October 13, 2025 • 39 mins
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In the early days of the California gubernatorial election, the early Democrat frontrunner is facing major blowback for her outbursts at everyone from staffers and journalists to her ex-husband.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has launched an investigation into the online chat platform Discord. Used primarily by video game players for voice chat. It may be connected to the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
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In the early days of the California gubernatorial election, the early Democrat frontrunner is facing major blowback for her outbursts at everyone from staffers and journalists to her ex-husband.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has launched an investigation into the online chat platform Discord. Used primarily by video game players for voice chat. It may be connected to the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
For the latest news, follow me on Instagram and X:
@the.ethanbuchanan
@_ethanbuchanan
Watch this episode of The Next-Gen Report on YouTube!
https://youtu.be/KatPhHaeo-E
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
From the heart of the Space City to the heart
of gen Z. Welcome to Next Gen Conversation, not Dad's
Talk Radio. Ethan talks to you about the issues and
events the manors who are our generation.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
This is the Next Gen Report. Put Ethan cam in.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Hey, good Sunday evening. Everybody over. We're all doing fantastic.
What have we got going on today? We got Christian
Collins joining us in the third segment. He's the founder
of the Texas Youth Summit. He's going to be joining
us to talk about the latest in the investigation into
Charlie Kirk's assassination. This weekend, this Thursday, I believe marked
(00:46):
or no, it was Friday, actually marked one month since
the assassination of Charlie Kirk. We've got some developments there.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has announced he'll be looking
into discord the It's a it's a voice chat kind
of social media platform designed specifically for for gamers to
be used while playing video games. I'm familiar with it,
(01:08):
I've used it. There's there's probably some stuff there to
look into, for sure. Uh So, Christian Collins will be
joining us to talk a little bit about that. In
the third segment, so stay tuned for that. What else
is going on? We got peace in the Middle East.
It looks like the Israeli cabinet has signed off on
the peace deal that Donald Trump kind of brokeered between
(01:31):
them and Hamas. It looks like that war is finally
coming to a close. Donald Trump, I believe is actually
right now in the Middle East. He left yesterday, uh,
and he is gonna be doing a bunch of different things.
He's gonna be basically just kind of coordinating the implementation
of that over there for a while, making some addresses here.
(01:53):
He is actually uh speaking to some folks uh in
the White House announcing kind of hey, this is the
peace plan. Everybody wants this peace plan. I'm going to
be going over there to help coordinate the peace plan.
Take aalism.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
We wanted it.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
You know, it's been a long time. He's been fighting
a long time. He's been fighting hard. He wanted it.
It's a great deal for Israel, but it's a great
deal for everybody, for Arabs, for Muslims, for everybody, for
the world. And as you know, on Monday, the hostagees
come back. They're getting them now. I mean they're getting
them now. They're and some pretty rough places under Earth.
(02:32):
There's some pretty rough places where only a few people
know where they are in some cases. So they're getting them.
And they're also getting the bodies, approximately twenty eight bodies,
and some of those bodies are being unearthed right now
as we speak. I mean they're working on it right
now as we speak. It's a tragedy. It's a tragedy. No,
(02:54):
he was very happy with it. And I can tell
you that I saw Israel dancing in the streets. But
they were dancing in Qatar and Saudi Arabia and Uae
and many many countries, so Egypt they were dancing. I'll
be going to Israel. I'll be speaking at the Canesset
I think early on, and then I'm also going to Egypt.
(03:17):
They were terrific.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
But all of the countries are great.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Indonesia was great, Jordan was great, they were all great.
Everybody everybody wants to steal to happen.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
And that I think is the crux of it. Everybody
wants peace. I think they just have different roads of
getting there, and that's where negotiation comes in. That's why
Donald Trump was key. He said, Hey, we want peace.
But if you're not going to actually work towards that piece,
we will get the peace without you. Wink wink. You
(03:48):
know what that means, We're going to bomb the hell
out of you. And hey, apparently that negotiation strategy works.
So praise God for that. Praise God for peace. Anyway,
we also have this big news Letitia James has officially
been indicted. We had talked about the charges that she's
facing a couple of months ago on the show. You
(04:09):
can go back and listen to that on the podcast.
There are some serious concerns and apparently enough for a
grand jury to say, yeah, we think she did this,
let's port her to trial. That she has committed Moran
mortgage fraud, not Morgan fraud, mortgage fraud, which is ironic
because that's exactly what she had gone after Donald Trump
(04:29):
for basically, and it now appears that she's done the
exact same thing. James was charged with one count of
bank fraud and one count of making false statements to
a financial institution after Trump publicly called for his Justice
Department appointees to bring charges against her. So this is
NBC News right here putting their spin on it. They're
trying to make it seem like, oh, this is just
(04:50):
Donald Trump targeting her. Donald Trump is just he's just
trying to get her. You really think that Donald Trump
has a grand jury in New York in his pocket.
I don't know if you know this. He's not particularly
popular in New York. A grand jury isn't going to
go indict Letitia James just because Trump asked them to.
(05:10):
It's preposterous. But that's a King Jeffrey's point. The basis
indictment of New York Attorney General Leticia James is part
of Donald Trump's corrupt weaponization of the criminal justice system
against anyone who has sought to hold him accountable. All right,
you guys started this. You guys did the left did this?
(05:33):
Y'all are the ones that broke the glass roof and
indicted Donald Trump multiple times. You throw the kitchen sink
at him, and now we start peeling through the records.
Now that okay, we can go after political opponents because
you set that bar. Turns out the Democrats did a
lot of things wrong. Attorney General James has courageously been
(05:55):
at the forefront of successfully challenging the Trump administration's lawless,
deeply unpopular overreach. At times, she has followed the facts,
applied the law, and been guided by the Constitution. No,
she's been guided by her own political aspirations. We know this.
Let's not sit here and pretend she's some noble figure.
She campaigned on going after Donald Trump, she won her election,
(06:17):
went after Donald Trump, and then we find out she's
actually not a saint herself. And because everybody is being
held to the same standard here, no one is above
the law she got indicted to. What's really funny to
me is CNN is trying to make the case that, oh,
this really isn't a big deal. Everybody does mortgage fraud.
I'm not kidding. They actually said this. Take a listen
(06:39):
to the CNN broadcast with this lady goes, yeah, everybody
in America commits mortgage fraud.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
Aside for a second, what tis James? And again we're
still getting the details. But if it's related to this
mortgage issue, I mean, this is something that everyone in America,
or many people at least, if you're lucky enough to
be able to buy a house in America.
Speaker 6 (06:56):
You deal with this, right.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
The federal government doesn't go after all of these people
for doing this, does that.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
What in the hell does that even mean. I'm not
a realtor, but I find it hard to believe that.
Honest to god, mortgage fraud, which is what she's accused of,
Everybody does it, man, It's just one of them things. Boy,
you don't commit a little mortgage fraud on the weekends.
(07:28):
Everybody does this. It's preposterous. But that's where we're at
with the left now. Mortgage fraud no big deal. I mean,
it was a big enough deal for us to indict
the former president of the United States for it, but
don't go after the Attorney General of New York. That's preposterous. Whatever. Man,
all right, hey, stay tuned. We've got a great show
coming up for you. We'll be right back after some
(07:50):
quick messages from our sponsors. Alrighty, ladies and gentlemen, let's
(08:21):
talk about California. There's something interesting going on there. They've
got a governor's race, a gubernatorial race coming up next year,
and so of course the campaigning has already begun. They
have one candidate in particular running for governor of California
that I think is crazy, Like she's actually crazy, and
(08:46):
I'm not talking about just like politically she's a Democrat,
so of course he's politically crazy. But like I think
this woman is actually great. She's crazy. I want to
give you we actually several examples of this. The woman
in question is named Katie Porter. She I believe was
a representative out of California for a while. She's now
(09:09):
running to be their governor. She has gotten herself in
some hot water because of her performance in this interview,
and I don't want to spoil it. Just listen with
me for a few minutes to this crazy lady's interview.
