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The "Schumer Shutdown" is now entering its fourth week, and is quickly approaching the record for the longest shutdown in U.S. history. Unsurprisingly, the Democrats are still refusing to hold good-faith negotiations and blaming Trump.
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The "Schumer Shutdown" is now entering its fourth week, and is quickly approaching the record for the longest shutdown in U.S. history. Unsurprisingly, the Democrats are still refusing to hold good-faith negotiations and blaming Trump.
More videos from last weekend’s No Kings rally are coming out, including one featuring a leftwinger who swears she's a nice person, while praising the murder of Charlie Kirk.
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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 that mat are to our generation. This is the
Next Gen Report put Ethan Buchanan.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Hey, everybody, check out my new sign if you're watching
on the YouTube video, what do you think of that?
I like them? Apples?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Where is it?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I don't know. I uh, I like it. I think
it's good. I think it adds some much needed extra
light into this little space that I've carved out here.
But hey, welcome to the Next Gen Report. I am
Ethan Buchanan. We have got a lot to get to today,
but I want to start with talking a little bit
more about the second No King's protests that we had
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over the weekend. So you remember we had the first one, right,
we had the first big No King's rally. It was,
you know, such a big deal. We made, you know,
such a big deal out of it. But at the
end of the day, what actually happened. Roughly five percent
of Kamala Harris's total voting base actually showed up. I
did the math. Actually that was the number for the
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first No Kings. This one was quite a bit more small,
I guess it probably in total was about the same
amount of total protesters. But what they did was rather
than having everybody gather and run centralized place like last
time they had everybody come to city Hall here in
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Houston and you had these huge crowds. This time, what
they did was they had a bunch of people at
City Hall in Houston, and then they sent some folks
to Conrad and so folks to Katie and Da Da
Da Da Da. So that way they can say, oh,
we had protests in these red, smaller towns, right like, yeah,
you got fifty people from Houston to show up on
the side of a highway in Katie. Congratulations, here's your
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gold star. But you know, I think it'll be a
lot less effective because of that, because the visuals, you know,
I mean, a crowd of fifty people is look way
less impressive than seeing the you know, five or six
thousand that they had the last time marching down main
Street of Houston. Weird strategic move I don't know's it's
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their choice. I don't care. That being said, I did
see some video from the second No Kings that was interesting.
We talked about it a little bit on the Sunday Show.
I want to talk about another video that I saw here,
and I think this is really telling of the left.
Here's the kind of primary strategy of the left broadly.
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They used weaponized empathy to cudgele you into voting for them. Now,
the way that works is you have a bunch of
foot soldiers on the ground that are trying to cudgle
you with empathy. And they think because they're cudgeling you
with empathy, they're good people. But they don't realize that
what they're doing is cudgeling you. Right, Does that make sense?
You can following me. I'll give you a practical example.
(03:06):
Here's this lady being interviewed by the Daily Signal. I
don't know who this lady is actually doing the interview
on behalf of the Daily Signal, but this interview is
I think, very very telling. Take a listen to this.
I mean, just there it is all right, Take a listener.
Assassinated They is.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
A piece of garbage. Of course, we we're made. I
am so tired of people saying, oh, but you know
it's a terrible thing.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
No Hitler is dead.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
I'm Glad Hitler's dead.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
Something that I've heard in interviewing Republicans is that they're
concerned with the healthcare going to undocumented immigrants.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
What would you say about that. I don't know that
it's true. All right, let me stop you right there.
It is true. Keep going.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Everybody deserves healthcare, and we can certainly afford it.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Let me stop you again. No we can't. No, we can't.
We simply cannot. We can't even afford to give health
care to the American citizens who are supposed to have
it under Medicare. That's how screwed up we are financially.
But she doesn't know that she's collecting her Social Security
check on her Medicare check because, like I pointed out
on the Sunday so, she's one of the millions of
old people that's currently staffing the rank and file of
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the Democrat Party right now. But we're coming up very
fast on forty trillion in debt. We can't afford health
care for American citizens, let alone illegal aliens. I mean,
that's not even in the question whether or not we
can afford it for American citizens, that's what's in the question.
But illegal aliens, No, no, we can't all right continue.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
In this country. So again they're just you know, they're
pointing to things and saying it's our fault, we're too liberal.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Yeah, it's really depressing. I don't know how anybody your
age even thinks of having children.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Okay, oh you poor dear.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Millions of Democrats did not vote. Whose fault is that?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
That's your own fault? First of all, and second of all,
I don't think it happened. There's this theory on the
left that the reason Donald Trump won is because millions
of Democrats who voted for Biden in twenty twenty didn't
show up for Kamala Harris in twenty twenty four. And listen,
that might be true. It might be. I don't know,
but I think the more likely scenario is twenty twenty
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was actually gained. Call me a conspiracy theorist, I'm sorry,
but I have a hard time believing the millions of
people who are desperate to get rid of Trump and
make sure he didn't get a second term four years
after Biden decided. If Trump having a second term is fine, probably,
I mean, it could have happened. It could have, but
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it's questionable to me let's say that.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
We need to get ourselves together, and we might even
need to be a little bit meaner, because the Republicans
don't mind being mean.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
And by mean, what do you mean, do you mean protesting?
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Do you mean maybe we have to I notice, stop
being so nice?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Ah, yes, nicely. That's the problem of the left. The
Democrats are too nice. Leftists are just they're just so polite.
They just keep getting walked over by the by the
fascist Republicans just because they're they're so they're so nice.
That's their problem. That's the problem of the Republicans. Alternatively, Alternatively,
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roughly three hundred and fifty complaints have been filed against
Texas teachers for alleged comments on the killing of Charlie Kirk.
These are teachers here in Texas, three hundred and fifty
of them that are openly mocking or even celebrating the
assassination of Charlie Kirk. They're not right wingers, I'll tell
you that. But the problem on the left is they're
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just too nice. Really really, maybe just maybe the problem
on the left is, you guys have gone so much
farther to the left than the average actual American is
comfortable going and because of that, they're not showing up
to vote for you. Maybe that's the case. Maybe instead
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of getting meaner because you're just too nice, maybe you
should just get a little bit more to the center,
because that's where most Americans are. Maybe you should just say, hey,
we probably don't need men in women's bathrooms, we probably
don't need men playing against women in sports. We probably
don't need eleven to twenty million illegal aliens invading the country.
(07:31):
Maybe if you just say those things and be a
little bit more reasonable, people will actually vote for you
and support you. Maybe that's what's going on here. I
don't know. I'm no political analyst, but I am a
political analyst, so that might be the case. All Right, listen,
we've got a great show coming up. I'm excited for
this beautiful Wednesday that we've got going on right now,
So stay tuned. We'll be right back with more of
than next SUP report in just a second. All right,
(08:20):
let's talk about what has seemed to be the only
news story in the city of Houston for several days,
the Montrose Gay Crosswalk. Let me preface this conversation with
I don't have anything against any individual homosexual person, there.
(08:41):
It is all right, Please don't cancel me or fuss
at me. I've already gotten complaints. People have called into
the station to fuss at me for being transphobic. I'm
not scared of trans people. I just don't think they
should be in the women's restroom unless they're biological women.
But on the issue of the homosexuals, my position I
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believe is the biblical one. You shouldn't do it. The
Bible says to not to. It doesn't mean I'm better
than you, doesn't mean I hate you. I have my
own sins. Everybody does. We all have different things that
we deal with. We're called to be christ Like, repent
of our sins, not live in them. All right. That's
my message to the homosexuals. That's my message to everyone,
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because everyone is a sinful person. I believe that. I
believe the Bible says that. So here's what else. I believe.
