March 3, 2025 • 41 mins
This podcast edition of Kenny Websters' Pursuit of Happiness features journalist Brandon Waltens. ( @KennethRWebster )
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
Yeah, we're here, Greetings kids. Don't we normally start these
broadcasts with a terrible joke? Okay, here's one. Our record
for the largest polar bear dip was set over the
weekend when twenty four hundred sixty one people jumped into
a cold lake in Czech Republic. This also set the
record for the greatest concentration of shriveled testicles in human history. Hi, everyone,
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thanks for turning on your radio. You know it's with
me this afternoon. I mean, you don't know, so I'll
just tell you. My good buddy, Brandon Waltons is stopping
by from Texas scorecard dot Com. I love this here
in the state of Texas, they want to change the
name of the New York Strip Steak, and so it's
kind of a move over Gulf of America. Get ready
for the Texas Strip. We'll talk about it in just
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a little bit, but right now, let me roll up
my sleeves because I want to talk about Ukrainians Eastern Europe.
I guess I'm kind of I'm kind of disorganized today,
so I'm just gonna jump into this, and you know,
feel free to interrupt me in the comment section if
you want. Oh, by the way, while we're live on
the radio right now, we're also live streaming on the
Tube of Views and the book Faces and the X
and the I think that's about it actually, But anyway,
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if you're watching me right now, congratulations you found me.
So that's very cool. Like a lot of you, I
don't like Putin? Do you like Putin? Nobody listening to
or watching this is probably a fan of Vladimer. What
would you like about Putin?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
He?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I mean, okay, he wrestles bears. I guess that's kind
of He does nijitsu shirtless, apparently at sex with Pamela
Anderson wants. According to Pamela Anderson, I don't know say
what you will about that, but all that being said,
not a lot of redeeming qualities, especially if you're a
fan of liberty. Russia is not a place where libertarians
are generally, so I remember they locked up a WNBA
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player for smoking pot. And she wasn't even the only one.
There was that other guy too, the educator. We just
got him back. It's not about them. Russia bad, right, So,
as Americans, we often make this mistake of thinking that
because there's a bad guy, there must be a good guy.
And sure, I'm sure we all agree we're the good guys.
I mean, obviously, America, what have we ever done wrong?
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Right?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Exactly? Yeah, wink wink, But no, all that being said, Okay,
so Russia bad, Ukraine must be good, right man? You
lost me there. More often than not, if somebody wants
to be a leader of a country, they're probably a maglomaniac, ego, narcissistic,
obsessed with the smell of their own farts, generally not
somebody down to earth and humble if they want to
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be the leader of a country, and Zolensky is very
much that right. A lot of accusations have been made
about this guy in his home country. He's a cocaine addict,
and I don't know if that's true. There was a
lot of sniffling on Friday at that meeting at the
White House, and you know, and that he himself is
an egomaniac, and that he was. He campaigned on a
promise to get corruption out of his country and then
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and it's as corrupt as ever. That's one of the
most corrupt countries on Earth. We've given them hundreds of
billions of dollars. They admit they don't know where a
lot of that money ended up at. But like Tucker
Carlson has pointed out, a lot of members of the
Ukrainian oligarchy are now seen vacationing in some of the
most explensive, expensive places in the world. So probably probably
not a coincidence there. But all that being said, let's
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talk about the meeting on Friday and what has happened
since then. Now, over the weekend, the liberal media pop
culture spent a lot of time telling you Donald Trump
is a bad guy, and he's screwed over Ukraine, and
Ukraine's in dire straits, and we screwed up the mineral
rights deal, as if that was something they even wanted
to begin with. And which is because now the news
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this morning is that all the huffing and puffing and
chest pounding from over the weekend between Zelensky and Trump
didn't matter. Zolensky still wants to reach a deal with
Trump on mineral rights in exchange for some military support.
So it didn't really make a difference. But obviously we
have to talk a little bit about what happened on Friday.
On Friday, Zolensky went to go meet with Trump and
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Jade Vance and Marco Rubio and they were supposed to
have a lunch meeting. In fact, I right down the
hall from where all this was taking place, you could
smell the food cooking. They were putting out plates and
dinnerware and what have you. And I don't know what
they were having. French dip sandwich is probably something better
than what they eat in Ukraine. Odds are and as
all that's taken place, Zolensky and jd Vance and Trump
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and Marco Rubio sit down to have this meeting where
like a lot of you know, they were supposed to
have a photo op and nothing more. And Zelensky decided
he's better in front of a TV camera than the
other three or four men and in the room are.
So he is going to take this opportunity to try
to show off for the TV cameras and he's going
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to have a negotiation with Trump in front of the
TV cameras instead of in silence in private. And this
is probably a mistake that a lot of people make
in their lives. Obviously, you're probably not negotiating the end
of a war with your friends and your family members.
But a lot of people do often have disagreements in
public places when they should be having these arguments with
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their friends or their family or their business partners behind
closed doors. And that was a mistake that Zelensky made.
It was very aggressive, almost aggressive, like like he was
like he was fueled by some kind of drug that
inspired him to behave in a silly and irrational manner,
like some kind of a stimulant or something. But no, no, no, no,
I won't even go there with it now. All that
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being said, so they begin this conversation where Zolensky wants
to start negotiating in front of the TV cameras. Not
a great idea. It starts off with this. Zolensky makes
the point here that way back in twenty fourteen, Russia
invaded Crimea, that southern peninsula there of Ukraine, and America
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didn't come and help him out here. I've got some audio,
I even have some video of that's happening. Let's listen
to that if you don't know.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Okay, So he occupied it our parts, big parts of Ukraine,
parts of East and Crimea. So he occupied it on
twenty fourteen. So during lots of years, I'm not speaking
about ju just byden, but those times was Obama, then
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President Obama, then President Trump, then President Biden, now President
Trump and God bless now President Trump will stop him.
But during twenty fifteen, nobody stopped him. He just occupied
and took he killed people. You know what the contact
twenty fifteen, Yeah, twenty twenty fourteen.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
So how he was not here? He's not here? All right,
let's pause it right there. Hold on, there's another video
appeared on the screen. We'll get to that video in
just a second. No, in twenty fourteen, you may recall
Trump was not the president. The president was a guy
named Barry Barack. Who's saying Obama. Some of you might
like him, some of you might not. Pop culture loved Obama.
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He was not really good at his job, but didn't matter.
It was easy for Barack Obama to be president because
he was the first black president and he was a cool,
smooth talking black guy. So the liberal media loved that,
and when he screwed up, if you criticized them, what
would they say about you? They would call you a racist. Yes,
obviously this ushered in a new era of woke politics
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where meritocracy didn't matter. The things that Martin Luther King
Junior said did matter. All you had to do to
win a debate was called someone racist or sexist, or homophobic,
or transphobic or midget phobic or whatever it may be.
That became the talking point of people on the left.
And at the time we seem to have forgotten how
badly Barack Obama handled the of crimea. In fact, if
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you're just turning on your radio, why don't we put
a pin in it right here? Hang on one second,
quick break, and we will talk about it. This is
Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Dig It.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Okay. A new study shows that kids Having kids apparently
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Do you believe that's true? That's what they claim. The
study says having kids slows down brain aging for parents,
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but it greatly speeds up liver aging from all the
vodka consumption. Presumably speaking of vodka, segue to that, let's
talk about Ukraine and Russia. If you're just getting back,
we're talking about this meeting that they had on Friday
between Zolensky and Trump, and at the time, Zolensky was
trying to make this point that back in the day,
when you guys Putin first invaded Crimea, you didn't do
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anything about it, and liberals in America ignore this part
of the meeting. Liberals in the all over the weekend,
if you watched Saturday Night Live or the Oscars, you
noticed a lot of people were making fun of Trump
for some comedy made about Zelensky's clothing. It's as if
they didn't even watch it. The reality if you actually
watched the meeting with Zelensky and Trump, some journalist in
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the room insulted Zelensky's clothes and then Trump defended him.
I won't play the clip. We won't waste time with that.
But the part of it that they ignore while they
reinvent certain parts of the media of the meeting, that
is to say, one thing that they don't want to
pay attention to is this point that Zelensky had how
way back in twenty fourteen, Putin invaded Crimea, and yet
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for some reason America didn't really help out. It's true.
Way back in twenty fourteen, Russia invaded Crimea, and as
Zelensky pointed out here, America's response was trying to cozy
up to Russia. At the time, Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton came out and she presented this reset button. I
think I'm they even have a picture of it somewhere.
