August 5, 2025 • 42 mins
This podcast edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness features author Austin Petersen, plus reporters Brandon Waltens and Ethan Buchanan. ( @KennethRWebster )
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Giganic government sucks. Suit of happiness. Radio is DeLux. Liberty
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libity rise at food.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Four hundred million metric tons of plastic are produced annually
every year. That is a lot, you guys. I guess
I didn't have to say annually every year?
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Could I? I started that statement.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
I feel like I was being a little redundant because
I just said the same thing twice. I hate being
I hate doing that. I hate doing that. I hate
doing that sounding redundant, sounding redundant. Okay, I'll cut it out.
Over four hundred million metric tons of plastic are produced annually.
You know about half of that probably goes into the
faces of Chris Jenner and her daughters. I'm just guessing, Hi, everybody,
I'm Kenny Webster, so much for joining us. Just getting
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ready here, getting comfortable at the microphone and my mixing board.
I've got all my sound bites, all my list of
guests coming up. There's gonna be a lot of show
this afternoon. Austin Peterson stopping by. We're going to take
a look at the devaluing of banks. Donald Trump going
after the banks that went after you, the Maga Republicans.
Remember that, Remember that weird little corner of time a
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few years ago when they were taking away people's bank
accounts because they were legal gun owners, or voted Republican
or bought a Bible. Remember those weird news stories. Where's
the retribution for that? Well, it turns out we're getting it.
We'll be discussing that today on the show. And of
course there's no way we do today's show without talking
about the Texas Democrats that fled the state of Texas
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to go because where else would they be to go
to Illinois, the most jerry mandered state in America, and
unironically they are there to protest jerry mandering. Judge, you
just love it, isn't it great? Also stopping by my
buddy Ethan Buchanan. One of the people that the Texas
Democrats are hanging out with this week is Dilia Ramirez.
She's a lawmaker from the state of Illinois. Obviously that's
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why they're in Illinois, but she's actually from Guatemala and
she recently told a large audience at a political summit
in Mexico City that her loyalty is not to America.
She'd admitted out loud in her own words, that she
is not loyal to America despite swearing an oath to
the United States of America. Her loyalties to Guatemala is
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that treasonous? Is she a trader? We'll talk about it
with Ethan Buchanan. Ethan's one of our producers here. He's
a twenty something. Don't hold it against him. He's pretty bright.
But before I get to any of that, I was
just looking at town hall dot com today and a
review of the book Kamala Harris is about to publish
by a guy named Derek Hunter. Now, I don't think
Derek's read the book. I don't think anybody's had I'm
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gonna be honest with you. I don't even think the
book is done being written yet it's coming out soon.
I do ask this, though, is there anyone in America,
or the Western Hemisphere, or anywhere on the planet, past, present,
future who wants more Kamala Harris.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Even her voters aren't interested.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Even the people of California didn't show enough enthusiasm about
the prospect of her being their next governor to get
her to run, So who the hell wants to read
her account of how she blew through the gross domestic
product of half the countries in the world while getting
a tongue bath from the media and still lost an
election to a man she and every leftist on earth
calls Hitler. Isn't that amazing? In that embarrassing you guys
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said over and over again. He's Hitler, and somehow you're
less popular than Hitler. That's just incredible. Actually, that book
could be fun now that I explained it out loud.
That actually does sound kind of funny, doesn't it. I
can't imagine Kamala being honest about why she lost. I
don't think she has it in or to figure out
what happened, why she didn't shouldn't know. It's unlikely anyone
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in her orbit has the guts to just tell her
that the biggest problem her campaign had was her. The
rumor has always been that she has a temper. Shooting
the messenger is absolutely on the menu. Supposedly she has
a drinking problem. She's very emotional. You could tell Kamala
is not ready to admit the truth by the book's title.
The book's title is one hundred and seven days. There's
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no subtitle about how hard she worked or any of
the obstacles she faced, being a horrible candidate, being tethered
to Joe Biden. It's just the number of days, that's
all it is. The length of the campaign was irrelevant, guys.
The quality of the campaign was the problem. Kamala and
her people have made this point more than once. They said,
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if she just had more time, she would have won. No,
if she had more time, she would have lost even worse.
I don't know how many of you guys remember this,
but when they first announced her candidacy, she shot up
in the poll. She was very popular at first, and
then and then and then, not to sound redundant, Americans
actually took a close look at who Kamala was. I mean,
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sure you knew. You're a political talk radio enthusiast. You
keep up with the news. You watch Fox News, you
read the Wall Street Journal, you're on X reading the
latest headlines. You're aware of who Kamala was. She was
a Senator of California, she was the vice president. You'd
heard her speak before, but believe it or not, a
lot of Americans had not. They didn't know she sucked.
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They didn't know when she talks out loud, she's an
unlikable person. They didn't know how obviously inauthentic she was.
So this book kind of seems like it's designed to
make the fact that she didn't lose by one hundred
percent of the vote some kind of accomplishment. She's the
real winner because she didn't set herself on fire. That's
about as low as the bar could be set. But
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she did set a billion and a half dollars on fire.
There is an audience for the book. I'm sure pre
orders on Amazon. I'm sure they're happening. I'm sure there's
some appetite for delusion, like there's an appetite for carnival
mirrors homes to make everyone look thinner and taller than
what they really are. But you shouldn't buy clothing based
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on how you look in a carnival mirror, just like
you shouldn't buy history based on what Kamala Harris has
to say. Stick around Austin Peterson coming up next.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Love America, Hear the Government Listenlive Listen now to proceed
of Happiness Radio.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
It's kind of Websterginia producer Kenny.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
By the way folks don't forget. Today is thank a
Teacher Day. Here on Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness, I
want to thank my sister. She's a wonderful person. My
sister and I have almost nothing in common, but I
love her and I admire her. My sister is an
art teacher in a low income school district in one
of the worst places in America, working with special needs kids.
She is literally a hero. My sister doesn't get paid enough.
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She works too hard, and I'm very proud of the
fact that I am her brother. Alyssa, I love you
so much.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Here.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Notice how everybody in your life has an eating disorder
and a sleeping disorder. But we're i'll obsessed with our
eating disorders, and we never talk about our sleeping disorders.
Everybody you know is on Paleo or Atkins, or they're overweight,
or they're underweight, or they're anemic, and they'll talk about
it all the time. They're obsessed with it, but nobody
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ever talks about their sleeping issues. I was very curious
about this. A report today claims the average American falls
asleep at eleven eighteen pm every night. For everyone else
who needs help falling asleep. After that, I guess there's
Jimmy Fallon or Stephen Colbert. That's probably why those shows
are kept on the air. Nobody likes watching them. You
just fall asleep and you keep it on. Colbert sucks.
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We were just talking about this with my business manager
down the hall. It's not just that he's political. Nobody
cares if he's political, right, Like I work at a
big giant broadcast media company. Unpolitical, sure, but that's not
why they keep me on the air. This show exists
for one reason. You listen to it, you shop at
the businesses who advertise here. That's it. It's the only
reason the show remains on the air. I think that
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sometimes people forget how important basic economics are to the
zeitgeist of humanity. The thing that keeps this wheel turning
all the time is reliant and dependent on the consensual
exchange of services and products for American currency and commodity.
I know I'm explaining this most basic way possible, but
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I just want to set up this next segment. My
next guest is one of the people behind the scenes
here at the Walton Johnson Show, but he's actually a
pretty brilliant broadcaster and podcaster and blogger in and of
his own right. Austin Peterson runs the Walton Johnson online story.
It does a great job at it. If you've never
been to is LOVEWJ dot com. It's filled with all
kinds of cool merchandise, and people buy funny t shirts
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that say Alligator, Alcatraz and Gulf of America and DOJ
agent and that sort of thing. But that's not all
he does. In fact, that's probably one eightieth of what
he does. Austin Peterson is a free market capitalist. He's
a guy that understands how, no matter what happens, the
more you tax something, the more you read late something,
the worst it's going to be.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
It's absolutely true.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
There's a new story today about the White House prepping
in order to punish banks that discriminate against conservatives.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Conservatives. They're calling it the d banking crackdown.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
You may recall that over the last several years under
Joe Biden, under Barack Obama, there were new stories about
banks investigating their own customers, punishing their own customers for
shopping at gun shows, sometimes for just being a Christian
and owning a Bible.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
What a weird thing.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
To get put on a list for now, the Trump
administration is going to do something about.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
It, Austin. It actually goes a little deeper than that,
doesn't it.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
Yeah, absolutely, Kenny, and thanks for having me again. It's
good to talk to you. Yeah. I mean, I love
WJ dot com. People are having a blast. I love
the reviews people are writing. And you know, God.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Bless all the people of the Gulf Coast that have.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
Been visiting the shop and writing their reviews because like
sometimes the reviews are really zany that people should definitely
check them out when they go there because they're almost
as funny as an episode of the Walton and Johnson Show.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
But when it comes to the banking.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
Listen, I LOVEWJ dot Com could not exist without the
modern monetary order, and whether it's for good or ill,
our ability to have access to banking is the only
reason that we're able to continue to operate in the
manner that we do because nobody pays us with cash
in hand. We don't have a brick and mortar store.
Everything that we do is completely online. So if tomorrow
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JP Morgan Chase decided that Austin is no longer allowed
to do business, it would be financially devastating, and I
wouldn't have even the funds or the whereithal to be
able to fight back against such a behemoth. Well, the
good news is is that, you know, thank goodness Donald
Trump won the election last year, because so much has changed.
