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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning. There's a story in the Houston Chronicle. Once
you see that the left has claimed a ceasefire between
Israel and Gazo was highest priority, they're posting about it,
writing about it. Oh my goodness, this is so important,
(00:22):
so important. We have worked where this wouldn't do it,
and then Trump does it, and they either don't acknowledge
it or criticize him, or instead continue criticizing something else.
You realize there's no hope for any of these people. Well,
a story in the Houston Chronicle quite interesting. May I say?
(00:49):
A woman who is a flight attendant at United Airlines
sees the superintendent of the Houston Independent School District in
the un lounge and proceeds to cuss him out. The
Houston Chronicle writs a sob story saying, but she was
(01:10):
off the clock. So let's say you're off the clock
at HB and you go in to buy your groceries,
but you work there, and while you're there, you start
cussing out a customer and expect that there wouldn't be
(01:33):
any repercussions when everyone else sees you. The story from
KPRC TV.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
During this whole thing, she shared with me that she
recorded this confrontation she had with Superintendent Mike Miles and
another administrator and showing me the video she recorded of
all of this, but due to company policy, we aren't
showing that video. In the video, she's telling the both
Superintendent Mike Miles and that other administrator that she feels
the district is heading in the wrong direction due to Miles.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
But it isn't just hist employees.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Based some retaliation, Miles and his assistant sought to have
me fired for speaking out.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
This is HISD Parents Virginia. Jenny McDavid addressing the board
Thursday night, McDavid said she was fired as a United
Airlines flight attendant after confronting Superintendent Mike Miles at the
airports this spring. Anyone could say this is a private matter.
This is a private company that chose to terminate you
for possibly violation of policy. What does HISD have to
(02:35):
do with this.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
I introduce myself as an HISD parent, an HISD taxpayer,
and I'm addressing a public official. It is I have
a conscious to ride who addressed grievancesm on my government official.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
McDavid says she was in playing clothings at the time.
It never identified herself as a United employee, a district
spokesperson tells us in part, Superintendent Miles was verbally accosted
by a Union I did Airlines employee who use vulgar
and aggressive language, adding, any personnel decision made by United
Airlines regarding the conduct of its employees is a matter
(03:10):
between United Airlines and that employee, McDavid says. Days after
the incidents, an HID administrator filed a complaints using an
HID email accounts to United Airlines. She said she was
fired shortly thereafter. How did it feel speaking to the
board yesterday, addressing superintend and Miles.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Well, I felt like I needed an opportunity to let
the school district know, let the board of managers know,
let people in the audience know what happened to me.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
You know, I've long had the opinion that freedom of
speech means freedom of speech. It's a bedrock of American culture,
not just from a legal perspective, the idea of the marketplace,
(04:04):
of ideas, idea of expression, that that is a healthy thing,
even when we don't like what someone expresses. And I've
long felt that, for instance, companies shouldn't put a gag
order on their employees because an employee off duty is
an individual and we should encourage them to speak out.
(04:28):
But police departments, for instance, will prohibit their officers from
posting political opinions to social media. Why why should they
do that? Well, this is what came of the culture,
the cancel culture, the idea of ruining people's careers because
(04:49):
we don't want them to have an opinion. We just
want them to be a good little cop and salute
and do the job and not have opinions and release
all the bad guys and don't arrest them. This is
very much a Rodney Ellis Sheila Jackson Lee trend. And
so now that it turned the reason they have a
(05:10):
problem here is not that this woman cussed out the superintendent,
cussed out someone at United or on the grounds of
a United lounge being a United employee. That's not why
she was fired. It's who she was cussing out. See,
Mike Miles is not popular with the Houston Independent School
(05:34):
District because he came into a broken school district and
started working to fix it. Now, I'm well aware that
everybody's got some criticism of something he has done, but
I do think that he came in with the intention
of fixing the district and not self dealing. I do
think that, and I do think that the district was broken,
(05:57):
and that you had a lot of people who were
part of the Sheila Jackson, Lee Silvester Turner, Rodney Ellis
internal cabal of self dealers, and you had, Let's not forget,
Rodney Ellis's chief of staff was the president of the
school board while working for Rodney Ellis and was arrested
(06:21):
for taking bribes from a company that got contracts with HISD,
and she signed off on and she remained in the
employment to my knowledge of Rodney Ellis. Yeah, Houston Chronicle
wasn't all been out of shape out of that. But this,
oh this, you know, I saw a story that HISD
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has now found a partner for every one of their
underperforming schools. They've gone out to private companies partnered with them,
and that partner school, that partner company will help subsidize things.
And that's just brilliant. Why was that not done before?
