December 11, 2024 • 39 mins
This podcast edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of happiness features author Corey DeAngelis. ( @KennethRWebster )
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
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Speaker 3 (00:25):
The guy that killed the United Healthcare CEO had a
back pain problem that kept him from having sex. Supposedly,
you know, I have a condition that keeps me from
having sex called my personality. Hi, thanks for turning on
the radio, everybody, Thanks for joining us this afternoon. We
are going to take a deep dive into what is
stopping the Conservatives from controlling the Texas House. It seems
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the rhino Republican liberals shows and limpristed leftists led by
Dustin Burrows, the state Texas state lawmaker, seemed to be
holding things up right now.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
And it looks like squad Choice actually has a lot
to do with it.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Corey DeAngelis is going to be stopping by one of
the biggest advocates of school choice in the country. He'll
be draining an ally to Governor Abbott. We'll be talking
to him in just a little bit. Before we get
into any of that, I want to talk about the
biggest jihadist in the world, Joseph Robinette Biden. You didn't
think I was going to say that, did you? You
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may know what happened in Syria earlier this week, Guys, stop,
come on, I know you're already reacting. That sounded hyperbolic. Kenny,
He's not a jahadist by every definition of the word.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
He is.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Actually, I'll explain why. What is a jahadis j'e y'all know.
Let me give you the.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Exact definition here to make sure I get it right.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Jihad is the militant Islamic movement that seeks to base
the state on Islamic principles, basically going to war for
Islamic religion. Now, can you think of anybody who has
single handedly funded more Islamic war around the world over
the past four years than Joe Biden? And before you
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answer that question, I'll tell I'll give you the details.
I'll give you the cheat sheet right now on this one.
Everybody knows what happened in Syria. Joe Biden is bragging
about the fact that Hyate Turin al Sham, the former
leader of al Qaida, is now in charge of a
rebel group that has taken over Syria. You've heard, you're
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aware of that. We covered that on the show. Maybe
you didn't know that. On his way out the door,
Joe Biden helped al Qaeda take over Syria. He also
gave Iran ten billion dollars. Washington Freebeacon Today reporting that
the Biden Harris administration waived sanctions on Iran three days
after the November election and gave Taran about ten billion
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dollars in previously frozen assets. Last time they did this,
that's when we got October seventh.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Money is fungible, right. Currency is fungible.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Right.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
If you free up some money over here, it allows
you to have more money over there, even if those
two things aren't directly connected. You know, if you had
a fund at your house for vacations, and every week
you put one hundred bucks into it so your family
could go on vacation at the end of the year,
and suddenly you got a bonus at work, you'd have
more money to put into that vacation fund, even though
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it's technically in a different bank account.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
You get that, right.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
This isn't complicated stuff with the government. It works the
same way. Iran gives money to Hesbela and Hamas. Hesbela
is this military paramilitary faction that goes to war with Israel,
and Hamas is a terror group in Gaza, and they
get funding from Iran. So if you give more money
to Iran, they have more money to give to terrorists.
Secretary of State Anthony Blincoln has millions of dollars invested
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in the military industrial complex, and it's his job to
negotiate away wars. It's his job to try to talk
foreign nations into not going to war. That's generally one
of the things the Secretary of State does top diplomatic leader.
If he fails at his job diplomacy, he makes millions
of dollars terrify you. Secretary of State Antoni Blincoln determined
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on November eighth that quote, it is in the national
security interest to the United States to waive mandatory economic
sanctions that bar Iraq from transferring up to ten billion
dollars to Iran in electricity import payments. Now, Iraq is
another complicated country right now because even though we supposedly
liberated them from Saddam Hussein over the past couple of decades,
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and we've been involved in military occupation in that country
ever since. The people there hate us, including the political
leader there. But that's a discussion for another day. All
I really want you to take away from this is
right now, as we're funding a war in Israel, we're
also funding Hamas we're giving money to them. We're funding
both sides of the war in Israel, both sides of
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the war in Syria, both sides of the war and Yemen,
and arguably both sides of the war in Ukraine. But
again I don't want to get off topic here. This
isn't about all the wars were fund and you know
it's a lot of them. This is a conversation about
Joe Biden, the Jahadist. Joe Biden bragged about it his
successful counter terrorism operation in Afghanistan, even though Johannis killed
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a countless number of people there, including over a dozen
servicemen and women as we were walking out the door.
But now we learn this Biden has been in secret
talks with al Qaeda as they greet this new dawn
in Syria. That's how the Telegraph reports it. They're trying
to make it sound good. Joe Biden warned Siria's leading
rebel group against working with Islamic terrorists in a secret
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message extended towards the collapse of Bashir Alisad's regime. But
they did it anyway, didn't they. The president, using the
Turkish government as an intermediary, was reassured by the leader
of al Qaida it had no intentions of collaborating with Isis,
even though they do it all the time, and they
already are. Either he doesn't know or he doesn't care.
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Take your pick. What would bother you more? An inept
leader or a corrupt leader? I mean, I know it's
a little above. Oh, and then there's this. Guess what
police found in the home of a pro Palestinian student
leaders Here in America, here's a bunch of democrats. Students
for Justice in Palestine is a pro terrorism, anti Semitic organization.
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When twelve hundred Jewish civilians were wantonly slaughtered by Hamas
on October seventh, this group, Students for Justice and Palestine,
celebrated and glorified the attacks. The national organization put out
propaganda featuring paraglider imagery, a reference to one of the
ways in which terrorists infiltrated Israeli territory to murder, kidnap,
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and rape people at a music festival. Maybe you've heard
the story before. Various members of this group have also
disgraced themselves with ghoulish actions in the ensuing months, resulting
in some being disbanded and shut down, which brings us
to an investigation. Out of George Mason University in Northern Virginia,
police searched the home of two local leaders of the
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group Students for Justice in Palestine, and what they found
is very interesting. Spray painting messages that warned of a
student Intafada activists cost thousands of dollars in damage, which
is a felony in the state of Virginia. Police suspected
the leaders of the group led the group of vandals
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to go out and destroy things. When officers entered the
home of the leaders of the group, the Shawna family,
they found firearms, modern weapons not antiques, as well as
scores of ammunition and foreign passports, all of which sat
in plain view, according to court documents. They also found
pro terror materials, including hamas and Hesbola flags and signs
that read death to America and death to the Jews. Obviously,
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these are not Republicans, They're not maga people. How do
you feel about the Israeli War, the Syria War, just
know this, Joe Biden caused all of it. He either
funded it or he did nothing and let it happen.
And now we're importing these nut jobs into our country.
They're called political asylum seekers. I call them terrorists.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Joe Biden decades of giving dirty politics a bad name. Sorry,
dirty politics. This is Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness on
KPRC nine fifty Houston.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Cash Battel, my man cash Battel about to take over
the FBI. If the Senate confirms cash Battel as President
Elect Donald Trump's FBI director, you're gonna hear the word
q andon thrown around a lot, right. You haven't heard
about q and on in a while. Q and On
is this group of a conspiracy theorists, as you may recall,
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who think a cabal of Satan worshiping pedophiles are abducting, abusing,
and ritualistically murdering children by the thousands. I don't know
if it's quite that bad, but I bet there's something
like that happening that's not hard to believe. I just
don't know if it's as bad as QAnon claims it
is or as direct.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
I bet, I mean, it wouldn't shock me.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
A lot of people thought that Jeffrey Epstein having an
island down in the middle of the Caribbean where they
raped teenage girls was a conspiracy theory, right, Well it wasn't.
Rda Patila was a conspiracy fact. But Cash Pattel, for
his part, says he disagrees with a lot of what
QAnon says.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
The reason he gets.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Attacked is because he's been on q and on podcasts
before to talk about the problems at the FBI. Well,
there are some pretty big problems at the FBI, some
problems we really need to get to the bottom of.
