August 13, 2025 • 42 mins
This podcast edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness features author Daniel Turner and the biggest troll in Houston politics. ( @KennethRWebster )
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
A new report from the Science Community, scientists claim that
Neanderthals took drugs and still do if you observe Keith Richards. Hi, everybody,
I'm Kenny Webster joining us in just a little bit.
A local activist who some of you might actually hate.
Common Sense Bob is stopping by. I find him to
be a fascinating individual, but I do understand not everybody.
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Everybody doesn't have to like everybody. He'll be here real soon.
Stick around for that. Daniel Turner should be stopping by
from Power the Future. But before we get to any
of it, I want to go ahead and address what
some of you are seeing today on the pages of
the Houston Chronicle, right Taddy, I don't read the Houston Chronicle.
Oh thank you, invisible person in the back of the studio.
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I've heard you probably haven't read the Houston Chronicle in
a long time. Today I think you should. I know
it's weird to hear me defend the Houston Chronic. I
know I've criticized them many times on the radio, but
part of the reason why I've criticized them is because
I didn't think there were enough conservative voices in their paper.
Not long ago, they published an op ed from Rick
Perry detailing how great John Cornan is, and I made
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the point I thought it was a garbage article. I
didn't agree with any It is a you know, the
the Rhinos defending the neo cons defending the lib Republicans
Like I didn't hate Rick Perry, but I don't agree
with everything he's done since leaving Offense, and he's not
my favorite Republican. He I liked his secretary of State.
I'll leave it at that. I thought she was fantastic,
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and some of his positions on things like marijuana. It
doesn't matter at this point. But you know, if Rick
Perry goes out and endorses Dade fail in, which he did,
or John Cornyn, which he did, I have to respectfully
disagree with him. So I made that point, and then
the editors at The Houston Chronicle said, well, Kenny, why
don't you write an article for us? And I said, yeah,
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you're not going to like what I say, and they said,
doesn't matter. If we like it, we'll let you say it.
So that's where we are today on the pages of
the Houston Chronicle. An article I just wrote and drafted,
I published, well, they published it. I wrote it the
headline don't like Ken Paxton tell John Cornyn to drop
out MAGA. Republicans aren't a big fan of John Cornyn.
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And there's a reason why you could see it. It's
clear as day. Polling shows US Senator John Cornyn is
trailing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and the Republican Party.
During his time as a powerful US senator, raising campaign
fronds from out of touch Washington lobbyists, Cornyn has voted
for more wars, more debt. That's not what conservatives, Texas
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conservatives want in office. It's not what we want anymore.
You know, there are thirteen thousand veterans to sleep on
the street every night, and about twenty of them die
by suicide every single day. These numbers should shame our
nation's leaders into focusing on our needs at home first.
But that hasn't stopped John Cornyn from supporting war after war,
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whether boots on the ground in Iraq or Afghanistan are
diverting resources to Ukraine or Yemen. It hasn't stopped him
from voting for another bloated budget, another proxy war, another
round of endless conflict that only fattens the bottom line
for defense contractors. Meanwhile, the rest of us have to
deal with broken vets, broken families, a broken budget, one
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that has added roughly thirty trillion in debts since Cornn
first took power in Washington. Yet, now, as Cornn scrambles
to salvage his career, he wants you to believe he's
ninety nine point two percent maga. We could cherry pick
votes when Trump was in office, but the real test
of conviction is what Cornin does when the Democrats are
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in charge. When the wok the First Agenda needed defenders
in the Senate, Cornin's record told another story, a fifty
four percent liberty score from the Conservative Review and a
White House ceremony where President Joe Biden personally thanked him
for helping pass a gun control bill. Real conservatives in
Texas see through those worthless claims. We know Cornin will
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always be a rubber stamp for the establishment agenda and
Washington one that failed over decades to secure our border
with Mexico or to port cheap migrant labor, and instead
prioritizes endless wars that funnel billions to the military industrial
complex and its web of influence to grassroots Republicans in Texas,
Cornin has become a walking deal breaker. In the twenty
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twenty six Senate race, he worked with Democrats to pass
Biden's Chips and Science Act despite Trump's opposition. He cooperates
so closely with Democrats that an extremeless liberal. Extremist liberal
that's easy for you to say like Dallas us R
Representative Jasmine Crockett, for example, called her his best partner,
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called him her You know, the point is she likes
him for real Texas conservatives. He's about his unpopular as
vegan brisket. There's a reason Cornyn gets booed at his
own party state convention. Meanwhile, Ken Paxton, despite his soap
opera like divorce drama, is running circles around Cornyn. Republican
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voters care more about conservative issues than about Paxton's personal life.
Policy matters, not gossip. While Paxton's critics want to make
this primary contest about values, they ignore Cornyn's own house
of glass, like allegations covered by The Dallas Express that
a key campaign staffer paid an escort via Venmo as
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if he was ordering takeout. Next to that, Paxton's divorce
looks like a parking ticket. At this point in the campaign,
Cornyn is so desperate to appear close to Trump that
he's been caught playing fast and loose, so the little
thing called the truth. He's facing backlash for running an
AD that made it seem like Trump endorsed him. But
Trump has not endorsed Cornyn, and there's no reason to
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think he will. We in the grassroots know why Cornyn
has spent years in the establishment, and no last minute
Maga cosplay will erase that. Some Republicans whisper about Paxton's
viability in the general election, fearing a matchup against former
US Representative Colin al Rider Beto O'Rourke. But the bigger
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risk is keeping a twenty two year swamp creature like
Cornyn on the ballot, only to watch him stumble through
another cycle. Still, Texas has a state with more than
thirty million people. Surely there are other qualified options. Some
have called on Houston area US Representative Wesley Hunter run
and it's worth pointing out that Hunt is airing ads
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that look suspiciously like campaign spots. I've heard US Representative
Ronnie Jackson's name floated as well. The prevailing fear among
MAGA and liberty minded Republicans is that adding any other
candidate to the primary would split the anti Cornin vote
and accidentally end up saving him. At the same time,
the fear among establishment Republicans is that Paxton would be
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vulnerable to a strong Democratic candidate. Looking at both political
paths ahead, the responsibility falls on Cornyn to do the
right thing for Texas. Our senior senators should step aside
and let a new generation of Republicans, real Trump Republicans
run for the Senate. Know this, the base will take
a risk with Paxton. We're all in on the only
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candidate currently positioned to deliver Texas Republicans from the neo
conservative nightmare of yesterday's GOP. If you don't like it,
tell Cornyn to get out of the way and give
voters another option. It's our party now, and the ten
eight big enough for neocons like Cornyn. I'm Kenny Webster.
Thanks for listening. Kenny Webster, the best looking dude on radio.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
And if you've seen the competition, that's not saying a
whole hell of a lot.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
A nationwide soapree call is in effect due to bacteria contamination.
And now post malone doesn't look so dumb for not
using it, does he? Hi, Welcome back everybody. Our younger
listeners will understand that joke. The older ones might not.
Bobcat Goldthwaite doesn't look so dumb for not using it,
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does he. There now the older listeners get the joke. Hi, everybody,
welcome back from break And if you live in the
greater Houston area, I hope you're safe because crime exists.
It's rampant in big cities like Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston, Texas,
New York City, and of course Washington, DC. Even when
they say crime is down, it still ain't great, is it.
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I was in New Orleans recently, and I tell you
one thing I've noticed is New Orleans hard to believe
has actually really improved over the last year or two.
All they did was bring in Louisiana State troop to
police the streets when the New Orleans Police Department wasn't
doing it. Mayor LaToya Cantrell she's the mayor in New Orleans.
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She had a sexual relationship with her bodyguard, a local
police officer. And look, I'm not saying that's all the
cops in New Orleans doing, but there's not only part
of it. If you're in New Orleans, you notice things changed.
Why because they brought in a bigger police force from
outside the city to help them clean things up. Does
that sound familiar? Washington, d C not a great place
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to live. Less than a month ago, one of their
top police commanders had to step down in disgrace when
it turned out he was lying about police statistics. Imagine that. Well,
now we've learned that Donald Trump is sending in the
National Guard to help out the people in the city. Hi,
I like Washington, d C. I'll tell you I haven't
been there since Labor Day weekend twenty nineteen. It's been
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several years since I visited the city. I was there
the last time. I think it was good when Donald
Trump was in one place, but right before the pandemic.
So I wanted to get a real opinion what's it
actually like in the city in terms of violence and
danger and crime. So I reached out to a friend
of mine who spent a lot of time in the city,
and if you listen to this radio show, you've heard
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his opinions before. Daniel Turner from Power the Future is here. Daniel,
you lived in Washington, d C. I guess it's just
a squeaky clean, safe place to lave where you don't
have to lock your doors today.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Right, It's remarkable that the blowback that this executive order
and his actions by the president is taking, because again
it's one of those eighty twenty issues where the left
is just so hell bent on being anti Trump and
whatever Trump does is bad, so we have to do
the opposite. But there are a lot of liberals in
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DC who will welcome this. They won't say it publicly
because they're cowards, but they will welcome this. I wrote
a nobed back in twenty twenty about leaving DC and
moving to the country. It's when I decided I was
going to be a farmer and I was getting out.
And it's probably the most controversial that I ever wrote,
because a lot of you know, even friends of mine,
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called it racist and called it offensive. And I was
like to think I was five years ahead of the curve.
