From Schools To Elections Who Sets The Rules

Standards are the invisible scaffolding that holds a country together, and when we stop enforcing them, everything gets easier to break. We make the case that a huge share of America’s political chaos and cultural decay comes back to one simple failure: we keep lowering the bar for leaders, institutions, and even basic civic behavior, then act shocked when the outcomes get worse.

We start with what “standards” actually mean and why denial and doom both keep us stuck. From there, we zoom in on Texas politics and why voting records matter more than slick moderation in campaign season, including the controversy around James Talarico and the fight over protections for minors from irreversible medical interventions. We also talk assimilation, the limits of multiculturalism inside one nation, and how a society fractures when it can’t agree on what it expects from citizens.

Then we get concrete. An HISD teacher says high school seniors struggle to read and write, and we ask the uncomfortable question that follows: how can voters evaluate laws they can’t read. Shelby Robinson joins us to break down election integrity lessons from Maricopa County and Harris County, including mail-in ballots, voter roll maintenance, signature verification, chain of custody, and why public records transparency is not optional in a constitutional republic. We also hit major policy headlines, from Medicaid and CHIP funding decisions to Houston’s upcoming ballot measures on marijuana enforcement priority and no-knock warrants.

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Welcome And What Changed

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King of the jumper. With the research. Mm-hmm. Michael Wilson.

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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative right here on Patriot Talk920, live and local. Happy to be with you this fine Thursday. We got a lot to get into, and I don't want to ramble too much, but I was thinking about something the other day that kind of struck me that a lot of our problems are due to basically one major problem. That we have a lot of various problems, don't get me wrong. And some of them don't fall in this. Some of them are just technological problems or or whatever else is going on. But a lot of the problems that are going on in our country, uh and all over the world, obviously, but especially for somebody who's American and understands what America used to be and what we used to have and the joy we used to experience, the things, you know, it just how how much has changed. For us, you know, we look out and we see a very different world today than I mean, even than 15 years ago, to be clear. The world that even even our young people grew up in, even those who are Gen Z, those who are, you know, 18 right now, the world that they were little kids in is very different from the world today in America. There are some communities that you can still go to that seem relatively untouched. You know, there are still places you can go and see. This is why there's a lot of tourist destinations for people from the U.S. to travel to other places in the U.S. Why? I'll tell you why. Because those places are marketing. Hey, here's what America used to be like. And and they'll even use that in their, you know, touristy advertisements, Americana vibes. You know why they do that? Because people miss it. Because people miss this country. And I'm sorry, but the way that they've they've destroyed it and and they've been destroying it for decades, it it's not the same place. And that's again, not a pessimistic doomsday style claim. I I want it fixed. But we're not gonna fix anything if we can't be honest about what the problem is. We certainly can't fix anything if we're not gonna be honest that there is one and that it's a massive problem. I mean, goodness gracious, if we're gonna sit around and you know, there's there's two groups of people, it seems a lot of the time. There's the pessimists who say, yeah, I guess it's just all over then. Yeah, you're right, Michael. You're right. Uh the world is very different than it was 15 years ago. I and I don't think there's any getting it back. It's just gone. It's over. America is finished. So is the the West in general, it's just gone. I can't stand those sorts of people. I also can't stand the sorts of people that that have the ignorance is bliss perspective who go, no, no, no, everything's great. Nothing's wrong at all. Everything's fine. You guys are just bigots. Like everything's everything's the same. Everything's normal, everything's safe. You guys are just bigots and you don't understand. And I I'm not gonna don't no no, don't show me the statistics. I don't want to see them. No, no, no, no, no, don't show me the policy. No, no, no, don't show me, don't show me what's happening to people. Don't show me the news. I just want to live and think that everything's happy go lucky all the time. Both groups of people are significantly contributing to the problems in our country by refusing to be a part of the discussion. Whether because they feel we've already lost or they feel we can't lose, whatever, whatever group you're, you know, these people are in, they refuse to have these serious conversations about fixing problems because they either think the problems are unfixable or there aren't problems at all. And we yet again find ourselves in the balanced camp of people saying, no, there are very serious, very real problems that if we are not careful, can and will destroy this country, are currently attempting to destroy this country, and we have to stand up against them because we love this country. Anyways, you might be asking yourself, what does this have to do with the problem that all problems

