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May 13, 2024 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Central Texas county candidate Butch Carmack interviewed by Mike Adams...
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Hello and welcome.
This is Mike Adams with Brighteon.com and we're about to do something different.
We're going to be interviewing a man who is running for a county commissioner in Bastrop County, Texas, which is part of Central Texas.
It's a very popular area.
It's just east of the new Tesla facility that's on the east side of Austin.
And Butch Carmack is a regular guy.
He's been a business owner in the county for many years.
And it turns out I saw his name when I was voting in the primaries.
And I recognized it because I'd heard that he was the pro-freedom candidate, that he didn't want to raise taxes.
And he wanted to preserve the values of rural Texas.
And so I voted for him in the primary.
And then I decided to reach out to him and invite him in for an interview.
I normally don't cover local politics, but I actually wanted to interview Butch Carmack because I wanted to find out what's happening at the local county level in terms of emergency preparedness for global events or national events.
Things like the dollar collapse scenario or power grid failures, which we experienced in Texas not too many years ago because of a cold wave.
or emergency preparedness.
Like in Central Texas, we had the Lost Pines fires in 2011 that were rather devastating.
But how strong is county-level resilience?
How strong are local communities?
And I know this interview doesn't answer this question for every county all across America, but it's a nice view into the kind of thinking and action that's happening at the local level.
Now, this man, Butch Carmack, he's not a professional politician.
So don't expect him to talk like one.
He doesn't.
He's not a spin doctor.
He's not a public relations professional.
He doesn't give professional speeches.
He's a regular guy.
Who owned retail establishments, built them up, worked long hours in the county.
And by the way, this interview is the first time that I met him in person.
I did not know him before this.
But he's got a website called Butch4BastropCounty.com where the 4 is the numeral 4.
So Butch4BastropCounty.com.
Now, just to give you a heads up, if you're listening from outside the state of Texas, Yes, he talks Texan.
Yes.
That should be expected.
He's been in the county 21 years.
He's a third generation Texan.
He loves Texas.
He loves Texas values.
He loves family values and so on.
And I asked him questions about transgenderism and things like that.
And we had a good round of laughter on that.
But I just want you to understand.
This is not a man who is a polished speaker, so lend him a little bit of understanding on that front.
And also, just a warning up front, I'm pretty sure I'm the only one who ever asks him the questions that you're about to hear.
These are not questions that you normally get asked in local elections.
You know, the kinds of questions I ask are like, hey, what happens when the dollar collapses?
How will people get food and fuel in the county?
How will you keep the roads safe?
What are you going to do about the zombie wave of refugees fleeing Austin as the city collapses?
Questions like that, right?
You're not going to get these questions anywhere else, and certainly not from mainstream media.
But I think it's important to ask these questions.
And I think that wherever you are, in America or elsewhere, it's good to ask your local representatives these very questions.
And to ask them where they stand on these issues.
Like, what about, you know, gay pornography books in the children's library at the public school?
What are they going to do about that?
Are they going to take a stand for protecting children from transgenderism grooming?
Or are they just going to, you know, lay back and, oh, love wins at any age, you know, that kind of thing?
Yeah.
Well, that's not Butch, by the way.
Butch is not an LGBT advocate.
He's a pro-family values candidate, and he says he won't raise taxes.
But I did stump him on a couple of questions.
So, you know, just things, again, that he had not perhaps heard before.
But I know now he's thinking about some of these things and what really matters, I think, locally is do you have people with values?
Do you have people who were raised right, who know the difference between right and wrong, and who are willing to take a stand against evil and actually protect families, protect children, protect the values that not only made America great, but that also make Texas great today.
Values like freedom and liberty, entrepreneurism, and also taking responsibility for the direction of our communities.
So, with that said, give the man a little bit of patience here, because this is probably the craziest interview that he's ever endured, I would imagine.
But it's Butch Carmack for Bastrop County Commissioner Precinct 1.
So, give it a listen.
Welcome to today's interview here on Brighteon.com.
I'm Mike Adams, the founder of Brighteon.
As you know, we're located in central Texas.
And I have with me in studio today, first time guest, a man who's running for county commissioner for the county of Bastrop, Texas, which is located just east of Austin.
And it's a rural county that has a lot of great patriotic Americans.
And our guest today is going to tell us about, well, issues affecting not just Texas, but the whole country.
So welcome, Mr.
Carmack, Butch Carmack.
It's great to have you on the show today.
Thank you, sir.
Thank you.
Appreciate you having me.
And in full disclosure, I did vote for you, by the way, in the primaries not long ago.
And I didn't even know you, but I knew what you stood for, so that's why I voted for you.
And your website is, what is it, butch4bastropcounty.com?
