Should the government regulate memes?

This podcast edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness features journalists Owen Schroyer and Brandon Waltens. ( @KennethRWebster )

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jack Gan of government sucks.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
The suit of habin is radio is DeLux.

Speaker 1 (00:06):
Liberty and freedom will make you smile of the suit
of habbiness on your.

Speaker 3 (00:10):
Radio to out, just as cheeseburger is a liberty.

Speaker 4 (00:13):
Arise at the food of.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
All right, grain of salts on this one.

Speaker 5 (00:22):
This mayor may not be true, we don't know, but
they are claiming a border patrol agent has been accused
of making women show him their breasts in order to
get into the country. But at least he gave them
a complimentary set of red, white and blue beads.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
I mean, you got to give the guy that.

Speaker 5 (00:39):
This is the same guy who said we don't need
a wall at the southern border, we could just build
a pole.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
All right.

Speaker 5 (00:45):
That's not really true either, but thanks you tuning in
this afternoon. A couple of guests here stopping by shortly.
Owen Schroyer from info wars dot com. I don't know
if you've heard, but somebody murdered a journalist that works
for infull Wars, and there's all kinds of that. It
could be political, we don't know. He's going to debunk
some of the claims people are making. Also, there's a

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lawmaker in Austin, Texas named Dad Falin, who has just
proposed to bill suggesting that we need laws against memes.
It's a little more complicated than that, but it's not
a lot more complicated than that. So Brandon Waltons is
stopping by from texascorecard dot com.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
Stick around. It's going to get weird this afternoon, my friends.

Speaker 5 (01:29):
But before we get to any of that, I want
to talk about my favorite person in the Democrat Party.

Speaker 3 (01:34):
Her name is Jasmine.

Speaker 5 (01:35):
Jasmine has long, pretty eyelashes, and she went to a
very expensive private school, thirty thousand dollars a year to
go to boarding school, and then fifty thousand dollars a
semester for her private college that she attended.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
Jasmin Crockett is not from the ghetto, my friend. She's
not from the hood.

Speaker 5 (01:52):
She's not a quote unquote Jasmine from the block or whatever.
It's kind of like aoc. It's a great persona to
protect that you are an inner city urban minority speaking
in urban colloquialism, doing you know, ghetto talk or hood
rat talk or whatever the kids call it these days.
Jasmine is a great actress. She's often faking it. I

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think she's smarter than she lets on, but sometimes she
lets it slip that she's actually pretty dumb. I'll give
you an example. Here's Jasmine Crockett and her take on
immigration laws and Tom Homan Your Borders are both sound
bites played side by side, quite interesting. But what they're
not telling the American people is that it is a
civil violation.

Speaker 6 (02:32):
It is not a criminal violation to enter the country illegally.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
It's not a criminal. It's a crime.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
It's not a crime.

Speaker 4 (02:40):
It's a crime under country illegally and the title of
eight United States Cold thirteen twenty five. And it's really
really pathetic that any member of Congress don't understand what
the law says. They wrote the law, they enacted, the law,
but signed by president is a criminal violation at the
country or legally. If you ventured a be prior, it's
a felony. So you know, I've been saying this for
I don't know how long on your Show of Ye

(03:01):
and I educate able to see what years ago during
the hearing that it's a crime, not just country leg.

Speaker 3 (03:07):
And suppose pause it right there.

Speaker 5 (03:08):
I think what they're trying to say is it's not
a felony to do it the first time, it's a
miss to me, it's still illegal, and of course, as
you just pointed out, if you repeatedly do it, it becomes
a felony. Washington Examiner today reporting on the news of
Jasmine Crockett making this shocking statement on illegal immigration. This
was in an interview on MSNBC. You heard her in
her own words, it's not a criminal violation to enter

(03:30):
the country illegally. She said this on the Katie Fang Show.
She said, it's not a crime. Now, I would imagine
you probably don't watch Katie Fang's show. You're probably not
a big fan of MSNBC. But if you watch that
whole segment and you know, don't, nobody would blame you
if you don't take the time to do it, because
what would be the point. The host of the show
does not offer any resistance to that comment. Katie Fang

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does not respond to Jasmine Crockett's insane comment that it's
not illegal to enter the country illegally.

Speaker 3 (03:58):
It's not a crime to.

Speaker 5 (03:59):
Do something illegal that the host didn't even ask her
if that, wait, are you sure about that? It sounds
like crimes are illegal Crockett claimed that illegal border crossings
are a civil offense instead of a criminal one. Her
statement is completely wrong. Title eight, Section thirteen twenty five
of the US Code makes entering the country illegally a
federal misdemeanor. It is punishable by fines and up to

(04:22):
six months in jail for first time offenders. But what
if you repeat Offenders face two years in prison. An
illegal immigrant convicted of a felony can face up to
twenty years in prison if caught re entering the United States. Now,
civil offenses only apply to those who overstay their visas.
Now here's the other thing I want you to walk
away from with this, Crockett took issue with law enforcement

(04:44):
pursuing illegal immigrants who have not committed any other crimes.
That's the point she was trying to make. She makes
this point. I'll just read you the quote here so
you don't have to listen to it again. She says, quote,
they really want our local law enforcement to go out
and round up people when they could be looking out
for the murderers and sexual abusers as well as the robbers.
They want them to go and round people up on

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civil accusations.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
End quote.