The Country’s Collapse Of Standards

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fall under? I didn't say that. I said the problem that most problems I'm I'm currently looking at fall under. And that is a lack, it is very simple. It is a lack of standards. That's all it is. And it that it's very simple because the reality is that and and you know what? I'm gonna you know what I'm gonna I'm gonna define the word standard, so I'm not talking past people. I'm gonna talk about standard as um baseline, right? This is the standard of the test, right? That's not what I'm talking about. I'm not talking, I mean, technically it's very similar, but I'm not talking about standard as commonly supplied. This is the standard pencil, right? That's not what I'm referring to. I'm referring to standard as an established sort of measure or a rule that that that's used to judge the quality and the value of other things, right? We have a standard. Our standard is if you get higher somebody say, Hey, we have standards here, our standard is you make five sales a day and you make the company at least 10K in profits. So, you know, an average of at least 2K per sale. They say that, and you know, you would assume that that means you have to make bare minimum 10K. I'm sure they're very happy if you make more, probably not quite so happy if you make less. Because that's what a standard does. It's that's kind of a baseline established rule to judge quality or value. And we used to have standards for so many things in this country. We had standards for who we'd elect to be a politician, those are gone. We used to have standards for how people behaved, for our justice system, for our judges, for our sheriffs. We used to have standards for who we hired, who we let in the country in the first place. The main standard used to be you can't be Muslim, right? I'm kidding. It the the main standard was you have to be from countries that assimilate and Muslim countries, as well as Hindu countries and others, would not have been on the list, right? So it was irrelevant. Regardless, we used to have all of these different standards, right? Parents used to have standards that they held their kids accountable to, and their kids got spanked if they didn't meet them. And nowadays you spank your kids. You better not tell anybody, by the way, if you do, because CPS will come after you. If if, especially if you're like in the conservative space and anyone knows you, if you have any sort of, shall we say, um, popularity in the conservative movement at all, you have to be very careful. Because if a leftist finds out that you spank your kids, they will report you to CPS. They will. And CPS is kind of like a shoot first, ask questions later kind of group. You know, they'll take the kid and then be like a month later, all right, we investigated, everything's fine, and your kid has been gone for a month with Lord knows who. Yeah. Really bad stuff. But I'm saying we used to have standards for our kids and how they behaved. We have to we used to have standards for governmental agencies. We used to have standards for people who participated in society in general. For everybody, every person. We had certain standards based on what group they were in. And now we don't. I mean, it's that it really is that simple. We don't. Now you have six-year-olds that are screaming on the floor in Walmart because mommy didn't get them the cereal they wanted. Now you have politicians running for office who believe the most insane things uh to the point where even the worst cultures in the history of the world probably would laugh at how insane these things are. You have criminals running amok all throughout the country because we refuse to punish them. We refuse to hold them to any sort of standard at all. You you have people being immigrated from countries that most of us probably can't even pronounce that that care little to none about rule of law or constitutional rights, or what any of those things even mean. Many of them don't even have the wherewithal to know that America has constitutional rights, much less what those are. All they know is America you know has more opportunity, more money. Many of them come over and they start scamming people. I mean, like that that's that's literally what's happening. And again, what changed? Well, we used to have standards. We used to say if we're gonna bring someone into the country, it's probably best if that person is someone that's largely going to align with our already existent ideology and value set, right? If if you are an American and you're making a list, you say, you know, we we come from these countries where mainly Scottish, English, you know, Dutch, you know, and and we all well, we have some German. You're like, where where should we select people from? Well, probably England, Scotland, Germany, right? These are easy starts. And you can throw some others in there, but that'd be an easy thing to do. You'd look and say, okay, so look around us. What's probably going to assimilate based on who started this country and the values we have, what is the base of our legal system? That's right, English common law. Well, I guess England probably makes sense as a place we could immigrate people from. I mean, not today, because they've also done the same thing to themselves. And you could you could try to assimilate somebody over from England and then be actually just somebody from Somalia as well. I mean, you just don't know. But it used to be, you'd say, okay, England, Scotland, Germany, and then for a while, you know, we could we could say Ireland, Italy, I don't know about France. I don't know about France, man. The French sometimes. I I I got a I got I got bones to pick with the French. Uh regardless of any of that, my point is that used to be a standard that we applied was hey, this is about the benefit of Americans. It's not going to benefit anybody here if you come in and you don't assimilate into what we already believe and do. If you just stay your own person, your own group outside of the bounds of the country. This is also why, by the way, it used to be expected. I know people today are like, oh, they're only bringing in military-aged males. I mean, that's that's pretty normal. That's used to that's that's what we used to do. Do you know why we used to bring in military-aged males specifically? Because you brought them in low amounts, they weren't going to pose any sort of threat. We were bringing in them from places that we knew were already culturally similar enough that they already had rule of law and they already followed that for a very long time. And because part of assimilation is marrying into the people of a country. You know, when you have kings and the kings are like, ah, my son has to marry your daughter to form a bond between the kingdoms. That's not a joke. That's a real thing that happened all the time and for good reason. It it brings families together. It it binds them something bigger than a contract. And so that's why it used to be you'd expect single people were primarily the ones coming over and they would get married to American women. Why? Because maybe then their grandkids could be fully assimilated into American culture. It took years. It took generations, literally. And now we say, no, no, no, no, no. Not only do we not care where they come from, if they come from Somalia and they got here, let me check my clock. They got here 19 minutes ago. They're just as American as you and me. No, no, no. It's entirely irrelevant that your family has been here since the 1720s. That's or the 1750s. That don't matter. No. What really matters is uh that we say we're American. Hoorah, right? No, actually, we threw away our standards. And on top of that, the really funny part, the really ironic part of all of this, those of us who dare to still have standards, well, we are incredibly racist, xenophobic, bigoted, transphobic, homophobic. I mean, you guys know any other phobics, Islamophobic, probably Hinduphobic. I mean, just go through the list of phobias. Goodness gracious, that's what's happening. That not only did they throw the standards away, but if you even dare to think about having standards, well, you're the crazy radical. And that's why looking at history is so enjoyable for a guy like me. Because I've spent a decent portion of my life being called a radical. I I the this is not new. My politics, you know, they've changed slightly, especially going through college and and what have you. But my politics have been relatively similar for at least 10 years. And the reality is that for those 10 years, a lot of people have looked at the things that I believe and said, that's pretty crazy. That's pretty insane. And studying history was a way to look and say, yeah, you know what, this is actually normal. Like the things that I believe, these actually aren't outrageous. I mean, I have a couple of beliefs that the founders would have gone, I don't know about that, right? Like, I think there should have been religious tests for office. That would have fixed a lot of the problem. I know what they were concerned about, and I understand those concerns. I still think they could have had specific policy drafted that would have protected from tyranny and still gotten the result they wanted. But they never expected to have to contend with having Muslims in the country in the first place. So why would they need it? My point is, looking at history, part of the reason that's so awesome is because you find out that the things our founders did, up until maybe 150, 100 years ago, those things were the same things that the the fringe far right are pushing for. I mean, it's basically exactly the same. The people, this is why they they ultimately want to tear down the statues of the founders. It's not really because they own slaves, because we all agree that slavery was bad, evil should tell slavery is not good. That's not why they want to tear down the statues. They want to tear them down because they also view the founders as radicalists. They also view the founders as far-right lunatics that we should never listen to. That's why they're the crazy old white men. Don't listen to those guys. It's not just the slavery, it's everything else, too. It's their beliefs about God, it's their beliefs about blasphemy, it's their beliefs about law and order and immigration and freedom. All of it, the left hates because to them it's radical. Even to the moderate right, it's radical. But for somebody like me who believes all of this stuff kind of independently, and then I, you know, really study history, I go, okay, so basically I believe in the people who started, I believe in the same stuff the people who started this country believed in. That's good to know. I'm not, at least I'm not crazy. I mean, maybe I am, but so were they then, I guess.

Talarico And The Child Transition Vote

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This all started, this whole conversation on standards, because I wanted to talk about Talarico. Uh, who is another prime example of somebody that we should have enough standards in our country to say that guy should never be within, you know, you know how you have guys that can't be within 100 feet of a school. This guy shouldn't. He also shouldn't be within 100 miles of being in politics. Um but Talo Rico's record is now coming under fire. So not only are they getting, you know, all these resurfaced comments, but apparently now we're getting this uh this full targeted set of ideals that come from his actual voting history. Um he's now saying that he does not support gender surgery for minors. That's kind of the new thing. Well, I don't I don't actually support them getting the surgery. That's great to hear. Uh, but when they when Texas lawmakers originally voted to prohibit the procedures, as it turns out, Taller Rico actually voted no on that prohibition. The 2023 vote, which is, again, I get that people can change, right? I look at somebody like JD Vance, and I see, you know, him being an ever Trumper back in what, 2016? So this would have been really before Trump even got into office, was when J.D. Vance is saying these things. I get it. I mean, I was on the Trump train in 2016. So I mean, I I I wasn't with him in the sense that I get it that I was there, but I get that, you know, you can have certain opinions. And a, you know, eight years later, after you've seen the results, and eight years is a long time, okay, I was wrong. And he's even come out and admitted I was wrong. That's a little different from what's happening in this case. James Tallerico, back in 2023, decides to vote against Senate Bill 14, which, by the way, was the bill that prohibited physicians from performing gender mutilation surgery on minors, um, as well as prescribing, you know, the puberty blockers and the chemical castration, the cross-sex hormones for the purpose of changing a child's sex, biological sex. He voted against that prohibition. So he said, I want them to be able to keep doing this. And then three years later, he says, No, no, of course, of course, I don't support, you know, gender surgery for kids. Really, buddy, because he did like three years ago. And I'm not hearing you say that you've grown up or you've changed your mind. Even that would be a little sus because it's three years. It'd be like JD Vance comes out in 2018, 2019. Oh, you know what? I was super wrong. But even then, you've seen the results to codify that. You're right, you've you've watched Trump get better. What does Talarico seen that's made him change his mind in three years? Especially without an admission that he's changing his mind, just sounds like he's trying to run a campaign. This is what this is we all know it, but this is what Talarico's doing. He's trying to moderate, the same as Gavin Newsom and AOC and all the rest of them. They're trying to moderate a bit in their language so that people that are on the middle that say, well, Ken Paxson's super crazy and did this bad stuff will vote for him. It's all a facade. We all, I mean, we we know that. We're not stupid, right? I don't need to tell you that on air for you to know it. It's painfully obvious. But that's what's happening here. And again, if we had standards, James Tallerico really wouldn't even be allowed to run. I mean, it's just unbelievable how insane this guy is. Uh of course, as it turns out, Centel 14 did get passed into law, despite Tal Rico's opposition to the bill. It did get passed and then signed by Abbott that year. Now, of course, the the issue is kind of re-emerging because people are finding out, oh, that's right, you did you did vote no on that, didn't you? Uh a new ad, which was produced by the American Principles Project Pack, um, is this sort of AI-generated remake of Lynn B. Johnson's famous 1964 Daisy advertisement, and is part of a $10 million campaign targeting Calerico. The original ad uh for Lynn B. Johnson aired during Johnson's presidential campaign against Barry Goldwater, depicted a young girl counting the petals of a flower before transitioning into a nuclear countdown and explosion, which just seems a little dramatic to me, but it hits, you know, it gets the job done. In the new version, the girl is instead depicted preparing to undergo a gender mutilation procedure with Talerico portrayed as the doctor. And his campaign responded to the ad saying, Yeah, I mean, I don't support that. Not even just saying this is AI and whatever. You know, he could have gone any direction he wanted. He could have laughed it off. He could have been like, that's a funny ad. I don't see what this has to do with anything. Obviously, I'm not a doctor. No, no, no. Instead he comes out and says, No, I don't support gender reassignment surgery. I mean, I know that I voted to keep letting it happen. Shh, don't look at that. Shh shh, don't look at that. But but I don't, I don't support it. And so, I mean, and then by the way, that's because part of the concern is that that's back at center stage again. It's not just we've won and it's all over, right? We know that it's going on in other states. We know that, you know, kids are ordering it online. Uh, we know that we have doctors that are still trying to secretly prescribe it. That's why this big settlement came out uh with uh with the big hospital that's being forced to build a you know detransition clinic, all because it's still happening. I mean, literally this week, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced that Medicaid and the children's health insurance program are no longer going to fund that, which by the way, we will actually talk about a little bit later in the show, more in depth. But I just wanted to kind of highlight that's still being talked about and debated. And there's still changes happening right now in that regard. So it's not like Talerico says, well, it doesn't really matter. Why are you touching on this subject? We've already, you know, banned it. We're good to go. And no, it's not over, actually. And you're gonna have influence and you're gonna try to change things, and we need to be aware of that. And look at your voting history. I say this about a lot of people. Look at the voting history. Stop just listening to the campaigns, right? Campaigns are important. You should actually listen to every word they say because you can get and I mean, part of that is you should be discerning. You should you should try to learn how to tell when someone's lying and when someone's kind of, you know, snake-like in the way they communicate, like a serpent in a garden. But you should you should listen to those things, but you should also look at their actions. Look at what they voted for. You can say all day long, I don't, I don't, of course I don't support kids getting transition surgery. But then you look and it's like, well, then why did you vote for them to? That's kind of confusing. And that was like three years ago. What's going on there, buddy? Why did you vote for that? I'd love to, I'd love to hear an answer at all. Regardless of that, we do have to go to the break. Before we do, real quickly, we got a text in that says, I saw my first plumber and talerico yard signs, and a shiver went down my Spine. And you know what's really crazy is and you know, for us, we we kind of end up in

