In this lively episode, Dana takes on controversial topics with her characteristic vigor. From analyzing outrageously entertaining Florida Man headlines to addressing Texas’s change of heart on THC edibles, Dana doesn’t hold back. As she critiques policy shifts and challenges political decisions, you’ll find yourself questioning what it truly means to serve the community with fairness and justice.
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It’s his life mission to make bad decisions. It’s time for Florida Man.
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All right, so first up. Florida man. I mean, we got some good Florida man stories with the animal welfare thing that got signed in. A booze cruise boat captain rescued a drowning Florida man before then belting out karaoke. Kane, did you see the image on this? It’s my dream. It’s a floating tiki thing.
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I know. That’s the future of the show, by the way.
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Shenanigans. If it’s not called shenanigans, I don’t want to be part of it. So what happened? The boat operates off the coast of Punta Gorda, Florida. And they were they had a booze cruise and a guy was fighting to stay afloat in the water. And it wasn’t a drunk guy who fell aboard. He spilled over a railing, hit a rock trying to reach the water. He was bleeding pretty badly. He was like drowning, actively drowning. And so the crew and the passengers came together. They got him out of the water, tended him with their booze cruise first aid kit, and were able to get him into get him to first responders. But they karaoke all the way back to shore, which that’s the most Florida thing I think I’ve ever heard in my life. God love it. So good job, Florida dudes. Let’s see. I’m going to do the ambulance one. Sorry. The Florida man in an SUV gets sandwiched between two ambulances. So one ambulance was carrying a person to the hospital and a Florida driver, he was in his SUV and it got smashed between two ambulances as one of them was carrying somebody up to the emergency room. It wasn’t caused by the Florida man, though. It was actually caused by the ambulance driver. One of the ambulance drivers hit the back of a Nissan and then sent it into the back of another ambulance and police responded. It was driven by a 23-year-old man. The person in the And the ambulance was, I think, a 51-year-old. So anyway, long story short, the force of the crash sent the SUV into the back of the first ambulance. Glass debris everywhere. I mean, it wrecked both vehicles, totaled both vehicles. Thankfully, nobody was, like, seriously injured. The Nissan driver was taken to the local hospital for evaluation. Even the people in the ambulance didn’t get hurt. So that’s pretty…
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So they didn’t send an ambulance for the two ambulances?
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Yeah, you would have to send an ambulance for the two ambulances. Yeah, you’re right. You’re right there. That’s correct. That is correct. Let’s see. I’ve got to talk about this one. A Florida man says that he wants to smash you to pieces to a Coral Springs man in a fight over puppies. I mean, who wouldn’t fight over puppies? That’s the bigger question. But anyway, what ended up happening is Coral Springs, Florida, this story, stop with your stupid pop-ups. A dispute over family puppies escalated into a violent outburst that led to the arrest of a Coral Springs man, Andre Barone. He pushed his wife into a banister, spat in her face, and threatened to hit her with a chair. It was like his WWE. The fight, police said, began after the couple’s daughter became upset and said she no longer wanted to be part of the family anymore. And I guess it was all over puppies. Somebody injured their thumb, chairs at doors, blah, blah, blah, fear, blah, blah, blah. So he she hit back, but both were treated. He was detained, released on bond with no contact order issued over puppies. Like, I’m sorry. Get get your life together. If your daughter says that, tell her to grow up, shut up and behave. I’m done with this. You don’t have to descend into this madness. Good heavens. So let’s see. We’ve got a man kidnapped his ex-girlfriend after placing a tracking device in her car and shoving her in the trunk. Well, she’s in your trunk. You don’t know any of the tracking device.
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I mean, that’s not how it went.
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I know you guys have heard about this. Grading for equity. Have you guys heard about grading for equity? So this is one of the things that they’re looking at doing in San Francisco schools to. They got such backlash on it that they had to start reversing it. They were launching a pilot program that was going to grade. It was going to reform how they grade. Right. It was a pilot program that was going to reform how they graded. And this was per Newsweek. It was a sweeping change. It was going to be implemented this fall. Now, when this first came out, let me just indicate to you or explain how hot the pushback was. Because it was, what’s today’s date? Today’s what, the 29th? This was two days ago. So they announced that they were going to implement the changes to their grading system, and it was going to be this fall. And, you know, you have your traditional methods. I think what is a grading scale typically? It’s like 90 to 100 is A, right?
