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Clay Travis
Welcome in our number two. It's the day after a State of the Union that was spectacularly well received as President Trump made the case that his policies have drastically improved life in America for many. And he ran through all of those arguments. I just come back to again, Buck, he ran on ebc Economy border crime. After one year, the economy is very strong. Growth rate in the third quarter, 4.4%. Inflation down to 2.4%. Mortgage rates just hit a four year low. For those of you out there in the housing market looking for 15 or 30 years, you are now getting lower rates than at any time since 2022 before the Biden inflation took over. You've got record high stock prices at the S&P 500. The Dow Jones effectively you have as we talked about and I think it's such a huge deal, the safest country from a murder perspective that any of us have ever lived in. You have basically everything going really, really great. And by the way, 800-282-2882 if you want to weigh in, but I want to you mentioned Buck and I think you're right and it seems to be the part that is echoing very strongly today. The US Men and Trump basically calling Democrats crazy for refusing to stand when he asked them, hey, do you think you should try to improve the lives I'm paraphrasing of citizens more than illegals. And one of the angles that is that is being used to attack Trump and by proxy the US Men for visiting with Trump who had won the gold medal for the first time in 46 years. I mean these US men are being attacked mercilessly by many in left wing media. And I thought that, that we should maybe dive into this. I think do we have producer Greg this clip ready now? Ok. So if you're out there and you're wondering, ok, why are they getting attacked? Yes, they're getting attacked because they went to the White House because they're unapologetically pro America, all those things are true. But if you push back on that and you point out what is indisputably true, which is people have always visited the president, president, Democrat, Republican, has always congratulated gold medal winners and had them visit the White House. What they circle back to, Buck, is Trump insulted the US Women's hockey team and this is a Laura Travis special. Buck, this is a Laura Travis special because she's fired up about this, because she said, I'm seeing this all over my social media feeds. I don't know if you saw this story. A Canadian hockey player shared a photo of him with his daughter at Disney World. He is a Canadian NHL hockey player. He was not on Team Canada, he was not on Team usa. And he was attacked mercilessly on social media because people said, how dare you laugh at a joke about women's hockey players and then have a photo posted of you with your two year old daughter at Disney World talking about how you're a girl. Dad, this is real. I don't know if you saw this.
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Buck Sexton
I mean, they're insane. But how do they know he laughed at the joke?
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Clay Travis
He did. He wasn't even there. That's what I'm saying. They're just attacking every hockey player right now because they're saying, oh, he's a misogynist, he laughed at a joke. And so I wanted to play the joke because it's much less significant. But this reminds me of the very fine people hoax when they spent years telling you that Trump, oh, Trump loves Nazis. He said they were very fine people and he didn't. But they so embedded the idea that what he had done was say that Nazis were very fine people and white supremacists. And in fact, he had done the opposite. He had actually condemned them. So usually when you go and deconstruct a joke, this is what losers do because you either laugh or you don't laugh too at a joke. And you don't go back and then say, oh, I'm so sorry, I didn't think about the, the larger context of the joke and how it was going to impact the indigenous people whose land we stole. And I feel, oh, so please forgive me. This is what they're saying. They're saying they want the US Men to apologize for laughing at a joke. So here is the joke. I want you to listen to it and then I'm going to do an actual deconstruction of the joke and show you how dishonest the coverage of this has been. So, producer Greg this was in the locker room cash. Patel's holding up his phone. President Trump is congratulating the team. Listen, we'll get the cash and we'll
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Caller
get the military to get you guys over.
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Clay Travis
Thank you, Mr. President. What would really be cool?
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Caller
And we'll do the White House the next day.
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Clay Travis
We'll just have some fun.
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Caller
We have medals for you guys.
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Clay Travis
And we have to.
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Caller
I must tell you, we're going to have to bring the woman's team. You do know that? Absolutely. I do believe I probably would be. Okay.
