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Democrat quorum breakers have finally returned. Now they have to submit to a DPS officer to ensure they continue showing up to work, or remain on the House floor. They're very upset about that.
Trump is making major progress towards peace in Europe. Shortly after his meeting with Putin, he sat down with Zelensky and other European leaders to talk peace.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
From the heart of the Space City to the heart
of gen Z. Welcome to Next Gen Conversation, not Dad's
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Next Gen Report with Ethan Buchanan.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Hey everybody, good morning. If you're listening on the podcast,
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follow on X at Underscore. Ethan Buchanan bu ch A
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n A N. I am Ethan Buchanan. This is the
Next Gen Report. Thank you for being with me. We
have got quite a bit to talk about today, so
I'm excited to roll into it. First, I wanted to
start in with something kind of fun, well not fun.
It's a little bit concerning because this is where we've
gotten to as a society. This is how poor the
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management of our youth has become. Fast food restaurants have
to now step in. I'm not kidding, this is real.
I mean, I'm of the opinion by the time you're
about fifteen or sixteen years old. You should have some
sort of common sense, basic decency, societal functionality. You should
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be able to add about fifteen or sixteen years old,
Maybe get a driver's license, go out and handle yourself properly.
Be able to function as a semiidult in society. That
is not the case. Here's the headline from Fox Bisness.
Ohio Chick fil A ruffles feathers with teen chaperone policy.
Ohio restaurant policy ensures quote safe and respectful environment for
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all guests. So you know some teens will cause some problems.
Basically is what was happening here and Ohio Chick fil
A upset locals this back to school season by reminding
customers of its teen chaperone policy. On Wednesday, Chick fil
A Ketering posted the policy it says is meant to
quote ensure a safe and respectful environment for all guests
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on Facebook. It did state that anyone seventeen and under
quote must be accompanied by a parent, guardian, or legal
chaperone aged twenty one or older to dine in, and
that unaccompanied minors may be asked to leave. So I
can tell you from experience, I worked at a chick
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fil A in my youth, in my younger years, I
wish we had this policy at my Chick fil A
when I worked there. I wish I didn't have to
wish for that, but I did. We had a number
of occasions where unsupervised young adults, we're talking anyone in
that kind of fifteen to kind of seventeen, eighteen, even
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nineteen year old range, people who should darn well know
better and be able to handle themselves as functional adults,
would come in and cause problems. And you can do
the math on the what problems I'm talking about. It
ranged from, you know, borderline getting in fights with each
other to just being loud and obnoxious and inconvenience to
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other customers. So this is a national issue. This is
not Oh, this one Chick fil A in Ohio is
dealing with this problem. My Chick fil A in Houston
dealt with this. I guarantee you there are others, and
I bet you if you spend enough time outside your household,
you will encounter for yourself at any given location, a
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bunch of variety obnoxious teenagers were never taught how to
behave in public society. Why we have run into this problem?
I will never understand again, this should not be an issue.
A first world country should be able to send fifteen, sixteen,
seventeen year olds out into public and it not be
a massive issue. But unfortunately we have not gotten to
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that point. So my heart breaks for this country and
for that Chick fil A. But I get it, and
unfortunately it's probably necessary in other places. All right, let's
talk about the Big Beautiful Bill. We've got some big
headlines that I want to point out about that. Chairman
Stephen Mirin, he leads the White House Council of Economic Advisors.
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He was on Fox Business recently and he's hyping up
some of the progress that we're already seeing from the
Big Beautiful Bill. Now, I've been very open about this.
I don't think the Big Beautiful Bill is perfect. I
think it's way too big, right, I've said this a
number of times. I'm kind of on massy side about this. However,
there are a lot of good things in the bill.
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It's not all bad, just like it's not all good,
Welcome to reality. Nothing is perfect, but most things aren't
all bad either, and I think the Big Beautiful Bill
is a perfect example of that. So here is Chairman's
Eve Miron talking about some of the upsides of the
big Beautiful Bill. I think this is worth pointing out.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
I think you're going to start to see that very soon,
you know, the in coming months. Actually, for a couple
of reasons. One, people were waiting for the tax bill
to get past. You know, just a few months ago,
there was this fear that we'd have the biggest tax
site in American history that would send the economy careening
into recession. That didn't happen, and in its place, we
have not only huge tax cuts in the one of
the Beautiful Bill, but powerful incentence to her investment no expense,
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full expensing on equipment and new factories. That means that
people were waiting for the bill in order to start
their projects. Those projects are getting underway now. And as
you mentioned before, you know, we've had trillions of commitments
to invest in America. That money is just pouring in.
So I think we're going to see a material uptick
in economic growth in the very near term as the
full effects of these start to settle into the economy.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
All right, so that's great, we all want that, right,
More economic growth, more jobs, the private industry thriving and expanding.
That's a good thing. That's where positive GDP growth comes from.
And again, more great jobs. Perfect. Everybody I think wants that.
But even I think more important is this report about
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how much of a discount it's going to be for
you personally. This is from just thenews dot com. Average
American to receive three seven hundred and fifty two dollars
tax cut in twenty twenty six from Trump's big beautiful Bill.
I don't know if you know this about me. If
you don't, I'm telling you now for the first time. Congratulations.
Welcome to the club. I hate taxes. If you hate
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taxes too, welcome to the club. Please join my little party.
Listen to the show, connect with me. I would love
to hate taxes with you. So anything that will give
me a nearly four thousand dollars tax break, I'm all for. Now. Again,
this is averages. This will probably shape up to be
a little bit higher a little bit lower for various people,
depending on whatever. But the headline number I think is
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pretty great. And even if I don't get that big
of a tax cut, if anybody gets that big of
a tax cut, I support it. I am a big
believer in everybody paying less taxes. And even if I
can't pay less taxes, if somebody else is gonna pay
less taxes, I'll be happy for them. I've never understood
this kind of mindset from the left. Oh, everybody needs
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to pay more taxes, and if somebody's paying less tax
than me, they're a problem. No, be happy for them.
That gives you something to shoot for. Why don't you
ask them how they got to the point where they're
not paying as much taxes as you. That's a goal,
that's a target. You should want that for yourself, not
be jealous of them and angry at them and try
to take away what they have going for them because
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you don't have it. Earn that for yourself. But anyway,
that's a great number, almost four thousand dollars in tax breaks.
I'm excited for it. All Right, we've got a great
show coming up. Stay tuned. We will be right back
after this ad break. I mean to Buchanan, this is
the next show.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Report.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
We'll bear it back. Hey, everyone, welcome back. Alrighty, what
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to talk about? There's nothing going on in the news
right now, y'all just kidding. There's so much going on
in Austin. As always, we have some I think fun news.
We can be happy about the fact that the Democrats,
the quorm breaking Democrats, have finally returned to work. That's
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good news because we have important work in Austin that
does need to get done that can't get done without
the quorm breaking Democrats. So the fact that they have
finally come back is great news. Does that mean that
they're kind of campaigning and political pandering and whatnot that
they have been engaging in. Is that going to stop
now that they're back in Austin. No, absolutely, not by
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no means ever will that happen. So, as you may
or may not know, on Monday, the House Democrats returned
to work. They were gabled back in and then the
Speaker said, okay, we'll be back on Wednesday. You can
you know, if you've been here the entire time, if
you're one of the Republicans who didn't break quorum, here's
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your permission, slip. You're free to go about as you please.
