Kamala Back to the Border Issue, AOC Lectures on “Latinx”

BUCK: For any of you who are worried that our southern border is a porous, anarchic, lawless mess right now, just understand that the border czar is back. Kamala Harris is back on the border issue — not actually at the border, not going to go there — but looking at root causes in Central America. This is great because she’ll probably fix the border crisis with this root cause strategy somewhere in the 30- to 40-year range from now perhaps, if we stay on it year in, year out and maybe hundreds of billions of dollars over that period or whatever.

Who knows? But I did want to point out also that there’s been this great trend, very positive, very encouraging trend, seeing that Latino or Hispanic support for the GOP going into this midterm. Clay and I have been telling you all about this. If I say y’all, is that okay? Or is that an appropriation?

CLAY: An appropriation these days.

BUCK: We have so many Southerners who listen, can you guys tell me can I as a Yankee say y’all. It’s a great contraction. Everyone should use it.

CLAY: I agree. Far better than “you guys”. Way more efficient.

BUCK: Whenever Brits want to make fun of Americans they go “you guys”, “you guys.”

CLAY: “You guys” is the Midwest “y’all” I think in general. Some people get graded when people use language, and it sounds artificial. I’ll give you an example. Have you noticed the use — Democrats in particular, use the word “folks” all the time.

BUCK: To try to appeal to the working folks, of course.

CLAY: It sounds so fake to me when somebody who lives in, like —

BUCK: When Nancy Pelosi talks about the “folks.” In her head she’s thinking “the poors,” but she says “folks.”

CLAY: (laughing) It’s totally true. Folks, just like nobody actually — I mean, uses that word really, even in the South or middle part of the country on a regular basis so it sounds so artificial. I think what happened was it poll tested better than “people.” So they started saying, “folks, gotta start make decisions.” Every time people say it it sounds so fake to me.

BUCK: I feel like maybe the fair thing would be for someone like me, a born and raised a New Yorker, I can say y’all, just like that, but not do a y’aaall. Not leaning in to it too much.

CLAY: Like you’re trying to exaggerate.

BUCK: It’s like I can wear the cowboy boots maybe, but I just can’t show them off too much and kick them up on the table. Here’s my point, though. Latino and Hispanic support for GOP is surging, which is fantastic, and it would be amazing to see GOP candidates overall, let’s say, get a majority of the Hispanic vote.

CLAY It would be a seismic change in electoral analysis.

BUCK: And so to that end, I would just like to see the continuation of the advice here from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of Westchester — which Tucker, for example, is fond of pointing out. She’s not actually from the Bronx, which is a borough that I know quite well. She’s from Westchester, which is kind of an upper middle-class suburb of New York City. Anyway, she’s telling everybody I don’t care what it does to your electoral prospects as a Democrat; use the term “Latinx” because this is about people’s identities.

AOC: There’s some politicians, including Democratic politicians, that rail against the term “Latinx” and they’re, like, so bad, this is so bad for the party, like, blah, blah, blah. And, like, it’s almost as though it’s not struck some of these folks that another person’s identity is not about your reelection prospects. Like, this is not about you.”

BUCK: (impression) “It’s, like, it’s not,” but I want to tell everybody —

CLAY: She used “folks,” by the way. Did you hear that?

BUCK: Yes. But I want every Democrat to listen to her. Please, please go around and pander to the left-wing lunatic of your base by telling either Latino or Hispanic people that you refer to them to their faces as Latinx, which they just came up with this term about five minutes ago.

CLAY: And only 10% of Latino voters, I think I saw the poll, even know what the term Latinx means.

BUCK: None of them use it, by the way. They’re right. It’s absurd.

CLAY: A lot of them don’t even know the term exists. So you’re lecturing everybody that you have to use it when people who are actually Latino don’t even know that this exists. But right after… I didn’t know that she used it. Right after I was going after the people using the word “folks” using the word “folks,” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez used it.