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That's Pure Talk's top tier plan. Normally $65. Now over 50% off every month forever. But hurry, this offer ends December 7th. Visit PureTalk.com Clay to make the Switch. Keep your phone and your phone number and start saving for life. Some restrictions apply. See PureTalk.com for details. Welcome in everybody to the Friday edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. Clay is back on us terra firma, but he is tired from the jet lag and all that. So he'll be back with us on Monday. Just gonna be me today, just the buckster. And then next week the dynamic duo will be back in full effect for just a few days before Turkey Day Thanksgiving comes. I love Thanksgiving. It's a great holiday. I think it's my number two. I'm a number one is Christmas for me. But I think Thanksgiving goes in my number two slot. As a Roman Catholic. I think I'm supposed to say Easter is my number one. But I'm not talking about the spiritual significance necessarily of the holiday. I'm just talking about fun. And Thanksgiving is a, is a fun one. I still am yet to get any explanation as to why we don't eat stuffing the rest of the year. When was the last time that was not during the Thanksgiving era that you were in a restaurant and they had stuffing as an option? I'm sure it happens in some places, but I have not seen it. I don't think I've ever seen it actually. Stuffing is an option. I feel like why not just put it into sandwiches and wraps and things. It could be delicious. Anyway, obviously I'm a little hungry. We have much to discuss. You have Trump meeting with Mom Donnie. Mom Donnie. It's a bit of a tongue twister sometimes. Mom Donnie at the White House today, three Eastern is when the meeting set for. So will will happen right when we finish. We will bring you what we hear from it. It's not open to the press. I think that's a bit of a miss. It would be really interesting to see how these two interactions with the cameras on. I know how it's going to go. Trump is Trump. He's always, he's always charming and funny. You know, he'll, he'll make some comments. He'll, he'll give him a, he'll rib him a little bit. Momdani. You got to remember, for all of his idiotic and self defeating policies, Mamdani is a guy who also knows how to grip and grin and you know, make people feel like he gives a damn about them. So that's gonna be interesting. But it's gonna happen, right? So I, I can't bring it to you live here. I was hoping it would happen while we were on the Air. And so we could either go right to it live or, or we could bring you some of the cuts, but it's actually gonna be right after we finish. But Monday, when Clay's back, we will certainly dive into that with all of you. But even the run up to this meeting, should we say the socialism summit, is getting quite a bit of attention. And I think that you have a Democrat party that's still trying to figure out the best way to message all of this. There's a lot going on. More Democrats are socialist and I'm talking about elected Democrats now. But more Democrats are socialist in their hearts than will ever say so out loud. The Democrat party is in so many ways indistinguishable from a democratic socialist party, say in Europe. I don't even know if you could find any really distinguishing characteristics. They want a lot more taxation, a lot more government control. They want single payer health care. They really just want the government to be making all decisions everywhere for everyone. They want to focus on equality of everybody as the primary goal of what a government does. So if that means you have to bring some people down and you have to lift a whole, a lot of other people up, that's what they want to do. As we know, that doesn't actually work. It's always a failure. People will say, oh, but what about, you know, northern European countries? They'll bring up Sweden or they'll bring up Denmark. Those are countries that are actually very economically private sector driven, believe it or not. And what they have is a large, they have a high tax base or high tax level for everyone, including the middle class. Everybody pays high taxes in Sweden. This is what they don't tell you. It's not just the rich, Everybody. You make 50, you make the equivalent of 50 to $100,000 a year in Sweden or whatever. Their average household income would be less than that. But if you're, if you're a middle income earner in Sweden, you pay pretty high taxes and then they have a large welfare state and state services, but they don't actually have endless amounts of government control of all aspects of the economy. It's not truly socialist. So that's one. Sweden used to be more socialist than it was an economic basket case and then it changed its policies. I think it was in the 70s to privatize and make it more market based. And it became much better as a country. Now they've gone with the whole open borders thing and DEI and multiculturalism. And those countries are probably in a pretty rapid descent into disintegrating as cohesive political entities as a result. But I digress. The House of Representatives voted, this just happened this morning, 250, I'm sorry, 285 to 98, to approve a resolution condemning the horrors of socialism. This is just before Trump is set to meet New York's incoming Democrat, socialist mayor Zoran Mamdani. 