Just be back here in the chamber Wednesday at whatever time,
because we're gabling back in to do more work now
for you Democrats that have been scampered off in California
or Illinois or wherever you were for the last two weeks,
stopping us from getting any work done. The rules are
going to be stricter for you because you're clearly a problem.
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Right if you have kids, This makes sense. If you
have a kid that's known to misbehave and it's constantly
causing trouble, you're going to put stricter rules on that child.
I know this because I was one of those children
for quite some time. I'm speaking from experience. So this
was a situation for these Democrats who broke form. They
were told, you can leave the chamber even though there's
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a call on the house and you're supposed to be here.
I'm giving out permission. You can have that permission too,
but on one condition. You have to have a DPS
officer follow you around. Why because we're not confident that
you will come back to work like you're supposed to.
Which makes sense. These guys have campaigned and patted themselves
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on the back for the last two weeks for not
coming back to work when they're supposed to be at work,
So why would you expect them to, of their own
free will come back to work when they have the
opportunity to do that again. Frankly, I think he's being
way more lenient with them than he should be. He's
allowed them to leave, He's allowed them even to go
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pick up their paychecks that they didn't have direct deposited.
They had to go pick up their paper checks. You're
allowed to leave the chamber and go do that. I
don't think there should be I think you should keep
those paychecks. But the state constitution says we have to
pay them, so we have to pay them. But one
Democrat didn't like this, and they've once again made a
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huge deal about this. They're now campaigning on this, the
fact that this one Democrat decided, you know what, I
don't want to do that. I'm just going to stay
in the chamber and make a fool of myself and
get a bunch of attention because I don't want to
have a DPS officer follow me around, which I mean, hey,
fair enough, that's your decision to make. If you don't
want to have a DPS officer follow you around. I
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understand I probably wouldn't like that either. I didn't do
anything wrong. I don't deserve it. You did, you didn't
show up to work. There's a call in the House.
That means you have to be in the house at work,
where not only do you just have a job there,
you have a legal and constitutional obligation to be there.
And so if we can't trust you to, you know,
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follow through with that obligation, there's gonna be some consequences.
So this is a picture of and if you're listening
on the radio right now, you probably can't see it.
Obviously you can't. But if you're on the Facebook livestream,
here's the picture. There's Representative Nicole Collier in her little
chair in the Texas House of Representatives. She's not allowed
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to leave because she didn't want to sign the paper
to get herself a Republican permission slip. So she got
right to campaigning off of that. By the way, so
here is an interview she did with Reuter's. I don't
know if I'll play all of it, but here's some
of it, just her talking. She explains it herself. She
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gives a perfect loadown of what exactly happened and why
she's stuck in that room. Take a listen.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
The speaker announced, once Korn was restored, that the call
of the House would remain and any member that was
out because of the arm break would be required to
sign a permission slip agreeing to be under the authority
of DPS in order to leave the capital. I refused.
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I refuse to sign the permission slip.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Okay, so bookmark that just in your mind. Remember this.
She was given an option she refused. Because what we'll
get into in the next couple of minutes is they're
trying to make the case that she's being held here.
She can't leave against her will. This is her being
forced to stay. Put. No, she admits right there, I
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chose not to sign the permission slip. I picked this
for myself. She could leave. All she has to do
is take a DPS officer with her. That's it. That's
the only requirement. She's choosing not to. It's not being
forced on her. Nobody's forcing her to not take the
DPS officer and leave. She's choosing that take a listen to.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
Be able to leave the capital. I disagree with that
authoritarian tactic that they have.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Taken.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
You know, as being part of the minority party, we
don't have a lot of victories.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
But we Okay, so you'll hear this language a lot.
They keep calling this an authoritarian tactic.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
It's not.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
It's a call on the House. This is a regular
part of the democratic process. It's only authoritarian because you've
made it authoritarian. It only feels like you're being treated
like a child because you're acting like a child. We
can't trust you to do your job without a DPS
officer looking over your shoulder. So you're either going to
sit here in this room and wait for everybody to
come back, or you can take the DPS officer. That's
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an option that's available to you. You can choose that
at any time. Here's Jaquen Castro. He's I believe, out
of San Antonio. He's a Federal representatives Republican or a
federal representative Republicans locked in Nicole Collier in the House
chamber for doing her job and fighting to protect democracy. No,
you're exactly wrong. We locked her in the chamber for
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not doing her job. We didn't lock her in the
chamber because, oh, she's doing her job, so we can't
allow her to go home. No, she keeps scampering out
of the state so that she doesn't have to do
her job, and so to make sure that she's here
when we need her to be there. We're locking her
in the chamber unless again, I can't stress this enough.
She can leave it any time. She just takes a
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DPS officer with her. She got to campaigning with Jean Wu.
Because of course, Jean Wu has never met a camera
he doesn't like. He's never met a microphone he doesn't like.
But you give him something like this that he can
go and campaign off of. He's going to take the
bait one hundred thousand times out of ten. Take a
listen to this.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Hey, this is Jean and Nicole. We're here on the
house for Nicole today after we came back to fight
these racist jerry mander maps in the courts and get
to make the legal argument.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
What do they do the exercise control and they tell
us that we can't leave unless we do exactly what
they say.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Yes, because those are the rules. It's crazy how hard
they're trying to make just regular Hey, there's a call
on the house. The rules say you have to be here.
We can't trust you to be here. They're going nuts
over this. They're acting like this is the most insane
thing in the world. It's just regular actions and consequences.
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You break the rules, you get punished. They're exercise and control. No,
we're punishing you for breaking the rules. This is how
life works. You break the rules, you get punished. It's
amazing to me that they don't understand this. Rolling Gutierrez
did his own big speech about how terrible this was
the night of I'm not gonna play it. He says
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the S word too many times for me to worry about. Bleeping.
Look here it is again, no lie with Tyler Cohen.
This is authoritarianism. It's not you broke the rules. I
think the biggest, most obvious case of this was yeah,
right here, Jamie Harrison. Who is this guy exactly? I
don't know. But he goes and he makes the case
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that no job should ever restrain someone against their will.
This isn't eighteen twenty five, so he's immediately jumping to slavery. Right,
that's the comparison here, Oh, you can't leave your job.
It's just like in the slavery days. You had to
have a permission slip to leave the plantation. That is
what I assume. The implication is, no, you've broken the rules.
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I recognize you're unfamiliar with the concept of the rules
and following the rules. But the rules exist. They're important.
Your actions have consequences. You break the rules, you get punished.
That's natural. I think everybody understands that. All right, stay tuned,
we will be right back. I've got a lot more
coming up for you, alrighty. So on the subject of Ukraine,
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we've got this big meeting that happened between Vladimir Putin
and Trump in Alaska last Friday, and now we've had
this week, this sit down with a bunch of European leaders,
including Vladimir's Lensky at the White House to basically do
a after action report almost on the meeting that Trump
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and Putin had and basically just say, hey, where are
we in terms of coming to p us now? As
this Real Clear Politics article by Larry Kudlow points out,
this has happened shockingly fast because remember we've had four
straight years I think four maybe three, but four ish
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straight years of basically a stalemate war with no end
in sight. So the fact that we're already having big
moves like what we've seen for President Trump, Larry Kudlow
points out, he's moving at warp speed bypassing ceasefire and
moving straight to a peace deal. It appears that he
has already got a NATAL like security guarantee agreement from
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Vladimir Putin. These are all things that you would think
would take years of negotiation. You've got Vladimir Putin agreeing
to have NATAL forces in Ukraine that will keep him
from invading Ukraine again. At the same time, it doesn't
have to be American boots on the ground, so we
still don't have to get involved. We're already doing these
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major negotiations and Trump is only seven ish months into
his term. That is warp speed. That's fast in seven
months what the rest of the world combined, led by
Joe Biden couldn't do in four years. Basically, that is impressive.
