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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
According to a new poll this is nothing new to
the politics. Relax. According to new polling data, eleven percent
of Americans who plan to dress up for Halloween will
go as an object. An object is an object? You
mean like a tree or an avocado or Sydney Sweeney

(00:49):
or something like. I don't get that. An object weird, right, Hi,
Kenny Webster, thanks for joining us today. It's Pursuit of
Happiness Radio broadcasting live this afternoon from the Texas Gun Club.
Come stop by. We're shooting guns out here. It's a lot.
I'm in the back office here with a little mike setup,
but I got my computer, I got all my equipment here.
We're hanging out at the Stafford location today. If you're

(01:10):
not doing anything and you want to shoot some guns,
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(01:31):
just can't get over how awful Barack Obama is doing
it campaigning for Kamala. I mean, look, the guy basically
went out and told a bunch of young black men, look,
you know, you know, I know, she's not as great
as I am. It's not as funny, shot as attractive,
not as cool, not as good looking, doesn't get invited
at all the great parties, not as funny. But you

(01:53):
have to vote for Donald Trump's bad. That is basically
what Obama is telling young black men, right. I mean,
have you watched any of the videos of him talking
about her. He's it's like he's telling people to vote
for her while simultaneously insulting her. And then yesterday here's
the most unaware man on earth saying asking a question

(02:15):
that I think we all know the answer to.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
I don't understand how we got so toxic and just.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
So divide and so bitter, and wait, you don't understand
how we got so toxic, so divided, so bitter. You
don't know. Wait, you you really don't know? Seriously, Okay,
maybe I'll just let you in on a little hint here.
Mister Obama, you know they call him mister Trump, mister Obama.
There was this guy that was president for eight years,

(02:45):
and for eight years, anytime you disagreed with him about anything,
you were called a racist. No, I mean anything you
could add, why is this guy drone bombing Brown American
children without Congress's approval? And then they're like, oh, you're
a racist asking that question. By the way, that really happened.
Look it up. He drone bombed a wedding with American

(03:05):
citizens inside, and the liberal media had nothing to say
about it. Obama campaigned in two thousand and eight on
a promise for less war. Isn't that amazing? Back in
two thousand and eight, Democrats wanted less war? And then
what did they get? They got the most violent president
of modern American politics, Obama. I remember reading a statistic

(03:26):
once it said the casualty kill count of Obama's drone
war was twenty two times higher than the casualty kill
count the civilian casualty kill count of George W. Bush's
manned aircrafts. So when Obama says he doesn't know why
things are so polarizing right now, I got to assume

(03:46):
he just doesn't own a mirror.

Speaker 4 (03:47):
One of my few regrets is my inability to reduce
the polarization and meanness in our politics.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
I doubt it.

Speaker 4 (03:54):
You've seen an extreme faction of the Republican Party that
has shown a again and again and again that they're
willing to hijack the entire party and the country and
the economy. Members of Congress and the House Republicans in particular,
don't get to demand ransom in exchange for doing their jobs.
That ideological extremism and maximalist position is much more prominent

(04:19):
right now in the Republican Party.

Speaker 3 (04:20):
I think it's somewhat ironic to see some members of
Congress wanting to make common cause with the hardliners in Iran.

Speaker 4 (04:29):
You don't negotiate by putting a gun to the other
person's head, or, worse yet, by putting a gun to
the American people's head by threatening a shutdown.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
Think about what we could do if a reckless few
didn't hold the economy hostage every few months.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
It is not negotiating.

Speaker 5 (04:42):
If I show up at your house and say give
me everything inside, I'm gonna burn it down. Well, we're
not for is negotiating with people have a bomb strap
to their chest. The Republicans had provided a laundry list
of essentially ransom demands.

Speaker 3 (04:53):
I cannot think of a more potent recruitment tool for
Isle than some of the rhetoric that's been coming out
of here during the course of this.

Speaker 6 (05:02):
But they're promoting policies that harm millions of Americas. They're
not necessarily cold hearted. They just sincerely believe that if
we give more tax breaks to a.

Speaker 7 (05:13):
Fortunate few, and.

Speaker 6 (05:15):
We invest less in the middle class, and we reduce
or eliminate the safety net for the poor and the sick,
and we cut food stamps and we cut Medicaid, and
we let banks and polluters and credit card companies and
insurers do only what's best for their bottom line without
the responsibility to the rest of.

Speaker 4 (05:33):
Us, then somehow the economy will boom, and.

Speaker 6 (05:37):
Jobs and prosperity will trickle down to everybody.

Speaker 3 (05:39):
The tone of our politics hasn't gotten better since I
was inaugurated.