I don't know who this is with, but just listen
to how this reporter conducts herself because the reporter I
(09:31):
believe is very professional versus Katie Porter, who again is crazy.
Take a listen.
Speaker 7 (09:38):
What do you say to the forty percent of California
voters who you'll need in order to win, who voted
for Trump?
Speaker 8 (09:45):
How would I need them in order to win?
Speaker 7 (09:46):
A man, Well, unless you think you're going to get
sixty percent of the vote, you think you'll get sixty percent,
all of everybody who did not vote for Trump will
vote for you.
Speaker 8 (09:54):
That's what you're in a general election? Yes, if it
is me versus a Republican. I think that I will
win the people who did not vote.
Speaker 6 (10:02):
For Trump to vinci U versus another Democrat.
Speaker 8 (10:04):
I don't intend that to be the case.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Okay. What kind of a response is that, I don't
intend that to be the case. Okay? And if it
is like, sure, that's not your plan, you don't have
a plan. B. You just figured you'd wing it and
just be the governor. You really expect everything to go
according to your plan? I mean, just right there, she
(10:28):
demonstrates she has no political ability whatsoever. Because that's not
a strategy. I don't intend that to be the case.
Is not a strategy for anything.
Speaker 6 (10:37):
So how do you not intend that to be the case?
Speaker 1 (10:40):
You do?
Speaker 4 (10:40):
You?
Speaker 6 (10:40):
Are you going to ask them not to run?
Speaker 2 (10:42):
No?
Speaker 8 (10:42):
No, I'm saying I'm going to build the support. I
have the support already in terms of name recognition, and
so I'm going to do the very best I can
to make sure that we get through this primary in
a really strong position. But let me be clear with you.
I represented Orange County. I represented a purple area. I
have stood on my own two feet and one Republican
votes before. That's not something I think every candidate in
this race can say if you're from a deep blue area,
(11:03):
if you're from LA or you're from Oakland, you don't
have an experience.
Speaker 7 (11:07):
You just said you don't need those Trump voters, So
you asked me if I needed them to win, So
you don't.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
I feel like this is unnecessarily argumentative. What is your question?
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Okay? How is that unnecessarily argumentative? She's just asking you questions.
That's her job. She said, how do you intend to
win these forty percent of voters that you you probably need.
I don't think I need them, Okay, whatever, but I
could win them if I needed them. Okay, So then
is that your plan? So that brings us back to
(11:35):
my original question is how do you intend to win them?
If you do need them? I don't need them. You're
being argumentative. No, she's not. She's doing her job. She's
asking questions, trying to figure out what your thought process is.
I mean, what the hell? It gets worse, it gets worse.
Speaker 7 (11:52):
The question is the same thing I asked everybody that
this is being called the empowering voters to stop Trump's
power ground.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
Every other candidate has answered this question.
Speaker 7 (12:01):
This is not and I said I support it, so
and the question is what do you say to the
forty percent of voters who voted for Trump?
Speaker 8 (12:09):
Oh, I'm happy to say that. It's the do you
need them to win? Part that I don't understand. I'm
happy to answer the question. Answer the question as you
haven't written, and I'll answer.
Speaker 7 (12:16):
And we've also asked the other candidates do you think
you need any of those forty percent of California voters
to win?
Speaker 6 (12:22):
And you're saying no, you don't.
Speaker 8 (12:23):
No, I'm saying I'm going to try to win every
vote I can. And what I'm saying to you is that.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Does it seem like se flip flop?
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Just then?
Speaker 3 (12:31):
I'm gonna win every vote I can't. Just a minute ago,
you were saying you didn't need those votes. You said
you just intended to sail through with the sixty percent
of Californians who were Democrats. And call it today? What
the hell is going on here? Am I losing my mind?
Speaker 6 (12:47):
Voters? Okay?
Speaker 8 (12:47):
So you I don't want to keep doing this, I'm
gonna call it.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (12:53):
You're not gonna do the interview with them?
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Nope, not like this.
Speaker 8 (12:56):
I'm not not with seven follow ups to every single question.
Speaker 6 (12:58):
You ask every other candidates.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
I don't care.
Speaker 8 (13:01):
I don't care. I want to have a pleasant, positive
conversation which you asked me about every issue on this list.
And if every question you're going to make up a
follow up question, then what in.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
The hell do you think an interview is, lady. That's
how interviews work. They ask you a kind of prompting question,
an open question, and then once the ball gets rolling,
we start digging into the topic. Having conducted a number
of interviewers myself and you'll hear one, we're gonna sit
down with Christian Collins. We'll have an interview. I'm sure
I'll ask him questions and then I'll ask him follow
(13:33):
up questions, because that's how an interview works. This lady
is insane. She's completely insane. And somebody pointed this out.
Katie Porter had a sixty five percent staff turnover rate,
four times higher than the average congressional office. She was
reportedly accused of abusing and berating staffers until they cried.
(13:53):
That doesn't surprise me. That doesn't surprise me at all.
Because the moment this video came out and people started
digging into who the how this crazy lady was, we
found this one. Here she is, she's doing some sort
of interviewer or something, and I guess one of her
staffers appears in the background, and she immediately jumps straight
to cussing them out. Take a listen to this.
Speaker 8 (14:14):
It's dying prematurely to air pollution and other problems and
the state could lose.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Get out of that.
Speaker 6 (14:24):
That's actually incorrect. It's not that it's elected vehicles.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
So what she had said there was whatever your name is,
and I tried to bleep it out there. So I
don't want to expose this staff or whatever, but whatever
your name is, get out of my effing shot. She
just barely cropped up in the corner. If you're watching
on the YouTube video right now, or if you're listening
go back later on Monday, I guess, and watch the video.
(14:49):
She's barely in the corner and she apparently appeared there
with relevant information. But no, Katie por is like, if
you get out of my shot, does this see I'm
like a pleasant woman to work for. Now does this
seem like a stable woman even a little bit? No,
and she probably isn't. Katie Porter verbally abused then husband
(15:12):
in explicit tirade, efing idiot and two effing dumb to
operate a phone. Court documents say there's also allegations buried
in here that she threw like a boiling pot of
mashed potatoes on his head and scalded him once dumped
scolding mashed potatoes on her then husband's head during a fight.
According to resurfaced divorce documents, let's for the New York
(15:36):
Post and go find that whole article. This lady has
a history of being bonkers Hoffmann. That's her ex husband
also fired for a restraining order from his rage prone spouse,
claiming she would routinely call him an efing idiot and
effing incompetent. Shattered a glass coffee pot in their kitchen
(15:57):
counter in March twenty twelve when she felt our house
wasn't clean enough. Well, that makes perfect sense. This house
is too dirty. I'm gonna smash this part and make
it dirtier. This lady's crazy. She also may very well
be a pedophile sympathizer. This I thought was particularly disturbing.
(16:18):
Take a listen to what she has to say about
the uh groomers and pedophiles of the world. The allegation
of groomer and pedophile.
Speaker 8 (16:26):
It is alleging that a person is criminal somehow and
engaged in criminal acts merely because of their identity.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Because of their identity. Being a pedophile is not an identity.
What the hell is wrong with this lady? And you
know what the worst part is, she's the front runner
for governor by a mile. She has a seven point
lead over the closest front runner. A seven point lead.
(16:59):
That is a in politics. A seven point lead. That's it.
The election's over.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
You won.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Over the closest front runner. I mean, let's see how
long that lead holds up. Now that all this is
coming out, I imagine I hope to God for California's
sake that her support craters pretty quickly, but it wouldn't
surprise me if it doesn't, because, to be honest, California
(17:28):
is kind of crazy. I mean, they've elected Gavin Newsom
and he's no sweetheart either. He's just a little bit
more polished than Katie Porter is. I mean, this is ridiculous.
