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Ann Coulter Joins Us to Celebrate a Momentous Day

24 Jun 2022

BUCK: Right now in the immediate aftermath of Roe v. Wade overturned, we have our friend Ann Coulter joining, 13-time New York Times best-selling author. She’s got a fantastic Substack you can subscribe to, Unsafe by Ann Coulter. Ms. Coulter, good to have you.

COULTER: Oh, my gosh. What a fantastic day to be here, Buck.

BUCK: Just go with it. You’ve been in this battle. You’ve been in this fight for years. What does it feel like today?

COULTER: It’s wonderful, not just as a human being, but as a lawyer I was just thinking, I mean, every lawyer in America who isn’t a liar is happy about this. That was just such an intellectually offensive decision. The left has been using the courts, well, since the Warren Court, as their personal philosopher kings to hand them all, the, quote, “rights” but really the legislation they want that they couldn’t get Americans to vote for either in the states or, if it is a national type law or nationally; so, they can’t win in democracy.

I mean, the most beautiful example of that was, of course, the gay marriage issue, which was voted down in about — I don’t remember exactly — 33 states with direct initiatives allowing the people to vote. Even in California it was voted down, Buck Sexton, despite being wildly overspent. Same thing in Oregon. So, what do liberals do? Let’s go to our philosopher kings on the Supreme Court, and they all drop LSD, read the Constitution and say, “Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. In a document drafted by our founders 200 years ago — we never saw this before — there’s a right to abortion.” It’s just a BS way to do constitutional law.

If we could move away from this and I certainly hope we will have a court that stays within the bounds of the Constitution, and they just enforce constitutional rights as they did with the gun decision yesterday and don’t pretend to hallucinate nonexistent rights, then it goes back to the states, most of the time to the states. Sometimes it may go to Congress, but most important decisions that people care about in their lives, in the kinds of places they want to live, are decided by state legislatures, which is the most freedom promoting idea any government has ever come up with.

If you don’t want gay pride parades with, you know, sodomy being performed on the street, okay. Don’t live in New York City or San Francisco or California at all. You can live in one of the more conservative states. And if you don’t want school prayer, you live in San Francisco or New York, California, the places that hate Christians and hate God.

Therefore, you create a little environment for yourself where you’re living in a place that is good for you, fits you, not always, maybe. There may be tradeoffs. But, no, that’s not good enough for the left. They want — this is why they want everything to be federal, national, so that they can bully five Supreme Court justices or just snark them into ruling the way they want the rule to be.

BUCK: Speaking to Ann Coulter. You can subscribe to her Substack, Unsafe, on the Substack platform. Also look for her column, her syndicated column. Ann, the politics of this, I’ve been thinking all along that it’s very much overstated that now, ’cause I kept hearing Democrats say it, which I usually think is the tell. “Oh, this will mean that now the midterms…” I don’t see that, meaning that this is gonna bail out the Democrats in the midterms in any meaningful way.

Do you see it that way? And also, I mean, you’ve got AOC telling people to take to the streets. To me this doesn’t strike me as likely to turn into something like the BLM movement just because, you know, it’s a lot of unhappy cat ladies with blue hair out in front of the Supreme Court. Like, I don’t think that they’re gonna, necessarily, riot the same way we’ve seen Democrats on other issues. But I don’t know. I can’t predict the future. What do you think?

COULTER: Well, I totally agree with that, that isn’t gonna be BLM riot. That is something I was concerned with. I may have admitted to you before when the decision first leaked, my immediate reaction, despite being both a human being and a lawyer capable of reading was not, “Yay.” It was, “Oh, I wish they could have waited a year. I don’t want anything screwing up the midterms.” Not that Republicans aren’t screwing up the midterms as much as they can on their own between Ukraine and, what, 12 of them voting —

BUCK: I want to ask you about the gun vote in a second, but keep going.

COULTER: We’ll get to that. And then observing, as you say, the ones who are most — the people most — vocal and hysterical about, oh, my gosh. Abortion is being sent back to the states. We’re going to have to win in this horrible process known as democracy. And it’s just, you know, I can’t sleep at night knowing that women in Louisiana can’t get an abortion in the third trimester. Don’t worry, lady, you’re in New York. I think they are unappealing and hysterical and disingenuous enough that, if anything, it hurts them.

And, by and large, my impression is people just — they don’t like to think about it, which is why you get weird results from polls where on one hand at the top of the New York Times article, paragraph two, two-thirds of Americans agree with Roe v. Wade and then you read 18 paragraphs down and you get the fact that two-thirds of Americans think that abortions should not be legal after the first trimester. Well, that’s not agreeing with Roe, baby cakes. That’s probably where even the restrictive states — and it looks like right now about half the states are — abortion will be the same as it always was, maybe even more available if —

BUCK: They reminds me of the poll, speaking of Ukraine, on the no-fly zone —

COULTER: Yes.

BUCK: — a moment there where I think 80% of the country or 70% country was, yeah, no-fly zone, and the next question is you realize that means we’re blowing up Russian surface-to-air missiles probably on Russian territory, right, which would mean war.

COULTER: War.

BUCK: And then it’s, you know, like 10% or something. All of a sudden it goes, whoa, no, we don’t want that. We’re speaking to Ann Coulter, everybody. Her Substack is fantastic. Unsafe, it’s called, by Ann Coulter. You can subscribe. Ann, I do have to — obviously huge day. And it’s — it’s a great day. It’s a great day for logic, reason, the law, life. “Life wins” should be the headline for at least today.

But I do have to ask you about these Republicans who went along with this red flag bill, red flag gun bill, now law, or about to be law. Why is it we have…? There is some kind of sickness in the minds of certain Republicans where it’s been too long, it’s been a year, for some of them maybe six months, you know, for Lindsey Graham maybe three months where they haven’t gotten the pat on the head from the New York Times. And so, they just turn on the base. Democrats don’t do this. Why do Republicans do this, like these 12 senators?

COULTER: Yes. I think it comes back to the media. People like you and I, thank God, are not influenced by the media except maybe, you know, if you don’t have a position on an issue yet, check to see where the New York Times is and just take the other side. But most people, I guess, aren’t like that. And we see which ones are the weakest women.

I do think this has a lot to do with — I mean, we’ve both just assumed this is, like you say, a pat on the head from the New York Times and, ooh, these are the moderate ones. The media is very powerful in persuading the weak-minded. And we’ve got a lot of weak minded Republicans, especially — by the way, I think every — correct me if I’m wrong — every single actual biological woman. I don’t mean like Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell women. Every biological woman in the Senate voted in favor of these, correct? Is there anyone who didn’t?

BUCK: I’d have to check.

COULTER: Check that.

BUCK: Yeah. I’d have to check.

COULTER: How about Collins?

BUCK: You want me to check right now? Team check. I have to see. I have to see.

COULTER: Okay, never mind.

BUCK: There’s a lot of people listening for me to be Google searching, Ann.

