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Speaker 1 (00:02):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. Michael
Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
They got a name for people like you, Hi. That
name is called Recitiism.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Repeat on fender.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Not a pretty name, is it high? No, sir, that's
one bonehead name. But that ain't me anymore.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
You're not just telling us what we want to hear, No, sir,
no way of couse.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
We just want to hear the truth.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Well, then I guess I am telling you what you
want to hear. Boy, didn't we just tell you not
to do that?
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Yes, sir, Okay, then we cannot keep our promises on medicare.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
We simply must make.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
The cuts and waste broad and abuse in medicare so
that the benefits and the premiums are untouched. We owe
it to our seniors, We owe it to our country.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
Easy you have to make, then you have say.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
That's you love me.
Speaker 6 (01:24):
There is no question that there is an enormous amount
of waste and fraud and abuse in this government. There
is no question to my mind that Congress has not
been vigilant enough in rooting out that waste and fraud
to the tune of billions and billions of dollars. I
would simply say that while it is absolutely appropriate to
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condemn the Congress, it is also important to note that
we have an administration in this city in Washington D Street, DC,
and the function of an administration is to administer them
and that means that when there is waste and fraud,
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you have an administration who should also be on top
of that situation.
Speaker 7 (02:18):
If we're going to eliminate the waste brought and abuse
in medicare, it does mean.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
We're going to cut some of that out.
Speaker 7 (02:25):
And when I hear my friend Dave Camp say you
cannot cut money out of Medicare, well, we don't want
to cut the good stuff that you point out one
third of Medicare doesn't go to patient care. You can't
just get up there and say we don't want to
cut anything out of Medicare. We want to cut the
bad stuff and keep the good stuff.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Is you do that often here from listeners that they
are underpaid, And it's a fascinating concept, and so it
because that is a that is a completely subjective question,
(03:11):
and I enjoy the exercise. So I will say, all right,
you feel that you're underpaid? No, no, I'm underpaid. All right, Well,
let's take a step back for a moment and let's
talk through how it is you've come to feel that
you're underpaid. What do you think you're worth? And let's
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say the gal say fifty bucks an hour? All right,
what are you getting paid? Twenty eight? All right? How
did you establish a market of fifty bucks an hour? Well,
that's what other people are getting, all right, then why
don't you go and get those people's job. Well, nobody's hiring.
(03:53):
If nobody's hiring and nobody's willing to pay you fifty bucks,
then here's what you need to understand. You're not worth
fifty bucks. You're only worth what somebody pays you or
what you earn yourself individually. So either leave and go
earn the fifty bucks at a business of your that
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you start, or put the word out that you need
fifty bucks an hour and you know you're an electrician
or a plumber or whatever it is you do, and
that you want these just pay for Well, I can't
find anybody want to pay me. I'm underpaid. You're not
actually underpaid. You're getting paid what you demand and they're
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willing to cover the only way you're going to get
a pay raise, unless they're just really nice people who
for whatever reason are in the bad business of paying
people more than the person demands, which I guess some
people do. That is, if you say I'm leaving, the
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only way I'm staying is if you pay me fifty
bucks an hour. At that moment, you're going to find
out what you're worth presently your work twenty eight bucks
an hour, because that's what you're getting. If they say
I can't pay you fifty but I can pay you
thirty five, you were underpaid what your value was. But
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that's your problem, not theirs. You had to threaten to leave, well,
the threat to leave hanging over you is what keeps
you from shooting for the stars. It is the threat
of recession. It is the fear that we won't make
as much today as we made yesterday. That causes those
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in the press and those investors and many other folks.
That causes them to criticize Trump's economic policies as he
has begun them because they fear losing their job more
than they aspire to get the fifty bucks an hour.
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What Trump is trying to do right now with very
aggressive economic policies is he is trying to put America
into a better position domestically and vis a vis other nations.
And this is a complicated game He's plan because you
got a lot of different people at play here, stock
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market being one of those factors, but also consumers who
are buying products, and also workers who work for companies,
most of them Americans, some of those importing products and distributing.
This is a very very complex economy, and it's not
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so simple as the tariffs are good or the tariffs
are bad. I have long been a Wall Street Journal reader.
Now I'll have to hear from a thousand of you
that the Wall Street JOURNALI is or the Wall Street
Journal is at. I don't endorse everything I read, or
every person I listen to, or anything else. But the
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Wall Street Journal has tended to be not as well
as Investor's Business Daily, but it's tended to be a
pretty good source and commentator on the intersection of politics
and finance and industry. But they do not like Donald Trump,
and that's clear to me. And they are going out
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of their way, and unfortunately they are a bit of
a bellwether. They are an influencer on these matters and
a lot of people are reading what they're writing, and
they're writing things like Canada is upset, the EU is upset,
as if we're supposed to care Making America great again,
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whether that's a slogan or reality, means readjusting a lot
of relationships, and some people who are in a stronger
position with us than they should be are going to
be upset about that. They're not going to consent to
us adjusting our position that benefits us in such a
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manner that harms them, because it's a zero sum game
in many cases, not all, so of course people are
mad about it. Michael ber let me become friends with
school shooters. So one of the sites I follow is
called the Babylon b and it's a satire site and
it's funny. Sadly, The Onion used to be funny, and
(08:41):
somewhere along the way, those liberals at the Onion lost
the ability to laugh at themselves or anything else. Rush
Limbaugh always said, beware the man who can't laugh at himself.
