Moderate Elon Musk Drives the Blue Checks Mad

17 Jun 2022

CLAY: Elon Musk’s pursuit of Twitter continues. And I think it’s super important still because all Elon Musk is doing is advocating for content-neutral policies. That means basically, as he says in his meeting that he had yesterday, he wants the far left and the far right to be equally angry at him sometimes, based on the policies that he puts in place. The far left has never really been angry at Twitter because all of their policies are so far left wing.

But in his meeting… I just want you it was not this audio. This has been leaked from inside of Elon Musk’s all-hands meeting. I want you to listen to it, and I want you to think about how rigged Big Tech is because everything that Elon Musk says here… By the way, Elon Musk made his first ever Republican vote. He voted for the congresswoman who won in the 34th District down in Texas. He tweeted about it. Elon Musk is a very moderate guy. I want you to listen to how moderate all this is, and yet it makes the Blue Check Brigade, the far left-wing lose their mind just to have neutral policies in place as it pertains to free speech. Listen.

BREAKING: Project Veritas LEAKS Over ONE HOUR of Video Scrolling Through @Twitter's Internal Slack Channel Responding to #TwitterAllHands With @ElonMusk

"He literally just voted for a QAnon promoter in TX." – Jeffery Keith, Senior Technical Recruiter pic.twitter.com/NC6Xtfnmxp

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) June 17, 2022

CLAY: Buck, none of that is remotely controversial, what he said. Now, the way that it will be covered by the media will be covered as if he has said things that are controversial, but you know the rig job is in full effect. You just listened to that; everybody out there just listened to it. That’s leaked audio from his meeting with all of the Twitter employees. This is how broken Twitter is right now that everything he just said is considered to be radical by left wingers.

BUCK: What he is letting everybody see is a few things, really. One, you cannot be a person who is willing to think for yourself and process new information and be a true leftist Democrat. You cannot be a part of the movement, the vanguard of the Democrat Party today, period. I sound like Biden now, “Period!”

CLAY: No, you sound way too cogent to be Biden, by the way.

BUCK: Well, thank you, sir. I appreciate that. And it’s just true, though. The way that you see so many of the arguments of the left broken down these days, they have no interest in engaging. And this has been going on for years, but it’s become, I think, more apparent. “Speech equals violence. Platforming the opposition means that you’re conceding to them on issues of important public debate.” They don’t want to engage.

They don’t want to discuss. And the social media platforms really more than anywhere else I think is where that mentality has not only been on display but has unfortunately had a major impact on the national political conversation. I’m sure you saw they leaked… So Slack… I don’t use Slack but it’s big in a lot of companies have you ever used Slack before.

CLAY: We use it in a lot of our OutKick-related editorial processes but I don’t spend a lot of time in Slack but it is very popular.

BUCK: It’s kind of like the internal AOL Instant Messager from back in the day.

CLAY: For people who remember that.

BUCK: “You’ve Got Mail!” It’s kind of like from way back where everybody can chat with each other inside the company, and there were leaked screenshots of the internal Twitter employee Slack while Elon Musk is saying (impression), “I don’t think we should push a narrative. I think we should probably just be open to free speech.”

CLAY: That’s pretty good Elon Musk.

BUCK: Thank you. Did you see it?

CLAY: I haven’t even seen it.

BUCK: Oh, my gosh. “Oh, whatever. He’s erasing trans people!”

CLAY: (laughing)

BUCK: He’s not even talking about that! What are you talking about? You look at the internal thing, it’s almost like the closest thing you can get to being in the minds of Twitter employees is the running, real time, Slack channel discussion during Elon’s speech whether it’s just (summarized), “Oh, he’s the worst.” He’s gonna destroy everything that matters in our society!” He’s saying, “Can we share ideas and exchange thoughts and maybe try to defend the First Amendment?” They were in full on, “He’s not even announcing his pronouns!” meltdown.

CLAY: I don’t know — and this is a big, interesting debate question, I would think, in the years ahead. How does the Democrat Party get back to ever embracing free speech again? Because if you consider the history of free speech, it’s not one party that owns it. It constantly is kind of shifting and cyclical. And there’s zero doubt that if you believe in free speech, you have to vote Republican now. I don’t even see that as a remote argument that you could make in favor of Democrats.

Covid has accelerated it, but Democrats believe that you have to have certain opinions on a variety of issues, and if you don’t, you shouldn’t be allowed to share that. Buck, how do they ever get out of that dogma? How do they return to that, because it seems to me that they are continuing to paint themselves into a more and more remote corner and restricting speech for every single day; so how do they ever become… They like to claim initially they were the party of science.

No, you’re the party that says you can pick your gender. Maintenance Democrat orthodoxy now to believe — this is real — that when a baby is born, trans activities say that sometimes doctors get it wrong when they say, “Oh, it’s a boy,” or, “Oh, it’s a girl.” Biology is real. Mainstream Democrat, progressive thought requires you to believe now that biology isn’t real. I don’t know how they return to sanity because they have left their faculties so far behind. Do you have any idea? How do they get to a point where they’re not — uh, I’m trying to void cursing — totally and completely crazy?

BUCK: They have been kicking at the load-bearing walls of our civilization now for many years, and they’ve been going after many of the day-to-day mechanisms we have to maintain a free society – speech, obviously, being one of them — the mobilization of people behind things that they don’t understand at all and they explicitly are being lied to about it. Covid and all the lockdown procedures is I think another example of that.

But now the allegiance is to an authoritarian and absolutist mind-set. The allegiance has to be, “We tell you,” and there’s almost as a leftist a mechanized expectation of the responses exactly what is being dictated. There is no thought process allowed, and that’s why you get people… We played yesterday, people want to ban AR-15s. They don’t even know what is an AR-15 is. Who cares! They want to ban it because they were told that they should ban it to save lives, right? People should wear two masks, maybe they should wear three. Should they get two shots or should they get five?

