February 19, 2025 • 40 mins
This podcast edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness features journalist Brandon Waltens. ( @KennethRWebster )
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
Southwest Airlines is cutting fifteen percent of its corporate jobs.
They meant to cut them two years ago, but just
like a Southwest flight, that plan kept getting delayed. Hi, everybody,
thanks for turning on your radio. Yay, it's me. You're here.
I'm live on the radio today, but I'm also streaming
this on social media. And I know at the beginning
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of the year, if you're keeping score at home, I
promised I would do this more often, and I haven't
actually done it a lot, mostly because when I go
to work, I'm not wearing clothing and so it's probably
not appropriate to live stream video on the innert. But
today I am here, so thank you so much for
tuning in. If you're watching me on social media, you're
probably not watching on book face. As I check this,
(01:02):
it looks like weird connection issues with Facebook today. Meta.
I don't know if it's me or them or what,
but hello to the dozens of people watching on x
and two people watching on YouTube, So yay, we got YouTube.
All right, I want to start the show off with
this today. I'm one of the least discussed things in
the Donald Trump administration is the confirmation hearing for Labor
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Secretary nominee Lori Chavez Dreamer. And we'll just call her
Laurie because I may not even be saying her last name. Right,
I'm not a fan she was. She's a leftist Republican,
the worst kind of Look. We don't like Dad Failin,
we don't like Lindsey Graham, we don't like Mitch McConnell.
I don't know why she gets a pass pro union.
Fiscally on the left, she's like Elizabeth Warren when it
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comes to economics. And so she's doing a hearing today
and Ram Paul has pointed out before, you're very pro union.
You've supported the pro Act as a matter of fact,
the prol Act, which is something that would have def
fight or contradicted the Republican principle of the right to work.
And oddly enough, there are some people that have come
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on board to support this woman that you would not
have expected. People that have been very critical of unions,
in the past, people like this guy right here, that's
Mark Wayne Mullins. If you're watching on social media, Mark Wayne,
as you may recall, the junior senator from Oklahoma, not
the worst senator in Oklahoma, but certainly not my favorite
senator in the United States. Look pros and cons to everybody.
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He has two first names, Mark Wayne. Isn't that fun.
In fact, it's not even two words. He just jams
them together, Mark Wayne, like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Anyway,
he is all on board with Laurie, which is a surprise.
I'll explain why in just a second year.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Just kind of want to give you an update of
what's going to happen today. Today we're going to confirm
Kelly Tomorrow will get cash or tail taken care of.
But a big thing that's on a lot of people's
mind is Lorie the Secretary of Labor nominee that present
try put out. There's some confusion going on, like why
did President Trump Picklory. She's she's a Republican carsman and
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at the same time she supports the Proact Right. You know,
we're right to work state in Oklahoma, and obviously you
guys know I've had some problems with the union. Sean
O'Brien and I kind of had a moment or two.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Stop stop right there. I don't know how many of
you guys remember that, but Mark Wayne is actually referencing
one of the funniest things that has happened in the
Senate in years. I mean, look, there have been a
lot of great moments in the Senate, but very rarely
does the Senate remind us of the House. The House
of Representatives in Washington, DC often looks a lot like
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a Jerry Springer episode, especially when Lauren Bowbert and Jasmine
Crockett and Marjorie Taylor Green are exchanging barbers. Very very
rarely do you get that kind of excitement in the Senate.
We got it a while back. What was this a
year or two back? Mark Wayne mullen was talking to
one of the union bosses, labor union boss, and that's
when this happened.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Like he's self made. Sorry, I wish he was in
the truck with me when I was building my plumbing company,
myself and my wife is running the office, because I
should remember working pretty hard in long hours. Portends like
he's self made. What a clown.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Fraud, always has been.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Always will be quick the tough guy act in these
Senate hearings. You know where to find me any place, anytime, cowboy.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Sorry, this is a time. This is a place. If
you want to run your mouth, we can be too
consenting adults. If we can finish it here. Okay, that's fine, perfect,
you want to do it now. I'd love to do
it right now.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Then you stands you up, but hold stop it, no,
sit down, okay, United States.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Okay, sit down, please all right, hold it, hold it,
hold it, sir, sir, you are United States Senate.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
My favorite part of this clip is Bernie Sanders is
the voice of reason. Well, it turns out they're all
on the same committee. And that was a couple of
years ago, and now that same committee has been tasked
with having decide if this woman Laurie, who is very
pro Union for being a Republican, she seems an awful
lot like a liberal, and so Ram Paul had the
opportunity to exchange barbs with labor nominee Lori Chavez Dreamer,
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and she's now backtracking on the pro Act. I guess
that was good enough for Mark Wayne Mullen. It wasn't
good enough for ram Paul.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Was a meeting in her office. And I know you're
aware of this, but about half the country has right
to work laws twenty six states.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
I'm pause right there because I think my monitor just
quit working. This is the fun of live broadcasting, folks,
is let me see if I can fix it. I'm
live on the radio right now. This won't make any
sense to people listening at home. But the image that
people were looking at there that was displaying this video
is just stop working. So hopefully I can fix that
for you. Guys, I hate it. If I can't, is
(06:03):
it a no? It's just not going to work, son
of a bitch. This has never happened before. It disconnected.
Let me see if I can fix it. Here, Hold
on one second, Samsung, I've got it. It's a blame Samsung, everybody.
It's Samsung's fault that this wouldn't work. Can I get
a mulligan on this one?
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Here?
Speaker 2 (06:18):
We have them.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
When you compare right to work states with non right
to work states, you see that the right to work
states have double the employment growth. If you look at
manufacturing jobs, they have five times the manufacturing job growth.
If you look at disposable income and the right to
work states about three thousand dollars more per individual for
disposable income and the right to work states. The pro
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act wasn't just about organizing or enabling unions to organize,
which they already have the right to do. The pro
act was about overturning right to work laws in twenty
six states, half of a country. If you look at
most of these states would argue that this was would
be a horrendous invasion of their prerogatives. The chairman ask you,
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and then the ranking member ask you.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Do you still support the pro act?
Speaker 4 (07:06):
The reason we want to know is this is a
tremendous sort of invasion of the state's rights to decide
these This would be overturning the right to work laws
in half of the country. Do you still support the
pro actor? Don't you support the product?
Speaker 6 (07:21):
Great question, Thank you, Senator Paul. And I appreciated our
meeting as well. I thought it was quite.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yeah, go ahead, and Laurie.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
What you shared with me is how important it is
to you and your state, and I heard that from
many members. The right to work is a fundamental tenant
of labor laws where states have a right to choose
if they want to be a right to work state,
and that.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Should be proact. That's not what you said before, right.
Speaker 6 (07:48):
Yes, thank you, senator.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
I signed on to the pro.
Speaker 6 (07:50):
Act because I was representing Oregon's fifth district. But I
also signed onto the pro act because I wanted to
be at that table and have those conversations. But I
fully fairly in support states who want to protect their
right to work.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
All right, I'll cut to the chase here. She's changed
her mind. She's changed her mind. Everybody Suddenly she's not
pro union, leftist, fiscal leftist, social progressive economics, as the
people on the left left to call it. What chine
Now she claims, Look, uh, I only supported this thing
before because I'm a lawmaker from Oregon. I didn't think
i'd get reelected. That's not a good excuse. Or look,
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I don't know. Maybe some of you guys disagree with me.
Some people out there might think, Okay, maybe she didn't
like the law, but she supported it because it's what
our constituents wanted, and that's fine if that's your opinion.
Just know that if a politician is willing to change
their opinion about something in order to get a job.
They're probably not the right person for the job. Can't
we just find there's a there's three hundred and forty
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million people in this country. We have to have Lori.
We have to have the leftist, liberal shill Republican in
charge of our labor department who just flip flopped on
this position five minutes ago when she realized there were
fifteen Republicans that wouldn't support her, and to that point,
there might be twenty Democrats that will vote yes for
So maybe she'll be fine. Maybe she'll costrite into this position. Look,
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nobody's perfect. Donald Trump is building what I think is
the greatest presidential administration of our lifetime. Some of these
nominees are so good. Wait, it's mind blowing. It's a libertarian, conservative, populist, nationalist,
wet dream. We can't believe the people were getting. But
nobody's perfect. This is not a good pick. She's not good.
