April 9, 2025 • 26 mins
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- AG Ken Paxton is running for Senate
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Speaker 6 (00:31):
Well, we start today with I guess the big political
news out of Texas that we just got yesterday, which
is that Attorney General Ken Paxton has decided that he
is going to oppose John Cornyn to get the Republican
nomination to run for his US Senate seat. And uh,
I think that has come as pretty good news to
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h to a lot of people who are not John
Cornyn fans. I caught myself among them. I don't believe
John Cornyn to be anything close to being a conservative.
It's still kind of not only sticks in my crawl
a little bit, but also, you know, it tells me
a lot about who this guy is that when he
last ran for the US Senate, he's none of his
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television ads. Of course I didn't see all of his advertising,
but I don't think any of his advertising included the
word Republican in it, he's just kind of like running like, Hey,
I know you don't know what party I'm from because
I don't really identify as a Republican. So how about
if I just make sure that those of you that
are independents and more modern Democrats are going to support
me here, And I've put a R next to my name,
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And of course he's voted plenty of times in a
way that would make you think, Okay, well, he's a rhino,
he's a Republican name, only he's part of the UNI Party.
He's part of the problem, and it's probably time to
do something about it. I'm just glad that there's somebody
that is going to run against him in the primary
that actually has a chance maybe of upseting him, because
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the only way you're probably going to get rid of
him is is that way. If he wins the Republican
primary and he's the candidate, then chances are good that
he'll beat whatever Democrat he's running against, or at least
because you would rather have even though he's a Rhino,
you'd rather have him than a liberal Democrat. Right, That's
how it generally works. So the key here for all
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of these races is to primary the people you're trying
to get rid of. If you're trying to get rid
of people who don't have any conservative values, in reality,
the only way you can really get rid of them
here in Texas is to primary them. And we got
a lesson about that, you know, in their own race
for the Texas House Speaker. They could they couldn't get
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him primaried. He ended up getting reelected. Now he's no
longer the speaker, but he's still serving and his lieutenant
is now the speaker and following pretty much the same
policies that he did. So we still have plenty of
Rhinos here in Texas, not only at the serving at
the federal level, but also serving at the state level.
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And you know, this is a state where we supposedly
think we're conservative, but the reality is we're not quite
as conservative as we think we are. We talk a
good game, well we're not as quite as conservative as
we should be. So I did a question of the
Day this morning on the iHeart radio app. And by
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So anyway, we had people responding on the iHeart Radio.
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can talk back to me in the morning on their
question today, whatever that question is. This morning's question was
who do you support in the Texas Republican primary? Would
you support John Cornyn or would you support Ken Paxton?
And to say the least, the results were a little
bit one sided.
Speaker 7 (04:49):
Hey, Jimmy, Sean from Pasadena Paxton every day of the
week and twice on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Yeah, this is Miles calling in. I'd vote for Paxton.
Cornan is a sellout and a fraud.
Speaker 8 (05:04):
Carlin from Silsby. It's Paxton all the way. I remember
when John Cornyn stepped across the aisle after midnight one
night and voted on the Obama Omnibus bill. He lied
he is a rhino. It is Paxton all the way.
Speaker 9 (05:18):
For me, Jimmy, it's changing from the spring. I would
support Ken Paxton. He's a true conservative.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
The other guy.
Speaker 9 (05:25):
John Cornyan has sold out way too many times to
the Democrats, has signed too many bills that have some
good in them, but far more evil things than them,
and he should have known better. So yeah, Ken Paxton
all the way.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
I'd hate to lose him.
Speaker 9 (05:41):
We need to replace him with somebody just like him
or better for Texas.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
Yeah, I think it'd be easier to find somebody who's
Ken Paxton like to be our attorney general than it
would be to find somebody with this staunch of conservative
credentials and pretty widespread conservative support in the state like
Ken Paxton. Now I know that John Corny we were
trying to get a hold of because we listen, we
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don't always just book guests that agree with us. Every
now and again, we book people that we don't agree with,
John Cornyn being among them. We've had him on the
morning show on kat r H before. We maybe will
have him again. I don't know, And you know, I
make no secret about the fact that I don't really
support the guy. But there'll be a lot of name
calling in this thing. That's for dog gone sure. I
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mean Ken Paxton. He has had his fair share of problems,
legal problems. Of course, those legal problems were brought on
because he is a conservative, and they're trying to get
rid of the guy. But John Cornyan referred to him
in a text message as a crook. So they're going
to they're'd be playing hardball. This is going to be
a really ugly race. It'll be a while before we
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really get into it. But it's going to be a
really ugly race, and I think it's going to get
national attention, no doubt about that. In my mind, it's
going to get a lot of national attention. But again,
you know, the best way if you want to get
rid of a rhino, the best way to do it
is you have to primary them. That's the only real
way to get it done. You have to get somebody
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else to win the nomination and run in the general election.
The only way to get rid of a rhino. Okay,
quick little break. We're to talk a little bit about tariffs. Obviously,
that's still top story. This story this morning about seven
items that people are stocking up on in the grocery
stores because they anticipate they're going to be more expensive.