Speaker 2 (05:44):
In fact, it's gotten worse. Yeah, I think I might know.
I think I might know who's responsible for all the
polarizing rhetoric. Can People that are a little younger than
me probably don't remember this, but there was a time
not that long ago, what fifteen twenty years ago in
American politics where every conversation didn't feel like it was

(06:07):
gonna end with the Civil War starting up again. There
was a time when Americans could have a civil conversation.
I mean, the disagree there was insulting. But back in
two thousand, was there really that much of a difference
between George W. Bush and Al Gore?

Speaker 8 (06:24):
Like?

Speaker 2 (06:25):
Was it really that different? Was it really? Was there
really that much of a difference between Bill Clinton and H. W. Bush?
Was it really that different? Was Bob Bob Dole and
Bill Clinton? John Kerry and George W? No, none of
these people were that different. What changed two guys, two

(06:46):
guys drastically changed both parties. You would have thought electing
the first black president in America would make race relations
calm down a little bit. Suddenly we'd all start getting
along with each other more, stop using race as an
excuse for every problem we have. Turns out just the opposite.
That got infinitely worse and then the Republicans, in response

(07:10):
to it, elected a guy that was an outsider, not
a politician by any means, not at least not by
the traditional sense of the definition. Not a lawyer, never
served any smaller offices anywhere. No, just went right from
the private sector right over to the most influential political
position in the United States of America. His goal was

(07:34):
to take all the people that were abusing their power,
abusing their authority, elected officials, unelected officials trying to use
their influence to sway elections, move the country in a
direction average people might not have benefited from. And what
did they do? They told us he was literally Hitler

(07:56):
over and over again. And now it looks like he's
about to win the election. And the Democrats are coming
up with some very strange lies that they're telling about
Donald Trump, including one why connecting him to the military
of Adolf Hitler. I'm going to discuss it coming up
in a little bit with Daniel Turner Stick Around Shows
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(08:21):
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(08:42):
Daniel Turner for Power the Future is going to be here.
But first, I've been playing sound bites. I've been listening
during commercial break here to Kamala's interview yesterday on NBC News.
This was supposed to be, uh, just a softball pitch
for her, underhanded right out to the rafters, but it
didn't go well. Apparently, from what it sounds like, she
is really backtracking on some of her positions here. Back

(09:05):
in twenty nineteen, when she ran for president last time,
Kamala Harris said we need taxpayer funded operations for illegal
immigrants who want transgender procedures, even if they're in prison
for committing seriously heinous crimes. Now she won't even admit
to supporting just regular, mainstream run of the metal transgender stuff.

Speaker 9 (09:26):
I will move on, but I don't know that I
heard a clear answer from you on the issue of gender.
For Matara, sounds like what you're saying is this should
be something between trans Americans and their doctors. It feels
like that's a long way from we see you and
we love you, which was your message to trans Americans
in May.

Speaker 2 (09:39):
What do you want the.

Speaker 9 (09:40):
LGBTQ plus community to know as they're looking for a
full throated backing from you for trans Americans.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
I believe full throated. By the way, isn't isn't that funny?
Full throated is what she said.

Speaker 10 (09:53):
I believe that all people should be treated with dignity
and respect.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
Period.

Speaker 10 (10:02):
And should not be vilified for who they are.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
Now shouldn't really answer the question, did she? That's actually
the second time that Miss Jackson, the NBC News interviewer
asked her this question. Here was her first answer.

Speaker 10 (10:12):
We got two weeks to go, and I'm very much
grounded in the press.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
Sorry, that's the wrong sound bite Again, here's the subbody
I'm trying to play. Can I get a mulligan? Can
I get a mulligan on this one? Basically she's not
answering the question. She's been very clear about this. Apparently,
Kamala Harris does not support trans rights.

Speaker 9 (10:31):
Do you believe that transgender Americans should have access to
gender firming care? In this country.

Speaker 10 (10:36):
I believe we should follow the law. I mean, I
think you're probably pointing to the fact that Donald Trump's
campaign has spent tens of millions of dollars.

Speaker 9 (10:44):
They're trying to define you on this. Yes, I'm asking
you to define yourself though, just broadly speaking, what is
your value? Why you believe they should have that access.

Speaker 10 (10:51):
I believe that people, as the law states, even on
this issue about federal law, that that is a decision
that doc will make in terms of what is medically necessary.
I'm not going to put myself in the position of
a doctor.

Speaker 2 (11:04):
Wow, Kamala, why won't you support trans rights? What happened? Well,
as it turns out, the sort of people that want
a president that's obsessed with the LGBTQ, excuse me, the TQ.
They don't really care about the l's or the g's
or the bees, but they care about the TQ is
an awful lot. The kind of person that would vote
for Kamala is probably already going to vote for They

(11:25):
don't care that. They're probably not even watching this interview.
You know, there was a point where Kamala Harris said
she wanted to get rid of ice completely restructure ICE,
the immigration customs enforcement that people that go around arresting
illegal immigrants and deporting them. Does she still believe that.

