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Late-Night Turns on Joe: Dana Carvey Mocks Biden with Spot-On Impersonation

20 Jul 2022

BUCK: We’re talking about the golden age of SNL before, which at least Clay and I think involves the era of Mike Myers and Dana Carvey and some others.

Dana Carvey with a Biden impersonation on late-night TV, which you’ve got to hear.

CLAY: Nailed it, man. Nailed it. The only thing he could have done was the whisper. The creepy whisper when he leans over and nails it down. But Dana Carvey, a sign of everybody turning on Biden, as suddenly even the comics are teeing off.

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Is Instagram Influencer AOC the Future of the Democrat Party?

20 Jul 2022

CLAY: Buck, we talked about this yesterday, because right as we were finishing the program, AOC and members of The Squad had videos going viral of them walking with their hands behind their backs.  They were arrested.  And I’m putting “arrested” in quote marks.  My understanding on the arrests, is they were not arrested for protesting.  They were arrested for refusing to leave the road, thereby guaranteeing that they were arrested.

And then they pretended that they had been handcuffed, in what was just a stupid moment, even for Democrats.  AOC walking alongside of Ilhan Omar, and other members of The Squad, pretending that they had been handcuffed, walking with their hands behind their backs.  I’m surprised that they didn’t throw themselves on the ground and claim that the police were also beating them.

AOC is destruction for the Democrats.  The more powerful she and The Squad become, the more they lose support nationwide.  Do Democrats understand this, and, moreover, it seems certain that everybody is afraid of AOC, because they’re popular on social media.  Chuck Schumer is afraid that she’s going to challenge him and knock him out of office.

Whatever you may think of Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, I don’t really question their intelligence.  I question the overall direction that they would take the country.  I don’t think AOC is very smart.  And I don’t think she is capable of really understanding any of the implications of the decisions, that she’s making.  Partly, I think it facts in, that she’s young.  And this is the bigger issue that we’ve talked about with Democrats in general.  Most of them don’t understand basic business.  Even inside the economic team in the Biden White House —

BUCK:  Basically none of them.

CLAY:  2.4 years is the average amount of time that the Biden economic advisers have actually spent in business.  How do the Democrats, if at all — and I watched that video.  And I’m curious what you would say about this, Buck.  When I watched that video of her walking fake handcuffed, I think to myself, how in the world do Democrats divorce themselves from the AOC’s of the world, or even can they.  Is she the future of the Democrat party, or are they going to kick them to the curb, at some point, recognizing, that they are destroying the party from within. What is your plan here?

BUCK:  I think she’s the ideological vanguard of the Democrat Party.  I think that Nancy Pelosi actually has AOC envy a lot of the time.  Because AOC can drive.  Now, Pelosi has more power.  Obviously.  And has more connections, and more political cunning.  But from building in office for decades.

CLAY:  Yes.

BUCK:  While, again, her husband was so good playing the stock market.  I should have invested in the Paul Pelosi fund this whole time.  I had no idea —

CLAY:  I’m glad you bring this up.  Can we just all agree that it’s pretty crazy that all of these congressmen and women can insider trade, and it’s just totally accepted?  I don’t know, when you —

BUCK:  Pelosi fought the bill, Clay, that made it illegal.

CLAY:  I know.  I know.  I don’t even see this as remotely partisan.  She’s super wealthy.  She could easily buy index funds, and sit back and not need to buy and sell individual stocks.  Yet, her timing.  And this has been the case for lots of people.  Republicans and Democrats.  I don’t even think this is partisan.  It seems like everybody should have to put their money into index funds, when they are sitting in positions of prominence like this.  Is that not like something everybody would agree with?

BUCK:  Oh, anybody who is being fair, would agree with it.  But the people who have been beating the S&P 500 year in and year out, the people that are suddenly brilliant investors.  I mean, look at some of the Nancy Pelosi land deals in the state of California.

Look into the history.  You’ll say, wait a second.  So it’s almost like, they know there’s going to be more funding for either a rail project or there’s going to be a highway extension.  And all of a sudden, right?  You see this happening all the time.  But remember, this was true of the Clinton family.  It is true of the Biden family.  It’s true of the Pelosi family.  If you are a Democrat, who is of value to the party, they will protect you no matter how corrupt you are.

You can literally lie under oath, and not face perjury charges.  Like Bill Clinton.  You can make videos of yourself, distributing, using cocaine, crack, and having prostitutes and making porno videos, and legally purchasing a firearm.  Where’s the federal firearms investigation into Hunter Biden?  You’re not allowed to do that.  They always talk about gun laws.  Hunter Biden is a habitual drug user, and a person in possession of controlled illegal substances.  Not allowed to buy a firearm.  But they protect them.

You see, they protect these Democrats, no matter what they do.  Pelosi, you could have video of Pelosi’s husband meeting with, you know, the head of company X, Y, Z, saying, hey, we’re about to have a merger in, you know, two months.  Get in now.  Market moving information.  And you would have people going on CNN, saying, well, it’s very complicated to know what’s really considered insider information.  The January 6th insurrection, up next.  They don’t care.  They frankly don’t care.  And that’s why nothing ever changes with this.

CLAY:  I think a big part of the insider trading thing, your average American doesn’t really know that much about insider trading and how valuable it could be.  And how much information impacts your ability to buy and sell stocks at appropriate times, and be able to take advantage of it.  And it is amazing, how Nancy Pelosi and her family, for like 40 years, has had impeccable timing when it comes to buying and selling individual stock.  And I’m not saying that politicians shouldn’t be able to invest in stock markets.  They certainly should.

