Why Is Tim Walz Friends With School Shooters?

This podcast edition of Kenny Webster’s Pursuit of Happiness features journalist Brandon Waltens and author Daniel Turner. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
Well, the debate happened last night between the vice presidential candidates.
Orientz Haitian immigrants called it Tuesday. I actually learned something
from watching it. I learned that I will never ever
again watch a vice presidential debate. After watching it, I
am still undecided, folks, undecided. Should I move to Denmark?
Should I move to Portugal? Come on, I'm kidding, I'm kidding.

(00:46):
But all that being said, the moderators actually had to
cut the microphones at both candidates at about the thirty
minute mark. You know, it would have been great if
they'd cut the microphones on both candidates for the whole debate,
but at any rate. Okay, all right, I know, sorry,
it's too easy. Well, we'll get to all that. I'm
going to talk about the debate over the next hour.
We'll have Daniel Turner here from Power the Future, and

(01:07):
we're going to be talking to Brandon Waltons about how
the election is affecting Texas and how Texas is affecting
the election. Brandon waltons, of course, as a journalist from
texascorecard dot com, But I'll start the conversation here. Dock
workers and longshoremen at ports all along the East and
Gulf Coast of America are now on strike. Thousands of

(01:28):
members of the International Longshoreman's Association stopped working at the
beginning of October, roughly one month before the election. Port
workers going on strike means almost everything that average Americans
purchase will spike in cost. Construction workers, employees at car dealerships,
and retail workers will be the most affected by these strikes.

(01:50):
And here in Houston, we're hearing reports that grocery store
workers are already being told their work hours might be
limited in the coming weeks, as food deliveries will be
severely limited by the strike. Some of the longshoreman union
demands are reasonable. They want higher pay. For example, inflation
is skyrocket over the past three years under the Biden administration,
so it's not absurd to absume It's not absurd to

(02:14):
assume they deserve something higher than what they currently get.
But union leaders already rejected a fifty percent pay raise
and asked for upwards of seventy percent over the next
several years. Other demands, like the request for no robotic automation,
are a bit more complicated, especially when you consider those
are things that are happening at ports in virtually every
developed country in the world. The basic argument the president

(02:37):
of the union keeps falling back on as he delivers
his diatribe demanding higher pay essentially revolves around the fact
that these port workers all had to work during the pandemic.
Of course, so did most of us, and many of
those who didn't work during the pandemic only gave up
their jobs because they were forced to do so at
any rate. The ISLA president, Harold Daggett, carries himself like

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a mob boss straight out of Hollywood's Central Casting, which
probably isn't a coincidence. The man was previously indicted for extortion,
and the Department of Justice claims he's affiliated with the
Genevies crime family. A video of him describing the strike
recently went viral. The man can be seen wearing a
gold chain and threatening to put America in a choke hold.
He often speaks in first person while talking about the strike,

(03:22):
saying things like I'm going to do this. I'm going
to do that instead of we're going to do this,
or we're going to do that. He also said if
the president of the United States steps in, it won't matter.
And that brings us to Joe Biden, where exactly is he.
Isn't Joe Biden supposed to be a union guy. Hasn't
he built his career out of supporting and affiliate himself

(03:43):
with unions. He could theoretically end all of this right now.
He could easily invoke something called the Smooth Holly Terrif Act.
It's a law that allows the president to pause a
labor strike if it causes a national security your economic crisis.
So why isn't he saying or doing anything literally anything?

(04:04):
I know people over use that word. Is he trying
to sabotage Kamala It's an interesting question, considering her branch
of his own political party forced him to drop out
of the race. It's also hard to ignore how this
is all taking place a month before the election. Union
workers seem to believe that's all just a coincidence. When
I spoke with many of them earlier this week at

(04:25):
the protest here in Houston, I met a lot of
people who didn't seem to fully comprehend the strategic timing
of the contract ending right before an election. Many of
them said it just happened to fall on that date,
not realizing that we've known for years when this presidential
election would take place. And by the way, not everyone
I met at the protest was a far left liberal

(04:46):
or communist organizer, although some of them were. While I
walked around the protest, I even met listeners of this
radio show. It was a very unique combination of blue
collar middle Americans, union sympathizing activists, and of course members
of the media. There were people wearing gold chains, medallions,
driving expensive cars while they demanded a higher salary. A

(05:06):
strange look to attend a protest, but that's what they
chose to do. There were even people there wearing hamas scarfs.
Not really sure what Palestine has to do all of this,
but perhaps it would help explain the motivation of some
of the people organizing the protest. So you've got people
affiliated with the mafia, blue collar union guys, people that
dressed like rappers, even people dressing like hamas terrorists. Politics

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seems to make friends and allies out of very unlikely
groups of people, and once again, it's hard to ignore
the timing of all of this at any rate. I
have a video I produced and you're going to be
seeing that on social media in the coming days, and
we'll be talking about that for the next hour on
this radio show. Stick around, folks, it is Pursuit of
Happiness Radio.

