PM Show Hr 1 | Att. Gen. Ken Paxton on the SAVE Act

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It's that time. Lock and load. The Michael Bari Weiss Show is on the air. I'm a whole lawyer. So I will potentially go back to practice in law. I'm engaged in conversations with some law firms about what that would look like. I want to be semi-flexible as it relates to the practice of law. because I absolutely want to get to this book. We found the country and educate people about what immigrants do for this country or the fact that we are a country of immigrants. The fact is ain't none of y'all trying to go and farm right now. Baby, you're not getting this vote. You're talking about getting rid of like the classification for nooses in a time in which we have seen these random black bodies be strung up down south. Baby. Baby, because these people, they are crazy because they always talk about how Christian they is. Yeah, I don't know how. them on that side are getting divorced because they getting caught up sleeping with their co-workers, staffers, interns, all the things. Yeah, you ain't got to believe me. Just go Google. You'll find some of it. I'm telling you, and the wives is being messy and petty. They putting it in the divorce. I'm like, ooh, that's got to be true because your lawyer would know that they're going to lose it. Maybe diversity is not our strength. Maybe we've lost vast swaths. of entire populations. Not all blacks, but certainly a subset. What does it say about Jasmine Crockett who ran for the United States Senate? She was a congressman in Texas. Hadn't been there for long. Launches a Senate bid. And she had come to some national prominence, which, you know, when you arrive in Congress, you're one of 435. She was a young lady who happened to be black, who was very proud that she had a law degree, and she wanted to be taken seriously. But she figured out pretty quickly that if you act a fool, you're going to get a lot more attention. Then if you ask thoughtful, measured questions and make thoughtful measured observations. So she started getting booked for speeches. And it's kind of like a comedian. You've got to find your schick, got to find your voice. Sam Kinnison had a unique voice. He drew upon his days as a pastor. And he was outlandish. He was scream. Bobcat Goldthwaite created his own kind of schick. Richard Pryor would cuss in a way that we'd never seen anyone cuss. Lenny Bruce would do things that no one had ever seen before. Josh Blue, because he had a serious medical issue, it wasn't a stick. That's kind of who and what he is. But it made him different.

Well, in politics, it's the same. It's really more about how much attention you're garnering than your ability to roll up your sleeves and try to solve a problem, especially as a young member of Congress, you're one out of 435 in a seniority-based institution in the minority party. You don't have your stock in trade is your ability to get on TV. And your ability to get on TV is acting absolutely foolish. And unfortunately, if you're a black woman in 2026, you're going to get a lot more attention if you're talking like some woman that's angry that they didn't put her ketchup in her fast food order. You know, threatening the staff and... Calling everyone racist and screaming and hollering. I don't know if y'all think I'm a slave. I mean, this becomes what gets rewarded. The stock in trade, the currency for politicians is clout. How many people click on your, on sites when you speak? How many people show up when you're in an event? How many people hoot and holler at you? And so, unfortunately, the incentive becomes, You act this way. And so these people will do anything for clout. Because that's what raises the money. That's what gets you the speaking gigs. That's what gets you notice. That's what gets you recognized by the public. There are good people in Congress who are doing good work. But that's not interesting. That doesn't make the evening news. You need to be ridiculous. It's the era of TikTok and social media. It's the era of fights breaking out and silliness and nonsense and shootings. And so in this environment, a Jasmine Crockett was thriving until she ran for the United States Senate. And she failed because white liberals will always pick a white liberal over a black candidate, but they don't want the blacks to know that. So James Talarico, this disquestionably, very effeminate, white, liberal beats her. So what is she to do now? What is she to do now? Well, she's headed back to her roots, practicing law. And who knows what kind of lawyer she's going to be because, but she made it to the House of... She made it to Congress with no credentials. Maybe there's a law firm out there just chomping at the bit, dying to hire her. In a quiet downtown office, three distinguished attorneys prepare to interview their most unusual candidate yet. All right, bring her in. Ms. Jasmine Crockett, thank you for coming. I'm Howard Toe. These are my partners, Larry Gett and Lynette Queen. Let's start simple. What qualifies you to practice law at our firm? I'm a former congresswoman. Interesting. And how would you handle a complex civil litigation case? White man bad. Right. Okay. But what about client relations? How do you reassure a nervous client? I'm a former congresswoman. She hasn't actually answered anything. No, but she's very consistent. Final question. Why do you want to work at our firm? White man, bad.