This is our political class. This is who we have
to lead us, crazy ladies like Katie Porter. All right,
stay tuned, We've got Christian Collins coming up in just
one second. We're gonna have a conversation with him about
(17:49):
what's going on here in Texas with Discord. You're not
gonna want to miss it. We'll be back with more
than next ye reportance just a second. Alrighty, So we've
(18:16):
got this announcement from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton that
his office is going to be investigating Discord. Discord is uh,
it's primarily a chat feature for video game players, and
I've used this myself. I play a lot of video
games with my brother and some of our friends, so
(18:38):
we use Discord, and I can tell you there's some
there's like all social media, there is some stuff on
there that that definitely should not be right. This is
a common problem on social media. So to talk about
this a little bit, I've brought in, of course, Christian Collins,
the founder of the Texas Use Summit. Christian, thank you
(18:59):
for joining me this more well.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Thank you so much for having me on anything.
Speaker 9 (19:03):
And it's one month since the tragic loss of Charlie Kirk,
and I really like that Attorney General kid passion. It's
going after those that really are culprits in allowing this
to happen. And I think it's important that we protect
free speech while also making sure that these apps are
(19:24):
safe and they're not inciting violence by allowing particular bad.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Players to.
Speaker 9 (19:34):
Groom these young boys that become assassins.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Yeah, and I think that's really what it comes down to,
is the fact that you know, these are children. These
are platforms that in many cases, maybe not specifically in
Discord case, we don't know. It's an investigation, we'll see
what comes of it. But in many cases on social media,
the problems that we're seeing are these companies are kind
(20:01):
of sluffing off when it comes to making sure that
children aren't being exposed to content that they shouldn't be
exposed to. So often with other social media platforms, we
find out there are things that they could have been
doing that they just didn't or they chose not to
for whatever reason. I think that's the biggest issue here.
Speaker 9 (20:23):
Well, you look, I mean, Tyler Robinson is charged with
or indicted with killing Charlie Kirk, and he grew up
in a conservative household, but because of numerous things, perhaps
the colleges and universities he went to, he ended up
(20:44):
being a leftist and pizza supporting young man that was
dating a Transcender Guy then wrote on the bullet catch fascists,
and I have to imagine he was having conversations and
this was very well planned and methodical, and how he
went about doing this. And you know, this app could
(21:05):
very well be the medium which he's able to have
those types of communications and talk about how he went
about or how he wanted to go about doing this assassination.
So he had to have been incited somewhere, he had
to have been groomed to become what he was somewhere,
(21:28):
and his wicked ideology of course had to have festered somewhere.
And that's what we did to get to the bottom
of it. I know, starting general KM Paxton is very
much motivated to ensure that justice has served.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Yeah, and there's also the ongoing question of you know,
did he have accomplices? Were there people that were working
with him, that were coordinating with him. These are questions
that I think are still a large still largely unanswered,
And if we can get to the bottom of that,
if we can say, okay, here's what he was doing
on discord, here who, here's who some of the people
(22:08):
he was connected to, I think those are questions worth
asking and that's not an indictment of anybody that knew
the guy or you know, anybody that may have interacted
with him. But these are still questions that we have
to have answers to because there could be other threats.
Speaker 9 (22:28):
Out there exactly, and these types of platforms, you know,
continue to encourage assassins. This could be you know, one
of many of them to happen unfortunately, So you.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Know, we've got to nip this in the button.
Speaker 9 (22:43):
And these platforms have to be held viable for for
you know, allowing terrorist attacks to happen. And so Antifa
has been designated a terrorist group by President Trump, and
I think we need to be very careful about the
types of groups that we allow on to have these
(23:05):
types of communications because we don't want another Charlie Kirk situation.
And the left has already proven that they're very violent.
You look at the attorney general running here in Virginia.
I'm in Virginia this weekend. His name is Jay Jones,
and we looked at his text messages and you might
have seen the Ethan and he said that you know,
(23:27):
he wants the children of conservative opponent to experience.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
This type of death.
Speaker 9 (23:36):
You know, he wants those parents to know what it's
like to lose children because of gunshots.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
And that's what a what a horrible.
Speaker 9 (23:44):
Thing to say, much like I think, you know, so
that's what's in the hearts of these leftists. And you know,
maybe the Democrats with the politicians themselves, won't commit these
types of violent acts, but they're not doing anything to.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Stop it, right, and they're wishing this on their opponents.
Speaker 9 (24:05):
And you know, that's the type of political culture that's
in their party. And so when you have the radical
grassroots groups like INTIFA that carry out these heinous acts,
the Democrats seem to be not just indifferent, but silently
applauding it and encouraging it. I feel like many more
(24:25):
Democrats feel that way. I mean, you look at across Texas.
He had a one hundred and thirty teachers that we
know of said something on social media and celebrating the
assassination of Charlie Kirk. You know, those are the people
that are raising our kids. You know, they want us debt,
they want us dead, they don't like us, and they
(24:46):
do not want to coexist with us. And so Charlie
Kirk was all of us.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
He was the best of us.
Speaker 9 (24:52):
And you know, I think you know, between these platforms,
you know that allow these types of communications to happen
in the ideology that probably came from, you know, it
was radicalized because of this platform, but also in the
school system, maybe at the university level, maybe at the
public school level.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
You know, somewhere along the way.
Speaker 9 (25:15):
You know, these parents that you know had done everything
they could to raise Tyler Rabinson, right, he was radicalized somewhere.
And I think it's important that you know, we get
to the bottom of that and that there the consequences
for this, and.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
You mentioned it just they're the parents, and obviously, by
no way is any of this their fault. Their son
was an adult man who made his own poor decisions.
But there's I think kind of something that I've noticed
among conservative circles is at least over the last several years,
(25:53):
and that's kind of shifting now, but there's been almost
a sort of parenting put on auto pi. I think
there's there's kind of a mindset in some areas where
conservative parents will say, Okay, well I'm conservative. I take
my kids to church once a week. That should be enough.
(26:13):
Now I'm gonna send them off to a government school
and you know whatever, I'm going to put them on
the internet with little to no supervision and we're going
to call it a day and go into church once
a week and uh, you know, encouraging them to vote, right,
that that's going to be enough. And I think what
we're learning here is that's just not the case, right.
I mean, you have to be active with your kids.
(26:36):
You not only have to show them your values, you
also have to kind of show them how to respond
and how to pick apart and analyze the opposing side
as well.
Speaker 9 (26:47):
Yeah, if your parents don't just drop them off at
school and pick them off and you know, help them
with their homework. Now, I mean those are those are
things that you probably have to do because you're going
to work. But if you can homeschool your kids, if
you can afford to homeschool your kids or send them
to a private school, I mean in Texas we have
vouchers now that will follow the child, it might be
(27:11):
best for you to put them in a Christian school
or raise them yourself. You're at least giving your kids
a better chance that way they'll have the right worldview,
because what could happen is they go off to school.
You have you know, public school teacher who's encouraging Bobby
to be a Suzi, and you know, you have platforms
(27:34):
that they're introduced to, like discord, where they become you know,
radical leftists, cynical people will easy people who don't want
to work and who are angry at other people for
what they have and they're you know, cynical about what
they don't have, you know, and they blame the world.
You know, they blame conservatives for for for all the
(27:56):
ales in the world, and you know, and they become violent,
extremely like this. And so I say all that to
say that you need to be involved in your kid
and the lives more than that.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
You know, you need to have dinner around the dinner table.
Speaker 9 (28:09):
If you can't, you need to be having intentional conversations,
you know, from the early on set and you know,
four or five years old, you need to ask them
why did you learn at school today?
