May 16, 2025 • 39 mins
This podcast edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness features journalists Michael Quinn Sullivan and Brandon Darby. ( @KennethRWebster )
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
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Speaker 3 (00:26):
Vehicles for loose screws.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Imagine how much better America would be if we could
recall politicians for the same reason.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Hi, I'm Kenny Webster. Thanks for turning on that radio.
I have a lot in store for you this afternoon.
It's Friday. It's good to be here with you, guys,
So thanks for turning us on. Like a lot of you.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
I want to know what the hell happened last night
in Austin, Texas. A legislative session is reaching peak boiling point,
as our lawmakers were task last night with a deadline
to get their bills from committees to the floor of
the House so they could vote them.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
So there's a lot happening.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
And Michael Quinnsullivan from Texas squarecard dot Com will be here.
We're going to talk about that. Brandon Darby's going to
be here from Breitbart Texas. We're going to go down
to the border We're going to talk about this thing
with Bruce Springsteen going all the way to England to
tell people how much America sucks and apparently they did
not agree with him. Now, before we get to any
of that, another thing I'm going to talk to Michael
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quinn Sullivan about is this the Secret Service is investigating.
After ex FBI director James Comy posted an Instagram photo
of seashells arranged to show the numbers eighty six forty seven,
which is a message White House officials swiftly condemned. They
said it's an attempt to put a hit on our
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forty seventh President Donald Trump. Comy deleted the post because
of the online backlash from government officials and lawmakers and
even President Trump's son. Now, as you know, Trump has
faced multiple assassination attempts in the past year, one of
which resulted in him being shot and a bystander being killed. Well,
if all you want, but that's pretty serious. Carol Markowicks
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at New York Post recently asked a question I'd love
to know the answer. How much longer will Democrats accept
their supporters escalating calls for violence. It's a pretty good question,
you know. The weekend hands off protests were wholly expected,
he said. President Trump made everybody angry, and now people
are out protesting him. During his first term, the pink
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hat protesters hit the streets days after his inauguration, actually
the day of his inauguration. Now, the fact that we
didn't see any of them until April, that was pretty
incredible this year, right as a lot of you know,
in New York, a man dressed up as Luigi of
Super Mario Brothers to honor Luigi Mangione, the alleged murderer
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of the healthcare executive Brian Thompson. He carried a sign
calling for Trump to be deposed that is violently overthrown.
In Holland, Michigan, and Redmon, Oregon and elsewhere, grinning marchers
wore shirts and carried placers emblazoned with the numbers eighty
six forty seven, pairing the old slang term for murder
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with a forty seven for Trump. One of the eighty
six to forty seven protesters stood right alongside Minnesota Attorney
General Keith Ellison in Minnesota, hands off or heads Off
read a message on a life size guillotine paraded about.
In Denver, Wow isn't that exactly what you guys accused
the January sixth protesters of doing, and now you're doing
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it all over the country. Protesters vandalizing ICE and DHS
vehicles in Washington, DC, defacing and puncturing their tires. Weeks
of viral videos of people king and graffeeding and graffitiing
and burning Teslas had permeated on social media. I know
you've all seen this stuff. Last month, a man was
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arrested in Portland after he used a laser to attempt
to blind a Tesla employee. A leftist protest her blocked
traffic at a rally in Lafayette, Indiana, headbutted a driver,
bloodied the driver's nose. Just one more leftist agitator out there.
A couple weeks back, conservative students hosted a speaker at
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the University of California Davis. They were targeted by masked
assailants who tore up literature and wrecked tents and tables.
That same day, in Harlem, an angry leftist punched a
pro life activist in the face while she was conducting
a live interview. She was left bloodied she needed stitches.
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There's a new report from the Network Contagian Research Institute,
and it found that more than half of left leaning
Americans say political violence is acceptable. Fifty five percent of
them see some justification for assassinating Trump. More than half guys.
It feels like a powder keg. Right now, violence is excused.
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It's celebrated political memes and posts increasingly displaying savage imagery
and language. Facebook repeatedly showing me far left commentary that
veers into violent fantasies. I see this content on social
media all the time. You can report it, but apparently
it's not a violation of the terms of service. I
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recently saw a photoshopped image of Malania Trump cozying up
to Luigi Mangioni. The caption rat I was wondering if
you could do me a little favor. Fantasizing about killing
Trump apparently is perfectly acceptable on a social media platform
like Facebook, where they once banned people for questioning whether
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a mask was effective against COVID. There's a group called
Guillotines for a Better America. It's a Facebook group. I
see it all the time in my newsfeed. I don't
know why I didn't ask to look at it. Here's
a recent post pictures our tuned children beating a pinata.
The caption says, quote, instead of fruitlessly waiting for wealth
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to trickle down, beat the rich with blunt instruments until
the gold flows end quote. We've been fed multiple versions
of a purported still from The Simpsons showing a blood
covered Trump and a casket. The date reads April twenty
twenty five. They've changed that meme more than once to
update it. But this is supposedly funny. That's humor, according
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to them, satire. It's not hysterical to me. But the
online aggression is beginning to spill off the Internet into
the real world. It feels dangerous, much like a run
up to the mostly peaceful riots of the summer of
twenty twenty by the way, that left dozens of people dead.
We watch cities burn, with Democrats and their media cheerleaders
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trying to excuse away the horror. Mostly peaceful. Now, Democrat
politicians have gotten very quiet. They've been agitating their base
for months. Now the base is being real violent. Representative
Lamonica mc ivor, a Democrat from New Jersey, said, quote,
we are at war. She called Trump's hostile takeover of
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the government something that needed to be stopped. Senator Chris
Van Holland, the Democrat from Maryland, said, we have to
fight in the streets now the fuse is lit. The
elected firebrands, all these lawmakers stoking the flames of violence,
they suddenly have nothing to say. Voters chose Trump very recently,
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very specifically to shake up Washington, DC.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Guys.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
It's okay to protest. You could protest as loud and
proud as you want. That's part of America's political legacy.
But assassination culture, as the lead author of NCRI report calls,
the new spike in violent rhetoric, is not okay. Democrats
don't get a pass on it.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
This time.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
They set this ball. They need to own it. Their
silence is now encouragement. They need to be the ones
to stop it. Time to take responsibility. Lower the temperature,
or this country is gonna get a lot more violent
before it's gonna get better.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
If you can hear my voice, you're still above ground, alive.
In listening to Kinny Webster on KPRC nine point fifty plus,
you don't smell like a dead person.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
There's some things I will never understand.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
I'll never understand Kale chips, Toyota prius is. I don't
understand why people drink soy milk. I do not understand
the appeal of Bruce Springsteen. Just garbage music. It's not good.
This is an objectively bad song about a child sex predator.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Goodly, this is really creepy. I got and weirdly.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
You know how lot awkward songs start with an awkward
verse and then it goes into a catchy chorus.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
This is the chorus. It's the chorus. It's time in
a good song.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Bruce Springsteen was in Manchester yesterday telling everybody how horrible
America is, how much he hates America. He was saying
this to a British audience yesterday in Manchester, England. They
have two soccer teams there for some reason. That's besides
the point. But pulling data just came out. It reveals
only five percent of people in England even agree with
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the immigration policies. Ninety five percent of British people are
against the mass immigration of illegal immigrants and refugees and
third world crap to their country. That's what's going on
in England right now. These people are very detached from reality.
I'll give you another great example. Yesterday, James Comey, former
head of the FBI, hops onto Instagram. Instagram the social
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media platform that's popular with like booty models, twerking in
a thong. I don't know why he chose that as
the medium, but James Comy decided to post pictures of
pebbles in the sand that say eighty six forty seven.
Eighty six forty seven is the slang term that's being
used by activists on the Internet to describe how they
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want someone to try to kill Donald Trump again. Now
maybe he'd make some argument, no, I just might remove
him from office, but eighty six implies get rid of someone.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
It's pretty vividly.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
I mean, it's very transparently a veiled threat of violence.
