October 14, 2023 • 48 mins
In Washington, the fight over the next GOP House Speaker arose from the $33b national debt, and the cowardice of continuing resolutions and “omnibus” bills that kick the debt can down the road. In Austin the Republican bickering is over school choice and how some Republican lawmakers are subservient to local school superintendents. Planet Logic’s Lynn Woolley is joined by Political Pursuits’ Lou Ann Anderson to take a deep dive into Republican intra-party squabbling.
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Welcome to Planet Logic. Today's episodeRepublicans Feud in Washington and in Austin.
I'm Lynn Woolley, and of courseI do a morning radio show on KJCEE
Talk thirteen seventy in Austin called CardlinWoolly. That's Monday through Friday from seven
until nine. Lew Enn Anderson ishere. Lewenn Anderson has a podcast called
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Political Pursuits. The podcast and youshould always check that out because it always
has the latest in what's going onwith politics. Lew Ann. The title
says it Republicans in Washington, Let'sstart there. We at this recording,
we do not have a speaker ofthe United States House. We're at war
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in Israel, Joe Biden's second war, and things come in threes. But
what do you make of how thishas come down? Are you as upset
as some Republicans are with the FreedomCaucus and the chip Roys and the Jim
Jordan's who started the in my opinion, based on the idea that we have
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got to stop continuing resolutions and wehave got to get our fiscal house in
order. No, I am notupset about the quote chaos as they so
love to term it. I believethat it's important at this point in time,
as tragic and critical as what's happeningover with the Israelis and the Palestinians
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is, I think it's important thatwe not allow ourselves to be distracted.
Let's go back to why we havethis whole speaker kerfluffle to begin with.
It has to do with Kevin McCarthy, and it has to do with the
budget. It has to do withthe fact that we are on the brink
of financial falling off the financial cliff. We are spending too much, we
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aren't taking in enough, and wehave debt that is becoming more unsustainable with
every passing day. We have debtthat's going to retire. When that debt
retires, it's going to be renewedat even higher interest rates, thank you,
Joe Biden, interest rates that aregoing to help just torpedo our entire
national budget. So the whole reasonthis was brought up was that Kevin McCarthy,
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in becoming Speaker, had said thathe would be an advocate for cuts.
He would be an advocate for returningto the twelve appropriation bills singularly being
handled opposed to one big omnibus herenegged on that. I have seen so
many annoying reports in media about Welland the Freedom Caucus and the holdouts,
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the firebrands. They believe that,you know, he renigged on promises,
unknown promises. Now those promises werevery known what they were, and basically
it has to do with the budgetand pulling us back from this financial abyss,
and so that is still at therucks of this Israel Ukraine. Those
are just accessory pieces, and Idon't mean to diminish the critical nature of
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each of those situations, but thebudget is what we have to keep an
eye on because if we go downthe tubes financially, if we start defaulting,
if we start, you know,basically just becoming an insolvent nation Israel,
Ukraine, the rest of the worldisn't gonna matter one damn bit because
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we're an insolvent company. Here's thething that gets me. And you take
Nancy Pelosi's basketball court refurbishing for example. Don't hold me to this because I'm
doing it for memory, but Ibelieve that she got fifteen million dollars put
in to have a basketball court refurbishedfor one of her districts. Out in
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California and somebody did an actual bidon it, and it would you could
have done it for fifty thousand dollars. So we need to get back to
getting rid of these stupid earmarks.But beyond that, you tell me what
good we get out of the Departmentof Education? What good do we get,
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seriously out of the Department of Commerce. I'm happy to keep the Bureau
of Labor Statistics. I think that'skind of important, but it doesn't have
to have five hundred thousand employees.What good do we get out of the
Department of the Interior that the statescouldn't take care of. We've got to
get this government trim down and slimdown because we're at thirty three trillion dollars
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in debt. And I don't knowabout the Anderson family because you guys deal
with much larger amounts. And finally, if only, but I will tell
you that here at the main mansionwhere the Wooly family hangs out, I'll
tell you what we do with moneywe don't have. We don't spend it
exactly. And when money gets tightas it is right now, you start
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not spending, you start cutting,you start looking at what you can cut,
and obviously the extravagances, the luxuries, the non essential items, and
any of us in our lives cango and take a look and see that
there are opportunities to cut that ourgovernment or that our government officials, you
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be it, the administrative state.People are elected people. If they're not
smart enough to be able to goand find areas to cut, well,
then you know what, they're notsmart enough to be there representing us well.
Steve Moore, I've gotten to knowthe Fox commentator who is associated with
the Heritage Foundation. He says thatit's getting to the point of being critical
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because once the interest on the debtis larger than the gross domestic product,
I don't know how we continue tospend. How do we fund our military?
How do we fund the things thathave to be funded? Easy answer,
we don't. We don't. Andthere comes a point, Now,
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what is your opinion of the democratsidea known as modern monetary theory, which
holds that as long as the governmentis growing, as long as not the
government the country, as long asthe economy is growing, we can borrow
unlimited amounts of money and we willnot ever suffer any consequences anything unlimited makes
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me nervous. The point to mewith that is that once upon a time
forty years ago, and I meanyou hear a lot of comparisons that our
situation today with the inflation is akinto what we saw back in the seventies
with Carter, and so a lotof times there's comparisons being made. Those
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comparisons can be made, but wherethose comparisons stop is that we are not
the same country that we were thoseforty years ago. Forty years ago,
we had a robust manufacturing sector.We had in many ways, we were
self sufficient, self reliant. Wedidn't have all of this globalism where we're
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a patchwork of dependency basically, andso with that, we do not have
the control over our economy to havethat robust economy where we are the sole
beneficiaries from our economy. And therefore, to me, that argument can't hold
up because it's not that's not theeconomy that we have is not the economy
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that can sustain that argument. Letme do it just short comparison, and
you can react to it. DonaldTrump America first, Joe Biden America last,
Donald Trump, Keystone Pipeline, JoeBiden No, Keystone Pipeline. Donald
Trump, drill in America and frackJoe Biden. Don't drill in America and
don't frack Donald Trump. Let's dealwith NATO. Let's make them pay their
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part. Joe Biden not so much. I don't understand it exactly, but
you're sounding a lot like Donald Trump. And the reason that I believe Donald
Trump has about sixty two percent approvalrating or as far as being the nominee
in the Republican Party in virtually everypoll that you take, is because not
because of his mean tweets or anythinglike that. It's because people say,
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my life was pretty damn good whenTrump was president, and right now everything
sucks. One of the shortcomings wehave when we do these podcasts is that
we always neglect mentioning WB Daily,the website on which we both post our
articles. So let me take aquick moment to let our audience know that
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WB Daily the World is our beat. WB daily daily dot com. We
encourage you to check it out.And to that end of a month or
so ago, I posted an articleabout Joe Biden's Manchurian candidate platform, exactly
what you were saying. The AmericaFirst versus the America last contrast, Joe
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Biden, I mean, and itcertainly is not a novel concept. I'm
not the only one who has broughtthis up. But when you think about
the Manchurian candidate concept, that ideaof a candidate being posed to is someone
who actually is an agent working inopposition to our country's best interests. When
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you think about that concept, JoeBiden can't help but come to mind.
And I mean, it is coming. It's like Trump told Eric Bowling a
few weeks ago that he thinks it'sthe weakest our country has ever been.
And I do think we have aManchurian candidate. This is a president who's
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a Manchurian candidate. This is apresident that's fully compromised. He's so afraid
of China. And the reason heis afraid, I believe, is they
pay him a tremendous amount of moneyand he doesn't want people to find out
about it. And within that kindof context, I went down and I
made a list of all of thethings in which if you were a Manchurian
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candidate, what would your platform be. And it was really easy to put
together that list because I just lookedat the Biden regime, no question about
it. And it gets back tothis whole thing with the speaker's race and
why it's been so hard. It'sbecause there is a status quo that the
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establishment wants to maintain. And whenyou go back and ask yourself, well,
why they're serving the country. They'reelected to serve their country. But
Nancy Pelosi's gotten very rich off ofCongress. I suspect John Carter has I
know that Maxine Waters has gotten richoff of me. Mitch McConnell. Mitch
McConnell's very wealthy from being in Congress. They have this insider trading they can
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do. They pass little insignificant billsthat appear to take care of it,
but ever does. And this iswhy it's so hard to get anything changed.
