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Biden Says He Has Cancer, But the WH Says He’s Wrong

21 Jul 2022

CLAY: In addition to the fact that our 79-, soon to be 80-year-old president, Buck, came out this morning early and announced he has covid — and, of course, we wish him well, and we hope he’s going to be fine, like the vast majority of people that test positive for covid…

BUCK: He’s going to be fine.

CLAY: He’s going to be fine. But yesterday, he hadn’t done anything for a couple of days after coming back from the Middle East. They shot him all up with whatever drugs give him more energy, and they trotted him out. Where was he, where was he giving a speech?

BUCK: Massachusetts at an old coal plant. And he gave a speech in front of what was looking like the surface of the moon. Because that’s what’s going to happen, folks. Unless we pass AOC’s Green New Deal, the whole new world will look like the nuclear apocalypse has already hit. That’s why climate change is so important.

CLAY: So, he has covid. But he is in the grips of such dementia-addled absurdity virtually every time he speaks now, you really don’t know what he’s going to say. And I assume he went off teleprompter again for this. And he ended up talking about how he got cancer, because when he was a kid, there was oil on the front windshields. And just listen to this.

The White House had to backtrack, and try to explain away the gaffes. I mean, it’s a tough job right now. Every time Biden speaks, they have to come up afterwards and clean up everything that he said. Here’s Biden kind of rambling about how he got cancer because when he was a kid, there was oil on the windshield.

BUCK: There’s so much there.

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: It sounded like, that’s why I and so many like me, have cancer. Now, I know the White House is trying to say, that he meant he had had non-basil cell carcinoma or something, which is very common for a lifeguard.

CLAY: When he was a lifeguard also. From think out in the sun, effectively.

BUCK: I know tons of people who have had it. Usually, unless you have melanoma, and it’s really serious, people don’t think of that — removing a precancerous growth is usually not something you refer to as, “Oh, I had cancer.” The people in this audience, who have had cancer, have an understanding how serious that is.

But even before that, “I used to have to use my windshield wipers to get the oil slick from the air, off of my windshield.” Why does Joe Biden think he’s allowed to pretend that he grew up like as a chimney sweep. Or he was a coal miner, or something. He was not these things.

CLAY: He also said, I have cancer. Which would mean that he has it right now, which would have been major news, unlike covid, which he has. And they had to come back and try to clean all this up. But none of it makes sense. And it isn’t really connected. Because, again, the skin cancer that he had, I think is based on what he was hanging out with corn pop back in the day, as a lifeguard in local pools. So it’s all so strange every time he talks. And I just — I look at it, and I wonder, Buck, we’re almost to the point now, where when Joe Biden comes out and speaks, you have no idea what he’s going to say.

But also as the listener or the viewer, it’s like watching a kid who is trying to learn how to walk, trying to figure out if he’s going to be able to make it. When you have young kids, you sit on one side of the room and your wife is on the other side of the room. And you’re like, “Hey, let’s see if you can walk from one of us to the other.” Biden every time he speaks. He’s like that kid, that is learning how to walk. And you don’t know if he’s going to make it. Or if he’s going to fall halfway through. It’s really an uncomfortable situation, for the leader of the free world, to have put all of us and for the Democrats to have put all of us in this situation, and to still have 30 some odd months left, theoretically, of his tenure.

BUCK: Yeah. He’s not the president of the local Rotary Club. He’s the president of the United States.

CLAY: Yeah. And that would be tough, even if you were the president of the Rotary Club, you would be nervous when the old guy got up and talked because you knew something might go awry. But it’s not that important of a job in the grand scheme of things. This is kind of a big deal.

BUCK: The people who spent four years lecturing all of us about how Donald Trump was a danger to democracy.

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: And a totally unfit. That was the word that was used. Unfit. And it’s worth noting, that every person, that any of you listening to this ever saw, on TV, or — I don’t really do radio. On TV. Or in print. At the New York Times. Or at CNN, or whatever. Who referred to Trump as unfit, offered up and supported with everything they had this clown, who is medically unfit.

CLAY: Yeah.

BUCK: Who is medically unfit by virtue of age and physical deterioration, on top of the fact that the Biden crime families are also really corrupt. But we’ll talk more about that later. But this is their response? This is their version of what is a responsible choice for our democracy? Democrats that I know, and in private, Clay, they wouldn’t even try to defend they believe anymore.  They would be like, this is bad.  We’ve made a mistake.  But they will still vote for them.  They will vote against any other Republican, if he’s the nominee.  They don’t care. But they think he’s the responsible guardians of our democracy, sure.

CLAY: All the people who spent years lecturing us that we were going to be on the wrong side of history, went out and voted for the worst president of most of our lives. They have put themselves on the wrong side of history, by lecturing all of us about how we were going to end up on the wrong side of history for supporting Donald Trump. I would love if we could have some mean tweets right now. I would sign up for some mean tweets in a heartbeat, compared to Joe Biden destroying everything that he touches.

