DeSantis Throws Roundhouse Kick at White House Propaganda
27 Jan 2022
BUCK: Clay, this one was almost too much. This one was almost too much. You know that Jen Psaki went out and said that Florida was not doing enough to reopen schools. The state of Florida is somehow not an open state on this issue. I just wanted to hear the governor fighting back again on this one. Here you go.
DESANTIS: The White House press secretary stands in front of that podium and lies through her teeth every single day, and usually about the state of Florida. The other day she said, โFlorida hasnโt done enough to get schools open.โ Are you kidding me? I remember them criticizing me when we did this almost two years ago! We were the only big state to have every school district open for in-person. And we did that way before Biden was even president. We didnโt need the Biden stimulus money for that. We did it, we opened them, and yet theyโre saying Florida didnโt do it, and you look right now at all the school closures across the country; you donโt see that happening here like you do there.
BUCK: Unbelievable.
CLAY: I want to give Ron DeSantis direct praise on this, my personal experience. Okay. When I was doing our sports show, Buck, Ron DeSantis came on and said โ one of the first people I can ever remember saying it โ not only are schools gonna be open in Florida this fall, weโre playing every sport event in Florida, right? And people out there listening to in Florida remember how controversial of a decision that was.
He was saying that in June and July of 2020 โcause, remember, schools start early in the South (chuckles) because a lot of people play football. Thatโs one of the reasons. But youโre in school usually in the South by August. And, Buck, Iโll tell you this. We had this direct conversation in June and July of 2020. My wife and I, weโre fortunate; weโve got a place in Florida. We were gonna relocate our family to Florida to have our kids attend in-person public school in the state of Florida if Tennessee wasnโt going to have in-person schooling.
We were gonna uproot. We got three boys. We were gonna pick โem all up, pack โem in the car, and go right down to Florida and enroll them in Florida public schools because I was so psyched about DeSantis coming out in June and July of 2020 and saying, โNot only are we gonna have schools open, but if your kid plays a sport, if your kid is involved in an extracurricular activity, weโre gonna do that too,โ and he did it. And do you know what the data reflected?
It didnโt harm the kids. There was no massive increase in overall covid infections because of schools being open. We just had that conversation, Buck, about Flint, Michigan, for instance. Gretchen Whitmerโs state up there. There are still kids not able โ after almost two years, since โ15 days to stop the spread,โ there are still kids unable โ to get an education in many parts of this country. Itโs a disgrace.
BUCK: Just think of how pathetic the propaganda is here coming from Psaki at the White House. Florida hasnโt done enough to open schools? Itโs not even effective in trying to speak to the Democrat base. Everyone knows thatโs completely crazy. But I think theyโre in a place where theyโre desperate. Clay, this is like saying Aaron Rodgers โ my new favorite NFL player โ is not a good enough quarterback. I think heโs a pretty good quarterback. (laughing) I think saying that he shouldnโt be playing football would be kind of crazy, right? Ron DeSantis, dare I say, is the Aaron Rodgers of quarterbacks.
CLAY: The Aaron Rodgers of governors?
BUCK: Iโm sorry. (lauging) Of governors. Thank you.
CLAY: I think even Ron DeSantis would be like, โHey, I donโt thinkโฆโ I know Ron DeSantis a big sports fan. Even he who might have strong self-confidence, I donโt think he would call himself the Aaron Rodgers of quarterbacks. He did, by the way, play baseball, which is I think one reason why he was so aware of the importance of keeping schools open for athletics.
He played baseball at Yale, I believe. Good baseball player growing up in Florida, went to the Little League World Series. You know this, Buck โ and Iโve seen it because of what I do for a living, and everybody out there who has been involved in sports knows this. There are a lot of kids that go to school so they can play on a sports team, and what you have to hope is โ and you know this from coaching yourself.
What you hope is, if you keep those kids in the classroom, eventually that lightbulb goes off. What I would always tell kids is, โUse the ball, donโt let the ball use you,โ because if youโre a talented athlete, people will take advantage of that athletic ability and keep you eligible in school, and you hope that lightbulb goes off for a kid and they say, โWait a minute. Even if Iโm a tremendous athlete, by the time I get into my thirties, I have virtually no ability to compete at a high level anymore, but your brain can continue to refine itself years and years.โ Athletic mortality is a young age, and thatโs why I think keeping the sports leagues open in addition to the schools is so important.
