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Hurricane Ian Recovery and What to Look for Next

30 Sep 2022

Hurricane Ian now presents a risk to South Carolina as the substantial relief effort is underway in Florida.

Governor DeSantis is calling this a 500-year storm, which brings to mind Nashville’s 500-year flood some years back. This is gonna require a substantial rebuild of homes, of bridges, of roadways.

The governor and his team are doing a fantastic job as they scramble to restore power, but by Monday, we’ll be stunned if there aren’t people coming after Ron DeSantis and politicizing the hurricane.

We discuss what’s on the horizon with emotional callers who have survived Ian — just click the play button atop this post to hear it firsthand. Tweet us your take @ClayAndBuck — or, if you’re a 24/7 VIP, send us an email.

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Libs of TikTok’s Chaya Raichik Stands Up to Big Tech Censorship

29 Sep 2022

CLAY: We are joined now by a woman who is doing phenomenal work helping to put a spotlight or maybe even just a mirror on far left-wing insanity that is occurring on social media that, frankly, your kids, your grandkids are experiencing on a day-to-day basis. Initially just on TikTok, also a popular Twitter feed. She is Chaya Raichik and she joins us now.

BUCK: @LibsOfTikTok is her account.

CLAY: @LibsOfTikTok is the account. But there’s a lot of people listening — thank you for making the time with us, Chaya — in our audience that, frankly, aren’t super active on social media. So if you had to, Chaya, describe what you do and why that is considered controversial for an audience that may not… They may have seen you on Tucker, but they may not be active on TikTok or Twitter or social media channels on a regular basis, paint them a picture for what it is that you do.


RAICHIK: Hi. Thanks for having me. So, I basically just hold up a mirror, like you said, to the left, and spotlight their most insane ideas. So, I take TikToks or screenshots, videos from at this point, not just TikTok, from all over the internet, and there’s no editing, and I just post it, and I’m like, “This is what’s happening, this is what the left is saying.” And the reason that that is so controversial is because the left really wants to be able to do all of these things without anybody noticing.

So, for example, I’ve been focusing a lot on what they call “gender affirming care” in hospitals, which translates into double mastectomies, hysterectomies and all kinds of other genital mutilation surgeries on kids, and it’s “controversial” because they don’t want you to know that it’s happening. And I’m like, “Hey, look, this is happening at this and this hospital,” and obviously they want to be able to do all these things. They want to be able to have kids performing in drag shows, they want to be able to do mutilation surgeries, they want to be able to get away with their whole agenda without anyone noticing, and I’m noticing.

BUCK: Chaya, one thing I’ve seen and your work has led to much more of a discussion around the issues of drag shows where children are being exposed to clearly sexualized adult behaviors and, as you mentioned, the transition surgeries for minors. On that point there seemed to be even a few weeks ago an effort to say, “Well, these hospitals aren’t actually doing these things,” and then it was, “Well, these hospitals are getting threats because people are talking about what they’re doing,” and now I’ve started to see, “Oh, yes, no, these hospitals are engaged in the transition surgeries for children, and here’s data that suggests this is actually good for them.” It’s stunning to see how the narrative shifts depending on the political needs of the moment of the left.

RAICHIK: It’s very out of the leftist playbook. They tried it with CRT in schools. They tried it with sex and the sexualization of gender ideology in schools, and you’re a hundred percent right. In terms of these transition surgeries, that transition from “it’s not happening” to “it’s happening and here’s why it’s good” was really, really fast. It happened really quick, quicker than anything else I’ve seen, and it just shows that they’re really desperate. They really want to keep chopping kids up. Like, they really want to do it.

And they’re gonna do everything they can to ensure that they can continue doing it, which is actually why I’m currently on a seven-day Twitter suspension because I had posted a thread… I mean, they didn’t tell me exactly why, but I think it’s because of a threat I posted about a surgeon saying that she does surgeries on minors, and they just… They’re so desperate that they’re calling for anyone who noticed it to be censored, to be silenced, and in addition to that now, they’re saying that it’s actually a good thing. So, they’re just gonna keep going. (laughs) I mean, honestly, I hope they keep going with that. If what they want to do is say, “Hey, look, gender surgeries on minors are actually good things,” great. Go with that. We’ll just blast that all over the place because I think most of America agrees that it’s actually abuse.

CLAY: We’re talking to Chaya Raichik. She is with the @LibsOfTikTok account.

BUCK: She is @LibsOfTikTok, essentially.

