October 28, 2025 • 34 mins
This podcast edition of Kenny Webster’s Pursuit of Happiness features journalist Michael Quinn Sullivan and author Daniel Turner. ( @KennethRWebster )
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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politics here now at the counterpoint politics here, everybody, I'm
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Kenny West. Thanks so much for turning on your radio.
We got a great show for you this afternoon. Has
always a lot of great stuff going on here on
your favorite afternoon show.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
I mean, I hope what's going on? Oh yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Michael Quinn Sullivan joining us in the next segment. We're
going to talk about the race between Wesley Hunt and
John Cornyn, and of course Ken Paxton Baxton will.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Be joining us.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Also on the show this afternoon, Daniel Turner, the policy
analyst for the oil and gas industry, will be stopping
by and we're gonna take a deep dive into what
has changed Bill gates tone on climate change theory. So
all that's coming up in just a little bit. But
you know what we don't do, what we don't do
enough on this show is celebrate when something good happens.
Sometimes good news happens, and we don't give good news
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the attention it deserves. In fact, we even have this
rarely played montage to introduce good news segments.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Good news is good news, and the good news is
I've got good news, and good news for good put
some good news.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
There's a monkey jumping on houses in the neighborhood. The
Washington Examiner today, reporting on Argentina rejecting socialism again. Argentina's
voters wisely re elected and strengthened President javey Ar Malay's
Liberty Advances Party this past weekend, rather than switching to
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the socialist Peran alternative in the middle of his term
of office. That's what they call it in Argentina Paran.
It's a decision that sets the country on a clear
path to prosperity while other leftist governments in the region
are struggling.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
I love this.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
With forty percent of the vote compared to the socialist
thirty one percent of the vote, Liberty Advances that's the
name of Javier Malay's political party, added fourteen seats in
Argentina's Senate and sixty four in the lower house. Javier
will still need to cooperate with other parties to pass
major legislation. But for now, his conservative and libertarian reforms
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have been affirmed by voters and Argentina's economy should continue
to recover after decades and decades and decades and decades
of cynical mismanagement. Javier has already delivered tangible results. He
has slash government spending by over thirty percent. He cut
the number of government agencies in half. He eliminated one
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hundreds of regulations, including rent control, all while opening Argentina's
vast energy reserves for production. And guess what the direct
result was. Inflation fell, the budgets balanced, and Argentina posted
its largest energy trade surplus in over two decades. That's
a pretty good deal. That's good news for the country.
Argentina's economy had responded positively to these reforms and it's
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growing steadily. And then it came along the Socialist Piran
opposition party. They won the Buenos Aires Provisional the local
regional election in September, and markets took this result to
design that Javier had lost the faith of the public
and that his party was heading for electoral disaster. This month,
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Argentina's pay so that's their money. It immediately lost its value.
It prompted stock and bond sell offs, and that caused
the economy to stall. And then on Sunday things turned
around for Javier's party. People changed their mind. They said,
we see how socialism's bat the socialist alternative sucks, and
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this new election and the results of it apparently restoring
confidence in the market that Javier Malay's limited government reforms
are here to stay. Javier's victory is a win not
just for him and his party in Argentina, but for
the whole region. Everywhere the conservative governments have been installed
in power in Latin America, prosperity and freedom have followed.
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In Ecuador President Daniel Nobaia of the National Democratic Action Party,
who's restored investor confidence and curbed gang violence through really
pragmatic pro market reforms. In Chile, President Sebastian Pineraz National
Renewal Coalition preserved Chile's market economy while maintaining one of
the region's lowest poverty rates through fiscal discipline. And of course,
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who could forget my man bu Kelly, the President of
El Salvador and his New Ideas Party dramatically reducing crime,
dismantling gang networks, and turning the once violent nation into
a Latin America's safest success story. Imagine that was once
one of the most dangerous places on earth. Now it's
one of the safest places on earth. And all they
did was put a conservative in power.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Now.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
By contrast, those Latin American countries that have turned left
have fared pretty poorly. In Bolivia, socialism has drained the reserves,
fueled inflation, triggered a shortage by cleaning the state controls
and subsidies. In Colombia, the President Gustavo Petro of the
Historic Pact coalition scared off investment with tax hikes, energy
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restrictions and regulations installed growth it weakened their money. Then
in Brazil, the president of that country and his Worker's
Party increased welfare spending and nationalized key sectors of the economy,
which caused debt and inflation and all kinds of terrible things.
So it's not a coincidence that every one of the
countries that turned right also turned away from China and
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turned towards the United States of America. The socialist countries
have all increased their ties with the lure world's largest
and most powerful communist regime. Javier Malay's midterm victory is
more than a national win. It's proof that free markets
and fiscal discipline and individual enterprise still work in Latin America.
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Javier Malay's Liberty Party has sent a powerful message to
the neighbors of the world. Socialism fails, freedom delivers. If
Javier Malay stays the course, Argentina could once again become
the economic engine and the moral example of the Southern Hemisphere.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
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Speaker 5 (06:43):
To be.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Oh very exciting. It is its National chocolate Day today.
If your favorite chocolate is white, you're racist. Hi, everybody,
I'm Kenny Webster. Thanks for turning on the radio. It's
fantastic to be with you this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Coming up in a little bit of replay of our
interview with Ken Paxton this morning. But while we're on
that topic, Ken Paxson's running for Senate, and so is
John Cornyn, and so is Wesley Hunt. And Senator Cornyn's
team did a deep dive into Wesley Hunt's old YouTube account,
and I think what he did was a little tacky.
But they went back and they found a SoundBite from
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I think around the time like this is early on
in the Trump administration one point zero, where Wesley Hunt
vaguely defended John McCain and vaguely criticized Trump. Now to
that point, I've known Wesley Hunt for years. He's always
been a Trump supporter as long as I've known him.
But isn't it interesting Michael quinn Sullivan of Texas scorecard
dot Com that have all the people to bring this
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up and suggest it's proof that Wesley Hunt can't be
a senator. It's John Cornyn's people. I mean, aren't they
weren't they in the John McCain fan club.
Speaker 6 (07:51):
Oh? Look, I feel like this.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
When I went for a run this morning, I must
have passed through some interdimensional portal and I'm now in
an alternate reality where John Cornyan is a critic of
John McCain. Because I am absolutely certain that when I
left the house this morning to go for a run
that John that John Cornyan had given a speech eulogizing
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John McCain from the well of the US Senate. I'm
going on and on about his close relationship with John McCain.
So so clearly either either I'm just wacky or something.
I've got the c Span clip here, but you know,
to now be attacking Wesley Hunt for saying passibly nice
things about John McCain's honor and integrity as as a
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member of the United States Armed Forces during Vietnam.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
What planet do we live on here?
Speaker 4 (08:44):
This is this is a you know, you under we
understand why John McCain is, I mean, John Cornyan is
making this attack against Wesley Hunt.
Speaker 6 (08:55):
But it's a weird one. This is really a weird one.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
It's really desperate.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
And they went back into I'm not even gonna play
this SoundBite because it's not that interesting, but they went
back to twenty sixteen or twenty seventeen to find this SoundBite.
