Constitution Limits, Free Speech, And A Viral HEB Clash

A viral grocery store confrontation turns into a career ending pile-on, and it raises a question most people dodge: do we still believe in free speech when the crowd demands someone be fired, doxxed, and shamed into silence? We start by challenging the way Americans talk about the US Constitution, especially the habit of reading it as if it governs private citizens instead of limiting government power. From there, we dig into how “discrimination” became a loaded word, why labels replace arguments, and what proportionality should look like when a clip blows up online. 

Then we pivot to border security and the drug crisis with fresh numbers from Customs and Border Protection: crossings down, drug seizures up, and fentanyl still getting tested at the gates. We talk deterrence, cartel pressure, and why “better than before” is not the same as “under control,” especially for Texas. 

In the second hour, we bring on Jackson Parker from Blue Bolt Spirits to talk about building a veteran focused bourbon brand the right way: sourcing quality barrels, cutting through marketing gimmicks, and keeping prices fair for the Marine community. We also highlight their America 250 event at Giant Texas Tasting Room benefiting Whiskey Dollars, a nonprofit working to reduce DUIs in the military. We close with a hard look at teen violence and cultural breakdown, a deep dive into Texas education standards that soften free enterprise and remove entrepreneurship, and a fun reminder that Texas culture is very real when World Cup visitors line up for Whataburger. 

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Welcome

Welcome And What’s Ahead

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back, ladies and gentlemen. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative here on Patriot Talk 920. By the way, very exciting guest coming at the top of the second hour. That is Jackson coming on from Blue Bolt Spirits. They are, by the way, an absolutely excellent company. I know because I've I've tried multiple variations of their bourbon, and all of it is good. But I also just wanted to highlight uh that they're they're very cool. I got to kind of read through a lot of their background uh at the GOP convention and then kind of moving forward uh when kind of going into this interview and getting a plan for this. And, you know, they kind of started with just one barrel and then it all went from there, sourced for the 247th Marine Corps birthday. And so it's been a wild ride for them, but they have a massive event coming up over at Blue Bolt Spirits, uh, I believe this weekend that we'll be talking about with Jackson on the show, kind of going into their history, why they do what they do, their plans from here, all that sort of good stuff. In the meantime, we have lots of stories to get into this morning. Quite a few, actually, of these kind of pertain well, let me let me be very careful how I word this, because I don't want to, you know, come off wrong. Uh, but quite a few of these, I I think Well, I'll just say this, at least for this first one. I think this will be more clear anyway.

Constitution Worship And Misreading Rights

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The reality is, unfortunately, that people have become worshipers of things and and that are not God or his word, right? That are that are not God. They become worshipers of something else. Now, as Christians, we would call this idolatry. If you have if you're placing your faith in, if you're placing your your hope in, if you are worshiping something, whatever that thing is, well, you've made an idol of it. We understand that. Far too many people have made an idol in this country of the US Constitution. And I know, I know that that that sentence is gonna ruffle some feathers. And that's not me saying the Constitution isn't great. That is me saying the reason that there's a very serious danger in that is that unlike scripture, which is inspired fully by God, the Constitution has been and will continue to be twisted until we're willing to be honest about what we have to do, until we're willing to fix it. And that's gonna require changing things, right? That's gonna require willing to say, hey, some of these amendments never should have been here. Some of this court interpretation never should have been here. That's gonna require a lot of those conversations and not saying, hey, the Constitution's perfect every way that it is. No, they they added things that go back to reinterpret itself that are bad. If you look at the First Amendment through the lens of the 14th and then you apply that to the states, it's actually really awful. As it turns out, that's an absolutely terrible idea. And if you're not willing to address that problem and say, so it's not inspired by God, which means it is imperfect. By definition, it's imperfect. Everything we make will always be imperfect, but we should be striving to be better. And unfortunately, I think our our constitution has certainly gotten worse rather than gotten better. And so we need to return to that. And I'm not saying that in the future I have any problem with adding to the Constitution. That's not my point either. I think there's a time and place for certain ratified amendments. But when you're adding amendments that are ultimately used as the bedrock for the civil rights movement and and the LGBTQ movement or whatever else, you end up in a very dangerous scenario if you're if you're not willing to say, imperfect document, we need to fix that. And I think far too many conservatives, even Christians, have found themselves in that boat. Another thing that comes with that form of idolatry is often this principle understanding the Constitution that means that it applies to you. And what I here's what I mean by that. Right, the Constitution in its ultimate form is a limiter. It's like a governor on a on a car. It's a limiter of the government. Right? It doesn't give you rights. We know that it's a limiter on the government to defend those rights, to make sure that your rights are not tyrannically removed from you. Right? We understand that. And so when you read the Constitution, you can't read yourself into it. You read the government into it. And those are two very different perspectives. People that have sort of made an idol out of the Constitution, they have a very frequent and often use of the Constitution that they believe it applies to them rather than applying it to the government. I know that sounds confusing until I go over what we're about to talk about and explain what I mean. And I'll give you you know what? I'll give you a very clear background on this this this kind of story before we actually really get into it. And it's not really on this story particularly, but I think on this general topic. How often have you personally thought or had someone else tell you or heard in the media and maybe been influenced by it, uh, that you should not discriminate in any way, shape, or form based on religion? Can I get a show of hands? I think it's probably everybody. And can you tell me if you believe that you're required to abide by that? A lot of people will look at the Constitution and they'll look at the courts. And I'm not saying that you can do it in terms of a legitimate business transaction, I'm not saying any of that, but I'm saying in a general sense, right? Can you come out and say, I don't want any Muslims in our country? Well, that's becoming a little less provocative now, because now that we've had some, we realize maybe this wasn't such a good idea. Now that we have kind of watched what Islam believes, and more people are studying the Quran, thank goodness, and more people are willing to study the history of the conflict between Christianity and Islam, which extends, you know, a thousand years, people are waking up to that reality and they're saying, okay, maybe maybe you can say that a little bit. Even then, you'll notice they put a little qualifier because they don't want to target Muslims and discriminate against a religion. They don't want to religiously discriminate, so they'll throw in radical Muslims. I hear that all the time. And if you're doing that, you're 50% of the way there. All right, maybe 60%. You're you're really you're past the halfway point. But you're not all the way to what you need to understand, which is radical Islam is not an oxymoron, but it is a requirement.

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It's it's the same with any religion. And I've used this example before. If somebody said, Hey, I'm a Christian, but then they didn't go out and do the Great Commission, they didn't want people to be saved. They didn't necessarily even believe in the divinity of Christ or in the virgin birth, would you say they're actually a Christian? Well, they can't be. But definitionally, if you don't believe that Christ is Lord, if you don't believe that Christ is God, if you don't believe that he died and you're not willing to spread the good news, then then and and you know, resurrected, if you don't believe those things, you're not actually a Christian. You can call yourself one all day, but you don't believe in the basic tenets of Christianity that are required to actually be a Christian. You can say it, you can claim it, but you're not one. You're no different than anybody else. In similar fashion, if you hear a Muslim saying, Well, I'm not one of those crazy guys, I'm not willing to use violent means, I don't want to take over, I just want to live here peacefully. You you have two options to assume about them. Either they're not real Muslims, they don't actually care about Islam at all, and and they maybe grew up in it and then left and they still kind of claim it, but they're not Muslim at all. Or they're lying to you, which they're totally allowed to do, by the way. Those are your options. You're never going to find a faithful Muslim who doesn't believe that because that's that would be an oxymoron. A non-radical Muslim would be an oxymoron. And so, but that's that's a tangent. I wanted to mostly highlight and say so many people have become so inundated with how the Constitution applies to them rather than as a limit on the federal government that they start to think, well, I shouldn't religiously discriminate against people. And of course, they also did the hard work of turning the word discrimination into a bad word, which they did largely through the civil rights movement, right? They associated discrimination with slavery. They said, Well, here's where discrimination leads and points back to the past. And so they've kind of bullied people into saying, well, I guess I can't use that then. Don't don't be bullied by that. Don't, don't, that's not how that works. Right? Yeah. Yes, people that evil thinks. Sure. That does not change my principles and my ideology and the truth. And and the truth is that there are no limits on you as an American and as a Texan from speaking the truth. Even if that includes discrimination. There the Constitution doesn't say you can't do that unless you try to believe that it applies individually to you, and it's a limit on what you can do, which is not the point of the Constitution at all. It's the exact opposite of the point of the U.S. Constitution. So, with that understanding, let's kick it

