November 17, 2025 • 39 mins
This podcast edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness features journalists Brandon Waltens and Holly Hansen. ( @KennethRWebster )
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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at the suit.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
A new economic report details how the government shutdown costs
the GDP eleven billion dollars. Small price to pay for
Democrats to prove they'll almost fight for what they believe in. Hi, everybody,
I'm Kenny Webster. Thanks so much for joining us this afternoon.
Brandon Waltons is stopping by. Is a weird news story
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today out of Texas involving naked exercise at a public school.
It's even creepier than it sounds. We'll give you the details.
Stick around for that. Plus, Holly Hanson is stopping by,
and we're gonna look at what the controversy involving John
Whitmeyer not being controversial, the mayor of Houston not involved
in any contra and somehow that's a scandal.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Leave it to Democrats.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
But before we get to any of that, let's talk
about the Epstein disaster. Breitbart dot Com today reporting the
only news to come out of the latest Jeffrey Epstein
document dump is the disgrace journalist Michael Wolfe and a
former New York Times reporter quote unquote reporter appeared to
beg the now dead pedophile for dirt on Donald Trump,
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and guess what they got nothing. Those emails actually detail
how even though Epstein thought Donald Trump knew he was
doing something wrong. In the emails, he admits that Donald
Trump did nothing wrong. In the meantime, they redacted information
from a set of emails involving Virginia Jeoffrey. Virginia Jeoffrey
explained in detail how Donald Trump did nothing wrong, and
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they selectively edited lie biomission, if you will, details in
those emails. The Democrats last week to make it sound
like Donald Trump was involved in something he wasn't, and
now The New York Times is hoping to from that
by publishing out of context emails that say nothing incriminating
about Trump. New York Times finance reporter Landon Thomas Junior
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had numerous chummy exchanges with Epstein and Shaka of Shocks.
At least from the ones we've seen, the so called
reporter was only interested in a taking down Trump before
the twenty sixteen election and b getting financial tips. Keep
in mind that This was nearly a decade after Epstein
had been found guilty of procuring child prostitutes in two
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thousand and eight. Also, keep in mind that Trump banned
Epstein from his mar Alago club in two thousand and seven.
So Thomas wrote to Epstein in a February twenty sixteen
email regarding Trump's candidacy as it was gaining steam. He said,
it's getting scary the stories you could tell. I am
getting worried. Thomas wrote Epstein in September twenty sixteen, is
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he ever going to implode? That same month, Landon asked
the convicted pedophile, if you knew Trump was going to win,
how would you position your portfolio?
Speaker 3 (03:02):
For his part, Michael.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Wolfe wrote an email to Epstein in February twenty sixteen,
claiming The New York Times was digging for Epstein Trump
dirt through him. Michael Wolfe said, the New York Times
called me about you and Trump. Also Hillary campaign digging
deeply again. You should consider preempting, Epstein replied, lots of reporters,
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and then wolf replied, yeah, you're the Trump bullet, HM weird.
In January twenty sixteen, Wolf pushed Epstein this way, he
said quote, the more Trump looks real or perish the
thought inevitable, the more reporters are going to focus on this.
So as you will not be surprised, you need a strategy.
The biggest bombshell from the Epstein emails is that The
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New York Times was working with Jeffrey Epstein well after
he was known to be a child sex trafficker. At
one point, Michael Wolfe basically admitted the deep state is
so real that Epstein helping to sink Trump could give
him political cover, even though Epstein was already a convicted pedophile.
Listen to this, Michael Wolfe wrote, quote, Also, becoming an
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anti Trump voice gives you a certain political cover which
you decidedly don't have now. Still, this necessary involves you
going public. The strategic plan, wolf added would involve your
public identity, philanthropic activities and interest, and the development of
media allies ought. Finally to be put in place, nine
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days later, Michael Wolfe wrote, quote, there's an opportunity to
come forward this week and talk about Trump in such
a way that could garner you great sympathy and help
finish him interested question mark, Let's summarize, guys, it seems
to me that Trump offloaded Epstein in two thousand and seven,
even before Epstein was convicted, but a former New York
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Times reporter and a leftist author remained all kinds of
chummy with the pedophile in the hopes of defeating Trump
in the very early days of his rising political movement.
Tens of thousands of pages of Epstein documents that show
Trump did nothing wrong. Epstein's most high profile and vocal victim,
the late Virginia Jeoffrey, said Trump did not so much
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as flirt with the girls, much less behave in appropriately.
The Biden administration, which pulled every law fair stop available
to stop to them to destroy Trump, have the so
called Epstein files for years, and they had nothing on Trump,
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which is all we can assume when they were out
to destroy the guy. The idea that the Biden people
would protect Trump from something incriminating is a ridiculous assumption.
It was the New York Times and Michael Wolf who
cozied up to the pedophile, not Donald Trump. It's weird
that anybody would take anything away from this except that.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
So we're supposed to live within our income, so we
can afford to pay taxes to a government they can't
live within its income.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Yeah. That Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness Texas.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I saw this video from over the weekend in the
Dallas Fort Worth area. It looked like it was from
a third world country. There's thousands of Muslims, all men,
all fighting age, gathered together in the streets to do
some Muslim thing.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
I don't know what it was. I'm not a Muslim,
but I don't care if you're a Muslim. I care
if you're in Islamist.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Did you get the difference if you're a secular Muslim
and you can live in harmony with the Jews and
the Christians and the Atheists and the Hindus, fine, whatever,
Welcome to America if you need to create a community
where you change all the laws to adhere to the
broken system that you abandoned back home in the Mideast.
So you want to turn our country into the piece
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of crab country that you and your people abandoned, I
do have a problem with that. In the Dallas Fort
Worth area, they have Epic City. Well they had it.
The bad news is the good news is Epic City
is going away. So that's good, right, It's objective good.
The bad news is they're replacing it now with something
called Meadow. What the hell does meadows stand for? Muslims
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enthusiastically avoiding Dallas or whole damn Texas, or Muslims escaping
all dang oil rich white boys, or I don't know
what it stands for. I just know that changing the
name of Epic City doesn't change what Epic City is.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
But maybe I'm wrong here.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
He is Sharia law advocate Brandon Walton's to tell us
why I'm wrong.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
I'm not sure. I'm going to be the first time
I've ever been called that.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
That's yeah, No, he's not. By the way, he's a
conservative oth you're a Christian?
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Right, yes, yes, all right? What is going on at
Epic Why is it different? What's different about it?
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Yes? So, Epic City, just by way of background here
got a lot of attention, especially you know, about about
a year ago, because this was this planned Islamic neighborhood
development that would not just have houses where they were saying,
we're only essentially, we're going to set up our system
where only Muslims are going to be able to buy
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into our neighborhood here. But they were going to plan
to have you know, schools, community center, all this stuff
sort of centered around it, and it would create this
sort of Islamic enclave. EPIC, by the way, stands for
East Plano Islamic Center, which is a big mosque up
just north of Dallas. They're the ones that are behind this. Well,
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they've got a lot of attention, a lot of negative attention,
and even caught the eye of you had Devertor Abbott
speaking out against it and saying that he was going
to put you know, Texas Rangers and some different state
agencies to investigate them. He saw some action from the
Attorney General as well, and then he ultimately saw the
legislature come in and pass pass a new law that would,
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at least the way it was set up or set
up to be structured before, would make that kind of
community illegal. Now, the latest development is that those behind
this neighborhood haven't given up. In fact, they've gone out
and said that they're they're continuing with this project and
they want it renamed.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
They're renaming the.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
Meadow and now if you see pictures of it, the metif,
I guess is a pretty apt term for what it is,
given that there hasn't been any construction on this site yet.
