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June 24, 2024 40 mins
This podcast edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness features journalists Henry Rodgers and Alex Rosenberg.  ( @KennethRWebster )
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The Giganic government sucks. The suitof happiness radio is DeLux. Liberty and
freedom will make you smiles of asuit of happinges us on your radio toyl
just as cheeseburgers a liberty rise atthe food of this just in. The

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national heat wave continues Washington, dC issuing a heat emergency. That is,
it is pretty hot in DC rightnow. It is so hot in
Washington, d C. How hotis it? Thank you? It's so
hot in Washington, d C.Mitch McConnell can't even freeze up. Greetings
everybody, thanks for turning on theradio Big Show this afternoon. Henry Rogers

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stopping by. He is the nationalcorrespondent for the Daily Caller. He has
a story about dark money flowing througha well a news outlet in Texas.
I bet you've heard of before thatonly seems to hire rhino Republicans and far
left polititians. That their upcoming festival. We'll get to it. It should
be fascinating, so stick around forthat. In the meantime. Oh,

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Alex Rosen's going to be here asWow. He's very controversial. Some people
don't like him. I don't endorseevery joke he's ever told, or everything
he's ever said. But I lovethe fact that he's a young guy from
Houston who goes out and he bustschild predators. And whatever you think of
Hammer's jokes that he tells on socialmedia, I'm not here to discuss any
of that. I think that stoppingchild predators is very important, and he's

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put a bunch of them in prison, so I think that's pretty cool.
The latest bust he has involves aprominent left wing activist from Maryland, the
leader of an LGBTQ Democrat group ofthe LGBTQ Democrats of Maryland, also affiliated
with an HIV hepatitis awareness group,and there's chat logs of him on social

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media purportedly trying to seduce an underagekid. We'll get to all of that,
stick around for it. In themeantime, we are now, what
is it, three days out fromour first presidential debate. What is happening
is brilliant on Trump's behalf. Trumpis going to go on CNN, where
he is not going to have adebate with Biden. He's going to have
a debate with Jake Tapper and DanaBash. Jake Tapper, the news anchor

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at CNN who has compared Donald Trumpto Hitler, isn't exactly a non partisan
journalist, to put it bluntly,but here's what's brilliant about what Trump just
did. Trump is an amazing idea. As soon as the debate's over,
however it goes, for Trump,Trump is going to make a big announcement.
He's going to announce who his runningmate is. Now, this isn't

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normally how it works. Usually,by the time the first presidential debate happens,
you already know who the running matesare for both candidates. Not this
time. This is very different thanlast time. And with Trump pulling in
first place and practically every swing state, you could see how Trump's strategies are
just better strategies than what Biden's doing. In the meantime, what's Biden doing

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well? I was just looking ata report here at townhall dot Com.
No wonder the Biden team departed soearly for Camp David for the debate.
The debate preparation, the White Housesummoned all the top Democratic strategists, all
the top advisors, to ready thepresident as best they could against Trump.
Before they could review any of theirattack lines or sound bites touting this administration's

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little legislative record. They need tomake sure Joe can stand for at least
ninety minutes. No, I'm notkidding, guys. This is part of
the debate prep. Part of thedebate prep for Joe Biden is making sure
he's physically capable of being there forninety minutes. That's not a good thing
for a president who we've been toldis vivacious, a night owl. They

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said, sharp as attack. That'swhat they told us. Some in the
media have already tried to make thepoint that these debates are unfair to Biden.
I'm not kidding. MSNBC played theobstacle so high card to defend the
president of the United States. It'sthey said, it's it's unfair for the
president to debate like this. Isit because he's too old? God,

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it's going to be fun to watchTrump destroy Biden, hopefully with a graceful
brutality. Don't interrupt, don't betoo overly aggressive, which was Trump's mistake
before. Of course, apparently thistime they he can't interrupt. This time,
they're gonna mute their mics when theother guy's talking. And remember that
while that might work well for Biden, it's gonna work pretty good for Trump

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too. That means Trump could talkwithout Biden trying to chime in. It
is Trump's debate to lose. Forthe record, all the former president has
to show is that he's energetic,he can throw and take punches. He
can take down his opponent in apresidential manner. Remember when Reagan said there
you go again, or how heexpertly destroyed the talking them from Mondale about

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his age in nineteen eighty four.It's a moment where Mondale admitted he knew
he had lost the election. Sothis could be very exciting for mister Trump.
It's a seven game series, it'sa long slog. Don't exhaust everything
on the first go round, butit's gonna be And you know, for
Biden. Biden, it's so desperateright now. He is actually trying to