BUCK: And the people who also claim to be so concerned with everyone’s health, that they had to put through these unprecedented and now we know, unjustifiable mandates, and all these covid policies and all the lockdowns. Right now, they’ll also tell you, that somehow, Joe Biden is healthy enough and of sound mind enough, that he should still be making decisions of all kinds, but specifically, we’re going to go into a period here in the winter season where you’re going to have more executive orders on covid, you’re going to have more people, maybe there will be some lawsuits over it, but they’re not done. They’re not done with everybody. And Joe Biden is making the calls on this. It’s appalling, honestly. The libs are incapable of shame, Clay. I don’t know what else to say. Because this whole situation is shameful.

CLAY: I know the overturning of Roe v. Wade has gotten a lot of attention. But think about how controversial the Supreme Court decision to not allow Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate was, because tens of millions of people were able to avoid having to get the covid shot. I know way too many had to. But it doesn’t work at all. It is totally useless, and yet we’re still requiring people to get that shot in order to be employed.

BUCK: This was tyranny. Just so everyone can be clear.

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: What Biden was doing, by mandating that every business with over 100 employees — they’re trying to legally massage it, but basically every large business in the country, and then every small business was going to follow, had to get these shots, or else they were going to pay crazy fines, and everyone was going to get fired. It was tyrannical, and they were wrong. It’s bad enough to be tyrannical, and maybe it’s a judgment call because there are some upside to it.

CLAY: Bad combo.

BUCK: This was tyrannical and useless. And that’s actually a great description of Joe Biden: tyrannical, wrong, and useless. There we go. Well done, everybody.

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GOP Should Pledge to Do This If They Win Control of Congress

21 Jul 2022

BUCK: Senator Rand Paul is spot-on as usual, on any issue related to covid. Welcome back to Clay and Buck. They’ve already brought back the mask mandate in San Diego. And now it’s likely to hit in other places too. This remarkably, just absurd piece in the New York Times, a couple of days ago, about how covid cases are rising, and mask compliance on the subway is going down. You know, they’ll just pick random areas of your life to annoy you, if you live in a blue area.

Notice, it’s entirely now, broken down along political lines. The redder the place you are, in terms of politics, the less lunacy you have to deal with. And, I mean, Clay, we were just talking about how the whole premise of the vaccine mandates was you’re not allowed to make this choice for you, because you will get it and give it to somebody unless you get the shot. It’s reckless. It’s irresponsible for you not to get the shot, because it’s about other people, the immune compromised, the elderly. They beat everybody into submission they could with those talking points. Total lies. Totally untrue. Totally irrelevant to the health situation in the country right now. And they don’t care. It’s amazing. We’re just going to keep on going.

CLAY: Republicans. I agree with you. We’ve been saying this for a while. You’ve been saying it in the open. This should be in the midterms, a red wave, and you should be voting on based on one thing, really, over the past couple of years, and that is Democrat’s complete failure as it pertains to covid. But I think Republicans need to take it a step further. And there has been some talk about how there’s no national message necessarily coming out of Republicans in the House and the Senate.

I think Republicans should pledge that when they take back the House and the Senate, Buck. They are going to vote, that every single person who lost their job, for a refusal to get covid should get their jobs back with back pay, especially in the federal government in particular. Everybody out there in the military, anyone in a school, a state government employee. Anybody out there, that was forced by their government, to get the covid shot or leave, that should be a focus of the House and the Senate if the Republicans take back control. And I think there’s a lot of people out there who think that’s right. Given how much money we’ve spent on covid. The number of people who have had to leave their jobs. It’s indefensible. Democrats were wrong, Republicans should fix it.

BUCK: Every person who put pressure on and showed disdain toward people in their workplace, who didn’t want to get this shot, should feel some shame and should apologize.

CLAY: And should lose their jobs. I mean, because ultimately — I’m talking about the politicians. The reason why they have jobs is for their judgment was wrong. They failed utterly. And there should be consequences. That’s why we have to have a red wave.

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Biden Tests Positive for Covid After 4 Shots and Countless Lies

21 Jul 2022

CLAY: I wanted to begin with you, this discussion of Joe Biden, who probably is, Buck, the most protected man in America in terms of the way that they tried to prevent him from getting covid, right? They have spent months, 18 months of his presidency, essentially hiding him from everyone.

BUCK: I mean, the staff is basically chewing his food for him at this point, but yes.

CLAY: Yes. So what’s interesting about this, in particular, is Biden has been awful, in terms of the Draconian restrictions that he has tried to implement through mandatory vaccination programs, that have not worked in terms of stopping the spread or keeping people from getting covid. Biden now has had his initial two covid shots, and two boosters. All within the space of about 15 or 16 months. And I want to flashback to the lies that Joe Biden told the American public.

Here is Joe Biden nearly a year ago, in July of 2021, saying on CNN, you’re not going to get covid if you have these vaccinations. July 21st, 2021, this was a CNN town hall, Joe Biden said this.

BIDEN: You’re okay. You’re not going to get covid, if you have these vaccinations.

CLAY: That is a lie. Buck, as recently as January, you’ll remember, during the White House’s self-proclaimed winter of death, when they were trying to mandate that everyone get the covid shot even though we knew that the covid shot wasn’t preventing or keeping people from getting covid. And let me say this about July 21st of last year. Buck, we were on-air, telling everyone already by then, the data was clear that you could still get covid and spread covid, even if you got the covid shot. So, Biden was spreading untruths even then.

I want you to listen January of 2022, when Biden said, this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated.

