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Second hour of clay and buck kicks off right now. Thank you so much for being here with me. And we have a lot to dive into in the aftermath of those election results in that primary in New York City. And I understand there's a bit of a debate and people on the right feel somewhat, some of them feel differently about this. There's the, who cares? It's New York, it just happened in a. And it's a small amount of voters and it's just a congressional primary and a few state assembly seats and all this. The other side of it though is there's a trend here, isn't there, of incredibly radical far left and really destabilizing and hateful individuals. Now they always say, of course, that we're hateful. I don't hate anybody. I mean, I hate people doing very bad things. But I don't approach politics with hate in my heart for anyone. I think people are very wrong. I think there are evil decisions and I think there are evil people. But I don't approach this with the desire to like get at my enemies or anything like that. That's not, I don't think conservatives do that in general. There are a lot of leftists who really do they because they're not motivated. This is a good way to put this. I think of politics and I think of the conversation that we have, the dialog, the discourse, however you want to phrase it. You know, what is the beating, the beating heart of constitutionalism, of maga, Trumpism, all these things trying to make this country the best it can possibly be for as many of us as can possibly have it be great and to do good things for people. It really comes from a place of positivity. And that is the underlying. There's not something beneath that. The problem you have with these leftists is that the actual foundation. Yes, they'll talk a lot about justice and social justice and wanting to help people, but it's really about resentment. They resent people that they think are more successful than them, are more powerful than them, are happier even. Because there are obviously plenty of far leftists with so much money, you know, billions and billions of dollars. But they're miserable. They sense or they lack rather a sense of purpose. They lack that confidence and calm that can only come from feeling like you are the person you are supposed to be. And whether you are a street sweeper or a founder, CEO, billionaire, you're happy with who you are. Are you think that you're doing the right things day to day. Leftists don't have that. And that is really, I think, the wellspring of their ideology and of their emotional fragility, if you will. And it's why they Embrace ideas that allow them to think that they are inherently better than other people. Right. I want a safe. Let me give you an example of this, right? I want a safe America. I want safe streets. I don't want anyone in America, anywhere of any color to walk down the street and be worried, am I going to be robbed, stabbed, raped, any of these things. And there are policies that I believe should. Should come from that. Now, I know that's not possible in the sense that there's going to be criminals. There's going to be. Although it can be very, very low. I told you the most, in some ways, incredible, other than the high geopolitics stuff. When I went with our friend Steve Yates, Nation states with Yates. He was my Taiwan Sherpa, if you will. I know I'm kind of mixing Nepal and Taiwan there, but you get it. He was my Taiwan Sherpa. And to be in such a high trust, low crime society was really eye opening because we have way too much crime and disorder and decay and madness here. It does not have to be that way. Way you can be in a place where a crime happens and it's almost like someone, you know, getting eaten by an alligator or. Or killed by a group of, you know, wild pigs. That happens, but it happens like twice a year in this country or something like that. I mean, it's very rare. I don't know how often those wild boars actually get people. It's rare, though. It's rare. They're mean. Instead, what the left has, and I'm going to tie this all into the New York City thing, but what the left has is I think that billionaires and millionaires and billionaires, now a trillionaire. I don't like them because they have more than me. And I think, again, I'm speaking from a leftist perspective, and I think that they victimized people to get what they have through capitalism, of course. And I want them to have less. I want them to be punished by the state. Even if it doesn't see this is the difference. Even if it doesn't have the intended outcome of funding more schools or bringing down the price of rent or any of these things. You see the leftist approaches, these as hurt the people I don't like. I want to vote for people. I want to put people in power so that they can hurt people that I'm resentful of, whether it's for racial reasons, religious reasons, economic reasons, gender, whatever it may be. I have a resentment and I want you to get them. I'm going to cover this up, of course, with my pretense of extreme altruism. Oh, no, I really just, I really just want to help the poor. Look at all the examples of this. We can take a really big example, you know, the, the Affordable Care act, for example, which every