Hour 2 - From Memes to Military Readiness

Summary

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The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

Episode: Hour 2 – From Memes to Military Readiness
Date: December 26, 2025
Guest Host: David Rutherford (Rut)

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Overview

In this engaging hour, guest host David Rutherford (“Rut”) steps in for Clay Travis and Buck Sexton to explore the power and role of memes in modern political discourse, the impact of political and military leaders’ engagement with service members, the growing significance of social media in elections, and pressing national security issues including terrorism and election integrity. Mixing humor, military experience, and serious commentary, Rut delivers a dynamic monologue peppered with stories from his patriotic service, observations on American resilience, and practical advice for personal preparedness.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Memes as Modern Political Weaponry

Timestamps: 03:19–13:50, 17:10–24:50

• Stress Relief & Humor: Rut highlights the importance of memes as a tool to "off-gas" stress caused by political and social turbulence, especially post-holidays.
  • “One of the things that I believe is probably the best part of this Trump administration is really the memes that have come out of it… our way of… off-gassing some of the stress that we feel from all of the other craziness.” (03:32)
• Memes = Electoral Influence: He predicts memes will be pivotal for the 2028 election, dubbing it the “national meme election.”
  • “It’s coming down to which party can meme the best… If your meme game sucks, you’re done, you’re out.” (12:25)
• Effectiveness of Right vs. Left: Rut jokes that the political left is far weaker at meme culture:
  • “Thank God the left sucks at memeing. You just can't do it. You need to quit.” (12:54)
  • “Either they can't self-deprecate or they can't make fun, or they're too politically correct or social justice or whatever the hell it is… you all suck at memeing.” (13:06)

Notable Quote

"This is going to be called the national meme election. If you don’t up your meme game, you’re going to be decimated. I promise you that."
— David Rutherford, (12:35)

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2. Leaders Doing the Work: J.D. Vance and Military Engagement

Timestamps: 05:50–12:00

• Highlight of the Week: JD Vance (Vice President and 2028 Presidential front-runner) participated in Navy SEAL training (Log PT, surf passage, runs) alongside service members.
• Significance: Rut stresses the value of leaders participating physically and emotionally with troops, rather than just “dog and pony shows”:
  • “If all I got when I was in was a bunch of dog and pony stuff… this is a big deal…because for the first time in a long time, it seems like we have top officials that are getting in the mix.” (07:18)
• Cultural Impact: Rut admires leaders like Tulsi Gabbard and Pete Hegseth, noting veterans in leadership inspire current service members.
• On Vance’s Meme: Vance photoshopped a humorous meme of himself during SEAL training, which Rut found hilarious and emblematic of modern political culture.

Notable Quote

"The party or the delegates… when you're going to run for president, if your meme game sucks, you're done… you will not survive."
— David Rutherford, (12:29)

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3. Trump, Social Media, and Indelible Online Presence

Timestamps: 17:10–24:10

• Dark Humor and Authenticity: Rut admires Trump’s use of social media humor and directness, calling attention to Trump’s “banger” posts and their role in sustaining morale among supporters.
• Christmas Message Analysis: Rut reads aloud a recent Trump social post wishing a Merry Christmas to “radical left scum...but are failing badly,” noting its brashness but defending it as a reasonable reaction to relentless personal attacks.
  • “When your legal bill was 20 to 30 million bucks a year for eight plus years...being nice kind of falls by the wayside.” (20:24)
• Craving for Honesty: Rut argues the nation is hungry for gut-level truth and less polished, more relatable communication.

Notable Quote

"We need more truth in this world. We need more people speaking from the gut, more intuitive speech."
— David Rutherford, (21:20)

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4. Terrorism, National Security, and Personal Responsibility

Timestamps: 24:50–38:43

• Christian Persecution in Nigeria: Starts by crediting President Trump for ordering action against ISIS-affiliated terrorists who attacked Christians in Nigeria; stresses the global scope of anti-Christian persecution and recent terror attacks (in New Orleans, Bondi Beach, Europe, Asia).
• Preparation Advice: Rut urges listeners to take personal responsibility for security:
  • Purchase and train with firearms
  • Teach situational awareness to children and family
  • "Go purchase a pistol, purchase a firearm and learn how to shoot it... The Second Amendment is...to support the first amendment right, the right to free speech can only be backed up by our ability to carry guns and defend ourselves." (29:25)
• Civic Defense and Vigilance: He stresses that with the threat of terrorism (citing up to 14,000 terrorists possibly in the U.S.), self-reliance and readiness are crucial.
  • Cites experts like Joe Kent (Green Beret/CIA) and Sarah Adams (former CIA targeter) for perspectives.
• Positive Call to Action: Encourages responsible, enjoyable firearms training, highlighting prominent instructors and the camaraderie in the shooting community for “patriotic Americans.”

