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Welcome to today's edition of The

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Clay, Travis and Buck Sexton Show podcast,

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The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show.

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Sitting in for Clay and Buck today syndicated

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radio personality Michael Berry. About

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one hour ago, the Washington Post

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put up the following story, Michigan

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Supreme Court allows Trump to appear

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on twenty twenty four primary

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ballot. The article

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by Patrick Marley begins

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former President Donald Trump's name is set

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to appear on Michigan's primary ballot

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after the state Supreme Court declined

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Wednesday, that's earlier this morning,

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to hear a challenge to

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his candidacy. The

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decision not to hear the case comes a week after

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the Colorado Supreme Court determined

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Trump engaged in insurrection on

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January sixth of twenty twenty one and

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is barred from running under the constitution. Trump

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plans to appeal that ruling to the US Court,

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which could determine for all states whether

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Trump can run again. First

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of all, as I explained

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yesterday, Trump doesn't

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have to win his case in the Supreme Court

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in order to be on the Colorado ballot. He

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only has to file an appeal to

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the Supreme Court and have the appeal

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filed the document has

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been received by the Supreme Court by

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January fourth, That is the last

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day upon which you can get on

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the Colorado ballot to

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appear in the Republican primary

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on March fifth, which would

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be Super Tuesday. Lots of states. I think

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it's thirteen states and three caucuses that

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day. So Trump

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will be on the Colorado ballot

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and Trump will be on the Michigan ballot.

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Michigan, as you'll remember from yesterday, is

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one of the pre Super

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Tuesday states. It'll be three

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days after South Carolina, and

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that would be that

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would be April twenty seventh,

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Is that right? Hold on just a second, Well, it doesn't

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matter, that's right. It February twenty seventh. I

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think the I think the

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Michigan primary is February

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twenty seventh. And what's interesting, we got a long way

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to go. It's ten months away

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March fifth. But Trump

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is polling ahead of Biden

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there. As I said yesterday, I don't

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believe Biden will be the nominee. But

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Trump is polling ahead of Biden in

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most every poll that is

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considered halfway objective with a

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decent sample size and without

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an obvious bent, and

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he's pulling in the national average,

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and he's polling more importantly in

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the key states, because as you know,

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it's not a national election, it's

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fifty individual elections.

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And the state of Michigan is in play, and

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this Wisconsin is in play,

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and the state of pennsl Slovania

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is in play, in the state of Arizona is

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in play, North Carolina and

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Georgia. So trying

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to kick Trump off the ballot

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is a recognition of that's the

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only way they can beat him, and they

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won't succeed. I

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want to talk about that in a while,

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but first I want to turn to something that is

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very important both in this year's election

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and who the president will be and

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the direction of the country. I

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said yesterday and that's what I want to focus on

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today, that the single most important

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issue in America today is crime.

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It's really the rule of law in a sense

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of order that doesn't

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play well in a campaign. It's

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crime. That's our

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border. That's ten

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to twelve thousand people a day, an

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army a day coming

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into this country and seemingly

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nobody willing to do anything about

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it. You see videos every

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day of major

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cities across the country, and you

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see these thugs going in with a trash bag

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and just raking products

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off the shelves into the trash bag while nobody

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stops them. In the city

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of San Francisco, they said,

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you know what, if it's less than one thousand

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dollars, we won't even criminalize it. Are

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you kidding me? And guess

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what happens. The CVS's and

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Walgreens start pulling out of places like San

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Francisco, department stores

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that had heavy investment in

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San Francisco, in Chicago,

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or pulling out of there in Seattle, And why

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wouldn't they because there's no rule of law.

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The crime is awful, but

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more important than the crime is the sense

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that you have and I have, and particularly

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Republican voters and moderates

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and independents who could possibly

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vote Republican in their congressional

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in their Senate and in the presidential election. And

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that is the sense that things are really wrong.

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That is the sense that we're on the wrong

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track and it's bad. I

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told you yesterday the Catherine Herriage

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comment on Face the Nation over the weekend.

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She talked about foreseeing this

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feeling, there's this bad feeling

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that there's going to be a black Swan event, whether

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that's a terror attack, an invasion,

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whatever that would be. And

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it might be a cyber attack, or it may

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be an old fashioned nine to eleven, or it

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may be terror cells because

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we know they have the forces to do it.

