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Weekly Review With Clay and Buck H1 – Free Speech Police
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These styles won't last. Shop now@nflshop.com and gear up like a champion. Welcome everybody. Monday edition of Clay and Buck kicks off right now. Hope you all had a fantastic weekend and and as seems to be the case every day we come to you. With so many things happening, so many news stories to tackle and some very good news of course continue to come in from The Trump administration, in this case, pertaining to the continued moves at the border that have changed the whole paradigm. We are in a new era of border security, thanks to the Trump administration. We shall discuss that Trump was at the Daytona 500. We've got some sound bites from him there. He was talking about. Well, he was talking about a lot of things, but we'll give you some of that. We have more from Doge, Elon Musk and his team diving in, finding things. I, I think that Elon is, for the most part, going to be accurate on the first, on the first go round, meaning when he says something, I think the chances are probably 90% plus, meaning they found something that looks bad in the government, in the budgeting, the spending. I think the chances are 9 out of 10 that it's going to be accurate. And it's a problem. Some of the stuff that they're finding is just wild. I mean, paying, paying Social Security benefits to millions of people that shouldn't be getting them, including people who are dead. So they definitely should not be getting Social Security benefits. I'm pretty sure of that. We will break down that for you. Also, some, some indications of where things are going on. Russia and Ukraine, for the Ukraine wars. You know, Trump wants to bring that to a close. But this was what was really tearing it up over the weekend. You know, Clay, I had a mellow weekend here. I was, I was in charge of Ginger. Kerry was with her family. So as long as everything was fine with the dog, that was my only responsibility. So I had a little time and I was able to watch the Munich security conference speech that J.D. vance gave. It's about 20, 20 plus minutes.
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Clay Travis
I'm just saying that entire sentence is one of the nerdiest, one of the nerdiest intros of all times. I was super excited to watch the Munich security speech, but this was really good. It is really good.
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Buck Sexton
It was phenomenal. You should, honestly, if you have the time, you don't need to really watch it. You can listen. It's 20 minutes long. It comes up. If you just, you know, were to do a simple, simple Internet search on it. It's one of the best speeches I've heard a US Senior official give on foreign policy in many years, many years. It is an absolute home run of a speech, but it goes to the issue of free speech and free speech as the basis for a free society. Can you have a free society without free speech? I would say the answer is no. And Europe is very decidedly against free speech. We'll dive into that here momentarily. But before we start making fun of the Germans for not liking free speech very much, which is certainly the case on our own CBS News, not ours, but it's American, so it's kind of. It's kind of our fault. You know, CBS News, Margaret Brennan, who is now. She's. Clay, she's been giving us more than the view lately in terms of sound bites that we have fun with on this show. She is not doing herself and her brand and her network any favors. I want you to listen to her with Secretary of State Rubio, who he just had on telling. She's telling Secretary of State Rubio in the context of the J.D. vance speech about free speech in Europe. She's saying, but free speech led to the Holocaust.
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Clay Travis
Play.
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Buck Sexton
Play three. Well, he was standing in a country.
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Clay Travis
Where free speech was weaponized to conduct genocide, and he met with the head of a political party that has far.
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Buck Sexton
Right views and some historic ties to extreme groups. The context of that was changing the tone of it.
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Clay Travis
And you know that.
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Buck Sexton
That the censorship.
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Clay Travis
I have to disagree with you specifically about the right. No, I have to disagree with you. Free speech was not used to conduct a genocide. The genocide was conducted by an authoritarian Nazi regime that happened to also be genocidal because they hated Jews and they hated minorities, and they hated that they had a list of people they hated, but primarily the Jews. There was no free speech in Nazi Germany. There was none. There was also no opposition in Nazi Germany. They were a sole and only party that governed that country. So that's not an accurate reflection of history.
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Buck Sexton
Clay, this is a big deal, but what was your reaction to it? First.
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Clay Travis
First. Well, let me start on the positive. It's such a moronic thing to say that I think it would have been easy to not respond like Rubio did and just annihilate the premise of the question. Everyone out there knows this experience where someone says something so crazy that you don't know exactly how to respond immediately.