And at the same time, okay, fine, back then when
Ted Cruz was, you know, had just stepped down from
his candidacy as a Republican in Texas, he was a
Ted Cruz guy, and you know, back then, the Freedom
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Caucus was disagreeing with President Trump early on in his presidency. Okay, fine,
maybe Wesley Hunt wasn't pro Trump enough back then, but
John Cornyn was against Donald Trump in twenty twenty two
and twenty twenty three.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Do they think we don't remember that.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
Well, maybe they do.
Speaker 6 (09:39):
But it's just this kind of sense of, you.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Know, how about we talk about what you've done the
past couple of years. How about we talk about what
you're planning to do in the next six years in
this office instead of this this game of very amateurish
quite frankly gotcha. You know, look, you know you do
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nine hundred hours of radio a day. I'm relatively certain
that I could find all sorts of you know, weird
things that you've said over yours. I've been in the
public eye for you know, twenty five years. You can
buy all sorts of goofy things I've tweeted and said,
speeches and everything else. So some things that I would
today go, man, that guy should be stoned. I would
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I would completely disavow, you know, some of the stupid
thing that's in the past. That's called growing, that's called maturing,
that's called having a change of heart, that's called you know,
understanding reality. And the measure of a man is not
how consistent has he been in every position. But how
consistently has he been growing? How consistently does he respond
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well to the uh to, you know, to to the
challenges of a particular day, even if it means in
the past, even if it means saying, you know.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
What I said in the past is stupid.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
You know, I, as.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Scripture says, when I was a child, I spake as
ald as a man, I speak as a man, right.
I mean, that's that's what we should all be aiming for.
And I think that it's kind of weird when you've
got to go back, you know, five ten years.
Speaker 6 (11:09):
You know, let's talk about Wesley.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
If you want to talk about Leslie Hunt's record, let's
talk about his record in Congress recently, because it gives
a good indication, boys, we'll be doing in the coming
recent months after being elected to the US Senate. You know,
same with Ken Paxton, John Cornyn. But we need to
be careful about this. Just kind of silly game of
you know, decades past.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Gotcha, Yeah, And I mean really perfectly stated Michael Quinton.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Ellenman as usual.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
But I can't help but think back on a couple
of years ago, Lesley Hunt was out on the campaign
trail for Donald Trump part of the Trump campaign, while
John Cornyn was telling people that Trump's career was over.
Now to that point, the other candidate in this race,
Ken Paxton, launching lawsuits today against some of Donald Trump's
You know, I don't know if you call him enemies,
but the tailand all thing is certainly fascinating. We're going
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to talk more about that coming up. But while we're
on the top of the legal issues here in the state,
you're one of the only people reporting on this at
Texas Scorecard. Judge Natalia Cornelio is an attorney from here
in the excuse me, a judge from here in the
Harris County area created a fake court date to transfer
a convicted mass murderer an MRI to assist in his appeal.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Michael, is this as bad as it sounds?
Speaker 4 (12:23):
Yeah, it really is as bad as it sounds. This
judge after the hearing in her court in which the
jury found this man guilty of killing killing a number
of his I guess ex girlfriend's family members, the the
ex wife's family, including his ex sister in law, her husband,
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and four of their five kids, laying them on the
ground and killing them execution style. Okay, this is not
a you know, accidental kind of thing. That's a lot
of there's a whole lot of steps there. During his trial,
this this pillar of the community apparently tried to say
that he was acting based on the voices in his head,
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and so she found him compelling.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
The jury did not.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
The jury there in Harris County convicted him of murder
sent him to death row. But the judge kind of
playing the get for the convicted murderer. Now she set
up you know, these kind of weird transfers lying essentially
to help out his defense that m ri I allegedly,
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you know, would would show that he did, I don't know,
maybe had a little people in his head or something
or where we would show but you know, this is
not what a judge is supposed to do. Unfortunately, under
the current arrangement, this uh, this reprimand from the State
Commission on Judicial Conduct is basically a glorified slap on
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the wrist. You know, it goes into her permanent record
kind of thing. It means nothing unless she has an
opponent in the Democratic primary in twenty twenty six or
an opponent in the general election who is able to say, hey,
do we want a judge who played these games with
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convicted murderers. That's the only way it actually matters, unfortunately,
which is you know, as it turns out on the
constitutional ballot here in this coming November, this next Tuesday, early, boy,
going right now, there is a constitutional provision that would
strengthen the ability of the Commission of Digital Conduct to
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deal with these kinds of cases.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Boy, you know, one of my favorite things about your website, Michael,
is when there's a judge like this and she sounds familiar,
Her photo looks familiar. Where have I seen her before?
I popped your name into the search engine on your website.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Lo and behold.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Judge Natalia Cornelio was the original judge assigned to hear
the case against the three Harris County Judge Lena he
Dalgo staffers who got into trouble for what was it,
the bid rigging scheme and involving the COVID vaccine outreach scandal.
And you guys, there's an article here from three years ago.
Really well done. Rodney Ellis new story about Rodney Ellis
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the spider web of power in Texas's largest county. And
you guys explained with an infograph here, really cool looking infograph,
almost Halloween themed with a spider web showing how Alena Hidalgo,
Rodney Ellis, Sylvester Turner, how this judge, how they're all connected.
You guys do awesome work on this stuff. I gotta,
I just I have to commend you on that, because
for people in my line of work, this is a
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fantastic resource to do research on these characters.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Well, I appreciate that, and it certainly heads off to
Travis Morgan, who covers the courts for US, and Robert Montoya,
who lead our investigation division. If it were me, we
would be faxing out, you know, type written news articles
to everyone. So thanks to those guys some really cool work,
we were able to put some neat stuff.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
You'd be fact what is factxing? Michael?
Speaker 5 (16:02):
What is that?
Speaker 6 (16:05):
Likes you very much.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
I have a friend who I have a friend who
was until recently working in the Illinois prison system as
a doctor, and he told me that until very recently
they were still using fax machines.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
I was like, wow, that must be infuriating. Michael.
Speaker 6 (16:18):
You guys are fax machine. You know, he was a
cutting edge of technology.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
There one more story here and I also give you
guys credit for this, because you guys have done great
work covering what has been happening in our university systems
around the state and actually getting results. It's one thing
for us to go on the radio and complain about
something in an echo chamber, but but to do actual
journalism and then get these institutions to change their ways
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is quite an accomplishment. Here's a headline, University of Houston
removes Oppression and Injustice class. It was a class promoting
critical race theory. I had thought we made this illegal.
H A lot of that had to do with your
news coverage and getting getting reporters and activists and politicians
fired up. What happened at the University of Houston. What
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does this mean in the future.