Some of them I think we don't really think of,
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for example, seafood. You know, do you realize that eighty
five percent of the seafood we sell in our grocery
stores comes from foreign countries? I mean yeah, I mean
we've got we've got a lot of good seafood here.
Why do we need to do that anyway? Back with
one in a moment Jimmy Baird Show, here anning of
nine to fifty k PRC. All right, terror story, stupid,
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the dal Jones industrial average, well, Wall Street in general
is still kind of volatile. We got to get used
to the volatility that's gonna be around for a while
before things settle down. China doubling down, we come back,
We double down, They come back and double down. That
that looks like that's gonna go back and forth for
a while. And Trump and I'll get to this in
a second, but Trump said something last night that's probably
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going to to be honest, it's gonna scare people. It's
gonna it's gonna scare people. It's gonna scare seniors. I
think in particular, the announcement was regarding prescription medication. More
on that in just a second, But first, you know,
let's let's talk about what the strategy is here, because
we do that every day. But I think there's a
lot of concern over what we're trying to do here.
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Are we trying to and I just kind of thought
of this today. Are we trying to to to lower
terrafs all across the world. Are we trying to get
it to the point where there's no terrats on us,
and we don't put any tarifts on anybody else worldwide
free trade if you will, or are we trying to
eliminate the trade in balance or at least lower the
trade in balance? Are we just trying to get to
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the negotiation table with some of these countries and scare
them into giving us being more fair to us? What
is the goal here? And there's been mixed messages. I
thought of this today though maybe the mixed messages are
on purpose. Everybody seems to say, well, Trump needs to
get everybody on the same page. Why would you want
everybody on the same page. Why would you want to
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telegraph what it is you're trying to do. Why would
you want to do that? Don't you want to keep
them guessing a little bit about what it is you're
attempting to accomplish and how you're going to go about
accomplishing it. You know, doesn't surprise work better for you
than the other side, especially China, knowing exactly what your
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move is going to be, what your next move is
going to be. Yeah, the problem is with China, there's
a limited amount of moves that they can do in return.
At some point in time, it hurts them more than
it hurts us. But you know it's China, so you
know them them giving up when it comes to fighting
Trump doesn't seem like it's likely to happen. But what
is the mgame? And you talk to different economists and
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even different people who supposedly know Trump and know the
Trump administration, and you get to different answers. I saw
Art Laffer. He's the economist that goes all the way
back to the Reagan era. I saw Art Laffer. Here's
what Art Laugher said about what he thinks the endgame
to all this is.
Speaker 7 (10:38):
The exit strategy is he threatens the tariffs, which he
has already done so to bring them to the table.
It's clear that seventy countries have called. They're coming to
the table fast.
Speaker 8 (10:48):
Now.
Speaker 7 (10:48):
The exit strategy is he doesn't impose those tariffs.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
He takes those tariffs away.
Speaker 7 (10:53):
He even reduces our tariffs on those countries if they
will eliminate their tariffs on us. And that would be
the exit strategy, which would be a win win win
when that's just what we need. If those tariffs go
in and stay in for a long time, Stewart, and
if we have a huge escalation of tariffs as is
currently planned that would be disastrous for the US and
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the world economy.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Will leave me when I tell you what this is
not a good answer.
Speaker 10 (11:17):
But whil's this about the suggesting that the present should
go on global television and make a worldwide offer of
you cut your times and will cut ours, we'll get
a deal a global TV presentation.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
Is that part of your idea.
Speaker 7 (11:32):
That well, I don't know if a global TV one
is the best, but you know, you just look at it.
There he should be able to negotiate getting rid of
teriffs for the them and for us.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
You know, a trade war.
Speaker 7 (11:45):
Everyone loses in trade wars, but we all don't lose
the same amount. Americans will lose a lot less than
the foreigners too. So therefore they have an advance, an
incentive to come down to the table and really drop
their tariffs on our products.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
It will help them as well.
Speaker 7 (12:00):
To Stuart, I mean, tariff's on our products hurt their
countries most.
Speaker 6 (12:05):
Most of that I think is correct, although it's hard
for me to imagine that the terriff war with China
doesn't hurt us more than it hurts them, because we
just have so many things that come from China so
many things, and honestly that probably that needs to change,
that really does. Nobody's had the guts to do something
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like this up until now, you know, because they're always
worried about running for reelection or they're they're worried about
how it impacts the party. They're thinking about it like
a politician, not thinking about it like a business person.
And that's that's the Trump difference there. He's not thinking
about the politics about this as much as he's thinking
about what he wants the end result of this to be.
So a guy on from the Heritage Foundation, We've had
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a lot of guests on from the Heritage Foundation, his
name is Steve Yates, talking about China, China tariffs, retaliation
and how to deal with it all. Here's what he
had to say.
Speaker 11 (13:03):
Well, Maria, this is a nice healthy dose of Chinese projection.
It's kind of astonishing in some ways that this challenge
snuck up on them somehow, even though I think pretty
much telegraphed from Trump's first term there was going to
be a desire to engage in renegotiation immediately on all
terms of trade. But China's reaction, I think hopefully is
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a lesson to the wider world.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
They want to hit us on soybeans and things like that.