(09:34):
We can do better than this. I don't know what
happened behind closed doors, but I think they should vote
known to this woman and find someone better. Stop it government,
get out of my life. You're listening to the Pursuit
of Happiness radio. Okay, According to new data, the average
person has sixteen hundred photos on their phone Android iPhone
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doesn't matter sixteen photos. For young people, the photos are
a family. For old people, the photos are of a
single attempt to take a photo of a family. I
gotta think you notice how there's this shift happening right
now culturally around the country. I'm so old. How old
are you? Thank you very much, imaginary person in the
back of the room. I'm so old. I can remember
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a time when conservatives were geriatrics and liberals were more
often than not, the young, cool, hit people. And that
has changed. That is changing right now rapidly. Young people
seem to be pro Trump. Old people seem to not
like him. It's not what people expect, especially if you're
listening to AM talk radio. You wouldn't expect that at all.
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When we watch these videos of anti Trump, anti Doge protesters,
two things you immediately notice. It's a bunch of old
hippies trying to relive the sixties, right, That's the first
thing you noticed. And then the second thing you notice
is after all these years, they still haven't learned how
to sing on key? Oh which side are you? Which
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side are you on?
Speaker 7 (11:04):
Me?
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Which side are you on?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Which side are you on for?
Speaker 6 (11:10):
Listen, We'll fight against Chilge.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
We'll find.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
No way less cap for our young people that don't
understand what they're watching here. These are people in their
seventies and eighties, and they can remember streaking naked through
them the Woodstock Music Festival while high on LSD. That's
probably where a lot of them actually fornicated for the
first time and the reason why their children exist, and
those children went on to become Reagan babies and that
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sort of thing. Anyway, So not to be outdone. As
awful as that video was, right, that's not appealing to
young people. Young people that are interested in politics aren't
going to be interested in that anymore than they're not
going to be interested in this. They keep on living,
fall word, keep on li f. This is like a
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sixty five seventy year old man. He wants to be
Bob Dylan or Stevie Nicks or back. Wait hang on,
this is where it gets silly. I know it's hard
to believe. Not a king. Trump is not a king.
Trump is not a king. Now, I know what you're thinking,
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How on earth could that person have an audience gathered
together to listen to him sing it karaoke night. People
would have walked out on this person. That is not
appealing to young people in amer I mean, it's just
not it's not cool, it's not interesting. Nobody watches that
and thinks I want to be that. I look at
those people. Those people seem reasonable to me. Now it's
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a bunch of old nut jobs, still having flashbacks to
the first time they took mescalin or mushrooms or whatever
it may be, back in the day at first, the
first burning man. I don't have no idea, but there's
a reason why young people are now voting for Republicans.
They don't want to be part of that. In fact,
it's not even so much all young people. They say,
young men right now are skewing more conservative. They're polling
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more conservative than ever before in the history of the country. Again,
you might wonder why if you're a young man right now,
especially a young white guy, but young black men too
are voting Republican. Hispanics, you name it, and you look
around the country right now at what is happening, all
the problems, and you ask yourself, how did it get
this bad? And the answer you get from from college professors,
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high school professors, people in positions of authority. Though, look
at the person asking that question, this seventeen year old,
sixteen year old, nineteen year old, why are things so bad?
And the person will answer the question and say, it's
your fault. It's your fault, it's my fault. I'm seventeen,
I just finished high school ten minutes ago. How could
it be. No, it's your fault, you're young, your male,
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toxic masculinity, cisgendered, heteronormative patriarchy. You notice how whenever liberals
need to win a fight they make up words. It's
the same here, right. Dave Chappelle pointed this out before.
It's like transactivists will make up words so they could
win a fight. Where do you think transactivists learn that from.
I think you know the answer, well, the Communist party
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leaders that seem to have taken over the Democrat Party.
But it's not even like it's it's not all. It's
not as if all of them are young men. But
for young men. It's particularly confusing right now because young
men are looking at women their age and they're asking themselves,
why are the standards so different? Men are still expected
to adhere to the same financial responsibilities they had back
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in the eighteen hundreds, right, pay for the woman, pay
for the dates, support the family, you pay for dinner,
you pay for the vacation. But despite the fact that
they're now expected to be held to the same standards
you know, one hundred years ago or whatever, women are not.
Women are supposed to get all the equality, all the freedom,
but they're not supposed to have to answer the door,
open the door, pay for dinner, and look as a
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as a you know, as a somewhat conservative guy. I
don't have a problem with that. It doesn't bother me.
But of course, at my age, a lot of the
women I know and talk to, they want to be
treated like a woman. They want to be treated that way, right,
women in their twenties, teenage women. Nowadays, it's different, it's changing.
I give you an example. This is a video I
just stumbled across earlier today. This is a young one,
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presumably in her twenties, who is confused at the fact
that the guy that she went on a date with
just broke up with her when he found out that
her full time job is selling pictures of her bunghole
on the internet.
Speaker 8 (15:30):
Well, I hope you guys are happy that guy that
I really liked he found out about my job.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
Yeah, it's not okay with it. I guess one of
his friends told him. I was just waiting to.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Tell him because.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
I wanted him. I wanted him to get to know me, not.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Pers not my online persona. You know what's weird about
this video. There's a tiny part of me that can
relate with this. As you guys know, I'm a middle
aged man. I recently got divorced, so now I'm out
in the dating pool again. And when I go on
dates with young women or you know whoever it is
I've met on an app or a blind date or
someone set me up with them, I always wonder what
are they gonna think when they realize I'm the co
host and executive producer of a nationally syndicated morning talk
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show that's kind of edgy and offensive, and believe it
or not, some of them don't like it. But that's okay,
that's my fault. It's my responsibility to take, you know,
to own the fact that I am the person that
I am. Maybe you're so far on the left you
don't want a date A libertarian or a Republican or
a conservative. And as I'm going out on a date,
buying a drink for a girl, I wonder if she
knew my position's on abortion or the free market or
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gun rights, which she walked right out of this bar.
But look again, I have to own that that's my life.
Imagine living in a world because you live in the
same world as the woman in that clip whose video
we just watched and listen to where we're supposed to
feel sorry for a young woman in her twenties because
a guy just broke up with her after he found
out she has sex with other men on the internet
for money. Guys, I'm not a staunch social conservative. You
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guys watch my radio, listen to my radio show. You've
watched me on the internet before, you know. I don't care.
I listened to punk rock and heavy metal, and I
ski in Colorado, where people smoke a list in substances
while they're on a ski lift. I'm not you know.
I'm not one of these old boomers that gets offended
because someone says the F word in a rap song.
I don't care. But when I noticed that people are
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moving too far to the left socially, it's probably a
pretty good indication they're moving too far to the left socially.
This is silly and insane and ridiculous. Now, imagine you're
a young man age twenty two, seventeen nineteen, whatever it is.
You just went on a date with that girl, and
now you're supposed to have to explain why you don't
want to date her because she sells pictures of her
private parts on the internet. I got kind of went
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off on a tangent here about that young lady, and
I wait, stood a lot of time. But the thing
I really wanted to talk about in this segment, the
real reason, the thing that is actually causing young people
to start to skew conservative, to start to vote Republican,
it's because people on the left have pushed them there.
People on the left have told young white kids, you're
you're the problem. And then black men stood there and
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they were you know, I was like, well, wait, am
I the problem? While you're a man? You know that,
so you're part of the problem. And then you know,
hispanic eyes are like, well what about us? Are we
the problem? Well that depends how much money do your
parents earn. Oh no, you're the problem too. Asians. Asians
were a minority until five minutes ago, and then they
were told that that. Wow, you guys in California. You
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in California, Asians are now considered to be white because
they earn too much and they don't get arrested enough.
It's silly and ridiculous and stupid. So yeah, no wonder
people are abandoning the liberal movement. The liberal movement wanted
them to abandon them, and it worked. Stop to the government.
I started listening to one Proceeds of Happiness Radio with
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Ka Webstergitia aka producer Kenny. Today is National Chocolate Mint Day.
It's a day to celebrate the best way to ruin
a perfectly good piece of chocolate. Nobody wants chocolate mints,
you know, Like, who's that for? What is that?
Speaker 7 (19:19):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (19:19):
It's a junior mint. Couldn't you just couldn't you just
put some toothpaste inside of a candy container and disappoint
me that way? Anyway, speaking of disappointment, something that's even
more disappointing than a chocolate mint or candy corn the
Texas House. Hey, you're listening to this radio station because
odds are you are a voter in the state of Texas.
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You're a taxpayer in the state of Texas. I'll bet most,
if not all, of you own property in the state
of Texas. You're a Republican, you're a conservative, you're in
the majority. Weirdly enough, the Texas House is controlled by socialists,
Rhinos and grifters. How did that happen? It's a great question.
