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From Election Security To Border Drones In Texas
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Being “nice” can feel like a virtue, but what if it’s turning into a liability? We spend this Friday digging into the places where Texas politics, culture, and public safety collide, and where leaders end up making decisions to avoid outrage instead of defending clear standards. Along the way, we talk election integrity and why real civic health requires debate, disagreement, and the willingness to be challenged rather than living inside an echo chamber.
We also get into the news and symbolism driving today’s culture arguments, including public-space norms and how institutions respond to competing expectations. Then we shift to enforcement reality: DHS and ICE considering a glove-style electric shock device as a less-lethal alternative, the constant tension between de-escalation and safety, and why tools never replace judgment. If you care about immigration enforcement, constitutional rights, and the Second Amendment, this segment connects the talking points to real policy choices.
In our weekly local recap, Charles Blain joins me to break down Houston’s November ballot measures, the backlash over Flock license plate reader cameras in League City, HISD’s latest accountability results and leadership pay questions, and the latest political drama around county government. We close with a serious border security warning about cartel drones and a Fort Bend County standoff that could jeopardize budgets and basic services.
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Welcome And Today’s Event Invite
SPEAKER_07His joke, in the voice of Respect, etc. Michael Wilson.
SPEAKER_15Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative right here on Patriot Talk920 this fine Friday morning, wrapping up the week, of course. Now, before we get into the show, anything even remotely like that, there's something very important you need to know. And that is that we have an event coming up in just a few hours that if you're not already signed up for, that's okay. I still think we have a couple of slots left. I think last time we sold out the day before, uh or two or two days before, I don't think we've quite sold out yet, which is great news for those of you who maybe haven't signed up. Um and if you would like to do that, you can go to Patriot Talk920.com slash events. And today, the event that we're having, this will be at like I think it's 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. up at the Cypress Spring Creek Barbecue. Uh, we're gonna be talking with Shelby Robinson all about elections, uh, between the similarities between Maricopa County and Harris County, why it's so important that we secure our elections, how our elections are currently not secured, um, a lot of what she's learned actually being on the inside of these elections, stuff that most of us probably wouldn't have another opportunity to know, if not for an event like this. And of course, you know, by by signing up, you're also gonna get, we're also gonna have lunch. Um, it's gonna be a great time, and I'd love to see everybody there that can make it, obviously. Uh if you can make it, definitely go sign up again. You can go to patriotalk920.com slash events. That I take you to our event page. I not slash events. I think slash events, I think it's hashtag events. Just go to the events menu on the on the main webpage and you'll find it right there. There'll be a sign-up link for that particular event. That's the one today from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. And it's gonna be absolutely excellent. We've got quite a few people signed up already, but it we do still have room if anybody else would like to attend. With that being said, of course, we do plan to have Charles Blaine on at the top of the second hour for the weekly local recap. In the meantime, we have lots of things you can go over.
Why Debate Matters In Politics
SPEAKER_15Um we might, you know, sometimes it's so funny because I don't always know exactly what the weekly local recap's going to kind of entail until we get a little closer. And then it was kind of funny because I will have like gone over a story um, you know, literally that morning. Uh sometimes it's the day before, but a lot of times it's that morning I went over a story that then Charles says, Hey, let's go over this for the recap. And I say, Yeah, sure. And the reason that I do that and that it's so funny to me is because going over the story with somebody else, I start thinking of new things about the story. The I don't know if it's the tone he uses when he tells it. I don't know what it is. Uh, but that's another reason that I tell people I really enjoy talking, you know, about whatever the topic is and not just doing a radio show about it. Because sometimes you need pushback, sometimes you need challenges, sometimes you need, you know, to think out loud with other people that can maybe jog your memory or jog a thought, whatever it may be. I I think it's very important that we're able to speak with other people and have conversations and not just talk to ourselves all the time. I that's the danger I run into. That's why I say, hey, text in. Um, you know, if you have a disagreement, let me know. I don't ever want to be that guy that's just here, you know, talking and and it, you know, get get stuff wrong, uh, but is never challenged, so he thinks he's always right. I don't ever want that to be me. Ever. Um, I I do like being challenged on things. Uh I think that that's not a good I don't think that quality is extensive enough among like modern podcasters and whatever. I think there's far too many people who don't like being challenged, who like it to be their show and they decide and and they speak the truth. And you have if you don't, if you don't like, if you don't agree with them, then it's the wrong show for you kind of mentality. Not what we're about here. I I am more than happy to take a debate. I am more than happy to take a challenge, more than happy to take a disagreement. In fact, I enjoy those things. I think it's really good for a community that can do that. I think it's very important for a healthy civilization to be able to do that, to reach conclusions and to reach those conclusions, even if multiple people disagree about what conclusions to reach. You have to still make decisions, and that requires the ability to think critically. That requires the ability to have discussions with people that probably don't agree with you. I always remind people, you know, this country is not getting less divided by the day. We're not all of a sudden unifying right now. The country is getting more and more divided because the right is waking up and realizing that they've tried to moderate for a long time to please the left, and they're kind of sick of that. So the right is moving further to the right, and the left, well, they've realized they've just kind of gone all in on crazy, so they're going to move as far left as possible. And so you're starting to get this divide in the country where you have very, very far right and very, very far left. And part of the problem is that I don't think either side seems to recognize that you really do kind of need the support of the other half. Because when it gets that divided, there's only two outcomes. And there's not really a middle ground here. Option one is you find a way to unify, convince the other side, right? Whatever that ends up looking like, that's that's option number one. Option number two, almost exclusively, is that there's some kind of war. I I don't, I don't, it doesn't have to be war, but there's some sort of ultimate division. Where you have something like a secession, right? You have something like what happened in the 19th century here in America, you get something like that. It doesn't have to be exactly that, but something of that nature where you where half people recognize this is not working, we're not related, right? That there's nothing keeping us together at all. We don't like you, you don't like us, and before you know it, the country just kind of turns and goes, all right, so I guess which one's mine and which one's yours, just like getting a divorce. And that's not that's really bad, by the way. Not a fan of that idea. And there are times where it becomes necessary. I'm not denying that. I think we all recognize if the country goes a certain direction, uh, we a lot of us probably are like Texas, get out of here, come on, Skedaddle, Republic of Texas again, anybody? But I also recognize that that's not a utopian outcome. That's not what we want. Most of us. I'm sure there I know there's a lot of secessionists out there. For most of us, we want to remain a nation, these United States. And so that means, fundamentally, that that leaves option one. If you go option two, that that's the divorce. Option one is one side basically has to eventually convince the other, or or we choose to live with the disagreements. And 50 years ago, I certainly would have told you we can choose to live with the disagreements. Fifty years ago, I'd have said, yeah, we can make it through this. I mean, these disagreements are I'm I don't say they're they're small, because back then they wouldn't have seen them as small, but comparatively, they're they're relatively minor disagreements. They're disagreements on sp details and logistics, less so than disagreements on the future of the country. And now the disagreements are so insane. I I don't think there's a let's just live with it, especially not because it's especially because it's not stopping here. Right? We're not, this is not the end. 2026 is not the most divided the country will ever get. I don't think so. I I think you're gonna look out at 2027 and 2028 and 2040 and 2050. And I I don't know exactly when it'll change. I don't know exactly what I expect in that regard, but I do think it's probably going to get worse before it gets better. I I think that is likely what's going to happen, um, at least on the division side. Not generally, but on the divisiveness of where this country stands and who's in it. I think that's gonna get worse before it gets better. I I think there's gonna have to be some very serious disagreements before we recognize that something has to be done about it. And here's the thing. Again, 50 years ago I'd have said that's okay. These disagreements, uh we we still love the country. But then I look at the left, I go, I I don't think they do love the country. Even the ones that say they love the country, they don't like anything about it. They just like the place. They just like the land. I I don't think they like anything about it. Do you like American history? Do you like why we were founded? Do you like our our basic legal structure? Do you like our value set? Do you like I mean, do you like anything that that is remotely historically cultural about America, or do you just like that you live here? Because I don't think there's almost any leftists at all that really love this hist that that really love this country.