You don't have to like Trump to think that that's impressive.
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I think that's pretty clearly impressive. The war has to stop.
Mister Trump is the peace president. I think that's true.
I think one of Trump's big focuses as president very
clearly has been how many wars can I end across
the world? That's good, that's a good thing, and he's
good at it. We've seen this with other piece deals
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that he's signed, the one that he signed with the
Congo and I can't remember what other African country that
was at war with the Congo, but they had been
a war for thirty years and Trump was in office
for like five months and got a peace deal worked out,
ended a thirty year war. This is something that even
UN folks have to point out. NATO Secretary General here
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he is at this meeting, praising Trump for how quickly
he's broken this deadlock in Ukraine in Eastern Europe. Take
a listen to this.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
I will be very brief. I really want to thank
you President of the United States there, Donalds, for the
fact that you, as I said before, broke the deadlock
basically with the President putin best best starting that dialogue.
And I think it was a February that you had
the first a phone call and from there we are
now very are today, and that is I think if
we played this well, we could end this. And we
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have to end if we have to stop the killing,
we have to stop the destruction of Ukraine's infrastructure. It's
a terrible war. So I'm really excited.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
So yeah, there he is. He's saying the choir part
out loud, I think, which is this has happened very quickly,
impressively fast. We should all be very happy about this. Again,
these are human lives that are being lost. If we
can end this war, go for it, right. And Trump,
i think is the only person in American politics that
has been kind of practical about this. He's sitting there going,
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how do we stop the war without starting another one? Right?
Because that's what you want to do. You want to
come to a peace deal that everybody is okay with
that doesn't immediately lead to another different war ten fifteen
years down the line, because that's usually what happens. One
country attacks, somebody would come to a peace deal, they
don't like it. Fifteen years later, there at war again.
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World War One into World War two is the perfect
example of this. The terms of the World War Two
piece were you know, such that Germany got so ticked
off with it over the next twenty years that there's like,
all right, we're doing it again. We're going back for
the sequel. So if Trump can very tactfully and masterfully
negotiate with Putin and say, hey, here's what we need
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to feel secure. Where can we meet with you on this?
What do you need in order to feel like you
can end this war? Take your ball and go home
without having to fight this out again later down the line.
It's a very practical approach. I've never understood why the
left constantly, you know, goes after Donald Trump for being
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willing to have those sorts of conversations with Vladimir Putin.
I mean, you see this. Every time there's a headline
about how Trump and Putin spoke, the comments from the
left are always, look, see, he's a puppet. He's just
gonna give Putin whatever he wants. No, no, that's not
the takeaway from this at all. Will Putin gets some
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stuff out of this, I'm sure he will. Kudlow points
this out in the Real Clear Politics article. Let me
see where is it here? The issue of a landswap
is still up in the air. If I had to guess, though,
mister Putin is going to get the better end of
the deal, it could be unfair to give mister Putin
what he wants on Denesk and other occupied areas. Yet
there is such pressure coming from mister Trump and frankly,
in my view, virtually the entire world to get a
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piece deal and stop the wholesale war slaughter going on
on both Russian and Ukraine. That unfairness is going to
have to be part of this. That's true. The dirty
little secret about wars is sometimes bad guys get a
little bit of what they want. I've pointed this out before.
This is the harsh reality of war. If you have
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the bigger, more powerful military, even if you're the bad guy,
you get a little bit of what you want. Sometimes.
That I think is going to be the reality of this.
Russia is probably going to get a little bit of Ukraine.
Is that good? No? Is it worth ending the war? Probably?
And Ukraine gets to say, hey, they didn't defeat us, outright,
we just gave them this little sliver of Ukraine that's
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mostly ethnically Russian anyway, So who cares. That's the tough
part about this that liberals don't seem to want to acknowledge.
Sometimes the bad guys get a little bit of what
they want. Donald Trump recognizes this because he's a pragmatist.
The Democrats hate this, so they also will constantly say
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this is another favorite talking point. Trump is not viewed
as a leader on the world stage. The Europeans, they
think we're a joke. They think we're you know, just
we've got our silly little president and we're just puddling
around and we can't be taken seriously. I think this
pretty clearly shows that that's not the case. The fact
that all of Europe is now looking to Donald Trump
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to solve its problems, it's very telling. And that is
what's happening again. All of them, working with Joe Biden
for four years couldn't get to where Donald Trump got
us in what five six seven months? Boom, we're here.
We had a phone call in February, we have a
meeting in August, and now we're having a meeting with
Zelenski in the same month. And now here we are
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probably in two ish weeks. I would venture to guess,
gonna have a sit down with putin In Zelenski. Trump
is pushing for that very hard. So I think it's
very clear here Trump has kind of restored American leadership.
He has. He's not just sitting there agreeing with whatever
the Europeans say. He's forcing them into a room and
forcing them to come to a solution. This is the
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opinion of one Rebecca Grant. She's a national security analyst
airpower author. Here she is on Fox n Fox. I'm sorry,
Newsmax talking about basically how Trump has indeed, despite what
the Democrats will tell you, restored American leadership.
Speaker 7 (26:22):
One hundred percent restoration of American leadership with NATO and
our European allies now united with us in a way
that we've never seen before. And Trump is able to
do it for three reasons one vision, two military power,
and three economic power. But let's really credit his vision here,
and I'm going to tell you China is watching this
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closely too. Now back to Ukraine and Russia. The job
here is to contain Russia, to take the deterrence up
a notch with airpower more in the mix as we
look at a tactical solution, and then to get a
ceasefire here that will stop those terrible drone attacks. But
Trump has really done a great job offering to turn
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on sanctions and do everything necessarily masterful leadership.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
And again, you can't do this overnight. I don't think
anybody really seriously thought that Trump was going to come
into office and then thirty seconds later the war would
be over. But he's doing it lightning quick. It's not overnight,
but it's as close to overnight as you can want
a war to be. And again, he's not just trying
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to end this war just cross the t's and dot
the eyes and call it a day, kind of like
what Joe Biden did in Afghanistan, where he just pulled
everybody out and didn't think about it and said, hey,
all right, that's it, We're done. I ended the war.
Good job. No you didn't. You lost the war. The
Taliban is in charge. We spent twenty years in Afghanistan
for no reason. Now Trump is saying, not only are
we going to end this war, We're going to do
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so in a way that Russia feels like they proved
what they had to and they don't need to go
and try this again in ten years. And at the
same time, Ukraine feels safe. They have NATO boots on
the ground. They're not NATO members, they won't be NATO members,
that's been made clear, but that doesn't mean we can't
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have NATO peacekeepers there just to oversee things. And the
fact that he was able to, from what it sounds like,
get Vladimir Putin to sign off on that, that's a
win too. That's worth pointing out. So the point here
is we should be very excited about this. We should
be very optimistic about this. It's gonna be very easy
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to get down in the dumps and say, oh, you
gave Putin what he wanted because he has a small
sliver of Ukraine. No, we gave the world what it
needed and that's an end to the war. That's the
way to look at this. You win some, you lose some.
Ukraine's gonna get some of what they want. Russia is
to the war will stop. That's what I'm interested in.
All right, thank you very much. We will be right back.