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80 to 89 is B. It’s not how it’s always been, but roughly.
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I don’t understand why you would be like, well, 89 to whatever. No, no, no. The 80s were Bs, the 90s were As, the 70s were Cs, the 60s were Ds, and the 50s were Fs, right? That’s how it is.
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The A plus and the A minuses too, yeah.
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Well, that’s towards the end of the scale. So like A plus was like, I think, 95 and up. And A was 95, like in the mid-range. Well, I think it was actually 97 and up was A plus. Or 98 up was A plus. And mid-range was A. And then A minus was lower into the 90s. Same thing with B and all that. I don’t know why we had to make it stupid. So anyway, you have San Francisco public high schools. They were going to replace these methods, right? Get this, get this, get this. They were going to allow students to pass with scores as low as 41%.
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41%.
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And they called it their, quote, grading for equity push. For real. And they attempted a pilot of this. in 2023 at, this is in Bay Area, Dublin Unified School. They were going to attempt a pilot program of this. Well, they did. And they removed zeros for missing assignments. Oh my gosh, I’m gonna throw myself off my chair under the floor. They would literally just put zeros for missed, they would remove zeros for missed assignments and then they would give a minimum, Oh, my gosh. A minimum of 50 percent for any reasonably attempted work. So if it looked like they kind of attempted it reasonably, you couldn’t give them anything lower than a 50. Now, San Francisco, right? You would think of all the places where this would fly, it’d be San Francisco. But I think even nut jobs that vote for needles and feces have limits. The plan, apparently, so one of the first things that went wrong with this plan is that the superintendent, they didn’t do what they were supposed to do, which was to subject it to a public vote by the Board of Education. So that’s number one. This affected like 10,000 some odd students. It also got rid of homework, classroom participation that has nothing to do with your final grade. Homework had nothing to do with your final grade. Classroom participation had nothing to do with your final grade. And you basically got your grade on one final exam and you could take it as many times as you need to. Attendance didn’t affect your grade. Punctuality didn’t affect your grade. Not even kidding. This is what and this is what they tried to say. This was Joe Feldman. It was a local nonprofit called that was behind grading for equity. And this is what he wrote, quote, If our grading practices don’t change, the achievement and opportunity gaps will remain for the most vulnerable students. If we are truly dedicated to equity, you know, we’ve got it. I mean, I’m just I’m shocked by this. So wait a minute. It is that I think the phrase coined was the bigotry of lowered expectations. If there is a deficiency with any demo for achievement, then why do you not look at those administrating it? And why do you immediately assume that the students are stupid and thus can’t meet expectations? higher bar and so you have to lower the bar because you’re just assuming they’re too stupid to actually do better that is so unbelievably offensive and it’s bigoted it’s bigoted so like you I’m just I’m amazed at this so anyway long story short the parents lost they minds as you as a parent would right And they’ve already now started canceling it. It’s been two days. They canceled it. They said you’re diluting academic standards. Let me ask you guys this. You’re in a doctor’s office. Do you want to have your guts operated on by a doctor that was graded for equity or graded for merit?
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Absolutely merit.