It is literally a meadow up in North Texas. But
it just shows that, you know, this sort of thing
is continuing to happen despite the fact that you have had,
like I said, you had the governor and legislators out
there saying that they had stopped this, and yet you know,
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it looks like they're they're they're they're keeping this plan up.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Okay, So it's my understanding.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
There are actually a couple other places around the United
States where something like Epic City already exists. There's Holy Islamville,
which is in York County, South Carolina. Now technically that's
an unincorporated community where there's just a bunch of Muslims
that live. Fine whatever, if they can live wherever they want.
It's a free country. There's Islamberg, which is a religious
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community in the town of Tompkins, Delaware. And I'm they've
been a used of like harboring terrorists and that sort
of thing. Whether that's true or not, I don't know.
But police did find twenty three firearms and three homemade
bombs that investigators claim we're going to be used to
attack the nearby town in January twenty nineteen, three men,
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one male miner, were arrested for plotting an attack there. Look,
I don't understand, you know, what exactly makes Meadow different
from Epic City, But I can tell you if there's
a community of people that are fervently opposed to what
happens in the rest of the country or our secular
beliefs as a society, probably it shouldn't exist. And if
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it's just for Muslims, then that sounds like it's a
violation of the Fair Housing Act.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
So is it is this legal?
Speaker 5 (10:49):
Well, you know, certainly, certainly you've had some people say no,
that's why they find themselves in this sort of legal trouble. Now,
a lot of the actual litigation that might surround this
hasn't really moved for the fact that they haven't really started.
You know, this is just right now. A proposals is
somebody's idea, right, But as soon as they start selling
people and buy and people start buying into this, I
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think you'll see a lot more movement on the legal front,
because you're right, you can't, you know, you can't create
these sort of enclaves. They're illegal. We even have in
Texas like I said, a new law, you know, new
WAW actually put into play, signed into a lot earlier
this year that more specifically targets this sort of thing.
And so you know whether or not that that upholds
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in court, I guess what we'll find out, all.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Right, moving on from Epic City to Encore O n
Cor Encore not quite how you'd think it'd be spelled.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
But they're pushing a.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Thirty three billion dollar power project expansion. I'm just going
to climb out on a limit. This has something to
do with air cood, I'm going I'm going to climb
on a limit. Guess not nuclear?
Speaker 5 (11:51):
Yeah, no, I don't think it has anything to do
with nuclear. It's actually about bringing kind of us some
more power out to the Permian basin area. So you know,
I think West tex exis and you know it's a
massive project, and you have groups like Google out there
essentially advocating for this. Of course, Encore, the power you
know supplier this case, stands to make a lot of
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money on this, and so you find that, you know,
they've been behind some recent legislation to try to push
this sort of expansion of a power project despite the
fact that you know it could raise rates for for power,
you know, residential consumers right here in Texas, in most
parts of the state that are part of the power grid.
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It's sort of a bigger question. I mean, this is
something that you know, certainly has been discussed and people
who focus a lot more on these issues that have
a lot more to say about than I do. But
it does raise the question about where the balance is
between things like bitcoin, for example, or cryptocurrency and the
effect on the grid in Texas, and and and where
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that balance is.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Okay, since my understanding, Google has a project going on
in the Permian Basin. Not related to cloud computing services,
although that was something they considered in the past. Apparently
that was canceled. Not related to an AI data center hub,
although that's something they're considering doing, it hasn't happened yet.
They're they're working on an environmental monitoring project. It sounds
like they are contracted by the NASA, by NASA and
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the EPA to use satellite imagery and technology to monitor
air emissions. So why are they involved in the power grid.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
Yeah, I'm not sure why they would be involved. They're
certainly you know, if they wanted to ever do more
cloud computing and AI and things like that, and wanted
to set them out there. They would they would benefit
from an expansion like this. So I think that you know,
people are looking at this and saying, Okay, it looks
like if they're not in that space right now, it
looks like they potentially are trying to lay the ground
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work for doing that over the next several years.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Yeah, okay, all right, Moving along here. Boeing is being
sued in a Texas Cord for downplaying the danger sure
of an aircraft. The companies come under fire because of
their DEI practices during the Abiden years in office. Multiple
airplanes falling out of the sky, parts falling off. That
was all of a sudden when they decided to get
into space travel. That's when they got two astronauts stuck
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on board the International Space Station. Along comes Elon Musk
to save the day. Fast forward to this lawsuit. What's
going on here?
Speaker 5 (14:26):
Yeah, it's not been a good I guess six or
seven years now for Boeing. You know where you know,
all the stems back to the seven thirty seven Max
aircraft which was grounded, remember for a very very long
time about six years ago. Actually at the tail into
the Trump administration. The first Trump administration was grounded by
the SAA because they kept having incidents with them. The
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accusation is that Boeing told airlines that they didn't need
to have really any additional training. That's how they sold
these aircraft. That pilots who already trained for their normal
seven thirty seven aircraft wouldn't need additional training or would
need very little additional training. That's why they sold them
to the airlines.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
That of course has.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
Come out that no, that wasn't really true, and that
pilots did need some substantial additional training in order to
avoid incidents like they saw with this. So now you know,
fast forward to today, you have the Southwest Airlines Pilot Association,
which is their pilot union, sewing Boeing in Texas's new
Business Court over this. And so you know, this comes
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at a time where you're right, You've got Boeing is
already caught up in a lot of accusations about the
role of DEI playing a role in their their parts
suppliers and their company and things like that leading to
quality control issues. And so yeah, we'll see what this
new this new court decides.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Wow, Boeing is one of the only stocks that did
not do well during It's one of the only military
industrial complex stocks that did not do well during the
Biden years. If you bought Boeing on this day back
in twenty twenty, it was worth one hundred and ninety
nine dollars. Today it's worth one hundred and ninety three dollars.
So over the last five years, you didn't make anything.
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War was so profitable during Biden's time in office, Yet
strangely that one wasn't all right. Another lawsuit in the
Travis County Court District targeting the Texas college work study
program Paxton Ken Paxton, our Attorney General, is suing to
strike down an anti Christian restriction in state work study programs.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Give us the who, what, when, where, why? Brandon Waltons.
Speaker 6 (16:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
This lawsuit was a filed last week and it goes
against a few of these different work study programs at
Texas colleges which currently have restrictions saying that if you're
in seminary or doing some sort of religious instruction, you
cannot partake in these work study programs. Some religious liberty
advocates have said that amounts to essentially anti Christian, an
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anti Christian restriction or anti certainly anti religious restriction at Traney.
General Paxton has agreed, he's filed a lawsuit.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Now.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
The reason this is particularly notable though, is that this
is a case where you have the Attorney General, who
normally is defending state agencies right, is actually suing the
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, which is itself a state agency,
over this issue. And so we've seen this happen a
few times before, especially with the Attorney General Paxton, but
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it is something notable, you know, each time you see it,
where you know you have the Attorney General going after
some issues inside the state government itself.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
All right, one more creepy, weird story to end the conversation.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Maybe not the best way to end.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
A conversation, but let's go to Edinburgh, the town of Edinburgh,
where a student's family is suing a youth football coach
for what is being called a nude exercise.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
What happened, Well.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
The accusation here is that you have this football coach
who you know, instructed students to do exercise completely nude.
All of this happening, and as an accusation that you
had district administrators working to cover this up. Now this
is happening at the same time that you have very
similar accusations that actually in some ways are worse over
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in Salina Id that you had a similar situation, and
that the coach was filming it. You know, very disturbing stuff.
This is just one of just a few of the
latest stories that have unfortunately come out of Texas public
schools and the predators inside there.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Do you remember the movie Heaven Help Us from nineteen
eighty five. It starred who was in an Andrew McCarthy
and Kevin Dillan. Do you know this movie?
Speaker 5 (18:44):
I don't know this one.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Donald Sutherland was the.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
It's a movie about Catholic boys at high school in
the nineteen sixties. I remember watching this movie as a
kid because I was Catholic and it was, you know,
it was sort of a PG comedy film. And in
the film, the kids at the school have to go
to gym class and they swim naked during gym class.