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Let me see if I could find it. It's the
cutest thing. It was an actual photo of the Russian
reset button. The Russian ambassador got together with Hillary Clinton
and they had this prop. Look at this, there's a
let me put it up on the screen here for
those of you watching me on social media. They had
this prop and it was an actual reset button, just
a plastic yellow and red button. Very cute to look
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at there, and they said, let's push the button and
let's be friends again. That happened, and of course they
became friends. This goes back quite a ways here. That
was actually in two thousand and nine. The reset button
appeared first on the scene, and then a short time
later Jen Psasse before she was an MSNBC talk show host,
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before she was a spokesperson for Joe Biden, she was
a spokesperson for the State Department. And Jen Psase came
out and she decided to put on a Russian hat,
not just any Russian hat, a cute, adorable pin Crushian hat.
And she was widely mocked for it at the time.
It's a pretty ridiculous thing for her to decide to
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wear because they wanted to show how friendly they were
with Russia. This happened twice, once in twenty nineteen, once
in twenty fourteen, after things became infinitely worse with Russia,
and nobody in the liberal media seemed to mind if
you criticize them for this. The only thing that they
would tell you was, hey, don't make fun of Barack
Obama and his administration. They're doing a good job. You're
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just doing that because you hate blacks. At the time,
Mitt Romney said the biggest threat he thought we had
globally was Russia. They made fun of Mitt Romney for
making that point. Barack Obama said, take your foreign policy
and go back to the nineteen eighties. You're silly, moron.
You're so stupid. Obama gave Romney the eighties called line
to the media, and Biden said Romney's Cold War mentality
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was antiquated, it was outdated, it was silly and dumb,
and people in the liberal media said, Yay, that's so good.
Obama's right. Romney's a dumb dumb he thinks we need
to worry about Russia. And of course, as all this
was happening, Putin and the Russian military actually shot down
a Malaysian passenger debt jet. There were no consequences for this.
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Nobody did anything. Nobody suggested that Barack Obama was a
Putin puppet, or that Barack Obama needed a Russian collusion.
What the heck's going on? Did Russia get Barack Obama elected? Nothing?
There were three years were not spent in Congress proving
or disproving that Barack Obama once rented out a hotel
room in Moscow where he got hookers to relieve themselves
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on a mattress that his predecessor had slept on. None
of that ever happed. There was the Golden Showergate, all
the ridiculous things we accused Donald Trump of doing. None
of that ever happened with Barack Obama, of course not.
And Obama actually told Medvedev, the ambassador to Russia at
the time, that after the election ended, he would have flexibility.
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Was a hot mic moment. He said, you just just
wait till after the after I beat Mitt Romney in
this election, and then I'll have a lot more flexibility
to well, America and Russia will get real chummy chummy
with each other. Don't worry, that'll happen. And so Russia
and putin you know, bullying around the Obama administration eventually
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went in and they invaded Crimea. Nothing happened to them.
And of course now the Ukrainian War is happening, and
for some reason, this is all Trump's fault, even though
this problem was in the making way before Trump even
announced he was running for president in twenty sixteen. Now
it gets really interesting here because to those of you
that don't really understand the complexity and the nuances of
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all this and don't feel bad, who could blame you
this problem that we're having right now with Russia. It
goes way back. It goes back to the nineteen nineties
when Bill Clinton took over our federal government and for
the first time ever in the history of the nation,
we had the opportunity to get rid of NATO. Why
would we still need NATO? The Soviet Union didn't exist anymore,
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and lo and behold, interestingly enough, at the time, Bill
Clinton decided not to do it. And that's sort of
where this history lesson about why we knew this invasion
of Ukraine would be happening twenty thirty years before it
actually took place, really begins. Rather than having me explain
it to you, I'll let this old guy in a
leather chair tell you about it.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
This is not an attack by Putin on Ukraine in
the way that we are told every day. This started
in nineteen ninety. February ninth, nineteen ninety James Baker, the
third Our Secretary of State, said to Mihail Gorbachev, NATO
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will not move one inch eastward if you agree to
German unification, basically ending World War Two. And Gorbachev said
that's very important. Yes, NATO doesn't move and we agreed
to German unification.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
The US then cheated on this already, starting in nineteen
ninety four Clinton. When Clinton signed off on a basically
a plan to expand NATO all the way to Ukraine.
This is when the so called neocons took Powerton and
Clinton was the first agent of this.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
I would say the second, but fine, okay.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
The expansion of NATO started in nineteen ninety nine with Poland,
Hungary and Czech Republic. At that point Russia didn't much care.
There was no border other than with the Kerningsburg, but
other than that there.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Was no direct threat.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
Then the US led the bombing of Serbia in nineteen
ninety nine. That was bad, by the way, because that
was a use of NATO to bomb a European capital, Belgrade,
seventy eight straight days to break the country apart. The
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Russians didn't like that very much, but Putin became president.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
They swallowed it.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
They complained, but even Putin started out to pro European
pro American actually asked maybe we should join NATO when
there was still the idea of some kind of mutually
respectful relationship.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
Then nine to eleven came. Then came Afghanistan, and the
Russian said, yeah, we'll support you, we understand to root
out terror. Sure, But then came two other decisive actions
in two thousand and two, the United States unilaterally walked
out of the Anti.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Ballistic Missile Treaty.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
This was probably the most decisive event never discussed in
this context, but what it did was trigger the US
putting in missile systems in Eastern Europe that Russia views
as a dire direct threat.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
In two thousand and.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
Four to five, we engaged in a soft regime change
operation in Ukraine. But in two thousand and nine Yanikovich
won the election and he became president in twenty ten
on the basis of neutrality for Ukraine. That calmed things
down because the US was pushing NATO, but the people
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of Ukraine, on the opinion polls didn't even want to.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Be in NATO.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
They knew that the country is divided between ethnic Ukrainian
ethnic Russian.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
What do we want with this?
Speaker 5 (17:37):
We want to stay away from your problems. So in
February twenty second, twenty fourteen, the United States participated actively
in the overthrow of Yanikovich, a typical US regime change operation,
have no doubt about it. And the Russians did us
a favor. They intercepted really called between Victoria and Newland.
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My colleague at Columbia University now between her and the
US Ambassador to Ukraine, Jeffrey Piat, who is a senior
State Department official till today, and they talked.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
About you want change, this is before right.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
They said, who's going to be the next government? All
of this is to say the US then said, okay,
now NATO's really going to enlarge, and Putin kept saying stop,
you promised no NATO enlargement. It's been By the way,
I forgot to mention in two thousand and four, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia,
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seven more countries in the not one inch eastward. And
then okay, it's a long story.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
But.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
I'm gonna pause it right there. A lot of you
are aware of the fact that they're not currently having
elections in Ukraine. A lot of you may be aware
of the fact that, well, there are excuses, well, because
there's a war going on. Come on, guys, we had
elections during the Civil War, we have elections in the
very rarely does a nation stop having elections just because
the war is going on. And yes, I'm aware of
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the fact that Britain during World War Two took a
break from elections during World War Okay, fine. Over the weekend,
liberal media journalists, pundits, activists, propagandists masquerading as members of
the media took to TV around the country, and that
compared Zelensky to some suspiciously prestigious people, people I never
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would have compared him to, one of whom was Jesus.
I'll get to that in a minute. But the common
comparison that I heard over the weekend was to Churchill.
We heard a lot of people compare Zelensky to Churchill.
Now I want you to think about what that comparison
entails for. It's a silly, stupid comparison, right, But we
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always have to compare everything to World War Two. Everything
has to be Nazis this, those are the nine, these
are the good guys. That's how American political discourse is.
Everything has to be reduced to an analogy about World
War Two. And so if we must have an analogy
about World War two right now, which I wouldn't agree
with doing, let's pick at the scab a little bit.
Let's pick at that pussy scab. What does that mean?
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If Churchill is Zelensky, who is Hitler? It's putin right,
of course, I'm Obviously this is their analogy, it's not mine.
If in their analogy, if Zelensky is Churchill, Putin must
be Hitler. Now, remember what they're suggesting here is that, Wow,
we have to deal with this like what we did
during World War Two? What did we do during World
War two? We invaded Germany? We took Hitler out of power.
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Do you guys want to see boots on the ground
right now in Moscow? Do you want to see young
American people and putting on a strapping on their backpacks
and their combat boots and charging into the streets of
Moscow for a land war with the Russians. Whether the
people on the left realize it or not, whether the
people at the Grammys or the Oscars or Saturday Night
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Live over the Weekend realizes it or not, that is
what they're advocating for, because none of them actually understand
the thought process behind the people that are feeding them
the talking points. The people that are feeding them the
talking points want to overthrow Rush Up. Remember Joe Biden's
accidentally said this out loud before. Look that one up
if you don't, But I don't have the sound bite
in front of me. But he certainly has said it,
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we need to take Putin out of power. Remember when
Biden and then immediately walked it back a day later.
