July 16, 2025 • 38 mins
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- What will happen in the special session?
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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All right today, I'd like to open up the show
today talking about something that rarely exists in society anymore.
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It's called the dress code. Do you all remember dress codes?
Did they have dress codes when you were in school?
This is how old I am. When I was in
high school, we had a dress code. I don't think
schools have dress codes anymore. I'm convinced of that because
I have seen. You know, my wife works in the
public school system, and I've seen the rare occasion I
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go to visit her at a high school that she's at.
I have seen what kids wear to school, and they
were things that, under no circumstances would we ever have
been allowed to wear when I was in high school,
Like pajamas. Do you think it's okay for your student
to go to school in their pajamas? And I'll tell you,
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and obviously their parents out there that either don't know
what the kids are wearing the school or don't care
what they're wearing in school. Here's my philosophy on wearing
things like pajamas to school. My dad, who is a teacher.
My dad always felt that, and he said at many times,
going to school is your job, son, It is the
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only job you have right now. You are supposed to
report at a certain time, you may leave your job
at a certain time, and you are conduct yourself in
a professional manner at all times, including the way you dress,
because you, sir, are a reflection of your mother and
me as parents. Now he didn't he didn't come right
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out and say it like that, but I knew exactly
what he meant by it. And when I went to school,
we weren't allowed to wear jeans, and being young and
probably fairly liberal at the time, of course, I was
all about, you know what, do you maybe we can't
wear gens? Why can't we wear jeans the school? You
certainly couldnot wear shorts. I don't think it mattered what
you wore on your feet, as long as you had
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shoes on. And we had to wear do we have
to wear? Yeah, we had to wear shirts with collars,
and I think that was it. That was the basic rule. Now,
of course, it's just about anything goes. The only thing
they're worried about at school, if they are worried, is
how much skin you're showing. So they care about how
short your skirt is, and they care about whether or
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not your mid drift is bear if you're a female,
and they care how much cleavage you're showing. Those are
the things that they care about. That's about all they
care about as far as the public school system goes.
When I was a kid, or when I was younger,
we always dressed up to go to church. Church was
not such a casual place. I've had a hard time.
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I don't have a problem with churches saying, you know,
we just want you to come and worship. We don't
care what you wear. I have no problem with that
at all, But it doesn't feel like church to me.
If I'm not wearing a jacket and tie, it doesn't
feel like church. Now, I think the I have made
a couple exceptions in life. I've gone to like Christmas
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eve services, you know, wearing a pair of slacks and
a sweater kind of a thing. Christmas in what I
would call Christmas casual. I've done that before, but to me,
it just it doesn't feel like church if you're wearing
jeans and sneakers, you know, But I see commercials all
the time with preachers at these churches. Who are you
know they're wearing jeans and sneakers basically, Okay, all right.
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What brought up the whole dress code conversation, by the way,
is the City of Houston and the City Council is
going to be debating whether or not they want to
have an ordinance that would require nightclubs and I assume
it's only nightclubs at this point to post their dress
codes because they suspect I think that sometimes nightclubs turn
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people away and they consider that to be discriminatory. Now,
I don't know why they're turning them away. I mean
certain clubs. I mean back in the day when when
people like me were still going to clubs, you know,
sometimes they would turn people away for not being good,
lucky enough, or just not fitting with whatever image it
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was the club wanted to present. I don't know if
that's what they're talking about here, or if they are
really concerned that if you're wearing some types of clothing
that are too revealing that you might get kicked out
and you shouldn't. I'm not sure where the discrimination is at,
but they want these clubs to post what their dress
code is and clearly state what their dress code is.
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So it got me thinking about places that still have
dress codes. I see it every now and again. There's
a restaurant I frequent called Taste of Texas. I love
that restaurant. They have a dress code in their dress
code is clearly stated about what is allowed and what
isn't allowed, but it is not enforced because I've seen
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people in there wearing all kinds of things that don't
meet the dress code, yet they're allowed to come eat
at the end of the day. I think that most
people who post a dress code, they do it trying
to encourage you to dress a certain way, but not
necessarily expecting you to dress a certain way. We were
just on a cruise with our listeners, our KTRH listeners degrees.
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The main dining room where we ate most nights had
a dress code, same thing, clearly stated what was allowed.
You could wear jeans, but you couldn't wear shorts. I mean,
there's a few other things that you couldn't wear to
dinner on the cruise ship. Same thing. I mean, I
think it encouraged people to dress a certain way, but
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there's some people who just don't care about rules and
don't think rules apply to them, and they were allowed
to come in and eat. So I think a dress
code is only as good as your willingness in order
to back it up. A dress code doesn't work if
they know that you're not going to enforce the dress code.
And then I thought about it this morning, and I'm
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thinking to myself, now, if I were to make a
dress code, you know, what kind of rules would I have?
And one of the things I think I would do.
I started off by saying, because to me, one of
the worst violations of people dressing are some of the
things and I'm sorry, ladies. I find women particularly guilty
of this. Young women have a tendency to wear outfits
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that are way too small for them. In particular, certain
ethnic groups wear have a tendency to wear dresses that
are way too tight, that show way too much, show
every curve, and generally they're made other things like span dex.
I see a lot of women as well who squeeze
into maybe a Spandex pair of pants that just don't
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really fit them. And and I think, listen, it's your
right to be as big and fat as you want
to be in this country. But I think we all
have to be realistic about what looks good on us
and what we can pull off and what we can't.
And if you don't have the body to pull off
span Dex, and very few people do, then maybe you
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should give up the span Deex. And first, the first
rule I was going to make was, well, I would
make it illegal to sell Spandex in any size bigger
than a medium. But I thought, well, that probably wouldn't
do the job either, would it, Because at the end
of the day, you're not going to you're not going
to discourage anybody from trying to put on something that
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it still doesn't fit them. You'll still have double xls
trying to get into mediums and wearing them. Uh too
funny anyway, dress codes think of the past. You think,
do you think that dressing up in dress codes will
make a comeback at some point in time? You got
to think everything comes around again. They'll probably make it
come back, all right quick, a little break back with
more in a moment Jimmy Bart Show, here a M
nine fifty k PRC. I think I'll stinkt segment. Let's
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call this the blame Trump segment. It's Trump's fault. Whatever
it is, it's Trump's fault. And whatever story it is
you're reporting, you come from that particular perspective. The economy
is one of the things that comes to mind. I've
seen endless stories here for the last few days about
Trump Tariff's adding to inflation. The CPI Index came out
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yesterday and it showed inflation for the month of June
was up zero point three percent. As is normally the
case with the economy, some things were up a little bit,
some things were down a little bit. Overall, it was
up zero point three percent, and the reporting indicated that up.