Yep.
With the numeral 4.
Number 4.
Okay, we're showing that here.
Butch4BastropCounty.com.
All right, so Butch, welcome.
Great to have you here.
You met my dog.
He liked you, too.
So, so far, so good.
Judge of character, man.
Yeah, exactly.
So, let's just start with basics.
Tell us a little bit about yourself and also the role of county commissioner and so why you're running, who you are and why you're running.
Well, I'm third-generation Texan, you know, so I bleed Texas, basically.
Been here in Bastrop for 22 years, small business owner here.
When our current county commissioner decided he was going to retire, I told him probably two years ago, I'm going to do this because I was afraid if I didn't, you know, what we might get.
In that office and in our county, running our county, you know.
So I decided I'd step up and go for it.
Well, thank you for stepping up.
We need real people to step up here instead of all these sort of foreign-funded imposters who don't have the values that we cherish here in Texas.
Right, right.
Exactly.
Yeah.
All about preserving what we've got.
So what does county commissioner do, really, in this county?
You know, the state of Texas does not set your taxes.
Your taxes are set by your city council, your school board, and your county commissioner.
So setting the tax rate is one thing the county commissioner does.
Then they're in charge of the infrastructure and their precinct for the county.
And that includes the roads and the buildings and the employees and, you know, all that kind of thing.
So a lot of budgetary considerations, a lot of accounting.
Yeah, absolutely.
Can the county print endless money like the federal government?
I don't think so.
If they could, that would be a nightmare.
So, does the county, can the county borrow money, issue bonds?
They can't do bonds, yeah.
They can go out for bonds and, gosh dang it, my mind went blank.
Grants.
Yeah.
Grants from the federal government?
Right.
Or from the state?
From the state, I believe.
Okay.
And...
You know, they do get money to fund some of their projects that way, you know, as well.
Of course, on the bond, obviously, you've got to hold an election to pass a bond.
That would be something the people would decide on, you know.
Absolutely.
Tell our audience about what are your values.
And I mean, don't hold back because today people want to know what are the principles of those that they're voting for or against.
What do you stand for?
What about core values like, you know, I mean, let's talk about the Bill of Rights.
You know, where do you stand?
First Amendment, Second Amendment, Fourth Amendment.
You know, I think everybody's going to stand for that Second Amendment, that come and take it mentality.
Yeah.
I think...
We're all armed here, of course, as you can imagine.
Paxton told the president yesterday to come and take it on something.
He sued them over some legislation they're trying to pass on that Second Amendment.
Yes.
Absolutely.
What about the First Amendment?
God bless, you know...
Absolutely.
Freedom of speech?
Yeah.
Yep.
Well, but I mean, freedom of speech for everybody?
Or freedom of speech just for people with whom we agree?
Well, the Constitution doesn't say just a few people.
It says for everybody.
Well, I'm glad to hear that, because, of course, I'm a free speech advocate as well, and a Second Amendment advocate, Fourth Amendment advocate.
But I feel like...
At the county level, it's really critical to have good local law enforcement, to have a good local economy.
Right.
But we're being dictated to by the Biden regime.
Yep.
Constantly trying to override our values in force, for example, you know, cross-dressing men into women's restrooms, things like that.
Right.
Where do you stand on those kinds of federal overreach issues?
Well, you know, Everybody wants less government in their life, and we have, you know, as far as men dressing up like women and going into the, you know, women's bathroom, yeah, small town USA, that's not going to get you, that might get you in trouble, you know?
As a matter of fact, I think over in Smithville, Jamboree last month, some guy got in trouble over there for looking at a little girl inappropriately, and I think they ejected him out of that festival over there.
Is that right?
Really?
Yeah.
No, I didn't hear about that.
Yeah.
But that's kind of core value.
You know, small town.
Yeah.
You protect your women, and you protect your, you know, there's one person that you lay your life down for.
Yeah, yeah.
In my house, she's a little blonde-headed girl about yay big.
Yeah.
I'm right there with you on that.
But how does that translate into funding and local legislation and local law enforcement?
For example, let me ask you, so as a county commissioner, you would be coordinating with local law enforcement and sheriffs and city cops.
Right.
How does that work?
What's your relationship as a county commissioner with law enforcement?
I've been actually...
Our sheriff and I have had many, many conversations on this subject and getting him more funding.
And one of the things that I've been talking to our sheriff recently is about...
We have become like a training facility.
We are training these officers and they are going off to other...
Better paying jobs someplace, so it's just like a revolving door.
Oh, so the local county is spending the money to take young men mostly, get them trained up, get them law enforcement experience, and then they just shop their resume around to other cities.
Right.
I see.
So, officer retention.
Would be a huge thing to start working on and getting...
