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A rift seems to be forming between two top officials in Texas, after Governor Greg Abbott vetoed the complete THC ban that was pushed by Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick.
The dust is settling in Iran, but Trump is still facing pushback from leftists, and even some on the right, for his attack on their nuclear facilities. Political strategist Nick Lindquist will join us to break it all down.
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A rift seems to be forming between two top officials in Texas, after Governor Greg Abbott vetoed the complete THC ban that was pushed by Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick.
The dust is settling in Iran, but Trump is still facing pushback from leftists, and even some on the right, for his attack on their nuclear facilities. Political strategist Nick Lindquist will join us to break it all down.
For the latest news, follow me on Instagram and X:
@the.ethanbuchanan
@_ethanbuchanan
Check out Nick Lindquist on his website nicklindquist.com, or on X @nick_lindquist.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
Hey, how do everybody? How are week Ethan Buchanan here?
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(00:44):
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fact check me on that. Just take my word for it.
All right, We have got a lot coming up today. Actually,
I'm very excited about today. I'm very excited about this
podcast because we have a guest today.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
We will be.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Joined in the third segment by my buddy Nick Lindquis.
He's going to be talking to us about everything going
on in Iran, in the Middle East and just kind
of how that's gonna shape up politically, because of course
there's a billion different things at play. There, and of
course for every one thing at play in the Middle
East that has kind of two or more downstream national
(01:21):
political side effects. So obviously there's a lot going on
on that front. But before we get into that, because
we're gonna have a lot of time spent on that
in this episode, I want to spend a little bit
of time talking about the state of Texas because again,
state politics is important. People. I've said this on the
show before, I will likely say it again. I cannot
(01:42):
stress to you enough how important it is to be
following your state politics, be up to date, know who
your state leaders are. The amount of people I talk
to that have no idea who represents them in Austin
is frightening to me, It really is. It's legitimately frightening.
Most people can't name the lieutenant governor of the state
of Texas. That's bad, and we'll get into that. Here's
(02:05):
why the lieutenant governor of the State of Texas wants
to completely outright band THHD and THHC products. Now, that
is a huge industry. I mean billions of dollars in
the state of Texas. There's a lot of jobs tied
up in that, a lot of money we want Texas
to be a pro business state, even if we don't
necessarily agree with those businesses. Pardon me, I personally am
(02:32):
not a fan of THHC products. I don't use them,
I will probably never use them. I know a lot
of people who use cannabis, oils and whatnot, and that
works really well for them for certain payings and health issues.
And I am well aware of the fact that at
this point it's difficult to dispute there are some medical
benefits to marijuana, to the marijuana plant, to hemp, et cetera,
(02:55):
et cetera, all of those products. Now, does that mean
I will use them?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
No?
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Does that mean I think you should use them?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
No?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
But I also understand that this is a free country,
and if you think something can help you and you
can use it without necessarily hurting anybody else, then you
should be allowed to do that, especially if a bunch
of people are also wanting to use those products and
make money off of those products and build an economy
around those products. And again it's not actually hurting anybody
other than the users. You know, regulation here is probably
(03:25):
necessary because these are potent products, But an outright ban,
I think is over the line. Most people in the
state of Texas agree with me. Not just most Republicans
or most pothead liberals or what have you. Most people
period agree with me on this one. Let me back
that up here. Polling conducted at the end of me
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by Tony Fabrizio of Fabrizio and Lee, President Donald Trump's
polster during his presidential campaigns found that voters opposed SB
three by a margin of sixty one to nineteen. So
SB three, that is the bill that was passed by
the House and Senate, championed by Dan Patrick, the Lieutenant
governor of the state of Texas, that would outright ban
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all THHC products. Nobody wants that in this state. Nobody
except for some special interests that I guess Dan Patrick
sold out to. But again, sixty one percent of Texans
opposed this. And this is Donald Trump's polster, So it's
not some woke company that's gaining the system in order
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to get a prowed or antiwed result in this poll.
I mean, this is Trump's polster, the guy who said
Trump was going to win the election when everybody else
said he was going to lose. I feel like this
guy's worth trusting on this issue. And most people oppose
dan Patrick's ban of THHC, and so Governor Greg Abbott,
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being politically savvy if nothing else, saw that, Hey, this
is going to be a loser if I signed this
bill or let it become law. Because in the state
of Texas, a bill can become law in two ways.
Either the governor signs it or he doesn't. If you
want to stop a bill from becoming law, once he
gets to the governor's desk, he has to veto it.
(05:12):
But if he just lets it sail through, it'll become
law after a certain amount of time without his signature,
or he can sign it and becomes law instantly. He
vetoed it, and his statement he basically cited constitutional and
legal concerns. He also pointed to the fact that at
the federal level these product products are legalized thanks to
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the first Trump administration, and so he basically says, I'm
not I'm not going to do this, and he vetoed it.
Dan Patrick immediately turned around and threw a hissy fit
about it. Here's a clip of that.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
It puzzles me.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
Why, my friend Greg Abbot, Governor Abbot, But it's the
last minute at about twenty two minutes after eleven decide
to veto this bill. I know he gave the reasons
in his proclamation, but our team simply doesn't agree with
those reasons, and we'll talk through that. In reading the proclamation,
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one can only come to this conclusion, which surprises me.
The governor of the State of Texas wants to legalize
recreational marijuana in Texas. That's the headline, folks, because that's
what his proclamation does.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Now, whether it's.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
Unintentional and he didn't think through it, or whether it's intentional,
that's the result of the veto.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Okay, that right there is just fear mongering. That is
not the result of the veto Marijuana. Recreational marijuana use
is still not legal in the state of Texas. THHC
and hemp products are legal in the State of Texas
are as they are federally. And again, I'll even go
farther to say, maybe recreational marijuana should be legal in
the state of Texas. I think most Texas voters would
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support that. Again, I'm not saying you should use it.
I don't use it, I wouldn't use it, and I
don't recommend you use it. But I have yet to
see any reasoning as to why marijuana is any worse
than cigarettes or alcohol or any of the other things
that are legal but are bad for you. I really
do not understand why Dan Patrick has chosen this hill
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to die on, but it's a stupid one and it
may very well cost him his seat. Frankly, I think
it should because nobody asked for this and he did it. Anyway,
this is not representing the will of the people. But
that's what's going on at the state level. Remember, be
aware of your state politics, all right. Remember this, Remember
that Dan Patrick did this when nobody wanted him to.
When you go to vote in the primaries, all right,
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this stuff is important, pay attention to it. All right,
We've got a great show coming off for you. We
will be right back after this break. I'm even Buchanan
and this is the next gener Report. Stay tuned, all righty, hey, everybody,
(08:20):
welcome back. All right, So here's what we're gonna do
in this segment. I'm gonna give you guys a little
bit of a primer basically to kind of get you
ready for what we're gonna talk about with Nick Lindquist
up in the next segment. So stay tuned for that.
Nick will be joining us and we'll be talking basically
about all of the political implications of everything that's been
going on in Iran. But first I wanted to give
(08:41):
you a quick update so we remember if you tuned
into the Sunday broadcast, which you should be doing. I'm
looking at well, you know who you are. I'm watching you,
all right. You don't know what, but I am. I
know whether or not you tuned in. Yes, you, I
am talking to you. No, I'm kidding. All right, you
should be listening to the Sunday broadcast. If you're not,
go back and listen to the podcast. That whole Sunday
(09:03):
broadcast is there once again, so you can hear it
and you don't have to miss out and you can
know what we're talking about. We did bomb Iran, all right,
if you missed it, that's the big news surprise. We
bombed Iran. The more and more the dust settles, the
more and more I like this move that we made. Remember,
don't be a pannikin. That's what President Trump calls people
(09:25):
who freak out. And I'm not saying blindly trust the president.
