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Saved - October 19, 2023 at 12:46 PM

@Bellisima_3 - 𝓑𝓮𝓵𝓵𝓪 𝓓'𝓟𝓵𝓸𝓻𝓪𝓫𝓵𝓮

To the 22 cowards and traitors in @GOPHouseOfRep This was written with you in mind. https://t.co/pzwCfJijlb

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I work long hours for low pay, sacrificing my soul and wasting my life. I drown my troubles away, feeling trapped in this sad reality. It's a shame how the world has become for people like us. I wish I could wake up and escape this truth, but it's real. Living in a new world with an old soul, where the rich only know the rich.
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Speaker 0: I've been selling my soul, working all day, overtime hours for bullshit pays. So I can sit out here and waste my life away, drag back home, and drown my troubles away. It's a damn shame. What the world's gotten to for people like me, people like you wish I could just wake up and it not be true, but it is. Oh, it is. Living in the new world. With an old soul. The rich man know the rich man. Wanna
Saved - December 11, 2023 at 7:44 PM

@JDunlap1974 - 🇺🇸🇺🇸Josh Dunlap🇺🇲🇺🇲 ULTRA-MAGA

Can you believe every Democrat voted against this? See my pinned tweet https://t.co/g9O3ARZjbk

Saved - March 26, 2024 at 10:18 PM

@RepMTG - Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸

Mike Johnson had a responsibility as the leader of the Republican conference to not force votes on full-term abortion funding, the trans agenda, DEI, more $$$ to Ukraine, and other horrific far-left wishlist items. But Mike Johnson funded ALL of it! https://t.co/LZ3c1g7Dhp

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Mike Johnson, as Speaker of the House, forced Republicans to vote on controversial far-left funding items in an omnibus bill without allowing amendments. He violated party rules and rushed the $1.2 trillion bill to a vote, angering many Republicans. This led to backlash and a motion to remove him from his position. Republicans are frustrated with this behavior and want change.
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Speaker 0: Well, first, let's walk through what Mike Johnson did. A speaker of the house and the leader of our Republican conference, he has a duty and responsibility to care for our conference. That means not force us to vote on full term abortion funding, the trans agenda, DEI, funding 300,000,000 to the Ukraine war and many other horrific far left, funding wish list items that the Democrats were thrilled with, he shouldn't make us vote on that in order to pay our military soldiers. That's outrageous. It's also an election year, David, and that means that Republicans are out trying to get reelected, and he forced our Republican conference. Those that voted for this basically walked the plank for him, and that is outrageous. Here we are. We had the majority of the majority less than that means over half of our, Republican conference voted against this second part of the omnibus bill. But let's go even further. This is the exact time type of stuff that Republican voters are fed up with and are saying never again. This is why Donald Trump is overwhelmingly winning the election because he's promising change, and the American people know he can bring it. But I'd like to walk everyone through how bad this really was. Mike Johnson became speaker in October. That means he had November, December, January, and February. He had 4 months to continue bringing our single issue appropriation bills to for us to vote on to fund the government. He did not do that. He passed 3 PRs as speaker of the house. That is exactly what Kevin McCarthy got thrown out for doing. Then he violated our Republican conference rules by bringing these massive funding bills under suspension. That means he broke the rules. He said all the rules are suspended. We are bringing this funding bill over $1,200,000,000,000 to the house floor for a vote in less than 72 hours. We had one day to read the 1,012 page bill. Then even worse, David, he tied all of our hands behind our behind our backs and did not allow us to vote on amendments. He didn't even give us the opportunity to take out the abortion funding, the full term abortion funding. He didn't let us take out the nearly $700,000,000 that funds the feeding and housing of illegal immigrants that are invading our country every single day. He didn't allow us to make amendments like that. He didn't allow us to try to put the Lake and Riley at inside this bill. He did not allow us to do anything. What he did is he brought Chuck Schumer's $1,200,000,000,000 second part of the omnibus to the house floor and forced us to vote on it right on the government deadlinding deadline day, literally, the day of the government deadline. This is a violation of every single rule. This is exactly what Republicans are sick and tired of. This is not personal against Mike Johnson. I I filed the motion to vacate basically, issuing a pink slip saying, you're going to be fired. We will not tolerate this any longer, and Republican voters all over this country agree with me.
Saved - May 8, 2024 at 9:24 PM

@ResisterSis20 - Southern Sister Resister - Wordsmith #IAmTheStorm

House Republicans have introduced legislation to repeal the $35 monthly cap on Insulin for seniors on Medicare. This is a reminder that with Republicans, the cruelty is always the point, and Mike Johnson cannot ever be counted on to do the right thing. #FreshUnity #FlipTheHouse https://t.co/3uuWD2ckyx

Saved - July 14, 2024 at 4:04 PM

@RepMTG - Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸

Democrats and the media, YOU are responsible for the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump, death threats and attempts against me and other Republicans, and brain washing half the country with your sick violent rhetoric. END THIS NOW! https://t.co/GOq9vAyUMA

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There are calls for uprisings and unrest in the streets due to dissatisfaction with the government. Violent actions and threats against the president are mentioned, along with discussions of potential violence. The speakers express strong negative feelings towards the current administration and encourage resistance. The tone is confrontational and aggressive, with references to past violent acts and suggestions of future violent actions.
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Speaker 0: I I I just don't even know why there aren't uprisings all over the country, and maybe there will be. Speaker 1: People need to start taking to the streets. This is a dictator. Speaker 2: You know, there needs to be unrest in Speaker 3: the streets for as long as there is unrest Speaker 0: in our lives. Enemies of the state. Speaker 1: Show me where it says the protest was supposed to be polite and peaceful. Speaker 0: Do something about your dad's immigration practices, you feckless. Speaker 1: When they go low, can't Speaker 4: How do you resist the temptation to run up and bring her neck? Speaker 5: Biggest terror threat in this country is white men. Most of them radicalized right up to the right. Speaker 4: I thought you should have punched him in the face. So even if you lost, he insulted your wife. Speaker 5: Yes. He came Speaker 4: down the escalator and called Mexicans, rapists, and murders. He said, well, what do you think I should've done? Speaker 5: I said, I think you should've punched him in the face and then Speaker 4: gotten out of the race. You would've been a hero. I'd like to punch him in the face. I said, if we're in high school, Speaker 1: take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him. Speaker 5: Punch some people in the face. When was the last time an actor assassinated a president? They're still gonna have to go Speaker 1: out and put a bullet in Donald Trump, and that's a fact. Speaker 5: Look as his character is stabbed to death. Speaker 0: Where is John Wilkes Booth when you need him? Speaker 5: Put this way. Put this way. That's it right there. It's pulling up. Speaker 1: I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House. Speaker 5: A Missouri state senator is under investigation by the Secret Service after saying she hopes president Trump is assassinated. I will go and take Trump out tonight. And if you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, Speaker 1: in a department store, at a Speaker 5: gasoline station. You get out Speaker 1: and you create a crowd, and you push back on them, and you tell them they're not welcome Speaker 0: And sadly, the domestic enemies to our voting system and our honoring our constitution, are right at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Speaker 4: They're not gonna stop before election day in November, and they're not gonna stop after election day. And that should be everyone should take note of that on both levels. That this isn't they're not gonna let up and they should not. Speaker 5: If you think we're a warrior now, Speaker 1: you ain't seen nothing yet.
Saved - September 15, 2024 at 10:59 PM

@Techno_Fog - Techno Fog

The political donations of would-be assassin Ryan Wesley Routh. All to the Democrats. Something in common with the last shooter. https://t.co/bZzNd9ENOi

Saved - September 18, 2024 at 9:21 PM

@RepMTG - Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸

Democrats should be held accountable not only for their rhetoric but also for their actions. Bennie Thompson refuses to withdraw his bill that would leave President Trump unprotected from would-be assassins even after two attempts on Trump’s life in just two months. Bennie Thompson must be censured.

Saved - September 28, 2024 at 3:57 PM

@libsoftiktok - Libs of TikTok

This is a member of Congress. What a clown show https://t.co/4oFU82ddsN

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Appropriations is where the money moves in Congress. Democrats are making lives smoother through government funding. Republicans' Project 2025 is suspect, aiming to eliminate the Department of Education. This would negatively impact the environment, education, and rights. Democrats are keeping people informed.
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Speaker 0: Yo. This is the ranking Rizzler on appropriations, serving Connecticut's 3rd district. It's time to enter your dark academia congress era. Alright, besties. House appropriation is the money moves in congress. We are not chasing the bag. We are the bag. Democrats are making lives smoother through government funding. It's giving. It's giving it. So Sigma main character energy. But Republicans project 2025 is mad sus. Eliminating the Department of Education, negative aura points. Basically, the biggest fandom tax on the environment, on your education, and your rights. Big l posting it online, buddy. Democrats understood the assignment, but the law see how I keep you informed? Very cute, very demure.
Saved - November 22, 2024 at 1:21 PM

@DefiyantlyFree - Insurrection Barbie

These 5 republicans are going to be infamous. https://t.co/89qAFkpx6z

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Trump informed Gates that he lacked the necessary votes, with at least five Republicans firmly opposing him. Gates intended to shake up the department but faced setbacks due to a hacker allegedly leaking damaging files related to him. The narrative suggests that this was orchestrated by Democrats, with the DOJ leaking classified information. Despite the chaos, the FBI is not investigating the hack, and Gates faced no charges after a two-year inquiry. There’s relief over Gates stepping down, but concerns remain about Pam Bondi, who is expected to be confirmed and has a similar agenda to Gates. Bondi is seen as competent and capable, raising fears among those who value liberty and justice that she may effectively pursue her objectives.
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Speaker 0: Trump called Gates and told him he didn't have the votes. And NBC reports at least 5 Republicans were a firm no on Gates, as in nothing was changing their minds, as in even if Gaetz recited the bible from memory at his hearing. Those senators are Mitch McConnell, Murkowski, Collins, Mullen, and Curtis. Fetterman, not surprised. Speaker 1: What was your reaction to Matt Gaetz dropping out? Speaker 2: Holy I didn't see that coming. I mean, like, yes. He was the ultimate troll, and people have the opportunity. They can freak out over a thing and respond. And if you wanna do that, you don't have to. You better pace yourself, though, because it's not even Thanksgiving. Speaker 0: Gates was gonna shake up the department, and then he got whacked. The story is a hacker stole files with testimony from a 17 year old that's said to be damaging to Gates. But what it really looks like is a Democrat lawyer, oops, let it get out there and claimed he was hacked. And Biden's justice department and the Democrats on the House Ethics Committee are leaking classified files to the press like crazy. Leaks and hacks, that's what the deep state does when they want someone gone. Is the FBI investigating this hack? Definitely not. Remember, Gates was investigated by Biden's Department of Justice for 2 years, and they didn't bring a single charge. It was about dirtying them up. Now that Gates is out, the DOJ is high fiving. Speaker 1: Now there's, I think, a lot of a lot of relief that, Matt Gates is no longer, the nominee. One person said that certain events like the sun chasing away the dark of night are not surprising. They're expected, but that doesn't stop me from being grateful for each sunrise. I don't I now know what is going to be the first feather of my gratitude handprint turkey this Thanksgiving. Speaker 0: They shouldn't get too excited because Pam Bondi will definitely get confirmed and has the same attitude as Gaetz. She'll be going there to clean house, smoke out the bandits, and declassify what they've been trying to hide. MSNBC realized later that they didn't dodge a bullet. Speaker 3: Pam Bondi is exactly what I was saying in the last segment that we should all fear because she's competent. We may not agree with her ideologically, but she actually knows how to do this job. So if anyone on the Democratic side or anyone who cared about liberty or justice was thinking, well, maybe Matt Gaetz will screw this up, and that'll give us some time. No. Pam Bondi knows what she's doing.
Saved - December 19, 2024 at 3:36 PM

@RepThomasMassie - Thomas Massie

There’s a cognitive disconnect among my colleagues who hated Speaker Johnson’s CR, but still plan to vote for @SpeakerJohnson in 2 weeks. That 1557 page bill was a product of the swamp that uniparty Johnson was happy to facilitate. He couldn’t understand why we didn’t lap it up.

