Will libertarians support Trump in November?

This podcast edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness features journalist Brandon Darby and libertarian Austin Petersen.  ( @KennethRWebster )

Episode Transcript

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Giganic government sucks. South of HabinessRadio is deluxe. Liberty and Freedom will
make you smile of a Suda Habinand us on your radio tol justice,
cheeseburgers, a liberty rise at Itis Memorial Day weekend. This is when

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we honor those we've lost to war, you know, like the presidents of
several major colleges. No, nothinglike that. No, okay, but
you know what Memorial Days about.This is an important holiday. It's a
holiday that is often marginalized, overlooked, and not appreciate it enough. But
it's an important holiday to us.I'm Kenny Webster. This afternoon, I
have two fantastic patriots joining me forthis broadcast. My buddy Austin Peterson,

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one of the loudest, most vocalpeople for the liberty Republican movement in Brandon
Darby, one of the biggest advocatesfor border security in the media. They
will both be here. We're gonnatalk about all this stuff going on this
week in Texas at the Republican PartyConvention, our state convention, as well
as the news from the Libertarian PartyConvention, the National Convention, which RFK
Junior and Donald Trump are both attending, So we'll get to all that soon.

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But first, real quick, justa litmus test or reading of where
we're at as a country right now. What are the two biggest things working
against Trump and Biden respectively? WithTrump, it's his legal issues. Okay,
obviously the media hates Trump. Youknow that he's the stigma of Trump
derangement syndrome that's always been out there, but now that's become a war happening

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in a court, something we referto as law fair. Whereas with Joe
Biden, it has a lot todo with his age, his elderly,
senile, dementia ridden brain that doesn'tseem to function correctly. Joe Biden was
hanging out with the President of Kenyayesterday and it was just like any other

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day. He mumbled a lot,slurred his speech, said a bunch of
things that didn't make any sense.I could sit here and play the soundbites
for you, but I don't wantto waste time this afternoon on that.
You don't care. You've heard itbefore. Donald Trump, by comparison,
had a big rally last night inthe Bronx, where he was lively,
attentive, He was sharp, hewas quick, he was upbeat, he
was dancing around. There were twentyfive thousand people at the rally. It

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was massive. Politico recently reported howangry they are that Donald Trump's presidency,
whether or not he'll make it backto the Oval office, will be decided
at a polling location and not ina courtroom. After watching Joe Biden yesterday,
I don't think this guy can evenbe the candidate. And I'm not

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saying that as a Republican. I'msaying that as just a person with two
eyes and ears that work. Idon't know how the Democrats can go to
their convention this summer in Chicago andpoint to Joe and say that's our guy.
But I could be wrong. Whatdoes the polling tell you? Breitbart
dot Com is a story about ittoday. In the crucial swing states that
will decide the twenty twenty four election, Joe's decrepit broken brain is, according

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to the latest polls, a biggerliability than Trump's legal issues or his temperament
on social media. Cook Political Report, a left wing polling organization, went
out and they looked at how popularTrump is in all the swing states Arizona,
Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, North Carolina. The only state

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where he didn't beat Biden was Wisconsin. And in Wisconsin, it's a tie.
In every other state, okay,every other state besides North Carolina,
Trump wins. Trump wins in Arizona, Trump wins in Michigan, Trump wins
in Nevada, Trump wins in Pennsylvania. Overall, in all seven states,
this poll of thirty nine hundred andsixty nine NICE voters taken between May six

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and May thirteenth, has Trump leadingHunter's Dad thirty eight to forty three.
I mean, come on, dude, it should be noted the numbers listed
here include a ballot with RFK Junioron it and Jill Stein and Cornell West,
and we know, damn well thethree of them are never going to
be president, and nobody's even talkingabout who the Libertarian candidate's going to be.

