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Speaker 1 (00:25):
All right, we got big stuff happening over at the
Supreme Court, major, major wins for Donald Trump. We've had
all these questions about the law, fair right that's been ongoing.
You would think, oh, he's the president, now, he can
be the president. Nope, he can't. Basically, anytime the man
washes his hands, he gets hit with an injunction from
some random district court judge, some random federal district court judge.
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He can't fire the people he wants. He can't deport
the people he wants. That's all been going on since
basically he took office, and we've all been sort of
waiting for the Supreme Court to step in here and say, okay, listen,
this man is the president. He won the election. The
American people, by and large, with some exceptions, want Donald
Trump to be doing the things that he's doing. Just
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because you random left wing judge don't like it. Sorry,
he won the election. Next time, vote harder. Well, that's
finally starting to happen. The Supreme Court is finally, i think,
after way too long, stepping in and saying, hey, this
stuff that every president has historically been allowed to do,
Trump can also do. Calm down, So the first one
scotis rules Trump DOJ can continue to deport illegal aliens
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under the Alien Enemies Act. As you'll recall, Donald Trump
has been working for the last several months to deport
illegal aliens and many of the violent criminals, the MS
thirteen gang members and such the Trende Araguas of the world.
Those have been deported to El Salvador where they are
being housed in Succote, which is an anti terrorism supermax
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prison in El Salvador that they built and became because
we're so tight with Naibukele, who's their president, we have
been able to store illegal aliens there. Thank you very
much El Salvador for helping us out with that. One
really appreciate it. So Trump has been doing that, and
he's used the Alien Enemies Act, which is a law
that was passed in seventeen ninety eight that gives the
president the power to do that. Now, a bunch of
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liberals wind and complained about it, and then they found
district court judges that were willing to shut that down.
And that speaks to another big problem is the fact
that we have these random, unelected judges that have, for
whatever reason, insane amounts of power over the entire United States.
What we've seen over the last several months is you
got one guy who was maybe appointed by Barack Obama
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that gets to decide whether or not the president fires
probationary workers. That's another one that we finally had the
Supreme Court step in on. Scotis gives Trump another major win.
The Supreme Court of the United States has allowed, basically
ruled that Trump can indeed fire tens of thousands of
probationary federal workers. This is from like a dozen different agencies.
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Donald Trump took all these federal workers and I believe
those may have been involved in this, and he said, Okay, listen,
we really don't need you. You guys aren't doing a
whole lot. You're either working from all them. We can't
keep track of whether or not you're actually working, or
you're working in positions that are actually irrelevant. They have
basically just turned the federal government into a jobs program
that's not what it's there for. So we're gonna let
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you guys go. And again, like we've talked about before,
these are probationary workers. The name kind of implies that
at any given moment, you could be let go. Once
you've been a probationary worker for a certain amount of time,
certain federal worker laws take into place, and you have
certain protections. Probationary workers don't have those. That's a good thing.
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We need to be able to fire people if we
hire somebody and it turns out that person should not
have that job, being able to fire those workers if
that's the case, or you know, completely eliminate those positions,
if those positions are irrelevant, that's also incredibly important. And
again you would say, Okay, he's the president, these are
federal workers. He's the boss, he's the head hauncho, he's
the chief of the executive branch. He should be able
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to fire pretty much anyone that he feels like he
needs to, as president fire. But no, we've got some
random district court judge. This one was James Bredder Bradar,
I don't know how you pronounce his name, who first
ordered Trump to reinstate all these employees. Then he ordered
Trump to I want you to give me a list
of all these employees, as well as a list of
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how you're complying with my ridiculous order to basically force
you to re employ all these people, who again were
essentially doing nothing. I repeat, no essential federal employee has
been fired. There is nobody that has been let go
that the United States can't survive without. There have been
no critical systems that have failed because Donald Trump has
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fired these people, which just goes to speak to how
big our government is. Our government and should never be
that big. If at any point you can fire somebody
and not notice that they've left, the government is too big.
Because again, unless you're one of these federal employees, or
maybe the family of one of these federal employees, your
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life has not changed at all since Donald Trump started
firing people. It just hasn't. They keep trying to make
all these big headlines and make a big fuss about it,
and like, I can never get enough of talking about
that Khou eleven piece where they had this IRS agent
in tears in his living room talking about how he
lost his dream job. Other than those select few people,
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nobody has actually been affected by these people being fired.
This just goes to show you the media and their sensationalism.
It's really getting out of hand because we've been told
that this is the end of the world. We've been
told that this is, you know, incredibly unconstitutional abuse of
power that Donald Trump is committing by firing all these
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federal employees. And yet when he does it a the
world it keeps turning just like it was always going
to and be. Even though you have some random District
Court judge that says, no, you can't do this because
I'm a liberal, the Supreme Court still steps in and says, Okay,
yes he can, he can do this. I don't understand
why anyone would listen to the media on anything anymore.
(06:17):
It's like what we talked about on Sunday. They just
have no capacity to zoom out and look at the
big picture. Nobody has the ability to say, hey, have
presidents in the past been able to fire probationary federal employees? Yes,
obviously that's the case. Have presidents in the past been
able to utilize the Alien Enemies Act in order to
secure the interior of the United States? Absolutely, they have, absolutely,
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sometimes too much so. Remember we had a bunch of
Japanese American citizens that were interned in essentially concentration camps
during the Second World War. That was done under the
Alien Enemies Act. Nobody questioned FDR's ability to do that.
Nobody even questioned the Alien Enemies Act. But all of
a sudden, when Donald Trump wants to use it to
deport Act murderers and rapists, that's when everybody says, no, no, no, no, no,
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we have to do away with this. This Act is
from the seventeen hundreds. It's somehow invalidated because black people
couldn't vote back then, Lottie Dotty Doll, all these ridiculous
excuses they make up to sensationalize and villainize every single
thing that Donald Trump is doing. It really has gotten
out of hand, it really has. But thankfully the Supreme
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Court is finally doing their job. They're finally stepping in
and saying, hey, you guys need to stop it. The
president is allowed to do these things. And I hope
everybody kind of uses this as an opportunity to realize
the fact that none of this is as big of
a deal as the media wants you to think it is.
You will be fine. You might not like what Donald
Trump is doing, but it is not the destroyer of
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democracy that you think it is. All Right, stay tuned,
We've got a great show coming up. We'll be right
back after a quick break. All right. I hate to
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Pat myself on the back here. Who am I kidding?
I love to pat myself on the back. I was right,
I'm calling it now. I was right about the tariffs.
I know I was at the time, but it's really
nice to officially be formally right.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
You know.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
There's that there's that phase of like you're right and
you know it, but it hasn't been completely announced yet
that you were right. Now it's kind of formally coming
out that I was right, and so it's just kind
of that extra added yay hooray. But anyway, what do
I mean by that the tariffs. First of all, we
started seeing the stock market start to kind of creep
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its way back up. That's gonna happen slowly, obviously, because
as we know, the market hates uncertainty, and as long
as the tariffs are here, that is some level of uncertainty.
Is it, you know, necessarily a huge level of uncertainty. No,
but it is going to kind of slow the recovery
of the stock market from that big dip that excel
if that we saw last week when those tariffs were
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first announced. Here's the good news. The negotiations are already underway,
and as the negotiations are already underway. The stock market
is already starting to creep back up. We saw that
kind of over the last couple of days. Monday into
Tuesday was kind of working its way back up, and
then on Tuesday towards the afternoon evening, it's kind of
started to dip back down a little bit. And you know,
that's the way this works. And you know takes two
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or three steps forward and then one or two back,
and then two or three forward and then one or
two back. This is all normal. We all knew this
was going to be normal. But it's working. The stock
market is not collapsing. The bottom has not fallen out.
