PM Show Hr 1 | There is A Lot to Learn from Trump

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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time time, time's luck and load. The Michael
Verie Show is on the air. There is a lot

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that can be learned by studying Donald Trump. We haven't
had the president in quite a while that I would
say that there is much to learn from them by
studying what they do. But Trump is good at many things.
But what he is particularly good at is branding and

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messaging what we used to call public relations PR. And
I think there are a lot of people in PR
that aren't good at it because I get pitches every
day and I could spend the next few hours telling
you how bad some of these people are at their jobs,
and they're hired to do things like get on this

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show or spread a message about what they're doing. But
Trump is He has a political instinct that I better
than any elected official I've ever seen. He has an
incredible political instinct, and candidates typically do not not like that.

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But what I want to put a ribbon on right
now is the messaging he does. He's in constant communication,
which is exhausting with the American people because he knows
if he goes dark, the media will lie, and he
is always on the job. One of the things they've done.

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Is this weekly MAGA minute, Weekly Make America Great Again Minute?
In his press Secretary Carolyn Lovitt has done a fantastic job.
She is on the front lines every day fighting these people.
She has done such a good job. So as we
have begun, we've met a little tradition of now we

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will start this week's show with the weekly MAGA Minute.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
Hey, guys, safe to say it was another very busy
week here at the White House.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
Let's roll through it for this week's MAGA Minute.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
This week, the President took strong action to put US
trade interests first by raising tariffs on China to one
hundred and forty five percent and dropping tariffs took ten
percent for most countries after bringing more than seventy five
nations to the negotiating table. The President hosted the LA
Dodgers and Racing Champions here at the White House, and

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he hosted a successful bilateral meeting with Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahoo. We also had incredible economic news. Inflation declined
massively in March. Consumer prices dropped for the first time
in three years. Energy prices have decreased two point four percent,
gas prices decrease six point three percent in real average

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hourly earnings are growing by one point four percent. AMG Minerals, Novinics,
Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Guardian Bikes, and many other companies announced billions
of dollars in investments in the United States as a
result of the President's Economic in America First trade policies.
The White House Council of Economic Advisors released to studies

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showing President Trump's actions will save nearly eleven thousand dollars
per family of four over the coming years, and the
President signed in executive order bolstering US coal production following
decades of industry decline. The administration also won four major
Supreme Court cases repealing rulings from activist federal judges, and

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the Department of Homeland Security relaunched the Victims of Immigration
Crime and Game Office to assist Americans who have been
harmed by illegal immigrant crime. That's just a very small
glimpse into all of the incredible work our administration is
doing to make America great again. Thanks for tuning in.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
We'll see you for next week. Snag a minute. Let's
take those one by one. The China teriffs. There are
a lot of people, a lot of America. I really
think this is probably the week that we will start
seeing democrats put the Chinese flag as their Facebook profile.
Remember when they went to the Ukraine. Thing they go,

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they like to they like to have some cause that
they're caught up in. They'll do the rainbow flag, They'll
do Is there a training flag or is that just
subsued within the rainbow? Okay, there is? What does that
look like? Oh Ramone? You say the most awful things. Anyway,
there are a lot of people concerned that what we're

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doing is going to hurt China. I don't really know
how to react to that. Why would I care? It
would shock me that anyone would actually care. Do you
think the Chinese government is the embodiment of evil? They

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are not our friends, never have been. It is the
embodiment of evil on a Hitler level. What they have
done to their people. They're awful, absolutely awful. And by
the way, do I need to remind you that they
unleashed COVID on us and the damage that was done.

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Do I need to remind you that every other week
there's a spy, a Chinese spy uncovered in this country.
I hope it hurts them and I hope America prospers
because of it. Inflation down in March, that's great news.
Energy price is down two point four percent, gas price

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is down six point three percent. Hourly earning up one
point four percent. Billions of investments into the United States.
I think we've hollowed out the core of a lot
of American manufacturing. And that doesn't that doesn't come back overnight.