Assimilation And The Myth Of Multiculturalism

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echo chambers, and this happens naturally, by the way. This is why assimilation is, you know, picking populations that are I don't want to get you know too much on a tan on answering your your question or answering your comment, but this is why part of uh assimilation is part of the reason why assimilation is so crucially important, is because when you look at the the negatives of not assimilating, one of the big ones is that you you have what is called multiculturalism. And I know that they've been trying to tell you this is a good thing with billions of dollars with the propaganda on the right and the left. Everyone thinks multiculturalism is a positive. It's not. Multiculturalism is not a positive unless it's in different countries. We should be a unified culture. I mean, we can have different foods and you know, different opinions on this and that. But if we have a variety of different cultures in a single culture, it's going to blow up. That's exactly what's happening, by the way. And so my point is people are going to have their own culture in general. And what I mean by that is that if you bring people into this country who are so divided in terms of their difference to an American, they're not going to live among you. They're not going to participate in civil society along you. They're going to have like what happens with the meadows, formerly known as Epic City, where you have these developments of a large number of Muslims who are all hanging out together and trying to keep everybody else out. That's what you're going to get. And that's natural. That's not a surprise. Of course they band together. Just like you'll often find, it's pretty wild how this works out, but a lot of times you'll find that unless you're like a closeted conservative, you desire to live around other conservatives and other Christians. You probably desire to live among people that are like-minded in safe areas, people that abide by the law like you do. A lot of those things are normal, they're natural, and you you're not surprised when you find people like that together. We're sort of, again, we're a little bit tribal as human beings. That's just how it works. I mean, Paul in the Bible says that's completely normal. We do that, we all do that. That's why multiculturalism is going to fail because you're all going to stay separated and then it's going to be a completely not, it will not be these United States, it'll be these divided states. That's what you're going to get when you mass immigrate people who don't assimilate in. All of that to say is because we're so tribalistic, I think sometimes even on the right, we forget there are people that actually like Talerico. We know that Taller Rico's crazy. We know that, you know, he's he's but we forget that part of the capability to get so many votes is that there are real people voting for him that live among us. There are people out there who look at James Tallerico and they say, Yeah, that guy's good. Yeah, that guy's fine. And we're just kind of stuck sitting here saying, What in the world is going on? How are there real people who can support someone like James Tallerico? And I get it. There are things that they like about him. There are things that I, you know, I've heard him say that I think make sense. A broken clock, am I right? There are a couple things he's probably gonna get right. Like there are people out there who who are willing to put out yard signs for this guy. This guy whose church the church that he preaches at. I guess occasionally now, but he preaches at his books, actually explicit books that are banned in certain school districts in their church library for kids to have access to. And there are people who support that. Real people, our neighbors, maybe even your friends. And that sort of division is one thing when it's like, how do we approach this particular policy? How do we deal with this particular foreign question? But when it when it gets down into the heart of what it means to be an American, right, and it gets down into the heart of Christianity and questions about should we be able to murder kids and and cut their genitals off? And should we be able? Should we remove all oil and gas industry and should we be vegan? And all these questions that James Hallerico is just dead wrong on. Well, you get in there and you think, how in the world can people support that and be an American? How how can you even claim to be an American and support the things that this guy stands for? You can't. That's my point. We used to have standards of what being an American meant. Now we don't even care. I mean, we do. We, as in the people on this show, me, most of you listening, I would assume all of you listening, but you know, there's even a straggler who just tunes in to hate listen, I guess. Maybe a talerico supporters out there. Regardless, we have standards, but the rest of the country has just refused to have them. Because to have standards would be really, really mean. And you can't be really, really mean. I mean, come on, that's not nice. As if we're called to be nice. As if we're called to never be rude. That the uh in fact, that is a standard the left applies. If you're mean to people, if you're offensive, well, you're the bad guy. At least they have standards for things that literally don't matter at all. I'm so sorry, not really, that I wasn't nice to you. No, I'm actually like not sorry at all that I wasn't nice to you. If I wasn't nice to you, maybe you might think about this really, really carefully, maybe you deserved it. Maybe by mean, you just meant, oh no, he said the truth to my face and I didn't like it, and it hurt my feelings. Maybe that's what you meant by mean. Oh, he just said something that was objectively true, and I didn't like his tone and the words. I didn't like the truth, and therefore, he's a mean guy and not nice. Uh well, I mean, that's certainly a possibility. Yeah, that's that's certainly probably what they meant. But that's the utmost standard now. That's the standard in this country. You gotta be nice. Well, I, as it turns out, don't really fit in there. That's why I have a radio. I I don't fit in doing I mean, any other job I'm probably getting fired from. I always say if this doesn't work out, I I'm gonna have a real tough problem with the backup chances because the re because I I just I know the kind of person that I am, and I'm really, really bad at self-censorship. I'm really bad at changing my uh the the things I say to um not offend people. I'm really not very good

School Starts And The Reading Crisis

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at that. Anyways, with that being said, when we get back from the break, uh we're gonna talk a little bit about school. Because obviously, school's kind of coming back in session for a lot of districts now. Uh I know down in Brizouri County, a lot of their school districts are back in. HIC is going back to school, um, other districts all around are going back. And obviously, part of going back to school is you gotta kind of get kids back in. I know that they've been off for the whole summer. I think the system is actually super, super dumb. I I get that it's nice to have summer, and that's become like an American staple, is to have summer off. Um, but as somebody who was homeschooled growing up, we didn't have summer off, and we had way more fun because we had off literally whenever we wanted. We could do school, and we were done with school by noon anyway, so it's not like we really had any school period. I mean, we had we obviously got all our school done and we tested very highly, but but it like didn't matter how long it took. So we would be done at noon, we'd go hang out, go have a good time. Um, so we were off most of the year anyway. But then, you know, you want to travel in November. You don't have to take out of school. One, you can take your school with you, and two, I mean, you just work through the summer anyway. So you can graduate early, you can travel whenever you want, not take school. I mean, it's like literally the best. Uh, but with public school, because it has to be specific to teach to all these kids, yeah, they get summer off. Well, now they're coming back in. And part of the reason that I think it's dumb to take a whole, you know, t amount of time off like that, it's not because they don't get that teachers need a break and this and that and the other. It's because when you have especially um these these these children that are away from doing something for, I mean, what? They get out at the beginning of June, end of May. So they're off for two months, two and a half months. When you're off at something for two and a half months and you come back to it, you do realize that they have to get used to it again. That it takes them time. And so when they get back, they don't want to sit down, they don't want to participate, they don't want to think. But despite all of that, most of the time, you know, it's taken a little bit, but they at least know all the stuff they learned before. They can still test pretty close to where they were, which gotta kind of catch back up to speed. That at least does not appear to be the case anymore. We have a pretty wild story coming out. Um, apparently, this teacher in HISD says he broke down after seniors struggled to read and write. And yes, he said seniors struggled to read and write on the second day of classes. We will talk about what that teacher's saying and how absolutely insane this is. When we get back, if you too would like to text in, 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 will be right back with the rest of that story after this short break. Stick around, we'll talk soon.

