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Psaki Attacks Florida Surgeon General on Covid Shots

8 Mar 2022

BUCK: Here’s Jen Psaki saying that it is disturbing that people are saying… She’s mad at him because he says little kids are not advised — who are healthy, little 4-year-olds are not advised to get — or 5-year-olds, whatever, to get — the shot. Play.

BUCK: She sounds like a little idiot robot, all right? You failed, libs. We saw what happened with the vaccine. Even the CDC chief is like, yeah, maybe we were a little too enthusiastic about the vaccine. They failed. It doesn’t stop the spread. No need for children to get them. No benefit able to be statistically shown for children. The data? Why was the CDC holding back in data, folks? Because the data showed they were making people get shots they 100% did not need in terms of the younger age-groups including children.

CLAY: Not even just that young. If you’re under the age of 35, you are more likely to die in a car accident than you are to die with covid. Again, I say “with covid,” because most of the people who are dying, especially younger people, have many different health related conditions. And covid is one of them. But I give credit to Florida, to Ron DeSantis, to the Surgeon General Ladapo for being willing to say publicly what the data has reflected for some time, and that is this.

Young children do not need to get the covid shot. If you want to get your kids the covid shot, that is your right as a parent. I have been pretty straightforward and transparent on this show for a year, basically, that I’m not getting my kids the covid shot. I’ve got a 14-year-old, I’ve got an 11-year-old, I’ve got a 7-year-old. Three boys. They’re not getting the covid shot. Not anti-vax. They’ve had all their measles, mumps, rubellas, everything else.

My parents, who are 75 years old, they got it. Buck’s parents got it. We said, “Look, if you’re a senior citizen, that can make sense.” But for young people, it does not makes sense to be getting the covid shot. And that’s why we’re going to have this direct conflict between a state like California, which is saying, “Hey, you have to get your kids covid shot in order to be enrolled this coming fall.”

That’s what they’re saying in California with Gavin Newsom, at least right now. And the state of Florida, where they are saying, “Hey, we don’t think kids need to get the covid shot at all,” they are diametrically opposed on whether or not this is necessary. And the data — and it did not get a lot of attention, but the data — showed for kids who are ages 5 to 11 who got this shot, that there was no statistical benefit in terms of their likelihood of getting or not getting covid compared to people who got the shot versus people who didn’t.

Also, Buck, this is why we are ripping the new mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, because right now kindergarten through twelfth graders finally don’t have to wear masks in school, but he came out and said the reason why 2-, 3-, 4-year-olds, kids who are in preschool have to wear the mask is because he’s worried about having to shut down the city again if they are unmasked. The madness is still continuing, and to your point — we started asking this question before anybody else — where’s our buddy Fauci? Where is he? He’s vanished.

BUCK: He’s obviously hard at work on a memoir in between appearances on podcasts with dozens and dozens of listeners talking about the great hero of the pandemic, also known as Tiny Anthony Fauci, who somehow was wrong about literally every little thing at every point in time.

CLAY: Everything.

BUCK: But libs were making little statues and little shrines to him with glasses and a little mask on a tiny figurine with a giant ego. So he’s apparently just MIA right now, Clay. I think we all know why.

CLAY: And he’s furious that they’ve made him MIA, by the way, such that he’s willing to suddenly do every possible place out there that will have him except for this show — and, you know, we have way too large of an audience for Dr. Fauci to be willing to do it.

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Escalation: Poland to Send Fighter Jets to Germany?

8 Mar 2022

BUCK: Poland is going to be sending a fleet of MiG fighter planes to Ramstein Air Base in Germany, which is a major U.S. air base in Germany, and from there it is believed that there will be Ukrainian pilots who enter Germany and fly them into Ukraine for use over Ukrainian airspace? Is that what the breaking news is?