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Buck Sexton
It's. It's not even wrong. You know, you're like, that's not even wrong. I don't know what that is. Yeah.
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Clay Travis
And so the fact that he not only responded, but hammered it out of the park is a credit to Marco Rubio. And let me just say this because we're going to talk about it more. J.D. vance and Marco Rubio are elite intellects representing the Trump administration on an international stage right now. And I think it's been a long time since we have had truly elite intellects. And I. Your point on the J.D. vance speech. Marco Rubio. We've had on this program a lot. These guys are not only smart, they're functionally smart. They're able to explain why things matter. And sometimes smart people don't do that well. Okay, so that's point one. Let's give credit to Marco Rubio. Point two, Margaret Brennan is. And we're going to play some 60 Minutes clips in a little while. CBS News has lit itself on fire, and Margaret Brennan is supposed to be the supreme intellect of the CBS News organization. That's why they give her this show to host. That's why they allow her to talk to all these newsmakers. She's a moron. And I think this is important. You know this well, Buck, but we got to hammer it.
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Buck Sexton
Do you think she. Do you think she's a moron, or do you think that she's just so indoctrinated that she's incapable of accessing whatever cognition? I mean, you know, she's.
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Clay Travis
She's.
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Buck Sexton
I don't think she's dumb. I just think that she's completely brainwashed.
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Clay Travis
Well, well, that's interesting. I mean, dumb or brainwashed? Here's why I think dumb.
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Buck Sexton
I mean, she speaks fluent Arabic like she actually is. She's got some. She's got some skill set, but she has no judgment whatsoever.
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Clay Travis
Okay, that's a good point. It reminds me. So I'm going to go on dumb, you're going to go on brainwashed here.
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Buck Sexton
She's an ideal, you know, she's an ideologue. She's like a cult member of the left. That's what I see. And that.
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Clay Travis
And.
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Buck Sexton
But what she's addressing there, Clay, when she says free speech leads to genocide, journalists believe this. Now, this is a widespread thing, that she's not the only one. This is why it's so important and so powerful. It's not just like, oh, Margaret Brennan is out to lunch on this stuff. The belief is, if you can say that we don't want illegal aliens in this country, it's going to lead to genocide. If you can say trans people don't exist, it's going to lead to genocide. That is a mandatory left wing belief now.
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Clay Travis
Yes. And so what I think is important. This is why studying history matters, and this is why studying history with an open mind matters. Long before you should have a developed political philosophy, we should be teaching kids what history is. And I know that a lot of times I'm a history major, we talk about the fact that both you and I are history nerds. We have a profoundly historically illiterate country. And Buck, I think that is in many ways intentional, because if you don't understand the history of this country and the history of the world at large, you have the memory of a goldfish, and you can be convinced of almost anything. The reason why I say Margaret Brennan is a moron here is an intelligent person would not make the argument that Nazi Germany was able to take the steps that it did during World War II, including the Holocaust. Remember, I spent my time at the World War II Museum just recently when I was down in New Orleans for the Super Bowl. And credit to everybody who was Eagles and Chiefs fans and had their kids with them, I saw a lot of people taking their kids to the World War II Museum trying to educate them about what happened in World War II. What you're saying is very important that the left now is arguing that free speech leads to authoritarianism. The problem with that argument is it's 100% wrong. And you have to be historically illiterate to make that argument. The first thing that authoritarians do is burn books, is put people who are dissenters in prison. This is all of history, if you study it at all. So this is where I say Margaret Brennan is a moron because she has to be historically illiterate to not be aware of what the lessons of history actually are.