CLAY: Yeah, she effectively is. I wanted to give you an opportunity. You said you’re suspended right now for seven days from Twitter. This has been ongoing. And, in fact, the left wing legacy media, the Washington Post in particular have come after you with guns blazing, which — as Buck and I have had happen to us and lots of people who listen to this show know — is actually a sign that you are making a substantial impact. But I’d like for our audience that may not be familiar with it to know, on an individual basis — as you said just effectively for holding a mirror up to what’s going on in our society — what the left has tried to do to you individually as a result of what you are putting out there on social media.

RAICHIK: So, first of all, they doxed me. The Washington Post doxed me and I think I might be the victim of the most Twitter suspensions. I think I may have a world record.

CLAY: Good for you, by the way.

RAICHIK: (chuckles) I believe this is number seven. Yeah. And again, I know it just means I’m over the target. So, they’re really frustrated by it being shown what they’re doing, like I said, showing them talk about the gender affirming — what they call “gender affirming,” which is really child mutilation — surgeries. They feel really threatened by it because they just don’t want people knowing. And whenever I show what’s going on, they call for my silencing. So we had Washington Post, you know, ask Twitter to suspend me. NPR did that too. There’s a lot of blue checks on Twitter begging Twitter to suspend me. They’re really going hard after me. I’ll admit it’s tough sometimes, but I’m very strong, and we are not gonna let this hinder our work because what we’re doing is extremely, extremely important for the future of this country.

BUCK: We’re speaking to Chaya Raichik, @LibsOfTikTok founder, and it is critical. Honestly, you’re… I mean, when I think about people that are adding really documentary or evidentiary components to these major discussions we’re having, you know, it just shows you what the left thinks; Chris Rufo finding the actual documents being taught in schools with CRT. It’s so essential to have the receipts, as they say.

And you’re showing the receipts of the other side. They get so angry about this, which is fascinating, cause, as you say, you’re not even doing commentary. You’re just sharing what is being said. I’m so fascinated by this point of it, though. Big Tech, when they slap you down with a suspension or anything else, is there ever any explanation as to how you can be “violating community guidelines” for sharing what somebody else has already shared from the left?

CLAY: Yeah.

RAICHIK: So there was, like, three of the times they made us delete a tweet and they made up a reason for why it violated their rules even though it didn’t. But the past two times, my two seven-day suspensions were just general “hateful conduct.” They didn’t tell us, “This is the tweet,” and in fact people have been reporting our account, and we get that report, right, and Twitter says, “We’re required to let you know that your account has been reported and we found it did not violate the Twitter policy.” We got that for tweets and for my profile in general. So they’re telling us at the same time, “You didn’t violate our policies, but you also have hateful conduct; so we’re just gonna suspend you for seven days.” And the reason they’re doing that is because the entire leftist media is really campaigning them to suspend us, and Twitter is just caving to them.

BUCK: I have to ask, are you ever surprised by how insane the left is now that you’re doing this work? I mean, obviously you saw something which is why you set this up and you’ve been on this, the biggest radio show, you’ve been on Turk’s show and Sean’s show at Fox, the biggest TV shows on Fox News. Does it ever just make you think how did people get so crazy? And also, Democrats don’t repudiate this stuff. At least not what I see. They just… We see these things, and you bring up the child mutilation, for example, going at the hospitals; for the most part, this stuff is, “Yeah, that’s what’s going on.”


RAICHIK: So, I think at this point I’m a little bit immune to it, and nothing I see really shocks me anymore. I mean, I posted a video a week ago about a drag show, which it was advertised as only a drag show, but it ended up actually being a stripper show. They had a stripper on stage, literally a stripper barely wearing anything with a child right in the front row like handing the stripper… I don’t know him or her, I have no idea.

BUCK: I saw this clip on your account, by the way, yeah.

RAICHIK: Yeah. So when I saw that I was like, oh, my God. And then this I’m like, “Well, of course the left is doing this.” I became a little bit desensitized to their insanity just because I deal with this all day. But I think they have no limits. I mean, I think they’re only gonna get more and more insane. And, I mean, I think they’re obviously trying with their whole MAP thing, Minor-Attracted Person, to normalize pedophilia. I think we’re gonna go in that direction. We’re gonna see that happen on a much larger scale. I think the left is gonna go there and it’s not gonna surprise me. I’m just gonna be like, “Well, of course. They’re insane. This is what they’re doing now.” They just keep getting more and more insane and moving the goalposts for insanity.

