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Clay & Buck, the primaries & the general election campaign
Self [Vanity]
| 01 Jun 2023
| Self [Vanity]
Posted on 06/01/2023 5:01:25 AM PDT by relictele
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posted on
06/01/2023 5:01:25 AM PDT
by
relictele
To: relictele
Can’t stand them. They are no replacement for Rush Limbaugh.
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posted on
06/01/2023 5:02:56 AM PDT
by
dforest
(Get kiryandil back on FR.)
To: dforest
I also find them extremely annoying. How did they get this cushy gig ‘taking over’ for Rush, as if anyone could? They must be blackmailing somebody.
Bongino is ok, but he’s no Rush.
To: imabadboy99
I tried listening to them a couple times. Listening to nothing at all was far better.
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posted on
06/01/2023 5:06:39 AM PDT
by
dforest
(Get kiryandil back on FR.)
To: relictele
If Clay & Buck are examples of conservatives, leave me out of it.
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posted on
06/01/2023 5:09:11 AM PDT
by
JonPreston
( ✌ ☮️ )
To: imabadboy99
I used to hear Clay Travis in the mornings sometimes back when he had his mostly sports show Outkick. He was actually more entertaining then. He was edgier, faster with the quips, and when he made commentary about politics, he didn’t seem to hold back.
There’s something slightly forced and perhaps too structured about how Clay and Buck interact. I don’t listen to them a lot, but their conversational back and forth has improved a little in it’s flow since they began, but it still doesn’t have an organic feel to it. I suspect they are being guided a little too much by production in steering their content.
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posted on
06/01/2023 5:20:15 AM PDT
by
z3n
(Kakistocracy)
To: relictele
May 29, 2023 | Sundance |
It always puzzles me when I come across an obscure data point that comes directly from the mouths of people who follow politics, and yet watch them not ask the obvious question. In this video segment, the first 20 seconds by podcaster Patrick Bet-David are interesting.
The video was recorded on Monday May 22nd, two days before Ron DeSantis officially launched his campaign (May 24). The meeting being described by Bet-David is on Thursday May 18, approximately four days before the interview, and six days before the campaign launch.
PBD notes he was invited with 10 to 15 other people to “watch Governor Ron DeSantis, work” in the governor’s mansion. In essence, it seems like someone from the DeSantis campaign was continuing to reach out to ‘influencers’ in advance of the announcement the following week.
QUESTION: Why do none of these influencers ask why they are being invited to “watch” DeSantis?
It just seems odd. The podcast segment is a pretty good discussion with Sebastian Gorka, but watch the first 20 seconds.
What PBD outlines rather casually is exactly what I drew attention to last year. The DeSantis operation was clearly working in the latter part of 2021 to seed the landscape for the 2024 election, including the January 6, 2022, influencer meetup. Yet for some odd reason, none of the participants questioned what the purpose of the unsolicited engagement request was.
I first wrote about this last July and August, it’s all just weird.
If you have followed the management and branding efforts of the team around Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, the protestations today by campaign official and registered foreign agent Christina Pushaw are quite bizarre.
In early January of 2023, the Daily Beast wrote an article [SEE HERE] about how Ms. Pushaw organized an astroturf campaign of support for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, which included the recruitment of several conservative influencers. The substance of the article is generally well known.
In late 2021, early 2022, Ms. Pushaw invited a group of “influencers” to spend time with Governor DeSantis.
It’s not a debatable event. Factually, the collective group took gleeful pictures of their first visit on January 6, 2022, and continued to post frequent pictures on their social media of events throughout last year. The group went to the reelection celebration and inauguration of DeSantis in January before the Daily Beast article.
However, for some odd reason, likely more concerned about people realizing the ‘organized‘ nature of the creation, in a bizarre turn of events, Ms. Christina Pushaw was denying she ever organized the assembly. Then she stated, without any documentary evidence proving she organized it, saying she organized it was a conspiracy theory. [Tweet Link]
If Ms. Pushaw is to be believed, the random group of Florida conservative “influencers” just happened to show up at the Governor’s office on January 6, 2022, without any invitation, organization or coordination on her part.
Even lacking the invitation details, hanging your defense on the absence of a paper trail under these circumstances seems like a very odd position to take.
Why does the DeSantis team fear sunlight on the origin of how this outreach and subsequent meetings took place? Very odd.
I sincerely doubt this group just randomly showed up at Ron DeSantis’ office, on January 6, 2022, without an invitation or organizing.
The same group then continued meeting throughout the year….
Nothing about their recruitment, continued meet-ups and aggressive promotion of Ron DeSantis for the GOP nomination in 2024, would be that interesting or even noteworthy if Ms. Christina Pushaw didn’t paint them all into a box by denying she ever organized their first assembly.
And there’s the rub… Why was Christina Pushaw denying she first organized them on behalf of the political aspirations of her boss, Ron DeSantis?
