August 11, 2025 • 39 mins
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Democrats in the Texas House continue to hide in other parts of the country. This is all being done to block our redistricting, but how long can they keep it up?
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Democrats in the Texas House continue to hide in other parts of the country. This is all being done to block our redistricting, but how long can they keep it up?
Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo has had yet another major outburst during a meeting of the Commissioners Court. She’s now being censured and could even be removed from office.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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me here this evening. We've got a lot to talk
about here tonight. For starters, we are all familiar at
this point, I think with DEI, right, I don't think
anybody really is unaware of what DEI is or where
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it came from. But I have this story that I
think perfectly demonstrates the plain and obvious fact that DEI
does not work. It doesn't It achieves nothing positive. That's undeniable.
At this point, you have to be brain dead or
like intentionally cognitively dissonan in order to think that DEI functions.
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And I have an article that'll prove it here. North
Carolina DMV hits all DEI targets, but missus roads safety goals.
That's concerning, right. The North Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles
has hit all their DEI targets. But they whipped it
on their actual core job, which is make sure the
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roads are safe.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
How does that happen?
Speaker 3 (02:39):
If DEI actually guarantees you the best of the best
from all races, which is the pitch, then it should
have been a no brainer for them to hit all
of their DEI goals and also have the safest roads
in the nation.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Right.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
But if the inverse is true, if you're sacrificing quality
candidates for candidates of the right color, well, then this
headline makes perfect sense, which is why I wasn't surprised
to hear. Oh, well, they hit one hundred percent of
their DEI goals, but they missed their safety benchmarks. No wonder,
you're sacrificing people who maybe are better at perfecting road
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safety for people who check the right boxes because you've got.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
A quota to meet. This is from by Bart Bright
Bart News.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
By the way, North Carolina's Division of Motor Vehicles achieved
one hundred percent of its diversity, equity and inclusion benchmarks
in twenty twenty four, but failed to meet several core
performance goals related to safety, infrastructure, and fiscal responsibility, according
to the Department of Transportation's most recent Annual Report. According
to the twenty twenty four Annual Performance Report, the DMV
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fulfilled its DEI goal entirely. However, it did not achieve
full success in four other categories. Maintain fiscal responsibility, make
transportation safer, improve the reliability and connectivity of the transportation system,
and deliver and maintain our infrastructure effectively and efficiently. The
report comes as Governor Roy Cooper D who appointed DMV
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Commissioner when Goodwin in twenty twenty two, has launched a
campaign for US Senate in the twenty twenty sixth race. Again,
this is the proof right here. DEI does not work.
If you focus on hiring the best of the best,
you will naturally get a diverse population naturally. Will it
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hit all the racial quotas? Probably not. Will it be
perfectly reflective of the population, I doubt it. But if
that's your focus, you're gonna sacrifice in other key areas.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
You just will. You can't serve two masters.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
You can't focus on quality and also checking all the boxes.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
You just can't.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
There's your proof, all right, Let's talk about some good news.
RFK Junior launches bold plan to block food stamps from
buying soda and candy. This makes perfect sense as well.
This should also be a no brainer. Remember that Oliver
Anthony song that got super popular a couple of years
ago where he talks about the fact that we're working,
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you know, forty to fifty sixty hours a week just
so fat people on welfare can buy more junk food
and sodas, and the American workers have pissed off about that.
I think most people will kind of be amicable to
the idea of Hey, food stamps I think are maybe
in certain situations a good charitable thing. Is that necessarily
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the role of government, I would argue, you know, that's
a role for private charity. Famous Congressman and Texan hero
Davy Crockett, I think would agree with me on that.
You can go back and read his congressional testimony on
a similar topic. Obviously it wasn't food stamps, but it
was kind of that same somebody wanted to use some
congressional money for charity, and Davy Crockett said, no, this
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isn't the role of government. We shouldn't be doing this.
I agree with David Crockett. All that to say, I
think most people will agree that even if you like
food stamps, which I'm amiable to the concept. I think
the concept is decent. It should be used to buy
actual nutrition. Right, we shouldn't be spending this on junk food.
You shouldn't have three hundred dollars of taxpayer money every
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month or however much the government decides you need to
just go blow on candy and soda. By the nutrition
that you need, not junk food. Here's this announcement. This
is Agriculture Secretary Brook Rowlin speaking with There's Robert F.
Kennedy in the background, and I think that's doctor Marty
Mcarey as well in the background. They're basically saying this point.
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This is for nutrition, not junk food, not fun garbage.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Since my confirmation, our Department has encouraged states to think
differently and creatively about how to solve the many health
issues facing Americans. One way is by not allowing taxpayer
funded benefits to be used to purchase unhealthy items like soda, candy,
and other junk food. The number one purchase by SNAP
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recipients is sugar eat drinks.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
See that's ridiculous, that's not nutritious. You don't need that.
If you're gonna say I need taxpayer money, so I
can you know, feed my family, so I can keep
my family healthy and you know, make sure they're getting
the nutrition they need. Okay, fair enough, if we're gonna
say that, fine, but it better be going to actual nutrition,
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not junk food.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
And that's what we've seen. It's going to junk food.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
That's why, like, the lower you are on the income bracket, statistically,
the more likely you are to be overweight and obese.
The statistics back this up. There's a reason we're so unhealthy,
and this is a big part of it. So yeah,
I'm glad this is being corrected. That's good.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
All right.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
We got a lot coming up, big big news of course,
everything going on in the legislature, and you know, so
much more. Stay tuned, we'll be right back. This is
the next Gen Report on a nine fifty KPRC.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
All right.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Normally, I have quite a bit of pride for where
I live, and that goes up and down. I'm very
proud of the fact that I live in the United
States of America. I love this country. We are the
greatest of all time, We're number one.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
We are.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
I'm also very proud to be a Texan. I'm arguably
more proud to be a Texan than I am to
be an American. I think overall, Texas is cooler than
America as a whole. Is we kind of loan out
some of our coolness to the rest of the United
States to bring up the national average.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
So that's how I feel about the state of Texas.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
I'm also very, very proud, oftentimes most of the time
to live in Houston and HARRISONUT. I know we've got
a lot of issues, but as far as big cities go,
we're pretty all right. We've got a great mayor. I
think I like our mayor. We've got a good vibe,
a good culture here in the city.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
I like it.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
And of course, Harris County is a very impressive county
by every metric. We're a business superpower, we're an energy superpower,
we're in everything superpower, everything that mattered. We put a
man on the moon. H Town did that, Harris County.
Actually I think that was technically in Galveston County, but whatever.
Galveston County and Montgomery County are basically just more Houston
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and Harris County, So who cares. I'm sorry Galveston and Montgomery.
The moment I said that. I realized that that was
very insulting to you, and I take it back. But overall,
my point is I really like this city and the county. However,
what happened over this week, specifically on I believe it
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was Wednesday, was when that meeting was No, it was Thursday.
On Thursday when I was in jury duty, by the way,
so I missed all of this. I had to go
back and catch up to all this. Lena Hidalgo, our
county judge, had a complete meltdown, like she caved in
on herself. I mean, she's had really bad moments in
the past. This blew them all out of the water.
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This is the most baffling display from any elected official
I've ever seen. Like this made Joe Biden in the
twenty twenty four presidential debate look like a stable and
put together man, just because she was so caved in
on herself. I could describe it to you, or I
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could just play it. Here's a compilation of some of
her amazing moments. This is about three minutes long. But
she was like this the entire meeting of Commissioner's Court,
until she stormed out of the room and didn't come back.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
I'm not kidding. Take a listen to this.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
So the motion is to set up public hearing on
August fifteenth, twenty twenty five, at ten am, to consider
for the Harris County General Fund the proposed twenty twenty
five tax rates.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Her bring the kids here and ask each member yes
or no? Yes commishure Garcia. Okay, real quick, for a
point of reference.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
What we're arguing about here is a tax increase, a
property tax increase that's supposed to go to childcare.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
She didn't explain her plan at all.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
She just proposed the tax increase, and so everybody's voting
no on it, and she loses her mind about this.
