Hour 1 - A Big L for Dems

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The White House has struck new trade deals with four countries, Ecuador, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Argentina to lower tariffs on select goods like beef and yes, clay, coffee. Thank you, Cragut coffee, because... We did look into getting coffee from Hawaii. Like everything else in Hawaii, it is very expensive. Is that actually how you say it in Spanish? I don't even know. It is very, probably not. It seems unlikely, but it's, I think I just made that. I don't speak any Spanish. I feel good about the moi, but I don't know expensive. Right. I'd lead into the moi, but the rest of it, I took French and Arabic in school. So you can make of that what you will. Anyway, there's these new trade deals. B.S. for Jasmine Crockett Coffee. That's always exciting, too. Go subscribe, cracket coffee. Because the tariffs are going to affect the price of coffee, just like it's affecting a lot of other things right now. You see, you've also got JD Vance weighing in on the housing crisis. Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of War. I have to keep saying it just so that it gets... redone in my mind, you know, so that everyone doesn't have to keep on sending in. It's the Secretary of War now. I know, but it's been a long time, and I used to work with DOD folks, and I used to brief the Secretary of Defense on occasion. It's not really... something that comes that naturally to me. So I'm working on it. But Pete Hegseth has announced an operation to remove narco-terrorists from our hemisphere. So it feels like that is something that is going to be heating up. We've already discussed some of the deployments of U.S. military forces into the Caribbean way more than we've seen in a very long time. And then, of course, Clay, we have the designation of Antifa abroad as an international terrorist organization. That's something we should discuss. But first up, I did want to just dive into this. Karoline Leavitt off the top rope here on the Chuck Schumer shutdown. And I do think it will be known increasingly. to everybody as the Chuck Schumer shut down because it was very much pushed by Chuck Schumer and some of the Democrats around him. But here is the White House Press Secretary. Play cut one. President Trump and Republicans shillacked Chuck Schumer and the entire Democrat Party. After 43 days of Chuck standing out there trying to bravely hold the country hostage and inflict massive pain on the American public, Chuck got absolutely nothing. And now the knives are out for him. The Democrat Party is in complete disarray. And the truth is they have been for 10 years since President Trump came on the political scene. They ran.

How do you make people politically crazy, as in delusional and not able to see reality and clearly trump derangement syndrome, is the most apparent manifestation of that that we see right now. There was the COVID madness. There's the trans stuff. There's a whole bunch of things. But there is a clear ability, and it unfortunately is very prominent in America these days, to make a lot of people really nuts. in the service of a political agenda to believe crazy things. And that is very scary because it is when people believe untrue and crazy things that terrible things happen to societies. Go get the pre-order now manufacturing delusion. That's what we call it. I just did right before this show. I did a fun Zoom podcast show. with Will Kane, who obviously has a show on Fox News now, your longtime friend. But we talked a lot about the delusion. If you had been a diehard sports fan buck, I think you would have seen so much of the delusion going on in the world of sports. And certainly saying men can be women as part of it. But even just going through, it was fun to kind of go through some of these crazy stories over the last week. There have been a lot of just Jussie Smollett-style stories made up in sports. LeBron, for instance. For those of you out in L.A., you'll remember this. It almost gets no attention. He, I think, falsely claimed that somebody scrolled a racial slur on his $20 million mansion in L.A., the Brentwood area of L.A. And I went through and did an investigation, called the police, asked for police reports, the kind of things that someone who is in media should do. And the L.A. police just dropped that case and said we'd have found no evidence that there was ever a crime committed. Most people have no idea that happened because at least Fox News exists in the world of politics. The New York Post exists. There are entities that will kind of go and shepherd and look into stories like these. Now Outkick does certainly. There are hardly anything in sports where people will actually ask these questions and say, wait a minute. LeBron Jussie Smoletted that entire racial slur on the gate story. Yes, I think the evidence is that he did. But because nobody covered it, it is kind of just a vanishing story. Remember the bubble Wallace noose story that everybody convinced. Mass hysteria for sure. Correct. Absurd. that NASCAR was super racist and that some guy decided, hey, I'm going to send a message. We're going to have a noose in Bubble Wallace. And then the FBI got called in. The FBI. And they did a big investigation. And they were like, this has been here for years. And it's actually a common way to tie a knot. That was the conclusion. It's just, I think these things would tie in well with your book. But yeah, I hope we're coming out of them. But I'm a little bit afraid that we might not.

