1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:06,320 Speaker 1: Good morning. There's a story in the Houston Chronicle. Once 2 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:14,400 Speaker 1: you see that the left has claimed a ceasefire between 3 00:00:15,240 --> 00:00:19,639 Speaker 1: Israel and Gazo was highest priority, they're posting about it, 4 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:22,479 Speaker 1: writing about it. Oh my goodness, this is so important, 5 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:24,640 Speaker 1: so important. We have worked where this wouldn't do it, 6 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:29,760 Speaker 1: and then Trump does it, and they either don't acknowledge 7 00:00:29,760 --> 00:00:35,920 Speaker 1: it or criticize him, or instead continue criticizing something else. 8 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:41,600 Speaker 1: You realize there's no hope for any of these people. Well, 9 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:48,320 Speaker 1: a story in the Houston Chronicle quite interesting. May I say? 10 00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:54,360 Speaker 1: A woman who is a flight attendant at United Airlines 11 00:00:55,680 --> 00:00:59,560 Speaker 1: sees the superintendent of the Houston Independent School District in 12 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:05,920 Speaker 1: the un lounge and proceeds to cuss him out. The 13 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:10,120 Speaker 1: Houston Chronicle writs a sob story saying, but she was 14 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:17,600 Speaker 1: off the clock. So let's say you're off the clock 15 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:23,880 Speaker 1: at HB and you go in to buy your groceries, 16 00:01:23,920 --> 00:01:28,520 Speaker 1: but you work there, and while you're there, you start 17 00:01:28,280 --> 00:01:33,800 Speaker 1: cussing out a customer and expect that there wouldn't be 18 00:01:33,800 --> 00:01:38,800 Speaker 1: any repercussions when everyone else sees you. The story from 19 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:39,759 Speaker 1: KPRC TV. 20 00:01:40,319 --> 00:01:42,640 Speaker 2: During this whole thing, she shared with me that she 21 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:46,399 Speaker 2: recorded this confrontation she had with Superintendent Mike Miles and 22 00:01:46,520 --> 00:01:50,160 Speaker 2: another administrator and showing me the video she recorded of 23 00:01:50,240 --> 00:01:52,800 Speaker 2: all of this, but due to company policy, we aren't 24 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:55,920 Speaker 2: showing that video. In the video, she's telling the both 25 00:01:56,200 --> 00:01:59,800 Speaker 2: Superintendent Mike Miles and that other administrator that she feels 26 00:01:59,800 --> 00:02:03,240 Speaker 2: the district is heading in the wrong direction due to Miles. 27 00:02:04,760 --> 00:02:06,840 Speaker 1: But it isn't just hist employees. 28 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:10,080 Speaker 3: Based some retaliation, Miles and his assistant sought to have 29 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:11,480 Speaker 3: me fired for speaking out. 30 00:02:11,960 --> 00:02:16,240 Speaker 2: This is HISD Parents Virginia. Jenny McDavid addressing the board 31 00:02:16,320 --> 00:02:19,840 Speaker 2: Thursday night, McDavid said she was fired as a United 32 00:02:19,880 --> 00:02:24,040 Speaker 2: Airlines flight attendant after confronting Superintendent Mike Miles at the 33 00:02:24,160 --> 00:02:27,760 Speaker 2: airports this spring. Anyone could say this is a private matter. 34 00:02:27,840 --> 00:02:30,440 Speaker 2: This is a private company that chose to terminate you 35 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:35,800 Speaker 2: for possibly violation of policy. What does HISD have to 36 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:36,200 Speaker 2: do with this. 37 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:41,279 Speaker 3: I introduce myself as an HISD parent, an HISD taxpayer, 38 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:44,960 Speaker 3: and I'm addressing a public official. It is I have 39 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:48,240 Speaker 3: a conscious to ride who addressed grievancesm on my government official. 40 00:02:48,440 --> 00:02:50,959 Speaker 2: McDavid says she was in playing clothings at the time. 41 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:55,360 Speaker 2: It never identified herself as a United employee, a district 42 00:02:55,360 --> 00:02:59,280 Speaker 2: spokesperson tells us in part, Superintendent Miles was verbally accosted 43 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:02,480 Speaker 2: by a Union I did Airlines employee who use vulgar 44 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:07,040 Speaker 2: and aggressive language, adding, any personnel decision made by United 45 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:10,600 Speaker 2: Airlines regarding the conduct of its employees is a matter 46 00:03:10,639 --> 00:03:14,840 Speaker 2: between United Airlines and that employee, McDavid says. Days after 47 00:03:14,880 --> 00:03:19,040 Speaker 2: the incidents, an HID administrator filed a complaints using an 48 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:23,320 Speaker 2: HID email accounts to United Airlines. She said she was 49 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:26,320 Speaker 2: fired shortly thereafter. How did it feel speaking to the 50 00:03:26,320 --> 00:03:30,040 Speaker 2: board yesterday, addressing superintend and Miles. 