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Clay and Buck

Clay and Buck

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Does Joe Biden Believe the Lies Heโ€™s Telling?

10 Aug 2022

CLAY: So, 8.5% inflation. Thatโ€™s the month of July number that came out this morning, down from 9.1% in June. Yay. You feel so much richer? Do you feel like, man, my trip to the grocery store, I couldnโ€™t believe how much money I was saving?

BUCK: Iโ€™m just walking around slapping my butler with hundred-dollar bills dressed like the Monopoly man. Itโ€™s amazing.

CLAY: I gotta tell you, even the New York Times yesterday, they had an article about how expensive pizza was getting in New York City, and I thought, โ€œUh-oh. Pretty soon that scooterโ€™s getting stolen from Buck again, these high-inflationary times.โ€ I donโ€™t know what might happen. So, inflation at 8.5%. Iโ€™m gonna play you a clip of Joe Biden saying itโ€™s 0% because they continue to try to redefine what words are.

What is a woman, what is recession, what is a raid, what is inflation? They lie, they lie, and they lie, and along the way, some of you are looking around like, man. Theyโ€™re literally changing the definition in the dictionary of words to suit their political aims, not to mention the continued fallout over the raid on Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago. And first, Buck, I want to playโ€ฆjust because itโ€™s 8.5% inflation, I felt like we should let people know what the Biden administration is trying to spin out there.

And then weโ€™re going to talk about the continued fallout which I think has rallied people around Donald Trump the likes of which we have not seen in years. Years. But first, they trotted out old Joe, put it in the teleprompter for him to read, and he said, โ€œToday, we received news our economy had 0% inflation in the month of July, 0%.โ€ This is real. This is the talking point that the White House is trying to sell. Listen.

BUCK: Can I ask you a question, Clay? Is he so dumb that he actually thinks this is true, or is he so shameless that heโ€™s saying something that is obviously untrue to people because thatโ€™s who he is, heโ€™s lied about plenty of things and he thinks he has no choice? Which one? I feel like you could make a case for either. Which one do you think it is?

CLAY: It is a really interesting question. And, sadly, I think Joe Bidenโ€™s ability to even understand what heโ€™s doing and saying from one moment to the next is tenuous. So, I think, unfortunately, as many people who are dementia laden or in the stages of dementia, some moments you can have a conversation with them and you can think, โ€œOh, theyโ€™re pretty sharp. Oh, they seem to be following it.โ€

And then you just get a sentence where youโ€™re like, โ€œMan, they really donโ€™t know whatโ€™s going on here,โ€ and itโ€™s sad. I know virtually every person out there listening to us right now has had a loved one, a friend that they have seen go through this. And so, Buck, I mean, I was watching the clip of Joe Biden. Iโ€™m sure you saw it, and Iโ€™m sure a lot of our audience did, of him landing in the helicopter and coming back from Kentucky. I guess it was Tuesday.

And he couldnโ€™t put on his suit coat getting off of the helicopter. And then yesterday โ€” I guess it was Monday coming back in the suit coat โ€” yesterday, Tuesday, he had the press conference with Senator Schumer. And, Buck, did you see him shake Schumerโ€™s hand and then Schumer went down the line and shook everybodyโ€™s hand probably five, six seconds, and he came back in the direction of Joe Biden, and it was as if Joe Biden didnโ€™t realize he had already shaken his hand because he put his hand out again?

So to your point, I really think theyโ€™re drugging this guy up, popping him up with whatever they need. Remember the video that they put out where his eyes were bugging out of his head and then they put him in shades after that potentially because they knew that it looked so ridiculous? I think they put it in the prompter and he reads it. And so, I donโ€™t even think heโ€™s conscious of the arguments, very often, that heโ€™s making now.

BUCK: I do believe if you put that the Inflation Reduction Act is gonna cut $11 billion โ€”

CLAY: He would read it.

BUCK: I think heโ€™d read eleventy billion dollars off the prompter and probably not think twice about it.

CLAY: Yeah.

BUCK: They are shameless about all of this because I also think that if you had Democrats in a moment of honesty and it was, โ€œIs a clearly not of sound mind, too old for the job Biden still better than any Republican alternative?โ€ And Iโ€™m not even just Trump. Any Republican alternative, theyโ€™ll say yes, because itโ€™s about a figurehead, itโ€™s about power, itโ€™s about the individual. Whatโ€™s up?

CLAY: Liz Cheney โ€”

BUCK: Liz Cheney would say yes. Well, former, soon to be former, congressperson Liz Cheney. Sheโ€™s gonna see lose I think in, what is it, about a week? Democrats view it as the presidency is really just about a baton of power now. And as long as their team has it, theyโ€™re happy. The actual president himself, theyโ€™ve given up on this. They got used to it being really a lot of about the president in the Obama era because they were so excited about him, and they thought he was the most brilliant, amazing, wonderful politician in the history of the planet.

Now itโ€™s just as long as our team is in charge and you have Democrats in the various agencies at the top and appointees and thatโ€™s all that really matters to them. So, I donโ€™t even think that thereโ€™s โ€“thereโ€™s not even a sense of shame that they have about what youโ€™re talking about, which is does Biden even know whatโ€™s going on? And itโ€™s fascinating as well, I mean, 8.5% inflation, theyโ€™re celebrating this, just so everyoneโ€™s clear, the real number is inflationโ€™s at 8.5%. It did not go up in the month of July. It went down a little bit. So, this is a little bit like saying, you know, if youโ€™re a hundred thousand dollars in credit card debt and now you only are $90,000 in debt, yeah, out of the woods. Not really.