Well, I even, there's even a whole trance chapter and, of course, deal with the Riley Gain situation and that guy who was a girl who's or pretended to be a girl to swim. And the fact that people go along with this stuff. And I'll say this, the fact that people sit around and pretend like Donald Trump is Hitler is crazy. And that, and that there are news shows where they still talk about the rise of fascism and, uh, they speak about. Trump in a way that is meant to terrify emotionally and psychologically weak people. Now, I mean that. It is not meant to amuse them. It is meant to terrify the psychologically weak in the audience of the New York Times. And there's a lot of neurotic people often confuse IQ with psychological strength. Not true at all. A lot of very high IQ people actually have tremendous difficulties. dealing with the world around them. Yes. Famously, you could see like that guy Nash from a beautiful mind. We've seen movies about this. Others, the correlation between even genius and delusion and psychological issues, Howard Hughes. I mean, there's all kinds of stuff, right, where you can point to this and see. My point here is that there are a lot of very psychologically fragile people. who have coalesce, and this is true, if you look at things like heavy SSRI usage, you look at rates of self-described, depression, anxiety, all this clay clusters. on the left side of the political aisle. Yes. And so their media apparatus is constantly feeding into their neuroses and their actual phobias. They have, there are Trumpphobic people out there. I had a friend in college, a good friend of mine, who was always a lib. He texted me, he's like, what are you going to do when the stormtroopers are pulling you and like your friends off the street? And I felt bad for him because I'm like, you really think that that's going to happen? You live in an alternate universe. They really do. And the delusional nature of this, I think many of you, here's the positive. I think there are tons of you out there listening right now that have come to see the truth. And I think every day and every week and every month, we add a few more people out there, Insanity World. And the reason that I would be optimistic about this, some of you would say, okay, Clay, what are you basing that optimism in? The number of people who didn't vote Trump in 2016 that by 2024 did vote Trump. It is an extraordinary increase in Trump's support. And, you know, you go back to 2016. I think it was 64 million-ish people voted for Donald Trump. A lot of those people over the years ahead have passed away. So we probably have added 20 million Trump voters between 2016 and 2024. That's a sign that sanity will win.

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To what extent do people start to feel better about the economy? Democrats aren't, right? Because they hate Trump. They're going to pretend that things are awful. But those middle of the road voters that will decide who wins the House, who wins the Senate, how do you win those guys and gals? To me, that's the biggest question as we start to look towards the start of 2026. Well, we certainly need to hear more, I think, from this administration about what the economic message, what the plans are for 2026. 2025 has been very good. I know people are worried about prices and feeling that pinch. But that is something that was inherited. If I tell you that the Biden administration had the worst inflation in 40, 40 years, it's going to take more than a year for people to feel like wages have kept up with that. But they've been moving in the right direction and certainly the overall markets, housing markets, the situation with the tariffs, there's a lot to feel positive about. But I do think, Clay, here I'll put it this way, front page of your favorite New York Times today, at least on the website. a whole piece on how MAGA is getting a little fed up with all the Trump globetrotting and focus on other countries. There or not, I will tell you, I have heard from the faithful, both those with platforms and just everyday folks. that they're a little frustrated with some of that right now too. It's not that there's promises aren't being kept. It's that they think there's been too much of the focus on that. Again, I'm not passing a judgment on that right now one way or the other. I'm just saying that there is a perception out there that we need there to be. This administration needs to focus more on the kitchen table issues, so-called, well, not so-called, but affordability is what we talk about now. I think it's the number one story going into 2026, and I think it's going to determine how the midterms go. Again, I'm very optimistic about where the economy is, but people have to feel it in their day-to-day existence. Look, hook yourself up with prize picks. You're going to love it. Unfortunately, the New England Patriots won, but Drake May only had one touchdown pass, not two. And so as a result, we'll have to come back next week with another pick for you guys. But on prize picks, you can play so many different cool things. And they now have started to layer in prediction markets in many different states out there. Trust me, this is super cool. If you haven't checked out the prediction markets, it is a lot of fun, everything under the sun. Go check it out. They're available in 40 plus states, California, Texas, Florida, and Georgia. Georgia, among others. You get $50 in your account when you play $5. That is prizepicks.com. My name Clay. Pricepix.com C-L-A-Y. All right. Welcome back in here to Clay Ann Buck. We're talking about how the political scene is playing out right now in the aftermath of the shutdown. And JD Vance, Vice President, doing a really...