51 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:34,079 Speaker 3: Well, I felt like I needed an opportunity to let 52 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:36,880 Speaker 3: the school district know, let the board of managers know, 53 00:03:37,480 --> 00:03:39,960 Speaker 3: let people in the audience know what happened to me. 54 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:53,600 Speaker 1: You know, I've long had the opinion that freedom of 55 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:59,040 Speaker 1: speech means freedom of speech. It's a bedrock of American culture, 56 00:04:00,640 --> 00:04:04,680 Speaker 1: not just from a legal perspective, the idea of the marketplace, 57 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:08,320 Speaker 1: of ideas, idea of expression, that that is a healthy thing, 58 00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:12,320 Speaker 1: even when we don't like what someone expresses. And I've 59 00:04:12,360 --> 00:04:17,000 Speaker 1: long felt that, for instance, companies shouldn't put a gag 60 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:22,200 Speaker 1: order on their employees because an employee off duty is 61 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:27,400 Speaker 1: an individual and we should encourage them to speak out. 62 00:04:28,080 --> 00:04:33,680 Speaker 1: But police departments, for instance, will prohibit their officers from 63 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:38,160 Speaker 1: posting political opinions to social media. Why why should they 64 00:04:38,160 --> 00:04:41,960 Speaker 1: do that? Well, this is what came of the culture, 65 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:49,839 Speaker 1: the cancel culture, the idea of ruining people's careers because 66 00:04:49,839 --> 00:04:51,839 Speaker 1: we don't want them to have an opinion. We just 67 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:54,720 Speaker 1: want them to be a good little cop and salute 68 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:57,920 Speaker 1: and do the job and not have opinions and release 69 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:00,760 Speaker 1: all the bad guys and don't arrest them. This is 70 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:07,279 Speaker 1: very much a Rodney Ellis Sheila Jackson Lee trend. And 71 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:10,440 Speaker 1: so now that it turned the reason they have a 72 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:15,120 Speaker 1: problem here is not that this woman cussed out the superintendent, 73 00:05:15,240 --> 00:05:21,039 Speaker 1: cussed out someone at United or on the grounds of 74 00:05:21,080 --> 00:05:25,240 Speaker 1: a United lounge being a United employee. That's not why 75 00:05:25,279 --> 00:05:30,239 Speaker 1: she was fired. It's who she was cussing out. See, 76 00:05:30,440 --> 00:05:34,679 Speaker 1: Mike Miles is not popular with the Houston Independent School 77 00:05:34,680 --> 00:05:39,280 Speaker 1: District because he came into a broken school district and 78 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:42,120 Speaker 1: started working to fix it. Now, I'm well aware that 79 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:47,160 Speaker 1: everybody's got some criticism of something he has done, but 80 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:50,160 Speaker 1: I do think that he came in with the intention 81 00:05:50,240 --> 00:05:52,560 Speaker 1: of fixing the district and not self dealing. I do 82 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:56,080 Speaker 1: think that, and I do think that the district was broken, 83 00:05:57,240 --> 00:06:00,360 Speaker 1: and that you had a lot of people who were 84 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:04,040 Speaker 1: part of the Sheila Jackson, Lee Silvester Turner, Rodney Ellis 85 00:06:04,080 --> 00:06:10,960 Speaker 1: internal cabal of self dealers, and you had, Let's not forget, 86 00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:15,120 Speaker 1: Rodney Ellis's chief of staff was the president of the 87 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:20,400 Speaker 1: school board while working for Rodney Ellis and was arrested 88 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:26,280 Speaker 1: for taking bribes from a company that got contracts with HISD, 89 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:29,960 Speaker 1: and she signed off on and she remained in the 90 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:35,760 Speaker 1: employment to my knowledge of Rodney Ellis. Yeah, Houston Chronicle 91 00:06:35,839 --> 00:06:38,200 Speaker 1: wasn't all been out of shape out of that. But this, 92 00:06:38,839 --> 00:06:42,680 Speaker 1: oh this, you know, I saw a story that HISD 93 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:44,960 Speaker 1: has now found a partner for every one of their 94 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:48,880 Speaker 1: underperforming schools. They've gone out to private companies partnered with them, 95 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:53,000 Speaker 1: and that partner school, that partner company will help subsidize things. 96 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:56,520 Speaker 1: And that's just brilliant. Why was that not done before? 