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (28:21):
You know that's it needs to start there and continue
on through every grade level and you know, take control
of what your kids are learning.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
I couldn't agree more. Well, Hey, Christian, thank you very
much for taking the time to join us and talk
about this. I really appreciate it, and hey, have a
have a wonderful time in Virginia. It is a beautiful state.
Hopefully soon to have a fantastic governor and attorney general
as well.
Speaker 9 (28:48):
Yeah, yeah, well, I prayed Jake Jones never never wins
any office ever again.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
That guy is horrible.
Speaker 9 (28:57):
There what he said, And thank you so much for
the apport to be on and I appreciate everything to do.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
So this shutdown at this point, do we really need
the federal government? Like, let's be honest, We're coming up
on two weeks in of straight shutdown and I'm chilling.
I'm chilling. I know we're not paying our military though.
(29:40):
I had a conversation with one of my old buddies
who ended up enlisting. He's in the military right now,
he's an active service member, and he's like, yeah, we're
not getting paid. They just they aren't paying us. It's
tough for him, it really is, because he doesn't have
another option. You basically just have to get loans and
credit cards to tide you over to the end of
(30:01):
the shutdown. But I mean, if you've got really bad
credit already, which I'm sure is fairly common in the military,
then what do you do. You're completely out of luck.
So yeah, I feel for them. I feel far our
service members who are getting paid. So where exactly are
(30:22):
we at? We're now? I think eleven days in. Technically,
Democrats and Republicans remain locked in a steelmate over how
to reopen the government, with the Senate rejecting motions to
advance competing bills for the seventh time. On Thursday, the
House passed Republican bill failed to move forward in a
fifty four to forty five vote. Three Democrats across the aisle,
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a number that has been unchanged since the shutdown began
last week. Now again, I want to make sure everybody
is completely aware of how this works. The obstacle is
the Senate filibuster. You need sixty votes in the Senate
to pass a bill. The Republicans do not have sixty votes.
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They don't So whenever you hear the the powers that
be on the Democrat side of the aisle, go wait
a minute. The Republicans control the White House, the House,
and the Senate. Why hasn't it passed? Why is it?
It's the Republican's fault? How do how are we stopping it?
(31:27):
You guys? Have the majority. It's very dishonest intentionally because
everybody that's saying that knows how the filibuster works. They
know that the Senate has the filibuster rule. They know
they need sixty votes in the Senate. They're pretending they
don't because they expect you to not. So you now
(31:49):
have no excuse. You are aware now because I have
told you there's a sixty vote threshold that the House,
do you be, on their own, can't clear. Now, this
should be relatively easy to clear that threshold, though, because
it's literally just a continuing resolution that they're trying to pass.
(32:09):
This House bill that they're hardlining on literally just says
this stuff we already agreed to six months ago. We're
just going to keep doing that for a few more
weeks while we continue to negotiate. That's it. That's all
it does, that's all the Republicans want. Just keep going
the same way we were for six more weeks. That
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was the Republican ask. The Democrats said, no, we want
to add a trillion dollars, and the answer to that
should obviously be known. That's not how you negotiated. It's
just not. But the Democrats refuse to back down on this.
I don't understand why this is going to hurt them.
(32:53):
Here's why it's going to hurt them, Chuck Schumer said,
the quiet part out loud from punch Bowl News. You'd
send him a minority leader. Chuck Schumer on Wednesday in
his Capital office, where the New York Democrat was bullish
as he's ever been about his shut down strategy. He said,
every day gets better for us. They view this as
(33:15):
a political win. They're confident that they can pin this
shut down on the Republicans. They intentionally shut down the
government so that they can blame the Republicans for it
and then run against it. That's what they're doing here.
People like my buddy in the army who aren't getting paid,
that's just casualties. It's worth it, whatever, anything in service
(33:41):
of the political win here. That's their strategy. Every Democrat
should be asked if they agree with Schumer, and that's
exactly right. Ask every single Democrat, hey, are you happy
about this? Are you happy that our service members aren't
being paid? Are you happy that the government is shut down?
Speaker 6 (33:59):
Right now?
Speaker 3 (34:00):
All of them will say yes, I guarantee you, or
they won't answer the question. But the question is being asked.
Somebody asked it of Hakim Jefferies, is the House Minority leader.
He said, hey, Chuck Schumer said this thing that's kind
of gross. He goes out here and he says, oh,
we're completely happy about the government being shut down and
our service members not being paid. How do you feel
about this? And Hakeem Jeffrey says, I'm completely aligned with
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Chuck Schumer. Take a listen.
Speaker 10 (34:24):
Yesterday, Leader Schumer indicated that the longer this goes on,
this is better for the Democrats. Do you believe, as
Republicans suggests that that's a callous remark, that this is
kind of a scorekeeping going on here.
Speaker 9 (34:35):
House and Senate Democrats have been completely aligned yesterday, leadership.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Completely aligned, completely aligned. Again. I cannot stress this enough.
This could end at any given moment. All the Democrats
have to do is say, fine, we'll pass this continuing
resolution while we keep negotiating for the main spending bill.
This isn't even the main spending bill that they're fighting over.
(35:02):
You understand that this isn't even the main issue. This
is supposed to be just a sideshow. This is supposed
to be a procedural thing. And they've made this the
hill they're gonna die on. I will never understand this strategy.
The Republicans are now saying, Hey, since we're shutting down
(35:24):
the government, we can't pay all these federal workers that
we really don't need anyway. Remember, the federal government is
a cesspit of waste, fraud, and abuse. That's been made
very clear since the government's shut down. For whatever reason,
I don't I don't understand the science behind it. This
allows Trump to just go in and fire a lot
more people than he normally could. Apparently there's procedures that
(35:46):
when the government is shut down do not apply here.
And so Russ Vott, he is the Office of Management
and Budget I believe O and B director, and he says, Hey,
we're just going to start firing people because they're not
doing anything anyway. We want to fire these people anyway,
because they're a waste of American tax payer dollars. The
(36:07):
federal government is way bigger than it needs to be,
and it's costing us way too much money. So we're
firing folks. Take a listen to Trump making that announcement
that we've actually begun the process of permanently laying off
these federal workers. How many layoffs have you authorized for
this first round?
Speaker 6 (36:23):
Then from which agency?
Speaker 4 (36:24):
And it would be democrat oriented because we figure, you know,
they started this thing, so they should be Democrat oriented.
It'll be a lot, and we'll announce the numbers over
the next couple of days, but it'll be a lot
of people, all because of the Democrats. I mean, they
want to give one and a half trillion dollars to
people that came into the country illegally. More important than that,
because we all have a big heart. We want people
to be taken care of. But you know, we have
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zero people coming in. You know that, Glen right, it's
that's a pretty impressive number, even for a successful governor.
But we've had for the last four months zero people
coming in illegally.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
They're coming in, but they're coming in legally.
Speaker 4 (36:59):
They're coming in through a process that's really a really
good process right now, because we want people to come in,
but they have to come in legally. So what we're
doing is as as these different groups come do we're
going to make a determination do we want them? A
lot And I must tell you a lot of them
happen to be a Democrat oriented. These are people that
(37:20):
the Democrats wanted that in many cases were not appropriate.
We fought them at the time and it was ultimately
signed in and some of these people, these are largely
people that the Democrats want.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
So here's how I think this is going to end up.
Trump is going to fire all these federal workers, who,
by the way, are all mostly Democrats. There's data behind
all of that. We know that federal employees, on average
about ninety percent donate exclusively to the Democrats politically. So
what happens when all of your voters Democrats lose their
(37:58):
jobs because of you? You think that's just gonna go
over without any opposition at all, and plus save the
taxpayer money. So this is going to end up being
a massive loss for the Democrats. They just haven't realized
it yet. I don't know how they've managed to miss it.
