September 17, 2025 • 42 mins
This podcast edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness features author Austin Petersen and journalist Brandon Waltens. ( @KennethRWebster )
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
Happy. National DEI Day.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Today is National DEI Day, Diversity Equity and Inclusion Day,
or as I call it, Wednesday. Thanks for turning on
your radio kids. Austin Peterson libertarian nationalist godfather. As I
refer to him, I mean I he created the movement.
I don't know if that's the right moniker or not,
but he'll be here to talk about what happened yesterday
at a Senate hearing involving the FBI and Cash Battel.
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And we're not going to be I mean, I'm not
thrilled with Cash Battel or pam Bondi right now a
little more not thrilled with Pambondi than I am with
Cash Patel.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
But we'll explain why.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Also stopping by speaking of Austin, we're going to go
to Austin, Texas, where Brandon Waltons will give it the
latest from our state's capital and a lot more. To
stick around for that, but Before we get to any
of that, The New York Post is a piece today
about what happened yesterday in the trial of this very
famous assassin. No, not the guy that killed Charlie Kirk,
although we will talk about that, Luigi Mangione, Remember the
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guy that murdered the United Healthcare ceo. They are not one,
but three trials happening around the country right now for
famous left wing assassins. I can't help but notice there
are no right wing assassins on trial right now. But
somehow we're supposed to believe that political violence is going
in both directions. So if you don't mine, let's talk
for a minute about the guy that killed the United
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Healthcare ceo. I think plainly believing that America isn't seeing
enough political violence. The judge in that case, Justice Gregory Carro,
tossed the terrorism charges in Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's murder
case against Luigi Mangione. The district attorney, according to the judge,
hadn't proved that Mangione acted with terroristic content, simply because
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the judge reads Luigi's writings as only indicating a desire
to draw attention to what he perceived as the greed
of the insurance industry. Wow, okay, so let's start with this.
The DNA's job is to convince the jury, not the judge,
of Mangione's motives. The judge essentially prejudged evidence and arguments
the prosecution would produce a trial and with a truly
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bizarre reading of the law, It's not the judge's job
to decide. It's the jury's job. The relevant Statues defines
terrorism as quote an act intended to intimidate or coerce
a civilian population, influence government policy, or affect government conduct.
If Luigi Mangione murdered the United Healthcare CEO because he
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didn't like the healthcare laws, doesn't it sound a lot
like that's exactly what he did. Yeah, the premeditated and
calculated execution of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. In by
the way, doesn't it bother you We all know the
suspect's name and not the victim's name. Well, that premeditated
and calculated execution plainly aimed to strike terror and fear
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among other health insurers. That would mean intimidate and insurers
are in fact civilians, believe.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
It or not.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
So the suspect Luigi absolutely aimed to quote influence government policy.
That's the point of drawing attention to quote unquote greed.
It's terrible, the lawless ruling of this judge. One cheers
from leftists. They were gathered outside the court. They were thrilled.
They're all fans of this guy. They think he's fantastic.
They think he's sexy and handsome and probably, in my opinion,
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making a sex symbol out of a murderer is a
bad idea if you don't want there to be more murders.
But well, shockingly, they turn this guy into a poster
child for leftists, a sex appeal, and now, weirdly enough,
there have been other assassination attempts around the Country's shocking, right,
These people leave their gripes about the healthcare system justify
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some guy getting murdered.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
And that's it. Right, the judge won the.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Approval of the Ghuls who support terrorism in the name
of this cause. It's disgusting. His ruling is so bizarre.
You have to wonder if he feels the same way.
Does this judge actually support it? See is he one
of them too? It's sick. We've really been let down
by a lot of our government officials right now, another one,
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Pam Bondi. We're going to talk more about this coming
up in just a little bit with Austin Peterson in
the next segment. But as was reported in The New
York Post today, the Attorney General Pam Bondi started trying
to walk back her embrace of hate speech exception to
the First Amendment. She made this point about how we
have to investigate hate speech because hate speech is not
free speech, which is exactly wrong. This plays right into
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lefty charges that the right is rushing to suppress legal
dissent in the wake of the horrific assassination to Charlie Kirk.
Charlie Kirk would not have agreed with Pam Bondi on this.
In fact, here's Charlie Kirk in twenty twenty four May
twenty twenty four. He said, quote, hate speech does not
exist legally in America. There's ugly speech, there's gross speech,
there's evil speech, and all of it is protected by
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the First Amendment.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
He's absolutely right.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
What is the point of having free speech if not
to protect controversial speech. It's not about protecting the words
on a menu. Kids, It's not about protecting your balls
and strikes at a baseball game. That's not the point.
The point of free speech having an amendment in our
constitution to defend free speech is that controversial speech is
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not criminalized. I think Charlie Kirk's words nicely sum up
the American position, going back to at least Thomas Jefferson.
By the way, did I mention today's Constitution day. There
were Constitution haters like Woodrow Wilson who would have said
we have no free speech. They were wrong. Woodrow Wilson
was a racist, by the way. We'll talk more about
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him coming up in a little bit. But Bondie's reversal
to arguing only that speech that crosses the line into
threats of violence is not protected by the First Amendment,
and free speech does not and will never protect violence.
She's irrelevant. What she's saying is irrelevant. It's wrong. It's
shocking that the Attorney General is so wrong. Note that
censoring speech is entirely different from free individuals and institutions
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applying consequences for speech they find objectable objectionable. It's absolutely
okay for private players to punish their employees if they
don't like what they're saying, that's fine, You're not free
from consequences.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Free speech is intrinsically messy.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
People argue back and forth, citing facts true and false,
on the assumption that by and large most of us
can figure out the right and true well enough to
keep muddling along without government sensors to stomp out what
they decide is hate or disinformation. Free spee just served
the nation just fine for two centuries. I think we
ought to keep that up.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
They see, whenever you lose sight of the enemy, look
behind you. Yeah, that's a bad paranoia right there. Probably
brought on by a bong ripper too. Kenny Webster's pursuit
of happiness.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
My mom, bless her, bless her soul.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
I love my mother. My mom recently contacted me. She
found this old VHS tape of me in high school,
and it was from a school presentation what do you
want to be when you grow up?
Speaker 2 (07:26):
One of those kinds of things. And I had.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Briefly flirted with the idea of working for the FBI
or the CIA, doing some kind of intelligence work for
the government. And as soon as my mom showed me
this video, I thought, oh my god, we have got
to destroy this right now. Oh go ahead, and can
we erase the videotape please? It was I was humiliated
to see that that. At one point, back in the nineties,
when I was a teenage version of myself, I actually
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thought there was something admirable about being a spy for
the government. I don't know, but you know, in my defense,
Nintendo sixty four was hot at the time. Everybody was
playing GoldenEye. Being a secret agent for the government just
meant something different than what it means, and that it
was mostly just a good video game, I think. But
all I have being said a lot of times past.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
We did James.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Komy and all you know, Peter Stroke and Lisa Page
and all these other corrupt FBI officials we met since then,
and then finally came along Cash Battel, and I don't
I wouldn't say he's doing perfect at his new job,
but I don't dislike him as much as previous people.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
I thought it was a little odd that.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Trump praised him for how he captured the Charlie Kirk Assassin.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
He didn't capture the Charlie Kirk Assassin.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
The Charlie Kirkussassen handed himself in but okay, so Cash
Betel's not perfect. At least he's not the last administration's.
I mean, they were much worse. Right yesterday, they had
a hearing on Capitol Hill and Austin. What was the
name of the hearing, Operation Arctic something, What was it?
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Hey, Kay, thanks for having me on the show today,
and hello to all the good people on the Gulf Coast,
the Gulf of America. Thanks so much for tuning in here. Yeah,
they called it Arctic frost, and it sort of reheated
in a way from the Obama years of the type
of government weaponization that we've seen of the Department of
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Justice now that they did with the IRS during the
lowest learner of Barack Obama years. What we found out
is what you or I could have easily guessed, Kenny,
was that the government when the Democrats are in charge,
weaponizes it against its enemies. And while Trump has done
a lot in defunding these left wing NGOs through the
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destruction of USA, the shuddering of the money that gets
funneled from the US taxpayers directly to these leftist activists
and these left wing groups, clearly we haven't done enough
in the police hours of the government to try and
strip out the corruption that has been used to crack
down on people like Charlie Kirkin, Turning Point USA. Because
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when I was working at Freedom Works way back in
two thousand and thirteen, I believe that was that was
when you know, we had to bring in extra accountants
to account for all of the audits, the multiple audits
that the Barack Obama administration used against us for political
purposes because the Tea parties were danger to him and
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to their agenda, and so and now what we see
is that Charlie Kirk, Turning Point USA under you know,
when it was a sort of a drive by casualty
in their attempt to take out Donald Trump with the
Russia collusion hoax and the conspiracy charges that they made
against him, the impeachment hoax, all of these attacks, they
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people like Charlie Kirk and Turning Point have been targeted
in much the same way as the Tea Party groups
were back in the day. I guess the big question
is what are we going to do about it? Because frankly,
the problem with Republicans is that they make all these
promises when they take power that there's going to be
all these these hearings, there's inquiries, right, but when are
they actually going to arrest somebody for these crimes? One
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of the actually can arrest anybody for engaging this god
of behavior? Yet, Christopher Ray, Right, how many people you
know could we could we purp walk today based on
actionable crimes that these people have committed using the power
of government to go after their political enemies. It just
strikes me. I know, you're like neutral, lukewarm on cash
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and certainly I am starting Tom I'm I'm lukewarm to
getting mildly negative because they kept telling us all, you know,
just way justice is coming. I think that they screwed
the pooch on the Epstein files. And now we're listening
to the Attorney General of the United States talking about
hate crimes and they're going to go after hate crimes,
and it just it feels like things are really off kilter.