97 00:06:58,880 --> 00:07:03,600 Speaker 1: The BED Chairman Rome Powell, speaking at an economic conference 98 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:09,600 Speaker 1: in Philadelphia, suggested the labor market will require further cuts 99 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:16,160 Speaker 1: interest rate cuts despite inflation. I'll read directly. Although the 100 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:22,440 Speaker 1: government shutdown precludes new official economic data. Powell said the 101 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:25,640 Speaker 1: outlook for employment and inflation does not appear to have 102 00:07:25,760 --> 00:07:30,160 Speaker 1: changed much since our September meeting, which is when the 103 00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:33,080 Speaker 1: FED cut rates for the first time this year. The 104 00:07:33,080 --> 00:07:36,720 Speaker 1: speech left economists anticipating a rate cut at the fed's 105 00:07:36,760 --> 00:07:40,200 Speaker 1: next meeting on October twenty eighth and twenty ninth, with 106 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:44,760 Speaker 1: another cut to follow. Powell also suggested the FED may 107 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:49,040 Speaker 1: soon stop shrinking its portfolio of assets, a move that 108 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:56,600 Speaker 1: could also slightly lower borrowing costs. I think if we 109 00:07:56,640 --> 00:08:00,400 Speaker 1: can get down to about five and a half percent 110 00:08:01,160 --> 00:08:07,520 Speaker 1: interest rate, you'll unlock a fair amount of economic activity 111 00:08:07,520 --> 00:08:10,760 Speaker 1: that is on the sideline right now. I think there 112 00:08:10,760 --> 00:08:16,880 Speaker 1: are homes sitting on the market for sale and buyers 113 00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:22,880 Speaker 1: perhaps willing to do that deal, but at the right 114 00:08:23,200 --> 00:08:29,320 Speaker 1: interest rate. Nobody wants to buy anything with the fear that, well, 115 00:08:30,640 --> 00:08:33,800 Speaker 1: shortly they'll lower the interest rates, and I was impatient. 116 00:08:34,840 --> 00:08:38,440 Speaker 1: When you lower the interest rate, people start getting more 117 00:08:38,679 --> 00:08:43,600 Speaker 1: active and taking on more debt. And you could argue, well, 118 00:08:43,800 --> 00:08:47,120 Speaker 1: they shouldn't take on debt. That's a bad thing. Be 119 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:49,720 Speaker 1: that as it may, whatever your position on the matter. 120 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:55,960 Speaker 1: If you're looking at economic activity, when interest rates drop 121 00:08:56,360 --> 00:08:59,320 Speaker 1: from where they are today. You're going to see people 122 00:08:59,760 --> 00:09:02,640 Speaker 1: by buying more lone Star chevies. You're going to see 123 00:09:02,679 --> 00:09:09,079 Speaker 1: people buying more gallery furniture, see people buying more new homes. 124 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:13,760 Speaker 1: You're going to start seeing a lot of that activity unlocked, 125 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:20,520 Speaker 1: and obviously that makes a difference. The problem is, and unfortunately, 126 00:09:21,160 --> 00:09:23,640 Speaker 1: this is going to continue, and it's going to accelerate, 127 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:25,720 Speaker 1: and at some point it's going to accelerate to such 128 00:09:26,040 --> 00:09:29,880 Speaker 1: a point it's going to seem like an epidemic. I 129 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:31,800 Speaker 1: think a lot of people are going to lose their jobs. 130 00:09:33,080 --> 00:09:35,960 Speaker 1: They're going to lose their jobs to what we will 131 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:42,040 Speaker 1: loosely lump into the category of AI. There are going 132 00:09:42,080 --> 00:09:45,600 Speaker 1: to be jobs that are no longer needed by companies 133 00:09:46,160 --> 00:09:49,320 Speaker 1: because they're going to find ways for those tasks that 134 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:54,880 Speaker 1: are performed whatever that may be, to be replicated or 135 00:09:55,080 --> 00:10:00,280 Speaker 1: replaced through the use of technology. And we have haven't 136 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:04,760 Speaker 1: even begun to discuss robotics and how that's going to 137 00:10:04,920 --> 00:10:12,120 Speaker 1: change things. The advance in robotics has now reached a 138 00:10:12,240 --> 00:10:18,160 Speaker 1: point where you're going to be able whatever a human 139 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:24,680 Speaker 1: being touches on an assembly line, for instance, lifting, moving, dropping, 140 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:31,600 Speaker 1: you're going to see human beings replaced, And you know, 141 00:10:32,240 --> 00:10:34,840 Speaker 1: you can't sit around being depressed over things. But it 142 00:10:34,880 --> 00:10:41,600 Speaker 1: does concern me because what happens when a guy who's 143 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:48,720 Speaker 1: been an honest worker for ten years at a job site. 144 00:10:49,760 --> 00:10:53,560 Speaker 1: He's shown up on time, he's never stolen a thing, 145 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:59,080 Speaker 1: he doesn't take sick leave, he goes above and beyond 146 00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:02,559 Speaker 1: to perform his job. He tries to help the company 147 00:11:02,600 --> 00:11:06,079 Speaker 1: succeed because he knows that's in his best interest as 148 00:11:06,120 --> 00:11:10,600 Speaker 1: an employee. What happens when you walk in and tell 149 00:11:10,640 --> 00:11:18,440 Speaker 1: that guy you're done, because we're not seeing nobody's starting 150 00:11:18,559 --> 00:11:23,000 Speaker 1: the new business in the alternative for him to go 151 00:11:23,040 --> 00:11:26,160 Speaker 1: to work at. So I think you see a contraction 152 00:11:27,080 --> 00:11:31,480 Speaker 1: in the labor market, and not just for laborers. You're 153 00:11:31,559 --> 00:11:36,280 Speaker 1: seeing tasks being replaced by AI. And I think this 154 00:11:36,320 --> 00:11:40,240 Speaker 1: will increase at a rapid rate because now we're at 155 00:11:40,280 --> 00:11:44,640 Speaker 1: the point that the machine can learn without the use 156 00:11:44,760 --> 00:11:48,560 Speaker 1: of a human and so now you're not limited by 157 00:11:48,920 --> 00:11:57,800 Speaker 1: human capacity for how quickly and profoundly AI can develop. 