Everybody that's a long term investor by now, this is
your opportunity and you'll be fine long term. I've talked
to a number of different financial analysts, economists. This is
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what they are all saying. If you're a long term
person who's thinking long term, big picture, you diversified investments,
you're fine. This is essentially, year over year, a ten
percent drop. That's kind of the price of doing business
in the stock market. If you can't handle that, you
shouldn't be in the market at all. But more importantly,
like we all assumed was going to happen. The moment
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Donald Trump actually starts wielding the economic weight of the
United States, people start coming to the table, because remember,
the United States has basically two major weapons on a
geopolitical scale. We have, first of all, our literal weapons.
We are hands down the greatest military that has ever militaried.
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The only reason every country is not a you know,
subdivision of the United States is just out of the
goodness of our hearts. Despite the fact that sometimes our
politicians and our political generals step on our own feet
in the middle of major wars, that does not mean
that we are not the greatest. We are the greatest.
We are the greatest military, hands down. But other than that,
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our other major geopolitical way and is the fact that
we are a huge economy. Not only are we a
huge economy, but we have a lot of rich people
in this economy, and not even rich people, we have
a lot of moderate kind of middle class people too.
That's a huge asset. The fact that we have so
many people in the United States that are so able
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and willing to purchase so much from so many other countries.
That is something that we can use as leverage and
I think we really should be using that as leverage
in the same way that sort of physical access to
the United States, as in being able to actually go
and visit the United States is sort of a privilege
that is leveraged by the State Department. In geopolitical issues.
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Access to the American economy should be exactly the same
access to the wallets of the citizens of the United
States should be used as geopolitical leverage in the exact
same way. And as we are starting to see, when
you do that, it has great effect. Trump starts throwing
out tariffs left and right all of a sudden. Fifty
sixty seventy countries now I believe is the official number,
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have all said, Okay, we're going to come to the table.
We're going to send our teams to start negotiations. Here
is Treasury Secretary Scott Bessett making that announcement on Fox
News the other day, basically saying, surprise, surprise, wouldn't you
know it? Donald Trump was right. When you use our
economic weight as a geopolitical tool, people come to the
table because our economic weight is important.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Take a listen, Larry, I can tell you that there
are fifty sixty, maybe almost seventy countries now whoever approached US.
So it's going to be a busy April May, maybe
into June. And Japan is a very important military ally,
they're very important economic ally, and the US has a
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lot of history with them, So I would expect that
Japan's going to get priority just because they came forward
very quickly. But it's going to be very busy. And
if President Trump again gave himself negotiating leverage, and just
when he achieved a maximum leverage, he's willing to start talking.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Now. This kind of goes back to what we were
talking about earlier about how the media is just so
full of crap. Remember what we were being told, you know,
two or three weeks ago about this big tariff's plan.
Remember what the media was saying, This is going to
start trade wars, this might start actual wars. Trump is
going to burn every bridge we have with every international
ally and partner. It's going to be the complete end
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of America's standing on the world stage. That's what we
were told. They swore up and down wall to wall
coverage about how terrible this was going to be for
America's international relations. But what we're actually seeing is what
Donald Trump said was going to happen the entire time.
These people are taking advantage of us. We have something
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they want, and that is the US dollar in the
hands of US citizens. And if we start actually imposing
some requirements for people to have access to that, they'll
come to the table, they'll negotiate. And that's exactly what
we've seen. Once again, we werelied to by the mainstream media.
And now this should have been common sense. It really
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should have been. Anyone should have been able to look
out and say, Okay, these people really do want our money.
So if we make it harder for them to get
our money in the service of achieving some particular goal,
chances are we'll be able to kind of negotiate and
use that leverage. This is frankly common sense. But the
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media expected you to be too stupid to know that.
They expected to be able to say that this is
just going to be the end of the US's international
standing and you would believe it. I hope you didn't.
I hope you were able to look at this situation
and say, Okay, I don't think this is going to
be the end of the world, even though that's what
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I'm being told Thankfully I have a small enough platform
I'm able to know for a fact, because I know
most of my listeners personally, I can say, you aren't
you weren't that dumb? Good job everybody, we got through it.
We didn't buy it. Congratulations, pats on the backs all around.
You know who you are. Shout out everybody, but real
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quick before we run out of time. In this segment,
something I wanted to kind of talk about is the
fact that Donald Trump is actually sort of doing a
favor to the consumers in countries all over the world. Obviously,
the biggest winners here is going to be the United States,
as it should be anytime anything happens, the United States
should be the biggest winners. That we just should be.
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But I imagine that sort of international markets are you know,
if we actually get a bunch of zero for zero
terriff agreements with other countries like Donald Trump has suggested,
like have been tossed around. We've got a lady from
the U saying that's what she wants to negotiate for
is zero for zero tariffs that will actually open up
the US markets to a lot of foreign consumers, rather
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than the US market is open to foreign sellers, foreign manufacturers,
foreign buyers will actually have a lot more access to
our products. Again, this is a point that only Donald
Trump has hit in recent years. And I'm trying not
to be a sick of fant I really am, but
it's so hard when he keeps being right. I'm trying
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to look critically at him. I'm trying to find the
mistakes and point them out when I see him. I
just haven't seen very many yet, other than Pam Bondy.
She's probably the one mistake that Donald Trump has made
so far. Please fire her, get us a real attorney general.
I'm sick of seeing her on Fox News and not
seeing her at her desk doing her job. But that's
besides the point Donald Trump has talked about this. We
see Toyotas in the United States on the roads all
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the time, all the time. That's one of the top
cars here is Toyotas. Everybody has one. My fiance drives
to Toyota. I like it. I like her Toyota. I
have no problem with Toyotas. Here's the thing, though, you
think you're gonna go to Japan and see a Chevrolet. No,
you're not, because Japan has far greater terrors on American
cars than we have on Japanese cars. Now, I would
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venture to guess that there are Japanese citizens out there
that would love to drive a Chevrolet. I'm sure that
there's Japanese people out there that think Chevrolets are cool,
that would love to get their hands on one, but
they can't because they're so darn expensive over there, because
we have to pay insane tariffs, tariffs that are not
paid on Japanese cars coming into the United States. So
by reaching a hypothetical zero for zero agreement, all of
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a sudden, not only does it become easier for Americans
to buy Japanese cars, it also becomes easier for Japanese
people to buy American cars. This is like true free trade.
You just kind of have to enforce it, and sometimes
you have to use, Hey, I'm gonna hit you over
the head with a stick to get everybody to agree
to stop hitting each other over the head with sticks.
I think that's pretty much what's happening, and that's what
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we're saying. It's working. I'm excited for it. All right,
stay tuned, we'll beerra.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Beck al Right.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
The twenty twenty four election cycle I was just that
was so stressful, right, I mean, so much going on
all the time. You almost felt like you had to
be tuned in twenty four to seven to some sort
of news station or political talk show somewhere just to
keep up with what was going on. And that was
actually one of the main reasons that I started this show,
is because I wanted something that was a little bit
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less frequent but still gave you all the important stuff
so you could still stay relatively up to date without
being you know, glued to the news twenty four to seven.
But yeah, that was just a really stressful election cycle,
and I'm really glad that that was over. So anyway,
the twenty twenty six election is coming up, and here's
what we got going on. Big news for Texas. Obviously,
Ted Cruz's reelection was during the twenty twenty election cycle
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and he won that. So the next Senate election that
we have here in Texas is for John Cornan's seat,
and that is next year. Those races are already starting,
just like the twenty twenty four election started really in
twenty twenty two, but more so in twenty twenty three.
The twenty twenty sixth election is starting right now, in
twenty twenty five, there is no off season in politics.
(19:23):
Sorry to break it to you. I just discovered this
recently myself actually starting to work in news and politics.
Before I was a passive observer.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
You know.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
I worked in fast food and I just casually watched politics.
Now I work in news and politics and this is
my life twenty four to seven. There's no break ever.
But I'm glad. I enjoy it, every wiky moment of it.