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And I don't know how they could possibly have any
kind of act take action against something like this arctic
frost when they can't they can't seem to get the
message straight about basic conservative principles. So you know, it's
a mess, Kenny, It's a mess.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
I agree, By the way, I didn't even introduce you properly.
That's the voice of Austin Peterson, libertarian nationalist and author.
Austin and I he's one of my political I mean,
I think I'm politically adjacent to Austin.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
I generally tend to agree with him.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Austin and I are both from the libertarian movement, and
we support the MAGA movement, even if we're not like
red hat wearing MAGA guys ourself. Austin, you explained it
perfectly now, all that you know, it could be worse.
I guess Donald Trump has a history of bad attorney generals.
I don't know if Cash Betell's the problem. I think
it's Pam Bondi. Over the past week she told us
she was going to investigate Office Depot after two of
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their employees wouldn't print out flyers for a Charlie Kirk provigil. Now,
mind you, those two people already got fired. Didn't the
free market already solve that problem for us? Why do
we need the attorney general to get involved?
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Well, here's the thing. I'm glad you brought this up
because there needs to be a strong distinction, because some
leftists are saying things like all now, all of this
cancel culture that's going on that the Conservatives are engaging in,
it's backed by the full force and power of the government. Well,
first of all, you know, it's it's not true that
what's happening to these leftists and losing their job, it's
cancel culture. Cancel culture is when you tell us, you
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report to somebody's boss that they gave a twenty five
dollars donation to Turning Point USA, and you get them
fired from their job for you know, supporting Kyle Rittenhouse
who was defending himself. Consequence culture is when you're celebrating
political assassinations and actual murder and your boss has decided
not to do, not to work with you anymore. And
that's the free market right because free speech, as you
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well know, Kenny being adjacent to me, that free speech
is that the government can't censor what you are doing.
And the leftists they love to trot that out during
COVID nineteen with our opinions on vaccinations, you know, during
the the Obiden years, as I call it, they love
to trot out. Oh, it's it's not a it's not
a cancel it cancelation is it's still free speech because
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it's happening in the free market. It's not the government
doing well. Now that's coming back to bite them in
the butt. So there's the question of what is canceled
culture and what is consequence culture. That's one aspect of this,
and then there is what the government actually is doing
and what they should be doing. What the government is doing,
I don't know. I don't have any idea. Pam Bondi
is making no sense, screwing up all over the place.
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Maybe cash Pata is doing fine. I don't know. But
what the government should do is they should treat Antifa
and many of these Trantifa groups as we like to
call them, You should treat them the same way that
they treated the KKK in this country. The government systematically
dismantled the ku Klux Klan, taking apart its organizations and
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its many outfits. The KKK was that at its height,
I think in the nineteen twenties, and then the government
systematically broke it down. For the terrorist organization that it
was like committing assassinations, political assassinations, committing murders. It wasn't,
it wasn't it wasn't unpopular to do. I think that
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the American people, especially now, which I'm seeing all across
the country people registering as Republicans. My brother Justin used
to be like a soft Democrat, like he was probably
a Hillary Clinton voter. In two thousand and eight, after
the Charlie Kirk assassination, he registered Republicans the first time
in his life last week. I'm seeing this in many
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such cases. So the left doesn't even know how what
they have done is what the backlash to that is
going to be, and that might be coming a lot
sooner than they think, right with elections have consequences, so
we'll see what happens in the upcoming midterms. And I
know Charlie Kirk's turning point. USA is also getting thousands
and thousands of people. More people are trying to sign
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up right now than groups that they already have pushed,
So that's also very exciting.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Yeah, government should.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
The guy's probably converted more people to the right posthumously
than anybody that's alive for the last year or two.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
It's like Jesus's smarter them, right is it just like
John the backst you You murdered someone and all it
does is create you murder Christ and it creates Christians.
You murdered John the Baptist, It creates more Christians, right,
you murdered Charlie Kirk, it creates more conservative Christian activists
and conservative Christian activist is is is what we need
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right now to get to fight against the left. But
what we really need, Kenny, is we need the government.
We need Pam Bondi to get on our level. We
need to get get her on our well, understand what
conservative principles are. It's unfortunate that she has to be
at you know, learning this on the job. So we
need to educate her on what conservative principles are.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
That's true and we need it. Yeah, well, we need.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
To investigate hate speech. It's like, come on, lady. You
know who would not agree with that? As Charlie Kirk.
He would have hated that. He would have hated knowing
that the Attorney General was going to go investigate people
for speech crimes as a result of his death.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
That Charlie Kirk would have hated that.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
I just don't think, you know, she's not really one
of us. I would say. I'm not saying she's like
not conservative or that she hasn't come along, but it's
like she's not like you or I, where she's kind
of steeped in the in the philosophical condition of conservatism.
So I think that again she's sort of learning this
on the job. And like a lot of people, they
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just become lawyers and they get into politics and they
choose a party and they get you know, they say
what they think people want to hear. And honestly, if
Pam Bondi had had said this fifteen years ago, twenty
years ago in a Republican administration, nobody would have bound
it and I nobody would have blinked. But now I
think people are a little bit more aware of the
issues and are starting, you know, more people are coming
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online or getting red pilled, as they like to say,
are rightfully speaking out against what you know, the Department
of Justice head is saying right now. And my hope
is that if she can't figure it out, that they
might we might get lucky and get a good replacement
for her, But unfortunately that would probably stall the momentum
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that we have right now and whether Kenny in every
crisis is an opportunity, and I think right now we
really do need to take an opportunity, and we need
to we need to surge. We need to grow our movement,
we need to get more people in. We need to
expose the left for what they are. I think somebody
was like, Austin, you, why do you keep posting all
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these hateful device or things that leftists are saying on
your social media? And I'm like, because I think now
is really an important time for people to see so terrible.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Yeah, hey, we have to take a quick break. Can
you hang into another segment because I don't think we're
done talking about this?
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Okay, sure you.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
That's Austin Peterson. Follow him on XAP for Liberty, one
of the greatest authors. I would say that Austin is
the godfather of the libertarian nationalist movement, in which I'm
a proud member.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
More about Pam Bondy.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
This hearing at the FBI yesterday, What did a crazy
mazy Herono say, don't go anywhere, We'll tell you.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
So we're supposed to live within our income, so we
can afford to pay taxes to a government they can't
live within its income. Yeah. That Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Cracker Barrel just announced they are going back to making
biscuits from scratch.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
I think it's great.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Cracker Barrel is a place where the biscuits are just
as white and fluffy as their customers, and I am
here for it.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Kids. Welcome back from break.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
I've been talking to Austin Peterson, the creator of the
Libertarian Nationalist movement, a notable Trump supporter, but not necessarily
somebody that worships at the altar of any politician, including Trump.
We were talking about his Attorney General, Pam Bondy.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
In this country, free speech and then there's hate speech,
and there is no.
Speaker 6 (19:38):
Place, especially now, especially after what happened to Charlie in
our society.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Kay.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
No, I'm sorry. There's not free speech and then there's
hate speech. There's just free speech, Pam Bondy. That's the
whole point, Austin Peterson, I ask you this, what would
Calvin Coolidge say?
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Well, you couldn't get him to say even two words
about something like this, to be Calvin was known as
the silent President. But thanks for having me back, Kenny.
Here's what I think the government should do. Back in
the day, we faced a threat from the ku Klux Klan.
These were violent dogs, burning homes, lynching people, and they
used violence to control communities through fear, and the government,
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through law enforcement and legal pressure, dismantled them. And they
didn't do it by silencing people's speech. They didn't arrest
people for saying the N word, right, they cracked down
on their crimes and they held them accountable under the law.
And today we're facing a similar pattern, but now they're
wearing a different costume. These are people who instead of
wearing white hoods, they're wearing black masks, rainbow flags, carrying
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Antifa banners. And the solution is the same. Apply the
law equally, treat political violence on the left the same
way that the ku Klux Klan was treated. Investigate them,
prosecute them, dismantle their organizations that advocate for terror or intimidation.