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Clay Travis
Okay, so he's making a joke, but I want to deconstruct this. And by the way, if you couldn't hear it, the men in the background are actually cheering and saying two for two, meaning they both won gold medals. But when he says that, he says, otherwise, I'll be impeached. The joke is at the expense of Democrats and anti Trump deranged people who would attack him. If he had just invited the men and not the women, they would say, oh, you're super sexist. Oh, you're misogynistic. So the joke is actually at the expense of his critics. Second part of this, Buck. The women who are outraged by this, and it's everywhere on social media, the crazy cat lady battalion is fired up because they're so outraged that people laughed at that joke, which was actually at their expense, and they're not smart enough to see it or they didn't actually listen to the joke themselves. Here's the second part of this book. If Trump had delivered the most perfect invitation to the White House that has ever occurred to the US Women's gold medal hockey winning team, the same women who claim that they are offended by that joke that we just played would actually immediately demand that the US Women's gold medal hockey team not go to the White House because to go would be offensive to their politics and therefore the women can't go. So what you have here is an entirely manufactured story which has caught fire on the left that is not rooted in the joke itself. And you also have primarily women complaining about the way an invitation was conveyed when they would never want the invitation to be accepted in the first place. And Buck, I want to play this. This is msnbc. If you're out there, maybe you're like me. Maybe you voted Democrat in the past and there's a ton of you out there listening. Maybe you weren't like Buck and at nine years old, you weren't reading William F. Buckley and convinced little bow tie,
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Buck Sexton
yes, drinking Earl Grey tea, thinking about
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Clay Travis
the future Maybe you weren't like Buck, maybe you're a little bit more like me. And if you're looking around at the society, you think to yourself, I haven't really changed that much. And the world, as President Trump said, has just gone crazy around you. This is 2012. This is 2012. On MSNBC, a hockey player chose not to visit Barack Obama's White House. And this was how they covered it on msnbc. This was left wing orthodoxy just a few short years ago.
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Listen, Boston Bruins goalie Tim Thomas rsvp thanks but no thanks to a White House invitation. What do we make of that? Tim Thomas said, I exercise my free right and my writ, my right as a free citizen and did not visit the White House. This was not about politics or party as in my opinion both parties are responsible for the situation we are in as a country. I mean I think this is kind of the hyper partisanship that just irritates everybody. It's like just go to the White House. You don't have to run an ad or cut a commercial or anything. Just go to the White House, take part, celebrate. Just like everybody else celebrates with Republicans or Democratic presidents, especially when you're getting honored. Obama made specific mention of him during his six minute address.
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Clay Travis
Buck not going to the White House was actually the insult. Now this is my position writ large. So if you want to clip this in 20 years and I've got a different opinion, you can play it. For 20 years I've been saying if you're on a sports team and you get invited to the White House, I think you should go. I don't see it as an endorsement of the President. I see it as a celebration of you and your teammates accomplishments. Everybody in America basically had that opinion. Democrats, Republicans, independents until a few short years ago. And this is why this is important. The US men haven't said a single thing about politics. They haven't told us what they think about any issue under the political sun. And during this entire attack that has been going on on them, it's entirely based on the fact that they are patriotic, that they respect the office of the presidency and that they are willing to celebrate the accomplishments of the country which they think is the best in the history of the world. Isn't this kind of. It's important to understand that their very patriotism is being used against them by the left because the left, I really do believe this is important to Slam home hates the country and the country's history and they are using these US men who are super popular as a Way to attack all of this. And I think it's important to put it into context just how illegitimate and unfair all of this has been.