CLAY: Yeah, that’s what seems to be occurring here, because there’s been talk about Poland providing planes to Ukrainian fighter pilots to be able to go head-to-head with the Russians for air superiority. And then yesterday if you remember, Buck, we had this conversation where I said, “Wait a minute. Why would Russia not go ahead and bomb Poland if they’ve got jets that are there that are otherwise gonna be handed over to Ukraine?” So it seems like the solution now is for these jets to instead go to Germany and theoretically for Ukrainian pilots to travel to Germany to Ramstein Air Force base or Ramstein Air Base, put them in those planes and then fly them to Ukraine. But —

BUCK: This is Poland essentially saying, “We don’t want to be the ones that are handing the fighter planes over to Ukraine to shoot down Russian planes.” That’s exactly what these MiG fighters are for. “We’re gonna hand it to the Americans on German soil in a NATO country and basically dare Putin to do anything about that.” It’s an escalation. I don’t think Putin is going to go after Ramstein Air Base directly.

That would be an act of war against the U.S. and Germany, therefore, NATO, Article Five, everything would be triggered. But this is a big move, folks. This is not… You know, I’ll put it to you this way. How do you think the U.S. would have responded…? Just to take it out of this context. How do you think the U.S. would have responded if Pakistan was providing fighter planes to the Taliban against us and pushing those planes across the border from Pakistani air bases? Now, granted, Pakistan is a nuclear power, by the way, but I think we would have viewed that in a very hostile fashion, although the Pakistanis did do us a tremendous amount of damage by assisting the Taliban and giving them sanctuary, the whole thing.

CLAY: Yeah, bin Laden managed to stay hidden there.

BUCK: But I’m just saying, if they had openly said, “We’re gonna provide the Taliban with 50 MiG fighter planes to shoot down American planes in Afghanistan,” that would have been a big problem.

CLAY: No doubt, and that’s the perspective I think you have to look at this. What we keep doing is inching closer and closer, Buck, to the idea of being directly involved. Because if I’m Vladimir Putin and his advisers, I am seeing what Poland is doing to avoid us being able to go after those jets in Poland, and they’re calling the bluff and saying, “Hey, you’re not gonna be able to fly into Germany and go get these planes.

“But the United States is effectively handing the keys to a ton of fighter jets to Ukrainian pilots that are gonna then take off and fly into Ukraine to battle against my Russian fleet,” I’m starting to think, “Hey, the United States is effectively involved in this war.” At some point, support — and I understand you can argue, “Well, there were not boots on the ground. There are not direct U.S. soldiers acting.” But at some point, the support becomes significant enough where you argue you are a combatant here.

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Rodgers Inks Record Deal with Packers, Russell Wilson to Denver

8 Mar 2022

CLAY: If you are listening to us right now in Milwaukee, Aaron Rodgers has signed a four-year extension to remain the Packers quarterback. That news has broken while we are on the air. And if you are listening right now in Denver where we’ve got a big audience — and in Seattle where we’ve got a big audience — news just broke: Russell Wilson has been traded to the Denver Broncos. Seattle Seahawks Super Bowl-winning quarterback Russell Wilson traded to the Denver Broncos. These are both monster, blockbuster NFL stories if you are a football fan at all. They’ve both broken in the last hour or so while we’ve been on the air.

BUCK: You should have told me that my favorite quarterback, Clay —

CLAY: (laughing) That’s right. He is your favorite.

BUCK: My favorite quarterback who denies the Fauciite madness of mandates for vaccines is getting a lot of money. Good for him, and yay.

CLAY: Reportedly $150 million guaranteed for Aaron Rodgers. So this goes to show that not only was Aaron Rodgers right to stand up against the NFL over this ridiculous covid shot, which did nothing for any of the players that are in the league, but he was back-to-back MVP, and now he has cashed in. Biggest contract in the history of the NFL to stay in Green Bay again.

I know we have a monster audience in Milwaukee. I’m sure some of you are excited to hear that. And Russell Wilson, big news: Super Bowl-winning quarterback of the Seattle Seahawks traded to Denver. I know we have a big audience in Denver as well. All of those news stories having to do directly with the NFL.

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Biden Lies About His Domestic Energy Record

8 Mar 2022

BUCK: There’s a huge cognitive dissonance in the Biden regime, Democrat position on all this. This is from the speech earlier today about domestic oil and gas production.