No independent thought allowed because the way they’ve set this up, the moment that you allow for independent thought and the processing of new information… I keep saying leftist, but it’s really as a Democrat who wants to be in the center of the party or wants to be at the center of power in the party, if you break from them on anything, you’re conceding to Trump, to MAGA, to white nationalism. That’s the way it’s all set up now. So they’ve created an absolute binary where if you don’t accept everything that the apparatus tells you to you are playing into the hands of the other side, and that I think has been growing over time. I think social media has played a large role in creating that that mind-set

CLAY: Thought police.

BUCK: — and I think covid has supercharged it in some ways so the state was finally able to be truly authoritarian it happen and it was an experiment that I hope we never repeat — I’m afraid we will at some point repeat it but an experiment that shows how much time with willing to. I can never think of the mass American psyche the same way after what we saw just with covid and now what we see is that that extends to other areas too. That keeps on… Whatever I’m told I will do, doesn’t end with covid.

CLAY: And I’ll point this out. Remember that Democrats were trying to accuse Trump of being a dictatorial authoritarian. There was never a better time if you actually wanted to do that than the early days of covid. And remember what Trump did: He deferred almost exclusively — probably, you can argue, too much — to local authorities rather than federalizing anything. And Biden came in and took complete control of the government.

BUCK: Absolutely critical. It’s a distinction that we should continue to hammer as well ’cause sometimes people will say, “Oh, well, you keep pointing out how bad covid was how bad spending was and the shutdowns of the economy.” I met with the president in May of 2020 really just to talk about covid. This was May of 2020. This was early on. He says we’re not doing lockdowns, we gotta get opened up, we gotta get going. It was the CDC apparatus and the Democrat blue states that kept getting crazier and crazier and locking down and pushing. And then when Biden came into office, it added the federal layer on top of that. But it really… Trump only listened to Fauci for about two months.

CLAY: Yeah, and that’s where, honestly, I listened to Fauci. I think a lot of people did initially in those early days, and then we started to see that the emperor was wearing no clothes. But I just want all of you to recognize that if Trump had truly been a dictator, covid offered him an opportunity to be a dictator the likes of which we have not seen in generations in this country. And what did he do? He diversified to state and local governments rather than do what Biden did, which is mandate that you get the covid shot or you don’t get to work. I mean, I’m still furious about the fact that reasonable, intelligent people don’t make that argument.

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The Biden Recession Has Already Begun

17 Jun 2022

CLAY: There remains, unfortunately, the ongoing cloud of incompetence surrounding the Biden administration. As we are speaking to you, the stock market — having one of its worst weeks ever — is down 123 points again today. It has been a real drubbing that the stock market has been taking as our overall national economy tries to come to grips with the overall inflation rates — and I would just say this, Buck. I think we’re already in a recession. This is my prediction.

It didn’t get a great deal of attention, but if you looked when we had the three-quarter point interest rate hike that happened earlier this week, the Fed lowered its second quarter predictions on GDP to zero, 0.0. The growth rate had been .9%. It wasn’t actually a sterling growth rate. But if they are now forecasting 0.0%, effectively, which is what they are, in other words, just barely avoiding a negative number, it feels to me like we are probably already in a recession.

We know that in the first quarter GDP went down. Two consecutive quarters of negative GDP is a recession. Buck, I think we’re in a recession. I want to play you this audio because Joe Biden finally did an interview and he talked with the AP in the Oval Office, and he said that a recession is not inevitable. I think, unfortunately, we’re already in a recession. Let me play cut 7 here for you as CNN is even interacting here with what is going on and saying it definitely feels like we’re already in a recession.

CNN’s @ChristineRomans on Biden saying a recession is “not inevitable”:

“What we do know is that the markets are reacting like it’s inevitable — and you’ve got a majority of global CEOs now … saying they think we’re either in one or headed for one.” pic.twitter.com/Ry3x8ljQwe

— The Recount (@therecount) June 17, 2022

BUCK: I’m sorry, but the Biden administration, Clay, doesn’t get to have it both ways. Six months ago, nine months ago, Biden himself was pointing to the stock market talking about how it was just a function of Build Back Better. “Just spend another five or six trillion and we’re gonna get ourselves out of the ditch, the doldrums we had been in.” No, it turns out that the decisions they made have had a dramatically negative impact on the economy and now they want to tell us that it’s cyclical, right?

So six months ago Biden saying, “Look at the stock market, I’m amazing,” and now the stock market has just gotten crushed. You have less money in your 401(k), in your retirement accounts or your stock account in general than you did when Biden took office. So that’s 18 months of gains wiped out. And they want to tell you this has nothing to do with Joe Biden.

It just reminds me very much of the explanation they give now for the high price of gas which of course is the Putin price hike, greedy oil suppliers, greedy refiners. All this is crap and nonsense. It’s worth reminding people that six months ago, Biden was saying it was a great economy boasting about the jobs, boasting about the stock market and now we see it’s all fallen apart. And 18 months ago, Biden was talking about how, if he could, he would ban all fuel, all gas, all oil. Oh, yeah.

Joe Biden ran on eliminating the fossil fuel industry.

Now, he’s begging them for help to combat record-breaking gas prices. pic.twitter.com/KExQpyOq2H

— America Rising (@AmericaRising) June 16, 2022

BUCK: Clay, can he make it any more clear that he hates the fossil fuel industry — at least when he wants Democrat votes?

CLAY: Can you imagine how bad that montage is gonna play in many different jurisdictions right now, many different places as people are getting ready to go to the polls? We’ve talked about what a Red Wave would look like or what a Red Tsunami would look like, and I can’t imagine when you’re paying over $5 for a gallon of gas that attraction to any voters out there is going to be remotely positive to Joe Biden trying to now say, “Oh, we’ve gotta increase oil and gas exploration!