Viral HEB Confrontation And The Fallout

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off. There's this viral video that I wanted to cover and I wanted to set up that sort of background for this. There's this viral video of a woman making anti-Islamic comments at a grocery store, uh, which of course prompted one state lawmaker, one state lawmaker to condemn hate speech. But also you've got this kind of groundswell of support uh from conservative influencers and their followers who have raised some money for her. Uh this video, if you watch it, it shows a woman in medical scrubs telling two women, quote, you need to leave. You're not welcome here. This is not a Muslim country, this is a Christian country. Now, the text on the video says it's at an HEB in Conroe. We can't verify that fully because none of the HEBs have come out and said that was our HEB. They probably don't want the heat associated. But nevertheless, supposedly that's where it is. The confrontation drew attention from figures ranging from uh Suleiman Lalani of Sugarland, you guys know that, Democrat state rep, to online conservative commentator. You guys probably also know Sarah Gonzalez. You also have a quote unquote white nationalist influencer with a display named Tom Hennessy, who launched the fundraiser after social media users shared the woman's personal information, such as an address and phone number. So they doxed her. They said, This is who this is. Here's her phone number and her address. The fundraiser on Gives and Go, which is a Christian platform, sort of like GoFundMe, says the woman was fired as a result of the viral interaction. So the video went viral and the place she worked fired her. So uh the description of the Gives and Go says she tried to say she said the quiet part out loud in the grocery aisle while the rest of us are simply trying to shop without a full-blown cultural invasion. Alani, of course, out of Sugarland, condemned the comments in the video, saying they weren't an isolated incident. He said, Perhaps the most disturbing part is the conviction this woman has in believing neighbors shopping at HEB are a threat to her and her country. This hate virus is a contagion we must confront with facts, truth, and unity. I would be more than happy to speak with you on the facts, truth, and unity of America and how those things are disappearing because you imported millions of Muslims. Nevertheless, Muslims in Texas have also been raising concerns regarding their own safety as the GOP has spent months' campaigning against quote unquote Sharia law. And so Muslims, of course, have come out and said the rhetoric that the Republican Party is claiming is putting them at risk. Well, it's putting your authority and influence at risk, for sure. As the Republicans' state convention, you know, just what was that? It wasn't last week. As it was just going on a little bit ago, you had Muslim delegates who said they experienced discrimination they'd never faced before. Last month, a man was accused of driving to Houston's new Ismali Center and threatening to kill all Muslims and Jews. Uh he was, of course, charged with making a terroristic threat. The Texas chapter of CARE, the foreign terrorist organization, uh spoke against the comments made, which, if they're speaking against you, it's probably a confirmation that what you did is good, just by the way. CARE was designated, as we know, as a foreign terrorist organization, but the group has said that its only purpose is civil rights advocacy. And so Imran Ghani, in response to this incident, said, quote, this is exactly what happens when elected officials in Texas use hateful rhetoric to foment anti-Muslim bigotry. Muslims are facing daily verbal and physical attacks, and now it is time for every elected leader to speak clearly and unequivocally against that hatred. Now, they want you to focus on parts of the story as they always do, right? They don't simply want to tell you that a woman said something confrontational in a grocery store. They want to make an example out of this woman. That's the goal. They want her fired. They want her publicly humiliated. This is why her address is out there. They want her ashamed, made fun of, and and pushed into the echelons of history to never be remembered. They want her dragged through the mud so that every and they want everyone watching while they do it. And then when we reply and say, hey, that sounds even if you disagree with her, which I don't, but even if you did, hey, that sounds wildly disproportionate. Then immediately the media reaches for this phrase. They go, white nationalist. They use this all the time. Which that label, by the way, not an argument. Am I white? Am I a nationalist? Well, I'm not a white nationalist, but what does that actually mean? It doesn't have any meaning, the same as things like racist. And so they can throw it around at guys like me and guys that support this woman. And and at people like this woman, they can throw it around and say, hey, you're a white nationalist. And they can associate you with all the horrors of you know, old version of race, legitimate racism. They can associate you with that. And so they use that as a weapon rather than an actual argument, right? They use terms the same way they use like white nationalists, and they use terms like Christian nationalist, far right, extremist, hate speech, all of these sorts of claims. It's not designed to clarify who you are, it's meant to scare people away from supporting you or supporting your position, right? It's meant to tell employers and churches and everybody else hey, don't go near this person. Don't go, don't agree with this person's ideology, right? Don't even ask whether the punishment makes sense in these cases, which is where we need to grow a spine. We need to grow a little bit of a backbone. You can believe that someone should speak with wisdom and clarity in public. You can even believe that maybe the way she worded it wasn't great. Um, you can believe that we're called to be disciplined and neighborly, but you should also say this very plainly. A woman should not have her life destroyed because she believes and says that America is a Christian country and we shouldn't be importing Islam into it. That for your life to be taken away in the Christian country, you you have that happen as a result of your claim. Historically, culturally, civilizationally, in any way that matters, she's absolutely right. America was not founded as an Islamic republic. I know this is a big shock because they want to put this in the history books, but it was not. America was not built on Sharia law. It's not shaped in any shape, it was not shaped in any way by the Quran or by any Islam at all. Our moral backbone in this country was shaped entirely by Christianity, by the common law tradition of England, which was also shaped by Christianity, so it's just, you know, indirectly shaped by Christianity, uh, Protestant assumptions about liberty and conscience, right? And a biblical understanding of man and woman, family, law, authority, et cetera, so on and so forth. Everything was shaped by a Christian understanding of these things. And so that doesn't mean that every citizen has to be a church-attending believer. You can't force that. You you can't. You can't require someone to believe. It doesn't mean that everybody has to agree with us on everything. It does mean that conservatives are allowed to say, hey, we have a particular heritage in this country, and that heritage deserves to be defended and protected. Right? The left gets this, by the way. Uh that's why they they react so aggressively to these sorts of confrontations. They know the real issue is not the woman in scrubs. That's not actually what they're concerned about at all. The real issue is the general sort of momentum that it kind of describes. They don't actually think this woman in scrubs is very dangerous at all. They don't think she has much influence. They don't think that she's doing anything that'll make any difference. They're not worried about her at all. The reason they need to make an example and they need to do it publicly rather than a private punishment, right? Rather than saying, hey, this doesn't need to be public, we'll address it privately. The reason this all has to come out and she has to be fired publicly and humiliated publicly, the reason for that is that it it changes the dynamic of whether you're still allowed to say out loud that this is a Christian country with a Christian inheritance, that we don't want Sharia law, that we don't want Islamic political influence at all, and we don't want imported civilizations conflicting with our beliefs in our country, that that's not good. So what do they do? So how do they respond? Well, of course, they personalize it as they do with their own ideology, and of course, they're doing here. They isolate it a viral incident, they frame her as dangerous, and then they broaden the story as they do into a lecture about hate and safety and religious liberty. And then they ignore the fact that, well, the the most unsafe thing that's happened is you doxxed the address of someone that you're saying is hateful. You just you just released the address of someone that you're claiming is a hateful person that's un-American. You're doing the very same thing. She called them un-American. You're saying she's an American, but then you're also giving out her personal address. How is that not infinitely worse? But they don't care because that's not actually the concept. They're using it as a weapon, not as an argument, which is what I'm highlighting here. It's a double standard. Right? When we're targeted and fired and smeared and shamed, the media says, well, that's just accountability. You're just facing consequences. Uh when left-wing activists are criticized or or they're they're just argued with, with a clear argument. Well, now we're told that the issue is rhetoric, safety, and this rising hatred in this country. Because the compassion only goes one way, the way that benefits them. And and the reason people donated, by the way, not hard to understand. It's not because every single it's not even that every person who donated necessarily agrees with everything the woman said. A lot of this, I can guarantee you, is because millions of Americans are very sick of seeing one side of the cultural war get institutional protection over and over and over while the other side gets ruined. That's all that's happened. They're sick of seeing our speech, which is objectively true, uh, be treated as a fireball offense. And watching the press use this to publicly shame people who they don't agree with. We're we're sick of being told that any of this is bigotry and hatred. And so right, I I think it's very important to understand truth if we're going to deal with these issues. And it's very important to understand the base of what I was talking about to start