You know, Mark Zuckerberg has taking his boot off of
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our next to some extent in a small way on Facebook,
as long as you don't say, you know, I'm actively
going to kill someone or something, but Jeff Bezos standing
behind him an Amazon, you know, gaining access to to
tool and information that we wouldn't have had access to
if Trump had not become the president. This executive order
is a huge shot across the bow for many of
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these financial institutions which got away with for a very
long time, the banking people who hold points of view,
or for example, people who transact in guns or firearms.
I mean before Trump got elected. And I think it's
only this month that I'm going to be allowed to
live stream on Instagram. But I posted a picture of
a catalog of submachine guns and how much they cost
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from the nineteen eighties. I'm going a year long ban
from live streaming on Instagram for that that was pre
Trump election, that wouldn't happen in post Trump election. But
more important than being able to post bank memes on
Instagram Kenny's you and I know is the ability to
access credit, the ability to access banking, to transact in
this economy so that we can have a chance at
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beating the federal reserves inflation rate, so we can have
a chance at trying to keep up with groceries or
the expectations of a growing family, which you know, I
got one and I'm hoping to have too on the way.
But unfortunately, because of our debt based Keynesian economy, if
you don't if you don't buy or sell, you are
the instrument of You are the one being sold. If
you are not engaging in commerce, you are commerce. And
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that that's our digital economy that we live in today.
So in thank goodness, we started creating parallel economies, you know,
without rumble and without a lot of these platforms, like
if Elon Musk had purchased X, people like you and
I would be a slipper. We would have been kicked away,
picked to the curb long ago, and the legacy media
would have continued to hand pick to decide who gets
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to have a voice, who's a respectable conservative and who's not?
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
They they would pick our leaders for us and we
would not. But just our basic ability to have this
to create an Alligator alcatrash here. Have you seen the
response to anger, the hatred that you've gotten over the
Walton and Johnson Facebook page from the Walton and Johnson
Alligator Alcatraz shirts that we post over there?
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Have you seen? You know, there's no way they would
have shut it down there.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
We would have been fanned. They would have put our
face up at sixteen hundred Memo Parkway at Meta's headquarters.
You know, wanted Kenny Webster, Austin Peterson crimes against humanity.
They were too funny. They made an alligator Alcatraz shirt
and it became a meme and everybody thought they were funny.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
That was the crime.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
So not only have we not been able to actually
sell the shirts, Kenny, we wouldn't have been able to
talk about the shirts because because it's too offensive. I mean, Zornmandani,
Elizabeth Warren. They've been hatching schemes and plans for us
for years to shut us down financially. And you know
that is the spigot. That is the you know, the
root of the pain that many of us have felt.
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And Trump's not standing for it. He's He's got an
executive order that I think stands on strong legal grounds.
They're going to review whether these banks violate the Equal
Credit Opportunity Act or antitrust laws, and if they find
biased debanking, they're going to do something about it. So
just like when I went to the Smithsonian and they
told me to take my small American flag and throw
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it up and put it away, the White House jumped
on that immediately. They've conducted a full review of the Smithsonian.
The whole institution's being under review.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
I like to take full and.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
Total credit for that because I'm greedy. But also it's
just good to see that Trump administration cares about these things,
because man, where goes the culture, there goes the politics,
and where goes the money, there goes the politics. And
this is the money, and this is the most important thing.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
And I'm glad to see Trump's leading the way on
this one. This is winning. This is what winning looks like.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
You can hate tariffs or not disagree with Trump on
Israel or foreign Politzer or whatever it may be. But
this is where the robber hits the road was for
our freedom, Bud. This is frontline, button center, winning big
Capitol w not tired of winning, winning.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Kenny, I absolutely, I'm glad you're being pragmatic. You always
have been, Austin. That's one of the reasons I'm a
libertarian like you. But I'm not an idiot. I'm not
gonna go out, you.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
It's like, clearly this is more I get it.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
I'd like to see the Epstein list as well, but
I mean the Epstein list doesn't immediately affect me. Not
to get off topic here, but back to the umbrella
of this issue. What I don't understand, Austin, for the
bank owner, for the CEO, isn't the most important thing
profits like I could never really understand if banks are
willing to go out and invest in immoral things in
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foreign countries, which we know they clearly do.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Right.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
If a bank is willing to invest in a sweat
shop in China, for example, which every major bank in
America or in the world, in the western half of
the free world, for example, probably has done. At some point,
they'd probably all lent a few bucks to Nike I'm
sure they all have or something similar. Why would it
be in their best interest to tell a gun owner
you can't have a bank account anymore because you went
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to a gun show, or to tell Alex Jones you
can't have a PayPal account because your podcast is too
critical of Israel or whatever it may Why, like, why
does that matter to them?
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Isn't profits supposed to be the most important thing?
Speaker 5 (16:00):
Well? I think you know, because I'm not an idiot libertarian.
I also realized that there actually are stronger incentives than
just money a lot of times for decisions for why
they make it. And consider the bank these people that
are already the richest people in the world. If you've
already got everything that you could have in the world,
what do you want more than money? Once you once
once money is no longer an option. You want power.
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You want you want the ability to control things. You
want to have control over your environment, over the people
around you. You know, you want to have to say
you say you want to become a person who has power.
And oftentimes people will trade money for power, and they
frequently do. And people are willing to spend large amounts
of money uh to have power, take huge risks with
their finances, but with the banks, I think they probably did.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
They did.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
They brought in some quantitative analysis who is from China
and there is like the number one map scholar in
some Chinese map competition. They hired them, brought them over
here on h one B visa and said, if you know,
do the math, how much money would we lose for
for the banking Vora Loomer or Kenny Webb's or Austin Peterson.
And you know what they probably figured. Eh, even if
it was a significant amount of conservatives, they don't make
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up the majority and they're not the ones that are
involved in the financial market. But you know, we got
to be honest about where conservatives are. Conservatives have been
kept playing catch up online for years. Conservatives have been
playing catch up for the reason why a lot of
the censorship happened about ten fifteen years ago.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Back when Facebook used to.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
Have a number one trending you know, top five trending
stories on Facebook. They were all like Ben Shapiro, Steven Crowder,
Daily Wire. They were all conservatives. So they had to
shut that down and they had to start to suppress
us and censorous. This is like the great the sort
of the great demonetization scandal of YouTube and of the
social media is back in the day because legacy media
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came in and put their thumb on the on the
measure man and said, hey, we don't want these blogs
and these bloggers and podcasters taking away from our bottom line.
They're they're sucking up advertising dollars, and the banks that
fund all of this activity, they of course the final
arbiters of which which transactions will be honored and which
transactions will not be honored. The Patriot Act, of course,
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which was a terrible crime against against the American citizens,
it was a lot more about money than it was
about patriotism.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
It was about you know, if you what you're going to.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
Want to pull out more than five thousand dollars or
more than ten thousand dollars of your own money out
of our bank, well we're going to report that to
the fedge or the IRS. And they're even trying to
get down to where it's like six hundred dollars of
then no transactions has to be reported the IRS. But
thankfully they've been able to knock back some of those
rules and regulations. But it's more than money, it's control
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because if you hate conservatism, and a lot of these
elites they're not. They are absolutely not conservatives, right, and
they they are definitely many of them not libertarians. There
are a few, you know, there's a few of the
Elon Muskkites and you know Peter Thiel and some of
these guys who had some libertarian inklings to them. But
for the most part, the elites are united in their
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belief in democratic socialism. That's why they you know, they
give all this money to Zornmandans of the world. I mean,
if you look at the history of it, like the Rockefellers,
if you go to Rockefeller Center in Manhattan, you see
the giant works of art. One of the paintings that's
not that is in Mexico City at the time, that's
supposed to be in Rockefeller Center, that Hall of Capitalism.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Is is John D.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
Rockefeller standing next to Leon Trotsky, right, These they're Marxists
and their Communists and their socialists. Even though they've made
their their bones in capitalism, they want to they they
now know that the that power is more important than
the money. They want to be close to power. They
they worship Trotsky, they worship Lenin, they worship they worship
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Stalin some of them even are you know love? You know,
sadly these days are more and more are you know
really love? Or like, hey, let's let's revive Adolf Hitler.
He had a really few good ideas about how you
could build an economy by theft and pariffs and tree
and and intradiction to trade, and by controlling by having
a heavily nationalist policy that it is supposed to benefit
the nation state but is very fascistic. And we're going
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to direct the production. You know, we're not going to
control the means of production like communists. We're just gonna
decide what gets built. And there they're in lives fascism.
So you know, the elites, it'll always This is why
populism is so popular now, this is why this anti
elite bias is sweeping the globe because I think more
people if they're listening to Walton and Johnson, if they're
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listening to Kenny Webster, if they're listening to Austin Peterson,
or they're they're reading, you know, books by and Culter,
or God forbid Pat Buchanan, or please help us, please,
for the love of God, listen to Ron Paul Ron
Paul was right, then then more more people are going
to push back against this stuff. But some libertarians, like
I will say, the idiot libertarians will say, well, wait
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a minute, isn't it a priv If it's a private bank.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
That I have the right to not choose to do
to do business with people.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
Yeah, that would be fine in a world where there
is no federal Reserve and where and where the banks
aren't entirely you know, completely controlled and regulated through this
one institution that is heretofore completely unaccountable to Congress in
many ways. Who do they answer to, you know, nobody
unless they you know, they're private when they want to
be private, they're public when they want to be public.