She brings in these kids to use this political props
and just go vote no in front of the children.
How dare you vote no on childcare in front of
the children. That's where we're at. Carry on order.
Speaker 6 (11:34):
There's been a motion made, no second, and we're in discussion.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
I didn't make emotion.
Speaker 7 (11:38):
I just read what it's going to be.
Speaker 6 (11:40):
You said no.
Speaker 7 (11:41):
I didn't say no.
Speaker 8 (11:42):
I didn't Okay, well I take it back.
Speaker 6 (11:44):
Education.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
You didn't say motion. I didn't say motion. I'm not
making emotion. Yes, you did you said motion? You're making emotion? Okay,
I take it back.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
What the hell is this? Are we in preschool? No
takes these backsies supporting?
Speaker 5 (11:56):
So kids, we're trying to see can you guys come
to three?
Speaker 6 (12:00):
One, two, three?
Speaker 9 (12:02):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (12:02):
So I'm one, So we need two and three.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
We need three.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Votes so that we can can we can we can
put this on the ballot.
Speaker 9 (12:09):
Okay, So so you guys help me count right now?
Speaker 10 (12:11):
We have one?
Speaker 4 (12:13):
One?
Speaker 9 (12:14):
Okay, say one, one, two three one okay? So well,
uh okay, so let's see who's gonna.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Be number two? Oh god, that's so awkward.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
She's trying to get the kids to like vote and
pure pressure the other Democrats to vote for this property
tax increase.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Are we gonna vote?
Speaker 8 (12:30):
No?
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Come on, kids, everybody count to three? We need three.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
She has this nickname around the county. She's called oftentimes
Dora by people. I don't know where that comes from.
It might be racist, I don't know. I've never called
her that. I'm not calling her that. I'm just saying
that's her nickname. This isn't helping, right If you don't
want people to call you Dora.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Bringing in a bunch of kids into Commissioner's.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Court and having them count up with you to three
is not gonna help you. I don't know if you've
ever seen an episode of Dora the Explorer, but that's
exactly what Dora the Explorer does.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
You're like, all right, kids, can you find the whatever?
Where is it? Do you say? Can you say whatever?
In Spanish?
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Like she's doing exactly what Dora does. Which if you
don't want other people in county politics to call you Dora,
this is the wrong way to go about it.
Speaker 9 (13:23):
The time to come and all the educators kIPS, come
on down.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Let's see if she says yes or no.
Speaker 9 (13:26):
Come on down over here, Come on, come on, come on,
come on, because this is.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
None of the parents is about kids. Judge, good God
in heaven.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
That's Commissioner Leslie Baronis. She's also a Democrat. She's trying
to say, hey, thank you kids for coming out. We
appreciate you being here, and Lina Dagos just starts screaming
into her came that kids.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Come on, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 6 (13:49):
Are we gonna go?
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Kids?
Speaker 3 (13:51):
And Brionis is just trying to have a conversation, and
then they start yelling at each other well, Lina starts
yelling at brionas is yelling back, and then poor Tom
Ramsey is stuck in between them. He's the only Republican
on Commissioner's Court, by the way, he has the hardest
job in the world. He's the only kind of practical
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person on that court, and he has to deal with this.
Speaker 9 (14:14):
Part of education is respect Travis County. They spent two
years working with subject matter experts, four years. Excuse me, judge,
please be respectful. At least education is helling.
Speaker 8 (14:30):
Don't give the kids this example of making things up.
This has been doing.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Oh you want to talk about examples for the children, Lena,
for the children, you how what kind of an example
do you think your behavior is setting for the children.
This is baffling. And it continued like that. Obviously this
this got voted down, This program got killed. Lena Hidalgo
freaked out. She called a recess for ten minutes that
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she never came back from. She said, okay, I'm calling
it ti Many recess, and then he disappeared. She didn't
show up for the rest of Commissioner's Court, which was baffling.
I mean, her behavior was so bad that, of course
even the other Democrats, namely Adrian Garcia, who, by the way,
this was his best moment. If Adrian Garcia wanted to
be county judge, he could campaign off of just this
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and win, I think, because he is a Democrat, so
he could very much run a common sense campaign and
beat the snot out of Lena Hidalgo Electorally speaking, here
he is apologizing to everyone in the room and everybody watching,
and so in effect, I guess to you two my
listeners for Lena Hidalgo's behavior. And again, he's a Democrat,
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he's not a conservative by any means, and even he's
sitting here going this is embarrassing, She's crazy.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Take a listen.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
Point of personal privilege, I just want to say to
those of you in the audience and anyone watching, virtually,
I want to apologize on behalf of Harris County. This
is not us. This is not the way we conduct business.
We try to be respectful here in spite of political differences.
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I want to just apologize because this is not the
way US government is supposed to work. This is not governance.
It is a failure to recognize these positions of trust
that we hold. And so I want to just say
on behalf of my colleagues and I we apologize that
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this has to be an example of Harris County government.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Good statement, very good.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Of course, all of this resulted in the commissioners actually
voted to amend the county rules to allow for Lena
Hidalgo to be censured, and then they censured her, which
means nothing, but it makes a statement. This is not
the first time she's had a meltdown like this. This
is definitely the worst one, but it is not the
first time. She is crazy. And this is the tip
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of the iceberg. I guarantee you there's more behind the
scenes that you don't see. This is Democrat governance. This
is what they are. They try to hide it as
best as they can, but it pokes through. You get
a glimpse. And this is the glimpse. This is what
Democrat leadership looks like. They're unhinged, they're crazy. They just
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want tax on tax on tax to fund all of
their little pet programs, and if you don't give it
to them, they will lose their mind. This is what
we're dealing with, and it's not just Lena Hodogah. Remember
Rodney ellis Commissioner precinct one. He has propped her up.
She is his puppet. It only gets worse from here.
There's more behind the scenes that they don't want you
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to see. But thankfully she's exposing it because she is
so bonkers. All right, stay tuned, We've got a lot
more coming up.
Speaker 11 (17:48):
We'll be right back in just one second.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
All right, let's talk about the Texas Legislature.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
It really is disappointing for me.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
To see all of this happen in the Texas legislature.
If you don't know, I do actually have a great
affinity for our state legislature. I do, and that's for
a lot of reasons. I know several members of the
state Legislature. I've had the pleasure of working with them.
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I've had the pleasure of working on campaigns. I've had
the pleasure of serving as an honorary page in the
Texas House. The Texas State Capital is a beautiful place,
and it is the center point of the governance of
what I think is the greatest part of the world ever,
and that is the State of Texas. So seeing it
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become such this wretched hive of scum and villainy. Growing up,
I always thought Washington is so bad. But at least
we have Austin here in Texas, at least we have
our state legislature, which is way better than the legislature
in DC.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
No, it's way worse. I was wrong, and that's sad.
It really is. So if you've somehow missed it.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
The Democrats have fled the state in order to prevent
the Republicans from passing a redistricting map that they don't like.
Cry about it. We won We get to draw the maps,
cope and see complain. What you don't get to do
is flee the state and not do your job. You're
elected to serve in the House of Representatives. You are serving.
That means if you don't like it, you have to
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do it anyway, because that's your job. You wanted the job,
you campaign for the job, you got the job. Now
do the job. Don't run away to California or Illinois
or New York or wherever the hell because you don't
like the fact that there's not enough people that agree
with you.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
But that's exactly what they're doing.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
So on Friday, the Democrats who had fled, I believe
there's like fifty five of them right now that have
fled the state, denying a quorum.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
We need one hundred to have a quorum. If you
don't know, there's one.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Hundred and fifty members of the Texas House of Representatives.