John Nance atownhall dot Com today reporting on how the
appointment of the FBI director is arguably second in the
importance only to that of the Attorney General. Cash Pattel
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and Pam BONDI, you are going to clean up the
DOJ and light of concerns about the FBI and the
Department of Justice being politicized under Democrat leader, I think
it's really under the Joe Biden administration, it's crucial to
ensure the role is filled by someone committed to protecting
civil liberties. Now, for Trump, this decision carries immense weight
and significance. After all, you see what they put the
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man through over and over Againald Trump has been asked
if he's going to seek revenge seek revenge, Trump says
that actually, success, success will be his revenge. She doesn't
need to go out and smite his enemies and attack
all of them. That's not his plan. His plan is
simply to succeed and make the country a better place.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Trump's nomination of former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi is
without a doubt, a superb selection. She's well suited. She
can enact reforms at the DOJ. And people have been
very skeptical about cash Patel. A lot of people were
hoping it would be the Custom Border Patrol Commissioner Rodney
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Scott previously at the Trump administration, someone who's carried a
badge and worked the job. They don't want another lawyer
with DOJ credentials in front of the in charge of
the FBI. Here's the thing. Patel has some very smart
things to say. He's a book you can read called
Government Gangsters. Makes a real interesting point here about the
f and it's this change is possible at the FBI.
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It's very possible, and it's desperately needed. The fact that
we need a federal agency that investigates federal crimes and
that agency will always be at risk of having its
power abuse is certainly true. That's certainly happening. But as
a terrorism prosecutor, cash Ptel's seen numerous times with how
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these FISA courts can be used as one of the
most manhunting tools on planet Earth. Look how they spied
on the Trump campaign in twenty sixteen. Cash Patel recognizes
a great need for reform now. For whatever it's worth.
Patel has made other statements that some people are concerned about.
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He was on one of these QAnon talk shows and
he said he would shut down the Hoover Building on
day one and reopen it the next day as a
museum of the deep state. People are mad that he
said that. I thought it was a funny thing to say.
He pointed out the seven thousand employees that currently work
there could go back to investigating actual crimes instead of
rigging elections. It's a beautiful thing. The Hoover Building is
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long overdue for some pruning. Cash Ptel's statement in My
opinion was both funny and true. Patel is right about
the FBI headquarters being the locust of politicization and a
massive inefficiencies. Twenty years ago, the FBI headquarters held approximately
ten divisions. Today there are forty divisions. Did you know
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that it's grown a little bit. It's become a black
hole which draws resources and personnel into the executive management orbit.
And we wonder what happens to these resources and money
and employees. We don't really know because we're not allowed
to know. Patel has ample opportunity to trim the fat
restructure the FBI. The first division on the chopping block
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should be the Office of Diversity and Inclusion. We don't
need that. We don't need a Chief Diversity Officer. We
need meritocracy. That's just a DEI and critical race theory
is nothing more than a trojan horse filled with Marxist infiltrators.
Patel also said the biggest problem with the FBI has
come out of the intel shop. He said he'd break
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off components of that FBI's counterintelligence the CI mission almost
two decades ago, argue the agency was too focused on
its criminal mission and not focused enough on other issues
like what like DEI. Many have forgotten the FBI was
once very capable. Once upon a time they were great
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a shutting down well communists for example. Now it seems
to be controlled by communists. I would argue the mission
of the FBI and their criminal investigation should be nothing
more than investigating criminals. Get rid of the nonsense DEI crap.
We don't need it. Ever since the Obama administration took over,
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he had FBI Director James Comey and pushing Dei's agenda.
Was suddenly the FBI's main critera was their main objective,
civil rights. For some reason, in the name of promoting
civil rights, they destroyed civil rights. Imagine that. So Patel's
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got a real historic opportunity here to make some changes.
The FBI has always been a corrupt organization. That Hoover
Building is named after not Herbert Uber, but Jay Edgar Hoover,
across dressing weirdo who used to blackmail lawmakers and extort
services and influence. I'm confident Cash Battel can create the
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top down reforms necessary to eradicate the FBI of anybody
that's weaponized it, stop using it to reg elections. In
the end, Cash Battel could be the right man to
refit the FBI and fix this country. And that's a
beautiful thing. Cheer for Cash Pattel, Cheer for Pam BONDI.
By the way, you know what happened to Matt Gates.
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Matt Gates could have been Attorney General and now he's
going to go be a talk show host at one
America news network.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
I hope it goes well for him.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Be wary of strong alcoholic drinks. They could make you
shoot at tax collectors and miss. This is Kenny Webster's
pursuit of happiness on KPRC nine fifty Houston.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Merry Christmas, Happy Chinooka, Happy Kwanza.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
It's all coming. It's heading your way very soon.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
It's a holiday time, it's a jolly time, and a
lot of Republicans, still high off the results of the
November election might not have noticed all of the nonsense,
for lack of a better term, bs that's going on
right now in Austin. There is a feud happening between
this new movement of liberty Republicans and Maga Republicans.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Basically basically the next era of the Tea Party.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
In my humble opinion, and the holdovers from the neocon
George Bush days, the Bush dynasty won't let go. I'm
sure most of you know who Dade Falan is. Dave
Falen is a scumback. Dave Falen is a crony, He's
a crook. Dad Falen is not a good person. The
good news is Dave Falen is probably not going to
be Texas House Speaker anymore. He doesn't have the votes.
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And for a long time, the Republican leadership in legislature
or even in the House here in Texas, not necessarily,
the Senate has had this very unhealthy relationship with the
Democrats where the Rhino liberal Republicans team up with the
Democrats and they give a bunch of committee chairs away
to Democrats in exchange for keeping the Conservatives from taking
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over the Texas House.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Dad Falen did it. Dennis Bonnen did it.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
You may recall our friends a Texas scorecard, or the
reason they got rid of him. If it wasn't for
the Paxton impeachment. I don't know if most people would
have even noticed how terrible Date Falen is. Fortunate it's
almost like they did as a favor. I mean, it
cost us tens of millions of dollars. But people in
ten average folks are starting to realize that some weird
stuff happens every time there's a legislative session and we
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vote on the House speaker. Now it's happening again. David
Cook is supposed to be the guy. David Cook is
the choice of the people. David Cook is the person
that the grassroots want. It seems to be the person
Governor Abbot wants. Dustin Burrows, he's the slimy rhino. Dustin
Burrows actually used a photo of Governor Abbot to make
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it seem like the Governor was endorsing him for Texas
House Speaker. Abbot put out a statement saying that's not true.
Guess who else put out a statement calling bs and
Shenanigans and Malarkey and Tom Foolery on all this. Don Junior,
even Don Junior, who does business in New York City
and I think lives in Florida. Notice there's something slimy
happening in Austin right now. And then a good friend
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of the show, I would say, probably arguably the biggest
advocate for school choice in the country, Texas native Corey
DeAngelis recent father and a parent of a child in
the state of Texas has pointed out in a lot
of these people that are working with the slimeballs to
keep the Conservatives from taking over the House, the people
aligned with Dustin Burroughs, many of them seem to be
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critics of school choice. Corey, Well, don't thanks, you're kind
of giving us some time this afternoon, Corey, why don't
we start the conversation there. What do we know about
these people and how this affects the movement for school
choice in the state of Texas.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
I looked at Dustin's list, and a lot of people
have looked at the list, and some people have removed
their names from the list. So, first of all, there's
the obvious is that there was a lot of Democrats.