Speaker 9 (11:42):
Back in twenty nineteen, you stop short of calling to
abolish ICE, as some Democrats were doing at the time,
but you also.

Speaker 10 (11:48):
Said, I've never called you stopped short of that.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
That's right, and that's right.

Speaker 9 (11:51):
You said you should critically re examine it, and you
considered starting from scratch. Would you consider if your president's
starting from scratch with ICE?

Speaker 10 (12:00):
Let me tell you what the customs and Border patrol
agents need, what the immigration system needs. It needs to
be fixed.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
She needs to be fixed. Now. Back in the day,
she actually compared ICE to the Ku Klux Klan Ku Klux.

Speaker 6 (12:14):
Klan, the KKK, Well, the clan was what we would
call today a domestic terrorist group.

Speaker 10 (12:21):
Why why would we call them domestic terrask group because
they tried to.

Speaker 5 (12:27):
Use fear and forced to change political environment?

Speaker 10 (12:30):
And what was the motivation for the use of.

Speaker 2 (12:33):
Fear and force based on race and ethnicity?

Speaker 8 (12:35):
Right?

Speaker 10 (12:36):
Are you aware of the perception of many about how
the power and the discretion that ICE is being used
to enforce the laws? And do you see any parallels.

Speaker 2 (12:50):
No, I don't see any parallels. The people that are
being deported by Ice aren't being deported because they're race
or ethnicity. They're being reported because they got here legally.
There's plenty of people with the same race ethnicity that
aren't getting deported. Why does everything have to be so
stupid all the time? You know, Kamala trying to backtrack

(13:10):
from her own policies and distance herself from the stuff
she said a few years ago is on full display.
You see it all over the place. You hear it
in these sound bites I'm playing for you. But turns
out she's not the only person in her party trying
to distance herself from well her. Brybart dot com today
reporting on how Democrat US Senate candidates in the blue

(13:30):
wall states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin want nothing to do
with Kamala. They are embracing the same Donald Trump that
they actually voted to impeach. All of them. In Pennsylvania,
incumbent US Senator Bob Casey, a Democrat, voted to remove
Trump from office twice, now has found himself in a

(13:51):
tighter reelection campaign than anybody expected. That is a seat
that was widely considered a safe Democrats seat just a
few weeks ago. Now it seems like it's slipping away.
In Pennsylvania. Four weeks ago, according to Real Clear Politics,
the poll of polls, they say the average poll of
Pennsylvania polls, Casey led Republican challenger by four point four points.

(14:12):
Now he's barely up by one point. So suddenly Casey
doesn't find Trump so terrible. Casey said, and I quote
he even embraced Trump's tariff policies. His campaign launched an
ad last week that described him as independent and touted
how he bucked the Biden administration to protect fracking and
sided with Trump to end NAFTA. Wait, I'm sorry, he's

(14:35):
running political ads where he agrees with Trump. Listen to this.
This is from the director for the Center for Political
for Public Opinion Research at Franklin and Marshall College. In
an interview with The Hill. He said, quote, there's no
party affiliation in Casey's ads. I don't recall seeing any
that say Democrat or anything like that. He's running as

(14:56):
an incumbent on his own record. Huh, that's interesting. Here's
another one in Wisconsin, incumbent US Senator Tammy Baldwin is
also watching her once comfortable lead slip away. Four weeks ago,
Baldwin enjoyed a four point six point lead over Republican
businessman Eric Hovdi in an RCP average Real Claire Politics. Today,

(15:17):
she is down two points. Baldwin voted to remove Trump
from office twice. Suddenly doesn't find the bad Orange Man
so bad. Baldwin launched an ad that highlighted her bill
signed by Trump to require the domestic infrastructure projects use
American and not Chinese steel. Tammy Baldwin got President Trump

(15:37):
to sign her Made an America bill, then she got
President Biden to make it permanent. This is in a
political ad she's running. When Harris arrived in Wisconsin for
three campaign stops last Thursday, Baldwin was in the wind,
wanted nothing to do with her, didn't even greet her
at the airport. Now we take you to Michigan, where

(15:58):
Representative Elise Slock was once seen as a shoe in
for the state's open US Senate seat. But what had
been a sweet five point one lead over her over
former Michigan Representative Mike Rodgers four weeks ago in the
same poll Real Clear Politics poll now just two points away. Huh.