It's weird you no longer feel that, no, I misspoke.
He misspoke a lot. There was a lot of miss
speaking from Joe Biden, But I think that's one time
when he didn't misspeak. I think he was telling the truth. Now,
when you consider the fact that this guy wants you know,
David Axel Axelrod for example, David Axelrod was one of
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Barack Obama's chief strategists, and he's made this point many times.
Something must be done. We must take out Hitler, Hitler
and you know, Zelenski and Putin. It's so obvious what's
taking place here, Winston Churchill and Hitler, Zelenski and Putin.
It's like, okay, we have Americans, young Americans, people like
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Harry Sisson. For those of you that are on Twitter
X or social media, you know who this is. He's
a young kid on Twitter X and he gets paid
to tweet for the Democrat Party. He's not the only one.
There's a lot of them, but he's one of them.
And he's one of these people constantly saying, yeah, let's
support Ukraine. Fight for Ukraine. Ukraine is taking mercenaries right
now and paying them with American money. I can't wrap
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my mind around the fact that there are young Americans
advocating for more war in Ukraine while simultaneously completely ignoring
the fact. You're the people that are going to get
drafted if we're to invade the streets of Moscow, if
we're to go into Russia and take Putin out of
You're the very person you, people in your young twenties,
are the very people that are going to have to
stop tweeting, pick up a rifle, learn how to operate
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a drone, fly overseas to Eastern Europe, eat room temperature,
tomato soup or whatever horrible food they eat over there,
and go take on Putin. Do you think Harry Sisson
and the other zoomers that tweet for the Democrats realize
that when they speak out loud.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
You've got Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness on KPRC nine
point fifty.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
I like steak. I like meat. Meat is good. Not
long ago, our President Donald J. Trump decided that the
Gulf of Mexico wasn't a cool name, so he changed
it to Gulf of America. People got really mad about this.
It's almost like he was just trolling them. I mean,
let's face it, whatever we call that body of water,
it's not going to change anything. It doesn't affect your life.
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But still, wouldn't you rather it be named after something
cool instead of something that sucks? That seems obvious to me. No, No,
I'm not saying Mexico sucks, although it does kind of
suck a little. I'm just saying I'm just saying, Mayor's
an America better. And you know, we're really being objective here. America.
Mexico's part of America. I mean, America is a broad,
vague term that describes two continents. Why would anyone be
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mad about that? Well, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick must have
heard the news and he had an idea. I'd imagine
he was probably sitting in a restaurant eating steak, and
he looked down at what he had ordered, the New
York Strip, and he decided there was a more fitting
name for it. On Friday, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick Patrick
announced he is cooking up a new initiative to rename
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the popular steak the Texas Strip. According to a report
published today by my friend Brandon Walton's at Texas scorecard
dot com. Brandon is here with us right now, Brandon,
is this a serious suggestion? Is he just trolling people?
Or maybe a little of both. Maybe a little bit
of both.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
But you know, with some of the heavy stuff that
goes through the legislature, it is fun to occasionally have
something a little more lighthearted. And frankly, I liked the idea.
Dan Patrick said he actually came up to the head.
He was talking to Cattle Raisers Association, some representatives from
them a few days ago. I was asking, well, why
is it called the New York Strips? You know, most
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of the Texas processes, most of the cows, the cows
in New York are mostly dairy cows. You know, why
do they get the name? And so he says, pretty
soon there's gonna be a resolution filed in the Senate
to rename the New York strip to the Texas Strip.
And I think it's fitting. Actually, you know which the
strip happens to me. I don't know about you. It
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happens to be my favorite cut personally.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
I usually order a Rabbi or guy or a a
I mean the FLA is the easiest way to go.
You don't get the gristle. It's it's obviously the nicest quality.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Sure, it's hard to mess one mess up at filet.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
What do you like about the New York Strip?
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Why?
Speaker 2 (25:37):
The New York Strip?
Speaker 3 (25:39):
You know, it's a little a little leaner, but I
feel like the flavors a little beef here, and then
you get with some of the fattier pieces. But let
me be very clear, I don't take any steak you
give me, sure.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Now, even right a strip steak, you know. But I'm
just looking at the numbers here. I asked my AI,
I use GROCK for those who are carrying instead of
chat GPT because I'm not a fan. I asked it
to compare beef production in Texas and New York State.
And Texas is the undisputed leader in US beef production
four point three million head as of twenty twenty three.
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New York State, by comparison, about one hundred thousand beef cows,
so not quite. That makes up roughly point three to
five percent of the US total beef production each year.
Not a lot of beef coming out of the state
of New York. So why do we call it the
New York Strip steak?
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Well, according to Dan Patrick, it's just some New York
restaurant named it a New York strip in the eighteen
hundreds and people just sort of run with it from then.
I do liked it. In a statement that you put out,
it's actually Friday said that, you know, might he might
take a short cruise across the Gulf of America and
have a juicy medium rare at Texas Strip.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
I love it. Yeah, I want a Texas strip. That
sounds fantastic. All right. More things happening right now in
the state Senate Dan Patrick and the state Senator have
announced they are freezing funding increases for universities. They're citing
a non they're citing non compliance with the DEI ban.
I'll put that in non legal speak there. Our state
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lawmakers have noticed we created a law asking universities to
stop judging people based on their skin color and start
judging them based on their accomplishments, and some universities around
the state aren't doing that. Is that the gist of
this Brandon.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Essentially, Yes, we've seen that the legislature two years ago,
when they were in their previous session of twenty twenty
three passes ban on DEI and what have we seen
since then? We've seen repeated instances of DEI still being
taught or used inside of public universities. And what does
this mean. Well, now you've got two senators, actually pretty
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powerful ones. You've got Paul Bettencourt and Brandon Creighton, who's
the chair of the Senate Education Committee, saying they've had
enough that you know, and and by the way, this
is the funny thing they're they're they're talking here about
just freezing the increase and their funding. I mean, it's
not even like a cut, but uh, you know how
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these things are usually received inside of government. That would
be you know, that would be a massive thing for
their their increase, you know, to to to not go
up even further. But I think it's important. I think
we've seen that you've had a lot of universities that
have been skirting this band. It's time for the legislature.
Legilature is in charge of these universities at the end
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of the day, and it's it's time these universities start
acting like it instead of like you know, these little
self self coverning little islands where they where they think
they don't have to respond to what the voters want.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Yeah, it's amazing to me that these educators at publicly
funded universities. I think they could just do whatever they want. Brandon,
have you and I talked about the Pursuit of Happiness bill?
Speaker 3 (28:59):
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
I have a bill. I have an idea for a
bill that lawmakers are actually Steve Toath State Representative Steve
Toath was listening to our radio show not long ago,
and I yours truly, was opining about how hospital workers
in public school employees around the state of Texas have
bragged that they're going to help illegal immigrants avoid iceed attention.
(29:21):
If anybody shows up to my hospital looking for Trenda
Ragua and MS thirteen, I'm not going to help them
out if anyone shows up at this public school. And
it occurred to me. As much as I don't like
occupational licenses, I mean I find them to be problematic,
isn't this a great reason why maybe sometimes it's good
that we have them. If somebody's working at a hospital,
they have to have an occupational license. If somebody's working
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at a public school, same thing, right, I think if
you're willing to help illegal immigrants break the law. Maybe
you don't deserve to have an occupational license in the
state of Texas. I threw that idea out there, and
State Rep. Steve Toath liked it so much he said
that he would prepare the bill in the House and
lo and behold. State Senator Mays Middleton said on this
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radio show, if it makes it to the state Senate,
that's a solid yes vote for him. Considering how many
conservative lawmakers like the idea, Brandon, it's almost certain not
to pass.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
Well, yeah, you're starting to certainly understand process, right, Yeah,
I mean it's a common sense idea, so it's certainly
got an up till battle. But I like it.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
All right, Let's talk a little more about DEI and
the you know, wokeness at universities Texas A and M.
Just well, this was the regions, the Texas A and
M regions resolution said, maybe having on campus drag queen
shows at Texas A and M in the best idea.
Why was this happening in the first place, was they
had a thing called draggy Land in college station. I
(30:53):
am so old, Brandon, How old are you? Thank you?
I'm so old. I remember when Texas A and M
was considered to be the most conservative state university in
the country.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
What happened, I don't know. I mean, it's like we've
seen so much. People think right, like, oh, Texas A
and M, they must be very conservative. In fact, what
we've seen is not only are they, you know, sometimes
just a little bit you know, behind where UT Austin
is in terms of being liberal, but in some ways
they actually are out on the forefront. I think it
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was actually back when we were talking about DEI for example,
I think Texas and M had more DEI staff than
the University of Texas, which was a sort of eye opening.