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SPEAKER_19 35:56

Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative Joe. An HISD teacher said he literally broke down in his classroom on the second day of the school year after, according to his account post on social media, several senior students struggled to complete a short writing exercise. Darius Williams, who is listed in the Wheatley High School's staff directory as an NES CTE teacher in a non-foundational program of study, described the experience in an Instagram video. He said, I literally broke down in the middle of class. Williams, who gets emotional in his post, said the students he was referring to were 17 and 18 years old and would soon be expected to graduate and potentially attend college. He said, These are kids are leaving high school and going to college, hopefully after they finish. And then he described an exercise in which students were asked to fill in four words. He said there are these are 17 and 18-year-olds, and they couldn't fill in four words. Later in the video, he made a more pointed assessment of the student academic skills. He said, I have seniors who can who simply cannot read and seniors who cannot write. He said that the students appeared capable of verbally defending their reasoning, but struggled to transfer those skills to written material. He said, I simply don't know where the problem is. This is only day two. He's identified in the video as an HISD educator and is wearing an HISD lanyard. Um, according to the staff's directory, he is listed on so he this is not a fake video. Um regardless of that, HISD put out a statement because one of their teachers, of course, is coming out and saying your students are terrible and not good at school. So of course, you know, they have to be, you know, um, they have to be very they have to be very proactive in dealing with this narrative. They said Houston ISD has a sense of urgency about ensuring every student graduates prepared for college, career, and life. We know some students enter high school significantly below grade level, and helping those students accelerate their learning is among our most important responsibilities. The first days of the school year are an important time for teachers to get to know their students' academic abilities, assess their individual needs, and determine the support each student may require. We see students with a range of academic needs every day. As teachers and instructional leaders, it is our responsibility to identify those needs and our commitment to close the gaps. At Wheatley High School, students have made significant academic gains, demonstrating that strong instruction, high expectations, and targeted support are making a difference. At the same time, we know there are students who need additional academic support, and we will continue working with our teachers and school leaders to ensure those students receive it. We are proud of the progress students are making. Our work continues until every student is prepared for the future. And so, um, I I I do want to say, right, he there gets more into depth as this guy defending his own teaching credentials and how he's not just some random teacher that's saying mean things about kids, but he has a lot of teaching history and can talk about why he knows this is such a big problem and how this differs from other grade levels, whatever. We don't need to go into all of that. I think you get the gist of what we're talking about

Literacy Tests And The Vote Debate

SPEAKER_19 39:05

here. And I I mean again, let me this is gonna be a crazy question because I I know I know what the propaganda has done to the vast majority of people in this country where we've we've again we've assumed that things like voting are a right. No, voting is not a right. It can't be. You understand that voting cannot be a right because rights come from God, right? They are instituted by God, and they are for all people in all times. Now, the government may not protect them for all people in all times, but do we actually believe that that voting is an inalienable that that it is a right that every man has that he get to vote? Well, no. I mean it's a right in a certain sense, because in this country that's how it's designed, but even that is a privilege of sorts. It's because our founders built a constitutional republic. That's why we get to vote, that's why we have elections, but it's not some sort of God-given inalienable right to vote, right? We understand that. We should be able to agree on that. Which means that it is a privilege. If it's not a right, and it's something we get, it is a privilege by by definition. And part of the problem is that we're letting people vote who literally cannot read or write. And look, I know, I get it. I know people are gonna say, well, how do you get to decide who gets to vote and who doesn't? I understand. I I do get the point there. And I do understand that that could, of course, you can have tyranny and oppression, and it can result in you drawing standards where really only the elites get to vote. And then before you know it, you basically have some sort of monarchial dictatorship anyway, right? Because, well, we increased the standards so much that now only the really the very top-tier people get to vote, period. I understand that tyranny is concerning. But we we have tyranny now. It's just not tyranny of the rich and tyranny of the powerful. A lot of it is tyranny of the minority. It's the tyranny uh well, of the majority at this point, but it's the tyranny of those who are ruling over us yet can't read or write. They get to go vote for James Tallerico, despite the fact that they couldn't read his bill. They can't read his policy, they have no idea what James Tallerico believes. They have no idea what he does. They have no idea what he's voted for. They can hear his campaign comments, but that's about it. And because they never care to venture outside and research, because again, they can't read, they never see anything other than what James Talarico himself says about himself. And so they assume he's the best bet. I really do think that's probably the the vast majority are people that really have not done their own research. They just hear specifically whatever Talerico has said and they go with it. They assume that that's the truth. That's where we're at as a country. Now, speaking of that, um we got it we had a text in this is pretty funny. He says the pusillanimous cipher represents entitlement and the welfare state. Democrats use tax money to buy votes. Yeah, that's that's it's the the by the way, the pusilanimous cipher, that's our nickname for James Tallerico. Um and yeah, he does represent entitlement in the welfare state. And that's what a lot of people, these people, that's what I'm saying, that can't read or write. Well, James Talerico says he's gonna support low income. Well, I bet you're low income if you can't read or write. I bet you probably qualify for low income. And James Talarico says he's gonna give you more aid. And he says he's gonna give you more free money. You don't and you don't have you know, you don't want to question where that money comes from. You don't want to research that either. You just assume it's just there. And it's it's just insane that these people that are not participating in society, that cannot read, that cannot write, that cannot research, and that will likely never really be contributing members to society, or also the most likely, if you, you know, based on just our own standards, based on our own evidence, our own data, we know that you're more likely to commit crime based on literacy rates. We know that low literacy rates often is very simple very, very, very much correlated, if not causated, uh, in relation to crime. We know that. We understand that. We recognize that. And so when you have all these people who can't read or write, not only are they getting to vote and choose your leaders when they can't research and they can't think for themselves, but they're also just not participating in society. They're not part of the welfare state that also commits crimes. And you wonder why our country is flailing right now. You wonder why there's so much struggle. Uh, because people that should never have been able to vote. I mean, let's just be honest. If you can't read or write, you should not. How are they even voting? I mean, come on. Maybe, maybe I guess they can get like the aid system that reads it to them. I guess that's a thing you can get if you need help. Wow. I just and I get it. Again, I understand we're so like indoctrinated that we believe that everyone should get to vote, and that's just how it is. I'm sorry. I don't think so. The older I get, the more I don't think so. I think that's a terrible idea. Everybody gets to vote really, really. They cannot read, and they should get to vote. They get to decide who could push the button, the same as you. Like each one of you, your vote is negated by someone that literally cannot write four, fill in four words. In the blank. I mean, these are seniors, seven and eighteen year olds. They will be able to vote. And and their vote counts just as much as yours. That's insane. I'm sorry. That's insane. And um, I don't like it. With that being said, when we get back from the break, we're going to wrap up the first hour of the show with our weather report. As always, if you would like to text in as well. Let us know your thoughts. Maybe you say, Michael, you gotta let him vote. You just gotta do better at convincing them. I'll I'll debate you on that because I have I have responses if you disagree, but text in at 713-779-5978. That is 713-779-KYST. You're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. I'm your host, Michael Wilson. I'll be right back with our weather report to wrap up the first hour of the show. After the break, stick around. Or willing, I'll be right back.

