February 19, 2025 • 33 mins
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
The Michael Arry Show is on the air. I've made
(00:38):
clear over the years.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
That while it's called Michael Berry's Show, it's not always
going to be me talking. It could be something that
Ramon prepared or Jim prepared, or Chad prepared, or in
a number of things.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
But one of the things we're going to be.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Is a platform where good ideas can be shared. And
everybody doesn't take that approach, but we do. Some of
what we do is me talking, but some of what
we do is as I am outreading and interacting and talking,
when I discover things that I want to amplify, I'm
going to amplify that on this show. Even if it
(01:20):
means I'm not talking. It's hard for some people to understand.
That's okay, you'll get over it. Jesse Waters did a
great two part series and it was so good. I
watched it twice and I said, I've got to share it.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Now.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
You may say I already saw, I already listened to that.
I don't want to fine turn the channel. It's okay,
but a lot of people didn't. And it's so good
that I want everybody to hear.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
It the Doe's fathers on the loose, and no federal
job is safe.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
They're planned for. The deep state got it all over.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Forty thousand federal bureaucrats have already taken buyouts, and.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
We're only in week three.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
We expect number to increase, and that alone, just the
forty thousand, again, we expected to increase. It's going to
save the American people tens of millions of dollars, and
we encourage guttal workers in this city to accept the
very generous offer. If they don't want to show up
to the office, if they want to rip the American
people off, then they're welcome to take this buy out
and we'll find highly competent individuals who want to fill
(02:21):
these for uss.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Elon and his nerd Army have been combing through agencies,
blasting away blow Twenty year old dozers are clashing with
lazy old timers who don't know how to use a
computer and are calling the idiots and breaking news. Secretary
of State Marco Rubio has just fired ninety percent of
the administrators at USAID. They took a ten thousand man
(02:45):
agency and streamlined it to three hundred employees. The media
is calling it the Trump Apocalypse. CNN cast off Oliver
Darcy says the American experiment is convulsing before our eyes.
Flabbergas said that the media hasn't gone into Round the
Clock's special coverage.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Quote.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Media executives need not fret about being the boy who
cried wolf. The wolf is now in the barn and
mauling the livestock. The Democrats in the media have never
seen a president execute a mandate with speed and precision.
The country voted for change, and we're watching representative government
in the twenty first century.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
The Feds, they call that war.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Nobody wants to work in this type of condition where
we're going to be in a.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Psychological warfare for how long?
Speaker 6 (03:35):
Other federal workers not revealing their names because of concern
over retribution described to NBC News.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Fear and panic and Orwellian nightmare.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Federal workers are worried about payback and psychological warfare. How
do you think the whole country's felt for the last
twenty years having to tiptoe around DEI hold into hr
for jokes, canceled for an opinion, watching Black Lives Matter
light us on fire. A guy wearing a dress raped
(04:08):
a girl in the girl's bathroom, and the girl's dad
got arrested for raising his voice. A DEI bureaucrat at
the Department of Justice making six figures.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Who's going to get a buy out with an eight
month severage deal. They're not a victim.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
CNN's putting spots shadows on feds like their lives are
in danger.
Speaker 7 (04:28):
What is the general feeling across government amongst your fellow
federal workers right now?
Speaker 8 (04:36):
Grief, They're angry, many that are confused, but all kind
of grieving in their own way.
Speaker 7 (04:43):
How does it feel to be targeted for the work
that you're so passionate about.
Speaker 9 (04:49):
It's okay, you could take your time.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Actually makes me part of the people that I have
work with the things that returne.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
CNN's spot chatting a woman who's worked from home and
now she's crying because she doesn't want to go back
to the office.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
This is insane.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
CNN just laid off hundreds of employees to cut costs
because their books aren't balanced, because no one's watching them,
no one's interviewing fired CNN staff, not even Don Lemon.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Getting fired isn't a war crime.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
I've been fired four times, and thank god because it
turned out all right. Since when as CNN cared about
people losing their jobs, they didn't weep when Biden waxed
the Keystone pipeline workers. CNN's been trying to get everybody
fired at Fox for years. If CNN doesn't like what
you say, they call your boss, they call your advertisers,
(05:50):
they try to bankrupt you and boycott you. Random Americans
who cracked jokes on Facebook, CNN was putting them on blast,
trying to get him canceled. On Biden for firing army
officers who didn't get vaxed, guys who were willing to
die for this country. CNN said, good, get him out
of here. CNN's boss can lay off people. Why can't Trump?
(06:13):
Bill Clinton fired almost four hundred thousand federal workers. That
wasn't a constitutional crisis. The government had to slim down
Bill and Newton cut the fat, balance the budget. And
Democrats are acting like we're witnessing a genocide.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Let me remind you who set the house on fire.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
It was y'all.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
It feels as if y'all have just decided that y'all
are going to castrate your.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Constitutional duty and hand it over to someone who was unelected.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Fire Elon Musk.
Speaker 10 (06:44):
Elon Musk took control of our country's financial nuclear codes.
Speaker 11 (06:48):
House Republicans have allowed billionaire Elon Musk and his gang
of thieves to enter the US Treasury Department. Fire the
people entrusted with secret private information about Americas and give
them that access.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Elon Musk is destroying our federal government. He feels he
bought himself a president. Now we've got Donald Trump and
his co president Elon Musk, and they're just running a
wrecking ball through it.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Democrats want to audit you for a six hundred dollars
VENMO payment, but when Elon audits the trillion dollar government,
they're ready to storm the castle. Why are Democrats shocked?
We're putting the government on a diet. Trump and Musk
campaigned on it and one on it.
Speaker 8 (07:33):
We're going to be very open and transparent, and it's
very clear about this is what we're doing.
Speaker 12 (07:38):
Here are the issues, this is this is the math
for what's being spent and what you know, and we're
going to make it. We're going to make the spending lower.
If somebody's got a better idea for how to make
the spending lower, we'll tell us, but if we.
Speaker 9 (07:54):
Don't, we're going to bankrupt the country.
Speaker 13 (07:56):
I will create a Government Efficiency Commission, task with conducting a.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Complete financial and performance.
Speaker 13 (08:02):
Audit of the entire federal government and making recommendations for
drastic reforms. As the first order of business, this commission
will develop an action plan to totally eliminate fraud and
improper payments within six months.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
This will save trillions of dollars. Tree.
Speaker 14 (08:20):
Listen to the Michael Berry Show podcast and you'll be
the smartest guy in the room. Share with your friends
and you'll be the most popular too.