You remember, I don't know what was it. This was
almost a month ago. We were talking about how Lacey Hull,
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state representative from Houston voted with the Democrats to approve
new rules in the House. This is after they put
Dustin Burrows in charge, another Rhino lawmaker, and they said,
what are we going to do. Well, we're going to
give the Democrats are going to get all the vice
chair positions, all the vice all of them. Yeah. And
then there was some talk of how they were going
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to get more money, and Lacey Hall and her supporter said,
that's not true. We're not giving them more money. Hey,
Brandon Waltons from Texas scorecard dot com. Are the Democrats
going to get more money?
Speaker 7 (20:36):
The Democrats are going to get more money?
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Okay, how much more money? A few bucks, A couple thousand, dollars,
not a lot, right.
Speaker 7 (20:45):
Well, you know it's interesting when we talked about this
a few weeks ago in the House, you know, rammed
through these rules where members like Lacey Hull supported it,
saying that only Democrats can be vice chairs. They're going
to hold every vice chair position, and we're going to
expand the power of what a vice chair is. We
said that in addition to that, they were going to
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add a new stipend, essentially more money for those offices
of the vice chair, something that didn't happen before to
vice chair as vice chairs didn't get any more money
to hire, like an extra staff member or anything like that.
At the time, we had said that the reporting was
probably about four thousand dollars a month for each of
these thirty vice chairs. It actually turns out, we know
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now that that's actually five thousand dollars a month that's
just coming out this week that totals up to three
point six million dollars over the.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Yes.
Speaker 7 (21:37):
So, you know, just another Democrat handout, right, so that
they can expand their offices, hire more progressive staff, all
on the tax paradigm. And this is something that we
knew what was going to happen when they passed these rules.
Some people said, oh, no, absolutely not. And you know,
unfortunately it's put an out that that's exactly what's going on.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Three point six million dollars is ridiculous. Why what it's
the justification? Why do they need that much money?
Speaker 7 (22:05):
Oh, I have no idea. I mean the Actually, the
interesting thing is that, like I said, vice chairs didn't
used to have additional staff. I didn't get any additional money.
And part of that is because the vice chair position
has traditionally not been very powerful. I would actually say
that the fact that they're giving this extra money to
Democrats also works in a sort of way to prove
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that they did indeed expand what a vice chair means
that these aren't going to be normal vice chairs. These
are going to be much closer to code chairs than
they were before.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Okay, So, as infuriating as that is, I got to
check up on something else you told us the last
time you were here, Brandon Waltons, on this radio show,
you made this very bold claim that an attorney, a
Barack Obama attorney, somebody not only affiliated with the Democrats,
but somebody on Team Obama is now writing the rules
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for the Republicans in the Texas House. It's been a
few days since you've been on the show. Brandon, I'm
sure that's not true. Can you double check your facts
on that? I that can't be accurate.
Speaker 7 (23:07):
Yeah. Unfortunately, that one's, you know, was straight cut confirmed
by Speaker Dustin Burrows a few weeks ago when they
ran through these rules, he was asked by state Representative
Steve Toath whether whether or not Hugh Brady, someone who
had previously served as the parliamentarian but had also been
a lawyer in the Obama White House, is a big Democrat,
you know, whether or not he had something to do,
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whether or not he wrote the rules that gave democrats
more power this session. And Burrows said yes, and so
that was where we left it. Now what's happened since
is that Burrows has announced his parliamentarian, Sharon Carter, that
and that Hugh Brady, the Democrat Obamba Ware, was no
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longer going to be a parliamentarian.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
Now.
Speaker 7 (23:50):
People looked at this and said, okay, you know, how
far away is he possibly going though? And it turns
out we know now he actually updated his LinkedIn and
sort of gave it away that he's now working. Come on, yes, yes,
and so we're you know, he's parliamentary council, so he'll
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be counseling the parliamentarian, which sounds a lot like his
former role, just put in a different words. So this
is kind of like becoming a pattern, I would say,
under the Speaker Dustin Burroughs, Right, they say, oh, we're
not going to give Democrat chairs. You don't want Democrat chairs.
We're not going to give there our chairs. We're just
going to rename certain committees in certain vice chair positions
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and make vice chairs more powerful. So sort of undermining,
you know, trying to follow the letter of the law, right,
but actually undermining the entire spirit of it. In this case,
very similar. Oh no, Hugh Brady, Democrat lawyer, not going
to be a parliamentarian. Now we find out, oh he's
Parliamentary Council and we don't get know how much he's making.
We put in the Public Information Act requests for that.
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But he was making a last record as parliamentarian, he
was making over two hundred and thirty thousand dollars a year,
and so be interested to know whether or not he's
still making that much or maybe even more.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
I mean this is just incredible, and someone might say, wow,
you guys are just conspiracy theorist. Where are you getting
this information from? It's on Hugh Brady's LinkedIn account. Am
I understanding this correctly? Yes? Yes, that is correct, And
apparently he was also on the faculty at University of
Texas School of Law. Yes, so I think I'm starting
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to understand the connections.
Speaker 7 (25:30):
Get the money in from there.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Yeah, all right, it's amazing to me how bad the
house is right like, it's just awful. It's in shambles.
It's always been that way. And yet at the same time,
you know, credit is where credit due. Lieutenant Governor Dan
Patrick maybe not my favorite guy in government, but the
Senate isn't putting up with this nonsense that. In fact,
we're about to use some language about the Texas Senate
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that's going to confuse some radio listeners. For years, when
we talked about bail reform, we were talking about how
the liberals want to create a system so criminals don't
have to pay bail anymore, and in doing so basically
emptied out the prisons and the jails. And now bail
reform means something else, because that's become the norm right,
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what we were just discussing, bail reform now would actually
be defined as undoing that, wouldn't it.
Speaker 7 (26:22):
Oh absolutely, And you know, and I you know, he
hate to look at this, but it wasn't even just
liberals that were using the you know, bail reform movement
several years ago to try to essentially create and get
out jail free cards. There were some Republicans that got
co opted into that as well. We've seen what that
has done. We've seen the consequences of that, and to
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the credit of a lot of elected Republicans, they've seen
a number of them have seemed to change their tune
on this. Governor Greg Abbott made bail reform one of
his priorities and specifically talking about getting violent offenders, making
sure they can't go back out on the street and
reac emit crimes which we've seen. And so the Senate
is poised probably today to pass a number of bail
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reform measures, the most notable of which is probably SGR one,
which is being called Jocelyn's Law in memory of Jocelyn
nunger A, the twelve year old that was brutally killed
by some illegal aliens in Houston. Last year. This law
would say that illegal aliens, you know, when they're when
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they're charged with these violent offenses, they can't be let
out on bail. So that would have stopped, that would
have prevented her murder without the law at the time.
And then there's some other measures as well, talking about
you know, essentially just not letting violent violent offenders post
bail and deep out on the street and recommit crimes.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Yeah, I mean, it's interesting the direction this is all
moved in. Now we're so old, How old are we
that suddenly bail reform is a good thing only because
it's been bad for so long. So yeah, yeah, frankly,
awesome work, my brother. Hey, before you get out of here,
here's something else I was curious about Trump and the
USDA A little bit different than Joe Biden. In the USDA.
(28:08):
One of the things that they're floating around at the
US Department of Agriculture under Secretary Brook Rawlins is this
idea that they could prevent Chinese entities, Chinese agents, Chinese
nationals men, members of the Chinese Communist Party from purchasing
American farmland, more specifically American farmland surrounding our military bases
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now isn't a comment about race or anything like that.
But one person that really doesn't like this idea is
State Representative Jen Wu for some reason, who knows and
nobody knows why he specifically doesn't like it and won't
and we won't even try to speculate what would be
the point, but we do know this. He has blocked
the effort to ban this in the state of Texas.
He got the vote, He got enough Rhino Republicans and
(28:50):
his fellow Democrats to vote against it when it was
proposed last year. If I'm not mistaken, maybe you could
correct me on that this would go way over his head.
And even though gen who is now the leader of
the Republicans in the House, in the Texas House, which
is weird, I know, because he's an authoritarian leftist, he
would not have the power to stop this because it
would happen on a federal government. Is everything I just said, correct, you.
Speaker 7 (29:14):
Know, just about I mean, this was something that the
Texas Senate passed last time and was actually not even
probably was killed behind the scenes, not even brought up
for a vote last time because of opposition from people
like Jean Wu and even privately apparently from some Republicans
who are saying they didn't want to vote for this.
And so now you're seeing that the Trump administration is saying,
(29:34):
look if states like Texas and Texas is really the
big one, right, I mean, China owns more land here
than anywhere else. If Texas doesn't act on this, you know,
the USDA and Trump administration might have to. But you know,
how sad is that that, you know, Texas can't even
protect ourselves right now from hostile foreign countries coming in
and buying up land, creating a massive security threat. You
(29:56):
know that that hopefully we can get it down to
the left of the session. But how sad is it
that we have to look to the federal government to
do the right thing?
