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Buck Sexton
Welcome in our number two Wednesday edition, Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show Laura Travis has weighed in. I went downstairs during the break. She has said that she continues to believe you cannot hit a serve 100 miles an hour, but she hopes that you can because if you can, she wants you to get us Wimbledon tickets the next time that you play in the tournament. So the sarcasm is continuing to pour. Welcome to my welcome to my world. She has also weighed in in the comments. She's kind of got a free ride here because on the steak bet front, do you know who has to cover the steak bet? Me. So she gets all the benefits of winning a bet with none of the, none of the downside because her husband.
A little more. You've been a little more. 50. 50 on this one. But like you, you didn't, you didn't immediately say if buck. And I just want to be clear about this. Everyone understand. I'm not saying, I'm not saying that I serve over 100 miles an hour when I serve. I'm saying I can serve in the box over 100 miles an hour. If you look at Google D, three tennis players whom I have played against many, many times over the years, including when I was in college, and you will find that they serve 75 to 100 miles an hour. The men, on average. On average. So one, the male tennis players on the tour serve 115 to 120 mile an hour. First serves on average.
It's a lot. I can't do.
I can't do that. I'm not, like I'm saying over a hundred, though. Oh, absolutely. I just.200 on a speed gun. All right, that's. That's real money. I got the fanciest speed gun you could get, everybody. So many doubters. So many doubters.
Speed gun. During the commercial break, I. Here's the two things that I think you can do it because I think you're very confident in it. And I. It's a weird thing. Like when I said I could do 185. This would be a weird thing to claim to do in something that you do regularly, to not be able to do. Right. I think, you know, your, like, for.
Instance, now he's kind of icing me with this a little bit now. I feel like the tables have turned. Like, if I can't, if I get stuck at 90, which would be sad because that would mean that I was close but no cigar. You know, like, maybe I just, I top out at 90 miles an hour. To be clear, I'm not saying I can do 120. I'm saying I could do like 102 maybe.
But I, I regularly have had these kind of bets my whole life. So I said I could throw a football 50 yards. And we, when I was in law school and nobody, nobody believed me. Like, everybody was like, this is, this is a ridiculous claim. There's no way that you can actually do this. So we broke into Vanderbilt at the time. It wasn't very hard to break in. They're like outdoor football field. And I got 48 yards.
So I think you and I are both a little similar in this regard. I think that while, while humble about it, I think that we are, we surprise people with the, you know, for middle aged guys with, for the physical capabilities here.
I was thinking about it too in the context of your speed gun thing. Like if you go to a baseball game or minor league baseball, I think they stopped these because guys were just tearing their rotator cuffs. I haven't seen them as frequently, but you know where you could go and you get, they give you a baseball and without any warmup at all, you just stand there and try to throw it as hard as you can. I think your average guy, like, I think I could throw a baseball 60 miles an hour right now. Like, I don't think that's a crazy. So when I think about you having the propulsion power of a. I mean.
Some of them are trolling me, like, which is fine in the comments, but the people were saying the service 60 or 70 miles an hour are insane. The people who are saying it might be 90 or 95. I'm like, oh, that's why I'm getting the speed gun. If you're saying 60 or 70, you're not good at math.
Well, I mean, I'm just thinking about it in the context of the, the, again, the laser on the, just, just throwing a ball without having the ability to smack it with a racket. Anyway, I'm super. I, I want to be, I want.
To say the result is, is heavy. A tennis, a tennis ball is like air, basically. So it's very.
Yeah. So this is the big debate now. Can Buck do it or not? Laura Travis on no, I think I'm gonna gum down on your side. Um, I'm, I'm more inclined to think that you can than can't. Um, by the way, speaking of coming down on the side, I, I want to play this guy because this guy has gone viral. I am. So it's one thing for Democrats in response to Trump saying, hey, I'm going to clean up D.C. for Democrats to say, oh, we're just reflexively going to line up against him. But if you are an objective, honest, even somewhat rational member of the media who spends any time at all in D.C. you would have to acknowledge that you or your family or your significant others do worry about crime. And if you're not worried about crime, it is, hey, you're so rich, you have a security detail, people are driving you around in a, in a black car and you don't have to worry about it. This is a New York Times reporter who said, this guy, Peter Baker, he's regularly on the front page of the New York Times for his reporting on President Trump. He says Trump wants to be a dictator. There's no crime crisis in D.C. this is cut 14.