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bribe young voters to get to winthem back into his grace. That young
people are not pulling towards Biden rightnow. It's exactly the opposite of what
we've seen in all of our lifetime, as young people always seem to lean
to the left. Right now,a lot of them seem to like Trump
a shockingly large number. Breipart dotcom today reporting the twenty twenty four federal

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deficit will climb to one point ninetrillion, which is four hundred billion dollars
more than projected, thanks in largepart to the student loan forgiveness program.
The largest portion of that four hundredbillion dollars surprise comes from one hundred and
forty five billion dollar increase that's partlydue to changes the Biden administration made to

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the student loan Repayment Plan. Joe'sstudent loan giveaway contributes twenty seven percent deficit
boost. According to this headline,if you're looking for the article and you
want to share it, and youshould, By the way, you're going
to love how CNN spins this.It goes something like this in normal people
language. This is what they're doingin a craven bed to purchase votes from

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a young demographic that's losing to OrangeMan bad Biden is transferring student loan obligations
from the privileged who went to collegeto the rest of us. It is
really something. Here's how they sayit. They say quote. Looking longer
term, the nation's debt will approachfifty seven trillion in fiscal year twenty thirty
four, nearly two point five trillionhigher than previously projected. As spending on

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Social Security, Medicare, and interestpayments sore and revenues fail to keep pace.
Guys, the debt's out of control. Your savings account has no value
anymore, even if to high number. Imagine the idiocy behind Democrats who are
a okay with this student loan schemefor decades. These are the same people

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who have been screaming about tax therich, pay your fair share, and
here they are now backing a guytransferring billions and billions in debt from the
upper middle class and the upper classto the working class in the middle class,
basically saying, hey, you workedfor a living, you didn't take
out a student loan. Screw yougive your money to this rich kid.
That gun of government sucks as doves. Yeah, let's get straight to discussion.

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We here to talk about something aboutpolitics and government and nullice, hit
and co guty in this show.Hit, ain't you averbage this podcast?
You gotta get it, you toneden. We can this just put happiness.
There's some things that happen in Texas. They happen so frequently you don't
even think about them or what theymean. I give you an example.

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I'll give you two examples coming upin Keema in a short amount of time.
You know a Chema is obviously it'san affluent suburb of Houston where there
are lots of boats, and youknow, it's right on the water.
And every year they have this thingcalled Outlaw Weekend. And I didn't know
this, but apparent you know it'sbeen happening for years. Outlaw Weekend is
the big expensive speedboats. Apparently,this is the place where if you're from

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Kima, you know this. Ifyou're not, you didn't. Outlaw Weekend
is the weekend when older men meetyoung women. And that's what it is.
I didn't know that until recently.It'd been going on for so long.
I just thought it was a speedboatthing. Nope, that's not what
it is. Do you know whatJeep Weekend is at Crystal Beach? You
know what that is? Right?It happens every year. I bet you
probably know about this. That's theyear when that's the day every year when

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when young white trash redneck kids getarrested for driving drunk and a jeep out
on the beach. That one youprobably did know. But how about this
one Tribune fest? You know whattribune? You've heard of it, right,
Texas Tribune. You've heard of that, haven't you. The great scam
that I think Texas Tribune pulls onpeople in America in Texas that is at

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the very least is that it's anon partisan, non political news outlet.
But Texas Tribune is very political.Their whole business model is driven hard towards
the left. Their political news reporteris a guy named Robert Downin. He
only writes about one thing you.He writes about you, Mago voter.

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He writes about Republicans all the time, nothing else. So every year when
Tribune Fast happens, it doesn't meanmuch to you. You hear what is?
Some politicians went, some journalists.You ever noticed anything about the Not
every year, but certainly this year. There's a very specific type of person
booked at this event. Liberals likeJasmine Crockett. Colin Allred is Ted Kruz's

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opponent. I noticed Ted Cruz isn'ton the guest list, at least I
don't think he is. John Fetterman. John Fetterman is part of Texas Tribune.
Why why is he part of Tribune? Fest Stacy Abrams the election denier.
Wow, we were told that wasa cardinal sin. But no,
she's They love her for some reason. And then okay, what about Republicans?
What Republicans are there? Dan Crenshaw, Tony Gonzalez, Adam Kinsinger,

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Liz Cheney. Wait a second,I am noticing a common denominator here.
Even John Bolton, the CIA rhinoneokon warhawk. He's a liberal who loves
war. Slap a gay Pride flagon a rocket and anyway, look,
somebody wrote an article about this.I thought it was very interesting. The
chief national correspondent at the Daily Callers, Henry Rogers. Henry, I think