I saw what was coming with politics, arrangements in Drome
and appeasing radical black groups, radical BLM groups, and appeasing
them by just turning a blind eye to crime. And
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I knew what was headed and I said, I don't
want to be part of this anymore. Not only don't
want to be part of it, I'm not allowing my
tax dollars to finance it anymore. And so that's when
I moved to the country and I bought a farm
and I became a step farmer, which is a big transition,
because I got tired of my tax dollars supporting a
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system that treated me with such hatred and they really
do hate me in Washington, d City, and a lot
of what I'm frustrated about, which I'm sure Houstonians and
all big city folks, and remember, if you're there's no
I was born and raised in New York City, so
I really am an urban eight at heart. I got
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tired of Kenny calling the police when every window in
my car was smashed and the response being well, you
must have left something on the seat, right. I got
tired of hearing friends getting jumped and the response being, well,
you shouldn't have walked down U Street at two in
the morning and getting you know, mugged on the subway
or the metro as they call it in DC and
being told, well, you know what, you really shouldn't have
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gotten off at that station. And there's this mentality that
criminals don't have to live in fear. Criminals. Criminals need
their space. Remember we saw that during the BLM riots.
They need their space to protest, their space to burn.
I knew the crap was hitting the fan, and I
fled a while ago. I have my own security force.
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Now they're called aggressive dogs and lots and lots of guns,
and I've never slept better at night. But it is
embarrassing that there are people on the list who are
so full of hatred of Donald Trump that they will
look at a city that is genuinely in decline and
dangerous and filthy and and and say, Nope, it's fine Trump.
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Trump is the wrong. Trump is in the wrong here.
That's the level of insanity our country has come to.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
You know, I remember who was it that said we
should just let him riot and get it out of
their system. Was that the mayor of Philadelphia. I forget
what big city it was.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
And Minneapolis as well, that little thin shouldered guy who
just lost to the Somali national Jared whatever his name is,
but yeah, he was the one who also remember him
taking a knee weeping at the George Floyd Coffin. I
cried very heavily when my dad died, but I never
sniveled like that man did before George Think George Floyd's coffin.
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And that's the frustrating thing. You know, these are hard
conversations to have because whenever we talk crime, sadly, it
leads to conversations of race, and no one wants to
have a conversation about race because it makes everybody uncomfortable.
But for goodness gracious, how much longer are we going
to pretend that it is normal for eighty five percent
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of black youth to be fatherless, to have eighty percent
of them not perform at grade level, to have the
majority of them with multiple crimes before they hit their
sixteenth birthday, and we're just supposed to pretend that it's
the system. I saw a guy on Twitter yesterday who
was saying how this is all the fault of white America,
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and I thought, this is a majority black city with
the black police force, a black mayor, a black city council.
You know, let's have the difficult conversation of race, but
you need to pen this on your own community. And
it's tragic that we've allowed this. It's tragic. You know,
if you want to have some controversy, there is no
one who hates Black America more than black elected officials
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and the Shila Jackson Lee's and the Maxine Waters. They
will let their constituents live in misery and danger and
drugs and silf and ignorance and poverty so long as
it keeps them in power. And what black politicians have
done to black generations of people that we've allowed our cities.
And again, I'm an urbanite, I was born and raised
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I am like eight or nine generations New York City.
What we have allowed to happen to our great cities,
all in the sense of equity and diversity, is shameful
because no one has had it worse than those four
black kids who have grown up in just the worst
of circumstances. And we've turned a blind eye because we're
afraid of awkward conversations that may get me canceled. Kenny,
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I know, not from you and from our friendship, but
if this video. If this conversation goes national, you know
people are going to come after me because that's just
the way we respond to the truth.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Yeah, to your point, one in three black men in
Texas you're now voting for Republicans and nobody. We haven't
seen that in decades, right, generations, really, And you just
made the point that this is an uncomfortable conversation. I
find two groups of people are usually more comfortable with
talking about race than others, black people and conservatives. White
liberals get very squeamish. They don't like talking about it
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because of their own personal guilt. And I think that
that actually is one of the underdiscussed reasons why black
people might be moving towards the right. Of course, Donald
Trump had a lot to do with it. But here
in our home city, with all this talk about crime
in big cities, it reminds me of our own mayor.
John Whitmyer. John Whitmyer is a lifelong Democrat. He's a
classic Democrat, classic liberal from the twentieth century. When he
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was a state senator for a very long time, he
voted with the Democrats on everything. There was only one
thing that made him conservative when he took over as
mayor of Houston. He actually wants laws to be enforced,
He actually wants criminals to stay in jail. And for
the crime of sharing that opinion, the people in the
far left in his own party are now pushing a
recall effort to remove him from office. You know, the
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Democrat Party is in trouble when a lifelong Democrat is
being threatened by members of his own with being removed
from office just simply because he doesn't want dangerous, Finally,
criminals roaming the street. Your reaction to that, Daniel Turner.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
It is pure evil to allow a criminal element to
fester in society because you don't want to have the
difficult conversation or because that element gives you power. Right,
And part of the biggest philosophical difference between left and
right when it comes to this issue is that I
genuinely believe the right wants to empower people so that
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they can live their own damn life. The left wants
to make people dependent on government forever. And it is
why the left hates charter schools. That it is why
it wants government housing, government cheese, government food programs, government
welfare checks, government everything government because as soon as you
don't need government, Why do I need? Maxine Waters? Right,
why do I need any of you folks? If I
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have my own autonomy and my own paycheck on my
own education and my job, I don't need government for
any of these things. And that and that's what we
have done to all minority groups, but especially black groups.
We've allowed them to live on dependency of government because
it makes you powerful. And that's just that is a
level of evil that God alone can forgive. I never will.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
One person you would not expect to agree with Daniel
Turner and I and presumably a lot of people listening
right now, is Joe Scarborough, the morning show host on MSNBC.
Is an ex Republican liberal squish, somebody that pushes the
Democrat agenda passionately, fervently, and he is out right now
saying that Democrats in DC are privately cheering Trump's move
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to crack down on the crime.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
Will just go back to the fact that the people
that are cheering this on privately are not like right
wing Republicans, are not maga people. A lot of our
friends are in the media, and also Democrats that worked
on Joe Biden's campaign, that worked on other campaigns, they're saying, Yeah,
I'd like to feel safe walking around this city. If
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the federal government can be a positive partner in keeping
the streets safe well again, forming a partnership with the
DC police and not taking over, then I at least
the people I've spoken with that live in DC day in,
day out see this as a positive step.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Wow, Joe Scarborough, Daniel Turner, I mean from his mouth,
I mean it must be real.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
That's that's that's tremendous bravery. Right. And and you know
how much of America goes to bed every night, locking windows,
locking doors, putting on alarm systems, making sure there's nothing
in the car. Uh. What a horrible existence that these
folks have. And and I don't think people know the
peace of mind that you have when you live in
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rural America. That you know, I shouldn't give this out
because well I can, because you can't. I don't lock
a damn thing. I don't even have a key to
my I don't think right, I have, like said, loud
dogs who will attack, and I have lots of guns,
and I live in rural America. It is it is evil, Kenny,
It is evil that we allow so many people every
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night to live in fear, and we do nothing about it.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Daniel Turner Powerthefuture dot com is the website. Follow him
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Speaker 3 (20:29):
Everything you've heard is a lie, well unless you heard
it from the mouth of Kenny Webster. All facts, even
the bit about it is little Kenny. Oh sorry, bro,
I mean Big Kenny. You're listening to Kenny Webster's Pursuit
of Happiness.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Oh this is fun. KFC is bringing back potato wedges.
You know a restaurant is high end when they're copying
menu items from elementary school cafeterias. I hate don't hate it.
Don't hate the player, hate the game, Give it the
peace people what they want. Hi, everybody, I'm Kenny Webster
and thanks for turning on your radio. They're not the
only ones. McDonald's released their adult happy Meal yesterday. I
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tried it and I was disappointed to discover it does
not come with a marital aid. There's no massage wand
unfortunately I was very upset about that. You know who's
in studio right now. If you're from the Houston area,
you would probably recognize this face. Bob. You're even though
a lot of people would hate to admit this, You're somebody.
You're somebody that matters in local politics. You are you
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are a person that gets under the skin. Bob chod
is here? Is that how you say your last name?
I wanted to call you falling Down, Bob, and you
did not because I appreciate it, not because you're disabled
or anything, but because you remind me of the character
from the movie Falling Down. What was the actor's name, Michael,
Michael Douglas. You do kind of look like him. Let's
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get that. Let's get that Micha a little closer to
your face there, Let's get that right up in there, right.
Oh yeah, beautiful, that big black orifice there. Will just
shove it in your face. Bob. You are an interesting
character in Houston politics. You attend Harris County Commissioner's court meetings,
you attend the city hall meetings, and everyone knows who
you are, and a handful of elected officials, including a
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handful of local journalists and reporters, have all blocked you
on social media for the crime of what exactly? I
don't know. Why don't we start with this? You and
State Representative June Wu. Is there a little sexual attention there?
What's going on?
Speaker 6 (22:27):
Maybe from him, I don't know, cutrely, not from me Ken,
But it's okay.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
It's the nineties. You could be whatever you want to.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
I don't want to take them away from from Dusty Burroughs.
