Clay, Jim Jordan & Hannity Tackle Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover

15 Apr 2022

Appearing on Hannity with Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), Clay joined the discussion about Elon Musk’s big push for Twitter, opening it back up to all viewpoints and turning it into a true digital town square.

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Alex Berenson Analyzes Covid Data, Elon Musk and Twitter’s Importance

14 Apr 2022

BUCK: Our buddy, Alex Berenson, in the mix now. You know him as the author of Pandemia, an excellent book on the covid pandemic and the many lies told by the so-called medical establishment during it and also check out his Substack. I am a subscriber. Full disclosure. I think it’s excellent and so is Clay. Mr. Alex Berenson, good to have you back, sir.

BERENSON: Good to be back, guys.

BUCK: So, it feels like now… You know, usually we understand where, if you will, the covid narrative from the Fauciites is going. I feel like I’m not seeing their authoritarian matrix as clearly right now. You have some cases rising a little bit in places like New York City. I’m seeing some masking coming back. Philly’s brought masking back.

But, meanwhile, everyone’s seeing what’s going on in Shanghai where they turned the entire city of 25 million into prisoners and are murdering people’s pets to prevent them from being reservoirs of covid as if that’s going to do anything. I mean, Alex, where are we with this right now? It feels like… You tell us.

BERENSON: It’s very interesting you mentioned Shanghai because I have not written about that. I’ve been a little light on the Substack the last couple weeks in part because I’m putting a book proposal together for books about the origins of covid and how we got to 2020, which is a heck of an interesting story. But I’m working on a Substack today on Shanghai because it is so fascinating what’s happened there.

You know, the Chinese have gone through this insanely intense lockdown the last couple weeks in Shanghai, which they might or might not try to spread to the rest of the country. And, yeah, it’s insane for a couple reasons. First of all, it’s clearly not working. They had 27,000 cases in Shanghai. Shanghai is a big city of 25 million people as you said. But they had 27,000 cases in a day which is the equivalent to more than 300,000 U.S. So, it’s not working, yet they’re doubling down on it, and no one has really offered a great explanation as to why that is.

CLAY: So, Alex, when you look at the numbers out here, we talked I think it was a couple weeks ago about what was going to happen with BA.2 and there’s no doubt that in the East Coast of the United States so far there has been an increase in the BA.2, but it has not been that substantial. What is the data showing you about what we are going to see from BA.2 right now?

BERENSON: So, it’s interesting with BA.2. You’re right. There hasn’t been as big of an increase as I think people expected, and if you look at the U.K. and Northern Europe, those places had a big surge last month. But it wasn’t as big as the original Omicron surge, and it came back down. Now, to me that suggests that there is probably some protection that you have from — if you are infected with Omicron as so many people were from — BA.2.

So that this variant, you know, doesn’t look like it’s gonna cause this massive wave of infection, slash, reinfection that we thought. It may also be it’s just so close to the original Omicron surge that people whether they got a booster, which we know provides some short-term protection, or whether they were infected and recover and have some protection, I don’t think you can read too much into this.

There will be another variant, and it won’t be one that’s on anybody’s radar right now. And we don’t know when that’ll happen, but it will happen in the next couple months. So, you sort of have to think about that, not about what’s happening right now. I’ll tell you one fact that you will not hear anywhere else, which is that right now in the U.S. we’re at the lowest level of covid deaths since last summer when we were as low as we had been since this whole thing started.

In the U.K. and in Northern Europe which are much more highly vaccinated and boosted country than U.S., they are not at those low levels. In fact, the U.K., which is only one-fifth the size of the U.S., has, like, about two-thirds as many covid deaths right now. So, how you get from that to saying vaccinations work in the long run? I don’t know. They’re gonna keep saying it. They’re gonna keep saying, “Go get boosted, go get double boosted, go get triple boosted.” But when you actually look at what’s happening on the ground in the European countries that are highly mRNA vaccinated, you’re not seeing any benefit right now.

BUCK: We’re speaking to Alex Berenson, author of Pandemia, and you can subscribe to his Substack where he handles a whole range of topics including covid. Alex, if I had to make you, we’re gonna force you to sit down in a chair with a crystal ball and tell us what you see this September, October. Around that period of time, are there mask mandates and reinstituted vaccine mandates in major American cities and in blue states in the run-up to the midterm elections?

BERENSON: Wow, you’re gonna make me, huh? I’m gonna say no. That’s not because I think, you know, I think this is gonna continue. I mean, I think we’re gonna live with covid now. We’re gonna live with it, the vaccines have failed, they failed to eradicate it or eliminate it. You know, none other than Dr. Anthony Fauci said that last week. But are we gonna see a political response like we saw two years ago or last year?

