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Buck Sexton
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Clay Travis
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Welcome in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show Appreciate all of you hanging out with us as we are rolling through Monday. Brand new week and I do think it's worth contemplating where we are. We mentioned June 27, the one year anniversary of the disastrous first Biden Trump debate that effectively ended Biden's political career. We had a lot of discussion about the one year anniversary of the near assassination in Butler, Pennsylvania. Today is the anniversary of when Buck island was officially returned to the sea. As this is almost to the minute as we're starting off the program, the one year anniversary of Joe Biden announcing that he would be withdrawing from the presidential race in 2024 and endorsing Kamala Harris and all of that. When you talk about June 27, July 13 and July 21, that three week period which was so chaotic for so many people out there, including all of you who hung out with us throughout that entire process. It's really already now in the history books. But I do believe that that three week period in almost the lives of anyone out there listening unless you were alive when and remember when maybe FDR died in office, I'm not sure we've ever seen anything like that. I know the JFK assassination and everything that unspooled there was incredibly traumatic. 1968, MLK, RFK and getting assassinated in the wake of JFK. All of that period. I think probably the historical analogy that is most prescient, most applicable would be 1963 to 1972 ish of what we have been through in the last decade or so. But I do think it is worth reflecting because I think in the minutes and the days and the passions of the moment, sometimes you can lose the forest for the trees. To think about where we were a year ago and where we are here is effectively the first six months of the Trump administration has now been put in place. Buck, I was looking at the 20 part promise, the basically the platform that Donald Trump put in place in 2024. I'm not sure we have ever seen a president do exactly what he told us he was going to do, more than Trump has. If you go back and look at the 20 part pledge that he made and we should link this and put it up@clayandbuck.com because I think sometimes people forget what exactly was said. And look, it's politics. So there's all sorts of promises made and all these different angles that are associated with it. But I truly do not believe we have ever seen a president deliver more of exactly what he said he would. And we have cut five, which is Joe Biden announcing that he is dropping out of the race. And here that is. Remember, he didn't actually publicly address it for several days. I mean he had put up the statement and then just basically went dark. And I will say the original sin book that everybody, I get it. Jake Tapper is a big liar and he pretended he didn't know. But from a historical record perspective, they actually do a good job of covering all of the pressure on Biden in the three weeks post debate that slowly was building, that really there wasn't a tenable option. Everybody effectively in the Senate and the House was demanding privately over and over again he has to go. But here he is giving his farewell address, I think again, thankfully, Biden is gone. I think it's the worst presidency that any of us have lived through. But it is kind of crazy to think about all the things that have happened since this moment. But listen to Biden saying goodbye.
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Joe Biden
You know, in recent weeks it's become clear to me I need to unite my party in this critical endeavor. I believe my record as president, my leadership in the world, my vision for America's future all merited a second term. But nothing, nothing can come in the way of saving our democracy. That includes personal ambition. So I've decided the best way forward is to pass the torch to a new generation. That's the best way to unite our nation. You know, there is a time and a place for long years of experience in public life. But there's also a time And a place for new voices. Fresh voices. Yes, Younger voices. And that time and place is now.
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Clay Travis
Now, the argument.
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Buck Sexton
It sounds like he's making.
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Clay Travis
He's.
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Buck Sexton
Yeah, he sounds like he's making a hostage video. There's no part of Joe Biden. Joe Biden exists so that he can run for office and that he can be, you know, finding some way to pillage the treasury on his own behalf. The whole thing is absurd. He didn't want to go. He got shoved out kicking and screaming. And the Democrats managed to put themselves in the worst possible situation, which was pushing Joe Biden out late in the game again. Yes, Buck island, sorry for those of you who signed your name on that dotted line. It got a little.
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Clay Travis
Still buying property. Still buying property and selling it. The market got tough, but people were still buying in June and they really got snowed under.
