The School Choice Bill

Today on the Jimmy Barrett Show:

• Corey DeAngelis on the School Choice Bill

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
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Speaker 2 (00:35):
It is Friday, and we're getting ready to end the week.
I hope on a very positive note here today. I
thought we'd talked because we talked a little bit about
this this morning, Let's talk a little bit more about
it this afternoon. Quality of life? How is your quality
of life? How do you rate your quality of life?
Do you have to have a lot of money to
have great quality of life? You have to have the

(00:56):
perfect job to have a great quality of life? Do
you have to have a perfect marriage to have great
quality of life? Are there little things that you can
do that would increase your quality of life? And you
haven't really you haven't really thought to think of some
of these things. I saw this list, I thought this

(01:16):
was really interesting that people have made like these little,
anie bitty minor changes and all of a sudden their
quality of life goes way up, and I guess my
quality of life. It means, at the end of the day,
you're pretty happy. You're pretty happy with who you are
and what you do and what your life is like,
and and you know you're not miserable or depressed or

(01:38):
any of those things. All right, here's some of the
things on the list, and then we're gonna share some
listener thoughts here. But here, here's a couple of things
on the list. Giving your eyes breaks. If what you
do for a living involves you looking at screens, rest
your eyes every thirty minutes, focus on something twenty feet away.
Helps with the eyes strain, It helps with headaches, it

(01:59):
helps with tiredness, It even helps with depression. Here's another one,
replacing a cheap office chair with something that actually offers
lumbar support, and that I actually think that's a pretty
good one, because if you have the kind of job
where you are at your desk all day, you know,
hunched over a computer, and your lower back is aching,
I mean, if you have if you there are two

(02:21):
things I think that you can have that just completely
reduce your quality of life. But a backache or a headache.
If you have somebody who has migraines or chronic headaches,
for example. I think you know, trying to find a
way to get rid of those, whatever you have to
do get rid of those, would just immensely help your
quality of life under Here's here's a very philosophical one
understanding that working with someone smarter than you is a

(02:44):
privilege and an opportunity to learn and hone your own
skills and not a threat. And that's for people like me,
the younger me, not the current me. The younger me,
The younger me was afraid to do things like going
vacation because I was afraid whoever was going to fill
in for me on the radio would be better than
I was and would take my job, which is a

(03:07):
pretty much an irrational fear when you get right down
to it, because you can't spend your life worrying that
whoever's going to replace you temporarily will do a better
job than you do. You just do the best job
you can and let the rest of it take care
of itself. Buying blackout curtains, well, if you have to
nap or sleep during the day, Yeah, that'd be a
great quality of life issue. Moving out of your hometown,

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now that's interesting to me. My ex wife refused to move.
One of the reasons why she's my ex wife is
in the radio business. You have to get up and
move to get ahead. You just have to most of
the time. It's very rare you can begin a career
in a city and stay in that city your entire life.
You have to be able to move around. So yeah,
and the best thing ever happened to me. I wouldn't

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be in Texas if I were still in my hometown,
I wouldn't be here in Texas. Quitting a toxic job,
learning that it's okay I don't okay to say I
don't know instead of pretending you know what someone is
talking about, because people are excited to share what they know.
So it's a simple thing that can lead to a
lot of professional and personal growth. Walking every day, end

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up with better sleep, better move, more energy. And it's
really easy to do. Deleting your social media, yes, or
at least moving it off your phone to a secondary device,
so it's something you can escape and be more intentional
about that. This is an area where I need. I
need personal improvement. I spend way too much time on

(04:37):
my phone. Starting a band clearly nobody's ever heard me
saying starting a band. At least it's hanging out with
your friends on a regular basis. Okay, buying an automatic
nasal rense kit. Really give up folding your underwear? No,

(05:00):
I demand to fuld my underwear. Folded underwear is better
quality of life. It's like saying, don't don't make your bed.
I gotta make my bed. I gotta I gotta get
into crisp sheets. Now here's here's the question. What did
our listeners think when we asked the question today this
morning on KTRH on our morning show, Houston's Morning News.
What little things and it could be as little as
you wanted it to be. What little thing have you

(05:22):
done in the last month, the last year, the last
two years, last five years, the last ten years that
immediately improved your quality of life?