Clay and BuckCLAY: Yeah. And would you have ever believed weโ€™d be at a position where 8.5% inflation is a victory lap for Joe Biden and Democrats? Itโ€™s 8.5% increase off last year, and theyโ€™re trying to argue itโ€™s zero percent month to month. But thatโ€™s not even accurate because all of you who are going out are paying prices predicated on what you paid last year. Right? So, when youโ€™re going out โ€” and the numbers โ€” I think I screenshotted one of the data points from the July inflation numbers.

Itโ€™s pretty wild how much some of these prices are up. And so, the fact that they didnโ€™t go up a little bit more doesnโ€™t feel like a victory. To your point, Buck, when youโ€™re a hundred thousand dollars in debt, if the next month youโ€™re still a hundred thousand dollars in debt, that ainโ€™t a great feeling, you know? I mean, you still got the debt. And I donโ€™t know, when we factor in the nearly $800,000 billion in expenditures, I donโ€™t know how weโ€™re not gonna have massive inflationary pressure moving through the rest of the fall and in the next year.

BUCK: Thereโ€™s a brazenness with the way this administration operates. Theyโ€™ve really gotten used to it, Clay. Theyโ€™ll call it the Inflationโ€ฆ Now, I know thatโ€™s Congress, but Bidenโ€™s gonna have to sign it. Heโ€™s obviously involved in the discussion about the naming of it, the Inflation Reduction Act is not going to reduce inflation.

CLAY: It actually increases it, according to most economic experts.

BUCK: And so, the primary promise of this is false. And they just donโ€™t care. It does not matter to them. You know, are we in an economy downturn? We had two quarters of negative GDP. Weโ€™re not in a recession. Well, thatโ€™s always what we thought a recession was before. Well, welcome to Biden world. The recession has changed, folks. The recession will not be televised.

So, here we are with people who change words, change definitions because the case they would make the American people I think if they had to do it on the merits, is very weak. I mean, comparatively, people shouldnโ€™t think about what is Biden saying this month versus last month. It should be what was the promise that he made, what was the Biden campaign based on and what have we actually seen?

CLAY: Well, and thereโ€™s a great story out from political. I know weโ€™ve discussed a lot the challenges that weโ€™re seeing in some of these Senate races as we come down, I think itโ€™s fair to say, the proverbial home stretch here, certainly post-Labor Day when everybodyโ€™s summer vacations are over and all the kids are back in school. Footballโ€™s back. I mean, weโ€™ll officially be in campaign season.

But there are some numbers, I was reading from Politico this morning, I think Laura Ingraham shared it early this morning, there are Biden districts that he won by 14 and 15 points in Oregon, for instance, where there are Republicans that are up right now. So, we know what happened with Mayra Flores down on the border with how much she swung a district that had voted for Joe Biden. Weโ€™re talking about some of these very blue states in Oregon.

Clay and BuckThere are 20-point swings that exist right now in the polling out there. And the discussion in the Politico article that I thought was intriguing was how many different places that theoretically are safe districts, Buck, where Democrats are acknowledging that theyโ€™re gonna have to spend fairly substantial dollars. And did you see, we got so close to Ilhan Omar almost lost her Democrat primary last night in Minnesota. I mean, I think she won about like 2,000 votes.

BUCK: The ideology of The Squad, the progressive Democrats in the House, is a political liability now that weโ€™ve seen enough of what that actually put into practice, whether itโ€™s defund police, a whole range of issues but specifically on that one, it is a political liability for the Democrats now. They understand that now.

So, sure, you know, AOC will continue to get reelected in a overwhelmingly Democrat district in Queens, New York. But for anybody whoโ€™s in a tough race, theyโ€™re pretending now, โ€œOh, thatโ€™s not the Democrat Party that I belong to. I belong to a Democrat Party about theโ€ฆโ€ Youโ€™re gonna hear a lot of โ€œworking, folks,โ€ youโ€™re gonna see Democrats marching around going duck hunting for the first time in places like, you know, Missouri and states where thereโ€™sโ€ฆ

In Michigan, all of a sudden, theyโ€™re gonna be wearing camo, Clay, these Democrats who are holding a gun like itโ€™s a laser from out of space that theyโ€™ve never seen before because, you know, theyโ€™re gun-toting Democrats. This is what always happens. They have to pretend to be less Democrat in order to actually get elected.

CLAY: Yeah. And the person who almost beat Ilhan Omar, 500 Twitter followers. She has three million. I justโ€ฆ It would have beenโ€ฆ I was watching that. Those election results come in last night, and I think it ended up 51-49, something like that. And the guy who was running against her was in favor of funding the police. Heโ€™s a Democrat, obviously.

But a sane one: In favor of funding police, a believer in business, a believer in capitalism. And in that district, she almost lost. And it makes me wonder, I kinda wish Republicans had gotten involved in that race like weโ€™ve seen all the Democrats get involved in other races โ€™cause this guy had virtually no money. Imagine if somebody had spent $500,000 on his behalf, I think Ilhan Omar may well have lost.

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