And it's why I'm a big fanof term limits. We do it
for the president, and I thinkwe should do it for everybody. I
think twelve years in Congress for asenator or a member of the House is
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enough. On the other hand,we just had Diane Feinstein to be the
latest to die in office, clingingto power with her literally last breaths,
as did Teddy Kennedy and so manymore do this. This is because they
are addicted to power, but theyalso get rich out of this, and
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this is why we got to dosomething about it. So when when Jim
Jordan and the rest of the FreedomCaucus and Chip Roy come in and say
no, let's don't keep doing continuingresolutions, there's a euphemism for that called
kicking the can down the road.So let's don't do that. Don't do
these omnibus Senator Cornyn came on theCarlin Woolie Show and I asked him specifically,
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or Jim did one of us didabout the omnibus bill? And he
said, well, I call itthe ominous bill. And I thought,
well, that's good to hear fromSenator Cornyn. Two weeks later he voted
for it right well, And Isent a letter to Congressman Carter the other
day and I said, we needto change in the approach to how we
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address these things. We need anew approach and leadership. Jim Jordan is
not perfect, but I'll give hima chance. And I feel I gave
Kevin McCarthy a chance. He wasnot my favorite guy. I don't view
Kevin McCarthy as having any kind ofideology. I think he's purely transactional.
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But it was like, if hewill come in and he will agree to
certain things, and he will honorthose agreements, and we get this country
fixed, we get it back ona better fiscal path. I can deal
with him being speaker if he honorswhat he did. He didn't honor what
he did, so I have noproblem with what Matt Gates did. And
when it's like, oh, wellMatt Gates is responsible for him be announceted,
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well, no, Matt Gates pulledthe trigger on a mechanism. It
was all those people who voted,and I think McCarthy thought that the Democrats
were going to bail him out,and son of a gun, it didn't
happen, but they should have.If I had been a Democrat, I
would vote it for McCarthy. Hewill work with the Democrats. Yeah,
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Jordan may not if he gets it. It's yes, absolutely, you are
absolutely correct. We have got tostart doing things differently, and these continuing
resolutions have got to go now.I want to mention I like Steve Scalise
just fine. I have a lotof respect for him. He's the guy
that got shot up when a Democratterrorist went to the baseball game and almost
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killed Scalise and shot a few others. Roger Williams got injured in that as
well. But the problem with Scaliseis that if you made a profile of
Kevin McCarthy, the same profile wouldhave worked exactly for Steve Scalise, and
Jim Jordan is not and Chip Royis another guy. I think he's my
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favorite member of Congress right now,but let me ask, I don't always
agree with it. I agree withhim a lot of times. I don't
always agree with him, but Iappreciate the fact that even when I don't
agree with him, I do believehe has an America first. And there's
no weasel word with Jim. Bintells you what he's thinks. Yeah,
be what he's doing. Yeah,you happen to ask Congressman Carter if he
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intends to show up for the nextspeaker vote. I had not been aware
that he had been in Mia forso long, but yeah, that was
concerning, and I was thinking aboutthat when in my point about support of
Jordan over Scalise, I mentioned thefact that Steve Scalise, you know,
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I mean that whole injury from theshooting is something that has plagued him since
then, but now on top ofit, and I certainly wish him well
with his treatment. He has bonecancer and he's undergoing treatment for that,
and they're like, oh, no, no, it's not going to be
a problem. You know, hecan he can be treated for that.
And I don't agree. I don'tbelieve that. I don't believe that.
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And especially the issues and the problemsthat we're facing right now, we need
a speaker who is top of hisgame, not only mentally but also physically,
neat that has the stamina. Andas I was writing that, I
thought about the fact that Congressman Carterevidently has been mia from his own and
they said he had some kind ofa viral infection. But he's eighty one
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years old, right, right?Is he going to die in office?
Like Feinstein? I, Kennedy andto be determined so many other Now.
I will tell you though, thatthis was an article from I believe last
night, yeah, yeah, seventeenhours ago Texas Tribune, because I was
going through looking to see if Icould find out anything about the voting for
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Jordan, how the votes came down, which, of course that was all
behind closed door secret all that stuff, because we can't there be transparent about
this process. But anyway, accordingto Texas Tribune, it said that US
reps Brian Babbin, Nathaniel Moran,Dan Crenshaw, and Austin Fluger all said
Friday that they supported Jordan after annow backing Scalise. Reps John Carter and
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Pat Fallon refuse to say how theyvoted Friday, after publicly backing Scalise earlier
this week. So just FYI,there were Carters. Answer your question,
Carter Carter was at least back forthat vote. Well, how nice.
But Carter's a place holder. Ihave never really thought of him as anybody
with actual conservative bona fides. Idon't know what's going to become of him.
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Of course he's going to be primary, and whether he his age comes
up as a problem or not.Age is not an issue with me in
and of itself. No, it'snot. No, because I look at
Trump and I don't see a deteriorationof Trump, and Trump does things occasionally
bother me. I wish he hadn'tI wish he hadn't pounced on net and
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Yahoo at this particular point again,net And Yahoo's not a perfect person either.
He's had his own problems over inIsrael. But when it comes down
to the Israelis versus the Palestinians,I damn sure know where I stand.
And I'm embarrassed that we have thatwe have enemies of the state like Ilhan
Omar and Rashida talib as members ofour Congress. And I think we need
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a bill to find people like that, find a way to keep them out
not only of the Congress, butout of the United States of America.
Well, and I mean, andtheir ranks are even growing with Greg Kassar,
yeah yeah, and that Jamal Bowenor whatever, the fire fire alarm
boy, oh yeah, the onethat just sat off the Yeah yeah,
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the mystic Yeah yeah. I mean, you know, don't you hate that
when you mistake a doorknob a firealarm for a door. He's black,
right, I believe so? Allright, so he was the fire alarm
man. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Yes, you will be you will
be canceled. So let's be let'smake sure that we stay with the current
vernacular. I've I've enjoyed doing thesewith you. Somebody calls me a boy.
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I am very happy to embrace that. But no kidding. All right,
let's let's talk a little bit aboutthe Republican situation in Austin. We
have Dan Patrick, who's the Lieutenantgovernor, calling for Dade Felon, who
is the Speaker of the House toresign. Feeling when he's not drunk on
the podium typically seems to me tobe very sympathetic, sympathetic to left wing
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causes. Why why do we haveto have a Speaker of the Texas House
that is sympathetic to left wing causes? And I'll say this, Texas is
still run by Republicans. The bigissue right now is school choice. Schools.
I'm going to say it, schoolsare run by Democrats. The Republicans
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have a chance now to ease uptheir hold on our schools, and we've
got Dade Feelin as speaker. Excuseme, I think I think it's time
that the Republican, grassroots conservative,whatever you want to call yourself, non
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left leaning Republicans need to take veryserious inventory of who they're electing. And
it can't be that guy that hasthat nice business that helped me out,
or oh I know him, fromchurch, or well his family's been here
forever, or he sure does havea lot of signs out, so he
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must be good if all those peopleare supporting him, because the reason he
has those signs out is because hehas a cabal of people who have deep
pockets who are willing to pay forlots of signs to have him out there.
They need to start looking at that'ssurely you are not saying that some
people go to Washington or Austin repeatedlybecause there is a certain group of people
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in certain areas that can they're prettycertain of what votes they can get.
I'm sure it's not in every districtin Texas, but eight of them.