(38:20):
It's a stupid hill to die on, and it shows
you they have nothing going on. They have no leadership,
they have no one to coordinate and say, yes, these
are the hills we need to die on, and these
are not. If they did, they would not be doing this.
But anyway, that is all I have got for you
this weekend. Thank you very much for listening. Be sure
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From the heart of the Space City to the heart
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Speaker 2 (00:18):
This is the Next Gen Report. Put Ethan cam in.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Hey, good Sunday evening. Everybody over. We're all doing fantastic.
What have we got going on today? We got Christian
Collins joining us in the third segment. He's the founder
of the Texas Youth Summit. He's going to be joining
us to talk about the latest in the investigation into
Charlie Kirk's assassination. This weekend, this Thursday, I believe marked
(00:46):
or no, it was Friday, actually marked one month since
the assassination of Charlie Kirk. We've got some developments there.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has announced he'll be looking
into discord the It's a it's a voice chat kind
of social media platform designed specifically for for gamers to
be used while playing video games. I'm familiar with it,
(01:08):
I've used it. There's there's probably some stuff there to
look into, for sure. Uh So, Christian Collins will be
joining us to talk a little bit about that. In
the third segment, so stay tuned for that. What else
is going on? We got peace in the Middle East.
It looks like the Israeli cabinet has signed off on
the peace deal that Donald Trump kind of brokeered between
(01:31):
them and Hamas. It looks like that war is finally
coming to a close. Donald Trump, I believe is actually
right now in the Middle East. He left yesterday, uh,
and he is gonna be doing a bunch of different things.
He's gonna be basically just kind of coordinating the implementation
of that over there for a while, making some addresses here.
(01:53):
He is actually uh speaking to some folks uh in
the White House announcing kind of hey, this is the
peace plan. Everybody wants this peace plan. I'm going to
be going over there to help coordinate the peace plan.
Take aalism.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
We wanted it.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
You know, it's been a long time. He's been fighting
a long time. He's been fighting hard. He wanted it.
It's a great deal for Israel, but it's a great
deal for everybody, for Arabs, for Muslims, for everybody, for
the world. And as you know, on Monday, the hostagees
come back. They're getting them now. I mean they're getting
them now. They're and some pretty rough places under Earth.
(02:32):
There's some pretty rough places where only a few people
know where they are in some cases. So they're getting them.
And they're also getting the bodies, approximately twenty eight bodies,
and some of those bodies are being unearthed right now
as we speak. I mean they're working on it right
now as we speak. It's a tragedy. It's a tragedy. No,
(02:54):
he was very happy with it. And I can tell
you that I saw Israel dancing in the streets. But
they were dancing in Qatar and Saudi Arabia and Uae
and many many countries, so Egypt they were dancing. I'll
be going to Israel. I'll be speaking at the Canesset
I think early on, and then I'm also going to Egypt.
(03:17):
They were terrific.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
But all of the countries are great.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Indonesia was great, Jordan was great, they were all great.
Everybody everybody wants to steal to happen.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
And that I think is the crux of it. Everybody
wants peace. I think they just have different roads of
getting there, and that's where negotiation comes in. That's why
Donald Trump was key. He said, Hey, we want peace.
But if you're not going to actually work towards that piece,
we will get the peace without you. Wink wink. You
(03:48):
know what that means, We're going to bomb the hell
out of you. And hey, apparently that negotiation strategy works.
So praise God for that. Praise God for peace. Anyway,
we also have this big news Letitia James has officially
been indicted. We had talked about the charges that she's
facing a couple of months ago on the show. You
(04:09):
can go back and listen to that on the podcast.
There are some serious concerns and apparently enough for a
grand jury to say, yeah, we think she did this,
let's port her to trial. That she has committed Moran
mortgage fraud, not Morgan fraud, mortgage fraud, which is ironic
because that's exactly what she had gone after Donald Trump
(04:29):
for basically, and it now appears that she's done the
exact same thing. James was charged with one count of
bank fraud and one count of making false statements to
a financial institution after Trump publicly called for his Justice
Department appointees to bring charges against her. So this is
NBC News right here putting their spin on it. They're
trying to make it seem like, oh, this is just
(04:50):
Donald Trump targeting her. Donald Trump is just he's just
trying to get her. You really think that Donald Trump
has a grand jury in New York in his pocket.
I don't know if you know this. He's not particularly
popular in New York. A grand jury isn't going to
go indict Letitia James just because Trump asked them to.
(05:10):
It's preposterous. But that's a King Jeffrey's point. The basis
indictment of New York Attorney General Leticia James is part
of Donald Trump's corrupt weaponization of the criminal justice system
against anyone who has sought to hold him accountable. All right,
you guys started this. You guys did the left did this?
(05:33):
Y'all are the ones that broke the glass roof and
indicted Donald Trump multiple times. You throw the kitchen sink
at him, and now we start peeling through the records.
Now that okay, we can go after political opponents because
you set that bar. Turns out the Democrats did a
lot of things wrong. Attorney General James has courageously been
(05:55):
at the forefront of successfully challenging the Trump administration's lawless,
deeply unpopular overreach. At times, she has followed the facts,
applied the law, and been guided by the Constitution. No,
she's been guided by her own political aspirations. We know this.
Let's not sit here and pretend she's some noble figure.
She campaigned on going after Donald Trump, she won her election,
(06:17):
went after Donald Trump, and then we find out she's
actually not a saint herself. And because everybody is being
held to the same standard here, no one is above
the law she got indicted to. What's really funny to
me is CNN is trying to make the case that, oh,
this really isn't a big deal. Everybody does mortgage fraud.
I'm not kidding. They actually said this. Take a listen
(06:39):
to the CNN broadcast with this lady goes, yeah, everybody
in America commits mortgage fraud.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
Aside for a second, what tis James? And again we're
still getting the details. But if it's related to this
mortgage issue, I mean, this is something that everyone in America,
or many people at least, if you're lucky enough to
be able to buy a house in America.
Speaker 6 (06:56):
You deal with this, right.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
The federal government doesn't go after all of these people
for doing this, does that.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
What in the hell does that even mean. I'm not
a realtor, but I find it hard to believe that.
Honest to god, mortgage fraud, which is what she's accused of,
Everybody does it, man, It's just one of them things. Boy,
you don't commit a little mortgage fraud on the weekends.
(07:28):
Everybody does this. It's preposterous. But that's where we're at
with the left now. Mortgage fraud no big deal. I mean,
it was a big enough deal for us to indict
the former president of the United States for it, but
don't go after the Attorney General of New York. That's preposterous. Whatever. Man,
all right, hey, stay tuned. We've got a great show
coming up for you. We'll be right back after some
(07:50):
quick messages from our sponsors. Alrighty, ladies and gentlemen, let's
(08:21):
talk about California. There's something interesting going on there. They've
got a governor's race, a gubernatorial race coming up next year,
and so of course the campaigning has already begun. They
have one candidate in particular running for governor of California
that I think is crazy, Like she's actually crazy, and
(08:46):
I'm not talking about just like politically she's a Democrat,
so of course he's politically crazy. But like I think
this woman is actually great. She's crazy. I want to
give you we actually several examples of this. The woman
in question is named Katie Porter. She I believe was
a representative out of California for a while. She's now
(09:09):
running to be their governor. She has gotten herself in
some hot water because of her performance in this interview,
and I don't want to spoil it. Just listen with
me for a few minutes to this crazy lady's interview.
I don't know who this is with, but just listen
to how this reporter conducts herself because the reporter I
(09:31):
believe is very professional versus Katie Porter, who again is crazy.
Take a listen.
Speaker 7 (09:38):
What do you say to the forty percent of California
voters who you'll need in order to win, who voted
for Trump?
Speaker 8 (09:45):
How would I need them in order to win?
