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28 Feb 2022

  • Breitbart: Analysis: Push for Green Energy Not Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Driving up Oil Prices, Threatening Security
  • UK Daily Mail: Huge convoy of Belarusian tanks and troop carriers is seen near Ukraine’s border as Kyiv and Moscow start negotiations
  • UK Daily Mail: Putin’s ‘propagandist-in-chief’ threatens the West with nuclear destruction as he boasts Moscow’s subs ‘can shoot more than 500 warheads’
  • FOXNews: Nikole Hannah-Jones mocked for claiming Europe ‘not a continent,’ calling Ukraine alarm a racial ‘dog whistle’
  • New York Post: Ukrainian sailor sinks Russian boss’s $7.7 million luxury superyacht
  • New York Post: Democratic Socialists blame US imperialism for Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Daily Wire: ‘Quit Pussy-Footing Around’: Tom Cotton Blasts Biden Administration’s Weak Sanctions On ‘Ruthless Dictator’ Putin

  • Legal Insurrection: Trump Was Right: Europe’s Reliance On Russian Oil and Gas Emboldened Putin
  • BizPacReview: White House dismisses cries to increase US oil amid war, Psaki says we ‘must prioritize’ clean energy
  • HotAir: US locks down Russian central bank, sovereign fund assets
  • PJ Media: Ukraine War Took Vladimir Putin From Steely-Eyed KGB Man to Military Bumbler
  • FOXNews: Gordon Chang: Biden’s feeble response to Russia will bolster China’s attempt to ‘destabilize the world’
  • American Greatness: The Crowded Road to Kyiv – Victor Davis Hanson

  • AP: On cusp of Biden speech, a state of disunity, funk and peril
  • AP: Fence being reinstalled around US Capitol for Biden speech
  • The Hill: House lifting mask mandate ahead of State of The Union address
  • Federalist: How Pandemic-Era ‘Stimulus’ Screwed Americans While Boosting The Rich

  • UK Daily Mail: US records less than 10,000 Covid cases in a single day for the first time since July as Omicron continues to recede: New York City, Chicago and even Capitol Hill drop mandates as infections drop 91% nationwide from mid-January peak
  • NBC: New York City to lift vaccination mandate for businesses, events
  • Study Finds: Turn it down! Most Americans have grown more sensitive to noise since pandemic began
  • Daily Wire: Hollywood’s China Problem Goes Much Deeper Than CCP Censorship
  • RedState: The American People Add Ukraine to Biden’s Growing List of Failures
  • Federalist: 4 New Things We Just Learned About The Special Counsel Investigation
  • Breitbart: Former Attorney General William Barr Blames Trump for January 6, Calls for Different 2024 Nominee
  • UK Daily Mail: Window of opportunity to save the planet is ‘rapidly closing’: UN issues its gravest report yet on the impacts of climate change, warning that temperature rise is affecting ALL living things
  • HotAir: Kinder, gentler Taliban going house-to-house to forcibly disarm its subjects
  • American Greatness: Department of Interior to Change Names of Over 600 Sites to Remove the Word ‘Squaw’

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    Watch Buck’s CPAC Speech: Rally Against the Deep State

    28 Feb 2022

    Buck spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, soaking up the freedom of that state and urging conservatives to push back against the deep state’s assaults on our liberties.

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    Buck Dissects the SWIFT Ban on Russian Banks

    28 Feb 2022

    Buck appeared on Fox with Dan Bongino to break down the ejection of Russian banks from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, known in economic circles as SWIFT. It’s a huge blow by the international community, as Putin continues to brutalize Ukraine.

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    C&B Talk to the Only American to Work for the WH and Kremlin

    25 Feb 2022

    CLAY: We are joined now by Michael Caputo, who is the former assistant secretary of Health and Human Services for public affairs under Trump, the only American to work for both the White House and the Kremlin. And, Michael, you have family right now in Ukraine. You are uniquely suited to be able to analyze this situation. What are your family members telling you most recently, what are you hearing from them, are they safe?

    CAPUTO: Well, my family… Thanks for having me on, by the way. My family is not in Kiev. They are in an ancillary city. And so, therefore, while they’ve heard some explosions in far-off areas where there were military bases and military storage areas, they have not seen any fighting or heard any real commotion, while people are packing bags and leaving. But just a few minutes ago in their town, air raid sirens went off. I’m really right now just taking a break from trying to evacuate my family from Ukraine to talk to you. This is very, very real for our family.

    BUCK: Those evacuations right now, we’ve heard that up to 50,000 people have left Ukraine, mostly I believe for Poland. Some are now trying to make it to Romania. So those are I assume women and children and the elderly who are engaged in those evacuations? Because I think Ukraine has declared that no fighting age male 18 to 60 — which is quite a large span — is able to leave the country. Is that the situation on the ground?

    CAPUTO: That’s my understanding — and, frankly, every male I know 18 to 60 won’t even think of leaving. My in-laws, my father and mother, are of more advanced years. Our concern is for their immediate safety. Like most Ukrainians, my father and mother didn’t believe it was going to happen because Vladimir Putin… People ask me, “When is Vladimir Putin going to invade Ukraine?” I always answered: February 27th, 2014! He invaded eight years ago.

    And Joe Biden gave them blankets, if you remember, didn’t give ’em anything else, and the West has let Vladimir Putin fester like a boil on the backside of Ukraine for eight years. So when we tried to tell my family, “You guys need to make a plan. We need to get you over here to the United States. You need to get out of there,” they would shrug about it. “You know, he’s been there for a while. He’s been gonna just… It’s all bluff.” But weakness is provocative to a man like Vladimir Putin, and obviously President Biden projects weakness above all.

    CLAY: So where do we go from here? Obviously, we’re all rooting for you to get your family out safely. But you were talking about Putin and the weakness that’s being projected by American leadership right now. There’s been discussion that maybe the Baltic states… Finland now is evidently in the crosshairs with Putin. Where does this go from here if you are assessing it? Is he finished in Ukraine, or are there other areas that would then be next on his hit list, so to speak, of places that he wants to try to bring back within the Russian sphere of influence?