COULTER: Okay, blather ahead, I will go on to say that the one secret pleasure I may take from this is because I’m a little mad at Alabama today. They give us the Roy Moore fiasco, they gave us Doug Jones, the reddest state in the union and the worst voters. Well, they just voted for a girl Senate nominee over the magnificent Mo Brooks —

BUCK: I’ve seen always liked Mo Brooks. I didn’t understand why he didn’t win that one.

COULTER: Well, apparently not many people voted, but I don’t care, I’m holding Alabama responsible for this. And I was thinking, wow. Think of the irony. In a very pro-gun state like Alabama, looking at the way the girl senators are voting on this, if it was their girl senator who voted to take away their Second Amendment rights someday.

BUCK: Always provocative, always intriguing, the one and only Ann Coulter, folks. Check out her Unsafe Substack and obviously any of her 13 books. Ann, thanks for being with us.

COULTER: Good to talk to you, Buck Sexton. Bye-bye.

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President Biden’s Appalling Abortion Address

24 Jun 2022

BUCK: Joe Biden is gonna be addressing the nation here shortly. He tends to run very late. We’ll take some of it live so you can hear it. You’ll know everything that he has to say in the first 60 seconds or so. We’ll maybe play him for a minute or two so you can hear where he’s going with this. He’s gonna do his (muttering), “You know, feel the country. I’m here — and women, you know, no joke! This is rough day — and women, you know, not a joke, folks!

“Women, you know, the rights and the freedom and…” It’s gonna be a real mess. But then he’ll start to talk about “tyrannical, far-right judges,” and he’s gonna get nasty on this one, is my prediction. He’s not gonna take a moment here to try to cool the passions out there on the street. Biden isn’t about that. He is a total and utter fraud. This is a guy who pretends to be just about “the folks” and “sittin’ at the kitchen table” and “payin’ the bills” and all this stuff.

And then you see what he says about those actual folks, and it’s whatever is going to make the blue-haired cat ladies who are shrieking in rage and indignation outside the steps of the Supreme Court, you know, and he says whatever’s gonna make them happy because that’s what will make CNN anchors happy and that’s what will make the New York Times editorial board happy and that’s actually what matters to Joe Biden. People that are working hard for a living, that don’t live in the coast, that aren’t part of the Democrat apparatus…

Speaking of Biden, here he is, folks, addressing America. We won’t listen for too long. Tune in.

BUCK: Honestly, I think we can stop it there. I can’t take it. I almost threw up on my own feet listening to this guy. That was appalling. You know what? I want to come back. There’s so much… I was taking notes here with all of you as the president of the United States made an abject fool of himself. But he’s a moron so this is not surprising. Everything he said there was either dishonest, flimsy, inflammatory, or stupid. There’s so much here. Let me just…

Let’s just take a step back, crack our knuckles for a second here, take a deep breath. I’ll come back and explain it. “A woman’s right to choose” what, Joe? To choose what? “An intensely personal decision.” Is that a legal matter? That in the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth amendment or something? What exactly…? “The power to control their destiny,” “the fundamental right of privacy.” Did someone have a fundamental right of privacy to abuse a child? Can you be abusive toward a child because, you know, it’s in the home, it’s privacy?

Of course not. You can protect the child in the home, why can’t you protect the child in the womb, Joe? He’s the worst, folks. The absolute worst. You know, I was expecting a bad speech, but that was appalling. He’s not even making it interesting at a legal level. His legal analysis… Joe Biden does a legal analysis of a third grader who can barely read. Honestly, the fact this guy allegedly has a law degree is appalling. But there are a lot of dumb lawyers, unfortunately, running around voting Democrat. We had to hear it because the president’s addressing us on this one, but that was… Man, that was pollution for your years. But we had to know what the regime says. Now we do.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

BUCK: You know they’re lying to you. If someone says, “You know, we really need to be able to have an appendectomy,” you say, “Heck, yeah!” Appendicitis, that could hurt you. You could even die, get a fever. That’s health care. You don’t say, “Well, there’s a right to freedom from a vestigial organ becoming duly infected and that’s…” No, you just say, “Appendicitis. You gotta get that taken care of. That’s inflamed.” I think you can take intravenous antibiotics for it too. That’s not the point.

You see, you talk about the actual thing you’re doing. Democrats won’t even talk about the thing. You know, if abortion makes them uncomfortable as a word, why? If it’s just “health care.” I’ll sit here all day and talk about back pain, heart surgery, health care. It’s not health care. We’re not idiots. But they say it. Joe Biden says it. I mean, Joe Biden honestly, folks, the state of Delaware, all these people that voted for Joe Biden such a long time for Senate, it’s embarrassing.

It’s a really embarrassing thing for this country. Things he says also in that speech: “Upset the balance of our law?” What does that mean, the balance of our law? You mean libs get their way, made up out of whole cloth, nothing to do with the Constitution? That’s the balance of the law? I don’t think so. Extreme ideology? Ah, half the country, give or take. And when you look at, actually, the regulations, the rules now in places like Colorado that the governor there, Polis, passing an extremely far-reaching abortion law — any reason, no reason, all nine months. The American people oppose that by 70%, 80% margin. So, yeah, I don’t think so.

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C&B 24/7: Clay & Buck’s Show Prep

24 Jun 2022

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Buck & Pam Bondi Talk Biden Juul Ban on Hannity

24 Jun 2022

Buck joined Pam Bondi, former attorney general of Florida, with Sean Hannity to discuss Joe Biden’s ban on the e-cigarette brand Juul.

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A Gas Tax Holiday Won’t Do Squat and Dems Know It

23 Jun 2022

BUCK: So even CNN is saying (summarized) “Yeah, this gas tax holiday they’re talking about? It’s not exactly the panacea or even…” What would I say? It is not gonna do squat. Play 4.

HARLOW: Congress is unlikely to support the federal tax holiday, as lawmakers have real questions about the potential impact and the cost. JPMorgan this morning estimating the move would save the average driver just $20 over the course of the summer.

BUCK: Twenty dollars! “Come on, peasants. Take your $20 and be grateful and vote Biden. What do you mean? Look what he’s doing for you? He just gave you a 20. Don’t spend it all in one place over the 90 days of the tax holiday for gas that’s not even gonna end up happening, by the way.”

And really, Biden is the way too out of touch, way too old relative who presses a dime in your hands and is like, “Go take that one and get yourself a steak dinner!” Not with a dime. I don’t think that’s gonna work. It’s been a while, you know? But here he is: “Take your $20. Don’t complain. Just vote Democrat in the fall.” That’s all they care about. It’s not gonna happen, folks. I certainly hope not, certainly hope not.

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BUCK: Oh, hold on a second. Welcome back to Clay and Buck. This is Buck. That was Biden. Hold on a second. So, he can do a lot to push gas exploration, refining, and the bringing of gas to market? ‘Cause I remember as of last week, we were hearing a lot of (high-pitched voice), “Oh, it’s not the president’s fault. It’s not his fault. He can’t really do very much about it! Sorry about the high price of gas. It’s just a coincidence that it gets real high when you have a Democrat in office. Oh, gosh.”