Speaker 11 (13:30):
It's basically a message to farmers then a time of crisis,
China expects you to side with China, not America's economy.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
I doubt that's where farmers want to be.
Speaker 11 (13:39):
On fentanyl, they're pledging to pull back on cooperation, so
they're saying they'd like to continue to poison Americans. Not
exactly a great negotiating strategy. And they say they're going
to pull back on Hollywood films, Well, who knows, maybe
maybe that would finally free up Hollywood to do something
pro American and maybe tell the truth about China crush
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in Hong Kong and tan On.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Men and all the goodness that they've missed.
Speaker 11 (14:05):
They've been a long term truth that America has always
had much greater leverage and never seemed to find a
way to use it in an odd way. Our large,
large consumer market is quite powerful, and China doesn't have
a lot of alternatives, and matter what they want to
block by way of American sales going into China. That
will hit a few large companies perhaps, but the broader
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state of play is that China has a much smaller
and weaker hand, and they are at risk at home,
whether it's demographic population change, but definitely financial institutions and
their dependence on this export model is profound. So yes,
we finally found leverage, but we have to see whether
it'll be used. So far, she's leadership has been willing
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to pick fights rather than negotiate and stand down.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
Yeah, that's getting getting them to stand down, the old
saving face thing, right, getting them to stand down. That's
the hard part. Well, that's where that's where you you
got to hope that maybe Trump in and the Chinese
president sit down face to face, you know, where they
can have a candid conversation and maybe something gets done
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and they figure out a way because Trump and Trump's
pretty good at this too, figuring out a way to
you know, frame it in such a way that you
know that the the you know, the Chinese still look
like they're strong and all that kind of stuff, because
that's going to have to be part of that deal.
Now for the thing that the President said last night,
he was at a Republican event in Washington, d C.
I have no idea, you know who is for a
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black tye. I know that it was a black tie event,
and he's speaking in front of Republicans, and you can
tell by the the smattering of applause that what he
said last night about prescription medications maybe shocked a few
people in the room for a whole variety of reasons.
This is something that impacts senior citizens in particular, because
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let's face it, who who's Who's using up a lot
of the drugs in this country, and it's it seems
your citizens who are on fixed incomes right now, prescription
medications are except from tariffs. But President Trump basically announced
last night, he called it breaking news, that that soon
is going to change. Here is the president last night.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
We don't make our own pharmaceuticals, drugs and other things
to get better. They're made in other countries, and you
pay a number. I mean, the same package in our
country compared to like London and other places is sometimes.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Ten times more, ten times more.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Something that sells for eighty eight dollars in London sales
for thirteen hundred dollars here, made of the same factory
by the same company.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
And that's over.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
I told them all that's over.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
They put all of their research and development, they put everything,
but What they don't tell you is that these other
countries are smart. They say you can't charge more than
eighty eight dollars, otherwise you can't study your product, and
the drug companies listen to them.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
But we're going to do something that we have to do.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
We're going to put We're going to teriff our pharmaceuticals
and once we do that, they're going to come rushing
back into our country because with a big market, the
advantage we have over everybody is that we're the big market.
So we're going to be announcing very shortly a major
teriff for in pharmaceuticals. And when you and when they
hear that, they will leave China, they will leave other
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places because they have to sell Most of their product
is sold here, and they're going to be opening up
their plants all over the place in our country.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
We're going to be announcing that.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
So that's breaking news, ladies and gentlemen, we have breaking news.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
That's what's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
What other presidents allow China to get away with is
absolutely criminal. But I'm not like the other presidents, and
it's not going to happen under President Trump.
Speaker 6 (17:59):
Okay, so are pharmaceutical companies prepared to manufacture that stuff?
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Here?
Speaker 6 (18:05):
Are they prepared to do it? How long will it
take them to gear up to do it?
Speaker 3 (18:09):
If?
Speaker 6 (18:10):
If that's how they choose to respond to it, I
would assume that he's exactly right about that, But that's
probably not an overnight proposition. So how long would it
take for them to begin producing some of those pharmaceuticals
they're doing in places like China? Do it here? All right?
Back with more in a moment, stick around Jimmy Barrett
Show here on AM nine fifty KPRC. All right, I'd
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like to address trumpet arrangement syndrome in our final segment today.
I think the only way I've always wondered, because everything
should have a cure, right aside from Donald Trump disappearing
off the planet Earth. What should be the cure? How
do you treat trump de arrangement syndrome? Unfortunately, we haven't
figured out how to do that yet, and until we do,
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we're gonna have a dangerous world out there. There was
a study survey done of self described leftists, and these
are people who consider themselves very liberal. Obviously they identify
as being Democrats. You know, they're the fringe left or
the far left of the party, which is unfortunately most
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of the party of these days, and they identify themselves
as again leftists and as leftists. Fifty five percent of
them say killing President Trump is justifiable. These are the
same people, I guess who think that Luigi Mangione's killing
of that United Healthcare CEO, that that is justifiable. It's
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the same logic at work, you know. It's also part
of what led to its assassination. Tempts I'm President Trump,
you know, to take him out, and so far there's
a couple of the you know, people who are really
carrying the mantle here for Trump arrangement syndrome. Representative Jasmine
Crockett from our own state of Texas is one of them. Unfortunately,
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you know, she's just saying some crazy stuff. Yesterday, she
tried to justify illegal immigration and not supporting illegals, keeping
illegals here in the name of slavery because she said,
you know, black people ain't picking no cotton anymore kind
of a thing. In other words, you want somebody to
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pick your crops and that kind of stuff, you need
illegal aliens for that, which I don't know why she's
you know, wishing that on illegal immigrants. But here's Jasmine
Crockett and what she said in some response to it
from Tommy laren So, I have.
