May 7, 2025 • 39 mins
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The drama in the Texas House of Representatives continues. After a senior staffer on Speaker Dustin Burrows' team, allegations are flying that he was using his position to kill legislation behind the speaker’s back.
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The drama in the Texas House of Representatives continues. After a senior staffer on Speaker Dustin Burrows' team, allegations are flying that he was using his position to kill legislation behind the speaker’s back.
President Donald Trump does a sit-down interview with NBC's Meet the Press. After watching the interview, you have to ask, "Is Donald Trump really as divisive as the media says he is?"
For the latest news, follow me on Instagram, and X:
@the.ethanbuchanan
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Speaker 1 (00:44):
Donald Trump is going to reopen Alcatraz, or at least
he says he's going to not just Alcatraz, a substantially larger, rebuilt,
refurbished Alcatraz prison. I love it, but why stop there? Right,
that's my thought. Why stop there? Let's just build a
wall around all of San Francisco. Just turn that into
(01:07):
a massive prison colony for the worst of the worst
in America.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I mean most of them already live there.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
In San Francisco anyway, so half the job is done
just by building the wall, right right, Hey, everybody, this
is the Next Gen Report.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I'm Ethan Buchannon. Thank you very much for joining me.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
I want to encourage you, if you haven't already, go
back and listen to the episode that we did on Sunday,
that live broadcast that was on AM nine to fifty KPRC.
Remember you can catch it every single Sunday at seven
on AM nine to fifty KPRC. You're the free iHeartRadio app.
We do a live broadcast of the show. It's always
a great time. Last Sunday we had State Representative Brian
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Harrison on. We talked about just everything going on in
the State House, how it's basically run by Democrats. Republicans
control the State House and the state Senate, but Democrats
are pretty much calling all the shots there. And remember
this is very important because your state politics has far
more effect on your day to day life, especially here
in Texas, than the federal politics. Do I mean, how
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many of us are sitting here going gosh, I hate
how much tax money I have to pay to the government.
A lot of that tax money that you pay, especially
if you're a homeowner, that's taxes that you're paying to
the state, right, your property taxes, because remember, the state
of Texas does not have an income tax, thank the
good Lord, but we do have exorbitantly high property taxes.
Who's responsible for that, It's the state legislature. So what's
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going on in Austin, Texas matters quite a bit. And
what's going on in Austin, Texas is pretty dirty, pretty
dirty stuff. So I spoke with Representative Harrison about that,
and we were just kind of talking about the fact that,
you know, all the wrong bills are moving through the
Texas House. You know, Democrat priorities are getting pushed through
Republican priorities, or are getting killed or just sort of
dying in committees waiting to be heard, and then they
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run out the clock. The legislative session is over before
we've even had time to discuss some of the big,
top important bills. And we've all been kind of wondering
why why is this happening? Well, obviously it's because of
the Speaker of the House. If you don't follow politics closely,
the Speaker of the House in both the state House
here in Texas and the Federal House in Washington, that's
far and away the most powerful position in the House
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of Representatives. It's one of easily the top three most
powerful positions in all of state government, right because you're
controlling the goings on of the entire House, the entire
capital is kind of at your whim. You decide who
is the chairman of different committees. You're pretty much the
leader for your party inside the House. Basically everybody's doing
what you want them to do. So obviously with that
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power comes the responsibility. Right, If something gets done that
shouldn't have been done, that falls on you. If something's
not getting done that should be getting done, hey, that
falls on you as well. So we've had a bunch
of Democrat bills moving through the Texas House and Republican
bills keep getting stalled. The big Republican priorities that we
are managing to get past, they're watered down. We talked
with Brian Harrison about that. We've we've basically had the
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wool pulled over our eyes on school choice. They did
not deliver the universe arso school choice that we were
kind of promised.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
So a lot of people are sort of wondering why.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
And we may have one explanation as to why all
of this is happening right Obviously, it is because Dustin
Burrows and a couple of Republicans in the House has
kind of sold us down the river to the Democrats.
But we have an interesting story that came out yesterday
from Texas Scorecard. Speaker Burrows fires senior staffer. Sources say
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General Counselor Jimmy Skipton the Fourth was directing bills to
be moved or killed to aid his wife's lobby clients,
So this is scorecard reporting. According to Capital sources, Skipton
was accused of directing committee chairman to move or kill
certain pieces of legislation under the guise of direction from
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Speaker Burroughs.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Instead, he was.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Allegedly doing so to benefit his wife, Carrie Simmons, a
prominent Austin lobbyist for the firm of Texas Lobby Partners.
So spell this out for you, right, this guy works
for House Speaker Dustin Burroughs in a prominent position, for
House Speaker Dustin Burroughs, who just by virtue of being
House Speaker is himself in a prominent position. So this
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guy can go to all the different committee chairmen that
are all appointed by Dustin Burroughs and effectively owe him
one because of that, and say, hey, y'all, the Speaker
wants this bill killed. The Speaker doesn't want this bill
to make it out of committee. The Speaker doesn't want
this bill to become law, so you guys have to
go kill it. And that's what they do. Because remember
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the Speaker of the House is sort of the leader
of the Republican caucus, right, That's how it should be.
He's kind of effectively become the leader of the Democrat caucus,
it seems like. So basically, what the allegation here is
is that this guy, Jimmy Skipton, whose wife was working
for lobbyists, lobbyists or of course people who have vested
interest in different political causes, and their whole thing is
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like they just try to advocate for specific bills that
are attached to their specific political causes. And because this
guy's wife was in that position, she was one of
these lobbyists. He was going around and on behalf of
her claiming to be doing it, on behalf of Dustin Burrows,
who I guess didn't know about it. He was going
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and getting these bills killed. So for all of you
that have been pissed off or upset about what's going
on in the Texas House, if you haven't been following
Texas politics, Texas state politics, this is exactly why you
need to. If you're not paying attention to this stuff,
if people aren't constantly being outraged about what's going on
in the Texas House, if we don't have people like
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Representative Harrison going out there and constantly shining a spotlight
on the fact that nothing is ever getting done in
the Texas House, I bet you nobody ever finds out
about this stuff. And I bet you this Jimmy Skipton
guy stays working for Speaker Burrows.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
According to the Scorecard.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Lawmakers have said in recent weeks that Skipton had become
increasingly hostile to their staff, with one source describing him
as demanding and disrespectful. That attitude allegedly was extended even
to Burrows as chief of staff Robert Duncan and senior
advisor Tracy King, a former Democrat lawmaker from Uvaldi. That's
also worth noting out, why does the Republican Speaker of
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the House have a former Democrat lawmaker on his staff?
Who do you think is making these decisions? So essentially,
the story goes that Skipton was confronted about the issue
and presented with evidence during a meter with Duncan and
Speaker Burrows on Monday. Skipton was then escorted from the
capital by the Department of Public Safety. Listen, it's good
that this is happening. This looks like it's probably progress.
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But it's not enough. We have to be laser focused
on the state House. We have to be laser focused
on state politics. However much attention you pay to Washington
paid more to Austin. It's just as important, if not more.
All Right, stay tuned, we got a great episode coming up.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Senco de Mayo.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
We had Cinco de Mayo on Monday, that was the
fifth of May. A lot of white people don't actually
know what Cinco de Mayo is. It's not Mexican Independence Day.
It's the day that the Mexican army defeated the French
army that was coming to basically take over Mexico because
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Mexico owed France a lot of money that they couldn't
pay back. So France said, okay, well we'll just make
you French now, and Mexico said, no. They beat France
because who doesn't beat France in wars? Even early early
stages of Mexico can do it. And this is in
the sixties, the eighteen sixties, so Mexico is coming off
of a major loss to the Texans in the eighteen
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thirties and then to the United States of America in
the eighteen forties, and so beating the French was a
really big thing for them. And you know what, we'll
give it to you. Good job, Mexico. We're proud of you.
You achieved the bare minimum of being a country, which
is beating the French in war. But no, actually, I
really do like Cinco to myo because it's just a
fun holiday where it basically gives us an excuse to
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eat tacos and have margaritas, and I like tacos. I
like margaritas, and most Texans do because listen, where a
state that's very connected with our roots. Texas was of
course formally part of Mexico, so we share a lot
of that culture back and forth to a certain extent.