86 Democrats joined with Republicans. No Republican voted to oppose it. Speaker Mike Johnson. House GOP leaders have been very critical of this. The mayor. Remember New York City is interesting if you read. There's a very dense but good but dense. It's a project to read it, a history of New York called Gotham. And it lays out over its many, many. I think it's like a thousand pages. I've got a copy of it here. It lays out that New York is interesting as a city because it really was, it wasn't founded as a, like a colony of a certain religion that was trying to escape persecution in Europe. It did. You know, you look at some of these stories of places like Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and some of the early cities and Plymouth Rock and all of this, and there's a, there's a narrative that tends to play out different Christian sects, but similarities. New York was really founded in a sense as just a mercantile and commercial hub. It's a city driven by capitalism, a city driven by commerce, a city driven by money and for. And it's America's largest city by a large margin. And for that city to have elected a socialist, an open socialist. There is something here. It's different than Bernie Sanders. I mean, let's be honest, Vermont is a quaint place. I actually think Vermont's very beautiful. I'm very fond of it as a geography, but it's very left wing Democrat. As you know, Vermont has. What's the population of Vermont? It's in the hundreds of thousands. I don't even think it has a million people. It's like 800,000 or 600,000 or something. You tell me. I don't know, maybe it's a million, maybe it's a million total. But that's a very different thing. That's. You got your pretty mountains and you got your ice cream and your, you know, your maple syrup candy. And if Bernie Sanders, a New York, Brooklyn guy who moved there, that's why he has the funny accent. They don't talk like this up in the green mountains of Vermont. That's not how they sound. I mean, honestly, very few people from Brooklyn sound like that either. But that's Bernie. Bernie Kind of has a version of a Brooklyn accent, but it's a very different thing when a small state that the population of. Yeah, 600,000, 650,000. I was, I was basically spot on. Who needs ChatGPT when you have Buck GPT? This is a very different thing when the capital of commerce for the whole world, really, which is New York City, goes socialist. So I think a lot of people are looking at this and saying that the, the optics of it, the way it looks, the way it seems, is a different thing or even a more powerful thing than whether Mamdani is going to be able to implement some of the socialist policies that he wants to. And I think there's certainly an open, open question about that. I think it's unlikely, in fact, that he will be able to do so. I think it's very unlikely that he will be able to do free buses, for example. And one thing that's a little bit, well, funny, a little sad, but also funny, the buses for a lot of people are already free because they just get on and don't pay. Just like the subway. The losses that the New York City subway is currently taking from people. Turnstile jumping. Every time I'm in New York and I go take the subway, which, I will be honest with you, is rare. I used to be on the subway every single day, years and years and years. Subway every single day, multiple times a day. But I have been back a couple times and you see people just jumping the turnstile like it's no big deal. Middle of the day, people everywhere, no one cares. Turnstile jumping, if you actually add it up, it's a large sum of money that the city of New York is losing to turnstile jumpers. And I'm going to say this, no one is struggling with rent because of the price of riding the subway. No one is actually having financial difficulty because of that. There's other things, but it's not because they, they didn't jump the turnstile because they needed to. It's a bit like when AOC was telling everybody that those who are robbing from CVS and Duane Reade and these drugstore chains in New York, maybe they were hungry and needed to feed themselves. No, there's plenty of food banks. You can get food. They're not stealing food. They're stealing. And I know because my whole drugstore was locked down because of this. They're stealing razor blade cartridges, they're stealing expensive, you know, skin care things or anything that they can go and easily sell on ebay or on the Internet or even just on the street. That's what they want. They're stealing as a form of making money illegally. They're not stealing because they're starving to death. So you look at the way Mamdani approaches things like, you know, how he's going to help people with cost of living and he's just wrong on everything. He's wrong across the board. It's not going to help. In fact, it will make things worse. And I do think it's interesting because Trump can say that he met with this guy and there's going to be, you know, it's, they're going to come out of this. They both play to the cameras. Trump is a master. As you all know, Trump is incredible at how to craft that media narrative. Mamdani, that's really his skill set too. He's not good. He's never run a company, he's never been a builder. But he's good at that as well in his own way. So they will come out from this meeting today and they will be both setting up, I think, what their expectations are for the city of New York. And we'll see who ends up being more, more correct on this one. And we're going to watch this closely because now this has been put in motion where it's something that will be discussed as a preview and leading up to, I think might even grow as a conversation about the midterms. Who's going to be running your state in