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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
Greetings, thanks so much for being here. It appears Donald
Trump won the presidential election out of habit. He immediately
protested the results. I'm just kidding. Apparently in the next month,
Donald Trump will move to Washington, d C. Kamala will
move to California, and MSNBC will move to Canada. That
makes perfect sense. Now, we don't still exactly know for sure,
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you know, the official vote tally, but we do know
there was like twenty million less people that voted now
than four years ago. At least, it certainly seems that way.
That's a little suspicious, isn't it very even stella victories
of victory. MAGA supporters are overjoyed, but not nearly as
much as Joe Biden. I gotta think he was the
number two winner last night. Joe Biden outperformed Kamala in
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every county in America according to CNN last night. And
I guess another loser right now would be Maya Rudolph.
She doesn't get to play Kamala on SNL anymore. Maybe
one more time this weekend, just for you know, job
for poops and giggles, if you will. Anyway, it's a
fun night. Get ready for Secretary of State Joe Rogan,
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that'll be cool. Get ready for Press Secretary of the
vik Ramaswami. That'll be very cool. And apparently Kamala cannot
stop laughing. Actually we don't. Still has she spoken yet.
She's supposed to be talking around now. I'll admit I
haven't looked at the news here in the last few
minutes since going on the air, But Kamala is supposed
to give him a statement at some point. It may
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be possible she's speaking right now. But CNN everybody out
trying to tell you what went wrong last night. I
don't think the liberal media gets it. I don't think
I don't think they understand. And when I say the
liberal media, I want to make something clear. The liberal
media and the legacy media are now the same media.
It used to be when you said the liberal media,
you just meant MSNBC or whatever. Now it means CNN,
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the Washington Post, NBC News, ABC News, CBS News, The
New York Times. I know there's so many examples, and
I don't want to keep playing Joyreid sound bites all afternoon,
But Joy Reid is the perfect example of what I'm
talking about. Here's a woman who makes a living saying
the dumbest possible things she can in response to whatever
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political issue is being highlighted in the media in any
given moment. Something happened with war, racism, that's the cause
of that. Something happened with violence in the streets, sexism,
that's just misogyny, that's it. Something happens at our border, immigration, well,
that's transphobia, she'll tell you. Usually it's racism. But then
if she can't use racism, she'll fall back on one
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of the other two things. In defeat, MSNBC's Joyreaid continues
doing the exact thing that helped Trump get elected. She's
completely oblivious how much she ate it in delivering the
exact results that she feared. She's clueless.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
And we begin our final sprint, having arrived at that
point in the election season where basically, we on this
side of the TV screen have said all we can.
We've laid out mistakes in this crucial election where one
side stands for freedom while the other meets the textbook
definition of fascism. Wow.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Mainly wow far.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Right dictatorial regime like Hitler's Germany or Franco Spain or
Mussolini's Italy. But also white ruled South Africa before Mendela
and the black majority took control.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
That sounds really bad, doesn't it. But what does Trump
have in common with any of those people? Is he
putting people in concentration camps or gasing Jews or now
he's not really doing any of that. The problem is
when you talk like this all the time in a
public environment, people don't react the right way. Liberal women
do this thing where they like to videotape themselves crying
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in their car. They're always in their car cry when
they get bad news in a political election.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
I'm sorry, no, no, why why why they don't really
have that.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
This woman wasn't even on the ballot. She's just a
black woman that didn't get her can't share her candidate
didn't win. I gotta tell you, they don't care that
they lost. They just want the attention. That's what this
is really about. Breitbart News editor John Nolty put it
perfectly when he said the era of corporate media dominance
is over. It is kind of a beautiful thing. From
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sixty Minutes to CNN, Meet the Press, the New York Times,
even Fox News last night was always two steps behind
what was happening on Twitter. The road now runs through
Joe Rogan and Breitbart and podcast and talk radio and
social media. In other words, the road to the White
House now goes through we the people. It's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
You know.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
The corporate media launched a terror war against a political
leader in his civilian followers, and we responded at the
ballot box. You know, they never wasted any time slandering Trump.