Saved - January 8, 2025 at 12:07 AM

@timburchett - Tim Burchett

What in the world? 159 Democrats voted against the Laken Riley act. Why would you in favor of rapists and murderers? https://t.co/RDQfds8PI0

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I'm heading out to vote on the Lake and Riley Act, which addresses the tragic case of a young girl in Georgia who was murdered by an illegal immigrant. This bill mandates that the Department of Homeland Security detain illegal immigrants charged with crimes like burglary and theft. It also allows state attorneys general to sue the DHS for not adhering to this requirement. Unfortunately, I expect most Democrats to oppose this common-sense legislation. It's crucial for voters to consider the character of those they support. By the way, President Carter's body will soon be lying in state. Thank you for your support.
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Speaker 0: Hey, everybody. Tim Merchant leaving the house for one vote, but it's a major vote. The Lake and Riley Act. Do y'all remember Lake and Riley was a little girl over there and young lady, I guess, in Georgia, brutally murdered by an illegal. He'd been arrested in New York City for driving without a license in Georgia for theft, but he was out. And this bill would, require the DHS to detain illegal immigrants who committed burglary, theft, larceny, near shoplifting, and allows the state attorney general to sue the DHS for violating this detention requirement. It's, you know, it's common sense stuff, but it's, a a large I would say the majority of Democrats are gonna vote against the dadgum thing. This I hope people realize what they're doing. They start voting for people and the quality and the character of people's hearts because this is just beyond belief. And this big crowd out here, president Carter's body will be lying in state soon. Anyway, thank you all so much for sending me here.
Saved - January 16, 2025 at 6:39 PM

@NancyMace - Nancy Mace

The Left continues to redefine rock bottom. This morning we passed my bill HR30 to deport: R*pists P*dophiles M*rderers Of women and girls. And 145 Democrats couldn’t stomach deporting these demons. https://t.co/0X1kr9xvUL

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Just passed HR 30, a bill to deport illegal aliens who are rapists, murderers, and child molesters, ensuring they can never return to the U.S. It's alarming that 145 Democrats opposed this measure aimed at protecting women and girls. The argument that the bill broadens the definition of domestic violence too much is unacceptable. As a survivor of domestic violence, I believe we cannot broaden the definition enough to protect victims. Thank you to everyone who supported this bill; it now moves to the Senate.
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Speaker 0: Just left the capital. We just passed HR 30, my bill to deport illegal aliens who are rapists, murderers, child molesters, pedophiles from the US. Once they leave, they should never be allowed back in, and a 145 Democrats voted against this common sense measure to protect women and girls. I can't emphasize enough the disgusting argument that this bill broadened the definition of domestic violence too much, too broad, that it actually hurt of domestic violence too much, too broad, that it actually hurt victims of domestic violence. As a as a survivor of domestic violence, I gotta tell you, we can't broaden the definition of domestic violence enough. Thank you to all those who voted to pass this bill out of the house this morning. It goes to the senate.
Saved - January 17, 2025 at 3:01 PM

@GovRonDeSantis - Ron DeSantis

Crazy to see the GOP supermajority in the House shut down discussion about illegal immigration. Members tell voters during their campaigns that they will fight illegal immigration but then get into office and stymie our agency heads who advocate doing something about it. https://t.co/owzYKhpM6J

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Our mission at the lottery is to maximize revenues to support public education while maintaining the integrity of our gaming system. I would like to remind you to stay focused on what the lottery department does. Please avoid discussing other policy issues. I understand the governor has addressed immigration matters, which are important to us. While I appreciate your interest in that topic, it is not relevant to this committee's work today.
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Speaker 0: At the lottery, our mission is to maximize revenues to enhance and support public education here in the state while maintaining the integrity of our gaming system. And, with that, you know, we we seek to we truly believe that eliminating also a state college tuition for illegal immigrants, will further enhance Terry? Speaker 1: The Sir secretary? Speaker 0: Yes. Speaker 1: I'm surprised I have to remind anyone again. I would like very much for you to stay on task. Just tell us what the lottery department does. K? Everybody got that clear? Don't need to hear anything else. No other policy issues. Just what your department does. Speaker 0: And I know the governor, has talked about, made it clear as it relates to immigration, illegal immigration. And and madam chair, that is something that is very important to us. Speaker 1: I'm I'm certain it is, but it's not, germane to this committee's work today. So I appreciate, that you want to talk about that, but that is not what we're gonna talk about here today.
Saved - January 21, 2025 at 1:39 AM

@charliekirk11 - Charlie Kirk

Democrats remain sitting when Trump says God saved his life. https://t.co/4qlfUKkYuu

Saved - January 25, 2025 at 3:37 AM

@BehizyTweets - George

Mitch McConnell just voted against Pete Hegseth. WHAT A DIRTBAG! https://t.co/g8voZnTByB

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Did you hear the question about the senator running for reelection in 2026? I apologize; it seems you need a moment. Is there another question? Please feel free to ask.
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Speaker 0: Did you hear the question, senator, running for reelection in 2026? Alright. I'm sorry. You all were gonna need a minute. Okay. Somebody else have a question? Please speak up.
Saved - February 13, 2025 at 11:49 PM

@nicksortor - Nick Sortor

🚨 JUST IN: President Trump ROASTS Mitch McConnell as the Senator spirals into disgrace and votes against RFK Jr “I feel sorry for Mitch. He's not equipped to be leader, mentally. He never was. Under him, the Republican Party was going to heII.” https://t.co/13pbvF76Qt

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Mitch McConnell wasn't mentally equipped to lead, even a decade ago. If I hadn't come along, the Republican Party wouldn't exist today. McConnell's influence came from fundraising due to his leadership position; senators took his money, but it wasn't true loyalty. I pushed him out of leadership, so he's not a fan of mine. His vote against Bobby is a vote against me, but that's okay, he did endorse me in the past. I don't know RFK Jr's health status, but McConnell shouldn't have been a leader. He's bitter and has lost his power, affecting his votes. Bobby did great and will do phenomenally in his new position, as did others, like Tulsi.
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Speaker 0: RFK Junior as the next health secretary citing conspiracy theories. What's your reaction to that? Well, I feel sorry for Mitch. And I was one of the people that led he couldn't he wanted to go to the end, and he wanted to stay leader. He wasn't he's not equipped mentally. He wasn't equipped ten years ago mentally, in my opinion. He'd let the Republican Party go to hell. If I didn't come along, the Republican Party wouldn't even exist right now. Mitch McConnell never really had it. He had an ability to raise money because of his position as leader, which anybody could do. You could do it even, and it's saying a lot. But, the fact is that he raised money and he gave a lot of money to senators, and so he had a little loyalty based on the fact that as leader, you could raise a lot of money. Senators would call me and they say, he wants to give me $2,025,000,000. Can I take it? I'd say, take the money. Take the money. But he so he engendered a certain amount of I don't even call it loyalty. He, you know, was able to get votes. But, I was the one that got him to drop out of the leadership position, so he can't love me. But he's not voting against Bobby. He's voting against me, but that's alright. He endorsed me. You know, Mitch do you know that Mitch endorsed me? Right? Well, he did. You think that was easy? What? He he had polio, obviously, and his I don't know I don't know anything about he had polio. He had polio. Are you doubting if he had polio? I have no idea if he had polio. All I can tell you about him is that he shouldn't have been a leader. He knows that. He voted against Bobby. He votes against almost everything now. He's a, you know, very bitter guy. And, we we have a very strong party, and he's almost not even really a very powerful member. And I'd say he's not a he's lost his power, and, it's affected his vote. And, you know, it's one of those things. But in the meantime, Bobby did great, got more votes than anybody thought, and I think he's gonna do phenomenally, just phenomenally in that position. And everybody else likewise did well. Not only well, they got more votes than anybody thought. Tulsi, look at how she did. She did great.
Saved - February 24, 2025 at 12:13 PM

@ProjectConstitu - Project Constitution

Last night, 38 RINO traitors defied Trump & passed a weak budget—NOT his America First agenda. We don’t care if the gov shuts down—HOLD THE LINE! Here’s the list of sellouts: [insert names]. Primary them all! #MAGA #DrainTheSwamp https://t.co/tFRxvfl9EU

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Last night, the Senate voted on a budget, and I introduced an amendment to cut $1.5 trillion, about the amount of waste, fraud, and corruption we've uncovered. Every Democrat voted against it, unsurprisingly, but 29 Republicans joined them, while only 24 Republicans voted for it. Here's a list of the 29 Republicans who betrayed you to continue the fraud, waste, and corruption. If you see your senator on this list, call them and tell them we don't care if the government shuts down or what sacred cows need to be sacrificed to balance the budget. If they're not willing to do the job, they should resign. Marsha Blackburn from Tennessee, your office will be hearing from me soon.
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Speaker 0: Last night, the senate voted on a budget and senator Rand Paul introduced an amendment to cut that budget by $1,500,000,000,000, which is approximately the amount of waste, fraud, and corruption that Doge has uncovered thus far. Of course, every democrat senator voted against it because they're rotten to the core. However, they would not have succeeded without the 29 republican senators that joined them. Only 24 of republican senators voted for it. Here's a list of the 29 Republicans that betrayed you and Doge to continue their fraud, waste, and corruption. You might wanna take a screenshot. If you see your senator on this list, call them and give them a piece of your mind. Tell them we don't care if the federal government shuts down or for how long. Tell them we don't care what sacred cows need to be sacrificed to balance the budget. Tell them if they're not willing to do the job, resign, and let someone lead who is willing to do the hard things. Yes. I see you, Marsha Blackburn from Tennessee. Your office will be hearing from me soon.
Saved - March 10, 2025 at 10:54 PM

@libsoftiktok - Libs of TikTok

Trump SLAMS Democrats for refusing to stand and clap for innocent Americans who were killed by criminal illegal aliens and a young boy who fought cancer. "They’re [Democrats] out of control. They've lost their minds." https://t.co/1Z8CQyslbV

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The Democrats have lost control. During the recent speech, they refused to stand for the two young women killed by illegal aliens, as well as the young man battling cancer. It seemed their only interest was in standing and applauding for the man and young boy present. Such behavior is unprecedented. I believe the Democrats have lost their minds.
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Speaker 0: The Democrats are out of control. You saw that the other night during the speech when, they wouldn't stand up for two of the young ladies were killed by illegal aliens, one with the cancer, the young man with the cancer. All you wanna do is stand up and applaud the man and the the boy, the young boy. And nobody's ever seen anything like that. They're out of control. They've lost their minds.
Saved - March 11, 2025 at 11:23 PM

@MassieforKY - Thomas Massie for Congress

Why don’t more Representatives stand on principle? Because telling the truth can get you in hot water. I’m going to need your help. I will run again because we need at least one person in Congress who won’t cave. Can you show support by contributing now? https://secure.thomasmassie.com/donate

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Saved - April 1, 2025 at 3:42 PM

@GuntherEagleman - Gunther Eagleman™

This guy is the dumbest motherfcker I have ever listened to in Congress, and I have listened to Jasmine Crockett. https://t.co/CBCoxMJbjo

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The speaker asserts that the Trump administration has engaged in authoritarian actions, instilling fear and punishing those who oppose him. They claim college students have been abducted for exercising free speech and detained in ICE facilities. Universities are allegedly punished for ideological disagreements through federal funding revocation. The speaker states that law firms challenging Trump have been targeted with unconstitutional executive orders. They allege that Paul Weiss and Scadden Arps settled by agreeing to represent only pro-Trump causes, while Perkins Coe, Covington and Burling, and Jenner and Block have successfully challenged the orders in court.
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Speaker 0: Thank you, mister chairman, and thank you to the witnesses for your appearance today. Special shout out to, former speaker, Newt Gingrich, from the great state of Georgia. Professor Gingrich, good to see you. Of the many troubling actions the Trump administration has taken in its first seventy one days, among the most damaging are his authoritarian, dictatorial, and unprecedented use of presidential power to instill fear, intimidate, exact revenge against, and punish those who dare to stand up to him and hold him accountable to the laws of our nation. A climate of fear and trepidation has descended upon the nation. The people of America are more afraid today for our democracy and for their personal safety than ever in our lifetimes. College students have disappeared off the streets paramilitary style by plainclothes, mask wearing individuals, and held incognito for days before they are discovered thousands of miles away in some private for profit ICE detention facility. Why? For exercising their free speech first amendment rights. Universities, bastions of free thought, have been punished for having the wrong ideology by having their federal funding revoked, and major law firms that dared to have brought cases against king Trump have been targeted with blatantly unconstitutional executive orders that, if allowed to stand, would shut those law firms down. Unfortunately, mega law firms, Paul Weiss and Scadden Arps, chose to settle with the king by pledging to represent pro bono only those persons and causes that the king approved of. Shame on them. Then there are other law firms that have stood up to king Trump, and they have challenged his executive orders against them in court, and they have won. Kudos to the lawyers at Perkins Coe, Covington and Burling, and Jenner and Block, among others, for standing up for themselves.
Saved - May 13, 2025 at 9:43 PM
reSee.it AI Summary
I’ve compiled a list of Republicans on the Ways and Means Committee who have let down gun owners. It's important to reach out to them and remind them that their actions could cost them their jobs in the next primary. Gun owners have long memories, and we won't forget who stood against us.