Speaker 2 (30:04):
I mean, amen to that. We're supposed to be the
biggest Republican state in the country. I read something recently
that said that by twenty forty we will be the
most populous state in the country, that there will be
more people in Texas than in California at this trajectory.
No idea if we'll still be conservative or Republican by then, Brandon,
and it's totally speculation, But what do you think, Well,
(30:27):
who knows.
Speaker 7 (30:28):
I mean I think that, you know, you look at
what happened last election Texas. For all the talk and
all the money that's gone into making Texas belue, Texas
was more read this last election than it has been
in over a decade. So who knows.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Amen, Amen to that. Brandon Wilams, you are quite good
at this journalism thing you do. I think you have
quite a future in it. Have you considered making this
a full time career?
Speaker 7 (30:53):
Thank you? Thank you. Yeah, I'm working on it.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
I love that Texas scorecard dot Com is his website.
You know what you ought to do? I mean a
lot of you know to look at that website. It's great.
I use it for show prep all the time. When
we're getting ready to go on the radio in the
morning and we want to know what's happening in Texas,
we go to Texas scorecard dot Com. You could do
it too. But while you're at it, why not follow
Brandon on social media. He's a smart guy and sometimes
he's really funny too. You're listening to Keen Webster's Pursuit
(31:18):
of Happiness very Spicy radio. Two Men. Two Men tried
to launch drugs into a Louisiana prison using a T
shirt cannon, and they would have gotten away with it
too if it wasn't for you know, probably everything that
was a really dumb idea. They stood outside of the
(31:39):
prison with a T shirt cannon shooting containers of drugs
and cigarettes into the prison, and weirdly that did not work.
I know, it's hard to believe. I've been talking a
little bit about why young people are suddenly starting to
skew conservative and as somebody that is no longer considered
young but was recently considered young, I you know, it
resonates with me. I was a young man who attended
(32:02):
the University of Illinois, Chicago UICE. It's a giant state
university in the middle of a giant city, so big
that a lot of people don't even realize that giant
state university is there. But if the name of the
school sounds familiar to you, it should, especially if you're
into politics. One of our professors was a guy named
Bill Ayers. Bill Ayers was part of a group called
the Weather Underground. He's a convicted terrorist. He did some
(32:24):
terrible things and he's a close personal friend of Barack Obama,
and he was very involved in the on campus politics.
While I was attending the school at Uice, we had
a Marxist book club, and a Socialist drinking club and
a Communist coffee club, and weirdly enough, they all competed
with each other on campus out in what was called
the quad or the circle circle campus they call it,
(32:44):
handing out pamphlets and flyers, trying to get people to
join their cause. And when I was nineteen years old,
twenty years old, attending college for the first time, I
met the people from these groups. I listened to them
talk about really what amounts to authoritarianism. Communism in fact,
are basically the same thing. They're just marketed a little differently.
I listen to them explain their political beliefs to me,
(33:06):
and it pushed me very far to the right. It
pushed me towards libertarianism, populism, conservativism, republicanism, not anything but Marxism, communism,
or so called progressivism. It didn't work for me, and
it's not working for a lot of other people right
now too. The difference between me and those people is
about twenty years. Townhall dot com has a story about
(33:27):
this today and they asked the question, if things are
beginning to change, well are they? Often it was the
Democrats who knew how to maximize institutional power and play
for the long game, that's how they put it. And
often it was them who was able to get young
people to vote on election day for their political party.
And now things are changing and it's not a one
(33:48):
off thing. Trends show that young people are veering towards
the right on politics. What happened. Here's where we get
to Democrats maybe blowing up their future over Donald Trump.
Things like COVID. Imagine, imagine the insanity of knowing that
you didn't get to go to your high school prom
because COVID, and then four years later you didn't get
(34:10):
to go to your college graduation because anti Israel protesters
were rioting on your college campus so much that they
canceled the graduation ceremony. That actually happened to young people.
The hysterics peddled by the left caused all of that.
There's this insane statistic, and I'm you know, I don't know,
I don't have the statistic in front of me right now,
(34:31):
but let's just say an absurdly high number of young people,
like thirty forty percent of young people in Americ kids
and adolescents go to bed at night worrying about climate change?
Why why do they worry about climate change when they're
going to bed? Because they were told to worry about it.
Because somebody in a position of authority decided that their
(34:53):
own political ideology was more important than the mental health
of a young child, much much less common ens and
objective facts. So they told them tonight, while you're sleeping,
there could be a hurricane or an earthquake or a
mud slide, and it's Donald Trump's fault. Imagine a reasonable,
rational person who's young and respects authority hearing that and
(35:16):
not knowing what to think of it. Now, I think
about kids on the spectrum autistic people, people with Asperger's.
What do you expect them to do when they hear this?
No wonder? Greta Thunberg is so mentally unstable she never
had a prayer, you guys. Instead of getting mad at
her or making fun of her, maybe we ought to
feel sorry for the woman. But all that being said,
the demographics really are changing. For those of you watching
(35:36):
me on social media right now, I want to put
a chart up on the screen here. Let me blow
this up so everybody can look at it. What we're
looking at here is by the year. This redline represents adults,
young adults, high school students, and where they are politically
percentage point difference in left to right voting between men, boys, women,
(35:57):
and young girls. And Derek Thompson, who public this data online,
asked the question why are young people in the US
shifting to the right, and he says, I think that
in many ways, both obvious and non obvious, this is
a COVID phenomenon. The pandemic era didn't just demolish faith
in scientific and political elites. It strongly increased alone time
(36:20):
sending young men and women, mostly young men, but women
certainly as well in highly gendered social media spaces, where
the youngest men in particular seem to have become significantly
more anti feminist and open to right wing influencers and
partiers and parties. Excuse me, that's how you put I
guess I just like to party. But you know, at
the end of the day, it could really be this
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part of the reason why young people are skewing to
the right. Young people like to win. Do you feel
like the Biden administration won anything? Do you feel like
Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton represent the values of winners. Hell,
Joe Biden, you know, quote unquote won the election, and
even he's a loser, it's abundantly obvious. Trump declared a
national emergency at the southern border. That's a big win.
(37:04):
Illegal crossings went down from like eleven thousand a day
to a couple hundred. The numbers have dropped so much
it's insanity. And we were repeatedly told over and over again,
this could never happen without Congress passing some bill, and
yet Donald Trump did it without that. Deportation flights of
criminal illegal aliens ramped up. We're sending him to Guantanamo Bay,
(37:25):
We're sending them to Colombia. You think this doesn't matter
to young people, It matters. You know what else matters
to young people. This will be lost on some of
the older listeners. Crypto Crypto is very popular with the
hip hop community, with rappers. It creates a decentralized currency
you can use on the Internet to buy and sell
things without some big brother looking and breathing down your
(37:46):
throat telling you what you can and can't do with
your money. That makes a big difference. Even if they're
not doing anything illegal. That makes a big difference to people.
But I'm certainly that happens as well. Now that being said,
Garment of Homeland Security is reviewing the parole status of
illegal aliens who were allowed into the country under the
Biden administration were deporting people left and right. And I
(38:09):
you know, that's good enough. But the crypto thing, I
think has really made a big difference here on young people.
Rappers like crypto. Donald Trump and the Republican Party have
become the pro crypto party. So obviously, when you read
the news, it's all about Doge, it's all about what's
going on at the border. And that's great if you're
a conservative. But to young libertarian minded people, liberty oriented people,
(38:31):
the fact that they're allowed to say what they want,
do what they want, think what they want without being
punished for it. That's the cool party.
Speaker 5 (38:37):
Now.
Speaker 2 (38:38):
We're not the Republicans of the party that say, hey,
someone told a dirty joke, get over it. That used
to be the Democrats. Odd how that changed so much,
didn't it. The Democrats created an economy you couldn't afford
to live in because everything was too expensive. The Democrats
created an economy where they shamed you for having a
fuel combustion vehicle, and then weirdly an they didn't create
(39:00):
a power grid that was able to sustain all these evs.
I've noticed there's a lot of war happening in the
world right now. That war wasn't happening the last time
Donald Trump was president. Now there's a lot of war.
It's not a coincidence that had happened during the Joe
Biden administration. I'm Kenny Webster. I gotta wrap this up here.
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Speaker 4 (39:46):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
Southwest Airlines is cutting fifteen percent of its corporate jobs.
They meant to cut them two years ago, but just
like a Southwest flight, that plan kept getting delayed. Hi, everybody,
thanks for turning on your radio. Yay, it's me. You're here.