Speaker 5 (05:10):
Okay, illegally crossing the border is not as serious as murder.
I don't think anybody would suggest otherwise. Right, it's not
as serious as rape, it's not as serious as theft.
It's a crime, but it's not as bad as that.
But it would be unwise to let criminals go free
just because someone else committed a bigger crime. Does that
make any sense? Do you understand all insane? That is,
if your spouse lied behind your back and kissed another

(05:33):
man's wife, would you respond by saying, well, yeah, but
he didn't have sex with her. Someone else had sex
behind Now that's still pretty bad.

Speaker 3 (05:39):
Right.

Speaker 5 (05:40):
Crackett is referring to the partisan convictions against Trump for
falsifying business record. She said when she made this quote,
she said, the biggest criminal that we have ever seen
go into the White House. The judge granted him an
unconditional discharge in January. So the thing is she's accusing
Trump of doing here. She's trying to make a point
that Trump's a criminal. But the crimes Trump committed sound

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very political. This is an actual crime, And if you're
concerned about murder and rape and robbery, I might point
out that a lot of these people crossing over the
border illegally, are doing it because they're fleeing from law
enforcement in their home countries for committing murder and rape
and robbery. This interview came after the mayors of forest
so called sanctuary cities testified before the House Oversight Committee

(06:26):
last week. You remember that Congresswoman Anna pauline A Luna
of Florida pointed out that the mayors of Boston and Chicago,
and Denver and New York City were all in violation
of US immigration law. Boston is a statute that does
not allow law enforcement officers to obtain immigration status from
occupants of the city. During that hearing, Luna said she

(06:47):
would criminally refer all four mayors to the Justice Department
for their violations. Now, illegal immigration has sharply declined since
Trump took office, and the administration is still working to
address those already in the country legally, but frankly, there's
still some more work to do. Crockett statement about the
criminality of illegal immigration shows how tone deaf the Democrats

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are on this issue, and it really demonstrates why they
don't understand their loss last November.

Speaker 6 (07:16):
Game and Game.

Speaker 7 (07:18):
This is Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness on KPRC nine
fifty Houston.

Speaker 5 (07:25):
All Right, we're back. A lot happening today in America,
on the home front, throughout the world. Let's talk a
little bit about what is happening in d C and Austin,
Texas today. If you're a big fan of DOGE, I
know a lot of my listeners are a lot of
conservatives in Southeast Texas and throughout the Lone Star State.
Thrilled to see finally somebody is willing to actually pick

(07:47):
through some of the stuff.

Speaker 3 (07:48):
Ran Paul has highlighted the waste in our government. Mike Lee.

Speaker 5 (07:52):
Every Christmas they put out this waste book, and so
finally we're starting to eliminate these things. Over the weekend,
it was announced that, I mean just yesterday we learned
the VA Department, the well Department of Veterans' Affairs, the
Secretary of the VA says they went through two percent
of their contracts. They found nine hundred and eighty million
dollars worth of waste. That's two percent of the contracts. Guys,

(08:15):
that's unbelievable. Do you understand. We raise money for disabled
military veterans to pay for their wheelchairs and that sort
of thing. So you must be thrilled to see the
waste in our VA department getting called out because we'd
like to have more money for disabled veterans.

Speaker 3 (08:30):
I think that's obvious now.

Speaker 5 (08:32):
If you're one of those people that's a fan of
Doge and you're cheering on every time Elon Musk and
his team highlights something, the worst thing you could possibly
do is put all that waste back into the government.
But that's exactly what Mike Johnson's trying to do right now.
Speaker Mike Johnson has this spending this budget bill, the
continuing resolution they call it. If you're on social media,
they often refer to it as a as CR, which

(08:54):
can be a little confusing if you're not keeping up
with politics.

Speaker 3 (08:58):
But imagine emptying out all the trash in your garage.