We probably shouldn't plaster pro gay crap all over our city.
If you want to be gay, I'm not gonna try
to stop you. I'm gonna tell you to repent, I'm
gonna tell you you shouldn't. But I'm also not gonna
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kick in your door and say, hey, start being gay.
But at the same time, i'd appreciate it if you
didn't vomit your rainbow gayness all over my crosswalks. All right,
this is a city, people live here. Just because you're
gay doesn't mean it has to be the defining factor
of the Monstrosse neighborhood where I happen to live. Do
you have any idea how difficult it is for me
as a person to say, Hi, my name's Ethan. I
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live in the Montrose area and people go, oh, you're gay. No,
this is my wife. She's a woman. But that's the
reputation the Montrose has, and now I have to live
with it because I chose to live here. It's a problem, y'all.
All right, it's not necessary. This neighborhood is gay enough
without gay crosswalks everywhere. So this is where the controversy
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comes from. So Greg Abbott had, in accordance with another
order issued by Donald Trump, said, hey, all the political
messaging that we've been spray painting over the roads for
the last fifteen years, all the gay crosswalks, all that stuff,
it's not necessary. There's an argument to be made that
it poses a safety risk. Because you got a big
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rainbow painted on the road. That's distracting to drivers. It is.
It might not be super distracting, it might not be
a major risk. We may not even have had an
incident yet, but it is distracting road. Aforge paintinggon roads
should be to communicate how to drive without distracting the driver.
We don't need a rainbow on the crosswalk. We just
don't need it. I don't care how special it makes
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you feel. This is a crosswalk. This is a public
crosswalk on a public road. You don't need a rainbow
on it. It just don't. So, with all that in mind,
President Trump and Greg Gabbott have been working to remove
things like that from our roadways. Good Metro ordered the
crosswalks removal earlier this month after Governor Greg Abbott threatened
to withhold road funding from any city or county with
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quote social, political, or ideological messages on the streets. This
standoff came hours after more than two hundred people went
to the intersection for a spirited Sunday protest challenge with
the plan. So here's what it looks like now they've
officially gotten rid of the rainbow. Flag was panting across it.
Here's what it looked like before. You can see it,
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very very rainbowie. If you're listening, you can't see it. Sorry.
Go watch the YouTube video the Next Gen Report on
YouTube or Ethan Buchanan. Search either one. It'll pop up
and you can see the gay crosswalk there. It is,
big gay crosswalk. Wonderful. Is it necessary? No, get rid
of it, because that's what the road should be. What's necessary.
If it's not necessary, get it off the road, because
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all it's doing is distracting drivers. And you can make
the argument, oh, it's not that big of a distraction.
Probably not. But do we want to take the risk?
My answer is no, this isn't a risk we need
to take. Montrose is gay enough already, and that's fine.
I've made my peace with that. Montrose is the gay
neighborhood in Houston, fair enough. You can have all the
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gay clubs and all the pride flags hanging from all
the private buildings that you want. This is a public street.
It's a public street. It belongs to everybody. It's for
use by everybody. You don't need to slap your gay
label on it. You just don't. What about this cross
what requires you to have this. This my argument with
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pride parades, the whole argument from the kind of LGBT
pride folks for so long was we just want to
do what we want in the privacy of our bedroom.
And I'm a libertarian guy. I don't have to agree
with it. But fair enough, fair enough, it's your home,
it's your life. If you want to, you know, live
and sit in your entire life, that's fine. That's between
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you and the Lord. Go for it. Knock yourself out.
I'll pray for you. I will. I hope you stop,
but I'm not gonna try to stop you. Not with
the government gun.
Speaker 7 (13:32):
No.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
But we went from that to now everybody has to
accept this equally. It's not just in your home anymore.
Now it's on the crosswalk, and it extends out from there.
We've seen this. It goes into the public schools. Now
you have to let us teach your kid about gay
sex and about being transgender, and you have to let
us paint pride flags all over the public roads. The
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answer is no, stop it. You pushed too far. We're
taking gay crosswalk. This is what you get a normal
black crosswalk anyway. So the the Montrose Gaze got very
upset about this. They're they're livid, they are livid. So
here is Gage Goulding with KPRC two. He he got
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some footage and posted it of some of the protests.
So let's let's take a listen to this. This is
this is early. This is like two am Monday morning
when the crews and HPD actually showed up to paint
over and pave over the crosswalk. Here is what HPD
had to deal with. You see them making an arrest
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from somebody that had just planted themselves on the crosswalk.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
That we are the most diverse city in the country.
We have everybody in this city, in this community, including
our queer and trans siblings, and we all belong here.
And that's what this represent.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Okay in here, nobody's saying, oh, you don't belong here. Again,
the narrative has been if you take away this crosswalk,
all of the sudden, Montrose won't be gay friendly anymore. Really, really, Montrose, Montrose,
if you live in Houston, you know what I'm talking about.
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This is a gay part of town. It just is.
There's a gay club every thirty five feet, and there's
a pride flag every fifteen. This is what made Montrose
welcoming to the gays, that one crosswalk, not the fifteen
gay clubs. Like, can we please at least be honest
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in our discourse? That's all I'm really asking here. Let's
at least have honest discourse. Our gay and trans siblings
won't feel welcome. Shut up, yes they will. You're so
full of crap, and you know it. My apologies. If
you can hear some profanities, that's covered by the SEC.
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It's background noise. I can't do anything about it. This
kind of sucks that they're attacking this crosswalk, in this pathway.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
You know, this has been here before I moved here,
and it's been here about seven eight years now.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
It's been here before I moved here. It's been here
seven or eight years now, all right, and and seriously,
who cares? Who cares? I for sure do not get
rid of it. We don't need it. I guarantee you
your life will not change at all, dear Montrose gaze,
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the world will spin it onward. At pinky promise, At
pinky promise, your life in Montrose isn't going to change
at all. It won't. You don't need the gay crosswalk
to live here. You don't you know how I know
this here, I'll prove it to you. I am a
heterosexual man. I live in Montrose. Do you know I
know how many heterosexual pride flags are painted on Montrose crosswalks.
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I'll get you a hit. There's zero. And by the way,
there is a heterosexual pride flag. I don't know if
you knew that. I didn't until recently, but there is one.
You know how many times I've gone and demanded the
heterosexual pride flag be painted across public roadways? Zero? Zero times? Why?
Because it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. You wanted your
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own privacy, you wanted it in your bedroom, You got it.
You do not need to blast it all over the
public roads, just like I don't need to blast my
sexuality all over the public roads. I'm fine living in
Montrose without everybody saying, oh my god, here's your pot
on the back for being straight. You will survive, I
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guarantee it. All right, we got another seven coming up.
We're gonna talk about this shutdown. We'll be right back,
(18:18):
all right. I believe we've set a record, and the
record being longest government shut down in US history. Three
weeks as of yesterday. Give yourselves a pat on the back.
Well done everyone, Record Centers. That is who we are.
Hell yeah. So here's my thoughts on this. As a
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general rule, I think the federal government should be as
irrelevant as possible. That's my position. I'm a kind of
states rights libertarian. Shut the Feds down as much as possible,
have them do only the bare minimum, and then everything
else kick it to the states. The states have governments
for a reason. They can run their own shows. I
(19:03):
think that makes sense, right, That's what the founder said.
That's why in the Constitution they say, hey, everything we
don't cover in the Constitution, just toss it to the states.
I like that. I think that makes sense. That gives you,
the people, more control. It's way easier to change things
on a state level than it is on a federal level.
