Clay and Buck

For a better experience,
download and use our app!

Download
Now

: :

1x 1.2x 1.5x 1.8x 2x

The Karol Markowicz Show: Boca Raton’s Growth, Leadership & the American Dream with Mayor Scott Singer Friday - Dec 19, 2025 • 16:15

Daily Review with Clay and Buck - Dec 19 2025 Friday - Dec 19, 2025 • 1:2:25

Hour 1 - What a Year! Friday - Dec 19, 2025 • 36:47

Hour 2 - Just "Don't" Do It - Lessons from Nike Friday - Dec 19, 2025 • 36:41

Hour 3 - Why Culture Matters Friday - Dec 19, 2025 • 36:42

Wellness Unmasked Weekly Rundown: Trump Drug Policy Explained: Marijuana Schedule III & Fentanyl as a WMD Friday - Dec 19, 2025 • 3:41

David Rutherford Show: Bondi Beach Attack, DOJ Breakdown, Bongino Walks Away | Week In Review Friday - Dec 19, 2025 • 52:13

Hillary ’24? Poll Shows Biden Approval Underwater in 46 States

15 Feb 2022

CLAY: Our friend Phil Kerpen shared this. It’s a Civiqs poll. It’s a poll that came out from Civiqs. I’m not sure exactly that brand. But they did a really good dive-in on all 50 states. What is Joe Biden’s approval rating in all 50 states and — the spoiler alert — not good, all right? In only four states does Joe Biden have a positive approval rate right now — Hawaii, Maryland — and I gotta be honest with you, I know Maryland does crab cakes and football, but what?

46 states disapprove of Joe Biden’s job, 4 states approve. These numbers are unbelievably awful in toss up states, by the way. https://t.co/XWAB4xVCQk

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) February 15, 2022

BUCK: What are they thinking in Maryland?

CLAY: Joe Biden, right? How are they…? By the way, it’s 45-43 there. Massachusetts doesn’t really… You could have any Democrat president on the planet in Massachusetts and he would have a positive rating, right? It’s virtually impossible. Vermont similarly. You elect a socialist, Bernie Sanders. It’s not a surprise, Massachusetts and Vermont. Hawaii is kind of a wacky place. I don’t know if they pay any attention to what goes on in the continental United States there. But Maryland was the one that stood out. So a couple ones I want to hit you with, Buck. First of all, did you see this? What is Joe Biden’s approval rating, Buck, in West Virginia?

BUCK: Oh, it’s sub-20 for sure.

CLAY: It’s a 17% approval rate.

BUCK: There we go.

CLAY: I’ve never seen any state with a lower approval rating. West-by-God Virginia, 17%, country homes, they are not gonna be happy about that. But, Buck, what stood out to me so much was what are the numbers in the, quote-unquote, “swing states,” right? The states where you look at ’em and start to project in 2024 based on how close they were in 2020, listen to this. Arizona, 32% approval rating right now for Joe Biden, 61% disapproval, all right?

To the extent that Arizona is a toss-up, I don’t think that Florida is gonna be a toss-up at all. I think it’s gonna be a landslide statute for Ron DeSantis in ’22, and also a landslide state for whoever the Republican is in ’24. Biden has a 35% approval in the state of Florida; 32% in Georgia, right? Some of these numbers, I’m looking at ’em and I’m in just disbelief that they could be as bad.

Pennsylvania, who we all know is going to be a huge toss-up state, right now 37% approval, 55% disapproval for Joe Biden. And Wisconsin, 38% approval, 55% against. Michigan — which obviously has been a big battleground of late — 34% approval. if I’m looking at these numbers right now and I am in the White House, not only am I worried about 2022.

Buck, I am looking ahead, I’m saying, “If we were having a presidential election right now, Joe Biden wouldn’t just lose. He would get shellacked a shellacking the likes of which we have not seen in this country maybe going all the way back to, like, 1984.” I mean, that’s how bad of a beat-down Joe Biden is on track, if he were on the ballot, to get in 2024.

BUCK: I do think there’s something very encouraging about the numbers. This country has not lost its mind.

CLAY: Yes. I agree.

BUCK: There are a lot of people here who, particularly during covid, completely lost their minds. Some of them are coming back, and they are welcome. Welcome to Team Rationality, right? Team Sanity.

CLAY: Right.

BUCK: They’re welcome. There’s 20 to 30% of the country that, unfortunately, MSNBC and the New York Times that the wokeness has burrowed so deep in their brains that unfortunately I think we’re just gonna have prevent them from being in power because they would ruin the country for themselves and for others.

But there is at least some reality that is reflected in the polling that shows that people see that Joe Biden is just really bad at this. It was never a good idea, it was never a responsible thing to make him the president, it was never the unity and normalcy that they promised. It was all just a big fraud during a once-in-a-century pandemic. And we’ve talked about that so many times. But, Clay, this brings us to — and I’ve talked to a few people.

I’ve always been talking to my folks, and there are people listening to us on the show in the media world, and they say, “I don’t think Clay’s idea about Hillary is crazy.” I got some reach out to me about this yes. And like, I don’t think it’s beyond… First of all, here’s what we do know for sure? Is Hillary Clinton among the most power-hungry human beings you could ever point to in modern American history?

And therefore, she would jump at the opportunity to run again? Absolutely. Right? I don’t think anyone thinks that there’s — and then you look at, well, what would that look like with the situation of Biden’s polls and his age, everything else. It starts to seem less crazy. That’s also why the Hillary spying story that we talked about yesterday and the rest of the media, other than obviously Fox and some other places, completely ignored, really does matter. It does matter.

CLAY: And here’s why I say Hillary. And, by the way, we gotta play this AOC because one reason that I think the Democrats are going off a cliff is they followed people who get popularity on social media but don’t necessarily resonate anywhere else. Remember, only one-in-50 people ever comment on social media, meaning like Twitter, where the media spends all it’s time. I shouldn’t specify Twitter, but listen to this, Buck. Kamala Harris is a disaster. Start, Joe Biden can’t run, right?

BUCK: Kamala Harris is a disaster.

CLAY: Joe Biden is gonna be 82 running a presidential campaign. He would be 86 when he’s done. I don’t think he’s capable, physically, of running a campaign and I don’t even think — unless covid resurfaces and they’re able to run another campaign from the basement, Joe Biden has no chance. I really don’t think that the Democrats believe that. Kamala’s a disaster, but it would be racist and sexist not to put her forward.

Mayor Pete is probably the next guy, but I can’t believe nobody’s willing to say this. Mayor Pete is not able to be elected as a Democratic nominee because he’s gay, and because a huge percentage of the black electorate is not going to vote for a gay guy to be president as the nominee. Now, could he be vice president? Maybe. But look at what happened to him in South Carolina. It’s as if nobody will actually analyze it.

Mayor Pete, as a gay man, is not going to be selected in the Democratic primary which has such an overwhelming amount of black people who are voting in it because there is a huge collection of black voters who are very religious and are opposed to the idea, I believe, of a gay nominee. They won’t touch it in mainstream politics because it would require some sort of analysis that would allow people to say, “Wait a minute.

“Maybe just Republicans are not these awful homophobic people. There are actually Democrats that are homophobic, too,” which is a reality and is the truth, all right? I don’t believe Klobuchar. I don’t buy it. I don’t think she has the sort of gravitas to beat… It’s gonna be Hillary. Hillary is gonna be the nominee. But let’s talk about it —

BUCK: This is calling your shot, Clay. You’re talking about years in advance.

CLAY: I am calling it years into the future right now. Hillary Clinton is going to be the Democratic nominee for 2024 unless — caveat here, unless — Durham puts her in prison. All right? Because I’m telling you, this is me taking off —

BUCK: There’s no way she’s going to prison.

CLAY: All right.

BUCK: They’ll never do it. They’ll never do it. By the way, doesn’t matter what the evidence is, because they would make essentially a political argument in the prosecutor’s office is that this would rattle the country too much.

CLAY: And I get that. I actually get that. And I feel the same way, by the way, about Trump ’cause they’re like, “Oh, he’s gonna go to prison! You have to arrest him.” No. I think in general, if you are arresting a major party’s political candidate, you are — and it’s for something… Let me say this: It’s for something other than like murder, right? If there was a… If somebody… If Hillary Clinton had a gun and she finally got furious with Bill Clinton and she shot him.