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what's the most interesting about your article? Not a lot of people realize who
funds this. It's not like theHouston Chronicle where you just pay for Who
pays for the Texas Tribune, Henry, No, It's incredible. It's you
know, it's funded like millions ofdollars are coming in from people you know,
Bill and Melinda Gates who you know? Melinda Gates just made her first

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political endorsement ever for president, andwe can all imagine who that was it
was Joe Biden, and she saidthat, you know, she had to,
she had to make this endorsement forthe sake of democracy, you know.
So that's just one of the peoplewho's giving the Tribune millions of dollars.
You also have you know a lotof other dark money groups doing the

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same exact thing, and it likethe Ford Foundation and numbers of others.
But you know what was interesting tome when I was going through the tribunes
uh you know, headlines and tryingto trying to get a gauge of their
political bias. Uh. You know, it's it's all of their quote unquote
straight news headlines are all they're allslanted. You know, they're all slanted

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to criticize conservatives, to attack theright wing to you know, they're they're
they're they're biased by every every matterof it. And you know, we
had we had a team of peoplego through their their articles and their headlines,
and we couldn't find really anything evenslanted towards the right at all.

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It's all very left leaning. SoI when I saw that, I was
kind of like, this is interesting. Why are all these you know,
quote unquote Republicans showing up here,and a lot of them, you know
you'd expect, you know, you'dexpect Adam Keinzinger. I mean, personally
I would. I was not shockedby seeing Dan Crenshaw, a lot of
these, Liz Cheney, but youknow, people like Kevin Stick, governor

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of Oklahoma. I don't know whathe's doing there in a couple others,
I guess, but they all werevery defensive, and all were very you
know, proud to be showing upto this event and saying that they're going
to be taking on you know,they're going to be taking on the opposition,
and they're going to be speaking abouthow you know, this is how

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you know, good, great theRepublican Party is. But we all know
that's not true. I mean,I'm gonna try to tune into these speeches.
I guarantee you That's not what they'regoing to be talking about. They're
going to be talking about how weshould be sending you know, millions of
more dollars to Ukraine and be gettingnew textbooks for Ukraine students. They're not
going to be talking about any AmericaFirst agenda at this thing. Yeah,

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and what's so interesting about this?I don't think a lot of people even
understand what dark money is, right, because it's a vague term. It
can mean a lot of things.I don't have a problem with a nonprofit
group having a media outlet or evenhaving a political agenda. That's fine.
But what's so interesting about this isthis is a very big organization with the
one specific goal of flipping Texas blue. That's all it is. Right.

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People look at the Texas Tribune andthey think, oh, that's the newspaper
for the state of Texas. Well, no, it's not. That's this
news outlet exists only to turn Texasinto a blue state and a Democrat state.
They're not here to inform people.They're not here to give people the
news. Every article they're they're writingis from a far left stance all the

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time. And the guests at thisevent are either moderate Republicans or far left
Democrats. I don't even see,as I look at their website here any
moderate Democrats, of which there areplenty in the state of Texas because it's
a mostly red state. What kindof democrat gets elected here? Well,
in a lot of places, it'sa moderate Democrat, right, Not these
guys. They have went out andcherry picked people on the far left with

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the only Republicans they deem palatable,the only Republicans that will tell the Republicans
that made a living out of tellingyou, yeah, Republicans are bad guys.
I'm a Republican, but they're badguys. That's the brand, isn't
it. Absolutely? And that's what'scrazy about it, and I mean,
speaking of it, it's like theypartnered with Pro Publica, And in my
inquiries to these Republicans who are attending, I was like, you know,

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what's the deal? Why are youattending this events? First off, you
know, backed by all these crazyleftists, but also who partnered with Pro
Publica. ProPublica, which they havepublished a number of critical reports on Justice
Clarence Thomas about his personal life thathave been continued to be used by left
wing activists to you know, tryto delegitimize his name and the conservative majority

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of the Supreme Court. And noneof these Republicans would answer that question.
I thought it was interesting as well. When I reached out to Tony Gonzalez's
office, their immediate response to mewas, oh, no, no,
no, Tony's not attending this year. Sorry for the misconfusion. And then
you know, about say, eightor twelve hours later, his chief of
staff contacts me and says, oh, no, actually he is attending.