So the less the federal government is doing, the more
the states can do, and everybody's happy. If you don't
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like what your state is doing, you can vote and
change it, or you can move to another state that's
doing something different. And in a perfect world, the federal
government should be almost meaningless to you, except maybe in
war time. Than the federal government becomes a lot more
important than we let them weigh in more. But as
a general rule, they really should be completely irrelevant. A
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federal government shut down, if things are running as they
should be, shouldn't affect your life at all. I think
that's kind of how the Founders set the system up. Now, unfortunately,
because we've strayed so far from the found vision, a
three week federal shutdown actually matters. Unfortunately, now we have
people who aren't getting paid that should be obviously our
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military and federal law enforcement, that is an important role
of the federal government. We should have those positions, We
should pay those people, and we should tax the American
citizen only the bare minimum necessary to do that. There,
I said it. That's my governing philosophy. So this government
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shut down has kind of it makes bad for me.
I like it because I think more people are going
to start to realize, hey, actually the federal government isn't
the messiah that we have deemed it to be in
modern American society. But also we do kind of need
to open the government back up eventually, sooner rather than later.
The harsh truth, even for a libertarian like me that
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very doesn't like the federal government. We do still need
it and it needs to open up eventually. So we're
in three weeks if this government shut down now. Senate
republicansted a unified front at the White House road Guard
Rose Garden Tuesday, arriving at President Donald Trump's invitation as
they refuse to yield to Democratic demands for healthcare funds
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into the fourth week of the government shutdown. While hosting
Trump praise GOP leadership, singling out senators by name, trashed
former President Joe Biden, and reviewed previewed his own upcoming
foreign travel and tariff policies where a wealthy nation again,
he said. The country, meanwhile, is feeling the financial hit
of the shutdown, which is on track to become among
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the longest in US history. Hundreds of thousands of federal
workers are going without pay, head start programs for preschoolers
nationwide or scrambling for funds, and economists warm of curbed
economic growth. I don't know if I believe that. I
don't think I've ever seen an instance where more government
has helped the economy grow. I could be wrong, I
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may be mistaken, but this is what I've gleaned from
spending a lot of time talking with economist doctor vance Gin,
he has very much helped make it clear to me
that as a general rule, the less government you have
involved in the economy, the better the economy will be.
I think the prime example of that is the fact
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that since we created the Federal Reserve, the US dollar
has lost something along the lines of like eighty percent
of its value. So, you know, be that as it may,
but I want you to analyze how the AP actually
phrases this. They talk about how unified and happy the
Republicans are, and then the state meanwhile, the country's suffering.
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So without saying it, they kind of make it seem like, oh,
the Republicans are doing this and they're happy about it.
The answer is no, actually that's not the case. As
we've discussed multiple times on the show, this is a
function of Democrat maneuvering. Democrats have enough people in the
Senate to kill any bill they want, because it has
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to overcome the filibuster you need sixty votes. The GOP
does not have what we call a filibuster proof supermajority.
That would be when one party has sixty plus votes,
they can pass whatever they want. They can completely sideline
the other party. Because they have a super majority. The
GOP does not have that. Right now, we need the
government or we need the Democrats to sign on to
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fund the government, and they won't do it. They won't
do it. Here's Donald Trump calling this out. He's saying
that they're not negotiating. They're just saying, we're gonna shut
down the government. We had tried to extend the funding
so that we could negotiate without the government being shut down.
The Democrats said, no, we want to shut down the government.
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We'll get what we want and then negotiate for even more.
The answer to that, it has been from the Republicans. No,
and I think it should remain that. Here's Donald Trump saying,
these people aren't trying to negotiate in good faith. They're
just trying to demand they get what they want.
Speaker 8 (23:55):
To be clear, you won't meet with them until the
government's opened.
Speaker 9 (23:58):
The government has yet. You know how long ey one
take for them to do. They're just saying, okay, government's open.
That said, there is nothing.
Speaker 6 (24:07):
They're not negotiation. What they're doing is saying they lost
the negotiation. And when we got the great, big, beautiful
deal done, they lost that negotiation. Now they're saying, well,
we want to get some of the things we lost,
But the problem is that things they lost are very
bad for our country.
Speaker 9 (24:24):
We don't want to have people come over from all
over the world from prisons and all and have them
have their healthcare paid for. We want to take care
of people that are that are American citizens and all.
So they want one point five trillion dollars of money to.
Speaker 6 (24:40):
Be wasted and jeopardize the healthcare of other people.
Speaker 9 (24:43):
We're not going to do that.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
So we're gonna I would love to meet with them.
Speaker 9 (24:47):
We want the country open for us.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
This is like the political equivalent of they're losing a
checkers so you smash the board and throw it off
the table. That's what they did here. They lost the negotiations.
Like Trump put it out over the big Beautiful Bill,
we got more of what we wanted than what they got,
and so we passed what we basically have the funding
set up how we want it.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Right.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
They lost that negotiation. Now they're trying to force us
to then give a bunch of stuff back to them
with a government shutdown. Like Trump points out, the answer
there is no. That's not how you play the game.
If you want to negotiate. Fine, we can negotiate first,
open up the government, and then we'll negotiate on the
long term permanent funding. They don't want to do that. Again,
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here is a majority Leader John Thune saying, hey, we're
ready to negotiate, but we want to open up the
government first. We need to be paying our military and
our federal law enforcement and the FAA before we negotiate
with you.
Speaker 7 (25:48):
We had a great opportunity to meet with the President
and talk about something that unifies all Republicans, Senate Republicans,
House Republicans, and the President. Night States are all in
favor of reopening the federal government. In fact, so much
so that we've now all voted eleven times to reopen
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the federal government. But the longer the federal government stays closed,
the more the impacts are being felt. Travel delays, benefit delays,
you know, farmers are being impacted, millions of people going
without paychecks. That's what this government shut down, Democrat government
shutdown is bringing to the American people. So we're hopeful
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that this will be the week when we break out
of this and the Democrats come to their senses and
decide to open up the government. We're going to give
them several opportunities, as you know, to do that. We'll
have another vote on the continuing Resolution tomorrow, which is
sitting at the desk of the Senate, could be sent
down here to the White House sign in law the
government would open up immediately. We're also going to vote
on a Ron Johnson, a resolution that essentially would pay
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anybody who's currently working. So we'll see how the Democrats
react to that. But the truth of the matter is,
I have a bunch of people here, a united team,
the belize profoundly that we need to get our government open.
And if the Democrats want to talk about subjects unrelated
to the government getting the government open again, we're happy
to have those conversations. But we've repeatedly now gone through
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this and at some point the Democrats are going to
have to say yes for an answer.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
And that's it. That's all it is. Again, this did
not used to be a controversial position. It used to
be that the negotiating was done when the government was open, right,
and if you needed more time to negotiate, you pass
a continuing resolution to keep the government open while you
keep negotiating. You know who used to agree with This
(27:42):
is Chuck Schumer here, he is a couple of years
ago saying this, I believe. Yeah, this is a long
time ago, back when Obama was still running the show.
But here is Chuck Schumer, who is now the Senate
Minority leader, basically saying this. Take a listen.
Speaker 10 (27:58):
It's the methodology of what they're doing, which is basically saying,
I have a baseball bat, I'm gonna hit you over
the head unless you give it in my way.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
I want to play some news. It's not even hitting
me over the head.
Speaker 10 (28:08):
It's hitting all those people who need their paychecks to
pay their families. It's the methodology.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Yeah, so this isn't just Republicans that think this way.
He used to think that way. He used to say, Hey, no,
we need to open up the government. That's how negotiation works.