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Why are you such a racist? This is where DEI gets you. this is where DEI gets you. Wait, is it more important to have a doctor who’s a doctor and got their PhD and can operate on guts because of merit and the application of skills in the classroom, residency, et cetera? Or do you want someone who is qualified to operate your guts solely based upon what genitals they pretend to have? You see what I’m saying? Like, you see where this goes? Okay. They were going to roll this out literally this fall. And, uh, I just I’m just shocked. They actually slammed it in San Francisco. They stopped it in San Francisco. I guess they were just they were. That’s crazy even for them. Now, Lorraine says her county does. This is nuts. Listen to this. Lorraine says her county does the same thing. That 50 percent is the lowest grade a kid can get. Are you kidding me? You can’t get a zero. She said teachers have to give makeup worksheets that allowed the kid to pass the class at the last minute. Some kids need a flunk. In our house, we were sink or swim. In our house, if you have an 85, that’s an F. I consider anything 85 below an F. Don’t care because, you know, if you’re involved, you know what your kids put into it. There’s no reason. There’s no reason for you to waste the God given intelligence you have and not be your best and apply your hardest. I told my kids life is an employer. What you put into it is what you get out of it. If you don’t want to put into it anything, then you’re not going to get nothing out of it. And you would rather grind hard for a short period of time in your youth and then reap the dividends later on in life. Set yourself up for success. You don’t have to worry about stuff when you’re 50 years old. I’m just, I can’t believe how, like she’s in Maryland, so that, why does that not shock me? But in San Francisco, they ended it. In Maryland, they didn’t. And she said that’s why so many colleges now, they have to offer remedial reading and math. No, we were hardcore. I don’t do the, I’ll just do your best. No, I don’t do that. I know what you can do. I’m your mother. I grew you in my belly. I gave birth to you. I homeschooled you. I raised you. I know exactly what you’re capable of. So we don’t do this just to your best because I know a lot of times your best ain’t your best. I know what your best is. It’s my job. That’s my job as a parent. I know what your best is. So I want to see your best. Not what you say your best is. I want to see your best. So, no, we don’t do this. We’ve like dumbed everything down in terms of education. This is terrifying to think about because, you know, one day when I’m old and decrepit and I don’t want to work anymore or I’m not fit for camera or whatever, you know, I would like to just like live the good life. Can La Dolce Vita. I would like to live the good life. You know, I like to relax and, you know, do whatever it is those people do when they get to be that age and chill and have dogs and go feed the birds and whatever.
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I think that’s probably the most common.
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But we’re not going to be able to do that if we don’t have anybody who can’t operate on our guts because it’s all this equity grading and we don’t got no doctors and we don’t have nobody that can run anything. Oh, my gosh. It’s just a nightmare. This is scary. This stuff is scary. And I don’t know what they think. They’re not serving students that way. A lot of people don’t like, they don’t like the adversity that that sometimes can create. the trial of having to try your hardest and go through it. It’s our friends over at Kel-Tec, the new Gen 3 Sub 2K, specifically from Kel-Tec, made in America, American parts, American labor. And this is the new third gen. It folds fast. Optics stay in place. You don’t have to detach anything. And you can deploy it super fast, zeroed and ready. And It’s available now in 10mm, which is pretty awesome. Got all kinds of calibers, a variety, but it’s more versatile now, even with the new 10mm chambering. Single twist and fold motion of that rotating forend, that’s how it folds quickly in half, optics and all, and just as quickly deploys, zeroed, ready to rock. Folds down to 16 1⁄2 inches for easy storage and transport. Takes Glock mags. You got a simple, reliable blowback design, so you have ease of maintenance, consistent performance, internal buffer for softer recoil, lighter 5-pound trigger pull. You have that integrated M-LOK. You get the rails up top for accessories. Ideal for literally anything. Kel-Tec makes everything right here in the U.S. of A. Innovation. Performance. Kel-Tec. Learn more at Kel-TecWeapons.com. Again, it’s the Gen 3 Sub 2K 10mm KELTECWeapons.com. Tell them Dana sent you.
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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick Five.
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Ah, Kentucky. Well, a bear fell through the attic and was found sitting on a stove in a Kentucky home, literally just sitting on the stovetop. Wildlife officials had to help remove the black bear, found just chilling in the kitchen. It was a very clumsy break-in. Game warden responded to a call early, early morning inside of this Kentucky home. They had to get Fish and Wildlife out there. The bear, I mean, literally sitting right on top of the stove, like fell through the seat, like sitting right there on top of the stove, just chilling. Like cooking itself or something. What are you doing, bear? They were able to successfully get the bear out. Skittles removed color additives from candies. I didn’t even know that they had these in there. What was one of the… Red 40. Yeah, but they also had like titanium something or other. Titanium dioxide. Isn’t that in sunscreen? I’m positive that’s in sunscreen.