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See here's the Trump tariff's inflation. Here's the inflation that
they were worried about. The inflation is kicking in. Here's
Larry Cudlow on his Fox Business show disputing the reporting
on the Trump tariff effect on prices that you're paying
in the CPI, Wall.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Street Journal in New York Times out with screaming headlines
that today's small zero point three percent rise in the
CPI Consumer Price Index should be blamed on Trump's tariffs.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
The Times called.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
It US inflation accelerated in June as Trump's tariffs pushed
up prices. The Wall Street Journal called it inflation picks
up to two point seven percent as tariffs start to
keep in seep intwo prices. So I'm going to say
it to start, this is nonsense, belooney. The Lenti media
is using tariff histeria to cover up Jay Powell's gross
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mismanagement and frame Trump. The report shows no such thing. Newspapers,
on the other hand, along with most of the media,
love to blame every low piece of even quasi bad
news on Trump's tariffs. Now, actually, since January, the CPI
has increased only a low one point eight percent at
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an annual rate, which is less than the FEDS two
percent target. The core CPI increased two point one percent
over the same period, and mister Trump's supply side oriented
one big beautiful bill with its growth, tax cuts and
deregulation hasn't even taken effect yet. There's a productivity boom
out there that will also curb inflation. And also during
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mister Trump's first five months, blue collar wages have risen
much faster than prices, a welcome relief from bidenflation. But
back to the CPI, the twelve month change looks higher
because a year ago the index was flat zero point zero.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
That's the luck of the draw.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Also, the one percent jump in gasoline prices is based
purely on summer seasonal adjustment. In fact, gasoline has not
risen nationwide, been hovering around three dollars and fifteen cents
for quite some time. Meanwhile, new car prices fell three
tenths of a percent, Used car prices fell seven tenths
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of a percent. Goods prices, which are really the most
sensitive area to tariffs, have risen only zero point seven percent.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Pretty it's pretty pretty good stuff. That's pretty hard to
dispute those figures, right that that tells you where the
increases have been, though, and the increases have not been
in areas that would be that impacted by terrorists. At
this point, I've seen so many features showing how the
terrofts are not inflationary, and yet they want to continue
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to push this narrative that tariffs cause inflation. I saw
another story here, and I I wonder what you think
of this. There might be something to this story. This
story claimed that there are some big box retailers, the
Walmarts of the world, the Targets of the world, who
are blaming Trump tariffs for price increases, and that really
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that's what they're really doing, is they're using that as
an artificial excuse to raise prices. Now, there might be
some of both in this. I'm not here to say
that a company would not artificially raise prices and then
blame it on something like that so they don't have
to take the heat for it. But by the same token,
I don't expect companies to just eat the additional cost
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of a tariff, don't. I don't. If you're a Walmart,
I don't expect you to lower your profit margin in
order to be able to make tariffs disappear. If a
tariff is having an impact on something you're selling, then
pass that along. But I would hope as a retailer
you would also be looking or finding alternatives that are
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made in places where the tariffs are not as high
as they are on China, for example. And I don't
blame Trump for what's happening with China tariffs. I blame China.
China didn't want to play ball. That's why those tariffs
are so dog gone high. But let's get another opinion here.
Let's hear John Carney. John Carney, we've had him on
our morning show on ktr H. John Carney is a
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bright bart economist. Here he is talking about inflation and tariffs.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
So, first of all, it's the fifth month in a
row in which core inflation came in below expectations. The
economists are blowing this because they think inflation is going
to They think tariffs are going to push up inflation.
It has not done that. When you look inside the report,
as you were pointing out, some prices went up, some
prices went down.
Speaker 6 (14:18):
This is what we've been saying all along.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
Even if tariff pushed up, tarff's pushed up, say the
price of furniture, we see prices elsewhere coming down to
compensate it.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
I call this.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
They call it pass through inflation. I call it pushback
inflation because the consumers are pushing back on other prices.
So you're not getting total inflation at all. You're actually
getting a pretty even price stability, which is what the
Fed is supposed to be aiming for. When you look
at the numbers, you can see that like men's shoes
went up, but kids shoes went down. That's normal price activity.
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That's what happens in an economy. It's supply and demand.
People don't have people. The reason why tariffs can't push
up money is because we don't have the kind of
bidenflation expending explosion that we have that caused the tariffs
in the first place. It's not a tax on imports
that causes inflation. It's the government over spending and accommodated
by the FED. That's not happening now. We're not seeing
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inflation at all. And I think what Taylor was saying
is really important. This report is actually great for families.
The price of milk is down, the price of eggs
is down, the price of flying somewhere for vacation is down,
and the price of hotels and motels down sharply.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Well there you go. Okay, more evidence that at least
are the things that you and I are spending money on.
We're not seeing inflation. We're not, which means that we're
getting an opportunity to catch up a little bit here.
That's a beautiful, beautiful thing. He also John Carney just
brought up a couple of other very important points, the
most important point probably being biden inflation. What caused bidenflation?
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Printing money, giving away money, run away government spending. That
is what drove up inflation during the Biden presidency. What
Trump is attempting to do, through DOGE and other means
is to cut government spending. But here's the problem we're having.
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We're having a real problem with our government when it
comes to cutting back just a little bit. Right now,
the Senate is debating nine billion dollars worth of DOGE cuts,
making them permanent. And every Democrat, of course is is
one hundred percent against ever cutting back on government spending
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for any reason, doesn't matter what it is. They want
more control, more government spending, no matter what it is.
So all the Democrats vote against making DOGE cuts permanent.
You would like to think the Republicans would all know
to make the DOGE cuts permanent. We're only talking nine
billion dollars out of a multi trillion dollar budget, for
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goodness sakes, I mean, it's even it's not even the
tip of the iceberg. It's an ice cube out of
the iceberg, the bare minimum beginning of what needs to happen.
But at least pushing us in the right direction. Yet
we have the usual suspects, the least of Markowski's the uh,
who else is in that group? Susan Collins from Maine,
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you know, the turtle the turtles in that group. He's
still because he's still serving in the United States Senate.
He votes against it. The other they got a procedural
vote because JD. Vance voted for it, and it came
out fifty one to fifty just to make these paltry
cuts don't which don't amount to hill and nothing, let
alone to hill beans. And Senator John Kennedy he's not
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real happy about it. Here's Senator John Kennedy. He got
asked whether or not the Senate is going to come
through and vote in favor of making these cuts.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Well, I'm embarrassed to say, I don't know. We have
all excuse me. We had a lunch in meeting to
a omb. Director Russ Vote came over and tried to
explain the bill.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
I was pretty.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Discouraged after the meeting. I would describe the meeting as
organized grab ass. I mean, a million questions of Russ,
a lot of whining.
Speaker 7 (18:23):
You know.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Put this in context, the President's asking us to reduce
spending by nine billion dollars. Yeah, that's a lot of money,
but that's one tenth of one percent of the budget.
And the spending he's asking us to cut is stuff
like three point six million dollars for mail prostitutes and HATI,
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three million dollars to buy condoms in Zombia, five hundred
thousand dollars to buy electric buses for Rwanda. Just a
bunch of spending. Point And I've listened to my Republican colleague.
I love them all, but I'm listened to him for years,
and certainly for the last one hundred days since President
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Trump was elected, to talk about the.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Need to reduce spending.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
And here we are on the verge of the vote,
and I don't know if it's going to pass, but
I know this much after listening to all of this
rhetoric about we need to reduce spending. If every Republican
doesn't vote for it, will to hide our head in
a bag. Man. It's embarrassing.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
It is embarrassing, streaming embarrassing because this happens over and
over and over again, and it comes from the usual
suspects who keep getting re elected over and over and
over again, frustrating. All right, quick little break, we are
coming up. I should promote this coming up. Earlier this morning,
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I talked with representative State Representative Ryan Harrison about he's
from District ten, about the special session that is coming.
And there's already been I think like sixty plus bills
that have been filed for this next special session. He
has a couple that are really important to him, one
of them having to do with completely eliminating property Texas.
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By conversation with Brian Harrison coming up next here on
AM nine fifty KPRC and the Jimmy Barrett Show, there
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is a special session coming here in Texas. We knew
there would be. There's gonna be a whole laundry list
of Governor Abbott priorities that did not make it through
the Texas House before. I guess this morning was Representative
Brian Harrison from the Texas tenth district. He has a
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number of bills that are going to be up for consideration,
and how many of them actually see the light to day,
who knows, But that's what we're going to have to
find out here as we get ready for this special session.
