Post Office Stops Delivering in Crime-Torn Santa Monica

BUCK: This is in Santa Monica, which if you don’t know, Santa Monica is a beautiful place that has been ruined now by Democrats like so many others. It’s right along the Pacific Ocean. It’s incredibly expensive real estate, I mean, a nice house, a nice apartment in Santa Monica you’re talking millions of dollars. And the U.S. Postal Service, according to local news reports, has suspended delivery of mail because they had so many mail carriers assaulted, harassed, and attacked. Listen.

BUCK: Not safe, Clay, to be delivering the mail in a 95% leftist Democrat enclave of millionaires, basically. Yeah. Good luck with that.

CLAY: For people out there who do not know L.A., Santa Monica is a super high-end neighborhood.

BUCK: Yep.

CLAY: Right? And this is one particular area of Santa Monica. But I have lots of friends in Los Angeles, and I have a lot of friends in Los Angeles who are thinking about leaving.

And one reason is, Buck, L.A. is a mess everywhere. You can live right now in Orange County, you can live in the South Bay, you can live down close to the water, and there are homeless encampments everywhere. And the amount of filth and lack of safety is something that it is connecting across all different income groups, it’s connecting across all different political parties.

I mean, again, the fact that Gavin Newsom won his recall election is unfortunate because I believe he’s up for reelection this year, right, in 2022, and I don’t think that Gavin Newsom is gonna be able to be beaten, which is why we talked earlier this week, he may end up being one of the candidates in 2024, believe it or not, for the Democratic Party.

BUCK: These blue states, unfortunately, New York and California, I’m as New York as any person, you know, anywhere. I mean I grew up here, born here, lived here for decades. I mean, it’s not my fault, it’s not your fault, if you’re listening to this and you vote for whatever Republicans we can try to put forward in a state like New York, but we just have crappy leadership. I mean, that’s the reality is bad leadership.

Today you see the lieutenant governor in New York indicted on a bribery scheme for $50,000, by the way. I mean, not even really swinging for the fences in the bribery sense?

CLAY: I wouldn’t even think that you could bribe the lieutenant governor of New York for 50K, by the way.

BUCK: Yeah, at a weird level I’d like to think that it would cost more to bribe the lieutenant governor, you know? It’s gotta at least be seven figures.

CLAY: Yeah, at least have some basic day before basic economic…

BUCK: Go to prison, you know, public corruption cases, Clay, they take very seriously.

CLAY: Well, they should. But, I mean, when you’re willing to sell the city out for 50K, I mean, you know, you can’t even get a car these days for 50K.

But here are the numbers I started to hit in the first hour of the show as we were discussing the shooting in the subway — and that, by the way, perpetrator is still on the loose, right, Buck, for everybody out there listening in New York City, the shooter of the subway early this morning has yet to be captured.

These are because in that are up this year compared to last year. Remember we saw a historic rise 2020 to 2021. We’re now into 2022. Atlanta, murders are up 43.3% on the year. Birmingham, murders are up 41% on the year. Cincinnati, 31.6%. Houston 21%. Milwaukee 93% increase in murders in Milwaukee. New Orleans, 40%. St. Louis, 20%. Now, I just tried to grab a cross-section of cities out there to give you a sense.

Buck, these are numbers that are up off what are often all-time highs for murder in 2021. The situation’s not getting any better. And to me the shooting that happened in New York City which is receiving a lot of attention is emblematic of that larger absolute lack of law and order of lawlessness that has taken over that many of you, no matter where you’re listening to us right now feel in your cities, your states, and your communities.

Most of you out there, I bet, have not felt this unsafe in a generation. And the data reflects that basically that’s not some sort of artificial feeling. The data reflects that that’s about the highest it’s been in 20 years many places.

BUCK: But, Clay, to be fair, Biden has a plan to address the violence in cities across the country by going after homemade firearms that he dubs ghost guns which are used in less than 1% of the thousands and thousands of shootings and homicides, tens of thousands of shootings nationwide.

That’s the focus here. Not on the increasingly broken criminal justice system that does not keep people safe and does not punish criminals early and sufficiently enough to deter them. Here’s what Biden wants to say.

BUCK: I’m serious. Think about it. I think Biden’s a moron. I mean, I honestly think he’s not a very smart man. The Second Amendment has nothing to do with hunting. He must know that at some level.

CLAY: Well, and, by the way, how about the connection between Ukraine and the Second Amendment right now? What’s the first thing they did when they got invaded? They started passing out guns to as many people as they possibly could. The focus on guns is what is the wrong focus. We should be focusing on why people are using these guns and how to keep them from doing so as opposed to the gun itself.