The BED Chairman Rome Powell, speaking at an economic conference
(07:03):
in Philadelphia, suggested the labor market will require further cuts
interest rate cuts despite inflation. I'll read directly. Although the
government shutdown precludes new official economic data. Powell said the
outlook for employment and inflation does not appear to have
(07:25):
changed much since our September meeting, which is when the
FED cut rates for the first time this year. The
speech left economists anticipating a rate cut at the fed's
next meeting on October twenty eighth and twenty ninth, with
another cut to follow. Powell also suggested the FED may
soon stop shrinking its portfolio of assets, a move that
(07:49):
could also slightly lower borrowing costs. I think if we
can get down to about five and a half percent
interest rate, you'll unlock a fair amount of economic activity
that is on the sideline right now. I think there
(08:10):
are homes sitting on the market for sale and buyers
perhaps willing to do that deal, but at the right
interest rate. Nobody wants to buy anything with the fear that, well,
shortly they'll lower the interest rates, and I was impatient.
(08:34):
When you lower the interest rate, people start getting more
active and taking on more debt. And you could argue, well,
they shouldn't take on debt. That's a bad thing. Be
that as it may, whatever your position on the matter.
If you're looking at economic activity, when interest rates drop
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from where they are today. You're going to see people
by buying more lone Star chevies. You're going to see
people buying more gallery furniture, see people buying more new homes.
You're going to start seeing a lot of that activity unlocked,
and obviously that makes a difference. The problem is, and unfortunately,
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this is going to continue, and it's going to accelerate,
and at some point it's going to accelerate to such
a point it's going to seem like an epidemic. I
think a lot of people are going to lose their jobs.
They're going to lose their jobs to what we will
loosely lump into the category of AI. There are going
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to be jobs that are no longer needed by companies
because they're going to find ways for those tasks that
are performed whatever that may be, to be replicated or
replaced through the use of technology. And we have haven't
even begun to discuss robotics and how that's going to
(10:04):
change things. The advance in robotics has now reached a
point where you're going to be able whatever a human
being touches on an assembly line, for instance, lifting, moving, dropping,
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you're going to see human beings replaced, And you know,
you can't sit around being depressed over things. But it
does concern me because what happens when a guy who's
been an honest worker for ten years at a job site.
(10:49):
He's shown up on time, he's never stolen a thing,
he doesn't take sick leave, he goes above and beyond
to perform his job. He tries to help the company
succeed because he knows that's in his best interest as
an employee. What happens when you walk in and tell
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that guy you're done, because we're not seeing nobody's starting
the new business in the alternative for him to go
to work at. So I think you see a contraction
in the labor market, and not just for laborers. You're
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seeing tasks being replaced by AI. And I think this
will increase at a rapid rate because now we're at
the point that the machine can learn without the use
of a human and so now you're not limited by
human capacity for how quickly and profoundly AI can develop.
(11:58):
And you're we're seeing things like design. AI is replacing design.
We're seeing things like even professional services. A friend of
mine's looking at at opening a restaurant and he sent
me he he used AI uh and he was called Jasper,
(12:23):
and I can't remember what the other one. I had
not heard of Jasper before. But he gave the concept
that he wanted to he wanted to accomplish basic price
points and goals for the kitchen, and that was keep labor,
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labor costs down and quick turn time and product costs
at this percentage. I don't remember what they all were.
But he feeds that into AI and it sends out,
all right, here's your menu. Here's your estimated product costs.
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That looked actually pretty good. Here's your estimated labor costs
at these rates. Here's your estimated labor time, number of employees,
how many hours prep time, ticket time for everything that
is ordered? And all of that came back in such
at such a rapid pace. The only thing that slowed
(13:27):
down that process was how long it took him to
input the information. The output was. I don't know how
long it took, but it didn't appear to have taken
very long. And now you had something that as I
read through, it was sort of like if you see
an AI video on social media of you know, two
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guys celebrating after they've come in, you know, the relay race.
After they've they've won, you can still slightly tell it's
kind of like a dizzy the movie animation still slightly
tell it's not real, but it's close enough that you
realize it's it's it's so far along. And and this said,
(14:12):
you know how many how many people were menu designers,
how many people were food concept consultants that are going
to lose their jobs? Is Michael Ferry genius. You have
to create an inflection point where you force conflict to
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a point where there is a winner and a loser
and sides are chosen. If you don't do this in politics,
it is out of pure naivete. People will often say
to me, how come we can't all just get along?
(14:57):
Why can't we be united? Why do you have to
criticize the Republicans? Just criticize the Democrats? What if Democrats
start becoming Republicans in the state of Texas because we're
a Republican majority state, could I then criticize them? What
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if Republicans take up the positions of Democrats just call
themselves Republicans. What if Republicans caut us with the Democrats
against your wishes and promise to pass the bills you
want passed, but them bury them. All the while their
consultants are sending you constant text messages. They're fighting the
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good cause. Would it be okay then if I criticize them,
or would you rather be united? Because they're making a
fool of you and you don't even know it, all
the while reminding you, hey, we hate them. Oh we
hate democrats. I tell you what. We don't get abused.