I wouldn't change it for anything, and I really wouldn't
so anyway. The twenty twenty sixth election that's getting underway,
John Cornyn is up for reelection. A lot of people
have a lot of opinions on John Cornyn. I'm frankly
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sick of him. He has voted for red flag loss
one too many times. I'm tired of it. I am
a Second Amendment absolutist. If you have the right to
keep in bare arms, bar nothing else. In my opinion,
if you are allowed to be out on the streets
as a free member of society, I think you should
be allowed to have a gun. If you can't be
trusted with a gun, you should be behind bars. If you
have to be behind bars your entire life. Frankly, you
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should be executed because we need to start looking at
saving the taxpayer's money and creating some actual incentives for
people to not do crime. Those are my thoughts on
the subject. If you have paid your debt to society
and can be a free man, you should have a
firearm nothing else. If you get put behind bars, obviously
you can't have a gun in jail. Clearly that makes sense.
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You have forfeited a lot of your rights by committing
a crime. Once you get out, you should be allowed
to have a gun. If you have not gone through
due process and been found guilty of any crime, you
should be allowed to have a gun. So that's one
of the gripes that I have with John Corny, and
he's put his name on a few different red flag laws.
That's one of the similar gripes that I have with
Dan Crenshaw. He's done the same thing. He is a
politician's politician. He will say whatever it is he has
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to say to win the next election. And that's why
if you follow him on Twitter, you may have noticed
that all of the sudden, out of the blue, he
will tweet something basically every five minutes about how cool
and hip he thinks Donald Trump is. He posted a
couple of weeks ago this really obnoxious picture of him
sitting at a table reading Donald Trump's book, The Art
of the Deal and saying great book, highly recommend it.
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Love Donald Trump xoxo. Now that's really obnoxious if you've
been paying attention to politics for more than thirty minutes,
and you know that when there was still sort of
some debate as to who was going to carry the
Republican Party during the twenty twenty four election, we didn't
know for sure whether or not Donald Trump was going
to throw his hat back into the ring. John Cornyn
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was out there going on record saying Donald Trump's time
has passed. SCE needs to step aside. He shouldn't be
involved in this anymore. And now he's acting like Donald
Trump's number one cheerleader. It's the inconsistency that gets to me.
And on top of that, John Cornyn says a lot,
but he doesn't do a lot. I would like a
senator that's actually productively pursuing Texas's interests on whatever level.
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I haven't seen that from John Cornyn. Now I have
seen that from Ken Paxton I've seen it a lot
from Ken Paxton, and he just announced yesterday that he
is officially running to replace John Corny. So he'll be
running in a Republican primary against John Cornyn. This is
a big deal. This is a big deal. This person
will be in the Senate for the next six years
if they win. So we have the choice between Ken Paxton,
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who we know is a great attorney general, that has
been very consistent, that has worked very hard at any
given opportunity. He's pursuing Texas values and Texas's state interests,
versus John Cornyn, who every six years will come out
and get really active saying the right things, and then
spend the next, you know, six years doing basically nothing.
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So obviously my preference is for Ken Paxton. And here
he is making his announcement on Fox News that he
is going to be running against John Cornyn for his
sense in generally have a big announcement. I understand you
want to make tonight.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (23:05):
Well, first of all, I'm excited to be on your
show to do this. It's a great place to do it.
I'm announcing that I'm running for US Senate against John Corner,
who apparently is running again for his fifth term, which
we put in there three decades. It's definitely time for
a change in Texas. We have another great US Senator,
Ted Cruz, and it's time we have another great senator
that will actually stand up and fight for Republican values,
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fight for the values of the people of Texas, and
also support Trump Donald Trump in the areas that he's
focused on in a very significant way. And that's what
I plan on doing. And I hope that people will
go to my website and look at what we're doing
at Kenpaxton dot com and obviously contribute as well.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Now, obviously Ken Paxton would be a huge upgrade, and
I think the biggest example of that is the fact
that Ken Paxson has, like Donald Trump, been a victim
of sort of the deep state quote unquote. It's not
exactly the same deep state that went after Donald Trump,
but Ken Paxton, like Donald Trump, has faced you know,
extreme political law. Fair right. He was impeached for no
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reason by the ridiculous far left Texas House. Thankfully, the
Texas Senate is run by actual conservatives who had the
common sense to say, Okay, you have come to us
with no evidence. You impeached him, and you said, over
the course of the trial there would be evidence of
all his wrongdoings. Over the course of the trial, no
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evidence was presented at all that he ever actually did
anything wrong, and he was acquitted. It's because Ken Paxton
was making the sort of status quo preservists in the
Texas House nervous. He was calling him out for the
fact that they were cutting far more deals with the
Democrats than they were actually passing conservative priorities. Remember this
is a long standing problem in the state of Texas,
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the fact that our House of Representatives, which on paper
is controlled by the Republicans, keeps somehow managing to end
up in the control of the Democrats. Supposedly Republicans run
the j but yet it's the Democrat bills that are
getting heard, It's the Democrat priorities that are getting passed.
Anything that's a Republican priority that manages to get passed
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is extremely and insanely watered down to the point where
it's not even the conservative priority that it was originally
supposed to be. Ken Paston called that out. He started saying, hey,
you guys need to do better, and they tried to
punish him for it, and it didn't work because again
the Texas Senate has common sense. But that's exactly the
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sort of people that we need in the federal government
right now. This second term for Donald Trump is going
to be all about finding the people that have put
the status quo and preserving the status quo above the
interests of their actual constituents. Donald Trump is going in
and he's trying to find all the people that kind
of screwed him over in his first term, all the
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deep state, kind of globalist uniparty plants not to sound
too much like Alex Jones here, that he didn't know
any better but to trust and ended up screwing him
over as time went on. He's now going in and
he's finding those people and he's getting them out of government,
out of public life, and everybody is benefiting from that.
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But listen, he can't do that by himself. He does
need people like Ken Paxton that are going to kind
of back him up on that and participate. And Ken Paxton,
unlike John Cordon, has been very consistently behind Trump one
hundred percent of the time. Now you can look at
that as a fault, and I think there's a reasonable
argument to say, Okay, you should be able and willing
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to criticize him at least a little bit here and there.
But if nothing else, it shows consistency and loyalty, and
those are important values. I've watched Ken Paxton in public
life as Attorney General long enough to feel confident that one,
I think he's a consistent and loyal person, which is
a valuable thing. And two, I think he truly will
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prioritize the needs of the state of text over anything
else until I see something different. I'm leaning towards right
now voting for Ken Paxton. Again, I'm not gonna make
an endorsement. I'm not going to tell you who to
vote for. Here's my thought process. This is what I'm
thinking about going into this election. And again, I can't
stress this enough. I talked about this all throughout twenty
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twenty four. Do your own thinking on this election, just
like every election, Look at who the candidates are, if
they have held public office before, because usually they have.
Look at what their records in that office are, look
at what they've been doing over their tenure in whatever
position they held before just now, and what you're going
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to be looking for is one consistency because politicians love
to flip flop. Whichever the way the wind is blowing,
that's where they're going. And two, look for indicators in
their actions that they mirror your values. And look for again,
consistency in that as well. And now this doesn't have
to be one hundred percent of the time. They're always
on the same pages you and they're always on the
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same page as themselves. But look for the patterns. Right.
Allow some wiggle room because we're all human and that
goes for politicians too, But try to find somebody that
is the closest to your values the most time. And again,
that's something you're gonna have to judge for yourself. That's
something you're gonna have to do the research on. I'll
tell you what I'm seeing, I'll tell you which way
(28:23):
I'm leading. But at the end of the day, it's
your vote. The choice is for you. Go back and
look at John Cornyn's record and you see if that
lines up with what you want, and if it is,
go ahead and vote for him. I'm not gonna fault
you for it. I might say you're wrong, but hey,
it's your vote, it's your decision. You do what you
think is best. As of right now, I'm leaning towards
Ken Paxton. I'm gonna be watching him very closely throughout
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this next you know, couple of years, to see what
he's doing, how he campaigns, and we'll see what happens.
All right, stay tuned. We got one more segment coming
up right after this break. All right, Well, it wouldn't
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be a true and proper episode of the Next Gen
Report if we didn't react to some crazy liberals. I
got a couple here for you, one of these courtesy
of libs of TikTok, as these videos so often are.