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If it's just Trump and Biden ona ballot, Trump wins. If
it's Trump and RFK Junior and JillStein and Cornell West and whoever the LP
candidate is, Trump wins. Buthere's what's the most fascinating, a find
that once again proves just how influencedthe corporate media has lost Listen to this.
Both men enter this race as wellknown entities with well understood liabilities,

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but Biden's age and ability to completehis term we're seen as more concerning than
Trump's temperament and legal problems. Howmuch well, a margin of about fifty
three to forty seven. In fact, a whopping sixty six percent of voters
think Biden won't even finish his term. That's pretty bad. For the last

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five years, the same corporate media, backed by billions of dollars, have
covered up Biden's obvious mental and physicaldecline. Sure, Trump's old, but
his age isn't an issue. Bidenis frail, and frail is very different
from old. Old is meaningless.Frail means everything because it's the beginning of
a fast approaching end. Chuck Grasleyis a ninety, He's still pretty sharp.

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Joe Biden's younger than Chuck Grasley.He didn't appear to be as bright
as Chuck does, does he?Twenty years ago, the media would have
gotten away with covering up Biden's obviousdecline. It's not like that anymore.
Look at all the years the mediahave colluded in their obsession to kill Trump's
political viability didn't work. Look atall the billions of dollars the media have

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spent to murder Trump politically, andright now he's winning in virtually every poll.
It's a whole new world, andI strongly suggest the people in the
liberal media learn how to code tillthe government. I started listening till it
Jos Proceeds of Happiness Radio with canawwebstern Jitia aka producer Kenny. Thanks for

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tuning in this afternoon. Y'all know, Memorial Day weekend is so important to
patriotic Americans. It's not about matterssales. It's not about a day off
from work. It's about people thatpaid the ultimate price so you and I
could be here. It certainly shouldn'tbe about partiesan politics, but for some
people in the country this weekend itis. Look, I'm not here to

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trash the Texas Republican Party, butI do think it's a little odd that
they're having their convention this weekend ofall weekends. Fine, whatever, Okay,
they're not the only ones. Sothe Texas Republican Party is having their
convention this weekend, but the NationalLibertarian Party is also having a convention this
weekend. I gotta think having apolitical convention during a holiday weekend is a

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good way to keep people from payingattention to it. But something really interesting
is happening at the Libertarian Party conventionthis weekend, something very interesting. Two
guests will be attending the convention.Neither of them are textbook Libertarians, or
even Liberty Republicans for that matter.One of them is probably more libertarian than
the other. Donald Trump and RFKJunior are both attending the LP convention.

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That's what people in the LP iswhat people call it. That's what they're
going to be there this weekend,trying to convince the Libertarians to vote for
them. And it reminded me ofthis moment from almost eight us eight years
ago. A friend of the show, you may be familiar with Austin Peterson,
the creator of the Libertarian Republic,among other things, one time Missouri

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Senate candidate, was also a LibertarianParty presidential primary candidate back when John McAfee
was still alive. Austin is afriend of the show. You've heard him
on this broadcast before. You've heardhim here with us in the afternoon before
Austin was booed at the Libertarian Conventionfor telling the audience we shouldn't be able
to sell heroin to five year oldsand children do need some protection. Yes,

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you should not be able to sellheroin to a five year old.
Boo they boot him. I happenedto know Austin, so I called him
on the phone. Austin, thatmoment, that very bizarre moment of you
being booed by a group of peoplethat think we should lower the age of
consent and get rid of a driver'slicenses, two of their biggest positions in
politics. That really changed you,didn't it. Yes? And first of

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all, thank you Kenny for havingme on the program. And hello to
all of the good citizens on theGulf Coast. And I wish you all
a blessed weekend in Memorial Day.And I'm thinking about the people in my
family who have made the ultimate sacrificeof their lives for our country. One
Robert Peterson, for example, whowas killed in Italy, unfortunately by friendly

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fire during World War Two. Butwe can talk about that later. I
know that the news is right infront of us here Donald Trump. And
is he the type of person whosucks all of the air out of the
room and will take votes willingly.I mean, you are, He's like
the Pirate of the Caribbean. He'scoming in and he's going to take all
the votes from the Libertarians this weekend. It's a spectacle, but all political

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conventions ultimately are spectacles, even theDemocratic one in Chicago, which will probably
end up having some sort of amirror effect, like the one of nineteen
sixty eight where Hubert Humphrey was protestedby his own party. The Progressive Left,
in protesting the Vietnam War, broughtdown the candidacy of their own candidate,