So here's my conversation early from earlier this morning with
Texas State Representative Brian Harrison. Let's see what he has
to say about what he expects to see happen during
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this next special session. I know there will be any
midnight sessions, but there will be a special session, that's
for sure. Texas State Representative Brian Harrison from District ten
joins us to talk about the special session. Bills are
already starting to be filed. I think one of those
bills is yours, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Ten of them?
Speaker 7 (21:43):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Ten?
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Okay, I know one time. I know the about the
one on property taxes. Tell us about that one first. Well, yeah,
I mean we got to do with property taxes.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
This was the most anti tax payer regular session maybe
in the history of the state. We blew through the
whole surplus to fund you on DEI ands, transgender ideology,
and we failed on the number one thing we were
supposed to do, which was deal with property taxes. So,
as the first elected Republican in Texas to demand a
special session to deal with property taxes, whea, we're going
to go back to get another bite at the apple,
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and so I filed a bill. It's actually a constitutional amendment.
We need to be simple and common sense and say,
you know what, enough is enough. Never ending property taxes
are unethical, They're im moral. They've got to be abolished.
So I filed a constitutional amendment that would, over the
course of the next five years, make all property taxes
in Texas unconstitutional. But I'm also filing legislation so that
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people can benefit right now. I mean, after the first
special session ended, the entire liberal Austin UNI Party was
gas lighting voters into try and believe they cut their
property taxes by fifty billion dollars. This was the ridiculous
talking for what they were saying. But the reality is
their tax bills were going to go up. But we
need relief right now. I believe we should cut property
taxes in half this special session immediately and then abolish
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all the rest of them, phased all the rest of
them out over period of a couple of years. We
could absolutely do it. We just need some courage down
in Austin. But Texas voters deserve bold Republican leadership. They
have not been getting it. But that's what I'm going
to be pushing for every day of this special session.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Hot on the heels of the massive flooding under Kirk County.
The officials there announced a property tax increase. I want
to say, it's an eight percent property tax increase. I mean, yes,
they haven't even dried out yet. I guess I know
the voters there are very anti property tax, so I'm
guessing this probably is not going to go over or
isn't going over very well. But what would you suggest
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that Kirk County do in an effort to try to
raise funds to be able to survive this disaster.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Well, the first thing, I mean, like you said, they
not even dry down there yet. I mean, let's get
through this and do a correct assessment on what exactly
went wrong before. The problem is most government officials there
knee jerk reaction in all circumstances is the same raised
taxes on the people. That's not what folks down there one.
I was talking to them yesterday. I put a statement
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on this. I actually believe it's outrageous that the county
commissioners are laying the groundwork for an eight percent property
tax increase. This is the problem all of the so
called property tax reform bills that Austin brags about every session,
they're so full of these loopholes and exceptions that are
exploited by local governments all across the state of Texas.
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And so we got Austin uniparty swamp Republicans saying, oh,
we cut your property taxes. But the reality is local
governments and county go all these governments are raising people's
tax effective rates. So all Texans know is that their bills,
they're tax bill at the end of the year, goes
up every year. And so one of the other bills
that I filed that I've been pushing for four years
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now or multiple years, is it. And I just think
property taxes should be abolished.
Speaker 8 (24:48):
But as long as we have them, we should at
least make property tax increases illegal unless they're approved by
the voters in elections House Bill forty three in this
upcoming special session.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
That's the bare minimum. The least we should do is
at least make property tax hikes illegal unless the voters. So,
for example, in Kirk County, they say there's a need
to raise revenue this one cycle for this extraordinary reason,
they would have the opportunity to raise the revenue. But
the catch is the tax payers and the voters have
to be able to be put in charge to agree
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and say, you know what, Yes, in this instance, we
need to raise taxes. But unless the voters approve it,
all property tax tykes should be illegal. That should be
the low hanging fruit. And that is the bare minimum
that I expect for us to do this session.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
As of Monday, of Dorn's sixty bills have been filed.
Many of them are still key issues that just didn't
get through the governor abbot wants and including property tax relief,
some abortion restrictions, of ban on taxpayer funded lobbing. How
many of these bills do you think actually get through
or actually get considered in this special session.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
I have no idea, but here's one thing I want.
The point I want to make is when I was trying,
you know, sounding the alarm all session on regular media
and social media and talking with you guys at KTRH
about how liberal the session was. The fact that the
governor had to put all these Republican Party priorities back
on a special session and drag us back there, it's
pure proof positive at what a liberal disaster the regular
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session was. And on the taxpayer funded lobbying thing. Look,
it's outrageous that Texans are having their hard earned tax
money weaponized against them, against their values and their children,
to hire liberal lobbyists to go down there and lobby
the government for more taxes, more regulations, and liberal extreme
ideas like the Texas Association of School Boards, lobbyists paid
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for by taxpayers sent to Austin to go lobby to
put men in little girls public school bathrooms. We must
ban taxpayer funded lobbying. We should have done it many
many years ago. In addition to finally putting our state
on a path to eliminate property taxes, Texas voted for
bold conservative Republican leadership, and they re elected President Trump
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by fourteen points. But unfortunately the Biden Harris coalition is
still controlling much of the Austin swamp and Texans deserve better.
We should be the number one state in America for liberty.
We've got a reputation for leading in small government and
individual freedom and liberty, but we've just been coasting on
that reputation for too long.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
You're right about that, sir, Thanks is always good to
talk to you. Texas State Representative Brian Harrison from District ten.
There you go, and he's all right about that, you know,
we we we are not nearly as free here in
Texas as we think we are. I mean, we have
a lot of freedom loving people, but we have we
have the same problem here in Texas that we have
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with a lot of Republicans all around the country. We
still have a lot of what you would call you
to party Republicans that you're really there's not that much.
I guess there's a big difference between them and a
progressive Democrat, but there's virtually no difference between them in
a modern Democrat. And uh and and there many of
them are still all about big government, many of them
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still want control. Many of them aren't interested in really,
you know, getting rid of taxes or cutting taxes. We
have to do. We have to do something about it.
And the only thing that can be done is and
if this depends on the voters being patient enough and
demanding enough in order to make it happen, is that
these moderate so called moderate Republicans have got to go.
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Modern Republicans are no different than modern Democrats. The only
way you're going to have a fiscal conservative is you're
going to have to get a true conservative and not
somebody I'm not talking about being socially conservative. I'm very
libertarian when it comes to to to that, you you
have your life. I have my life. I followed, followed
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the law. Expect you to follow the law if you
want to, if you want to, you know, if you
want to have some marijuana on Friday night, I don't care.
You don't. Doesn't mean I have to use it, doesn't
mean I have to smell it. I just, I just,
I don't care. What I care about is how much
money the government is wasting and what they're wasting it on.
The least amount of government in my life, the better
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I want this little government dictates is is humanly possible.
All right, we're back with Born the ump stick around.
Please Jimmy Barrett Show. You're a name nine fifty kight perc.
Speaker 9 (29:34):
Right.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Yesterday on the show, we talked a little bit about
the Epstein files, which is different than the list, and
I realized that it's sematics there, but the Epstein list,
there's a list that people refer to, and we're told
now there is no list, and that's the client list.