That was always so easy for them to do. He
was immediately written off as a reality show buffoon, a racist,
an orange ego with a zero chance. As soon as
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he concluded that announcement. After he came down and announced
he was running, the media smugs were already writing the
first draft of history. How riding the Trump Tower escalator
down the steps there to find Trump's short lived political career,
and what followed was a brutal tenure house to house
fight backed by Hollywood and academia and the deep state.
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The legal system, the Democrat Party, and hundreds of billions
of corporate dollars, and what did it amount to nothing.
In the preceding years, Trump had been battered and bruised.
They impeached him, they arrested him, they tried to murder him,
they tried to make them go bankrupt. They rifled through
his wife's underwear drawer. And backing all this behavior was
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the relentless corporate media. Their lies, their hoaxes, their slander,
the misinformation. The media is merciless. Terrorist attacks on civilians
guilty of nothing more than supporting Trump. That happened around
the clock. We were censored and blacklisted and threatened. We
were made unemployable, bankrupted with legal fees. There are people
in prison right now for the crime of attending a
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protest on January sixth, twenty twenty one. Free them. Yeah,
don't get me wrong. CNN and MSNBC and NPR and
CBS and ABC, and you get the idea, whatever the
thing that they are there. They will probably not go
away anytime soon. But their power, their influence, it is
no longer something for you to fear. America now sees
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the Naked Emperor for what he is. The corporate media
are nothing more or less than a left wing superpack,
and that revolution just staked the heart of their influence
to such a degree that Emmanuel Goldstein of nineteen eighty
four and his Hicks supporters just brought about a revolution
that only begins with the greatest political comeback in American history.
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And every one of us, you included radio listener, we
were all a part of it.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
Coming up more Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness. A safe
space for those who love liberty and try not to
take themselves too seriously, even if your name is Karen.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
This morning after Steve and Billiet and I, you know,
the morning show group. After we wrapped up the morning show. Normally,
the first thing we do when we're done with our
morning show, a little behind the scenes here for you,
is we record commercials. Because this is, after all, an
advertising industry. We don't get paid to get candidates elected
or not. We you know, we promote local roofing companies
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and plumbers and that's what talk radio is, right. So normally,
when we finish the morning show, we begin recording commercials.
But today we didn't. Today we watched the view. This
is this has never happened before, but last night, as
we realized our side was starting to win, we were
all on a group text together and one of us, yours, truly,
got the idea to watch MSNBC and it was worth it.
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It was very fun to watch them try to explain
why America was wrong and they were right and saying
some of the crazy things they were saying, like Florida
is a white ethno state. Yeah, that was actually a
thing that was said last night on on the View,
not the View on MSNBC, but today on the View,
which isn't you know, it's not NBC, it's ABC, but
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it's the equivalent. It's angry, affluent women, very well educated,
high fallutant Ivory Tower, occupying women who just hate America
and they don't understand why you don't hate America, And
you're the problem with America. If you don't hate America,
you know, it's.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
A state that I think Democrats definitely were reaching for.
There was a lot of work to try to turn
out the college campus says, which were really thick and
really packed, and try to turn out the suburbs. And
I think there was a lot of hope because of
just the insanity can we say fairly of the person
who's running for governor in that state and.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
The thought that she's talking about North Carolina just so
we're clear, but she's about to make the point I
want you to hear.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
You know, defeating him would also carry Harris in. But
in the end, you know, if they didn't make their
numbers and essentially exceed the numbers that Joe Biden had
in the suburbs. And I think we have to be
blunt about why black voters came through for Kamala Harris,
white women voters did not. Why that is what it
appears happened in that state.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
So do what's happening here. The left is so obsessed
with identity politics that when they lose, all they can
do is talk about identity politics and which group of
people screwed up. They've been conditioned to do this, right.
I saw another take earlier today on social media I
thought was kind of funny. It was a guy saying,
you know, all this talk about deporting illegals and Latinos
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still voted for Trump. Like, whoa there, David Duke, do
you not realize what you're saying? There's plenty of Hispanic
Latino LATINX whatever you choose to call them, voters who
aren't here illegally who you know, it's plenty of white
people and black people that are here illegally who aren't Hispanics.