Speaker 12 (20:58):
To go around the country and educate people about what
immigrants do for this country, or the fact that we
are a country.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Of immigrants, right right.
Speaker 12 (21:07):
The fact is, ain't none of y'all trying to go
a farm right now? Okay, so I'm lying, raise your hands,
you not, you not? We don't picking kite, we are.
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You can't pay us enough to find a plant station.
Speaker 13 (21:31):
She continues to scrape the moral bottom of the bucket.
But I also say this as somebody who is from
South Dakota. A lot of my neighbors are ranchers and farmers.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
They really enjoy doing that work.
Speaker 13 (21:42):
So I'm not so sure she's ever met any of those,
but I'm sure living in Texas, she's had to run
into a few. I'd also say this, it's not just
Jasmine Crockett, but we hear this on repeat from several Democrats,
who I guess are finally being honest that they view
illegal immigrants as the new form of their cheap slave labor,
and it's really discussing that they view human beings that way,
especially when they seem to go out of their way
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to keep the criminal ones in our country. But I
don't see a human being as somebody who should just
be exploited for cheap labor. I would hope again that
the Democrats would see the light on this. But I
guess we can at least thank Jasmine Crockett for always
being transparent about her true feelings.
Speaker 6 (22:18):
Yeah, yeah, well, you know she's I guess she's the
left version of Marjorie Taylor Green, right, who's also very
transparent about her feelings, but somehow doesn't sound nearly as
deranged as she is. And you know who else, all
of a sudden is deranged.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
James Carville.
Speaker 6 (22:35):
During the election, he's warning Democrats about the things that
they're doing wrong, and he's not saying anything really that
negative of President Trump. But now all of a sudden,
of course, in this case, he's not angry at you
and me as Trump's supporters. He's angry at corporations that
all of a sudden are doing business with Donald Trump.
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That's who he's angry at. And he makes a comparison
to Nazi collababorators.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
How disgrace must these companies that are sucking up to him,
that are giving him tens of millions.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Of dollars for access.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Do you know the collaborators which the country is going
to feel toward collaborators with this regime. Maybe you need
to go in history and see what happened in August
of nineteen forty four after Paris was liberated. They didn't
take very kindly to the collaborators.
Speaker 14 (23:35):
Oh, Carvion looks like someone liberated him from a glass
tank at Petco. Glad he's taking a break from hunting
down Sigourney Weaver. But is he saying these people should
be placed in pajamas, have their head shaved in march
down Pennsylvania Avenue and spit on.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
I'm not saying.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Who should be placed in pajamas and have to head shaved,
marched now on Pennsylvania Avenue spinout. I'm not saying that.
But I'm saying that that did happen. And I'm saying
if these people betrayed different nation.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
In the same way, and I think.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
That these law firms and these giant corporate conglomerates are
betraying the United States.
Speaker 14 (24:32):
Now, I'm not saying that James Carville is a barely
functioning retard with nothing left of value in this world.
I'm not saying that at all. I'm also not saying
it's pointless t tar and feather him because he still
sheds his skin twice a year. And I'm also not
saying if James Carville choked to death on one of
his morning feedings of live mice, he wouldn't be missed.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Well, I was sure it's fun to not say things.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
Yeah, what could we not say about Jasmine Crockett? I
think we could think of a few choice things to
not say about her. Oh really, it's it's quite amazing,
is it not. It's amazing to watch this. Yep. You
know the guy that tried to kill President Trump, or
was planning to kill President Trump at outside of his
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golf club in Florida. You know, they unearthed some text
messages or release some text messages he was sending to
somebody in Ukraine about getting is a missile launcher or
stinger or something so he could go after Trump force one.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Yep.
Speaker 6 (25:37):
That's that's that's out. That's where Trump arrangement syndrome is
leading these people to acts of violence what they quote
call justifiable acts of violence, crazy, just playing crazy. Listen,
you all have a great day. See you tomorrow morning,
I hope Bright early five am over on news radio
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Now here's Jimmy Barrett.
Speaker 6 (00:31):
Well, we start today with I guess the big political
news out of Texas that we just got yesterday, which
is that Attorney General Ken Paxton has decided that he
is going to oppose John Cornyn to get the Republican
nomination to run for his US Senate seat. And uh,
I think that has come as pretty good news to
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h to a lot of people who are not John
Cornyn fans. I caught myself among them. I don't believe
John Cornyn to be anything close to being a conservative.