That that would just be wrong on so many counts.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
But you're not wrong about that. Dustin Burroughs, our Texas
House speaker, was accused this past week by a journalist
Current Revolt dot com Tony Ortiz, of going out and
paying conservative social media influencers who wouldn't normally weigh in
on state politics, appraising Dustin Burroughs and how he handled
the pre testing rogue Texas Democrat lawmakers who fled the
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state and went to Chicago. And given how that little
exchange ended this week, we did not get Texas congressional redistricting.
The whole thing ends on Friday. They never came back
and went to work. Would you say that Dustin Burrows
won or lost?
Speaker 6 (23:16):
I'd say he lost, and so did the Texas Republicans.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
I would agree. I don't think that they did well
at all. I think they got their asses handed to him.
I think they got out procedured in a four dimensional
chess match parliamentary procedure. And so when you look at
some of these right wing influencers on acts that all
within the same thirty minute period over the weekend were
tweeting out, look how great Dustin Burrows is doing. I
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kind of feel like somebody somewhere wrote him a check.
Speaker 6 (23:45):
Wish he'd written me a check.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Nobody's ever paid me to tweet. I've been accused of it.
I've been accused of it by another local. No one
has ever written me a check for my big floppy tweets.
And I'll tell you what, Bob, it makes me mad.
My tweets are fire. I think I should get paid for.
Speaker 6 (24:01):
You wouldn't know what to do with a check. What
a man at your age you look at and said,
were interned to Steve and say, who am I supposed
to do with this?
Speaker 2 (24:08):
What you know? You think I'm too much? I'm not
boomer enough to know what to do with a check.
I know I know what to do with a check, Zali. No, Well,
you remember what Matt mccoea got accused of John Cornyn's
comm director. Senator John Cornyn got accused of paying a
prostitute and escort a lady of the night. He was
accused of it. We're not saying he did it.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
For for front deck work or backyard backyard services.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
And then the woman he was accused of paying this
woman with his Venmo account and then in the same
her photo in the Venmo account is exactly the same
as their mugshot that was published by CBS twelve in Miami.
It's like the same photo. I mean, it's not the
same photo, but it practically is. And the headline was
cocaine and caviar two thousand dollars a night escort busted
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with powdery party favors. She was doing, Bob, just supporting
the economy.
Speaker 6 (25:04):
I'm sure she declared that on her taxes, and people
both make a living.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Ken. It's just, you know, you don't get along well
with the Houston Chronicle editors. But they published my op
ed today in which I criticized John Cornyn and I
encourage him to drop out, and it's gone viral. It's
done quite well, Bob. I'll tell you what I wasn't expecting.
To be having this conversation at all, much less with you,
of all people. But the Houston Chronicle actually wants to
hear local right wing conservative voices. They're trying to, you know,
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reinvent their relevancy with people on our side, because I
don't think conservatives or libertarians have read the paper in years,
and yet hate to brag today they are. I am
also told that the John Cornyn people are not thrilled
about my article.
Speaker 6 (25:47):
Well why would they be? I mean, it's, uh, you know,
when you're standing on when you're trying to rearrange deck
chairs in the Titanic, it's as tough duty, all.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Right, So let's talk Speaking of duty. You are a
local activist who has been very critical of Lena Hidalgo,
among other people. She does not like you, and she
spent what was it today we got a report that
said she's spending nine hundred thousand dollars a year on
private security? Is that because of you, Bob?
Speaker 6 (26:17):
Oh? No, not at all. I think there's another citizen
journalist slash activists whom might have pushed that, but I'm
not going to mention her name, I know.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
In all jokes aside though much either okay, but all
jokes aside. I know who you're alluding to. I still
don't think she's a threat to Lena Headalgo, certainly not
a nine hundred thousand dollars a year threat. I have
a little inside information about Britney Spears. Her brother in
law is a friend of mine. We were discussing this
news on on the Morning Show today. Britney spends one
point four million dollars a year on private security. She
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is considered to be in Hollywood the most stalked person
on earth. If Britney Spears needs one point four million dollars,
why does Lena Hidalgo need nine hundred thousand? Do you
think it shit? Do you think she belongs on that?
Speaker 6 (27:02):
No? Not at all, not at all. I mean, when
you look at what past county judges, ed Emma used
to drive up in his tahoe and get out. He
was the only one. I mean, he's driving themselves.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Bob. I ran into Whitmyer, mayor Whitmeyer, like less than
two weeks ago. Actually I think it was two weeks ago. Today.
I ran into him at a Houston Astros game. He's
walking around alone, the mayor of the biggest city in
Texas is walking around alone out of Houston Texans game
like he's just a regular guy eating a hot dog
watching the game. I walked up and started talking to him.
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Didn't seem alarmed at all. And he's the guy that
he's supposed to be the most controversial mayor of a
big city right now because he wants to enforce crime
or you know, do something about crime, enforce the law.
Speaker 6 (27:48):
Well, John's a pretty you know, I've crossed passed him
a few times too. He's you know, he's a regular guy,
pretty you know, pretty uh, straightforward man of the people.
The people who don't like him are the ones that
don't want the no want to lose the social exchanges
that the prior administration brought in.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
I would assume you did not like him when he
was his state senator. How do you feel about him
as a mayor.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
I didn't mind him at all the state senator.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Really, but he was he voted doing peach Paxton. He
voted for a lot of things you probably did. He
was a voted against open Kerry, Concealed Kerry is you
know campus carry, that's your guy, you know.
Speaker 6 (28:25):
Honestly, I didn't say that much attention to state politics.
He was actually my state Senator. Ann Johnson's my state rep.
And I expect the people that are elected to do
a job, to do what they think is right. And
if the other party, you know, if the party that
I don't subscribe to, I don't subscribe to either one
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of them anymore. But if the party that I don't
subscribe to, quote unquote won the election, well that's the
way it goes, you know, as long as they're listening
somewhere along the line to make reasonable decisions that are
willing to stand up for them. But the way things
are go in these days. I say this almost every day.
For those in the audience who may remember, Ronald Reagan
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and Tip O'Neil are flipping in their graves. Now, you know,
those are two guys that fought tooth and nail during
the day and then got together for a drink at night.
And for those who don't may and enough study that
in history. Ronald Reagan was one of the most conservative
Republican presidents in history from California. Tip O'Neill was the
Speaker of the House, a strong Irish Democrat from Massachusetts. Okay,
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but you know they they at the end of the day,
they may have fought on principle, but they agreed that
the people need to be served.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Who was it that said, Lloyd Benson, I knew Jack Kennedy,
and you, sir, and know Jack Kennedy. It was one
of a critic of Dan Quall and Ronald Reagan. I
want to ask you about that. You say you're not
involved in state politics at all, but you and Gene
will He certainly doesn't think you're not involved in state
I've changed.
Speaker 6 (30:01):
I've changed my game a little bit because of what's
been going on, you know, since January first, with the
with the legislation should be an in session and this
whole fiasco that happened with I mean, I think it
was allowed almost a mandate by the Republicans of the
state of Texas. There's things we need to get done
in this state.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Sure, and.
Speaker 6 (30:22):
If the Republicans won, the Republicans should be running and
running the store. But yeah, they should.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Be, right, Bob, I gotta tell you, I I love
having you here in studio, but I just I thought
you'd be more fiery with me. I thought you'd get
in here and on Twitter you're a.
Speaker 6 (30:37):
Oh I don't. I don't want to. You're firing to
overtake you in your own studio.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
You're a fire brand on Twitter. You're being very polite
and courteous. Here in studio, coffee is wearing off. Well,
we'll get you some. For those that don't know this
is this is common sense. Bob from x This is
the biggest troll in Houston politics. People hate this guy.
Speaker 6 (30:57):
I'm not that big.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
It's one of the reasons why I invited him in
here today. Last week, Lena Hidalgo had a meltdown, the
most powerful elected official in the Democrat Party in the
state of Texas. Brought children out in front of the
Harris County Commissioner's Court and had a melt down in
front of the TV cameras. We'll talk about it right
after this quick break, don't go anywhere.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Late last night, after a few beers, we discovered the
art of deceiving politicians. Just tell them the truth and
they'll never believe you. Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
There's a documentary about Martin Scorsese that is coming to
Apple TV. I know nothing about it, and I already
think it's an hour or two long. I don't know
what you know? What I mean, how Martin Scorsese is, Bob,
you get it. You're old enough to Martin Scorsese is
could those movies be longer? What do you think, oh
Martin Scorsese?
Speaker 6 (31:47):
Geez right, you got to remember him exactly thy, thank.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
You, Boby. I don't know why you just turned into
an old Jewish man? Was interesting? What is that? It's
like you? Is it? Mel Brooks? Who are you doing
an impersonation of?
Speaker 4 (32:00):
There?
Speaker 6 (32:00):
I just an old Jewish guy. I was just an
old yeah, a multifaceted.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
You ever find a kind of exhausting? I mean, I'm
one of those guys. I'm willing to criticize Israel or whatever,
or any religion I don't agree with. But you find
out a little odd to how there's always someone on
the internet that'll take any problem and turn it into
a conspiracy theory about the Jews. It's just it's a
little exhausting, Like everything the Jews are responsible for everything?