But they can buy index funds.  I mean, most of the money that I have, is in S&P 500 index funds.  I’m not buying and selling individual stocks.  Although, I will apologize to Buck.  Because some of the stock recommendations that I’ve given him of late, have not — they look good for a while.  J

BUCK:  Right, man.  Can’t really afford the vacations the same way, but I can always crash in the Clay Travis beach house, that’s the good news.

CLAY:  Buck, I would like to apologize to Carrie, they were — they were planning a big honeymoon, and then I told him, hey, I have a couple of stocks that I’m buying on an individual level here.  And now you’re going to be going to, you know, New York City over to New Jersey on the honeymoon, so that’s on me.

BUCK:  Live and learn, folks.

CLAY:  New York is nice in January.  Let’s be honest.

BUCK:  Gosh.  So we have AOC with the fake arrest yesterday.  And I would just note, that I don’t even think, it doesn’t matter even that it’s fake.  Because the optics of it are supposed to be that she’s standing up to the man.

CLAY: And also, Buck, lots of people are only going to see five-second clips of that.  Because she’s an Instagram influencer.  Which, I’m happy to say, is starting to catch on a little bit.  But people don’t want death, right?  They’ll watch the five seconds.  They’ll cut it off.  Even before she does the fist power sign, and just clip it and say AOC got arrested for protesting.  And you get five seconds.  And you don’t even see that she wasn’t even handcuffed.

BUCK:  It’s amazing how much of the Democrat policy, and just ideological core boils down to envy and your — your poor decisions aren’t the problem.  It’s other people standing in the way of a government that will bring about utopia.  That’s the problem.  I mean, what does AOC stand for, that would actually improve the average American’s life in a clear way, that would not have a massive downside.  Right?

This is what we saw, for example, with lockdowns.  “We’re saving lives!” They actually didn’t save lives.  They ruined lives.  They just saw the latest analysis is that there’s an increase in 30 percent fatal drug overdoses in 2020 because of lockdowns.  We all know it.  So tens of thousands of people died for their idiocy.  What is the idea that they would push forward if they could?  The Green New Deal?  How would that make anybody’s life better?

Remember, AOC’s office was the one who put forward the green new deal template.  We talk about the Green New Deal.  That was AOC, who put that forward.  The Instagram influencer of Congress.  And she did this, and then people said, we have to rebuild every structure in America, to make it green energy compliant?  We have to eliminate cows and car farts?  This is real.  Car farts.  Methane, is in the green new deal document.

And what we’ve seen is they keep pushing this stuff.  The public realizes what it is.  And they back off a little bit.  But they think incrementally overtime, they can get there.  Which is why PBS had a special a couple of days ago, about edible insects.  The corporation of public broadcasting, everybody.  Edible insects, get used to it, peasants.  This is what the Green New Deal — Pelosi will be on a private jet, eating caviar, but maybe she will sprinkle some cricket dust on you, as you’re starving in the streets.  That is the future they want for you.  And it’s true, it’s real.

CLAY:  I look at it.  And that’s kind of the question that I think the answer to the question of, how do they divorce themselves from AOC is utter destruction at the polls.  And I believe that 2022 is going to be big.  But if Republicans do a good job of picking the right nominee, and we’re going to have a monster long discussion of who the not only any is going to be.  Because I think a lot of people are going to run.  It should be utter destruction in 2024.  Ass kicking is clarifying.

BUCK:  I hope so.  I’m going to make a prediction right now.  If I were advising AOC — which wouldn’t that be fascinating?  If I were advising AOC, I would say maybe one more term in Congress, come out, get paid $15 million a year to have your own show at MSNBC.  They would sign her up in prime time in a heartbeat.  Their lineup right now is garbage.  Get a 10 million-dollar book deal.  Now you’re really wealthy.  You have the whole media ecosystem building your brand, and then run for president.  She’s going to do it, Clay.  I’m telling you.  Joe Biden is the president.  What, we’re going to say, AOC is too dumb to be president?  Look who is the president now.

CLAY:  I would like to say you’re wrong.  I would like to say there’s no way it would happen, but I do think that AOC would get exposed in a major way outside her social media influencer bubble.  Because that’s assuming that she actually sits for any interviews.  Joe Biden doesn’t do that now.

And to your point, Buck, I totally see all of that happening.  I don’t even think she would be that good on television.  Because I don’t think — I guess if everybody writes everything for her, and she just reads it off the teleprompter, which is basically the Instagram influencer model going to MSNBC, she just doesn’t have that many interesting ideas.  And so I don’t know that she would be a very interesting person, if she had to actually — she’s interesting for a congressperson.

BUCK:  Well, her followers think you’re Clay-splaining right now.  And you’re a cis gender male alpha, yada, yada.

CLAY:  She’s interesting for a congressperson.  Is she actually interestingly for a person who has to compete for interest?  I don’t know that she could do a fun show.  I don’t know that she’s an engaging personality, outside — again, she’s competing against people who are really boring.  And she’s way better looking than they are.  And she’s way younger than they are.  But when she actually competes against young and smart people.  Is she actually very impressive?  I have significant doubts about that, right?