    CAPUTO: Ukraine is very unique among all nations near and around the border of Russia. I write a lot about this in my book, The Ukraine Hoax, which is available on Amazon. In Ukraine Hoax I talk about how that Ukraine has long been the playground of the globalist elite and their children where people like Hunter Biden could make billions of dollars a year doing nothing because they had influence over the policies that his father, the vice president, who was in charge of Ukraine policy in the United States as vice president. He could influence that.

    And he did that on behalf of oligarchs. The fact of the matter is the oligarchs of Ukraine, the oligarchs of Russia have been interacting with the oligarchs of Italy and France and England and the United States for decades now. Decades. And one of the reasons why these sanctions that they’re putting on pollutant right now are so laughable, just laughable… I noticed that they’re not… They’re still refusing to cut off Putin from the SWIFT banking system. That’s a joke, right?

    And we’re still not touching the oil and gas arena, which is, of course, whole reason this thing is happening! But at the same time, you look at Germany, who is basically to me, they sound like they’re pro-Putin and in favor of this invasion. And Italy, on their sanctions, they carved out luxury goods so the oligarchs in Russia could still get their Gucci loafers! This is a joke. The whole thing is a joke.

    And all about the oligarchs of all these nations — including the oligarchs of America — continuing to make money on the backs of the Ukrainian people, and, by the way, on the backs of the American people. Because all of our gas prices are gonna go through the roof, our inflation is gonna go through the roof. And, meanwhile, the oligarchs of Russia will get their Gucci loafers. Let’s make no mistake about this. Ukraine is the playground of the American globalist elite, including American politicians and our billionaires who are making money and we get to pay for it.

    BUCK: We’re speaking to Michael Caputo, former Trump administration HHS official and author of The Ukraine Hoax. Michael, I know you lived in Moscow for seven years, so you have some understanding of the mind of the Russian people from being among them. Two things for you. One, what do you think Putin’s end goal is with all this? And, two, how far will the Russian people go in supporting him toward those goals?

    CAPUTO: Well, I’ll tell you, I lived there seven years. I actually worked for the Kremlin, which you can imagine how attractive that made me to the fake Russiagate hoax and the Mueller team. I was practically dating those people for a couple years. Cost me $350,000 in legal fees! And of course, it’s all crap, it’s all fake. I was working for Boris Yeltsin, then president, and I was sent there by Hillary Clinton’s husband, Bill Clinton, to try to help them with their transition to democracy! The situation is very different from the years when I was working in the Kremlin.

    There was a democratic government. The people who worked in the presidential administration were public servants. When Vladimir Putin came in, you remember the words of George W. Bush about how he looked in his eyes and he saw his soul and he could work with him. By the time 2005, 2006, 2007 ran around, we realized that it was a totally different place. Vladimir Putin is running a criminal gang — and this is not an exaggeration. The people around him that we call them the siloviki, his close advisers of his, are almost all his former buddies from the KGB — and every single one of them is a billionaire.

    Anybody brought in to the Kremlin to work with Vladimir Putin is expected to go ahead and make money on the side. “You get the… You know, I’ll give you the assistant presidential advisory position; you get the aluminum industry. You better go make millions because you kick back money to Vladimir Putin.” That explanation, which I go through in The Ukraine Hoax, is important to understand because this is a profit-making enterprise for Vladimir Putin! This is an oil-and-gas situation for Vladimir Putin.

    The people around him expect him to allow them to create a situation where they can all make more money, so he gets the kickback on that money. When I was in Russia, oil was about 17, $18 a barrel. Now it’s $160 a barrel! These people are spending that money just building ugly homes. And, by the way, their children are in all the boarding schools mansions in Mayfair, London, they all hang out in the VIP lounges of Paris. They live in co-ops in Manhattan.

    All these people, these oligarchs, these siloviki, these billionaires who are around Vladimir Putin, they should be sanctioned! We should round up their children, their wives, their cooks, and their drivers, and take away their visas and send them packing back to Russia! But we don’t. You know why? Because they own London and because they’re making tons of money for American people on Wall Street. We don’t do it because we’re complicit in it. We have to understand that.

    BUCK: Michael Caputo, author of The Ukraine Hoax. Michael, thanks for bringing your expertise to the show today. We appreciate it.

    CAPUTO: Thank you very much.

    CLAY: Man. I loved that.

    BUCK: Fired up.

    CLAY: That’s passion!

    BUCK: Yeah, he’s ready to go, man. This is the thing. We’re not hearing what the real mentality of the Ukrainian people are right now, not hearing it enough. And everything that I’m seeing is they’re in this fight until they can’t fight anymore. So we’ll see what ends up happening.

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    Biden’s Incompetence Could Plunge Us Into a World War

    25 Feb 2022

    BUCK: The biggest story in the world right now is clearly the situation in Ukraine. You have Ukrainian defense forces putting up some serious resistance, but already the Russians are entering the capital of Kiev. This was a multipronged attack yesterday. You’ve probably seen video — if you’re on social media — of Mi-8 Russian attack helicopters, transport helicopters trying to take a key airfield.

    This is a situation that is evolving minute by minute, and we’re gonna bring you the most up-to-date information we can. There’s already gunfire and explosions as of right now in the capital city. The president of Ukraine, Zelensky, has said that he is target number one of the Russian Federation, and his family — has said this — is target number two. They are in secure locations in the capital city, but they are choosing not to leave.

    You have a lot of Ukrainians who are being handed weapons. There’s essentially a civilian defense force being created in real time. They’re saying they’re gonna fight ’til the very end. You have members of the Ukrainian Parliament putting on bullet resistant vests and taking AK-47s and saying they are gonna defend to the very end. They’ll defend the parliament building itself. And you also have video of Chechen, quote, “hunters,” right now who are being deployed in parts Ukraine and given a stack of cards with Ukrainian politicians on them that they are supposed to find and either capture or kill.