At least it seems that way to me. I want
to talk about what's going on right now in Austin, Texas,
but before we get to any of that, I'd love
to get Michael quinn Sullivan of Texas Scorecard to react
to this news story. If only I knew how to
get a hold of one of the most dangerous men
in the Texas political media circle, Michael Quinn Sullivant, hang on,
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I'm going.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
To do do do Do Do Do Do Do Do
Do Do Do do do Michael, can you hear me?
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Good morning, Kenny Webster. I'm busily arranging shells cryptic secret
messages on a beach right now, so you know, give
me one more second, I'm going to threaten the life
of someone and take a picture and post it an
Instagram because I'm as stupid as the former director of
the FBI.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
What a complete more on.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
I mean, since since at least the nineteen twenties, the
phrase to eighty six something or someone meant to throw
it out, to kill it, to discard it. This is
language that every cop, This is language that every gang banger.
This is language that almost every restaurant tour in New
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York City knows to.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Eighty six something.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
And James Comy takes to Instagram making a clear threat
against the life of the President of the United States,
and we're supposed to life. Had to remember Donald he
survived three assassination attempts last year, right, And here's James
Comy making a joke and not pretending like, oh, didn't
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know what that meant. He absolutely you know, if you
on your radio show had made even the slightest kind
of reference like that while James Comy was the director
of the FBI, the Secret Service, the FBI, the FDA,
the you know whoever else would be knocking down your
door within seconds and hauling you off rightly. So, by
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the way, you don't threaten the life of the President
of the United States, or honestly, should there a life
of anyone. James Comy your trash man.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
It's pretty obvious there's two sets of roles here, right,
because more than once on social media, I've seen people
post things on our public page that say like, oh,
I wish someone would kill Donald Trump, and we've reported
them for it, and then Facebook Meta came back and said, oh,
that's not a violation. But I got into trouble for
posting a photo a meme of a you know, a
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car engine that made some joke about a souped up trainee.
And it's like, well, wait a second, so violence look vivid,
attempt said encouraging violence are not violations of the Meta
terms of service. But making a joke about a transgender
person is what what even is the standard anymore?
Speaker 4 (13:11):
The standard seems to be what offends the sensibility of
the radical left and and it and and it is
kind of like saying, you know, you know what what
is the you know what is the shape of the
ocean because it's constantly changing, right.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
You know, the waves are always moving, they're always different,
always unique.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
And you know, the the left exists as a perpetually
offended offense machine, right, So that that's what you get
in trouble, is not keeping up like I would know.
I would say to you, it's really exhausting. I would
imagine to be a Lefty. You know, all the words
they have to remember and the words they have to forget,
and the thing I mean, it's just insane when you're
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governed by you know, you know what is going to
offend the mentally ill person down the street, and that's
what you that's what you shape your your life round.
It's got to be really exhausting. On the other hand,
you know, when you're someone like us and says, hey,
the rule of law is important and you shouldn't threaten
to kill people, that's a pretty easy standard.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Boy, I would think so too. You know what this
all reminded me of.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
I remember in the twenty sixteen election cycle, James Comy
did an investigation into Hillary Clinton in her private email server,
which I think for those that don't remember so long ago,
it was famously a private email service she used while
she was at the State Department that she kept in
the bathroom of an office building, a very strange place
to have something like that. And at the time, James
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Comy famously did this press conference where he came out
and he read a laundry list of all the crimes
Hillary Clinton had committed, and then at the end of
it he said, but we're not going to press charges.
We are going to omit the uh. There won't be
any actual justice being served here because we don't have
any proof that Hillary Clinton knew she was breaking the law.
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Fast forward to this year, right, and this past year,
Joe Biden got into trouble for something very similar, classified
documents sprinkled all over the country in his offices at
University of Delaware and in his private home, his beach house.
The same exact crime his doj rated mar A Lago
over right, was having classified confidential documents that weren't being
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stored at the Record's archive with the Smithsonian or wherever
they were supposed to be. And the person that conducted
the investigation, said Robert Herr, I believe.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
His name was.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
We can't prosecute Joe Biden. His brain is too broken.
Both of those incidents made me laugh and infuriated me
a little. But looking back on it, suggesting that Hillary
Clinton didn't know she was breaking a law and suggesting
Joe Biden didn't know he was breaking a law, I
find one of those things to be a little more
believable than the other one, you know what I mean, Michael.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
Yeah, Look, Joe Biden today is not certain if he
is a shoe or if he's a seagull. So I
do kind of understand Joe Biden not knowing if something's
legal or not. On the other hand, look, let's just
be clear here, neither Joe Biden, you know, schlept those
boxes of classified material from the White House to his
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garage and Delaware in about the same way that Hillary
Clinton set up an email server in a bathroom, right. Uh.
The the people who knew that they were setting up
Hillary Clinton's email server knew it was illegal, just like
the guys who carried the boxes that had you know,
top secret tape sealed on them and storing them next
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to his his convertible in the garage, you know, I mean,
I'm sorry. It baffles belief that we know that we
allow these guys, but we do allow it because again,
like we said, there's a different standard.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Yeah, you're not kidding about that. Just remarkable, you know what, Michael,
There's so much going on right now in Austin, Texas.
Last night was supposed to be the deadline for some
of these committees to move the bills from the their
you know, committees to the floor. And if it's okay
with you, can we break Can we break our in
this segment right now so we can have more time
in the next segment for me to ask you about that.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Can you hang and do another one with us?
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Sure, Michael Quinnsullivan here right now, Texas scorecard dot Com.
As crazy as this story is, I what we're about
to talk about coming up in the next segment I
think is going to be some of the best commentary
you're going to hear about how this legislative session in Austin,
Texas is wrapping up right now. Nobody is more aware
of what is going on in the Texas State capital
than the people at Texas Scorecard dot com warm with
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Michael Quinnsullivan right after that.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
That's a lot more. Look you just such a pie
hole and keep working.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Back to the pursuit of happiness. Radios.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
It's a happiness radio.
Speaker 6 (17:39):
Sellar razing lips eya.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Remember not all who wander are lost. Some are just
in the air circling the Newark Airport. It's a wild week,
isn't it. So much crazy stuff going on this week?
And with everything happening in Washington, DC, everything happening in
the Mideast with President Trump, everything happening at the border,
multiple wars happening India, Pakistan, Ukraine, Russia, Israel, Palestine, it
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would be pretty easy for some people to ignore the
fact that there's a legislative session that is at peak
boiling point in Austin, Texas right now. This is stuff
that has a lot more effect on your life than
Pakistan not getting along with India, although I did enjoy
not getting any scam.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Calls over the last couple weeks.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
With all that being said, last night, your public officials,
your lawmakers were up late at the Texas House doing things.
What they were doing, who knows, probably drinking with Dade
Pale and I would assume was certainly part of it.
But let's start off with this. There's a great headline. This,
there's a great headline from the Texas Scorecard. This is
a New York Post worthy headline. You know how I
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love my New York Post articles. Texas Scorecard reports game over.
Texas Senate unanimously moves to eliminate the lottery Commission. I
had wondered if this meant the Texas Lottery is going
to go away. Michael quinn Sullivan of Texas Scorecard dot
Com walk us through it.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Yeah, so you know, the Texas Lottery, just by the way,
a background for the past ten years, we've learned down
the past year, has been run as kind of a
money laundry opera. It appears to have been run as
a money laundering operation for some really bad dudes around
the world where they're allowed, they've been allowed to funnel
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in cash to literally launder it. Where you take it from,
you know, one hundred dollars that you can't spend, wash
it through the system comes out of sixty dollars that
you can spend.