What I am saying is when the President does something
that you think, Okay, hold on, why do we do that?
Rather than trumping to oh my god, President Trump is
ann Yahu's pocket. Oh he's sold out the voters again.
He's another ne yo Kon's another endless war. LODDI dodi
(09:45):
da or hear me out. We wait and see what happens,
all right, because at this point I think Trump has
demonstrated that he did have a plan, there was a
purpose to this. We've talked about in the past, the
different kind of foreign policy positions that can be taken.
You know, are you an isolationist or you an interventionist,
(10:06):
or you something in between. I'm something of a speak
softly and carry a big stick type of guy. Let's
negotiate where we can. Let's make deals. Let's try to
be business people about this. And if we can't negotiate,
if you're going to be a threat to us, if
you're going to be an obstacle, we'll bomb the hell
out of you until you're willing to negotiate. And then
(10:27):
once we get to the point where we can negotiate,
we negotiate. Let's not get involved in another drawn out war.
Let's not go crazy. Let's not be overly conciliatory. Let's
not be overly combatant. Let's walk that middle line. That's
where I think President Trump is. Here's Stephen Miller on
Fox with Sean Hannity basically making that point. President Trump
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is the speak softly and carry a big stick president.
We try to negotiate with Iran. Everybody, including the voters
by polling, seem to agree that we don't want Iran
to have nuclear weapon. We tried to negotiate, they didn't
want to negotiate, so we just blew up their nuclear facilities.
And then we don't have to negotiate. We blew up
their nuclear facilities. We called it a day. Take a listen.
Speaker 6 (11:12):
The lesson that the Iranian regime has learned from President
Trump is the lesson of hard power Shan. President Trump
gave them a sixty day deadline. The deadline was very clear,
make a deal with us or pay a price. You
cannot imagine. Look what's happened over the last twelve days.
The leader of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard has been killed,
(11:36):
The senior leadership in the government has been killed. Their
entire upper leadership ranks have been executed. The entire infrastructure
that allows them to create ballistic missiles has been wiped out,
their air defenses have been eliminated, and President Trump dropped
thirty thousand pounds massive ordnance penetrating bombs on a ran,
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wiping out their nuclear capabilities. What lesson has the regime
learned from this? When President Trump offers you an all
of branch, you better take it because if you don't,
what's gonna happen. So you know, we can talk about
words and press releases and everything else. Sean, the lesson
the world has learned is that President Trump talks softly,
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and he carries a stick that will smack and destroy
and annihilate any single effort to create a nuclear power
in this country that threatens American security.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
I like that statement. Frankly, Steven Miller's great at this.
By the way, if you're not keeping up with everything
he does, you should be. He's great. But notice the
emphasis that he put on negotiations speaking softly. Again, President
Trump does carry a big stick, but he doesn't necessarily
want to use it. President Trump doesn't enjoy using the
(12:58):
big stick. He does when he has to, as any
good president will, but he does want peace. I think
he saw that. Listen Iran is going to get a
nuclear weapon at some point. If we don't do something,
they're not coming to the table. On top of that,
Israel and Iran are gonna just keep throwing rockets at
each other all day long unless somebody steps in and
changes the math on the ground. And so that's when
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he thought, Okay, we can go in. We can eliminate
their nuclear facilities. That kind of eliminates the problem. We
don't have to worry about it, and then we can
just kind of call it a day. They don't have
nuclear weapons anymore with a capacity to build them, so
they're really not much more of a threat. Now we
can get Israel and Iran to start negotiating peace deal,
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just like he wants to do with Ukraine and Russia.
That's another thing that he's been very vocal about over
the last couple of days is how much he wants
Ukraine and Russia to come to a deal. This I
think became very obvious how much he wants peace. He
does not want a drawn out war. That is obvious.
We know it's obvious because of the reaction he had
on I guess it was yesterday morning when he had
(14:06):
negotiated a ceasefire between the two of them after he
blew up their weapons. They had come to the agreement
that hey, we're gonna have a ceasefire. I ran shot
some rockets at us. We shot them all down because
they're crappy and puny, and they also gave us a
heads up. I don't think they actually wanted to hit us.
They just wanted to look tough, and so they shot
some rockets at us. That kind of abated. We shot
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all those rockets down, and then we sat down and
we negotiated a ceasefire. And then both sides immediately kind
of broke the ceasefire. There's an argument to be made
that maybe Iran did it on accident, and then Israel
just went whole hog started launching missiles at them. Again.
(14:47):
Here is President Trump on the White House lawn yesterday morning,
visibly aggravated with both sides, including Israel, because they had
both violated the ceasefire that he had negotiated for them.
Take a listen. Ron violated the agreement. Do you believe
that iron to see you? I do.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
They violated, but Israel violated it too. Israel, as soon
as we made the deal, they came out and they
dropped the load of bombs, the likes of which I've
never seen before, the biggest load that we've seen. I'm
not happy with Israel. You know, when I say, okay,
now you have twelve hours, you don't go out in
the first hour and just drop everything you have on them.
(15:29):
So I'm not happy with them. I'm not happy with
Iron either, But I'm really unhappy if Israel's going out
this morning because the one rocket that didn't land, that
was shot perhaps by mistake, that didn't land, I'm not
happy about that. You know what we have, We basically
have two countries that have been fighting so long and
(15:50):
so hard that they don't know what the doing. Do
you understand that?
Speaker 2 (15:57):
So there he is right there, very vocallyizing both sides.
They've been fighting so long they don't know what the
f they're doing. He's clearly not happy with either of them.
He wanted peace now. Thankfully, by maybe an hour or
so after Trump giving those comments, the bomber jets that
Israel had sent towards Iran had turned around and come back,
(16:20):
and now, as of right now, that ceasefire is now
in effect. So it looks like we do finally have
an end to that war, which is good. The twelve
Day War is what it's now being called, and Trump
did end it, and he did end it by bombing Iran.
And as of right now, we're not getting involved, we're
not escalating, it's not getting worse. There's no American boots
(16:43):
on the ground. I like that that. I'm fine with that.
If that's what it takes to have some kind of
global peace, then I'm happy with that. Because, again, with
minimal effort and no risk to our troops, we were
able to completely eliminate the Iranian nuclear program. Again, whether
(17:03):
or not I think it was worth our time to
do that, that's neither here nor there. I may be
very naive and saying I don't think Iran would have
used a nuclear weapon, but I'm not stupid enough to
say we didn't need to be at least aware of
the situation. Basically, I'm glad Iran isn't going to have
a nuclear weapon. And if bombing their nuclear facilities is
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what it took to get both of them to the
negotiation table, and by both of them I mean Israel
and Iran, then hey, as long as this beat steel
holds up, this ceasefire I'm happy. Now, let's start negotiating.
That seems to be what President Trump wants to do.
All right, Stay tuned. In just a minute, we'll be
right back with Nick Glnquist. We'll dig into all of
the kind of local not local, but national at home,
(17:47):
a political fallout that is occurring and that will continue
to occur. It's gonna be a great conversation. Stay tune,
will be right back, all right. So, this Iran or
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Iran nuclear facility bombing is one of the most interesting
things to me because there is nobody that kind of
has that weight and see attitude. At least so far,
the loudest people have not had the let's wait and
see how everything works out before we make a judgment.