Speaker 6 (05:30):
Quit a toxic af job last year the quality mount
of life is markedly improved. There's no reason to be
miserable and dread going to work. You spend most of
your life there, so make it with people that aren't toxic.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
You know, I don't I think there's toxic people wherever
you go. But I do agree that having a job
that you look forward to going to that you enjoy
getting up and going to even if like me, you
have to get up at two point fifteen in the
morning to get to it. That makes all the difference
in the world. And I've been blessed to have a career,

(06:09):
you know that's been going on for decades, that every
day I've enjoyed getting up and doing what I do.
What other ideas do we have?

Speaker 3 (06:18):
Kitty in the city.

Speaker 7 (06:19):
A couple of things that have improved the quality of
my life. Having flowers all the time, fresh flowers all
the time when I wake up in the morning, saying
thank you God for giving me another day, giving me
another chance to get it right, and trying to adapt
the mentality of everything happens for a reason. I get

(06:40):
on the road late for whatever reason.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
Everything happens for a reason it does, I agree, no
coincidence in life. I really thought she was going to
throw a bubble bath in there, so as you said
the flowers, I'm sure a bubble bath was coming.

Speaker 1 (06:52):
Dicky from Dyke. And my quality of life has improved
once I got a rescue dog, and good one and
then a third one. I have four rescue dogs that
walk me everywhere I go, bring nothing but joy and happiness.
Have a good day.

Speaker 6 (07:12):
Hi tied from sugar Land.

Speaker 1 (07:14):
I quit smoking six years ago and it was the
smartest thing.

Speaker 3 (07:19):
I ever did.

Speaker 1 (07:20):
Anybody out there still smoking needs to quit to day.

Speaker 8 (07:25):
My name's Laura and I semi retired this year and
it has been the best decision I ever made. And
I never realized that I had time to do things
that I really wanted to do, so I just I'm
very thankful I was able to do that.

Speaker 2 (07:47):
By those are really some good one, especially at the
rescue dog thing. Dogs are a pretty amazing thing. I've
spent most of my life not having a dog, and
the excuse was all, we well, you know, you work
strange hours, your wife works, Who's going to take care
of the dog? And at the end of the day,

(08:08):
what you find out most of the time is those
are just kind of excuses as to you know, why
you don't want to take on the quote unquote responsibility
of a pet. But I've got to say, and we've
had cats, because cats are very easy to take care
but but there's nothing quite like the dog. You know,
the cats are kind of aloof you know, take you
or leave you. But the dog, I mean, the difference

(08:31):
you can make. It's not just the difference the dog
makes in your life, it's it's the difference that you
make in the dog's life. And I really firmly I'm
with Dickie. I really believe in the value of having
a dog in your life, and even more so a
rescue dog, because I think you know, I mean, they're
they're thousands and thousands and thousands of dogs in Houston

(08:53):
area shelters, some of which will never have a forever home,
and they are so grateful. I mean, you've seen, I'm
sure enough videos to see just how grateful the dog
is when you decide that you're going to make them
a member of your family, and they end up giving
back more to you than you could ever hope to
give to them. All Right, quicklote break back with more
in a moment, Happy Friday. Jimmy Bear show a nine

(09:16):
k PRC.

Speaker 3 (09:39):
So.