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All right, let's close things out by first of all,
talking Broadway. That's something I don't do a lot. I
don't really care about Broadway. I've never been a big
musical guy. I like a few of them. I think
Ley Miss is good. I liked ley Miz, but that's
just because I like history. That was more about the
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history than about ley Mis itself. But I thought some
of the songs were good. Cash Ye, I enjoyed it.
I've watched the Broadway production, the twenty fifth anniversary taping
that they did. I thought that was pretty good. I
enjoyed it. I watched the movie with Hugh Jackman. That
was pretty good too. But as far as musical goes.
That's pretty much about where I draw the line. Hamilton
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was I guess okay, but that had the frozen problem.
It got so overplayed, you know, it was like let
its go for theater kids. It was a disaster. Here's
one that I think probably takes the cake for all
time worst musical, dumbest premise, terrible idea. Why are we
doing this societal collapse? This is the end all of
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that rolled up into one, and it's this musical about
Abraham Lincoln. So here's the headline from Breitbart. ABC's GMA.
That's Good Morning America promotes a sex swapped Broadway play
about a closeted gay president Abraham Lincoln is now a
trans woman. What a whirlwind. Let me start with that.
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Mary Todd Lincoln is, I believe in this play played
by a drag queen, and the plot I believe is
Abraham Lincoln is an evil, closeted gay man. Let's dig
into this a little bit. The Broadway play Oh Mary,
about Mary Todd Lincoln, the wife of President Abraham Lincoln,
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is reimagining Mary Todd as a raging alcoholic with cabaret
dreams and the iconic US president is portrayed as an evil,
closeted gay man. I feel like this was written by
some good old boys who are just trying to make
fun of Abraham Lincoln. You know the type, you know,
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Big four and f one fifty with a rebel flag
bumper stick on the back. They wrote this play to
get after Abraham Lincoln, which, hey, I mean just in
terms of who he was as a politician. I didn't
care for Abraham Lincoln that much. I personally think the
light that we paint him in is a lot more
favorable just because he won the Civil War. But am
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I gonna sit here and say that he was a closeted,
evil gay man. No, because that's stupid. Why are we
doing that? And on Broadway? Nonetheless, that you be an
iconic part of American culture, and now it's just become
a playground for the just absolute worst of the worst
theater kids. Over the weekend, ABC's Good Morning America featured
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RuPaul's drag race queen alum Jinx Moonson, who portrays Mary
Todd in oh Mary. Moonson touted the play and the
iconic president's character, saying, Abraham Lincoln is now a trans woman.
Lawmakers get to rewrite history. Why can't I? All right, well,
let me question you on that premise. First of all,
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lawmakers don't get to rewrite history. They try to, and
we call them out for it, just like I'm gonna
call you out for this right now. This is the
stupidest nonsense I've ever seen in my entire life. I
could go on this big tangent about what a kind
of red flag this is for the health of our
society and culture, how concerning it is that this is
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where we're at as a people. This is what we're
calling art. You're just taking history, You're completely flipping on
its head and trying to rewrite it to be about
how great it is to be gay. I could go
on a tangent about that. I'm not going to. This
is just stupid. I'm not going to justify this by
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trying to pick apart what this means for our society
and our culture and the things we choose to promote.
This is just stupid. That's all this is. And it's
baffling to me. I think the only cultural commentary I'll
give on this is not only was someone stupid enough
to write this, but other people were stupid enough to
fund it, and then some Broadway theater was stupid enough
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to host it. And the icing on the cake is
I'm almost positive that in radical left New York City
there is a huge group of people that are stupid
enough to go pay money to see it. That's sad
to me, other than that this is just weird. It's
weird that you would do this. What kind of fetish
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nonsensor you on about here? But to me, the real
story is enough people were stupid enough to make this
a Broadway musical and do a five minute piece on
Good Morning America on ABC about how great it is
that this stupid gay retelling of Abraham Lincoln's life is
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now out there on Broadway. NBR reports interviewer Brittany lw
sat with Oh Mary creator and star Cole Eskola to
explore the play, outlined plot synopsis, and revealed the complete
rewriting of history. Their exchange was previewed by host Scott Dietro,
who made the observation that the lead characters saw Mary
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reimagined as a raging alcoholic with cabaret dreams and Lincoln
is an evil, closeted gay man. I mean, come on, guys,
is what By the way, these are the same people
that say you should shell out from your paycheck into
taxes that then go to fund their college education. I
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guarantee you everyone involved in this has hundreds of thousands
of dollars of student debt that they got at an
Ivy League school studying lesbian dance theory. This is it
the lesbian dance theory joke. This is it come to life.
This is the lesbian dance theory. Abraham Lincoln is a
gay man and his wife is a transvestite. That's where
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we're going, Lee Moses. It's just dumb. It's just dumb.
But it's fitting that this is happening in New York too, Broadway.
I mean, this is everything, got it. Every joke I
could possibly make about how terrible the left is, theater,
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kids are New Yorkers are All of the material I
could possibly come up with is already right here. And
it's the actual play. You gotta be kid me, all right,
I gotta get off of this. I'm gonna lose my
mind talking about this. Let's talk about something even dumber.
Kamala Harris. She decided to weigh in on our Texas
redistricting and that went just about as well as you
(36:12):
think it did. Here is Kamala Harris rambling in her fashion.
She looks drunk. I don't know if she is. She
may or may not be. She kind of seems inebriated
to me. Take a listen.
Speaker 8 (36:25):
Think what they're doing is they're cheating. Think you're cheating there.
They want to change the current system to make it
bend toward the outcome they want uh huh. And so
you know, if you believe the public reporting, they get
a call that says, hey, redo your lines, even though
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the fallout is going to include exactly what you said.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
Would is okay. So the push she's making here is, oh,
these Republicans just got the order from Donald Trump to
jerrymander their districts, and so they're jerrymandering. No, that's not
what happened. What actually happened here was Galveston County re
drew their districts and they got sued because of it.
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They removed the majority minority districts from Galveston County and
they said, hey, we shouldn't have these. We're going to
draw people based off of political interest, not skin color.
So these ridiculous gerrymander districts where we just took all
of the black and brown neighborhoods and drew them into
one district, even though they're not even remotely close to
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each other. There's no reason for them to be in
the same district other than all of these people are brownish.
We're going to do away with those districts. Galveston County
did that. They got sued over it. They fought that
lawsuit all the way up to the Fifth Circuit Court
of Appeals, and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals said, hey,
you do not have to have majority minority districts. They're
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arguably unconstitutional. We're not throwing out the Galveston County maps.
These are the maps. Now you can do away with
racially jerrymandered districts. That's what Texas Republicans are doing. We're
taking that ruling and we're saying, hey, we've got these
districts all over the state of Texas. They don't make sense.
They're just drawn to be racially jerry mandered. We're undoing
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that because it's not honest, it's not fair, It isn't
and that's what the Democrats are so upset about. That's
what Kamala Harris is so upset about but she has
no idea what she's talking about. Because the dirty little
secret about Kamala Harris is she's not that smart. She
never was, she never will be. And this is exactly
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why Californian should stay out of Texas politics. You have
no idea what you're talking about, you don't. All right,
That's all I've got for you. Hey, remember Sunday seven
pm am nine to fifty KPRC will be there. You
should be there too. It'll be a great show. Follow
me on X at Underscore Ethan Buchanan always great stuff
on my X page. So hey, thank you very much
for listening, and yeah, we'll see you Sunday. The Pig
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put them on the beater, Pty
From the heart of the Space City to the heart
of gen Z. Welcome to Next Gen Conversation, not Dad's
Talk Radio. Ethan talks to you about the issues and
events that men are to our generation. This is the
Next Gen Report with Ethan Buchanan.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Hey everybody, good morning. If you're listening on the podcast,
thank you for joining me. If you're listening on AM
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(00:44):
n A N. I am Ethan Buchanan. This is the
Next Gen Report. Thank you for being with me. We
have got quite a bit to talk about today, so
I'm excited to roll into it. First, I wanted to
start in with something kind of fun, well not fun.