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SPEAKER_15There are plenty that have tried to take that back and say, well, we celebrate the fourth of July, we've like country music, and they try to, you know, they they they try to emulate the right, and they want to appear as though they're patriotic, you know, flag waving Americans. But they're not. They they they hate the founders, they hate the founders' vision for this country. They hate anyone who supports the historic culture of the nation and the heritage of the nation. Anyone who says, hey, let's go back to some of the policy we used to have, automatically evil, th they don't actually like or love America. They hate it. And so it's not it's no longer that we have these minor logistical detail-oriented disagreements on specific foreign policy affairs. No, no, no, no, no. We have two completely different outlooks on the future of this country that are mutually exclusive. What that means, that means you gotta pick one. They don't both work at the same time. We have different standards for where we want the future to go, and you can't pick both. That's not gonna that's not gonna work. And so that leaves us with limited options. And again, I don't like option two. I don't want some sort of secessionist perspective where we all leave and we're separate again and it's civil war part two. I don't think anybody really wants that because I don't think that most people have put serious thought into what that actually would look like. Yeah, as to what that actually would do to the country. I I know there's so many of these warmongers out there that say, huh, if there were a civil war, we'd get them. You know, we have all the guns. Yes, but do you do you actually hear what you're saying? Like you understand that means that you're having to use your guns to go out in a war with your fellow Americans. People that you may have known. I mean, war is not. I know that movies have sort of made it cool, and I understand that there's a level of courage to serving. But war is not cool. Having to having to kill people on mass is not cool. Add in a layer of these are our these are our friends. These are our you know, American family. I mean this this this these are our kinsmen in America. And I get that there's these massive disagreements, but how about that is a a last alternative that nobody actually wants? When I see people that do want it, I think they're a little bit cra they're either crazy or they just haven't thought about it. I think it's one of those two options. Because uh the the reality is that unfortunately, right, it's not as simple as we'll just leave then. We we found that out kind of a little while ago. It's not so simple as, yeah, we're just gonna get out of here, start our own thing. They don't let you do that. And so then they're you know what you know what happens, and again, that's not fun for anybody. That that's that's changing. I mean, that's I I don't even know what to say other than anyone who tells you, we got this and we'll win and it'd be great, is either crazy or lying to you. Like that's that's it. They they either are are actually insane or they just are very ignorant and or and or liars. Because none of that is good for anybody. And I think there's so much room to change the culture back and to make us more unified again. It just requires that we, you know, speak the truth, right? There's only people that are like, oh man, you know, if if if it turns into civil war, I'll get them. But these are the same people that like are scared about speaking the truth because they might lose their job. And I get it. Yeah, if you're I mean, you gotta provide, but also you have the courage to go out and and kill people for you to, you know, win a civil war, but you won't just like speak the truth to prevent one. That seems kind of cowardly. I'm not gonna lie, that sounds kind of like a coward. We have to speak the truth. We gotta take the culture back. We we have to do these things so that we don't wind up in that position
Culture Clash And Airport Accommodations
SPEAKER_15one day. Right? It's the same thing with Islam. We still have a lot of options in regard to Islam and fixing what we've brought to this country. In terms of denaturalization, religious tests, all of these things that no one's gonna like on the left that are gonna be considered radical extremist modalities. That's fine. It'll fix the problem before the inevitable what has to happen, and that you have an actual Muslim invasion. You know what happens every time in Christian countries when you have a Muslim invasion? I'll give you a hint. It is not pretty. It is not fun. It is certainly not peaceful. Despite what the Muslims in America would try to tell you, it is certainly not peaceful. The reason I bring it up Islam is a connector, it's not just because I'm targeting Islam, though. We that that is an important conversation. Uh, but because yet again, you can see how much an invasion this is by what happens. They are fundamentally trying to change our culture and warp it. I'll give you an example of this. Dallas Fort Worth International Airport is now planning, they announced this, is now planning to install Islamic foot washing stations in two bathrooms by the end of the year. The project aims to prevent water on standard restroom floors and protect sink counters. White House correspondent Natalie Winters drew attention to the privately funded project in a post that this past Wednesday. The project is titled DFW, Voodoo Abollution Stations Terminal D. On the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation Project details page. The page states that abollution washing stations will be installed in both the men's and women's restrooms in Terminal D and is expected to start at the end of this month. Woodoo, of course, is the ritual washing and purification of the body before the Muslim acts of worship. And so the project is meant to prevent water from accumulating on bathroom floors when travelers are apparently washing their feet in the public sinks. And uh right now you might be thinking, okay, yeah, install the dang stations, dude. I I don't I I don't like that there are Muslims with their own foot washing stations, but maybe that's better than them washing their feet in my regular sink. Maybe, right? Maybe they're they're it's the the lesser of two evils. I don't really want to install infrastructure for Muslims. I also don't want Muslims' feet in my sink. So pick your poison, I guess is what they're trying to tell you. Option three, send them all back. How about that one? I I think no foot washing stations, no feet in the sinks, just go home is your best. Just fly out of Dallas and go back over to wherever you came from, likely in the Middle East. That's not racist. That's just like literally where Islam, the Islam is. That's where the heart of Islam is. Regardless, conservative activist Ryan Fournier comment on the project stating that people washing their feet in standard bathroom sinks create soaked, slippery floors and breaks the counter. Um that's not even my biggest problem. I'll be honest with you. If I walk into a bathroom and I see a Muslim guy washing his feet in a sink, first of all, I'm probably not gonna use any of the sinks. I'm gonna go somewhere else and I'm gonna use hand sanitizer. I don't even care, right? I I mean, I guess it depends. But I'm I'm just I don't even know if I want to use any of those sinks. They might all be contaminated. The other thing is, my first thought is not going to be, man, bathroom floors are gonna be slippery now. Dang it, dude. That's certainly not. I don't care like at all about the slippery floor. His feet were in the sink. Is that not of great does no one see I get they're like, well, he's washing them. I I understand that. But I feet aren't supposed to go in sinks. I just they're just not. They're just not. Uh regardless, he said uh that low-level voodoo basins keep the restrooms dry and safe for everyone. You know what else would keep the restrooms dry and safe for everybody? Sending back all of these like third-world Islamists who don't respect American culture. Here in America, here's the thing. You know, can we have a citizenship test? Can we uh we do? Can we add some things? Can we add you're not allowed to wash your feet in public restroom sinks? Really, you're not allowed to wash your feet in any sink. I mean, if you're washing your feet in a sink, I the only the only reason that should ever happen is your bathtub is broken and you've washed like the rest of your body in the sink, too. I mean, even then, I don't know how you're doing that in a sink. I don't know why you would. But regardless of that, that should be on the citizenship test. If you can't say, I'm not gonna wash my feet in public sinks, then you can't come. You are automatically banned. And I mean, there's just nothing else. That's that is like the bare minimum. I want better standards than that. That's like the bottom of the barrel line. Like you're already taking crazy if you have to have that on the test, but here we are, we do, and now we're having these projects, we're spending $300,000 so that that people who should not be in the country have stations to wash their feet in the airport. Where, when did this happen? I I could I know the answer, like logically. I know the answer from a data perspective because I've written stuff on it. I know where these numbers came from, when this started happening, under which president stuff like this was passed. Lyndon B. Johnson. I I know these things. And yet it still feels like whenever I come across a story like this, I'm flabbergasted again. That, oh, yeah, our country's been invaded by crazy people from obviously third world countries. Uh I don't know about you. Our country, we don't wash our feet in the sinks. I know I'm still going on about the feet in the sinks, but that's a big problem. That's obviously a difference in like echelon's tiers of cultures, right? If if you're in a culture that does feet washing in the sinks, we're just not the same. That's just not the kind of people we are. We've built nicer things than that. So if that's y'all, fine. Do it back wherever, not in our airports or our country at all, I think, is probably the best outcome. And so, I mean, you had, of course, commentators and and just not even commentators, but just regular commenters who who were on these posts saying things like, uh, dedicated Islamic station, signaled American norms, take a back seat. Americans don't want the third world in their airports. Uh who o another said, Who okayed this? How often are these foot baths cleaned? Ick. Dude, I get it. But people are forgetting there's there's only three options. Actually, there's four, but the fourth option is just completely impossible. Fourth option is just tell the Muslims they can't. That's never gonna happen. There's three options here. Option one, you let them just keep washing their feet in the sink. I mean, that's probably my least favorite. I I think I'm more okay with changing cultural norms than their I'm sorry, but there's just something about their feet in my sink. The answer is no to that. Option two is letting them build these things and saying, yeah, go ahead and bring your culture here. Bring the third world in. That's fine. Bring your rituals and your traditions and your customs and don't assimilate. Here's your foot washing station. And option three, the only other option, go back home. So if you don't like this, if you say, I don't think we should be building, we we shouldn't let American norms take a back seat. I agree with you. Does that mean that you want them to wash their feet in the sink, or you're okay with deporting people, many of whom are actually citizens? I am. I'm okay with the government saying, hey, so we actually really messed up. Sorry, uh, but we're correcting our own mistakes. We have the authority to do that. You can say, well, that's not very nice. It's also not very nice to stick your foot in my sink. Okay, so we're even, basically. I mean, it's just tit for tat. You put your foot in my sink, and and I deported you despite your citizenship. So now we're we're good. We're even. That's how that works. Um, the Dallas Mayor's Office, the Texas Department of Licensing, and DFW Airport have not responded to any requests for a comment from any news stations regarding the population, regarding the motivation, regarding, you know, who came to them, none of that stuff. Also, DFW Airport hosts five interfaith chapels. There are no Christian-specific worship spaces. So Muslims get their own footwashing sinks, but Christians don't even get their own chapel. We have to share it. And none of the services are explicitly Christian. Right? And and Kira Davis, um, by the way, actually spoke on this. She said, not only are they quote unquote interfaith chapels, but they're actually just dressed up as interfaith chapels. Uh they're they're made to look like interfaith chapels. Uh, but what she described was that they were essentially these mini mosques. That they were basically just mosques. Uh, and then of course they they