(16:18):
Slotkin voted to impeach Trump as a member of the
US House and is now soft pedaling attacks on Trump.
According to The Hill, didn't mention Trump in her last
debate until the end of the hour. You know, the
delicious irony of this has not gone unnoticed by Donald Trump.
Donald Trump pointed it out to someone in an interview
over the weekend. Matt Boyle said, quote, they have senators.

(16:41):
I'll do the voice. They have senators that voted to
impeach me. Democrats.

Speaker 8 (16:45):
They're Democrats, and now they're bragging about my policies and
they have to use that because their policies were radical
left and not good. So now they're taking ads saying
that I was in favor of tariffs, just like President Trump.
I was in favor of this, and that nobody's even
seen anything like it.

Speaker 2 (17:02):
But they weren't. I mean, they weren't. End quote Yeah,
that actually happened, guys. What's especially fascinating about this is
the fact that in their respective states, these three Republican
US Senate candidates had been running three to five points
behind Trump. So what we have here is another sign
of real momentum, not just towards Trump, but the Republican

(17:24):
ticket as a whole. Look, I'm not making any predictions here.
These three candidates could still lose. They're not necessarily winning.
But look at the trend. Everything is moving Trump's way,
nothing is moving Harris's way. Momentum right before an election
is very important as Harris tries to get her message
out her own allies in the corporate media are drowning

(17:46):
her out as they entered day three raging over Trump's
triumph working at the fry station in a McDonald's. Trump
just needs to stay cool, level headed, don't say anything
too crazy. If the polls are correct, this is his
race to lose. All he has to do is not
lose it.

Speaker 11 (18:08):
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Speaker 2 (18:21):
Exact time of year, kids, It's Halloween, you're feeling spooky.
It's hard to get scared about Halloween when you're terrified
about the election results. But I don't think anybody is
as scared as the liberal media is right now. You
could see it on full display when you flip through
the channels, the cable news. They are horrified. You know,
there's us just suddenly today, just suddenly today, the CDC

(18:42):
is warning everybody not to eat at McDonald's, the quarter
pounders and certain blue states around the country apparently of
a coli or listeria. I know, something like what timing.
Wait a second, you're telling me the CDC, which I've
not mistaken as part of our federal government, which is
currently commanded and operated by a bunch of Democrats who
are threatened by Donald Trump, are publicly attacking McDonald's. I mean,

(19:05):
that could be a coincidence. It could just be a coincidence.
But the CDC is warning people this week not to
eat at McDonald's, just on the heels of that news
story about Donald Trump going to McDonald's and making Kamala
look like a jackass. You know, it's remarkable about that.
He accused her of not really working at McDonald's and
she won't respond to that. So that's just hanging out

(19:27):
there in the air.

Speaker 7 (19:28):
Now.

Speaker 2 (19:28):
Everybody's got to assume since he called her out and
she didn't react, she probably is lying, isn't she. Yeah,
I think she probably is. The left is desperate, so desperate.
In fact, they just suddenly came just suddenly realized. There's
another thing that Donald Trump said. With no witnesses around,
with no one there, a bunch of anonymous sources claim

(19:51):
Donald Trump said that he wishes that he had a
bunch of generals like Hitler did. How do we know this, well,
we just anonymous sources. And now John Kelly's come out.
You remember John Kelly, former Marine Corps general, former political advisor,
served at the White House under Donald Trump, just said,
but hates Trump. Now they don't like each other. Just

(20:13):
suddenly realized, Yeah, Donald Trump's a fascist. Just suddenly realized it. Here.
That's weird. Just two weeks before the election, we've suddenly
realized Trump is praising Nazi generals. Daniel Turner from Power
of the Futures on the line right now, Daniel Art,
You're not the anonymous source, are you.

Speaker 7 (20:31):
It's amazing how this conversation Kenny scarred him so much
years ago that he forgot about it until a couple
of days before the election. That Kamala Harris is going
to lose, right, that's how much this conversation impacted him.
He didn't run to the press when he was writing
his book. He didn't run to the press after January

(20:51):
sixth and add this to the list of grievances. He
just remembered it now and they got to tell you.
It reminds me of how how there was a Senate
vote on a Supreme Court nominee named Brett Kavanaugh that
was upheld because a woman just remembered that she used
to get repeatedly raped at at his high school parties

(21:13):
when she was a kid, and we held up to
Brett Kavanaugh hearing for the same reason. So these terrible
things happened, but they only seem to surface at the
opportune times.

Speaker 2 (21:23):
Yeah, and you're not the only one to notice that.
Mark Halpern is the former ABC News political director, worked
at uh Well has It, worked at Newsweek, worked at MSNBC.
This guy is part of the establishment political media from
inside the belwet. He's been around for years and years
and years and years. And early this morning he was
appearing on a talk show called The Morning Meeting when

(21:45):
he basically he basically cast out on this whole news story.
And this is a guy from the very institution that
you would assume would be pushing this narrative.

