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Clay Called It: Cuomo Will Make Comeback

8 Feb 2022

BUCK: (impression) “We should have a little discussion about a certain Governor Cuomo.”

CLAY: Ah, that’s right.

BUCK: He says (impression), “I thought I was done. I had resigned after all the smooching and grabbing, but then I heard Clay Travis say something. Clay Travis says, ‘He’s gonna make a comeback,’ and he’s a smart man.”

CLAY: I was the only person. I was out on an island there when I said, like, “This dude is resigning now to try to set the table for a comeback.”

BUCK: You were talking about a comeback while the ink was still drying on his resignation letter. So, yes, we should talk about that in the next hour. By the way, I think it will be unsuccessful. I think he’s out of his mind. But —

CLAY: I think he might win.

BUCK: Oh, my gosh. I can’t say you’re wrong.

CLAY: He’s got so much money, Buck. He’s got so much money still, $16 million I think he’s got in the bank and they’re talking about — we’ll talk about it more detail, but they’re talking about — him running for AG. I mean, nobody spends $16 million on an attorney general’s base right?

BUCK: It’s pure bitterness. He wants Letitia James out.

CLAY: He wants to fight her head-to-head.

BUCK: He is literally gonna go and take her job. Interesting, this is also the left. I mean, she’s a very prominent black female, attorney general. Is the left gonna say, “Who is this guy coming in here” and the whole diversity and inclusion course? Are they gonna say anything about it? We’ll have to… I wonder, ’cause also there’s the #MeToo component of Cuomo.

There’s a lot going on there. We will get into that. I just wanted to know that they’re already talking about it — and remember, Anthony Weiner. Yes, Anthony Weiner! He was actually polling well in the New York City mayoral race before the next round of stuff.

CLAY: He might have won if he could have just stopped sending pictures to random girls on the internet. They were willing to give him a pass on the first mess. If he had just truly changed his ways, he would have potentially won.

BUCK: Yeah. But, anyway, anything feels like it’s possible these days.

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Awful Trudeau Calls Canadian Truckers Nazis

8 Feb 2022

CLAY: Justin Trudeau is maybe the worst leader in all the world right now, and even for dishonest politicians — and we have a high standard of dishonest politicians because so many of them are frequently dishonest — Justin Trudeau is trying to demonize these truckers as their influence continues to grow, and he’s claiming that they’re Nazis, that they’re Confederate sympathizers, which is even more ironic in Canada which managed to miss the Civil War. Listen to Trudeau — play cut 13 — try to argue that these truckers are awful human beings.

TRUDEAU: Individuals are trying to blockade our economy, our democracy, and our fellow citizens’ daily lives. It has to stop. The people of Ottawa don’t deserve to be harassed in their own neighborhoods. They don’t deserve to be confronted with the inherent violence of a swastika flying on a street corner or a Confederate flag or the insults and jeers just because they’re wearing a mask. That’s not who Canada and Canadians are.

BUCK: All you have to know about this pronoun-announcing —

CLAY: Blackface-wearing.

BUCK: — leftist wimp is that he’s lying about the truckers. Just start with this. Look, I’m gonna admit something right now. I generally get super angry about anybody blocking highways or access or whatever because of a political thing. So I will admit that on this one maybe I’m bending my principles on that notion a little bit because I think this is so important, and this isn’t some vague thing. These are their demands for normalcy, demands for normal life.

No one’s asking anything radical here. The truckers are like, “Hey, how about we just go back to our normal lives and you radical tyrants, people like Trudeau, stop being insane?” But notice that he doesn’t even engage on the substance of what they’re saying. They don’t want any more vaccine mandates. They want the madness to end. Instead, he’s, as you point out, “Swastikas! Confederate flags!”

Clay, we’ll have a friend from Rebel News. There’s very little free press in Canada, actually free press. The Canadian government pays basically every major newspaper. There’s funding for journalism, so to speak, or alleged journalism from the government in Canada. It’s all state media at some level, really, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Rebel News is one of the few places…

I used to do Sun News, which was kind of its precursor many years ago, sometimes as a guest, and I know Ezra Levant, who was on Tucker’s show last night. He’s a pretty well-known guy, conservative in Canada. And, Clay, what you see is that the entirety of the Canadian media is allowing just blatant lies to be told about what’s going on here. The truckers are white supremacists? A lot of the truckers are Sikhs, Hindus, Muslims, Asian immigrants. What are they even talking about? They’re just making it up as they go along.

CLAY: No doubt, and this is what infuriates me about cancel culture mixed with identity politics is there’s not even an argument against them, right? If you are Justin Trudeau and you want to argue, “Hey, I disagree with their protest and here’s why,” I’m not going to agree with Trudeau, but that is the kind of intellectual battle that should exist, a debate of ideas. Buck, you know this. As soon as anybody starts to score political points, what happens to them?