called them interfaith chapels so they didn't get in trouble. Kind of like what they're doing with Epic City, uh, and and what they're consistently doing, which is bending all American rules. Like I know that there was no law about feet in the sink. I I don't think we have a law on that. And so they're like, huh, no law, guess I can. But like I'm saying, we didn't need a law. Right? We didn't need that. That wasn't something that we thought we would ever have to say. Oh man, guess we need a law to keep those people from the Middle East from putting their feet in our sinks. I I don't think if you could have told the founders that I was saying that sentence, I think they would have just wondered, what what in the world did we do? What did you do? When did that happen? What did you let happen here? I I think is probably what would they would say. Um, regardless of that, I mean again, looking at these interfaith chapels, because they're just many mosques, she said that the first chapel she visited included a lot of Islamic imagery and two large cabinets jade with Islamic prayer rugs, but no crosses, not a single one. The second chapel had some Bibles tucked away on shelves, but again, prayer rugs were everywhere, including hanging on the racks. A sign encouraged the faithful to look up to find Mecca, a compass was painted on the ceiling. Um, Davis said, Islamic Christianity are not allies. We have no business worshiping in the same place, and in fact, cannot. The Muslims there knew it. I knew it. Airport planners don't care, or perhaps they know it too. Go find your airport chapel and claim it, pray there, leave a cross and a Bible and a note. Do not cede this ground. Do not cede any ground. And like I said, we don't have war right now. This is what I keep trying to explain. That's where this is headed. I know that people want to pretend like this is all just going to be peaceful in one day. It'll just resolve naturally through policy. No, it'll only resolve through policy if we make it resolve through policy. And if we don't make it resolve through policy, do you understand what's coming? Islam is not a peaceful religion. It is not. They are rey not even remotely interested in any sort of peace at all until unless it suits them to gain power in the meantime. That's the only reason that yeah, peace, while we're still a small part of your population, but you just wait. Then we'll see how much peace there is. That's their perspective. And right now, we are in a very blessed period because they've not overtaken us. They they are still having to get permits and approvals, and they're still having to fight to our system in our home. It's still ours. And we're wasting that opportunity because so many people are afraid of being called Islamophobes. You know what? I am. I really don't like Islam. If you worship Allah, we are completely unaligned in every space and sphere, and I don't want you in my country automatically. I don't care if you actually are one of the peaceful Muslims. I don't. You follow a book that is that is undeniably and automatically at odds with everything this country stands for. If you want to reject and throw off your religion, go ahead. But you won't, because that's what you believe in. And that's fine. Not really. I mean, you're gonna go to hell. But I mean, apart from spiritually, that's fine for you, but not in my country. Not in my home. Not the home that's been preserved for hundreds of years, built on the backs of Western civilization, of which your ancestors have tried to conquer how many times? How many different crusades against Islam have we had over how many years? And now you're back again. So pardon me if I say that if you're one of the adherents to this particular religion, I automatically don't want you here. Oh, Michael, you're a racist. Yeah, I'm racist against people that follow pagans, that follow pagan idolatry, and that want to destroy my home. Yeah, I'm racist against those guys, for sure. 100%. If racism means that I oppose specific people in my country, all people from a place that want my home destroyed, then yes, I am. Absolutely. No question about it. Now, of course, that's not what racism means, or at least not what it used to mean. Maybe it is now, I don't know. They change words and definitions all the time. It's not what it used to mean. So, you know, by the old standard, I'm not. But by whatever this new standard is that says, oh man, you you don't want those people here. You're a racist, then fine. I guess I suppose I am, and that's okay. I that that's point me out what I'm doing wrong, other than just a word that makes me sound bad. Yeah, you can call me a racist all day long. It's great. What am I doing that's bad? What am I saying that's incorrect? You want an you want a Christian ethnostate. Yes, that's what we had, actually. I I just want to go back to what we had. I'm not even asking for some sort of future radical insanity. I'm asking for what our founders fought and died for, designed and envisioned. That's it. It's actually incredibly simple. Our founders did not want Muslims here. They did not want Hindus here, they did not want a bunch of people from foreign countries who don't assimilate. They would not have wanted Somalians here, they would not have wanted, again, you look at any country we took from, and it was over 90% from Western Europe. They did not want all this third world in our country. And for good reason. We had a standard. We talked about standards yesterday on the show. We had standards, and now, because you brought in people that literally will not adhere to that standard, we've been forced to lower our standards. Well, I say, and what do I know, but I say no more. Like at some point, like we're allowed to just say no. Like you're, you know what's crazy is you're allowed to walk into a bathroom and say, sir, please get your feet out of the sink. That's disgusting. Like you're totally allowed to say that. Even if he doesn't do it, like now it's awkward. Now you've made him feel on the spot. You're allowed to do that. Dude, why are your feet in the sink? That's so gross. Like, please leave. You're allowed to say those things. They they oh, well, they'll charge you with a hate crime. Try it out, man. Charge me with a hate crime. I really don't care. I I I you know what? Do it. And I know there's people losing cases right now. America is slowly turning into what hat what's already happening to Europe, if we're not real careful. Uh the Shiloh Hendricks case is proof of that. If you guys don't know, she's the one who got in trouble because she said a word. A word that, you know, maybe she shouldn't have said. That's completely irrelevant to whether or not she said it and whether or not the government has any authority to tell her that she can't. They charge her with a hate crime. Did she hit anyone? No. Did she attack anyone? No. Did she beat anyone? No. Did she push anyone? No. Did she steal from anybody? No. What did she do? She said a word that people don't like. And she got convicted. That's pretty insane. But that's the direction our country is going because we've tolerated having these people here. I and I I want you to understand I'm not saying these things because I hate other people and people groups. I I I know that that's what the left needs to believe about me in order for them to justify hating me. They need to believe that I'm a psychopathic hater of other people groups. I'm not. But I would die to preserve a future for this country. Without question. And how can I be willing to die for that and not willing to say mean things? I I mean just I'm willing to die for I'd be like the guys I was talking about earlier. I'll fight in a civil war, but man, I won't say that because I'll lose my job. You'll kill people, but you won't stand up for the truth if it means having to change jobs, really? That sounds like cowardice. And I'm not gonna be that guy. Now, before we go to the break, we got a text in it says, Today I'm planning to send 600 text messages with a video link titled Stop the Islamization of Harris County. Excellent. I mean, yeah, again, we we gotta have people that are out there influencing. We've got to have people. This only works if it's kind of like an umbrella. If you only have the top of the umbrella and the water falls off it, you're still gonna get rained on. The umbrella has to kind of come out and down. We need so many people involved in these operations. People who are doing this in their daily lives, people who work normal jobs, people who are influencing the culture in their own ways. We need all of that if we're gonna succeed. This is not gonna be a one-person sort of job. I'm not gonna be able to get all the bathroom feet washers out of here just by going to I might go to the airport sometime just to try. But I just, there's just no way that's ever gonna happen. I just, there's no way. No matter who it is, nobody, Donald Trump can't do this on his own. We we have to have everyone working together. That's the only way this is gonna succeed. And that requires that we're aligned enough to do that. That also requires that we are honest. And that's why I keep trying to build like the message that that we have to understand. We have to that we have been propagandized so extremely well, right? That that we are now very cautious of the things that we say, not in a biblical way, not in the you know, watch what you say and think before you speak kind of way, but but in the well, you know you can't say that because that's not nice. And then I would ask, why can I not say that? And people just kind of mouth open, don't really know what to say back to that because they realize there's no actual reason, they just kind of believe it. Kind of like I'm gonna be about jail, I'm like, why do you like prison? They go, well, because it makes that the criminals are off the streets. And I explain, well, you know, there's other options, and they go, Yeah, but but but the I don't know. That's almost always how the prison conversation goes. Almost always. There's some people that know why, but the vast majority don't. It's just how things are. And that's the same with this. They're like, well, Michael, you can't say that it's racist. Okay. Who cares? Well, that but that's not nice. Okay, and so what? And that's where it kind of ends. They're like, I don't know. I guess I guess that's fine then. That you we've been so propagandized by by billions of dollars that that we just don't even know why we're following the standards we set for ourselves about how how nice we have to be. Well, I I don't I don't know. I know. Yeah, I don't know. That's what people say back. And so it requires that we're willing each in our own ways. And obviously, not all of us are the kind of people that would walk into a bathroom and and make you know auditory comments about guys' feet in the sink. I would. That's just the but that's not new. I would have done that at like 12. If I walked into a bathroom at like 12 years old and saw a mushroom washing his feet in my bathroom, I I'm saying something. 12-year-old Michael certainly saying something about that. That that's getting a response. I'm speaking to that. Um, but not everyone's designed to do that. Not everyone should do that. We all have our own personalities and our own ways of chipping in and our own ways of contributing to the overall cause. What we can't do is have infighting like what we have now, where I have other Republicans calling me a racist and saying that I take it too far. Well, you can't say all Muslims are Michael, it's the crazy ones. No, it's if you want to wash your feet in a sink, you're on the no-no list. We should be able to say that. We should have enough standards for our country that that the word racism has so much power that if I say I don't want to import the third world, and they say, Well, that's kind of racist, you're choosing countries. I don't care. I've seen what it does, and I I care more about not having feet in the sink than I do about whatever the heck name you want to call me. It's that simple. Now that I've said enough things about feats and sinks, Dr. Seussbook, goodness gracious. Um when we get back from the break, we're gonna talk about ICE, um, kind of
ICE Shock Gloves And Use Of Force
SPEAKER_15contrast this. ICE plans to spend up to twenty million dollars because the DHS is considering a new device touted as a safer alternative to firearms. You know, there's a lot of the pushback and blowback from the left because ICE has had to shoot people and they don't like that. They think that that's violent and evil. And so ICE coming out and saying, well, I guess we'll try to find an alternative just to kind of quell a lot of that frustration. We'll talk about what that alternative option is when we get back. If you would like to text into the show, disagreement, concerns, something you want to hear, 713-779-5978. That is 713-779-KYST if you want to text in. In the meantime, you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and Lord only. I'll be right back with the rest of this ICE story, what they're spending money on after the break.