Speaker 6 (19:30):
Right.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
That's how money laundering works, and that what appears to
many lawmakers have been what's going on with the Texas
Lottery because of the structure put in place by Democrat
governor and Richards back in the early nineties when the
lottery was created. So there's been a lot of calls
to just eliminate the lottery from a number of people.
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The Texas Senate voted this week if they're what they're
going to abolish is the Lottery Commission. They're going to
move the scratch off tickets and the numb drawings to
a different agency that already overseas you know, licensing and
other things, hopefully as a way to eliminate those problems.
But they're only giving the lottery as a as a
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as a function of government. They're only giving this licensing
agency two years to fix things. In other word, that
they're just going to abolish it in twenty twenty seven.
So this is kind of as close as you get
to the death penalty to a government agency, and the
Senate is seems only serious about it. They voted thirty
one to nothing. And I think that's what should communicate
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to you, to me, to your listeners, is that this
means the Texas Sendate understands that not only were these
scandals over the past ten years. They're just now coming
to light significance. But there's other things that are coming
down the pike that they know that we don't know,
but that very clearly they want to get ahead of
by getting rid of what has clearly become a very
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corrupt agency of state government.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Wow. Okay, so more things that are dying right now
in Texas political system. You guys have a story today,
hundreds of bills died as the Texas House hit.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Its major deadline last night.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Similarly, another law headline here on your website, Texas Alliance
for Life accused of sabotaging a pro life bill.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
I know Abby Johnson, the pro life activist.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
She is accusing Texas Alliance for Alliance for Life of
pressuring a committee chairman to deny a hearing for legislation
that would treat all abortion related deaths as homicide. I'm
assuming this bill is one of the bills you're talking
about in the other article.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
Right, this bill was not even given a hearing, which
was doctor Abbey Johnson's concern here is that you know
you had this essentsibly pro life group that let's be
very clear text, Alliance for Life presents itself as a
pro life organization, but what it's most known for is
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helping out the Joe Strausses and the Daid Feelings and
the you know, the Dennis Bondings and the crony establishment crowd.
That's what Texas Alliances that they give a pro life
sheen to people who aren't really pro life. And so
Abbie Johnson, who actually at one point was doing a
lot of stuff with Texas Alliance Life, she apparently found
out that these guys weren't good guys. They've been engaged
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in over the years trying to kill various conservative pieces
of legislation, and each time people have kind of shrugged
it off as oh, well, okay, maybe I can kind
of see a little bit of a point there, that
kind of thing. But but Abby Johnson essentially saying no, no, no,
this is a pattern. This is something that is significant
and that pro lifers who you know, who want their
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their charitable contributions going to real pro life causes to
be aware of the fact that Texas Alliance for Life
is not what they pretend to be, that they are
working in lockstep with the with the pro abortion crowd
against pro life reforms. This is this is a you know,
this is always on those difficult things to see someone
who you thought was a pro wife or thought and
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it was on your side, it turns out they weren't.
And it's difficult to do. And Abby Johnson deserves a
lot of credit for being willing to say it.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Boy, it kind of reminds me of Texans for Lawsuit Reform.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
It's not exactly.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
They claim that it's an organization that wants to scale
back government, but that isn't really what they do over there,
is it.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
Yeah, No, it's a very similar thing where you know, sadly,
for a lot of people who get into the political world, Kenny,
they they get into it a lot, almost always for
the right reason, something they believe in, and at some
point they start finding out that's kind of fun to
be invited into the back room where you know, the
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the windows are drawn and no one can see in,
and you're part of the wheeling and the dealing and
the deal making, and that becomes very there's an allure
to that that very attractive, and it sucks people in
in an order. But in order for the unit party
to keep you at the table, to keep inviting you
in that back room, you have to start selling out,
and a lot of people Kenny will make the will
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make the argument, well, you know, I've got to sell
out on these little things so that I can do
big things. But eventually they don't even do the big
things anymore. They just like having a seat at the table.
And that's why I know Texas Scorecard who say, our
job is not to get a seat at the table.
Our job is to get rid of the table, to
knock down those walls, to let everyone see what's happening
in government. And then that upsets the Unit Party. It
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accepts the folks who who like having seats at the table,
the people who sho seats to the table, or our
you know, fellow Texans, thirty million Texans should be the
ones at the table, not these little wheelers and dealers
who have overinflated senses of themselves.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Well, I perfectly explained.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
It never ceases to amaze me how disappointing these Texas
Republicans are, how many of them would just as soon
become Democrats if they thought it would get them elected.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Let's talk about this.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
So last night a lot of bills did die, and
as you explained, that wasn't even that that bill didn't
have a chance, it didn't have a prayer. But hundreds
of bills died as the Texas House had a major
deadline Thursday night. All the lawmakers were up late with
their flasks have filled with whatever they may have been
hanging out in the in the Texas House. And one
thing I could not help but notice here, because I
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live in a conservative neighborhood in a big blue city.
Everybody I talked to, Democrats, conservative, independent, Republicans, whatever it
may be, everybody agrees, how about some property tax relief?
Everybody wanted That's It didn't seem like that happened this
legislative session.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Did I miss it? Michael?
Speaker 4 (25:33):
Oh, well, of course you missed it. Kinney, don't you
know this is the most conservative session ever trademark these
guys come and tell you what an amazing job they did.
Greg Abbott back in February said I want at least
ten billion dollars in property tax relief. The Texas Cent
and the Texas House said, nay, we're not going to
do now. We've got to give handouts to Hollywood and
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other things we're doing. So instead we'll do six billion
dollars of property text with and you will like it. Now,
six billion dollars of property tax relief is in a
lot of ways not going to be something you're actually
going to notice. Six billion sounds like a big number.
It's not as big as ten billion, and it's not
as big as you think it would be in terms
of what it will do to your property taxes. It
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will slow the growth is kind of what it will
end up doing. But many lawmakers aware of the fact
that six billion sounds paltry compared to what Greg Gabbott
asked for in ten billion, and so a lot of
legislators are already have already started saying this. You're going
to be seeing it mailers. You're going to see a
lot of these Republicans touting this that they did fifty
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one that they've done fifty one billion dollars in tax relief.
You only get the fifty one billion dollars in tax
relief if you count everything the legislature has thought about
doing over the last twenty five years. And I'm not
making that up. They're counting things they did, you know,
fifteen plus years ago as tax relief today. It is
absolutely disingenuous, and it's meant to to let you think, oh, well,
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they accomplish something, and to not believe your lying eyes
when you get your property tax bill next next year.
Horribly disingenuous. I think we as voters need to be
calling them out when they try to tell these insane lies.
And this is again why you know, Pursuit of Happiness
radio exists so that people can be informed and have
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the truth when politicians try to tell them lies.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
I mean that you're the only one that's explained. I
can't find a story about this anywhere. And you know,
I'm sure there's if you have enough time, which how
many of us do, to go read these bills, someone
would have found that. But yeah, no one's reported on
that other than you guys. I mean, and that just
not only is our system broken, the media's broken, Michael,
I mean, where could people get truth?
Speaker 3 (27:43):
I wish there was like.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
An email list where people could just sign up and
someone would say, wouldn't that be cool if that existed,
and someone would just tell us, cut out all the
crap and the bs and just explain what actually happened
in Texas politics today, so I don't have to read
the Chronicle or the Tribune or any of that nonsense.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
If only such a thing exists.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Michael Quinnslivan of Texas scorecard dot com.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Look, you've inspired me. So if folks go to our
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com sign up for email lists on Monday, I will
send you something you can read in about a minute
to keep you up to date about what's happening in Texas.
How about that is a good deal. They're kenny Mite
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for free.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
My brother free. You should charge three. You should charge
at least twice as much as zero dollars.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
Hey, look for everyone who puts Kinney in the little
code line.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
It'll be free.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
Have canny in there then me. You know, yeah, you're
at elections. I'm gonna charge you a million dollars for it.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Now, All jokes aside. It is one of my favorite
things I see every morning. These guys get up early.