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Buck Sexton
I am telling you, Biden thought, and I think his immediate handlers thought that they'd be able to push through this because there was no mechanism, there was no mechanism to push him out. The only way to push him out was what we saw, which was essentially every important person in the Democrat Party and I know you said this was laid out in Fate Thapper's book, every person in the Democrat Party saying, you aren't just going to cost us the presidency, you're going to cost us a 60 Senate vote threshold and the biggest loss in the House we've ever seen, et cetera, et cetera. And that just says something, by the way, this whole thing about Kamala Harris, that up until Biden's dementia dropout, they recognized that he was actually better than Kamala Harris. And the fact that they ran Kamala Harris that so many Democrats voted for, it's really just a non Trump vote. This is what I've said all along is that there are Democrats, you get 48% of the American electorate votes for any Democrat. Doesn't matter who, truly doesn't matter who. But Kamala did about as poorly as I think anybody could have in the situation. I think she was honestly the worst candidate. She makes John Kerry look like a fabulous presidential candidate by comparison.
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Clay Travis
I. Let's play this too, by the way, not to gloat, but my stake was amazing. But this was the day when, and this is not even my call. This is producer Greg. If you want to take up arms against him, buck number one on the cut sheet with a highlight through it. September 29, 2022, when we officially made the stake bet on Biden running. Listen to cut one, Buck Sexton. We have a stake. Bet. We have many stake. I do not believe that Joe Biden is going to run for reelection in 2024 because I think even Democrats are going to have to acknowledge that his mental state is so deteriorated that he doesn't have the capacity to do it. In the wake of this viral incident yesterday, are you sticking to your guns that Biden is going to run?
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Buck Sexton
Oh, absolutely.
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Clay Travis
You're sticking to the guns?
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Buck Sexton
I'm sticking with it. I think that they, they almost take, I think there are a lot of Democrats who privately take some glee in. See, we can even make this guy president. Can I just say, he did run. So, so it's a little, it's a little, you know what I mean? It's a little, hey, he did run. He bailed. But he was the Democrat nominee until the very last second when he finally fell apart. They should have pulled him. Obviously that was 2022. Just by way of reference, two years before Biden's running. I'm like, he's going to do it. He's going to do it. That was two years of additional brain deterioration, Clay. And he did run until July of the election year, which is insane.
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Clay Travis
And again, what I will say about the book Original Sin, it, it really is analogous to when the king has lost his marbles historically because thankfully we don't have that many American president analogies where the president is unable to do the job. There's the Woodrow Wilson stroke story where Edith Wilson basically ran the presidency. Now that was in a different era. Certainly FDR had many different health related issues and should not have run for another term in 44. What I would put a star on for that one is we're in the middle of World War II and I don't think it would have been smart even if you knew FDR was potentially going to die. That's one where I would say, hey, you don't want to switch chief executives in the middle of a global world war and try to bring in somebody new, change office in January of 45. How might that have changed now?
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Buck Sexton
Yes, as you well know, we almost in a perhaps worse situation. It's tough, you know, World War II versus the Civil War. Which one was worse for America? But they wanted to, they came very close. Republicans came very close to pushing Lincoln out.
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Clay Travis
Yeah, McClellan almost beat him. I mean, it's one of the, I think, most compelling stories for those of you that are history nerds, the 1864 election, I think doesn't get enough attention because people have so lionized Lincoln. That the idea there would have been opposition to Lincoln or that he wasn't fervently ripped to shreds by the media when he was in office is completely forgotten. But Lincoln ran against the former head of the Union army who was running as the Democrat on the ticket of hey, let's just basically settle with the south. We'll let them go our way, we'll go our way, no more war. And it was very close until Sherman took Atlanta. It was very unclear what exactly was going to happen in that race. The taking of Atlanta was seen as a profoundly momentous moment in terms of the trajectory. Sherman doesn't take Atlanta, frankly, for those of you who are real Civil War history nerds like me, if Jefferson Davis doesn't put John Bell Hood in as the commanding officer in the Western, what's called the Western theater at the time, even though it was just Tennessee, Georgia, I don't know that Lincoln wins reelection because I think if he had left Joe Johnson in Johnson was the consummate just dig new earthworks Retreat, retreat. I'm not sure Atlanta gets taken before.