Speaker 3 (05:48):
We'll be right back.

Speaker 4 (05:49):
If I were you, I'd stay put Kenny, You'll be
right back with more of what you came for for.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
Jokes night was the vice presidential debate between Tim Walls
and jd Vance on CBS. If you didn't watch, you
made a great decision. I got to tell you. It's
the most inconsequential part of this election, in an election
that seems to be bringing together Italian mob bosses and

(06:19):
hamas extremist activists and street gang members.

Speaker 3 (06:24):
We'll get to all that later on.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
A debate took place last night between two very polite
white men who both grew up in the Midwest and
tried to prove to the audience that both of them
were more average than the other guy. It was a
substantive and formative and even keeled discussion about the pressing
issues of the day. Boring Okay, it wasn't boring. I
actually look, I enjoy this stuff. I thought it was

(06:47):
very interesting. But you couldn't help but notice that Tim
Walls was struggling a lot on stage. He seemed unprepared,
and oddly enough, there was a moment during the debate.
I mean, Tim Walls had a few bad moments, and
I think Van said a great night, but obviously I'm biased. Amazingly,
one of the worst parts of the night for Tim
Walls came while the moderators were lobbing him softball questions

(07:10):
about abortion. Boy, you'd think that would have been an
easy thing to do, but he just couldn't be normal
enough for the audience, and it was on full display.

Speaker 3 (07:18):
At any rate.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
A few interesting moments I thought last night gun violence.
Both of the men seem to agree that gun violence
is a problem with.

Speaker 5 (07:26):
Outs of the families that are affected by this terrible stuff,
and we do have to do better. And I think
that Governor Wilson I actually probably agree that we need
to do better on this. The question is just how
do we actually do it. Now Here here's something that
really bothers me and worries me about this epidemic of
violence the gross majority close to ninety percent and some.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
Of the Sorry that clip cuts off there, I don't
know why, but at any rate, and then Tim had
an odd moment where he said that he's friends with
school shooting.

Speaker 6 (07:53):
You previously opposed an assault weapons ban, but it only
later in your political career did you change your position.

Speaker 7 (07:59):
Why set in that office with those Sandy Hook parents.
I've become friends with school shooters.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
What I think he missed spoke? I think he met
school shooting victims. But Tim Walls does make this argument
that we need.

Speaker 3 (08:11):
Stricter gun laws. And yet Tim.

Speaker 2 (08:13):
Walls, he's the governor of a state where we have
strict gun laws right Minnesota. Nearby a place called Chicago
with very strict gun laws, no legal gun owners inside anywhere,
no gun stores, no gun ranges, and yet amazingly there's
gun violence everywhere here. With his reaction to what took
place last night, a good friend of the show, Daniel
Turner of Power of the Future, Daniel, I'm sure I

(08:35):
left some stuff off.

Speaker 3 (08:36):
What do you think about this?

Speaker 8 (08:38):
No, it's a great it's a great point. I think
this was one of those those clear examples where the
moderators show they're innate bias. They're so biased they can
even help themselves. And the premise of this question was
gun violence is the number one killer of children in America,
and they talk about schools, and that's the satistic is

(09:00):
a flat out lie, and they know it's a lie.
Gun violence as the number one killer of children in
America is if you include up to the age of
twenty one, and last I saw eighteen nineteen twenty and
twenty one year olds are not considered children. So up
toil we consider twenty one, and that includes all of
the gang violence in places as you mentioned, like Chicago
and East Saint Louis and Baltimore and Atlanta and Philadelphia.

(09:25):
And so if we add all of those awful cities,
and that is worthy of another question, right, that is
worthy of a question of why do we have such
an inner city gang violence problem? Let's discuss it. But
then they extrapolate from that statistic of eighteen nineteen twenty
and twenty one year olds killing each other in Chicago,

(09:46):
they extrapolate from that, Senator vance, why don't you want
guns in schools? Or why do you want guns in schools?
Why do you oppose gun laws?

Speaker 9 (09:53):
Right?

Speaker 8 (09:53):
So the moderators show their bias that they manipulate a
statistic and then apply it to schools, which is where
every parent in the world is petrified of a school shooting.
And they do that to make jd. Vance look like
the bad guy who doesn't want gun laws and Tim
and Tim Waltz look like the caring Midwestern dad who

(10:14):
just wants to protect the children, right, and stuff like
that is absolutely infuriating in the political discourse. It cheapens it,
it weakens it, It weakens the lives of those people
who have died, and it totally ignores the real problem
of gun violence in those Democrat run strictest gun rules

(10:36):
on the books cities. So it just angers me beyond
compare as you can tell.