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Hubert Humphrey, who was torn betweenhis loyalty to el Lyndon Johnson and
his desire to maintain the war inVietnam and under and Hubert Humphrey understood the
American people were against him. AndI believe that in Chio Cago, where
the Antifa left, the progressive leftwill in very you know, very similar

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ways, cannibalize themselves and each other. When Joe Biden takes the nomination again,
and ultimately I think that his hisleft, his attacks from his left
will probably be the reason that heis taken down. That and his just
the absolute and utter disdain that minoritiesare showing in larger and larger numbers for

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President Biden and the Democratic Party.But again, on the question of whether
or not heroin should be sold tofive year old that important birding question that
ever is on everyone's minds. No, you should not be allowed to sell
herod to five year olds. Boomauthoritarian, authoritarian. I've always believed,

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Kenny, that adult humans say thatthat the government is not our parent,
we are not its children. Itshould not tell us what to do.
That government does not need to playthe role of parents either for my children
and tell my kids what to do. That being said, there are parents
who are not good parents. Thereare parents who abandon their children. There

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are predators, There are are aremonsters, there are sex traffickers, there
are are pedophiles. There are peoplewho wish to do harm to children because
they are easily exploitable. And Ibelieve in a government that is limited to
very few things, protecting life,liberty, property, staying out of our

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social affairs. I believe that Kenny, for the love of all that is
holy in this world, I believethat adults should be allowed to make the
decision if they want to do alittle booger sugar on the weekends or even
for you know, I don't recommendthat they do black tar heroin, but
I think the consequences of the waron drugs are far worse than the actual

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drug use itself. Is it ascourge on our society, Absolutely, we
need to bring it out of thedarkness. But when it comes to children,
the protection of children is the properand legitimate and lawful role of any
government. And so I'm not ananarchist. There you go. You've clap
me in irons and throw me inthe anarchist jail. Then I won't please

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everyone. But on that day Ibecame a liberty Republican, and I still
believe in limited government and freedom,but maybe just no heroin for five year
old. That's I draw the linesomewhere the position. The switch from being
a libertarian to a liberty republican happenedto me around the same time, and
it wasn't because of what happened toyou, But I do remember thinking that
was funny at the time. Theworst thing for libertarians is libertarians. The

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worst thing that's working for the Libertarianparty is actual libertarians who spend more time
arguing about what a real libertarian isthan trying to improve our lives, because
isn't that the whole point of thiswhole thing, this whole experiment we call
the free market or the representative Republic, That's the entire point of this is
to improve the life of the city. It's not to see, as Milton

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Friedman pointed out before, it's notto see who can take libertarianism the furthest
because if you go far enough,you're just an anarchist. And isn't that
really what's happened to the party?It got co opted by anarchists, and
you and I know that, butI don't think most people realize it.
Maybe a better question to ask youwould be this, what do Trump and
RFK Junior stand a gain from attendingthe convention this weekend? Because I think

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it's nothing. Well, it's it'swhat it is is one point five percent,
because that's what the Libertarian Party pulledin the twenty twenty elections. So
in states like Georgia and in theNorth Carolina, and what are the battleground
states. I'm off the top ofmy head, Wisconsin, in Florida,

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Pennsylvania, it's a Michigan, it'sa percentage and a half and in some
of those states that really matters,so they need to He needs to shore
up the attack from his right flankand bring in some of those voters to
win in those battleground state. SoTrump stands the game the most from all
of this RFK. I doubt he'llbe peeling away many libertarian voters, although

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there are some that are upset.And I think rightfully with President Trump's behavior
during the pandemic and the massive amountof money that he's that he printed and
or that he demanded to be printedand spent, and and how operational warp
speed and the vaccines and lockdowns certainlywas you know, probably the worst part
of the Trump presidency. Not beingsaid, I think that Trump gets a

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lot of libertarian votes. It's fascinatingto go to a convention where you're nominating
a candidate to run against someone,and you bring that candidate there in order
to what steal your votes. Imean, when Trump's on stage, no
one else is getting any attention,No one cares what anybody else has to
say. So it all. Here'sthe thing. You and I we work