Wait a second. That doesn’t make any sense. So which one is it? This is the same way that I always approach the climate change hysteria argument, which is to say, “You gotta stick with one argument. You can’t just change the argument every time we show that the argument that they’re rolling out is ridiculous.” You gotta stay with one, right? You can’t just say, “Oh, that’s not the argument. It’s actually this argument!” So they’re telling you…

Just think about this. I learned about this from my time… Look, I think every parent has learned about this from dealing with kids, right, once you know that someone’s lied. “Why were you home late last night?” and there’s a lie, it’s, “Okay, there’s a problem,” and with someone’s lying to you about policy, when someone’s lying to you about politics, then yes — once again — there’s an issue. So, they tell you, for example, that Biden had nothing to do with the baby formula shortage.

You say, ‘Well, hold on a second. It was Biden’s FDA. It happened on his watch. He did have senior advisers who were aware there was some problem in the baby formula supply chain,” and then eventually enough people figured that out that they said, “Oh, well, look, Biden’s flying in planes the formula from Germany.” By the way, that hasn’t solved the problem at all. It just was optics to show that Biden was “doing something.”

It was the equivalent of a baby formula photo-op. But then they started saying, “Well, look at all these great things Biden’s doing to make sure there’s enough baby formula!” Keep in mind, he talks about the Defense Production Act for solar panels but not the Defense Production Act or even a deregulatory spree to increase fossil production. Why is that? You see, when the heat is on and the polls are dropping, the go-to for the Biden regime is, “Oh, it’s not his fault. It’s someone else’s fault.”

And when after enough people — from the focus on it in the news cycle and the focus, for example, on gas prices and paying these super high gas prices every day — when after that starts to become an untenable position of, “Oh, it’s not Biden’s fault,” then all of a sudden it’s, “Oh, but he’s doing all these great things to increase the production of gas. He’s an amazing president, don’t you see?”

Well, that means that they were clearly not being honest with you before when they said there’s nothing the president can do. It can’t be a week ago there’s nothing Biden can do and now he’s doing everything. He’s a big fan of the oil and gas companies, right? He’s practically walking around in a Chevron shirt with a Shell Oil hat on and a — I don’t know, name one of the companies — Exxon Mobil briefcase he’s carrying around. That’s not what’s happening.

We all know that’s a lie. It’s dishonest. But they can’t really face the music right now because they can’t afford to tell the American people on this issue the truth at all ’cause they know they’ll be in a whole lot of electoral trouble when the votes are finally cast. Here, for example, is White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre asked about… Well, you know what? I’m gonna let you hear this exchange about why the administration policy may have hurt domestic energy production. Play 5, please.

BUCK: “No working theory. Yeah, we don’t really know!” I have to say, it does seem a bit… It’s getting to be almost unkind during these press conferences to watch Ms. Jean-Pierre fumble through written talking points to try to find one that kind of, sort of, maybe might fit the general question being posed to her. It seems quite clear that she’s not really up for this job. But, hey, the Biden administration is celebrating it, nonetheless. Oh, and if you’re wondering, “Okay, but there must be some real experts who understand what’s going on here.

“There must be people who really get it. We got this Big Government! We got millions of federal government employees spending hundreds of billions of dollars a year in all these different agencies, right? So, there must be really smart people who get this, as you’re now looking at a long summer of — or are in the midst of a long summer of — very high prices for everything,” and then you think, “Well, who’s the energy secretary exactly?”

Let’s take a moment here to hear from Jen Granholm, who keeps saying the quiet part out loud which is, “Yeah, we don’t like that people are upset about the high price of oil and gas and all that, but it’s also kind of necessary so we can start living off of windmills and solar panels and all taking bicycles to work ’cause that’s what the good people do,” according to the people flying in private jets mostly. Here’s Jen Granholm. Play 8.

BUCK: You see, they think this crisis is an opportunity Democrat moment. “Okay, fine. Trice of gas is really high. But let’s push that green energy stuff!” But then they realize, “Oh, wait, people don’t really want to hear it right now going into a midterm election. They understand that that’s not gonna help ’em pays the bills, not gonna help ’em get it done. So, ooh, maybe we gotta…” They’re so torn on this. You can hear it, right?

Biden is talking about (impression), “Oh, oh, I don’t stand in the way of oil and gas. Love gas! Gas has been great. We’ve been drilling for oil in this country for, what, four or 500 years now, drilling for oil, making sure we got enough oil for the combustion engine. The combustion engine’s been around for a thousand years. We all know that! Remember. It’s just like when FDR used to get on the internet and stream to everybody about how…”

You get the idea, right? It’s ridiculous. But this is the guy who runs the country. So here we are — and look at the people that are helping him run the country, like Jennifer Granholm, an ideologue, and not a very bright one. But they don’t want to be associated with the pain that their policies have caused. That’s the goal. Everything else is just noise. Of course, they hate fossil fuels! I could sit here and play you endless clips of them saying, “Climate change is an existential threat.

“If we don’t deal with this right now, in the next 10 years, it will be too late.” You’ve seen them. You hear them! We could pull these clips. I’m sorry, they don’t get to go from under the Trump administration (sobbing), “If we don’t deal with climate change in the next two years, we’re all gonna die,” to, “Hey, what do you mean? We love gas and oil! We go swimming in gas and oil. We love it! We use it as an exfoliant, put it in our drinks. We love oil and gas!”

They’re lying to you — they’re lying to you — and you know it, and the country is seeing this pretty clearly. The country, I think, is figuring this out, and that’s why how low can these polls go? I’m gonna say this, too, ’cause I know people are disappointed in some Republicans right now, and they should be. I’d also like to hear a lot more of… Look, Republicans, even if they… Remember, without the presidency, there’s not much you can really get done legislatively at the federal level, but at least you can stop the damage.

You could stop the offensives that has been ongoing against our freedoms and against basic sanity under this Biden administration. But it would be worthwhile to hear more about what would be done to make things better. How do we get a secure border, safe streets, and a booming economy again? Isn’t it amazing? You think back to what the country was like in 2018-2019, and what it’s like now, and you say, “Wow, how could anyone think that what we have now is better than what we had then?” and the answer is delusion, denial, and Democrats, unfortunately.

That’s what we’re all faced with.

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Biden Stasi Raid Home of Former Trump DOJ Official

23 Jun 2022

BUCK: Feds have searched the home, a raid on the home of Jeffrey Clark, who is a former DOJ official, whom they say — this is the allegation from the libs — was pushing election conspiracies, essentially an ideologue involved in laying the groundwork for the insurrection that they’re all so worried about. So, they searched the home of Jeffrey Clark, and we’ll see what they end up finding here. But I’ve gotta say, Clark, they’re making him a figure in their January 6 hearings and all the rest of it.