It's amazing what a treasure trove of just crazy leftists
(29:45):
TikTok is just as an account. Have we ever thought
about that? Is there any other place on the Internet,
except maybe temblr that's such a concentrated, just cesspit of
the most ridiculous stupid rules in the world. I have
yet to see it. I don't know actually believe it
or not. This specific video we're going to be looking
(30:06):
at actually is not from TikTok, surprise, surprise. It looks
like it's from Facebook, but I don't know. It's a
group of women. I believe they're with the Defense of
Democracy organization. I had not heard of this organization until
I saw this video, so I figured i'd take a
look at their official X page, advocating to create a
public education system that enhances the child's experience regardless of religion,
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cultural background, or wait for it, sexual orientation. Let me
stop you right there. If at any point in a
child's public school years, remember this is like K through twelve,
so this is presumably when a child is under eighteen,
the sexual orientation of that child should not be a
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factor at all in anything, because it's a child. But again,
for whatever reason, these people, these leftists, are insistent on
pushing their ridiculous sexual identity on children. I don't know
why this is. There's a lot of strong indicators that
it could be for all the bad reasons you might
(31:14):
assume it is. I don't know. For whatever reason, sexual
identity and gender identity keep becoming major talking points in
our public school systems, and it's got to stop. There
is a group of people called bombs for Liberty that
that's their whole thing is. They're just saying, listen, we
want kids to be able to go to school, we
want them to be able to learn. We don't want
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sex to be a topic unless you know you're hitting
that sixteen, seventeen, eighteen year old age and you're just
learning about the human reproductive system in science class, because
that is important. You do need to know where babies
come from by the time you hit about eighteen years old.
That does not mean you need to sit down with
four year olds and read them gender queer. And yet
this is where these leftists so often end up and
(31:56):
their whole thing now, this defensive democracy group now going
after Moms for Liberty using essentially espionage. This video was
posted by libs of TikTok and it's I guess some
sort of board meeting or or council or what have you.
It's just a bunch of ladies sitting in what looks
like a hotel conference room talking about it. And I
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want you to listen to what they have to say.
It's really crazy. Got to use it because it's there.
Speaker 5 (32:22):
Yeah, and these people, these white Christian nationalists, one thing
that works against them is that they truly do believe
that everybody believes the same way they are not. They
are not quiet about it, and you it is very
easy to see what they're doing if you follow maya
separate accounts to it, so you don't like completely trow. Yeah,
(32:43):
but I have a fake account and I spy and
that's I don't do it really much anymore because Oklahoma
has grown so large. But that is literally how we
started of finding those things is following the Moms for
Liberty acounts, getting into their groups, seeing the stuff they
talk about when they don't think that any of us
are looking, and they will say, we want to go
to this school board because they have this book in
their library.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
We want to go. We saw that.
Speaker 5 (33:04):
This is you know, the bombster the bomb threats that
I spoke about was because the library and made a
silly TikTok and then it's on Ryan Walter. But this
is this is not officially defensive democracy.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Like all right, First of all, there's something really funny
going on here that you may not have noticed. If
you're not watching the video. I'll go ahead and repost it.
I actually I reposted it yesterday, so I'm not going
to repost it again. But here's what's kind of funny
about this. They're talking about how they're kind of secretly
infiltrating these conservative groups by creating fake accounts. Yet as
(33:39):
they're saying that they're being filmed by somebody who looks
like she's sitting in the kind of corner off to
the side, just taping this on her phone. This is
not like an official broadcast. So what they're talking about
doing somebody is like actively doing to them in real
life right now, which is kind of funny the fact
that they didn't notice that. But the other thing that's
really important and I want you to pay close attention to,
(34:01):
is she actually gives a definition of what she thinks
white Christian nationalism is. She says, you know, they believe
everybody believes what they do, and so you can just
kind of fake it and they'll let you into their
little groups and group chats. That's the critical flaw with
these white Christian nationalists. Okay, so what is a white
(34:22):
Christian nationalist in this context? Well, she actually, if you listen,
she defined that later in this exact video. She says,
the Moms for Liberty accounts that are going to different
school boards and speaking out against different frankly, oftentimes pornographic
books that are in the children's libraries. That's what this
(34:42):
lady sees is white Christian nationalism. If you don't think
that kids should have access to books where it's literally
cartoon depictions and giving instructions about how to do adult
sex acts that are just in the library, available to
children that are you know, ages, you know, twelve and
down oftentimes, if you don't think that that's normal should
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be allowed, you're a white Christian nationalist. Now, frankly, I
think that's a pretty ridiculous opinion and kind of a
stupid thing to say. But hey, she said it, believe
it or not, that's not the stupidest thing to come
out of this meeting of all these ladies. Shocker. I
know the next lady over won the lady to that
(35:24):
lady's right is about to top it off with something
even dumber. Take a listen to this. This is Karen Svoboda,
the director for Defensive Democracy. Here's what she has to
say about her own children. This is insane. This is
really insane. I want you to listen to it. For me,
(35:45):
I don't always call my story, but at the end
of the day, I have seven children. Four of them
are members of the queer community. All right, So I'll
joke and.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
I'll say I have an elg.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Their deity but I'll tell my straight kids they're dead
to me. I have an l A B A G
A T. And I tell my straight kids they're dead
to me. How insane is that?
Speaker 2 (36:16):
Just?
Speaker 1 (36:16):
I mean one, she plays it off like it's a joke, right,
I joke with my children. Do you think she's joking?
I'm inclined to say that she's probably not. I think
when she openly admits it, she tries to frame it
as a joke so that she can get the laughs.
But more and more we see from these radical leftists
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who kind of indoctrinate their children in this garbage. It
really is sort of a status symbol to them. There
really are true instances of people pushing this gender identity
garbage on their children because then they can go to
their affluent liberal friends and say, look at me, look
(36:58):
at how accepting I am of my queer kid. Look
At how much effort I'm putting in to making sure
I have a queer kid, and I'm taking care of
my queer kid, and I'm supporting my queer kid. Look
at me and my queer kid. It's all about me
and my queer kid. It really is a sick mindset,
but it's the backbone of gender ideology, the backbone of
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all of this garbage is attention. It's that innate human
lust for attention. It's pride more than anything else. And hey,
they're very open about it. It's just you want the attention.
You want people to look at you and say, look
how great I am because of my queer kid. It
really is disgusting because what you end up doing is
you ruin these kids' lives just so that you can
get a pat on the back from your rich white
(37:42):
liberal friends. Because that's what this is. All white liberals
on this panel. I'm looking at the video right now.
You can go on my Twitter and see it. It's
all just mostly overweight white liberals. And I guarantee you,
after this meeting was over, all of these ladies all
stood up and patted that other lady on the back
and said, job, what great work you're doing with your
(38:02):
queer kids. You even got a trans one in there.
We're so proud of you. But nobody ever bothers to
look and see, Okay, well, what's the damage that's being
done to these children? What long term effects are pushing
this ideology on children going to have on the children
it's being pushed on. They don't care about that. All
they care about is making sure they get their pat
on the back from their liberal friends. That's it. That's
(38:23):
all it is. They are willing to throw as many
children into that firus necessary. It really is disgusting, and
thank god there are groups like Moms for Liberty that
are willing to stand up and say, hey, it's wrong
to be involving children in this. It just is. This
should not be happening. But remember, these are the people
we're up against. They will use your children and their
own children as pawns to get pats on the back
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in the political world. It's disgusting, but it's happening, all right.
That's all I've got for us this Wednesday. Thank you
very much for listening. I'm Ethan Buchanan. This is the
next Gen Report.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
This is fool
All right, we got big stuff happening over at the
Supreme Court, major, major wins for Donald Trump. We've had
all these questions about the law, fair right that's been ongoing.
You would think, oh, he's the president, now, he can
be the president. Nope, he can't. Basically, anytime the man
washes his hands, he gets hit with an injunction from
some random district court judge, some random federal district court judge.