It's a short, quick, concise email. Go to Texas scorecard
dot com get the intellectual ammunition you need to make
your liberal co workers look like a bunch jerks at
your next office lunch break, Hey, quick break, Brandon Darby
Bright Bart Texas. Right after this, shall remember the story
(29:23):
of El Chapo. El Chapo was the leader of the
Cineloa cartel. I guess he's in prison now. His girlfriend
or wife, whatever she was, was Emma. I think she
was a Hawaiian Tropics supermodel. It really was a fascinating
story and we haven't heard about them in a while.
But apparently there's an update in the El Chopo controversy.
(29:43):
The family of the imprisoned Mexican drug lord is fleeing
to the United States for protection from the government.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
Now there's two ways we can get this news.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
We could ask Breitbart's Brandon Darby from Breitbart Texas, obviously,
or we could watch a quick Mexican soap opera tell
novella next time, El Chapel, Oh no.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
El Chapel, What are we going to do?
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Is coming for you? And today is our wedding day.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Jampo, You're not worrying Meama, for I am El Chapo,
the leader of all of the Mexican cartel.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Oh, El Chapel.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
You have been watching El Chapel.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
That wasn't very helpful, That didn't explain it. Hang on,
let's get Brandon Derby.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Hold on, say I'll fax from Texas Justice to me
lock it and now live from the border. It's right.
Speaker 6 (30:51):
Bart's Brandon Darby with the Cartel chronicles only on KPRC radio.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
She is the Derby who would be Brandon calling right
now from an undisclosed location. Brandon, We're going to protect
L Chappo's family. What exactly happened?
Speaker 5 (31:08):
Well, first off, you know, a lot of the news
is saying if they turned themselves in, they were apprehended
by the SBF.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Not the case.
Speaker 5 (31:16):
And what's happening is these are people, most of whom
are probably, if not all of whom are not involved.
Some of them are kids who are related to El Chappo,
and they're probably going to get murdered by Cartel Jalisco
other factions of the former Cina Loa cartel. They're going
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to get murdered, and so they're coming to the US
for asylum. They probably have a lot of information some
of them do that is probably very beneficial to two
US authorities. And not only that, but if you look
at recent pre deals and willingness to plead guilty and
(31:57):
change from not guilty to guilty or some of his family,
one of his family members. It might be part of
that deal too, you know, that is his family who's
going to get murdered otherwise gets to come to the
US for asylum if he pleads guilty and agrees to
help US authorities. We don't know all the details yet,
but probably something like that.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Okay, So Griselda is the ex wife, Emma is the
current wife. Emma's also in prison. Now, isn't she in
trouble too?
Speaker 3 (32:24):
Or am I mistaken about that one of them is?
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Yoh yeah, Okay, So Griselda is the one who's going
to try to help us out. She's the one who
we're protecting Joe. What do you think does anything come
from this? I mean, we bring him to the United States.
Do they have information that would help us stop anybody?
Or do you think this is more about optics?
Speaker 5 (32:43):
They probably have information, but it was probably more the
most likely scenario we're operating in what's likely here right
What my judgment is the most likely scenario is that
other members who are currently in custody have agreed, specifically
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on top of Sun has agreed to plete guilty and
help us authorities in exchange for the safety of his family,
which is something that happens all the time in Mexico.
You know, there's a lot of these things I see
like this, for instance, and I see some of the
more hardliners on immigration saying washing a vegat asylum. Well,
that's because they don't understand how stuff works. They should
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they should get asylum if it was part of a
deal that helps us destroy the Sinaloa cartel, and if
they're not rotten people and not going to expose American
citizens to to you know, to to risk or or danger.
The same thing kind of is going on right now.
Everyone's outrage that Texas isn't having the DPS act as
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immigration officers, right, you know, everyone's outrage. But if you
really think about it, I mean, the federal government owes
us billions of dollars in billions upon billions of dollars
because we've been doing their job as the state of
Texas for years. Have they paid us that money yet? No?
(34:09):
What is it like twenty five billion we've asked for something,
they haven't paid us that money. You know, So before
we go and have you know, Texas VPS doing the
federal government's job for him? Right, Why why don't they
go ahead and pay back what we've already spent of
our tax payers dollars doing their job, you know what
I mean. So there's other ways of looking at stuff,
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and a lot of times the outrage machine just lacks
nuance and lacks lacks details quite frankly.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Okay, all right, let's talk about this. Meanwhile, in New Mexico.
Speaker 5 (34:44):
That was loaded, wasn't it?
Speaker 3 (34:45):
That was a loaded statement? But yes, yes, no, I
thought you answered.
Speaker 5 (34:49):
It, I mean answered yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
I mean I think you're being honest.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
I appreciate that US Chief Magistrate Judge Gregory Warmouth of
New Mexico has dismissed misdemeanor trespassing charges against a one
hundred illegal aliens who have been arrested for crossing into
a newly designated national defense area in New Mexico. This
wasn't I don't see anyone reporting on this, but you guys,
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a federal judge dropping charges against hundreds of aliens for
trespassing in the New Mexico military zone.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
What even happened over there?
Speaker 5 (35:24):
Well, what's going on is that there are liberal federal
judges who don't like what Trump does and they are
constantly trying to undermine everything he's doing to secure the border.
I'd find that concerning, Right, I didn't vote for that judge.
They go like, that's that's happening across the board. It's
not just with that. There's doubtless cases of federal judge
(35:46):
stepping in saying Trump can't do this, Trump can't do that,
Trump can't do this. But again, if it's kind of
like a frog in a in the in the pot
of water, if you slowly turned up the heat, the
frog doesn't even know. We have gone so far from
you know, prior to this, this current Trump administration, we
had gotten so far from okay and from sanity when
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it comes to our border. We had just accepted that
millions of people per year were coming into our country.
We had just accepted that cartels were carving up our
territory within our country. We had accepted that they were
pumping in, you know, enough fentomil to kill millions of
Americans per year. We had accepted a lot of things
(36:33):
that that, you know, some people still think it's fine.
I mean, you know what, I went to El Paso
and I spoke with someone in leadership of their police
department at one point, and the guy was like, yeah,
the cartels are here, they're there, but they leave most
people alone. It's just why rock the boat. And it
was like what the hell, man, you know, like, what
(36:56):
in the hell are you talking about? That that's okay
with you, that's not okay with needs? Right, But we
see this in liberal cities all the time. Right when
you have a large congregation of liberals. There's like, go
to San Antonio. You can barely go to San Antonio
and not have your truck broken into. If you have
an F two fifty or more, it's going to get
(37:17):
stolen because cartels want it, and they just accept it.
When you know, two trips of mine back to back,
I had my truck broken into, two different trucks actually
broken into in San Antonio and the police were like, okay, well,
thanks for filing the report. And I was like, no,
what do you mean filing the report? You're not going
to send someone out and fingerprint my car and take
this seriously And they're like, we can, we can dispatch
(37:39):
someone if if you want us to. But but what
but nothing's going to happen because you just accept it.
They just accept petty crime. They accept homeless people defecating
in their doorways and living in their their front yard.
They accept, I mean, just craziness across the board. So
so you know what's going on is that there are
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a bunch of liberals who accept this, and apparently some
of them are judges, and they're just any anything that
Trump does or anyone does to better secure our border
and to make it where millions upon millions of people
cannot just come here like anything we do. They're going
to object and throw a rich in the system anyway
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they can.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
Yeah, Okay, well I think you explained that perfectly, ma.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
Man.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
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Speaker 3 (00:34):
Hi, I'm Kenny Webster. Thanks for turning on that radio.
I have a lot in store for you this afternoon.