off the show. That background. Understanding that they've they've turned discrimination into a wholesale bad word where even the use of that word is inherently evil. If you're if you discriminate, and I've highlighted on my show before, and I'll do it again, discrimination can't be inherently bad. You discriminate in some shape or form every single day, not just against people in general. By definition, anytime you make a decision at all, you've discriminated against whatever the other decision was. You you you use wise discrimination every single day. When you choose where you want to get food from, you can say, hey, I shop at H E B primarily because I think they have cheaper groceries that are better. Okay, well, you just discriminated against other grocery store chains. You you have inherently. And it doesn't have to be with hatred or vitriol at all. It could just be, well, I believe that, and so that's where I shop. It's not hateful discrimination to say, hey, this country is a Christian nation, and it's not a good idea to import Muslims into it, mass or small, right? It doesn't actually matter because the population is going to grow regardless. It is a bad idea to bring people into this country and allow them to stay here who civilizationally disagree with our form of government, with our beliefs, with our foundational moral principles, and they want to change it. That's not a good idea. In any other time in world history, that would be called an invasion that's being authorized by our government. And when you say anything about it, well, now you're discriminating. Of course we are. Yes. Yes, I'm discriminating. Absolutely. I am discriminatory. Yes. Same as every other human being who has ever lived. Yes. The left discriminates all the time. You discriminated against her, right? This is the double standard. It's the blatant hypocrisy in their face. They can't address it. Did you just discriminate against her because of her beliefs? If her genuine religious Beliefs or her genuine political beliefs drive her to believe that we shouldn't have Muslims in the country. Well, are you now discriminating against her religion and against her beliefs? Well, now you're discriminatory. Well, yeah, but she's hateful. So you can so it's justifiable to discriminate if you disagree vehemently enough with the other person. So if I disagree now with Muslims, I should be allowed to discriminate, right? They can't defend themselves because, of course, there's no argument for it. Once you say discrimination is bad, you're caught in a catch-22. Because there's there's literally nothing you can say, because of course, by nature, then. And Karl Marx at least sort of admitted this when he talked about tolerance. He said tolerance is not the ultimate goal, but it is the ultimate weapon. Because obviously, in order for there to be tolerance, there must be intolerance. He at least admits this when he writes on communism. He says, you know, that we we push tolerance over and over and over again, but we have to be aware that in order to achieve that, we have to be intolerant of the intolerant. We have to have a level of intolerance. And so he's at least honest that it's not hypocrisy, it's just what are we tolerant of? And we're tolerant of all the evil and intolerant of the good. And and as conservatives and as Christians, we're the exact opposite. We're very tolerant of the good and very intolerant of the evil. We shouldn't be tolerant as we have people who want our country destroyed pouring through our gates. That that's not something we should be tolerant of. We shouldn't be tolerant of people that that believe in the things that Muslims believe in. That should not be something that we tolerate in our nation. And if saying that out loud in a grocery store, and of course you never know what leads up to a confrontation. And so there's there's, you know, there's there's questions and whatnot. But when you say that stuff and you get the intolerant group coming after you, you're left to wonder, what is this country becoming? And and has her point not been proven that by doing what we've done over the last 50 or 60 years, now we aren't tolerant. But the people we're tolerant or intolerant of are the good people. Are the good folks that believe in the heritage of our country, that believe in in the greatness of America, that believe in what our country was supposed to be, is supposed to be, and needs to be moving forward if we want to have an America at all. That's inevitable. Otherwise, our country will will face ruin and devastation. And so my main reply don't be afraid of these people. Don't, don't, don't let And this is why I say all the time I'm very blessed to have the job I have, because if I ever get caught on a video saying this stuff, I'm not gonna get fired. Right? If I ever get in a kind of a situation where I say this stuff and I'm on video, I'm never gonna lose my job over it. It's not gonna happen. Anybody who calls for it's gonna be told to kick rocks. Because I say this stuff publicly on air every day. I'm not losing my job over it. But they go after these sorts of women. They go after these sorts of people, men or women, who are willing to speak up, who are in these situations where, hey, you know what? Maybe they're not in a position that they they they lose their job over it, that they're humiliated and shamed. And it's very dangerous if we allow that to keep going. If we allow this to be the overwhelming public response. It's why I think that the donation tab is so crucial in this case. It's actually very important because it at least gives pushback and says, no, no, no. There may be one group of this country that wants you fired and doxxed and and ruined, but there is another group that wants you taken care of. There is another group that agrees with you, that believes in your right to say that, that believes in the truth, and that will stand with you and defend you, that will be there to have your back because you spoke the truth and you shouldn't face consequences for speaking the truth. Now, as Christians, we know we will. I'm not gonna come out and deny that and say, no, no, no, no. You're never gonna you're gonna face consequences, right? You are. You're gonna face threats. I promise you, as someone who's in the space, you're going to face threats. You're you're going to face criticism. You're going to face people who have genuine hatred for you. I I saw the same principle applied in a video I watched the other day on YouTube. There's like a debate, and this this girl comes up and she says, Hey, so you're a Christian, right? He says, Yes, I'm a Bible-believing Christian. She says, So do you do you hate me? I'm, you know, or or do you hate the gays, is what she says. He says, No, I don't hate the gays. She says, But you think they are sinning? He said, Well, yes, I do believe in the inerrancy of scripture, and I believe that scripture condemns homosexuality. So yes, I do believe that they're in sin. He said, But I do love them and I want them to repent and turn from that sin. I don't want them to be condemned by their sin, the same as anybody else. I want them to be saved, so I want them to stop sinning. But no, I don't hate them. I love them. And she said, Well, I'm a lesbian. So you think that I'm sinning and that I shouldn't be allowed to do that. He says, Yes. She said, Well, you see, that's that's where your problem is. This is why I can't tolerate people like you. People like you are so hateful and judgmental and whatever. And she goes into this long tirade, and you can tell this woman has more hatred for this guy than this guy has for her. She's far more hateful to him than anything that he said. No, I love you. I bel I believe in you. I want you to be saved and turned away from sin. I want your life to be better. And she says, No, I want you ruined. That's the playbook of the left. And we've got to stop giving them the leeway to to do this sort of blatant hypocrisy without calling it out. We sit around and we go, Well, I disagree with her. That's about all we say, rather than addressing the bare minimum logic right in front of you. Well, you're saying the issue is that he's discriminating against your lifestyle. But aren't you discriminating against his lifestyle? His lifestyle is a different one than yours. That has calls for political influence in order to change the country. Yours does too. You believe one thing and he believes another. And when he believes his thing, he's kind about it, he's loving about it, and you say that's wrong, and you shouldn't be allowed to do that. But when he but when when when you say that, no trouble for you. No, that's totally fine. Because the issue is not actually tolerance at all. The issue is not really about what you can or can't say, it's not really about what you can or can't do. It's not really about any of that. No, no, no. The end goal of all of this, ultimately, is what is the truth in this country? What is what is the truth of this country going to be? What is the national identity of this country going to be? Both sides know this. Both sides understand it. The left actually better than we do, because there are so many people that are still lost and confused and don't understand the war we're fighting. They don't realize the left also does actually understand this and it's and they're fighting the same battle because they've been so sly and deceitful about it. But we're fighting the same thing. It's just what the truth is going to be at the end of the day, or what the truth that's believed. What's believed? What's that going to look like at the end of the day? And that's why the left demands your fealty. Because they are religious extremists by in every sense of the word. If you don't support their tenets of worship, if you don't support their beliefs, well, you're the the one who gets called names. You're the one who should be fired from your job if you don't if you don't meet the expectations. That's a religion. That's a cult. That's exactly what that is. And so whenever we we are out, I'm not saying that we should be hateful or we should, you know, use language. Like I want to be very cautious that I warn people and say, hey, we still have an obligation as Christians to do this in kindness and in love. For sure. We still have an obligation to be kind. I'm not denying that. But we also do have an obligation to preserve our country and to do that by speaking the truth whenever the occasion arises. Whether you're in an H E B grocery store or or you're on a podcast or you're speaking before a school board or a city council, or you're calling your congressman, or you're doing activism on the streets, right? Wherever you are, you have an obligation to speak the truth in love. And we cannot allow these bullying tactics of the left to dissuade us from doing that. Though they will try. I promise you, they will do their darndest to make sure that happens. Now,