And we were like, “Okay, it’s a clear case of homicide here,” then I would be like, “Okay, you could charge the president or the presidential candidate with a crime.” Absent some sort of act of violence, I think the idea that you’re going to arrest someone is difficult to pull off. So I think Hillary’s going to be the nominee, which makes this Durham spying allegation so much more significant.

You’ll Never Believe What AOC Says Causes Crime

15 Feb 2022

BUCK: We have been talking to you a lot about the realities of crime in big cities all across America and how it’s getting worse. It’s getting worse from the low-level street stuff, the crimes of vagrancy, the quality-of-life issues all the way up to murder, to shootings and rapes and other of the most serious crimes out there. True in New York, Portland, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston. Find me a major city, and chances are I’ll show you a major increase in crime the last 18 months.

There are a number of factors, but a lot of it ties directly to not just the BLM movement but Democrat policy decisions and prosecutors’ offices. So here’s just an example of what we’re talking about. In New York City, there was a horrific crime. A woman was stabbed to death on the Lower East Side on Sunday morning. A man followed this woman to her home and stabbed her over 40 times and killed her when he forced his way into her apartment on the Lower East Side right here in Manhattan.

He was out on supervised release on three open cases, including one where he randomly punched a stranger on the subway. He also has such an extensive record of crimes in New Jersey that they didn’t even list them in the reporting about it. But he’s out on supervised release. He stabbed a woman to death.

Maybe this is a guy that shouldn’t have been out, obviously, on supervised release, but we have soft-on-crime policies. Meanwhile, in Crazy Land, you have people like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spewing nonsense about how people that want to be tough on crime, they want to stop people from getting the baby formula they need ’cause… I mean, you gotta hear this to believe it.

OCASIO-CORTEZ: Because we… we run away from substantive discussions about this, we don’t want to say some of the things that are — that are obvious, like, “Gee, the child tax credit just ran out on December 31st and now people are stealing baby formula.” We don’t want to have that discussion. We want to say these people are criminals and we want to talk about people that are violent instead of environments of violence, and what we are doing to either contribute or to dismantle that.

BUCK: This is the fundamental fallacy. You are hearing it from someone who is not very smart, but is very powerful in the Democratic Party. The fallacy, Clay, of course is that we shouldn’t be enforcing crimes against individuals more strictly or just enforcing them at all, because the society is the one that commits the crime. And the notion of stealing baby formula? I’ve seen a lot of videos of people stealing Louis Vuitton bags at $10,000 a pop. Haven’t seen a lot of baby formula thefts.

CLAY: Well, and this is where all sane people need to start pushing back in a real way — and I mean sane people white, black, Asian, Hispanic — because the numbers reflect that the overwhelming majority of the American population believes that police have to be able to do their jobs. When you are allowing mass thievery to occur and with your allowing — and, Buck, in that story out of New York, that guy followed her up six flights of stairs and stabbed her to death.

He should have never been on the street, right? And what we are seeing happen — and, by the way, that’s not an outlier story, right? That’s not something that rarely happens. Because the murder rate is skyrocketing. In every city in America right now, there is a story like that. Everyone who is listening to us right now, whatever city you are in, there is somebody who is 100% innocent that’s been brutally murdered by someone who should have never been on the streets if we were actually enforcing our laws.

BUCK: That is the critical point. These are people, overwhelmingly — when we find out about these heinous crimes that are happening, these murders as they’re going on in city after city — who are not first time offenders. They’ve got rap sheets that look like a telephone book. And time and again a prosecutor comes along and says, “Oh, but this person had a tough home life,” or, “Oh, but we want to be more social justice focused,” or whatever the case may be, or, “We need to balance out the numbers of who’s in prison and for whatever reason, so let’s…” All of that, all those decisions which come from a left wing mind-set in this country result in more dead people and disproportionately — if we’re gonna talk about proportions — more dead young minority men.

CLAY: Amen.

BUCK: That’s what’s actually happening as a result of these progressive prosecutor policies and all the rest of the madness.

Montage: The Media Told You There Was No Spying on Trump

15 Feb 2022

Why is the media not covering strong allegations in court filings that the Clinton campaign spied on Trump? Because they spent years telling you it was a conspiracy theory. Watch this: pic.twitter.com/E8hyWXwagP

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) February 15, 2022

BUCK: “It’s a conspiracy theory!”

CLAY: How great are those clips?

BUCK: “No spying on Trump!” The problem with that is that every single one of those anchors — and that was quite a montage of montages.

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: That was pretty special. They’re all wrong. There absolutely was spying. There were FISA spying things that happened. We’ve talked about it so much for so many years and we’re gonna be talking about it more because you had these revelations of the Durham probe, which is ongoing, and Attorney General Bill Barr deserves credit for this, folks. (chuckles) He put an absolutely dogged prosecutor and a really relentless guy.

Durham as U.S. attorney, Connecticut was known as the guy who, if you were guilty, you did not want this to be the prosecutor you were dealing with. He is the real deal and apparently pretty nonpolitical. I’ve never heard anyone say that he was a partisan hack. Oh, that was known about Comey for a long time. He’s really a Comey-ist. But, Clay, in these tertiary filings or whatever it is that just came out, if Hillary knew more about this and that actually is provable and demonstrable…

The spying has already been proven, but who knew it, when did they know it, this could be a problem for the lady that you think right now — and many others, by the way — could end up trying to make another run for the presidency, and she got asked about it today, right? In New York City and just dodged the question.

CLAY: Yeah, the Daily Mail to their credit had a reporter on the sidewalk, that story just coming out and breaking. Hillary pretended she didn’t hear it or waved or whatever as she was walking into a building. She was directly asked about allegations that her campaign had been spying on Donald Trump and not only while his campaign was ongoing, but also in the early days of his presidency as well.

And, look, this is what Trump… Remember the Lesley Stahl interview that Trump did with 60 Minutes and put out the interview of his own side? And, by the way, this is advice that I would give to any Republican who is running for office at any national level certainly but state level, maybe even congressional level: Have your staff record every single interview that you do.

Fascist Trudeau Invokes Martial Law to Stop Truckers

15 Feb 2022

BUCK: The big thing Clay and I wanted to dive into with is martial law in Canada. This is what is actually going on right now. The truckers have been so successful, this has been such a serious movement underway — such a challenge to the regime, to the apparatus of covid control — that now for the first time under this new version of the so-called Emergencies Act, you have Justin Trudeau saying that this is essentially a form of insurrection.

They’re going to treat these truckers like they would, at some level, domestic terrorists. They’re going to seize their funds. They’re going to shut down their protests. They will send in additional police resources, and people worry if the military could be called in. Here is Trudeau invoking the Emergencies Act.

TRUDEAU: The federal government (dramatic pause) has invoked the Emergencies Act to supplement provincial and territorial capacity to address the blockades and occupations.

BUCK: Clay, this is a huge escalation of the situation on the ground in Ottawa right now. I worry that he’s going to order the brave men sitting in their trucks demanding nothing but normalcy… They are gonna get thrown onto the icy pavement, gonna get treated like domestic terrorists, because this has become a test of the apparatus.

And, Clay, I’m talking to people up in Canada. I’m talking to people tied into the political system up there who know the political system up there. They’re saying the truckers could bring down Trudeau government. This could actually happen. It’s big.

CLAY: This should be terrifying to anybody who values freedom in any way. This is an unbelievable act undertaken by Justin Trudeau that effectively does away with democracy in Canada. And, Buck, the part of it that is even more expansive than just the powers that he’s undertaken is how they’re going to be certainly impacted. And did you see where they have unilaterally expanded the definition of terrorism to encompass crowdfunding sites that are supporting the truckers in any way?

That is now considered to be within the scope of terrorist-related activity. And so theoretically if you have given $50 to support the truckers to a GoFundMe — and I believe all of these different people who have donated money, their minds have now been released. In some way, that’s been leaked. But in theory, you could be charged with aiding and abetting terrorism.

I just… As you look at what is going on in Canada, understand that the left wing, which may have started with good intentions… Let’s presume that they initially had good intentions — and you can argue that maybe they didn’t, but let’s presume good intentions. They have become so drunk with their own power and the emergencies that they have been able to argue for in relation to covid that now they are tossing aside many of the bedrock principles that have protected freedom in democracies around the world.

When I saw this happen yesterday afternoon, Buck, right after we went off the air, it was utterly chilling to see what is happening in Canada right now. I understand a lot of Americans are out there like, “Why should I care about what’s going on in Canada?” Because Joe Biden would do this if he could. Make no mistake: What Justin Trudeau is doing is a left-wing fever dream that many different elected left-wing officials would like to be able to embark upon.