And it's great. Everybody's kind of happy about that. I mean,
you just go to San Antonio. You can clearly see
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how deeply rooted that kind of Hispanic culture is and
it's great, we love it.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
There's nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
I think the Texan and Mexican cultures kind of blend
very well and create a nice little kind of tex
mex culture. Definitely creates nice tex mex food. So anyway,
all this to say, most Texans, most Americans will jump
at any opportunity to just drink margaritas and have Mexican food,
including Cinco de Mayo. And there's nothing wrong with that.
(10:17):
There shouldn't be. Now here's the problem. The left hates
anything that's fun and enjoyable. If you're having a good time,
be aware a leftist is about to come around the
corner and tell you why you're a villain for having
a good time right now. They always have some excuse
for why what you're doing and enjoying is wrong, And
now their excuse for why white people or Republicans or
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conservatives we can't celebrate Cinco de Mayo anymore because we
want to deport illegal aliens.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
That's their logic. Now, listen.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
I'm fairly confident that there are plenty, plenty of Hispanic
Americans that are in this country legally, even Hispanic American
immigrants that came to this country legally, and they celebrate
Sinco de Mayo, and I celebrate Sinco de Mayo and
we're all just having tacos and margarita's and it shouldn't
be a problem. But for this one lady, Sinco de
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Mayo is off limits to maga period. I found this
video yesterday as well, and just take a listen to it.
It's pretty crazy.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
You don't get to celebrate a culture that you've tried
to erase. So for all you maggots out there this Monday,
it's not Sinkle than Mayo for you, it's just May fifth,
and that is all, and that is how it should be.
If you've ever said speak English, if you've ever called
an immigrant illegal, or if you cheer for walls, bands
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or mass deportations, don't you dare celebrate single than mayo.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Okay, let me stop you right there.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
I fit into every single one of those categories, every
single one. I firmly believe if you're going to immigrate
and live permanently in the United States, you should speak English.
I firmly believe that we should have a wall on
our southern border because we have got to have a
physical barrier there to keep people who should not be
in this country out and then funnel them into places
where we can catch them and deport them when they
try to cross over. Now, this lady's trying to make
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the case that that means I want Mexican culture erased,
which is completely incorrect. I think Mexican culture, frankly is great,
aside from the bits where it's you know, cartels and
crime and drugs. That's not great. The part of Mexican
culture where is heavily influenced by cartels that control the
Mexican government from the top down, that I don't love,
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But everything else.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
I think is great.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
And remember, as a Texan, I'm very kind of at
peace with the fact that we are heavily influenced in
our kind of Texas culture by our Mexican roots. The
entire state of Texas, just by virtue of being Texas
has roots in Mexico and Mexican culture. And that's fine,
that's a great thing. However, that has blended with kind
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of American culture to be something very unique. Texican culture,
kind of tex Mexiculture is not identical to Mexican culture,
but it is heavily rooted in Mexican culture, and it's
very important that we kind of understand that and know
where our culture comes from and even celebrate the roots
of our culture. I think that's a great thing. And
just because I want illegal aliens to stay in the
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country they came from and if they're going to come
here assimilate to a certain extent to that text mex
or American culture, that doesn't mean I want Mexican culture erase.
But anyway, this stupid lady isn't done. Let's hear what
else she has to say.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
You do not get to enjoy the flavor of a
heritage and culture that you have demonized. No margaritas, no tequila,
no tacos, and you don't get to dress up in
those little sombreritos and pretend that, just for one day,
that you respect the Mexican culture.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
All right, So she gets right back into it.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
I do respect the Mexican culture very much so, but
I also recognize that Mexican culture and American culture and
even text mex culture are not exactly the same, and
we shouldn't pretend that there are. And we shouldn't let
a bunch of people who aren't going to assimilate into
the United States and may very well be danger ris
to American citizens. We shouldn't let them just hop across
the Rio Grande River and pretend nothing happened. This should
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not be that controversial. It's perfectly fine to celebrate and
exchange cultures and kind of share this is what we
do and what we eat on our special holidays, and
just have that exchange. That's a good thing.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
That does not mean.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
That we let criminal, illegal aliens into the country to
drug up all of our citizens and kill and rape people.
It's very weird to me that the Left doesn't seem
to believe that you can have kind of cultural exchange
without this sort of like zero borders globalism that they
keep pushing.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Anyway, she keeps going.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Take a listen, you maggots want to white wash America, Fine,
then go ahead and celebrate white washed holidays. Go to
chain restaurants, eat bland food, wave your little flags around.
But don't you dare toast to a heritage that built
this country. You cannot hate the hands that built this
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country and then raise a glass to their traditions, all
while disrespecting their culture. You didn't earn Sinco de Mayo,
you maggots, so don't speak her name. If this struck
a nerve, then good. Let the hypocrisy shine spotlight and
share away with this video. Drop a heart, drop a follow.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
You didn't earn Sinco de Mayo, so don't speak her name. Wow,
the self righteousness here. I think it's really fun. You
didn't earn Sino Demayo. You know what, She's got a point.
Maybe we didn't earn Sinco de Mayo. Maybe we didn't,
but I'll tell you what we did earn. We did
earn about fifty percent of Mexico when we kicked your
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button back to back wars in both the eighteen thirties
and the eighteen forties. Also the subtle implication here that
it was a Hispanic people that built the United States
of Americas. Remember you said that the hands that built
this country. That was her line in reference to Sinco
de Mayo. I'm gonna need some elaboration on that, because
there is a solid case to be made that Hispanic
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people played a heavy role in the creation of Texas.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Obviously that's true.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
We have legends like Juan Sagheine and his Mexican born
to hanos that fought valiantly at both the Alamo and
the Battle of San Jacento. I'll tip my hat to
those gentlemen all day, every day, because they did play
a significant role in building the state of Texas, which,
of course then in turn played a significant role in
building the United States of America that we know today.
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But the argument that it's somehow an affront to them
to kick illegal aliens out of our country, now, that's
not exactly the point that she's making, because I doubt
that she's smart enough to even get that far. But
that's sort of the implication if you take it to
its logical conclusion. Now join me in a thought experiment,
if you will. Do you think the Hispanic men that
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were locked up inside the Alamo for thirteen days and
then died fighting an army of Mexican invaders. Would just
be completely chill with huge amounts of armed Mexican invaders
coming into the United States into Texas again, this time
bringing even more drugs and weapons. You think they'd just
sit and take that because oh, it's our culture, it's
our heritage. No, they would close the border because they
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closed it the first time in the eighteen thirties. So
what's my end of the day point here with this
ridiculous video. My point is this, you can enjoy holidays
even if they're not from your culture.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
You can. You're allowed to.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
You can have a margarita on Cinco de Mayo even
if you think the border's closed.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
You know how I know because I did it.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
I had a taco and a margarita on Cinco de
Mayo and I had it just to piss her off,
just to make her mad. And I know it never
will because she'll never know who I am, and she'll
never know I had that talko on margarita. But I
did have it, and I was thinking of her while
I was eating it. Anyway, y'all, let me know what
you think about this. If I completely missed the mark here,
reach out to me.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Let me know.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
You guys know where to find me on my next
All right, stay tuned, We've got more coming up right
after this break.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
All right, let's talk about Trump's Meet the Press interview.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
He did this interview in the middle of last week
and then it aired, I believe Sunday morning. I didn't
talk about it in my evening show because I wanted
to really have plenty of time to just kind of
digest and sort of think about the interview and all
the things that he said.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
I don't like to go off half cocked.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Which may come as a surprise to those of you
that actually know me in my personal life, but on
the air on my podcast, I don't like to go
off half cocked. I do that a lot in person,
but on the air, I don't like to do that. So,
now that we've had a couple of days to kind
of process it, really just sort of collect the clips
and see what I like from the interview.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
See but I don't.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
I want to highlight a couple of things that I
thought were really good about this Meet the Press interview.
Let me start by saying, I want to encourage you
to go on YouTube, go on Twitter, look around, try
to find as much of this interview as you can,
and watch as much of it as possible. For a
couple of reasons. One, this man is our president, so
what he says matters.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
It does.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
It may not always be worth taking seriously, but it
always matters. And second of all, because context matters. I'm
gonna play you some clips here and I'm gonna tell
you what I think of them.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
But remember context is key in everything. So how you see.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
These clips, what context you see them in, that can
all sort of affect how you interpret them. And with Trump,
I think a lot is left up to interpretation, so
I would definitely encourage you go find and watch as
much of the full interview as possible. I'm sure it's
available on YouTube, So let me start with this. I
found a couple of clips here that really sort of
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exemplify one of my favorite things about Donald Trump. And
despite how divisive he's accused of being, I really do
think so much more of that is is the media
than it actually is Donald Trump. I think Trump is
divisive because the media has made him divisive. I think
Trump in person, by himself, is a far less divisive figure.