She's perfect. Finally, someone who can simplify our messaging. Gentlemen, I say we make her the face of the fur. When you don't have a case, have a catchphrase. At ghetto and queen, white man bad. Results not guaranteed. You is the ghetto queen. Loud and proud, always running things. You is the ghetto. snapping fingers, rolling ice in her of the street. The SAVE Act is all about ensuring the integrity of our elections. There are real concerns over voter fraud and a number of different aspects of that. But one of those issues is that the entire world wants to jigger our elections. And if we're not careful, they'll get away with it. The newest case by our Attorney General Ken Paxton, a lawsuit that he has filed against Act Blue attempts to address just that. So as I understand it, the cases about Act Blue deceiving Americans by lying about their donation processes. Can you explain that? Yeah, so we sued them under our deceptive trade practices. We can't, the federal election commission is responsible for suing them over the actual violation of federal law, which is allowing for foreigners to invest. So we know just through our own actions, we've actually donated to Act Blue online to find out if they were telling the truth to Congress about how their systems work. And we found out their systems do not work. They do not prevent fraud. They do not prevent people from using other people's names. They do not prevent foreign donations. There's really virtually, there's very little protection against fraud. So there's no doubt that. Foreign donations can and have been made, and they continue to be made. And that's why Act Blue has been so successful at funding all these liberal democratic campaigns. And that becomes the muscle behind it. They came to my attention in 2018 with their support for Beto O'Rourke. And they did manage to take over the Harris County government. That's the year that Lina Hidalgo was swept in. How influential is Act Blue and how much money are we talking about it? Do you have a sense of how much money they could potentially be fraudulently pulling in? So we don't know the exact numbers because this is obviously a new lawsuit, but since 2004, it's been about 16 billion to our knowledge total.

So how much of that is foreign, how much of that is, you know, other people that didn't really donate? All we know is that it has happened to what extent we don't know what the numbers are. We will find that up in litigation as we go through discovery and then we'll show damages. So it's definitely a problem for our elections in Texas and really for the entire country. Mark Lanier had a case recently against Big Tech that he was successful on. You've taken on Big Tech and their data privacy violations. Do you think we've made progress there for the consumer? Oh, there's no doubt. I mean, he worked on a case for us and is still working on a case against Google. We had some successes against Google. I think we've settled three lawsuits where they acknowledge that they needed to stop doing certain things like tracking people and they said they were not tracking them. We successfully sued Facebook and settle with them for stealing people's information, their faces and their voices without telling them in violation of state law. So we've sued other... companies that are using tech to track people, for instance, General Motors that we believe is using insurance information without telling consumers that sign up, that their driving records being sent to insurance companies to jack up their insurance rate. So yes, we truly believe, and we certainly sued many Chinese companies that we believe are tracking consumers in various ways and then using that money to send to the Chinese companies party. You've also, Attorney General Ken Paxton is our guest at the great state of Texas. You've also taken on Big Pharma, sort of for a number of different things on behalf of Texas and American patients. Do you think that's made a difference to their practices? I definitely put some on notice that somebody's watching, and I do think it starts to impact their practices. Have we fully gone through the gamut of lawsuits to stop? What I consider deceptive trade practices, no. And that's why we always have to be vigilant and why our job is really never done and why the Texas Attorney General position is so important. Because for the most part, individuals don't have the resources or the ability to take on these huge companies. It's challenging enough for the state of Texas, given the magnitude of these enterprises that generate, you know, over 100, some of them are $100 billion in profit a year. So. You have to have a pretty large organization one that's well equipped to take on these companies. And that's exactly what we do in the state of Texas. It's frustrating because as a consumer or a pay, you look at what big pharma has done and what big tech has done in the last few years alone, things that have come to our knowledge as American citizens. And it's the sort of thing that I think most people would not have expected me. We all have a healthy cynicism, but it's not until these cases are brought that you begin to realize that these are some awful human beings. This goes beyond just trying to be a successful and profitable business.