Speaker 2 (09:39):
I think yesterday I was talking about It's in play
a little kind of Elon Musk at the cabinet meeting
this week, and it kind of sounded like he was
saying goodbye. But I'm not so sure. I think he
really enjoys this old Doze thing. He may have to
give it up just from the standpoint of you know,

(10:01):
he's got a car company at Ronnie's got a space
company to Rannie. He may just have to do that.
But clearly he enjoys what he does. He sat down
with Jesse Waters and this was like a ten o'clock
at night. Ten o'clock at night. Who do you know
working at ten o'clock at night, especially working for the

(10:21):
government other than the President and maybe his cabinet at
ten o'clock at night, other than military ten o'clock at night.
So he sits down with Jesse Waters. Elon Musk does,
and also his Doge Committee and his Doze Committee. They're
an interesting bunch. I mean a lot of really young
guys on the committee here because why because they bring

(10:43):
the latest technology and a lot of what's wrong with
the government is technology related. And we'll get to that
in a second. But first here's Jesse Waters talking to
Elon Musk and they get started by talking about the
Treasury Department and some issues that they found at the
Treasury Department. And you want to talk about fraud. One
of the biggest fraud scams going on at the Education Department.

Speaker 3 (11:06):
A lot of great work in the Treasury this week.

Speaker 9 (11:08):
One of the crazy things with regards to the Treasury
is that when a payment is made, and the computers
at the Treasury actually pay about five trillion dollars per year,
like crazy amounts. There was formerly not a budget code
on there, so if not a payment was made, you
didn't know actually what it was for.

Speaker 3 (11:27):
It could have been for anything.

Speaker 9 (11:28):
There was a four billion dollar COVID fund in the
Department of Education and there was no receipts required, so
people we just drawed down on it and wh when
people looked into it, this wasn't just this was before us.
They found that money was being used to rent out
Caesar's Palace for parties, rent out stadiums, et cetera. And
so the one change that DOGE made with part of

(11:48):
Education is we had the simple requirement that if you
draw down money, you must first upload a receipt.

Speaker 2 (11:54):
That was the only change that was made.

Speaker 9 (11:55):
You must upload your receipt, and upon doing so, nobody
drew down any money anything.

Speaker 3 (12:00):
Yes, but we didn't say that we'd check the receipt.

Speaker 10 (12:03):
You could send a fake receipt, you could send a
picture of your dog.

Speaker 3 (12:08):
Anything, anything, anything, And as soon as we asked for anything.

Speaker 10 (12:15):
At all, that something, the requests were like, Oh, we
don't need it anymore.

Speaker 3 (12:19):
That's interesting. They were renting Caesar's palace.

Speaker 10 (12:23):
Yes, they were like basically partying on the texture of money.

Speaker 2 (12:26):
Yep, having a big old party. They had four billion
in COVID funds that were unspent that they were using
for their own personal use, own personal little slush fund,
and there was no accountability for it. No receipts were required.
In the moment they started asking for receipts, all of
a sudden, Oh no, we don't need that. That's fine,

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because they knew, or they assumed that the receipts are
going to be checked and that the people would see
what they were spending the money on, and you know,
all hell would break loose, really really quite quite amazing.
What they did in this meeting was was fun too.
They just went around from two DOGE committee member to
DOGE Committee member to to to kind of you know,

(13:11):
see what that individual was working on, what they found,
what departments they were at here. One of those DOGE
members talks about the lack of accountability.

Speaker 5 (13:19):
What are the the extreme examples of on accountability in
some cases is has a curd as some of the
small incies.

Speaker 3 (13:27):
I think the Intra American Foundation is one.

Speaker 5 (13:30):
Of the eighties we visited where you know, they get
fifty million dollars a year congressional money to give grants.

Speaker 3 (13:37):
These are things like you know, apoca farming and threw
improving them. That's the real description.

Speaker 5 (13:45):
Improving the marketability of peas in Watsamala really fruit jam
and yes.

Speaker 3 (13:54):
What yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 (13:55):
So you might expect, you know, in the private sector,
in nonprofit to give you know, eighty to ninety percent
of their money to grantees.

Speaker 3 (14:03):
In the case of IAF that was fifty eight percent.

Speaker 2 (14:06):
So the other half.

Speaker 5 (14:07):
Those swords management posts ravel what would refine exactly?