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But what I don't see is a sense

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from the candidates on the Republican

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side in the House, in the Senate, even the presidential

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candidates. What I don't see

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is a sense of understanding

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the moment. This

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is a moment where people

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are angry. And we'll get into

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some of the stats and based on

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the polls and things like that, but

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people are angry and you feel it. You

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feel not only your anger, you feel other

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people's and you feel a sense of anxiety.

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And the real anger about it all

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is that nobody in a position to do anything

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about it seems willing to do anything about

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it. They're just watching our border

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be overrun and

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nobody believes anything's going to be done. When

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does it stop. The numbers are growing. It's

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a snowball rolling down and

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picking up more steam. We've got trains

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of people on their way and no

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end in sight. No one

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is saying this will stop right now.

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This is what we will do. We will

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stop it. And the anger

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is building, and you're going to have more and more of

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these crimes. You're going to have high profile crimes

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by illegal aliens coming into this country.

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You're already seeing it in Houston, where I'm from.

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You're seeing the rapes, you're seeing the murders,

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you're seeing the MS thirteen activity, which

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plenty of these guys are, and

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there is such an anger about

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it. In nineteen

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seventy six, that was just such a feeling. Richard

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Nixon had been pardoned by Gerald

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Ford, who was sort of the accidental president.

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He hadn't been elected. He ran for reelection, of course,

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you know, he lost to Jimmy Carter. Things

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were bad in the country. Crime had spiked,

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the economy was not great, and it was just

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this general sense that things were

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wrong. This guy Nixon

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had left the White House. He

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was pardoned for his crimes. He didn't he

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wasn't punished, whereas some of the other folks

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were. Things weren't good. It was

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a bad feeling in the country. You'd

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had the OPEC issue and the energy

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prices, you're heading into inflation. Things

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were bad and people didn't know what to do

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about it. And there was a movie that

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came out called Network's one of my favorite movies.

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It is Peter

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Finch's last role, and

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it's a star studded cast

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and it's about an anchor whose

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ratings are terrible. He's fourth out

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of four. He works for a fictitious

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network called Ubs. The ratings

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were terrible and couldn't

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do anything about it. So he

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finds out that he's going to be fired in two weeks.

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So he announces on the air, I'm going to commit suicide

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in a week, and that gave him a little

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spike, but that died down.

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And then he does something

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that makes the movie so memorable. And you've

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heard it. It's the character of Howard

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Beale and he's talking

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into the screen and I want you to listen

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to how similar this sounds today, and

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he's saying, I don't know the answer, but you've

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got to get angry. It's a longer

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clip than I would normally play. It's just over

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two minutes. I want you to listen carefully

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to the words, because I think

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this is what we need to hear Republicans

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saying, go ahead, Mike.

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I don't have to tell you things are bad.

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Everybody knows things are bad. It's

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a depression.

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Everybody's out of work or scared

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of losing their job. The dollar

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buys a nickels worth thanks to going

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bus chup. Keep us keep a gun to the counter.

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Punts are running wild in the street, and there's nobody

9:03

anywhere seems to know what to do, and there's.

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No end to it.

9:06

We know the air is unfit to

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breathe and our food is unfit to eat.

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We sit watching our TVs while some local

9:13

newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen

9:15

homicides and sixty three violent crimes,

9:17

as if that's the way it's supposed to be. We

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know things are bad. Worse than bad.

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They're crazy.

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It's like everything everywhere is going crazy. So

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we don't go out anymore. We sit in the

9:27

house and slowly the world we're living and is getting

9:29

smaller, And all we say is, please, at

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least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let

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me have my toaster and my TV and my

9:35

steel melted radios. And I won't say anything,

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Just leave us alone.

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Well, I'm not good to leave you alone.

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I want you to get mad.

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I don't want you to protest.

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I don't want you to ride. I don't want you to write to your

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congressman, because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write.

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I don't know what to do about the depression and the

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inflation, and the Russians and the crime in the

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street.

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All I know is that first you've.

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Got to get mad.