And then, of course, there's some infrastructure stuff with our county jail and stuff.
Some issues that need to be up, you know.
Well, I know for a fact that the jail in Bastrop County is completely full.
Yeah.
And I also know for a fact that the reason that more violent illegals aren't being arrested is because the jails are full and because the federal government won't take those illegals off the hands of local law enforcement and process them and deport them.
So how does a county solve that problem?
If the federal government...
Doesn't want illegals to be kicked out of the country.
They want them here causing violence.
Absolutely.
Right?
How do we address that?
You know, I don't know.
How do you say this without being really ugly?
If it was me, I'd send them all out of the county.
Send them to freaking Austin, you know.
They seem to want them.
Well, Governor Abbott is doing that at the state level, right?
So he's taking illegals in Texas and shipping them off to Chicago and Denver, and then Denver's having this massive crisis.
Oh, hey, I thought you were a sanctuary city, Denver.
Aren't you getting what you asked for?
And now they're complaining about it.
Yeah, it's fine as long as they don't have to deal with it.
Right, exactly.
But you're saying maybe that could be done on a county level?
You know, I would be in favor of it.
If that's something that's legal or not, or obviously there's money in the budget for that, you know, which there's not.
But, you know, right now it's just an idea or a wish list, you know.
I was struck by an illegal driver on the highway a few years back, rear-ended.
No insurance, no driver's license, nothing could be done about it.
You should be able to press charges against that guy.
Yes.
You know?
Yes.
He just destroyed your property and now you've got to pay your deductible.
That's right.
And this guy just got free.
That's right.
That's exactly what happened.
I mean, in my opinion, you should be able to press charges against him.
Yes.
So you would support local law enforcement getting more aggressive against illegals who are violating driving laws.
Absolutely.
And I think that the Bastrop County Sheriff also supports that effort as well.
Right.
What about the new Texas law that allows...
Law enforcement in Texas to arrest and deport illegals based on trespassing.
Now, I know the DOJ is suing Texas over that law.
I know that AG Ken Paxton is working to defend that law.
Thank God for Ken Paxton, right?
What's your take on it as a potential county commissioner?
You know, I'm 100% with it.
They should be arrested and deported.
They don't belong here.
They're coming here illegally.
They're not going through the correct process to get here.
You know, they're sneaking across and Now we're supposed to pay for them once they get here?
No.
They need to go back.
Yes.
I'm just wondering why doesn't Texas just put them on a bus and ship them back and tell the federal government to go pound sand?
I'm not sure what to do.
I mean, what are you going to do?
Instead of sending them to Chicago, send them right back across the border.
Exactly.
The border is closer.
Yeah.
Probably cost less money.
Probably cost less money, yeah.
Exactly.
The Mexican government probably don't want them back over there.
Well, and some of them are from, you know, prisons in Venezuela.
Right.
But I'm also wondering, you know, what about at some point you're going to have more, I would think, attempted squatters, like illegals coming in and trying to take over people's homes when they're off on a vacation or something?
Right, yep.
That's going to happen.
There needs to be a law protecting people's homes against that kind of thing, whereas there's not right now.
Well, I believe in Texas there is.
I mean, that law, you know, exists, but I think it comes down to local law enforcement to...
Is that what it is?
Because I see it on the news all the time where somebody's gone in somebody's house and broke the back door open and squatted, you know, and then they can't get them out.
Well, I know in Arizona, the governor who was not elected but installed there just vetoed a law that would have given more rights to property owners to evict the squatters.
So the Democrat governor of Arizona is pro-squatting.
And we're not talking about at a gym.
She's all in for squatters.
But let me ask you some bigger picture questions.
I mean, you've already established, you know, you're part of the community.
You have local, small-town family values.
You believe in liberty.
The Second Amendment, the right to self-defense.
You believe in getting rid of the illegals as they are caught committing crimes.
And I think that position is very difficult for people to argue with.
I mean, I think most Americans support what you just said.
So, what about local industry?
So, if you become County Commissioner of Bastrop County, And speak to our wider audience, because we have people all over the country and all over the world watching this.
What would you do locally to encourage local resiliency, what we call anti-fragile supply chains?
Because we don't want to depend on just one big corporation in some other state to ship everything to us by truck.
How do we become more self-reliant with food, with manufacturing, with industry, all these products and services that we need to live?
One of the things that I have been campaigning on is The one way to fight the blue wave that's coming at us is by creating conservative jobs.
I come from up there where I'm from, Northeast Texas.
Obviously, it's an oil field country.
Those guys are all conservative.
Building a Samsung plant over here in Taylor, that's going to be Not conservative people working there.
We need to create conservative jobs in this county.
What kind of jobs are conservative jobs?