I think a majority of the people on the list
were Democrats Democrats the post school choice. But also if
you look at the Republicans, all of the seven returning
anti school choice House Republicans who survived their reelections, somehow
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they're all on the Borough's list. And then that's in
addition to Jeff Barry, who appears to be another anti
school choice Republicans who won an open seat. So that
looks like all everybody body against school choice is on
the Burrows list. And then I started seeing a bunch
of rumors flying around on X of people saying that well,
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Dustin went to the Democrats to make a deal with
them to get their votes, and part of that deal
was to kill school choice. Governor Abbotts's top priority, my
personal owned top priority as well. And you know, I
don't know what's true, right, So I asked Dustin Burrows
on Twitter and I tagged him, and while all these
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rumors were squirling around, he went out and did a
tweet talking about didn't respond to that kind of question
that's been floating around. Instead, he did a tweet that
was signaling support to the teachers unions about education and
more funding, but said nothing about education freedom, nothing about
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school choice, didn't address the elephant in the room, which
raised a red flag for a lot of people. I
will say, I don't have anything personal again, Stustin Burrows.
I'm a one issue guy. I look at school choice.
That's what I want to get past. And he voted
for school choice this year, so that's good news. He
does follow me on Twitter on X that's usually good
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news as well. Usually means the person supportive of school choice.
But the thing is what I'm worried about is I
don't know him personally, and people people are making these
claims and he's not responding to them. And you know,
it could be that he supports school choice, but he
supports becoming speaker more than that. And That's what I'm
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worried about. And hopefully there isn't anything to worry about, hopefully,
regardless of who wins. David Cook and Justin Burrows both
voted for school choice this year. Hopefully they continue to
try to push an ESA bill across the finish line.
So everything's kind of up in the air right now.
But this is an open question, all right.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
What about some of these other people that are supporting
Dustin Burrows. Jeff Leech, I think is one of them.
I thought he was a critic of school choice. And
then locally, Lacey Hull, she's another one of Dustin Burrow's supporters.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
I thought she was a supporter of school choice. Maybe
I got that wrong.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
Yeah, Well, Jeff Lee Chan and Lacey Holt both voted
for school choice this year. So when I'm talking about
the seven or a who are signed on, who are
Republicans who are against school choice. I'm talking Ken King,
I'm talking Gary van Deaver, right, and the others who
were targeted for opposing school choice and voting against it.
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They're all on the Burrough's list. That doesn't mean he's
necessarily against school choice. They may align with him for
other reasons. That's just something that people are pointing out
on social media. And I wish that that Dustin would
just respond and say, no, this is an issue. I
want to fund public schools and I want school choice.
That should be an easy thing to say.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Yeah, it seems pretty simple to me too. It feels
like we're winning. I noticed a lot of these people
are dropping, like fly. One of them here in Houston
was Mano. A couple other people have dropped their support.
All right, So that's the situation right now with Burrows.
In the meantime, if I'm not mistaken, let's talk about
this Linda McMahon is. I think under the Trump administration
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of one point zero she did a fantastic job when
they put her in charge of small businesses. And similarly,
I mean look running professional wrestling for the past thirty
years or so she has been. This is she turned
a million dollar business into a billion dollar business. There's
no doubt about that. So as far as her becoming
Education secretary, I mean that isn't quite the wheelhouse people
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expect from her. What do you think of that?
Speaker 5 (22:38):
I say, let's get ready to rumble. I think she's
a change agent. And that's what's important because Trump has
campaigned repeatedly on abolishing the Department of Education at the
federal level, of sending education back to the states. The
good news is Trump won the parent vote by nine points.
That represented a fifteen point shift to the right among
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parents since twenty twenty alone. That's a huge seismic shift
towards towards Republicans on the issue of education. And Trump
was winning the exit poll, the pulling from Atlas Intel
the most accurate poster from twenty twenty. I think also
in twenty twenty four they showed him winning all the
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swing states too, showing that he beat Kamala Harris on
the issue of education. So that's a mandate from voters
to empower parents with education freedom. And Linda McMahon is
she looks she was at the head of the America
First Policians too. They're huge supporters of school choice. Do
you look at Donald Trump's press release or is his
truth social post a boutland of He pointed out that
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she's a huge supporter of school choice. He wants to
send education back to the States, and so I hope
she's a wrecking ball, and I think she can make
mountains move like she did with WWE, and so you know,
I trust her to get the job done at the
federal level. The Department of Ed at the federal level
is unconstitutional as far as I'm concerned. The word education
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is not in the Constitution. It's a violation of the
tenth Amendment. It was a payoff by Jimmy Carter in
nineteen seventy nine to the teachers' unions, and that's all.
It was a political power play. It hasn't improved outcomes.
We've spent about two trillion dollars at the federal level
since nineteen seventy nine. It was built to try to
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close the achievement gaps. They've only gotten worse. And so
what are we doing. We're spending all of this money
on useless bureaucrats in DC to tell us what to do.
Trump has a plan. There's a bill in Congress from
Senator Mike Rounds out of South Dakota. He has a
bill to block grant that money back to the states.
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And at the same time, there's also a federal school
choice bill, the Educational Choice for Children Act. It's a
tax credit, so it doesn't involve any federal money. It
doesn't require a Department of Education at all to I
have this school choice program. Trump said he'd sign it,
and it's already passed out of a House congressional committee.
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So the wins are at the winds at our backs
when it comes to education freedom nationally. I will say, though,
that doesn't mean we don't need to pass it at
the state level. Ninety percent of education funding at the
cap to twelve level comes from state and local sources.
So the federal news is good news. It's momentum, but
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we can't stop there. Washington, DC is not going to
save us. We have to get it done this session
as soon as possible in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
All right, A couple more questions for you before I
run out of time. You and I are both Lowercasel Libertarians.
I think you were a former member of the Libertarian Party.
Now we're Republican and when you look at what's going
on with the Vake Ramaswami, the Department of Government Efficiency
and Elon Musk, and now the fact that Ron Paul
has come on as a consultant for dog publicly doing
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public consulting for dough as somebody that's liberty minded.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
I just wonder how you feel about that.
Speaker 5 (26:05):
This is great. I mean, I hope they're a wrecking
ball too. Vivek Ramaswami, he's been saying to shut down
the Department of Education from the get go, and he
also endorsed my book The Parent Revolution, Rescuing your kids
from the radicals ruining our schools, as did President of
leg Donald Trump. And so Trump is picking a lot
of the right people in cabinet positions. In these other
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positions like DOJ, Elon Musk and Daveake, I think this
is our once in a lifetime opportunity to get our
country back to our roots. I mean, the founders wanted
as limited government as possible, As you said, I got
into the whole movement of school choice as a libertarian,
being skeptical of government controlling so much of our children's lives.
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That really drifts us into socialism. If they're teaching you
in government schools to like big government. You're going to
have more people voting for the Democrats to increase government size.
I mean, that's an obvious result of the government school
system if it's left unchecked without any competition. And so look,
the Founders didn't didn't want as much taxation as we
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have today. They didn't want government controlling everything. That's why
they broke away from from Britain. And so I have
I have high hopes and hopefully we can actually make
a lot of change happen. I think it starts with
the education system. That if you don't fix the education
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system and you try to fix these other problems, h
it'll be helpful, but in the long term, we're going
to be toasted.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
All Right, one more question for you, and this is
totally unrelated to anything we talked about, but I just
as a as a human being, Corey D'Angelis, I wonder
what you think about this technically. I mean, you have
a PhD in education, you're technically a doctor, and you've
made fun of that on this radio show before.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
This is Joe Biden.
Speaker 5 (27:58):
Doctor.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Well that's it, right, doctor Jill Biden. Corey DeAngelis and
Jamal Bowman, the three. You don't seem like you have
anything in common. Jamal Bowman is the guy that pulled
the fire alarm or at the budget vote last year.