But this draggy Land event, which I mean, I feel
like they're just making jokes for is making it too
easy for their rivals. But they had this draggy Land event,
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a drag show on campus that they've been hosting for years.
Finally the Board of Regents has said they've had enough.
They've said that this is going to take place on campus.
They've actually seen this happened at West Texas A and M,
where their university president stopped on campus and on campus
drag show a couple of years back, and so that
event has been canceled or at least they're moving it
(32:12):
to a different venue right now. But you know, this
is just like one of many little things where you know,
it's exportant and exciting to see the Board of Regents
really stepping up in governing because you know, these are
people that are appointed by the governor, approved by the Senate.
They're supposed to be the people that are closely there
governing over the university, and it's nice to see that
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they're actually, you know, responding to these concerns from alumni
and from citizens.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Isn't it weird to think that last year at the
Texas A and M University over there at that giant
football stadium they've got Kyle Field, they had a concert
with country music legend George Strait where one hundred and
ten thousand fans attended record setting concert. It was one
of the single biggest concerts in concert history, not just
(33:04):
in Texas but anywhere. And that same place where hundreds
of thousands of people gathered together to watch football games
in George Strait concerts is also a place where drag
queens perform. Like what what uh huh?
Speaker 3 (33:19):
I know, it's it's amazing. This is the dichotomy, right,
that you see between what people expect out of their
public institutions, and especially a place like Texas, A and M. Right,
it's agriculture and mining, right, I mean this is you know,
it's in College station. It's not in Austin, right or
Dnton or somewhere like that. Don't expect these kinds of
(33:41):
things to be happening then, and yet that's what we've seen.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
My brother Brandon Walton's a fantastic journalist, an activist, and
a true Texas patriot. What do you guys got working on?
What are you What are you doing over there at
Texas Scorecard these days? Any news?
Speaker 3 (33:54):
Well, the legislature is finally Sorry, we're more than a
third of the way through the state legislative session. We're
finally starting to see committee hearings, bill starting to move
a little bit through the process. Today, the House is
going to be talking in their committee about property tax relief,
which is obviously a big issue for a lot of folks.
And so there's gonna be a lot of a lot
of stuff to keep an eye on over the next
(34:15):
several weeks.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
My brother Brandon Waltons check out his work at Texas
scorecard dot com follow him on social media. Hey, it's
me the Donald. You're listening to the Pursuit of Happiness radio.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
Voice from the Radio Games.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Here's a professional tip. If you are a liberal cable
news pundent, a journalist, a member of the mainstream media
the Democrat Party, don't compare oligarchy meglomaniacs to Jesus Christ.
It's just not a good look. I was just reading
townhall dot com here and they report on how a
reporter's recent comparison of Ukrainian President of Voladimir Zelenski to
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Jesus Christ has sparked a reaction from people across social
media and throughout the actual media. They view it as
a gross exaggeration and an unwarranted elevation of a foreign leader. First,
they compared Zelensky to Winston Churchill, ridiculous, but okay, now
they're comparing him to Jesus Christ. The Daily Beast is
(35:18):
a far left news outlet, and one of their reporters,
Julia Davis, drew a controversial comparison in which she likens
Zelensky to Our Lord and Savior. Kind of a silly
thing to do. The weekend before Ash Wednesday, but okay, fine,
that's what she did. And she was talking about the
confrontation with Trump and jad Vance at the White House,
(35:39):
and so Julia references Vance's confrontation with Zelensky regarding the
foreign leader's lack of gratitude towards the US, posting something
about saying, you don't look grateful. And then there's a
picture of Jesus with mel Gibson on the set of
that movie, you know, Passions of the Christ. You know,
it's an interesting As of early twenty two, the US
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has provided sixty five point nine billion dollars in military
assistance to Ukraine. And that's just recently, right. Other reports
claim hundreds of billions of dollars, a lot of money,
a lot of money, and they've lost a lot of
that money. Where did it go? They don't know, like
John Nolty put it. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky's Oval Office
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appearance was, without question, the biggest public display of embarrassment
by a country's leader in world history. Zelensky shows up
to the White House dressed like a tiny ninja and
then in front of the American media in front of
the Oval Office with Trump and JD. Van sitting right there.
He challenges Vance to explain how diplomacy would be possible
(36:46):
today when American diplomacy failed under President Obama back in
twenty fourteen, and it did fail under Obama. As I
watched it on TV, I couldn't believe my eyes. When
you were in a public forum, you do not address
the vice president by his first name, especially after you
show up without a tie, and you don't disrespect the
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president and the Vice president with your stupid talking points.
That's true whether you're in public or private. Here's a
guy who is only able to hang on to his
country because of ongoing American generosity to the tune of
hundreds of billions of dollars in cash, and there he
is talking down to our vice president and asking him
hostile questions while insulting American diplomacy. To his credit, JD.
(37:28):
Vance roared back with I'm talking about the kind of
diplomacy that's going to end the destruction of your country,
and then Vance laid the pip squeak out. Incredibly, Zolensky
only got worse from there. Two thoughts went through my
head as I was watching it. I can't believe this
guy is so stupid. That would be one of them. No, really,
(37:50):
the first was Jim Acosta. Do you guys remember Jim Acosta?
There was no way in help. Jim Acosta was a
former CNN reporter. Maybe he still works there. I don't know.
There's no way in hell Zelensky would have thrown his
entire country under the bus like that if he had
not outlawed Ukraine's eleven or so rival political parties and
canceled elections by declaring martial law. Only someone like Fidel
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Castro would behave so arrogantly. Imagine you're a Ukrainian watching
the leader of your country act like an entitled trust
fund baby on international TV, knowing that without America's help,
Putin's going to overrun your country. You can't screw your
own people like that unless you're a dictator for life.
The Jim with Acosta thought came from how much Zelensky
(38:35):
is deliberately route deliberately unprofessional, belligerent behavior reminded me of
all those fake journalists who treated Trump the same exact
way during his first term. Basically, Zelensky craps all over
every the very people who are keeping him in power
and keeping him alive. In order to do what exactly
receive applause from the regime media. It was almost like
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he was auditioning for a job at MSNBC. Barack Obama
and Joe Biden treated Israel's Benjamin net and Yahoo like
he was some sort of virus. But never once did
you see Net and Yahoo appear to be anything but
grateful and respectful. Look for the record, I'd like to
see this war come to an end. I think we've
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spent a lot of money. There can't change the past.
It would make me very happy to see Putin get
humiliated by some small country next door. But enough is enough.
Ukraine can't win the war. If they could, it would
have happened by now. We can't afford to fund this
war any longer. People on both sides are dying with
no end in sight. Ukraine war supporters have still not
(39:42):
answered the question we've been asking for the last week.
Why should we support an unstable, unprofessional, reckless, narcissistic, ungrateful
maniac who has no intention of ending the war. He
obviously wants a forever war or to lose his country entirely.
The war has given him everything he ever wanted. It
made him rich and famous. He doesn't want to give
that up. He doesn't want peace. Why would he? That
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would be the end of his celebrity status. He wouldn't
be important anymore. This is a negative note to end
the show on. I always like to end the show
with a little bit of good news. You want some
good news before we get out of here. A school
bus driver near Cleveland, Ohio, saved fifteen kids last week
after their bus burst into flames. According to the report,
there was some kind of mechanical issue and the fire
(40:27):
started behind one of the back wheels. Here's audio from
the emergency crew radios along with the firefighter and witnesses
commenting on what happened.
Speaker 6 (40:35):
This is going to be a bus vehicle on fire.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
I'm sure if it is occupied.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
Every child there's accounted for. Every child's off the bus.
Speaker 2 (40:44):
It's just a blessing that the kid has got on
the line.
Speaker 6 (40:47):
I saw the girl waiting for the bus two to
three minutes later, I hit her big boom.
Speaker 3 (40:52):
After about five minutes, it was all engulfed in flame
and it was just unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
Wow, incredible, that's very cool. Imagine how much that school
bus driver is getting paid. Not a lot of money,
but it didn't stop him from wanting to save all
those people's lives, because that's what a good hero does.
I'm Kenny Webster. I love you all. Thank you so
much for listening. We'll be back bright and early tomorrow
morning for more of what you bought a radio for.
