Insanity: Unvaxxed Djokovic Banned from the U.S. Open?

BUCK: I already bought some tickets for a sporting event, Clay.

CLAY: Really?

BUCK: U.S. Open tennis, which I do like. I like tennis, all right! I grew up playing tennis, I think it’s a great sport, and I did see this. I was gonna ask you: Apparently, Novak Djokovic is not going to be allowed under current USTA, U.S. Open rules to play in the U.S. Open, again, because of the vaccination issue. Is that your read? I mean, this is what people have been saying.

CLAY: I didn’t know whether he’s allowed in the country or whether it’s a USTA story. I don’t know what the rules are right now, honestly, when you’re a foreign national and you come to the United States.

BUCK: That’s a U.S. federal government issue and not a USTA issue.

CLAY: Potentially. I haven’t heard exactly that explanation because, in New York, you remember they changed the rules for the Mets and the Yankees which eventually allowed Kyrie Irving to be able to play basketball here because they had the ability to play if you traveled in. If you traveled in as a visiting team, you could play, but New York City had the absurd rules that if you were living in the area…

Kyrie Irving wasn’t allowed to play, but he could go sit courtside and then with the pressure rising with the Yankees and the Mets about to play and many of those guys did not get the covid shot so they altered — Mayor Eric Adams did, altered — that rule. So my understanding on this was that — and again I haven’t had to pay a lot of attention to it. But if you are a foreign national potentially there are issues with you traveling into this country —

BUCK: I had to take a test to come home.

CLAY: They’ve done away with that now.

BUCK: Right. But I remember that had to happen.

CLAY: Did away with it Monday, I believe. But to the point that we are in any way disallowing anyone to do anything, whether it’s serve in the military, whether it’s play in a tennis match, whether it is be a janitor at a school… The idea that anyone is still losing their job over whether they have the covid shot or not is to me utterly indefensible.

BUCK: I kind of want to walk you down when we finish the show today to the subway stop right on the corner just to go down and you’ll see that the subway still requires masking in New York City. Planes don’t require it. Airports don’t require it. So for a century… Most people on the subway let’s say they’re commuting something like 30 minutes each way, I think that’s probably a pretty good average subway commute, maybe 30, maybe 40 minutes.

So for about one-twenty-fourth of your day as a New York City resident and that doesn’t include all the bars, restaurants, offices, everything else you go to, the City of New York — based on “expert opinion” — still makes you put a mask on your face in the subway because, just because. So for anyone who’s wondering why we still care about what Fauci says, Fauci… He wants more money by the way. Play clip 2 here. Fauci is demanding for funding right now.

BUCK: Clay, they have completely failed to prevent infection and transmission with anything they have done! Now he wants a new untested vaccine platform.

CLAY: Also, how is it remotely possible that after spending over $5 trillion that we could need more money for anything covid related? I really want for Fauci… I know he’s got covid right now. But when this Red Tsunami arrives in November, I cannot wait for Republicans to have control of the House and the Senate and to really haul him in front of all of those senators and all those congressmen. Fauci to me… I know he said he’s gonna leave in 2024 no matter what happens in the election. I bet —

BUCK: — he resigns by Christmas.

CLAY: Yes. If the Republicans win an overwhelming election if you’re out there right now and you’re thinking, hey, what are the consequences of the midterms, certainly the House and the Senate weigh in. But we need to send a message to Fauci and all of his compatriots out there, everyone who shut down this country. It needs to be so incredibly overwhelming that he’s terrified to stay in his job and has to resign.