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in the media. We know whatthis is. It's a media ploy a
fundraising ploy and it'll be a flashand it'll be exciting for this weekend,
and then it disappears after the weekendis over. And I think a lot
of those Libertarian Party voters, theygo to Trump and it probably helps him
get elected. Maybe in some ofthose battleground states, it could affect the
outcomes. So Trump is the onewho benefits the most. The Libertarian Party

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benefits the least. Only in theshort term are they going to benefit.
But in the long term they're nowon track, Kenny, for the first
time since nineteen ninety two, tocome in fourth place in the national election,
meaning that in nineteen ninety two,when Ross Purojo took eighteen percent of
the national vote, that was thelast time that the Libertarian Party came in
in fourth place. They've been inthird place solidly ever since then. No

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third party candidate has been able tosort of match the power of the party.
And in twenty sixteen, the yearthat Iran and Gary Johnson won,
they've managed to pull off three percentin the national election that was the highest
in history. But the party,like you said, has eaten itself.
And you know, Kenny, there'ssomething going on south of the border.
I'm not talking about Mexico. I'mtalking about a little farther south, in

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South America, in countries like Salvador, in countries like Argentina. The ideas
that you and I believe in haveplanted and taken root. And the election
of Buqueley and of Javier Malay ofArgentina is a canary in the coal mine

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for South American socialist dictators. Forif Javier Malay is successful in advancing these
economic principles which you and I knowprobably on a more granular level, but
which Americans know instinctually. The ideais the true ideas of American liberty as

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it was set in the Constitution andthen the Declaration of Independence. Those ideas
are growing in South America, andI'll tell you if those ideas come to
the United States, it would itwould be by means of seventeen seventy six
to a law period of socialism betweenthe years of Calvin Coolidge and Ronald Reagan,

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which I imagine we'll talk about injust a few minutes. But there
was a long darkness, a nightthat fell over the American Republic between the
years of the nineteen twenties and ofnineteen eighty of liberalism and great societies and
Vietnam Wars and democratic socialism, witha very short brief period of Ronald Reagan's

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ascendancy and then again darkness until DonaldTrump came back and made it okay and
patriotic and proud to be an Americanagain. And I think that if the
American people choose Trump, he maynot be Ronald Reagan, he may not
be like Ronald Reagan, he maynot be like Javier Malay, but there
is something brewing here in the Americas, not just in the United States,

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but in South America that could amountto a complete restoration of the idea that
you and I believe in and wefight for every day in the media out
there. So I'm truly excited forthis opportunity because what Donald Trump says this
weekend I think will matter Kenny hisspeech to the Libertarians. If he's got
the right speech writer and he makesthe right moves, we could be getting

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ready to truly make America great again. And that's not rhetoric. That is
what I see in the cards.If we play him right, I love
hearing it, and I have alot I want to say about that,
But we have to break. Canyou hang and do one more segment with
us? Austin love to For thoseof you that don't know the voice at
the other end of the phone.There, he's a radio personality from Missouri,
grassroots activist, politician. He runsHe created the Libertarian Republic. That's

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Austin Peterson. Follow him on socialmedia. He's got a really cool online
store too. Hang on one second, you're listening to Keen Webster's Pursuit of
Happiness that he's Spicy Radio. Itis very possible for two things that seem

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to contradict each other to be trueat the same time. Right, I'll
give you an example. Donald Trumpis not a libertarian. He's not right.
But if you're a libertarian, ifyou're an advocate for a less government,
more fun, smaller government, moreliberty, Donald Trump, in terms
of pragmatism, is probably your bestbet at getting a guy in the White

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House that'll advocate for the policies youwant. Joe Biden is an authoritarian.
He talks like a moderate, buthe governs like a far left dictator.
He just does. I mean,we'd be here all morning afternoon giving an
examples of that. Right, DonaldTrump's the most libertarian guy, probably running
for anti war, pro military,pro economy, very much pro capitalism right.