It was, which was apparently very normal in the mid
twentieth century for hygiene purposes. And I remember as a
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kid watching that and being so disturbed by that. I
was like all the kids in the gym class are
naked together. My mom was like, no, that was normal
back then. Fast forward to twenty twenty five and somebody
is rightly being sued for the equivalent. Exercising naked is
very unwholesome to me, Brandon, it seems very unnecessary.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
I would agree, and especially with some of the stories
we've seen. You know, a lot of these people, unfortunately
don't have very good intentions.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Yeah, no, kidding.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
You guys have a map on your website at texascorecard
dot com of which school districts in the state have
had sexual misconduct involving public school teachers, educators, and staff members.
And it's basically all of them, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
I mean just about it's new stories every day.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
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We could certainly slow the aging process if aging had
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Speaker 3 (20:12):
Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
New York is cooked and we're going to need a
Texas Stock exchange fast. It's not a luxury, it's an emergency.
Firewall against the socialist siege descending on America's financial heart.
It all started earlier this month, November fourth, twenty twenty five.
Zorhan mom Donnia, a self described Democrats socialist endorsed by
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Alexandria Conzio Cortes and Bernie Sanders and a long list
of other people who don't understand basic economics, somehow managed
to squeeze.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Into the mayoral ship.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
The mayor's race was his to win or lose, and
that's exactly what he did.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
He won.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Wall Street, already choking under federal red tape, now faces
a municipal guillotine. Rent freezes, a thirty dollars an hour
minimum wage, corporate tax hikes to fund free everything.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
So we know.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
When this guy takes office January first, less than sixty
days from today. Capital does not wait for ideology to fail,
It flees. Texas can solve the problem here. We can
be the ones to sweep in and win from New
York City's loss. Watch his trillions vanish from New York City.
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Where are they going to go? Miami, London? We need
it here. History proves the idea is battle tested. Texas
first studied a state exchange back in the seventies. We
shelved it, then we revived it in twenty twenty one
because of Governor Abbott. In twenty twenty three, he tapped
James Lee to lead a Texas Stock Exchange group, and
by June of twenty twenty four, the project secured one
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hundred and twenty million dollars from investors. January twenty twenty
five brought another one one hundred and sixty one million.
Mid twenty twenty five added another two hundred and fifty
million from JP Morgan. The SEC gave him the green light.
Texas is the best capitalized place for a launch. Now,
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I'm not a big fan of Dallas. I think their
food sucks, but it does seem like a good place
for a stock exchange. The future is crystal clear, guys,
a fully electronic national exchange in downtown Dallas, trading stocks ETFs.
We know this could be home to thousands of private
equity backed firms, duel listing. Frictionless fees could be thirty
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to fifty cent percent below the New York Stock Exchange
or the NASDAK. Here in Texas, we have less government,
we have rest less rules. The twenty twenty five Texas
capital markets package slashes and corporation costs below delawares, zero
state income tax seals the deal. Dallas becomes y'all street,
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centralizing finance from a single socialist choke point. Socialism's track
record is ledger of ruin. We know that socialism sucks
wherever it grips. Havana Venezuela now New York City. Price
is sore, the shelves become empty. The wealth of aforates
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Zorhan's platform is a photocopy of what we've seen in
other socialist utopias. Confiscate from the producers, redistribute until nothing remains.
A thirty dollars minimum wage will shutter the delis and
the trading floor, coffee carts alike. Rent control will turn
Manhattan into a ghost tower of unmaintained pre war relics.
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Corporate surre taxes will bleed the very banks that underwrite
the IPOs. Post election surveys show sixty two percent of
New York City finance executives are scouting for an exit.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Every day.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
That the Texas Stock Exchange delays its launch, billions of
dollars will be rerouted elsewhere. Contrasts this with Texas's pro
market arsenal, the capital markets package sun sets key incentives
in mid twenty twenty six. Sec roles still mandate federal oversight,
but a Texas Stock Exchange and our ensure friendly playbook
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is locked in unless a post twenty twenty six congress
in bolden by East Coast and West Coast radicals tightens
the news Texas is four hundred and eleven million dollar
war chest is a user or lose its signal to
global capital. America still has a free market. Refuge urgency
is crucial. Over one hundred high skill jobs in Dallas
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are pledged. Thousands more from listings. Talent fleeing mean Mom
Donnie's tax hammer needs runways now, they need a place
to go. Foreign investors holding four forty percent of the
New York Stock Exchange shares read the hell headlines. They
sell first, they ask questions later. A single quarter of
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uncertainty could shave five to ten percent off of US
equity values. The Texas Stock Exchange could be a circuit
breaker for that. Socialism markets in slogans, markets market in facts.
We don't need slogans, We don't need bumper stickers. We
need results. Zorhan's New York City promises utopia tomorrow by
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looting today. Texas promises competition today, so prosperity compounds tomorrow.
The duopoly of the New York Stock Exchange in the
NASDAQ has given birth to a crony cartel shielded by
decades of regulatory capture. The Texas Stock Exchange shatters it
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with lower costs, faster listings, and rules written for growth,
not for grievance. We should be cheering the fracture. This
will be the first real regulatory change in American history
that will improve our stock market even moderate. See the math.
Every dollar saved on fees is a dollar reinvested in jobs,
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in research and development and dividends. Y'all street not Wall Street.
The Texas Stock Exchange isn't anti Wall Street. It's anti monopolies.
It's anti mandates, it's anti misery. It's anti Mom, Donnie Mom.
Donnie's victory is a ninety day countdown. By April twenty
twenty six, his policies will be law and the exodus
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will be irreversible. Texas has the capital, the code, the
sec nod, and the political will. All that remains is execution,
build it list the first etf on Super Bowl Sunday.
Football fans in Texas will love that. Let the opening
bell and Dallas drown out the closing bell in his
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city that forgot what made it rich.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
The Texas Stock Exchange is not a dream. It's a deadline.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Meet it or watch socialism's gray tide swallow the last
redoubt of American capital. Y'all Street rises now or never.
Think it's a beautiful idea zero state income tax? Why
wouldn't you want that for the new home of Wall Street? Well,
y'all street, fifty thirty to fifty percent lower fees than
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the Nasdaq or the New York Stock Exchange, No mandatory
ESG nonsense. Build it now. Let the first Texas Stock
Exchange ticker be dollar sign woke short it to zero.
Zorhan live streams his confusion from City Hall while Dallas
rings in a new era. The Texas Stock Exchange isn't
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just a good idea, it's the laugh track to the
socialism funeral.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
I think it's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Hey, coming up right after this, Holly Hanson, We're going
to go downtown to the Texas State, to the Houston
City Hall and We're going to try to figure out
why John Whitmyer has become controversial for not being controversial.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
The only thing that hurts more than paying taxes not
paying taxes, Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
All right, Houston, I'm sure we all agree. There are
way too many Martin Luther King Junior Day parades in
the Houston area. For years, Houston had two MLK Day parades,
two competing parades. Which parade is worthy of your attention. Finally,
Mayor Whitmyer has made it a priority to bring everyone together.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
And unite the community.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
He said that for once and for all, we're just
gonna have one parade on January nineteenth.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
To sell it.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
The city is going to celebrate how many multiple parades.
It's not gonna be conflicting parades, not gonna be dual parades,
we advocate.
Speaker 7 (28:56):
Mayor.
Speaker 8 (28:57):
I was told that there are two Martin Luther parades,
been that way for thirty years. I was committed to
have a unity parade. So I got with all the
parties discuss what the concerns were. It was just a
matter of bringing everyone to the table. We had an
announcement that we're going to have one parade from January
nineteenth to honor Doctor King, no longer two parades. I'm
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so excited that we are able to unite the community
behind doctor King. This is the way you should run
a city for all the people. Thank you, and let
me call in council Member Davis.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Let's posor. I see you get the idea. It's like,
finally some unity in the community. So that's great news.