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It sounds like it would be.
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I’m pretty sure it is.
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The dioxide point.
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It brightens the colors of the candy. It’s been banned over in Europe forever. Now, of all the things to be like Europe on, I don’t know why the left never took up the healthier food option factor, but what of, you know. Let’s see. A massive glacier collapse triggered a landslide that buried a Swiss village. It’s in Blatten, Switzerland. They were evacuated earlier this month. A nearby glacier was on the brink of collapse, and they said that another one might become unstable. But it happens from time to time, sending rock, mud, and ice crashing into the village of Platen. And it’s the Birch Glacier is what it is. They had some cracks in the ice. Bears attack you in every country, apparently. A bear in Kentucky, a bear in Slovenia. A bear attacked a woman and left her in critical condition. It was on the edge of a forest. I’m not even going to pronounce. And it retreated into the forest after the attack. And they’ve advised residents to stay away from the forest and be cautious. I swear there’s like an M. Night Shyamalan or whatever movie about this. Can you imagine? Don’t go into the woods. Say it’s a bear. He eats you. Facebook, Apple, Google, Netflix, all hit by a massive login and password data leak. What is it? How many millions of passwords? Oh, my. So probably ours. I think you got to change everything. It’s annoying.
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You kind of have to do that regularly anyway.
SPEAKER 09 :
You know, like, I know, but it’s still annoying.
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But you have grown adults who are using these products too. Is there a way to do this where grown adults could still have access to these products? We don’t want adults having this either. What are you, crazy? You want to go home and eat a bag of this tonight? See if you’re here tomorrow? This is what we focus on kids. Are you kidding me? Because that’s where they built the shops. But adults are buying this stuff too. Make no mistake. We want to protect the 20 and the 30 and the 40 and the 50 year olds too. We don’t want anybody buying anything off the shelf that could kill them or ruin their mental state for the rest of their lives. What? The young man who was 22, who stepped in front of a train after he ate some of this junk, he wasn’t a kid. He was an adult. That’s crazy talk. That’s the kind of talk, the reason why we’re here. Dan Patrick is a freak.
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Dan Patrick, you are a redacted moron. You are an absolute, you are an absolute dick. Completely. That is one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard. Take that R after your name. Take it off. Welcome back to the program. I hate this issue because it makes me sound like Cheech and Chong. I don’t consume it. I just hate authoritarians with the burning passion of a thousand sons. Also, this is the same formula formulate garbage argument that gun control uses. They just switch out guns and then they use THC. Welcome back to the program. Why am I mad? Because you have red state Republicans that are no different from Democrats. So that’s a lieutenant governor, Dan Patrick, who’s soft on guns, too. For the most part. He’s been on the show and we’ve talked. We’ve had some discussions about it. This is dumb. It’s like hearing Joe Biden talk about guns. So what Texas did, and I guess they’re sending it to Greg Abbott’s desk, and we’re watching you, Greg Abbott, is they want to ban something that they legalized and then they decided they don’t want to keep it legal anymore. And it’s the THC stuff. And this is where Cain’s going to have to weigh in on some of it. We’re not talking about smoking the joints. OK, that’s not what this says. The bill has nothing to do with that. It is not about smoking the joints. It’s not about that. It is not a bill that says thou can’t take thy joints in the public and smoke thy joints. That’s not what this is. It doesn’t do any of that. It doesn’t allow that. It doesn’t legalize that. It doesn’t. This has to do. What do you call it? Like the consumables came like the I don’t even know what all I only heard it talked about.
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Yeah, edibles.
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I don’t even know what all is edible. I literally don’t even know. I just know that there are a lot of veterans that do it. We’ve got a lot of people in our family that are served. And we have a family member that didn’t and just enjoys the edible stuff. And there’s nothing wrong with them. Listening to Dan Patrick talk, they ate one of these marijuana bears and they died. They had a marijuana gummy and it made them dumb and it fried their brain and it’s covered with scar tissue now.