This is not some crazy outlier. Without significant opposition, Justin Trudeau has done it such that, Buck. I was reading this morning — and this is not gonna shock people. (chuckles) I’m rarely out and about reading Canadian news. I don’t seek out the Toronto Star to be like, “Hey, what are they talking about in Canada today?” The Toronto Star, which is my understanding — you can correct me if I’m wrong, Buck, and certainly I’m sure we have a lot of listeners in Canada who will.

But I think it’s a left-wing stalwart of the Canadian media. To their credit, their lead editorial is, “Invoking the Emergencies Act is a Shocking Admission of Failure — Many will cheer the Trudeau government’s decision to invoke the Emergencies Act … But we will not join the cheering. … [G]oing that route is a shocking admission of failure by governments at all levels.”

BUCK: Clay, this is not argument right now that this isn’t even a justified — in any sense — invocation in Canada under their own law of the Emergencies Act. The situation — this is according to the BBC — as outlined in the law is supposed to involve “espionage or sabotage, foreign influence activities, threats or use of acts of serious violence for political, religious, or ideological objectives or acts intended to undermine or overthrow the constitutionally established government.”

This is, essentially, an insurrection act statute in Canada. This is we are in a state of true emergency, and if we don’t have extraordinary powers for the prime minister, the whole thing could come tumbling down. This is how they’re reacting to truckers who are playing hockey in the streets and having outdoor barbecues and playing music? And what do the truckers want? This is the other fascinating thing.

They’re not calling for some radical change in society. They’re calling for normal society. They’re calling for life to go back to normal. These truckers may be striking the single biggest blow for freedom in the Western world since the pandemic started and on the other side of this — she’s former journalist, by the way, the deputy prime minister. You mentioned this” They’re gonna seize not just the bank accounts of truckers. Giving your money to them or your business gives money to the truckers, they’re going to treat this like a terrorism finance issue under this law.

Canada is unilaterally making crowd funding platforms supporting Canadian truckers the subject of money laundering terrorism laws. Justin Trudeau’s government is now a dictatorship with his emergency powers declaration. pic.twitter.com/0th23zLKsh

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) February 14, 2022

DEPUTY PM AND MINISTER OF FINANCE CHRYSTIA FREELAND: As of today, a bank or other financial service provider will be able to freeze or suspend an account without a court order. By doing so, they will be protected against civil liability for actions taken in good faith.

CLAY: That’s crazy, Buck.

BUCK: Can you imagine, Clay? So

CLAY: Yeah. I tweeted this.

BUCK: Can you imagine if during BLM riots, the Trump administration was like, “You know what? If you donate…” Kamala Harris called for a bail fund for rioters in Minnesota. People had burned down a police precinct, and the sitting vice president now (then would-be vice president), said, “Give money to them.” If Trump had seized bank accounts… By the way, I think he would have been wrong to do that. But the point is had he done that they would have said, “The long dark night of fascism is here and America is done.” Look what they’re doing in Canada.

CLAY: It’s so true. Again, just to take a step back ’cause I do sometimes when we talk about foreign affairs people say, “Why you talking about Canada right now?” I understand that argument. First of all, we have a lot of Canadian listeners, and we appreciate all of you listening north of the border. But the answer is because the precedents matter as they occur in democracies, particularly democracies that are as closely aligned as Justin Trudeau and Joe Biden are.

So to Buck’s point, think big picture here. In the summer of 2020, imagine if Donald Trump had unilaterally decided by using his own powers as president that he was going to shut down all crowdfunding sources that were supporting BLM protests — and that on top of that, anybody who had donated money to them, he was going to potentially seize their bank accounts to keep them from donating money further.

The United States media — CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, the Washington Post — and, frankly, I think even otherwise aligned Trump organizations. I think Fox News would have said this is wrong. I think the Wall Street Journal would have said this is wrong. I think right and left in this country would have said this is an overreach of presidential power that we cannot countenance. There would have been immediate lawsuits.

It would have probably gone direct almost to the Supreme Court as it worked its way through the system rapidly. And Justin Trudeau is doing it. (chuckles) Again, Justin Trudeau is doing that. So this is why I always say, “Principles and precedents matter,” and I understand people get upset about that, but it’s the lawyer in me, right? I’m always trying to think in my mind, “Okay. I might disagree with this right now, but is the precedent that we are setting the right one?”

So if you are on the left and you’re for some reason angry at the truckers, the question that’s easy to ask is… Protests are not gonna end with the Canadian truckers, right? There’s always going to be protests in the United States, in Canada, wherever else. Whatever laws you support and endorse for one form of protest, you need to be able to apply them without fail based on not the content of the protest but a content-neutral approach. And that’s not happening here. And the same people that would have been rending their garments if this has happened to BLM are allowing it to occur and happen to the Canadian truckers and saying nothing at all.

BUCK: Notice how Trudeau — who is in many ways the archetype of the pseudointellectual beta male in the West, right? This guy, if he wasn’t a Canadian prime minister, he’d probably have an afternoon weekend show on MSNBC talking about how white supremacy is the biggest threat facing the country. You just know who he is. He’s not even defending the mandates anymore, and he never really did. He just uses the vague language of, “Oh, this is about keeping all Canadians safe, and these truckers are neo-Nazis.” Really?

CLAY: White supremacists.

BUCK: And the Koreans and the Indian immigrants and the other people that are showing up to these protests, they’re white supremacists and neo-Nazis? I don’t think so. And you just see here when the apparatus gets pushed, all the sudden, you see a very quick shift, Clay. You see a very quick transformation, if you will, about how a Canadian government full of preachy “here are my pronouns” libs turn into vicious authoritarians who will demand that people posing no threat to anyone be bludgeoned by police in front of their families for standing athwart the system and its tyranny. That’s my fear here as they’re calling in additional police resources. Because these truckers aren’t going anywhere. So what happens?

CLAY: Yeah. And, Buck, it’s such a good question. Are they going to create violence where there has been none, right? Unlike the BLM protests which we saw take place all over this country that were wildly violent and destructive to many different city neighborhoods all over this country, the truckers haven’t done anything, right? They’ve actually been peaceful protesters.

And what they’re asking for — I think this is important — is just normalcy. All they’re saying is, “Hey, let’s go back to pre-covid rules in Canada,” and the Canadian government won’t allow it even as all over the country and all over the world, all over the United States and all over the world covid restrictions are collapsing almost immediately.

C&B 24/7: Clay & Buck’s Show Prep

15 Feb 2022

Tucker Carlson's Monologue On President Trump Being Proven Right

"Trump was right, this isn't a conspiracy theory. His claims were true. Democrats were spying on Donald Trump, not just as a candidate but as President of the U.S. in the WH as well as in his own home." pic.twitter.com/vfsAGyqCtk

— The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 (@ColumbiaBugle) February 15, 2022

Wall Street Journal: Trump Really Was Spied On. Durham says techies linked to the Clinton campaign had access to White House and Trump Tower internet data

New York Post: Turns out the real threat to ‘norms’ was the Hillary Clinton campaign

New York Post: Ex-DNI Ratcliffe expects ‘more indictments’ in Durham’s Russiagate probe

New York Post: Washington Post, New York Times should give back their Pulitzers for Russia-Trump ‘reporting’

Breitbart: GOP Backs Donald Trump Against ‘Biggest Crime in U.S. History’, Calls for ‘Total Clean Out’ of Washington Political Class

BizPacReview: Tucker closes the loop on Hillary Clinton spy ‘conspiracy’ that’s come true, plays 60 Min. flashback

UK Daily Mail: La, la, la, can’t hear you: How the liberal media outlets that relentlessly pushed ‘Russian collusion’ smear have totally ignored Durham’s revelation that Hillary SPIED on Trump. CNN, NY Times, Washington Post, NBC and CBS all pass

How much has the Durham report allegations against the Clinton campaign been covered by “mainstream” media? Zero. pic.twitter.com/v5yML0G8tS

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) February 15, 2022

UK Daily Mail: Republicans drag Biden’s NSA Jake Sullivan into center of Durham’s Russia probe for LYING by saying Trump had ‘hotline’ to Kremlin bank and ‘receiving information’ from Clinton lawyer indicted for lying to the FBI