CLAY: Chaya, do you have a good legal team? And the reason why I’m asking is, we’ve had Alex Berenson on this show a lot, and Twitter banned him. And you said right now you may be the most banned person on Twitter (chuckles), which is, I think, kind of a stamp of authority that you’re having a lot of influence. But do you have a team that can mobilize if they decide to try to knock you off permanently in the same way that Alex Berenson did?

RAICHIK: Yes. So, we actually hired Alex’s attorney. So, he obviously has a good track record.

CLAY: Good for you.

RAICHIK: I think he’s the only one in the world to ever do that successfully. So, we hired him, and he is amazing, and we have a legal defense fund set up. We have a team of attorneys, and we are preparing for a lawsuit against Twitter.

BUCK: Where should people follow your work, by the way? I mean, very few of our audience I think are gonna be on TikTok, but are you set up with either a Substack or are you on TRUTH Social, or Rumble, any of those?

RAICHIK: So, I’m on all social media platforms @LibsOfTikTok and Substack. LibsOfTikTok.com redirects to Substack and that’s really where we’re gonna focus all of our effort when we do eventually get banned — if and when we get banned — and we also put out content on there weekly: So, LibsOfTikTok.com. And also TRUTH Social, Rumble, yeah.

BUCK: Please, everybody, go. If you’re on any of these social accounts, go follow @LibsOfTikTok. It’s critical. Sometimes the stuff you watch it’s just mind-blowing but really important work. Chaya Raichik, thanks so much for being with us, and we’ll have you back on soon.

RAICHIK: Thank you.

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Nord Stream Whodunit: If John Brennan Says It Was Russia, It Probably Wasn’t Russia

29 Sep 2022

The former CIA director, John Brennan, says Russia sabotaged the Nord Stream pipeline.

This is a huge geopolitical whodunit.

This is Colonel Mustard in the library with the candlestick. You all remember Clue, right?

So, now we have a former CIA director who’s a Russia-collusion conspiracy theorist nut and a left winger who voted to make a communist president saying he thinks it’s Russia.

When we hear John Brennan say this, it makes Buck — who has CIA experience — think it’s less likely that it’s Russia, because Brennan is wrong about everything.

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Ron DeSantis Is in Command and Control of the Situation

29 Sep 2022

Governor Ron DeSantis addressed the community and the media and everyone grappling with the aftermath of this storm.

There’s a stunning contrast between how Ron DeSantis responds to questions about a very difficult situation and Biden’s inability to communicate. It’s night and day.

In any crisis situation, you learn a lot about a leader, and DeSantis is handling this one with both preparation and precision.

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Joe Concha Wrote the Definitive Book on Joseph R. Biden

29 Sep 2022

BUCK: Welcome back. Clay and Buck here and it’s really Clay and Buck and Joe because we have Joe Concha with us now, not to be confused with Joe Biden, who is the topic of his latest book.

CONCHA: Come on, man!

BUCK: Come on, Man! The Truth About Joe Biden’s Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Presidency. Well, Joe, the other Joe is not doing a good job. You wrote this book. What are you thinking?

CONCHA: I’m thinking that I look at the literary landscape, ’cause I’m scared; I’ve never written a book before and I’m writing about a sitting president. And the last president there were literally hundreds of books that were about him.

CLAY: Oh, yeah.

CONCHA: So am I going into a pool where there’s gonna be all these other journalists that talk about “speaking truth to power” and “holding the powerful accountable.” Well, it turns out that over… Starting last week going to the midterm for a six-week period there are 15 books coming out on the president, but not this president. Donald Trump. And there is exactly one book coming out on Joseph R. Biden, and you’re literally talking to the author of it.

BUCK: Wow. That kind of makes you the Biden expert among the literati, let’s be honest. Right? I mean, if this were a different administration, a different situation, the one guy who writes a book on the sitting president’s got a leg up, Clay.

CLAY: Yeah.

CONCHA: It’s like the old saying Fox found it’s in each audience when it came into existence. Half the country.

CLAY: Yeah.

CONCHA: So good, you guys can fight over that pie. I got half the lane right here.

CLAY: We knew Joe Biden was not gonna be good.

CONCHA: (chuckles)

CLAY: Are even you surprised at how much of a disaster he’s been?

CONCHA: Only because he was labeled as a moderate –

CLAY: Yeah.

CONCHA: — and then when you do research on this book, he has always been a far-left ideologue. And you remember back to Obamacare.