You need at least one hundred people there to do
any business. We don't have those hundred people there. We're
not doing any business. So here is the announcement. On Friday,
when the Democrats again did not show up for the
call in the House, they go to gavel in and
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do the work, and of course there's not the Democrats,
or there's no Democrats. So here is Burroughs announcing the
new set of consequences that he has for the Democrats
who still refuse to show up to work.
Speaker 12 (20:51):
For those that have fled to Illinois or to California,
be reminded that the FBI's assistant has reportedly been in
listed and their powers are not confined to any singular
state's boundaries. As far as new administrative policies in our Chamber,
go Controller Kelly Hancock and I have enacted a new
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policy stating that any member absent for the purpose of
breaking quorum will no longer have their paycheck or per
diem deposited electronically. While the Constitution forbids us from withholding pay,
it does not dictate how we issue the pay. Those
checks must now be picked up in person on Capitol grounds,
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effective immediately starting today, to safeguard taxpayer dollars an account
for forthcoming liabilities. Under Rule five, Section three of House Rules,
which authorizes fines for members absent without leave, thirty percent
of each quorum breaking members monthly operating budget will be
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reserved and made unavailable for expended sure for them.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Okay, So essentially what he's saying is, here is your
paycheck that you get for being a representative. You don't
get it anymore. It will not be direct deposited into
your bank account. You have to come pick it up.
And of course if they come to pick it up,
we can then arrest them and force them to come
sit in the House chamber and do their jobs. The
law provides for that. So he's basically just trying to
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give them an incentive to come back and do their job. Now,
I will say this, a representative in the Texas Legislature
is paid seven hundred and fifty bucks a month, plus
I believe a modest per diem, so nobody is going
to miss that paycheck. All of these people have other
jobs that make them way more money outside the legislature.
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Every single member of the Texas Legislature is independently wealthy.
They are not going to miss that seven hundred and
fifty bucks a month.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
They aren't. That essentially does nothing.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Now reductions in their offices operating budget, that might have
a little bit more sway, because then at that point,
if they can't pay their staffers, if they can't buy
the supplies they need, you know, that might be a little.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Bit more.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Persuasive. I guess I don't know if that will be
more persuasive. Brian Harrison a representative that I have a
lot of respect for and I think is very great.
He's been on the show a number of times. He
does not think that this is going far enough here
he is on X as he so often is, as
he should be saying, okay, here we are. I don't
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think the House leadership is doing enough.
Speaker 7 (23:36):
Hey guys, Brian Harrison.
Speaker 13 (23:37):
Here Friday.
Speaker 7 (23:38):
It is day number five officially of the Democrat quorm break,
but the Democrat, but with the full assistance of the
so called Republican leadership of the Texas House Not only
is it just another day of quorm break without the Democrats,
it's another day with absolutely no real consequences, a bunch.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Of fake hot air theater, bad.
Speaker 7 (23:59):
Drama, but nothing that actually shows the Democrats or anybody
in Texas or anywhere across America that the elected Republican
leadership is serious. There have been no arrests, no seats vacated,
no charges filed, no committee stripped, no seniority removed. This
is a joke. In fact, the Democrats were told today
by the Speaker that they will be paid in full
when they return. They just might have to pick up
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a hard copy check as opposed to a being direct depositive.
This is fundamentally unseerious. Texans want results, They want action,
not just wards. The time for action, the time for wards,
has come and gone. And I'm very sorry about this, guys.
You deserve a lot better than this. I'll keep for fording.
Brian Harrison, God bless you, God bless Texas.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Okay, he makes a couple of good points, but I
do want to kind of question a few.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
He mentions there's been no arrests. That's true.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
He mentions there have been no seat stripped, as in
like they haven't been kicked out of the Texas House
and all of that is true, I would argue that,
you know, so that takes time. Right to arrest these folks,
you have to do a couple of things. One, you
have to find them, and then two, if they're out
of state, you have to find a law enforcement agency
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that has jurisdiction in whatever state they're in that is
willing to arrest them and then extradite them back to Texas.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
That is easier said than done.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
As well as you know, kicking folks out of the sea,
that's very questionable legal procedure, just in terms of who
has the authority.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
To do it and how do we go about doing it.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
That's never really been done before other than you know,
a majority of representatives voting to kick someone out of
the House. That can be done. That's been done in
the past. But again, you can't do that because we
don't have a quorum. So you have to figure out, Okay, well,
can the ag remove these people, Can the judge remove
these people? Can the governor remove these people? All of
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this is murky legal water that we've never tread into before,
So things like that will take time. Several days at least,
we do have action being taken on that front. Obviously,
Ken Paxton is doing everything he can do. First of all,
he's sued Beto O'Rourke for actually essentially bribing these people
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to do this, because remember they've solicited donations to fund this.
There's an argument to be made, a legal argument to
be made that by taking donations to then go leave
the house, what you're actually doing is you're taking payments
to not vote on legislation, which technically I think may
fit the definition of bribery. So Ken Paxton has taken
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some legal action on that front. He has also filed
a lawsuit in the Supreme Court of the State of
Texas to secure in order declaring these seats vacant. He
wants the Supreme Court of the State of Texas to say, hey,
these members aren't showing up to work, they are no
longer representatives in the state of Texas.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Great.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
We'll have to see what kind of action the Supreme
Court takes on that. As far as I'm aware, this
has been filed under some sort of emergency. We need
this done quickly, so we may see results soon, but
I don't know how soon. Again, We're in kind of
untreaded waters. We don't know who can actually do what
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or how long it's going to take. We are seeing action,
though not from boroughs, of course, but from Ken Paxton,
which good good. Matt Rinaldi, he's the former chairman of
the Texas GOP, correctly pointed out that this carries a
lot more weight than not paying people seven hundred and
fifty bucks a month.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
That's true, Greg Abbott.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
He's also taken emergency action to begin the removal from
office of derelict Democrats in the Texas House.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Great good.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Again, don't demand everything all at once, right, That's something
I think we need to be very careful to do.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
This will take time.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Let's rest easy in the fact that we know this
is all happening a lot faster than it did the
last time around. Like in twenty twenty one, when we
dealt with a very long quorum break. It took us
a full month of the Democrats not showing up to
work for us to even start having conversations about people
being removed from their seats, and then they all came back.
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Now we're actually filing legal action to remove them from
their seats, and it's only been a week, so should
there be more actions? Should we see people having their
committee placements stripped, removed from committees, removed from vice chairmanships
of committees or chairmanships of subcommittees, and seniority stripped.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Yes, all of that should have happened already.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
But we are seeing strong progress, even if it's not
strong enough. So let's not get down in the dumps,
all right, all right, say to them, we've got a
lot more.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
We're gonna talk about Washington, d C.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
In just a minute, right after the break. All right,
(29:13):
So I already told you I feel like and this
is just my opinion. You're free to disagree, but if
you disagree, I think you're stupid. I feel like America
is single handedly the greatest country in the world by none.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
And it is not close.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
So it should stand to reason that we have the
greatest capital in the world, right the center point of
the greatest nation in the world. Should be an example
to the rest of the world on what a city
should look like.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
By every metric.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Unfortunately, our capital city, Washington, d C, is a third
world country. It is it's horrible. The crime is out
of control. Everyone knows this. It's not controversial to say it.
You have to be out of your mind to deny it.