Speaker 3 (14:11):
I mean too An example is that.

Speaker 10 (14:16):
Even if you agreed with supporting alpacapamas in Peru, well,
actually most of the money never made it out of DC.
It's going into the pockets people in the neighborhood get
to Peru, right.

Speaker 11 (14:30):
So what percentage do you think doesn't even get to
the destination it's supposed to.

Speaker 3 (14:37):
I believe the GAO estimates this is not our estimate.
I believe it was on the order of only ten
to fifteen cents on the dollar actually gets to the
end recipient. Whether you agree with that cause.

Speaker 2 (14:47):
Or not, ten to fifteen cents per dollar actually getting
to the recipient, and most of the recipients were things
we should not be spending money on to begin with.
So again, there's a department with a fifty million dollar
budget which is lining its own pockets and enriching its

(15:08):
own members and not really making a difference in the
world in any way, shape or form. But it is
the Department of Government efficiency, Let's remember that. And the
Department of Government efficiency is not just about finding fraud
and rooting that out. It's also about finding a waste.
It's about finding efficiencies. And there's probably nothing in the

(15:32):
world any less efficient than the federal government, if for
no other reason than the federal government. Despite all this money,
the trillions of dollars that spend every year, they have
not updated their systems. Many of the systems in the
federal government go back to the eighties, the seventies, and

(15:55):
in some cases the nineteen sixties. This story, this story
is really quite amazing to me. In order to retire
from the federal government, you're a government employee, in order
to retire from the federal government, you have to put
in a retirement request, and they have all this paperwork
evidently that has to be filled out, reams and reams

(16:17):
of paperwork, and the process is so slow. It takes
six months or more just to go through the retirement process.
So if you want to retire from your federal government job,
you better give them about it. I don't know, maybe
a ten months a year head starts the way things
were being done. Here is one of those Dosee Committee

(16:41):
members talking about that. It starts. It all starts in
the cave where they're keeping all these records for these
retired government employees.

Speaker 11 (16:50):
I took a golf cart through security, down into the
side of a mountain and entered daylight left, and I
entered this whole space of caverns and roads, and it
gets through a metal door and I open it up
and there in front of me is a sea of
filing cabinets from the nineteen sixties, and I'm walking around.
It's super shilly. It smells like paper, you know, I

(17:13):
realized for as a mine. It's a great mind. It's
secure as well, with temperature controlled. So the question we're
not asked. We're asking is not is this a good
place to sort physical media, which it is. It's amazing
for that. The question is why are we still using
paper in twenty five? So I brought something to show

(17:33):
you of what's inside the money and only the normal
process for a time it is it could be over
six months.

Speaker 12 (17:41):
So once you file your time in papers, that's why
it takes six months.

Speaker 13 (17:45):
What is it?

Speaker 11 (17:47):
So these are replica case folders that people used to
retire from the government, and so these are all compiled
by hand to move around on carts through the mind.

Speaker 3 (17:57):
It takes many months to do that.

Speaker 11 (18:00):
And this one is a single retirees paper required to
leave the government.

Speaker 12 (18:07):
If somebody wants to retire, they can't because it takes
six months to compile the paper and carry the paper
into a mine where it is stored.

Speaker 3 (18:17):
And also all the calculations are done by head.

Speaker 11 (18:20):
Everything has twenty twenty five reconcile adjudicated.

Speaker 2 (18:24):
This is thicker than the word of the Rings trilogy.

Speaker 11 (18:26):
And if I have a process this, I would rather
do my taxes in the dark than have to go
through this.

Speaker 3 (18:32):
And so what we're doing is we're bringing.

Speaker 11 (18:34):
This process online with modern software, and I'm excited to
share that as of tonight, we have twenty five retirees
going through an entirely online retirement process in the government
for the very first time.