BIDEN: It’s simply not true that my administration or policies are holding back domestic energy production. That is simply not true. Even amid the pandemic, companies in the United States pump more oil during my first year in office than they did during my predecessor’s first year. We’re approaching record levels of oil and gas production in the United States, and we’re on track to set a record oil production next year!

BUCK: So, Clay, here’s the thing: They can’t have it both ways. Either we are in a “climate emergency,” as they say, either climate is an the existential threat as they — meaning Biden, Kamala, Obama, name a Democrat. You know, Hillary, Pelosi, Schumer. We’re either in a climate emergency and the actual fate of humanity is at stake and we have to have an all-of-the-above approach, which to be clear for everybody I think is abject lunacy, but they say this all the time, right?

That’s either true, or they’re lying to us and they’re not actually holding back domestic energy production in any way. It can’t be they’re doing everything they can to deal with the climate emergency. They want to pass the Green New Deal. They want to put coal out of business, as Hillary says. They canceled the Keystone XL pipeline first day in office.

They doing all these things, “But we’re not holding back domestic energy production, man! No way. Lots of shale…” No, shale is a technology. Shale gas comes from a technology improvement over the last 20 years. That’s what the revolution has been, from the private sector, by the way.

CLAY: Let’s listen to that clip one more time, ’cause I want you to pay attention to what he’s saying. Biden is comparing the amount of oil that was produced in his first year to the first year of Donald Trump, and I want to unpack why this is a lie. But let’s listen to that quick hit one more time.

BIDEN: It’s simply not true that my administration or policies are holding back domestic energy production. That is simply not true. Even amid the pandemic, companies in the United States pump more oil during my first year in office than they did during my predecessor’s first year. We’re approaching record levels of oil and gas production in the United States, and we’re on track to set a record oil production next year!

CLAY: His first year compared to Donald Trump’s first year. Trump had to build up from Barack Obama’s absolute decrease in the amount of oil and gas that were produced. But Joe Biden — this is important — produced less oil in his first year, his administration, than Trump produced in years two, three, and four of his presidency. Pay attention to what he’s doing there.

He didn’t compare his first year to Trump’s last year or even Trump’s second, third, and fourth year. He compared it to his first year. So Biden is trying to basically disseminate falsehoods there. It’s factually true, but it isn’t actually comparing the most recent year. The Biden administration, because of their fealty to all of the climate change zealots, did not produce as much oil and gas as this country was capable of producing.

As a result, we are less energy independent than we would be if Donald Trump were in office today. And that is why everybody out there — this is one thing Sarah Palin got right. “Drill, baby, drill.” That is 100% what we should be doing to provide the best security to America possible. I understand these long-term arguments, Buck, about energy independence coming from solar power and windmills and electricity and all those things, and that’s great. But I’m talking about right now. We need to be energy independent, and the way to do it is with oil and gas. It’s not with anything else.

BUCK: They’re just lying to everybody about their view of fossil fuels, their climate change ideology, their sense that domestic oil and gas — natural gas — production is icky, is gross, is bad, Big Oil is like Big Tobacco. They’re lying to everybody about this right now. You have two million barrels per day right now above the pandemic lows.

But it’s still — to your point, Clay, about which years is he comparing — a million barrels per day in terms of domestic U.S. oil production below where it was, before the pandemic obviously changed everything, because the pandemic obviously. All the sudden no one’s driving, no one’s on the road, totally changed the game —

CLAY: Price of oil went negative.

BUCK: — and producers weren’t producing because they didn’t have a market to sell it into the same way they had previously. So they’re just being dishonest about all this, and if Biden was serious about this, instead of Jen Psaki saying (impression), “Yeah, it’s gonna take, like, way too long to produce all this oil. So, like, let’s just all drive electric cars.” Instead of that happening… I know. It’s like Jen Psaki just took over the radio mic. Why doesn’t he gather together with oil…? They convene summits at the White House all the time.

Summit on gender equity and pay globally $2.6 billion — just lighting taxpayer money on fire — to improve global gender equity. Good luck with that. I’m sure it’s really gonna shake them to their foundations in China. But look at what’s actually happening now. They could say, instead of we’re not holding back domestic energy production, they could say, what could we do to make it better?

