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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's that time time time, time, wucking loud. Michael Very
Show is on the air right now. There's a lot of.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Fallacies about Latinos.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
We want to clear that up.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Oh yeah, like what officer, Well, first of all, not
every single Latino is Mexican.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
I'm glad you noticed different kind of Mexicans.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Puerto Rican Mexican is Nick rodin Mexican A minute in Mexican.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
I knew nothing in Mexican culture. I'm originally from the Midwest.
I moved to Los Angeles like Sinko Tomo. I didn't
even know what it was. My neighbor's Mexican. I asked him.
I mean in Midwest we call it Tuesday, you know.
I asked him, I go, what is it? He goes,
it's our Independence Day. I go, who'd you beat? He
goes the French. I'm like, well, who didn't you know?
I don't know if it's something to get quite this
wound up about Jose, But if Martin readers or have price,
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I'm all the markers ain't going to.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Thank Bookay.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Sake, Bookay sank book day, birkay.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
The French forces in the Battle of Puebla sack in
eighteen sixty two. It's also an excuse to drink to
kill on a Monday morning at work for Lewis. President
Obama will mark the holiday with a reception at the
White House.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
You have to drink the whole thing and eat the worm.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
You wanted to take a moment right here because on
Monday stink with the mile way too early. Meet sarcastic
references to the way some Americans celebrate the holiday, and
it was not our intention to be disrespectful, and we
sincerely apologize for those references. You know, after twenty years
in this business, anyone who knows me knows where I
stand on diversity and inclusion. So to those I let
down or feel betrayed, I hear you, and I'm sorry.
We're want to go over to Lewis now, but look
at the stories in the cold of this morning, and
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I know you are contract as.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Well, Thomas.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
I want to express my sincere apologies as well.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
I truly it was never my intention.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
To offend anyone, and if I did, and I know
I did, I'm very sorry.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
The President had a very very strong showing this weekend.
Surprise right what we're going to expect, But it's just
a good reminder how good he has he how good
he is at this. Before I get to some of
the audio of that and a deconstruction of it. Today
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is a big day in Texas. It is the fifth
of May. Yesterday for you Star Wars Nerds was the
May the fourth be with you. I grew up on
Star Wars and I must admit I still enjoy trolling
Star Wars and Star Trek people.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
I always been kind of a jackass. I've always been
one of those guys that does a lot of pranks.
You know, me and a nerd. I know how to
pissed Nerds off. I know what gets to him. They
hate it when you get there session wrong. You know,
when you get the thing they've wasted their life on wrong.
So all these guys are waiting for the Star Wars
movie and I lean out of my car.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
And go Star Trek sucks. The car's a loser.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Star Trek blues, just knowing they would pisiness to get
pissed off one of them, and it worked. You know,
one of them steps up and goes it's Star Wars
Get Right s George Lucas's vision based on the original
trilogy and I'm like sitting in my car haha, stupid nerds.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
And today May fifth is a big deal, particularly in Texas.
I don't know how much y'all celebrated there, Sinko to Mayo.
The fifth of May is a very We have a
we have a huge population of folks who came here
from Mexico. Now, before you blow up and go yeah,
they need to be sent back, I'm not talking about
legal aliens. I'm talking about people who lived here longer
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than my family has. And there are cops. A lot
of Hispanic men are cops, firefighters, marines, US Army, and
they are a major, major contributor to the culture that
is the state of Texas. The state of Texas is
primarily a German slash check. A group of settlers in
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the central part we call the Hill country, Hispanics who
populate the border and who have moved to the big
cities as well, multiple generations and what we call Kunases.
I grew up in a Louisiana border. I can say that,
which is people from Louisiana, the Thibodeaux Equipidos and the
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culture they brought and then a Southern black culture that
I would argue is different than you find in other states,
and those tend to be the most obvious influences on
the melting pot. That is the unique Texas. Cinco to
Mayo is the date that celebrates not Mexican independence, as
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many people believe, but the Second French Empire. The French
had loaned money to the people of Puebla, the people
of Pueblo who are known as Poblano's, which is where
you get the Poblano peppers from both the pepper from
there and the people from there known as Poblanos. The
people didn't want to repay the debt. They fought the
French and won. No, don't get that excited over beating
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the French. But still it was eighteen sixty two. It
was so stronger France, and there was a celebration, and
that celebration has morphed into the Cinco de Mayo celebration
in Houston is like the Saint Patrick's Day celebration on
the Hudson in New York. It is a really, really
big deal.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
All right to the.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
President we go. President Trump was on Meet the Press
with Kristin Welker and she was being, as he has
said in the past, a very very nasty lady, and
he was ready. He was loaded for bear. She asked
about the stock market, and this is what you have
to learn to do. This is the master. He doesn't
answer her question. He makes the statement he wants to make.
