Buck Sexton (78:38)
I had no military service in my family, so I didn't really have any connection to it. But I figured I'm studying. I was already studying Arabic before 9 11. I was already in a Middle Eastern studies focus. So it seemed like an easy transition to just to. To all of a sudden get recruited into the Agency. And everyone knew when I was at the Agency and certainly for a few years after, like I was. I was in the. Basically the bin Laden hunting unit. I was in ctc. Like, this is why we're there. And really was why people there. Dan, that has been destroyed. Now people say, they're like, I can't trust you. You're in the C. You were in the CIA. I was like, first of all, I haven't been in, in like 15 years. Second of all, I joined when everybody was like, can we please find all these guys and, and kill them before they can blow up, you know, 10 planes over the Pacific. I mean, you look at some of these plots that they actually had that were disrupted anyway. You know this, I know this, your audience knows this. But I do think it just bears repeating that we ask people to go do this stuff. Thankfully, there's still the respect deserved, earned and deserved by our military. But on the intel side, from a lot of these bureaucracies, people have this idea like, I wasn't James Comey's personal assistant at the FBI when he was trying to frame Trump. I was with you on the outside saying that, by the way, that was a manufacturer. Russia, Russia collusion is a massive manufactured delusion. I get into it a little bit in the book, but I probably should have gotten into it even more. More. That is a perfect example. Something like 30% of Democrats into Trump's term, maybe two years into his term, thought that Russia actually hacked voting machines. Right? I mean, this is, this is something that there was never any evidence for whatsoever, but it was just something that was pushed into that ecosystem by people who wanted to create a hysteria. And that's the thing. I mean, again, you can, there's, I, I get into some references to, to Alinsky and, and some of the sort of street, you know, the street Communists, to borrow from our friend Jesse Kelly, street communist tactics of just get people fired up, get them angry and get them believing nonsense and you can then use them as tools for whatever you want. And I think that's at the heart of the Democrat party today. The lie is the point and this is why the gaslighting is the point. This is not some secondary thing. Because otherwise you can't get people to become so upset over saying that like men can't play in women's sports or that Black Lives Matter is built on lies or you know, you go, or Russia collusion or Donald, I mean, you know, all the stuff with, with Donald Trump is, is covering up for a global cabal of evil pedos. I mean, there's a lot of stuff out there that people say and you're like, there's just no evidence for this. Oh, but it is helpful for the people who are trying to kick at the load bearing walls of our civilization. It is helpful for people who want to tear everything down to get people so aggravated and agitated that they can be pushed on this stuff. So that's a lot of the things. But another thing I get into the book, I might add, Dan, is we see a little less this now, but forced confession and just the role of, you know, the apology tour that we used to have, not we, but conservatives or people on the right. You would say the smallest thing. You would say something that you're like,