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Yeah, I probably go there,which brings us to school choice. You
know, Planet Logic I think isa pretty good podcast, but it would
be a hell of a lot betterif it was the only podcast. I
bet our numbers would go up.I bet we'd make more money. I
bet we bring in more dollars.Yes, yes, if we were the
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only podcast. And you know,I don't understand teachers exactly either, because
if we have school choice, firstof all, the public schools will get
better, the salaries will go up. That's the way it works, the
bloated administration may have to rethink it. Instead of paying a school superintendent three
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or four hundred thousand dollars a yearplus all kind of perks in a golden
parachute, maybe redirect some of thatmoney. But I want teachers to make
more money. But I want theteachers that make more money to be teaching
America as an exceptional country and getaway from crt in sixty nineteen project and
all the other left wing dribble thathas gotten into our schools. And honestly,
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if we don't change the schools,you and I may go into the
homosexual sex manual business because that's makinga lot of money. The schools buy
those books like hotcakes. And theother thing is that these schools are always
so quick to get out and boastabout how competent they are and how accomplished
they are and all of these things. Well, there's avenues in my life
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where I think I'm pretty not shyabout saying, yeah, there's certain things
I can do, there's certain thingsI'm good at, and I have certain
abilities, and you know what,I don't mind going into a competitive environment
because I have confidence in myself I'mwilling to work hard, and I suspect
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that if I go into a competitiveenvironment that I'll be pretty good. Will
I be the top dog? Maybemaybe not, But I can go in
and hold my own and I takepride in myself for being that person.
What's wrong with the education industry?What's wrong with you know? Even teachers
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rank and file, teachers who oh, no, I don't want school choice?
Why are you not? Are youafraid that you can't compete? And
by the way, do you notrealize that if you go into more of
a merit based system that it actuallycan well serve your interest. It may
be your road, your pathway tohigher compensation. But also, if you
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so care about your student, wouldyou not welcome an opportunity to provide a
better outcome for those students. Theargument is that the public schools are under
certain rules and they have to takeeverybody, and they have to educate everybody.
What about that single mom that's gotan eight year old young black son
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who is trying she's trying to keephim from getting entangled with guns and gangs
and getting his girlfriend pregnant when he'solder, and all those sorts of things
that we fight now throughout all communities. This benefits that mom because if she
can get him, take that eightthousand dollars that she would have, if
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she can get him into a privateschool, yes, the private school doesn't
have to deal with the state ruleson discipline. And we've got to get
race out of this. If youwere a teacher and you had a young
black so student who was raising somehell in the class and disrupting it,
you'll be sued if you discipline.And I don't know that if it's any
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different with whites or Asians or Hispanics. And I'm uncomfortable talking about race.
I don't like talking about it,but we almost have to. We have
to say no bounds on speech.We've got to look at what the problems
are. We've got to fix them. If there's a student in that class,
regardless of the color, that isdisrupting that class, and those kids
in the fifth grade are still readingat a second grade level, then you've
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got to do what you have gotto do. And the public schools come
back and whine, well, wecan't do that, Okay, the private
schools can. And if it worksin the private schools, and it usually
does, maybe the public schools canchange their focus and instead of saying constantly
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more money, more money, moremoney, how about more power over control
of that classroom to make sure thatwe have discipline. Then the kid down
to the office and two hours laterhe's right back in the class, disrupting
it again and returned the focus toreading, writing, math, computer science,
life. You know. One ofthe problems with the schools when I
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went to them back in the lateeighteen hundreds, it feels like I didn't
learn anything about saving money. Theydidn't teach me about compound interest, which
is the most magical thing in Americatoday. They didn't teach me anything about
stocks, bonds. They didn't teachme anything about what it would take to
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buy a house for the American dream, you know, saving up money.
I didn't know about down payments.I didn't know how to get a credit
rating so I could get a creditcard. Nobody told me how to deal
with the absorbitant credit card interest.I didn't learn any of those things.
I learned algebra, which I don'tthink I have ever used. Oh I
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have, Oh, I've used it, but not much. I've got a
calculator for that. But what doyou do what do you use algebra for?
When I, once upon a timeand a job, I would have
to order different uniforms, and soI would take a look at the number
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of uniforms that I was going toorders for a restaurant change, and I
would be, Okay, I'm goingto need X number of uniforms, and
they would be there were some dressesthat I ordered, and even some of
our aprons were sized differently, andso how many of the different sizes am
I going to need? And thenyou start thinking about, well, how
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many people might be, you know, need a small, well probably you
know ten percent, how many aregoing to need a medium? Okay,
we're going to probably the bulk ofthem be medium and large, and so
you know, let's say thirty percenthere and thirty percent here and then another
twenty percent extra larger, you know, something like that. And I mean
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that's basically algebra. You're going throughand you're coming up with a proportional amount
to the whole of the order I'morder, and that's fine forty and so
yeah, no, but it wasan algebraic But if you want to go
to work for NASA, you're goingto have to learn some things like that,
and even if you have a devicethat does it, you need to
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have the basic understanding, critical skillsof thinking through what it is you're doing.
But algebra takes a big back seatto me when compared to reading,
because reading is necessary for everything.And when they're seeing that six graders are
reading at a third grade level,I remember, and I'm not bragging,
it's just you are like this toa think I have a love of reading.
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I have a look at my studiohere the book cases love of reading,
and have a love of writing.And you are the only other person
I know in this area that canwrite a political column as well as I
can write a political column. Andthat's not bragging if you can do it,
all right, But very few peoplecan do that. Very few people
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can do that. And you,if six graders are reading at a third
grade level, we've got a big, big problem. And then you get
into all this whole language crap.You know where we know phonics works,
but the left can take anything thatworks and destroy it. And the poor
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performance in reading also is a problem. And that reading is a gateway to
other knowledge. Oh absolutely it is, And so you are thwarting the ability
to gain new knowledge if I mean, because I'm sure there would be people
that would say, oh, well, everything's digital now and it's always going
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to be online until you can watchand you can listen. Uh yeah,
but even that and producing that requiressome are of reading and writing. Let's
say the schools could get their acttogether and actually get everybody up to grade
level. Understanding that they're dealing withkids from the hood, and they're dealing
with single parent families, they're dealingwith kids that don't have either parent,
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all this kind of stuff. Igive them that. But suppose they could
get everything up to a grade level. Oh, I think you and I
and most other people would support that, And then they do absolutely stupid things
like put absolute filth in the schoollibraries, like bring drag queens in.
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Why do the schools, the publicschools do things that they know at least
half and maybe more of their constituentsthink are absolutely abominations for them to do
well. Okay, Number one,all of those type activities are distractions from
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what should be the core mission ofthe reading, the writing, the math,
the basic skills. So number one, that's a very very unhelpful distraction.
But number two, it seems asthough the schools have moved more into
thinking that their mission should be somethingakin to social engineering, and that's what
that seems to be about. ItAlso, I think that back in over
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the years, we have done areal disservice to ourselves, to our American
society when we have ceded so muchinfluence regarding our kids to the schools.
And I harken it back, andthis has been something that if you were
to think back on the twenty orso years that we've been doing this,
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I have always been someone who isskeptical of all of the time spent with
all of these extracurricular activities. I'mnot absolutely against extracurricular activities, However,
I am very bothered and have beensince my daughter first started school, and
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I started experiencing this by watching thedegree of influence that schools exercise over these
kids' time after school on weekends,mandating that you need to go to this
competition or that competition, and Ithink that that has impaired families now flipping
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it. On the other side,there are parents who have been happy to
see that influence to the schools becausethey're lazy and they are happy to pon
their kids off and let somebody elsedeal with them so that I can go
do whatever I want to do.But I think that that is part of
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where we started opening the door forthe schools. You know, here they're
monopolizing their time. Oh and bythe way, they feed them not only
lunch, but dinner and our breakfast. And then there's even some schools that
now you know, have get fundingfor after school snacks because we have our
after school programs. Well, youknow, okay, if you're having them
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there early for breakfast and you're keepingthem there after school, why send them
home to sleep for eight hours?And I think that our seating all of
that influence over our kids is whathas opened the door now for this social
engineering. Well, you know,we understand that Tommy really would rather be
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Tammy, and we understand that becausewe spend time with your child, we
know better. Well, you getinto all of that kind of thing.
But the bottom line here, andI think what I'm trying to say is
that the schools are a Democrat Partyconstituency absolutely, and there's no question about
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that. They are taught, Theyare taught the values and the core messages
of the Democratic Party, which isfar removed from what a lot of other
people would prefer to see. Iunderstand there's gay people. I don't dislike
gay people. I don't try totell gay people not to be gay.
They can do whatever they want.Trans is a bridge too far from me.
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I think when something's impossible, weshouldn't promote it. And what we're
seeing now law firms are now beingformed for the expressed purpose of suing doctors
who performed sex change operations, becauseevery one of those is a life ruined.