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Buck Sexton
I also think that it highlights Clay when you have Spam. Spam Burger. I know it's Spam Burger, but I think Spam Burger is more, more apropos when you have her, isn't it interesting? Also you have Slotkin and Spangler Spammer, both former government analysts like yours truly. So what I tell you guys, there are a lot of commies in the government, that's for sure. You know, doing the civil servant thing. But when she's the one giving the response, which I watched some of it, I honestly at some point turned it off. But when you're watching this thing, Democrats to attain power have to pretend that the soul and the plan of their party is something other than that, which it is. The problem Republicans run into is when they're in power, they can't get everything done that they want to get done. And sometimes that's because of some Republicans standing in the way. But it's not, oh, we're doing something totally different than what we sold you on. Joe Biden ran as a calm unifier and then said, get the shot with your vaccine passport or you can't go to work and you can't go to school and you can't do anything. Ok? These people run on a mountain of lies to get power and then they just ram through as much crazy left wing nonsense as they can as fast as they can and hope that through propaganda and through manufactured delusions they might be able to fool people, or rather, well, fool people, but also make people forget what they've done in the past. The Democrats last night, Rashida Tlaib had a, you know, a profanity, you know, like sounds a bit like my name. And then ice on her button and you're like, what, you're a member of Congress at a State of the Union address. You're not part of the Marxist Student alliance at CUNY at City University of New York or something like, what are you doing? But this is who they are. They're malcontents. And the ones at the top, the ones that are like the more sort of elevated than the street communist types like Nancy Pelosi. They're so corrupt and so venal and so self dealing and just soulless. This is who they are.
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Clay Travis
Amen. And I do think that for people who watched last night with persuadable minds, and I understand a lot of people, it doesn't matter what happens. I said Trump could have come out and said he's cured cancer and brought everybody's grandma and grandpa back to life and there'd be people who are angry at him. But for the people who are persuadable, the data reflects that there is still a substantial majority of Americans that believes in the country's history and greatness and that this is the best country in the history of the world. And that is the reality under which the Democrats are opposed. And I think that's significant. And by the way, 800-282-2882, we'll take your calls, get your talk backs. We only have one guest today. Marsha Blackburn, senator from Tennessee, is on next hour, but that is the only guest. So you guys can weigh in and tell us what you thought in addition to everything that we have already broken down based on last night's State of the Union.
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Buck Sexton
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Clay Travis
But you could on the Sunday Hang with Clay and Buck podcast.
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Buck Sexton
welcome back in here to play and buck and we get you some calls and some emails and some good stuff like that here we have VIP email from Kim Gen X Cat lady here. I thought the President's joke was funny. People need to lighten up and not get their panties in a bunch. I would agree with that. I think that is, I think that is astute analysis about twisted lingerie for people that need to just relax, breathe a little bit more.
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Clay Travis
I agree with all of that. I don't think I've ever been offended by a joke in my life and I don't think it's a badge of honor to be offended by a joke. Certainly I've never apologized for laughing at a joke, which is what people on the left are demanding, by the way.
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Buck Sexton
That joke would have been the most
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Clay Travis
George W. Bush could have made that joke.
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Buck Sexton
I mean, like this is. But it is not even a real joke joke. Like it's not even a Trump joke. That was a, that was a 2 out of 10 on the trumpometer.
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Clay Travis
But the intent with the Trump comment is to mock his critics. They're.
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Buck Sexton
Yeah, but they don't care. Irony. They don't, they don't get irony. They don't care. It doesn't matter. They have no self awareness.
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Clay Travis
Just even, even if you're going to claim to be offended by the joke, if you are a nerd and you go into what's the etymology of the joke, what is hit, where did it come from? It's mocking the fact that Trump gets impeached for everything. And so even for relatively minor things, he has to make this choice.
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Buck Sexton
Bill in Daytona Beach, Florida, up north of me. What's going on? Bill?
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Caller
I wanted to start with my Adventure to get Bucks book. I, I'm in Daytona beach and I went into books a million and as I parked my car, there was a giant sign on the window for Meacham's book. I walk in and I have to walk around a pyramid of Meacham Books. And I mean, it looks like nobody's taken any. That's good news. But that there's a pyramid there. And I go up to the counter and ask for bucks book. And they go, oh, we only ordered two and they're sold out.