And I think that will be true in the United States Senate as well. Thanks for being our guest, Attorney General Ken Paxton. Well, thanks, Michael. If you're right, this act, loose stuff, he could have done something like he didn't. So here we are. Here we are. We could get into illegal immigration another day and some of the things he did there. Attorney General Ken Paxton. Our little podcast is the podcast that could, the little engine that could. You know, when we started, it was just a simple rebroadcast of our show. and they would take it over and put it on this new podcast platform. I didn't think anything of it. Before long, we started hearing from people all over the country where we don't air on the radio in the town where they are. And I would say, well, how are you hearing us? Did you find us online? And they'd say, no, I was on a podcast or, as happens for more than anything else. Somebody sent me an email and say, hey, check out this podcast. He's from Houston, talks a lot about Texas, but talks about national stuff, and I think you'll like him. And that's how our little podcast grew to be one of the top in the country. It's pretty cool. And so we have show sponsors on the radio. We have show sponsors on the podcast. One of them's a good buddy of mine. His name is Ray Breyers. And he owns The Pipyard Inc. And what he does on his cell phone is people call and go, hey, I got a 118 mile pipeline going through Louisiana into Mississippi. And he says, all right, let me go check it out. And he goes out, he rips that pipe out of the ground all the way. And he goes off and sells that to somebody else who needs the pipe. It's a beautiful process. And people call him all from our show, from our podcast, all over the country, the pipeyard, inc.com. 409-788 pipe. Talk to Ray, the pipe man, my good buddy. I'm on testosterone, and I encourage everybody else to be on testosterone. If you're below 350 on your testosterone level, Very good chance your insurance will pay for you to have it. You know why? There's a lot of studies that say it's very good for you, not just your sex life, but your energy, your strength, all sorts of good things. Do your own research. Don't trust me, but you should do your research, and you should get your blood panels checked, and they'll do all that for you at synergenics. Go to fixmylowt.com. Fix my lowtie.com. Whether you write a check every month or it's on direct deposit or auto pay, You write a check to your insurance company for a reason. You could have spent that money on anything else. You made a good decision to hedge against bad things happen. And then it did. Hurricane, windstorm damage, hail damage, fire, smoke, water damage. And that insurance company, 10 states away, denied your claim, and they should not have, and you know it. Go to claimdenied.com. It's the Chad T. Wilson Law firm, and they will fight for you. Claimdenied.com. 713-226,000. 71322-6,000. It is 420 in case you were wondering. What would will he do? New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani released a video where he was giddy to announce that he will in fact be taxing the rich as he promised in his campaign. When I ran for mayor, I said I was going to tax the rich. Well, today we're taxing there. I'm thrilled to announce who secured a piettaire tax, the first in New York's history. This is an annual fee. Stop that for a moment. A pitaire means a little piece of earth. It's a French term. And London, New York, Paris, New Delhi, that matter. People will buy a little piece of earth, a little tiny apartment in major cities where they will keep some clothes.

and, you know, their cold weather clothes and some comfortable clothes and their umbrella and the things that a woman will keep her makeup, maybe a heavy coat for the winter. And the idea is, you know, you're going to go there a time or two per year. It's either you, it's either you individually or a couple. And whether you're going there, let's say Paris or fashion week or for a culinary event that you go to once a year, sure, there are hotels, but it gives you an opportunity with your little place to go there, just, you know, be quiet, be not noticed. Famous and rich people will have a pietere in major cities like this where they're going to travel. And the reason is they don't want to be seen by the public. They want to slip in and out and have the anonymity of their place. So when Zohran Mamdani says he's going to tax these piettares, what he's really doing is saying I'm going to tax the celebrities, the fabulously rich. who come through town and stay there. A pieditere is almost never a full-time residence. So what he's really doing without saying it is what we call in public policy a tax on foreigners. There's a community right in the middle of Houston called Southside Place. This is common across the country, but it's called Southside Place. And what it really is, is a little municipality of million dollar and up homes right in the middle of Houston where they are their own municipality so they get to have their own police, their own fire, their own services without having to have all the welfare programs that the city of Houston has because they're a tiny little city, if you will, municipality of, I don't know, 100 homes. I don't know, maybe 200 homes. It's really, really tiny. And what they do is they engage in what's known as a tax on foreigners. If you live in Southside, they will send you a sticker. And it goes on your back windshield. And so when you drive through Southside Place, the community where you live, they won't pull you over with the tic-y-tack fowls because then you'd complain. And you live there. But if you don't have a Southside Place sticker, because you're an electrical company or a plumbing company or you're visiting a friend, they'll pull you over for the most ticky-tack fouls. In fact, there's a street called Bel Air slash Holcomb. It changes at about this point. And there's at the intersection of Wesleyan slash Cellulink and Bel Air slash Holcomb. There's a little cut, little shade tree right in the middle of the Esplanade. And they will park under there. And the speed limit is an unreasonable 30 miles an hour there because you're coming from roads that have a much bigger capacity and you're driving faster. And they just sit there and just pop people all day long. And they tick at you. And let's say you're coming into the med center because this is pretty close to the medical center.