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So I don't think the banks get that exception. I
don't think that the banks get to make that decision
about who gets to be allowed to purchase apples at
the local walling world. You know, it's just to me,
it strikes me as the ultimate populists strike back at
the elites who want to destroy us. Who you and me,
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your listeners, the ten percenters, the you know, the people
who the people who listen to your show, the people
who you know on the Gulf coast who are wearing
the Gulf of America stuff listening to this audio podcast
hopefully with headsets and not bringing a big old bloom
box to the beach and being annoying. But to the
people that they want to destroy us. They want to
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destroy our way of life. They think we should all
have to live like them, and they think that they're
going to be the ones writing communist poetry and sitting
on the beach when they've seized our means of production
instead of working the salt mines and the copper minds.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Austin, I allocated this amount of time so we could
talk about four different topics, and we got to one
of them. But I thought you you were on a
roll when you're cooking. I didn't want to interrupt you.
My man, we got to get you back here this week.
I want to talk. I want to do a regular
segment with Austin Peterson from The Libertarian Republic and The
Wake Up Show to discuss economics.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
We got to go.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
For those who don't know, I love WJ dot Com
is the online story he curates for us. But Austin
Peterson is a wealth of fantastic knowledge about economic news.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
My brother can you come back later this week? We
need to do this again.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Hit me up, Kenny anytime you know me.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
My brother Austin Peterson follow him on x.
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Speaker 2 (23:07):
There's this giant species of stick insect that was just
discovered in a remote part of Australia. They say the
insect is sixteen inches long. The insect is so long,
how long is it?
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (23:23):
The insect is so long that it doesn't feel the
need to own a gun, a big truck or even
a pitbull. Imagine that. Hi, everybody, I'm not proud of
that joke, but you're paying attention. That's the important thing.
Thanksure turning on the radio. If you live here in Texas,
you already know our little state.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Are well, our big state.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
It's pretty much the main focus of most of the
national media right now because what's happening in Texas right
now could seriously affect the midterm elections next year.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Now.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Honestly, I still think if you look at the polling data,
it speaks for itself, as much as they hate Donald Trump,
as critical as there being of his administration, with all
the negative coverage about Donald and Elon and Pete Hegseth
and Pam Bondy and Epstein this and Ukraine, that it's
still is indisputably true that Donald Trump and the Republicans
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have higher polling numbers than the Democrats. Do you don't
like the Republicans, that's fine. All they have to do
is suck less than the Democrats. They seem to be
doing a pretty good job of sucking less. That's always
been our secret here at KPRC Radio Talk radio is
always sucked. We just suck less than the other radio
stations too. It's it's kind of our business model. But
with that in mind, I bet you'd still like to
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know what the hell is going on. You're paying a
lawmakers right now to go fly up to Chicago, Illinois,
a place I am well familiar with. It's the most
it's probably arguably the most jerrymandered state in America. The
congressional districts in the in the city of Chicago alone
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look like a child with a crayon drew them. It
looks like somebody vomited onto a map with different colors
of food dye in their stomach, and that's how the
congressional districts are drawn.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
They don't make any sense.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
So everybody got on a plane, just like they did
a few years ago before they were protesting election integrity laws.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Now congressional districts.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
They say it's about flood mitigation or preventing the next
natural disaster. If this was about that, they would be
here right now. No, this is about avoiding the congressional
district vote. So they're all in Illinois right now. And
Abbott first threatened to remove them from office, then he
threatened to have them arrested.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
That's the latest. And I loved when they said.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
I love the idea of removing them from office, but
is it realistic? What would have been the unintended consequences
of that. I'm told by some that if he removed
them from office, it would make the glacier speed that
our government moves at move even slower, because apparently nothing
would get done and we can't just continue the legislative
session in Texas without them.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Of course, I could be wrong.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
I reached out to policy analyst, journalist, reporter, Brandon Waltons
from Texas coarecard dot com to hell Plus. Understand it
a little better, Brandon, if you had to guess why
is he calling for? Why is the governor calling for
the arrest of the Texas Democrats in Illinois and not
to remove them from office? Which sort of was sort
of a minor flip flop yesterday, wasn't it?
Speaker 7 (26:16):
Well, I don't. I don't think they're mutually exclusive. I mean,
you know, he certainly talked about potentially moving to vacate
their seats. This is a process that hasn't really been done,
so you know, there's kind of a lot of question
marks blazing a new trail here, and so you know,
some questions about what exactly that process would look like.
But in the meantime, I think, you know, the Texas
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House and Governor Abbott and now DPS are being charged
essentially with finding these Democrats, arresting them and bringing them back. Now,
when you're talking about the group of Democrats that are
in Illinois, and even you have a few scattered in
some other places like New York and Massachusetts as well,
you know you're not going to be able to send
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DPS into those other states. And arrest them. They could
do it, those states could do it reciprocally, but they're
not going to because they are, of course Democrats states
where they're being sympathetic with the governor. What this actually
comes into play, and we'll see how this works out,
is that, you know, we're like to believe from a
few different reports, few different sources, that there are, you know,
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not every Democrat left the state that's breaking quorum. In fact,
you probably have some that are still just hiding out
at home right because they have a job, they have
things to do. They don't want to go leave to Illinois.
So there are people here in the state, and those
are people that absolutely could be arrested and they wouldn't
be sent to jail. The Democrats loved saying that, no,
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they'd be arrested and brought back to the capital so
that they can do their job.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
I know, it's a moot point, like who even cares.
But a few years ago when this happened, I remember
although many of them flew to Washington, d c. And
started spreading COVID around the White House when Joe Biden
was there. Not that wish harm on anyone, But you
have to admit That is kind of funny that the
people that complain the most about COVID were the ones
that gave it to Kamalan and Pelosi and Joe. But
(28:09):
all that being said, didn't two of them also fly
to Spain or something like that?
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Is like you guys, aren't You're they were all over?
Speaker 7 (28:16):
Yeah, Like it wasn't just you had one person come
back last time, was here for a day or two
and then left again.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Right.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
It was like, okay, great, you're breaking quorum to make
some political point. But they were literally on vacation. They
went on a wine tasting trip around Barcelona. Like, great,
you're not making some political point. You're just enjoying your
summer break.
Speaker 7 (28:39):
Yeah, and that's I think what you know, anyone who
looks at this can see that. Okay, well, what's the
goal here? Now? The question is, you know, how many
do you need? You don't need all the Democrats to
come back. You actually don't need most of them to
come back. If every Republican is there the way the
numbers work, then you only need twelve Democrats to be there.
Right now. You know, as of yesterday there were there
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were five or six Democrats that did show up, So
you need another six or so to be there as
every Republican's there in order to reach that quorm threshold.
I don't think that's a very high bar. I think
that's very attainable, and I think that there's probably that
many that are still here in Texas. So if the
people in Illinois and New York want to go grandstand
and do press conferences with the governor there, they can
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do that. But I think it's possible that we could potentially,
I mean, you know, there's a lot here. We could
potentially have a quorum by the end of the week
even without them.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
I don't know how much you know about Illinois, Brandon,
but I just find it so funny if they fly
to the most jerrymanderd state and from there they don't
go where the poor disenfranchised immigrants are or anything like that. No,
they went out to the West suburbs Warrenville and Aurora
near Naperville. If anybody's ever seen Wayne's World, that's where
they are. They're in one of the cutest, sweetest, whitest
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little suburbs of America, hanging out with JB.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Pritzker. Now JB.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Pritzker's obvious the Illinois governor. But some people may not
be aware of this. He's also a billionaire, a very
wealthy billionaire. And what I wonder is, because I know
he's a big guy, are the Texas Democrats are they
Are they safe being close to JB.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Pritzker?
Speaker 2 (30:14):
I mean, what if he gets hungry and he eats them?
They're really close to his mouth, Brandon, I have people
thought about that?
Speaker 7 (30:21):
Yeah, I mean it's a good question. Uh, you know,
you mentioned that. It is funny because if anyone's seen
any of these press conferences or you know, some of
them have been going on different cable news stations, it's
so funny to see, you know, they're act like they're
you know, political like refugees or something that have just
like taken a boat, you know, one hundred miles across,
(30:41):
you know, across the ocean and landed at the shore. No,
they flew in a private jet up there. They're okay,
you know, they they're you know, they're acting like like victims.
And it's just so transparent.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
I here's something I find interesting now that Shila Jackson
Lee and Sylvester Turner are gone. Finally, Congressman Al gets
taken off the bench. It's his turn to have a
full on meltdown about discrimination and racism when what's happening
has nothing to do with either of those things.
Speaker 7 (31:09):
What's happening in Texas is invidious discrimination.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
It is racial, my dear friends, it is racist. It is,
and we have to say it.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
I don't know if you can hear that, because it's
only playing in one of my earphones, Brandon, But he says,
what's happening right now in Texas is racist. I'd keep
playing the sound by longer. But we've heard this sound
bite a thousand times for a thousand other climate change
is racist, of course, Israel's racist, and the Chinese tariff
war is racist.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Is there anything that can't be relegated to racism? Brandon?