“We’ve gotta do more drilling,” when he ran on the idea that he was going to stop that from happening. So it’s not just that Joe Biden has bad ideas. It’s that his ideas are so bad, they make everything worse. And this is why they’re panicked right now, because we’re rapidly coming up on July. Everybody’s on their vacations right now during the summer. So many people have saved up for the past couple of years ’cause of covid related issues; people are out there more than they have been in a long time.

And when you’re driving your family around and you are paying $5 for a gallon of gas, it is just an absolute kick in the teeth to people out there. And again, from a parenting perspective, what it really does is you don’t get to take your kids to the movies, you don’t get to take your kids out for dinner like you ordinarily would. You may not even be able to take a vacation like you would hope to be able to do; buy presents, as we come up and start to think about birthdays and all the holiday season which isn’t that far away. This is an unmitigated disaster, and it strikes people every single day all day long when you’re looking at the price of gas.

BUCK: And I think the Biden White House compounds everything that you’re talking about, which is the pain that people are feeling economically that’s there. They can talk about eight million jobs or whatever all day. The fact of the matter is that people are feeling financially stressed, the markets have turned, and we are probably already in a recession; it’s just not official yet. We’ve been talking about a recession here for months. But on top of that, there’s something so dishonest about the Biden administration with regard to all this.

Which is why I think playing back clips of what Joe Biden running for office was saying about the gas, the fossil fuel industry, and how that affects the price of gas now is obvious, right? They did everything they could to show the environmentalist left that they are hostile to the fossil fuel industry, and now the price of gas is high, and they say, “Oh, we didn’t do anything!” When Donald Trump was in office Democrats — and I know it was mostly about Russia collusion, which was a lie.

But Trump would say, “I want to do the following,” or, “Here’s what we’re doing,” and Democrats could — and did, obviously – say, “That’s bad, we hate that, whatever.” But at least there is a clarity among Republicans with, “We’re gonna cut taxes,” or, “We want to build a wall,” or, “We’re gonna do Remain in Mexico, “whatever it may be. With Democrats, it’s a game. They get what they want under a certain promise and then when it’s disastrous, it’s, “We never wanted that! We didn’t think this would happen.”

CLAY: (laughing)“You mean there are consequences for the choices that we’re making?”

BUCK: Think about this. Getting rid of Remain in Mexico, look at the southern border now. Defund the police, look at crime in major cities. Open air drug markets in places like Portland, look at the level of overdoses in cities and nationwide last year. Spending too much money? Look at inflation. They try to separate cause and effect, and people aren’t buying it because it’s so obvious, right? It’s not a question of, “I have a policy preference, they have a policy preference and we’re gonna argue out what could happen in the future.” We’ve seen the results!

CLAY: And that’s why it’s going to be, I believe, such a devastating Red Tsunami because, to your point, they made disastrous policy choices. Some of the most disastrous policy choices in America history — I really do believe that — particularly with defund the police, certainly as you’ve just said with be what’s going on at the border, the money that they spent. What’s amazing is everything is coming home to roost so rapidly because their choices were so awful that there was wasn’t…

To your point, you could sit around and argue about, “Hey, what should the corporate tax rate be?” and it might take five, six years to figure out what the exact impact is of a corporate tax rate increase or decrease, because that’s how long the economy sometimes takes to put all this in motion. We were just starting to see, for instance, the benefits of the Trump tax cuts when covid hit.

We had the best economy in the history of the United States in February of 2020 as all of those Trump economic policies were starting to roll into place. Buck, it only took 18 months of the Biden administration for all of the disastrous early-day decisions of Joe Biden, the chickens to proverbially come home to roost, and everything to fall apart. He’s the worst president in any of our lives.

BUCK: I think one of the most illuminating recent historical examples we can look to or a way that we can lay this all out, we’re 18 months into the Biden presidency and we’re being told that the economy is not Biden’s fault.

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: I remember we were 18 months into the Trump presidency. Do you remember what they were saying? “The Obama economy.”

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: So, when you’re 18 months into a really strong Republican economy, it’s the previous Democrat president who should get the credit. When you’re 18 months into a Democrat administration and all of a sudden everything starts falling apart and all hell breaks loose, it’s nobody’s fault or actually Trump’s fault, depending on which Democrat on which day.

CLAY: Remember, they tried to sell us on the idea of “the Biden Boom.”

BUCK: OH yeah.

CLAY: If you read the New York Times in the first six months of Joe Biden coming in to office, remember we were up here in July of last year, it was gonna be a Hot Vax Summer! “Look at how incredible Joe Biden is doing getting the covid shot rolled out! Look at how the economy is booming! Look at the stock market!” As you pointed out, Biden now doesn’t want to talk much about the stock market, but he was certainly bragging about what had happened in the stock market in the early days of his administration.

And now the consequences of the disastrous policies they have put in place have arrived. And suddenly that Biden boom talk has vanished. And I really do legitimately believe that we are in a recession right now. I think when we get the second quarter GDP numbers, I believe they’re going to be negative, and that will officially count as a recession. Now, how long lasting is it gonna be? Can we come out of it in the third and fourth quarter as we move through 2022? I don’t know. I do know voters are not gonna have any of that data because we’re gonna get the second quarter GDP and people are gonna look around and say, “Holy crap. Things are awful. We’re in the middle of a recession.”

BUCK: I almost have more respect, in a way, for John Kerry, the climate czar, than all the other top White House economic advisers, spokespersons, and the rest, ’cause at least John Kerry is like, “Look, peasants, gas is expensive, but we’ve got a planet to save.”

CLAY: (laughing) Yeah.

BUCK: At least he pretty much says it. The rest of them all run around, “Oh, what do you mean? We love fossil fuels. Oh, so you want the industry to expand for the next five to 10 years and really…?” What really should be asked… Hey, are you listening, Doocy, over at Fox? This would be a great one to throw out there, if you could, buddy. Ask the Biden regime, “Would you like to see two years from now a 15 to 20% increase in fossil fuel production?”

CLAY: That’s a great question.

