July 2, 2025 • 44 mins
This podcast edition of Pursuit of Happiness Radio features author Austin Petersen and journalist Michael Quinn Sullivan. ( @KennethRWebster )
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
Michelle Obama is denying the rumors that she is getting divorced. Meantime,
Paul Pelosi is denying the rumors that he's married. Ah,
that's sad Hi everybody. I'm Kenny Webs. You're gonna be
a fun afternoon right here on your radio, so thanks
for joining us.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Michael Quinn Sullivan's stopping by.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
He is from Texas squarecard dot Com Chinese spies. We're
just arrested in Houston. We'll tell you why. Austin Peterson's
going to be here from the Libertarian Republic. Pursuit of
Happiness Radio is a place where maga Republicans and libertarians
come together and find common ground.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
I think that's what we do the best. And Austin
and I are.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Going to take a look at this pulling data that
claims Americans or patriotic than ever. I don't believe it,
and he has a different opinion on it. So we'll
talk about that real soon. So much to talk about
this afternoon. June's illegal crossing numbers are in, and it
is that there's nobody crossing over the border. Hill put
it bluntly, it's just not happening anymore. And a slew
of Blue states are suing Donald Trump's Department of Education
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because they're really mad that trainees don't get to take
away your daughter's college scholarship anymore.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Oh, don't you feel sorry for trainees? What's that?
Speaker 4 (01:30):
No?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
You don't?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Okay, well me neither. Paramount at CBS have to pay
Donald Trump a big hunk of money now for trying
to rig the twenty twenty four election.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
That's adorable.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
But of all the big ws today for Donald Trump,
here's one of the lesser known things, a little something,
a little less reported today that I just got from
one of my favorite news websites, Breitbart dot com. Waffle
House announced they're going to end their fifty cent surcharge
on eggs. Eggs scellent news, they wrote on x the
social media platform. As of June second, the egg surg
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charge is officially off the menu. Thank you for understanding,
they say, due to the former president's auto pen dual
mismanagement of the American economy. In an outbreak of the
bird flew back in February, waffle House announced to fifty
cents surcharge on eggs. So yeah, there's just not enough birds,
not enough not enough eggs, not enough chickens. We're gonna
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have to charge more for that. So the Georgia based
diner chain, the restaurant chain actually served about three hundred
million eggs a year. They said the cost was just
one issue. It was becoming very difficult to find enough eggs.
After the Avian influenza break, tens of millions of egg
laying hens were destroyed and egg prices reached records highs.
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So Trump made this promise in twenty twenty four two
lower egg costs, and by February, just one month after
Trump took off his waffle House announced the surcharge, the
average price of a dozen eggs skyrocketed seven dollars and
eighty six cents a day. It's pretty expensive, right, So
the Trump Whitehouse went to immediate work importing eggs, having
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the USDA work closely with American egg producers finding ways
to replenish the livestock. They had to cool the overall inflation.
Guess what Today, the average cost of a dozen eggs
is about two dollars and fifty cents. The egg laying
population is recovering. The USDA is proactively looking to head
off the next bird flu outbreak with some ongoing biosecurity assessments.
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They're going to prevent another outbreak, another spread of the
bird flu. This is amazing, isn't it amazing? What can
happen when you elect a president who is engaged and
actually cares about what normal Americans care about. I give
waffle House credit for adding the surch charge rather than
just raising prices. I wish gas stations would do this
lists the cost of a gallon of gas before all
the taxes, and then lists the taxes. As much as
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I hate the phone and cable companies, they actually itemize taxes.
It's quite illuminating. Egg prices matter. Trump understands that gas
prices matter. Mortgage rates matter. Trump gets it. People notice
these things. They notice things like ace, eggs, surcharges, and
gas prices because it affects them. But if you ask
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Democrats what matters, they'll tell you it's transgender kids. We're
giving illegal alien free stuff, ensuring that mentally ill men
have access to your daughter's locker room. It's important to
release violent criminals into poor neighborhoods. That's what matters the
most to the liberals, That's what matters to the Democrats,
and that's the difference between us and them.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Pesso.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
This is Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness on KPRC nine
fifty Houston.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
All Right, So.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Beaches in six states may have to close for the
fourth of July due to harmful levels of bacteria.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Damn, where's that jaws may when you need them? You
know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Hi, everybody, welcome back. The four day weekend starts pretty soon.
People pretty excited about that fourth of July on a Friday,
three day weekend.
Speaker 6 (05:09):
You know.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
I know some of you have to work tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
I mean to rub it in your face, but anyway,
I'm here with you today, So it's good to be
with you, guys. And as we're getting into the fourth
of July weekend, I have noticed that there is polling
data about American patriotism. I had a little bit of
daja vous as I was reading this gallup pole, because
I feel like we've done this before, this idea that
America is less patriotic when a Republican is president.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
It's bs you're telling me liberals are less. They don't.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
They don't love America as much because their guy isn't
the leader.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
That's not true.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
In order for them to love America less when Trump
is president, they'd have to love America at all when
anyone else is president, which they don't. It's fake right,
you're telling me when your dictator's in charge, it's a
better country than when our dictators in charge.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
No.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Gallupole just released this week details exactly what I'm describing.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
American patriotism hit an all time low. No, it didn't.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
It's this is fake news. This is very misleading information.
Look as a liberty activist, I love America no matter
who's president. I hate my government no matter who the
leader is. I voted for Trump, I still hate the government.
I did not vote for Joe Biden, but during the
past four years, I still loved America.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
I hope most people feel that way.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
My buddy Austin Peterson has a great way of explaining
some of this stuff. He's a liberty activist himself. Former
Libertarian presidential candidate ran for Senate in the state of
Missouri runs the Walton and Johnson online store. I love
WJ dot com, Austin. Is your patriotism affected by who
the president is?
Speaker 7 (06:40):
Hey, Kenny, and hello to all the good citizens of
the Gulf Coast. Thanks for having me on and happy
independent state, everybody who's hearing us out there. I just
got done listening to the President explaining how to run
away from an alligator, and I got to be honest,
I feel a little more patriotic now because I learned
something from my president today. You can call up a
lot of things, but you can't call him stupid. I
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had always thought, Kenny, that if you were getting chased
by an alligator on land, that if you zigzag you swerve,
that that was how you could outrun it. But apparently,
according to President Trump, you only have a one percent
chance increase if you zigzag to run away from an
alligator on land. So something new that I learned today.
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I don't know if you've got gators down there where
you're at. I know that they got him over there
in Louisiana, but I don't know in Texas if you
got him there too.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
But now you guys know you're screwed.
Speaker 7 (07:31):
If you want to try and zigzag and run away,
just forget it. You can't get it with one percent
increased chance. But things like that make me more patriotic.
You know, there's a lot of things, there's a lot
of silver linings in clouds. But here's the thing, Kenny,
I don't think it's fake news. I think that people
are less patriotic than they used to be. I grew
up in the nineteen eighties. Hulk Hogan andre the giant
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American flags everywhere I see. If you were American flags
these days, then I you didn't hear stories in the
nineteen eighties about people being offended by wearing American flags.
You didn't see people fly in the flag of Mexico
in southern California in the nineteen eighties. I think that
this woke mind virus that has come out of American
universities has poisoned a generation. Ironically, America exported this woke
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mind virus. It was born in American universities, and then
we spread it around the world. And now we're trying
to kill it here in the United States. People like
Ron DeSantis with his new accreditation thing. I hope we
get to talk about this a little bit later, a
new revolution and education that might be coming. But I
do think Americans are less patriotic. I do hear less
fireworks than I used to when I was a kid.
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I do see fewer American flags. And you know what
I think has happened, Kenny, I think that people worship government.
I think that people have replaced God with government. And
I say this as someone who is not religious. I
think it's I think it's a big problem for our
country that people have made their political party. And this
is what this says, that their political party is more
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important than their religion.
Speaker 6 (09:05):
I believe that.
Speaker 7 (09:05):
I believe that people actually identify more with a political
party than they do with their religion because I think
people have replaced their gods with government.
Speaker 6 (09:14):
Kenny, do you disagree?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
I think most of what you're saying is true. I
will add some alternative facts to your points. I think
most of what you said is completely correct, but some
alternative facts, as Kelly and Conway would have called them.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Is it possible that even though people.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Used to be more patriotic, before they were more patriotic,
they were less patriotic. And what I mean by that
is we have baby boomers out right now. A lot
of these people out at the protests. Believe it or not,
they're geriatrics, they're older people. Oddly enough, young people are
skewing conservative. Now older people are the liberals. You and
I have talked about how bizarre that is. The people
that are baby boomers right now that are out at
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these protests. We're also protesting back in the sixties and seventies.
The problem is there was a well maybe it's not
a problem, just a phenomenon in between those two time
periods was what the eighties and the nineties, the early
two th thus, when the baby boomers were parents, so
they were too busy raising their children to go out
and hate America. And now they're having a late in
life crisis where suddenly they've rediscovered their early twenties or
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their teenage years when they used to go out and
protest the Vietnam War. But they don't have a Vietnam
war to protest now, so they're protesting Trump.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Is that possible? Yeah?
Speaker 7 (10:20):
But you know what I think too, Kenny, is I
think a lot of them are getting paid. I saw
a video the other day of this lady that got
interviewed and She was one of those kind of geriatric boomers,
and this guy had interviewed her and he says, so,
what do you do for work? And she's like, I
don't work, and she's like, I haven't had a job
for like twenty or thirty years.
Speaker 6 (10:37):
And then he followed her around and she.
Speaker 7 (10:40):
Was He had taken photographs of her at three or
four different protests. So instead of going and being a
Walmart greeter, I think a lot of these lefty senior citizens,
a lot of the OK boomers are getting paid by
these Soros funded you know, Act Blue organizations, and they're
going out and they're doing these protests because it's better
than working, you know, at the checkout at the local
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you know, you know, supermarket. So there's financial incentives to
this too. I mean a lot the left has spends
so much money to advance their ideals, and it's only
been in like the last ten years that we have
seen conservatives and liberty, I mean libertarians, we don't spend
any money.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
We're the cheapest.