Speaker 6 (32:26):
Come on, I find that, and you know, the whole
Holocaust thing, and I you know, look, you know, barrel
of my my own soul here my birth mother escaped
from escape from Europe after watching her family hauled off
to the gas chambers. And she wasn't Jewish, so you know,
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there was a lot more than the Jews were affected
by that. But you know, it's the identity politics. And
I remember, well it was a few years ago there
was a hostage situation at a synagogue and Dallas area.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
I remember that, and.
Speaker 6 (33:04):
Abby Kaman, who allegedly represents District C and she's Jewish,
was all over social media all day long. I've been
on I've been on the phone with Chief Finner and
the synagogue is going to be protected and everything's going
to be fine, and don't worry. Well, then when Roe V.
Wade was overturned and Catholic churches were desecrated in her district,
she didn't say a word. Yeah, like, come on, folks,
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I mean yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm a Lutheran and I
probably lean certain ways if we're going to talk about
certain things. But I'm so.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Glad you're not a Methodist. I can't use I cannot
stand the Methodist just.
Speaker 6 (33:37):
To be Catholic. But that's a long time ago.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Well, Lutheran and Catholic aren't real different.
Speaker 6 (33:42):
Lutheran's kind of Catholic light I mean, you know that's
exactly right, Luther. I mean he was a Catholic, and
I want to.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Ask you about local politics and also you remember of
the Forward Party. But before we get to any of that,
I want to play a game here real quick. To
the people watching us live streaming on the internet. You're
a boomer, truthful and I'm not. I'm a millennial. Can
boomers identify AI? Is a question I have for you.
I have on the screen here right now, still photo
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of Hunter Biden and he's smoking crack? Do you see that?
Speaker 6 (34:12):
I see that?
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Reeal or fake? Would you say?
Speaker 6 (34:17):
I don't know?
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Okay?
Speaker 6 (34:19):
It turns it hard to try. It's hard to trust
real close up photos like that because it doesn't give
you any context.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Okay, I'll give you some context. I'm gonna hit I'm
gonna hit play here and it's moving around a little right.
Do you see it now? Reel or fake? What do
you think?
Speaker 6 (34:31):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Fake? You think it's fake? Okay? What is it that
tipped you off to the fact that it's fake?
Speaker 6 (34:35):
Well, somebody else's lighting the You.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
Don't think he'd be well, hang on a minute. The
photo started off with him in a room with you
know with someone lighting it, that that part of it
I think was real, someone else lighting it for him
was already in the picture. You don't see that? All right?
Let me give you another one here. Here's me at
Bucky's reel or fake?
Speaker 6 (34:53):
Would you say, well, you're not smiling, so why would
it be real?
Speaker 2 (34:58):
You don't think it's real because I'm not smiling. I'm
wearing a Mars Volta T shirt. Is that I'm a
Mars WLTA fan? Right? You must love Mars Volta right?
What league they play in? Never mind? Okay, I'm gonna
hit I'm gonna hit play here and you think it's real?
All right? What do you think? It's me fighting the
BUCkies guy with fire going off in the background. Do
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you think it's real or fake?
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (35:23):
I think is real enhanced?
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Okay, you're correct on that. You know what worries me, Bob?
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (35:29):
They could be tests I would have studied.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
I get nervous that baby boomers can't identify AI. It
makes me worry that you guys are going to get tricked.
If AI calls my mom on the phone, there's no
way she doesn't give her the bank account number or
you for that matter, I.
Speaker 6 (35:43):
Don't answer the phone.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
All right, what is this? What is this on your shirt?
Speaker 7 (35:46):
Here?
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Team Forward, Forward Together? And what is it? Exactly? It's
a T shirt and you're in that party with Andrew
Yang in a matter of speaking yes, in a matter
of speaking yes or unequivocal.
Speaker 6 (35:57):
But actually there is a little bit of a backstore.
I left the Republican Party, resigned my post as a
precinct chair. I guess it was four maybe five years ago.
And Bill King, who many people know, was the state
chair of the SAM Party. SAM stood for Serve America Movement, okay,
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and he had had some conversations with mister Yang and
they decided that the SAM Party ought to merge into
the Forward Party. And I was in the SAM Party
and kind of went along for the ride. And that's
where we are right now.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
All right, So that's great. How long you been doing
how long have you been doing the Forward Party at
this point in a couple of years? And how many
candidates have you been elected to relevant positions since starting
the party.
Speaker 6 (36:41):
In across the country has been a couple of dozen.
Texas was still getting our feet under us, and one
of the issues is to become a recognized party in
the state of Texas, ninety thousand signatures have to be
collected from registered voters. Then those registered voters may not
are not allowed or well, there's nothing to stop on this.
(37:02):
So but they're not supposed to vote in the next primary,
which seems kind of unconstitutional to me. Now, I challenged
gen Wu and uh, what's the other guy's name, Ron
Reynolds on this at a at a seminars some months ago,
and they ducked their head. I mean they didn't want
to hear introducing a legislation to change that, okay, because
they don't want a third party.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
Look, I'm all for the idea of a third party.
Elon Musk just started one. But I spent a lot
of my twenties supporting the Libertarians. Do you know how
many candidates we got elected? None? Literally, And you'd go
to the Libertarian Party meeting, it's a book club. You're
hanging out with people having an argument over whether or
not the nuclear bomb solved World War two? And should
we have driver's licenses or our driver's license ID cards
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on at the call. It's like, this isn't solving any
problems that anybody's actually worried about. So you know, you
and your third party Elon Musk and is third party
a handful of libertarians listening in their third party? What
good is any of that doing.
Speaker 6 (38:01):
Here's where at least I think we stand in Texas
is at And somebody challenged me into some months ago,
and you know you'll never elect a presidential candidate. And
my pro pushback was, who cares? I don't care where
we stand. For example, right now in this country it's
almost a three way split, Democrats, Republicans, none of the above.
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So neither party is doing a great job of attracting
the free agent, so to speak. But if we can
have some influence, particularly endorsing candidates who may be running
as Democrat or Republican but also have a forward party endorsement,
then that may help get them into office.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
Okay, So you think that there's a need for a
moderate party, absolutely, Okay, a party some people think for themselves.
But isn't that the Republican party right now? I mean
Trump one, hang on a second, Trump on Trump one
on common sense stuff, kitchen table issues, immigrans out of control,
the economy sucks, crime is up, too many warris around
the world. Don't you think that's moderate positions?
Speaker 6 (39:06):
So what happened in Texas?
Speaker 2 (39:07):
In Texas? What he didn't run for governor in Texas?
Speaker 6 (39:10):
Oh, he ran for president and brought a fair number
of state representats and state senators with him on to
be elected and a mandate.
Speaker 2 (39:19):
I think so he dated men.
Speaker 6 (39:22):
I don't know, maybe, but those folks went to Austin
and sold the store to the Democrat House Democrat Caucus.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
Yeah, all right, job Bob, before we run out of
time here because we are up against the clock. Here
on the screen, I have an AI video of State
Representative Gene wu waiving a communist flag or is it AI?
What do you think it's Ai? Okay, he's correct about that.
Last week, Lena Hidalgo had a meltdown in front of
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the Harris County Commissioner's Court. Everybody in the Houston area
has heard this story. By now. Everybody knows she's unhealthy.
She took off a lot of time to go to
a mental health clinic or did she go to Columbia?
Who knows? Does she run again? Do you think her
career is over? What happens to Lena next?
Speaker 6 (40:08):
I sincerely pray that the folks who are near and
dear to her, sit her down and help her understand reality. Yeah,
she's cooked it. You take take some time off she
you know, there's a non governmental organization here there or
wherever it would hire her to and then give, you know,
(40:31):
give her the keys of the vault in the candy
store to launch any program she wants to launch. But
in terms of politics, you know, there's rumors you've sure
you heard him too, that she's.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
Gonna replace Sylvia Garcia. Don't you think Jean Wo would?
Don't you think Jean Wu would be the guy? He's
more popular now, Like you just explained in the last segment,
he won this exchange with the Texas Congressional district. It
wasn't Burroughs that won. It certainly wasn't Hidalgo that won.
It was Geen Wu. Jeen Wu's the winner of that
back and forth. I don't like to admit it out loud,
but he was.
Speaker 6 (41:02):
But if he gets any reasonable competition opponent, he's cooked.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
Like against two whoa what do you mean? Who would
run against him? That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (41:14):
I don't know, I mean, but those you know, there
are folks out there gonna run for a congressional seat.
I don't think I would hope the heck, the Harris
County Republican Party doesn't leave that as an un as
a uh.
Speaker 2 (41:25):
Okay, but opposed if they if the new districts go through,
which I think they eventually will, eighteenth district, that's gonna
be one of them, no matter what, whether we like
it or not, you know, Okay, Yeah, So it's gotta
be Jean wu or Al Green or one of these guys.
None of them are center left candidates. They're all far left.
Who do you think is the one that goes to
Washington next year? It's got to be one of them,
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no matter who it is, it ain't gonna be somebody
you and I want. So who do you think? Who
do you think they'll pick?
Speaker 6 (41:50):
Might be surprised?
Speaker 2 (41:51):
Yeah, well I hope. I am Bob. What's next for you? Brother?
Speaker 6 (41:55):
A good nap?
Speaker 2 (41:58):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
A new report from the Science Community, scientists claim that
Neanderthals took drugs and still do if you observe Keith Richards. Hi, everybody,
I'm Kenny Webster joining us in just a little bit.