BUCK:  When she sends you to Gitmo, when she’s president, I’ll promise I’ll come to visit, Clay.

CLAY:  I’ll give you an example, Buck.  I was good-looking for being a sportswriter.  I’m not a particularly good-looking man.

BUCK:  Clay does not lack for confidence.  One of the things I love about my partner.

CLAY:  Oh, no.  Good-looking for a sportswriter.  Good-looking for a sportswriter is like a four on a scale of one to ten.  These are not good-looking men, right?  AOC owes a lot of her attention because of her profession.  I don’t think if she moves outside of politics, I don’t think she would be very good.  Like Rachel Maddow is very good at television, I think AOC might suck at it.

BUCK:  We’ll see.

CLAY:  We may well see.  I’m scared your prognosis is correct.

BUCK:  People will go back, “Buck can see the future.”  I think it’s pretty clear

CLAY:  I’m concerned that your prognosis is correct.  I’m just hoping that she would actually suck at what you’re telling her she should do.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

BUCK:  I have an update for you on the whole AOC fake arrest story.  I knewthere would be some laughable — because it was so stupid, the whole thing, right?

CLAY:  Yes.

BUCK: Not only is she an imbecile, she’s a fraud folks.  A fraud.  But she could do an Instagram live right now.  And there would be more people watching her, than that watch MSNBC.  And they would all be saying, “Yeah! Yes, queen.  You’re amazing.  You’re genius.”  And they’re all so dumb.  And I feel badly for them.  They should listen to this show.  They would learn something.

CLAY:  I rarely pay attention to AOC.  But after that, “you’re my favorite big booty Latina video,” which was up last week.  I went into the comments.  And, Buck, the number of what appeared to be male Twitter accounts, just, is like they were desperately asking for her to date them.  When you read these comments, it’s like, well, “If he had said that to me and you were my girlfriend, I would have punched him right in the face.”  Got like 900 likes.

BUCK:  If you are a beta male with Ukraine flags and the double masking selfies, and if your profile photo is you in an N95, and you announce your pronouns to everybody all the time, AOC is the dream woman.  I mean, she is the absolute best you could ever imagine and hope for, if you happened to be one of those guys.

CLAY:  It is funny.  I just love reading their comments. Because, first of all, you’re not going to date the girl, that you’re making the comments about, in the social media accounts, all right? Unless you’re also famous and rich, she’s not going to be like, you know, “Matteas4646923 with the Ukraine flag and the triple mask profile pic, you’re the guy I’ve been dreaming of dating forever!”

It’s just next-level pathetic, the men who are, like, throwing themselves at AOC’s feet in the comments. I couldn’t help but enjoy it.

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With Approval in 30s, Biden Has United the Country — Against Him

20 Jul 2022

CLAY: New poll coming out from NPR and Marist, as we’re on-air right now.  And I’m looking at some of the data, and it ain’t good for Joe Biden.  If NPR is saying, hey, things ain’t good for Joe Biden, you know things aren’t good for Joe Biden: 36% approval in the NPR poll that just came down.  A couple of details here, that I thought were interesting.

Independent voters, 66% disapproval for Joe Biden.  That is theoretically the swing voters that will decide many elections, certainly in the purple states out there: 66 %disapproval.  And this other one, I thought was intriguing.  Non-white voters.  Joe Biden, 40% approval rate out there, in the country.  White, black, Asian, Hispanic.  Congratulations to Joe Biden.  He’s managed to unite the races in the belief that he is an awful president.

He said he was going to bring Americans together, Buck.  What Joe Biden has managed to do is bring Americans together, in agreement, that he is an absolutely awful president.  So, maybe that’s one campaign promise that he’s kept.

BUCK:  Isn’t it interesting, as well, Clay, this is the best that they can do?  Think about the Democrat Party and how grandiose speeches it gives, its various leaders give about how they’ll make the country better and all this stuff, even Democrats are admitting now, Joe Biden sucks at this. He’s not good at this job.

CLAY:  Yeah.

BUCK:  When we had Trump in office, I was walking around, I was telling my audience, I know you were telling your audience back in the day too, guys, enjoy this.  Because this is about as good as it gets.  And I know there was Russia as the bait, and all the craziness, but peace, a roaring economy, sanity at the top level of government.  It was awesome.  We were sitting around saying, look at how awesome it is, you know, in 2017, 2018, 2019.  Joe Biden becomes president, and the Democrats are going, this isn’t so great after all.

CLAY:  I would also tell you this:  There are a lot of suburban women out there that will make a big difference in 2022 and 2024.  I think this is an easy argument to make to them.  A lot of them did not like Donald Trump personally.  And this is probably a big debate we’re going to have in 2023 as Republicans go about picking the nominee.

Would you rather have mean tweets or $5-a-gallon gas?  Would you rather have mean tweets or 9.4% inflation?  Whatever you didn’t like about Trump was primarily personality-driven, and I’m talking to suburban women right now.  Would you rather have your kids in school without masks on?  How about just your kids in school in general?  Maybe if we can’t get on Twitter right now.  But a mean tweet now and then, ain’t that bad of an issue, compared to failing on every issue as Joe Biden has done.

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Let Them Drive EVs! Even Geraldo Compares Dems to Marie Antoinette

20 Jul 2022

CLAY: Buck, you were just talking as — as we were discussing there, going to break, what are they thinking?  What are they thinking, when they look at the data, and see, hey, 1% of overall voters, even 3% of Democratic voters are obsessed with the environment and climate change.  And yet, Biden hasn’t had anything on his schedule for two days, and then suddenly, he’s going up to Massachusetts, to make a big speech about the existential threat to our country that’s coming to climate change.