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Houston Weather Report

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I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. Houston has spent much of this summer kind of knocking on the door of 100 degrees without actually ever touching it. I mean, not ever, obviously we have. But you would have guessed the number of times, uh and and obviously like your neighborhood could have got to a hundred and others, but the official climate observation site for Houston. That's Bush Intercontinental Airport. How many times? Obviously we don't have time for you to text in, but just think in your own head, take a guess how many times that you think we've hit 100 degrees this summer? The answer is one time. Only once one one time this entire summer have we hit triple digits. Uh and we reached at least ninety-eight degrees nine times. So we've come pretty close nine times, and and we've hit 100 once. Uh today you could add a tenth close call with a forecast high of 98 degrees. Now, compare that with 2023, for instance. Uh by August 11th of that year, we'd already documented 21 days of triple digit heat. And not just that, um, but by August 11th, in terms of again, we've had nine times where we've come to ninety-eight. Um in Aug it by August 11th of 2023, it was 44 times. So not even remotely close. Regardless of that, we do tend to get up to about 98 degrees today. The overnights are staying pretty similar. Most of the region should stay kind of dry today, with only an isolated shower, thunderstorm as always possible. Rain becomes somewhat more likely tomorrow as we do get a brief surge of deeper atmospheric moisture, raising rain chances still very low from from rough, you know, to roughly 20 to 30 percent. And that window won't even stay open very long. Uh high atmospheric pressure is going to strengthen over the region the weekend going into early next week, suppressing rain and allowing temperatures to climb again. Consistent high temperatures in the upper nineties are expected the weekend going into next week, with the likelihood of 100 degree heat slightly higher next week than this week. Now, we may keep dancing around 100 degrees for a few more days, but next week could finally push the city across that threshold. Regardless of that, um you know it's it's not that hot. It's not so bad. We're used to it. It'll be, of course, the upper 80s, low or upper 70s, low 80s overnight, as is pretty usual for this time of year, mid to upper 90s during the day, as you probably could expect. And that'll do it for your weather report. Rain is very unlikely today, slightly more likely tomorrow. In the meantime, we are gonna have a very exciting guest coming on, talking about another lunch and learn we have coming up tomorrow. By the way, you won't want to miss that, so stick around. You're listening to Lone Star Conservative. I'm your host, Michael Wills, and I'll be right back at the top of the next hour.

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Election Integrity Lessons With Shelby Robinson

SPEAKER_19 52:07

Speaking of, by the way, we have a very exciting event coming up tomorrow. Um, we actually have a very exciting speaker for that event coming on the show uh right now to talk all about it. But tomorrow we've got another lunch and learn coming up, and this one is gonna deal with an issue that I think uh the vast majority of us, if not all of us, are incredibly concerned about. Uh, the event is titled Election Integrity and Focused Lessons from Both Maricopa and Harris County. And if you've paid attention at all, even I mean, even remotely, to elections over the last several years, those are two county names you've almost certainly heard. Um and so we're gonna talk about all of that, kind of how they tie in and then what to expect tomorrow with Shelby Robinson who's coming on. Welcome to the show, Shelby.

SPEAKER_18 52:47

Hello, thank you so much for having me.

SPEAKER_19 52:49

Thanks so much for giving us your time this morning and tomorrow, by the way, uh to talk to all of us. Now, before we even get into Maricopa or or Harris County, I want to know a little bit about you, your background, because you, I don't think started out as somebody whose entire life was sort of devoted to election law or election administration. So, how did you get involved in all this? Kind of what happened that made you say, hey, I gotta start digging into how our elections actually work, what this process is all about, what's going on here?

SPEAKER_18 53:16

Absolutely. So it's kind of interesting. When I got involved, it really wasn't about elections at all. I don't know if you recall, but I believe it was around uh maybe 2015 when Comey went on national news and gave the speech about Hillary Clinton and the server. And I remember him standing up there and telling the American people that uh, yes, Hillary Clinton shouldn't have had these private servers. He shouldn't have compromised the security of the nation. Or he didn't really mean to do it. And just that overwhelming feeling that kind of came over me uh ruled for thee, but not for me, and the average citizen sitting at home in the injustice. And so I think that was the moment that God really prompted me and said, you know, quit sitting on your couch and yelling about what you think you know or see, and really get involved. And it was around that time that I started meeting different people. And one of those people was a man by the name of Kevin Schiff. Um, he was featured in a documentary called Kill Chain. And Killchain was actually by the Democrats, and it talked about uh the machines and the compromise of the machines and how there's foreign influence in our elections. And he asked us to do some research on the voting machines. So we started researching voting machines and writing up some white papers about its origin and Venezuela and how many elections since the 90s these machines have been responsible for shifting and altering. And, you know, at the time it just seemed really abstract and far away, right? And then we fast forward to 2020 and you know, everybody saw something wrong. But I think the average citizen sitting at home didn't really know what it was. You just have this sense and the feeling that something went wrong in the nation and that there was something wrong with our elections. But the system is so complex that, you know, nobody really thought about it before. And that was the moment that really mobilized me to start studying the laws, learning about elections, asking questions, and really seeing significantly what was going on.

SPEAKER_19 55:35

Right. And I think there's a lot of danger from a variety of directions. I mean, one, because uh not only is it complicated, but if elections are not secure, right? If if we have elections that are just, you know, the way that I think a lot of people are concerned about them, it means a couple things. I mean, one, it would mean that that we're not deciding our own leaders, which is, I mean, a total breakdown of a constitutional republic. But even more than just that, you have to think if even if it's not completely broken, but people start to think that it is, that erosion in the trust of government, because before it was so complicated, we just said, well, I trust the government is doing the right thing. And I trust that these machines work, my vote counts, and that only people who should be voting are able to, and everything is fine and dandy. While that's not good if it's not happening, the erosion of governmental trust, that they do that, that that's happening, I think is another major problem. Now, you mentioned that it's super complex. I I figured that was something that you kind of learned right away. Um most people just kind of walk into a polling place, push some buttons, you know, fill out a ballot, walk out, that's it. But behind the scenes, you've got all of this stuff kind of going into it between voter registration and ballot production and chain of custody, you know, protocols and early voting and mail-in ballots and signature bear. I mean, there's there's so much that goes into it. When you kind of first got involved, I I want to ask, what surprised you the most about how complicated the machinery of an election actually is? What was the thing you saw? Wow, this is kind of insane.

SPEAKER_18 56:51

Well, believe it or not, I think one of the things that really surprised me and just the basics of how elections work is how much they keep from the public, meaning how difficult it is to actually get answers and how difficult it is to get documents from our own government. It was that moment when I really started to learn what a public records request in a FOIA looks like, and how we can actually become an oversight for a government, right? I think that was the thing that surprised me the most. It also really, really surprised me how everything is kind of stored in this black box, right? And they do it all under the guise of security and protecting the voter, but everything occurs kind of in this shadowy space and and the amount of digital uh influence in our election, right? Everything seems to be in some kind of system, and yet none of these systems flow together in a way that's articulate, from how we check in at the polls to uh how our vote is actually counted in the end. And so I I think just the lack of transparency in our elections, I think what's the most shocking.

SPEAKER_19 58:10

Yeah, and I want to read a Bible verse, if you don't mind, because I this is something that I I've used. It's sort of the um, I want to say motivator for my show that I think certainly applies here. It's Ephesians 5. And it says, have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them. For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret. But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light. And I think that's something that you're kind of highlighting here is hey, the the issue here is we can only succeed if we have accountability. I understand the need for national security, but this only works in a republic at least, if you have accountability. And accountability can't exist if things are done secretly and people don't know about them. You can't hold only accountable that you don't know what's happening. And so that's why we're called to expose what's happening, be involved, and be able to have that transparency and accountability so we can fix a lot of the problems that we know are happening. Now, speaking of those problems, let's start with Maricopa County. People all over the country know about this county. If they didn't before, they know it now. But I kind of want you to kind of walk us through why that is. What happened in Arizona that transformed this one county into a national case study?