Although ms Maxwell, who's still in jail, claims that she
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could produce a client list, we're told that there wasn't
really a client list per se. It was a list
of people that Jeffrey Epstein knew or had business dealings with,
or had information on or whatever it may be. Not
to be confused with a list of people that he
was setting up to, you know, to have sex with
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underage teenage girls kind of thing. We are also told
that there are probably thousands of names associated with Jeffrey Epstein,
and that would make you think, Okay, there's a lot
of people out there who would not want anything that's
in the Epstein file or list or whatever you want
(30:42):
to call it, would not want that released personally embarrassing
to them. Not to mention the fact that some of
them probably are guilty of having sex with a girl
provided by Jeffrey Epstein, in which case, you know, that
would ruin their lives and ruin their careers, assuming they
(31:03):
still have one. You know, President Trump could very well
be on this list. Had that report from TMZ yesterday
that says that, yeah, well, Trump's name is on there
a couple of times, but it's got nothing to do
with you know, child predator or having sex with teenage
girls or any of the other things that we concerned
(31:23):
us about. Jeffrey Epstein, Donald Trump is just somebody he was,
he knew, he was an acquaintance of, and Jeffrey Epstein
evidently was enavered with the idea of knowing as many
famous and powerful people as was humanly possible to know.
We also know that, for whatever reason, Pam Bondi doesn't
seem to want to produce this Epstein file whatever is
(31:46):
in it. We know that President Trump was not particularly
eager to have anything produced from it either. Well, he
has since gone back and evidently said that if she can,
she can feel free to release any thing in there
that she believes to be true and accurate. I'm pare
phrasing that part, but here's the Fox Report with the latest.
(32:08):
Here where we're at with the Jeffrey Epstein file and.
Speaker 10 (32:12):
Attorney General Pam Bondi is breaking her silence on this
Epstein matter following a week of intense blowback from the
MAGA base. She says, though she's staying put despite calls
for her to go.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
I'm going to be here for as long as the
President wants me here, and I believe he's made that
crystal clear.
Speaker 7 (32:28):
It's four years, well three and a half now, right
do you want anything else?
Speaker 10 (32:31):
Bondi, at an unrelated event on fentanyl today, declined to
expand on the reported fracture in a relationship with Deputy
FBI Director Dan Bongino, who threatened last week to quit
over the DOJ's closure of the Epstein case with a
two page memo, I'm.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
Not going to discuss personnel matters.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
I think we all are committed to working together now
to make America safe again, and that's what we're doing.
Speaker 10 (32:53):
House Speaker Mike Johnson pushing Bondi to do a little
bit more that watch.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
She's to come forward and explain that to everybody. I
like Pam. I mean, I think she's done a good job.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
We need the DOJ focusing on the major priorities.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
So let's get this thing resolved.
Speaker 7 (33:07):
Well.
Speaker 10 (33:08):
Today, President Trump, who's been tamping down the Epstein story
and endorsing Pam Bondy, gave her some new latitude.
Speaker 4 (33:15):
The Attorney General's handled that very well. She's really done
a very good job.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Whatever she thinks is credible, she should release.
Speaker 10 (33:25):
However, Jeffrey Epstein's former lawyer, Alan Dershowitz says it may
not be up to Bondi.
Speaker 9 (33:31):
Many of the things that are being suppressed a being
suppressed by two judges in Manhattan, and they're doing it
largely to protect the alleged accusers who are, in the
view of the judges victims. Pam Bondy and the Justice
Department and Donald Trump are not responsible.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
For that part of the reason.
Speaker 10 (33:51):
Glaine Maxwell, former girlfriend and associated Jeffrey Epstein, is appealing
her conviction to the US Supreme Court, but Bret the
DOJ is asking the Supreme Court to deny Maxwell's review
of the case and leave her in prison, where she's
serving a twenty year sentence for conspiring with Epstein and
his abuse of underage girls.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Yeah, they need to keep her in jail, they keep
her quiet. Don't you think that that's part of it?
And if the problem were these two New York judges,
why wouldn't Pambondi just said I can't release the files
right now, there's pending court cases. That's not what she's saying.
So I think there's a lot. There's a lot. There's
a lot being hidden here that we need to at
(34:31):
some point get to the bottom of. All right, what
more story for you before we call today? Because I
think this is worth sharing with you Democrats up in
arms over Alligator Alcatraz. Oh, but there's a lawsuit that's
been filed as well from a Florida Indian tribe claiming
that this Alligator Alcatraz is built on their sacred land
(34:52):
and they don't have permission to build it there. So
you got that going on, and you got all these
exaggerate and outright lies about what's going on at Alligator Alcatraz.
So here's some of the reporting, especially on MSNBC and
some reaction to it.
Speaker 7 (35:08):
That is traditionally called a concentration camp or an internment camp,
and I wonder about your specificity in using that language.
Speaker 6 (35:17):
Well as sure as hell, I'm not going to use
what they're calling it. And they want to ethnically cleanse
this country of certain types of immigrants, because when I
was in that internment camp in the Everglades, I didn't
see any Europeans who overstayed their visa. I saw nothing
but Latino men and Haitian men.
Speaker 7 (35:36):
And if that wasn't deranged enough, the media is dolling
out tips on how illegals can stand their ground against masxed,
masked i fagents. When you're masked like that, and people
don't know who you are. Someone might exercise their lawful
right of self defense to protect themselves, thinking they're being kidnapped.
So the notion that this is for law enforcements protection
(35:58):
is utterly ludical, and we need to do away with them.
Speaker 11 (36:01):
Seventy percent of these illegals who were getting iced either
have criminal convictions, criminal charges, or a judge has ordered
them deported.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
That's the worst. First, don't worry, be happy.
Speaker 11 (36:14):
No American has been deported. Not a single American has
been deported unless a family member was deported and they
wanted to tag a long homes. Not a single person
has been murdered these detention facilities, and no one's been.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
Forced to work.
Speaker 11 (36:30):
So I also haven't seen a lot of white Europeans
in these facilities because they're not the ones who have
been breaking into our country. And if there are some
Serbians that have expired visas, then send them to Alligator
Alcatraz unless they can play ball, and I'll reconsider.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
Harold we had the Word and the.
Speaker 11 (36:49):
Alligator Alcatraz on the other night, and he said he
caught Debi and a bunch of these other Democrats mid hoax.
Speaker 7 (36:56):
He said he caught one of these.
Speaker 11 (36:57):
Democrats holding a thermometer up to a light bulb to prove.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
That it was overheated in there.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
And then he said Debbie.
Speaker 11 (37:03):
Was putting to a sandwich across the room, saying it
was gray turkey and it was in a package so
she couldn't see it.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
And then the guy asked for seconds.
Speaker 11 (37:13):
Who asks for seconds for bad turkey? These guys have
no idea what they're talking about, especially this crazy woman.
She says, on the one hand, every migrant in America
is terrified of ice, and on the other hand, when
they get arrested by ice, they're not sure it's ice
and it might be an ice imposta wearing an ice hat,
(37:33):
an ice badge, and an ice vest.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
Can't have it both with no, you can't, but they try. Yeah, yeah,
I guess it plays well with their audience. Doesn't work
for us, though, does it. All right, got to leave
it at that, y'all have a great day. Thank you
for listening. I'll see you tomorrow morning, I hope. Between
five and eight on news radio seven forty KRH, we
were back here at four on the AM nine to
fifty KPRC.
Speaker 10 (38:00):
The found they banded rosy,
Well, what we need is more common sense.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Breaking down the world's nonsense about how American common sense.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Will see us through.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
With the common sense of Houston, I'm just pro common
sense for Houston. From Houston. This is the Jimmy Barrett Show,
brought to you by viewind dot Com. Now here's Jimmy Barrett.
All right today, I'd like to open up the show
today talking about something that rarely exists in society anymore.
(00:40):
It's called the dress code. Do you all remember dress codes?
Did they have dress codes when you were in school?