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You've got to say I'm a human.

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Being, my life has value.

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So I want you to

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get up now. I

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want all of you to get up out of your chairs.

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I want you to get up right now and go

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to the window, open it and

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stick your head out and yell I'm

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as mad as hell and I'm not

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trying to take this anymore. Then we'll

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figure out what to do about the depression, of the

10:21

inflation and the oil crisis. But first,

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get up out of your chairs, open the window,

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stick your head out of you and say,

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I'm as bad as hell.

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We'm gonna take this anymore. Stick

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your head out of the window, open it and stick

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your head out and keep yelling.

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And ye'll, I'm as mad as hell,

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I'm not trying to take this anymore. Just

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get up from your chairs right now, go

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leap up,

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stick your head out yell and chief

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yelling.

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Anymore. The

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networks didn't realize

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how angry people were and they were

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shocked by the reaction. Do you remember during the school

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board meetings the last few years

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during the COVID lockdowns, That's

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basically what parents who had never been to a

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school board meeting, much less going up there

11:27

and yelling at the school boards. That's

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what they were saying. It can be

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done, we can do it.

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It's time people understand

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that we have to channel this anger to

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fix these problems. I'm Michael Berry in

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for Clay and Buck all week more coming up

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the Truth Compass, pointing

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do right every day, the

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Clay Buck Sexton Show.

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Crime is the number one issue in

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America today. It's the number

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one concern of real people. How

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often do you hear, if you

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bothered to watch any of those debates with Chris

12:03

Christy, Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis, the

12:05

vat Ramaswamy, how often

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do you hear questions related to

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crime and the crime to come?

12:12

It's only going to get worse the fuse

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has been lit. The more illegals you

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allow in, let's say, only one in

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one hundred is a murderer in their

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home country. If only

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one in one hundred is a murderer

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in their home, we know certain

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things. Murderer's murder, rapist,

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rape, sex, traffickers, traffic,

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They never stop. It's what they do.

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So what's being done about it? Do you get the sense

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that anybody is leading on that issue?

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July twenty fourth, nineteen ninety

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two, Gwen Eifel posted

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a story in The New York Times headline,

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now you got George HW.

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Bush, who's running for reelection against Bill Clinton.

12:54

Bush's ratings are the highest

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of any president since polling

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had been done because of the First

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Iraq War. He's extraordinarily

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popular, unbeatable headline

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the nineteen ninety two campaign the Democrats

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Clinton in Houston speech a

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sales Bush on crime issue opening

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line July twenty fourth, nineteen ninety

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two, the late summer of that

13:18

campaign, where Clinton will win in November. Governor

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Bill Clinton took a page from

13:23

the Republican playbook today, standing

13:26

on the steps of Houston City Hall

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here with uniformed police

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officers arrayed behind him,

13:33

as he denounced President Bush's

13:36

record on fighting crime.

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We cannot take our country back

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until we take our neighborhoods back.

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Governor Clinton said as thousands

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of onlookers cheered. Four

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years ago, this crime issue was used to divide

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America. I want to use it to

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unite America. I want to be tough

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on crime and good for civil rights.

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You can't have civil justice without

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order and safety. That

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is, just before the November election, where

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Clinton beats Bush by

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taking the crime issue away from him,

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he committed that he

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would put ten thousand cops on the streets.

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Well, the federal government can't put cops on the street. They

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don't have a system to do that. What he would

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do is give grants to the major

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cities in states that he

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liked that would help him get re elected,

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to the politicians, the mayors especially

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who would help him get re elected, and the governors. Fast

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forward Wednesday, October twelfth, nineteen

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ninety four, Press release, President

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Clinton announces new crime

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Bill grants to put police

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officers on the beat. President

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Clinton today announced the first round

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of police hiring grants under the new

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Crime Bill, an important step

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toward his goal of putting one hundred

14:56

thousand police on America's

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streets. That

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is, two and a half weeks before

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the election. He's going to

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put ten thousand cops on the streets. One

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of the people he got that from was the very

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successful mayor of Houston at

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the time, Bob Lanier, who

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took fifty million dollars that was used

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for a very wasteful monoail program.

