We were going to live in New York forever. My husband and I are both lifelong New Yorkers. I grew up in Brooklyn. He grew up in Queens. We were gonna raise our kids like little New Yorkers and they were gonna go to college from this house and we were gonna retire to Manhattan and we had a whole plan.

And the crazy that we’ve seen over the last almost two years, I just don’t see a light at the end of the tunnel, and I root for New York. Maybe New York comes back. But it might be in 10 years. It might be in 15 years. And I can’t risk my kids’ childhood waiting out this crazy time. I need sanity. I need them to have stability. I need them to know that normal exists out there and this is not it.

CLAY: Karol, in my neighborhood, I’m born and raised in Nashville, but the number of people moving from New York, California, and the Chicago area is insane.

MARKOWICZ: Oh, yeah.

CLAY: As soon as the house goes on the market where I live, people are moving in. They’re all coming from those locations, by and large, and they’re all coming because of covid insanity. So how did you pick Florida? Did you consider other locations? And what has been the reaction of people when you tell them, “Hey, I’m leaving and going to Florida”? How do they react?

MARKOWICZ: Yeah. So, we picked Florida because it has just sort of been the leader of the pack of American states that are moving toward sanity. And it’s absolutely because of Governor Ron DeSantis. I think he sets the tone and Floridians are just more apt to adapt to going back to normalcy. So, that was a really big deal to us. I’m a big ocean person. I wanted to be on the ocean.

Things like that were part of our consideration. The thing that I hear the most… So, first of all, when I announced this, I got… I’ve never had such an avalanche of messages. I’ve had pieces go viral before, but this was different. This is like people were writing to me and saying, “I feel what you wrote in my soul.” It was just like… It wasn’t like, “I agree with you; this is great.”

It was like, “You wrote what I’m feeling,” and I’ve had so many people reach out to me and say, “I also live in New York” or “I live in one of these crazy blue areas and we also need to get out, and can you like help direct me to where I should go?” And I don’t know that much. So, I’ve been, like, “I know these places in Florida; this might work for your family,” but, you know, I don’t know.

I really think there’s a big business to be had for people, like, managing people trying to get out of these crazy blue areas and go to saner places and, like, you know, what are your priorities? Here’s someplace that might work for you. And I really think that somebody should take up that business.

CLAY: Speaking of that business idea, Karol, I have good friends who are real estate agents, and they say even if they haven’t seen the news, they can tell by email and sudden phone traffic in the city of Nashville that crazy has happened with New York or California or the Chicago area. More restrictions.

MARKOWICZ: (laughing) Yeah.

BUCK: The phones, every time a new restriction happens, it’s a breaking point for someone else and there is a tangible result in terms of relocations.

MARKOWICZ: So you know what’s interesting is I feel like doesn’t get mentioned that often, but how come we’re not seeing the reverse? How come if the left wants these restrictions, how come we’re not seeing an influx of people moving to places with vaccine mandates or mask mandates? Don’t they feel unsafe in their red states with all this freedom that they have? Don’t they want to move to these places that Bill de Blasio won’t let you go to a restaurant unless you can show your papers? I mean, how come we’re not seeing the reverse? I really think that that’s something that doesn’t get highlighted enough.

CLAY: Smart.

BUCK: We’re speaking to Karol Markowicz, columnist the New York Post, soon to be Floridian, and have been a long time New Yorker like me here. Karol, one aspect of this that I think — actually before I get into that, you’re the one who told me about the kids masking up outside to eat their lunch, which to me, under other circumstances, if you remember this to a child in 35 degree whether we, people would say, “Well, that’s child abuse, right?”

But the city of New York apparently doesn’t think so you because covid, ’cause they’re all freaking out about it all the time. But I also just want know if you think…? Are we really gonna have in Los Angeles, New York — and you know if those two cities fall, D.C., San Francisco, it will happen a whole bunch of other places. Do you think we’re heading back into, like, 50% capacity, maybe shuts down of certain businesses? Because I know one thing for sure. The mask mandate and the newly announced million test kids arriving in New York, according to Kathy Hochul, is not going to stop the surge we’re in.

MARKOWICZ: Right. That’s absolutely right. I don’t know. The thing is that you really have seen a change in the coverage in the last few days. So before all the places that we’re experiencing spikes were a bunch of rubes who didn’t understand that, they had to follow these directions and they could so easily defeat covid. But now, now the blue states are getting it, the blue areas are getting it it’s like, “Well, there’s nothing we can do. We’re all gonna get it. That’s okay.”

And it’s become kind of different pick up you could see a shift in the media coverage of this because it’s hitting areas that were, quote-unquote, “doing everything right.” So I don’t know. I don’t know if restaurants are gonna close. I do know that last night a restaurant owner said that he had lost a third of reservations already because New Yorkers are panicking and they’re staying inside.