Speaker 5 (09:01):
Spring cleaning's coming up for a lot of us, moving
it out to the curb there, and then after waiting
a day or two, putting it all back in the garage.
That would be crazy, right. Well, that's essentially what's happening
right now. And while I'm very much pro Trump, I
don't like Kamala, I will tell you this is one
thing I'm probably not one hundred percent and agree with
him on I don't think that Thomas Massey and Chip

(09:22):
roy are the big problem right now in our federal government. Now,
with all that being said, I want to get to
that conversation with our next guest. One of the most
brilliant people in conservative political media, alternative independent media, one
of the most censored men in the media. He actually
was sent to prison for the crime of doing journalism.
But before we get to any of that, my friend
Owen Shroyer at InfoWars dot com is mourning the loss

(09:45):
today of one of their team members. Jamie White, a
journalist at info Wars, was killed over the weekend. And
first of all, Ohen, thanks for giving us some time
this afternoon. This is horrible news. But I know, as
much as this is bothering people online, this was your buddy.
I mean, this is a guy you know you made
coffee with every afternoon while you were working on your show.

Speaker 3 (10:03):
Huh.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
Well, it's surreal.

Speaker 6 (10:07):
And most people deal with a sudden death, you know,
it happens a car accident, a health problem with somebody
you see every day or talk to or know well,
and then they're just gone. And so it's always a
surreal experience when that happens, and kind of having that
set in when you just don't see them and then
a couple of days go by. But this one hits

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a little different because it appears, and there's still investigations
ongoing here in Austin, but it appears it was just
an act of senseless violence. It appears it was.

Speaker 2 (10:39):
A robbery gone wrong.

Speaker 6 (10:41):
Maybe Jamie was trying to stop a burglar from going
into his car or something of that nature, and then
it was either shot or stabbed. Again, the investigation is ongoing,
but it just it hits different when it's an act
of senseless violence. There's something different about dealing with that.
And then it it makes it even more homely when

(11:03):
you start to talk about issues like police reform, when
you start to talk about things we've been dealing with,
like the defunding a police. I mean a lot of
investigative journalists are trying to dig into this story and
get answers, and they're realizing what we've known here in
Austin for some time. There are no police. The police
have been completely defunded, completely declawed here. It was so

(11:24):
bad for an entire year that the governor had to
call in an entire fleet hundreds of state troopers to
man the city because they were so down. Well, that
contract or whatever deal they had has expired. So you
start dealing with these far left radical attorney generals and
attorneys and judges that are letting violent criminals back on

(11:47):
the street. The criminals now know it's it's open season,
and then it's your friend that is the victim. And
so it really takes other stories that got a lot
of national attention, like a Lake and Riley, like a
Joshun Nungary. I also had a guy who got killed
who was a young high school player driving on the highway,
a shootout, a drive by shooting on the highway. This

(12:09):
kid's just driving his car. He gets hit with the
straight bullet.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
He's young man, hockey player dead.

Speaker 6 (12:14):
This senseless violence. When you deal with it, not just
reporting it with it, but then you actually have it
at a personal level, it really hits differently and it
makes your heart sink for all the other people that
have been victims of something like this, the kids that
get killed in drive by shooting. So I don't know
what it's going to take for Americans, And really I

(12:35):
think more specifically people that live in blue cities, because
the radical left isn't going to change. It's going to
be up to the people of these cities that are
sick of the crime, sick of the violence. We don't
have to live this way, you know. That's what's so frustrating.
We do not have to live this way. So things
hit a little bit differently now.

Speaker 2 (12:54):
I know.

Speaker 6 (12:54):
It makes my coverage of stories like this a little
more personal now, It makes the stores I hear about
other people a little more personal now. But it's just
a reminder that something has to be done. We don't
have to live this way. We don't have to have
violent criminals free on the streets. And it's just I

(13:15):
don't know. Again, when it hits you like this personally,
it just has a different it has a different feel
to it.

Speaker 3 (13:20):
Kenny, Yeah, man, I feel I hear you, brother.

Speaker 5 (13:23):
I mean, so many of our listeners have been rocked
by violence here in Texas, and you know, you cover
national news, but you live in Texas and you live
in ground zero for liberal toxicity in this state. I
know Austin's I was there last weekend. I couldn't believe
some of the stuff I witnessed to junkies laying out
on Sixth Street right there in front of cops. They
knew nothing about it. Now, I know a lot of

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our listeners might want to help out. I also know
if people are speculating he was murdered because he was
a journalist, and you'd pointed off out to me off
the air that we don't necessarily have any evidence that
that's true. It looks more like a botched robbery. But still,
I know people want to help out in their concern.
Jamie White was not married. He did not have kids,
but I assume he had parents, maybe siblings. Is there

(14:06):
somewhere somewhere online people can donate to the funeral fund
or something like that.