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The City of Houston had this desire

15:24

that we were going to become New York somehow with a

15:26

stupid subway. Because every Houstonian

15:28

when they go to New York says, I don't have to drive anywhere.

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I can ride the subway. Yeah, because

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you can't drive because there's no parking, there's

15:36

no place to park that the streets are

15:38

jammed. You'd rather have your own vehicle. Stop

15:40

being stupid and stop having such a jealousy

15:43

of New York and trying to be like them. Would you also like

15:45

to be Bernie Getz and get mugged in the subway?

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I don't think so. But Lanier

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did something that was brilliant

15:52

and made a huge difference. He

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removed that money from Metro,

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which was coming from the City of Houston, and

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he committed six hundred and fifty five officers.

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Well, that too was undoable. What

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it meant was he gave a lot of overtime and

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guess what you put cops out

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on this, more cops on the street, You

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fund the cops instead of defunding the cops,

16:12

which is what we're experiencing now, and crime

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goes down. It's amazing if

16:18

Biden does that. Democrats

16:20

are willing to do anything to be Trump.

16:23

They won't push back everything

16:25

that happened since George Floyd.

16:28

Oh, they would be some Black Lives Matter complaints,

16:30

that some Antifa complaints. It'd be some

16:33

you know, goofy professor who would say

16:35

this is this is not good and he's worried.

16:38

But if he started putting more cops on the streets

16:40

and announcing tough on crime, he

16:43

would own that issue because no Republican

16:45

is doing it yet. That is the issue

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that's the winner. Michael Berry and Clambuck More coming

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up, Clay Travis and Buck

16:52

Sexton on the front lines

16:55

of truth. One of many folks I follow

16:57

on Twitter is a guy named

16:59

Colin. I've never met him

17:01

in person, I don't know much about him.

17:04

He describes himself as co

17:06

owner of Trending Politics,

17:10

investor and American

17:12

with an American flag says he's a media

17:14

personality and his website

17:17

is trendingpoliticsnews

17:19

dot com and

17:22

he just posted he's

17:24

a good follow and in fact,

17:28

the show I host in Houston, I

17:30

often will try to promote people

17:32

that I think are pretty good follows,

17:35

just because many of you are

17:37

like me. You're you're looking for good

17:40

sources of information

17:43

and nobody's perfect. There

17:45

may be something someone that disagrees

17:47

with you on this or that. In fact, I heard from

17:49

a lot of folks that I follow and have interacted

17:52

with over the years last night that

17:54

I was too pro Trump and that

17:56

Desantus is going to win, to which I said,

17:59

I'm just calling ball stars. I

18:01

wasn't advocating. I was simply telling you what I think

18:03

is going to have. Pro Palestinian

18:06

protesters are blocking

18:08

the road leading to JFK

18:10

Airports in New York, forcing

18:13

travelers to walk around them to

18:16

make their flights. According

18:18

to Scooter Castor, New York Port

18:20

Authority police are now making arrests

18:23

to open up the roadway. The

18:26

incident comes after pro Palestine

18:29

Palestine protesters wreaked

18:31

havoc in New York City over the weekend,

18:34

demanding that Christmas

18:36

be canceled.

18:39

And he shows you the video which

18:42

looks like the sources originally Freedomnews

18:45

dot TV. I'm sure you can find this. Colin

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Rugg is at Colin Rugg c l

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I N rugg is

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his handle. But

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when you see something like this, I

18:59

got to tell you, in Texas, you'd

19:04

be far more likely for somebody

19:06

in their big dooley Trump

19:10

to plow through this and

19:12

a jury would say, we understand.

19:16

In New York there is a great deal

19:19

more tolerance, But

19:21

it's not because the people are actually

19:24

any more tolerant. It's

19:26

that they are, and this is the saddest part

19:28

of it all. They are resigned.

19:32

This is what pluralism looks

19:34

like. I know a

19:36

lot of folks are mad at Anne Culture because

19:38

she's not on the Trump train, but

19:41

she says and writes some very interesting

19:43

things. She's a good follow, by the way, on substack.