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Sorry for the confusion there. Blahblah blah blah blah. Texas Tribune people
get back to me and they're saying, we don't know the status of his
attendance right now. I think heI think he might have, you know,
felt some blowback coming and said he'sgoing to pull out. And then
they said maybe it's too late.I don't know there, it's just speculation.
But these guys, these guys,none of them have spines, and

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it's it's kind of pathetic that they'reshowing up to this event with all of
those insane liberal people who you justmentioned to share a stage. They're not
going to debate with them. Ifanything, they're going to go out cocktails
with them afterwards and enjoy the companyof each other. Oh yeah, So
I just think it's alarming. It'spro wrestling, dude. I mean,

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these guys they're backstage, they're highfiving each other, and then out in
the arena they're pretending they don't likeI mean that you're exactly correct about that,
Tony Gonzalez is such an interesting personto see on this list because we
know in this runoff he was justin with Brandon Herrera over there, and
it's a boort Texas District twenty three, that's a border community near San Antonio,
and it is a hotbed for humantrafficking, a hotbed for criminal activity.

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Brandon Herrera incredibly popular on social media, incredibly popular activist, huge following
on YouTube and Twitter, and waymore well liked than Tony Gonzalez, especially
with the kind of people that votein a Republican primary. But somehow Tony
Gonzalez managed to win simply because themilitary industrial complex, a dark money went

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into his camp and and pumped millionsof dollars into it. Brandon her Aram,
I think, managed to raise amillion bucks. Tony Gonzalez outspent him
eight to one. How did Tonyget all that money out of state corporate
money, court corporatists, the warhawks, globalist people that don't give a damn
about Texas. And oh, isn'tit interesting he's on the guest list for

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Texas Tribune fest. I don't thinkthat's a coincidence, Henry. I think
he's getting paid to be there.I think he's doing a favor to somebody.
I think he's participating. It's ascratch my back and all scratch your
situation. It's right here in frontof everybody's face, and we're all supposed
to pretend like we don't see it. No, I think you're absolutely right
about that, and and you knowit's it's it's alarming that he won.

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I'm not surprised by just based onwhat you just said. But you know,
it's also people like Dan Crenshaw whoacts like he's a Republican. He's
he's you know, no one inhis no one in the party respects Dan
Crenshaw anymore. He's he's kind ofsold out. And I could see him
being like an Adam Adam Kinzzinger,Adam Kinzinger. He's probably gonna be on
CNN, you know, doing panelsin a couple of years or something like

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that. So, yeah, thislist, again, it's not surprising to
see all these neo cons John Bolton, others, you know, call Rove.
But at the same time, it'slike, what are you what are
you guys doing? They have tobe getting paid, they have to there's
something that you have to They haveto be getting something out of this.
It's it's it's just kind of apathetic thing that they're defending their appearance too.
You know, when I when Iemailed reaching out for the you know,

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for their comment as to why they'reattending, you would have thought some
of them would have said laying well, when I laid out the information that
you would you would think someone wouldsay, hey, you know what,
Actually I didn't realize all of that, all of this was, you know,
going on with the Texas Tribune.I'm gonna pull out of this.
I don't I don't need to bethere. But no, that's not the
case. Of course that's not thecase. So I'm gonna be monitoring to

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see what these guys are going tobe saying at this event. I'm sure
they'll be saying some some things thatwill will fire up the base, and
I'm sure will not be America firstagenda topics that will be discussed at this
event. I think it will bevery much focused on, you know,
foreign wars abroad and other people's foreignpolicy. I was just turning on the

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radio. That voice you're hearing,if it sounds familiar, that's Henry Rogers
of the Daily Caller. He's theirchief national correspondent. Henry's a real journalist.
He's a reporter. He's worked atthe Daily Caller for a minute,
and he's interviewed Trump, He's donesome big interviews. I think he does
some very important reporting. Henry,you're in Florida. I'm in Texas.
Obviously, you guys have this issuewith New York, who's moving to your

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state. Here in Texas, wehave the same problem with California. You
think that affects the elections in November, It's tough to say. I mean,
I think it would. I thinkit will a little bit. I
know that the the Biding campaign andyou know others have been trying to put
a lot of money down here intoFlorida. But at the same time,

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you know, I travel the statea lot for work and for other reasons.
I just don't see it happening,you know. I you know,
I live in a pretty liberal partof Florida here in Saint Petersburg, right,
But even even here, I don'tsee any of the crap I used
to see when I lived in Washington, d C. And everyone says this
is the most liberal part of Florida, and blah blah blah blah blah.