I don’t think so. I mean, I don’t think anybody has the willpower. I was in Utah earlier this week and the masks were off and, you know, once the masks come off for everybody — not for most people but nor everybody — it’s over. Right? It doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter what’s happening medically on some level. Politically the epidemic ends when the masks come off and I don’t think people in blue states… I mean, there’s these hard-core people that can’t get over this, but I think most people are done at this point — and things would have to get really, really bad for that to change.

CLAY: Alex, you’re in the middle of a lawsuit with Twitter right now. Elon Musk is trying to take over Twitter. It appears that Twitter is doing everything they can to keep that from happening. What is your take there, and what impact, if any, do you think it might have on your situation where you have been suspended and basically kicked off Twitter? With Elon back, I presume you’d have a lot better chance to get back on. I’m curious what your relationship is like with him and how closely you’ve been following this story?

BERENSON: Well, I’ve (garbled) been following it very closely. You know, it’s not a secret that a couple years ago Elon and I, you know, had a discussion actually about founding a website or a news service that would have been sort of an independent, you know, counterweight to places like the New York Times. It didn’t go forward, probably for the best.

I will also say that, you know (laughing), that I threw out the idea to him a couple weeks ago that he should buy Twitter, and at that time, you know, he had — I think he had — a hundred billion dollars instead of 300 billion so the idea of spending 50 billion on Twitter probably wasn’t as interesting to him. But I’m glad to see that he’s decided to do this.

I am certainly rooting for him. I believe. I believe that he believes in free speech. I believe that he — and hope that he — would run Twitter in a hands-off way. You know, look if it becomes something where he takes it over and you’re not allowed to say anything about Elon Musk and Tesla, that would be a disaster. I don’t think that’s what he has in mind.

I would love for him to win, because I believe he would open it back up to me and all the people who’ve been banned unfairly and wrongly. Meanwhile, my lawsuit is going ahead. We have a hearing in federal court in San Francisco two weeks from today. We will hope for the best. I believe that Twitter… I believe we have a strong case, but Section 230 provides a lot of protection for these companies; that’s not a secret.

BUCK: By the way, Musk just said apparently during his TED Talk that he has a Plan B if the initial buyout offer — purchase offer, I should say — is not accepted. I think we all know the board is not going to accept. I’m not even sure… We all assume, whether it’s even official or not, that they’re not gonna accept this. We know what kind of woke lunacy is at the top of the Twitter mic. Alex, do you think…? I mean, you know how these corporations function, how this stuff goes down. Do you think he’s gonna be able to pull this off?

BERENSON: I mean, it’s tricky because he can put a number on the table that it becomes very hard for them to say “no” to. They have a fiduciary duty to shareholders, and Elon comes along — you know, I know he said 54.20 is his best offer. But he makes it 64.20, we know it’s gonna end in 4.20, whatever.

CLAY: (laughing)

BUCK: (laughing)

BERENSON: Whether he makes it 74.20 and he says, “But you know what? You have a week to make up your mind and then I’m gonna start my own competitor,” and so if he does actually do that; the stock goes back to 30 bucks. Well, if you’re a board member, you get sued for that. And so there is a number where I think it becomes very hard for them to say “no.”

I don’t know if it’s this number, but we know that Elon has the money to do this if he wants to force it. Trying to guess how the world’s richest man, you know, what he’s gonna do is probably even harder than trying to figure out what covid’s gonna do. But he has the ability to, you know, in the words of The Godfather, “make them an offer they can’t refuse.”

CLAY: Alex, last question for you quickly here. For people out there who may not know what the impact of Twitter is, a lot of our people aren’t on there.

BERENSON: Sure.

CLAY: Can you crystallize for us what it meant to you to be able to use that platform and make your arguments — and I understand you still have Substack, but — how that has changed with you not being able to speak to the masses on that town square?

BERENSON: Oh, sure. I mean, that’s a great, great point. And I think it’s lost sometimes because Twitter is not as big — you know, it’s not nearly as big as Facebook, it’s not nearly as big as Amazon or Google. You know, in terms of its size and its market cap, it is smaller. But in terms of its reach as a journalism platform — and this is a point we make in our lawsuit — it is by far utmost important platform for journalism in the world.

Twitter is the reason why two years ago at this time — two years and a month ago — people, most people didn’t know who I was. If they did know me, they knew me, Buck (garbled), as you knew me, as a spy novelist who had once worked for the New York Times. I was able to present facts about covid to an audience that was basically unlimited on Twitter, and no one could stop me.