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Divisive person. He really does bring more people to him
than he pushes away, and that's because he.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Is a businessman.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
He does make deals and deals involved compromise, and he is,
despite his kind of outward brovost appearance, he is willing
to compromise on things, or at the very least have
conversations and explain why he won't compromise on things. There's
a couple of different examples of this. One of them
is Tulca Gabbard. The other is Robert F.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Kennedy Junior. Remember these were popular.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Democrat figures that are now serving in the Trump administration
that came back and campaigned with Trump because he reached
out to them and kind of brought them under the
sort of Maga umbrella. Right, Remember longtime democrats, but he
brought them in. And then after his second electoral victory,
saw a bunch of left wing figures, or at least
people that were perceived to be left wing sort of
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kind of moved towards Trump a little bit.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
All of these people have at least vocalized some level
of hey, I'm pretty chill with Donald Trump now now,
Jeff Bezos, Amazon recently made some headlines because they had said,
we're going to be adding a label to all of
the Amazon products that shows how much the price went
up because of tariff's. Now, obviously Donald Trump isn't gonna
like that because it's gonna make him look bad. I
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still am one hundred percent on board with the tariffs.
I think what he's doing makes sense and is working.
We'll get into that in a minute. But obviously, saying hey,
your prices went up because of Donald Trump is gonna
make Donald Trump look bad.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
He doesn't want to look bad. So what did he do.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
He called Jeff Bezos because he has a relationship with
him now and they talked about it, and now Jeff
Bezos isn't gonna do it. I think that's worth taking
note of. Take a listen to how Donald Trump kind
of tells this story to this NBC Meet the Press
lady that's interviewing him.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
What did you say to Jeff Bezosy, he's just.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
A very nice guy. We have a relationship. I asked
him about it. He said, well, I don't want to
do that, and he shook it off immediately.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
So he changed course.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
And will you take that same tactic?
Speaker 2 (22:12):
With other CEOs.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
If you like all people, if I disagree with them,
if I think that somebody's doing something that's incorrect, wrong,
or maybe hurtful to the country, I'll call absolute. Wouldn't
you want me to call Biden wouldn't call because they
didn't know what was happening.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
But I do that little jab at Biden just for
cakes and giggles is really funny.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
I like that. But he's making a good point.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Biden wouldn't have called, not just because he didn't know
what was going on. Obviously that's true, Biden had no
clue what was going on, but also because the left
doesn't talk with people that they don't agree with. I mean,
we just talked about it with this Sinco de Mayo lady.
You think she's going to sit down and have a
conversation with me about why we disagree about whether or
not I should be allowed to celebrate Sinco de Mayo
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and have a taco and margarita. No, she's going to
make a TikTok video, she's gonna fuss at me, she's
going to call me a racist and a xenophobe, and
then she's gonna walk off.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Trump doesn't take that approach.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
He does kind of lash out at people on Twitter,
or he tries to set himself up in a good
position to sort of negotiate. He wants to appear strong,
and that makes sense if you're trying to negotiate. But
at the end of the day, he's very much the
type of person that will try to cut a deal,
try to come to terms.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
I like that, I do.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
I think that's a good thing in any person. I
wish the left did it more, because I think there's
a lot of people on the left, a lot of
Democrats even that we could be sort of having conversations
with coming to terms, with working together on things. But
we just don't see very much of that. And that's
really on the left more than it is on the right.
I think that's pretty clearly the case that the left
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is responsible for that breakdown. It's very difficult to argue
against that point when you have Trump bringing in people
like Pulci Gabbard and Robert F. Kennedy Junior, and at
the same time those longtime Democrats are demonized by their
former fellow Democrats just for having a conversation with Donald Trump.
Trump actually continued on the point in the interview, and
he went the same place I did. He thinks, as
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I think, that the media is kind of trying to
make him more divisive than he actually is.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Take a listen to this.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
I want to think people fairly, whether they're voted for
me or not. I want to have a unified country.
It's very hard because the media is so fake, including
like even the way you ask questions. Every question is
asked in a negative vein. There's a toy company that
took a toddler's you know whatever. But you don't talk
about the fact that gasoline is down at numbers that
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nobody believes possible. You know why they're down, By the way, Drill, baby, drill.
We're drilling like crazy right now.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
We try to make sure every question is fair. Mister president.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
Look, every question you ask says that very negative sign.
Speaker 5 (24:45):
No. No.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
But look, I'm just carrying far.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Fine for responding to you. I don't think you're very
difficult at all to respond to, to be honest with you,
But you know what, you should ask some positive things.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
I love that you should ask some positive things. You
should be nicer. It's just funny. It's funny to watch.
But he's also making a good point. The media always
does very much frame things in a negative context. That's
observably true. That's why people are flocking away from mainstream
media and even back towards AM radio, which is what
I do, or towards podcast, which is also what I do.
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Trump is right to point this out, and I think
more people need to kind of pay attention to this,
because again, like I've said a thousand times, I will
die on this hill. Trump is not as divisive as
people want you to believe he is. He's definitely abrasive.
I'm not going to argue that point. He's obviously a
very abrasive person. But underneath that abrasive persona, I think
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he does kind of want to unify people and bring
people together, and I like that. Now, I want to
give you an example of this in action, because we
haven't really heard the questions up to this point. I
want to play you a clip where you actually hear
the question and you can tell that it's kind of
like a fear mongering question, and then Trump just kind
of flips it and it's like, look at how you're
asking me this question, but you're not looking at the
other side of that coin.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Even a little bit. Take a listen to this clip.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
Mister president, should lawful residents of this country start carrying
paperwork with them when they leave their homes?
Speaker 2 (26:06):
All right? So let me stop you right there.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Take a listen to how she phrases that question, should
lawful citizens start carrying paperwork when they leave home? She's
trying to scare you, she is, what is this Nazi
Germany where people have to carry paperwork to show that
they're not Jews?
Speaker 2 (26:20):
You want to do that now in America.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Take a listen to Donald Trump's response to this, because
her question is obviously kind of appointed, fear mongering, jab
of a question.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
But listen to Trump's response here.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
If that'll be necessary. But what you're not saying is
that many people have been killed, maimed, badly hurt by
illegal immigrants that came over that are from prisons and
from jails and from mental institutions, and they're hurting our people.
And if we don't get them out, we're not going
to have a country for long. We need honest we
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need honest media, and we need walls. We need to
have borders. And by the way, I built a lot
of walls. And if we didn't do that, we wouldn't
be able to have those, you know, we would not
be able to have the kind of numbers if I
wasn't successful and building hundreds of miles of wall.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
I love the way he flips that there.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
He just asked her, why are you not talking about
the fact that, listen, there are people that are violent,
horrible criminals that have been in this country for a
couple of years at this point, that we're flowing into
this country by the hundreds of thousands, and now we're
getting them out and we're taking steps to keep them
out in the future.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
You're not talking about that.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
You're just complaining about the fact that, oh, you might
have to carry proof of citizenship on your person.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Let me ask you, this is not really such a
bad thing.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Is it really such a bad thing. Most of you
already do that right now and you don't even know it.
If you have a Texas driver's license and you're an
American citizen, you can be identified as a citizen by
your driver's license.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
That's real.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Id That gold star up in the top right corner
of your Texas driver's license tells anyone who looked at it,
this is a verified American citizen. Beyond that, most Americans
have a passport, and nobody's saying you should have to
carry your passport on you because hey, that's a booklet
and it's kind of an inconvenience to carry that little
book around. You can get a card. You can get
a passport card, Believe it or not, it's no bigger
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than the state ID. But again, most people won't even
have to do that, because, like I already said, real
idea is a thing. Your state driver's license, at least
in Texas, but in most other states moving forward, will
verify that you are an American citizen. So is it
really that much of an imposition? No, why are we
freaking out about this, No reason at all, just because
the media told you to. If real Idea is the
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price I have to pay to make sure that we
are keeping violent, dangerous illegal aliens out of the country,
I will gladly pay that price. And I'm not going
to sit and listen to the media lose their mind
over it and act like it's the end of the world.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
It's not worst case scenario.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
You have to spend a few extra minutes at the DMV,
You'll be fine, all right, Stay tuned we got one
more segment coming up next. All right, we've talked a
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lot about the border. Why stop now, Let's just keep going.