I mean, oil you mentioned, but what else?
Oil field, you know, any kind of blue-collar job, you know, is going to be a conservative person.
Those are hard-working jobs.
You know, the guys that get things done, I had, there was actually a Slitz Brewery up there where I'm from.
Oh.
That, you know, Stroh's bought them, and it eventually closed down, but, you know, along with that, there was a company called Continental Can that canned the beer.
So now you've got two huge manufacturing, and those are all blue-collar conservative people.
Yeah.
That's the type of thing we need to bring here.
Right.
We bring more conservative people to offset the Non-conservatives that are moving here, then we can probably hold our county.
Because if we don't, you know, we've sat here and watched Williamson County turn blue.
Over the past 10 or 15 years, just slowly turned blue.
And what has been the repercussions from that?
Well, I think the people up there could probably tell you that more than I could, because they're the ones having to change their way of life.
They've lived there their whole lives.
But if Bastrop County turned blue...
How do you think that would impact Bastrop County?
You're talking about they would defund the police, there would be more crime.
I mean, what are you talking about?
Well, again, it goes back to your district attorney.
You know, you're going to have a sympathetic district attorney at that point.
Yeah.
Because I don't think...
Well, first you'd have to vote this one that we got out.
He's been in there a while, and I think he's got his foot in the door pretty good.
Yeah, yeah.
He's well-established and I think well-respected.
Right.
Yeah.
And...
But, you know, should you get your liberal district attorney in here, then everything's going to be lenient, you know?
Well, I mean, lenient against the illegals, but selectively prosecuted against conservatives and Americans.
Right, right.
Right?
Yeah.
I mean, because they just pick and choose what laws they want to enforce against which people.
That's the way left-wing DAs operate.
Right.
Yeah, exactly.
They'll take a murderer and put him back on the street.
But they'll prosecute you for defending your family against that murderer.
And not team police officers for doing their job.
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
You know, in my mind, I don't know how anybody would want to be a police officer in Austin, Texas, the way they get treated.
I can't imagine it.
No.
No.
I mean, we're pro-law enforcement here.
We support law enforcement.
But I'm right there with you.
Because you're going to get...
I mean, if you do your job as a police officer, you're going to be on camera.
They're going to selectively edit it.
And then they're going to...
Maybe criminally charge you for doing your job.
For doing your job, yeah.
100%.
So, yeah, how do you go to work every day trying to do the right thing, knowing that you may get Yeah, exactly.
So would the county then, if you're the county commissioner, would the county have any budget for incentives to attract the kind of companies that would bring in more blue-collar workers?
I would think you would have to start with, obviously, one county commissioner.
There's five, well, there's four companies.
Commissioners and then the judge.
So there's five total to have to make that decision.
So you would have to get with the other four and say, hey, let's go after them.
Some of this stuff and see if we can't get some manufacturing jobs in here to create the right kind of people.
Now you've got somebody making $70,000, $80,000 a year.
It's going to add to your local economy.
You get 200 of those people.
Now you've got a pretty good deal going there.
Let me relay this to you.
My company is here.
We create lots of jobs, many dozens of jobs.
Some of them pay well over $100,000 a year.
And we did all that without any help from government whatsoever.
All we wanted was a place where government wouldn't interfere with our business.
And that's why Central Texas is such a good choice.
Because for the most part, the government in Central Texas...
I mean, yeah, they're going to enforce it.
If you're doing something crazy like violating, you know, dumping toxins in the stream, yeah, you're going to get fined.
But for the most part, they leave you alone.
As a business owner, and you've been a business owner in the county, didn't you mostly just want to be left alone by government to grow your business?
Being in the business I was in, there's a lot of governmental regulations.
You've always got the state regulations.
Watching what you're doing.
As a matter of fact, I just had an audit last week that they came in and, of course, passed that audit.
I've been doing it for 100 years now.
And at the same time, when those people come in, if you just treat them like a human being, they're going to come in and do what they've got to do and leave.
With a state agency like that, if you come in there and get all nervous and try to act crazy, then they're going to start looking a little harder at what you're doing.
Right, right.
No, I get that.
And we have, for example, the Texas Health Department does surprise audits, and the FDA does surprise audits of our facility.
And at the end of the audit, they say, wow, we wish everybody would operate like you.
Yeah, exactly.
Because we do a good job.
We're very quality-minded.
But...
The county can put in barriers to new construction, watershed, planning.
Right.
And it's become more difficult compared to the way it was 10 years ago.
Is that just a result of the natural population density growth?
The density, yeah.
And that's one of the things we really, really need to take a look at is density out in the rural counties.
Yeah.
Because, you know, like there's a water problem.
We're running out of water.
Right.