And my audience went from 7,000 to 350,000, but that substantially understated its reach. In August of last year, my tweets were viewed 200 million times. Okay? I didn’t have to pay for that. I didn’t have to set up an infrastructure for that. I was able to be part of a worldwide conversation about, you know, whether the vaccines are working or not, about covid and lockdowns and mitigation measures.

And Twitter made that possible. There’s no other place on earth that could have done that for me. And that’s why it’s such an important platform for free speech — and it’s not just me. It’s everybody. Anybody can do this. Twitter has really changed journalism, probably for the better.

CLAY: Well said, Alex Berenson. We’ll continue to allow you to reach our audience with this platform. Keep up the good work and good luck on that new book proposal.

BERENSON: Thank you, sir.

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Musk Speaks! Gives Twitter TED Talk

14 Apr 2022

CLAY: A guy who is embracing the First Amendment and trying to buy Twitter and change it — Elon Musk — is speaking right now. He is at a Vancouver, Canada, TED 2022 Conference and we had our crew, did a fantastic job. This has just happened in the last 45 minutes or so. We wanted to get a couple of cuts from Elon talking about his bid on Twitter.

Let me first play cut 23. Here’s Elon Musk.

MUSK: Well, I think it’s very important for there to be an inclusive arena for free speech where…

WOMAN: Woo!

CROWD: (smattering of applause)

MUSK: Yeah. (chuckles) Twitter has become kind of the de facto town square. So it’s just really important that people have both the reality and the perception that they’re able to speak freely within the bounds of the law. And, you know, so one of the things that I believe Twitter should do is open source the algorithm and make any changes to people’s tweets — if they’re emphasized or deemphasized, that action should be made apparent — so that you, anyone could see that action has been taken. So there’s no sort of behind-the-scenes manipulation either algorithmically or manually.

CLAY: Happens all the time.

BUCK: I went on a tear this morning on Twitter about this ’cause it’s so enraging what they say. They always used to say, “It’s the algorithm.” The algorithm is designed by people to do certain things.

CLAY: Yeah.

BUCK: You know, they built this system to advantage some and disadvantage others, and they’re constantly changing it and making… It’s not like this is some black box where no one knows what’s going on inside and it just dispenses, you know, Twitter justice or something. They have been doing this for years, up voting essentially from the back end certain people, down voting other people. Clay, I told you I lost 150,000 Twitter followers after the November 2020 election, and it’s just too obvious at this point. They can’t hide it anymore.

CLAY: Yeah. And what I always say is, “Anytime you hear someone argue, ‘Well, that’s not us, it’s the algorithm,’ humans designed the algorithm, and they pick which algorithm they want to use based on looking at what data that algorithm produces.” So it’s awfully convenient to blame an algorithm when humans design it.

And some of you out there may not be active on Twitter but Buck and I tried to convey to you — and I’d encourage you to go listen to the first hour — why this town square digitally is so important in influencing the trajectory of our country and social policy, and also the function of democracy itself. Here’s Elon Musk just a few minutes ago also talking about that. Listen.

MUSK: It’s important to the function of democracy, it’s important to the function of the United States as a free country and on many other countries and to help — actually to help — freedom in the world more broadly than the U.S. And so I think the civilizational risk is decreased if Twitter — the more we can increase the trust of Twitter as a public platform. And so I do think this will be somewhat painful. And I’m not sure that I will actually be able to acquire it.

BUCK: That’s the sad part, what he says at the end. They may stand in the way and try to challenge this and stop this from happening. But there’s a lesson from all this, anyway, Clay. That’s what we’re also seeing, which is that they hate free speech, they will do anything to stop free speech from occurring, and Elon understands what the stakes are here. He understands what’s going on.

CLAY: Not only will they do anything to stop true free speech from existing on the platform, they will actually choose to turn down billions of dollars — the most money that anybody right now on the marketplace is willing to pay for Twitter — to be able to continue to artificially influence our democracy and avoid true marketplace-of-ideas principles from being implemented, which is huge. At a minimum, Elon Musk has truly exposed the artifice of the argument that they are something other than a propaganda machine.

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Ann Coulter Covers All Things Leftist Lunacy with C&B

14 Apr 2022

BUCK: Our friend, Ann Coulter, is with us now. She is a 13-time New York Times best-selling author. Adios, America is one of my favorites, by the way. We’ll be talking immigration with her in a second. You can pick that one up. Still very good reading to this day. She has got a column out this week: In Historic First, 5’5″, 130-lb. Woman Confirmed to Supreme Court. That is up at AnnCoulter.com. Ms. Coulter, good to have you back.

COULTER: Great to be here.