Everybody has either been, oh my gosh, we absolutely need
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this or we absolutely don't need this. And within those
two categories, there's like half a billion subcategories of people
who say we need it because we need a ground
war with Iran, because we have to give more money
to the contractors. And then there's other people that you know,
support it or do support it for a billion different reasons.
So to talk about all of that and how all
of this is going to shake up. Politically speaking, I
(19:02):
am joined by Nick Linquist on, one of my good buddies,
who is a political strategist. Actually he does this professionally
for Beck and Stone. Nick, thank you for joining me.
I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Yeah, thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
So let's jump into first. Were you surprised to see
the bombing of Iran happened of these nuclear facilities? Because
I gotta be honest, I thought that Trump was taking
a kind of hands off approach. He was just going
to allow Israel to do their thing and then see
where the chips fell when he bonded the nuclear facilities.
I will freely admit I was kind of blindsided by that.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
I was surprised that he made that decision so swiftly,
like it was a matter of days after he said
he was gonna wait two weeks. However, I'm really not
surprised all of this is happening right now because basically,
the you know, like satellite terror organizations that Aaron has
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been funding for decades are battered and eaten and not
able to really uh you know, bring up a response
in a in a meaningful way like you know, the
uh you know, he blaws pretty badly battered. Obviously, Hamas
is essentially useless right now. So we have those elements,
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and then you know, it seemed like Yemen was or
the who they's and Yemen we're pretty much staying on
the sidelines. And I think Donald Trump and Israel saw
these things happening and said, Okay, this is a good
time to strike, and you know, maybe if they're in
the United States, strikes number one. We won't fall into
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a trap of having to defend Israel from from weeks
or months or years of missile attacks from Iran, because
that was going to have to happen eventually. We're on
just going to get there together and just keep launching
missiles at Israel, and their soft pile of basically air
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defense missiles is dwindling now, so I think that's one thing.
It shortened the conflict. In my mind, I would say
it shortened the conflict by us doing it ourselves, because
we also didn't We're the only nation that could provide
the type of bombs they needed to drop on those
nuclear facilities, and without us, you know, Israel wouldn't have
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been able to accomplish what they wanted to.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Now, the Democrats are of course furious about this. The
only line from them for forever is they haven't had
the oversight that they want. Donald Trump didn't ask their permission.
I saw a clip of Jasmine Crockett going, I'm the
one that should be making these fin decisions. And the
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thing that struck me about that is this has been
pretty consistent action that multiple presidents have taken over the years.
When there's an immediate national security threat, they take action.
Barack Obama did this for years. He very famously bombed
seven different countries over the course of his time in office,
and the Democrats didn't say anything about that. So where
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is this coming from. Is this genuine concern about the
balance of powers in the United States, about the Constitution
or is this just them trying to find something to
run against and all they have is Donald Trump just
did X.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Yep, it's the latter. They don't have any concern for
constitutional authority of powers. They've been giving those away as
a Democrat takes office for years or for decades rather,
so it's not about the constitutional power, it's just, you
know what can we hit Donald Trump over the head with?
And they're running out of things because their last several
(22:53):
publicity stunts have completely failed. So yeah, they they'll pretty
much just take anything they can and use it as
the weapon. But I also think, you know, some of
this might be them trying to get their mojo back
in terms of steering national discourse and opinion, because the
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polls that we're seeing about Iran right now, a lot
of them, I mean, like a quarter of respondents don't
even have an opinion yet. So there is a lot
of ground to be made on things like this, and
I think they maybe see that as an opportunity and
if they use their political weaponry well enough, they can
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it's way opinion. But I don't see that working. It's
not landing. Now.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
There are the kind of the Republicans, the sort of
more isolationist, hardcore magabase that really don't want the United
States involved in any more big foreign wars that we
don't absolutely have to be involved in. And I absolutely
understand that point. Obviously, we don't want another twenty year
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war Afghanistan for basically all of the different reasons that
we now know were garbage the entire time. They're kind
of looking at this as a betrayal of Trump by
the voters. There was a good twenty four to thirty
six hours, where everybody thought, this is it, We're getting
involved in another long sandbox war. But as we've seen,
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that doesn't appear to be happening. I feel like at
this point Donald Trump has earned himself a little bit
of trust from these people. He seems to be somebody
that does not want a war. What do you make
of all of that?
Speaker 3 (24:36):
I would totally agree with that for several reasons. So
Number one, most military action that we've seen Donald Trump
take so far was really precision. So we're not we're
not carpet bombing civilian areas of these countries. I mean
in Iran, we picked three spots, we picked three precise targets,
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and they were all for nuclear development and uranium story.
So that's one thing. Their precision. He's doing it very
sturgically and minimizing the amount of casualties that are taken.
Number Two is it seems like any strike he's taken
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so far as president, which the two big ones are
striking the Hoopies and then Iran. I mean those were
both for very good cause. For the whois he wanted
to protect well global trade really and then especially our
(25:38):
you know, our vessels and and military personnelment that have
to travel through that way. So he's done it for
good reason. He does seem to be putting diplomacy first.
I mean, he even gave Iran two months to try
to to come to a deal, so thinking it seems
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like much of it is preventative, like trying to quell
growing conflicts or problems before they get worse. And then yeah,
I mean he's exercised a lot more restraint than, for example,
Barack Obama would have in this situation.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Yeah, and the ultimate question here is what is this
going to do in terms of the election?
Speaker 5 (26:28):
Now?
Speaker 2 (26:29):
I think you mentioned this was the opportune time to
do this, and I think that's true also because of
the fact that we're kind of in that perfect little
window where the president can act without it affecting the
Republicans' chances in the midterms. If he had waited any later,
this would have become a part of all of that.
So what do you think this is gonna do to
(26:50):
the chances of the GOP if anything, Because it looks
to me like this will probably be one of those
things that we look at it right now and we think,
oh my god, this is the end of the world.
This is the biggest thing to happen ever, and then
a month later we've completely moved on to the next
big thing. Because the political memory collectively of the United
States citizenry lasts about twenty five seconds. What do you
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make of that.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Well, a couple of things. Number one, you're right, I
think in the grand scheme of things will probably have
pretty much forgotten about this by the time that election pens.
Around number two. It also depends on if these stripes,
you know, bring peace to that region in a meaningful way,
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or force of Ran to make conceptions on their nuclear program,
which would be I mean, the only acceptable way for
that is a total shutdown of their nuclear program. So
I think that in the grand scheme of things, it
won't matter that much, and it does actually have a
(28:00):
potential upside if Donald Trump can say, you know, my
actions made the Middle East more peaceful and we actually
prevented a larger conflict.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Yeah, we'll have to see what kind of happens over
the next I guess probably a week or so. Two
weeks is usually how long it takes these sort of
things to really develop. But hey, in this last about
forty five seconds, tell people where they can find you,
because you do a lot of really good work.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
Yeah, so you can find me on x at nick
Underscore Lindlists, or you can visit my website, Nick Lindquist
dot com. That's where all my writing and you know,
podcast appearances, hits like this up here.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
All righty awesome, Well, hey Nick, thank you very much
for your time and for your insight on this. And yeah,
I guess we'll be keeping an eye on it. Thank
you very much.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Ah, thank you once again Nick Linquist for joining us
and talking a little bit about everything going on in
Iran and how that is going to affect us politics,
how that is affecting US politics. We very much appreciate
your time and effort. Again, go check out Nick Linquist.