(16:04):
You send me back up there again. It ain't men,
But twenty four years you send me back up there again.
And by god, I'm gonna roll up my sleeves, roll
up my sleeves, and I'm going to battle with them.
Dad burn Democrats. I'm we else with you. They're strong,
their forces are vast. Sometimes I get knocked down, but
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I'm there fighting for you, and I'm going back. If
you'll give me a chance, I'm going back. I'm gonna
finish this job with your help. By god. Yeah. And
by the way, the Democrats are ugly, and they fart,
and they got bad breath, and they eat buggers, and
sometimes they don't comb their hair in the morning. Uh yeah,
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vote for our team, and you got a lot of
people that can be convinced. Yeah, yeah, Democrats is bad
and our team is good. And you wonder why nothing
gets done, but something is getting done. They're self dealing,
they're bloating our government. So you have to force situations.
(17:14):
You know, when Trump did what they never believed he
would do, and he'd sent in the National Guard, he
forced Democrats to either agree with it or disagree. The
moment they disagreed, he showed they don't mind the crime
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in their cities. They can say, we gotta fight crime.
Give us a billion dollars more of federal funds that
we can give to our friends. But when given the
opportunity to actually do something about crime, they fought him
on it. And what Trump is so good at is
creating these inflection points and forcing people to take aside
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Republicans who said, we have to clean up our country,
but to deal with immigration, I'm building a wall. Uh well,
that was when John McCain came out and said, I'm
build a damn wall. Remember two thousand and eight, I
build a damn wall. The wall had been around before Trump.
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Trump just actually did it. You have to force these
people into this, so we have such an inflection point
going on right now, And here's what it is. The
Republican Party still has a majority of voters in the
state of Texas statewide, and the Democrats understand this, and
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the Democrats are working very hard to flip that. And
if they can ever get their foot in the door
in a position of authority by hook or by crook,
they will allow cheating. They will do the things necessary
to preserve that power and never give it back. And
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there are Republicans who are more than happy to work
with them, to keep them a sort of captive opposition
under the hopes that well, when they come to power,
they'll be nice to me and they'll help me now
preserve my power because I'm the devil they know. And
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the Trump factor is, Hey, you don't want me to
be like Trump, do you. I'll be a good Republican,
you know. Ever so often I'll have to I'll alert
you ahead of time. Sometimes I'll have to go out
and you know, make a bombastic speech. But don't worry
you and I we have lunch every Wednesday. And that's
kind of the game that's played. It's the game that's
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played in the state House. So the voter are increasingly frustrated,
and the politicians wanted to do nothing about it. So
how do you fix this? Finally, there are people who
are not paid. They're volunteers, they're activists. These are the
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types that are often smeared by elected officials because they
hold these elected officials accountable, but typically with words. Well,
now they've done something. They have upset the political class
and they have upset the media. What they've done is
made a move to ensure that the primary elections in
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March that only Republicans can vote in the Republican primary.
Democrats don't need to do this. You know why, because
we're not voting in their primary, but they are voting
in ours. You know that crazy lady that that tried
to harass the kids who were starting a TPUSA at
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Stratford High School, she had voted in the Republican primary.
And I'll bet you a dollar to a donut it
was to vote from Mono Diella for state rep. You've
got Democrats who understand that who their nominee is is
not that important. They would rather until they can win
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the elections. They would rather get the most liberal Republican
they can, so voting in a Republican primary rather than
leaving our choice of our nominee, the Republican nominee, to
just us, because they understand that every Republican is not
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the same. Some Republicans are constitutionalists, tea party maga. Other
Republicans just there to have a good time or not
bother anybody, And don't worry. We'll keep the wheels turning
exactly the way they have been and Democrats can work
with that. What they don't want are the slash and
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burn Trump Republicans, so they will work against those people.
So the SRIC, a leadership Committee within the Republican Statewide
Republican Party, meets this weekend and there have been efforts
underway to close the Republican Party primaries. Now, if you
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think about it, what business is it of the Democrats
or the media. How the Republican Party establishment sets up
its own internal voting rules. This is a political party,
this is not the government. Well it's a good reason
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because they know we'll kick out the Dustin Burroughs and
drunk DAIDs and John Wayne Cort. So if you close
your primary, you keep Democrats from choosing the Republican candidate.
You'll remember Operation Chaos two thousand and eight, Rush was
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having too much fun. I mean, if you remember, he
was having a blast. What had happened was, well, he
was getting Republicans to vote in the Democrat presidential primary.