Because there was an effort — according to CNN here — by Trump to get the Justice Department to falsely claim there was enough voter fraud in Georgia and other states that he lost. So they’re saying that Trump tried to pressure him to overturn the election result in Georgia and so they’ve raided his home. Now does anyone think it’s necessary for them to raid this guy’s home? Really? No. Of course not. This is meant to send a message. This is the Biden Stasi.

‘Cause you remember the East German police that had hundreds of thousands, it turned out, of informants and informers and employees all working for this massive state police surveillance system, and if you want to see… I just tell you this: I think one of the best foreign language films ever made and one of my favorite 10 pro-freedom movies is Das Leben der Anderen, which is “the lives of others” in German. The Lives of Others. If you haven’t seen it…

I know you’re gonna have to read subtitles and that for some people is annoying, but it is so good, such a good film. And it deals with the Stasi, the East German secret police, and how they suppress freedom and how they turned people against each other. And if you watch that movie you might say, “Hmm, it’s almost like the Democrats recently have taken some pages from the playbook.” I would bring to your attention the raid on Roger Stone’s home.

Remember that one? Dozens of FBI agents with long guns and tac vests on, knocking on the door — pounding on it at — whatever it was, 5 a.m., and Roger Stone coming out in silk pajamas and slippers, saying, “What’s this all about?” The dozens — and of course, they had CNN there to videotape the whole thing. “We just happened to be here, ’cause we’re such good journalists.” Remember, they pretended that they didn’t get a tip-off from the FBI at that time? Well, this is what they do, though.

They make examples of their political opponents. Think of all… If I asked you to do this, go through this thought exercise with me — all of you, all of our wonderful listeners across the country, go through this just a second — think of the times that the Democrats have used the force of the state and specifically the FBI for just outright intimidation of political opponents to make examples of people who stand against the Democrat power grabs that are always ongoing.

I just mentioned Roger Stone, but look at what they’ve done with the January 6 defendants. Solitary confinement, judges saying that they’re a danger to the public if they’re released? What, they might go with some more rogue selfies inside all of government building? Give me a break. These people are being treated like Al-Qaeda terrorists, in many cases for no violent crime — and if they destroyed some property, they should be held to account for that.

But what about all the BLM rioters who destroyed statues and priceless statues at that and destroyed buildings and burned down businesses, and have they been treated with severity? Of course not. They’re playing for the right political team, Team Democrat. That’s the whole point here. They’re sending a message with these actions. They lock up the January 6 defenders in solitary not because they think that’s what the justice system and our laws demand but because that’s what their politics necessitate.

One thing I want you to remember as we’re watching all this January 6th frenzy in the media — which I’m hoping you don’t have to waste your time. I watch some of it just so I know exactly what they’re saying and so I can arm you with the best possible means of taking apart their arguments. So, I watch this January 6th stuff, but people tend to — and this is actually true beyond even this. People want to be heroes in their own narrative, right?

They want to be on the side of the good guys. Part of the obsession with the January 6th hearings and the coverage and the narrative and the insurrection is that Democrats right now and going into this midterm election are faced with a choice, and here is the choice. I’ll put in the most straightforward terms. They can either accept that the Biden administration is an abject failure, that the Biden regime is run by incompetents and ideologues…

And usually a combination of those two — and that inflation and the economy overall and the baby formula shortage and the wide-open border and the lawlessness and the criminality surge and all of these things that you can point to right now where there’s just failure — proves, proves that Democrats made a poor choice; proves that they were wrong about what they thought Joe Biden would accomplish and what a great healing, uniting president he would be.

And in accepting that these Democrats would also have to accept that they’re not as clever or as wise as they had thought perhaps their whole lives. They have to accept that the other side, the Republicans, maybe have a point sometimes. Maybe they’re actually good people. Maybe they want what’s best for the country. They’re not all insurrectionists. They’re not all MAGA lunatics, or… What is it? Ultra-MAGA! There we go. That’s the phrase. Call me ultra-MAGA. Sounds so cool.

So that’s one choice the Democrats have. The other choice they have is what you see playing out right now. “Oh, we’re the ones saving our democracy! We’re the ones that are preventing the next insurrection. We’re the heroes in this narrative.” You see, the Democrats create this delusion where their side — no matter what the country is going through, no matter how many failures the Biden administration has, no matter how much of a total and utter nightmare the Biden regime becomes for the American people — it’s the side of the angels, the good guys, the heroes.

Because it’s the side that stops — and is now stopping — the insurrection. And I’m gonna tell you this. In totalitarian regimes. It’s something that I’m fascinated by and read histories of — totalitarian regimes — as often as I can, ’cause I find them fascinating. I want to know; how do they get away with this? How do they do this? One of the primary, consistent truths about a truly totalitarian government regime is that they create a circumstance where there’s perpetual threat to the system itself that justifies their heavy-handedness, that justifies their oppression, their arbitrary and capricious dispensing of justice, all of it.

“We have to do this, you see, because it’s perpetual crisis — a regime of perpetual crisis that doesn’t feel the need to justify itself based on results, but only feels the need to justify its actions based upon the existential threat that it is constantly under.” This was true in the Soviet Union. This is true in North Korea. This was true in East Germany. This is true in fill in the blank. This is true in Ceausescu’s Romania. This was true in Tito’s Yugoslavia.

This is — you go through the list — always the external threat to the regime or the internal threat to the regime or combination thereof justifies every action they take and all the failure. Whether it’s bread lines, the misery of the bureaucracy, the kangaroo courts, the show trials, all of that, you have to just sweep that away because the existence of the state and the regime itself is at risk, don’t you see?

That’s the kind of thinking that would lead you to wrap the Capitol in barbed wire and sensing for months and deploy National Guard soldiers for months on end, right, ’cause you’re under such threat. That’s the thinking that would lead to raids on the home of a former DOJ official who served a previous administration. My friends, this is Third World dictatorship kind of stuff. And the great irony of it all is that January 6 and the insurrection narrative is the Democrats way to justify moving toward dictatorship in their minds to prevent it.

See how it all comes around? They have to be tyrannical sometimes to save us from the tyrant Trump. They have to be tyrannical times and shred the Constitution to save our system of government — our sacred democracy, they call it. It’s not gonna get better. The only way this stops is if people wake up and we take power from them and there is a repudiation. The Democrats deserve — the Biden administration deserves — humiliation at the ballot box. Not a loss, humiliation. That is the only way that we will start to push back toward the realm of reality and maybe not have federal agents searching through the homes of the previous regime’s DOJ officials. We can only hope, my friends. We can only hope.

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Sen. Tuberville on Biden’s Attack on Title IX, Women’s Sports

23 Jun 2022

BUCK: Senator Tuberville of Alabama is with us now as promised. Senator, thanks for making the time.

TUBERVILLE: Good afternoon, Buck. How are you?

BUCK: I’m good, sir. You know you had a press conference with some other senators just, what, about a little over an hour ago talking about the fiftieth anniversary of Title IX and what Biden’s regime plans to do to Title IX. Everyone needs to know about this. Tell the folks what’s going on.