Speaker 7 (09:46):
A man, Well, unless you think you're going to get
sixty percent of the vote, you think you'll get sixty percent,
all of everybody who did not vote for Trump will
vote for you.
Speaker 8 (09:54):
That's what you're in a general election? Yes, if it
is me versus a Republican. I think that I will
win the people who did not vote.
Speaker 6 (10:02):
For Trump to vinci U versus another Democrat.
Speaker 8 (10:04):
I don't intend that to be the case.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Okay. What kind of a response is that, I don't
intend that to be the case. Okay? And if it
is like, sure, that's not your plan, you don't have
a plan. B. You just figured you'd wing it and
just be the governor. You really expect everything to go
according to your plan? I mean, just right there, she
(10:28):
demonstrates she has no political ability whatsoever. Because that's not
a strategy. I don't intend that to be the case.
Is not a strategy for anything.
Speaker 6 (10:37):
So how do you not intend that to be the case?
Speaker 1 (10:40):
You do?
Speaker 4 (10:40):
You?
Speaker 6 (10:40):
Are you going to ask them not to run?
Speaker 2 (10:42):
No?
Speaker 8 (10:42):
No, I'm saying I'm going to build the support. I
have the support already in terms of name recognition, and
so I'm going to do the very best I can
to make sure that we get through this primary in
a really strong position. But let me be clear with you.
I represented Orange County. I represented a purple area. I
have stood on my own two feet and one Republican
votes before. That's not something I think every candidate in
this race can say if you're from a deep blue area,
(11:03):
if you're from LA or you're from Oakland, you don't
have an experience.
Speaker 7 (11:07):
You just said you don't need those Trump voters, So
you asked me if I needed them to win, So
you don't.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
I feel like this is unnecessarily argumentative. What is your question?
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Okay? How is that unnecessarily argumentative? She's just asking you questions.
That's her job. She said, how do you intend to
win these forty percent of voters that you you probably need.
I don't think I need them, Okay, whatever, but I
could win them if I needed them. Okay, So then
is that your plan? So that brings us back to
(11:35):
my original question is how do you intend to win them?
If you do need them? I don't need them. You're
being argumentative. No, she's not. She's doing her job. She's
asking questions, trying to figure out what your thought process is.
I mean, what the hell? It gets worse, it gets worse.
Speaker 7 (11:52):
The question is the same thing I asked everybody that
this is being called the empowering voters to stop Trump's
power ground.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
Every other candidate has answered this question.
Speaker 7 (12:01):
This is not and I said I support it, so
and the question is what do you say to the
forty percent of voters who voted for Trump?
Speaker 8 (12:09):
Oh, I'm happy to say that. It's the do you
need them to win? Part that I don't understand. I'm
happy to answer the question. Answer the question as you
haven't written, and I'll answer.
Speaker 7 (12:16):
And we've also asked the other candidates do you think
you need any of those forty percent of California voters
to win?
Speaker 6 (12:22):
And you're saying no, you don't.
Speaker 8 (12:23):
No, I'm saying I'm going to try to win every
vote I can. And what I'm saying to you is that.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Does it seem like se flip flop?
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Just then?
Speaker 3 (12:31):
I'm gonna win every vote I can't. Just a minute ago,
you were saying you didn't need those votes. You said
you just intended to sail through with the sixty percent
of Californians who were Democrats. And call it today? What
the hell is going on here? Am I losing my mind?
Speaker 6 (12:47):
Voters? Okay?
Speaker 8 (12:47):
So you I don't want to keep doing this, I'm
gonna call it.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (12:53):
You're not gonna do the interview with them?
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Nope, not like this.
Speaker 8 (12:56):
I'm not not with seven follow ups to every single question.
Speaker 6 (12:58):
You ask every other candidates.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
I don't care.
Speaker 8 (13:01):
I don't care. I want to have a pleasant, positive
conversation which you asked me about every issue on this list.
And if every question you're going to make up a
follow up question, then what in.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
The hell do you think an interview is, lady. That's
how interviews work. They ask you a kind of prompting question,
an open question, and then once the ball gets rolling,
we start digging into the topic. Having conducted a number
of interviewers myself and you'll hear one, we're gonna sit
down with Christian Collins. We'll have an interview. I'm sure
I'll ask him questions and then I'll ask him follow
(13:33):
up questions, because that's how an interview works. This lady
is insane. She's completely insane. And somebody pointed this out.
Katie Porter had a sixty five percent staff turnover rate,
four times higher than the average congressional office. She was
reportedly accused of abusing and berating staffers until they cried.
(13:53):
That doesn't surprise me. That doesn't surprise me at all.
Because the moment this video came out and people started
digging into who the how this crazy lady was, we
found this one. Here she is, she's doing some sort
of interviewer or something, and I guess one of her
staffers appears in the background, and she immediately jumps straight
to cussing them out. Take a listen to this.
Speaker 8 (14:14):
It's dying prematurely to air pollution and other problems and
the state could lose.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Get out of that.
Speaker 6 (14:24):
That's actually incorrect. It's not that it's elected vehicles.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
So what she had said there was whatever your name is,
and I tried to bleep it out there. So I
don't want to expose this staff or whatever, but whatever
your name is, get out of my effing shot. She
just barely cropped up in the corner. If you're watching
on the YouTube video right now, or if you're listening
go back later on Monday, I guess, and watch the video.
(14:49):
She's barely in the corner and she apparently appeared there
with relevant information. But no, Katie por is like, if
you get out of my shot, does this see I'm
like a pleasant woman to work for. Now does this
seem like a stable woman even a little bit? No,
and she probably isn't. Katie Porter verbally abused then husband
(15:12):
in explicit tirade, efing idiot and two effing dumb to
operate a phone. Court documents say there's also allegations buried
in here that she threw like a boiling pot of
mashed potatoes on his head and scalded him once dumped
scolding mashed potatoes on her then husband's head during a fight.
According to resurfaced divorce documents, let's for the New York
(15:36):
Post and go find that whole article. This lady has
a history of being bonkers Hoffmann. That's her ex husband
also fired for a restraining order from his rage prone spouse,
claiming she would routinely call him an efing idiot and
effing incompetent. Shattered a glass coffee pot in their kitchen
(15:57):
counter in March twenty twelve when she felt our house
wasn't clean enough. Well, that makes perfect sense. This house
is too dirty. I'm gonna smash this part and make
it dirtier. This lady's crazy. She also may very well
be a pedophile sympathizer. This I thought was particularly disturbing.
(16:18):
Take a listen to what she has to say about
the uh groomers and pedophiles of the world. The allegation
of groomer and pedophile.
Speaker 8 (16:26):
It is alleging that a person is criminal somehow and
engaged in criminal acts merely because of their identity.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Because of their identity. Being a pedophile is not an identity.
What the hell is wrong with this lady? And you
know what the worst part is, she's the front runner
for governor by a mile. She has a seven point
lead over the closest front runner. A seven point lead.
(16:59):
That is a in politics. A seven point lead. That's it.
The election's over.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
You won.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Over the closest front runner. I mean, let's see how
long that lead holds up. Now that all this is
coming out, I imagine I hope to God for California's
sake that her support craters pretty quickly, but it wouldn't
surprise me if it doesn't, because, to be honest, California
(17:28):
is kind of crazy. I mean, they've elected Gavin Newsom
and he's no sweetheart either. He's just a little bit
more polished than Katie Porter is. I mean, this is ridiculous.
This is our political class. This is who we have
to lead us, crazy ladies like Katie Porter. All right,
stay tuned, We've got Christian Collins coming up in just
one second. We're gonna have a conversation with him about
(17:49):
what's going on here in Texas with Discord. You're not
gonna want to miss it. We'll be back with more
than next ye reportance just a second. Alrighty, So we've
(18:16):
got this announcement from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton that
his office is going to be investigating Discord. Discord is uh,
it's primarily a chat feature for video game players, and
I've used this myself. I play a lot of video
games with my brother and some of our friends, so
(18:38):
we use Discord, and I can tell you there's some
there's like all social media, there is some stuff on
there that that definitely should not be right. This is
a common problem on social media. So to talk about
this a little bit, I've brought in, of course, Christian Collins,
the founder of the Texas Use Summit. Christian, thank you
(18:59):
for joining me this more well.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Thank you so much for having me on anything.