Speaker 2 (18:49):
Wow, for the very first time, an entire online process,
a digital process for retirement. Now, you know, I haven't
HEARDing figures about how long that's going to take you
to do. You know, my guess is a matter of
hours versus a matter of you know, six ten months
or more. But imagine that that not that necessarily. By

(19:13):
the way, I'm a kind of a believer in paper trails,
so there's a part of me that doesn't mind that
there's a paper copy of of a lot of things
that the government does, because you know, if anything, if
it's just all digital, I mean, you know, does the
government have a secure way to store that information so
that can't get hacked into, so that you know, it

(19:35):
doesn't disappear or something. You know, I have my doubts
that they have the ability to do that. But you
see what you see the difference here we're going. We're
going from basically a system has been a place since
the nineteen sixties where they generate all this paperwork and
put it in filing cabinets, miles of filing cabinets in
a mountain somewhere versus you know, the modern world nineteen

(19:56):
sixty five versus twenty twenty five. Really it amazing. All right,
big day coming up tomorrow for Governor Abbott and for
the state of Texas. That's when Governor Abbitt will be
signing the school choice Bill. What more in that story
coming up next Jimmy Baird Show here on AM nine
fifty KPRC. All Right, Corey de Angels joins us here

(20:31):
on AM nine to fifty KPRC and the Jimmy Baird Show.
Accuracy in the Media, Senior Advisor in Texas, in town
going well in Austin. Actually in order to attend the
big signing tomorrow, Governor Greg Abbott is signing the school
Choice Bill into law. You're pretty excited about that, aren't you.

Speaker 13 (20:50):
Yeah, it's a huge one. It's actually the biggest day
one victory for school choice in US history. It allows
all families, regardless of income, to a why and it's
enough funding for about one hundred thousand scholarships in the
first year. I expect that more than one hundred thousand
families will apply so hopefully we can take that demand,

(21:11):
that wait list to the lawmakers to pressure them to
get rid of the cap as soon as possible, like
we've seen another state.

Speaker 2 (21:18):
Well, I think I think the cap to begin but
let's get your opinion here, but I think the cap
to begin with was probably an appeasement in order to
get the bill passed because the biggest, the biggest fear
I guess of all the public school lobbyists in Austin
was that somehow this was going to take money away
from the public school system. So in order to be
able to get a pass, they had to show that

(21:39):
the public schools we funded to what they are funded
now and this money would not have an impact on that,
and if granted, we have a surplus. But you know,
this is a billion dollar investment, So that's a pretty
big investment ry of the gate.

Speaker 13 (21:53):
Yeah, but not relative to the government run schools. They
spend about one hundred billion dollars. They've spent over eighteen
thousand dollars per student per year now and that's about
sixty percent higher than average private school tuition in Texas.
So this is a great start, don't get me wrong,
but it's we're not done yet the fight isn't over,
and it's not unusual. We've seen this in other states

(22:15):
like in Utah they had only five thousand scholarships in
the first year. In places like North Carolina, I think
they only have like ten thousand scholarships, So it's not unusual.
They expand over time and it becomes easier to pressure
the legislature to do the right thing to clear any

(22:35):
wait lists once they arrived. So we showed demand as
the next move, and we busted off the cap. Like
in states like Arizona and Florida, they have zero cap.
In Florida they have over five hundred thousand students choosing
school choice scholarships already, So I expect Texas is going
to go big as well.

Speaker 2 (22:53):
Yeah, I imagine you're right about that.

Speaker 3 (22:54):
You know.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
I want to this is kind of a little well,
sort of related, sort of not related. I want to
get your thoughts on this though. I don't know if
you saw this or not. Did you see that the
number one state for fourth grade readers is now you ready, Mississippi?

Speaker 13 (23:13):
Missus They're focusing on reading. I mean, this is a
pretty basic thing, right. Louisiana fall games as well on
the nation's report cards. So Louisiana also just passed universal
school choice, and in their month and a half window
that just closed for applications, they had forty thousand people
apply for their new school choice initiatives, similar to Texas

(23:35):
school choice programs. And if you do the math on that,
that's about six percent of their school age population in Louisiana.
Translate that percentage to Texas, that's about three or four
hundred thousand kids. So I do expect that you're going
to have a lot of families want this school choice program.