    Clay, this looks like it is about to get very ugly, over a hundred casualties in the first day, a hundred killed Ukrainian military and civilians. That’s the official number. I think it was 127 is what I saw. You could see this turn into street to street fighting very quickly. Putin says maybe there is a negotiation could be had, but some are saying that’s a head feint. And I think in the background we’re all wondering, “Why is it that the Biden administration hasn’t even been willing to use SWIFT sanctions against the Putin regime?” This looks like it’s about to get a whole lot worse and I want to know what you think should be done at this stage.

    CLAY: Everything that that Joe Biden has tried to in his entire tenure so far has failed. And this seems like the latest example of that, Buck. And I was reading this morning, we talked yesterday during the prevention availability, Biden dodged a question on China, and he was specifically asked because he hadn’t mentioned China having any influence or any impact on trying to get Russia not to invade Ukraine.

    This morning, early — I think it was late last night — the New York Times broke a story that for the past three months the United States has been trying to persuade China to join them in putting pressure on Russia not to invade Ukraine, and that instead of doing that, China has been taking intelligence shared with them about the dangers in Ukraine and telling Russia what the United States was taking to China about, basically spoiling all of the intelligence that the United States was gleaning and immediately sharing it with Russia.

    And so as big of a mess as Ukraine is, the bigger mess that I think we’re gonna have to deal with for many years to come now, Buck, is there is an unholy alliance now that seems quite clear between Russia and China. And maybe at some point it also is going to expand and include Iran. And given the power that China has on the global marketplace, any sort of sanctions that you’re trying to levy against Russia are not going to be very effective if China remains the partner.

    Also, Buck, this is also crazy, and I think it deserves more attention. This embargo, the sanctions, however you want to classify it against Russia, is not, for the most part, impacting actual Russian oil and petroleum products. They’re still able to sell to Europe because they have such a tight control over the European oil and gas population that they don’t have the ability to have energy independence. So Russia knew this. It doesn’t seem like anything we’ve done has surprised Putin, and certainly it hasn’t been consequential enough to get him to change in any manner his behavior so far.

    BUCK: We’re wondering right now… I think everyone who’s following this — and I know, I said this to Clay before the show, and I really mean this. I just miss having President Trump, certainly compared to what we see with Joe Biden. I believe what the president told us earlier this week was true, which is that Putin just would not have done this with President Trump in office because of his unpredictability, Trump’s unpredictability, and the fact that you’re dealing with somebody who had a whole lot of punch-back in him.

    I feel like that in and of itself was going to be something of a barrier to Putin’s machinations here. That was gonna be something that would slow him down. But looking now at what’s going to happen — ’cause you point out, the sanctions. How seriously can you take sanctions that don’t go to the heart of the Russian economy? How seriously can you take sanctions…? The SWIFT system, which is based out of Belgium, is essentially the clearinghouse for all international financial transactions.

    Thousands of financial institutions around the world have their transactions cleared through the SWIFT system. You cut Russia off from that, it no longer has an international economy to speak of, really. It will still do stuff with China. Fine. But there will be enormous financial consequences. What are we waiting for? There’s video of Russian tanks rolling over Ukrainian civilian cars! There’s already video of Chechen, quote, “hunters” getting ready to go find not just Zelensky but his family.

    Look, we’ve all understood that this is not America’s fight in the sense that we’re gonna get involved militarily. But if you’re gonna take the actions mechanically to try to change the calculation for Putin, wouldn’t now be the time to do it with all the seriousness you can possibly muster? What are we waiting for? You almost wonder if Biden thinks that Putin can achieve his objective so quickly that it won’t even really extend out beyond a few weeks or perhaps a few days as they’re already in the capital of Kiev. So I have to say, I view this as indicative of a lot of failures of international institutions. Also, do you feel like the Biden regime really thought that this was going to happen?

    CLAY: No.

    BUCK: We’ve been talking about it for a few weeks but, Clay, I did a special on The First TV in the end of December about the upcoming war in Ukraine. People can go see it. We had all these guests on saying it, ’cause it looked like that’s what was going to happen. That was in December. We’re in almost March now, obviously February 25th. The Biden administration had a lot of time. This wasn’t a sneak attack that came out of nowhere. This wasn’t something that we should have been totally unprepared for.

    And this is the best we can muster? But if he can’t stop this, you have to wonder what’s the point of the U.N. Security Council? What’s the point of some of these institutions that we’re supposed to believe have some sway in the international scene? I feel like it’s very frustrating to watch this play out because of the human suffering in Ukraine. You already see the refugee flows on the way to Romania and then Poland. This is gonna get a lot worse, especially if the Ukrainians fight, Clay.

    If they continue to fight even after the government capitulates, you’re gonna see large numbers of casualties on the streets — and we’re gonna see it, too, ’cause everyone has their own video- and audio-dispersal tool with their phoning in their hands. Everybody’s gonna be able to cover this live as it happens. It’s gonna get very ugly, and I think the Biden administration is just not prepared for this at all.

    CLAY: Well, the incompetence of the U.N. was on stark relief when the invasion was ongoing while Russia was chairing one of the U.N. discussions surrounding this incident. I don’t know how much more of a worthless organization you can have devoted supposedly to the idea of world peace that’s being chaired by a member of the organization that’s invading another member. And to your point on the sanctions, it feels like the Biden administration gets surprised far too often in the first year and change of its tenure.

    It’s surprised by the fact that inflation skyrockets. It’s surprised by the fact that murder skyrockets, that the border in the South continues to have people spiral across it, that covid surges have continued. And all of those surprises are further failures. So they really believed in some way that these sanctions… Remember they didn’t even put the sanctions in place beforehand! They thought the mere threat of the sanctions was going to keep Vladimir Putin from undertaking this invasion.

    And then they seemed to hope, “Okay, maybe it’s just going to be a relatively benign — in the grand scheme of things — takeover of the eastern part of Ukraine.” And now, Buck, I wonder, and I think for everybody out there who’s listening to us, the question is, “Is this the extent of Putin’s ambition?” Is he truly going to say, “Okay, now I’ve got Ukraine.” We know what happened in Georgia.