It's still kind of not only sticks in my crawl
a little bit, but also, you know, it tells me
a lot about who this guy is that when he
last ran for the US Senate, he's none of his
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television ads. Of course I didn't see all of his advertising,
but I don't think any of his advertising included the
word Republican in it, he's just kind of like running like, Hey,
I know you don't know what party I'm from because
I don't really identify as a Republican. So how about
if I just make sure that those of you that
are independents and more modern Democrats are going to support
me here, And I've put a R next to my name,
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And of course he's voted plenty of times in a
way that would make you think, Okay, well, he's a rhino,
he's a Republican name, only he's part of the UNI Party.
He's part of the problem, and it's probably time to
do something about it. I'm just glad that there's somebody
that is going to run against him in the primary
that actually has a chance maybe of upseting him, because
(02:01):
the only way you're probably going to get rid of
him is is that way. If he wins the Republican
primary and he's the candidate, then chances are good that
he'll beat whatever Democrat he's running against, or at least
because you would rather have even though he's a Rhino,
you'd rather have him than a liberal Democrat. Right, That's
how it generally works. So the key here for all
(02:22):
of these races is to primary the people you're trying
to get rid of. If you're trying to get rid
of people who don't have any conservative values, in reality,
the only way you can really get rid of them
here in Texas is to primary them. And we got
a lesson about that, you know, in their own race
for the Texas House Speaker. They could they couldn't get
(02:43):
him primaried. He ended up getting reelected. Now he's no
longer the speaker, but he's still serving and his lieutenant
is now the speaker and following pretty much the same
policies that he did. So we still have plenty of
Rhinos here in Texas, not only at the serving at
the federal level, but also serving at the state level.
(03:05):
And you know, this is a state where we supposedly
think we're conservative, but the reality is we're not quite
as conservative as we think we are. We talk a
good game, well we're not as quite as conservative as
we should be. So I did a question of the
Day this morning on the iHeart radio app. And by
the way, I invite you if you haven't downloaded the
(03:25):
iHeart radio app, it's a handy thing to have. And
let me put a little plug forward right now because
I heeart. Here's the thing about the iHeart Radio app.
You can take us anywhere you want to go. We
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but you can listen to Greece, you can listen in Europe,
you can listen to anywhere in the world and get
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or the interference that you sometimes get on your radio.
So it's a handy thing to have. It doesn't cost
anything to download it. That has preset buttons now, just
like your car radio does. You can set KTRH at
(04:08):
number one, in KPRC at number two, and there you go.
You've got two talk stations, your two favorite talk stations
right there, easy for you to get your hands on.
So anyway, we had people responding on the iHeart Radio.
There's a little talkback button on there too. When you
hit that, you get thirty seconds you can talk back
to me about our afternoon show here on KPRC. You
(04:29):
can talk back to me in the morning on their
question today, whatever that question is. This morning's question was
who do you support in the Texas Republican primary? Would
you support John Cornyn or would you support Ken Paxton?
And to say the least, the results were a little
bit one sided.
Speaker 7 (04:49):
Hey, Jimmy, Sean from Pasadena Paxton every day of the
week and twice on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Yeah, this is Miles calling in. I'd vote for Paxton.
Cornan is a sellout and a fraud.
Speaker 8 (05:04):
Carlin from Silsby. It's Paxton all the way. I remember
when John Cornyn stepped across the aisle after midnight one
night and voted on the Obama Omnibus bill. He lied
he is a rhino. It is Paxton all the way.
Speaker 9 (05:18):
For me, Jimmy, it's changing from the spring. I would
support Ken Paxton. He's a true conservative.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
The other guy.
Speaker 9 (05:25):
John Cornyan has sold out way too many times to
the Democrats, has signed too many bills that have some
good in them, but far more evil things than them,
and he should have known better. So yeah, Ken Paxton
all the way.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
I'd hate to lose him.
Speaker 9 (05:41):
We need to replace him with somebody just like him
or better for Texas.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
Yeah, I think it'd be easier to find somebody who's
Ken Paxton like to be our attorney general than it
would be to find somebody with this staunch of conservative
credentials and pretty widespread conservative support in the state like
Ken Paxton. Now I know that John Corny we were
trying to get a hold of because we listen, we
(06:07):
don't always just book guests that agree with us. Every
now and again, we book people that we don't agree with,
John Cornyn being among them. We've had him on the
morning show on kat r H before. We maybe will
have him again. I don't know, And you know, I
make no secret about the fact that I don't really
support the guy. But there'll be a lot of name
calling in this thing. That's for dog gone sure. I
(06:28):
mean Ken Paxton. He has had his fair share of problems,
legal problems. Of course, those legal problems were brought on
because he is a conservative, and they're trying to get
rid of the guy. But John Cornyan referred to him
in a text message as a crook. So they're going
to they're'd be playing hardball. This is going to be
a really ugly race. It'll be a while before we
(06:48):
really get into it. But it's going to be a
really ugly race, and I think it's going to get
national attention, no doubt about that. In my mind, it's
going to get a lot of national attention. But again,
you know, the best way if you want to get
rid of a rhino, the best way to do it
is you have to primary them. That's the only real
way to get it done. You have to get somebody
(07:10):
else to win the nomination and run in the general election.