Speaker 6 (11:22):
I don't mean to complain about our people.
Speaker 7 (11:24):
Kenny, but like running a merchandise shop, I can tell
you that our people are the cheapest people.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
I don't want to rip on it.
Speaker 7 (11:31):
Listen, that's not anybody any of your audience, because your
audience spends a lot of money at your at your store, at.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
I LOOVEWJ dot com.
Speaker 7 (11:39):
But for my audience that are like like, just like
libertarian libertarians, they're the most penny pinching, cheapest, thriftiest people.
Speaker 6 (11:46):
And the problem, of course, is is that that the left.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
I mean they made it.
Speaker 7 (11:50):
They got all these billionaires that are these leftist billionaires,
and they spend money on what they believe in, even
if they lose money, they don't care. They spend money
on the Lesbian Art Project or.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
You know they do.
Speaker 7 (12:02):
How many movies have you seen in the last ten
to fifteen years, Kenny, that are obvious they're just vehicles
for leftist ideals.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Bro, I think I spent I think you just helped
me to figure it out. I think I just stumbled
upon it. Hate encourages people to spend money. Who are
the most hateful people. Liberals they are right, who are
slightly Conservatives are a little hateful, let's face it, they are,
They're not quite as and then libertarians are maybe the
least hateful. They're spending the least money. I'll give you
examples right now. This is an anecdotal Carmelo Anthony stabbed
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a guy to death right. The video that journalists at
The Daily Mail of reviewed seems to suggest that he
wasn't doing it in self defense. He just stabbed that kid.
Austin metcalf In at tend to attract me. What happened?
They gave him hundreds of thousands of dollars to fight
white supremacy. Wasn't fighting white supremacy. Now they're not even
using that money on a lawyer, they're getting a public
defense attorney. But that's besides the point. Right, so liberals
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will do that. They'll spend a lot of money to
hate people. Conservatives not as much, not as common. I mean,
maybe the far right, the fascist. Remember there was that
woman who shouted the N word on a school playground.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
You remember that they gave her so money.
Speaker 7 (13:10):
Every other and nowadays every other like right wing female
influencer that I see.
Speaker 6 (13:15):
The way that she rises to power is by saying.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
The N word. It's you know, it's true.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
But here's the thing.
Speaker 7 (13:22):
The sad truth is is that people like hate, hating,
fear have always been more powerful motivators than love, you know,
love and caring and kindness like people.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
And the thing is is that people see caring and
kindness and love as weakness.
Speaker 7 (13:38):
Think about the Nazis for example, right right, They were
all about hatred. Okay, everything was about hatred for them.
There their whole idea, I was built on hatred. Built
a whole country and empire in Europe based.
Speaker 8 (13:50):
On hating, hating groups, hating gays, hating Jews, hating you know,
their political enemies that they hating, you know, the Communists
and the Soviets and the Russians and all of a
sudd everything hey, based on.
Speaker 6 (14:01):
Hate, and and it worked.
Speaker 7 (14:02):
It got their whole nation unified around they got rid
of every single other political party because hate is hating
people is more powerful than love. And you know what
was interesting was that a lot of the Nazi than
a lot of the Nazis, I think Nazis, a lot
of the Nazis they they hated Christianity too.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
And you actually see.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
This with a lot of like the the right.
Speaker 7 (14:25):
Wing fascist people that you're talking about, they hate Jesus
and they hate Christianity because they see it as weak.
They see Jesus turning in the other cheek, and they
see as love one another as I have loved you.
They see Christianity as having turned America week and and
if they're not advocating for a more muscular form of
Christian nationalism that you know that is not it has
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nothing to do with the Sermon on the Mount, then
they actually advocate for the abolition of Christianity whatsoever. A
lot of them are more into like the uh the
sort of the pagan and the Norse religions.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Right.
Speaker 7 (14:57):
As a matter of fact, I don't know if you
know about Hermann Gearing, but not Gearing, but Himmler, but
the head of the of the secret police. He actually
had his own castle where they did all these occult rituals,
and they explicitly rejected christ. They won because he was
a Jew, obviously, and two and two because they saw
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Christianity loving one another and loving your neighbor as that
is not a way to power.
Speaker 6 (15:23):
That Christianity was not a way.
Speaker 7 (15:26):
To power, because the will to power requires you to hate,
not love.
Speaker 6 (15:31):
And you know what's sad, is it? In many ways
they're right. It's true.
Speaker 7 (15:35):
If you care more about power, then you care more
about your fellow man. Christianity is not a good religion
for you because it teaches you to love your fellow man.
And and that's why there's so much conflict in the
Republican Party, and people are trying to create this new
form of like a kind of a Christian statism is
what I would call it. And I think it's it's
very dangerous. I mean, it's not to say that there
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isn't you know that the left isn't a far greater threat.
Speaker 6 (15:58):
But you know, you and I, because as were on
the right, we see these things up and close.
Speaker 7 (16:02):
And I'm trying to look ahead at what's coming down
the aisle five ten years, fifteen years from now. And
I got to tell you right now, it doesn't look
good for our country. Kenny doesn't look good at all.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
I get your point.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
And you know to that that being said, Jesus was
into voluntariism.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
He didn't.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
He wasn't a socialist, as the lefter it often say.
He didn't instruct his followers to give their money to
the Romans and have it redistribute them or get stabbed
to death with a spear. But hey, before this is
a fascinating topic. I think we could talk about this
for another hour, but before we run out of time,
there was something else I wanted you to explain to us.
Ron Desants in Florida, I just did something very interesting.
Florida's working with university leaders from five other southern states
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to form a new higher education accrediting body, the Commission
for Public Higher Education, which will need federal approval. Would
be an alternative to the Southern Association of Colleges and
Schools commissioned on Colleges And apparently this is a longtime
accrediting agency that's clashed with Florida because of woke education standards.
So Florida's teaming up with Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee,
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and Texas, many of those Walton and Johnson and ten
percenter Pursuit of Happiness Radio stage interestingly enough to reject
the current college accreditation system. Can you explain this to us?
What' should take on this?
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (17:16):
This is huge, Kenny, huge, and I hope your listeners
are really paying attention because this is the first serious
attempt to decentralize accreditation since the nineteen sixties. So the
real power in higher ed isn't with the professors, It's
with the accreditors, because colleges have to be accredited in
order to receive federal student aid. So the current accreditors,
like Sacks that you mentioned, they act as ideological enforcers.
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They're supposed to be neutral referees, but they're not. And
if you control accreditation, you control of the curriculum.
Speaker 6 (17:47):
Right you want to.
Speaker 7 (17:47):
Make sure that there's a lesbian dance class, or you know,
Taylor Swift, a major in Taylor Swift.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
I think there is.
Speaker 6 (17:56):
You can get a minor in that some colleges.
Speaker 7 (17:58):
Then you want to decentralize accreditation. And so DeSantis is
working with those states, including the ones that are hearing
us right now, and he's basically going out there trying
to make some accountability by creating this new Commission for
Public Higher Education. So what it would mean is that
the states can finally shape their own public university systems
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without begging for permission. So it opens a door for
non woke classical or STEM focused curriculum, and it could
pave the way for new universities that aren't already hostages
to de mandate DEI mandates or like the CRT nonsense.
So the catch is the federal aid most of the
financial aid is tied to federally recognize accreditors, but a
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future Democrat president could refuse to recognize this new commission.
So that's why this needs a multi straits. They need
to have multiple states do this, and they need to
do it right now while Donald Trump is president, before
the Democrats can stop it. Because you know that when
President Alexandria Caja Cortez wins and she takes over here
soon and puts Zora and Mamdani as her vice president,
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that they are going to block something like this. So
we have just a few short years to make something
like this. So this is how we stop higher ed
from being controlled from the shadows. This is a fight
over who decides what is taught.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
And who gets to teach it.
Speaker 7 (19:20):
And it's nice to see that, well for once the
Red States are fighting back.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
I would have always assumed that Gavin Newsom's running mate
would probably be AOC.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
What do you think, Yeah, yeah, I think so.
Speaker 7 (19:30):
The sad thing is I think it's gonna it'll probably work, Kenny.
You know, the truth is is that you know Republicans
won't be in power forever and that they the Democrats
have so few leaders on the national level that are likable.
I mean, Mike Waltz, are you kidding me? Right? So, yeah,
it could be Gavin Newsom. And I think especially the ladies,
really love Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 6 (19:50):
I think for obvious reasons. And I think that Alexander
Caja Cortez as.
Speaker 7 (19:55):
A woman on the vice presidential ticket, I think that
that will get a lot of people too.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
I get a lot of people to vote for them.
I think that I don't want them to win.
Speaker 7 (20:04):
I'll work against them, But I just think that Americans
are probably when you see what happens with Zora Mandani
in New York City, you know where New York City.
Speaker 6 (20:13):
Goes, there goes the country.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
We don't like it, but that's the fact.
Speaker 6 (20:16):
It's just what we see.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
Happening in our cities and our major cities eventually makes
our way out into the country side.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
So beware and protect yourself.
Speaker 7 (20:24):
And when you're lighting fireworks on the fourth of July,
just you know, make sure that you remember what it's
all for, and that the fights aren't over, and that
you know we're not Our freedom has not been bought
and paid for, we're leasing it right. The future generations
is who it belongs to. So just remember them, and
that's who we're fighting for. It's not for us, it's
for them.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Perfectly explain my man, that is That is a fantastic point.
It's almost like we were born on third base, but
we think we hit a triple you know what I mean.
Speaker 6 (20:53):
What a great line, Kenny, Thank you.