@RKBAShackleford - Rusty Shackleford

Here is a list of all the republicans on the ways and means committee that just betrayed gun owners. Remember to say hi to them, and remind them that they wont be employed come next primary. Gun owners don't forget. @RepJasonSmith@VernBuchanan@RepAdrianSmith@MikeKellyPA @RepDavid @RepLaHood@RepArrington@RepRonEstes@LloydSmuckerPA@repkevinhern@RepCarolMiller@RepGregMurphy@RepDavidKustoff@RepBrianFitz@RepGregSteube@RepTenney@RepFischbach@RepBlakeMoore@RepBethVanDuyne@RepFeenstra@NMalliotakis@RepMikeCarey@RepRudyYakym@RepMaxMiller@RepAaronBean @RepNateMoran

Saved - June 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM

@nicksortor - Nick Sortor

🚨 HOLY CRAP! Rep. Melissa Hortman sounded absolutely TERRIFIED while speaking to the media after she voted NO on healthcare for illegals She was just ass*ssinated this morning. She knew she’d end up as a target in one form or another. https://t.co/ynud2YgRND

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The speaker acknowledges that people will be hurt by a specific vote. They state that they worked hard to achieve a budget deal that would exclude a particular provision.
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Speaker 0: I I know that people will be hurt by that vote, and I'm, we worked very hard to try to get a budget deal that wouldn't include that provision.
Saved - July 3, 2025 at 3:10 PM

@DefiantLs - Defiant L’s

Steve Scalise: “If you're disabled on Medicaid right now, you've been crowded out by able-bodied people sitting at home playing video games.” https://t.co/cEwGxZtDVN

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The speaker asserts that disabled individuals on Medicaid have been negatively impacted by able-bodied people, specifically 35-year-olds who are choosing not to work and instead play video games. The speaker claims these individuals are crowding out the truly needy from receiving Medicaid benefits. The speaker states that these able-bodied individuals will now be required to get a job. The speaker believes this change is beneficial for them, as their families likely disapprove of their current lifestyle.
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Speaker 0: Before. If you're disabled on Medicaid right now, you've been crowded out of those programs by people turning down work. Able-bodied people, 35 year olds sitting at home playing video games. They're gonna now have to go get a job. That's right. And by way, that's a good thing for them. Their mom doesn't want them sitting in the basement playing video games anyway. But now it no longer will be crowding out Medicaid for the truly needy people who deserve it.
Saved - September 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
reSee.it AI Summary
I shared that the Michigan State Legislature is praying for Charlie Kirk after he was shot, while Democrats Joey Andrews and Emily Devendorf were dismissive. I expressed my outrage and suggested that people should contact their offices and hold them accountable.

@MostlyPeacefull - Mostly Peaceful Memes

The Michigan State Legislature is currently praying for Charlie Kirk who was just shot. Here are two Democrats (Joey Andrews and Emily Devendorf ) who couldn’t be bothered to stand. In fact they were snickering. https://t.co/4QRxUiXGFe

@MostlyPeacefull - Mostly Peaceful Memes

These people are truly evil

@MostlyPeacefull - Mostly Peaceful Memes

Be a shame if people called their offices https://t.co/Ya9jIm8qjQ

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If an unbalanced warmonger like Dan Crenshaw can represent the GOP in Congress, then honestly what’s the point of having a Republican Party? State Rep. Steve Toth is working to beat Crenshaw in the primary and restore the party to sanity. (0:00) Dan Crenshaw Is Not America First (5:43) Why Crenshaw Is Letting Illegal Immigration Destroy Texas (12:37) Why Is Crenshaw So Deeply Focused on Ukraine? (16:09) The Dark Lobbying Groups Supporting Crenshaw (27:53) What Do Other Members of Congress Think About Crenshaw? (29:34) The Viral Video of Crenshaw Chastising a Young Woman (35:18) Crenshaw’s Lies About the Intel Agencies (43:45) Crenshaw’s Suspicious Skills in the Stock Market (49:36) How Do We Fix the System? (1:00:05) How Hard Will It Be to Take Out Dan Crenshaw? (1:08:29) How Influential Is the Bush Family in Texas? (1:10:16) The Sexual Blackmail Operations Happening in Politics (1:14:56) How Are Good People Corrupted by Politics? (1:20:44) Toth’s Fight Against Radical Transgenderism (1:24:01) The Destruction of Texas Cities Includes paid partnerships.