This is how old I am. When I was in
high school, we had a dress code. I don't think
schools have dress codes anymore. I'm convinced of that because
I have seen. You know, my wife works in the
public school system, and I've seen the rare occasion I
(01:00):
go to visit her at a high school that she's at.
I have seen what kids wear to school, and they
were things that, under no circumstances would we ever have
been allowed to wear when I was in high school,
Like pajamas. Do you think it's okay for your student
to go to school in their pajamas? And I'll tell you,
(01:24):
and obviously their parents out there that either don't know
what the kids are wearing the school or don't care
what they're wearing in school. Here's my philosophy on wearing
things like pajamas to school. My dad, who is a teacher.
My dad always felt that, and he said at many times,
going to school is your job, son, It is the
(01:47):
only job you have right now. You are supposed to
report at a certain time, you may leave your job
at a certain time, and you are conduct yourself in
a professional manner at all times, including the way you dress,
because you, sir, are a reflection of your mother and
me as parents. Now he didn't he didn't come right
(02:09):
out and say it like that, but I knew exactly
what he meant by it. And when I went to school,
we weren't allowed to wear jeans, and being young and
probably fairly liberal at the time, of course, I was
all about, you know what, do you maybe we can't
wear gens? Why can't we wear jeans the school? You
certainly couldnot wear shorts. I don't think it mattered what
you wore on your feet, as long as you had
(02:31):
shoes on. And we had to wear do we have
to wear? Yeah, we had to wear shirts with collars,
and I think that was it. That was the basic rule. Now,
of course, it's just about anything goes. The only thing
they're worried about at school, if they are worried, is
how much skin you're showing. So they care about how
short your skirt is, and they care about whether or
(02:53):
not your mid drift is bear if you're a female,
and they care how much cleavage you're showing. Those are
the things that they care about. That's about all they
care about as far as the public school system goes.
When I was a kid, or when I was younger,
we always dressed up to go to church. Church was
not such a casual place. I've had a hard time.
(03:13):
I don't have a problem with churches saying, you know,
we just want you to come and worship. We don't
care what you wear. I have no problem with that
at all, But it doesn't feel like church to me.
If I'm not wearing a jacket and tie, it doesn't
feel like church. Now, I think the I have made
a couple exceptions in life. I've gone to like Christmas
(03:33):
eve services, you know, wearing a pair of slacks and
a sweater kind of a thing. Christmas in what I
would call Christmas casual. I've done that before, but to me,
it just it doesn't feel like church if you're wearing
jeans and sneakers, you know, But I see commercials all
the time with preachers at these churches. Who are you
know they're wearing jeans and sneakers basically, Okay, all right.
(03:58):
What brought up the whole dress code conversation, by the way,
is the City of Houston and the City Council is
going to be debating whether or not they want to
have an ordinance that would require nightclubs and I assume
it's only nightclubs at this point to post their dress
codes because they suspect I think that sometimes nightclubs turn
(04:20):
people away and they consider that to be discriminatory. Now,
I don't know why they're turning them away. I mean
certain clubs. I mean back in the day when when
people like me were still going to clubs, you know,
sometimes they would turn people away for not being good,
lucky enough, or just not fitting with whatever image it
(04:42):
was the club wanted to present. I don't know if
that's what they're talking about here, or if they are
really concerned that if you're wearing some types of clothing
that are too revealing that you might get kicked out
and you shouldn't. I'm not sure where the discrimination is at,
but they want these clubs to post what their dress
code is and clearly state what their dress code is.
(05:05):
So it got me thinking about places that still have
dress codes. I see it every now and again. There's
a restaurant I frequent called Taste of Texas. I love
that restaurant. They have a dress code in their dress
code is clearly stated about what is allowed and what
isn't allowed, but it is not enforced because I've seen
(05:27):
people in there wearing all kinds of things that don't
meet the dress code, yet they're allowed to come eat
at the end of the day. I think that most
people who post a dress code, they do it trying
to encourage you to dress a certain way, but not
necessarily expecting you to dress a certain way. We were
just on a cruise with our listeners, our KTRH listeners degrees.
(05:48):
The main dining room where we ate most nights had
a dress code, same thing, clearly stated what was allowed.
You could wear jeans, but you couldn't wear shorts. I mean,
there's a few other things that you couldn't wear to
dinner on the cruise ship. Same thing. I mean, I
think it encouraged people to dress a certain way, but
(06:09):
there's some people who just don't care about rules and
don't think rules apply to them, and they were allowed
to come in and eat. So I think a dress
code is only as good as your willingness in order
to back it up. A dress code doesn't work if
they know that you're not going to enforce the dress code.
And then I thought about it this morning, and I'm
(06:30):
thinking to myself, now, if I were to make a
dress code, you know, what kind of rules would I have?
And one of the things I think I would do.
I started off by saying, because to me, one of
the worst violations of people dressing are some of the
things and I'm sorry, ladies. I find women particularly guilty
of this. Young women have a tendency to wear outfits
(06:55):
that are way too small for them. In particular, certain
ethnic groups wear have a tendency to wear dresses that
are way too tight, that show way too much, show
every curve, and generally they're made other things like span dex.
I see a lot of women as well who squeeze
into maybe a Spandex pair of pants that just don't
(07:19):
really fit them. And and I think, listen, it's your
right to be as big and fat as you want
to be in this country. But I think we all
have to be realistic about what looks good on us
and what we can pull off and what we can't.
And if you don't have the body to pull off
span Dex, and very few people do, then maybe you
(07:40):
should give up the span Deex. And first, the first
rule I was going to make was, well, I would
make it illegal to sell Spandex in any size bigger
than a medium. But I thought, well, that probably wouldn't
do the job either, would it, Because at the end
of the day, you're not going to you're not going
to discourage anybody from trying to put on something that
(08:02):
it still doesn't fit them. You'll still have double xls
trying to get into mediums and wearing them. Uh too
funny anyway, dress codes think of the past. You think,
do you think that dressing up in dress codes will
make a comeback at some point in time? You got
to think everything comes around again. They'll probably make it
come back, all right quick, a little break back with
more in a moment Jimmy Bart Show, here a M
nine fifty k PRC. I think I'll stinkt segment. Let's
(08:40):
call this the blame Trump segment. It's Trump's fault. Whatever
it is, it's Trump's fault. And whatever story it is
you're reporting, you come from that particular perspective. The economy
is one of the things that comes to mind. I've
seen endless stories here for the last few days about
Trump Tariff's adding to inflation. The CPI Index came out
(09:04):
yesterday and it showed inflation for the month of June
was up zero point three percent. As is normally the
case with the economy, some things were up a little bit,
some things were down a little bit. Overall, it was
up zero point three percent, and the reporting indicated that up.