PJ Media: Watergate and the Russia Hoax: Getting It Right

FOXNews: Durham probe has ‘accelerated,’ with more people ‘cooperating,’ coming before grand jury

FOXNews: New York Times reporter deflects from Durham probe developments by refueling Russia collusion narrative

NewsBusters: The Worst Promoters of the Russia Collusion Hoax

NewsBusters: Silence! CNN & MSNBC Primetime Ignore Bombshell Durham Report

New rule in Canada: If you think incorrectly, your bank account will be seized and you'll have no recourse https://t.co/518EU45nZj

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) February 14, 2022

Breitbart: Joe Biden’s Economic Strategy Explodes Public Opposition to Migration

UK Daily Mail: Is this Biden’s worst poll YET? Joe’s approval is below 43% in FORTY-SIX states, is in the 30s in swing states Arizona, Florida and Georgia, is only 23% with independents and 16% in Joe Manchin’s West Virginia

HotAir: Bidenflation shocker as producer price index jumps 1% in January, 9.7% in past year

He’s going to order that brave men sitting in their trucks demanding nothing but normalcy get thrown onto the icy pavement and treated as domestic terrorists

This has become a test of the Apparatus not just in Canada, but the US- and it will get vicious
pic.twitter.com/UUjkZN3ik1

— Buck Sexton (@BuckSexton) February 14, 2022

UK Daily Mail: Trudeau is accused of bringing ‘martial law’ to Canada by invoking emergency powers to crack down on Freedom Convoy and freeze protesters’ bank accounts: Mounties arrest 11 and find cache of weapons at border

Daily Wire: In 2013, Trudeau Chose Communist China As Country He Most Admired Besides Canada

Daily Wire: Protesters Double Down After Trudeau Invokes Unprecedented Emergency Powers, Threatens Bank Accounts

Breitbart: Trudeau Targets Crowdfunding Platforms, Cryptocurrencies Under ‘Terrorist Financing’ Rules

HotAir: Trudeau’s a hypocrite about trucker protests, says … the NYT editorial board?

In 2020, Biden said “anyone who’s responsible for [220,000 COVID] deaths should not remain as president."

500,000 Americans have now died from COVID under Biden. pic.twitter.com/M5oOAvzXPD

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) February 14, 2022

Politico: New York City fires 1,430 municipal workers over vaccine mandate

JustTheNews: ‘We’ve known how to cure COVID since about March of 2020’: Dr. Robert Malone

Wall Street Journal: Novak Djokovic Says He Is Prepared to Sacrifice Trophies to Stay Unvaccinated

National Review: Maskless Super Bowl Marks Our Return to Normalcy

New York Post: Forbes columnist says he was ‘canceled’ over Anthony Fauci coverage

UK Daily Mail: Did Harry flout LA’s VERY strict mask rules? Prince is spotted WITHOUT a face covering in candid snaps as he mingles with Hollywood royalty backstage at Super Bowl – after making sure to cover-up as he was snapped with Eugenie in his free premium suite

UK Daily Mail: Rules for thee, not for me: Lockdown-queen Jacinda Ardern will travel 9,100 miles to give Harvard’s coveted graduation speech in May – but Americans will have to wait till JULY to enter her hermit kingdom

Next time you hear President Biden and Senator Durbin opine that there’s never been an African American woman on the Supreme Court, remember that they blocked the incredibly qualified Janice Rogers Brown from the DC Circuit to keep her from the Supreme Court. pic.twitter.com/b2YpyntjHQ

— Retired Orrin G. Hatch (@RetiredOrrin) February 1, 2022

Gateway Pundit: Russian Troops Begin Withdrawal from Ukrainian Border – Video Released of Russian Heavy Weapons Returning to Russia from Belarus

Daily Wire: ‘When We See A Withdrawal, We Will Believe In A De-Escalation’: Ukraine Reacts To Russia Withdrawing Some Troops

Federalist: Systemic Voting Issues In Pennsylvania County Even More Extensive Than Previously Known

New York Post: Pelosi, other stock-trading pols could avoid capital gains taxes under Warren proposal

CNBC: Is college really worth it? Here’s why it’s so hard to figure out the return on investment

UK Daily Mail: Biden is slammed for costing military six million man hours to implement his ‘woke agenda’ with workshops on ‘Diversity and Extremism in the Ranks’ instead of ‘countering real threats like China, Russia and Iran’

US intelligence claims Russia set to invade Ukraine at 1AM tomorrow with massive missile blitz and 200,000 troops pic.twitter.com/NwLrHYn2kT

— The Sun (@TheSun) February 15, 2022

Clay Unmasks the Left’s Super Bowl Hypocrisy on Hannity

15 Feb 2022

Clay appeared on Hannity to discuss the hypocrites who filled the luxury boxes at the Super Bowl. Despite the city’s mask mandate, L.A. had 75,000-ish people inside of SoFi Stadium, and when they showed all the celebrities on television — whether it was Jay-Z, whether it was Ben Affleck and J.Lo, Charlize Theron, LeBron James — none of the “special” people sported a mask.

Donald Trump Jr.: Hillary’s Spying Was Worse Than Watergate

14 Feb 2022

BUCK: We’re about to dive deep into the latest Clinton campaign-backed Russia collusion conspiracy madness. Headline up on the Daily Mail: “Ex-director of National Intelligence Claims Biden and Obama Knew About Hillary Campaign Plot to Hack from Servers: ‘Enough evidence in Durham’s Russia probe to indict MULTIPLE people.'”

What did they know; when did they know it? We’re now joined by somebody who knows a lot about this situation. He lived it. He fought through it. Former president Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. is with us now. Good to have you, sir. Thanks for being on the program.

TRUMP JR.: It’s great to be with you guys. How are you?

BUCK: We’re good, Don. But you’ve gotta tell us, man, what’s it feel like to see this stuff coming out now? It would have been helpful to know this a while ago, obviously. But it feels like we’re just beginning to get somewhere near the full truth.

TRUMP JR.: Well, listen. You’re right. I lived it. I did 30 hours of testimony about something that they literally manufactured themselves. Where’s the inspector general? Is every government contractor allowed to weaponize data? Are they allowed to spy on the president of the United States of America? This is serious stuff. I’m curious, Clay. Where is the “It’s Worse Than Watergate Crowd”?

I figured they’d wheel Bob Woodward out from under the rock because every tweet my father sent was “worse than Watergate.” This actually is. They legitimately spied on the president of the United States, and now Jake Sullivan, someone who’s in the Biden administration presumably negotiating with Russia — seems to at least be involved or at least have intimate knowledge/created the whole bogeyman Russia thing — is now negotiating with Russia to try to prevent us from getting into war in the Ukraine?

You can’t make this stuff up. This is insanity, and it’s truly scary. I wish it had come out earlier. We all knew it was nonsense, at least those with a brain. But, you know, that didn’t go well for the swamp, It didn’t go well for the Democrats and their lackeys in the media, and so they kept pushing Russia collusion as though it was real. But, you know, I guess it was real. It just was with the Democrats and with Hillary Clinton and within the Biden and the Obama administrations, and because of that no one’s gonna cover anything.

CLAY: It’s wild, too, to look at… When I saw this come out, Fox News obviously did a great job of covering it and tweeted about it, shared it, it ricocheted around obviously in the universe of people who follow me. But, Don, when you look at what’s going on here with the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC, they’re totally pretending this doesn’t exist at all, despite the fact that these are pretty serious allegations being brought by the government investigator Durham himself.

Are you even yourself a little bit surprised that this story is still not getting attention, even when it’s not coming from you or your dad or people who are in the political realm necessarily? This is theoretically an independent political investigation, an independent counsel that is putting forth amazingly detailed allegations of — and I don’t think you’re exaggerating at all — things that are as bad or worse than what Richard Nixon was accused of during Watergate?

TRUMP JR.: I’m not surprised at all because I’ve been watching. I mean, I’ve seen ’em do it. Yesterday the big story on CNN was Joe Rogan and his use — even though he was quoting someone else — of the N-word. It’s literally like it’s 9/11. It’s January 6th. It’s another January 6th. And January 6th was worse than 9/11 and Pearl Harbor as we’ve been told. And the list goes on and on.

It’s all garbage, but it doesn’t matter because there’s been no consequence to these guys pushing it other than CNN’s ratings are down 80%. That shouldn’t surprise you because they’ve been propagandists, but the New York Times is no better. They’re no different. They’re not gonna talk about it. Hell, it seems like they may have known. They were certainly involved in pushing the disinformation.