BIDEN: There’s no excuse. No excuse for anyone being unvaccinated. This continues to be a pandemic of the unvaccinated. So we got to make more progress.

BUCK: So they were wrong about everything.

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: Absolutely everything, top to bottom, left to right, front to back. Everything, they have been wrong about so far. And it’s remarkable, that there is no — no humility that comes from them whatsoever. No sense of, you know, maybe — if I could sit down with obviously Fauci and all the rest of them. I would have seasonal questions, that they would not have good answers for, we all know that. But even with the social media companies, with the Democratic-aligned corporate media, made them feel badly about shutting down conspiracy theories like… the vaccine does not work as well as advertised. Does any of them feel like maybe the suppression of the most important issues in the country at the time, the abandonment of free speech, in favor of the narrative, and enforced, shut your mouth, shut your face or you’ll lose your job, or worse, maybe they should feel badly about that? And they don’t feel badly at all.

Maybe the fact that they advocated for people to lose decades long careers or just lose their job that they started. It doesn’t matter. It had a huge impact on people. Over a vaccine, that let’s be very clear, because they’re going to lie about this now. They’re going to say, “Oh, but it still works so well. To stop hospitalization and death.” That’s if you’re within the booster window, and that’s only for a very small segment of the population, that is actually even at risk. I don’t even know how long that booster window is, or how good it is, by the way. They are now, folks. They are defending on their five-yard line. This is a red zone defense for them, Clay.

CLAY: Hey, look at you.

BUCK: Ooh. That’s right. And what we have to understand is that the initial reality here was the promise that if you got the shot, you wouldn’t spread it. And if that’s who they ran these needles into everyone’s arms. Including me, by the way. I had no choice. If you worked in New York City. People said, “Oh, just because you wanted to go to restaurants.” No, you couldn’t go into a corporate building. You can’t go into a studio. You had to be vaccinated. I had to be vaccinated to go into Fox for TV hits. You have to be vaccinated if you’re going to do your job here. And it was all based on, “if you don’t get the shot, you are a risk to other people.”

It’s not a choice you’re allowed to make for yourself. My body, my choice. They were wrong about this. They lied about this. And they should be ashamed about what they did. Instead, they’ll just go, oh, look at Biden. He’s going to do the genuflection, Clay. “So happy that I had four shots, almost got to my fifth. And shot six and seven really kick in.”

CLAY: Well, what he’s going to say, without these four shots, I would have been in a lot more danger. What I would ask all of you, we just played you those clips from July and from January from the president. If they are wrong about everything that they told you in January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December, January, and up ’til now. Why would you expect that a year from now, they’re not still wrong about everything?

BUCK: Yes.

CLAY: In other words, at some point, you’re just a rational human being out there, and someone constantly tells you information that you later find out is wrong, and they cite the science all the time, as the reason why they’re right, and you can’t ask any questions at all, a year from now, what is likely to be known about these covid shots? Where are we going to be sitting? And Buck is right. Because they’re going to be on the fifth or sixth or seventh booster by then a year from now.

And what they’re hanging onto, as tightly as they possibly can, is what Biden is going to say, I didn’t die. Because I got the covid shot, but what the data is reflecting. I was reading what Alex Barenstein is sharing from around the world data, what the data is increasingly showing, is that each of these booster shots last for a shorter period of time, and does a less efficient job of protecting you from dying.

In fact, in some of these countries now. The people who are dying, are double vaxxed, triple boosted, quadruple boosted at super high rates. And they’re not sharing that information. And what I think everybody out there listening to us now. And I think people have already made this decision, Buck. What you have to recognize is that you’re all going to get covid. Every single one of you is going to get covid, if you haven’t already had it. I really believe that. And there’s almost nothing you’ll be able to do, to keep yourself from getting covid.

BUCK: By the time people could even get vaccines, at least 70 percent of the people country had already had covid. Probably even higher than that. I’m talking about vaccines 1.0. You know, you get that shot. And it was, no, you’re safe. And all these libs were taking photos of themselves crying. I haven’t been outside my living room in — in a year. And now I can finally — it’s like, you’re 25. You know, if you were a senior citizen with real health issues, you know, I understand. My parents stayed inside a lot at the beginning of covid. I get it, but there were 25-year-old libs who were more likely to die from a lightning strike, who were in tears, because they got — but the point is, by the time you could even get a shot, because remember, they did it — they made it so that it was tiered. Right?

Some people could get it earlier, and remember, they prioritized peoples in the schools getting them. There were all the teacher’s unions. The White House under Trump actually, there was a big fight with Fauci and the rest of them, early on. Before the transition actually happened. About what the policy should be. I was told of this by people working at the White House. Because they said, we have to get it to seniors as soon as possible.

CLAY: That’s what DeSantis did.

BUCK: And the libs were like, no, let’s get it to — you know, the essential workers — the grocery store store workers who are in their 30s. And teachers who are at an average age of 32 because they’re at such risk. Because those are Democrat constituencies. There are so many awful decisions made here. And no one has been fired? Where is even the mea culpa? Where is the mea Fauci? I’m so sorry I ruined everything for everybody within with no upside.

Instead, we get the genuflection — you’re totally right. “Oh, it would have been so bad if…” -Trump had covid. No vaccine. He was fine too. We’re noticing a pattern here. Guys in their 70s in reasonable health — I mean, Biden, yesterday, was — was muttering gibberish about how he thinks he has been cancer or something.