Speaker 12 (21:53):
I finished the story two weeks before the election. I'm
sure Sean will have a point view. Bet that two
weeks before they all know of one story that's been
pitched to a major newspaper and to me and for
all I know, to many others that I don't believe
is true. But if it's true, as I said yesterday,
it would end Donald Trump's campaign, just as if the
accusations now thoroughly debunked and contributed by American intelligence to

(22:15):
Russia about Tim Wallas, if those were true, it would
end his campaign. What we're seeing in the final days,
as a point I was making, is actors who want
a certain outcome are on social media and in pitches
to reporters, and in the case of The Atlantic, Jeffrey
Goldberg writing himself, are trying to affect the end of

(22:36):
the race because they're so desperate to try to try
to pull a comy.

Speaker 2 (22:41):
Okay, so let's pause it right here. This is great, right,
So Mark Albrin is basically saying, in so many words
here he doesn't think that Tim Walls is connected to
the Chinese communist nor is Donald Trump praising Nazi German generals.
I don't know. I have a hard time believing Tim
Walls isn't connected the Commis. He went there dozens of times.

(23:02):
But the Trump thing is a little harder for me
to swallow. Is that just because I'm biased?

Speaker 7 (23:07):
No, it's also because there's there's a thing called time, right.
I mean, Tim Waltz hasn't been a national figure and
on the national stage for very long, and so as
he became a national figure, do you need time to
dive into these people and go through their backgrounds? Now,
I'm sure there's someone in the vast government apparatus who

(23:27):
has flagged how many times Tim Waltz has gone to China,
But because he's a Democrat, it probably never bubbled up
to the right people or the of investigation. In the
case of Donald Trump, at this point, what could he
have ever possibly said or done that could be new? Right?
I mean, this guy has been on the public on
the national stage for decades, but he's been on the

(23:48):
national political stage since twenty fifteen. I mean, we're going
on a very very long time of him being you know,
in the news every day. We're supposed to believe suddenly
that like, oh my gosh, you guys didn't know this
just happened, and I forgot to tell you about it.
So I think Mark Halpern I give him a lot
of credit. I think he's he's nailed this, Like there

(24:11):
are operatives who want to win, and now you will
see acts of desperation. Back in the day, a more
scrupulous media would would behave appropriately or more scrupulous electorate. Right.
It's why I will always have great disdain for Dianne Feinstein,
who's literally the day of that vote for Brett Kavanaugh,

(24:34):
got this letter and was like whoa, rather than saying, oh, yeah,
this is a little desperate, right, Like I'm not gonna
I'm just going to ignore this. So you know, we
have to trust people's scruples, but they don't have any anymore.

Speaker 2 (24:46):
Canny all right, we never really got a big October surprise.
This month we heard Doug m Hoff was a bad husband.
But I don't think anybody really cares. It's not like
Kamala needs a supportive guy back at home to you know,
root and toot and Doug m Hoff there to lift
up this beautiful woman. I don't think anybody cares it.
I mean, you'd think they would. He supposedly punched a woman,

(25:06):
and is it also? I thought this was interesting. It
hadn't occurred to me till after this happened. Kamala did
a town hall with Maria Shriver last weekend. Maria Shriver,
Liz Cheney, Kamala Harris. Now, I don't know about Liz Cheney,
but Maria Shriver and Kamala have something in common. Daniel,
do you know what that thing is?

Speaker 7 (25:26):
Husband's who teeth?

Speaker 6 (25:29):
Both of them got the high, they both got the
hired help pregnant.

Speaker 2 (25:33):
Doug m Hoff impregnated a nanny. Arnold Schwartzenegger impregnated the maid.
By the way, I always just assume the made Have
you ever seen a picture of her? I'm guessing her
immigration status wasn't exactly kind of seems like it was
a gray area there. Do you think that affected Maria
Shriver's opinion about immigration laws?

Speaker 7 (25:51):
Daniel, It's remarkable that this is who they are rolling
out to talk about why we should vote for for
Kamala and I got I tell you for a campaign
that admits we are struggling to attract male voters, then
why would you think these three women sitting on stage
and yelling about men would attract anyone. There's one dude

(26:12):
sitting behind Kamala Harris, who's the most feet and beta
looking man you could possibly imagine, And he looks like
Justin Trudeau with his legs crossed very tightly and clapping
with his hands parallel to each other. That's who who's
Those are the men who are voting for Kamala. So
I found that a remarkable town hall that was just

(26:34):
angry women. And it may be sexist to say it,
but a lot of guys don't want to vote for
someone who reminds them of the librarian, or their mother
in law, or or you know, their first grade teacher,
or their first wife. And that's exactly who these three
women yelling about men in manhood and oh gosh, calm down, lady.