The people that were creating the fictitious Russia narrative went specifically to the New York Times because they knew they would be friendly to their cause. Their cause was to hurt Donald Trump. It was to hurt anyone Republican, probably beyond that. But especially Trump because he was a real threat to the swamp on both sides. And so to me they’re complicit in all of this. You see that day in and day out.

CLAY: What does it feel like to see Hunter Biden actually do all the things that people said you did?

TRUMP JR.: Oh, and it’s totally fine. Now he’s a very accomplished artist. Of course, we don’t need to know the names of the buyers!

CLAY: Yeah, $500,000 people are paying for his paintings. Can you imagine if you had tried to go out and sell paintings for half a million dollars?

TRUMP JR.: I should do it!

CLAY: (laughing)

TRUMP JR.: If I made $2, they’d lose their minds. You know, Hunter Biden, who had no experience any of these things, seems to be linked in all of these countries. By the way, the story that no one seems to be talking about is, given all of the shady connections to Ukraine with Hunter and the no-show jobs and the millions of jobs and this, that, do you think that maybe the decision-makers…?

Whether it’s Joe Biden if he’s capable of even making a decision at this point or anyone else in that administration, do you think that they could be perhaps biased or making bad decisions for America because someone else has more information about the shady stuff that was going on? I know that if it was me, they’d be at least asking the question. No one even seems to be talking about it.

There’s moments where we’re at the verge of World War III, and the president of Ukraine is telling America to calm down; it’s not as bad as you’re making it. You have guys that created the Russia bogeyman negotiating on behalf of the United States against Putin. I’m sure he’ll take that well. It’s lunacy. Again, it should be a big story, and they’re not even talking about it. It’s not even like it’s buried somewhere. They’re just like closing their eyes because understanding it didn’t happen. It’s both despicable and not surprising.

BUCK: Speaking to Donald Trump Jr., son of former president Trump. Don, do you have any confidence that we’re gonna get these answers about the full extent of this? I mean, again, to the Fox News and Daily Mail reporting today, they said that John Ratcliffe “told special counsel Durham there’s enough evidence to indict multiple people connected to the origins of the Trump-Russia probe.

“The former DNI met with Durham more than once. He pointed Durham to a declassified CIA memo of Clinton approving looking into Trump’s Russia ties as a way of distracting from her email scandals.” And of course the report “was sent directly to then FBI Director Comey and deputy assistant director of counterintelligence Strzok.”

We know how they feel about your dad (laughing) and about Republicans and, you know, the rule of law. But do you think that we actually get these answers? Do you think that Durham is gonna be enough or do you have a plan in mind let’s say, oh, I don’t know if someone you know is president again, to get to the answers?

TRUMP JR.: Well, listen I hope it starts sooner than that. I hope if the Republicans are learned anything about the way the game is played and the way we need to be playing it which they have not historically done, I hope if and when we take back over the House, subpoenas are flying on day one. I hope they call in these people, Jake Sullivan, on moment number one, instant number one.

We gotta play the game the way the Democrats would be playing it. I’m not confident that anything happens unless we start doing that because I’ve seen — again, I’ve just been too close to it, I’ve seen — the nonsense go on for too long, the swamp is gonna protect the swamp, even people on the other side. The Republicans have generally been too weak to actually do anything.

‘Cause they don’t want to ruffle a feather and they want to be able to leak something to the New York Times so that they get a story that’s a four instead of a three out of ’em the next time they do their hit piece on ’em. We’ve just played the game so poorly. They’re so bad at it. They’re so weak for the most part, the establishment.

I don’t have much faith that it doesn’t happen, and I think maybe the American voter has to make it an issue certainly going into midterms if they want the answers and hopefully, finally people will start listening to their constituents ’cause I see it when I’m out there. They want it but very few people have any hope that anything actually happens and actually gets done.

BUCK: Don, two more for you. One I know you’re gonna answer and the other one, well, I have to ask. How do you think we’re doing going into this midterm election? And where is your dad’s head on whether he’s gonna run again?

TRUMP JR.: I think we’re doing great if you just look at the record, right? It doesn’t take a genius. Hey, if I’m pissed off when I’m filling up my truck at the pump, I imagine the average American who it hurts them probably a lot more than me is feeling it. We know we’ve been lied to about everything. And Joe Biden was gonna fix it. He was gonna solve covid. There’s no hypocrisy with the mask mandates.

We’re smothering our children. But you saw it. Every celebrity… I think you put it out on Twitter yesterday. Every celebrity at the Super Bowl is running around maskless and they’re going a good old time but, no, we gotta listen to the teachers unions and make sure… You saw the disastrous withdrawal out of Afghanistan. Just the sheer incompetence!

Even the Republicans would have to try hard to screw this up. But again, I don’t ever take the win sort of before there’s a win because again, I do think historically speaking, our superpower has been snatching defeat from the jaws of victory as a party. And so hopefully we change that.

God knows they’ve given us enough ammunition and again, I think it’s sort of why you need a Donald Trump type in there. I don’t know that we have the bench yet, Clay, to say, “There’s a lot of guys that aren’t gonna cave under pressure.” It’s one thing when they pit people up against Donald Trump and they can make him into kind of hero and protect him. It’s another when all the arms, all the slings and arrows are trained on the one guy that’s in charge.

That’s when I don’t know that we have enough of a bench but I do see a lot of people coming up, starting to understand how to play the game, starting to use the Democrats’ playbook and do that — and once we do that as a party, we win. It’s always amazing to me that the elections are as close as they are given that we’re up against literally a trillion-dollar Big Tech enterprise that’s functioning as a marketing arm of the other side.

You have a trillion-dollar mainstream media arm. You have what they do to conservatives on social media. It’s actually hard to believe it’s even close given the propaganda that’s pushed on the other side and smothering of our message. And yet it is because our ideas are good, and people are seeing it. It takes a disaster like Joe Biden. But it’s not just Joe Biden.

This is actually Democrat policies. These are the things that Democrats want to do, ’cause I don’t think anyone believes Joe Biden’s actually doing this. He’s signing the stuff put in there by the Democrat Party. We have to hold them accountable — and again, you sort of have to hit rock bottom and I think we’ve hit rock bottom as a country in terms of policy, in terms of decisions, in terms of what’s going on that maybe that wakes people up that we have start being in this game and playing the way the other side does.

CLAY: I’m so fired up as you mentioned about the fact that all these celebrities aren’t wearing masks. They’re defying the L.A. mask mandate. I was out in L.A. all week. Nobody’s asking for any sort of masks or any sort of vaccine passports or anything else to go to any of these big parties. If you’re a parent — and I know you are a parent.

I bet your kids aren’t having to wear masks, Don, just like mine aren’t because of where we live. But if you’re a parent who has to send your kids in wearing a mask after you watched the Super Bowl last night in L.A. and saw all the flouting of the masking rules that was going on, how furious are you, and how furious should you be? To me, this is what Republicans should be running on in 2022 is they weren’t the party of science. Democrats were the party of control, and I think people — the moms, the dads, you see the school board meetings, people — are just fed up with it.

TRUMP JR.: Yeah, and that’s what’s so important. Regular people are stepping up. Now, they’ve been labeled as domestic terrorists —

CLAY: Oh, yeah.

TRUMP JR.: — for speaking up at a school board meeting ’cause they didn’t want their children getting indoctrinated into communism and other nonsense. But, you know, that’s how the other side has been. The rules are not for the elite. The rules are for the peasants, right? “We don’t have to follow the rules. That’s ridiculous!” You see all the pictures of servers at the elite parties.

They’re all masked with the diaper on their face and all the other people they’re laughing and hugging and it’s wonderful and no one cares. They really think that we’re stupid. They think that you’re schmucks. It’s very clear. So if you’re not outraged, you should be. If you’ve seen what it’s doing to children developmentally, if you see what it does in terms of depression, all of those…

None of that matters. It’s they can do whatever they want. It means nothing to them. And it’s all been one big power grab. And sadly, I’ve watched for the last two years how many Americans were just so quick to give you up that freedom that’s such a fundamental tenant of being an American, of our country.

BUCK: It does feel like the Canadian truckers might be giving us something of an awakening here. Don Jr., everybody. Donald Trump Jr. Don, thanks so much for being with us. We appreciate it. Come again and hang soon.

TRUMP JR.: I’ll do that. Thanks a lot.

