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Speaker 1 (00:03):
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 men are to our generation. This is the
next Gen Report, put Ethan Buchanan.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Brown. I feel like I deserve some credit for picking
out that song. Hey guys, I'm Ethan Buchanan at Underscore,
Ethan Buchanan on X Welcome to the podcast. Come on,
it's a good song, all right. Anyway, So we've got
elections underway, right, We've been, uh, we've been. We've been
talking about that pretty frequently. Recently. We talked about it
(00:47):
on Sunday. If you weren't listening to the live broadcast
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have a great time doing the show. The show is
all great. It's a fun time. Tune in, listen, be
a part of the little community. All right, Let's talk
a little bit about elections, because you can never have
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enough of that. So we are following the big race
here in Texas, which is the race for John Cornyn's
Senate's seat. I believe like four or five. Actually, I
think he's a six term Senator. John Cornyn is up
for re election starting next year, which means that race
is already underway. People are starting to begin their primary
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campaign so that they can win either the Democrat or
the Republican Party nomination, and then they will go on
from there to take a shot in the general election
November of next year. So it's already begun, and we've
heard a lot about the Republican side. Right We've got
John Cornyn running for reelection. We've got Ken Paxton, he's
currently the Texas Attorney General. He's got my vote. I'm
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gonna say it right now. I love his record as
attorney general. He really does seem like a strong fighter.
He's made decisions. I disagree with some things I would
maybe want to see an explanation for, but overall his
record as Attorney General of the state of Texas. He's
the kind of person that I say, you know what,
I want you to represent me in the Senate. That's
what I'm kind of batting for. I want you to
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go out do your own research, figure out who you prefer.
You may like John Cornyn, you may like Ken Paxson,
you may like the Democrat I don't know. I'm not
going to tell you who to vote for. I'm going
to tell you to think for yourself and do the research.
All right. My research has led me to Ken Paxston,
and I've talked about that in depth in the past
and past episodes. Go to the podcast and listen there
for the details. I'm not gonna rehash it all right
now because I don't have the time, but anyway, that's
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what's going on on the Republican side. On the Democrats side,
we really don't have a whole lot of anything yet.
We've got a bunch of people that we think might run,
and most of them are either has beens or never wors.
Namely the two top contenders as of right now. We've
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been hearing for basically weeks turning into months now that
Beto O'Rourke might run. You'll remember Beto O'Rourke is the
guy who lost a Senate race to Ted Cruz and
then lost a presidential bid and then lost a gubernatorial
bid to Greg Abbott, and now he wants to run
for Senate again because why stop at three losses when
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you could go for four. I guess he hasn't officially confirmed,
but it's believed that he will probably run. He's been
hinting quite a bit that he will. He posted on
X Let me see if I can actually pull up
the post because I didn't save it. But right after
the Senate passed the Big Beautiful bill yesterday, Beto O'Rourke
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tweeted out, John Cornyn just cast the deciding vote to
stop millions of Texans from being able to see a doctor,
take food away from kids, close down rule hospitals, crush
solar and wind jobs, and give our tax dollars to
the wealthiest people in America. Texas must hold him accountable,
all right. First of all, John Gordon didn't cast the
deciding vote. Jd Vance did. And second of all, that's
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a tweet that you sitting out when you're gonna run
a campaign that is. That's a campaign tweet. That's what
that is. I hope he runs. I want to see
him run. Please please give me Ken Paxton versus Bato O'Rourke.
I want to see Ken Paxton kill this man. All right.
So that's one candidate that we think is probably gonna
run that hasn't officially thrown his hat into the ring.
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One candidate that we know is running because he has
officially thrown his hat into the ring. Is I'm not
kidding Colin Allred. You'll remember Colin Allred as the guy
who no less than seven months ago lost a Senate
race to Ted Cruz the last Senate race last year November,
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last Novae. It hasn't even been a full year since
this guy lost his last Senate race. He's taking another
swing at it, hoping we all forgot. Here's him announcing
his campaign.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
I'm Colin Allred. I've been a lot of things in life,
but I've always been a fighter. After playing football at Baylor,
I decided to give the NFL a shot, hoping that
I could help buy my mom the house that she's
been renting for twenty years. But I went undrafted. I
got a chance to go to training camp, where I
played well, but I still got cut in a lot
of ways. Though I was undrafted in life too. Raised
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by a single mom on a teacher's salary, I never
had the option to give up. So I came back
to Dallas, took a job at the YMCA, picked up towels,
I swopped the floors, and when my shift was done,
I stayed late to put in the work in the
weight room. And when I got another chance, I didn't
just do our team workouts. I did my own workouts
at night two. I made the team, and yeah, I
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bought my mom bad house. The truth is, you shouldn't
have to have a son in the NFL to own
a home.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
All right. He goes on for another minute and a
half just to talk about how much he's going to
stick up for the little guy who can't buy a house. Listen,
you don't have to have a son in the NFL
to own a home. What you do have to do
is make better life decisions, find a better career that
pays more, or get married and have dual income. That's
what it is. Anyway, he goes on to just talk
about how, oh, I'm going to stick up for the
little guy. I played in the NFL. That's his whole ads,
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I'm going to stick up for the little guy and
I played in the NFL. And at no point does
he actually explain to us who he is or what
his policy positions are, which, if you remember, because it
wasn't that long ago. That's exactly what he did with
Ted Cruz. It was just I'm going to stick up
for the little guy I played in the NFL, remember me?
And then Ted Cruz says, hey, you voted to have
men playing women's sports? Can you explain that? And he
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never did. He never even tried. And he's doing the
exact same stick from what I can tell, at least
in this one campaign ad. He's changed nothing about his brand,
nothing about why he's running. He's just running because the
Democrats need a name to put on the ticket. And hell,
throw Colin al Red at and let's see what happens.
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So now it's Colin al Redden probably Beta O'Rourke, two
people who are only known by anybody because of their losses,
and you want to throw them up against Ken Paxton,
who is a powerhouse. Whether you like Ken Paxton personally
or not, whether you think he might be a little
bit shady or not, the fact of the matter is
most Texans, not just the ones in the GOP base,
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because he has won statewide elections by quite a big margin.
Most Texans like Ken Paxton, they like his record, they
like what he's done. Colin Ahred has a record that
is very radical left, will appeal only to people in
radical left congressional districts and not the state of Texas
as a whole. And he has no personal brand other
than look at me, I used to play football. Nobody cares.
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That's not gonna do it. We want a higher class
of politician. Neither of these guys are it. Beto Rourke
is a serial loser and Colin Alred is on his
way to becoming the next serial loser. Anyway, listen, we've
got a great show coming up, a lot of stuff
going on. It has been a busy handful of Daisies
a Sunday broadcast, So stay tuned. We're gonna be right
back after this break. All right, let's talk immigration. Alligator Alcatraz.
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We talked about that probably two weeks ago, now it
wasn't long. It was right after they had first announced
the plan to build Alligator Alcatraz. We did a segment
on it on the show, and we kind of wrapped
that into a broader chat about illegal immigration. Guess what,
(08:46):
Alligator Alcatraz has actually already opened. And you have to
give them a pat on the back for that. They
very quickly built this detention center with great efficiency, with
great efficiency, and I've seen the videos and the pictures
of it. It looks great all things considered, as far
as detention facilities go, it looks like a nice detention facility.
I mean, if I'm picking detention facilities, I'm picking that one. Frankly,
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do I want to be there?
Speaker 1 (09:12):
No?
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Is it alligator Alcatraz and call that for a reason? Yeah,
But I kind of like it. Man, It's pretty cool.
So that's officially open now, and you can go see
the pictures online. They're not hard to find. They're all
over X pictures and videos from the facility. The left
is already doing the kids in cages routine again. Now
(09:36):
here's what I want you to do. I want you
to go back and look for some of the pictures.
They're gonna be a little bit harder to find because
the media tried to bury them. They did, but they're
still out there. You can still find them, especially on X.
If you dig around, you'll come across them. Go find
the pictures of some of the detention facilities for illegal
aliens that were built in twenty fourteen under the Obama administration.