    We know what happened in Crimea. But the suggestion here would be that Putin’s not done and maybe the Baltic states could be next on his chopping block. In other words, that he seems, as if every time you think, “Okay, well now he’s satisfied…” Appeasement has failed with him time after time. Why is he suddenly going to decide, “I’ve had enough”?

    BUCK: We don’t even know the full extent of his ambitions in Ukraine, as we have gunfire right now ringing out in Kiev, in the capital city, and you have seen this pretty major military operation underway. Is it just to get rid of Zelensky and the existing government and replace it with Russian puppets, and then they’ll say, “Okay,” and they’ll probably retreat? My sense is — and I could be wrong. My sense is that the Donbas region is the Russian Federation now always and forever in their minds as actual territory.

    So they’ve taken those are the breakaway provinces. I’m talking about what Putin’s position will be on this. But then the rest of Ukraine, does it become effectively Belarus where you have… Look, Belarus is a staging ground right now for this invasion. So you have all the advantage, in a sense, of having a client state that’s also a buffer state between the actual Russian Federation territory and NATO. Clay, the alternative, though, is that he goes, “No, no. This is actually gonna be the whole country now,” like what we have seen in Donbas and Crimea, whereby it is Russian passports handed out to everyone, you’re under Russian law, this is part of the Russian Federation.

    CLAY: Talking about 40 million people. For people who have forgotten about population, it’s a fairly substantial number of people.

    BUCK: What he has done in the past, places like Abkhazia and South Ossetia in Georgia, those were the breakaway provinces. You’re talking about a much, much smaller area. Let’s be honest. How many people have any idea of where those things even are on a map? It’s, like, tiny. That’s like breaking off Rhode Island instead of breaking off Texas, right? This is a very different situation, and do they have the military wherewithal to do that? So, yeah, while we’re looking at those further down-the-line considerations about — as you brought up — Taiwan, and now the conventional wisdom is if China’s had a better time to go after Taiwan, doesn’t seem like it.

    CLAY: It never existed.

    BUCK: It’s not apparent, yeah. It’s not apparent what that would be other than the next few months, let’s say. But even the expansion of NATO… Biden has made it very clear: There’s no way on to walk away from a Russian incursion into a NATO country at this point without the complete collapse of what we know of as the international order, ’cause that’s treaty, right? That’s actually a contract. We are all in this together.

    CLAY: Versus Russia at that point, and it spirals into, I mean, close to almost a world war, in some way, right, if that occurs.

    BUCK: That gets very ugly. Look, the unified might if the U.S. and all the EU countries together against the Russian military, that’s actually a fight that we win in a conventional sense very quickly. What gets everyone so frightened is, is Putin crazy enough to actually go nuclear? Remember, there’s low-yield nuclear weapons. There’s escalation even within nuclear force, right? So that’s not… That’s where everyone gets very, very concerned. Right now, though, is it just…?

    Is he trying to topple the government and then essentially withdraw for an negotiated settlement, or is he taking the entire country of Ukraine as part of the Russian Federation? And what are we going — “we” being the West, I mean. What is the…? What are the EU countries and the U.S. going to do about this? Notice the Biden administration just feels like it’s deer in the headlights on this whole issue, and I don’t think that’s gonna get better anytime soon.

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    Hillary Lies About Trump’s Interview with Us

    25 Feb 2022

    BUCK: We had a big fake news moment from the lib-Democrat media earlier this week. Clay and I, we’re still trying… (laughs) We know they do this. But just because you expect something doesn’t mean it’s something you can process without wanting to throw heavy objects at the wall or shout things you can’t say on the radio. We had our interview with President Trump on Monday. Obviously, given the events of this week to hear from the former president — who was maligned and slandered as a Russian puppet for four years without any of this stuff going on, somehow, on Trump’s watch.

    They decided — the enemies of the United States decided — to keep it real quiet, to play it real cool. Biden’s in office less than a year, and it’s, “All systems go! Take what you can! Ignore the doddering old fool on the world stage!” So they’re desperate right now. Now we can get into the politics of this a little bit. They’re trying to make this about Trump’s foreign policy somehow leading to this, which is insane. But even more of a slander — and this comes from Hillary, who’s out there still doing what she always does, which is just making stuff up that benefits her politically.

    Clay, there’s this lie that’s very common where — and it’s all over the media right now, all over. Remember, perception in this can be what matters insofar as in 30 days’ time, if the lunatics of the Biden administration that go running around running cover for him got their way, maybe we would all of a sudden be drawn into a Russian conflict. Perception matters here. It’s not a hard-and-fast thing that this is just going to pass without American involvement. They’re running around saying that the right is somehow pro-Putin and rallying to the cause of Putin. This is an intellectually indefensible slander. It is based on nothing — and Hillary Clinton, if you’re looking for a big lie, Hillary Clinton’s always got you covered there. Play clip 9.

    BUCK: There’s so much here, Clay, and we’re both wanting to jump in. She’s referencing our interview, folks, earlier this week at Mar-a-Lago.

    CLAY: Yeah.

    BUCK: That’s what she is referencing. This has become a big area of misrepresentation from the media. They’re saying, “Oh, you know…” and I’ve even had people say, “Why didn’t you push back for him?” ’cause Trump’s whole point was, yeah… He was saying, tactically Putin is outmaneuvering Biden on this and looking smarter than Biden from the perspective of Putin, the madman who wants to strike in the heart of Ukraine.

    He’s saying this crap never would have happened when I, meaning Trump, was president, because I would have had severe consequences for Putin in store, and he would have known that. It wouldn’t have been an idle threat. There’s no… What are the Democrats willing to do that Republicans aren’t willing to do at this phase? Trump was the one who saying… There are tanks that are blowing up right now, Russian tanks blowing up right now with missiles that Trump sent the Ukrainian government that Democrats explicitly refused to send ’cause they didn’t want to anger Putin! Why do we have to listen to this crap from Hillary? It’s such a lie.