Their actual arguments are not analyzed and debated. They are attacked as a white supremacists. I mean, this is so transparent. We could have predicted exactly what they were gonna say — and, by the way, the idea that these are Nazis? I get so fired up about this, and I know you do too. There are virtually no Nazis in the world today, right, in the United States or in Canada in terms of massive numbers of neo-Nazis.

No supporters to speak. Like, this idea that they would in some way be capable of organizing an event like this is designed to be a false flag to take away from the legitimacy of the protest itself. They’re not arguing what they’re protesting. They’re trying to attack them directly. And you know this is the number-one playbook for cancel culture and identity politics. It’s to immediately attack the person as opposed to actually focusing on what the person is arguing.

BUCK: If Justin Trudeau had a good argument — which is, remember, vaccine mandates. This is what they’re hoping no one actually focuses in on: Vaccine mandates as a policy were built on a lie. The policy was built on, “You have to get this shot no matter what your health considerations, no matter what, whether you’ve had natural immunity or not.” They suppress that. “You have to get this shot because you are a danger to people around you!”

CLAY: That’s right.

BUCK: That turned out to be a lie. So if they actually had to make the argument now — and people say, “Oh, but what about hospitalization and death?” That’s up to people. You want to take the greater risk of the shot or not the shot, that’s on you. That’s a different thing than stopping spread. They built the vaccine-mandate programs in this country and all over the world, including Canada, on this will be about protecting other people.

That was a lie. If they could, they would go back now and Justin Trudeau would be saying, “Loo, they want to put people in jeopardy, guys. If we end this vaccine mandate, people are gonna be getting sick everywhere. Everyone just got sick, basically.” This is what really… You’re asking, “Why the politics change?”

CLAY: You and I both did too.

BUCK: We both had covid twice.

CLAY: We could see it directly.

BUCK: We aren’t even in the same city, and we got covid within a week of each other, guys. Covid was everywhere, and I was vaccinated and had natural immunity and I still got covid. The whole thing it’s so crazy, which is why Justin Trudeau has to make — or, rather, chooses to make — this incredibly disingenuous argument about how the truckers are racist, their demands are racist because, what, they don’t want vaccine mandates?

We also forget in this that there are a lot of members of the minority community in this country. Canada is a less diverse country overall, by the way, but that’s a whole other thing. A lot of people in this country who are minorities don’t want to get the shot, didn’t want to get the shot. This is in no way white supremacist or Confederate flag-waving concept, but he’s just smearing the truckers. You know why, Clay? ‘Cause they’re so effective, and the Canadian people… I saw you share the data. Canadian people are increasingly on their side.

CLAY: New poll came out: 54% of Canadians. In the wake of this trucker protest, support to end covid restrictions has grown from 39% to 54% in the past few weeks, according to a poll. I shared that on social media the other day. That is a sign, and certainly you can tell by how vociferously the attack is coming from Justin Trudeau, that’s a direct impact of what they are doing in terms of changing ideas.

So he’s got to try to go out and argue that you can’t support these guys, not because of their arguments, but because they are Nazis, because they are… I don’t even know what the Confederate flag in Canada would even represent, right? The North won the war and they’re above the North, so maybe it’s just there’s some guys there who are rebellious and are using the Confederate flag.

To the extent that it’s there and it’s not a false sign, right, a false signifier, false flag event, it’s probably just a sign of rebellion. The same reason that Kid Rock and many other different entertainers have used the Confederate flag over the years. I salute the Canadian truckers — and, Buck, when we come back, we should have a little bit of a conversation about whether the United States could use our own Canadian trucker-style uprising.

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Masking Kids Will Be This Generation’s Vietnam

8 Feb 2022

JEN PSAKI: Well, the guidance is very clear, which is that we recommend, uhhh, masking in schools. Uh, that’s the recommendation from the CDC. It is also true that at some point when the science and the data warrants, of course, our — our hope is that that’s no longer the recommendation. Uh, and they are continually assessing that. But the guidance is very clear. It is also true that it has always been up to local school districts to make determinations about how to implement these policies.

BUCK: Oh, wait. Hold on a second. That was Psaki from the White House. Welcome back to the Clay and Buck show. Notice how somehow that no one is actually responsible for these decisions, but you have to do it. There’s authority in place, but there’s no accountability for the authority. Is the White House pushing…? This has been a central problem, Clay, the entire time.

How can you have accountability when no one’s actually making the decision, right? It’s like you’re trying to complain at a restaurant about, you know, a bad meal, and they’re saying, “Well, it’s not me; it’s the chef.” You go in to see the chef, say, “Oh, it’s not me. It’s the front desk manager.” You go, “Where’s the front desk manager?” “Oh, he’s not here.” “Where’s the owner?”

No one’s responsible. Right? No one’s accountable. Jen Psaki says, this is what the science is. It’s a recommendation from the CDC. There haven’t been recommendations made. States, localities, they’ve been doing this — they’ve been forcing this on people — and the CDC knows that their, quote, “guidance” is gonna be used as a club to bludgeon anyone with who questions this stuff. So who’s actually responsible for the child abuse of masking in schools? Apparently nobody, Clay. It was just a whole lot of other folks making decisions.