Speaker 6 (17:05):
Yeah, so the University of Houston.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
You know, we have to give credit to a lot
of different folks, including Brandon Creighton, former state senator there
in there in the Houston area, now the chancellor of
Texas Tech, Steve Coath, a state rep from there in
the eastern area, now running for for US Congress. Those
guys have been pressing away for the past couple of
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years on these problems. Now they haven't done it yet perfectly,
but that they have managed to do, particularly this last
lovech Ope session makes some changes. It requires uh the
the regents of the various universities to go through and
confirm that the curriculum meshes up with state law, that
the curriculum meshes up with the values and the principles
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of the people of Texas. And the University of Houston.
This this course was brought to their attention and and
they've they've canceled it. And what's great to see is
the is the wailing and the gnashing of teeth from
the lefty professors. They are there. They don't know what
to do because their toy, these public institutions, these these
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colleges and universities, are being taken away from them. They
thought that, you know, they saw themselves in many ways
as the high priests over these sacred institutions that they
and they alone were allowed to to to manipulate. And
instead what they're learning is no.
Speaker 6 (18:30):
The state of taxis oms, these the taxpayer zones.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
These If you want to go teach a class pushing
you know, your wild racial theories and your leftist politics,
you're welcome to do so. You're just not welcome to
do it all the taxpayers dime. And I think that's
what's driving these people crazy is they know that in
the real world, no one wants to have this kind
of indoctrination shove down their throats, and they know they
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can't compete in the marketplace of ideas, and so that
this weird, Kinny, this is weird. The activism of so
many people matters. This is where you know, being being
purposefully engage matters where we can and make these kinds
of changes. And again, it's so much fun to watch
the left to scream and howl as Texans are reasserting
their rights.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Tucker Carlson was interviewing Steve Toath not long ago on
his podcast, really great moment for populists and conservatives here
in Southeast Texas, and they both opined about how Texas
is not what a lot of people think it is
outside of the state, right that that to those of
us that actually live in the state, and your news
outlet has done a better job of reporting on that,
improving it than anyone. But to that point, do you
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feel like it's getting better?
Speaker 3 (19:39):
I do.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
I do feel like it's getting better. I feel like
that you know, it's very easy to say the you
know the you know the sky is falling, everything's horrible.
But let's just go back a few years when you
didn't know the sky was falling right when you when
when we all were living in the very happy bubble
of make believe. You know, you only can fix things
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when you know that there are problems. We did not
come into the problem of these left wing and doctrination
factories in or universities overnight right near the schools. Have
not been trying to trans your kids just for the
past week. You know, all these kind of problems that
we see out there have been long shimmering and we
just didn't know about them. By knowing about them, we
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can take action. And I would suggest that taking action
is where we win. We win when we're able to
take action.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
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I encourage people to check it out. If you own
property in the state, if you are a voter in
the state, if you are a reluctant taxpayer in the state,
to go to this website right now texascorecard dot com.
Get educated, be aware of what is happening in this country,
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in this state, around you. Nobody does a better job
of reporting on Texas politics than Texas scorecard dot Com.
It's the reason I often say Michael Quinn Sullivan is
probably the most dangerous person in Texas political media.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Quick break, we'll be right back.
Speaker 7 (21:06):
Pursuit of Happiness Radio continues as long as Kenny doesn't
get arrested for those unpaid speeding tickets, the shine he's
been making in his backyard, and the gambling ring he's
set up.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Quietly, don't tell them about that.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Not good guys, y'all know what's going on down there
in the Jamaica, in the Jamaica area there, Hurricane Melissa
is doing a lot of damage. So obviously there's two
questions we have to ask, Right, would this be happening
if you didn't sit in economy Plus the last time
you flew domestic you know, you know, damn well, it's
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your fault. You flew to Chicago to see your aunt,
you wanted the extra leg room, and now there's a
hurricane happening, So clearly that's your fault. We don't even
need to answer that question. I do wonder how much
money it's going to cost us, because obviously it's always
our fault when there's any natural disaster wouldn't be taking
place if not for the fact that you drive a
Ford F two fifty. And nobody is more guilty of
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this than Daniel Turner of Powerthefuture dot com.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
I am genuinely guilty of that. And you know, you
worry for the people of Jamaica, But you know, the Caribbean,
I don't know. They've been getting hurricanes for at least
a couple of decades now, so they should be used
to it by now. Hurricanes in the Caribbean are like
snow in Maine at Christmas time.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
It just happens. It's known to happen.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Okay, so that is taking place right now, and apparently
I'm looked into it, and apparently they've been getting hurricanes
there for centuries, I'm told.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
So we'll leave that one aside for just a minute.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
But you know, it does remind me of something the
Paris Climate of cour Does everybody remember that several years ago?
Speaker 3 (22:44):
It's been almost a decade.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Twenty sixteen's when it started and Obama got us into it,
Trump took us out, Biden put us back in, Trump
took us out. Now we're out and it's been almost
a decade and all these different countries that signed what
is at the COP twenty one summit or whatever they
call it, they're all about to meet together again in
Brazil and they're doing a big review of which countries
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were involved and how well they're doing lo and behold,
even the liberal media is reporting on this. Apparently a
lot of these countries are not living up to their agreement.
Now they shamed us for getting out of the agreement,
Daniel Turner, but apparently these countries and you know what
my favorite part is when you read a list of
how many countries have actually submitted the data and are
doing their job, it's a.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Pretty short list.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Like Russia's on the list, weirdly enough, but France, France
is not on the list, Daniel Turner.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
It's called the first Climate Agreement.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
Yeah, this is just all the nonsense of the left
writ large, the political left, where you just get to
make these statements, right, I mean, look at everyone running
for office. We're gonna work together to lower costs. Well,
what have you done to the nothing? We're gonna stand
with our community to build a stronger Houston. It's all
a bunch of crap. And the climate promises are just
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as much crap. We are going to be committed to
lowering but no one is right because it's impossible, because
the emissions game is an absolute joke, and no one
is going to really well. One country is England. England
is hell bent on destroying their economy. They now pay
the highest electricity rate in the developed world. They were
like thirtieth on the list and now they are number one.
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So England is the only one who is hell bent
on destroying their economy for this globalist climate agenda. Most
countries are smart enough to say, yeah, let's say whatever
we need to at the cop summit, but then we're
going to go about our business.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Yeah, is that amazing. I'm just looking at the data here.
Recently drafted climate plans from scores of countries fall drastically
short of what is needed to stave off the worst
effects of climate breakdown. What are the worst effects of
the climate breakdown? There's already a hurricane happening, do they
was that supposed to prevent this exactly?
Speaker 5 (24:53):
And you know, and what's the difference between Cops thirty,
which is coming up in a few weeks or in
like ten days in Riodjion narrow as opposed to the
last couple of clubs got COP summits. And the biggest
difference this time around is that it's Rio right. Last
year we went to Ajibraijehan, and we went to Charmel
Shak in Egypt, and we went to Dubai and Paris
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and Scotland. Right, Scotland was a mistake. Scotland in November,
that person lost their job. Like forty thousand people flew
to Scotland and it's cold and rainy and they granted
this great booze. But you know, Reo makes a lot
more sense for November. And that is the purpose of
COP thirty. The purpose is to use taxpayer dollars to
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stay in a hotel and talk about the climate for
twenty days and you get drunk after and you know,
a lot of guys hire a couple of local hookers.