Speaker 7 (31:44):
It's so tiresome. And even before they left, you know,
Democrats left, you had even last week, you know, a
parade of them coming into the Capitol saying the same
thing over and over again. You know, Jasmine Crockett was
here last week a committee hearing on the the proposed
redistricting maps. I think, you know, there's plenty of soundbites
(32:05):
from that, but essentially, you know, the sort of it
is is you know, Okay, well, Republicans are racist and
everything they want to do is racist. Never mind the
fact that, actually, you know, if you drill down into
why we're restricting in the first place, a lot of
it has to do with undoing some of these, uh
you know, these racial coalitions that created the maps to
begin with. You know, you make a great point. Actually,
(32:26):
if people really look at the pictures of the maps,
you can see that quite a number of these districts
actually look more compact and more logical in this proposed
version than they do currently.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Yeah, Brandon Walton's Texas Scorecard dot Com. I know a
lot is going to be happening with this news story
over the next coming days.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
I hope we can get some updates at your website.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
My brother Brandon Walton's following him on x and while
you're at it, subscribe to their email list texascorecard dot Com.
It's the same basic ideas the Houston Chronicle or the
Dallas Morning Snooze, but.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
With all the all the liberal dribble, and they don't
charge anything.
Speaker 6 (33:02):
You are listening to the pursuit of happiness radio Pursuit
of happiness. We don't have that in Mexico.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
There's this thing that critics of immigration often do, where
they they generalize a stereotype all the illegal immigrants as
being Mexican. The truth is, most of them are not Mexican.
The Mexicans came here a long time ago. I'm sure
you know this. You're a talk radio listener, You're one
of the smartest media consumers there is. But I just
want to make sure everybody's on the same page here.
(33:33):
Very often, when you see all those people standing outside
the home depot, yeah, maybe some of them are from Mexico,
but a lot of them are from Honduras, a lot
of them are from Cuba, a lot of them are
from Venezuela, Haiti, Guatemala. Let's talk about Guatemala for just
a second. Guatemalan's have been in America for a while now,
and some would argue, you know, the reason all these
(33:54):
illegal immigrants need to come to the United States is
because we disrupted their economy.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
Liberals love to tell you that.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
I think it makes them sound smart, But then when
you ask them why they don't really know something about
the Iran contra or you know, Ronald Reagan, and they
don't have any answer. They regurgitate some stupid points somebody
else made once.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
I do know this.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
We have been very accommodating to immigrants, undocumented, illegal, documented refugees,
people coming here seeking asylum, not just for the past
twenty thirty years, but for most of American history. Liberals
love to tell you that America is a melting pot.
It's true we are, and that's something we should be
proud of. But we should also remember that in order
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to be part of the pot, you need to be
able to assimilate into it.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
If you cannot speak.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
English, if you do not share our values, if you
do not believe in civil rights, individual rights, and liberties,
you probably don't belong here. I'm sorry, Sharia is not
compliant with Western culture. Somebody who traffics children for a
cartel in Central America does not belong here. There's some
people who are too shortsighted to understand everything I just said.
(34:57):
They'll misinterpret it is xenophobia, racism. I hate xenophobes. I
can't stand him. I can't stand xenophobes, and I can't
stand Canadians, two of my least favorite people.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
But this isn't about Canadians. It's about Guatemalans.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
There's a report today in Newsweek, and it tells you
something that's honest, but then at the same time they
try to mislead you into believing it's worse than what
it actually is.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
I'll just read you the article.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Aliah Shoeb Sure that's an American naturalized American citizen. Aliah
shob is reporting today that MAGA is calling for Democratic
representative to be deported over Guatemala comments. Guatemala comments. What
were the comments? Did she say something racist about Guatemalans.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
No.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
She flew down to.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Mexico City to join a bunch of other lawmakers and
politicians and public officials, and a woman named Representative Delia Ramirez,
a Democratic lawmaker from the state of Illinois, told people
in Spanish on stage into a microphone and TV cameras, quote,
I'm a proud Guatemalan before I'm an American. I'm a
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proud Guatemalan before I'm an American. She's not the first
person who have done this. Not long ago, a lawmaker
from the Minnesota area Minneapolis, more specifically, Ilhan Omar held
a political rally with the President of Somalia. Standing next
to the President of Somalia, he told the audience that
she was the congressional representative for Somalians. As if Somalia
(36:27):
is the fifty first state, it's not. Neither's Guatemala. So
there's plenty of people on the right suggesting Ramirez should
be deported. I don't know if that's the right response
to this. I think she should be tried for treason.
This is a traitorous act. When you tell the world
I'm not loyal to the very country you were elected
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to represent as a lawmaker, the very country you put
your hand on a Bible and swore your allegiance to,
you have now violated that oath that you've made. I
assume there are a lot of people out there listening
right now that agree with me. I think one of
them is one of our producers and one of the reporters.
Down the hall here, a young man named Ethan Buchanan
(37:08):
joins me right now in studio.
Speaker 8 (37:11):
Ethan, did I leave anything out about this story that
you think was noteworthy? No, I think that's pretty much
the size and shape of it. She her mother, as
I understand it, and I could be wrong on this,
but I'm pretty sure I'm not was an illegal alien,
and then she was born here in the United States,
and so she gets citizenship just by being a citizen.
(37:32):
You might want to fact check me on that. I
read that on X SO I don't know how true
it is.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
According to Rolling Stone Magazine representative Delia Ramirez, his husband
is undocumented.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
Oh, there we go.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
So and according to my co host, I think her
mom was too. She's married a guy named Boris Hernandez.
He's a former DACA recipient.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
Of course he is. And she is the.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
Only member of Congress in a mixed status marriage grief.
Speaker 8 (38:00):
So again, yes, so it makes sense for her to say, oh,
I'm a Guatemalan.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
First.
Speaker 8 (38:06):
What it doesn't make sense for is for her to
be in the country. If you're a Guatemalan first, if
all of your family is Guatemalan or whatever country they
came from. First of all, what are you doing here,
because clearly you don't want to be here. You mentioned
the melting pot, and I think that's a good point
because a lot of people don't understand what a melting
pot is. It's not just for you to put a
(38:27):
bunch of things that are different in one place. The
purpose is for them to mix and become one thing.
Like when you're making a stew. You don't put all
the ingredients in the pot and then hope they all
stay separate, right, you want them to be mixed into
one thing.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
That's what America is.
Speaker 8 (38:45):
That's what American immigrants, immigrants into America are supposed to
be doing. But more and more we're seeing people like
this lady, like ilan Omar, who are not here to
become Americans. They're here to be official American government agents
for foreign countries, which, like you pointed out, Yeah, it
sounds like treason to port her at best. But there's
(39:06):
an argument to be made that she's committed treason by
swearing an oath to the United States and then publicly
expressing the fact that no, I'm loyal to Guatemala.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
Right exactly, American lawmakers. Here's something that's indisputably true, objectively true.
American lawmakers swear an oath on a bible to uphold
the Constitution. If they violate the South by declaring loyalty
to another country, that's a breach of duty that leads
to political consequences, at least it's supposed to. They should
be censured, they should be removed from office, loss of
(39:38):
public trust, at the very least. But the question becomes,
is this the legal definition of treason? I think at
the very least, there should probably be a congressional hearing
to address the fact that the person did this. Yeah,
at most, probably charge of the crime.
Speaker 8 (39:54):
Yeah, at minimum, the minimum that any and by the way,
this should absolutely piss you of, right, Like, if you're
watching what is essentially foreign people who have no desire
to be Americans. These are essentially agents of foreign governments
coming in and taking over your country, you should be
livid about this. The absolute bare minimum that should happen
(40:18):
is she should be thrown out of the House. Every
single representative in the House should vote to throw her out.
Speaker 3 (40:25):
She should be kicked out at.
Speaker 8 (40:26):
Minimum, and then we'll let the lawyers decide if there's
legal consequences. I think there should be, but that's for
all the lawyers to dide.
Speaker 2 (40:35):
Ethan Buchanan, what's going on on your show? You have
a podcast and a radio show that could be heard
every Sunday night here on KEEPRC. You're a zoomer, you're
in your early twenties, So it's Ted Cruise's show on
Sunday evenings, then yours.
Speaker 8 (40:46):
Yeah, Ted Cruz at six and then I'm at seven.
I talk about everything everything culture, I talk about politics.
I've got this one clip that I'm going to be
talking about. Here's a little previeum saving it in my
back pocket. We had this lady I saw this today
who got on TikTok to complain about the fact that
she keeps having to quit all of her full time,
forty hour a week jobs because she can't manage to
(41:11):
do her forty hours of work and quote unquote self care. Now,
most people when they hear self care, well that's just oh,
going to coffee, going to the spa, you know, all
the ridiculous things that millennials love to do. No, when
she says self care, she's referring to things like taking
a shower. She couldn't budget time to take a shower
and work forty hours a week, so we're gonna be
talking about that.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
Wow, that is fascinating.
Speaker 2 (41:33):
My man, Ethan Buchanan always covering interesting topics on his show,
And for the record, I think I find the fact
that people in your generation are skewing more conservative than
previous generations to be very refreshing.
Speaker 3 (41:43):
Ethan. It's because we saw you.
Speaker 8 (41:45):
Guys, we saw the millennials and we thought, no, man,
I hope you're right about that.
Speaker 2 (41:49):
Ethan Buchanan, you're my brother, dude. Then you're doing the show.