Speaker 15 (08:30):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
This is the second of a true part or.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Jesse Waters did this on Fox News, and I understand
some of you will email and you'll be aggravated because
you watch Fox News twenty four hours a day and
you already heard this segment. I got it, and I
have to make the programming decision that you may turn
off the channel. And I'm okay with that because this
is so important that anyone who didn't hear it needs
to hear it. I don't believe I'm the only person
(08:54):
out there talking that needs to be heard. I think
that as a movement, we've got to say, hey, this
once over here, made a good point and shared this
and that's important to do so. Jesse Waters did a
segment which we've broken into two because of our clock,
about Trump dismantling the deep state.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
And this is so important.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Our government is working against us and that is true
evil and it's very hard for us to win because
they have all the power. This is the colonists rebelling
against the crown and it was look they pledged their
(09:41):
lives and many of them gave them. This is Jesse
Waters Fox News on Trump dismantling the deep State. I
think he did a wonderful job with a segment.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Democrats aren't surprised this is Trump's agenda. There's surprise he's
able to execute it because after years of inconfidence, no
one thought anyone was capable of doing anything in washing
to Elon says, there's a way to know when you're
over the target.
Speaker 8 (10:04):
One of the things I remember from the PayPal days
was that you know who complains the loudest.
Speaker 9 (10:10):
Uh is the fraudsters.
Speaker 8 (10:12):
Okay, So like the when somebody was trying to fraud
of paypals, where we would see the most amount of
righteous indignation, like it would be like immediate, over the
top righteous indignation was from the fraudsters, not from honest people,
because honest people are like, oh, I think there's something
wrong with my account. I guess I wonder what's wrong.
Let me inquire, and but the frausters will come at
(10:35):
you immediately. This is it's like it's like a tell
that someone's actually doing for it, because the level of
of sort of faux outrage is way over the top.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Elon doesn't care about bad press. He's trying to save
the republic.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
It's good cop, bad cop. Trump's the good cop. He's
the bad cop.
Speaker 9 (10:54):
We're catching him left and right. We're catching him.
Speaker 13 (10:57):
We're catching him to a point where they don't know
what that the heck is going on.
Speaker 9 (11:01):
They can't believe they're getting caught.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
And I have great respect for the people that are
doing it.
Speaker 13 (11:06):
Elon Musk is helping us on it, and he's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
He's pretty good. The government's been robbing us blind.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
We've been writing checks six million for tourism in Egypt.
Like Egypt needs help with that, they have the pyramids.
We should be spending money on cleaning up California so
the tourists can vacation in California two million to help
the BBC value the diversity of Libyan society.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
We're bribing the BBC to cover Libya better.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Why a million for a gay group in Armenia?
Speaker 1 (11:42):
There it is.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
We paid twenty million for Iraqi Sesame Street.
Speaker 16 (11:48):
Yeah, you paid for Burton Ernie in Baghdad.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
Weren't we just bombing these people? Now we're paying for
their Muppet shows.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
We're sick. There is something sick with us. You also
paid for an Irish Dei musical on behalf of Ambassador Cronin.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
It is an honor to welcome all of her guests
to Deerfield tonight for this important event. Increasing access to
opportunity and equity is a cornerstone of the Biden administration,
and we're so proud to play.
Speaker 9 (12:37):
A small part in that.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Here this is a government theft ring.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
We spent two million dollars for trans surgeries in Guatemala.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
I'm gonna go out on a limit.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
One Guatemalan dude got resting plants, and we probably kicked
back the rest of the cash to a crooked Guatemalan
politician and the corrupt liberal CEO of the group. They
laundered the money through Because all this money we're spending,
we could have turned the whole world trans We could
have made every man a woman and every woman a
man with this kind of money, You really think it
(13:07):
costs twenty million to produce an episode of Sesame Street.
You could hire Tom Cruise to play Oscar the Grouse
for that money.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Check this.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Biden paid nearly five billion dollars to unnamed foreign sources.
Whoever is getting our money is so shady our government
can't even put it in writing.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
They just call it AID.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
I bet a lot of this money is to bribe
foreign officials to win bids for American companies, or to
bribe foreign politicians just to have in our pockets, or
just to subsidize far left foundations. Most of the people
getting money from these grants aren't in the country. They
pump it into overseas organizations and then we never see them.
(13:52):
Any liberal with an international women's studies degree can launch
a five ZHO.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
One C three, apply for.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
A government grant and spin it off into a left
wing piggyback. USAID paid two hundred and thirty five million
dollars to the National Democratic Institute.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Well that sounds benign. Now, millions of that.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Money went to executive compensation, meeting salaries for all the
liberals with no skills. I bet most of that money
didn't go to supporting democracy. It went to supporting liberal lifestyles.
Democrats have been sucking off the teat of government for decades,
and Trump caught them. As one Trump insider says, you
(14:34):
bring USAID to heal and you end the Democrat gravy train.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
USAID's just the beginning.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
You start peeling back at the layers of every agency,
and all you find out is pork that winds up
in the wrong people's pockets.
Speaker 6 (14:50):
The White Coat Waste Project exposed more than ten million
dollars in taxpayer funds that were spent creating transgender mice, rats,
and monkeys. Well, the Biden Harris administration spent two point
five million taxpayer dollars two point five million taxpair dollars
to study the fertility of transgender mice. We spent over
(15:13):
a million dollars to find out if female rats receiving
testosterone therapy, uh, we're more likely to overdose on a
date rape drug.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
One of those multimillion dollar studies was at the University
of Michigan. How much do you want to bet a
Democrat wants to go to a game at ann Arbor
front row seats. Anyone from the Biden team wants to
land at ann Arbor. Here's an office, a campus, an apartment,
and a no show job with benefits. Governments fed the
pigs so much it turned into a hog.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
You know what happens to hogs.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
They get slaughtered, and the American people love a good butcher.
Speaker 15 (15:52):
This political party, the Democratic Party, have lied to us
about everything. What the last several weeks have proven to
us all is that this was a part. This is
a cadre of criminals and losers and spoiled children of
(16:15):
affluent parents who were more concerned about looking good than
actually doing good. Now we come to USAID being probably
the largest money laundering operation in American history. Congratulations, Stems,
(16:37):
You've outdone You've outdone even Bernie Madoff.
Speaker 14 (16:41):
Listen to the Michael Berry Show podcast if you dare.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
One of you younger folks don't remember Ronald Reagan, who's
motto and running for president in nineteen eighty was make
America great Again.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Yeah, it really was.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Donald Trump learned a lot from him and from Patrick
Buchanan and Donald Trump's approach in getting working class voters
back Republican Reagan Democrats, they're known as.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
I think it's good to pay tribute.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Just as on this show we often pay tribute to
Rush Limbaugh, I think it's good to pay tribute to
Ronald Reagan. And remember how great he was. This was
Ronald Reagan on Johnny Carson. Now not a particularly political show,
but he could manage former actor governor. He could talk
about political issues on a show like Johnny Carson without
(17:33):
making people want to fall asleep. Barry Goldwater didn't have
that skill, neither did Bush. But I'm going to give
this a few minutes to pay tribute to the great communicator,
Ronald Reagan. Talking about the government and a bunch of
people looking out for their own self interest.
Speaker 17 (17:49):
When you and I were boys back in the Midwest,
government's federal, state, and local, we're only taking about fifteen
cents out of every dollar earned. Today, they're taking almost half.
Speaker 9 (17:57):
Of every dollar earned in the United States.
Speaker 17 (18:00):
People don't realize it because the taxes are hidden in
the so called business taxes. You know the politician that
stands up and yells, oh, let's save the little man.