158 00:11:58,720 --> 00:12:05,200 Speaker 1: And you're we're seeing things like design. AI is replacing design. 159 00:12:05,200 --> 00:12:11,920 Speaker 1: We're seeing things like even professional services. A friend of 160 00:12:11,920 --> 00:12:16,680 Speaker 1: mine's looking at at opening a restaurant and he sent 161 00:12:16,760 --> 00:12:22,600 Speaker 1: me he he used AI uh and he was called Jasper, 162 00:12:23,800 --> 00:12:25,320 Speaker 1: and I can't remember what the other one. I had 163 00:12:25,360 --> 00:12:30,640 Speaker 1: not heard of Jasper before. But he gave the concept 164 00:12:31,200 --> 00:12:36,520 Speaker 1: that he wanted to he wanted to accomplish basic price 165 00:12:36,600 --> 00:12:44,480 Speaker 1: points and goals for the kitchen, and that was keep labor, 166 00:12:44,600 --> 00:12:52,440 Speaker 1: labor costs down and quick turn time and product costs 167 00:12:52,440 --> 00:12:54,400 Speaker 1: at this percentage. I don't remember what they all were. 168 00:12:55,800 --> 00:12:59,920 Speaker 1: But he feeds that into AI and it sends out, 169 00:13:00,280 --> 00:13:04,880 Speaker 1: all right, here's your menu. Here's your estimated product costs. 170 00:13:04,880 --> 00:13:09,960 Speaker 1: That looked actually pretty good. Here's your estimated labor costs 171 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:14,199 Speaker 1: at these rates. Here's your estimated labor time, number of employees, 172 00:13:14,240 --> 00:13:18,320 Speaker 1: how many hours prep time, ticket time for everything that 173 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:23,520 Speaker 1: is ordered? And all of that came back in such 174 00:13:23,559 --> 00:13:27,280 Speaker 1: at such a rapid pace. The only thing that slowed 175 00:13:27,320 --> 00:13:30,520 Speaker 1: down that process was how long it took him to 176 00:13:30,760 --> 00:13:36,280 Speaker 1: input the information. The output was. I don't know how 177 00:13:36,280 --> 00:13:38,680 Speaker 1: long it took, but it didn't appear to have taken 178 00:13:38,840 --> 00:13:41,760 Speaker 1: very long. And now you had something that as I 179 00:13:41,840 --> 00:13:46,640 Speaker 1: read through, it was sort of like if you see 180 00:13:46,679 --> 00:13:51,800 Speaker 1: an AI video on social media of you know, two 181 00:13:51,840 --> 00:13:55,960 Speaker 1: guys celebrating after they've come in, you know, the relay race. 182 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:59,199 Speaker 1: After they've they've won, you can still slightly tell it's 183 00:13:59,280 --> 00:14:02,480 Speaker 1: kind of like a dizzy the movie animation still slightly 184 00:14:02,559 --> 00:14:06,680 Speaker 1: tell it's not real, but it's close enough that you 185 00:14:06,840 --> 00:14:12,400 Speaker 1: realize it's it's it's so far along. And and this said, 186 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:15,840 Speaker 1: you know how many how many people were menu designers, 187 00:14:15,880 --> 00:14:19,240 Speaker 1: how many people were food concept consultants that are going 188 00:14:19,280 --> 00:14:24,640 Speaker 1: to lose their jobs? Is Michael Ferry genius. You have 189 00:14:24,680 --> 00:14:34,600 Speaker 1: to create an inflection point where you force conflict to 190 00:14:34,720 --> 00:14:39,360 Speaker 1: a point where there is a winner and a loser 191 00:14:40,440 --> 00:14:46,760 Speaker 1: and sides are chosen. If you don't do this in politics, 192 00:14:49,200 --> 00:14:52,760 Speaker 1: it is out of pure naivete. People will often say 193 00:14:52,800 --> 00:14:55,840 Speaker 1: to me, how come we can't all just get along? 194 00:14:57,560 --> 00:15:02,320 Speaker 1: Why can't we be united? Why do you have to 195 00:15:02,400 --> 00:15:11,080 Speaker 1: criticize the Republicans? Just criticize the Democrats? What if Democrats 196 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:15,240 Speaker 1: start becoming Republicans in the state of Texas because we're 197 00:15:15,240 --> 00:15:20,400 Speaker 1: a Republican majority state, could I then criticize them? What 198 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:24,480 Speaker 1: if Republicans take up the positions of Democrats just call 199 00:15:24,560 --> 00:15:29,200 Speaker 1: themselves Republicans. What if Republicans caut us with the Democrats 200 00:15:30,240 --> 00:15:34,800 Speaker 1: against your wishes and promise to pass the bills you 201 00:15:34,840 --> 00:15:39,280 Speaker 1: want passed, but them bury them. All the while their 202 00:15:39,280 --> 00:15:42,280 Speaker 1: consultants are sending you constant text messages. They're fighting the 203 00:15:42,320 --> 00:15:47,760 Speaker 1: good cause. Would it be okay then if I criticize them, 204 00:15:47,960 --> 00:15:53,120 Speaker 1: or would you rather be united? Because they're making a 205 00:15:53,120 --> 00:15:57,720 Speaker 1: fool of you and you don't even know it, all 206 00:15:57,840 --> 00:16:00,840 Speaker 1: the while reminding you, hey, we hate them. Oh we 207 00:16:00,880 --> 00:16:03,920 Speaker 1: hate democrats. I tell you what. We don't get abused. 208 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:05,840 Speaker 1: You send me back up there again. It ain't men, 209 00:16:05,920 --> 00:16:08,560 Speaker 1: But twenty four years you send me back up there again. 