single analysis of health care now, there's no question, there's no doubt made health care more expensive for everybody who actually buys their own healthcare or pays for their own healthcare in any capacity. So unless you're totally on welfare, healthcare, welfare, it has made it less affordable for you. But the people behind that think, yeah, that's good. They won't tell you that. They'll say, oh man, wow, if only Republicans had done this. Or, or it's actually great anyway. But ultimately this goes back to, I think it's a Churchill quote. Sometimes I get my Churchill and my Thatcher quotes mixed up, as the Internet does too, I might add, but that capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings, but socialism is the equal sharing of misery. That's really the point. It doesn't matter if the policy doesn't work. It hurts the people that they, the left want hurt. So once you understand those deep psychological roots, because now you'll see. Well, hold on a second. How could Trump just put more cops on the street, so to speak? I mean, federal fusion, FBI and other agencies tasked to work with state and local law enforcement brought the crime, violent crime, way down in D.C. brought the violent crime numbers way down in Memphis. Well, people who are like Chevalier, who just won this primary In New York's 13th congressional district, they would say, yeah, but that's not, we ultimately shouldn't do that because we have to accept that more people are going to die and be killed as victims of crime so that we don't make anybody of any group feel like they're being targeted or that it's unequal or, you know, brings up icky feelings. They, they want to pay that price, they think people should pay that price and they make it very, very vague. But ultimately, like I said, the equal sharing of misery they want to spread. As long as the misery is spread around, they think they've achieved something. And that then brings me to these protesters. This just happened last 24 hours. This is from the New York Post. Listen to this. Dozens of protesters descended on a hate mongering Brooklyn coffee shop Wednesday morning after it publicly vowed to refuse service to a pro Israel politician. And its owner's social media posts comparing Israel to Nazi Germany came to light. They chanted, end Jew hatred and this shall not stand as they were confronted by a smaller group of counter protesters, many of them rabbis from Jews United Against Zionism who waved Palestinian flags and loudly denounced Israel through a bullhorn. You are a Zion Nazi terrorist. One rabbi, wearing a keffiyeh and holding a Palestinian flag, repeatedly shouted inches from the face of a pro Israel protester who replied, oh, you have very bad breath. Okay, well, there you go. Sides angrily clashed on the sidewalk in front of Poetica coffee shop and Park Slope, at times shouting in each other's faces until the NYPD stepped in and separated them into separate areas. So, by the way, the DOJ Civil Rights Division is looking at this coffee shop for not serving somebody because he's, He's Jewish. But this is what I wanted. By the way, the guy who owns this place is. His name is Parviz Muhammad Kolov. It's got to be like Central Asian. I don't know if that's like Turkmen or Kazakh or something. Pretty good guess from the Buckster. I bet you'll check that one out. Point here is, my friends, why would you not. I mean, think about the mentality. You're going to not serve somebody because you know they're Jewish and you don't agree with their positions on Israel, so you're going to. Is that going to change anything? No, but it's just about spite. You're not going to change policy. In fact, you might have the opposite effect. It's just about spite, being nasty, being hateful. And then think about these other protesters, some of them Jews. I mentioned this yesterday. There are Jews who are virulent, virulently anti Israel and are collaborators with anti Semites. This is a real, A very real thing. I'm completely aware of this. You know, some there, There are these strange situations that you would not expect. It reminds me when I tell people, you know, that there were. There were black Americans before the Civil War. Not many, but there were documented black Americans who owned slaves. Who owned black slaves. Something that you will not be taught in school. I never learned that in school. I learned that on my own. But because of course, then you start to realize. Hold on a second. So slavery is actually a very widespread practice all around the world. And that it is an inherent evil, but it's not an inherent evil. That was only in the United States and only of one race. And anyway, think about for a moment the mentality of showing up somewhere in New York and comparing Israel to Nazi Germany. The owner of this store compares Israel to Nazi Germany. Talk about an upside down view of the world. And talk about, unfortunately, a really depraved and deranged understanding of history and the present. But this is once again, not about policy. It's not about support for Israel. Wanna know what it's really about? As I told you yesterday, I've been called a Jew on social media now so many times in the last year just for being consistent in what I believe and, and