the Senate, who's going to be representing your district in Congress, the midterms and the direction of the country as well. The Democrats are going to try very hard to reestablish their connection because they've really lost it. They got all. They got too crazy with the DEI and the trans kid stuff and all this. The Democrats are going to try to go back to being a class warfare party that cares about the working class, because otherwise they can't win these elections at the national level. Otherwise they're going to be boxed out by MAGA and Trumpism. So this is going to be a central fight. The cost of the things you need day to day affordability. I really think, I know we're a year out, but it's going to be the afford. Unless, you know, who knows, crazy things can happen, right? But it's set up to be the affordability election and who has better ideas and who's been doing more than to try to bring down prices? So that's what I see. That's my sense, my preview of this Mamdani meeting and we'll get. Well, we'll talk more about this. And like I said, on Monday, we'll have the full, the full readout of it. I can guarantee you this, Trump is going to have at least one hilarious line about meeting this guy. Probably a few, but at least one really, really funny line. 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So I'm just noting that I don't know how many of you celebrate the Fugees. But, you know, I don't think they're putting out any more albums anytime soon. It's going to be about 14 years. So there's that story. Also. There's a lot of, this is the classic thing, what the Democrats did. I might not get to this till the second hour, but they, they put out this video, this, this insubordinate, borderline seditious video about, oh, you know, you don't have to obey illegal orders. And then Trump was Trump and he was very ticked off about this and said some things about how, you know, like treason's punishable by very severe means. And now they're all, do you see what Trump said about this? Do you see what Trump, you know, it's, it's so tired. There's, the Democrats are so passive aggressive. They do something and then there's a response. And then the problem is the response after they did the thing, always, always, it's, it's just maddening. The story that I want to dive into next though, here. This as we're talking about cities and city governance. The mayor of Chicago has weighed in after this story has now gotten a lot of just attention. It's a woman was on the Chicago, you know, mass transit train and was lit on fire by some guy. Lit on fire by some guy. And I'm going to, I mean, she's alive but horribly burned. It's one of the most awful things imaginable. The mayor of Chicago, who is an abject moron, he has weighed in on this one. And we will talk about how this is being covered by the media, what they are saying, what they're not saying, all of that. So stick around with us. When Russia first attacked Ukraine In February of 22, the world rallied behind Ukraine. Tons of charitable organizations did what they could to help the innocent civilians caught up in the war. Many of those organizations have since moved on to other parts of the world, but not the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. 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A woman, a white woman is in critical condition still because on Monday of this week, a black man named Lawrence Reed, 50 years old, on the Chicago L train, which is part of the Loop. I don't know Chicago well, so this is not a city I can speak to with a lot of personal knowledge. Chicago L train. She was just completely minding her own business and this guy walked over to her, sprayed her with a bunch of flammable liquid and lit her on fire. About as horrifying a thing as any of us could think would happen to anyone in America on any given day. About as evil, grotesque and depraved as anything you will hear or read about. And it should, it should affect all of us because we can't have a society where this kind of thing happens. And you think about where, let's say the Democrat Party, the left in this country where they will consolidate their outrage, what really gets them upset, the coverage of this incident as opposed to say, the coverage of the hoax. JUSSIE Smollett, they put a noose around my neck and said mean things to me. Think about the difference there. Think about the difference from the Chicago Tribune, from the New York Times, Washington Post, cnn, all of them. Which one seemed like a bigger deal to them based. You had the biggest names in Democrat politics weighing in. Another incident in Chicago, right? I'm trying to compare another moment in Chicago where something we were told ugly happen happened. It didn't actually happen at all. And it was obvious from the start. But, and it was not even the same universe of the ugliness of this. Ok, he had like a mild bruise under one eye that he gave himself. So you know, but what was more upsetting to the Democrat intelligentsia? What was more worthy of your time as a consumer of news? According to cnn, according to the New York Times, in these places we all know the answer. Well, here is the, the mayor of, of Chicago weighing in on this. And remember he is the fact that he was elected should be, should just be upsetting to anybody. Chicago has a violence problem and they elected the guy with the worst ideas, the least accountability, the least accountability for the criminals, the least accountability for the failures of policing and the system. And he's just going to make it