It's a little bit concerning because this is where we've
gotten to as a society. This is how poor the
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management of our youth has become. Fast food restaurants have
to now step in. I'm not kidding, this is real.
I mean, I'm of the opinion by the time you're
about fifteen or sixteen years old. You should have some
sort of common sense, basic decency, societal functionality. You should
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be able to add about fifteen or sixteen years old,
Maybe get a driver's license, go out and handle yourself properly.
Be able to function as a semiidult in society. That
is not the case. Here's the headline from Fox Bisness.
Ohio Chick fil A ruffles feathers with teen chaperone policy.
Ohio restaurant policy ensures quote safe and respectful environment for
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all guests. So you know some teens will cause some problems.
Basically is what was happening here and Ohio Chick fil
A upset locals this back to school season by reminding
customers of its teen chaperone policy. On Wednesday, Chick fil
A Ketering posted the policy it says is meant to
quote ensure a safe and respectful environment for all guests
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on Facebook. It did state that anyone seventeen and under
quote must be accompanied by a parent, guardian, or legal
chaperone aged twenty one or older to dine in, and
that unaccompanied minors may be asked to leave. So I
can tell you from experience, I worked at a chick
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fil A in my youth, in my younger years, I
wish we had this policy at my Chick fil A
when I worked there. I wish I didn't have to
wish for that, but I did. We had a number
of occasions where unsupervised young adults, we're talking anyone in
that kind of fifteen to kind of seventeen, eighteen, even
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nineteen year old range, people who should darn well know
better and be able to handle themselves as functional adults,
would come in and cause problems. And you can do
the math on the what problems I'm talking about. It
ranged from, you know, borderline getting in fights with each
other to just being loud and obnoxious and inconvenience to
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other customers. So this is a national issue. This is
not Oh, this one Chick fil A in Ohio is
dealing with this problem. My Chick fil A in Houston
dealt with this. I guarantee you there are others, and
I bet you if you spend enough time outside your household,
you will encounter for yourself at any given location, a
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bunch of variety obnoxious teenagers were never taught how to
behave in public society. Why we have run into this problem?
I will never understand again, this should not be an issue.
A first world country should be able to send fifteen, sixteen,
seventeen year olds out into public and it not be
a massive issue. But unfortunately we have not gotten to
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that point. So my heart breaks for this country and
for that Chick fil A. But I get it, and
unfortunately it's probably necessary in other places. All right, let's
talk about the Big Beautiful Bill. We've got some big
headlines that I want to point out about that. Chairman
Stephen Mirin, he leads the White House Council of Economic Advisors.
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He was on Fox Business recently and he's hyping up
some of the progress that we're already seeing from the
Big Beautiful Bill. Now, I've been very open about this.
I don't think the Big Beautiful Bill is perfect. I
think it's way too big, right, I've said this a
number of times. I'm kind of on massy side about this. However,
there are a lot of good things in the bill.
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It's not all bad, just like it's not all good,
Welcome to reality. Nothing is perfect, but most things aren't
all bad either, and I think the Big Beautiful Bill
is a perfect example of that. So here is Chairman's
Eve Miron talking about some of the upsides of the
big Beautiful Bill. I think this is worth pointing out.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
I think you're going to start to see that very soon,
you know, the in coming months. Actually, for a couple
of reasons. One, people were waiting for the tax bill
to get past. You know, just a few months ago,
there was this fear that we'd have the biggest tax
site in American history that would send the economy careening
into recession. That didn't happen, and in its place, we
have not only huge tax cuts in the one of
the Beautiful Bill, but powerful incentence to her investment no expense,
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full expensing on equipment and new factories. That means that
people were waiting for the bill in order to start
their projects. Those projects are getting underway now. And as
you mentioned before, you know, we've had trillions of commitments
to invest in America. That money is just pouring in.
So I think we're going to see a material uptick
in economic growth in the very near term as the
full effects of these start to settle into the economy.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
All right, so that's great, we all want that, right,
More economic growth, more jobs, the private industry thriving and expanding.
That's a good thing. That's where positive GDP growth comes from.
And again, more great jobs. Perfect. Everybody I think wants that.
But even I think more important is this report about
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how much of a discount it's going to be for
you personally. This is from just thenews dot com. Average
American to receive three seven hundred and fifty two dollars
tax cut in twenty twenty six from Trump's big beautiful Bill.
I don't know if you know this about me. If
you don't, I'm telling you now for the first time. Congratulations.
Welcome to the club. I hate taxes. If you hate
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taxes too, welcome to the club. Please join my little party.
Listen to the show, connect with me. I would love
to hate taxes with you. So anything that will give
me a nearly four thousand dollars tax break, I'm all for. Now. Again,
this is averages. This will probably shape up to be
a little bit higher a little bit lower for various people,
depending on whatever. But the headline number I think is
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pretty great. And even if I don't get that big
of a tax cut, if anybody gets that big of
a tax cut, I support it. I am a big
believer in everybody paying less taxes. And even if I
can't pay less taxes, if somebody else is gonna pay
less taxes, I'll be happy for them. I've never understood
this kind of mindset from the left. Oh, everybody needs
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to pay more taxes, and if somebody's paying less tax
than me, they're a problem. No, be happy for them.
That gives you something to shoot for. Why don't you
ask them how they got to the point where they're
not paying as much taxes as you. That's a goal,
that's a target. You should want that for yourself, not
be jealous of them and angry at them and try
to take away what they have going for them because
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you don't have it. Earn that for yourself. But anyway,
that's a great number, almost four thousand dollars in tax breaks.
I'm excited for it. All Right, we've got a great
show coming up. Stay tuned. We will be right back
after this ad break. I mean to Buchanan, this is
the next show.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Report.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
We'll bear it back. Hey, everyone, welcome back. Alrighty, what
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to talk about? There's nothing going on in the news
right now, y'all just kidding. There's so much going on
in Austin. As always, we have some I think fun news.
We can be happy about the fact that the Democrats,
the quorm breaking Democrats, have finally returned to work. That's
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good news because we have important work in Austin that
does need to get done that can't get done without
the quorm breaking Democrats. So the fact that they have
finally come back is great news. Does that mean that
they're kind of campaigning and political pandering and whatnot that
they have been engaging in. Is that going to stop
now that they're back in Austin. No, absolutely, not by
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no means ever will that happen. So, as you may
or may not know, on Monday, the House Democrats returned
to work. They were gabled back in and then the
Speaker said, okay, we'll be back on Wednesday. You can
you know, if you've been here the entire time, if
you're one of the Republicans who didn't break quorum, here's
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your permission, slip. You're free to go about as you please.
Just be back here in the chamber Wednesday at whatever time,
because we're gabling back in to do more work now
for you Democrats that have been scampered off in California
or Illinois or wherever you were for the last two weeks,
stopping us from getting any work done. The rules are
going to be stricter for you because you're clearly a problem.
