Buck Sexton (20:35)
Back into Clay and Buck. Got a quick turnaround here. Want to just let you know we'll take calls today on the show and also get some of your talkbacks. 800-282-2882. This is what they're digging into right now for the opposition to Trump. It's oh my gosh, he's going to. He's going to run the economy off a cliff. No, he's not. And we all know this. But anything that they can say that will sour the mood of some Americans about what Trump is trying to do, they will do. But I will just note this in a in a New York Times piece about Trump's possible recession. They're already talking about this. Remember under Biden they wanted to change the definition of recession. Two quarters of negative, negative growth Recession. And then all of a sudden we're getting think pieces the New York Times, because it was Biden as president, puppet president, think pieces where they're saying, well, is that really a recession though? I think it's something else makes it a recession. But here's what they say. The economic backdrop this is the New York Times is still solid by many metrics, but policies like tariffs, deportation and steep government spending cuts will test that resilience. So having illegals in the country makes us richer and having government spend us into oblivion makes us richer, according to the New York Times, apparently. I think we should address this. Rapid radio's walkie talkies are incredible. They let you communicate with the touch of a button. Kind of like those old school walkie talkies you had as a kid, except these let you talk to anyone throughout the country. Rapid radios operate on a nationwide LTE network of cell phone towers which is key during a disruption. They became invaluable to my in laws last October when hurricane Helene left the family and so many others without a way to communicate. But we were using our rapid radios the next day after the storm. Rapid radios makes communicating easy and simple. 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And we should keep that in mind because addressing those fundamentals, looking at what has gone wrong within the economic machine of America, you know, starting to pull some of the old broken wires and things like that and starting to deal with it is going to create some moments of unease. Also. We have a spending addiction in this country. We should be honest about that. Politically speaking, we have a spending addiction. Both parties spend too much money. And we've known this for a long time. Remember I got into this 15 years ago, 14 years ago, whatever, the Tea Party. I wasn't a Tea Party guy. I got into media and then the Tea Party was happening. But I, everybody was very concerned, rightly so, about the spending that was going to occur under Obama. And it was a blowout of spending, was crazy. And we've had nothing but the continuation of that since. And this is a big problem now. I know under the first Trump term you could say, look Covid, once in a century situation with the pandemic, yeah, but we spent too much money. It was an emergency. But because we had already been racking up too many debts before that, it still hurts, right? We didn't have the emergency fund for Covid. We just printed more money and now we have stubborn inflation. Now we have these problems. Trying to address this is going to cause some of its own short term issues. And this is why I think it's important to understand what Democrats view as the economy versus what is the real economy. I had mentioned in the New York Times they had the economic. This is the quote from the it's all about is Trump causing a recession? This is the moment, this is what they're in right now. Is Trump causing a recession? And even if there's no data to support this, if it clearly does not happen, it doesn't matter, the damage is done. They're doing perception warfare. Trump bad tariffs, bad Trump recession. They're just trying to like an ad campaign almost. They're trying to associate words in your mind. It's a mass conditioning of the public that they're engaged in. So you know, people would say it's Pavlovian. Like you hit the bell though. It actually wasn't a bell, it was a metronome or a buzzer. But that's a whole other conversation. People just think what they think about this stuff. Same way that people think that lemmings commit suicide. No, they don't. Go find out what Disney did to make people think that lemmings commit suicide. Mass psychology is a fascinating area of study. Perhaps a fascinating area of study for a book that will be coming out next fall anyway by yours truly. So we have the Democrats trying to make this case. Meanwhile in the New York Times piece on is this a Recession? The economic backdrop looks solid. They have to say that cuz they look at the numbers and also hasn't been that long. They were telling us it was fine under Biden a few months ago. Now it's all are we in a recession? Policies like tariffs. Okay, that one, that one People of good, you know, goodwill can disagree, or people who know what they're talking about can come to different conclusions. I think tariffs are a tool, and I think that it's specific to which tariff against whom, in what context. You know, the country was funded by tariffs until we had the income tax, the United States was. Which is another thing that more people should know. Think about that. We lasted a long time without an income tax. We just, we just had tariffs. So. But the fact that deportations and government spending are listed here as two things to be concerned about now, on the government spending part of this. Yeah, but that's money we shouldn't be spending, Right. If you're running up a credit card bill and I tell you, you can't keep going to, you know, the Hermes store for your wife and buying $5,000 handbags and you. That's a thing. I know people spend that. I don't know. Ladies love bags. I don't know what that is, but my bag is from north face. It's 20 years old. But lately, you know, that's like my backpack. If I told you to stop spending. Yeah. I would be decreasing your economic activity. That is true. And for a moment you'd be like, but I like going to Costco and running up all those debts. But the point is to get under control. You have to stop doing that. There's a trade off in this. So, of course, if you stop the out of control government spending, there's going to be a little bit of a, of a shock factor in some of the economy with. We're not just creating this illusion of economic growth, because that's really what it is. And then on deportations, this is because they keep telling us, oh, but who's going to, you know, work construction? Let me say most construction is not done by illegals. So they say these things. They don't know the numbers. A vast majority of construction is not done by illegals. But they'll say, who's going to work in agriculture? Who's going to do? And you say Americans. And they might have to get paid a little bit more. Yes. And that might result in some additional costs. But you know what also won't happen? $15 billion being spent by New York City, born as an expense by taxpayers, by Americans to put illegals in hotels and pay for their food and everything else. The notion that illegals who come here are a net positive to the economy is lunacy. Is lunacy. We, the American people, have run up $36 trillion of debt. A lot of that is sure there's the waste, fraud and abuse component, but a lot of it is entitlement spending. A lot of it is just the government using your tax dollars like a little piggy bank. That's the American people. You're going to tell me that what happens to the 20 or 30 million illegals and I don't know the number, nobody does. But 20 or 30 million illegals from the country when they're all at retirement age, they're just going to be depending on the system for health care. Trust me, they don't have 401ks to pay for all of their health care. So that's not going to happen. It's going to be an expense on all of us. When you look at the long term implications, when you look at how in our immigration policy, currently in our immigration laws, you are not allowed to be a dependent on the state if you come to. And that's for legal immigrants too. This was a, this is a promise made via legislation by Congress to the American people that is completely ignored. So that alone, when you start to look at the numbers, the long term costs, you realize, oh my gosh, we've been had, we've been lied to about about all of this. And then you have the other thing to really keep in mind, which is that the Democrats are nuts. Here's Trump Cut 3, reminding everybody that while what he's doing is going to require a little bit of patience and a little bit of trust, a little bit of faith in the America first agenda, the other side are the wackos who are the reason that Trump is back in charge again. Cuz they can't do, they can't govern, they don't know what they're doing. Play three.