    CLAY: It’s a total lie, and what it represents — and I think people have to look through the lie and recognize that why it’s happening is, they don’t have a good explanation for the central question here, which is: If Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are such collusion buddies, why in the world was Putin afraid to do this to Ukraine for four years while Donald Trump is in office?

    BUCK: Yes.

    CLAY: There isn’t an answer to that. Anybody you’re arguing with, anybody you’re discussing with, that is the essence of the question that you have to ask, and Trump’s answer is — as he told us — because Putin feared what he might do. And if you listen to that interview as opposed to reading a part of the transcript or only listening to 30 or 45 seconds of an answer — and this is what’s going on, by the way, in the New York Times.

    One of the New York Times beat… What’s her title? I’m gonna look at this. This woman is the bureau chief of Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean for the New York Times. She tweeted me and said, “Trump praised Putin for planning to invade Ukraine,” and I said, “No, I didn’t. He didn’t praise Putin.” And then she cited, she sent me on Twitter a direct link to our actual transcript and writes, “Putin declares a big portion of Ukraine,” of Ukraine.

    Putin declares it independent. “Oh, that’s wonderful.” That’s sarcasm! She’s taking Trump saying, “Oh, that’s wonderful,” which anybody who actually listened to the audio, she’s citing our own transcript as evidence that Trump is rooting for Ukraine phone number invaded. And again, this is important for everybody out there listening. What they are trying to hide from you, what they are trying to keep you from paying attention to is that fundamental question.

    BUCK: Yes.

    CLAY: That fundamental question that all of you should be asking, why didn’t Putin invade for four years while Trump was in office and almost as soon as Biden gets there, he mobilizes all his troops and goes. Why? They don’t have an answer for that; and so they say, “Oh, well, look at all this coddling that’s going on of Putin.” No, no. The big question is: Why did the invasion happen? Because Biden’s weak.

    BUCK: Biden’s been in office a year, and if you were told that you were the lawyer, so to speak, for the Biden administration and you had to make a case about where the victories are, where things have gone well, you’ve got nothing. There’s absolutely nothing. So there’s a desperation, I think, in the minds of particularly the people who played the central role in hidin’ Biden in the basement. “Oh, it’s gonna be great. It’s gonna unify the country. Normalcy. He’s super smart!

    “Don’t worry about his cognitive decline. He’s got everything covered. It’s gonna be just great.” Those people were either so wrong as to look like morons in retrospect, or so dishonest as to be deserving of the scorn of the American people — and it’s the media establishment that pushed that stuff! It is the Democrat-aligned media that told us this stuff. We didn’t have to wait very long. It’s been a year. And now you add a foreign policy catastrophe on top of this. Even CBS —

    CLAY: Another foreign policy catastrophe.

    BUCK: I’m sorry, another foreign policy catastrophe. Here’s CBS’ Margaret Brennan who’s a lib, but a smart one. There are smart libs; she’s a smart lib. Here she is saying, “Wait, what you’re telling us doesn’t make sense.” Clay clip 10.

    BRENNAN: I thought that was so interesting when President Biden said, “No one expected sanctions to prevent anything.” Actually, that’s exactly what his foreign policy did again and again. It’s what his secretary of state said to me on Sunday alone. “The purpose is to do everything we can to deter it, to prevent a war, to deter the aggression, and once you trigger sanctions, you lose the deterrent effect.” Vladimir Putin was not deterred. What I heard and how the president laid it out today is that they are now looking for a reassessment by Putin, that he’s gone this far; if they hit him now, will he stop where he is?

    BUCK: He’s right, by the way, that their position now doesn’t make any sense.

    CLAY: It’s actually the same position Kamala Harris argued, to Kamala Harris’ defense, before Biden cut the legs out from underneath her, right?

    BUCK: Clay, “What we need to do is what we’ve been doing every day and that day is now,” okay?

    CLAY: (laughing)

    BUCK: Just remember that. I want to get that on a T-shirt. It’s amazing. I sit here and I say, “Hold on. How many areas…?” Inflation will be transitory? No, it’s actually not transitory. The vaccine will stop the spread? No, it actually didn’t stop the spread. The sanctions are gonna stop Putin? No, it didn’t stop Putin. The Afghan army is gonna fight on? No, the Afghan army didn’t fight on. How much wrong can they fit in one year before people realize just maybe — maybe, everybody — we are being ruled by idiots right now. It is possible. Leave that as a possibility.

    CLAY: Not only idiots, Buck, idiots who get everything wrong! If you were just predicting which direction a coin flip was gonna go, half the time you would get it right.

    BUCK: Yeah.

    CLAY: Every major significant choice and decision they’ve had to make they’ve gotten wrong, which would seem to defy all laws of basic probability.

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    Joy Behar Worries Ukraine War Will Ruin Her Trip to Italy

    25 Feb 2022

    BUCK: The View, I’m starting to think, might actually have been created by conservatives in the background who wanted to make sure that conservative media has plenty to dive into in any given day. And a bit of comedic relief, right? Because those ladies, they’ll talk about the best way to roast a chicken or something, like don’t they do some of that —

    CLAY: They do everything, a general interest show.

    BUCK: Right, a general interest show.

    CLAY: Joy Behar is generally dumb about all subjects of interest — I would argue maybe the dumbest person in all of media, all right?

    BUCK: That’s bold. That’s bold talk, Travis.

    CLAY: If she’s not the dumbest person in all of media, she is the most inarticulate person in all of media because she consistently says the dumbest things. I would put her up there with Joy Reid. The Duo of the Joys — Joy Reid and Joy Behar — probably the two dumbest people in media based on what I see them say. It’s not like I watch their shows regularly. But I just see their opinions circulating, and I think to myself, “How can you be this dumb?” So, set this clip up.

