BUCK: I’ve been saying really from the beginning of the pandemic that if you understand Alinsky — if you understand community organizing and mass mobilization, largely through symbols and propaganda — you would see that covid is just like an authoritarian’s dream, right? Now all of a sudden, everything that you do — anything you want to do — you can put through the lens of, “Well, we better do this or else there’s gonna be some kind of a health implication.”

There’s no aspect of your life that can’t be engineered under the guise of protecting you from covid. We just see this with the rent moratorium that they went with. All of a sudden, the CDC, Democrats believe they firmly — and for a long time, they got away with this. The CDC could say, “Yeah, you’re not allowed to actually enforce the contract you have with someone who’s renting a home from you.”

And there are some landlords that, I believe, have been turned homeless by this policy because of the renter. They were relying on that rent to pay their own bills and they ended up being homeless themselves and couldn’t go to the home they owned that was being rented to, of course because they couldn’t evict them.

But we’ve seen a lot of this. Once you understand the mentality of the left and how Alinskyite mass mobilization works, once you’ve got people energized on one area in one way, it’s much easier to move them on to somebody else. So when you have them mobilized against corruption, then you can move them to pollution. When you have them mobilized against capitalism, you can then move them on to whatever else comes to mind for you.

And climate change is it. Clay and I were just having a discussion about how I think an emotionally, healthy, normal, rational person spends exactly zero seconds of their life worried about climate change. I believe that this is a religious belief for people who think they’re too smart for religion, Clay.

So let’s just first establish, it’s not like other issues, where income equality, “Yeah, I can see. Sometimes private equity does lever up companies and destroy them and take a whole lot of working-class people and put them out of jobs.” There can be back-and-forth on these issues. You worry about climate change zero. I worry about it zero.

CLAY: I worry about it zero. I mean, honestly. There are so many things going on in my life on a day-to-day basis and some people say, “Well, I don’t worry about it for myself. I worry about it for my kids or my grandkids.” I spend zero time worrying about climate change for my kids and my grandkids too. And it’s obviously not because I don’t care about my kids or, hopefully someday, grandkids that I would have.

It’s because there are a billion other things going on that I’m more concerned about that are more directly related to things that I believe humans can have an impact on. Every time there is a climate change topic — and, by the way, I think I’m the vast majority of the American public, right? I think the vast majority of the American public is so busy on a day-to-day basis got kids that you’re worried about, jobs that you’re worried about web parents to take care of, family members, all these other things going on. I don’t think very many people are worried about climate change.

BUCK: The polling totally backs you up on that.

CLAY: Yeah.

BUCK: That’s clear. But the Bolsheviks were never a majority either, so it doesn’t end it.

CLAY: So what has changed and pivoted in a big way since the first time there is a flood now, every time there is a hurricane — which, by the way, floods and hurricanes have been happening my entire life. I’m 42.

BUCK: I think there’s some stuff in the Bible about floods and things too.

CLAY: I think there might have even been, in biblical times, floods. I understand that people who are smarter than me and go back and look through the eons of sediment and look at where exactly water levels have been, they have fluctuated a great deal over the decades. I’m not worried about it at all.

BUCK: Well, the Democrats are severely worried about it.

CLAY: And what has changed, Buck, is now we get direct, overt blaming of climate change for any climate-related issue. And that did not happen a decade ago. It certainly didn’t happen 20 years ago.

BUCK: Fires in California, hurricanes hitting the southeastern United States, tornadoes in the Midwest, a freak storm in New York City, whatever it may be. You’re right. All the sudden there’s this… It’s almost like an emotional manipulation and blackmail that goes on where Joe Biden shows up and goes (impression), “If we don’t deal with this…” It’s existential,” and he does this whole thing. In fact, here, here he is making the pitch right after we just got hit with some storms. Here’s Joe Biden talking about how we need to take action.

BIDEN: Climate change poses an existential threat to our lives, to our economy, and the threat is here. It’s not gonna get any better. The question is, can it get worse. We can stop it from getting worse. And when I talk about building back better — and Chuck is fighting for my program, our program on the Hill. When I talk about building back better, I mean, you can’t build to what it was before this last storm.