It's Friday. It's good to be here with you, guys,
So thanks for turning us on. Like a lot of you.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
I want to know what the hell happened last night
in Austin, Texas. A legislative session is reaching peak boiling point,
as our lawmakers were task last night with a deadline
to get their bills from committees to the floor of
the House so they could vote them.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
So there's a lot happening.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
And Michael Quinnsullivan from Texas squarecard dot Com will be here.
We're going to talk about that. Brandon Darby's going to
be here from Breitbart Texas. We're going to go down
to the border We're going to talk about this thing
with Bruce Springsteen going all the way to England to
tell people how much America sucks and apparently they did
not agree with him. Now, before we get to any
of that, another thing I'm going to talk to Michael
(01:23):
quinn Sullivan about is this the Secret Service is investigating.
After ex FBI director James Comy posted an Instagram photo
of seashells arranged to show the numbers eighty six forty seven,
which is a message White House officials swiftly condemned. They
said it's an attempt to put a hit on our
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forty seventh President Donald Trump. Comy deleted the post because
of the online backlash from government officials and lawmakers and
even President Trump's son. Now, as you know, Trump has
faced multiple assassination attempts in the past year, one of
which resulted in him being shot and a bystander being killed. Well,
if all you want, but that's pretty serious. Carol Markowicks
(02:06):
at New York Post recently asked a question I'd love
to know the answer. How much longer will Democrats accept
their supporters escalating calls for violence. It's a pretty good question,
you know. The weekend hands off protests were wholly expected,
he said. President Trump made everybody angry, and now people
are out protesting him. During his first term, the pink
(02:28):
hat protesters hit the streets days after his inauguration, actually
the day of his inauguration. Now, the fact that we
didn't see any of them until April, that was pretty
incredible this year, right as a lot of you know,
in New York, a man dressed up as Luigi of
Super Mario Brothers to honor Luigi Mangione, the alleged murderer
(02:48):
of the healthcare executive Brian Thompson. He carried a sign
calling for Trump to be deposed that is violently overthrown.
In Holland, Michigan, and Redmon, Oregon and elsewhere, grinning marchers
wore shirts and carried placers emblazoned with the numbers eighty
six forty seven, pairing the old slang term for murder
(03:09):
with a forty seven for Trump. One of the eighty
six to forty seven protesters stood right alongside Minnesota Attorney
General Keith Ellison in Minnesota, hands off or heads Off
read a message on a life size guillotine paraded about.
In Denver, Wow isn't that exactly what you guys accused
the January sixth protesters of doing, and now you're doing
(03:30):
it all over the country. Protesters vandalizing ICE and DHS
vehicles in Washington, DC, defacing and puncturing their tires. Weeks
of viral videos of people king and graffeeding and graffitiing
and burning Teslas had permeated on social media. I know
you've all seen this stuff. Last month, a man was
(03:53):
arrested in Portland after he used a laser to attempt
to blind a Tesla employee. A leftist protest her blocked
traffic at a rally in Lafayette, Indiana, headbutted a driver,
bloodied the driver's nose. Just one more leftist agitator out there.
A couple weeks back, conservative students hosted a speaker at
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the University of California Davis. They were targeted by masked
assailants who tore up literature and wrecked tents and tables.
That same day, in Harlem, an angry leftist punched a
pro life activist in the face while she was conducting
a live interview. She was left bloodied she needed stitches.
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There's a new report from the Network Contagian Research Institute,
and it found that more than half of left leaning
Americans say political violence is acceptable. Fifty five percent of
them see some justification for assassinating Trump. More than half guys.
It feels like a powder keg. Right now, violence is excused.
(04:57):
It's celebrated political memes and posts increasingly displaying savage imagery
and language. Facebook repeatedly showing me far left commentary that
veers into violent fantasies. I see this content on social
media all the time. You can report it, but apparently
it's not a violation of the terms of service. I
(05:21):
recently saw a photoshopped image of Malania Trump cozying up
to Luigi Mangioni. The caption rat I was wondering if
you could do me a little favor. Fantasizing about killing
Trump apparently is perfectly acceptable on a social media platform
like Facebook, where they once banned people for questioning whether
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a mask was effective against COVID. There's a group called
Guillotines for a Better America. It's a Facebook group. I
see it all the time in my newsfeed. I don't
know why I didn't ask to look at it. Here's
a recent post pictures our tuned children beating a pinata.
The caption says, quote, instead of fruitlessly waiting for wealth
(06:05):
to trickle down, beat the rich with blunt instruments until
the gold flows end quote. We've been fed multiple versions
of a purported still from The Simpsons showing a blood
covered Trump and a casket. The date reads April twenty
twenty five. They've changed that meme more than once to
update it. But this is supposedly funny. That's humor, according
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to them, satire. It's not hysterical to me. But the
online aggression is beginning to spill off the Internet into
the real world. It feels dangerous, much like a run
up to the mostly peaceful riots of the summer of
twenty twenty by the way, that left dozens of people dead.
We watch cities burn, with Democrats and their media cheerleaders
(06:52):
trying to excuse away the horror. Mostly peaceful. Now, Democrat
politicians have gotten very quiet. They've been agitating their base
for months. Now the base is being real violent. Representative
Lamonica mc ivor, a Democrat from New Jersey, said, quote,
we are at war. She called Trump's hostile takeover of
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the government something that needed to be stopped. Senator Chris
Van Holland, the Democrat from Maryland, said, we have to
fight in the streets now the fuse is lit. The
elected firebrands, all these lawmakers stoking the flames of violence,
they suddenly have nothing to say. Voters chose Trump very recently,
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very specifically to shake up Washington, DC.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Guys.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
It's okay to protest. You could protest as loud and
proud as you want. That's part of America's political legacy.
But assassination culture, as the lead author of NCRI report calls,
the new spike in violent rhetoric, is not okay. Democrats
don't get a pass on it.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
This time.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
They set this ball. They need to own it. Their
silence is now encouragement. They need to be the ones
to stop it. Time to take responsibility. Lower the temperature,
or this country is gonna get a lot more violent
before it's gonna get better.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
If you can hear my voice, you're still above ground, alive.
In listening to Kinny Webster on KPRC nine point fifty plus,
you don't smell like a dead person.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
There's some things I will never understand.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
I'll never understand Kale chips, Toyota prius is. I don't
understand why people drink soy milk. I do not understand
the appeal of Bruce Springsteen. Just garbage music. It's not good.
This is an objectively bad song about a child sex predator.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Goodly, this is really creepy. I got and weirdly.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
You know how lot awkward songs start with an awkward
verse and then it goes into a catchy chorus.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
This is the chorus. It's the chorus. It's time in
a good song.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Bruce Springsteen was in Manchester yesterday telling everybody how horrible
America is, how much he hates America. He was saying
this to a British audience yesterday in Manchester, England. They
have two soccer teams there for some reason. That's besides
the point. But pulling data just came out. It reveals
only five percent of people in England even agree with
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the immigration policies. Ninety five percent of British people are
against the mass immigration of illegal immigrants and refugees and
third world crap to their country. That's what's going on
in England right now. These people are very detached from reality.
I'll give you another great example. Yesterday, James Comey, former
head of the FBI, hops onto Instagram. Instagram the social
(09:53):
media platform that's popular with like booty models, twerking in
a thong. I don't know why he chose that as
the medium, but James Comy decided to post pictures of
pebbles in the sand that say eighty six forty seven.
Eighty six forty seven is the slang term that's being
used by activists on the Internet to describe how they
(10:15):
want someone to try to kill Donald Trump again. Now
maybe he'd make some argument, no, I just might remove
him from office, but eighty six implies get rid of someone.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
It's pretty vividly.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
I mean, it's very transparently a veiled threat of violence.
At least it seems that way to me. I want
to talk about what's going on right now in Austin, Texas,
but before we get to any of that, I'd love
to get Michael quinn Sullivan of Texas Scorecard to react
to this news story. If only I knew how to
get a hold of one of the most dangerous men
in the Texas political media circle, Michael Quinn Sullivant, hang on,
(10:46):
I'm going.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
To do do do Do Do Do Do Do Do
Do Do Do do do Michael, can you hear me?