And I'm sure that's the end of all the controversy
with Mayor Whitmyer. Right, Not so fast there. Mayor Wentmeyer
is in some hot water. People are criticizing him. They're
attacking him now because he's going to allow the federal
government to enforce basic immigration laws that have existed for
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pretty much since the dawn of time.
Speaker 9 (29:55):
We have consistently had the same policy since day one,
and I'm told it's the same policy of previous administrations
and previous police chiefs. We are the Houston Police Department.
We didn't force state and city laws, not immigration, not ice.
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And all I can say is, as we go forward,
we're going to have some challenging days.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
I don't get this at all.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
So Whitmeyer's controversial now because he doesn't support Antifa. I
understand this correctly. Holly Hanson of the Texan On News.
Speaker 6 (30:33):
Well, apparently, you know what Whitmyer's talking about is there's
been some people have been very upset with the Houston
Police Department, accusing them of cooperating with Immigration and Customs
officials who are conducting, you know, actions in the city
of Houston. There was a recent abreast I think fifteen
hundred individuals, many of whom who had criminal backgrounds. Some
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of them were sexual predator. I mean, there were some
real problems with these people. But what's happening is Houston
ic officers when they make a traffic stop or or
they're investigating criminal activity, they run a background check. That's
what we expect right when we get pulled over or
we're facing the police. And if there happens to be
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a warrant for that person, regardless of which agency it
comes from, they are under the law obligated to contact
that agency and see if they want to come pick
up the person. And that includes the federal government. So
they contact the FBI if there's a warrant, They contact
ICE if there's a warrant, but they are not helping ice,
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you know, carry out these operations. But this erupted in
a rather spectacular fashion last week when one of the
Houston City Council members, who also is hoping to become
the Harris County Attorney sometime soon, accused John Wittmeyer of
asking like Neville Chamberlain from the world.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
No.
Speaker 7 (32:03):
Oh, no, I don't know how many Houstonians are super
familiar with World War two history, but that's what Addie
came in of the Houston City Council invoked in this case.
Speaker 6 (32:16):
But she also accused the administration of not following due
process for these individuals, which is interesting because due process
involves an investigation. Like I said, if you get pulled
over by the police, Kenny, if you get arrested today,
part of the due process is an investigation that means
checking out your background, where you're from, do you have
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any warrants out for your arrest, you have any criminal
history that they need to take into consideration when processing you.
Speaker 7 (32:48):
So that is part of.
Speaker 6 (32:49):
The due process. But yes, it's been a bit of
a dust up with Wittmeier and the police head of
the Houston Police Union pushing back on at came in
in some of these other critics who I guess what
they're suggesting is that police should not be following the
law here, that they should be, I don't know, engaging
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in an act of rebellion and refusing to let the
federal government know that they have someone in their custody,
whether temporary or actually in the jail system, that is
wanted by those federal authorities.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
All right, For those that don't know, Neville Chamberlain was
a British person who is controversy. He was considered controversial
because he was too friendly to the Nazis. Critics argued
he enabled Adolph su aggression and made World War two inevitable.
And I just I got to say, Nazi analogies, does
this work? Does We've heard that there's so many Nazi
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analogies are so common on the left, and this is
a very smart Nazi analogy. And sometimes when something's too smart,
it's stupid.
Speaker 6 (33:55):
Well, and it's interesting too because in using Churchill and
to invoke I'm sorry at using Chamberlain, that kind of
sets herself up as a Churchill figure. And you know,
listeners who are familiar with World War two history know
that Winston Churchill was the Prime Minister that followed Chamberlain,
who was very ardent in defending his country from foreign invasion.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
From foreign invaders, right, So people from other countries were
trying to come to England to do harm to the country.
And what we're asking for here is for Ice to
get these people that aren't supposed to be in the
country out of the country, who are objective criminals at
the very least, they're here illegally at the very most.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Of their murderers and child predators.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
And I feel like Colley, maybe the analogies backwards.
Speaker 6 (34:46):
The analogy is a bit weird. It's quite a stretch,
and it's you know, typical the political hyperbole that we're
hearing now with this enforcement.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
But you know, the.
Speaker 6 (34:56):
Key is that the Houston Police officers are not doing
any seems different than they've done for years. This is
the same policy they've had all along. It's the same
policy that the County Sheriff's Department has. If you encounter
someone that you're investigating for some sort of criminal activity,
you have to conduct these background checks and you have
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to let an agency know if there's a warrant out
for that person. It's just the way it's supposed to be,
and I just I'm a little confused by this suggestion that, perhaps,
you know, officers who are sworn to uphold the law
are supposed to somehow buck the federal law. That doesn't
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seem like it's a good plan for conducting their duties.
So it is problematic and it really puts them in
a bad position.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
Holly, how long have you and I known each other?
Speaker 7 (35:54):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (35:54):
Goodness, at least six years, I think so.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
Back then it was Turner was mayor, right, I didn't
know you. When a nice Parker was in charge.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
I didn't know you then, I don't think so I leave.
Speaker 6 (36:06):
The same policy was in place under an East Parker
as well.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
If you and I turned back the hourglass when we
met each other and we said, someday you and Kenny
will be on the radio defending a lifelong Democrat Party
member who will become mayor and he'll be controversial for
not being controversial, would you believe that that's where we'd
be at today?
Speaker 6 (36:26):
I would never have guessed it, never have guessed.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
It's just seems like the stupid things are getting so
much dumber, and the smart people seems like there's less
and less of them every day. And I will tell
you I'm losing sleep over this.
Speaker 5 (36:44):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 6 (36:45):
And honestly, I've always been interested in policy, so you know,
when I'm writing or covering the news, I'm interested in
what the policy is much less so than who the
party member is. But it is really interesting to watch
on Whitmeyer. And likewise the mayor up in Dallas now,
the mayor in Dallas, Mayor Johnson, is a former Democrat
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who has now switched parties. But I suggest in some ways,
you know, his policies were always a little bit more
conservative when in comparison to the rest of this party.
And these are Democrats who are concerned about public safety,
in law and order, and so you see them bucking
their party, which has moved to the left on some
of these criminal justice issues. And we just have these
(37:30):
ongoing issues, you know, in Harris County right now, we're
having conflict over whether or not a state law applies
or this weird federal consent to crey that was imposed
on the county back in twenty nineteen. And what that
says is that judges have to release most misdemeanor suspects
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without even reviewing their cases. They're not allowed to hold
them on bail. But the problem is you've got a
state law that was just a next did this year,
and it recognizes the fact that some misdemeanors are a
little more serious, like unlawful possession of a weapon, or
violation of a family violence protective order or making a
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terroristic threat. And under state law, you can't release those
people on what we call pr bond, meaning they don't
have to pay any bail, and you have to review
their case to see what's going on here before you
authorize their relief. So we are in this weird situation.
Not a lot of people are familiar with it. It
kind of flies under the radar. But we have these
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ongoing debates about public safety and how to best ensure
public safety and give the law enforcement agents the tools
that they need, and we see democrats like John Wittmeyer
taking the side of making sure we can keep the
public safe.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
Well, I'm sure that we can all agree, Holly, after
we point out to the unreasonable people that they need
to calm down when they get mad at the mayor
for trying to see up the potholes and find a
place to put all the homeless people, that they will
see the error of their ways, and I'm sure they
will follow our instructions.
Speaker 6 (39:09):
Yes, I'm sure they will.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
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Democrats to prove they'll almost fight for what they believe in. Hi, everybody,
I'm Kenny Webster. Thanks so much for joining us this afternoon.
Brandon Waltons is stopping by. Is a weird news story
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today out of Texas involving naked exercise at a public school.
It's even creepier than it sounds. We'll give you the details.