Why aren’t we hearing from any major CEOs of Exxon, some of the biggest energy producers in this country? What regulations stand in their way? How could the government be helpful in them producing more? They’re just trying to get away, Clay. They’re trying to have it both ways. Oh, we’re not standing in the way, but we’re fighting climate change. Can’t do both.


CLAY: Well, and look, af the choices are — and I think most Americans out there, regardless of political party if you couldn’t this argument to them, if the choices are, hey, guys, we can give money to Saudi Arabia, Iran, and potentially Venezuela, which is where we’re going to buy the oil that we don’t have, or we can do whatever it takes to produce more oil and gas here so that in the meantime we are more energy independent.

And, by the way, instead of sending our billions of dollars to countries that, by and large, don’t like us — Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, and certainly Iran — instead of sending those billions of dollars to those countries, how about we invest those billions of dollars into the United States to increase our capacity for overall energy production? I can’t imagine that, given the world that we’re in right now.

Where we’re trying to bring as much possible manufacturing and production back to the United States after we’ve seen the global supply challenges and after we basically had China unleash a virus that killed millions of people on the world, and we haven’t really done anything to them, let’s actually bring manufacturing and oil and gas production all back to the United States, instead of sending billions of dollars overseas to countries that have our worst interests at heart.

That doesn’t even seem like a political argument to me, Buck. Again, it’s back to what I always try to focus on, sanity versus insanity. Giving billions of dollars to Iran, which is he trying to reportedly assassinate American political figures, yeah, I’m not in favor of that. Giving billions of dollars to Venezuela when, as recently as the last couple of years, we haven’t even been willing to acknowledge Maduro as the true leader of that country?

Yeah, I’m not in favor of that. Saudi Arabia, at least we’ve had a history of decent relationships with them, by and large, if I had to pick among those three, that’s who I’d want to partner with. But this is the definition of insanity because we’re doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result, when the reality is, it’s all coming back time after time after time. And it’s infuriating to so many people out there, I know, Buck.

BUCK: They’re just lying to everybody all the time. You know, be real. You either think that the planet is gonna melt and we’re all gonna drown when the seas rise unless we all get fancy electric cars? You can’t say that every day until it’s politically a liability and say, “Oh, we don’t have a problem with fossil fuel. We’re not standing in your way.” Yeah, they are, and everyone knows it.

CLAY: And, by the way, who among the super celebrities with their beach houses has sold their beach house and said, “The reason why I’m selling my beach house is ’cause I’m afraid that the rising oceans are gonna overwhelm my home”? Have you seen a famous person with a beach house that said that?

BUCK: No. Obama just bought a $15 million home in Martha’s Vineyard a few years ago on the beach and is building a massive compound mansion in Hawaii on the beach. He’s clearly very concerned with the rise of the seas, folks.

CLAY: Yeah, I just… Text me. By “text me,” I mean tweet me ’cause most of you don’t have my phone number. But I would just love if… Buck, you can text me, and Ali could text me. But I would just love to hear a celebrity who is talking about how much they’re concerned about global warming that has said,” I am selling my beach house because I am convinced that this thing’s gonna be underwater or that I’m gonna lose all the value that I put in the beach house.” I’d just love to have one, just one.

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DeSantis Defends Parental Rights in Education Bill

8 Mar 2022

BUCK: First, I want to talk about the controversy surrounding the, quote — they’re calling it the — “don’t say gay” bill. Now, that is the terminology of LGBTQ+ activists to attack the bill and to attack specifically the Ron DeSantis component — or, rather, Ron DeSantis as the governor of Florida and whether he will sign this or not. It’s actually called — a lot of people will be hearing this for the first time — The Parental Rights in Education Bill.

What’s happened is LGBTQ activists have dubbed it the “don’t say gay” bill. Here’s what it actually says: You cannot teach in the state of Florida under this bill lessons about sexuality, sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity to pre-K to third graders. That’s what’s actually in it. Now, I would go beyond just that’s entirely reasonable to why the heck would someone be outraged at the notion that the school shouldn’t be teaching that?