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SPEAKER_15So the Department of Homeland Security is considering spending between $10 and $20 million on a new type of electric shock device for ICE officers and agents. DHS published a notice uh this week outlining plans to purchase what are known as GLOVE devices. And you might say, did you just spell GLOV? I did, but it's GLOV as an acronym, not as a word. It stands for generated low output voltage emitter, glove. Pretty creative, if you think about it. According to NBC News, DHS officials say the gloves emit a shock at the touch of a button, but then the device will not leave a mark or cause lasting pain after the person is released. Advocates say the gloves allow officers to avoid using firearms and are a better alternative to pepper spray. In a statement, DHS said every decision is made with careful consideration and appropriately reviewed to ensure that any technology ICE utilizes is consistent with all applicable law, enforcement policies, and standards. And so that's also as you know, we've had a recent surge of deportations. Trump came out and he said kind of at the same time as this announcement that we have the strongest border in the history of our country. We will always stay with ICE and Border Patrol and law enforcement. Regardless of any of that, I think the gloves are a great idea. I gotta be honest. Yes, there are times and places where a firearm is obviously the most useful tool. Like undeniably. And that's why I tell, when I like, when I tell you, when I'm talking to I know that there's a lot of, let me rephrase this. I know that there's been a lot of talk about, you know, especially fathers giving their daughters when they go to college, hey, I got you a taser. I got you a pepper spray. No, my daughter's getting a gun. 100% getting a gun. What do you mean? I'm not letting her risk her life with some pepper spray. No, no, no, no. If somebody's attacking my daughter, you shoot them multiple times. You shoot them until the magazine's empty. That's the rule in this house. That but that's because, right? Her safety is most important to me. Obviously. And so I do, I do think that we have to be a little careful. I think the left is making a push that violent violence is never the answer. You can't shoot people. And I I to which I reply, yeah, you can actually, and there are times where you should. There are actually times where that's what you're called to do in the defense of other people. And so when ICE is dealing with certain extreme criminals and someone does attack, I don't think they should just say, Well, I've got the glove. And that I there's a lot of risk. So I think it's a good idea potentially. But we'll actually have to see it applied to see how it works. I want to see like case examples of it. I want to be careful that we don't start replacing this and saying, see, we don't even need guns. Yes, you do. 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Houston Heat And Rain Chances
SPEAKER_15I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative right here on Patriot Talk 920. Friday might offer Houston its best chance at a cooling downpour for quite some time, uh, but I I would not count on getting one of those. Um that's just really that that's just the highest chances that you're gonna have for a minute. It's still not likely that you're all gonna get rain. Uh that's just not the percentage. Uh but if you don't get it today, the percentage isn't going up. It's just going down. Um a brief increase in moisture will give us a chance at showers and thunderstorms today. That's an improvement again over the mostly dry weather for most of this week. But it still means that most neighborhoods are not gonna see rain. Uh those that miss out may have to wait a while for another opportunity because high atmospheric pressure will strengthen this weekend and sharply reduce rain chances going into next week. Now, today is gonna remain hot despite the increased chance for rain. Afternoon temperatures should reach the middle to upper nineties across much of the Houston area, with lower nineties closer to the coast. Um which is basically like it sounds, um i but it's it's not really a measurement of how much rain will actually fall. Instead, um it's it's kind of just highlighting the water vapor inside this sort of column, right? So the the depth of water that we have in the rain columns in the atmosphere. It's just kind of a way to measure how much moisture is available. That doesn't mean it's gonna rain, but it does measure the likelihood that there is available rain that could fall. Regardless of that, rain tensors are gonna climb to roughly twenty or thirty percent today, again, mid to upper nineties. Today's bump in moisture is not gonna last very long as the pocket of deeper moisture moves away from southeast Texas. High pressure is going to strengthen this weekend, precipitable water will decrease again, and sinking air beneath the strengthening range will make it increasingly difficult for showers and thunderstorms to develop. Rain tensions are gonna become minimal or non existent this weekend and into early next week. Meanwhile, inland temperatures will generally reach the upper nineties uh through the weekend, with a better chance of hitting 100 degrees next week, which makes today's kind of small rain chance more noteworthy. Because this is it. Right? Not that this is it. Obviously, if it doesn't rain today, you know, you're gonna get rain in a couple weeks, probably, hopefully. We don't have a drought. But that's not what we're talking about. We're saying that 20 or 30 percent is the best you're gonna get for a minute, and the the chances that are coming up are not just rain free, they're also incredibly warm for mid to late August, uh, given that we'll be really right around that hundred degree mark, if not surpassing it. And so today is is the best shot you've got at rain. So uh that's it. That's what I got for the weather report today. 20 to 30 percent chance of rain today, very little for the at least the next week. Hot going into the weekend, even hotter going into early next week, just about all you needed to know. It's hot and rain free after today. So, with that being said, we're coming back after this this break uh at the top of the next hour. We're gonna have Charles Blaine on, of course, for the weekly local recap. As always, you're listening to Lone Star Conservative. If you want to text in, the number is 713-779-5978. That's 713-779-KYST. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and Lord and Land we're right back with Charles Blaine at the top of the next hour. Stick around, ladies and gentlemen.
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Houston Ballot Measures And Policing Tools
SPEAKER_15Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative right here on Patriot Type 920. And joining me this morning here on Friday is our good friend Charles Blaine for the weekly local recap. Welcome to the show, Charles. Thank you for having me. Good Friday morning. Good Friday morning. And I'm I'm very excited because we've got a lot that I want to dive into. Um, a lot of these stories are are independently big, and they're not just from like one like a lot of times we'll have like a lot of what Houston did at City Council. That's kind of the big stories of the week. Uh, but this week we have like four really four different groups. You've got Houston, you've got League City, you've got HISD, and Harris County. So these are all independent uh, you know, sort of districts and and governments, and they're all doing their own sort of things. I and the first one that I want to get into is an update. So last week we talked about the petitioners who wanted to get certain things on the November ballot in Houston, and now we have an update on that. How did that go?
SPEAKER_14Yeah, so it is official. I mean, they um they they're calling it now the Houston Freedom Act, and so they Houston Freedom Act, which was which was pushed by a group called Ground Game Texas, which is based out of Monshaka, Texas, not even Houston. Um, they put this petition up, got 40 allegedly 40,000 signatures, um, at least over the 20,000 necessary to put the items on the ballot. And so we we weren't clear about what it looked like last week because they had not yet voted on it. So this week we know that it will be two separate formal um charter amendments placed on the November ballot for Houston to vote on. And then mind you, these are the only things for the city of Houston's ballot. So uh if you're in the city of Houston, yes, you're gonna be voting on every other thing, like the state races and stuff like that. But this is the only thing on the city of Houston's ballot, and you'll be voting on a uh the one act that's to prior deprioritize marijuana um and essentially just uh force HVD to deprioritize their arrests for it and face prosecution for it. And then the separate charter amendment to ban no-knock warrants um in the city of Houston, which uh we've talked about on your show. These are the these are what was used, the tool that was used in the murder of the tunnels, um, and and you know, a lot of other instances of violation of civil liberties and rights. But, you know, do we want a wholesale ban of it? I guess we'll find out.