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Buck Sexton
And I go, they ordered two.
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Caller
What do you mean?
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Clay Travis
Oh, yeah, this is common. Two.
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Buck Sexton
And.
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Caller
And so I go, what? Well, there'll be another order soon that she couldn't tell me when. So I said, okay, I'm out of here. And oh, by the way, you only ordered two of Buck's books and you have that pile of crap there. What's the matter with you? And the guy looked at me and he started laughing and. And so I left and I went to Barnes and Noble. I walk in there and I asked for the book. And they said, oh, we're all sold out. I said, well, how many did you order? And they said, we ordered three.
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Buck Sexton
It's true. Well, this is.
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Clay Travis
We should dive in waiting for their next order. Thank you.
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Buck Sexton
Please go on Amazon or go. Go get the book. Don't let this deter you. And we're also going to do a Crockett sale of these books coming up to a Crockett coffee because we're going to get a whole bunch that we keep for, you know, sending out to people. But yeah, Clay, it's a scam, man. We. But thanks, guys, keep buying the book because we've crushed the Meacham book. All right. You saw reports of how many homes are without power earlier this week for massive storms in the Northeast. More than a hundred thousand. In a moment's notice, you're suddenly cut off unless you have a set of rapid radios. These are rugged long range emergency radios built for blackouts and natural disasters that we've been talking about for more than a year now. Rapid radios provide clear communication, long battery life and durability that stands up to real world emergencies. Staying connected shouldn't depend on luck. It should depend on the tools you trust. Go to rapidradios.com right now. Check out the new Rad1, see the full emergency features and grab the launch offer while it's still live. When the world goes quiet, make sure you don't communication redefined. Rapid Radios.com Go check out the new rad one@rapidradios.com the right place. Welcome back into Play and Box. And we got a bunch of calls, a bunch of things to get to and discuss, talk about. If you want to talk for a second to Clay about the book situation here.
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Clay Travis
Oh, yeah, I tease that I think this is important. I appreciate him calling. You might think, oh, what is the impact of distribution in bookstores?
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Buck Sexton
It's huge.
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Clay Travis
They don't put by and large conservative books in the front of bookstores. They intentionally under buy them. So I mean, what do they guys say? There were two copies of your book and there were three copies of your book in huge bookstores with a brand new release. That's been the case with every one of my books too. They, which is why Amazon is actually where most of them get sold. They said that 90% of conservative books are sold is the number that I've heard on Amazon because you can go right to it. It gets shipped to your home and that's great, but it means that only people who know you exist get exposed to your ideas. Right? They don't John Meacham in the front and you walk in and you're just shopping and you think to yourself, oh, who is this guy? What's the arguments that he or she is making? We don't get any of those opportunities in the cultural landscape. They bury the book in new releases. They've got two copies or three copies, they sell them out immediately. And then this guy's going in because he's a, you know, a book buyer and he expects for the book to be widely distributed and it's just not, it's not an even playing field in that respect.
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Buck Sexton
If any of you see a copy of Manufacturing Delusion, if you're happen to be going through an airport this week and you see it on display, please take a photo and tag me and let me know in any of those. Because that's another big thing is is the airport book by situation. But I'm wondering if any of those stores that carry those books, whatever they're called, the stores, if they have Manufacturing Delusion, if they're trying to sell it, because yeah, to your point, Clay, you don't get the benefit of. I mean, can you imagine if I walked into a Barnes and Noble and there was a big display of my book, maybe a dashing photo of me with windswept hair and Manufacturing Delusion in both hands, you know, just like letting it go. No, that's not what happens. They, they and to be clear, it's not about money. They'd be making more money. They don't want to make more money. They don't like us. That's what it comes down to. Don't like us, don't want to help. And unfortunately there are some of these industries still where the grip the political Grip on the throat of the business is very strong advertising still overall on ad buyers, libs lib dominated. Totally lib dominated. And publishing. Now there are conservative imprints at big publishing houses. Obviously one of them printed me. I'm not saying that it's entirely. But in terms of the distribution side of it, like who's buying the books for the stores to put out, Totally lib dominated. And it's just, you know, I just wish we could do something about this. And I can't say have Elon by Barnes and Noble, but maybe he could probably get us. He could probably get it for a song.