Parents can teach their kids about these things as they see fit as parents. That’s part of the parental rights in education. Parents should have that conversation with kids. Clay, why would someone to want — as a matter of state policy — to instruct 5-year-olds in sex, sexuality, and gender identity? You’re a parent; I’m not. What do you think about this? To me it strikes me as, what the heck is wrong with these people?

CLAY: It seems very reasonable not to be having those conversations with kindergarteners and first graders and pre-K and second graders, and third graders, to me, as a parent, in school. But if you disagree, the great thing about being a parent is, you are not limited to what your kids learn in school. You can sit down and have conversations with them about any number of subjects that you feel are important. To me — and I’ve raised three boys or am working on raising three boys.

My kids are 14, 11, and 7. There are conversations — this is not gonna shock anybody — that I can have with a 14-year-old and that I need to have with a 14-year-old that are totally different than conversations that I can have with a 7-year-old, and this is crazy. I’m trying to think how to phrase this in case there’s young kids out there in the car. Santa Claus, for kindergarteners, first graders, second graders, and third graders is a big deal.

That’s a normal conversation that you have. You’re excited for Santa Claus to come to town. That conversation for a seventh, ninth, tenth, and eleventh grader is totally different, right? Take it outside of the realm of something that’s culturally charged and just talk about how you discuss Santa Claus with young kids compared to what you would say with teenagers. This doesn’t seem like a crazy idea at all. I think it’s evidence…

This is what I think is going on. I think the Democrats are so utterly aware that they’re gonna get destroyed in 2022 that they are desperate to find something to attack Ron DeSantis in Florida as the governor’s race comes up there, and so they are manufacturing issues because they totally failed on the biggest issue, which is covid. And this is why I think ultimately maybe the Supreme Court is gonna give Democrats a little bit of a gift here as it pertains to the timing of the Roe v. Wade case that here hearing with Mississippi and Texas.

Because if they make a big decision there — and, by the way, I don’t think it’s gonna be a big decision. I think they’re gonna uphold Mississippi and strike down in some way what Texas is doing. That’s my prediction. But Democrats are desperate to find something about, Buck, to hang their hat on other than covid, other than the border, other than the murder rate, other than Ukraine, and other than what’s going on with Afghanistan. And so they’re gonna go all-in on issues like these and claim, “Oh, Republicans are awful reprobates for not wanting to talk about gay issues with kindergarteners.” That’s the line they’re gonna try to play. They’re gonna argue it’s saying something that it isn’t.

BUCK: This is the only time you’ve seen recently some kind of pushback to parental rights. Parental involvement in education has been a huge winner for Republicans now stretching back for over a year. We saw this because of what parents saw during covid, critical race theory training, the shutdown of schools, the masking of kids, all of this.

It has been the GOP that says, “Hold on a second. Parents should get more of a say so here. Parents should be able to speak out at the school board meetings.” Then you had the Biden administration putting out that weird memo, the DOJ under Biden that this is essentially like domestic terrorists for these parents to show up and there’s FBI agents looking into this — which is completely outrageous and should be remembered going forward as we see a lot of the tactics used to silence dissent in places like Canada.

They’ll do it here too. But, Clay, here is Ron DeSantis, who is just not gonna take it. He’s not gonna take it anymore. Sorry. Whatever. You know what I mean. He’s not gonna take it on the lies here about what the “don’t say gay” bill is. First of all, it’s not called that. It’s the Parental Rights in Education Bill. Sorry to say that, but that propaganda line has caught on. People are going on marches now just shouting “gay, gay, gay.” There’s video of this out there. Ron DeSantis is like, stop lying about this.

BUCK: So, Clay, first of all, Ron DeSantis is great when it comes to dealing with the media and their fake narratives, but I think… I’m not a parent, but I remember I think it was the third, it might have been the fourth grade. I remember the first time I had the birds and the bees talk, and it didn’t come from my parents initially. It came from a student a year ahead of me.