To the rest of you. I love you all. We'll
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Get your tickets now, have a good day, y'all. Will
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Four hundred million metric tons of plastic are produced annually
every year. That is a lot, you guys. I guess
I didn't have to say annually every year?
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Could I? I started that statement.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
I feel like I was being a little redundant because
I just said the same thing twice. I hate being
I hate doing that. I hate doing that. I hate
doing that sounding redundant, sounding redundant. Okay, I'll cut it out.
Over four hundred million metric tons of plastic are produced annually.
You know about half of that probably goes into the
faces of Chris Jenner and her daughters. I'm just guessing, Hi, everybody,
I'm Kenny Webster, so much for joining us. Just getting
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ready here, getting comfortable at the microphone and my mixing board.
I've got all my sound bites, all my list of
guests coming up. There's gonna be a lot of show
this afternoon. Austin Peterson stopping by. We're going to take
a look at the devaluing of banks. Donald Trump going
after the banks that went after you, the Maga Republicans.
Remember that, Remember that weird little corner of time a
(01:22):
few years ago when they were taking away people's bank
accounts because they were legal gun owners, or voted Republican
or bought a Bible. Remember those weird news stories. Where's
the retribution for that? Well, it turns out we're getting it.
We'll be discussing that today on the show. And of
course there's no way we do today's show without talking
about the Texas Democrats that fled the state of Texas
(01:44):
to go because where else would they be to go
to Illinois, the most jerry mandered state in America, and
unironically they are there to protest jerry mandering. Judge, you
just love it, isn't it great? Also stopping by my
buddy Ethan Buchanan. One of the people that the Texas
Democrats are hanging out with this week is Dilia Ramirez.
She's a lawmaker from the state of Illinois. Obviously that's
(02:05):
why they're in Illinois, but she's actually from Guatemala and
she recently told a large audience at a political summit
in Mexico City that her loyalty is not to America.
She'd admitted out loud in her own words, that she
is not loyal to America despite swearing an oath to
the United States of America. Her loyalties to Guatemala is
(02:27):
that treasonous? Is she a trader? We'll talk about it
with Ethan Buchanan. Ethan's one of our producers here. He's
a twenty something. Don't hold it against him. He's pretty bright.
But before I get to any of that, I was
just looking at town hall dot com today and a
review of the book Kamala Harris is about to publish
by a guy named Derek Hunter. Now, I don't think
Derek's read the book. I don't think anybody's had I'm
(02:49):
gonna be honest with you. I don't even think the
book is done being written yet it's coming out soon.
I do ask this, though, is there anyone in America,
or the Western Hemisphere, or anywhere on the planet, past, present,
future who wants more Kamala Harris.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Even her voters aren't interested.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Even the people of California didn't show enough enthusiasm about
the prospect of her being their next governor to get
her to run, So who the hell wants to read
her account of how she blew through the gross domestic
product of half the countries in the world while getting
a tongue bath from the media and still lost an
election to a man she and every leftist on earth
calls Hitler. Isn't that amazing? In that embarrassing you guys
(03:30):
said over and over again. He's Hitler, and somehow you're
less popular than Hitler. That's just incredible. Actually, that book
could be fun now that I explained it out loud.
That actually does sound kind of funny, doesn't it. I
can't imagine Kamala being honest about why she lost. I
don't think she has it in or to figure out
what happened, why she didn't shouldn't know. It's unlikely anyone
(03:54):
in her orbit has the guts to just tell her
that the biggest problem her campaign had was her. The
rumor has always been that she has a temper. Shooting
the messenger is absolutely on the menu. Supposedly she has
a drinking problem. She's very emotional. You could tell Kamala
is not ready to admit the truth by the book's title.
The book's title is one hundred and seven days. There's
(04:17):
no subtitle about how hard she worked or any of
the obstacles she faced, being a horrible candidate, being tethered
to Joe Biden. It's just the number of days, that's
all it is. The length of the campaign was irrelevant, guys.
The quality of the campaign was the problem. Kamala and
her people have made this point more than once. They said,
(04:39):
if she just had more time, she would have won. No,
if she had more time, she would have lost even worse.
I don't know how many of you guys remember this,
but when they first announced her candidacy, she shot up
in the poll. She was very popular at first, and
then and then and then, not to sound redundant, Americans
actually took a close look at who Kamala was. I mean,
(05:00):
sure you knew. You're a political talk radio enthusiast. You
keep up with the news. You watch Fox News, you
read the Wall Street Journal, you're on X reading the
latest headlines. You're aware of who Kamala was. She was
a Senator of California, she was the vice president. You'd
heard her speak before, but believe it or not, a
lot of Americans had not. They didn't know she sucked.
(05:23):
They didn't know when she talks out loud, she's an
unlikable person. They didn't know how obviously inauthentic she was.
So this book kind of seems like it's designed to
make the fact that she didn't lose by one hundred
percent of the vote some kind of accomplishment. She's the
real winner because she didn't set herself on fire. That's
about as low as the bar could be set. But
(05:45):
she did set a billion and a half dollars on fire.
There is an audience for the book. I'm sure pre
orders on Amazon. I'm sure they're happening. I'm sure there's
some appetite for delusion, like there's an appetite for carnival
mirrors homes to make everyone look thinner and taller than
what they really are. But you shouldn't buy clothing based
(06:06):
on how you look in a carnival mirror, just like
you shouldn't buy history based on what Kamala Harris has
to say. Stick around Austin Peterson coming up next.
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Notice how everybody in your life has an eating disorder
and a sleeping disorder. But we're i'll obsessed with our
eating disorders, and we never talk about our sleeping disorders.
Everybody you know is on Paleo or Atkins, or they're overweight,
or they're underweight, or they're anemic, and they'll talk about
it all the time. They're obsessed with it, but nobody
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ever talks about their sleeping issues. I was very curious
about this. A report today claims the average American falls
asleep at eleven eighteen pm every night. For everyone else
who needs help falling asleep. After that, I guess there's
Jimmy Fallon or Stephen Colbert. That's probably why those shows
are kept on the air. Nobody likes watching them. You
just fall asleep and you keep it on. Colbert sucks.
(07:36):
We were just talking about this with my business manager
down the hall. It's not just that he's political. Nobody
cares if he's political, right, Like I work at a
big giant broadcast media company. Unpolitical, sure, but that's not
why they keep me on the air. This show exists
for one reason. You listen to it, you shop at
the businesses who advertise here. That's it. It's the only
reason the show remains on the air. I think that
(07:58):
sometimes people forget how important basic economics are to the
zeitgeist of humanity. The thing that keeps this wheel turning
all the time is reliant and dependent on the consensual
exchange of services and products for American currency and commodity.
I know I'm explaining this most basic way possible, but
(08:20):
I just want to set up this next segment. My
next guest is one of the people behind the scenes
here at the Walton Johnson Show, but he's actually a
pretty brilliant broadcaster and podcaster and blogger in and of
his own right. Austin Peterson runs the Walton Johnson online story.
It does a great job at it. If you've never
been to is LOVEWJ dot com. It's filled with all
kinds of cool merchandise, and people buy funny t shirts
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that say Alligator, Alcatraz and Gulf of America and DOJ
agent and that sort of thing. But that's not all
he does. In fact, that's probably one eightieth of what
he does. Austin Peterson is a free market capitalist. He's
a guy that understands how, no matter what happens, the
more you tax something, the more you read late something,
the worst it's going to be.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
It's absolutely true.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
There's a new story today about the White House prepping
in order to punish banks that discriminate against conservatives.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Conservatives. They're calling it the d banking crackdown.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
You may recall that over the last several years under
Joe Biden, under Barack Obama, there were new stories about
banks investigating their own customers, punishing their own customers for
shopping at gun shows, sometimes for just being a Christian
and owning a Bible.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
What a weird thing.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
To get put on a list for now, the Trump
administration is going to do something about.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
It, Austin. It actually goes a little deeper than that,
doesn't it.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
Yeah, absolutely, Kenny, and thanks for having me again. It's
good to talk to you. Yeah. I mean, I love
WJ dot com. People are having a blast. I love
the reviews people are writing. And you know, God.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Bless all the people of the Gulf Coast that have.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
Been visiting the shop and writing their reviews because like
sometimes the reviews are really zany that people should definitely
check them out when they go there because they're almost
as funny as an episode of the Walton and Johnson Show.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
But when it comes to the banking.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
Listen, I LOVEWJ dot Com could not exist without the
modern monetary order, and whether it's for good or ill,
our ability to have access to banking is the only
reason that we're able to continue to operate in the
manner that we do because nobody pays us with cash
in hand. We don't have a brick and mortar store.
Everything that we do is completely online. So if tomorrow
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JP Morgan Chase decided that Austin is no longer allowed
to do business, it would be financially devastating, and I
wouldn't have even the funds or the whereithal to be
able to fight back against such a behemoth. Well, the
good news is is that, you know, thank goodness Donald
Trump won the election last year, because so much has changed.
You know, Mark Zuckerberg has taking his boot off of
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our next to some extent in a small way on Facebook,
as long as you don't say, you know, I'm actively
going to kill someone or something, but Jeff Bezos standing
behind him an Amazon, you know, gaining access to to
tool and information that we wouldn't have had access to
if Trump had not become the president. This executive order
is a huge shot across the bow for many of
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these financial institutions which got away with for a very
long time, the banking people who hold points of view,
or for example, people who transact in guns or firearms.