TUBERVILLE: Well, what a great day it is for women’s and women’s sports. You know, it should be a big celebration. This today is the 50th anniversary of the passing of Title IX here in this building, in the Capitol in Washington, D.C. — probably the best piece of legislation, especially for women, ever passed. And what it did, the quest for equal opportunity for women as to men. Back in early days, Buck, before 1972 when it was passed, you had 3 to 5% of the girls in high school that played women’s sports.

Today, you have close to 50% because of Title IX and because the same funding that boys get they have to get for girls; the same number of sports that you have, you have to have for girls. It’s been an amazing ride to watch Title IX, how effective it’s been for young women all across this country — and because of it, just a little item that I just heard: 31 new women’s sports were added since Title IX to the Olympics, 31 — and so it’s had a huge impact.

But, obviously, the Biden administration, they’ve screwed everything else up; so they might as well screw up Title IX which is something that we all hold dearly to our heart. So this morning on the anniversary — fiftieth anniversary of Title IX — President Biden decided that he would add something to Title IX that he thinks would help Title IX. So what he did, he changed the definition of “sex” to “gender identity.” You’re not male or female. You can be what you want to be.

And this did this so young men would have the opportunity to participate against women in sports. It’s a shame in the last few years, 22 biological boys playing in women’s sports; they’ve won 22 championships. It’s taken away opportunities for girls to compete for number one, if they’re gonna compete in a lot of these sports now, they’re gonna be competing for second, third, fourth place. It’s just an absolute change.

And there’s no common sense to this. You know, the radical left, they want control of everything, including the definition of sex. It’s just amazing to me what I’ve seen over 50 years how far we’ve come, and now we’re gonna take ourselves back 50 years because the Biden administration wants power not only over you, but also what you determine yourself and what sex you are.

BUCK: Speaking to Senator Tuberville of Alabama. Senator, it seems like what they’re doing, then — through the interpretation that they’re now taking as a federal matter of Title IX — is codifying transgender athletes participation in sports as a civil rights issue. Is that where this is heading?

TUBERVILLE: Well, pretty much that’s what they’re saying. They want everybody to have the same equal opportunity. They want “equity.” They don’t want “equality.” They want everybody to be the same no matter how hard you work. Now, the problem with that is you can’t do that in sports. Everybody should have an opportunity to work hard, practice hard, be dedicated, learn, learn leadership. What women have had the opportunity to do in sports in the last 50 years is learn to be in a leadership role.

We have women up here in the Senate now that told me just today, “I’m here today because I played high school or college sports, because I learned how to deal with winning, losing — how to deal with other people, how to communicate. “ It’s just amazing the things that — you know, Buck, what you learn, whether it’s military, team sports, anything that you do with other people. But the Biden administration on their high horse, of course, the progressive left is pushing this. They want to give opportunities to transgender.

Hey, I’m fine with that. Give them their own category. But do not allow boys to compete against girls because it is a no-brainer that they’re bigger, faster, and stronger and you’re gonna have less opportunities for girls to get scholarships. You’re gonna end up with basically boys playing in boy sports all over the country and then in women’s sports, there’s not gonna be women sports.

It’s gonna be transgender boys playing in women’s sports. It’s absolutely insane what the Biden administration — of course they’ve ruined our economy, our border, our foreign relations, they’ve taken away… The crime in the country just rampant. They ruined everything else, so they just decided to ruin athletics while they’re at it.

BUCK: Senator Tuberville, how do they even define who would be protected under a gender identity interpretation of Title IX? It seems like that remains entirely unclear, because it’s so fluid, when does the protection kick in and what standards to be, less say, “a trans athlete” competing against women, which the Biden administration supports? How does one even meet the designation that would then qualify for protection under Title IX, you know what I mean? Title IX is all based under women and men being different and discernible.

TUBERVILLE: Exactly, and there’s a lot of things that we’re looking into this on, but some people, some of the Democrats I’ve talked to say, “Well if they’re still a female after 12 years old, we’re not gonna allow them to participate once they hit puberty,” but how do you determine that? You hear the science that they go by. Everything to them is about “science.” Of course they screwed up everything that we did with the pandemic, covid.

BUCK: Covid yes.

TUBERVILLE: They’ll mess this up. But it’s not about anything other than giving the opportunity for the far left to have power and control over everything we’re doing, and now they’re getting into sports, which a lot of people on both sides are gonna be really, really mad about this.

BUCK: Let’s celebrate women’s sports and keep women’s sports for women. Senator Tuberville, appreciate you joining us from Alabama, sir. Thanks so much.

TUBERVILLE: Thank you, Buck.

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MSNBC Biden Regime Apologist: Quit Complaining, America!

23 Jun 2022

BUCK: “The Biden regime,” I like to call it. I really mostly call it that because it upsets the libs, and that in itself there is a certain currency of saying things that they go, “You’re not allowed to say that!” I think I am, actually. I think I am, and so I will. Biden’s having a rough time right now in all the polls that we can see. And the new Quinnipiac poll has Biden down 24 — negative 24 — with Hispanics. He’s down negative 31 for white voters.

His approval among black voters is plus 28, but those are all really historically bad numbers for a Democrat president and certainly bad numbers at this stage. And I think they might want to take a little messaging moment here, ’cause usually how it works is you have Democrats who are all on the same sheet of music, who are all saying the same stuff. That’s why you’ve been hearing recently, “A recession is not inevitable! A recession is not inevitable!” It may not be inevitable, but it will be televised.

We will see it, be with it, it will happen, right? It’s almost certainly going to be the reality of what we face. And I thought this was a particularly worthwhile moment, though, ’cause they don’t have good talking points. So you’re gonna have some people that decide they’re gonna go on TV and they’re hoping to advance the interests of the regime. They call themselves a journalist. They call themselves somebody who’s unaffiliated politically.

They’re just… You know, journalists, journos in the media — Washington Post columnist Michelle Singletary had a moment here that I think you should all hear because price of gas very high, inflation very high, food prices skyrocketing. And also, the baby formula shortage still going on, folks. They haven’t addressed that. They haven’t fixed that. It’s still hard for a lot of people — a lot of parents across the country — to find the baby formula that they need for their children. Well, this Washington Post columnist on MSNBC wants you to know (summarized), “Stop whining, okay? Stop all your complaining, America.”

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BUCK: (impression) “Calm down, Americans who can’t pay their bills right now, can’t afford their gas, can’t pay their rent or their mortgage, can’t find baby formula for their children, don’t know what their economic future six months from now will be like if the current situation of not just inflation, but likely stagflation and maybe recession becomes all too real. Calm down! Biden’s doing a great job. What do you not see?

Maybe if the American people weren’t all just so silly in their thinking that Biden’s economy isn’t awesome, we’d be in a better place right now, everyone. Get your act together! You’re gonna see some of this. You’re gonna see some Democrats who say, “Oh, well, some people are suffering but not most of you, so shut up and just vote Biden!” Ohhhh. Is that what the promise has become now, the promise of the Biden regime? “It’s not awful, so vote Biden!