Let's tax business and everybody else are ready. They haven't
figured out that every tax on business is just a
part of the cost of production, and the customer winds
up paying it when he buys the product.
Speaker 9 (18:18):
It's a hidden sales tax.
Speaker 17 (18:19):
There's one hundred and sixteen of them in the suit
of clothes that each one of us enter. So a
lot of the economists have suggested, and I don't know
there'll ever come to be in this country, that they're
if they closed all of the loopholes and for corporations
and maybe tax loopholes, and even on their rich certain loopholes,
and that made a percentage income and made a flat
fee without all of the deductions, that the government might
(18:41):
raise as much money as they do now.
Speaker 9 (18:43):
Oh sure.
Speaker 17 (18:44):
And really the loopholes this has been overdone by the
politicians too. The bulk of the money that has taken
by what are called loopholes are the legitimate deductions, with
which if the people didn't have them, they couldn't pay
their income tax, interest on their mortgage, interest on the
installments on their car, property taxes on their home if
they have one, and so forth.
Speaker 9 (19:03):
These are in politicians and as loophools.
Speaker 17 (19:06):
But we ought to have tax reform, and we ought
to start by making it as simple that you don't
have to hire a lawyer to find out how much
you owe every year. That's for sure. It used to
be used to delusive to put about.
Speaker 9 (19:15):
It a lot, Johnny. We live in the only country in.
Speaker 17 (19:19):
The world where it takes more brains to figure out
your income tax than it does durn the.
Speaker 9 (19:22):
Income I'd be right.
Speaker 17 (19:24):
We've gotten in the habit of over the last forty
years of thinking the government.
Speaker 9 (19:27):
Has the answers.
Speaker 17 (19:28):
There's very little that government can do as efficiently and
as economically as the people can do themselves. And if
government would shut the doors and sneak away for about
three weeks, we'd never miss them. Our biggest problem is
that we have built a permanent structure of government, federal, state,
and local, the permanent employees, and they've come to the
place that they actually determined policy in this country more than.
Speaker 9 (19:49):
Does the Congress of the United States.
Speaker 17 (19:51):
There are fourteen and a half million public employees in
the United States. That's quite a voting block. And the
bureaus and agencies not in Washington. You talking earlier about
some of the research programs. What would you say if
I told you about one a study in which this
was called the.
Speaker 9 (20:09):
Demography of Happiness.
Speaker 17 (20:11):
And in this study, the government found out that young
people are happier in old people.
Speaker 9 (20:17):
And they found out that people.
Speaker 17 (20:21):
That earned more or happier than people that earn less.
And they found out that well people are happier than
six people that's less. Life was two hundred and forty
nine thousand dollars to find out it's better to be rich,
young and healthy than old poorns.
Speaker 9 (20:36):
A poll was.
Speaker 17 (20:37):
Taken recently that found out that only forty six percent
of the people in the poll could name their United
States congressman. But what was worse, eighty six percent of
those who could name him couldn't tell you a single
thing that he represented or stood for. They just knew
that he represented the fay but he was a congressman.
But what's he doing while he's up there? And the
same is true at the at the local levels of
government and all the rest.
Speaker 9 (20:58):
But so you people, really you have to take an
active interest.
Speaker 17 (21:01):
You have to have citizenation groups locally and let them know.
Speaker 9 (21:05):
Special interest groups.
Speaker 17 (21:06):
Now, the special interest groups, right as everyone thought, big
powerful business interests are something that are going to persuade
government to do things. As a matter of fact, I
don't know anyone with less influence today in government than business.
They're just a convenient whipping boy. But it's the groups
that have got a particular acts to grind.
Speaker 9 (21:20):
You can't have a power.
Speaker 17 (21:21):
Plant because it might interfere with the seagulls.
Speaker 14 (21:23):
Now.
Speaker 17 (21:23):
I think I'm an environmentalist, and I do not agree
with those people way over in the edge who pave
the whole country over in the name of progress. But
also I don't like those on the other extreme, the
one that you build a house unless it looks like
a bird's nest. Well someplace in the middle. We got
to allow people are ecology too well, this kind of group,
and they want their particular program. Hundreds of dollars have
(21:44):
been added to the cost of an automobile putting gadgets
on to clear up the air. We're the only country
in the world that's set out to do it that way.
When budget deficits are what's causing inflation, I don't see
that there's.
Speaker 9 (21:54):
Any room to be on either side of that argument.
Speaker 17 (21:58):
I think the answer to curing and is a balanced budget.
Speaker 9 (22:02):
Now how do you do that? I mean, that's not
how do you balance the budget?
Speaker 17 (22:07):
Well, balancing the budget is like protecting more than you
take in right now, it's like protecting your virtue.
Speaker 9 (22:11):
You have to learn to say.
Speaker 18 (22:12):
No, there's got to be another way.
Speaker 17 (22:28):
What's the second option? Well, no, there's some ways that
this could be brought about. First of all that limitation,
here's another one. Why shouldn't we have, in addition to
a simplified income text, why shouldn't we also have a
law that says that any time a legislator or a
congressman introduces a spending program, he has to introduce with
it a tax program to pay for it.
Speaker 9 (22:50):
Now, let the people find out.
Speaker 17 (22:51):
There was a woman that from a financial firm that
was back at the President's Economic Counsel and her words
weren't quoted everybody else's words gotten the paper or all
the Heller's.
Speaker 9 (23:01):
And the gall breaths and all the so called economists.
Speaker 17 (23:04):
And I have a degree in economics, so I can
say this. I think an economist is someone who has
a five day to kapakey on one.
Speaker 9 (23:11):
End of his watchchain and no watch on the other.
Speaker 17 (23:14):
This woman said that you go to the polls and
you ask the people do they want some social service,
some program the government can give, And the people in
the polls are after read and say that sounds good. Yeah,
But she says that isn't exactly accurate. She says, put
an one hundred dollars bill in each person's hand and
then show them the program and say, now, isn't that
a nice program?
Speaker 9 (23:34):
Do you want it? Give me thee hundred dollars?
Speaker 17 (23:37):
She says, See what the poll says then, and how
many people hang on with one hundred dollars.
Speaker 9 (23:41):
Instead of the program?
Speaker 17 (23:42):
In other words, that it's rather hidden than someone doesn't
know exactly where it's gonna come. They all start all
the government programs start a dollar down and we'll catch
you later, and they multiply all of those things that
you were. The Office of Management and Budget in Washington
that's responsible for the budget putting the budget together, cannot
even tell you how many boards, commissions, agencies, bureaus, and
(24:04):
departments there are in the federal government. But all of
them can pass regulations, and those regulations have the force
of law. And the difference is when you break the law,
you're innocent until proven guilty. When you break a regulation,
the fellow the charges you would break in the regulation,
you're guilty. If you want to take him to court
and prove your innocent, that's up to you. And all
(24:26):
of these are things that yes, we can trim the budget.
There's enough fat in the federal government that if you
rendered it, you could wash the world. Maybe it's time
for realignment between people who might be find themselves in
the wrong parties. Maybe there are some people still voting.