You know, the ability to laugh at yourself. Deprecating humor
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is a superpower. It has a way of disarming people,
and Trump has a unique ability to kind of poke
fund at himself and you're not sure if he's doing
it or not. It's sort of like a Rauschenberg of
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an abstract artist. He does things in such a way
that allows people to take from it what they want
and to impose their own hopes, dreams, fears, anxieties, whatever
that may be, onto what he does, which I find
to be fascinating. It's a fascinating study in his in
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not just his leadership style, but in his entire career
as a as a public figure. One fellow that doesn't
know how to laugh at himself. It's Tim Waltz, that goober.
And now there's a lot coming out now about how
he was chosen to be Kamala Harris's vice presidential running mate.
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First of all, we know a couple of things. Kamala
Harris didn't win a primary, so she had a real
legitimacy question. She's a female, so they needed to in
their minds balance that with men. They needed to find
somebody that could bring in men. Well, if you spent
five minutes around Tim Waltz, you know that he's kind
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of like Pete Butterygig. This guy's not going to do
well with men, at least not approximately ninety percent of men.
He gives off all the wrong vibes, all the wrong vibes,
and he makes mothers weirded out because they can't imagine
him being around their kid. And you know, there's been
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a lot of allegations in the course of his career.
So he was supposed to strengthen the situation, the support
amongst men, and he was supposed to bring in white
men in hunters and football players and coaches and fans
and rednecks and working class and it could not have
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gone more off the rails. And I think one of
the great ironies is, although again it's Russia's teachings. Whatever
they accuse you of is what they are. Tim Waltz
comes out and says jd Vance is weird. And there
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was about three or four days there. There were about
three or four days there where that was the narrative.
And once you declare that he's weird and you start
using the right pictures and the stories about him and everything,
you know, people start trying to fit that into the narrative.
But it didn't take long till everyone realizes the weird
one is Jazz hands over there, guy's married. How is
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that that?
Speaker 8 (12:02):
Guy.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Oh man, he's there's a lot of weird going on
with this dude, a lot of weird. And then we
had the stolen valor. Uh, the stolen valor. The stolen
valor thing was as much a problem for him as
his effeminate ways and troubling past. And then you had
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the lies over his coaching when he was actually not
the head coach of the team that won state, but
in fact was kicked out. And then you had all
these lingering questions and his behaviors and the jazz hands
and the weird when he was in public. So with
all of that in mind, you would think that he
would have the good sense to slink off into the
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sunset after the Kamala Harris loss, which, by the way,
she's blaming him now. You think he'd go lick his
wounds for a little while or something. No. No, I
read an article and I thought it was from the
Babylon B I really did that, Tim Waltz, And we'll
put it on the if you don't. If you don't
(13:08):
get our Daily Blast, you can get it for free.
It's it's an email. We sent out a newsletter in
between the two shows with links to the stories we're
talking about. We make memes and and do some fun
stuff like that. It's at Michael berryshow dot com. We
won't sell your email, share your email. Will send it
once a day, five days a week. The article was
about the fact that the headline was Tim Waltz says
he'll run for president if asked, And I just thought
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to myself, did you really? Are you? Are you?
Speaker 5 (13:36):
How?
Speaker 1 (13:37):
How does that play out? In my mind? Got to wandering.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Sorry I'm late.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Guys.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
They don't make those family bathrooms like they used to.
You know what I mean? Oh my gosh, got gout.
It's just stop and stop it.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
I mean, really, I walk in here, and I mean
the flow is heavy, the energy is just electric.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
I can feel it all the way down to my loines. Okay,
you all want me to run for president, don't you?
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (14:05):
I knew it.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
I knew it.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
It's like when somebody brings a cheesecake to a party
and they're like, oh, I wasn't sure if anyone wanted
to deserve, but of course everyone totally does. And now
I'm the cheesecake.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Governor.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Waltz.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Are you saying you're running?
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (14:21):
I couldn't possibly unless you insist. But do you insist?
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Do you need me?
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Do you crave me?
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Tell me you need me? Uh, nobody's asked you to run.
Speaker 5 (14:34):
I mean it's a big decision, the weight of the
nation on these shoulders.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
I'm just a humble public servant, a pleaser, a giver.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
And if the people begged me, oh, if they insist,
if they fall to their knees and they say, Timmy,
Timmy Wallace, you must say this, then oh I'd have to.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
It'd be rude.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Nothing.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
So are you running?
Speaker 6 (14:58):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (14:58):
You not a little scamp. See you almost tricked me
to say that we listen if the American people demand.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
Me, and I mean to man me like a sequel
that hid is on the hockeyen Ry Well, he Felfish
nut of the faith.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Hit it boys. Yes, good, I think we're done here.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Let's get at you. She was twelve, I was thirty.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
But anyway, it was wonderful to have you, mister president.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Of the Michael Barry Show. I think this is a
perfect time to take seconds. Remember a great Houstonian Kenny Rogers, Yes,
a great Houstonian. I read that he had five life
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of suction procedure star in the eighties, street. So you imagine,
like me, he just loves his food. He just absolutely
loved his food. Condition So there's a story in the news,
But there's so many stories in the news that you
may not have caught your attention. But it's one of
these things that just keeps bubbling up again and again
(16:14):
and again. We're going to have some tough conversations in
the next hour because our guest is in the business
of writing things that will make some of you very angry.