CLAY: Yeah, we need to play that for people too.

BUCK: If he’s fine, you know, your odds are pretty good, folks. I don’t know what else to say. These libs are out of their minds.

CLAY: I knew all the way back, Buck, when they said, this doesn’t get talked about a lot. When they gave Pfizer and Moderna, Johnson & Johnson, and everybody who made the covid shots, immunity forever for being sued for their shots, because we did that. And it doesn’t get talked about very much. I got really nervous. Because do you know how often drugs that come on the market, end up having awful impacts? Even with decades of testing, we still get things wrong. And we rushed this covid shot out. Without a long range plan for what its long-term impact was going to be.

I had my fingers crossed about this, from a data perspective, Buck. I just hope, we hit on this, and we’ve talked about it for months. I just hope that the covid shot isn’t actually going to end up making covid far worse than it would have been if we had never had a covid shot at all.

BUCK: And to be clear, if you had even brought up the possibilities of how vaccines can over a long-term have problems that are unforeseen or go wrong, if you brought up any of these concepts, a year ago, last summer. You became public enemy number one. And the biggest news outlets in the country and the social media giants, would seek to de-person you and destroy you, fire you. These people are horrifying. The people who pushed this, and did this. And abandoned all the fundamental principles of freedom and liberty in our society. In order to tell — in order to make us do things, that they assured us, they 100 percent knew the answers to. They were wrong.

CLAY: Yep. And this is why it’s so important that we hold them to account. Politically within it’s the only mechanism we have, to hold them to account in a few months when you can vote on this. The Democrat Party deserves the biggest ass kicking it’s ever gotten in history, based on its covid wrongness alone. Period.

The one thing I would say that I’m super optimistic about, when it pertains to covid. I know you felt this way too, Buck. I felt like a long time we were screaming into the wilderness, because there was hardly anybody who would pay attention to what we were saying, in terms of the data. The fact that only 2 percent of parents have gotten their six-month to 5-year-old kids covid shots, is the most telling statistic that I have seen about covid in a long time. Because every single parent cares more about their young children’s health than anything in the world. And overwhelmingly, 98 percent so far of parents are saying, I’m not putting this shot into my kid’s arms. And it’s the right call.

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    Clay Crushes Hidin’ Biden on Border, Cancer Speech

    21 Jul 2022

    Clay joined Jesse Watters to talk about the catastrophe Biden has created at the border and his latest speech slip-up where he told the world he had cancer — or did he?

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    C&B 24/7 VIP Video: New Data Shows Covid Vax Dangers

    20 Jul 2022

    Frequent C&B guests Dr. Marty Makary and Alex Berenson both broke big news today on studies that show the covid vaccines and booster could have serious detrimental consequences, especially when it comes to fighting off future variants. Clay and Buck break it all down in this important segment.

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    Riley Gaines on the Lia Thomas “Woman of the Year” Nomination

    20 Jul 2022

    BUCK: You know, it feels like the libs read 1984, Orwell’s 1984, as almost a how-to guide. You know, they changed the Merriam-Webster Dictionary definition of woman to add the definition of “one who identifies as a gender other than a man.” That’s actually now on the Merriam-Webster website.  So the official definition online, at least changed.  Here’s somebody who has some thoughts on the gender identity politics at the moment.

    Riley Gaines, University of Kentucky swimmer, who tied with Lia Thomas in the 200-yard freestyle, NCAA’s women championship. Riley, thanks for being with us.

    GAINES:  Yeah.  Thank you, guys, for making some time to talk to me.

    CLAY:  Yeah, I mean, look, you are the actual 200-yard freestyle women’s champion.  So, congratulations on that.  Sorry you’ve had to deal with some nonsense around it.  What was your first reaction to hearing that Lia Thomas was put forward by the University of Pennsylvania as NCAA woman of the year?

    GAINES:  Yeah.  It was just this feeling of heartbreak.  I never thought this would ever happen.  But, of course, the NCAA proved me wrong, yet again.  Just thinking of all those amazing female athletes at UPenn who lost out on this nomination, for the most elite, the pinnacle achievement in all of collegiate athletics, to someone who has only spent maybe spent 5% of their life as a “female,” and I’ll say that with quotations around it.  It’s just heartbreaking.

    BUCK:  Clay.

    CLAY:  Riley, what percentage of women out there, in swimming, when you would have conversations with them, would say, I completely agree with everything that you are saying, but they were terrified to actually say that publicly?

    GAINES:  Definitely the majority.  Obviously, I cannot I cannot speak for absolutely everyone.  But there were few encounters I had, where people did not thank me or agree with me.  I actually had a ton of Thomas’ teammates reach out to me and just thank me, because what they have to go through it every day. They said it’s really taking a toll on them.

    CLAY:  Riley, can you tell us about that? When they’re saying what they have to go through, what are some of the things that the actual female athletes on that team are dealing with?

    GAINES:  Well, one, the locker room situations, it’s incredibly uncomfortable.  It just kind of puts them all in a place, that they didn’t sign up to be in.  And so they’re threatened.  They’re intimidated.  Their coaches, obviously quiet them down.  I actually saw an email, that the Ivy League sent out to the swimmers, that said, if you feel uncomfortable seeing male genitalia in the locker room, you should seek counseling.  And so what an infringement.  I mean, that just seems that it should be illegal, should it not?