Zelensky: Putin to Invade Ukraine on Wednesday (or Maybe Not)

14 Feb 2022

CLAY: There is now more concrete data at least — or a concrete report — in terms of an official timeline that Russia might be invading Ukraine on Wednesday. It sounds so crazy to say — and that’s the report, by the way, of CNN — that Ukraine’s president has been told that. This is wild, Buck, because I can’t remember any other invasion of a country that’s been forecast a couple of days out like, “Hey, by the way, we’re gonna invade you in two days.”

BUCK: Also, just so everyone is clear, I read that off the CNN screen, the exact headline.

CLAY: Yeah.

BUCK: You’d think that… Now it’s “flight attendant hit man with coffeepot after he tried to get into…”

CLAY: (laughing)

BUCK: Look, I know the news cycle you change things up a lot. But if they really think they’ve got a clear —

CLAY: European invasion in two days?

BUCK: — European invasion, first of all, I know people and you know people are saying right now, “Yeah, Buck, it’s CNN,” and I know, but on things like this remember, even propaganda outlets… Pravda tried to get the weather right. There are some things you don’t want to get wrong no matter your politics are and something like the schedule of an invasion would be one of them, right? No matter how partisan you are, you have to get certain facts right. But, yeah, Clay, we’re being told it could happen Wednesday, it could happen before then. Obviously, once you announce a timeline —

CLAY: I know we had a different communication universe when the blitzkrieg was happening. But it’s not like in Poland they were like, “Hey, Hitler’s letting you know; two days from now he’s rolling across the border,” right? So I just can’t even hardly think of a precedent for when there has been an acknowledgment and discussion about this. It’s not a family vacation, like, “Hey, in a couple of days we’re taking this flight over.”

BUCK: When you think every overwhelming military and particularly air superiority… That’s when maybe think of Persian Gulf War 2 with George W. Bush where he said, “You have 48 hours, Saddam, to capitulate or else.” That was because wherever they moved their surface-to-air missiles and wherever they moved the Republican Guard, it wasn’t really gonna matter and at some level…Here’s what’ll happen.

The basic military analysis you can do for a Russian invasion of Ukraine is that if you do what they call order of battle — if you lined up tanks versus tanks, planes versus tanks — the Russians are gonna smack Ukraine pretty quickly in terms of seizing… They’ll be able to seize major cities, probably seize the capital, the important areas, sites of strategic importance, power, electricity — things like that — water, airports.

They’ll be able to do that. Then the question turns into, “Well, what do they do once they’ve done that?” Because the hard part is often then in the insurgency phase. If the Ukrainian people… We’ve been told… We had Nolan Peterson on from Ukraine. e may be having him join us later this week if we can get to a place where he can talk to us. Depends on what the security situation is.

Clay, the belief among many is the Ukrainians will fight. If the Russians think they’ll be able to patrol the streets of a restive Kyiv or Kiev and they’re not gonna have big problems on their hands, that’s delusional, no matter how much better their military is pound for pound. You know, insurgency is different from “our planes can shoot your planes out of the sky.”

CLAY: Do the Russians believe that the Ukrainians are not gonna fight —

BUCK: That’s a good question.

CLAY: — and is that why they’re letting it be known, ’cause you know how this stuff happens, Buck. If you’re just like a Ukrainian guy and you’re sitting there near the border and suddenly Russia invades and you don’t expect it, you might fight, right, as opposed to running because you’re in danger. But if the Russians are like, “Hey, we have pretty good intel that many of these Ukrainian forces are not going to actually fight.

“Let’s let them know we’re coming so that they have time to abandon their posts and/or they’re not overwhelmed or surprised suddenly when this occurs.” I’m just trying to think through the Russian plan, if they want it known that they are coming on a specific date, is that because they expect some form of capitulation automatically and not the rabid defense that the Ukrainians are trying to argue they will face?

BUCK: It will rely so much, I think, or turn so much on what the stated aims of any military invasion by the Russians would be. Let’s say the Russians go in and they topple the government. If they make it quick and they make it seem like they’re only going after certain targets, government targets they want, and then they say, “We want a friendly, pro-Russian person that’ll promise not to be in NATO.”

Maybe then there’s a situation where they say, “Look, we’re gonna leave as long as we’ve got a Russian puppet here.” Maybe you don’t have… You know, again it’s so tough to really see how this goes — rather, to guess where this is gonna go — because, one, it may not even happen. Two, what’s the scale of what they go in with’ how successful are they, Clay?

And then, beyond that, what are the Russians trying to accomplish, right? We have multiple steps. If we were doing a decision tree here, it would be kind of a mess. So tough. Tough to say, tough to know. Let’s just hope that cooler heads prevail, and everyone can go back to arguing over other things and not war.

CLAY: Are the Russians gonna cross the border? Are they vaccinated? Do we know?

BUCK: At least if they’re not vaccinated —

CLAY: My understanding is —

BUCK: — we know the libs will be upset.

CLAY: Yeah. Maybe they won’t be allowed in if they’re not vaccinated.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

CLAY: As we finished the second hour of the program, news breaking about a potential invasion of Ukraine that could occur on Wednesday. And in fact, President Zelensky says, quote, “‘Ukraine has been informed Wednesday, February, 16 will be the day of the attack,’ according to comments attributed to Zelensky, accompanying a Facebook update to the nation.

“He does not say who or what agency provided that information.” That tweet has since been deleted, Buck, that I am reading from right now. So this whole thing is super weird. Now, CNN reported basically the same thing, and I am reading that from CNN anchor and chief national security correspondent Jim Sciutto.

BUCK: Sciutto! He went my high school as well, him and Fauci. Fauci’s worse than him.

CLAY: Yeah. So he deleted that tweet that I just read you. (laughs) Literally that tweet went up like five minutes ago. He did say this, which is up from 11 minutes ago” “The U.S. is closing its embassy in Kiev and temporarily relocating the small number of remaining diplomatic personnel to a city in the west of the country, quote, ‘due to the dramatic acceleration in the buildup of Russian forces,’ Secretary of State Blinken announced.” I’m hitting refresh on his Twitter feed, and yet he’s pulled that down that I read to you directly off of Facebook. So it was there; it was not. Which I think, Buck, just kind of emphasizes the strangeness of this story in general, right?

BUCK: This is why when I pointed out, they basically have flashing on the screen — and, by the way, on Fox News right now, Fox News alert: “Ukrainian President Informs Russia will Attack Wednesday.” CNN had that up first, and then after a commercial break came back into the angry guy on plane throwing coffeepot or whatever the story was.

CLAY: (laughing)

BUCK: Usually if you had breaking news about an imminent invasion and had a source that you could go to in some credibility and detail, you would explain to the audience what’s going on ’cause this is gonna have so many immplications, even apart from our primary consideration, which is make sure that U.S. forces don’t get embroiled in this; this become a broader conflagration in the region, et cetera. But it’s gonna affect the markets massively.

It’s gonna affect obviously, for anybody who’s got family in Ukraine, affect their safety. There’s a lot of things that all come together here. So when you talk about breaking news, imminent war is about as big a story as you’re gonna get, and for them to switch so quickly was an indicator of something. There’s a lot of noise out there. Can I also just point out that the Russians love to do this kind of thing.

They excel in something called “maskirovka,” which is warfare by deception. This is what they’ve done in dealing with Crimea, in the Donbass region, in Georgia in the past — obviously the country, not the state. So these are some of the things that have gone on, and they may be… Clay, to your point about who announces an invasion? This could be dezinformatsia, remember we talk about Russian disinformation all the time.

This could be actually disinformation put out there to get Zelensky to react in a certain way. We just don’t know, man. We’re looking at… We’re four or five thousand miles away. We’re relying on a reporting cadre that has limitations in their sources. You got Russians putting out lies, nonsense, and garbage on purpose — the Russian state — left and right. But I gotta tell you: From what it’s looking like right now, I would be surprised if we did not have bombs falling this week, based on what we’re seeing.

CLAY: I just can’t get over the modern era, like, the president goes on Facebook and says, “We may get invaded”? I mean, I understand that we live in an era where things are quite a bit different, but the idea that you could be scrolling through Facebook and it’s like, “Oh, look, Simone got a new puppy — and, oh, so-and-so’s mad because their boss made ’em wear a mask.”