Why is it whenever Democrats lose they suddenly turned into
racists and sexists. Suddenly they start picking out different groups
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of people. And if you took their statement and you
removed the word whatever, white woman, whatever they're saying, and
you replaced it with the word jew, they would sound
exactly like neo Nazis. Here to help me analyze this,
my good friend Daniel Turner from Power of the Future. Daniel,
you can't really have identity politics without having racism, can you?
Speaker 4 (10:41):
No? Exactly? And this is exactly what we saw from
the Harris campaign and what we're seeing in their post mortem. Right.
I understand there is a lot of frustration. I've been
on the losing side of elections many Americans have. It's
never fun to lose. But to immediately go to the
race card and immediately go to the you know, it's
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this demographics fault. All the analysts are going to come
out today and try to explain why Kamala won. But
to pin it on white women, to pin it on
white men, to pin it on It's just beneath political discourse.
It's a bunch of disgruntled, angry leftist to loss, and
they don't want to look in the mirror and wonder
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why they lost. They just want to blame someone else,
and this is the easy escape. Voting.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Okay, here's a question for you. I understand we still
don't have the total tally of voters from yesterday, right,
So what I'm saying is what I'm about to ask
you is somewhat anecdotal. But if you look at the
election from twenty twelve and twenty sixteen, the number of
people voting was about the same. The number of people
that voted for Obama in twenty twelve and twenty sixteen
was almost exactly the same. Slightly more people voted for
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Mitt Romney than John McCain, but even still Biden wins. Right, Okay,
so a little bit at time passes. I'm sorry, I'm
getting the numbers here wrong. Twenty sixteen, the same number
of people voted, right, Trump wins. Fast forward to twenty twenty.
Suddenly we see twenty million more voters then we saw
in twenty sixteen. Now in twenty twenty four, we're kind
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of getting back to the numbers that we saw in
twenty sixteen. I don't know if I'm explaining this clearly,
because I like you, I was up late last night,
But in't it weird how in twenty twenty there were
just twenty million more voters than there were in the
elections before and after that, Daniel, or Am I just
racist and misogynistic?
Speaker 4 (12:31):
No, it's a perfectly valid question, and of course asking
it makes you some sort of conspiracy theorist or election denier,
and this is, you know, all part of the left
effort to squash dissent, whether it's about vaccines, whether it's
about climate change, or whether it's about the twenty twenty election.
If you add up the Obama and McCain voters, it's
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around one hundred and thirty million. If you add up
the Obama and RAM voters, it's around one hundred and
thirty million. If you add up the Trump and Hillary voters,
it's around one hundred and thirty million. And suddenly in
twenty twenty it was one hundred and fifty plus million people.
But last night we're back to one hundred and thirty million,
and so it is a legitimate question to say, where
the hell did twenty million voters? I mean, that's not
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a small number. That is is if we can do
percentages quickly in our heads, that's you know, fifteen percent
increase in just one election cycle. Something seems off. And
I'm not saying Joe Biden didn't win, because clearly he
is still the president, sure, you know, I'm just saying
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there's something fishy about the fact that twenty plus million
people suddenly voted in twenty twenty and we're supposed to
pretend that they all just went back to bed. Yeah,
so that's what's it.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Now. I love this one in I don't know if
you saw this, more independence voted than Democrats voted. Now,
I don't know we've ever seen that happen before, But
didn't that just go to show you at the end
of the day, identity politics sucks. Alphabet everything being a
vote about your genital sucks, and people are in figuratively speaking,
and people are sick of it. And so suddenly the
Democrat formula of but it was putting everyone into subgroups
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and making everything about sex. That's just not working anymore.
Daniel I know that's not a question, it's a statement.
But would it be safe to say that you are
one of the most fervent advocates for the American energy industry.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
I believe so, thank you. And energy was on the ballot,
and you know, the price of food was on the ballot,
and the left tried very hard to make it about
sex and sexual organs and transgender sex and transgender sex
operations and abortion. They tried their hardest to say this
is all America cares about, and I'm disparage it. Those
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are important issues and there are people who care about it.