phenomenal job and and i feel very positive about the future of maga the republican party America First, all that stuff. Not just with JD. Marco is doing a great job as Secretary of State. Scott Bessent is a Treasury Secretary. There's a lot of really top-tier political talent that Trump has surrounded himself with. And I'll just say this. The biggest difference, I think, between other than maybe some focus and... the being touched by the hand of God to save Trump's life so that he could win that election. I mean, there's a lot of things. But there's a big difference in the teams this time around versus if you looked at a year into Trump's first term in battle with the Russia collusion lie, a lot of people around him that, you know, weren't right for the job. You couldn't really trust them. There were problems. This time around the team is excellent. And I think JD Vance is right at the top of that list, which is. Good, because he's a vice president. Here is JD talking about how the shutdown was much ado about nothing, and Democrats, they own it, play it. Longest shutdown in history. Can you tell me what the point of all that was? I wish that I knew, Sean, because here's what the Democrats actually accomplished. They caused a lot of stress for our troops. They made our traffic controllers not get paid. They caused a lot of flight cancellations. They had a lot of people thinking they weren't going to get their food benefits, all for literally nothing, Sean, because we could have struck this exact deal 45 days ago. In fact, we met with Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer and said, we will pass this exact deal. They said no. put the American people through a ton of pain and suffering for nothing. And we knew this was going to happen, Sean. We knew the President of the United States said every single day, eventually the Democrats are going to realize this is an absurd position. We've got to reopen the government. And that's what they did. Clay, one part of this, just as we look back on what happened here, imagine the disillusionment of the Republican voter base if the Democrats were six, if they had caved on this. So we've got a Republican president, Republican majority in the House and the Senate previously agreed due spending level that was only ever in place because of a, quote, emergency under Biden, the American Rescue Plan. And they can just make this demand. I mean, in retrospect, the whole thing was absurd. They have just made themselves into such a reflexively anti-Trump party that there is a benefit in being the most anti-Trump Democrat.

There isn't actually a tangible political result that is beneficial, though, right? So this is one of those things where we were talking about Jasmine Crockett, and I do think it's an interesting conversation. Jasmine Crockett can have for herself a successful brand that she has created that simultaneously makes the larger Democrat brand worse. And that's not really what you want, right? The goal is... for you to be the rising tide that lifts all boats. Maga, I think Trump, has very rarely, when he's been on the ballot. harmed anybody else on the ballot around him. And in fact, you can go look at the most contentious states, right, the seven toss-up states. Trump, if he had gotten the exact same support that he did for all these other candidates, we'd have 57 or 58 senators in Washington right now, right? Trump won Arizona. The Senate candidate did not. Trump won Michigan. The Senate candidate did not. Trump won Wisconsin. The Senate candidate did not. Trump won Nevada. The Senate candidate did not. Trump won Georgia. So far, the Senate candidates have not, right? I'm seeing a pattern. So Trump is the rising tide. Now, sometimes Dave McCormick, our friend, was able to get across that line in the toss-up state of Pennsylvania. But by and large, ticket splitters actually voted Trump and then they were more likely to vote Democrat. Jasmine Crockett, please run for Senate in Texas. Jasmine, I hope they clip this. I hope this goes right to you. You are the candidate Texas Democrats need. You are the voice of the oppressed in the state of Texas. No one else can make the case like you can. Please run. Clip that, share it with Jasmine. Okay. Here's why, Buck, that would be a disaster. Because she would motivate a tiny fringe of the Democrat base, which is. leading her to prominence, but she would actually drag down the overall Democrat Party ticket around her. And I think one of the challenges that Democrats have is being reflexively anti-Trump works in making you more popular in the Democrat Party, but actually destroys the Democrat Party's brand on a larger context when it comes to winning in states where it's tough. And so I don't know who can thread that needle. Who can be... Just kind of mediocre Trump, right? Like he's not Hitler as a Democrat so that you could straddle that ability to grab the middle road voters. Maybe it's Gretchen Whitmer. I don't know how that will play out in, and I think she's awful, by the way, but she's shown up and been public at Trump press conferences. She hasn't been running from him, if that makes sense. And so I wonder, can anybody nail that thread that would make them a viable candidate 28 going forward? If you were to take Joe Biden and reverse the tape about...