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Good morning, Kenny Webster. I'm busily arranging shells cryptic secret
messages on a beach right now, so you know, give
me one more second, I'm going to threaten the life
of someone and take a picture and post it an
Instagram because I'm as stupid as the former director of
the FBI.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
What a complete more on.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
I mean, since since at least the nineteen twenties, the
phrase to eighty six something or someone meant to throw
it out, to kill it, to discard it. This is
language that every cop, This is language that every gang banger.
This is language that almost every restaurant tour in New
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York City knows to.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Eighty six something.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
And James Comy takes to Instagram making a clear threat
against the life of the President of the United States,
and we're supposed to life. Had to remember Donald he
survived three assassination attempts last year, right, And here's James
Comy making a joke and not pretending like, oh, didn't
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know what that meant. He absolutely you know, if you
on your radio show had made even the slightest kind
of reference like that while James Comy was the director
of the FBI, the Secret Service, the FBI, the FDA,
the you know whoever else would be knocking down your
door within seconds and hauling you off rightly. So, by
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the way, you don't threaten the life of the President
of the United States, or honestly, should there a life
of anyone. James Comy your trash man.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
It's pretty obvious there's two sets of roles here, right,
because more than once on social media, I've seen people
post things on our public page that say like, oh,
I wish someone would kill Donald Trump, and we've reported
them for it, and then Facebook Meta came back and said, oh,
that's not a violation. But I got into trouble for
posting a photo a meme of a you know, a
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car engine that made some joke about a souped up trainee.
And it's like, well, wait a second, so violence look vivid,
attempt said encouraging violence are not violations of the Meta
terms of service. But making a joke about a transgender
person is what what even is the standard anymore?
Speaker 4 (13:11):
The standard seems to be what offends the sensibility of
the radical left and and it and and it is
kind of like saying, you know, you know what what
is the you know what is the shape of the
ocean because it's constantly changing, right.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
You know, the waves are always moving, they're always different,
always unique.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
And you know, the the left exists as a perpetually
offended offense machine, right, So that that's what you get
in trouble, is not keeping up like I would know.
I would say to you, it's really exhausting. I would
imagine to be a Lefty. You know, all the words
they have to remember and the words they have to forget,
and the thing I mean, it's just insane when you're
(13:51):
governed by you know, you know what is going to
offend the mentally ill person down the street, and that's
what you that's what you shape your your life round.
It's got to be really exhausting. On the other hand,
you know, when you're someone like us and says, hey,
the rule of law is important and you shouldn't threaten
to kill people, that's a pretty easy standard.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Boy, I would think so too. You know what this
all reminded me of.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
I remember in the twenty sixteen election cycle, James Comy
did an investigation into Hillary Clinton in her private email server,
which I think for those that don't remember so long ago,
it was famously a private email service she used while
she was at the State Department that she kept in
the bathroom of an office building, a very strange place
to have something like that. And at the time, James
(14:34):
Comy famously did this press conference where he came out
and he read a laundry list of all the crimes
Hillary Clinton had committed, and then at the end of
it he said, but we're not going to press charges.
We are going to omit the uh. There won't be
any actual justice being served here because we don't have
any proof that Hillary Clinton knew she was breaking the law.
(14:55):
Fast forward to this year, right, and this past year,
Joe Biden got into trouble for something very similar, classified
documents sprinkled all over the country in his offices at
University of Delaware and in his private home, his beach house.
The same exact crime his doj rated mar A Lago
over right, was having classified confidential documents that weren't being
(15:18):
stored at the Record's archive with the Smithsonian or wherever
they were supposed to be. And the person that conducted
the investigation, said Robert Herr, I believe.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
His name was.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
We can't prosecute Joe Biden. His brain is too broken.
Both of those incidents made me laugh and infuriated me
a little. But looking back on it, suggesting that Hillary
Clinton didn't know she was breaking a law and suggesting
Joe Biden didn't know he was breaking a law, I
find one of those things to be a little more
believable than the other one, you know what I mean, Michael.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
Yeah, Look, Joe Biden today is not certain if he
is a shoe or if he's a seagull. So I
do kind of understand Joe Biden not knowing if something's
legal or not. On the other hand, look, let's just
be clear here, neither Joe Biden, you know, schlept those
boxes of classified material from the White House to his
(16:09):
garage and Delaware in about the same way that Hillary
Clinton set up an email server in a bathroom, right. Uh.
The the people who knew that they were setting up
Hillary Clinton's email server knew it was illegal, just like
the guys who carried the boxes that had you know,
top secret tape sealed on them and storing them next
(16:30):
to his his convertible in the garage, you know, I mean,
I'm sorry. It baffles belief that we know that we
allow these guys, but we do allow it because again,
like we said, there's a different standard.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Yeah, you're not kidding about that. Just remarkable, you know what, Michael,
There's so much going on right now in Austin, Texas.
Last night was supposed to be the deadline for some
of these committees to move the bills from the their
you know, committees to the floor. And if it's okay
with you, can we break Can we break our in
this segment right now so we can have more time
in the next segment for me to ask you about that.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Can you hang and do another one with us?
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Sure, Michael Quinnsullivan here right now, Texas scorecard dot Com.
As crazy as this story is, I what we're about
to talk about coming up in the next segment I
think is going to be some of the best commentary
you're going to hear about how this legislative session in Austin,
Texas is wrapping up right now. Nobody is more aware
of what is going on in the Texas State capital
than the people at Texas Scorecard dot com warm with
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Michael Quinnsullivan right after that.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
That's a lot more. Look you just such a pie
hole and keep working.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Back to the pursuit of happiness. Radios.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
It's a happiness radio.
Speaker 6 (17:39):
Sellar razing lips eya.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Remember not all who wander are lost. Some are just
in the air circling the Newark Airport. It's a wild week,
isn't it. So much crazy stuff going on this week?
And with everything happening in Washington, DC, everything happening in
the Mideast with President Trump, everything happening at the border,
multiple wars happening India, Pakistan, Ukraine, Russia, Israel, Palestine, it
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would be pretty easy for some people to ignore the
fact that there's a legislative session that is at peak
boiling point in Austin, Texas right now. This is stuff
that has a lot more effect on your life than
Pakistan not getting along with India, although I did enjoy
not getting any scam.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Calls over the last couple weeks.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
With all that being said, last night, your public officials,
your lawmakers were up late at the Texas House doing things.
What they were doing, who knows, probably drinking with Dade
Pale and I would assume was certainly part of it.
But let's start off with this. There's a great headline. This,
there's a great headline from the Texas Scorecard. This is
a New York Post worthy headline. You know how I
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love my New York Post articles. Texas Scorecard reports game over.
Texas Senate unanimously moves to eliminate the lottery Commission. I
had wondered if this meant the Texas Lottery is going
to go away. Michael quinn Sullivan of Texas Scorecard dot
Com walk us through it.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Yeah, so you know, the Texas Lottery, just by the way,
a background for the past ten years, we've learned down
the past year, has been run as kind of a
money laundry opera. It appears to have been run as
a money laundering operation for some really bad dudes around
the world where they're allowed, they've been allowed to funnel
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in cash to literally launder it. Where you take it from,
you know, one hundred dollars that you can't spend, wash
it through the system comes out of sixty dollars that
you can spend.
Speaker 6 (19:30):
Right.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
That's how money laundering works, and that what appears to
many lawmakers have been what's going on with the Texas
Lottery because of the structure put in place by Democrat
governor and Richards back in the early nineties when the
lottery was created. So there's been a lot of calls
to just eliminate the lottery from a number of people.