Notable Quotes

"If you're a young man and you haven't gone and gotten a gun and gone through training and carry that gun with you... what is wrong with you? Why are you not doing this?"
— David Rutherford, (33:40)

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5. Election Security and Alleged Vulnerabilities

Timestamps: 38:43–41:40

• Book Highlight: "Stolen Elections": Rut references a book (by Gary Bernstein and Ralph Pizzulo) that alleges Venezuela manipulated electronic voting systems globally (including Smartmatic/Dominion) since 2003.
• Conspiracy Allegations: The claim is made that U.S. elections—including the 2008 Democratic Primary between Obama and Clinton—were vulnerable to such manipulation.
• Ongoing Concern: Rut frames electoral integrity as an ongoing threat to American democracy, paralleling discussions of terrorism and security.

Notable Quote

"The real terrorism that I think still exists is in our election systems and the way it works."
— David Rutherford, (40:24)

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Memorable Moments & Humor

• Military Camaraderie: Rut’s recurring “hoo ya,” references to veteran peers, and playful ribbing of other services adds genuine humor and warmth.
• Listener Challenges: Rut teases upcoming call-ins about “pirate uniforms” for fighting cartels and asks for stories of holiday kindness, injecting levity and audience participation.

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Important Segment Timestamps

• Comedy/Christmas & Meme Importance: 03:19–06:30
• JD Vance & Leader Engagement in Military: 06:30–11:40
• Memes as Political Tools: 12:00–13:50
• On Trump’s Social Media & Christmas Post: 17:10–21:55
• Advice for Preparedness/Terror Threats: 24:50–38:43
• Alleged Election Manipulation: 38:43–41:40

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Notable Quotes by Timestamp

• On Election Memes:
  “This is the election … this is the national meme election.” — (12:25)
• On President Trump’s Social Media:
  “When your legal bill was 20 to 30 million bucks a year… being nice kind of falls by the wayside.” — (20:24)
• On Young Men and Security:
  “If you’re a young man and you haven’t gone and gotten a gun...what is wrong with you?” — (33:41)
• On Democracy’s New Threat:
  “The real terrorism that I think still exists is in our election systems.” — (40:24)

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Concluding Tone and Flow

Blending candid military storytelling, “tough love” advice, pointed political analysis, and frequent injections of humor, David Rutherford delivers an episode that’s both entertaining and provocative, keeping listeners engaged with practical insights, challenges to personal responsibility, and a recurring theme that in today’s America, resilience is as much about memes and attitude as it is about readiness and patriotism.

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Transcript

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[David Rutherford]