SPEAKER_15Yeah, I that's that's my again, it's really frustrating. A lot of these policies are are a rock in a hard place sort of things. They're catch 22s because we we let our country get to a point. It's kind of like you I want to tell you something, and this is an analogy, but a very wild one because it bears no relation at all other than the logical principle of a rock in a hard place. Um in Dallas, did you know that they are approving a $300,000 project to put feet washing stations in the airport? Do you know why they're doing that? Because the Muslims in Dallas are washing their feet in the airport public sinks. And you gotta wonder, do I want to curtail the Muslims and let them build feet washing stations, or do I want Muslims' feet in my sink?
SPEAKER_14Like I mean you don't have to you have to choose between the two that without a sort of thing.
SPEAKER_15I said option C. Can we just deploy any of the citizenship test now includes you're not allowed to put feet in sinks? If you do, you're just that's denaturalization. Uh that's that's retroactive. So if you if you are if you've had it for 20 years and I see your feet in a sink gone. That's it. That's that's it. But it's the same thing here. It's like, yes, I understand that no-duck warrants have been uh a catastrophe in a lot of ways, but I also think that there are plenty of circumstances where a judge should have the wherewithal to approve one in emergency scenarios. And so I just I don't even know where to go with this.
SPEAKER_14Yeah, I mean, same here. I don't know either. I mean, you know, it I I the the instances in which we hear about them are always negative because that's when you hear about these things, when they go wrong and when they're misused. And so I'm sure that there are countless instances in which they are used in a very positive way to, you know, get crime across our streets without harming the general public around. And you just don't hear about those things. And so it's hard to really make an assessment and say, uh, this is like all bad, this is all good. But I mean, I do lean towards the fact that it is a tool that they could use and deploy, they should do it judiciously in the times that we've heard about it hasn't been, but that just can't it's not a full explanation. So I don't know how I'm personally gonna vote on this thing. I don't like them. I'm probably going to vote uh to ban it because of the fact that I I'm often on the side of, you know, if if if if it's gonna be used to violate one person's civil liber civil liberties or civil rights or take their life, then they should not at all have this tool. You know, it shouldn't be used at all. But I I I don't know. It's a hard one, and I wouldn't fault anybody for going either way on it.
SPEAKER_15Yeah, I just wish the judiciary would fix their mess. That way we don't have to do that. That would be the best outcome. Um Exactly. And on the mere one enforcement, I I I if you've listened to my show at all, I am not a a drug fan. Like I think in general, drugs, even the ones that are illegal, um, just don't make the country better. There's just no real benefit to them, as opposed to a lot of the negatives. But I've always said uh that the the war on drugs going after drug users has never been successful. It's never helped anybody. And usually it goes after people that aren't doing anything else criminal. Um and it does and again, it doesn't fix the problem. And I don't know why consistently it seems like we don't seem to want to go after the people who are actually maybe that maybe there is a la, I don't have a conspiracy theorist. I said that last week, too. I think at some point I'm just gonna have to announce that I am. Um it almost seems like this is a an industry that's black market, uh, but is explicitly allowed because of the economy that it's grown to. Because it would be so easy for the government to, with all its resources band together and say, we're going after all of the big dealers and manufacturers and nip this in the bud, even today, and they won't do it. Instead, they're like, Yeah, that guy that's on the street smoking to blunt, that's the guy we're getting. And I just don't know why that's the case.
SPEAKER_14Yeah, I don't know either. I mean, you know, you go over to the people smoking the wacky tobacky, but you're not going after the people who are actually out there. I mean, you are now because of the the recent law change and them going after the um the the THC stores to a certain extent, but generally speaking, yes, it's the people who are smoking it and who are possessing it that are getting arrested and charged with it. And so I it just doesn't make sense. It hasn't worked, obviously. And so I don't think that this program uh or this this uh this charter amendment is an issue. I say I mean there's some weird things in it, like um where they force them to allocate a certain amount of money or explicitly allocate a certain amount of money to THC testing and city audit of marijuana enforcement, and you know, they refer to the city manager, which we don't have in the city of Houston. So there's weird stuff like that. But generally speaking, I'm I'm pretty much in favor of this. I mean, they're just pushing it down to like a diversion kind of program, um, where my fear is is that the legislature, doing what the legislature does, will come in and say that you know cities don't have a right to do this or and either change it or take away our right to you know amend our charter or something. So, but fingers crossed that they don't, and this just goes kind of flying under the radar.
SPEAKER_15What's super ironic about that, even more so, is that it just put it on the radar. Because did you see what the mayor said about this? Did you see it? No, I don't think so. So Whitmeyer came out and said, like, I don't know why you're doing this, because we haven't done a no-knock raid in Houston from a from a city like police standard since before Turner. He's like, We we don't we or or since Turner, we don't do this. We haven't done it. He said, and we don't enforce low-level marijuana possession like you're saying we do. We've not done that either in years. Like the both of these are already happening, you're just putting them into technical ordinances. So nothing changes except now the focus is on it because it's officially an ordinance. That's the only difference.
SPEAKER_14Well, and that means to me then, because I do remember both of us being uh having conversations and and uh changing under the term administration, and I didn't know that the numbers remain the same, but but it just signals to me that is this group is out there one trying to prove that they have a case that they can not just Houston, but they're probably doing this all over because it looks like plug-and-play language. You're referencing a city manager, we don't have that in the city of Houston. Right. So clearly they are just kind of going around doing this everywhere and probably doing it so that they can just claim, like, look what we did in the city of Houston, and then go back to their donors and and try to make a case for more money. And so it's a it's an easy win for them because we're already doing it and they don't have to have too much pushback from the city, and now they get to claim a win.
SPEAKER_15Yeah, and and all it's gonna do is do what you mentioned. It's gonna say the legislature is gonna say, Oh, this is news now. Now we have to do something about it. Exactly.
League City Flock Cameras And Privacy
SPEAKER_15Um now I want to talk about League City because they had this sort of flock situation, and I don't think the I I don't I don't want to say the news is is not presenting it well, but in a lot of cases where you don't read to the bottom of the story, I think there's some terms and conditions in this that even I wasn't aware of. So can you walk us through this this League City flock situation?
SPEAKER_14Yeah, so League City um is the first city in Texas to vote on flock cameras. As in as many people have probably heard at this point, for the past couple weeks, they've just really blown up um with people being concerned about what they are doing, how much they are tracking, what agencies are tapping into their systems, all these different things across the state of Texas. And so on August 11th, they had their council meeting um to discuss whether they were going to allow residents to vote in this November on banning the cameras and having them removed from the city of Houston, from the city of Lake City. Uh, and so before council members voted in six to one to call a special election on November 3rd, they then said that this referendum is just non-binding. And so it's just kind of letting them know where the city tickles on this issue. And so in in a in a episode of Short Talks with Mayor Nick Long, which is a podcast uh for the Lake City Mayor, uh, he he said that you know this non-binding statement is just for voter preference. Um, and should the Lake City Police Department continue to use them at fixed locations, they're allowed to, but it it it at least we know where the residents stand, I guess.
SPEAKER_15Because we didn't know that before. Like it wasn't like obvious. Uh go go to Facebook, go to any of the Facebook groups for any of the cities at all, and I think you'll know how the residents are feeling about flock cameras. I I saw the other day that I maybe it was Paraland, but somebody had said that like four or five flock cameras had been they called it vandalized, but they had been basically just destroyed. Um and all of the comments, and there were hundreds of comments, were uh who because they had a suspect. They said it can't be that guy. He was out fishing with me all night on my private leg. So it could have been that guy. It was all people coming up with alibis for the supposed suspect because nobody likes them. Nobody. Yeah. I mean, no, no citizen, all citizens are like thinking back and they're like, this is big bro, this is North Korea. Like, this is the step you take to get there. And again, it's kind of like no knock right. It's like, yeah, we understand that like if we had a government that was super transparent and always held accountable, that flaw cameras maybe wouldn't be the worst thing in the world. But we don't have that. And and even if you did, this is how you get to not having that. And so there's so much concerns. I'm just lost on what League City's even doing. Like, yeah, here's a vote that's literally just telling us what we already know and making it sound good. I just don't see the point of that.