(23:55):
And it's a good problem to have because that means
families want opportunities, and I means it's more likely that
those opportunities are going to be granted.

Speaker 2 (24:07):
You know, doesn't this make the best case Coridangelis for
getting rid of the National Education Department?

Speaker 3 (24:12):
Is?

Speaker 2 (24:12):
If we needed to make more of a case for this,
Look what Mississippi. When Mississippi decided that they were going
to make their own decisions, they were going to get
back to basics. Look what happened. They went from like
they were traditionally for as long as I can remember,
like forty ninth or fiftieth of all the states when
it came to their education. Now they're number one and
fourth grade reading.

Speaker 13 (24:35):
That's right. I mean, we should abolished that unconstitutional Department
of Education. It was the word education is not in
the US Constitution. It's therefore a violation. And the tenth
and then I'm glad Trump is he ran on the issue.
He won the parent vote by nine points. After doing so.
He also ran on school choice. And by the way,
just on Thursday, Trump mentioned that a prayer breakfast that

(24:56):
Texas's school choice bill is the ultimate school choice still
and he was introducing Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick and looked
as a national mandate to a ballister department and expanded
school choice after a victory like that, Trump also beat
Kamala Harris on the issue of education. That's an underreported story,
but two separate big national polls found that before election day,

(25:20):
and for a Republican to be a Democrat on education,
that's a the kits turning because families are saying that
the GOP is the parents party, trusting family to be
in the driver's seat to direct the upbringing of their
own kids. But look, the Department of Education started in
nineteen seventy nine as a political payoff to the Teachers
Union by Jimmy Carter, and that's all it's ever been.

(25:43):
They said it was going to close achievement gaps and
improve outcomes. It's done neither of those things. It's just
thrown more money at the problem. It's the definition of insanity.
It has spent nearly three trillion dollars since its inception,
and the proof is in the pudding. The outcomes haven't
gotten better because of the Department of Education. In some places,
they've gotten worse. So it's time to return education to

(26:06):
the base. And I'm glad Trump is taking this approach
of giving that department death by a thousand cuts. The
families will be better off because of it.

Speaker 2 (26:13):
Well, and we also found out that through those thankfully,
that the Apartment of Education was spending billions of dollars
at Caesar's Palace and having a big old party. So
and once they had to turn in receipts that all
of a sudden they didn't need the money anymore. Isn't
that amazing?

Speaker 13 (26:28):
It's insane. And I'm glad they've fired at least half
the people already. Oh we're halfway there, we're not done yet.
But he did do that executive order to start the
dismantling the department, and guess what, All the useful functions,
if there are any, would move under other departments. So
the left has been fear monitoring, trying to employed Trumps

(26:49):
arrangement syndrome to try to gin up voters to be
upset about abolish in the department after they voted for Trump,
who ran on the issue, And they're trying to say
that special needs programs would go and that's not even true.
I mean, Linda McMahon, Trump, all the Republicans have been
clear that that would that would move under the Department
of Health and Human Services. Things like head Start would

(27:10):
also move there, and the funding would be blog granted
back to the States. Yet you'd actually had more money
for education than you had before because you wouldn't be
wasting so much of it on useless bureaucrats thousands of
miles away pushing paper. In Washington, d C.

Speaker 2 (27:25):
We're talking to Accuracy and Media Senior Advisor Corey Dangels.
I want to ask you about a couple of Supreme
Court cases real quick, in the couple of minutes we
have left here, Corey. One of them is in Oklahoma
involves Oklahoma, I should say in religious schools. Bring us
up to date on that.

Speaker 13 (27:40):
Yeah, Oklahoma tried to start a religious Catholic charter school
and they initially approved it, but then their state supreme
court knocked down because it was religious. And so that
that went to the Supreme Court yesterday and it appears
that we're going to get a five to three ruling.