210 00:16:08,640 --> 00:16:13,240 Speaker 1: And by god, I'm gonna roll up my sleeves, roll 211 00:16:13,320 --> 00:16:16,160 Speaker 1: up my sleeves, and I'm going to battle with them. 212 00:16:16,280 --> 00:16:18,920 Speaker 1: Dad burn Democrats. I'm we else with you. They're strong, 213 00:16:19,960 --> 00:16:24,560 Speaker 1: their forces are vast. Sometimes I get knocked down, but 214 00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:28,720 Speaker 1: I'm there fighting for you, and I'm going back. If 215 00:16:28,720 --> 00:16:31,240 Speaker 1: you'll give me a chance, I'm going back. I'm gonna 216 00:16:31,240 --> 00:16:36,560 Speaker 1: finish this job with your help. By god. Yeah. And 217 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:39,680 Speaker 1: by the way, the Democrats are ugly, and they fart, 218 00:16:39,800 --> 00:16:42,200 Speaker 1: and they got bad breath, and they eat buggers, and 219 00:16:42,720 --> 00:16:45,560 Speaker 1: sometimes they don't comb their hair in the morning. Uh yeah, 220 00:16:45,760 --> 00:16:49,040 Speaker 1: vote for our team, and you got a lot of 221 00:16:49,040 --> 00:16:55,040 Speaker 1: people that can be convinced. Yeah, yeah, Democrats is bad 222 00:16:55,480 --> 00:16:58,440 Speaker 1: and our team is good. And you wonder why nothing 223 00:16:58,480 --> 00:17:02,160 Speaker 1: gets done, but something is getting done. They're self dealing, 224 00:17:02,960 --> 00:17:12,800 Speaker 1: they're bloating our government. So you have to force situations. 225 00:17:14,320 --> 00:17:18,359 Speaker 1: You know, when Trump did what they never believed he 226 00:17:18,359 --> 00:17:22,080 Speaker 1: would do, and he'd sent in the National Guard, he 227 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:31,879 Speaker 1: forced Democrats to either agree with it or disagree. The 228 00:17:32,040 --> 00:17:36,639 Speaker 1: moment they disagreed, he showed they don't mind the crime 229 00:17:36,760 --> 00:17:41,879 Speaker 1: in their cities. They can say, we gotta fight crime. 230 00:17:41,960 --> 00:17:44,800 Speaker 1: Give us a billion dollars more of federal funds that 231 00:17:44,840 --> 00:17:48,159 Speaker 1: we can give to our friends. But when given the 232 00:17:48,240 --> 00:17:52,840 Speaker 1: opportunity to actually do something about crime, they fought him 233 00:17:52,840 --> 00:17:56,080 Speaker 1: on it. And what Trump is so good at is 234 00:17:56,160 --> 00:18:01,719 Speaker 1: creating these inflection points and forcing people to take aside 235 00:18:03,880 --> 00:18:08,480 Speaker 1: Republicans who said, we have to clean up our country, 236 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:12,400 Speaker 1: but to deal with immigration, I'm building a wall. Uh well, 237 00:18:15,359 --> 00:18:17,000 Speaker 1: that was when John McCain came out and said, I'm 238 00:18:17,520 --> 00:18:20,960 Speaker 1: build a damn wall. Remember two thousand and eight, I 239 00:18:21,080 --> 00:18:24,720 Speaker 1: build a damn wall. The wall had been around before Trump. 240 00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:28,280 Speaker 1: Trump just actually did it. You have to force these 241 00:18:28,320 --> 00:18:31,960 Speaker 1: people into this, so we have such an inflection point 242 00:18:32,040 --> 00:18:37,719 Speaker 1: going on right now, And here's what it is. The 243 00:18:37,760 --> 00:18:41,399 Speaker 1: Republican Party still has a majority of voters in the 244 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:48,800 Speaker 1: state of Texas statewide, and the Democrats understand this, and 245 00:18:48,880 --> 00:18:54,800 Speaker 1: the Democrats are working very hard to flip that. And 246 00:18:54,840 --> 00:18:58,800 Speaker 1: if they can ever get their foot in the door 247 00:18:59,080 --> 00:19:02,760 Speaker 1: in a position of authority by hook or by crook, 248 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:07,320 Speaker 1: they will allow cheating. They will do the things necessary 249 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:12,320 Speaker 1: to preserve that power and never give it back. And 250 00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:16,840 Speaker 1: there are Republicans who are more than happy to work 251 00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:20,800 Speaker 1: with them, to keep them a sort of captive opposition 252 00:19:22,280 --> 00:19:24,639 Speaker 1: under the hopes that well, when they come to power, 253 00:19:24,640 --> 00:19:28,879 Speaker 1: they'll be nice to me and they'll help me now 254 00:19:29,440 --> 00:19:34,320 Speaker 1: preserve my power because I'm the devil they know. And 255 00:19:34,359 --> 00:19:38,000 Speaker 1: the Trump factor is, Hey, you don't want me to 256 00:19:38,040 --> 00:19:42,040 Speaker 1: be like Trump, do you. I'll be a good Republican, 257 00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:44,480 Speaker 1: you know. Ever so often I'll have to I'll alert 258 00:19:44,480 --> 00:19:46,000 Speaker 1: you ahead of time. Sometimes I'll have to go out 259 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:49,600 Speaker 1: and you know, make a bombastic speech. But don't worry 260 00:19:49,840 --> 00:19:52,880 Speaker 1: you and I we have lunch every Wednesday. And that's 261 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:55,080 Speaker 1: kind of the game that's played. It's the game that's 262 00:19:55,080 --> 00:20:02,680 Speaker 1: played in the state House. So the voter are increasingly frustrated, 263 00:20:04,119 --> 00:20:07,720 Speaker 1: and the politicians wanted to do nothing about it. So 264 00:20:07,760 --> 00:20:13,320 Speaker 1: how do you fix this? Finally, there are people who 265 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:19,600 Speaker 1: are not paid. They're volunteers, they're activists. These are the 266 00:20:19,600 --> 00:20:22,480 Speaker 1: types that are often smeared by elected officials because they 267 00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:28,320 Speaker 1: hold these elected officials accountable, but typically with words. Well, 268 00:20:28,359 --> 00:20:32,040 Speaker 1: now they've done something. They have upset the political class 269 00:20:32,359 --> 00:20:36,760 Speaker 1: and they have upset the media. What they've done is 270 00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:43,600 Speaker 1: made a move to ensure that the primary elections in 271 00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:49,159 Speaker 1: March that only Republicans can vote in the Republican primary. 