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Other than the tariff thing, hegenerally is anti tax. Other than
bump stock, he's generally pro gunright. Other than a couple of months
there in the middle of twenty twenty, he's pretty much been anti COVID mandate,
COVID vaccine mandates, anti lockdown.I don't know how many people remember
this, but at the end endof his presidency he was against more stimulus

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checks, the thing that's caused alot of inflation. So Trump isn't a
libertarian, but he's more libertarian thansay Joe Biden or this other guy.
RFK Junior. RFK Junior and Trumpwill both be at the Libertarian Convention,
which for some reason is happening MemorialDay weekend. They're both going to give
their speech this weekend to libertarians.Now, I remember vividly ten years ago
Ron Paul happens to live right herein our own backyard was running for president

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and he was not libertarian enough forthe Libertarian Party. They wouldn't support this
guy. Well, he's a Republican. Libertarians hate Republicans almost as much as
libertarians hate other libertarians. A friendof mine on the line right now,
Austin Peterson. Austin Peterson is probablythe quintessential liberty Republican in the media,

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other than Thomas Mossy and Ran Paul, who are elected officials. I got
to think of all the people outthere who are voices for liberty Republicans,
Austin Peterson is on the shortlist ofpeople who are loudest, most vocal,
big supporters of the liberty Republican movement. Austin thinks this weekend Donald Trump will
actually be able to influence some libertariansto vote Republican this fall. Austin,

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I don't know, man. Iwant to believe you, I really do,
but I'm just skeptical. I feellike, if Ron Paul isn't libertarian
enough for the Libertarian Party, howcould Donald Trump be. Well, the
party is not the same as itwas ten years ago. The party isn't
the same as it was in twentysixteen when I campaigned for the presidential nomination.

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Then it was the party of GaryJohnson. And you know, however
you feel about Gary Johnson, hecertainly is no right leaning libertarian or right
leaning Republican type. He's much moreof that left liberal type of libertarian right,
more of we like to call itcosmopolitan right, whereas you and I
are more right, You and Iare more grassroots, more earthy, rural

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type, maybe even Conservatorians, ifyou will, sure liberty republics. Right.
So it's a cultural question there,and without going into too many details,
I'll say that the Libertarian Party factionthat is currently the majority faction is
more of a right leaning, youknow, type of a Conservatorian and not
as anti Trump as those who wereat the makeup of the party ten fifteen

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years ago, who would have beenless amenable to Ron Paul because again,
these people were much more Cosmopolitans.So that's the best explanation I can give
you for why I think now manylibertarians who are in the party could find
themselves voting for Trump, because,like you and I, they lean their
libertarian We're not like, we're notan authoritarian conservatives, right, We're not

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imperialist national conservatives. We're not neocons we're not paleo conservatives. Right.
There's many types of conservatism, justlike there are many types of libertarianism.
So I think that the fact thatthere are so many people in the Libertarian
party now who are a little bitcloser to what you and I believe,
and considering that you and I aregoing to vote for Trump, at least
I know I will, I'm notsure about you, But that means that

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those people probably are more likely tosay considering that our candidate is someone who
no one knows, no one caresabout, and I haven't been selected yet.
They will this weekend, but they'renot. The top candidate is raised
like sixty seven thousand dollars, sothere'll be a footnote in history, and
I think a lot of people wantto be a part of making history with

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the first non consecutive president of theUnited States since Grover Cleveland, which is
quite ironic, of course, becauseGrover Cleveland in many ways has a lot
of parallels to Donald Trump, bigtime and big, big parallels to Donald
Trump. So I think that thereare some Libertarians who are allergic to relevance,

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and that is true, but Iget the impression that many of them
this year are ready to take abite of the poop sandwich, if you
will. It doesn't always taste great. We don't always love our candidates,
right, But I think that morethan they're allergic to re elevancy or they're
disdain for poop sandwiches. I thinkthat they're ready to play the game and
to do what's necessary for our country. That's the impression that I get.

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I hope you're right about that.The other guy that's going to be there
this weekend is RFK Junior. Andif they don't like Trump, I don't
know how they could like RFK Junior. He's farther away from our right wing
liberty guy than Trump is by along shot. But before we run out
of time in this segment, somethingelse I wanted to ask you about.
I think you know, and thishas already been abundantly clear from what I
just said, I think the greatestpresidential candidate of our lifetime was Ron Paul.