All his stuff is really good. I am very happy
that he was able to join us today. All right,
(29:41):
let's dig into some more important local stuff or local
air stuff. This is happening in Texas right now. We
all remember the Carmelo Anthony case. Carmelo Anthony and Austin
Metcalf those are the two Texas teenagers who were I
had a football track meet and Carmelo Anthony allegedly stabbed
(30:05):
and killed Austin Metcalf, stabbed him in the heart over what,
as I understand it was a seat dispute. We talked
about this in depth at the time, and we went
into in great detail how this is a result of
the culture that the United States of America has allowed.
We see the taking of a human life not just
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as you know, an evil, sometimes a necessary evil, but
as something that you can do in order to basically
gain street cred for yourself. You know, this is promoted
by rap culture quite a bit. And I'm not gonna
sit here and get all puritan on you. I enjoy
a lot of rap music. I do, but we need
(30:48):
to start taking a hard look at the fact that, hey,
we're promoting crime and murder and drugs and all other
things that are deplorable in our our music, in our television,
et cetera, et cetera. There's a deep discussion that needs
to be had there that we don't have time for.
But anyway, all that to say, this is a very
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tragic case of a teenager who allegedly murdered another teenager.
Now Carmelo Anthony has now been indicted. That is officially
a grand jury has said, yes, we think he may
have done this. Now we're gonna put it forward to
a jury of Carmelo Anthony's peers to see for sure.
(31:33):
The headline from New York Post Texas teen Carmelo Anthony
indicted on first degree murdered charge in stabbing death of
Austin Metcalf. He's been charged with first degree murder in
connection with the stabbing death of seventeen year old at
a high school track meet in April. Anthony, also seventeen,
was indicted by a grand jury on Tuesday for allegedly
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killing Austin Metcalf's calf over a dispute over a seat
at the University Interscholastic League's District eleven to five A
championship on April the second. Now, the line has been
from Carmelo Anthony, from his family, from his attorneys, and
(32:15):
his spokesperson. Carmelo Anthony was minding his business. He was
just sitting somewhere, and then Austin Metcalf started getting physical
with him, started confronting him and being aggressive with him,
and so he stabbed Austin Metcalf in self defense. What
I have been seeing is that that narrative is not
(32:35):
holding up. What I have been seeing is people on
X saying, hey, I've seen the video. Now, different people
at different news outlets saying I've seen the video. It's
pretty clearly that that's not what happened. It's obvious now
that that was not the case. Carmelo Anthony is the
aggressor here. Now, presumably that video will be shown as
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evidence and the jury will decide here, but we know
now that at least a grand jury thinks he may
have done this and they've indicted him for it. Here
is the Colon County District Attorney Greg Willis making that
announcement yesterday saying, hey, we've been carefully combing through the evidence.
We've been looking at it, we presented it to a
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grand jury, and they think Carmelo Anthony did something wrong.
Here is Colin County District Attorney Greg Willis, Good afternoon.
Speaker 7 (33:28):
Earlier this spring, our community was shaken by what happened
at a school track meet a Frisco the violent laws
of seventeen year old Austin Metcalf. For weeks now, my
team has been presenting evidence to the grand jury, and
today I summarized that evidence and I asked the grand
jury to return a first degree murder indictment against Carmelo Anthony,
which they did. With this indictment, the case now move's
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formally into the court system. From this point forward, we'll
continue doing our job, both fully and fairly to pursue
justice under the law. As for the scheduling of the trial,
that will be up to the court. But when the
time comes, we will be ready. Now, we know that
this case has struck a deep nerve here in Colin
County and beyond, and that's understandable. When something like this
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happens at a school event, it shakes people to the core.
But let's remember that the justice system works best when
it moves with steadiness and principle. That's what we're committed
to and that's what this case deserves. We're also mindful
of Austin's family and everyone who loved him. Please keep
them in your thoughts and if you're willing your prayers
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as well. Finally, let's remember that a defendant is presumed
innocent and less than until proven guilty in a court
of law.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Now, at this point is worth pointing out that Carmelo
Anthony is free right now. He was released on a
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars bond after the alleged stabbing.
He is now living in a nine hundred thousand dollars
home in a luxurious gated community of Richwoods in Frisco, Texas,
where Rent is in a SA It made three thy
(35:00):
five hundred dollars a month. Now. He raised a huge
amount of money, several hundreds of thousands of dollars with
a GoFundMe or gifts and go I don't remember which
one it was, but one of those fundraising platforms. And
then he turned around and his attorneys were able to
convince a judge to lower his one million dollar bond
(35:23):
down to a two hundred and fifty thousand dollars bond
because of financial hardships. And now there's allegations that they
had bought a nice luxury suv. They here's the total
number from what I'm seeing right now, five hundred and
thirty thousand dollars were raised for his legal fees. So
you know, that's definitely something to keep an eye on.
The fact that he's being charged with first degree murder
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and yet he's still allowed out again innocent until proven guilty.
But at the same time there's a risk to society here.
I don't know the more brilliant legal minds than I
will address that particular issue. I am of the opinion
that he probably should not have been let out, definitely
not on a bond as low as two hundred and
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fifty thousand dollars, since he clearly does not have the
financial issues that he claimed to when they dropped his bond.
But anyway, we'll be keeping an eye on that case
as we have been. There's your update right there. Now.
Something else I want to bring to your attention real
quick in the last three minutes. Here is Alligator Alcatraz.
I love this idea. DHS approves Alligator Alcatraz for illegal
(36:30):
aliens in Florida. This is essentially a plan to build
a new detention facility in the Everglades in Florida that
we can then hold illegal aliens in while they await deportation.
Because remember, first to deport someone, you have to detain them,
and once they're detained, they can then be deported. But
during the process of detaining them you have to put
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them somewhere. So Alligator Alcatraz is one of the many
solutions to that. Here's the announcement from the Florida Attorney
General of Alligator Alcatraz.
Speaker 8 (37:01):
Attorney General James Uppmeyer here at the Miami Dade Collier
Training Facility. This is an old, virtually abandoned airport facility
right in the middle of the Everglade. Florida has been
leading on immigration enforcements, supporting the Trump administration and ICE's
efforts to detain and deport criminal aliens. The governor task
state leaders to identify places for new temporary detention facilities.
(37:25):
I think this is the best one, as I call
it Alligator Alcatraz. This thirty square mile area is completely
surrounded by the Everglades. Presents an efficient, low cost opportunity
to build a temporary detention facility because you don't need
to invest that much in the perimeter. People get out,
there's not much waiting for them other than alligators and pythons.
(37:48):
Nowhere to go, nowhere to hide. Within just thirty to
sixty days after we begin construction, it could be up
and running and could house as many as a thousand
criminal aliens. This presents a great opera tunity for the
State of Florida to work with Miami Dade and Collier Counties,
alligator Alcatraz, We're ready to.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
Go, all right.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
I absolutely love this idea. A lot of people on
the left are losing their mind. Do you want illegal
aliens to get eaten by alligators? No? I want illegal
aliens to stay in the gosh darn detention facility where
they're safe from the alligators. But if they decide to
make a run for it and then an alligator gets
to them before they get a chance to get away, hey,
as far as I'm concerned, that's natural selection. Again, I
(38:29):
want all of these people out of this country without
any exception. And I am completely comfortable with this idea.