Speaker 7 (20:55):
I got some new works coming for you guys today
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Speaker 3 (21:06):
Bro Austin Peterson.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
I'll check out his work online the Libertarian Republic, among
other places.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
I love WJ dot com.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
He runs the Walton Johnson online storre and he's a
fantastic author. He can also find Austin Peterson on exp Prisuit.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Of That Penis Radio.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
Comey now, just p This is Kenny Webster's Pursuit of
Happiness on KPRC nine fifty Houston.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
All right, So, Wyoming is experiencing a population boom to
the state's tax friendly laws. Apparently more people are moving
to Wyoming. The population is just bursting out of the
earth there because of tax friendly laws. Wow, that's wild,
And just think there's somewhere in the country where someone
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would rather pay taxes.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Isn't that that crazy to think, Hey, everybody's moving there
to Is Wyoming really that bad? I think it's a
pretty state. I'd like to go there.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
I can't believe how easy it is to convince people
to leave liberal states. You wonder if when they move,
if they bring their voting with them though, And that's
what makes me nervous. People moving to Texas and droves.
You see it all the time. Texas is not perfect,
but it's as about as close to perfect as it
gets when it comes to a state. I know, we're
all jealous of Alligator Alcatraz seems kind of cool.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
The liberals are calling.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
It Alligator Aushowitz, as if that's supposed to shame us
into not wanting to support immigration laws. No, sorry, you've
done way too many Nazi analogies. We do not care anymore.
Speaker 6 (22:36):
But speaking of.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Illegal immigrants, here is a feel good story of the day,
courtesy be our friends at Texas scorecard dot com.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
This will fill your heart with joy.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Legislators are warning universities these college campuses need to comply
with federal rulings on discounted tuition for illegal immigrants. Why
on earth do illegal immigrants get discounted college tuition?
Speaker 3 (22:58):
And what can we do about it? Here are this
take on it.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
One of my favorite people in Texas politics, mister Michael
Quinn Solovon of Texas squarecard dot Com. Michael, let's say
you a federal court ruling striking down a Texas law
allowing illegal immigrants to get discounted tuition.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
Yeah, this is maybe my favorite news story from July,
from June bleeding into July.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
I remember, back.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
In two thousand and one, then Governor Rick Perry pushed
for and got the Texas Dream Act. Okay, at the time,
no one paid attention to it. It was just kind
of this little thing floating around over there, very little
press about it, almost no press about at the time,
and that allowed it. Dally who resided in Texas had
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been and had been in.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Texas public schools.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Illegal aliens whod been in Texas public schools to then
qualify for in state tuition at our colleges and universities.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Oh, how open minded? How now?
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Almost California esque of Rick Perry and the then Democrat
controlled Texas legislature. Now you fast forward these past twenty
four years, there have been fits and starts and people
claiming they would do something about it, and they would
fix it.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
No one did.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
It took the Trump administration and our Attorney General Ken
Paxton to get rid of this law. The Trump administration said,
it's in violation of federal law. We're probably a lawsuit
against Texas. The same day that the Trump administration fought
the lawsuit, Ken Paxton surrendered on behalf of the states,
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you know, throw me into that briar patch, and settled
the lawsuit, agreeing on behalf of the state that Texas
would no longer give this discounted tuition to illegal aliens.
But some faculty members, some of the woke leaders of
some of our university systems, of himden Haude, well, they
would just find other ways to make sure illegal aliens
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got discounts. Discounts not available to a young Kenney Webster
growing up in not Texas, that wouldn't be available to
him coming to Texas, but are available to illegal aliens.
So these are lawmakers saying, nay, nay, nay, you can't
do it. So we'll see if the university's listening.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
And thank god that federal court struck this down. But boy,
it does remind me of the Big Beautiful Bill. One
of the little provisions in there that was added and
then removed, and then added and I think removed again.
I don't know where we stand on it was that
illegal immigrants should get free healthcare, and then there was
going to be a ban on that, and then they said, no,
we can't stop illegal immigrants from getting free healthcare. The
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Big Beautiful Bill is just I mean, it's like Elon said,
it could be big or it could be beautiful.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
But can it be both? Is the question.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
The last I heard that provision was still in But again,
if you blink your eyes and you don't pay attention
to where the comma is, those things move in and
out pretty quickly. You know, at some point we have
to ask ourselves what is the role of government?
Speaker 3 (26:07):
And the one Big Beautiful Bill, A.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Lot of it, I like, a lot of it makes
me want to throw up in my mouth. But at
the end of the day, the thing that seems like
it should be easy, the thing that it seems like
should be not controversial, is to say that our federal
tax dollars are state tax dollars.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
Our local tax dollars.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
Should only be spent in ways that benefit the citizens
and legal residents of the United States and of this state.
And the fact that you've got people who want to
spend big money on the magnets that both attract and
keep illegal aliens tells me that those folks have something
else that they are wanting to do to our country
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rather than to make it great.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
You know, this is another one of those things where
you forget sometimes how complicated and nuanced our federal government is.
Laws that contradict other laws, and then really bizarre, obscure
parliamentary procedures like the Big Beautiful Bill exists simply because
reconciliation bills for the budget, resolute budget resolutions make it
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so that you only need a simple majority and you
can't fill a buster the bill. And so even though
Republicans claim to be against omnibus bills, they're doing this
anyway because they need to get around that. And like
I get it, I understand Donald Trump didn't make the roles.
He's just trying to bend them a little bit and
see if he could play by them and still get
a double You here.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
But doesn't that suck? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (27:36):
You remember, our founding fathers manage to separate the ties
that bound us to the greatest military power of the
day in less than two pages. They then, after making
good on that declaration a few years later, they managed
to create an entire republican system of government small r
(28:01):
Republican for those who get you know their panties and
awad small are Republican system of a federal government. They
manage that in four pages, right, And yet our Congress
today cannot spend money without hundreds of pages, most of
which written an ancient klingon with you know, more footnotes
(28:24):
and subclauses than you can shake a stick at. This
is governments not of buying for the people. This is
government that now exists to feed itself. And you know, look,
I don't know if if it's an Elon musk New
political party, or it's a rising up plank the Tea
Party back in the aughts, or whatever it's going to take.
(28:46):
At some point we have to be serious about what
are we allowing government to do to us.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Yeah, while we're on the topic of the Big Beautiful Bill,
the Senate rejected a proposal that was going to deter
states from regulating AI. Michael, I have really mixed feelings
on this. On the one hand, I don't want the
government to go in and regulate something we haven't even
invented yet. But a ban on regulations that seems like
it's equally problematic. I mean, I know I'm being hyperbolic here,
I know that, But what if in four years AI
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starts murdering people and they say, well, we can't do
anything to change that. There's already a law that says
we can't regulate it.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
Yeah, so what was happening this is it's very complicated,
really quick, and you got to follow all the knots
and the knots and the bands and the band on
the band and the big you know, the big band
and the little band and the reband, and at some
point your head explodes and then someone will come in
charge you attacks for your head exploding the wrong place.
But you know, you had a lot of states, including Texas,
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past legislation designed to encourage the development of of AI
platforms in Texas. But it also though is part of
the of the carrot of trying to attract these these companies,
It also so would have included provisions for the state,
both committees of the legislature and the Governor's office and
(30:06):
others UH to monitor this development for the purpose of
protecting Texans privacy, things like what kind of data sets
are these AI models being trained on. What's going to
happen with that output when you've gotten if you're if
you're using you know, all of the driver's license data
in the state to train the AI on driving habits
(30:30):
or other things. Suddenly what happens with Kenney Webster's and
Michael Sullivan's and whoever else's driving records? That information now
suddenly gets spat out by by this AI at some point,
potentially jeopardizing you know, some young lady who has a
restraining order and is supposed to have informations to be private.
(30:51):
All these kind of things that sit out there. That
there's a lot of big questions that none of us,
none of us even know the kind of questions to ask.
Yet that's to your point. The problem with the one
big beautiful bill ban was that that would have stopped
Texas for ten years from being able to ask those questions,
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and that in year five you suddenly had a big
problem arising and Texas wanted to be able to fix it,
they wouldn't have been able to without going to the
Supreme Courts and all these kind of fights. Angela Paxton,
the state Senator from from Colin County, Angela Paxton, I
think I think put it the correct way. She said,
(31:33):
we need to let federalism work. Federalism, of course being
the idea that this that unless it is specifically outlined
in the Constitution as a role of the federal government,
you need to let the states do these things. And
that means that some states will get it right and
some states will get it wrong, and that the market
(31:54):
forces will ensure that the things that are happening correctly
will be where we're capital flows, and then everyone else
will begin to copy it. And I think that's the
right attitude. Let the states be what our founding fathers intended.
Let the states be sovereign. Let the states be, I
guess one idea of the laboratories of experimentation and government,
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rather than the federal government bullying the states either into
accepting something or denying something.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Michael Quinsolivan on the line right now, if you just
turned it on your radio, folks, one of the most
dangerous men in Texas political media. One of my favorite
people to hear him opine about what's going on right
now on a national and stay level. Michael, can you
do another segment with us? I want to talk to
you about what's going on right now with the Arlington
mayor going to war with the irs equally is interesting,
the FBI and federal agents going after Chinese spies and
(32:48):
Venezuelan gang members here in Houston, Texas. Do you have
a few more minutes, I'd love to do it quick break, folks,
more with Michael Quinnsullivan Texas corecard dot Com.
Speaker 5 (32:56):
Right after that, Gayle, this is Kenny Webster's Pursuit of
happiness on KPRC nine fifty Houston.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Rest in peace to Jimmy Swaggert. He had passed away
over the weekend, well earlier this week apparently, and he
will miss Fourth of July weekend. He will not get
to be a part of the fun. I will be
in well, I'll be out and about. I think I'm
gonna be in Austin this weekend. I'm going to be
in Texas hill country and join the fireworks. My buddy
Michael quinn Sullivan on the line right now, Michael, you
(33:28):
are apparently going to be attending a parade. Apparently they
have parades that are not gay pride parades. Now is
that a thing? I didn't even know that.