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Buck Sexton
Well, see, but this is where the indoctrination component. I mean, the same way that. How can any person with an IQ like over 50 think that a man can become a woman based on just reality and the science, but yet the entire Democrat party says it. Why? How do we get to this mass delusion? Well, yes, and. And the mass delusion in this context. And this is why it's so important. It's not that Margaret Brennan said a dumb thing, although that's true. The bigger issue is she said the dumb thing, because that is what now Democrats in good standing with the party are forced to believe. It is like a. It is like a. An article of faith on the left now. Right. So, Clay, this is why we can't have free speech about vaccines, because it will lead to mass death. We can't have free speech about the trans community. And you know what's going on there. And is it mental illness or whatever? Because it will lead to mass suicide. We can essentially. Freedom. This is one of the oldest arguments in existence. And the left has gone completely. And when I say the left, the Democrats, the same thing. The Democrats have gone completely insane with this in recent years, which is freedom of thought. Freedom of speech leads to the worst things in society. And to your point, they have it exactly backwards. And this is why they're wrong on so many things in such big ways. This is not a small issue. This is a huge issue there and they're dealing with right now.
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Clay Travis
And also this is indicative of the culture of rot at CBS News. And this, to me is important to point out. Margaret Brennan doesn't stand on an island by herself. If you or I, most of the time, Buck, get something wrong, it's mostly our faults, by which I mean, you know, we blew it. We didn't. We don't have a huge staff of people feeding us information all day long saying, hey, this is what you need to get out there. The way this show happens, we have a great staff around us. But it's not like they do television where you have tons of production assistance, where they would sit down for a long time preparing for this interview. And the culture of CBS News is so broken, Buck, that a question like that could be prepared and no one in that room would raise their hand and say, wait a minute, guys, are we really going to argue with the Secretary of State that the reason why the Holocaust happened is because Germany had too much free speech during Hitler era?
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Buck Sexton
And the reason this is so important. This, this all ties in. It's like, why are we talking about CBS? Margaret Brennan, Rubio, J.D. vance. J.D. vance gave an incredible speech. We're going to play some clips for you here in a minute so you can hear, you know, if you wanted to skip. We'll give you the highlights. That'll give you the essence of it. Europe has abandoned freedom of speech entirely. Entirely. There is no freedom of speech in Europe now. Now they'll say, yes, there is, except in. And they'll list all these categories and you'll say, those are not. This isn't, you know, calling for someone. You know, this isn't yelling at an attack dog to go bite someone. This isn't inciting violence. This is about things like immigration. This is about policy matters. Europe, the EU overall, has abandoned free speech. And the democrat journalists in this country want that here.
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Clay Travis
Yes.
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Buck Sexton
That's why that's such a huge. They want what Germany has, which is. Excuse me, did you put a mean meme online? We're going to arrest you now. They actually do that. And I think this is. And they don't see that as the reincarnation of a, of a, A kind of benevolent fascism or something. I mean, that's what's going on right now in Europe. And CBS News, the Democrat party are on board with it. They want it here for us too.
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Clay Travis
60 Minutes covered a raid on a man's house for a meme.
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Buck Sexton
We're going to get. We're going to play this for you.
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Clay Travis
I mean, I couldn't believe the entire CBS News department needs to be absolutely wiped clean. Like this is a job that I would actually like to have is go in clean house At CBS News. The resources that they have. Buck, we'll talk about this too. Are remarkable. And yet they now have found themselves arguing in favor of the government arresting people for saying things mean online. That's where CBS News has descended to look. You know, we had over the weekend amazing stakes inside of the Travis house. We got. I told you we're gonna sit back, watch Cobra Kai. We did that on Thursday. Over the weekend, fabulous time hanging out and having some amazing steaks from my friends at Good Ranchers. You don't have to go out to the supermarket. This comes straight to your home when you order your meat, your chicken, also your salmon. All of this is fabulous. Look, it is incredible. Coming right to the house. And this is coming right from farmers and ranchers in the good old usa. This is important. No antibiotics in the meats, no added hormones, no seed oils. Just great tasting beef, chicken, fish, all raised by ranchers in the good old usa. You are getting hooked up with an amazing offer. Do what I did. Do what Buck has done. I'm telling you, these meats, they are incredible. Go to good ranchers.com Buck likes to eat the chicken nuggets. My kids like the chicken nuggets. So they got for things for people of all ages.