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Steve Toath argues Dan Crenshaw is 'clearly a very troubled guy' and that the Republican Party shouldn't have 'a Dan Crenshaw in it.' He says Montgomery County is 'the reddest of Red Counties' and Crenshaw's 'main interests are outside this country.' He claims Crenshaw's top donors include 'a foreign lobby' and 'Clifford Asness,' calling his stance 'America first' but 'America last.' He criticizes Crenshaw for skipping a Texas border visit and asks, 'What is that?' He cites 'Mexico's a failed state' and that 'Fifty eight percent of the births in Texas are Medicaid births.' He calls to close the border and blames 'Karl Rove' and the Associated Republicans of Texas for pressuring conservatives, notes gambling fights, and argues Crenshaw is silent on the border. The Texas House is 'overwhelmingly Republican, but it's actually run by the Democrats' with David Cook as speaker chosen by a coalition.
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Speaker 0: I'm so grateful that you're here and that you're running against Dan Crenshaw. I don't just because I don't think Dan Crenshaw is the worst person in the world or anything like that. I feel sorry for Dan Crenshaw. He's clearly a very troubled guy. But it just does seem like the Republican Party shouldn't have to have a Dan Crenshaw in it, and I think you're gonna beat Dan Crenshaw. And I just I just wanna say thank you for doing that. Speaker 1: I'm honored to be here with you. I really am. So I've been jealous of you because my wife loves you so much. Speaker 0: So you rep you're in the Texas house. You represent an area that overlaps with Crenshaw's district, obviously. You live there. It's one of the most conservative districts in Texas, I think it's Speaker 1: fair to Montgomery County is absolutely the reddest of Red Counties. Speaker 0: Yes. Speaker 1: Tarrant County's bigger, but it's purple. Yep. We are the biggest red county left in Texas, and 100% of my district is inside Congressional District 2. Speaker 0: So that would mean it's probably the biggest by population Red County in The United States. Speaker 1: Absolutely. Yeah. Absolutely. Once we lost Harris County to voter fraud, yes. Speaker 0: So how does that the biggest I'm I'm just kind of guessing. One of the biggest Republican counties in The United States get Dan Crenshaw as a member of congress? Like, how does that happen? Speaker 1: So this is Mayacopa. Is that how you say it? Speaker 0: Mayacopa. Yeah. It's you're admitting fault. Speaker 1: In 2018 when Dan Crenshaw came around, it was kind of a man crush for me. Yeah. Yeah. Navy SEAL, war hero. Yeah. And I only knew one person. There were, like, eight people in that race, and there was only one person that was kind of emerging as as the person that was gonna win, and he was kind of a rhino. He was he was very weak, and this guy comes along that says, look. I'm gonna upend the apple cart. I'm gonna be a disruptive influence. I am going to absolutely stand against the swamp, or as Ted Cruz called it, the Washington cartel. Yeah. I'm gonna stop it. I'm gonna fight it. And so we got behind him and Damn. Speaker 0: I would have voted for him too if you Speaker 1: said that. So I encouraged our local tea party to mail into the district to spend money into the district and help them raise money to move move mountains to get Dan Crenshaw elected. So I feel a sense of responsibility for this major screw up because no sooner did he get there than he became part of the problem. Speaker 0: Oh, he became a leader of the problem. And I and I have so what year was that? Speaker 1: 02/2018. Speaker 0: I'm I'm sure he has official opinions on issues related to Texas or The United States, but it's also very obvious to me watching him carefully that his real interest all his main interests are outside this country. So it doesn't seem like his agenda really has anything to do with America. Speaker 1: It's self interest more than anything. You you see this revolving door on the part of people in congress that line themselves up for lobbying positions as soon as they leave congress. And so in order to get those kind of cushy jobs, you've gotta do the lobby's bidding upfront early on. He's a young guy. Right? Yeah. And he's not the kind of person that's gonna be there for twenty or thirty years. He is the kind of person, though, that's gonna line himself up for a cushy lobbying position once he gets out. And so you've gotta go along. You cannot you cannot ruffle feathers. You can't go against leadership, you can't go against the lobby. Speaker 0: Well, not only does he not go against the lobby, I mean, his campaigns are the most we pulled the numbers. The most recent one that I saw suggested that his two biggest donors are giving him money because of his foreign policy views. One is a foreign lobby, I think is his biggest donor, one of them. Literally a foreign lobby. And the other is a hedge fund guy called Clifford Asness, who's, you know, I would say one of the sleazier people in American business. There's that. But also is not paying Dan Crenshaw for anything related to The United States. This only has to do with influencing his vote on questions pertaining to other countries. I mean, it's the opposite of America first. It's America last. Speaker 1: Yeah. It's been my greatest heartburn is his total disregard for the border and what we've been dealing with at the Texas border, and yet his obsession with Ukraine's border. Yes. What is that? I I mean, I can't get my arms around it. So three years ago, we went down to the border, and pretty much all of the Texas delegation was there. Mike Johnson came from Alabama or from Louisiana. Yep. The southern state congressional members came down to be with us, we interviewed ICE agents. We interviewed US border patrol. We we interviewed US border patrol union. We interviewed ranchers. The only person from the congressional delegation that was not there, Dan Crenshaw. It's like, why don't you want to know about what's going on down here? This is not about working with the Mexican government. This is about on on boots on the ground, right down on the border, understanding what we're dealing with down here. You So understand firsthand what's really truly going on. Because he has no clue what's really going on. Speaker 0: But you're in Houston. I mean, it's not that far. Houston has been complete I have family there, and I so I go completely transformed by illegal immigration completely. It's unrecognizable, and it hasn't gotten better. It's gotten much worse. That's my read as a visitor. But how could he ignore that? Speaker 1: Fifty eight percent of the births in Texas are Medicaid births. Fifty eight percent? Fifty eight percent. So think about this a second, Tucker. Twenty years ago, Medicaid was 3% of the Texas budget. Now it's the number two driver of the budget, and it's due in large part to illegal immigration. People come across the border, have their babies. Sometimes they go back, sometimes they don't. Speaker 0: So that's like collapse. I mean, that's that's not sustainable. Not even in the short term is that sustainable. Speaker 1: Good hearted people wanna say, well, we should do this. And to which I say, I think God would say, we should do it. We should do it. Yeah. Not the government. Exactly. We should do it. Church Speaker 0: care so much. Use your own money. Speaker 1: The church should do it. We used to we used to go down to the Mexican border. I mean, to the border towns in Northern Mexico and build churches. We would build schools. We would build homes. We'd go down there and and do medical missions work. We can't go down there anymore because Mexico, for all intents and purposes, is a failed state. I mean, it really truly is. It's a failed state. And so you can't go down there anymore. And so people say, well, we can't go down there anymore. Therefore, the United States government needs to bail this all out. No. It's it we're we are destroying our children and grandchildren's ability to have any kind of future whatsoever. We're we're drilling holes in the bottom of a lifeboat. Speaker 0: What I mean, Crenshaw doesn't know this? I mean, his constituents, I know, are upset about it because I know a lot of them. Speaker 1: Tucker, he came to a town hall meeting three years ago when the senate bipartisan which anytime you hear a senate bipartisan border bill, run. Yeah. Run fast. Right? Democrats are not looking for any kind of solution on the border. Democrats are not looking to close the border. Speaker 0: They created this. They completely created this. Speaker 1: And so they have this wackadoodle bill that allows 5,000 people into the country a day. 8 1,800,000 a year. And if you look at the bones of the bill, yes, the bones of the bill say it did call for more ICE agents, but it wasn't to close the border, Tucker. It was to process people coming in to the country. So all it did was it just streamlined their ability to come into the country and be lost into the system. Okay. Show up for your court date in a year and a half, two years, which they don't show up for. They're gone. They're lost into the fabric of the nation. And, you know, they're a drain on our schools. They're a drain on our infrastructure. They're drain really huge drain on our criminal criminal justice system in Texas and across The United States. It's killing us. Speaker 0: Well, they also make it impossible to have a cohesive country. I mean, if a huge percentage of the population just got here, then what is it to be American? No one is pausing to ask that question. And when there is a financial downturn or a national disaster or we're tested as a nation, how do we hold together? Speaker 1: Yeah. Twenty years ago, a friend of mine that grew up in Toronto said, the great thing about America is that you're a melting pot, where Canada's more like a quilt, and we're tearing apart at its seams. Yes. Y'all have a common language. Did I did I just say y'all? Yes, I did. It's okay. You have a common language. We don't have a common language in Canada. We have French and we have English. And in America now, we have English and we have Spanish. And we are becoming a quilt that is tearing apart at Speaker 0: the seams. Yes. And do you feel that where you live? Speaker 1: Oh, terribly. Yeah. Terribly. You you see it especially see it in the classroom right now. We keep hearing the left say we're losing teachers in public education because they're not being paid enough money. Well, it's not what the polling's telling us. I sat down with Texas Classroom Teachers Association in 02/2019, and I said, quality of life, violence in the classroom, teacher pay, what's the most important issue? Quality of life and and violence in Speaker 0: the classroom. Violence in the classroom. Speaker 1: Violence in the classroom. Teachers are being assaulted like you have never seen before. I mean, there is one school in the state of Texas, and I think it was on TikTok, 72 assaults or I'm I'm sorry, 72 fights on that were recorded. So that's basically two fights a week in the school that were recorded and then were on TikTok. And those are just the ones that they've caught. And you see this in classroom after classroom after classroom. So you bring you bring children together that can't speak the language, and then you poison them with critical race theory to tell them that the children of color are oppressed and the white kids are oppressors. What could go wrong? Right? I mean, it's Speaker 0: just You've got a lot of attacks on whites as a result of that. You have. A lot of race hate. Speaker 1: And a lot of attacks on white teachers as as well. And, again, a lot of this, it stems from what we've done with the border and our our unwillingness to close the border. This is not about understanding better understanding what's going on in Mexico. Mexico's a failed state, and we've gotta treat it like a failed state. We've gotta close the border. Speaker 0: Where do you keep your most valuable possessions? Not your necktie or a pair of socks, but things you wouldn't want to replace or maybe couldn't. Heirlooms from your parents, your birth certificate, your firearms, your grandfather's shotgun. Where do you store those? Under the bed? In the back of a closet? No. That's unwise and maybe unsafe. Liberty Safe is the place to store them. I would know I have a colonial safe from Liberty Safe. It's in my garage. It's the best. I keep everything in there. It's a ProFlex system, allows you to design the inside of your safe in a way that works for you. It's not a fixed setup. Someone else puts the shelves in, and you have to deal with it. You make it the way you want it. Have a stock of rifles? You can make room. Need more shelves for handguns, for documents, for valuables, for gold. You can do whatever you want. You can refigure your safe in minutes. Maximum flexibility, maximum convenience. Liberty Safe is America's number one safe company made in The United States. Great people. I know them. Visit libertysafe.com. Use the code Tucker 10 at checkout for 10% off. Franklin and Colonial Safes featuring the Proflex interior that you customize. You're gonna dig it. We definitely plus they're good looking, I will say. And yet Crenshaw, every time I've seen him speak, it's about Ukraine's sacred borders, its territorial integrity, standing up for democracy, fighting Putin, Hitler, or whatever. What is why the emphasis? I mean, I I think it's fair to have views on all kinds of foreign questions, but in his case, it's so much the center of his focus. Why? Speaker 1: I you know, and I get that you you can go from Trump was you know, Russia went into Crimea, right, under under Barack Obama in his silly line in the sand. And Trump came in and where Obama had given them blankets and band aids, Trump came in and gave them, you know, anti tank missiles, and he gave them serious weaponry to stall the Russians. And then Biden comes in and does the exact opposite. Right? But starts talking tough. And I I so I guess I can get initially saying, okay. I wanna get back to doing what Trump did. But the obsession that he that he displayed in the midst of it was was sickening, was absolutely sickening, especially, again, when you call into account the fact that we have an open border in the South, and he was doing nothing to help us. In fact, when the senate deal came about, he held a town hall for elected officials in our district. And I put my hand up, and I said, Dan, you're allowing 5,000 people into the country a day. And he he just absolutely was totally pissed, really, that that I was bringing this up. And I'm not the only one. Senator Creighton also was like, we cannot do this. And he said, you guys should be absolutely thankful that we're doing something now to close the border because you can't do it. I'm like, we have done it. We just need you guys to stay the hell out of the way. We could Texas on its own could close the border. We just need you to keep out of our business. If you're not gonna help us, get out of the way. And he was just emphatic that we couldn't do it. We needed we needed to pass this legislation. Meanwhile, Trump was saying, you don't need any legislation. You just need to close the border. You just need to show some some stones, some backbone, and close the border. Speaker 0: Trump has pushed it. Wait. You don't have a national garden Speaker 1: in Texas? Speaker 0: I mean, I never understood that. But but the but I'm interested in his reaction. I've seen this with him a lot, and it suggests that there's something I think he's mentally ill. I'm just gonna say that. I'm not saying that as an attack. I'm saying that with sympathy, there's something really wrong with him. I think he was damaged by his service. I think it's partly our fault as a country for sending these guys into these horrible positions and then not helping them when they come home. I know that you help run Mighty Oaks, which is a group dedicated to helping servicemen when they come back so they don't kill themselves. So I I know you spent a lot of time on this. So I don't wanna attack him too much personally because I wanna be compassionate, but, boy, I've never seen any elected official respond to criticism the way he does. I mean, it's like anyone who asked him a question, it's like, you're evil. I saw him recently say, if you don't agree with me on this foreign policy issue, you're evil. It's like, what is that? Speaker 1: You you you can't enter into any kind of dialogue with him. He just takes it personally. He gets offended. He's completely thin skinned over it. I just can't Speaker 0: And attacks you for asking Speaker 1: Then attacks you and attacks your integrity, your character, and your and your intellectual capacity. I can't I can't put words to it. So who's for him? I I think the lobby is absolutely for him. I think establishment Republicans and, you know, the Karl Rove, the Associated Republicans of Texas are Speaker 0: for him. Speaker 1: It should be called the Associated Rhinos of Texas, but it's so sick. These guys Speaker 0: Associated Republicans Speaker 1: of Associated Republicans of Texas. So they come after conservative Republicans every two years. I've got one of the most conservative voting records in the Texas House, like, in the top five, top four, my last four sessions. I've passed some really important, critically important, comprehensive legislation that's part of the Republican priorities, banning critical race theory in the classroom, banning the social transition of children. And yet, this group comes after me every two years. Two two election cycles ago, they spent $3,400,000 against me, and we're able to get 36% of the vote. This last election cycle, Associated Republicans of Texas spent $700,000 against me and got 34% Speaker 0: of the vote. Really? Speaker 1: But Dan Crenshaw helps fund him. Why? So he takes his lobbying money, and he writes checks, tens of thousands of dollars to the Associated Republicans of Texas that isn't doing anything to help us expand the majority in the Texas house. No. They just come after the conservatives. It's trying to Speaker 0: make you more like Democrats. Completely. Yeah. So what is it, and who runs it, and where does its money come from? Speaker 1: It's Karl Rove, and it's it's just kind of big establishment money, lobby money. Speaker 0: Karl Rove, every time I ask someone involved in Texas politics, how does this conservative, this great state, get such horrible like, how does a John Cornyn or Dan Crenshaw get elected in Texas? They always mention Karl Rove. Speaker 1: You Texas is the eighth largest economy in the world. Our economy is bigger than Russia. Our economy is bigger than Australia. It's bigger than Canada. It's bigger than Mexico. It's a huge economy. We we have a 300 plus billion dollar budget. Right? So when you're talking State budget? State budget. Speaker 0: Over $300,000,000,000? Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. Damn. Per biennium. And so when you're talking about that kind of money, it attracts a lot of bottom dwellers. So you hear about the Washington cartel. Well, it's pretty much the same thing in Austin, Texas. It there's just a lot of money, just a ton of money, and they will get fixated on things like bringing gambling to Texas as an example. The neocons desperately wanna bring gambling to Texas. Why? I'm very libertarian on this issue. Like Yeah. If you wanna have a card game and you wanna gamble, what you do in your in your house is is up to you. Speaker 0: It's not Oh, I agree. Speaker 1: It's none of my business. But at the end of the day, if you're going to say this is state sponsored, and we're only gonna give out two or three licenses, and we're gonna give them out to our friends that have given tons of campaign money, right, then it's corrupt. It's it's crony capitalism to the max. Right? Speaker 0: Does it improve people's lives? Speaker 1: Doesn't improve people's lives. And at the end Speaker 0: of the day, you look Speaker 1: at any you look at any of the states that have implemented it. Speaker 0: Oh, yeah. Speaker 1: And we have we have a national treasurer in Houston by the name of Jim McEnvale. His name is Mattress Mack, and he owns Gallery Furniture. He's the most amazing man in the whole world, and he's a gambler. And and he would say the worst thing that Texas could possibly do would be to bring gambling to Texas. Why? You they build these billion dollar resorts, right, with cash, these multi multinational corporations. What happens to that money? People go and gamble, and that money leaves our economy. Speaker 0: Of course. Speaker 1: So have less money moving within the economy. They'll say, well, yeah, but it's a it's a great tax revenue. It's a there's great tax revenue from it. Yeah. But, eventually, the pool in which you're drawing from dries up. Speaker 0: Well, where's it worked? I mean, it was gonna save the state of Maine, for example. No. It was gonna save East St. Louis, Illinois. No. It was gonna save Mississippi Gulf Coast. No. So is there a place where gambling has actually made people's lives better? It's just enriched like some of the worst people in the world? Speaker 1: It's it's it's all it is. And this past session the past two sessions, they've been trying to do it, and they I got a call from the lobbyists, which they assigned two lobbyists to me. So there are a 150 house members. Each of us had two lobbyists assigned to them for gambling, and it became the no lobbyists left behind session when it came to gambling. And and they're like, hey. We wanna write you $25,000 check for your your reelection campaign. I'm like, I I don't want it. We're not asking for your guaranteed vote Speaker 0: in favor Speaker 1: of it. No. And I'm like, I I don't want it. If Planned Parenthood wanted to give me money so I could vote against plan vote against abortion, I I would take that money so I could vote against abortion. But I'm not gonna take your dirty money that came at the hands of somebody that lost their house or lost their marriage or lost their business as a result of that. Just dirty money. Speaker 0: What what were the gambling lobbyists like? Speaker 1: Some of the nicest guys. Speaker 0: Oh, charming. I Speaker 1: bet. Very wonderful people. Speaker 0: Did they call it gaming? Speaker 1: Some did. Yeah. And, Steve, don't don't you understand about the money that we're gonna be able to spend on public education as the result of doing this? Right? It's about the children, Steve. It's about Speaker 0: the children. We're sorry to say it, but this is not a very safe country. Walk through Oakland or Philadelphia. Yeah. Good luck. So most people, when they think about this, wanna carry a firearm, and a lot of us do. The problem is there can be massive consequences for that. Ask Kyle Rittenhouse. Kyle Rittenhouse got off in the end, but he was innocent from the first moment. 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So it it typically and I appreciate Dan Patrick over in the senate because he pretty much guaranteed that as long as he's gonna be the like like of and hopefully, Brandon Creighton will will come in after him, will do the same thing. I think he will, but I don't think it has a future in Texas, thankfully. Gambling. Gambling. And I wanna be clear on this. Casino gambling. Again, you wanna have card games at your house, invite people over and Speaker 0: Of course. No. I don't I don't care. Bringing in casinos. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. That's so where was Dan Patrick on this? Did he Speaker 1: He killed it over in the senate. Speaker 0: Okay. So he's lieutenant governor. And where was Crenshaw? Speaker 1: Silent. Really? And that's the and that's the problem is that, you know, there's so many there's so many things that are threatening Texas right now, and Dan Crenshaw has been absolutely silent. So in 2000 and it was 2014 when Abbott became governor, when Ken Ken Paxton became the attorney general. Those guys won with twenty three and twenty four point margins over the Democrats. We're winning now with eight point margins. Where did where did the margin go? Where did where where did these huge wins go, evaporate to? And it's not people moving into Texas. Seven out of 10 of them Tucker, Texas is still red from people moving into it. Republicans that are refugees, if you will. Where we're losing is our children. Of course. Our kids. Our our kids are being absolutely indoctrinated in the classroom. Speaker 0: And immigration. I grew up in California. I was at Reagan's last rally in California in 1980, and it was a right wing state. It was California was a mean, I Bill Clinton lost California in 1992 and won West Virginia in 1992. So, like, peep and now California is, of course, bright blue, and West Virginia is bright red. Why is that? Because California is a completely different state due to immigration, and West Virginia has had less immigration than the other state. Speaker 1: Yeah. The the the the big problem, is that politicians like Dan Crenshaw refused to take on the teachers' unions. They refused to stand up to the teachers' unions. Why? They're afraid of them. They spent tons of money, and Randy Weingartner and her ilk scare the heck out of these people. Speaker 0: So Crenshaw is afraid so he's like Speaker 1: I mean, it's the only thing I get. I you can't I I there's been zero activism on his part whatsoever at at standing up to these people. Speaker 0: You hate ever to suggest that someone's doing something for the money. Right. But in Crenshaw's case, like, his position on Ukraine is so far out that it's obvious to me he's being paid to have that position. But you tell me, is sending a 100,000,000,000 more to Ukraine are Ukraine's borders are these, like, really huge issues in your district? Speaker 1: It's the border is the biggest issue. The US border. The US border. And when you ask people, and this is not anecdotal, it's empirical, there have been plenty of people polling in Congressional District 2 in Montgomery County. Why? Because it's the biggest red county left in Texas. The governor polls it. We poll it. Other people are polling it. And it's people see the contrast between the way Ukraine is being taken care of and the Texas border is not, and they draw contrast, and they should. It's kind of that simple, isn't it? Speaker 0: Yeah. Where's Karl Rove on this question? Speaker 1: You know, I think a lot of these guys are just big government neocons that don't care. They don't see it as a threat at all. At all. Speaker 0: Do you ever see Rove around? Never. But he still has a hand in Texas politics? Completely. Do you ever talk to Crenshaw? Speaker 1: The last time I talked to him the last time I talked to him was at at that town hall three years ago when he dismissed myself and senator Creighton for not accepting and not, you know, wholeheartedly buying into this crappy senate bipartisan bill that they wanted to push through. And and, again, they blamed president Trump who was out of office at the time saying, you know, Trump is just torpedoing this thing, and they're all angry about it. And Trump was just saying, you don't need legislation to close the border. Right. You just need to have the will to do it. And, now Dan Crenshaw and a 100% of the Republicans or a Democrat a 100% of the Democrats in Congress said, no. We need this legislation. No. You don't. Close the freaking border. Speaker 0: Who who among Texas elected officials supports Crenshaw? Speaker 1: You know what's funny is when the day we announced, we had, I think, 30 of the most conservative members of the Texas legislature that endorsed me, and he came out with a list of people to endorse him, Not one single member of congress was behind him. Not one Really? Not one active congressman came out to endorse him. Speaker 0: Do you ever talk to members of congress about him who work with him? What do they say? Speaker 1: I'm I'm not gonna comment on that. I just Yeah. I can't. I just can't. Speaker 0: Okay. I understood. But it sounds like he's not a favorite among his colleagues. Speaker 1: Yeah. I so a lot of you know, I I came in when I came into the legislature, I came in with one of the biggest classes in in in since the Sharpstown Scandal in the seventies, I think there were 42 people in our class, and many of them have gone on to serve in in congress in Washington. And I have a good relationship with all of them. Speaker 0: Yeah. But Crenshaw doesn't sound like he does. Is he close to Cornyn? Speaker 1: You know, I don't know if they have a relationship or not. I know that Cornyn is supporting him for obvious reasons, but Speaker 0: that's about it. What are those reasons? Speaker 1: Well, just they're they're both donor class lobbyist centric people. We're called representatives because we're actually supposed to represent the people that vote us into office. And there are just some that just don't give a flying flip about Speaker 0: those people. Well, in Crenshaw's cases, clearly, he's hostile to them. Yeah. So it's not just you that he's snapped at for asking a question. I wanna play a video, and maybe you can explain what we're watching. A young girl comes up to him, she looks very young, in the video, and asks him about comments that he made about Jesus during a podcast. Can before we play this, can you tell us what the backstory? Speaker 1: So he was on a podcast, and Dan wants to show himself off as this intellectual. Speaker 0: Dan Dan is dumb. No offense. And I'm not being mean. By the way, my dogs are dumb, and I and I think they're going to heaven. I have no I don't think that's a moral category. I'm not attacking him, but he is dumb, like head injury dumb. And I don't anyway, sorry. Sorry to be mean. Speaker 1: No. I I I think I actually think he's I'm gonna disagree with you. I think he's incredibly smart. I think he's vacuous when it comes to wisdom, though. Speaker 0: Maybe that's what I'm referring to. Yeah. Speaker 1: So I think he knows a lot. And when I've sat and listened to some of his podcasts and some of the different things, he's a really smart guy, but he completely lacks the wisdom to know what to do with all those smarts. Yeah. And so he's doing this podcast with this guy, and they're talking about he brings up, well, the American people need archetypes. Spider Man, Superman, and Jesus Christ. And he says, and then real ones too, like Rosa Parks and Abraham Lincoln. And they're like, what? You just you just actually said Speaker 0: Jesus Rosa Parks is real. Jesus is not. Speaker 1: Jesus is not. And so this Speaker 0: this That's a Karl Rove position, I think. Speaker 1: I probably. I I saw it on Wikipedia. Yeah. Let's be real. So this young woman at the Montgomery County Tea Party on a Monday night asks Dan Crenshaw. She said, I'm trying to get my arms around this. And then she read the statement verbatim of what he had said on this podcast. And he said, I can't get my arms around that. And he said, you put a period after Jesus and don't question my faith. And the whole place just lost it. So let's play that. Speaker 0: You Speaker 2: not only lied about Jesus not being real, but you lied about being a Christian. To give context to anyone who hasn't heard, Crenshaw said, quote, the most important thing here is that we have important hero archetypes that we look up to. Jesus is a hero archetype. Superman is a hero archetype. Real characters too too. I could name a thousand. Rosa Parks, Ronald Reagan, end quote. I can't wrap my head around this. Speaker 3: You're all I'll help you. Put a period of Okay. The word Jesus and don't question my faith. Speaker 1: Wow. Wow. A Speaker 0: 10 year old girl. So I think it's it's fair to, you know, to to not wanna be attacked for your faith. Okay. I I I'm with Crenshaw on that. But she wasn't really attacking him on the face. She was asking, like, what do Speaker 1: you She wanted clarity. Speaker 0: What do you mean? Speaker 1: Yeah. Exactly. Clarity. Like, have you ever said anything you're like, I could have positioned that differently. Speaker 0: Have I ever said anything? That's what I'm saying. Speaker 1: I get asked that all the time, especially I'll come home. My wife will be like, did you mean to say that? I'm like, okay. What should I have said? Right. Right? Oh, I've lived there. Like, okay. Yes. Honey, that makes sense. Right? But but and so you just say, wow. I guess I coulda handled that differently. I get I'm that's not what I meant. You I woulda put a period after Jesus, and then I woulda shut my mouth and laughed and laughed it off. Totally. But instead, got all defensive at this young woman and tried to ridicule her. Speaker 0: Oh, he attacked her, like, instantly. Yeah. So the first amendment is the one truly distinctive thing that makes America America. It makes this country great. You are a citizen. That means you can speak openly and honestly without fear about what you actually believe. The government doesn't own you. You own the government. That's the premise. And for two hundred fifty years, we've lived it. We hope to keep living it. 