A lot of these streamers, like Destiny and Hassan, these
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are people who routinely advocate for violence to be used
against their political opponents. They call for genocide of conservatives
in this country. I'm sorry, but that that to me
is actionable. Right. If we were strong enough to break
the KKK, then we're strong enough to take down these
modern day mobs that promote violence in the streets against
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our leaders. So that's what I would recommend. I don't
know if Calvin Coolidge would do that, but I know
that's what I would do ifire president.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
You know, ironically, I think right before Calvin Coolidge was
Woodrow Wilson, who I think loved the ku Klux Klan, didn't.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
He He was, Yeah, he was. He was the person
who displayed the Ku Klux Klan's revisionist history movie. Actually
he displayed it in the White House. He was a
famous racist. He said, you know, what would you say
to black people who want to vote for you? And
he's like, if they did something like that, that's a
mistake and they should correct it. Yeah. Woodrow Wilson the left,
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the left, He is basically the intellectual godfather of the
progressive movement. And it's the same for the Margaret Sanger chick,
who you know created planned parenthood, right. The whole reason
why she created that was so that she could go
in and stop people horn mentally deficient and and and
blacks from reproducing at a high n F rate. So,
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but that's history. That's the kind of history that will
get you shot on a comp college campus if you
say it out loud.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Man, that's exactly true. All right, let's talk about this
for a minute.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Cash Btelli yesterday with Senator Maizie crazy Herono talking about
the pull up requirements. I'm so old, Austin, I can
remember when Democrats thought that trans women should compete with
biological women in sports, which makes this sound bit it
a little confusing.
Speaker 7 (22:49):
The question I had is.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Yeah, go ahead, And she's looking through her notes here,
she's a little.
Speaker 7 (22:55):
Sweat that you are not requiring applicants to be able
to do a certain kind of pull ups, which a
lot of women cannot because of physiological differences. Are you
requiring these kinds of pull ups?
Speaker 8 (23:15):
We're requiring a physical program at BFTC at Quantico because
FBI agents carrying guns in the field have to chase
down bad guys and do really hard work of the
physical fitness standards of those agents.
Speaker 7 (23:27):
So are you ping these signs of pull ups?
Speaker 8 (23:30):
We're requiring everybody to pass the eighteen eleven standards at BFTC.
If you want to chase down a bad guy and
put him in handcuffs, you better be able to do
a pull up.
Speaker 7 (23:41):
The reason I ask is that other I'm gonna.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
I'm gonna pauseit it right here, Austin I can't help
but notice they want trans men to compete with biological women,
but they think the rules should be different for biological
women when they want to be fbi agents. Obviously a
little inconsistency here in the progressive principles, Am I wrong?
Speaker 4 (23:59):
I mean, you had to know that the LGBT movement
was never going to last as a cohesive, solid movement
when you had the T the transgender that denies the
bee which is bisexual, because is in bisexual admitting that
there's a dichotomy of sexes. So there's a little bit
of conflict there.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
I would agree with that.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
So then you know you obviously she's admitting that there
are biological differences between themen. Obviously this blows up the
whole left experiment in recent days. I mean they but
again if the problem Kenny with looking the way we
look at this versus how the left looks at this.
We look at this logically, but they don't look at
this logically. This is not about logic for them. All
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of these people who are saying these awful, evil things
that Charlie Kirk said, he never said. So they live
in a fantasy land. Here's how I would sort of
how I would picture this, Kenny. It's like, you know,
you're fighting an enemy. Okay, I'm sure that George Soros
and his cronies and the people who are bankrolling the left,
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they're probably they're probably very logical people. They use reason.
You could probably have a conversation with some of the
less elite and they would explain to you their whole meeting.
You know, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, his definition of freedom and
the way that he addresses it logically is that the
chicken in every pot. If you're not if you're hungry,
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you're not free. But you and I, we don't define
freedom the same way. You could understand why FDR defined
freedom as freedom from hunger, freedom from fear. But in
his definition of freedom, he's creating the welfare state, he's
creating the works recovery projects, he's creating the New Deal,
he's creating the welfare state. He's creating you know, his
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definition of freedom is so antithetical to what we believe, Kenny,
that it's like we live on completely different planets. Our freedom.
Definition of freedom is freedom from freedom from tyranny, freedom
from control, the freedom to make decisions about our lives.
Individually from freedom from being having the majority of our
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money stolen from us every year and working half of
our lives just to pay for the government so that
the other guy can get a chicken in his pot.
So knowing that, knowing that the problem is is that
those people using those arguments have are coming against us,
are sending out their foot soldiers. It's it's like, you
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may not have a problem with the average leftist. We
interact with them in our communities. You meet them, probably
gonna go to Walmart. There's the cashier, they got purple hair.
You kind of assume, right, But the problem is that
those people are weaponized. They act like it's like the
zombie plants. They can be they can be turned on
and off using social media, using algorithms. Their brains are mushy,
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it's soft, and they it's I don't know, if you
ever watch those Natures Specials where like a wasp will
like lay its eggs inside of another like a spider,
and then the things will emerge out of it. It's
like body snatchers kind of a thing. Yes, yeah, this
is so the left. Because they're so mushy headed, they
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they'll listen to things like FDR who tells and there,
or George Soros who says you're not free if you're hungry,
you're not free if you're poor, and then they're like,
you're right, I'm not free if I'm poor. I shouldn't
have to stand here in this line and work and
do this cashier thing. Capitalism is what's what's killing us.
And then the problem is is that they take those
purple hair freaks and then they unleash them on us
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like a virus. It operates like a they operate like
a botnet. They swarm. And I've had this happen to
me just in the last couple of weeks because I
appeared on the Occupied Democrats Facebook page. They were all
attacking me over supporting Trump because you know, the tariffs
are hurting my business, so they're all, you know, they're
swarming me. They're swarm. I'm getting swarms of hey death
threats in the last week, Kenny. And it's because these people,
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their brains are soft mush, and they it's it's like,
you know, when you look at Patsy's throughout history, people
that you know, the conspiracies have happened, and Patsy's have
you know, gone out there and done the bidding of
government agents. I mean the ladies. The two women who
murdered Kim Jong UN's brother in the airport, Those two
women who assassinated him they didn't even know that what
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they were doing was they legitimately didn't know that they
were committing a political assassination. They were so mush headed
that they that they had been used by intelligence agencies
to do what they thought was a social media prank,
and they ended up killing the guy. And it was
all because the government of North Korea had managed to
brainwash these chicks and had them commit a political assassination
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which killed Kim Johnson's brother. There's eve it, right, but
it's it operates in a similar way. Look what at
this Tyler Robinson, this mush brain kid. You know, he
had everything going for him, and then all of a
sudden he gets plugged into the left neural networks and
the wasps laid the eggs in his brain. And then
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you know, now we see the fruits of that as
you know, the as the violence and the terrorism comes
bursting forth. It's a brain virus. They operate like a botnet.
They swarm when they attack. That's because they're collectivists, they're communists,
and they're just frankly, they're just not they're not as
intelligent as they like to think that they are. They
don't understand. And that is why so many of them
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have mental illness, open mental illness, right, those are they?
Speaker 2 (29:29):
They admit it and they celebrate it.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
Yes, And and when then then what do they do?
They unleash these violent, evil retards on the rest of us,
and they do it, and and then what do we do?
And then they kill and they attack us in the streets.
And then when we and then you know, when we
have a recourse where we take if we dare take
a recourse, then we are the aggressors, right, We're the
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evil ones. And and this plays out on a metal level,
and it plays out on a micro level, And this
is what we're saying. So, you know, I don't know
if Pambondi and the Department of Justice as it is
currently constituted is capable of taking a threat. If you
can't even speak the conservative language of free speech and
hate speech, how in the hell are you possibly going
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to dismantle these kinds of neural networks that we are
at war with. We're outgunned, Kenny. The fact is is
that we are outgunned, and you know, our backs are
to the wall. And I don't see a whole lot
of warriors to my lapter, to my right. I see you, Kenny.
I don't see many other people. I don't see many
other people out there, you know, with their spears pointed
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out or the wagon circled. I see a lot of grifters.
I see a lot of people, you know, taking this
opportunity to try and monetize Charlie Kirk as much as
they possibly can, or say that they know, or to
reveal private text messages that they had with them. I
see a lot of I see a lot of crap
out there on the right, Kenny, But I don't see
a lot of Charlie Kirk's. There was only one Charlie Kirk,
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and he's gone, and I don't know who's going to
replace him. I don't think anybody can. I hate to
end on a down note, but that's just those are
the facts as I see him.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Well, I hope it's not somebody worse.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Right about all that being said, you talked about people
grifting off of his death. I want to let everybody
know Austin and I are actually selling we are Charlie
t shirts at I love WJ dot Com. One percent
of that money will go towards charity. You know, people
asked us if we can make sure it's available like that.
We're happy to do it, but you know we'll just
get We're giving the money over to a very worthy cause.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
And yeah, I donated mine what we've already sold of
Charlie stuff because people were just hitting me up a
lot Kenny, and I felt really conflicted about it, but
then I thought, you know what, they want to wear
it to rally if they want to have stuff to
remember him by. So I made it, and I've already
made a donation to Turning Point and any other sales
that we get in any profits that I get, I
will donate straight to Turning Point.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Happy to do it.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Hey, Austin, I got to tell you, I think you
do a great job right in our online store and
I'm glad you're out there, brother.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
Thanks Bud. Check it out I love WJ dot Com.