Plain and simple.
Because people are stealing our water.
That's part of the problem.
Right, right.
I mean, you've got San Antonio wanting all of us.
Yes.
These big cities want the county water.
Right.
Right.
So there needs to be...
There was a bill introduced last session that would have given the commissioners more authority over density, but that bill never made it to the floor.
Uh-huh.
So we need to get...
We need to get that looked at.
I see.
All the commissioners, and it had to do with surrounding counties where there was a population of a million, I think.
Any county that surrounded that gave those commissioners more power over density, I guess you could say.
All the...
The other commissioners in those counties all over the state were in favor of this.
It never got anywhere.
So we need to get that reintroduced.
And the tax base is rising in Bastrop County because more people are moving in.
Property prices have gone up substantially in the last 10 years.
How much has the take, the revenue to the county, really increased?
A ton because of the pricing of houses.
Actually, your tax rate should be going down.
You would think.
Because of the influx of how much the home values are.
So there should be a...
Quite a bit of a tax reduction.
Is there an excess amount of revenue in the budget?
I'm not sure, man.
Without getting in there, I don't know what's in there.
Okay.
Because I do know that when Tesla moved in and built that big factory just on the east side of Austin, a lot of Tesla employees bought housing in Bastrop County.
But then Tesla just laid off 2,500 of those people.
And because the EV car sales aren't going so great, it turns out people prefer diesel.
Right.
I'm not buying an EV. No.
I'm running diesel, you know?
That's like the whole drain on our electric grid every year.
I've got to turn my thermostat up in my house so you can charge your car.
Right.
No.
No, but that's a really important question.
So the federal government mandates, now the EPA with overreach, is mandating phasing out of all combustion engines by the year 2035.
Right.
I mean, for vehicles.
Right.
That would mean that people who are right now buying gas cars are going to be forced to buy EVs that barely work.
And then the power grid of the county would have this massive new demand load placed upon it.
Doesn't that mean the county is going to have to spend millions of dollars?
I mean, you know, Blue Bonnet, the electric co-op, would be forced to spend all this money, the county would be forced to spend money to appease a federal EV car mandate?
Right.
Yeah.
Something that's...
They're not going to be able to do away with fossil fuel.
I don't know how they think they're getting away with not having fossil fuels.
Are they just not wanting people to know that you're still going to have to depend on those fossil fuels?
Where's the lie there?
My conclusion is that at some point, the state of Texas is going to have to tell the federal government to go pound sand.
Right.
Because we need an economy that functions.
I was just interviewing a guest before you came here today, a PhD, an author, who said that there's a near-perfect correlation between the availability of energy and the growth of a domestic economy.
Right?
Right.
So you know, as a business owner, if you want to build a small business, if you can't get power for air conditioning and heating and to run the lights, then you can't build a business.
Right.
And a lot of that power comes from fossil fuels.
Yep.
And your business was involved distribution of products, so you need trucks.
Right.
Right?
Yep.
So you've got to have fuel for the trucks.
Yep.
You can't wait 12 hours for your truck to charge in the middle of a delivery route, right?
Right.
So, doesn't it mean that the states that go along with the federal government will economically collapse if they don't have combustion engines?
I mean, isn't that collision inevitable?
You know, look at the whole series that has to take place to make that lithium battery.
Yes.
You know, how much fossil fuel it takes to make that lithium battery.
That's right.
And water.
A lot of water.
And, you know, the plastic.
That plastic right there comes from fossil fuel.
Yeah.
I don't know if people understand that or not, you know.
But either polyethylene or polypropylene, that comes from fossil fuel.
Yeah.
Ethane or propane, you know.
That's right.
And the polyester clothing that people wear.
Exactly.
All of it.
Yeah, all of it.
Right.
And I've been looking around the county.
I have yet to see a battery-powered tractor.
I haven't seen one of those yet, either.
I've seen a lot of tractors.
You're all burning diesel.
Yeah.
I would like to find the first farmer you can get to talk him into buying one of these electric tractors.
Yeah.
You get to farm, you get to file for about two minutes, and then you have to plug it in for 20 hours.
Right.
Yeah.
That's how that would roll.
And it costs half a million dollars, right?
But the reason I'm asking all this, and I'm not trying to put you on the spot, but you are running for office, is that at some point, and I don't think that county leaders and even state leaders realize this yet, at some point, Secession becomes part of the conversation because you can't exist as an economy if you keep following these suicidal anti-energy mandates that are being forced upon us by the EPA. Right.
Yeah, in my younger life...
I worked at a refinery.
Did you?
Yeah.
And that's part of some of the blue-collar stuff I was talking about, you know.
And the upper management in that refinery bought some of the wrong type of crude oil.