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It will come back, It can come back if we
continue at this pace. We have to put in place
measures that last beyond Trump because we don't know who
will be president next. And the first wave of that
is actually going to get some kickback on some pushback

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I'm waiting on. I haven't seen it yet, but some
MAGA folks are not going to like one phase of
this reopening of manufacturing here and this investment here, and
that is you're going to have foreign owned companies that
are going to locate in the United States in order
to have, if nothing else, in order to have the

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appearance that they are here manufacturing. In the legal world,
if you are trying a case in a community, it
is common to have a local attorney. There's a whole
phrase and term and history behind this that you will
have an attorney who lives in that jurisdiction who will

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be part of the team for trial. And that's kind
of what this is. That person's not driving the ship.
They're just kind of there to make it look like
you've got a local presence. And I think we're going
to see a certain amount of that. But there's going
to be real investment in the United States. There's going
to be property purchased by foreign countries. And when that happens,

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there are going to be a lot of America who
are going to be uneasy with foreign owned on American soil.
But we have to pick our battles. You're not just
going to We don't have a lot of folks on
the sideline waiting to start a company on American soil
that aren't doing it already. So that's going to be
an interesting thing how we work.

Speaker 3 (08:19):
Through that, whether it be changing the name of the
Gulf of Mexico to.

Speaker 1 (08:24):
The Gulf of michael Berry, which has a beautiful way.
It's you. I haven't heard from any of you that
you're tired of hearing about terrorists. I thought I might.
I happen to have a personal interest in economic policy.
It's one of the things I geek out on. Everybody's
got their thing. I can't take a difference between a

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four to twenty eight and a six twenty nine short
block loan block V eight v twelve fuel inject. I
have friends who can, and I love their passion for right.
I have a basic working knowledge of guns, but I
can't see a video of somebody shooting and say, well,

(09:07):
that's definitely this, or my brother could, but that's not me.
Ramon can tell you can look at a piece of
meat it's at a barbecue restaurant and tell you what
they've done wrong and how they've done it, and how
long you should smoke it, and what you should do
to this and how long it should rest and all that. Again.
I enjoy consuming it, but I'm not an expert on it.

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So when somebody goes off into something that is a
passion of theirs, I'm sometimes a little glazed over. I
play mental games while they're talking, and sometimes I listen
because I want to learn, because at least I want
to learn enough that the next time I'm in this situation,
I can act like I know I'm talking about. To me,
America's economic policy should be as interesting and as talked

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about as all the nonsense of what AOC said yesterday
or what Jasmine Crockett said yesterday day. And I think
it's important that we all participate in supporting the president,
but in understanding why he's doing what he's doing, because
this is a big hill to climb, and Sisyphus is

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pushing that rock as hard as he can. But this
is if we get this right, it could turn the
fortunes of America around for the positive in a way
that I did not believe was going to happen. We
were in a steady, consistent, long term decline and the
best example I have seen of that in the modern era,

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the clearest parallel was what happened to England after World
War Two, and they went into a terrible decline from
which they've never recovered. Anyway, here's President Trump talking about
the European Union and the deficit we have with the
European Union and how he's going to change that.

Speaker 3 (10:57):
We have a deficit with the European Union of three
hundred and fifty billion dollars and it's going to disappear fast.
And one of the reasons and one of the ways
that that can disappear easily and quickly. Is they're going
to have to buy our energy from us because they
need it. They're going to have to buy it from us.
They can buy it. We can knock off three hundred
and fifty billion.

Speaker 1 (11:17):
Dollars in one week.

Speaker 3 (11:19):
They have to buy and commit to buy a like
amount of energy, and we have that. You know, we
have more energy than any country in the world. I
don't know if you know that. He knows everything. But
the one thing you may not know. We have more
energy than any country in the world. We have more
of every kind of energy, every form of energy, from
oily gas to coal, and people talk about I call

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it beautiful clean call. As you know, Germany is opening
up a coal plant a week. They tried the windmills
and it didn't work. They tried all the other solutions
and they were ready to go out of business. Now
they're doing a coal plant a week.

Speaker 1 (11:59):
Coal is such an important fuel source, and we had
reduced our output to satisfy the left. If people could
just understand, hey, you know when you lost your business
during COVID, you didn't have to. That was human beings
who made a choice that you were going to lose

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your business. Remember when you lost your job and when
you lost your savings when it had to go begging
the government for PPP funds? What was that? First we
bankrupted the American people, then we go, but we'll randomly
give some of you funds that you kind of have
to pay back or maybe not. This depends on if
we like you or not. What was that? Think about that?