19:45

And again, I don't have to agree with every

19:48

opinion. Somebody has to think

19:50

that I want to know what they're saying and what

19:53

they're writing because a lot of it

19:55

is brilliant, and a culture is

19:57

brilliant. I know, Buck Sexton tells me he catches

19:59

hell from listeners when he has Ann on. You

20:01

should want to hear from Ann and when she says

20:03

something about Trump you don't like, you should say,

20:05

okay, we just we don't agree on that. But

20:09

she says a lot of things that nobody else is saying.

20:11

One of the things she talks about, and with

20:13

one of the first to really talk about this with

20:16

a broad audience, was

20:18

what pluralism looks like. And

20:20

I don't mean different skin colors. I don't even necessarily

20:23

mean different religions. I

20:26

mean when your society is made up

20:29

without any distinctive majority

20:32

culture. My

20:35

wife is from India and my boys

20:37

are from Africa. But I will tell

20:39

you we are as American a family

20:41

as what I would consider an American

20:44

family is Norman Rockwell esque.

20:47

We are We've waived the flag. We

20:50

believe July fourth is a date

20:52

that is very important. We think the

20:54

Constitution is important. Now,

20:57

that doesn't mean we don't go to Ethiopia

21:00

and visit and love the food. We have it once

21:02

a week. We have Indian food once a week.

21:05

I have lots of relatives in India, and

21:07

it's a special place when we go to

21:09

both of those places. But

21:12

we're very proud Americans. And

21:14

it was long the case that

21:17

the melting pot metaphor

21:19

meant that when you come to this country,

21:22

you bring all the wonderful

21:25

garb, whether that's a daishiki or

21:27

a nehru jacket, some

21:30

sort of sandal, a

21:32

wayabeta. It really didn't matter. When

21:35

you came to the United States. You

21:38

bought in. You added

21:41

your culture as icing on the

21:43

cake. But you bought in. You

21:46

learned English, you

21:48

learned the rule of law, you learn

21:51

the culture. People

21:53

came to this country who were Hindus in

21:56

many cases Muslims for a long time when

21:59

you had a more secular Islam and

22:01

you celebrated Christmas. All

22:04

my Jewish friends celebrate Christmas, but

22:06

that's not Hanukkah. They

22:08

celebrate Christmas because their neighbors

22:10

do and the nation does. And

22:13

then there became a time where

22:16

people who when they arrived said,

22:18

you know, I

22:20

don't look like the people I

22:22

see on TV. I don't

22:24

have sex with the opposite

22:27

sex. I don't have the same skin color.

22:30

I don't worship in the same types of

22:32

churches. I didn't go to the same types of schools.

22:34

I don't have the same nuclear family.

22:36

I don't play the same sports. I

22:38

don't have the same likes, And

22:42

I demand that

22:44

it all be changed. I want

22:46

to tear it all down and remake it in my image.

22:50

And that began the idea

22:53

that the person at the party

22:55

who says I'm miserable, everybody

22:58

shut the party down and pay it attention to

23:00

me, because that's what happened. It's

23:02

exactly what happened in It ain't

23:05

much of a party when that happens, is it. And

23:07

then people started noticing, Ah,

23:10

the person who comes to the party

23:13

and starts complaining and crying,

23:16

feeling sorry for themselves gets

23:18

all the attention. Squeaky

23:21

wheel gets the grease. And

23:23

so we became a culture where

23:27

the person that complains the most gets

23:29

the most attention. We're talking

23:31

about these goobers, and that's what they

23:34

are, these pro Palestinian protesters.

23:36

Oh, there's a few folks in there that

23:39

have some connection to the Middle

23:41

East, but you got a lot

23:43

of white kids in there that

23:46

are from Franklin, Tennessee, or

23:48

Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, or

23:51

Idaho, and they

23:54

just really like being for these causes

23:56

because their parents aren't. It's

23:58

like they've reached a higher platue. These

24:01

are the same kinds of people, the same

24:03

exact types of people who

24:06

would join a cult and end

24:08

up poisoned, join a cult

24:10

and hand their wife over to the cult

24:13

leader, because that's what David Koresh or

24:15

whoever else told them to. You

24:17

know, for all the talk about the wackos

24:20

in Waco under David Koresh, a

24:22

bunch of them that came out of California that

24:25

ran vegan restaurants that

24:28

were just as nutty may be worse

24:31

just as nutty, if not worse.