There's something called sour crude that's got a lot of toxic fumes in it.
Well, they didn't have the facility to store that sour crude.
And so the smell gets out.
This rotten egg smell got out.
High sulfur.
And a lot of people complained about it, complained about it.
Well, at the time it was called the TNRCC. Now it's called the TECQ or whatever.
They came over and they flew over Constantly, took air samples, water samples, every kind of sample.
That refinery was never out of compliance, other than the smell.
And they wound up shutting that refinery down and put 200 people out of work because of the smell.
Never out of compliance, just smelled bad.
Well, okay, never gave it time to address the problem and get the smell under control or nothing.
Shut it down and put everybody out of work.
Right.
So that's the type of thing that to me as far as the federal government going after our fossil fuel thing.
Right.
They need to worry about, you know, what's going on in Washington, D.C. Well, an even bigger example from what you just said is recently the Biden administration through the EPA put a ban on LNG exports.
Right.
So that strongly affects Texas and Natural gas production.
And they just shut down a bunch of drilling in Alaska as well.
Yes.
And the XL pipeline was shut down by Biden the first day that he stole the White House.
And shut down any drilling in any national forest in the United States on the same day.
And then they want to wonder why the fuel prices are so high.
Well, right.
I mean, and I had a guest on here, a man who's running for the governor of Utah, and informed me I think it's 75 or almost 80 percent of the state of Utah is claimed by the federal government.
Right.
So you don't even have control of your own state.
Now, I know there are so-called federal lands also here in Texas.
Right.
I don't know what percentage that is.
It's probably not as high.
But Texas doesn't have control over Texas.
Not all of it.
No.
No.
And, you know, you got the Chinese down there buying up a bunch of Texas, too.
Yeah, like near the military bases, too.
Some strategic purchases, perhaps, for surveillance of our military assets.
That, and they're drilling for oil down there, too.
Oh, yeah, I did see a story about that.
Yeah.
We're not in the world that we grew up in.
No, not at all.
There are real threats against America, threats against Texas, threats against the people of this county and many other counties.
But I feel like our leadership is behind the curve on recognizing this.
Yeah, I don't know where our leadership went wrong.
They took the prayer out of the school.
They took the Pledge of Allegiance out of the school.
They took the paddle out of the school.
To me, it all goes back to the school.
You're teaching your children to come up That's not the same, like you just said, when we were growing up.
Yeah.
We didn't have drag queen story time hour in the school library.
You went to school with your shotgun in the truck because you'd been squirrel hunting that morning.
Right, right.
Never thought one time ever to pull that thing out because you knew there were consequences for your actions.
Yeah.
You know, never thought, I mean, you might have got your nose bledied by your buddy or something, but you never one time thought about going and getting your gun.
No.
You know?
No.
It's just a different world.
I don't know where it went wrong.
But it starts in the school.
If you don't get them kids taught right, they're going to grow up wrong.
Absolutely.
No question about that.
But raising children right also depends on pro-family values, which are being destroyed by the government and the establishment, the culture.
Even if you have strong family values locally, your kids are watching, you know, demonic transgender Netflix videos.
Oh, I know.
Right?
The dang cartoons are cussing on the, you know.
Yeah.
Tom and Jerry never cussed.
I could remember, you know.
No.
We had a lot of violence in Roadrunner, but it was all cartoon violence.
Right, right.
Right.
Yeah.
This, yeah, I don't get it.
I don't get why, and...
And, you know, when we were growing up, we were outside playing football or kickball or chase or hide and stuff, whatever.
I don't know what these kids do these days.
Well, they're just on their phones all the time.
No, they don't go outside.
Most of them.
So let me ask you about homeschooling then.
Because homeschooling, I think, is the best kind of education that a child can get right now.
It's usually a pro-family, sometimes pro-Christian homeschooling organization.
It's a very strong homeschooling movement in Texas.
But there are efforts federally by the Department of Education to attack homeschooling.
And sometimes there are efforts in certain counties or certain cities.
How would you help support homeschooling if you're a county commissioner?
You know, people should have the right to choose where their kids go to school.
Yes.
You know, and I think that goes back to the school like we were just talking about.
The federal government can't control those kids if they're being homeschooled.
They can't push their agenda on them and giving them their gender name and whatever else.
Right.
Yeah, the whole homeschooling thing is a big deal, you know, and it's good for the kids.
It is good for the kids.
I think the best kids come out of homeschooling, I mean, in terms of real life, hands-on experience, often they're raising animals on a farm, and they're just better educated and they have better values.
Right, and you've got somebody giving them more quality time than just One teacher up there with 30 kids in the room.
True.
And talking about that school, you know, they're having that school board election right now.
Yeah.