He is a Christian who writes about faith. He's written
a book called Pagan America, and he talks about talks
about a lot of things, but he talks about people
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who come to this country and don't share our culture
and don't love what America stands for. You can be
a dissident here. You can disagree. Hell, we're dissonance. We
gather here every day to talk about how our fellow
patriots were wronged. On January sixth, we gather here to
talk about how COVID was exhibit one in how government
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is evil and must always be checked. What does Sam
Houston say, governed wisely and as little as possible. We've
got the wrong people in government. When you have Michael Steele,
who was the head of the Republican Party album Mind You,
saying things like Elon needs to leave government to those
who do government well anyway. So this is something that
(17:21):
is not being talked about, in my opinion enough, and
that is the threat by China on America. So you
have two active duty US Army soldiers and one former
soldier who've been arrested for gathering, stealing, and sending sensitive
information to the chocoms. This keeps happening again and again
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and again. And do you notice it's almost always Chinese Americans.
The story clip number six Jim Fox thirteen out of Seattle.
Speaker 8 (17:55):
Do active duty US soldiers stationed at Joint Bace Lewis
McCord no longer at their posts. They are behind bars,
accused of working with the Chinese government.
Speaker 9 (18:04):
This is the result of a long running investigation where
the FBI and our partners were able to uncover a
conspiracy to steal national defense information from military installations here in.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
The Pacific Northwest.
Speaker 8 (18:17):
The FBI naming those two JBLM soldiers as Jianzhou and VTN. They,
along with Roy Gwen, a former US soldier in Oregon,
were arrested Thursday. All of them are accused of violating
their duties to protect sensitive military information by selling it
to China.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
The information that you said at.
Speaker 9 (18:35):
Risk here is information that identifies up the United States
melters capabilities, plans, and intentions, and could really put us
at this disadvantage if that were called the wrong hands
for an adversary.
Speaker 8 (18:47):
According to this FBI press release, all three had access
to highly sensitive information which upon sale they gained roughly
fifteen thousand dollars, giving.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
China access to classified.
Speaker 8 (18:58):
Hard drives, a stolen encryption capable computer, along with other
sensitive military information. The FBI, stating this threat to national
security ended following a year and a half long investigation.
Speaker 9 (19:09):
Luckily, our investigators are pretty well versed in these types
of investigations.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
But it does post a challenge.
Speaker 8 (19:19):
And right now it's still unclear how much information was
transmitted to China. The FBI said during its investigation it
tried mitigating any losses. As for the three, those charges
will now go to a special prosecutor.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
So why is it that people that live in this country,
some of whom were born in this country, seem to
have a loyalty, Well, do have a loyalty to China
when you're giving our secrets to a foreign country, and
I would argue an adversarial foreign country. I think China
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is our greatest threat, not Russia at all. I think
China is a very very big threat to our country aggressively,
so financially and militarily. But why is it that people
who grow up in this country will then sell secrets,
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commit treason against this country, bring harm to this country
to the benefit of China. That says to me that
you do not see yourself primarily as an American. And
then you have to start asking yourself the question, why
is it that people who live here, people who go
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to school here, people who work here, people who serve
in our military, and don't tell me it's just the
quick cash. They did receive at least ten thousand dollars
each for this. I don't believe it's the quick cash.
Although in the case of this fellow Hansen and what
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was the guy's name started with a z aldrich Ames
not a z alliterative names. Yeah, it is about power
for folks that feel like they haven't been respected and
appreciated and promoted and honored and all that you see
some of these FBI guys who've done that. But we're
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seeing students, professors, researchers who are giving secrets to China
because of a deep loyalty to China. And I would
argue that these people don't see themselves as Americans in
the way that you see yourself as an American. And
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we will actually explore that topic in the next hour
with a guest. We're going to have you know, this
Khalil at Columbia University, that the Palestinian who was organizing
protests for hamas President Trump's trying to kick him out
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of the country. And the argument from the left is
normally we need this terrorist bastard here, which we don't.
But the legal wrangling aside. We have to get serious
as a nation about saying there are people we don't
want here, period, end of story. You know, I was
reading about a little village in England where native born
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Englishmen have now been outnumbered in this little hamlet. It
sounds idyllic, like a Norman Rockwell painting, but English they're
now out numbered by asylum seekers, and they're scared to
death of these asylum seekers. Rape is up, stabbings are up,
and they're frightened of these people who've been brought into
their country. This goes back to what we talked about
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during the presidential campaign. We need to put a freeze
on anybody coming into this country illegally or on work visus.
We can figure out what we're doing and figure out
how big this problem is. We are no longer the
dumping ground for criminals, perverts, and weirdos and terrorists around
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the country. We have to be proud of who we
are and what our country is and be willing to
say we're no longer willing to allow this to happen
our It is troubling how desensitized we have become to
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terrorism and violence in our country. For instance, the left
hates Elon Musk because he's exposing fraud in our country.
I even heard somebody the other that I think was
an elected official, you know, some loud mouthed state rep
in in some state. It doesn't matter, but whoever it was,
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and honestly, don't recall it was an elected Democrat though,
and I believe as a woman, and she said we
shouldn't trust Elon Musk. You know, he wasn't born here.