I'm live on the radio today, but I'm also streaming
this on social media. And I know at the beginning
(00:42):
of the year, if you're keeping score at home, I
promised I would do this more often, and I haven't
actually done it a lot, mostly because when I go
to work, I'm not wearing clothing and so it's probably
not appropriate to live stream video on the innert. But
today I am here, so thank you so much for
tuning in. If you're watching me on social media, you're
probably not watching on book face. As I check this,
(01:02):
it looks like weird connection issues with Facebook today. Meta.
I don't know if it's me or them or what,
but hello to the dozens of people watching on x
and two people watching on YouTube, So yay, we got YouTube.
All right, I want to start the show off with
this today. I'm one of the least discussed things in
the Donald Trump administration is the confirmation hearing for Labor
(01:25):
Secretary nominee Lori Chavez Dreamer. And we'll just call her
Laurie because I may not even be saying her last name. Right,
I'm not a fan she was. She's a leftist Republican,
the worst kind of Look. We don't like Dad Failin,
we don't like Lindsey Graham, we don't like Mitch McConnell.
I don't know why she gets a pass pro union.
Fiscally on the left, she's like Elizabeth Warren when it
(01:47):
comes to economics. And so she's doing a hearing today
and Ram Paul has pointed out before, you're very pro union.
You've supported the pro Act as a matter of fact,
the prol Act, which is something that would have def
fight or contradicted the Republican principle of the right to work.
And oddly enough, there are some people that have come
(02:07):
on board to support this woman that you would not
have expected. People that have been very critical of unions,
in the past, people like this guy right here, that's
Mark Wayne Mullins. If you're watching on social media, Mark Wayne,
as you may recall, the junior senator from Oklahoma, not
the worst senator in Oklahoma, but certainly not my favorite
senator in the United States. Look pros and cons to everybody.
(02:31):
He has two first names, Mark Wayne. Isn't that fun.
In fact, it's not even two words. He just jams
them together, Mark Wayne, like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Anyway,
he is all on board with Laurie, which is a surprise.
I'll explain why in just a second year.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Just kind of want to give you an update of
what's going to happen today. Today we're going to confirm
Kelly Tomorrow will get cash or tail taken care of.
But a big thing that's on a lot of people's
mind is Lorie the Secretary of Labor nominee that present
try put out. There's some confusion going on, like why
did President Trump Picklory. She's she's a Republican carsman and
(03:07):
at the same time she supports the Proact Right. You know,
we're right to work state in Oklahoma, and obviously you
guys know I've had some problems with the union. Sean
O'Brien and I kind of had a moment or two.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Stop stop right there. I don't know how many of
you guys remember that, but Mark Wayne is actually referencing
one of the funniest things that has happened in the
Senate in years. I mean, look, there have been a
lot of great moments in the Senate, but very rarely
does the Senate remind us of the House. The House
of Representatives in Washington, DC often looks a lot like
(03:40):
a Jerry Springer episode, especially when Lauren Bowbert and Jasmine
Crockett and Marjorie Taylor Green are exchanging barbers. Very very
rarely do you get that kind of excitement in the Senate.
We got it a while back. What was this a
year or two back? Mark Wayne mullen was talking to
one of the union bosses, labor union boss, and that's
when this happened.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Like he's self made. Sorry, I wish he was in
the truck with me when I was building my plumbing company,
myself and my wife is running the office, because I
should remember working pretty hard in long hours. Portends like
he's self made. What a clown.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Fraud, always has been.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Always will be quick the tough guy act in these
Senate hearings. You know where to find me any place, anytime, cowboy.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Sorry, this is a time. This is a place. If
you want to run your mouth, we can be too
consenting adults. If we can finish it here. Okay, that's fine, perfect,
you want to do it now. I'd love to do
it right now.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Then you stands you up, but hold stop it, no,
sit down, okay, United States.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Okay, sit down, please all right, hold it, hold it,
hold it, sir, sir, you are United States Senate.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
My favorite part of this clip is Bernie Sanders is
the voice of reason. Well, it turns out they're all
on the same committee. And that was a couple of
years ago, and now that same committee has been tasked
with having decide if this woman Laurie, who is very
pro Union for being a Republican, she seems an awful
lot like a liberal, and so Ram Paul had the
opportunity to exchange barbs with labor nominee Lori Chavez Dreamer,
(05:24):
and she's now backtracking on the pro Act. I guess
that was good enough for Mark Wayne Mullen. It wasn't
good enough for ram Paul.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Was a meeting in her office. And I know you're
aware of this, but about half the country has right
to work laws twenty six states.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
I'm pause right there because I think my monitor just
quit working. This is the fun of live broadcasting, folks,
is let me see if I can fix it. I'm
live on the radio right now. This won't make any
sense to people listening at home. But the image that
people were looking at there that was displaying this video
is just stop working. So hopefully I can fix that
for you. Guys, I hate it. If I can't, is
(06:03):
it a no? It's just not going to work, son
of a bitch. This has never happened before. It disconnected.
Let me see if I can fix it. Here, Hold
on one second, Samsung, I've got it. It's a blame Samsung, everybody.
It's Samsung's fault that this wouldn't work. Can I get
a mulligan on this one?
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Here?
Speaker 2 (06:18):
We have them.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
When you compare right to work states with non right
to work states, you see that the right to work
states have double the employment growth. If you look at
manufacturing jobs, they have five times the manufacturing job growth.
If you look at disposable income and the right to
work states about three thousand dollars more per individual for
disposable income and the right to work states. The pro
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act wasn't just about organizing or enabling unions to organize,
which they already have the right to do. The pro
act was about overturning right to work laws in twenty
six states, half of a country. If you look at
most of these states would argue that this was would
be a horrendous invasion of their prerogatives. The chairman ask you,
(07:03):
and then the ranking member ask you.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Do you still support the pro act?
Speaker 4 (07:06):
The reason we want to know is this is a
tremendous sort of invasion of the state's rights to decide
these This would be overturning the right to work laws
in half of the country. Do you still support the
pro actor? Don't you support the product?
Speaker 6 (07:21):
Great question, Thank you, Senator Paul. And I appreciated our
meeting as well. I thought it was quite.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yeah, go ahead, and Laurie.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
What you shared with me is how important it is
to you and your state, and I heard that from
many members. The right to work is a fundamental tenant
of labor laws where states have a right to choose
if they want to be a right to work state,
and that.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Should be proact. That's not what you said before, right.
Speaker 6 (07:48):
Yes, thank you, senator.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
I signed on to the pro.
Speaker 6 (07:50):
Act because I was representing Oregon's fifth district. But I
also signed onto the pro act because I wanted to
be at that table and have those conversations. But I
fully fairly in support states who want to protect their
right to work.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
All right, I'll cut to the chase here. She's changed
her mind. She's changed her mind. Everybody Suddenly she's not
pro union, leftist, fiscal leftist, social progressive economics, as the
people on the left left to call it. What chine
Now she claims, Look, uh, I only supported this thing
before because I'm a lawmaker from Oregon. I didn't think
i'd get reelected. That's not a good excuse. Or look,
(08:27):
I don't know. Maybe some of you guys disagree with me.
Some people out there might think, Okay, maybe she didn't
like the law, but she supported it because it's what
our constituents wanted, and that's fine if that's your opinion.
Just know that if a politician is willing to change
their opinion about something in order to get a job.
They're probably not the right person for the job. Can't
we just find there's a there's three hundred and forty
(08:49):
million people in this country. We have to have Lori.
We have to have the leftist, liberal shill Republican in
charge of our labor department who just flip flopped on
this position five minutes ago when she realized there were
fifteen Republicans that wouldn't support her, and to that point,
there might be twenty Democrats that will vote yes for
So maybe she'll be fine. Maybe she'll costrite into this position. Look,
(09:11):
nobody's perfect. Donald Trump is building what I think is
the greatest presidential administration of our lifetime. Some of these
nominees are so good. Wait, it's mind blowing. It's a libertarian, conservative, populist, nationalist,
wet dream. We can't believe the people were getting. But
nobody's perfect. This is not a good pick. She's not good.
(09:34):
We can do better than this. I don't know what
happened behind closed doors, but I think they should vote
known to this woman and find someone better. Stop it government,
get out of my life. You're listening to the Pursuit
of Happiness radio. Okay, According to new data, the average
person has sixteen hundred photos on their phone Android iPhone
(09:58):
doesn't matter sixteen photos. For young people, the photos are
a family. For old people, the photos are of a
single attempt to take a photo of a family. I
gotta think you notice how there's this shift happening right
now culturally around the country. I'm so old. How old
are you? Thank you very much, imaginary person in the
back of the room. I'm so old. I can remember
(10:20):
a time when conservatives were geriatrics and liberals were more
often than not, the young, cool, hit people. And that
has changed. That is changing right now rapidly. Young people
seem to be pro Trump. Old people seem to not
like him. It's not what people expect, especially if you're
listening to AM talk radio. You wouldn't expect that at all.