What's up, everybody? Welcome back for the second hour of the Clay and Buck Show. I'm your guest host, David Rut Rutherford. That's Romeo Uniform Tango for my friends. You can call me Rut. You know, one of the things that, you know, I did the whole first hour was talk about the, the beauty of Christmas, right? Gorging yourself, having fun with your family, buying presents for yourself and for others, spending too much money, just having a good time, sharing funny memes. And, you know, I think that's really kind of an interesting capacity for how we manage stress in our lives and, and obviously this, this past year. You know, God bless the fact that President Trump won last election. I know he's got a lot of critics out there right there, right now, even in the midst of, of, of, of everything he has done shut down the border, you know, record high in the markets. Now granted, you know, seven stocks control at 40% of the market. And but overall, everybody's doing well. And the returns, what else we got? We're, we're, we're, we're tide of, of drugs coming into the country. You know, he, he's, he's, he stopped a bunch of conflicts from Bruin. We're still waiting for the end of the, you know, the war in Ukraine, but I think that has much more to do with European Union and NATO and their little shenanigans they're doing out there. But overall, man, I'm just, I feel like things have just gotten great. And one of the things that I believe is probably the best part of, of this Trump administration is really the memes that have come out of it, right? The, the hilarious posts that people are coming up with on X, on Instagram all over the place because the memes are, are I think our way of, of what off gassing, some of the stress that we feel from all of the other craziness that. And so I just wanted to talk a couple, you know, a couple Trump posts and maybe. But my, the one I really want to do and what I do. If you, if you want to follow me, you can check out my show, the David Rutherford show. I post every Wednesday, more every Monday morning, every Wednesday morning and sometimes on Fridays. I do three different types of show or four different types of. If you want. I do, you know, a show about geopolitics, veteran issues, stuff that's going on around the world. I do singular topics about one specific thing. I did a show recently about, you know, what gives the President the right, the authorization, the AUMF to do drone strikes against cartel drug boats. I do a week in review on Fridays and then I do some motivational show. I do a lot of interviews. I've interviewed Matt Rule, the head football coach of the Nebraska Horns Corn Huskers, who I've worked with in the past. I've had just, I had this couple, this guy who, who ran the Appalachian One Direction, set a new record at 45 days, 8 hours or something like that. Just crazy. So I have, I just try and cover everything that I think is cool and that I think you might like. But the one this week, the one that really jumped out at me was the incredible story that came out that J.D. vance, our wonderful vice president and front runner for the 2028 presidential elections, went out to California to where SEAL training is and did some p with Navy Seals, did a little log pt, which I could tell you sucks horribly. 3 hours under that 300 pound press log. Unless you're like my boat crew and got old misery, 400 pound all the time. It just kicks your butt. Day in and day out. He's doing log pt, he's doing surf passage in our little rubber boats, paddling out. He's doing runs, some other pts. And you gotta understand what this means to all of us. Like this is a big deal. And it's a big deal because for the first time in a long time, it seems like we have top officials that are getting in the mix with everybody that are getting out there and inspiring the vet, the soldiers that are serving, right? This great nation, the greatest nation in the country. My service in the SEAL teams is one of the most proud things that I've ever been a part of. The men I worked with are incredible. They really are Unbelievable human beings. I have some of the greatest friends out there. Marcus Luttrell, Shawn Ryan, Pete Scobell, Ma this and that, my friend Dan Cirillo, God rest his soul, and just dozens and dozens of others also my Green Beret brothers, my MARSOC brothers. I love you all and I love serving the nation. And that's why J.D. vance is having such a powerful, powerful impact on what he's doing because he's out there with him. You also see Tulsi Gabbard, our dni, out there doing stuff. You know, you've got Pete Hegseth, he's out there doing PT with everybody. And whether you think that's cheesy or not, I can tell you if all I got when I was in was a bunch of dog and pony stuff, like a bunch of out of shape congress people and senators showing up at the command, watching us like we were some kind of goldfish in a bowl, you know, and, and saying they made the stop so they can promote that. But these people are in there grinding with us because they come from us. They come right? They, they were all part of it. They were a part of the gwat. They understand the impact that the G wat had. And so my, you know, seeing JD out there by who was, you know, a Marine. God bless our Marine. Semper Fi. I've done a ton of recent interviews with Marine grunts. You can check those out on my show as well too. But J.D. vance, a Marine, right, was in there doing the PT and I loved it and they posted it. And then of course he gets eviscerated by the left, like why don't you go actually do some work, blah, blah, blah. And I got to tell you what, at the end of the day, if our military isn't dialed in and strong and ready to defend the, the presence we have around the world, ready to defend our sovereignty, ready our position, our allies, our, our supporters around the world, then we got nothing, folks. And so this kind of thing goes a long way for that 18 to 25 year old kid who's living in the suck overseas and constantly deploying and constantly training away from their families. And they're out there doing this at the highest level, you know, serving the nation. And all of a sudden JD shows up, man, one of the E5 Mafia. And that E5 Mafia is a powerful, powerful lobby group out there, right? And so I just love seeing it. Makes me fired up. The thing that really killed me the most is that this following day JD Vance took the photo of him underneath the Log during log, ppt. And he, he, he photoshopped the, the beautiful JD Vance, fat head, long hair, you know, Jerry curl meme to it. And he goes there fixed it. Now when I saw that again, I swear to God I laughed out loud for like 10 minutes. Because I'll tell you what's going, you know what that political competition is coming down to. It's not coming down to policy. It's not coming down to affordability, it's not coming down to foreign policy. It's coming down to which party can meme the best. That's right here. Here's my prediction right now. The, the, the party or the delegates, whether you're in the primaries or wherever you're at when you're going to run for president, if your meme game sucks, you're done, you're out. You might as well not even put your throw your hat in the ring for that because you will not survive. This is the election. Mark my word right now, this is going to be called the national meme election. And I just can't tell you how excited I am to see all the different memes coming up now. Thank God the left sucks at memeing. You just, you can't do it. You need to quit. Even I go out and file left. You know, people I think are funny, their memes still suck. I don't know what it is. Either they can't self deprecate or they can't make fun or they're too politically correct or social justice or whatever the hell it is. You all suck at memeing. And so by that measure, I promise you this, mark my word right here, 26 December 2025, if you don't up your meme game, you're gonna be decimated. I promise you that. Now I know what you're saying. You're saying, well, well, Mondani didn't have a mean game and that, you know, CIA lady in Virginia didn't have a mean game and, or whatever. And I still think that, you know, some of that's a little shady in the, in the voting stuff. And I'm going to talk about that last segment. But I'm telling you, the people that can mean most, especially J.D. vance, those that's what's going to win the election. So if you're meming, get out there up your game, we've got to pump those numbers up for our side. I want, I want as many memes as you can get in for the next week until the new year and then I really want you to get dialed in for your memes. All right, all right. Just before we wind this segment down, I want you to all remember I'm having guest call INS first, last hour. That's 220. I want you to call in with question one. What would your marquis do? Whatever thing that likely, you know, your pirate uniform and who, what is the crew you're going to go take down cartels with this coming year when this thing passes. And then in my third segment at 2:35, I want you to come call in and tell me what act of kindness you did. Now there was a gentleman from Utah who called in just a little bit ago. I want you to call in. I saw your, your, your thing. You had this incredible act of kindness that you did. I want you to please call in again at 2:35, final hour. And you just, you're, you're, you're absolutely going to make my day with all these great calls. The calling number is 1-800-282-2882. That's 1-800-282-28802. And I'm fired up. All right. Merry Christmas. This is David Rutherford, guest host of the Clay and Buck Show. Hoo ya, Clay Travis and Buck Sexton telling it like it is.