CLAY: Yes.

CONCHA: I mean, and he steps on the moment completely and taps Obama on the shoulder and says, “This is a big f—ing deal.” He was so happy that he expanded government, helped expand government more than any time in history and then you see him now. He’s no longer one of a hundred senators where you really don’t have a lot of power and vice president you almost have no power. But now that he’s president the plan is to spend trillions of dollars during a recession and then having the audacity to call it the Inflation Reduction Act which does not reduce inflation.

Then the border. Completely opened up. You’re looking at — when you include got-aways and then the people we actually document coming through — five million people coming into this country, guys, in the span of two years. That is equivalent to the population of freaking Ireland, all right? And if you’re saying that, ah, well, it’s just incompetency. Yes, it is incompetency, but how much of it is intentional when that many people come in, why is it happening? Because we are dealing with somebody who’s been this man all along and then you go through the grades: Inflation, F. Economy, F. Crime, F. Border, F. Education, F. I’m a parent of a person who is a third grader. Buck will be soon now that he’s finally hitched or about to be hitched.

BUCK: Yeah, about to be hitched. I’m working on it.

CONCHA: Right, right. And the kids will come fast and furious, believe me, you’ll be under a lot of pressure and you’re gonna care a lot about your kids’ education. I like parents’ rights over teachers’ unions and that is where this president is siding as well. So among every major answer, to answer your question in a very long way, even I’m surprised how poorly this president has gone.

BUCK: The book is out right now. It’s Come on, man. It’s by Joe Concha. You all know him from Fox News and from The Hill. How are the folks at The Hill doing, by the way? I’m a Hill alumni so everyone good down there?

CONCHA: Ever since you left, you know…

BUCK: Wow. Okay.

CONCHA: Krystal Ball left and then, you know, your replacement left and —

BUCK: We created superstars back there on Hill TV. I’m just saying. That was the way it went. So I’m glad it’s all working out well for those folks. Oh, one thing about Biden I think is so interesting too. You know, today — and Ron DeSantis is speaking right now. Our team is rolling on it. He’s giving updates on the damage across Florida and the latest here. So, we’ll come back with some of this here in a few moments, the key elements of the DeSantis update.

But, Joe Concha, Joe Biden, even when he was addressing everybody today about FEMA issues related to the federal response, he took this diversion — I noted it right as you said it — to say, “There better not be any profiteering over the gas stations’ oil prices!” And now you’ve just had the American Petroleum Institute effectively the oil and gas industry saying, “Hey, man, the price is a price! It’s a global marketplace, and it’s clear that Biden is just trying to push because he knows the price of gas hurts him politically.”’

CONCHA: In the book Come on, Man! We talk about how this is the Brian Williams presidency. Remember Brian Williams. “Ah, he’s in Iraq, he’s getting shot at in a helicopter! Oh, he’s in French Quarter during Katrina; he’s seeing bodies going down the road,” all made up under zero duress, by the way. He just told the story to tell the story. Joe Biden, when you go back — and I go back all the way to the beginning of this young adult life — has always been a compulsive liar.

BUCK: Yes. Yes.

CONCHA: Right? He ran for president in 1988 — this is 35 years ago — think about this — and he had to drop out. Why? Because of plagiarism. Even in the 2020 campaign he talks about going to South Africa and he got arrested trying to see Nelson Mandela.

CLAY: Total lie.

CONCHA: Complete lie!

CLAY: Yeah.

CONCHA: I would think that senator in the United States got arrested in a foreign country you would probably have heard about it.

CLAY: Yes.

CONCHA: But he said it going into the South Carolina primary where the black vote is very, very important; so, he told the lie to advance his cause. I could go on and on. But this is a guy who says we’re at zero inflation; we’re at 8.5% inflation. He says we’re not in a recession when we have had two straight quarters of negative growth. He says that the border is closed when the border is not closed. He never speaks up about cashless bail laws when you have criminals going back out on the street committing crimes over and over again. So when he attacks the gas and oil companies, that’s because he has zero ability to take responsibility for himself. It’s Putin, it’s the gas and oil companies, not the fact that he keeps shutting down leases in the Gulf of Alaska.

BUCK: We’re here with Joe Concha whose book Come on, Man! About Joe Biden is out. It’s the only Biden book, he is America’s Biden expert right now, right?

CONCHA: Yes!

BUCK: This is the way it goes.

CLAY: This is the question, right?

BUCK: Go ahead, Clay, you present it.