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You'll see little air mattresses not even air mattresses, just
foam mattresses stacked all over the ground with those little
foil blankets that NASA gives people just terrible, terrible conditions,
And then go look at pictures of alligator acuatraz. You
have actual beds, actual bunk beds. Maybe they're a little
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close together, but they're at least actual bunk beds, well organized, neat.
You have an air conditioned facility. It is air conditioned.
By the way, it's all things considered, there's worse places
to be detained if you've committed a crime. I think
it's probably all things considered, nicer than your average prison
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here in the state of Texas. I happen to know
for a fact that air conditions in Texas prisons are
not a thing. This place is air conditions. We're treating
illegal alien detainees better than our actual homegoing criminals. You
can take whatever stance you want on that. I frankly
don't really care. If the State of Florida wants to
pay for air conditioning for illegal aliens, knock yourself out.
They've built what is, by basically every measure, a decent
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facility to be detained. It rep Eric Swalwell, he's the
California representative who got caught. Let's just say he was
having mommy daddy time with a Chinese spy. And you
can run your numbers and figure out what that means.
I'm not gonna tell you, and I'm not gonna tell
you to look it up either. You can guess. Come on,
words here. Rep. Eric Swalwell posted a video from Alligator Alcatraz, which,
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by the way, I've reposted it. You can see it
all my expage. It just goes to show you how
nice this facility actually is. You've got well ordered, decent
looking bunk beds inside an air conditioned facility. And he says,
cages for your neighbor's kids. So we're doing this again.
We're doing reruns of the kids in Cages routine from
the first Trump administration. Come on, I mean, I'm all
for a good remake, but this is stale, right, this
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is stale. President Trump. By the way, he was there
yesterday at the grand opening of Alligator Orchatraz. I'm gonna
play you some cuts from this, and I want you
to just take a minute to acknowledge how transparent this
has all been. Because the left will completely seriously try
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to tell you this is a second Holocaust, and they're
not kidding. They really mean it and they really think that.
But I want you to bear in mind, the German
citizenry was completely lied to about the Holocaust. They had
no idea what was happening versus here now and what
the left will, honest to God tell you is the
second Holocaust. You have Donald Trump, the President of the
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United States, taking cameras through what they're saying is a concentration.
Came and saying, look at the air conditioning, look at
the beds, look at the medical facility. It's a great
medical facility. You have to be legitimately mentally disabled to
believe that this is a second Holocaust. Either that or
you just allowed yourself to be lied to. But anyway,
(12:55):
here's President Trump, Ronda Santis christin Noome altogether, just talking
about Look, I wanted to show you myself, you the media,
as president of the United States, wanted to show you
what's actually going on here so you can all see
for yourself. And no, for sure, Look, here's the medical facility,
here's all this, here's the air conditioning. Lighted it up,
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take a listen, and.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Were just taking tours through the areas where they stay
and the areas where the medical is it all and
they've really done. Between Christy and Ron and the whole group,
it's really government working together. And congratulations due to guess.
But I wanted you to see it as opposed to
waiting for us and then say, how was it right?
It really is pretty amazing.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
I wanted you to see it. I wanted you to
see it. Think about that. The transparency here, that's more
transparency than we ever got from Joe Biden. After this,
Trump did an hour and a half long press conference.
I watched it all on Fox. We never got that
from Joe Biden. We never did even try to. Meanwhile,
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the left is still going nuts over this. Gavin Newsom,
he's losing his mind over this. I mean, I really
don't understand the absolute it's almost a desire by the
left to be ignorant about this. But he goes on
this rampage on Twitter. He goes, Trump would rather talk
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about the alligators than his major signature, big Beautiful Bill
for a reason. Well, no, he would rather talk about
the alligators because it's important. It's important for the American
people to know. Hey, we're securing our border, and this
is how we're doing it. President Trump, for his part,
just goes on and he says, hey, Newsom should come
down here and learn a thing or two. Get educated
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rather than making up nonsense, rather than fear mongering. For
all your friends in the mainstream media and all the
idiots who follow you blindly and vote for you, actually
come here and learn about what's happening and what's going
on on here. He is saying this at Alligator Orchestraz proudly,
mister President, is your governor?
Speaker 5 (15:05):
What's the message to Governor Gavin Newsom the inside of
this facility?
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Well, the first thing you should do is come here
and learn something. Because they don't do this. They don't know,
they were not where to begin, and if they did,
it would cost them one hundred times more.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
So I would say he should call the governor at.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Christy and I'm sure you'd give him a because his
state is a disaster and he doesn't do this. What's
your product.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
He's right, his state is a disaster. It really is.
Of course, the left are going nuts once again, as
they always do, and of course they pull out their
favorite maneuver that they always use, and basically any debate.
Anytime the left is losing an argument with the right,
they'll immediately go clip some Bible verse and try to say, oh,
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look at this, See you're wrong because of this Bible
verse that I took out of context and I've never
read before just now. They always do this routine. They
do it about everything. Their favorite one is love your neighbor,
or judge not lest you be judged. They always just
say judge not and forget they lest you be judged.
They do this with the border too. Somebody tweeted out,
this guy's name is Devin Duke. By the way, he
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served Devin Duke on ex He tweeted out a picture
of a page of the Bible, and it's highlighted Levitigus
nineteen thirty three thirty four, which reads, do not mistreat
foreigners living in your country, but treat them as you
treat your own citizens. Love foreigners you as you love yourselves,
because you were foreigners one time in Egypt. I am
the Lord, your God. All right, So first of all,
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we have to take a look at where this is
coming from. This is the book of Levitigus, which is
written specifically to the Old Testament Jewish people. Now, we
can obviously take value from this as a piece of scripture.
It is God breathed right. I don't want to get
too theologically in depth here because I'm not a theologian,
and chances are you're not. But this was written to
a specific time and a specific place, to a specific people.
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And the literal next three words that follow that is
do not cheat. The first three words of Levinticus nineteen
verse thirty five is do not cheat. What are you
doing when you jump the immigration process and sneak over
the border when you're not supposed to rather than going
through the legal process. Well, frankly, you're cheating. You're cheating
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the American people, You're cheating the immigration system. And of
course foreigners in your land will give more power while
you gradually lose yours. They will have money to lend
to you, but you will have none to lend to them.
In the end, they will be your rulers. They will
be evidence of God's judgment on you and your descendants forever.
So for every Bible verse that they have to say, look,
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you need to let illegal aliens into the country. There's
one that's from Deuteronomy twenty eight forty three. By the way,
that says, hey, we need to secure our borders, and
we do and President Trump is doing it. And if
you have a problem with that, cry about it. Keep crying.
We will apprehend in legal aliens. We will put them
in alligator alcatraze and hold them there, and then we
will report them out of the United States of America,
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just like the founding follows intended. All right, states, and
we'll be right back. All right, Let's talk about the
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big beautiful bill. It is now one step closer to
becoming law. It passed the Senate yesterday. The House will
be voting on it today. It could very well be
passed by the end of the day. So that's big news.
This is getting close, it's almost done. This is doing
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two things. It's freaking the left out, which is great,
and it's splintering the gop bass, which is not great.
I don't know if it's really splintering the gop bass,
but Elon Musk, Thomas Massey, and Rand Paul are all
really upset about and we're gonna get into that. We're
gonna we're gonna really look at this from both sides
of the coin. Because I can do that. So I
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want to start by saying, this bill, regardless of the cost,
will do some good things. It will. It'll spend way
more money than we probably should be spending them we
probably need to spend as a federal government, and that
is a problem that both parties still refuse to solve.
I don't know why both parties still refuse to solve that,
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but they do. Something needs to be done, all right.
Those are the hard facts. You can love or hate
Elon Musk for saying it, because that's the big beef
between him and Donald Trump right now. They're still at
odds because Elon Musk is pointing out the simple fact
that hey, at some point, sooner or later, we're going
to have to slow down or stop spending money. That
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bill will come do eventually, and he's right, he is.