The only way to get rid of a rhino. Okay,
quick little break. We're to talk a little bit about tariffs. Obviously,
that's still top story. This story this morning about seven
items that people are stocking up on in the grocery
stores because they anticipate they're going to be more expensive.
Some of them I think we don't really think of,
(07:32):
for example, seafood. You know, do you realize that eighty
five percent of the seafood we sell in our grocery
stores comes from foreign countries? I mean yeah, I mean
we've got we've got a lot of good seafood here.
Why do we need to do that anyway? Back with
one in a moment Jimmy Baird Show, here anning of
nine to fifty k PRC. All right, terror story, stupid,
(08:11):
the dal Jones industrial average, well, Wall Street in general
is still kind of volatile. We got to get used
to the volatility that's gonna be around for a while
before things settle down. China doubling down, we come back,
We double down, They come back and double down. That
that looks like that's gonna go back and forth for
a while. And Trump and I'll get to this in
a second, but Trump said something last night that's probably
(08:32):
going to to be honest, it's gonna scare people. It's
gonna it's gonna scare people. It's gonna scare seniors. I
think in particular, the announcement was regarding prescription medication. More
on that in just a second, But first, you know,
let's let's talk about what the strategy is here, because
we do that every day. But I think there's a
lot of concern over what we're trying to do here.
(08:54):
Are we trying to and I just kind of thought
of this today. Are we trying to to to lower
terrafs all across the world. Are we trying to get
it to the point where there's no terrats on us,
and we don't put any tarifts on anybody else worldwide
free trade if you will, or are we trying to
eliminate the trade in balance or at least lower the
trade in balance? Are we just trying to get to
(09:16):
the negotiation table with some of these countries and scare
them into giving us being more fair to us? What
is the goal here? And there's been mixed messages. I
thought of this today though maybe the mixed messages are
on purpose. Everybody seems to say, well, Trump needs to
get everybody on the same page. Why would you want
everybody on the same page. Why would you want to
(09:40):
telegraph what it is you're trying to do. Why would
you want to do that? Don't you want to keep
them guessing a little bit about what it is you're
attempting to accomplish and how you're going to go about
accomplishing it. You know, doesn't surprise work better for you
than the other side, especially China, knowing exactly what your
(10:00):
move is going to be, what your next move is
going to be. Yeah, the problem is with China, there's
a limited amount of moves that they can do in return.
At some point in time, it hurts them more than
it hurts us. But you know it's China, so you
know them them giving up when it comes to fighting
Trump doesn't seem like it's likely to happen. But what
is the mgame? And you talk to different economists and
(10:23):
even different people who supposedly know Trump and know the
Trump administration, and you get to different answers. I saw
Art Laffer. He's the economist that goes all the way
back to the Reagan era. I saw Art Laffer. Here's
what Art Laugher said about what he thinks the endgame
to all this is.
Speaker 7 (10:38):
The exit strategy is he threatens the tariffs, which he
has already done so to bring them to the table.
It's clear that seventy countries have called. They're coming to
the table fast.
Speaker 8 (10:48):
Now.
Speaker 7 (10:48):
The exit strategy is he doesn't impose those tariffs.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
He takes those tariffs away.
Speaker 7 (10:53):
He even reduces our tariffs on those countries if they
will eliminate their tariffs on us. And that would be
the exit strategy, which would be a win win win
when that's just what we need. If those tariffs go
in and stay in for a long time, Stewart, and
if we have a huge escalation of tariffs as is
currently planned that would be disastrous for the US and
(11:13):
the world economy.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Will leave me when I tell you what this is
not a good answer.
Speaker 10 (11:17):
But whil's this about the suggesting that the present should
go on global television and make a worldwide offer of
you cut your times and will cut ours, we'll get
a deal a global TV presentation.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
Is that part of your idea.
Speaker 7 (11:32):
That well, I don't know if a global TV one
is the best, but you know, you just look at it.
There he should be able to negotiate getting rid of
teriffs for the them and for us.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
You know, a trade war.
Speaker 7 (11:45):
Everyone loses in trade wars, but we all don't lose
the same amount. Americans will lose a lot less than
the foreigners too. So therefore they have an advance, an
incentive to come down to the table and really drop
their tariffs on our products.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
It will help them as well.
Speaker 7 (12:00):
To Stuart, I mean, tariff's on our products hurt their
countries most.
Speaker 6 (12:05):
Most of that I think is correct, although it's hard
for me to imagine that the terriff war with China
doesn't hurt us more than it hurts them, because we
just have so many things that come from China so
many things, and honestly that probably that needs to change,
that really does. Nobody's had the guts to do something
(12:28):
like this up until now, you know, because they're always
worried about running for reelection or they're they're worried about
how it impacts the party. They're thinking about it like
a politician, not thinking about it like a business person.
And that's that's the Trump difference there. He's not thinking
about the politics about this as much as he's thinking
about what he wants the end result of this to be.
So a guy on from the Heritage Foundation, We've had
(12:50):
a lot of guests on from the Heritage Foundation, his
name is Steve Yates, talking about China, China tariffs, retaliation
and how to deal with it all. Here's what he
had to say.
Speaker 11 (13:03):
Well, Maria, this is a nice healthy dose of Chinese projection.