SPEAKER_18 59:15

Absolutely. But before you do that, I just really want to tell you you you really touched on my heart first because as I travel and I talk to people about elections, I always tell them that they say, Well, what do we do next? I said, What I do know is God promises anything hidden in darkness will be exposed by light. And I think that's what we needed to do here as citizens. So I just wanted to touch on that. So thank you. In Maricrupa County, it is uh, you know, in 2020 is when it really, really made the national headlines, but you have to go back to 2018 first. And 2018 is is you know the moment for me where I started learning about elections and really studying and diving in. In 2018, we had three major seats. It was a a national tenant seat, it was our a uh superintendent of instruction seat, which oversees the education department, and it was um excuse me, uh which one was it? It was not the governor's seat, but it was there were three major seats, and the night of the election, it was called for the Republican candidate, all three of these seats, and then two and a half weeks after the election, those three seats went to a Democrat. Wow. Now, whether you're Republican or you're Democrat, that's besides the point. Two and a half weeks after the news have already declared your candidate, those seats should not be changing. Why did they change? People went crazy. We didn't know. Why did they change? Well, they changed because of something called a duplication, right? It's when uh the elections department goes in and they scrutinize ballots and they start changing votes based on these ballots that were illegible, weren't read by the tabulator, needed duplication. And so, you know, the people, the citizens of Maricopa County thought, oh, something's wrong. We shouldn't be able to adjudicate our way into new results. And that's what happened. It was so devastating that 13 of the 15 counties sued Maricopa County's recorder for unjust practices that disenfranchised them as counties. Ultimately, that was lost. So that put a focus on Maricopa internally, and then when 2020 happened and we saw the same thing, we saw this pattern of the results just significantly changing over time post-election. Uh, people just knew something was wrong. And what we found out is that there was no chain of contracts. We had many ballots. We found out that third-party contractors, people who cannot even be held accountable by the citizens, ran a vast amount of our election for mail and ballots, which was very, very shocking. And we did the audit um for the Arizona Senate. Arizona Senate did a major audit. Myself and my husband were appointed deputy leaders on to the Senate. Following that audit, we were given access to the mail and ballots from Eric County. And we performed a citizen-led audit of those images and found out that nearly 20% of the mail in ballots should never have been counted.

SPEAKER_13 1:02:47

Wow.

SPEAKER_18 1:02:47

And so it was the mail and ballot system that just kind of shook the world, I think. Um and this is this is really what started to put Maricopa kind of in the forefront in the media.

SPEAKER_19 1:03:01

Absolutely. Now you kind of preempted my next question, but I'm gonna ask it anyways. Um you've spent obviously now years looking at the systems, the records, the procedures, all these things. So if you had to isolate it down to maybe one or two major lessons that people should take away from the issues in Maricopa County, which I believe is still going on, what should somebody sitting here say in Harris County or in Texas understand is the biggest issue sort of the technology, the chain of custody, the mail ballots, the signature verification, right? Any of the other things that go into it, um, what's what's the biggest lesson that people should take away from what went on in Maricopa County?

SPEAKER_18 1:03:35

Well, there's there's two big things for me. Uh, number one, we cannot have a secure election as long as we have mass so excuse mail in ballots flooding into our system. When an election in one county constitutes 1.9 million mail in ballots that cannot clearly be identified, that's a problem. Right? Um, so mail in ballots, definitely, definitely we have to address signature verification and mail and ballots. And number two, the voter roll system. The system that we are using on a national level and the laws that we use to govern the voter roll system are handicapping the American people. There are thousands upon thousands of people sitting on the voter rolls that have either moved, died, or are not eligible to vote due to citizenship, felony, whatever that scenario is. And we cannot have a fraudulent mail in ballot if we don't first have that fraudulent voter on the voter rolls. And so I think for me, those are two of the most important things. We will never fix the system if we don't first fix the system that tells us who can vote. And number two, we have to know that the voter is legitimately the one casting that ballot.

SPEAKER_19 1:05:02

Right, absolutely. And that's a lesson, not just for obviously Maricopa County, but for everybody, especially back here in Texas. You know, Harris County has had our own issues in a variety of senses. I mean, we have we've had just, I mean, recently announced was a conviction for somebody voting from another country illegally in our elections. We've got numerous times where we've had, you know, an audit of the voter rolls in Harris County and said, okay, people are using P.O. boxes, which is illegal in the state of Texas now, because we knew that was a problem. The people were using P.O. boxes to vote. Um, but you you look at to the similarities, despite slightly different election laws and all this, there are a lot of similarities between Harris County and Maricopa County. And I don't want to give too much here, because obviously tomorrow is when we'll really dive into some of this. But what made Harris County stand out to you? If you look at Harris County, you see some of the similarities. Are there similarities there? Did that kind of stand out to you? And you say, okay, Harris County is obviously its own its own problem, but it's very similar in a lot of ways.

SPEAKER_18 1:05:54

Very, very, very similar. So if you just look at the basic demographics of the two counties. Very, very familiar. Unfortunately, like in the fifty to eight years, right now. I don't want to give it all away, but pretty early.

SPEAKER_19 1:07:02

Right. That's what I was gonna. That's gonna be kind of my last question here. Without giving it all away, uh, what can people kind of expect from the event tomorrow uh when they show up to the lunch and learn? What can they expect to get from your presentation? What you're gonna talk about?

SPEAKER_18 1:07:16

I'm gonna talk about signature verification and the processes in those county and what shows. I'm gonna talk about the county and the forms and the paper and what the should be done in reality. Very uniquely, every county and the county both had very similar equipment failures resulting in disenfranchised voters, long lines, frustration, and an election we can trust from 2022.

SPEAKER_19 1:07:53

Right, absolutely. Very exciting stuff coming up. Shelby, I want to first of all thank you so much for your time coming on the show today. Uh, but more importantly, for for the work that you're doing in general and for the very exciting event we have coming up tomorrow. Thanks for your time so much. We appreciate you coming on.

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Absolutely, and thank you, and God bless.

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Absolutely, you as well. Ladies

Lunch And Learn Details

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and gentlemen, with that being said, if you would like to come to the event tomorrow, which you would, we're gonna have so many great and so much great information coming out. Um you're gonna learn a whole lot. That's why it's called a lunch and learn. You can go to our events page on patriotalk920.com. We'll have that there. That'll be the election integrity in focus lessons from Maricopa and Harris County, featuring Shelby Robinson who we just had on the show. She's gonna walk you through all of the stuff that we kind of talked about today, but significantly more in depth. That'll be from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Spring Creek Barbecue Scr Spring Creek Barbecue. And uh again, all the details for where exactly that'll be, the time will be on there if you need a reminder, the ability to sign up will be on that link as well. You can just go to PatriotTalk920.com and head on over to our events tab. It'll all be right there. We'd love to see you coming out tomorrow. In the meantime, we've got to go to the break. When we come back from the break, I mentioned earlier in the show we're gonna go a little more in depth in this, and we are. We've got a story coming out that the Trump administration is now ending Medicaid funding for gender mutilating procedures on children. Um and the first thing that we want to comment is aren't you surprised this is even still a problem in the first place? We we've seen the cultural conversation change so drastically over the last couple of years. Um, and now finally we're seeing policy come out of that. Uh, and this is, of course, considered a very important step toward prioritizing children's welfare in the first place. And of course, going back to the transparency conversation, ensuring there's transparency in the use of taxpayer funds. About all that when we get back. If you want to text in, 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. Lord willing, I'll return right after this short break with the rest of that story. So hang tight and we'll be right back.