I think he has gone viral now this week he's
on his way out. This guy isn't gonna be in
Congress anymore. He lost a primary. Democrats don't want this
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guy anymore. The black guy who's in the squad. Jamal
Bowman went viral was it two days ago yesterday for
his dear white People tweet basically saying, you know, white
people in.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
America are racist.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
It was his response to the Jordan Neely Daniel Penny
news story. I just wonder, as a fellow doctor of education,
any thoughts on that?
Speaker 2 (28:42):
What do you think?
Speaker 3 (28:43):
And he throws around the doctor thing a lot. I
noticed it's right in his twitter bio.
Speaker 5 (28:47):
I mean that the people who are who who who
insist that they are called doctor aren't deserving of the title,
you know, So like, yeah, doctor Jill Biden does this,
look get her look at her dissertation. It's not great,
Jamal Bowman. I mean, it's almost like they're compensating for
something else, Like they're if you have a track record,
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you don't need to brag about being a doctor. This
is one of the reasons I hate when I leave
that out of my bio at least, and I don't
insist people call me that unless I want to make
a joke about it. And that this Jamal Bowman, look,
I think he lost his primary like by a two
to one margin after having AOC jumping around on stage
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and trying to rally support for him. People aren't having
it anymore. Just calling everything racist. That's not going to fly.
It's not twenty twenty anymore. And it's fun watching on
X at least Jamal Bowman getting ratioed into oblivion.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Yeah, no kidding, dude.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
I mean, it's just ridiculous what this guy has done
with his career. And anyway, hopefully he goes away soon.
But Corey, you are awesome. If I would call him
Corey D'Angelis, I couldn't imagine a scenario where you'd be
on an airplane and some would go, hey, this guy's
appendix is about to erupt quick. Has anyone ever wrote
a tweet about how they hate white people.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
To be able to help you out?
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Yeah, Corey, Corey.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
You wrote a great book I want people to check out,
called The Parent Revolution. And of course you could follow
Corey on Twitter x at DeAngelis. Corey definitely do that
quick break. We'll be right back in just a little bit.
Right after this, ladies and gentlemen, Pursuit of Happiness radio you.
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West Coast, a big wildfire in Malibu, California's forced evacuations.
Malibu hasn't seen this much smoke in the air since
Snoop Dogg's last day at the beach. Okay, that was lazy, right,
that was a lazy joke. That was cheap, but anyway,
I don't know, it made me laugh. Thanks for turning
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to everything anyway. Austin recently made a great point at
Humanevents dot com about where the liberty movement is at
right now. There's a lot of you know, I'm not
a traditional maga Republican. I'm a libertarian, but I'm also
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a nationalist. Over the past decade, the libertarian movement in
the United States has been in slow collapse. Libertarianism was
once a vibrant, forced vidual liberty and liberty government, and
you know that on this day in history. All the
way back in nineteen seventy one, the Libertarian Party was founded.
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It seemed like a good idea at the time, but
I think all it really did over the years was
remove liberty minded people from the Republican Party. And it
might be part of the reason why we got so
many neo cons back in the early two thousands running
the movement running the political party. Keeping libertarians in the
Republican Party is where they belong. The problem with the
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problem with the Libertarian Party is it removes them from
the primary votes, which is part of the reason why
liberty minded candidates don't often get elected or even make
it to the general election. So instead of rallying against
state overreach, libertarians have splintered. Many of them have found
refuge in the populist currents of the Donald Trump MAGA movement.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
That's what I did.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
Now this presents itself as an opportunity to REBUILDGA isn't perfect.
MAGA has flaws, but they do have the spirit of liberty.
They're skepticism of centralized authority, they're disdain for bloated bureaucracy,
and a belief in economic dynamism that still resonate deeply
with millions of Americans. Libertarian ideas do fairly well so
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long as they're not advanced by libertarians themselves. Trump isn't
necessarily a libertarian, but boy, he's done more to push
liberty than any elected Republican president. During my lifetime, libertarian
principles have gained new momentum, and efforts like DOGE, the
decentralization of government entities or the Department of Government Efficiency.
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Now that was spearheaded by the vag Ramaswami and Elon
musk I, like those guys, there were aims to reshape
the government. They want to recommend structural reform. They want
to include dismantling of outdated agencies. What do we need
the Department of Education for? Why do we need the
why do we need the blowhards in Washington de you
see to tell us how to educate Texas kids? And
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the fact that Ron Paul is an advisor to DOJE
that has inspired confidence in the MAGA movement by real libertarians.
Earlier this year, Donald Trump, when he was running for president,
went and spoke to the Libertarian Party and told them,
if you elect me, I'll put libertarians in my candidate,
a candidate, cabinet, in my staff, my administration.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
And they booed him for it.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
Could you imagine they booed they These guys have been
around since nineteen seventy one. They almost never win a race,
certainly never won a national race or even a statewide race.
What do the Libertarians do? They keep good voters out
of the Republican primary. Ramaswami put it well in his
National Conservatism Conference speech. He said Donald Trump didn't just
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blindly pair at the party's historical orthodoxy. He offered an
entirely new worldview, one that chattered the historical neoliberal consensus
to its core. This critique of the old orthodoxy on trade, immigration,
and the regulatory state created the conditions for a political
realignment something we're calling libertarian nationalism. I am a proud
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libertarian nationalist. People like me and my friend Austin Peterson,
Vivey Kramaswami, Matt Gates, Ran Paul to mass MASSI there's
a lot of us out there. You might be one
of them two, and I think it's necessary to first
clarify what libertarian nationalism is. We are declaring war on
our enemies, not because we desire war, but because we
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wanted to find what we are, not what we are against.
It's better to understand who we are and what we
stand for. The libertarian tradition is as fragmented as it
is storied, and wat's produce many bold ideas. It's also
splintered into schools of thought that are impractical, inconsistent, or
outright self destructive in the modern world. Libertarian nationalism seeks
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to build upon the core principles of liberty while addressing
the shortcomings of other libertarian philosophies and their failure with
the realities of governance, or the realities of geopolitics, or
the realities of national identity. How many members of the
Libertarian Party hate America, Well, that's preposterous, it's buffoonery. Why
would you hate the country that has helped spread more
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liberty through the world than any other government entity. Up
to this point, there have widely been accepted to be
approximately ten different schools of thought within libertarianism, all claiming
to be the one true faith, deriding the other schools
as heretics and non believers. It's silly. It's time for
a new idea, libertarian nationalism. We reject anarcho capitalism outright.
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The idea of a stateless society may appeal to theorists,
but it's a fantasy. It ignores basic human nature. A
nation without a government capable of defending liberty and enforcing
laws is not free. We often say, if you go
far enough to the left, you end up on the right.
You go far enough to the right, you end up
on the left. Like, what were the difference, what we're
really the differences between the Nazis and communists. Well, if
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you're a Jewish guy, in Eastern Europe Russia. Not much
different at all.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
But it's kind of the same thing with libertarianism and authoritarianism.
If you go far enough into libertarianism, you end up
in authoritarianism. Without government, without laws, you allow the criminals
and the thugs to control your society or your community.
It's not liberty. That's just a different kind of authoritarianism.
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That's the problem with anarcho capitalism. No laws to protect
children from exploitation, no prisons, no standing national army to
repel invasion. That is anarchy. That is not liberty, and
libertarian nationalism will have none of it. There's room for
those who want to live apart. Anarcho capitalists should have
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the freedom to create off great enclaves, things like what
Justin Amash is doing. Libertarian nationalism discards the pacifist streak
and traditional libertarianism. The non aggression principle is a nice
but while the Usian principle as noble intentions, it collapses
in practice. We will fight. I have a lot more
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to say about this. I'll pick it up tomorrow on
the show. I'm Kenny Webster.