(09:55):
Right if you have kids, This makes sense. If you
have a kid that's known to misbehave and it's constantly
causing trouble, you're going to put stricter rules on that child.
I know this because I was one of those children
for quite some time. I'm speaking from experience. So this
was a situation for these Democrats who broke form. They
were told, you can leave the chamber even though there's
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a call on the house and you're supposed to be here.
I'm giving out permission. You can have that permission too,
but on one condition. You have to have a DPS
officer follow you around. Why because we're not confident that
you will come back to work like you're supposed to.
Which makes sense. These guys have campaigned and patted themselves
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on the back for the last two weeks for not
coming back to work when they're supposed to be at work,
So why would you expect them to, of their own
free will come back to work when they have the
opportunity to do that again. Frankly, I think he's being
way more lenient with them than he should be. He's
allowed them to leave, He's allowed them even to go
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pick up their paychecks that they didn't have direct deposited.
They had to go pick up their paper checks. You're
allowed to leave the chamber and go do that. I
don't think there should be I think you should keep
those paychecks. But the state constitution says we have to
pay them, so we have to pay them. But one
Democrat didn't like this, and they've once again made a
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huge deal about this. They're now campaigning on this, the
fact that this one Democrat decided, you know what, I
don't want to do that. I'm just going to stay
in the chamber and make a fool of myself and
get a bunch of attention because I don't want to
have a DPS officer follow me around, which I mean, hey,
fair enough, that's your decision to make. If you don't
want to have a DPS officer follow you around. I
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understand I probably wouldn't like that either. I didn't do
anything wrong. I don't deserve it. You did, you didn't
show up to work. There's a call in the House.
That means you have to be in the house at work,
where not only do you just have a job there,
you have a legal and constitutional obligation to be there.
And so if we can't trust you to, you know,
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follow through with that obligation, there's gonna be some consequences.
So this is a picture of and if you're listening
on the radio right now, you probably can't see it.
Obviously you can't. But if you're on the Facebook livestream,
here's the picture. There's Representative Nicole Collier in her little
chair in the Texas House of Representatives. She's not allowed
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to leave because she didn't want to sign the paper
to get herself a Republican permission slip. So she got
right to campaigning off of that. By the way, so
here is an interview she did with Reuter's. I don't
know if I'll play all of it, but here's some
of it, just her talking. She explains it herself. She
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gives a perfect loadown of what exactly happened and why
she's stuck in that room. Take a listen.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
The speaker announced, once Korn was restored, that the call
of the House would remain and any member that was
out because of the arm break would be required to
sign a permission slip agreeing to be under the authority
of DPS in order to leave the capital. I refused.
(13:13):
I refuse to sign the permission slip.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Okay, so bookmark that just in your mind. Remember this.
She was given an option she refused. Because what we'll
get into in the next couple of minutes is they're
trying to make the case that she's being held here.
She can't leave against her will. This is her being
forced to stay. Put. No, she admits right there, I
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chose not to sign the permission slip. I picked this
for myself. She could leave. All she has to do
is take a DPS officer with her. That's it. That's
the only requirement. She's choosing not to. It's not being
forced on her. Nobody's forcing her to not take the
DPS officer and leave. She's choosing that take a listen to.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
Be able to leave the capital. I disagree with that
authoritarian tactic that they have.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Taken.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
You know, as being part of the minority party, we
don't have a lot of victories.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
But we Okay, so you'll hear this language a lot.
They keep calling this an authoritarian tactic.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
It's not.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
It's a call on the House. This is a regular
part of the democratic process. It's only authoritarian because you've
made it authoritarian. It only feels like you're being treated
like a child because you're acting like a child. We
can't trust you to do your job without a DPS
officer looking over your shoulder. So you're either going to
sit here in this room and wait for everybody to
come back, or you can take the DPS officer. That's
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an option that's available to you. You can choose that
at any time. Here's Jaquen Castro. He's I believe, out
of San Antonio. He's a Federal representatives Republican or a
federal representative Republicans locked in Nicole Collier in the House
chamber for doing her job and fighting to protect democracy. No,
you're exactly wrong. We locked her in the chamber for
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not doing her job. We didn't lock her in the
chamber because, oh, she's doing her job, so we can't
allow her to go home. No, she keeps scampering out
of the state so that she doesn't have to do
her job, and so to make sure that she's here
when we need her to be there. We're locking her
in the chamber unless again, I can't stress this enough.
She can leave it any time. She just takes a
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DPS officer with her. She got to campaigning with Jean Wu.
Because of course, Jean Wu has never met a camera
he doesn't like. He's never met a microphone he doesn't like.
But you give him something like this that he can
go and campaign off of. He's going to take the
bait one hundred thousand times out of ten. Take a
listen to this.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Hey, this is Jean and Nicole. We're here on the
house for Nicole today after we came back to fight
these racist jerry mander maps in the courts and get
to make the legal argument.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
What do they do the exercise control and they tell
us that we can't leave unless we do exactly what
they say.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Yes, because those are the rules. It's crazy how hard
they're trying to make just regular Hey, there's a call
on the house. The rules say you have to be here.
We can't trust you to be here. They're going nuts
over this. They're acting like this is the most insane
thing in the world. It's just regular actions and consequences.
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You break the rules, you get punished. They're exercise and control. No,
we're punishing you for breaking the rules. This is how
life works. You break the rules, you get punished. It's
amazing to me that they don't understand this. Rolling Gutierrez
did his own big speech about how terrible this was
the night of I'm not gonna play it. He says
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the S word too many times for me to worry about. Bleeping.
Look here it is again, no lie with Tyler Cohen.
This is authoritarianism. It's not you broke the rules. I
think the biggest, most obvious case of this was yeah,
right here, Jamie Harrison. Who is this guy exactly? I
don't know. But he goes and he makes the case
(17:17):
that no job should ever restrain someone against their will.
This isn't eighteen twenty five, so he's immediately jumping to slavery. Right,
that's the comparison here, Oh, you can't leave your job.
It's just like in the slavery days. You had to
have a permission slip to leave the plantation. That is
what I assume. The implication is, no, you've broken the rules.
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I recognize you're unfamiliar with the concept of the rules
and following the rules. But the rules exist. They're important.
Your actions have consequences. You break the rules, you get punished.
That's natural. I think everybody understands that. All right, stay tuned,
we will be right back. I've got a lot more
coming up for you, alrighty. So on the subject of Ukraine,
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we've got this big meeting that happened between Vladimir Putin
and Trump in Alaska last Friday, and now we've had
this week, this sit down with a bunch of European leaders,
including Vladimir's Lensky at the White House to basically do
a after action report almost on the meeting that Trump
(18:48):
and Putin had and basically just say, hey, where are
we in terms of coming to p us now? As
this Real Clear Politics article by Larry Kudlow points out,
this has happened shockingly fast because remember we've had four
straight years I think four maybe three, but four ish
(19:09):
straight years of basically a stalemate war with no end
in sight. So the fact that we're already having big
moves like what we've seen for President Trump, Larry Kudlow
points out, he's moving at warp speed bypassing ceasefire and
moving straight to a peace deal. It appears that he
has already got a NATAL like security guarantee agreement from
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Vladimir Putin. These are all things that you would think
would take years of negotiation. You've got Vladimir Putin agreeing
to have NATAL forces in Ukraine that will keep him
from invading Ukraine again. At the same time, it doesn't
have to be American boots on the ground, so we
still don't have to get involved. We're already doing these
(19:52):
major negotiations and Trump is only seven ish months into
his term. That is warp speed. That's fast in seven
months what the rest of the world combined, led by
Joe Biden couldn't do in four years. Basically, that is impressive.