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Buck Sexton
You I'm going to be the communist translator here for a second. The left believes that if Germany had had a more active, progressive government, it could have shut down the mean things the Nazis were saying. To your point, yes, historically ignorant and crazy, but that's. This is. They think that when people can say the mean things, that's without the government stepping in. That's the problem. You and I sit here and say, no, the problem is the government stepping in and saying because the Nazi. Yeah. You couldn't just walk around the billboard being like, you know, Hitler is a bleeping bleep or something. You're going to get killed. Actually get killed either way. But they missed that part.
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Clay Travis
They missed the entire lesson of history, which is kind of significant. And. But we are right now the United States, the strongest bastion for free speech in Western civilization in the world.
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Buck Sexton
But this is the point. We're the only one, actually.
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Clay Travis
Yeah.
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Buck Sexton
In Canada, you have to use preferred pronouns. Remember that was how Jordan Peterson, I interviewed him. No one had ever heard of this guy. He's like, oh, I'm going to come on your radio show, you know, And I was like, come on my radio show, Mr. Professor Peterson. This is like 2016. And, you know, that was because of the mandatory pronouns. We are the only truly free society when it comes to speech. And even we have our problems here. I'm aware of that. But we're the only one that even tries. All right, we'll talk about Germany here in a second. Hey, guys, you know what I've got right here? Actually, you can see I've got what I'm taking from chalk. Every day I'm on a regimen. And those of you who watch on the video will see I'm down 30 pounds. Now, there's a lot that goes into that. There's a lot that's going on. But some of it in my daily regimen is my chalk. I've got here my tongkat 100, which I take. I also am taking the chalk daily because proper supplementation, make sure your doctor checks you out for all the proper supplementation is super helpful, can boost energy levels and can even over time help boost testosterone for the guys. I'm now on the chalk train. I recommend you do it, too. It's been incredibly helpful for me as I've gotten back into shape and lost the dad bod before I've become a dad. Go to chalk choq.com that choq.com use my name Buck for a great discount on any subscription for life chalk choq.com promo code buck welcome back into Clay and Buck. So we were talking about what's going on in well, on CBS News, Margaret Brennan, who is providing us with great content to respond to on the show, which we appreciate. So thank you for that. And then we also have the J.D. vance speech over in Europe, which is worth watching or listening to in its entirety. But I will start with this. Here is a, I think a very good example of what we're talking about. This is cut for across Europe right now. You can be locked up. And we're not just talking about fines here. They will put you in prison for saying mean things in person. But Also online, this cut4play it.
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C
And unfortunately, when I look at Europe today, it's sometimes not so clear what happened to some of the Cold War's winners. I look to Brussels, where EU Commission commissars warn citizens that they intend to shut down social media during times of civil Unrest the moment they spot what they've judged to be, quote, hateful content. Or to this very country where police have carried out raids against citizens suspected of posting anti feminist comments online as part of, quote, combating misogyny on the Internet. A day of action. I look to Sweden where two weeks ago the government convicted a Christian activist for participating in Koran burnings that resulted in his friend's murder. The judge in his case chillingly noted Sweden's laws to supposedly protect free expression do not in fact grant, and I'm quoting, a free pass to do or say anything without risking offending the group that holds that belief.
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Buck Sexton
Clay, this is what you see in Europe a lot of the time. You know, these laws are enforced primarily in order to privilege those who are for open borders, to privilege those who are coming, refugees from the Muslim world who come, who've come to Europe in huge numbers in the last, you know, several decades. If it offends them, if they are offended by what you say, if you offend Islam, for example, in Europe, you can go to prison. You actually have to deal with this. And it's not just some of these countries like Germany and others, that maybe you think, well, we don't have that much in common with them. He specifically talks. You've got to hear this story. This is JD Vance in his speech talking about somebody who was arrested for silent prayer. Silent prayer in the vicinity of an abortion clinic. Play five.