Everyone knows this is the case, and this has begun
coming to a head.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
People are sick of it. Trump is sick of it.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
The incident that kind of brought this to the forefront
of everyone's attention was a DOSE staffer actually got the
snot beat out of him recently by some thugs.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
We all remember Big Balls.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
He was the guy who he was originally fired by
DOGE because we found out one of his online usernames
was big Balls and he was making a bunch of
crass jokes. The kid's a genius, obviously, but he made
some crass jokes and he was fired, and of course
there was national outrage. The GOP bass thought that a
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guy named big Balls making crash jokes online and also
being a super genius working to save us from our
own government was pretty cool. And after a bunch of
nash outrage and whatnot, Big Balls was brought back and
last I checked, was still an employee of Doge in Washington, DC,
and he has now had the snot beat out of
him because he tried to intervene in what I think
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was some sort of mugging. So U Joseph Trimmer with
the Texas Scorecard was reporting on this. He posted this
on Twitter or x does staffer Edward big Ball's chorus
Stine was attacked after he reportedly defended a woman being
assaulted by multiple men in DC. Trump is considering taking
control of the city, so apparently the story is. According
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to the Daily Caller, big Balls saw the suspects approach,
push the victim he was with inside the car, and
faced the suspects alone. Officials estimate that there were about
ten attackers. Props to Big Balls for standing his ground.
Read the full report below. Okay, so essentially what happened
is allegedly he saw this mugging about to take place,
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he shoved the would be victim into a car and
then fought these ten guys by himself. Obviously he got
the snot beat out of him, because there's one of
him and ten of everybody else. This is insane. The
pictures are crazy. You can see him. There's photos floating
around on Twitter right now. He is utterly mangled. But
(32:27):
he stepped up. God bless him for doing it. Bravery
of the highest order. Elon Musk confirmed that this was
indeed big balls. A few days ago, a gang of
about a dozen young men tried to assault a woman
in her car at night in DC. A Dose team
members saw what was happening, ran to defend her and
was severely beaten to the point of concussion, but he
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saved her. And then Musk said it's time to federalize Washington,
d C. And there's been quite a bit of conversation
about that. Recently, Donald Trump put on truth social crime
in Washington, d C. Is totally out of control. Local
quote unquote youths and gang members, some only fourteen, fifteen
and sixteen years old, are randomly attacking, mugging, maiming, and
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shooting innocent citizens at the same time knowing they will
be almost immediately released. They are not afraid of law
enforcement because they know nothing ever happens to them. But
it's going to happen now. The law in DC must
be changed to prosecute these miners quote unquote as adults
and lock them up for a long time, starting at
the age of fourteen. He wan hot to say that Washington,
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DC must be safe, clean, and beautiful for all Americans
and importantly for the world to see. If DC doesn't
get its act together and quickly, we will have no
choice but to take federal control of the city and
run this city how it should be run, and put
more criminals on notice that they are not going to
get away with it anymore. And again, this is a
(33:54):
huge problem. DC has some of the highest crime rates
of any capital in the world. DC capital homicide rates,
DC is number one, at least according to this chart
that Caroline Levitt posted on her ex page, DC has
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forty one homicides per one hundred thousand people. The runner
up is Lagos, which only has fifteen homicides per one
hundred thousand people.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
So this is a real problem.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
This is an insane problem for any city to have,
especially one in the Third World. Now, again, these are statistics.
They can be played with, so take it with a
grain of salt. But I think it makes the point
pretty clearly. We have a major problem in our nation's capital,
and the people on the ground know it.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
They do. The residents of.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
Washington, DC can feel how unsafe their city is. Here's
a compilation of them saying exactly that. I don't know
what news agency this is from, but Rapid Response forty
seven posted it. This is just a bunch of people
in DC talking about how unsafe they feel because of
the crime in their cities.
Speaker 13 (35:06):
Some days I fell in safe going outside.
Speaker 8 (35:09):
Recent shocking acts of violence have someone alert A recent
fatal drive by shooting along with a carjacking and beating
in this neighborhood near.
Speaker 5 (35:17):
U Street, which is insane. I mean, I just live
a block this way, so to know that I'm so
close to something like that is really terrifying.
Speaker 8 (35:24):
So we asked residents what they think city leaders should
do immediately to improve safety.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
I feel like it's still very dark.
Speaker 8 (35:32):
John del Rohder says more functioning street lights would help.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
More street lights.
Speaker 5 (35:37):
Writer street lights, which sounds like so easy and simple,
but I don't think we have enough of those.
Speaker 8 (35:44):
For Cameron Tally, hearing about violence steps from her.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
Home, oh my word, right here.
Speaker 8 (35:51):
Brings back memories from a year ago.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
We got caught in the middle of the drive by shooting,
so that was horrible.
Speaker 8 (35:58):
Tally says the city should consider installing blue light emergency phones,
seen often on college campuses.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
Oh I see a blue light, I can get to
in a call for help.
Speaker 8 (36:07):
For Jana richardson the Quickest Path to Peace, on city streets.
Speaker 13 (36:11):
I think they needed. In one about the juvenile crime.
Speaker 8 (36:13):
He believes young people caught in the criminal justice system
need the deterrent of jail time and not freedom while
awaiting their fate.
Speaker 13 (36:21):
I think it's because they keep going to get it
and letting them go no deterrent.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
Here's another idea, Maybe make it easier for the good
guys to get their hands on some guns too. It's
virtually impossible to carry a gun in Washington, d C.
By the way, which may be a reason all of
this is happening. The criminals know that they have a
rich or that they're in a target rich environment where
the targets cannot defend themselves. But that's a whole nother conversation.
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Trump is now talking about federalizing Washington, d C. Obviously,
he's being very open about just taking complete control of
the city and surging law enforcement resources into the area.
Take a listen to him saying that in the Oval office,
are you considering.
Speaker 8 (37:03):
Taking over the DUC police is.
Speaker 13 (37:04):
At an option on the pot.
Speaker 10 (37:06):
We're considering it. Yeah, because the crime is ridiculous. I
could show you a short comparing DC to other locations,
and you're not going to want to see what it
looks like. It was just up on television, actually they
were showing it.
Speaker 13 (37:20):
Now.
Speaker 10 (37:20):
We want to have a great safe capital and we're
going to have it, and that includes cleanliness and includes
other things.
Speaker 13 (37:27):
We have a capital that's very unsafe.
Speaker 10 (37:30):
You know, we just almost lost a young man, beautiful
handsome guy that got the hell knocked out of him
the night before last. And I'm gonna call him now.
We wanted to give him a little recovery time. We
just put a call into him. They're calling back a
little while. But he went through a bad situation, to
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put it mildly, and there's too much of it.
Speaker 13 (37:55):
We're gonna we're going to do something about it.
Speaker 10 (37:57):
So whether you call it federal, and that also includes
the graffiti that you see the papers all over the place,
the roads that are in bed shape, the medians that
are falling down, the median in between roads that's falling down.
Speaker 13 (38:12):
We're going to beautify this city.
Speaker 10 (38:13):
We're going to make it beautiful, and uh, what a shame.
The rate of crime, the rate of muggings, killings and
everything else. We're not gonna let it. And that includes
bringing in the National Guard, maybe very quickly too.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
I think you'll find that most people support this. I
think you'll find that most people want our cities to
be safe, but unfortunately, most of our cities are run
by Democrats who are more concerned with looking like they're
nice people than actually protecting their citizens, which is a
real shame. It's the problem here in Harris County as well.
It's probably the biggest problem. But that's all I've got
for us today. Thank you very much for listening to
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the next Gen Report. We'll be back on Wednesday with
the podcast.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
Have a great one.