He's only been a citizen for twenty two years. And
it's kind of the sort of thing that you can't
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imagine they really said or believed, because this is the party,
mind you, who wants to import the trashiest, most violent,
most perverted, most evil people that each third world has
or third world country has, like going in looking for him. Okay,
you're a murderer on the run. Good, Okay, you've been
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convicted of pedophilia five times, or we'll take you. And
when they get here, they were giving these illegal aliens
and still are. We haven't been able to stop it yet,
even though the process is in place. But they were
giving them free housing, free phones, jobs, government fits, you
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name it. And now you're saying of Elon Musk, well
he's only been here for twenty two years. But the
bigger question here is this. We have tolerated in this
country violence and terrorism. And I don't mean a terroristic threat,
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I mean terroristic actions. What we ought to do is shoot.
What we ought to do is arrest and throw them
away for good. You know, during the BLM protests, there
was a black officer, black security guard. I don't think
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he was a cop. I think he was a retired
cop when he was a security guard about seventy two
years old, if I recall, And what made this so
powerful was that it was filmed and there he laid
on a slope like a an entrance to an underground
parking garage or something, and he bled out. And I
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just sat there watching that again and again and again,
thinking this man's life mattered, but not to them, not
to the people arguing whose life should and shouldn't matter.
And he happened to be black. Even if you only
think black lives matter, which is what a lot of
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those people think. Let's call it what it is. Most
of these activists on behalf of supposedly protecting trainees or
black people or illegal aliens. They really hate white people
when you get right down to it. It makes people uncomfortable.
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They hate white people. And by the way, black people
hate black people when black people don't stay on the reservation,
don't stay on the plantation. You just look at the
nasty things said about black folks who dare to have
an independent opinion, whether they're criticizing Wesley Hunt for being
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a conservative Republican congressman, or they're criticizing a member of
the Trump administration. Ooh, it's called the crab in the bucket.
Blacks hate when blacks are independent because it makes them
look bad and it shows other black folks. Hey, you
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can have your own opinion. You don't have to go
with the crowd. It ain't easy. You're going to get
at a minimum picked on at the family picnic. You're
going to get you know, ribbed, maybe insulted, Maybe some
members of your family won't have you come over anymore.
That's what the cult of liberalism does. But we've tolerated
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too much violence and it has to stop. There's a
story out of fire, out of Denver, Fox Started, one Denver,
and I want you to listen to what's being done.
And this is pure and simple terrorism. And I honestly
believe that these people should be arrested and they should
be put away for a very long time. And this
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is true of people who get out in the road
and block the road. This is true of people who
throw rocks through windows. I mean, half of Minneapolis should
be serving out of prison sentence for the Black Lives
Matter what they call protests. That is pure and simple terrorism,
and it's happening too often. Here's the story from Fox Started,
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One Denver.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
It was an incredibly busy night, as every night here
at level. This seems to be just after midnight on Friday,
we had a call of a arson or a fire
at the Tessler Dealership. So our officer arrived in under
two minutes, noticed a fire and it immediately extinguished it.
Speaker 10 (28:58):
The building in several vehicles were also damaged by what
appear to have been thrown rocks. Loveland please say the
arson started from an incendiary device between two vehicles.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
The presumption is that the attempt was made to break
the glass of the building itself in order to place
the incendiary device inside the building, and that didn't work.
Speaker 10 (29:20):
It did not work, which Loveland Police Chief Tim Dorin
says could have been a lot worse as people were
inside Tesla at the time.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
It's really troubling when one particular business is targeted. All
we recognize that the heart of this community is in
supporting the businesses.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
That are here.
Speaker 10 (29:40):
This comes after four similar incidents targeted the Tesla and
Loveland since the end of January. With some consistencies found
by LPD and the incendiary devices.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
They are generally filled with gasoline and lit with wicks,
and we have seen that they can be extremely dangerous
to those that are anywhere nearby, and I love them.
Speaker 10 (30:01):
Please tell me they are following several leads on a
suspect and are working very closely, not only with TESLA
but also with their federal partners at the ATF.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
You know why they do this because there are no consequences.
Robert Lewis Stevenson famously said, sooner or later everyone sits
down to a banquet of consequences. Well, I think there
should be earthly consequences. I think they should be swift,
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and I think they should matter. It should scare people.
I can't remember who said it. Logical consequences are the
scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men. There
must be logical consequences for actions. How did it get
to be the case in this country that protesters can
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get out in the middle of the road and block
piece some of whom might be headed to the hospital
to deliver a baby, some of who might be having
a heart attack, but all of whom have every reasonable
expectation that they can travel on the road and some
other fool won't get out in front of them. How
did it get to be the case that nobody runs
them over. Oh you can't do that, Michael, You'll get
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in trouble. You can't do that. A jury will convict you.
How did this get to be the case? How did
we allow our country to devolve so far? I'll tell
you this, And it has a lot to do with
the conversation we're going to have in the next house
with a fellow who questions what does it mean to
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be an American? And he has an answer, and he
dares say that this Palestinian hamas nutjob terrorist at Columbia
to President Trump's trying to kick out the country, that
that guy could never actually be an American. He might
have qualified at some point for a passport if he
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lived here a long time, but he would never be
an American. What does that mean? You don't have to
agree with his answer.
Speaker 5 (32:12):
It's a question.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
You should be able to ask yourself this question.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
You should have an answer.
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. Michael
Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
They got a name for people like you, Hi. That
name is called Recitiism.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Repeat on fender.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Not a pretty name, is it high? No, sir, that's
one bonehead name. But that ain't me anymore.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
You're not just telling us what we want to hear, No, sir,
no way of couse.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
We just want to hear the truth.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Well, then I guess I am telling you what you
want to hear. Boy, didn't we just tell you not
to do that?