A local activist who some of you might actually hate.
Common Sense Bob is stopping by. I find him to
be a fascinating individual, but I do understand not everybody.
(00:43):
Everybody doesn't have to like everybody. He'll be here real soon.
Stick around for that. Daniel Turner should be stopping by
from Power the Future. But before we get to any
of it, I want to go ahead and address what
some of you are seeing today on the pages of
the Houston Chronicle, right Taddy, I don't read the Houston Chronicle.
Oh thank you, invisible person in the back of the studio.
(01:04):
I've heard you probably haven't read the Houston Chronicle in
a long time. Today I think you should. I know
it's weird to hear me defend the Houston Chronic. I
know I've criticized them many times on the radio, but
part of the reason why I've criticized them is because
I didn't think there were enough conservative voices in their paper.
Not long ago, they published an op ed from Rick
Perry detailing how great John Cornan is, and I made
(01:27):
the point I thought it was a garbage article. I
didn't agree with any It is a you know, the
the Rhinos defending the neo cons defending the lib Republicans
Like I didn't hate Rick Perry, but I don't agree
with everything he's done since leaving Offense, and he's not
my favorite Republican. He I liked his secretary of State.
I'll leave it at that. I thought she was fantastic,
(01:47):
and some of his positions on things like marijuana. It
doesn't matter at this point. But you know, if Rick
Perry goes out and endorses Dade fail in, which he did,
or John Cornyn, which he did, I have to respectfully
disagree with him. So I made that point, and then
the editors at The Houston Chronicle said, well, Kenny, why
don't you write an article for us? And I said, yeah,
(02:07):
you're not going to like what I say, and they said,
doesn't matter. If we like it, we'll let you say it.
So that's where we are today on the pages of
the Houston Chronicle. An article I just wrote and drafted,
I published, well, they published it. I wrote it the
headline don't like Ken Paxton tell John Cornyn to drop
out MAGA. Republicans aren't a big fan of John Cornyn.
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And there's a reason why you could see it. It's
clear as day. Polling shows US Senator John Cornyn is
trailing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and the Republican Party.
During his time as a powerful US senator, raising campaign
fronds from out of touch Washington lobbyists, Cornyn has voted
for more wars, more debt. That's not what conservatives, Texas
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conservatives want in office. It's not what we want anymore.
You know, there are thirteen thousand veterans to sleep on
the street every night, and about twenty of them die
by suicide every single day. These numbers should shame our
nation's leaders into focusing on our needs at home first.
But that hasn't stopped John Cornyn from supporting war after war,
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whether boots on the ground in Iraq or Afghanistan are
diverting resources to Ukraine or Yemen. It hasn't stopped him
from voting for another bloated budget, another proxy war, another
round of endless conflict that only fattens the bottom line
for defense contractors. Meanwhile, the rest of us have to
deal with broken vets, broken families, a broken budget, one
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that has added roughly thirty trillion in debts since Cornn
first took power in Washington. Yet, now, as Cornn scrambles
to salvage his career, he wants you to believe he's
ninety nine point two percent maga. We could cherry pick
votes when Trump was in office, but the real test
of conviction is what Cornin does when the Democrats are
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in charge. When the wok the First Agenda needed defenders
in the Senate, Cornin's record told another story, a fifty
four percent liberty score from the Conservative Review and a
White House ceremony where President Joe Biden personally thanked him
for helping pass a gun control bill. Real conservatives in
Texas see through those worthless claims. We know Cornin will
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always be a rubber stamp for the establishment agenda and
Washington one that failed over decades to secure our border
with Mexico or to port cheap migrant labor, and instead
prioritizes endless wars that funnel billions to the military industrial
complex and its web of influence to grassroots Republicans in Texas,
Cornin has become a walking deal breaker. In the twenty
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twenty six Senate race, he worked with Democrats to pass
Biden's Chips and Science Act despite Trump's opposition. He cooperates
so closely with Democrats that an extremeless liberal. Extremist liberal
that's easy for you to say like Dallas us R
Representative Jasmine Crockett, for example, called her his best partner,
(05:04):
called him her You know, the point is she likes
him for real Texas conservatives. He's about his unpopular as
vegan brisket. There's a reason Cornyn gets booed at his
own party state convention. Meanwhile, Ken Paxton, despite his soap
opera like divorce drama, is running circles around Cornyn. Republican
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voters care more about conservative issues than about Paxton's personal life.
Policy matters, not gossip. While Paxton's critics want to make
this primary contest about values, they ignore Cornyn's own house
of glass, like allegations covered by The Dallas Express that
a key campaign staffer paid an escort via Venmo as
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if he was ordering takeout. Next to that, Paxton's divorce
looks like a parking ticket. At this point in the campaign,
Cornyn is so desperate to appear close to Trump that
he's been caught playing fast and loose, so the little
thing called the truth. He's facing backlash for running an
AD that made it seem like Trump endorsed him. But
Trump has not endorsed Cornyn, and there's no reason to
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think he will. We in the grassroots know why Cornyn
has spent years in the establishment, and no last minute
Maga cosplay will erase that. Some Republicans whisper about Paxton's
viability in the general election, fearing a matchup against former
US Representative Colin al Rider Beto O'Rourke. But the bigger
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risk is keeping a twenty two year swamp creature like
Cornyn on the ballot, only to watch him stumble through
another cycle. Still, Texas has a state with more than
thirty million people. Surely there are other qualified options. Some
have called on Houston area US Representative Wesley Hunter run
and it's worth pointing out that Hunt is airing ads
(06:52):
that look suspiciously like campaign spots. I've heard US Representative
Ronnie Jackson's name floated as well. The prevailing fear among
MAGA and liberty minded Republicans is that adding any other
candidate to the primary would split the anti Cornin vote
and accidentally end up saving him. At the same time,
the fear among establishment Republicans is that Paxton would be
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vulnerable to a strong Democratic candidate. Looking at both political
paths ahead, the responsibility falls on Cornyn to do the
right thing for Texas. Our senior senators should step aside
and let a new generation of Republicans, real Trump Republicans
run for the Senate. Know this, the base will take
a risk with Paxton. We're all in on the only
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candidate currently positioned to deliver Texas Republicans from the neo
conservative nightmare of yesterday's GOP. If you don't like it,
tell Cornyn to get out of the way and give
voters another option. It's our party now, and the ten
eight big enough for neocons like Cornyn. I'm Kenny Webster.
Thanks for listening. Kenny Webster, the best looking dude on radio.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
And if you've seen the competition, that's not saying a
whole hell of a lot.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
A nationwide soapree call is in effect due to bacteria contamination.
And now post malone doesn't look so dumb for not
using it, does he? Hi, Welcome back everybody. Our younger
listeners will understand that joke. The older ones might not.
Bobcat Goldthwaite doesn't look so dumb for not using it,
(08:25):
does he. There now the older listeners get the joke. Hi, everybody,
welcome back from break And if you live in the
greater Houston area, I hope you're safe because crime exists.
It's rampant in big cities like Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston, Texas,
New York City, and of course Washington, DC. Even when
they say crime is down, it still ain't great, is it.
(08:47):
I was in New Orleans recently, and I tell you
one thing I've noticed is New Orleans hard to believe
has actually really improved over the last year or two.
All they did was bring in Louisiana State troop to
police the streets when the New Orleans Police Department wasn't
doing it. Mayor LaToya Cantrell she's the mayor in New Orleans.
(09:09):
She had a sexual relationship with her bodyguard, a local
police officer. And look, I'm not saying that's all the
cops in New Orleans doing, but there's not only part
of it. If you're in New Orleans, you notice things changed.
Why because they brought in a bigger police force from
outside the city to help them clean things up. Does
that sound familiar? Washington, d C not a great place
(09:32):
to live. Less than a month ago, one of their
top police commanders had to step down in disgrace when
it turned out he was lying about police statistics. Imagine that. Well,
now we've learned that Donald Trump is sending in the
National Guard to help out the people in the city. Hi,
I like Washington, d C. I'll tell you I haven't
been there since Labor Day weekend twenty nineteen. It's been
(09:53):
several years since I visited the city. I was there
the last time. I think it was good when Donald
Trump was in one place, but right before the pandemic.
So I wanted to get a real opinion what's it
actually like in the city in terms of violence and
danger and crime. So I reached out to a friend
of mine who spent a lot of time in the city,
and if you listen to this radio show, you've heard
(10:13):
his opinions before. Daniel Turner from Power the Future is here. Daniel,
you lived in Washington, d C. I guess it's just
a squeaky clean, safe place to lave where you don't
have to lock your doors today.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Right, It's remarkable that the blowback that this executive order
and his actions by the president is taking, because again
it's one of those eighty twenty issues where the left
is just so hell bent on being anti Trump and
whatever Trump does is bad, so we have to do
the opposite. But there are a lot of liberals in
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DC who will welcome this. They won't say it publicly
because they're cowards, but they will welcome this. I wrote
a nobed back in twenty twenty about leaving DC and
moving to the country. It's when I decided I was
going to be a farmer and I was getting out.
And it's probably the most controversial that I ever wrote,
because a lot of you know, even friends of mine,
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called it racist and called it offensive. And I was
like to think I was five years ahead of the curve.