I was a Democrat most of my life. I became
a Republican only not too many years ago. And I
(24:51):
had the pleasure of telling some of those people that
are saying the Republican Party ought.
Speaker 9 (24:54):
To broaden this base the other day.
Speaker 17 (24:57):
That when I switched parties, I didn't do it because
the two parties were alike.
Speaker 9 (25:02):
I did it because they were different.
Speaker 17 (25:04):
And I think that the two parties are the stand
up as to what they represent, what they said.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
They are telling what's called onesies, these little things clothing
for a baby.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Afldabari. Sure you was one of all these onesies.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
You know. When I was growing up, California was the
dream of America.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Florida was up there, but California was the dream location.
Texas is rugged and independent and everything's big and tough,
and I'm very proud to be a lifelong Texan and
I don't see myself living anywhere else. But California was
a place you went on vacation, and for many people,
(25:50):
you didn't feel like you needed to go to Dominican
Republic or Hawaii necessarily because California was so beautiful that
if you were in Texas, that was as far as
you needed to go. Texans would drive to California. And
of course you had the movie industry, which was a
big part, you know, so a lot of the pre
d people. But you also had big agriculture, lush Mediterranean
(26:16):
products in the Wine country. You had tourism, you had
great sports teams, you had a powerful economy, you had
beautiful mountains and beaches and the ocean. I mean, this
was it, man and somehow, some way through bad political decisions,
(26:39):
and we've seen this happen before. I mean, Beyroot was
once a great place. Tehran was once a city in
Iran that you would go as a tourist. Be Root especially,
Zagreb was once a city that, you know, a Paris
of the east, Bucharest. These were places for that matter, Havannah.
(27:01):
These were places that you would want to go and
visit because they were glorious, and bad political decisions, bad
political decisions destroyed those places. And California. Somebody asked me
the other day, they said, Hey, I got to do
my board meeting. I'm trying to decide where to do it,
(27:23):
and some of our employees want to do San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
What do you think? And I said, well, why don't
you fly out there for a weekend.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Why don't you just walk around and if you don't
get mugged and you don't slip in the crap and
you know you're not everything you have stolen from you,
then I guess you know, knock yourself out. But honestly,
it's sad. And Gavin Newsom didn't make California horrible.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
It was horrible before, but.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
He's sure made it a whole lot worse, hasn't he?
And it's time for a change.
Speaker 10 (27:57):
Good morning, chat Bon Riverside County Sheriff. We're here today
because California public safety is in crisis. Crime is steadily
on the rise, and our public safety policy is one
of the worst, if not the worst, in the nation.
I want to make this clear, and I want there
to be no mistake in what.
Speaker 9 (28:17):
I am saying. This is not by accident.
Speaker 10 (28:21):
The driving force in our crisis is a radical progressive
agenda fraudulently called criminal justice reform. This is nothing short
of a sick and twisted social experiment where law enforcement
is the bad guy and criminals are somehow victims of
society and not responsible for their actions, their crimes, or
(28:42):
accountable to their countless victims. This agenda began with a
passage of AB one oh nine, the so called Public
Safety Realignment Act. State government failed to take responsibility for
prison overcrowding or their failure to build more prisons, and
instead forced county jails to house state inmates while simultaneously
(29:04):
releasing thousands of felons early. This has pushed our county
jails to a near collapse and caused the early release
of countless criminals. Thousands upon thousands of criminals are being
released from custody early. Crime is increasing, and our governor
is closing prisons instead of building new ones. It defies
common sense. In twenty fourteen, a complete fraud was perpetrated
(29:29):
in California.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
The so called Safe streets and safe schools.
Speaker 10 (29:32):
Initiative Prop forty seven changed many felonies to misdemeanors, basically
legalized drug use, and increased the amount of petty theft
to nearly one thousand dollars. In twenty sixteen, another lie
was perpetrated on voters with the naming and wording of
Prop fifty seven, tricking voters into approving the release of
thousands of violent criminals onto our streets and neighborhoods.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
This is why we are here.
Speaker 10 (29:59):
Everyone knows Prop forty seven and fifty seven are disasters,
and yet Governor Newsom adamantly touts it as a success,
and lawmakers continue to refuse to fix their mistake and
the problems that they have created. When once crimes are
no longer crimes, it allows Governor Newsom an Attorney General
Bonta to cite completely flawed data points to support their failures.
(30:22):
Californians are now suffering the consequences of a failed social agenda.
We are now at our breaking point and Californians have
had enough. The law of Prop forty seven has been
exposed and the progressive love affair with criminals at the
expensive victims has infuriated law abiding Californians. While we suffer
(30:42):
every day with rampant theft causing our small businesses to
close and our large box stores to move out of state,
our supermajority of lawmakers sit here in their guarded tower,
oblivious to what is going on in their communities, experiencing
drastic increases in all crimes, tiarticularly violent crimes. Over the
(31:03):
past five years, law enforcement has been unable to get
our progressive left majority to even consider any new law
or modification to an existing law that would increase punishment
or send criminals to prison. Reality has gone completely upside
down to the point our governor, our lawmakers, and our
Attorney general refused to prosecute criminals, to include those criminals
(31:26):
committing crimes with guns, and instead have dedicated their efforts
to disarm and remove constitutional protections of self defense from
law abiding Californians. We are in a very important election
year and the political silliness is servicing all around us.
The same supermajority who refused any sort of tough on
(31:47):
crime laws for the past several years are up for reelection.
They are now claiming they are going to address our
public safety crisis with new laws cracking down on crime.
The problem is every one of their bills are disingenuous
and hollow. For instance, one bill claims to address theft
by luring the felony limit back to four hundred dollars.
(32:09):
Upon examination of the bill, you will find that it
gives these career criminals three more chances to steal and
be convicted before they are sentenced to prison. That is
three a minimum of three more victims. We cannot turn
on the news, read the newspaper, go to the grocery store,
or open our businesses without being slapped in the face
(32:31):
of reality that criminals have been emboldened by a lenient
system that holds no consequence for criminal behavior. Instead of
addressing the obvious tone def Governor Newsom attacks a target
employee for not stopping a criminal from fleeing the store,
instead of taking an honest look at the failed social
experiment that he himself leads that allowed that theft to occur.
(32:57):
It is time we wake up and hold our politicians
againccountable for what their bills.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Laws and policies have caused.
Speaker 10 (33:04):
It is time to return to a common sense approach
to crime, realizing and admitting that there are evil people
who refuse to conform to a civilized society and instead
choose to victimize the rest of us by stealing our property,
robbing our stores, flooding our streets with drugs, including fentanyl,
breaking into our homes, murdering our children, and giving the
(33:28):
middle finger to our justice system. Californians deserve better. I
am proud to support lawmakers like Bill A.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Saley and several others who acknowledge.
Speaker 10 (33:38):
That criminals are responsible for their actions and they need
to be held accountable.
Speaker 17 (33:43):
Thank yous, not thank you, and good night.