And then, like, the president of Ukraine’s like, “Hey, we may get invaded!” You know, it’s so strange that you would go on Facebook and say, “Hey, I’m told that the country may get invaded on Wednesday.” That seems… Again, it seems like maybe that would be a national address moment, the dropping it in a Facebook message.

BUCK: They have been certainly preparing for this for weeks, and just I don’t see… Clay, I’m trying to see this thing through and get a sense of what this looks like if it does happen. I feel like people would have been saying “limited incursion,” meaning what they’ve done in Donbass. Essentially create some noise somewhere inside of Ukraine; say, “Oh, we have Russian interests there.”

You land some paratroopers or whatever. You roll in some tanks. You say, “We’re taking this area and we’re gonna operate this as some kind of a protectorate,” which is similar to what they’ve done in Donbass in the east. They had the referendum in Crimea, which was obviously not a military invasion, but it was essentially coup by vote, ’cause they said it was rigged and it was done so the Russians could get their way.

Now what does this really look like? To take over… To punch the Ukrainian armed forces badly is something the Russians could clearly do. To hit them hard, they could clearly do that and to overrun them pretty quickly. But to control Ukraine afterwards, especially with NATO right next door? There’s a part of me that feels like maybe this still doesn’t actually…

This is all just the biggest move of brinksmanship we’ve ever seen from the Russians in the modern era, the post-Soviet era. ‘Cause Clay, think about what this looks like. You look at the challenges that a coalition, U.S. coalition in Iraq and Afghanistan — particularly in the context of Afghanistan, that was a NATO mission. People forget that. I was there. I remember it was all these NATO countries.

You’ve got Polish guys, British guys, Italian guys walking around. That was a NATO mission and against a smaller population, and a much less technologically and militarily sophisticated population than what you’re dealing with in Ukraine. However, a portion of them wanted to fight in Afghanistan, obviously. They had Pakistani sanctuary where they can operate, retrain, equip, all the rest of it in essential safety.

But the Ukrainians will be getting arms and munitions and assistance, I’m sure, from NATO if this thing turns into a hot war. Clay, it’s kind of hard to fathom that Vladimir Putin thinks that if he full-scale invades Ukraine, this doesn’t turn into a nightmare and a bloodbath. That’s why something smaller and more targeted feels like it has to be possible or just the whole walk-back.

“You guys promise me I get assurances you’re not gonna join NATO ever, ever, ever, Ukraine — and if you do, I’m coming in with everything I’ve got.” That’s what it feels like has to be possible. I haven’t heard anyone make a compelling case for how Putin with can take Ukraine and just subsume it into Russia without massive challenges, casualties, and becoming a pariah state. I just haven’t seen it.

CLAY: And to contextualize, we’re talking about a country of 40 million people. So this is California. This is Canada, right?

BUCK: A big landmass, too, a big country.

CLAY: In terms of the number of people that we’re talking about, it’s not an insubstantial number. And again, in the context of America, it’s the size of California in terms of population. It’s Canada’s population.

BUCK: Just so everyone understands, I just did a quick search on this one. Germany is 137,000 square miles. Ukraine is 233,000 square miles. This country is substantially larger than Germany in landmass, 40 million people. And because, Clay, what happened in the past where Crimea got taken and Donbass and Ukrainians just didn’t have anything really to throw at it, they really didn’t have a military that was organized, their military now is actually much better than it was.

CLAY: Yeah, and that’s why to me it just seems so weird. Again, if you’re just now getting in your car, you’re just now having time going out for lunch, wherever you may be, the idea that you would announce when you’re going to invade, the idea that Ukraine’s president would just Facebook message about a potential invasion that’s going on, none of it really seems to add up.

Again, unless Russia is thinking, “There’s a massive number of Ukrainian soldiers that are just gonna put down their weapons the minute that we invade. We know that they’re going to allow us to come right in and there’s not gonna be any actual resistance.” It’s the exact opposite of a blitzkrieg.

And to your point, they know that they can be successful. But I can’t think of a time where one country has invaded another and let them know they were coming. Now, to your point on Iraq, if they were making a demand and they were saying publicly, “Hey, Ukraine, unless you do X or Y…”

BUCK: Have Zelensky resign and someone else step in, something like that.

CLAY: Yes. Then you would at least say okay, they’re letting it know what their plan is as the United States did with Iraq during the Second Gulf War. But this just all feels really messy to me, that we’re basically on a countdown clock. You know, they could put it in the corner of the screen and they’re like, “Hey, the invasion is gonna start in 36 hours.” It’s weird.

BUCK: Just remember also that the Russian — and in this case the Soviets, but same basic idea — the Soviet casualties in Afghanistan were substantial. I mean, they had 15,000 killed in the Soviet-Afghan war, 35,000 or so wounded. That was trying to take Afghanistan, right? Well, there’s easier and harder ways to look at these situations. But you think the Russian state really wants to tackle that right now?

They’re saying right now on Fox, Clay, 100,000-plus Russian troops — about 130,000 is the number that you see — and then they’ve got 35,000-plus rebel troops also. This is on Fox News streaming right now as we’re talking to you. The Ukrainian military, if you’re up at six-figure strength, which I believe they are, all you need are rifles, RPGs, anti-tank missiles.

And you can make an occupying military absolutely miserable and cause serious casualties on a regular basis. So I don’t know, man. I hope this turns into a thing that we’re all feeling silly that we ever had to talk about, Clay. But I think if you were placing odds right now, you’d have to say the odds are on some kind of Russian action during this week.

CLAY: The other thing, by the way, during the Olympics, which we can talk about when we come back, which some of you may be saying, “Well, that’s crazy.” But there has typically been, “Hey, don’t invade another country while the Olympics is going on” presumption, right? Especially because we’ve been talking about the relationship between China and Russia.

So is China just saying, “Hey, Russia, go ahead, ’cause we want to see what the United States’ response is going to be here, given we’ve always claimed that Taiwan is a part of our country too?” That’s a larger conversation we should probably have as well.

VIP Bonus: Watch Clay and Buck Talk with Don Jr.

14 Feb 2022

Clay and Buck interviewed Donald Trump Jr. on the blockbuster revelations that Hillary Clinton and the Deep State did indeed spy on and hack his father, both as a candidate in 2016 and — amazingly — while he was president of the United States. In a sane world, the entire media would be asking what did Biden and Obama know and when did they know it? But instead, they’re all ignoring the story!

Only 24/7 members can watch this exclusive video.

If you’re not a member, sign up now. You can also use the special VIP email pipeline to Clay and Buck to share whatever is on your mind.

Watch It Here:

A Hundred Million People Witness the Left’s Mask Hypocrisy

14 Feb 2022

CLAY: Buck, I watched the Super Bowl — and congratulations to the L.A. Rams and Matthew Stafford — but the biggest takeaway I had from the Super Bowl is you had 75,000-ish people inside of SoFi Stadium. There was a mask mandate in place, and when they showed all the celebrities on television — whether it was Jay-Z, whether it was Ben Affleck and J.Lo, Charlize Theron, LeBron James, again with L.A. Mayor Garcetti getting caught without his mask on — no one in the entire stadium wore masks.

And so for every American out there who watched — and something like a hundred millionish Americans on average watch the Super Bowl every year, which is twice as many people as virtually watch any other televised event anymore in this country — I don’t understand how you could watch that game, which was played in an utterly normal fashion, and then be forced, after seeing all those tens of thousands of people inside of the stadium, after seeing football players tackle each other left and right…

And I know a lot of people don’t watch football every weekend so it’s a little bit of a jarring moment to see that big of a crowd — depending where you live — all unmasked. I don’t understand how any parent in America had to, this morning, put their kids in a mask and send them off to school. It is child abuse. There is no way to defend it. It is without any basis in reality.

Here’s the video of every celebrity without a mask during the Super Bowl. But every kid in California will have to be wearing them tomorrow in school. They must all be holding their breaths the entire game. pic.twitter.com/Dc9yVd7RPf

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) February 14, 2022

And when you see something as normal as the Super Bowl that went on in L.A. — and I can speak to the scene in L.A. all week, Buck, because I was there. I was asked for a vaccine passport to show proof of vaccination, which I didn’t have, one time. Otherwise, I could go in to any bar. I could go in to any restaurant that I wanted to all throughout L.A. How in the world are the kids — who are at the least danger from covid based on scientific data — the only people that are still being required, in many parts of the country, to wear masks?