BUCK: Whether that’s even possible or not is irrelevant, but would you theoretical like to see that? ‘Cause anybody right now, they’d say, “Oh, my gosh. Are you kidding? That would be a miracle, of course.”

CLAY: As much as we can possibly produce.

BUCK: They will not say it or say, “When Biden’s running for reelection, would he feel good about a 15% increase in domestic fossil fuel production?” Wouldn’t that be a cool thing that heaped want to run on? Will not say it.

CLAY: Yeah.

BUCK: Absolutely not do it ’cause they’re frauds and they’re lying to all of you, but you know that.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

BIDEN: With Russia’s war driving up inflation worldwide, threatening vulnerable countries with, uh, severe food shortages, we have to work together to mitigate the immediate fallout of this crisis. In the United States, I’m using every lever available to me to bring down prices for the American people. And our nations are working together to stabilize global energy markets, including coordinating the largest release from the global, uh, reserve from (sputtering) global oil reserves in history.

BUCK: I want to know what lever Biden is using to stack the malarkey that high. Welcome back to Clay and Buck. You’re hearing him now say, in the same sentence, the reason… There was so much… Clay, were you taking, like, notes as we go with what was wrong there? There was so many in such a short thing. He says global inflation — our inflation is worse actually than other developed countries that you compare us to — that it’s Putin’s fault and he’s bringing down the price with every lever he has. A month ago we are being told there really are no levers for the president. So which one is it?

CLAY: It’s also, even though his arguments are bad, every time it feels like we play audio for Joe Biden, his communication skills seem to have declined. Even just listening to that audio — and I know the left wingers are finally starting to ask questions about his competence. Even on CNN, you got the Don Lemons of the world and the Van Joneses of the world sitting around saying, “There’s legitimate questions about his cognitive abilities.”

But when you hear him talk, I just feel so much like you’re at Thanksgiving and you have an elderly relatively that is no longer in control of his faculties, and that’s what it sounds like. And the worst part about this is we’ve got a guy who couldn’t manage a corner gas station. Couldn’t! Couldn’t do it. Joe Biden could not do the job that you and I are doing, Buck, right now talking to everybody out there for three hours. He could not do it.

And he’s got the most important job in America right now. So all of the challenges that we face and all the things that he’s already created a disaster with his Bidas touch that has blown everything up, he doesn’t have the ability to fix any of this. And, frankly, I’m not even sure he has the ability cognitively, Buck, to even understand what’s going on in the country right now.

BUCK: And I think at some level, the Democrats are so invested ideologically against what would be necessary to turn things around —

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: — that maybe it’s subconscious, but they would rather the suffering continue. They just don’t want the political consequences for the suffering that’s going on when it comes to the economy and to the price of gas.

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Don’t Miss It: The Dads Join Us on Friday’s Show

16 Jun 2022

CLAY: Father’s Day is coming up this weekend, and we’re gonna have our dads on the program tomorrow. We are looking forward to that immensely and cannot wait for Buck’s dad to be in here. He is a big sports fan. He’s going to be in-studio. My dad is gonna be called — and, again, I do not have a lot of confidence in my dad’s ability to handle the cell phone, let’s just say.

He’s never been on the internet, doesn’t have an email address. By the way, a lot of you out there probably saying, “That doesn’t sound awful,” right, “to not have to be plugged in on a day-to-day basis on the internet.” But should be a lot of fun. We’re looking forward to it. Call the dad line now with your questions or comments: 212-445-3969.

BUCK: Is Grandpa Travis kind of like Ron Swanson? Like, is he excellent at woodworking and does he own several cabins and perhaps an undisclosed amount of gold?

CLAY: He does love… My dad’s favorite hobby, among many, is picking up sticks. He loves to walk around out outside… Everybody’s dad has different hobbies. My dad loves being outdoors walking around in a yard, in an outdoor area, and being able to pick up sticks all over the place. It’s one of his favorite things to do.

BUCK: Ron Swansonesque.

CLAY: It is.

BUCK: For those of you haven’t seen it, Ron Swanson is one of my favorite fictional TV characters from the show Parks and Rec, and they really leaned into him more. He was kind of a different character in the first season, then they realized a very patriotic, small-government individual with quite a mustache and a love of country — and I think he always says he likes breakfast food and pretty brunettes or something like that.

CLAY: Yeah.

BUCK: He became kind of a show within the show back in the Parks and Rec days.

CLAY: No, he is… It’s gonna be a lot of fun. So, I know all of you out there, as it gets closer to Father’s Day — the U.S. Open is going on. I always think of Father’s Day overlapping with the golf tournament because so often you have the winner of the golf tournament walking off the course and giving a hug to his dad or his family in sort of an iconic way that, to me, is embedded with Father’s Day.

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Jean-Pierre Repeats Talking Point on Biden’s Covid Test “Cadence”

16 Jun 2022

CLAY: Joe Biden is, it feels, like almost the only person in the White House who hasn’t tested positive for covid in the past year and a half. Virtually everyone else has.

BUCK: He’s never had covid.

CLAY: Never had covid. He’s gotten all of his shots. Dr. Fauci obviously has tested positive for covid recently. Well, the White House press corps is suddenly getting a bit suspicious about what exactly is about to go when it comes to Joe Biden and covid testing, and there was a bit of a contentious question-and-answer session in the White House press briefing just a little bit ago. Here’s what it sounded like.

BUCK: This is Karine Jean-Pierre, 32.

Karine Jean-Pierre can’t even tell NBC’s @PeterAlexander when President Biden was last tested for COVID and what his testing schedule is currently.

She’s not using her notes and it’s even worse than when she uses them (which is saying a lot) pic.twitter.com/aiVSj524kK

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) June 16, 2022

BUCK: Hold on. Hold on a second. Clay, I have an important question for you: Does Biden have a “weekly cadence”?