272 00:20:49,800 --> 00:20:52,120 Speaker 1: Democrats don't need to do this. You know why, because 273 00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:56,160 Speaker 1: we're not voting in their primary, but they are voting 274 00:20:56,200 --> 00:21:01,280 Speaker 1: in ours. You know that crazy lady that that tried 275 00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:05,720 Speaker 1: to harass the kids who were starting a TPUSA at 276 00:21:05,720 --> 00:21:09,440 Speaker 1: Stratford High School, she had voted in the Republican primary. 277 00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:13,080 Speaker 1: And I'll bet you a dollar to a donut it 278 00:21:13,119 --> 00:21:19,440 Speaker 1: was to vote from Mono Diella for state rep. You've 279 00:21:19,480 --> 00:21:24,959 Speaker 1: got Democrats who understand that who their nominee is is 280 00:21:25,040 --> 00:21:30,080 Speaker 1: not that important. They would rather until they can win 281 00:21:30,119 --> 00:21:35,000 Speaker 1: the elections. They would rather get the most liberal Republican 282 00:21:35,080 --> 00:21:40,400 Speaker 1: they can, so voting in a Republican primary rather than 283 00:21:40,480 --> 00:21:44,439 Speaker 1: leaving our choice of our nominee, the Republican nominee, to 284 00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:50,159 Speaker 1: just us, because they understand that every Republican is not 285 00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:58,920 Speaker 1: the same. Some Republicans are constitutionalists, tea party maga. Other 286 00:21:59,040 --> 00:22:01,600 Speaker 1: Republicans just there to have a good time or not 287 00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:04,920 Speaker 1: bother anybody, And don't worry. We'll keep the wheels turning 288 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:08,080 Speaker 1: exactly the way they have been and Democrats can work 289 00:22:08,119 --> 00:22:10,960 Speaker 1: with that. What they don't want are the slash and 290 00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:15,000 Speaker 1: burn Trump Republicans, so they will work against those people. 291 00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:22,640 Speaker 1: So the SRIC, a leadership Committee within the Republican Statewide 292 00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:25,080 Speaker 1: Republican Party, meets this weekend and there have been efforts 293 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:33,199 Speaker 1: underway to close the Republican Party primaries. Now, if you 294 00:22:33,280 --> 00:22:41,280 Speaker 1: think about it, what business is it of the Democrats 295 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:47,280 Speaker 1: or the media. How the Republican Party establishment sets up 296 00:22:47,359 --> 00:22:50,520 Speaker 1: its own internal voting rules. This is a political party, 297 00:22:50,560 --> 00:22:53,439 Speaker 1: this is not the government. Well it's a good reason 298 00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:57,919 Speaker 1: because they know we'll kick out the Dustin Burroughs and 299 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:04,760 Speaker 1: drunk DAIDs and John Wayne Cort. So if you close 300 00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:11,360 Speaker 1: your primary, you keep Democrats from choosing the Republican candidate. 301 00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:17,320 Speaker 1: You'll remember Operation Chaos two thousand and eight, Rush was 302 00:23:17,359 --> 00:23:22,720 Speaker 1: having too much fun. I mean, if you remember, he 303 00:23:22,960 --> 00:23:31,479 Speaker 1: was having a blast. What had happened was, well, he 304 00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:36,440 Speaker 1: was getting Republicans to vote in the Democrat presidential primary. 305 00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:43,359 Speaker 1: And Rush had such influence that it was actually making 306 00:23:43,359 --> 00:23:47,920 Speaker 1: a difference and it was wreaking havoc on the Democrats 307 00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:51,479 Speaker 1: and there was nothing they could do about it. So 308 00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:56,280 Speaker 1: in Texas, you know, we can talk about the November election, 309 00:23:56,480 --> 00:24:01,920 Speaker 1: that is the election where the public votes on who 310 00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:08,040 Speaker 1: is going to run our government. But the process of 311 00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:12,560 Speaker 1: who gets on the ballot and how that is conducted 312 00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:17,520 Speaker 1: by the primary system, that is conducted by the party system, 313 00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:22,240 Speaker 1: and the parties choose what that process is going to 314 00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:27,160 Speaker 1: look like. And there is I think the mistake and 315 00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:32,440 Speaker 1: believe somehow that the party is some way the government, 316 00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:36,840 Speaker 1: and it's not. You can be an elected member of 317 00:24:37,119 --> 00:24:43,440 Speaker 1: Texas or US federal government without being a member of 318 00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:48,600 Speaker 1: a party. It's not required. The parties are a way 319 00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:54,400 Speaker 1: that people organize and identify for the sake of the voters, 320 00:24:55,760 --> 00:24:59,760 Speaker 1: because there's a convenience to this when you show up 321 00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:03,199 Speaker 1: and vot on November. In November, when you show up 322 00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:06,439 Speaker 1: and vote, you can say, you know, I don't know 323 00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:08,080 Speaker 1: either one of these guys, I'm gonna go with the Republican. 