From the heart of the Space City to the heart
of gen Z. Welcome to Next Gen Conversation, not Dad's
Talk Radio. Ethan talks to you about the issues and
events the manors who our generation.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
This is the Next Gen Report with Ethan.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
You can't Hey, good evening, Welcome back everybody. I hope
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I know there's been some audio issues. If you have
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our sister's station, that's our our news station. I do
a lot of work for them, so I'm doing that
over there, little shout out, but thank you for joining
me here this evening. We've got a lot to talk
about here tonight. For starters, we are all familiar at
this point, I think with DEI, right, I don't think
anybody really is unaware of what DEI is or where
(01:46):
it came from. But I have this story that I
think perfectly demonstrates the plain and obvious fact that DEI
does not work. It doesn't It achieves nothing positive. That's undeniable.
At this point, you have to be brain dead or
like intentionally cognitively dissonan in order to think that DEI functions.
(02:12):
And I have an article that'll prove it here. North
Carolina DMV hits all DEI targets, but missus roads safety goals.
That's concerning, right. The North Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles
has hit all their DEI targets. But they whipped it
on their actual core job, which is make sure the
(02:35):
roads are safe.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
How does that happen?
Speaker 3 (02:39):
If DEI actually guarantees you the best of the best
from all races, which is the pitch, then it should
have been a no brainer for them to hit all
of their DEI goals and also have the safest roads
in the nation.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Right.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
But if the inverse is true, if you're sacrificing quality
candidates for candidates of the right color, well, then this
headline makes perfect sense, which is why I wasn't surprised
to hear. Oh, well, they hit one hundred percent of
their DEI goals, but they missed their safety benchmarks. No wonder,
you're sacrificing people who maybe are better at perfecting road
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safety for people who check the right boxes because you've got.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
A quota to meet. This is from by Bart Bright
Bart News.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
By the way, North Carolina's Division of Motor Vehicles achieved
one hundred percent of its diversity, equity and inclusion benchmarks
in twenty twenty four, but failed to meet several core
performance goals related to safety, infrastructure, and fiscal responsibility, according
to the Department of Transportation's most recent Annual Report. According
to the twenty twenty four Annual Performance Report, the DMV
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fulfilled its DEI goal entirely. However, it did not achieve
full success in four other categories. Maintain fiscal responsibility, make
transportation safer, improve the reliability and connectivity of the transportation system,
and deliver and maintain our infrastructure effectively and efficiently. The
report comes as Governor Roy Cooper D who appointed DMV
(04:08):
Commissioner when Goodwin in twenty twenty two, has launched a
campaign for US Senate in the twenty twenty sixth race. Again,
this is the proof right here. DEI does not work.
If you focus on hiring the best of the best,
you will naturally get a diverse population naturally. Will it
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hit all the racial quotas? Probably not. Will it be
perfectly reflective of the population, I doubt it. But if
that's your focus, you're gonna sacrifice in other key areas.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
You just will. You can't serve two masters.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
You can't focus on quality and also checking all the boxes.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
You just can't.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
There's your proof, all right, Let's talk about some good news.
RFK Junior launches bold plan to block food stamps from
buying soda and candy. This makes perfect sense as well.
This should also be a no brainer. Remember that Oliver
Anthony song that got super popular a couple of years
ago where he talks about the fact that we're working,
(05:11):
you know, forty to fifty sixty hours a week just
so fat people on welfare can buy more junk food
and sodas, and the American workers have pissed off about that.
I think most people will kind of be amicable to
the idea of Hey, food stamps I think are maybe
in certain situations a good charitable thing. Is that necessarily
(05:32):
the role of government, I would argue, you know, that's
a role for private charity. Famous Congressman and Texan hero
Davy Crockett, I think would agree with me on that.
You can go back and read his congressional testimony on
a similar topic. Obviously it wasn't food stamps, but it
was kind of that same somebody wanted to use some
congressional money for charity, and Davy Crockett said, no, this
(05:52):
isn't the role of government. We shouldn't be doing this.
I agree with David Crockett. All that to say, I
think most people will agree that even if you like
food stamps, which I'm amiable to the concept. I think
the concept is decent. It should be used to buy
actual nutrition. Right, we shouldn't be spending this on junk food.
You shouldn't have three hundred dollars of taxpayer money every
(06:13):
month or however much the government decides you need to
just go blow on candy and soda. By the nutrition
that you need, not junk food. Here's this announcement. This
is Agriculture Secretary Brook Rowlin speaking with There's Robert F.
Kennedy in the background, and I think that's doctor Marty
Mcarey as well in the background. They're basically saying this point.
(06:33):
This is for nutrition, not junk food, not fun garbage.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Since my confirmation, our Department has encouraged states to think
differently and creatively about how to solve the many health
issues facing Americans. One way is by not allowing taxpayer
funded benefits to be used to purchase unhealthy items like soda, candy,
and other junk food. The number one purchase by SNAP
(06:58):
recipients is sugar eat drinks.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
See that's ridiculous, that's not nutritious. You don't need that.
If you're gonna say I need taxpayer money, so I
can you know, feed my family, so I can keep
my family healthy and you know, make sure they're getting
the nutrition they need. Okay, fair enough, if we're gonna
say that, fine, but it better be going to actual nutrition,
(07:22):
not junk food.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
And that's what we've seen. It's going to junk food.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
That's why, like, the lower you are on the income bracket, statistically,
the more likely you are to be overweight and obese.
The statistics back this up. There's a reason we're so unhealthy,
and this is a big part of it. So yeah,
I'm glad this is being corrected. That's good.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
All right.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
We got a lot coming up, big big news of course,
everything going on in the legislature, and you know, so
much more. Stay tuned, we'll be right back. This is
the next Gen Report on a nine fifty KPRC.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
All right.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Normally, I have quite a bit of pride for where
I live, and that goes up and down. I'm very
proud of the fact that I live in the United
States of America. I love this country. We are the
greatest of all time, We're number one.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
We are.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
I'm also very proud to be a Texan. I'm arguably
more proud to be a Texan than I am to
be an American. I think overall, Texas is cooler than
America as a whole. Is we kind of loan out
some of our coolness to the rest of the United
States to bring up the national average.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
So that's how I feel about the state of Texas.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
I'm also very, very proud, oftentimes most of the time
to live in Houston and HARRISONUT. I know we've got
a lot of issues, but as far as big cities go,
we're pretty all right. We've got a great mayor. I
think I like our mayor. We've got a good vibe,
a good culture here in the city.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
I like it.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
And of course, Harris County is a very impressive county
by every metric. We're a business superpower, we're an energy superpower,
we're in everything superpower, everything that mattered. We put a
man on the moon. H Town did that, Harris County.
Actually I think that was technically in Galveston County, but whatever.
Galveston County and Montgomery County are basically just more Houston
(09:35):
and Harris County, So who cares. I'm sorry Galveston and Montgomery.
The moment I said that. I realized that that was
very insulting to you, and I take it back. But overall,
my point is I really like this city and the county. However,
what happened over this week, specifically on I believe it
(09:56):
was Wednesday, was when that meeting was No, it was Thursday.
On Thursday when I was in jury duty, by the way,
so I missed all of this. I had to go
back and catch up to all this. Lena Hidalgo, our
county judge, had a complete meltdown, like she caved in
on herself. I mean, she's had really bad moments in
the past. This blew them all out of the water.
(10:19):
This is the most baffling display from any elected official
I've ever seen. Like this made Joe Biden in the
twenty twenty four presidential debate look like a stable and
put together man, just because she was so caved in
on herself. I could describe it to you, or I
(10:40):
could just play it. Here's a compilation of some of
her amazing moments. This is about three minutes long. But
she was like this the entire meeting of Commissioner's Court,
until she stormed out of the room and didn't come back.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
I'm not kidding. Take a listen to this.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
So the motion is to set up public hearing on
August fifteenth, twenty twenty five, at ten am, to consider
for the Harris County General Fund the proposed twenty twenty
five tax rates.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Her bring the kids here and ask each member yes
or no? Yes commishure Garcia. Okay, real quick, for a
point of reference.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
What we're arguing about here is a tax increase, a
property tax increase that's supposed to go to childcare.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
She didn't explain her plan at all.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
She just proposed the tax increase, and so everybody's voting
no on it, and she loses her mind about this.