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This is something that we don't see in the United States. We fought crime for 250 years in the United States without turning it over to the military. And that's something you normally see, you know, military troops in the streets of a capital, the kind of thing you see in other countries and autocratic countries, but autocratic leaders who are trying to assert control and power. If you really cared about crime in the District of Columbia, where crime is actually down historically, if you actually care about crime in America, there are cities with worse crime rates than Washington, D.C. he's not sending troops into their streets. He's sending troops into the streets of the nation's capital, which has a special resonance.
Buck Sexton
Okay, this guy I don't understand. First of all, D.C. is a federal protectorate. So it is beyond a shadow of a doubt that the President has the ability to do this. There would be disputes, as you saw when the President brought police and the National Guard, basically State National Guard, I think, or State Guard into California. There are disputes over that. The President does have the authority to do that, I believe, anywhere. But the argument that the crime isn't a problem from someone who is supposed to be an objective journalist is embarrassing. DC has an awful crime problem, violent crime problem, and the fact that it's twice as deadly in Washington D.C. as Bogota, Colombia, three times as dangerous in Washington D.C. as Mexico City. Yes, Trump is talking about it, but Democrats want to pretend that it isn't an issue. And I just, I really. For journalists to then line up and say, well, actually crime is not bad. I, it boggles my mind that they could be this dumb. It's one thing again for stupid Democrats to do it, but for somebody who's supposed to be an objective journalist, I don't understand how you could possibly make the argument he just made.
It goes to a combination of things and one is the, the just reflexive anti Trumpism as we have discussed of, of. And Chris Matthews tried to warn them about this because he's a more old school Democrat. You knew he wasn't long for msnbc, didn't they? Kind of.
Did he get, they forced him out?
Yeah, right over. Because he called like, he called someone like, you know, sweetheart or something. Right. Didn't he do some, something like that?
There was yeah. And I mean, yes, I'm not saying.
He did anything bad. I'm just saying that I feel like they did him a little dirty over there. Like there were some complaints that he was a little.
The Democratic Party doesn't really have any place for older white guys. Like that is kind of what they have slowly made apparent to everyone. Is your opinions not welcome if you are an older white guy in the Democrat Party? And unfortunately there's still a lot of older white guys that vote Democrat because they bought into that team 40 years ago. And I think a lot of them just don't pay attention because they think of themselves as historic Democrats and they don't know what the party stands for anymore.
That's a really interesting question though, isn't it? What does the party stand for? What happens, what happens with the Democrat Party that has to face the reality that perhaps it is facing right now that race communism and gender identity mandates don't actually win national elections anymore or maybe never did, but. But won't win them now for sure. What, what do they do? How do you pivot from that? It's not like you're pivoting on the tax rate as we've discussed. You're pivoting on some big stuff.
I was thinking about this so we can mention it now. September 16th, I'm debating Stephen A. Smith in New York City. Stephen A. Smith's probably the most famous ESPN employee. We're going to talk sports, politics, cultural issues, everything. And I was actually, that's going to be really fun. Maybe we'll have fun talking about it a little bit more later in the show. But actually because of what you're saying, I was, I don't know what the questions are going to be. You know, I'm presuming that we're not going to have a Democrat style debate where the Democrat gets the questions in advance and then the Republicans just up there not knowing what's going to be asked. But the question that you just asked, I was thinking last night as I was attempting to go to bed, what if I got asked, hey, what do you think the Democrats are doing that you agree with? What is something. Because a lot of people have party views that sometimes cross over. Historically, you're not 100% in agreement with one party. You might be 95, but there might be 5% where you would look at the other side. Can you think buck, of anything that you actually agree with of the arguments that they're making? I can't. I can't think of a single Democrat Policy where I sit back and I say, ok, strip away the politics of it. Does this make sense? I can't even point to anything where I think to myself, hey, you know what? This is a policy that I could get, get behind. I was looking at mom Donnie's New York City mayor race. Basically nothing that he stands. Not only that, I disagree with it. I think it's actually very destructive to the fabric of New York City. I can't even think of anything. And that's how lost they are to not be able as a rational person to sit and think, hey, what policies are they in favor of as a party that maybe they're not wrong on. It should be the case. I think if you have two reasonable political parties that you might be 90 10, but there would be something where they would seize a point and you would say, you know what? I think they got a good argument there. I think historically that's been the case. I can't even think of one. Maybe some of you out there can think of something. I'm not saying that you're going to vote for a Democrat. I legitimately cannot think of a Democrat policy position where I think to myself, hey, you know what? That actually is a rational, reasonable position of the National Democrat Party.