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Medicaid Funding Cut For Procedures

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U.S. Health and Human Services has announced that it will end the use of Medicaid and CHIP funds to pay for sex-rejecting procedures for children. These procedures, of course, also include it's not just the surgeries, it's also the puberty blockers, we call chemical castration drugs, the cross-sex hormones, as well as, of course, the surgical operations that cause this what is undeniably permanent bodily damage. The initiative was originally proposed last year in response to an executive order from Donald Trump to end gender mediliating procedures on children. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., RFK, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, said these interventions carry serious risks and can cause irreversible harm. The federal government will no longer use Medicaid and chip dollars to fund procedures that fail to meet the evidentiary standard our children deserve. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator, Dr. Mehmet Oz, said that the action will not only protect children, but also save taxpayer dollars. Health and Human Services research revealed significant evidence gaps and documented serious safety concerns, which ultimately led to the conclusion that the evidence is insufficient to justify taxpayer funding of such procedures. Now, Medicaid funds will remain available for six months after the effective date of the new rule to allow for a tapering off period for children who are currently on hormone therapy, and it does not affect coverage for mental health services. Uh, legislation, I mean, this is going to have little effect in Texas, given that even though the funds federally are available for them, even here in Texas, there's no doctors that'll do it, right? Or at least not legally. And so, because we passed legislation back in 2023, which a quick reminder, because we talked about it earlier, and I want everyone to remember James Alarico voted no on that prohibition. He wanted kids to still have access to all the cross-sex hormones and all of the surgeries. Um, but we did, despite some of the opposition, pass that into law back in 2023 that made all this stuff illegal from a state perspective. Vanessa Sibidge, who is the president of Protecting Texas Children, said that the federal move is a significant win for child protection, accountability, and transparency. She said Medicaid is funded by American taxpayers, and taxpayers have every right to expect that their hard-earned dollars are being used responsibly and in ways that genuinely serve the best interests of children. I believe children deserve protection from irreversible medical interventions while they're still developing and growing. She also said that ending federal Medicaid funding for gender media landing procedures is an important step toward putting the welfare of children ahead of ideology, profit, or political pressure, and increasing transparency. She said families and taxpayers deserve honest information about what treatments are being provided to children, the potential long-term consequences, and who is ultimately paying for them. Public programs should be held to the highest standards of accountability. And so the final rule will take effect October 13th, and then I believe it's six months from then uh with the taper off period. That'll put us what, sometime around April, uh mid-April, when that runs out for everybody. But regardless of that, of 2027, by the way, regardless of that, one thing that I've consistently said that I think is very obvious, a lot of people have said the same thing, and that's that frankly, one of the biggest assets the federal government has is not crafting law. I I I know that that that seems counterintuitive, but let me explain. The federal government is supposed to be, in a lot of ways, secondary to the states. The states are the ones with most of the rights. The federal government has a limited number of things they do. Most of the things the federal government was designed to do uh were to deal with things that a state simply could not deal with, right? Things like border security, because that is a national issue that affects all of the states. Things like interstate commerce, because when you have Texas and Oklahoma having a disagreement, you need a federal liaison of sorts to step in and to, you know, rule on those sorts of things. Federal spending, military, right? There there are things that are under the purview of the federal government, not the state governments, though most things fall under the purview of the states. If we assume that that's still the case, and it's not, right, nowadays law is crafted, I mean, so heinously by the federal government that this is maybe irrelevant, but I don't think that it is. I think this is an important step in general. One of the things that the federal government does have the authority to do is to use money to their advantage, right? The state, by the way, has that same authority in a lot of ways. Say a school district is not behaving the way that it should. One of the main ways you can, I don't want to say bully, but it is bullying. You can sort of bully these school districts or these counties or these cities into performing the way that you want. Gregor Abbott literally highlighted this just a few months ago with the whole pride crosswalk debacle was by saying, hey, these are the rules. Now we can't enforce them for you because you have the police. We're not gonna send in the National Guard to clean up the crosswalks and then you just do them again. Instead, if you refuse to follow our laws, if you refuse to follow the orders, we'll just revoke funding. You won't get any more state grants. The funding you already have, the hundreds of millions, that's gone. And any f hope of future dollars, also down the drain. We're not gonna approve any new spending for you. Well, that's a lot of that's a lot of pro that that causes a lot of problems for these localities. These these the these smaller counties, even bigger counties, rely a lot on state funding and on grants. And so there's a lot of authority that you possess by wielding the the almighty dollar. You have to use that to your advantage. You have to use the finances to your advantage. And that's kind of what the federal government is doing here in a certain sense. They're saying, look, we we're not banning these procedures nationwide, though though I do think that that's something that that should certainly fall under the purview of federal government, if anything does, from a legal perspective. But regardless of that, one of the big things they can do is utilize the power of the purse in regards to problems like this. When a ton of these children are using these social programs to get these sort of horrible procedures, the federal government as a vested interest says no, that can't be used that way. These are these are federal dollars put in by the taxpayer, and as the federal government, we have the authority to determine where they go. And we can say with full authority, as the federal government, even constitutionally speaking, even if we're not, you know, assuming the federal government has overstepped their bounds, one of the things they can do is use that financial power uh to dictate what direction the country is going to go. And that's what that's what's happening here. It's very exciting, it's a very good step, even if it's not the final step, of course, right? You still have other states that we need to work on. This needs to be a federal issue. Uh, this needs to be something that's struck down and stopped all across the country. But one of the things that's rather easy for the federal government to do without even requiring going to the courts is their ability to determine what's qualified under these social programs. But again, the federal government has a vested interest in a lot of things. Uh not as many as they have taken a vested interest in that they should not have, constitutionally speaking. But they do have a vested interest in a lot of things. And so do states, by the way. States' rights used to be far more important and spoken of than they were today. Um if you look back at the times of the founding, especially after the c ratification of the Constitution, right? So you're looking and you're saying, well, that was before the No, this is after the Constitution was ratified. So we had all the constitutional rights in place, we understood how the government was supposed to function, and states had significantly more ability to determine that's why you had blasphemy laws. Um the state had a lot of power in in ways that we've kind of stripped away from them and and not applied to them anymore. Regardless of that, one thing that applies at both the federal and the state level when it comes to your rights, one thing that because you read the first amendment, for instance, it says Congress shall make no law, right? We understand that. Congress is used intentionally in that particular amendment to mean something. Congress, in the context in which it was written, was designed to reference the federal legislative branch. It was not designed to reference the state legislative branch, right? That's why we know that again, you had blasphemy laws, you didn't have those federally because that would have been a First Amendment violation. You had them on a statewide level, which was totally allowed. And so the the first amendment was never designed to apply to the states. But there are other, there are other amendments that certainly apply to both the federal and the state government, applies to local governments, county governments, school districts, so on and so forth. One of those, if not the main one of those, is the Second Amendment, right? Which says the right to keep and bear arms, which shall not be infringed. It doesn't say by Congress. It says shall not be infringed. That means by local governments, county governments, state governments, and of course by the federal government. And yet, each of those different tiers, year by year, continues to tie to depreciate your rights, tries to infringe upon them. They do that through federal legislation, through state legislation, and through local ordinances, and that has to be stopped. It has to be nipped in the bud as soon as it appears. It has to be it has to go through all these different steps, and we have to do everything we can to limit their ability to violate your God-given rights.