I saw what was coming with politics, arrangements in Drome
and appeasing radical black groups, radical BLM groups, and appeasing
them by just turning a blind eye to crime. And
(11:25):
I knew what was headed and I said, I don't
want to be part of this anymore. Not only don't
want to be part of it, I'm not allowing my
tax dollars to finance it anymore. And so that's when
I moved to the country and I bought a farm
and I became a step farmer, which is a big transition,
because I got tired of my tax dollars supporting a
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system that treated me with such hatred and they really
do hate me in Washington, d City, and a lot
of what I'm frustrated about, which I'm sure Houstonians and
all big city folks, and remember, if you're there's no
I was born and raised in New York City, so
I really am an urban eight at heart. I got
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tired of Kenny calling the police when every window in
my car was smashed and the response being well, you
must have left something on the seat, right. I got
tired of hearing friends getting jumped and the response being, well,
you shouldn't have walked down U Street at two in
the morning and getting you know, mugged on the subway
or the metro as they call it in DC and
being told, well, you know what, you really shouldn't have
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gotten off at that station. And there's this mentality that
criminals don't have to live in fear. Criminals. Criminals need
their space. Remember we saw that during the BLM riots.
They need their space to protest, their space to burn.
I knew the crap was hitting the fan, and I
fled a while ago. I have my own security force.
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Now they're called aggressive dogs and lots and lots of guns,
and I've never slept better at night. But it is
embarrassing that there are people on the list who are
so full of hatred of Donald Trump that they will
look at a city that is genuinely in decline and
dangerous and filthy and and and say, Nope, it's fine Trump.
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Trump is the wrong. Trump is in the wrong here.
That's the level of insanity our country has come to.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
You know, I remember who was it that said we
should just let him riot and get it out of
their system. Was that the mayor of Philadelphia. I forget
what big city it was.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
And Minneapolis as well, that little thin shouldered guy who
just lost to the Somali national Jared whatever his name is,
but yeah, he was the one who also remember him
taking a knee weeping at the George Floyd Coffin. I
cried very heavily when my dad died, but I never
sniveled like that man did before George Think George Floyd's coffin.
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And that's the frustrating thing. You know, these are hard
conversations to have because whenever we talk crime, sadly, it
leads to conversations of race, and no one wants to
have a conversation about race because it makes everybody uncomfortable.
But for goodness gracious, how much longer are we going
to pretend that it is normal for eighty five percent
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of black youth to be fatherless, to have eighty percent
of them not perform at grade level, to have the
majority of them with multiple crimes before they hit their
sixteenth birthday, and we're just supposed to pretend that it's
the system. I saw a guy on Twitter yesterday who
was saying how this is all the fault of white America,
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and I thought, this is a majority black city with
the black police force, a black mayor, a black city council.
You know, let's have the difficult conversation of race, but
you need to pen this on your own community. And
it's tragic that we've allowed this. It's tragic. You know,
if you want to have some controversy, there is no
one who hates Black America more than black elected officials
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and the Shila Jackson Lee's and the Maxine Waters. They
will let their constituents live in misery and danger and
drugs and silf and ignorance and poverty so long as
it keeps them in power. And what black politicians have
done to black generations of people that we've allowed our cities.
And again, I'm an urbanite, I was born and raised
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I am like eight or nine generations New York City.
What we have allowed to happen to our great cities,
all in the sense of equity and diversity, is shameful
because no one has had it worse than those four
black kids who have grown up in just the worst
of circumstances. And we've turned a blind eye because we're
afraid of awkward conversations that may get me canceled. Kenny,
(15:36):
I know, not from you and from our friendship, but
if this video. If this conversation goes national, you know
people are going to come after me because that's just
the way we respond to the truth.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Yeah, to your point, one in three black men in
Texas you're now voting for Republicans and nobody. We haven't
seen that in decades, right, generations, really, And you just
made the point that this is an uncomfortable conversation. I
find two groups of people are usually more comfortable with
talking about race than others, black people and conservatives. White
liberals get very squeamish. They don't like talking about it
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because of their own personal guilt. And I think that
that actually is one of the underdiscussed reasons why black
people might be moving towards the right. Of course, Donald
Trump had a lot to do with it. But here
in our home city, with all this talk about crime
in big cities, it reminds me of our own mayor.
John Whitmyer. John Whitmyer is a lifelong Democrat. He's a
classic Democrat, classic liberal from the twentieth century. When he
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was a state senator for a very long time, he
voted with the Democrats on everything. There was only one
thing that made him conservative when he took over as
mayor of Houston. He actually wants laws to be enforced,
He actually wants criminals to stay in jail. And for
the crime of sharing that opinion, the people in the
far left in his own party are now pushing a
recall effort to remove him from office. You know, the
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Democrat Party is in trouble when a lifelong Democrat is
being threatened by members of his own with being removed
from office just simply because he doesn't want dangerous, Finally,
criminals roaming the street. Your reaction to that, Daniel Turner.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
It is pure evil to allow a criminal element to
fester in society because you don't want to have the
difficult conversation or because that element gives you power. Right,
And part of the biggest philosophical difference between left and
right when it comes to this issue is that I
genuinely believe the right wants to empower people so that
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they can live their own damn life. The left wants
to make people dependent on government forever. And it is
why the left hates charter schools. That it is why
it wants government housing, government cheese, government food programs, government
welfare checks, government everything government because as soon as you
don't need government, Why do I need? Maxine Waters? Right,
why do I need any of you folks? If I
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have my own autonomy and my own paycheck on my
own education and my job, I don't need government for
any of these things. And that and that's what we
have done to all minority groups, but especially black groups.
We've allowed them to live on dependency of government because
it makes you powerful. And that's just that is a
level of evil that God alone can forgive. I never will.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
One person you would not expect to agree with Daniel
Turner and I and presumably a lot of people listening
right now, is Joe Scarborough, the morning show host on MSNBC.
Is an ex Republican liberal squish, somebody that pushes the
Democrat agenda passionately, fervently, and he is out right now
saying that Democrats in DC are privately cheering Trump's move
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to crack down on the crime.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
Will just go back to the fact that the people
that are cheering this on privately are not like right
wing Republicans, are not maga people. A lot of our
friends are in the media, and also Democrats that worked
on Joe Biden's campaign, that worked on other campaigns, they're saying, Yeah,
I'd like to feel safe walking around this city. If
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the federal government can be a positive partner in keeping
the streets safe well again, forming a partnership with the
DC police and not taking over, then I at least
the people I've spoken with that live in DC day in,
day out see this as a positive step.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Wow, Joe Scarborough, Daniel Turner, I mean from his mouth,
I mean it must be real.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
That's that's that's tremendous bravery. Right. And and you know
how much of America goes to bed every night, locking windows,
locking doors, putting on alarm systems, making sure there's nothing
in the car. Uh. What a horrible existence that these
folks have. And and I don't think people know the
peace of mind that you have when you live in
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rural America. That you know, I shouldn't give this out
because well I can, because you can't. I don't lock
a damn thing. I don't even have a key to
my I don't think right, I have, like said, loud
dogs who will attack, and I have lots of guns,
and I live in rural America. It is it is evil, Kenny,
It is evil that we allow so many people every
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night to live in fear, and we do nothing about it.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Daniel Turner Powerthefuture dot com is the website. Follow him
on x You'll be glad you did a lot of
great information about national and local political issues. A fantastic
resource for those of you in the energy industry.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Everything you've heard is a lie, well unless you heard
it from the mouth of Kenny Webster. All facts, even
the bit about it is little Kenny. Oh sorry, bro,
I mean Big Kenny. You're listening to Kenny Webster's Pursuit
of Happiness.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Oh this is fun. KFC is bringing back potato wedges.
You know a restaurant is high end when they're copying
menu items from elementary school cafeterias. I hate don't hate it.
Don't hate the player, hate the game, Give it the
peace people what they want. Hi, everybody, I'm Kenny Webster
and thanks for turning on your radio. They're not the
only ones. McDonald's released their adult happy Meal yesterday. I
(21:08):
tried it and I was disappointed to discover it does
not come with a marital aid. There's no massage wand
unfortunately I was very upset about that. You know who's
in studio right now. If you're from the Houston area,
you would probably recognize this face. Bob. You're even though
a lot of people would hate to admit this, You're somebody.
You're somebody that matters in local politics. You are you
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are a person that gets under the skin. Bob chod
is here? Is that how you say your last name?
I wanted to call you falling Down, Bob, and you
did not because I appreciate it, not because you're disabled
or anything, but because you remind me of the character
from the movie Falling Down. What was the actor's name, Michael,
Michael Douglas. You do kind of look like him. Let's
(21:50):
get that. Let's get that Micha a little closer to
your face there, Let's get that right up in there, right.
Oh yeah, beautiful, that big black orifice there. Will just
shove it in your face. Bob. You are an interesting
character in Houston politics. You attend Harris County Commissioner's court meetings,
you attend the city hall meetings, and everyone knows who
you are, and a handful of elected officials, including a
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handful of local journalists and reporters, have all blocked you
on social media for the crime of what exactly? I
don't know. Why don't we start with this? You and
State Representative June Wu. Is there a little sexual attention there?
What's going on?
Speaker 6 (22:27):
Maybe from him, I don't know, cutrely, not from me Ken,
But it's okay.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
It's the nineties. You could be whatever you want to.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
I don't want to take them away from from Dusty Burroughs.