30 years, something like that, 20-something years? I think that Gavin Newsom and Joe Biden are actually from this, they came off the same assembly line. I think that his real skill, and you can say, oh, but Biden always played. Biden, Delaware is blue as blue can be. It has been for a long time. It's why Joe Biden could get elected to the Senate for 40 years. I think that Gavin Newsom is preparing. And I know we see it the same way that he's going to be the guy for them. But I think that he'll be able to use political BSing skills to get over a lot of the real policy deficiencies and challenges that exist as a result of his governance of California. So I still think that O'Reilly, Uncle Bill, he disagrees with us on this one. We may be carving up a delicious steak. I've never seen Bill in an apron working the grill. This might have to happen out there in Strong Island, Uncle Bill on the grill. I think that Gavin Newsom's, because to your point, it's about, you see someone like a Jasmine Crockett, yes, I think she's managed to build a brand for herself, but I think there are limitations on that brand because of how she's done it. But someone like Gavin Newsom. He'll play the game, man, and he'll say whatever he has to say to whatever audience, and he'll say it pretty well, and he'll be slick about it. Biden, we think of now as the doddering old fool, he's kind of just a political wind-up toy for a long time. I mean, well, put aside the puppeteer stuff of his later life, but I just mean he'd go and he'd grin and he'd say the stuff he had to say to the people he had to say it to. Very Gavin Newsom-esque in that respect. You know, has a sociopathic ability to falsely connect with people. I just... I don't know, right? So I'm already looking ahead to 28. We should probably play at some point in the show we will, the clips from JD Vance talking about 28 because he's starting to talk about his political future going forward. And he said, hey, at some point after the midterms, I'll sit down with President Trump and talk about with him what my plans are. And there's always the possibility of, you know, there being some wildcard candidates out there because I do think a lot of people will run. And Lord knows, I mean, look at what happened in February of 2020 when COVID suddenly showed up in an election year. There's any number of crazy things that can happen as we move towards that 2028 universe. I just think it's going to be the Democrat side. Will there be a lane for someone who's not crazy? Because Joe Biden took that lane and got the nomination, or is it going to be a huge cadre of people competing in that Jasmine Crockett crazy lane? Because that's what the party wants in the prior. See, I think the Democrats need someone who the left knows is actually a leftist. This is the Obama playbook.