CLAY: It’s going to be our version of Vietnam, Buck. I just feel this so concretely in my soul that many people out there who have been the foremost proponents of masking, are going to pretend that there was never any other option and that they always question whether it made sense. And they are going to try to argue that they had nothing to do with it.

To your point, Buck, everybody is going to pass the buck — no pun intended there — to someone else to try and argue the reason why they had to wear these masks wasn’t their decision and they always knew it didn’t make any sense. Just like right now — just like right now — if you go out and talk to anybody who was alive during Vietnam, every single person, almost, to a man and woman, will say, “Yeah, we knew Vietnam was a bad idea.”

And you’re already seeing a prelude of this as it pertains to the idiocy that is going on surrounding everything having to do with the absurdity — the absolute absurdity — of defund the police. It is a total sham. Everybody’s running from it. It’s gonna be the same thing with kids and masks.

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8 Feb 2022

  • UK Daily Mail: Trudeau stokes divisions by branding the 7,000-strong Freedom Convoy in Ottawa as ‘swastikas wavers’: Anti-mandate protesters blockade busiest border crossing to US at Detroit
  • Breitbart: Freedom Convoy Supporter to Media: ‘Tell the Truth … None of This Is About Racism’
  • New York Post: GoFundMe’s $10M shutdown of Canadian truckers shows it’s time to rein in Big Tech – Betsy McCaughey
  • Bloomberg: Trucker Protest Jams Key Detroit Bridge as Canada Tensions Rise
  • AP: Alaska truckers form convoy to support Canadian protests
  • Washington Post: Canadian officials caution against ‘foreign interference’ as U.S. Republicans back ‘Freedom Convoy’ protests
  • Breitbart: New Zealand Protest Convoy Blocks Capital: Demands End to Vaccine Mandates
  • UK Daily Mail: ‘This is a peaceful protest, not Al Qaeda’: Tucker Carlson slams response to Canada’s freedom convoy claiming truckers are being treated like terrorists
  • Federalist: 18 Fundraisers Aiding Riots, Crime, Abortion, And Genital Mutilation That GoFundMe Didn’t Shut Down

  • HotAir: CNN medical expert: “The science has changed” on mandatory masking in schools
  • Daily Wire: California, Other States To End Mask Mandates — But California Keeps It For Schools
  • Los Angeles Times: When will California ease mask, vaccine rules? Officials warn ‘back to normal’ takes time
  • Washington Post: Two years into pandemic, politicians still getting tripped up over coronavirus restrictions
  • CNN: Democratic governors outpace White House with masking pullbacks
  • Washington Post: Pandemic stress could be causing your eye problems. Here’s what to know.
  • BizPacReview: James Carville wants to make it legal to punch ‘piece of s**t unvaccinated’ people ‘in the g**damned face’

  • New York Post: White House breaks with Pelosi, says Biden backs ‘peaceful protest’ at China Olympics
  • MarketWatch: The most small businesses since 1974 are raising prices due to inflation, NFIB says
  • New York Post: BLM protester who killed man in fire should get longer sentence: Cotton
  • Daily Wire: School Board Members Try To Walk Out On Bosnian Immigrant Warning Against Tyranny; He Continues To Standing Ovation

  • BizPacReview: Genius troll combined Joe Biden quotes with Joe Rogan pics and ‘ACLU’ logo. This is gold.
  • Daily Wire: ‘Do Not Apologize’: DeSantis Speaks Out On Joe Rogan Controversy
  • UK Daily Mail: Trump says Joe Rogan should ‘stop apologizing’ and ‘keep doing what he’s doing’ after continued attempts to cancel him for his anti-vaxxer podcast guests and use of the n-word
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  • HotAir: Army investigation: White House, State ignored Pentagon — and botched Afghanistan retreat
  • Gateway Pundit: New Report Reveals Biden Left and Abandoned 9,000 Americans in Afghanistan in Botched Withdrawal after Taliban Takeover
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    Jay Glazer on Helping Vets and Overcoming Depression

    7 Feb 2022

    BUCK: We want to get into a discussion our friend Jay Glazer right now. He is National Football League insider for Fox Sports’s NFL pregame studio show. He’s also the founder of Merging Vets and Players, a nonprofit organization that connects combat vets and former professional athletes. Jay, thanks so much for being with us.

    GLAZER: Absolutely, man, thanks for having me.

    BUCK: First, I’m fascinated by — and obviously just sounds like such an important mission, this founding that you’ve done of Merging Vets and Players — founding Merging Vets and Players, this organization. What are you doing? I mean, how does this work, and how can people get involved.

    GLAZER: It’s, you know, MVP for short and I’m basically taking former combat vets who are, you know, in transition, which transition sucks for anybody for a lot of us who are, you know, pro athletes or veterans were taking former combat vets and merging them together with pro athletes, started with NFL and fighters ’cause those are like two worlds but now it’s branched out to everything.