I think they’re just trying to get whatever they can, through Congress, before they lose the House.  And we’ll see what happens in the Senate.  But they won’t be able to pass anything.  And this is their last best shot to try to do so.  What do you think is going on?

BUCK:  I think that the environmentalist wacko wing of the Democrat Party, even though it’s not large, it is very monied and very well connected.  So Nancy Pelosi, for example, walks around talking about how the climate crisis is real, because the kind of people that, you know, run the companies that her husband invests in, it seems.

CLAY:  Good timing by Paul Pelosi, huh?

BUCK:  Got a lot of skills, apparently.  This is what Pelosi says.

BUCK:  And just blather, right?  But the fancy people that ride on the private jets with Nancy Pelosi, who write big checks to Democrat PACs and nonprofits and throw the fundraisers, are obsessed with the fashionable virtue signaling of climate change ideology and the green new deal, Clay.  I think that’s honestly what pushes it.  Because, as you said, look at the polls.

The people they’re trying to win votes from, are basically fooled into thinking the Democratic Party cares about working people.  It does not.  It cares about people who are really rich.  But they’re not going to win any of those votes in Arizona, Nevada, Michigan within Wisconsin, with this stuff.

CLAY:  You’re 100% right.  I also, in addition to the high dollar donors, I think Biden probably internally got massacred for making that trip to Saudi Arabia.  And been going on bended knee.  And giving the fist pound to MBS.  And begging them to produce more oil and gas, even though it’s not going to occur.

Because remember, a lot of Democrats consider high gas prices to be fantastic.  Because that means that the Green New Deal is getting more competitive.  When gas prices are $5 a gallon, all of a sudden, the windmills and the solar.  And the electric costs, which are far most of your expensive, starts to look like a more viable option.  The problem with that is, the vast majority of Americans can’t afford electric cars.

And they keep selling this idea, which makes them look Marie Antoinette, the Democrats do.  Well, if the gas prices are too high, you should just go buy an electrical vehicle.  What?  The electrical vehicle that sells for over $60,000 a year?  $60,000 total.  And isn’t going to allow me to even drive that far?  So these are not viable options for lots of people out there.  And when you look at how that electricity is being produced, a lot of that electricity building used to drive an electric car are being produced by coal and by traditional methods of producing energy.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

BUCK: We’re still waiting to see what the Biden speech is going to be up in Massachusetts, where he’s going to be doing the usual.  Going to be telling everybody that, you know, it’s a transition.  It’s a painful transition toa better green energy future.  Sorry about those high gas prices, et cetera, et cetera.  But they’re actually not sorry.  Because they think that this is saving the planet.  Here is Biden’s energy adviser Amos Hochstein, saying, look, we need to limit oil production to accelerate the transition.

BUCK:  And so they want to tell you, they want more gas and oil.  But not like too much.  Because it’s icky.  And destroying the planet.  But they know that voters are looking at them, like why are you crazy?  And then Pete Buttigieg comes along, for example, and says, look, the more pain you experience, the deeper into credit card debt you go, trying to fill up your tank, the better it is.  Because you’ll be so much more enthusiastic about getting an electric car.

BUTTIGIEG:  Of course, the more pain we’re all experiencing from the high price of gas, the more benefit that there is for those who can access an electric vehicle.

BUCK:  I mean, Clay, that’s it.  John Kerry spoke — what was it?  A more or two ago, and said (impression), “Oh, we don’t want to lose focus on this Ukraine war, on the transition to green energy.  We don’t want Putin to forget about what’s really important.”  He’s shelling cities into the ground.  But let’s worry about CO2 emissions from the guy.  These people are nuts.  They’re zealots.  They actually have a problem.

CLAY:  It’s Marie Antoinette.  It’s Marie Antoinette.  Over and over and over again.

BUCK:  You know who says this, our buddy Geraldo, play it.  Twelve.  Sorry.

RIVERA:  I thought he sounded very Marie Antoinettey, the queen of France who was beheaded because she said, “Let them eat cake.”  He sounded a lot like that, oh, too bad you can’t buy an electric vehicle.  You should.  And nah, nah, if you can’t.

BUCK:  She never actually said that, but that’s a side note.

CLAY:  That’s what I was going to is.  I was going to be the history nerd there and I was going to say, eh, people may have been a little bit unfair to Marie Antoinette.  George Washington also didn’t actually do the cherry tree chop down.  There’s a lot of sort of clichés that move in through American history.  Just like Donald Trump didn’t say, there are very fine people on both sides, surrounding Charlottesville, if you actually go back.  There’s a lot of stuff that wind up not building true.

But the truth that was embedded on what Marie Antoinette said, was that the ruling estate of France was so out of touch with the proletariat, of everybody out there who was unable to live the norm lives, that that Versailles palace, which, by the way, is extraordinary, and I hope everybody gets the chance to walk through it sometime.  But when everybody is struggling, and the rich people are living in the huge palace, it isn’t a good idea to be selling that.