She brings in these kids to use this political props
and just go vote no in front of the children.
How dare you vote no on childcare in front of
the children. That's where we're at. Carry on order.
Speaker 6 (11:34):
There's been a motion made, no second, and we're in discussion.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
I didn't make emotion.
Speaker 7 (11:38):
I just read what it's going to be.
Speaker 6 (11:40):
You said no.
Speaker 7 (11:41):
I didn't say no.
Speaker 8 (11:42):
I didn't Okay, well I take it back.
Speaker 6 (11:44):
Education.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
You didn't say motion. I didn't say motion. I'm not
making emotion. Yes, you did you said motion? You're making emotion? Okay,
I take it back.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
What the hell is this? Are we in preschool? No
takes these backsies supporting?
Speaker 5 (11:56):
So kids, we're trying to see can you guys come
to three?
Speaker 6 (12:00):
One, two, three?
Speaker 9 (12:02):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (12:02):
So I'm one, So we need two and three.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
We need three.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Votes so that we can can we can we can
put this on the ballot.
Speaker 9 (12:09):
Okay, So so you guys help me count right now?
Speaker 10 (12:11):
We have one?
Speaker 4 (12:13):
One?
Speaker 9 (12:14):
Okay, say one, one, two three one okay? So well,
uh okay, so let's see who's gonna.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Be number two? Oh god, that's so awkward.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
She's trying to get the kids to like vote and
pure pressure the other Democrats to vote for this property
tax increase.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Are we gonna vote?
Speaker 8 (12:30):
No?
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Come on, kids, everybody count to three? We need three.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
She has this nickname around the county. She's called oftentimes
Dora by people. I don't know where that comes from.
It might be racist, I don't know. I've never called
her that. I'm not calling her that. I'm just saying
that's her nickname. This isn't helping, right If you don't
want people to call you Dora.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Bringing in a bunch of kids into Commissioner's.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Court and having them count up with you to three
is not gonna help you. I don't know if you've
ever seen an episode of Dora the Explorer, but that's
exactly what Dora the Explorer does.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
You're like, all right, kids, can you find the whatever?
Where is it? Do you say? Can you say whatever?
In Spanish?
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Like she's doing exactly what Dora does. Which if you
don't want other people in county politics to call you Dora,
this is the wrong way to go about it.
Speaker 9 (13:23):
The time to come and all the educators kIPS, come
on down.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Let's see if she says yes or no.
Speaker 9 (13:26):
Come on down over here, Come on, come on, come on,
come on, because this is.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
None of the parents is about kids. Judge, good God
in heaven.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
That's Commissioner Leslie Baronis. She's also a Democrat. She's trying
to say, hey, thank you kids for coming out. We
appreciate you being here, and Lina Dagos just starts screaming
into her came that kids.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Come on, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 6 (13:49):
Are we gonna go?
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Kids?
Speaker 3 (13:51):
And Brionis is just trying to have a conversation, and
then they start yelling at each other well, Lina starts
yelling at brionas is yelling back, and then poor Tom
Ramsey is stuck in between them. He's the only Republican
on Commissioner's Court, by the way, he has the hardest
job in the world. He's the only kind of practical
(14:11):
person on that court, and he has to deal with this.
Speaker 9 (14:14):
Part of education is respect Travis County. They spent two
years working with subject matter experts, four years. Excuse me, judge,
please be respectful. At least education is helling.
Speaker 8 (14:30):
Don't give the kids this example of making things up.
This has been doing.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Oh you want to talk about examples for the children, Lena,
for the children, you how what kind of an example
do you think your behavior is setting for the children.
This is baffling. And it continued like that. Obviously this
this got voted down, This program got killed. Lena Hidalgo
freaked out. She called a recess for ten minutes that
(14:55):
she never came back from. She said, okay, I'm calling
it ti Many recess, and then he disappeared. She didn't
show up for the rest of Commissioner's Court, which was baffling.
I mean, her behavior was so bad that, of course
even the other Democrats, namely Adrian Garcia, who, by the way,
this was his best moment. If Adrian Garcia wanted to
be county judge, he could campaign off of just this
(15:17):
and win, I think, because he is a Democrat, so
he could very much run a common sense campaign and
beat the snot out of Lena Hidalgo Electorally speaking, here
he is apologizing to everyone in the room and everybody watching,
and so in effect, I guess to you two my
listeners for Lena Hidalgo's behavior. And again, he's a Democrat,
(15:39):
he's not a conservative by any means, and even he's
sitting here going this is embarrassing, She's crazy.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Take a listen.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
Point of personal privilege, I just want to say to
those of you in the audience and anyone watching, virtually,
I want to apologize on behalf of Harris County. This
is not us. This is not the way we conduct business.
We try to be respectful here in spite of political differences.
(16:08):
I want to just apologize because this is not the
way US government is supposed to work. This is not governance.
It is a failure to recognize these positions of trust
that we hold. And so I want to just say
on behalf of my colleagues and I we apologize that
(16:31):
this has to be an example of Harris County government.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Good statement, very good.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Of course, all of this resulted in the commissioners actually
voted to amend the county rules to allow for Lena
Hidalgo to be censured, and then they censured her, which
means nothing, but it makes a statement. This is not
the first time she's had a meltdown like this. This
is definitely the worst one, but it is not the
first time. She is crazy. And this is the tip
(17:01):
of the iceberg. I guarantee you there's more behind the
scenes that you don't see. This is Democrat governance. This
is what they are. They try to hide it as
best as they can, but it pokes through. You get
a glimpse. And this is the glimpse. This is what
Democrat leadership looks like. They're unhinged, they're crazy. They just
(17:22):
want tax on tax on tax to fund all of
their little pet programs, and if you don't give it
to them, they will lose their mind. This is what
we're dealing with, and it's not just Lena Hodogah. Remember
Rodney ellis Commissioner precinct one. He has propped her up.
She is his puppet. It only gets worse from here.
There's more behind the scenes that they don't want you
(17:43):
to see. But thankfully she's exposing it because she is
so bonkers. All right, stay tuned, We've got a lot
more coming up.
Speaker 11 (17:48):
We'll be right back in just one second.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
All right, let's talk about the Texas Legislature.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
It really is disappointing for me.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
To see all of this happen in the Texas legislature.
If you don't know, I do actually have a great
affinity for our state legislature. I do, and that's for
a lot of reasons. I know several members of the
state Legislature. I've had the pleasure of working with them.
(18:45):
I've had the pleasure of working on campaigns. I've had
the pleasure of serving as an honorary page in the
Texas House. The Texas State Capital is a beautiful place,
and it is the center point of the governance of
what I think is the greatest part of the world ever,
and that is the State of Texas. So seeing it
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become such this wretched hive of scum and villainy. Growing up,
I always thought Washington is so bad. But at least
we have Austin here in Texas, at least we have
our state legislature, which is way better than the legislature
in DC.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
No, it's way worse. I was wrong, and that's sad.
It really is. So if you've somehow missed it.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
The Democrats have fled the state in order to prevent
the Republicans from passing a redistricting map that they don't like.
Cry about it. We won We get to draw the maps,
cope and see complain. What you don't get to do
is flee the state and not do your job. You're
elected to serve in the House of Representatives. You are serving.
That means if you don't like it, you have to
(19:48):
do it anyway, because that's your job. You wanted the job,
you campaign for the job, you got the job. Now
do the job. Don't run away to California or Illinois
or New York or wherever the hell because you don't
like the fact that there's not enough people that agree
with you.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
But that's exactly what they're doing.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
So on Friday, the Democrats who had fled, I believe
there's like fifty five of them right now that have
fled the state, denying a quorum.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
We need one hundred to have a quorum. If you
don't know, there's one.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Hundred and fifty members of the Texas House of Representatives.