The only logical reason to make such an outlandish and transparently false claim, was if original 2022 assembly was intended as seed material to use the “influencers” for another purpose, like a 2024 presidential bid. This truth would cut through the pretense of the “book tour”, national branding launch and subsequent nonsense.
However, with Ron DeSantis announcing his candidacy for the GOP nomination, suddenly all these background moves look like proactive steps on behalf of the management team. The January 6, 2022 meeting would then infer the presidential aspirations went as far back as December 2021.
In combination with the $200+ million in Wall Street money assembled by DeSantis, it certainly appears that hiding the long-constructed 2024 plan was the motive for the absurd denial.
To give you an idea of how Florida voters feel about this campaign fraud, watch this twitter video.
That Trump-supporting DeSantis organizer is exactly how the majority of Florida grassroot activists feel. He’s 100% spot on.
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posted on
06/01/2023 5:34:00 AM PDT
by
Bratch
To: relictele
“They are no replacement for Rush Limbaugh.”
That’s the truth but no one else is either. I listen to them at work and usually tune away after 30 minutes or so.
The author says, “nobody is going to remember what Trump said about Kayleigh McEnany.” I will remember.
Regarding Trump’s put-down of her, Clay or Buck pointed out that Trump’s reputation for badmouthing former employees will hinder his ability to recruit good ones for his presidency since they’ll fear being badmouthed somewhere along the line.
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posted on
06/01/2023 5:48:19 AM PDT
by
cymbeline
To: relictele
Here's the deal, all of these programs are basically the same. I can watch 4-5 programs on FOX and they use the same stories in each and every one.
RUSH stood out, I picture Sinead O'Connor singing “Nothing compares 2 u”.
Not a single one of any of the 100’s in the media have stood out and elevated their program by being different and highly entertaining. Can't think of a single one I waited to hear what they had to say about something Like I did with RUSH.
There is a colossal vacuum, if anyone is different it was Tucker, and where is he?
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posted on
06/01/2023 5:54:28 AM PDT
by
1Old Pro
To: relictele
I recently did some painting in my home. Remember how bored I was waiting for the paint to dry so I could hang some pictures. I feel the same way listening to Clay and Buck. There will never, ever be another Rush. Can’t believe how much I miss him. I am what I am today because of him. God is so lucky to have him.
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posted on
06/01/2023 6:11:17 AM PDT
by
animal172
(This ain't the country I grew up in.)
To: relictele
They’ve turned their gig into “The Ron DeSantis for President Show”
To: vortigern
+1. I'm often listening during that time slot and I've given up on them. It's like a DeSantis infomercial, or another front in the "Orange man bad" movement. It's really that bad... shouldn't be surprised with the CIA having its hooks in the program.
Mark Kaye is on another station so I've just started listening to his grab-assy program in short, tolerable segments, or to rotate thru my preset music stations.
It's more important to listen to music than the likes of CIA operatives or political comedians anyway.
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posted on
06/01/2023 6:21:15 AM PDT
by
OKSooner
(Kevin McCarthy is John Boehner minus the excuse of alcoholism.)
To: relictele
Nah, Clay never shuts up. No one can ever replace Rush. Recall how every day Rush was so well prepared, and how he would always be optimistic even when lousy news was on the forefront.
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posted on
06/01/2023 6:25:14 AM PDT
by
kenmcg
(ti hi o)
To: dforest
Buck is excellent and he knows how the Deep State runs. Clay, all he thinks about is sports, every analogy on politics is shaped into sports. Don’t like it at all.
To: relictele
They aren’t entertainers, so they aren’t entertaining. I don’t listen to them as much as I listened to Rush in the Nineties, but I wasn’t listening to Rush as much in his last ten years as in his first ten.
Talk about Trump getting cheated in 2020 does turn off voters, but talking about problems with elections and changes that need to be made implicitly includes a recognition of the problems with the 2020 election. It’s looking forward, though, rather than backwards and making the issue about something more than Donald Trump.
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posted on
06/01/2023 6:37:54 AM PDT
by
x
To: relictele
I didn’t watch the Super Toilet Bowl either. I would rather be a history nerd than know how many yards were rushed for, in a meaningless football game.
To: relictele
why no names?
i recognize a few
one of the bearded guys use to appear on warroom billed as a polish journalist
he was on the project veritas board and was involved in kicking out james okeefe
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posted on
06/01/2023 6:43:19 AM PDT
by
joshua c
(to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
To: vortigern
They should put Tucker in that time slot. I think he is the only one close to taking over Rush
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posted on
06/01/2023 7:11:33 AM PDT
by
lilypad
To: relictele
Clay is the one who irritates me. He starts to ask a question (of a guest or caller) and then goes on and on and on editorializing before shutting up and allowing the response.
Much of his digression is irrelevant.
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posted on
06/01/2023 7:43:57 AM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: relictele
Can’t listen to them.
NeverTrump spoogeocrats, not entertaining.
Rush’s company/widow never should have allowed this position to be filled.
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posted on
06/01/2023 8:10:11 AM PDT
by
LS
("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix) )
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