    They are discussing Ukraine — and remember, they just suspended Whoopi Goldberg a couple weeks ago on a show that’s called The View which is ironic because her view was that race was not involved in any of the Nazi-related atrocities that were committed. That was an inappropriate and obviously ignorant and incredibly dumb opinion to have. So they suspended her for two weeks, and Whoopi Goldberg might be the smartest person on this show. So that kind of puts it in perspective. I think Joy Behar is the dumbest. They’re having a conversation — as I’m sure you were very excited to know — about Ukraine and what they thought about Ukraine. Is it Sunny Hostin? Is she one of the hosts?

    BUCK: Yeah, she’s the one with the law degree.

    CLAY: Okay. Well, she’s the one starting off talking about Ukraine and Putin and then Joy Behar decides to build and the conversation… Well, just listen.

    BUCK: Can I say just a second? Look, Sunny Hostin, to her credit, she’s speaking about this in the tone and with the seriousness that it deserves.

    CLAY: And accurate.

    BUCK: And accurate. And then it’s just like the car gets driven right off cliff by Joy Behar with, “I know. It’s terrible. I haven’t been able to go to the Amalfi Coast and have fresh-made pasta in years! How am I even gonna know if my margarita pie is as delicious there!” Clay, I don’t know. You wonder. You wonder what —

    CLAY: These are scripted shows. For people out there who haven’t done television, they say, “Hey, in this topic we’re gonna discuss Ukraine,” right? It’s not like you sit down. For people out there who might not understand, television is like a play. It’s somewhat scripted. I’ve done daily television for years. “Hey, in this part of the show we’re gonna talk…” I do sports. “Hey, we’re gonna talk about whether Tom Brady’s gonna retire or not.” It’s not like you just sit down.

    Radio is a little bit less scripted, right? We can talk about during the breaks, like, “Hey, we’re gonna go to this direction,” so they knew they were talking about Ukraine. And Joy Behar jumps right in, right? Sunny Hostin’s making points about the seriousness of the issue and everything else. And she immediately says, I’m worried about what this is essentially gonna do to my vacation to Italy. That’s her response?

    It’s tone-deaf in a way where she’s a comedian. She could at least make fun of herself and how little she understands about the situation or how focused she is on only how it could impact her and be a little bit self-aware. But, no. The media direction she takes the discussion on Ukraine is how is it going to impact her trip to Italy which she hasn’t been able to take in four years.

    BUCK: Like I said, I am at some level thankful that The View exists so that —

    CLAY: How much money you think she makes a year, Buck?

    BUCK: People talk about these things. It’s definitely millions. I’d say probably four, four or five million a year.

    CLAY: She’s been doing that show a long time, right?

    BUCK: Yeah, she makes four or five million dollars a year to sit there and just be like, “I mean my trip to Italy. What’s gonna happen to it?”

    CLAY: Is she the most…? She’s obviously, in my opinion — not obviously. In my opinion, she is the dumbest person on there are other people who —

    BUCK: That’s a really… I mean, Clay, we might have to fight that one out a little bit. There’s a lot of contenders for the dumbest liberal, the dumbest leftist. Or just dumbest person, period.

    CLAY: You could be broad in media, and they could also include sports media ’cause there’s some really dumb people in sports media, maybe even dumber, because they don’t even have to talk about Ukraine.

    BUCK: Tell Keith to take his — Keith Olbermann to take his meds on his Twitter, Clay. And I have to say, I think you were trying to be helpful, ’cause that guy needs help.

    CLAY: But the Joy Behar making $5 million a year is, in addition to the fact she’s dumb, may be the highest overpay in history. Who is paying…? Say Joy Behar is making $5 million a year. Okay. Who’s paying Joy Behar $4 million a year? Who’s paying her two?

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    What Can He Say? C&B Preview Biden’s State of the Union Speech

    25 Feb 2022

    BUCK: The State of the Union address is coming up on Tuesday. We’ll be talking about it a lot next week. I think you’re gonna see a whole lot of delusion on display — I don’t know what else to call it — because they know the polling is against them, they know that on issue by issue they’re gonna have major challenges in trying to convince the American people that anything is going well in the country.

    So what they’re hoping for is essentially a redo of 2020 where you’ve gotta remember, 95% of the news media, political media is either Democrat or Democrat-leaning, right? They’re effectively the single most powerful propaganda arm of the DNC in existence and should be taking their orders effectively, probably their paychecks, too, from the DNC. And so that gives them a tremendous advantage because a lot of people…

    You and I are, as I say, characters in the news matrix. We’re just existing constantly reading, tweeting, thinking, communicating with each other, communicating with other people in this world. And for folks who are just gonna be tuning in and, you know, they want to vote, they want to do their civic duty, they’re gonna be hearing, “Oh, Joe Biden’s defeated covid! Oh, Joe Biden’s got the economy going!” But some of their stuff, the greatest economy or rather the greatest job creation.

    He says, Clay, that he’s “created more jobs than any president since World War II,” I think is the line they used or just the notion that he’s created six million or eight million jobs. No. You don’t get to say you’ve created jobs when you had an artificial shutdown of the economy that never should have happened, by the way. We’ve learned that too. The shutdowns, lockdowns never should have happened. And now they’re gonna try to tell us on Tuesday he’s a great jobs and economy president? I don’t… What’s the phrase in D.C.? “That’s a dog that won’t hunt.” I don’t think this is gonna fly, I don’t think it’s gonna work.

    CLAY: That’s exactly what he’s trying to sell because they’re trying to sell this all the time, right? They put out a fancy little graphic and say, “Look, we’ve added 6.8 million jobs,” or whatever it is. Yeah, because we’ve had 20 million people stop working immediately and we went to a 20% unemployment rate or near there if I remember correctly, and so we’ve continued to climb back. But that’s the important essence of this. We still don’t have the same number of people employed as we had employed in late February of 2020.

    Two years ago, we still have not recaptured the jobs that we lost in March when we shut down. Remember we’re gonna have some heck-of shows coming up, Buck, when we have the 15 days to stop the spread anniversary, two-year anniversary of that, with it still going on. And I think that’s what the Biden administration is trying to get a hold of as they get ready for these midterms. I want you to think about this for a minute.