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C
And perhaps most concerningly, I look to our very dear friends, the United Kingdom, where the backslide away from conscience rights has placed the basic liberties of religious Britons in particular in the crosshairs. A little over two years ago, the British government charged Adam Smith Connor, 51 year old physiotherapist and an army veteran, with the heinous crime of standing 50 meters from an abortion clinic and silently praying for three minutes. Not obstructing anyone, not interacting with anyone, just silently praying on his own. After British law enforcement spotted him and demanded to know what he was praying for, Adam replied simply, it was on behalf of the unborn son he and his former girlfriend had aborted years before. Now, the officers were not moved. Adam was found guilty of breaking the government's new buffer zones law which criminalizes silent prayer and other actions that could influence a person's decision within 200 meters of an abortion facility. He was sentenced to pay thousands of pounds in and legal costs to the prosecution. Now I wish I could say that this was a fluke, a one off crazy example of a badly written law being enacted against a single person. But no, this last October, just a few months ago, the Scottish government began distributing letters to citizens whose houses lay within so called safe access zones, warning them that even private prayer within their own homes may amount to breaking the law. Naturally, the government urged readers to report any fellow citizen suspected guilty of thought crime In Britain and across Europe. Free speech, I fear, is in retreat.
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Buck Sexton
Clay. This is thought crime they're enforcing. Truly, that's not an exaggeration at all. Silent prayer can silent prayer not. I mean, prayer would be bad enough to get in trouble for. Silent prayer can get you fined or locked up in the United Kingdom. Why? Because abortion is sacred to the left. Because abortion is the only religion that matters.
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Clay Travis
Let's also play this 60 minutes. Some of you might be out there saying, boy, that sounds like that. That sounds like an exaggeration. I think this is where the Margaret Brennan question of Marco Rubio comes in. Because remember, CBS News on Sunday started off with Margaret Brennan saying the Holocaust was caused by free speech. And it ended with the news department in Germany covering in a positive way the fact that insulting someone online can be a crime in Germany. Listen to this and tell me this is not chilling. This is 60 Minutes in Germany covering and discussing thought crimes and insults online and how they aren't protected speech. Listen, is it a crime to insult somebody in public? Yes. Yes, it is. And it's a crime to insult them online as well? Yes.
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Buck Sexton
The fine could be even higher if you insult someone in the Internet.
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Clay Travis
Why?
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Buck Sexton
Because in Internet, it stays there. If we are talking here face to face, you insult me, I insult you.
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Clay Travis
Okay, finish.
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Buck Sexton
But if you in the Internet, if I insult you or a politician that sticks around forever. Yeah.
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Clay Travis
The prosecutors explain German law also prohibits the spread of malicious gossip, violent threats and fake quotes. If somebody posts something that's not true and then somebody else reposts it or likes it, are they committing a crime?
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C
In the case of reposting, it is a crime as well because the reader can't distinguish whether you just invented this or just reposted it. That's the same for us.
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Clay Travis
The punishment for breaking hate speech laws can include jail time for repeat offenders.
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Buck Sexton
They all, I mean, imagine this, this is Germany now, ok? They actually do this to people. They'll send the cops to your house. Bang, bang, bang. Excuse me, have you been retweeting the memes? You're going to prison for the meme retweet. They actually do this. This is the law. These people are out of their minds.
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Clay Travis
And if you have A historical background. What is the analogy that is easy to draw here? To me, if you want to make an analogy to German history, it is the SS showing up at the door and banging on the door and dragging people out for doing things that the government disagrees with. What they are trying to argue at CBS News is this is a good thing. That segment that we just aired was CBS News shining a spotlight in a positive way. Sometimes 60 Minutes, they shine a negative spotlight on someone. Right. You guys have all seen those stories.
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Buck Sexton
Yeah.
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Clay Travis
They are choosing to make German thought policing appear to be something that should be a positive thing to Americans. And Buck, they talk about in that same. I couldn't believe that entire segment. They talk about the fact that they seize people's phones and don't allow them to have access to their phones. And they're kind of laughing about it because they share memes that the government decides they don't like. And this is what Biden tried to do with everything they were doing with Facebook. It's directly connected to what we just lived through during COVID Just forget about.