Speaker 2 (27:57):
It should be sick three.

Speaker 13 (27:58):
But Jamie Colony Barrett que herself from participating in this
case because of connections to Notre Dame University. But look,
the charter school was blocked because it was religious, not
because it because they're academics or anything else, and so
that's a violation of the free exercise pause of the

(28:18):
First Amendment. It appears it's going to go our way,
and that could open the doors to religious charter schools
all across the country. So that's going to be a
big win. The week before, we had another similar case
out of Maryland. Of all places about letting families opt
out of gender ideology in schools, they don't allow that.
They'll allow you to opt out for religious beliefs in Maryland.

(28:39):
And it looks like that case is going to go
seven to even Kagan had some sympathy for the parents
in that case, the liberal justice of the Court, And
so I think that's going to have far reaching effects
as well in improving parental rights and education all across
the country.

Speaker 2 (28:54):
You know, it feels Corey, you know, I tried to
temper my optimism with realism, but fe like we're really
turning the corner on some of these things. Do you
feel the same way.

Speaker 13 (29:04):
Yes, exactly. And the opponents of education freedom, they have
the worst arguments. You listen to Justice Jackson, the one
who doesn't know what a woman is on the Supreme Court.
She was saying in that opt out case that, well,
if you don't like what your public school is doing,
if it conflicts with your deeply held religious beliefs, no biggie,
you can just go pay at a pocket for a

(29:26):
private school. That's easy for her to say. She sent
both her kids to Georgetown Day School in Washington, d C.
A private school that costs about sixty thousand dollars per year,
which is about the amount of costs to ten Harvard University.
I mean it was her let them eat cake moment.
Her Mary Antoine depends on that moment and it took

(29:48):
pretty advertising for school choice. But too bad, Justice Jackson
doesn't actually support school choice for you, only for her
own kids.

Speaker 2 (29:55):
Amazing. Hey Corey, good to talk to. He's always have
fun in Austin tomorrow.

Speaker 13 (30:00):
Absolutely, thanks so much.

Speaker 2 (30:01):
You bet take care of that's accuracy and Minya. Senior
Advisor Corey dangelis back with more in a moment. Jimmy
Vertchow here in name of nine fifty KPRC. All right,

(30:26):
before we get into the weekend, here and wrap it
up for today, I'm gonna play one of one of
my favorite cuts of the week. I really love. Here's
something I'm noticing is that a lot of people on
the right are fighting back against the mainstream media, and

(30:47):
the mainstream media is not fighting back very much anymore.
It's it's kind of like they're they're tucking their tail
between their legs, and I mean, they haven't learned a
lesson yet. Don't get me wrong, It's not like I
feel like they've learned a life lesson or anything. But
I noticed that they're not. They're not fighting back is
more and I'll give you an example. You know, we

(31:08):
keep these these media people on the progressive left have
not figured out that they need to drop this l
Salvadorian MS gang member slash wife beater that was deported
from Maryland. They need to drop this guy like a
hot potato, because the more we find out about this guy,

(31:31):
the worse he is, the more dangerous he is, the
more violent he is. There's no reason to bring this
guy back. But they still doing the due process and
uh and and we have to bring him back. They're
still doing that, but I noticed there's a lot less
resistance now when when when they're finally told this is

(31:55):
what you want to bring back, they don't have an
answer for it. They're they're they're they're very quiet. I mean,
they keep asking the questions over and over and over again.
But people like Steven Miller, who's one of the president's advisors,
is getting tired of answering the question. So he gets
asked again about you know, bringing this guy back and

(32:15):
due process and blah blah blah blah blah, and proceeds
to tell the mainstream media this, with.

Speaker 14 (32:22):
Respect to the case that you mentioned, there's not even
been more evidence that has been made public of this
person's violent, repeated threats and assaults against his spouse, someone
who had repeated documented human trafficking and human smuggling offenses.