    CLAY:  And look, and I think that’s kind of crazy.  And I want to circle around on it.  Because I think our audience may not be aware of this.  Not only does Lia Thomas get to claim that she is now a woman.

    BUCK:  He is a she, Clay.

    CLAY:  Yeah.  It’s all crossed up.  Right?  But he’s using the women’s locker room as well, and still has male genitalia.  I mean, this is Crazytown stuff.

    GAINES:  Right.  And under Biden’s new administration of Title IX, it’s actually sexual assault now to refer to a transgender as the wrong pronouns.  But it’s not sexual assault to have male genitalia in the female locker rooms.

    BUCK:  It is my understanding — I saw reporting on this –is that Lia Thomas still claimed sexual attraction to women, right?  So, you’re having to get undressed — and not you.  Because you’re not on that team.  But a woman on the UPenn team would have to be getting — you know, it’s a swim team — getting fully naked next to an adult male with male genitalia, who is still attracted to women, because he has long hair now.

    GAINES:  Right.  I actually talked to girls who had dealt with sexual assault in the past.  And the locker room situation at NCAA was enough to cause enough trauma, to where they actually had to seek some help again.  Which is just crazy, we’ve gotten to this point.

    CLAY:  So Riley, where does this go?  Because one of the questions that’s out there.  You probably have heard this as well.  Is, “Well, why do you care?”

    Well, my answer is always, this is leading to men taking over and beginning to dominate women’s athletics because they’re bigger, stronger, faster.  Let’s just talk about the competition element of this.  I believe Lia Thomas is 6-3, 6-4.  How much fairness in competition is there you, a woman who has swam for her entire life, I bet you started when you were four or five years old, training for this, to suddenly be competing against someone who was a male swimmer, up until a year or two ago.  And now the greatest woman’s swimmer ever? From a purely competitive perspective, what is that like?  And what advantages exist for Lia, as a swimmer, that do not exist for the other women I swim against?

    GAINES:  Right.  So there’s obviously the blatant physical advantage of height.  But that’s clearly not everything.  A sport like swimming, there’s certain aspects like your aerobics capacity, your lung capacity.  All of those things, men have larger hearts.  Men have larger lungs.  And that’s not something that would ever change with testosterone shockers.  And so having those advantages, it really, really is obvious.  Even if you just go back and watch the race videos.

    BUCK:  Riley Gaines, thanks so much for being with us.  We appreciate it.

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    Get Woke, Go Broke: U.S. Military Can’t Make Recruitment Goals

    20 Jul 2022

    BUCK: One thing that the Biden administration does have going for it right now, I suppose, it’s not like we can look at them and say that they control everything. One good thing is we’re not in the midst of a war. So, that’s good. The end of the Afghan war, was obviously a debacle in the Biden administration decision-making. But the situation in Ukraine has not yet brought us into conflict with Russia. So, that’s good. Although, I don’t think the Biden administration is handling that well at all. At least we’re not at war.

    I bring that up, because as we talk about a lot of what’s done with this White House, and the constant pushing of wokeness. Whether it’s diversity and inclusion training for all government employees. And the constant focus on the issue of white privilege all throughout the federal bureaucracy, which I hear about from friends of mine, who are still in, for example, the intelligence community. “Oh, there’s all this concern with confronting white privilege.” Wait, I’m working in the intelligence community, I thought we were trying to keep America safe. I don’t think we need a history on white privilege every time we have an HR meeting.

    This is very real. And the Intel community, I can tell you, which is the CIA, NSA, DIA. There’s 16, I think they might have added one. But there used to be 16 intelligence agencies. There’s a lot of them. The military services all have their own intelligence branch. And then there’s a whole bunch of others. A lot of letters. A lot of acronyms. But they’re quite woke. Not only at the HR level, but also at the level of executive decision-making authority. The people that run these agencies now have been picked specifically because they go along with the diversity and inclusion rhetoric and belief system. And this is true also of our military. And we are seeing something that is, just by the numbers, a real challenge, Clay, going forward.

    This is from the Associated Press. “Army cuts the size, and then unprecedented battle for recruits.” An unprecedented challenge in getting new recruits to join the United States military. Okay? Here’s what we’re looking added right now. They’re projecting in the Army, they’re going to have a total force of 466,000, down from the expected 476,000. All in, it’s looking looking they’re going to only achieve half of their goal, recruiting goal of 60,000 soldiers for this fiscal year. So they’re down tens of thousands from the goal.

    The force structure is eventually going to have to take into account. Whether it’s brigade combat teams. Other military formations and entities. That they don’t have the ability to recruit what they need. To fill those ranks. They’re changing, Clay, all the time now. You know, or they’re trying to change. No high school diploma of any kind, or GED. Well, maybe we’ll make an exception. Tattoos on your hands and your face, maybe we’ll make an exception. They’re making all of these — body fat requirements, for body fat percentage. Because military fighting, being fit. This is all tied in together.