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I think Trump is a close second. I'd even put Ross pro on
that shortlist. But I was bornand you and I are about the same
age under another guy who was notperfect but had pop culture appeal and was
able to take the nation away fromliberalism and leftism, and that was Ronald
Reagan. Ronald Reagan, again nota lot of similarities, but a lot
of differences. But between him andTrump. Pop culture appeal is so important

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for a presidential candidate, and hehad it, and now they're making a
movie about him. If you hada chance to look at this, it's
a fascinating case study where we're lookingat the you know, the most conservative
modern president, and they didn't doa hatchet job on them, from least
what I can tell. I wasexpecting them to find the most communist possible

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person to hire to play in butit said they cast Dennis Quaid, a
good conservative man to play Ronald Reagan. So that alone makes me think that
they're actually taking this seriously and thatit's it's probably an independent film, not
quite the mainstay Hollywood that you wouldbut it looks fantastic. So if your
listeners have not seen a trailer yetfor the New Reagan movie, check it

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out. Looks like it's coming outin December. It's a fascinating time in
history where when you think about DonaldTrump and the contrast with Ronald Reagan,
they are so different in style andin mannerisms and in some ways some policies
right, but and then in otherways where they're so similar. I think

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it's what really matters when you talkabout him being anti war but pro military.
The thing about Ronald Reagan, hegets a little bit of a bad
rap because of the George Bush neocons and the cabinet and some of the
foreign policy decisions he made. Andof course there was a massive amount of
spending that went on in order tofight the Cold War and into the arms

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race between the Soviet Union. Butthat was the Soviet Union and now is
now right, Russia today is notthe Soviet Union, but we still face
a bit of a threat from thatregion. So when you look at Ronald
Reagan's record, one of the mostfamous cases that ron Paul brought up that
was so inspiring to me was hetalked about how Ronald Reagan, after the

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bombing of our base in Lebanon,he actually brought the troops home from the
Middle East instead of ramping things upinvading taking over Lebanon and you know,
and capturing Beirut. Ronald Reagan said, you know, we don't understand the
irrational of Middle Eastern politics, andhe brought the troops home. And and

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Reagan ron Paul always quoted this froma Ronald Reagan's career. So when you
think about the similarities between Trump andReagan. There's a duvilishnesss there, like
a desire to really be America first. I mean, who was it that
came up with make America Great Again? Yes, Ronald Reagan exactly. That
was Ronald. That was Ronald Reagan'scatchphrase, and now Trump has adopted it.

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So there are similarities, there aredifferences. But I actually am feeling
very inspired by this film. Igot to see Ronald Reagan when I was
a little boy. My dad tookme to meet him at the airport in
Kansas City, and I remember sittingat my father's shoulders, and you know,
feeling I feel very nostalgic towards thatat this time. And the film
looks fantastic, and it looks likethey've actually treated it with a modokum of

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respect. Yeah, Reagan was nota perfect man, but I think in
many ways he definitely represented the bestof what it means to be an American.
Yeah, and listen to this lineuptoo. Dennis Quaid is at it
playing Reagan, Like you said.Nick Searcy, a friend of the show,
plays James Baker. We know he'sa conservative. He's been on this
radio show before. Kevin Sorbo isin the film Robert Dovey. I know

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he's a conservative. He hosted ashow on this radio station for a while.
But here's an interesting one. AustinScott Stapp of Creed is gonna play
Frank Sinatra. I'm very excited aboutthis, and I'm glad you you and
I were talking about off air,Austin. I appreciate your time this afternoon.
My man Austin Peterson. If y'allare not following him on social media,
and rarely do I do this,but he has a morning show and

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we have a morning show, sotechnically it competes with us, but I
still want to endorse it. Austindoes a live thing online and it's called
what is it. It's called theMorning Show, right, the Wake Up
America Show. Wake Up America Show. Yeah, and Austin is great at
what he does. I encourage peopleto subscribe to it, follow him on
social media, check out his onlinestore as well. Stop it Government,

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Brandon is a good friend. Obviously, if you've listened to this radio show
for long enough, you know he'sone of my best buddies. Brandon isn't