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Maybe some of the drag queens thathave sex change operations like the money
they can make, but but that'swhat's going to happen. Well, it's
unproven. It's unproven science, andso that's even I mean, which takes
you into a whole nother conversation.But the fact that these untested surgeries are
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so being promoted what an adult wantsto do to themselves, I'm kind of
like, go for it, butjust please don't come back and expect me
to subsidize it, exactly. Buta child, no, and especially with
children these hormones, it's unknown whatthe long term ramifications are going to be
for that. I mean, there'snever even been any real substantive studies that
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I'm aware of of riddling and allthese other drugs, these psychotropic drugs,
we've been keeping these kids on forall these years, and I question that
there may be a reason for that, because maybe there it's known that they
aren't the healthiest thing you could do, but that's not something you want to
come out with. So, Imean, there's so much danger to our
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society on so many fronts, andthe schools, unfortunately, are there as
cheerleaders. Well, let me putit in this way and ask you a
question. If the schools are teachingDemocrat party values, things like climate change,
transgenderism, LGBTQ agenda, social justice, social justice rather than equal justice,
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then please explain to me why somany Republican members of the Texas Legislature
are on board with indoctrinating kids withDemocrat party values. I fear at this
point in time, based on theage of them, of these representatives,
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that we are seeing the success ofpublic education and doctrination over the last twenty
twenty five years. Thirty years ago, if you had asked me that question,
I would have said, well,they're understanding now that in order to
get elected in Texas, you haveto be a Republican versus a Democrat.
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And so you have a bunch ofDemocrats who have just changed party and are
marketing themselves as Republicans so they canget elected, and they've always had those
are the values they have. Thereare still some of those people around,
but not as many, just basicallybecause of age and attrition. I'm afraid
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that it is success on the partof the education industry to liberalize our population.
Is why we're seeing that? Well, I think it is. We
need to wrap this up. Butlet me ask you this. You've seen
in the last week, especially Harvard, major demonstrations in favor of a group
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of people that have cut the headsoff of forty some odd babies and bombed
out a music festival. And nowcorporations have gone to Harvard and say,
can we get a list of thosekids' names so that we don't inadvertently ever
hire them. How is it thatevery evil on earth is supported by college
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students? Now, I don't know, don't I mean, you can come
up with the rational logic based youknow, Oh, it's public education and
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doctrination. It's a breakdown of thefamily, it's a lack of God.
All these type things I hear fromdifferent parts of people in my life increasingly,
comments being made. Sometimes it's justto quiet a side that we really
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are in a battle of good versusevil. And you know, sometimes it's
even from people that I don't considerto be that religious. And if you
subscribe to that which I do,evil always goes kind of for the low
hanging fruit first. And I'm sorry, but college students are some pretty low
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hanging fruit. Well, they reallyare. And they have those communist professors.
And I mention, as I hateto say it, Robert Jensen that
ut used to come on my oldradio show. He did not like the
patriarchy, He did not like thesystem of commerce that we have. He
didn't he didn't he wanted to giverid of capitalism. He thought, he
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didn't like much of anything about America. And I think he's one of many
thousands. And what is frightening nowagain the language the left has so co
opted, so much of our languagegender affirming care. Well, the thing
that's popping up here just in theselast literally six seven days with regard to
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Palestine is that what these kids aresupporting is Palestine fighting back against being an
occupied territory they have been occupied.They are attempting to colonize them. And
those are the same type of termsthat we now to some degree here aimed
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at the United States. Well,when we return Mexico to the Aztecs and
the Incas, I may listen tothem, but until then they can put
a cork in it. Let's wrapthis up by having me ask you to
quick questions. We'll go back toWashington with a speaker's race. We have
to have a speaker at some point. Has this movement to get rid of
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McCarthy Will it end up bearing anypositive fruit for the conservative movement? It's
too soon to tell. I mean, this weekend is I can't imagine the
arm twisting that's going on in orderto try and get up to that two
hundred and eighteen vote threshold that Jordanneeds for a floor vote on Tuesday.
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I believe it is now the daythey have that setup for. I'd like
to think that it would be youknow, I think there was a line
in the Broadway musical seventy seventy sixsomething about you know you can't you can't
have a war without somebody getting pissedoff, And I mean you can't have
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revolutionary check without somebody getting mad,and somebody's gonna win and somebody's gonna lose.
I think, I think there's alot of arm twisting going on,
and I guess it's just going tobe a matter of I guess, you
know, you know something. JimJordan's a wrestler, so let's hope that
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wrestling ability helps with his arm twistingability. All right, now, let's
move that to Austin. We've gotthe situation with school choice. I was
an event Thursday night of this pastweek with Governor Abbott, who says he
will bring him back for as manyspecial sessions as it takes. But we're
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this podcast is based in Bell County. State representatives Hugh Shine and Buckley.
What's his first Brad Buckley. Ibelieve his wife is an educator, right,
yes, and he is the chairof the House Public Education Committee,
and I don't know where he stands. I know that Hugh Shine is not
supporting it. They will, allright, that'll be interesting. You wrote
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a column, so just briefly tellus where your mind is since you wrote
that column. But you said thereare a number of state representatives that are
using that are after their name,but that may eventually help turn Texas blue.
Right. Well, this was basedon a report by Grassroots America We
the People, where they took thevoting records of legislators from this most recent
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the eighty eighth Texas Legislative session thatwas taking place this past spring, this
past January through May. They didan analysis of all of those votes and
showed they measured the degree to whichthese the representatives agree with members of their
own party are members of the opposingparty. And so what we found out
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is that in the case of alot of Texas Republicans, there are twenty
thirty of them who actually seem tovote and agree with the Democrats is much,
if not more than they do theirfellow Republicans. And unfortunately, both
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of our representatives here in Bell County, Hugh Shine and Brad Buckley, did
fall into the purple category, whichis showing that there is certainly a degree
of commonalty with the Democrats more sothan the Republicans. Now, between the
two of them, Hugh Shine wasa very deep purple, showing that he
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to a very large extent, votedon the side with the Democrats, whereas
Buckley was not so much to thatextent, and anyway, the article is
called Mike Bell County House Reps Purplevotes helped turn Texas blue, and it's
there at WB Daily. You'd haveto go back a couple pages now,
but it is there and it's interesting, and it also has all the links
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so that anyone listening in any otherarea, or if you have curiosity about
any other reps, you can goand see the same data for any of
our Texas house reps. Do weget school choice and actual school choice that's
not watered down? I think wehave a better shot now than we ever
have. There are other times whenwe've heard a lot of big talk about
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Oh, it's going to happen,It's going to happen, and it's fizzled
out this time. I don't quiteknow what Abbot's impetus is for this push
that he has, but I thinkhe has put so much political capital on
it that he's not going to letit. It's raised my opinion of him
again because it is my number oneissue in Texas. All right, and
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back to Washington one last time,will wrap this up. Did what Matt
Gates did? And Matt Gates isconsidered villain number one in Washington right now
is what does what Matt Gates didat some point restore the argument back to
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fiscal responsibility, the thirty three trilliondollar debt, the stupidity of the continuing
resolutions, and the omnibus bills.Are we just going to talk about process
like CNN does all day. Ithink that the public has a growing appetite
for fiscal responsibility. I think afair accounting of history will somedays show Gates
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to have been a hero in tryingto save this country. I think that
the Democrats have much reason to beworrying about the twenty twenty four election.
And I think that some of thathas to do, like with the House,
that people are across both sides ofthe aisle are seeing the economic you
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know, just crises that are oneafter another after another in their lives personally,
as well as seeing what's happening intheir country. I think there's an
appetite to bring in representatives who wouldsupport the fiscal responsibility that Gates is trying
to promote. I'm not convinced thatwe will have a fair election that will
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allow those people to gain office.All right, Well, that'll put the
plug in the jug. This isPlanet Logic Lewenn Anderson of course with political
pursuits the podcast and please check thatout. And as leu Ann reminded us
al wb Daily dot com, wedon't post multiple articles a day, but
when we do post one, it'ssignificant. Absolutely. Remember courage is contagious.
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been Plannet Logic. We'll see younext time.
Welcome to Planet Logic. Today's episodeRepublicans Feud in Washington and in Austin.