CLAY: Closing out the hour here, last question for you, will Joe Biden run in 2024? You are the expert. We have a steak bet on this. What do you think.

CONCHA: Come on, man. Absolutely not.

CLAY: What?

CONCHA: In 2023 —

BUCK: I take it all back. He’s not the Biden expert.

CLAY: So how does it go? How does he announce that he’s not gonna run?

CONCHA: Loses in the midterms. Investigations open up into Hunter Biden. His party convinces him that, “Hey, you did your job, you got rid of Trump. Now we gotta bring in new blood.”

BUCK: Wow. They use Hunter as the lever to push him out? I thought they’d just start running stories about the dementia.

CONCHA: I think then once they start… Well, maybe that, but they’re gonna connect Hunter Biden to Joe Biden being the Big Guy who was like…

CLAY: I knew I’d like Joe. I knew this guy was brilliant.

BUCK: Okay, maybe we have to up the ante here. I’ll take both of you out to steak dinner if Biden does not end up running.

CONCHA: Ooo! Del Frisco’s!

BUCK: Yeah, deal do Del Frisco’s. I’m telling you, they are reckless, ’cause who’s gonna step — who steps in if it’s not Biden?

CONCHA: I got the best news for you guys: 28 people are gonna run for the Democratic nomination as they did in 2020 and ratings for this show will go even higher than they already are, which is very, very high!

CLAY: I think it’s gonna be Gavin Newsom.

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Rob Gaudet of the Cajun Navy Joins Us from Devastated Fort Myers

29 Sep 2022

BUCK: We have Rob Gaudet with us right now on the phone. He is the founder and director of the Cajun Navy. Many of you are familiar with their amazing work. Rob is on the ground in Fort Myers, Florida, right now. Rob, what can you tell us about what you’re seeing?

GAUDET: You know, it’s so crazy. It’s sunny, the air is cool, but the trees are down. It’s flooding. It’s really… It’s kind of surreal, to be honest with you. I mean, where I’m sitting was probably under two or three feet, maybe four or five feet of water less than six hours ago, and it’s completely dry now. There’s so much damage to homes and businesses here, it’s incredible.

BUCK: How does this compare? I mean, you’ve been involved — Cajun Navy’s been involved — in numerous relief efforts at hurricanes. How does this compare what you’ve seen before?

GAUDET: You know, every one of these storms what I’ve learned over six years of doing this is every single one is different. You almost can’t compare them. The geography is different, the people are different, even the buildings are designed differently. Here you have people that are used to water. They live on the water. But not this much water. You know, driving in, we saw fences knocked down.

We saw cars pushed over in the ditch, you know, all the way down the highway coming into Fort Myers. Fort Myers has trees down everywhere. These… You know, there’s a lot of palm trees in here and I know they have special names. I just call them palm trees; that’s basically what they are. You can see they’re pretty much just destroyed. They’re not knocked over, but they are shredded, and there clearly was a lot of wind through here last night.

CLAY: So, Rob, first of all, thanks for everything that you and your group are doing to help people. What kind of on-the-ground response are you guys seeing in the Fort Myers area where the epicenter of this storm seems to a large degree have been focused? How many people are out and about? How much rescuing is going on? How does the overall environment surrounding both first responders, fire departments, and certainly military, I would imagine, and also police, what kind of on-the-ground force are you seeing?

GAUDET: Sure. We have a lot of rescues still going on. As people get connection if they’re stranded or have been unable to leave where they are, they’re reaching out to us. We have crews down on Sanibel Island. The bridge to the island itself is damaged, but we can take boats across to get there. So that’s what we’re doing. We have volunteers coming in that are just arriving that are headed down there actually sitting next to me right now that are going to work with our team to do search-and-rescue.

Commander Jay Carter, actually, I was just on the phone with him before we left, he was hopping on a boat to go out and do some more SAR. We’ve done at this point over 40 rescues within our organization. Our team, we basically landed in Tampa late yesterday. Actually earlier yesterday my team, these guys left Tampa about 3 a.m. once the winds died down enough down here in the Fort Myers area and got into here, and they’ve been going all night. They haven’t slept, and they’re still going.

CLAY: Rob, we appreciate all the work you’re doing. How was the communication infrastructure right now? Are cell phones working around where you are? How is the radio, television, power sort of scenario? And how are people reaching out? And what would you tell someone who might be listening on a car radio or might be listening to us right now on a battery-powered radio, for instance? How can they get help?