24:36

So what you have here is

24:39

everybody having to go around

24:41

them to get into the airport.

24:44

And that's not right. What

24:47

if everybody did this. What

24:49

if every road in America was shut down because

24:53

you know, the kids into local high school don't

24:55

want to go to school on Friday, so they just shut

24:57

all the traffic down, Well, they'd be

24:59

a arrested, right, pulled

25:02

up by the nape of their neck and brought home, spanked

25:04

and said knock it off, don't do this again.

25:07

But these people aren't arrested, right, So

25:10

that becomes a real problem. How do we selectively

25:12

enforce rules? How do

25:15

we allow how do we allow illegals

25:17

to come into this country and

25:20

hand them a phone and some cash, ask

25:22

no questions and

25:24

let them go wherever they want. But

25:27

you've got to be COVID tested before you can go

25:29

back to college. These kids don't in

25:32

the New York schools. You've got to be COVID tested

25:34

and vaccinated to get in a lot of the schools,

25:37

these people aren't even tested. And

25:40

I will tell you this, they are far

25:42

more likely per person to

25:44

be carrying COVID and a

25:46

number of other diseases because,

25:49

to paraphrase Donald Trump's phrase, they

25:51

come from crap whole countries. What makes a crap

25:53

whole country? It's filthy, it's crime riddled,

25:56

there's a bad health

25:58

care system. It's nat You've

26:00

been there, and don't tell me. I've been to

26:02

Honduras. You stayed in the park where

26:04

the Americans go. I've been to the Dominican Republic, yet

26:06

you stayed on the nice part

26:09

over there. I've been to Jamaica. Yeah, they

26:11

didn't let you go into town because you

26:13

getting killed would be really bad for tourism.

26:17

So where is the person? Trump is

26:19

perceived as the guy? But this is

26:22

the moment, This is where you step up

26:24

and say, when I'm president, I'll

26:26

send fads in there and we'll yank these

26:28

people out. Of there, and we'll send them to prison. We'll keep them in

26:30

prison. Clinton

26:32

grabbed the crime issue when it mattered

26:35

most and got elected president and

26:37

got re elected despite having

26:39

been romped in the midterm elections

26:41

of ninety four. Crime is

26:43

the number one issue, and people want

26:46

action, they want order restored,

26:48

they want something done. I do, and

26:51

I bet you do too. You can reach

26:53

me by email through the website Michael

26:56

Berryshow dot com, and I do enjoy hearing

26:58

from you. I'll be here all week

27:00

thanks to the good folks on the Clay and

27:02

Buck team, and we'll take some of your calls

27:05

in a bit one eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two

27:07

one eight hundred two eighty two to eight eight

27:09

two more coming up. The

27:11

Torch of Truth passed

27:14

and still lit every day the

27:17

Clay, Travis and Buck Sexton Show.

27:19

So Gallup did pretty

27:21

sizeable poll gauging

27:24

Americans reaction to

27:28

major issues, and crime popped.

27:33

Seventy seven percent of Americans responded

27:36

that there is more crime in America

27:38

than a year ago. A

27:41

majority of Americans fifty

27:44

five percent, believe there's more crime

27:46

in their local area than

27:48

a year ago, so

27:51

one in five says yeah, there's

27:53

more crime in the country,

27:56

but not where I live. You know why,

27:59

because as you drew down into

28:01

what pollsters call the cross tabs,

28:04

you'll find that whites

28:06

are more concerned about crime than blacks. Hispanics

28:09

are in the middle. People

28:11

in rural communities, which

28:13

tend to have far lower rates of crime,

28:16

are far more concerned about crime than

28:18

people in urban communities. Now,

28:21

is that entirely perception and

28:24

fear of something that may not know.

28:28

No, it's not. It

28:31

speaks to culture. The

28:33

difference between a good public school

28:37

and a bad public school is

28:40

how a teacher reacts when

28:42

a student starts cussing the

28:45

teacher, and how the

28:47

other students react when

28:49

a student starts cussing the teacher.