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That's just a couple of years ago, just a few
years ago. Here is Hillary Clinton, you talk about the
evil that these people have done. Here is Hillary Clinton
in two thousand and four talking about George Sorows at
a Take Back America event. And I want you to
listen to the glowing terms with which she talks about

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George Soros. What about trade? Not enough for America's future
that some participate in others don't.

Speaker 4 (13:19):
We have been given an extraordinary blessing and at this
moment in time, our country needs us, and we need
people like George Soros who is fearless and willing to
step up when it counts. So please join me in

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welcoming George Sorows.

Speaker 5 (13:42):
It is the first time that I feel that I
need to stand up and to do something really and
become really engaged in the actual process coming.

Speaker 1 (14:03):
That man is a criminal, he is a devil, He
is evil itself, and the Democrats are in bed with him.
He owns them, and the power and the money is
so grand that he was able even to pass it
on to his own kid, who has continued the process.
He posts pictures to social media of all his little pets.

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Here he is with Pete, Buddy, gig. Here he is
with various Democrats, and it's all the little pets. They
all come to see him and they tell you how
wonderful he is. And he posts a picture with him
as if they're friends or something, because he owns them
and he wants it known that he owns them. He

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wants the pictures out there because the pictures suggest that
he has power, and then he wields that power. And
there is the perception by others that if these people
are going to pay tribute to him in his palace,

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then that's a journey one must make. That's how you
know he has the power. He is the source, he
is the wizard. You go to him. It's very important.
This is not you know, you were out last night

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with your husband and you all had a good dinner,
and you took a picture and said we had good
wine with good friends, and you posted the next day.
Huh uh, not sure I post that today. But it was,
you know, it was a moment felt cute. That's not
how this works. These are very carefully staged pictures. This

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is a very carefully staged movement, and it is so
much bigger than most America's not you, but the most
Americans can possibly understand the depths of devilry demonic Democrats
and that they are. It's a it's a symbiotic relationship.

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Soros needs the Democrats and the Democrats need him, and
between the two of them, it is a match made
in hell. All admired the champion marble shoot, the fastest
runner big league ballplayers there, tuckys mitter, Michael Berry, American.

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I don't know that I've ever heard the name Simmy
Sonnet before. There are like I know that Toad Dewetsprockett
had a hit or two, right, I know that, And
I probably know the song that they sang. If you
played it, I would go, oh yeah, I recognize that song. Okay,
now remember when you were in school. There'll be five
things on the left and five on the right and

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you draw the line to them. I always love that game,
a fun game. But I don't know what told the
wet Sprocket. I couldn't tell you what song they did,
or Big Head Todd or there's a bunch of those bands.
But I do find the nineties to be an interest
and I don't actually mind the music, and some of
it I find kind of interesting. It feels like music

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that is mostly written for white guys who are in
their early twenties and living in an apartment with a
couple other dudes and going to sporting events and getting
drunk and getting up and going to a job they
don't really care for, and trying to find a girl

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to hook up with. It feels like it's music written
for that demo, all of it to me, And that
seems different than music in the past that felt like
it was being written for high school kids trying to
get with a girl, and that had been the case
since the fifties. It was music for a high school

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boy trying to get with a girl. It was the
soundtrack of American graffiti or Fast Times at Ridgemont High
or whatever else. Anyway, I noticed that the lead singers
in the nineties are not great vocalists. Like Darius Rutger.
That's a voice, but most of them are not great vocalists.

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And it's almost as if that's not what the audience
wanted at that time. They wanted the opposite. They're almost
in everyman vocalist, if that makes sense. I feel like,
I mean, I can't sing, but I feel like I
could sing as well as that dude right there. I
feel like I could do that song as well as
he does. And that's not an insult, but it's certainly

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not a compliment. Fellow listener in Wisconsin, this fellaw rights
Rob Johnson, our senior US senator here, wants to know
President Trump's end game with regard to the imposition of
reciprocal tariffs. How pathetic it seems to me that, having