I think it's a great idea personally. All Right, that's
all I've got for you today. Remember we'll be back Sunday,
seven pm, AM nine to fifty KPRC or the free
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This is of course the Next Gen Report. Welcome back
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A lot of people don't know this, but you'll actually
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fact check me on that. Just take my word for it.
All right, We have got a lot coming up today. Actually,
I'm very excited about today. I'm very excited about this
podcast because we have a guest today.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
We will be.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Joined in the third segment by my buddy Nick Lindquis.
He's going to be talking to us about everything going
on in Iran, in the Middle East and just kind
of how that's gonna shape up politically, because of course
there's a billion different things at play. There, and of
course for every one thing at play in the Middle
East that has kind of two or more downstream national
(01:21):
political side effects. So obviously there's a lot going on
on that front. But before we get into that, because
we're gonna have a lot of time spent on that
in this episode, I want to spend a little bit
of time talking about the state of Texas because again,
state politics is important. People. I've said this on the
show before, I will likely say it again. I cannot
(01:42):
stress to you enough how important it is to be
following your state politics, be up to date, know who
your state leaders are. The amount of people I talk
to that have no idea who represents them in Austin
is frightening to me, It really is. It's legitimately frightening.
Most people can't name the lieutenant governor of the state
of Texas. That's bad, and we'll get into that. Here's
(02:05):
why the lieutenant governor of the State of Texas wants
to completely outright band THHD and THHC products. Now, that
is a huge industry. I mean billions of dollars in
the state of Texas. There's a lot of jobs tied
up in that, a lot of money we want Texas
to be a pro business state, even if we don't
necessarily agree with those businesses. Pardon me, I personally am
(02:32):
not a fan of THHC products. I don't use them,
I will probably never use them. I know a lot
of people who use cannabis, oils and whatnot, and that
works really well for them for certain payings and health issues.
And I am well aware of the fact that at
this point it's difficult to dispute there are some medical
benefits to marijuana, to the marijuana plant, to hemp, et cetera,
(02:55):
et cetera, all of those products. Now, does that mean
I will use them?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
No?
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Does that mean I think you should use them?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
No?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
But I also understand that this is a free country,
and if you think something can help you and you
can use it without necessarily hurting anybody else, then you
should be allowed to do that, especially if a bunch
of people are also wanting to use those products and
make money off of those products and build an economy
around those products. And again it's not actually hurting anybody
other than the users. You know, regulation here is probably
(03:25):
necessary because these are potent products, But an outright ban,
I think is over the line. Most people in the
state of Texas agree with me. Not just most Republicans
or most pothead liberals or what have you. Most people
period agree with me on this one. Let me back
that up here. Polling conducted at the end of me
(03:46):
by Tony Fabrizio of Fabrizio and Lee, President Donald Trump's
polster during his presidential campaigns found that voters opposed SB
three by a margin of sixty one to nineteen. So
SB three, that is the bill that was passed by
the House and Senate, championed by Dan Patrick, the Lieutenant
governor of the state of Texas, that would outright ban
(04:06):
all THHC products. Nobody wants that in this state. Nobody
except for some special interests that I guess Dan Patrick
sold out to. But again, sixty one percent of Texans
opposed this. And this is Donald Trump's polster, So it's
not some woke company that's gaining the system in order
(04:27):
to get a prowed or antiwed result in this poll.
I mean, this is Trump's polster, the guy who said
Trump was going to win the election when everybody else
said he was going to lose. I feel like this
guy's worth trusting on this issue. And most people oppose
dan Patrick's ban of THHC, and so Governor Greg Abbott,
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being politically savvy if nothing else, saw that, Hey, this
is going to be a loser if I signed this
bill or let it become law. Because in the state
of Texas, a bill can become law in two ways.
Either the governor signs it or he doesn't. If you
want to stop a bill from becoming law, once he
gets to the governor's desk, he has to veto it.
(05:12):
But if he just lets it sail through, it'll become
law after a certain amount of time without his signature,
or he can sign it and becomes law instantly. He
vetoed it, and his statement he basically cited constitutional and
legal concerns. He also pointed to the fact that at
the federal level these product products are legalized thanks to
(05:33):
the first Trump administration, and so he basically says, I'm
not I'm not going to do this, and he vetoed it.
Dan Patrick immediately turned around and threw a hissy fit
about it. Here's a clip of that.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
It puzzles me.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
Why, my friend Greg Abbot, Governor Abbot, But it's the
last minute at about twenty two minutes after eleven decide
to veto this bill. I know he gave the reasons
in his proclamation, but our team simply doesn't agree with
those reasons, and we'll talk through that. In reading the proclamation,
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one can only come to this conclusion, which surprises me.
The governor of the State of Texas wants to legalize
recreational marijuana in Texas. That's the headline, folks, because that's
what his proclamation does.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Now, whether it's.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
Unintentional and he didn't think through it, or whether it's intentional,
that's the result of the veto.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Okay, that right there is just fear mongering. That is
not the result of the veto Marijuana. Recreational marijuana use
is still not legal in the state of Texas. THHC
and hemp products are legal in the State of Texas
are as they are federally. And again, I'll even go
farther to say, maybe recreational marijuana should be legal in
the state of Texas. I think most Texas voters would
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support that. Again, I'm not saying you should use it.
I don't use it, I wouldn't use it, and I
don't recommend you use it. But I have yet to
see any reasoning as to why marijuana is any worse
than cigarettes or alcohol or any of the other things
that are legal but are bad for you. I really
do not understand why Dan Patrick has chosen this hill
(07:20):
to die on, but it's a stupid one and it
may very well cost him his seat. Frankly, I think
it should because nobody asked for this and he did it. Anyway,
this is not representing the will of the people. But
that's what's going on at the state level. Remember, be
aware of your state politics, all right. Remember this, Remember
that Dan Patrick did this when nobody wanted him to.
When you go to vote in the primaries, all right,
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this stuff is important, pay attention to it. All right,
We've got a great show coming off for you. We
will be right back after this break. I'm even Buchanan
and this is the next gener Report. Stay tuned, all righty, hey, everybody,
(08:20):
welcome back. All right, So here's what we're gonna do
in this segment. I'm gonna give you guys a little
bit of a primer basically to kind of get you
ready for what we're gonna talk about with Nick Lindquist
up in the next segment. So stay tuned for that.
Nick will be joining us and we'll be talking basically
about all of the political implications of everything that's been
going on in Iran. But first I wanted to give
(08:41):
you a quick update so we remember if you tuned
into the Sunday broadcast, which you should be doing. I'm
looking at well, you know who you are. I'm watching you,
all right. You don't know what, but I am. I
know whether or not you tuned in. Yes, you, I
am talking to you. No, I'm kidding. All right, you
should be listening to the Sunday broadcast. If you're not,
go back and listen to the podcast. That whole Sunday
(09:03):
broadcast is there once again, so you can hear it
and you don't have to miss out and you can
know what we're talking about. We did bomb Iran, all right,
if you missed it, that's the big news surprise. We
bombed Iran. The more and more the dust settles, the
more and more I like this move that we made. Remember,
don't be a pannikin. That's what President Trump calls people
(09:25):
who freak out. And I'm not saying blindly trust the president.
What I am saying is when the President does something
that you think, Okay, hold on, why do we do that?
Rather than trumping to oh my god, President Trump is
ann Yahu's pocket. Oh he's sold out the voters again.