“It’s not as bad as everyone says it is, vote Biden! You still have food to eat, peasants — sorry it’s 20 or 30% more expensive — so, keep the Democrats in power.” Oh! That’s gonna be quite a pitch. It seems to be the way they’re going with this, though. I also thought it was fascinating earlier on in the week when Biden said, “Sorry…” Oh, wait. Actually, we have it. We have it here. I was hoping. I was saying, “Do we have this one on our cut list today?” Biden is defending himself, saying, “Yeah, okay, prices are high and the economy is crappy, but you know, what are we gonna do, not stand up to Putin?”

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BUCK: You know the ruble right now, Russian currency, is at a seven-year high? The Russian economy seems to be just moving along okay. But our economy’s taking a big hit. You say, “Oh, ’cause we have to stand up to Putin.” Okay, well, let’s continue with this thread. First of all, the snide nature of the Democrat commentary around this, as if they’re all out there on the front lines in the Donbas taking enemy artillery fire? Please.

You put a Ukraine flag emoji up on your Facebook page, “I stand with Zelensky.” Give it a rest, all right, libs? Calm down. Start with that. But beyond that, like, looking at the policy side of this more, okay, is our support to Korean worth a recession in America? Is supporting Ukraine with munitions worth a skyrocketing unemployment rate? Which, along with that of course comes shortened life expectancy, massive increase in suicides and alcohol and drug use and overdose, and misery for millions of people, destroyed futures and despair.

I’m just wondering, where do they actually…? You know, there was a little story didn’t get much attention about trying to stop imports from a piece of Russian territory, essentially cut it off. This didn’t get much attention because people are so focused on putting up their emojis with the Ukraine flag on it. But Kaliningrad — I’m not even sure I’m saying it right — which is a Russian toehold in Europe, could be cut off entirely from the outside world by major… Well, by the actions of Poland essentially, saying, “You’re no longer… We’re gonna cut you off.”

So there’s a little piece of Russia that is, effectively, surrounded by non-Russian territory. Lithuania stands between it and Belarus, Poland borders it to the south. So what happens if we cut off this territory. The Russians would just allow that? No one’s even paying attention to that. Blockaded it. What would happen? What lengths is Biden willing to go to? Well, no one even discusses it, do they? “Shut up! We support Ukraine,” they say. Oh, yeah? We should play closer attention to that, shouldn’t we?

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The Sexton Plan to Fight Crime: Stop Letting Criminals Go

23 Jun 2022

BUCK: I want to thank WIOD Miami, our wonderful iHeart affiliate, for hosting me here. I am down in the great state of Florida. Very nice here. I gotta say, you can feel the freedom just kind of wafting around. You’re like, “Oh, I feel so free here,” although New York, my home state — and, of course, I love all my WOR family. My home state has just gotten a little injection of freedom today courtesy of the Supreme Court decision.

But this will not be a surprise to you. The libs, they are very upset by this. They are not happy at all at the situation of the 6-3 decision that says you need a good cause, that you have to show a need beyond just being a person who wants to defend himself to conceal carry a weapon, just to review for everybody, proper cause law or proper cause as the part of the “may issue” regime for concealed carry pistol permits unconstitutional in the state, the six states — and the six states where that is currently the case, although not anymore.

So, we’ll discuss that. But there are a lot of libs who are very upset about this. Biden has said… It’s amazing to think that Biden was a lawyer, although he was the absolute bottom of his class from the Syracuse University law school in 1650 or whenever he went there. But his legal analysis, you would never think that he actually went to any law school nor had he practiced law. I really say this objectively.

It’s such a cheap thing to denigrate the intelligence of someone you disagree with but I really do believe and it’s important because he’s the commander-in-chief. I just think Biden’s a dumb person. Now, you could say, “Oh, but he’s president, how is that possible?” First of all, Democrats are the ones who say Trump is dumb, Bush is dumb, Bush — the other one, H. W. — was dumb. Every Republican. Reagan was dumb. They say they’re all dumb. We’re actually fair. I’ve said this to you before.

I like to establish that I call balls and strikes on these things. Barack Obama, bad ideas for policy, a lot about him that — and I don’t think he was the greatest genius in the history of the planet like Democrats do. Not dumb. Not a dumb guy. Not fair to say that he’s a dumb guy. Joe Biden’s dumb, and when you hear him talking about — and that was known among Democrats too.

Even my Democrat associates for years had said, “Everyone just knows. He’s mister, you know, grin and shake the hand and just sort of say the thing and kiss the baby’s head and his Irish charm.” He’s as Irish — literally as Irish as I am. I don’t know what this is all about. Everyone walks around saying Biden has all this Irish charm. Well, maybe they do. Luck of the Irish. But Biden says he’s deeply disappointed in this Second Amendment decision. And just says it goes against common sense. Explain to me why. Explain the legal objection to this if you would, right?

That’s what I want to hear. Where did the 6-3 majority err? Notice when we don’t like a Supreme Court decision, it’s, here’s where, as a matter of law, they got it wrong. When they, the Democrats on the left, don’t like a decision it’s, “Oh, my God. I’m so upset, like, there’s gonna be even more of the guns and the gun people, and they’re gonna just be wearing their trucker hats and NASCAR T-shirts and going to the gun ranges”, and they get very upset about this.

There’s a lot of liberal tears that are gonna be piling up. There are gonna be rivers of lib tears flowing over this decision. And, you know, if they could at least come up with an argument against it, I would listen to it. But they don’t. Here is, for example, the mayor of Chicago — and this will be our transition into actual gun violence problems and how Democrats make it all worse. The mayor of Chicago saying, well, she doesn’t like this decision. Goes against common sense. Play it.

BUCK: Tone-deaf? Think about this. It’s as though the mayor of Chicago, the third largest city in America, doesn’t know what the job of the Supreme Court is. It’s not to take the political measurements of the time. It’s not to figure out what the elites want at any given moment or even to use their own judgment as justices for what the best policy is. It is a matter of law and constitutionality. Tone-deaf? Notice she even invokes the Republican sellout senators, the sellout senators who decided to go along at this stage and give Biden a win that won’t keep anyone safer but will just create additional ways to harass law-abiding gun owners.

What was the point of that again, exactly? Why did these Republicans — and if you live in a very red state, you know, if you live in Kentucky, Mitch McConnell territory; if you live — I can’t even name all the states — live in Missouri, live in Utah, you live in, why are you voting for these individuals? Or at least please hold them to account. Now, they’re hoping you’ll forget about this ’cause only I think two of them are up for reelection of the Republican sellouts in this cycle. They’re hoping that you won’t remember what happened with this gun bill.

But notice Lightfoot says, “We’re moving in that…” Oh, you mean that that was just a step in the direction of further gun restriction and confiscation? This is going against the plan, the Supreme Court decision, don’t you see? Now, they make a big deal in the descent by Sotomayor and Breyer and Kagan about how many people died of — now, they say gun violence. A lot of it is actually suicide, which I think is always of course very serious, always need to be in a separate category from gun violence against other human beings, in terms of the criminal justice approach to these matters, right?