There's more than just Charlie's stuff there. We actually have
been adding a bunch of new stuff for you guys,
So keep an eye on on that collection as it's
been revamped and updated. We're actually undergoing a major overhaul
of the I LOVEWJ dot com website, So keep an
eye on that in the coming days bookmarket and check
it out. We lovingly call it the grift Shop.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
Hey, and while you're at it, follow Austin on Ax
and Instagram. You'll be glad you did.
Speaker 5 (32:23):
The only thing that hurts more than paying taxes not
paying taxes Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Well, it is Constitution Day here in the United States
of America.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
I think that used to be something we taught young
people on this day.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
In seventeen eighty seven, the US Constitution was signed by
thirty nine delegates to the Constitutional Convention.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
And what was the first amendment? Guys? Does everybody remember?
Speaker 3 (32:53):
The first Amendment was free speech, the right to free expression,
the right to assemble, the right to petition. It's all
kind of falls under the same unbred there. You have
a right to express yourself, but that doesn't mean you're
free from consequences. Right, there's cancel culture and there's consequence culture.
We've talked about that a lot this week on the Radio.
Boy there are a lot of news stories about public
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educators going out and praising the Charlie Kirk assassin. Do
I need to point out that that was a school shooting.
Imagine being a public school teacher on social media celebrating
a school shooting. Forget about the politics of this for
a minute. Can you imagine any scenario where you would
not lose your job for that. One hundred and eighty
teachers from government run schools are currently under investigation around Texas.
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Here with the story Brandon Waltons of Texas scorecard dot com.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
Brandon, is it as bad as it sounds?
Speaker 4 (33:47):
It really is.
Speaker 9 (33:48):
I mean, I think that people are paying attention, especially
on social media. Over the last several days, since the
shooting of Charlie Kirk last week, You've seen war hundreds
thousands of people have been called out for despicable responses, right,
people celebrating literally celebrating the assassination of Charlie Kirk last week.
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And you know, you've got different groups that have been
working out there trying to expose these people, saying, hey,
call their employers, let them know. I mean, look, this
is exactly you know what the left would have no
problem doing in a situation like this. And to your point,
I mean, there are you know, there's freedom of speeches,
not freedom of consequences. The shocking thing, though, is that
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these people don't just work for you know, little corporations
here there or you know, office depot. We certainly saw
that story Nashley. A lot of them were working in
our public schools, and the Texas Education Agency in Mike
Morath was the head of the TEA has An announced
that they're investigating one hundred and eighty I think it's
probably over one hundred and eighty now, one hundred and
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eighty teachers for this kind of you know, celebration of violence.
And it's just hard to imagine that these are the
kind of people that we have teaching our children.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
Yeah, and you know, to that point, I found a
social media post from a prosecutor from the Harris County
DA's office here in Houston, basically mocking Charlie Kirk after
his death. I posted screenshots and evidence of it online
that it was shared tens of thousands of times, one
of my most widely shared posts I ever put on
social media brand And I don't see any news from
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any outlet. I don't see anybody at the Harris County
DA's office doing anything about that. Meanwhile, you don't have
to look far to find this stuff. Here is MSNBC
reporter Brandy Zidrosny telling us that apparently you and I
are just wrong brand and we're just imagining this.
Speaker 6 (35:44):
You're besides Donald Trump arguably ever and so or right now,
and so there's a lot of grappling to do. But
to suggest that the internet is cheering for this is
just the opposite, total opposite of what's actually happening.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
It is MSNBC's that people are not celebrating Charlie Kirk's
death on the internet. Brandon, I'm not even looking for it,
and I keep stumbling onto this stuff.
Speaker 9 (36:09):
Correct, And you know, I'm just looking on X and stuff.
If you're on the Blue Sky, the one the liberals created,
you'll see even more of it. Yes, it's left and right.
It's happening right in front of us. It's happening, you know,
not just not just online, but it's also happening literally
out in public. We're seeing it happen on college campuses
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of all places.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
Yeah, in the meantime, let's head to a college campus
right now, Texas Tech. There's a couple of these news
stories today, one of them at Texas Tech, the other
I think at Texas State University. People just straight up,
I mean blatantly mocking the guy in public, some really graphic,
gory stuff captured on video. One student chanted, f y'all,
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Yohomi's dead. Tell us a story about Texas Tech please.
Speaker 9 (36:56):
Yeah. Well, I mean I think you laid it out.
You had this one student in particular, you know, literally
cheering on, you know, the death of Charlie Kirk right
there on campus, saying, yeah, your homie's dead, you know,
and that video went viral on social media. That student
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is no longer no longer a student there, I believe,
and in fact, because of that behavior and I think
some some other behavior that went along with it, they
had also been arrested there in Lubbock.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
All right, tell me about this.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
There is legislature now to examine higher education free speech
at issues in the wake of the Charlie Kirk assassination.
And does this involved Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick and Speaker
Dustin Burrows.
Speaker 9 (37:48):
It's both of them. So the House and the Senator
both setting up these interim committees that are supposed to
beet and talk about civil discourse on college campus, there's
something that seems to be really really lacking. Now I
mean right that I think I think the events of
last week really underscored that. And so you know what,
when they meet, what we exactly is going to come
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out of this? You know that that still remains to
be seen, but that so far has been the response
from the Texas legislature.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
Here's my idea, Brandon, and you know I've offered this
idea before. If there's one thing I hate, it's occupational licenses. Okay,
if there's one thing I hate, it's Illinois Nazis. To
quote the Blues Brothers, but I really don't like occupational.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
Like it's very strange to me that you need a license.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
To braid hair, or in Louisiana you need a license
to be a florist.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
That's crazy.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
But okay, if occupational licenses must exist, I think one
thing we should require a public school teachers is that
they not go out and encourage violence if you need it.
If an occupational license is a requirement to educate young
people in this state, because obviously, you know, we can't
just trust anybody teaching things to little kids. Certainly, teaching
little kids about violence should be wrong. Maybe if you're
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found guilty of this, you lose your occupational license.
Speaker 9 (39:03):
It seems like a pretty low bar, right And I'll
say this that you know, we obviously and we've talked
about it before, report about a lot of wrongdoing from
people who work in government schools. Those licenses often do
go under review. The Texas Education Administration oversees that, and
teachers do lose their licenses for acts like this. Now
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nobody's you know, nobody's lost the license specifically over this yet,
but the process takes a little bit of time. But
I'm with you. I think that you know, there should
be a higher bar for somebody who's going to spend
you know, seven hours a day with with children. I
think that, you know, at the very least, it's probably
it's probably pretty fair to say you shouldn't be out
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there celebrating people's assassination.
Speaker 3 (39:50):
In the meantime, I'm kind of unrelated to what we've
been talking about. Another bill, a little more legislation that
just passed. Governor Abbot signed a law he says, well
ban sharia count owns in Texas.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
Was this about epic city that places in Plano.
Speaker 9 (40:05):
This is in response to Epic City. Now, the legislature
itself doesn't talk about Sharia law or Islam. In fact,
actually what it does is it sort of targets the
sort of set up that epic city, which was this
proposed Muslim enclave up north of Dallas that hasn't been
constructed yet. There hasn't been any real construction there and
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it may never be, especially because of this law and
some other pushback that they've received. But essentially stops that
kind of loophole that existed in the law that could
create a malicious enclave neighborhood like that. He signed that
last week up in McKinney, up where that up near
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where that proposed epic city will be. And you know,
of course we've heard about you know, maybe some potential
other other neighborhoods like that popping up across the state,
but we have not we have not seen any of
them actually come to souition yet.
Speaker 3 (41:01):
Brandon Waltons Texas Scorecard dot Com. Brandon, is anybody from
your news at likely going to be at the Texas
Youth Summit this weekend?
Speaker 5 (41:09):
Uh?
Speaker 9 (41:09):
Potentially, So I've got it on my counter hopefully I'll
be able to see.
Speaker 2 (41:12):
You down there. Yeah, I hope so too. I hope
people do.
Speaker 3 (41:14):
Subscribe to Texas Scorecards email list at Texas scorecard dot
com if you haven't already done so. Find Brandon on
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you that are interested. On Friday and Saturday, the Texas
Youth Summit is taking place at the Marriotte Woodlands.
Speaker 2 (41:30):
The Woodlands, Marriotte, we do this every year.
Speaker 3 (41:32):
Charlie Cook Charlie Kirks shared the stage with us in
previous years. Sadly he will not be there this year
for obvious reasons. Some people that will be there though,
Governor Abbitt, Senator Ted Cruz, Steve Bannon, Texas Attorney General
Ken Paxton, Congressman Wesley Hunt is going to be there.
A Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna with a video message Alex
Clark from Turning Point, USA. You own me Park if
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you've never heard of her before. She is a defector
from communist North Korea. Maya Flores be their senator, a
state Senator Mas Middleton, and of course yours truly, Kenny Webster.
You can get tickets for that at Texas Youth Summit
dot com. I gotta run. I love you all, have
an awesome afternoon. We'll be back bright and early tomorrow
morning for more of what you bought a radio for.