Speaker 4 (33:36):
Yeah, it's like, you know, at this flag the only
flags that will be weighed the stars and stripes. Apparently
allegedly that's what they claim, and that everyone there will
be marching because of their pride in the United States,
not the pride and their moral deviancy. So that will
be that will be something fun.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
You know.
Speaker 4 (33:54):
Joseph Trimmer, who covers Houston for Texas Scorecard, we've joked
that he is he is our degenerate parade correspondent because
he has been covering a lot of those of late.
And I think that the sit like the rest of us,
probably needs a good mental bleaching and kind of enjoy
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something wholesome, like a prayer. Like in Round Rock, Texas
on Friday morning and other parts of the state you
can find some of these great, great expressions of American
right now.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
Crime is down, drug overdoses are down, Illegals crossing the
border is down, inflation is down, the cost of eggs
is down, the stock markets up. That's fantastic. But of
all the w's that Donald Trump has been achieving for
the country lately, one of the more under reported things
I think is the fact that I don't know, maybe
this is anecdotal, maybe it's just from my perspective, it
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feels like Pride Month wasn't quite as obnoxious this year.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
I didn't notice it everywhere.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
I didn't see every fortune five hundred company change their
company logo.
Speaker 6 (34:55):
Is it just me?
Speaker 3 (34:56):
Did you notice that too? No?
Speaker 4 (34:58):
I noticed that as well. In fact, a number of
folks have been commenting on this that, you know, the
I think that the lgbt Q plus A one two, whatever,
all those letters and digits are it feels like they've overreached,
you know that they they push so hard and now
there is this kind of backlash coming. You're seeing it
(35:20):
both with the give us your kids movement from the
trainees and the uh the story our stuff and the
we're going to uh, you know, play with your kids
minds and schools and all.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
These kind of things.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
It's now, you know, people have now said enough is enough.
When you said don't ask, don't tell, we went along
with it. When you said you just wanted civil unions,
you know, all these things we've all given in and
suddenly we don't recognize the state of our families, the
state of the state of our country, at least socially
in many ways, and people are saying enough is enough.
And I think that you've seen this. It's been a
(35:55):
large portion of the gay community. Actually, So we didn't want.
They didn't want any of that to begin with. They
didn't want the crazy parades, the people wearing only diapers
and dog masks and all that stuff that you saw
in Houston this past weekend. They didn't want to that.
They thought they thought it was going to hurt them,
and they were right. And I think that's when you
see some of the scaling back. You know, some of
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the stainer voices have started to prevail inside the homosexual community.
And well, I guess we'll find out. You know what,
it seemed like every three months we've got another Gay
Pride month of some.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
Sort or other. So we'll see what.
Speaker 4 (36:30):
So we will see what the next gay Pride iteration
looks like.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
I don't remember when it was, is like Transvisibility Day
falls in February or something.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
I don't even remember what it was.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
So then the black people got June teenth, in the
middle of Pride month, and I thought, Wow, at some
point the gays and the BLM crowd are going to
probably have to go to war with each other figuratively,
hopefully not literally. But to your other point there, I
missed the gay Pride stuff this past week, and I
wasn't in Houston. We were up in Fort Worth doing
our red Pelled comedy shows at the Big Laugh Comedy Club.
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There at a great time. And I never knew this before,
But did you know that in Dallas? There's a park
in Dallas where every year they celebrate the fourth of
July one week in advance. I saw it on the
news while I was there. I'd never heard that before.
Did you know that?
Speaker 4 (37:15):
I'm kind of a Texas tribua ficiando and I did
not know that that's facial.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
Yeah, it was on the news. I mean, maybe I
didn't understand it correctly. But speaking of the Metroplex, we
all love the Metroplex. Obviously, Mayor Jim Ross of Arlington
is in a little bit of trouble with the irs.
They're withholding his wages over a federal tax debt. It's funny,
it's kind of funny, right. I mean, I don't know
this guy. I have no idea what his political beliefs are,
but it sounds like he's not one of us, is he?
Speaker 4 (37:43):
Now? He's not one of us? And look, on the
one hand, you know, avoiding paying federal taxes is about
as patriotic as apple pie and baseball and motherhood.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
Right.
Speaker 4 (37:55):
On the other hand, this is one of those guys
who wants you to be paying every possible penny in
taxes to every possible unit of government he owned at
their hand. Isn't quite so sure he should have to
be exposed as inconveniences.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
Yeah, perfectly explain.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
In the meantime, FBI cracking down on a Chinese national
for spying on the US Navy. I remember it like
it was yesterday. It was the summer of twenty twenty.
The pandemic was all people could talk about. And when
they weren't talking about that, all they could talk about
was the BLM riots happening in every major city of America.
George Floyd this, and Black Lives Matter that. And then
(38:30):
all of a sudden, Michael, they were lighting a fire
in the middle of the Chinese consulate, right in the
middle of Houston, Texas. Jan Wu's wife went out to
do a flattering puff piece on the Chinese commies and
talking about how, oh, they're not bad guys. They didn't
steal from the Texas Medical Center. They weren't stealing COVID
research data. Spoiler alert, they were. And now five years
(38:51):
later we learned Chinese nationals still doing it again. Another
Chinese national arrested in Oregon. A pair where accused us
of spying on our military bases. And they got a
guy in Houston.
Speaker 3 (39:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (39:04):
Look, you know all these folks, including Genie all of
the Democrat from Houston. He seems more interested in defending
the interests of Beijing in the Texas legislature than he
does uh, the citizens and people of Texas. And and
and and this is just one more reminder that we
have given way too much to the to the Chinese,
(39:26):
the Chinese government too much access. And you have uh,
this guy Ryan Laigh uh there in Houston arrested. He
and another fellow taking pictures of military installations, military personnel,
gathering information on on on various military installations as well
(39:48):
as and this is quite frankly, a lot of the
pictures these guys are taking pictures you could take just
you know, using Google Earth or something, right, So yeah, okay,
let's say that's I think the more the more horrifying
thing you find out that these two guys were charged with,
and if there's two, there's probably twenty or two hundred,
is that the Ministry of State Security also had them
(40:08):
identifying and monitoring Chinese defectors individuals who you know, who
had left China, snuck out of China, who escaped the
grasp of China and have been living in the United States,
reporting on their activities back to Beijing. We know that
for a while China has maintained the secret police stations
(40:32):
in the United States where they will harass and sometimes
kidnap Chinese resident Chinese individuals who have escaped the sotalitarian
government in China come here. So the fact that we
have continued to allow that to happen, despite knowing this
is going on, is something that every one of us
are understanding before God and explained why we did nothing
about it. And thank goodness, we have an administration that
(40:55):
is now starting to turn that tide and not allowing
Beijing to harm and intimidate people of good will and
good faith living in our.
Speaker 3 (41:07):
Country perfectly explained.
Speaker 2 (41:08):
I mean, isn't it incredible when leftists accused conservatives in
America of being racist or criticizing the Chinese communists? I mean,
come on, think about it. The exact group of people
that are endangered the most by Chinese communists are the Chinese.
Try telling people in Taiwan you've been accused of racism
for criticizing the Communist Party and watch how confused they'll get.
Speaker 3 (41:30):
Yeah, look it is.
Speaker 4 (41:33):
It is amazing the degrees to which the left will
go to make excuses for totalitarians, make excuses for the
absolute worst abuses of humankind, and do so like you say,
you know, claiming racism all these other silly things. But
it's because they actually believe something different. I will say,
(41:54):
there are very good patriotic liberals. There are no good
and patriotic left this and there's a difference between a
leftist and a liberal and these and the men and
far too many people who tell of us positions of
authority in the Democratic Party are leftists. They do not
have good intentions for our country, and particularly this week,
(42:18):
as we know today July second, seventeen seventy six, is
when our founding fathers said we are going to be independent.
They voted on that, and on the fourth they voted
on the Declaration of Independence, that formal document. This is
a week when we should be thinking to ourselves, not ya,
wave flags, fireworks, are thinking okay. They made a commitment
(42:39):
to life and liberty, the pursuit of happiness, the pledge
their lives, their fortunes and sacred honor to a republic
that stood for something meaningful.
Speaker 3 (42:48):
What are we doing?
Speaker 4 (42:49):
What are we going to do? What am I going
to do? What ken you going to do? And that's
one your radio show is so important. The fact of
pursuing happiness, pursuing liberty, that's what every one of us
should be about in this independent.
Speaker 2 (43:00):
Amen, min brother, God bless you. And that's why I
think texascorecard dot Com is so important. On this day,
in seventeen seventy six, the Continental Congress voted for independence
from Britain. We all know what happened in the following days.
Why don't you radio listeners go to texascorecard dot com
today get signed up for their email list. There is
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(43:21):
allowed to do what they do. It's this little thing
called the Constitution and the First Amendment and of course
the Declaration of Independence all gave us the right the
freedom to go out and criticize dictators, to criticize the oligarchy,
to point the fingers at political bullies and say up
yours FU.
Speaker 3 (43:36):
I'm not going to stand for it anymore.
Speaker 2 (43:38):
At the very least, we could write some mean tweets
and make some unflattering memes about them. You should get
subscribed to texascorecard dot com. Hey, we'll be back tomorrow
afternoon for another special edition of Pursuit of Having His Radio.
Speaker 3 (43:52):
I will be here with Coach Bob.
Speaker 2 (43:53):
Actually, Professor Bob is a Texas history teacher. He's one
of the guys I lift weights with at starting strength
though around Shepherd Drive here in Houston.
Speaker 3 (44:01):
By day, he's a history professor.
Speaker 2 (44:04):
In tomorrow, we're gonna be doing a sort of out
a weird look at American history to prepare for the
fourth of July. It's gonna be fun and strange, and
we're gonna teach you some stuff you didn't know. We'll
be back bright and early tomorrow morning for more of
what you bought a radio for I have a great day.