But all of us have to buy food, and all
of us have to pay bills, and those prices are
through the roof. That's what people voted on. And that's
where the identity politics is so myopic and so so
narrow minded and almost offensive. Yeah, it's offensive to reduce
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women to their sexual organs, just the way it's offensive
to reduce gay people to their sexual organs and say,
all the gays, you should all vote for Kamala because
she loves the gays. Well, gay people have to buy
bread too, and they can't afford it. Yeah, right, So,
and that's what we're seeing at the end of the
selection people don't want to be talked about as their
body parts. They want to be talked about as the
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whole package and then includes wallets and pocketbooks.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Oh yeah, there's this belief on the left that the
talking points that apply to people in identity politics are
more important than the more broad general problems like economic
issues or crime issues. And as we saw last night,
thank god, that's just not true. But getting back to
the oil and gas thing for a minute. Here there's
this group called just Stop Oil, and I get the
impression they do not like people like you. Certain probably
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not you personally, but people that yesterday they went out,
I don't know if you saw this, they spray painted
all over the embassy of the United States and in
doing so in the UK in London. In doing so
they got paint a bunch of chemicals into a pool
of water. It looked like it was bad for the fish.
But I can't help but wonder if you were a
person that really believed in climate change theory, if you
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really believed that carbon pollution was destroying the earth, Knowing
full well that a Donald Trump presidency means less manufacturing
in China, less industry in China less. That would actually
mean less carbon pollution because here in America we actually
have regulations and roles to reduce the amount of carbon pollution. Hell,
a lot of these big companies do it voluntarily because
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it's good for their image. If I'm not mistaken, wouldn't
you want Trump to be president if you were environmentalists
knowing that it would actually mean less carbon pollution coming
from countries in the West than the far East.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Yeah, that's exactly the point that JD Vans made in
the vice presidential debate, which really started a lot of
this pro Trump momentum that we saw lead into last
night's victory. Jdvans made this point saying, even Kamala Harris
doesn't believe the climate change stuff she pedals, because if
she did, she would want to drill for oil in
America where we do it cleanly and where we do
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it responsibly, and not get oil from Saudi Arabia and
not get oil from Venezuela and from Iran and other
OPEC hellhole countries. So absolutely, just stop oil, and all
these green groups are going to have very bad next
couple of weeks. Well, one, they have to burn an
awful lot of documents and files because we will start
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exposing them. But their funding is going to dry up
and disappear because they're funded by the taxpayers' they're funded
by the EPA, which gives out grants for environmental justice, right,
and all these made up terms, and what do they do.
They use it to lobby for their causes, they use
it to elect their officials, or in the case of
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stop Oil, they spray paint and they pollute, and they
locked in and they blocked down traffic, and all that
is going to slowly start to disappear because these groups
are going to run out of money. And that's a
good thing, right. The green energy industry, I hope, is
going to start to disappear, probably not in Texas, Kenny,
which breaks my heart because there's a level of corruption
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in your wind industry in Texas. But without the power
of government mandating these crappy wind and solar and without
them subsidizing crappy wind and solar, crappy wind and solar
would fall out of the marketplace. And government is not
going to be pushing it in the Trump administration, and
those industries cannot compete with beautiful American fossil fuels.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Phoebe Plumber is the name of the activist, the twenty
one year old who threw a can of tomato soup
on Vincent Van Go's sunflowers painting at the National Gallery
in London. She just got a two year prison sentence
for her crime. What do you think happens, Derek, she
come to her senses in jail. Does she become more
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of an anti oil and gas activist, does she become
more of a radical environmentalist, or does she have an
adult moment in jail and get out and go study
math or something.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
You know, you got to hope that jail has a
rehabilitating aspect to it, and you know, maybe this person
will realize that the folks in jail are not her crowd.
She doesn't want to be with them, right. I'm sure
she probably has some fancy degree from a fancy prep school.