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I think it's just different, man. I think it's going to get things
a little bit closer. I thinkthere's a lot of problems going on in
Texas, like you just said aswell, which I'm not as familiar with.
But I've been watching it and monsoringit, so we'll see here.
I mean, you know this,this call on all read Texas or Ted
Cruz Senate race is going to bevery interesting to watch, and a couple

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others here in Florida. But atthe end of the day, I think
that both both will be fine hopefullythis election cycle. Henry Rogers d C
on X and Twitter. If you'renot following, I recommend it. Check
that out the article if you wantto share it or take a look at
it. High profile Republicans set toappear alongside left wing activist at dark money
backed media festival. You heard him. It's Tony Gonzalez, Crenshaw, Adamkins.

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It's the worst of the worst atthis event, Henry. I thank
you for your time, brother.Keep up the good work, my man.
What is Pursuit of Happiness radio basicallypolitical memes in audio format? Happy
the Frog, Eat your heart out. If you had to give this radio
segment you're about to listen to aname, I would assume the Party of

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Faux Science would be a good titlefor it. I want to talk a
little bit about two things. Genderaffirming care for kids, which is not
really so much care, nor isit gender affirming, and in electric vehicles.
What do they have in common?I mean a lot if you think
about it right. You probably don'toften put the two side by side,
the climate change activism and the childmutilation stuff. But boy, they're really

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similar, aren't they. Let's startoff with this townhall dot com today reporting
on how the Supreme Court is goingto review a ban on so called gender
affirming care for children. There's you'renot going to hear anything from the Supreme
Court until Wednesday, and then Ithink you're going to be hearing a lot
from them. The United States SupremeCourt will review Tennessee's ban on puberty blockers

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and irreversible sex reassignment surgeries for minors. The case is called the United States
versus SCREMETI. It'll be argued inthe next term, which starts in October.
The story guys like this, theysay, Tennessee enacted a law last
year, and it's supposed to protectchildren from experimental gender affirming care. That's

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what they call it, and thatincludes things like surgeries and hormone therapy and
puberty blockers. Well, what arepuberty blockers. It's a drug that was
previously used for chemically castrating prison inmates, and now they give it to ten
year olds who are confused about theirgender, probably confused because their parents made
them confused. The legislation allows lawsuitsagainst healthcare providers who violate these restrictions.

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Providers who break the law could losetheir license or their practice is now reportedly
there are two transgender teenagers challenging thelaw. Last year we learned how the
law was being challenged in lower courts. The law was instigated after we learned
that Vanderbilt University Medical Center was providingso called gender affirming services to children because

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it's a big money maker. Thatwas an exact quote one of the clinic's
physicians said in a resurface video.That was why they were doing It's very
profitable. How could we turn thisdown? To the Ordable Care Act?
Insurance mandate to cover opal sentence forFrance, thos We won't make you watch
the whole video, but that's doctorShane Taylor, who works at the trans

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clinic. Gave a lecture a whileback talking about how, yeah, taxpayer
money will pay for this. Soif tax money will pay for it,
we don't want to just do itto adults. We got to get kids
in on this too. Appeals courtin Cincinnati allowed the Tennessee law. A
similar law in Kentucky also took effect, but they're challenging it. You get

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how that works. So it's madeits way up to the Supreme Court.
Twenty one other states have laws onthe books protecting children from these harmful services,
and frankly, this does feel likea state's rights issue. I mean,
don't get me wrong, I findit deeply disturbing that California or New

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York would do this to kids,that they'd let it happen. But I
don't live in those states. Ifeel the same way about abortion. It's
like, all right, live ina red state. This is why you
move to a red state. Thesepeople don't believe in science. They want
to get paid. This is cronyism, it's corrupt, and it's demonic.

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But while we're on the topic,here. While we're talking about bad science
from the left, let's talk alittle bit about this. Brightbart dot com
today reporting almost half of the USelectric car owners regret their purchase. A
consumer research group surveyed electric vehicle ownersall around the world. They found about
half of American EV owners regret it. They regret their purchase and are very

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likely to switch back to internal combustionengines. Twenty nine percent of EV owners
around the world would go back ifthey could. The top concerns are the
lack of reliable charging infrastructure, ofthe cost involved in owning an EV,
the anxiety about long distance trips.You don't know what's going to happen.
You get out on the road,start driving, you don't know if you're

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going to find a charging station.Philip Campshaw is the leader of the consulting
firm Center for Future Mobility, andhe said, quote, I didn't expect
that. I thought one's an EVbuyer, always an EV buyer. Part
of it, too, is afterpeople spend this kind of money, I
gotta think it's hard for a lotof them to admit it was a bad