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And Rush had such influence that it was actually making
a difference and it was wreaking havoc on the Democrats
and there was nothing they could do about it. So
in Texas, you know, we can talk about the November election,
that is the election where the public votes on who
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is going to run our government. But the process of
who gets on the ballot and how that is conducted
by the primary system, that is conducted by the party system,
and the parties choose what that process is going to
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look like. And there is I think the mistake and
believe somehow that the party is some way the government,
and it's not. You can be an elected member of
Texas or US federal government without being a member of
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a party. It's not required. The parties are a way
that people organize and identify for the sake of the voters,
because there's a convenience to this when you show up
and vot on November. In November, when you show up
and vote, you can say, you know, I don't know
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either one of these guys, I'm gonna go with the Republican.
I haven't heard any of these Democrats speak out against
any of the haven't heard them speak out against the
Charlie Kirk assassination, our boys in the women's locker room,
or you know, whatever that issue is for you, and
there's none of them that speak out against it. So
I'm just going to vote for the Republicans. And that's
a quick shorthand because there are lots of jobs that
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are elected and it's hard to keep up with who
this person is and who that person is, and you
still want to vote. You still want to have some
influence on who the person is, because whether you vote
or not, those jobs are still going to be filled,
and your money is going to go toward their office,
and they're going to determine how your money is spent.
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And even though you don't intend to watch what they're
doing day in and day out, you like to believe that, well,
I'd rather get a good one than a bad one.
And if I can't get a great when, I feel like,
at least I'm going to get a better one than
if the Democrat person is selected. But it's a much
smaller group of people that vote in the Republican primary,
and the Republican Party runs the Republican primary as it should,
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and who should make the rules for how the Republican
Party will choose our candidate who will appear in November,
but us, the Republicans. So when the leadership of the
Republican Party says we're going to close the primary so
Democrats can stop coming over here and voting in our primary,
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that becomes an inflection point. That is the moment where
you notice that Greg Abbott and his Secretary of State
Jane Nelson do not want that. This is the conflict
you needed. When it comes down to it, it's very
hard to do. You've got to force a situation where
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a person is cornered and has to choose. Nobody expected
the Republican Party to do this. They did, and now
you've got Greg Abbott and his Secretary of State Jane Nelson,
who do not want this. It's clear, and I'll tell
you why. Abbot is scared to death of the Republican
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Party base. He's been booed at Republican events. His view
is he wins with a coalition of Republicans and Democrats
and people who don't pay that close attention, because he
knows that the people who really watch what he does
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and doesn't do, those people are onto him. And if
you let those people alone choose, he can lose because
he's not one of them, not at all. And his
inaction is a rallying cry now and there are enough
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people and he knows this, that would love to boot
him out. Greg Abbott had planned that he would have
been running for president by twenty twenty four or at
the latest twenty twenty eight. Nobody expected Trump to be
the Republican nominee for three elections in a row. There
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are people who've lived their lives running for president or
to run for president, and they've got it all planned out.
I hold this office for this amount and when this opens,
and within reason, they'll plan those things out. George P. Bush,
if you remember when he was running for office. So
I'm not sure what I'm going to run for. I
got to decide I'm gonna be in office. I just
got to decide which one, because he's a Bush and
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he can do that. Or so he thought I might
have this job, or I might take this job. And
I think most Texans, myself whencluded found that very off putting.
You don't get to just pick and choose. There should
be some semblance of interest in that job in order
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for you to do that well. They didn't expect one
guy to have the nomination for a twelve year. For
a twelve year period, no one else can hold that nomination.
And that's a generation in political terms. So you've got
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a lot of people that have been queuing it up
for exactly the moment they were going to run for president.
And twenty sixteen comes. At the most. Trump will be
reelected in twenty twenty, so there'll be an eight year
period there, but by twenty twenty four the nomination will
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be wide open and that'll be my moment to strike.
But we had something unprecedented in the modern era. Trump
runs and you'll remember that. John Cornyn said, his time
has passed. Said this on the record to reporters. His
time has passed. He needs to know that, and the
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Republican Party needs to move on without him. That John Cornyn,
if every Texas Republican would just remember that in vote accordingly,
he would be Trumps in the primary. And no amount
of Karl Rove decision making and manipulation and blurring with
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ads that say I'm up there with Donald Trump. You're lying,
John Cornyan, You're lying, and we have you on the
record lying. And that's why John mccornan wants the Republican
Party to be wide the primary to be wide open
and not closed, because he needs people who hate Trump
to vote in the Republican primary for a guy who
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will work to undercut Trump at every turn. And that's
what John Wayne mccorn represents. And Abbott is right there
along with him and his do nothing Secretary of State
Jane Nelson as well
Good morning. There's a story in the Houston Chronicle. Once
you see that the left has claimed a ceasefire between
Israel and Gazo was highest priority, they're posting about it,
writing about it. Oh my goodness, this is so important,
(00:22):
so important. We have worked where this wouldn't do it,
and then Trump does it, and they either don't acknowledge
it or criticize him, or instead continue criticizing something else.