(10:40):
When we watch these videos of anti Trump, anti Doge protesters,
two things you immediately notice. It's a bunch of old
hippies trying to relive the sixties, right, That's the first
thing you noticed. And then the second thing you notice
is after all these years, they still haven't learned how
to sing on key? Oh which side are you? Which
(11:01):
side are you on?
Speaker 7 (11:04):
Me?
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Which side are you on?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Which side are you on for?
Speaker 6 (11:10):
Listen, We'll fight against Chilge.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
We'll find.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
No way less cap for our young people that don't
understand what they're watching here. These are people in their
seventies and eighties, and they can remember streaking naked through
them the Woodstock Music Festival while high on LSD. That's
probably where a lot of them actually fornicated for the
first time and the reason why their children exist, and
those children went on to become Reagan babies and that
(11:39):
sort of thing. Anyway, So not to be outdone. As
awful as that video was, right, that's not appealing to
young people. Young people that are interested in politics aren't
going to be interested in that anymore than they're not
going to be interested in this. They keep on living,
fall word, keep on li f. This is like a
(12:01):
sixty five seventy year old man. He wants to be
Bob Dylan or Stevie Nicks or back. Wait hang on,
this is where it gets silly. I know it's hard
to believe. Not a king. Trump is not a king.
Trump is not a king. Now, I know what you're thinking,
(12:23):
How on earth could that person have an audience gathered
together to listen to him sing it karaoke night. People
would have walked out on this person. That is not
appealing to young people in amer I mean, it's just
not it's not cool, it's not interesting. Nobody watches that
and thinks I want to be that. I look at
those people. Those people seem reasonable to me. Now it's
(12:44):
a bunch of old nut jobs, still having flashbacks to
the first time they took mescalin or mushrooms or whatever
it may be, back in the day at first, the
first burning man. I don't have no idea, but there's
a reason why young people are now voting for Republicans.
They don't want to be part of that. In fact,
it's not even so much all young people. They say,
young men right now are skewing more conservative. They're polling
(13:07):
more conservative than ever before in the history of the country. Again,
you might wonder why if you're a young man right now,
especially a young white guy, but young black men too
are voting Republican. Hispanics, you name it, and you look
around the country right now at what is happening, all
the problems, and you ask yourself, how did it get
this bad? And the answer you get from from college professors,
(13:30):
high school professors, people in positions of authority. Though, look
at the person asking that question, this seventeen year old,
sixteen year old, nineteen year old, why are things so bad?
And the person will answer the question and say, it's
your fault. It's your fault, it's my fault. I'm seventeen,
I just finished high school ten minutes ago. How could
it be. No, it's your fault, you're young, your male,
(13:51):
toxic masculinity, cisgendered, heteronormative patriarchy. You notice how whenever liberals
need to win a fight they make up words. It's
the same here, right. Dave Chappelle pointed this out before.
It's like transactivists will make up words so they could
win a fight. Where do you think transactivists learn that from.
I think you know the answer, well, the Communist party
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leaders that seem to have taken over the Democrat Party.
But it's not even like it's it's not all. It's
not as if all of them are young men. But
for young men. It's particularly confusing right now because young
men are looking at women their age and they're asking themselves,
why are the standards so different? Men are still expected
to adhere to the same financial responsibilities they had back
(14:34):
in the eighteen hundreds, right, pay for the woman, pay
for the dates, support the family, you pay for dinner,
you pay for the vacation. But despite the fact that
they're now expected to be held to the same standards
you know, one hundred years ago or whatever, women are not.
Women are supposed to get all the equality, all the freedom,
but they're not supposed to have to answer the door,
open the door, pay for dinner, and look as a
(14:57):
as a you know, as a somewhat conservative guy. I
don't have a problem with that. It doesn't bother me.
But of course, at my age, a lot of the
women I know and talk to, they want to be
treated like a woman. They want to be treated that way, right,
women in their twenties, teenage women. Nowadays, it's different, it's changing.
I give you an example. This is a video I
just stumbled across earlier today. This is a young one,
(15:19):
presumably in her twenties, who is confused at the fact
that the guy that she went on a date with
just broke up with her when he found out that
her full time job is selling pictures of her bunghole
on the internet.
Speaker 8 (15:30):
Well, I hope you guys are happy that guy that
I really liked he found out about my job.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
Yeah, it's not okay with it. I guess one of
his friends told him. I was just waiting to.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Tell him because.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
I wanted him. I wanted him to get to know me, not.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Pers not my online persona. You know what's weird about
this video. There's a tiny part of me that can
relate with this. As you guys know, I'm a middle
aged man. I recently got divorced, so now I'm out
in the dating pool again. And when I go on
dates with young women or you know whoever it is
I've met on an app or a blind date or
someone set me up with them, I always wonder what
are they gonna think when they realize I'm the co
host and executive producer of a nationally syndicated morning talk
(16:26):
show that's kind of edgy and offensive, and believe it
or not, some of them don't like it. But that's okay,
that's my fault. It's my responsibility to take, you know,
to own the fact that I am the person that
I am. Maybe you're so far on the left you
don't want a date A libertarian or a Republican or
a conservative. And as I'm going out on a date,
buying a drink for a girl, I wonder if she
knew my position's on abortion or the free market or
(16:49):
gun rights, which she walked right out of this bar.
But look again, I have to own that that's my life.
Imagine living in a world because you live in the
same world as the woman in that clip whose video
we just watched and listen to where we're supposed to
feel sorry for a young woman in her twenties because
a guy just broke up with her after he found
out she has sex with other men on the internet
for money. Guys, I'm not a staunch social conservative. You
(17:13):
guys watch my radio, listen to my radio show. You've
watched me on the internet before, you know. I don't care.
I listened to punk rock and heavy metal, and I
ski in Colorado, where people smoke a list in substances
while they're on a ski lift. I'm not you know.
I'm not one of these old boomers that gets offended
because someone says the F word in a rap song.
I don't care. But when I noticed that people are
(17:35):
moving too far to the left socially, it's probably a
pretty good indication they're moving too far to the left socially.
This is silly and insane and ridiculous. Now, imagine you're
a young man age twenty two, seventeen nineteen, whatever it is.
You just went on a date with that girl, and
now you're supposed to have to explain why you don't
want to date her because she sells pictures of her
private parts on the internet. I got kind of went
(17:58):
off on a tangent here about that young lady, and
I wait, stood a lot of time. But the thing
I really wanted to talk about in this segment, the
real reason, the thing that is actually causing young people
to start to skew conservative, to start to vote Republican,
it's because people on the left have pushed them there.
People on the left have told young white kids, you're
you're the problem. And then black men stood there and
(18:20):
they were you know, I was like, well, wait, am
I the problem? While you're a man? You know that,
so you're part of the problem. And then you know,
hispanic eyes are like, well what about us? Are we
the problem? Well that depends how much money do your
parents earn. Oh no, you're the problem too. Asians. Asians
were a minority until five minutes ago, and then they
were told that that. Wow, you guys in California. You
(18:40):
in California, Asians are now considered to be white because
they earn too much and they don't get arrested enough.
It's silly and ridiculous and stupid. So yeah, no wonder
people are abandoning the liberal movement. The liberal movement wanted
them to abandon them, and it worked. Stop to the government.
I started listening to one Proceeds of Happiness Radio with
(19:02):
Ka Webstergitia aka producer Kenny. Today is National Chocolate Mint Day.
It's a day to celebrate the best way to ruin
a perfectly good piece of chocolate. Nobody wants chocolate mints,
you know, Like, who's that for? What is that?
Speaker 7 (19:19):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (19:19):
It's a junior mint. Couldn't you just couldn't you just
put some toothpaste inside of a candy container and disappoint
me that way? Anyway, speaking of disappointment, something that's even
more disappointing than a chocolate mint or candy corn the
Texas House. Hey, you're listening to this radio station because
odds are you are a voter in the state of Texas.
(19:41):
You're a taxpayer in the state of Texas. I'll bet most,
if not all, of you own property in the state
of Texas. You're a Republican, you're a conservative, you're in
the majority. Weirdly enough, the Texas House is controlled by socialists,
Rhinos and grifters. How did that happen? It's a great question.