But they like to put those together because they want the numbers to be even higher, to have more impact. But if we want to bring down gun violence, I have an idea, an idea for Democrats, like Lori Lightfoot, the mayor of Chicago. I don’t mean this in general terms. I have a fascinating, you could say brilliant approach. I have this novel notion, I’ve come up with this mind-blowing strategy for how we, the American people, from cities to towns to rural counties, can be safer where there are Democrats running the police force and Democrats running the prosecutor’s offices.

Prosecute crimes and enforce the law. I know it’s crazy, and you can say I’m just getting way too out there on the edge here. But in my opinion, it would probably help us out if we stopped letting criminals go. And I could even drill this down into… I know you’re sitting there saying, wow, Buck, you’re a wild man with this stuff. I know. I know. Punish criminals. Stop agitating the law-abiding because you disagree with their politics and you don’t think that they should own guns under any circumstances and actually go after criminals. Because what they’re doing is the opposite.

Magazine limitations on rifles is meant to annoy tens of millions of Americans who have never broken any law and just want to have their Second Amendment rights without infringement. But prohibited possessor laws in major cities, people with multiple felony convictions who get caught with a loaded firearm on the street, do you think they might be a danger to the public? I think so. But these DAs, these progressive prosecutors, these Democrats, they find every way they can to not charge them, minimally charge them, let them walk.

Oh, yes, friends, that’s the game they’re playing right now. “Why is that?” they’d say? See, they don’t want you, the law-abiding, to be armed, but they also don’t want to really punish the criminal element when they’re armed. Now, there are obviously some gun prosecutions going on in all these jurisdictions. But they’re dismissing in Philadelphia half of prohibited possessor prosecutions, dismissing the case outright. Half of them? Does that sound right to anybody out there? Yeah. We know what’s going on.

In Chicago, Lori Lightfoot, the mayor, who’s just presided over a disaster of crime and criminality there — and we all know it. She’s terrible at her job. I’ve even had Democrats… I speak to a Democrat alderman in that city who said it’s outrageous. They just formalized and made permanent their no-pursuit policy. No foot pursuit by cops except under very specific circumstances. Now, they’ll point to, “Well, if it’s a serious felony, the cop can…”

All right. But the policy is no foot pursuit. So, if you’re a police officer and you see that one video, you know, put up on the internet, one video, even 15 seconds of it, seized out of context can result not just in the end of your career but in the destruction of your life, your incarceration, the ruination of your reputation and your family. What do we all think’s gonna happen when cops have to make that…? And, by the way, I’m not blaming the cops in this case.

I’m saying they’re gonna have to just look at the realities of being a police officer in Chicago. You chase when maybe you shouldn’t have chased, even if the person committed a crime, and then there’s a use-of-force exchange. Maybe you get sued. Maybe you lose your job. Maybe you go to prison. This was all done because of two individuals who were shot fleeing police, both of whom had guns, one of whom was firing the gun off into traffic, as if that’s not a threat of lethal incident right then and there.

Oh, but the lib media made a huge deal out of this; so now they made that policy. In New York, just to get everybody really attuned to how crazy this is, you can’t go to the store on my corner — as I’ve said to you so many times — and buy, really, anything that could be resold easily without lock and key, without an attendant coming over. And they just want to slow down, they want to make it more annoying to steal.

That obviously doesn’t even stop somebody from stealing. You can just have attendant come, fill the bag or have the clerk come, fill the bags up that you want to steal, and just walk out. And the police aren’t gonna do anything about it. This is true in every major city really now in the country with maybe a handful of exceptions — New York, Houston, Los Angeles, maybe Houston’s a little better. You could tell me that. But Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Chicago, Atlanta, you steal; you’re not gonna get in much trouble if any trouble.

And if you want proof of it, here is the story at the New York Post: “A shoplifter with 122 busts under his belt [arrests] was released on his own recognizance Wednesday [yesterday] thanks to controversial bail reform laws” passed in New York. My friends, I think it’s fair to say that with you have been arrested 120 times, you’re a criminal and there needs to be punishment, and sure we could talk about rehabilitation, we could have all those discussions, but you need to be taken off the streets because you are creating an atmosphere of disorder and also preying upon your fellow human beings in a way that is unacceptable.

And for anyone who says, “Oh, but we can’t have cops. What are they gonna do! They’re gonna arrest somebody for shoplifting, gonna wrestle them to the ground? You really want them to use the force of the state?” And of course, there’s so much of this that comes down to their claims of disproportionate impact against minorities, minority men in particular, and therefore the enforcement of these laws that are universally applicable is somehow racist. It’s not true, but that’s what they will say.

And all the while I just have to remind everybody, we’ve gone through a time where Democrats were fine with sending cops in to wrestle people to the ground to arrest them and humiliate them for failure to wear a mask on an airplane. We have gone through a time where Democrats were willing to arrest priests and rabbis who wanted to have worship services but, oh, the state said no. Of course, it’s a blatant violation of the First Amendment.

Best Buy was open but your church was closed. Don’t forget that. These people that say, oh, we don’t want to use the force of the state. It’s just stuff. This is the AOC line. It’s just things. You shouldn’t use state violence to protect property. Oh, but they were willing to use state violence unjustly, I might add, for the stupidity of making people double mask or get the vaccine or, you name it.

Oh, they are all too fond of using the force of the state when you’ve done nothing wrong. But there are other people out there who can get arrested 122 times and they don’t want the state to come down on them too harsh. Too harsh a manner. Not acceptable to the libs today. And that’s why we have the disorder and that’s why we have the misery in all these cities.

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BUCK: I don’t like to be mean. Welcome back to Clay and Buck. This is Buck, and that was the governor of New York. Is she able to even read the Constitution on her own? Does she have the reading comprehension required? I do wonder, because that is the single dumbest argument that I think anyone ever makes around these issues, which is, “Well, they had only had muskets then, so when it comes to a free press, that doesn’t include the interwebs, ’cause the interwebs is not like a quill pen and ink and all the stuff that we used to protect.

“You can’t protect speech on the interwebs. It’s just for parchment paper!” The dumbest arguments imaginable, made by the governor of New York, my friends. When I tell you these people are dumb, I don’t say it for effect. I am observing reality, and so they can be as upset as they want. Wow, are they gonna be upset I think if that decision from the Supreme Court comes down tomorrow on abortion, as is expected. Gonna be a long weekend for a lot of libs.

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Key Points from Justice Thomas’ Brilliant Decision on the Right to Bear Arms

23 Jun 2022

BUCK: Welcome back to Clay and Buck. This is Buck in solo for the day.

BUCK: The Second Amendment has become a second class right within the Bill of Rights, and that needs to change, and today’s 6-3 ruling — it’s an excellent ruling — is certainly is step in the right direction. The more you think about this — the more you dive into the arguments, the text, the history — you find that it’s stunning, really, that the libs were able to get away with this as long as they did. What purpose does it serve…? Just think about it in this context. I know we have so many listeners in New York and California specifically.