    If you were selling — and I always say, “You need to always propose yourself to argue the other side.” Pretend that you had to pause and go to the other side and make the other argument. What are you pitching if you are Joe Biden, if you’re Ron Klain, if you’re in the Biden White House right now? You can’t sell anything on inflation. Everything they tried… They tried to say inflation was gonna be “transitory.”

    They tried to say it was a relatively short-lived supply chain issue. That failed. So inflation is off the table. They’re just gonna have to argue things are gonna get better, but they’re not gonna be better by November in a substantial way. Murder. They’re not gonna be able to sell violent crime, Buck. People see and feel violent crime viscerally all over this country, and we have many different cities setting all-time highs.

    And they’re gonna try to sell, I think, identity politics, which is why they wanted to get the Ketanji Brown Jackson nomination officially announced today, ’cause we talked about this earlier, Buck — and I do think it’s an astute point, and certainly I’ve seen many politicians including Marsha Blackburn put out a tweet directly analyzing this. Why are you announcing a Supreme Court nominee in the middle of the biggest war, the biggest invasion that has occurred in Europe since World War II?

    It’s because they’re desperate to get her name out there so they can say, “Hey, we followed through on the promise we made. We’re putting a black woman on the Supreme Court.” Identity politics, and, “W beat covid.” It ain’t… As you said, that dog ain’t hunting. But that is the argument that they are going to try to make as they get ready for the midterms on Tuesday, for the State of Union on Tuesday, which sets the table for the midterms coming up in November.

    BUCK: They don’t have any good arguments.

    CLAY: No.

    BUCK: They don’t have a good pitch at this point know at this point because Biden was never a good candidate nor a good option. And this should have been known all along. This is why on all of these issues, there are the things… I do like that line, the Rumsfeld line about “known unknowns and unknown unknowns.”

    CLAY: Yes.

    BUCK: There are the things that come up for an administration that are unforeseen. I mean, the covid pandemic, for example, is a very well prominent one, right? But there are things that can hit you and you can’t see coming. Then there are policy decisions that are made by people who are given power in our government bureaucracy or in the executive branch, and it’s obvious what the outcome will be. If you open up the border, you’re gonna have more illegal immigration. If you undermine police and have progressive prosecutors, you’re gonna have more crime.

    If you spend more money… They spent $1.8 trillion without a single Republican vote testifying ’21, Clay, the Democrats did as if it was chump change, something they found in the cushions on the couch, $1.9 trillion. Obama was gonna spend $900 billion, I think, in the initial… Not TARP. That was Troubled Asset Relief Program. In the stimulus. He was gonna spend almost a trillion in the stimulus and that was cause for the Tea Party to come together, right?

    Oh, my gosh. They spend almost $2 trillion like it was nothing. You know, this is 10 years later. So we look at this now and we see all of these were foreseeable consequences of the actions the Democrat Party has taken up to this point, and we need to have a corrective. I really do believe this is what’s in the best interests of entire country, even double-masks, scared-to-go-outside, “I’m on my eighth or ninth booster” libs will be better off if Democrats get their hands taken off the levers of power.

    I know they obviously vociferously disagree with that, but we’ve already seen the results. There’s nothing… This should be a hard thing for us to do right now, Clay. We should be sitting here saying, “Man. Looking at long-term consequences of some of Biden’s decision-making are gonna be really rough,” or, “I think we haven’t seen the full…” No, no, no. We’re not telling people things are gonna get bad in two years or 10 years or whatever.

    We’re saying, “Look at what you have already experienced,” and we’re gonna go into a State of the Union address that’s going to be a master class in delusion, misdirection, and just absurdity, I think. And we know this before even hearing it because what’s the argument really gonna be? (Biden impression) “Yeah, we’re all in this together. Wear masks.” They really gonna try that crap? I think they are. And so that’s why these latest maneuvers, naming Ketanji Brown as the next Supreme Court justice, most likely, the mask reductions that are taking place, ’cause they gotta get a win out of something here. Otherwise, it’s gonna be the most depressing State of the Union address anyone’s seen in decades.

    CLAY: I don’t think there’s any doubt that they are captured by the awfulness of the job that they have done, and there isn’t an escape route. Because the issues that they have created are long lasting. You can’t fix inflation in a couple of months. It didn’t get to 7.5% inflation — and, Buck, how did it get there? I was reading a study. Do you know what we spent on the average American family for covid relief since we started spending all these trillions of dollars?

    The average American family has gotten over $50,000 per American family that our government has spent. And that’s how we’ve gone… We talked about this the other day but it’s as if this magical monetary theory — Modern Monetary Theory as they call it — doesn’t exist. We’ve gone, in the space of 40 years, from a $1 trillion national deficit to a $30 trillion national deficit, and we’ve added about $5 trillion to the national deficit in the last year and a half or so and change. It’s unheard of, not sustainable.

    And so what should have to happen is if Joe Biden was as he claimed to be, a reasonable, moderate, wisdom-laden, elder statesman, what he would say is, “We gotta put our financial house in order.” That’s actually the role that Joe Manchin is playing in the Democratic Party right now, thankfully, ’cause otherwise we would have spent trillions of more dollars on Build Back Better, and we’d have even worse inflation.

    So it’s gonna be a mess to even see him try to argue that he’s had any measure of success. And I think overwhelmingly the American public — and to your point, Buck, there are a lot of people who don’t pay attention on a day-to-day basis that might be willing to tune in to the State of the Union just to see what’s going to happen. And I think it’s gonna be an abject failure. The media will say it’s a success (chuckles), but the American public ain’t buying it.

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    Desperate Much? Strange Day for a SCOTUS Announcement

    25 Feb 2022

    CLAY: Joe Biden has picked Ketanji Brown Jackson, who is on the D.C. Circuit right now. He said he was going to pick a black woman two years ago when he was on the campaign trail in South Carolina. Justice Breyer stepping down, and so this is the official announcement of the nominee. Now, there were three women that were widely discussed as the potential nominees — a woman on the California Supreme Court, a woman in South Carolina on the court there — and he has made this selection.