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
The Michael Arry Show is on the air. I've made
(00:38):
clear over the years.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
That while it's called Michael Berry's Show, it's not always
going to be me talking. It could be something that
Ramon prepared or Jim prepared, or Chad prepared, or in
a number of things.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
But one of the things we're going to be.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Is a platform where good ideas can be shared. And
everybody doesn't take that approach, but we do. Some of
what we do is me talking, but some of what
we do is as I am outreading and interacting and talking,
when I discover things that I want to amplify, I'm
going to amplify that on this show. Even if it
(01:20):
means I'm not talking. It's hard for some people to understand.
That's okay, you'll get over it. Jesse Waters did a
great two part series and it was so good. I
watched it twice and I said, I've got to share it.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Now.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
You may say I already saw, I already listened to that.
I don't want to fine turn the channel. It's okay,
but a lot of people didn't. And it's so good
that I want everybody to hear.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
It the Doe's fathers on the loose, and no federal
job is safe.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
They're planned for. The deep state got it all over.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Forty thousand federal bureaucrats have already taken buyouts, and.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
We're only in week three.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
We expect number to increase, and that alone, just the
forty thousand, again, we expected to increase. It's going to
save the American people tens of millions of dollars, and
we encourage guttal workers in this city to accept the
very generous offer. If they don't want to show up
to the office, if they want to rip the American
people off, then they're welcome to take this buy out
and we'll find highly competent individuals who want to fill
(02:21):
these for uss.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Elon and his nerd Army have been combing through agencies,
blasting away blow Twenty year old dozers are clashing with
lazy old timers who don't know how to use a
computer and are calling the idiots and breaking news. Secretary
of State Marco Rubio has just fired ninety percent of
the administrators at USAID. They took a ten thousand man
(02:45):
agency and streamlined it to three hundred employees. The media
is calling it the Trump Apocalypse. CNN cast off Oliver
Darcy says the American experiment is convulsing before our eyes.
Flabbergas said that the media hasn't gone into Round the
Clock's special coverage.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Quote.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Media executives need not fret about being the boy who
cried wolf. The wolf is now in the barn and
mauling the livestock. The Democrats in the media have never
seen a president execute a mandate with speed and precision.
The country voted for change, and we're watching representative government
in the twenty first century.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
The Feds, they call that war.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Nobody wants to work in this type of condition where
we're going to be in a.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Psychological warfare for how long?
Speaker 6 (03:35):
Other federal workers not revealing their names because of concern
over retribution described to NBC News.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Fear and panic and Orwellian nightmare.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Federal workers are worried about payback and psychological warfare. How
do you think the whole country's felt for the last
twenty years having to tiptoe around DEI hold into hr
for jokes, canceled for an opinion, watching Black Lives Matter
light us on fire. A guy wearing a dress raped
(04:08):
a girl in the girl's bathroom, and the girl's dad
got arrested for raising his voice. A DEI bureaucrat at
the Department of Justice making six figures.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Who's going to get a buy out with an eight
month severage deal. They're not a victim.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
CNN's putting spots shadows on feds like their lives are
in danger.
Speaker 7 (04:28):
What is the general feeling across government amongst your fellow
federal workers right now?
Speaker 8 (04:36):
Grief, They're angry, many that are confused, but all kind
of grieving in their own way.
Speaker 7 (04:43):
How does it feel to be targeted for the work
that you're so passionate about.
Speaker 9 (04:49):
It's okay, you could take your time.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Actually makes me part of the people that I have
work with the things that returne.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
CNN's spot chatting a woman who's worked from home and
now she's crying because she doesn't want to go back
to the office.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
This is insane.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
CNN just laid off hundreds of employees to cut costs
because their books aren't balanced, because no one's watching them,
no one's interviewing fired CNN staff, not even Don Lemon.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Getting fired isn't a war crime.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
I've been fired four times, and thank god because it
turned out all right. Since when as CNN cared about
people losing their jobs, they didn't weep when Biden waxed
the Keystone pipeline workers. CNN's been trying to get everybody
fired at Fox for years. If CNN doesn't like what
you say, they call your boss, they call your advertisers,
(05:50):
they try to bankrupt you and boycott you. Random Americans
who cracked jokes on Facebook, CNN was putting them on blast,
trying to get him canceled. On Biden for firing army
officers who didn't get vaxed, guys who were willing to
die for this country. CNN said, good, get him out
of here. CNN's boss can lay off people. Why can't Trump?
(06:13):
Bill Clinton fired almost four hundred thousand federal workers. That
wasn't a constitutional crisis. The government had to slim down
Bill and Newton cut the fat, balance the budget. And
Democrats are acting like we're witnessing a genocide.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Let me remind you who set the house on fire.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
It was y'all.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
It feels as if y'all have just decided that y'all
are going to castrate your.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Constitutional duty and hand it over to someone who was unelected.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Fire Elon Musk.
Speaker 10 (06:44):
Elon Musk took control of our country's financial nuclear codes.
Speaker 11 (06:48):
House Republicans have allowed billionaire Elon Musk and his gang
of thieves to enter the US Treasury Department. Fire the
people entrusted with secret private information about Americas and give
them that access.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Elon Musk is destroying our federal government. He feels he
bought himself a president. Now we've got Donald Trump and
his co president Elon Musk, and they're just running a
wrecking ball through it.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Democrats want to audit you for a six hundred dollars
VENMO payment, but when Elon audits the trillion dollar government,
they're ready to storm the castle. Why are Democrats shocked?
We're putting the government on a diet. Trump and Musk
campaigned on it and one on it.
Speaker 8 (07:33):
We're going to be very open and transparent, and it's
very clear about this is what we're doing.
Speaker 12 (07:38):
Here are the issues, this is this is the math
for what's being spent and what you know, and we're
going to make it. We're going to make the spending lower.
If somebody's got a better idea for how to make
the spending lower, we'll tell us, but if we.
Speaker 9 (07:54):
Don't, we're going to bankrupt the country.
Speaker 13 (07:56):
I will create a Government Efficiency Commission, task with conducting a.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Complete financial and performance.
Speaker 13 (08:02):
Audit of the entire federal government and making recommendations for
drastic reforms. As the first order of business, this commission
will develop an action plan to totally eliminate fraud and
improper payments within six months.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
This will save trillions of dollars. Tree.
Speaker 14 (08:20):
Listen to the Michael Berry Show podcast and you'll be
the smartest guy in the room. Share with your friends
and you'll be the most popular too.
Speaker 15 (08:30):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
This is the second of a true part or.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Jesse Waters did this on Fox News, and I understand
some of you will email and you'll be aggravated because
you watch Fox News twenty four hours a day and
you already heard this segment. I got it, and I
have to make the programming decision that you may turn
off the channel. And I'm okay with that because this
is so important that anyone who didn't hear it needs
to hear it. I don't believe I'm the only person
(08:54):
out there talking that needs to be heard. I think
that as a movement, we've got to say, hey, this
once over here, made a good point and shared this
and that's important to do so. Jesse Waters did a
segment which we've broken into two because of our clock,
about Trump dismantling the deep state.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
And this is so important.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Our government is working against us and that is true
evil and it's very hard for us to win because
they have all the power. This is the colonists rebelling
against the crown and it was look they pledged their
(09:41):
lives and many of them gave them. This is Jesse
Waters Fox News on Trump dismantling the deep State. I
think he did a wonderful job with a segment.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Democrats aren't surprised this is Trump's agenda. There's surprise he's
able to execute it because after years of inconfidence, no
one thought anyone was capable of doing anything in washing
to Elon says, there's a way to know when you're
over the target.