(00:49):
He can't fire the people he wants. He can't deport
the people he wants. That's all been going on since
basically he took office, and we've all been sort of
waiting for the Supreme Court to step in here and say, okay, listen,
this man is the president. He won the election. The
American people, by and large, with some exceptions, want Donald
Trump to be doing the things that he's doing. Just
(01:11):
because you random left wing judge don't like it. Sorry,
he won the election. Next time, vote harder. Well, that's
finally starting to happen. The Supreme Court is finally, i think,
after way too long, stepping in and saying, hey, this
stuff that every president has historically been allowed to do,
Trump can also do. Calm down, So the first one
scotis rules Trump DOJ can continue to deport illegal aliens
(01:36):
under the Alien Enemies Act. As you'll recall, Donald Trump
has been working for the last several months to deport
illegal aliens and many of the violent criminals, the MS
thirteen gang members and such the Trende Araguas of the world.
Those have been deported to El Salvador where they are
being housed in Succote, which is an anti terrorism supermax
(01:57):
prison in El Salvador that they built and became because
we're so tight with Naibukele, who's their president, we have
been able to store illegal aliens there. Thank you very
much El Salvador for helping us out with that. One
really appreciate it. So Trump has been doing that, and
he's used the Alien Enemies Act, which is a law
that was passed in seventeen ninety eight that gives the
president the power to do that. Now, a bunch of
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liberals wind and complained about it, and then they found
district court judges that were willing to shut that down.
And that speaks to another big problem is the fact
that we have these random, unelected judges that have, for
whatever reason, insane amounts of power over the entire United States.
What we've seen over the last several months is you
got one guy who was maybe appointed by Barack Obama
(02:43):
that gets to decide whether or not the president fires
probationary workers. That's another one that we finally had the
Supreme Court step in on. Scotis gives Trump another major win.
The Supreme Court of the United States has allowed, basically
ruled that Trump can indeed fire tens of thousands of
probationary federal workers. This is from like a dozen different agencies.
(03:05):
Donald Trump took all these federal workers and I believe
those may have been involved in this, and he said, Okay, listen,
we really don't need you. You guys aren't doing a
whole lot. You're either working from all them. We can't
keep track of whether or not you're actually working, or
you're working in positions that are actually irrelevant. They have
basically just turned the federal government into a jobs program
that's not what it's there for. So we're gonna let
(03:26):
you guys go. And again, like we've talked about before,
these are probationary workers. The name kind of implies that
at any given moment, you could be let go. Once
you've been a probationary worker for a certain amount of time,
certain federal worker laws take into place, and you have
certain protections. Probationary workers don't have those. That's a good thing.
(03:47):
We need to be able to fire people if we
hire somebody and it turns out that person should not
have that job, being able to fire those workers if
that's the case, or you know, completely eliminate those positions,
if those positions are irrelevant, that's also incredibly important. And
again you would say, Okay, he's the president, these are
federal workers. He's the boss, he's the head hauncho, he's
the chief of the executive branch. He should be able
(04:10):
to fire pretty much anyone that he feels like he
needs to, as president fire. But no, we've got some
random district court judge. This one was James Bredder Bradar,
I don't know how you pronounce his name, who first
ordered Trump to reinstate all these employees. Then he ordered
Trump to I want you to give me a list
of all these employees, as well as a list of
(04:31):
how you're complying with my ridiculous order to basically force
you to re employ all these people, who again were
essentially doing nothing. I repeat, no essential federal employee has
been fired. There is nobody that has been let go
that the United States can't survive without. There have been
no critical systems that have failed because Donald Trump has
(04:53):
fired these people, which just goes to speak to how
big our government is. Our government and should never be
that big. If at any point you can fire somebody
and not notice that they've left, the government is too big.
Because again, unless you're one of these federal employees, or
maybe the family of one of these federal employees, your
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life has not changed at all since Donald Trump started
firing people. It just hasn't. They keep trying to make
all these big headlines and make a big fuss about it,
and like, I can never get enough of talking about
that Khou eleven piece where they had this IRS agent
in tears in his living room talking about how he
lost his dream job. Other than those select few people,
(05:35):
nobody has actually been affected by these people being fired.
This just goes to show you the media and their sensationalism.
It's really getting out of hand because we've been told
that this is the end of the world. We've been
told that this is, you know, incredibly unconstitutional abuse of
power that Donald Trump is committing by firing all these
(05:56):
federal employees. And yet when he does it a the
world it keeps turning just like it was always going
to and be. Even though you have some random District
Court judge that says, no, you can't do this because
I'm a liberal, the Supreme Court still steps in and says, Okay,
yes he can, he can do this. I don't understand
why anyone would listen to the media on anything anymore.
(06:17):
It's like what we talked about on Sunday. They just
have no capacity to zoom out and look at the
big picture. Nobody has the ability to say, hey, have
presidents in the past been able to fire probationary federal employees? Yes,
obviously that's the case. Have presidents in the past been
able to utilize the Alien Enemies Act in order to
secure the interior of the United States? Absolutely, they have, absolutely,
(06:42):
sometimes too much so. Remember we had a bunch of
Japanese American citizens that were interned in essentially concentration camps
during the Second World War. That was done under the
Alien Enemies Act. Nobody questioned FDR's ability to do that.
Nobody even questioned the Alien Enemies Act. But all of
a sudden, when Donald Trump wants to use it to
deport Act murderers and rapists, that's when everybody says, no, no, no, no, no,
(07:04):
we have to do away with this. This Act is
from the seventeen hundreds. It's somehow invalidated because black people
couldn't vote back then, Lottie Dotty Doll, all these ridiculous
excuses they make up to sensationalize and villainize every single
thing that Donald Trump is doing. It really has gotten
out of hand, it really has. But thankfully the Supreme
(07:25):
Court is finally doing their job. They're finally stepping in
and saying, hey, you guys need to stop it. The
president is allowed to do these things. And I hope
everybody kind of uses this as an opportunity to realize
the fact that none of this is as big of
a deal as the media wants you to think it is.
You will be fine. You might not like what Donald
Trump is doing, but it is not the destroyer of
(07:46):
democracy that you think it is. All Right, stay tuned,
We've got a great show coming up. We'll be right
back after a quick break. All right. I hate to
(08:15):
Pat myself on the back here. Who am I kidding?
I love to pat myself on the back. I was right,
I'm calling it now. I was right about the tariffs.
I know I was at the time, but it's really
nice to officially be formally right.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
You know.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
There's that there's that phase of like you're right and
you know it, but it hasn't been completely announced yet
that you were right. Now it's kind of formally coming
out that I was right, and so it's just kind
of that extra added yay hooray. But anyway, what do
I mean by that the tariffs. First of all, we
started seeing the stock market start to kind of creep
(08:48):
its way back up. That's gonna happen slowly, obviously, because
as we know, the market hates uncertainty, and as long
as the tariffs are here, that is some level of uncertainty.
Is it, you know, necessarily a huge level of uncertainty. No,
but it is going to kind of slow the recovery
of the stock market from that big dip that excel
if that we saw last week when those tariffs were
(09:11):
first announced. Here's the good news. The negotiations are already underway,
and as the negotiations are already underway. The stock market
is already starting to creep back up. We saw that
kind of over the last couple of days. Monday into
Tuesday was kind of working its way back up, and
then on Tuesday towards the afternoon evening, it's kind of
started to dip back down a little bit. And you know,
that's the way this works. And you know takes two
(09:32):
or three steps forward and then one or two back,
and then two or three forward and then one or
two back. This is all normal. We all knew this
was going to be normal. But it's working. The stock
market is not collapsing. The bottom has not fallen out.
Everybody that's a long term investor by now, this is
your opportunity and you'll be fine long term. I've talked
to a number of different financial analysts, economists. This is
(09:54):
what they are all saying. If you're a long term
person who's thinking long term, big picture, you diversified investments,
you're fine. This is essentially, year over year, a ten
percent drop. That's kind of the price of doing business
in the stock market. If you can't handle that, you
shouldn't be in the market at all. But more importantly,
like we all assumed was going to happen. The moment
(10:15):
Donald Trump actually starts wielding the economic weight of the
United States, people start coming to the table, because remember,
the United States has basically two major weapons on a
geopolitical scale. We have, first of all, our literal weapons.