BUCK: So, tell us about this, because you seem to notice something that I certainly did as well as I was getting text messages from NYPD — where I did for a brief period work myself — sources saying that the suspect is “a heavy-set black male,” then I kept seeing on the news they’re looking for “a man,” and that was pretty much it — a man, I think, 5’5″ they kept saying in the early stages. This seemed suspicious or strange to you, Ann. What’s going on?

COULTER: (laughing) Yes. They’re not so shy when it’s the (exuberantly) “first black woman Supreme Court justice!” or in the case of the police commissioner in New York who also had some amusing circumlocutions to avoid saying “black male.” She was “the first black woman police commissioner of the New York City police force!” This rule in reporting being imposed from the left that information that hurts black people’s feelings cannot be revealed is beyond silliness and eye rolling and particularly in a case like this.

This wasn’t… I mean, I think all people know that when you see some crime was committed or if this were just a mugging and you get lots of information, “wearing a red jacket and a baseball hat,” but no mention, no pictures, no… (laughing) no description of the race, okay. Everybody has learned, “Oh, if they don’t tell us, then we know it’s not a white guy, probably a black guy.

“They might tell us Asian or Hispanic.” But in this case, it wasn’t just a regular mugging. I mean, all the earmarks of this crime — an attack in an underground subway station, what appears to be bombs at first — it was smoke bombs and fireworks — the guy’s wearing a gas mask, and random shooting. Wow, that sounds like a terrorist attack.

So, if they’re not gonna tell us the race but only five eight, 160 pounds, and that was about the extent of it — oh, and male. So that narrows it down to only seven million people in New York. Be on the lookout? There’s nothing to be on the lookout for. There’s no reason this should have taken 24 hours to examine, at least according to current reports the guy had to call 911 on himself! (laughing)

Would we ever have found him if he hadn’t decided, “Ah, screw it, I’m sick of this McDonald’s. Come get me.” No, of course no one is going to recognize this person who is on the loose, and this is amid all of these “Call the Crime Tips Line! Call the NYPD’s TIPS, T-I-P-S, if you see anything!” What are we looking for? What is it? “Um, Male, 5’8″, about 160 pounds,” which is why the title was “In Historic First, 5’5″, 130-lb. Woman Confirmed to Supreme Court.”

CLAY: I appreciate the title of the column, Ann, but I thought it was, frankly, not inclusive enough because we don’t know for sure that she is a woman, right? I mean, when you really break it down.

COULTER: (laughing) Exactly.

CLAY: Are we even sure, I mean, that she is a woman because she was asked what a woman was, she couldn’t answer it, and given the fact that you’ve got women getting other women pregnant evidently, according to left-wing standards — I don’t know if you saw this story — in a prison. They have men, which I don’t really blame ’em, Ann.

You’ve got men who are surrounded by other men. It’s a violent, physically uncomfortable scene — and then evidently in New Jersey, if you just raise your hand and say, “Actually, I identify as a woman,” they will flip you over to the women’s prison and then suddenly you could just sleep with women while you’re in prison and get them pregnant. This is the woke world that we’ve created.

COULTER: Yes, and I believe at least some people in prison are in prison for rape. So, it gets even better.

CLAY: Well, good point.

COULTER: I don’t know if you saw this. The U.K. health service now, by law, is required to ask men in dresses, “Could you be pregnant?”

CLAY: I… (laughs) I don’t even know where we’re going with this. It is so funny that the Party of Science has descended to this level of absurdity.

BUCK: Answer that, Ann? I have a contention here that the left has actually been able to make itself even crazier than many of us conservatives could have anticipated five or 10 years ago because of their totalitarian, North Korea-style control when they want it. They don’t exercise it all the time, but when they want it over Twitter, over Facebook.

And it’s actually worse because, at least North Korea, you know it’s totalitarian. They do a lot of it behind the scenes. What are your thoughts about Elon stepping up here and maybe buying Twitter — if it actually can go through — and just the fact that you have blue check journalists in meltdown about the prospect that they don’t have a thumb on the scale for them anymore?

COULTER: Yes. It’s really been striking (laughs) how the phrase “free speech” is now synonymous with “right-wing.” Oh, boy, the left has given up on that. I mean, obviously it would be great. (laughs) We’ll see if it happens. Somebody tweeted out — and I couldn’t even remember all of the examples, they were just off the top of my head, but a liberal had tweeted out — “Oh, what’s this conservative anger at Twitter about?