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
Yeah, we're here, Greetings kids. Don't we normally start these
broadcasts with a terrible joke? Okay, here's one. Our record
for the largest polar bear dip was set over the
weekend when twenty four hundred sixty one people jumped into
a cold lake in Czech Republic. This also set the
record for the greatest concentration of shriveled testicles in human history. Hi, everyone,
(00:48):
thanks for turning on your radio. You know it's with
me this afternoon. I mean, you don't know, so I'll
just tell you. My good buddy, Brandon Waltons is stopping
by from Texas scorecard dot Com. I love this here
in the state of Texas, they want to change the
name of the New York Strip Steak, and so it's
kind of a move over Gulf of America. Get ready
for the Texas Strip. We'll talk about it in just
(01:10):
a little bit, but right now, let me roll up
my sleeves because I want to talk about Ukrainians Eastern Europe.
I guess I'm kind of I'm kind of disorganized today,
so I'm just gonna jump into this, and you know,
feel free to interrupt me in the comment section if
you want. Oh, by the way, while we're live on
the radio right now, we're also live streaming on the
Tube of Views and the book Faces and the X
and the I think that's about it actually, But anyway,
(01:33):
if you're watching me right now, congratulations you found me.
So that's very cool. Like a lot of you, I
don't like Putin? Do you like Putin? Nobody listening to
or watching this is probably a fan of Vladimer. What
would you like about Putin?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
He?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I mean, okay, he wrestles bears. I guess that's kind
of He does nijitsu shirtless, apparently at sex with Pamela
Anderson wants. According to Pamela Anderson, I don't know say
what you will about that, but all that being said,
not a lot of redeeming qualities, especially if you're a
fan of liberty. Russia is not a place where libertarians
are generally, so I remember they locked up a WNBA
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player for smoking pot. And she wasn't even the only one.
There was that other guy too, the educator. We just
got him back. It's not about them. Russia bad, right, So,
as Americans, we often make this mistake of thinking that
because there's a bad guy, there must be a good guy.
And sure, I'm sure we all agree we're the good guys.
I mean, obviously, America, what have we ever done wrong?
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Right?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Exactly? Yeah, wink wink, But no, all that being said, Okay,
so Russia bad, Ukraine must be good, right man? You
lost me there. More often than not, if somebody wants
to be a leader of a country, they're probably a maglomaniac, ego, narcissistic,
obsessed with the smell of their own farts, generally not
somebody down to earth and humble if they want to
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be the leader of a country, and Zolensky is very
much that right. A lot of accusations have been made
about this guy in his home country. He's a cocaine addict,
and I don't know if that's true. There was a
lot of sniffling on Friday at that meeting at the
White House, and you know, and that he himself is
an egomaniac, and that he was. He campaigned on a
promise to get corruption out of his country and then
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and it's as corrupt as ever. That's one of the
most corrupt countries on Earth. We've given them hundreds of
billions of dollars. They admit they don't know where a
lot of that money ended up at. But like Tucker
Carlson has pointed out, a lot of members of the
Ukrainian oligarchy are now seen vacationing in some of the
most explensive, expensive places in the world. So probably probably
not a coincidence there. But all that being said, let's
(03:38):
talk about the meeting on Friday and what has happened
since then. Now, over the weekend, the liberal media pop
culture spent a lot of time telling you Donald Trump
is a bad guy, and he's screwed over Ukraine, and
Ukraine's in dire straits, and we screwed up the mineral
rights deal, as if that was something they even wanted
to begin with. And which is because now the news
(04:02):
this morning is that all the huffing and puffing and
chest pounding from over the weekend between Zelensky and Trump
didn't matter. Zolensky still wants to reach a deal with
Trump on mineral rights in exchange for some military support.
So it didn't really make a difference. But obviously we
have to talk a little bit about what happened on Friday.
On Friday, Zolensky went to go meet with Trump and
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Jade Vance and Marco Rubio and they were supposed to
have a lunch meeting. In fact, I right down the
hall from where all this was taking place, you could
smell the food cooking. They were putting out plates and
dinnerware and what have you. And I don't know what
they were having. French dip sandwich is probably something better
than what they eat in Ukraine. Odds are and as
all that's taken place, Zolensky and jd Vance and Trump
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and Marco Rubio sit down to have this meeting where
like a lot of you know, they were supposed to
have a photo op and nothing more. And Zelensky decided
he's better in front of a TV camera than the
other three or four men and in the room are.
So he is going to take this opportunity to try
to show off for the TV cameras and he's going
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to have a negotiation with Trump in front of the
TV cameras instead of in silence in private. And this
is probably a mistake that a lot of people make
in their lives. Obviously, you're probably not negotiating the end
of a war with your friends and your family members.
But a lot of people do often have disagreements in
public places when they should be having these arguments with
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their friends or their family or their business partners behind
closed doors. And that was a mistake that Zelensky made.
It was very aggressive, almost aggressive, like like he was
like he was fueled by some kind of drug that
inspired him to behave in a silly and irrational manner,
like some kind of a stimulant or something. But no, no, no, no,
I won't even go there with it now. All that
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being said, so they begin this conversation where Zolensky wants
to start negotiating in front of the TV cameras. Not
a great idea. It starts off with this. Zolensky makes
the point here that way back in twenty fourteen, Russia
invaded Crimea, that southern peninsula there of Ukraine, and America
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didn't come and help him out here. I've got some audio,
I even have some video of that's happening. Let's listen
to that if you don't know.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Okay, So he occupied it our parts, big parts of Ukraine,
parts of East and Crimea. So he occupied it on
twenty fourteen. So during lots of years, I'm not speaking
about ju just byden, but those times was Obama, then
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President Obama, then President Trump, then President Biden, now President
Trump and God bless now President Trump will stop him.
But during twenty fifteen, nobody stopped him. He just occupied
and took he killed people. You know what the contact
twenty fifteen, Yeah, twenty twenty fourteen.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
So how he was not here? He's not here? All right,
let's pause it right there. Hold on, there's another video
appeared on the screen. We'll get to that video in
just a second. No, in twenty fourteen, you may recall
Trump was not the president. The president was a guy
named Barry Barack. Who's saying Obama. Some of you might
like him, some of you might not. Pop culture loved Obama.
(07:18):
He was not really good at his job, but didn't matter.
It was easy for Barack Obama to be president because
he was the first black president and he was a cool,
smooth talking black guy. So the liberal media loved that,
and when he screwed up, if you criticized them, what
would they say about you? They would call you a racist. Yes,
obviously this ushered in a new era of woke politics
(07:39):
where meritocracy didn't matter. The things that Martin Luther King
Junior said did matter. All you had to do to
win a debate was called someone racist or sexist, or homophobic,
or transphobic or midget phobic or whatever it may be.
That became the talking point of people on the left.
And at the time we seem to have forgotten how
badly Barack Obama handled the of crimea. In fact, if
(08:02):
you're just turning on your radio, why don't we put
a pin in it right here? Hang on one second,
quick break, and we will talk about it. This is
Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Dig It.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Okay. A new study shows that kids Having kids apparently
slows down brain aging for parents. Do you believe that
for those of you that are parents out there, do
you think that having children warded off dementia for you?
Do you believe that's true? That's what they claim. The
study says having kids slows down brain aging for parents,
(08:34):
but it greatly speeds up liver aging from all the
vodka consumption. Presumably speaking of vodka, segue to that, let's
talk about Ukraine and Russia. If you're just getting back,
we're talking about this meeting that they had on Friday
between Zolensky and Trump, and at the time, Zolensky was
trying to make this point that back in the day,
when you guys Putin first invaded Crimea, you didn't do
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anything about it, and liberals in America ignore this part
of the meeting. Liberals in the all over the weekend,
if you watched Saturday Night Live or the Oscars, you
noticed a lot of people were making fun of Trump
for some comedy made about Zelensky's clothing. It's as if
they didn't even watch it. The reality if you actually
watched the meeting with Zelensky and Trump, some journalist in
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the room insulted Zelensky's clothes and then Trump defended him.
I won't play the clip. We won't waste time with that.
But the part of it that they ignore while they
reinvent certain parts of the media of the meeting, that
is to say, one thing that they don't want to
pay attention to is this point that Zelensky had how
way back in twenty fourteen, Putin invaded Crimea, and yet
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for some reason America didn't really help out. It's true.
Way back in twenty fourteen, Russia invaded Crimea, and as
Zelensky pointed out here, America's response was trying to cozy
up to Russia. At the time, Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton came out and she presented this reset button. I
think I'm they even have a picture of it somewhere.
(10:01):
Let me see if I could find it. It's the
cutest thing. It was an actual photo of the Russian
reset button. The Russian ambassador got together with Hillary Clinton
and they had this prop. Look at this, there's a
let me put it up on the screen here for
those of you watching me on social media. They had
this prop and it was an actual reset button, just
a plastic yellow and red button. Very cute to look
(10:24):
at there, and they said, let's push the button and
let's be friends again. That happened, and of course they
became friends. This goes back quite a ways here. That
was actually in two thousand and nine. The reset button
appeared first on the scene, and then a short time
later Jen Psasse before she was an MSNBC talk show host,
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before she was a spokesperson for Joe Biden, she was
a spokesperson for the State Department. And Jen Psase came
out and she decided to put on a Russian hat,
not just any Russian hat, a cute, adorable pin Crushian hat.