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This is brilliant media relations, one on one brilliant.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
If I own stock and something and I do a
good job and the stock market goes up, I guess
I'm profiting. But who really profits? To somebody like Nancy
Pelosi who uses inside information. She worked for one hundred
and seventy five thousand dollars a year, and that's at
the high end, and she's worth one hundred and fifty
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two hundred million dollars. Okay, you had to look at
Nancy Pelosi, and you are to look at some of
these politicians at a stone called crooks. I was very
wealthy when I came in being president. I probably cost
me money.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
If you really look bizarre is on? Well done, sir,
This is the Michael Berry Show. President Trump's the best
to do it. There are people who train in media.
My wife was associate general counsel of a company called
El Paso Energy is a big well, a big pipeline company.
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And it was a rival of en Run at one time,
at the turn of the century, turn of the millennium.
And one of the things she did was she trained employees,
executives and pipeline employees on media and how you deal
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with the media if someone gets hurt on the job,
if there's an explosion, if there's and one of the
people she felt was the best at this time this
is you know, the year was two thousand, was the
best at what he did was Bill Clinton. And she
used to play a clip for people and the clip
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would go like this. They would say, Mster President, did
you have sex with with Monica Lewinsky? Because Linda Tripp
has a dress and it's got a stain on it,
and she's got phone conversations recorded where Monica says, you
did this, this, and this, and your wife hadn't talked
to you in three months and da dah da da
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da da. And he would say, you know, not one
hungry child is going to be fed tonight by that question.
Not one single mom that's working hard to raise her child.
It's going to be taken care of by that question.
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What I'm doing is trying to help people. And by
the time you got to the end of the answer.
You didn't even notice that he didn't answer the question.
Trump doesn't avoid their questions because he can't give the answer.
He avoids their question because he knows what he wants
to talk about, and he's going there. You get into
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trouble where you go, well, I feel like I have
to give them. This is why Republicans lose, because you
feel like you've got to play their game. Trump understands
crush them. What's the video game that has to finish him?
What more to combat?
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:28):
So President Trump was asked by Christen Welker, omit the
press about tariffs causing prices to rise? And what I
want you to listen to here is this is Kristen
Welker trying to corner President Trump into giving her a
sound bite. Most broadcast media today gets more views by
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links to social media then they do native broadcast format.
So if you're un meet the press, more people will
see if you get a quote unle quote, more people
will see that on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, TikTok. Then we'll
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have watched it on TV. So of your interview, if
it's an hour long interview, let's say you're trying to
find one line. Everybody out there, for some reason that's
obsessed with Bill Belichick and his sex life knows that
this woman he's dating said, we're not going to answer that.
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When asked how they met, that reporter paused so he
didn't step on her line because he knew right there,
that's the moment the anchor, the questioner, the interviewer and
his camera, that's the moment you make eye contact, because
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you know if you're that person, that's what's going to
come out. That's what they're going to write stories about.
Nothing else that is said here is going to matter.
That's going to be the whole story. Right She's trying
to make a moment. Trump is too good. Listen to
what he says.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
E logically, I mean, the fake news was giving me
such press on the tariffs. The teriffs are going to
make us rich. We're going to be a very rich country.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
So let's talk about the tariffs.
Speaker 6 (11:34):
And I want to ask you about something you said
this week got a lot of attention. You are at
your cabinet meeting. You said, quote and to quote what
you said, maybe the children will have two dollars instead
of thirty dollars, and maybe the two dolls will cost
a couple of bucks more than they would normally. Are
you saying that your tariffs will cause some prices to
go up?
Speaker 3 (11:53):
No, I think a tariff's is going to be great
for us because it's going to make us rich.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
But you said some dolls are going to cost some more.
Isn't that an acknowledge some price up.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
I don't think a beautiful baby girl needs that's eleven
years old, needs to have thirty dollars. I think they
can have three dollars or four dollars, because what we
were doing with China was just unbelievable. We had a
trade deficit of hundreds of billions of dollars with China.