But the Big Beautiful Bill, it is an important piece
of Trumpe's agenda. It will fulfill a number of his
campaign promises, and the pa message of the Big Beautiful
Bill does seem to be applauded by a number of
different organizations after the Senate passed it, Donald Trump on
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I guess Trump's staffers from the rapid response forty seven
account put out a bunch of different statements from a
bunch of different business organizations, all applauding the Big Beautiful Bill.
The American Petroleum Institute President and CEO Mike Summers put
out a statement praising it. The Airlines Dot Org they
put out a statement praising it. Association of Builders and Contractors,
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they all applauded the passage of the Big Beautiful Bill.
The Business Roundtable applauded the Big Beautiful Bill. American Iron
and Steel Institute, they all applauded the Big Beautiful Bill.
So that's great, that's good news. Vice President JD. Vance,
of course, who was the deciding vote. Actually, just so
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you can hear it, just because this will be an
important historical moment, whether you like it or not. Here's
what it sounded like when Vice President JD. Van's voted
to pass the Big Beautiful Bill, because it was fifty
to fifty. It was fifty votes ya, fifty votes nay.
That was Ran Paul, and I believe two other Democrat
or two other Republicans that voted against it. My math
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might not be adding up completely there. I don't know
what exactly the balance of power is in the Senate,
but it was Ran Paul and at least one other Republican,
but I believe two other Republicans all voted against the
big beautiful bill, and so that left JD Vance to
cast the tie breaking vote. Here's what that sounded, Liket's vote.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
The Ya's are fifty, the nays are fifty, the Senate
being evenly divided.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
The Vice President votes in the affirmative. The bill as
amended is passed. Vote all right. So that was the
bill passing the Senate, and then it goes back to
the House, and the House will have to pass it now,
and then hypothetically, if they can pass it without it
being amended, then it'll go to the Presidence in President's desk.
If the House has to amend it, then it'll have
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to go back to the Senate, and we'll do this
whole thing again. So the estimates in terms of cost,
because we've talked about how great it is. Vice President
Jadi Vance tweeted out or posted massive tax cuts, especially
no tax on tips in overtime, and most importantly, big
money for border security. This is a win for the
American people. So to a certain extent, yes, we did
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achieve no tax on tips, and over time there are
caps on both of that, and those are still subjected
to other taxes. I don't know specifically. Hold on, there's
a community know that says it still subject to employee
and employer FIKA taxes at the regular rate of seven
point sixty five each, but there's no income tax on it.
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So that is a win. That's hey, no income tax
on even that, even if there's a cap. I'll take
that win. Let's keep going. Let's make it bigger, right, right,
we can improve on that we got off foot in
the door. Great more spending on border security. Listen, as
much as I will cry in the streets that we
need to cut our spending, there are some things we
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need to spend big on the military and border security.
I think are those two things? All right? So spending
big on border security, go for it. What else? Do
we have? Massive tax cuts and tax on tips? Okay?
So that's basically it. Hey, that's good. This is to
a certain extent a win. Is it as big of
a win as we might want? No, it's not. And
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again I blame that on you, the voters. All Right,
we didn't show up in the way that we needed
to there was not the strong enough hardline fiscal conservative
majority that we needed in order to win the votes
that we need in order to pass a strong cut
to the budget. There just wasn't. And hey, that's on.
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You show up in the primaries, vote in the primaries
for fiscal conservatives, and then show up again in the
general election and vote to send them to Washington, and
then we can get a bigger cut. Don't blame Trump,
don't blame the car hungers, blame yourself, because the Congress
that's there. You put there, you the voters put there.
So Grock is estimating the cost of this bill to
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be somewhere between two point nine and four trillion dollars.
I think it's probably going to be on the lower
end of that. I think probably when it's all said
and done, we'll be looking at probably a two ish
trillion dollar budget, because that's what this is. This is
the budget bill. Is that way too big? Yes, But
we got some stuff in there that we really needed. So,
you know, you win some, you lose some, especially when
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you don't have a strong majority in Congress, and we don't.
All Right, that's the hard facts of it. Now, there
are some beliefs that this is actually going to end
up costing us less because there's income from the government
that we're not considering. Here is Stephen Mirn. He is
a Council of Economic Advisor's chair for the President. He's
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making the argument that this is actually going to be
cheaper than it is on paper. Right now, take a listen, the.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
Deathsit will come down for economic growth and other policies
that we're hunting. Let me tell you all the things
that are not included in the CBO score that are
getting ignored by the dowaters in this process. There's better
revenue from economic growth that I just mentioned a moment ago.
That's about four trillion dollars. There's going to be about
three trillion dollars of terrorf revenue coming into that. Because
they don't come in through the legislative process, they don't
get counted in the score. But those three trillion dollars
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are as good as any other dollars for bringing down
the deficit. There's about a trillion and a half dollars
a further administrative costs. These are things like reduced headcount
a federal agencies, the government becoming more efficient doing more
with less, and there's also another about trillion and a
half dollars of reduced interest expenses because we're borrowing less
for all the other things.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
You add all this up, you.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
Get to about eight and a half to eleven trillion
dollars of growth across all of these different means of sorry,
eight and a half to eleven trillion dollars of reduced
deficit from all of these means of bringing the deficit down.
And it's all in all combined extremely powerful, and so
it's very very powerful deficit reduction. It will bring the
debt to GDP ratio down by over twenty percentage points
relative to what the CBO.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
It's okay, okay, I definitely could see that that might
be the case. We have already seen massive economic growth,
we're seeing businesses thrive, so that could very well be
the possibility. Here's my gripe with what Stephen Miron just said.
You're counting your chickens before they hatch, All right, you are,
That's what's happening. You may be very very confident that
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these chickens are going to hatch, but the fact of
the matter is they haven't hatched yet. I was always
taught don't spend money you don't have, even if you
know for sure you'll get it later, don't spend it
until you have it. I have followed that as best
as I could my entire life. It has served me
very well. If it works for me, it stands to
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reason it will work for the government. Right So I
am a little bit kind of doubtful of that, and
he may be right. I'm willing to wait and see.
All right, this could turn out, you know, being way
smaller than we think. It is way less of a deficit,
and we have more economic growth, and it all evens
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out in the end. That very well may be the case.
I'll wait and see, all right, Again, I'm not gonna
count my chickens before the hatch. If this turns out, great,
great if it fails. We did have people say I
told you so, And those people's names was Thomas Massey.
Here he is talking about the fact that, hey, we
never cut spending. Why are we never cutting spending? It's
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the same every single year. The Democrats spend a bunch
and then the Republicans do the same thing. It's the
same plot every fiscal year. What should we be doing?
Speaker 6 (27:32):
It's already been discussed.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
We should have done twelve separate bills. We should have
done twelve separate bills.
Speaker 6 (27:38):
But again, whether Democrats are in control or Republicans are
in control, we never do the twelve separate bills. Why
do we always spend at least as much as we
did last year, and why do we never cut spending.
It's because Democrats want to grow the welfare state and
Republicans want to grow the military industrial complex. And we're
eventually going to get together and they're both gonna go up.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
I guarant damn tee it. And he's right. He's been
right every single time this keeps happening, and again, eventually
the bill's gonna come do. Elon Musk has been saying
it very openly. I'll go ahead and play a clip
in the next segment because I'm running out of time
to play it now. But in the next segment we'll
open with Elon Musk saying, Hey, eventually the bill is
going to come do for all of this, and we're
going to have to stop. We should stop now while
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it's a choice, rather than waiting for some economic disaster
to befall the United States of America and then we
have to cut the spending. But that doesn't happens. Nobody
has the guts to do it. And the fact of
the matter is, it's because cutting the spending is unpopular.
At the end of the day, you're gonna have to
look somebody in the eye and saying you're not going
to get something because we have to cut the spending
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and nobody has the cohones to do that. We need
to elect people that do and that's on you, the
voters in the primaries. We've got primaries coming up next
year next spring. Do it all right, statute, we'll bearing back. Okay,
(29:18):
So we've all seen the feuding that's ongoing between Trump
and Elon Musk about the budget, and I'll come out
and say it. I'm not afraid Trump isn't the wrong here.