You realize there's no hope for any of these people. Well,
a story in the Houston Chronicle quite interesting. May I say?
(00:49):
A woman who is a flight attendant at United Airlines
sees the superintendent of the Houston Independent School District in
the un lounge and proceeds to cuss him out. The
Houston Chronicle writs a sob story saying, but she was
(01:10):
off the clock. So let's say you're off the clock
at HB and you go in to buy your groceries,
but you work there, and while you're there, you start
cussing out a customer and expect that there wouldn't be
(01:33):
any repercussions when everyone else sees you. The story from
KPRC TV.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
During this whole thing, she shared with me that she
recorded this confrontation she had with Superintendent Mike Miles and
another administrator and showing me the video she recorded of
all of this, but due to company policy, we aren't
showing that video. In the video, she's telling the both
Superintendent Mike Miles and that other administrator that she feels
the district is heading in the wrong direction due to Miles.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
But it isn't just hist employees.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Based some retaliation, Miles and his assistant sought to have
me fired for speaking out.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
This is HISD Parents Virginia. Jenny McDavid addressing the board
Thursday night, McDavid said she was fired as a United
Airlines flight attendant after confronting Superintendent Mike Miles at the
airports this spring. Anyone could say this is a private matter.
This is a private company that chose to terminate you
for possibly violation of policy. What does HISD have to
(02:35):
do with this.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
I introduce myself as an HISD parent, an HISD taxpayer,
and I'm addressing a public official. It is I have
a conscious to ride who addressed grievancesm on my government official.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
McDavid says she was in playing clothings at the time.
It never identified herself as a United employee, a district
spokesperson tells us in part, Superintendent Miles was verbally accosted
by a Union I did Airlines employee who use vulgar
and aggressive language, adding, any personnel decision made by United
Airlines regarding the conduct of its employees is a matter
(03:10):
between United Airlines and that employee, McDavid says. Days after
the incidents, an HID administrator filed a complaints using an
HID email accounts to United Airlines. She said she was
fired shortly thereafter. How did it feel speaking to the
board yesterday, addressing superintend and Miles.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Well, I felt like I needed an opportunity to let
the school district know, let the board of managers know,
let people in the audience know what happened to me.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
You know, I've long had the opinion that freedom of
speech means freedom of speech. It's a bedrock of American culture,
not just from a legal perspective, the idea of the marketplace,
(04:04):
of ideas, idea of expression, that that is a healthy thing,
even when we don't like what someone expresses. And I've
long felt that, for instance, companies shouldn't put a gag
order on their employees because an employee off duty is
an individual and we should encourage them to speak out.
(04:28):
But police departments, for instance, will prohibit their officers from
posting political opinions to social media. Why why should they
do that? Well, this is what came of the culture,
the cancel culture, the idea of ruining people's careers because
(04:49):
we don't want them to have an opinion. We just
want them to be a good little cop and salute
and do the job and not have opinions and release
all the bad guys and don't arrest them. This is
very much a Rodney Ellis Sheila Jackson Lee trend. And
so now that it turned the reason they have a
(05:10):
problem here is not that this woman cussed out the superintendent,
cussed out someone at United or on the grounds of
a United lounge being a United employee. That's not why
she was fired. It's who she was cussing out. See,
Mike Miles is not popular with the Houston Independent School
(05:34):
District because he came into a broken school district and
started working to fix it. Now, I'm well aware that
everybody's got some criticism of something he has done, but
I do think that he came in with the intention
of fixing the district and not self dealing. I do
think that, and I do think that the district was broken,
(05:57):
and that you had a lot of people who were
part of the Sheila Jackson, Lee Silvester Turner, Rodney Ellis
internal cabal of self dealers, and you had, Let's not forget,
Rodney Ellis's chief of staff was the president of the
school board while working for Rodney Ellis and was arrested
(06:21):
for taking bribes from a company that got contracts with HISD,
and she signed off on and she remained in the
employment to my knowledge of Rodney Ellis. Yeah, Houston Chronicle
wasn't all been out of shape out of that. But this,
oh this, you know, I saw a story that HISD
(06:42):
has now found a partner for every one of their
underperforming schools. They've gone out to private companies partnered with them,
and that partner school, that partner company will help subsidize things.
And that's just brilliant. Why was that not done before?