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are going to take a deep dive into what is
stopping the Conservatives from controlling the Texas House. It seems
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the rhino Republican liberals shows and limpristed leftists led by
Dustin Burrows, the state Texas state lawmaker, seemed to be
holding things up right now.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
And it looks like squad Choice actually has a lot
to do with it.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Corey DeAngelis is going to be stopping by one of
the biggest advocates of school choice in the country. He'll
be draining an ally to Governor Abbott. We'll be talking
to him in just a little bit. Before we get
into any of that, I want to talk about the
biggest jihadist in the world, Joseph Robinette Biden. You didn't
think I was going to say that, did you? You
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may know what happened in Syria earlier this week, Guys, stop,
come on, I know you're already reacting. That sounded hyperbolic. Kenny,
He's not a jahadist by every definition of the word.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
He is.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Actually, I'll explain why. What is a jahadis j'e y'all know.
Let me give you the.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Exact definition here to make sure I get it right.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Jihad is the militant Islamic movement that seeks to base
the state on Islamic principles, basically going to war for
Islamic religion. Now, can you think of anybody who has
single handedly funded more Islamic war around the world over
the past four years than Joe Biden? And before you
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answer that question, I'll tell I'll give you the details.
I'll give you the cheat sheet right now on this one.
Everybody knows what happened in Syria. Joe Biden is bragging
about the fact that Hyate Turin al Sham, the former
leader of al Qaida, is now in charge of a
rebel group that has taken over Syria. You've heard, you're
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aware of that. We covered that on the show. Maybe
you didn't know that. On his way out the door,
Joe Biden helped al Qaeda take over Syria. He also
gave Iran ten billion dollars. Washington Freebeacon Today reporting that
the Biden Harris administration waived sanctions on Iran three days
after the November election and gave Taran about ten billion
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dollars in previously frozen assets. Last time they did this,
that's when we got October seventh.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Money is fungible, right. Currency is fungible.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Right.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
If you free up some money over here, it allows
you to have more money over there, even if those
two things aren't directly connected. You know, if you had
a fund at your house for vacations, and every week
you put one hundred bucks into it so your family
could go on vacation at the end of the year,
and suddenly you got a bonus at work, you'd have
more money to put into that vacation fund, even though
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it's technically in a different bank account.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
You get that, right.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
This isn't complicated stuff with the government. It works the
same way. Iran gives money to Hesbela and Hamas. Hesbela
is this military paramilitary faction that goes to war with Israel,
and Hamas is a terror group in Gaza, and they
get funding from Iran. So if you give more money
to Iran, they have more money to give to terrorists.
Secretary of State Anthony Blincoln has millions of dollars invested
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in the military industrial complex, and it's his job to
negotiate away wars. It's his job to try to talk
foreign nations into not going to war. That's generally one
of the things the Secretary of State does top diplomatic leader.
If he fails at his job diplomacy, he makes millions
of dollars terrify you. Secretary of State Antoni Blincoln determined
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on November eighth that quote, it is in the national
security interest to the United States to waive mandatory economic
sanctions that bar Iraq from transferring up to ten billion
dollars to Iran in electricity import payments. Now, Iraq is
another complicated country right now because even though we supposedly
liberated them from Saddam Hussein over the past couple of decades,
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and we've been involved in military occupation in that country
ever since. The people there hate us, including the political
leader there. But that's a discussion for another day. All
I really want you to take away from this is
right now, as we're funding a war in Israel, we're
also funding Hamas we're giving money to them. We're funding
both sides of the war in Israel, both sides of
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the war in Syria, both sides of the war and Yemen,
and arguably both sides of the war in Ukraine. But
again I don't want to get off topic here. This
isn't about all the wars were fund and you know
it's a lot of them. This is a conversation about
Joe Biden, the Jahadist. Joe Biden bragged about it his
successful counter terrorism operation in Afghanistan, even though Johannis killed
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a countless number of people there, including over a dozen
servicemen and women as we were walking out the door.
But now we learn this Biden has been in secret
talks with al Qaeda as they greet this new dawn
in Syria. That's how the Telegraph reports it. They're trying
to make it sound good. Joe Biden warned Siria's leading
rebel group against working with Islamic terrorists in a secret
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message extended towards the collapse of Bashir Alisad's regime. But
they did it anyway, didn't they. The president, using the
Turkish government as an intermediary, was reassured by the leader
of al Qaida it had no intentions of collaborating with Isis,
even though they do it all the time, and they
already are. Either he doesn't know or he doesn't care.
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Take your pick. What would bother you more? An inept
leader or a corrupt leader? I mean, I know it's
a little above. Oh, and then there's this. Guess what
police found in the home of a pro Palestinian student
leaders Here in America, here's a bunch of democrats. Students
for Justice in Palestine is a pro terrorism, anti Semitic organization.
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When twelve hundred Jewish civilians were wantonly slaughtered by Hamas
on October seventh, this group, Students for Justice and Palestine,
celebrated and glorified the attacks. The national organization put out
propaganda featuring paraglider imagery, a reference to one of the
ways in which terrorists infiltrated Israeli territory to murder, kidnap,
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and rape people at a music festival. Maybe you've heard
the story before. Various members of this group have also
disgraced themselves with ghoulish actions in the ensuing months, resulting
in some being disbanded and shut down, which brings us
to an investigation. Out of George Mason University in Northern Virginia,
police searched the home of two local leaders of the
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group Students for Justice in Palestine, and what they found
is very interesting. Spray painting messages that warned of a
student Intafada activists cost thousands of dollars in damage, which
is a felony in the state of Virginia. Police suspected
the leaders of the group led the group of vandals
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to go out and destroy things. When officers entered the
home of the leaders of the group, the Shawna family,
they found firearms, modern weapons not antiques, as well as
scores of ammunition and foreign passports, all of which sat
in plain view, according to court documents. They also found
pro terror materials, including hamas and Hesbola flags and signs
that read death to America and death to the Jews. Obviously,
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these are not Republicans, They're not maga people. How do
you feel about the Israeli War, the Syria War, just
know this, Joe Biden caused all of it. He either
funded it or he did nothing and let it happen.
And now we're importing these nut jobs into our country.
They're called political asylum seekers. I call them terrorists.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Joe Biden decades of giving dirty politics a bad name. Sorry,
dirty politics. This is Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness on
KPRC nine fifty Houston.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Cash Battel, my man cash Battel about to take over
the FBI. If the Senate confirms cash Battel as President
Elect Donald Trump's FBI director, you're gonna hear the word
q andon thrown around a lot, right. You haven't heard
about q and on in a while. Q and On
is this group of a conspiracy theorists, as you may recall,
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who think a cabal of Satan worshiping pedophiles are abducting, abusing,
and ritualistically murdering children by the thousands. I don't know
if it's quite that bad, but I bet there's something
like that happening that's not hard to believe. I just
don't know if it's as bad as QAnon claims it
is or as direct.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
I bet, I mean, it wouldn't shock me.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
A lot of people thought that Jeffrey Epstein having an
island down in the middle of the Caribbean where they
raped teenage girls was a conspiracy theory, right, Well it wasn't.
Rda Patila was a conspiracy fact. But Cash Pattel, for
his part, says he disagrees with a lot of what
QAnon says.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
The reason he gets.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Attacked is because he's been on q and on podcasts
before to talk about the problems at the FBI. Well,
there are some pretty big problems at the FBI, some
problems we really need to get to the bottom of.
