Boom! DeSantis Pushes Back Against Bullying Allegations

CLAY: We played it yesterday or Wednesday, a video that went viral of Ron DeSantis telling kids that they didn’t have to wear masks, and that masks were no good, and basically we have to stop the theater, and I agreed 100% with everything that he said. And I bet a huge number of you did as well. And there’s a poll question up right now at WFLA, which is a Florida television station, asking whether or not they thought that Ron DeSantis was “bullying” kids, because that was what the story became.

Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida, is bullying these masked kids standing behind him. Well, 91% of the population voting in this poll, 40,000-some-odd voters, said, “No, it’s not bullying,” and Ron DeSantis directly addressed this saying a pretty good answer. I’ve got a couple cuts here that I want to play for you, but let’s start with Ron DeSantis responding to the allegation that he was bullying kids.

DESANTIS: Bullying is locking kids out of school, which they did. Bullying is forcing kids to wear masks for eight hours a day, which they did for two years and are only stopping now ’cause the polling’s changed. Bullying is kicking people out of work because of vaccine mandates. We fought all of those policies in Florida. We lifted people and we liberated them from local school boards and governments that imposed ’em.

BUCK: Boom! Absolutely correct. And I think everyone needs to be ready for this. You’re gonna get a lot more of this going forward where now that the left doesn’t just have the brute force of the state to make you mask up and social distance and all these things, and they have so many of their… So much of the left-wing base is still crazy. We played before the “mask us up!” people that are chanting it on the streets! They demand to be…

Go ahead, mask us up. We can also tell you… This is still a free country, for now. We’re allowed to tell you that masking up outside and inside, is stupid and pointless. We’re allowed to tell you that. And, you know, in the early days I remember, Clay, it started out as, “Hey, maybe people should consider doing it, whatever,” and then it became, “You must do this or else we’ll ban you from the airlines forever!

“Your child will be separated and suspended from other children in school if they don’t mask up.” They were vicious about this, and now they want to turn around and be all, “Hey, let’s be nice to each other.” No, I’m sorry. I’m sorry. It’s payback time for the double masked, outside-alone, crazy libs who have completely abused the mass movement that they had going for a while to make all of this go along with their lunacy.

CLAY: I want to play a couple of these cuts because I think the arguments are well said by both Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and his surgeon general. But here’s Ron DeSantis saying, “Hey, it does need to be said that young people don’t need to wear masks. He’s right. Listen to this.

DESANTIS: None of the adults were wearing masks, and it seemed to me that someone told those kids they had to do it. So I just wanted to make it very clear, they do not need to be doing it. Obviously in Florida, it’s free state; you can do it. But I think it’s also important to point out that there’s no reason to do it for young and healthy kids especially.

In the state of Florida, we never had a mask mandate, of course. But our guidance from our health department is not to wear these cloth masks. I think it needs to be said, because people have been lied to for two years, and so I was… I didn’t want it to be thinking that, like, they were told to do this by me because I certainly wouldn’t do that.

CLAY: Okay. So, there he is making the point which is very important that they don’t work. I just would love, if instead of that tyrant, petty Smurf Fauci, imagine if this had been the leader of our response. There are a lot of guys and girls you could say this about, but the Florida surgeon general, Joseph Ladapo —

BUCK: A Harvard trained MD.

CLAY: — a Harvard trained MD. Here he is going off about masks. I’m glad that we’re finally throwing punches back at these imbeciles. Listen.

LADAPO: To the doctors who tell you that these things save lives, ask them what did the two randomized clinical trials that we’ve done during the pandemic…? What did they show? Ask them that when they tell you that these things save lives. One found nothing, zero benefit. The other found a small benefit, like a tiny benefit that’s a little bit methodologically shaky. And, by the way, none of them, none of them found a benefit in young people. Not a single one found a benefit in young people.

CLAY: Thank God that we’re finally fighting back here, Buck, because for so long, so many people have curled up in the fetal position and just respected to fight back. And I’m so glad that people in the state of Florida, both the governor and their surgeon general, are willing to spread actual facts in the face of all those totalitarian fears.