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Clay Travis
It just matters a tremendous amount in the marketplace of ideas. You can mention bookstores, and that's the perfect example, because people theoretically going into bookstores are going there to buy books. And one of the fun things about going to a bookstore is the serendipity of finding a book that you did not anticipate or know existed. And you think, oh, this would be a great read. Book browsing is still a big deal. Here's the other one that I think is even more significant. Buck. Airports.
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Buck Sexton
Well, that's what I was just saying. I want to see books in the airports. This is.
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Clay Travis
What's the last time you saw a conservative book walking through the terminals at a display where you would see it when you're in an airport. How many people buy books in airports? Huge percentages. They don't exist. They do not exist in that way. So the caller's right. I mean, this is a, this is a significant issue. And we've got a bunch of callers, by the way.
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Buck Sexton
Yes, we have a bunch of callers, which we will get to know. Andrew in Kentucky, you're up. What's going on?
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Caller
Love your show. Just wanted to call and mention my favorite moment from the State of the Union last night. It was when Trump was talking about the SAVE act and he was talking about the hypocrisy of the left and mentioning the communist mayor of New York, Mondami, and talking about how he was asking for snow shovelers, but those snow shovelers needed to bring in two forms of ID and a Social Security card.
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Clay Travis
Yeah, it's. I mean, look, we hope everybody in War Land is doing well out there and certainly on Long island where they got over two feet of snow. And if you're listening to us in Rhode Island, I think they got three feet of snow. And by the way, mentioning Mom, Donnie, did you see the videos that have gone viral of all of the cops
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Buck Sexton
or the snow getting. I, I Think it is absolutely despicable. I don't think it's funny. I wish that those cops could have caught a few of those guys with a nice truncheon to, you know, the side of the knee. I think it's, it's horrible because I know people look, oh, it's a snowball fight, actually. First of all, if you don't want to be in a snowball fight and you're getting hit from multiple side, it's just assault. It's actually assault and battery. And you know, some of these guys are throwing things that are basically ice. So you're throwing like a handful of ice at a cop from close range and there's so many people that they can't do it. You know, they're not able to do anything about it. I thought it was grotesquely disrespectful. I hope people get arrested for it. They won't get prosecuted in any meaningful way because it's brag. But it just goes to show you how disrespectful the. Some of the, unfortunately some of the residents of New York City and just, you know, these are all leftists. The people that are saying it's not a big deal. They're all leftists. They hate cops because cops force the reality of accountability on people. And the whole game of the left is no one's ever accountable. It's always, you're always a victim, it's always someone else's fault.
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Clay Travis
Also, I just can't even imagine if you are the kind of person who's going to run up and some of these were, they've got some photos out of people they're trying to arrest. Some people were running up with basically boulders of ice to throw at cops.
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Buck Sexton
Smacking on the cops. Yeah, it was really, really nasty. I mean, they clearly were taking advantage of the situation. And look, these people deserve a good swift punch in the face. You know, I don't know what else to say. I mean, they, they deserve to get an ass kicking.
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Clay Travis
And also to your point, what do you think the odds are that people who have been completely law abiding their entire life decide to attack police officers with snowballs? I would bet those people have records that are a mile long. Likely because it's such a moronic thing to even think to do for most people.