GAUDET: Well, if you need help, definitely, you know, reach out to your local first responders, your local officials are always what we say, you know, you should have those numbers handy and anybody that stays behind knows to do that. If you need to reach us you can do it by going to our website, CrowdRelief.net and complete our intake form. We had over 350 requests this morning when we got in. A lot of those are duplicates from other organizations, but a lot were not. You know, the cell coverage is…

I’m on the phone with you sitting here at Fort Myers, but I’m afraid if I move I could lose you. I’m AT&T. I also have a Verizon phone that was barely working. There’s no data. I would also say there’s very little fuel due… Here’s what I would recommend to anybody who’s listening and thinking about coming back. Let me tell you why don’t come back. Fuel. Gas stations are going to be low or empty because of the evacuations that happened. It’s gonna be a day or two or maybe even longer before they refill those pumps.

And if you come down here and run out of gas, you’re gonna be taking resources from people who need to be helping the community to get back on their feet. So please do not come back if you’re safe. Just give it a few days until the authorities say it’s safe to. Don’t go back to any of these areas. Your home is not gonna go anywhere. It is what it is right now. Let the first responders and rescuers — and organizations like ours, nonprofits — come in and begin to set up so we can provide services, to provide stability within these communities.

That’s what we’re doing, I’m doing that today. We’re looking for where we can set up what we call safe camp. We can see this on our website, GoCajunNavy.org. It’s a new concept where we provide almost like a M*A*S*H type unit that we set up with tents and equipment, we have trailers, 18-wheelers that we bring in and we become community services while the community is distressed. There’s no power. There’s no water. We offer everything you need from medical care to water from one place.

BUCK: Rob Gaudet of the Cajun Navy, founder and director of Cajun Navy, right now. Rob, for people who just are… We’ve got 400-plus stations all over the country. People are very focused in on what’s going on in Florida right now. If they want to help within if they want to donate, where should they go?

GAUDET: To donate go to Give.GoCajunNavy.org. GoCajunNavy.org, is where you can donate, if you want to help, volunteer. I mean, come on down. We’re gonna need a lot of hands. It’s… I’ll be honest. It’s a nice drive, it’s a long drive, but it’s worth it. We need hands. This is a time where there’s just a lot of hands. The best thing we can do is have a lot of volunteers, financial donations, and then donations to support the community where, you know, Walmarts are gonna be closed.

Where you gonna get diapers? Where you gonna get, you know, nonperishable foods, water? So we provide those services from safe camp. And we accept those things at safe camp, and we already have an army of people across the country doing distribution drives that are gonna start heading this way. And then we need volunteers to hand them out in a car line to survivors. We load up trunks and we load up back seats with stuff and send them on their way.

CLAY: Rob, one more time for people out there listening: How can they help your work? Rob Gaudet with the Cajun Navy, how can they help all the people who are affected in Florida right now?

GAUDET: Look. We are a nonprofit. We’re a 501(c)(3). Every dollar you donate goes to help people we’re helping. And you can give at Give.GoCajunNavy.org. That’s our donation website, and we’re gonna… You know, we do rescue, but we actually stay for a long time. If you look at our Facebook page, look for the Cajun Navy Facebook page. We have a kaleidoscope and a fleur-de-lis logo. There’s several Cajun Navies. Ours has the kaleidoscope and the fleur-de-lis logo. You’ll see we stay for extended periods of time. After Hurricane Ida, for instance, that happened about a year ago, we were in Houma for nine months helping after the disaster for an extended time.

BUCK: We’ll put this up at ClayAndBuck.com. We’ll link to it at our show website, Rob Gaudet of the Cajun Navy. Rob, thank you so much for being with us.

GAUDET: Man, I appreciate you having us on. Thank you.

CLAY: They’re doing a lot of tremendous work. ClayandBuck.com, we will have the link up there if you are interested in helping out Rob and his crew as they help take care of so many people who are gonna need a vast amount of help in the days and weeks and months ahead as the recovery for Hurricane Ian goes on, particularly in that Fort Myers area.

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Despite having extended condolences, ordering the White House flags lowered, and knowing she was dead on August 3rd, yesterday, Joe Biden kept calling out for Congresswoman Jackie Walorski, showing confusion about where she was. That, of course, wasn’t Biden’s only gaffe, but his most recent that makes foes and once-supporters alike wonder if he’s fit for another run.