Speaker 8 (10:04):
One of the things I remember from the PayPal days
was that you know who complains the loudest.
Speaker 9 (10:10):
Uh is the fraudsters.
Speaker 8 (10:12):
Okay, So like the when somebody was trying to fraud
of paypals, where we would see the most amount of
righteous indignation, like it would be like immediate, over the
top righteous indignation was from the fraudsters, not from honest people,
because honest people are like, oh, I think there's something
wrong with my account. I guess I wonder what's wrong.
Let me inquire, and but the frausters will come at
(10:35):
you immediately. This is it's like it's like a tell
that someone's actually doing for it, because the level of
of sort of faux outrage is way over the top.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Elon doesn't care about bad press. He's trying to save
the republic.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
It's good cop, bad cop. Trump's the good cop. He's
the bad cop.
Speaker 9 (10:54):
We're catching him left and right. We're catching him.
Speaker 13 (10:57):
We're catching him to a point where they don't know
what that the heck is going on.
Speaker 9 (11:01):
They can't believe they're getting caught.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
And I have great respect for the people that are
doing it.
Speaker 13 (11:06):
Elon Musk is helping us on it, and he's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
He's pretty good. The government's been robbing us blind.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
We've been writing checks six million for tourism in Egypt.
Like Egypt needs help with that, they have the pyramids.
We should be spending money on cleaning up California so
the tourists can vacation in California two million to help
the BBC value the diversity of Libyan society.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
We're bribing the BBC to cover Libya better.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Why a million for a gay group in Armenia?
Speaker 1 (11:42):
There it is.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
We paid twenty million for Iraqi Sesame Street.
Speaker 16 (11:48):
Yeah, you paid for Burton Ernie in Baghdad.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
Weren't we just bombing these people? Now we're paying for
their Muppet shows.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
We're sick. There is something sick with us. You also
paid for an Irish Dei musical on behalf of Ambassador Cronin.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
It is an honor to welcome all of her guests
to Deerfield tonight for this important event. Increasing access to
opportunity and equity is a cornerstone of the Biden administration,
and we're so proud to play.
Speaker 9 (12:37):
A small part in that.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Here this is a government theft ring.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
We spent two million dollars for trans surgeries in Guatemala.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
I'm gonna go out on a limit.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
One Guatemalan dude got resting plants, and we probably kicked
back the rest of the cash to a crooked Guatemalan
politician and the corrupt liberal CEO of the group. They
laundered the money through Because all this money we're spending,
we could have turned the whole world trans We could
have made every man a woman and every woman a
man with this kind of money, You really think it
(13:07):
costs twenty million to produce an episode of Sesame Street.
You could hire Tom Cruise to play Oscar the Grouse
for that money.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Check this.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Biden paid nearly five billion dollars to unnamed foreign sources.
Whoever is getting our money is so shady our government
can't even put it in writing.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
They just call it AID.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
I bet a lot of this money is to bribe
foreign officials to win bids for American companies, or to
bribe foreign politicians just to have in our pockets, or
just to subsidize far left foundations. Most of the people
getting money from these grants aren't in the country. They
pump it into overseas organizations and then we never see them.
(13:52):
Any liberal with an international women's studies degree can launch
a five ZHO.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
One C three, apply for.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
A government grant and spin it off into a left
wing piggyback. USAID paid two hundred and thirty five million
dollars to the National Democratic Institute.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Well that sounds benign. Now, millions of that.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Money went to executive compensation, meeting salaries for all the
liberals with no skills. I bet most of that money
didn't go to supporting democracy. It went to supporting liberal lifestyles.
Democrats have been sucking off the teat of government for decades,
and Trump caught them. As one Trump insider says, you
(14:34):
bring USAID to heal and you end the Democrat gravy train.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
USAID's just the beginning.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
You start peeling back at the layers of every agency,
and all you find out is pork that winds up
in the wrong people's pockets.
Speaker 6 (14:50):
The White Coat Waste Project exposed more than ten million
dollars in taxpayer funds that were spent creating transgender mice, rats,
and monkeys. Well, the Biden Harris administration spent two point
five million taxpayer dollars two point five million taxpair dollars
to study the fertility of transgender mice. We spent over
(15:13):
a million dollars to find out if female rats receiving
testosterone therapy, uh, we're more likely to overdose on a
date rape drug.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
One of those multimillion dollar studies was at the University
of Michigan. How much do you want to bet a
Democrat wants to go to a game at ann Arbor
front row seats. Anyone from the Biden team wants to
land at ann Arbor. Here's an office, a campus, an apartment,
and a no show job with benefits. Governments fed the
pigs so much it turned into a hog.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
You know what happens to hogs.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
They get slaughtered, and the American people love a good butcher.
Speaker 15 (15:52):
This political party, the Democratic Party, have lied to us
about everything. What the last several weeks have proven to
us all is that this was a part. This is
a cadre of criminals and losers and spoiled children of
(16:15):
affluent parents who were more concerned about looking good than
actually doing good. Now we come to USAID being probably
the largest money laundering operation in American history. Congratulations, Stems,
(16:37):
You've outdone You've outdone even Bernie Madoff.
Speaker 14 (16:41):
Listen to the Michael Berry Show podcast if you dare.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
One of you younger folks don't remember Ronald Reagan, who's
motto and running for president in nineteen eighty was make
America great Again.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Yeah, it really was.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Donald Trump learned a lot from him and from Patrick
Buchanan and Donald Trump's approach in getting working class voters
back Republican Reagan Democrats, they're known as.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
I think it's good to pay tribute.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Just as on this show we often pay tribute to
Rush Limbaugh, I think it's good to pay tribute to
Ronald Reagan. And remember how great he was. This was
Ronald Reagan on Johnny Carson. Now not a particularly political show,
but he could manage former actor governor. He could talk
about political issues on a show like Johnny Carson without
(17:33):
making people want to fall asleep. Barry Goldwater didn't have
that skill, neither did Bush. But I'm going to give
this a few minutes to pay tribute to the great communicator,
Ronald Reagan. Talking about the government and a bunch of
people looking out for their own self interest.
Speaker 17 (17:49):
When you and I were boys back in the Midwest,
government's federal, state, and local, we're only taking about fifteen
cents out of every dollar earned. Today, they're taking almost half.
Speaker 9 (17:57):
Of every dollar earned in the United States.
Speaker 17 (18:00):
People don't realize it because the taxes are hidden in
the so called business taxes. You know the politician that
stands up and yells, oh, let's save the little man.
Let's tax business and everybody else are ready. They haven't
figured out that every tax on business is just a
part of the cost of production, and the customer winds
up paying it when he buys the product.