Trump is going whole hog at Elon Musk, and all
the Elon Musk is doing is saying, hey, let's maybe
spend less money. And he's had a very consistent message
(29:39):
on that front for quite some time. You have to
give him his due credit for that. He has been
very consistently saying since the first time he kind of
started getting political right, since he originally hopped onto the
campaign trip with Donald Trump, he was openly saying, hey,
we have got to do something about the spending. We
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are spending more money than we have at unbelievable amounts.
Our debt is insane. I mean, do you know this
right now? We are at thirty seven trillion dollars of
debt right now and probably more because it's skyrocketing by
the day. It is obvious that America hasn't made you're
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spending problem. Elon Musk's entire political point is we've got
to address that. Elon Musk is the single issue voter.
That's his single issue. Now. I've advised people in the
past against being single issue voters because if you're a
single issue voter on anything, you'll always be disappointed. If
you're a single issue voter on spending, on the debt,
(30:43):
on whatever, you're gonna be disappointed. They're always gonna spend
more than you want. If you're a single issue voter
on guns, there's always going to be more gun regulation
than you want. If you're a single issue voter on abortion,
you're never going to get the abortion bans that you
want or the abortion opened up to everybody that you want.
(31:06):
So don't be a single issue voter. Get the best
of what you can with everything, but there are single
voter issues out there and they're not all necessarily wrong.
Elon Musk is correct and saying we have to do
something about the spending, and of course, because that's not
being done by either political party. Neither political party is
benefiting from Elon Musk right now, including the Republicans, who
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literally just a second ago benefited quite a bit from
Elon Musk. Again, the last election was seven months ago.
The Republicans were absolutely benefited by having Elon Musk on
their side, by having his money, by having his influence.
If you deny that, you're an idiot, Dave Lee. I
don't know who this guy is, but he's important enough
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for Elon Musk to notice him. He posted on X
just rain in the spending and the Republicans would keep
Elon on board. He's been saying has that if the
big beautiful bill passes, he will start a new political
party and back it with his funding, which I don't
hate the idea of him doing. Go for it. If
you want to start a budget focused political party and
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back then with your money, I'm all for it. I'll
probably vote for some of your candidates run some candidates
in my area that I can actually vote for and
I'll run them, or I'll vote for him. And he said,
all I'm asking is, we don't bankrupt America. And he's
making a good point. Elon mus said that on Twitter.
All I'm asking is, we don't bankrupt America. Here he is.
I told you i'd play it in the last segment.
(32:34):
Here it is, I'm playing it now. Elon Musk as
some event back in twenty twenty four, September twenty twenty four,
so this is just before the election, talking about the
fact that hey, we're spending too much money. This problem
is going to turn around and buy us in the ass,
probably sooner rather than later, and we need to do
something about it.
Speaker 7 (32:51):
Here he is, America's also going bankrupt extremely quickly, and
nobody seems to everyone seems to be sort of whistling
past the grave out on this one. You know, the
the Defense Department budget is a very big budget. Okay,
it's a trillion dollars a year, dearity until it's trillion
dollars and interest payments on the national debt just exceeded
(33:16):
the Defense Department budget. But they're over a trillion dollars
a year just in interest and rising. We're adding a
trillion dollars to the net to our debt, which our
you know, kids and grandkids are going to have to
pay somehow every three months, and then student it's going
to be every two months, and then every month, and
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then the only thing we'll be able to pay is interest.
And if it's just you know, it's just like a
person at scale that has racked up too much credit
card debt and not does does not have a good ending.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
He's clearly right here, and it's not debatable. He is
now whether or not the positives of the big beautiful
bill will balance out the price tag. That remains to
be seen. Maybe it will. Maybe it will, and if
it does, God bless glad to see it. Maybe it won't,
and in which case, God help us, because we were
warned and we decided to ignore that warning. But you know,
(34:15):
it remains to be seen. Let's see what happens with it.
Maybe this will all work out, maybe it won't. Either way,
sooner or later we will have to cut the spending.
That's a fact. It's on denial.
Speaker 8 (34:27):
All right.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Let's talk about abortion for a minute, because I brought
it up just a second ago. I'm very pro life.
I think human life has value, no matter how small
it is. I think abortions should not exist, and I
don't believe in any particular exceptions for that. That's my
spot ABC. The brilliant ladies over at the View, and
(34:51):
by brilliant I mean absolute morons, they accidentally said the
quiet part out loud. I want to play you this clip.
The Media Research Center put this out, Media Research Center NewsBusters.
I actually, uh, I talk with these guys quite a bit.
They're great folks over there. They do a lot of
good work. Check them out. Maybe I'll have them on
as a guest. Tune in on Sundays. That's usually when
(35:14):
I have my guests Sundays at seven pm on KPRC.
I will probably try to get somebody from the Media
Research Center on. But they posted this video of the
ladies of the View accidentally saying the quiet part out
loud on abortion. Take a listen to this in this conversation.
Should be involved in this at all.
Speaker 9 (35:34):
I think it is a medical and ethical decision that
because of the ethics of it, the law does have
to come into it. And I'll explain why here recently,
a twenty week year old baby survived outside of the
womb because of medical intervention. That's a miracle. That's science,
that's technology making something that seemed impossible possible. So science
is moving quicker than the public policy debate around it.
(35:55):
And at some point we're going to have to ask
ourselves if a baby can live outside the womb at
a certain point, should there be a restriction on the
ability to terminate a pregnancy at that point?
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Okay, real quick, just to interrupt, Yes, absolutely, that's not controversial.
Obviously that's true. You have to be a sick freak
in order to say this baby that can live outside
the room should be killed. You're you are a sick
free I'm sorry if that hurts your feelings. Maybe you're
pro choice, You're a sick freak. Seek Christ, you disgusting,
(36:24):
vile person. That is a child, that is a human
is undeniable. I would go even farther say, even if
it can't live outside the womb, it should be protected.
And we'll get into that in a second. Take a
listen to the rest of this clip.
Speaker 8 (36:34):
Yeah, but there's a really disturbing case, kind of touching
on what you said. There's a woman named Adriana Smith,
a woman who was brain dead because she went in
having concerns about her pregnancy. They sent her home, she
went back and it ended up she'd had blood clots.
They kept her alive by ventilators, although her family wanted
to let her go because she was completely brain dead,
but they did it to keep the baby against her
(36:57):
family's wishes, and the baby was born at like but
like to me, that's such an overstep if you go
into the hospital and you've lost your loved one, because
arguably they missed it the first time with their blood clots.
She was a black woman, which is important.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
Okay, No, it's not important. She was a black woman,
which is important. No, it's not. It doesn't matter. This
is a baby that was a child that was kept alive.
That's a miracle. The mother died and we preserved the
life of this child. If you're the family arguing no,
take her off life support and kill the child, you're
a sick freak. I'm sorry for the loss of your
loved one who was pregnant with child. You're a sick freak.
(37:34):
You are you are to advocate for Oh, she was
brain dead and the family wanted her dead, so we
should kill this innocent child as well, who did nothing
wrong other than happened to be spawned in the womb
of a woman who was brain dead or became brain dead.
And you're saying because of that, you should lose your life.
(37:55):
You are a sick freak. Seek Christ, Seek help. You
are messed up in the head. I don't care what
moral compass you have. It's clearly a child. The child
survived and is alive today because of the miracles of
medical technology. And you're saying, oh, no, we should have
killed it, We should have let it die with the mother.
(38:16):
What the hell is even wrong with you? But this
is the quiet part allowed at the end of this clip.
I'm not gonna play because I don't have time. They
talk about the fact that since Roe v. Wade, abortions
have gone up, and the audience cheers, which is disgusting.
Why would you cheer for that? It just goes to
show that for the left, it's not about any of
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the excuses that they give you. They just love abortion.
They just love killing children because they're sick freaks. And
I will stand by that statement, come hell or high water,
all right, that's all I've got for you this week.