SPEAKER_14Yeah, I I don't understand either. Um, especially because one of the council members said, you know, that that they don't think this is a good use of a charter referendum, and that it felt like it was ignoring general concerns from the public about privacy because you're not actually going to do anything. And so, yeah, like it didn't really make much sense. And you're right. I mean, these are why across the board, widespread they're disliked. I mean, in the city of Houston, we talked about it on your show, when they were when they were adding more just before the FEPA World Cup, the one council member to speak up and oppose it was Alejandro Salinas, the most radical progressive member of the city council. And so, like, she was just adamant that these should not be put in. And at Houston, I mean, we have we have, I think, thousands of them at this point, but these were just more that they were adding, and she knew that they weren't gonna be taken away. And so, yeah, everybody opposes these things. And and at least if they don't oppose them outright, they oppose the kind of wide breath that they have without um too much oversight. But yet, uh I guess Lee City just wants to get an idea of where the people stand and then you know, do whatever they were gonna do anyway.
SPEAKER_15Yeah, do the nothing. That's that's gonna do nothing is what is what you're saying. This is gonna happen. I would be I would be unbelievably surprised if that resulted in them saying, all right, I guess we're changing policy now. That's not gonna happen. Um, and so
HISD Ratings And Superintendent Bonus
SPEAKER_15it's kind of frustrating. But I want to talk about uh two more things. H ISD, first of all, because I thought we we were told originally they had no F-rated schools left and we were getting so much better. And now something's what's going on here?
SPEAKER_14Yeah, so in 2026, this year, HISD's number of F-rated schools rose from zero to four. And so even though the D the number of A and A uh A and B rated schools also grew, um, the number of F-rated schools schools grew zero to four. And what's interesting about this is that um, you know, even though they grew, the frustrating part is that the board still gives my files his evaluation, which they have to do. They have to give him valuation by October 1st. And they um gave him a rate, uh, a bonus of up to $231,000, but won't say, at least yet, what that bonus is, like exactly how much it is, up to $231,000 on top of his base salary of I think $430 or $450. They won't tell us how much it is. They won't tell us if it's so his unelected board gave him a gave him a raise after we have seen F-raise schools, which are part of the reason why the district was taken over to begin with. So the whole thing is just like it just makes no mess. It makes no sense.
SPEAKER_15It's a money laundering scheme, is is what it's starting to seem like. Because I remember I said originally, I said, look, we need to see how this plays out. I'm good if it's actually going to fix the things. And now that it's looking like things are not necessarily going to get all that much better, I'm starting to get real concerned that the the people who were already concerned might have been right, um, which I still don't want to be true. I want it to be successful. Um and that comes out also as you have teachers, like uh we talked about it before, but the the guy who came out this week and was like, yeah, so we're back in school, and I've got seniors in high school who just can't read or write, not a grade level, but just generally. He's like, I'm doing fill-in-the-blank challenges and they're not succeeding. And I mean, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_14It's like he went on talking about they can't reason, they can't defend their reasoning. It's like, you know, if they're talking, I think he said if they're talking to their homeboy but applying that to written text, two paragraphs, they couldn't do it. Like they they just they could not say what they were saying to their friends and then turn that into two paragraphs of written text. That is, I mean, I I don't understand how you have a district, and I and I'm not gonna blame all that on Mike Miles, but certainly, certainly, if it's that bad at the senior level, and he's been superintendent for three three years. I mean a senior now with a sophomore or maybe even a freshman when he came in, and we're still at that point, these kids are being being moved to the next grade and being graduated. Um I mean, that's a failure of a district or the failure of the board, failure of the superintendent, past and you know, future, well not future, but past superintendents. I mean, that's just an across-the-board failure. And I don't understand how you allow that to happen.
Lina Hidalgo’s Public Fallout At Court
SPEAKER_15I don't either. Now, the last thing I want to talk about real quickly is Lena Hidalgo. Um, can you walk us through what Lena Hidalgo is coming out and saying right now?
SPEAKER_14I I just starting to feel bad for her, you know, after Lena lost her vote last week to hold a public referendum on her on her um early childhood education.
SPEAKER_15Sorry, I don't know where that came from. Dora just started playing. I I guess we summoned her when Lena came up.
SPEAKER_14She she wanted to hold a vote on her early childhood education education tax. They said no. And then she wrote a substack where she just kind of just threw bombs at them saying that they have abandoned the principles that they ran on in 2018, that run in the blue wave, that the supermajority is just as corrupt as the good old boy club in the past, that if you look at their donors and their relationships and the contracts, you'll start to see these connections. And I mean, she just went off. And this is not things that she hasn't been saying, but she just hasn't been saying them in a very concise and written form. And so now she's just uh she's she's taking out a pen and she's letting it all go. She's just really upset.
SPEAKER_15Look, one of the things that I do, I do give Lena credit for, uh, and it's bad, but I give her credit in nonetheless is the consistency at least. Um a lot of leftists try to play such a political game that you're like watching like obvious contradictions, and you're like, how do you justify that? Well, it's because you want votes and popularity, and so you'll do anything. Lena, I think, is in a prime position where she's like, no, I I'm just gonna say what I think. And it I she's dead wrong. But at least she's consistent on being wrong, and she's not sometimes saying, Well, I gotta get votes, so I guess I'll be right. So no, she's just across the board. And even when it disagrees with the people on her side, where she'll say, Well, the constable raised is we shouldn't be doing that. Like, what are we what are we doing here? Like, she's consistent on what she's presenting, and and I I give her credit for that, even though I think that it's awful, at least she's maintaining that consistency across the board. And to be honest, I don't think she's she's right in the sense that you know, she looks at the other people and she's like, You guys are not playing like we're supposed to be, if you're actually a leftist. Like you're not doing this correctly.
SPEAKER_14Right, right. No, and and that's the thing. I I it's weird. I guess I gotta give her credit on for that is exactly what you said, because she is from I mean, it's been from she's a lot of that. You know, she's been like consistent on a lot of things, no matter how wrong those things may be, she's she's been consistent on them and been consistent on her criticism of her colleagues, but like has never figured out a way to one, you can like infrastructure, but two, like use that in in a way to really kind of bolster her her power, which is very strange. But it's also I wonder if it's like theory because I really do feel like Lita's just kind of like systems disrupted her. Like she came in in 2018, and Democrats didn't really pay any mind because they didn't think they were gonna win. We didn't pay her any mind because Republicans thought that NMA was gonna post a re-election. So she disrupted the system, then everybody Republicans hated her, Democrats loved her, then she started turning on Democrats and disrupted their system, then they hated her. And now Republicans, we kind of still hate her, but like I'm also not mad as long as she's throwing bombs at Democrats on Commissioner's Court. So, like, it's just it's very interesting. I just think she she disrupts systems, but she doesn't know how to target that to where it should be done effectively, and she's just kind of shooting all over the place.
SPEAKER_15Yeah, and then it just makes her kind of look a little crazy, is kind of the end result. Is we just look at it, go, are you okay? No, you missed commissioner's court for therapy. So maybe not. Um, maybe not okay. Uh with that being said, Charles, when you're not here on the show on Fridays, where can people find all the stuff that you're putting out now?
SPEAKER_14Yeah, so just check out uh localinsights.ai or local insights all across social media. You'll see the data stuff that we're putting out there, and you can just look at my social media myself, Charles Blaine, and you'll see stuff there as well.
SPEAKER_15Excellent. Well, as always, we appreciate you coming on for the weekly local recap. And Lord willing, we'll talk to you again next Friday. Talk to you next Friday. With that being said, when we get back, we're gonna talk about the Texas senators examining the growing cartel drone threat along the southern border. If you want to text in, the number is 713-779-5978. One more time. That is 713-779-KYST. You're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and Lord Billy right back right after this short break with the rest of that story. So stick around. We'll talk soon.