The hooker rates go through the roof. And that is proven.
That's not me being salacious. It is absolutely proven at
the UN General Assembly in New York City in the
beginning of September and at every COP summit, the amount
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of worldwide hookers who land into the area. Because you know,
if you're one of these climate globalists and you've got
foundation money because you're serious about emissions. Well one emission
you are dead certain that you were going to admit
are never mind? All to stop the joke right there?
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Uh no, you can get away with it on this
radio show. That's fine. You know you're in good company,
Daniel turn here. This is the right audience for that.
But to your point, pollution is just you know, just
looking it up here. According to the World Health Organization,
Brazil's air pollution problems are about three times worse than
the average country on Earth. And that's where they're holding
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the summit, So they're shaming all of us, and yet
they're one of the worst on the planet. I can't
help but feel like there's a word for that, Daniel.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
Bs right, or opportunism or hypocrisy or just flat out
lies or beautiful weather and you know, a big, big
busted Latina girls on the beach, and.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Who the hell wouldn't.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
Want to be there again? Scotland in November being mistake
a great booze And I love Scotch right, and I
have a fairly decent Scotch collection. But you can have
that stuff imported to Brazil and you shouldn't drink your
Scotch at the four seasons overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. And
that's just the way to go. You know, none of
these people, Kenny have zoom right. And it's the same
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crop of people that have done this year after since,
since Cop twenty one in Paris nine years ago. The
same idiots, the same junkies, the same droning on about
we need to take these serious lay get the champagne
right when is cocktail hour? It is absurd that these
idiots are still doing this for thirty years now. My
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organization put out a letter to the President where we
have pleaded that he not let one dime of taxpayer
dollars pay for this, because you know how many idiots
in the federal government would try to convince that a supervisor,
you know, mister Webster, I really should go to the cops,
summ and me and my team, right. It would be
really important for us because climate change is a serious issue.
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So we've asked the President to not allow any tax
dollars to go to idiots who want to go to
Brazil on my dime.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
What I'm about to say always bums out the climate
change alarmists when I say it, But if if theoretically,
if their theory is true, right, then according to their theories,
right when the world gets warmer, doesn't that actually encourage
more plant life? And more plant life actually helps deal
with the carbon pollution problems. So if what they're suggesting
is true, that this carbon pollution is making parts of
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the planet hotter, and then those parts of the planet
see more greenery and shrubbery and trees and what have
you start to grow as a result of it, that
actually brings down the pollution. It's I mean, I'm just
going by their own theory and talking points here. This
is a problem that solves itself.
Speaker 5 (28:49):
Listen, we don't need you and your facts and science
to ruin a perfectly good, you know agenda. Well exactly
every let this agenda. You can point out the data
and the opposite is true, whether it was the masking right.
I often compare climate with COVID when people said, well,
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you know what you have to do is you have
to put your mask on when you stand up, but
if you're sitting down eating a cheeseburger, you can take
your mask off. And you said, well, doesn't this seem
a little it's not about that. It's not about the solutions.
It's not about the problem. It's not about solving anything.
It's always about power. Right, what's the best solution to help?
You know, poorly educated kids in Houston public schools. You
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know the solution. They know the solution. Randy Weingarten knows
the solution. Everybody knows the solution, which is which is
giving school choice and letting parents decide. But no one
lives because it's not about the damn kid. Who cares
if the kids are dumb as rocks. It's about power, right,
Climate change is about power. COVID is about power. Gun
control is about power to children. That's what I think
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of your children. And they use the children as props.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Right.
Speaker 5 (30:00):
They get these children to cry and scream we don't
have a future. That's how they got little Greta Thunberg
her starting role crying about the future for climate Why?
Because they want power. Everything is always about power, and
the climate agenda is just the worst and longest lived defender.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
All right, let's talk for a minute about the richest
guy on earth from nineteen ninety five to two thousand
and seven, and then again in two thousand and nine,
and then from twenty fourteen to twenty seventeen, our next
speaker is mister Bill Gates.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
A Bill couldn't make it. Sorry, Oh yeah, apparently Bill
Gates kind of an unpopular guy.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
According to the Cornie. What I'm looking at here, Bill
Gates is making a change of tone. The New York
Post today reporting Bill Gates makes major climate change reversal
after years of doomerism. Quote, people will be able to
live and thrive. What changed? I thought we were all
going to die in a climate change apocalypse.
Speaker 5 (30:58):
Yeah, this is one of those things, Kenny, that I
have to watch out that I don't burst into into
profanity because I am so angry about this. What changed
is nothing. The data hasn't changed, The evidence hasn't changed.
The science hasn't changed. The set of facts that drove
the climate movement that people like I have been fighting
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for years and decades is exactly the same. But what's
changed is the political climate. And right now it's expedient
to be on the anti climate movement. Now it's expedient
to be talking about pipelines and data centers and expanding
American energy dominance. So Bill Gates changed his mind. I
don't accept that I welcome people to the club. We're
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always allowed to change our opinion. We are we in fact,
we should change our opinion when there is new evidence
brought before us. But these are the people that told
us the science was settled. And I started my organization
because people like Bill Gates funded organizations that said climate
change is such an existential threat that we have to
shut down that coal plant because we are all going
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to die. And all across America, rural towns, rural communities,
and coal in oil and gas. How many guys in
Texas lost their jobs when Joe Biden said, because the
climate change right, no more natural gas. How many guys
went back home to their wife, which started a fight,
which led to divorce and now they have messed up kids.
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How many guys committed suicide because now I have a
mortgage I can't afford, and my wife left me and
I'm broke. And all of that was funded by people
like Bill Gates who had the saint flipping datus that
they do now. But it's all about politics, and I
will never forgive him, or Joe Biden, or any of
these climate sons of bitches who pushed an agenda that
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was so evil and destroyed literally destroyed communities because it
was politically powerful and expeding for them to do so.
So I'm not going to say welcome to the club,
Bill Gates. This guy. You know what, Gavin Newsom wins
a couple of years, he will be right back to
the climate agenda because that's where the power is and
that's where the politics. So so f that guy, and
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f all of these people who have done irreparable damage
to this country and to rural Americans. So, oh, Kenny,
just angry as could be, as you can tell.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
A regular contributor to this show Daniel Turner, founder and
executive director of Power the Future. Now, when you google
Daniel Turner's name, you might accidentally stumble onto Daniel Turner,
the sculpturist and artist from New York City who looks
like a homeless guy.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
You guys are two different people, right.
Speaker 5 (33:38):
I am not an artist. I'm an artist with words
the wedding curse once, but I am not an artist
with anything. No I meet he wishes he were me.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Amenda that Powerthefuture dot com. Daniel Turner is a.
Speaker 5 (33:51):
Star cousin right here.
Speaker 7 (33:56):
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
Fo Okay, So, Kamala Harris says she's not done with
politics here now at the counterpoint politics here, everybody, I'm
(00:39):
Kenny West. Thanks so much for turning on your radio.