You know, and that subject came up about putting chaplains in the church, I mean in the church, in the school, and our city council, our school board shot that down.
And it wasn't because they don't want the chaplains in the school.
It was that it was worded where you could have, the Christians could have their chaplain in there, so could the gays, so could the Muslims, so could, you know, that's the way it was worded.
If you open it up, you open it up for everybody.
I see, yeah.
So they shot it down.
Well, now one of the guys that's actually rerunning for the school board They're all hot and heavy to get him out of there because he said no to the chaplain in church.
And it wasn't that he said no to that.
It was that he said no to all of it.
We don't want the rainbow preacher in here.
We don't want the...
Yeah, because the Satanists, they like to build satanic statues at the state capitol buildings all over the country, claiming it's their freedom of religion.
Because to them, their god is Satan.
That's who they worship.
And do you want that in your school?
No way.
Yeah, you're opening the door for way more than what you're thinking in your mind.
True, true.
But what about all the pornographic material in the school libraries right now that the young students are often exposed to?
I don't know if that's happening in Bastrop County, but it's happening in Texas, it's happening in Travis County, no doubt.
I mean, you know, pornographic gay scenes in the children's books.
Yeah, that would not be happening on my watch.
I don't know.
Obviously, that's probably something that's welcome in Austin.
I don't know.
Probably.
Out here in the country, we're not too much...
What was that movie where they were burning the library books?
Back in the deployments.
Remember that Footloose movie where they got all the books out and would burn them at a 55-gallon drum?
Yeah, Fahrenheit 451 also, yeah.
Exactly.
Yeah, but maybe we do need to burn the pornographic books from the children's libraries, right?
But then the groomers and the pedophiles always say, oh, you're involved in book burning.
Well, then there comes the whole freedom of speech.
We're getting the books out that are hard.
I mean, freedom of speech doesn't give somebody the right to teach pornography to an eight-year-old.
Exactly.
Yeah.
But, you know, that all goes down to interpretation of how people interpret it.
Which is about the values, right?
Right.
I mean, our founding fathers weren't thinking...
200 years later, this is the way this is going to be interpreted.
No, they couldn't have imagined what it has become.
Right.
Yeah.
Okay.
So, you know, how do you...
And it's the same thing we were talking about earlier about getting audited by a state agency.
Every one of those people that comes in and audits me has got their different interpretation of what the law is and what they want to see when they come in my store.
Yeah, true.
Exactly.
A lot of that goes down to how they think, how that group or person or whatever, how they interpret that.
Right, right.
And I'm glad you mentioned that because it comes down to can we the people have faith that those who are in government are acting in good faith to carry out the spirit of maybe a regulatory question rather than government being weaponized and unleashed punitively against the people?
Which I would argue that's what the federal government has become now is a weaponized bastardization Of representational government.
Yes.
That's now being used as a bludgeon against the people, including against the farmers in Texas, the EPA, against the businesses.
It's a weapon against the people.
Right.
Anybody that doesn't agree with their values or their agenda...
Right, which is a suicidal agenda, by the way, of national destruction.
Right.
If you take out the energy system, you lose your nation.
Right.
Well, you know, going back to Texas, at one point we had control of all the energy and all the...
We were pretty much self-sustained if we wanted to be.
Yeah.
So I think they're trying to dismantle that the best they can.
Well, clearly, but maybe we'll get Joe Biden out of the way here coming in the next election.
Let's hope.
And maybe get somebody in who might be a little more pro-America, possibly.
We'll see.
Well, you know, we tried that in 2020, and these ballots kept showing up in the middle of the night.
Yeah, well, America voted for Trump.
Right.
You know, Trump won in 2020, as far as I'm concerned.
I mean, it's obvious at this point.
Right.
Trump won the election.
Okay, in wrapping this up, first of all, thank you for having the patience with my questions.
I know that I probably ask questions that nobody else asks.
Well, thank you for putting up with my, you know, country redneck not having the most appropriate answers to your questions.
No, you're a real local Texan.
You're part of the community.
You represent the values that Texas honors.
And it's not your job every day to think about the end of the world and all that kind of stuff, right?
So I appreciate you putting up with me asking these kinds of questions.
But is there anything else that you want to say in summary, you know, for your campaign or what you're going to do for the county as county commissioner, you know, just to kind of wrap up?
Well, you know, the biggest thing on my campaign is the density, obviously, and the growth.
Yes.
And trying to keep it as controlled as we can, whereas my opponent, you know, is being funded by developers.
Even on her own invitation to one of her fundraisers, it says right here, That she is being funded by large-scale commercial and residential developers.
Oh, wow.
So, you know, I'm not.
I'm not taking any money from no developers or, you know, commercial or residential.