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Cartel Drones And Border Security Gaps
SPEAKER_15Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative right here live on Patriot 920. And you know, I think one of the major crimes that our government has perpetrated against us is that they're just too nice. And I know that there's a lot of ways in which they're not, and which and that this is the problem. This reminds me of the Matthew McGonagay line. And this is Jordan Peterson. This has been talked about for a very long time. Um really, I mean, you can you can probably find it in Greek literature too. A consistent problem is that people deprioritize goodness on behest of niceness. And what that ultimately means is you you do evil things because you want to make people happy. You're willing to do bad things because you don't want to offend someone, because offense is the highest crime to you. And that is evil. It's wrong. It it is it is just completely emasculating to our political structure. It's wrong. And our government has been doing that for a long time, unfortunately, where in the effort to not offend and the effort to be nice, we have we have sacrificed doing the right thing. Right? And this is the same thing Jordan Peterson kind of put it out in more of a uh a defense sort of way by saying, hey, uh a man that cannot defend his home, uh, or a man that ca is not capable of violence is not peaceful, because peace is a virtue and it assumes restraint. If you're incapable of violence, period, you're not peaceful, you're just weak. In order to be peaceful, you have to be capable of great violence, but keep it restrained until it's necessary. In similar fashion, you're not good if you're just nice. That's not good. Even if sometimes it means the same thing, even if sometimes, you know, d being good, you know, is a level of nice in its own sort of way, prioritizing niceness above all else is not good. And it's not the same thing at all. And one of the ways we've been doing that is in our dealings with other countries. We we've been so nice because we want to maintain decorum that we've just kind of let things slide that never should have slid in the first place. One of those is going down on our border. Um, as cartels are deploying sophisticated drones along the Texas-Mexico border, state lawmakers are finally examining whether local law enforcement has the authority and tools needed to stop them. Testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Homeland and Border Security just the day before yesterday detailed drone use for surveillance, cross-border smuggling, and potential attacks on officers and critical infrastructure. Quote, drone technology continues to evolve and has become increasingly accessible to both legitimate users and bad actors. Criminal organizations and hostile actors are using drones to conduct surveillance, transport contraband, and threaten critical infrastructure and public safety. Our goal is to evaluate whether current state laws and enforcement authorities are sufficient to address these emerging fears and threats. And that came out from uh State Senator Phil King. Now, drones are are, for those who are unaware, um, it was kind of it used to be associated with like hobbyists, right? People that would fly like a DJI just through the sky for the fun. They would record like, you know, a variety of things. They would record motorcycle riders, uh, they would just be flying for the fun of it, or they would put cameras on them and fly through like abandoned warehouses. Fun stuff. Well, now, uh in 2014, ISIS started using them for reconnaissance. By 2017, the technology was being widely used for attacks. Uh, the war in Ukraine has dramatically accelerated uh since the development and battlefield of low-cost drones. Um, you have Dr. Michael McGee who said in March of this year, more than 90% of Russian combat losses, roughly 34,000 troops in a month, were caused by drones. On one day in April, drones inflicted more than 1,000 of Russia's 1,300 casualties. And so tax is already dealing with this threat as well. Cartels are utilizing drones to survey customs and border protection surveillance positions and to smuggle narcotics and contraband into prisons and stash houses. He also stated that that these counterintelligence departments opened an investigation into Latin Americans who embedded themselves in the Foreign Legion to learn how to pilot drones effectively. And so he said any defense built around a decision at the fence line has already failed because detection has to happen miles out. By the time you have the drones here, it's too late. They're already where we can't see them, whatever. And so previously state and local agencies had limited ability to combat drones with only four federal agencies having the authority to disable them. However, in December of last year, Congress passed the Safer Skies Act, which allowed all levels of law enforcement to conduct counter-drone operations. Officers seeking to actively disrupt or disable drones must complete specialized FBI training and certification, which again is a requirement intended in part to prevent counter-drone systems from interfering with legitimate aviation or hobbyists. You don't want to just shoot everybody's drones down because there's no drones allowed. You have to go over particular ones. And so you have this quote. It says in May of this year, a Medebac flight lost GPS during a military jamming exercise at White Sands missile range and crashed near uh Riodoso, New Mexico, killing all four aboard. And so they they said so far 61 officers have been certified to utilize anti-drone technologies, not nearly enough. Apparently, the most effective technique to counter drones available to law enforcement has been pilot interdiction, uh, which a pilot intercepts a drone, requires less specialized certification, helps minimize risk to citizens. You also have El Paso Police Department Sergeant Corey Balk. He said the use of cartel drones and the way that they have organized their structures, primarily where we're seeing in Quiddad Juarez, is very organized. They the the threat is very high and they are very capable. They are just as good at what they do as we are with what we do. They use the exact same drones that we use, they have thirty thousand dollar drones. They recognize somebody at a mile, can track a moving vehicle. When I say they use the exact same drones, they use the exact same drones that we have. They do the tactics against us the exact same way we do it with them. He even added that the cartels are able to counter the best anti-drone technology the U.S. government has at its disposal and occasionally weaponize the unmanned vehicles in an attempt to hurt officers. To date, El Paso has tracked 1,776 confirmed cases of cross-border infiltration by drones. He clarified that the department can only confirm drones with digital license plates, and so that's only the number we know. He said when we look at other signatures from radars and some of the sensors that we saw come across the border in that time frame, it was closer to 14,000. So we've said everything from $500 small drones to the 60,000 six-pop agricultural drone carrying a duffel bag capable of moving 200 kilograms of whatever item it wants to at a time. He also noted that his team has used data from drones to ordinate with Mexican officials in order to make arrests out of the country. However, El Paso PD faces a significant challenge due to drone pilots spoofing their location, uh which is a process that uses a variety of different methods, though. But it it it just generally falsifies location data. Um and so he said we need more jurisdiction, we need more authorities at the local level. Having a drone program is also a very good start to a counter-drone program. At one point in time, El Paso had one of the first and largest DFR programs in the nation. We sat at 22 docs spread up all around the city. We built that entire program for $1.2 million, and we have not spent more than licensing and renewal to maintain it every year after. In other words, he's saying it would not be incredibly expensive from a state perspective if we grew this program and we grew it in in local jurisdictions all over the border towns. But again, what I want to draw this back to is this sort of niceness that I think our government has been infected with. Because I don't want to say that it should be easy. It won't be. I mean, at this point, the cartels do have an exorbitant amount of power that I think people still are not aware of. We still view the cartels as these sort of small drug running operations. That's not true because of what the Biden administration did. These are billion-dollar industries. I I mean, undeniably, these are like mega corporations. They have the power of some of the biggest players in the U.S. They are insanely dangerous. And we're still like, I don't want to say treating them no mind, but we're still trying to pretend as though they're just these kind of third world scammers that are just dealing drugs. And that's not what's happening here. These are masterful organizations designed efficiently, run smoothly to do what they do. And I think that a lot of our problem is that we're still dealing with them in this sort of, well, we just don't, we don't like criminals, but we don't wanna, we don't wanna do too much. No, this is a full-fledged war. It is what this is, and we're treating it like it's a tiny little skirmish, and it isn't. This is not a tiny little skirmish. Ladies and gentlemen, this this is a massive national security threat. Not just because of the drugs, by the way, but at the point at which you have to say that that the technology that our opponent is using is capable of doing what we do and they're getting away with it and they're succeeding. At some point, we have to acknowledge that this is not some sort of tiny little conflict. This is a massive threat. I mean, totally to the infrastructure of our country, not just to the fact that we're letting drugs come in our country. That that alone would be bad enough to justify very serious responses, would be simply if they were dealing drugs. But that's not the only concern here. The concern is with the capabilities that they're designing. The capabilities that these cartels have where they can afford all these things, they're running these operations smoothly, and they're able now to weaponize these aircraft, uh, these unmanned aircraft, to go after our officers, to go after our infrastructure, to go after our security, and to do all these these sweeping amounts of of I I mean, the the the array of things they're doing is not it's not singular enough to boil it down. You you have to acknowledge these are all contributing problems, all from these organizations, and they are organizations. You can call them illegitimate because they're doing it illegally, but these are massive mega corporations doing this now. These are billion-dollar industries, and at some point our government is going to have to say, we're not gonna be nice, we're not gonna play the game where we just treat this like a little scurby. No, this is a full-fledged invasion. This is a massive national security threat, and what that requires is us to treat it like one, which means we're not playing the nice guy, good cop, bad cop, we're bad cop, and we're shooting down everything we see, and we're stopping every little bit, and we're going into Mexico if need be and saying, You're not doing it, you're not stopping them. So I guess we have to, because your cops are bought and paid for, ours are not. We're going after them wherever they are, wherever they're hiding. We're going to find them, and we're going to go after them. These are terrorists, these are mega corporation terrorists, some of the worst we've had to deal with, and we have to deal with them accordingly. That means legislature, that means judiciary, that means law enforcement all across the board, aimed at the singular goal of dismantling these multi-billion dollar corporations that are taking advantage of our country. Now, with that being said, when we get back from the break, we're talking about Fort Bend County. Um, there's been an update coming out of Fort Bend County, particularly in regards to Commissioner's Court. You guys might remember uh that a couple of the commissioners, based on the advice, the terrible advice of the county attorney, said that they were not going to serve under Daniel Wong any longer because they felt like, well, now that the case has been dropped, um, he is not the legitimate Fort Bend County judge, and it should be the senior person that just so happens to be one of them. In commissioner's court, well, as we heard last week, a judge has now come out and has said, no, no, no, Daniel Wong is. Like it's now been officially ruled on by a judge. Now, of course, we don't expect Democrats to be nice and to say, okay, we were wrong and apologize. They're gonna say, Well, we didn't know, and come back and say, we'll work, but begrudgingly. No, it's even worse than that. We'll talk about it after the break. If you would like to text into the show this Friday, you can text in at 713-779-5978. One more time. 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 with the rest of that story in Fort Bend County after the break. Stick around.