“Is this just about Hunter Biden’s laptop and Trump?” And in 10 seconds I listed off approximately 10 people who have been permanently banned from Twitter, most recently Libs of TikTok and Babylon Bee. Katie Hopkins in the U.K., of course. Gavin McInnes. Milo Yiannopoulos, Alex Jones. I didn’t even get into… Oh, Jesse Kelly.

I didn’t even get into the temporary bans (laughs) like for, well, me for saying something positive about Kyle Rittenhouse before he was magnificently, gigantically vindicated in a court of law. Anyone who posted any supportive tweet about Kyle Rittenhouse, until his trial and acquittal — what, more than a year later — was suspended from Twitter until you agreed to take down the tweet.

They are very much like North Korea, and I would like liberals as long as they consider this a good policy, to sign off on it for actual criminals like the aforementioned rapists and murderers. And that is if you send out, for example, a tweet supporting Kyle Rittenhouse before he’s acquitted, they suspend your account, remove the tweet for you, and then say, “The only way you will be allowed back on…”

So, you’re in Twitter jail. Nobody can see. You can’t tweet; nobody can see your Twitter feed. And within… (laughing) You know, within that world, they’ve gone ahead and helpfully deleted your tweet. So, you’re in jail, the punishment has been delivered, but you can’t get back on until you personally agree to delete the tweet. Can we try that with real criminals?

CLAY: It’s kind of like a metaphor for marriage for many people, Ann, by the way.

COULTER: You also… Sorry. Go ahead.

CLAY: No, no, no. I was just gonna say, you’re pointing out this insane hypocrisy. We were just talking about to close out the second hour of the program, Ann, I’m sure that you at least saw some of the fallout from the Oscars when they walked out and they said, “We’re gonna say ‘gay,'” and obviously you live in Florida so you’re familiar with the “don’t say gay” bill.

Have you paid attention to the fact that China has excised all references to gay from a new Harry Potter film? I don’t think they were particularly significant, in terms of being overwhelming. But Hollywood took all of them out, MGM did. Not one Hollywood star has said a word about China legitimately saying, “You can’t say gay in a film,” yet they’re still teeing off on the Florida bill which doesn’t have anything specifically to say about gay. To me, it’s just a perfect approximation and personification of hypocrisy in Hollywood over an issue such as this.

COULTER: Yes. That is an interesting one. I’m trying to think of the liberal logic on this. I am imagining. You’re seeing what’s going on in Shanghai because they — unfortunately — unlike Florida and Sweden and certain other places, did not simply protect the vulnerable from covid and let other people develop natural infection. Those areas are doing fantastically well.

Luckily, national infection plus vaccination has pretty much immunized the entire American population right now, except for unusual cases with particular vulnerabilities. So Shanghai is having a massive wave of covid now, and they’ve locked people in their apartment buildings. They’re being forced to murder their pets because they could be carriers of covid, and I just…

I wish I could have, like, a hidden camera on people like Dr. Anthony Fauci, and imagine just the pain and jealousy he has of Shanghai being able to do this. The power these Chinese have! They can lock people down. They’re starving to death, they can’t get food deliveries, they’re screaming out of their apartment buildings.

And I think that’s probably the tradeoff the left is making, that, yes, we do want to enforce our views on transgenders and America and all white people being racist and pansexuality on the populace. But we don’t, unfortunately, have China’s powers right now. So, we have to be really nice to China so that we can develop these policies and fight China, the wonderful developing country. But once we have them, it will be just the reverse. Any movie that doesn’t have gay references, you’ll have to insert them.

BUCK: I’m quite certain, Ann, that when the drones are flying in the sky in Shanghai telling people to subdue their heart’s desire for freedom and stay inside, that Fauci saw that and thought, “What a great idea!”

CLAY: (laughs)

COULTER: Yes!

BUCK: But he doesn’t have the power quite yet. You do not have the power quite yet. AnnCoulter.com for her latest column. It’s a really good one on just the way the media covers stuff like the terror attack — and it was a terror attack — in New York City this past week. Ms. Coulter, thanks for coming to hang out. Good to talk to you.

COULTER: Good to talk to you. Bye-bye.

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More Dumb Stuff from Joy Behar on The View

14 Apr 2022

CLAY: I feel this comes up quite frequently because The View is filled with the dumbest women who have probably ever had a media outlet to reach millions of people in the history of America. And Joy Behar — up there with Joy Reid, the Joy Combo, two dumbest people probably in media today in terms of consistently what they put out there.

Joy Behar got all fired up about the Supreme Court. And, Buck, you and I were talking yesterday about how dumb The View viewers and the hosts are, and this just perfectly crystallized that. I thought we could close out the show while we all just listen to Joy Behar, maybe dumbest multimillionaire in media in the country, which is truly saying something. Enjoy.