We got a great show for you this afternoon. Has
always a lot of great stuff going on here on
your favorite afternoon show.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
I mean, I hope what's going on? Oh yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Michael Quinn Sullivan joining us in the next segment. We're
going to talk about the race between Wesley Hunt and
John Cornyn, and of course Ken Paxton Baxton will.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Be joining us.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Also on the show this afternoon, Daniel Turner, the policy
analyst for the oil and gas industry, will be stopping
by and we're gonna take a deep dive into what
has changed Bill gates tone on climate change theory. So
all that's coming up in just a little bit. But
you know what we don't do, what we don't do
enough on this show is celebrate when something good happens.
Sometimes good news happens, and we don't give good news
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the attention it deserves. In fact, we even have this
rarely played montage to introduce good news segments.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Good news is good news, and the good news is
I've got good news, and good news for good put
some good news.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
There's a monkey jumping on houses in the neighborhood. The
Washington Examiner today, reporting on Argentina rejecting socialism again. Argentina's
voters wisely re elected and strengthened President javey Ar Malay's
Liberty Advances Party this past weekend, rather than switching to
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the socialist Peran alternative in the middle of his term
of office. That's what they call it in Argentina Paran.
It's a decision that sets the country on a clear
path to prosperity while other leftist governments in the region
are struggling.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
I love this.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
With forty percent of the vote compared to the socialist
thirty one percent of the vote, Liberty Advances that's the
name of Javier Malay's political party, added fourteen seats in
Argentina's Senate and sixty four in the lower house. Javier
will still need to cooperate with other parties to pass
major legislation. But for now, his conservative and libertarian reforms
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have been affirmed by voters and Argentina's economy should continue
to recover after decades and decades and decades and decades
of cynical mismanagement. Javier has already delivered tangible results. He
has slash government spending by over thirty percent. He cut
the number of government agencies in half. He eliminated one
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hundreds of regulations, including rent control, all while opening Argentina's
vast energy reserves for production. And guess what the direct
result was. Inflation fell, the budgets balanced, and Argentina posted
its largest energy trade surplus in over two decades. That's
a pretty good deal. That's good news for the country.
Argentina's economy had responded positively to these reforms and it's
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growing steadily. And then it came along the Socialist Piran
opposition party. They won the Buenos Aires Provisional the local
regional election in September, and markets took this result to
design that Javier had lost the faith of the public
and that his party was heading for electoral disaster. This month,
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Argentina's pay so that's their money. It immediately lost its value.
It prompted stock and bond sell offs, and that caused
the economy to stall. And then on Sunday things turned
around for Javier's party. People changed their mind. They said,
we see how socialism's bat the socialist alternative sucks, and
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this new election and the results of it apparently restoring
confidence in the market that Javier Malay's limited government reforms
are here to stay. Javier's victory is a win not
just for him and his party in Argentina, but for
the whole region. Everywhere the conservative governments have been installed
in power in Latin America, prosperity and freedom have followed.
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In Ecuador President Daniel Nobaia of the National Democratic Action Party,
who's restored investor confidence and curbed gang violence through really
pragmatic pro market reforms. In Chile, President Sebastian Pineraz National
Renewal Coalition preserved Chile's market economy while maintaining one of
the region's lowest poverty rates through fiscal discipline. And of course,
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who could forget my man bu Kelly, the President of
El Salvador and his New Ideas Party dramatically reducing crime,
dismantling gang networks, and turning the once violent nation into
a Latin America's safest success story. Imagine that was once
one of the most dangerous places on earth. Now it's
one of the safest places on earth. And all they
did was put a conservative in power.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Now.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
By contrast, those Latin American countries that have turned left
have fared pretty poorly. In Bolivia, socialism has drained the reserves,
fueled inflation, triggered a shortage by cleaning the state controls
and subsidies. In Colombia, the President Gustavo Petro of the
Historic Pact coalition scared off investment with tax hikes, energy
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restrictions and regulations installed growth it weakened their money. Then
in Brazil, the president of that country and his Worker's
Party increased welfare spending and nationalized key sectors of the economy,
which caused debt and inflation and all kinds of terrible things.
So it's not a coincidence that every one of the
countries that turned right also turned away from China and
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turned towards the United States of America. The socialist countries
have all increased their ties with the lure world's largest
and most powerful communist regime. Javier Malay's midterm victory is
more than a national win. It's proof that free markets
and fiscal discipline and individual enterprise still work in Latin America.
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Javier Malay's Liberty Party has sent a powerful message to
the neighbors of the world. Socialism fails, freedom delivers. If
Javier Malay stays the course, Argentina could once again become
the economic engine and the moral example of the Southern Hemisphere.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Hello, my name is Pedro. My favorite things to do
as smuggle drugs, pro create like a rabbit, and listen
to Pursuit of Happiness Radio with producer KINI peace.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
To be.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Oh very exciting. It is its National chocolate Day today.
If your favorite chocolate is white, you're racist. Hi, everybody,
I'm Kenny Webster. Thanks for turning on the radio. It's
fantastic to be with you this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Coming up in a little bit of replay of our
interview with Ken Paxton this morning. But while we're on
that topic, Ken Paxson's running for Senate, and so is
John Cornyn, and so is Wesley Hunt. And Senator Cornyn's
team did a deep dive into Wesley Hunt's old YouTube account,
and I think what he did was a little tacky.
But they went back and they found a SoundBite from
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I think around the time like this is early on
in the Trump administration one point zero, where Wesley Hunt
vaguely defended John McCain and vaguely criticized Trump. Now to
that point, I've known Wesley Hunt for years. He's always
been a Trump supporter as long as I've known him.
But isn't it interesting Michael quinn Sullivan of Texas scorecard
dot Com that have all the people to bring this
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up and suggest it's proof that Wesley Hunt can't be
a senator. It's John Cornyn's people. I mean, aren't they
weren't they in the John McCain fan club.
Speaker 6 (07:51):
Oh? Look, I feel like this.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
When I went for a run this morning, I must
have passed through some interdimensional portal and I'm now in
an alternate reality where John Cornyan is a critic of
John McCain. Because I am absolutely certain that when I
left the house this morning to go for a run
that John that John Cornyan had given a speech eulogizing
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John McCain from the well of the US Senate. I'm
going on and on about his close relationship with John McCain.
So so clearly either either I'm just wacky or something.
I've got the c Span clip here, but you know,
to now be attacking Wesley Hunt for saying passibly nice
things about John McCain's honor and integrity as as a
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member of the United States Armed Forces during Vietnam.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
What planet do we live on here?
Speaker 4 (08:44):
This is this is a you know, you under we
understand why John McCain is, I mean, John Cornyan is
making this attack against Wesley Hunt.
Speaker 6 (08:55):
But it's a weird one. This is really a weird one.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
It's really desperate.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
And they went back into I'm not even gonna play
this SoundBite because it's not that interesting, but they went
back to twenty sixteen or twenty seventeen to find this SoundBite.