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But his example wasn’t even a direct like he ate it and died from it. He ate it and then walked in front of a train and then the train killed him. So that’s his justification.
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But isn’t the amount… So this is what everybody who knows way much more about this tells me. Because I’ve asked a lot of people. The amount of the THC that’s in this stuff is already super highly regulated. And even however much you consume, it’s all super highly regulated. then your dude was on something else, apparently. Because that is not enough, apparently, to do it.
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I’m no doctor, but I think you would get diabetes first before you got lethally high.
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We have a family member I don’t want to out anybody because now they could go to jail for a year if Greg Abbott signs this. Can you imagine that? You have a gummy bear that has like the THC in it. You literally will go to jail for a year. Not even exaggerating. That’s literally, we wanted property tax relief, but the loser Republicans in Austin who I’m not voting for anymore. I’m not voting for another Texas Republican. I’m done. I don’t, I don’t give a right to, I don’t care. I’m not voting for anymore. You didn’t give me my property tax relief. I don’t have enough fingers on my hands to tell you how I feel about that. So long story short, One of our we were at dinner and I saw a family member that we were having dinner with take something out of their bag. Well, her. OK, as a woman. And I was like, what is that? Because I don’t know. I just never I have wine and then I play video games and that’s what I do. Right. And I’m like, what’s that? I don’t know. God help me. I just had no idea. I’m, I’m like a Martian with this stuff. She was like, Oh, it’s my gummy. And it, and I looked at it and I swear to you, I could see the sugar crystals on it. It was like, and I’m like that. I’m like, how do you know that that you’re just not getting a sugar rush from that? And she was like, and I, she’s not a felon. She’s not, you know, it’s not killing her. She’s not walking in front of trains. Cause she’s probably, you know, not, not any, nothing like that. But you’re right. I’m like, and I asked her, I was like, well, how much sugar is in there? I can’t even remember. She looked at a bag of them. She was looked at the bag. And I just remember it was like an ungodly amount of sugar. It was like equal to sour patch kids. It was like having a South, like the amount of sugar was equal to that of a sour patch kid. I’m like, well, why does it have so much sugar? And she’s like, oh, cause it tastes really bitter. And they, and she’s like, that’s why it has like the sugar and stuff on it. And I’m like, the sugar is probably bad for you, but okay, you know, each to their own. But you have Dan Patrick out here, Lieutenant Governor of Texas, like, if you have one of the marijuana, and that’s not even THC, again, no one’s out there smoking pot. It’s a tightly, all the propaganda that you’ve been hearing about it is absolute BS. I’ve been getting emails from people who are trying to argue me away from this, and you have no, clearly they have no idea what they’re talking about. And one of them copied and pasted another stupid clueless editorial and then tried to pass it off as their own email. And I’m like, I really want to out you right now, but I’m not going to. Long story short, it’s literally everything that he’s saying is such a lie. It’s like, I mean, it makes James James Comey honest. That’s how bad it is.
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And what I heard him say was just like, we don’t want adults to make their own decisions. We don’t want that to happen. We, the state of Texas, are going to stop adults from making their own decisions. That’s what I heard.
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This is what my friend David Burge goes. Texas has a projected $25 billion projected budget surplus. And this blinking third rate clown televangelist wants to spend it all on a weed gummy SWAT patrol to put Willie Nelson behind bars. Lower my property taxes, says every single Texan. The legislature, reefer madness.
