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Wesley Hunt: “In Houston, Texas, where a lot of the affluent areas see…”

Featuring: Wesley Hunt, Republican | U.S. House, Texas, District 38

oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net)

Published October 15, 2020 | Video Starts at 10:06

It's ridiculous. Yeah. You see what Charles Barkley said a few weeks back? Yeah. I don't know if you followed that. Yeah. And his logic is actually quite sound, especially even In Houston, Texas, where a lot of the affluent areas see, they have their own police that are paid for by their own taxes. that they pay in their own communities. So if you talk about defunding the police, again, you're not taking away the safety of those communities. (10:06–10:14)

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Asserts that affluent areas in Houston have their own police funded by local taxes.

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“My dad did 23 years in the army, retired as a lieutenant colonel.”
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“My sister went to West Point in my family first, so she's 10 years older than me, did 23 years active duty.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 01:07-01:15
“I went to West Point and my family second.”
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“Graduated West Point, class of 2004, flew Apaches in Iraq for eight, was actually active duty eight years.”
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“Did 55 combat air missions in Baghdad.”
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“Did two tours of duty in Saudi Arabia as a diplomatic liaison officer.”
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“My brother...also went to West Point, and he did five years in the Navy.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 01:42-01:52
“There's about 60 years worth of military service just in my immediate family.”
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“My mom...stood at home for two months in 2006 while I was flying combat air missions in Baghdad.”
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“My sister was doing intel in the Green Zone, and my brother was in the Arabian Gulf on a destroyer for two months at the same time.”
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“My great, great grandfather was a slave. His name was Silas Crawford, Born on Rose Down Plantation just north of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 03:48-03:57
“Three of his great great grandchildren all attended West Point.”
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“I earned three master's degrees from Cornell University.”
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“Brother went to Harvard.”
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“Sister has her advanced degree in applied mathematics.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 04:06-04:10
“There are actually millions of interactions with our citizens every year.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 06:16-06:21
“The people who end up suffering the most when you defund the police are actually minority communities.”
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“A lot of minority communities, they don't want to defund the police.”
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“After the George Floyd event, [I] actually went down to the Houston Police union to go talk to some of the police officers. 100% of them…”
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“If you talk about defunding the police, again, you're not taking away the safety of those [affluent] communities. You're taking away the…”
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“I think the way that we responded to this is, is a bit overkill because I think there is a way for us to make sure that we keep the people…”
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“That's the remedy to this whole thing is the more testing we can do, the better.”
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“The CDC came out and they said, you know, 6% of those who did pass from COVID were Covid only deaths.”
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“We even have [an] obesity issue that we even have in America.”
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“I've read some studies, you've even heard about cancer. People that have an optimistic outlook actually have a higher chance of beating…”
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“To improve your body, to be able to fight and, and ward off these kinds of viruses and diseases.”
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“COVID has changed the way that we do things dramatically.”
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“I announced about a year and a half ago.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 29:33-29:36
“What's really lacking because of COVID is the latter, the person to person stuff.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 29:52-29:57
“Houston is known as the energy capital of the world.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 33:34-33:38
“Congressional District 7, where I am running in, [is] the Energy District of the world.”
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“I'm also not a big fan of the government saying when an industry is supposed to end.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 37:49-37:55
“Nothing's being proposed that's rational and reasonable that's actually addressing global warming.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 38:15-38:26
“If we don't get India and China and Russia and Africa and South America to reduce their carbon footprint with us, you can literally destroy…”
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“China and India are building four coal plants per month.”
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“We're energy independent. Why? Because of fracking.”
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“Joe Biden and Kamala Harris actually want to do away with [fracking] by 2035 as well.”
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“We are reducing our carbon footprint because of fracking, because natural gas burns cleaner.”
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“When we kill Qasem Soleimani outside of Baghdad Airport... We don't have to ask them for oil.”
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“There's roughly 1 billion... vehicles in the world today that are gas powered.”
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“Over the course of the next 20 years, the world is going to add another billion vehicles. And of that billion, 750 million of them are going…”
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“You can't fuel [Apache helicopters, Destroyers, and F22s] on solar and wind.”
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“Joe Biden talks about... being carbon neutral by 2035, which effectively is an end to the oil and gas industry in the United States.”
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“Another one is fracking bans.”
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“The oil and gas industry has been hit pretty hard [in Houston, Texas] due to a shortage of demand.”
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“We would actually only be able to fuel less than, last I read, 8% of [the United States's] energy demands if we were able to completely…”
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“From a nuclear standpoint, I also think that [nuclear power has] gotten demonized as well because of some incidences.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 47:11-47:17
“We need to realize that from a technological standpoint, we are certainly further along than we were before.”
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“We can easily be [able to extract carbon from the atmosphere] in the not so distant future.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 48:32-48:36
“It completely leaves out the other countries. It completely leaves out the globe.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 52:42-52:47
“There is a clear decline in Mr. Biden.”
oe Rogan Experience #1550 - Wesley Hunt pt 1(mp3cut.net) | Uploaded October 15, 2020 | 54:29-54:29
“The reason why Kamala Harris was chosen was probably to make sure that someone of a sounder mind can actually run the country.”
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“You do understand those values [of Kamala Harris] are going to be the issues that are going to be running Texas as well.”
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“My dad was born in 1949.”
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“The Civil Rights act was passed in 1964.”
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“People like Dan Crenshaw are people that want to make sure that we bring this pendulum back this way.”
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“Dan Crenshaw could be the president.”
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“August Pfluger is running for [a] seat up in District 11. He's an Air Force Academy guy. F22 pilot.”
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“You're coming here because of low taxes and low regulation.”
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“We believe in allowing and empowering the citizens to make your own personal, informed decisions for your own life.”
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“The state's actually buckshot only.”
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