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The Texas Senate voted this week if they're what they're
going to abolish is the Lottery Commission. They're going to
move the scratch off tickets and the numb drawings to
a different agency that already overseas you know, licensing and
other things, hopefully as a way to eliminate those problems.
But they're only giving the lottery as a as a
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as a function of government. They're only giving this licensing
agency two years to fix things. In other word, that
they're just going to abolish it in twenty twenty seven.
So this is kind of as close as you get
to the death penalty to a government agency, and the
Senate is seems only serious about it. They voted thirty
one to nothing. And I think that's what should communicate
(20:34):
to you, to me, to your listeners, is that this
means the Texas Sendate understands that not only were these
scandals over the past ten years. They're just now coming
to light significance. But there's other things that are coming
down the pike that they know that we don't know,
but that very clearly they want to get ahead of
by getting rid of what has clearly become a very
(20:57):
corrupt agency of state government.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Wow. Okay, so more things that are dying right now
in Texas political system. You guys have a story today,
hundreds of bills died as the Texas House hit.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Its major deadline last night.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Similarly, another law headline here on your website, Texas Alliance
for Life accused of sabotaging a pro life bill.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
I know Abby Johnson, the pro life activist.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
She is accusing Texas Alliance for Alliance for Life of
pressuring a committee chairman to deny a hearing for legislation
that would treat all abortion related deaths as homicide. I'm
assuming this bill is one of the bills you're talking
about in the other article.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
Right, this bill was not even given a hearing, which
was doctor Abbey Johnson's concern here is that you know
you had this essentsibly pro life group that let's be
very clear text, Alliance for Life presents itself as a
pro life organization, but what it's most known for is
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helping out the Joe Strausses and the Daid Feelings and
the you know, the Dennis Bondings and the crony establishment crowd.
That's what Texas Alliances that they give a pro life
sheen to people who aren't really pro life. And so
Abbie Johnson, who actually at one point was doing a
lot of stuff with Texas Alliance Life, she apparently found
out that these guys weren't good guys. They've been engaged
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in over the years trying to kill various conservative pieces
of legislation, and each time people have kind of shrugged
it off as oh, well, okay, maybe I can kind
of see a little bit of a point there, that
kind of thing. But but Abby Johnson essentially saying no, no, no,
this is a pattern. This is something that is significant
and that pro lifers who you know, who want their
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their charitable contributions going to real pro life causes to
be aware of the fact that Texas Alliance for Life
is not what they pretend to be, that they are
working in lockstep with the with the pro abortion crowd
against pro life reforms. This is this is a you know,
this is always on those difficult things to see someone
who you thought was a pro wife or thought and
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it was on your side, it turns out they weren't.
And it's difficult to do. And Abby Johnson deserves a
lot of credit for being willing to say it.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Boy, it kind of reminds me of Texans for Lawsuit Reform.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
It's not exactly.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
They claim that it's an organization that wants to scale
back government, but that isn't really what they do over there,
is it.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
Yeah, No, it's a very similar thing where you know, sadly,
for a lot of people who get into the political world, Kenny,
they they get into it a lot, almost always for
the right reason, something they believe in, and at some
point they start finding out that's kind of fun to
be invited into the back room where you know, the
(23:43):
the windows are drawn and no one can see in,
and you're part of the wheeling and the dealing and
the deal making, and that becomes very there's an allure
to that that very attractive, and it sucks people in
in an order. But in order for the unit party
to keep you at the table, to keep inviting you
in that back room, you have to start selling out,
and a lot of people Kenny will make the will
(24:05):
make the argument, well, you know, I've got to sell
out on these little things so that I can do
big things. But eventually they don't even do the big
things anymore. They just like having a seat at the table.
And that's why I know Texas Scorecard who say, our
job is not to get a seat at the table.
Our job is to get rid of the table, to
knock down those walls, to let everyone see what's happening
in government. And then that upsets the Unit Party. It
(24:28):
accepts the folks who who like having seats at the table,
the people who sho seats to the table, or our
you know, fellow Texans, thirty million Texans should be the
ones at the table, not these little wheelers and dealers
who have overinflated senses of themselves.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Well, I perfectly explained.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
It never ceases to amaze me how disappointing these Texas
Republicans are, how many of them would just as soon
become Democrats if they thought it would get them elected.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Let's talk about this.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
So last night a lot of bills did die, and
as you explained, that wasn't even that that bill didn't
have a chance, it didn't have a prayer. But hundreds
of bills died as the Texas House had a major
deadline Thursday night. All the lawmakers were up late with
their flasks have filled with whatever they may have been
hanging out in the in the Texas House. And one
thing I could not help but notice here, because I
(25:15):
live in a conservative neighborhood in a big blue city.
Everybody I talked to, Democrats, conservative, independent, Republicans, whatever it
may be, everybody agrees, how about some property tax relief?
Everybody wanted That's It didn't seem like that happened this
legislative session.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Did I miss it? Michael?
Speaker 4 (25:33):
Oh, well, of course you missed it. Kinney, don't you
know this is the most conservative session ever trademark these
guys come and tell you what an amazing job they did.
Greg Abbott back in February said I want at least
ten billion dollars in property tax relief. The Texas Cent
and the Texas House said, nay, we're not going to
do now. We've got to give handouts to Hollywood and
(25:55):
other things we're doing. So instead we'll do six billion
dollars of property text with and you will like it. Now,
six billion dollars of property tax relief is in a
lot of ways not going to be something you're actually
going to notice. Six billion sounds like a big number.
It's not as big as ten billion, and it's not
as big as you think it would be in terms
of what it will do to your property taxes. It
(26:15):
will slow the growth is kind of what it will
end up doing. But many lawmakers aware of the fact
that six billion sounds paltry compared to what Greg Gabbott
asked for in ten billion, and so a lot of
legislators are already have already started saying this. You're going
to be seeing it mailers. You're going to see a
lot of these Republicans touting this that they did fifty
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one that they've done fifty one billion dollars in tax relief.
You only get the fifty one billion dollars in tax
relief if you count everything the legislature has thought about
doing over the last twenty five years. And I'm not
making that up. They're counting things they did, you know,
fifteen plus years ago as tax relief today. It is
absolutely disingenuous, and it's meant to to let you think, oh, well,
(27:01):
they accomplish something, and to not believe your lying eyes
when you get your property tax bill next next year.
Horribly disingenuous. I think we as voters need to be
calling them out when they try to tell these insane lies.
And this is again why you know, Pursuit of Happiness
radio exists so that people can be informed and have
(27:21):
the truth when politicians try to tell them lies.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
I mean that you're the only one that's explained. I
can't find a story about this anywhere. And you know,
I'm sure there's if you have enough time, which how
many of us do, to go read these bills, someone
would have found that. But yeah, no one's reported on
that other than you guys. I mean, and that just
not only is our system broken, the media's broken, Michael,
I mean, where could people get truth?
Speaker 3 (27:43):
I wish there was like.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
An email list where people could just sign up and
someone would say, wouldn't that be cool if that existed,
and someone would just tell us, cut out all the
crap and the bs and just explain what actually happened
in Texas politics today, so I don't have to read
the Chronicle or the Tribune or any of that nonsense.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
If only such a thing exists.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Michael Quinnslivan of Texas scorecard dot com.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Look, you've inspired me. So if folks go to our
website and sign up on Monday morning, I will try
to throw together something you can read in about a
minute about Texas. So if you go to texascorecard dot
com sign up for email lists on Monday, I will
send you something you can read in about a minute
to keep you up to date about what's happening in Texas.
How about that is a good deal. They're kenny Mite
(28:27):
for free.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
My brother free. You should charge three. You should charge
at least twice as much as zero dollars.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
Hey, look for everyone who puts Kinney in the little
code line.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
It'll be free.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
Have canny in there then me. You know, yeah, you're
at elections. I'm gonna charge you a million dollars for it.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Now, All jokes aside. It is one of my favorite
things I see every morning. These guys get up early.