I'm Lynn Woolley, and of courseI do a morning radio show on KJCEE
Talk thirteen seventy in Austin called CardlinWoolly. That's Monday through Friday from seven
until nine. Lew Enn Anderson ishere. Lewenn Anderson has a podcast called
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Political Pursuits. The podcast and youshould always check that out because it always
has the latest in what's going onwith politics. Lew Ann. The title
says it Republicans in Washington, Let'sstart there. We at this recording,
we do not have a speaker ofthe United States House. We're at war
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in Israel, Joe Biden's second war, and things come in threes. But
what do you make of how thishas come down? Are you as upset
as some Republicans are with the FreedomCaucus and the chip Roys and the Jim
Jordan's who started the in my opinion, based on the idea that we have
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got to stop continuing resolutions and wehave got to get our fiscal house in
order. No, I am notupset about the quote chaos as they so
love to term it. I believethat it's important at this point in time,
as tragic and critical as what's happeningover with the Israelis and the Palestinians
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is, I think it's important thatwe not allow ourselves to be distracted.
Let's go back to why we havethis whole speaker kerfluffle to begin with.
It has to do with Kevin McCarthy, and it has to do with the
budget. It has to do withthe fact that we are on the brink
of financial falling off the financial cliff. We are spending too much, we
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aren't taking in enough, and wehave debt that is becoming more unsustainable with
every passing day. We have debtthat's going to retire. When that debt
retires, it's going to be renewedat even higher interest rates, thank you,
Joe Biden, interest rates that aregoing to help just torpedo our entire
national budget. So the whole reasonthis was brought up was that Kevin McCarthy,
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in becoming Speaker, had said thathe would be an advocate for cuts.
He would be an advocate for returningto the twelve appropriation bills singularly being
handled opposed to one big omnibus herenegged on that. I have seen so
many annoying reports in media about Welland the Freedom Caucus and the holdouts,
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the firebrands. They believe that,you know, he renigged on promises,
unknown promises. Now those promises werevery known what they were, and basically
it has to do with the budgetand pulling us back from this financial abyss,
and so that is still at therucks of this Israel Ukraine. Those
are just accessory pieces, and Idon't mean to diminish the critical nature of
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each of those situations, but thebudget is what we have to keep an
eye on because if we go downthe tubes financially, if we start defaulting,
if we start, you know,basically just becoming an insolvent nation Israel,
Ukraine, the rest of the worldisn't gonna matter one damn bit because
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we're an insolvent company. Here's thething that gets me. And you take
Nancy Pelosi's basketball court refurbishing for example. Don't hold me to this because I'm
doing it for memory, but Ibelieve that she got fifteen million dollars put
in to have a basketball court refurbishedfor one of her districts. Out in
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California and somebody did an actual bidon it, and it would you could
have done it for fifty thousand dollars. So we need to get back to
getting rid of these stupid earmarks.But beyond that, you tell me what
good we get out of the Departmentof Education? What good do we get,
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seriously out of the Department of Commerce. I'm happy to keep the Bureau
of Labor Statistics. I think that'skind of important, but it doesn't have
to have five hundred thousand employees.What good do we get out of the
Department of the Interior that the statescouldn't take care of. We've got to
get this government trim down and slimdown because we're at thirty three trillion dollars
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in debt. And I don't knowabout the Anderson family because you guys deal
with much larger amounts. And finally, if only, but I will tell
you that here at the main mansionwhere the Wooly family hangs out, I'll
tell you what we do with moneywe don't have. We don't spend it
exactly. And when money gets tightas it is right now, you start
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not spending, you start cutting,you start looking at what you can cut,
and obviously the extravagances, the luxuries, the non essential items, and
any of us in our lives cango and take a look and see that
there are opportunities to cut that ourgovernment or that our government officials, you
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be it, the administrative state.People are elected people. If they're not
smart enough to be able to goand find areas to cut, well,
then you know what, they're notsmart enough to be there representing us well.
Steve Moore, I've gotten to knowthe Fox commentator who is associated with
the Heritage Foundation. He says thatit's getting to the point of being critical
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because once the interest on the debtis larger than the gross domestic product,
I don't know how we continue tospend. How do we fund our military?
How do we fund the things thathave to be funded? Easy answer,
we don't. We don't. Andthere comes a point, Now,
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what is your opinion of the democratsidea known as modern monetary theory, which
holds that as long as the governmentis growing, as long as not the
government the country, as long asthe economy is growing, we can borrow
unlimited amounts of money and we willnot ever suffer any consequences anything unlimited makes
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me nervous. The point to mewith that is that once upon a time
forty years ago, and I meanyou hear a lot of comparisons that our
situation today with the inflation is akinto what we saw back in the seventies
with Carter, and so a lotof times there's comparisons being made. Those
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comparisons can be made, but wherethose comparisons stop is that we are not
the same country that we were thoseforty years ago. Forty years ago,
we had a robust manufacturing sector.We had in many ways, we were
self sufficient, self reliant. Wedidn't have all of this globalism where we're
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a patchwork of dependency basically, andso with that, we do not have
the control over our economy to havethat robust economy where we are the sole
beneficiaries from our economy. And therefore, to me, that argument can't hold
up because it's not that's not theeconomy that we have is not the economy
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that can sustain that argument. Letme do it just short comparison, and
you can react to it. DonaldTrump America first, Joe Biden America last,
Donald Trump, Keystone Pipeline, JoeBiden No, Keystone Pipeline. Donald
Trump, drill in America and frackJoe Biden. Don't drill in America and
don't frack Donald Trump. Let's dealwith NATO. Let's make them pay their
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part. Joe Biden not so much. I don't understand it exactly, but
you're sounding a lot like Donald Trump. And the reason that I believe Donald
Trump has about sixty two percent approvalrating or as far as being the nominee
in the Republican Party in virtually everypoll that you take, is because not
because of his mean tweets or anythinglike that. It's because people say,
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my life was pretty damn good whenTrump was president, and right now everything
sucks. One of the shortcomings wehave when we do these podcasts is that
we always neglect mentioning WB Daily,the website on which we both post our
articles. So let me take aquick moment to let our audience know that
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WB Daily the World is our beat. WB daily daily dot com. We
encourage you to check it out.And to that end of a month or
so ago, I posted an articleabout Joe Biden's Manchurian candidate platform, exactly
what you were saying. The AmericaFirst versus the America last contrast, Joe
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Biden, I mean, and itcertainly is not a novel concept. I'm
not the only one who has broughtthis up. But when you think about
the Manchurian candidate concept, that ideaof a candidate being posed to is someone
who actually is an agent working inopposition to our country's best interests. When
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you think about that concept, JoeBiden can't help but come to mind.
And I mean, it is coming. It's like Trump told Eric Bowling a
few weeks ago that he thinks it'sthe weakest our country has ever been.
And I do think we have aManchurian candidate. This is a president who's
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a Manchurian candidate. This is apresident that's fully compromised. He's so afraid
of China. And the reason heis afraid, I believe, is they
pay him a tremendous amount of moneyand he doesn't want people to find out
about it. And within that kindof context, I went down and I
made a list of all of thethings in which if you were a Manchurian
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candidate, what would your platform be. And it was really easy to put
together that list because I just lookedat the Biden regime, no question about
it. And it gets back tothis whole thing with the speaker's race and
why it's been so hard. It'sbecause there is a status quo that the
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establishment wants to maintain. And whenyou go back and ask yourself, well,
why they're serving the country. They'reelected to serve their country. But
Nancy Pelosi's gotten very rich off ofCongress. I suspect John Carter has I
know that Maxine Waters has gotten richoff of me. Mitch McConnell. Mitch
McConnell's very wealthy from being in Congress. They have this insider trading they can
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do. They pass little insignificant billsthat appear to take care of it,
but ever does. And this iswhy it's so hard to get anything changed.