Speaker 3 (10:40):
Kenny, Oh, absolutely same here, Ma Man.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
I mean, I live in a city and I come
from a city, both Houston and Chicago, where local elected
officials are not exactly keen on guns. And yet for
some reason, while they keep advocating for stricter gun laws,
they don't really enforce them.

Speaker 3 (10:56):
You know, we have what is it, bond reform.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
They can't let these violent criminals out of jail fast enough,
which is just amazing. To me, if it's so important
to protect us from gun violence, why do they keep
letting the violent criminals go? Why don't they hold them
in jail for very long? Last night, jd Vance made
a lot of good points on that topic. But Tim
Wall's oddly enough seem to blame guns for gun violence.

Speaker 6 (11:19):
Well, you previously opposed an assault weapons ban, but it
only later in your political career did you change your position.

Speaker 7 (11:25):
Why? Yeah, I set in that office with those San
Dieg parents. I've become friends with school shooters.

Speaker 3 (11:29):
I've seen it.

Speaker 7 (11:30):
Look the NRA, I was an n our guy for
a long time. They used to teach gun safety. I'm
of an age where my shotgun was in my car
so I could peasant hunt after football practice.

Speaker 3 (11:39):
That's not where we live today.

Speaker 7 (11:41):
And several things I want to mention on this is
talking about cities and where it's at. The Number one
where the most firearm deaths happened in Minnesota are rural suicides.
And we have an epidemic of children getting guns and
shooting themselves, and so we have and we should look
at all of the issues, making sure folks have health

(12:03):
care and all that. But I want to be very
careful this idea of stigmatizing mental health. Just because you
have a mental health issue doesn't mean you're violent. And
I think what we end up doing is we start
looking for a scapeboat. Sometimes it just is the guns.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
Again, so many contradictions here telling us that suicide in
rural places could be stopped if we just got rid
of guns, but then going on to say people have
mental health issues. You know, America's suicide right, it isn't
necessarily higher than the rest of the world, certainly not
because of guns.

Speaker 3 (12:33):
Can Tim here himself.

Speaker 2 (12:34):
I would assume that without guns here, those same people
killing themselves would probably just use something else, which is awful.

Speaker 8 (12:41):
But it's a reality, absolutely, And that's why this issue
it is a hot button issue. It plays upon the
fears of parents. We all see when the news breaks
and there's a shooting at a school and four children
are dead, and it is tragic and it is deplorable
and it does make you cry. But that is not
an epidemic in this country. And the moderators and the

(13:03):
Democrats are making it sound like it's an epidemic because
they have a larger agenda. When you take out, as
I mentioned, the inner city shootings of young adults. When
you take that out of the equation, and when you
take suicide out of the equation, America has no different
record than any other country in the world when it
comes to school violent school shootings, etc. So you have

(13:24):
to wonder, why are these groups manipulating statistics? What's the goal?
Michael Bloomberg runs that organization called every Town USA or
Every Town Association that was started after Sandy Hook, and
people have dug into their statistics where they say, you know,
every year there are five hundred school shootings in America.
They found the highlight example of that. They found a

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tragically an off duty cop going through a tragic divorce
who in the middle of the summer drove to an
abandoned school parking lot where he knew no one was
going to be and he killed himself. And they say
school shooting because it was a gun and it was
a school. Now, why would you add that into a
school shooting number if you were really looking to solve

(14:06):
a school shooting problem, You're just making up statistics because
you want to inflate the issue, you want the talking point,
you want to fear. But you know what, Kenny, they
do this with climate change. They do this with abortion,
they do this with COVID.

Speaker 5 (14:22):
Right.

Speaker 8 (14:22):
They never tell you the truth about the issue. They
have to convince you that it's way worse than it is.
Unless you surrender all of your rights to them, you're
all going to die.

Speaker 3 (14:31):
That's it. Absolutely, that's absolutely correct. And you know, just
to go back to a point I made when we.

Speaker 2 (14:36):
Started this conversation, they're telling us right now that crime
is down around the country.

Speaker 3 (14:41):
They're telling us it's not a problem.

Speaker 2 (14:43):
Now we have seen evidence and examples of how some
of these big cities are actually neglecting to share crime
data with the FBI, which is part of the reason
why they're telling you this. On a federal level, crime
is down, Okay, And then you go look at the
website and you're like, that's that's weird. It's like nothing
was reported in new last year. So you know, the
most violent cities in America aren't sharing data with the FBI.