We are hands down the greatest military that has ever militaried.
(10:36):
The only reason every country is not a you know,
subdivision of the United States is just out of the
goodness of our hearts. Despite the fact that sometimes our
politicians and our political generals step on our own feet
in the middle of major wars, that does not mean
that we are not the greatest. We are the greatest.
We are the greatest military, hands down. But other than that,
(10:57):
our other major geopolitical way and is the fact that
we are a huge economy. Not only are we a
huge economy, but we have a lot of rich people
in this economy, and not even rich people, we have
a lot of moderate kind of middle class people too.
That's a huge asset. The fact that we have so
many people in the United States that are so able
(11:18):
and willing to purchase so much from so many other countries.
That is something that we can use as leverage and
I think we really should be using that as leverage
in the same way that sort of physical access to
the United States, as in being able to actually go
and visit the United States is sort of a privilege
that is leveraged by the State Department. In geopolitical issues.
(11:40):
Access to the American economy should be exactly the same
access to the wallets of the citizens of the United
States should be used as geopolitical leverage in the exact
same way. And as we are starting to see, when
you do that, it has great effect. Trump starts throwing
out tariffs left and right all of a sudden. Fifty
sixty seventy countries now I believe is the official number,
(12:03):
have all said, Okay, we're going to come to the table.
We're going to send our teams to start negotiations. Here
is Treasury Secretary Scott Bessett making that announcement on Fox
News the other day, basically saying, surprise, surprise, wouldn't you
know it? Donald Trump was right. When you use our
economic weight as a geopolitical tool, people come to the
table because our economic weight is important.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Take a listen, Larry, I can tell you that there
are fifty sixty, maybe almost seventy countries now whoever approached US.
So it's going to be a busy April May, maybe
into June. And Japan is a very important military ally,
they're very important economic ally, and the US has a
(12:44):
lot of history with them, So I would expect that
Japan's going to get priority just because they came forward
very quickly. But it's going to be very busy. And
if President Trump again gave himself negotiating leverage, and just
when he achieved a maximum leverage, he's willing to start talking.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Now. This kind of goes back to what we were
talking about earlier about how the media is just so
full of crap. Remember what we were being told, you know,
two or three weeks ago about this big tariff's plan.
Remember what the media was saying, This is going to
start trade wars, this might start actual wars. Trump is
going to burn every bridge we have with every international
ally and partner. It's going to be the complete end
(13:29):
of America's standing on the world stage. That's what we
were told. They swore up and down wall to wall
coverage about how terrible this was going to be for
America's international relations. But what we're actually seeing is what
Donald Trump said was going to happen the entire time.
These people are taking advantage of us. We have something
(13:51):
they want, and that is the US dollar in the
hands of US citizens. And if we start actually imposing
some requirements for people to have access to that, they'll
come to the table, they'll negotiate. And that's exactly what
we've seen. Once again, we werelied to by the mainstream media.
And now this should have been common sense. It really
(14:13):
should have been. Anyone should have been able to look
out and say, Okay, these people really do want our money.
So if we make it harder for them to get
our money in the service of achieving some particular goal,
chances are we'll be able to kind of negotiate and
use that leverage. This is frankly common sense. But the
(14:33):
media expected you to be too stupid to know that.
They expected to be able to say that this is
just going to be the end of the US's international
standing and you would believe it. I hope you didn't.
I hope you were able to look at this situation
and say, Okay, I don't think this is going to
be the end of the world, even though that's what
(14:53):
I'm being told Thankfully I have a small enough platform
I'm able to know for a fact, because I know
most of my listeners personally, I can say, you aren't
you weren't that dumb? Good job everybody, we got through it.
We didn't buy it. Congratulations, pats on the backs all around.
You know who you are. Shout out everybody, but real
(15:14):
quick before we run out of time. In this segment,
something I wanted to kind of talk about is the
fact that Donald Trump is actually sort of doing a
favor to the consumers in countries all over the world. Obviously,
the biggest winners here is going to be the United States,
as it should be anytime anything happens, the United States
should be the biggest winners. That we just should be.
(15:34):
But I imagine that sort of international markets are you know,
if we actually get a bunch of zero for zero
terriff agreements with other countries like Donald Trump has suggested,
like have been tossed around. We've got a lady from
the U saying that's what she wants to negotiate for
is zero for zero tariffs that will actually open up
the US markets to a lot of foreign consumers, rather
(15:57):
than the US market is open to foreign sellers, foreign manufacturers,
foreign buyers will actually have a lot more access to
our products. Again, this is a point that only Donald
Trump has hit in recent years. And I'm trying not
to be a sick of fant I really am, but
it's so hard when he keeps being right. I'm trying
(16:18):
to look critically at him. I'm trying to find the
mistakes and point them out when I see him. I
just haven't seen very many yet, other than Pam Bondy.
She's probably the one mistake that Donald Trump has made
so far. Please fire her, get us a real attorney general.
I'm sick of seeing her on Fox News and not
seeing her at her desk doing her job. But that's
besides the point Donald Trump has talked about this. We
see Toyotas in the United States on the roads all
(16:41):
the time, all the time. That's one of the top
cars here is Toyotas. Everybody has one. My fiance drives
to Toyota. I like it. I like her Toyota. I
have no problem with Toyotas. Here's the thing, though, you
think you're gonna go to Japan and see a Chevrolet. No,
you're not, because Japan has far greater terrors on American
cars than we have on Japanese cars. Now, I would
(17:05):
venture to guess that there are Japanese citizens out there
that would love to drive a Chevrolet. I'm sure that
there's Japanese people out there that think Chevrolets are cool,
that would love to get their hands on one, but
they can't because they're so darn expensive over there, because
we have to pay insane tariffs, tariffs that are not
paid on Japanese cars coming into the United States. So
by reaching a hypothetical zero for zero agreement, all of
(17:28):
a sudden, not only does it become easier for Americans
to buy Japanese cars, it also becomes easier for Japanese
people to buy American cars. This is like true free trade.
You just kind of have to enforce it, and sometimes
you have to use, Hey, I'm gonna hit you over
the head with a stick to get everybody to agree
to stop hitting each other over the head with sticks.
I think that's pretty much what's happening, and that's what
(17:49):
we're saying. It's working. I'm excited for it. All right,
stay tuned, we'll beerra.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Beck al Right.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
The twenty twenty four election cycle I was just that
was so stressful, right, I mean, so much going on
all the time. You almost felt like you had to
be tuned in twenty four to seven to some sort
of news station or political talk show somewhere just to
keep up with what was going on. And that was
actually one of the main reasons that I started this show,
is because I wanted something that was a little bit
(18:35):
less frequent but still gave you all the important stuff
so you could still stay relatively up to date without
being you know, glued to the news twenty four to seven.
But yeah, that was just a really stressful election cycle,
and I'm really glad that that was over. So anyway,
the twenty twenty six election is coming up, and here's
what we got going on. Big news for Texas. Obviously,
Ted Cruz's reelection was during the twenty twenty election cycle
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and he won that. So the next Senate election that
we have here in Texas is for John Cornan's seat,
and that is next year. Those races are already starting,
just like the twenty twenty four election started really in
twenty twenty two, but more so in twenty twenty three.
The twenty twenty sixth election is starting right now, in
twenty twenty five, there is no off season in politics.
(19:23):
Sorry to break it to you. I just discovered this
recently myself actually starting to work in news and politics.
Before I was a passive observer.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
You know.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
I worked in fast food and I just casually watched politics.
Now I work in news and politics and this is
my life twenty four to seven. There's no break ever.
But I'm glad. I enjoy it, every wiky moment of it.