Just randomly we’re out going on the sports field playing like kickball or soccer or something. He grabs me and he goes, “Do you know where babies come from?” I said, “No,” and he goes, “It’s when you poke a lady in her bellybutton and a baby comes out.” Now, technically not really true, but then I went, and I had a talk with my mom and my dad, and they kind of explained where babies came from. It turns out not from just the belly button. But the point being, parents should be involved in that. I always remember. I was terrified.

CLAY: (laughing) Really funny.

BUCK: I’m gonna fail! Anyway, but, I wanted to talk to my parents about this but I feel like so many people there are sensitive issues, things that come up and that’s where parental rights come in. No one’s saying you can’t teach about sex. I remember this. They did this to my high school. Safe sex practices and all that kind of stuff. I think we’re freshmen in high school. Sixth grade when I was in grammar school we had some health class where they got into some of this stuff. It’s just about the age. Five, 6, and 7-year-olds?

CLAY: When you are… Yes. That’s exactly right. When you’re hitting puberty, it’s important to have biological conversations with kids about what is happening to them. That doesn’t happen in kindergarten, first grade, second grade, third grade. My wife is great on topics like these because that’s the other thing is, “You should let your kid choose their gender and respect it when they’re, like, in first grade.” That’s an argument of transgender advocates.

And my wife, we were having this conversation, is, like, “I don’t let our kids pick what food they eat in first grade because if they did, they would pick candy, cake.” We don’t allow kids to pick their meals when they’re in kindergarten, first grade, second grade, third grade, and we’re going to allow them to pick their gender? And certainly, if we’re not allowing them to pick their meals, we don’t need to be having a larger conversation about society and sex roles for young kids.

But again, this is the desperation because I think… Look, the Democrats are aware, even though they won’t acknowledge it, that they got crushed on masks and that they’re wrong and that the vast majority of the American public — Team Reality, as we call them, has lined up — and we need to play the ridiculous clip from the new New York City mayor here maybe in the next segment about what’s going on there.

Democrats are aware that they’ve lost the battle on whether America is an awful, racist place, because parents don’t believe that, and they don’t believe their kids should be being taught that which is effectively what critical race theory is. And so they’re looking for something in the classrooms where they can win a battle to try to change the narrative of what is going to in public schools. They’re going to lose this one, too, I think.

But there will be… You see Disney’s getting pressure? Have you seen this? They want Disney to speak out and say something about this Florida bill, when I think most people out there listening, regardless of whether you’re a Democrat, Republican, or independent, if you’ve raised young kids, preschooler, kindergarteners, first graders, second graders, third graders? They don’t need to be enmeshed in human sexuality discussions.

BUCK: Yeah, and also if I were a parent — I’m not yet, but if I were a parent — I wouldn’t want some bureaucrat randomly being the one that introduces my child to this kind of discussion. I would want to have some time period as the child grows and develops a little bit where we could have a father-son or father-daughter, et cetera, discussion — or mother-son, mother-daughter.

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Madness! NYC Still Mandates Masks for Kids Under 5

8 Mar 2022

CLAY: We were talking about the masking issue yesterday in New York City. They’ve done away with vaccines to get into bars, restaurants, gyms, movie theaters, all those things. They also have done away with kids having to wear masks in schools. And, by the way, most kids immediately stopped wearing masks because they don’t want to wear masks, and parents recognize now that masks make no impact.

But what’s crazy is they are still mandating masks for kids under the age of 5. Let me repeat that. So if you’re in kindergarten through twelfth grade now in New York City school, you don’t have to wear a mask. If you are a 2-, a 3-, a 4-year-old and you are in pre-K or you are in day care, you are still required to wear a mask in New York City. This makes absolutely no sense because younger kids are under even less risk.

It doesn’t make sense for a 16-year-old to be wearing a mask, but a 16-year-old is statistically far more in danger from covid even though it’s virtually zero danger than a 2-year-old is. So to the credit of the media member here, New York City mayor Eric Adams was asked about why that discrepancy existed. He said that it was necessary to keep New York from having to go back into a lockdown. I wish I was making this up.