You don't have to like Trump to think that that's impressive.
(20:13):
I think that's pretty clearly impressive. The war has to stop.
Mister Trump is the peace president. I think that's true.
I think one of Trump's big focuses as president very
clearly has been how many wars can I end across
the world? That's good, that's a good thing, and he's
good at it. We've seen this with other piece deals
(20:34):
that he's signed, the one that he signed with the
Congo and I can't remember what other African country that
was at war with the Congo, but they had been
a war for thirty years and Trump was in office
for like five months and got a peace deal worked out,
ended a thirty year war. This is something that even
UN folks have to point out. NATO Secretary General here
(20:55):
he is at this meeting, praising Trump for how quickly
he's broken this deadlock in Ukraine in Eastern Europe. Take
a listen to this.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
I will be very brief. I really want to thank
you President of the United States there, Donalds, for the
fact that you, as I said before, broke the deadlock
basically with the President putin best best starting that dialogue.
And I think it was a February that you had
the first a phone call and from there we are
now very are today, and that is I think if
we played this well, we could end this. And we
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have to end if we have to stop the killing,
we have to stop the destruction of Ukraine's infrastructure. It's
a terrible war. So I'm really excited.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
So yeah, there he is. He's saying the choir part
out loud, I think, which is this has happened very quickly,
impressively fast. We should all be very happy about this. Again,
these are human lives that are being lost. If we
can end this war, go for it, right. And Trump,
i think is the only person in American politics that
has been kind of practical about this. He's sitting there going,
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how do we stop the war without starting another one? Right?
Because that's what you want to do. You want to
come to a peace deal that everybody is okay with
that doesn't immediately lead to another different war ten fifteen
years down the line, because that's usually what happens. One
country attacks, somebody would come to a peace deal, they
don't like it. Fifteen years later, there at war again.
(22:20):
World War One into World War two is the perfect
example of this. The terms of the World War Two
piece were you know, such that Germany got so ticked
off with it over the next twenty years that there's like,
all right, we're doing it again. We're going back for
the sequel. So if Trump can very tactfully and masterfully
negotiate with Putin and say, hey, here's what we need
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to feel secure. Where can we meet with you on this?
What do you need in order to feel like you
can end this war? Take your ball and go home
without having to fight this out again later down the line.
It's a very practical approach. I've never understood why the
left constantly, you know, goes after Donald Trump for being
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willing to have those sorts of conversations with Vladimir Putin.
I mean, you see this. Every time there's a headline
about how Trump and Putin spoke, the comments from the
left are always, look, see, he's a puppet. He's just
gonna give Putin whatever he wants. No, no, that's not
the takeaway from this at all. Will Putin gets some
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stuff out of this, I'm sure he will. Kudlow points
this out in the Real Clear Politics article. Let me
see where is it here? The issue of a landswap
is still up in the air. If I had to guess, though,
mister Putin is going to get the better end of
the deal, it could be unfair to give mister Putin
what he wants on Denesk and other occupied areas. Yet
there is such pressure coming from mister Trump and frankly,
in my view, virtually the entire world to get a
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piece deal and stop the wholesale war slaughter going on
on both Russian and Ukraine. That unfairness is going to
have to be part of this. That's true. The dirty
little secret about wars is sometimes bad guys get a
little bit of what they want. I've pointed this out before.
This is the harsh reality of war. If you have
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the bigger, more powerful military, even if you're the bad guy,
you get a little bit of what you want. Sometimes.
That I think is going to be the reality of this.
Russia is probably going to get a little bit of Ukraine.
Is that good? No? Is it worth ending the war? Probably?
And Ukraine gets to say, hey, they didn't defeat us, outright,
we just gave them this little sliver of Ukraine that's
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mostly ethnically Russian anyway, So who cares. That's the tough
part about this that liberals don't seem to want to acknowledge.
Sometimes the bad guys get a little bit of what
they want. Donald Trump recognizes this because he's a pragmatist.
The Democrats hate this, so they also will constantly say
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this is another favorite talking point. Trump is not viewed
as a leader on the world stage. The Europeans, they
think we're a joke. They think we're you know, just
we've got our silly little president and we're just puddling
around and we can't be taken seriously. I think this
pretty clearly shows that that's not the case. The fact
that all of Europe is now looking to Donald Trump
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to solve its problems, it's very telling. And that is
what's happening again. All of them, working with Joe Biden
for four years couldn't get to where Donald Trump got
us in what five six seven months? Boom, we're here.
We had a phone call in February, we have a
meeting in August, and now we're having a meeting with
Zelenski in the same month. And now here we are
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probably in two ish weeks. I would venture to guess,
gonna have a sit down with putin In Zelenski. Trump
is pushing for that very hard. So I think it's
very clear here Trump has kind of restored American leadership.
He has. He's not just sitting there agreeing with whatever
the Europeans say. He's forcing them into a room and
forcing them to come to a solution. This is the
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opinion of one Rebecca Grant. She's a national security analyst
airpower author. Here she is on Fox n Fox. I'm sorry,
Newsmax talking about basically how Trump has indeed, despite what
the Democrats will tell you, restored American leadership.
Speaker 7 (26:22):
One hundred percent restoration of American leadership with NATO and
our European allies now united with us in a way
that we've never seen before. And Trump is able to
do it for three reasons one vision, two military power,
and three economic power. But let's really credit his vision here,
and I'm going to tell you China is watching this
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closely too. Now back to Ukraine and Russia. The job
here is to contain Russia, to take the deterrence up
a notch with airpower more in the mix as we
look at a tactical solution, and then to get a
ceasefire here that will stop those terrible drone attacks. But
Trump has really done a great job offering to turn
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on sanctions and do everything necessarily masterful leadership.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
And again, you can't do this overnight. I don't think
anybody really seriously thought that Trump was going to come
into office and then thirty seconds later the war would
be over. But he's doing it lightning quick. It's not overnight,
but it's as close to overnight as you can want
a war to be. And again, he's not just trying
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to end this war just cross the t's and dot
the eyes and call it a day, kind of like
what Joe Biden did in Afghanistan, where he just pulled
everybody out and didn't think about it and said, hey,
all right, that's it, We're done. I ended the war.
Good job. No you didn't. You lost the war. The
Taliban is in charge. We spent twenty years in Afghanistan
for no reason. Now Trump is saying, not only are
we going to end this war, We're going to do
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so in a way that Russia feels like they proved
what they had to and they don't need to go
and try this again in ten years. And at the
same time, Ukraine feels safe. They have NATO boots on
the ground. They're not NATO members, they won't be NATO members,
that's been made clear, but that doesn't mean we can't
(28:15):
have NATO peacekeepers there just to oversee things. And the
fact that he was able to, from what it sounds like,
get Vladimir Putin to sign off on that, that's a
win too. That's worth pointing out. So the point here
is we should be very excited about this. We should
be very optimistic about this. It's gonna be very easy
(28:36):
to get down in the dumps and say, oh, you
gave Putin what he wanted because he has a small
sliver of Ukraine. No, we gave the world what it
needed and that's an end to the war. That's the
way to look at this. You win some, you lose some.
Ukraine's gonna get some of what they want. Russia is
to the war will stop. That's what I'm interested in.
All right, thank you very much. We will be right back.