Speaker 6 (14:11):
Yeah, I think his family's direct family is still kind
of just processing things right now, just trying to lay low.
I do know that Alex has said when the time comes,
he'll promote some sort of a funeral fund, so I
would just follow his ex account or mine. I'll obviously
be sharing that too at Owenschroyer seventeen seventy six. So yeah,
we're just kind of waiting for the family to process

(14:33):
and get some other details, and then we'll be promoting that.
You know, as far as you know, obviously you're a
you're an employee or a worker, you're a journalist at
Info Wars. There's that concern, and we're very well aware
of that. We have security. We are always you know,
I mean personally, I'm always carrying constitutional carrying for a
reason just like that. Now, again, we have no evidence

(14:56):
to believe that this was anything other than senseless violence.
But I will say, you know, he got put on
if you recall, there was that Ukrainian hit list that
came out a few years back of journalists who were
skeptical of the war and specifically writing stories about Victoria Newland.
It was an official Ukrainian government hit list of American journalists,

(15:17):
and he was on it. Now, again I'm not saying
that was the cause. Here, it looks like census violence.
And yet there is still some relativity to that because
Gonzalaalira was killed for his journalistic work in Ukraine, and
it kind of you know, if Jamie's work is going
to remain relevant and valuable, which it should, you know,

(15:38):
that's still a relevant story. As we get into some
of these congressional sessions, spending bills and votes and everything else.

Speaker 2 (15:45):
I know we're going to.

Speaker 6 (15:46):
Talk about that, so as far as helping out his family,
if you follow me on extraor Alex on AX, just
wait and we'll post more information when we get it.
There's a killer on the loose, though, and that's what's
so crazy about this, there's a killer on the loose.
And I know the other topic you want to talk
about too. We're putting college protesters in prison, but we

(16:07):
have killers on the loose right now.

Speaker 5 (16:08):
Oh yeah, there's so much going on here, and we've
already got I mean, before we run out of time here,
we got to talk about this thing. With Thomas Massey,
Kentucky lawmaker from District two, there has been telling people
that he's not going to supports this spending bill. Chip
roys the same way. I feel like criticizing Massy for
wanting to implement an agenda that we all voted for
last November seems a little hypocritical.

Speaker 3 (16:31):
Trump's a populist.

Speaker 5 (16:32):
I think if Trump realizes that enough grassroots activists don't
like this spending bill, he's probably going to side with Massy.
But right now, there is a big divide in the
Republican Party. This week, what are your thoughts on that.

Speaker 6 (16:44):
Well, I don't live in Kentucky, so Thomas Massey is
not my hill to die on. I think Trump's reasons
for primarying Massy are doing this really don't even come
down to the bill. I think he viewed it as
a window of opportunity. He probably still has a little
personal beef with some of the things Thomas Massey said
about January sixth, which from my research, were taken out

(17:04):
of context. Thomas Massey did campaign with Ron DeSantis, so
I think that's Trump's real motivation. Now, I will tell
you when they started talking about primary Chip Roy, and
it's the same voices. By the way, it's the same
Trump loyalists that they're actually paid for by the Trump
lobby that are coming for chip Roy. Now I can
tell you as somebody that lives in chip Roy's district,
chip Roy is very popular here, right, They're not going

(17:27):
to be swayed by DC and probably not even Trump.
But that's a House race that's different than a Senate race.
Massey wanting to run in a Senate race against Mitch
McConnell's handpicked replacement, Daniel Cameron, who lost to a Democrat
in a governor's race. Mind you, in Kentucky, that's kind
of concerning. But all these people will complain about Mitch
McConnell all day long, but then they'll support his handpicked replacement.

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So here's the real test case with Massey. Aside from
all the noise and the cheerleading, he's one of the
last true physical conservatives left in Congress period. If you
support the work DOJ is doing, then you should support
Thomas Massey. If you're against funding foreign wars, then you
should support Thomas Massey. He has a ninety nine percent
score on the Constitutional.

Speaker 2 (18:12):
Vote record rating. So it's unfortunate. Now.

Speaker 6 (18:15):
I think they're probably just trying to bully him out
of the Senate race and just he's going to go
right back to his house seat.

Speaker 2 (18:22):
I'd rather have him there than not anywhere.

Speaker 6 (18:25):
Yeah, but it is unfortunate to watch the people come
out against Massy. I think it's tremendously misled and misjudged
and it's a bad move. But it's not my hill
to die on. I don't live in Kentucky. The people
in Kentucky will decide.

Speaker 5 (18:37):
Hey, amen to that. I feel the same way. But
it would be cool to see Kentucky. Make Paul and
Massy into their senators. That would be fascinating. Hey, before
we run out of time here, you and I were
talking about this off the air. Liberals love Nazi analogies.
They love a Nazi analogy. So I'm going to make
a Nazi analogy right now. Imagine it's World War two
and a bunch of Nazis want to march through New

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York City and support Hitler. Right, that would be crazy.
We would want to deport all those Germans. We would
send him back to Germany or imprison them or worse, right,
I says arrested Machmud Khalil. A judge has stepped in
and said the leader of a pro Palestine protest and
encampment at Columbia University can't be deported just yet. I

(19:19):
guess he's got to see his day in court tomorrow.
But I feel like, as a look, I love the Constitution,
you just mentioned it. As much as I want to
defend the Constitution, I don't feel like you have a
First Amendment right to support groups that were actively engaged
in war with Is that? Am I insane here?