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Yes, sir, Okay, then we cannot keep our promises on medicare.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
We simply must make.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
The cuts and waste broad and abuse in medicare so
that the benefits and the premiums are untouched. We owe
it to our seniors, We owe it to our country.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
Easy you have to make, then you have say.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
That's you love me.
Speaker 6 (01:24):
There is no question that there is an enormous amount
of waste and fraud and abuse in this government. There
is no question to my mind that Congress has not
been vigilant enough in rooting out that waste and fraud
to the tune of billions and billions of dollars. I
would simply say that while it is absolutely appropriate to
(01:47):
condemn the Congress, it is also important to note that
we have an administration in this city in Washington D Street, DC,
and the function of an administration is to administer them
and that means that when there is waste and fraud,
(02:09):
you have an administration who should also be on top
of that situation.
Speaker 7 (02:18):
If we're going to eliminate the waste brought and abuse
in medicare, it does mean.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
We're going to cut some of that out.
Speaker 7 (02:25):
And when I hear my friend Dave Camp say you
cannot cut money out of Medicare, well, we don't want
to cut the good stuff that you point out one
third of Medicare doesn't go to patient care. You can't
just get up there and say we don't want to
cut anything out of Medicare. We want to cut the
bad stuff and keep the good stuff.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Is you do that often here from listeners that they
are underpaid, And it's a fascinating concept, and so it
because that is a that is a completely subjective question,
(03:11):
and I enjoy the exercise. So I will say, all right,
you feel that you're underpaid? No, no, I'm underpaid. All right, Well,
let's take a step back for a moment and let's
talk through how it is you've come to feel that
you're underpaid. What do you think you're worth? And let's
(03:33):
say the gal say fifty bucks an hour? All right,
what are you getting paid? Twenty eight? All right? How
did you establish a market of fifty bucks an hour? Well,
that's what other people are getting, all right, then why
don't you go and get those people's job. Well, nobody's hiring.
(03:53):
If nobody's hiring and nobody's willing to pay you fifty bucks,
then here's what you need to understand. You're not worth
fifty bucks. You're only worth what somebody pays you or
what you earn yourself individually. So either leave and go
earn the fifty bucks at a business of your that
(04:16):
you start, or put the word out that you need
fifty bucks an hour and you know you're an electrician
or a plumber or whatever it is you do, and
that you want these just pay for Well, I can't
find anybody want to pay me. I'm underpaid. You're not
actually underpaid. You're getting paid what you demand and they're
(04:38):
willing to cover the only way you're going to get
a pay raise, unless they're just really nice people who
for whatever reason are in the bad business of paying
people more than the person demands, which I guess some
people do. That is, if you say I'm leaving, the
(05:00):
only way I'm staying is if you pay me fifty
bucks an hour. At that moment, you're going to find
out what you're worth presently your work twenty eight bucks
an hour, because that's what you're getting. If they say
I can't pay you fifty but I can pay you
thirty five, you were underpaid what your value was. But
(05:24):
that's your problem, not theirs. You had to threaten to leave, well,
the threat to leave hanging over you is what keeps
you from shooting for the stars. It is the threat
of recession. It is the fear that we won't make
as much today as we made yesterday. That causes those
(05:46):
in the press and those investors and many other folks.
That causes them to criticize Trump's economic policies as he
has begun them because they fear losing their job more
than they aspire to get the fifty bucks an hour.
(06:07):
What Trump is trying to do right now with very
aggressive economic policies is he is trying to put America
into a better position domestically and vis a vis other nations.
And this is a complicated game He's plan because you
got a lot of different people at play here, stock
(06:28):
market being one of those factors, but also consumers who
are buying products, and also workers who work for companies,
most of them Americans, some of those importing products and distributing.
This is a very very complex economy, and it's not
(06:48):
so simple as the tariffs are good or the tariffs
are bad. I have long been a Wall Street Journal reader.
Now I'll have to hear from a thousand of you
that the Wall Street JOURNALI is or the Wall Street
Journal is at. I don't endorse everything I read, or
every person I listen to, or anything else. But the
(07:11):
Wall Street Journal has tended to be not as well
as Investor's Business Daily, but it's tended to be a
pretty good source and commentator on the intersection of politics
and finance and industry. But they do not like Donald Trump,
and that's clear to me. And they are going out
(07:32):
of their way, and unfortunately they are a bit of
a bellwether. They are an influencer on these matters and
a lot of people are reading what they're writing, and
they're writing things like Canada is upset, the EU is upset,
as if we're supposed to care Making America great again,
(07:54):
whether that's a slogan or reality, means readjusting a lot
of relationships, and some people who are in a stronger
position with us than they should be are going to
be upset about that. They're not going to consent to
us adjusting our position that benefits us in such a
(08:17):
manner that harms them, because it's a zero sum game
in many cases, not all, so of course people are
mad about it. Michael ber let me become friends with
school shooters. So one of the sites I follow is
called the Babylon b and it's a satire site and
it's funny. Sadly, The Onion used to be funny, and
(08:41):
somewhere along the way, those liberals at the Onion lost
the ability to laugh at themselves or anything else. Rush
Limbaugh always said, beware the man who can't laugh at himself.