Border Drugs Rise Amid Low Crossings

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with that being said, we get back from the break. I highlighted this a few weeks ago, or maybe la maybe it was last week, where we talked about how the uh the CBP has mentioned, hey, they had this cocaine seizure, and well, there's still a drug epidemic at the border. Well, now they've come out with an announcement about the drugs totality and how that's still happening. They said while illegal crossings are staying near historic lows for the country, drug seizures have surged 32%. We'll talk about the details of that, what that means, what we need to do about it. When we get back from the break, as always, if you would like to text on the show, let us know your thoughts. The number is 713-779-5978. That is 713-779-KYST. I'm your host, Michael Wilson. You're listening to the Lone Star Conservative, and Lord Willing. I'll be right back after the break. So stick around, we'll talk soon.

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SPEAKER_12 35:34

Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. So U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported a significant increase in drug seizures uh in May last month, with nationwide confiscations of cocaine, marijuana, and fentanyl, as well as other substances that are not named, up 32% compared just to the month before in April. According to the CDP release, agents seized 795 pounds of fentanyl in May, which was up 72% on its own from April of this year. CBP also reported it has seized 56% more drugs this year than the same time period in the 2024 fiscal year under former President Joe Biden. Non-intrusive search systems and specialized canine units continue to be highly effective in thwarting these illegal drugs from entering the country. Additionally, CBP agents encountered nearly 10,000 illegal border crossers in May, up 11% compared with April. Most attempted crossings still occurred in the Rio Gran Valley, while encounters with illegal aliens were marginally higher. Attempted crossings typically increased during the summer months in general. If you look, daily apprehensions of illegal aliens in May were 94% lower than under the peak of the Biden administration, with an average of 323 aliens apprehended per day in May. CBB has also maintained thirteen consecutive months of zero releases, meaning that all illegal aliens are either detained or immediately deported. And so Secretary of Homeland Security Mark Wayne Mullen said, quote, Under President Donald Trump's leadership, we are delivering the most secure border in American history. The days of catch and release are over. We are enforcing the nation's laws and quickly sending illegal aliens back to their home countries, ensuring the safety and sovereignty of our nation. CBP reported that apprehensions during the 2026 fiscal year have been twenty-six percent lower than any other fiscal year since nineteen ninety-two. CBP Commissioner Rodney S. Scott said this milestone, coupled with historically low illegal crossings, demonstrates our unwavering commitment to securing our nation. Our robust enforcement policies are working, and we are delivering an unprecedented result in border security, drug interdiction, and trade enforcement. These sustained successes are a testament to our d our strategic approach and the vital support we receive thanks to the leadership of President Trump and Secretary Mullen. Now, as part of its duties in regards to trade and tariffs, CBB noted that the agency processed $321 billion in imports this year so far and seized over $400 million in counterfeit goods. But as I highlighted before, and I said this I believe when we reported on the cocaine seizures, I said, hey, we need to be aware that the CBB is doing an excellent job, and I'm not denying that. I'm also saying that we've done an absolutely excellent job when it comes to hampering any sort of illegal immigration from people. Undeniably, that has been significantly worse. Not only do we have less attempted crossings, right? But we also have significantly less successful crossings, which is the most important detail is the success rate of these crossings. Yeah, I mean it doesn't really matter the number of attempts, other than the fact that it's a cultural issue coming from down south that we should address as its own separate issue. But in terms of keeping our nation secure, of national security, it's obviously excellent that we we've had no successful border crossings in 13 months. I mean, that is that is worthy of applause. If I had a clap track, I'd play it right now. That is absolutely a significant accomplishment that we should be celebrating. We also have to be aware the strategy has changed. We also need to be very clear that the the things that they're still attempting to pour through our southern border are not slowing down. That sure, we've we've really gotten it down to a to a science to prevent people from coming into the country illegally. And that we've done a great job at preventing the drugs from pouring in, but we still have a massive epidemic where you're you have these attempted drug smugglers attempting, right? It is an attempt, even if it's thwarted, that you have this attempt to get these drugs into our country, that that is a massive problem. I think it begs a lot of further questions. It also needs to make it very clear to us hey, this is not over. I know that we tend to do this thing as conservatives and as people in general, uh, that we do grow complacent. And I highlighted this before. We grow complacent when things are good. Happens all the time. Luxury sort of creates that certain amount of complacency. We tend to say, well, we got it under control. We're good to go. It is not under control. Just because things have been better under the current administration does not mean that things are under control. It's not how this works. When you still have just what, 800 pounds of fentanyl that are being attempted to be smuggled into your country, there is a real, genuine crisis. These drugs are these drugs are as deadly as the illegal aliens that are coming across the border. They're they're it's not less dangerous just because it's drugs. All the things coming across our border illegally, they're all dangerous. Whether it's people, it's drugs, or it's other imported goods, these things are very dangerous to be allowed in the interior of our country. And we have to, we have to deal better with these cartels. We have to deal better with the Mexican government. We have to deal better with our border in general, especially given that I don't know if you guys know this, but 2028 is no longer in the distant future. It's not 2024 anymore where we're fighting for Trump. 2020 2028 is coming up before you know it. Two years at this time we'll be heavily debating what's going to happen in November for the presidential election. So it's going to be here very quickly. And we need to be prepared. This is why I've said that Texas needs to take a much better stand at protecting its own border from a state perspective, because we need to be prepared for a worst case scenario, even if that's not what we believe is going to happen, even if we're optimistic, even if we say, hey, I think we're going to win again, no matter what happens in that regard, we need to be clear hey, Texas needs to do better. We need to have our own standards. We need to be aptly prepared for the things that could go wrong because things can certainly go wrong. They're still going wrong. We just have a good enough administration right now that they're thwarted when they go wrong, which is not ultimate success. That's not what we want success to look like. And so we need to do better prevention. We need to start doing better at targeting the cartels. We need to do better at enforcing the laws that are already on the books. We need to make sure that it's very clear what happens to people who try to bring these drugs in. The the punishments, the justice, the consequences for those actions need to become harsher and stricter so that people don't think, hey, this is this is this is a good way to make a living. No, it isn't. If you get caught doing this, the punishment will be so severe, it needs to be so severe that people say, hey, I'm actually not interested in committing that crime. I I'm not, it's not worth it. The risk is not worth the reward of the money that I could get paid from this. It's not worth it anymore. And we need to start making that more and more clear in American culture so that these sorts of things stop happening. If these things under the next administration are allowed to pour into our border again, not just the people, but the drugs associated, it will be an epidemic of catastrophic proportions for our country, for our productivity, for our chronic homelessness. Things we already have not got a handle on will get worse. And we simply cannot afford that for our country at this point. Now, with that being said, we get back from the break. Of course, we're gonna jump over for our daily weather report here on the show to wrap up the first hour of the show. If you would like to text in, the number is 713-779-5978. That is 713-779-KYST. You are listening to the Lone Star Conservative. I'm your host, Michael Wilson. Don't go anywhere because Lord willing, I'll be right back to wrap up the first hour of the show with our weather report after this break. See you soon.

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Houston’s Heat Pattern Returns

SPEAKER_12 48:20

So Houston's weather forecast has settled into a very familiar rhythm for us. Hot afternoons, muggy overnights and mornings, and very little chances of rain. The transition away from the recent pattern of daily airports is basically over now. Uh you may still have some storm systems that are tracking across North Texas through the week. Houston's weather pattern is going to be dominated by dry weather created by high atmospheric pressure, temperatures in the low to mid-90s, and humidity-driven heat index values topping 100 degrees each and every afternoon. At this point, the most notable aspect of all of this is the persistence of the heat rather than just the intensity. Houston is not staring down any sort of exceptional late June heat wave. It's not any worse than anything we've had before. But we are entering this sort of repetitive humid pattern that it's not that it's so hot, it's that it's long lasting. So today sort of marks the very beginning of this weather pattern. Afternoon in the low to mid-90s, mornings in the mid to upper seventies, or possibly just low eighties, and very little change day to day in any of that. Uh if we're lucky, it might come to an end by September. We might have a break from it by then, uh, but you never know how long it'll take. For now, our weather pattern continues through the weekend. Some inland communities, particularly west of the Raz River Valley, uh could flirt with advertising temperatures in the upper nineties by late in the week. Again, heat in his values will continue reaching into the low to mid 100s during the afternoon. By midweek, heat in its values could approach 108 degrees in some locations, which would of course prompt the National Weather Service to issue heat alerts. Rain chances are basically going to dry up. Uh we're still gonna have plenty of moisture, but it's just unlikely to translate into rainfall. And so for now, any daily records are are pretty safe. Forecast of dice again, generally made in the lower to mid-90s, so be prepared for that. Record temperatures range from 101 degrees today to 105 on June 26th. So we're probably not going to have any record-breaking heat this week. It's what I'm saying. It's not just the intensity, it's just the duration. With that being said, that'll do it for our weather report. We get back ready to have. As I mentioned, Jackson Parker coming on from Blue Bolt Spirits. Talk all about their company, an event they have coming up this weekend that you will not want to miss, and so much more. You're listening to Lone Star Conservative. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and Lord willing, I'll be right back with Jackson at the top of the next hour.

SPEAKER_04 50:51

From deep in the heart of Texas, Coach Houston's God-loving patriot, the voice of reason. This is the Lone Star Conservative, Michael Wilson.

SPEAKER_13 51:03

I'm offended. We are offended. Let's all get offended. We can sit down right here.

SPEAKER_12 51:43

They're hosting an event coming up called America 250 at the Giant Texas Tasting Room on Saturday, June 27th, which we'll talk about a little bit more later in the interview. Jackson,

Blue Bolt Spirits And Marine Roots

SPEAKER_12 51:52

welcome to the show. Thanks for joining us this morning.

SPEAKER_05 51:54

Hey, Michael, thanks for having me, man.

SPEAKER_12 51:57

Of course. Now, to kick it off, before we get into the event itself, I want to learn a little bit about Bluebold Spirits, kind of the history, the founders, all this sort of stuff. I want people to know the story because I don't think this is just some random liquor brand trying to slap any sort of patriotism on a bottle and saying, hey, you gotta buy this. Uh can you kind of walk us through how you guys got started?

SPEAKER_05 52:17

Sure, sure. Um it's it's uh it's a two-man, it's a two-man team. It's a two-man company. Everything you see uh uh for good, for better and worse, uh down to the labels website, everything, everything's been tasted by me or my my my partner uh uh Will Mailey. He's an active duty Marine still to this day in Quantico. Uh we both grew up on the east side of Houston, uh Glena Park North Shore. Um essentially uh what we do is we try to source high-quality premium bourbon and offer at a very fair price to our veterans. Uh right now we're sold throughout the Marine Exchanges. So we really focus on the Marine community as he's an active duty Marine. Uh it started with us uh kind of putting out uh a product for celebrate the Marine Corps birthday and it has evolved into a much more uh a year-round job.