You need at least one hundred people there to do
any business. We don't have those hundred people there. We're
not doing any business. So here is the announcement. On Friday,
when the Democrats again did not show up for the
call in the House, they go to gavel in and
(20:37):
do the work, and of course there's not the Democrats,
or there's no Democrats. So here is Burroughs announcing the
new set of consequences that he has for the Democrats
who still refuse to show up to work.
Speaker 12 (20:51):
For those that have fled to Illinois or to California,
be reminded that the FBI's assistant has reportedly been in
listed and their powers are not confined to any singular
state's boundaries. As far as new administrative policies in our Chamber,
go Controller Kelly Hancock and I have enacted a new
(21:12):
policy stating that any member absent for the purpose of
breaking quorum will no longer have their paycheck or per
diem deposited electronically. While the Constitution forbids us from withholding pay,
it does not dictate how we issue the pay. Those
checks must now be picked up in person on Capitol grounds,
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effective immediately starting today, to safeguard taxpayer dollars an account
for forthcoming liabilities. Under Rule five, Section three of House Rules,
which authorizes fines for members absent without leave, thirty percent
of each quorum breaking members monthly operating budget will be
(21:57):
reserved and made unavailable for expended sure for them.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Okay, So essentially what he's saying is, here is your
paycheck that you get for being a representative. You don't
get it anymore. It will not be direct deposited into
your bank account. You have to come pick it up.
And of course if they come to pick it up,
we can then arrest them and force them to come
sit in the House chamber and do their jobs. The
law provides for that. So he's basically just trying to
(22:22):
give them an incentive to come back and do their job. Now,
I will say this, a representative in the Texas Legislature
is paid seven hundred and fifty bucks a month, plus
I believe a modest per diem, so nobody is going
to miss that paycheck. All of these people have other
jobs that make them way more money outside the legislature.
(22:44):
Every single member of the Texas Legislature is independently wealthy.
They are not going to miss that seven hundred and
fifty bucks a month.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
They aren't. That essentially does nothing.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Now reductions in their offices operating budget, that might have
a little bit more sway, because then at that point,
if they can't pay their staffers, if they can't buy
the supplies they need, you know, that might be a little.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Bit more.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Persuasive. I guess I don't know if that will be
more persuasive. Brian Harrison a representative that I have a
lot of respect for and I think is very great.
He's been on the show a number of times. He
does not think that this is going far enough here
he is on X as he so often is, as
he should be saying, okay, here we are. I don't
(23:33):
think the House leadership is doing enough.
Speaker 7 (23:36):
Hey guys, Brian Harrison.
Speaker 13 (23:37):
Here Friday.
Speaker 7 (23:38):
It is day number five officially of the Democrat quorm break,
but the Democrat, but with the full assistance of the
so called Republican leadership of the Texas House Not only
is it just another day of quorm break without the Democrats,
it's another day with absolutely no real consequences, a bunch.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Of fake hot air theater, bad.
Speaker 7 (23:59):
Drama, but nothing that actually shows the Democrats or anybody
in Texas or anywhere across America that the elected Republican
leadership is serious. There have been no arrests, no seats vacated,
no charges filed, no committee stripped, no seniority removed. This
is a joke. In fact, the Democrats were told today
by the Speaker that they will be paid in full
when they return. They just might have to pick up
(24:21):
a hard copy check as opposed to a being direct depositive.
This is fundamentally unseerious. Texans want results, They want action,
not just wards. The time for action, the time for wards,
has come and gone. And I'm very sorry about this, guys.
You deserve a lot better than this. I'll keep for fording.
Brian Harrison, God bless you, God bless Texas.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Okay, he makes a couple of good points, but I
do want to kind of question a few.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
He mentions there's been no arrests. That's true.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
He mentions there have been no seat stripped, as in
like they haven't been kicked out of the Texas House
and all of that is true, I would argue that,
you know, so that takes time. Right to arrest these folks,
you have to do a couple of things. One, you
have to find them, and then two, if they're out
of state, you have to find a law enforcement agency
(25:10):
that has jurisdiction in whatever state they're in that is
willing to arrest them and then extradite them back to Texas.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
That is easier said than done.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
As well as you know, kicking folks out of the sea,
that's very questionable legal procedure, just in terms of who
has the authority.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
To do it and how do we go about doing it.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
That's never really been done before other than you know,
a majority of representatives voting to kick someone out of
the House. That can be done. That's been done in
the past. But again, you can't do that because we
don't have a quorum. So you have to figure out, Okay, well,
can the ag remove these people, Can the judge remove
these people? Can the governor remove these people? All of
(25:52):
this is murky legal water that we've never tread into before,
So things like that will take time. Several days at least,
we do have action being taken on that front. Obviously,
Ken Paxton is doing everything he can do. First of all,
he's sued Beto O'Rourke for actually essentially bribing these people
(26:14):
to do this, because remember they've solicited donations to fund this.
There's an argument to be made, a legal argument to
be made that by taking donations to then go leave
the house, what you're actually doing is you're taking payments
to not vote on legislation, which technically I think may
fit the definition of bribery. So Ken Paxton has taken
(26:38):
some legal action on that front. He has also filed
a lawsuit in the Supreme Court of the State of
Texas to secure in order declaring these seats vacant. He
wants the Supreme Court of the State of Texas to say, hey,
these members aren't showing up to work, they are no
longer representatives in the state of Texas.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Great.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
We'll have to see what kind of action the Supreme
Court takes on that. As far as I'm aware, this
has been filed under some sort of emergency. We need
this done quickly, so we may see results soon, but
I don't know how soon. Again, We're in kind of
untreaded waters. We don't know who can actually do what
(27:20):
or how long it's going to take. We are seeing action,
though not from boroughs, of course, but from Ken Paxton,
which good good. Matt Rinaldi, he's the former chairman of
the Texas GOP, correctly pointed out that this carries a
lot more weight than not paying people seven hundred and
fifty bucks a month.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
That's true, Greg Abbott.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
He's also taken emergency action to begin the removal from
office of derelict Democrats in the Texas House.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Great good.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Again, don't demand everything all at once, right, That's something
I think we need to be very careful to do.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
This will take time.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Let's rest easy in the fact that we know this
is all happening a lot faster than it did the
last time around. Like in twenty twenty one, when we
dealt with a very long quorum break. It took us
a full month of the Democrats not showing up to
work for us to even start having conversations about people
being removed from their seats, and then they all came back.
(28:20):
Now we're actually filing legal action to remove them from
their seats, and it's only been a week, so should
there be more actions? Should we see people having their
committee placements stripped, removed from committees, removed from vice chairmanships
of committees or chairmanships of subcommittees, and seniority stripped.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Yes, all of that should have happened already.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
But we are seeing strong progress, even if it's not
strong enough. So let's not get down in the dumps,
all right, all right, say to them, we've got a
lot more.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
We're gonna talk about Washington, d C.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
In just a minute, right after the break. All right,
(29:13):
So I already told you I feel like and this
is just my opinion. You're free to disagree, but if
you disagree, I think you're stupid. I feel like America
is single handedly the greatest country in the world by none.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
And it is not close.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
So it should stand to reason that we have the
greatest capital in the world, right the center point of
the greatest nation in the world. Should be an example
to the rest of the world on what a city
should look like.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
By every metric.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Unfortunately, our capital city, Washington, d C, is a third
world country. It is it's horrible. The crime is out
of control. Everyone knows this. It's not controversial to say it.
You have to be out of your mind to deny it.