viewing this thing, this conflict with the moral lens that I think is, is appropriate. And like I said, I take it as a badge of honor. I don't, I don't back away from it. I mean, I'm not Jewish, but fine, Fine by me. And they say it, of course, usually with like, expletives. And it's quite clear they don't mean it in a nice way. But I sit here and I have to tell you that whether it's this coffee shop owner or others, he has resentment. I don't know necessarily, I don't know the guy, but he has resentment and he's been told that Jews control this and Jews are really successful and Jews, you know, have all these things and Jews are the reason that, you know, housing prices are so high or Jews control the banking system or whatever. The, the, the director, you know, the pathway of anti Semitism is that he's latched onto. And then the whole Israel thing and opposing the Israel policy. For someone like this. If you're comparing Israel to Nazi Germany, I'm not saying, hey, you know, can you, can you criticize settlement policy without being an anti Semite? Of course there are a lot of Jews who do that. In fact, tons of Jews in Israel do that. But someone like this, Israel is like Nazi Germany. Yeah, you don't like Jews, you know, quite clear. It's about resentment. It's not about policy. It's about, I don't like those people. And I want to find a policy prism through which I can throw things at them and pretend it's not just about some innate hate. It's not just about, I have a distaste for these people, a dislike, a, you know, a bigotry. There's the word. It's about, oh, if only they had done things differently in Gaza. Let me tell you something right now. None of the people who are complaining the loudest about Israel in Gaza, none of them would have thought there was any way for Israel to defend itself by uprooting hamas after the October 7 attacks. There was no way that they would have done that, that would have been acceptable to those people. So it's just a waste of time trying to placate them, trying to explain it. Their problem isn't with Israel's conduct in Gaza. Their problem is with the Jews. You see, leftists, once you understand that the mind disease that they have, you can diagnose it, you can see it, you can find it all over the place. All right, speaking of disease, people go through life with all kinds of constant stomach aches and problems with their digestive tract. And look, doctors get like a day on nutrition in medical school. It's true. At least they used to. So it's often a guessing game out there. It's really tough for people to figure out what's going on. 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Hey, Derek. Thank you so much. You know, Clay and I were really so psyched to celebrate our fifth anniversary recently. But it's funny that I was thinking here and it's also the 15th year that I've been working in media since I left the CIA. Fifteen years. It's a long time. And some of you have been listening to me now for almost. Because I didn't start radio right away, but almost 15 years if you were original Saturday squad OSS. So it's been a wild ride, team. It's been a wild ride. Thanks for being here. You can now get two or more rapid radios with their new bundling plan. Rapid radios operate like walkie talkies but with nationwide range. Why do you need them? Because they are a lifeline when cell phone service is out or when you're in a dead zone. The battery lasts up to five days too, which can be crucial when power is out for days. Just push a button and talk instantly over thousands of miles. With Crystal Clear Audio. Since they operate on a nationwide LTE network, they're 100% private with 256 bit encryption so no one can listen in. You don't sign a contract with Rapid Radios. There are no monthly fees. It's just a reasonable annual renewal fee. Some 500,000 plus rapid radios were sold last year alone. Right now go to rapidradios.com bundle for their massive Buy More, Save More event. When you buy two radios, you get one completely free. Have a big family. Buy four and get two free. Every bundle includes a full year of service and free shipping. Visit rapidradios.com bundle that's rapidradios.com bundle. Hey Buck, One of my kids called me an unk the other day. An unk?
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Would you pull up for me? Because I don't want to do it because I have to talk and I can't write and talk at the same time because sometimes then I'll start saying what I'm writing. Do you guys ever do that? That's the downside to having my laptop in front of me. Like I say I do this clay is very like kind of let it rip. He just sometimes has a phone in his hand. That's it. I've got multiple laptops. I'm kind of in a command center position, but I can't really type very well while I'm talking. That's a skill that I have not yet totally mastered. Guys, tell me how Many countries have birthright citizenship. Just roughly. I'm curious. I know a lot of them don't. I know that a whole lot of major countries around the world, if you were there on a tourism visa and you were born in a hospital there, they'd be like, great. You get to go home now. Like, that's it. There's no. Oh, but I was on your soil. And you know. No, no, no, no, no. Because think about it.