It's a good topic. There's always a lot of stuff
there to talk about. So let's talk about something that
they left loves to talk about but hates to actually
dig into, and that is due process. Obviously, we need
mass deportations. We need to be able to load up
illegal aliens that are in this country illegally, have no
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right to be here, are a threat to Americans, and
say you're not supposed to be here, you came here legally.
You're getting out, Get on the plane, you're gone. I
think that's a good thing I do.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Now.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
The left will love to say due process. Due process
says everybody needs their day in court. What they're trying
to do when they say that, it's not just a
deep concern for actual due process, it isn't. They just
want the illegal aliens to be here. That's what they want.
Many of your rank and file leftists don't even know
why they want those illegal aliens to be here. They've
just been told that, oh, we need illegal aliens by
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the kind of top dogs at the Democrat Party and
on the left, and they didn't bother to ask why,
because they don't do that.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Here's the reason why.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
First of all, as of right now, every illegal alien
in this country will be counted in the US census
in twenty thirty when we do the next one.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Here's why that matters. The most illegal aliens are.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
In places like California and New York because those places
have you know, open borders programs. They're sanctuary cities, sanctuary states,
free handouts, so they attract illegal aliens right and those
illegal aliens are there, they get counted in the Senate
and guess what, California, New York they get a bunch
of Democrat congressmen and electoral votes because of that, because
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it's a sign based on population, and if you count
illegal aliens towards that, that gives these blue open border
states a huge advantage in all of that. That's why
they want the open borders. That's why the elites do.
The rank and file people, the voters, they don't know why.
They've just been told that this is a good thing,
and they believe it. But for a long time, the
Republicans have not really had a good argument against the
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whole due process thing. And I think we need to
come to terms with the difficult reality that maybe due
process looks a little bit different for American citizens than
it does for people who illegally cross the border and
shouldn't be in this country at all. You know who
else thinks that Florida gubernatorial candidate Byron Donald's here he
is explaining that on Meet the Press NBC. He did
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his own Meat the Press interview and he actually made
this point fantastically.
Speaker 6 (31:45):
When it comes to due process, that is a privilege
reserved for American citizens. When people are in our country illegally,
there is a semblance of due process, but not nearly
at the level of a United States citizen of an
American there are two different standards. You come to America,
you are a guest in the United States, that privilege
can be revoked. And a lot of these illegal aliens
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were not guests. They showed up at the Southern Boarder
Joe Biden abused our laws, ignored our laws, and let
them in. And so what are the American people supposed
to to say about that?
Speaker 1 (32:14):
I really do think that's a great point that we
need to have more national discourse about. And it's fine
if you disagree with me, I just want you to
sort of think about it, and I also want you
to take note of the fact that this is not
a brand new idea. Being an American, I think this
is my perspective. You let me know if you disagree.
Being an American I think should come with certain rights
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and privileges that not everybody has. Obviously that is the
case right now. By being an American citizen, you get
to vote in American elections. I think that's obviously a
privilege that Americans have that other people in America don't
have and shouldn't have. But I think it should go
a step further. I think we should maybe have special
legal privileges. This is not a brand new idea. This
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goes all the way back to ancient Rome. In ancient Rome,
if you were a citizen of Rome, not just a
resident of Rome or run of Rome's territories, because that
is different. If you were an actual Roman citizen, you
had legal privileges that other residents of the Roman Empire
didn't have. The most famous case of this is actually
the Apostle Paul. I'm gonna bring up a biblical example here.
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The Apostle Paul appealed directly to Caesar. He said, as
a Roman citizen, it is my right to appeal my
legal case directly to the Emperor. I get to go
to the Emperor, stand before the Emperor and make my
case directly to him, and he will be the final
judge in my case. And obviously, just by virtue of
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doing that, Paul staved off his own execution for an
extra several years. I believe now it's worth noting that
other people could not do that. If you were, you know,
in Roman occupied Judea, you didn't have that same opportunity
just by virtue of being in Rome. Not every person,
not every resident in Rome, could appeal directly to Caesar,
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like Jesus when he was about to be executed by
ponscious pilot and couldn't say no, no, no, wait, I
appeal to Caesar. You have to take me to him first,
because as I understand it, he wasn't actually a Roman citizen.
He was under the law and scope and territory of Rome, but.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
He was not a citizen.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
We have tons of people in the United States now
that are under the laws and jurisdiction of the United States.
They are subject to our laws but does that necessarily
mean that they should get all the same legal protections
as an American citizen. I would submit to you that No,
I think we should have a little bit of difference here.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Now.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Am I saying we mirror the Roman system one to one? No,
because that would be ridiculous and unpractical, and it would
be stupid of me to suggest it. But I am
saying we have an example that we can kind of
take and we can kind of tinker with and make
it fit with modern day society.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Obviously, there's a line to be walked.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Obviously we kind of have to sort this out on
a legal at even constitutional level. Obviously, smarter people than
I will have to come up with the final idea
of what that looks like. But I think it's worth
considering maybe being an American citizen actually grant you something
even better here in the United States of America. I
do really like the example of a guest in the
home here. That kind of analogy I think plays out
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really well. If you visit someone's house and you know
they welcome you into their home, Hey, come have dinner
with us. Obviously, there's kind of certain niceties that are
expected Southern hospitality and the such. But at that same time,
you do not have the same rights and privileges of
any other resident of that household. Right, you're kind of
here at the pleasure of the host. Right they can
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kick you out at any time if they show desire,
and you would be obligated to leave. But at the
same time, as long as you're there under their good graces,
you're expected to be treated as a guest. You're expected
to be afforded some level of hospitality. We could apply
that same concept on a national level. I think like, hey,
you're here on a visa, you're here on a green card,
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You've come here for a particular purpose. As long as
you're here, we will treat you politely, we will be
nice to you, you will have certain niceties extended to you.
But at the same time, you are here as a guest.
And if we say, hey, you have to leave, you
have to leave, and that's the end of the story.
You don't get to fight and argue that point. Whereas
American citizens, if you were either born into the American
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household or maybe married into the American household, in terms
of being a naturalized citizen, if for whatever reason you're
an actual part of that family. You're an actual part
of that household. The process to actually kick you out
is quite a bit more extensive, and you have certain
privileges inside that household that a guest would not. This
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really is not as radical as some might try to
make you think it is. Now listen, maybe there's a
practical barrier to this that I'm not aware of because
I'm not a lawyer. I'm not a constitutional expert by
any means, but I think this idea sense.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
I want you to think about it too.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
I want you to actually kind of ponder whether or
not this is logical to you because it's logical to me,
and then reach out and tell me what you think
about it, because remember, I think if there's one thing
that the last sort of four years of Joe Biden
made perfectly clear, it's that we need to start thinking
about major institutional reforms.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
Right.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
Obviously, the United States of America is the best system
in the world today, right, we are the peak society
does not get any better. Does that mean we don't
have flaws? No, obviously we have big flaws, major ones.
But this is the American experiment, right, And what do
you do with an experiment, You look at the results
and then you say, Okay, how can we tweak this
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to get better results? What can we do differently, what
can we take away, and what can we learn. We
have coming up on two hundred and fifty years of
the United States of America, and we can look at
that history. We can look at those results of the
American experiment, and we can say, Okay, this is pretty good,
but obviously there are some major your faults in the system.
Speaker 5 (38:01):
Right.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
I think that's pretty clear.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
No honest person is going to look at America over
the last four years and say, yes, this is exactly
what the founding fathers intended and wanted, and they don't
want us to tweak or change things at all. That's
obviously not the case. So what can we do to
kind of make life better for Americans? Because that should
be our priority. We're Americans. We're either Americans or we're
legal immigrants who want to become Americans. So your top
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priority should be how can Americans live their best possible life.