It's a short, quick, concise email. Go to Texas scorecard
dot com get the intellectual ammunition you need to make
your liberal co workers look like a bunch jerks at
your next office lunch break, Hey, quick break, Brandon Darby
Bright Bart Texas. Right after this, shall remember the story
(29:23):
of El Chapo. El Chapo was the leader of the
Cineloa cartel. I guess he's in prison now. His girlfriend
or wife, whatever she was, was Emma. I think she
was a Hawaiian Tropics supermodel. It really was a fascinating
story and we haven't heard about them in a while.
But apparently there's an update in the El Chopo controversy.
(29:43):
The family of the imprisoned Mexican drug lord is fleeing
to the United States for protection from the government.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
Now there's two ways we can get this news.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
We could ask Breitbart's Brandon Darby from Breitbart Texas, obviously,
or we could watch a quick Mexican soap opera tell
novella next time, El Chapel, Oh no.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
El Chapel, What are we going to do?
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Is coming for you? And today is our wedding day.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Jampo, You're not worrying Meama, for I am El Chapo,
the leader of all of the Mexican cartel.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Oh, El Chapel.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
You have been watching El Chapel.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
That wasn't very helpful, That didn't explain it. Hang on,
let's get Brandon Derby.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Hold on, say I'll fax from Texas Justice to me
lock it and now live from the border. It's right.
Speaker 6 (30:51):
Bart's Brandon Darby with the Cartel chronicles only on KPRC radio.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
She is the Derby who would be Brandon calling right
now from an undisclosed location. Brandon, We're going to protect
L Chappo's family. What exactly happened?
Speaker 5 (31:08):
Well, first off, you know, a lot of the news
is saying if they turned themselves in, they were apprehended
by the SBF.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Not the case.
Speaker 5 (31:16):
And what's happening is these are people, most of whom
are probably, if not all of whom are not involved.
Some of them are kids who are related to El Chappo,
and they're probably going to get murdered by Cartel Jalisco
other factions of the former Cina Loa cartel. They're going
(31:36):
to get murdered, and so they're coming to the US
for asylum. They probably have a lot of information some
of them do that is probably very beneficial to two
US authorities. And not only that, but if you look
at recent pre deals and willingness to plead guilty and
(31:57):
change from not guilty to guilty or some of his family,
one of his family members. It might be part of
that deal too, you know, that is his family who's
going to get murdered otherwise gets to come to the
US for asylum if he pleads guilty and agrees to
help US authorities. We don't know all the details yet,
but probably something like that.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Okay, So Griselda is the ex wife, Emma is the
current wife. Emma's also in prison. Now, isn't she in
trouble too?
Speaker 3 (32:24):
Or am I mistaken about that one of them is?
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Yoh yeah, Okay, So Griselda is the one who's going
to try to help us out. She's the one who
we're protecting Joe. What do you think does anything come
from this? I mean, we bring him to the United States.
Do they have information that would help us stop anybody?
Or do you think this is more about optics?
Speaker 5 (32:43):
They probably have information, but it was probably more the
most likely scenario we're operating in what's likely here right
What my judgment is the most likely scenario is that
other members who are currently in custody have agreed, specifically
(33:03):
on top of Sun has agreed to plete guilty and
help us authorities in exchange for the safety of his family,
which is something that happens all the time in Mexico.
You know, there's a lot of these things I see
like this, for instance, and I see some of the
more hardliners on immigration saying washing a vegat asylum. Well,
that's because they don't understand how stuff works. They should
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they should get asylum if it was part of a
deal that helps us destroy the Sinaloa cartel, and if
they're not rotten people and not going to expose American
citizens to to you know, to to risk or or danger.
The same thing kind of is going on right now.
Everyone's outrage that Texas isn't having the DPS act as
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immigration officers, right, you know, everyone's outrage. But if you
really think about it, I mean, the federal government owes
us billions of dollars in billions upon billions of dollars
because we've been doing their job as the state of
Texas for years. Have they paid us that money yet? No?
(34:09):
What is it like twenty five billion we've asked for something,
they haven't paid us that money. You know, So before
we go and have you know, Texas VPS doing the
federal government's job for him? Right, Why why don't they
go ahead and pay back what we've already spent of
our tax payers dollars doing their job, you know what
I mean. So there's other ways of looking at stuff,
(34:32):
and a lot of times the outrage machine just lacks
nuance and lacks lacks details quite frankly.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Okay, all right, let's talk about this. Meanwhile, in New Mexico.
Speaker 5 (34:44):
That was loaded, wasn't it?
Speaker 3 (34:45):
That was a loaded statement? But yes, yes, no, I
thought you answered.
Speaker 5 (34:49):
It, I mean answered yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
I mean I think you're being honest.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
I appreciate that US Chief Magistrate Judge Gregory Warmouth of
New Mexico has dismissed misdemeanor trespassing charges against a one
hundred illegal aliens who have been arrested for crossing into
a newly designated national defense area in New Mexico. This
wasn't I don't see anyone reporting on this, but you guys,
(35:13):
a federal judge dropping charges against hundreds of aliens for
trespassing in the New Mexico military zone.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
What even happened over there?
Speaker 5 (35:24):
Well, what's going on is that there are liberal federal
judges who don't like what Trump does and they are
constantly trying to undermine everything he's doing to secure the border.
I'd find that concerning, Right, I didn't vote for that judge.
They go like, that's that's happening across the board. It's
not just with that. There's doubtless cases of federal judge
(35:46):
stepping in saying Trump can't do this, Trump can't do that,
Trump can't do this. But again, if it's kind of
like a frog in a in the in the pot
of water, if you slowly turned up the heat, the
frog doesn't even know. We have gone so far from
you know, prior to this, this current Trump administration, we
had gotten so far from okay and from sanity when
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it comes to our border. We had just accepted that
millions of people per year were coming into our country.
We had just accepted that cartels were carving up our
territory within our country. We had accepted that they were
pumping in, you know, enough fentomil to kill millions of
Americans per year. We had accepted a lot of things
(36:33):
that that, you know, some people still think it's fine.
I mean, you know what, I went to El Paso
and I spoke with someone in leadership of their police
department at one point, and the guy was like, yeah,
the cartels are here, they're there, but they leave most
people alone. It's just why rock the boat. And it
was like what the hell, man, you know, like, what
(36:56):
in the hell are you talking about? That that's okay
with you, that's not okay with needs? Right, But we
see this in liberal cities all the time. Right when
you have a large congregation of liberals. There's like, go
to San Antonio. You can barely go to San Antonio
and not have your truck broken into. If you have
an F two fifty or more, it's going to get
(37:17):
stolen because cartels want it, and they just accept it.
When you know, two trips of mine back to back,
I had my truck broken into, two different trucks actually
broken into in San Antonio and the police were like, okay, well,
thanks for filing the report. And I was like, no,
what do you mean filing the report? You're not going
to send someone out and fingerprint my car and take
this seriously And they're like, we can, we can dispatch
(37:39):
someone if if you want us to. But but what
but nothing's going to happen because you just accept it.
They just accept petty crime. They accept homeless people defecating
in their doorways and living in their their front yard.
They accept, I mean, just craziness across the board. So
so you know what's going on is that there are
(38:01):
a bunch of liberals who accept this, and apparently some
of them are judges, and they're just any anything that
Trump does or anyone does to better secure our border
and to make it where millions upon millions of people
cannot just come here like anything we do. They're going
to object and throw a rich in the system anyway
(38:23):
they can.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
Yeah, Okay, well I think you explained that perfectly, ma.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
Man.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
His name is Brandon Darby. Breitbart Texas is the website.
Follow him on act. You'll be glad you did. To
the rest of you, I love you all. Quick reminder
to those of you that listen online in places like
Louisiana and Jackson, we are going to be in you
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(38:48):
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