And mayor Pete is relatively unaccomplished.  I give him credit because he decided to run for president, out of nowhere.  Mayor out of South Bend, Indiana.  And if you talk to people around Notre Dame, not even a good mayor of South Bend, Indiana!  It’s not like he came in and completely revitalized that place.  A lot of issues still exist in South Bend Indiana.  And then he decides he’s going to run for president.  And the Democratic bench is so weak, that he actually caught fire with the woke white community.

And the white woke community.  And I’m going to keep hammering them, Buck.  They are destroying this country.  Everybody out there, who is listening right now, if you want to go to war, metaphorically, of course, in argument’s sake, your enemy is the woke white imbecile, who thinks that America is an awful place.  Who is leading us down this primrose path of utter destruction.  And their saint, the leader of their parade is mayor Pete.  And everybody like Mayor Pete, who wants to lecture us that inner states are racist, that everything in American history is systemically awful.  The people who are having to pay $5 a gallon or 4.50, or whatever the gallon figure is right now.  It’s still over $100 to fill my car up.  I’ll tell you that right now.  Prices have come down a little bit.

And nobody I’m talking to all over the southeast, Buck, is sitting around saying, you know what, I really am thinking a lot about the green new deal, and how I’m encouraged now to go buy an electrical vehicle.  They’re all like, Joe Biden is an imbecile, and he has to be gone immediately.  And unfortunately, we have 30 more months of this trash.

BUCK:  Here’s Tom Cotton.  Speaking of what could be happening in this country, and why it’s not.  What happened under President Trump, for example.  We get to full energy independence for our needs.  And we had so much prosperity, that people forgot what it’s like to have a dumbass Democrat making the calls.  So they lost site of how quickly things could turn around.  Here’s Senator Cotton.

BUCK:  American energy, Clay.  The wealth of the American people is the American people.  Yeah.  That’s true.  But actually our energy is really important.  Our energy reserves are really important.  We are able to, if we would drop this notion, that there’s something dirty and destructive about fossil fuels.  We would be in such a better place.

And you notice, what they say, doesn’t even make sense.  They got rid of the Keystone XL Pipeline.  Day one, Biden comes into office, the Obama State Department, did a multi-year, you know, exhaustive study of this.  To try to find some way to disapprove of it.  And it’s just a question of, do you want the pipeline going across the U.S. territory, north to south,, so you can export it.  And you get money for this.  And there’s American benefit.  Or do you want to go in west, to the Asian market.  You know, the Canadian tar — tar sands.  And they just decided, well, we don’t want to be a part of this dirty thing that is oil.  That was the decision.  Even if it makes no difference to the actual environment.

CLAY:  Drill, Baby Drill!  This is one that Sarah Palin got exactly right.  I mean, it’s simple.  Drill, Baby, Drill!.  In 2024, how do you think your average American is going to respond, when we are having certainly in three, four months, we’re going to have the midterms. But I’m talking about 2024.  These are real decisions that need to be made.  Do we want to be energy independent by producing as much oil and gas as possible or not?  My answer is yes.

And if you’re going to get on are just Air Force One, fly all the way across the Atlantic.  Go into the Middle East, and sit down, and beg Saudi Arabia to produce more oil and gas.  If we had a real media in this country, with Joe Biden goes up for this climate discussion, somebody would just raise a hand and say, why is it better for you to beg Saudi Arabia to produce more oil and gas, when they produce it in a dirtier fashion, than just allowing American oil and gas to be produced, so that we make all of those hundreds of billions of dollars in this country, and we can energy export, which is what we were doing under Trump.

As opposed to having to beg all of these petro-dictator states for them to produce more.  Biden, I don’t know if he can answer it.  They might have to shoot him up with more drugs so that he can perform for this thing, after two days of sitting on the sidelines.  But that’s the essence of this question.  And almost no one is asking it.

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Floundering Biden Regime Tries Focusing on Climate Change

20 Jul 2022

BUCK: We’ve got this upcoming speech from Joe Biden.  He’s going to be at a former coal plant in Massachusetts.  That is now a site of what will be a connection to offshore windmills.  And one of my favorite things, by the way, Clay about all the windmill talk, is Nantucket, for anybody that doesn’t know, is an enclave of the richest people in America, and in some places the world.  The Google founder’s house is there.  Larry Ellison has a place in Nantucket.

CLAY:  Have you ever been?  I’ve never been.

BUCK:  Yeah.  I paid more money I made in a month to be in the smallest room I think available on the island at the time.  I’m not kidding.  It’s a very pricey place to be.  It’s beautiful though.  But there are all these complaints.  Because they set up, the super rich people.  And, you know, some of the ladies who lunch.  They have the billionaire husbands.  And they’re bored.  And they’re like, let’s set up some windmills.  Turns out, now you have this giant thing that makes a droning noise.  A humming noise.  That is a Cuisinart for migratory foul, it just chops up birds all the time.  No one talks about that.  It’s actually true.  Ducks. (Quack)

They’re getting their heads lopped off by these things.  Massacred.  Their heads are getting chopped off.  There are feathers flying everywhere.  It’s crazy.  And they’re like, this is ugly to look at.  So, they don’t want them near their homes.  They don’t want them offshore.  There have been huge fights over this at Nantucket.

But, trust me, if you live near the ocean, and you’re in a more middle class, more sort of normal economically neighborhood, oh, they’re going to be piling up the windmills off of your coast.  You’ll be seeing them in the distance.  No more just staring off at the beautiful horizon.  Biden will be giving this speech.  And it turns out, he’s not declaring this climate emergency.  Which, what was that even going to be?