You don't shut the government down and hold it hostage.
What changed, truck? What changed? Is it just that Donald
Trump is in charge now and you want to look
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tough because that's what it looks like. That's what it
looks like. Anyway. I don't have a dog in this fight. Really,
I don't travel. So the FAA people not getting paid
there doesn't really affect me all that much. I drive
my car anyway. But hey, we'll see what happens. Maybe
later today they'll actually vote to fund the government. Who knows,
(29:17):
all right, something that I was going to talk about
in this segment, but I didn't have as much time
in the show as I originally thought I would, just
because I rambled. This is the problem when you only
have an hour at a time, is you run out
of time quick. But the leftists and the Democrats losing
(29:41):
their mind over Trump adding a ballroom to the White House,
Chill hell out, come on, like, just relax, it's not
that big of a deal. It's not that serious. There's
this picture that's been going around. I'll put it up
on the screen real quick. I've got just enough time
to show you this tweet from Adam Schiff. This is
a portion of the east wing of the White House
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being demolished so that they can attach the ballroom to it. Now,
remember this ballroom is privately funded. Donald Trump is, along
with some other rich friends that he knows, donating the
something along the lines of two hundred and fifty million
dollars that it'll cost to build this ballroom. And regardless
of what the left tells you this is practical. There
(30:26):
are a lot of events, foreign leaders, high profile stuff
that's hosted at the White House. It makes sense to
have a nice ballroom to do that in it does.
You can hate Donald Trump for pointing that out. But
the man knows real estate, all right, So he's doing
this all with with private donors. He's allowed to do it.
Other presidents have made other renovations and changes to the
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White House. I mean basically, every president changes something. Certain
presidents make big, major changes. Right. The East Wing and
the West Wing were both additions to the White House.
They're not original, they're not hallowed grounds trodden by the
founding fathers. They were added later by somebody else. And
now President Trump is adding a ballroom. Calm down, it's
(31:08):
not that serious. Your holy temple to the idol of
government that you worship will be fine. Pipe down. But anyway,
all that being said, whatever on the issue of the
government shut down. Continuing with that for a moment, I
got to give credit where it's due. There's one Democrat,
just the one that's actually you know what I just
(31:30):
realized is I didn't actually change so you could see
the picture that I was showing you my bad. There's
the picture. If you're watching on video, there it is.
I'm finally showing it to you, like I promised. So
that's what they're doing. It's not that big of a deal.
The world spindeth onward anyway. As I was saying, John
Fetterman is the one Democrat who is actually calling the
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other Democrats out for shutting down the government. Here he
is saying, hey, this is what y'all wan wanted to do.
I'm not with you on this. I'm voting to open
the government because I'm a regular person. I'll give John
Fetterman credit all day and night. He does seem to
be a common sense Democrat. I can respect him. He's
(32:15):
wrong on a lot of issues, but he's not an
absolute left wing lunatic. Here he is saying, hey, these
subsidies that the Democrats are fighting over now they were
designed to expire. Y'all made this bed, now you're lying
in it. I'm not a part of this.
Speaker 11 (32:32):
That's why shutting the government is really what the Democratic
Party wants to do. And I follow country, then party,
and it's the wrong thing for the country in a
period of chaos. I refuse to vote to shut our
government down. I absolutely would love to have I would
(32:53):
love to have a conversation about extending the tax credits
for healthcare. Absolutely, but I would remind every too, this
was designed by the Democratic Party to expire at the
end of the year. This is not something taken from
by the Republicans that they were designed to expire. Now,
let's have a conversation to extend it and not shut
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our government down.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
That's a reasonable position. He's a reasonable Democrat. I want
this thing, but I understand how the negotiating process works,
So good job, John Fetterman. Anyway, now let's talk about
something that the left has sworn up and down is
not happening, and that is Democrats voting or not Democrats voting.
They do vote. Everybody knows that illegal aliens voting. Now,
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the Republicans have called this out for a long time.
We've been looking at the immigration crisis and we've been saying, hey,
it kind of looks like what you guys are after
is a bunch of imported illegal alien voters. And the
Democrats have sworn up and down no, no, no, no, no.
Illegal aliens voting is illegal. It's always been illegal. We
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don't want that and then they try around and they
opened doors for illegal aliens to do exactly that. So
here is in Minnesota. I'm gonna play you two clips
back to back. The first is Tim Walls signing a
law to give everybody, including illegal aliens, Minnesota driver's licenses.
And then it's a clip of a I believe this
(34:18):
is the Minnesota legislature. I don't know which subcommittee in
their legislature, a hearing where some lady who I couldn't
tell you her name to save my life, is saying,
so you're letting people register to vote with just these
Minnesota driver's licenses that were handing out to illegal aliens.
So essentially you're allowing illegal aliens to register to vote.
(34:41):
And the guy just has to kind of sit there
and go, oh, yeah, watch this, it's done. A packed
room at the Saint Paul Armory erupted after the governor's
signature made driver's license for all the law of the land.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
So we give driver's licenses to anyone here. You don't
have to be a citizen. You don't have to which
is a photo ID. So if someone comes in, they register,
they have the driver's license, but they have an incorrect
social or no social or whatever. So then they become incomplete.
(35:19):
But if they walk in to vote with their driver's license,
is that make them all of a sudden now, okay, mister.
Speaker 8 (35:29):
Lanil venom Chair, So the designation on the roster for
someone whose registration had been incomplete, if they present the
election judge with that acceptable identification document, that would clear
the challenge from the roster and they would be permitted
to cast a ballot.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
Anderson, well, okay, there's your problem potentially, Oh thank you.
Speaker 9 (35:54):
So just to clarify, someone who is not a citizen
but presents a driver's license at that point in the
process could be permitted to vote.
Speaker 8 (36:04):
Medem Chair. At the time of registration as well as
at the time of submitting a ballot, every voter is
signing the attestation affirming their eligibility to vote, including that
they meet all eligibility requirements, that they are a US citizen.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
Okay, So what he's basically saying there is, yes, if
you're an illegal alien who we handed a driver's license
because we're the left wing state of Minnesota, you're allowed
to vote. Now, this entire system, as he points out,
is essentially predicated on the owner system. We just make
all the illegal aliens pinky promise that they're not illegal aliens,
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and then they can vote, and that's going to hold up.
You don't think you don't think any of them just
maybe might lie about that, just maybe. I know, we
always want to assume the best of everyone, and let
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it never be said that I just jumped to assuming
the worst of people. But let's be honest here, are
we really gonna sit here and say that nobody at
all would lie to the State of Minnesota in order
to cast a ballot? Really, really, we don't want to
even prepare for that possibility. We're just gonna assume it
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won't happen. That's what they're doing in Minnesota. But weirdly enough,
I don't know how, but it's not just happening in Minnesota.
It's also happening here in Texas. This broke yesterday. Nearly
three thousand quote unquote potential non citizens have been found
on Texas voting roles. After a review of the voter rolls,
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the state of Texas has discovered that over two thy
seven hundred registered voters were quote potential non citizens. That's
according to the Secretary of State Jane Nilsen, who made
the announcement on Monday after she gained access to a
federal citizenship database. So it's not just left wing states.
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This is happening. The left has told us up and down.
Know this is a conspiracy theory. You're crazy white wringers.
It's not happening there.
Speaker 6 (38:11):
It is.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
It's happening in Minnesota. It's even happening here. We have
got to do better. The easy solution to port these
people's that's my plan. That's where I think we should
be putting our effort. But anyway, that's all I've got
for you this Wednesday, Remember Sunday evening oops seven pm
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I am Ethan bu Kim and we'll be back Sunday
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From the heart of the Space City to the heart
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Next Gen Report put Ethan Buchanan.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Hey, everybody, check out my new sign if you're watching
on the YouTube video, what do you think of that?
