Okay,

you know, I guess.

fine you know they need money greases the wheels of politics but you know i'm surprised that he even went there on that because he's been running around the state of texas you know since the primary was over trying to unsay everything he's ever said yeah you know six genders no no no no no i did my math wrong i'm sorry one plus one equal two my bad i mean it's he is trying to walk back every weird thing he's ever said because now he's in the general and he's afraid that he's going to have those things hung around his neck.

And finally, Paxton is getting in the race via a whole bunch of PAC money.

If my radio station is any indication, the Texas PAC just dropped a money bomb on us.

For Paxton here in the general.

And, you know, maybe Paxton will start making Tallarica own some of these things.

So it's all a scam.

[chuckles]

Yeah, there is, there he was speaking in Laredo, Texas, uh, earlier this week, and that sets up our discussion here in the monologue.

Um, nowhere was socialist tried... uh, socialism tried for longer or on a larger scale than in the Soviet Union.

For those of us who came of age when the Soviet Union held much of post-war Europe captive, and who later watched that empire collapse under the weight of its own failures, it is a little surprising and a little jarring to see socialism rapidly gaining influence to the point of perhaps even taking over the Democratic Party.

We thought socialism as a concept was dead.

Try as they did, the propaganda-obsessed leaders of the Soviet Union could not hide their problems, nor could they succeed in making their population look prosperous and happy in the eyes of the world.

We could all see it.

Or trades are not, you know, don't look down on them, you know?

I mean, that's ultimately what put Trump over the top, is the Charles Barkleys of the world who actually were saying things like, "Democrats only care about Black people every four years." Like, that's a rough soundbite, but it's accurate, you know? And it's-

No, it's 100% accurate.

And, and, and, and Charles Barkley said it, and it resonated.

You know, and then I go all the way to, back to when, in, in the 2000, um, um, 16 election, when w- uh, Trump was in somewhere in Michigan and said to a largely Black audience, "What the hell do you have to lose?"

They're like, "Oh, how dare he talk to them that way." I'm like, no, no, the reason that statement b- was passable, because of how much you've failed this community of voters.

Yeah, it resonated among the, um, among the people that were there because they- They've been promised every four years for the past 60 that the Democrats are gonna solve their problems, and the problems still are there, and the Democrats are still running on them, 'cause the Democrats don't wanna solve the problem, as, you know, they wanna run on the problem.

Does that mean the Democrats are racist? What does that mean? I don't even know what that means.

Well, we're s- we're all so proud of our state's Jazzy, because she is such a state treasure.

And I, you, it's amazing.

You can take anything that happens to a Democrat, and they can hang it on racist.

Go ahead

... and, but Mission, Mission Regional Medical Center, there's very clear, they said, "Well, there's a demand for birth tourism.

Let's meet it." I mean, God bless them, they're capitalists.

But, you know, but there's a demand for crack, that doesn't mean you wanna be in the business.

[laughs]

It's great stuff.

No, really, you know, the, these, these affluent, college-educated, white liberals have convinced themselves that America's a terrible place.

While they pull a $1,000, uh, phone out of their pockets and, um, a- and communicate with it.

You know, where, where else in the world, I mean, does everybody have a $1,000 electronic device in their pocket?

Are you guys doing it right in Texas?

Yeah, we're gonna do it right in Texas.

It's gonna be hot here, but we're gonna do it right.

Yeah.

And does anybody...

There's n- not gonna be a perfect deal with Iran, but does anybody with a shred of honesty believe that Trump won't do what he says he will do and drop bombs on their heads?

... 'cause we've never seen the second guy, so I don't know.

You know, and, and the, and, and Bush Desert Storm and Biden and O- and Obama JCPOA and Biden Afghanistan, none of them had the benefit of having bombed Iran i- i- into g- to their knees.

I mean-

You're listening to Fox Across America with Jimmy Failla.

A very inventive, troubled comedian.

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How are the local sports fans, uh, handling this series right now?

Well, I, you know, they're, they're...

It, it's, in my immediate part of the world, I'm sitting here in Dallas, uh, where, you know, the Dallas Mavericks, who do, who amount to nothing, uh, currently in the NBA.

So, you know, I think what we have here is people just want the Texas team to win.

Um, you know-

But you won an

award for this coverage, did you not? We did.

I mean, it's very, very good news.

Texas Broadcast News Awards, we actually won three awards for our coverage of the election of...

Pope Leo, live from St. Peter's Square in Rome.

It was really gratifying to do that work and have it recognized.

But you, I should have put you on the entry because that moment on the air, one of those was breaking coverage.

I do know that.

That-

And, and I, because I'm an idiot and left your name off the entry, but really in truth, you and I won for, um, uh, breaking news, Texas Broadcast News Awards, when we were on the air last May the 7th, um, telling the world that we had an American Pope

Yeah.

And, and but the pope said, you know, the pope said that, "Peace comes not through weapons but through dialogue." Well, okay.

Um, dialogue didn't save the world from Adolf Hitler.

That took weapons.

When is the media gonna learn to split the difference here and just, I don't know, maybe Iran responded to those threats, made a deal, and we've got two weeks off now.

Maybe so.

You know, and maybe things are working out.

You know, there's a possibility.

What if things worked out? 'Cause that's the worst possible outcome for these guys, because then they'd have to give Trump credit, and they could never do that.

Ever.

So, you know, so the, if things working out, where Tr- where Iran is eliminated as a nuclear threat, as a, as a proxy terror threat, as a threat to civilization, as a threat to the region, where, where- Iran is effectively neutralized and, and peace breaks out, for, for the left, that's a bad thing.

That's the worst thing that could happen.

[laughs]

You know, the, the, really, w- w- it was gonna get so cold that food wouldn't be able to grow, and we'd all starve, and, you know, there was all this...

It was just terrible.

They were telling us this stuff, you know? And, uh, th- next thing you know, we're talking about global warming.

That didn't pan out.

It became climate change, and because you can do that, well, you're, you're good either way.

We have more of a polar ice cap than we did 10 years ago.

Th- that's true.

Mm-hmm.

That's enough.

That's all, all, that's all he has to do.

It doesn't make any difference what he believes.

Doesn't make any difference how crazy his policy positions are.

And her media consumption is such that she doesn't know how crazy his policy positions are.

And I don't know, Jimmy, is that 35 or 45% of the people that are gonna vote in Texas? Maybe.

Now we're voting for less than that.

Yep

... that did not keep a single one of its promises and did not make ...

The Affordable Care Act made care unaffordable, and the Democrats are totally to blame for it, and they want to try to make it Trump's fault, and the, and they want to make it anybody's fault but their own.

But that was what the whole piece was.

It's a problem of their own creation-

Wow.

Massive campus they're putting in.

They'll have more employees in Dallas than they'll have in New York.