And it’s amazing, Clay.  At a time when people are more concerned about inflation.  The price of gas.  The price of food than anything else.  The libs, who are writing Biden’s speeches for him, and, apparently, giving him performance-enhancement drugs.  Which, have we confirmed confirmed that actually happened?  Because people have been talking about that a lot.  They want to lecture us about the Green New Deal.

CLAY:  There are so many, many things.  The idea of Biden being on performance enhancing drugs and still being as bad at his job as he is.  What would he be without the performance enhancing drugs?  This is like somebody taking steroids and still not building good enough to make their high school baseball team.  Like, if you’re on steroids, you can’t make the high school baseball team, you really suck.  That’s Biden right now.

One percent, Buck, of the electorate in a recent New York Times poll, said that the climate is the number one issue for them in the 2022 elections.  3% of Democrats.  I keep talking about this, because it feels as if the Biden administration is trying to tank for the number one overall draft pick.  Even Democrats are saying, hey, dude, let’s focus on inflation.  Let’s focus on crime.  Let’s focus on the border.  Let’s focus on the things that impact me on a day-to-day basis.  Three percent of Democrats say the — the climate is their biggest concern. One percent of overall voters.  Hardly any independents.

Buck, who is advising Joe Biden?  Theoretically, they can look at the data.  Now, the reason why he’s not announcing a climate emergency evidently, is because they are holding out hope, did you this in Politico?  That Joe Manchin may change his mind and be willing, if the August 10th inflation numbers, when the newest numbers come out for July, are not as bad as they have been, to potentially still sign on to a climate bill.  So that is what I’ve read for why he’s not calling it a climate emergency.  No one is worried in the grand scheme of things about the climate, when inflation is 9.1 percent.

And when you see this, they see the numbers.  They’re looking at the same data and polling that we are.  Does Joe Biden, in addition to being the worst president in any of our lives, also have the dumbest advisers, in any of our lives in the White House?  I mean, what are they?  I don’t even understand their game plan here, traveling to Massachusetts, a state he’s already going to win, and going to a windmill factory or whatever it is.  He feels like Don Quixote right now.

CLAY:  Speaking of Biden advisers and their capabilities.  White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is trying to sell the American people on Biden has to do all these executive orders because it’s so warm right now.  She’s actually saying this, folks.  And it’s not going to actually convince convince anyone.

CLAY:  Okay.  A couple things, first of all, it’s not the job of the president to usurp the job of the legislature.  And say, they won’t do, because I don’t have the votes in my party, what I want.  So I will just write it on a piece of paper, and pretend that’s the system we have.  Obama was the one who started this, by the way.  He was the, I’ve got a pen and a phone.  I’ll do it myself.  I’ll go it alone.  Which, yeah, that’s violating our constitutional separation of powers, and Obama lost in the courts, many times, people forget this. So has Biden, Buck.  He’s tried to do all sorts of things. The OSHA extensions of the ability to — to kick people out.

BUCK:  I should look up — and, Greg, could I find out the number of times the Obama executive orders were struck down in the courts?  I think it was almost a dozen.  It was nine, ten, something like that.  But they’re saying now, Clay, this is amazing.

They’re talking about the climate emergency.  As everybody is seeing the price of gas.  The price of food.  The price of fertilizer.  Which means there’s a long tail to that.  And fertilizer is really expensive.  We’re harvesting — or eating last year’s harvest of food right now.  Going into this next harvest, guess what, ask any farmer.  By the way, we have any farmers out there?  I know we do.  If you want to tell us a little bit about what you’re seeing, please let us know.  Call in.  Because food is about to get a lot more expensive.  Housing is looking really shaky right now.  And with all of those factors.  The emergency is CO2 emissions?  These people are out of their minds.

CLAY:  Also, Buck, Biden didn’t have anything on his public schedule the past few days.  He didn’t do anything.  And then he comes back, literally was not making any arguments that the KJP there said, oh, he’s been working really hard behind the scenes.  Come on.  I mean, the guy has been sleeping for two days.  Probably from coming back from the Middle East.  I’m sure he’s tired.  He’s 79 now.  I think about to turn 80, like a couple of days after the midterms.  And we’re talking about him going to address the climate crisis?  Again, I just come back to, even his base doesn’t care that much about this.  And it legitimately feels as if they’re just throwing in the towel, and acknowledging that he’s done.

BUCK:  So maybe we come back and answer this.  But I throw this answer out there, so, Clay, given the polls, given the reality economically and politically right now.  Why is he doing it?  There are reasons.

CLAY:  Yeah. It’s a great question.

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    BUCK: AOC just got arrested outside the Supreme Court protesting. Actually — no, she wasn’t arrested. She was escorted from the area. But on video, Clay, she is holding her hands voluntarily behind her as though she is handcuffed, but she’s not really handcuffed. They’re imaginary cuffs. What the heck is that?

    CLAY: She wants the attention. And, unfortunately — and you may have seen this ridiculous video that went viral of the kids at Sesame Street, the mascot not recognizing them enough, in this era that we’re in — and they argue, by the way, Sesame Street’s racist.

    In this era that we’re in, AOC is aware that if she pretend — I really think this — if she pretends to walk as if she has been handcuffed, there will be some people who will grab the videos of that, they will grab pictures of that, and it will appear to a certain segment of the population that otherwise gets all their information from Instagram and five-second video feeds, TikTok, that she was arrested for protesting abortion. Like, that will be widely reported now.