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
Happy. National DEI Day.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Today is National DEI Day, Diversity Equity and Inclusion Day,
or as I call it, Wednesday. Thanks for turning on
your radio kids. Austin Peterson libertarian nationalist godfather. As I
refer to him, I mean I he created the movement.
I don't know if that's the right moniker or not,
but he'll be here to talk about what happened yesterday
at a Senate hearing involving the FBI and Cash Battel.
(00:48):
And we're not going to be I mean, I'm not
thrilled with Cash Battel or pam Bondi right now a
little more not thrilled with Pambondi than I am with
Cash Patel.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
But we'll explain why.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Also stopping by speaking of Austin, we're going to go
to Austin, Texas, where Brandon Waltons will give it the
latest from our state's capital and a lot more. To
stick around for that, but Before we get to any
of that, The New York Post is a piece today
about what happened yesterday in the trial of this very
famous assassin. No, not the guy that killed Charlie Kirk,
although we will talk about that, Luigi Mangione, Remember the
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guy that murdered the United Healthcare ceo. They are not one,
but three trials happening around the country right now for
famous left wing assassins. I can't help but notice there
are no right wing assassins on trial right now. But
somehow we're supposed to believe that political violence is going
in both directions. So if you don't mine, let's talk
for a minute about the guy that killed the United
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Healthcare ceo. I think plainly believing that America isn't seeing
enough political violence. The judge in that case, Justice Gregory Carro,
tossed the terrorism charges in Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's murder
case against Luigi Mangione. The district attorney, according to the judge,
hadn't proved that Mangione acted with terroristic content, simply because
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the judge reads Luigi's writings as only indicating a desire
to draw attention to what he perceived as the greed
of the insurance industry. Wow, okay, so let's start with this.
The DNA's job is to convince the jury, not the judge,
of Mangione's motives. The judge essentially prejudged evidence and arguments
the prosecution would produce a trial and with a truly
(02:28):
bizarre reading of the law, It's not the judge's job
to decide. It's the jury's job. The relevant Statues defines
terrorism as quote an act intended to intimidate or coerce
a civilian population, influence government policy, or affect government conduct.
If Luigi Mangione murdered the United Healthcare CEO because he
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didn't like the healthcare laws, doesn't it sound a lot
like that's exactly what he did. Yeah, the premeditated and
calculated execution of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. In by
the way, doesn't it bother you We all know the
suspect's name and not the victim's name. Well, that premeditated
and calculated execution plainly aimed to strike terror and fear
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among other health insurers. That would mean intimidate and insurers
are in fact civilians, believe.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
It or not.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
So the suspect Luigi absolutely aimed to quote influence government policy.
That's the point of drawing attention to quote unquote greed.
It's terrible, the lawless ruling of this judge. One cheers
from leftists. They were gathered outside the court. They were thrilled.
They're all fans of this guy. They think he's fantastic.
They think he's sexy and handsome and probably, in my opinion,
(03:42):
making a sex symbol out of a murderer is a
bad idea if you don't want there to be more murders.
But well, shockingly, they turn this guy into a poster
child for leftists, a sex appeal, and now, weirdly enough,
there have been other assassination attempts around the Country's shocking, right,
These people leave their gripes about the healthcare system justify
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some guy getting murdered.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
And that's it. Right, the judge won the.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Approval of the Ghuls who support terrorism in the name
of this cause. It's disgusting. His ruling is so bizarre.
You have to wonder if he feels the same way.
Does this judge actually support it? See is he one
of them too? It's sick. We've really been let down
by a lot of our government officials right now, another one,
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Pam Bondi. We're going to talk more about this coming
up in just a little bit with Austin Peterson in
the next segment. But as was reported in The New
York Post today, the Attorney General Pam Bondi started trying
to walk back her embrace of hate speech exception to
the First Amendment. She made this point about how we
have to investigate hate speech because hate speech is not
free speech, which is exactly wrong. This plays right into
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lefty charges that the right is rushing to suppress legal
dissent in the wake of the horrific assassination to Charlie Kirk.
Charlie Kirk would not have agreed with Pam Bondi on this.
In fact, here's Charlie Kirk in twenty twenty four May
twenty twenty four. He said, quote, hate speech does not
exist legally in America. There's ugly speech, there's gross speech,
there's evil speech, and all of it is protected by
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the First Amendment.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
He's absolutely right.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
What is the point of having free speech if not
to protect controversial speech. It's not about protecting the words
on a menu. Kids, It's not about protecting your balls
and strikes at a baseball game. That's not the point.
The point of free speech having an amendment in our
constitution to defend free speech is that controversial speech is
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not criminalized. I think Charlie Kirk's words nicely sum up
the American position, going back to at least Thomas Jefferson.
By the way, did I mention today's Constitution day. There
were Constitution haters like Woodrow Wilson who would have said
we have no free speech. They were wrong. Woodrow Wilson
was a racist, by the way. We'll talk more about
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him coming up in a little bit. But Bondie's reversal
to arguing only that speech that crosses the line into
threats of violence is not protected by the First Amendment,
and free speech does not and will never protect violence.
She's irrelevant. What she's saying is irrelevant. It's wrong. It's
shocking that the Attorney General is so wrong. Note that
censoring speech is entirely different from free individuals and institutions
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applying consequences for speech they find objectable objectionable. It's absolutely
okay for private players to punish their employees if they
don't like what they're saying, that's fine, You're not free
from consequences.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Free speech is intrinsically messy.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
People argue back and forth, citing facts true and false,
on the assumption that by and large most of us
can figure out the right and true well enough to
keep muddling along without government sensors to stomp out what
they decide is hate or disinformation. Free spee just served
the nation just fine for two centuries. I think we
ought to keep that up.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
They see, whenever you lose sight of the enemy, look
behind you. Yeah, that's a bad paranoia right there. Probably
brought on by a bong ripper too. Kenny Webster's pursuit
of happiness.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
My mom, bless her, bless her soul.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
I love my mother. My mom recently contacted me. She
found this old VHS tape of me in high school,
and it was from a school presentation what do you
want to be when you grow up?
Speaker 2 (07:26):
One of those kinds of things. And I had.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Briefly flirted with the idea of working for the FBI
or the CIA, doing some kind of intelligence work for
the government. And as soon as my mom showed me
this video, I thought, oh my god, we have got
to destroy this right now. Oh go ahead, and can
we erase the videotape please? It was I was humiliated
to see that that. At one point, back in the nineties,
when I was a teenage version of myself, I actually
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thought there was something admirable about being a spy for
the government. I don't know, but you know, in my defense,
Nintendo sixty four was hot at the time. Everybody was
playing GoldenEye. Being a secret agent for the government just
meant something different than what it means, and that it
was mostly just a good video game, I think. But
all I have being said a lot of times past.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
We did James.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Komy and all you know, Peter Stroke and Lisa Page
and all these other corrupt FBI officials we met since then,
and then finally came along Cash Battel, and I don't
I wouldn't say he's doing perfect at his new job,
but I don't dislike him as much as previous people.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
I thought it was a little odd that.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Trump praised him for how he captured the Charlie Kirk Assassin.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
He didn't capture the Charlie Kirk Assassin.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
The Charlie Kirkussassen handed himself in but okay, so Cash
Betel's not perfect. At least he's not the last administration's.
I mean, they were much worse. Right yesterday, they had
a hearing on Capitol Hill and Austin. What was the
name of the hearing, Operation Arctic something, What was it?
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Hey, Kay, thanks for having me on the show today,
and hello to all the good people on the Gulf Coast,
the Gulf of America. Thanks so much for tuning in here. Yeah,
they called it Arctic frost, and it sort of reheated
in a way from the Obama years of the type
of government weaponization that we've seen of the Department of
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Justice now that they did with the IRS during the
lowest learner of Barack Obama years. What we found out
is what you or I could have easily guessed, Kenny,
was that the government when the Democrats are in charge,
weaponizes it against its enemies. And while Trump has done
a lot in defunding these left wing NGOs through the
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destruction of USA, the shuddering of the money that gets
funneled from the US taxpayers directly to these leftist activists
and these left wing groups, clearly we haven't done enough
in the police hours of the government to try and
strip out the corruption that has been used to crack
down on people like Charlie Kirkin, Turning Point USA. Because
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when I was working at Freedom Works way back in
two thousand and thirteen, I believe that was that was
when you know, we had to bring in extra accountants
to account for all of the audits, the multiple audits
that the Barack Obama administration used against us for political
purposes because the Tea parties were danger to him and
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to their agenda, and so and now what we see
is that Charlie Kirk, Turning Point USA under you know,
when it was a sort of a drive by casualty
in their attempt to take out Donald Trump with the
Russia collusion hoax and the conspiracy charges that they made
against him, the impeachment hoax, all of these attacks, they
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people like Charlie Kirk and Turning Point have been targeted
in much the same way as the Tea Party groups
were back in the day. I guess the big question
is what are we going to do about it? Because frankly,
the problem with Republicans is that they make all these
promises when they take power that there's going to be
all these these hearings, there's inquiries, right, but when are
they actually going to arrest somebody for these crimes? One
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of the actually can arrest anybody for engaging this god
of behavior? Yet, Christopher Ray, Right, how many people you
know could we could we purp walk today based on
actionable crimes that these people have committed using the power
of government to go after their political enemies. It just
strikes me. I know, you're like neutral, lukewarm on cash
(11:22):
and certainly I am starting Tom I'm I'm lukewarm to
getting mildly negative because they kept telling us all, you know,
just way justice is coming. I think that they screwed
the pooch on the Epstein files. And now we're listening
to the Attorney General of the United States talking about
hate crimes and they're going to go after hate crimes,
and it just it feels like things are really off kilter.