It doesn't.
It doesn't make any sense. It doesn't make any sense. It's a giant gaping hole in our immigration law. If that's the case, it's. It's the Supreme Court. If they hold that birthright citizenship, like I said, going forward, people can argue with me all day. You're not stripping citizenship from people, people who are, you know, who. Who were born here because their parents came here illegally in, you know, let's say they're my age or 44. They've been citizens their whole lives. They've lived here their whole lives. You're not about to strip their citizenship. Okay, that's not happening. That's not. And I would argue that's. That's not fair because there was the belief that this was this. Like, that that was legal. People thought that that was legal. Keep that in mind. The coming here was illegal, but the reason they had the baby here was because they thought that that meant automatic citizenship. Like, that was the law of the land, was the belief at the time. And by the way, it may be that when the Supreme Court tells us. But it is going to just create so much more of this, and it's going to start to ask real questions about what is it to be an American? What does it really mean? You've already seen some of these debates really popping up on the right. Are we a people? Are we a creedal nation? We're a people with a creed. It's complicated. We are the American people. If you brought 150 million Chinese here tomorrow, it would not be America. That's very clear. So there are certainly limits to this. Here we go. We have. Pew Research says 33 countries have automatically generally applicable birthright citizenship. 50 countries are limited.
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Yeah, so that means a whole lot of countries don't have it. I'm interested to see what those countries are. So, yeah, you know, there's Some have. Some don't. But keep in mind, a lot of the ones that have it, I'm sure, don't have really extensive benefits that the baby, and therefore the whole family qualify for right away, you would think that this is something people could pay attention to. VIP email from Robert. You are likely thinking of Saipan, the largest island in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, which is a US Territory in the Pacific Ocean. It has been a prominent hub for birth tourism by Chinese nationals seeking U.S. citizenship for their children. We are doomed. Robert writes at the end. Don't, don't. Don't fall into doomerism. Robert, Things. Things will be all right. But I would say I didn't know that, that the island of Saipan was a place where that was going on. And I would assume that that must mean that Guam as well. Right. Some of these U.S. territories, U.S. possessions, are places where, if you're born there, you would qualify for U.S. citizenship. I was thinking of San Francisco, California. I was thinking of the West Coast. Specifically the west coast gets a lot of Chinese birth tourism because, remember, China has had a huge explosion of wealth in the 21st century. And, well, really starting around 1980, Deng Xiaoping and whole other conversation. But China had a huge explosion of wealth. And so there are enough people who have the money in China to come here, have a baby here in a specific situation where that's like they know they're coming here at nine months pregnant, they're flying over, and then they go to a hotel that is set up so that they're going to have the baby here and do the whole thing, and then they go back and they can go back and remember, they can live in China for 18 years with this baby, and then that baby can come to America with a US Passport, the same citizenship that you have and I have, and vote, demand in state tuition, join the military, you know, go down the list, everything, all the benefits. A citizen, full citizen. How can that be a good thing? Let's go beyond that. How can that be a rational thing for the country? I don't. There's no way. The Supreme Court, if it holds that that is the law of the land, if you will. There is no way for them to explain that to me in a way that I will accept. I can tell you that in advance. It cannot be. It really undermines what it is to be a nation state in the first place, because it creates this situation where you have neither creedal loyalty nor, nor ties of blood or ties of. Or even ties of place. It can be a temporary arrangement where someone just pops in, pops out, and then forever and always they're treated like heritage Americans who have been here for generations and generations. You know,