I mean before Trump got elected. And I think it's
only this month that I'm going to be allowed to
live stream on Instagram. But I posted a picture of
a catalog of submachine guns and how much they cost
(11:31):
from the nineteen eighties. I'm going a year long ban
from live streaming on Instagram for that that was pre
Trump election, that wouldn't happen in post Trump election. But
more important than being able to post bank memes on
Instagram Kenny's you and I know is the ability to
access credit, the ability to access banking, to transact in
this economy so that we can have a chance at
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beating the federal reserves inflation rate, so we can have
a chance at trying to keep up with groceries or
the expectations of a growing family, which you know, I
got one and I'm hoping to have too on the way.
But unfortunately, because of our debt based Keynesian economy, if
you don't if you don't buy or sell, you are
the instrument of You are the one being sold. If
you are not engaging in commerce, you are commerce. And
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that that's our digital economy that we live in today.
So in thank goodness, we started creating parallel economies, you know,
without rumble and without a lot of these platforms, like
if Elon Musk had purchased X, people like you and
I would be a slipper. We would have been kicked away,
picked to the curb long ago, and the legacy media
would have continued to hand pick to decide who gets
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to have a voice, who's a respectable conservative and who's not?
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
They they would pick our leaders for us and we
would not. But just our basic ability to have this
to create an Alligator alcatrash here. Have you seen the
response to anger, the hatred that you've gotten over the
Walton and Johnson Facebook page from the Walton and Johnson
Alligator Alcatraz shirts that we post over there?
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Have you seen? You know, there's no way they would
have shut it down there.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
We would have been fanned. They would have put our
face up at sixteen hundred Memo Parkway at Meta's headquarters.
You know, wanted Kenny Webster, Austin Peterson crimes against humanity.
They were too funny. They made an alligator Alcatraz shirt
and it became a meme and everybody thought they were funny.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
That was the crime.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
So not only have we not been able to actually
sell the shirts, Kenny, we wouldn't have been able to
talk about the shirts because because it's too offensive. I mean, Zornmandani,
Elizabeth Warren. They've been hatching schemes and plans for us
for years to shut us down financially. And you know
that is the spigot. That is the you know, the
root of the pain that many of us have felt.
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And Trump's not standing for it. He's He's got an
executive order that I think stands on strong legal grounds.
They're going to review whether these banks violate the Equal
Credit Opportunity Act or antitrust laws, and if they find
biased debanking, they're going to do something about it. So
just like when I went to the Smithsonian and they
told me to take my small American flag and throw
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it up and put it away, the White House jumped
on that immediately. They've conducted a full review of the Smithsonian.
The whole institution's being under review.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
I like to take full and.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
Total credit for that because I'm greedy. But also it's
just good to see that Trump administration cares about these things,
because man, where goes the culture, there goes the politics,
and where goes the money, there goes the politics. And
this is the money, and this is the most important thing.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
And I'm glad to see Trump's leading the way on
this one. This is winning. This is what winning looks like.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
You can hate tariffs or not disagree with Trump on
Israel or foreign Politzer or whatever it may be. But
this is where the robber hits the road was for
our freedom, Bud. This is frontline, button center, winning big
Capitol w not tired of winning, winning.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Kenny, I absolutely, I'm glad you're being pragmatic. You always
have been, Austin. That's one of the reasons I'm a
libertarian like you. But I'm not an idiot. I'm not
gonna go out, you.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
It's like, clearly this is more I get it.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
I'd like to see the Epstein list as well, but
I mean the Epstein list doesn't immediately affect me. Not
to get off topic here, but back to the umbrella
of this issue. What I don't understand, Austin, for the
bank owner, for the CEO, isn't the most important thing
profits like I could never really understand if banks are
willing to go out and invest in immoral things in
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foreign countries, which we know they clearly do.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Right.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
If a bank is willing to invest in a sweat
shop in China, for example, which every major bank in
America or in the world, in the western half of
the free world, for example, probably has done. At some point,
they'd probably all lent a few bucks to Nike I'm
sure they all have or something similar. Why would it
be in their best interest to tell a gun owner
you can't have a bank account anymore because you went
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to a gun show, or to tell Alex Jones you
can't have a PayPal account because your podcast is too
critical of Israel or whatever it may Why, like, why
does that matter to them?
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Isn't profits supposed to be the most important thing?
Speaker 5 (16:00):
Well? I think you know, because I'm not an idiot libertarian.
I also realized that there actually are stronger incentives than
just money a lot of times for decisions for why
they make it. And consider the bank these people that
are already the richest people in the world. If you've
already got everything that you could have in the world,
what do you want more than money? Once you once
once money is no longer an option. You want power.
(16:22):
You want you want the ability to control things. You
want to have control over your environment, over the people
around you. You know, you want to have to say
you say you want to become a person who has power.
And oftentimes people will trade money for power, and they
frequently do. And people are willing to spend large amounts
of money uh to have power, take huge risks with
their finances, but with the banks, I think they probably did.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
They did.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
They brought in some quantitative analysis who is from China
and there is like the number one map scholar in
some Chinese map competition. They hired them, brought them over
here on h one B visa and said, if you know,
do the math, how much money would we lose for
for the banking Vora Loomer or Kenny Webb's or Austin Peterson.
And you know what they probably figured. Eh, even if
it was a significant amount of conservatives, they don't make
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up the majority and they're not the ones that are
involved in the financial market. But you know, we got
to be honest about where conservatives are. Conservatives have been
kept playing catch up online for years. Conservatives have been
playing catch up for the reason why a lot of
the censorship happened about ten fifteen years ago.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Back when Facebook used to.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
Have a number one trending you know, top five trending
stories on Facebook. They were all like Ben Shapiro, Steven Crowder,
Daily Wire. They were all conservatives. So they had to
shut that down and they had to start to suppress
us and censorous. This is like the great the sort
of the great demonetization scandal of YouTube and of the
social media is back in the day because legacy media
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came in and put their thumb on the on the
measure man and said, hey, we don't want these blogs
and these bloggers and podcasters taking away from our bottom line.
They're they're sucking up advertising dollars, and the banks that
fund all of this activity, they of course the final
arbiters of which which transactions will be honored and which
transactions will not be honored. The Patriot Act, of course,
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which was a terrible crime against against the American citizens,
it was a lot more about money than it was
about patriotism.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
It was about you know, if you what you're going to.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
Want to pull out more than five thousand dollars or
more than ten thousand dollars of your own money out
of our bank, well we're going to report that to
the fedge or the IRS. And they're even trying to
get down to where it's like six hundred dollars of
then no transactions has to be reported the IRS. But
thankfully they've been able to knock back some of those
rules and regulations. But it's more than money, it's control
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because if you hate conservatism, and a lot of these
elites they're not. They are absolutely not conservatives, right, and
they they are definitely many of them not libertarians. There
are a few, you know, there's a few of the
Elon Muskkites and you know Peter Thiel and some of
these guys who had some libertarian inklings to them. But
for the most part, the elites are united in their
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belief in democratic socialism. That's why they you know, they
give all this money to Zornmandans of the world. I mean,
if you look at the history of it, like the Rockefellers,
if you go to Rockefeller Center in Manhattan, you see
the giant works of art. One of the paintings that's
not that is in Mexico City at the time, that's
supposed to be in Rockefeller Center, that Hall of Capitalism.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Is is John D.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
Rockefeller standing next to Leon Trotsky, right, These they're Marxists
and their Communists and their socialists. Even though they've made
their their bones in capitalism, they want to they they
now know that the that power is more important than
the money. They want to be close to power. They
they worship Trotsky, they worship Lenin, they worship they worship
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Stalin some of them even are you know love? You know,
sadly these days are more and more are you know
really love? Or like, hey, let's let's revive Adolf Hitler.
He had a really few good ideas about how you
could build an economy by theft and pariffs and tree
and and intradiction to trade, and by controlling by having
a heavily nationalist policy that it is supposed to benefit
the nation state but is very fascistic. And we're going
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to direct the production. You know, we're not going to
control the means of production like communists. We're just gonna
decide what gets built. And there they're in lives fascism.
So you know, the elites, it'll always This is why
populism is so popular now, this is why this anti
elite bias is sweeping the globe because I think more
people if they're listening to Walton and Johnson, if they're
(20:28):
listening to Kenny Webster, if they're listening to Austin Peterson,
or they're they're reading, you know, books by and Culter,
or God forbid Pat Buchanan, or please help us, please,
for the love of God, listen to Ron Paul Ron
Paul was right, then then more more people are going
to push back against this stuff. But some libertarians, like
I will say, the idiot libertarians will say, well, wait
(20:49):
a minute, isn't it a priv If it's a private bank.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
That I have the right to not choose to do
to do business with people.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
Yeah, that would be fine in a world where there
is no federal Reserve and where and where the banks
aren't entirely you know, completely controlled and regulated through this
one institution that is heretofore completely unaccountable to Congress in
many ways. Who do they answer to, you know, nobody
unless they you know, they're private when they want to
be private, they're public when they want to be public.