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Buck Sexton
The election to bring, to bring up to the more current election for a second. Just one thing, Clay. I believe the Democrats managed to we've said the biggest own goal in political history, which is one shorthand way of doing it but they, they were so sure and this is a little bit of their comeuppance for what they pulled off in the midterms when granted they, they were able to use abortion, fear mongering and defense of democracy through a very narrow slice of the electorate in very specific places to get the. Even though Florida had like a 20 point swing and there were some, there were. New York was much better than California was much better for Republicans Republicans than a lot of people thought it would be. I mean it was a pretty big win for the red in some blue states. In the key states they obviously pulled off a very disappointing for Republicans election in the midterms. But Clay, I think they convinced themselves that they had the plan. And the plan was force everybody to coalesce around Trump as the nominee in the primary and then we will destroy him. And what they really did was create, you know, it's like they, it's like they hit Trump with gamma rays. They created super Trump.
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Clay Travis
Yeah.
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Buck Sexton
And that actually goes to what you said too. I think they didn't realize when he was making these promises in the last election a year ago, not a long time ago, a year ago what he was promising to do. I think they thought it was all bluster and they are caught totally wrong footed and they are freaked out because he's actually doing it. He's actually trying to do these things.
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Clay Travis
I think one of the great historical, again, it's hard to predict history caveats in place, all those things. Democrats believed in the wake of Roe v. Wade being overturned, they could Effectively run the 2022 playbook again in 2024 and mobilize mass turnout. I think what you're seeing, and I don't know how many of you feel this abortion doesn't even really feel like a political issue to me very much anymore. By which I mean national political issue. If you desperately care, not many people do about what the abortion laws are in your state. It's a state issue. Go work hard. Elect legislatures, governors, people who want to can implement the policies you like. But the idea that, hey, the Supreme Court and who's going to be on the ticket and it's going to mobilize women, I think like the whole, hey, the world is going to end if Roe v. Wade is overturned. It didn't happen. And I think every time, kind of a panic, every time you talk about.
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Buck Sexton
Mobilizing women in the context of that election, I think about that, well, well, I'm a political analyst and the women of America, their voices are going to be heard.
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Clay Travis
And.
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Buck Sexton
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Clay Travis
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Buck Sexton
Welcome back into Clay and voq. Got a lot to discuss here with you today in the world of the news. Big things coming in from over the weekend for one thing. I love this headline. I mentioned it before, but Clay, you in the Wall Street Journal. I know some people are booing right now because it's the Wall. Well, people are a little annoyed, rightly so, at the Wall Street Journal right now. But they do do good reporting on the economy still. They know that. Not so good on the Epstein stuff, but they're good on the economy. The US Economy is regaining its swagger. Companies consumers starting to splurge again. We're rolling baby. It's going. The Trump economy is moving and all that fear over tariffs is dissipating. Just wait till we get some real rate cuts kicking in. I think things really good. Tulsi Gabbard, by the way, has demanded more action and investigation over over officials from the Obama administration who used the Russia collusion hoax that broke I think right after we were on the show Friday. Trump. This is right up Clay's alley. Trump calls for the Washington commanders to change their names back to the Redskins. He he posted this on Truth Social, which I think is particularly interesting. And also he said that Adam Schiff is a, quote, thief who should be prosecuted. A lot of that coming in. Oh, and the WNBA showed up to a game saying, pay us what you owe us, Clay. I thought they were getting paid more than they were owed based on economics. So which one of these is your favorite? We can go to any of these or wherever you want to go next.