Speaker 9 (18:18):
It's a hidden sales tax.
Speaker 17 (18:19):
There's one hundred and sixteen of them in the suit
of clothes that each one of us enter. So a
lot of the economists have suggested, and I don't know
there'll ever come to be in this country, that they're
if they closed all of the loopholes and for corporations
and maybe tax loopholes, and even on their rich certain loopholes,
and that made a percentage income and made a flat
fee without all of the deductions, that the government might
(18:41):
raise as much money as they do now.
Speaker 9 (18:43):
Oh sure.
Speaker 17 (18:44):
And really the loopholes this has been overdone by the
politicians too. The bulk of the money that has taken
by what are called loopholes are the legitimate deductions, with
which if the people didn't have them, they couldn't pay
their income tax, interest on their mortgage, interest on the
installments on their car, property taxes on their home if
they have one, and so forth.
Speaker 9 (19:03):
These are in politicians and as loophools.
Speaker 17 (19:06):
But we ought to have tax reform, and we ought
to start by making it as simple that you don't
have to hire a lawyer to find out how much
you owe every year. That's for sure. It used to
be used to delusive to put about.
Speaker 9 (19:15):
It a lot, Johnny. We live in the only country in.
Speaker 17 (19:19):
The world where it takes more brains to figure out
your income tax than it does durn the.
Speaker 9 (19:22):
Income I'd be right.
Speaker 17 (19:24):
We've gotten in the habit of over the last forty
years of thinking the government.
Speaker 9 (19:27):
Has the answers.
Speaker 17 (19:28):
There's very little that government can do as efficiently and
as economically as the people can do themselves. And if
government would shut the doors and sneak away for about
three weeks, we'd never miss them. Our biggest problem is
that we have built a permanent structure of government, federal, state,
and local, the permanent employees, and they've come to the
place that they actually determined policy in this country more than.
Speaker 9 (19:49):
Does the Congress of the United States.
Speaker 17 (19:51):
There are fourteen and a half million public employees in
the United States. That's quite a voting block. And the
bureaus and agencies not in Washington. You talking earlier about
some of the research programs. What would you say if
I told you about one a study in which this
was called the.
Speaker 9 (20:09):
Demography of Happiness.
Speaker 17 (20:11):
And in this study, the government found out that young
people are happier in old people.
Speaker 9 (20:17):
And they found out that people.
Speaker 17 (20:21):
That earned more or happier than people that earn less.
And they found out that well people are happier than
six people that's less. Life was two hundred and forty
nine thousand dollars to find out it's better to be rich,
young and healthy than old poorns.
Speaker 9 (20:36):
A poll was.
Speaker 17 (20:37):
Taken recently that found out that only forty six percent
of the people in the poll could name their United
States congressman. But what was worse, eighty six percent of
those who could name him couldn't tell you a single
thing that he represented or stood for. They just knew
that he represented the fay but he was a congressman.
But what's he doing while he's up there? And the
same is true at the at the local levels of
government and all the rest.
Speaker 9 (20:58):
But so you people, really you have to take an
active interest.
Speaker 17 (21:01):
You have to have citizenation groups locally and let them know.
Speaker 9 (21:05):
Special interest groups.
Speaker 17 (21:06):
Now, the special interest groups, right as everyone thought, big
powerful business interests are something that are going to persuade
government to do things. As a matter of fact, I
don't know anyone with less influence today in government than business.
They're just a convenient whipping boy. But it's the groups
that have got a particular acts to grind.
Speaker 9 (21:20):
You can't have a power.
Speaker 17 (21:21):
Plant because it might interfere with the seagulls.
Speaker 14 (21:23):
Now.
Speaker 17 (21:23):
I think I'm an environmentalist, and I do not agree
with those people way over in the edge who pave
the whole country over in the name of progress. But
also I don't like those on the other extreme, the
one that you build a house unless it looks like
a bird's nest. Well someplace in the middle. We got
to allow people are ecology too well, this kind of group,
and they want their particular program. Hundreds of dollars have
(21:44):
been added to the cost of an automobile putting gadgets
on to clear up the air. We're the only country
in the world that's set out to do it that way.
When budget deficits are what's causing inflation, I don't see
that there's.
Speaker 9 (21:54):
Any room to be on either side of that argument.
Speaker 17 (21:58):
I think the answer to curing and is a balanced budget.
Speaker 9 (22:02):
Now how do you do that? I mean, that's not
how do you balance the budget?
Speaker 17 (22:07):
Well, balancing the budget is like protecting more than you
take in right now, it's like protecting your virtue.
Speaker 9 (22:11):
You have to learn to say.
Speaker 18 (22:12):
No, there's got to be another way.
Speaker 17 (22:28):
What's the second option? Well, no, there's some ways that
this could be brought about. First of all that limitation,
here's another one. Why shouldn't we have, in addition to
a simplified income text, why shouldn't we also have a
law that says that any time a legislator or a
congressman introduces a spending program, he has to introduce with
it a tax program to pay for it.
Speaker 9 (22:50):
Now, let the people find out.
Speaker 17 (22:51):
There was a woman that from a financial firm that
was back at the President's Economic Counsel and her words
weren't quoted everybody else's words gotten the paper or all
the Heller's.
Speaker 9 (23:01):
And the gall breaths and all the so called economists.
Speaker 17 (23:04):
And I have a degree in economics, so I can
say this. I think an economist is someone who has
a five day to kapakey on one.
Speaker 9 (23:11):
End of his watchchain and no watch on the other.
Speaker 17 (23:14):
This woman said that you go to the polls and
you ask the people do they want some social service,
some program the government can give, And the people in
the polls are after read and say that sounds good. Yeah,
But she says that isn't exactly accurate. She says, put
an one hundred dollars bill in each person's hand and
then show them the program and say, now, isn't that
a nice program?
Speaker 9 (23:34):
Do you want it? Give me thee hundred dollars?
Speaker 17 (23:37):
She says, See what the poll says then, and how
many people hang on with one hundred dollars.
Speaker 9 (23:41):
Instead of the program?
Speaker 17 (23:42):
In other words, that it's rather hidden than someone doesn't
know exactly where it's gonna come. They all start all
the government programs start a dollar down and we'll catch
you later, and they multiply all of those things that
you were. The Office of Management and Budget in Washington
that's responsible for the budget putting the budget together, cannot
even tell you how many boards, commissions, agencies, bureaus, and
(24:04):
departments there are in the federal government. But all of
them can pass regulations, and those regulations have the force
of law. And the difference is when you break the law,
you're innocent until proven guilty. When you break a regulation,
the fellow the charges you would break in the regulation,
you're guilty. If you want to take him to court
and prove your innocent, that's up to you. And all
(24:26):
of these are things that yes, we can trim the budget.
There's enough fat in the federal government that if you
rendered it, you could wash the world. Maybe it's time
for realignment between people who might be find themselves in
the wrong parties. Maybe there are some people still voting.
I was a Democrat most of my life. I became
a Republican only not too many years ago. And I
(24:51):
had the pleasure of telling some of those people that
are saying the Republican Party ought.