John Nance atownhall dot Com today reporting on how the
appointment of the FBI director is arguably second in the
importance only to that of the Attorney General. Cash Pattel
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and Pam BONDI, you are going to clean up the
DOJ and light of concerns about the FBI and the
Department of Justice being politicized under Democrat leader, I think
it's really under the Joe Biden administration, it's crucial to
ensure the role is filled by someone committed to protecting
civil liberties. Now, for Trump, this decision carries immense weight
and significance. After all, you see what they put the
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man through over and over Againald Trump has been asked
if he's going to seek revenge seek revenge, Trump says
that actually, success, success will be his revenge. She doesn't
need to go out and smite his enemies and attack
all of them. That's not his plan. His plan is
simply to succeed and make the country a better place.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Trump's nomination of former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi is
without a doubt, a superb selection. She's well suited. She
can enact reforms at the DOJ. And people have been
very skeptical about cash Patel. A lot of people were
hoping it would be the Custom Border Patrol Commissioner Rodney
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Scott previously at the Trump administration, someone who's carried a
badge and worked the job. They don't want another lawyer
with DOJ credentials in front of the in charge of
the FBI. Here's the thing. Patel has some very smart
things to say. He's a book you can read called
Government Gangsters. Makes a real interesting point here about the
f and it's this change is possible at the FBI.
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It's very possible, and it's desperately needed. The fact that
we need a federal agency that investigates federal crimes and
that agency will always be at risk of having its
power abuse is certainly true. That's certainly happening. But as
a terrorism prosecutor, cash Ptel's seen numerous times with how
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these FISA courts can be used as one of the
most manhunting tools on planet Earth. Look how they spied
on the Trump campaign in twenty sixteen. Cash Patel recognizes
a great need for reform now. For whatever it's worth.
Patel has made other statements that some people are concerned about.
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He was on one of these QAnon talk shows and
he said he would shut down the Hoover Building on
day one and reopen it the next day as a
museum of the deep state. People are mad that he
said that. I thought it was a funny thing to say.
He pointed out the seven thousand employees that currently work
there could go back to investigating actual crimes instead of
rigging elections. It's a beautiful thing. The Hoover Building is
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long overdue for some pruning. Cash Ptel's statement in My
opinion was both funny and true. Patel is right about
the FBI headquarters being the locust of politicization and a
massive inefficiencies. Twenty years ago, the FBI headquarters held approximately
ten divisions. Today there are forty divisions. Did you know
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that it's grown a little bit. It's become a black
hole which draws resources and personnel into the executive management orbit.
And we wonder what happens to these resources and money
and employees. We don't really know because we're not allowed
to know. Patel has ample opportunity to trim the fat
restructure the FBI. The first division on the chopping block
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should be the Office of Diversity and Inclusion. We don't
need that. We don't need a Chief Diversity Officer. We
need meritocracy. That's just a DEI and critical race theory
is nothing more than a trojan horse filled with Marxist infiltrators.
Patel also said the biggest problem with the FBI has
come out of the intel shop. He said he'd break
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off components of that FBI's counterintelligence the CI mission almost
two decades ago, argue the agency was too focused on
its criminal mission and not focused enough on other issues
like what like DEI. Many have forgotten the FBI was
once very capable. Once upon a time they were great
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a shutting down well communists for example. Now it seems
to be controlled by communists. I would argue the mission
of the FBI and their criminal investigation should be nothing
more than investigating criminals. Get rid of the nonsense DEI crap.
We don't need it. Ever since the Obama administration took over,
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he had FBI Director James Comey and pushing Dei's agenda.
Was suddenly the FBI's main critera was their main objective,
civil rights. For some reason, in the name of promoting
civil rights, they destroyed civil rights. Imagine that. So Patel's
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got a real historic opportunity here to make some changes.
The FBI has always been a corrupt organization. That Hoover
Building is named after not Herbert Uber, but Jay Edgar Hoover,
across dressing weirdo who used to blackmail lawmakers and extort
services and influence. I'm confident Cash Battel can create the
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top down reforms necessary to eradicate the FBI of anybody
that's weaponized it, stop using it to reg elections. In
the end, Cash Battel could be the right man to
refit the FBI and fix this country. And that's a
beautiful thing. Cheer for Cash Pattel, Cheer for Pam BONDI.
By the way, you know what happened to Matt Gates.
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Matt Gates could have been Attorney General and now he's
going to go be a talk show host at one
America news network.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
I hope it goes well for him.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Be wary of strong alcoholic drinks. They could make you
shoot at tax collectors and miss. This is Kenny Webster's
pursuit of happiness on KPRC nine fifty Houston.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Merry Christmas, Happy Chinooka, Happy Kwanza.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
It's all coming. It's heading your way very soon.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
It's a holiday time, it's a jolly time, and a
lot of Republicans, still high off the results of the
November election might not have noticed all of the nonsense,
for lack of a better term, bs that's going on
right now in Austin. There is a feud happening between
this new movement of liberty Republicans and Maga Republicans.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Basically basically the next era of the Tea Party.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
In my humble opinion, and the holdovers from the neocon
George Bush days, the Bush dynasty won't let go. I'm
sure most of you know who Dade Falan is. Dave
Falen is a scumback. Dave Falen is a crony, He's
a crook. Dad Falen is not a good person. The
good news is Dave Falen is probably not going to
be Texas House Speaker anymore. He doesn't have the votes.
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And for a long time, the Republican leadership in legislature
or even in the House here in Texas, not necessarily,
the Senate has had this very unhealthy relationship with the
Democrats where the Rhino liberal Republicans team up with the
Democrats and they give a bunch of committee chairs away
to Democrats in exchange for keeping the Conservatives from taking
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over the Texas House.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Dad Falen did it. Dennis Bonnen did it.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
You may recall our friends a Texas scorecard, or the
reason they got rid of him. If it wasn't for
the Paxton impeachment. I don't know if most people would
have even noticed how terrible Date Falen is. Fortunate it's
almost like they did as a favor. I mean, it
cost us tens of millions of dollars. But people in
ten average folks are starting to realize that some weird
stuff happens every time there's a legislative session and we
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vote on the House speaker. Now it's happening again. David
Cook is supposed to be the guy. David Cook is
the choice of the people. David Cook is the person
that the grassroots want. It seems to be the person
Governor Abbot wants. Dustin Burrows, he's the slimy rhino. Dustin
Burrows actually used a photo of Governor Abbot to make
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it seem like the Governor was endorsing him for Texas
House Speaker. Abbot put out a statement saying that's not true.
Guess who else put out a statement calling bs and
Shenanigans and Malarkey and Tom Foolery on all this. Don Junior,
even Don Junior, who does business in New York City
and I think lives in Florida. Notice there's something slimy
happening in Austin right now. And then a good friend
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of the show, I would say, probably arguably the biggest
advocate for school choice in the country, Texas native Corey
DeAngelis recent father and a parent of a child in
the state of Texas has pointed out in a lot
of these people that are working with the slimeballs to
keep the Conservatives from taking over the House, the people
aligned with Dustin Burroughs, many of them seem to be
(18:10):
critics of school choice. Corey, Well, don't thanks, you're kind
of giving us some time this afternoon, Corey, why don't
we start the conversation there. What do we know about
these people and how this affects the movement for school
choice in the state of Texas.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
I looked at Dustin's list, and a lot of people
have looked at the list, and some people have removed
their names from the list. So, first of all, there's
the obvious is that there was a lot of Democrats.
I think a majority of the people on the list
were Democrats Democrats the post school choice. But also if
you look at the Republicans, all of the seven returning
anti school choice House Republicans who survived their reelections, somehow
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they're all on the Borough's list. And then that's in
addition to Jeff Barry, who appears to be another anti
school choice Republicans who won an open seat. So that
looks like all everybody body against school choice is on
the Burrows list. And then I started seeing a bunch
of rumors flying around on X of people saying that well,
(19:09):
Dustin went to the Democrats to make a deal with
them to get their votes, and part of that deal
was to kill school choice. Governor Abbotts's top priority, my
personal owned top priority as well. And you know, I
don't know what's true, right, So I asked Dustin Burrows
on Twitter and I tagged him, and while all these
(19:29):
rumors were squirling around, he went out and did a
tweet talking about didn't respond to that kind of question
that's been floating around. Instead, he did a tweet that
was signaling support to the teachers unions about education and
more funding, but said nothing about education freedom, nothing about
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school choice, didn't address the elephant in the room, which
raised a red flag for a lot of people. I
will say, I don't have anything personal again, Stustin Burrows.