(09:25):
See here's the Trump tariff's inflation. Here's the inflation that
they were worried about. The inflation is kicking in. Here's
Larry Cudlow on his Fox Business show disputing the reporting
on the Trump tariff effect on prices that you're paying
in the CPI, Wall.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Street Journal in New York Times out with screaming headlines
that today's small zero point three percent rise in the
CPI Consumer Price Index should be blamed on Trump's tariffs.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
The Times called.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
It US inflation accelerated in June as Trump's tariffs pushed
up prices. The Wall Street Journal called it inflation picks
up to two point seven percent as tariffs start to
keep in seep intwo prices. So I'm going to say
it to start, this is nonsense, belooney. The Lenti media
is using tariff histeria to cover up Jay Powell's gross
(10:21):
mismanagement and frame Trump. The report shows no such thing. Newspapers,
on the other hand, along with most of the media,
love to blame every low piece of even quasi bad
news on Trump's tariffs. Now, actually, since January, the CPI
has increased only a low one point eight percent at
(10:46):
an annual rate, which is less than the FEDS two
percent target. The core CPI increased two point one percent
over the same period, and mister Trump's supply side oriented
one big beautiful bill with its growth, tax cuts and
deregulation hasn't even taken effect yet. There's a productivity boom
out there that will also curb inflation. And also during
(11:09):
mister Trump's first five months, blue collar wages have risen
much faster than prices, a welcome relief from bidenflation. But
back to the CPI, the twelve month change looks higher
because a year ago the index was flat zero point zero.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
That's the luck of the draw.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Also, the one percent jump in gasoline prices is based
purely on summer seasonal adjustment. In fact, gasoline has not
risen nationwide, been hovering around three dollars and fifteen cents
for quite some time. Meanwhile, new car prices fell three
tenths of a percent, Used car prices fell seven tenths
(11:49):
of a percent. Goods prices, which are really the most
sensitive area to tariffs, have risen only zero point seven percent.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Pretty it's pretty pretty good stuff. That's pretty hard to
dispute those figures, right that that tells you where the
increases have been, though, and the increases have not been
in areas that would be that impacted by terrorists. At
this point, I've seen so many features showing how the
terrofts are not inflationary, and yet they want to continue
(12:20):
to push this narrative that tariffs cause inflation. I saw
another story here, and I I wonder what you think
of this. There might be something to this story. This
story claimed that there are some big box retailers, the
Walmarts of the world, the Targets of the world, who
are blaming Trump tariffs for price increases, and that really
(12:48):
that's what they're really doing, is they're using that as
an artificial excuse to raise prices. Now, there might be
some of both in this. I'm not here to say
that a company would not artificially raise prices and then
blame it on something like that so they don't have
to take the heat for it. But by the same token,
I don't expect companies to just eat the additional cost
(13:13):
of a tariff, don't. I don't. If you're a Walmart,
I don't expect you to lower your profit margin in
order to be able to make tariffs disappear. If a
tariff is having an impact on something you're selling, then
pass that along. But I would hope as a retailer
you would also be looking or finding alternatives that are
(13:33):
made in places where the tariffs are not as high
as they are on China, for example. And I don't
blame Trump for what's happening with China tariffs. I blame China.
China didn't want to play ball. That's why those tariffs
are so dog gone high. But let's get another opinion here.
Let's hear John Carney. John Carney, we've had him on
our morning show on ktr H. John Carney is a
(13:55):
bright bart economist. Here he is talking about inflation and tariffs.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
So, first of all, it's the fifth month in a
row in which core inflation came in below expectations. The
economists are blowing this because they think inflation is going
to They think tariffs are going to push up inflation.
It has not done that. When you look inside the report,
as you were pointing out, some prices went up, some
prices went down.
Speaker 6 (14:18):
This is what we've been saying all along.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
Even if tariff pushed up, tarff's pushed up, say the
price of furniture, we see prices elsewhere coming down to
compensate it.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
I call this.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
They call it pass through inflation. I call it pushback
inflation because the consumers are pushing back on other prices.
So you're not getting total inflation at all. You're actually
getting a pretty even price stability, which is what the
Fed is supposed to be aiming for. When you look
at the numbers, you can see that like men's shoes
went up, but kids shoes went down. That's normal price activity.
(14:53):
That's what happens in an economy. It's supply and demand.
People don't have people. The reason why tariffs can't push
up money is because we don't have the kind of
bidenflation expending explosion that we have that caused the tariffs
in the first place. It's not a tax on imports
that causes inflation. It's the government over spending and accommodated
by the FED. That's not happening now. We're not seeing
(15:15):
inflation at all. And I think what Taylor was saying
is really important. This report is actually great for families.
The price of milk is down, the price of eggs
is down, the price of flying somewhere for vacation is down,
and the price of hotels and motels down sharply.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Well there you go. Okay, more evidence that at least
are the things that you and I are spending money on.
We're not seeing inflation. We're not, which means that we're
getting an opportunity to catch up a little bit here.
That's a beautiful, beautiful thing. He also John Carney just
brought up a couple of other very important points, the
most important point probably being biden inflation. What caused bidenflation?
(15:57):
Printing money, giving away money, run away government spending. That
is what drove up inflation during the Biden presidency. What
Trump is attempting to do, through DOGE and other means
is to cut government spending. But here's the problem we're having.
(16:18):
We're having a real problem with our government when it
comes to cutting back just a little bit. Right now,
the Senate is debating nine billion dollars worth of DOGE cuts,
making them permanent. And every Democrat, of course is is
one hundred percent against ever cutting back on government spending
(16:38):
for any reason, doesn't matter what it is. They want
more control, more government spending, no matter what it is.
So all the Democrats vote against making DOGE cuts permanent.
You would like to think the Republicans would all know
to make the DOGE cuts permanent. We're only talking nine
billion dollars out of a multi trillion dollar budget, for
(16:58):
goodness sakes, I mean, it's even it's not even the
tip of the iceberg. It's an ice cube out of
the iceberg, the bare minimum beginning of what needs to happen.
But at least pushing us in the right direction. Yet
we have the usual suspects, the least of Markowski's the uh,
who else is in that group? Susan Collins from Maine,
(17:22):
you know, the turtle the turtles in that group. He's
still because he's still serving in the United States Senate.
He votes against it. The other they got a procedural
vote because JD. Vance voted for it, and it came
out fifty one to fifty just to make these paltry
cuts don't which don't amount to hill and nothing, let
alone to hill beans. And Senator John Kennedy he's not
(17:45):
real happy about it. Here's Senator John Kennedy. He got
asked whether or not the Senate is going to come
through and vote in favor of making these cuts.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Well, I'm embarrassed to say, I don't know. We have
all excuse me. We had a lunch in meeting to
a omb. Director Russ Vote came over and tried to
explain the bill.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
I was pretty.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Discouraged after the meeting. I would describe the meeting as
organized grab ass. I mean, a million questions of Russ,
a lot of whining.
Speaker 7 (18:23):
You know.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Put this in context, the President's asking us to reduce
spending by nine billion dollars. Yeah, that's a lot of money,
but that's one tenth of one percent of the budget.
And the spending he's asking us to cut is stuff
like three point six million dollars for mail prostitutes and HATI,
(18:44):
three million dollars to buy condoms in Zombia, five hundred
thousand dollars to buy electric buses for Rwanda. Just a
bunch of spending. Point And I've listened to my Republican colleague.
I love them all, but I'm listened to him for years,
and certainly for the last one hundred days since President
(19:07):
Trump was elected, to talk about the.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Need to reduce spending.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
And here we are on the verge of the vote,
and I don't know if it's going to pass, but
I know this much after listening to all of this
rhetoric about we need to reduce spending. If every Republican
doesn't vote for it, will to hide our head in
a bag. Man. It's embarrassing.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
It is embarrassing, streaming embarrassing because this happens over and
over and over again, and it comes from the usual
suspects who keep getting re elected over and over and
over again, frustrating. All right, quick little break, we are
coming up. I should promote this coming up. Earlier this morning,
(19:52):
I talked with representative State Representative Ryan Harrison about he's
from District ten, about the special session that is coming.
And there's already been I think like sixty plus bills
that have been filed for this next special session. He
has a couple that are really important to him, one
of them having to do with completely eliminating property Texas.