You know, the ability to laugh at yourself. Deprecating humor
(09:02):
is a superpower. It has a way of disarming people,
and Trump has a unique ability to kind of poke
fund at himself and you're not sure if he's doing
it or not. It's sort of like a Rauschenberg of
(09:23):
an abstract artist. He does things in such a way
that allows people to take from it what they want
and to impose their own hopes, dreams, fears, anxieties, whatever
that may be, onto what he does, which I find
to be fascinating. It's a fascinating study in his in
(09:46):
not just his leadership style, but in his entire career
as a as a public figure. One fellow that doesn't
know how to laugh at himself. It's Tim Waltz, that goober.
And now there's a lot coming out now about how
he was chosen to be Kamala Harris's vice presidential running mate.
(10:08):
First of all, we know a couple of things. Kamala
Harris didn't win a primary, so she had a real
legitimacy question. She's a female, so they needed to in
their minds balance that with men. They needed to find
somebody that could bring in men. Well, if you spent
five minutes around Tim Waltz, you know that he's kind
(10:31):
of like Pete Butterygig. This guy's not going to do
well with men, at least not approximately ninety percent of men.
He gives off all the wrong vibes, all the wrong vibes,
and he makes mothers weirded out because they can't imagine
him being around their kid. And you know, there's been
(10:52):
a lot of allegations in the course of his career.
So he was supposed to strengthen the situation, the support
amongst men, and he was supposed to bring in white
men in hunters and football players and coaches and fans
and rednecks and working class and it could not have
(11:17):
gone more off the rails. And I think one of
the great ironies is, although again it's Russia's teachings. Whatever
they accuse you of is what they are. Tim Waltz
comes out and says jd Vance is weird. And there
(11:37):
was about three or four days there. There were about
three or four days there where that was the narrative.
And once you declare that he's weird and you start
using the right pictures and the stories about him and everything,
you know, people start trying to fit that into the narrative.
But it didn't take long till everyone realizes the weird
one is Jazz hands over there, guy's married. How is
(12:01):
that that?
Speaker 8 (12:02):
Guy.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Oh man, he's there's a lot of weird going on
with this dude, a lot of weird. And then we
had the stolen valor. Uh, the stolen valor. The stolen
valor thing was as much a problem for him as
his effeminate ways and troubling past. And then you had
(12:24):
the lies over his coaching when he was actually not
the head coach of the team that won state, but
in fact was kicked out. And then you had all
these lingering questions and his behaviors and the jazz hands
and the weird when he was in public. So with
all of that in mind, you would think that he
would have the good sense to slink off into the
(12:46):
sunset after the Kamala Harris loss, which, by the way,
she's blaming him now. You think he'd go lick his
wounds for a little while or something. No. No, I
read an article and I thought it was from the
Babylon B I really did that, Tim Waltz, And we'll
put it on the if you don't. If you don't
(13:08):
get our Daily Blast, you can get it for free.
It's it's an email. We sent out a newsletter in
between the two shows with links to the stories we're
talking about. We make memes and and do some fun
stuff like that. It's at Michael berryshow dot com. We
won't sell your email, share your email. Will send it
once a day, five days a week. The article was
about the fact that the headline was Tim Waltz says
he'll run for president if asked, And I just thought
(13:32):
to myself, did you really? Are you? Are you?
Speaker 5 (13:36):
How?
Speaker 1 (13:37):
How does that play out? In my mind? Got to wandering.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Sorry I'm late.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Guys.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
They don't make those family bathrooms like they used to.
You know what I mean? Oh my gosh, got gout.
It's just stop and stop it.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
I mean, really, I walk in here, and I mean
the flow is heavy, the energy is just electric.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
I can feel it all the way down to my loines. Okay,
you all want me to run for president, don't you?
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (14:05):
I knew it.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
I knew it.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
It's like when somebody brings a cheesecake to a party
and they're like, oh, I wasn't sure if anyone wanted
to deserve, but of course everyone totally does. And now
I'm the cheesecake.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Governor.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Waltz.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Are you saying you're running?
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (14:21):
I couldn't possibly unless you insist. But do you insist?
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Do you need me?
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Do you crave me?
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Tell me you need me? Uh, nobody's asked you to run.
Speaker 5 (14:34):
I mean it's a big decision, the weight of the
nation on these shoulders.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
I'm just a humble public servant, a pleaser, a giver.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
And if the people begged me, oh, if they insist,
if they fall to their knees and they say, Timmy,
Timmy Wallace, you must say this, then oh I'd have to.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
It'd be rude.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Nothing.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
So are you running?
Speaker 6 (14:58):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (14:58):
You not a little scamp. See you almost tricked me
to say that we listen if the American people demand.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
Me, and I mean to man me like a sequel
that hid is on the hockeyen Ry Well, he Felfish
nut of the faith.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Hit it boys. Yes, good, I think we're done here.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Let's get at you. She was twelve, I was thirty.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
But anyway, it was wonderful to have you, mister president.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Of the Michael Barry Show. I think this is a
perfect time to take seconds. Remember a great Houstonian Kenny Rogers, Yes,
a great Houstonian. I read that he had five life
(15:52):
of suction procedure star in the eighties, street. So you imagine,
like me, he just loves his food. He just absolutely
loved his food. Condition So there's a story in the news,
But there's so many stories in the news that you
may not have caught your attention. But it's one of
these things that just keeps bubbling up again and again
(16:14):
and again. We're going to have some tough conversations in
the next hour because our guest is in the business
of writing things that will make some of you very angry.