(15:05):
I think I know why they think crime is down.
But at the same time, and this is an uncomfortable
thing to point out, the leading cause of death to
children in America isn't gun violence, it's abortion.

Speaker 3 (15:15):
And I know they don't want to talk about that,
but it's true.

Speaker 5 (15:18):
No.

Speaker 8 (15:19):
And you know, this is the third debate where the
Democrat has gotten asked to clarify their limits of abortion,
and they got around the answer and there was no pushback.
If jd Vance has asked, do you promise you will
not sign a national abortion van, he will be asked
nineteen times unless they get the answer they want. Tim Waltz,

(15:40):
you said in the ninth month, Tim Waltz is like,
let me tell you I'm a middle class family and
let me quote Saint Matthew and blah blah blah, and
Nora o'donald just looks at him and smiles and moves on.
You know, why don't you just say absolutely I want
abortion until there are still nine states in America I
believe where even after birth abortion is still legal. Virginia

(16:02):
used to be one of those states. Five of those
that have happened in Minnesota under Tim Waltz's governorship botched
abortions where the baby was born live and then the
baby was put down because that was the will of
the mother. Five have happened. Then the Tim Waltz, if
you are so pro woman and pro choice, just say it.
Just have the damn kahonis to say, oh, yeah, yeah,

(16:24):
you should be able to kill your child until the
bitter end. Just just say it, right, I will tell you, Kenny,
I want a drill for oil and coal and gas
every possible place in America because I think it is great.
I'm not gonna Cavali like equivocate and hide. Just say it,
say I want abortion at any stage, regardless of circumstances.

(16:45):
But they never will do that. They will push for it,
they will vote for it, but when they are confronted
with it, they're all a bunch of freaking cowards because
they know they are evil, evil people.

Speaker 3 (16:55):
Boy, you nailed it, Daniel.

Speaker 2 (16:57):
I mean, at the end of the day, the only
reason why this is such an important issue is because
there is a high number of unmarried women out there
who are frequently having sex with men they don't want
to have families with, and they don't want to have
any consequences for it. And if that's your position, if
that's your lifestyle choice, look I'm it's not my lifestyle choice,

(17:17):
but just admit that that's why you want abortion. That
Instead they make it sound like, oh, this is about healthcare,
it's about saving babies lives. Look how high the mortality
infant mortality rate is in Texas. The infant mortality rate
in Texas is high because we're a border state and
we have women giving birth out in the middle of
the desert. Nobody wants to talk about that, but it's happening. Hey,

(17:37):
I'll tell you what. We went long on this segment,
but Daniel, can you hang with us for another segment?
I want to ask your opinion on the port workers strike.
I feel like this is the most important issue in America,
and yet it seems to be the thing the least
people want to talk about.

Speaker 3 (17:50):
I would be honored and I can calm down.

Speaker 2 (17:52):
Run the commercial break, my man, Daniel Turner, Power the Future,
A quick break.

Speaker 3 (17:55):
We'll be right back after this.

Speaker 4 (17:59):
Be wary of strung alcoholic drinks. They could make you
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Speaker 3 (18:09):
Fifty Houston.

Speaker 2 (18:14):
Do you remember four years ago at the presidential debates
when they discussed foreign policy?

Speaker 3 (18:20):
No, you don't, real quick, you don't.

Speaker 2 (18:22):
Don't feel bad if you don't remember, because they didn't
discuss it four years ago. Uh, COVID interrupted a debate.
Remember I think Trump got Covid. They didn't have The
point is they didn't have a debate on foreign policy,
so it never happened. Fast forward four years, we all
remember the debate between Trump and Biden and then the
debate between Trump and Kamala. Also absent from both of

(18:44):
those conversations, very very little discussion on foreign policy, which
is remarkable.

Speaker 3 (18:50):
Where is there.

Speaker 2 (18:51):
American military is at war right now in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Ukraine,
and then this thing in Israel and Iran.

Speaker 3 (18:59):
THEDO footage of what is going on right now in
Israel is just horrific.

Speaker 2 (19:06):
But as important as that is, right, it's probably not
as important as the strike's going on.

Speaker 3 (19:13):
I mean, it's not. The war matters, of course it does.

Speaker 2 (19:16):
It's gonna make oil and gas very expensive and people
are gonna die, and American inflation's gonna get worse as
we have to fund another forever war, printing out money
with no backing to supply the military industrial complex with
all this equipment.

Speaker 3 (19:29):
You know how that works. But I think immediately here.