BUCK: No, no, no! Clay, we’re not letting this go. We’re not letting it go. Here the new mayor is saying, “I’m with parents, I want the masks gone,” then says the masks don’t come off the kids. Don’t be an idiot. The mask… This is what we’re seeing. Masks are the least necessary for children, the least likely to work even if masks did work — which they don’t because of how children will actually interact with them day in and day out — and lockdowns, shutting down the city didn’t work.

So he’s saying we can’t stop doing this thing that doesn’t work in order to prevent doing another thing that we now know doesn’t work. Which I think now this is like the definition of covid mania, that and also, “Where’s Fauci?” I think he fell in the couch cushions. Someone should go look for him.

CLAY: The anti-science aspect here. If you are fine with kindergarten through twelfth graders not wearing masks, there is zero data to support that 2-, 3-, and 4-year-olds need to wear masks — and then the idea that if they stop wearing masks that there’s going to be necessity of lockdowns? I give credit to Eric Adams because he’s been better than Bill de Blasio. Now, granted that is not a very high bar to reach.

But he does seem to be trying to get New York City back to normalcy and to have some semblance of an idea that the crime rate is a major issue and that New York as a tourist hub cannot return to normalcy as long as you’re requiring vaccine passports and masks. But there’s no reasonable basis, no data to support whatsoever the idea that 2-year-olds need to be wearing a mask in New York City and saying, “Hey, those kids understand that older kids don’t have to do things.”

Yeah. That makes sense when we talk about kids aging in the way we treat them — like, by the way, the bill in Florida which says kindergarteners should be talked to about sex-related issues different than seventh or eighth graders. It doesn’t make sense in masks.

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You Know Things Are Bad When SNL Mocks Kamala Harris

8 Mar 2022

BUCK: Here’s Kamala Harris.

BUCK: So, Clay, I know in law school it’s a big thing. They did it in some of my political science classes too. It was always something of a sport to watch the kid ’cause, like, you could just take the heat right away when the professor calls on you and you didn’t read a single word of reading. You maybe didn’t know what the reading was or you could be the kid in the class who says, “Well, that one is something that really requires astute observation and in-depth…”

You know, you start trying to back into just throwing words together. When Kamala’s speaking about covid policy, it reminds me of that. When she’s talking about diplomacy, it reminds me of that. And here is SNL. SNL is actually mocking Kamala Harris as well.

SNL: Many of the members of Congress attending the State of the Union wore blue and yellow to show their support for Ukraine, while Kamala Harris wore all brown to do what she’s done for the last year: Disappear into the background.

BUCK: You could tell the SNL crowd there was, “Hey, hold on a second!” They weren’t happy. But Kamala has not been an effective VP even by our very low standards of what vice presidents are generally supposed to do, and I think this is big problem. We might even get into some of this Hillary Clinton talk that’s been rising up again in the background.

CLAY: First of all, when SNL suddenly starts to satirize Democratic administrations, you know things are going really bad. I loved the reaction from that crowd because they’re like, “Oh, oh, my! Are we even allowed to make fun of how bad Kamala Harris has been?” That was sort of the intake of breath before you heard the laughter which is a perfect sign that the satire is hitting a spot and also, by the way, that the protected class…

And for a long time — do you remember, Buck — in the first year of the Biden administration when they were saying, “It’s really hard to make fun of Joe Biden. He’s just not a very satirizable.” Making up a word there. “Satire doesn’t really work on him because…” Everybody who was like, “This guy can’t even walk up the stairs! He wears a mask bigger than his forehead. He can’t read off a teleprompter! You’re telling me there’s not fertile ground for mocking Joe Biden?” Now the gloves have kind of come off and they’re finally starting to land some punches on ridiculing him.

BUCK: Think about how much the media in general really made fun… Look, politicians are kind of fair game for a lot of stuff that everyday citizens, it would be uncouth and rude, including making fun of their appearance at some level, though I generally don’t like appearance commentary, period. I try not to do it ever and I think that people shouldn’t do it.

But they were, “Oh, Trump is orange!” and “Orange Man Bad!” and “Trump is obese!” and all this stuff all the time. There was, I think, a cover on The Atlantic that showed him like was he like naked or something? The whole thing is completely insane in terms of all that. Joe Biden, I’ve never seen a person squint so much before in my life, and people that do impersonations of him will actually do that.