worse. Just going to make it worse. And he has been making it worse. I don't care what he says. Well, here he is though. When you have a woman sitting there lit on fire and this is cut 11 play it, what I can say is that as awful and as horrific as this tragedy is, this is an isolated incident. As we continue to invest more in our public transportation system, we want people to feel safe as they ride. And so many working people rely upon our public transportation system across the city. And that's why I'm doing my part to ensure that these investments are getting right to the people. Investments are getting. He's talking about investments. A woman was lit on fire and he's talking about making sure that we're Redistributing the wealth to, you know, communities in need or whatever. This guy's an. He is truly an idiot and dangerous. Dangerous. And people in Chicago who voted for him should be ashamed of how dumb they were in casting a vote for him. They really. They should. They should think about how lacking in wisdom they are, how lacking they are in political judgment. Does he sound upset about this at all to you? Does he sound like he is trying to be a leader who emotes on behalf of the horrified Chicagoans and Americans who think about what it would be like if that was their wife, daughter, sister, friend, colleague? No, but you know what? I'm sure. I'm sure he would be able to muster tremendous outrage if maybe we could get some early reports of some career felon who was, you know, shot by police. Assuming the career felon's black and assuming the cops are not. If we could get him to weigh in on. On an incident like that where there's an early report that, oh, my gosh, there was excessive force. Oh, he'd be pound the table. He would be outraged. It's not outraged at all. Sounds very calm. Talking about a woman in his city being lit on fire. Almost died by burning to death. And reportedly the people around her didn't render any aid. She managed to eventually get aid. People helped douse the flames, and then first responders showed up. Now the leadership of Chicago is abysmal. As you know, there is no real leadership. And the race politics of Chicago when it comes to crimes like this one, are very apparent, which is. You know, imagine this. Anytime there's anything that the BLM left wants to get upset about, imagine if we just said isolated incident every time. You know what's interesting, though? They are isolated incidents that BLM talks about, but if you just dismissed it as an isolated incident, they would. The left would lose their minds. They would. They'd burn things. Well, they'd burn things down anyway. And you'd have Kamala and Pelosi and Schumer and all of them. Oh, my gosh. Oh. This is why we have to come to grips with the racism in this country. Meanwhile, we have another absolutely heinous incident of a black man, a career criminal. We're about to get into that. Who did something completely horrific, unprovoked out of nowhere to a white woman who was on mass transit. Just like what happened to Irena. Remember that happened the same week, if my memory is correct, as the Charlie Kirk assassination. So that fell. Fell away. But was it in North Carolina? Right North Carolina on the. See, see how quickly these events come and go. She was stabbed so viciously in the neck. And she looks around and she's completely terrified and distraught and alone because some maniac stabs her in the neck. And we all sit here and say if it were a black woman who was on that train stabbed in the neck, or if it were a black woman who was on the L train and was lit on fire and it was by a white guy who was a career criminal, we would be honestly, we'd be worried about entire neighborhoods of cities burning down, as we know. But that's not the demographic truth of what happened in these situations. And so there's, there's just, oh, it's just another, you know, isolated incident, random thing happenstance. It just sort of happened. Well, could it have been prevented? The answer is yes, it should have been prevented. Not could have. It should have been prevented. And to that I bring you this New York Times. Here's how the New York Times writes about this man just man. Again, if it were a white man who did this to a black woman, it would be the biggest story in the country by far. We would have marches in the street. But irrespective, it could just be a lunatic, right? It could just be. And maybe that's the case here. But if we're just dealing with somebody who's like a drug addict, paranoid, schizophrenic, New York Times biggest part of it would be a white on black crime. That would make it a really big story. But because it's a black guy who did this to a white woman, they do not have any interest. Man just man charged with terrorism after woman again, no description, no descriptor there. Set on fire on Chicago train. Chicago's facing federal terrorism charges. Lawrence Reed facing one count of committing attack. I go through this and it gives you a blow by blow of this horrific ends. This woman's fighting for her life in the hospital. I mean there's almost some of. You know this because you've worked in hospitals, you have medical training or you served in the, in the military. You saw what severe burns can do to people. It's really nothing more, nothing more painful on the planet than severe burns. Truly nothing more painful. So what she's going through is agonizing beyond words and beyond really our most horrific reckonings. It's disgusting beyond words. It's horrible that she's being put through this. But you know what they don't mention in this entire New York Times piece? This is like, I don't know, maybe it's 500 words on what happened. This was the main piece that comes to the New York Times, that this guy who, the black man named Reed Lawrence, who lit this woman on fire for absolutely no reason, just, there's a white woman, I'm going to go light her on fire. That is what happened. And he said the B word. Apparently that's reported as well. He had been arrested 70 times. 