It's kind of astonishing in some ways that this challenge
snuck up on them somehow, even though I think pretty
much telegraphed from Trump's first term there was going to
be a desire to engage in renegotiation immediately on all
terms of trade. But China's reaction, I think hopefully is
(13:25):
a lesson to the wider world.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
They want to hit us on soybeans and things like that.
Speaker 11 (13:30):
It's basically a message to farmers then a time of crisis,
China expects you to side with China, not America's economy.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
I doubt that's where farmers want to be.
Speaker 11 (13:39):
On fentanyl, they're pledging to pull back on cooperation, so
they're saying they'd like to continue to poison Americans. Not
exactly a great negotiating strategy. And they say they're going
to pull back on Hollywood films, Well, who knows, maybe
maybe that would finally free up Hollywood to do something
pro American and maybe tell the truth about China crush
(14:00):
in Hong Kong and tan On.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Men and all the goodness that they've missed.
Speaker 11 (14:05):
They've been a long term truth that America has always
had much greater leverage and never seemed to find a
way to use it in an odd way. Our large,
large consumer market is quite powerful, and China doesn't have
a lot of alternatives, and matter what they want to
block by way of American sales going into China. That
will hit a few large companies perhaps, but the broader
(14:27):
state of play is that China has a much smaller
and weaker hand, and they are at risk at home,
whether it's demographic population change, but definitely financial institutions and
their dependence on this export model is profound. So yes,
we finally found leverage, but we have to see whether
it'll be used. So far, she's leadership has been willing
(14:48):
to pick fights rather than negotiate and stand down.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
Yeah, that's getting getting them to stand down, the old
saving face thing, right, getting them to stand down. That's
the hard part. Well, that's where that's where you you
got to hope that maybe Trump in and the Chinese
president sit down face to face, you know, where they
can have a candid conversation and maybe something gets done
(15:13):
and they figure out a way because Trump and Trump's
pretty good at this too, figuring out a way to
you know, frame it in such a way that you
know that the the you know, the Chinese still look
like they're strong and all that kind of stuff, because
that's going to have to be part of that deal.
Now for the thing that the President said last night,
he was at a Republican event in Washington, d C.
I have no idea, you know who is for a
(15:34):
black tye. I know that it was a black tie event,
and he's speaking in front of Republicans, and you can
tell by the the smattering of applause that what he
said last night about prescription medications maybe shocked a few
people in the room for a whole variety of reasons.
This is something that impacts senior citizens in particular, because
(15:55):
let's face it, who who's Who's using up a lot
of the drugs in this country, and it's it seems
your citizens who are on fixed incomes right now, prescription
medications are except from tariffs. But President Trump basically announced
last night, he called it breaking news, that that soon
is going to change. Here is the president last night.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
We don't make our own pharmaceuticals, drugs and other things
to get better. They're made in other countries, and you
pay a number. I mean, the same package in our
country compared to like London and other places is sometimes.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Ten times more, ten times more.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Something that sells for eighty eight dollars in London sales
for thirteen hundred dollars here, made of the same factory
by the same company.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
And that's over.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
I told them all that's over.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
They put all of their research and development, they put everything,
but What they don't tell you is that these other
countries are smart. They say you can't charge more than
eighty eight dollars, otherwise you can't study your product, and
the drug companies listen to them.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
But we're going to do something that we have to do.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
We're going to put We're going to teriff our pharmaceuticals
and once we do that, they're going to come rushing
back into our country because with a big market, the
advantage we have over everybody is that we're the big market.
So we're going to be announcing very shortly a major
teriff for in pharmaceuticals. And when you and when they
hear that, they will leave China, they will leave other
(17:34):
places because they have to sell Most of their product
is sold here, and they're going to be opening up
their plants all over the place in our country.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
We're going to be announcing that.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
So that's breaking news, ladies and gentlemen, we have breaking news.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
That's what's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
What other presidents allow China to get away with is
absolutely criminal. But I'm not like the other presidents, and
it's not going to happen under President Trump.
Speaker 6 (17:59):
Okay, so are pharmaceutical companies prepared to manufacture that stuff?
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Here?
Speaker 6 (18:05):
Are they prepared to do it? How long will it
take them to gear up to do it?
Speaker 3 (18:09):
If?
Speaker 6 (18:10):
If that's how they choose to respond to it, I
would assume that he's exactly right about that, But that's
probably not an overnight proposition. So how long would it
take for them to begin producing some of those pharmaceuticals
they're doing in places like China? Do it here? All right?
Back with more in a moment, stick around Jimmy Barrett
Show here on AM nine fifty KPRC. All right, I'd
(18:51):
like to address trumpet arrangement syndrome in our final segment today.