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So what you're seeing on display there is a fragile, very unhappy, and above all hostile person. I mean, why would a person like that wanna be in elected office in the first place? Speaker 1: I don't know because you are the reality is that you are the center of scorn. You know? You just are. You Of course. You're gonna take some hard positions, and you're gonna get shot at. Of course. Speaker 0: So how did that video go over in Texas? Speaker 1: It went viral, like, overnight. Speaker 0: Yeah. Speaker 1: And the next morning, it was on all the different radio talk shows and yeah. Went over like a lead balloon. But and and not at no time did he ever say, well, I handled that. It was a bad night for me. Probably shouldn't have said that. That was silly on my part. Right? I mean, there's just no ability to be gracious and kind to that young woman even in the absence of in seeing whatever what happened. Nothing. It was just bizarre. Speaker 0: I wanna play one other clip that I think reveals a lot, not just about his temperament, but about his agenda. So he was asked by a reporter whom I respect, called Liam Cosgrove, well, coming out of Congress, this was earlier this was the spring, early summer, and he was asked about legislation that he had voted for. And basically, position was the intel agencies are not in any way playing in American politics. Here's the exchange. Speaker 3: With data and with access to your, you know, app that you're addicted to, you can vastly manipulate an entire population, which the Chinese have done. Speaker 4: Are you worried that our intelligence agencies are doing the same thing domestically? Speaker 3: Am I worried that and I'm well, I know that they're not. Speaker 4: They're not manipulating Americans? They're not Speaker 3: Yes. Controlling a Speaker 4: flow of information? Speaker 3: Yeah. Did you have some evidence otherwise that you'd like to share? Speaker 4: I mean Okay. Speaker 3: Before the 20 any serious questions? Speaker 4: Congressman, you asked for an example of The US intelligence agencies meddling in our information. What about before the twenty twenty election when 50 members came out and said Hunter Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation. Does that count? Speaker 3: No. Because, I mean, they were they were retired. Speaker 4: They were retired, but but the FBI program. The FBI had the laptop for over Speaker 3: a year. Nothing even close to my TikTok. Speaker 0: So that, I felt again, I've spent the last half an hour sort of defending Crenshaw in a backhanded way. I think he's a victim of the war on terror, if I'm being honest. That's what I think. He's clearly so damaged and screwed up and tragic personal life and all the rest. But when I saw that, I thought this is, like, not a good person, actually. Speaker 1: The the most egregious thing about that is that as I talk to friends in DC, they see this, like, on a daily basis. Speaker 0: Oh, yes. Sweet. See what? Speaker 1: This is the deep state. This is the deep state Speaker 0: at at work that he's denying exists. The intel agencies playing in American politics. Speaker 1: Right. So what the left has done is they've positioned this fourth branch of government so that even when they're not in power, they're in power. Yes. That's what they've created. They've created a system whereby so you lose congress, you lose the White House. We don't care. They don't care because they they have the fourth branch of government that that's still running the show. It's so blatantly honest or obvious. I had a quick little story. I had a I had a young woman, call me. She was referred to me by someone from Texans for Vaccine Choice. She transitioned, and she's transitioning she she bought into the lie that she was a male. And at 26 years of age, she's trying to transition back. And she called me Speaker 0: up and said And she's been shot full of hormones and the whole thing. Speaker 1: Hysterectomy. Oh, come on. Mastectomy. And when you shoot someone Did Speaker 0: a hysterectomy in her twenties? Speaker 1: No. Earlier than that. And the problem is when you put people on cross sex hormones, I'm getting way afield here, but it screws up their system. Right? Oh. And she's the most beautiful young woman. And but she has a driver's license with a male name on it. And so I just I called up the head of DPS, and I said, can we take care of this for her? And by the next morning, she had a new driver's license with her name on it and brought her to tears. Like, that's her identity now. Right? You can do things like that at the state of Texas level because we haven't turned the fourth branch of government into anything that can hurt people. It's been done at the federal level. Speaker 0: There's still democratic control too. Like, the people still have a voice as screwed up and corrupt as the state may be, and it is in my opinion. Yeah. There's still, like, possibility that you can make change. Speaker 1: Especially in the Texas Education Agency where you see a lot of this stuff, but you still can make change. Right? But at the federal level, like, if you were to call immigration or something like that, they'd laugh at you. Speaker 0: Of course. Speaker 1: You're just a silly congressman. We don't care what you think. Why would they? Why would they? Right? And they do the same thing with the executive branch. They are just completely aloof. They don't care what we think. They don't care what the elected officials. They don't care whether a constitutionally elected person that holds office, they don't care what you think. Even though even though your your department may be underneath an agency that you oversee as a sitting member of congress, they don't care. Speaker 0: No. They're different. This is why Doge was a good idea. Yep. You know, really no one's until people are really fired, people who work for us, then there's no incentive for them Speaker 1: to But here's the problem, Tucker, is that we've got a responsibility, I think, as elected officials to say to the American people, this is going on. I see it with my own eyes. This is what's going on. Yes. And and guys like Crenshaw are like, no. I'm gonna defend it. Speaker 0: Well, how could you defend so how could I mean, he was asked specifically the intel agencies have basically nullified democracy because they are playing a role in American politics, a very big role, and that's documented. It's not a matter of guesswork at this point. We know that. And it's as you just said, anyone who works in Washington sees it every single day. So, like, if he's denying that angrily, what does that say about his role? Speaker 1: I mean, he was asked specifically about the Hunter Biden's laptop. Yeah. And it was called Russian disinformation by the intelligence community. Speaker 0: Oh, yes. Speaker 1: And he blew it off. Completely blew it off. Just like they blew off Biden's daughter's diary. Of course. Right? Speaker 0: Well, they put they put the people who had it in jail. Right. For the crime of having Ashley Biden's diary in which she said she showered with her dad and it screwed her up sexually. Speaker 1: How couldn't it? Speaker 0: That's what it's well, exactly. How couldn't it? But that was just they put the guy in jail for that. Speaker 1: I mean Right. Speaker 0: For having it. Speaker 1: Yeah. Or or, you know, the the the young woman and that was a staffer for Joe Biden when he was in the senate. Speaker 0: Oh, I know her. Tara Reid. I know her well. She lives in Moscow now because she's basically driven out of the country. Speaker 1: They destroyed her. Speaker 0: Oh, I I know I I know her well. Yes. That's literally but no Speaker 1: one cared. Heart just breaks for her. Speaker 0: Just Sweet woman too. Very sweet woman. Yeah. She had to leave this country, be away from her family, her child. I mean, it's it's and no one cared if feminist said not one word. Speaker 1: The same players in government don't don't treat Republicans that way. I mean, if it's only it's only people that say bad things about the the power structure of Washington DC. They're the only ones that get held accountable. Speaker 0: I noticed. Speaker 1: It's so sick. It's just so sick. Speaker 0: Alp is a pretty new company about a year old but we have a surprisingly deep and I mean subterranean flavor vault. We have a massive index, a library if Speaker 1: you will of archived flavors. All of Speaker 0: which have been approved by the fellow government. It's all totally legal. And so our archivists went down to the flavor vault last week and came up with a kind of sexy flavor, something I never would have thought of myself. They call it spearmint. Introducing Alp spearmint from the flavor vault. It's incredible. It's like a spear right to the heart of the flavor zone, wherever that is. Available now, alppouch.com. So why do you I just am fascinated by the very first thing you said when we sat down was, I have to confess my role in Dan Crenshaw's victory because he made this really compelling case that he was gonna fight the corruption in DC, and I understood that. Speaker 1: He knew what we wanted to hear. Speaker 0: But how why not, like, fight corruption a little bit? Why immediately start making excuses for the CIA controlling US elections? Like, why would you ever make excuses for that? Speaker 1: I can't I can't, for the life of me, get my arms around it. Speaker 0: Okay. Well, I have a little bit I just have a guess. I don't know either. I don't talk to Dan Crenshaw, you know, directly. But there was this kind of amazing moment right after COVID when people started taking a look at the performance of various members of Congress' stock portfolios. And, you know, I personally know hedge fund managers who've underperformed the market. Right. And people who do this for a living, maybe billions, some years, they just don't you know, it's very hard to beat the market. But Dan Crenshaw did somehow. He made a lot of trades, including after getting classified briefings on COVID policy. And he was called out on this, and and he wasn't the only one. I mean, Nancy Pelosi famously. But Dan Crenshaw did pretty well, and, you know, I I don't think there's any evidence to suggest he's like a market expert. So, like, how exactly did that did that work? And this was his response. He didn't you know, he immediately started attacking anyone who asked him, and he said, you don't let us trade stocks. You don't let us make any money either. We haven't gotten a pay raise since 02/2008. So, I mean, I don't think members of congress are overpaid exactly, but they're paid multiples of what the average person makes, and they get a lifetime pension. So it's a pretty good deal and free health care and dental. So it's like he's clearly very focused on money. Speaker 1: He was vicious too about the way he said it. I mean, the the level of anger in his voice that he would be questioned about the way he's trading stock or what he gets paid. So the average Texan is paid $76,000. Dan Crenshaw is making a $174,000 of your tax dollars. He he's being paid by our tax dollars in Texas. Of course. And he thinks he should make more. Speaker 0: Well, for a young man too, the lifetime value of the package that he's he could which he's already gotten because he's already served multiple terms. Right. So is many millions of dollars over the course of a life. Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. It's crazy. Speaker 0: It is crazy. So, I mean, it does like, what what do you make of the stock trading? How did Dan Crenshaw beat the market? Speaker 1: Well, multiple people have talked about it, and multiple people over the years have said that we've gotta stop it because we have access, they have access to information that the average person doesn't have access to. Exactly. And it's really not a lot different in Texas. Again, we're the eighth largest economy in The United States. I see deals that are coming our way, and I could I could own stock in those companies, but my wife and I have choose chosen to stay out of the market. And for that very simple reason, Speaker 0: even You're not the market at all. Speaker 1: At all. At all. So I own real estate. I own some rental houses, and that's that's my retirement. But I don't want to be I I wanna avoid I want to avoid the appearance of evil. This has been an issue. This went all the way back. Do remember Eric Cantor? Very well. Eric Cantor was thrown out of office. Dave, I can't think of his last name. He's I know them both. Yeah. But, anyways, Cantor lost because of his defense and and voted against legislation, this is going back ten, twelve years, that would have stopped this. And the American people have just had enough with it. They they just have absolutely had enough of it. And I I don't blame them. It's just absolutely stupid. You're taking advantage of the system and enriching yourselves, and that creates a perverse incentive inside you to do the wrong thing and to vote the wrong way. Speaker 0: Why not? I mean, if you're Nancy Pelosi or if you're Dan Crenshaw, whose politics are very similar, by the way Dan's a liberal, I guess, if that's not obvious, I should say that. Yeah. Dan's a liberal. But, you know, both of them have taken a lot of crap for this. I mean, it's they've really been attacked for the appearance of insider trading. I can't call it that, but certainly what it looks like. Clearly, it looks that way. Why wouldn't you just just ban it, and then you can get rich when you leave, and you can go lobby for APAC or whatever he's gonna do? But, like, I don't I don't Speaker 1: The simplest thing would be to file legislation and then dump your portfolio or dump it into a blind trust. At the very least, if if if you're gonna say, okay, you can't own stock, at at the very least, we should be encouraging these guys to blop dump dump them into a blind trust so that they can't manipulate the market or manipulate their their own portfolio as a result of what they know. Speaker 0: Doesn't it make people cynical about their government? No. Speaker 1: That's the problem. I mean, I I think probably the greatest threat to The United States right now is the cynicism that we have towards our elected officials. Yes. We're so I think, especially conservatives, every time we hear lock her up, they're not gonna lock her up. Speaker 0: No. They're not. Speaker 1: Throw him out of office. They're not gonna throw him out of office. I am. They're not Speaker 0: gonna throw Speaker 1: him out of office. Liars. It's just we're so sick of it. And and this is going on here in Texas, right, as well with the quorum busters that while we were trying to do redistricting, they went to Illinois, and they went to California. And we heard lock them up, lock them up, and we're gonna lock them up, we're throw them it off. No one's gonna get thrown out of office. And it just it feeds the cynicism that we all rightfully have right now because it's so fake. Speaker 0: I feel like that cynicism is the most intense and the most dangerous among, like, patriotic normal Americans. They have really been betrayed. Oh my gosh. Because they really believed in I mean, frankly, everyone who got arrested on on January 6 was carrying, a pocket constitution. Like, these were people who really believe in this system. Speaker 1: Yeah. And yet you see people that were were part of rabble rousing in Washington DC that day that never went to jail. Speaker 0: Well, they don't even they hate the system. They wanna tear it down. Speaker 1: So I'm talking about the insiders. Speaker 0: Of course. No. No. I agree. But, I mean, someone like Crenshaw or Nancy Pelosi, they don't believe in the system. They're grifters, obviously. But, like, the people who do believe in the system and are the victim of this just serial decades long betrayal, those people and I feel like I'm one of them being honest. I'm it just makes me so mad. I can barely see because you feel like you're betrayed by your own leaders. Do you feel that? Speaker 1: Oh, completely. And it's harder because when you're in office, you're kinda like, okay. Because of what you're doing right now, I'm gonna get painted with that same brush. Speaker 0: Oh, so you I mean, you're in the Texas house. So Yeah. How often do you see that? Speaker 1: All the time. And, like, I'll post something about what's going on with the corn breakers right now. They're like, oh, you're a piece of crap. You, you know, you're gonna tell us what we wanna hear. And it's like, I I don't blame that guy for feeling that way. Yes. He should feel that way because our government has done nothing to bring the hammer down on these people. It's just all talk. Speaker 0: I I mean, it feels like we're getting to, a dangerous level of anger. I feel it anyway. I feel like I hate everyone, all these people, especially the ones who claim to represent me. They're just liars. Speaker 1: I know. Speaker 0: I'm less mad at Pelosi than I am at some Republicans who I formerly believed are. Speaker 1: More mad at us right now. I'm way more mad at at Republicans than I am Democrats. Speaker 0: Oh, I agree with that completely. Speaker 1: When I've look. Republic Democrats Democrats are like trail horses. Each one sticks his nose in the ass with the horse in front of him. Right. And Republicans are like mustangs. We're biting each other. We're kicking each other. Yeah. We're fighting. They work in lockstep together, and they take people out that don't believe in their radical views. There Speaker 0: was Speaker 1: a woman in the Texas legislature last session, Sean Theory, democrat, that voted with us and against the gender mutilation of little girls and boys. And the Democrat party re responded by running somebody against her and spending a million dollars to take her out. Speaker 0: Did they? Speaker 1: They did. They took her out. Speaker 0: For that? Speaker 1: For that. We, on the other hand, we try and take out members of our own party that fight for Speaker 0: our our values. I've noticed. Speaker 1: And it's just it's so sick. What is that? Here's the reality is that the the modern day Republican Party, when we win elections, we take office. When Democrats win elections, they wield power. They they fully believe in what they're fighting for. We just have people that want power, that wanna get elected. And it's it's sad because, like, don't you care about anything? Is there no holy discontent inside your soul that bothers you about what's going on in our country today that you're willing to fight for? Or are you just willing to play it safe so you can stay in office? Democrats fight. They believe in everything that they're doing. Speaker 0: What do you think the answer is? Honestly? Speaker 1: Yeah. I think we need a spiritual renewal in America, and we need to get back to our founding principles. And our constitution was meant only for holy and religious people. And we're we're starting to see our our nation and our society just fray and tear apart right now. And as a result of that, we're raising up people that should not be in office, that are serving, and have no place in serving. And within the Republican I'm talking about within the Republican Party. Speaker 0: Of course you are. Oh, I believe that, and I know so many of them. I've always felt like the problem was the, you know, what they call rhinos. I'm not even sure what a Republican is now anyway, so it doesn't even I don't know if it's I'm Speaker 1: not even sure what a conservative is. I'm not either. When Mitt Romney says I'm an extreme conservative. Like, what? What? No. You're an extreme conservative? Speaker 0: No. You're a you're a you're a guilty old lady. But it it now it feels like there are, you know, people jumping up and down about America first who are, you know Speaker 1: They're biding their time until Trump's gone. Oh, yeah. You feel that? Oh, completely. Speaker 0: Yeah. So among people you serve with in the in the house in Texas, how many are really sincere, do you think? Speaker 1: So 88 Republicans, 62 Democrats, and 67 of us got together and selected David Cook as speaker. Mhmm. And