Well, I think that they also have the problem of the people that are gonna get the attention in the media. Because what happened was the media became seeded with people who believe in the radical left stuff. And they were elevated certainly during the Biden years. And I think in the first Trump administration too. Like I said, Jim Acosta, if you acted like your job was to try to take the president down as a journalist, you were promoted, right? And then that continued through the years of Biden and Covid and all of that and blm, all that madness. Well, now when they look around, it's like these are the people who have been promoted within the company and they're lunatics. So there has to be a whole new set. You know, you're hearing people who are Democrats saying sound things like Chris Matthews on the issue of D.C. crime. They're not, they're not big names, you know, they're not people that are. I mean, Chris Matthews, you say he's been in the business a long time. I don't mean he's not a well known guy, but I'm saying he's not calling the shots for the Democrat Party at all. If anything, he's playing a lot of golf. And I think that that's true in general. Now who gets the attention? Aoc from Democrats, aoc, Bernie Beto. These people are in the Looney Tunes section. I mean, Gavin Newsom, you could say, tries to play it both ways, but he's the governor of California and he's done everything he can to ruin his state as fast as he can. So, you know, he says one thing and does another. There's no centrist, ish, moderate Democrat to bring the crazies in line. And so that's why you get the stuff that you're getting here with Trump on the federalization of the crime issue.
In D.C. that's why I think Rahm Emanuel is going to try to carve that lane and be a sane man in the Democrat Party. Because right now I just, I can't think of any of them for that. That just makes sense going forward. It just doesn't add up.
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All right, let's get to some talk facts. Let's get to some some of your wisdom from all across America. And before we do that, also Want to remind you, Crockett coffee, my friends. Go get your Crockett coffee. Coffee. For people who believe in this country, love our history, get out there and do stuff. Maybe even play a little tennis sometimes, you know, Maybe. Maybe. So we'll take your calls here, and let's do this. HH Bob in Reading, Pennsylvania. Let's see what he's got for us. Play it.
Yeah. Here we are in Pennsylvania. Just want to comment on your MSNBC comment that were made about you. Man, that sounds like a plug for your show. If I wasn't already listening, I would have be like, wow, this guy really has something to say. Knows what he's talking about. Keep up the good work.
There you go, Clay.
That helps. And if you missed it on msnbc, they were ripping me for being in favor of less people being killed and said that that was because of my machismo, which I do appreciate the use of the word machismo because it makes me think that, you know, I should be a Starface Scarface character walking around with, like, three buttons undone and a big gold chain. I don't have a lot of chest hair, but maybe I could dress up like that for Halloween. We've got so many great talkbacks. By the way, I was looking at these coming into the show. Where do we want to go into next? Well, Sandy is calling in Sandy and Jersey, what you got for us?
Caller
You to keep the beard. Because my husband shaved his beard in 1972 on Mother's Day, and I have not let him forget it to this day. I love his beard. I'm sure your wife loves your beard. Don't listen to the foolish suggestions.
Buck Sexton
Why do you think, Sandy, I appreciate you calling in to defend the honor of my beard. Why do you think your husband, in 1972, decided to shave his beard on Mother's Day?
Caller
I do not know. He doesn't even know, God bless him. He just thought, well, I'll shave my beard. And he did.
Buck Sexton
And he thought that was some sort of present for you. That was like, hey, it's Mother's Day. You're going to get a clean shaven husband.