And it's why I'm a big fanof term limits. We do it
for the president, and I thinkwe should do it for everybody. I
think twelve years in Congress for asenator or a member of the House is
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enough. On the other hand,we just had Diane Feinstein to be the
latest to die in office, clingingto power with her literally last breaths,
as did Teddy Kennedy and so manymore do this. This is because they
are addicted to power, but theyalso get rich out of this, and
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this is why we got to dosomething about it. So when when Jim
Jordan and the rest of the FreedomCaucus and Chip Roy come in and say
no, let's don't keep doing continuingresolutions, there's a euphemism for that called
kicking the can down the road.So let's don't do that. Don't do
these omnibus Senator Cornyn came on theCarlin Woolie Show and I asked him specifically,
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or Jim did one of us didabout the omnibus bill? And he
said, well, I call itthe ominous bill. And I thought,
well, that's good to hear fromSenator Cornyn. Two weeks later he voted
for it right well, And Isent a letter to Congressman Carter the other
day and I said, we needto change in the approach to how we
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address these things. We need anew approach and leadership. Jim Jordan is
not perfect, but I'll give hima chance. And I feel I gave
Kevin McCarthy a chance. He wasnot my favorite guy. I don't view
Kevin McCarthy as having any kind ofideology. I think he's purely transactional.
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But it was like, if hewill come in and he will agree to
certain things, and he will honorthose agreements, and we get this country
fixed, we get it back ona better fiscal path. I can deal
with him being speaker if he honorswhat he did. He didn't honor what
he did, so I have noproblem with what Matt Gates did. And
when it's like, oh, wellMatt Gates is responsible for him be announceted,
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well, no, Matt Gates pulledthe trigger on a mechanism. It
was all those people who voted,and I think McCarthy thought that the Democrats
were going to bail him out,and son of a gun, it didn't
happen, but they should have.If I had been a Democrat, I
would vote it for McCarthy. Hewill work with the Democrats. Yeah,
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Jordan may not if he gets it. It's yes, absolutely, you are
absolutely correct. We have got tostart doing things differently, and these continuing
resolutions have got to go now.I want to mention I like Steve Scalise
just fine. I have a lotof respect for him. He's the guy
that got shot up when a Democratterrorist went to the baseball game and almost
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killed Scalise and shot a few others. Roger Williams got injured in that as
well. But the problem with Scaliseis that if you made a profile of
Kevin McCarthy, the same profile wouldhave worked exactly for Steve Scalise, and
Jim Jordan is not and Chip Royis another guy. I think he's my
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favorite member of Congress right now,but let me ask, I don't always
agree with it. I agree withhim a lot of times. I don't
always agree with him, but Iappreciate the fact that even when I don't
agree with him, I do believehe has an America first. And there's
no weasel word with Jim. Bintells you what he's thinks. Yeah,
be what he's doing. Yeah,you happen to ask Congressman Carter if he
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intends to show up for the nextspeaker vote. I had not been aware
that he had been in Mia forso long, but yeah, that was
concerning, and I was thinking aboutthat when in my point about support of
Jordan over Scalise, I mentioned thefact that Steve Scalise, you know,
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I mean that whole injury from theshooting is something that has plagued him since
then, but now on top ofit, and I certainly wish him well
with his treatment. He has bonecancer and he's undergoing treatment for that,
and they're like, oh, no, no, it's not going to be
a problem. You know, hecan he can be treated for that.
And I don't agree. I don'tbelieve that. I don't believe that.
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And especially the issues and the problemsthat we're facing right now, we need
a speaker who is top of hisgame, not only mentally but also physically,
neat that has the stamina. Andas I was writing that, I
thought about the fact that Congressman Carterevidently has been mia from his own and
they said he had some kind ofa viral infection. But he's eighty one
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years old, right, right?Is he going to die in office?
Like Feinstein? I, Kennedy andto be determined so many other Now.
I will tell you though, thatthis was an article from I believe last
night, yeah, yeah, seventeenhours ago Texas Tribune, because I was
going through looking to see if Icould find out anything about the voting for
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Jordan, how the votes came down, which, of course that was all
behind closed door secret all that stuff, because we can't there be transparent about
this process. But anyway, accordingto Texas Tribune, it said that US
reps Brian Babbin, Nathaniel Moran,Dan Crenshaw, and Austin Fluger all said
Friday that they supported Jordan after annow backing Scalise. Reps John Carter and
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Pat Fallon refuse to say how theyvoted Friday, after publicly backing Scalise earlier
this week. So just FYI,there were Carters. Answer your question,
Carter Carter was at least back forthat vote. Well, how nice.
But Carter's a place holder. Ihave never really thought of him as anybody
with actual conservative bona fides. Idon't know what's going to become of him.
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Of course he's going to be primary, and whether he his age comes
up as a problem or not.Age is not an issue with me in
and of itself. No, it'snot. No, because I look at
Trump and I don't see a deteriorationof Trump, and Trump does things occasionally
bother me. I wish he hadn'tI wish he hadn't pounced on net and
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Yahoo at this particular point again,net And Yahoo's not a perfect person either.
He's had his own problems over inIsrael. But when it comes down
to the Israelis versus the Palestinians,I damn sure know where I stand.
And I'm embarrassed that we have thatwe have enemies of the state like Ilhan
Omar and Rashida talib as members ofour Congress. And I think we need
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a bill to find people like that, find a way to keep them out
not only of the Congress, butout of the United States of America.
Well, and I mean, andtheir ranks are even growing with Greg Kassar,
yeah yeah, and that Jamal Bowenor whatever, the fire fire alarm
boy, oh yeah, the onethat just sat off the Yeah yeah,
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the mystic Yeah yeah. I mean, you know, don't you hate that
when you mistake a doorknob a firealarm for a door. He's black,
right, I believe so? Allright, so he was the fire alarm
man. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Yes, you will be you will
be canceled. So let's be let'smake sure that we stay with the current
vernacular. I've I've enjoyed doing thesewith you. Somebody calls me a boy.
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I am very happy to embrace that. But no kidding. All right,
let's let's talk a little bit aboutthe Republican situation in Austin. We
have Dan Patrick, who's the Lieutenantgovernor, calling for Dade Felon, who
is the Speaker of the House toresign. Feeling when he's not drunk on
the podium typically seems to me tobe very sympathetic, sympathetic to left wing
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causes. Why why do we haveto have a Speaker of the Texas House
that is sympathetic to left wing causes? And I'll say this, Texas is
still run by Republicans. The bigissue right now is school choice. Schools.
I'm going to say it, schoolsare run by Democrats. The Republicans
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have a chance now to ease uptheir hold on our schools, and we've
got Dade Feelin as speaker. Excuseme, I think I think it's time
that the Republican, grassroots conservative,whatever you want to call yourself, non
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left leaning Republicans need to take veryserious inventory of who they're electing. And
it can't be that guy that hasthat nice business that helped me out,
or oh I know him, fromchurch, or well his family's been here
forever, or he sure does havea lot of signs out, so he
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must be good if all those peopleare supporting him, because the reason he
has those signs out is because hehas a cabal of people who have deep
pockets who are willing to pay forlots of signs to have him out there.
They need to start looking at that'ssurely you are not saying that some
people go to Washington or Austin repeatedlybecause there is a certain group of people
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in certain areas that can they're prettycertain of what votes they can get.
I'm sure it's not in every districtin Texas, but eight of them.
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Yeah, I probably go there,which brings us to school choice. You
know, Planet Logic I think isa pretty good podcast, but it would
be a hell of a lot betterif it was the only podcast. I
bet our numbers would go up.I bet we'd make more money. I
bet we bring in more dollars.Yes, yes, if we were the
(21:45):
only podcast. And you know,I don't understand teachers exactly either, because
if we have school choice, firstof all, the public schools will get
better, the salaries will go up. That's the way it works, the
bloated administration may have to rethink it. Instead of paying a school superintendent three
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or four hundred thousand dollars a yearplus all kind of perks in a golden
parachute, maybe redirect some of thatmoney. But I want teachers to make
more money. But I want theteachers that make more money to be teaching
America as an exceptional country and getaway from crt in sixty nineteen project and
all the other left wing dribble thathas gotten into our schools. And honestly,
(22:30):
if we don't change the schools,you and I may go into the
homosexual sex manual business because that's makinga lot of money. The schools buy
those books like hotcakes. And theother thing is that these schools are always
so quick to get out and boastabout how competent they are and how accomplished
they are and all of these things. Well, there's avenues in my life
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where I think I'm pretty not shyabout saying, yeah, there's certain things
I can do, there's certain thingsI'm good at, and I have certain
abilities, and you know what,I don't mind going into a competitive environment
because I have confidence in myself I'mwilling to work hard, and I suspect
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that if I go into a competitiveenvironment that I'll be pretty good. Will
I be the top dog? Maybemaybe not, But I can go in
and hold my own and I takepride in myself for being that person.