SPEAKER 07 :
I can reach out to Dan Patrick’s office if you want me to.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, let’s reach out to Dan Patrick’s office. Let’s see if we can get him on, like, pronto. He’s probably not going to. I’m mad at him. I am super mad at him. Absolutely. I’m going to read him the riot act. I’m not even going to pretend that I’m not and then do it later when he’s on air. I’m just going to be very honest about it right now. This is one of the stupidest things I’ve ever seen. It’s dumb. It really is dumb. Their whole reason, and this is what gets me with this whole issue. They made it legal and thousands of stores were selling it to adults. And they were only selling it and they had only opened because the legislature, the state government had legalized it. And now they want to criminalize it after legalizing it. It’s like a pistol brace, you know. We’re going to legalize it, says the ATF. Yeah, you can totally do it. Oh, no, no, wait, no, no. We’re not going to anymore. You’re a felon. It’s the same thing. I mean, it is for people who say that it’s addictive. I don’t know what you’re smoking, but that’s not anything that I’ve read. We’re going to disagree on it. You’re not going to convince me. We very much disagree with it about this in my house. I just don’t like the government telling you what to do and what not to do. And I got really militaristic about this after covid. when I was told I had to take shots. And I, I mean, I literally, I miss, I turned down a major professional opportunity in New York city. I had to go to New York. They wanted me to go to New York for a meeting. This was like, you know, right when lockdown started lifting and I was told that I had to show proof of vaccination to even get in the building for the meeting that these people had requested and they were paying for it. They were flying me out there and doing all this stuff and they wanted to have this big meeting and there was going to be like a contract offer and all of this stuff. I just had to show proof of vaccination and I said no. I’m not doing it. I’m not doing it. I mean, hell, I probably couldn’t even get in a cab and gotten there. And I had said, I’m like, I’d already had it. I already had that, which I did. I had coronavirus. I have natural immunity. That apparently didn’t exist conveniently for that. Now, I had to show proof of this. So I get really. Really, really hardcore about authoritarian forcing of stuff like this. But this idea that people, no one’s selling it to kids. Kids are not buying this any more than they’re buying alcohol or cigarettes. And I’m going to tell you something. And I made mention of this on X. Parent, you know, maybe parent. That’s the thing. This is stupid. This is like the gun ban argument. Kids are not buying this any more than alcohol or cigarettes or anything else. And if they are, do your job as a parent and parent instead of idiotically expanding government to pick up your slack as a deadbeat parent. harsh words and i mean every syllable oh i’ve raised kids my kids are actually straight edge they don’t even have well one of them’s not even old enough yet but my my oldest is and he doesn’t even drink i have no idea how that happened he just doesn’t it’s not like we’re like big partiers or anything like that like we’ll have wine with dinner but he just doesn’t want to and that’s totally fine but you know parent it’s not the government’s responsibility to make sure that your kid’s out not out there doing something they’re not supposed to be doing I love all of these. Yes, I’m a conservative. I’m limited government. Oh, but only so much. I need the government to raise my kid for me. I don’t have to worry about my kids doing that because I parented. So, no. I mean, this is just, I find it asinine. And I’m mad because they could have, Cain, how many sessions have they had now to do something, anything about property taxes?
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, my gosh. They’ve had plenty of opportunity. They’ve only put forth, like, Democrat causes for some reason and ignored all the important Republican ones.
SPEAKER 09 :
This whole thing enrages me. And to hear them talk about it, it is so cringe. It is so cringe. You have alcohol that kills more people than THC. But, you know, I guess big alcohol is paying them too much to not ban that. It’s like a form of prohibition. It absolutely is. All they’re going to do is just empower the cartels that they claim to be so hardcore in fighting. All they’re going to do is empower the cartels and they’re going to create a whole black market. a whole black market. That’s exactly what it is. I mean, this is, there are so many people when I have talked about this that say, yes, my wife has a condition. She doesn’t want to take opioids. So she will use THC or I have, you know, veterans that will say, you know, I do this, you know, I used it temporarily when I came back, et cetera. I didn’t want to go on like, what is it? Let’s, let’s, let’s a pro Lexapro, whatever that is. I don’t even know. It’s it’s I just I this is not limited government and it’s not conservative at all. This is tipper gore reefer madness nonsense. That’s exactly what this is. And anyone who supported this that calls himself a Republican in Texas, you should change your party affiliation. Change your party affiliation. Any one of these people, the next time any one of them requests came to come on the show, we need to make sure I’m going to see how they voted on this and where they are on property taxes. And then I’m going to publicly shame them and their comm staff on social media for daring to beg for airtime after you screwed over Texas voters like this. So I’m done with you. Consider me an enemy.
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