Caller
I don't think his brain even went there. And I don't think he realized how much I loved his beard. But I. I think he knew I liked it, but I don't think he knew how beautiful he looks to me with his beard to this day. And, oh, by the way, I found out today, listening to your show, that men's hair beards turn white early. My husband's in his late 70s. He's still got blonde hair, but his beard is white. And I always.
Buck Sexton
Hey, hey, Sandy. Sandy. Excuse me. Excuse me. Sandy in Texas, you know. What about my beard? You know, like, should I keep my beard? You seem very, very set on beards here. Can I. Can I get a.
Caller
Everyone who can grow a beard who has the correct chromosomes for it should grow it.
Buck Sexton
Thank you for the call, Sandy. And I'm sorry that your husband shaved the Beard in 1972. I don't know if you've made a choice. You're young in your marriage. My wife is still angry about the haircut I got before our wedding. I got a bowl cut. It's not a good look. She said, whatever you do, don't go get a haircut. I went and got a haircut. She said, whatever you do, don't get a bowl cut. I don't know how it happened, but I showed up with a bowl cut. She's still not happy about it. Every wedding picture got the bowl cut. So I understand. Sandy, look. 1972. She's still not over it. Awful decision. What was he thinking? Just an awful decision by her husband. Look, if you're out there right now and you're thinking to yourself, oh, boy, we're coming up on Thanksgiving, believe it or not, just a few months away. And then comes Christmas. And you're thinking, we can't put Aunt Edna next to Cousin Sue. They will fight. They. It doesn't matter what's going on. They're gonna fight. And you are going to be the person who is the peacemaker for the holiday season. What happens if you're not there to make sure that your family doesn't fall apart? In fact, what if you're not there and your family doesn't know what you want? That's why you need a trust and a will. We've both got them. You can get 20% off right now. Go dive in and check this out. Don't make the mistake of letting your family fight over what you would like to have in the future when you're not there to decide. Trustandwill.com Clay for 20% off. Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton show. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us. I wanted to play this. I think we've rolled this over a couple of days. I do not think we have played it yet. But we're talking about crazy town and this is. I don't think we played this right. Reality star and star's doing a lot of work there. Someone named Jennifer Welch. Team we have not played this yet. Right. She is evidently a Bravo person. And for those of you out there, my wife watches some of these. I bet that a large majority of women out there, certainly if I would say I don't know, I would think this is probably the Bravo housewife shows are probably Ali, is it fair to say it's like women under 50 is like the wheelhouse. Like women 30 to 50 would be like the Bravo perfect Real Housewives audience end up. So this is like one of the most popular shows for women out there. And I imagine some of you men have walked through and seen the screaming fights and the crazy town that is involved in these shows on a regular basis. So this reporter, sorry, this Bravo star, Jennifer Welch evidently has a podcast and this has gone mega viral because she said white Trump voters shouldn't be allowed to eat at Mexican or Chinese restaurants. They should only be able to go to Cracker Barrel. This is real cut 24.
Jennifer Welch
I've had it with white people that triple trumped that have the nerve and the audacity to walk into a Mexican restaurant, a Chinese restaurant, an Indian restaurant, go to perhaps their gay hairdresser. I don't think you should be able to enjoy anything but Cracker Barrel. And if you want a triple trump and you want to browbeat dei, you want to browbeat gay people and you want to browbeat black people, as you've been doing for 400 years, and you want to browbeat this generation of immigrants that come over here and open up businesses, earnestly pay their taxes. You want to demonize them and call them rapists and felons and all this when the felon is the teeny weeny mushroom piece of kinkles McTaco at the top of the ticket. I have had it from top to bottom white people that triple Trump should be banned, boycotted, from enjoying the best thing that America has to offer, which is multiculturalism. Get your fat asses out of the Mexican restaurant. Get your fat asses over to Cracker Barrel because nobody wants to see your smug ass, teeny weeny pink arm, big gut around. Nobody wants to see that. No one.