Speaker 2 (26:56):
Yeah, they've got a problem with men, right, Men don't
like And you can't say it's just because she's a woman.
She didn't get a single primary vote. Nobody liked her
when she was on. There were women that got more
delegate votes back in the primary than she did, So
you can't tell me it's just because she's a woman.
But even still, they send Obama out and at this point,
We've all seen how poorly that went. Now now I

(27:18):
noticed this, this old news story of Barack Obama telling
black men to pull up their pants as resurfaced. Is
Kamala Harris so unpopular that she's actually making black people
dislike Obama?

Speaker 7 (27:29):
Absolutely? I think people forget. And I'm so glad you
just mentioned that. People forget how unpopular Kamala Harris was
when she ran in twenty nineteen pre COVID, pre George
Floyd right, pre it was a different world, right. She
was the first one to drop out because she was
that unpopular as a candidate. She was the sitting center

(27:52):
from California. But when Joe Biden was crowned and he
won in twenty twenty and was declared the victor said,
or I will pick a black woman as my VP.
So Kamala fit the bill, right, I mean he said
it had I guess he didn't say a black Indian
woman because she used to be Indian.

Speaker 2 (28:11):
Bachelor used to be I heard that exactly.

Speaker 7 (28:14):
Hey, so that's how she got the job.

Speaker 2 (28:16):
Before we run out of time here, I want to
play two short sound bites for you. I would play three,
but we don't have enough time. Yesterday, we played a
clip on this show. I think a lot of people
have heard it, but if you didn't. John Stewart, host
of The Daily Show. I may not agree with him
on a lot of stuff, but I will admit he's consistent.
He's interviewing Tim Walls and he asks Tim Walls, look,
why Liz Cheney, Why Dick Cheney? And then Tim Walls says, oh, look,

(28:38):
a lot of people like us, Taylor Swift, Bernie Sanders,
and John Stewart's not having it. He says, Dick Cheney
is a guy that got us to invade a bunch
of countries. Taylor Swift's just a pop star. You can't
put them in the same boat. People don't understand how
hypocritical this makes Kamala look. Yesterday, in an NBC News interview,
she was asked about this.

Speaker 9 (28:57):
He spent a lot of time on the campaign trail
with former congress When Liz Cheney is your reference? Is
she somebody who? Is she somebody who would consider putting
in the cabinet? Have you talked with her about this topic.

Speaker 10 (29:07):
I'll keep you posted.

Speaker 2 (29:08):
I'll keep you posted, says Kamala. She wants people to
believe Liz Cheney could be part of her administration.

Speaker 10 (29:13):
I was just with one of the leaders, and I
think opinion leaders in the Republican Party, Liz Cheney.

Speaker 2 (29:20):
Liz Cheney is a leader in the now. I noticed
she lost in her own primary in her home state
by thirty points. Would you say that Liz Cheney is
the fresh face of the conservative movement?

Speaker 7 (29:32):
Daniel, She was never a leader of the Republican Party.
She had a famous last name and a lot of money.
She moved back to Wyoming to run for the at
large districts because Wyoming only has one congressman in the state,
and she won, and congratulations, and that's the easy thing
to do when you have a famous last name and

(29:53):
a lot of money. If Chelsea Clinton moved to California,
she would probably win the Senate race because she's Clinton.
But she was never a leader of the Republican Party.
And you know what's shame on Liz Cheney. And I
hope she hears me say that, because she's on record
in twenty nineteen blasting Kamala Harris on foreign policy, on abortion,

(30:14):
on just American principles, calling her radical, calling her extreme.
All that is out the window because she hates Donald
Trump that much. And I'm sorry there are people in
the world I truly dislike Kenny. But to think I
would sell my own principles just out of that purpose,
just because I dislike that person, that's biblical level of treason,

(30:37):
of betraying your values. And Liz Chaney should be ashamed
of herself and she should never be able to show
her face in public to what a shameful little woman
she's become.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
All Right, Daniel Turner, I know you're married, happily married
with a kid, so this is just a hypothetical. Liz Cheney,
Megan McCain or Lizzo, you got to pick one.

Speaker 7 (30:56):
Go first of all, no kid, no kid.

Speaker 2 (31:01):
I thought you were having a kid.

Speaker 7 (31:02):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (31:02):
No, you're not a.

Speaker 7 (31:04):
No no, no, no. Th Thanks for bringing up a
sore topic.

Speaker 2 (31:07):
Yes, I'm sorry about that.

Speaker 11 (31:10):
No good.