SPEAKER_12 53:08

Yeah, absolutely. And so one of the big stuff that I that I think was very interesting is that I I I and I don't want to, you know, misquote you or put you on the spot, uh, but when you walk into a lot of these places, a lot of a lot of what I'm seeing, a lot of what I I'm seeing here is that you see a lot of these sort of gimmicks that are probably pretty cool, right? You see bourbon or whatever put into these bottles that are that are very cool, they're very gimmicky, you know, tanks, grenades, whatever it may be, and then sold. And then of course they're they're priced so incredibly expensive. And maybe anything you could get that maybe is cheap isn't necessarily very good bourbon. Did you guys kind of have that experience walking into these places and saying, hey, maybe these guys deserve something better?

SPEAKER_05 53:51

Oh, that that's exactly it. Yeah, I mean, you hit the nail on the head. Uh essentially, uh, I, you know, uh me, like I said, me and Will have known each other since we're eight years old, and I I've visited them on base over the years, and one day we were in one and we're just kind of laughing at, like you said, we got guns and tanks and grenades, and it's just, you know, fill filled filled with alcohol. And I'm not saying that the cancer, the bottle itself is not cool, but uh, but it's, you know, I mean, sometimes less than two-year-old stuff being sold at uh 10-year-old prices. And in itself, that's not the worst. I mean, listen, hey, I bought something because it looks cool. I'm not above it, but the the fact that it is it doesn't cost that much more to put an actual uh quality bourbon into the the packaging. And and my biggest problem with it is our biggest problem with it is is you know, these guys, these are young guys usually buying this kind of stuff, and and they're getting an idea that, hey man, an $80 bur bottle of bourbon tastes like this. And in general, it's it's hard to find something that's that's that young that they're throwing in there that's gonna be what you you know uh you're looking for. So it just kind of sets them down the wrong path in general, you know. And so, but besides being possibly predatory, it just kind of it's not making aficionado out of these guys, you know. So we thought, man, I bet we could maybe do something about this. And and we have.

SPEAKER_12 55:15

You know, I bet we could use the free market and make something that's better at better prices, right? I bet we could compete is is the perspective. Um, and and really I love that it comes from that because it's not a lot of companies, and this isn't like a downer. I I have no problem with capitalism. Like, it's not a downer on companies that start because they just think they can make better things. But I think a lot of it was also your your love for the Marine Corps and saying, hey, like actually it's not even just that we can do better, it's also that these guys deserve better. And so that I think drove a lot of this. It's why it's not very gimmicky, it's not done this way, and I think it's very affordable comparatively. Um one question I have on the specifics, I don't want to go down a rabbit hole and get into stuff that I don't know about, but one thing I do want to kind of understand for someone listening who maybe likes bur bourbon but doesn't know all the insider terms, when you say that you're sourcing barrels, what separates a good barrel? What

How Bourbon Barrel Sourcing Works

SPEAKER_12 56:05

does that mean? What does that what does that process look like? Just out of curiosity.

SPEAKER_05 56:08

Yeah, I mean, it really just depends on, I mean, there there's some people, you know, you're a lot average person that's buying bourbon doesn't realize that most of the stuff's readily available. I mean, not not maybe for purchase, you know, you're not gonna buy as a as an individual a barrel of it, but but you know, these uh you go you go to these distilleries of which they're you know throughout the country and and and you can source stuff honestly from anywhere as long as you have you know a partner and and and there's some permitting and licensing required. But the the point is is it doesn't all just come from Kentucky. And that's kind of what what me and Will have focused on is you know, a lot of people don't realize this, but 80% of the brands you see on a shelf, especially in the bourbon owl, they're coming out of like maybe five distilleries. I mean, that's that's true. Yet there's hundreds throughout the United States. So a lot of times we're you're thinking you're buying something that's new and and and uh and novel, but it's it's uh it's out of uh it's out of something you've already had four. It's out of Jim Beam, it's out of you know, out of MGP in Indiana. Uh, you know, so so we we tried we have tried to focus on sourcing from smaller, more craft distilleries across America. We have out of Mississippi, Georgia, you know, Texas. Obviously, Texas are bread and butter. We've done a lot of work out at Giant, and that's why we're we're having our uh our event down there at the tasting room uh this Saturday. Um but yeah, it's uh we we try to provide something that you actually haven't had before and tell you that it's until you something that's new when it's not new.

SPEAKER_12 57:41

Right, absolutely. So you started with just that one barrel back to celebrate the 240 the 247th birthday of the Marine Corps, and now just a few years later, you're up to what, a hundred barrels that you've sourced. So this is clearly on a projection if you were looking at it on a graph, moving up.

SPEAKER_05 57:56

Yeah, yeah. I mean, we we uh we're the Marine Corps Exchange's favorite brand right now. I think we're the only ones that have grown these last two years uh in the exchange because Burmans taken as an industry taken a little bit of a dip, and uh we have not as a brand. And a lot of that's just due to growing, continuing growing awareness, but but yeah, I mean it it's uh it it's it the the whole the whole process of of trying to source correctly and provide a decent product at a fair price is has been really really beneficial. Like I said, when it comes to capitalism, those are hard things to beat, and we've been able to do it, you know, and and and we've been proud of how we've been able to do it here in the Marine Corps Exchanges.

SPEAKER_12 58:42

Absolutely. So let's talk

America 250 Event And DUI Prevention

SPEAKER_12 58:43

a little bit about the event as we're getting close to the wrap-up here. Uh because this is obviously a part of the big reason we wanted to have you on as soon as we did. The event is America 250. That's coming up Saturday, June 27th. That's this Saturday, from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Giant Texas Tasting Room. Can you walk us through that event, what people can expect, kind of all the details?

SPEAKER_05 59:02

Sure, sure. So we're we're we're holding an event. We it's our second event that we've had there at the Giant Tasting Room, and essentially, but the whole event is is you know, we obviously we love having people from the armed forces in, we love having Marines in, but we love having people from the armed forces in, uh, any any military and any military adjacent, families, friends, and just supporters. And we'll we'll have uh you know we're having an event just to celebrate. Uh, you know, we we're we're we're not gonna get to see another one of these uh in a in quite a while, long time, a Hallmark year like this. So and and we you know, we we try to provide, once again, fair pricing on everything. But the biggest thing is is all of our profits are uh for this event at least will go towards whiskey dollars. Their entire purpose is there uh it's started by a Marines and essentially it's to eliminate DUIs in the military. Uh we know we know as as we're we're selling it, but people in the military are drinking, but we've got to keep them safe while they're doing it. And that's whiskey dollars focus. All of our profits go towards them. And you know, yeah, but we come out to uh giant it's Saturday, four to seven. Uh you'll meet Will and me. Uh the whole company will be there, in other words. And uh, you know, we'll talk bourbon with you, we'll talk Marines with you, we'll talk military with you, we talk conservative with conservatism with you, uh uh, whatever you'd like. But we'll be down there and we'll be having a great time.

SPEAKER_12 1:00:22

Excellent, excellent, Jackson. I'm very glad to hear that. Again, that's this Saturday. And by the way, ladies and gentlemen, you can go to our Facebook page. We already have a post up right now if you go to the Patriot Talk 920 Facebook page that has a link where you can go get your tickets uh and you can see all the details, the flyer, see all the stuff going on with the event. We're also gonna have that up on our website here in a little bit later today. If you go to PatriotTalk920.com to the events tab, or just go straight to PatriotTalk920.com slash events. In the meantime, Jackson, we greatly appreciate your time this morning for all the work that you're doing and we'll continue to do. And uh Lord Will, we'll have you gone again on soon.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:55

Oh man, I'd love that. I appreciate it, Michael. You have a great day.