CLAY: Is that the most times that the word “cadence” has been used in popular American discourse in a century? This is emblematic of Karine Jean-Pierre’s inability to handle this job, because she has to go back to the same talking point over and over again. But it’s also suspicious — let’s be honest — that Biden has never tested positive. I wonder if he tested positive, would that so undermine the idea of getting covid shots that to a large extent they are afraid to admit if he has?

BUCK: Right. See, you and I and the people listening to this would think, “Okay, if Biden got covid, first of all, we wish him well.”

CLAY: We wish him well.

BUCK: He’s the president, wish him well health-wise. We’d be fine. Chances are overwhelmingly high that he’d been fine. But I do think that in the Democrat, double mask, “maybe I should have worn goggles “this whole time crowd, that would be something of a blow, the same way that Fauci getting it I think has unsettled some people. The great high priest of masking got covid after his four shots? (laughing)

CLAY: And taking virus seriously?

BUCK: After “taking virus seriously,” after his four vaccine shots, still got covid? So I do think at some level they’re worried about the optics of that even though that’s absurd. Because everybody’s pretty much gonna get covid after his four shots?

CLAY: That is the story.

BUCK: After “taking the virus seriously,” he got covid?

CLAY: And if you think, oh, I’m never gonna get covid, there’s probably a decent chance you’ve already had it —

BUCK: Yep.

CLAY: — and just never even knew. And certainly if you have kids, ’cause we know at least 75% of them have antibodies already. So if you think, “Oh, my kids haven’t gotten it either,” well, there’s about a three-out-of-four chance that you’re wrong and they’ve actually had covid they were fine and you never even knew that they had it.

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Anti-Gun Protesters Don’t Know What an AR-15 Is

16 Jun 2022

BUCK: So we’ve heard a lot — you’ve already noticed that it’s starting to fade out, but there was all this stuff — about gun control and there was a bipartisanship Senate package and all this stuff, right? Okay. There are people who are marching — and I will tell you, one of the creepier things I’ve seen in a political march was when there was very similar, and I can’t even remember what…

There was a shooting and then there were protests here in New York and I happened to walk through one. There were so many people who were bringing their children who were 4, who were 8, and putting little placards on them saying things like, “I don’t want die from AR-15s.” Just emotional blackmail, children as props, the whole thing was gross. And you realize there’s so much ignorance behind it.

They’re just scared. These people are scared and they do what they’re told so they go out there and they march and they don’t really think about the policies and they don’t know what they’re talking about. This was video — and I want to make sure we credit who pulled this one together. The Washington Examiner pulled this together. Thank you. WashingtonExaminer.com. They did a March for Our Lives piece here where they ask people who want to ban AR-15s, what is an AR-15?

CLAY: (laughing)

BUCK: I got an idea. Maybe we’ll have time for this I’m gonna dress around like Joy Behar, I’m gonna walk around and I’m gonna say, “We need to ban chain saw bayonets,” I guarantee you, I guarantee you, people will sign my position to ban chain saw bayonets at the next March for Our Lives.

CLAY: There is nothing debated in America for that fewer people understand that guns. I defy you to come up with something that more people have strong opinions on that don’t understand the most basic things about. Let me say this too, by the way. You get hit by a paintball gun.

BUCK: Oh, I’ve gotten hit many times.

CLAY: It’s a lot of fun, but the one woman in there who was like I’ve heard that hurts, that’s not inaccurate. You get popped by a paintball gun at close range and it definitely impacts your ability the next day. You can feel it for sure.

BUCK: Man. I remember we did back in the day, Clay, a little bit of simulation training and a little bit of —

CLAY: You guys used to pretend getting out of —

BUCK: Vehicles, convoys and stuff before you could go over to Iraq or Afghanistan, this is back any CIA days. But they would video some of these drills, these exercises, and we’d do this. The military would be the ones training us. And, man, it’s one thing to get hit with a bunch of paintballs because you mess up. It’s another thing afterwards to have everybody watch it and kind of slo-mo and be like, “What did Buck do wrong here?” It’s like, “I didn’t take off my seat belt.” It’s like, “Whack, whack, whack, whack, whack! Paintballs. Oh, man.

CLAY: When you got hit, did you have to pretend you’re dead in the simulation?

BUCK: Oh, yeah, you’re out at that point. Vehicle exfiltration drills, man. That was —

CLAY: You don’t want to be the first guy getting hit, right?

BUCK: I was like, “I want to have to write memos again. I’m good at the memos!”

CLAY: That’s awesome, though, to think about the way that you could basically deconstruct it as if it were actually —

BUCK: That’s how they teach you tactics. A lot of it is going through the process, the physical, that moment in time, and guys who are really doing this stuff were training, on the military and law enforcement side to get in the stack and go into rooms, it’s just repetition and expertise and doing it over and over and over again.

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Is the Biden Regime Smarter Than a 5th Grader?

16 Jun 2022

BUCK: We are looking at the highest gas prices ever and really day in and day out we’re gonna keep hitting, it seems, new records. And it would be one thing if the people who were so involved in regulating the fossil fuel industry had even… Put aside that they are zealots who believe that the world will end because of climate change unless they are hyper-regulatory in their approach to fossil fuels — which are our economy, right?

I mean, 80% of our energy needs plus comes from fossil fuels. The idea that we’re anywhere near transitioning to net zero carbon emission, this is all fantasyland stuff. But it would be nice if they at least put aside the ideological overhang of we’re all gonna die because of climate change or extinction and whatever. “Existential threat” is a term they like to use. They’ve used that phrase all the time.

It’s an existential threat if we don’t take care of climate change, humanity, to anybody. They don’t have the most basic understanding of how the industry works that it’s necessary for all other industries in a modern economy. Without oil and gas, the entire U.S. — and, yes, global economy — comes to a screeching halt. So it’s pretty important, it is the lifeblood of a modern economy. Do they even understand…?