Buck Sexton
I mean, yeah, so first of all, this is I think maybe the base of the Democrat Party now. And you say, okay, what do you mean by base of the Democrat Party? Yes, it's ridiculous. It's outrageous what she said. But liberal white women, if you go look at the 2024 election results, Kamala Harris really only improved on Joe Biden with white women. Think about that for a minute. Every group In America, Kamala Harris lost ground with black men, Hispanic men, Asian men, white men, black women, Hispanic women, Asian women. All of them said, I am moving towards Trump in 2024, except for White women and this woman. I know producer Ali is surrounded by women who may not be necessarily this vulgar, but in New York City, this would be a huge part. Buck, you tried to date some of these, some of these chicks when you were a single guy, unfortunately in New York City. Why are they so angry at the world? I mean, I think it's a really big question because they are now the foundation of the Democrat Party. They are the people that the Democrat Party bends the knee to, responds to. They liked Kamala more than they liked to Joe Biden, the only group in America. And you could hear from her such venom and by the way, not rational. Because if everybody, triple Trump voter suddenly said, I'm not going to eat in Mexican restaurants anymore, do you know who would suffer? A lot of the people that are of Mexican descent, of Hispanic descent, that are working in the restaurants. And so I really do try to put myself in their world. Why are they so angry, Buck? Like, why is that woman in some way representative of, of the foundation of the Democrat Party right now, not just disagreeing on policy fronts, but legitimately basing almost her entire take on Trump? Voters are awful human beings and they shouldn't be a part of civilized society. Why are they so mad? Why are they so angry? I really, genuinely can't figure it.
Oh boy. You may have deep dive into the psychology.
I mean, I'm trying to think, put my head into the crazy world they, they live in. And I have difficulty even understanding why they are so angry.
I think that they have, over a period of time deeply bought into messaging that is going to inherently make people very, very miserable over the long term. I think that they have, their, the value system they should have has been largely replaced by the leftist stuff that we talk about, the virtue signaling, the race, communism, the gender identity nonsense. And over. You know, there are some people whose minds are just more easily molded by the propaganda that's all around us all the time. I mean, there's a whole. You're asking about, about white women. I mean, I think. And people have gotten mad at me. I've been saying this for 20 years, basically, or whenever, whenever the show ended, I forget whenever it ended. But I mean, I think Sex in the City was terrible for women. I think Sex and the City was very bad messaging for a whole gen. And it's really women my age, maybe A little bit older for a whole generation of women because they watch that show and I understand it's entertainment. I know it's very cleverly written. I understand. You know, I like jokes too. But the underlying message, you know, just to be clear, it's supposed to be fun. The underlying look, let's understand something. Even before there was radio and there was television, there's a reason political cartoons were so effective, right? There's a reason that using artistry for political messaging and you go back to propaganda during warfare and the existence of all these different. All these different methods of trying to engage in shaping public perception. And anyway, so that's my roundabout way of saying with Sex in the City. I think that there was a value system that was elevated through that show and other things like it and other currents in the culture. But I'm just picking on that one one right now where, you know, it's not about something other than yourself. It's about expensive shoes. It's about, you know, pursuing hedonism and self actualization and all these. That actually don't mean anything. And there is a class of white women in America who. White women who are Democrats in America, to be clear, left wing Democrats who have bought into all this stuff and are now at the point in their lives, like this woman, where there's a derangement that has set in, where they have to keep believing this stuff, even though observation of the world around them would lead them to think that this is not that they have not made good choices.
It's very.
Think about this, like, how do you grapple with bad life choices? And I don't just mean that in terms of family formation or things, you know, whether you pursued career at the expense of other things. I just mean the way that you've interacted with people and saw yourself vis a vis society. How do you go back and say, wow, I believed in stuff that was like trash and worthless. So that's what I think. So you're asking me why these women are so unhappy? That's why I think it's so unhappy. They've been worshiping the golden calf of sex in the city life and it's not good. And they turn around, they realize, why am I so miserable? Well, because you didn't put other more important things before your own very kind of mundane and petty desires.
Caller
I.
Buck Sexton
That was that too much?