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Of course, you as well. And hey guys, let me tell you, as a bit of a personal story, ladies and gentlemen, I will tell you the Blue Bolts guys, they're excellent. I got to meet both of them at the City of Texas GOP convention. It was a phenomenal time, by the way. And I got to talk with Jackson quite a bit about everything from conservative values and history to bourbon. I got to learn a lot about bourbon. I didn't know um how how interesting of a hobby it was until I got to talk to Jackson and Will. It was a very cool experience. They're a great group of guys over there, the two of them. Um I'm very excited, by the way, to see what they're gonna do in the future. They actually gave me a bottle of of their bourbon signed by them there at the event. It was so cool. Uh, I mean, and it's just amazing. I got to attend their tasting that was done right there at our booth. And we had a great time. Uh, we had a lot of people show up trying the bourbon. Absolutely excellent. And I'm not a bourbon aficionado, so I'm not coming out here saying this as somebody who really knows their bourbon enough uh that usually I would enjoy, but I I did quite enjoy that bourbon. And so I would highly recommend you guys check them out. Um and the best way to do that is to go to that event this Saturday, June 27th from 4 to 7 p.m. You can go check it out. Again, that's at our Facebook page right now if you want to get the link to go get your tickets, our Patriot Talk 920 Facebook page, or just go to our website, PatriotTalk920.com. I don't think the event will be posted to the website just yet, even though it is on our Facebook. Uh but if you get a few hours, that'll be up on our website later today where you can go get the the details of the event. If you, you know, maybe tune in here at the end of the interview and want to know, hey, what did what did I miss? Hey, what's good? It'll be all over our Facebook and our website on the events tab. And you can check it all out. And and again, I think this is the importance of supporting local businesses and supporting people who do good things. Right. You you have a choice. Every time that you spend a single dollar anywhere, you you have the active decision where you want to spend that dollar in any way, shape, and form that you desire. And when you're making those decisions, right? I mentioned earlier discrimination and how you know everything is discriminatory in nature. There's another example of that. Whenever you choose to buy a drink in general, you're discriminating. You're saying, hey, I chose this over that. Right. And that doesn't mean that that's bad or that I hate that, but it doesn't mean that you're making a decision. And so when we make these sorts of decisions, there are more questions going into it. Hey, is the bourbon good? Is it at a good price? Right. Am I am I is it predatory, right? Am I being taken advantage of buying something that I you know don't necessarily even like at insane prices, or is it something I'm getting that's good? Something I'm getting that that is beneficial, that I do enjoy at an affordable price. Am I supporting an organization that gives back, right? That is interested in giving back and being a part of the community and saying, hey, we want to make a difference with what we do. We're not just here to make a quick dime and leave out the back door. We're here to do something, to build a lasting legacy, to build an inheritance for our children and our children's children to grow this sort of stuff. And it's absolutely incredible to see that out of two guys, two young guys. It's absolutely incredible to see that coming out in support of our military, our armed forces. And so we love, we love the guys over at Blue Bolt. Jackson's a great guy. Will's a great guy. Very excited to get him on this morning. And I'm sure again, we'll have them on again in the future. Like I said, it was a it was a great interview, and we'll be happy to have him on again sometime soon. Uh maybe go over the results of the event, you know, deals, all that sort of stuff, what they're doing with their company, how as they grow, you know, as they both, you know, are able to dedicate more time to the venture. You know, as as you know, Will, you know, ends active duty, whatever that looks like for him, all that sort of stuff. We'll we'll highlight here on the show. You won't want to miss that when it comes up. In the meantime, ladies and gentlemen, when we get back, I'm trying to decide if I want to go to the break. It's always so funny when you're your own producer because you have to make these split second decisions. I decided we're not gonna go to the break. We're gonna do it in this segment. I want to talk about this story coming up out of right here in the Mission Bend area, coming out of the Harris County Sheriff's Office.

Teen Shooting And Cultural Accountability

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Two teenagers were shot yesterday afternoon after a f following a fight involving a group of juveniles in the Mission Bend area. Deputies responded to a reported shooting and found two juveniles suffering from gunshot wounds, according to the Harris County Sheriff's Office detective Nelson during a media briefing at the scene. Investigators believe the shooting stemmed from an altercation involving approximately ten to fifteen juveniles who are believed to be high school aged students. Nelson said, quote, deputies arrived and found two individuals with gunshot wounds that stemmed from a fight with approximately ten to fifteen. The two injured teams were transported to hospitals for treatment. Authorities said one victim was transported by helicopter, while the condition of both teams remains unknown. According to investigators, the group was gathered on foot and appeared to be waiting for transportation when the fight broke out. No arrests have yet been made, and no juveniles were in custody as of yesterday afternoon. Investigators are, of course, doing all the things they do, interviewing witnesses, reviewing evidence, all that sort of stuff. They've not yet determined a motive. They didn't know if it was, you know, r related to any sort of ongoing rivalry. They also have There were no reports of any nearby homes being struck by gunfire, and they've not identified any additional crime scenes connected to the shooting, though that does again remain ongoing. But I wanted to bring up this story because what happened is not just another quote unquote youth violence story. Obviously, we have these all the time. I think it's they've tried to kind of sterilize it and say, well, it just happened. There's violence, right? It's out there. Nothing you can really do about it. Two, two, two teenagers were shot after a fight involving a group of 10 to 15 young people. And once again, we're left asking probably the same question: how many warnings do we need to get? How many times does it need to happen before we admit that there is a very deep cultural problem? Before we admit, hey, there's something very evil going on in our culture if young people are driven to this. At some point, we're gonna have to recover the idea of accountability. Yeah, we're talking about juveniles. Yes, we're talking about teenagers. But the moment a fight turns into pulled guns and gunfire, the stakes are not childish anymore. Right? The consequences are adult consequences. Hospital beds, helicopters, um, potentially, you know, a funeral, God forbid, if that kind of comes out of this. And this is, I think, where we made a very terrible mistake as a culture, as a people group. We spent years that I say we colloquially, because it's not we, we as conservatives have not done this, but the left has pushed this narrative, the public schools have pushed this narrative, the mainstream media has pushed this narrative uh to young people that that discipline is bad and it's oppressive, uh, that standards are mean and consequences are traumatic, and you're you're young, you only live once. Do whatever you want. You've been oppressed your whole life, do what you feel like you need to do. And then we act very shocked when teenagers behave as if no one taught themselves control and restraint. Because no one did. And when you do not treat children like future adults, right? I know that they're again, this isn't the whole claim of the mainstream today is well, let kids just let kids be kids. Right. And I even hear this from the right sometimes. And and I get I get the intent behind it. I certainly do. I understand the desire to keep childhood innocence intact. Believe you me, we fight every day against a left that wants sexually explicit textbooks and and fiction books and whatever else in our school libraries. We're all on the same team there. But we we also have to understand when you treat children when you when you are like like children that have no future. In other words, when you're unwilling to address the fact that these children have to become competent members of society, you end up with young adults and adults who then act like children, but with the adult consequences intact. Right? They throw a tantrum, but the tantrum now has a gun attached to it. And so we're seeing children acting with these adult levels of violence, adult weapons and rage and consequences. And we can't just shrug it off because they're young, right? In fact, quite the opposite. Being young may matter in how our institutions handle this from a legal perspective for sure. But we can't let that sort of become this magic shield against any sort of responsibility whatsoever. If you're old enough to join a group fight and use a weapon on people, and you're old enough to turn a disagreement into a shooting, uh, then you're old enough to face some pretty serious consequences. And look, I we also have to say here on the show, what everybody knows, but and we say it all the time because it's very important, but people aren't talking about it. Fatherlessness is not a side issue. It's not a random pet pee when there's a fatherless home. No, it is one of the central, if not the central issue. Boys need fathers. And this isn't to be down on mothers, by the way. I know that the left likes dichotomies that don't make sense. I'm not being down on mothers when I say that, but God has given fathers and mothers very distinct roles. And you can see this in the statistics, right? It's almost like the Lord has created things and knows the truth and tells us the truth, and then science ultimately ends up backing it up. When you look at the statistics of motherless homes, right, there are probably a lot of issues with nurturing and growing up with certain, you know, social issues intact, for sure. Not denying that whatsoever. You need a father and a mother. But when you have fatherless homes, what do you get? Oh, we know what you get. You get runaways, you get drug abusers, you get chronic homelessness, you get gang activity because they want a sense of community and and mentorship. They desire that. Boys all desire that you get violence and aggression and jail time and and these sorts of shooting scenarios. That's what you get out of it. Right? Boys need discipline. Boys need a man in the home who teaches them that strength is good, violence is good, evil violence is bad. That needs to be clear. That you have to have good character and that being angry needs to be moderated and restrained. That righteous anger is good, that sometimes you have to be in a fight, but that it requires wisdom. It requires self-control and discipline. And no amount of public schooling or government programs are gonna replace fathers. It's just never gonna happen. School counselors can't do it. TikTok influencers and the street culture and the gang you're in and your friends, you can't you can't replace, right? When fathers aren't in the home, you do get a vacuum. And things will try to replace it, things that are worse for you, but they don't actually end up doing that, right? Again, none of this means that we're necessarily saying, hey, you're a bad father if your kid does something bad. People still make choices. That's the point. But we we can't keep sitting around saying, Well, I wonder how this happened. Well, I wonder how we got here. Well, I can tell you how we got here. Broken homes. The the start of what we call no fault divorce. You guys, you guys know about no fault divorce. No fault divorce is very common these days. It didn't used to be, by the way, and it's not often talked about, not nearly as much as it should be. No fault divorce is this concept that for no reason at all, or any reason at all, you can break a covenant with your spouse. Right. We used to have, we always had exemptions for divorce, or if you're, you know, for annulments, whatever the case may be. We always had exemptions. We always said, hey, you know, we we we depend on cases where there's abandonment. We understand there's cases of infidelity, right? Those things. Even if we would argue, hey, it's still not a moral good to be divorced, that it's morally justifiable. That would be the argument. But what we're not gonna do is sit around and not talk about no fault divorce. No fault divorce says, hey, you ever heard the big we just fell out of love? Hey, we're just not the same people we were when we got married. Hey, you know, we've kind of grown distant, kind of grown apart. And they justify that as a covenant-breaking act. They say, hey, us falling out of love, whatever the heck that means, it comes from a very misunderstood concept of love. We're we're willing to abandon what God has bound together, that no man should separate, especially not the man in the marriage. That came out years and years ago. And I I still talk about pretty frequently and say we need to end it. No fault divorce has been a stain and a scourge on American society and on promises and on homes. And on top of having a fatherless home in general, if you add in that the child had to go through the divorce, those statistics get even worse. It's incredibly bad for your kids when you get a divorce. It's it's actually awful. And we know it is because God didn't make that to happen. He made kids to be raised in a two-parent home with parents that love one another. It's only the curse of sin that drives that apart. And that's what we've watched happen through no fault divorce and everything else, right? And when then we excuse all of that, we say it's all fine, it's all dandy, father's homes don't matter, we say all those things until then you have blood on the pavement and you have kids that are dead, and then we say, well, and then the left goes like this. They go, ah, we know what the real issue is. No, no, no. It's not fatherlessness and the cultural rot and the shifts. No, no, no. Actually, the problem, oh, you're not gonna believe this, it's guns. That's the real problem, right? The anti-gun crowd is gonna immediately point to stories like this and say, hey, how'd they get guns? You know why? Because they're not strict enough gun laws preventing young people from getting firearms. No, no, no. It's not the the the issues of the gun, right? No. No, no, it's not it's not the fatherlessness epidemic, it's not any of the things that are very obviously the driving issues. It's not the indoctrination and the the rap songs that glorify violence these children are listening to uh at all hours of the day and night. It's not the gang activity and the drugs and the culture. No, none of those things contribute. No, it is the inanimate object ultimately that is the problem. That's the that's the issue. Let's fix it by disarming all of the good people in the country, right? No, that's not how you fix it. You fix it by restoring order. You fix it by restoring consequences, you fix it by restoring a culture of fidelity and of the marriage bed. You fix it by restoring a culture of covenantal promises and of parents who know what love means, and of present fathers in the home. Defending, and by the way, that includes defending the right of decent Americans to protect themselves when the system fails to protect them, when these issues arise. Right is, of course, the perfect place to mention our sponsor, gun owners of America. Because this is exactly why groups like GOA matter. When politicians will exploit violence to go after your rights, instead of confronting the real issues, they go after your rights. Gun owners of America stands in the gap for your Second Amendment rights. They're fighting for rights of all law-abiding Americans who understand that self-defense is not a political talking point, right? It's a God-given right and a constitutional guarantee of no compromise shall not be infringed. That means they need the funding to campaign for good candidates, to lobby for good bills and against bad ones, to sue, should the occasion call for it, against tyrannical ordinances, all of those things. And that requires your support. 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Texas Financial Literacy And Ideology Risks