Notice on SNL they, to your point, they can’t even think of ways to mimic his personal traits and mimic his speech, because they refused to do anything but be handmaidens to those in power. I mean, SNL is a propaganda program, unfortunately. It used to be comedy back in the Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, and before that days.

CLAY: It used to be. And everybody, by the way, those of us who are old enough to remember washing Johnny Carson or David Letterman or Jay Leno, everybody was equal parts fodder for comedy. You could watch an opening monologue of David Letterman and in the Bill Clinton years, I mean, you talk about somebody whose appearance got made fun of?

Talk about somebody whose personal life got made fun of, and obviously he left a lot of opportunity there with the Monica Lewinsky mess and so many other scandals that surrounded him. But even if you were a Democrat watching David Letterman, Johnny Carson, or Jay Leno, they went after Bill Clinton. And the same thing, by the way, happened with George W. Bush.

And there was an evenhandedness to the ridicule, whether you were Ronald Reagan or whether you were Bill Clinton. And then things changed, and now we basically have, to your point, Buck, the late-night programs have become propaganda networks. They exist primarily to uplift Democratic Party and Democratic politicians.

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BIDEN: We’re banning all imports of Russian oil and gas and energy. That means Russian oil will no longer be acceptable at U.S. ports and the American people will deal another powerful blow to the Putin war machine. This is a move that has strong bipartisan support in Congress, and I believe in the country. Americans have rallied support — have rallied to support the Ukrainian people and made it clear we will not be part of subsidizing Putin’s war.

BUCK: It’s gonna get a whole lot more expensive to fill up your tank with gas. Welcome back to the Clay and Buck show. That was Biden just before we came on air telling the American people that now we are banning the import of Russian oil. My understanding is that this will not include the EU, and that they will continue to import Russian oil and gas. Russian’s biggest export partners for fossil fuels are the EU and China. So that hasn’t actually changed.

So this is now going to make gas more expensive for us, going to hurt our economy, and is going to do what, exactly, for Vladimir Putin? These are all the realities of what we face right now. I’d also note that while they’re talking about this, Biden also, Clay, when he announced embargo said, “You know what we really need to do is focus on clean energy right now!”

BIDEN: This crisis is a stark reminder, to protect our economy over the long-term we need to become energy independent. I’ve had numerous conversations over the last three months with our European friends of how they have been — to wean themselves off of Russian oil. It’s just not… (sputters) It… It… It’s just not tenable. It should motivate us to accelerate a transition to clean energy. This is a perspective (mumbling) and our European allies share.

BUCK: I mean, first of all —

CLAY: It barely reads, first of all. It’s getting worse and worse.

BUCK: — it’s embarrassing that he’s president. It’s not embarrassing ’cause I disagree with him. It’s embarrassing that he’s not up for this, he’s too old, and this is elder abuse. So we can start with that. Beyond that, though, Clay, if they’re not talking nuclear, they are unserious about any transition from fossil fuels.

CLAY: A part of me, Buck, at this point feels like they want the price of gas to get so insanely massive that they can argue we have to do away with oil and gas forever. Right? Is that a crazy hypothesis here, that, yes, in the short term it will be bad electorally for Democrats in the midterm.

But if we have $8 or $9 a gallon gas for your average person out there, then Biden in 2024 — or whoever the Democrat is — is going to run on the Green New Deal predicated on the huge cost of gas, right? The problem with all of this clean energy is it’s way more expensive than oil and gas, right? And so a higher cost of oil and gas in some way serves as a legitimizing factor for the idea of the Green New Deal.

BUCK: I had assumed, Clay, that Democrats would make decisions for which there are tradeoffs that would make me say, “I still disagree with what they did, but I will admit that this is a little bit better or this is a little bit improved.” Everything is worse!

CLAY: (laughs)

BUCK: Joe Biden has made everything worse.

CLAY: The Bidas touch.

BUCK: It’s remarkable. It is, the Bidas touch. It’s absolutely absurd.

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