What's wrong with the education industry?What's wrong with you know? Even teachers
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rank and file, teachers who oh, no, I don't want school choice?
Why are you not? Are youafraid that you can't compete? And
by the way, do you notrealize that if you go into more of
a merit based system that it actuallycan well serve your interest. It may
be your road, your pathway tohigher compensation. But also, if you
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so care about your student, wouldyou not welcome an opportunity to provide a
better outcome for those students. Theargument is that the public schools are under
certain rules and they have to takeeverybody, and they have to educate everybody.
What about that single mom that's gotan eight year old young black son
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who is trying she's trying to keephim from getting entangled with guns and gangs
and getting his girlfriend pregnant when he'solder, and all those sorts of things
that we fight now throughout all communities. This benefits that mom because if she
can get him, take that eightthousand dollars that she would have, if
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she can get him into a privateschool, yes, the private school doesn't
have to deal with the state ruleson discipline. And we've got to get
race out of this. If youwere a teacher and you had a young
black so student who was raising somehell in the class and disrupting it,
you'll be sued if you discipline.And I don't know that if it's any
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different with whites or Asians or Hispanics. And I'm uncomfortable talking about race.
I don't like talking about it,but we almost have to. We have
to say no bounds on speech.We've got to look at what the problems
are. We've got to fix them. If there's a student in that class,
regardless of the color, that isdisrupting that class, and those kids
in the fifth grade are still readingat a second grade level, then you've
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got to do what you have gotto do. And the public schools come
back and whine, well, wecan't do that, Okay, the private
schools can. And if it worksin the private schools, and it usually
does, maybe the public schools canchange their focus and instead of saying constantly
(25:52):
more money, more money, moremoney, how about more power over control
of that classroom to make sure thatwe have discipline. Then the kid down
to the office and two hours laterhe's right back in the class, disrupting
it again and returned the focus toreading, writing, math, computer science,
life. You know. One ofthe problems with the schools when I
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went to them back in the lateeighteen hundreds, it feels like I didn't
learn anything about saving money. Theydidn't teach me about compound interest, which
is the most magical thing in Americatoday. They didn't teach me anything about
stocks, bonds. They didn't teachme anything about what it would take to
(26:41):
buy a house for the American dream, you know, saving up money.
I didn't know about down payments.I didn't know how to get a credit
rating so I could get a creditcard. Nobody told me how to deal
with the absorbitant credit card interest.I didn't learn any of those things.
I learned algebra, which I don'tthink I have ever used. Oh I
(27:03):
have, Oh, I've used it, but not much. I've got a
calculator for that. But what doyou do what do you use algebra for?
When I, once upon a timeand a job, I would have
to order different uniforms, and soI would take a look at the number
(27:25):
of uniforms that I was going toorders for a restaurant change, and I
would be, Okay, I'm goingto need X number of uniforms, and
they would be there were some dressesthat I ordered, and even some of
our aprons were sized differently, andso how many of the different sizes am
I going to need? And thenyou start thinking about, well, how
(27:47):
many people might be, you know, need a small, well probably you
know ten percent, how many aregoing to need a medium? Okay,
we're going to probably the bulk ofthem be medium and large, and so
you know, let's say thirty percenthere and thirty percent here and then another
twenty percent extra larger, you know, something like that. And I mean
(28:07):
that's basically algebra. You're going throughand you're coming up with a proportional amount
to the whole of the order I'morder, and that's fine forty and so
yeah, no, but it wasan algebraic But if you want to go
to work for NASA, you're goingto have to learn some things like that,
and even if you have a devicethat does it, you need to
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have the basic understanding, critical skillsof thinking through what it is you're doing.
But algebra takes a big back seatto me when compared to reading,
because reading is necessary for everything.And when they're seeing that six graders are
reading at a third grade level,I remember, and I'm not bragging,
it's just you are like this toa think I have a love of reading.
(28:55):
I have a look at my studiohere the book cases love of reading,
and have a love of writing.And you are the only other person
I know in this area that canwrite a political column as well as I
can write a political column. Andthat's not bragging if you can do it,
all right, But very few peoplecan do that. Very few people
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can do that. And you,if six graders are reading at a third
grade level, we've got a big, big problem. And then you get
into all this whole language crap.You know where we know phonics works,
but the left can take anything thatworks and destroy it. And the poor
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performance in reading also is a problem. And that reading is a gateway to
other knowledge. Oh absolutely it is, And so you are thwarting the ability
to gain new knowledge if I mean, because I'm sure there would be people
that would say, oh, well, everything's digital now and it's always going
(30:03):
to be online until you can watchand you can listen. Uh yeah,
but even that and producing that requiressome are of reading and writing. Let's
say the schools could get their acttogether and actually get everybody up to grade
level. Understanding that they're dealing withkids from the hood, and they're dealing
with single parent families, they're dealingwith kids that don't have either parent,
(30:26):
all this kind of stuff. Igive them that. But suppose they could
get everything up to a grade level. Oh, I think you and I
and most other people would support that, And then they do absolutely stupid things
like put absolute filth in the schoollibraries, like bring drag queens in.
(30:49):
Why do the schools, the publicschools do things that they know at least
half and maybe more of their constituentsthink are absolutely abominations for them to do
well. Okay, Number one,all of those type activities are distractions from
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what should be the core mission ofthe reading, the writing, the math,
the basic skills. So number one, that's a very very unhelpful distraction.
But number two, it seems asthough the schools have moved more into
thinking that their mission should be somethingakin to social engineering, and that's what
that seems to be about. ItAlso, I think that back in over
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the years, we have done areal disservice to ourselves, to our American
society when we have ceded so muchinfluence regarding our kids to the schools.
And I harken it back, andthis has been something that if you were
to think back on the twenty orso years that we've been doing this,
(31:59):
I have always been someone who isskeptical of all of the time spent with
all of these extracurricular activities. I'mnot absolutely against extracurricular activities, However,
I am very bothered and have beensince my daughter first started school, and
(32:22):
I started experiencing this by watching thedegree of influence that schools exercise over these
kids' time after school on weekends,mandating that you need to go to this
competition or that competition, and Ithink that that has impaired families now flipping
(32:47):
it. On the other side,there are parents who have been happy to
see that influence to the schools becausethey're lazy and they are happy to pon
their kids off and let somebody elsedeal with them so that I can go
do whatever I want to do.But I think that that is part of
(33:08):
where we started opening the door forthe schools. You know, here they're
monopolizing their time. Oh and bythe way, they feed them not only
lunch, but dinner and our breakfast. And then there's even some schools that
now you know, have get fundingfor after school snacks because we have our
after school programs. Well, youknow, okay, if you're having them
(33:30):
there early for breakfast and you're keepingthem there after school, why send them
home to sleep for eight hours?And I think that our seating all of
that influence over our kids is whathas opened the door now for this social
engineering. Well, you know,we understand that Tommy really would rather be
(33:50):
Tammy, and we understand that becausewe spend time with your child, we
know better. Well, you getinto all of that kind of thing.
But the bottom line here, andI think what I'm trying to say is
that the schools are a Democrat Partyconstituency absolutely, and there's no question about
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that. They are taught, Theyare taught the values and the core messages
of the Democratic Party, which isfar removed from what a lot of other
people would prefer to see. Iunderstand there's gay people. I don't dislike
gay people. I don't try totell gay people not to be gay.
They can do whatever they want.Trans is a bridge too far from me.
(34:36):
I think when something's impossible, weshouldn't promote it. And what we're
seeing now law firms are now beingformed for the expressed purpose of suing doctors
who performed sex change operations, becauseevery one of those is a life ruined.