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Buck Sexton
Also for a second, like the history and the not. You know that. Yeah, there's a lot of historical ignoramuses running around. This is insane. How can the law determine today, just today, now, how can the law reasonably determine if something reaches the level of offense that you might have, you might be imprisoned for it? I mean, this is completely privileging. One set of or, you know, a certain set of beliefs, certain sets of people, individuals. It's. It's used to shut down people who are. We've already seen this. If you're critical of Islam, if you're critical of mass migration, if you're critical of transgenders, if you're critical of climate change, it's all left wing, globalist stuff. The same stuff that they are trying to do here to us. And I think that's a critical point. And we got a trial run during COVID of this. You and I did when I got, you know, my YouTube channel shut down, destroyed, banned. I was trying to get people the word out about how masks don't work and lockdowns are insane. Shut down. I had hit pieces. We would hit pieces too. Hit pieces wrote on me by fact checkers.
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Clay Travis
Yes.
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Buck Sexton
And the government was one step away from knock, knock, knock. Have you been sharing the climate change memes? This is what's going on in the Western world today.
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Clay Travis
It's also why traditional liberal and conservative descriptions often don't work in the modern era. Because. And this is Important historically, it is profoundly illiberal to not allow people to express their actual opinions. This is not some the entire basis. The reason why we have the First Amendment is because our founders, God bless them, were intelligent enough to understand that the most profound freedom we must have is freedom from the state regulating what the individual can say. And the whole idea of the First Amendment is the marketplace of ideas, which is to the extent that I have any overarching political belief that I will defend for the rest of my life, this is it. We get better results. When you and me and every one of you out there listening feels comfortably arguing in the public square for exactly what you think and that over time the best arguments will win. That is the entire basis of our foundational republican form of government. What is happening around the world in many places that theoretically embrace Western civilization is, and I'm holding it up for people right there to be able to see. We suddenly have phones in our pocket and we have the ability to disseminate information on a level that has never existed before. And we are grappling with how to handle that incredible power that all of us hold to speak out and be seen in a way that has never existed in the history of humanity. And what you are seeing is many people out there do not believe that we should all have the ability to share our opinions. And I give credit to JD Vance and to Marco Rubio for going to Europe and holding. All he did was hold up a mirror to reflect what they are doing. And it made them so profoundly uncomfortable that the reverberations of those speeches have now crossed back to the Atlantic, where across the Atlantic Ocean, where now the Margaret Brennan's of the world are outraged by what we had the audacity to say. Right, which is everybody should be able to argue to the fullest extent of their voice for whatever they believe in. That's the true principle of liberty itself. I can't believe that this has become political because it is a foundational principle of the American democratic republic. But this is where we are and this is the battle that we must win in order for, I believe, society to fully flourish and for freedom to ring around the world. Family reunions often have a highlight reel, memories that you preserved on old media somewhere in the house. Now's the time of year. We're through Christmas, we're through New Year's, we're through Thanksgiving, where everybody kind of gets a breath and you can go back and you can start looking at all those old memories. I know we're doing this in the Travis household right now because we're in the process of starting to pack up. We're moving into a new house. Now. I don't know when that new house is going to be finished, but we are going through a lot of our old family memories right now, starting to collate it so that it's prepared to move to a new house. How many of you out there have been doing that? How many of you have got maybe an elderly relative who's been storing all these old memories? And you're going through and you're thinking, boy, I'd really like to share this with the grandkids. I'd really like to preserve this for the next generation. Now is the time. You got a little bit of a breather before summer vacation season gets here. Kids are running around, they're back in school, but the holidays are over. How about preserving your family memories for as long as you can Right now at Legacy Box, I want you to go to legacybox.com clay right now. Check out what they do down in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Old VHS tapes, old pictures. They can make sure that they last forever. Digitally preserved. You know all those old photos can disintegrate. All those old VHS tapes weren't made to last forever. Now's the time to preserve your family's legacy, your family's memories@legacybox.com Clay you'll get the best possible deal right now. Legacybox.com Clay get hooked up today. Preserve your family memories on a digital level for decades, generations to come. Be the hero of your family's memories at legacybox.com/clay Clay Travis and Buck Sexton telling it like it is. Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcast. What does the future hold for business? Ask nine experts, you'll get 10 answers. A bull market, a bear market. Inflation's going up, coming down. Can someone please invent a crystal ball?