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been a senator since twenty eleven, he should have been equally,
if not more, concerned with his own end game in
connection with our national debt and trade deficits. Had he
been more concerned with these matters, there would quite possibly
be no need for El Maistro to clean up the
mess that our ruling elites have made of this country's
economic situation. With regard to which I would point out

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that in twenty ten, the United States had a national
debt of nineteen point five nine trillion dollars note this
figure has been inflation adjusted to twenty twenty four dollars,
thank you, and a trade deficit of four hundred and
ninety eight billion dollars. By twenty twenty four, under the
stewardship of Senator Johnson and similarly situated individuals in the
Senate of the House, we had a national debt of

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thirty four point five to six trillion and a trade
deficit of one point two trillion. This being the the case,
perhaps the lamestream media should ask Senator Johnson what his
end game was with regard to our national debt and
trade deficits for the past fourteen years. Was bankrupting and
thereby destroying the United States his end game? That said,

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it absolutely strange credulity that, rather than lead follower, get
the hell out of the way, the legislative branch is
only contributions to solving this. These existential threats to our
continued existence are criticism of President Trump's efforts to neutralize
the threats and congressional attempts to pass legislations tripping President
Trump of the power to impose tariffs. The email goes on,

(20:39):
and it's a very good one. You wouldn't I don't
want to brag. I mean, I don't mind bragging, but
I don't want to brag for the sec of bragging.
And I don't want to sound like I'm pandry. But
I really do wonder, and I mean this, I really
do wonder whether anybody else who does what I do

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gets emails written as well as what I get. It's
some of our best show prep. We have a whole
team of people who put the show together, and yet
every single day, at least ten percent of the show
is materials submitted to me, perspectives by various people, submitted
to me on issues of the day. Anyway, William, you

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know who you are. A very well written message, and
I really enjoyed that. This is a flashback from twenty fifteen.
The sources a fellow who posts under the name May's
on x It's Bernie Sanders, and he's talking about the
effect of immigration on the wages of American workers. Now

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he's not for the tariffs, and he wasn't for closing
down the border. Now but he was in the past.
And here's what he's talking about. When you flood the
market with anything, you drive the price down, supply and demand.
It's basic economics. Everybody's understand that when you flooded the
American market with cheap labor, unskilled wages went way down,

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and in time those unskilled workers became semi skilled and
absolutely crushed, absolutely crushed the American labor market. And that
left American workers, particularly in construction, not refining because they

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you don't see the number of illegal aliens in the
chemical plant business. There are there are, there are third
party vendors who will bring in, you know, a symbol
of throw up a chain link fence, or provide some
basic services, but by and large, America's energy companies have

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not hired illegal aliens to the extent say the beef
the the slaughterhouses in Omaha have. It has been suggested
to me by a person who would know because of
what he does for a living, that at one point,
well over half the workers in the Nebraska slaughterhouses, which

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is huge and Iowa, that they were illegal aliens, and
so that drove the wages woefully down. I think General Motors, Ford,
Dodge and all of them would have loved to have
been able to hire illegal aliens, but they couldn't get
away with it, at least not in the shop. But

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think what that would have done to those wages lived
laugh learn doing his gig on the Michael Berry Show.
All right, So here's Bernie Sanders back in twenty fifteen
talking about the effect of illegal aliens in the workforce.
When you flood the market, you drive wages down.

Speaker 6 (24:03):
There is a reason why Wall Street and all of
corporate America likes immigration reform, and it is not in
my view that they are staying up nights worrying about
undocumented workers in this country. What I think they are
interested in is seeing a process by which we can
bring low wage labor of all levels into this country

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to depress wages in America.

Speaker 1 (24:29):
And I strongly disagree with that.

Speaker 6 (24:31):
I mentioned to you a moment ago that unemployment rates
for kids in this country high school kids white thirty
three percent, Ismatic thirty six percent, African American fifty one percent.
I frankly do not believe that we should be bringing
in significant numbers of unskilled workers to compete with those kids.

Speaker 1 (24:51):
That's my deal. I want to see these kids get jumps.

Speaker 6 (24:54):
When you have thirty six percent of Hispanic kids in
this country who can't find jobs, a lot of unskilled
workers into the country, what do you think happens to
that thirty six percent of kids? So what today I
got employed fifty one percent of African American kids. I
don't think there's any candidate for president, none who thinks
that we should open up the borders.