I don't know. I think it's. No, I mean, I think it's important sometimes because I'm always asking, am I and am I missing something? Is There an argument. I am willing to be persuaded that I am wrong on anything if you can provide me an objective data point. I really struggle to understand these women, and I think that clip is so outrageous that it's funny to play. But she's not saying something that there isn't tens of millions of white women in particular out there who believe it. And I spent some time, because obviously this new book that I'm writing is about young men and the world in which they inhabit and how they've come to move so aggressively towards the Republican Party. But I don't hear very many people talk about, hey, Kamala was an awful candidate, one of the worst that's ever, I think, been run by the Democrat Party. And yet white women moved towards her. She in some way was able to galvanize white women who showed up in big numbers for Joe Biden to move even more aggressively in favor of. In favor of Kamala. And that's an important lesson because we've talked a lot about young men moving and Trump gaining support with Hispanic and black and Asian voters. And that seems rational to me, if you're actually looking at the data. White women seem to have spun off into a whole world where the choices that they're making and the arguments that they are even being willing to embrace is totally nonsensical. And I think it's important to recognize that these people are out there and think about they basically are destroying the Democrat Party because they're the foundation of the Democrat Party. Imagine. Imagine that you are a Democrat and that woman is leading the charge for your party. How do you make her happy? I think your Sex in the City argument is a good one, Buck, in my book. I argue that if you went back to, like, 1965 and you told a single man, what was the ideal world that you would want to create? Feminism in the last 50 years has basically created the ideal world for men. Sex with limited to no work, a disposable culture of relationship where you can constantly just sweep, swipe, swipe right or whatever it is. And I think these women, to your point, they made all the choices that they think empowered them, and actually they've managed to strip away much of their power. And men are actually more powerful in their world today than men were in 1965. And I think it's a counterintuitive thing. And to your point, what do you. What happens? I was talking to one of my buddies the other day. You know him, we went out to dinner, and he's in the middle of a Divorce. And he was asking me, he got a financial question. And I was like, boy, this is like not a good situation. Situation to be in. And he said, he said, and I give him credit, he's got a great sense of humor. He said, totally deadpan. Yeah, I know. For the last 20 years, given a choice between a good financial decision and a bad financial decision, he's like, I picked the bad one. And he's like, this is where you end up when you have good financial decision, bad financial decision, and you pick the bad one. He's funny about it, and he's still young enough where he's going to be okay. But I do think a lot of these women can't reconcile the fact that the reason why they're unhappy is actually because of the world they've created around them. And so I think you're right. I think it's an element. They have to lash out and believe that all they have is their moral authority and everyone else is awful but them. And I think in reality, because there's the deep toxicity to them. And that actually now characterizes the Democrat party. So I think the Democrat Party has to kick these chicks to the curb in order to ever be relevant again. And I don't think they can do it because they're the base now.
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I believe we are now. So thank you everybody for that. But let's keep it going. Let's keep that momentum, let's keep that speed high. Make sure the ball drops in the box. Go with the YouTube. My friends subscribe to Lay and Buck on YouTube and we're gonna get into some of these calls here. And let's do Bob in Delaware. Bob, what have you got for us?
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Grew up in Fairfax County, Virginia, knows D.C. very well. My son still lives over in the area. What I question, I would ask is why don't you ask Brian Robinson how he feels about crime in D.C. after being carjacked and shot in the leg his rookie season. And look, that kid's so lucky. He only missed four games of his career. A couple inches one way or the other, he gets hit in the kneecap, maybe never plays again. No. Another redskin that got hit in his femur artery and, and never made it. So why don't we ask him how he feels about crime in D.C. i.
Buck Sexton
Think it's a great question. And again, I think that Democrats are telling on themselves like this liberal white woman that we played the cut for. They're, if they're not afraid of crime, they live in such police drenched areas that they don't fear for their safety or, or they are paying for their own private security. I mean, if you walk around in Georgetown, it is a very different feeling than if you walk around in Southeast D.C. and so a lot of people are telling on themselves because they're not going to the areas where crime is necessarily happening at a regular rate. And it would be fascinating if we.
Could really do this. Like we could, we could maybe get the people to sign off on their geolocation data. I bet that most of the people who are saying D.C. is safe in the media, I'm talking about now, most of those people, if you pulled their geolocation data from their phone or you could ask them, but you could pull it to verify they've never been across the Anacostia river on foot and actually spend time in Southeast D.C. which is where the highest crime rates are.