I like them? Apples?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Where is it?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I don't know. I uh, I like it. I think
it's good. I think it adds some much needed extra
light into this little space that I've carved out here.
But hey, welcome to the Next Gen Report. I am
Ethan Buchanan. We have got a lot to get to today,
but I want to start with talking a little bit
more about the second No King's protests that we had
(00:54):
over the weekend. So you remember we had the first one, right,
we had the first big No King's rally. It was,
you know, such a big deal. We made, you know,
such a big deal out of it. But at the
end of the day, what actually happened. Roughly five percent
of Kamala Harris's total voting base actually showed up. I
did the math. Actually that was the number for the
(01:15):
first No Kings. This one was quite a bit more small,
I guess it probably in total was about the same
amount of total protesters. But what they did was rather
than having everybody gather and run centralized place like last
time they had everybody come to city Hall here in
(01:37):
Houston and you had these huge crowds. This time, what
they did was they had a bunch of people at
City Hall in Houston, and then they sent some folks
to Conrad and so folks to Katie and Da Da
Da Da Da. So that way they can say, oh,
we had protests in these red, smaller towns, right like, yeah,
you got fifty people from Houston to show up on
the side of a highway in Katie. Congratulations, here's your
(01:59):
gold star. But you know, I think it'll be a
lot less effective because of that, because the visuals, you know,
I mean, a crowd of fifty people is look way
less impressive than seeing the you know, five or six
thousand that they had the last time marching down main
Street of Houston. Weird strategic move I don't know's it's
(02:21):
their choice. I don't care. That being said, I did
see some video from the second No Kings that was interesting.
We talked about it a little bit on the Sunday Show.
I want to talk about another video that I saw here,
and I think this is really telling of the left.
Here's the kind of primary strategy of the left broadly.
(02:44):
They used weaponized empathy to cudgele you into voting for them. Now,
the way that works is you have a bunch of
foot soldiers on the ground that are trying to cudgle
you with empathy. And they think because they're cudgeling you
with empathy, they're good people. But they don't realize that
what they're doing is cudgeling you. Right, Does that make sense?
You can following me. I'll give you a practical example.
(03:06):
Here's this lady being interviewed by the Daily Signal. I
don't know who this lady is actually doing the interview
on behalf of the Daily Signal, but this interview is
I think, very very telling. Take a listen to this.
I mean, just there it is all right, Take a listener.
Assassinated They is.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
A piece of garbage. Of course, we we're made. I
am so tired of people saying, oh, but you know
it's a terrible thing.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
No Hitler is dead.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
I'm Glad Hitler's dead.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
Something that I've heard in interviewing Republicans is that they're
concerned with the healthcare going to undocumented immigrants.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
What would you say about that. I don't know that
it's true. All right, let me stop you right there.
It is true. Keep going.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Everybody deserves healthcare, and we can certainly afford it.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Let me stop you again. No we can't. No, we can't.
We simply cannot. We can't even afford to give health
care to the American citizens who are supposed to have
it under Medicare. That's how screwed up we are financially.
But she doesn't know that she's collecting her Social Security
check on her Medicare check because, like I pointed out
on the Sunday so, she's one of the millions of
old people that's currently staffing the rank and file of
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the Democrat Party right now. But we're coming up very
fast on forty trillion in debt. We can't afford health
care for American citizens, let alone illegal aliens. I mean,
that's not even in the question whether or not we
can afford it for American citizens, that's what's in the question.
But illegal aliens, No, no, we can't all right continue.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
In this country. So again they're just you know, they're
pointing to things and saying it's our fault, we're too liberal.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Yeah, it's really depressing. I don't know how anybody your
age even thinks of having children.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Okay, oh you poor dear.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Millions of Democrats did not vote. Whose fault is that?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
That's your own fault? First of all, and second of all,
I don't think it happened. There's this theory on the
left that the reason Donald Trump won is because millions
of Democrats who voted for Biden in twenty twenty didn't
show up for Kamala Harris in twenty twenty four. And listen,
that might be true. It might be. I don't know,
but I think the more likely scenario is twenty twenty
(05:21):
was actually gained. Call me a conspiracy theorist, I'm sorry,
but I have a hard time believing the millions of
people who are desperate to get rid of Trump and
make sure he didn't get a second term four years
after Biden decided. If Trump having a second term is fine, probably,
I mean, it could have happened. It could have, but
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it's questionable to me let's say that.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
We need to get ourselves together, and we might even
need to be a little bit meaner, because the Republicans
don't mind being mean.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
And by mean, what do you mean, do you mean protesting?
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Do you mean maybe we have to I notice, stop
being so nice?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Ah, yes, nicely. That's the problem of the left. The
Democrats are too nice. Leftists are just they're just so polite.
They just keep getting walked over by the by the
fascist Republicans just because they're they're so they're so nice.
That's their problem. That's the problem of the Republicans. Alternatively, Alternatively,
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roughly three hundred and fifty complaints have been filed against
Texas teachers for alleged comments on the killing of Charlie Kirk.
These are teachers here in Texas, three hundred and fifty
of them that are openly mocking or even celebrating the
assassination of Charlie Kirk. They're not right wingers, I'll tell
you that. But the problem on the left is they're
(06:45):
just too nice. Really really, maybe just maybe the problem
on the left is, you guys have gone so much
farther to the left than the average actual American is
comfortable going and because of that, they're not showing up
to vote for you. Maybe that's the case. Maybe instead
(07:08):
of getting meaner because you're just too nice, maybe you
should just get a little bit more to the center,
because that's where most Americans are. Maybe you should just say, hey,
we probably don't need men in women's bathrooms, we probably
don't need men playing against women in sports. We probably
don't need eleven to twenty million illegal aliens invading the country.
(07:31):
Maybe if you just say those things and be a
little bit more reasonable, people will actually vote for you
and support you. Maybe that's what's going on here. I
don't know. I'm no political analyst, but I am a
political analyst, so that might be the case. All Right, listen,
we've got a great show coming up. I'm excited for
this beautiful Wednesday that we've got going on right now,
So stay tuned. We'll be right back with more of
than next SUP report in just a second. All right,
(08:20):
let's talk about what has seemed to be the only
news story in the city of Houston for several days,
the Montrose Gay Crosswalk. Let me preface this conversation with
I don't have anything against any individual homosexual person, there.
(08:41):
It is all right, Please don't cancel me or fuss
at me. I've already gotten complaints. People have called into
the station to fuss at me for being transphobic. I'm
not scared of trans people. I just don't think they
should be in the women's restroom unless they're biological women.
But on the issue of the homosexuals, my position I
(09:02):
believe is the biblical one. You shouldn't do it. The
Bible says to not to. It doesn't mean I'm better
than you, doesn't mean I hate you. I have my
own sins. Everybody does. We all have different things that
we deal with. We're called to be christ Like, repent
of our sins, not live in them. All right. That's
my message to the homosexuals. That's my message to everyone,
(09:23):
because everyone is a sinful person. I believe that. I
believe the Bible says that. So here's what else. I believe.
We probably shouldn't plaster pro gay crap all over our city.
If you want to be gay, I'm not gonna try
to stop you. I'm gonna tell you to repent, I'm
gonna tell you you shouldn't. But I'm also not gonna
(09:44):
kick in your door and say, hey, start being gay.