Speaker 3 (19:37):
Ollen?

Speaker 5 (19:38):
I mean, come on, this is why does this guy
get constitutional rights. He's not an American citizen, and he's
out advocating for I'm not one of these guys that's
real big on APAK or supporting Israel. But at the
same time, it seems pretty obvious to me that this
guy doesn't have a right to stand around at Columbia
University and support a terror group.

Speaker 2 (19:55):
Right.

Speaker 6 (19:57):
Well, you know, I'm probably in the minority here on
this opinion of this gentleman. And here's a couple of
factoids that that from my understanding, I learned that he
has a student visa and uh, he also has another
another visa. He had two visas that, yeah, so so

(20:18):
he is here legally. I also read that he has
a wife who's pregnant right now, an American wife who's
pregnant right now. So but that's kind of just more
of the emotional stuff that and then the legal stuff
with the with the visa and the green card.

Speaker 2 (20:31):
You know.

Speaker 6 (20:31):
Here, here's my issue. I I just feel like, as
a free speech country, speech should not be should not
be punished. And that's somebody who's been in prison for speech. Now,
if he did something violent or illegal, then that would
be fine. If you're blocking an entrance or blocking people's
free movement. If you're attacking people, damaging property, occupying a building,

(20:54):
then that's that's illegal. That's already on the books. But
but protesting or supporting a group that we don't like, her,
a country that we don't like, her, protesting against the
country that.

Speaker 2 (21:04):
We do like.

Speaker 6 (21:05):
Wherever you fall on that stuff, I won't even voice
my opinion. I don't like that, And I think that
maybe part of the reason why I'm against his imprisonment
might just have to do with standards in this country.
We have killers roaming the streets. We watched Black Lives
Matter protesters burn cities to the ground with no arrest.
We watched Antifa for years. College campuses have been extremely

(21:29):
anti white, professors, extremely anti rite. Entire horses that are
anti white, anti anti Semitism is the problem. So I
don't like it. I'm probably in the minority in this
opinion with this situation on the right wing, but I
don't like it. I don't as far as I can tell,

(21:49):
he didn't do anything illegal. I just I don't know
what he's done that's illegal, that would constitute a crime
outside of the context of this protest. So I'm probably
in the minority of that opinion, and that just comes
with my free speech, you know, absolutism maybe, but I
don't like it. I think it's a bad look, and
I don't think it's a good look for college campuses.
And I think it's very very anti free speech and

(22:12):
anti American.

Speaker 3 (22:13):
It's a fair point.

Speaker 5 (22:14):
Look, I will tell you this isn't an issue that
I'm losing sleepover. But at the same time, I bet
we would both agree on this. Wouldn't it be great
if we didn't have to fund every war on Earth,
including Israel, including Ukraine. It always bothers me how Liberals
love the Ukraine war but they hate the Israel war,
and Republicans love the Israel war, but they hate the
Ukraine War.

Speaker 3 (22:34):
Why it's too much war?

Speaker 6 (22:37):
Well, I guess that's what separates us from the rest,
because we remain consistent on issues. And so that's how
I've always looked at it. I've kind of coined a phrase,
if it can't be applied universally, it's not logic, it's propaganda.
So whenever you have a situation like this where the
logic can't be applied universally, you're probably dealing with propaganda.

Speaker 3 (22:58):
Yeah, amen to that.

Speaker 5 (22:59):
Owen Schroyer Info Wars my brother from another look. You
can hear his show war Room on info Wars every day.
If you're not following Owen Schroyer seventeen seventy six on
social media, I guarantee you your social media news feed sucks.

Speaker 7 (23:12):
Pursuit of that penis radio coming now. Just think this
is Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness. On KPRC nine p fifty, Houston.

Speaker 5 (23:23):
Representative Al Green, Houston lawmaker, is being challenged by the
sister of the late Army specialist Vanessa Gean, who was
killed in Fort Hood back in twenty twenty. Y'all remember
that news story. Myra Gian says she decided to run
after watching Al Green disrespect President Trump and his country

(23:43):
and their district last week during Donald Trump's Joint Session speech. Now,
I am one hundred percent in support of this woman.
I think she'd make a Gray lawmaker. From what I
can tell, she seems to be a good person and
for those that have looked into who she is my region,
appears to be more than qualified. From what I I mean,

(24:04):
I haven't done a deep dive into her background check,
but I get the impression there's probably not any real
weird skeletons or anything being hidden there, and probably Fort
Hood is now called Fort Cavazos in Texas, by the way.
But her sister was killed by a fellow soldier who
bludgeoned her to death in an armory. Her case got
a lot of national attention because of the brutal nature

(24:26):
of the crime and the cover up, and allegations that
Vanessa had been sexually harassed by a superior prior to
her death, which she reportedly did not formally report out
of fear of retaliation. That's a longer story than we
have time to explain right now on the air, but
I know a lot of you have heard it, so
I just just reminding everybody who.