Yeah.
And I'm trying to protect our values.
And that's our small-town country way of life.
Yes.
And that's the way we want to keep it here.
And I would add that I think that's the only way of life that's actually long-term sustainable for our nation.
Because what they're doing in the cities is self-destructive.
Right, right.
Yeah.
I mean, when I first moved to Texas, I used to enjoy driving to Austin.
Now I avoid it like a plague.
Yeah, I don't go in there twice a year, maybe.
Right.
You know.
So it's just not...
No.
You know, 30 years ago, You can walk right into the Capitol building and look around.
I don't think you can get in there now, can you?
I haven't been in forever.
I don't know.
I haven't been there in a while.
I would imagine you still could get in, but who knows what kind of security and everything.
Right.
Last time I was there, I was carrying, and I had my concealed carry, and then let you in with a firearm.
But that was many years ago.
Right.
I don't know about now.
Yeah, I haven't been in a while.
So I couldn't tell you.
I would think that it would be, you know...
Frisk to the max.
Yeah, probably.
Who knows what they'd be doing now.
Okay, so your website is butchforbastropcounty.com, and that's the numeral four.
Yep.
Okay, butchforbastropcounty.com.
I assume you accept campaign donations?
Absolutely.
Okay.
Five dollars will help.
What's the limit of a campaign donation from an individual?
I'm not sure if there is one.
There's no limit?
I don't think there is, no.
Oh, wow.
Okay.
There's no telling how much money the developers have given this young lady.
Well, gosh, yeah, you would think that's, I mean, yeah, that's worth tens of millions of dollars to build new property and so on.
Yep.
I don't have any signs on the development either, you know.
Right.
Got her political signs all over the development.
Wow.
Okay, so you're accepting donations.
What about volunteers?
Are you accepting volunteers?
Yeah, I've got plenty of people helping me, you know.
Okay.
We've got our, over there in my neighborhood, we've got our little core group that we all hang out with, and those guys have stepped up to the plate.
Okay.
Big time to come out and help me, you know.
So anybody that wants to volunteer, and Don here has helped me a ton, come on.
We'll have a good time.
After the fact, we'll all sit down and have some barbecue or something.
Whatever.
That's the way we take care of each other.
I think that as County Commissioner, your time, you're going to find that the county faces far more profound challenges than even probably what we've talked about today.
I think the cohesion Yeah.
Yeah.
do what Texans do best, which is to build and invent, innovate, to be creative.
Texans are really amazing people if we can just be allowed the opportunity to do what we do.
Yep.
Well, being a multi-generation Texan, you're pretty biased on what you think people should.
You mean biased towards Texas, you mean?
We'll sit around with each other a lot of times.
We'll rattle off the state bird or the state flower, the state fish, you know, and you go, man, these people moving here need to know all this.
Yeah.
That's, being a multi-generation Texan, you kind of go, because people don't know nothing about Texas.
Well, I've learned a lot about Texas being here for all the 15 years or whatever I've been here, and it's, I love the state, I love the people, I love the food, too, by the way.
Yeah, I'll go out and have a...
I'll go drive over to Lockhart and have some of their barbecue over there sometimes.
You know what I mean?
Yep.
The good stuff.
Absolutely.
And I guess there's good stuff in the county as well.
Well, thank you, Butch, for joining me today and putting up with all my questions.
Thank you for having me, man.
It's an honor to have you here.
Yes, sir.
I wish you the best with your campaign.
Thank you.
Thank you for standing up for Texas Values and, again, just for putting up with me and my dog.
Oh, he's here.
Yeah.
Hey, Rhodey.
You want to come around, Rhodey?
Over here.
Come here.
Hey, buddy.
Want to say hi?
Hey, buddy.
Say hi to Butch here.
Where'd your toy go, man?
Apparently, he's lost it at this point.
And in Texas, we also love our dogs.
Yes, we do.
Yeah.
He's a good one to have around.
Alright, well thank you all for watching today.
today.
Hope you enjoyed this conversation.
And of course, this is about much more than one county in Texas, because I think every county across America is going to be facing some of the issues that I brought up here.
And frankly, if we don't protect and defend the values that have made America great and made states like Texas great, then we will lose it.
So do what Butch here did, step up, run for local office.
If you're a pro-liberty, pro-America individual, pro-Second Amendment, pro-First Amendment, run for local office, Be that person.
Instead of just always complaining, like, oh, they're not doing what's right, jump in there, be that person yourself, get the job done, because local government is where we're going to get traction, and this is where we're going to save America, is starting from the local level.
And thank you for watching us today here.
I'm Mike Adams of brighteon.com, coming to you from Central Texas.
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God bless you all, and God bless Texas.
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