Speaker 5 (44:23):
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Speaker 2 (44:28):
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
Michelle Obama is denying the rumors that she is getting divorced. Meantime,
Paul Pelosi is denying the rumors that he's married. Ah,
that's sad Hi everybody. I'm Kenny Webs. You're gonna be
a fun afternoon right here on your radio, so thanks
for joining us.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Michael Quinn Sullivan's stopping by.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
He is from Texas squarecard dot Com Chinese spies. We're
just arrested in Houston. We'll tell you why. Austin Peterson's
going to be here from the Libertarian Republic. Pursuit of
Happiness Radio is a place where maga Republicans and libertarians
come together and find common ground.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
I think that's what we do the best. And Austin
and I are.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Going to take a look at this pulling data that
claims Americans or patriotic than ever. I don't believe it,
and he has a different opinion on it. So we'll
talk about that real soon. So much to talk about
this afternoon. June's illegal crossing numbers are in, and it
is that there's nobody crossing over the border. Hill put
it bluntly, it's just not happening anymore. And a slew
of Blue states are suing Donald Trump's Department of Education
(01:20):
because they're really mad that trainees don't get to take
away your daughter's college scholarship anymore.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Oh, don't you feel sorry for trainees? What's that?
Speaker 4 (01:30):
No?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
You don't?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Okay, well me neither. Paramount at CBS have to pay
Donald Trump a big hunk of money now for trying
to rig the twenty twenty four election.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
That's adorable.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
But of all the big ws today for Donald Trump,
here's one of the lesser known things, a little something,
a little less reported today that I just got from
one of my favorite news websites, Breitbart dot com. Waffle
House announced they're going to end their fifty cent surcharge
on eggs. Eggs scellent news, they wrote on x the
social media platform. As of June second, the egg surg
(02:03):
charge is officially off the menu. Thank you for understanding,
they say, due to the former president's auto pen dual
mismanagement of the American economy. In an outbreak of the
bird flew back in February, waffle House announced to fifty
cents surcharge on eggs. So yeah, there's just not enough birds,
not enough not enough eggs, not enough chickens. We're gonna
(02:25):
have to charge more for that. So the Georgia based
diner chain, the restaurant chain actually served about three hundred
million eggs a year. They said the cost was just
one issue. It was becoming very difficult to find enough eggs.
After the Avian influenza break, tens of millions of egg
laying hens were destroyed and egg prices reached records highs.
(02:45):
So Trump made this promise in twenty twenty four two
lower egg costs, and by February, just one month after
Trump took off his waffle House announced the surcharge, the
average price of a dozen eggs skyrocketed seven dollars and
eighty six cents a day. It's pretty expensive, right, So
the Trump Whitehouse went to immediate work importing eggs, having
(03:06):
the USDA work closely with American egg producers finding ways
to replenish the livestock. They had to cool the overall inflation.
Guess what Today, the average cost of a dozen eggs
is about two dollars and fifty cents. The egg laying
population is recovering. The USDA is proactively looking to head
off the next bird flu outbreak with some ongoing biosecurity assessments.
(03:30):
They're going to prevent another outbreak, another spread of the
bird flu. This is amazing, isn't it amazing? What can
happen when you elect a president who is engaged and
actually cares about what normal Americans care about. I give
waffle House credit for adding the surch charge rather than
just raising prices. I wish gas stations would do this
lists the cost of a gallon of gas before all
the taxes, and then lists the taxes. As much as
(03:53):
I hate the phone and cable companies, they actually itemize taxes.
It's quite illuminating. Egg prices matter. Trump understands that gas
prices matter. Mortgage rates matter. Trump gets it. People notice
these things. They notice things like ace, eggs, surcharges, and
gas prices because it affects them. But if you ask
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Democrats what matters, they'll tell you it's transgender kids. We're
giving illegal alien free stuff, ensuring that mentally ill men
have access to your daughter's locker room. It's important to
release violent criminals into poor neighborhoods. That's what matters the
most to the liberals, That's what matters to the Democrats,
and that's the difference between us and them.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Pesso.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
This is Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness on KPRC nine
fifty Houston.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
All Right, So.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Beaches in six states may have to close for the
fourth of July due to harmful levels of bacteria.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Damn, where's that jaws may when you need them? You
know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Hi, everybody, welcome back. The four day weekend starts pretty soon.
People pretty excited about that fourth of July on a Friday,
three day weekend.
Speaker 6 (05:09):
You know.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
I know some of you have to work tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
I mean to rub it in your face, but anyway,
I'm here with you today, So it's good to be
with you, guys. And as we're getting into the fourth
of July weekend, I have noticed that there is polling
data about American patriotism. I had a little bit of
daja vous as I was reading this gallup pole, because
I feel like we've done this before, this idea that
America is less patriotic when a Republican is president.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
It's bs you're telling me liberals are less. They don't.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
They don't love America as much because their guy isn't
the leader.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
That's not true.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
In order for them to love America less when Trump
is president, they'd have to love America at all when
anyone else is president, which they don't. It's fake right,
you're telling me when your dictator's in charge, it's a
better country than when our dictators in charge.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
No.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Gallupole just released this week details exactly what I'm describing.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
American patriotism hit an all time low. No, it didn't.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
It's this is fake news. This is very misleading information.
Look as a liberty activist, I love America no matter
who's president. I hate my government no matter who the
leader is. I voted for Trump, I still hate the government.
I did not vote for Joe Biden, but during the
past four years, I still loved America.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
I hope most people feel that way.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
My buddy Austin Peterson has a great way of explaining
some of this stuff. He's a liberty activist himself. Former
Libertarian presidential candidate ran for Senate in the state of
Missouri runs the Walton and Johnson online store. I love
WJ dot com, Austin. Is your patriotism affected by who
the president is?
Speaker 7 (06:40):
Hey, Kenny, and hello to all the good citizens of
the Gulf Coast. Thanks for having me on and happy
independent state, everybody who's hearing us out there. I just
got done listening to the President explaining how to run
away from an alligator, and I got to be honest,
I feel a little more patriotic now because I learned
something from my president today. You can call up a
lot of things, but you can't call him stupid. I
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had always thought, Kenny, that if you were getting chased
by an alligator on land, that if you zigzag you swerve,
that that was how you could outrun it. But apparently,
according to President Trump, you only have a one percent
chance increase if you zigzag to run away from an
alligator on land. So something new that I learned today.
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I don't know if you've got gators down there where
you're at. I know that they got him over there
in Louisiana, but I don't know in Texas if you
got him there too.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
But now you guys know you're screwed.
Speaker 7 (07:31):
If you want to try and zigzag and run away,
just forget it. You can't get it with one percent
increased chance. But things like that make me more patriotic.
You know, there's a lot of things, there's a lot
of silver linings in clouds. But here's the thing, Kenny,
I don't think it's fake news. I think that people
are less patriotic than they used to be. I grew
up in the nineteen eighties. Hulk Hogan andre the giant
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American flags everywhere I see. If you were American flags
these days, then I you didn't hear stories in the
nineteen eighties about people being offended by wearing American flags.
You didn't see people fly in the flag of Mexico
in southern California in the nineteen eighties. I think that
this woke mind virus that has come out of American
universities has poisoned a generation. Ironically, America exported this woke
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mind virus. It was born in American universities, and then
we spread it around the world. And now we're trying
to kill it here in the United States. People like
Ron DeSantis with his new accreditation thing. I hope we
get to talk about this a little bit later, a
new revolution and education that might be coming. But I
do think Americans are less patriotic. I do hear less
fireworks than I used to when I was a kid.
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I do see fewer American flags. And you know what
I think has happened, Kenny, I think that people worship government.
I think that people have replaced God with government. And
I say this as someone who is not religious. I
think it's I think it's a big problem for our
country that people have made their political party. And this
is what this says, that their political party is more
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important than their religion.
Speaker 6 (09:05):
I believe that.
Speaker 7 (09:05):
I believe that people actually identify more with a political
party than they do with their religion because I think
people have replaced their gods with government.
Speaker 6 (09:14):
Kenny, do you disagree?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
I think most of what you're saying is true. I
will add some alternative facts to your points. I think
most of what you said is completely correct, but some
alternative facts, as Kelly and Conway would have called them.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Is it possible that even though people.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Used to be more patriotic, before they were more patriotic,
they were less patriotic. And what I mean by that
is we have baby boomers out right now. A lot
of these people out at the protests. Believe it or not,
they're geriatrics, they're older people. Oddly enough, young people are
skewing conservative. Now older people are the liberals. You and
I have talked about how bizarre that is. The people
that are baby boomers right now that are out at
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these protests. We're also protesting back in the sixties and seventies.
The problem is there was a well maybe it's not
a problem, just a phenomenon in between those two time
periods was what the eighties and the nineties, the early
two th thus, when the baby boomers were parents, so
they were too busy raising their children to go out
and hate America. And now they're having a late in
life crisis where suddenly they've rediscovered their early twenties or
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their teenage years when they used to go out and
protest the Vietnam War. But they don't have a Vietnam
war to protest now, so they're protesting Trump.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Is that possible? Yeah?
Speaker 7 (10:20):
But you know what I think too, Kenny, is I
think a lot of them are getting paid. I saw
a video the other day of this lady that got
interviewed and She was one of those kind of geriatric boomers,
and this guy had interviewed her and he says, so,
what do you do for work? And she's like, I
don't work, and she's like, I haven't had a job
for like twenty or thirty years.
Speaker 6 (10:37):
And then he followed her around and she.
Speaker 7 (10:40):
Was He had taken photographs of her at three or
four different protests. So instead of going and being a
Walmart greeter, I think a lot of these lefty senior citizens,
a lot of the OK boomers are getting paid by
these Soros funded you know, Act Blue organizations, and they're
going out and they're doing these protests because it's better
than working, you know, at the checkout at the local
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you know, you know, supermarket. So there's financial incentives to
this too. I mean a lot the left has spends
so much money to advance their ideals, and it's only
been in like the last ten years that we have
seen conservatives and liberty, I mean libertarians, we don't spend
any money.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
We're the cheapest.