Speaker 3 (24:43):
This is al Green.

Speaker 5 (24:45):
Last week, the man that she wants to unseat usually
wins by a wide margin if you look up recent
years of I think a few years ago he had
won election. He won eighty percent of the vote. Last week,
he was censured by the House after he interrupted Trump's
speech and had to be removed. He received multiple warnings

(25:08):
from House Speaker Mike Johnson. Now further echo that story's
not going away I'm reading about it right now at
town hall dot com. Green keeps playing victim, and it
is possible he could lose some committee assignments here. I
don't know that he's going to lose to a Republican
in that district, but I do think it's worthy of
pointing out here. The morning Green was censured, Mike Johnson

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had a gavel had to gavel into a recess given
that Green and other Democrats wouldn't stop singing we Shall overcome,
even after the speaker called for order, and the congressman
still claimed over his ex account that he was accepting
the outcome. He said, I accept the consequences of my actions,
but I refuse to say silent hashtag we shall overcome.

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How Green did a series of media hits, including Democracy Now.
He was on that national hip hop radio show, The
Breakfast Club, and he claimed Trump was the one who
had a breach of decorum. He said, the President uses
his incivility to take advantage of our civility, and he
kept insisting Trump needed to have decorum. He spoke to

(26:15):
his present vote on the censure, which was not to
pressure his colleagues. Another that's what he claims. Another Democrat
voted president and ten voted with all the Republicans. In
the matter, al Green made it about his conscience, he claims,
is why he had to make the outburst. He said,
I voted my conscience.

Speaker 3 (26:34):
Quote.

Speaker 5 (26:34):
I did what conscience called on me to do, and
my convictions demanded that I do. That demanded that I
do when I spoke to the President, I would do
it again. He says, I regret that I've been censured.
There's talk of removing me from my committee, and he
correctly predicted that this is not over. He insisted, quote,
I will not I will stand on what I have done.

Speaker 3 (26:55):
I am not ashamed of what I have done.

Speaker 5 (26:57):
End quote, And then he brought up the Lake Congressman
and Civil Rights Act of his John lewis a Democrat
from Georgia famous for protesting for civil rights. And once more,
he tried to say that he would face the consequences
despite the disruption in the well when it came to
being censured. So during one of these recent interviews, al

(27:17):
Green made the conversation even more about race. It's always
about race. So this is about discrimination against him. He's
being discriminated against. What are you talking about dude, you
stood up and interrupted the president while he was trying
to speak. What does that have to do with being black?
If that's even what you're suggesting. He's intentionally vague, and

(27:39):
it does sound like that's what he's suggesting. Here's some
more quotes from the interview. I am a son of
the segregated South. He said, the rights that the Constitution
recognized for me, my friends, and my neighbors have been denied.
I had to sit in the back of the bus
the balcony of the movie drink from a colored water fountain,
and my relatives who committed some crimes were locked up
in the bottom of a jail. I know what discrimination

(28:04):
looks like. The klan burned across in my yard. End
to quote, how old is this guy? You had to
drink from segregated wine? Okay, I mean maybe that's true.
I'd never heard that. I did not realize he was
that old, but I guess he is. I guess he's really, really,
really really old. He's almost eighty years old, which does

(28:24):
kind of beg the question, if you lived through all
that segregation, if you lived through all that racism, that
means you're old enough to remember the Democrat Party in
the twentieth century and the Democrat Party in the twentieth century.
Your Democrat Party wanted to secure the border. They believed
in using tariffs to protect the working class from foreign workers.

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They believed in American manufacturing. They believed in just a
somewhat traditional social values. Right, it feels an awful lot
like the Democrat Party that Al Green and John Lewis
were a member of back in the twentieth century. When
they were protesting against segregated water fountains or or segregated buses.

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Those policies mirrored what the Republicans currently support.

Speaker 3 (29:17):
What changed?

Speaker 5 (29:18):
What if the Republicans support all the stuff you supported
back then while you were doing those protests, what are
you What are you now protesting against? The Republican Party
seems very similar to the Democrat Party you used to
be a member of. Yet now the Democrat Party you're
currently a member of is vastly different. What changed the

(29:40):
political landscape? Policies don't change. Policy. Positions aren't supposed to change.
Principles aren't supposed to change. It's weird when someone changes
their principles because of who's the president. Donald Trump is
an agate aggravating for segregated water fountains. We're sending black
people to the back of the bus. It's quite the opposite. Actually,

(30:01):
he's gotten more support from black voters than any other
Republican presidential candidate in this century. It's been decades since
a Republican God, that's much support from black voters. If
you've been a victim of racism and you're now trying
to conflate what the Republican Party is doing to actual
racism from the twentieth century, you are cheapening what happened

(30:24):
to you. You are cheapening your own experience. You are
watering it down. I got to assume he knows that.
I think it's possible. He just knows that people listening
to him talk don't know that, and they're foolish enough
to believe him.