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Houston Ballot On Marijuana And Warrants

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Houston voters will now have the opportunity this November to reshape two significant law enforcement policies: low-level marijuana possession enforcement and no-knock warrants. The Houston City Council passed an ordinance placing a charter amendment on the November ballot. If approved, the measure would make low-level marijuana possession the lowest enforcement priority for the Houston Police Department and ban the use of no-knock warrants. That comes after approximately 40,000 Houston residents signed a petition calling for the change. We actually talked with Charles Blaine about that petition last Friday, but they still had to verify everything and it actually had to be passed uh by City Council once that verification process has gone through. And so Mayor John Whitmeyer said that low-level marijuana possession has not been an enforcement priority for HPD in some time. I mean, so even though it'll technically be now a policy standard if it's approved in November, basically I think what he's saying is it's not going to change much generally, because even though it may not be a specific intentional policy, that's just the way things have worked out. He said it's it is not an issue in the city of Houston. We are very firm that we do not serve no-knock warrants. It's been that way since the beginning of my administration, all the way back to Turner. If the city is already putting to practice a ban on no-knock warrant and deporting and deprioritizing low-level marijuana possession, why bring it to voters? It's an important question. Why put all of this effort into passing these policies if, say, we already aren't serving no knock warrants? And if we already aren't going after people with low-level marijuana possession. Well, at large position five, Councilmember Sally Alcorn says the ballot proposition would reinforce and double down on current city enforcement by writing it into the city charter. Ground game taxes, which is a statewide organization focused on, you guessed it, social justice, led the signature drive to put the measures before voters. The organization's executive director said that these policies are about accountability. So Houston eligible voters will find a proposition on their November 3rd general ballot when they go to vote. If they go to vote, that'll also be on there in addition to everything else that's on the ballot generally. But I I have a couple of comments that I want to make about this. And I this is the same thing that I said with Charles last week. Um here's here's my position. I actually think for the most part, this is a good thing. Um and and and you guys are probably wondering, well, why do you think that? You're usually not a fan of uh the drug epidemic, you're usually not a fan of what so what gives? Well, I'll let me explain my position on this. Just so we're clear, I clear things up, clear the air, make sure everyone understands my full and total position. Do I think that in general drug possession is not good? Yeah, of course. I I've seen the things it does to people. I I have no problem inherently with the marijuana plant. That's not where my problems arise. It arises in the way that it's used today, the way that it's you know methodically organized to be as potent as possible, as toxic as possible. But that's that's really not even the point there. My bigger issue, uh a significantly bigger issue, to where it's not even a comparison, is the is the drug, I it's not just the cartels, though the cartels are certainly part of it. It is the cartel mentality that people are profiting off of other people's pain. That that groups are profiting illegally off of other people's struggles and addictions. That's a much bigger issue to me because those are the things that are driving the drug epidemic. It's not primarily the person who has, you know, um, uh a vape pen or what I mean, that's not almost ever the problem in our country. It is almost historically always when you have these more massive organizations that are dealing marijuana, among other drugs, to unsuspecting people. A lot of times these things are now cut with fentanyl. Uh, we have a variety of other issues with the drug epidemic. I've highlighted before that when you look at the homelessness crisis, a lot of it is due to the drug epidemic. They're they're intertwined, I mean intrinsically so. They're just interconnected completely. So, my bigger issue, I I I don't think that it serves the best interest of the people to spend our time primarily going after low-level drug users. I I don't think so. I'm not I don't have a problem inherently with doing that, but I don't I I think that our resources, since we have a limited, if we had unlimited, sure. But we don't. We have a limited amount of resources and we have a limited number of officers and we have a limited amount of time. If we're gonna fix these problems, it's not gonna be by going after the guy that has a blunt. It's just it's just not. Uh regardless of what you think about that, it's just not gonna do anything. I've said for a very long time, we need to be going after the dealers, the manufacturers, and the distributors. That's what you need to hit on. If you want to end the drug epidemic in the US, it's not gonna be because you raided a vape shop, okay? That's not gonna fix it. It's not gonna be because you got a homeless guy off the streets and he had drugs and now he's going to jail. That's not gonna fix anything other than that single guy. And the moment he gets out, by the way, he's gonna go right back to it because you didn't fix anything. The far bigger issue, and why I don't have a problem with this policy in general, is one, we're already not going after those people primarily. And two, since we have a limited number of resources, I usually think it's quite a waste primarily to go after those people. You should be going after the distributors and and all the rest. Now, the other part of this, the no-knock warrant. The the the main qualm that I have on this, because I think that generally no-knock warrants are incredibly awful. I I think that it provides the government so much power and so little accountability in so many cases, it results in far more issues than it helps. But my issue with just saying no to it entirely is that I think there are cases where it's useful. Do I think that ending no-knock warrants permanently and saying never is a good idea? I don't. But the reason I think that is not because I don't agree with the petitioners. I think the petitioners' overall point is we've seen the the the total devastation that can come from these, which I agree with. But my issue is you can't fix things because the the problem is not on the officer side primarily. The problem is on the judicial side. The problem is that the judiciary should have very strict qualifications for serving no-knock warrants for signing them in the first place. If you're gonna have a no-knock warrant, it should be for something absolutely horrendous. For example, if there is a sex trafficking ring that has evaded you at every turn, I would understand a case where you had a no-knock warrant where very with very strict qualifications and eligibility requirements where you're able to go in and shut that down. That would make sense to me. The problem is that because it has not had very strict qualifications and eligible eligibility criteria, you have things like the Hardy Street Raid that have happened and it's kind of, again, eroded our trust in the government's ability to handle these sorts of things. But that problem is not on the you can't serve them side. It's on the judicial side of having any sort of scrutiny at all in regards to what qualifies in the first place. So both of these things I sort of agree with, but in in limited senses, if that makes sense. I don't think the policy itself is going to be that detrimental if it's passed or if it fails. I think neither of those is gonna have too much of an effect realistically. I just think that there are better solutions than just saying the things we're saying by going after dealers and manufacturers and distributors and fixing our judiciary for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is the no-knock warrants, uh, but there are certainly other issues in the judiciary as well that we need to go after. With that being said, to wrap up the show, when we get back from the break, we're gonna jump over and talk about this government agency that's been hiding emails on this controversial transmission project. We'll talk all about that when we get back from the break. As always, if you'd like to text in, this actually is your final chance to do so. If you have a question, a concern, a disagreement, or something that you want to hear a little more about, text in at 713-779-5978. That is 713-779-KYST. You're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. I'm your host, Michael Wilson. And Lord Willing, I will return to wrap up the show after this final break. 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Welcome

Texas Grid Project And Hidden Emails

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back, ladies and gentlemen. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and you are listening to the Lone Star Conservative. A government agency is trying to hide emails regarding expanding the scope of a controversial extra high voltage transmission line project. The agency claims the meeting is about meeting technical grid reliability standards. Landowners and lawmakers want regulators to delay the project, of course, until after the 2027 legislative session. Mainly, I think, because maybe they can have some conversations during the session and pass some laws to prohibit a lot of what's happening here. This, of course, is the 765 kilovolt transmission expansion plan uh in the Permian Basin. Um, part of the Permian Basin Reliability Plan. They propose three transmission lines spending more than twelve hundred miles. Um, and so basically what's going on here is that they've appealed a public information act request for its communications, the this government agency, the the LCRA, um, with their their communications with Amer with Encore American Electric Power and CPS Energy. Um, the request also covered communications with URPUCT, the Public Utility Commission, ERCOT, and certain lobbyists. And the time frame for the request was from March 1st, 2025 to the date a search is conducted. And so the request kind of sought communication with certain keywords related particularly to the transmission line project. As in just a couple days ago, the LCRA sent an extensively redacted copy of its brief to the Office of Attorney General Ken Pax, in which it was exercising its right to request an opinion. This brief mentioned emails in March of 2025 regarding estimated costs to to expand the scope of the Permian Basin Reliability Plan 765 kilovolt project. These communications provide specific details regarding the planning, operation, and protection of critical grid infrastructure. In other words, national security. You we can't show them the truth because national security. And I you know I get it. Right? I get they're saying the language that we asked for is referring to certain technical, you know, technical deliberations that that could produce some sort of, you know, concerns as to what people will do with the information. I understand that. I also understand that we the people are in charge, not you. Right? You report to us, actually. That's the whole purpose of a republic, and you're not reporting to us, and that's a problem. And you don't get to write off all potential communications because you don't like what the communications are about. That's simply not something that you get to do. That is not in your scope of power and is frustrating. I guess we'll see what Ken Patchon says. I can't imagine he's gonna agree with the LCRA here. Uh, we'll find out. I'll keep you guys updated as we find out more information about that request. But you should you can't just turn down a FOIA because, well, national security, you can't do it. We the people are in charge, and we need to we need to take that back. That'll do

Closing Remarks

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for the show today. I want to thank everyone for tuning in, being a part of the show. It's been a pleasure. I'm your host, Michael Wilson. You've been listening to the Lone Star Conservative, and Lord willing to be back tomorrow. In the meantime, enjoy the rest of your Thursday, ladies and gentlemen, and God speed.