    Ilhan Omar also did the exact same thing. They wanted, probably, to get arrested for the attention. So when police were asking them to move, they pretended that they were being handcuffed, as if they were actually being restrained and being put into paddy wagons, police cars, whatever you want to say.

    BUCK: It’s crazy. By the way, your description of AOC: she’s an Instagram influencer who happens to be a member of Congress. I do think that is the most apt description of her I’ve heard. So well done, Mr. Clay Travis.

    CLAY: Thank you.

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    Alex Berenson Returns to Reveal His Biggest Covid Concern

    19 Jul 2022

    CLAY: We are joined now by our friend Alex Berenson, who is now no longer banned on Twitter. And he has been firing away many of the different facts, data, and details surrounding covid. And, Alex, I want to start with this ’cause we were just talking about it on the show and we talked about it this week and last week as well. Just 2% of parents of 6-month-old to 5-year-old kids in this country has now been a month where they could get the covid shot. Just 2% of them are getting the covid shot for their young kids.

    This is devastating to the covid shot universe. Not a lot of attention being paid to it yet. You talked about it with us I believe the last time you were on. What is this telling us, and why are so few people covering it?

    BERENSON: Well, they’re not covering it because they don’t like it, right? This runs contrary to what, you know, the mainstream media, the elite media especially, has been saying for, you know, a year and a half, which is everybody knows the vaccines are great, everybody’s desperate for them. People really want to make sure their kids are protected. You know, people really want boosters.

    You know, we’re in a very strange place right now where the narrative has sort of become completely disconnected from reality in terms of what people actually think about the vaccines as opposed to what the media says about them. And this is — I mean, this is just hugely embarrassing. And there’s no way — there’s no way to hide it so, you know, there’s this excuse, oh, this is something parents are gonna get, you know, pediatricians, with their kids, when in fact the reality is what I’ve heard from many, many parents now is that pediatricians who were encouraging this, you know, last year with older kids, you know, when the shots were available for older kids, are not saying a word about it anymore, whether or not, you know, it’s a 5- to 11-year-old or whether it’s a younger kid.

    Pediatricians, they don’t want to recommend the covid shot. Parents don’t want to get them. And, you know, if you thought that this was beneficial and you’re a decent parent, you know, or you’re any parent, you’re gonna want this for your child, it’s free, it’s available. The fact that this has been rejected tells you everything you need to know about what people really think about this shot at this point.

    BUCK: Alex, thanks for being with us. You know, right before you came on we played I think they always say like four-star admiral Rachel Levine, you know, in the HHS or whatever. They always love to talk about an admiral. Well, kind of different admiral. Different in a lot of ways, different admiral. But saying we know what works.

    And this is the phrase that libs — I almost think that they do it just to agitate me because I completely lose my mind. They say, “We know what works. Masks, tests, vaccines.” How much more clear does it have to be that those things actually don’t work when it comes to stopping the pandemic, which now is what, exactly? People I know people that are testing positive for covid, they’re saying, ah, feel fine, no one really cares. So what are we doing?

    BERENSON: I mean, that’s a fantastic question, what are we doing? We have this sort of unhinged flywheel that’s sort of spinning around. You know, if you look at the countries that, you know, were supposedly the winners of covid — Australia, New Zealand, South Korea. You know, a lot of countries in the Pacific Rim, you know, Australia and New Zealand, for example, right now have serious covid outbreaks okay, they have tons of cases. They actually are getting their hospitals filled up right now and they’ve been vaccinated and masked and tested. Nothing works. Okay, we know what works. Nothing. Nothing works.

    This virus is going to do what it’s gonna do. That’s been clear for a long time. It has mutated in a way that has made the vaccines — let’s be clear. It’s not clear the vaccines ever would have had any long-term value. They now have no value.

    And the other thing that they say constantly is, well, the vaccines may not stop infection and transmission, but they definitely help, you know, against severe disease and death. And when it comes to Omicron, that is completely unclear whether that he says, either. But I don’t even want to go into that right now because I think people are done, on the one hand, and yet the public health response is sort of continuing.

    BUCK: But are people done, Alex? Sorry. Because they’re putting back mask mandates in the San Diego schools, Los Angeles County is like 10 days away from them, I mean, I think New York’s probably gonna follow suit here. I don’t think people are done.

    BERENSON: Well, people are done. Whether or not the public health authorities in certain sort of hard blue jurisdictions are done is a different story. But, you know, even the New York Times, you know, for example, wrote yesterday that, you know, they acknowledge that, you know, on the New York City subways where you’re supposed to wear masks, people aren’t wearing masks, right?

    So the only place they have leverage, the government authorities, is in places where they have direct control, right? Which is unfortunately the public schools, the military, you know, they have a lot of control over the health care system because Medicare is such a powerful force in health care.

    So they’re gonna continue to push, you know, testing and masking. And I don’t know if they’re gonna push vaccines anymore at this point. Actually they have been so rejected. But they’re gonna push testing and masking for a while longer. And in the schools they can actually force, you know, children to comply. So I don’t know what’s gonna happen with that. But that doesn’t mean that anybody outside these very narrow interest groups thinks that this is a good idea.

    CLAY: Yeah. And I was gonna build on what Buck just said. I don’t know if you heard the San Diego school director who basically got pushed and said, “Well, if you don’t want to wear a mask, don’t come to school.”