I'm a one issue guy. I look at school choice.
That's what I want to get past. And he voted
for school choice this year, so that's good news. He
does follow me on Twitter on X that's usually good
(20:12):
news as well. Usually means the person supportive of school choice.
But the thing is what I'm worried about is I
don't know him personally, and people people are making these
claims and he's not responding to them. And you know,
it could be that he supports school choice, but he
supports becoming speaker more than that. And That's what I'm
(20:35):
worried about. And hopefully there isn't anything to worry about, hopefully,
regardless of who wins. David Cook and Justin Burrows both
voted for school choice this year. Hopefully they continue to
try to push an ESA bill across the finish line.
So everything's kind of up in the air right now.
But this is an open question, all right.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
What about some of these other people that are supporting
Dustin Burrows. Jeff Leech, I think is one of them.
I thought he was a critic of school choice. And
then locally, Lacey Hull, she's another one of Dustin Burrow's supporters.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
I thought she was a supporter of school choice. Maybe
I got that wrong.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
Yeah, Well, Jeff Lee Chan and Lacey Holt both voted
for school choice this year. So when I'm talking about
the seven or a who are signed on, who are
Republicans who are against school choice. I'm talking Ken King,
I'm talking Gary van Deaver, right, and the others who
were targeted for opposing school choice and voting against it.
(21:33):
They're all on the Burrough's list. That doesn't mean he's
necessarily against school choice. They may align with him for
other reasons. That's just something that people are pointing out
on social media. And I wish that that Dustin would
just respond and say, no, this is an issue. I
want to fund public schools and I want school choice.
That should be an easy thing to say.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Yeah, it seems pretty simple to me too. It feels
like we're winning. I noticed a lot of these people
are dropping, like fly. One of them here in Houston
was Mano. A couple other people have dropped their support.
All right, So that's the situation right now with Burrows.
In the meantime, if I'm not mistaken, let's talk about
this Linda McMahon is. I think under the Trump administration
(22:14):
of one point zero she did a fantastic job when
they put her in charge of small businesses. And similarly,
I mean look running professional wrestling for the past thirty
years or so she has been. This is she turned
a million dollar business into a billion dollar business. There's
no doubt about that. So as far as her becoming
Education secretary, I mean that isn't quite the wheelhouse people
(22:35):
expect from her. What do you think of that?
Speaker 5 (22:38):
I say, let's get ready to rumble. I think she's
a change agent. And that's what's important because Trump has
campaigned repeatedly on abolishing the Department of Education at the
federal level, of sending education back to the states. The
good news is Trump won the parent vote by nine points.
That represented a fifteen point shift to the right among
(22:59):
parents since twenty twenty alone. That's a huge seismic shift
towards towards Republicans on the issue of education. And Trump
was winning the exit poll, the pulling from Atlas Intel
the most accurate poster from twenty twenty. I think also
in twenty twenty four they showed him winning all the
(23:19):
swing states too, showing that he beat Kamala Harris on
the issue of education. So that's a mandate from voters
to empower parents with education freedom. And Linda McMahon is
she looks she was at the head of the America
First Policians too. They're huge supporters of school choice. Do
you look at Donald Trump's press release or is his
truth social post a boutland of He pointed out that
(23:42):
she's a huge supporter of school choice. He wants to
send education back to the States, and so I hope
she's a wrecking ball, and I think she can make
mountains move like she did with WWE, and so you know,
I trust her to get the job done at the
federal level. The Department of Ed at the federal level
is unconstitutional as far as I'm concerned. The word education
(24:04):
is not in the Constitution. It's a violation of the
tenth Amendment. It was a payoff by Jimmy Carter in
nineteen seventy nine to the teachers' unions, and that's all.
It was a political power play. It hasn't improved outcomes.
We've spent about two trillion dollars at the federal level
since nineteen seventy nine. It was built to try to
(24:24):
close the achievement gaps. They've only gotten worse. And so
what are we doing. We're spending all of this money
on useless bureaucrats in DC to tell us what to do.
Trump has a plan. There's a bill in Congress from
Senator Mike Rounds out of South Dakota. He has a
bill to block grant that money back to the states.
(24:45):
And at the same time, there's also a federal school
choice bill, the Educational Choice for Children Act. It's a
tax credit, so it doesn't involve any federal money. It
doesn't require a Department of Education at all to I
have this school choice program. Trump said he'd sign it,
and it's already passed out of a House congressional committee.
(25:06):
So the wins are at the winds at our backs
when it comes to education freedom nationally. I will say, though,
that doesn't mean we don't need to pass it at
the state level. Ninety percent of education funding at the
cap to twelve level comes from state and local sources.
So the federal news is good news. It's momentum, but
(25:27):
we can't stop there. Washington, DC is not going to
save us. We have to get it done this session
as soon as possible in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
All right, A couple more questions for you before I
run out of time. You and I are both Lowercasel Libertarians.
I think you were a former member of the Libertarian Party.
Now we're Republican and when you look at what's going
on with the Vake Ramaswami, the Department of Government Efficiency
and Elon Musk, and now the fact that Ron Paul
has come on as a consultant for dog publicly doing
(25:58):
public consulting for dough as somebody that's liberty minded.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
I just wonder how you feel about that.
Speaker 5 (26:05):
This is great. I mean, I hope they're a wrecking
ball too. Vivek Ramaswami, he's been saying to shut down
the Department of Education from the get go, and he
also endorsed my book The Parent Revolution, Rescuing your kids
from the radicals ruining our schools, as did President of
leg Donald Trump. And so Trump is picking a lot
of the right people in cabinet positions. In these other
(26:31):
positions like DOJ, Elon Musk and Daveake, I think this
is our once in a lifetime opportunity to get our
country back to our roots. I mean, the founders wanted
as limited government as possible, As you said, I got
into the whole movement of school choice as a libertarian,
being skeptical of government controlling so much of our children's lives.
(26:52):
That really drifts us into socialism. If they're teaching you
in government schools to like big government. You're going to
have more people voting for the Democrats to increase government size.
I mean, that's an obvious result of the government school
system if it's left unchecked without any competition. And so look,
the Founders didn't didn't want as much taxation as we
(27:14):
have today. They didn't want government controlling everything. That's why
they broke away from from Britain. And so I have
I have high hopes and hopefully we can actually make
a lot of change happen. I think it starts with
the education system. That if you don't fix the education
(27:35):
system and you try to fix these other problems, h
it'll be helpful, but in the long term, we're going
to be toasted.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
All Right, one more question for you, and this is
totally unrelated to anything we talked about, but I just
as a as a human being, Corey D'Angelis, I wonder
what you think about this technically. I mean, you have
a PhD in education, you're technically a doctor, and you've
made fun of that on this radio show before.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
This is Joe Biden.
Speaker 5 (27:58):
Doctor.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Well that's it, right, doctor Jill Biden. Corey DeAngelis and
Jamal Bowman, the three. You don't seem like you have
anything in common. Jamal Bowman is the guy that pulled
the fire alarm or at the budget vote last year.
I think he has gone viral now this week he's
on his way out. This guy isn't gonna be in
Congress anymore. He lost a primary. Democrats don't want this
(28:21):
guy anymore. The black guy who's in the squad. Jamal
Bowman went viral was it two days ago yesterday for
his dear white People tweet basically saying, you know, white
people in.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
America are racist.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
It was his response to the Jordan Neely Daniel Penny
news story. I just wonder, as a fellow doctor of education,
any thoughts on that?
Speaker 2 (28:42):
What do you think?