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And I don't know how they could possibly have any
kind of act take action against something like this arctic
frost when they can't they can't seem to get the
message straight about basic conservative principles. So you know, it's
a mess, Kenny, It's a mess.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
I agree, By the way, I didn't even introduce you properly.
That's the voice of Austin Peterson, libertarian nationalist and author.
Austin and I he's one of my political I mean,
I think I'm politically adjacent to Austin.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
I generally tend to agree with him.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Austin and I are both from the libertarian movement, and
we support the MAGA movement, even if we're not like
red hat wearing MAGA guys ourself. Austin, you explained it
perfectly now, all that you know, it could be worse.
I guess Donald Trump has a history of bad attorney generals.
I don't know if Cash Betell's the problem. I think
it's Pam Bondi. Over the past week she told us
she was going to investigate Office Depot after two of
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their employees wouldn't print out flyers for a Charlie Kirk provigil. Now,
mind you, those two people already got fired. Didn't the
free market already solve that problem for us? Why do
we need the attorney general to get involved?
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Well, here's the thing. I'm glad you brought this up
because there needs to be a strong distinction, because some
leftists are saying things like all now, all of this
cancel culture that's going on that the Conservatives are engaging in,
it's backed by the full force and power of the government. Well,
first of all, you know, it's it's not true that
what's happening to these leftists and losing their job, it's
cancel culture. Cancel culture is when you tell us, you
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report to somebody's boss that they gave a twenty five
dollars donation to Turning Point USA, and you get them
fired from their job for you know, supporting Kyle Rittenhouse
who was defending himself. Consequence culture is when you're celebrating
political assassinations and actual murder and your boss has decided
not to do, not to work with you anymore. And
that's the free market right because free speech, as you
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well know, Kenny being adjacent to me, that free speech
is that the government can't censor what you are doing.
And the leftists they love to trot that out during
COVID nineteen with our opinions on vaccinations, you know, during
the the Obiden years, as I call it, they love
to trot out. Oh, it's it's not a it's not
a cancel it cancelation is it's still free speech because
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it's happening in the free market. It's not the government
doing well. Now that's coming back to bite them in
the butt. So there's the question of what is canceled
culture and what is consequence culture. That's one aspect of this,
and then there is what the government actually is doing
and what they should be doing. What the government is doing,
I don't know. I don't have any idea. Pam Bondi
is making no sense, screwing up all over the place.
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Maybe cash Pata is doing fine. I don't know. But
what the government should do is they should treat Antifa
and many of these Trantifa groups as we like to
call them, You should treat them the same way that
they treated the KKK in this country. The government systematically
dismantled the ku Klux Klan, taking apart its organizations and
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its many outfits. The KKK was that at its height,
I think in the nineteen twenties, and then the government
systematically broke it down. For the terrorist organization that it
was like committing assassinations, political assassinations, committing murders. It wasn't,
it wasn't it wasn't unpopular to do. I think that
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the American people, especially now, which I'm seeing all across
the country people registering as Republicans. My brother Justin used
to be like a soft Democrat, like he was probably
a Hillary Clinton voter. In two thousand and eight, after
the Charlie Kirk assassination, he registered Republicans the first time
in his life last week. I'm seeing this in many
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such cases. So the left doesn't even know how what
they have done is what the backlash to that is
going to be, and that might be coming a lot
sooner than they think, right with elections have consequences, so
we'll see what happens in the upcoming midterms. And I
know Charlie Kirk's turning point. USA is also getting thousands
and thousands of people. More people are trying to sign
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up right now than groups that they already have pushed,
So that's also very exciting.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Yeah, government should.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
The guy's probably converted more people to the right posthumously
than anybody that's alive for the last year or two.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
It's like Jesus's smarter them, right is it just like
John the backst you You murdered someone and all it
does is create you murder Christ and it creates Christians.
You murdered John the Baptist, It creates more Christians, right,
you murdered Charlie Kirk, it creates more conservative Christian activists
and conservative Christian activist is is is what we need
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right now to get to fight against the left. But
what we really need, Kenny, is we need the government.
We need Pam Bondi to get on our level. We
need to get get her on our well, understand what
conservative principles are. It's unfortunate that she has to be
at you know, learning this on the job. So we
need to educate her on what conservative principles are.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
That's true and we need it. Yeah, well, we need.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
To investigate hate speech. It's like, come on, lady. You
know who would not agree with that? As Charlie Kirk.
He would have hated that. He would have hated knowing
that the Attorney General was going to go investigate people
for speech crimes as a result of his death.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
That Charlie Kirk would have hated that.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
I just don't think, you know, she's not really one
of us. I would say. I'm not saying she's like
not conservative or that she hasn't come along, but it's
like she's not like you or I, where she's kind
of steeped in the in the philosophical condition of conservatism.
So I think that again she's sort of learning this
on the job. And like a lot of people, they
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just become lawyers and they get into politics and they
choose a party and they get you know, they say
what they think people want to hear. And honestly, if
Pam Bondi had had said this fifteen years ago, twenty
years ago in a Republican administration, nobody would have bound
it and I nobody would have blinked. But now I
think people are a little bit more aware of the
issues and are starting, you know, more people are coming
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online or getting red pilled, as they like to say,
are rightfully speaking out against what you know, the Department
of Justice head is saying right now. And my hope
is that if she can't figure it out, that they
might we might get lucky and get a good replacement
for her, But unfortunately that would probably stall the momentum
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that we have right now and whether Kenny in every
crisis is an opportunity, and I think right now we
really do need to take an opportunity, and we need
to we need to surge. We need to grow our movement,
we need to get more people in. We need to
expose the left for what they are. I think somebody
was like, Austin, you, why do you keep posting all
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these hateful device or things that leftists are saying on
your social media? And I'm like, because I think now
is really an important time for people to see so terrible.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Yeah, hey, we have to take a quick break. Can
you hang into another segment because I don't think we're
done talking about this?
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Okay, sure you.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
That's Austin Peterson. Follow him on XAP for Liberty, one
of the greatest authors. I would say that Austin is
the godfather of the libertarian nationalist movement, in which I'm
a proud member.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
More about Pam Bondy.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
This hearing at the FBI yesterday, What did a crazy
mazy Herono say, don't go anywhere, We'll tell you.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
So we're supposed to live within our income, so we
can afford to pay taxes to a government they can't
live within its income. Yeah. That Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Cracker Barrel just announced they are going back to making
biscuits from scratch.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
I think it's great.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Cracker Barrel is a place where the biscuits are just
as white and fluffy as their customers, and I am
here for it.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Kids. Welcome back from break.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
I've been talking to Austin Peterson, the creator of the
Libertarian Nationalist movement, a notable Trump supporter, but not necessarily
somebody that worships at the altar of any politician, including Trump.
We were talking about his Attorney General, Pam Bondy.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
In this country, free speech and then there's hate speech,
and there is no.
Speaker 6 (19:38):
Place, especially now, especially after what happened to Charlie in
our society.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Kay.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
No, I'm sorry. There's not free speech and then there's
hate speech. There's just free speech, Pam Bondy. That's the
whole point, Austin Peterson, I ask you this, what would
Calvin Coolidge say?
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Well, you couldn't get him to say even two words
about something like this, to be Calvin was known as
the silent President. But thanks for having me back, Kenny.
Here's what I think the government should do. Back in
the day, we faced a threat from the ku Klux Klan.
These were violent dogs, burning homes, lynching people, and they
used violence to control communities through fear, and the government,
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through law enforcement and legal pressure, dismantled them. And they
didn't do it by silencing people's speech. They didn't arrest
people for saying the N word, right, they cracked down
on their crimes and they held them accountable under the law.
And today we're facing a similar pattern, but now they're
wearing a different costume. These are people who instead of
wearing white hoods, they're wearing black masks, rainbow flags, carrying
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Antifa banners. And the solution is the same. Apply the
law equally, treat political violence on the left the same
way that the ku Klux Klan was treated. Investigate them,
prosecute them, dismantle their organizations that advocate for terror or intimidation.