324 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:12,119 Speaker 1: I haven't heard any of these Democrats speak out against 325 00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:14,280 Speaker 1: any of the haven't heard them speak out against the 326 00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:17,520 Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk assassination, our boys in the women's locker room, 327 00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:20,119 Speaker 1: or you know, whatever that issue is for you, and 328 00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:21,840 Speaker 1: there's none of them that speak out against it. So 329 00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:25,080 Speaker 1: I'm just going to vote for the Republicans. And that's 330 00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:31,760 Speaker 1: a quick shorthand because there are lots of jobs that 331 00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:36,120 Speaker 1: are elected and it's hard to keep up with who 332 00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:38,919 Speaker 1: this person is and who that person is, and you 333 00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:41,480 Speaker 1: still want to vote. You still want to have some 334 00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:44,840 Speaker 1: influence on who the person is, because whether you vote 335 00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:46,679 Speaker 1: or not, those jobs are still going to be filled, 336 00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:49,719 Speaker 1: and your money is going to go toward their office, 337 00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:51,800 Speaker 1: and they're going to determine how your money is spent. 338 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:55,680 Speaker 1: And even though you don't intend to watch what they're 339 00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:58,360 Speaker 1: doing day in and day out, you like to believe that, well, 340 00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:00,760 Speaker 1: I'd rather get a good one than a bad one. 341 00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:03,159 Speaker 1: And if I can't get a great when, I feel like, 342 00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:05,040 Speaker 1: at least I'm going to get a better one than 343 00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:09,960 Speaker 1: if the Democrat person is selected. But it's a much 344 00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:12,800 Speaker 1: smaller group of people that vote in the Republican primary, 345 00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:18,920 Speaker 1: and the Republican Party runs the Republican primary as it should, 346 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:21,800 Speaker 1: and who should make the rules for how the Republican 347 00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:25,960 Speaker 1: Party will choose our candidate who will appear in November, 348 00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:30,240 Speaker 1: but us, the Republicans. So when the leadership of the 349 00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:36,080 Speaker 1: Republican Party says we're going to close the primary so 350 00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:41,359 Speaker 1: Democrats can stop coming over here and voting in our primary, 351 00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:46,800 Speaker 1: that becomes an inflection point. That is the moment where 352 00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:49,080 Speaker 1: you notice that Greg Abbott and his Secretary of State 353 00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:56,200 Speaker 1: Jane Nelson do not want that. This is the conflict 354 00:26:56,280 --> 00:27:01,720 Speaker 1: you needed. When it comes down to it, it's very 355 00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:07,080 Speaker 1: hard to do. You've got to force a situation where 356 00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:13,280 Speaker 1: a person is cornered and has to choose. Nobody expected 357 00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:19,200 Speaker 1: the Republican Party to do this. They did, and now 358 00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:21,720 Speaker 1: you've got Greg Abbott and his Secretary of State Jane Nelson, 359 00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:26,280 Speaker 1: who do not want this. It's clear, and I'll tell 360 00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:30,280 Speaker 1: you why. Abbot is scared to death of the Republican 361 00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:36,520 Speaker 1: Party base. He's been booed at Republican events. His view 362 00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:41,840 Speaker 1: is he wins with a coalition of Republicans and Democrats 363 00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:48,760 Speaker 1: and people who don't pay that close attention, because he 364 00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:51,320 Speaker 1: knows that the people who really watch what he does 365 00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:56,720 Speaker 1: and doesn't do, those people are onto him. And if 366 00:27:56,760 --> 00:28:01,840 Speaker 1: you let those people alone choose, he can lose because 367 00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:06,679 Speaker 1: he's not one of them, not