    What we have seen, unfortunately, is that we have lost many, many kids who would otherwise be in school because of our covid response. So do you think that any school districts in America are going to mandate the covid shot this fall in order for kids to return? You don’t think that’s gonna happen?

    BERENSON: No. The masks they can sort of marginally push because — because masks are sort of — you know, I don’t think masks do much harm to most kids. I mean, I think there’s some kids, especially, you know, if you have trouble hearing, obviously, being in an environment where a lot of kids have masks is not good. You know, if you have autism, it can be bad. For most kids, most kids just walk around with the masks around their chins, anyway. I mean, that’s really what you saw last year.

    CLAY: So you don’t think there’s gonna be any covid shot requirements which is encouraging?

    BERENSON: There will be no — no. No. Even in California they had dropped that. And I know that Eric Adams sort of hinted at this a couple weeks ago. You’ve heard nothing more. In a democratic country, you can’t force and that 98% of parents don’t want. You just can’t.

    CLAY: Okay. So I’m sure you also saw the USC and the UCLA hospital systems in L.A., which I thought was really interesting. Now, they tried to walk back a bit, but they effectively said, hey, of all the people that are being counted right now as covid patients, only 10% of that number are actually hospitalized with covid. The other 90% are testing incidental for covid.

    Do we get the sense that that is the case for much of the nation, and if so, how important were those doctors coming out and making the statement that they did?

    BERENSON: I mean, 10% seemed low to me and what might be driving that at that — you know, at that particular hospital, I don’t know. They said they did test everyone upon entry; so they are catching a lot of the incidental covid. But, yeah, we’ve known for a long time that tons of covid is incidental, right?

    That tons of covid, people don’t know they have or have very mild cases. And that was true before Omicron, and it’s really true now.

    So there was a paper out of Italy a couple weeks ago that was actually looking at the persistence of covid antibodies among children who’d been naturally infected, not vaccinated, and showed they have incredible persistence, which is really good. You get it once as a child, you have antibodies for a long time, you are essentially protected going forward for as long as we’ve been able to test right now.

    But what that also found, there was a sort of incidental number in the paper that something like that 98% of the people in the study — these are young, healthy Italian, you know, families — had either no symptoms or mild symptoms of covid. So that’s always been true. And with Omicron it’s even more true.

    The people who are getting sicker now and appear to be getting reinfected are people — I hate to say this because it sounds horrible, but it is true, who have been vaccinated and boosted. And you know, that’s what we need to be concerned about going forward is that it looks like there’s increasing evidence that once you’re vaccinated, you’ll — if you get infected with Omicron, you wind up with antibodies that are really antibodies to the original strain of covid, which doesn’t exist anymore. And so your immune response is suboptimal right now.

    Now, that doesn’t matter that much for most people right now because Omicron is so mild. But my big concern — and I’m not saying this is gonna happen or even likely to happen — my big concern is that if a new variant comes and it is more dangerous, people who’ve been vaccinated and boosted will wind up in this position where their immune response is not what it would be.

    BUCK: Have you seen, Alex, by the way, there’s audio of Fauci very, very early on, when they were trying to, you know, before even they were talking about warp speed, where he was saying sometimes vaccines, if you go too quickly, can actually have bad effects.

    BERENSON: Yes. Yes.

    BUCK: Which now if you’ve talked about that the last two years they’ve basically wanted to exile you to Siberia.

    BERENSON: Yeah. And that’s crazy because not talking about it doesn’t mean it’s not a real risk. And so, again, we are at this funny point, right? The pandemic is basically over in many, many people’s minds. I was in Las Vegas over the weekend. And, you know, there wasn’t a person wearing a mask. I mean, I exaggerate slightly, but 95% of people were not wearing a mask.

    No one was mentioning covid. It was over. Okay. Ann then I come back to New York and, yes, there’s still idiots in N95s, but most people are done with this, and I think as they should be, because we’ve lived through it. But there is this sort of tail risk with — you know, with antibody dependent enhancement. There’s this risk that the vaccines are gonna come back to bite us in a terrible way. I don’t think it’s a high risk, but I think it’s real.

    BUCK: Real quick, Alex, just wondering, you know, they keep saying that high quality masks work. That has been the switch recently ’cause the mask thing I completely just reject. I think this is horrible. They need to stop doing this. Does the data actually support that even N95 masks have done anything substantial to reduce covid spread?

    BERENSON: No. No. There’s some evidence, if you wear an N95 properly and you’re in a hospital and you wear it for, you know, three hours and then you switch to a new one and, you know, you do it right, that there’s some evidence that those have some reduction of influenza or coronavirus, you know, infection. But it’s not very good evidence, and it’s not a very high rate. Nobody in the civilian world wears them that way anyway.

    So, you know, the mask thing, the reason they wanted masks ’cause masks scare people. When the masks ended, the pandemic ended. And, again, when you walk around a place where people aren’t wearing masks, we just forget that this thing ever happened. So I do think that’s why they’re pushing masks.

    BUCK: Yep. We think so too. The Midterm Variant one way or the other. Everybody should go check out Alex’s Substack. And I know he’s working on a book too. So go check out Unreported Truths covid-19 on Substack. Alex Berenson, everybody. Alex, thanks so much.

    BERENSON: Always a pleasure, guys.

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