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Clay Travis
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Buck Sexton
Of all, I gotta play FIFA against your boys. And we'll see who the real video game champion is. Second of all, is it really a holiday today, Clay? I mean, you know what I'm saying? It's a holiday if you want a great deal on a waterbed or something, right? I mean, you got the President's Day sale, but, you know, or new lawnmower. But, like, doesn't everybody work on President's Day? Pretty much.
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Clay Travis
I have always worked on President's Day. I feel like if you're not working all the. That's.
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Buck Sexton
That's the test. I've never in my life been told, oh, it's President's Day. Don't show up to the office.
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Clay Travis
That's never happened, I think. I think. But bankers never work. You know, it's amazing that in this 247 day and age we have that bank hours are still what they are, right? Like, banks, like, hey, we're only open nine to five. It doesn't matter. I know they're closed today. I think the stock market is closed. But, yeah, in general, I feel like a lot of holidays are kind of shadow holidays, meaning that a lot of people don't necessarily celebrate this one. But we are here with all of you. I bet some people are listening who are driving around that also have kids or grandkids that they are watching today because they are out of school. And I spent the weekend working quite a bit, like I said, helping to pack up some of the stuff that we've got in the house. We're not moving for months. But in that process. And I was drinking my Crockett coffee. I am drinking it right now. At the end of this hour, I'm going to go downstairs, get a brand new cup of coffee. Crockett coffee.com code book. You'll get an autographed copy of my book. My. She's now my assistant. Initially, she started off taking care of the kids, but the kids have gotten old enough. My assistant Katie, who is amazing, is shipping all of these out and making sure that all of you who are signing up for Crockett Coffee are getting an autographed copy of the book. So if you go to crockettcoffee.com use code book. We got light roast, we've got dark roast, we've got medium roast, we've got organic roast, we got decaf. We also have a lot of great gear that is really fun. If you like American history as we do, I guarantee you that you're going to like crockett coffee.com we come back. I actually watched we got two things that I think were worth hitting on. One positive the border is basically shut down. Buck Tom Holman and Donald Trump and our friend Stephen Miller. They have effectively shut down the border. The whole story of the border being wide open is over. That is a positive. Also, they had the 50th anniversary of Saturday Night Live used to be funny, but they brought out Tom Hanks is supposed to be the most lovable American actor and they ridiculed Trump supporters and said all of us were racist. We're going to play that for you and point out that this is one reason that SNL has collapsed. All that still coming. We'll take some of Your calls to 800-282-2882. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us. President's Day Edition Clay and Buck Show Keep hanging with us. Famous Smoke's been offering the best selection of premium cigars at the best prices for 85 years and somehow they're still the best kept secret, family owned and stocked with millions of cigars, all delivered fast and fresh to your door. Go online to famoussmoke.com and use code CLAY for 20 bucks off your order of $99 or more. Get your favorite brands like Fuente, Romeo, Monte Cristo and Cohiba. Or try something new. Get the best cigars at better prices than your local shop. Famous smoke.com promo code Clay Grand Canyon University, a private Christian university in beautiful Phoenix, Arizona, believes we're endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. GCU believes in equal opportunity and the American dream starts with purpose. Whether your pursuit involves a bachelor's, master's, or doctoral degree, GCU provides a path to help you fulfill your dreams, offering over 340 academic programs as of September 2024. Find your purpose at Grand Canyon University. Private Christian affordable. Visit gcu.edu the Philadelphia Eagles are Super Bowl Champions. It's over. Fly, Eagles, fly.
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