Speaker 9 (19:03):
And it's one month since the tragic loss of Charlie Kirk,
and I really like that Attorney General kid passion. It's
going after those that really are culprits in allowing this
to happen. And I think it's important that we protect
free speech while also making sure that these apps are
(19:24):
safe and they're not inciting violence by allowing particular bad.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Players to.
Speaker 9 (19:34):
Groom these young boys that become assassins.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Yeah, and I think that's really what it comes down to,
is the fact that you know, these are children. These
are platforms that in many cases, maybe not specifically in
Discord case, we don't know. It's an investigation, we'll see
what comes of it. But in many cases on social media,
the problems that we're seeing are these companies are kind
(20:01):
of sluffing off when it comes to making sure that
children aren't being exposed to content that they shouldn't be
exposed to. So often with other social media platforms, we
find out there are things that they could have been
doing that they just didn't or they chose not to
for whatever reason. I think that's the biggest issue here.
Speaker 9 (20:23):
Well, you look, I mean, Tyler Robinson is charged with
or indicted with killing Charlie Kirk, and he grew up
in a conservative household, but because of numerous things, perhaps
the colleges and universities he went to, he ended up
(20:44):
being a leftist and pizza supporting young man that was
dating a Transcender Guy then wrote on the bullet catch fascists,
and I have to imagine he was having conversations and
this was very well planned and methodical, and how he
went about doing this. And you know, this app could
(21:05):
very well be the medium which he's able to have
those types of communications and talk about how he went
about or how he wanted to go about doing this assassination.
So he had to have been incited somewhere, he had
to have been groomed to become what he was somewhere,
(21:28):
and his wicked ideology of course had to have festered somewhere.
And that's what we did to get to the bottom
of it. I know, starting general KM Paxton is very
much motivated to ensure that justice has served.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Yeah, and there's also the ongoing question of you know,
did he have accomplices? Were there people that were working
with him, that were coordinating with him. These are questions
that I think are still a large still largely unanswered,
And if we can get to the bottom of that,
if we can say, okay, here's what he was doing
on discord, here who, here's who some of the people
(22:08):
he was connected to, I think those are questions worth
asking and that's not an indictment of anybody that knew
the guy or you know, anybody that may have interacted
with him. But these are still questions that we have
to have answers to because there could be other threats.
Speaker 9 (22:28):
Out there exactly, and these types of platforms, you know,
continue to encourage assassins. This could be you know, one
of many of them to happen unfortunately, So you.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Know, we've got to nip this in the button.
Speaker 9 (22:43):
And these platforms have to be held viable for for
you know, allowing terrorist attacks to happen. And so Antifa
has been designated a terrorist group by President Trump, and
I think we need to be very careful about the
types of groups that we allow on to have these
(23:05):
types of communications because we don't want another Charlie Kirk situation.
And the left has already proven that they're very violent.
You look at the attorney general running here in Virginia.
I'm in Virginia this weekend. His name is Jay Jones,
and we looked at his text messages and you might
have seen the Ethan and he said that you know,
(23:27):
he wants the children of conservative opponent to experience.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
This type of death.
Speaker 9 (23:36):
You know, he wants those parents to know what it's
like to lose children because of gunshots.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
And that's what a what a horrible.
Speaker 9 (23:44):
Thing to say, much like I think, you know, so
that's what's in the hearts of these leftists. And you know,
maybe the Democrats with the politicians themselves, won't commit these
types of violent acts, but they're not doing anything to.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Stop it, right, and they're wishing this on their opponents.
Speaker 9 (24:05):
And you know, that's the type of political culture that's
in their party. And so when you have the radical
grassroots groups like INTIFA that carry out these heinous acts,
the Democrats seem to be not just indifferent, but silently
applauding it and encouraging it. I feel like many more
(24:25):
Democrats feel that way. I mean, you look at across Texas.
He had a one hundred and thirty teachers that we
know of said something on social media and celebrating the
assassination of Charlie Kirk. You know, those are the people
that are raising our kids. You know, they want us debt,
they want us dead, they don't like us, and they
(24:46):
do not want to coexist with us. And so Charlie
Kirk was all of us.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
He was the best of us.
Speaker 9 (24:52):
And you know, I think you know, between these platforms,
you know that allow these types of communications to happen
in the ideology that probably came from, you know, it
was radicalized because of this platform, but also in the
school system, maybe at the university level, maybe at the
public school level.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
You know, somewhere along the way.
Speaker 9 (25:15):
You know, these parents that you know had done everything
they could to raise Tyler Rabinson, right, he was radicalized somewhere.
And I think it's important that you know, we get
to the bottom of that and that there the consequences
for this, and.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
You mentioned it just they're the parents, and obviously, by
no way is any of this their fault. Their son
was an adult man who made his own poor decisions.
But there's I think kind of something that I've noticed
among conservative circles is at least over the last several years,
(25:53):
and that's kind of shifting now, but there's been almost
a sort of parenting put on auto pi. I think
there's there's kind of a mindset in some areas where
conservative parents will say, Okay, well I'm conservative. I take
my kids to church once a week. That should be enough.
(26:13):
Now I'm gonna send them off to a government school
and you know whatever, I'm going to put them on
the internet with little to no supervision and we're going
to call it a day and go into church once
a week and uh, you know, encouraging them to vote, right,
that that's going to be enough. And I think what
we're learning here is that's just not the case, right.
I mean, you have to be active with your kids.
(26:36):
You not only have to show them your values, you
also have to kind of show them how to respond
and how to pick apart and analyze the opposing side
as well.
Speaker 9 (26:47):
Yeah, if your parents don't just drop them off at
school and pick them off and you know, help them
with their homework. Now, I mean those are those are
things that you probably have to do because you're going
to work. But if you can homeschool your kids, if
you can afford to homeschool your kids or send them
to a private school, I mean in Texas we have
vouchers now that will follow the child, it might be
(27:11):
best for you to put them in a Christian school
or raise them yourself. You're at least giving your kids
a better chance that way they'll have the right worldview,
because what could happen is they go off to school.
You have you know, public school teacher who's encouraging Bobby
to be a Suzi, and you know, you have platforms
(27:34):
that they're introduced to, like discord, where they become you know,
radical leftists, cynical people will easy people who don't want
to work and who are angry at other people for
what they have and they're you know, cynical about what
they don't have, you know, and they blame the world.
You know, they blame conservatives for for for all the
(27:56):
ales in the world, and you know, and they become violent,
extremely like this. And so I say all that to
say that you need to be involved in your kid
and the lives more than that.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
You know, you need to have dinner around the dinner table.
Speaker 9 (28:09):
If you can't, you need to be having intentional conversations,
you know, from the early on set and you know,
four or five years old, you need to ask them
why did you learn at school today?
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (28:21):
You know that's it needs to start there and continue
on through every grade level and you know, take control
of what your kids are learning.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
I couldn't agree more. Well, Hey, Christian, thank you very
much for taking the time to join us and talk
about this. I really appreciate it, and hey, have a
have a wonderful time in Virginia. It is a beautiful state.
Hopefully soon to have a fantastic governor and attorney general
as well.
Speaker 9 (28:48):
Yeah, yeah, well, I prayed Jake Jones never never wins
any office ever again.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
That guy is horrible.
Speaker 9 (28:57):
There what he said, And thank you so much for
the apport to be on and I appreciate everything to do.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
So this shutdown at this point, do we really need
the federal government? Like, let's be honest, We're coming up
on two weeks in of straight shutdown and I'm chilling.