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Fort Bend Tax Rate Standoff
SPEAKER_15Fortman County Commissioner's Court moved forward yesterday with a proposed property tax rate, but the meeting again took place without two commissioners, both Democrats. That would be Dexter McCoy and Grady Prestige. Now, County Judge Daniel Wong and Republican Commissioners Andy Myers and Vincent Morales were present for the meeting. McCoy and Prestige have been absent from a commissioner's court since June, citing concerns over Wong's authority to continue serving as county judge. The dispute centers on Wong's appointment earlier this year after former county judge KP George was suspended following his felony conviction. The Fort Man County attorney has argued that Wong's temporary appointment ended June 17th after the underlying civil case that led to his appointment was dismissed. Wong and his attorneys disagreed. However, all of that is rather moot because on August 6th, District Judge Edward Kredick ruled that Wong could remain in the position while the legal dispute continues, according to reporting, not only from like one, but from numerous outlets. And so it's a little bit confusing because he is in the position. Right? And then by the way, that is what we would call a preliminary injunction of sorts, because it means that the litigation is allowed to continue in terms of who is the county judge, but in the meantime, he is. And so they should say, in the meantime, we will serve under you, if begrudgingly. But no, they've not shown up since June. Despite the August 6th ruling, they didn't show up. And so McCoy and Preston said they will not participate in commissioner's court while Wong continues to preside, even though a judge said he could. McCoy says the county attorney advised him that Wong does not have the legal authority to continue. Preston has argued that votes taken with Wong presiding could later be challenged. They can't, by the way. The commissioner to propose that Wong recuse himself from the budget and tax rate votes allowing the four elected commissioners to participate. Basically, it's it's a bullying tactic. They're not saying it's up to you. It's not up to you. It's up to you two, actually. Because a judge has ruled that he is currently the presiding county judge. He's doing his job as the presiding county judge, which is showing up to run commissioners' court. The only people not doing their jobs are the two Democrat commissioners. It's not that they say, well, we'll show up if you leave, so you have the obligation. No, the onus is on you. I'm doing the job that I've been appointed to legitimately and legally. You're the ones who said, when you uh ran for election, I will show up to commissioner's court and you're not showing up. Right. When and in this case, the standoff generally would just be drama, uh, but it's significant in this case because state law requires at least four members of commissioner's court to adopt the county's tax rate. Unlike a lot of things, that requires four people there. And the county's budget is built, the entire budget is built around that tax rate. And so county officials have warned that failing to adopt the proposed rate could affect employees' cost of living increases and delay major infrastructure projects. And so yesterday's vote was to propose the tax rate, which they can do, and they did do, but the actual tax rate and budget votes where they finalize that uh are scheduled to come before commissioners' court on September 10th. And they cannot do that if at least four commissioners or at least four total show up, which means at least one of those commissioners would have to. And so McCoy says he and pressed it will not return if Wong continues participating. Uh Wong says, meanwhile, that he is going to attend. Uh his spokesman said that Wong will be there because the county attorney says that he is the interim Fort Bend County judge. And so the next commissioner's court meeting is scheduled uh here in a couple weeks on August 27th. That was two weeks from yesterday, with the final budget and tax rate vote scheduled for September 10th, just a couple weeks after that. Regardless of any of that, this is what I'm talking about. This this insistent desire to move the blame to anybody else because you don't like somebody. This sort of blatant tribalism that is consistently on display in modern politics. It's irrelevant that a judge has ruled. It's irrelevant that the law has currently spoken and is gonna, of course, keep going through litigation to to make a final determination, but in the meantime, it's that he is the presiding county judge. And for you to try to pretend like your lack of showing up is his fault. No, it's one person, it it's two people's fault that two people aren't showing up, and it's each their own individual person. You two are at fault for this. He is legally the presiding county judge. And maybe you could look and say they'll be challenged later, whatever. I don't think they can be, because for now he is legitimately until the litigation goes through. If the litigation went through and they said no, he's not, I don't think you can go back and say, well, he did these things. Yeah, but the judge ruled that he was the legitimate piece during that time. So those are all legitimate, you know, charges, those are all legitimate, you know, bills and ordinances and passages in the meantime. But it's just so insane to me. Because we know that this is going to hurt the employees of Fortman County, we know this is gonna hurt the infrastructure projects, this is gonna hurt the people, uh that they're paying the commissioners who aren't showing up for work, who are using this time just to campaign. Right? They're doing all these things. And what I and I know that Daniel Wong is not primarily a politician, which is which is a good thing. It's kind of a catch-22, though, it's kind of like Paxton. He's so busy helping Fort Bank County and no one's paying attention that he's not campaigning enough. And he needs to be out there saying, hey, I'm doing all these things and we can't pass the rate because they won't show up. A judge has ruled that right now I am the presiding county judge. Litigation is continuing to determine the final result of that, but right now I am. And we're trying to propass the tax rate. That's my job. I would not be doing my job if I refuse to show up to get other people to. I'm not playing this sort of negotiation game. I'm called to show up while I'm presiding county judge. So I'm going to. And they're not showing up. So when the budget doesn't go through, and we have a sort of countywide shutdown where employees aren't being paid, and we're not able to pass our infrastructure projects and not able to get moving on our things that people desire and need, it is the fault of the two commissioners who aren't showing up. And you should not vote for either you should you should not vote for anyone that would do that, which just so happens to be one of my opponents. That would be a great campaign piece. It would look phenomenal. He's doing his job. They aren't. You're paying them to do nothing. And and that's wrong, and it's disgusting, and it's perverted. Um, with that being said, to wrap up the show when we get back, Governor Abbott has now fully outlined the 2027 legislative agenda. That includes closed primaries, data center rules, expanded school choice. Um, he also kind of went after James Talarico. We'll talk about all of that when we get back. If you would like to text in, the number is 713-779-5978. For a reminder, this is your last opportunity during the show if you want to text in. Before we wrap up and for the week, if you wanted to text in anything this week and you just haven't, this is your last chance. Again, that is 713-779-KYST. You're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. I'm your host, Michael Wilson. And Lord willing to be right back with the rest of that update after this very short break to wrap up the show today and this week. So stick around and we'll talk soon.
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Abbott’s 2027 Agenda And Closing
SPEAKER_15So it says, quote, what I know is that we're going to be able to go into this next session and pass laws making sure that we have closed primaries in the state of Texas, that we will set up a structure so that only Republicans are going to get to vote for Republicans. And so, of course, it was the question asked why the government should determine how political parties conduct their primaries. And Abbott said Republicans should ultimately determine participation in their own elections, but cautioned that any new system must clearly establish who qualifies as a Republican. He said, And there are ways in which a primary can utterly fail if it's not structured properly. And that's why we need everybody weighing in and being thoughtful about the process. So we're not setting up a system that's doomed to fail, but setting up a system that's prepared to succeed. On data centers, he said the fact of the matter is that what these data centers have realized, and that's the standards I've laid down, are standards that they know they now need to live up to. They saw one thing that I did, and that is I was involved in shutting down a data center that was trying to go up in East Texas because they were not in compliance with these standards. And it was after that when I made clear what these standards were, and because they were able to shut down one in the past, they know all these data centers have to comply with this if they expect to exist in the state of Texas. And so there's tax incentives under scrutiny, but that's that's on his priority list. Um on school choice, he said this is a very positive development. For one, it's positive because we have parents so engaged in this that they are robustly applying for school choice to Texas, and that is a signal that legislators need to know that we need to step up and fund it even more and expand the program. And hopefully, when we get into and through the next session, we will double the program from what its current breadth is. He also talked about James Talarico. He said, Talarico is the farthest left communist Marxist candidate we've ever seen in the state of Texas. He's Mom Donnie without the beard and is what we're dealing with. He's for open borders, for eliminating prisons. I've never seen any candidate twist the Bible as much as he has. I think it's blasphemy what he's doing, which is, by the way, just true. He said, but let's be clear about what he's voted on. Putting aside the crazy, wacky things you guys have been talking about, what he said, he voted to defund the police, he voted against border security, he voted in support of transgender surgery for minors, he voted in support of a state income tax, he voted for boys and girls sports. And so the contrast between common sense values in the city of Texas and his crazy ideology that the communists are trying to impose has never been clearer. And so that's his priorities and the stuff that Abbott said. We don't have time to go over it because the show is wrapping up, but I want to thank everyone for tuning in, texting in, being a part of the show. It's been an absolute pleasure to speak with you guys today, and of course, all this week. Lord will be back on Monday. In the meantime, I want to urge each and every one of you to enjoy your Friday. Enjoy your weekend, and Godspeed, ladies and gentlemen. God speed