NJ’s Murphy: Second-Worst Governor in America

MURPHY: Please get vaccinated!

CROWD: (applause)

MURPHY: These folks back there have lost their minds. You’ve lost your minds!

CROWD: (applause dies)

MURPHY: You are the ultimate knuckleheads, and because of what are saying and standing for, people are losing their life!

CROWD: (smattering of applause)

MURPHY: People are losing their life, and you have to know that. Look in the mirror!

BUCK: Welcome back to the Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show. Clay, that was governor of New Jersey. I just want to play that because here’s a guy full of sanctimony, yelling at some people that don’t agree with his vaccine stuff. New Jersey has the worst death rate per capita, actually, in the entire United States. Worse than New York.

CLAY: It’s almost in the world.

BUCK: One of the worst on the planet.

CLAY: It was last year, New Jersey… People focused on New York. But if you looked at the data in the United States, New Jersey was worse, and for a while… Now, I think some of the other countries have caught since on a per capita basis, I think. But New Jersey could not have done any worse responding to covid than what they did.

BUCK: And if you don’t want to listen to everything that Governor Murphy — who is, speaking of a knucklehead, this guy’s an imbecile — says, then you’re bad person. It’s like we’re not supposed to pay attention to what these guys have said all along and all the declarations and all the haranguing people and telling everything about, “If you don’t do this…” Remember Cuomo? Cuomo straight up saying, “You’re gonna kill people’s grandparents unless you do what we say.”

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: Which included wiping down groceries.

CLAY: By the way, the irony of Cuomo saying that — who killed more people’s grandparents with his awful decisions than anybody in the entire country.

BUCK: Of course. And remember hand washing?

CLAY: Oh, yes.

BUCK: Hand washing was our key to getting past this in the beginning. There were reminders everywhere you’d go. “Wash your hands 20 time a day!” There were people probably scraping the skin off their fingers using abrasives because they’re being told this, and then we find out, “Oh, it’s actually aerosolized and basically not not coming from surfaces at all.”

CLAY: None of that mattered.

BUCK: But if you question anything, they just completely ignored what’s actually happening with the history. Murphy is an imbecile. The only advantage that he’s had is that Cuomo is such a disaster on so many fronts that the governor of New Jersey looks like he’s not necessarily the worst. He’s not the worst governor in America because of Cuomo. That’s basically what he’s got going for him.

CLAY: And I do think with all this panic and I understand what I call fear porn, right, all of the terror, all of the covid variant, Delta variant discussion, it’s kind of worth pointing out that the number of deaths that are occurring in the United States right now from covid are still — and again, it’s “with covid.” I think that’s a significant factor.

Because unfortunately the people who are the most susceptible no matter what from the get-go have been elderly. They have been people with immune issues already. They have been people with multiple comorbidities. But even with all the attention that covid is getting right now, we are still talking about covid being a relatively low-down-the-list cause of death basically since the vaccines became widely distributed.

BUCK: You’re losing… I’m looking up the New York Times figures right now, and the average as of August 4th is 410 people a day dying from covid.

CLAY: And again, I would say “with covid.”

BUCK: Right.

CLAY: Because they’re testing positive. There are a variety of different things there.

BUCK: But when you look at what that actually means comparatively to other forms of mortality that we just accept in day-to-day life, at some point here it feels like there have been a couple of very broad, fundamental misconceptions about how reality works and the left has embraced them. One, that the government can really protect you, and, two, that we can conquer mortality in some way if only we all act together collectively and do everything. There are always going to be diseases out there that, unfortunately, take our loved ones.

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: There’s gonna be heart disease, there’s gonna be cancer, there are gonna be these things. And so we all thought we were in this place where we were supposed to get it to what would be considered a number that society can with sadness but understanding, say, “This is the way it’s gonna be.” We’re at those numbers, Clay. Doesn’t matter. Get it to zero.

CLAY: I’m showing you right now. This is the death chart. It has barely moved at all for months, and we can’t get covid ever to zero.