Remember tune in Sunday seven pm on AM nine to
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Listen to the live broadcast. It'll be great. Thank you
very much for listening. We'll be back then. The games
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From the heart of the Space City to the heart
of gen Z. Welcome to Next Gen Conversation, not Dad's
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Brown. I feel like I deserve some credit for picking
out that song. Hey guys, I'm Ethan Buchanan at Underscore,
Ethan Buchanan on X Welcome to the podcast. Come on,
it's a good song, all right. Anyway, So we've got
elections underway, right, We've been, uh, we've been. We've been
talking about that pretty frequently. Recently. We talked about it
(00:47):
on Sunday. If you weren't listening to the live broadcast
on Am nine point fifty KPRC here in Houston, or
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all great. It's a fun time. Tune in, listen, be
a part of the little community. All right, Let's talk
a little bit about elections, because you can never have
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enough of that. So we are following the big race
here in Texas, which is the race for John Cornyn's
Senate's seat. I believe like four or five. Actually, I
think he's a six term Senator. John Cornyn is up
for re election starting next year, which means that race
is already underway. People are starting to begin their primary
(01:29):
campaign so that they can win either the Democrat or
the Republican Party nomination, and then they will go on
from there to take a shot in the general election
November of next year. So it's already begun, and we've
heard a lot about the Republican side. Right We've got
John Cornyn running for reelection. We've got Ken Paxton, he's
currently the Texas Attorney General. He's got my vote. I'm
(01:52):
gonna say it right now. I love his record as
attorney general. He really does seem like a strong fighter.
He's made decisions. I disagree with some things I would
maybe want to see an explanation for, but overall his
record as Attorney General of the state of Texas. He's
the kind of person that I say, you know what,
I want you to represent me in the Senate. That's
what I'm kind of batting for. I want you to
(02:12):
go out do your own research, figure out who you prefer.
You may like John Cornyn, you may like Ken Paxson,
you may like the Democrat I don't know. I'm not
going to tell you who to vote for. I'm going
to tell you to think for yourself and do the research.
All right. My research has led me to Ken Paxston,
and I've talked about that in depth in the past
and past episodes. Go to the podcast and listen there
for the details. I'm not gonna rehash it all right
now because I don't have the time, but anyway, that's
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what's going on on the Republican side. On the Democrats side,
we really don't have a whole lot of anything yet.
We've got a bunch of people that we think might run,
and most of them are either has beens or never wors.
Namely the two top contenders as of right now. We've
(02:55):
been hearing for basically weeks turning into months now that
Beto O'Rourke might run. You'll remember Beto O'Rourke is the
guy who lost a Senate race to Ted Cruz and
then lost a presidential bid and then lost a gubernatorial
bid to Greg Abbott, and now he wants to run
for Senate again because why stop at three losses when
(03:16):
you could go for four. I guess he hasn't officially confirmed,
but it's believed that he will probably run. He's been
hinting quite a bit that he will. He posted on
X Let me see if I can actually pull up
the post because I didn't save it. But right after
the Senate passed the Big Beautiful bill yesterday, Beto O'Rourke
(03:37):
tweeted out, John Cornyn just cast the deciding vote to
stop millions of Texans from being able to see a doctor,
take food away from kids, close down rule hospitals, crush
solar and wind jobs, and give our tax dollars to
the wealthiest people in America. Texas must hold him accountable,
all right. First of all, John Gordon didn't cast the
deciding vote. Jd Vance did. And second of all, that's
(03:59):
a tweet that you sitting out when you're gonna run
a campaign that is. That's a campaign tweet. That's what
that is. I hope he runs. I want to see
him run. Please please give me Ken Paxton versus Bato O'Rourke.
I want to see Ken Paxton kill this man. All right.
So that's one candidate that we think is probably gonna
run that hasn't officially thrown his hat into the ring.
(04:20):
One candidate that we know is running because he has
officially thrown his hat into the ring. Is I'm not
kidding Colin Allred. You'll remember Colin Allred as the guy
who no less than seven months ago lost a Senate
race to Ted Cruz the last Senate race last year November,
(04:40):
last Novae. It hasn't even been a full year since
this guy lost his last Senate race. He's taking another
swing at it, hoping we all forgot. Here's him announcing
his campaign.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
I'm Colin Allred. I've been a lot of things in life,
but I've always been a fighter. After playing football at Baylor,
I decided to give the NFL a shot, hoping that
I could help buy my mom the house that she's
been renting for twenty years. But I went undrafted. I
got a chance to go to training camp, where I
played well, but I still got cut in a lot
of ways. Though I was undrafted in life too. Raised
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by a single mom on a teacher's salary, I never
had the option to give up. So I came back
to Dallas, took a job at the YMCA, picked up towels,
I swopped the floors, and when my shift was done,
I stayed late to put in the work in the
weight room. And when I got another chance, I didn't
just do our team workouts. I did my own workouts
at night two. I made the team, and yeah, I
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bought my mom bad house. The truth is, you shouldn't
have to have a son in the NFL to own
a home.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
All right. He goes on for another minute and a
half just to talk about how much he's going to
stick up for the little guy who can't buy a house. Listen,
you don't have to have a son in the NFL
to own a home. What you do have to do
is make better life decisions, find a better career that
pays more, or get married and have dual income. That's
what it is. Anyway, he goes on to just talk
about how, oh, I'm going to stick up for the
little guy. I played in the NFL. That's his whole ads,
(06:01):
I'm going to stick up for the little guy and
I played in the NFL. And at no point does
he actually explain to us who he is or what
his policy positions are, which, if you remember, because it
wasn't that long ago. That's exactly what he did with
Ted Cruz. It was just I'm going to stick up
for the little guy I played in the NFL, remember me?
And then Ted Cruz says, hey, you voted to have
men playing women's sports? Can you explain that? And he
(06:24):
never did. He never even tried. And he's doing the
exact same stick from what I can tell, at least
in this one campaign ad. He's changed nothing about his brand,
nothing about why he's running. He's just running because the
Democrats need a name to put on the ticket. And hell,
throw Colin al Red at and let's see what happens.
(06:45):
So now it's Colin al Redden probably Beta O'Rourke, two
people who are only known by anybody because of their losses,
and you want to throw them up against Ken Paxton,
who is a powerhouse. Whether you like Ken Paxton personally
or not, whether you think he might be a little
bit shady or not, the fact of the matter is
most Texans, not just the ones in the GOP base,
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because he has won statewide elections by quite a big margin.
Most Texans like Ken Paxton, they like his record, they
like what he's done. Colin Ahred has a record that
is very radical left, will appeal only to people in
radical left congressional districts and not the state of Texas
as a whole. And he has no personal brand other
than look at me, I used to play football. Nobody cares.
(07:28):
That's not gonna do it. We want a higher class
of politician. Neither of these guys are it. Beto Rourke
is a serial loser and Colin Alred is on his
way to becoming the next serial loser. Anyway, listen, we've
got a great show coming up, a lot of stuff
going on. It has been a busy handful of Daisies
a Sunday broadcast, So stay tuned. We're gonna be right
back after this break. All right, let's talk immigration. Alligator Alcatraz.
(08:26):
We talked about that probably two weeks ago, now it
wasn't long. It was right after they had first announced
the plan to build Alligator Alcatraz. We did a segment
on it on the show, and we kind of wrapped
that into a broader chat about illegal immigration. Guess what,
(08:46):
Alligator Alcatraz has actually already opened. And you have to
give them a pat on the back for that. They
very quickly built this detention center with great efficiency, with
great efficiency, and I've seen the videos and the pictures
of it. It looks great all things considered, as far
as detention facilities go, it looks like a nice detention facility.
I mean, if I'm picking detention facilities, I'm picking that one. Frankly,
(09:11):
do I want to be there?
Speaker 1 (09:12):
No?
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Is it alligator Alcatraz and call that for a reason? Yeah,
But I kind of like it. Man, It's pretty cool.
So that's officially open now, and you can go see
the pictures online. They're not hard to find. They're all
over X pictures and videos from the facility. The left
is already doing the kids in cages routine again. Now
(09:36):
here's what I want you to do. I want you
to go back and look for some of the pictures.
They're gonna be a little bit harder to find because
the media tried to bury them. They did, but they're
still out there. You can still find them, especially on X.
If you dig around, you'll come across them. Go find
the pictures of some of the detention facilities for illegal
aliens that were built in twenty fourteen under the Obama administration.