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Clay Travis
We got a ton. And by the way, also Hunter Biden did an interview which is delusional and we're going to have some fun with that as well. But I do think the, the Redskins angle is super interesting to me as well. Trump over the weekend demanding that the Washington Redskins and the Cleveland Indians bring back their former names. And, and I think it's, it's, it's illustrative of effectively an erasure of much of the last seven or eight years. And it's important. It's a signifier. I understand some of you say, well, symbol, there are other things to focus on. I think erasing the excesses of the cultural far left move is actually profoundly significant and I don't think it's happened that often or that recently in the United States. We'll talk about that. But in the meantime, our sponsor, Pure Talk, great deal going this month. When you switch to Pure Talk, you get a free Samsung Galaxy A36 with a $35 a month qualifying plan. 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More people now watch video on YouTube than watch video on Netflix, than watch video on Disney, than watch video on television. So I mean basically YouTube has taken over video in America. And Buck has put out a challenge to you guys that if you can get us to 90,000 subscribers, he will do a video with Ginger, his lovely dog and their chubby baby. And if you like chubby babies, I mean their three month old Speed has unbelievable chubby baby pictures up right now. I think they were maybe up@clayandbuck.com but it is pretty outstanding. But we have added thousands of subscribers and I think this. I don't even know if Buck has seen these. I was playing around. I like to go just look at the data points. Publicly I knew that YouTube was exploding. I knew that we needed to be over 100,000 subscribers there at a minimum. And by the way, as I talk to you right now, 82 and a half thousand subscribers. So I want this over 100. But the impact here is already pretty, pretty stellar. And I don't even know if you saw this, Buck. Two of the videos that we put up on Friday as, as the YouTube audience grows. It's just a younger, more dynamic argument culturally that we can continue to have an impact a lot of different generations. Our discussion of Tulsi Gabbard about the declassification bombshell, 61,000 views on YouTube on Friday. I, uh, that is one of the biggest videos we've ever had on YouTube. Um, and then Colbert getting canceled, 30,000 views. Those just went up on Friday. Two of the biggest videos that we have had there. I want you guys to make this Show Pop on YouTube like it pops everywhere else. And by the way, you can stream it. I am told that I look ridiculous right now. Uh, I look like Kramer because for some reason my white Crockett coffee T shirt is showing up and I look like basically Kramer after he went to the tanning bed. I am told. So if you want to be entertained, they actually asked me, hey, can you go ch. Just during the commercial break, hey, can you go claim change shirts because you look too ridiculous in that white T shirt that you're in right now. I said no. This is an incentive for people to go subscribe at YouTube. You can see the video. I want us going over a hundred thousand. But thank you for people who are watching these videos and a big deal, big. Basically everybody has their own television network now on YouTube. We want this show to be big there soon. In the months ahead, we're going to be able to put all three full hours up and you'll be able to watch the whole show on video. We love the 555 stations out there, but it's important to follow the audience. People now this is kind of crazy. People now watch videos of podcast more than they listen to podcasts. This evolution, I know, I'll be frank. I never saw it coming. I didn't think people were going to be sitting around watching videos of people having conversations that are primarily designed for audio. But this is where they are. They are wildly popular. So if you would search out Clay Travis, if you would search out the Buck Sexton show, I want you to drive those numbers. Over 100,000 subscribers and we're going to be doing more and more cool content for you there. Okay? Speaking of crazy content, we have got our good buddy Hunter Biden, AKA the smartest man that Joe Biden has ever known. He has now decided that he needs to weigh in on a huge variety of different topics. Here is a profanity laced rant about who's going to clean your hotel room? Who's going to wash your dishes? This is Hunter Biden. We've had to bleep it out. Hopefully we got all the bleeps interview that has just gone viral. Cut 29.
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Hunter Biden
Listen, all these Democrats say you have to talk about and realize that people are really upset about illegal immigration. You how do you think your hotel room gets cleaned? How do you think you have food on your table? Who do you think washes your dishes? Who do you think does your garden? Who do you think is here by the sheer just grit and will that they figured out a way to get here because they thought that they could give themselves and their family a better chance. And he's somehow convinced all of us that these people are criminals.
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Clay Travis
Hunter Biden, I really, first of all, he's.
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Buck Sexton
Wait, hold on. You're not really giving him his due because if someone's going to know about breaking the law, it's Hunter Biden. So if someone's going to be sitting there talking about crime and getting away with it, I might add Hunter Biden. Clay kind of has a PhD so maybe we should give him a little more leeway to talk about the capers that are being pulled off.