That that would just be wrong on so many counts.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
But you're not wrong about that. Dustin Burroughs, our Texas
House speaker, was accused this past week by a journalist
Current Revolt dot com Tony Ortiz, of going out and
paying conservative social media influencers who wouldn't normally weigh in
on state politics, appraising Dustin Burroughs and how he handled
the pre testing rogue Texas Democrat lawmakers who fled the
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state and went to Chicago. And given how that little
exchange ended this week, we did not get Texas congressional redistricting.
The whole thing ends on Friday. They never came back
and went to work. Would you say that Dustin Burrows
won or lost?
Speaker 6 (23:16):
I'd say he lost, and so did the Texas Republicans.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
I would agree. I don't think that they did well
at all. I think they got their asses handed to him.
I think they got out procedured in a four dimensional
chess match parliamentary procedure. And so when you look at
some of these right wing influencers on acts that all
within the same thirty minute period over the weekend were
tweeting out, look how great Dustin Burrows is doing. I
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kind of feel like somebody somewhere wrote him a check.
Speaker 6 (23:45):
Wish he'd written me a check.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Nobody's ever paid me to tweet. I've been accused of it.
I've been accused of it by another local. No one
has ever written me a check for my big floppy tweets.
And I'll tell you what, Bob, it makes me mad.
My tweets are fire. I think I should get paid for.
Speaker 6 (24:01):
You wouldn't know what to do with a check. What
a man at your age you look at and said,
were interned to Steve and say, who am I supposed
to do with this?
Speaker 2 (24:08):
What you know? You think I'm too much? I'm not
boomer enough to know what to do with a check.
I know I know what to do with a check, Zali. No, Well,
you remember what Matt mccoea got accused of John Cornyn's
comm director. Senator John Cornyn got accused of paying a
prostitute and escort a lady of the night. He was
accused of it. We're not saying he did it.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
For for front deck work or backyard backyard services.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
And then the woman he was accused of paying this
woman with his Venmo account and then in the same
her photo in the Venmo account is exactly the same
as their mugshot that was published by CBS twelve in Miami.
It's like the same photo. I mean, it's not the
same photo, but it practically is. And the headline was
cocaine and caviar two thousand dollars a night escort busted
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with powdery party favors. She was doing, Bob, just supporting
the economy.
Speaker 6 (25:04):
I'm sure she declared that on her taxes, and people
both make a living.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Ken. It's just, you know, you don't get along well
with the Houston Chronicle editors. But they published my op
ed today in which I criticized John Cornyn and I
encourage him to drop out, and it's gone viral. It's
done quite well, Bob. I'll tell you what I wasn't expecting.
To be having this conversation at all, much less with you,
of all people. But the Houston Chronicle actually wants to
hear local right wing conservative voices. They're trying to, you know,
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reinvent their relevancy with people on our side, because I
don't think conservatives or libertarians have read the paper in years,
and yet hate to brag today they are. I am
also told that the John Cornyn people are not thrilled
about my article.
Speaker 6 (25:47):
Well why would they be? I mean, it's, uh, you know,
when you're standing on when you're trying to rearrange deck
chairs in the Titanic, it's as tough duty, all.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Right, So let's talk Speaking of duty. You are a
local activist who has been very critical of Lena Hidalgo,
among other people. She does not like you, and she
spent what was it today we got a report that
said she's spending nine hundred thousand dollars a year on
private security? Is that because of you, Bob?
Speaker 6 (26:17):
Oh? No, not at all. I think there's another citizen
journalist slash activists whom might have pushed that, but I'm
not going to mention her name, I know.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
In all jokes aside though much either okay, but all
jokes aside. I know who you're alluding to. I still
don't think she's a threat to Lena Headalgo, certainly not
a nine hundred thousand dollars a year threat. I have
a little inside information about Britney Spears. Her brother in
law is a friend of mine. We were discussing this
news on on the Morning Show today. Britney spends one
point four million dollars a year on private security. She
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is considered to be in Hollywood the most stalked person
on earth. If Britney Spears needs one point four million dollars,
why does Lena Hidalgo need nine hundred thousand? Do you
think it shit? Do you think she belongs on that?
Speaker 6 (27:02):
No? Not at all, not at all. I mean, when
you look at what past county judges, ed Emma used
to drive up in his tahoe and get out. He
was the only one. I mean, he's driving themselves.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Bob. I ran into Whitmyer, mayor Whitmeyer, like less than
two weeks ago. Actually I think it was two weeks ago. Today.
I ran into him at a Houston Astros game. He's
walking around alone, the mayor of the biggest city in
Texas is walking around alone out of Houston Texans game
like he's just a regular guy eating a hot dog
watching the game. I walked up and started talking to him.
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Didn't seem alarmed at all. And he's the guy that
he's supposed to be the most controversial mayor of a
big city right now because he wants to enforce crime
or you know, do something about crime, enforce the law.
Speaker 6 (27:48):
Well, John's a pretty you know, I've crossed passed him
a few times too. He's you know, he's a regular guy,
pretty you know, pretty uh, straightforward man of the people.
The people who don't like him are the ones that
don't want the no want to lose the social exchanges
that the prior administration brought in.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
I would assume you did not like him when he
was his state senator. How do you feel about him
as a mayor.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
I didn't mind him at all the state senator.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Really, but he was he voted doing peach Paxton. He
voted for a lot of things you probably did. He
was a voted against open Kerry, Concealed Kerry is you
know campus carry, that's your guy, you know.
Speaker 6 (28:25):
Honestly, I didn't say that much attention to state politics.
He was actually my state Senator. Ann Johnson's my state rep.
And I expect the people that are elected to do
a job, to do what they think is right. And
if the other party, you know, if the party that
I don't subscribe to, I don't subscribe to either one
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of them anymore. But if the party that I don't
subscribe to, quote unquote won the election, well that's the
way it goes, you know, as long as they're listening
somewhere along the line to make reasonable decisions that are
willing to stand up for them. But the way things
are go in these days. I say this almost every day.
For those in the audience who may remember, Ronald Reagan
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and Tip O'Neil are flipping in their graves. Now, you know,
those are two guys that fought tooth and nail during
the day and then got together for a drink at night.
And for those who don't may and enough study that
in history. Ronald Reagan was one of the most conservative
Republican presidents in history from California. Tip O'Neill was the
Speaker of the House, a strong Irish Democrat from Massachusetts. Okay,
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but you know they they at the end of the day,
they may have fought on principle, but they agreed that
the people need to be served.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Who was it that said, Lloyd Benson, I knew Jack Kennedy,
and you, sir, and know Jack Kennedy. It was one
of a critic of Dan Quall and Ronald Reagan. I
want to ask you about that. You say you're not
involved in state politics at all, but you and Gene
will He certainly doesn't think you're not involved in state
I've changed.
Speaker 6 (30:01):
I've changed my game a little bit because of what's
been going on, you know, since January first, with the
with the legislation should be an in session and this
whole fiasco that happened with I mean, I think it
was allowed almost a mandate by the Republicans of the
state of Texas. There's things we need to get done
in this state.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Sure, and.
Speaker 6 (30:22):
If the Republicans won, the Republicans should be running and
running the store. But yeah, they should.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Be, right, Bob, I gotta tell you, I I love
having you here in studio, but I just I thought
you'd be more fiery with me. I thought you'd get
in here and on Twitter you're a.
Speaker 6 (30:37):
Oh I don't. I don't want to. You're firing to
overtake you in your own studio.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
You're a fire brand on Twitter. You're being very polite
and courteous. Here in studio, coffee is wearing off. Well,
we'll get you some. For those that don't know this
is this is common sense. Bob from x This is
the biggest troll in Houston politics. People hate this guy.
Speaker 6 (30:57):
I'm not that big.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
It's one of the reasons why I invited him in
here today. Last week, Lena Hidalgo had a meltdown, the
most powerful elected official in the Democrat Party in the
state of Texas. Brought children out in front of the
Harris County Commissioner's Court and had a melt down in
front of the TV cameras. We'll talk about it right
after this quick break, don't go anywhere.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Late last night, after a few beers, we discovered the
art of deceiving politicians. Just tell them the truth and
they'll never believe you. Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
There's a documentary about Martin Scorsese that is coming to
Apple TV. I know nothing about it, and I already
think it's an hour or two long. I don't know
what you know? What I mean, how Martin Scorsese is, Bob,
you get it. You're old enough to Martin Scorsese is
could those movies be longer? What do you think, oh
Martin Scorsese?
Speaker 6 (31:47):
Geez right, you got to remember him exactly thy, thank.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
You, Boby. I don't know why you just turned into
an old Jewish man? Was interesting? What is that? It's
like you? Is it? Mel Brooks? Who are you doing
an impersonation of?
Speaker 4 (32:00):
There?
Speaker 6 (32:00):
I just an old Jewish guy. I was just an
old yeah, a multifaceted.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
You ever find a kind of exhausting? I mean, I'm
one of those guys. I'm willing to criticize Israel or whatever,
or any religion I don't agree with. But you find
out a little odd to how there's always someone on
the internet that'll take any problem and turn it into
a conspiracy theory about the Jews. It's just it's a
little exhausting, Like everything the Jews are responsible for everything?