And at the same time, okay, fine, back then when
Ted Cruz was, you know, had just stepped down from
his candidacy as a Republican in Texas, he was a
Ted Cruz guy, and you know, back then, the Freedom
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Caucus was disagreeing with President Trump early on in his presidency. Okay, fine,
maybe Wesley Hunt wasn't pro Trump enough back then, but
John Cornyn was against Donald Trump in twenty twenty two
and twenty twenty three.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Do they think we don't remember that.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
Well, maybe they do.
Speaker 6 (09:39):
But it's just this kind of sense of, you.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Know, how about we talk about what you've done the
past couple of years. How about we talk about what
you're planning to do in the next six years in
this office instead of this this game of very amateurish
quite frankly gotcha. You know, look, you know you do
(10:02):
nine hundred hours of radio a day. I'm relatively certain
that I could find all sorts of you know, weird
things that you've said over yours. I've been in the
public eye for you know, twenty five years. You can
buy all sorts of goofy things I've tweeted and said,
speeches and everything else. So some things that I would
today go, man, that guy should be stoned. I would
(10:23):
I would completely disavow, you know, some of the stupid
thing that's in the past. That's called growing, that's called maturing,
that's called having a change of heart, that's called you know,
understanding reality. And the measure of a man is not
how consistent has he been in every position. But how
consistently has he been growing? How consistently does he respond
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well to the uh to, you know, to to the
challenges of a particular day, even if it means in
the past, even if it means saying, you know.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
What I said in the past is stupid.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
You know, I, as.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Scripture says, when I was a child, I spake as
ald as a man, I speak as a man, right.
I mean, that's that's what we should all be aiming for.
And I think that it's kind of weird when you've
got to go back, you know, five ten years.
Speaker 6 (11:09):
You know, let's talk about Wesley.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
If you want to talk about Leslie Hunt's record, let's
talk about his record in Congress recently, because it gives
a good indication, boys, we'll be doing in the coming
recent months after being elected to the US Senate. You know,
same with Ken Paxton, John Cornyn. But we need to
be careful about this. Just kind of silly game of
you know, decades past.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Gotcha, Yeah, And I mean really perfectly stated Michael Quinton.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Ellenman as usual.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
But I can't help but think back on a couple
of years ago, Lesley Hunt was out on the campaign
trail for Donald Trump part of the Trump campaign, while
John Cornyn was telling people that Trump's career was over.
Now to that point, the other candidate in this race,
Ken Paxton, launching lawsuits today against some of Donald Trump's
You know, I don't know if you call him enemies,
but the tailand all thing is certainly fascinating. We're going
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to talk more about that coming up. But while we're
on the top of the legal issues here in the state,
you're one of the only people reporting on this at
Texas Scorecard. Judge Natalia Cornelio is an attorney from here
in the excuse me, a judge from here in the
Harris County area created a fake court date to transfer
a convicted mass murderer an MRI to assist in his appeal.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Michael, is this as bad as it sounds?
Speaker 4 (12:23):
Yeah, it really is as bad as it sounds. This
judge after the hearing in her court in which the
jury found this man guilty of killing killing a number
of his I guess ex girlfriend's family members, the the
ex wife's family, including his ex sister in law, her husband,
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and four of their five kids, laying them on the
ground and killing them execution style. Okay, this is not
a you know, accidental kind of thing. That's a lot
of there's a whole lot of steps there. During his trial,
this this pillar of the community apparently tried to say
that he was acting based on the voices in his head,
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and so she found him compelling.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
The jury did not.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
The jury there in Harris County convicted him of murder
sent him to death row. But the judge kind of
playing the get for the convicted murderer. Now she set
up you know, these kind of weird transfers lying essentially
to help out his defense that m ri I allegedly,
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you know, would would show that he did, I don't know,
maybe had a little people in his head or something
or where we would show but you know, this is
not what a judge is supposed to do. Unfortunately, under
the current arrangement, this uh, this reprimand from the State
Commission on Judicial Conduct is basically a glorified slap on
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the wrist. You know, it goes into her permanent record
kind of thing. It means nothing unless she has an
opponent in the Democratic primary in twenty twenty six or
an opponent in the general election who is able to say, hey,
do we want a judge who played these games with
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convicted murderers. That's the only way it actually matters, unfortunately,
which is you know, as it turns out on the
constitutional ballot here in this coming November, this next Tuesday, early, boy,
going right now, there is a constitutional provision that would
strengthen the ability of the Commission of Digital Conduct to
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deal with these kinds of cases.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Boy, you know, one of my favorite things about your website, Michael,
is when there's a judge like this and she sounds familiar,
Her photo looks familiar. Where have I seen her before?
I popped your name into the search engine on your website.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Lo and behold.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Judge Natalia Cornelio was the original judge assigned to hear
the case against the three Harris County Judge Lena he
Dalgo staffers who got into trouble for what was it,
the bid rigging scheme and involving the COVID vaccine outreach scandal.
And you guys, there's an article here from three years ago.
Really well done. Rodney Ellis new story about Rodney Ellis
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the spider web of power in Texas's largest county. And
you guys explained with an infograph here, really cool looking infograph,
almost Halloween themed with a spider web showing how Alena Hidalgo,
Rodney Ellis, Sylvester Turner, how this judge, how they're all connected.
You guys do awesome work on this stuff. I gotta,
I just I have to commend you on that, because
for people in my line of work, this is a
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fantastic resource to do research on these characters.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Well, I appreciate that, and it certainly heads off to
Travis Morgan, who covers the courts for US, and Robert Montoya,
who lead our investigation division. If it were me, we
would be faxing out, you know, type written news articles
to everyone. So thanks to those guys some really cool work,
we were able to put some neat stuff.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
You'd be fact what is factxing? Michael?
Speaker 5 (16:02):
What is that?
Speaker 6 (16:05):
Likes you very much.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
I have a friend who I have a friend who
was until recently working in the Illinois prison system as
a doctor, and he told me that until very recently
they were still using fax machines.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
I was like, wow, that must be infuriating. Michael.
Speaker 6 (16:18):
You guys are fax machine. You know, he was a
cutting edge of technology.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
There one more story here and I also give you
guys credit for this, because you guys have done great
work covering what has been happening in our university systems
around the state and actually getting results. It's one thing
for us to go on the radio and complain about
something in an echo chamber, but but to do actual
journalism and then get these institutions to change their ways
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is quite an accomplishment. Here's a headline, University of Houston
removes Oppression and Injustice class. It was a class promoting
critical race theory. I had thought we made this illegal.
H A lot of that had to do with your
news coverage and getting getting reporters and activists and politicians
fired up. What happened at the University of Houston. What
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does this mean in the future.
Speaker 6 (17:05):
Yeah, so the University of Houston.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
You know, we have to give credit to a lot
of different folks, including Brandon Creighton, former state senator there
in there in the Houston area, now the chancellor of
Texas Tech, Steve Coath, a state rep from there in
the eastern area, now running for for US Congress. Those
guys have been pressing away for the past couple of
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years on these problems. Now they haven't done it yet perfectly,
but that they have managed to do, particularly this last
lovech Ope session makes some changes. It requires uh the
the regents of the various universities to go through and
confirm that the curriculum meshes up with state law, that
the curriculum meshes up with the values and the principles
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of the people of Texas. And the University of Houston.