And she was widely mocked for it at the time.
It's a pretty ridiculous thing for her to decide to
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wear because they wanted to show how friendly they were
with Russia. This happened twice, once in twenty nineteen, once
in twenty fourteen, after things became infinitely worse with Russia,
and nobody in the liberal media seemed to mind if
you criticize them for this. The only thing that they
would tell you was, hey, don't make fun of Barack
Obama and his administration. They're doing a good job. You're
(11:29):
just doing that because you hate blacks. At the time,
Mitt Romney said the biggest threat he thought we had
globally was Russia. They made fun of Mitt Romney for
making that point. Barack Obama said, take your foreign policy
and go back to the nineteen eighties. You're silly, moron.
You're so stupid. Obama gave Romney the eighties called line
to the media, and Biden said Romney's Cold War mentality
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was antiquated, it was outdated, it was silly and dumb,
and people in the liberal media said, Yay, that's so good.
Obama's right. Romney's a dumb dumb he thinks we need
to worry about Russia. And of course, as all this
was happening, Putin and the Russian military actually shot down
a Malaysian passenger debt jet. There were no consequences for this.
(12:15):
Nobody did anything. Nobody suggested that Barack Obama was a
Putin puppet, or that Barack Obama needed a Russian collusion.
What the heck's going on? Did Russia get Barack Obama elected? Nothing?
There were three years were not spent in Congress proving
or disproving that Barack Obama once rented out a hotel
room in Moscow where he got hookers to relieve themselves
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on a mattress that his predecessor had slept on. None
of that ever happed. There was the Golden Showergate, all
the ridiculous things we accused Donald Trump of doing. None
of that ever happened with Barack Obama, of course not.
And Obama actually told Medvedev, the ambassador to Russia at
the time, that after the election ended, he would have flexibility.
(13:01):
Was a hot mic moment. He said, you just just
wait till after the after I beat Mitt Romney in
this election, and then I'll have a lot more flexibility
to well, America and Russia will get real chummy chummy
with each other. Don't worry, that'll happen. And so Russia
and putin you know, bullying around the Obama administration eventually
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went in and they invaded Crimea. Nothing happened to them.
And of course now the Ukrainian War is happening, and
for some reason, this is all Trump's fault, even though
this problem was in the making way before Trump even
announced he was running for president in twenty sixteen. Now
it gets really interesting here because to those of you
that don't really understand the complexity and the nuances of
(13:43):
all this and don't feel bad, who could blame you
this problem that we're having right now with Russia. It
goes way back. It goes back to the nineteen nineties
when Bill Clinton took over our federal government and for
the first time ever in the history of the nation,
we had the opportunity to get rid of NATO. Why
would we still need NATO? The Soviet Union didn't exist anymore,
(14:06):
and lo and behold, interestingly enough, at the time, Bill
Clinton decided not to do it. And that's sort of
where this history lesson about why we knew this invasion
of Ukraine would be happening twenty thirty years before it
actually took place, really begins. Rather than having me explain
it to you, I'll let this old guy in a
leather chair tell you about it.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
This is not an attack by Putin on Ukraine in
the way that we are told every day. This started
in nineteen ninety. February ninth, nineteen ninety James Baker, the
third Our Secretary of State, said to Mihail Gorbachev, NATO
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will not move one inch eastward if you agree to
German unification, basically ending World War Two. And Gorbachev said
that's very important. Yes, NATO doesn't move and we agreed
to German unification.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
The US then cheated on this already, starting in nineteen
ninety four Clinton. When Clinton signed off on a basically
a plan to expand NATO all the way to Ukraine.
This is when the so called neocons took Powerton and
Clinton was the first agent of this.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
I would say the second, but fine, okay.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
The expansion of NATO started in nineteen ninety nine with Poland,
Hungary and Czech Republic. At that point Russia didn't much care.
There was no border other than with the Kerningsburg, but
other than that there.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Was no direct threat.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
Then the US led the bombing of Serbia in nineteen
ninety nine. That was bad, by the way, because that
was a use of NATO to bomb a European capital, Belgrade,
seventy eight straight days to break the country apart. The
(16:06):
Russians didn't like that very much, but Putin became president.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
They swallowed it.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
They complained, but even Putin started out to pro European
pro American actually asked maybe we should join NATO when
there was still the idea of some kind of mutually
respectful relationship.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
Then nine to eleven came. Then came Afghanistan, and the
Russian said, yeah, we'll support you, we understand to root
out terror. Sure, But then came two other decisive actions
in two thousand and two, the United States unilaterally walked
out of the Anti.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Ballistic Missile Treaty.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
This was probably the most decisive event never discussed in
this context, but what it did was trigger the US
putting in missile systems in Eastern Europe that Russia views
as a dire direct threat.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
In two thousand and.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
Four to five, we engaged in a soft regime change
operation in Ukraine. But in two thousand and nine Yanikovich
won the election and he became president in twenty ten
on the basis of neutrality for Ukraine. That calmed things
down because the US was pushing NATO, but the people
(17:28):
of Ukraine, on the opinion polls didn't even want to.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Be in NATO.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
They knew that the country is divided between ethnic Ukrainian
ethnic Russian.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
What do we want with this?
Speaker 5 (17:37):
We want to stay away from your problems. So in
February twenty second, twenty fourteen, the United States participated actively
in the overthrow of Yanikovich, a typical US regime change operation,
have no doubt about it. And the Russians did us
a favor. They intercepted really called between Victoria and Newland.
(18:02):
My colleague at Columbia University now between her and the
US Ambassador to Ukraine, Jeffrey Piat, who is a senior
State Department official till today, and they talked.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
About you want change, this is before right.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
They said, who's going to be the next government? All
of this is to say the US then said, okay,
now NATO's really going to enlarge, and Putin kept saying stop,
you promised no NATO enlargement. It's been By the way,
I forgot to mention in two thousand and four, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia,
(18:42):
seven more countries in the not one inch eastward. And
then okay, it's a long story.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
But.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
I'm gonna pause it right there. A lot of you
are aware of the fact that they're not currently having
elections in Ukraine. A lot of you may be aware
of the fact that, well, there are excuses, well, because
there's a war going on. Come on, guys, we had
elections during the Civil War, we have elections in the
very rarely does a nation stop having elections just because
the war is going on. And yes, I'm aware of
(19:14):
the fact that Britain during World War Two took a
break from elections during World War Okay, fine. Over the weekend,
liberal media journalists, pundits, activists, propagandists masquerading as members of
the media took to TV around the country, and that
compared Zelensky to some suspiciously prestigious people, people I never
(19:35):
would have compared him to, one of whom was Jesus.
I'll get to that in a minute. But the common
comparison that I heard over the weekend was to Churchill.
We heard a lot of people compare Zelensky to Churchill.
Now I want you to think about what that comparison
entails for. It's a silly, stupid comparison, right, But we
(19:55):
always have to compare everything to World War Two. Everything
has to be Nazis this, those are the nine, these
are the good guys. That's how American political discourse is.
Everything has to be reduced to an analogy about World
War Two. And so if we must have an analogy
about World War two right now, which I wouldn't agree
with doing, let's pick at the scab a little bit.
Let's pick at that pussy scab. What does that mean?
(20:15):
If Churchill is Zelensky, who is Hitler? It's putin right,
of course, I'm Obviously this is their analogy, it's not mine.
If in their analogy, if Zelensky is Churchill, Putin must
be Hitler. Now, remember what they're suggesting here is that, Wow,
we have to deal with this like what we did
during World War Two? What did we do during World
War two? We invaded Germany? We took Hitler out of power.
(20:42):
Do you guys want to see boots on the ground
right now in Moscow? Do you want to see young
American people and putting on a strapping on their backpacks
and their combat boots and charging into the streets of
Moscow for a land war with the Russians. Whether the
people on the left realize it or not, whether the
people at the Grammys or the Oscars or Saturday Night
(21:02):
Live over the Weekend realizes it or not, that is
what they're advocating for, because none of them actually understand
the thought process behind the people that are feeding them
the talking points. The people that are feeding them the
talking points want to overthrow Rush Up. Remember Joe Biden's
accidentally said this out loud before. Look that one up
if you don't, But I don't have the sound bite
in front of me. But he certainly has said it,
(21:22):
we need to take Putin out of power. Remember when
Biden and then immediately walked it back a day later.