Be the safest, be the healthiest, be the happiest, be
the wealthiest. Right, I think this is one way to
do that. But if you disagree, I'd love to hear
from you about it. I'd love to talk with you
about this. You know where to find me. I'm on
X Underscore Ethan Buchanan, buh a n A N.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
I want to encourage you to reach out to me there.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
Also, remember to tune in Sunday's at seven pm on
AM nine to fifty KPRC will be there live. That's
when I'll see you again next Thank you very much
for listening to the next Gen Report
Speaker 5 (39:01):
On up to this con
Donald Trump is going to reopen Alcatraz, or at least
he says he's going to not just Alcatraz, a substantially larger, rebuilt,
refurbished Alcatraz prison. I love it, but why stop there? Right,
that's my thought. Why stop there? Let's just build a
wall around all of San Francisco. Just turn that into
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a massive prison colony for the worst of the worst
in America.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I mean most of them already live there.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
In San Francisco anyway, so half the job is done
just by building the wall, right right, Hey, everybody, this
is the Next Gen Report.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I'm Ethan Buchannon. Thank you very much for joining me.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
I want to encourage you, if you haven't already, go
back and listen to the episode that we did on Sunday,
that live broadcast that was on AM nine to fifty KPRC.
Remember you can catch it every single Sunday at seven
on AM nine to fifty KPRC. You're the free iHeartRadio app.
We do a live broadcast of the show. It's always
a great time. Last Sunday we had State Representative Brian
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Harrison on. We talked about just everything going on in
the State House, how it's basically run by Democrats. Republicans
control the State House and the state Senate, but Democrats
are pretty much calling all the shots there. And remember
this is very important because your state politics has far
more effect on your day to day life, especially here
in Texas, than the federal politics. Do I mean, how
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many of us are sitting here going gosh, I hate
how much tax money I have to pay to the government.
A lot of that tax money that you pay, especially
if you're a homeowner, that's taxes that you're paying to
the state, right, your property taxes, because remember, the state
of Texas does not have an income tax, thank the
good Lord, but we do have exorbitantly high property taxes.
Who's responsible for that, It's the state legislature. So what's
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going on in Austin, Texas matters quite a bit. And
what's going on in Austin, Texas is pretty dirty, pretty
dirty stuff. So I spoke with Representative Harrison about that,
and we were just kind of talking about the fact that,
you know, all the wrong bills are moving through the
Texas House. You know, Democrat priorities are getting pushed through
Republican priorities, or are getting killed or just sort of
dying in committees waiting to be heard, and then they
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run out the clock. The legislative session is over before
we've even had time to discuss some of the big,
top important bills. And we've all been kind of wondering
why why is this happening? Well, obviously it's because of
the Speaker of the House. If you don't follow politics closely,
the Speaker of the House in both the state House
here in Texas and the Federal House in Washington, that's
far and away the most powerful position in the House
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of Representatives. It's one of easily the top three most
powerful positions in all of state government, right because you're
controlling the goings on of the entire House, the entire
capital is kind of at your whim. You decide who
is the chairman of different committees. You're pretty much the
leader for your party inside the House. Basically everybody's doing
what you want them to do. So obviously with that
(03:34):
power comes the responsibility. Right, If something gets done that
shouldn't have been done, that falls on you. If something's
not getting done that should be getting done, hey, that
falls on you as well. So we've had a bunch
of Democrat bills moving through the Texas House and Republican
bills keep getting stalled. The big Republican priorities that we
are managing to get past, they're watered down. We talked
with Brian Harrison about that. We've we've basically had the
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wool pulled over our eyes on school choice. They did
not deliver the universe arso school choice that we were
kind of promised.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
So a lot of people are sort of wondering why.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
And we may have one explanation as to why all
of this is happening right Obviously, it is because Dustin
Burrows and a couple of Republicans in the House has
kind of sold us down the river to the Democrats.
But we have an interesting story that came out yesterday
from Texas Scorecard. Speaker Burrows fires senior staffer. Sources say
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General Counselor Jimmy Skipton the Fourth was directing bills to
be moved or killed to aid his wife's lobby clients,
So this is scorecard reporting. According to Capital sources, Skipton
was accused of directing committee chairman to move or kill
certain pieces of legislation under the guise of direction from
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Speaker Burroughs.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Instead, he was.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Allegedly doing so to benefit his wife, Carrie Simmons, a
prominent Austin lobbyist for the firm of Texas Lobby Partners.
So spell this out for you, right, this guy works
for House Speaker Dustin Burroughs in a prominent position, for
House Speaker Dustin Burroughs, who just by virtue of being
House Speaker is himself in a prominent position. So this
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guy can go to all the different committee chairmen that
are all appointed by Dustin Burroughs and effectively owe him
one because of that, and say, hey, y'all, the Speaker
wants this bill killed. The Speaker doesn't want this bill
to make it out of committee. The Speaker doesn't want
this bill to become law, so you guys have to
go kill it. And that's what they do. Because remember
(05:34):
the Speaker of the House is sort of the leader
of the Republican caucus, right, That's how it should be.
He's kind of effectively become the leader of the Democrat caucus,
it seems like. So basically, what the allegation here is
is that this guy, Jimmy Skipton, whose wife was working
for lobbyists, lobbyists or of course people who have vested
interest in different political causes, and their whole thing is
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like they just try to advocate for specific bills that
are attached to their specific political causes. And because this
guy's wife was in that position, she was one of
these lobbyists. He was going around and on behalf of
her claiming to be doing it, on behalf of Dustin Burrows,
who I guess didn't know about it. He was going
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and getting these bills killed. So for all of you
that have been pissed off or upset about what's going
on in the Texas House, if you haven't been following
Texas politics, Texas state politics, this is exactly why you
need to. If you're not paying attention to this stuff,
if people aren't constantly being outraged about what's going on
in the Texas House, if we don't have people like
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Representative Harrison going out there and constantly shining a spotlight
on the fact that nothing is ever getting done in
the Texas House, I bet you nobody ever finds out
about this stuff. And I bet you this Jimmy Skipton
guy stays working for Speaker Burrows.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
According to the Scorecard.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Lawmakers have said in recent weeks that Skipton had become
increasingly hostile to their staff, with one source describing him
as demanding and disrespectful. That attitude allegedly was extended even
to Burrows as chief of staff Robert Duncan and senior
advisor Tracy King, a former Democrat lawmaker from Uvaldi. That's
also worth noting out, why does the Republican Speaker of
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the House have a former Democrat lawmaker on his staff?
Who do you think is making these decisions? So essentially,
the story goes that Skipton was confronted about the issue
and presented with evidence during a meter with Duncan and
Speaker Burrows on Monday. Skipton was then escorted from the
capital by the Department of Public Safety. Listen, it's good
that this is happening. This looks like it's probably progress.
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But it's not enough. We have to be laser focused
on the state House. We have to be laser focused
on state politics. However much attention you pay to Washington
paid more to Austin. It's just as important, if not more.
All Right, stay tuned, we got a great episode coming up.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Senco de Mayo.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
We had Cinco de Mayo on Monday, that was the
fifth of May. A lot of white people don't actually
know what Cinco de Mayo is. It's not Mexican Independence Day.
It's the day that the Mexican army defeated the French
army that was coming to basically take over Mexico because
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Mexico owed France a lot of money that they couldn't
pay back. So France said, okay, well we'll just make
you French now, and Mexico said, no. They beat France
because who doesn't beat France in wars? Even early early
stages of Mexico can do it. And this is in
the sixties, the eighteen sixties, so Mexico is coming off
of a major loss to the Texans in the eighteen
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thirties and then to the United States of America in
the eighteen forties, and so beating the French was a
really big thing for them. And you know what, we'll
give it to you. Good job, Mexico. We're proud of you.
You achieved the bare minimum of being a country, which
is beating the French in war. But no, actually, I
really do like Cinco to myo because it's just a
fun holiday where it basically gives us an excuse to
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eat tacos and have margaritas, and I like tacos. I
like margaritas, and most Texans do because listen, where a
state that's very connected with our roots. Texas was of
course formally part of Mexico, so we share a lot
of that culture back and forth to a certain extent.
And it's great. Everybody's kind of happy about that. I mean,
you just go to San Antonio. You can clearly see
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how deeply rooted that kind of Hispanic culture is and
it's great, we love it.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
There's nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
I think the Texan and Mexican cultures kind of blend
very well and create a nice little kind of tex
mex culture. Definitely creates nice tex mex food. So anyway,
all this to say, most Texans, most Americans will jump
at any opportunity to just drink margaritas and have Mexican food,
including Cinco de Mayo. And there's nothing wrong with that.