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I get it. I don't really have much faith in the Supreme Court. Certainly wouldn't use the word faith in general about scotus, but I will be particularly this one. Might be. I don't know. This might be the worst decision since Obamacare came down. Might be. You'd have to find. I'd have to look at a list going off the top of my head, but it would be a really, really bad decision that I would disagree with vehemently. And again, they can say, oh, but. Oh, but, yeah, but you're. You are giving somebody an enormous benefit in direct response to the violation of US Federal law. Like I said, the Supreme Court will be telling everybody, you can rob a bank, give the money to your kids, and we can't take the money from the kids. That's too precious. That's what it means to be an American. The kid gets to keep the stolen money. I. I don't see how that's gonna. I don't see how that's gonna add up. Here we go. Podcast listener Kevin. Let's talk about the. Let's talk about the. He's from Arkansas. Wants to talk about the coffee shop in Park Slope, Brooklyn. All right, go for it. Play D. I'm not saying I agree with it, but just playing devil's advocate here. I mean, that coffee shop owner refused service to somebody because he had different beliefs. I don't see how that's any different from somebody refusing to bake a cake because of their sexual orientation. And I'm pretty sure the Supreme Court held that one up. So that's interesting. So this gets to. By the way, this is a very. Public accommodations where free speech and public accommodations intersect. This is a. A complicated area of law, and made more complicated, in fact, because of further addendums and decisions after the Civil Rights act and the era of civil rights, where there are essentially protected categories. So you cannot be told at a public accommodation, you are. You are Asian. You are not allowed to eat here. That's a. That is a. That is a violation of law. Right. What this current DOJ is doing is saying, well, that's got to be applicable, actually, to everybody in. In any circumstance like that. If it's a protected characteristic, then you cannot be, you know, barred from or denied service or any of those things. The DOJ under Trump is looking into this coffee shop. I already told you that that's underway. I don't think they'll bring anything. I don't think there'll be a charge. I do think it's interesting right now. You know, there are a lot of places where I think you would be. They would find a pretext to charge you if you just said mean things that are, you know, racist or something like that. Like, they would probably, maybe they'd end up charging with disorderly conduct, but they would find a way to infringe upon your. If it was speech only on, on your speech. Even though I think that the First Amendment does cover. Clearly, if it doesn't cover saying really mean things about a group of people or any people, it doesn't cover anything, because what exactly is the point of the government not being able to take action? But now you're talking about a public accommodation. So this is a privately owned business versus somebody who's coming in. In this case, it would be about the discrimination against the individual because they're Jewish. So this is where you get into protected category status. Now I understand people say, well, what about the, the gay individual in the cake baking situation? And by the way, the way that's always reported on in the courts, they sought out Masterpiece Cake Shop, bake shop, whatever it's called, they sought out this guy. Activists, they harassed this guy, they targeted him. It was not an accident. And the, the issue wasn't a denial of accommodation. Right, Kevin. That's what's important to keep in mind. It wasn't, I won't sell you a cake. That actually would have been a. That's actually a problem. That's actually illegal. You can't say you're gay. I'm not selling you a cake. And you can't say you're Jewish. I'm not selling you a cake. In Masterpiece Cake Shop. It was. I'm not going to use my First Amendment right as the cake shop owner to write something that I fundamentally disagree with or have issue with. It was a speech issue, not a sale of a good. In a public accommodation context. See what I mean? And by the way, they wanted that guy to, I mean, they wanted like Satan with like a phallus. I mean, they just like, made them amazing. They wanted. He was a believing Christian and they just. The, you know, the act, the LGBTQIA plus activists wanted to just smash that guy's face into his own cake and humiliate him and his. And his archaic Christian beliefs and the whole thing. That was what that was really all about. But you see, it was about speech, not about whether or not you could. So this isn't about speech. This is I'm not selling coffee to you. Different thing. I sell coffee to everybody. I'm not going to sell coffee to you because you're Jewish or I'm not going to sell coffee to you because you're Amish or whatever. It may be protected characteristic public accommodation. That is where things are a bit different. So you raise Kevin, a very interesting question and like I said, it is complicated. But the cake shop was about speech, not about the sale of the cake itself. So there is that. Let's get Mike on Long island, the strong island of Long Island. What's going on, Mike?
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I'm 77 years old. They don't always make a lot of sense. But I have some random thoughts. I didn't realize. I knew soccer was a big spectator sport, but I didn't realize it was. People go this crazy for it. I think it'd be more interesting to me if they made the goal the width of the field, the entire width, and had four goalies. That's one random thought. The other thing is I was thinking Maduro should send Trump thank you note for getting him out of Venezuela and putting him in a safe jail cell. And the third thing was I heard about the Obama library opening up and I heard you can spend eight years there and do absolutely nothing.