Stick around for that. Plus, Holly Hanson is stopping by,
and we're gonna look at what the controversy involving John
Whitmeyer not being controversial, the mayor of Houston not involved
in any contra and somehow that's a scandal.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Leave it to Democrats.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
But before we get to any of that, let's talk
about the Epstein disaster. Breitbart dot Com today reporting the
only news to come out of the latest Jeffrey Epstein
document dump is the disgrace journalist Michael Wolfe and a
former New York Times reporter quote unquote reporter appeared to
beg the now dead pedophile for dirt on Donald Trump,
(01:24):
and guess what they got nothing. Those emails actually detail
how even though Epstein thought Donald Trump knew he was
doing something wrong. In the emails, he admits that Donald
Trump did nothing wrong. In the meantime, they redacted information
from a set of emails involving Virginia Jeoffrey. Virginia Jeoffrey
explained in detail how Donald Trump did nothing wrong, and
(01:48):
they selectively edited lie biomission, if you will, details in
those emails. The Democrats last week to make it sound
like Donald Trump was involved in something he wasn't, and
now The New York Times is hoping to from that
by publishing out of context emails that say nothing incriminating
about Trump. New York Times finance reporter Landon Thomas Junior
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had numerous chummy exchanges with Epstein and Shaka of Shocks.
At least from the ones we've seen, the so called
reporter was only interested in a taking down Trump before
the twenty sixteen election and b getting financial tips. Keep
in mind that This was nearly a decade after Epstein
had been found guilty of procuring child prostitutes in two
(02:32):
thousand and eight. Also, keep in mind that Trump banned
Epstein from his mar Alago club in two thousand and seven.
So Thomas wrote to Epstein in a February twenty sixteen
email regarding Trump's candidacy as it was gaining steam. He said,
it's getting scary the stories you could tell. I am
getting worried. Thomas wrote Epstein in September twenty sixteen, is
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he ever going to implode? That same month, Landon asked
the convicted pedophile, if you knew Trump was going to win,
how would you position your portfolio?
Speaker 3 (03:02):
For his part, Michael.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Wolfe wrote an email to Epstein in February twenty sixteen,
claiming The New York Times was digging for Epstein Trump
dirt through him. Michael Wolfe said, the New York Times
called me about you and Trump. Also Hillary campaign digging
deeply again. You should consider preempting, Epstein replied, lots of reporters,
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and then wolf replied, yeah, you're the Trump bullet, HM weird.
In January twenty sixteen, Wolf pushed Epstein this way, he
said quote, the more Trump looks real or perish the
thought inevitable, the more reporters are going to focus on this.
So as you will not be surprised, you need a strategy.
The biggest bombshell from the Epstein emails is that The
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New York Times was working with Jeffrey Epstein well after
he was known to be a child sex trafficker. At
one point, Michael Wolfe basically admitted the deep state is
so real that Epstein helping to sink Trump could give
him political cover, even though Epstein was already a convicted pedophile.
Listen to this, Michael Wolfe wrote, quote, Also, becoming an
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anti Trump voice gives you a certain political cover which
you decidedly don't have now. Still, this necessary involves you
going public. The strategic plan, wolf added would involve your
public identity, philanthropic activities and interest, and the development of
media allies ought. Finally to be put in place, nine
(04:27):
days later, Michael Wolfe wrote, quote, there's an opportunity to
come forward this week and talk about Trump in such
a way that could garner you great sympathy and help
finish him interested question mark, Let's summarize, guys, it seems
to me that Trump offloaded Epstein in two thousand and seven,
even before Epstein was convicted, but a former New York
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Times reporter and a leftist author remained all kinds of
chummy with the pedophile in the hopes of defeating Trump
in the very early days of his rising political movement.
Tens of thousands of pages of Epstein documents that show
Trump did nothing wrong. Epstein's most high profile and vocal victim,
the late Virginia Jeoffrey, said Trump did not so much
(05:11):
as flirt with the girls, much less behave in appropriately.
The Biden administration, which pulled every law fair stop available
to stop to them to destroy Trump, have the so
called Epstein files for years, and they had nothing on Trump,
(05:31):
which is all we can assume when they were out
to destroy the guy. The idea that the Biden people
would protect Trump from something incriminating is a ridiculous assumption.
It was the New York Times and Michael Wolf who
cozied up to the pedophile, not Donald Trump. It's weird
that anybody would take anything away from this except that.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
So we're supposed to live within our income, so we
can afford to pay taxes to a government they can't
live within its income.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Yeah. That Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness Texas.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I saw this video from over the weekend in the
Dallas Fort Worth area. It looked like it was from
a third world country. There's thousands of Muslims, all men,
all fighting age, gathered together in the streets to do
some Muslim thing.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
I don't know what it was. I'm not a Muslim,
but I don't care if you're a Muslim. I care
if you're in Islamist.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Did you get the difference if you're a secular Muslim
and you can live in harmony with the Jews and
the Christians and the Atheists and the Hindus, fine, whatever,
Welcome to America if you need to create a community
where you change all the laws to adhere to the
broken system that you abandoned back home in the Mideast.
So you want to turn our country into the piece
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of crab country that you and your people abandoned, I
do have a problem with that. In the Dallas Fort
Worth area, they have Epic City. Well they had it.
The bad news is the good news is Epic City
is going away. So that's good, right, It's objective good.
The bad news is they're replacing it now with something
called Meadow. What the hell does meadows stand for? Muslims
(07:06):
enthusiastically avoiding Dallas or whole damn Texas, or Muslims escaping
all dang oil rich white boys, or I don't know
what it stands for. I just know that changing the
name of Epic City doesn't change what Epic City is.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
But maybe I'm wrong here.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
He is Sharia law advocate Brandon Walton's to tell us
why I'm wrong.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
I'm not sure. I'm going to be the first time
I've ever been called that.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
That's yeah, No, he's not. By the way, he's a
conservative oth you're a Christian?
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Right, yes, yes, all right? What is going on at
Epic Why is it different? What's different about it?
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Yes? So, Epic City, just by way of background here
got a lot of attention, especially you know, about about
a year ago, because this was this planned Islamic neighborhood
development that would not just have houses where they were saying,
we're only essentially, we're going to set up our system
where only Muslims are going to be able to buy
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into our neighborhood here. But they were going to plan
to have you know, schools, community center, all this stuff
sort of centered around it, and it would create this
sort of Islamic enclave. EPIC, by the way, stands for
East Plano Islamic Center, which is a big mosque up
just north of Dallas. They're the ones that are behind this. Well,
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they've got a lot of attention, a lot of negative attention,
and even caught the eye of you had Devertor Abbott
speaking out against it and saying that he was going
to put you know, Texas Rangers and some different state
agencies to investigate them. He saw some action from the
Attorney General as well, and then he ultimately saw the
legislature come in and pass pass a new law that would,
(08:44):
at least the way it was set up or set
up to be structured before, would make that kind of
community illegal. Now, the latest development is that those behind
this neighborhood haven't given up. In fact, they've gone out
and said that they're they're continuing with this project and
they want it renamed.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
They're renaming the.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
Meadow and now if you see pictures of it, the metif,
I guess is a pretty apt term for what it is,
given that there hasn't been any construction on this site yet.
It is literally a meadow up in North Texas. But
it just shows that, you know, this sort of thing
is continuing to happen despite the fact that you have had,
like I said, you had the governor and legislators out
there saying that they had stopped this, and yet you know,
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it looks like they're they're they're they're keeping this plan up.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Okay, So it's my understanding.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
There are actually a couple other places around the United
States where something like Epic City already exists. There's Holy Islamville,
which is in York County, South Carolina. Now technically that's
an unincorporated community where there's just a bunch of Muslims
that live. Fine whatever, if they can live wherever they want.
It's a free country. There's Islamberg, which is a religious
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community in the town of Tompkins, Delaware. And I'm they've
been a used of like harboring terrorists and that sort
of thing. Whether that's true or not, I don't know.