I’m a New Yorker. They wouldn’t let me… I was trained by the CIA. I was in the NYPD for a short period of time, about 18 months, as an intelligence analyst. I had federal government training with firearms. I am a law-abiding citizen. Everybody around me would be made safer, in my opinion, by my legal carrying of a gun. They would not let me have one, would not. It didn’t matter. I applied. I said, “Hey, here I am. I’ll do the fingerprinting. I’ll do the course. Just tell me what I have to do to get one.”

“No. Prove that you’re special. Prove that you’re important,” was the law in New York, particularly in New York City. It’s even worse in New York City than in New York State. This is obviously not the way the rule of law is supposed to work. But libs are terrified of law-abiding gun owners. That’s the fascinating part. Criminals, people who misuse guns, liberals have a soft spot for. But people who want to carry and defend themselves in their community and go shooting at the range on the weekends perhaps, that’s scary to libs.

“Guns make big bang noises and I hate it! Keep it away. I don’t want the scary gun noise.” So, that’s reflected, by the way, in the dissent here. But something as… You know, I do love history, and I want to get into the criminal component of this and how it ties in to what we’re seeing nationally in just a moment. But I mentioned to you there was some fascinating historical discussion in this Supreme Court case that came down today in New York Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen.

I just want to read to you. This is from the opinion, written by Justice Thomas, who is… I’ve said this before. If I can come up with a better, more specific phrase, but he is a national treasure. He really is. Justice Thomas is an amazing man who should be so much more… I mean, he’s celebrated by conservatives. He should be celebrated so much more nationally for what he is, being brilliant, having an incredible life story. But I digress.

“When we look to the latter half of the 17th century,” this decision says, respondents’ case only weakens. As in Heller, we consider this history ‘[b]etween the [Stuart] Restoration [in 1660] and the Glorious Revolution [in 1688]’ to be particularly instructive. During that time, the Stuart Kings Charles II and James II ramped up efforts to disarm their political opponents, an experience that ‘caused Englishmen … to be jealous of their arms,’” and there’s other examples like this.

But this is the key point, friends. When you look at the history of these efforts to disarm the law-abiding, whether it’s in England, whether it’s in the medieval period, or it’s in the Revolutionary period in America, you look at these efforts to disarm, it’s always a means of the powerful asserting their control. Because they want to be able to do whatever they want to do. They don’t want anyone to be able to say, “No, you’re a tyrant. No, you’ve gone too far, and I can do something about it.”

And this really goes to the heart of the Second Amendment. When you read through the history, it’s fascinating. Those with the guns or the swords and the daggers and the halberds and those with those weapons, they don’t want others to be able to meet them with steel and gunpowder. They want to be the ones that get to call all the shots. They say, “You know what? We’re just gonna…” “No. You are not important. You don’t get a weapon,” and you could look all throughout history.

At different times, just the carrying of a sword unless you were connected to the nobility was something that could get you even executed. But then there are other times where there was an expectation that all gentlemen would be carrying. There are cultures, actually, where you have to carry a working blade. Cultures where carrying a knife for utility and for the protection of oneself and perhaps even one’s faith or one’s state, that was expected.

The libs ultimately… There’s the criminal justice component of this and the self-protection. But then there’s also the defense against tyranny aspect. And the left in this country, the anti-gun Democrat Party which now effectively is all the Democrat Party. There are some who will still pretend here and there to win some votes that they’re pro-Second Amendment. But the Democrat Party’s become the anti-gun party because they’re authoritarians.

You’ve seen this over the course of covid. You see this in your day-to-day lives. They want to control your speech. They want to control your property. They want to control every aspect of your life. They want to brainwash your children to gender identity theory. They want full and total control, and even if they may not have the eloquence and the constitutional understanding — which they certainly don’t — to put it in these terms, they do understand at some level that the individual ownership by citizens of this country, of firearms, is a personal act of rebellion against authoritarianism.

Or at least the possibility waiting in the wings, waiting on the sidelines to be that act of rebellion should it be called upon. And they hate that. They hate that because they know somewhere, deep down, hold on a second. We can’t just force them to do anything we want if we have full and total control of the apparatus. We can’t just start pulling people out of their homes and arresting them in front of their families because of climate denial. What do you mean? That would be a problem for us?

Ultimately, the true believers on the left, the real center of the Democrat Party finds that notion of an armed populace unacceptable, unacceptable to them, because they want… They’re always trying… They’re progressing, you see? Yeah, they’re always moving for the next thing, moving to the next issue. But their ultimate progression as progressives is to get to the utopia that is only possible when they are in total and complete control.

And so long as we have an armed population in this country that represents the final bulwark against that tyranny. And they know it; so, they hate it. And they also like all the virtue signaling, of course, from, if we could only pass more gun laws, we would stop all the gun violence out there. It’s not true, but people say that and they feel proud and brave and smart. If only we passed this gun law.

No matter how many times they fail, it feels good for them to say it. It feels good for the left to shout this out so they will keep doing it, they won’t look at the data. Doesn’t matter to them. They want you disarmed and double masked. That’s the point. That’s how they see this. And if we allow them, that’s where we’ll go. But today’s Supreme Court decision a huge victory, a huge move in the right direction.

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BUCK: I gave a shout-out to Justice Thomas, who a lot of us know he’s amazing, but deserves even more praise than he gets from those of us who are fans of his jurisprudence, his sharp mind, and his courage. In this decision, he wrote, “A short prologue is in order. Even before the Civil War commenced in 1861, this Court indirectly affirmed the importance of the right to keep and bear arms in public. Writing for the Court in Dred Scott v. Sandford, (1857), Chief Justice Taney offered what he thought was a parade of horribles that would result from recognizing that free blacks were citizens of the United States.”

Again, this is a quote from the decision. “If blacks were citizens, Taney fretted, they would be entitled to the privileges and immunities of citizens, including the right ‘to keep and carry arms wherever they went.’ Id., at 417 (emphasis added). Thus, even Chief Justice Taney recognized (albeit unenthusiastically in the case of blacks) that public carry was a component of the right to keep and bear arms — a right free blacks were often denied in antebellum America,” and that’s the end of the quote there.

Just a reminder as well for everybody, it was the racist Democrat Party that worked so hard after the Civil War to make sure that black citizens of this country were disarmed. It was the racist Democrat Party during reconstruction and then leading all the way up into the era of the Ku Klux Klan that was doing everything it could to disarm our fellow Americans who were black. So there is a, as I said, long history of disarming in the name of oppression that stretches back for hundreds of years.

Not even just in America but hundreds of years. It stretches back all throughout history. The people in charge want you to shut up and do what you’re told. They get the guns; you get the orders. That’s the way they wanted it to be. Our Founding Fathers — the reason for the Second Amendment — realized, “No, that’s not gonna work. We’re not gonna have a free society, a truly free society of individuals with real liberty unless we change that dynamic.” So I think that’s essential to take away from all this.

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