You remember, I don't know what was it. This was
almost a month ago. We were talking about how Lacey Hull,
(20:04):
state representative from Houston voted with the Democrats to approve
new rules in the House. This is after they put
Dustin Burrows in charge, another Rhino lawmaker, and they said,
what are we going to do. Well, we're going to
give the Democrats are going to get all the vice
chair positions, all the vice all of them. Yeah. And
then there was some talk of how they were going
(20:25):
to get more money, and Lacey Hall and her supporter said,
that's not true. We're not giving them more money. Hey,
Brandon Waltons from Texas scorecard dot com. Are the Democrats
going to get more money?
Speaker 7 (20:36):
The Democrats are going to get more money?
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Okay, how much more money? A few bucks, A couple thousand, dollars,
not a lot, right.
Speaker 7 (20:45):
Well, you know it's interesting when we talked about this
a few weeks ago in the House, you know, rammed
through these rules where members like Lacey Hull supported it,
saying that only Democrats can be vice chairs. They're going
to hold every vice chair position, and we're going to
expand the power of what a vice chair is. We
said that in addition to that, they were going to
(21:05):
add a new stipend, essentially more money for those offices
of the vice chair, something that didn't happen before to
vice chair as vice chairs didn't get any more money
to hire, like an extra staff member or anything like that.
At the time, we had said that the reporting was
probably about four thousand dollars a month for each of
these thirty vice chairs. It actually turns out, we know
(21:26):
now that that's actually five thousand dollars a month that's
just coming out this week that totals up to three
point six million dollars over the.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Yes.
Speaker 7 (21:37):
So, you know, just another Democrat handout, right, so that
they can expand their offices, hire more progressive staff, all
on the tax paradigm. And this is something that we
knew what was going to happen when they passed these rules.
Some people said, oh, no, absolutely not. And you know,
unfortunately it's put an out that that's exactly what's going on.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Three point six million dollars is ridiculous. Why what it's
the justification? Why do they need that much money?
Speaker 7 (22:05):
Oh, I have no idea. I mean the Actually, the
interesting thing is that, like I said, vice chairs didn't
used to have additional staff. I didn't get any additional money.
And part of that is because the vice chair position
has traditionally not been very powerful. I would actually say
that the fact that they're giving this extra money to
Democrats also works in a sort of way to prove
(22:25):
that they did indeed expand what a vice chair means
that these aren't going to be normal vice chairs. These
are going to be much closer to code chairs than
they were before.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Okay, So, as infuriating as that is, I got to
check up on something else you told us the last
time you were here, Brandon Waltons, on this radio show,
you made this very bold claim that an attorney, a
Barack Obama attorney, somebody not only affiliated with the Democrats,
but somebody on Team Obama is now writing the rules
(22:56):
for the Republicans in the Texas House. It's been a
few days since you've been on the show. Brandon, I'm
sure that's not true. Can you double check your facts
on that? I that can't be accurate.
Speaker 7 (23:07):
Yeah. Unfortunately, that one's, you know, was straight cut confirmed
by Speaker Dustin Burrows a few weeks ago when they
ran through these rules, he was asked by state Representative
Steve Toath whether whether or not Hugh Brady, someone who
had previously served as the parliamentarian but had also been
a lawyer in the Obama White House, is a big Democrat,
you know, whether or not he had something to do,
(23:28):
whether or not he wrote the rules that gave democrats
more power this session. And Burrows said yes, and so
that was where we left it. Now what's happened since
is that Burrows has announced his parliamentarian, Sharon Carter, that
and that Hugh Brady, the Democrat Obamba Ware, was no
(23:48):
longer going to be a parliamentarian.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
Now.
Speaker 7 (23:50):
People looked at this and said, okay, you know, how
far away is he possibly going though? And it turns
out we know now he actually updated his LinkedIn and
sort of gave it away that he's now working. Come on, yes, yes,
and so we're you know, he's parliamentary council, so he'll
(24:13):
be counseling the parliamentarian, which sounds a lot like his
former role, just put in a different words. So this
is kind of like becoming a pattern, I would say,
under the Speaker Dustin Burroughs, Right, they say, oh, we're
not going to give Democrat chairs. You don't want Democrat chairs.
We're not going to give there our chairs. We're just
going to rename certain committees in certain vice chair positions
(24:36):
and make vice chairs more powerful. So sort of undermining,
you know, trying to follow the letter of the law, right,
but actually undermining the entire spirit of it. In this case,
very similar. Oh no, Hugh Brady, Democrat lawyer, not going
to be a parliamentarian. Now we find out, oh he's
Parliamentary Council and we don't get know how much he's making.
We put in the Public Information Act requests for that.
(24:58):
But he was making a last record as parliamentarian, he
was making over two hundred and thirty thousand dollars a year,
and so be interested to know whether or not he's
still making that much or maybe even more.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
I mean this is just incredible, and someone might say, wow,
you guys are just conspiracy theorist. Where are you getting
this information from? It's on Hugh Brady's LinkedIn account. Am
I understanding this correctly? Yes? Yes, that is correct, And
apparently he was also on the faculty at University of
Texas School of Law. Yes, so I think I'm starting
(25:29):
to understand the connections.
Speaker 7 (25:30):
Get the money in from there.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Yeah, all right, it's amazing to me how bad the
house is right like, it's just awful. It's in shambles.
It's always been that way. And yet at the same time,
you know, credit is where credit due. Lieutenant Governor Dan
Patrick maybe not my favorite guy in government, but the
Senate isn't putting up with this nonsense that. In fact,
we're about to use some language about the Texas Senate
(25:53):
that's going to confuse some radio listeners. For years, when
we talked about bail reform, we were talking about how
the liberals want to create a system so criminals don't
have to pay bail anymore, and in doing so basically
emptied out the prisons and the jails. And now bail
reform means something else, because that's become the norm right,
(26:14):
what we were just discussing, bail reform now would actually
be defined as undoing that, wouldn't it.
Speaker 7 (26:22):
Oh absolutely, And you know, and I you know, he
hate to look at this, but it wasn't even just
liberals that were using the you know, bail reform movement
several years ago to try to essentially create and get
out jail free cards. There were some Republicans that got
co opted into that as well. We've seen what that
has done. We've seen the consequences of that, and to
(26:43):
the credit of a lot of elected Republicans, they've seen
a number of them have seemed to change their tune
on this. Governor Greg Abbott made bail reform one of
his priorities and specifically talking about getting violent offenders, making
sure they can't go back out on the street and
reac emit crimes which we've seen. And so the Senate
is poised probably today to pass a number of bail
(27:06):
reform measures, the most notable of which is probably SGR one,
which is being called Jocelyn's Law in memory of Jocelyn
nunger A, the twelve year old that was brutally killed
by some illegal aliens in Houston. Last year. This law
would say that illegal aliens, you know, when they're when
(27:28):
they're charged with these violent offenses, they can't be let
out on bail. So that would have stopped, that would
have prevented her murder without the law at the time.
And then there's some other measures as well, talking about
you know, essentially just not letting violent violent offenders post
bail and deep out on the street and recommit crimes.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Yeah, I mean, it's interesting the direction this is all
moved in. Now we're so old, How old are we
that suddenly bail reform is a good thing only because
it's been bad for so long. So yeah, yeah, frankly,
awesome work, my brother. Hey, before you get out of here,
here's something else I was curious about Trump and the
USDA A little bit different than Joe Biden. In the USDA.
(28:08):
One of the things that they're floating around at the
US Department of Agriculture under Secretary Brook Rawlins is this
idea that they could prevent Chinese entities, Chinese agents, Chinese
nationals men, members of the Chinese Communist Party from purchasing
American farmland, more specifically American farmland surrounding our military bases
(28:28):
now isn't a comment about race or anything like that.
But one person that really doesn't like this idea is
State Representative Jen Wu for some reason, who knows and
nobody knows why he specifically doesn't like it and won't
and we won't even try to speculate what would be
the point, but we do know this. He has blocked
the effort to ban this in the state of Texas.
He got the vote, He got enough Rhino Republicans and
(28:50):
his fellow Democrats to vote against it when it was
proposed last year. If I'm not mistaken, maybe you could
correct me on that this would go way over his head.
And even though gen who is now the leader of
the Republicans in the House, in the Texas House, which
is weird, I know, because he's an authoritarian leftist, he
would not have the power to stop this because it
would happen on a federal government. Is everything I just said, correct, you.
Speaker 7 (29:14):
Know, just about I mean, this was something that the
Texas Senate passed last time and was actually not even
probably was killed behind the scenes, not even brought up
for a vote last time because of opposition from people
like Jean Wu and even privately apparently from some Republicans
who are saying they didn't want to vote for this.