Most climate change activists are the children of rich, white,
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privileged people, and they're bored and they're they're confused and
they're disgruntled, so they become climate activists. But they're incredibly privileged,
And odds are this girl is incredibly privileged in her
personal life and maybe a taste of criminal life will
will reform her. These people need to get jobs right,
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and you know, the gravy train is hopefully coming to
to an end. Choot chew boys and fossil fuels will
start to ride again.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Yeah. Yeah, I think you're onto something there. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Call me pessimistic, but I feel like when criminals get
sent to jail or prison, they only get worse. But anyway,
Daniel Turner Powerthefuture dot com is the website you can
find him on. X That's a social media platform that
helped get Trump elected twice. Maybe you should start using it.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
You were listening to Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness. We're
everyone is welcome, even scum sucking maggots swallowing socialist bastards
you used to refer to as mom.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
I think my favorite thing about Trump winning last night
is that this time he's surrounded by better people. Did
you really want Mike Pence to be our next president?
I mean, after Trump, did you want it to be?
Did you want Mike Pence to run?
Speaker 3 (20:53):
No?
Speaker 2 (20:54):
What do you think of JD. Van's I bet you
don't dislike him? What do you think of Sean Spicer
not a big fan. What do you think of a
Vake Ramaswami? What do you think about him? Feel a
little differently, don't you? Trump's team this time around? It's
not Scaramucci, it's Elon Musk, It's Ron Paul Will supposedly
be helping out with the Department of Government Efficiency, Tulci
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Gabbard at the Pentagon. Could you imagine if the people
who helped Trump win actually get involved in his administration
like it sounds they like they will. It's a team
I am excited to be on. The first election results
came from the New Hampshire town of Dixville Notch. Dixville
Notch is also the name of another porn star, Donald
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Trump is accused of paying off I'm kidding, I'm kidding. Relax,
it's a joke. But all that being said, this has
been a great night. Scott Jennings on CNN. Do you
know who he is? There's a conservative on CNN named
Scott Jennings and once in a while he brings them
all down to earth for just a moment. And boy,
he made some great points last night.
Speaker 7 (21:56):
Well, look, he has an opportunity here to try to
unite the country.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
After a huge victory. This is a mandate.
Speaker 7 (22:05):
He's won the national popular vote for the first time
since for a Republican for the first time since two
thousand and four. This is a big deal. This isn't
backing into the office. This is a mandate to do
what you said you were going to do. Get the
economy working again for re working class Americans, fix immigration,
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try to get crime under control, try to reduce the
chaos in the world. This is a mandate from the
American people to do that. I think I'm interpreting the
results tonight as the revenge of just the regular old,
working class American, the anonymous American who has been crushed, insulted,
condescended to. They're not garbage, They're not Nazis. They're just
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regular people who get up and go to work every
day and are trying to make a better life for
their kids. And they feel like they have been told
to just shut up when they have complained about the
thing that are hurting them in their own lives. I
also feel like this election, as we sit here and
pour over this tonight, is something of an indictment of
the political information complex. I mean, we've been sitting around
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here for the last couple of weeks, and the story
that was portrayed.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Was not true. I mean, we were told Puerto.
Speaker 7 (23:20):
Rico was going to change the election, Liz Cheney, Nikki Haley, voters,
women lying to their husbands. Before that, it was Tim
Walls and the Camo Hats, night after night after night.
We were told all these things and gimmicks were going
to somehow push Harris over the line, and we were
just ignoring the fundamentals. Inflation, people feeling like that they
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were barely able to tread water at best. That was
the fundamentals of the election. And so I think that
both parties should always look at the results of an
election and figure out what went right and what went wrong.
But I think for all of us who cover elections
and talk about elections and do this on a day
to day, yeah, we have to figure out how to understand,
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talk to and listen to the half of the country
that rose up tonight and said we've had enough.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Bro, Dude, He's so right. Selena Zita at The Washington
Examiner pointed out that there is never going to be
another candidate like Trump. Now, if you hate Trump, that's
a good thing his detractors. This is a relief if
you don't like Trump, but they should understand that whether Trump,
you know, goes on to complete this next term in office,
which I'm sure he will, whether you know, whether you
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impeach him again or try to assassinate him, the people
that elected him are here to stay. They've seen what
the power of cultural curators in our country in academy
and media, the Hollywood, and corporate America have done to
their lives, and they're rejecting it. It took somebody that
was brash and unconventional and strong like Trump to be
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a bull in the china shop. They didn't like it.