Speaker 9 (24:54):
To broaden this base the other day.
Speaker 17 (24:57):
That when I switched parties, I didn't do it because
the two parties were alike.
Speaker 9 (25:02):
I did it because they were different.
Speaker 17 (25:04):
And I think that the two parties are the stand
up as to what they represent, what they said.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
They are telling what's called onesies, these little things clothing
for a baby.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Afldabari. Sure you was one of all these onesies.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
You know. When I was growing up, California was the
dream of America.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Florida was up there, but California was the dream location.
Texas is rugged and independent and everything's big and tough,
and I'm very proud to be a lifelong Texan and
I don't see myself living anywhere else. But California was
a place you went on vacation, and for many people,
(25:50):
you didn't feel like you needed to go to Dominican
Republic or Hawaii necessarily because California was so beautiful that
if you were in Texas, that was as far as
you needed to go. Texans would drive to California. And
of course you had the movie industry, which was a
big part, you know, so a lot of the pre
d people. But you also had big agriculture, lush Mediterranean
(26:16):
products in the Wine country. You had tourism, you had
great sports teams, you had a powerful economy, you had
beautiful mountains and beaches and the ocean. I mean, this
was it, man and somehow, some way through bad political decisions,
(26:39):
and we've seen this happen before. I mean, Beyroot was
once a great place. Tehran was once a city in
Iran that you would go as a tourist. Be Root especially,
Zagreb was once a city that, you know, a Paris
of the east, Bucharest. These were places for that matter, Havannah.
(27:01):
These were places that you would want to go and
visit because they were glorious, and bad political decisions, bad
political decisions destroyed those places. And California. Somebody asked me
the other day, they said, Hey, I got to do
my board meeting. I'm trying to decide where to do it,
(27:23):
and some of our employees want to do San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
What do you think? And I said, well, why don't
you fly out there for a weekend.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Why don't you just walk around and if you don't
get mugged and you don't slip in the crap and
you know you're not everything you have stolen from you,
then I guess you know, knock yourself out. But honestly,
it's sad. And Gavin Newsom didn't make California horrible.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
It was horrible before, but.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
He's sure made it a whole lot worse, hasn't he?
And it's time for a change.
Speaker 10 (27:57):
Good morning, chat Bon Riverside County Sheriff. We're here today
because California public safety is in crisis. Crime is steadily
on the rise, and our public safety policy is one
of the worst, if not the worst, in the nation.
I want to make this clear, and I want there
to be no mistake in what.
Speaker 9 (28:17):
I am saying. This is not by accident.
Speaker 10 (28:21):
The driving force in our crisis is a radical progressive
agenda fraudulently called criminal justice reform. This is nothing short
of a sick and twisted social experiment where law enforcement
is the bad guy and criminals are somehow victims of
society and not responsible for their actions, their crimes, or
(28:42):
accountable to their countless victims. This agenda began with a
passage of AB one oh nine, the so called Public
Safety Realignment Act. State government failed to take responsibility for
prison overcrowding or their failure to build more prisons, and
instead forced county jails to house state inmates while simultaneously
(29:04):
releasing thousands of felons early. This has pushed our county
jails to a near collapse and caused the early release
of countless criminals. Thousands upon thousands of criminals are being
released from custody early. Crime is increasing, and our governor
is closing prisons instead of building new ones. It defies
common sense. In twenty fourteen, a complete fraud was perpetrated
(29:29):
in California.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
The so called Safe streets and safe schools.
Speaker 10 (29:32):
Initiative Prop forty seven changed many felonies to misdemeanors, basically
legalized drug use, and increased the amount of petty theft
to nearly one thousand dollars. In twenty sixteen, another lie
was perpetrated on voters with the naming and wording of
Prop fifty seven, tricking voters into approving the release of
thousands of violent criminals onto our streets and neighborhoods.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
This is why we are here.
Speaker 10 (29:59):
Everyone knows Prop forty seven and fifty seven are disasters,
and yet Governor Newsom adamantly touts it as a success,
and lawmakers continue to refuse to fix their mistake and
the problems that they have created. When once crimes are
no longer crimes, it allows Governor Newsom an Attorney General
Bonta to cite completely flawed data points to support their failures.
(30:22):
Californians are now suffering the consequences of a failed social agenda.
We are now at our breaking point and Californians have
had enough. The law of Prop forty seven has been
exposed and the progressive love affair with criminals at the
expensive victims has infuriated law abiding Californians. While we suffer
(30:42):
every day with rampant theft causing our small businesses to
close and our large box stores to move out of state,
our supermajority of lawmakers sit here in their guarded tower,
oblivious to what is going on in their communities, experiencing
drastic increases in all crimes, tiarticularly violent crimes. Over the
(31:03):
past five years, law enforcement has been unable to get
our progressive left majority to even consider any new law
or modification to an existing law that would increase punishment
or send criminals to prison. Reality has gone completely upside
down to the point our governor, our lawmakers, and our
Attorney general refused to prosecute criminals, to include those criminals
(31:26):
committing crimes with guns, and instead have dedicated their efforts
to disarm and remove constitutional protections of self defense from
law abiding Californians. We are in a very important election
year and the political silliness is servicing all around us.
The same supermajority who refused any sort of tough on
(31:47):
crime laws for the past several years are up for reelection.
They are now claiming they are going to address our
public safety crisis with new laws cracking down on crime.
The problem is every one of their bills are disingenuous
and hollow. For instance, one bill claims to address theft
by luring the felony limit back to four hundred dollars.
(32:09):
Upon examination of the bill, you will find that it
gives these career criminals three more chances to steal and
be convicted before they are sentenced to prison. That is
three a minimum of three more victims. We cannot turn
on the news, read the newspaper, go to the grocery store,
or open our businesses without being slapped in the face
(32:31):
of reality that criminals have been emboldened by a lenient
system that holds no consequence for criminal behavior. Instead of
addressing the obvious tone def Governor Newsom attacks a target
employee for not stopping a criminal from fleeing the store,
instead of taking an honest look at the failed social
experiment that he himself leads that allowed that theft to occur.
(32:57):
It is time we wake up and hold our politicians
againccountable for what their bills.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Laws and policies have caused.
Speaker 10 (33:04):
It is time to return to a common sense approach
to crime, realizing and admitting that there are evil people
who refuse to conform to a civilized society and instead
choose to victimize the rest of us by stealing our property,
robbing our stores, flooding our streets with drugs, including fentanyl,
breaking into our homes, murdering our children, and giving the
(33:28):
middle finger to our justice system. Californians deserve better. I
am proud to support lawmakers like Bill A.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Saley and several others who acknowledge.
Speaker 10 (33:38):
That criminals are responsible for their actions and they need
to be held accountable.
Speaker 17 (33:43):
Thank yous, not thank you, and good night.
Popular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Special Summer Offer: Exclusively on Apple Podcasts, try our Dateline Premium subscription completely free for one month! With Dateline Premium, you get every episode ad-free plus exclusive bonus content.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!