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All right, let's close things out by first of all,
talking Broadway. That's something I don't do a lot. I
don't really care about Broadway. I've never been a big
musical guy. I like a few of them. I think
Ley Miss is good. I liked ley Miz, but that's
just because I like history. That was more about the
(29:38):
history than about ley Mis itself. But I thought some
of the songs were good. Cash Ye, I enjoyed it.
I've watched the Broadway production, the twenty fifth anniversary taping
that they did. I thought that was pretty good. I
enjoyed it. I watched the movie with Hugh Jackman. That
was pretty good too. But as far as musical goes.
That's pretty much about where I draw the line. Hamilton
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was I guess okay, but that had the frozen problem.
It got so overplayed, you know, it was like let
its go for theater kids. It was a disaster. Here's
one that I think probably takes the cake for all
time worst musical, dumbest premise, terrible idea. Why are we
doing this societal collapse? This is the end all of
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that rolled up into one, and it's this musical about
Abraham Lincoln. So here's the headline from Breitbart. ABC's GMA.
That's Good Morning America promotes a sex swapped Broadway play
about a closeted gay president Abraham Lincoln is now a
trans woman. What a whirlwind. Let me start with that.
(30:45):
Mary Todd Lincoln is, I believe in this play played
by a drag queen, and the plot I believe is
Abraham Lincoln is an evil, closeted gay man. Let's dig
into this a little bit. The Broadway play Oh Mary,
about Mary Todd Lincoln, the wife of President Abraham Lincoln,
(31:05):
is reimagining Mary Todd as a raging alcoholic with cabaret
dreams and the iconic US president is portrayed as an evil,
closeted gay man. I feel like this was written by
some good old boys who are just trying to make
fun of Abraham Lincoln. You know the type, you know,
(31:25):
Big four and f one fifty with a rebel flag
bumper stick on the back. They wrote this play to
get after Abraham Lincoln, which, hey, I mean just in
terms of who he was as a politician. I didn't
care for Abraham Lincoln that much. I personally think the
light that we paint him in is a lot more
favorable just because he won the Civil War. But am
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I gonna sit here and say that he was a closeted,
evil gay man. No, because that's stupid. Why are we
doing that? And on Broadway? Nonetheless, that you be an
iconic part of American culture, and now it's just become
a playground for the just absolute worst of the worst
theater kids. Over the weekend, ABC's Good Morning America featured
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RuPaul's drag race queen alum Jinx Moonson, who portrays Mary
Todd in oh Mary. Moonson touted the play and the
iconic president's character, saying, Abraham Lincoln is now a trans woman.
Lawmakers get to rewrite history. Why can't I? All right, well,
let me question you on that premise. First of all,
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lawmakers don't get to rewrite history. They try to, and
we call them out for it, just like I'm gonna
call you out for this right now. This is the
stupidest nonsense I've ever seen in my entire life. I
could go on this big tangent about what a kind
of red flag this is for the health of our
society and culture, how concerning it is that this is
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where we're at as a people. This is what we're
calling art. You're just taking history, You're completely flipping on
its head and trying to rewrite it to be about
how great it is to be gay. I could go
on a tangent about that. I'm not going to. This
is just stupid. I'm not going to justify this by
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trying to pick apart what this means for our society
and our culture and the things we choose to promote.
This is just stupid. That's all this is. And it's
baffling to me. I think the only cultural commentary I'll
give on this is not only was someone stupid enough
to write this, but other people were stupid enough to
fund it, and then some Broadway theater was stupid enough
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to host it. And the icing on the cake is
I'm almost positive that in radical left New York City
there is a huge group of people that are stupid
enough to go pay money to see it. That's sad
to me, other than that this is just weird. It's
weird that you would do this. What kind of fetish
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nonsensor you on about here? But to me, the real
story is enough people were stupid enough to make this
a Broadway musical and do a five minute piece on
Good Morning America on ABC about how great it is
that this stupid gay retelling of Abraham Lincoln's life is
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now out there on Broadway. NBR reports interviewer Brittany lw
sat with Oh Mary creator and star Cole Eskola to
explore the play, outlined plot synopsis, and revealed the complete
rewriting of history. Their exchange was previewed by host Scott Dietro,
who made the observation that the lead characters saw Mary
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reimagined as a raging alcoholic with cabaret dreams and Lincoln
is an evil, closeted gay man. I mean, come on, guys,
is what By the way, these are the same people
that say you should shell out from your paycheck into
taxes that then go to fund their college education. I
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guarantee you everyone involved in this has hundreds of thousands
of dollars of student debt that they got at an
Ivy League school studying lesbian dance theory. This is it
the lesbian dance theory joke. This is it come to life.
This is the lesbian dance theory. Abraham Lincoln is a
gay man and his wife is a transvestite. That's where
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we're going, Lee Moses. It's just dumb. It's just dumb.
But it's fitting that this is happening in New York too, Broadway.
I mean, this is everything, got it. Every joke I
could possibly make about how terrible the left is, theater,
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kids are New Yorkers are All of the material I
could possibly come up with is already right here. And
it's the actual play. You gotta be kid me, all right,
I gotta get off of this. I'm gonna lose my
mind talking about this. Let's talk about something even dumber.
Kamala Harris. She decided to weigh in on our Texas
redistricting and that went just about as well as you
(36:12):
think it did. Here is Kamala Harris rambling in her fashion.
She looks drunk. I don't know if she is. She
may or may not be. She kind of seems inebriated
to me. Take a listen.
Speaker 8 (36:25):
Think what they're doing is they're cheating. Think you're cheating there.
They want to change the current system to make it
bend toward the outcome they want uh huh. And so
you know, if you believe the public reporting, they get
a call that says, hey, redo your lines, even though
(36:46):
the fallout is going to include exactly what you said.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
Would is okay. So the push she's making here is, oh,
these Republicans just got the order from Donald Trump to
jerrymander their districts, and so they're jerrymandering. No, that's not
what happened. What actually happened here was Galveston County re
drew their districts and they got sued because of it.
(37:09):
They removed the majority minority districts from Galveston County and
they said, hey, we shouldn't have these. We're going to
draw people based off of political interest, not skin color.
So these ridiculous gerrymander districts where we just took all
of the black and brown neighborhoods and drew them into
one district, even though they're not even remotely close to
(37:29):
each other. There's no reason for them to be in
the same district other than all of these people are brownish.
We're going to do away with those districts. Galveston County
did that. They got sued over it. They fought that
lawsuit all the way up to the Fifth Circuit Court
of Appeals, and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals said, hey,
you do not have to have majority minority districts. They're
(37:52):
arguably unconstitutional. We're not throwing out the Galveston County maps.
These are the maps. Now you can do away with
racially jerrymandered districts. That's what Texas Republicans are doing. We're
taking that ruling and we're saying, hey, we've got these
districts all over the state of Texas. They don't make sense.
They're just drawn to be racially jerry mandered. We're undoing
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that because it's not honest, it's not fair, It isn't
and that's what the Democrats are so upset about. That's
what Kamala Harris is so upset about but she has
no idea what she's talking about. Because the dirty little
secret about Kamala Harris is she's not that smart. She
never was, she never will be. And this is exactly
(38:35):
why Californian should stay out of Texas politics. You have
no idea what you're talking about, you don't. All right,
That's all I've got for you. Hey, remember Sunday seven
pm am nine to fifty KPRC will be there. You
should be there too. It'll be a great show. Follow
me on X at Underscore Ethan Buchanan always great stuff
on my X page. So hey, thank you very much
for listening, and yeah, we'll see you Sunday. The Pig
(39:00):
put them on the beater, Pty
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