    The people who I talk to — a nd we have a lot of current and former war fighters in our audience. The people I talk to say, folks who would be — you know, the guy who was the defensive tackle on the college or high school football team, who wants to go and be an Army ranger, wants to be a war fighter, saying, “I don’t want to do this. I’m not going to sign up, given what’s going on here, given they’re firing thousands and thousands of National Guard members over the vaccine, given that we’ll get constant lectures about diversity inclusion, or the threat of white supremacy from inside the United States military.” This is an actual thing that they lecture people about. I think we have a big problem here.

    CLAY: I think it’s a massive problem. And I think it’s a massive problem that cuts across so many different parts of American life. Let me explain what I mean here: We want the best military possible. What’s the number one goal of the military, that I think almost every American should agree on? We want people who can kickcass. We want people who are badasses. And when you allow the target to move from we want ass kickers to we want people who represent the overall population of American life. Everybody is not equally adroit and adept at serving in the American military. And we shouldn’t try to create a military that is designed to fulfill a cosmetic diversity quotient, when it doesn’t fulfill the ultimate goal that is underlined, which is to be the most efficient at kicking ass as possible.

    And I’ll tie this into a story. I don’t know if you saw this, this morning, Buck. It’s turning into a massive story in England, that there’s too many white women on the English Women National Team.

    BUCK: Soccer?

    CLAY: Yeah. In soccer. I saw this story, and I thought to myself, this perfectly epitomizes where we are as a nation. No one is arguing right now, oh, these girls aren’t talented enough. The argument is, they aren’t diverse enough. And I want to read — The Athletic had a big story about this. And I thought it tied in well with the struggles our military is having right now. Here is the headline which is up on the athletic, which is now owned by the New York Times. “England’s Women’s Soccer Team Has Been successful in Recent Years, But the Team Doesn’t Look Like the Country It Represents. Its Players Are Almost All White and It Has a Long Way to Go to Improve Diversity.”

    Why the hell do you care what the race of the soccer team is, if they’re the best soccer players in the world? And there is a difference. And I think this is significant. And a lot of people miss it. There’s a difference between providing equal opportunity, and getting equal results. You could have a completely diverse and representative team, NFL team in America. Half of them could be women. 60 percent of them could be white. 30 percent of them could be Hispanic, 4 percent Asian. That team would lose every football game they played, Buck, because they aren’t the best possible football teams.

    And I tie it in with our military. Because we are focused now, not on creating the greatest fighting force in the world. We’re focused on trying to make the fighting look like America. That often times doesn’t correspond. And I think that’s why a lot of people aren’t going to work in the military.

    BUCK: I mean, I remember being in Iraq as a civilian CIA analyst many years ago, and being on U.S. military bases, and there were big placards. You know, “diversity is our strength.” And I remember spending time with these guys and gals. And their strength was actually strength and being badasses and being willingly to go out there and defend each other and defend U.S. interest and just kick some ass.

    I don’t care what the military looks like from a demographic perspective. I want the United States military, to have pilots who can shoot down Chinese fifth generation fighters. Which may become a big thing for us in the years ahead. I want Green Berets and Navy SEALs and Army Rangers and Airborne, who can do, you know, 100 push-ups like it’s nothing, carry their rucksack for 15 miles, engage the enemy, shoot them at 200 yards with iron sites. I want the best of the best. And, by the way, that is what our military has for a long time been producing here.

    CLAY: It’s what they should be. It’s the job.

    BUCK: But now we’re starting to see a shift in focus. And I think that shift in focus is a big part — I’m not saying it’s the only part — but a big part of why it is, you have people who are war fighters. Military service is military service, but there are people who are serving in much more logistics capacities, which that’s honorable service, I’m not putting that down. But they’re never going to be outside the wire. They’re never going to be shot at. They’re never going to be in harm’s way.

    The people who are war fighters are overwhelmingly, in my experience, the door kickers, they are people who when they’re told, that, you know, 6-year-olds in school, need to be lectured on trans ideology, and that there needs to be, you know, mixed units of male and female infantry on the front lines. All this different gender identity stuff, they do not go along with that.

    CLAY: I think you’re 100 percent right, Buck. And we know that our foremost enemies do not go along with that. China and Russia and Iran, are not recruiting people into their militaries by advertising pronouns. That’s what what’s going on right now, in our United States military advertising. It is this woke diversity and inclusion propaganda.

    And I think somebody — you probably saw this. I think we even might have texted it back and forth. The way that Russia is recruiting soldiers right now, is we want the baddest ass of the badass. This is before I think they invaded Ukraine. But China is trying to do the same thing. And the way that we’re recruiting soldiers is by saying, we’re going to make sure that we respect your pronouns. And I’m sorry, if you’re 17 years old, and you want to decide what you want to do with your future, most people want to try to become elite. They want to become elite at something.

    There’s a great deal of demand, especially among young men, to find ways to finally their bodies, take their minds to a different level. All of that. They don’t want to sit around, and talk about pronouns, and white privilege. And I think that goes across all the way, by the way, white, black, Asian, Hispanic. The badasses among us, do not want to be recruited into a woke military. And I think it’s a massive issue, with why we’re having trouble recruiting. I really do.

    BUCK: If you’re out there, and you’re personally, a door kicker, served in the U.S. military, or you are close to people who are, and are hearing the the same thing. Or you were somebody who was going to sign up even, and you decided, I’m not going too reenlist. I’ll be curious to hear about this, because I hear from people who say this all the time. That it’s really damaging. The ethos of wokeness from the top down of the military brass is really damaging the recruitment and the esprit de corps of the the people that you really need, which is the people who are going to run, run toward the sound of the machine gunfire.