Speaker 3 (30:37):
Perspiness.

Speaker 7 (30:40):
This is Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness on KPRC nine
fifty Houston.

Speaker 5 (30:49):
I glanced at social media, and you know, sometimes you'll
see a news story and after being lied to so
many times, you just immediately think that can't be right,
that can't be what they're doing. You know, as people
are eating tide pods that's unbelievable. Uh, trans lesbians, that's
just gay guys and dresses.

Speaker 3 (31:08):
It can't be a real thing.

Speaker 5 (31:09):
No, No, that's political memes. Dade Falin. Y'all remember Dade Falin.

Speaker 2 (31:13):
He didn't.

Speaker 3 (31:14):
He's still in office.

Speaker 5 (31:15):
He may not be the Texas House Speaker anymore, But
yesterday I looked at social media and I saw a headline.
I could not believe Dade Falin wants to criminalize political memes.
Now it's a little more complicated than that, but at
the same time, it's not. It's called Housepell three sixty six.
House Spell three sixty six would make it a crime
to distribute altered media, including political memes, without government approved disclaimer.

Speaker 3 (31:40):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (31:41):
Here to help explain the law a little deeper and
what and where it came from and how it came
to be, My good buddy Brandon Walton's from Texas scorecard
dot com.

Speaker 3 (31:49):
Brandon, is this as bad as it sounds?

Speaker 5 (31:51):
Is the guy that's responsible for the Paxton impeachment, the
guy that was probably the lawmaker in Texas getting dunked
on by meme artists more than any other politician, is
now trying to outlaw memes.

Speaker 1 (32:05):
Oh one percent. I mean, so what this bill does
House Billed three sixty six, And yeah, I was fired
by Date Zeeling. So the first time that the State
Affairs Committee has their opportunity to hear legislation, which is
this week. Uh, this is this is the first bill
that Date Feeling wanted to bring to the committee. So
what it does. It essentially goes after political advertising, which

(32:26):
is sort of a nebulous thing. You know, what actually
constitutes a political advertisement. Some people think that, you know,
just posts on Twitter or x should be considered political advertisements.
But even further from that, it goes after any any
media or representation that's altered of a candidate for office.
So what does this mean. Well, let's use a hypothetical.

(32:48):
Let's say, uh, you know, you decide to put on
your mailer or just post on your your Facebook page
a picture of Date Feeling holding a six pack of
bud Light. Well, that could actually land you up to
a year in jail if this goes through.

Speaker 5 (33:05):
Oh my god, it's unbelievable. It's worse than you think.
Right now, they're saying that this has to do with AI.
In fact, Brandon this yesterday when we heard about this,
I immediately thought, we need to make memes, put him
on a T shirt and sell them to make fun
of date. I got a phone call from a lobbyist
in Austin, Texas. He's a nice enough guy, but he's
not one of us.

Speaker 3 (33:24):
You know that? What is it? The Kendrick Olmer song?
Not like us?

Speaker 5 (33:27):
Calls me on the phone and he says, Kenny, you've
known me for a long time. I just want to
let you know it. When people figure out what this
bill is, you guys are going to look silly. And
I asked him to explain it to me in his
own words, and he says, well, it's about altered video,
you know, AI. And I said, I'm sorry it give
me a better example, and he says, well, I just
saw this video online where a dog jumps into a

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pond and then it jumps out and saves an old lady.

Speaker 3 (33:50):
And it was AI and I could tell it was fake.

Speaker 5 (33:53):
I could tell it was fake, but baby boomers couldn't
tell it was fake. And I am, I'm sure you
already know what my reaction was, Brandon. And if you
could tell it was fake, right, why do we need
a law to protect people from this?

Speaker 3 (34:05):
If you can tell that it's fake.

Speaker 5 (34:07):
That means that everybody, everybody with half a brain could
tell it's fake. I got to assume we do not
need a government solution for this, but we already had
a ruling on this years ago. Hustler magazine. Larry Flint,
not my favorite person, but certainly an important person for
free speech, was involved in a lawsuit way back in
the seventies Hustler magazine versus Fallwell, and what they determined

(34:29):
was that lawmakers politicians are not immune to parody or
satire or impersonations. How is an AI generated video impersonating
a politician any different?

Speaker 1 (34:43):
No, absolutely, the course have been really clear by the
way that like satire and parody are very protected things.
And actually, do you look at what actually started this.
It's interesting the reason that they feel and is filing
this if you go back and look at the campaign
cycle from last time. Club for Growth is a group
that you know spends money in races across the country,

(35:04):
put out a mailer what pictures of date feeling in
Nancy Pelosi making the point that you know he was
he was voting and ruling the House like a Nancy
Pelosi would I don't think anybody thinks actually that they're
together being buddy buddy. Nobody would look at this picture
and think that. And yet that was what through Dade
feeling into a tailsen was that comparison.