He's another ne yo Kon's another endless war. LODDI dodi
(09:45):
da or hear me out. We wait and see what happens,
all right, because at this point I think Trump has
demonstrated that he did have a plan, there was a
purpose to this. We've talked about in the past, the
different kind of foreign policy positions that can be taken.
You know, are you an isolationist or you an interventionist,
(10:06):
or you something in between. I'm something of a speak
softly and carry a big stick type of guy. Let's
negotiate where we can. Let's make deals. Let's try to
be business people about this. And if we can't negotiate,
if you're going to be a threat to us, if
you're going to be an obstacle, we'll bomb the hell
out of you until you're willing to negotiate. And then
(10:27):
once we get to the point where we can negotiate,
we negotiate. Let's not get involved in another drawn out war.
Let's not go crazy. Let's not be overly conciliatory. Let's
not be overly combatant. Let's walk that middle line. That's
where I think President Trump is. Here's Stephen Miller on
Fox with Sean Hannity basically making that point. President Trump
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is the speak softly and carry a big stick president.
We try to negotiate with Iran. Everybody, including the voters
by polling, seem to agree that we don't want Iran
to have nuclear weapon. We tried to negotiate, they didn't
want to negotiate, so we just blew up their nuclear facilities.
And then we don't have to negotiate. We blew up
their nuclear facilities. We called it a day. Take a listen.
Speaker 6 (11:12):
The lesson that the Iranian regime has learned from President
Trump is the lesson of hard power Shan. President Trump
gave them a sixty day deadline. The deadline was very clear,
make a deal with us or pay a price. You
cannot imagine. Look what's happened over the last twelve days.
The leader of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard has been killed,
(11:36):
The senior leadership in the government has been killed. Their
entire upper leadership ranks have been executed. The entire infrastructure
that allows them to create ballistic missiles has been wiped out,
their air defenses have been eliminated, and President Trump dropped
thirty thousand pounds massive ordnance penetrating bombs on a ran,
(12:01):
wiping out their nuclear capabilities. What lesson has the regime
learned from this? When President Trump offers you an all
of branch, you better take it because if you don't,
what's gonna happen. So you know, we can talk about
words and press releases and everything else. Sean, the lesson
the world has learned is that President Trump talks softly,
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and he carries a stick that will smack and destroy
and annihilate any single effort to create a nuclear power
in this country that threatens American security.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
I like that statement. Frankly, Steven Miller's great at this.
By the way, if you're not keeping up with everything
he does, you should be. He's great. But notice the
emphasis that he put on negotiations speaking softly. Again, President
Trump does carry a big stick, but he doesn't necessarily
want to use it. President Trump doesn't enjoy using the
(12:58):
big stick. He does when he has to, as any
good president will, but he does want peace. I think
he saw that. Listen Iran is going to get a
nuclear weapon at some point. If we don't do something,
they're not coming to the table. On top of that,
Israel and Iran are gonna just keep throwing rockets at
each other all day long unless somebody steps in and
changes the math on the ground. And so that's when
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he thought, Okay, we can go in. We can eliminate
their nuclear facilities. That kind of eliminates the problem. We
don't have to worry about it, and then we can
just kind of call it a day. They don't have
nuclear weapons anymore with a capacity to build them, so
they're really not much more of a threat. Now we
can get Israel and Iran to start negotiating peace deal,
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just like he wants to do with Ukraine and Russia.
That's another thing that he's been very vocal about over
the last couple of days is how much he wants
Ukraine and Russia to come to a deal. This I
think became very obvious how much he wants peace. He
does not want a drawn out war. That is obvious.
We know it's obvious because of the reaction he had
on I guess it was yesterday morning when he had
(14:06):
negotiated a ceasefire between the two of them after he
blew up their weapons. They had come to the agreement
that hey, we're gonna have a ceasefire. I ran shot
some rockets at us. We shot them all down because
they're crappy and puny, and they also gave us a
heads up. I don't think they actually wanted to hit us.
They just wanted to look tough, and so they shot
some rockets at us. That kind of abated. We shot
(14:27):
all those rockets down, and then we sat down and
we negotiated a ceasefire. And then both sides immediately kind
of broke the ceasefire. There's an argument to be made
that maybe Iran did it on accident, and then Israel
just went whole hog started launching missiles at them. Again.
(14:47):
Here is President Trump on the White House lawn yesterday morning,
visibly aggravated with both sides, including Israel, because they had
both violated the ceasefire that he had negotiated for them.
Take a listen. Ron violated the agreement. Do you believe
that iron to see you? I do.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
They violated, but Israel violated it too. Israel, as soon
as we made the deal, they came out and they
dropped the load of bombs, the likes of which I've
never seen before, the biggest load that we've seen. I'm
not happy with Israel. You know, when I say, okay,
now you have twelve hours, you don't go out in
the first hour and just drop everything you have on them.
(15:29):
So I'm not happy with them. I'm not happy with
Iron either, But I'm really unhappy if Israel's going out
this morning because the one rocket that didn't land, that
was shot perhaps by mistake, that didn't land, I'm not
happy about that. You know what we have, We basically
have two countries that have been fighting so long and
(15:50):
so hard that they don't know what the doing. Do
you understand that?
Speaker 2 (15:57):
So there he is right there, very vocallyizing both sides.
They've been fighting so long they don't know what the
f they're doing. He's clearly not happy with either of them.
He wanted peace now. Thankfully, by maybe an hour or
so after Trump giving those comments, the bomber jets that
Israel had sent towards Iran had turned around and come back,
(16:20):
and now, as of right now, that ceasefire is now
in effect. So it looks like we do finally have
an end to that war, which is good. The twelve
Day War is what it's now being called, and Trump
did end it, and he did end it by bombing Iran.
And as of right now, we're not getting involved, we're
not escalating, it's not getting worse. There's no American boots
(16:43):
on the ground. I like that that. I'm fine with that.
If that's what it takes to have some kind of
global peace, then I'm happy with that. Because, again, with
minimal effort and no risk to our troops, we were
able to completely eliminate the Iranian nuclear program. Again, whether
(17:03):
or not I think it was worth our time to
do that, that's neither here nor there. I may be
very naive and saying I don't think Iran would have
used a nuclear weapon, but I'm not stupid enough to
say we didn't need to be at least aware of
the situation. Basically, I'm glad Iran isn't going to have
a nuclear weapon. And if bombing their nuclear facilities is
(17:24):
what it took to get both of them to the
negotiation table, and by both of them I mean Israel
and Iran, then hey, as long as this beat steel
holds up, this ceasefire I'm happy. Now, let's start negotiating.
That seems to be what President Trump wants to do.
All right, Stay tuned. In just a minute, we'll be
right back with Nick Glnquist. We'll dig into all of
the kind of local not local, but national at home,
(17:47):
a political fallout that is occurring and that will continue
to occur. It's gonna be a great conversation. Stay tune,
will be right back, all right. So, this Iran or
(18:21):
Iran nuclear facility bombing is one of the most interesting
things to me because there is nobody that kind of
has that weight and see attitude. At least so far,
the loudest people have not had the let's wait and
see how everything works out before we make a judgment.
Everybody has either been, oh my gosh, we absolutely need
(18:41):
this or we absolutely don't need this. And within those
two categories, there's like half a billion subcategories of people
who say we need it because we need a ground
war with Iran, because we have to give more money
to the contractors. And then there's other people that you know,
support it or do support it for a billion different reasons.