    CLAY: The woke virus destroys, and I think you used this, the woke virus destroys everything it touches. And trying to turn our military into a woke military, is going to destroy its military ability. Just like it’s destroying many companies out there from the inside.

    BUCK: And we can talk about it and be honest about it as we do, Clay, or we can wait until we lose a war. And then we’ll have a whole bunch of other problems, folks. Start working on your Mandarin.

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    De Blasio’s Done: Nobody Wants the W.O.A.T. in Congress

    20 Jul 2022

    BUCK: We talked about this.  It was uncanny timing.  I don’t think that Bill de Blasio, the former worst mayor in America… I know our Portland audience is like, have you met Ted Wheeler?  I know people listening in Chicago are like, have you heard of Lori Lightfoot?  But I would submit that Bill de Blasio, in his time, he was number one.  If there was a G.O.A.T. of the worst, or I guess that would be the W.O.A.T.

    CLAY:  Worst of all time, yeah.

    BUCK:  If there’s a W.O.A.T. it would be Bill de Blasio.  The worst of all time as a mayor.  And this is a guy who inherited a city that was just doing incredibly well from a financial, crime — financial standpoint, crime standpoint.  Everything.  Anyway, he ran for president, which was laughable.  Then he wanted to run for Congress.  And we were making fun of him.  And then he announced that it wasn’t going to work out.  We wanted you to just savor this moment.  Because here’s Bill de Blasio having to admit, yeah, it turns out, nobody likes me.

    CLAY:  He’s a bum, okay?  He’s the worst.  He’s a joke.  He destroyed New York, as much as he possibly could.  Clay, I would say, he was borderline psychopathic in the glee he took in firing people from their jobs in not getting a shot that didn’t do a damn thing, didn’t do anything to stop the spread.

    BUCK:  I’m not sure there has ever been — it’s a fun debate.  This guy ran for president of the United States.  He was on the debate stage in 2020, thinking, hey, there’s a huge demand for what I’m selling.  I’ve done such an incredible job in New York City.  It’s going to translate well.  He went all the way.  All the way from running for president of the United States, to having to announce, Buck, that the tenth congressional district in New York, so overwhelmingly hated him, that he wasn’t even able to get elected to Congress.  I’m not sure that has ever happened before.

    He is the worst, folks.  The W.O.A.T.  The worst of all time, Bill de Blasio.  It’s a real thing.  He hurt a lot of people.  We actually make fun of him.  But he actually hurt a lot of people because he’s a craven, progressive maniac.

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    Makary and Berenson Blockbusters on Serious Covid Shot Dangers

    20 Jul 2022

    CLAY: Buck, I saw these two studies. Shared by our buddies, Alex Berenson and Dr. Marty Makary, who comes on this show all the time. Because we’ve tried to be as honest with you guys as we possibly can. And I looked at them, and I said, it is going to become increasingly impossible, I believe, to defend these covid shots as they exist right now at all.

    Dr. Makary texted this morning, Buck, “Immune function among vaccinated individuals, eight months after the administration of two doses of covid, the vaccine was lower than among the unvaccinated.” That is the European Medical Agency and direct quote, and he linked to this. So you can read it yourself.

    Johns Hopkins’ doctor, Dr. Marty Makary, quote, “Frequent booster shots could adversely affect the immune response.” What they’re telling you right now, is rush out and get your booster. What this study out of Europe is saying, is actually the opposite. The more booster shots you get, the more you could create issues.

    And the other one I wanted to hit you with, Buck. It came out from Alex Berenson early this morning. I’m reading directly from Alex. You can go read this on Alex’s Substack. You can also go find him on Twitter, and see this yourself. “Wow. Wow. Wow.” This is Berenson ‘s tweet. “The German government just admitted 1 in 5,000 covid shots caused, quote, serious side effects.” He says, this is Alex Berenson. “That’s obviously low. But even if you take those numbers, that would translate into the covid shots, seriously injuring 110,000 people in the United States alone.”

    CLAY: Buck, when you look at these studies, as they continue to come out, a media that was being honest in doing its job  would be saying, there are legitimate health concerns about the covid shots. And if you’re questioning whether the American public is becoming aware of it, what I would say is, this is why the data on 6-month-olds, Buck, to 5-year-old kids, getting their shots, 2% of those kids are getting those shots. Parents are overwhelmingly recognizing that the covid shot makes no sense. Those data points, I mean, this is pretty crazy.

    BUCK: So there’s this concept in medicine. There’s so many things you’re not been allowed to speak about. I mean, one thing that people have noticed all along here, is somehow, we have all grown up in this era, where every time you see any pharmaceutical advertised on TV, it’s always like, couples dancing on the beach. There’s like a horse. A beautiful steed running in the background. And then there’s people, just like with sunshine on swings. And then it’s like, “May cause headaches, vomiting, diarrhea, your spleen may fall out,” you know, all this stuff. Right? And you go, oh.

    CLAY: The side effects are never good. Maybe I don’t need that after all.