Speaker 5 (35:25):
I find it incredible that back in the seventies it
was a unanimous ruling. Every conservative, every liberal, every well they're,
you know, the Democrat, everybody on the Supreme Court said
no free speech guarantees protection of parodies of public figures.

Speaker 3 (35:39):
You can't.

Speaker 5 (35:40):
You're not exempt from the rule just because you're a politician.
All right, before we run out of time here, Obviously,
Dade Falen is a douchebag, and if people want to
get a T shirt that makes fun of him at
I love WJ dot com today, we do have two
T shirts. One of them says don't tread on memes
with the Gadsden snake on it, which looks pretty cool.
Another shirt we have is a Daid faal in Dad
Falen is a clown and the shirt says day fail

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and wants to make this sure to illegal. I think
they're both pretty awesome. But before we run out of
time here, Brandon, you're at the state capitol right now,
Is that correct?

Speaker 2 (36:08):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (36:08):
I am okay, can you smell daid fail in from
where you're sitting.

Speaker 1 (36:14):
That's not the committee hearing right now.

Speaker 3 (36:17):
Yeah, all, that's not the question. The question is this.

Speaker 5 (36:19):
You know, yesterday we had Corey DeAngelis here, one of
the leading advocates for school choice. There's a vote today
on the school choice or are they just discussing it?
Is this the same bill that already swept through the Senate?
What's going on?

Speaker 1 (36:30):
Yeah, so it's essentially very similar to the version that
passed out the Senate, but the House has its own
version that's being heard today in the House Public Education Committee.
And last I checked, there were over four hundred people
that had registered to testify on it, most of them opposed,
as you can imagine, kind of teacher unions groups and
you know, people close to Austin coming in, and so

(36:51):
it could be a very long day. They're not expected
to actually pass it out today out of committee. That'll
probably happen in the week or two, and then you know,
we we'll see if if it makes it onto the
floor of the House within the next several weeks.

Speaker 5 (37:07):
Okay, so we're quite optimistic here, but the next several weeks,
I mean, this bill already passed the Senate. We have
I'm from what I'm told yesterday, it's got enough vote.

Speaker 3 (37:15):
What what is the discussion? What's left here?

Speaker 5 (37:18):
We need to figure out if there's something the Rhinos
can do to block it. I mean, I forgive me,
they're being a bit pessimistic, but it does feel like
they're dragging their feet.

Speaker 1 (37:26):
No, that's that's exactly what it seems like. I mean,
I'm not sure.

Speaker 8 (37:30):
You know.

Speaker 1 (37:30):
My concern. They say they're going to make some changes
to the bill. My concern is when you look at
the history of how these things work, especially when given
more time, those changes that they make to the bill
are usually to playkate Democrats who are not going to
vote for this thing anyway. So you know, we wonder why, well,
why are we trying to placate you know, these people
who are just going to be diametrically opposed to school

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choice no matter what, no matter what you do. So
if it were up to me, they pass the bill
out today, but you know they're going to this out
for at least a few weeks.

Speaker 5 (38:01):
My man, Brandon, you guys are doing awesome work down there,
and I'm glad we have honest journalists at the state
capitol today. I can't believe that they're going to try
to find a way to sidestep this one. But it
doesn't matter if the Conservatives like it and the governor
likes it, they still find a way around.

Speaker 3 (38:19):
It's very frustrating.

Speaker 5 (38:20):
Meanwhile, Texas senators are considering a proposal to the aligned
state IDs with biological sex. This feels like another easy
one that should be able to pass, so I'm guessing
it probably won't.

Speaker 1 (38:29):
Right, well, it should be right. I mean, the idea
is that you should have your actual biological sex on
your government documents, your ideas and things like that. This
should be a slam dunk. I expect that the Senate
will pass this pretty quickly. But you know, again, you
look at you know, civil legislation has followed in the
House by doctor Tom Olivers, and it's a little different

(38:52):
but sort of tackles the issue in the same way.
And you know, we'll see, we'll see how that is
reacted to in the House.

Speaker 5 (39:01):
When you're down there on these legislative days, covering the
House and the Senate in real time, do you ever
see State Representative Gene wu go tell burrows and fail
in what his priorities are during the day. Does he
punish them by not allowing them French fries in the
State Capitol cafeteria.

Speaker 3 (39:17):
How exactly does that work?

Speaker 1 (39:21):
I don't know, but you know Jean wu is definitely
He's definitely active on the floor, that's for sure.

Speaker 5 (39:26):
My brother Brandon waltons, if you're not following him on
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Imagine that. I'm Kenny Webster. I love you all. Don't forget.

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