But police did find twenty three firearms and three homemade
bombs that investigators claim we're going to be used to
attack the nearby town in January twenty nineteen, three men,
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one male miner, were arrested for plotting an attack there. Look,
I don't understand, you know, what exactly makes Meadow different
from Epic City, But I can tell you if there's
a community of people that are fervently opposed to what
happens in the rest of the country or our secular
beliefs as a society, probably it shouldn't exist. And if
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it's just for Muslims, then that sounds like it's a
violation of the Fair Housing Act.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
So is it is this legal?
Speaker 5 (10:49):
Well, you know, certainly, certainly you've had some people say no,
that's why they find themselves in this sort of legal trouble. Now,
a lot of the actual litigation that might surround this
hasn't really moved for the fact that they haven't really started.
You know, this is just right now. A proposals is
somebody's idea, right, But as soon as they start selling
people and buy and people start buying into this, I
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think you'll see a lot more movement on the legal front,
because you're right, you can't, you know, you can't create
these sort of enclaves. They're illegal. We even have in
Texas like I said, a new law, you know, new
WAW actually put into play, signed into a lot earlier
this year that more specifically targets this sort of thing.
And so you know whether or not that that upholds
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in court, I guess what we'll find out, all.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Right, moving on from Epic City to Encore O n
Cor Encore not quite how you'd think it'd be spelled.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
But they're pushing a.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Thirty three billion dollar power project expansion. I'm just going
to climb out on a limit. This has something to
do with air cood, I'm going I'm going to climb
on a limit. Guess not nuclear?
Speaker 5 (11:51):
Yeah, no, I don't think it has anything to do
with nuclear. It's actually about bringing kind of us some
more power out to the Permian basin area. So you know,
I think West tex exis and you know it's a
massive project, and you have groups like Google out there
essentially advocating for this. Of course, Encore, the power you
know supplier this case, stands to make a lot of
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money on this, and so you find that, you know,
they've been behind some recent legislation to try to push
this sort of expansion of a power project despite the
fact that you know it could raise rates for for power,
you know, residential consumers right here in Texas, in most
parts of the state that are part of the power grid.
(12:34):
It's sort of a bigger question. I mean, this is
something that you know, certainly has been discussed and people
who focus a lot more on these issues that have
a lot more to say about than I do. But
it does raise the question about where the balance is
between things like bitcoin, for example, or cryptocurrency and the
effect on the grid in Texas, and and and where
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that balance is.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Okay, since my understanding, Google has a project going on
in the Permian Basin. Not related to cloud computing services,
although that was something they considered in the past. Apparently
that was canceled. Not related to an AI data center hub,
although that's something they're considering doing, it hasn't happened yet.
They're they're working on an environmental monitoring project. It sounds
like they are contracted by the NASA, by NASA and
(13:21):
the EPA to use satellite imagery and technology to monitor
air emissions. So why are they involved in the power grid.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
Yeah, I'm not sure why they would be involved. They're
certainly you know, if they wanted to ever do more
cloud computing and AI and things like that, and wanted
to set them out there. They would they would benefit
from an expansion like this. So I think that you know,
people are looking at this and saying, Okay, it looks
like if they're not in that space right now, it
looks like they potentially are trying to lay the ground
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work for doing that over the next several years.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Yeah, okay, all right, Moving along here. Boeing is being
sued in a Texas Cord for downplaying the danger sure
of an aircraft. The companies come under fire because of
their DEI practices during the Abiden years in office. Multiple
airplanes falling out of the sky, parts falling off. That
was all of a sudden when they decided to get
into space travel. That's when they got two astronauts stuck
(14:16):
on board the International Space Station. Along comes Elon Musk
to save the day. Fast forward to this lawsuit. What's
going on here?
Speaker 5 (14:26):
Yeah, it's not been a good I guess six or
seven years now for Boeing. You know where you know,
all the stems back to the seven thirty seven Max
aircraft which was grounded, remember for a very very long
time about six years ago. Actually at the tail into
the Trump administration. The first Trump administration was grounded by
the SAA because they kept having incidents with them. The
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accusation is that Boeing told airlines that they didn't need
to have really any additional training. That's how they sold
these aircraft. That pilots who already trained for their normal
seven thirty seven aircraft wouldn't need additional training or would
need very little additional training. That's why they sold them
to the airlines.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
That of course has.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
Come out that no, that wasn't really true, and that
pilots did need some substantial additional training in order to
avoid incidents like they saw with this. So now you know,
fast forward to today, you have the Southwest Airlines Pilot Association,
which is their pilot union, sewing Boeing in Texas's new
Business Court over this. And so you know, this comes
(15:31):
at a time where you're right, You've got Boeing is
already caught up in a lot of accusations about the
role of DEI playing a role in their their parts
suppliers and their company and things like that leading to
quality control issues. And so yeah, we'll see what this
new this new court decides.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Wow, Boeing is one of the only stocks that did
not do well during It's one of the only military
industrial complex stocks that did not do well during the
Biden years. If you bought Boeing on this day back
in twenty twenty, it was worth one hundred and ninety
nine dollars. Today it's worth one hundred and ninety three dollars.
So over the last five years, you didn't make anything.
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War was so profitable during Biden's time in office, Yet
strangely that one wasn't all right. Another lawsuit in the
Travis County Court District targeting the Texas college work study
program Paxton Ken Paxton, our Attorney General, is suing to
strike down an anti Christian restriction in state work study programs.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Give us the who, what, when, where, why? Brandon Waltons.
Speaker 6 (16:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
This lawsuit was a filed last week and it goes
against a few of these different work study programs at
Texas colleges which currently have restrictions saying that if you're
in seminary or doing some sort of religious instruction, you
cannot partake in these work study programs. Some religious liberty
advocates have said that amounts to essentially anti Christian, an
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anti Christian restriction or anti certainly anti religious restriction at Traney.
General Paxton has agreed, he's filed a lawsuit.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Now.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
The reason this is particularly notable though, is that this
is a case where you have the Attorney General, who
normally is defending state agencies right, is actually suing the
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, which is itself a state agency,
over this issue. And so we've seen this happen a
few times before, especially with the Attorney General Paxton, but
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it is something notable, you know, each time you see it,
where you know you have the Attorney General going after
some issues inside the state government itself.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
All right, one more creepy, weird story to end the conversation.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Maybe not the best way to end.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
A conversation, but let's go to Edinburgh, the town of Edinburgh,
where a student's family is suing a youth football coach
for what is being called a nude exercise.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
What happened, Well.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
The accusation here is that you have this football coach
who you know, instructed students to do exercise completely nude.
All of this happening, and as an accusation that you
had district administrators working to cover this up. Now this
is happening at the same time that you have very
similar accusations that actually in some ways are worse over
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in Salina Id that you had a similar situation, and
that the coach was filming it. You know, very disturbing stuff.
This is just one of just a few of the
latest stories that have unfortunately come out of Texas public
schools and the predators inside there.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Do you remember the movie Heaven Help Us from nineteen
eighty five. It starred who was in an Andrew McCarthy
and Kevin Dillan. Do you know this movie?
Speaker 5 (18:44):
I don't know this one.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Donald Sutherland was the.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
It's a movie about Catholic boys at high school in
the nineteen sixties. I remember watching this movie as a
kid because I was Catholic and it was, you know,
it was sort of a PG comedy film. And in
the film, the kids at the school have to go
to gym class and they swim naked during gym class.
It was, which was apparently very normal in the mid
twentieth century for hygiene purposes. And I remember as a
(19:13):
kid watching that and being so disturbed by that. I
was like all the kids in the gym class are
naked together. My mom was like, no, that was normal
back then. Fast forward to twenty twenty five and somebody
is rightly being sued for the equivalent. Exercising naked is
very unwholesome to me, Brandon, it seems very unnecessary.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
I would agree, and especially with some of the stories
we've seen. You know, a lot of these people, unfortunately
don't have very good intentions.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Yeah, no, kidding.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
You guys have a map on your website at texascorecard
dot com of which school districts in the state have
had sexual misconduct involving public school teachers, educators, and staff members.