(10:17):
There shouldn't be. Now here's the problem. The left hates
anything that's fun and enjoyable. If you're having a good time,
be aware a leftist is about to come around the
corner and tell you why you're a villain for having
a good time right now. They always have some excuse
for why what you're doing and enjoying is wrong, And
now their excuse for why white people or Republicans or
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conservatives we can't celebrate Cinco de Mayo anymore because we
want to deport illegal aliens.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
That's their logic. Now, listen.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
I'm fairly confident that there are plenty, plenty of Hispanic
Americans that are in this country legally, even Hispanic American
immigrants that came to this country legally, and they celebrate
Sinco de Mayo, and I celebrate Sinco de Mayo and
we're all just having tacos and margarita's and it shouldn't
be a problem. But for this one lady, Sinco de
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Mayo is off limits to maga period. I found this
video yesterday as well, and just take a listen to it.
It's pretty crazy.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
You don't get to celebrate a culture that you've tried
to erase. So for all you maggots out there this Monday,
it's not Sinkle than Mayo for you, it's just May fifth,
and that is all, and that is how it should be.
If you've ever said speak English, if you've ever called
an immigrant illegal, or if you cheer for walls, bands
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or mass deportations, don't you dare celebrate single than mayo.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Okay, let me stop you right there.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
I fit into every single one of those categories, every
single one. I firmly believe if you're going to immigrate
and live permanently in the United States, you should speak English.
I firmly believe that we should have a wall on
our southern border because we have got to have a
physical barrier there to keep people who should not be
in this country out and then funnel them into places
where we can catch them and deport them when they
try to cross over. Now, this lady's trying to make
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the case that that means I want Mexican culture erased,
which is completely incorrect. I think Mexican culture, frankly is great,
aside from the bits where it's you know, cartels and
crime and drugs. That's not great. The part of Mexican
culture where is heavily influenced by cartels that control the
Mexican government from the top down, that I don't love,
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But everything else.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
I think is great.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
And remember, as a Texan, I'm very kind of at
peace with the fact that we are heavily influenced in
our kind of Texas culture by our Mexican roots. The
entire state of Texas, just by virtue of being Texas
has roots in Mexico and Mexican culture. And that's fine,
that's a great thing. However, that has blended with kind
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of American culture to be something very unique. Texican culture,
kind of tex Mexiculture is not identical to Mexican culture,
but it is heavily rooted in Mexican culture, and it's
very important that we kind of understand that and know
where our culture comes from and even celebrate the roots
of our culture. I think that's a great thing. And
just because I want illegal aliens to stay in the
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country they came from and if they're going to come
here assimilate to a certain extent to that text mex
or American culture, that doesn't mean I want Mexican culture erase.
But anyway, this stupid lady isn't done. Let's hear what
else she has to say.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
You do not get to enjoy the flavor of a
heritage and culture that you have demonized. No margaritas, no tequila,
no tacos, and you don't get to dress up in
those little sombreritos and pretend that, just for one day,
that you respect the Mexican culture.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
All right, So she gets right back into it.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
I do respect the Mexican culture very much so, but
I also recognize that Mexican culture and American culture and
even text mex culture are not exactly the same, and
we shouldn't pretend that there are. And we shouldn't let
a bunch of people who aren't going to assimilate into
the United States and may very well be danger ris
to American citizens. We shouldn't let them just hop across
the Rio Grande River and pretend nothing happened. This should
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not be that controversial. It's perfectly fine to celebrate and
exchange cultures and kind of share this is what we
do and what we eat on our special holidays, and
just have that exchange. That's a good thing.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
That does not mean.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
That we let criminal, illegal aliens into the country to
drug up all of our citizens and kill and rape people.
It's very weird to me that the Left doesn't seem
to believe that you can have kind of cultural exchange
without this sort of like zero borders globalism that they
keep pushing.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Anyway, she keeps going.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Take a listen, you maggots want to white wash America, Fine,
then go ahead and celebrate white washed holidays. Go to
chain restaurants, eat bland food, wave your little flags around.
But don't you dare toast to a heritage that built
this country. You cannot hate the hands that built this
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country and then raise a glass to their traditions, all
while disrespecting their culture. You didn't earn Sinco de Mayo,
you maggots, so don't speak her name. If this struck
a nerve, then good. Let the hypocrisy shine spotlight and
share away with this video. Drop a heart, drop a follow.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
You didn't earn Sinco de Mayo, so don't speak her name. Wow,
the self righteousness here. I think it's really fun. You
didn't earn Sino Demayo. You know what, She's got a point.
Maybe we didn't earn Sinco de Mayo. Maybe we didn't,
but I'll tell you what we did earn. We did
earn about fifty percent of Mexico when we kicked your
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button back to back wars in both the eighteen thirties
and the eighteen forties. Also the subtle implication here that
it was a Hispanic people that built the United States
of Americas. Remember you said that the hands that built
this country. That was her line in reference to Sinco
de Mayo. I'm gonna need some elaboration on that, because
there is a solid case to be made that Hispanic
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people played a heavy role in the creation of Texas.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Obviously that's true.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
We have legends like Juan Sagheine and his Mexican born
to hanos that fought valiantly at both the Alamo and
the Battle of San Jacento. I'll tip my hat to
those gentlemen all day, every day, because they did play
a significant role in building the state of Texas, which,
of course then in turn played a significant role in
building the United States of America that we know today.
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But the argument that it's somehow an affront to them
to kick illegal aliens out of our country, now, that's
not exactly the point that she's making, because I doubt
that she's smart enough to even get that far. But
that's sort of the implication if you take it to
its logical conclusion. Now join me in a thought experiment,
if you will. Do you think the Hispanic men that
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were locked up inside the Alamo for thirteen days and
then died fighting an army of Mexican invaders. Would just
be completely chill with huge amounts of armed Mexican invaders
coming into the United States into Texas again, this time
bringing even more drugs and weapons. You think they'd just
sit and take that because oh, it's our culture, it's
our heritage. No, they would close the border because they
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closed it the first time in the eighteen thirties. So
what's my end of the day point here with this
ridiculous video. My point is this, you can enjoy holidays
even if they're not from your culture.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
You can. You're allowed to.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
You can have a margarita on Cinco de Mayo even
if you think the border's closed.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
You know how I know because I did it.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
I had a taco and a margarita on Cinco de
Mayo and I had it just to piss her off,
just to make her mad. And I know it never
will because she'll never know who I am, and she'll
never know I had that talko on margarita. But I
did have it, and I was thinking of her while
I was eating it. Anyway, y'all, let me know what
you think about this. If I completely missed the mark here,
reach out to me.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Let me know.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
You guys know where to find me on my next
All right, stay tuned, We've got more coming up right
after this break.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
All right, let's talk about Trump's Meet the Press interview.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
He did this interview in the middle of last week
and then it aired, I believe Sunday morning. I didn't
talk about it in my evening show because I wanted
to really have plenty of time to just kind of
digest and sort of think about the interview and all
the things that he said.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
I don't like to go off half cocked.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Which may come as a surprise to those of you
that actually know me in my personal life, but on
the air on my podcast, I don't like to go
off half cocked. I do that a lot in person,
but on the air, I don't like to do that. So,
now that we've had a couple of days to kind
of process it, really just sort of collect the clips
and see what I like from the interview.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
See but I don't.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
I want to highlight a couple of things that I
thought were really good about this Meet the Press interview.
Let me start by saying, I want to encourage you
to go on YouTube, go on Twitter, look around, try
to find as much of this interview as you can,
and watch as much of it as possible. For a
couple of reasons. One, this man is our president, so
what he says matters.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
It does.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
It may not always be worth taking seriously, but it
always matters. And second of all, because context matters. I'm
gonna play you some clips here and I'm gonna tell
you what I think of them.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
But remember context is key in everything. So how you see.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
These clips, what context you see them in, that can
all sort of affect how you interpret them. And with Trump,
I think a lot is left up to interpretation, so
I would definitely encourage you go find and watch as
much of the full interview as possible. I'm sure it's
available on YouTube, So let me start with this. I
found a couple of clips here that really sort of
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exemplify one of my favorite things about Donald Trump. And
despite how divisive he's accused of being, I really do
think so much more of that is is the media
than it actually is Donald Trump. I think Trump is
divisive because the media has made him divisive. I think
Trump in person, by himself, is a far less divisive figure.