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[David Rutherford]

Welcome back to the Clay Buck Show. I'm your guest host, David Rudd Rutherford. I just wanted to wish you a Merry Christmas and a happy Hanukkah and a Holly, happy holidays and all the other aspects that I hope you're enjoying in this this incredible festive season. Now, we've talked about all kinds of things on this show. Also I talk about all kinds of things on my show. If you want to follow, you can. All you got to do is Search up the David Rutherford Show. I'm on all major podcast networks. If you want to follow us, you can follow us on pretty much every social media. Avidrutherutherfordshow on X, it's @D RutherfordShow. And if you want to follow me, it's eamfroglogic on X and Team FrogLogic on Instagram. Alright, now we were talking about memes in the last segment and I brought up the JD Vance and how I think that the 2028 election is going to be the, the, the meme wars of all time. That's how you're going to win the election. What I also, I, what I'm a little nervous about is I think, you know, the, one of the greatest aspects about Trump and you know, he definitely has his faults for sure, but, but the biggest thing that I think is, is, is one of the things that brings me so much joy. And I, and I know it brings you joy too. I mean, you probably winced a little bit back in 16 and 17 and 8. But now like after what we had to go through with Russiagate with 2020 crazy stolen election, with allegedly, sorry, allegedly stolen election with the crazy Joe Biden, you know, potato head reality, we had to live through the invasion. We had to deal with all assassinations. We've had to be deal with. The one thing that I think we now have all gotten incredibly comfortable with is Trump's true social post and those he's been hitting the last couple days with some absolute bangers, man. Like ones that just keep me laughing. And as you can already tell if you've been listening for the last couple, you know, hour pluses is that, you know, in my luck life, you know, a lot of how I gauge things is I gauge things through the type of motivation I can extrapolate in between, right. The, the shadows of, of misery or, or the, the perpetual nature of suffering and pain that is existent. Listen, you carry a gun for long enough, you can't escape it. So what do we do? We find dark humor. I think that's what makes the g. What guys the best at doing memes is because we live and die by the time by dark humor. And so it's just a natural component of, of, of meming and trolling. Well, Trump is taking it to a new level. And so let me, let me read you just as his Christmas wish that he put out a couple days ago, which was phenomenal, a day ago he goes merry Christmas to all, including the radical left scum that is doing everything possible to destroy the country but are failing badly. We no longer have open borders, men and women's sports, transgender for everyone or weak law enfor. What we do have is a record stock market and 401ks, lowest crime numbers in decades. No inflation and yesterday a 4.3 GDP, 2 points better than expected. Tariffs have given us trillions of dollars in growth and prosperity and the strongest national security we have ever had. And we are respected again, perhaps like never before. God bless American president DJ Chase. Radical left scum. Now, you know, a lot of people are like, come on, man, it's Christmas. Can't we just reach across the aisle and give warm hugs and all that? Well, you have to put it into context. When your legal bill was 20 to 30 million bucks a year for eight plus years, when, when they tried to destroy your business, tried to destroy your family, tried to destroy you, multiple assassination attempts. You know what? Being nice kind of falls by the wayside. Now, I know what you're saying. You're. You're a devout person out there. You're devout Christian or you're devout Jew or devout Muslim or whatever. You're like, no, no, no, we have to do that. And, and unfortunately, I'm gonna have to, I'm gonna have to say, you know what? I'm giving DJT a little, A little free reign out here to be able to call it like he sees it. And, and that's the reality, reality of the whole thing is to be able to call it like you see it. We need more truth in this world. We need more people speaking from the gut, more intuitive speech. And so that's what I think we do. Now, the other one I love. Tonight, at my direction, this was 19 hours ago. Tonight, at my direction, as commander in chief, the United States launched a powerful and deadly strike against ISIS terror scum in northwest Nigeria who have been targeting and viciously killing primarily innocent Christians at levels never before seen in years and even centuries. And he went on more, and I'm telling you, I'm going to cover that when we get back about what's going on with terrorism and persecuting Christians all around the world. All right, this is David Rutherford, guest host of the Clay and Buck Show. Booyah. Welcome back to the Clay and Buck Show. I'm your guest host, David Rut Rutherford. Man, I'm having an absolute ball. I can't thank Clay and Buck enough for this incredible opportunity to come in on the 26th of December, day after Christmas, and, and just share my. My thoughts about Christmas terrorism and memes and upcoming Elections, man, I, I really am excited. Listen, we've got a, a great, strong last hour. I just want to prep you now. We're going to have call ins, all right, I'm asking two questions and you're going to call in at 2:22:20pm and you're gonna ask, you're gonna tell me about what