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purchase because you don't want to looklike an idiot that spent eighty grand on
something that you didn't like. Twentyone percent of global respondents do not want
to ever switch, and about athird of them said it's because of the
charging situation. The idea was tohave more people purchase and live there in

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love an EV enjoy driving it,and that was supposed to increase the demand
and the desire for evs. Sothe government went in and they subsidized this
stuff. They've even tried to passlaws forcing people to buy it, like
in California, but it's not happening. Also not happening, as anyone could
see, is the building of acharging infrastructure. There was not enough demand
in the free market to build thesethings through private enterprise. So two years

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ago Biden and his crony government allocatedseven point five billion dollars to build charging
infrastructure, and to the surprise ofno one, after spending roughly eight billion
dollars almost eight billion, they havebuilt two years later eight charging stations.
If there were a demand for chargingstations, private corporations would be building them

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all over the place. Obviously,no one in the industry sees the potential
to profit from such an enterprise.And now that the American EV industry appears
to have peaked in demand in sales, with forty six percent of US buyers
wishing they had stuck with the goodold Ice internal combustion engine. It's hard

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to see this turning around anytime soon. Would you drive it? You know?
A regular guest on the show,Brandon Darby bought an EV, was
really proud of his Tesla and thenwhat happened. You heard him say it
on the show. Breitbart editor BrandonDarby loved his Tesla right up until he
didn't and then he bought a newtruck. And if the federal government does

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build a charging infrastructure, that won'tsolve a number of other problems, like
the time it takes to recharge.The charging station will be busy or won't
work, the fear of running outof charge on the road. I mean,
it's not like someone can get youback on the road with a gallon
of electricity until you can recharge inten minutes or less. And those recharging

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stations dot the landscape like gas stations. Presently, do evs are going to
remain an impractical status symbol for theelite and nothing more. And I don't
see that changing anytime soon. You'relistening to Keen Webster's Pursuit of Happiness,
very spicy radio. Wouldn't you thinkwhen it comes to heinous crimes, horrendous,

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vile examples of crimes against humanity,there's some things that wouldn't take a
political side. You know, murder, right, Like, certainly no political
parties trying to legalize murder. Okay, well, maybe depends on how young
the victim is. Right, butwell, hey, same thing with rape.
Wouldn't you agree that being against rape? That should be something we should

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all agree on, right, doesn'tmatter if you're a Democrat or Republican whatever.
Well, as it turns out,there is an issue on the left,
particularly in the alphabet people community,with grooming kids and doing really vile,
disgusting things to kids. I'm nottalking about somebody on the fringe edge
of the Democrat Party. I'm talkingabout people on the inside, people connected

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to the White House, people connectedto senators in Washington, DC, not
just advocating for disgusting, vile,heinous crimes against kids, but actually trying
to participate in these in these actsagainst children. I would think we would
all agree that's wrong. But asit turns out there's people in the Democrat
Party right now that not only wantto legalize this stuff, they want to

(29:49):
do it. How do I know, Well, look, purportedly this it
what appears though there's credible evidence againsta time ranking activist in the LGBTQ Democrats.
It's a group in Maryland that isconnected to the White House, that's
connected to people like Senator Rafael Warnock, for example of Georgia, who's actually

(30:12):
going out and praying on kids.I mean, it certainly appears that way
from the evidence that's been presented byone local journalist and activist. Oh,
by the way, the activist journalist, you know this guy. He's a
kind of a local controversial figure.But he's been a friend of this show
for years. He used to bea college kid in Houston who would listen
to this radio show, and thenhe went out and started a group of

(30:33):
his own called Predator Poachers, wherehe does what Chris Hansen used to do,
all of it with a little moresense of humor depending on the circumstances.
Alex Rosen is a guy who isa dragon slayer. This guy takes
down monsters. Alex had a reallybig bust over the weekend. That's making
headlines and actually causing the Democrat establishmentto scrub their social media accounts of their

(30:56):
association with one purported predator. Alexcometo the show, my man, can
you tell us the story? Absolutely, Thanks for having me on again.
So what we do, as Kensaid, we pose his miners online and
we catch predators across the country afterthey go after the assumed miners. We
have a rest in forty six states, convictions in forty and Michael knappin the

(31:17):
head of the LGBTQ Democrats in Maryland, was messaging so he believed to be
a fourteen year old boy since twentytwenty three. He was messaging my friend
Josh, who was posing as aminer, and he runs a group called
Online Predator Intervention in Maryland. Andyou know, he told me about this
guy. He wanted me to goapproach him and interview him. But in