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Clay Travis
I can't believe some of these quotes. We're going to play some more of this audio, but I do think it is instructive of where Democrat party arguments have gone. They have effectively argued, hey, who's going to be our slaves? Who's going to do these jobs that nobody else will do at low wages? And I think Most Republicans just say, well, maybe you should pay Americans more to do those jobs. I've got a crazy idea and it may be totally irrational. Some of you may think that I'm, I'm bonkers for this idea. I think most rational Americans, if they feel like they are getting a fair wage for a job, will do it and maybe there should be a fair wage for some of these jobs and maybe Americans would come back in and do those jobs. Now look, I understand there are certain parts of the country where there just aren't enough people to do jobs. And I would also submit that maybe everybody doesn't have to live in New York City. Maybe everybody doesn't have to live in la. Maybe if the cost of living in a city is super high. There's actually a. Speaking of, the Wall Street Journal is reading an article over the weekend. A lot of so called second tier cities are starting to explode in population because they're more affordable and the jobs are pretty good there. A lot of people, for instance, leaving Atlanta and going to Greenville, South Carolina or Chattanooga, Tennessee, some people leaving Nashville, going to Huntsville, Alabama. Shouldn't we, shouldn't we encourage people to go to places where they can have a better quality of living? You don't all have to live in the exact same big cities and struggle to survive there. There's lots of good jobs all over the country. Find a place, go there. Raleigh, North Carolina is another one that has exploded in popularity and make a good living there. I mean, this seems like kind of the basis of, of, of why we have 50 states. If you're not living in a good quality of life where you are right now, find somewhere else better.
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Buck Sexton
Yeah, I think if I were advising anybody, I know we've got college age or recent college grad or just that age. Some of you didn't go to college, you're doing other things who are, who are listening. And it's a little bit like the advice I give people now about college, which I'm just going to say I didn't do this myself. I looked at the US News and World Report rankings based on the schools I went to, I visited them. But I had this mentality of you get into the highest ranked school you get into. Right. And I think that's the wrong mentality for the most part. A little different with law, with something like law school. Clay went to a fancy law school. If you're going to go to law school, go to a fancy one because it's very expensive and you know, but for undergrad, go where you want to go. Why am I saying this same thing about where you want to raise your family, Figure out where you actually want to be. I think it's a Naval Ravikant quote. We gotta have him on sometime. I cited off quotes from. I just think he's a brilliant guy. He says the two biggest decisions that will affect your life are where you live and who you marry. Yeah, bigger than jobs come and go. Even careers come and go. I was, you know, Clay and I were both doing totally different jobs before we got into media careers. You can switch who you marry, where you live, you know, or who you build your family with and where you choose to be. And America's got a ton of great places that you can build with the place around you. Right. I think it's very different. When we were coming out of school as well, early 20s, if you wanted certain jobs, you had to be in certain places. You had to be in New York, you had to be in la, maybe Chicago, if the Midwest. You want a big law firm, you want a kind of. Certain kind of financial job. That's all changed, man. You know, the only. One of the only good things about COVID is that it made a lot of people explore outside of their known universe within America of where they could live. And also it made remote work or mobile work, you know, jobs where you can go different places and. And travel more, I think, far more appealing and more normalized, if you will. So I think that's all. That's all to the good. And, you know, high tax states, if you do the math. This is a conversation I've had with people. I've actually had this with friends of mine, particularly some. Some people who are my, like, little sister's age, so eight years younger than me. I've had this conversation with them about in recent years because they're now early 30s, and they're like, new York is so expensive. I'll have my. My sister and I have this conversation. New York's so expensive. And I say, yeah, now do 14% of your income every year for the next 20 years. Look at that number and then look at what that would be. If you just put it as Clay Finance, Clay Corporation, Gordon Gekko Clay. You put it in the S&P 500 in an ETF with low costs. Anybody can do this. It's about as easy as opening a bank account and see what that money's worth in 20 years. It's really tough to want to be in one in Massachusetts, California, New York to start out. I mean, it's it's almost. Unless you have no choice. Unless I, you know, I have to work at Goldman Sachs and I have to be in New York for it, whatever it may be.