The BED Chairman Rome Powell, speaking at an economic conference
(07:03):
in Philadelphia, suggested the labor market will require further cuts
interest rate cuts despite inflation. I'll read directly. Although the
government shutdown precludes new official economic data. Powell said the
outlook for employment and inflation does not appear to have
(07:25):
changed much since our September meeting, which is when the
FED cut rates for the first time this year. The
speech left economists anticipating a rate cut at the fed's
next meeting on October twenty eighth and twenty ninth, with
another cut to follow. Powell also suggested the FED may
soon stop shrinking its portfolio of assets, a move that
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could also slightly lower borrowing costs. I think if we
can get down to about five and a half percent
interest rate, you'll unlock a fair amount of economic activity
that is on the sideline right now. I think there
(08:10):
are homes sitting on the market for sale and buyers
perhaps willing to do that deal, but at the right
interest rate. Nobody wants to buy anything with the fear that, well,
shortly they'll lower the interest rates, and I was impatient.
(08:34):
When you lower the interest rate, people start getting more
active and taking on more debt. And you could argue, well,
they shouldn't take on debt. That's a bad thing. Be
that as it may, whatever your position on the matter.
If you're looking at economic activity, when interest rates drop
(08:56):
from where they are today. You're going to see people
by buying more lone Star chevies. You're going to see
people buying more gallery furniture, see people buying more new homes.
You're going to start seeing a lot of that activity unlocked,
and obviously that makes a difference. The problem is, and unfortunately,
(09:21):
this is going to continue, and it's going to accelerate,
and at some point it's going to accelerate to such
a point it's going to seem like an epidemic. I
think a lot of people are going to lose their jobs.
They're going to lose their jobs to what we will
loosely lump into the category of AI. There are going
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to be jobs that are no longer needed by companies
because they're going to find ways for those tasks that
are performed whatever that may be, to be replicated or
replaced through the use of technology. And we have haven't
even begun to discuss robotics and how that's going to
(10:04):
change things. The advance in robotics has now reached a
point where you're going to be able whatever a human
being touches on an assembly line, for instance, lifting, moving, dropping,
(10:25):
you're going to see human beings replaced, And you know,
you can't sit around being depressed over things. But it
does concern me because what happens when a guy who's
been an honest worker for ten years at a job site.
(10:49):
He's shown up on time, he's never stolen a thing,
he doesn't take sick leave, he goes above and beyond
to perform his job. He tries to help the company
succeed because he knows that's in his best interest as
an employee. What happens when you walk in and tell
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that guy you're done, because we're not seeing nobody's starting
the new business in the alternative for him to go
to work at. So I think you see a contraction
in the labor market, and not just for laborers. You're
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seeing tasks being replaced by AI. And I think this
will increase at a rapid rate because now we're at
the point that the machine can learn without the use
of a human and so now you're not limited by
human capacity for how quickly and profoundly AI can develop.
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And you're we're seeing things like design. AI is replacing design.
We're seeing things like even professional services. A friend of
mine's looking at at opening a restaurant and he sent
me he he used AI uh and he was called Jasper,
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and I can't remember what the other one. I had
not heard of Jasper before. But he gave the concept
that he wanted to he wanted to accomplish basic price
points and goals for the kitchen, and that was keep labor,
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labor costs down and quick turn time and product costs
at this percentage. I don't remember what they all were.
But he feeds that into AI and it sends out,
all right, here's your menu. Here's your estimated product costs.
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That looked actually pretty good. Here's your estimated labor costs
at these rates. Here's your estimated labor time, number of employees,
how many hours prep time, ticket time for everything that
is ordered? And all of that came back in such
at such a rapid pace. The only thing that slowed
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down that process was how long it took him to
input the information. The output was. I don't know how
long it took, but it didn't appear to have taken
very long. And now you had something that as I
read through, it was sort of like if you see
an AI video on social media of you know, two
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guys celebrating after they've come in, you know, the relay race.
After they've they've won, you can still slightly tell it's
kind of like a dizzy the movie animation still slightly
tell it's not real, but it's close enough that you
realize it's it's it's so far along. And and this said,
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you know how many how many people were menu designers,
how many people were food concept consultants that are going
to lose their jobs? Is Michael Ferry genius. You have
to create an inflection point where you force conflict to
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a point where there is a winner and a loser
and sides are chosen. If you don't do this in politics,
it is out of pure naivete. People will often say
to me, how come we can't all just get along?
(14:57):
Why can't we be united? Why do you have to
criticize the Republicans? Just criticize the Democrats? What if Democrats
start becoming Republicans in the state of Texas because we're
a Republican majority state, could I then criticize them? What
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if Republicans take up the positions of Democrats just call
themselves Republicans. What if Republicans caut us with the Democrats
against your wishes and promise to pass the bills you
want passed, but them bury them. All the while their
consultants are sending you constant text messages. They're fighting the
(15:42):
good cause. Would it be okay then if I criticize them,
or would you rather be united? Because they're making a
fool of you and you don't even know it, all
the while reminding you, hey, we hate them. Oh we
hate democrats. I tell you what. We don't get abused.