This this course was brought to their attention and and
they've they've canceled it. And what's great to see is
the is the wailing and the gnashing of teeth from
the lefty professors. They are there. They don't know what
to do because their toy, these public institutions, these these
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colleges and universities, are being taken away from them. They
thought that, you know, they saw themselves in many ways
as the high priests over these sacred institutions that they
and they alone were allowed to to to manipulate. And
instead what they're learning is no.
Speaker 6 (18:30):
The state of taxis oms, these the taxpayer zones.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
These If you want to go teach a class pushing
you know, your wild racial theories and your leftist politics,
you're welcome to do so. You're just not welcome to
do it all the taxpayers dime. And I think that's
what's driving these people crazy is they know that in
the real world, no one wants to have this kind
of indoctrination shove down their throats, and they know they
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can't compete in the marketplace of ideas, and so that
this weird, Kinny, this is weird. The activism of so
many people matters. This is where you know, being being
purposefully engage matters where we can and make these kinds
of changes. And again, it's so much fun to watch
the left to scream and howl as Texans are reasserting
their rights.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Tucker Carlson was interviewing Steve Toath not long ago on
his podcast, really great moment for populists and conservatives here
in Southeast Texas, and they both opined about how Texas
is not what a lot of people think it is
outside of the state, right that that to those of
us that actually live in the state, and your news
outlet has done a better job of reporting on that,
improving it than anyone. But to that point, do you
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feel like it's getting better?
Speaker 3 (19:39):
I do.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
I do feel like it's getting better. I feel like
that you know, it's very easy to say the you
know the you know the sky is falling, everything's horrible.
But let's just go back a few years when you
didn't know the sky was falling right when you when
when we all were living in the very happy bubble
of make believe. You know, you only can fix things
(20:03):
when you know that there are problems. We did not
come into the problem of these left wing and doctrination
factories in or universities overnight right near the schools. Have
not been trying to trans your kids just for the
past week. You know, all these kind of problems that
we see out there have been long shimmering and we
just didn't know about them. By knowing about them, we
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can take action. And I would suggest that taking action
is where we win. We win when we're able to
take action.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
I love it As a long time Texas Scorecard reader.
I encourage people to check it out. If you own
property in the state, if you are a voter in
the state, if you are a reluctant taxpayer in the state,
to go to this website right now texascorecard dot com.
Get educated, be aware of what is happening in this country,
(20:52):
in this state, around you. Nobody does a better job
of reporting on Texas politics than Texas scorecard dot Com.
It's the reason I often say Michael Quinn Sullivan is
probably the most dangerous person in Texas political media.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Quick break, we'll be right back.
Speaker 7 (21:06):
Pursuit of Happiness Radio continues as long as Kenny doesn't
get arrested for those unpaid speeding tickets, the shine he's
been making in his backyard, and the gambling ring he's
set up.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Quietly, don't tell them about that.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Not good guys, y'all know what's going on down there
in the Jamaica, in the Jamaica area there, Hurricane Melissa
is doing a lot of damage. So obviously there's two
questions we have to ask, Right, would this be happening
if you didn't sit in economy Plus the last time
you flew domestic you know, you know, damn well, it's
(21:42):
your fault. You flew to Chicago to see your aunt,
you wanted the extra leg room, and now there's a
hurricane happening, So clearly that's your fault. We don't even
need to answer that question. I do wonder how much
money it's going to cost us, because obviously it's always
our fault when there's any natural disaster wouldn't be taking
place if not for the fact that you drive a
Ford F two fifty. And nobody is more guilty of
(22:03):
this than Daniel Turner of Powerthefuture dot com.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
I am genuinely guilty of that. And you know, you
worry for the people of Jamaica, But you know, the Caribbean,
I don't know. They've been getting hurricanes for at least
a couple of decades now, so they should be used
to it by now. Hurricanes in the Caribbean are like
snow in Maine at Christmas time.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
It just happens. It's known to happen.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Okay, so that is taking place right now, and apparently
I'm looked into it, and apparently they've been getting hurricanes
there for centuries, I'm told.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
So we'll leave that one aside for just a minute.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
But you know, it does remind me of something the
Paris Climate of cour Does everybody remember that several years ago?
Speaker 3 (22:44):
It's been almost a decade.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Twenty sixteen's when it started and Obama got us into it,
Trump took us out, Biden put us back in, Trump
took us out. Now we're out and it's been almost
a decade and all these different countries that signed what
is at the COP twenty one summit or whatever they
call it, they're all about to meet together again in
Brazil and they're doing a big review of which countries
(23:06):
were involved and how well they're doing lo and behold,
even the liberal media is reporting on this. Apparently a
lot of these countries are not living up to their agreement.
Now they shamed us for getting out of the agreement,
Daniel Turner, but apparently these countries and you know what
my favorite part is when you read a list of
how many countries have actually submitted the data and are
doing their job, it's a.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Pretty short list.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Like Russia's on the list, weirdly enough, but France, France
is not on the list, Daniel Turner.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
It's called the first Climate Agreement.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
Yeah, this is just all the nonsense of the left
writ large, the political left, where you just get to
make these statements, right, I mean, look at everyone running
for office. We're gonna work together to lower costs. Well,
what have you done to the nothing? We're gonna stand
with our community to build a stronger Houston. It's all
a bunch of crap. And the climate promises are just
(23:58):
as much crap. We are going to be committed to
lowering but no one is right because it's impossible, because
the emissions game is an absolute joke, and no one
is going to really well. One country is England. England
is hell bent on destroying their economy. They now pay
the highest electricity rate in the developed world. They were
like thirtieth on the list and now they are number one.
(24:21):
So England is the only one who is hell bent
on destroying their economy for this globalist climate agenda. Most
countries are smart enough to say, yeah, let's say whatever
we need to at the cop summit, but then we're
going to go about our business.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Yeah, is that amazing. I'm just looking at the data here.
Recently drafted climate plans from scores of countries fall drastically
short of what is needed to stave off the worst
effects of climate breakdown. What are the worst effects of
the climate breakdown? There's already a hurricane happening, do they
was that supposed to prevent this exactly?
Speaker 5 (24:53):
And you know, and what's the difference between Cops thirty,
which is coming up in a few weeks or in
like ten days in Riodjion narrow as opposed to the
last couple of clubs got COP summits. And the biggest
difference this time around is that it's Rio right. Last
year we went to Ajibraijehan, and we went to Charmel
Shak in Egypt, and we went to Dubai and Paris
(25:14):
and Scotland. Right, Scotland was a mistake. Scotland in November,
that person lost their job. Like forty thousand people flew
to Scotland and it's cold and rainy and they granted
this great booze. But you know, Reo makes a lot
more sense for November. And that is the purpose of
COP thirty. The purpose is to use taxpayer dollars to
(25:34):
stay in a hotel and talk about the climate for
twenty days and you get drunk after and you know,
a lot of guys hire a couple of local hookers.