The elites mocked us for supporting this guy. The elites
tried to change their our values, our children's values. The
elite movies insulted us. The elite news reporting was biased
against us. The elite universities lost all credibility. The corporations
decided to dump their decades of loyalty to satisfy a
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narrow consumer base of transgender people that actually don't drink
bud light. This will come as a surprise to some,
but Trump did not create this coalition. He is the
result of it. Trump didn't make this movement. Trump was
a consequence of this movement. This is what the people
who want the Republican Party to be the party of
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Dick Cheney do not understand. Both parties have changed. Republicans
are now the party of the working class. Democrats are
now the party of the elite. The elite and the
very very very poor people that don't want to work
and never did seem to be following around these Ivy
league college educated people who think your garbage. When Trump
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came down that escalator nine years ago, the focus was
on something he said about Mexicans. Journalists missed the working
class person that he was speaking for.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
Look.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Donald Trump's policies were really not that different from Bill
Clinton's policies in nineteen ninety two. What did they like
about Bill Clinton that they didn't like about Trump? You
could tell people are emotional in this country right now.
They're angry about the change that is about to take place.
But what often is missed in all of this is
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that those same people the Democrats are now calling Nazis
were in their party twelve years ago. Political affiliations often
defy logic. Since the nineteen thirties, the Democrats were considered
the working class. But then Trump he upended all that,
sometimes to his detriment, sometimes to his advantage. This coalition,
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this movement of working class people, regular guys and girls
and women and gender neutrals two and the gays and
the Straits, and the blacks and the whites, they all
have something in common. They don't feel heard. They're sick
of the corporate media lecturing to them. Barack Obama and
Michelle Obama come out on stage and tell us all
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how disappointed they are in us. Coalitions move like tectonic plates,
they change ever so slightly. So what you're witnessing right now,
this has really been in the work since two thousand
and six, maybe even nine to eleven. But here we are.
Take a good look around. You're in Donald Trump's America again.
Don't worry, It'll be fun.
Speaker 6 (27:45):
If I were you, i'd stay put Kenny. You'll be
right back with more of what you came for. Far jokes.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
You thought we weren't going to talk about local politics.
Now we're going to talk about out local politics. Yesterday,
as you know, things went quite well on the national
level for Republicans. They were also very good on a
state level. Ted Cruz beat Colin alridd by a bigger
wider margin than he beat Beto over and we were
told over and over again, this is the year Texas
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is gonna flip blue. Well, that didn't happen. Yesterday on MSNBC,
they reacted to the news that, in fact, Texas was
remaining a red stake.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
You're saying in Texas it's the big whale.
Speaker 8 (28:27):
I don't know what to call it.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
It's the one Democrats of wanted for a long time,
but it still keeps moving each cycle.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
It's also a very voter suppress state. Wait, hang on
before Jerry Reid makes your point, Jen Psase there, but
how crazy is it that Joe Biden's White House Press
secretary is the lead news anchor on MSNBC, Like, isn't
that effing crazy to you? Come on, they're supposed to
be not biased. The woman hosting the show worked for
the Biden administration. All right, I'm getting off topic here.
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Jen PSAs says that it's slowly moving blue. It's not.
If you saw that Ted Cruise again be calling all
Ridd by more points than he beat Beto. But I digress.
Listen to what Joy reads about to say.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
It's also a very voter suppressed state, and the focus
of voter suppression coming from that state capital is Harris
County where Houston and they are relentless in it. And
that is also the largest single physical number of black
voters in any county other than Cook County in Illinois.