Speaker 6 (11:22):
I don't mean to complain about our people.
Speaker 7 (11:24):
Kenny, but like running a merchandise shop, I can tell
you that our people are the cheapest people.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
I don't want to rip on it.
Speaker 7 (11:31):
Listen, that's not anybody any of your audience, because your
audience spends a lot of money at your at your store, at.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
I LOOVEWJ dot com.
Speaker 7 (11:39):
But for my audience that are like like, just like
libertarian libertarians, they're the most penny pinching, cheapest, thriftiest people.
Speaker 6 (11:46):
And the problem, of course, is is that that the left.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
I mean they made it.
Speaker 7 (11:50):
They got all these billionaires that are these leftist billionaires,
and they spend money on what they believe in, even
if they lose money, they don't care. They spend money
on the Lesbian Art Project or.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
You know they do.
Speaker 7 (12:02):
How many movies have you seen in the last ten
to fifteen years, Kenny, that are obvious they're just vehicles
for leftist ideals.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Bro, I think I spent I think you just helped
me to figure it out. I think I just stumbled
upon it. Hate encourages people to spend money. Who are
the most hateful people. Liberals they are right, who are
slightly Conservatives are a little hateful, let's face it, they are,
They're not quite as and then libertarians are maybe the
least hateful. They're spending the least money. I'll give you
examples right now. This is an anecdotal Carmelo Anthony stabbed
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a guy to death right. The video that journalists at
The Daily Mail of reviewed seems to suggest that he
wasn't doing it in self defense. He just stabbed that kid.
Austin metcalf In at tend to attract me. What happened?
They gave him hundreds of thousands of dollars to fight
white supremacy. Wasn't fighting white supremacy. Now they're not even
using that money on a lawyer, they're getting a public
defense attorney. But that's besides the point. Right, so liberals
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will do that. They'll spend a lot of money to
hate people. Conservatives not as much, not as common. I mean,
maybe the far right, the fascist. Remember there was that
woman who shouted the N word on a school playground.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
You remember that they gave her so money.
Speaker 7 (13:10):
Every other and nowadays every other like right wing female
influencer that I see.
Speaker 6 (13:15):
The way that she rises to power is by saying.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
The N word. It's you know, it's true.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
But here's the thing.
Speaker 7 (13:22):
The sad truth is is that people like hate, hating,
fear have always been more powerful motivators than love, you know,
love and caring and kindness like people.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
And the thing is is that people see caring and
kindness and love as weakness.
Speaker 7 (13:38):
Think about the Nazis for example, right right, They were
all about hatred. Okay, everything was about hatred for them.
There their whole idea, I was built on hatred. Built
a whole country and empire in Europe based.
Speaker 8 (13:50):
On hating, hating groups, hating gays, hating Jews, hating you know,
their political enemies that they hating, you know, the Communists
and the Soviets and the Russians and all of a
sudd everything hey, based on.
Speaker 6 (14:01):
Hate, and and it worked.
Speaker 7 (14:02):
It got their whole nation unified around they got rid
of every single other political party because hate is hating
people is more powerful than love. And you know what
was interesting was that a lot of the Nazi than
a lot of the Nazis, I think Nazis, a lot
of the Nazis they they hated Christianity too.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
And you actually see.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
This with a lot of like the the right.
Speaker 7 (14:25):
Wing fascist people that you're talking about, they hate Jesus
and they hate Christianity because they see it as weak.
They see Jesus turning in the other cheek, and they
see as love one another as I have loved you.
They see Christianity as having turned America week and and
if they're not advocating for a more muscular form of
Christian nationalism that you know that is not it has
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nothing to do with the Sermon on the Mount, then
they actually advocate for the abolition of Christianity whatsoever. A
lot of them are more into like the uh the
sort of the pagan and the Norse religions.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Right.
Speaker 7 (14:57):
As a matter of fact, I don't know if you
know about Hermann Gearing, but not Gearing, but Himmler, but
the head of the of the secret police. He actually
had his own castle where they did all these occult rituals,
and they explicitly rejected christ. They won because he was
a Jew, obviously, and two and two because they saw
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Christianity loving one another and loving your neighbor as that
is not a way to power.
Speaker 6 (15:23):
That Christianity was not a way.
Speaker 7 (15:26):
To power, because the will to power requires you to hate,
not love.
Speaker 6 (15:31):
And you know what's sad, is it? In many ways
they're right. It's true.
Speaker 7 (15:35):
If you care more about power, then you care more
about your fellow man. Christianity is not a good religion
for you because it teaches you to love your fellow man.
And and that's why there's so much conflict in the
Republican Party, and people are trying to create this new
form of like a kind of a Christian statism is
what I would call it. And I think it's it's
very dangerous. I mean, it's not to say that there
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isn't you know that the left isn't a far greater threat.
Speaker 6 (15:58):
But you know, you and I, because as were on
the right, we see these things up and close.
Speaker 7 (16:02):
And I'm trying to look ahead at what's coming down
the aisle five ten years, fifteen years from now. And
I got to tell you right now, it doesn't look
good for our country. Kenny doesn't look good at all.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
I get your point.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
And you know to that that being said, Jesus was
into voluntariism.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
He didn't.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
He wasn't a socialist, as the lefter it often say.
He didn't instruct his followers to give their money to
the Romans and have it redistribute them or get stabbed
to death with a spear. But hey, before this is
a fascinating topic. I think we could talk about this
for another hour, but before we run out of time,
there was something else I wanted you to explain to us.
Ron Desants in Florida, I just did something very interesting.
Florida's working with university leaders from five other southern states
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to form a new higher education accrediting body, the Commission
for Public Higher Education, which will need federal approval. Would
be an alternative to the Southern Association of Colleges and
Schools commissioned on Colleges And apparently this is a longtime
accrediting agency that's clashed with Florida because of woke education standards.
So Florida's teaming up with Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee,
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and Texas, many of those Walton and Johnson and ten
percenter Pursuit of Happiness Radio stage interestingly enough to reject
the current college accreditation system. Can you explain this to us?
What' should take on this?
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (17:16):
This is huge, Kenny, huge, and I hope your listeners
are really paying attention because this is the first serious
attempt to decentralize accreditation since the nineteen sixties. So the
real power in higher ed isn't with the professors, It's
with the accreditors, because colleges have to be accredited in
order to receive federal student aid. So the current accreditors,
like Sacks that you mentioned, they act as ideological enforcers.
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They're supposed to be neutral referees, but they're not. And
if you control accreditation, you control of the curriculum.
Speaker 6 (17:47):
Right you want to.
Speaker 7 (17:47):
Make sure that there's a lesbian dance class, or you know,
Taylor Swift, a major in Taylor Swift.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
I think there is.
Speaker 6 (17:56):
You can get a minor in that some colleges.
Speaker 7 (17:58):
Then you want to decentralize accreditation. And so DeSantis is
working with those states, including the ones that are hearing
us right now, and he's basically going out there trying
to make some accountability by creating this new Commission for
Public Higher Education. So what it would mean is that
the states can finally shape their own public university systems
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without begging for permission. So it opens a door for
non woke classical or STEM focused curriculum, and it could
pave the way for new universities that aren't already hostages
to de mandate DEI mandates or like the CRT nonsense.
So the catch is the federal aid most of the
financial aid is tied to federally recognize accreditors, but a
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future Democrat president could refuse to recognize this new commission.
So that's why this needs a multi straits. They need
to have multiple states do this, and they need to
do it right now while Donald Trump is president, before
the Democrats can stop it. Because you know that when
President Alexandria Caja Cortez wins and she takes over here
soon and puts Zora and Mamdani as her vice president,
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that they are going to block something like this. So
we have just a few short years to make something
like this. So this is how we stop higher ed
from being controlled from the shadows. This is a fight
over who decides what is taught.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
And who gets to teach it.
Speaker 7 (19:20):
And it's nice to see that, well for once the
Red States are fighting back.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
I would have always assumed that Gavin Newsom's running mate
would probably be AOC.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
What do you think, Yeah, yeah, I think so.
Speaker 7 (19:30):
The sad thing is I think it's gonna it'll probably work, Kenny.
You know, the truth is is that you know Republicans
won't be in power forever and that they the Democrats
have so few leaders on the national level that are likable.
I mean, Mike Waltz, are you kidding me? Right? So, yeah,
it could be Gavin Newsom. And I think especially the ladies,
really love Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 6 (19:50):
I think for obvious reasons. And I think that Alexander
Caja Cortez as.
Speaker 7 (19:55):
A woman on the vice presidential ticket, I think that
that will get a lot of people too.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
I get a lot of people to vote for them.
I think that I don't want them to win.
Speaker 7 (20:04):
I'll work against them, But I just think that Americans
are probably when you see what happens with Zora Mandani
in New York City, you know where New York City.
Speaker 6 (20:13):
Goes, there goes the country.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
We don't like it, but that's the fact.
Speaker 6 (20:16):
It's just what we see.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
Happening in our cities and our major cities eventually makes
our way out into the country side.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
So beware and protect yourself.
Speaker 7 (20:24):
And when you're lighting fireworks on the fourth of July,
just you know, make sure that you remember what it's
all for, and that the fights aren't over, and that
you know we're not Our freedom has not been bought
and paid for, we're leasing it right. The future generations
is who it belongs to. So just remember them, and
that's who we're fighting for. It's not for us, it's
for them.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Perfectly explain my man, that is That is a fantastic point.
It's almost like we were born on third base, but
we think we hit a triple you know what I mean.
Speaker 6 (20:53):
What a great line, Kenny, Thank you.
Speaker 7 (20:55):
I got some new works coming for you guys today
and it's Alligator Alligator Alcatraz Merchandise. It's hitting your shop today.
