Protest issue crystalizes hypocrisy of Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
In 18 months, we've gone from lauding Canadian truckers to handing demonstrators "default" prison terms
Sometimes, these pieces write themselves. As I listened to the second hour of Monday’s Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, it became clear to me that the topic of discussion and the hosts’ associated takes provided a slam-dunk opportunity to showcase everything wrong with these goofballs and the current status of their declared political party.
Responding to climate protestors
Clay was the first to call attention to a climate protest that took place over the weekend on a Nevada highway leading to Burning Man. Here is a newsy recap of that event. After laying out the details, Travis launched into a tirade: “If you want to legally protest for anything, the minute you block traffic, I think you should be put in pri … I think it should be a default you have to spend six months in prison, period, if you are arrested for blocking traffic to protest at all. You’re creating dangerous environments, you are obstructing thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people. You are forcing our, uh, police to come out and take, uh, issue with you. I think you should immediately be put in prison. I think it should be a default six months, no matter what you’re protesting.”
Now, Clay is certainly entitled to this viewpoint and many share it to certain degrees. It is interesting that a lawyer who claims to be on the side of freedom and a constitutional absolutist is advocating for automatic prison sentences without trials, but that’s a conversation for another day. The problem here, is that Clay has already taken a stance on police removing protestors from public streets.
Unsurprisingly, he has previously landed on the opposite side of the issue when it was politically convenient for him.
Remember the Canadian trucker protest? (read: adults having a fit over government response to a global pandemic that has killed nearly seven million people)
Clay had a lot to say about this one, even going as far as donating his own money to support the cause:
(January 31, 2022 | 24:35 into video): ”Thank you to the Canadian truckers for standing up to audacious overreach into your personal freedoms and shame on Justin Trudeau, you absolute nincompoop.” Here is a CBC article from this very same day detailing how the truckers blocked a port of entry at the U.S.-Canadian border, stranding motorists and commerce.
(February 2, 2022 | 39:48 into video): “Justin Trudeau came out and attacked all of the brave truckers who are standing up to COVID vaccine mandates in Canada. These truckers in Canada and all of the people standing up to vaccine mandates around the world are on the right side of history. Bravery is rare, props to those truckers for standing up for freedom all around the world. I salute you, Canadian truckers.”
Travis and Sexton also voiced their support for the trucker protest during their shows on February 7th, 8th, 11th, 14th, and 16th.
Clay also noted that he donated to the truckers’ cause on February 16th before weirdly claiming the next day that the Canadian government was going to kill truckers’ pets (this never happened). Does the guy with a “creative writing” background not know what “relinquished” means?
On February 18th, Clay ripped the Canadian government for removing the truckers from the public roadway. Oddly enough, he was against these protestors being arrested.
On Monday, Buck Sexton agreed with Clay’s take about the climate demonstration: “It’s a horribly selfish, babyish, childish, stupid thing to do.”
Only if you’re protesting climate though, right Buck? Those Canadian truckers were heroes.
Now, we have long known that neither Clay Travis and Buck Sexton don’t stand on principles, but never has a single argument brought us such definitive proof of how shameless these ideologues are.
This won’t be the last time these two say the quiet part out loud. Stay tuned.
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