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Divisive person. He really does bring more people to him
than he pushes away, and that's because he.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Is a businessman.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
He does make deals and deals involved compromise, and he is,
despite his kind of outward brovost appearance, he is willing
to compromise on things, or at the very least have
conversations and explain why he won't compromise on things. There's
a couple of different examples of this. One of them
is Tulca Gabbard. The other is Robert F.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Kennedy Junior. Remember these were popular.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Democrat figures that are now serving in the Trump administration
that came back and campaigned with Trump because he reached
out to them and kind of brought them under the
sort of Maga umbrella. Right, Remember longtime democrats, but he
brought them in. And then after his second electoral victory,
saw a bunch of left wing figures, or at least
people that were perceived to be left wing sort of
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kind of moved towards Trump a little bit.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
All of these people have at least vocalized some level
of hey, I'm pretty chill with Donald Trump now now,
Jeff Bezos, Amazon recently made some headlines because they had said,
we're going to be adding a label to all of
the Amazon products that shows how much the price went
up because of tariff's. Now, obviously Donald Trump isn't gonna
like that because it's gonna make him look bad. I
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still am one hundred percent on board with the tariffs.
I think what he's doing makes sense and is working.
We'll get into that in a minute. But obviously, saying hey,
your prices went up because of Donald Trump is gonna
make Donald Trump look bad.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
He doesn't want to look bad. So what did he do.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
He called Jeff Bezos because he has a relationship with
him now and they talked about it, and now Jeff
Bezos isn't gonna do it. I think that's worth taking
note of. Take a listen to how Donald Trump kind
of tells this story to this NBC Meet the Press
lady that's interviewing him.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
What did you say to Jeff Bezosy, he's just.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
A very nice guy. We have a relationship. I asked
him about it. He said, well, I don't want to
do that, and he shook it off immediately.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
So he changed course.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
And will you take that same tactic?
Speaker 2 (22:12):
With other CEOs.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
If you like all people, if I disagree with them,
if I think that somebody's doing something that's incorrect, wrong,
or maybe hurtful to the country, I'll call absolute. Wouldn't
you want me to call Biden wouldn't call because they
didn't know what was happening.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
But I do that little jab at Biden just for
cakes and giggles is really funny.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
I like that. But he's making a good point.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Biden wouldn't have called, not just because he didn't know
what was going on. Obviously that's true, Biden had no
clue what was going on, but also because the left
doesn't talk with people that they don't agree with. I mean,
we just talked about it with this Sinco de Mayo lady.
You think she's going to sit down and have a
conversation with me about why we disagree about whether or
not I should be allowed to celebrate Sinco de Mayo
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and have a taco and margarita. No, she's going to
make a TikTok video, she's gonna fuss at me, she's
going to call me a racist and a xenophobe, and
then she's gonna walk off.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Trump doesn't take that approach.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
He does kind of lash out at people on Twitter,
or he tries to set himself up in a good
position to sort of negotiate. He wants to appear strong,
and that makes sense if you're trying to negotiate. But
at the end of the day, he's very much the
type of person that will try to cut a deal,
try to come to terms.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
I like that, I do.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
I think that's a good thing in any person. I
wish the left did it more, because I think there's
a lot of people on the left, a lot of
Democrats even that we could be sort of having conversations
with coming to terms, with working together on things. But
we just don't see very much of that. And that's
really on the left more than it is on the right.
I think that's pretty clearly the case that the left
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is responsible for that breakdown. It's very difficult to argue
against that point when you have Trump bringing in people
like Pulci Gabbard and Robert F. Kennedy Junior, and at
the same time those longtime Democrats are demonized by their
former fellow Democrats just for having a conversation with Donald Trump.
Trump actually continued on the point in the interview, and
he went the same place I did. He thinks, as
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I think, that the media is kind of trying to
make him more divisive than he actually is.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Take a listen to this.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
I want to think people fairly, whether they're voted for
me or not. I want to have a unified country.
It's very hard because the media is so fake, including
like even the way you ask questions. Every question is
asked in a negative vein. There's a toy company that
took a toddler's you know whatever. But you don't talk
about the fact that gasoline is down at numbers that
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nobody believes possible. You know why they're down, By the way, Drill, baby, drill.
We're drilling like crazy right now.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
We try to make sure every question is fair. Mister president.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
Look, every question you ask says that very negative sign.
Speaker 5 (24:45):
No. No.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
But look, I'm just carrying far.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Fine for responding to you. I don't think you're very
difficult at all to respond to, to be honest with you,
But you know what, you should ask some positive things.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
I love that you should ask some positive things. You
should be nicer. It's just funny. It's funny to watch.
But he's also making a good point. The media always
does very much frame things in a negative context. That's
observably true. That's why people are flocking away from mainstream
media and even back towards AM radio, which is what
I do, or towards podcast, which is also what I do.
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Trump is right to point this out, and I think
more people need to kind of pay attention to this,
because again, like I've said a thousand times, I will
die on this hill. Trump is not as divisive as
people want you to believe he is. He's definitely abrasive.
I'm not going to argue that point. He's obviously a
very abrasive person. But underneath that abrasive persona, I think
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he does kind of want to unify people and bring
people together, and I like that. Now, I want to
give you an example of this in action, because we
haven't really heard the questions up to this point. I
want to play you a clip where you actually hear
the question and you can tell that it's kind of
like a fear mongering question, and then Trump just kind
of flips it and it's like, look at how you're
asking me this question, but you're not looking at the
other side of that coin.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Even a little bit. Take a listen to this clip.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
Mister president, should lawful residents of this country start carrying
paperwork with them when they leave their homes?
Speaker 2 (26:06):
All right? So let me stop you right there.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Take a listen to how she phrases that question, should
lawful citizens start carrying paperwork when they leave home? She's
trying to scare you, she is, what is this Nazi
Germany where people have to carry paperwork to show that
they're not Jews?
Speaker 2 (26:20):
You want to do that now in America.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Take a listen to Donald Trump's response to this, because
her question is obviously kind of appointed, fear mongering, jab
of a question.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
But listen to Trump's response here.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
If that'll be necessary. But what you're not saying is
that many people have been killed, maimed, badly hurt by
illegal immigrants that came over that are from prisons and
from jails and from mental institutions, and they're hurting our people.
And if we don't get them out, we're not going
to have a country for long. We need honest we
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need honest media, and we need walls. We need to
have borders. And by the way, I built a lot
of walls. And if we didn't do that, we wouldn't
be able to have those, you know, we would not
be able to have the kind of numbers if I
wasn't successful and building hundreds of miles of wall.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
I love the way he flips that there.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
He just asked her, why are you not talking about
the fact that, listen, there are people that are violent,
horrible criminals that have been in this country for a
couple of years at this point, that we're flowing into
this country by the hundreds of thousands, and now we're
getting them out and we're taking steps to keep them
out in the future.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
You're not talking about that.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
You're just complaining about the fact that, oh, you might
have to carry proof of citizenship on your person.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Let me ask you, this is not really such a
bad thing.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Is it really such a bad thing. Most of you
already do that right now and you don't even know it.
If you have a Texas driver's license and you're an
American citizen, you can be identified as a citizen by
your driver's license.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
That's real.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Id That gold star up in the top right corner
of your Texas driver's license tells anyone who looked at it,
this is a verified American citizen. Beyond that, most Americans
have a passport, and nobody's saying you should have to
carry your passport on you because hey, that's a booklet
and it's kind of an inconvenience to carry that little
book around. You can get a card. You can get
a passport card, Believe it or not, it's no bigger
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than the state ID. But again, most people won't even
have to do that, because, like I already said, real
idea is a thing. Your state driver's license, at least
in Texas, but in most other states moving forward, will
verify that you are an American citizen. So is it
really that much of an imposition? No, why are we
freaking out about this, No reason at all, just because
the media told you to. If real Idea is the
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price I have to pay to make sure that we
are keeping violent, dangerous illegal aliens out of the country,
I will gladly pay that price. And I'm not going
to sit and listen to the media lose their mind
over it and act like it's the end of the world.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
It's not worst case scenario.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
You have to spend a few extra minutes at the DMV,
You'll be fine, all right, Stay tuned we got one
more segment coming up next. All right, we've talked a
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lot about the border. Why stop now, Let's just keep going.