There's only one place you can get it. And it
said I love WJ dot com.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Bro Austin Peterson.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
I'll check out his work online the Libertarian Republic, among
other places.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
I love WJ dot com.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
He runs the Walton Johnson online storre and he's a
fantastic author. He can also find Austin Peterson on exp Prisuit.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Of That Penis Radio.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
Comey now, just p This is Kenny Webster's Pursuit of
Happiness on KPRC nine fifty Houston.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
All right, So, Wyoming is experiencing a population boom to
the state's tax friendly laws. Apparently more people are moving
to Wyoming. The population is just bursting out of the
earth there because of tax friendly laws. Wow, that's wild,
And just think there's somewhere in the country where someone
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would rather pay taxes.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Isn't that that crazy to think, Hey, everybody's moving there
to Is Wyoming really that bad? I think it's a
pretty state. I'd like to go there.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
I can't believe how easy it is to convince people
to leave liberal states. You wonder if when they move,
if they bring their voting with them though, And that's
what makes me nervous. People moving to Texas and droves.
You see it all the time. Texas is not perfect,
but it's as about as close to perfect as it
gets when it comes to a state. I know, we're
all jealous of Alligator Alcatraz seems kind of cool.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
The liberals are calling.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
It Alligator Aushowitz, as if that's supposed to shame us
into not wanting to support immigration laws. No, sorry, you've
done way too many Nazi analogies. We do not care anymore.
Speaker 6 (22:36):
But speaking of.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Illegal immigrants, here is a feel good story of the day,
courtesy be our friends at Texas scorecard dot com.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
This will fill your heart with joy.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Legislators are warning universities these college campuses need to comply
with federal rulings on discounted tuition for illegal immigrants. Why
on earth do illegal immigrants get discounted college tuition?
Speaker 3 (22:58):
And what can we do about it? Here are this
take on it.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
One of my favorite people in Texas politics, mister Michael
Quinn Solovon of Texas squarecard dot Com. Michael, let's say
you a federal court ruling striking down a Texas law
allowing illegal immigrants to get discounted tuition.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
Yeah, this is maybe my favorite news story from July,
from June bleeding into July.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
I remember, back.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
In two thousand and one, then Governor Rick Perry pushed
for and got the Texas Dream Act. Okay, at the time,
no one paid attention to it. It was just kind
of this little thing floating around over there, very little
press about it, almost no press about at the time,
and that allowed it. Dally who resided in Texas had
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been and had been in.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Texas public schools.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Illegal aliens whod been in Texas public schools to then
qualify for in state tuition at our colleges and universities.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Oh, how open minded? How now?
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Almost California esque of Rick Perry and the then Democrat
controlled Texas legislature. Now you fast forward these past twenty
four years, there have been fits and starts and people
claiming they would do something about it, and they would
fix it.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
No one did.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
It took the Trump administration and our Attorney General Ken
Paxton to get rid of this law. The Trump administration said,
it's in violation of federal law. We're probably a lawsuit
against Texas. The same day that the Trump administration fought
the lawsuit, Ken Paxton surrendered on behalf of the states,
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you know, throw me into that briar patch, and settled
the lawsuit, agreeing on behalf of the state that Texas
would no longer give this discounted tuition to illegal aliens.
But some faculty members, some of the woke leaders of
some of our university systems, of himden Haude, well, they
would just find other ways to make sure illegal aliens
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got discounts. Discounts not available to a young Kenney Webster
growing up in not Texas, that wouldn't be available to
him coming to Texas, but are available to illegal aliens.
So these are lawmakers saying, nay, nay, nay, you can't
do it. So we'll see if the university's listening.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
And thank god that federal court struck this down. But boy,
it does remind me of the Big Beautiful Bill. One
of the little provisions in there that was added and
then removed, and then added and I think removed again.
I don't know where we stand on it was that
illegal immigrants should get free healthcare, and then there was
going to be a ban on that, and then they said, no,
we can't stop illegal immigrants from getting free healthcare. The
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Big Beautiful Bill is just I mean, it's like Elon said,
it could be big or it could be beautiful.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
But can it be both? Is the question.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
The last I heard that provision was still in But again,
if you blink your eyes and you don't pay attention
to where the comma is, those things move in and
out pretty quickly. You know, at some point we have
to ask ourselves what is the role of government?
Speaker 3 (26:07):
And the one Big Beautiful Bill, A.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Lot of it, I like, a lot of it makes
me want to throw up in my mouth. But at
the end of the day, the thing that seems like
it should be easy, the thing that it seems like
should be not controversial, is to say that our federal
tax dollars are state tax dollars.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
Our local tax dollars.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
Should only be spent in ways that benefit the citizens
and legal residents of the United States and of this state.
And the fact that you've got people who want to
spend big money on the magnets that both attract and
keep illegal aliens tells me that those folks have something
else that they are wanting to do to our country
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rather than to make it great.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
You know, this is another one of those things where
you forget sometimes how complicated and nuanced our federal government is.
Laws that contradict other laws, and then really bizarre, obscure
parliamentary procedures like the Big Beautiful Bill exists simply because
reconciliation bills for the budget, resolute budget resolutions make it
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so that you only need a simple majority and you
can't fill a buster the bill. And so even though
Republicans claim to be against omnibus bills, they're doing this
anyway because they need to get around that. And like
I get it, I understand Donald Trump didn't make the roles.
He's just trying to bend them a little bit and
see if he could play by them and still get
a double You here.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
But doesn't that suck? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (27:36):
You remember, our founding fathers manage to separate the ties
that bound us to the greatest military power of the
day in less than two pages. They then, after making
good on that declaration a few years later, they managed
to create an entire republican system of government small r
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Republican for those who get you know their panties and
awad small are Republican system of a federal government. They
manage that in four pages, right, And yet our Congress
today cannot spend money without hundreds of pages, most of
which written an ancient klingon with you know, more footnotes
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and subclauses than you can shake a stick at. This
is governments not of buying for the people. This is
government that now exists to feed itself. And you know, look,
I don't know if if it's an Elon musk New
political party, or it's a rising up plank the Tea
Party back in the aughts, or whatever it's going to take.
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At some point we have to be serious about what
are we allowing government to do to us.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Yeah, while we're on the topic of the Big Beautiful Bill,
the Senate rejected a proposal that was going to deter
states from regulating AI. Michael, I have really mixed feelings
on this. On the one hand, I don't want the
government to go in and regulate something we haven't even
invented yet. But a ban on regulations that seems like
it's equally problematic. I mean, I know I'm being hyperbolic here,
I know that, But what if in four years AI
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starts murdering people and they say, well, we can't do
anything to change that. There's already a law that says
we can't regulate it.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
Yeah, so what was happening this is it's very complicated,
really quick, and you got to follow all the knots
and the knots and the bands and the band on
the band and the big you know, the big band
and the little band and the reband, and at some
point your head explodes and then someone will come in
charge you attacks for your head exploding the wrong place.
But you know, you had a lot of states, including Texas,
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past legislation designed to encourage the development of of AI
platforms in Texas. But it also though is part of
the of the carrot of trying to attract these these companies,
It also so would have included provisions for the state,
both committees of the legislature and the Governor's office and
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others UH to monitor this development for the purpose of
protecting Texans privacy, things like what kind of data sets
are these AI models being trained on. What's going to
happen with that output when you've gotten if you're if
you're using you know, all of the driver's license data
in the state to train the AI on driving habits
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or other things. Suddenly what happens with Kenney Webster's and
Michael Sullivan's and whoever else's driving records? That information now
suddenly gets spat out by by this AI at some point,
potentially jeopardizing you know, some young lady who has a
restraining order and is supposed to have informations to be private.
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All these kind of things that sit out there. That
there's a lot of big questions that none of us,
none of us even know the kind of questions to ask.
Yet that's to your point. The problem with the one
big beautiful bill ban was that that would have stopped
Texas for ten years from being able to ask those questions,
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and that in year five you suddenly had a big
problem arising and Texas wanted to be able to fix it,
they wouldn't have been able to without going to the
Supreme Courts and all these kind of fights. Angela Paxton,
the state Senator from from Colin County, Angela Paxton, I
think I think put it the correct way. She said,
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we need to let federalism work. Federalism, of course being
the idea that this that unless it is specifically outlined
in the Constitution as a role of the federal government,
you need to let the states do these things. And
that means that some states will get it right and
some states will get it wrong, and that the market
(31:54):
forces will ensure that the things that are happening correctly
will be where we're capital flows, and then everyone else
will begin to copy it. And I think that's the
right attitude. Let the states be what our founding fathers intended.
Let the states be sovereign. Let the states be, I
guess one idea of the laboratories of experimentation and government,
(32:18):
rather than the federal government bullying the states either into
accepting something or denying something.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Michael Quinsolivan on the line right now, if you just
turned it on your radio, folks, one of the most
dangerous men in Texas political media. One of my favorite
people to hear him opine about what's going on right
now on a national and stay level. Michael, can you
do another segment with us? I want to talk to
you about what's going on right now with the Arlington
mayor going to war with the irs equally is interesting,
the FBI and federal agents going after Chinese spies and
(32:48):
Venezuelan gang members here in Houston, Texas. Do you have
a few more minutes, I'd love to do it quick break, folks,
more with Michael Quinnsullivan Texas corecard dot Com.
Speaker 5 (32:56):
Right after that, Gayle, this is Kenny Webster's Pursuit of
happiness on KPRC nine fifty Houston.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Rest in peace to Jimmy Swaggert. He had passed away
over the weekend, well earlier this week apparently, and he
will miss Fourth of July weekend. He will not get
to be a part of the fun. I will be
in well, I'll be out and about. I think I'm
gonna be in Austin this weekend. I'm going to be
in Texas hill country and join the fireworks. My buddy
Michael quinn Sullivan on the line right now, Michael, you
(33:28):
are apparently going to be attending a parade. Apparently they
have parades that are not gay pride parades. Now is
that a thing? I didn't even know that.
Speaker 4 (33:36):
Yeah, it's like, you know, at this flag the only
flags that will be weighed the stars and stripes. Apparently
allegedly that's what they claim, and that everyone there will
be marching because of their pride in the United States,
not the pride and their moral deviancy. So that will
be that will be something fun.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
You know.