    Look, it’s basically a community. You know, it’s a mental health thing. And I’m trying to show both sides, like, you playing in the NFL, and then when uniform comes off your greatness doesn’t suddenly just leave you. Right? It’s what’s behind your rib cage that got you to beat out millions and millions to get that level if you were an Olympian or a fighter or baseball player, whatever it is.

    But the same thing with our combat vets. They go overseas and they do such great things. They have grace under fire and courage under pressure, and they… Man, they save a lot of people. And, you know, they make us feel safe over here without really even knowing us. Then they come back over here and it’s like, “Ohhh, I’m different.” I’m trying to shift that narrative, like:

    “No, you’re different. Different is good. Different leads to success.” But who reminds them of that? So, if you put ’em in a group and you can remind each other of what your greatness is, that’s — like, our results have been magical. And we train together for about a half hour just to give you that burn again and, you know, be beholden to your brother/your sister on your right or left. But after that we sit around on mats and, man, we just talk and we talk so real. We put every elephant in the room there and like, you know, the vulnerability part of it is what makes us so strong.

    CLAY: Jay, appreciate you coming on. You’ve got a new book, Unbreakable: How I Turned My Depression and Anxiety into Motivation and You Can Too. I’m just fascinated by — and I know you have had tremendous experience — how much soldiers love football and love football players. I know as part of the Fox pregame show you guys have gone all over the world to meet different soldiers who are serving overseas.

    GLAZER: Mmm-hmm.

    CLAY: What has your experience been like in terms of being able to interact with those guys, and why do you think so many people serving overseas connect so substantially with football players in general?

    GLAZER: Well, when we have our meetings, it is pretty cool. Like, I’ve got to go around the world with Fox; this is my 19th year at Fox, and every year they have sent me or a whole crew to a military installation on Veterans Day, on Thanksgiving. It’s been just incredible. And then me being involved in mixed martial arts I’ve got to train troops throughout the world also.

    We have our MVP sessions; it’s pretty cool. Our vets will tell our athletes… Our athletes a lot of times go, “Well, I don’t belong in this group.” We’re like, “No. Yes, you do.” The vets will say, “Hey, you guys gave us a break from war. While we’re out there, you know, in battle, a lot of them are thinking, ‘Man, I just gotta get back and I gotta watch this game,’ or, ‘I gotta watch this fight.'” It’s pretty cool.

    Recently in a meeting, one of our vets said, “You guys helped save us in war; it’s now our turn to save you guys, ’cause we know you guys are struggling when the uniform comes off.” It’s pretty cool, the commonality. Look, I know it’s not the same job. I get it. But the struggle when you lose your uniform? Man, that sucks. It’s hard, right? And a lot of us…

    For me, I wrote this book Unbreakable because of my mental health issues because I have depression, anxiety, clinical from my earliest childhood memory. I don’t know what it’s like to not wake up in the gray, and the things that help me out — I put this in the book — are having a team. When I don’t have a team usually like my fight time?

    Man, my roommates in my head they do not talk nicely to each other (chuckles) on a daily basis. And the venom it kind of spews, like, look I know my life is great on the outside. I get it. My life, I got fame and fortune, no doubt. But between my ears sucks. And when I have a team, it sucks a little bit less. When I can be of service to people, which is also, you know, why I wrote this book, I kind of get the gray to fade a little and see some streaks of blue.

    CLAY: Jay, over 20 service members, veterans, kill themselves every single day.

    GLAZER: That number is not okay, man. Twenty-two a day is not okay.

    CLAY: And we’ve got a huge number, huge number of veterans that we are excited and respect to the utmost degree who listen to us every day, and they know — they see it — when they come back from overseas, the difficulty of integrating back into civilian life, the challenges that that brings. What would you tell those people out there, many of whom are listening to us right now, that might be struggling as they come to grips with their service terms ending or maybe just their overseas tenure, being back civilian side? What have you seen, and what would you like for those people to know from your perspective?

    GLAZER: Here’s, I think, a huge problem is our vets come home and they’re told not to talk about it. Right? They’re really ingrained not to have individuality. “It’s not about you, it’s about the team.” Well, when the rest of America is lying on their resume to like pump it up (chuckles) our veterans kind of downplay what they’ve done.

    It’s really hard for them to transition back when you do that. So I’m trying to give these guys and gals their individuality. Let ’em know it’s okay to, you know, boast and brag about what you’ve done, ’cause what you’ve done…? Like listen, the stuff I’ve done, those are my stories, but really pales in comparison to what they’ve done over there. They’ve saved lives.

    Like I’ve always said, like, it’s unbelievable, like, they don’t know me, they don’t know my kids, they don’t know my family. Yet they leave their own families to go fight for our freedom? And it’s so incredibly selfless. And, you know, I just saw too many of them struggling when I looked up to ’em so much. So I know I can coach.