Never once I guarantee that's true. I would be stunned beyond belief. And by the way, that doesn't mean that other parts of D.C. capitol Hill is very dangerous. Still, Capitol Hill has been dangerous for a very long time. At any moment you could end up in a in a crime of significant danger. We'll talk about that. More tons of talkbacks. We will hit a bunch of those Having a good time here with all of you on the Wednesday edition of the program as guess what? Stock market setting another high?
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Summary of "Hour 2 - Lib White Women Are Nuts" | The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
Release Date: August 13, 2025
Host: Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
Description: Clay Travis and Buck Sexton delve into pressing news, politics, and current events with a blend of intelligence and humor. In this episode, they focus on the dynamics within the Democratic Party, particularly the influence and frustrations with liberal white women.
The episode centers on the evolving landscape of the Democratic Party, emphasizing the pivotal role of white women and the frustrations experienced by the hosts regarding their influence and perspectives.
Buck Sexton addresses a New York Times reporter, Peter Baker's stance that there is no crime crisis in D.C., contrasting it with observable realities on the ground.
Buck criticizes the media’s portrayal, arguing that many journalists overlook the increasing crime rates in certain areas of D.C., thereby undermining concerns about safety.
The conversation shifts to the Democratic Party's transformation, questioning the party's current direction and its relationship with older white male voters.
Buck posits that the party has alienated longstanding demographics, leading to a reliance on a new base: liberal white women.
A significant portion of the episode analyzes a viral segment featuring Jennifer Welch, a Bravo star, who makes inflammatory remarks about white Trump voters.
Buck and Clay dissect the implications of Welch's statements, linking them to broader sentiments within the Democratic base.
Buck Sexton explores the potential reasons for the intense dissatisfaction and anger among liberal white women within the Democratic framework.
Buck suggests that cultural influences, such as media portrayals exemplified by shows like "Sex and the City," have distorted value systems, leading to widespread dissatisfaction.
The hosts express concern over the Democratic Party's reliance on a base that may be steering the party in unpredictable and potentially harmful directions.
Buck argues that without addressing the influential stance of liberal white women, the party risks further fragmentation and loss of traditional support.
The discussion highlights a perceived disconnect between Democratic policies and the actual needs or desires of white women voters.
Buck emphasizes his inability to identify Democratic policies that resonate as rational or beneficial, pointing to a broader dissatisfaction within the party's base.
The episode wraps up with reflections on the challenges ahead for the Democratic Party, emphasizing the need for introspection and possible realignment to regain broader support.
Buck concludes that the underlying issues stem from misguided choices and entrenched beliefs that hinder cohesive and effective political strategies.
Buck Sexton [07:23]: "DC has an awful crime problem, violent crime problem... it's twice as deadly in Washington D.C. as Bogota, Colombia, three times as dangerous as Mexico City."
Buck Sexton [09:15]: "The Democratic Party doesn't really have any place for older white guys... a lot of older white guys that vote Democrat because they bought into that team 40 years ago."
Jennifer Welch [25:19]: "White Trump voters shouldn't be allowed to eat at Mexican or Chinese restaurants. They should only be able to go to Cracker Barrel."
Buck Sexton [10:46]: "I can't think of a single Democrat policy where I sit back and I say, okay, strip away the politics of it, does this make sense?"
Buck Sexton [32:33]: "How do you grapple with bad life choices?... They have to lash out and believe that all they have is their moral authority and everyone else is awful but them."
Crime in D.C.: Buck and Clay challenge mainstream media narratives, asserting that Washington D.C. faces significant crime issues contrary to some journalists' claims.
Democratic Party Realignment: The party is experiencing a shift from traditional older white male voters to a predominantly liberal white female base, leading to internal tensions and strategic uncertainties.
Influence of Cultural Media: Cultural phenomena and media portrayals are believed to have negatively impacted the value systems of white women, contributing to their current frustrations and political stances.
Policy Disconnect: There is a perceived lack of relatable and rational Democratic policies that resonate with the white female demographic, causing disillusionment and potential electoral vulnerabilities.
Future Challenges: The Democratic Party faces the challenge of reconciling its foundational support base with broader electoral strategies to remain relevant and effective in national politics.
This episode provides a critical examination of the internal dynamics within the Democratic Party, spotlighting the influential role of liberal white women and the challenges their perspectives pose to the party's cohesion and future direction.