Speaker 2 (19:32):
In the short term, you as an average American, probably
aren't going to be affected as much by that as
you will buy. These strikes going on all over the
eastern and Gulf Coast half of the country taking place
with port workers the long shortman, that is going to
make your groceries immediately more expensive. You can't buy a car,
you won't be able to find an iPhone. They're gonna
send construction workers home because they won't have the supplies

(19:55):
that they need to rebuild after the hurricane. They're going
to have to send people at the MO home. I
am being told that here in Houston, grocery store workers
are already being told we're going to have to limit
your hours over the next coming few weeks because as
long as this strike's going on, there isn't going to
be any canned food or snacks or pretzels or things
like that for you to restock the shelves with. Now,

(20:16):
if that's what's happening in America right now, then you
really got to wonder what will these debate moderators last night?
What did they lead the debate with at the vice
presidential debate. Weirdly enough, now they suddenly want to talk
about foreign policy. Really, it was the first thing out
of the gates last night. I don't think they even
mentioned the longshoreman Daniel Turner is is the media hungry

(20:42):
for blood? Daniel Turner's here from Power the Future. Why
was it suddenly so important to have a conversation about
foreign policy right out of the gates when they didn't
want to discuss it for what the last four or
five years.

Speaker 8 (20:54):
Yeah, Yeah, it's remarkable that the world is boiling over. Also,
you know, at a precipitated rate. In these last couple
of weeks. Things are escalating on in multiple locations. So
I understand that they wanted to lead with that, and
obviously we're part of the global community and et cetera,

(21:16):
et cetera. I do laugh at the fact that Kamala
said we have no troops in any active war zones
for the first time in decades, and then Joe Biden's like,
we're sending forty thousand additional troops to the Middle East.
So you know, that's been a bit of a problem, right,
So that would have been a great a great question,

(21:36):
you know, or a great issue for gend bands to
bring up. But yeah, the long shortman strike is going
to affect Americans much more than what's happening in Ukraine
and Middle East, and not that those aren't important issues,
and not that we're not concerned about what happens to
any of God's children on this earth. But but if
our food and goods are not able to get in

(21:58):
and out right, not just importing things, it's loading those
ships up and sending our goods overseas. You know, that's
a huge issue. And it was just completely ignored.

Speaker 3 (22:11):
Yeah, I'm amazed at this.

Speaker 2 (22:13):
And it's incredible too, because if you take a close
look with a magnifying glass at what is going on
with the longshorm and protests around the country, it's brought
together a very strange hodgepodge of people.

Speaker 3 (22:26):
I was at the protest yesterday in Houston, Texas. I'll
tell you who I saw. I saw some good people.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
I saw some average people, and I saw some bad
people standing around, and they're all making the same argument.
I saw some of our listeners there, guys who simply
want their family's income, the household income, to keep up
with the rate of inflation.

Speaker 3 (22:43):
I met people that listened to this radio show. I
happen to agree with them.

Speaker 2 (22:47):
I saw people walking around wearing gold chains and medallions
like trust, like rappers. I thought that was an odd
thing to wear to a protest where you're trying to
make the case that you don't have enough money. They're
doing it in front of TV camp. And then the
last thing I saw that really amazed me. Besides like, uh,
hippie hippie, white hippie girls standing around, probably listening to

(23:08):
Woody Guthrie and you know, uh, dreaming of the nineteen
sixties union protests.

Speaker 3 (23:13):
They want to go back to those days.

Speaker 2 (23:14):
But another thing that really blew my mind Daniel protesters
wearing Hummas scarfs.

Speaker 3 (23:20):
Hummas?

Speaker 2 (23:21):
What what an odd like white blue collar guys, inner
city guys dressed like rappers. I mean, I'm I'm you know,
obviously think people get my coded language. They're not trying
to be you know, I'm speaking of broad generalities here.

Speaker 3 (23:34):
That's what I saw. And then and and then Hammas
activists what the hell are they doing there?

Speaker 8 (23:40):
Well, I know the Astros clinched did Hummas like? Is
it is it part of like just like postseason baseball?
Is it showing you your your your colors? Of it's
a crazy hotepodge. I think sometimes when the left has
the protest, everyone just wants to get involved. What I
find very interesting is that you've got three major cabinet

(24:01):
members who should be involved in this. You've got the
Secretary of Transportation, who is little cub scout Pete budhage Edge.
Pete has been off for the last week because he
was doing that. He was heading up the debate prep
for Kamala Harris. Did he take a leave of absence right?
Are we still paying his paycheck and his maternity leave?
I don't know, but Pete's been doing that. You've got

(24:24):
the Secretary of Commerce, Gina Raimundo, and when she was
asked about this on CNBC a couple of days ago,
she fled out that I haven't been paying attention. So
there's the Secretary of Commerce, and the third is the
Secretary of Labor, and we don't have Secretary of Labor.
We have an acting Secretary of Labor, Julie Sue. She's

(24:46):
been acting for almost two years. As a reminder, the
Democrats do control the Senate. So if you say, well,
the Republicans are blocking her denomination, nope, Chuck Schumer runs
the Senate. They could have confirmed her for the US
two years and they haven't done. So I don't know why.
So between the Secretary of Transportation being mia, the Secretary

(25:08):
of Commerce just being clueless, and no secretary of labor,
are we surprised we're in the situation that we are.
Where the hell is our leadership?