    I can coach people to do crazy things in a cage — and, you know, I have this MMA program I use for pro athletes and me and Randy Couture and Chuck Liddell trained 1,200 of these guys. I know I could train people between their ears and behind their rib cage, and I wanted to use, you know, that ability to coach or train to help them, you know, to put it to use to our vets ’cause they deserve it!

    That’s who should be running a lot of businesses in our country and, you know, we have a lot of who are… I think six or seven of my employees, of our employees at MVP, I think they were homeless when I first met ’em, and we helped, you know, build ’em up, give them a team, give them a community — and all of a sudden, their greatness came out. And they are running our chapter. Just amazing.

    We just gotta, you know, show ’em it’s okay to talk about what you’ve done. Definitely stay connected to your team. And, yeah, like I want ’em to be proud. I got this one dude, very first guy I ever had, Elliot Ruiz, he came in one day, and, Elliott, man, he was the first guy that came in that couldn’t look me in the eye. I’m like, “What’s going on with you? Why do you always come in like this to our gym?”

    He said, “Well, man, I’ve had 17 surgeries. My wife has to get me out of bed, and, you know…” I said, “How’s that? How?” He said, “Well, we rescued seven American POWs, and, man, the truck came, tried to get back. They shot the truck up, flipped it over, hit razor wire, took me for a ride. But, man, now I’m, you know, left with all these injuries.” I said, “Wait. Hold on. Back up. Back up. Did you just say you saved seven Americans POWs?”

    He goes, “Yeah, but…” “Eh! Don’t, yeah-but me. Did you just say you saved seven American POWs?” He said, “Yeah.” I said, “Okay. From now on I want you walking around the streets here looking at everybody saying, ‘I ain’t like the rest of you guys. I’m different.'” And he said, “Am I just supposed to change the way I view myself just like that?” and I said, “Yep, just like that. Tomorrow, start it.”

    And a lot of these vets when I said it kind of get angry about it until they realize, “Yeah I am different. It’s okay,” and Elliott, it changed the way he viewed himself that day. And man, kind of a whole movement was born. It’s been beautiful, and that’s what I want them to understand. There is so much to be proud of and different, and stay connected with your teammates.

    BUCK: We’re speaking to Jay Glazer of Fox NFL Sunday. He’s also the author of Unbreakable: How I turned My Depression and Anxiety into Motivation and You Can Too. Jay, on the sports side… I know we got the Super Bowl coming up and Clay might talk to you about that in a second. But obviously the Winter Olympics underway.

    It has been something of a learning curve for me to see that there’s even more, it seems, political bias and conformity within the sports media than in the political media and obviously all leaning very left. Do you think that there will be a moment at which they will start to realize that speaking out against China in the sports media has to happen or else there’s no moral authority to speak out against whatever issue gets their attention here stateside?

    GLAZER: I’ll be honest with you: I’m the last dude to talk politics. I know you guys love to. I hate talking politics, and I also don’t… I haven’t really paid attention to the Olympics. So you’re… Man, I like talking about stuff that I’m somewhat of an expert in, and I am so not when it comes to this. Like, I know that my 2.3 GAAP doesn’t have me smart enough to talk about this stuff. That’s for you guys. (chuckling)

    BUCK: Okay, then.

    CLAY: Jay, what happens in the Super Bowl? A lot of people, a hundred million people are gonna be watching on Sunday. It’s in L.A. I’m on the Fox lot right now for the week. Rams-Bengals. If people out there have to pick a side, if they have to make some bets for part of their Super Bowl parties, what do you expect to see? Matthew Stafford, Joe Burrow, Zack Terrell, or Sean McVay? Who’s holding up the trophy at the end of the day?

    GLAZER: You know, look. If you look at the teams, the Rams are the more well-rounded team, and I think the Rams learned something about themselves last week. Like, Sean McVay is a bully, and they really need to take on his personality, and they finally did last week. Right? We have all these great players, and, you know, it’s still a fight. Football is a fight.

    And, you know, I think last week’s version of the Rams, that’s probably of the more talented team. But, man, Joe Burrow is a culture changer, a complete culture changer. We’ve already seen them be completely out of it and him bring everybody all the way back. So that’s… I gotta be honest with you” I keep flip-flopping back and forth. Probably…

    Well, if you ask me now, I’m probably looking at Rams. If you ask me, like, in 25 minutes from now, I may get a call and talk to somebody else on the Bengals who kind of convinces me the other way, and I’ll go back to the Rams. It’s just there’s such a… You just can never count the Bengals out. They just keep clawing back because of that guy.

    CLAY: Jay, we appreciate it. We encourage everybody to go check out your book.

    GLAZER: Mmm-hmmm.

    CLAY: We also really appreciate all the work that you’re doing with the veterans and everybody else out there. Look forward to seeing you again sometime soon, my man.

    GLAZER: If I can real quick, again, this book is… You know, I got clinical depression and anxiety. But this is for everybody who’s living in the gray. Like, we all just went through a pandemic. It’s a horrible world to live in, especially social media these days. So whether it’s you or you have somebody you can connect with, you’ll laugh your butt off the pages. I made it worse — funny — so I can kind of tackle the hard stuff. But, man, I’m doing this, too, to kind of… I need a bigger team for my own mental health; so I’m hoping to get a whole bunch of teammates with this.