your pirate fit is gonna be and what, who's your, what's your crew gonna look like when you go out there and start stealing stuff from cartels and everybody affiliated with the cartels. And then at 2:35 I want you to call in and a little Christmas spirit, I want you to tell me about the biggest act of kindness that you have witnessed this holiday season or that you did or someone did for you. Again, the call in number is 1-800-282-2882 and that you're gonna call in my last hour. All right, what were we talking about? We're talking about terrorism and we're talking about the fact that Trump posted and ordered Pete Hagseth to do a kinetic strike against a bunch of terrorists in Nigeria. Now if you're not familiar with the Nigerian story, all you gotta do is go over to X and just search up Niger. Nigerian Christian massacred. And you can see the most horrific images you've ever seen. And in some cases, in some attacks, up to 7,000 Christians were murdered and mutilated. And for me, you know, Christians have been prosecuted for pretty much for a long time, as has Jews and Muslims in some cases, Muslims versus Muslims, you know, Christians versus Christians, probably Hindus versus Hindus, certainly all the different, different sex over in China. And the reality is, is it seems that, that religion gives us this inspiration to go out there and murder other people. And we saw that pretty, pretty substantially this year. It's been, terrorist attacks are seeming to get a little bit more consistent around the world. We saw, you know, last January 1st, a year ago, the New Orleans truck attack. An ISIS inspired attacker drove a pickup into a New Year's Crow bourbon Street, killing 14 and injuring dozens. You know, in Asia there was the Basarian Valley attack, right? Militants attacked tourists and Palagam. We had Mir Ali suicide bombing in Pakistan, Obviously just recently, December 14th, we had the Bondi beach mass shooting where two Muslim attackers or alleged Muslim attackers killed 15, including a child that were at a Jewish ceremony celebration in Bondi Beach. In Europe, there's been a ration of stabbings all over the place. Plots that hate motivated in Germany, the uk, French synagogue attacks, Christian churches caught on fire all over the world. And so when you start to think about this, and the person that I generally try and, and pay attention to and follow is Sarah Adams. She's a former CIA targeter. Served right around the time I used to serve. I was, I worked for the agency from 2008 to 2012. Two years teaching case officers. Had a better integrate with JSOC units downrange. And then two years I deployed within a group called GRS. If you ever saw the movie 13 Hours, Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, that's what I did. Worked with many of those guys, knew those guys, was very close personal friends with Ty woods, was my boss at sqt. I knew Glenn Daugherty. I went through training with him. And you know, all the guys that were there that day got a lot of friends there. Oz, Tig, Tonto, a bunch of other guys that never really came out. And you know, know, during my time, you know, during the global war on terrorism, one of the things that I think really kind of emerged was the reality that pretty much terrorists are going to keep coming around. There's just an inevitability. If, if, if people feel as if they have their way of life is under attack, or they want to dominate or, or really move forward and capture the culture, then they're going to do it. And we saw that for hundreds, if not thousands of years all over the world. You can say, you know, we launched the crusades because of the Islamic FATA and their crusade launched against us in the late 600s. And you know, all the way up until, you know, 9, 11. And the reality is, is that when people develop hate or conjure hate through whatever religion or whatever idealism or ideological construct, man, they're gonna go get their jihad on, they're gonna go be terrorists, they're gonna act. And so what do you need to do? And what do you need to. How do you need to prepare for terrorism in your town, at your mall, and you're at your schools? And you know what I try and offer, and I get asked this question a ton, is I try and give people the best advice I can, first and foremost. Number one, go purchase a pistol, purchase a firearm and learn how to shoot it. Don't just buy it, Shove it in your glove box so it can be stolen when you're not paying attention or leave it at your house, man. The second Amendment is, is, you know, other than the first Amendment, which is, you know, the, the greatest amendment. But why do we need the second amendment is to support the first amendment right, the right to Free speech can only be backed up by our ability to carry guns and defend ourselves. Right. As well as. As other aspects of it, too. So go out, buy a gun and train. You have to train. You know, one of the great ways I've gotten to know Buck is that after they. He and his brothers moved down to Miami, you know, I. I had this incredible opportunity. I got to know him and was, you know, going shooting with them at, down at Homestead and was able to really just, you know, work on some drills for him and get them up to speed. And they've really, you know, moved, you know, far ahead. They had a little training session with DJ Shipley is probably one of the best instructors out there, by the way. I'm going to have another one of the top shooting instructors in the country coming on first of the hour of my third hour, Mr. Jared Hudson, former Navy SEAL contractor, also running