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You send me back up there again. It ain't men,
But twenty four years you send me back up there again.
And by god, I'm gonna roll up my sleeves, roll
up my sleeves, and I'm going to battle with them.
Dad burn Democrats. I'm we else with you. They're strong,
their forces are vast. Sometimes I get knocked down, but
(16:24):
I'm there fighting for you, and I'm going back. If
you'll give me a chance, I'm going back. I'm gonna
finish this job with your help. By god. Yeah. And
by the way, the Democrats are ugly, and they fart,
and they got bad breath, and they eat buggers, and
sometimes they don't comb their hair in the morning. Uh yeah,
(16:45):
vote for our team, and you got a lot of
people that can be convinced. Yeah, yeah, Democrats is bad
and our team is good. And you wonder why nothing
gets done, but something is getting done. They're self dealing,
they're bloating our government. So you have to force situations.
(17:14):
You know, when Trump did what they never believed he
would do, and he'd sent in the National Guard, he
forced Democrats to either agree with it or disagree. The
moment they disagreed, he showed they don't mind the crime
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in their cities. They can say, we gotta fight crime.
Give us a billion dollars more of federal funds that
we can give to our friends. But when given the
opportunity to actually do something about crime, they fought him
on it. And what Trump is so good at is
creating these inflection points and forcing people to take aside
(18:03):
Republicans who said, we have to clean up our country,
but to deal with immigration, I'm building a wall. Uh well,
that was when John McCain came out and said, I'm
build a damn wall. Remember two thousand and eight, I
build a damn wall. The wall had been around before Trump.
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Trump just actually did it. You have to force these
people into this, so we have such an inflection point
going on right now, And here's what it is. The
Republican Party still has a majority of voters in the
state of Texas statewide, and the Democrats understand this, and
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the Democrats are working very hard to flip that. And
if they can ever get their foot in the door
in a position of authority by hook or by crook,
they will allow cheating. They will do the things necessary
to preserve that power and never give it back. And
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there are Republicans who are more than happy to work
with them, to keep them a sort of captive opposition
under the hopes that well, when they come to power,
they'll be nice to me and they'll help me now
preserve my power because I'm the devil they know. And
(19:34):
the Trump factor is, Hey, you don't want me to
be like Trump, do you. I'll be a good Republican,
you know. Ever so often I'll have to I'll alert
you ahead of time. Sometimes I'll have to go out
and you know, make a bombastic speech. But don't worry
you and I we have lunch every Wednesday. And that's
kind of the game that's played. It's the game that's
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played in the state House. So the voter are increasingly frustrated,
and the politicians wanted to do nothing about it. So
how do you fix this? Finally, there are people who
are not paid. They're volunteers, they're activists. These are the
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types that are often smeared by elected officials because they
hold these elected officials accountable, but typically with words. Well,
now they've done something. They have upset the political class
and they have upset the media. What they've done is
made a move to ensure that the primary elections in
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March that only Republicans can vote in the Republican primary.
Democrats don't need to do this. You know why, because
we're not voting in their primary, but they are voting
in ours. You know that crazy lady that that tried
to harass the kids who were starting a TPUSA at
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Stratford High School, she had voted in the Republican primary.
And I'll bet you a dollar to a donut it
was to vote from Mono Diella for state rep. You've
got Democrats who understand that who their nominee is is
not that important. They would rather until they can win
(21:30):
the elections. They would rather get the most liberal Republican
they can, so voting in a Republican primary rather than
leaving our choice of our nominee, the Republican nominee, to
just us, because they understand that every Republican is not
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the same. Some Republicans are constitutionalists, tea party maga. Other
Republicans just there to have a good time or not
bother anybody, And don't worry. We'll keep the wheels turning
exactly the way they have been and Democrats can work
with that. What they don't want are the slash and
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burn Trump Republicans, so they will work against those people.
So the SRIC, a leadership Committee within the Republican Statewide
Republican Party, meets this weekend and there have been efforts
underway to close the Republican Party primaries. Now, if you
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think about it, what business is it of the Democrats
or the media. How the Republican Party establishment sets up
its own internal voting rules. This is a political party,
this is not the government. Well it's a good reason
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because they know we'll kick out the Dustin Burroughs and
drunk DAIDs and John Wayne Cort. So if you close
your primary, you keep Democrats from choosing the Republican candidate.
You'll remember Operation Chaos two thousand and eight, Rush was
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having too much fun. I mean, if you remember, he
was having a blast. What had happened was, well, he
was getting Republicans to vote in the Democrat presidential primary.