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Clay Travis
I would. I. There is no. I've spent a lot of time in California. I've spent a decent amount of time in New York. They're fun to visit. I like a lot of people who live there. There is a zero percent chance that I would give the government 15% of my income every year for the opportunity to live in New York, Chicago or LA or San Francisco or any other city. I just wouldn't do it. I don't understand if you have the choice, how you would choose to do that. And I think what Covid showed to a lot of people is there are incredible opportunities all over the country for people to move and be able to have a higher quality of life, a more affordable quality of life, better place to raise your kids, better place to live. And already, I mean, I get fed up about this already. I pay nearly 40% tax rate even without talking about my property taxes and my, and my. I'm fortunate I live in Tennessee. I don't have state income taxes. I don't think we talk about enough about this. I do this show for five days, Monday and Tuesday. I do this show for the federal government. Think about how crazy that is. You too, both of us sit here every Monday, Tuesday, you hear us. Uncle Sam gets everything that we make. We just basically are working for the federal government on Monday and Tuesday. And a lot of you, I don't think people do the math and sit around and think about it. But wait a minute. On Monday, Tuesday, however many days of the week you work, if you work five days, there's a good chance that about two of those days, every, like, you don't start making your own money till Wednesday. This is crazy. And it's just accepted because we've come to expect that the federal government's just going to take like a massive vacuum cleaner, huge percentages of our money that we're working for. Do I feel like my federal government is giving me such good returns that I should have to work for them every Monday and Tuesday or Thursday and Friday, however you want to classify it. No, I do not. And I think a lot of you out there, when you actually put it in that context, you know, you can put it in context of the months, how many of us, basically, I work for the government Monday to, sorry, January, February, March, April into May, like that doesn't seem very fair to me. So they take 15% more. Do I want to work for the state of New York for 15% of my daily time? No, I do not. Do I want to work for the state of California or the state of Illinois? No, I do not. I think a lot of Americans are getting fed up with it, but Gavin's so grateful.
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Buck Sexton
Clay, whenever you go to LA for doing sports stuff, you pay a little bit into the Gavin fund and he'll have you out for chardonnay. You know, he's just so pleased, so happy that you're paying into the giant black hole of California's finances. What was the deficit they ran this past is huge for a state.
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Clay Travis
Oh, billions and billions of dollars. Yeah.
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Buck Sexton
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Clay Travis
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Buck Sexton
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Clay Travis
Yep.
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Buck Sexton
Trump takes the Trump is taking the approach of no, why don't we actually just set things right the way it were? Wasn't it in one of the Superman episodes where Lois Lane, like, dies and he turns the earth. He, like, spins the earth backwards and then he saves her. Right? Trump is kind of pulling that a little bit here. He's saying we can actually go back in time and go back to the America that we were used to.
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Clay Travis
I'm glad, because I do think this is important. And for those of you who don't know, Trump over the weekend said, hey, I want the Washington Redskins name back and I want the Cleveland Indians name back. And some people immediately say, well, isn't there more significant things to focus on? Which is what you can say basically, for anything at any point in time, depending on what you consider to be the most significant. But I think what you hit on Buck, is important. Important. Trump is trying to reverse the entire woke era. And there were lots of reasonable people, and I would like to think that I was a reasonable person who thought, hey, let's just negotiate over these mascot names. If we give up Redskins, if we give up Indians, eventually they'll stop. It didn't happen. The Atlanta Braves are next in line. Oh, you can't do the tomahawk chop anymore. The kids Kansas City Chiefs, and this is writ large all over the entirety of the nation where they've come after mascot name. I think what Trump is doing here is actually symbolically hugely important and significant and is an important cultural marker. We'll talk about that. Plus more crazy Hunter Biden next.
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Buck Sexton
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