The hooker rates go through the roof. And that is proven.
That's not me being salacious. It is absolutely proven at
the UN General Assembly in New York City in the
beginning of September and at every COP summit, the amount
(25:56):
of worldwide hookers who land into the area. Because you know,
if you're one of these climate globalists and you've got
foundation money because you're serious about emissions. Well one emission
you are dead certain that you were going to admit
are never mind? All to stop the joke right there?
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Uh no, you can get away with it on this
radio show. That's fine. You know you're in good company,
Daniel turn here. This is the right audience for that.
But to your point, pollution is just you know, just
looking it up here. According to the World Health Organization,
Brazil's air pollution problems are about three times worse than
the average country on Earth. And that's where they're holding
(26:33):
the summit, So they're shaming all of us, and yet
they're one of the worst on the planet. I can't
help but feel like there's a word for that, Daniel.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
Bs right, or opportunism or hypocrisy or just flat out
lies or beautiful weather and you know, a big, big
busted Latina girls on the beach, and.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Who the hell wouldn't.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
Want to be there again? Scotland in November being mistake
a great booze And I love Scotch right, and I
have a fairly decent Scotch collection. But you can have
that stuff imported to Brazil and you shouldn't drink your
Scotch at the four seasons overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. And
that's just the way to go. You know, none of
these people, Kenny have zoom right. And it's the same
(27:19):
crop of people that have done this year after since,
since Cop twenty one in Paris nine years ago. The
same idiots, the same junkies, the same droning on about
we need to take these serious lay get the champagne
right when is cocktail hour? It is absurd that these
idiots are still doing this for thirty years now. My
(27:41):
organization put out a letter to the President where we
have pleaded that he not let one dime of taxpayer
dollars pay for this, because you know how many idiots
in the federal government would try to convince that a supervisor,
you know, mister Webster, I really should go to the cops,
summ and me and my team, right. It would be
really important for us because climate change is a serious issue.
(28:02):
So we've asked the President to not allow any tax
dollars to go to idiots who want to go to
Brazil on my dime.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
What I'm about to say always bums out the climate
change alarmists when I say it, But if if theoretically,
if their theory is true, right, then according to their theories,
right when the world gets warmer, doesn't that actually encourage
more plant life? And more plant life actually helps deal
with the carbon pollution problems. So if what they're suggesting
is true, that this carbon pollution is making parts of
(28:32):
the planet hotter, and then those parts of the planet
see more greenery and shrubbery and trees and what have
you start to grow as a result of it, that
actually brings down the pollution. It's I mean, I'm just
going by their own theory and talking points here. This
is a problem that solves itself.
Speaker 5 (28:49):
Listen, we don't need you and your facts and science
to ruin a perfectly good, you know agenda. Well exactly
every let this agenda. You can point out the data
and the opposite is true, whether it was the masking right.
I often compare climate with COVID when people said, well,
(29:09):
you know what you have to do is you have
to put your mask on when you stand up, but
if you're sitting down eating a cheeseburger, you can take
your mask off. And you said, well, doesn't this seem
a little it's not about that. It's not about the solutions.
It's not about the problem. It's not about solving anything.
It's always about power. Right, what's the best solution to help?
You know, poorly educated kids in Houston public schools. You
(29:33):
know the solution. They know the solution. Randy Weingarten knows
the solution. Everybody knows the solution, which is which is
giving school choice and letting parents decide. But no one
lives because it's not about the damn kid. Who cares
if the kids are dumb as rocks. It's about power, right,
Climate change is about power. COVID is about power. Gun
control is about power to children. That's what I think
(29:57):
of your children. And they use the children as props.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Right.
Speaker 5 (30:00):
They get these children to cry and scream we don't
have a future. That's how they got little Greta Thunberg
her starting role crying about the future for climate Why?
Because they want power. Everything is always about power, and
the climate agenda is just the worst and longest lived defender.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
All right, let's talk for a minute about the richest
guy on earth from nineteen ninety five to two thousand
and seven, and then again in two thousand and nine,
and then from twenty fourteen to twenty seventeen, our next
speaker is mister Bill Gates.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
A Bill couldn't make it. Sorry, Oh yeah, apparently Bill
Gates kind of an unpopular guy.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
According to the Cornie. What I'm looking at here, Bill
Gates is making a change of tone. The New York
Post today reporting Bill Gates makes major climate change reversal
after years of doomerism. Quote, people will be able to
live and thrive. What changed? I thought we were all
going to die in a climate change apocalypse.
Speaker 5 (30:58):
Yeah, this is one of those things, Kenny, that I
have to watch out that I don't burst into into
profanity because I am so angry about this. What changed
is nothing. The data hasn't changed, The evidence hasn't changed.
The science hasn't changed. The set of facts that drove
the climate movement that people like I have been fighting
(31:18):
for years and decades is exactly the same. But what's
changed is the political climate. And right now it's expedient
to be on the anti climate movement. Now it's expedient
to be talking about pipelines and data centers and expanding
American energy dominance. So Bill Gates changed his mind. I
don't accept that I welcome people to the club. We're
(31:40):
always allowed to change our opinion. We are we in fact,
we should change our opinion when there is new evidence
brought before us. But these are the people that told
us the science was settled. And I started my organization
because people like Bill Gates funded organizations that said climate
change is such an existential threat that we have to
shut down that coal plant because we are all going
(32:01):
to die. And all across America, rural towns, rural communities,
and coal in oil and gas. How many guys in
Texas lost their jobs when Joe Biden said, because the
climate change right, no more natural gas. How many guys
went back home to their wife, which started a fight,
which led to divorce and now they have messed up kids.
(32:23):
How many guys committed suicide because now I have a
mortgage I can't afford, and my wife left me and
I'm broke. And all of that was funded by people
like Bill Gates who had the saint flipping datus that
they do now. But it's all about politics, and I
will never forgive him, or Joe Biden, or any of
these climate sons of bitches who pushed an agenda that
(32:46):
was so evil and destroyed literally destroyed communities because it
was politically powerful and expeding for them to do so.
So I'm not going to say welcome to the club,
Bill Gates. This guy. You know what, Gavin Newsom wins
a couple of years, he will be right back to
the climate agenda because that's where the power is and
that's where the politics. So so f that guy, and
(33:07):
f all of these people who have done irreparable damage
to this country and to rural Americans. So, oh, Kenny,
just angry as could be, as you can tell.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
A regular contributor to this show Daniel Turner, founder and
executive director of Power the Future. Now, when you google
Daniel Turner's name, you might accidentally stumble onto Daniel Turner,
the sculpturist and artist from New York City who looks
like a homeless guy.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
You guys are two different people, right.
Speaker 5 (33:38):
I am not an artist. I'm an artist with words
the wedding curse once, but I am not an artist
with anything. No I meet he wishes he were me.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Amenda that Powerthefuture dot com. Daniel Turner is a.
Speaker 5 (33:51):
Star cousin right here.
Speaker 7 (33:56):
It's hard work to host the show with a couple
of knuckles can Western the uh
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