A lot of these streamers, like Destiny and Hassan, these
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are people who routinely advocate for violence to be used
against their political opponents. They call for genocide of conservatives
in this country. I'm sorry, but that that to me
is actionable. Right. If we were strong enough to break
the KKK, then we're strong enough to take down these
modern day mobs that promote violence in the streets against
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our leaders. So that's what I would recommend. I don't
know if Calvin Coolidge would do that, but I know
that's what I would do ifire president.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
You know, ironically, I think right before Calvin Coolidge was
Woodrow Wilson, who I think loved the ku Klux Klan, didn't.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
He He was, Yeah, he was. He was the person
who displayed the Ku Klux Klan's revisionist history movie. Actually
he displayed it in the White House. He was a
famous racist. He said, you know, what would you say
to black people who want to vote for you? And
he's like, if they did something like that, that's a
mistake and they should correct it. Yeah. Woodrow Wilson the left,
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the left, He is basically the intellectual godfather of the
progressive movement. And it's the same for the Margaret Sanger chick,
who you know created planned parenthood, right. The whole reason
why she created that was so that she could go
in and stop people horn mentally deficient and and and
blacks from reproducing at a high n F rate. So,
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but that's history. That's the kind of history that will
get you shot on a comp college campus if you
say it out loud.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Man, that's exactly true. All right, let's talk about this
for a minute.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Cash Btelli yesterday with Senator Maizie crazy Herono talking about
the pull up requirements. I'm so old, Austin, I can
remember when Democrats thought that trans women should compete with
biological women in sports, which makes this sound bit it
a little confusing.
Speaker 7 (22:49):
The question I had is.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Yeah, go ahead, And she's looking through her notes here,
she's a little.
Speaker 7 (22:55):
Sweat that you are not requiring applicants to be able
to do a certain kind of pull ups, which a
lot of women cannot because of physiological differences. Are you
requiring these kinds of pull ups?
Speaker 8 (23:15):
We're requiring a physical program at BFTC at Quantico because
FBI agents carrying guns in the field have to chase
down bad guys and do really hard work of the
physical fitness standards of those agents.
Speaker 7 (23:27):
So are you ping these signs of pull ups?
Speaker 8 (23:30):
We're requiring everybody to pass the eighteen eleven standards at BFTC.
If you want to chase down a bad guy and
put him in handcuffs, you better be able to do
a pull up.
Speaker 7 (23:41):
The reason I ask is that other I'm gonna.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
I'm gonna pauseit it right here, Austin I can't help
but notice they want trans men to compete with biological women,
but they think the rules should be different for biological
women when they want to be fbi agents. Obviously a
little inconsistency here in the progressive principles, Am I wrong?
Speaker 4 (23:59):
I mean, you had to know that the LGBT movement
was never going to last as a cohesive, solid movement
when you had the T the transgender that denies the
bee which is bisexual, because is in bisexual admitting that
there's a dichotomy of sexes. So there's a little bit
of conflict there.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
I would agree with that.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
So then you know you obviously she's admitting that there
are biological differences between themen. Obviously this blows up the
whole left experiment in recent days. I mean they but
again if the problem Kenny with looking the way we
look at this versus how the left looks at this.
We look at this logically, but they don't look at
this logically. This is not about logic for them. All
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of these people who are saying these awful, evil things
that Charlie Kirk said, he never said. So they live
in a fantasy land. Here's how I would sort of
how I would picture this, Kenny. It's like, you know,
you're fighting an enemy. Okay, I'm sure that George Soros
and his cronies and the people who are bankrolling the left,
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they're probably they're probably very logical people. They use reason.
You could probably have a conversation with some of the
less elite and they would explain to you their whole meeting.
You know, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, his definition of freedom and
the way that he addresses it logically is that the
chicken in every pot. If you're not if you're hungry,
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you're not free. But you and I, we don't define
freedom the same way. You could understand why FDR defined
freedom as freedom from hunger, freedom from fear. But in
his definition of freedom, he's creating the welfare state, he's
creating the works recovery projects, he's creating the New Deal,
he's creating the welfare state. He's creating you know, his
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definition of freedom is so antithetical to what we believe, Kenny,
that it's like we live on completely different planets. Our freedom.
Definition of freedom is freedom from freedom from tyranny, freedom
from control, the freedom to make decisions about our lives.
Individually from freedom from being having the majority of our
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money stolen from us every year and working half of
our lives just to pay for the government so that
the other guy can get a chicken in his pot.
So knowing that, knowing that the problem is is that
those people using those arguments have are coming against us,
are sending out their foot soldiers. It's it's like, you
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may not have a problem with the average leftist. We
interact with them in our communities. You meet them, probably
gonna go to Walmart. There's the cashier, they got purple hair.
You kind of assume, right, But the problem is that
those people are weaponized. They act like it's like the
zombie plants. They can be they can be turned on
and off using social media, using algorithms. Their brains are mushy,
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it's soft, and they it's I don't know, if you
ever watch those Natures Specials where like a wasp will
like lay its eggs inside of another like a spider,
and then the things will emerge out of it. It's
like body snatchers kind of a thing. Yes, yeah, this
is so the left. Because they're so mushy headed, they
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they'll listen to things like FDR who tells and there,
or George Soros who says you're not free if you're hungry,
you're not free if you're poor, and then they're like,
you're right, I'm not free if I'm poor. I shouldn't
have to stand here in this line and work and
do this cashier thing. Capitalism is what's what's killing us.
And then the problem is is that they take those
purple hair freaks and then they unleash them on us
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like a virus. It operates like a they operate like
a botnet. They swarm. And I've had this happen to
me just in the last couple of weeks because I
appeared on the Occupied Democrats Facebook page. They were all
attacking me over supporting Trump because you know, the tariffs
are hurting my business, so they're all, you know, they're
swarming me. They're swarm. I'm getting swarms of hey death
threats in the last week, Kenny. And it's because these people,
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their brains are soft mush, and they it's it's like,
you know, when you look at Patsy's throughout history, people
that you know, the conspiracies have happened, and Patsy's have
you know, gone out there and done the bidding of
government agents. I mean the ladies. The two women who
murdered Kim Jong UN's brother in the airport, Those two
women who assassinated him they didn't even know that what
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they were doing was they legitimately didn't know that they
were committing a political assassination. They were so mush headed
that they that they had been used by intelligence agencies
to do what they thought was a social media prank,
and they ended up killing the guy. And it was
all because the government of North Korea had managed to
brainwash these chicks and had them commit a political assassination
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which killed Kim Johnson's brother. There's eve it, right, but
it's it operates in a similar way. Look what at
this Tyler Robinson, this mush brain kid. You know, he
had everything going for him, and then all of a
sudden he gets plugged into the left neural networks and
the wasps laid the eggs in his brain. And then
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you know, now we see the fruits of that as
you know, the as the violence and the terrorism comes
bursting forth. It's a brain virus. They operate like a botnet.
They swarm when they attack. That's because they're collectivists, they're communists,
and they're just frankly, they're just not they're not as
intelligent as they like to think that they are. They
don't understand. And that is why so many of them
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have mental illness, open mental illness, right, those are they?
Speaker 2 (29:29):
They admit it and they celebrate it.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
Yes, And and when then then what do they do?
They unleash these violent, evil retards on the rest of us,
and they do it, and and then what do we do?
And then they kill and they attack us in the streets.
And then when we and then you know, when we
have a recourse where we take if we dare take
a recourse, then we are the aggressors, right, We're the
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evil ones. And and this plays out on a metal level,
and it plays out on a micro level, And this
is what we're saying. So, you know, I don't know
if Pambondi and the Department of Justice as it is
currently constituted is capable of taking a threat. If you
can't even speak the conservative language of free speech and
hate speech, how in the hell are you possibly going
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to dismantle these kinds of neural networks that we are
at war with. We're outgunned, Kenny. The fact is is
that we are outgunned, and you know, our backs are
to the wall. And I don't see a whole lot
of warriors to my lapter, to my right. I see you, Kenny.
I don't see many other people. I don't see many
other people out there, you know, with their spears pointed
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out or the wagon circled. I see a lot of grifters.
I see a lot of people, you know, taking this
opportunity to try and monetize Charlie Kirk as much as
they possibly can, or say that they know, or to
reveal private text messages that they had with them. I
see a lot of I see a lot of crap
out there on the right, Kenny, But I don't see
a lot of Charlie Kirk's. There was only one Charlie Kirk,
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and he's gone, and I don't know who's going to
replace him. I don't think anybody can. I hate to
end on a down note, but that's just those are
the facts as I see him.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Well, I hope it's not somebody worse.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Right about all that being said, you talked about people
grifting off of his death. I want to let everybody
know Austin and I are actually selling we are Charlie
t shirts at I love WJ dot Com. One percent
of that money will go towards charity. You know, people
asked us if we can make sure it's available like that.
We're happy to do it, but you know we'll just
get We're giving the money over to a very worthy cause.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
And yeah, I donated mine what we've already sold of
Charlie stuff because people were just hitting me up a
lot Kenny, and I felt really conflicted about it, but
then I thought, you know what, they want to wear
it to rally if they want to have stuff to
remember him by. So I made it, and I've already
made a donation to Turning Point and any other sales
that we get in any profits that I get, I
will donate straight to Turning Point.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Happy to do it.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Hey, Austin, I got to tell you, I think you
do a great job right in our online store and
I'm glad you're out there, brother.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
Thanks Bud. Check it out I love WJ dot Com.