You gotta build better so (sputters) if the storm occurred again, there would be no damage. There would be. But that’s not gonna stop us, though, because if we just do that, it’s just gonna get worse and worse and worse, because the storms are gonna get worse and worse and worse. And so, folks, we gotta listen to the scientists.

BUCK: Clay, this is gibberish. If you were sitting… If he weren’t the president of the United States you were sitting on a barstool —

CLAY: I’d be so uncomfortable.

BUCK: — muttering about the existential threat and all this stuff, you’d think this guy needed professional help.

CLAY: That’s such a good point. Take the fact that all these microphones are out there and just… That’s a great analogy. If you were sitting in a bar and Joe Biden sidled up to you and — let’s pretend we’re dudes and not girls and he’s trying to smell our hair and touch us inappropriately. Let’s pretend it’s me or you, Buck, and he might still try to —

BUCK: He might still try to smell my hair. Yours probably too.

CLAY: Yeah, we do have good hair. So let’s pretend we get past the hair sniffing and we’re like kind of hanging out with Joe. Would you in any way consider his opinion at all to be remotely valid, or would you say, “Of all the people in this bar to sit next to me, I’ve gotta have this dude sit next to me”? He sounds like he is basically drunk every single time that he is talking now.

He’s meandering. He’s not making sense. There’s no logical connection to what he’s trying to say, and it’s disappointing. Look, I always say, I don’t want the country to be led by a laughingstock. Regardless of what your own political beliefs are, we’re led by a laughingstock right now. This guy’s a joke.

BUCK: I wouldn’t hire Joe Biden to be a one-day substitute teacher for an eighth-grade English composition class. And I mean that. I mean, I really… I don’t think this guy could cut it. I think the kids would be getting short-changed on this one. And yet he’s the leader of the free world. By the way, to our point about the nonsense that Biden spews, here you go.

BIDEN: We are determined that we are going to deal with climate change and — and have zero emissions, net emissions by 2050; by 2020, make sure all our electricity is zero emissions.

What do we call #tornadoes… ? https://t.co/OBVclW6ou0 pic.twitter.com/zw4qDxSwf4

— Buck Sexton (@BuckSexton) September 8, 2021

BUCK: They’ll say he misspoke or whatever. But he misspeaks and then doesn’t correct it, right? How can he say out loud zero emissions by last year and not go “I meant”? If he had said, “I meant…” I misspeak, you misspeak sometiems. We speak for three hours a day extemporaneously, but there’s something not right with this guy, Clay, a lot of things actually.

CLAY: That’s exactly what I was gonna say. You and I sometimes don’t get every word perfect on the radio show. We don’t have a script to read from and we’re doing live radio every day. Here’s a good question. You said you wouldn’t hire him to be an eighth-grade substitute teacher, which I think is a great question. I wouldn’t hire him to work at OutKick. We’re in the process of hiring a lot of people.

There’s nothing that I could hire him to do at my company, and he’s the leader of the Free World. I wouldn’t trust him to be able to do it. Buck, what if Joe Biden had to sit down in front of our mic and talk to our audience for three hours like we do? There’s no way on earth that Joe Biden could do our job. There’s no possibility that he… In fact, if he sat down and tried to talk to our audience for three hours —

BUCK: We’d have to invoke the mercy rule. I would, actually. I would be embarrassed, I’d feel bad, I’d throw a blanket around his shoulders and want to get him to some apple juice as soon as possible because it’s clear he couldn’t do it. And, Clay, I don’t think that’s an unfair thing to bring up because they were calling for the 25th Amendment to be used against Donald Trump —

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: — who would stand up at rallies and put on extemporaneously, which you and I appreciate a lot ’cause we’re just rolling here, folks.

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: We’re just doing our thing and just, you know, going off what’s on the top of our minds. He put on the greatest political show on earth off the top of his head!

CLAY: Well, we’re gonna go down to Mar-a-Lago sooner rather than later, hopefully, and we’ll offer the Trump opportunity to be on with us for three hours. By the way, I’d offer Joe Biden the opportunity to be on with us for three hours. I think it would be the single worst decision that the Biden administration could make to put him on with us for three hours, but I think everybody out there listening to us would… I mean, let’s be honest.

BUCK: We should have him for three minutes first. But, yeah, sure, three hours would be fun too.