(21:17):
So I don't think the banks get that exception. I
don't think that the banks get to make that decision
about who gets to be allowed to purchase apples at
the local walling world. You know, it's just to me,
it strikes me as the ultimate populists strike back at
the elites who want to destroy us. Who you and me,
(21:39):
your listeners, the ten percenters, the you know, the people
who the people who listen to your show, the people
who you know on the Gulf coast who are wearing
the Gulf of America stuff listening to this audio podcast
hopefully with headsets and not bringing a big old bloom
box to the beach and being annoying. But to the
people that they want to destroy us. They want to
(21:59):
destroy our way of life. They think we should all
have to live like them, and they think that they're
going to be the ones writing communist poetry and sitting
on the beach when they've seized our means of production
instead of working the salt mines and the copper minds.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Austin, I allocated this amount of time so we could
talk about four different topics, and we got to one
of them. But I thought you you were on a
roll when you're cooking. I didn't want to interrupt you.
My man, we got to get you back here this week.
I want to talk. I want to do a regular
segment with Austin Peterson from The Libertarian Republic and The
Wake Up Show to discuss economics.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
We got to go.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
For those who don't know, I love WJ dot Com
is the online story he curates for us. But Austin
Peterson is a wealth of fantastic knowledge about economic news.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
My brother can you come back later this week? We
need to do this again.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Hit me up, Kenny anytime you know me.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
My brother Austin Peterson follow him on x.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
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Speaker 2 (23:07):
There's this giant species of stick insect that was just
discovered in a remote part of Australia. They say the
insect is sixteen inches long. The insect is so long,
how long is it?
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (23:23):
The insect is so long that it doesn't feel the
need to own a gun, a big truck or even
a pitbull. Imagine that. Hi, everybody, I'm not proud of
that joke, but you're paying attention. That's the important thing.
Thanksure turning on the radio. If you live here in Texas,
you already know our little state.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Are well, our big state.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
It's pretty much the main focus of most of the
national media right now because what's happening in Texas right
now could seriously affect the midterm elections next year.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Now.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Honestly, I still think if you look at the polling data,
it speaks for itself, as much as they hate Donald Trump,
as critical as there being of his administration, with all
the negative coverage about Donald and Elon and Pete Hegseth
and Pam Bondy and Epstein this and Ukraine, that it's
still is indisputably true that Donald Trump and the Republicans
(24:11):
have higher polling numbers than the Democrats. Do you don't
like the Republicans, that's fine. All they have to do
is suck less than the Democrats. They seem to be
doing a pretty good job of sucking less. That's always
been our secret here at KPRC Radio Talk radio is
always sucked. We just suck less than the other radio
stations too. It's it's kind of our business model. But
with that in mind, I bet you'd still like to
(24:31):
know what the hell is going on. You're paying a
lawmakers right now to go fly up to Chicago, Illinois,
a place I am well familiar with. It's the most
it's probably arguably the most jerrymandered state in America. The
congressional districts in the in the city of Chicago alone
(24:52):
look like a child with a crayon drew them. It
looks like somebody vomited onto a map with different colors
of food dye in their stomach, and that's how the
congressional districts are drawn.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
They don't make any sense.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
So everybody got on a plane, just like they did
a few years ago before they were protesting election integrity laws.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Now congressional districts.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
They say it's about flood mitigation or preventing the next
natural disaster. If this was about that, they would be
here right now. No, this is about avoiding the congressional
district vote. So they're all in Illinois right now. And
Abbott first threatened to remove them from office, then he
threatened to have them arrested.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
That's the latest. And I loved when they said.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
I love the idea of removing them from office, but
is it realistic? What would have been the unintended consequences
of that. I'm told by some that if he removed
them from office, it would make the glacier speed that
our government moves at move even slower, because apparently nothing
would get done and we can't just continue the legislative
session in Texas without them.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Of course, I could be wrong.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
I reached out to policy analyst, journalist, reporter, Brandon Waltons
from Texas coarecard dot com to hell Plus. Understand it
a little better, Brandon, if you had to guess why
is he calling for? Why is the governor calling for
the arrest of the Texas Democrats in Illinois and not
to remove them from office? Which sort of was sort
of a minor flip flop yesterday, wasn't it?
Speaker 7 (26:16):
Well, I don't. I don't think they're mutually exclusive. I mean,
you know, he certainly talked about potentially moving to vacate
their seats. This is a process that hasn't really been done,
so you know, there's kind of a lot of question
marks blazing a new trail here, and so you know,
some questions about what exactly that process would look like.
But in the meantime, I think, you know, the Texas
(26:37):
House and Governor Abbott and now DPS are being charged
essentially with finding these Democrats, arresting them and bringing them back. Now,
when you're talking about the group of Democrats that are
in Illinois, and even you have a few scattered in
some other places like New York and Massachusetts as well,
you know you're not going to be able to send
(27:00):
DPS into those other states. And arrest them. They could
do it, those states could do it reciprocally, but they're
not going to because they are, of course Democrats states
where they're being sympathetic with the governor. What this actually
comes into play, and we'll see how this works out,
is that, you know, we're like to believe from a
few different reports, few different sources, that there are, you know,
(27:22):
not every Democrat left the state that's breaking quorum. In fact,
you probably have some that are still just hiding out
at home right because they have a job, they have
things to do. They don't want to go leave to Illinois.
So there are people here in the state, and those
are people that absolutely could be arrested and they wouldn't
be sent to jail. The Democrats loved saying that, no,
(27:42):
they'd be arrested and brought back to the capital so
that they can do their job.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
I know, it's a moot point, like who even cares.
But a few years ago when this happened, I remember
although many of them flew to Washington, d c. And
started spreading COVID around the White House when Joe Biden
was there. Not that wish harm on anyone, But you
have to admit That is kind of funny that the
people that complain the most about COVID were the ones
that gave it to Kamalan and Pelosi and Joe. But
(28:09):
all that being said, didn't two of them also fly
to Spain or something like that?
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Is like you guys, aren't You're they were all over?
Speaker 7 (28:16):
Yeah, Like it wasn't just you had one person come
back last time, was here for a day or two
and then left again.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Right.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
It was like, okay, great, you're breaking quorum to make
some political point. But they were literally on vacation. They
went on a wine tasting trip around Barcelona. Like, great,
you're not making some political point. You're just enjoying your
summer break.
Speaker 7 (28:39):
Yeah, and that's I think what you know, anyone who
looks at this can see that. Okay, well, what's the
goal here? Now? The question is, you know, how many
do you need? You don't need all the Democrats to
come back. You actually don't need most of them to
come back. If every Republican is there the way the
numbers work, then you only need twelve Democrats to be there.
Right now. You know, as of yesterday there were there
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were five or six Democrats that did show up, So
you need another six or so to be there as
every Republican's there in order to reach that quorm threshold.
I don't think that's a very high bar. I think
that's very attainable, and I think that there's probably that
many that are still here in Texas. So if the
people in Illinois and New York want to go grandstand
and do press conferences with the governor there, they can
(29:23):
do that. But I think it's possible that we could potentially,
I mean, you know, there's a lot here. We could
potentially have a quorum by the end of the week
even without them.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
I don't know how much you know about Illinois, Brandon,
but I just find it so funny if they fly
to the most jerrymanderd state and from there they don't
go where the poor disenfranchised immigrants are or anything like that. No,
they went out to the West suburbs Warrenville and Aurora
near Naperville. If anybody's ever seen Wayne's World, that's where
they are. They're in one of the cutest, sweetest, whitest
(29:55):
little suburbs of America, hanging out with JB.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Pritzker. Now JB.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Pritzker's obvious the Illinois governor. But some people may not
be aware of this. He's also a billionaire, a very
wealthy billionaire. And what I wonder is, because I know
he's a big guy, are the Texas Democrats are they
Are they safe being close to JB.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Pritzker?
Speaker 2 (30:14):
I mean, what if he gets hungry and he eats them?
They're really close to his mouth, Brandon, I have people
thought about that?
Speaker 7 (30:21):
Yeah, I mean it's a good question. Uh, you know,
you mentioned that. It is funny because if anyone's seen
any of these press conferences or you know, some of
them have been going on different cable news stations, it's
so funny to see, you know, they're act like they're
you know, political like refugees or something that have just
like taken a boat, you know, one hundred miles across,
(30:41):
you know, across the ocean and landed at the shore. No,
they flew in a private jet up there. They're okay,
you know, they they're you know, they're acting like like victims.
And it's just so transparent.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
I here's something I find interesting now that Shila Jackson
Lee and Sylvester Turner are gone. Finally, Congressman Al gets
taken off the bench. It's his turn to have a
full on meltdown about discrimination and racism when what's happening
has nothing to do with either of those things.
Speaker 7 (31:09):
What's happening in Texas is invidious discrimination.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
It is racial, my dear friends, it is racist. It is,
and we have to say it.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
I don't know if you can hear that, because it's
only playing in one of my earphones, Brandon, But he says,
what's happening right now in Texas is racist. I'd keep
playing the sound by longer. But we've heard this sound
bite a thousand times for a thousand other climate change
is racist, of course, Israel's racist, and the Chinese tariff
war is racist.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Is there anything that can't be relegated to racism? Brandon?
Speaker 7 (31:44):
It's so tiresome. And even before they left, you know,
Democrats left, you had even last week, you know, a
parade of them coming into the Capitol saying the same
thing over and over again. You know, Jasmine Crockett was
here last week a committee hearing on the the proposed
redistricting maps. I think, you know, there's plenty of soundbites
(32:05):
from that, but essentially, you know, the sort of it
is is you know, Okay, well, Republicans are racist and
everything they want to do is racist. Never mind the
fact that, actually, you know, if you drill down into
why we're restricting in the first place, a lot of
it has to do with undoing some of these, uh
you know, these racial coalitions that created the maps to
begin with. You know, you make a great point. Actually,
(32:26):
if people really look at the pictures of the maps,
you can see that quite a number of these districts
actually look more compact and more logical in this proposed
version than they do currently.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Yeah, Brandon Walton's Texas Scorecard dot Com. I know a
lot is going to be happening with this news story
over the next coming days.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
I hope we can get some updates at your website.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
My brother Brandon Walton's following him on x and while
you're at it, subscribe to their email list texascorecard dot Com.