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just one of the senior editors atBreitbart, He's not just one of the
experts of reporting from the Border.He is my peer. He's my brother
from another We're like minded individuals.I've known Bran. I've been friends with
Brandon for over a decade. Wewere both highly influenced by the life of
Andrew Breitbart and who played a bigrole in both of our careers, more
so with Brandon than me. AndBrandon and I have most of our adult

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lives worked in conservative media. AndI noticed something kind of interesting happened yesterday.
There's a group of people out therewho make a living complaining about people
like Brandon and I to a smallextent, people like Brandon and I to
a bigger extent, people at thiscompany called Media Matters. You know what
that is? It's a watchdog group. And what they do is they watch
Fox News, they listen to conservativetalk radio, They read websites like Breitbart

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and The Daily Caller in the DailyWire, and they find something they don't
like and then they try to getus fired. That's all they do for
a living. And yesterday they hadto lay a bunch of people off.
And I don't take pride in anybodylosing that. I don't celebrate that.
It doesn't make me happy to knowthat people lost their job. I know
how it feels to be out ofwork. It sucks, and I just,
you know, for karma or redemptionpurposes, I don't relish in that.

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But I will say this, it'srefreshing to know that somebody makes a
who's making a living complaining about me. Isn't somebody that has a winning business
mind in their hands? To putit blantly. Now, there's this guy
named Robert Downen. For those thatdon't know, he used to write for
the Houston Chronicle. Robert Downen isa guy who's about my age, who

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grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, not unlike me, who moved to
Texas to work in political media,not unlike me, And he's a liberal
and I'm a conservative. And RobertDownan used to work at The Chronicle complaining
about Christians. Whenever there was apastor somewhere to have a scandal, he'd
write an article about it. Thenhe got hired at the Texas Tribune,
where he does the same exact thing, but with Republicans. This weekend he's

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at the Republican convention in San Antonio, the Texas Republican Party Convention, and
he's writing articles about whatever he seesthere. He sees Kyle Rittenhouse is walking
around Steve Hotzi, someone he doesn'tlike. And then last night, when
the layoffs started happening at Media Matters, I noticed something. He rushed to
publish a stupid article about how fundingat the Texas Republican Party is down from

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four years ago. Of course they'refunding at the Disney Corporation is down from
four years ago. Funding at MediaMatters is down from four years ago.
Funding at the Democrat parties down fromfour years ago. It reeks of desperation.
So my buddy Brannon, who's justa little older and just a little
wiser and just a little more experiencedthan me, and has worked in this
industry just a little longer than me. I think is a great source of

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information on what is actually happening here, what is taking place? Brandon,
That's probably the longest intro I've evergiven to do a segment with you before.
But take it from here. Whatdo you think about all this media
matters laying people off liberal media andTexas desperately trying to publish a story that
makes Republicans look bad? Am Ithe only one that's noticing this? No,

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of course not, man. Imean, you know, here's the
thing. You know, people oftenbecause I am a public figure, I
am out there, I have peoplegetting irritated at me all the time.
I'm either too right wing or I'mnot right wing enough on some iss is,
are way too right wing on someI mean, you know, it's

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you get people attacking you all thetime. But when it comes to the
general scope of media, the generaltenor of most of the media that people
consume, when it comes even allthe way to when you Google search,
something like if if you go toyou know, Ductutgo or a number of
search engines and you type in borderBrandon Darby, well then it's all briight

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art articles. When you go toGoogle and you do it, then there's
no brightbart articles that come up rightbecause Google intentionally make sure that Breitbart's news
is not showing right. So soall the way from the tech giants and
the way we consume media, allthe way down to the news organizations themselves,

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most of the time they're promoting aleft of center agenda. Some you
know, like if I if Iwant to hear a the left of center
perspective, central centrist, left ofcenter perspective, then I can go to
CNN, or I can go toNPR. If I want to hear a
far far left perspective, then youknow, I can go down the line.