(09:58):
You'll see little air mattresses not even air mattresses, just
foam mattresses stacked all over the ground with those little
foil blankets that NASA gives people just terrible, terrible conditions,
And then go look at pictures of alligator acuatraz. You
have actual beds, actual bunk beds. Maybe they're a little
(10:20):
close together, but they're at least actual bunk beds, well organized, neat.
You have an air conditioned facility. It is air conditioned.
By the way, it's all things considered, there's worse places
to be detained if you've committed a crime. I think
it's probably all things considered, nicer than your average prison
(10:41):
here in the state of Texas. I happen to know
for a fact that air conditions in Texas prisons are
not a thing. This place is air conditions. We're treating
illegal alien detainees better than our actual homegoing criminals. You
can take whatever stance you want on that. I frankly
don't really care. If the State of Florida wants to
pay for air conditioning for illegal aliens, knock yourself out.
They've built what is, by basically every measure, a decent
(11:06):
facility to be detained. It rep Eric Swalwell, he's the
California representative who got caught. Let's just say he was
having mommy daddy time with a Chinese spy. And you
can run your numbers and figure out what that means.
I'm not gonna tell you, and I'm not gonna tell
you to look it up either. You can guess. Come on,
words here. Rep. Eric Swalwell posted a video from Alligator Alcatraz, which,
(11:29):
by the way, I've reposted it. You can see it
all my expage. It just goes to show you how
nice this facility actually is. You've got well ordered, decent
looking bunk beds inside an air conditioned facility. And he says,
cages for your neighbor's kids. So we're doing this again.
We're doing reruns of the kids in Cages routine from
the first Trump administration. Come on, I mean, I'm all
for a good remake, but this is stale, right, this
(11:50):
is stale. President Trump. By the way, he was there
yesterday at the grand opening of Alligator Orchatraz. I'm gonna
play you some cuts from this, and I want you
to just take a minute to acknowledge how transparent this
has all been. Because the left will completely seriously try
(12:10):
to tell you this is a second Holocaust, and they're
not kidding. They really mean it and they really think that.
But I want you to bear in mind, the German
citizenry was completely lied to about the Holocaust. They had
no idea what was happening versus here now and what
the left will, honest to God tell you is the
second Holocaust. You have Donald Trump, the President of the
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United States, taking cameras through what they're saying is a concentration.
Came and saying, look at the air conditioning, look at
the beds, look at the medical facility. It's a great
medical facility. You have to be legitimately mentally disabled to
believe that this is a second Holocaust. Either that or
you just allowed yourself to be lied to. But anyway,
(12:55):
here's President Trump, Ronda Santis christin Noome altogether, just talking
about Look, I wanted to show you myself, you the media,
as president of the United States, wanted to show you
what's actually going on here so you can all see
for yourself. And no, for sure, Look, here's the medical facility,
here's all this, here's the air conditioning. Lighted it up,
(13:16):
take a listen, and.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Were just taking tours through the areas where they stay
and the areas where the medical is it all and
they've really done. Between Christy and Ron and the whole group,
it's really government working together. And congratulations due to guess.
But I wanted you to see it as opposed to
waiting for us and then say, how was it right?
It really is pretty amazing.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
I wanted you to see it. I wanted you to
see it. Think about that. The transparency here, that's more
transparency than we ever got from Joe Biden. After this,
Trump did an hour and a half long press conference.
I watched it all on Fox. We never got that
from Joe Biden. We never did even try to. Meanwhile,
(14:02):
the left is still going nuts over this. Gavin Newsom,
he's losing his mind over this. I mean, I really
don't understand the absolute it's almost a desire by the
left to be ignorant about this. But he goes on
this rampage on Twitter. He goes, Trump would rather talk
(14:25):
about the alligators than his major signature, big Beautiful Bill
for a reason. Well, no, he would rather talk about
the alligators because it's important. It's important for the American
people to know. Hey, we're securing our border, and this
is how we're doing it. President Trump, for his part,
just goes on and he says, hey, Newsom should come
down here and learn a thing or two. Get educated
(14:46):
rather than making up nonsense, rather than fear mongering. For
all your friends in the mainstream media and all the
idiots who follow you blindly and vote for you, actually
come here and learn about what's happening and what's going
on on here. He is saying this at Alligator Orchestraz proudly,
mister President, is your governor?
Speaker 5 (15:05):
What's the message to Governor Gavin Newsom the inside of
this facility?
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Well, the first thing you should do is come here
and learn something. Because they don't do this. They don't know,
they were not where to begin, and if they did,
it would cost them one hundred times more.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
So I would say he should call the governor at.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Christy and I'm sure you'd give him a because his
state is a disaster and he doesn't do this. What's
your product.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
He's right, his state is a disaster. It really is.
Of course, the left are going nuts once again, as
they always do, and of course they pull out their
favorite maneuver that they always use, and basically any debate.
Anytime the left is losing an argument with the right,
they'll immediately go clip some Bible verse and try to say, oh,
(15:50):
look at this, See you're wrong because of this Bible
verse that I took out of context and I've never
read before just now. They always do this routine. They
do it about everything. Their favorite one is love your neighbor,
or judge not lest you be judged. They always just
say judge not and forget they lest you be judged.
They do this with the border too. Somebody tweeted out,
this guy's name is Devin Duke. By the way, he
(16:10):
served Devin Duke on ex He tweeted out a picture
of a page of the Bible, and it's highlighted Levitigus
nineteen thirty three thirty four, which reads, do not mistreat
foreigners living in your country, but treat them as you
treat your own citizens. Love foreigners you as you love yourselves,
because you were foreigners one time in Egypt. I am
the Lord, your God. All right, So first of all,
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we have to take a look at where this is
coming from. This is the book of Levitigus, which is
written specifically to the Old Testament Jewish people. Now, we
can obviously take value from this as a piece of scripture.
It is God breathed right. I don't want to get
too theologically in depth here because I'm not a theologian,
and chances are you're not. But this was written to
a specific time and a specific place, to a specific people.
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And the literal next three words that follow that is
do not cheat. The first three words of Levinticus nineteen
verse thirty five is do not cheat. What are you
doing when you jump the immigration process and sneak over
the border when you're not supposed to rather than going
through the legal process. Well, frankly, you're cheating. You're cheating
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the American people, You're cheating the immigration system. And of
course foreigners in your land will give more power while
you gradually lose yours. They will have money to lend
to you, but you will have none to lend to them.
In the end, they will be your rulers. They will
be evidence of God's judgment on you and your descendants forever.
So for every Bible verse that they have to say, look,
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you need to let illegal aliens into the country. There's
one that's from Deuteronomy twenty eight forty three. By the way,
that says, hey, we need to secure our borders, and
we do and President Trump is doing it. And if
you have a problem with that, cry about it. Keep crying.
We will apprehend in legal aliens. We will put them
in alligator alcatraze and hold them there, and then we
will report them out of the United States of America,
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just like the founding follows intended. All right, states, and
we'll be right back. All right, Let's talk about the
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big beautiful bill. It is now one step closer to
becoming law. It passed the Senate yesterday. The House will
be voting on it today. It could very well be
passed by the end of the day. So that's big news.
This is getting close, it's almost done. This is doing
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two things. It's freaking the left out, which is great,
and it's splintering the gop bass, which is not great.
I don't know if it's really splintering the gop bass,
but Elon Musk, Thomas Massey, and Rand Paul are all
really upset about and we're gonna get into that. We're
gonna we're gonna really look at this from both sides
of the coin. Because I can do that. So I
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want to start by saying, this bill, regardless of the cost,
will do some good things. It will. It'll spend way
more money than we probably should be spending them we
probably need to spend as a federal government, and that
is a problem that both parties still refuse to solve.
I don't know why both parties still refuse to solve that,
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but they do. Something needs to be done, all right.
Those are the hard facts. You can love or hate
Elon Musk for saying it, because that's the big beef
between him and Donald Trump right now. They're still at
odds because Elon Musk is pointing out the simple fact
that hey, at some point, sooner or later, we're going
to have to slow down or stop spending money. That
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bill will come do eventually, and he's right, he is.