Speaker 2 (31:13):
No, okay, Well, the Power of the Future dot com
is Daniel Turner's website. It sounds like he wouldn't perform
the Beast of two backs with Les Chenney, Meghan McCain
or Lizzo, but we're not here to judge him for that.
But uh, at any rate, Daniel Turner, I didn't mean
to bring that up. Hey, I don't always play.

Speaker 7 (31:28):
I've given you a hard time.

Speaker 2 (31:30):
Kenny, you the best. I don't have kids either, so
who am I to judge? Hey? Follow Daniel Turner on
social media, Power the Future dot com if you work
in oil and gas. He's a good resource for what's
going on out there. Who listening to the Pursuit of
Happiness Radio?

Speaker 8 (31:42):
I guess it's not available in Canada.

Speaker 2 (31:45):
Amazon is going to hire two hundred and fifty thousand
holiday employees. Apparently applicants have to be able to pee
in bottles, toss boxes on porches, and then block traffic.
Welcome back. Let's talk a little bit about wealthy billionaires
in the tech sector for just a moment, if you
don't mind. As a matter of fact, if you're looking
for a job, you could go work at Amazon right now.

Speaker 13 (32:05):
Amazon is now looking for two hundred and fifty thousand
holiday employees. Are you able to toss boxes on porches,
block traffic, constantly, be tracked by GPS and p in
a bottle of ly today?

Speaker 2 (32:19):
Yeah? Didn't I just say all that stuff? That's so weird? Sure?
Is there an echo in here? What the hell is
going on Mark Cuban was doing an interview yesterday on
CNBC and he says he is America first. After saying
that Donald Trump is Hitler and he's ruining America and
he's destroying our country. Mark Cuban said he would join
Hitler's administration. Mark, we let you go on for half hour.

(32:41):
You're not maybe you will change someone's mind. I don't know.
I've heard it all. So I've sat there in meetings
that I know I have.

Speaker 14 (32:46):
I sat Amigiateive Phoenix, and I said, I don't want
to tell I tell you, I tell the campaign. I
don't want to talk to people who already your voting
for Kamla. I want to vote talk to people who
were thinking they're voting for Trump or on the side,
and maybe you're.

Speaker 2 (32:58):
Changing of mine today. I don't know. I you look
at Twitter. I mean, but the question respectful and kind
to you?

Speaker 6 (33:04):
Bet people think you need to be respectful and kind
to be really, I don't care.

Speaker 2 (33:09):
I'll take any question to do that.

Speaker 14 (33:11):
I don't care if people are yelling at me, screaming
at me, calling me names. You know, elon racist turn
and you must.

Speaker 2 (33:17):
Like something about like it. I know what's at stakes, Well,
you must ed it up. If Trump's gotta knows, that's
as long as the road. Your skin. From what I
see people say to you on Twitter must be as
sick as you know from Boston to La Mark. And
that's fine. I mean, but you you obviously enjoy what
you're doing. And God bless you. You got a billion.

Speaker 12 (33:36):
You're still going to have a G six fifty after
this election, So what the hell?

Speaker 14 (33:41):
Yeah, you know, it's what's best for the country. That's
what I care about. Look, let me just add if
Trump wins last time, when he won, he asked me
to help on healthcare on Ppe, I sat with Peter
Navarro and help them come up with a mass company
and help them grow.

Speaker 2 (33:54):
And that was all domestic production. The same thing. I'm
America first, he's America first. Do you believe that Mark
Cuban is America first? No. By the way, he didn't
help Trump. He wasn't part of the campaign, he wasn't
part of the administration. Back in twenty sixteen, Mark Cuban
came out as an anti Trumper because he wasn't welcome

(34:15):
in the administration. That's exactly how that all went down.
I will tell you this. If you're Elon Musk right now,
you're looking pretty cool. Elon Musk has everybody praising him
right now, including Gavin Newsom. Gavin Newsom coming to his defense.
SpaceX is in a legal battle right now with the
California Coastal Commission. As Reason dot Com reports, this is

(34:38):
not a story about housing. It's not about zoning. It's
not about urbanism or any major theme or any This
is a conflict between one of the world's most successful companies,
arguably the most successful space company, and its powerful land
use regulator. Is a great illustration of the California government's
tendency for capricious power grabs. The Coastal Commission is trying

(35:02):
to stop rocket launches. Why because it's bad for the environment.
Because no, because they don't like Elon's tweets. That's all
this is about, guys. For decades, the Coastal the California
Coastal Commission, has had near unchecked authority to regulate development
along the state's eight hundred and sixty mile coastline. They've