And it's basically all of them, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
I mean just about it's new stories every day.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Brandon Walton's Texas Scorecard dot Follow him on x subscribe
at their website Texas scorecard dot com.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
It's free.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
We could certainly slow the aging process if aging had
to pass its way through slow ass Congress, take another vacation,
why don't you?
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
New York is cooked and we're going to need a
Texas Stock exchange fast. It's not a luxury, it's an emergency.
Firewall against the socialist siege descending on America's financial heart.
It all started earlier this month, November fourth, twenty twenty five.
Zorhan mom Donnia, a self described Democrats socialist endorsed by
(20:39):
Alexandria Conzio Cortes and Bernie Sanders and a long list
of other people who don't understand basic economics, somehow managed
to squeeze.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Into the mayoral ship.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
The mayor's race was his to win or lose, and
that's exactly what he did.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
He won.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Wall Street, already choking under federal red tape, now faces
a municipal guillotine. Rent freezes, a thirty dollars an hour
minimum wage, corporate tax hikes to fund free everything.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
So we know.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
When this guy takes office January first, less than sixty
days from today. Capital does not wait for ideology to fail,
It flees. Texas can solve the problem here. We can
be the ones to sweep in and win from New
York City's loss. Watch his trillions vanish from New York City.
(21:34):
Where are they going to go? Miami, London? We need
it here. History proves the idea is battle tested. Texas
first studied a state exchange back in the seventies. We
shelved it, then we revived it in twenty twenty one
because of Governor Abbott. In twenty twenty three, he tapped
James Lee to lead a Texas Stock Exchange group, and
by June of twenty twenty four, the project secured one
(21:54):
hundred and twenty million dollars from investors. January twenty twenty
five brought another one one hundred and sixty one million.
Mid twenty twenty five added another two hundred and fifty
million from JP Morgan. The SEC gave him the green light.
Texas is the best capitalized place for a launch. Now,
(22:15):
I'm not a big fan of Dallas. I think their
food sucks, but it does seem like a good place
for a stock exchange. The future is crystal clear, guys,
a fully electronic national exchange in downtown Dallas, trading stocks ETFs.
We know this could be home to thousands of private
equity backed firms, duel listing. Frictionless fees could be thirty
(22:42):
to fifty cent percent below the New York Stock Exchange
or the NASDAK. Here in Texas, we have less government,
we have rest less rules. The twenty twenty five Texas
capital markets package slashes and corporation costs below delawares, zero
state income tax seals the deal. Dallas becomes y'all street,
(23:05):
centralizing finance from a single socialist choke point. Socialism's track
record is ledger of ruin. We know that socialism sucks
wherever it grips. Havana Venezuela now New York City. Price
is sore, the shelves become empty. The wealth of aforates
(23:26):
Zorhan's platform is a photocopy of what we've seen in
other socialist utopias. Confiscate from the producers, redistribute until nothing remains.
A thirty dollars minimum wage will shutter the delis and
the trading floor, coffee carts alike. Rent control will turn
Manhattan into a ghost tower of unmaintained pre war relics.
(23:48):
Corporate surre taxes will bleed the very banks that underwrite
the IPOs. Post election surveys show sixty two percent of
New York City finance executives are scouting for an exit.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Every day.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
That the Texas Stock Exchange delays its launch, billions of
dollars will be rerouted elsewhere. Contrasts this with Texas's pro
market arsenal, the capital markets package sun sets key incentives
in mid twenty twenty six. Sec roles still mandate federal oversight,
but a Texas Stock Exchange and our ensure friendly playbook
(24:25):
is locked in unless a post twenty twenty six congress
in bolden by East Coast and West Coast radicals tightens
the news Texas is four hundred and eleven million dollar
war chest is a user or lose its signal to
global capital. America still has a free market. Refuge urgency
is crucial. Over one hundred high skill jobs in Dallas
(24:48):
are pledged. Thousands more from listings. Talent fleeing mean Mom
Donnie's tax hammer needs runways now, they need a place
to go. Foreign investors holding four forty percent of the
New York Stock Exchange shares read the hell headlines. They
sell first, they ask questions later. A single quarter of
(25:09):
uncertainty could shave five to ten percent off of US
equity values. The Texas Stock Exchange could be a circuit
breaker for that. Socialism markets in slogans, markets market in facts.
We don't need slogans, We don't need bumper stickers. We
need results. Zorhan's New York City promises utopia tomorrow by
(25:33):
looting today. Texas promises competition today, so prosperity compounds tomorrow.
The duopoly of the New York Stock Exchange in the
NASDAQ has given birth to a crony cartel shielded by
decades of regulatory capture. The Texas Stock Exchange shatters it
(25:57):
with lower costs, faster listings, and rules written for growth,
not for grievance. We should be cheering the fracture. This
will be the first real regulatory change in American history
that will improve our stock market even moderate. See the math.
Every dollar saved on fees is a dollar reinvested in jobs,
(26:20):
in research and development and dividends. Y'all street not Wall Street.
The Texas Stock Exchange isn't anti Wall Street. It's anti monopolies.
It's anti mandates, it's anti misery. It's anti Mom, Donnie Mom.
Donnie's victory is a ninety day countdown. By April twenty
twenty six, his policies will be law and the exodus
(26:41):
will be irreversible. Texas has the capital, the code, the
sec nod, and the political will. All that remains is execution,
build it list the first etf on Super Bowl Sunday.
Football fans in Texas will love that. Let the opening
bell and Dallas drown out the closing bell in his
(27:02):
city that forgot what made it rich.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
The Texas Stock Exchange is not a dream. It's a deadline.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Meet it or watch socialism's gray tide swallow the last
redoubt of American capital. Y'all Street rises now or never.
Think it's a beautiful idea zero state income tax? Why
wouldn't you want that for the new home of Wall Street? Well,
y'all street, fifty thirty to fifty percent lower fees than
(27:31):
the Nasdaq or the New York Stock Exchange, No mandatory
ESG nonsense. Build it now. Let the first Texas Stock
Exchange ticker be dollar sign woke short it to zero.
Zorhan live streams his confusion from City Hall while Dallas
rings in a new era. The Texas Stock Exchange isn't
(27:53):
just a good idea, it's the laugh track to the
socialism funeral.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
I think it's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Hey, coming up right after this, Holly Hanson, We're going
to go downtown to the Texas State, to the Houston
City Hall and We're going to try to figure out
why John Whitmyer has become controversial for not being controversial.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
The only thing that hurts more than paying taxes not
paying taxes, Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
All right, Houston, I'm sure we all agree. There are
way too many Martin Luther King Junior Day parades in
the Houston area. For years, Houston had two MLK Day parades,
two competing parades. Which parade is worthy of your attention. Finally,
Mayor Whitmyer has made it a priority to bring everyone together.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
And unite the community.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
He said that for once and for all, we're just
gonna have one parade on January nineteenth.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
To sell it.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
The city is going to celebrate how many multiple parades.
It's not gonna be conflicting parades, not gonna be dual parades,
we advocate.
Speaker 7 (28:56):
Mayor.
Speaker 8 (28:57):
I was told that there are two Martin Luther parades,
been that way for thirty years. I was committed to
have a unity parade. So I got with all the
parties discuss what the concerns were. It was just a
matter of bringing everyone to the table. We had an
announcement that we're going to have one parade from January
nineteenth to honor Doctor King, no longer two parades. I'm
(29:19):
so excited that we are able to unite the community
behind doctor King. This is the way you should run
a city for all the people. Thank you, and let
me call in council Member Davis.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Let's posor. I see you get the idea. It's like,
finally some unity in the community. So that's great news.