(20:14):
By conversation with Brian Harrison coming up next here on
AM nine fifty KPRC and the Jimmy Barrett Show, there
(20:41):
is a special session coming here in Texas. We knew
there would be. There's gonna be a whole laundry list
of Governor Abbott priorities that did not make it through
the Texas House before. I guess this morning was Representative
Brian Harrison from the Texas tenth district. He has a
(21:02):
number of bills that are going to be up for consideration,
and how many of them actually see the light to day,
who knows, But that's what we're going to have to
find out here as we get ready for this special session.
So here's my conversation early from earlier this morning with
Texas State Representative Brian Harrison. Let's see what he has
to say about what he expects to see happen during
(21:24):
this next special session. I know there will be any
midnight sessions, but there will be a special session, that's
for sure. Texas State Representative Brian Harrison from District ten
joins us to talk about the special session. Bills are
already starting to be filed. I think one of those
bills is yours, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Ten of them?
Speaker 7 (21:43):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Ten?
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Okay, I know one time. I know the about the
one on property taxes. Tell us about that one first. Well, yeah,
I mean we got to do with property taxes.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
This was the most anti tax payer regular session maybe
in the history of the state. We blew through the
whole surplus to fund you on DEI ands, transgender ideology,
and we failed on the number one thing we were
supposed to do, which was deal with property taxes. So,
as the first elected Republican in Texas to demand a
special session to deal with property taxes, whea, we're going
to go back to get another bite at the apple,
(22:12):
and so I filed a bill. It's actually a constitutional amendment.
We need to be simple and common sense and say,
you know what, enough is enough. Never ending property taxes
are unethical, They're im moral. They've got to be abolished.
So I filed a constitutional amendment that would, over the
course of the next five years, make all property taxes
in Texas unconstitutional. But I'm also filing legislation so that
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people can benefit right now. I mean, after the first
special session ended, the entire liberal Austin UNI Party was
gas lighting voters into try and believe they cut their
property taxes by fifty billion dollars. This was the ridiculous
talking for what they were saying. But the reality is
their tax bills were going to go up. But we
need relief right now. I believe we should cut property
taxes in half this special session immediately and then abolish
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all the rest of them, phased all the rest of
them out over period of a couple of years. We
could absolutely do it. We just need some courage down
in Austin. But Texas voters deserve bold Republican leadership. They
have not been getting it. But that's what I'm going
to be pushing for every day of this special session.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Hot on the heels of the massive flooding under Kirk County.
The officials there announced a property tax increase. I want
to say, it's an eight percent property tax increase. I mean, yes,
they haven't even dried out yet. I guess I know
the voters there are very anti property tax, so I'm
guessing this probably is not going to go over or
isn't going over very well. But what would you suggest
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that Kirk County do in an effort to try to
raise funds to be able to survive this disaster.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Well, the first thing, I mean, like you said, they
not even dry down there yet. I mean, let's get
through this and do a correct assessment on what exactly
went wrong before. The problem is most government officials there
knee jerk reaction in all circumstances is the same raised
taxes on the people. That's not what folks down there one.
I was talking to them yesterday. I put a statement
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on this. I actually believe it's outrageous that the county
commissioners are laying the groundwork for an eight percent property
tax increase. This is the problem all of the so
called property tax reform bills that Austin brags about every session,
they're so full of these loopholes and exceptions that are
exploited by local governments all across the state of Texas.
(24:23):
And so we got Austin uniparty swamp Republicans saying, oh,
we cut your property taxes. But the reality is local
governments and county go all these governments are raising people's
tax effective rates. So all Texans know is that their bills,
they're tax bill at the end of the year, goes
up every year. And so one of the other bills
that I filed that I've been pushing for four years
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now or multiple years, is it. And I just think
property taxes should be abolished.
Speaker 8 (24:48):
But as long as we have them, we should at
least make property tax increases illegal unless they're approved by
the voters in elections House Bill forty three in this
upcoming special session.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
That's the bare minimum. The least we should do is
at least make property tax hikes illegal unless the voters. So,
for example, in Kirk County, they say there's a need
to raise revenue this one cycle for this extraordinary reason,
they would have the opportunity to raise the revenue. But
the catch is the tax payers and the voters have
to be able to be put in charge to agree
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and say, you know what, Yes, in this instance, we
need to raise taxes. But unless the voters approve it,
all property tax tykes should be illegal. That should be
the low hanging fruit. And that is the bare minimum
that I expect for us to do this session.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
As of Monday, of Dorn's sixty bills have been filed.
Many of them are still key issues that just didn't
get through the governor abbot wants and including property tax relief,
some abortion restrictions, of ban on taxpayer funded lobbing. How
many of these bills do you think actually get through
or actually get considered in this special session.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
I have no idea, but here's one thing I want.
The point I want to make is when I was trying,
you know, sounding the alarm all session on regular media
and social media and talking with you guys at KTRH
about how liberal the session was. The fact that the
governor had to put all these Republican Party priorities back
on a special session and drag us back there, it's
pure proof positive at what a liberal disaster the regular
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session was. And on the taxpayer funded lobbying thing. Look,
it's outrageous that Texans are having their hard earned tax
money weaponized against them, against their values and their children,
to hire liberal lobbyists to go down there and lobby
the government for more taxes, more regulations, and liberal extreme
ideas like the Texas Association of School Boards, lobbyists paid
(26:37):
for by taxpayers sent to Austin to go lobby to
put men in little girls public school bathrooms. We must
ban taxpayer funded lobbying. We should have done it many
many years ago. In addition to finally putting our state
on a path to eliminate property taxes, Texas voted for
bold conservative Republican leadership, and they re elected President Trump
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by fourteen points. But unfortunately the Biden Harris coalition is
still controlling much of the Austin swamp and Texans deserve better.
We should be the number one state in America for liberty.
We've got a reputation for leading in small government and
individual freedom and liberty, but we've just been coasting on
that reputation for too long.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
You're right about that, sir, Thanks is always good to
talk to you. Texas State Representative Brian Harrison from District ten.
There you go, and he's all right about that, you know,
we we we are not nearly as free here in
Texas as we think we are. I mean, we have
a lot of freedom loving people, but we have we
have the same problem here in Texas that we have
(27:42):
with a lot of Republicans all around the country. We
still have a lot of what you would call you
to party Republicans that you're really there's not that much.
I guess there's a big difference between them and a
progressive Democrat, but there's virtually no difference between them in
a modern Democrat. And uh and and there many of
them are still all about big government, many of them
(28:03):
still want control. Many of them aren't interested in really,
you know, getting rid of taxes or cutting taxes. We
have to do. We have to do something about it.
And the only thing that can be done is and
if this depends on the voters being patient enough and
demanding enough in order to make it happen, is that
these moderate so called moderate Republicans have got to go.
(28:26):
Modern Republicans are no different than modern Democrats. The only
way you're going to have a fiscal conservative is you're
going to have to get a true conservative and not
somebody I'm not talking about being socially conservative. I'm very
libertarian when it comes to to to that, you you
have your life. I have my life. I followed, followed
(28:48):
the law. Expect you to follow the law if you
want to, if you want to, you know, if you
want to have some marijuana on Friday night, I don't care.
You don't. Doesn't mean I have to use it, doesn't
mean I have to smell it. I just, I just,
I don't care. What I care about is how much
money the government is wasting and what they're wasting it on.
The least amount of government in my life, the better
(29:11):
I want this little government dictates is is humanly possible.
All right, we're back with Born the ump stick around.
Please Jimmy Barrett Show. You're a name nine fifty kight perc.
Speaker 9 (29:34):
Right.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Yesterday on the show, we talked a little bit about
the Epstein files, which is different than the list, and
I realized that it's sematics there, but the Epstein list,
there's a list that people refer to, and we're told
now there is no list, and that's the client list.