    CLAY: No doubt, Jay. We appreciate it. We know there’s tons of people out there who listen to us who are veterans who are coming back from tours, and I think you can get ’em big help by checking out what Jay is doing.

    GLAZER: There’s a lot it. Thank you, man. I appreciate it.

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    7 Feb 2022

    CLAY: I think Stacey Abrams officially lost the Georgia race for governor again in the absurd photo that she put out. And, really, I feel like we can break this down on so many levels, Buck. When I saw it, not only did the photo get taken, but they are so tone-deaf to what parents are thinking that they had Stacey Abrams — who is sitting on the ground surrounded by a classroom of children — all of the children are masked. And, as we said going to break, if you look at the data sets, obese adults — and Stacey Abrams is an obese adult — are overwhelmingly way more in danger from covid than any children are, and I think this is the kind of photo… Now, they put it up. That, to me, is a sign of how tone-deaf they are.

    They allowed that photo to be taken and then they tweeted it out as if they were not aware of what the response of the overwhelming number of public figures — and also just people who are parents — was going to be, Buck. I think her campaign is dead to rights right now just based on this. In fact, I think she’s in such a tough spot based on this photo and how viral it went, Buck, that she’s gonna have to call for masks to be removed from kids all over the state of Georgia in order to try to cleanse the stupidity of the photo that she put out.

    BUCK: I wonder, because at some level I do think, Clay, the belief among Democrats is that important people don’t have to wear masks.

    CLAY: Certainly.

    BUCK: They really do think that this is the way it’s supposed to go, and I will say even when I was down in Miami, people who work in the service industry are all masked up everywhere. There’s this, “Oh, the serfs, the servants have to mask up.” But everyone else gets to walk around in freedom? That’s the decision maybe you could say the businesses with making. Sometimes it’s the city making it. Depends. But I wonder, Clay. They have no principles to protect, so is it actually worthwhile to point out the violation of their principles? It’s kind of where we are with Democrats. (laughing) I don’t know. I don’t know.

    CLAY: I think it makes a lot of sense for those independent voters, Buck.

    BUCK: Oh, for sure.

    CLAY: I think she’s done.

    BUCK: I hope so. But we’ll see.

    BREAK TRANSCRIPT

    CLAY: The photo that went viral over the weekend of Stacey Abrams is something that we just can’t let go ’cause I think it really captures so well the masking madness. Abrams — who is a woman, I believe in her forties. I’m guessing her age. I actually don’t know her age. I think she’s in her forties and is substantially overweight, which is a… We bring it up as a comorbidity.

    I mean, that is a reality in the covid era. Doesn’t mask up, and she’s in a room full of kids who are at effectively zero real risk of a covid hospitalization or death. I mean, one in a million, one in 500,000. The View even tried to process this ’cause, you know, “Saint Stacey Abrams! Oh, my gosh. We have to come to her defense!” But how do they defend this? This is what it sounded like.

    BUCK: So they actually say… They initially came out with, “How dare people, during a Black History Month session…?” That has nothing to do with anything when it comes to masking. But even there on The View, the ladies of The View, other than she’s so “brilliant,” Stacey Abrams… Yeah. Oh, she’s so brilliant. Everyone settle down a little bit. Not brilliant enough to not take this photo.

    CLAY: And her staff is not brilliant enough to keep her from taking the photo and then allowing it to be distributed. And for those of you who missed it, she had a full day to think about this as it went viral, and the opening statement from her campaign was — this is not a joke — “It is shameful that our opponents are using a Black History Month reading event for Georgia children as the impetus for a false political attack, and it is pitiful and predictable our opponents continue to look for opportunity…”

    Hold on. You made the choice to be there. You chose to not be wearing a mask when the photo was taken. Now, if she had just had a mask on, I would ridicule it. But she would be on the same level as all of the students that are sitting around here. And to your point, Buck, she’s 48 years old and morbidly obese, right? She is far more in danger than any of those kids are. It’s not even close.

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    7 Feb 2022

    BUCK: Clay, can we start with the community and trucker thing? Because this is fascinating. They’re still going strong up in Ottawa. More convoys now forming around the world. People are seeing a momentum here. But two fascinating and deeply troubling things happened over the weekend. One, the Canadian government just decided to go in and seize the gasoline!

    They’re trying to refill these trucks at places in Ottawa — just to take it to effectively try to stop the protests. It’s obviously wintertime in Canada. It’s quite cold there. So, we can get into that. But also GoFundMe, a platform… This is the thing, folks. These platforms become huge — whether it’s Twitter or Facebook or GoFundMe or Spotify — promising freedom and transparency and openness, and then they become weaponized by the left.