And some schools, the last day of school is the 23rd for New York City schools. So many rumors are circulating that this weekday they’re gonna say, “Don’t come back next week like let’s just, you know. Come back after the holidays.” The thing is that we live with this and we live with, like, not knowing what’s gonna happen, and that’s the worst part. I know in Florida I know what to expect. They will not close schools no matter what, no matter what, and here I don’t have that same expectation.

BUCK: Yeah, the anxiety is its own punishment at some level.

MARKOWICZ: Yeah, absolutely. And when you have kids, you have to have child care, you know, you still have your job. And you have to find things for them to do. It’s not like you can wake up, you know, Monday morning and get them somewhere. So parents are really having a hard time in New York because they’re afraid schools are gonna close but nobody has said so yet.

CLAY: Karol, we talked a lot on this show — and I saw it because in Tennessee where I am over the mask mandate, the battle — moms were fed up. And we saw it, I think, in 2021 in Virginia with the win there. We nearly saw it in New Jersey. Do you think this is gonna carry through into the 2022 midterms where moms — and dads but especially moms — who are maybe swing suburban voters are so furious over the way schools have responded, and Democrats have been far more likely to be in favor of school shutdowns than Republicans —

MARKOWICZ: Right.

CLAY: — that it’s going to linger as an issue into the midterms? Do you buy that?

MARKOWICZ: I can’t I do. I think there’s so much residual anger over the fact that schools closed last year and did not reopen in so many places and how long they were closed. I think that parents are still fuming about this. I’m still fuming about it, and my kids barely went to school last year. And it was absolutely something that was unnecessary.

Schools were open in so many places around the country, so many places around the world, and yet blue cities couldn’t make it happen. They just were in the pockets of these teacher unions, and they did not open. And they put kids last, and they continue to put kids last. And I think parents have had it. I sense a real shift from parents. I have to say that open-schools advocates in New York are almost all on the left.

And they are all politically adrift now because they can’t bring themselves to vote Democrat anymore because of what they did with the schools. These are all parents on the left who are drifting away from that. This is absolutely something that’s happening and happening I think all around the country.

BUCK: Karol Markowicz of the New York Post. You know, Karol, you’ve been one of the originals, as I said before here, trying to just bring the truth to life to people about what’s really going on, the schools issue. Fauci’s a coward and he’s a Democrat and he’s partisan so he never… To this day, he has never admitted that they never should have really closed down schools.

They certainly shouldn’t have closed them down in the fall of 2020. That was just the teachers union calling the shots and Fauci calling it science because he’s a little hack and a coward. Where do you think this is going? We talked to Alex Berenson about this earlier this week. There is this great political sorting of sorts happening right now — Clay and I talk about it — where it feels like in the blue states, you’re just gonna have the bluest, craziest libs.

The triple masking on their tricycles alone in the woods kind of libs, and then everybody who’s rationale and normal is trying to get to somewhere a little bit more sane and it might not happen right away. I mean, it might take a year or two, but what do you see happening?

MARKOWICZ: Yeah, that’s the other thing. I think that there’s a lag with this. Like, look. We’ve been trying and thinking about getting out since about a a year ago, and now we finally are succeeding in doing it for a lot of reasons. So I don’t think that people can make a decision and pull the trigger the next day. I think we’re going to continue to see people drifting away from these areas.

They’re not gonna forget what happened. They’re not gonna forget that things closed for no reason. And, you know, talking of Fauci, one of the things that I absolutely will not forget is that he changed his mind about everything all the time, but on schools he’d be like, “Schools should open — I don’t know if schools should open. Schools should open. Yes, they should be shut.”

But then when Biden became president, he literally said that schools should only open if they could pass the Biden stimulus plan. If somebody’s that politicized that you have to pass my favorite politician’s proposed plan before we can open schools, they should not be on our television set, should not be setting health policy, should go work on the Biden campaign, honestly, like that should be his role.

CLAY: I love all of this — and I know, Karol, you talked about the response that you got from your article in the New York Post, your column. I guarantee you there are people who are listening to you right now nodding along thinking, “It’s time for me to find a new place to live. I can’t go through another winter of insanity,” and, Buck, the number of closures — I think by the time we come back on Monday and Tuesday and all through the holiday season — it’s only gonna get worse.

BUCK: They refuse to learn. They refuse to actually look at what happened. They refuse to look at last winter. Did any of the closures, did any of the stuff they did help at all? They thought, Clay, by the city’s own numbers, 1% or less of covid transmission was occurring in restaurants. One percent! They shut down restaurants over that. They’re out of their minds. Anyway, Karol Markowicz, always sound, always brave.

MARKOWICZ: Thanks so much.

BUCK: New York Post.

MARKOWICZ: Buck, I have a room for you. (laughing)

BUCK: Karol, I’ll see you down in Florida certainly over the holiday — and it might be longer than that.

MARKOWICZ: (laughing)

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