28:52

And if you started those two schools from scratch,

28:55

and you sent the students into both of the schools,

28:57

and you had a student stand up and start

28:59

threatening to beat the butt

29:02

of the teacher, which happens a lot,

29:04

particularly inner city schools, and

29:07

you started from scratches, never happened

29:09

before, and the students

29:11

in one of the groups cheered

29:13

and pulled out their cameras to start filming,

29:17

and the teacher didn't

29:19

know what to do, and in the

29:21

other school, the

29:23

students grabbed a kid, put

29:26

them down, said knock it off,

29:29

and the principal was called in and

29:31

the student was taken out and discipline

29:34

and sent into detention. In

29:37

short order, one school

29:39

would have better academics, would

29:41

be a safer environment, and

29:43

the other one would continue to spiral.

29:46

That wouldn't be the last time it happened.

29:48

Other people would begin, there's your

29:51

cultural problem. We don't like to talk about culture in America

29:53

because culture is always tied to race, and

29:56

that makes people uncomfortable. It doesn't

29:58

have to be can reflect

30:01

some subcultures of race.

30:04

But the important thing is the behavior. And

30:06

when we become afraid to talk about

30:09

behavior because that of behavior,

30:12

whether accurately or not, is

30:15

identified with a particular

30:17

race. Failing inner

30:20

city schools for instance, Oh,

30:22

that's just a dog whistle for black schools. Actually,

30:25

if you look at the demographics of

30:27

urban schools across the country, you will see a much

30:30

higher percentage of blacks than you

30:32

do in rural schools

30:34

and a lower percentage of whites

30:37

than you do in rural schools.

30:40

So that's accurate. Well, that upsets

30:42

somebody black. It would upset

30:44

me too, because

30:46

I don't want it being the case that majority

30:49

white schools are failing. That

30:51

looks bad on me, but I

30:53

don't want any school to fail. I

30:55

don't care the skin color. How

30:58

many black politicians don't agree with me on

31:00

that. How many black politicians

31:03

democrats in America are

31:05

quite comfortable with schools,

31:08

all black schools failing,

31:11

as long as nobody from the outside comes

31:13

in and tries to fix it, which is exactly what we've

31:16

seen in Houston. The

31:18

state took over the Houston Independent School

31:20

District, which was corrupt and failing.

31:24

But more important than the fact that the facilities

31:26

were falling apart and

31:28

that consultants were being hired to come in and tell

31:30

the white kids that they're all awful and the black

31:33

kids that they're all victims, both messages

31:35

that are terrible, But more

31:37

importantly, the students couldn't

31:39

read at grade, not anywhere near gray. We'll

31:42

get into public education a little later. The

31:44

school was failing and wasn't

31:46

going to be fixed, so they brought in

31:48

a guy who's black named Mike

31:50

Miles, and he starts firing

31:53

administrators and making changes.

31:56

And Sheila Jackson Lee, who just ran from Ayorn,

31:59

was defeated and Sylvester Turner,

32:01

the black mayor, liberal radical nut

32:03

job think Brandon Johnson out of Chicago,

32:06

or Muriel Bowser out

32:08

of Baltimore, or any

32:10

number of other terrible mayors, who's

32:13

all they ever talk about is race. Well,

32:15

what we've seen is an attempt by

32:17

the state, which is majority Republican, to

32:20

fix HISD, which

32:22

is largely black, was met with

32:25

resistance from black

32:27

leaders because guess what, we'd

32:30

rather our schools fail

32:34

but be led by blacks

32:36

of our choosing, then

32:38

succeed and have somebody

32:40

from outside the district come in and make good policies.

32:42

Sounds to me like you don't love the kids. That's

32:44

what it sounds like to me. That's

32:47

why crime is tolerated in urban

32:49

control decaying America

32:52

and in rural areas. It's not. That's

32:55

why you see crime in Birmingham,

32:58

and yet the state of Alabama is doing just

33:00

fine. It's why do you see crime in Detroit and

33:02

Chicago and Houston and New Orleans

33:05

and Los Angeles and Seattle

33:08

and Baltimore and Philadelphia.

33:10

That's why we talk about that and take some of your

33:12

calls coming up one eight hundred two

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33:16

week