When I say “the basics,” I mean do they understand what you would think a fifth grader would understand? I think the answer, unfortunately, is “no.” They just said yesterday, the Biden administration said, that they want more output from the gas companies and that it’s their patriotic duty to produce more and charge less. Here just about an hour ago is White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre saying: We’re not saying they need to actually drill more.

JEAN-PIERRE: “We don’t need to” drill more oil in the U.S.

REPORTER: “The president once said he’s going to end fossil fuel. Is that now off the table?”

JEAN-PIERRE: “No. We are going to continue to move forward…” pic.twitter.com/CGGKVmfW9l

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 16, 2022

CLAY: Buck, she has no idea what she’s talking about. Basic logic, nothing that she said… By the way, credit to Peter Doocy for continuing to do a phenomenal job of holding White House officials accountable for their idiocy. But, Buck, you can’t even add up the responses to what she just did in that 30 seconds and make it in any way logically connected.

BUCK: It doesn’t make any sense. I mean, the notion that refineries are just not refining what their output could be… The price of gas right now is very high. So refineries aren’t actually going to their maximum production right now for what reason, do they think? And the U.S., meanwhile, the Biden administration is saying, “Well, let’s go to foreign sources.” You trace all this back to what she started to get into there, which is this administration…

I think Doocy even pointed out, Biden said we’re gonna get away from oil and gas entirely. They can’t say and smile and pat themselves on the back in this White House, they can’t say, “We’re moving fossil fuels because they’re going to destroy the planet,” and then the next day say, “Hey, man, no problem with the fossil fuels! You guys just gotta produce a little bit more from the refineries. We’re not…” Clay, they actually have to get government permission to refine more than they currently are.

The regulations… The more I’ve been digging into this, the regulations for exploration, the leases on different land, offshore, on shore — the regulations for refining — the SEC disclosures that are required in order to expand and to get money together to expand operations because of the climate change impact that these industries have, it’s Byzantine. The whole thing… Government makes all this harder, more expensive, and slower. And then when people say, “My gosh this is expensive,” they turn around and say, “It’s just those greedy corporations’ fault, man!”

CLAY: Remember when Democrats were furious at Sarah Palin for saying, “Drill, baby, drill”? Now all of a sudden, the Biden administration is simultaneously I’m trying to say, “Drill, baby, drill.”

BUCK: Or “refine, baby, refine” as the case maybe.

CLAY: But also we don’t want any oil and gas to exist in this country basically at all. It’s too diametrically opposed perspectives. And Bidens needs to come out and just say, “I like the idea of long-term energy independence. We aren’t there and we aren’t close to being there — and, in the meantime, I like the idea of lower the gas prices far more. We need to unlock all restrictions.” He’s not gonna do it because his base is crazy, and they will be furious at him if he in any way fully endorses the idea of producing as much oil and gas as we can.

BUCK: How much do you think at this point, whether it’s on the issue — covid is a huge one clearly, and the lockdowns and the masking and the vaccines — but also progressive prosecutors, defund the police, crime, the wide-open border, and now energy policy, it’s so clear that they were wrong. But do you think it’s, more than anything else, they just don’t want to admit that we were right? Is that really the psychological stumbling block, more than their true belief in these dumb ideas?

CLAY: I think covid they don’t want to admit they were wrong. I think the oil and gas issues reflect a fundamental lack of comprehension about how business works, because if you listen to what all they’re saying, “We need a 95% profits tax.” It is such a Venezuelan, Maduroesque policy. If you are removing all incentive to make money, then there’s no basis for companies like these to exist.

And so I don’t think in their minds they can conceptualize the way that business works and what incentives promote more business. People want to invest when they can make more money. That’s the entire basis of capitalism, and the problem that Democrats have right now is, they almost have no one who knows business well that speaks loudly in the party. Think about it, Buck.

Who is the foremost Democrat capitalist with a voice in the room right now? We talk about Elizabeth Warren, profit tax. Bernie Sanders, effectively a socialist. Joe Biden, not smart enough to have any understanding here. Nancy Pelosi may be a capitalist, but it only seems to exist when she’s making her stock trades and taking advantage of that. I can’t speak to someone who is a really successful businessperson and is driving Democrat policy. Whether you liked Trump at all or not, he surrounded himself with successful businesspeople who understood basic rules of business.

BUCK: He made the former CEO of Exxon secretary of state, who some people think didn’t necessarily do a great job in that role but he did understand global energy policy, that he did know as well as other things, and I just point out that the prices of gas are a pain that everybody feels. There’s also that pain out there that a lot of folks don’t personally have to deal with. But those who do, it is acute, it is real, and that’s the baby formula shortage, which continues to this day. The White House press secretary KJP asked about this. Here’s how that went.

Pressed by @KarenTravers on when families will see baby formula on the shelves again, White House press sec. Karine Jean-Pierre says, “I don’t have a timeline for you.”

“We’re doing everything that we can from here.” https://t.co/xHP6FOuZlv pic.twitter.com/JuWOBBiDyl

— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) June 16, 2022

BUCK: Last summer we had Hot Vax Summer, Clay? That’s what everybody was saying? This summer, it may be Baby Formula Shortage still.

CLAY: Unfortunately — and also, as we talked about earlier in the week, Tampon Shortage Season. You’re a woman out there and you or your friends are voting Democrat, I, frankly, don’t know how you can make a worse decision for you and your family right now when it comes to baby formula shortage and not even being able to find tampons. It’s incompetence on a epic scale.

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Insanity: Unvaxxed Djokovic Banned from the U.S. Open?

16 Jun 2022

BUCK: I already bought some tickets for a sporting event, Clay.

CLAY: Really?

BUCK: U.S. Open tennis, which I do like. I like tennis, all right! I grew up playing tennis, I think it’s a great sport, and I did see this. I was gonna ask you: Apparently, Novak Djokovic is not going to be allowed under current USTA, U.S. Open rules to play in the U.S. Open, again, because of the vaccination issue. Is that your read? I mean, this is what people have been saying.