BUCK: This is also why โ and I have to keep saying this. I use the term โmandated child abuseโ by Fauci โ I mean it โ when you see whatโs going on across the country because itโs psychological abuse for a lot of these kids, to be separated, to be kept at home away from their peers, to be masked up all the time. And then on top of that, all these other things, the Democrat narrative is, โOh, weโre fine.
โSchools are open again, for the most part. Biden himself said 95% open.โ Hold on a second. First of all, the fact that that number is not a hundred percent two years into this is disgusting. Itโs disgusting. Itโs unacceptable. Put that aside. And, by the way, if we were in a bad flu season and you had, you know, 20% of the faculty of one school that were sick, yeah, of course, shutting down for a day is okay. But that would have been normal before, right?
Thatโs not necessarily a covid thing. Look, if you got people sick you might take pause just so people can recover and come back into the classroom. Youโre not doing this forever zero-covid policy. So thatโs one part of it. But also, thereโs a dishonesty, Clay, about how things are normal for kids in blue states, whether itโs New York, Maryland, California, you name it. Things are not normal. They do not have sports. They do not have after-school activities.
They are segregating kids right now in Loudoun County, Virginia, in rejection of the governorโs order. Itโs lawless is what theyโre doing. Theyโre segregating masked and unmasked kids in the school building, and so I guess technically thatโs open in-class learning, but theyโre separate out these kids based on whether they want to wear masks or not. Very happy to see โ I donโt know if you saw this, Clay โ there are some students showing up at schools in Loudoun without masks even though the school district is saying you have to wear masks anyway. โCause what theyโre doing is lawless โ and if they kick any kids out, they should be sued, there should be action taken.
CLAY: No doubt. Theyโre standing in the schoolhouse doors. We had Joe Biden try to compare American senators to George Wallace. We have a direct historical connotation here because Carrie Lukas, I believe, who we talked to yesterday said that there are security guards standing on the schoolhouse steps not allowing children without masks on to enter into the school. And, Buck, Iโm glad you mentioned that 95% number.
Because Biden in his press conference made a big deal about how, โHey, you know, 95% of schools are open.โ That 5% thatโs not open is overwhelmingly minority kids, right, that are not able to go to school โ and 95% isnโt good enough, to your point. It needs to be a hundred percent. Imagine if Biden had said, in response to police misconduct, โGuys, thereโs way too much attention to police misconduct here 95% of the time police cause no issue at all.
โIโm really upset that you guys in the media focus on that 5%.โ Democrats would impeach him. They would say, โWait, youโre saying that the George Floyd incident is overplayed and that it shouldnโt be representative of the larger context,โ even though itโs way fewer, right, than 5%. What would you say, 99.9%, I would imagine, of police interactions with civilians are completely without inappropriate behavior.
And here heโs saying 95%. One-in-20 kids, again, overwhelmingly representative in that one in 20 are minority kids, which is supposed to be the base of the Democrat Party. The Democrat Party claims that they care about them so much; overwhelmingly that group is represented here โ 95% is not good enough when it comes to kids in school.
BUCK: The metric should also be not whether schools are open. Are schools back to normal?
CLAY: Yes.
BUCK: Full-scale normalcy. Number of kids in the classrooms, no masks, all activities, full-scale normalcy โ and, of course, no vaccine mandates. So this fight is far from over. But youโre noticing one of the ways they try to prevent the mobilization of sanity against Fauci tyranny is by saying, โWhatโs the big deal? Schools are open. Everything is fine.โ Thatโs a lie. Everything is not fine, even in places where schools are open. I think itโs important that we remind everybody of that.
CLAY: And I think also, by the way, some good news. Iโm sure you saw this. We havenโt mentioned it yet on the show. Denmark has become another sane country. Come February 1st, theyโre eliminating all covid restrictions in their country.
BUCK: Everything.
CLAY: No masks.
BUCK: Everything.
CLAY: Zero restrictions. Theyโre going back a hundred percent to normal. Thatโs what England is doing. Thatโs what Scotland is doing. Iโm sure there are other European countries that are considering doing the same. And tomorrow when we talk to the trio that wrote that Atlantic piece about how masks in schools have zero scientific support.
Again, The Atlantic is not known to be a source of right-wing propaganda as it pertains to masks. This a very traditionally left-wing magazine. And the fact that this kind of article is occurring there is symptomatic, I believe, of sanity starting to penetrate. It was there with the Bill Maher show and Bari Weiss. There is an underpinning of sanity that is starting to rise up even on the left side of this country.
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