That's the largest number of black voters of vailable.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
With no evidence at all, she tells you she's going
to ramble on and repeat the same point a couple
more times, but I don't want to waste too much
airtime on it. With no evidence at all, she tells
you black people are being suppressed in this city. I
don't think joy Read's ever even been here before. How
are black people being I live next to a polling
location with drive up, drive through poll You can vote
in your car, you press a button, a person walks
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out to you. There's buses all over the city taking
people to go vote for free. People can nonprofit groups
picking people that can vote by mail. There's polling locations
all over the damn city. And by the way, there
are problems with the local elections here. We have this
two thousand to three thousand voters from the HCC South
loop location were mysteriously moved on the spreadsheet for the
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city here to the Kashmir location during early voting thousands
of campaign The city is screwing up over and over
again in keeping talies on voters and losing ballots. You
remember twenty twenty two they lost ten thousand ballots. They
admit they lost it. That was all Democrats, not a
single Republican was in charge of that election. Here with
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her take on it. This is a longer intro than
I intended to give before I got to my guest,
Holly Hanson's here. She's a very objective journalist. She's not
as opinionated as I am. She's not quite as angry
as I am. But Holly, did I speak any mistruths here? Yeah?
There are problems in local elections because of Democrats screwing
things up, laziness, corruption, I don't know what it is,
but it doesn't seem to be preventing black people from voting.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
No.
Speaker 8 (30:52):
Yeah, there's a lot of misinformation in what joy Reid said,
because she seems to have taken her talking points from
local Harris County Commissioner Rodney Ellis, who had a press
conference on Monday to decry so called voter suppression in
the state, and I just want to, you know, correct
your terminology a minute to go about drive through voting.
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That's what we call, you know, assisted voter. You know,
someone who can't actually walk into the polling site, they
can request someone to come out and a system, which
is a great service. But the reasons or the evidence
that Rodney Ellis gave on Monday for voter suppression in
the state was the fact that the state doesn't allow
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twenty four hour voting and actual drive through voting like
they tried to do in twenty twenty, which I would
note there were multiple problems with a forensic audit.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Okay, okay, okay, hang on, hang on pause right there.
So I live next to a building where they're doing this.
A person pulls up, they ring a bell, and someone
comes out. You're telling me they're not voting in their car.
What are they doing walking them inside?
Speaker 8 (31:59):
Yeah, that's a little bit different. So when you talk
about drive through voting, you're talking about something you can
to like a McDonald's drive through only without trump serving
French fries.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
And they did that four years ago.
Speaker 8 (32:11):
Yes, they did that four years ago. It was not
legal then, and the course and the state lawmakers have
come down more firmly on that to say you can't
do that, because what was happening is there would be
a car load of people coming up to vote, all
four of them sitting in the car, a corror handing
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them all you know, machines, and no privacy, none of
the usual security measures, and it was very fraud There
were real problems with tracking those what we call mobile
ballot boxes, and they never could reconcile those numbers that
were derived from that election. So that's why that's not allowed.
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But that's why Rodney Allen says that we have a
voter suppression here in the state of Texas. The other
thing he quibbles with, and the county sued the state
over this, is there's a new law that forced them
to return elections management to the elected clerk instead of
an appointed elections administrator. These are the things they're saying
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are examples. One other example they cited was the fact
that recently the state of Texas removed a number of
ineligible voters from the voter roles, and they said that
also is voter suppression. So I think, you know, you
can throw out those terms, but if you delve into
the facts, they don't quite amount to what we call
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voter suppression, and it's more like voter integrity and making
sure that the elections are secure and that only those
who are eligible can vote. So that was just a
really weird flex on Monday from Rodney Ellis. You know,
it was kind of quibbling over the whether or not
federal monitors were allowed inside polling places. They've never been
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allowed inside the polling places since a Supreme Court decision
in twenty thirteen, so you know, they can come and
monitor like they do every year from outside of the
polling place, that they can't be inside, questioning voters and
so forth. They're not supposed to interfere in any way.
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So yeah, there's a lot of competing narrative here. And
you know, Texas to registered more voters this year than
they have in the past, and we had a very
high turnout this year. So I also note that we
have almost two weeks of early voting, including weekend voting,
and you know, there's a lot of opportunities. As you mentioned,
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we have county wide voting centers, so it's pretty easy
anywhere you are in the County, you could just swing
into the pulling site and vote. The downside of that
is that may have led to you refer to is
some numbers being skewed in the system as to the
location of those votes. But we'll find out more about
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that as time goes forward. My guess is that's just
a glitch or an operating error, but I can't speak
to that at that at this moment. But overall, we
had a really good turnout. We had a lot of
participation and a lot of new voters without any voting
history coming to the polices here.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Yeah, And I got to tell you a lot of
these local elections that aren't even getting much coverage Court
of appeals. For example, I had a bunch of really strong,
awesome female candidates that won. People aren't talking about that
because of the bigger news today, but that certainly deserves
some airtime right now. Could you let us know I've
informed listeners a little bit about that took.