(31:37):
November we try to turn him intolaw enforcement in Maryland. In November twenty
twenty three, we were like,hey, this guy's pretty big fish.
We want you guys to take itover because in Maryland they have a weird
law where you have to be acop or a real kid in order or
to be a crime of a pedomessaging a kid. Like in Texas where
we're from, if they believe they'retalking to a minor matter, if it's

(32:00):
me or you, a real kidor a cop, they can get arrested
for that. Maryland they can't.So we handed over to law enforcement for
a little bit. It took overthe account, but then they just stopped,
and they stopped returning calls to like, hey, what's going on,
And so we took the account overagain, and Michael kept talking to who
he thought was his kid, keptsending Luda photos like his genitals and all

(32:21):
that type of stuff. Kept sayingthe most grotesque stuff you can think of,
like you know, using the rap word, just anything you think
of, he was saying. Soeventually he gives his address, he invites
the boy over, and you know, I'm not in Maryland all the time,
so I couldn't just meet him athis house. And the night I
was in Maryland, Michael flakes outon the meeting. So we followed him

(32:42):
to this Mexican restaurant. We sawhim driving. We followed him this Mexican
restaurant in Bethesda, and he wassitting with his boyfriend and I get up
to Michael. I'm like, hey, man, let's go talk about these
messages. And he agrees to avoluntary conversation with me, and you know,
over the course of like an almosthour interview, he admits a talking
to other miners online that I assumeare real kids, because he said he
was getting nudes from those kids withchild pornography, which obviously no decoy would

(33:07):
be sending that. And he saidthat it excited him to talk to a
kid this way and all that,and he mentioned he's a lobbyist in DC
and the head of the LGBTQ Democratsin Maryland. And this guy has actually
been to the White House. I'mwhat. Yeah, so we knew he
was pretty well connected, but somebodyfrom the Gateway pundit I forgot his name.

(33:30):
He's the one that uncovered the guywent to the White House three times
and props to him. That's crazy. Yeah, he's been to the White
House, so he's pretty up there. Okay, it's my understanding. He's
part of a group that advocates forpolicies that would help patients of HIV and
hepatitis. I don't does that meanthat this guy has one of those venereal

(33:52):
diseases. And if so, byproxy, does it sound like he was
trying to give it to kids?You know, if he is the head
of that organization, it would itwould make sense that he would have HIV.
And by that organization, I meanthe LGBTQ organization, but he's also
the ahead of that HIV once.Yeah, I would assume he has it.
I guess you would. Yeah,I mean, Alex, that is

(34:14):
deeply disturbing. And this is apretty big catch for you guys. I
mean, you've just so, justso we're clear about this. Alex isn't
just some like prankster or whatever hedoes do comedy on the internet. Yes,
that's true, but Alex is actuallythe work that he has done is
contributed to arrests, prosecution, takingdangerous people off the streets, protecting kids.
You some people might not like Alex'ssense of humor on social media,

(34:37):
but certainly people aren't against the ideaof him putting criminals in jail that we're
praying on kids. You have critics, Alex, and I'm always suspicious of
them for that one reason. They'llfind some joke you told once and that's
the thing. They're like, well, we can't trust this guy to bust
predators. He told an off puttingjoke once, like excuse me, Yeah,

(34:57):
no, that that is true.And I'm not saying all of it,
Marpetos, but there's been two situationswhere, you know, me and
my guy that run the Twitter,where people have left, like, you
know, disparaging comments against what wedo, and they both happen to be
sexifened. Wow. Okay, wellit's probably not a coincidence, is it.

(35:22):
No, not at all. Okay, So you've actually pointed out before
there have been people that have beenuh, there have been people out there
that have that have adamantly worked againstpeople in your industry who turned out to
be they They were outspoken critics ofyou who have gone and actually got busted
afterwards. People that on social mediawere criticizing the work that you do and

(35:43):
then they went on to get arrestedand busted for doing this stuff. I'd
seen some records of it on socialmedia before that people that didn't like predator
poachers turned out to be pressed.Maybe I'm confused about that. Is that
not accurate? Well, I'm Imean it's more of like it turns out
that people criticizing us already have beencaught before, right, Okay, that

(36:07):
makes sense, I get it,Okay, I just want to make sure
we're clear about that. Okay,So what's happening now now that we know
this guy's a predator? Ralphie alWarnock, the senator from Georgia, they
had photos of him posted online withthis guy. Now that now that we
believe that he's a predator, justso we're clear, for legal reasons here,
people are now removing their photos ofhim. You know that he's connected