I think the only way I've always wondered, because everything
should have a cure, right aside from Donald Trump disappearing
off the planet Earth. What should be the cure? How
do you treat trump de arrangement syndrome? Unfortunately, we haven't
figured out how to do that yet, and until we do,
(19:16):
we're gonna have a dangerous world out there. There was
a study survey done of self described leftists, and these
are people who consider themselves very liberal. Obviously they identify
as being Democrats. You know, they're the fringe left or
the far left of the party, which is unfortunately most
(19:37):
of the party of these days, and they identify themselves
as again leftists and as leftists. Fifty five percent of
them say killing President Trump is justifiable. These are the
same people, I guess who think that Luigi Mangione's killing
of that United Healthcare CEO, that that is justifiable. It's
(20:00):
the same logic at work, you know. It's also part
of what led to its assassination. Tempts I'm President Trump,
you know, to take him out, and so far there's
a couple of the you know, people who are really
carrying the mantle here for Trump arrangement syndrome. Representative Jasmine
Crockett from our own state of Texas is one of them. Unfortunately,
(20:21):
you know, she's just saying some crazy stuff. Yesterday, she
tried to justify illegal immigration and not supporting illegals, keeping
illegals here in the name of slavery because she said,
you know, black people ain't picking no cotton anymore kind
of a thing. In other words, you want somebody to
(20:43):
pick your crops and that kind of stuff, you need
illegal aliens for that, which I don't know why she's
you know, wishing that on illegal immigrants. But here's Jasmine
Crockett and what she said in some response to it
from Tommy laren So, I have.
Speaker 12 (20:58):
To go around the country and educate people about what
immigrants do for this country, or the fact that we
are a country.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Of immigrants, right right.
Speaker 12 (21:07):
The fact is, ain't none of y'all trying to go
a farm right now? Okay, so I'm lying, raise your hands,
you not, you not? We don't picking kite, we are.
(21:28):
You can't pay us enough to find a plant station.
Speaker 13 (21:31):
She continues to scrape the moral bottom of the bucket.
But I also say this as somebody who is from
South Dakota. A lot of my neighbors are ranchers and farmers.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
They really enjoy doing that work.
Speaker 13 (21:42):
So I'm not so sure she's ever met any of those,
but I'm sure living in Texas, she's had to run
into a few. I'd also say this, it's not just
Jasmine Crockett, but we hear this on repeat from several Democrats,
who I guess are finally being honest that they view
illegal immigrants as the new form of their cheap slave labor,
and it's really discussing that they view human beings that way,
especially when they seem to go out of their way
(22:03):
to keep the criminal ones in our country. But I
don't see a human being as somebody who should just
be exploited for cheap labor. I would hope again that
the Democrats would see the light on this. But I
guess we can at least thank Jasmine Crockett for always
being transparent about her true feelings.
Speaker 6 (22:18):
Yeah, yeah, well, you know she's I guess she's the
left version of Marjorie Taylor Green, right, who's also very
transparent about her feelings, but somehow doesn't sound nearly as
deranged as she is. And you know who else, all
of a sudden is deranged.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
James Carville.
Speaker 6 (22:35):
During the election, he's warning Democrats about the things that
they're doing wrong, and he's not saying anything really that
negative of President Trump. But now all of a sudden,
of course, in this case, he's not angry at you
and me as Trump's supporters. He's angry at corporations that
all of a sudden are doing business with Donald Trump.
(22:56):
That's who he's angry at. And he makes a comparison
to Nazi collababorators.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
How disgrace must these companies that are sucking up to him,
that are giving him tens of millions.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Of dollars for access.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Do you know the collaborators which the country is going
to feel toward collaborators with this regime. Maybe you need
to go in history and see what happened in August
of nineteen forty four after Paris was liberated. They didn't
take very kindly to the collaborators.
Speaker 14 (23:35):
Oh, Carvion looks like someone liberated him from a glass
tank at Petco. Glad he's taking a break from hunting
down Sigourney Weaver. But is he saying these people should
be placed in pajamas, have their head shaved in march
down Pennsylvania Avenue and spit on.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
I'm not saying.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Who should be placed in pajamas and have to head shaved,
marched now on Pennsylvania Avenue spinout. I'm not saying that.
But I'm saying that that did happen. And I'm saying
if these people betrayed different nation.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
In the same way, and I think.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
That these law firms and these giant corporate conglomerates are
betraying the United States.
Speaker 14 (24:32):
Now, I'm not saying that James Carville is a barely
functioning retard with nothing left of value in this world.
I'm not saying that at all. I'm also not saying
it's pointless t tar and feather him because he still
sheds his skin twice a year. And I'm also not
saying if James Carville choked to death on one of
his morning feedings of live mice, he wouldn't be missed.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Well, I was sure it's fun to not say things.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
Yeah, what could we not say about Jasmine Crockett? I
think we could think of a few choice things to
not say about her. Oh really, it's it's quite amazing,
is it not. It's amazing to watch this. Yep. You
know the guy that tried to kill President Trump, or
was planning to kill President Trump at outside of his
(25:21):
golf club in Florida. You know, they unearthed some text
messages or release some text messages he was sending to
somebody in Ukraine about getting is a missile launcher or
stinger or something so he could go after Trump force one.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Yep.
Speaker 6 (25:37):
That's that's that's out. That's where Trump arrangement syndrome is
leading these people to acts of violence what they quote
call justifiable acts of violence, crazy, just playing crazy. Listen,
you all have a great day. See you tomorrow morning,
I hope Bright early five am over on news radio
seven forty k TRH. We are back here at four
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