He is a Christian who writes about faith. He's written
a book called Pagan America, and he talks about talks
about a lot of things, but he talks about people
(16:35):
who come to this country and don't share our culture
and don't love what America stands for. You can be
a dissident here. You can disagree. Hell, we're dissonance. We
gather here every day to talk about how our fellow
patriots were wronged. On January sixth, we gather here to
talk about how COVID was exhibit one in how government
(17:00):
is evil and must always be checked. What does Sam
Houston say, governed wisely and as little as possible. We've
got the wrong people in government. When you have Michael Steele,
who was the head of the Republican Party album Mind You,
saying things like Elon needs to leave government to those
who do government well anyway. So this is something that
(17:21):
is not being talked about, in my opinion enough, and
that is the threat by China on America. So you
have two active duty US Army soldiers and one former
soldier who've been arrested for gathering, stealing, and sending sensitive
information to the chocoms. This keeps happening again and again
(17:44):
and again. And do you notice it's almost always Chinese Americans.
The story clip number six Jim Fox thirteen out of Seattle.
Speaker 8 (17:55):
Do active duty US soldiers stationed at Joint Bace Lewis
McCord no longer at their posts. They are behind bars,
accused of working with the Chinese government.
Speaker 9 (18:04):
This is the result of a long running investigation where
the FBI and our partners were able to uncover a
conspiracy to steal national defense information from military installations here in.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
The Pacific Northwest.
Speaker 8 (18:17):
The FBI naming those two JBLM soldiers as Jianzhou and VTN. They,
along with Roy Gwen, a former US soldier in Oregon,
were arrested Thursday. All of them are accused of violating
their duties to protect sensitive military information by selling it
to China.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
The information that you said at.
Speaker 9 (18:35):
Risk here is information that identifies up the United States
melters capabilities, plans, and intentions, and could really put us
at this disadvantage if that were called the wrong hands
for an adversary.
Speaker 8 (18:47):
According to this FBI press release, all three had access
to highly sensitive information which upon sale they gained roughly
fifteen thousand dollars, giving.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
China access to classified.
Speaker 8 (18:58):
Hard drives, a stolen encryption capable computer, along with other
sensitive military information. The FBI, stating this threat to national
security ended following a year and a half long investigation.
Speaker 9 (19:09):
Luckily, our investigators are pretty well versed in these types
of investigations.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
But it does post a challenge.
Speaker 8 (19:19):
And right now it's still unclear how much information was
transmitted to China. The FBI said during its investigation it
tried mitigating any losses. As for the three, those charges
will now go to a special prosecutor.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
So why is it that people that live in this country,
some of whom were born in this country, seem to
have a loyalty, Well, do have a loyalty to China
when you're giving our secrets to a foreign country, and
I would argue an adversarial foreign country. I think China
(19:52):
is our greatest threat, not Russia at all. I think
China is a very very big threat to our country aggressively,
so financially and militarily. But why is it that people
who grow up in this country will then sell secrets,
(20:14):
commit treason against this country, bring harm to this country
to the benefit of China. That says to me that
you do not see yourself primarily as an American. And
then you have to start asking yourself the question, why
is it that people who live here, people who go
(20:38):
to school here, people who work here, people who serve
in our military, and don't tell me it's just the
quick cash. They did receive at least ten thousand dollars
each for this. I don't believe it's the quick cash.
Although in the case of this fellow Hansen and what
(21:01):
was the guy's name started with a z aldrich Ames
not a z alliterative names. Yeah, it is about power
for folks that feel like they haven't been respected and
appreciated and promoted and honored and all that you see
some of these FBI guys who've done that. But we're
(21:21):
seeing students, professors, researchers who are giving secrets to China
because of a deep loyalty to China. And I would
argue that these people don't see themselves as Americans in
the way that you see yourself as an American. And
(21:42):
we will actually explore that topic in the next hour
with a guest. We're going to have you know, this
Khalil at Columbia University, that the Palestinian who was organizing
protests for hamas President Trump's trying to kick him out
(22:03):
of the country. And the argument from the left is
normally we need this terrorist bastard here, which we don't.
But the legal wrangling aside. We have to get serious
as a nation about saying there are people we don't
want here, period, end of story. You know, I was
reading about a little village in England where native born
(22:28):
Englishmen have now been outnumbered in this little hamlet. It
sounds idyllic, like a Norman Rockwell painting, but English they're
now out numbered by asylum seekers, and they're scared to
death of these asylum seekers. Rape is up, stabbings are up,
and they're frightened of these people who've been brought into
their country. This goes back to what we talked about
(22:50):
during the presidential campaign. We need to put a freeze
on anybody coming into this country illegally or on work visus.
We can figure out what we're doing and figure out
how big this problem is. We are no longer the
dumping ground for criminals, perverts, and weirdos and terrorists around
(23:12):
the country. We have to be proud of who we
are and what our country is and be willing to
say we're no longer willing to allow this to happen
our It is troubling how desensitized we have become to
(23:34):
terrorism and violence in our country. For instance, the left
hates Elon Musk because he's exposing fraud in our country.
I even heard somebody the other that I think was
an elected official, you know, some loud mouthed state rep
in in some state. It doesn't matter, but whoever it was,
(23:56):
and honestly, don't recall it was an elected Democrat though,
and I believe as a woman, and she said we
shouldn't trust Elon Musk. You know, he wasn't born here.