It's a good topic. There's always a lot of stuff
there to talk about. So let's talk about something that
they left loves to talk about but hates to actually
dig into, and that is due process. Obviously, we need
mass deportations. We need to be able to load up
illegal aliens that are in this country illegally, have no
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right to be here, are a threat to Americans, and
say you're not supposed to be here, you came here legally.
You're getting out, Get on the plane, you're gone. I
think that's a good thing I do.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Now.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
The left will love to say due process. Due process
says everybody needs their day in court. What they're trying
to do when they say that, it's not just a
deep concern for actual due process, it isn't. They just
want the illegal aliens to be here. That's what they want.
Many of your rank and file leftists don't even know
why they want those illegal aliens to be here. They've
just been told that, oh, we need illegal aliens by
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the kind of top dogs at the Democrat Party and
on the left, and they didn't bother to ask why,
because they don't do that.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Here's the reason why.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
First of all, as of right now, every illegal alien
in this country will be counted in the US census
in twenty thirty when we do the next one.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Here's why that matters. The most illegal aliens are.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
In places like California and New York because those places
have you know, open borders programs. They're sanctuary cities, sanctuary states,
free handouts, so they attract illegal aliens right and those
illegal aliens are there, they get counted in the Senate
and guess what, California, New York they get a bunch
of Democrat congressmen and electoral votes because of that, because
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it's a sign based on population, and if you count
illegal aliens towards that, that gives these blue open border
states a huge advantage in all of that. That's why
they want the open borders. That's why the elites do.
The rank and file people, the voters, they don't know why.
They've just been told that this is a good thing,
and they believe it. But for a long time, the
Republicans have not really had a good argument against the
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whole due process thing. And I think we need to
come to terms with the difficult reality that maybe due
process looks a little bit different for American citizens than
it does for people who illegally cross the border and
shouldn't be in this country at all. You know who
else thinks that Florida gubernatorial candidate Byron Donald's here he
is explaining that on Meet the Press NBC. He did
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his own Meat the Press interview and he actually made
this point fantastically.
Speaker 6 (31:45):
When it comes to due process, that is a privilege
reserved for American citizens. When people are in our country illegally,
there is a semblance of due process, but not nearly
at the level of a United States citizen of an
American there are two different standards. You come to America,
you are a guest in the United States, that privilege
can be revoked. And a lot of these illegal aliens
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were not guests. They showed up at the Southern Boarder
Joe Biden abused our laws, ignored our laws, and let
them in. And so what are the American people supposed
to to say about that?
Speaker 1 (32:14):
I really do think that's a great point that we
need to have more national discourse about. And it's fine
if you disagree with me, I just want you to
sort of think about it, and I also want you
to take note of the fact that this is not
a brand new idea. Being an American, I think this
is my perspective. You let me know if you disagree.
Being an American I think should come with certain rights
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and privileges that not everybody has. Obviously that is the
case right now. By being an American citizen, you get
to vote in American elections. I think that's obviously a
privilege that Americans have that other people in America don't
have and shouldn't have. But I think it should go
a step further. I think we should maybe have special
legal privileges. This is not a brand new idea. This
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goes all the way back to ancient Rome. In ancient Rome,
if you were a citizen of Rome, not just a
resident of Rome or run of Rome's territories, because that
is different. If you were an actual Roman citizen, you
had legal privileges that other residents of the Roman Empire
didn't have. The most famous case of this is actually
the Apostle Paul. I'm gonna bring up a biblical example here.
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The Apostle Paul appealed directly to Caesar. He said, as
a Roman citizen, it is my right to appeal my
legal case directly to the Emperor. I get to go
to the Emperor, stand before the Emperor and make my
case directly to him, and he will be the final
judge in my case. And obviously, just by virtue of
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doing that, Paul staved off his own execution for an
extra several years. I believe now it's worth noting that
other people could not do that. If you were, you know,
in Roman occupied Judea, you didn't have that same opportunity
just by virtue of being in Rome. Not every person,
not every resident in Rome, could appeal directly to Caesar,
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like Jesus when he was about to be executed by
ponscious pilot and couldn't say no, no, no, wait, I
appeal to Caesar. You have to take me to him first,
because as I understand it, he wasn't actually a Roman citizen.
He was under the law and scope and territory of Rome, but.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
He was not a citizen.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
We have tons of people in the United States now
that are under the laws and jurisdiction of the United States.
They are subject to our laws but does that necessarily
mean that they should get all the same legal protections
as an American citizen. I would submit to you that No,
I think we should have a little bit of difference here.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Now.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Am I saying we mirror the Roman system one to one? No,
because that would be ridiculous and unpractical, and it would
be stupid of me to suggest it. But I am
saying we have an example that we can kind of
take and we can kind of tinker with and make
it fit with modern day society.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Obviously, there's a line to be walked.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Obviously we kind of have to sort this out on
a legal at even constitutional level. Obviously, smarter people than
I will have to come up with the final idea
of what that looks like. But I think it's worth
considering maybe being an American citizen actually grant you something
even better here in the United States of America. I
do really like the example of a guest in the
home here. That kind of analogy I think plays out
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really well. If you visit someone's house and you know
they welcome you into their home, Hey, come have dinner
with us. Obviously, there's kind of certain niceties that are
expected Southern hospitality and the such. But at that same time,
you do not have the same rights and privileges of
any other resident of that household. Right, you're kind of
here at the pleasure of the host. Right they can
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kick you out at any time if they show desire,
and you would be obligated to leave. But at the
same time, as long as you're there under their good graces,
you're expected to be treated as a guest. You're expected
to be afforded some level of hospitality. We could apply
that same concept on a national level. I think like, hey,
you're here on a visa, you're here on a green card,
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You've come here for a particular purpose. As long as
you're here, we will treat you politely, we will be
nice to you, you will have certain niceties extended to you.
But at the same time, you are here as a guest.
And if we say, hey, you have to leave, you
have to leave, and that's the end of the story.
You don't get to fight and argue that point. Whereas
American citizens, if you were either born into the American
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household or maybe married into the American household, in terms
of being a naturalized citizen, if for whatever reason you're
an actual part of that family. You're an actual part
of that household. The process to actually kick you out
is quite a bit more extensive, and you have certain
privileges inside that household that a guest would not. This
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really is not as radical as some might try to
make you think it is. Now listen, maybe there's a
practical barrier to this that I'm not aware of because
I'm not a lawyer. I'm not a constitutional expert by
any means, but I think this idea sense.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
I want you to think about it too.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
I want you to actually kind of ponder whether or
not this is logical to you because it's logical to me,
and then reach out and tell me what you think
about it, because remember, I think if there's one thing
that the last sort of four years of Joe Biden
made perfectly clear, it's that we need to start thinking
about major institutional reforms.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
Right.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
Obviously, the United States of America is the best system
in the world today, right, we are the peak society
does not get any better. Does that mean we don't
have flaws? No, obviously we have big flaws, major ones.
But this is the American experiment, right, And what do
you do with an experiment, You look at the results
and then you say, Okay, how can we tweak this
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to get better results? What can we do differently, what
can we take away, and what can we learn. We
have coming up on two hundred and fifty years of
the United States of America, and we can look at
that history. We can look at those results of the
American experiment, and we can say, Okay, this is pretty good,
but obviously there are some major your faults in the system.
Speaker 5 (38:01):
Right.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
I think that's pretty clear.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
No honest person is going to look at America over
the last four years and say, yes, this is exactly
what the founding fathers intended and wanted, and they don't
want us to tweak or change things at all. That's
obviously not the case. So what can we do to
kind of make life better for Americans? Because that should
be our priority. We're Americans. We're either Americans or we're
legal immigrants who want to become Americans. So your top
(38:24):
priority should be how can Americans live their best possible life.
Be the safest, be the healthiest, be the happiest, be
the wealthiest. Right, I think this is one way to
do that. But if you disagree, I'd love to hear
from you about it. I'd love to talk with you
about this. You know where to find me. I'm on
X Underscore Ethan Buchanan, buh a n A N.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
I want to encourage you to reach out to me there.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
Also, remember to tune in Sunday's at seven pm on
AM nine to fifty KPRC will be there live. That's
when I'll see you again next Thank you very much
for listening to the next Gen Report
Speaker 5 (39:01):
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