    GoFundMe accepts money for the truckers and then was in the process of giving that money to left-wing groups — whether it’s BLM or community organizer organizations — until Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida, and others came out and said, “That’s fraud, by the way.” You can’t actually accept money for a cause and then divert it to someone else because you feel like it.

    CLAY: All of this, Buck, is evidence of what I believe is the Great Unraveling. We said and we’ve talked a lot on this show about how covid has made red redder and blue bluer. But I think it’s also opened the eyes of a lot of people, and I think you can also tie this in with the Olympics and the way that’s being covered. We effectively need to have structures in place.

    For every business that is left-leaning, there needs to be a right-wing competitor. And you can say that that structure is underway, right? For instance, Rumble is a video competitor of YouTube. Now, it’s a lot smaller but they just offered $100 million to Joe Rogan if he ends up getting kicked off Spotify. I think that’s a really smart move.

    But when I saw this GoFundMe news come down, Buck, on I guess it was Friday night — ’cause they tried to drop it I think late in the evening on Friday hoping it would kind of get snowed under — my jaw dropped. And it’s hard for me to be surprised by things. It wasn’t just that they were trying to shut down the truckers. (chuckles) It was that they were taking the next move, Buck, of taking… I think it was $9 million —

    BUCK: Yes.

    CLAY: — that had been raised for truckers and the support of their protest and they were going to redirect that $9 million to entities that were the exact opposite of who people had been donating to and for, right? Now, I immediately said, “Oh, my God. This is clearly fraud,” and I’m glad that they backed down. But the idea that… You remember GoFundMe wouldn’t allow Kyle Rittenhouse, if I remember correctly, to raise money.

    BUCK: Mmm-hmm.

    CLAY: They refused, and that was a big deal to me because everybody has the right, regardless of whether you agree or disagree — especially obviously in the result there of him being not guilty. But everybody has the right to the best attorney that they can afford. That’s embedded in our criminal justice system in our entire fabric of laws. So this idea that you can’t even give money to causes that are seen as being “right wing”?

    And, by the way, how in the world are the truckers right wing? They want to get back to normalcy. We’ve gotta stop allowing this to be painted as a crazy idea, that at some point we should all around the world be able to get back to the universe that we were living in in January and February and early March of 2020 before insanity took over in this country and around the world.

    BUCK: I would bet that some of these truckers have voted in the past for Democrat, liberal-type Canadians.

    CLAY: Guaranteed.

    BUCK: Guaranteed. These are guys who, just like in this country there are people that are truckers that have a long-standing history — and maybe even family history going back a ways b– with teamsters and unions, and so there’s a labor component of this. Notice how this element of people that are of the laboring classes is so undermined by the tech oligarchs and the tech billionaire elite, and the Democrat-corporate media has nothing to say about it.

    Clay, what everyone’s watching unfold in real time — and it has to do with the GoFundMe situation and the calls. Remember, they were calling to kick Rogan after of Spotify a week ago. We were talking about this before any of the racially charged language issue came to the forefront. This has had to do with a true front of tyranny that we are seeing from the Democrat Party, and it’s really a mentality that covid has exposed in much of the modern world today where they want it the way that they demand it or else they’re gonna crush you.

    There’s no more sense of fair play. There’s no sense of individual liberty, of constitutional restraint. You know, every country has its own political realities. But you look at what we would have called the Western world or Western Civilization until pretty recently and you say, “What is happened? What has happened in America, in Canada, in the U.K., in Australia, in Europe?” You go down the line.

    You say countries like us — and of course here at home, too — have abandoned core principles. They have decided that all of a sudden, the Constitution in this country doesn’t count. In other countries ,whatever they have as protections of their rights has gone away — and the media apparatus here is just going along with it all. It’s deeply troubling. The whole thing is stunning.

    CLAY: You’re exactly right on all of that. And, Buck, what we have reached is an inflection point. Everybody has to pick a side. I understand there are people out there who look around — and I’ve been one of these people before, right? I’ve talked about my path and my journey to what I believe and how covid accelerated that in many ways. But you know there’s a lot of people out there, Buck — and we talk to many of these people every single day — who say, “You know, I kinda like the Republicans. I kinda like the Democrats.”

    “They both drive me insane.” These are the people who end up deciding who wins an election, right, because there’s a certain segment that’s gonna vote Democratic, certain segment that’s gonna vote Republican. You can’t be wishy-washy anymore. You can’t be a libertarian who says, “Yeah, I can’t really decide between the Democrats and the Republicans.”

    This is pretty straightforward, and this is direct, and I want everybody listening out there to think about this” You’re either for freedom and you are for basic democratic ideals of the United States government that believe in equality (chuckles), but also in a foundational premise that the United States is a force for good in the world — or you are a Democrat. I mean that seriously.

    Because Democrats have abandoned, to me, any pretense. I think Joe Rogan is learning this, because Joe Rogan tried to be a straight down the middle of the road guy. He said, “Hey, I might vote for Bernie Sanders,” and they put out the long knives and they came for him, and nobody on the left in this country has stood up for Joe Rogan at all.