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Coming up, In a few moments, our friend Ryan Gardesky will be with us talking about what can we learn, what can we extrapolate from the data of the New York City primary that happened here? Is there anything? What are some of the lessons learned and what should we care about? And also, how are things looking? We're going to be checking with Ryan frequently between now and the midterms to see how's it looking for the GOP going into this midterm election. That is certainly an important thing, and we will dive into it together momentarily. Jay in Pittsburgh. Jay, before you tell me what you want to ask me, I gotta say, have you seen the show the Pit? And does it capture the essence of Pittsburgh accurately?
Caller
It does pretty well. Pretty well. I'm not saying, okay, cool episode, but when I did it, pretty well. Pretty well.
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All right, what else you got on. On the pits? You know, I've never been to Pittsburgh, Jay. I admit that with some degree of. Of regret. I gotta come check it out.
Caller
Yeah. Coming in from the airport, when you come through the tunnel and downtown is right in front of you is incredible. Incredible. But the city of Pittsburgh next week, all of their swimming pools are offering free swimming lessons all night long. And. Which is a wonderful idea. Everybody needs to learn how to swim. And they finish off telling you about that with a valid id.
Buck Sexton
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Episode Title: Hour 2 - The Real Upside-Down World
Air Date: June 25, 2026
Host: Buck Sexton (Clay Travis not present in this hour)
Podcast Producer: iHeartPodcasts
In this hour, Buck Sexton dives into the fallout from the New York City primary elections, exploring the ideological divide between conservatives and the far-left. He dissects the motivations of radical leftist politics, using recent high-profile controversies and local incidents as case studies—touching heavily on the rise of resentment politics, antisemitism, and the debate over public accommodations. Buck also engages with listener calls about citizenship, birth tourism, the Supreme Court, and current events—with his signature mix of seriousness and humor.
[02:36] – [15:10]
[15:10] – [19:30]
[24:50] – [31:14]
“The Supreme Court will be telling everybody, you can rob a bank, give the money to your kids, and we can’t take the money from the kids. That’s too precious. That’s what it means to be an American. The kid gets to keep the stolen money.” (31:14)
[33:00] – [37:44]
“You can’t say ‘you’re gay, I’m not selling you a cake.’ And you can’t say, ‘you’re Jewish, I’m not selling you a cake.’”
[22:02] – [44:09]
“I heard about the Obama library opening up and I heard you can spend eight years there and do absolutely nothing.” (38:29)
"They want to pay that price, they think people should pay that price and they make it very, very vague. But ultimately, like I said, the equal sharing of misery they want to spread."
— Buck Sexton (09:15)
"Think about for a moment the mentality of showing up somewhere in New York and comparing Israel to Nazi Germany...talk about an upside down view of the world."
— Buck Sexton (18:08)
“There is no way for [the Supreme Court] to explain that to me in a way that I will accept...It really undermines what it is to be a nation state in the first place.”
— Buck Sexton (30:40)
"In Masterpiece Cake Shop...it was a speech issue, not a sale of a good...This isn’t about speech. This is: ‘I’m not selling coffee to you.’ Different thing."
— Buck Sexton (36:09)
“I heard about the Obama library opening up and I heard you can spend eight years there and do absolutely nothing.”
— Mike from Long Island (38:29)
“Clay has more faith in the Supreme Court than I do. He has more faith in the system that way than I do...I don’t really have much faith in the Supreme Court.”
— Buck Sexton (31:21)
Buck Sexton’s approach in this episode is direct yet laced with humor and palpable frustration at what he views as irrational or malicious policies from the left. He repeatedly refers to real-world examples, listener emails, and high-profile controversies to illustrate deeper undercurrents—especially the psychology of resentment he attributes to the far left and the dangers of policy driven by "spite" rather than constructive purpose.
For listeners seeking a blend of news analysis, conservative philosophical framing, and lively engagement with hot-button issues, this hour stands out as a clear, punchy, and thought-provoking snapshot of current political tensions.