CLAY: I didn’t know whether he’s allowed in the country or whether it’s a USTA story. I don’t know what the rules are right now, honestly, when you’re a foreign national and you come to the United States.

BUCK: That’s a U.S. federal government issue and not a USTA issue.

CLAY: Potentially. I haven’t heard exactly that explanation because, in New York, you remember they changed the rules for the Mets and the Yankees which eventually allowed Kyrie Irving to be able to play basketball here because they had the ability to play if you traveled in. If you traveled in as a visiting team, you could play, but New York City had the absurd rules that if you were living in the area…

Kyrie Irving wasn’t allowed to play, but he could go sit courtside and then with the pressure rising with the Yankees and the Mets about to play and many of those guys did not get the covid shot so they altered — Mayor Eric Adams did, altered — that rule. So my understanding on this was that — and again I haven’t had to pay a lot of attention to it. But if you are a foreign national potentially there are issues with you traveling into this country —

BUCK: I had to take a test to come home.

CLAY: They’ve done away with that now.

BUCK: Right. But I remember that had to happen.

CLAY: Did away with it Monday, I believe. But to the point that we are in any way disallowing anyone to do anything, whether it’s serve in the military, whether it’s play in a tennis match, whether it is be a janitor at a school… The idea that anyone is still losing their job over whether they have the covid shot or not is to me utterly indefensible.

BUCK: I kind of want to walk you down when we finish the show today to the subway stop right on the corner just to go down and you’ll see that the subway still requires masking in New York City. Planes don’t require it. Airports don’t require it. So for a century… Most people on the subway let’s say they’re commuting something like 30 minutes each way, I think that’s probably a pretty good average subway commute, maybe 30, maybe 40 minutes.

So for about one-twenty-fourth of your day as a New York City resident and that doesn’t include all the bars, restaurants, offices, everything else you go to, the City of New York — based on “expert opinion” — still makes you put a mask on your face in the subway because, just because. So for anyone who’s wondering why we still care about what Fauci says, Fauci… He wants more money by the way. Play clip 2 here. Fauci is demanding for funding right now.

Dr. Fauci says new Covid vaccines depend on additional taxpayer funding: “Importantly, we need … a highly effective new mucosal or intranasal vaccine. We have a number of projects that will not be able to be funded unless we do get new resources to continue these funding [sic]” pic.twitter.com/u1hxMIjCQC

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) June 16, 2022

BUCK: Clay, they have completely failed to prevent infection and transmission with anything they have done! Now he wants a new untested vaccine platform.

CLAY: Also, how is it remotely possible that after spending over $5 trillion that we could need more money for anything covid related? I really want for Fauci… I know he’s got covid right now. But when this Red Tsunami arrives in November, I cannot wait for Republicans to have control of the House and the Senate and to really haul him in front of all of those senators and all those congressmen. Fauci to me… I know he said he’s gonna leave in 2024 no matter what happens in the election. I bet —

BUCK: — he resigns by Christmas.

CLAY: Yes. If the Republicans win an overwhelming election if you’re out there right now and you’re thinking, hey, what are the consequences of the midterms, certainly the House and the Senate weigh in. But we need to send a message to Fauci and all of his compatriots out there, everyone who shut down this country. It needs to be so incredibly overwhelming that he’s terrified to stay in his job and has to resign.

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Fox’s Pete Hegseth on The Battle for the American Mind

16 Jun 2022

BUCK: One thing we’ve been talking to you about for the whole year that we’ve been on the air together is the Mom Brigades, parents getting more and more fired up about what their kids are being taught in schools, the agenda of the left — increasingly radical but also increasingly exposed by a lot of people good work coming from people on the right — and one of them is our friend who joins us right now, Pete Hegseth, veteran of the United States Army, cohost of Fox & Friends Weekend. His new book is Battle for the American Mind: Uprooting a Century of Miseducation. Pete, great to have you back, man.

HEGSETH: Hey, guys, thanks for having me. Appreciate it.

BUCK: Tell us about this one, because we think that there are few issues that get a lot of attention — and they should, right? Crime, border, economy, those are probably the big three for us. But right up there and maybe right alongside one or two of those would be education, what’s going on in the classrooms, what’s going on in the universities, and the apparatus of the left, what it’s doing to kids. Tell us about the book.

HEGSETH: Especially now. Yeah. I mean, we call that realization that’s occurred in the last couple of years “the covid 1619 moments.” Parents had their kids at home and laptops and they saw the curriculum, and it wasn’t what they thought it was. And it’s because largely in conservative-Republican circles, we’ve been asleep at the wheel fighting other fights while the progressives have executed what I would call full consolidation of government schools, public schools. I salute the parents protesting at school board meetings. I think it’s immensely important.

I think parents need to get involved. But we describe it in the book as it’s like charging a fortified machine gun nest with Nerf guns. We salute your efforts, but we’re all gonna die if we think that’s gonna change the trajectory of what’s happening. The pipeline for over 100 years has been what they’ve focused on and burrowed in on and they’ve been wildly successful. Hemingway once wrote about bankruptcy, it happened gradual and then suddenly, and that’s what the book uncovers, is it happened gradually over a hundred years, very concertedly.

They wrote about it intentionally, and now we’re seeing the quick aspect of it as they press their advantage going from bias to indoctrination now to full-on activism for our youngest of kids who are always the target. And the reason we wrote the book is the first step to recovery is understanding the depth of your problem. And for the parents and grandparents out there, we just want them to come to grips with the fact that, you know the old adage, “I love my congressman but I can’t stand Congress”? It’s that same thing. “I know public education is messed up, but my school’s okay.” No, it’s not. Not yours, not mine, not the one I went to. I was a public-school kid. They’re pressing the advantage don’t want parents to know about it and the book shares what you can do about it.