It's the same basic ideas the Houston Chronicle or the
Dallas Morning Snooze, but.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
With all the all the liberal dribble, and they don't
charge anything.
Speaker 6 (33:02):
You are listening to the pursuit of happiness radio Pursuit
of happiness. We don't have that in Mexico.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
There's this thing that critics of immigration often do, where
they they generalize a stereotype all the illegal immigrants as
being Mexican. The truth is, most of them are not Mexican.
The Mexicans came here a long time ago. I'm sure
you know this. You're a talk radio listener, You're one
of the smartest media consumers there is. But I just
want to make sure everybody's on the same page here.
(33:33):
Very often, when you see all those people standing outside
the home depot, yeah, maybe some of them are from Mexico,
but a lot of them are from Honduras, a lot
of them are from Cuba, a lot of them are
from Venezuela, Haiti, Guatemala. Let's talk about Guatemala for just
a second. Guatemalan's have been in America for a while now,
and some would argue, you know, the reason all these
(33:54):
illegal immigrants need to come to the United States is
because we disrupted their economy.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
Liberals love to tell you that.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
I think it makes them sound smart, But then when
you ask them why they don't really know something about
the Iran contra or you know, Ronald Reagan, and they
don't have any answer. They regurgitate some stupid points somebody
else made once.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
I do know this.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
We have been very accommodating to immigrants, undocumented, illegal, documented refugees,
people coming here seeking asylum, not just for the past
twenty thirty years, but for most of American history. Liberals
love to tell you that America is a melting pot.
It's true we are, and that's something we should be
proud of. But we should also remember that in order
(34:32):
to be part of the pot, you need to be
able to assimilate into it.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
If you cannot speak.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
English, if you do not share our values, if you
do not believe in civil rights, individual rights, and liberties,
you probably don't belong here. I'm sorry, Sharia is not
compliant with Western culture. Somebody who traffics children for a
cartel in Central America does not belong here. There's some
people who are too shortsighted to understand everything I just said.
(34:57):
They'll misinterpret it is xenophobia, racism. I hate xenophobes. I
can't stand him. I can't stand xenophobes, and I can't
stand Canadians, two of my least favorite people.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
But this isn't about Canadians. It's about Guatemalans.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
There's a report today in Newsweek, and it tells you
something that's honest, but then at the same time they
try to mislead you into believing it's worse than what
it actually is.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
I'll just read you the article.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Aliah Shoeb Sure that's an American naturalized American citizen. Aliah
shob is reporting today that MAGA is calling for Democratic
representative to be deported over Guatemala comments. Guatemala comments. What
were the comments? Did she say something racist about Guatemalans.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
No.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
She flew down to.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Mexico City to join a bunch of other lawmakers and
politicians and public officials, and a woman named Representative Delia Ramirez,
a Democratic lawmaker from the state of Illinois, told people
in Spanish on stage into a microphone and TV cameras, quote,
I'm a proud Guatemalan before I'm an American. I'm a
(36:03):
proud Guatemalan before I'm an American. She's not the first
person who have done this. Not long ago, a lawmaker
from the Minnesota area Minneapolis, more specifically, Ilhan Omar held
a political rally with the President of Somalia. Standing next
to the President of Somalia, he told the audience that
she was the congressional representative for Somalians. As if Somalia
(36:27):
is the fifty first state, it's not. Neither's Guatemala. So
there's plenty of people on the right suggesting Ramirez should
be deported. I don't know if that's the right response
to this. I think she should be tried for treason.
This is a traitorous act. When you tell the world
I'm not loyal to the very country you were elected
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to represent as a lawmaker, the very country you put
your hand on a Bible and swore your allegiance to,
you have now violated that oath that you've made. I
assume there are a lot of people out there listening
right now that agree with me. I think one of
them is one of our producers and one of the reporters.
Down the hall here, a young man named Ethan Buchanan
(37:08):
joins me right now in studio.
Speaker 8 (37:11):
Ethan, did I leave anything out about this story that
you think was noteworthy? No, I think that's pretty much
the size and shape of it. She her mother, as
I understand it, and I could be wrong on this,
but I'm pretty sure I'm not was an illegal alien,
and then she was born here in the United States,
and so she gets citizenship just by being a citizen.
(37:32):
You might want to fact check me on that. I
read that on X SO I don't know how true
it is.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
According to Rolling Stone Magazine representative Delia Ramirez, his husband
is undocumented.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
Oh, there we go.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
So and according to my co host, I think her
mom was too. She's married a guy named Boris Hernandez.
He's a former DACA recipient.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
Of course he is. And she is the.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
Only member of Congress in a mixed status marriage grief.
Speaker 8 (38:00):
So again, yes, so it makes sense for her to say, oh,
I'm a Guatemalan.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
First.
Speaker 8 (38:06):
What it doesn't make sense for is for her to
be in the country. If you're a Guatemalan first, if
all of your family is Guatemalan or whatever country they
came from. First of all, what are you doing here,
because clearly you don't want to be here. You mentioned
the melting pot, and I think that's a good point
because a lot of people don't understand what a melting
pot is. It's not just for you to put a
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bunch of things that are different in one place. The
purpose is for them to mix and become one thing.
Like when you're making a stew. You don't put all
the ingredients in the pot and then hope they all
stay separate, right, you want them to be mixed into
one thing.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
That's what America is.
Speaker 8 (38:45):
That's what American immigrants, immigrants into America are supposed to
be doing. But more and more we're seeing people like
this lady, like ilan Omar, who are not here to
become Americans. They're here to be official American government agents
for foreign countries, which, like you pointed out, Yeah, it
sounds like treason to port her at best. But there's
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an argument to be made that she's committed treason by
swearing an oath to the United States and then publicly
expressing the fact that no, I'm loyal to Guatemala.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
Right exactly, American lawmakers. Here's something that's indisputably true, objectively true.
American lawmakers swear an oath on a bible to uphold
the Constitution. If they violate the South by declaring loyalty
to another country, that's a breach of duty that leads
to political consequences, at least it's supposed to. They should
be censured, they should be removed from office, loss of
(39:38):
public trust, at the very least. But the question becomes,
is this the legal definition of treason? I think at
the very least, there should probably be a congressional hearing
to address the fact that the person did this. Yeah,
at most, probably charge of the crime.
Speaker 8 (39:54):
Yeah, at minimum, the minimum that any and by the way,
this should absolutely piss you of, right, Like, if you're
watching what is essentially foreign people who have no desire
to be Americans. These are essentially agents of foreign governments
coming in and taking over your country, you should be
livid about this. The absolute bare minimum that should happen
(40:18):
is she should be thrown out of the House. Every
single representative in the House should vote to throw her out.
Speaker 3 (40:25):
She should be kicked out at.
Speaker 8 (40:26):
Minimum, and then we'll let the lawyers decide if there's
legal consequences. I think there should be, but that's for
all the lawyers to dide.
Speaker 2 (40:35):
Ethan Buchanan, what's going on on your show? You have
a podcast and a radio show that could be heard
every Sunday night here on KEEPRC. You're a zoomer, you're
in your early twenties, So it's Ted Cruise's show on
Sunday evenings, then yours.
Speaker 8 (40:46):
Yeah, Ted Cruz at six and then I'm at seven.
I talk about everything everything culture, I talk about politics.
I've got this one clip that I'm going to be
talking about. Here's a little previeum saving it in my
back pocket. We had this lady I saw this today
who got on TikTok to complain about the fact that
she keeps having to quit all of her full time,
forty hour a week jobs because she can't manage to
(41:11):
do her forty hours of work and quote unquote self care. Now,
most people when they hear self care, well that's just oh,
going to coffee, going to the spa, you know, all
the ridiculous things that millennials love to do. No, when
she says self care, she's referring to things like taking
a shower. She couldn't budget time to take a shower
and work forty hours a week, so we're gonna be
talking about that.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
Wow, that is fascinating.
Speaker 2 (41:33):
My man, Ethan Buchanan always covering interesting topics on his show,
And for the record, I think I find the fact
that people in your generation are skewing more conservative than
previous generations to be very refreshing.
Speaker 3 (41:43):
Ethan. It's because we saw you.
Speaker 8 (41:45):
Guys, we saw the millennials and we thought, no, man,
I hope you're right about that.
Speaker 2 (41:49):
Ethan Buchanan, you're my brother, dude. Then you're doing the show.
To the rest of you. I love you all. We'll
be back bright and early tomorrow morning for more of
what you bought a radio for. Don't forget to subscribe
to the podcast. Oh This Friday, I'll be doing stand
up comedy at Bruski's in Hattiesburg with Jesse Payton. Saturday
night we will be in Denhim Springs at Southern Rhythm.
Speaker 3 (42:06):
Get your tickets now, have a good day, y'all. Will
be back tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (42:15):
You are listening to the Pursuit of Happiness Radio for
the government to kiss your ass when you listen to
this show.
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