Yet, he may run for one simple reason: Kamala Harris would make an awful replacement. For example, she just touted our alliance with North Korea, using the official name probably because she thinks it makes her sound smart.

She didn’t misspeak like she just had two things in her head. She says it and keeps going. We have seen this before many times.

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Congresswoman Jackie Walorski died in a car accident two months ago, August 3rd. Biden put out a statement of condolences and ordered the flags at the White House to be lowered in her honor.

And then yesterday, he’s calling out to her and looking around as if she’s still among the living.

Karine Jean-Pierre took swings at spinning this one and kept whiffing.

Imagine…

This moment was so illuminating for the public, and yet his press agent goes out there and blatantly refuses to answer questions about it. She just insults the reporters by speaking to them like 3-year-olds.

Meanwhile, Biden addressed the nation on FEMA and the federal response to Hurricane Ian.

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CLAY: We have Lee Zeldin with us. And you may have heard we hope you will end up the governor of New York. You’re running against Kathy Hochul. But isn’t it kind of amazing how, as crime has skyrocketed everywhere, Lee, that suddenly all the Democrats are saying, “Man, who could have caused this? I wonder. I wonder what’s going on here.” Certainly, you’re seeing it all over New York and New York City.

ZELDIN: Well, amen. There are a lot of Democrats who want to feel safe on the streets. They want to be able to ride the subways. They understand that their party has gone too far left, they feel disenfranchised by their party. Every day I have people telling me that they’re a lifelong Democrat, they’ve always voted Democrat, and this year they’re voting Republican. One of the interesting dynamics that I remember unfolding was watching the Democratic Party primary for New York City mayor, which basically kicked off around the start of the riots, and the George Floyd and all that.

And it was a year later that the actual primary took place. And at the beginning of the primary process, the most popular issue towards the top of the list was crime. But it was really an anti-police, defund the police-type approach. And a year later when the actual primary took place again, crime popped back up on the list, but you had a lot of Democrats who were concerned that it was becoming less safe. They wanted to nominate somebody who they felt would clean up the streets. So, it played out from spring of 2020 to late spring of 2021 in a way that unfolded here, and it’s only gotten worse since.

BUCK: Congressman Zeldin, it’s Buck. You know, I’m a born and raised New Yorker, lived in New York City pretty much my whole adult life. Little interlude with the CIA where I had to leave here, but other than that, I’m a New York guy. I’m furious about what has been done to my city and what has happened throughout this state. And people look at New York, sure, but also in Rochester, in Buffalo, in parts even out in Nassau County. I mean, there’s just been this crime wave that has been going that has been directly attributable to decisions made by Democrats.

Is there…? What needs to happen? I mean, I honestly get so frustrated that I just want to start screaming expletives over this. What needs to happen for…? If you’re an independent voter in New York State, they gotta see this, right? I mean, you’re out there talking. They have to see that if they come into Times Square right now, they might get hit by a lunatic with a trash can with no pants on. I mean, it’s crazy out there. Do they see it? Like, how is this actually landing?

ZELDIN: Yeah, but there can’t possibly be a shooting in Times Square because now they have a sign up that says it’s a gun-free zone. So that’s fixed!

BUCK: The single dumbest gun-free zone sign I think I’ve ever seen — I should take a photo of it — Congressman, about a week ago. Keep going.

ZELDIN: Yeah. And, you know, I did a press conference like a week later, I was in the Bronx where some postal worker got pistol-whipped going into her job and got robbed of over a hundred thousand dollars of what they had inside of the post office. I said, “You know, maybe they should put up a sign above this post office saying, ’Pistol-whipping free zone.’” I’m in Rochester right now, and while all across the state and country we see what’s going on in the city, it’s national news stories.

As you pointed out in other areas, they’re experiencing new highs in different areas of crime across the board. We need to remove rogue DAs who refuse to enforce the law. We do not have recall elections in New York, but the governor does have the constitutional authority — and I would say constitutional duty — to remove a DA who refuses to do their job. I’ve pledged as my first act, first day sworn into office is telling the Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg that he’s being fired. We need to repeal cashless bail.

We have people — we saw that axe man in the McDonald’s on Delancey street in Lower Manhattan breaking tables, breaking walls, swinging at customers. He was instantly released due to cashless bail. I’ll tell you one other thing: Our corrections officers, other prison staff and inmates are being assaulted more since April 1st and implementation of New York of something called the Halt Act. It was limiting the tool of solitary confinement, and even solitary confinement isn’t what it used to be. It’s not like the movies.