So let's say you're in town coming in, you're driving in from an hour outside of town or two, and you're driving down Holcomb, Bel Air, and they pull you over for a speeding ticket because you were doing 36 and a 30. Ticky tack foul. And so they, you know, whatever the expense is, 150 bucks. And you get a court date to come back and fight this. And you know the chances that you're going to get off or low. So you just mail in a check because you don't want a warrant issued for your, yeah, you're going through cancer treatment and they basically just find you $150. It's a tax on foreigners, which doesn't mean from another country. In public policy conversations, there are lots of ways that people tax those who can't vote them out for doing it. These are airport fees, airport exchange fees, because you're coming in and leaving, locals don't pay those. There are lots of ways that municipalities do this. So what Zohran Mamdani is actually doing in a covert manner is he's taxing people who can't punish him for this tax. And he is taxing to rich. So these Pietitaires, they're not in Nagato. They're not in the public housing projects. Remember, New York has rent control. And the folks at Freakonomics did a really, really deep dive, revealing study on rent control in New York. And what they found was that these units never turn over. because you got people paying, say, $200 for an apartment in New York. So they don't ever move. They just keep the $200. They may rent it to someone else because there's a shortage of units in New York. They may rent it to someone else for $3,000 a month and keep it in their name. Well, why is there a shortage? Because there's no financial incentive to building more units because they're rent-controlled. So with that shortage, you choke off the availability of units and you drive up the values. So now there becomes, which is what always happens with overregulation, a black market. So you've got people who are paying somebody, you know, three, four, five thousand dollars a month for a rent controlled unit in New York and that person won't sell it to them. because they want to hold on to it. It's valuable. And it's an artificial price because the government has artificially restricted it. So now what he's done is punish rich people, which Democrats love to do. And so this is wonderful. What's amazing is how many rich people actually fund Democrats. And part of the mindset is, well, I'm the attic I can hide in when the revolution occurs, or this is the attic I can hide in. Part of it is guilt over having made money. But at the end of the day, you understand you can only outrun the bear compared to your neighbor for so long. He's coming for you. So for those people who are being taxed who voted for Zohran Mamdani, reap the whirlwind, sheriff. You got exactly what he promised you he was going to do.

Washington Post has a headline today. He spreads hate online and fans pay him hundreds of thousands of dollars. And then the subheading says the far right influencer Nick Fuentes. has pocketed roughly $900,000 from, quote, fanatical, end quote, donors since the start of last year. Some superfans see him as part of their families. I don't know what the Nick Fuentes phenomenon is because I don't go that deep into all this. I'm still not sure what a griper is. People keep using that term. There are far left and far right and branches of each part of those, and it's not a subject of interest to me. There are listeners of our show who are desperate for me to be interested in someone they follow. Because that person thinks the Holocaust doesn't exist or didn't happen. Or that person thinks the Jews have taken over everything. Or that person thinks that every white person is in the clan. Or that every white person is part of conspiracy to kill black people. Or it's on and on and on. And it doesn't interest me. If it interested me, I would dig into it. But it doesn't. I also understand that there are pockets of people who really enjoy all sorts of things. And my theory, the only point I have to make on the subject is this. Be consistent. I understand that Nick Fuentes is hated by American Jews and probably Israelis and Benjamin Netanyahu and, okay, fine. I don't know what all he says. I know he came to my attention when Tucker Carlson interviewed him. And then Tucker Carlson was criticized heavily for having, quote, platformed him. Now, my problem with this is the criticism of someone platforming someone. If you don't know, The criticism is based in the idea that you shouldn't let someone state their opinion on your show because to do so gives them legitimacy. That is the most insulting thing you can say to the American people. You're saying that people shouldn't be exposed to what you call hate because then they'll get a lot of fans. Is that what you think of the American people? But if, in fact, that's true, do you apply the same rules to Tennessee, whatever his name is? There's a lot of black hate out there, a lot. There are people who write books, give speeches, serve as consultants, or guests on CNN.