I wouldn't change it for anything, and I really wouldn't
so anyway. The twenty twenty sixth election that's getting underway,
John Cornyn is up for reelection. A lot of people
have a lot of opinions on John Cornyn. I'm frankly
(19:53):
sick of him. He has voted for red flag loss
one too many times. I'm tired of it. I am
a Second Amendment absolutist. If you have the right to
keep in bare arms, bar nothing else. In my opinion,
if you are allowed to be out on the streets
as a free member of society, I think you should
be allowed to have a gun. If you can't be
trusted with a gun, you should be behind bars. If you
have to be behind bars your entire life. Frankly, you
(20:15):
should be executed because we need to start looking at
saving the taxpayer's money and creating some actual incentives for
people to not do crime. Those are my thoughts on
the subject. If you have paid your debt to society
and can be a free man, you should have a
firearm nothing else. If you get put behind bars, obviously
you can't have a gun in jail. Clearly that makes sense.
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You have forfeited a lot of your rights by committing
a crime. Once you get out, you should be allowed
to have a gun. If you have not gone through
due process and been found guilty of any crime, you
should be allowed to have a gun. So that's one
of the gripes that I have with John Corny, and
he's put his name on a few different red flag laws.
That's one of the similar gripes that I have with
Dan Crenshaw. He's done the same thing. He is a
politician's politician. He will say whatever it is he has
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to say to win the next election. And that's why
if you follow him on Twitter, you may have noticed
that all of the sudden, out of the blue, he
will tweet something basically every five minutes about how cool
and hip he thinks Donald Trump is. He posted a
couple of weeks ago this really obnoxious picture of him
sitting at a table reading Donald Trump's book, The Art
of the Deal and saying great book, highly recommend it.
(21:21):
Love Donald Trump xoxo. Now that's really obnoxious if you've
been paying attention to politics for more than thirty minutes,
and you know that when there was still sort of
some debate as to who was going to carry the
Republican Party during the twenty twenty four election, we didn't
know for sure whether or not Donald Trump was going
to throw his hat back into the ring. John Cornyn
(21:42):
was out there going on record saying Donald Trump's time
has passed. SCE needs to step aside. He shouldn't be
involved in this anymore. And now he's acting like Donald
Trump's number one cheerleader. It's the inconsistency that gets to me.
And on top of that, John Cornyn says a lot,
but he doesn't do a lot. I would like a
senator that's actually productively pursuing Texas's interests on whatever level.
(22:05):
I haven't seen that from John Cornyn. Now I have
seen that from Ken Paxton I've seen it a lot
from Ken Paxton, and he just announced yesterday that he
is officially running to replace John Corny. So he'll be
running in a Republican primary against John Cornyn. This is
a big deal. This is a big deal. This person
will be in the Senate for the next six years
if they win. So we have the choice between Ken Paxton,
(22:28):
who we know is a great attorney general, that has
been very consistent, that has worked very hard at any
given opportunity. He's pursuing Texas values and Texas's state interests,
versus John Cornyn, who every six years will come out
and get really active saying the right things, and then
spend the next, you know, six years doing basically nothing.
(22:49):
So obviously my preference is for Ken Paxton. And here
he is making his announcement on Fox News that he
is going to be running against John Cornyn for his
sense in generally have a big announcement. I understand you
want to make tonight.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (23:05):
Well, first of all, I'm excited to be on your
show to do this. It's a great place to do it.
I'm announcing that I'm running for US Senate against John Corner,
who apparently is running again for his fifth term, which
we put in there three decades. It's definitely time for
a change in Texas. We have another great US Senator,
Ted Cruz, and it's time we have another great senator
that will actually stand up and fight for Republican values,
(23:27):
fight for the values of the people of Texas, and
also support Trump Donald Trump in the areas that he's
focused on in a very significant way. And that's what
I plan on doing. And I hope that people will
go to my website and look at what we're doing
at Kenpaxton dot com and obviously contribute as well.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Now, obviously Ken Paxton would be a huge upgrade, and
I think the biggest example of that is the fact
that Ken Paxson has, like Donald Trump, been a victim
of sort of the deep state quote unquote. It's not
exactly the same deep state that went after Donald Trump,
but Ken Paxton, like Donald Trump, has faced you know,
extreme political law. Fair right. He was impeached for no
(24:03):
reason by the ridiculous far left Texas House. Thankfully, the
Texas Senate is run by actual conservatives who had the
common sense to say, Okay, you have come to us
with no evidence. You impeached him, and you said, over
the course of the trial there would be evidence of
all his wrongdoings. Over the course of the trial, no
(24:24):
evidence was presented at all that he ever actually did
anything wrong, and he was acquitted. It's because Ken Paxton
was making the sort of status quo preservists in the
Texas House nervous. He was calling him out for the
fact that they were cutting far more deals with the
Democrats than they were actually passing conservative priorities. Remember this
is a long standing problem in the state of Texas,
(24:47):
the fact that our House of Representatives, which on paper
is controlled by the Republicans, keeps somehow managing to end
up in the control of the Democrats. Supposedly Republicans run
the j but yet it's the Democrat bills that are
getting heard, It's the Democrat priorities that are getting passed.
Anything that's a Republican priority that manages to get passed
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is extremely and insanely watered down to the point where
it's not even the conservative priority that it was originally
supposed to be. Ken Paston called that out. He started saying, hey,
you guys need to do better, and they tried to
punish him for it, and it didn't work because again
the Texas Senate has common sense. But that's exactly the
(25:31):
sort of people that we need in the federal government
right now. This second term for Donald Trump is going
to be all about finding the people that have put
the status quo and preserving the status quo above the
interests of their actual constituents. Donald Trump is going in
and he's trying to find all the people that kind
of screwed him over in his first term, all the
(25:53):
deep state, kind of globalist uniparty plants not to sound
too much like Alex Jones here, that he didn't know
any better but to trust and ended up screwing him
over as time went on. He's now going in and
he's finding those people and he's getting them out of government,
out of public life, and everybody is benefiting from that.
(26:14):
But listen, he can't do that by himself. He does
need people like Ken Paxton that are going to kind
of back him up on that and participate. And Ken Paxton,
unlike John Cordon, has been very consistently behind Trump one
hundred percent of the time. Now you can look at
that as a fault, and I think there's a reasonable
argument to say, Okay, you should be able and willing
(26:36):
to criticize him at least a little bit here and there.
But if nothing else, it shows consistency and loyalty, and
those are important values. I've watched Ken Paxton in public
life as Attorney General long enough to feel confident that one,
I think he's a consistent and loyal person, which is
a valuable thing. And two, I think he truly will
(26:57):
prioritize the needs of the state of text over anything
else until I see something different. I'm leaning towards right
now voting for Ken Paxton. Again, I'm not gonna make
an endorsement. I'm not going to tell you who to
vote for. Here's my thought process. This is what I'm
thinking about going into this election. And again, I can't
stress this enough. I talked about this all throughout twenty
(27:19):
twenty four. Do your own thinking on this election, just
like every election, Look at who the candidates are, if
they have held public office before, because usually they have.
Look at what their records in that office are, look
at what they've been doing over their tenure in whatever
position they held before just now, and what you're going
(27:41):
to be looking for is one consistency because politicians love
to flip flop. Whichever the way the wind is blowing,
that's where they're going. And two, look for indicators in
their actions that they mirror your values. And look for again,
consistency in that as well. And now this doesn't have
to be one hundred percent of the time. They're always
on the same pages you and they're always on the
(28:01):
same page as themselves. But look for the patterns. Right.
Allow some wiggle room because we're all human and that
goes for politicians too, But try to find somebody that
is the closest to your values the most time. And again,
that's something you're gonna have to judge for yourself. That's
something you're gonna have to do the research on. I'll
tell you what I'm seeing, I'll tell you which way
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I'm leading. But at the end of the day, it's
your vote. The choice is for you. Go back and
look at John Cornyn's record and you see if that
lines up with what you want, and if it is,
go ahead and vote for him. I'm not gonna fault
you for it. I might say you're wrong, but hey,
it's your vote, it's your decision. You do what you
think is best. As of right now, I'm leaning towards
Ken Paxton. I'm gonna be watching him very closely throughout
(28:45):
this next you know, couple of years, to see what
he's doing, how he campaigns, and we'll see what happens.