Speaker 4 (33:54):
Joseph Trimmer, who covers Houston for Texas Scorecard, we've joked
that he is he is our degenerate parade correspondent because
he has been covering a lot of those of late.
And I think that the sit like the rest of us,
probably needs a good mental bleaching and kind of enjoy
(34:15):
something wholesome, like a prayer. Like in Round Rock, Texas
on Friday morning and other parts of the state you
can find some of these great, great expressions of American
right now.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
Crime is down, drug overdoses are down, Illegals crossing the
border is down, inflation is down, the cost of eggs
is down, the stock markets up. That's fantastic. But of
all the w's that Donald Trump has been achieving for
the country lately, one of the more under reported things
I think is the fact that I don't know, maybe
this is anecdotal, maybe it's just from my perspective, it
(34:47):
feels like Pride Month wasn't quite as obnoxious this year.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
I didn't notice it everywhere.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
I didn't see every fortune five hundred company change their
company logo.
Speaker 6 (34:55):
Is it just me?
Speaker 3 (34:56):
Did you notice that too? No?
Speaker 4 (34:58):
I noticed that as well. In fact, a number of
folks have been commenting on this that, you know, the
I think that the lgbt Q plus A one two, whatever,
all those letters and digits are it feels like they've overreached,
you know that they they push so hard and now
there is this kind of backlash coming. You're seeing it
(35:20):
both with the give us your kids movement from the
trainees and the uh the story our stuff and the
we're going to uh, you know, play with your kids
minds and schools and all.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
These kind of things.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
It's now, you know, people have now said enough is enough.
When you said don't ask, don't tell, we went along
with it. When you said you just wanted civil unions,
you know, all these things we've all given in and
suddenly we don't recognize the state of our families, the
state of the state of our country, at least socially
in many ways, and people are saying enough is enough.
And I think that you've seen this. It's been a
(35:55):
large portion of the gay community. Actually, So we didn't want.
They didn't want any of that to begin with. They
didn't want the crazy parades, the people wearing only diapers
and dog masks and all that stuff that you saw
in Houston this past weekend. They didn't want to that.
They thought they thought it was going to hurt them,
and they were right. And I think that's when you
see some of the scaling back. You know, some of
(36:16):
the stainer voices have started to prevail inside the homosexual community.
And well, I guess we'll find out. You know what,
it seemed like every three months we've got another Gay
Pride month of some.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
Sort or other. So we'll see what.
Speaker 4 (36:30):
So we will see what the next gay Pride iteration
looks like.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
I don't remember when it was, is like Transvisibility Day
falls in February or something.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
I don't even remember what it was.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
So then the black people got June teenth, in the
middle of Pride month, and I thought, Wow, at some
point the gays and the BLM crowd are going to
probably have to go to war with each other figuratively,
hopefully not literally. But to your other point there, I
missed the gay Pride stuff this past week, and I
wasn't in Houston. We were up in Fort Worth doing
our red Pelled comedy shows at the Big Laugh Comedy Club.
(36:59):
There at a great time. And I never knew this before,
But did you know that in Dallas? There's a park
in Dallas where every year they celebrate the fourth of
July one week in advance. I saw it on the
news while I was there. I'd never heard that before.
Did you know that?
Speaker 4 (37:15):
I'm kind of a Texas tribua ficiando and I did
not know that that's facial.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
Yeah, it was on the news. I mean, maybe I
didn't understand it correctly. But speaking of the Metroplex, we
all love the Metroplex. Obviously, Mayor Jim Ross of Arlington
is in a little bit of trouble with the irs.
They're withholding his wages over a federal tax debt. It's funny,
it's kind of funny, right. I mean, I don't know
this guy. I have no idea what his political beliefs are,
but it sounds like he's not one of us, is he?
Speaker 4 (37:43):
Now? He's not one of us? And look, on the
one hand, you know, avoiding paying federal taxes is about
as patriotic as apple pie and baseball and motherhood.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
Right.
Speaker 4 (37:55):
On the other hand, this is one of those guys
who wants you to be paying every possible penny in
taxes to every possible unit of government he owned at
their hand. Isn't quite so sure he should have to
be exposed as inconveniences.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
Yeah, perfectly explain.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
In the meantime, FBI cracking down on a Chinese national
for spying on the US Navy. I remember it like
it was yesterday. It was the summer of twenty twenty.
The pandemic was all people could talk about. And when
they weren't talking about that, all they could talk about
was the BLM riots happening in every major city of America.
George Floyd this, and Black Lives Matter that. And then
(38:30):
all of a sudden, Michael, they were lighting a fire
in the middle of the Chinese consulate, right in the
middle of Houston, Texas. Jan Wu's wife went out to
do a flattering puff piece on the Chinese commies and
talking about how, oh, they're not bad guys. They didn't
steal from the Texas Medical Center. They weren't stealing COVID
research data. Spoiler alert, they were. And now five years
(38:51):
later we learned Chinese nationals still doing it again. Another
Chinese national arrested in Oregon. A pair where accused us
of spying on our military bases. And they got a
guy in Houston.
Speaker 3 (39:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (39:04):
Look, you know all these folks, including Genie all of
the Democrat from Houston. He seems more interested in defending
the interests of Beijing in the Texas legislature than he
does uh, the citizens and people of Texas. And and
and and this is just one more reminder that we
have given way too much to the to the Chinese,
(39:26):
the Chinese government too much access. And you have uh,
this guy Ryan Laigh uh there in Houston arrested. He
and another fellow taking pictures of military installations, military personnel,
gathering information on on on various military installations as well
(39:48):
as and this is quite frankly, a lot of the
pictures these guys are taking pictures you could take just
you know, using Google Earth or something, right, So yeah, okay,
let's say that's I think the more the more horrifying
thing you find out that these two guys were charged with,
and if there's two, there's probably twenty or two hundred,
is that the Ministry of State Security also had them
(40:08):
identifying and monitoring Chinese defectors individuals who you know, who
had left China, snuck out of China, who escaped the
grasp of China and have been living in the United States,
reporting on their activities back to Beijing. We know that
for a while China has maintained the secret police stations
(40:32):
in the United States where they will harass and sometimes
kidnap Chinese resident Chinese individuals who have escaped the sotalitarian
government in China come here. So the fact that we
have continued to allow that to happen, despite knowing this
is going on, is something that every one of us
are understanding before God and explained why we did nothing
about it. And thank goodness, we have an administration that
(40:55):
is now starting to turn that tide and not allowing
Beijing to harm and intimidate people of good will and
good faith living in our.
Speaker 3 (41:07):
Country perfectly explained.
Speaker 2 (41:08):
I mean, isn't it incredible when leftists accused conservatives in
America of being racist or criticizing the Chinese communists? I mean,
come on, think about it. The exact group of people
that are endangered the most by Chinese communists are the Chinese.
Try telling people in Taiwan you've been accused of racism
for criticizing the Communist Party and watch how confused they'll get.
Speaker 3 (41:30):
Yeah, look it is.
Speaker 4 (41:33):
It is amazing the degrees to which the left will
go to make excuses for totalitarians, make excuses for the
absolute worst abuses of humankind, and do so like you say,
you know, claiming racism all these other silly things. But
it's because they actually believe something different. I will say,
(41:54):
there are very good patriotic liberals. There are no good
and patriotic left this and there's a difference between a
leftist and a liberal and these and the men and
far too many people who tell of us positions of
authority in the Democratic Party are leftists. They do not
have good intentions for our country, and particularly this week,
(42:18):
as we know today July second, seventeen seventy six, is
when our founding fathers said we are going to be independent.
They voted on that, and on the fourth they voted
on the Declaration of Independence, that formal document. This is
a week when we should be thinking to ourselves, not ya,
wave flags, fireworks, are thinking okay. They made a commitment
(42:39):
to life and liberty, the pursuit of happiness, the pledge
their lives, their fortunes and sacred honor to a republic
that stood for something meaningful.
Speaker 3 (42:48):
What are we doing?
Speaker 4 (42:49):
What are we going to do? What am I going
to do? What ken you going to do? And that's
one your radio show is so important. The fact of
pursuing happiness, pursuing liberty, that's what every one of us
should be about in this independent.
Speaker 2 (43:00):
Amen, min brother, God bless you. And that's why I
think texascorecard dot Com is so important. On this day,
in seventeen seventy six, the Continental Congress voted for independence
from Britain. We all know what happened in the following days.
Why don't you radio listeners go to texascorecard dot com
today get signed up for their email list. There is
a reason why my friends at texascorecard dot com are
(43:21):
allowed to do what they do. It's this little thing
called the Constitution and the First Amendment and of course
the Declaration of Independence all gave us the right the
freedom to go out and criticize dictators, to criticize the oligarchy,
to point the fingers at political bullies and say up
yours FU.
Speaker 3 (43:36):
I'm not going to stand for it anymore.
Speaker 2 (43:38):
At the very least, we could write some mean tweets
and make some unflattering memes about them. You should get
subscribed to texascorecard dot com. Hey, we'll be back tomorrow
afternoon for another special edition of Pursuit of Having His Radio.
Speaker 3 (43:52):
I will be here with Coach Bob.
Speaker 2 (43:53):
Actually, Professor Bob is a Texas history teacher. He's one
of the guys I lift weights with at starting strength
though around Shepherd Drive here in Houston.
Speaker 3 (44:01):
By day, he's a history professor.
Speaker 2 (44:04):
In tomorrow, we're gonna be doing a sort of out
a weird look at American history to prepare for the
fourth of July. It's gonna be fun and strange, and
we're gonna teach you some stuff you didn't know. We'll
be back bright and early tomorrow morning for more of
what you bought a radio for I have a great day.
Speaker 5 (44:23):
You are listening to the Pursuit of Happiness Radio.
Speaker 2 (44:28):
Tell the government to kiss your ass when you listen
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