So to talk about all of that and how all
of this is going to shake up. Politically speaking, I
(19:02):
am joined by Nick Linquist on, one of my good buddies,
who is a political strategist. Actually he does this professionally
for Beck and Stone. Nick, thank you for joining me.
I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Yeah, thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
So let's jump into first. Were you surprised to see
the bombing of Iran happened of these nuclear facilities? Because
I gotta be honest, I thought that Trump was taking
a kind of hands off approach. He was just going
to allow Israel to do their thing and then see
where the chips fell when he bonded the nuclear facilities.
I will freely admit I was kind of blindsided by that.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
I was surprised that he made that decision so swiftly,
like it was a matter of days after he said
he was gonna wait two weeks. However, I'm really not
surprised all of this is happening right now because basically,
the you know, like satellite terror organizations that Aaron has
(19:59):
been funding for decades are battered and eaten and not
able to really uh you know, bring up a response
in a in a meaningful way like you know, the
uh you know, he blaws pretty badly battered. Obviously, Hamas
is essentially useless right now. So we have those elements,
(20:22):
and then you know, it seemed like Yemen was or
the who they's and Yemen we're pretty much staying on
the sidelines. And I think Donald Trump and Israel saw
these things happening and said, Okay, this is a good
time to strike, and you know, maybe if they're in
the United States, strikes number one. We won't fall into
(20:43):
a trap of having to defend Israel from from weeks
or months or years of missile attacks from Iran, because
that was going to have to happen eventually. We're on
just going to get there together and just keep launching
missiles at Israel, and their soft pile of basically air
(21:05):
defense missiles is dwindling now, so I think that's one thing.
It shortened the conflict. In my mind, I would say
it shortened the conflict by us doing it ourselves, because
we also didn't We're the only nation that could provide
the type of bombs they needed to drop on those
nuclear facilities, and without us, you know, Israel wouldn't have
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been able to accomplish what they wanted to.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Now, the Democrats are of course furious about this. The
only line from them for forever is they haven't had
the oversight that they want. Donald Trump didn't ask their permission.
I saw a clip of Jasmine Crockett going, I'm the
one that should be making these fin decisions. And the
(21:54):
thing that struck me about that is this has been
pretty consistent action that multiple presidents have taken over the years.
When there's an immediate national security threat, they take action.
Barack Obama did this for years. He very famously bombed
seven different countries over the course of his time in office,
and the Democrats didn't say anything about that. So where
(22:18):
is this coming from. Is this genuine concern about the
balance of powers in the United States, about the Constitution
or is this just them trying to find something to
run against and all they have is Donald Trump just
did X.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Yep, it's the latter. They don't have any concern for
constitutional authority of powers. They've been giving those away as
a Democrat takes office for years or for decades rather,
so it's not about the constitutional power, it's just, you
know what can we hit Donald Trump over the head with?
And they're running out of things because their last several
(22:53):
publicity stunts have completely failed. So yeah, they they'll pretty
much just take anything they can and use it as
the weapon. But I also think, you know, some of
this might be them trying to get their mojo back
in terms of steering national discourse and opinion, because the
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polls that we're seeing about Iran right now, a lot
of them, I mean, like a quarter of respondents don't
even have an opinion yet. So there is a lot
of ground to be made on things like this, and
I think they maybe see that as an opportunity and
if they use their political weaponry well enough, they can
(23:34):
it's way opinion. But I don't see that working. It's
not landing. Now.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
There are the kind of the Republicans, the sort of
more isolationist, hardcore magabase that really don't want the United
States involved in any more big foreign wars that we
don't absolutely have to be involved in. And I absolutely
understand that point. Obviously, we don't want another twenty year
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war Afghanistan for basically all of the different reasons that
we now know were garbage the entire time. They're kind
of looking at this as a betrayal of Trump by
the voters. There was a good twenty four to thirty
six hours, where everybody thought, this is it, We're getting
involved in another long sandbox war. But as we've seen,
(24:21):
that doesn't appear to be happening. I feel like at
this point Donald Trump has earned himself a little bit
of trust from these people. He seems to be somebody
that does not want a war. What do you make
of all of that?
Speaker 3 (24:36):
I would totally agree with that for several reasons. So
Number one, most military action that we've seen Donald Trump
take so far was really precision. So we're not we're
not carpet bombing civilian areas of these countries. I mean
in Iran, we picked three spots, we picked three precise targets,
(24:58):
and they were all for nuclear development and uranium story.
So that's one thing. Their precision. He's doing it very
sturgically and minimizing the amount of casualties that are taken.
Number Two is it seems like any strike he's taken
(25:18):
so far as president, which the two big ones are
striking the Hoopies and then Iran. I mean those were
both for very good cause. For the whois he wanted
to protect well global trade really and then especially our
(25:38):
you know, our vessels and and military personnelment that have
to travel through that way. So he's done it for
good reason. He does seem to be putting diplomacy first.
I mean, he even gave Iran two months to try
to to come to a deal, so thinking it seems
(26:01):
like much of it is preventative, like trying to quell
growing conflicts or problems before they get worse. And then yeah,
I mean he's exercised a lot more restraint than, for example,
Barack Obama would have in this situation.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Yeah, and the ultimate question here is what is this
going to do in terms of the election?
Speaker 5 (26:28):
Now?
Speaker 2 (26:29):
I think you mentioned this was the opportune time to
do this, and I think that's true also because of
the fact that we're kind of in that perfect little
window where the president can act without it affecting the
Republicans' chances in the midterms. If he had waited any later,
this would have become a part of all of that.
So what do you think this is gonna do to
(26:50):
the chances of the GOP if anything, Because it looks
to me like this will probably be one of those
things that we look at it right now and we think,
oh my god, this is the end of the world.
This is the biggest thing to happen ever, and then
a month later we've completely moved on to the next
big thing. Because the political memory collectively of the United
States citizenry lasts about twenty five seconds. What do you
(27:11):
make of that.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Well, a couple of things. Number one, you're right, I
think in the grand scheme of things will probably have
pretty much forgotten about this by the time that election pens.
Around number two. It also depends on if these stripes,
you know, bring peace to that region in a meaningful way,
(27:37):
or force of Ran to make conceptions on their nuclear program,
which would be I mean, the only acceptable way for
that is a total shutdown of their nuclear program. So
I think that in the grand scheme of things, it
won't matter that much, and it does actually have a
(28:00):
potential upside if Donald Trump can say, you know, my
actions made the Middle East more peaceful and we actually
prevented a larger conflict.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Yeah, we'll have to see what kind of happens over
the next I guess probably a week or so. Two
weeks is usually how long it takes these sort of
things to really develop. But hey, in this last about
forty five seconds, tell people where they can find you,
because you do a lot of really good work.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
Yeah, so you can find me on x at nick
Underscore Lindlists, or you can visit my website, Nick Lindquist
dot com. That's where all my writing and you know,
podcast appearances, hits like this up here.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
All righty awesome, Well, hey Nick, thank you very much
for your time and for your insight on this. And yeah,
I guess we'll be keeping an eye on it. Thank
you very much.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Ah, thank you once again Nick Linquist for joining us
and talking a little bit about everything going on in
Iran and how that is going to affect us politics,
how that is affecting US politics. We very much appreciate
your time and effort. Again, go check out Nick Linquist.