The View is a maelstrom of idiocy
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— Buck Sexton (@BuckSexton) April 13, 2022

BUCK: Can I just say (impression), “Joy Behar teaches the Constitution,” would be an amazing class. Like, actually if we could get Joy Behar to do the Constitution, the first 10 amendments of the Constitution according to Joy Behar, and just sort of go off what she knows. You know, just sort of tell us. Explain these to us, Joy! Her Second Amendment jurisprudence would be the stuff of legends, I can sure you that but also the not knowing that the Supreme Court doesn’t pass bills say pretty big one.

CLAY: And someone put it on their desk? Like, what…? Her analysis of this… I agree with you. I would love Joy Behar to really analyze this. Buck, you know this, and I think it’s important for our audience to know this. There is probably a staff of 50 people that work on The View — 50 people — that their entire job is to keep these women the surrounding stupid.

That’s their job. They give them everything they could want to read. They’re not having to do any research. “Hey, Joy. Here we’re gonna discuss the Second Amendment. Here’s the latest data on how exactly this might go. Oh, by the way, there’s a Supreme Court case. Here are these articles. Read this.” It would take her 20 minutes of reading — again, presuming she can read — to actually understand this on at least a conversational basis.

And she’s not willing to put that time in for the show. And, by the way, I have to give credit here because while we do tee off on Joy Behar quite a bit, every woman on The View says something insanely outrageously stupid. They rotate around the table on a daily basis. Like, Whoopi Goldberg just came off being suspended for saying, what was it, that the Nazis weren’t racist, which is kind of a tough argument to be making. And then who is the other, the Sunny woman?

BUCK: Sunny Hostin? Yes, what did she do?

CLAY: We just talked about her saying, “I’m gonna wear a mask forever, because I don’t want your covid breath,” as if she was in danger on the airplane.

BUCK: She doesn’t want the dirty peasants who are bringing her her food and chauffeuring her around to be breathing in her vicinity with all their germs and their droplets.

CLAY: It’s just next-level stupidity to have people paid to make you not look done. There’s an entire cottage industry of View employees who are designed to make their conversation intelligent.

BUCK: I’m sure they have a staff of 20 to 30 easily. That was one thig. One thing that was amazing during the times that I used to sneak into CNN, Clay, some of those CNN shows that have, you know, 15 people watching, they have staffs of 30 people, I mean, they have huge staffs. It’s crazy.

CLAY: Bringing you everything you could want from an informational perspective, designed to make you look reasonably intelligent by giving you everything you could possibly want — and these women still, every single day, approve they have the IQ of doorknobs — it’s truly amazing — and that might be an insult to doorknobs, by the way.

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CLAY: I wanted to mention this, Buck, as we continue to deliver body blows on hypocrisy, which is a lot of what I think we do on a day-to-day basis. You can agree or disagree on principle, but hypocrisy is what really, I think, ultimately ends up moving people who are in the persuadable camp.

And you just heard from, by the way, Senator Ron Johnson talking about what a battle it’s going to be in the state of Wisconsin because there are relatively few persuadable voters. And I think that’s gonna be true in Wisconsin, Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, all the big battleground statements in 2022 and 2024.

But we played the audio, Buck, of Amy Schumer and company, Wanda Sykes, I think Regina Hall, I believe was her name, the hosts of the Oscars. And, remember, Buck, they came out and said, “We’re going to ‘gay, gay, gay, gay,’ and if you live in Florida, deal with it,” and all the Hollywood celebrities laughed and they obviously were misattributing what the language in the parental rights bill in Florida actually says in the so-called “don’t say gay” bill.

But to point out how much of hypocrites they are, Buck, there’s a new Harry Potter movie came out. I’m probably gonna take my kids to go see it this weekend, the story of Dumbledore. Those of you out there — parents young enough to have read it yourself, parents, grandparents, whatever you may be — there are elements of Albus Dumbledore.

I don’t know why it was important, but J. K. Rowling said he’s gay, and so there are elements of him being gay somewhat in that movie. It’s PG-13. It’s for older kids, right? China is going to show that movie, Buck. They have struck all reference to gay out of that movie. Not one single Hollywood star has pointed out that China can literally say to Hollywood “don’t say gay.”

And every single Hollywood studio — this one is MGM in particular — immediately says, “Yes, sir! As you wish, sir!” gets on their hands and knees and bows to the Chinese dictators. But when they when they make up an allegation about Florida, they all flout — they all speak big, but they won’t say a word to China when they actually tell Hollywood “don’t say gay.” They just take it.