Although ms Maxwell, who's still in jail, claims that she
(29:57):
could produce a client list, we're told that there wasn't
really a client list per se. It was a list
of people that Jeffrey Epstein knew or had business dealings with,
or had information on or whatever it may be. Not
to be confused with a list of people that he
was setting up to, you know, to have sex with
(30:20):
underage teenage girls kind of thing. We are also told
that there are probably thousands of names associated with Jeffrey Epstein,
and that would make you think, Okay, there's a lot
of people out there who would not want anything that's
in the Epstein file or list or whatever you want
(30:42):
to call it, would not want that released personally embarrassing
to them. Not to mention the fact that some of
them probably are guilty of having sex with a girl
provided by Jeffrey Epstein, in which case, you know, that
would ruin their lives and ruin their careers, assuming they
(31:03):
still have one. You know, President Trump could very well
be on this list. Had that report from TMZ yesterday
that says that, yeah, well, Trump's name is on there
a couple of times, but it's got nothing to do
with you know, child predator or having sex with teenage
girls or any of the other things that we concerned
(31:23):
us about. Jeffrey Epstein, Donald Trump is just somebody he was,
he knew, he was an acquaintance of, and Jeffrey Epstein
evidently was enavered with the idea of knowing as many
famous and powerful people as was humanly possible to know.
We also know that, for whatever reason, Pam Bondi doesn't
seem to want to produce this Epstein file whatever is
(31:46):
in it. We know that President Trump was not particularly
eager to have anything produced from it either. Well, he
has since gone back and evidently said that if she can,
she can feel free to release any thing in there
that she believes to be true and accurate. I'm pare
phrasing that part, but here's the Fox Report with the latest.
(32:08):
Here where we're at with the Jeffrey Epstein file and.
Speaker 10 (32:12):
Attorney General Pam Bondi is breaking her silence on this
Epstein matter following a week of intense blowback from the
MAGA base. She says, though she's staying put despite calls
for her to go.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
I'm going to be here for as long as the
President wants me here, and I believe he's made that
crystal clear.
Speaker 7 (32:28):
It's four years, well three and a half now, right
do you want anything else?
Speaker 10 (32:31):
Bondi, at an unrelated event on fentanyl today, declined to
expand on the reported fracture in a relationship with Deputy
FBI Director Dan Bongino, who threatened last week to quit
over the DOJ's closure of the Epstein case with a
two page memo, I'm.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
Not going to discuss personnel matters.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
I think we all are committed to working together now
to make America safe again, and that's what we're doing.
Speaker 10 (32:53):
House Speaker Mike Johnson pushing Bondi to do a little
bit more that watch.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
She's to come forward and explain that to everybody. I
like Pam. I mean, I think she's done a good job.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
We need the DOJ focusing on the major priorities.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
So let's get this thing resolved.
Speaker 7 (33:07):
Well.
Speaker 10 (33:08):
Today, President Trump, who's been tamping down the Epstein story
and endorsing Pam Bondy, gave her some new latitude.
Speaker 4 (33:15):
The Attorney General's handled that very well. She's really done
a very good job.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Whatever she thinks is credible, she should release.
Speaker 10 (33:25):
However, Jeffrey Epstein's former lawyer, Alan Dershowitz says it may
not be up to Bondi.
Speaker 9 (33:31):
Many of the things that are being suppressed a being
suppressed by two judges in Manhattan, and they're doing it
largely to protect the alleged accusers who are, in the
view of the judges victims. Pam Bondy and the Justice
Department and Donald Trump are not responsible.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
For that part of the reason.
Speaker 10 (33:51):
Glaine Maxwell, former girlfriend and associated Jeffrey Epstein, is appealing
her conviction to the US Supreme Court, but Bret the
DOJ is asking the Supreme Court to deny Maxwell's review
of the case and leave her in prison, where she's
serving a twenty year sentence for conspiring with Epstein and
his abuse of underage girls.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Yeah, they need to keep her in jail, they keep
her quiet. Don't you think that that's part of it?
And if the problem were these two New York judges,
why wouldn't Pambondi just said I can't release the files
right now, there's pending court cases. That's not what she's saying.
So I think there's a lot. There's a lot. There's
a lot being hidden here that we need to at
(34:31):
some point get to the bottom of. All right, what
more story for you before we call today? Because I
think this is worth sharing with you Democrats up in
arms over Alligator Alcatraz. Oh, but there's a lawsuit that's
been filed as well from a Florida Indian tribe claiming
that this Alligator Alcatraz is built on their sacred land
(34:52):
and they don't have permission to build it there. So
you got that going on, and you got all these
exaggerate and outright lies about what's going on at Alligator Alcatraz.
So here's some of the reporting, especially on MSNBC and
some reaction to it.
Speaker 7 (35:08):
That is traditionally called a concentration camp or an internment camp,
and I wonder about your specificity in using that language.
Speaker 6 (35:17):
Well as sure as hell, I'm not going to use
what they're calling it. And they want to ethnically cleanse
this country of certain types of immigrants, because when I
was in that internment camp in the Everglades, I didn't
see any Europeans who overstayed their visa. I saw nothing
but Latino men and Haitian men.
Speaker 7 (35:36):
And if that wasn't deranged enough, the media is dolling
out tips on how illegals can stand their ground against masxed,
masked i fagents. When you're masked like that, and people
don't know who you are. Someone might exercise their lawful
right of self defense to protect themselves, thinking they're being kidnapped.
So the notion that this is for law enforcements protection
(35:58):
is utterly ludical, and we need to do away with them.
Speaker 11 (36:01):
Seventy percent of these illegals who were getting iced either
have criminal convictions, criminal charges, or a judge has ordered
them deported.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
That's the worst. First, don't worry, be happy.
Speaker 11 (36:14):
No American has been deported. Not a single American has
been deported unless a family member was deported and they
wanted to tag a long homes. Not a single person
has been murdered these detention facilities, and no one's been.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
Forced to work.
Speaker 11 (36:30):
So I also haven't seen a lot of white Europeans
in these facilities because they're not the ones who have
been breaking into our country. And if there are some
Serbians that have expired visas, then send them to Alligator
Alcatraz unless they can play ball, and I'll reconsider.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
Harold we had the Word and the.
Speaker 11 (36:49):
Alligator Alcatraz on the other night, and he said he
caught Debi and a bunch of these other Democrats mid hoax.
Speaker 7 (36:56):
He said he caught one of these.
Speaker 11 (36:57):
Democrats holding a thermometer up to a light bulb to prove.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
That it was overheated in there.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
And then he said Debbie.
Speaker 11 (37:03):
Was putting to a sandwich across the room, saying it
was gray turkey and it was in a package so
she couldn't see it.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
And then the guy asked for seconds.
Speaker 11 (37:13):
Who asks for seconds for bad turkey? These guys have
no idea what they're talking about, especially this crazy woman.
She says, on the one hand, every migrant in America
is terrified of ice, and on the other hand, when
they get arrested by ice, they're not sure it's ice
and it might be an ice imposta wearing an ice hat,
(37:33):
an ice badge, and an ice vest.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
Can't have it both with no, you can't, but they try. Yeah, yeah,
I guess it plays well with their audience. Doesn't work
for us, though, does it. All right, got to leave
it at that, y'all have a great day. Thank you
for listening. I'll see you tomorrow morning, I hope. Between
five and eight on news radio seven forty KRH, we
were back here at four on the AM nine to
fifty KPRC.
Speaker 10 (38:00):
The found they banded rosy,
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