(34:58):
Maybe some of the drag queens thathave sex change operations like the money
they can make, but but that'swhat's going to happen. Well, it's
unproven. It's unproven science, andso that's even I mean, which takes
you into a whole nother conversation.But the fact that these untested surgeries are
(35:21):
so being promoted what an adult wantsto do to themselves, I'm kind of
like, go for it, butjust please don't come back and expect me
to subsidize it, exactly. Buta child, no, and especially with
children these hormones, it's unknown whatthe long term ramifications are going to be
for that. I mean, there'snever even been any real substantive studies that
(35:45):
I'm aware of of riddling and allthese other drugs, these psychotropic drugs,
we've been keeping these kids on forall these years, and I question that
there may be a reason for that, because maybe there it's known that they
aren't the healthiest thing you could do, but that's not something you want to
come out with. So, Imean, there's so much danger to our
(36:07):
society on so many fronts, andthe schools, unfortunately, are there as
cheerleaders. Well, let me putit in this way and ask you a
question. If the schools are teachingDemocrat party values, things like climate change,
transgenderism, LGBTQ agenda, social justice, social justice rather than equal justice,
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then please explain to me why somany Republican members of the Texas Legislature
are on board with indoctrinating kids withDemocrat party values. I fear at this
point in time, based on theage of them, of these representatives,
(36:55):
that we are seeing the success ofpublic education and doctrination over the last twenty
twenty five years. Thirty years ago, if you had asked me that question,
I would have said, well,they're understanding now that in order to
get elected in Texas, you haveto be a Republican versus a Democrat.
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And so you have a bunch ofDemocrats who have just changed party and are
marketing themselves as Republicans so they canget elected, and they've always had those
are the values they have. Thereare still some of those people around,
but not as many, just basicallybecause of age and attrition. I'm afraid
(37:40):
that it is success on the partof the education industry to liberalize our population.
Is why we're seeing that? Well, I think it is. We
need to wrap this up. Butlet me ask you this. You've seen
in the last week, especially Harvard, major demonstrations in favor of a group
(38:06):
of people that have cut the headsoff of forty some odd babies and bombed
out a music festival. And nowcorporations have gone to Harvard and say,
can we get a list of thosekids' names so that we don't inadvertently ever
hire them. How is it thatevery evil on earth is supported by college
(38:30):
students? Now, I don't know, don't I mean, you can come
up with the rational logic based youknow, Oh, it's public education and
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doctrination. It's a breakdown of thefamily, it's a lack of God.
All these type things I hear fromdifferent parts of people in my life increasingly,
comments being made. Sometimes it's justto quiet a side that we really
(39:12):
are in a battle of good versusevil. And you know, sometimes it's
even from people that I don't considerto be that religious. And if you
subscribe to that which I do,evil always goes kind of for the low
hanging fruit first. And I'm sorry, but college students are some pretty low
(39:38):
hanging fruit. Well, they reallyare. And they have those communist professors.
And I mention, as I hateto say it, Robert Jensen that
ut used to come on my oldradio show. He did not like the
patriarchy, He did not like thesystem of commerce that we have. He
didn't he didn't he wanted to giverid of capitalism. He thought, he
(40:01):
didn't like much of anything about America. And I think he's one of many
thousands. And what is frightening nowagain the language the left has so co
opted, so much of our languagegender affirming care. Well, the thing
that's popping up here just in theselast literally six seven days with regard to
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Palestine is that what these kids aresupporting is Palestine fighting back against being an
occupied territory they have been occupied.They are attempting to colonize them. And
those are the same type of termsthat we now to some degree here aimed
(40:47):
at the United States. Well,when we return Mexico to the Aztecs and
the Incas, I may listen tothem, but until then they can put
a cork in it. Let's wrapthis up by having me ask you to
quick questions. We'll go back toWashington with a speaker's race. We have
to have a speaker at some point. Has this movement to get rid of
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McCarthy Will it end up bearing anypositive fruit for the conservative movement? It's
too soon to tell. I mean, this weekend is I can't imagine the
arm twisting that's going on in orderto try and get up to that two
hundred and eighteen vote threshold that Jordanneeds for a floor vote on Tuesday.
(41:38):
I believe it is now the daythey have that setup for. I'd like
to think that it would be youknow, I think there was a line
in the Broadway musical seventy seventy sixsomething about you know you can't you can't
have a war without somebody getting pissedoff, And I mean you can't have
(41:58):
revolutionary check without somebody getting mad,and somebody's gonna win and somebody's gonna lose.
I think, I think there's alot of arm twisting going on,
and I guess it's just going tobe a matter of I guess, you
know, you know something. JimJordan's a wrestler, so let's hope that
(42:21):
wrestling ability helps with his arm twistingability. All right, now, let's
move that to Austin. We've gotthe situation with school choice. I was
an event Thursday night of this pastweek with Governor Abbott, who says he
will bring him back for as manyspecial sessions as it takes. But we're
(42:42):
this podcast is based in Bell County. State representatives Hugh Shine and Buckley.
What's his first Brad Buckley. Ibelieve his wife is an educator, right,
yes, and he is the chairof the House Public Education Committee,
and I don't know where he stands. I know that Hugh Shine is not
supporting it. They will, allright, that'll be interesting. You wrote
(43:07):
a column, so just briefly tellus where your mind is since you wrote
that column. But you said thereare a number of state representatives that are
using that are after their name,but that may eventually help turn Texas blue.
Right. Well, this was basedon a report by Grassroots America We
the People, where they took thevoting records of legislators from this most recent
(43:35):
the eighty eighth Texas Legislative session thatwas taking place this past spring, this
past January through May. They didan analysis of all of those votes and
showed they measured the degree to whichthese the representatives agree with members of their
own party are members of the opposingparty. And so what we found out
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is that in the case of alot of Texas Republicans, there are twenty
thirty of them who actually seem tovote and agree with the Democrats is much,
if not more than they do theirfellow Republicans. And unfortunately, both
(44:25):
of our representatives here in Bell County, Hugh Shine and Brad Buckley, did
fall into the purple category, whichis showing that there is certainly a degree
of commonalty with the Democrats more sothan the Republicans. Now, between the
two of them, Hugh Shine wasa very deep purple, showing that he
(44:51):
to a very large extent, votedon the side with the Democrats, whereas
Buckley was not so much to thatextent, and anyway, the article is
called Mike Bell County House Reps Purplevotes helped turn Texas blue, and it's
there at WB Daily. You'd haveto go back a couple pages now,
but it is there and it's interesting, and it also has all the links
(45:14):
so that anyone listening in any otherarea, or if you have curiosity about
any other reps, you can goand see the same data for any of
our Texas house reps. Do weget school choice and actual school choice that's
not watered down? I think wehave a better shot now than we ever
have. There are other times whenwe've heard a lot of big talk about
(45:36):
Oh, it's going to happen,It's going to happen, and it's fizzled
out this time. I don't quiteknow what Abbot's impetus is for this push
that he has, but I thinkhe has put so much political capital on
it that he's not going to letit. It's raised my opinion of him
again because it is my number oneissue in Texas. All right, and
(46:00):
back to Washington one last time,will wrap this up. Did what Matt
Gates did? And Matt Gates isconsidered villain number one in Washington right now
is what does what Matt Gates didat some point restore the argument back to
(46:21):
fiscal responsibility, the thirty three trilliondollar debt, the stupidity of the continuing
resolutions, and the omnibus bills.Are we just going to talk about process
like CNN does all day. Ithink that the public has a growing appetite
for fiscal responsibility. I think afair accounting of history will somedays show Gates
(46:49):
to have been a hero in tryingto save this country. I think that
the Democrats have much reason to beworrying about the twenty twenty four election.
And I think that some of thathas to do, like with the House,
that people are across both sides ofthe aisle are seeing the economic you
(47:15):
know, just crises that are oneafter another after another in their lives personally,
as well as seeing what's happening intheir country. I think there's an
appetite to bring in representatives who wouldsupport the fiscal responsibility that Gates is trying
to promote. I'm not convinced thatwe will have a fair election that will
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allow those people to gain office.All right, Well, that'll put the
plug in the jug. This isPlanet Logic Lewenn Anderson of course with political
pursuits the podcast and please check thatout. And as leu Ann reminded us
al wb Daily dot com, wedon't post multiple articles a day, but
when we do post one, it'ssignificant. Absolutely. Remember courage is contagious.
(48:02):
Please go out and help spread somearound. All right, this has
been Plannet Logic. We'll see younext time.
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