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But make no mistake that they are, in fact, you know,
a de facto arm of the DemocraticParty. That is what they are.
And people can debate it and argueit, but we all know, like
if we're just being honest and weknock off the bull off, like that's

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exactly what's happening, right. Youknow, the policies, a lot of
the policies of how to treat peoplewho show up at our border, what
they're living through when they go intoborder patrol facilities. They are exactly the
same under Biden as they were underTrump. And many of them are policies

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that were implemented under Obama right hispresidency. And yet, when you know,
when Obama was president and there waschain link partitions separating kids from adults,
which is kind of a mature thingto do, they didn't call them
cages, right, And then whenTrump was president, those same partitions that

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were built under the Obama administration,All of a sudden, these pictures of
these partitions from the Obama administration werebeing used in mainstream media to attack Donald
Trump and the Trump administration. Andthen as soon as Trump isn't president anymore,
where are all of these reporters goingdown to the border talking about kids

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in cages. They're not there anymore. They're not covering it anymore. Why
are they not covering it anymore?The same thing is happening. They're not
covering it because it would make Bidenlook bad and it would hurt the Democratic
Party. That is their agenda,and we all know it's their agenda.
Across the board. No one who'sa serious person, who's being intellectually consistent

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can claim that the Houston Chronicle isn'tprimarily in support of the Democratic Party.
No one can claim that the SanAntonio Express News isn't primarily a bunch of
Democrats, or that the people atthe Texas Tribune aren't primarily a bunch of
Democrats, or that the people atthe Dallas Morning News aren't primarily a bunch

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of Democrats, or the people inthe New York Times aren't primarily a bunch
of Democrats. And I could keepgoing for an hour naming news sources that
we all know, darn good andwell are a bunch of Democrats promoting the
Democratic Party agenda. Well, somemore directly than others, but they're all
doing it, and we know theyare. And that's why it's so important

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that there's folks like Breibard and theDaily Wire and to some extent even Fox
News. And that's why it's soimportant is because there has to be,
you know, there has to bethe facts as seen by people who are
right of center as well to theirbalance what is an overwhelming majority of liberals

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in media. Boy, you nailedit, Brandon Darby. It's Memorial Day
weekend, and you hate to getpolitical. Memorial Day weekend, there's all
these political conventions happening this weekend?What is we only got a couple of
minutes left here before we run outfor the three day weekend. My man,
any closing thoughts about the people thathave served this country, those that
paid the ultimate price for you andI to be able to sit here and

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say whatever we want on the radiofor a living. Yeah, my closing
thoughts would be just you know,appreciate them, and remember that, you
know, the soldier out there fightingwith his finger on a trigger, couldn't
do it if it weren't for thesoldiers cooking their food, couldn't do it
if it weren't for Americans at home. Just remember that all of us,

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you know, all Americans have paidprices and have participated in the victories we've
had and the freedoms we've had,from school teachers, the police, off
officers, to firemen to to youknow, uh, every step of the
way. You know, I think, you know, my my appreciation for

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our freedoms tends to extend to mostAmericans, if not all, because we
all play a part and keeping uswhat we are and getting to where we
are. You know, you know, World War two, you know,
with all the steel drives and tryingto collect metals, and uh, you
know, and the rationing, andlike all Americans played a part. And

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I just appreciate. I appreciate thatwe live here and and that that this
is where I live in relation toyou know, some of the other countries
in the world. In fact,most of the other countries in the world.
It's not all of the other countriesin the world. I'm glad that
I'm an American. And and I'llclose that with just saying, people,
when you're smoking a brisket this weekend, do not wrap it in foiler paper.

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Yeah, am under that. Yeah, no foil on your brisket,
y'all. You nailed it. BrandonDarby, my brother from another Hey,
you should follow Brandon Darby on x, the platform that Elon muscows. You
should check out his work at brightbart dot com. But more importantly than
anything else, more importantly than downloadingthe Walton Johnson smartphone app or the iHeartRadio

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app, or subscribing to the Pursuitof Happiness radio podcast, or even following
me on social media, you shouldstop this moment and remember those who did
exactly that paid the ultimate price foryou and I to be here. God
bless America, God bless you,God bless Texas, and God bless all
of our listeners. Thanks so muchfor tuning it. We'll be back on
Tuesday. You are listening to thePursuit of Hay this radio. Tell the

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