at all. And his 368 00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:12,200 Speaker 1: inaction is a rallying cry now and there are enough 369 00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:16,359 Speaker 1: people and he knows this, that would love to boot 370 00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:21,440 Speaker 1: him out. Greg Abbott had planned that he would have 371 00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:24,439 Speaker 1: been running for president by twenty twenty four or at 372 00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:29,800 Speaker 1: the latest twenty twenty eight. Nobody expected Trump to be 373 00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:34,840 Speaker 1: the Republican nominee for three elections in a row. There 374 00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:37,320 Speaker 1: are people who've lived their lives running for president or 375 00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:40,760 Speaker 1: to run for president, and they've got it all planned out. 376 00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:43,440 Speaker 1: I hold this office for this amount and when this opens, 377 00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:47,360 Speaker 1: and within reason, they'll plan those things out. George P. Bush, 378 00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:50,360 Speaker 1: if you remember when he was running for office. So 379 00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:52,480 Speaker 1: I'm not sure what I'm going to run for. I 380 00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:54,760 Speaker 1: got to decide I'm gonna be in office. I just 381 00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:56,720 Speaker 1: got to decide which one, because he's a Bush and 382 00:28:56,760 --> 00:29:00,720 Speaker 1: he can do that. Or so he thought I might 383 00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:02,840 Speaker 1: have this job, or I might take this job. And 384 00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:07,680 Speaker 1: I think most Texans, myself whencluded found that very off putting. 385 00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:12,040 Speaker 1: You don't get to just pick and choose. There should 386 00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:19,080 Speaker 1: be some semblance of interest in that job in order 387 00:29:19,080 --> 00:29:25,920 Speaker 1: for you to do that well. They didn't expect one 388 00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:31,120 Speaker 1: guy to have the nomination for a twelve year. For 389 00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:35,160 Speaker 1: a twelve year period, no one else can hold that nomination. 390 00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:40,640 Speaker 1: And that's a generation in political terms. So you've got 391 00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:42,560 Speaker 1: a lot of people that have been queuing it up 392 00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:46,560 Speaker 1: for exactly the moment they were going to run for president. 393 00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:52,880 Speaker 1: And twenty sixteen comes. At the most. Trump will be 394 00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:56,000 Speaker 1: reelected in twenty twenty, so there'll be an eight year 395 00:29:56,040 --> 00:30:01,640 Speaker 1: period there, but by twenty twenty four the nomination will 396 00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:06,400 Speaker 1: be wide open and that'll be my moment to strike. 397 00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:11,760 Speaker 1: But we had something unprecedented in the modern era. Trump 398 00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:16,320 Speaker 1: runs and you'll remember that. John Cornyn said, his time 399 00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:21,360 Speaker 1: has passed. Said this on the record to reporters. His 400 00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:25,600 Speaker 1: time has passed. He needs to know that, and the 401 00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:30,000 Speaker 1: Republican Party needs to move on without him. That John Cornyn, 402 00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:38,080 Speaker 1: if every Texas Republican would just remember that in vote accordingly, 403 00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:43,720 Speaker 1: he would be Trumps in the primary. And no amount 404 00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:49,280 Speaker 1: of Karl Rove decision making and manipulation and blurring with 405 00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:52,520 Speaker 1: ads that say I'm up there with Donald Trump. You're lying, 406 00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:55,920 Speaker 1: John Cornyan, You're lying, and we have you on the 407 00:30:55,960 --> 00:31:01,400 Speaker 1: record lying. And that's why John mccornan wants the Republican 408 00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:03,440 Speaker 1: Party to be wide the primary to be wide open 409 00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:06,920 Speaker 1: and not closed, because he needs people who hate Trump 410 00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:10,720 Speaker 1: to vote in the Republican primary for a guy who 411 00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:14,160 Speaker 1: will work to undercut Trump at every turn. And that's 412 00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:19,800 Speaker 1: what John Wayne mccorn represents. And Abbott is right there 413 00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:22,720 Speaker 1: along with him and his do nothing Secretary of State 414 00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:23,760 Speaker 1: Jane Nelson as well