BUCK: And of course, there’s a huge opportunity here for them if they wanted to take it, right? If this were really about standing with the LGBTQ+ community… I think I got it right. If they wanted to take a real stand, they would say, “We could release this film or release this show in China with the following constraints. But we refuse,” Clay.

“We refuse because this is about human rights and human dignity and the equality and the goodness of our LGBTQ+ brothers and sisters. We’re not going to abandon them for the almighty dollar in China.” Oh, no! They actually are, though. See, that’s the thing: They actually will, is the point, because otherwise they’d have such a great opportunity here to make that big moment, that stance, and they could really do something.

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BUCK: As promised, with us right now, Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin. Senator, good to have you back.

SEN. JOHNSON: Well, guys, hope you’re doing well.

BUCK: So, you may have seen, Senator, because it did get a fair bit of attention yesterday, Joe Biden currently has a 33% approval rating according to the latest Quinnipiac poll — and then on top of that he actually has a 26% approval rating among Hispanics, which got a lot of attention. We know that things are going badly for the Biden regime, but is it just gonna keep getting worse, or do you think…? Have they hit the basement? Are they finally down at the bottom?

SEN. JOHNSON: My question is, how can it be so high? You take a look at almost every policy — no, every policy — that he has enacted, whether it’s canceling the Keystone XL pipeline which is his shot across the bow announcing his war on fossil fuel, which drove up prices — and not only gasoline, but also energy which is component turnover product.

The open borders, which is gonna get a lot worse when they cancel Title 42. Out-of-control spending sparking 40-year high inflation. You see the producer price index over 11% now. The embarrassing and dangerous surrender in Afghanistan which tempted tyrants like Vladimir Putin. And not rushing the types of weaponry that Ukraine needs to defend itself and win the war, dragging its feet on that. How could anybody approve of this?

CLAY: Senator, appreciate you coming on the show with us. What do you think about — we started off the show, we’ve been talking about it a lot, the idea of Elon Musk buying Twitter and also simultaneously what seems to clearly be occurring, which is the forces that would not allow Twitter to be an open marketplace of ideas becoming arrayed against him? How do you see this playing out? What are your thoughts?

SEN. JOHNSON: Yeah, I was listening to your show earlier when that announcement came that the SEC and the Department of Justice were opening up investigations. “Brazen” isn’t the right word. I guess it’s sadly predictable that they would politicize this to such a great extent. But no. Let’s face it. Free speech is under assault, and it’s under assault by the corrupt and complicit media that put Joe Biden in office.

He campaigned from his basement! They suppressed, they censored Senator Grassley and my report on Hunter Biden, the laptop, Tony Bobulinski’s testimony. All that was censored. They changed history! They’re all up in arms about Trump collusion with Russia, that hoax, because the threat it might represent to be able to blackmail a United States president.

And here you had clear, convincing evidence of the vast web of financial entanglements of a future president they weren’t even concerned about. They’re not concerned about it now. They’re just doing a CYA exercise, a modified limited hangout, just providing enough truth.

So, you consider the impact, the interference that the media and certain elements of federal law enforcement, intelligence agencies how they interfered in that election, it’s… What Russia hoped to achieve pales in comparison to the interference that those corrupt individuals had on our election, and it changed history for the worse.

BUCK: Speaking to Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin. Senator, the end of Title 42 authority from the CDC is gonna be upon us in just a matter of weeks here. There’s already reporting of over 100,000 would-be illegal migrates largely from in Central America and South America, who are making their way in caravans to the U.S.-Mexico border, probably gonna arrive right around the time that Title 24 goes away as a tool for border payroll to at least turn some people back to enter illegally.

What do you think the Biden administration plan is here? ‘Cause Clay and I keep pointing out in an election year, not that far away from the fall — and also this is likely to carry on through the summer and perhaps into the fall — seems like this is kind of disastrous. But what are we missing or what needs to happen?

SEN. JOHNSON: It’s the plan that every Democrat presidential candidate announced during the primary: Complete open borders! When you say you’re not gonna deport anybody, you’re gonna offer illegal immigrants free health care, you throw open the borders — and of course, Biden dismantled all the successful programs that had pretty well stopped the flow of unaccompanied children, families exploiting our asylum laws.

Stop building the wall. It has cost us more to not build it than to actually build it. These guys want open borders. I can’t explain it. I think I understand what they want to do, but it makes no sense. But now you end Title 42. Last year was it a million and a quarter people that got in, either encountered and then dispersed or got in as a known got-away.

Over a million people were turned away or sent back under Title 42. But there are tens of millions of people that want to come into this country, and when they realize that there’s no constraints now whatsoever — there’s no consequence, it’s a complete open border — you know, who knows what the flood’s gonna be coming up the next few months, the next few years under the Biden administration.