(32:42):
Somebody that has extensively documented membership in Msterting, a terrorist organization,
and of course he had Msterteing tattooed on his knuckles.
This is a person who was a clear and present
danger to the safety of the American people. And it
is a sad reflection on the state of our media
and many of the outlets represented in this room that

(33:05):
you obsessively try to shill for this MS thirteen terrorists.
Will no coverage occurred in your papers about any of
the Americans that were raped and tortured and murdered by
the illegals that Biden.

Speaker 3 (33:20):
Was importing into our country.

Speaker 2 (33:22):
You know, you talk about due process.

Speaker 14 (33:25):
The Body Administration made the decision to give extensive due
process to two Trained Aragua terrorists that were apprehended at
the border just a couple of years ago. They were
two gentlemen, they were from Venezuela. There were members of
Trained de Aragua. The Body of the Administration bord of Bscholl
apprehended them and made the decision to provide them with

(33:48):
extensive due process, put them onto a program on a
supervised release and put them on inkle monitors so that
they could go through a lengthy legal determination. Asked you
whether these legal aliens who had just fut on US
soil might want to live in the United States for
the rest of their lives.

Speaker 2 (34:08):
What was the result of that decision? What was the
result of that choice that was made?

Speaker 14 (34:12):
Those two men kidnapped a young girl named Joscelyn Hungary
from her family. They beat her, they sexually assaulted her,
they tortured her, they shipped her, they murder her, and
they dumped her body. That is what the Body of
Administration's policy was.

Speaker 2 (34:31):
Man, he just gave it right back to them. That
was the end of that question. You know. But they
don't change. I don't know why they don't change, but
they don't change. All right, One more quick story just
to mention. I was going to play the audio, but
I don't really have time to play the audio, so
I will just mention it. Saw a story on our

(34:54):
television partner KPRC two yesterday about Lulu Lemon. They have
like three or four stores in Houston. One of them
is in the Heights, and you put the stores all
together and then like in the last six months, they
have had mob shop flash mob shoplifters. Now, if you're
not familiar with the term, it means a group of

(35:17):
a whole bunch of people show up to shoplift and
they go in and they overwhelm the store and they
clear out merchandise and they take off. This has happened
fifty one times. No, you heard me right, fifty one
times at Lulu Lemon. Evidently Lululemon has some very popular

(35:39):
clothing and what they're doing is they're going in and
they're stealing the clothing to sell online or you know
the I don't know how their social media maybe, I
don't know. How do you fence stolen merchandise like that?
How do you get away with fencing stolen merchandise? And
HPD is frustrated because they're constantly getting police calls to

(36:03):
go over there, and customers are frustrated because they don't
feel what would you feel safe? I mean, nothing's happened
to the other customers, but would you feel safe if
that's going on? You know, you got all these people
who are just a whole bunch of people running in
the store and clearing out everything they can and nobody's

(36:26):
getting prosecuted, nobody's going to jail. Lulu Levan's not doing
anything to stop it. I don't understand. I don't understand
two things. First of all, if you've been robbed fifty
one times in the last six months or so, how
can you afford to stay in business a lot when
they're getting cleaned out? They had a police incident report

(36:48):
that said one time, one time they were cleaned out
of eighteen thousand dollars worth of merchandise, another time was
over twenty one thousand. How could you take losses like
that and stay in business? I mean, is there mark
up that high and Lulu Lemon that they can lose
that kind of money and still make money. Why would
you continue to operate a store that is constantly hit

(37:13):
this way? Why have you told your employees not to
do anything about it, because that's one of the things
that customers were talking about. You know, they don't do anything.
They act like this is just normal. Again. HPD's frustrated,
the customers are frustrated, and loul Lemon, for whatever reason,
doesn't seem to be bothered all that much by it.

(37:36):
That's amazing to me. Anyway, Listen, you'll have a great weekend.
Thank you for listening. I will see you Monday morning,
right early at five am. Hope to see you Monday afternoon,
four right here on AM nine fifty KPRC

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