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Buck Sexton
Look, and the cops have a tough job day in and day out. They do all over the country. And you know, it's often a thankless job. Not always. You know, they do sometimes perform the Heimlich on a Baby and save a life. I mean, you know, there's, there's obviously thanks with it too. And you know, I think a lot of communities, I said here in Miami beach, we're very supportive of our cops. And you know, there's, it's a very safe community. Cops are very well respected here, which I really like that. And you know, the NYPD went through a post 911 period where new Yorkers, I think were particularly prone to show gratitude toward the nypd. That's of course faded though. And when you see this kind of disorder where you have these people doing this to police officers, like, what is the mindset of somebody who thinks that this is funny? Like that's someone's husband out there probably, you know, those cops probably married, probably have some kids and you're all smacking them with ice in the face because they wear a uniform and they're trying to keep the streets safe and trying to keep bad things from happening to people. What part of that is funny? What part of that is amusing? So you know this, but this is. Alvin Bragg is a scumbag. He's a bad person, he's immoral, he's a race hustler. He clearly has a tremendous amount of animosity for certain people of certain backgrounds. And he won't do anything about this. Guarantee you, even if they're arrested, he'll do the bare minimum. And I think what you're going to see is Jessica Tisch. And you know, I grew up knowing the Tisch family a little bit in New York. And they're, they're good people and they love the city. I think you're going to see Jesse Tisch say, I'm out because there's not the back. If you don't have the, if you don't have the district attorney and the mayor catching your back as the police commissioner and doing the right thing for law and order, your hands are tied. Doesn't matter.
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Clay Travis
This is one thing that Eric Adams got right. The safety in New York City got far better during his tenure than it was before. And I think the fact that he is a former cop, it's not coincidental that that was the, that was the outcome. He got it. I'm not saying he was perfect. Clearly he wasn't an ideal leader. But you see the story.
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Buck Sexton
Serious. Yeah, he, Eric Adams, Clay had serious managerial limitations. Like he just doesn't. He's not a guy you want running a hundred billion dollar city budget operation and all the different. He's just not up. He wasn't up for that task. He doesn't have the ability to experience, you know, he. But he was in over his head. But he doesn't hate cops and he doesn't actually think that, like, criminals are good people. And that was an improvement over de Blasio, to be fair. Into what you're saying. That was an improvement over de Blasio. You know, Mamdani is much more of the de Blasio mold. And we're going to see, I think, more and more of this. And just wait until you have your first major incident with a cop in New York. It will happen. It's inevitable at some point and see which side of the equation Mamdani falls on. But, you know, the statement. Guys pull the statement that Mamdani made about it, it was very. Oh, it's.
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Clay Travis
Well, here it is.
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Buck Sexton
We have it. OK, play cut 37. Here's Mamdani speaking about these cops who were. They were being assaulted. I know people. Oh, it's just snowballs. Ok. You can watch the video yourself and tell me if you think that the cops were enjoying this. Play it. I've said that what I saw was a snowball fight.
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Clay Travis
It should be treated accordingly. It was one that got out of
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Buck Sexton
hand, but that's what it was.
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Clay Travis
I'm not going to be banning snowball fights or organized snowball fights. I've shared my thoughts with New Yorkers.
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Buck Sexton
I mean, what if people just walk by cops and just smacked eggs in their faces? Is that funny? Is that a joke? It's against the law. Mamdani is also, unfortunately. And by the way, Trump is too nice about him. He was too. And I know this is. Sometimes Trump is. He's funny because they all say, Clay, that Trump is. Trump's actually very nice as long as you don't try to, you know, go toe to toe with him. He's very charming. Mandani's a bad guy. He's a bad guy. He's actually not a nice guy. He's a bad guy. He just smiles a lot and is, you know, smooth with people.