(36:28):
to the White House, he's connectedto high ranking senators in DC, the
establishments, erasing any evidence that theyever knew this guy. Yeah, we've
noticed that. So that HIV pagescrubbed him. The Maryland Democratic Party,
they first they were trying to censorcomments on their Facebook and this and that,

(36:49):
calling it out, but eventually theyput out a statement saying he's no
longer associated with us. So theyhad to get pressured into saying this guy
who admitted on camera to receiving childborn from kids no longer associated with us.
But yeah, that's what it lookslike. It looks like they're pulled
fro nineteen eighty four. I remembernot long ago, DeSantis and Florida said
okay, repeat child sex offenders capitalpunishment in Florida, and immediately some LGBTQ

(37:15):
groups came out and said they wereagainst that. And I just at the
time, I thought, look,we know there's heterosexual child predators. I
mean, Alex knows that, we'vehe's busted them before. We know there
are gay people that are against uh, you know, pedophilia. There's the
lgbt the lgb Crew groups I thinkis what they're called, d distance themselves

(37:36):
from the t's and the q's andwhat have you. But this really does
lend itself to the idea that youknow, a lot of these people masquerading
as alphabet activists are probably predators.I mean not all of them, but
certainly some of them. I meanevidence seems to suggest they're out there.
Alex, Yeah, I one hundredpercent agree. And I will say,
you know, most people we catch, I would assume are probably right leading

(37:58):
voters, like we go to mostlylike we're in Michigan right now in a
town of thirteen hundred about to getsomebody and I assume he's probably a Trump
supporter, However, what the differenceis, you know, on Reddit,
when people try to bring up thiscatch or bring up to Michael nappinbust On,
like our Maryland or our politics inMaryland, whatever, it's the left

(38:19):
that tries to completely scrub any mentionof it. The left that says,
well, how do we know thisis real? That they just jump through
hoops to defend it. Now,as for the right, when you know,
somebody wearing a MAGA hat gets caught, I don't see any account saying
well, this didn't happen, oroh this is a fake, or oh
anything like that. We did.We disavout what happens on our side.
And that's kind of the difference Isee, Alex. I remember when you

(38:39):
were barely old. You weren't oldenough to drink booze. I met you
when you were in college, whenyou were twenty or a few years older.
Now you had a modest following online. You're way more successful. Now
you've got hundreds of thousands of followers. You're now high profile. Back then
you were, you know, akind of a fringe character on social media.
Now your mainstream. Now, powerfulpeople know who you are. You

(39:02):
probably have powerful enemies anybody trying tocome after you legally or otherwise. Do
you ever feel unsafe? Do youever have you had to lawyer up?
Any stories you'd want to share withpeople? Well, the most recent thing
we got was a season desist fromthis, you know, this constable we
caught in Rhode Island. Unfortunately,it looks like he wipes his stuff before

(39:25):
the comparable to get to him.But I mean, you know, he's
a lower something like a season desist. But it's so lappable because he admitted
everything on video, so I'm notworried about and I haven't heard from him
in like weeks. So no,nothing quite yet luckily, and I hope
it stays that way, but itprobably won't stay that way. It just
seems like if you have credit credibleevidence that these people did something wrong and

(39:45):
then they come at after you legally, it's the streisand effect, right.
All it does is bring more attentionto the fact that they probably did something
wrong and now they're trying to coverit up. Oh yeah, no every
time. Like I haven't even mentionedthat guy, the constable, couple months,
but when I got that letter fromthe lawyer, you know, I
just went live and I'm like,Hey, make sure y'all reshare this video,

(40:07):
and you know, just do itagain. Alex, you are one
of the most interesting people that Icall a friend and I've I've been a
fan of what you do since youstarted doing it, my brother. If
people want to support Predator Poachers orAlex Rosen, what can they do well?
If y'all have Rumble dot Com,just go to Rumble dot com type
in Predator Poachers p R E DA t O R Space p O A

(40:29):
c A t R S. Makea free Rumble account if you don't have
one. If you already have one, free to follow and just do that.
It would really help us out.My brother, Alex, keep up
the good work, man. I'vesaid it before. It's God's work.
I think it really is. Heyfollow him on social media and to the
rest of you be safe out there. Drive say if we don't have a
radio show without you, guys,we'll see you back here bright and early
tomorrow morning for more of what youbought a radio for. I have a

(40:49):
great afternoon. You
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