Speaker 6 (32:26):
Come on, I find that, and you know, the whole
Holocaust thing, and I you know, look, you know, barrel
of my my own soul here my birth mother escaped
from escape from Europe after watching her family hauled off
to the gas chambers. And she wasn't Jewish, so you know,
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there was a lot more than the Jews were affected
by that. But you know, it's the identity politics. And
I remember, well it was a few years ago there
was a hostage situation at a synagogue and Dallas area.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
I remember that, and.
Speaker 6 (33:04):
Abby Kaman, who allegedly represents District C and she's Jewish,
was all over social media all day long. I've been
on I've been on the phone with Chief Finner and
the synagogue is going to be protected and everything's going
to be fine, and don't worry. Well, then when Roe V.
Wade was overturned and Catholic churches were desecrated in her district,
she didn't say a word. Yeah, like, come on, folks,
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I mean yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm a Lutheran and I
probably lean certain ways if we're going to talk about
certain things. But I'm so.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Glad you're not a Methodist. I can't use I cannot
stand the Methodist just.
Speaker 6 (33:37):
To be Catholic. But that's a long time ago.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Well, Lutheran and Catholic aren't real different.
Speaker 6 (33:42):
Lutheran's kind of Catholic light I mean, you know that's
exactly right, Luther. I mean he was a Catholic, and
I want to.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Ask you about local politics and also you remember of
the Forward Party. But before we get to any of that,
I want to play a game here real quick. To
the people watching us live streaming on the internet. You're
a boomer, truthful and I'm not. I'm a millennial. Can
boomers identify AI? Is a question I have for you.
I have on the screen here right now, still photo
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of Hunter Biden and he's smoking crack? Do you see that?
Speaker 6 (34:12):
I see that?
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Reeal or fake? Would you say?
Speaker 6 (34:17):
I don't know?
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Okay?
Speaker 6 (34:19):
It turns it hard to try. It's hard to trust
real close up photos like that because it doesn't give
you any context.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Okay, I'll give you some context. I'm gonna hit I'm
gonna hit play here and it's moving around a little right.
Do you see it now? Reel or fake? What do
you think?
Speaker 6 (34:31):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Fake? You think it's fake? Okay? What is it that
tipped you off to the fact that it's fake?
Speaker 6 (34:35):
Well, somebody else's lighting the You.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
Don't think he'd be well, hang on a minute. The
photo started off with him in a room with you
know with someone lighting it, that that part of it
I think was real, someone else lighting it for him
was already in the picture. You don't see that? All right?
Let me give you another one here. Here's me at
Bucky's reel or fake?
Speaker 6 (34:53):
Would you say, well, you're not smiling, so why would
it be real?
Speaker 2 (34:58):
You don't think it's real because I'm not smiling. I'm
wearing a Mars Volta T shirt. Is that I'm a
Mars WLTA fan? Right? You must love Mars Volta right?
What league they play in? Never mind? Okay, I'm gonna
hit I'm gonna hit play here and you think it's real?
All right? What do you think? It's me fighting the
BUCkies guy with fire going off in the background. Do
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you think it's real or fake?
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (35:23):
I think is real enhanced?
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Okay, you're correct on that. You know what worries me, Bob?
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (35:29):
They could be tests I would have studied.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
I get nervous that baby boomers can't identify AI. It
makes me worry that you guys are going to get tricked.
If AI calls my mom on the phone, there's no
way she doesn't give her the bank account number or
you for that matter, I.
Speaker 6 (35:43):
Don't answer the phone.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
All right, what is this? What is this on your shirt?
Speaker 7 (35:46):
Here?
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Team Forward, Forward Together? And what is it? Exactly? It's
a T shirt and you're in that party with Andrew
Yang in a matter of speaking yes, in a matter
of speaking yes or unequivocal.
Speaker 6 (35:57):
But actually there is a little bit of a backstore.
I left the Republican Party, resigned my post as a
precinct chair. I guess it was four maybe five years ago.
And Bill King, who many people know, was the state
chair of the SAM Party. SAM stood for Serve America Movement, okay,
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and he had had some conversations with mister Yang and
they decided that the SAM Party ought to merge into
the Forward Party. And I was in the SAM Party
and kind of went along for the ride. And that's
where we are right now.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
All right, So that's great. How long you been doing
how long have you been doing the Forward Party at
this point in a couple of years? And how many
candidates have you been elected to relevant positions since starting
the party.
Speaker 6 (36:41):
In across the country has been a couple of dozen.
Texas was still getting our feet under us, and one
of the issues is to become a recognized party in
the state of Texas, ninety thousand signatures have to be
collected from registered voters. Then those registered voters may not
are not allowed or well, there's nothing to stop on this.
(37:02):
So but they're not supposed to vote in the next primary,
which seems kind of unconstitutional to me. Now, I challenged
gen Wu and uh, what's the other guy's name, Ron
Reynolds on this at a at a seminars some months ago,
and they ducked their head. I mean they didn't want
to hear introducing a legislation to change that, okay, because
they don't want a third party.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
Look, I'm all for the idea of a third party.
Elon Musk just started one. But I spent a lot
of my twenties supporting the Libertarians. Do you know how
many candidates we got elected? None? Literally, And you'd go
to the Libertarian Party meeting, it's a book club. You're
hanging out with people having an argument over whether or
not the nuclear bomb solved World War two? And should
we have driver's licenses or our driver's license ID cards
(37:47):
on at the call. It's like, this isn't solving any
problems that anybody's actually worried about. So you know, you
and your third party Elon Musk and is third party
a handful of libertarians listening in their third party? What
good is any of that doing.
Speaker 6 (38:01):
Here's where at least I think we stand in Texas
is at And somebody challenged me into some months ago,
and you know you'll never elect a presidential candidate. And
my pro pushback was, who cares? I don't care where
we stand. For example, right now in this country it's
almost a three way split, Democrats, Republicans, none of the above.
(38:23):
So neither party is doing a great job of attracting
the free agent, so to speak. But if we can
have some influence, particularly endorsing candidates who may be running
as Democrat or Republican but also have a forward party endorsement,
then that may help get them into office.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
Okay, So you think that there's a need for a
moderate party, absolutely, Okay, a party some people think for themselves.
But isn't that the Republican party right now? I mean
Trump one, hang on a second, Trump on Trump one
on common sense stuff, kitchen table issues, immigrans out of control,
the economy sucks, crime is up, too many warris around
the world. Don't you think that's moderate positions?
Speaker 6 (39:06):
So what happened in Texas?
Speaker 2 (39:07):
In Texas? What he didn't run for governor in Texas?
Speaker 6 (39:10):
Oh, he ran for president and brought a fair number
of state representats and state senators with him on to
be elected and a mandate.
Speaker 2 (39:19):
I think so he dated men.
Speaker 6 (39:22):
I don't know, maybe, but those folks went to Austin
and sold the store to the Democrat House Democrat Caucus.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
Yeah, all right, job Bob, before we run out of
time here because we are up against the clock. Here
on the screen, I have an AI video of State
Representative Gene wu waiving a communist flag or is it AI?
What do you think it's Ai? Okay, he's correct about that.
Last week, Lena Hidalgo had a meltdown in front of
(39:52):
the Harris County Commissioner's Court. Everybody in the Houston area
has heard this story. By now. Everybody knows she's unhealthy.
She took off a lot of time to go to
a mental health clinic or did she go to Columbia?
Who knows? Does she run again? Do you think her
career is over? What happens to Lena next?
Speaker 6 (40:08):
I sincerely pray that the folks who are near and
dear to her, sit her down and help her understand reality. Yeah,
she's cooked it. You take take some time off she
you know, there's a non governmental organization here there or
wherever it would hire her to and then give, you know,
(40:31):
give her the keys of the vault in the candy
store to launch any program she wants to launch. But
in terms of politics, you know, there's rumors you've sure
you heard him too, that she's.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
Gonna replace Sylvia Garcia. Don't you think Jean Wo would?
Don't you think Jean Wu would be the guy? He's
more popular now, Like you just explained in the last segment,
he won this exchange with the Texas Congressional district. It
wasn't Burroughs that won. It certainly wasn't Hidalgo that won.
It was Geen Wu. Jeen Wu's the winner of that
back and forth. I don't like to admit it out loud,
but he was.
Speaker 6 (41:02):
But if he gets any reasonable competition opponent, he's cooked.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
Like against two whoa what do you mean? Who would
run against him? That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (41:14):
I don't know, I mean, but those you know, there
are folks out there gonna run for a congressional seat.
I don't think I would hope the heck, the Harris
County Republican Party doesn't leave that as an un as
a uh.
Speaker 2 (41:25):
Okay, but opposed if they if the new districts go through,
which I think they eventually will, eighteenth district, that's gonna
be one of them, no matter what, whether we like
it or not, you know, Okay, Yeah, So it's gotta
be Jean wu or Al Green or one of these guys.
None of them are center left candidates. They're all far left.
Who do you think is the one that goes to
Washington next year? It's got to be one of them,
(41:45):
no matter who it is, it ain't gonna be somebody
you and I want. So who do you think? Who
do you think they'll pick?
Speaker 6 (41:50):
Might be surprised?
Speaker 2 (41:51):
Yeah, well I hope. I am Bob. What's next for you? Brother?
Speaker 6 (41:55):
A good nap?
Speaker 2 (41:58):
I believe him. I'm I'm Cundy Webster. I love you all.
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Speaker 7 (42:21):
Dude, you are listening to the Pursuit of Happiness Radio.
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