for U.S. senate in Alabama. And he's coming on a first of the hour, but also has a great shooting instructor. So you have to go out, get trained, learn how to use your gun, and then you have to learn how to carry it. Right. You can't wear your skinny jeans. You can't wear look cool. You got to buy the right clothes with the right fit, the right holsters, and you got to be competent and careful as you do this. And when you do that sense of courage emerges, the sense of being able to take care of your family. And that's, for me, like, the biggest thing. You know, I have four daughters, and we live in a pot, you know, in a town that, you know, has a lot of terrorist threat warnings that going on around us. And so what I do is I make sure that I teach my kids to have situational awareness. I just started teaching my oldest how to shoot. She's going off to college next year. She's going to get her own pistol when she goes. And, you know, and I think the idea is that you can't hide your head in the sand anymore. There's too many people that have flooded into this country that potentially want to do us harm. 20 million or whatever. Now, I know what you said. They're not. They're not all bad people. There's a lot of good people who just want a better life. Got it. But how many bad people are there? Well, if you pay attention to Joe Kent, who I, I think is perhaps the most noble and honorable serv member of our entire political apparatus right now, former Green Beret and work for ground branch for the CIA, and the guy is dialed in and he testified recently that there is many up to 14,000 terrorists that are in the United States right now as we speak. So what are you going to do? You got to go get trained, you got to carry a gun, you got to up your situational awareness. Now what does that mean? Do you have to be crazy and always be on edge and living in the red and that Jeff Cooper's combat collar code. But you can't be dumb. You gotta look around and pay attention. If you're going to a high travel area, are you looking around? Are you looking at people who have backpacks? Who are you looking at? People who are looking as they're scouting a place out, are you going during high traffic or low traffic times? Are you changing your patterns of life? Right? The unfortunate reality is most municipal police stations and police organizations around the country up to, including the FBI, they only have a limited number of people, right? And so if there's, let's just call 14,000 terrorists, right? How many took place on 9, 11? How many were involved in the Mubai innocent? How many in Bondi Beach? Two dudes, a dad and a son, were wreaking havoc, right? And so Sarah talks about that, you know, this is going to be the style with which they approach. They're going to do like a October 7th, you know, Israel style attack, right? 10 to 20 people taking down a city or a town wreaking havoc and terror. You know, she talks about these, these suicide bombs that are not easily detectable, but that's what's out there. And so what I, what I really want you to start thinking about is, is, you know, because of your constitutional rights, really, the responsibility falls on your shoulders. In particular, men out there, young men too. If you're a young man and you haven't gone and gotten a gun and gone through training and carry that gun with you. You, what is wrong with you? Why are you not doing this? Because we've seen time and time again where, where Good Samaritans step up and take down catastrophic incidents. Now we also see the crazy mass shootings, we see the crazy other stuff, people driving a car, you know, but the reality is you can be the person that stops terrorism from taking place. You just have to be dedicated to. Right? Right. Stop scrolling on your phone for 30 hours. Stop going, playing golf all the time. Get off your butt, go buy your gun, go find some impeccable training and really start taking the ball in your own hands. Because unfortunately, those of us that are paying close attention to all this all around the world, as I do and talk about it regularly on my show, the David Rutherford Show. You know, what I'm trying to get you to realize is that, that, you know, this is the new reality. This is where we're at in life and it's on you. It's incumbent on you to protect your family, protect your domicile, protect your friends, your community by just going out there and getting training. And you know what? It's also super fun. It's a lot of fun. I promise you. Yes, there are some instructors out there that are a little hardcore, but the most guys that I know that are teaching shooting the, you know, the Eddie Gallagher check out. Go check out Eddie Gallagher, right? He teaches courses all over. Jeff Gonzalez, right. Pat McNamara. You know, all these incredible former operators that are out there teaching great skills on how to get you dialed in for when, you know, for when the time comes where you gotta step up, be that responsible, patriotic America who believes in the first and second Amendment and get out there and get it done. And I just, it just changes the way our world works, works if we have more people that are willing to be courageous out there in the world by learning being responsible second amendment gun owners. All right, I just can't thank you all so enough. I'm super fired up. We're getting ready. One more segment this hour. Then we're coming to our final hour. This is Dave Rutherford, guest host for the Clay and Buck Show. Hoo ya. You ain't imagining it. The world has gone insane. Reclaim your sand humanity with Clay and Buck.