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back, ladies and gentlemen. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. As the State Board of Education prepares to vote today on new personal financial literacy standards for Texas students, internal records and social media posts suggest that outside voices help shape key language in the proposed course. While entrepreneurship as a topic was removed and the free market instruction was very much softened. District 2 board member LJ Francis, who is a Republican, proposed changes that would remove entrepreneurship from the Republic from the personal financial literacy course. An internal state board document obtained by our friends over at Texas Scorecard says the justification for that was that this is a personal financial literacy course and that entrepreneurship content belongs in business and industry courses. The same document shows the free enterprise requirement was changed from describe characteristics of free enterprise to analyze characteristics of free enterprise through discussion, including multiple perspectives. You know what, whenever you hear multiple perspectives, by the way, you know what that means? That means they want to say, let's talk about the free market from maybe a communist perspective. Right? Those sorts of open-ended things. The document explicitly states that an individual named Mitchie recommended the multiple perspectives language per social studies skills integration. Francis said he was not advised of where that language originated, even though he proposed it. The document also notes that Mitchie's proposed language did not include the entrepreneurship section. So who's Mitchie? That's a question I think we all have. Hey, who's Mitchie? Where did this person who's not on the State Board of Education kind of come from, where the proposer of the new language doesn't even really know how this started? Well, Jennifer Mitchell, whose LinkedIn page identifies her as a seventh grade math teacher and whose banner reads Money Math with Mitchie, posted that she worked closely with Francis and others to create personal financial literacy standards aligned with House Bill 27. Now, for some background, House Bill 27, I know there's a lot, but you gotta, you gotta kinda know the background here, which was passed in 2025 and jointly authored by State Representative Ken King, Linda Garcia, and Suleiman Lalani, which Suleiman Lalani should be an automatic, you heard his name earlier today, crazy leftist, directed the Texas Education Agency to develop a list of free and open source and publicly available curricula that districts may use for high school personal financial literacy. Under the new structure, personal financial literacy becomes a required half credit within the three required social studies credits. Mitchell also posted a photo of herself with Francis and Yanely Espinall of Next Gen Personal Finance, which is a California-based nonprofit that provides financial literacy curriculum and teacher training at quote, no cost. Espinall testified in favor of House Bill 27, even though she's from a California nonprofit, and her name appears as well in the internal SBOE State Board of Education document, raising questions again about how a California nonprofit head is influencing the drafting process of our state of Texas curriculum. According to Open Secrets, NGPF co-founder Tim Ranzetta has donated to Democrats, including Congressman Rokana, uh former Senator Sherid Brown. They also supported the fight personal financial literacy language proposed by Francis. So again, they have a lot to do with it. Three weeks ago, Mitchell posted that NGPF endorsed the standards I worked on with member LJ Francis. And so Francis was asked how many vendors are currently available to provide personal financial literacy materials. He said that the board would have an idea of that, but he did not have the data and that it's not customary to have that information during consideration of the standards. They also kind of reached out and asked the State Board of Education members and Representative King whether personal financial literacy courses would fall into the same quality and suitability review. They said, not currently. It's not going to fall into that review, but that the review process will apply later. And so a lot of these issues kind of comes in that personal financial literacy, I think, as a topic sounds kind of harmless to most of us, right? In fact, it sounds good. It doesn't just sound harmless, it doesn't sound neutral. It sounds good. Every parent wants their child to understand debt and credit cards and interest rates and budgeting, saving, investing, and so on and so forth. How you should not become a slave to debt. They can tune into Dave Ramsey or they can take their personal financial literacy course. But I don't think the question is actually, and it shouldn't be, whether students should learn personal finance. They obviously should. The question is, what does that mean? What are the standards for personal financial literacy? What worldview is being put into that course? And hey, whatever worldview it is, why did entrepreneurship get removed? And why did you remove sort of clear free market language?

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Right?