I'm chilling. I know we're not paying our military though.
(29:40):
I had a conversation with one of my old buddies
who ended up enlisting. He's in the military right now,
he's an active service member, and he's like, yeah, we're
not getting paid. They just they aren't paying us. It's
tough for him, it really is, because he doesn't have
another option. You basically just have to get loans and
credit cards to tide you over to the end of
(30:01):
the shutdown. But I mean, if you've got really bad
credit already, which I'm sure is fairly common in the military,
then what do you do. You're completely out of luck.
So yeah, I feel for them. I feel far our
service members who are getting paid. So where exactly are
(30:22):
we at? We're now? I think eleven days in. Technically,
Democrats and Republicans remain locked in a steelmate over how
to reopen the government, with the Senate rejecting motions to
advance competing bills for the seventh time. On Thursday, the
House passed Republican bill failed to move forward in a
fifty four to forty five vote. Three Democrats across the aisle,
(30:43):
a number that has been unchanged since the shutdown began
last week. Now again, I want to make sure everybody
is completely aware of how this works. The obstacle is
the Senate filibuster. You need sixty votes in the Senate
to pass a bill. The Republicans do not have sixty votes.
(31:06):
They don't So whenever you hear the the powers that
be on the Democrat side of the aisle, go wait
a minute. The Republicans control the White House, the House,
and the Senate. Why hasn't it passed? Why is it?
It's the Republican's fault? How do how are we stopping it?
(31:27):
You guys? Have the majority. It's very dishonest intentionally because
everybody that's saying that knows how the filibuster works. They
know that the Senate has the filibuster rule. They know
they need sixty votes in the Senate. They're pretending they
don't because they expect you to not. So you now
(31:49):
have no excuse. You are aware now because I have
told you there's a sixty vote threshold that the House,
do you be, on their own, can't clear. Now, this
should be relatively easy to clear that threshold, though, because
it's literally just a continuing resolution that they're trying to pass.
(32:09):
This House bill that they're hardlining on literally just says
this stuff we already agreed to six months ago. We're
just going to keep doing that for a few more
weeks while we continue to negotiate. That's it. That's all
it does, that's all the Republicans want. Just keep going
the same way we were for six more weeks. That
(32:32):
was the Republican ask. The Democrats said, no, we want
to add a trillion dollars, and the answer to that
should obviously be known. That's not how you negotiated. It's
just not. But the Democrats refuse to back down on this.
I don't understand why this is going to hurt them.
(32:53):
Here's why it's going to hurt them, Chuck Schumer said,
the quiet part out loud from punch Bowl News. You'd
send him a minority leader. Chuck Schumer on Wednesday in
his Capital office, where the New York Democrat was bullish
as he's ever been about his shut down strategy. He said,
every day gets better for us. They view this as
(33:15):
a political win. They're confident that they can pin this
shut down on the Republicans. They intentionally shut down the
government so that they can blame the Republicans for it
and then run against it. That's what they're doing here.
People like my buddy in the army who aren't getting paid,
that's just casualties. It's worth it, whatever, anything in service
(33:41):
of the political win here. That's their strategy. Every Democrat
should be asked if they agree with Schumer, and that's
exactly right. Ask every single Democrat, hey, are you happy
about this? Are you happy that our service members aren't
being paid? Are you happy that the government is shut down?
Speaker 6 (33:59):
Right now?
Speaker 3 (34:00):
All of them will say yes, I guarantee you, or
they won't answer the question. But the question is being asked.
Somebody asked it of Hakim Jefferies, is the House Minority leader.
He said, hey, Chuck Schumer said this thing that's kind
of gross. He goes out here and he says, oh,
we're completely happy about the government being shut down and
our service members not being paid. How do you feel
about this? And Hakeem Jeffrey says, I'm completely aligned with
(34:22):
Chuck Schumer. Take a listen.
Speaker 10 (34:24):
Yesterday, Leader Schumer indicated that the longer this goes on,
this is better for the Democrats. Do you believe, as
Republicans suggests that that's a callous remark, that this is
kind of a scorekeeping going on here.
Speaker 9 (34:35):
House and Senate Democrats have been completely aligned yesterday, leadership.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Completely aligned, completely aligned. Again. I cannot stress this enough.
This could end at any given moment. All the Democrats
have to do is say, fine, we'll pass this continuing
resolution while we keep negotiating for the main spending bill.
This isn't even the main spending bill that they're fighting over.
(35:02):
You understand that this isn't even the main issue. This
is supposed to be just a sideshow. This is supposed
to be a procedural thing. And they've made this the
hill they're gonna die on. I will never understand this strategy.
The Republicans are now saying, Hey, since we're shutting down
(35:24):
the government, we can't pay all these federal workers that
we really don't need anyway. Remember, the federal government is
a cesspit of waste, fraud, and abuse. That's been made
very clear since the government's shut down. For whatever reason,
I don't I don't understand the science behind it. This
allows Trump to just go in and fire a lot
more people than he normally could. Apparently there's procedures that
(35:46):
when the government is shut down do not apply here.
And so Russ Vott, he is the Office of Management
and Budget I believe O and B director, and he says, Hey,
we're just going to start firing people because they're not
doing anything anyway. We want to fire these people anyway,
because they're a waste of American tax payer dollars. The
(36:07):
federal government is way bigger than it needs to be,
and it's costing us way too much money. So we're
firing folks. Take a listen to Trump making that announcement
that we've actually begun the process of permanently laying off
these federal workers. How many layoffs have you authorized for
this first round?
Speaker 6 (36:23):
Then from which agency?
Speaker 4 (36:24):
And it would be democrat oriented because we figure, you know,
they started this thing, so they should be Democrat oriented.
It'll be a lot, and we'll announce the numbers over
the next couple of days, but it'll be a lot
of people, all because of the Democrats. I mean, they
want to give one and a half trillion dollars to
people that came into the country illegally. More important than that,
because we all have a big heart. We want people
to be taken care of. But you know, we have
(36:46):
zero people coming in. You know that, Glen right, it's
that's a pretty impressive number, even for a successful governor.
But we've had for the last four months zero people
coming in illegally.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
They're coming in, but they're coming in legally.
Speaker 4 (36:59):
They're coming in through a process that's really a really
good process right now, because we want people to come in,
but they have to come in legally. So what we're
doing is as as these different groups come do we're
going to make a determination do we want them? A
lot And I must tell you a lot of them
happen to be a Democrat oriented. These are people that
(37:20):
the Democrats wanted that in many cases were not appropriate.
We fought them at the time and it was ultimately
signed in and some of these people, these are largely
people that the Democrats want.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
So here's how I think this is going to end up.
Trump is going to fire all these federal workers, who,
by the way, are all mostly Democrats. There's data behind
all of that. We know that federal employees, on average
about ninety percent donate exclusively to the Democrats politically. So
what happens when all of your voters Democrats lose their
(37:58):
jobs because of you? You think that's just gonna go
over without any opposition at all, and plus save the
taxpayer money. So this is going to end up being
a massive loss for the Democrats. They just haven't realized
it yet. I don't know how they've managed to miss it.
(38:20):
It's a stupid hill to die on, and it shows
you they have nothing going on. They have no leadership,
they have no one to coordinate and say, yes, these
are the hills we need to die on, and these
are not. If they did, they would not be doing this.
But anyway, that is all I have got for you
this weekend. Thank you very much for listening. Be sure
to tune into the Wednesday show The Next Gen Report.
Wherever you get your podcasts, it'll be on YouTube as well,
(38:42):
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a follow there. I would love to hear from you there.
You can reach out to me, send me a message,
send me an email, Thenext Gen Report at gmail dot com. Anyway,
thank you very much for listening. We'll send you next
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