CLAY: Pete, appreciate you coming on. I was also a public-school kid. What do you think the impact will be — based on moves, for instance, that they’re making in Florida with Ron DeSantis, the battles that are being fought there — if, as we anticipate, we get a Red Wave or Red Tsunami, potentially, in November? Does that help to change the trajectory here?

HEGSETH: It helps on the political level, but it only helps on the margins. Winning elections is not gonna change the nature of the classroom. When you understand what John Dewey and the progressives did, how they first removed God, replaced it with a forgery — an allegiance to the state — and then the Marxists show up through the critical theorists at the Frankfurt school at Columbia University, pushed it through the teachers colleges, then the unions consolidated their power — all of these institutions, by the way, led by socialists and atheists, eventually Marxists.

Then the Supreme Court kicks God out, then the department education is created by the teachers unions quite literally, and then you get the federal consolidation through Common Core and what we see today. Winning a school board election or even a gubernatorial election will help in preventing the current manifesting of one or two theories, but they will always try to find a way to slip in. Take, for example, this book, Battle for the American Mind. It’s been number one in the country for three days.

A book called How to Raise an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi came out the same day as my book. No one’s gonna read it. However, every teachers union, every teachers college, every publication is gonna press it down the pipeline as the curriculum or the pedagogy — how teachers teach — in the diversity, equity, and inclusion lens in local public schools, middle schools and elementary schools. That book will have more institutional impact than this expose because that’s how they think. So I love winning elections, but we can’t count on elections. We’ve gotta do it ourselves.

BUCK: Speaking to Pete Hegseth now. He’s Fox & Friends Weekend cohost and he’s got this book out you should check out. Battle for the American Mind: Uprooting a Century of Miseducation. Pete, do you think that maybe at some level, some of them — not all of them, right? The true believers reality doesn’t exist for them so what somebody does anything that we see make to them.

But do you think that the current battle that we’ve seen playing out in Florida over the trans agenda as it pertains to very young children added also to the left’s insistence on what feels like a phenomenon that came on out of nowhere and now is everywhere, the Drag Queen Story Hour and Drag Your Kids to Pride stuff that we’ve seen in schools, in libraries, and all over the place. Has the left gone too far? And do you think that they recognize that this is an error for them politically?

HEGSETH: Old school liberal Democrats know they’ve gone too far. And they have electoral power right now, say in Congress, and they want to send up the warning flares about how detrimental that will be to them politically. But culturally, this is a reflection of the confidence they have that not only won’t they be held accountable, but they can’t be held accountable.

Because they’re so insulated inside their education departments, inside their teachers colleges, by their teachers unions, by the folks that write the tests, the folks that make the standards, the accreditation agencies. Every single one of those is controlled by not Democrats but the hard activist left. So they don’t believe they will be held accountable for this.

You see school districts defending what’s happening or explaining it away by saying, “We do diversity, equity, and inclusion,” which is a phrase invented by critical theorists — later critical race theorists and critical gender theorists — to mask over their Marxist secular agenda. So yes, they’ve overreached culturally at this current moment. But they’re counting on a pipeline of kids being pumped out. You might say, “Oh, this has been happening for decades.” Yes, it has. But we’re in uncharted territory when we’re telling 7 and 8 years old to question their gender and not teaching any history other than “America is bad.”

You see the progressives knew that it was the youngest the kids that were the most pliable and that’s why they focused school on the youngest to begin with. They didn’t really happen to get to the youngest until right about now, but that’s because they believe they have the power to do it and no one will hold them accountable. There are politicians doing some of that, and that’s good, but it doesn’t change the prerogatives and incentives and the institutions that feed the classrooms full of teachers and counselors and advisers who get paid to push this stuff.

CLAY: Pete, you’ve got kids. I’ve got kids. I was having a conversation recently with my wife about the idea of a 5- or 6-year-old kid being able to pick their gender, and I’m sure you’ve had conversations like this too. We won’t even let our 5- or 6-year-olds pick what they get to eat for a meal because they would have ice cream or cake (chuckles) for every single meal if they could.

HEGSETH: Yes.

CLAY: How wildly outlandish has a become that you’re supposed to let a 5- or 6-year-old pick their gender? I mean, I just… It’s inconceivable to me that we could have ever ended up in a place where any adult would make that argument.

HEGSETH: I know. It is a gradual erosion, because you’ve so eroded the idea of objective truth, of standards higher than our own human instincts or human identity that now it’s gotten to the point where… I’ve got a 6-year-old who legitimately believes he’s got a shot at being Batman when he grows up.

CLAY: Yep. Yep.

HEGSETH: This is the identity and understanding that they have, the maturity level. But that’s the point, is the left believes… You know, if they’re only getting to ’em in college, you know, they’re gonna convert plenty of them, you know, but there’s gonna also be plenty of God-fearing conservative kids that go to college and reject the woke content. If your teacher — who is an authority figure. I remember when I was 15, 16, if the teacher said it, it seemed like gospel to me.

Those are more innocent days in that sense. If a 6-year-old or 7-year-old hears it, it’s absolute gospel, and you’re told your parents are out of step, they’re old, they’re rubes. So I think it is… There’s not a lot of teachers don’t want to do this. This is the activist class driving it. But it’s always the loudest voices, the most radicals voices, that drag institutions that particular direction. And that’s what you see in the pipeline.

And that’s how it ends up maybe not in the curriculum, but certainly in the pedagogy chest philosophy of how you teach through diversity, equity, and inclusion, which is, “If one student feels uncomfortable, you teach to that level to all the students,” and that’s how it becomes Bitcoins, not just in Massachusetts and California but in Missouri. We had the attorney general on Fox & Friends this morning pointing out it’s happening everywhere.

BUCK: Speaking to our friend Pete Hegseth. The book is Battle for the American Mind: Uprooting a Century of Miseducation. Pete, congrats on the sales so far, a lot more coming your way, and appreciate you joining us.

HEGSETH: Appreciate you guys. Thank you.

CLAY: That’s Pete Hegseth.

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