BUCK: There is a final recognition that’s coming upon so many people I think now, Clay, that mandates — mandates and restrictions — were arbitrary and useless, and that’s gonna be a hard thing for many people to swallow over time when they realize this. That’s a different thing from saying that for some people getting the shot, as we’ve said all along, lowers their individual risk. But as a means of stopping the virus…

Remember, Biden didn’t say — his promise wasn’t — “I’m going to give you the ability to protect yourself from the virus.” It was, “Shut down the virus and not shut down the economy.” That was the big line, right? Shut down the virus means it’s done. It’s not spreading. It’s gone. That didn’t happen even a little bit, despite all the mandates and all the madness that they put everybody through.

And in the case of schools and children and the mask mandates that continue on to this day, you have to ask yourself: How could this even be possible? Anybody with even a passing familiarity with the risk data would know and would tell you right away adults are at much higher risk from this. You know, 10X, maybe a 100X, depending on the age of the adult.

Twenties, thirties, forties, is different than fifties, sixties, seventies. But I’m sure there were plenty of people that were in the high-risk category who were in that Super Bowl event last night, and our point is not to say everybody should be masked up, of course. It’s to point out that this is all just arbitrary and capricious and stupid, and there are more and more people, I think, that are recognizing this, and it’s just turned into…

There’s a few different mind-sets, right? So we can’t say there’s one thing. The people that were at the Super Bowl last night, some of them maybe go home and mask their kids today for school, thinking, “Well, children can’t make decisions for themselves so we have to do this for them.” Others maybe go home and say, “I’m an adult, I’m important, so I don’t have to go through this.”

But for a lot of them, Clay, it’s just they don’t want to take a step that would make them recognize that what they’ve been doing all along was just a joke and what they’ve been yelling people for and shaming people for. I told you there’s talk about the no-fly list now being expanded maybe to include people that get rowdy on planes, get a little bit violent on planes.

People are getting violent on planes because they’re in a very stressful, uncomfortable, hyper-vigilant environment in so many ways — you know, “Do this, can’t sit, must stand, must sit, must” — and they can’t breathe normally. And there’s no scientific basis for this, and we’re seeing it all. It’s all slowly falling away. But, Clay, they don’t want it to fall away on anything except their own terms, and they also don’t want it to be permanent. That’s the big problem I see.

CLAY: I think the challenge here — and look, you’re right. If you want to send your kid in a mask to school for the rest of this year and you want to start off next year doing it, I think you should have the right to do so. But what is ridiculous is the idea that you should be mandating it. I can’t even imagine… I was just in California all last week.

I can’t even imagine being a California parent who just watched the Super Bowl take place in my city who just saw that there were virtually no masks present inside that entire stadium, and then you’re going to be make me put my kid — my 5-year-old — in a mask and send them off to kindergarten? I mean, it is the definition of child abuse.

And what we’re essentially saying when you look and see what adults are able to get away with, is adults are able to make their own decisions and flout rules that they feel don’t apply to them or shouldn’t apply to them. And we don’t have any issue with it. But kids if your child refuses to wear a mask in northern Virginia, they don’t get allowed into the school.

If your kid refuses to wear a mask in California, the parents get called and eventually it turns into a major issue, and I just don’t understand. To me, I don’t understand how every Republican in the country right now isn’t standing up — it’s past time to have done so — aggressively against the idea of masking kids and that particularly is the case when you consider it in the context of the larger issues that are at play out here where I think it’s spinning quickly in the opposite direction.

But people say, “What’s the impact of the Super Bowl?” The reason why people pay $7 million for an advertisement — even though, by the way, the ads have become increasingly woke and boring and not that good because I think the brands are afraid of offending anybody out there, and so humor is mostly gone and they’re sort of antiseptic. But it’s impossible to reach this big of an audience at one time anywhere else in America.

Even the debates which were as popular and sought after and exciting for so many people have a fraction, oftentimes, of the audience of the Super Bowl. So this, seeing all these people in California flouting the mask rules, it should be a moment in time, I think, for Republicans to say, “Masking is done. This shouldn’t exist anywhere in this country,” and there should be a drumbeat. It should happen every day, every moment, all the time now.

BUCK: It has been more than five minutes since I’ve seen Fauci on TV. I would love… He was kind of like a 10-a-day guy on the TV screens it felt like and now all the sudden —

CLAY: They pulled him out of the repertoire.

BUCK: He was doing some podcasts from the woodshed or the basement and wherever. He was popping up on some stuff. Haven’t seen him in a while, ’cause I would love to get an answer from him about what we see going on here and on the masking kids issue, ’cause this is really their last stand. I have talked to doctors recently — friends of mine who were MDs — about this and they agree.

Until we get them to say that this didn’t work, it’s all just suspended; it will come back, and particularly in schools. This has become a fixation. It’s like a virtual signaling fixation on the left. “We mask our kids because we care!” It’s like people who think they’re better than you because they recycle. Now people who think that advocating for mask mandates for children are better than you because they’re protecting the children. DeSantis points out no other country in the world — that we’re aware of, at least — is as crazy about this as America is.

DESANTIS: If you look at what CDC and Biden’s administration did, they are outliers in the rest of the world. You look at all the other industrialized countries, not one country was as absolutely insane about force-masking kids as the United States government was. And I’m proud to say in Florida, you know, we stood up to the Biden administration, we stood with the parents, and we stood with the well-being of the kids.

I can tell you these kids are so much happier being able to go to school without having to wear masks for eight hours a day. So when you start to see them kind of reevaluate or say all this, just understand this: The science didn’t change, or the medical science didn’t change, the political science changed. They feel the heat.

BUCK: They have to fight against this realization, Clay, because every one of these decisions was actually rooted in politics. Every one of these decisions was privilege politics over what “the science” was actually saying about risk and about reality.

CLAY: We had a caller either last week or the week before who said that Biden wanted to make a grand pronouncement about covid again in his State of the Union address. And it feels to me like he’s waiting and now going to be behind in terms of making a grand pronouncement. And the population, the public in general has moved on — and to a large extent, it is signature events such as these that are back to 100% normalcy.

Remember last year’s Super Bowl wasn’t really that normal even though we started to have crowds present again. They were making sure know making sure they were vaccinated, health care workers, all these things. This year it felt normal if you were in a football stadium — and look, the reality is February in L.A. …

I didn’t need to see the Super Bowl be normal, ’cause I was on the road, Buck, you were with me for one of those games, but every SEC football stadium was packed throughout the entire fall. And many NFL stadiums were packed as well and there was no requirement that you had to have a covid shot or something like that in order to get in.

BUCK: Let’s just look at some really obvious things that never get talked about because it doesn’t go with the narrative, and the apparatus hates it when people just think for themselves. If what Ron… They haven’t had masks in schools all year in Florida, okay? We’re now, it’s mid-February, we’re getting into March. No masks in schools. If that was dangerous — if children were at substantial risk and spreading it everywhere and everything else — don’t you think that the almost 50% of Florida Democrats out there would be making constant reference to the failed policy of it’s not even you can’t wear a mask, it’s just choice masking.

CLAY: Right.

BUCK: Wouldn’t we be hearing all the time, Clay, about what a massive failure that was? Remember when they used to do that? Georgia reopening too early back in 2020 was “an experiment in human sacrifice.”

CLAY: Yeah.

BUCK: That was the headline. We never hear about it from Florida, from Democrats in Florida, from anybody, because it didn’t happen, ’cause it doesn’t matter.

CLAY: They totally have abandoned that argument.

Clay and Buck

DownloadNow

Hillary ’24? Poll Shows Biden Approval Underwater in 46 States

Recent Stories

Log In

Get Password Hint

Forgot password

You don't have a valid subscription

Your subscription was cancelled

You’ll Never Believe What AOC Says Causes Crime

Recent Stories

Montage: The Media Told You There Was No Spying on Trump

Recent Stories

Fascist Trudeau Invokes Martial Law to Stop Truckers

Recent Stories

C&B 24/7: Clay & Buck’s Show Prep

Recent Stories

Clay Unmasks the Left’s Super Bowl Hypocrisy on Hannity

Recent Stories

Donald Trump Jr.: Hillary’s Spying Was Worse Than Watergate

Recent Stories

Zelensky: Putin to Invade Ukraine on Wednesday (or Maybe Not)

Recent Stories

VIP Bonus: Watch Clay and Buck Talk with Don Jr.

Recent Stories

A Hundred Million People Witness the Left’s Mask Hypocrisy

Recent Stories

Download
Now