All right, stay tuned. We got one more segment coming
up right after this break. All right, Well, it wouldn't
(29:24):
be a true and proper episode of the Next Gen
Report if we didn't react to some crazy liberals. I
got a couple here for you, one of these courtesy
of libs of TikTok, as these videos so often are.
It's amazing what a treasure trove of just crazy leftists
(29:45):
TikTok is just as an account. Have we ever thought
about that? Is there any other place on the Internet,
except maybe temblr that's such a concentrated, just cesspit of
the most ridiculous stupid rules in the world. I have
yet to see it. I don't know actually believe it
or not. This specific video we're going to be looking
(30:06):
at actually is not from TikTok, surprise, surprise. It looks
like it's from Facebook, but I don't know. It's a
group of women. I believe they're with the Defense of
Democracy organization. I had not heard of this organization until
I saw this video, so I figured i'd take a
look at their official X page, advocating to create a
public education system that enhances the child's experience regardless of religion,
(30:31):
cultural background, or wait for it, sexual orientation. Let me
stop you right there. If at any point in a
child's public school years, remember this is like K through twelve,
so this is presumably when a child is under eighteen,
the sexual orientation of that child should not be a
(30:53):
factor at all in anything, because it's a child. But again,
for whatever reason, these people, these leftists, are insistent on
pushing their ridiculous sexual identity on children. I don't know
why this is. There's a lot of strong indicators that
it could be for all the bad reasons you might
(31:14):
assume it is. I don't know. For whatever reason, sexual
identity and gender identity keep becoming major talking points in
our public school systems, and it's got to stop. There
is a group of people called bombs for Liberty that
that's their whole thing is. They're just saying, listen, we
want kids to be able to go to school, we
want them to be able to learn. We don't want
(31:35):
sex to be a topic unless you know you're hitting
that sixteen, seventeen, eighteen year old age and you're just
learning about the human reproductive system in science class, because
that is important. You do need to know where babies
come from by the time you hit about eighteen years old.
That does not mean you need to sit down with
four year olds and read them gender queer. And yet
this is where these leftists so often end up and
(31:56):
their whole thing now, this defensive democracy group now going
after Moms for Liberty using essentially espionage. This video was
posted by libs of TikTok and it's I guess some
sort of board meeting or or council or what have you.
It's just a bunch of ladies sitting in what looks
like a hotel conference room talking about it. And I
(32:18):
want you to listen to what they have to say.
It's really crazy. Got to use it because it's there.
Speaker 5 (32:22):
Yeah, and these people, these white Christian nationalists, one thing
that works against them is that they truly do believe
that everybody believes the same way they are not. They
are not quiet about it, and you it is very
easy to see what they're doing if you follow maya
separate accounts to it, so you don't like completely trow. Yeah,
(32:43):
but I have a fake account and I spy and
that's I don't do it really much anymore because Oklahoma
has grown so large. But that is literally how we
started of finding those things is following the Moms for
Liberty acounts, getting into their groups, seeing the stuff they
talk about when they don't think that any of us
are looking, and they will say, we want to go
to this school board because they have this book in
their library.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
We want to go. We saw that.
Speaker 5 (33:04):
This is you know, the bombster the bomb threats that
I spoke about was because the library and made a
silly TikTok and then it's on Ryan Walter. But this
is this is not officially defensive democracy.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Like all right, First of all, there's something really funny
going on here that you may not have noticed. If
you're not watching the video. I'll go ahead and repost it.
I actually I reposted it yesterday, so I'm not going
to repost it again. But here's what's kind of funny
about this. They're talking about how they're kind of secretly
infiltrating these conservative groups by creating fake accounts. Yet as
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they're saying that they're being filmed by somebody who looks
like she's sitting in the kind of corner off to
the side, just taping this on her phone. This is
not like an official broadcast. So what they're talking about
doing somebody is like actively doing to them in real
life right now, which is kind of funny the fact
that they didn't notice that. But the other thing that's
really important and I want you to pay close attention to,
(34:01):
is she actually gives a definition of what she thinks
white Christian nationalism is. She says, you know, they believe
everybody believes what they do, and so you can just
kind of fake it and they'll let you into their
little groups and group chats. That's the critical flaw with
these white Christian nationalists. Okay, so what is a white
(34:22):
Christian nationalist in this context? Well, she actually, if you listen,
she defined that later in this exact video. She says,
the Moms for Liberty accounts that are going to different
school boards and speaking out against different frankly, oftentimes pornographic
books that are in the children's libraries. That's what this
(34:42):
lady sees is white Christian nationalism. If you don't think
that kids should have access to books where it's literally
cartoon depictions and giving instructions about how to do adult
sex acts that are just in the library, available to
children that are you know, ages, you know, twelve and
down oftentimes, if you don't think that that's normal should
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be allowed, you're a white Christian nationalist. Now, frankly, I
think that's a pretty ridiculous opinion and kind of a
stupid thing to say. But hey, she said it, believe
it or not, that's not the stupidest thing to come
out of this meeting of all these ladies. Shocker. I
know the next lady over won the lady to that
(35:24):
lady's right is about to top it off with something
even dumber. Take a listen to this. This is Karen Svoboda,
the director for Defensive Democracy. Here's what she has to
say about her own children. This is insane. This is
really insane. I want you to listen to it. For me,
(35:45):
I don't always call my story, but at the end
of the day, I have seven children. Four of them
are members of the queer community. All right, So I'll
joke and.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
I'll say I have an elg.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Their deity but I'll tell my straight kids they're dead
to me. I have an l A B A G
A T. And I tell my straight kids they're dead
to me. How insane is that?
Speaker 2 (36:16):
Just?
Speaker 1 (36:16):
I mean one, she plays it off like it's a joke, right,
I joke with my children. Do you think she's joking?
I'm inclined to say that she's probably not. I think
when she openly admits it, she tries to frame it
as a joke so that she can get the laughs.
But more and more we see from these radical leftists
(36:37):
who kind of indoctrinate their children in this garbage. It
really is sort of a status symbol to them. There
really are true instances of people pushing this gender identity
garbage on their children because then they can go to
their affluent liberal friends and say, look at me, look
(36:58):
at how accepting I am of my queer kid. Look
At how much effort I'm putting in to making sure
I have a queer kid, and I'm taking care of
my queer kid, and I'm supporting my queer kid. Look
at me and my queer kid. It's all about me
and my queer kid. It really is a sick mindset,
but it's the backbone of gender ideology, the backbone of
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all of this garbage is attention. It's that innate human
lust for attention. It's pride more than anything else. And hey,
they're very open about it. It's just you want the attention.
You want people to look at you and say, look
how great I am because of my queer kid. It
really is disgusting because what you end up doing is
you ruin these kids' lives just so that you can
get a pat on the back from your rich white
(37:42):
liberal friends. Because that's what this is. All white liberals
on this panel. I'm looking at the video right now.
You can go on my Twitter and see it. It's
all just mostly overweight white liberals. And I guarantee you,
after this meeting was over, all of these ladies all
stood up and patted that other lady on the back
and said, job, what great work you're doing with your
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queer kids. You even got a trans one in there.
We're so proud of you. But nobody ever bothers to
look and see, Okay, well, what's the damage that's being
done to these children? What long term effects are pushing
this ideology on children going to have on the children
it's being pushed on. They don't care about that. All
they care about is making sure they get their pat
on the back from their liberal friends. That's it. That's
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all it is. They are willing to throw as many
children into that firus necessary. It really is disgusting, and
thank god there are groups like Moms for Liberty that
are willing to stand up and say, hey, it's wrong
to be involving children in this. It just is. This
should not be happening. But remember, these are the people
we're up against. They will use your children and their
own children as pawns to get pats on the back
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in the political world. It's disgusting, but it's happening, all right.
That's all I've got for us this Wednesday. Thank you
very much for listening. I'm Ethan Buchanan. This is the
next Gen Report.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
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