It's weird you no longer feel that, no, I misspoke.
He misspoke a lot. There was a lot of miss
speaking from Joe Biden, But I think that's one time
when he didn't misspeak. I think he was telling the truth. Now,
when you consider the fact that this guy wants you know,
David Axel Axelrod for example, David Axelrod was one of
(21:45):
Barack Obama's chief strategists, and he's made this point many times.
Something must be done. We must take out Hitler, Hitler
and you know, Zelenski and Putin. It's so obvious what's
taking place here, Winston Churchill and Hitler, Zelenski and Putin.
It's like, okay, we have Americans, young Americans, people like
(22:05):
Harry Sisson. For those of you that are on Twitter
X or social media, you know who this is. He's
a young kid on Twitter X and he gets paid
to tweet for the Democrat Party. He's not the only one.
There's a lot of them, but he's one of them.
And he's one of these people constantly saying, yeah, let's
support Ukraine. Fight for Ukraine. Ukraine is taking mercenaries right
now and paying them with American money. I can't wrap
(22:28):
my mind around the fact that there are young Americans
advocating for more war in Ukraine while simultaneously completely ignoring
the fact. You're the people that are going to get
drafted if we're to invade the streets of Moscow, if
we're to go into Russia and take Putin out of
You're the very person you, people in your young twenties,
are the very people that are going to have to
stop tweeting, pick up a rifle, learn how to operate
(22:51):
a drone, fly overseas to Eastern Europe, eat room temperature,
tomato soup or whatever horrible food they eat over there,
and go take on Putin. Do you think Harry Sisson
and the other zoomers that tweet for the Democrats realize
that when they speak out loud.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
You've got Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness on KPRC nine
point fifty.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
I like steak. I like meat. Meat is good. Not
long ago, our President Donald J. Trump decided that the
Gulf of Mexico wasn't a cool name, so he changed
it to Gulf of America. People got really mad about this.
It's almost like he was just trolling them. I mean,
let's face it, whatever we call that body of water,
it's not going to change anything. It doesn't affect your life.
(23:36):
But still, wouldn't you rather it be named after something
cool instead of something that sucks? That seems obvious to me. No, No,
I'm not saying Mexico sucks, although it does kind of
suck a little. I'm just saying I'm just saying, Mayor's
an America better. And you know, we're really being objective here. America.
Mexico's part of America. I mean, America is a broad,
vague term that describes two continents. Why would anyone be
(23:59):
mad about that? Well, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick must have
heard the news and he had an idea. I'd imagine
he was probably sitting in a restaurant eating steak, and
he looked down at what he had ordered, the New
York Strip, and he decided there was a more fitting
name for it. On Friday, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick Patrick
announced he is cooking up a new initiative to rename
(24:20):
the popular steak the Texas Strip. According to a report
published today by my friend Brandon Walton's at Texas scorecard
dot com. Brandon is here with us right now, Brandon,
is this a serious suggestion? Is he just trolling people?
Or maybe a little of both. Maybe a little bit
of both.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
But you know, with some of the heavy stuff that
goes through the legislature, it is fun to occasionally have
something a little more lighthearted. And frankly, I liked the idea.
Dan Patrick said he actually came up to the head.
He was talking to Cattle Raisers Association, some representatives from
them a few days ago. I was asking, well, why
is it called the New York Strips? You know, most
(25:00):
of the Texas processes, most of the cows, the cows
in New York are mostly dairy cows. You know, why
do they get the name? And so he says, pretty
soon there's gonna be a resolution filed in the Senate
to rename the New York strip to the Texas Strip.
And I think it's fitting. Actually, you know which the
strip happens to me. I don't know about you. It
(25:21):
happens to be my favorite cut personally.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
I usually order a Rabbi or guy or a a
I mean the FLA is the easiest way to go.
You don't get the gristle. It's it's obviously the nicest quality.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Sure, it's hard to mess one mess up at filet.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
What do you like about the New York Strip?
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Why?
Speaker 2 (25:37):
The New York Strip?
Speaker 3 (25:39):
You know, it's a little a little leaner, but I
feel like the flavors a little beef here, and then
you get with some of the fattier pieces. But let
me be very clear, I don't take any steak you
give me, sure.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Now, even right a strip steak, you know. But I'm
just looking at the numbers here. I asked my AI,
I use GROCK for those who are carrying instead of
chat GPT because I'm not a fan. I asked it
to compare beef production in Texas and New York State.
And Texas is the undisputed leader in US beef production
four point three million head as of twenty twenty three.
(26:14):
New York State, by comparison, about one hundred thousand beef cows,
so not quite. That makes up roughly point three to
five percent of the US total beef production each year.
Not a lot of beef coming out of the state
of New York. So why do we call it the
New York Strip steak?
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Well, according to Dan Patrick, it's just some New York
restaurant named it a New York strip in the eighteen
hundreds and people just sort of run with it from then.
I do liked it. In a statement that you put out,
it's actually Friday said that, you know, might he might
take a short cruise across the Gulf of America and
have a juicy medium rare at Texas Strip.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
I love it. Yeah, I want a Texas strip. That
sounds fantastic. All right. More things happening right now in
the state Senate Dan Patrick and the state Senator have
announced they are freezing funding increases for universities. They're citing
a non they're citing non compliance with the DEI ban.
I'll put that in non legal speak there. Our state
(27:12):
lawmakers have noticed we created a law asking universities to
stop judging people based on their skin color and start
judging them based on their accomplishments, and some universities around
the state aren't doing that. Is that the gist of
this Brandon.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Essentially, Yes, we've seen that the legislature two years ago,
when they were in their previous session of twenty twenty
three passes ban on DEI and what have we seen
since then? We've seen repeated instances of DEI still being
taught or used inside of public universities. And what does
this mean. Well, now you've got two senators, actually pretty
(27:51):
powerful ones. You've got Paul Bettencourt and Brandon Creighton, who's
the chair of the Senate Education Committee, saying they've had
enough that you know, and and by the way, this
is the funny thing they're they're they're talking here about
just freezing the increase and their funding. I mean, it's
not even like a cut, but uh, you know how
(28:11):
these things are usually received inside of government. That would
be you know, that would be a massive thing for
their their increase, you know, to to to not go
up even further. But I think it's important. I think
we've seen that you've had a lot of universities that
have been skirting this band. It's time for the legislature.
Legilature is in charge of these universities at the end
(28:31):
of the day, and it's it's time these universities start
acting like it instead of like you know, these little
self self coverning little islands where they where they think
they don't have to respond to what the voters want.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Yeah, it's amazing to me that these educators at publicly
funded universities. I think they could just do whatever they want. Brandon,
have you and I talked about the Pursuit of Happiness bill?
Speaker 3 (28:59):
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
I have a bill. I have an idea for a
bill that lawmakers are actually Steve Toath State Representative Steve
Toath was listening to our radio show not long ago,
and I yours truly, was opining about how hospital workers
in public school employees around the state of Texas have
bragged that they're going to help illegal immigrants avoid iceed attention.
(29:21):
If anybody shows up to my hospital looking for Trenda
Ragua and MS thirteen, I'm not going to help them
out if anyone shows up at this public school. And
it occurred to me. As much as I don't like
occupational licenses, I mean I find them to be problematic,
isn't this a great reason why maybe sometimes it's good
that we have them. If somebody's working at a hospital,
they have to have an occupational license. If somebody's working
(29:44):
at a public school, same thing, right, I think if
you're willing to help illegal immigrants break the law. Maybe
you don't deserve to have an occupational license in the
state of Texas. I threw that idea out there, and
State Rep. Steve Toath liked it so much he said
that he would prepare the bill in the House and
lo and behold. State Senator Mays Middleton said on this
(30:05):
radio show, if it makes it to the state Senate,
that's a solid yes vote for him. Considering how many
conservative lawmakers like the idea, Brandon, it's almost certain not
to pass.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
Well, yeah, you're starting to certainly understand process, right, Yeah,
I mean it's a common sense idea, so it's certainly
got an up till battle. But I like it.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
All right, Let's talk a little more about DEI and
the you know, wokeness at universities Texas A and M.
Just well, this was the regions, the Texas A and
M regions resolution said, maybe having on campus drag queen
shows at Texas A and M in the best idea.
Why was this happening in the first place, was they
had a thing called draggy Land in college station. I
(30:53):
am so old, Brandon, How old are you? Thank you?
I'm so old. I remember when Texas A and M
was considered to be the most conservative state university in
the country.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
What happened, I don't know. I mean, it's like we've
seen so much. People think right, like, oh, Texas A
and M, they must be very conservative. In fact, what
we've seen is not only are they, you know, sometimes
just a little bit you know, behind where UT Austin
is in terms of being liberal, but in some ways
they actually are out on the forefront. I think it
(31:26):
was actually back when we were talking about DEI for example,
I think Texas and M had more DEI staff than
the University of Texas, which was a sort of eye opening.