(35:22):
never been afraid to use in it, and they're now
trying to expand their territorial authority to outer space. The
Commission voted to opposed plans by private space company SpaceX
to launch more rockets from the Vandenberg Space Force Space
in Santa Barbara County, California. The Commission is asserting for
the first time that SpaceX must get coastal development permits

(35:45):
to shoot more rockets into space. SpaceX and the Department
of the Air Force have conversely argued that SpaceX launches
are federal activity that's exempt from the Commission's regulatory powers.
After the commissions vote last week, SpaceX filed a lawsuit
against the Commission and argue the agency is acting well
outside its authority. The company asserts that the Commission's true

(36:08):
motives are not protecting the coast They're just trying to
punish Elon Musk for his political views. And they basically
already said that's true. They've admitted it. SpaceX posted a
complaint saying rarely has a government agency made so clear
that it was exceeding its authorized mandate to punish a
company for its political views and statements of its largest

(36:30):
shareholder and CEO. So this little dispute between SpaceX and
the California Coastal Commission is very since in a very
complex intersection of federal and state coastal protection laws, so
it requires a lot of unpacking. It all goes back
to nineteen seventy two. Back in nineteen seventy two, as

(36:51):
part of a wave of slow growth environmental legislation, Congress
passed something called the Coastal Zone Management Act. Basically, it's
a law that incouraged states to establish their own coastal
agencies to regulate private development along the coast. They encouraged
states to create coastal management plans, so this will be

(37:11):
for you to do. The federal government will stay out
of it. So California voters came up with the California
Coastal Commission, and it was the Commission is entitled to
review federal agency actions for consistency with its coastal management plan.
What can you do along the coastline? Can you build
a high rise? Can you build a skyscraper? Can you
build an oil refinery? That kind of thing. You get it.

(37:34):
So they have much more control over federally permitted activities
of private parties than any of us would like to believe.
The federal government could step in and regulate the coastline,
but they allow California to do it, and so California
has basically come out and admitted in so many words that, yeah,
we don't like Elon Musk's politics. SpaceX is having this

(37:57):
dispute with the Coastal Commission. SpaceX says it is in
a lawsuit that since started launching rockets from Vandenberg back
in twenty thirteen, California Coastal Commission never had a problem
with it right up until Elon Musk became a Republican.
Now suddenly they do, so they're having this big dispute.

(38:17):
Interestingly enough, you know, the Air Force, the federal government,
even Gavin Newsom, want Elon Musk to launch rockets out
of California. It's good for their economy, brings jobs to
the Golden State. An important fact that it's easy to
lose and all this back and forth is that Coastal
Commission staff recommended the commissioners concur with SpaceX's increased launch schedule,

(38:41):
saying the Air Force had imposed enough environmental protection measures
to make those launches consistent with the state's coastal management
plan for a long time. Now, that's just fancy legal
talk that says, hey, the California Coastal Commission already agreed
the rules the federal government came up with, the rules
of the Air Force came up with were good enough.
Anyone who's followed the Commission shouldn't be surprised by this

(39:05):
sudden attitude change. The Commission has fined one coastal homeowner
millions of dollars for putting up gates on his property.
They demanded that other coastal homeowners dismantle their two story
homes to improve views from a nearby hiking trail. They
frequently shoot down housing projects for being too tall, too

(39:27):
out of step with neighborhood character, not having enough parking,
too little parking, too much parking. The Coastal Commission of
California consistently lobbies in favor of exempting coastal areas from
state laws aimed at streamlining housing development. You think the house,
you think housing is too expensive in the state of California,

(39:47):
Look no further than the California state government for an
explanation of why so. Gavin Newsom is now defending Elon Musk, saying,
please don't take your company out of our state. But
the problem is the California government is too liberal even
for the California Democrat Governor Elon Musk has already got

(40:10):
his foot out the door. He's taken his plans for
future space launches to places like Florida and Texas, and
good riddance because the big difference between Florida and Texas
is those states are actually in America. California. I don't
know if you guys remember, but that pretty much belongs
to the Chinese government. Now, I'm Kenny Webster. I love
you all. I got tickets available for the upcoming comedy

(40:32):
show that we're doing at Wheelchairsfowarriors dot org under the
events section, or download the Walton Johnson smartphone app. November tenth.
That comedy show is probably going to sell out. They
always do, so get your tickets while you can. November
tenth at Bad Astronaut Brewing Company. That is a Sunday.
The next day is a holiday, so a lot of
you are probably off work. But it's an early show anyway.

(40:52):
It's at five pm, so we'll get you at home
in time for dinner. He can get your tickets right
now Wheelchairs for Warriors dot org or download the Walton
Johnson's smartphone app. To the rest of you, I love
you all. Have an awesome afternoon. We'll be back bright
and early tomorrow morning for more of what you bought
a radio for.

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