who are absolutely awfully hateful toward white people. Some of them who've said they'd like to see people murdered, tortured, you name it. But you don't refer to them as spreading hate online. I find that interesting. Why is that? When you hear a reference to where someone is on the political spectrum, you hear far right. You never hear far left. Is there no such thing as far left? You don't hear Zohran Mamdani described as far left. You don't hear his views and his opinions described as far left. You don't hear threats that we're going to outnumber the whites and kill them. Or we're going to take all the money from the whites. Or we're going to do this to Americans. The white Americans. We're going to overpower them. You don't hear that. I wonder why that is. You don't hear reference to spreading hate online from Muslims. There are actually men of the cloth, clerics, who are preaching the most hateful language about Christians and white Americans and Jews. on American soil in what passes for a religious institution. But you don't hear them being referred to as agents of hate. The fact is, I think you could go back to the beginning of time. And I think people will gravitate toward people who have charisma or people who take extreme views. or people who say provocative things. I think that precedes Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism. I think that people are naturally attracted to loud, confident voices. I just find it troubling in this country that the leftist American meeting, and they are. feel the desperate need to marginalize one extreme type of group while platforming or ignoring, because sometimes that's the better thing you can do for them, the Black Lives Matter folks, for instance, or the Antifa folks, for instance. And I think what happens, if we're going to talk about bearing responsibility, People want Tucker Carlson to bear responsibility for whatever Nick Fuentes says because he platformed him. Well, who bears responsibility for platforming or otherwise covering for the extreme left? I think what is happening in America is there has been a rise in attraction. to alternative positions on the right, far right, because there has been such an effort to silence those folks. A lot of people are of the opinion in America's better off if most people are clumped somewhere in the middle. Okay, if you view that as stability, you have to understand that attempting to silence.

What are otherwise viewed as extreme positions does not actually smother that fire. It is oxygen for it. It's the Streisand effect. Going back to the early 2000s, there was a photograph by a man named Kenneth Edelman. And he had shown a picture attempting to document coastal erosion in California. And it happened to be a picture of Barbara Streisand's house. Nobody knew that. And that photo showed her residence, which was on the cliff top in Malibu there. And so her people lost their minds and sued so that that picture could not be shown. It didn't identify as being her home. They sued. And in the course of the case, People said, oh, it's a picture of her home. Let's see where it is. And they tracked down where her home was. So her home, which had been almost completely unknown to the public, became known to everyone because she attempted to suppress it. She'd have been better off ignoring it. This came to be known as the Streisand effect. So I will tell you, the harder the Washington Post works to silence Nick Fuentes or anybody else on that extreme. The more oxygen you give them, the bigger you make them. That's the stricent effect. Try to suppress people, try to silence people, try to censor people. You will only cause them to rear up. You will only cause people to gravitate to them because anything you're trying to silence must be pretty good. Ray Breyer's is the pipe man. He owns Pipeyard Inc. And they buy and sell pipe all day long. And I am shocked how much business we've been able to send him across the country. Entire pipelines going across three different states where they need to get the pipe pulled out. He's like, I'll pull the pipe out, I'll sell the pipe. People buying pipe, people selling pipe. The people that buy pipe are environmental managers, pipeline project managers, somebody that's got an abandoned pipeline that's been removed. They want... The Pipyard Inc. Compliance and Regulatory folks. I want to get those pipes out of there. Selling pipe, folks that need carbon steel pipe, the Pipyard Inc. stocks everything you need, any kind of pipe. There is stuff that people call him for, industrial stuff, that he doesn't even have, and he tracks it down. He's working his phone, and his team is working their phones all day long. He's got a yard, they've got pipe. But... They are working the phones to get stuff for people all day long. 409-788 pipe. 409-78 pipe. I'm on testosterone, and I encourage everybody else to be on testosterone. If you're below 350 on your testosterone level, a very good chance your insurance will pay for you to have it. You know why? There's a lot of studies that say it's very good for you, not just your sex life, but your energy, your strength, all sorts of good things. Do your own research. Don't trust me. But you should do your research, and you should get your blood panels checked, and they'll do all that for you at synergenics. Go to fixmylowt.com. Fix my lowt.com. Whether you write a check every month or it's on direct deposit or auto pay, you write a check to your insurance company for a reason. You could have spent that money on anything else. You made a good decision to hedge against bad things happen, and then it did.

Hurricane, windstorm damage, hail damage, fire, smoke, water damage. And that insurance company, 10 states away, denied your claim, and they should not have, and you know it. Go to claimdenied.com. It's the Chad T. Wilson Law firm, and they will fight for you. Claimdenied.com. 713-226,000. 7132-2-2-6,000.