    BUCK: You know, “May cause GI leakage” It’s like, that doesn’t sound good. So, you know, you have these things. These symptoms. And with the vaccines, it was shut up, they’re the safest things that have ever worked. They’re the safest things that were ever developed. We were to believe that these were essentially, and let’s hear, 15 months ago, they said, we’ll not get it, we’ll not spread it. That was the promise. That was the science. And there was no fact-checking for me to do on this. Other than to say, gosh, Buck, you and Clay are right. That is what happened.

    Now, of course, we know that really isn’t true at all. But all along, they also said, this was a silver bullet against covid, with no downside. And if you talked about a downside, you were a bad person. In fact, you should get fired from your job. You should be banned from social media. You should be banned from social media, if you even discuss the possibility of side effects. So we were to believe. Again, I’m not a doctor, but I’m also not an idiot. You were supposed to believe, for the first time in our lives, there was a brand-new super effective pharmaceutical effectively. which in this case, it’s a vaccine. But it’s still a drug. A new technology, MRNA, that had no downside. None. And if you talked about downside, you were a bad person. They were lying to you. Okay?

    Just so everybody understands — someone who says, there’s no downside — there were reports. There was a woman who got it. She was healthy. I think it was in Portland. And died. And said, yeah: She actually died from the shot. And, if you brought that up, you literally wanted millions of grandmas to die, because you were an anti-vax hoaxer. Right? This was the whole narrative, which, of course, has now, of course, changed dramatically, Clay.

    And to your point about that. And there’s even, I’ve talked to Berenson about this before too. Because I’m always looking at what he’s analyzing the data with. Original antigenic sin. Have you heard about this one? This is interesting. Original antigenic sin, is when your immune system — and this is — I’m reading this off the National Library of Medicine, which is a dot.gov website. Just so everybody understands. This is not like crazy anti-vaxxer dot patriot dot 776. You know, this is — this is on the National Library of Medicine website.

    And they’re talking about how original antigenetic sin is when — and this does exist in science. I’m not saying that this is what’s happening with the vaccines. But it is interesting when you think of this concept over the long run of what could be happening here. It’s when your body develops an immunological memory response. That could essentially wrong foot you, the second time you’re exposed to a variant. So you get flu strain A1, like the steak sauce, right? You get flu strain. If you’re going to go steak sauce, which I’m generally — I’m usually not a steak sauce guy. And people who put ketchup on their steak, it does make me want to cry on the inside. It’s one thing about Trump I could never understand.

    CLAY: Well done steak, indefensible.

    BUCK: So, but if you get an A1 variant, and your body can develop a response to the A1 variant, let’s say. And it hasn’t been established — oh, no, it has. I’m sorry. Influenza and dengue fever are two places where this existed.

    It’s essentially, your body learns how to fight that version of it. But when it comes into contact with a secondary version, you may have a less robust or less fast immune response, because essentially your system goes, “Oh, I’ve kind of seen this. And starts to do what it does before, instead of saying, I’m going to respond specifically to this variant.” I’m not saying that it happens with covid. I’m saying it exists in science, in medicine. And some people are starting to say, can we discuss, we keep having more and more variants, more and more shots could be a thing to consider. I don’t know if there are any doctors out there, who want to weigh in on this. Have to be very careful on this. Still, they speak out about the shots, Clay, they come for you, man. They come for you.

    CLAY: You’re 100 percent right. And, by the way, 800-282-2882, if any doctors want to weigh in on that. Those studies that we cited. You can go follow me on Twitter @ClayTravis. You can see where I’ve shared what Alex Berenson and Dr. Marty Makary were saying here about these recent data points that are coming out.

    And what I would say is, we’re in the vast majority, Buck, because as someone who had young kids, if you really thought that your kids were in danger from covid. And also, that the covid shot would protect them, in a month, way more than 2 percent of the American public would have gotten their kids these shots. When 97, 98 percent of American parents are saying, no. I’m not touching this. What we are talking about, even though social media doesn’t like it. Even though the New York Times and the Washington Post and MSNBC and CNN won’t even mention it, is widely being discussed right now, among parents of children.

    I hear it, I’ve seen it. And the data reflects that it’s going on everywhere. And it’s not just red parents. It’s not just blue parents. The data out in New York City. Very blue city. 2 percent of parents. This is something that all parents are discussing. And I would submit to you, Buck, if Trump were still president, the media that I just mentioned. MSNBC, CNN, the Washington Post, New York Times. They would be covering every bit of this covid shot story, with a fine-tooth comb.

    BUCK: Democrats, though, Clay. I want to put this concept out there. Maybe we return to this. Do we have a doc or an epidemiologist who doesn’t have their pronouns and six Ukraine flags in their bio, who wants to weigh in on this? By the way, that’s a barrier to entry on the phone. If you’re an epidemiologist who double masks still and has five Ukraine flags and their pronouns in the bio, we don’t want to hear from you, but if you’re a normal epidemiologist out there, who just wants to talk about the science, curious about this original antigenic sin issue. This concept talked about in real medicine, in real publications.

    But, Clay, I think that Democrats are herd animals. Or actually, more to the point, they’re lemmings. So right now, maybe they’re not all moving over to the edge of the cliff, by getting their kids the vaccine. But when the authority says you must get them, I think those little furry lemmings are going to run en masse, as soon as you have states that will mandate it for kids.

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