    Now, to their credit, lots of people on the right side — if you want to call it that — of the political equation have said, “Hey, I maybe not be a Joe Rogan fan, but I don’t believe in cancel culture.” Same thing we said about Whoopi Goldberg. You either believe that you can basically be attacked by mobs online and have every fabric of your ability to earn a living stripped from you or you are a Republican.

    BUCK: Yeah.

    CLAY: That is the truth right now: Those are the choices.

    BUCK: Yeah, you’re right. This is the binary that we’re in, and you can also break it down to you have principles or you have situational principles, you know?

    CLAY: Situational ethics.

    BUCK: You have principles, or your situational ethics are a joke, and this is what we’re seeing all over the place including, by the way, with the covid restrictions. (laughing) As soon as I see the Stacey Abrams photo unmasked with children?

    CLAY: Oh, so great.

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    YouTube Bans Virginia Mom’s School Board Speech

    7 Feb 2022

    CLAY: We played last week a woman named Merianne Jensen, who is from Northern Virginia, and did a phenomenal job. I shared her clip of her passionate defense of why her children should not be required to wear a mask. She just reached out to me during the show today, and we need to play this clip tomorrow again, and there are many parents out there — I was one of them — who had been going to their local school boards to speak out against wearing masks.

    She just sent me a message and said that YouTube — YouTube — had disallowed her three-minute speech to be posted on their website, because they say it violates community standards. Now, Buck, this three-minute discussion — this speech that she made — was at a school board meeting, a public venue designed to debate and discuss the policies that are going to be implemented by a school board. That is the very definition of the marketplace of ideas.

    Moms and dads should be able to show up and argue for or against a variety of different topics, and then places like YouTube should allow those arguments to be shared so that whether or not you agree with the moms or dads who make those arguments — and certainly I’m in favor of Merianne Jensen and the arguments she made against masks. That’s the very essence of the marketplace of ideas!

    If you say it violates community standards to allow someone to make an argument in a public forum like that, you are directly attacking American democracy itself in terms of being able to share that argument. I’m super fired up about this, and we’re gonna have her — scheduled to get her — on tomorrow to talk about this. But, Buck, even as we’re trying to win this masking battle, Big Tech’s opposition to basic data and facts and science is infuriating.

    BUCK: It’s outrageous. It’s outrageous, and we have a mom in Connecticut who is saying that masks are dehumanizing.

    JENNIFER ORR: My daughter is a senior at Foran High School. She looks over and she sees a math teacher and she says, “Oh, my God. Hi” to so-and-so. And teacher says, “Oh, my God! Uh, hi. I didn’t even recognize you. I’ve never seen your face before.” Lela’s been in that class for 3-1/2 months. This is dehumanizing, it’s demoralizing, and these teachers should see a human face.

    BUCK: It’s disgusting what’s being done to kids, and I know this is gonna be hard for a lot of people when a society, Clay, goes through a mass hysteria, whether it is burning of alleged witches, which happened… People think of it in the Salem Witch Trials in this country. It was actually quite widespread in the 1600s in parts of Europe, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, there would be witch burnings that would happen.

    Societies… That was obviously hundreds of years ago. The point here being nobody ever wants to have to wake up and realize, “Oh, my God. I was one of the bad people, “and when you look at what’s gone on here with covid, they got so used to the “pandemic of the unvaccinated,” they got so used to, “We know how to stop covid! We are the good folks. We know how to shut this thing down.”

    But now that that’s obviously not true, and now that “we did everything right” is a laugh line to anyone who’s actually paying attention and watching the numbers, one of the major challenges we have is, you have a lot of people… It’s one thing if you had to mask your kid up, just to be very clear, so they could go to school. Right? You know that you had no choice. It was state force used against you, same way that you and I have to mask up on planes.

    But for people that push those policies and even for parents that gladly, even gleefully went along with it, there’s a reckoning coming their way. They were abusing their own children here because Fauci told them to? It’s stunning when you actually think of the implications. So we’re gonna have to unravel this for a long time to come. Nobody ever wants to think they were on the wrong side of history. The mask maniacs clearly were.

    CLAY: Buck, when I spoke in August at my local school board and argued against masks, there were tons of people who had come from the hospital still wearing their scrubs to show up and argue that the science and the data demanded that all kids wear masks. Those people in my particular school district have been proven one billion percent wrong. They looked down on parents like me — moms and dads — who got up and made the argument that our kids didn’t need to be in masks.

    They were lecturing us for not understanding science. They argued that they were the force of reason. Remember one woman who was a doctor got up and argued at that same place that I argued. Buck, they tried to take her medical license for having the audacity to look at the science and say, “I’m a doctor, and I don’t believe that kids need to be wearing masks.”

    She was completely right. Parents like myself were completely right, and tomorrow we’re gonna talk with that parent from Virginia where the battles are ongoing. And I am so fired up at the idea that YouTube is taking down parent speeches which are 100% factually accurate and arguing they violate community standards.

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