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Texas students are being told, hey, you need personal financial literacy, but one of the most important parts of financial literacy is being removed. The option of entrepreneurship, part of the American dream, being able to start your own business and do a good job and work hard for something that you believe in, right? We just had blue bolt spirits on. That's a part of America. Hey, we're going to design a product that is good, that is affordable, that is beneficial, and that gives back to the community. Hey, that's great. What if we like just stripped that from what we teach children so they had no idea about it? What if we just like remove that entirely from well, that's not really personal. That's the most personal thing you can do in literacy is start your own business and know what that looks like and understand the processes, all of those things. And so, I mean, how do people how do people build wealth, right? How do families move from dependence to independence, right? How do they, how do people learn that there are other options? Well, that's entrepreneurship, right? And somehow, in a course about personal finance, entrepreneurship is being told, no, no, that that's that's that's not for here, that's for somewhere else, which should bother everybody. Uh just because when you remove entrepreneurship, you're not just making a technical decision on it. You're also, we talk often about children and what it means to be childlike. A lot of that is imagination. And I want to be clear when you remove entrepreneurship, you're limiting the imagination of children as to what they can be and what they can do and how they can change the world. That that is that is just simply what is you're telling them here's how you manage money inside the system, uh, but not how you can build your own stuff, how you can have real ownership of what you do and how you can lead the culture. Those things are just subtly removed. And so, and that doesn't even get into the language on free enterprise, right? Which was simple that you would describe characteristics of free enterprise, straightforward, teach the system, teach private property and exchanges and competition and all the things associated with free market, right? No, no, no. The new language says that students should be able to analyze free enterprise through discussion and multiple perspectives, which Sounds like ac you know, academic, you know, literacy and intellectual stimulation, all those things. But we should we should have learned by now to pay attention to those sorts of phrases. Multiple perspectives can very easily become the lens and the door through which anti-capitalist and anti-free market social justice framing enters the conversation and the classroom to your children. It doesn't mean that every teacher is going to do that. It doesn't mean that every lesson is going to be radical. It doesn't even mean that any of the curriculum is going to be radical today. But it does mean that the standard has become more open-ended and less technical and direct, which means it is more vulnerable to future ideological interpretation, which is why these left-wing advocacy groups are celebrating this. Do you think they're cheering for no reason? No, because they understand we have opened the door wide for them to teach the things that they want ultimately taught. And they're very patient. You'll find this out. It's the same with Islam. I remember not to go on a tangent, but just to kind of clarify what I'm saying here, when you look back at the history of Islam, I remember a quote I read in a book when I was a I want to say a child, but it wasn't like a young child. I was probably just going through puberty, 12, 13 years old. And I read a book on the history of Islam. And one of the things that really stood out to me, you know, when you read stuff when you're younger, you kind of remember bits and pieces. You you maybe couldn't give a presentation on the book today, but there are things that stuck with you. There are things that that your brain decided, hey, this is kind of important. You should probably remember this. One of those things was a quote, and I I'm gonna paraphrase the quote because I don't remember the quote verbatim, but I remember the concept. And it was this Islamic leader who said, you know, the problem with the West and why we can beat them is the West is so short-sighted. They're they're debating and they're defending the battle that's coming in a year or in six months, or the battle that's outside their door right now. They have no idea what we're planning for 500 years from now. But we're embedding into our children and our children's children to the third and fourth generations that will consume them in in uh in a in a millennia. They they have no clue what's coming because we're they're preparing for tomorrow and we're preparing for 500 years from now. And that stuck with me because that perspective is how the left overtook our institutions. Now, maybe not on the scale of 500 years, but on the scale of 60. I know because I hear people all the time, what went so wrong? It was my education was totally fine back in the 60s. I don't even hear people say, Well, it wasn't even so bad in the 90s. Where what happened? Well, I can tell you it was worse in the 90s than it was in the 60s. It was worse in the 60s than it was in the 40s. It was worse in the 40s, by the way, than it was when you had the New England primer back at the start of our country in the colonies. It's gotten significantly worse over time. It's taken a lot of time. And then eventually you get to the point where you can you can say, hey, we want to just we just want to open end the question. Instead of just saying characteristics of the free market, that's kind of, you know, it's weird. Let's say analyze free market from multiple perspectives. Let's make it academic in language. And then 10 years from now, when you have curriculum in the schools, that under the guise of academic freedom, under the guise of, hey, people need to learn everything, we're teaching them anti-capitalist rhetoric and Marxist communist theory to children and embedding that worldview into young people. And it all starts slowly with just a little seed. And you can see this because of how hard they're celebrating over it as a win. Well, now it's open-ended. We haven't even selected the curriculum yet. We none of the curriculum seems to have anything negative in it today. But they're gonna have another meeting and another one after that, and another one after that, and before you know it, this open-ended well you say we can need multiple perspectives. Is it not fair? Is there not such a thing as communism? Is it not possible that communism could ever work? And they'll go into these things and it'll eventually get debated, it'll eventually get said, Well, we don't want to teach anti-capitalism, but it's it's a perspective you could have, so they need to understand it, and then understanding becomes believing. That's that's how the process has worked for generations in the public school industry in this country, and that's exactly what's happening now, right? And that's the problem. We should not be ashamed to teach free enterprise as a good thing. We should not be embarrassed to say that markets and entrepreneurship and and work and risk and responsibility are superior to socialism and dependency and redistribution. We should not be ashamed to say, hey, that's just objectively true. We're not California. We should not be in importing this California education into Texas classrooms, right? And then you get into next gen personal finance, this California nonprofit offering this curriculum. We should know by now that free curriculum is never really free. Somebody funds it, somebody writes it. And by the way, I always I I heard something great from from an entrepreneur a while back who was explaining free markets and was explaining capitalism. And he said, Hey, if you ever get something free, you're the product, by the way. If you ever get something that's free, then you're you're paying, you're the you're the you're the service, right? You getting it is the payment. You have to understand that companies aren't giving things out for free, they're getting something out of it. And so the price tag says zero dollars on it, but the ideological cost to our young people is very, very high. Very, very important. And so when you have an outside organization celebrating these things, uh and and when its representative testified for the legislation and then its name appears in internal documents, I think we should ask questions. Who wrote the language? Who suggested these multiple perspectives? Why did you strip away entrepreneurship? Why are board members voting before the public has a clear picture of who's benefiting and what it actually means? All right, I'm not saying anyone necessarily broke the law or some formal behind closed doors contract, but there is a familiar pattern here that we see all the time. We often call it the deep state or the ruling class, whatever we want to call it, these outside groups, these nonprofit networks, these education consultants, these vendors, these lobbyists in many cases, help shape the direction of the policy. And by the time that we notice, or that parents notice, or that activists notice, the standards have been adopted, they've been approved, and then the materials are already there. And that's how the bureaucracy politically works in every sphere of government. And then years later, when the curriculum is actually in front of your kids and they come home with communism homework, you ask, how did this get there? Well, the answer is it got there years ago. It got there in the standards, it got there in the way that it was voted on. And so we we can't only fight over what's in there after it's passed, right? We can't react once the objectional objectionable worksheet is just in their backpack, ready to go, and they're already learning all of these things and it's already in their minds. We need to pay attention at the standards level because standards are the backbone and the skeleton of the curriculum. That's where it all starts. A real personal financial literacy course should teach students how to budget, save, invest, understand interest, build credit, but it it also has to teach them about the moral and economic foundations of prosperity, about the free markets, about why America succeeded economically. That's Western civilization. A Christian conservative view of money is not that the state owns everything or that wealth just bubbles up, or that bureaucrats me m kind of measure everything under a lens of equality. We recognize stewardship, which recognizes work and that debt is bondage. We're a slave to the lender, and that a man has a duty to provide for his household, that honest gain and an honest enterprise are good things. So, yeah, for sure, teach personal financial literacy. It's a good course to have. Uh, but don't teach a watered-down version that teaches students to be consumers in a managed economy with socialism as the bedrock and that the entrepreneurial spirit is kind of forced out of the way. Don't soften free enterprise. Don't let California come in and tell us how to run our schools. We should shut that all down, reverse course, and say absolutely not. With that being said, when we get back from the break, we're gonna wrap it up with a fun little story here. Uh, because the World Cup, as we know, has been happening all over the country, lots of games going on, and we have World Cup fans from all over the world uh that are coming here to Houston to see games. It's not exactly what we expected, but social media is showing where many of those people are going. Because of course, when they're here, they have to sleep, they have to eat. And one of the big questions is well, you're coming from out of country. I don't know what your experience with American cuisine is, or with specifically if you're coming to Houston. What is your experience with Texas cuisine? But where do people they want some fast food? They're in Texas, they're never gonna be here again, maybe. Where are they gonna go? We probably already know the answer, but I'll answer it for you after the break. If you want to text in, this is your final opportunity. You can do that at 713-779-5978. That is 713-779-KYST. You're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and I'll wrap up the show after this last break. So stick around and we'll talk soon.

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International soccer fans have traveled thousands of miles from all over the world to experience the FIFA World Cup atmosphere here in Houston, but many appear to be spending at least part of that journey in a place that we know too well here in America, and that is not only the drive-thru, but restaurants in general. Now we have, of course, award-winning barbecue, Tex Mac Steakhouses, diverse culinary offerings, and of course, fast food. Videos posted across TikTok, Instagram, and ex show fans lining up at restaurants, including Whataburger, Chick-fil-A, Waffle House, IHop, Chipotle, Raising Canes, KFC, Texas Barbecue, Breakfast Tacos, oversized hamburgers, and late-night, you know, food trucks. After all, American fast food has become one of the country's most recognizable cultural exports. For decades, movies and TV shows and social media have shaped international perceptions of American dining, often centered around burgers and fries and fried chicken and these massive portions. And so, in Texas, of course, we have Whataburger, one of the biggest attractions for people coming specifically here. Social media posts show visitors posing with the state's beloved orange and white cups, comparing menu items and sharing of views of their first burgers and whatnot. And so I want to tie this back because we hear all the time, I don't want to take too long on this and make it too serious because it's pretty fun, but you hear all the time that America has no culture, Texas has no culture, Western civilization, white people, no, there's no such thing as white culture and Western culture and American none of that exists. Uh this is a reminder. Uh yes, it does. And yes, we do. We do have that. Uh because culture includes a lot of things from painting in our museums, old cathedrals in Europe, you know, it's it's everything from what we build to what we eat, how we gather, right? The stories that we tell, the music that we listen to, the games we play, the roads we drive, the churches that we've we've erected, uh the businesses we built. And yeah, that that also includes the burger joint that I would swear is better than any other burger joint. You that that's how it works.

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Right?

SPEAKER_12 1:42:40

Whataburger is not just a fast food chain to us. It is part of our culture and our heritage, right? We you can laugh if you want to know it's sold as Chicago. I know, I get it. But like for a lot of us, that's where our dad took us to eat after a movie late at night. Right? That's that's where we hung out with our friends getting a milkshake and a burger. That's that's our history. That's that is our culture. These international fans are not coming in, wow, America has no identity. They're filming themselves eating our food and saying, wow, this is cool. This is great. So to all the naysayers that say America has no culture, not true, proven wrong. International soccer fans say you're not correct. And I say you're not correct, so you're definitely not. That'll do it for the show today. I want to thank everyone for tuning in. You've been listening to the Lone Star Conservative. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and Lord willing, I'll be back bright and early tomorrow morning at 6 a.m. for tomorrow's edition of the Lone Star Conservative. In the meantime, enjoy the rest of your Tuesday and Godspeed.