the balance the small balance Speaker 0: of This is the new the new speaker. Speaker 1: No. He should have been the new new speaker. Okay. After all, 67 of us got together. Speaker 0: Had the drunk guy. Speaker 1: Dade's gone, and we led there are four of us that led a revolt against Dade. Speaker 0: He this guy was actually hammered on the house floor. Speaker 1: It would appear from Speaker 0: It would appear. Speaker 1: I'm still getting I'm trying Speaker 0: to I have to Speaker 1: work with these Speaker 0: people. Let let me just say as a former drunk person, I recognize that. Speaker 1: Yeah. So 67 of us got together. We we started cobbling together this this coalition. We got it up to 67 people out of 88 Republicans, so more than a majority. Speaker 0: Yeah. Right? A super, super majority. Speaker 1: And then this little group of Republicans got together with all 62 of the Democrats, and they picked Burroughs. So, yeah, we have we have a speaker that was picked by the Democrats. Speaker 0: So the Texas house is overwhelmingly Republican, but it's actually run by the Democrats. Correct. Speaker 1: They're about 40. I would I would I would put the number at about 40 strong conservatives out of the 88. Speaker 0: But even a sort of tepid conservative, even a RINO, by definition, definition, wouldn't want the Texas house to be run by the other party Of Speaker 1: course not. Speaker 0: Yet they do. Speaker 1: Do you think the Democrats would abide by this? Do you think the Democrats, if they were in the majority, would include any of us on their team? No. Of course not. Elections have consequences. Speaker 0: And, also, the people should have a say. So if the majority of the state votes for Republican leadership, you should have it because that's called democracy. It's about responding to what the citizenry, the owners of The United States want in the administration of their government, and they're getting, once again, the opposite of what they voted for. Speaker 1: Correct. Speaker 0: And on every issue, they get the opposite. There's never been one public opinion poll in the last two years that said, number one issue for me is Ukraine, and yet all the money is going to Ukraine or to all these other foreign countries. It's like, why are we giving all this money to Egypt? Is there some are there a lot of people in your district who are like, we need to add add another billion dollars to Egyptian foreign aid budget this year? Like Speaker 1: It's big issue. Yeah. So lemonade stands and everything else. Well, working hard for Egypt. Speaker 0: I mean, what? So I just feel like well, let me ask you. Do you feel like we're at a point where people are becoming I'm feeling way more radical than I've ever felt in my life. Speaker 1: It's because no one's listening. Speaker 0: Right. Thank you. Speaker 1: No one's listening, and we just after a while, you just get frustrated and angry over it. Yes. Speaker 0: It's the sincere people who are the most angry. Right? Because the cynical people never expected And and a real system in the first place. Speaker 1: The only skin that they have in the game is their patriotism. There's nothing financially in it for them at all. It's just love of country. It's just Tucker, it's just love of country. Yes. Speaker 0: So that's why I wanted to talk to you, and I and I'll just be honest. I think turn out to be one of the most sincere, thoughtful politicians I've talked to in a long time. Speaker 1: Just because I'm not a politician. Speaker 0: Yeah. So Speaker 1: I'm I'm glad my wife, when when you hang out with me, my vet will be like, you know, you can't hang out with Steve if you call him representative. Speaker 0: Well, but the real reason I wanna talk to you is I don't want Dan Crenshaw to get reelected, not because I hate Dan Crenshaw or think he's actually gonna make good on his promise to kill me. I don't think he's gonna. It's not personal. It really isn't. It's just that if you keep electing people who are transparently corrupt and insincere, like Dan Crenshaw, then after a while, like, your your country falls apart. Not because he's so bad, but because it's such an obvious lie. I guess that's what I'm trying to express. Do you worry about that? Speaker 1: I I think it's I think cynicism is is the greatest threat to our country. Yes. And scripture says where where there is no hope people perish. Yeah. And that's where we're at today in America. I think one of the things that I love about Trump, and I think the reason why people have overwhelmingly flocked to Trump, is Trump leads with actions and not words. He he he leads with words to to to capture the news cycle. Right? Yes. But he doesn't use those words to do anything other than to throw the mainstream media off. He leads with action, and that's what we want out of our leaders. We want people that are gonna lead with action and not rhetoric. We're tired of the rhetoric. Absolutely tired of the rhetoric. It's hollow. It's empty. It's useless. Speaker 0: Incumbents almost always get reelected, especially from Republican districts, it feels. Maybe not especially, but they definitely Republicans, bad Republicans. I know. John Cornyn, multiple terms in the Senate. I can think of probably another 40 Republican office holders. It's like, how did you get reelected? Particularly in Republican states. Speaker 1: Right. Speaker 0: You know? And Idaho and this all through the the Deep South, they reelect people with literally with Alzheimer's. It's crazy. How hard will it be to unseat Dan Crenshaw? Speaker 1: It's gonna be a lot of work. We've had a lot of people coming to my website, stevetoathforcongress.com, or to steve toath dot com. Both work. But it's been pretty cool. We've we've had people from all over The United States contributing the widow's mite, $10, $15. It's so it's so amazing. Yeah. And this is doable. But the biggest problem, Tucker, is that there there's there's just like this belief, well, they're they're a city member. They can't be beat. Yes. They can. We've proven it. We've we've seen it. We've shown it. That when you when you mobilize as a as a community against these guys, you can take them out. Speaker 0: Yes. I just think it it would be an important statement about democracy and that it still can work. I've wanted to talk to Crenshaw, put in a million interview requests. He will not do an interview, period, except with a moderator. Oh, that's hilarious. I'd love to talk to Clifford Asness, his main funder, the guy who's, like, publicly defended short selling, sleaze true sleaze ball. Of course, he would never talk to me, but I would like to I would just I would like to know how someone like Crenshaw could get reelected. Like, who would support him? Do you feel support for him in the district? Speaker 1: It's not there. Just it's not there. So we did we did a meet and greet in his neighborhood on Saturday, and the place was packed. Speaker 0: In his neighborhood where he lives? Speaker 1: Neighborhood where he lives. And it was just I walked away so encouraged with the support that we got, and it's just it's really exciting. It's gonna be a lot of work. I mean, you know, he outspent his opponent two years ago, a 120 to one, and the guy got 42% against him. And so when that happens, there's blood in the water, and it attracts a lot of people. But we're the only ones that have launched a really legitimate campaign against him where we're gonna be able to raise the money necessary. We're going to be outspent. We get that. Really? Oh, yeah. I mean, just the amount of support that he's gonna get from the lobby is just off the charts. But I can't ever think, Tucker, of a time when I haven't been outspent two or three to one in one. So we're we're okay with it. We're gonna beat him, and we're just gonna work really hard. Speaker 0: When's the primary? Speaker 1: March 3. Speaker 0: March 3. Yeah. So the district is overwhelmingly Republican. Speaker 1: Completely. Speaker 0: Okay. So whoever wins the primary Speaker 1: Will win the general. Speaker 0: Will win the general. How many people are in the primary, do you think? Do you expect? Speaker 1: We're we're pressing for roughly a 160,000 votes. Speaker 0: No. I mean, how many candidates? How many people are running against him? Speaker 1: I think they're about five in right now, five or six. Really? Yeah. And more will get in. More will get in. It just it happens. Speaker 0: And how does that work? Is it the guy who gets the most votes, or is it their runoff? Speaker 1: 50 You have to percent Yep. Or or it goes into a runoff. Wow. Speaker 0: So if you're Karl Rove or Clifford Esnes or some lobby, foreign lobby, you have every incentive to get as many people into this race as possible. Correct. Right. Speaker 1: Correct. But we're already hearing from people in it that have come to me and said, you've got the best chance of winning. I'm probably gonna drop out before the filing period. So the filing period hasn't even opened yet. You're just allowed to pick a treasurer and say that you're running for congress and make a statement, but the filing period hasn't even opened yet, and we think a lot of them are gonna drop out. I've got great relationships with a lot of the people that are in it right now. Yeah. And they feel like, you know, you've got the best chance to beat them, and we wanna help you. So Speaker 0: I I have I mean, the reason I wanna talk to you is because I haven't talked to lot of people in Texas about it just because I think it's so important to make good on your promises. If you say you're gonna put America first, you have to have people that are willing. First. Yeah. Amen. And we need it badly, so badly. And everybody I've spoken to has said you have the best shot at unseating him. I this is not directly related to you, but since you swim in the same pool, where is Cornyn's reelection right now, would you say? How would you assess that? Speaker 1: He he's in he is in real trouble. So we've been looking at his numbers as well. His numbers are not as bad as Dan Crenshaw's numbers, but they're Speaker 0: bad. How bad are Crenshaw's numbers? Speaker 1: He's at 43% unfavorable in Harris County, 44% unfavorable in Montgomery County. Speaker 0: 4444%. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. That's really high. Speaker 1: That's really high. And I think Cornyn's about three points below that. But that's still bad. Right? So, I mean, typically, people that have unfavorable numbers above 40% don't even run for reelection. Speaker 0: Interesting. So Cornyn, who hates Trump, obviously hates Trump Right. Has always hated Trump, he he's, like, sucking up to Trump now. Right? Speaker 1: It's sick. Really? It's just sick to watch it. Speaker 0: Yeah. What's he doing? Speaker 1: This is so funny. So a couple months ago, there's a picture in in acts of him reading the art of the deal, and it and it's just above it. It says, what a great read. And then and then Speaker 0: John Kernan, who's like, wants nothing more than to, like, be accepted into some club. Yeah. You know what I mean? And then, like Speaker 1: And then a month or two later, he's got a picture of him outside. There's a there's a a restaurant in Texas called Trump Burger, and he's outside the restaurant with the the marquee behind him. He's holding, you know, a Trump Trump burger in his hands. Way. Yeah. It's just so silly. Speaker 0: Cornyn who dresses like JP Morgan vice president. You know what mean? He's like a big Trump guy now. Yeah. Do people fall for that? No. No. They don't. So he's running against Kim Paxton. He's in the race. Are there others? Speaker 1: That's it so far. That's it right now. You gotta think Speaker 0: I mean, I'm so Karl Rove tried to take out Ken Paxton, your attorney general, in a in a I mean, tried to put him in jail, basically. Helped run this impeachment against him trial. Is he involved in the senate race, do you think? Speaker 1: I think he will be. He was sure involved in trying to take Kem Paxson out. There is no doubt about it. Speaker 0: Not just take him out, but imprison him. Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. So that impeachment was the biggest scam. Should have been the biggest embarrassment is I think it is the it will go down in history as the biggest embarrassment of the Texas legislature at the Texas house. And I was so proud of the way the Texas senate stepped up very seriously deliberate deliberative. Every every single charge against him, they put it to the test, and we rushed. We literally rushed it through in twenty four hours. We were given we were given this 60 page document to read of the charges against Paxton. No witnesses were called for their side. None of the none of the witnesses were sworn in, which is a violation of the Texas constitution. This is exactly what Karl Rove and Eric Holder did to the Alabama pro life governor twenty, thirty years ago. They took him out, threw him in jail. And it it was later found out to be all, you know, all all nothing. It was a big nothing burger, and he was set free, but it destroyed him. Right? It destroyed his life. It destroyed his political career. It took everything away from the man, and they tried to do the same thing to Ken, and it was just absolutely Speaker 0: And Ken's real sin, even if you disagree with Paxton, you have to say he's been very effective. Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. He's been incredibly effective. Right. Speaker 0: So that's that's the crime right there. Speaker 1: That is the crime. Speaker 0: It's not just getting up and being like, oh, I'm a war hero. I have an eye patch. You know, I'm gonna drain the swamp. But actually doing something. Speaker 1: He actually did it. And Kent, you know, like to know Kent is to know that Kent's not like the most articulate, charismatic speaker in the world. No. He's anything but that. And Speaker 0: so I like him more for that, actually. Speaker 1: I know. It just he bleeds with his actions. Interesting. Speaker 0: It sounds like how influential are the Bushes still in Speaker 1: Texas politics? I think they're very influential. Speaker 0: Still? Speaker 1: Still. Yep. But I think it I think it mainly it's mainly through Karl Rove. They don't support the president. They refuse to support Trump, which is an embarrassment, should be an embarrassment to them at their lack of support and everything that he's doing for our country right now. How can you look how can't you look at everything that Trump is doing right now and say what he's doing with the border, what he's doing with Doge, what he's doing with public education, and on and on and on. And look at it. How did you not look at that and just say, wow. This is all the crap that you guys said you you were going to do. He just did it. Like, you said you wanna do away with Department of Education because of the way they're destroying public education in America? He's he's doing it. You wanna root out the corruption through, these government agencies that are blindly giving money to other Democrats so that they can they they literally are funneling and laundering money through the United States government, these these different organizations that that Doge has uncovered more I mean, specifically USAID. Right? Yep. USAID was the piggy bank for the Democrat party in act blue, and that's why the Democrats are angry about it because you took their funding source away. Everyone knew it. Everyone knew that that was going on. Trump's the only one that had the stones. Get up and and just do it. Do you not care about America? You don't care about America. These politicians don't care about America. They call themselves Republicans. They don't care about the republic. They care about sustaining power and keeping their own little clique in control. That's all they care about. Speaker 0: What's it like to go to work in the Texas state house? Speaker 1: You know, was it Truman then said, if you want a friend, go buy a dog? Yeah. It's kinda like what it's like. And it's it's hard. It's difficult. And so I've been I've been blessed in that I I don't go there alone. I don't I don't live alone. I don't go anywhere alone. They'll destroy you if you live alone. They'll accuse you they'll accuse you of everything and anything. I live this past session with Nate Shasline. Nate's Speaker 0: a Wait. Wait. Wait. Back up just for one sec. Sure. What do you what do you mean if you live alone? So your session is how how long is the session? Speaker 1: We're in session for five months every two years. Right. January through May, then specials. Speaker 0: So you live North Of Houston, but you have to go down to Austin for the session. You gotta live there. You gotta live there. If you live alone, they why does it matter if you live alone? Speaker 1: Oh, they'll accuse you of something, or they'll set you up with something. Weird sex stuff. Speaker 0: Yep. For real? Speaker 1: For real. And I'm convinced that's why a lot of guys have gotten into trouble. Individuals that I know that came there with the best intentions to do the right thing and now are just part of the problem. Speaker 0: Are you serious? Speaker 1: Completely. Of course, you are. Speaker 0: Yeah. I yeah. I guess I should I shouldn't be surprised, but I am. Also, it's not it's not wise for a man to live alone for five months. I mean Speaker 1: It's not. It's just it's it's stupid. Speaker 0: It is stupid. I totally agree with that. Let's let's stop lying Speaker 1: Yeah. Speaker 0: About the way men are. Wow. That's so is that widely known? Speaker 1: Oh, I think it is. Yeah. I mean, you there's a, you know, there's a lot of gossip and stuff, but, you know and and I feel badly because I I feel like there are some really good people that get accused of it where it's not true. Speaker 0: Mhmm. Speaker 1: And I feel badly for them, but that's, you know, that's what you sign up for when Speaker 0: you go to Texas. Means of control. It's a leash that someone is yanking to keep people in line. Speaker 1: Yep. Completely. Speaker 0: And so you think there are people who arrived with the intent of doing good, joining the swamp Yeah. Representing their constituents who were caught up in some sort of immoral behavior, and that has been used as leverage against them? Speaker 1: Yeah. Yes. I believe that completely. Really? So I just I make a point of just I I don't, you know, if if I if I go to an event, I don't I don't drink. I quit drinking back in 02/2019. It didn't serve me. Yes. It doesn't do anything for you. I, you know, I my wife and I would have a glass of wine or two at dinner, but I just completely gave it up. Speaker 0: Oh, you weren't like a slobbering drunk. You Speaker 1: just No. I'm a cheap date. Yeah. So I just no. I just but I I never wanted to be seen with, you know, with beer or wine in my hand. It just it it doesn't serve you at all in any way, shape, or form. Speaker 0: I agree completely, strongly. Yeah. Good for you. So but you but when you showed up in Austin for your first session, you were aware that you could be subverted? Speaker 1: I I don't think I was as aware then. You know, you'd heard about stuff. Is that really true? That can't be true. These guys are really good. They're Republicans. They wouldn't do that. I was completely naive when I first came in. Like, 40 of us showed up. We had this group called the no name group. We're like, they're gonna be so happy that we're here, and they're gonna love us. Speaker 0: Otis, he loves us. They're gonna Speaker 1: love us because we're true we're fighting Republicans. They're gonna love us. No. They scorned us. Speaker 0: Really? They being the Republicans who were already there? Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. And then no time flat In fact, I can remember one of them said, we were called for such a time as this, quoting Esther, the book of Esther. Of course. And the reason why they hate us now this is what we this is what what one of them said, The reason why they hate us is because they remind them of what they used to be. And, like, I like, I look at most of those guys that said that and and shook their head like I am and say, yeah. And that's who you are now. You've you've caught you've turned. You're not with us anymore. How how long ago was that? That was in 02/2013. When I I I came in in 02/2013, served for two years, then I left for four years. And then I came back in 02/2019. Speaker 0: But the guys who stayed? Most of them went bad. Really? So what apart from sexual blackmail, which you've said is real and I believe you, what are the other means by which good people become bad people? Speaker 1: You want you wanna be effective, don't you, Tucker? You're here to serve your your district. You wanna be effective, don't you? Well, you're gonna be in the penalty box if you don't become part of the speaker's team. And if you're in the penalty box, you can't pass any legislation. And I'm kind of an outlier in that I get really lucky. Like, I passed some legislation. As an example, I picked up a bill to take on critical race theory, and no one had even heard of it when I carried the bill. And then a guy by the name of Dick Weekly from Texans for Lawsuit Reform heard about my bill heard about my bill. And Dick's daughter is is a passionate follower of Christ, Allison. Speaker 0: Dick is a good man. Speaker 1: He he and he got behind my bill. Yeah. And by God's grace and I care I I carried that bill in the eighty seventh session. We passed it into law. It was the best one in The United States. And so, you know, I got that done, and and it's like I came home and I said to Babette, I said, we didn't sell out. God proved to me that he could still use me, and I didn't have to sell out to do it. And I it just it made me more passionate that with God, there's a way to get things done, and he can still use you. You don't you don't have to sell your soul to these people. These people are evil. They don't wanna do the right thing. They're not concerned about doing the right thing. They're just concerned about holding on to power. Speaker 0: But it's interesting that they they say right to you, you wanna be effective. So they appeal really to your best instincts because you do any good man wants to be effective footballers. So it's they they don't come to you and say, hey. I've got, like, hookers and cash for you. They say, no. You we can help you be the person you wanna be. Speaker 1: Right. You wanna be effective, don't you? Yeah. In fact, a couple people that were going to vote with us left us at the last like, one one guy, he left he was gonna vote for David Cook, and he came in with me as a freshman. Speaker 0: David Cook for speaker. Speaker 1: For speaker. And the last second, he switched over and voted for Burroughs. I said, why'd you do that? I mean, I knew. And he said Speaker 0: He voted with the Democrats. Speaker 1: Yeah. I wanted to be effective for my district, and he ended up getting a chairmanship, committee chairmanship, which these guys love getting committee chairmanships. They love being called chairman. Outside their office, you know, it says Steve Toath, house district fifteen, and it shows the committees that you serve on. Well, for those guys, it's chairman. That's like a big deal. And these guys love, you know, the the being called chairman in the Texas house. It's just it's it's such a you know, it's just such an ego boost. Speaker 0: Do they end up getting anything done once they make that deal? Speaker 1: No. You pass some legislation, but you sell a little bit of your soul in the midst of it. It's a transaction. Speaker 0: And then you just become with time more corrupt once you've Speaker 1: Yeah. Speaker 0: Been corrupted. Speaker 1: It's just it's a it's such a slow Tucker, it's such a slow process. For some guys, it happens a lot quicker than others, but it's it's a slow process where you just lose your soul. God. Speaker 0: That's so dark. Yeah. Does anyone ever come back? Speaker 1: No. I I can't even I can't ever think of a time when I've seen somebody that's gone over and said, wow. I blew it. I mean, I've seen I've seen guys that have had a bad vote that have come back next session said, gosh, that was a stupid vote. I was part of the their team, but they hadn't sold their soul. They just they made a bad vote. And then they come back the next session. Yeah. I've seen that. But none that have fully gone over, become chairman, and lost their soul and come back. Speaker 0: No. Have you ever seen a really honest man of integrity get rewarded for that, become chairman of a committee? Speaker 1: No. We're not. They they want you to become they absolutely want you to go there and lose your sense of conviction, your holy discontent that you you come there with to change. They don't want you to change anything. You're willing your your desire to change is what puts them in jeopardy of losing their their authority and their power. They cut these guys cut deals, and if you're if you're gonna push for legislation, if you're gonna push if I want I I wanna transform the way we do elections in Texas. So I want us to be able to audit. We have to once there's an election, you have to hold on to the data for twenty two months. But, unfortunately, Tucker, we don't have the ability to audit any of it. So why why do you hold on election material for twenty two months if you can't audit it to find out if there's been corruption? Speaker 0: So I I don't know. I'm just guessing, but I've just seen this a lot. Basically, that was legislation, I'm guessing, that was passed to protect corruption, but it sounds in the telling like a good government move. Like, it it was designed to expose corruption. So in other words, like, under my election integrity bill, every candidate will have to hold that data for twenty two months. What they don't tell you is Speaker 1: They can't look at it. Speaker 0: It remains secret Speaker 1: for two years. Yeah. And so myself and Paul Betancourt, senator Betancourt, have introduced legislation that the president supports, fully supports, and these guys know it. The Republicans all know it. But what's the piece of legislation that Democrats say when they're gonna get behind a speaker? They're like, there are these things that are not gonna pass this year. Toast legislation on on doing and Betancourt's legislation on on doing audits and the transition of kids. So, like, I had a I a bill this year, house bill twenty two fifty eight. I think it was twenty two fifty eight. I had, like, 70 piece legislation. But they sent it to Ken King's committee where Ken King killed the bill. I had three members of his committee that became joint authors on the bill to stop the social transition of children, and they never gave the bill a hearing. Speaker 0: Why would a Republican want to protect, like, the destruction of children through transgender ideology? Like, why would a Republican be in favor of that? Speaker 1: The they're I don't think they are. I think they basically are against it, but they compromise and say, the only way I can do good things for my for my people back home is if I maintain my chairmanship. And the only way I can maintain my chairmanship is to cut a deal with Democrats, and Democrats don't want this piece of legislation to pass. And so they kill it. They just kill it. But we turned it into an amendment, and we stuck it on a senate bill 12 at the end of session. And now social transition of kids is illegal in the state of Texas. Speaker 0: Nice. So Was that distressing to Republicans? Speaker 1: Here's the hard part about it is that we knew that we're gonna try and pass it as an amendment, And so I didn't make a big deal about it during session because I didn't want the Democrats to blow it up. I didn't want them to know that we're still gonna try and put it on something, so we just stayed kind of quiet. Quietly kept looking for the right bill to put it on. Found it in senate bill 12. We worked with with Brandon Craton to make sure that he positioned 12. It's different in Texas than it is in The United States in that if you're gonna pass legislation at the federal level on ice cream, you can't put something on it that has to do with bicycles. Right. They're not germane. In Texas, our legislation, the amendment has to be absolutely germane to the bill, and so we worked the senator Creighton quietly behind the scenes to make sure that when the bill came over from the senate, it it would. So if if that bill had come over from the senate with banning social transition of kids, they would have killed his bill. They never would have let that bill onto the house floor. The because the the the Rhino Republicans and the Democrats would have killed the bill in committee, or they would have killed it in calendars, and it never would have made it to the house floor. So the bill came over. We and I was able to put the amendment on it, and it it passed. Speaker 0: Wow. It's crazy that in an overwhelmingly Republican legislature, it's that hard to ban something as transparently evil. Speaker 1: Evil. Absolutely to the core evil. Speaker 0: Destroying children. Like, just destroying them. Yeah. So last question. I just want as a lover of Texas and, you know, some of a lot of family in Texas, I go to Texas a lot, I always wonder if the people who run the state, like, drive around the state. Just look around. Because the last time I was in Texas a couple months ago in Dallas, which is a city I really love, dirty. It was getting dirtier. I mean, it's just noticeable. And I guess some people do like, do they notice that the state needs attention? Speaker 1: Honestly, don't know. I Do people talk about that? No. Not at all. Uh-uh. Not not at all. Speaker 0: It's one of the reasons I dislike Crenshaw so intensely. It's like, do you notice that this is degrading? Like, the the physical environment that you live in is not as nice as it was ten years ago? Like, that's kind of a concern. Should it not be? Speaker 1: The hardest part of of Austin, Texas I believe Washington, DC is pretty much the same thing. The very first time I stepped into the Texas house, it was about a month before I was sworn in. And I had never met any staffers, had never talked to anybody, no one knew who I was. They said, representative, so good to see you. Another person says, hey, representative. Great to see you. I hear you're a pastor. I am too. Hey, representative. You're in this business. So and it's they start calling you representative. Right? And it's like they slowly Speaker 0: Yeah. Speaker 1: You know, they slowly pull you in. And I'm telling you, your ego digs it. Totally digs it. And after a while, you don't know who you are. You don't know where you are. You just know you wanna be part of that. Right? Oh, of course. And you become tone deaf. Speaker 0: But since the legislature is in Austin, it's the prettiest legislative building in the country by far. Speaker 1: Oh, I know. Pink granite. Speaker 0: Is that right? Yeah. When I first went there more than twenty five years ago to for work as a reporter, I was, like, shocked by how beautiful it was, how cool it was that had just been restored. And I was shocked by how great Austin was, The Driscoll Hotel and Yeah. And then I went back years later, it's like, you didn't there are, like, homeless people sleeping in the vestibule of the of the Driscoll Hotel. Sixth Street is dangerous. Speaker 1: Sixth Street is a mess. Speaker 0: But it was so cool. Yeah. So I'm not a Texan. I'm just a perennial visitor, and I noticed that. I wonder, do the people who go to work at the Capitol Building, do they notice that? Do they talk about that? Speaker 1: Yeah. We actually have Texas Austin has actually gotten a little bit cleaner. Speaker 0: Yeah. It has. I've noticed. Speaker 1: We passed legislation banning that. We said there are areas where you can't camp. Right? And Why should we be to camp on public land? You know? It's crazy. But the problem is that while we did that for Austin, nothing's being done about Houston. Nothing's being done about Dallas. Nothing's being done about El Paso. And so it's it's, you know, it's kinda like putting makeup on, and but at the end of the day, there's still a lot of scars underneath the makeup that are being hidden in Texas. Speaker 0: But what's more important than how your constituents are living day to day? It's I don't know what's more I don't know why Ukraine or any other country is more important than that. Speaker 1: I don't either. It's just it's a lack of putting America first, and I think people like to say America first. They they believe in America first, but what does that mean? Yeah. What the hell does that mean? Speaker 0: Just care about your own country more than any other country. Yeah. Well, I Godspeed, I really appreciate your coming, and I I the day that you beat Dan Crenshaw, March 10? March 3. March 3. Well, maybe on March 10, I'll call you to offer congratulations. It'll just be a good day for America. I mean, it'll just be it'll just remind all of us that the system can still work. Speaker 1: It can. It absolutely can. Steve, thank you. Thanks, Tucker. Speaker 0: We've got a new website we hope you will visit. It's called newcommissionnow.com, and it refers to a new nine eleven commission. So we spent months putting together our nine eleven documentary series. And if there's one thing we learned, it's that in fact, there was foreknowledge of the attacks. People knew. Speaker 1: The American public deserves to know. Speaker 0: We're shocked actually to learn that, to have that confirmed, but it's true. The evidence is overwhelming. The CIA, for example, knew the hijackers were here in The United States. They knew they were planning an act of terror. Speaker 3: In his passport is a visa to go to United States Of America. Speaker 0: A foreign national was caught celebrating as the World Trade Center fell and later said he was in New York, quote, to document the event. How do you know there would be an event to document in the first place? Because he had foreknowledge. And maybe most amazingly, somebody, an unknown investor, shorted American Airlines and United Airlines, the companies whose planes the attackers used on nine eleven, as well as the banks that were inside the Twin Towers just before the attacks. They made money on the nine eleven attacks because they knew they were coming. Who did that? Speaker 1: You have to look at the evidence. Speaker 0: The US government learned the name of that investor, but never released it. Maybe there's an instant explanation for all this, but there isn't actually. And by the way, it doesn't matter whether there is or not. The public deserves to know what the hell that was. How did people know ahead of time and why was no one ever punished for it? Nine eleven commissioned the original one was a fraud. It was fake. Its conclusions were written before the investigation. That's true, and it's outrageous. This country needs a new nine eleven commission, one that actually tells the truth that tries to get to the bottom of the story. We can't just move on like nothing happened. Speaker 3: Nine eleven commission is a cover. Speaker 0: Something did happen. We need to force a new investigation into nine eleven almost 25 later. Sorry, justice demands it. And if you want that, go to newcommissionnow.com to add your name to our petition. We're not getting paid for this, we're doing this because we really mean it. Newcommissionnow.com.
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