But at the same time, i'd appreciate it if you
didn't vomit your rainbow gayness all over my crosswalks. All right,
this is a city, people live here. Just because you're
gay doesn't mean it has to be the defining factor
of the Monstrosse neighborhood where I happen to live. Do
you have any idea how difficult it is for me
as a person to say, Hi, my name's Ethan. I
(10:06):
live in the Montrose area and people go, oh, you're gay. No,
this is my wife. She's a woman. But that's the
reputation the Montrose has, and now I have to live
with it because I chose to live here. It's a problem, y'all.
All right, it's not necessary. This neighborhood is gay enough
without gay crosswalks everywhere. So this is where the controversy
(10:26):
comes from. So Greg Abbott had, in accordance with another
order issued by Donald Trump, said, hey, all the political
messaging that we've been spray painting over the roads for
the last fifteen years, all the gay crosswalks, all that stuff,
it's not necessary. There's an argument to be made that
it poses a safety risk. Because you got a big
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rainbow painted on the road. That's distracting to drivers. It is.
It might not be super distracting, it might not be
a major risk. We may not even have had an
incident yet, but it is distracting road. Aforge paintinggon roads
should be to communicate how to drive without distracting the driver.
We don't need a rainbow on the crosswalk. We just
don't need it. I don't care how special it makes
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you feel. This is a crosswalk. This is a public
crosswalk on a public road. You don't need a rainbow
on it. It just don't. So, with all that in mind,
President Trump and Greg Gabbott have been working to remove
things like that from our roadways. Good Metro ordered the
crosswalks removal earlier this month after Governor Greg Abbott threatened
to withhold road funding from any city or county with
(11:32):
quote social, political, or ideological messages on the streets. This
standoff came hours after more than two hundred people went
to the intersection for a spirited Sunday protest challenge with
the plan. So here's what it looks like now they've
officially gotten rid of the rainbow. Flag was panting across it.
Here's what it looked like before. You can see it,
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very very rainbowie. If you're listening, you can't see it. Sorry.
Go watch the YouTube video the Next Gen Report on
YouTube or Ethan Buchanan. Search either one. It'll pop up
and you can see the gay crosswalk there. It is,
big gay crosswalk. Wonderful. Is it necessary? No, get rid
of it, because that's what the road should be. What's necessary.
If it's not necessary, get it off the road, because
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all it's doing is distracting drivers. And you can make
the argument, oh, it's not that big of a distraction.
Probably not. But do we want to take the risk?
My answer is no, this isn't a risk we need
to take. Montrose is gay enough already, and that's fine.
I've made my peace with that. Montrose is the gay
neighborhood in Houston, fair enough. You can have all the
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gay clubs and all the pride flags hanging from all
the private buildings that you want. This is a public street.
It's a public street. It belongs to everybody. It's for
use by everybody. You don't need to slap your gay
label on it. You just don't. What about this cross
what requires you to have this. This my argument with
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pride parades, the whole argument from the kind of LGBT
pride folks for so long was we just want to
do what we want in the privacy of our bedroom.
And I'm a libertarian guy. I don't have to agree
with it. But fair enough, fair enough, it's your home,
it's your life. If you want to, you know, live
and sit in your entire life, that's fine. That's between
(13:23):
you and the Lord. Go for it. Knock yourself out.
I'll pray for you. I will. I hope you stop,
but I'm not gonna try to stop you. Not with
the government gun.
Speaker 7 (13:32):
No.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
But we went from that to now everybody has to
accept this equally. It's not just in your home anymore.
Now it's on the crosswalk, and it extends out from there.
We've seen this. It goes into the public schools. Now
you have to let us teach your kid about gay
sex and about being transgender, and you have to let
us paint pride flags all over the public roads. The
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answer is no, stop it. You pushed too far. We're
taking gay crosswalk. This is what you get a normal
black crosswalk anyway. So the the Montrose Gaze got very
upset about this. They're they're livid, they are livid. So
here is Gage Goulding with KPRC two. He he got
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some footage and posted it of some of the protests.
So let's let's take a listen to this. This is
this is early. This is like two am Monday morning
when the crews and HPD actually showed up to paint
over and pave over the crosswalk. Here is what HPD
had to deal with. You see them making an arrest
(14:43):
from somebody that had just planted themselves on the crosswalk.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
That we are the most diverse city in the country.
We have everybody in this city, in this community, including
our queer and trans siblings, and we all belong here.
And that's what this represent.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Okay in here, nobody's saying, oh, you don't belong here. Again,
the narrative has been if you take away this crosswalk,
all of the sudden, Montrose won't be gay friendly anymore. Really, really, Montrose, Montrose,
if you live in Houston, you know what I'm talking about.
(15:21):
This is a gay part of town. It just is.
There's a gay club every thirty five feet, and there's
a pride flag every fifteen. This is what made Montrose
welcoming to the gays, that one crosswalk, not the fifteen
gay clubs. Like, can we please at least be honest
(15:42):
in our discourse? That's all I'm really asking here. Let's
at least have honest discourse. Our gay and trans siblings
won't feel welcome. Shut up, yes they will. You're so
full of crap, and you know it. My apologies. If
you can hear some profanities, that's covered by the SEC.
(16:03):
It's background noise. I can't do anything about it. This
kind of sucks that they're attacking this crosswalk, in this pathway.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
You know, this has been here before I moved here,
and it's been here about seven eight years now.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
It's been here before I moved here. It's been here
seven or eight years now, all right, and and seriously,
who cares? Who cares? I for sure do not get
rid of it. We don't need it. I guarantee you
your life will not change at all, dear Montrose gaze,
(16:41):
the world will spin it onward. At pinky promise, At
pinky promise, your life in Montrose isn't going to change
at all. It won't. You don't need the gay crosswalk
to live here. You don't you know how I know
this here, I'll prove it to you. I am a
heterosexual man. I live in Montrose. Do you know I
know how many heterosexual pride flags are painted on Montrose crosswalks.
(17:05):
I'll get you a hit. There's zero. And by the way,
there is a heterosexual pride flag. I don't know if
you knew that. I didn't until recently, but there is one.
You know how many times I've gone and demanded the
heterosexual pride flag be painted across public roadways? Zero? Zero times? Why?
Because it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. You wanted your
(17:26):
own privacy, you wanted it in your bedroom, You got it.
You do not need to blast it all over the
public roads, just like I don't need to blast my
sexuality all over the public roads. I'm fine living in
Montrose without everybody saying, oh my god, here's your pot
on the back for being straight. You will survive, I
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guarantee it. All right, we got another seven coming up.
We're gonna talk about this shutdown. We'll be right back,
(18:18):
all right. I believe we've set a record, and the
record being longest government shut down in US history. Three
weeks as of yesterday. Give yourselves a pat on the back.
Well done everyone, Record Centers. That is who we are.
Hell yeah. So here's my thoughts on this. As a
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general rule, I think the federal government should be as
irrelevant as possible. That's my position. I'm a kind of
states rights libertarian. Shut the Feds down as much as possible,
have them do only the bare minimum, and then everything
else kick it to the states. The states have governments
for a reason. They can run their own shows. I
(19:03):
think that makes sense, right, That's what the founder said.
That's why in the Constitution they say, hey, everything we
don't cover in the Constitution, just toss it to the states.
I like that. I think that makes sense. That gives you,
the people, more control. It's way easier to change things
on a state level than it is on a federal level.