But the Big Beautiful Bill, it is an important piece
of Trumpe's agenda. It will fulfill a number of his
campaign promises, and the pa message of the Big Beautiful
Bill does seem to be applauded by a number of
different organizations after the Senate passed it, Donald Trump on
(20:08):
I guess Trump's staffers from the rapid response forty seven
account put out a bunch of different statements from a
bunch of different business organizations, all applauding the Big Beautiful Bill.
The American Petroleum Institute President and CEO Mike Summers put
out a statement praising it. The Airlines Dot Org they
put out a statement praising it. Association of Builders and Contractors,
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they all applauded the passage of the Big Beautiful Bill.
The Business Roundtable applauded the Big Beautiful Bill. American Iron
and Steel Institute, they all applauded the Big Beautiful Bill.
So that's great, that's good news. Vice President JD. Vance,
of course, who was the deciding vote. Actually, just so
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you can hear it, just because this will be an
important historical moment, whether you like it or not. Here's
what it sounded like when Vice President JD. Van's voted
to pass the Big Beautiful Bill, because it was fifty
to fifty. It was fifty votes ya, fifty votes nay.
That was Ran Paul, and I believe two other Democrat
or two other Republicans that voted against it. My math
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might not be adding up completely there. I don't know
what exactly the balance of power is in the Senate,
but it was Ran Paul and at least one other Republican,
but I believe two other Republicans all voted against the
big beautiful bill, and so that left JD Vance to
cast the tie breaking vote. Here's what that sounded, Liket's vote.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
The Ya's are fifty, the nays are fifty, the Senate
being evenly divided.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
The Vice President votes in the affirmative. The bill as
amended is passed. Vote all right. So that was the
bill passing the Senate, and then it goes back to
the House, and the House will have to pass it now,
and then hypothetically, if they can pass it without it
being amended, then it'll go to the Presidence in President's desk.
If the House has to amend it, then it'll have
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to go back to the Senate, and we'll do this
whole thing again. So the estimates in terms of cost,
because we've talked about how great it is. Vice President
Jadi Vance tweeted out or posted massive tax cuts, especially
no tax on tips in overtime, and most importantly, big
money for border security. This is a win for the
American people. So to a certain extent, yes, we did
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achieve no tax on tips, and over time there are
caps on both of that, and those are still subjected
to other taxes. I don't know specifically. Hold on, there's
a community know that says it still subject to employee
and employer FIKA taxes at the regular rate of seven
point sixty five each, but there's no income tax on it.
(22:41):
So that is a win. That's hey, no income tax
on even that, even if there's a cap. I'll take
that win. Let's keep going. Let's make it bigger, right, right,
we can improve on that we got off foot in
the door. Great more spending on border security. Listen, as
much as I will cry in the streets that we
need to cut our spending, there are some things we
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need to spend big on the military and border security.
I think are those two things? All right? So spending
big on border security, go for it. What else? Do
we have? Massive tax cuts and tax on tips? Okay?
So that's basically it. Hey, that's good. This is to
a certain extent a win. Is it as big of
a win as we might want? No, it's not. And
(23:25):
again I blame that on you, the voters. All Right,
we didn't show up in the way that we needed
to there was not the strong enough hardline fiscal conservative
majority that we needed in order to win the votes
that we need in order to pass a strong cut
to the budget. There just wasn't. And hey, that's on.
(23:46):
You show up in the primaries, vote in the primaries
for fiscal conservatives, and then show up again in the
general election and vote to send them to Washington, and
then we can get a bigger cut. Don't blame Trump,
don't blame the car hungers, blame yourself, because the Congress
that's there. You put there, you the voters put there.
So Grock is estimating the cost of this bill to
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be somewhere between two point nine and four trillion dollars.
I think it's probably going to be on the lower
end of that. I think probably when it's all said
and done, we'll be looking at probably a two ish
trillion dollar budget, because that's what this is. This is
the budget bill. Is that way too big? Yes, But
we got some stuff in there that we really needed. So,
you know, you win some, you lose some, especially when
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you don't have a strong majority in Congress, and we don't.
All Right, that's the hard facts of it. Now, there
are some beliefs that this is actually going to end
up costing us less because there's income from the government
that we're not considering. Here is Stephen Mirn. He is
a Council of Economic Advisor's chair for the President. He's
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making the argument that this is actually going to be
cheaper than it is on paper. Right now, take a listen, the.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
Deathsit will come down for economic growth and other policies
that we're hunting. Let me tell you all the things
that are not included in the CBO score that are
getting ignored by the dowaters in this process. There's better
revenue from economic growth that I just mentioned a moment ago.
That's about four trillion dollars. There's going to be about
three trillion dollars of terrorf revenue coming into that. Because
they don't come in through the legislative process, they don't
get counted in the score. But those three trillion dollars
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are as good as any other dollars for bringing down
the deficit. There's about a trillion and a half dollars
a further administrative costs. These are things like reduced headcount
a federal agencies, the government becoming more efficient doing more
with less, and there's also another about trillion and a
half dollars of reduced interest expenses because we're borrowing less
for all the other things.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
You add all this up, you.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
Get to about eight and a half to eleven trillion
dollars of growth across all of these different means of sorry,
eight and a half to eleven trillion dollars of reduced
deficit from all of these means of bringing the deficit down.
And it's all in all combined extremely powerful, and so
it's very very powerful deficit reduction. It will bring the
debt to GDP ratio down by over twenty percentage points
relative to what the CBO.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
It's okay, okay, I definitely could see that that might
be the case. We have already seen massive economic growth,
we're seeing businesses thrive, so that could very well be
the possibility. Here's my gripe with what Stephen Miron just said.
You're counting your chickens before they hatch, All right, you are,
That's what's happening. You may be very very confident that
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these chickens are going to hatch, but the fact of
the matter is they haven't hatched yet. I was always
taught don't spend money you don't have, even if you
know for sure you'll get it later, don't spend it
until you have it. I have followed that as best
as I could my entire life. It has served me
very well. If it works for me, it stands to
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reason it will work for the government. Right So I
am a little bit kind of doubtful of that, and
he may be right. I'm willing to wait and see.
All right, this could turn out, you know, being way
smaller than we think. It is way less of a deficit,
and we have more economic growth, and it all evens
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out in the end. That very well may be the case.
I'll wait and see, all right, Again, I'm not gonna
count my chickens before the hatch. If this turns out, great,
great if it fails. We did have people say I
told you so, And those people's names was Thomas Massey.
Here he is talking about the fact that, hey, we
never cut spending. Why are we never cutting spending? It's
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the same every single year. The Democrats spend a bunch
and then the Republicans do the same thing. It's the
same plot every fiscal year. What should we be doing?
Speaker 6 (27:32):
It's already been discussed.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
We should have done twelve separate bills. We should have
done twelve separate bills.
Speaker 6 (27:38):
But again, whether Democrats are in control or Republicans are
in control, we never do the twelve separate bills. Why
do we always spend at least as much as we
did last year, and why do we never cut spending.
It's because Democrats want to grow the welfare state and
Republicans want to grow the military industrial complex. And we're
eventually going to get together and they're both gonna go up.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
I guarant damn tee it. And he's right. He's been
right every single time this keeps happening, and again, eventually
the bill's gonna come do. Elon Musk has been saying
it very openly. I'll go ahead and play a clip
in the next segment because I'm running out of time
to play it now. But in the next segment we'll
open with Elon Musk saying, Hey, eventually the bill is
going to come do for all of this, and we're
going to have to stop. We should stop now while
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it's a choice, rather than waiting for some economic disaster
to befall the United States of America and then we
have to cut the spending. But that doesn't happens. Nobody
has the guts to do it. And the fact of
the matter is, it's because cutting the spending is unpopular.
At the end of the day, you're gonna have to
look somebody in the eye and saying you're not going
to get something because we have to cut the spending
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and nobody has the cohones to do that. We need
to elect people that do and that's on you, the
voters in the primaries. We've got primaries coming up next
year next spring. Do it all right, statute, we'll bearing back. Okay,
(29:18):
So we've all seen the feuding that's ongoing between Trump
and Elon Musk about the budget, and I'll come out
and say it. I'm not afraid Trump isn't the wrong here.