CLAY: You’re listening to Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, and I know a lot of you are listening to us in the state of Wisconsin, including Milwaukee, where we’re the most listened to show. You guys gotta get out and make sure you’re supporting Senator Ron Johnson in this election in November. I’m fully endorsing you, Senator.

But I just want everybody in Wisconsin, just based on the three answers that you’ve given us so far, to understand how important it is to have you there in the Senate as we roll into 2023. But I want to ask you this too. You’re talking about the border, Title 42. I’m sure it’s as fascinating to you as it is to us. They managed to open the border saying that covid is no longer an issue while simultaneously saying we need 15 more days of people wearing masks on airplanes and in airports and on trains. It is such a duplicitous lie. How infuriating is that to you to see the divergence of treatment based on the southern border and everybody on airplanes?

SEN. JOHNSON: It’s totally infuriating and completely frustrating. And, you know, about half of America is equally as infuriated and equally frustrated. But the other half is still listening to the mainstream media — the corrupt, complicit advocates for the Democrat Party, the far left — and that’s what we’re up against. So, just real quick RonJohnsonForSenate.com, that’s how you can help me financially because I don’t have an opponent right now the Democrat Party. What I have is the media completely opposed to me.

CLAY: Yeah.

SEN. JOHNSON: They want me out as well. So that’s what we’re all up against: A complicit media, a deep state, and — again — policies that are just disruptive for America, that are weakening us. We’ve gotta wake up. So that’s just about financial support — just getting out and talking to your friends, your family, neighbors, getting them out to the polls and voting in November.

CLAY: What are you are seeing, by the way, on the ground in Wisconsin? Are you feeling that…? I know it’s April and we’re still six or seven months away, but Wisconsin is such an important toss-up state, and your race is such an important part of that. What are you seeing and feeling on the ground there?

SEN. JOHNSON: On our side, I am seeing far greater concern than I experienced in 2010 during the Tea Party movement. I mean, people are coming up to me with tears in their eyes, tears streaming down their cheeks just saying, “We have to save this country.” So on our side, there is just deep, deep concern, and it’s legitimate concern.

The other side, they’re still being bamboozled. Wisconsin is a split state, and the opinion is hard on both sides. So, unfortunately, we are fighting over a very small slice of the electorate that is persuadable. So, we got get out there and we got to persuade them, and the best people to persuade other folks are people that know each other and so that’s why nobody can sit on the sidelines here.

You have to start engaging in a conversation with every friend, every family member, every neighbor and tell them what’s at stake. Freedom! Freedom is at stake. That’s what we’re fighting for. That’s what this is all about. I can’t think of anything more important. Let’s face it: Over a million Americans died defending our freedom. The least those of us who recognize what’s happening in this country can do is get out there and do everything we can to win in November.

BUCK: Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin. Senator, great to have you. We’ll talk soon.

SEN. JOHNSON: Stay well.

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BUCK: I was just telling you all before that Joe Biden and the Biden family, there’s a lot of lying that goes on. There’s a lot of dishonesty. And I think two things that the media have just created fictions of the media’s effort around the Biden family are that they’re good folks you can trust. You know, truthful, honest, integrity, and really nice. Joe Biden’s not a nice guy. He’s not an honest guy. And here is yet another example. This is what he said about the Border Patrol agents who were trying to deal with that surge who were on horseback. Listen.

In September, Biden smeared Border Patrol agents: “It’s outrageous. I promise you those people will pay. An investigation underway now and there will be consequences.”

Those agents have now been cleared of wrongdoing.pic.twitter.com/rpSv4HbObn

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 14, 2022

BUCK: Well, the investigation just concluded and found that they did absolutely 100% nothing wrong, never whipped anyone, and Joe Biden is a lying jerk. That’s basically what the investigation concluded.

CLAY: It also took six months, and can I just get back to the idea that presidents shouldn’t be weighing in with what they think happened in investigations that their apparatus are going to have to conduct? Because credit to whoever cleared these Border Patrol agents who had done absolutely nothing wrong.

But when the president of the United States comes out like Joe Biden did in that press conference and says that they did something wrong and that there will be consequences? Buck, I guarantee you that added months to this investigation. Because they were under orders: “Hey, the president thinks something happened here.

“Figure out a way to make something happen here in terms of wrongdoing,” and they kept investigating and they kept investigating. They turned over every leaf, and guess what they found out? Nothing wrong has happened, making, as you said, Joe Biden a liar yet again in response to that question. But the big takeaway here is we don’t need the president to weigh in on this story in advance. It’s stupid.

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