So the less the federal government is doing, the more
the states can do, and everybody's happy. If you don't
(19:26):
like what your state is doing, you can vote and
change it, or you can move to another state that's
doing something different. And in a perfect world, the federal
government should be almost meaningless to you, except maybe in
war time. Than the federal government becomes a lot more
important than we let them weigh in more. But as
a general rule, they really should be completely irrelevant. A
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federal government shut down, if things are running as they
should be, shouldn't affect your life at all. I think
that's kind of how the Founders set the system up. Now, unfortunately,
because we've strayed so far from the found vision, a
three week federal shutdown actually matters. Unfortunately, now we have
people who aren't getting paid that should be obviously our
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military and federal law enforcement, that is an important role
of the federal government. We should have those positions, We
should pay those people, and we should tax the American
citizen only the bare minimum necessary to do that. There,
I said it. That's my governing philosophy. So this government
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shut down has kind of it makes bad for me.
I like it because I think more people are going
to start to realize, hey, actually the federal government isn't
the messiah that we have deemed it to be in
modern American society. But also we do kind of need
to open the government back up eventually, sooner rather than later.
The harsh truth, even for a libertarian like me that
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very doesn't like the federal government. We do still need
it and it needs to open up eventually. So we're
in three weeks if this government shut down now. Senate
republicansted a unified front at the White House road Guard
Rose Garden Tuesday, arriving at President Donald Trump's invitation as
they refuse to yield to Democratic demands for healthcare funds
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into the fourth week of the government shutdown. While hosting
Trump praise GOP leadership, singling out senators by name, trashed
former President Joe Biden, and reviewed previewed his own upcoming
foreign travel and tariff policies where a wealthy nation again,
he said. The country, meanwhile, is feeling the financial hit
of the shutdown, which is on track to become among
(21:34):
the longest in US history. Hundreds of thousands of federal
workers are going without pay, head start programs for preschoolers
nationwide or scrambling for funds, and economists warm of curbed
economic growth. I don't know if I believe that. I
don't think I've ever seen an instance where more government
has helped the economy grow. I could be wrong, I
(21:55):
may be mistaken, but this is what I've gleaned from
spending a lot of time talking with economist doctor vance Gin,
he has very much helped make it clear to me
that as a general rule, the less government you have
involved in the economy, the better the economy will be.
I think the prime example of that is the fact
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that since we created the Federal Reserve, the US dollar
has lost something along the lines of like eighty percent
of its value. So, you know, be that as it may,
but I want you to analyze how the AP actually
phrases this. They talk about how unified and happy the
Republicans are, and then the state meanwhile, the country's suffering.
(22:37):
So without saying it, they kind of make it seem like, oh,
the Republicans are doing this and they're happy about it.
The answer is no, actually that's not the case. As
we've discussed multiple times on the show, this is a
function of Democrat maneuvering. Democrats have enough people in the
Senate to kill any bill they want, because it has
(22:59):
to overcome the filibuster you need sixty votes. The GOP
does not have what we call a filibuster proof supermajority.
That would be when one party has sixty plus votes,
they can pass whatever they want. They can completely sideline
the other party. Because they have a super majority. The
GOP does not have that. Right now, we need the
government or we need the Democrats to sign on to
(23:20):
fund the government, and they won't do it. They won't
do it. Here's Donald Trump calling this out. He's saying
that they're not negotiating. They're just saying, we're gonna shut
down the government. We had tried to extend the funding
so that we could negotiate without the government being shut down.
The Democrats said, no, we want to shut down the government.
(23:41):
We'll get what we want and then negotiate for even more.
The answer to that, it has been from the Republicans. No,
and I think it should remain that. Here's Donald Trump saying,
these people aren't trying to negotiate in good faith. They're
just trying to demand they get what they want.
Speaker 8 (23:55):
To be clear, you won't meet with them until the
government's opened.
Speaker 9 (23:58):
The government has yet. You know how long ey one
take for them to do. They're just saying, okay, government's open.
That said, there is nothing.
Speaker 6 (24:07):
They're not negotiation. What they're doing is saying they lost
the negotiation. And when we got the great, big, beautiful
deal done, they lost that negotiation. Now they're saying, well,
we want to get some of the things we lost,
But the problem is that things they lost are very
bad for our country.
Speaker 9 (24:24):
We don't want to have people come over from all
over the world from prisons and all and have them
have their healthcare paid for. We want to take care
of people that are that are American citizens and all.
So they want one point five trillion dollars of money to.
Speaker 6 (24:40):
Be wasted and jeopardize the healthcare of other people.
Speaker 9 (24:43):
We're not going to do that.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
So we're gonna I would love to meet with them.
Speaker 9 (24:47):
We want the country open for us.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
This is like the political equivalent of they're losing a
checkers so you smash the board and throw it off
the table. That's what they did here. They lost the negotiations.
Like Trump put it out over the big Beautiful Bill,
we got more of what we wanted than what they got,
and so we passed what we basically have the funding
set up how we want it.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Right.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
They lost that negotiation. Now they're trying to force us
to then give a bunch of stuff back to them
with a government shutdown. Like Trump points out, the answer
there is no. That's not how you play the game.
If you want to negotiate. Fine, we can negotiate first,
open up the government, and then we'll negotiate on the
long term permanent funding. They don't want to do that. Again,
(25:33):
here is a majority Leader John Thune saying, hey, we're
ready to negotiate, but we want to open up the
government first. We need to be paying our military and
our federal law enforcement and the FAA before we negotiate
with you.
Speaker 7 (25:48):
We had a great opportunity to meet with the President
and talk about something that unifies all Republicans, Senate Republicans,
House Republicans, and the President. Night States are all in
favor of reopening the federal government. In fact, so much
so that we've now all voted eleven times to reopen
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the federal government. But the longer the federal government stays closed,
the more the impacts are being felt. Travel delays, benefit delays,
you know, farmers are being impacted, millions of people going
without paychecks. That's what this government shut down, Democrat government
shutdown is bringing to the American people. So we're hopeful
(26:31):
that this will be the week when we break out
of this and the Democrats come to their senses and
decide to open up the government. We're going to give
them several opportunities, as you know, to do that. We'll
have another vote on the continuing Resolution tomorrow, which is
sitting at the desk of the Senate, could be sent
down here to the White House sign in law the
government would open up immediately. We're also going to vote
on a Ron Johnson, a resolution that essentially would pay
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anybody who's currently working. So we'll see how the Democrats
react to that. But the truth of the matter is,
I have a bunch of people here, a united team,
the belize profoundly that we need to get our government open.
And if the Democrats want to talk about subjects unrelated
to the government getting the government open again, we're happy
to have those conversations. But we've repeatedly now gone through
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this and at some point the Democrats are going to
have to say yes for an answer.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
And that's it. That's all it is. Again, this did
not used to be a controversial position. It used to
be that the negotiating was done when the government was open, right,
and if you needed more time to negotiate, you pass
a continuing resolution to keep the government open while you
keep negotiating. You know who used to agree with This
(27:42):
is Chuck Schumer here, he is a couple of years
ago saying this, I believe. Yeah, this is a long
time ago, back when Obama was still running the show.
But here is Chuck Schumer, who is now the Senate
Minority leader, basically saying this. Take a listen.
Speaker 10 (27:58):
It's the methodology of what they're doing, which is basically saying,
I have a baseball bat, I'm gonna hit you over
the head unless you give it in my way.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
I want to play some news. It's not even hitting
me over the head.
Speaker 10 (28:08):
It's hitting all those people who need their paychecks to
pay their families. It's the methodology.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Yeah, so this isn't just Republicans that think this way.
He used to think that way. He used to say, Hey, no,
we need to open up the government. That's how negotiation works.
You don't shut the government down and hold it hostage.