Trump is going whole hog at Elon Musk, and all
the Elon Musk is doing is saying, hey, let's maybe
spend less money. And he's had a very consistent message
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on that front for quite some time. You have to
give him his due credit for that. He has been
very consistently saying since the first time he kind of
started getting political right, since he originally hopped onto the
campaign trip with Donald Trump, he was openly saying, hey,
we have got to do something about the spending. We
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are spending more money than we have at unbelievable amounts.
Our debt is insane. I mean, do you know this
right now? We are at thirty seven trillion dollars of
debt right now and probably more because it's skyrocketing by
the day. It is obvious that America hasn't made you're
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spending problem. Elon Musk's entire political point is we've got
to address that. Elon Musk is the single issue voter.
That's his single issue. Now. I've advised people in the
past against being single issue voters because if you're a
single issue voter on anything, you'll always be disappointed. If
you're a single issue voter on spending, on the debt,
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on whatever, you're gonna be disappointed. They're always gonna spend
more than you want. If you're a single issue voter
on guns, there's always going to be more gun regulation
than you want. If you're a single issue voter on abortion,
you're never going to get the abortion bans that you
want or the abortion opened up to everybody that you want.
(31:06):
So don't be a single issue voter. Get the best
of what you can with everything, but there are single
voter issues out there and they're not all necessarily wrong.
Elon Musk is correct and saying we have to do
something about the spending, and of course, because that's not
being done by either political party. Neither political party is
benefiting from Elon Musk right now, including the Republicans, who
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literally just a second ago benefited quite a bit from
Elon Musk. Again, the last election was seven months ago.
The Republicans were absolutely benefited by having Elon Musk on
their side, by having his money, by having his influence.
If you deny that, you're an idiot, Dave Lee. I
don't know who this guy is, but he's important enough
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for Elon Musk to notice him. He posted on X
just rain in the spending and the Republicans would keep
Elon on board. He's been saying has that if the
big beautiful bill passes, he will start a new political
party and back it with his funding, which I don't
hate the idea of him doing. Go for it. If
you want to start a budget focused political party and
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back then with your money, I'm all for it. I'll
probably vote for some of your candidates run some candidates
in my area that I can actually vote for and
I'll run them, or I'll vote for him. And he said,
all I'm asking is, we don't bankrupt America. And he's
making a good point. Elon mus said that on Twitter.
All I'm asking is, we don't bankrupt America. Here he is.
I told you i'd play it in the last segment.
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Here it is, I'm playing it now. Elon Musk as
some event back in twenty twenty four, September twenty twenty four,
so this is just before the election, talking about the
fact that hey, we're spending too much money. This problem
is going to turn around and buy us in the ass,
probably sooner rather than later, and we need to do
something about it.
Speaker 7 (32:51):
Here he is, America's also going bankrupt extremely quickly, and
nobody seems to everyone seems to be sort of whistling
past the grave out on this one. You know, the
the Defense Department budget is a very big budget. Okay,
it's a trillion dollars a year, dearity until it's trillion
dollars and interest payments on the national debt just exceeded
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the Defense Department budget. But they're over a trillion dollars
a year just in interest and rising. We're adding a
trillion dollars to the net to our debt, which our
you know, kids and grandkids are going to have to
pay somehow every three months, and then student it's going
to be every two months, and then every month, and
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then the only thing we'll be able to pay is interest.
And if it's just you know, it's just like a
person at scale that has racked up too much credit
card debt and not does does not have a good ending.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
He's clearly right here, and it's not debatable. He is
now whether or not the positives of the big beautiful
bill will balance out the price tag. That remains to
be seen. Maybe it will. Maybe it will, and if
it does, God bless glad to see it. Maybe it won't,
and in which case, God help us, because we were
warned and we decided to ignore that warning. But you know,
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it remains to be seen. Let's see what happens with it.
Maybe this will all work out, maybe it won't. Either way,
sooner or later we will have to cut the spending.
That's a fact. It's on denial.
Speaker 8 (34:27):
All right.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Let's talk about abortion for a minute, because I brought
it up just a second ago. I'm very pro life.
I think human life has value, no matter how small
it is. I think abortions should not exist, and I
don't believe in any particular exceptions for that. That's my
spot ABC. The brilliant ladies over at the View, and
(34:51):
by brilliant I mean absolute morons, they accidentally said the
quiet part out loud. I want to play you this clip.
The Media Research Center put this out, Media Research Center NewsBusters.
I actually, uh, I talk with these guys quite a bit.
They're great folks over there. They do a lot of
good work. Check them out. Maybe I'll have them on
as a guest. Tune in on Sundays. That's usually when
(35:14):
I have my guests Sundays at seven pm on KPRC.
I will probably try to get somebody from the Media
Research Center on. But they posted this video of the
ladies of the View accidentally saying the quiet part out
loud on abortion. Take a listen to this in this conversation.
Should be involved in this at all.
Speaker 9 (35:34):
I think it is a medical and ethical decision that
because of the ethics of it, the law does have
to come into it. And I'll explain why here recently,
a twenty week year old baby survived outside of the
womb because of medical intervention. That's a miracle. That's science,
that's technology making something that seemed impossible possible. So science
is moving quicker than the public policy debate around it.
(35:55):
And at some point we're going to have to ask
ourselves if a baby can live outside the womb at
a certain point, should there be a restriction on the
ability to terminate a pregnancy at that point?
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Okay, real quick, just to interrupt, Yes, absolutely, that's not controversial.
Obviously that's true. You have to be a sick freak
in order to say this baby that can live outside
the room should be killed. You're you are a sick
free I'm sorry if that hurts your feelings. Maybe you're
pro choice, You're a sick freak. Seek Christ, you disgusting,
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vile person. That is a child, that is a human
is undeniable. I would go even farther say, even if
it can't live outside the womb, it should be protected.
And we'll get into that in a second. Take a
listen to the rest of this clip.
Speaker 8 (36:34):
Yeah, but there's a really disturbing case, kind of touching
on what you said. There's a woman named Adriana Smith,
a woman who was brain dead because she went in
having concerns about her pregnancy. They sent her home, she
went back and it ended up she'd had blood clots.
They kept her alive by ventilators, although her family wanted
to let her go because she was completely brain dead,
but they did it to keep the baby against her
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family's wishes, and the baby was born at like but
like to me, that's such an overstep if you go
into the hospital and you've lost your loved one, because
arguably they missed it the first time with their blood clots.
She was a black woman, which is important.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
Okay, No, it's not important. She was a black woman,
which is important. No, it's not. It doesn't matter. This
is a baby that was a child that was kept alive.
That's a miracle. The mother died and we preserved the
life of this child. If you're the family arguing no,
take her off life support and kill the child, you're
a sick freak. I'm sorry for the loss of your
loved one who was pregnant with child. You're a sick freak.
(37:34):
You are you are to advocate for Oh, she was
brain dead and the family wanted her dead, so we
should kill this innocent child as well, who did nothing
wrong other than happened to be spawned in the womb
of a woman who was brain dead or became brain dead.
And you're saying because of that, you should lose your life.
(37:55):
You are a sick freak. Seek Christ, Seek help. You
are messed up in the head. I don't care what
moral compass you have. It's clearly a child. The child
survived and is alive today because of the miracles of
medical technology. And you're saying, oh, no, we should have
killed it, We should have let it die with the mother.
(38:16):
What the hell is even wrong with you? But this
is the quiet part allowed at the end of this clip.
I'm not gonna play because I don't have time. They
talk about the fact that since Roe v. Wade, abortions
have gone up, and the audience cheers, which is disgusting.
Why would you cheer for that? It just goes to
show that for the left, it's not about any of
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the excuses that they give you. They just love abortion.
They just love killing children because they're sick freaks. And
I will stand by that statement, come hell or high water,
all right, that's all I've got for you this week.
Remember tune in Sunday seven pm on AM nine to
fifty KPRC or search KPRC in the free iHeart Radio app.
Listen to the live broadcast. It'll be great. Thank you
very much for listening. We'll be back then. The games
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