And now you have more assaults taking place inside of prisons. That should be repealed. All right, one or more bonus one. We have kids who are teenagers who are being used to commit crimes because they passed a law called raise the age. So now instead of sending these kids off to criminal court. I would say kids but, you know, they’re 15, 16 years old, they’re committing crimes, instead of going to criminal court they’re going off to family court and they’re being used by other criminals to commit crime after crime after crime because they know that the system isn’t gonna do anything about them. So now they’re committing more crimes, not less. We know what we need to do. I put it on my website, ZeldinforNewYork.com/secureourstreets. A couple dozen or so proposals that I believe would make our streets safe again.

CLAY: Lee, Congressman, I was reading even the New York Times is talking about the impact that you’re having in New York City in particular in Jewish communities with people getting lined up behind you. What are you seeing in New York City, and what is the math need to look like in order for you to win this race? Kind of lay out what people in New York City who are listening to us, but also, I think we’re number one, Buck, in Syracuse, Albany, all these outside-of-New York City communities. What does the victory path look like for a Republican running in New York State?

ZELDIN: If you get less than 29% of the vote in New York City, you can’t win. If you get more than 35% of the vote in New York City, you can’t lose. So a lot of this does come down to the city, but it’s a 62-county campaign. As you pointed out, Syracuse. When you go north of the city, north of Westchester, the four biggest counties that you have to win Orange County, Onondaga; that’s where Syracuse is; Monroe, that’s where Rochester is; and Erie County, that’s where Buffalo is. You have to win all four. Sixty percent in Suffolk and 55% in Nassau and 43% of Westchester but that’s all if you get 29% of the vote in New York City. Every extra point that you get in the city the numbers that you need elsewhere go down. Ideally if you get to 35% then you basically have this locked up.

CLAY: Get to 35? That’s the question. We have people that are fired up in New York City that are listening and may not realize how winnable this race is, so I just want you to be able to tell them all out there about what your pathway is.

ZELDIN: Yeah, we had an internal poll we released yesterday. It came back on Monday. It had a 5.8% gap between Hochul and I in New York City. That poll came back that had us currently at 32%. You have margins of error, could be better it could be worse, but that’s what that poll came back as. You have geographic pockets where you need to do really well said in of the city, Staten Island, Bay Ridge, Brighton Beach, Middle Village. And as far as the coalition effort goes, we do a lot with the Hispanic community, with the Asian community, with the Jewish community, with the black community, and you have to engage with them; build relationships.

It’s why we started early, we got into this race 19 months to the day before the election, all across all the groups, number one issue is crime. But they also care about school choice. They care about being able to afford to survive in New York where they are implementing congestion pricing where they want to tax people for going into the city even more than what they currently pay to go into the city. So I oppose congestion pricing. Hochul supports it. This is just one of the many reasons why there needs to be multiple debates throughout the state.

And Hochul, just like you’re seeing in other places all throughout the entire country with other Democrats, her offer is that she will do one debate for one hour on cable at the very end of October; she says that’s it. Even though people already voting, I mean, absentee ballots started going out this past Friday. She wants them to wait over a month after the start of voting before we have a one and only debate on cable where millions of New Yorkers can’t even watch it on their TV screens.

BUCK: Wow. It’s amazing. The plan really is for Hochul, for Fetterman, a number of these candidates is just hide and hope that the Democrat machinery carries them over the finish line, and they basically lie about what they support, in the meantime. Congressman Congressman Zeldin, he’s running against Hochul; he needs to be the next governor of New York, everybody. Lee, where should people go to help you?

ZELDIN: Website is at ZeldinforNewYork.com. We’re on social media too @Lee Zeldin across all different kinds of social media platforms, and I appreciate what you guys do. As I travel around the state there’s a whole lot of New Yorkers everywhere tuning into your show every day. They were reaching out to me yesterday saying, hey, they heard that I was gonna come on today. They wanted to know what time. So there’s a lot of people out there across the state tuning in. And listen. We have to work hard taking nothing for granted. And everyone out there wherever you live, you are not jumping on a board for a wave. That is not what this about. You need to do your part to create the wave until the polls close on November 8th.

CLAY: That’s well said. We’re rooting for you. We’ll have you on again as we get closer. Keep up the good work.

ZELDIN: Thanks, guys. Take care.

BUCK: Lee Zeldin, man. If we could get a win on the board with Congressman Zeldin New York governor? Empire State’s coming back, baby. It can happen.

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