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Welcome back to the Clay and Buck Show. I am your guest host, David Rut Rutherford and I just Again, man, I. I hope the show. I know the last part was a little heavy. If you're just tuning in, I just did a whole piece on terrorism in the world, right? What's going on? It started with acknowledging Pete Hagseth and President Trump finally acting to stop Christians from being persecuted over in Nigeria, as well as I listed out all the other different terrorist acts going on and what your responsibility is as an American patriot. Patriot. And with the Second Amendment and the First Amendment. Now the other place that really has me concerned right now, and this was based off a recent book that was published that I, I happened to see this show posted on, on Lara Logan where she had on Gary Bernstein and Ralph Pizzulo and they released the book a few months ago called Stolen Elections. Now this book was shocking to me. This was the book that really got me because in that book what they lay out and Gary Bernstein, a world famous former paramilitary case officer, case officer for the CIA. He led the Jawbreaker team in 9 11. He's worked overseas all over South America. Well, he and this other guy named Martin Rodill discovered that Venezuela basically under Chavez hired three coders to write the source code which ultimately became the functioning way that electronic voting machines work with smartmatic, then allegedly with smartmatic, allegedly with Dominion Voting, which brought in all kinds of foreign investment. And what they allegedly state in this book is that Venezuela has basically flipped over 72 elections worldwide since 2003 when Chavez had a recall action all over the place, Philippines, you named, name it, and thousands and thousands of elections. They argue that the first election that was flipped with this alleged manipulative source code was in the 2008 primary election between Obama and Hillary Clinton, where Obama won. Now this is a reality and I think the whole Venezuela thing plays into all of this in some capacity. And I want you to really to start to think about how this is going down. And we're going to talk about this a little bit more coming up in the next hour. But the real terrorism that I think still exists is in our election systems and the way it works. And so I just, I want to prepare you, but before I do that, I just want to get you ready for Jared Hudson running for State Senate Alabama at the beginning of next hour at 2:06. He'll be joining us. This is David Rutherford, guest host for the Clay and Buck Show. Hoo ya.

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