Speaker 7 (25:16):
Right?

Speaker 8 (25:17):
Where's our leadership? Joe Biden's at the beach, Kamala's on
the campaign trail, No one's in Tennessee in North Carolina
with the storms. Who runs this country?

Speaker 3 (25:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (25:28):
Who's in charge?

Speaker 3 (25:29):
What do you make of that?

Speaker 2 (25:30):
Daniel that Trump goes to the hurricane and Kamala in
the meantime goes to this. Let me see if I
could get it up on the screen. Here she goes
to this. For the same day Trump goes out to
the hurricane, Kamala goes to a fundraiser where a bunch
of Hollywood celebrities get together and eat duck egg roll,
goat cheese, honey, blueberry balls, beef Wellington, lobster rolls, and

(25:52):
crap cakes. People are dying in a hurricane. How is
that not this story?

Speaker 3 (25:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (25:58):
Really? If the roles were with of course it would
be the story. I tweeted not long ago that famous
photo of Anderson Cooper from the hurricane Katrina. If you
follow me Dale Turner the PTF on Twitter, you can
see it. That's when Anderson Cooper put himself in a
hole basically up to his waste and water, but his

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cameraman is standing there, you know, totally normal on dry land.
And Anderson staged a photo during Hurricane Katrina, and everyone
recalls he was there from the very beginning. And the
reason why is because Anderson wanted to do two things.
He wanted to tell the media that George Bush does
not care about Katrina. George Bush is a bad man, right,
He's a Republican, He's white. George Bush is the devil,

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and he wanted to stoke racial violence. This is about
black people. The media doesn't care about black people. The
president doesn't care about black people. Hel Kanye West even said,
remember that famous George Bush doesn't care about black people.
That is what they did during Katrina. The same thing
is not happening now for the reverse reasons. They don't

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care about white people Appalachia, poor white people. Who gives
a dam And secondly, they don't want to hurt Joe Biden.
They don't want to make it look like Joe Biden
has dropped the ball, so they just ignore the storm altogether.
What happened in Helene is likely going to be worse
than what happened with Katrina. But it hit the long
demographic and that is your media.

Speaker 2 (27:25):
Yeah, you nailed it. And where is Biden? By the way,
Let's go back to the strike for a second. Here
there's this thing called the Smooth Holly Terriff Act. For
those of you that don't know what that is, don't
feel bad. Basically, it says the president could step in.
This has been a los since nineteen thirty because of
Herbert Hoover, and he can stop a strike. If the
strike affects national security, or if it affects the national economy,

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if it puts us in dire straits, the President could
step in and say no to the strike.

Speaker 3 (27:53):
Everybody go back to work.

Speaker 2 (27:55):
Meanwhile, the union boss, Harold Daggett has already put out
a statement addressing this, saying, Okay, if Joe Biden institutes
the Smooth Holly Terror Fact, I'll just tell all my
union workers to drag their feet and instead of unloading
eight cards a day, they'll just unload two. Won't make
any difference. The strikers generally still be happening. And that
guy Harold Dagged by the way indicted for extortion. I know,

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I'm all over the place here, indicted for extortion by
the Department of Justice, affiliated with the Genevies crime family.
Is Biden afraid of him or is he trying to
sabotage Kamala?

Speaker 8 (28:29):
I mean, the Genevies private family knew a lot about
shipping goods around, so it makes sense he was in
cahoots with them if he's in charge of the long
shoreman's union. Yeah, Biden. I think Biden is quite honestly,
I think he just doesn't care. I think he was
watching the last three months of administration crumble the world.
He's a foreign policy expert. Foreign policy is in the toilet, right.

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The economy has not necessarily recovered, Inflation has slowed, it
hasn't gotten better, and Joe Biden's have senile and Jill
hates him because he so I think Biden just doesn't care.
He could invoke US Hawley and stop this and protect
American jobs and families and livelihoods, but he's not going
to because he just doesn't care. Right, he doesn't, And boy,

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things are going to get really bad unless this strike
is resolved quickly. But who's going to negotiate? Right Biden
is clueless. The guy in charge of the long shoreman's
I'm afraid of saying this because he'll come get me,
you know, at nighttime. But he's a mafia thug, right,
so get a remote starter from my truck, Daniel. So
who's going to negotiate an end to the strike? Nobody? Nobody.