Yeah. In the case of Biden, it was they knew that he was the Trojan horse. They knew that he was a false flag, essentially, like, oh, I'm a moderate. No one thought that. Ever knew the advisors were going to be running the show, and the advisors were a bunch of commies. Same thing with Obama, except they thought Obama was going to be making the decisions. But Obama was even able to pretend to be something else on some key issues to get elected that the Democrat base knew, oh, yeah, no. He's not really going to do that, though, or he's not really going to view things that way. And, you know, gay marriage, for example, being one of the most prominent ones where he just said, yeah, I changed my mind on that. And I think that was known all along that he would do that. So Gavin Newsom, I think, has that same skill set to pretend to be something else. But back to the affordability issue, which I know is something that is on a lot of people's minds right now because, look, I'll just say this. My father-in-law is here today. Carrie and him are actually at Home Depot right now, working on some plantings, you know, doing the things that people do. I have no, I feel badly, by the way, I have no, I am not helpful. He is like, he can, he could build a house. I mean, he has built houses. So he just shows up at your house and fixes all sorts of things that are broken. It's amazing. My father-in-law does the same thing. He's the father-in-law with the tool belt who's just like, well, you need to take a few sprockets and connect him into the flux capacitor. And then you just take this over thing here and you know, and you're bang, bang, bang. And I'm like, it works. Amazing. I have no idea what he's doing. My father and Laura's dad. is also able to fix anything, and he will show up, and Laura will have a list of things that she needs fixed, and he'll just walk around and fix him. I feel bad. Like, he's trying to include me in it and tell me, like, how he's fixing the things, too. And I'm saying, yeah, like, I know what's going on. Clay, I have no idea. He's not sophisticated enough to even understand what's going on. I'm the same way. I have no idea. He's using tools that I've never even seen before. I'm like, what is that? What is that thing? That thing, it looks like you'd use that to... opened like, you know, a vat of whale oil in the 1860s. Like, what is this? I don't even know what this is. Anyway, here is a moment, though, where he came in. He just said, I just bought milk. He was making coffee this morning at the house. Jasmine Crockett, obviously. And I just bought some milk. And he's like, it was like $8. And I just, that actually is crazy. Maybe it was 770 or something, whatever, but a gallon of milk is almost eight bucks here in Florida. And this is at Publix. This is not at some, this is not at Shay fancy fancy. This is just a grocery store in my neighborhood. Things have gotten really expensive. That is a real thing that people should be annoyed about because it is government policy. We're not at a milk shortage. No, 100%. And I think this is again where Biden was so bad. Some of you out there historically, I think the best analogy is how long did it take for the inflation from Jimmy Carter to burn out in public anger? And unfortunately, you just got used to what things cost and then people were able to adjust. JD went right into this with Sean last night. Let's play cut 20 here where he's saying, look, yes, prices are high.

This does take some time to adjust. Play 20. There are a lot of people out there, Sean, who are saying things are expensive. And we have to remember they're expensive because we inherited this terrible inflation crisis from the Biden administration. But you've already seen. signs that things are getting better. The price of eggs has gone way down. The price of energy has gone way down. The price of gasoline has gone way down. And as we know, when the price of energy goes down, that starts to filter out into the entire economy, but that also takes a little bit of time. It's true you go. And I think, again, for those of you who lived through the worse, worse inflation of Jimmy Carter, you and I buck were so young. Was it 1984 when you suddenly started thinking, okay, the Reagan economy is starting to take flight? Certainly when he won 49 states, that's a pretty good sign that people were voting with their pocketbooks then. But when do people get used? Because I'll be honest, I've never lived through this. I'm still frustrated with what things cost because you have in your mind what something should cost and then you get a bill and it's way more than that and it makes you angry. And the big challenge, and again I've said it, is you can't really dial that back. Once price increases are embedded, you just have to slow down the increase and then slowly people get used to it. I mean, do you feel like the Sultan of Brunei, though, when you buy Chick-fil-A for your kids these days? It's like 100 bucks. I mean, it's crazy. Yes. Yeah. Like when I'm looking, when I'm sitting there thinking to myself, when I'm going through the drive-thru, and I see, like, I pull up and they're like, that'll be $64. I'm like, $64 used to be, you could go into a restaurant, sit down and have a meal, and it would be like $64 for my family. Now it's a fast food meal. And by the way, this is one of the challenges these fast casual chains are having in general is. They're not much more, you know, the difference in cost is not that substantial now between them and that Delta has changed a lot. In a big way. Yeah. The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews do a remarkable job of bringing people together of different faiths. For decades, this nonprofit organization has been a bridge between communities. Whether the focus is on the Jewish population living in Israel, Europe, or here at home, where many people are often subjected to anti-Semitism, the IFCJ is taking a stand. Your donations allow that to happen effectively. They're giving food and shelter to Jewish families that feel under threat, and they're helping survivors of hate rebuild their lives, and they don't just respond to crisis. They work every day to prevent it. Your gift of $45 will help keep bridging the gaps. Supporting the IFCJ is a spiritual stand, too. So please call 888-488-4-8-F-G. That's 888-48-48-

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