But this draggy Land event, which I mean, I feel
like they're just making jokes for is making it too
easy for their rivals. But they had this draggy Land event,
(31:50):
a drag show on campus that they've been hosting for years.
Finally the Board of Regents has said they've had enough.
They've said that this is going to take place on campus.
They've actually seen this happened at West Texas A and M,
where their university president stopped on campus and on campus
drag show a couple of years back, and so that
event has been canceled or at least they're moving it
(32:12):
to a different venue right now. But you know, this
is just like one of many little things where you know,
it's exportant and exciting to see the Board of Regents
really stepping up in governing because you know, these are
people that are appointed by the governor, approved by the Senate.
They're supposed to be the people that are closely there
governing over the university, and it's nice to see that
(32:36):
they're actually, you know, responding to these concerns from alumni
and from citizens.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Isn't it weird to think that last year at the
Texas A and M University over there at that giant
football stadium they've got Kyle Field, they had a concert
with country music legend George Strait where one hundred and
ten thousand fans attended record setting concert. It was one
of the single biggest concerts in concert history, not just
(33:04):
in Texas but anywhere. And that same place where hundreds
of thousands of people gathered together to watch football games
in George Strait concerts is also a place where drag
queens perform. Like what what uh huh?
Speaker 3 (33:19):
I know, it's it's amazing. This is the dichotomy, right,
that you see between what people expect out of their
public institutions, and especially a place like Texas, A and M. Right,
it's agriculture and mining, right, I mean this is you know,
it's in College station. It's not in Austin, right or
Dnton or somewhere like that. Don't expect these kinds of
(33:41):
things to be happening then, and yet that's what we've seen.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
My brother Brandon Walton's a fantastic journalist, an activist, and
a true Texas patriot. What do you guys got working on?
What are you What are you doing over there at
Texas Scorecard these days? Any news?
Speaker 3 (33:54):
Well, the legislature is finally Sorry, we're more than a
third of the way through the state legislative session. We're
finally starting to see committee hearings, bill starting to move
a little bit through the process. Today, the House is
going to be talking in their committee about property tax relief,
which is obviously a big issue for a lot of folks.
And so there's gonna be a lot of a lot
of stuff to keep an eye on over the next
(34:15):
several weeks.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
My brother Brandon Waltons check out his work at Texas
scorecard dot com follow him on social media. Hey, it's
me the Donald. You're listening to the Pursuit of Happiness radio.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
Voice from the Radio Games.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Here's a professional tip. If you are a liberal cable
news pundent, a journalist, a member of the mainstream media
the Democrat Party, don't compare oligarchy meglomaniacs to Jesus Christ.
It's just not a good look. I was just reading
townhall dot com here and they report on how a
reporter's recent comparison of Ukrainian President of Voladimir Zelenski to
(34:56):
Jesus Christ has sparked a reaction from people across social
media and throughout the actual media. They view it as
a gross exaggeration and an unwarranted elevation of a foreign leader. First,
they compared Zelensky to Winston Churchill, ridiculous, but okay, now
they're comparing him to Jesus Christ. The Daily Beast is
(35:18):
a far left news outlet, and one of their reporters,
Julia Davis, drew a controversial comparison in which she likens
Zelensky to Our Lord and Savior. Kind of a silly
thing to do. The weekend before Ash Wednesday, but okay, fine,
that's what she did. And she was talking about the
confrontation with Trump and jad Vance at the White House,
(35:39):
and so Julia references Vance's confrontation with Zelensky regarding the
foreign leader's lack of gratitude towards the US, posting something
about saying, you don't look grateful. And then there's a
picture of Jesus with mel Gibson on the set of
that movie, you know, Passions of the Christ. You know,
it's an interesting As of early twenty two, the US
(36:00):
has provided sixty five point nine billion dollars in military
assistance to Ukraine. And that's just recently, right. Other reports
claim hundreds of billions of dollars, a lot of money,
a lot of money, and they've lost a lot of
that money. Where did it go? They don't know, like
John Nolty put it. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky's Oval Office
(36:23):
appearance was, without question, the biggest public display of embarrassment
by a country's leader in world history. Zelensky shows up
to the White House dressed like a tiny ninja and
then in front of the American media in front of
the Oval Office with Trump and JD. Van sitting right there.
He challenges Vance to explain how diplomacy would be possible
(36:46):
today when American diplomacy failed under President Obama back in
twenty fourteen, and it did fail under Obama. As I
watched it on TV, I couldn't believe my eyes. When
you were in a public forum, you do not address
the vice president by his first name, especially after you
show up without a tie, and you don't disrespect the
(37:06):
president and the Vice president with your stupid talking points.
That's true whether you're in public or private. Here's a
guy who is only able to hang on to his
country because of ongoing American generosity to the tune of
hundreds of billions of dollars in cash, and there he
is talking down to our vice president and asking him
hostile questions while insulting American diplomacy. To his credit, JD.
(37:28):
Vance roared back with I'm talking about the kind of
diplomacy that's going to end the destruction of your country,
and then Vance laid the pip squeak out. Incredibly, Zolensky
only got worse from there. Two thoughts went through my
head as I was watching it. I can't believe this
guy is so stupid. That would be one of them. No, really,
(37:50):
the first was Jim Acosta. Do you guys remember Jim Acosta?
There was no way in help. Jim Acosta was a
former CNN reporter. Maybe he still works there. I don't know.
There's no way in hell Zelensky would have thrown his
entire country under the bus like that if he had
not outlawed Ukraine's eleven or so rival political parties and
canceled elections by declaring martial law. Only someone like Fidel
(38:13):
Castro would behave so arrogantly. Imagine you're a Ukrainian watching
the leader of your country act like an entitled trust
fund baby on international TV, knowing that without America's help,
Putin's going to overrun your country. You can't screw your
own people like that unless you're a dictator for life.
The Jim with Acosta thought came from how much Zelensky
(38:35):
is deliberately route deliberately unprofessional, belligerent behavior reminded me of
all those fake journalists who treated Trump the same exact
way during his first term. Basically, Zelensky craps all over
every the very people who are keeping him in power
and keeping him alive. In order to do what exactly
receive applause from the regime media. It was almost like
(39:00):
he was auditioning for a job at MSNBC. Barack Obama
and Joe Biden treated Israel's Benjamin net and Yahoo like
he was some sort of virus. But never once did
you see Net and Yahoo appear to be anything but
grateful and respectful. Look for the record, I'd like to
see this war come to an end. I think we've
(39:21):
spent a lot of money. There can't change the past.
It would make me very happy to see Putin get
humiliated by some small country next door. But enough is enough.
Ukraine can't win the war. If they could, it would
have happened by now. We can't afford to fund this
war any longer. People on both sides are dying with
no end in sight. Ukraine war supporters have still not
(39:42):
answered the question we've been asking for the last week.
Why should we support an unstable, unprofessional, reckless, narcissistic, ungrateful
maniac who has no intention of ending the war. He
obviously wants a forever war or to lose his country entirely.
The war has given him everything he ever wanted. It
made him rich and famous. He doesn't want to give
that up. He doesn't want peace. Why would he? That
(40:06):
would be the end of his celebrity status. He wouldn't
be important anymore. This is a negative note to end
the show on. I always like to end the show
with a little bit of good news. You want some
good news before we get out of here. A school
bus driver near Cleveland, Ohio, saved fifteen kids last week
after their bus burst into flames. According to the report,
there was some kind of mechanical issue and the fire
(40:27):
started behind one of the back wheels. Here's audio from
the emergency crew radios along with the firefighter and witnesses
commenting on what happened.
Speaker 6 (40:35):
This is going to be a bus vehicle on fire.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
I'm sure if it is occupied.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
Every child there's accounted for. Every child's off the bus.
Speaker 2 (40:44):
It's just a blessing that the kid has got on
the line.
Speaker 6 (40:47):
I saw the girl waiting for the bus two to
three minutes later, I hit her big boom.
Speaker 3 (40:52):
After about five minutes, it was all engulfed in flame
and it was just unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
Wow, incredible, that's very cool. Imagine how much that school
bus driver is getting paid. Not a lot of money,
but it didn't stop him from wanting to save all
those people's lives, because that's what a good hero does.
I'm Kenny Webster. I love you all. Thank you so
much for listening. We'll be back bright and early tomorrow
morning for more of what you bought a radio for.
Speaker 6 (41:18):
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the government to kiss your ass when you listen to
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