7, 0. 70 times. Do you think that maybe the system in Chicago after the 10th arrest might have said, this guy has got a problem, he's a danger of the public. Do you think, do you think, okay, oh, no, that's too harsh. Do you think after the, the, the 20th arrest we could decide that this guy's not actually about to found the next Google? He's not actually working on his dissertation. He, he's not a family man who's just trying to make ends meet. No, May. Okay, what about the 50th arrest? 5, 0. The 50th arrest. You think that the prosecutor in that case and the judge might have said to themselves, you know, I think we have a problem. We may have a public safety threat here. He's been arrested 50 times. But no, they had to wait until the 70th. The 70th arrest. He has a violent criminal history. Let me add that to violent criminal history of assaulting women. So it was on the seven. You know, 70th time's a charm, apparently, where they're actually going to do something they're actually going to take seriously now. Oh, we're throwing federal, federal terrorism charges. What, so they can, they can, they can pretend like they didn't miss the ball on this entirely the whole time. You can be arrested 70 times in America and still be out on the street. Think about that for a moment. Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago is not outraged about that. No, no, no. Now far more outraged about Donald Trump trying to bring in National Guard to prevent things like this from happening, to help people feel safer on the streets. But we all know where this comes from. We all understand this mentality. The Democrats decided that there are too many men of color who are in prison. And so the policy had to change, and they couldn't get away with changing the laws that have disproportionate impact on communities of color. Like, you can't, you know, murder, steal, light people on fire. You know, there's a disproportionate impact that exists from these criminal laws. So what do they do? They say, well, let's, let's just stop locking people up for it. We'll arrest them, but let's, you know, the prisons are too crowded. We need to let more people out. And it can't lock anybody up for being completely criminally insane either. We can't take them off the streets. We have to wait. They can do a lot of crazy things and break a lot of laws, but we have to wait until they do something as heinous as any of us could ever imagine a human being doing. Lighting, think about lighting a person on fire. And this is also, you know, you hear a case like this, and I'm like, this is, I know people say, buck, how could you? You're Catholic. Whatever. No, this is why I say, I think we do have to have a death penalty in this country and I think we have to use it a lot more. A lot more. The criminals are not getting the message. It's, it's not getting through. They're not first timers who made a mistake. Oh, but you know, Mayor Brandon, oh, there's a Chicago subway is say, oh, he's going to have, you know, 600 something murders in his city this year. But, oh, the, the L train is safe. It's appalling. Appalling how these leftist ideologues with their view of crime. And I worry, you know, I'm already thinking about how this could translate to Mamdani in New York. Is he going to be like Brandon Johnson? I think it's very possible. He certainly sounds like he will. We don't know yet. But their ideology results in horrible things happening to people. It's because they refuse to hold individuals accountable in large part because of their view of racial justice in this country. And they will not hold people accountable. And people die and people get lit on fire and they don't stop it, they don't change. That's the price of doing business in their cities the way they want to. So as Trump is meeting with Mamdani today, keep this in mind. This stuff has consequences for real people. It has consequences for everybody in Chicago who's got to sit there and think now. But just like everybody on the, on the light rail in, in Charlotte after what happened to Irena. Oh, don't worry, you're safe. That's an isolated incident, really. I was in Taiwan. How many people do you think have been lit on fire on the subway of Tai in Taiwan this past year? Or stabbed in the neck or punched in the face or thrown in front of. None. Huh. It's weird. You mean we don't have to live in a society where criminals get coddled and are treated like it's not their fault. Enough is enough. All right? This stuff gets me fired up because I've lived in cities where this madness happens and I'm sick of it. And it's horrible what happens to these victims. It's not kind to be kind to those who are violating people and doing terrible things. All right, next week is Thanksgiving. All right. All right, next week is Thanksgiving. I hope you're able to be with friends and family. It's going to be a beautiful week and there are so many great memories that are made. But a lot of you probably have old Thanksgivings on VHS on and photographs, Betamax, perhaps. 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