What changed, truck? What changed? Is it just that Donald
Trump is in charge now and you want to look
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tough because that's what it looks like. That's what it
looks like. Anyway. I don't have a dog in this fight. Really,
I don't travel. So the FAA people not getting paid
there doesn't really affect me all that much. I drive
my car anyway. But hey, we'll see what happens. Maybe
later today they'll actually vote to fund the government. Who knows,
(29:17):
all right, something that I was going to talk about
in this segment, but I didn't have as much time
in the show as I originally thought I would, just
because I rambled. This is the problem when you only
have an hour at a time, is you run out
of time quick. But the leftists and the Democrats losing
(29:41):
their mind over Trump adding a ballroom to the White House,
Chill hell out, come on, like, just relax, it's not
that big of a deal. It's not that serious. There's
this picture that's been going around. I'll put it up
on the screen real quick. I've got just enough time
to show you this tweet from Adam Schiff. This is
a portion of the east wing of the White House
(30:05):
being demolished so that they can attach the ballroom to it. Now,
remember this ballroom is privately funded. Donald Trump is, along
with some other rich friends that he knows, donating the
something along the lines of two hundred and fifty million
dollars that it'll cost to build this ballroom. And regardless
of what the left tells you this is practical. There
(30:26):
are a lot of events, foreign leaders, high profile stuff
that's hosted at the White House. It makes sense to
have a nice ballroom to do that in it does.
You can hate Donald Trump for pointing that out. But
the man knows real estate, all right, So he's doing
this all with with private donors. He's allowed to do it.
Other presidents have made other renovations and changes to the
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White House. I mean basically, every president changes something. Certain
presidents make big, major changes. Right. The East Wing and
the West Wing were both additions to the White House.
They're not original, they're not hallowed grounds trodden by the
founding fathers. They were added later by somebody else. And
now President Trump is adding a ballroom. Calm down, it's
(31:08):
not that serious. Your holy temple to the idol of
government that you worship will be fine. Pipe down. But anyway,
all that being said, whatever on the issue of the
government shut down. Continuing with that for a moment, I
got to give credit where it's due. There's one Democrat,
just the one that's actually you know what I just
(31:30):
realized is I didn't actually change so you could see
the picture that I was showing you my bad. There's
the picture. If you're watching on video, there it is.
I'm finally showing it to you, like I promised. So
that's what they're doing. It's not that big of a deal.
The world spindeth onward anyway. As I was saying, John
Fetterman is the one Democrat who is actually calling the
(31:54):
other Democrats out for shutting down the government. Here he
is saying, hey, this is what y'all wan wanted to do.
I'm not with you on this. I'm voting to open
the government because I'm a regular person. I'll give John
Fetterman credit all day and night. He does seem to
be a common sense Democrat. I can respect him. He's
(32:15):
wrong on a lot of issues, but he's not an
absolute left wing lunatic. Here he is saying, hey, these
subsidies that the Democrats are fighting over now they were
designed to expire. Y'all made this bed, now you're lying
in it. I'm not a part of this.
Speaker 11 (32:32):
That's why shutting the government is really what the Democratic
Party wants to do. And I follow country, then party,
and it's the wrong thing for the country in a
period of chaos. I refuse to vote to shut our
government down. I absolutely would love to have I would
(32:53):
love to have a conversation about extending the tax credits
for healthcare. Absolutely, but I would remind every too, this
was designed by the Democratic Party to expire at the
end of the year. This is not something taken from
by the Republicans that they were designed to expire. Now,
let's have a conversation to extend it and not shut
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our government down.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
That's a reasonable position. He's a reasonable Democrat. I want
this thing, but I understand how the negotiating process works,
So good job, John Fetterman. Anyway, now let's talk about
something that the left has sworn up and down is
not happening, and that is Democrats voting or not Democrats voting.
They do vote. Everybody knows that illegal aliens voting. Now,
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the Republicans have called this out for a long time.
We've been looking at the immigration crisis and we've been saying, hey,
it kind of looks like what you guys are after
is a bunch of imported illegal alien voters. And the
Democrats have sworn up and down no, no, no, no, no.
Illegal aliens voting is illegal. It's always been illegal. We
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don't want that and then they try around and they
opened doors for illegal aliens to do exactly that. So
here is in Minnesota. I'm gonna play you two clips
back to back. The first is Tim Walls signing a
law to give everybody, including illegal aliens, Minnesota driver's licenses.
And then it's a clip of a I believe this
(34:18):
is the Minnesota legislature. I don't know which subcommittee in
their legislature, a hearing where some lady who I couldn't
tell you her name to save my life, is saying,
so you're letting people register to vote with just these
Minnesota driver's licenses that were handing out to illegal aliens.
So essentially you're allowing illegal aliens to register to vote.
(34:41):
And the guy just has to kind of sit there
and go, oh, yeah, watch this, it's done. A packed
room at the Saint Paul Armory erupted after the governor's
signature made driver's license for all the law of the land.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
So we give driver's licenses to anyone here. You don't
have to be a citizen. You don't have to which
is a photo ID. So if someone comes in, they register,
they have the driver's license, but they have an incorrect
social or no social or whatever. So then they become incomplete.
(35:19):
But if they walk in to vote with their driver's license,
is that make them all of a sudden now, okay, mister.
Speaker 8 (35:29):
Lanil venom Chair, So the designation on the roster for
someone whose registration had been incomplete, if they present the
election judge with that acceptable identification document, that would clear
the challenge from the roster and they would be permitted
to cast a ballot.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
Anderson, well, okay, there's your problem potentially, Oh thank you.
Speaker 9 (35:54):
So just to clarify, someone who is not a citizen
but presents a driver's license at that point in the
process could be permitted to vote.
Speaker 8 (36:04):
Medem Chair. At the time of registration as well as
at the time of submitting a ballot, every voter is
signing the attestation affirming their eligibility to vote, including that
they meet all eligibility requirements, that they are a US citizen.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
Okay, So what he's basically saying there is, yes, if
you're an illegal alien who we handed a driver's license
because we're the left wing state of Minnesota, you're allowed
to vote. Now, this entire system, as he points out,
is essentially predicated on the owner system. We just make
all the illegal aliens pinky promise that they're not illegal aliens,
(36:39):
and then they can vote, and that's going to hold up.
You don't think you don't think any of them just
maybe might lie about that, just maybe. I know, we
always want to assume the best of everyone, and let
(37:01):
it never be said that I just jumped to assuming
the worst of people. But let's be honest here, are
we really gonna sit here and say that nobody at
all would lie to the State of Minnesota in order
to cast a ballot? Really, really, we don't want to
even prepare for that possibility. We're just gonna assume it
(37:22):
won't happen. That's what they're doing in Minnesota. But weirdly enough,
I don't know how, but it's not just happening in Minnesota.
It's also happening here in Texas. This broke yesterday. Nearly
three thousand quote unquote potential non citizens have been found
on Texas voting roles. After a review of the voter rolls,
(37:44):
the state of Texas has discovered that over two thy
seven hundred registered voters were quote potential non citizens. That's
according to the Secretary of State Jane Nilsen, who made
the announcement on Monday after she gained access to a
federal citizenship database. So it's not just left wing states.
(38:05):
This is happening. The left has told us up and down.
Know this is a conspiracy theory. You're crazy white wringers.
It's not happening there.
Speaker 6 (38:11):
It is.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
It's happening in Minnesota. It's even happening here. We have
got to do better. The easy solution to port these
people's that's my plan. That's where I think we should
be putting our effort. But anyway, that's all I've got
for you this Wednesday, Remember Sunday evening oops seven pm
on AM nine to fifty KPRC. We're doing a live
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