Speaker 3 (28:43):
And he throws around the doctor thing a lot. I
noticed it's right in his twitter bio.
Speaker 5 (28:47):
I mean that the people who are who who who
insist that they are called doctor aren't deserving of the title,
you know, So like, yeah, doctor Jill Biden does this,
look get her look at her dissertation. It's not great,
Jamal Bowman. I mean, it's almost like they're compensating for
something else, Like they're if you have a track record,
(29:10):
you don't need to brag about being a doctor. This
is one of the reasons I hate when I leave
that out of my bio at least, and I don't
insist people call me that unless I want to make
a joke about it. And that this Jamal Bowman, look,
I think he lost his primary like by a two
to one margin after having AOC jumping around on stage
(29:34):
and trying to rally support for him. People aren't having
it anymore. Just calling everything racist. That's not going to fly.
It's not twenty twenty anymore. And it's fun watching on
X at least Jamal Bowman getting ratioed into oblivion.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Yeah, no kidding, dude.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
I mean, it's just ridiculous what this guy has done
with his career. And anyway, hopefully he goes away soon.
But Corey, you are awesome. If I would call him
Corey D'Angelis, I couldn't imagine a scenario where you'd be
on an airplane and some would go, hey, this guy's
appendix is about to erupt quick. Has anyone ever wrote
a tweet about how they hate white people.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
To be able to help you out?
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Yeah, Corey, Corey.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
You wrote a great book I want people to check out,
called The Parent Revolution. And of course you could follow
Corey on Twitter x at DeAngelis. Corey definitely do that
quick break. We'll be right back in just a little bit.
Right after this, ladies and gentlemen, Pursuit of Happiness radio you.
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Virginia has been named the most caring city in the
US and the least caring city is Go after Yourself,
New Jersey. Hi, everybody, welcome back. Meanwhile, in New Orleans
they banned metallic balloons. Residents were complaining the balloons were
blocking their views of women flashing their breasts, so I'm
so glad they got rid of that. And on the
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West Coast, a big wildfire in Malibu, California's forced evacuations.
Malibu hasn't seen this much smoke in the air since
Snoop Dogg's last day at the beach. Okay, that was lazy, right,
that was a lazy joke. That was cheap, but anyway,
I don't know, it made me laugh. Thanks for turning
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where the liberty movement in Texas and throughout the country
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Humanevents dot com about where the liberty movement is at
right now. There's a lot of you know, I'm not
a traditional maga Republican. I'm a libertarian, but I'm also
(32:48):
a nationalist. Over the past decade, the libertarian movement in
the United States has been in slow collapse. Libertarianism was
once a vibrant, forced vidual liberty and liberty government, and
you know that on this day in history. All the
way back in nineteen seventy one, the Libertarian Party was founded.
(33:08):
It seemed like a good idea at the time, but
I think all it really did over the years was
remove liberty minded people from the Republican Party. And it
might be part of the reason why we got so
many neo cons back in the early two thousands running
the movement running the political party. Keeping libertarians in the
Republican Party is where they belong. The problem with the
(33:34):
problem with the Libertarian Party is it removes them from
the primary votes, which is part of the reason why
liberty minded candidates don't often get elected or even make
it to the general election. So instead of rallying against
state overreach, libertarians have splintered. Many of them have found
refuge in the populist currents of the Donald Trump MAGA movement.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
That's what I did.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
Now this presents itself as an opportunity to REBUILDGA isn't perfect.
MAGA has flaws, but they do have the spirit of liberty.
They're skepticism of centralized authority, they're disdain for bloated bureaucracy,
and a belief in economic dynamism that still resonate deeply
with millions of Americans. Libertarian ideas do fairly well so
(34:20):
long as they're not advanced by libertarians themselves. Trump isn't
necessarily a libertarian, but boy, he's done more to push
liberty than any elected Republican president. During my lifetime, libertarian
principles have gained new momentum, and efforts like DOGE, the
decentralization of government entities or the Department of Government Efficiency.
(34:42):
Now that was spearheaded by the vag Ramaswami and Elon
musk I, like those guys, there were aims to reshape
the government. They want to recommend structural reform. They want
to include dismantling of outdated agencies. What do we need
the Department of Education for? Why do we need the
why do we need the blowhards in Washington de you
see to tell us how to educate Texas kids? And
(35:02):
the fact that Ron Paul is an advisor to DOJE
that has inspired confidence in the MAGA movement by real libertarians.
Earlier this year, Donald Trump, when he was running for president,
went and spoke to the Libertarian Party and told them,
if you elect me, I'll put libertarians in my candidate,
a candidate, cabinet, in my staff, my administration.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
And they booed him for it.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
Could you imagine they booed they These guys have been
around since nineteen seventy one. They almost never win a race,
certainly never won a national race or even a statewide race.
What do the Libertarians do? They keep good voters out
of the Republican primary. Ramaswami put it well in his
National Conservatism Conference speech. He said Donald Trump didn't just
(35:47):
blindly pair at the party's historical orthodoxy. He offered an
entirely new worldview, one that chattered the historical neoliberal consensus
to its core. This critique of the old orthodoxy on trade, immigration,
and the regulatory state created the conditions for a political
realignment something we're calling libertarian nationalism. I am a proud
(36:09):
libertarian nationalist. People like me and my friend Austin Peterson,
Vivey Kramaswami, Matt Gates, Ran Paul to mass MASSI there's
a lot of us out there. You might be one
of them two, and I think it's necessary to first
clarify what libertarian nationalism is. We are declaring war on
our enemies, not because we desire war, but because we
(36:31):
wanted to find what we are, not what we are against.
It's better to understand who we are and what we
stand for. The libertarian tradition is as fragmented as it
is storied, and wat's produce many bold ideas. It's also
splintered into schools of thought that are impractical, inconsistent, or
outright self destructive in the modern world. Libertarian nationalism seeks
(36:52):
to build upon the core principles of liberty while addressing
the shortcomings of other libertarian philosophies and their failure with
the realities of governance, or the realities of geopolitics, or
the realities of national identity. How many members of the
Libertarian Party hate America, Well, that's preposterous, it's buffoonery. Why
would you hate the country that has helped spread more
(37:15):
liberty through the world than any other government entity. Up
to this point, there have widely been accepted to be
approximately ten different schools of thought within libertarianism, all claiming
to be the one true faith, deriding the other schools
as heretics and non believers. It's silly. It's time for
a new idea, libertarian nationalism. We reject anarcho capitalism outright.
(37:38):
The idea of a stateless society may appeal to theorists,
but it's a fantasy. It ignores basic human nature. A
nation without a government capable of defending liberty and enforcing
laws is not free. We often say, if you go
far enough to the left, you end up on the right.
You go far enough to the right, you end up
on the left. Like, what were the difference, what we're
really the differences between the Nazis and communists. Well, if
(38:01):
you're a Jewish guy, in Eastern Europe Russia. Not much
different at all.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
But it's kind of the same thing with libertarianism and authoritarianism.
If you go far enough into libertarianism, you end up
in authoritarianism. Without government, without laws, you allow the criminals
and the thugs to control your society or your community.
It's not liberty. That's just a different kind of authoritarianism.
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That's the problem with anarcho capitalism. No laws to protect
children from exploitation, no prisons, no standing national army to
repel invasion. That is anarchy. That is not liberty, and
libertarian nationalism will have none of it. There's room for
those who want to live apart. Anarcho capitalists should have
(38:46):
the freedom to create off great enclaves, things like what
Justin Amash is doing. Libertarian nationalism discards the pacifist streak
and traditional libertarianism. The non aggression principle is a nice
but while the Usian principle as noble intentions, it collapses
in practice. We will fight. I have a lot more
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to say about this. I'll pick it up tomorrow on
the show. I'm Kenny Webster.
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