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We have no leadership right now in any capacity.

Speaker 2 (29:42):
Oh, Daniel, that's what interns are for. Haven't interns start
your car for you? Daniel Turner Power the Future a
very brilliant man. If you're not following Daniel on Twitter,
I just want to point out again that's Daniel Turner PTF.

Speaker 3 (29:54):
The website's Power the Future.

Speaker 2 (29:56):
Daniel, by the way, is an advocate for oil and
gas workers, blue collar guys working places like Texas or Pennsylvania.

Speaker 3 (30:02):
That's what he does. He runs a news outlet.

Speaker 2 (30:04):
He's an activist, and he makes sure people are informed
and aware of how corrupt our ruling class is right now.
It's why he's a regular part of this radio show
every week. You should connect with him online. Quick Break
Brandon Walton's from Texas squarecard coming up in just a little.

Speaker 4 (30:17):
Bit, coming up more Kenney Webster's Pursuit of Happiness. A
safe space for those who love liberty and try not
to take themselves too seriously.

Speaker 3 (30:28):
Even if your name is Karen, we love you, Karen.
Stop picking on Karen's. Karen's did nothing wrong.

Speaker 2 (30:35):
With all that's going on around the country, it's pretty
easy to see how important Texas is going to be
in this election in November.

Speaker 3 (30:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (30:43):
I know, they say it's a red state and probably
we're not gonna have to worry about Colin Alred winning.
I don't believe that Ted Cruz is in any trouble.

Speaker 3 (30:52):
I'm not buying it.

Speaker 2 (30:54):
It just feels like, even though the national news media
claims Ted Cruise is in trouble, it's a song or
a joke or whatever you want. It's a story I've
heard too many times before. Beto o'rour, Wendy Davis, here
we are again. Is there even going to be a
debate between Ted Cruz and concussion?

Speaker 3 (31:11):
Beto? I don't think so.

Speaker 2 (31:12):
Wouldn't that be interesting that of all the people that
have ever been in the Harvard Debate Club, the guy
that's still alive who's considered the best member could potentially
debate a guy that got a bunch of concussions in
the NFL.

Speaker 3 (31:24):
But I don't is that even scheduled. I don't know.
I'll ask my next guest that in a minute.

Speaker 2 (31:29):
In the meantime, last night at the debate, they did
get into a discussion about immigration, but only to make
the point that Donald Trump wants to mass deport a
bunch of illegals and your crazy theories about Springfield, Ohio.

Speaker 3 (31:46):
Even still, immigration is a pretty big deal, guys.

Speaker 2 (31:49):
Yesterday I posted a report the search warrant for a suspect.
I'm always reluctant to say the suspects name because I
don't want to glorify these guys, But Joe Jose Martinez,
Wrangel or Johan or whatever his name is. He's one
of the individuals accused of raping, torturing, and murdering Joscelyn
Nungary here in Houston. The suspect is believed to be

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a member of Trende Ragua. That gang, as of a
little less than a week ago, has now been declared
a foreign terrorist organization here in the state of Texas.
Late last night, the Governor Greg Abbott shared my tweet
on social media and said, Joscelyn Nungary was attacked by
a member of the most wanted gang in Texas. Time

(32:31):
for the death penalty. Pretty bold words from the governor,
but I was grateful to hear him say that. And
as little as CBS wanted to talk about what was
going on last night, the rest of Americans feel very
differently about it. The liberal news media wants the selection
to be about abortion, joy and vibes. What an odd
hodgepodge of a combination of talking points. But Americans wanted

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to be about inflation and crime and illegal immigration.

Speaker 3 (32:56):
And here with his take on that.

Speaker 2 (32:58):
My buddy Brandon Waltons from Texas Scare just published a
report on his website.

Speaker 3 (33:03):
Illegal immigration remains a top issue for voters. Brandon. They
hate this, and yet that's the reality, isn't it.

Speaker 9 (33:11):
Yeah, you barely got to hear anything at all about
this issue, which is a top issue on people's minds.
I mean, we've talked about this going back. It was
you know, remember during the Iowa Caucuses earlier this year,
when we were talking about the fact that even in Iowa,
immigration right was the top concern of voters up there,
they couldn't be much farther from the border. And now

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you've got a new pull from the Pew Research Center
that says sixty one percent of American voters say that
immigration is a major issue of concern for them. And
it's no secret line. I mean, we've seen what's happened
over the last several years with the disaster at the
southern border, the absolute invasion we've seen where you have
hundreds of thousands millions coming across under the Biden Harris administration.