He's only been a citizen for twenty two years. And
it's kind of the sort of thing that you can't
(24:17):
imagine they really said or believed, because this is the party,
mind you, who wants to import the trashiest, most violent,
most perverted, most evil people that each third world has
or third world country has, like going in looking for him. Okay,
you're a murderer on the run. Good, Okay, you've been
(24:39):
convicted of pedophilia five times, or we'll take you. And
when they get here, they were giving these illegal aliens
and still are. We haven't been able to stop it yet,
even though the process is in place. But they were
giving them free housing, free phones, jobs, government fits, you
(25:01):
name it. And now you're saying of Elon Musk, well
he's only been here for twenty two years. But the
bigger question here is this. We have tolerated in this
country violence and terrorism. And I don't mean a terroristic threat,
(25:21):
I mean terroristic actions. What we ought to do is shoot.
What we ought to do is arrest and throw them
away for good. You know, during the BLM protests, there
was a black officer, black security guard. I don't think
(25:43):
he was a cop. I think he was a retired
cop when he was a security guard about seventy two
years old, if I recall, And what made this so
powerful was that it was filmed and there he laid
on a slope like a an entrance to an underground
parking garage or something, and he bled out. And I
(26:06):
just sat there watching that again and again and again,
thinking this man's life mattered, but not to them, not
to the people arguing whose life should and shouldn't matter.
And he happened to be black. Even if you only
think black lives matter, which is what a lot of
(26:27):
those people think. Let's call it what it is. Most
of these activists on behalf of supposedly protecting trainees or
black people or illegal aliens. They really hate white people
when you get right down to it. It makes people uncomfortable.
(26:50):
They hate white people. And by the way, black people
hate black people when black people don't stay on the reservation,
don't stay on the plantation. You just look at the
nasty things said about black folks who dare to have
an independent opinion, whether they're criticizing Wesley Hunt for being
(27:12):
a conservative Republican congressman, or they're criticizing a member of
the Trump administration. Ooh, it's called the crab in the bucket.
Blacks hate when blacks are independent because it makes them
look bad and it shows other black folks. Hey, you
(27:35):
can have your own opinion. You don't have to go
with the crowd. It ain't easy. You're going to get
at a minimum picked on at the family picnic. You're
going to get you know, ribbed, maybe insulted, Maybe some
members of your family won't have you come over anymore.
That's what the cult of liberalism does. But we've tolerated
(27:56):
too much violence and it has to stop. There's a
story out of fire, out of Denver, Fox Started, one Denver,
and I want you to listen to what's being done.
And this is pure and simple terrorism. And I honestly
believe that these people should be arrested and they should
be put away for a very long time. And this
(28:16):
is true of people who get out in the road
and block the road. This is true of people who
throw rocks through windows. I mean, half of Minneapolis should
be serving out of prison sentence for the Black Lives
Matter what they call protests. That is pure and simple terrorism,
and it's happening too often. Here's the story from Fox Started,
(28:38):
One Denver.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
It was an incredibly busy night, as every night here
at level. This seems to be just after midnight on Friday,
we had a call of a arson or a fire
at the Tessler Dealership. So our officer arrived in under
two minutes, noticed a fire and it immediately extinguished it.
Speaker 10 (28:58):
The building in several vehicles were also damaged by what
appear to have been thrown rocks. Loveland please say the
arson started from an incendiary device between two vehicles.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
The presumption is that the attempt was made to break
the glass of the building itself in order to place
the incendiary device inside the building, and that didn't work.
Speaker 10 (29:20):
It did not work, which Loveland Police Chief Tim Dorin
says could have been a lot worse as people were
inside Tesla at the time.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
It's really troubling when one particular business is targeted. All
we recognize that the heart of this community is in
supporting the businesses.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
That are here.
Speaker 10 (29:40):
This comes after four similar incidents targeted the Tesla and
Loveland since the end of January. With some consistencies found
by LPD and the incendiary devices.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
They are generally filled with gasoline and lit with wicks,
and we have seen that they can be extremely dangerous
to those that are anywhere nearby, and I love them.
Speaker 10 (30:01):
Please tell me they are following several leads on a
suspect and are working very closely, not only with TESLA
but also with their federal partners at the ATF.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
You know why they do this because there are no consequences.
Robert Lewis Stevenson famously said, sooner or later everyone sits
down to a banquet of consequences. Well, I think there
should be earthly consequences. I think they should be swift,
(30:32):
and I think they should matter. It should scare people.
I can't remember who said it. Logical consequences are the
scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men. There
must be logical consequences for actions. How did it get
to be the case in this country that protesters can
(30:57):
get out in the middle of the road and block
piece some of whom might be headed to the hospital
to deliver a baby, some of who might be having
a heart attack, but all of whom have every reasonable
expectation that they can travel on the road and some
other fool won't get out in front of them. How
did it get to be the case that nobody runs
them over. Oh you can't do that, Michael, You'll get
(31:19):
in trouble. You can't do that. A jury will convict you.
How did this get to be the case? How did
we allow our country to devolve so far? I'll tell
you this, And it has a lot to do with
the conversation we're going to have in the next house
with a fellow who questions what does it mean to
(31:43):
be an American? And he has an answer, and he
dares say that this Palestinian hamas nutjob terrorist at Columbia
to President Trump's trying to kick out the country, that
that guy could never actually be an American. He might
have qualified at some point for a passport if he
(32:04):
lived here a long time, but he would never be
an American. What does that mean? You don't have to
agree with his answer.
Speaker 5 (32:12):
It's a question.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
You should be able to ask yourself this question.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
You should have an answer.
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