    Buck, big picture what this represents is Biden went with the most avowed left-wing of the three nominees, right? They were all going to be leftists, but Childs in South Carolina “had a moderate streak to her,” was the analysis, based on her legal career. And let me be clear, by the way, on this as well. You can’t 100% tell how any justice is going to do once they get on the Supreme Court and have life tenure. But if you look at the three biographies so far, it appears that Biden acceded to the wishes of the left wing of his party yet again and has picked the most liberal of the activist judges, the black women that he was considering.

    BUCK: Do we really think this is the day to announce this?

    CLAY: Yeah, that’s the other question.

    BUCK: And we’re going to see a lot of it. You know, war in the past at different times, in different places, you know, you’re not seeing it the way I think it’s gonna be visualized for all of us. Today is the day with Kiev fighting for its life as a city that they announce this? It seems… Are they that desperate to change the news cycle? Is that really what’s going on?

    CLAY: It seems tone-deaf, and I think the answer is, Buck, yes, they are that desperate, and also it’s setting the table for Tuesday’s State of the Union address, which is also gonna be messy, given what’s going on in Ukraine.

    BUCK: Absolutely. Absolutely true.

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    CDC Drops Mask Guidelines in Time for Biden SOTU

    25 Feb 2022

    BUCK: So as we had predicted, the CDC, just in advance of the State of the Union — what a coincidence, Clay!

    CLAY: Probably coincidental. Yeah.

    BUCK: They named the Supreme Court nominee, and they tell us that masking is gonna go down. It’s not away. I want to be very clear. I’m not celebrating this. I’m actually angry that we’re still even talking about this because they’re such lunatics after all the failures — that’s right, Facebook and Twitter and the various censors and Politifact, the failures — of mask mandates, the obviousness of masking as idiocy.

    The CDC, according to ABC News, “CDC to ease masking recommendations,” this just broke, “for 70% of the country including inside of schools.” Oh, gosh. Here we go. They’re gonna have new metrics, folks, where they’re gonna assign whether you live in an area of low, medium, or high-risk transmission and you’re supposed to gauge the hospital burden from covid and new hospitalizations. So it’s new covid hospitalizations, current beds occupied by covid, hospital capacity, and new covid cases.

    Yeah. Sure. This is like a math equation that Matt Damon is figuring out in Good Will Hunting on the board at MIT. No one’s going to do this, okay? I mean, no one is really going to care about this, but they’re trying to make it seem all science-y that, Clay, the mask mandates will be dropped in a whole lot places just in time for the State of the Union — and as we’re basically in March when covid recedes. What a shock.

    CLAY: I think a big part of this, Buck — and we’re gonna be talk with Alex Berenson at the top of the next hour about the latest data on covid. So that conversation should be something you basically won’t be able to hear hardly anywhere else in the media. But to me what this represents is… Remember last May they did away with the mask mandate. Much fanfare, tried to argue, “Hey, the vaccines are here now. We’re not gonna need masks, covid’s over.” This was last year.

    And then they had to bring it back later in the summer. What they are trying to do with this one is two things, I think. One, not allow the unvaccinated to feel like they have free rein to not wear masks even though people like me are not wearing masks — and remember, Buck, they tried to say back in May of last year, “Oh, if you’re vaccinated, you don’t have to wear a mask,” but then everybody just said, “Well, then how you gonna know either way?” And then the second part is, if they have to adjust this again, they’re trying to avoid declaring victory right now, which they came awfully close to doing in that July 4th speech that Joe Biden gave before we ended up with even worse on rates of covid infection. So anybody who’s still listening to the CDC, I think does not have a functional brain.

    Basically, what it sounds like their guidelines are reflecting is you should analyze risk and decide whether or not it makes sense for you to be wearing a mask. And, by the way, based on the data, it doesn’t really make sense for anybody to be wearing a mask. But slowly they are tiptoeing up to a rational perspective here, given the fact that they have failed in any way with mask mandates or with vaccine mandates, which are fading, Buck, so fast. The idea that you have to show your vaccine ID was gonna last for two or three months at most. By the time we get to May, I think the idea the vaccine mandates had ever existed will seem even crazier than it does today.

    BUCK: We’re gonna keep bringing this up because we —

    CLAY: Consequences.

    BUCK: — view it as an important mission between now and Election Day. Because for a lot of you who live in Texas and Florida and Tennessee and red states out there, you’re thinking, yeah, wasn’t really that bad for me. Okay. But there are people that live in purple states that did. Look at Virginia, for example, went through the lunacy of Governor Northam and all the mandates and then Loudoun County deciding. And we have large audiences who listen in New York State, in California.

    There are governor’s races that are going on; there’s congressional seats that are up for grabs. We’re gonna remind everybody. They made you do this. If you live in one of the lockdown places across the country, they made you do all this stuff, they yelled at you, they made you get shots. They wanted to make you get shots for airline travel for all of us, by the way, and Clay they were wrong. They were wrong. It wasn’t even a worthwhile tradeoff where we could argue. They made us do things — they infringed on your freedom and your liberties — for no attendant benefit because they’re lunatics who worshiped Fauci. I’m not letting anybody forget it.

    CLAY: And there need to be severe consequences for it. An early preview, the reason why they are dropping all of this in advance of the State of the Union, by the way, is partly to allow Biden to take a victory lap but also because, Buck, they’re trying to look toward the fall, and what are they gonna run on? Inflation’s not going away. The border mess is not going away.

    We’re not suddenly gonna start declining the amount of murders that are out there. Afghanistan, Ukraine, all of that is going to continue to linger. Their only hope — and I really do believe, sadly, this is where they are — is that they can try and convince some people who are not very smart that the reality is they were able to beat covid. That’s what they’re gonna try to sell.

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