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Clay Travis
The. Yes, I agree with all of that. And he's falling rapidly on his face with a lot of the different decisions that he's made. And one of them you were talking about, Jessica Tisch, is that New York City is basically deciding, due to a budget crisis, to not fund 5,000 police officers that they had previously anticipated and expected to fund. That's going to eventually blow up on them. There's no other way this is going to go. And believing that you can Be kind to criminals is a luxury of a low crime environment and inevitably it leads to more violence. And I would just come back. I mean, I guarantee you if they arrest the people who were throwing cops, throwing snowballs at cops aggressively, they will discover that those guys have been arrested multiple times before. Because I just don't buy we're not talking about like a fun. If the cops are actually engaged in the snowball fight too, that's a snowball fight. Running up to somebody and pelting them constantly with snowballs because they're wearing uniforms is not a snowball fight. To your point, if it were eggs, it would be an assault. These guys should be charged. And I think when they're charged, you will find out that they've been charged with multiple offenses before.
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Buck Sexton
Right? I mean, I could walk up to someone and say, I'm patting them on the back and whack them as hard as I can and do real damage and be like, I was just patting you on the back. I mean, right? We all know these games. We all know that. And this is of course a classic leftist thing. But what Mamdani said there is disgusting. What I saw was a snowball fight, you sniveling little coward. Someone I don't want. I don't want to go. He's just the worst, man. He's just the worst. And it's a disgrace, a disgrace that New York has this guy calling the shots.
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Clay Travis
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Buck Sexton
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Clay Travis
Travis Buck Sexton show let's run through some of these calls. A lot of people reacting to the State of the Union. We'll dive back into our takes on the State of the Union which occurred last night at the top of the third hour of the program. But I'm gonna go basically just in order that I see the calls off the top here. Barry in Huntington, West Virginia. What you got for us? Barry?
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Caller
Yes, thanks for taking my call. Really appreciate it. I thought the president did an amazing job last night. He touched on so many topics. He recognized people that should be recognized. He's a true American hero. For me personally, it's so disappointing to watch the other side. They have no solutions. They appear to be full of hate. And what would I tell my granddaughter or grandson that you have a congressperson with a badge that says, you all know what it said?
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Clay Travis
Yeah.
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Caller
I just don't understand how come they just seem to be full of hate and offer no solutions and all Trump wants to do is make America great. It's really a simple message and I I'm not saying he's a perfect person by any Stretch. But I'm saying he's a perfect president. He's doing a lot of things that make life better. And I'll add one other thing because they all want to talk about affordability. Trump getting ready to come into office. My wife and I buy these eggs at Walmart. They're around $29 for five dozen. I bought the same case last week. $9 and some change. He is taking appropriate actions. That's all I can say.
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Clay Travis
Thank you for the call. Remember, Buck, when Trump first came into office, egg prices became a big story. And everybody was talking about how much
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Buck Sexton
he and President Clay for like three days. And you're like, oh, look at the egg prices, Trump. You've been 72 hours president.
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Clay Travis
And now egg prices are back to normal, much cheaper. And it's not a story at all. That's a good thing.
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Buck Sexton
Do we need better enemies? Are we going to get lazy? Like they got lazy because they had so much control and they had seized so their perfidious ways.
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Clay Travis
What a great word that is. My concern is they're going to take back the House, if you asked me to predict right now. And so.
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Buck Sexton
No, I know.
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Clay Travis
And so they're going to seize back a lot of power. We'll get to some of your calls and we come back here in a sec. But first, Carly in Colorado, Elon Omar, not exactly doing herself any favors really fast.
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Caller
I saw her screeching last night. So I called Comer's office this morning and said, what's going on with the investigation? I was told that the Ethics Committee is handling the investigation. I called them twice and was told there is no information since 2022. Please contact him, have him speak to this.
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Clay Travis
Thank you for the call. Elon Omar and Rashida Talib Buck, I think, look worse than any other Democrats, which is saying a lot during the course of of the State of the Union last night. We'll talk about that. We'll talk about the Ilhan Omar investigation.
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Buck Sexton
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Clay Travis
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Clay Travis
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Buck Sexton
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Buck Sexton
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