Speaker 1 (25:16):
Many people are fatalistic with regard to life. They do
not understand that decisions matter, that where you are in
life is where you chose to be. Because people don't

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think that they would ever choose to be poor, underemployed,
three felonies, six divorces. They don't think of themselves as
having chosen to be there in that place. They want
to believe that there is an exterior force, external force,

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bad luck, other people getting good luck. But these are
choices that we make. You don't choose to get brain cancer,
you don't choose to be in a terrible accident. I
get that, But by and large, people end up where
they are by the choices that they make. And so

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many people think of things as they are rather than
as they could be and should be a number of Americans,
a frightening number of Americans understood that the labor market
was not what it used to be, that, particularly for

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people without special expertise, that it was extremely difficult, and
the ability to make a buck for a guy that
didn't have it wasn't in one of these particular situations.
It was rough. It's very rough. And you found a

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lot of people who I think that increased drug addiction.
I think it broke up marriages. I think it led
to depression, anxiety, and a lot of other problems or
a lot of particularly men. But there's another factor here,
And you know, one of my one of my great

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regrets is a shortcoming in explaining things such that people
understand that when I say the sky is blue, I'm
not against red. I'm not in favor of blue. I'm
not insulting yellow. It is, as I see it, a fact,
and I believe that stating an objective fact has value.

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But people will internalize from that. So don't do that,
because I'm about to tell you something. When you look
at the number of males in America who became disgruntled,
not just white males, this is also black males and
Hispanic American born males. There is a great undercurrent of

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bitterness and resentment, and it is at the core of
that group, which I believe, which I believe is the
is the strongest foundation of MAGO, the people who felt
that everybody had abandoned them in this country, everybody, and

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here was Trump who was unapologetically defiantly speaking for them.
And that's why the media called him a racist. They
called him this, they called him this, and then eventually
they just couldn't they couldn't help themselves. They just they
went from insulting him to insult them, the people that
supported him, and that that turned out to have been

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a huge mistakes. As luck would have it, they overplayed
their hand. But when you look at the difficulty for
guys that were my dad, who's eighty five, when he
came back from the Coastguard early twenties, sixty five years ago,
so we're talking nineteen sixty, he went to the plant

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where his dad worked, his sisters worked, his brother worked,
and he went to the plant. He signed up and
he went to work, and he hated it, but it
was a job and it was a job that meant,
you know, we could live in a little brick house,
and he built it. But we would be in today's

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world poor, But we didn't think of ourselves as poor.
We just thought of ourselves as just like everybody else
around us, because everybody was a plant work Those kinds
of jobs have gone away for a number of reasons.
And when you look at the labor market and what
happened to the labor market in America for that kind

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of person no particular expertise in a field. I'm not
talking about welders or plumbers or electricians or any of
the traditional skilled professional. I thought, just a guy that
can show up a halfway smart and do a job
and be there consistently right, And that there were jobs
of plentning for a very long time like that, and

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then there weren't. And one of the factors later, it
wasn't early on. One of the factors later was a
legal immigration. One of the factors was women entering the workforce. Now,
all of a sudden you had an extra large group

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of people competing for jobs. Now this affected the office
environment and then eventually the lower management rank environment much
more than it did say construction or chemical plans. But again,
there were a lot of guys who graduated high school,
maybe they went to college, they got a degree of

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no particular importance, or they didn't didn't matter, and they
would come home. They'd go to work in an insurance office,
in a professional services office, those jobs the big corporations.
The guy who would get hired without a particular skill
of accounting or law, those guys that would push papers

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and fill a function HR. You can't find a man
in HR today. The HR departments became women dominated. And
it's not only women, it's the worst kind of woman.
It's the black woman with an attitude that's out to
out to get the whities, and it's a white liberal
And out of the two, I hate white liberal women

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more than anything. That to me is the worst demographic.
I won't hire them. I want no part of them none.
They're they're nasty, they're mean, they're ugly, they're whiny, they're litigious. Uh,
they're they're awful. They're just awful. You don't want them
in your workforce. And yet so many people have let

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these trojan horses into their workforce, and they let them
in HR. So guess what, they end up having an
outsized influence over who's gonna work here.