And so now you're seeing that the Trump administration is saying,
(29:34):
look if states like Texas and Texas is really the
big one, right, I mean, China owns more land here
than anywhere else. If Texas doesn't act on this, you know,
the USDA and Trump administration might have to. But you know,
how sad is that that, you know, Texas can't even
protect ourselves right now from hostile foreign countries coming in
and buying up land, creating a massive security threat. You
(29:56):
know that that hopefully we can get it down to
the left of the session. But how sad is it
that we have to look to the federal government to
do the right thing?
Speaker 2 (30:04):
I mean, amen to that. We're supposed to be the
biggest Republican state in the country. I read something recently
that said that by twenty forty we will be the
most populous state in the country, that there will be
more people in Texas than in California at this trajectory.
No idea if we'll still be conservative or Republican by then, Brandon,
and it's totally speculation, But what do you think, Well,
(30:27):
who knows.
Speaker 7 (30:28):
I mean I think that, you know, you look at
what happened last election Texas. For all the talk and
all the money that's gone into making Texas belue, Texas
was more read this last election than it has been
in over a decade. So who knows.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Amen, Amen to that. Brandon Wilams, you are quite good
at this journalism thing you do. I think you have
quite a future in it. Have you considered making this
a full time career?
Speaker 7 (30:53):
Thank you? Thank you. Yeah, I'm working on it.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
I love that Texas scorecard dot Com is his website.
You know what you ought to do? I mean a
lot of you know to look at that website. It's great.
I use it for show prep all the time. When
we're getting ready to go on the radio in the
morning and we want to know what's happening in Texas,
we go to Texas scorecard dot Com. You could do
it too. But while you're at it, why not follow
Brandon on social media. He's a smart guy and sometimes
he's really funny too. You're listening to Keen Webster's Pursuit
(31:18):
of Happiness very Spicy radio. Two Men. Two Men tried
to launch drugs into a Louisiana prison using a T
shirt cannon, and they would have gotten away with it
too if it wasn't for you know, probably everything that
was a really dumb idea. They stood outside of the
(31:39):
prison with a T shirt cannon shooting containers of drugs
and cigarettes into the prison, and weirdly that did not work.
I know, it's hard to believe. I've been talking a
little bit about why young people are suddenly starting to
skew conservative and as somebody that is no longer considered
young but was recently considered young, I you know, it
resonates with me. I was a young man who attended
(32:02):
the University of Illinois, Chicago UICE. It's a giant state
university in the middle of a giant city, so big
that a lot of people don't even realize that giant
state university is there. But if the name of the
school sounds familiar to you, it should, especially if you're
into politics. One of our professors was a guy named
Bill Ayers. Bill Ayers was part of a group called
the Weather Underground. He's a convicted terrorist. He did some
(32:24):
terrible things and he's a close personal friend of Barack Obama,
and he was very involved in the on campus politics.
While I was attending the school at Uice, we had
a Marxist book club, and a Socialist drinking club and
a Communist coffee club, and weirdly enough, they all competed
with each other on campus out in what was called
the quad or the circle circle campus they call it,
(32:44):
handing out pamphlets and flyers, trying to get people to
join their cause. And when I was nineteen years old,
twenty years old, attending college for the first time, I
met the people from these groups. I listened to them
talk about really what amounts to authoritarianism. Communism in fact,
are basically the same thing. They're just marketed a little differently.
I listen to them explain their political beliefs to me,
(33:06):
and it pushed me very far to the right. It
pushed me towards libertarianism, populism, conservativism, republicanism, not anything but Marxism, communism,
or so called progressivism. It didn't work for me, and
it's not working for a lot of other people right
now too. The difference between me and those people is
about twenty years. Townhall dot com has a story about
(33:27):
this today and they asked the question, if things are
beginning to change, well are they? Often it was the
Democrats who knew how to maximize institutional power and play
for the long game, that's how they put it. And
often it was them who was able to get young
people to vote on election day for their political party.
And now things are changing and it's not a one
(33:48):
off thing. Trends show that young people are veering towards
the right on politics. What happened. Here's where we get
to Democrats maybe blowing up their future over Donald Trump.
Things like COVID. Imagine, imagine the insanity of knowing that
you didn't get to go to your high school prom
because COVID, and then four years later you didn't get
(34:10):
to go to your college graduation because anti Israel protesters
were rioting on your college campus so much that they
canceled the graduation ceremony. That actually happened to young people.
The hysterics peddled by the left caused all of that.
There's this insane statistic, and I'm you know, I don't know,
I don't have the statistic in front of me right now,
(34:31):
but let's just say an absurdly high number of young people,
like thirty forty percent of young people in Americ kids
and adolescents go to bed at night worrying about climate change?
Why why do they worry about climate change when they're
going to bed? Because they were told to worry about it.
Because somebody in a position of authority decided that their
(34:53):
own political ideology was more important than the mental health
of a young child, much much less common ens and
objective facts. So they told them tonight, while you're sleeping,
there could be a hurricane or an earthquake or a
mud slide, and it's Donald Trump's fault. Imagine a reasonable,
rational person who's young and respects authority hearing that and
(35:16):
not knowing what to think of it. Now, I think
about kids on the spectrum autistic people, people with Asperger's.
What do you expect them to do when they hear this?
No wonder? Greta Thunberg is so mentally unstable she never
had a prayer, you guys. Instead of getting mad at
her or making fun of her, maybe we ought to
feel sorry for the woman. But all that being said,
the demographics really are changing. For those of you watching
(35:36):
me on social media right now, I want to put
a chart up on the screen here. Let me blow
this up so everybody can look at it. What we're
looking at here is by the year. This redline represents adults,
young adults, high school students, and where they are politically
percentage point difference in left to right voting between men, boys, women,
(35:57):
and young girls. And Derek Thompson, who public this data online,
asked the question why are young people in the US
shifting to the right, and he says, I think that
in many ways, both obvious and non obvious, this is
a COVID phenomenon. The pandemic era didn't just demolish faith
in scientific and political elites. It strongly increased alone time
(36:20):
sending young men and women, mostly young men, but women
certainly as well in highly gendered social media spaces, where
the youngest men in particular seem to have become significantly
more anti feminist and open to right wing influencers and
partiers and parties. Excuse me, that's how you put I
guess I just like to party. But you know, at
the end of the day, it could really be this
(36:41):
part of the reason why young people are skewing to
the right. Young people like to win. Do you feel
like the Biden administration won anything? Do you feel like
Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton represent the values of winners. Hell,
Joe Biden, you know, quote unquote won the election, and
even he's a loser, it's abundantly obvious. Trump declared a
national emergency at the southern border. That's a big win.
(37:04):
Illegal crossings went down from like eleven thousand a day
to a couple hundred. The numbers have dropped so much
it's insanity. And we were repeatedly told over and over again,
this could never happen without Congress passing some bill, and
yet Donald Trump did it without that. Deportation flights of
criminal illegal aliens ramped up. We're sending him to Guantanamo Bay,
(37:25):
We're sending them to Colombia. You think this doesn't matter
to young people, It matters. You know what else matters
to young people. This will be lost on some of
the older listeners. Crypto Crypto is very popular with the
hip hop community, with rappers. It creates a decentralized currency
you can use on the Internet to buy and sell
things without some big brother looking and breathing down your
(37:46):
throat telling you what you can and can't do with
your money. That makes a big difference. Even if they're
not doing anything illegal. That makes a big difference to people.
But I'm certainly that happens as well. Now that being said,
Garment of Homeland Security is reviewing the parole status of
illegal aliens who were allowed into the country under the
Biden administration were deporting people left and right. And I
(38:09):
you know, that's good enough. But the crypto thing, I
think has really made a big difference here on young people.
Rappers like crypto. Donald Trump and the Republican Party have
become the pro crypto party. So obviously, when you read
the news, it's all about Doge, it's all about what's
going on at the border. And that's great if you're
a conservative. But to young libertarian minded people, liberty oriented people,
(38:31):
the fact that they're allowed to say what they want,
do what they want, think what they want without being
punished for it. That's the cool party.
Speaker 5 (38:37):
Now.
Speaker 2 (38:38):
We're not the Republicans of the party that say, hey,
someone told a dirty joke, get over it. That used
to be the Democrats. Odd how that changed so much,
didn't it. The Democrats created an economy you couldn't afford
to live in because everything was too expensive. The Democrats
created an economy where they shamed you for having a
fuel combustion vehicle, and then weirdly an they didn't create
(39:00):
a power grid that was able to sustain all these evs.
I've noticed there's a lot of war happening in the
world right now. That war wasn't happening the last time
Donald Trump was president. Now there's a lot of war.
It's not a coincidence that had happened during the Joe
Biden administration. I'm Kenny Webster. I gotta wrap this up here.
Quick reminder. Kids, go to I LOVEWJ dot com today.
(39:22):
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Thanks so much for Roger.
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