There's more than just Charlie's stuff there. We actually have
been adding a bunch of new stuff for you guys,
So keep an eye on on that collection as it's
been revamped and updated. We're actually undergoing a major overhaul
of the I LOVEWJ dot com website, So keep an
eye on that in the coming days bookmarket and check
it out. We lovingly call it the grift Shop.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
Hey, and while you're at it, follow Austin on Ax
and Instagram. You'll be glad you did.
Speaker 5 (32:23):
The only thing that hurts more than paying taxes not
paying taxes Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Well, it is Constitution Day here in the United States
of America.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
I think that used to be something we taught young
people on this day.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
In seventeen eighty seven, the US Constitution was signed by
thirty nine delegates to the Constitutional Convention.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
And what was the first amendment? Guys? Does everybody remember?
Speaker 3 (32:53):
The first Amendment was free speech, the right to free expression,
the right to assemble, the right to petition. It's all
kind of falls under the same unbred there. You have
a right to express yourself, but that doesn't mean you're
free from consequences. Right, there's cancel culture and there's consequence culture.
We've talked about that a lot this week on the Radio.
Boy there are a lot of news stories about public
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educators going out and praising the Charlie Kirk assassin. Do
I need to point out that that was a school shooting.
Imagine being a public school teacher on social media celebrating
a school shooting. Forget about the politics of this for
a minute. Can you imagine any scenario where you would
not lose your job for that. One hundred and eighty
teachers from government run schools are currently under investigation around Texas.
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Here with the story Brandon Waltons of Texas scorecard dot com.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
Brandon, is it as bad as it sounds?
Speaker 4 (33:47):
It really is.
Speaker 9 (33:48):
I mean, I think that people are paying attention, especially
on social media. Over the last several days, since the
shooting of Charlie Kirk last week, You've seen war hundreds
thousands of people have been called out for despicable responses, right,
people celebrating literally celebrating the assassination of Charlie Kirk last week.
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And you know, you've got different groups that have been
working out there trying to expose these people, saying, hey,
call their employers, let them know. I mean, look, this
is exactly you know what the left would have no
problem doing in a situation like this. And to your point,
I mean, there are you know, there's freedom of speeches,
not freedom of consequences. The shocking thing, though, is that
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these people don't just work for you know, little corporations
here there or you know, office depot. We certainly saw
that story Nashley. A lot of them were working in
our public schools, and the Texas Education Agency in Mike
Morath was the head of the TEA has An announced
that they're investigating one hundred and eighty I think it's
probably over one hundred and eighty now, one hundred and
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eighty teachers for this kind of you know, celebration of violence.
And it's just hard to imagine that these are the
kind of people that we have teaching our children.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
Yeah, and you know, to that point, I found a
social media post from a prosecutor from the Harris County
DA's office here in Houston, basically mocking Charlie Kirk after
his death. I posted screenshots and evidence of it online
that it was shared tens of thousands of times, one
of my most widely shared posts I ever put on
social media brand And I don't see any news from
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any outlet. I don't see anybody at the Harris County
DA's office doing anything about that. Meanwhile, you don't have
to look far to find this stuff. Here is MSNBC
reporter Brandy Zidrosny telling us that apparently you and I
are just wrong brand and we're just imagining this.
Speaker 6 (35:44):
You're besides Donald Trump arguably ever and so or right now,
and so there's a lot of grappling to do. But
to suggest that the internet is cheering for this is
just the opposite, total opposite of what's actually happening.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
It is MSNBC's that people are not celebrating Charlie Kirk's
death on the internet. Brandon, I'm not even looking for it,
and I keep stumbling onto this stuff.
Speaker 9 (36:09):
Correct, And you know, I'm just looking on X and stuff.
If you're on the Blue Sky, the one the liberals created,
you'll see even more of it. Yes, it's left and right.
It's happening right in front of us. It's happening, you know,
not just not just online, but it's also happening literally
out in public. We're seeing it happen on college campuses
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of all places.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
Yeah, in the meantime, let's head to a college campus
right now, Texas Tech. There's a couple of these news
stories today, one of them at Texas Tech, the other
I think at Texas State University. People just straight up,
I mean blatantly mocking the guy in public, some really graphic,
gory stuff captured on video. One student chanted, f y'all,
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Yohomi's dead. Tell us a story about Texas Tech please.
Speaker 9 (36:56):
Yeah. Well, I mean I think you laid it out.
You had this one student in particular, you know, literally
cheering on, you know, the death of Charlie Kirk right
there on campus, saying, yeah, your homie's dead, you know,
and that video went viral on social media. That student
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is no longer no longer a student there, I believe,
and in fact, because of that behavior and I think
some some other behavior that went along with it, they
had also been arrested there in Lubbock.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
All right, tell me about this.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
There is legislature now to examine higher education free speech
at issues in the wake of the Charlie Kirk assassination.
And does this involved Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick and Speaker
Dustin Burrows.
Speaker 9 (37:48):
It's both of them. So the House and the Senator
both setting up these interim committees that are supposed to
beet and talk about civil discourse on college campus, there's
something that seems to be really really lacking. Now I
mean right that I think I think the events of
last week really underscored that. And so you know what,
when they meet, what we exactly is going to come
(38:09):
out of this? You know that that still remains to
be seen, but that so far has been the response
from the Texas legislature.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
Here's my idea, Brandon, and you know I've offered this
idea before. If there's one thing I hate, it's occupational licenses. Okay,
if there's one thing I hate, it's Illinois Nazis. To
quote the Blues Brothers, but I really don't like occupational.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
Like it's very strange to me that you need a license.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
To braid hair, or in Louisiana you need a license
to be a florist.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
That's crazy.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
But okay, if occupational licenses must exist, I think one
thing we should require a public school teachers is that
they not go out and encourage violence if you need it.
If an occupational license is a requirement to educate young
people in this state, because obviously, you know, we can't
just trust anybody teaching things to little kids. Certainly, teaching
little kids about violence should be wrong. Maybe if you're
(39:00):
found guilty of this, you lose your occupational license.
Speaker 9 (39:03):
It seems like a pretty low bar, right And I'll
say this that you know, we obviously and we've talked
about it before, report about a lot of wrongdoing from
people who work in government schools. Those licenses often do
go under review. The Texas Education Administration oversees that, and
teachers do lose their licenses for acts like this. Now
(39:26):
nobody's you know, nobody's lost the license specifically over this yet,
but the process takes a little bit of time. But
I'm with you. I think that you know, there should
be a higher bar for somebody who's going to spend
you know, seven hours a day with with children. I
think that, you know, at the very least, it's probably
it's probably pretty fair to say you shouldn't be out
(39:47):
there celebrating people's assassination.
Speaker 3 (39:50):
In the meantime, I'm kind of unrelated to what we've
been talking about. Another bill, a little more legislation that
just passed. Governor Abbot signed a law he says, well
ban sharia count owns in Texas.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
Was this about epic city that places in Plano.
Speaker 9 (40:05):
This is in response to Epic City. Now, the legislature
itself doesn't talk about Sharia law or Islam. In fact,
actually what it does is it sort of targets the
sort of set up that epic city, which was this
proposed Muslim enclave up north of Dallas that hasn't been
constructed yet. There hasn't been any real construction there and
(40:25):
it may never be, especially because of this law and
some other pushback that they've received. But essentially stops that
kind of loophole that existed in the law that could
create a malicious enclave neighborhood like that. He signed that
last week up in McKinney, up where that up near
(40:46):
where that proposed epic city will be. And you know,
of course we've heard about you know, maybe some potential
other other neighborhoods like that popping up across the state,
but we have not we have not seen any of
them actually come to souition yet.
Speaker 3 (41:01):
Brandon Waltons Texas Scorecard dot Com. Brandon, is anybody from
your news at likely going to be at the Texas
Youth Summit this weekend?
Speaker 5 (41:09):
Uh?
Speaker 9 (41:09):
Potentially, So I've got it on my counter hopefully I'll
be able to see.
Speaker 2 (41:12):
You down there. Yeah, I hope so too. I hope
people do.
Speaker 3 (41:14):
Subscribe to Texas Scorecards email list at Texas scorecard dot
com if you haven't already done so. Find Brandon on
ex Brandon Waltons is his name, And to those of
you that are interested. On Friday and Saturday, the Texas
Youth Summit is taking place at the Marriotte Woodlands.
Speaker 2 (41:30):
The Woodlands, Marriotte, we do this every year.
Speaker 3 (41:32):
Charlie Cook Charlie Kirks shared the stage with us in
previous years. Sadly he will not be there this year
for obvious reasons. Some people that will be there though,
Governor Abbitt, Senator Ted Cruz, Steve Bannon, Texas Attorney General
Ken Paxton, Congressman Wesley Hunt is going to be there.
A Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna with a video message Alex
Clark from Turning Point, USA. You own me Park if
(41:55):
you've never heard of her before. She is a defector
from communist North Korea. Maya Flores be their senator, a
state Senator Mas Middleton, and of course yours truly, Kenny Webster.
You can get tickets for that at Texas Youth Summit
dot com. I gotta run. I love you all, have
an awesome afternoon. We'll be back bright and early tomorrow
morning for more of what you bought a radio for.
Speaker 10 (42:19):
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