Everyone knows this is the case, and this has begun
coming to a head.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
People are sick of it. Trump is sick of it.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
The incident that kind of brought this to the forefront
of everyone's attention was a DOSE staffer actually got the
snot beat out of him recently by some thugs.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
We all remember Big Balls.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
He was the guy who he was originally fired by
DOGE because we found out one of his online usernames
was big Balls and he was making a bunch of
crass jokes. The kid's a genius, obviously, but he made
some crass jokes and he was fired, and of course
there was national outrage. The GOP bass thought that a
(30:51):
guy named big Balls making crash jokes online and also
being a super genius working to save us from our
own government was pretty cool. And after a bunch of
nash outrage and whatnot, Big Balls was brought back and
last I checked, was still an employee of Doge in Washington, DC,
and he has now had the snot beat out of
him because he tried to intervene in what I think
(31:13):
was some sort of mugging. So U Joseph Trimmer with
the Texas Scorecard was reporting on this. He posted this
on Twitter or x does staffer Edward big Ball's chorus
Stine was attacked after he reportedly defended a woman being
assaulted by multiple men in DC. Trump is considering taking
control of the city, so apparently the story is. According
(31:39):
to the Daily Caller, big Balls saw the suspects approach,
push the victim he was with inside the car, and
faced the suspects alone. Officials estimate that there were about
ten attackers. Props to Big Balls for standing his ground.
Read the full report below. Okay, so essentially what happened
is allegedly he saw this mugging about to take place,
(32:04):
he shoved the would be victim into a car and
then fought these ten guys by himself. Obviously he got
the snot beat out of him, because there's one of
him and ten of everybody else. This is insane. The
pictures are crazy. You can see him. There's photos floating
around on Twitter right now. He is utterly mangled. But
(32:27):
he stepped up. God bless him for doing it. Bravery
of the highest order. Elon Musk confirmed that this was
indeed big balls. A few days ago, a gang of
about a dozen young men tried to assault a woman
in her car at night in DC. A Dose team
members saw what was happening, ran to defend her and
was severely beaten to the point of concussion, but he
(32:49):
saved her. And then Musk said it's time to federalize Washington,
d C. And there's been quite a bit of conversation
about that. Recently, Donald Trump put on truth social crime
in Washington, d C. Is totally out of control. Local
quote unquote youths and gang members, some only fourteen, fifteen
and sixteen years old, are randomly attacking, mugging, maiming, and
(33:12):
shooting innocent citizens at the same time knowing they will
be almost immediately released. They are not afraid of law
enforcement because they know nothing ever happens to them. But
it's going to happen now. The law in DC must
be changed to prosecute these miners quote unquote as adults
and lock them up for a long time, starting at
the age of fourteen. He wan hot to say that Washington,
(33:34):
DC must be safe, clean, and beautiful for all Americans
and importantly for the world to see. If DC doesn't
get its act together and quickly, we will have no
choice but to take federal control of the city and
run this city how it should be run, and put
more criminals on notice that they are not going to
get away with it anymore. And again, this is a
(33:54):
huge problem. DC has some of the highest crime rates
of any capital in the world. DC capital homicide rates,
DC is number one, at least according to this chart
that Caroline Levitt posted on her ex page, DC has
(34:15):
forty one homicides per one hundred thousand people. The runner
up is Lagos, which only has fifteen homicides per one
hundred thousand people.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
So this is a real problem.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
This is an insane problem for any city to have,
especially one in the Third World. Now, again, these are statistics.
They can be played with, so take it with a
grain of salt. But I think it makes the point
pretty clearly. We have a major problem in our nation's capital,
and the people on the ground know it.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
They do. The residents of.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
Washington, DC can feel how unsafe their city is. Here's
a compilation of them saying exactly that. I don't know
what news agency this is from, but Rapid Response forty
seven posted it. This is just a bunch of people
in DC talking about how unsafe they feel because of
the crime in their cities.
Speaker 13 (35:06):
Some days I fell in safe going outside.
Speaker 8 (35:09):
Recent shocking acts of violence have someone alert A recent
fatal drive by shooting along with a carjacking and beating
in this neighborhood near.
Speaker 5 (35:17):
U Street, which is insane. I mean, I just live
a block this way, so to know that I'm so
close to something like that is really terrifying.
Speaker 8 (35:24):
So we asked residents what they think city leaders should
do immediately to improve safety.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
I feel like it's still very dark.
Speaker 8 (35:32):
John del Rohder says more functioning street lights would help.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
More street lights.
Speaker 5 (35:37):
Writer street lights, which sounds like so easy and simple,
but I don't think we have enough of those.
Speaker 8 (35:44):
For Cameron Tally, hearing about violence steps from her.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
Home, oh my word, right here.
Speaker 8 (35:51):
Brings back memories from a year ago.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
We got caught in the middle of the drive by shooting,
so that was horrible.
Speaker 8 (35:58):
Tally says the city should consider installing blue light emergency phones,
seen often on college campuses.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
Oh I see a blue light, I can get to
in a call for help.
Speaker 8 (36:07):
For Jana richardson the Quickest Path to Peace, on city streets.
Speaker 13 (36:11):
I think they needed. In one about the juvenile crime.
Speaker 8 (36:13):
He believes young people caught in the criminal justice system
need the deterrent of jail time and not freedom while
awaiting their fate.
Speaker 13 (36:21):
I think it's because they keep going to get it
and letting them go no deterrent.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
Here's another idea, Maybe make it easier for the good
guys to get their hands on some guns too. It's
virtually impossible to carry a gun in Washington, d C.
By the way, which may be a reason all of
this is happening. The criminals know that they have a
rich or that they're in a target rich environment where
the targets cannot defend themselves. But that's a whole nother conversation.
(36:47):
Trump is now talking about federalizing Washington, d C. Obviously,
he's being very open about just taking complete control of
the city and surging law enforcement resources into the area.
Take a listen to him saying that in the Oval office,
are you considering.
Speaker 8 (37:03):
Taking over the DUC police is.
Speaker 13 (37:04):
At an option on the pot.
Speaker 10 (37:06):
We're considering it. Yeah, because the crime is ridiculous. I
could show you a short comparing DC to other locations,
and you're not going to want to see what it
looks like. It was just up on television, actually they
were showing it.
Speaker 13 (37:20):
Now.
Speaker 10 (37:20):
We want to have a great safe capital and we're
going to have it, and that includes cleanliness and includes
other things.
Speaker 13 (37:27):
We have a capital that's very unsafe.
Speaker 10 (37:30):
You know, we just almost lost a young man, beautiful
handsome guy that got the hell knocked out of him
the night before last. And I'm gonna call him now.
We wanted to give him a little recovery time. We
just put a call into him. They're calling back a
little while. But he went through a bad situation, to
(37:53):
put it mildly, and there's too much of it.
Speaker 13 (37:55):
We're gonna we're going to do something about it.
Speaker 10 (37:57):
So whether you call it federal, and that also includes
the graffiti that you see the papers all over the place,
the roads that are in bed shape, the medians that
are falling down, the median in between roads that's falling down.
Speaker 13 (38:12):
We're going to beautify this city.
Speaker 10 (38:13):
We're going to make it beautiful, and uh, what a shame.
The rate of crime, the rate of muggings, killings and
everything else. We're not gonna let it. And that includes
bringing in the National Guard, maybe very quickly too.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
I think you'll find that most people support this. I
think you'll find that most people want our cities to
be safe, but unfortunately, most of our cities are run
by Democrats who are more concerned with looking like they're
nice people than actually protecting their citizens, which is a
real shame. It's the problem here in Harris County as well.
It's probably the biggest problem. But that's all I've got
for us today. Thank you very much for listening to
(38:50):
the next Gen Report. We'll be back on Wednesday with
the podcast.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
Have a great one.
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