And I'm sure that's the end of all the controversy
with Mayor Whitmyer. Right, Not so fast there. Mayor Wentmeyer
is in some hot water. People are criticizing him. They're
attacking him now because he's going to allow the federal
government to enforce basic immigration laws that have existed for
(29:53):
pretty much since the dawn of time.
Speaker 9 (29:55):
We have consistently had the same policy since day one,
and I'm told it's the same policy of previous administrations
and previous police chiefs. We are the Houston Police Department.
We didn't force state and city laws, not immigration, not ice.
(30:16):
And all I can say is, as we go forward,
we're going to have some challenging days.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
I don't get this at all.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
So Whitmeyer's controversial now because he doesn't support Antifa. I
understand this correctly. Holly Hanson of the Texan On News.
Speaker 6 (30:33):
Well, apparently, you know what Whitmyer's talking about is there's
been some people have been very upset with the Houston
Police Department, accusing them of cooperating with Immigration and Customs
officials who are conducting, you know, actions in the city
of Houston. There was a recent abreast I think fifteen
hundred individuals, many of whom who had criminal backgrounds. Some
(30:58):
of them were sexual predator. I mean, there were some
real problems with these people. But what's happening is Houston
ic officers when they make a traffic stop or or
they're investigating criminal activity, they run a background check. That's
what we expect right when we get pulled over or
we're facing the police. And if there happens to be
(31:19):
a warrant for that person, regardless of which agency it
comes from, they are under the law obligated to contact
that agency and see if they want to come pick
up the person. And that includes the federal government. So
they contact the FBI if there's a warrant, They contact
ICE if there's a warrant, but they are not helping ice,
(31:41):
you know, carry out these operations. But this erupted in
a rather spectacular fashion last week when one of the
Houston City Council members, who also is hoping to become
the Harris County Attorney sometime soon, accused John Wittmeyer of
asking like Neville Chamberlain from the world.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
No.
Speaker 7 (32:03):
Oh, no, I don't know how many Houstonians are super
familiar with World War two history, but that's what Addie
came in of the Houston City Council invoked in this case.
Speaker 6 (32:16):
But she also accused the administration of not following due
process for these individuals, which is interesting because due process
involves an investigation. Like I said, if you get pulled
over by the police, Kenny, if you get arrested today,
part of the due process is an investigation that means
checking out your background, where you're from, do you have
(32:39):
any warrants out for your arrest, you have any criminal
history that they need to take into consideration when processing you.
Speaker 7 (32:48):
So that is part of.
Speaker 6 (32:49):
The due process. But yes, it's been a bit of
a dust up with Wittmeier and the police head of
the Houston Police Union pushing back on at came in
in some of these other critics who I guess what
they're suggesting is that police should not be following the
law here, that they should be, I don't know, engaging
(33:10):
in an act of rebellion and refusing to let the
federal government know that they have someone in their custody,
whether temporary or actually in the jail system, that is
wanted by those federal authorities.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
All right, For those that don't know, Neville Chamberlain was
a British person who is controversy. He was considered controversial
because he was too friendly to the Nazis. Critics argued
he enabled Adolph su aggression and made World War two inevitable.
And I just I got to say, Nazi analogies, does
this work? Does We've heard that there's so many Nazi
(33:45):
analogies are so common on the left, and this is
a very smart Nazi analogy. And sometimes when something's too smart,
it's stupid.
Speaker 6 (33:55):
Well, and it's interesting too because in using Churchill and
to invoke I'm sorry at using Chamberlain, that kind of
sets herself up as a Churchill figure. And you know,
listeners who are familiar with World War two history know
that Winston Churchill was the Prime Minister that followed Chamberlain,
who was very ardent in defending his country from foreign invasion.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
From foreign invaders, right, So people from other countries were
trying to come to England to do harm to the country.
And what we're asking for here is for Ice to
get these people that aren't supposed to be in the
country out of the country, who are objective criminals at
the very least, they're here illegally at the very most.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Of their murderers and child predators.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
And I feel like Colley, maybe the analogies backwards.
Speaker 6 (34:46):
The analogy is a bit weird. It's quite a stretch,
and it's you know, typical the political hyperbole that we're
hearing now with this enforcement.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
But you know, the.
Speaker 6 (34:56):
Key is that the Houston Police officers are not doing
any seems different than they've done for years. This is
the same policy they've had all along. It's the same
policy that the County Sheriff's Department has. If you encounter
someone that you're investigating for some sort of criminal activity,
you have to conduct these background checks and you have
(35:19):
to let an agency know if there's a warrant out
for that person. It's just the way it's supposed to be,
and I just I'm a little confused by this suggestion that, perhaps,
you know, officers who are sworn to uphold the law
are supposed to somehow buck the federal law. That doesn't
(35:40):
seem like it's a good plan for conducting their duties.
So it is problematic and it really puts them in
a bad position.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
Holly, how long have you and I known each other?
Speaker 7 (35:54):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (35:54):
Goodness, at least six years, I think so.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
Back then it was Turner was mayor, right, I didn't
know you. When a nice Parker was in charge.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
I didn't know you then, I don't think so I leave.
Speaker 6 (36:06):
The same policy was in place under an East Parker
as well.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
If you and I turned back the hourglass when we
met each other and we said, someday you and Kenny
will be on the radio defending a lifelong Democrat Party
member who will become mayor and he'll be controversial for
not being controversial, would you believe that that's where we'd
be at today?
Speaker 6 (36:26):
I would never have guessed it, never have guessed.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
It's just seems like the stupid things are getting so
much dumber, and the smart people seems like there's less
and less of them every day. And I will tell
you I'm losing sleep over this.
Speaker 5 (36:44):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 6 (36:45):
And honestly, I've always been interested in policy, so you know,
when I'm writing or covering the news, I'm interested in
what the policy is much less so than who the
party member is. But it is really interesting to watch
on Whitmeyer. And likewise the mayor up in Dallas now,
the mayor in Dallas, Mayor Johnson, is a former Democrat
(37:08):
who has now switched parties. But I suggest in some ways,
you know, his policies were always a little bit more
conservative when in comparison to the rest of this party.
And these are Democrats who are concerned about public safety,
in law and order, and so you see them bucking
their party, which has moved to the left on some
of these criminal justice issues. And we just have these
(37:30):
ongoing issues, you know, in Harris County right now, we're
having conflict over whether or not a state law applies
or this weird federal consent to crey that was imposed
on the county back in twenty nineteen. And what that
says is that judges have to release most misdemeanor suspects
(37:52):
without even reviewing their cases. They're not allowed to hold
them on bail. But the problem is you've got a
state law that was just a next did this year,
and it recognizes the fact that some misdemeanors are a
little more serious, like unlawful possession of a weapon, or
violation of a family violence protective order or making a
(38:12):
terroristic threat. And under state law, you can't release those
people on what we call pr bond, meaning they don't
have to pay any bail, and you have to review
their case to see what's going on here before you
authorize their relief. So we are in this weird situation.
Not a lot of people are familiar with it. It
kind of flies under the radar. But we have these
(38:33):
ongoing debates about public safety and how to best ensure
public safety and give the law enforcement agents the tools
that they need, and we see democrats like John Wittmeyer
taking the side of making sure we can keep the
public safe.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
Well, I'm sure that we can all agree, Holly, after
we point out to the unreasonable people that they need
to calm down when they get mad at the mayor
for trying to see up the potholes and find a
place to put all the homeless people, that they will
see the error of their ways, and I'm sure they
will follow our instructions.
Speaker 6 (39:09):
Yes, I'm sure they will.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
Ally Hansen the Texan Dot News that's the website. Follow
her on X I love you all. We'll be back
bright early tomorrow morning for.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
More of what you bought a radio for. Have a
great day.
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Speaker 7 (39:30):
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