All his stuff is really good. I am very happy
that he was able to join us today. All right,
(29:41):
let's dig into some more important local stuff or local
air stuff. This is happening in Texas right now. We
all remember the Carmelo Anthony case. Carmelo Anthony and Austin
Metcalf those are the two Texas teenagers who were I
had a football track meet and Carmelo Anthony allegedly stabbed
(30:05):
and killed Austin Metcalf, stabbed him in the heart over what,
as I understand it was a seat dispute. We talked
about this in depth at the time, and we went
into in great detail how this is a result of
the culture that the United States of America has allowed.
We see the taking of a human life not just
(30:27):
as you know, an evil, sometimes a necessary evil, but
as something that you can do in order to basically
gain street cred for yourself. You know, this is promoted
by rap culture quite a bit. And I'm not gonna
sit here and get all puritan on you. I enjoy
a lot of rap music. I do, but we need
(30:48):
to start taking a hard look at the fact that, hey,
we're promoting crime and murder and drugs and all other
things that are deplorable in our our music, in our television,
et cetera, et cetera. There's a deep discussion that needs
to be had there that we don't have time for.
But anyway, all that to say, this is a very
(31:10):
tragic case of a teenager who allegedly murdered another teenager.
Now Carmelo Anthony has now been indicted. That is officially
a grand jury has said, yes, we think he may
have done this. Now we're gonna put it forward to
a jury of Carmelo Anthony's peers to see for sure.
(31:33):
The headline from New York Post Texas teen Carmelo Anthony
indicted on first degree murdered charge in stabbing death of
Austin Metcalf. He's been charged with first degree murder in
connection with the stabbing death of seventeen year old at
a high school track meet in April. Anthony, also seventeen,
was indicted by a grand jury on Tuesday for allegedly
(31:54):
killing Austin Metcalf's calf over a dispute over a seat
at the University Interscholastic League's District eleven to five A
championship on April the second. Now, the line has been
from Carmelo Anthony, from his family, from his attorneys, and
(32:15):
his spokesperson. Carmelo Anthony was minding his business. He was
just sitting somewhere, and then Austin Metcalf started getting physical
with him, started confronting him and being aggressive with him,
and so he stabbed Austin Metcalf in self defense. What
I have been seeing is that that narrative is not
(32:35):
holding up. What I have been seeing is people on
X saying, hey, I've seen the video. Now, different people
at different news outlets saying I've seen the video. It's
pretty clearly that that's not what happened. It's obvious now
that that was not the case. Carmelo Anthony is the
aggressor here. Now, presumably that video will be shown as
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evidence and the jury will decide here, but we know
now that at least a grand jury thinks he may
have done this and they've indicted him for it. Here
is the Colon County District Attorney Greg Willis making that
announcement yesterday saying, hey, we've been carefully combing through the evidence.
We've been looking at it, we presented it to a
(33:20):
grand jury, and they think Carmelo Anthony did something wrong.
Here is Colin County District Attorney Greg Willis, Good afternoon.
Speaker 7 (33:28):
Earlier this spring, our community was shaken by what happened
at a school track meet a Frisco the violent laws
of seventeen year old Austin Metcalf. For weeks now, my
team has been presenting evidence to the grand jury, and
today I summarized that evidence and I asked the grand
jury to return a first degree murder indictment against Carmelo Anthony,
which they did. With this indictment, the case now move's
(33:50):
formally into the court system. From this point forward, we'll
continue doing our job, both fully and fairly to pursue
justice under the law. As for the scheduling of the trial,
that will be up to the court. But when the
time comes, we will be ready. Now, we know that
this case has struck a deep nerve here in Colin
County and beyond, and that's understandable. When something like this
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happens at a school event, it shakes people to the core.
But let's remember that the justice system works best when
it moves with steadiness and principle. That's what we're committed
to and that's what this case deserves. We're also mindful
of Austin's family and everyone who loved him. Please keep
them in your thoughts and if you're willing your prayers
(34:33):
as well. Finally, let's remember that a defendant is presumed
innocent and less than until proven guilty in a court
of law.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Now, at this point is worth pointing out that Carmelo
Anthony is free right now. He was released on a
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars bond after the alleged stabbing.
He is now living in a nine hundred thousand dollars
home in a luxurious gated community of Richwoods in Frisco, Texas,
where Rent is in a SA It made three thy
(35:00):
five hundred dollars a month. Now. He raised a huge
amount of money, several hundreds of thousands of dollars with
a GoFundMe or gifts and go I don't remember which
one it was, but one of those fundraising platforms. And
then he turned around and his attorneys were able to
convince a judge to lower his one million dollar bond
(35:23):
down to a two hundred and fifty thousand dollars bond
because of financial hardships. And now there's allegations that they
had bought a nice luxury suv. They here's the total
number from what I'm seeing right now, five hundred and
thirty thousand dollars were raised for his legal fees. So
you know, that's definitely something to keep an eye on.
The fact that he's being charged with first degree murder
(35:45):
and yet he's still allowed out again innocent until proven guilty.
But at the same time there's a risk to society here.
I don't know the more brilliant legal minds than I
will address that particular issue. I am of the opinion
that he probably should not have been let out, definitely
not on a bond as low as two hundred and
(36:06):
fifty thousand dollars, since he clearly does not have the
financial issues that he claimed to when they dropped his bond.
But anyway, we'll be keeping an eye on that case
as we have been. There's your update right there. Now.
Something else I want to bring to your attention real
quick in the last three minutes. Here is Alligator Alcatraz.
I love this idea. DHS approves Alligator Alcatraz for illegal
(36:30):
aliens in Florida. This is essentially a plan to build
a new detention facility in the Everglades in Florida that
we can then hold illegal aliens in while they await deportation.
Because remember, first to deport someone, you have to detain them,
and once they're detained, they can then be deported. But
during the process of detaining them you have to put
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them somewhere. So Alligator Alcatraz is one of the many
solutions to that. Here's the announcement from the Florida Attorney
General of Alligator Alcatraz.
Speaker 8 (37:01):
Attorney General James Uppmeyer here at the Miami Dade Collier
Training Facility. This is an old, virtually abandoned airport facility
right in the middle of the Everglade. Florida has been
leading on immigration enforcements, supporting the Trump administration and ICE's
efforts to detain and deport criminal aliens. The governor task
state leaders to identify places for new temporary detention facilities.
(37:25):
I think this is the best one, as I call
it Alligator Alcatraz. This thirty square mile area is completely
surrounded by the Everglades. Presents an efficient, low cost opportunity
to build a temporary detention facility because you don't need
to invest that much in the perimeter. People get out,
there's not much waiting for them other than alligators and pythons.
(37:48):
Nowhere to go, nowhere to hide. Within just thirty to
sixty days after we begin construction, it could be up
and running and could house as many as a thousand
criminal aliens. This presents a great opera tunity for the
State of Florida to work with Miami Dade and Collier Counties,
alligator Alcatraz, We're ready to.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
Go, all right.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
I absolutely love this idea. A lot of people on
the left are losing their mind. Do you want illegal
aliens to get eaten by alligators? No? I want illegal
aliens to stay in the gosh darn detention facility where
they're safe from the alligators. But if they decide to
make a run for it and then an alligator gets
to them before they get a chance to get away, hey,
as far as I'm concerned, that's natural selection. Again, I
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want all of these people out of this country without
any exception. And I am completely comfortable with this idea.
I think it's a great idea personally. All Right, that's
all I've got for you today. Remember we'll be back Sunday,
seven pm, AM nine to fifty KPRC or the free
iHeartRadio app. Tune in. It's a great show every single weekend.
(38:49):
Thank you very much for listening. This is the next
gen Report.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
Call up, get in the park.
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