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So and now we're starting to see the effects of that, right,
be it the increased gang activity, be it some of
these tragedies like the Joston ungray story, and countless others
that have been out there, and it should be no surprise.
And yet you still see this divide between what actual voters,
what actual Americans care about, and what people on you know,

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the CBS debate stage want to make the debate about.

Speaker 2 (34:22):
Yeah, it's just remarkable how absurd it was last night.
And I got to think average people see this. Boy,
I sure hope that they do. I mean, it's never
been more obvious to me. We have reports out today
talking about election integrity and election interference in the state
of Texas. One place where they claim it might be
happening is Travis County. The Travis County chair and the

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Travis of the Republican Party in the Travis County judge
both cast it a little doubt on that.

Speaker 3 (34:49):
But while we're in Travis County, Harrett County, ter County.

Speaker 2 (34:51):
Oh that was that was Terror County. I'm sorry, I'm
so glad you clarified that because Okay, well.

Speaker 8 (34:56):
Let's say different, No, you're different, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (34:59):
Fair point.

Speaker 2 (34:59):
All right, let's talk about Travis County for a second.
Then Attorney General Paxton is suing Travis County over what
you guys describe as secretive security expenditures.

Speaker 3 (35:10):
What is this lawsuit about, Brandon, Yeah.

Speaker 9 (35:13):
This is about the district Attorney Jose Garza, who's obviously
far left Soros back DA right in Austin, in the
state's capital, who's been spending a ton of money on
these security expenditure security for him in a way that
other das aren't. You have the city council that has

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approved these expenditures, but they've done so in a secret meeting,
and General can Paxton said this doesn't pass the smell test.
He's now, you know, pursuing legal action over this. And
you know this is this is something that's been going
on for a while now in Travis County. But it's
just another another odd story, I guess out of the

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state's capital.

Speaker 3 (35:55):
Yeah, I'm glad you guys published the report here I
have you do?

Speaker 2 (35:59):
You guys have much story covering stories involving jose Garzai.

Speaker 3 (36:03):
Is he as bad as we assume that he is.

Speaker 2 (36:05):
I don't know a lot about the Travis County DA,
but I'm guessing this guy's probably pretty far out there.

Speaker 9 (36:12):
He's very far left. This was, you know, a DA
that has declined to prosecute a ton of crimes. There
was actually challenged, I mean, similar to what we saw
in Harris County. He was also I believe challenged by
another Democrat in the primary, a more moderate Democrat, and
defeated them. And so you know, this is another case

(36:32):
of a big county in Texas having a Soros backed
Democrat as their chief essentially law enforcement officer.

Speaker 2 (36:41):
All right, getting back to election integrity here for just
a minute. Sorry I had my notes in the wrong order.
This was a story I wanted to ask you about
a judge has just blocked a ban on paid vote harvesting. Now,
I thought ballot harvesting was illegal in the state of Texas. Meanwhile,
in California it's completely legal. But every it's allowed to
have their own election launch. You know, in Nebraska they

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split their electoral votes, for example. So certainly you would
think it would be legal for the state of Texas
to ban paid vote harvesting, but a judge didn't think so,
Judge Xavier Rodriguez, what exactly happened.

Speaker 3 (37:15):
To here, Brandon?

Speaker 9 (37:17):
Yeah, so this is actually related to Center Bill one.
This is a big election integrity bill from a few
years ago. This is actually the same bill that Democrats
fled to Washington, d C. To break quorum for a
few years ago. Folks might remember that.

Speaker 2 (37:31):
Yeah, and they had and if I'm not mistaken, they
had beer on the airplane and they were all unmasked
during the COVID pandemic.

Speaker 9 (37:39):
But anyway, oh, yeah, exactly, Well, they came back right
eventually they passed something and it is a big omnibus
election tegrity bill dealing with a number of election security measures.
Part of that is dealing with ballot by mail harvesting.
These are people who co door to door and they'll say,
you know, oh hello, you know missus webster. Will you

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come out. Do you have your ballot with you? Maybe
you've got a mail in ballot, let's fill it out together,
which is against the law. This made that very specific.
Now you have this judge saying, oh, no, that's actually
a First Amendment right, So saying that that violates the
First Amendment. Now the question is does that mean the
balot harvesting is legal in Texas?

Speaker 1 (38:22):
Now?

Speaker 9 (38:22):
The answer is no. There are other laws that do
deal with ballot harvesting, that deal with influencing people's votes.
For example, you can't walk into a voting place and
go up to someone who's casting their ballot and go
vote for them or talk to them while they're doing so.
And so some of those laws also apply in the situation.
But you know, again, it just shows that this fight

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for election security is just a constant battle.

Speaker 2 (38:48):
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(39:09):
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