Speaker 8 (35:48):
Place, So glad you brought that up. It is getting
overshadowed by the bigger news. But this is actually very
significant because what happened in Harris County yesterday is you
did see even though the county went for Kamala Harris
at the top of the ticket and for Colin all
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Red for the Senate race. They also voted for these
Republican candidates for judicial races, so you had some people
mixing up their party votes, some voting Democrat at the
top and Republicans further down because of this issue of
crime and public safety in the Houston region. So you
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had ten Republican candidates win these appeals court races now
and granted in some cases that was with the health
of the more Republican leaning counties that are also in
that district, but also at the county level, we had
nine Republicans win races for district courts, those are your
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criminal courts. We had another candidate Republican candidate win a
case for a county criminal court. It's been a hard
to explain. So you saw some real Republican movement and
victories in what has been kind of written off as
a hopelessly blue or democratic county. So this is this
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is very significant and it vodes well for the future
of Republican candidates in the county. We do note that
a lot of Hispanic voters who maybe have in the
past voted Democrat seem to be moving more towards the
Republican Party, So there is a shifting dynamic here, and
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you're not seeing some of these more minority groups vote
monolithically anymore. They're moving in different directions. So very interesting trends,
and I think that it's going to draw more attention
from Republican strategists and donors, which is important. These races
are expensive, and I think they're going to be taking
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another look at the Houston and Harrison County region as
a result of this election.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
Do you think that maybe with all the weird stuff
that took place in the elections here this week, and
then the fact that Republicans still came out and voted
and supported great local candidates, Independence came out and joined him,
maybe finally Governor Abbott will take a little bit of
a time out of his busy day to pay attention
to what's going on in Harris County.
Speaker 8 (38:22):
Well, he did make several visits to Harris County, campaigned
with some of the folks here, including Representative Lacey Hall.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
Did he offer any of the money from his war
chest to local candidates?
Speaker 8 (38:33):
I think he. I haven't delved into those numbers.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
I believe that I'm told. I'm told he did not.
I'm told he did not. I don't know the answer.
That's why I asked you. I have been told by
under the people you and I are mutually friends with
that Governor Abbott will come to town to fundraise, but
then he doesn't share the money with the local Republican candidates.
Speaker 8 (38:56):
Yeah, I don't know about that. I did see. I'm
quite sure that he did give some money to Lacey
Hall and some of the other candidates. You know, one
thing about Harris County is all of the Texas House
District candidates or incumbents, they're in districts that are pretty
solidly one way or the other. So you know, it's
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it's I know people don't like to hear this, but
if we're if the district has been drawn so that
the Democrat has an advantage of you know, sixty forty,
and you've got other more vulnerable, easier to win or
lose races, you know, you only have a limited number
of funds. But jumping back to those appeals court races
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and those other judicial races, we saw a huge infusion
of funds coming into those races from some political action
groups and Elon Musk gave two million dollars to help
Republican judicial candidates across the state. You do see people
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entrepreneurs like Musk and other billionaires and other companies who
see the importance of having, you know, relatively reliable public
safety initiatives coming from these courts. You see that they
are willing to put money into those races to make
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sure that they can continue to operate and their employees
will be safe in our community.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
Holly as always fantastic work the Holly Hanson find her
at Vtexant News. Just a quick reminder, folks. Trump in
twenty twenty won by six hundred and thirty one thousand
votes here in the state of Texas. In twenty twenty four,
he won by a million, five hundred and seventy three
thousand votes, so that he went from five percent five
point lead to a thirteen point lead. And at Ted
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Cruz same thing in twenty eighteen barely skated by with
a two point victory. In twenty twenty four almost nine points.
So this idea that we're moving more towards the blue,
it's not necessarily true. I'm Kenny Webster, I'm a big
fan of Holly Hanson and Daniel Turner, both of my
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