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And Rush had such influence that it was actually making
a difference and it was wreaking havoc on the Democrats
and there was nothing they could do about it. So
in Texas, you know, we can talk about the November election,
that is the election where the public votes on who
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is going to run our government. But the process of
who gets on the ballot and how that is conducted
by the primary system, that is conducted by the party system,
and the parties choose what that process is going to
(24:22):
look like. And there is I think the mistake and
believe somehow that the party is some way the government,
and it's not. You can be an elected member of
Texas or US federal government without being a member of
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a party. It's not required. The parties are a way
that people organize and identify for the sake of the voters,
because there's a convenience to this when you show up
and vot on November. In November, when you show up
and vote, you can say, you know, I don't know
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either one of these guys, I'm gonna go with the Republican.
I haven't heard any of these Democrats speak out against
any of the haven't heard them speak out against the
Charlie Kirk assassination, our boys in the women's locker room,
or you know, whatever that issue is for you, and
there's none of them that speak out against it. So
I'm just going to vote for the Republicans. And that's
a quick shorthand because there are lots of jobs that
(25:31):
are elected and it's hard to keep up with who
this person is and who that person is, and you
still want to vote. You still want to have some
influence on who the person is, because whether you vote
or not, those jobs are still going to be filled,
and your money is going to go toward their office,
and they're going to determine how your money is spent.
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And even though you don't intend to watch what they're
doing day in and day out, you like to believe that, well,
I'd rather get a good one than a bad one.
And if I can't get a great when, I feel like,
at least I'm going to get a better one than
if the Democrat person is selected. But it's a much
smaller group of people that vote in the Republican primary,
and the Republican Party runs the Republican primary as it should,
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and who should make the rules for how the Republican
Party will choose our candidate who will appear in November,
but us, the Republicans. So when the leadership of the
Republican Party says we're going to close the primary so
Democrats can stop coming over here and voting in our primary,
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that becomes an inflection point. That is the moment where
you notice that Greg Abbott and his Secretary of State
Jane Nelson do not want that. This is the conflict
you needed. When it comes down to it, it's very
hard to do. You've got to force a situation where
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a person is cornered and has to choose. Nobody expected
the Republican Party to do this. They did, and now
you've got Greg Abbott and his Secretary of State Jane Nelson,
who do not want this. It's clear, and I'll tell
you why. Abbot is scared to death of the Republican
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Party base. He's been booed at Republican events. His view
is he wins with a coalition of Republicans and Democrats
and people who don't pay that close attention, because he
knows that the people who really watch what he does
(27:51):
and doesn't do, those people are onto him. And if
you let those people alone choose, he can lose because
he's not one of them, not at all. And his
inaction is a rallying cry now and there are enough
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people and he knows this, that would love to boot
him out. Greg Abbott had planned that he would have
been running for president by twenty twenty four or at
the latest twenty twenty eight. Nobody expected Trump to be
the Republican nominee for three elections in a row. There
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are people who've lived their lives running for president or
to run for president, and they've got it all planned out.
I hold this office for this amount and when this opens,
and within reason, they'll plan those things out. George P. Bush,
if you remember when he was running for office. So
I'm not sure what I'm going to run for. I
got to decide I'm gonna be in office. I just
got to decide which one, because he's a Bush and
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he can do that. Or so he thought I might
have this job, or I might take this job. And
I think most Texans, myself whencluded found that very off putting.
You don't get to just pick and choose. There should
be some semblance of interest in that job in order
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for you to do that well. They didn't expect one
guy to have the nomination for a twelve year. For
a twelve year period, no one else can hold that nomination.
And that's a generation in political terms. So you've got
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a lot of people that have been queuing it up
for exactly the moment they were going to run for president.
And twenty sixteen comes. At the most. Trump will be
reelected in twenty twenty, so there'll be an eight year
period there, but by twenty twenty four the nomination will
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be wide open and that'll be my moment to strike.
But we had something unprecedented in the modern era. Trump
runs and you'll remember that. John Cornyn said, his time
has passed. Said this on the record to reporters. His
time has passed. He needs to know that, and the
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Republican Party needs to move on without him. That John Cornyn,
if every Texas Republican would just remember that in vote accordingly,
he would be Trumps in the primary. And no amount
of Karl Rove decision making and manipulation and blurring with
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ads that say I'm up there with Donald Trump. You're lying,
John Cornyan, You're lying, and we have you on the
record lying. And that's why John mccornan wants the Republican
Party to be wide the primary to be wide open
and not closed, because he needs people who hate Trump
to vote in the Republican primary for a guy who
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will work to undercut Trump at every turn. And that's
what John Wayne mccorn represents. And Abbott is right there
along with him and his do nothing Secretary of State
Jane Nelson as well
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