Speaker 6 (12:20):
When you say they could have three dollars instead of
thirty dollars, are you saying Americans could see empty store shelves.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
No, No, I'm not saying that. I'm just saying they
don't need to have thirty dollars. They can have three.
They don't need to have two hundred and fifty pencils.
They can have five.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
But you're basically saying there could be some supply.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
They can't waste money on a trade deficit with China.
For things we don't need for junk that we don't need.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
President Chump told Kristin Walker that he wants to treat
people fairly, whether they voted for him or not. I
believe that to be true. He wants to unify the country,
but the fake news medium makes it very difficult. These
people flourish in chaos, mayhem, misery, and suffering, and that's
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a fact.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
I want to think people fairly, whether they're voted from
me or not. I want to have a unified country.
It's very hard because the media is so fake, including
like even the way you ask questions. Every question is
asked in a negative vein. There's a toy company that
took a toddler's you know whatever. But you don't talk
about the fact that gasoline is down at numbers that
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nobody believes possible. You know why they're down, by the
way drilled with drilling like crazy.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Did you know that? You know how you know gas
prices are down? There's no ways talking about them. You
know how you know the economy is improving because they're
not reporting on it. That's how you know they've got
people so scared. Sure, there is volatility in the stock market,
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absolutely guess what was it, NBC? I think, talk to
the cartels the other day is you know this's got
to be bad for y'all. Trump's cutting off your drug supply.
But y'all are man? Are you serious? People are dying
on America streets teenagers. I've had listeners email me. They're fourteen, fifteen, sixteen,
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seventeen year old kids die from fitnel overdoses at the
cartel's trafficked in here. You don't give a damn about
those people. I have a hate tread for the drive
by media hatred because they bring about suffering and pain
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and misery, all while saying, but let about that victims.
I hate them. They can all lose their jobs. I
won't feel bad about it, not one bit. Michael Perry,
thinking about great frustrations for many, many years, was that
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when we would explain things to people as to what
the Democrats actually wanted, the Democrats never admitted to that.
We don't want more illegal immigration, we don't want criminals
freed to create more crime. We don't want more pedophiles
on the street, we want more traveling. You want you crazy,
and you sound crazy saying it until Trump was able
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to force them and force them. He did, and now
people see that and finally they have to admit. They
want to hide behind things, Oh we're just disagreeing over
this or that, or you people are crazier. But when
forced to make the decision because he deports violent criminal
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aliens and they have to oppose him, they have to admit.
And when he says this, this has been such a lot,
he created an inflection point where he painted them into
a corner where they had to admit it.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
Do you see descent as an essential part of democracy?
Speaker 3 (16:11):
It's a part of democracy. It is You're always an
important part of democracy. You're always going to have Christ
and you're always going to have descent. There's nothing you're
going to do about that. It's am I going to
get one hundred percent unified? It would be a strange place.
I don't I can't even imagine it where one hundred percent. Look,
you have people that are good people, they're very smart people,
and they honestly believe we should have open borders and
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the entire world should be allowed to pour into our country.
I think it's a ninety five to five issue, but
they believe it to not even bad people, some of
them are bad. You have people that honestly believe that
men should be allowed to play in women's sports. Some
of these people I really actually I don't know any.
I haven't been able to find any, but they exist.
They say it's an eighty twenty issue. I don't believe that.
I think it's a ninety seven to three issue.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Next. Next, Kristin Wilker us something very odd. She says
border crossings are at their lowest level ever recorded. I mean,
is she wanting him to serve a third term? Let's
talk about the border. Let's talk about deportations.
Speaker 6 (17:14):
Border crossings are at their lowest level ever recorded.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Is the border good?
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Is the border now secure?
Speaker 3 (17:21):
It's really secure? When you say that, doesn't that just
sound good? After being abused for years by an incompetent
president that allowed people to pour through an open border,
criminals from all over the world, murders and insane people
from mental institutions and in Santa Sallum's Is it a
beautiful thing when you say it's the most secure it's
ever been in the history of our country. Isn't that
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a nice statement?
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Well? Play that again, because I've waited a long time
for this.
Speaker 6 (17:50):
Let's talk about the border. Let's talk about deportations. Border
crossings are at their lowest level ever recorded.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Is the border good?
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Is the border are now secure?
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Yes, it's really secure. When saying that, doesn't it just
sound good? After being abused for years by an incompetent
president that allowed people to pour through an open border,
criminals from all over the world, murders and insane people
from mental institutions and insane asatum's isn't it a beautiful
thing when you say it's the most secure it's ever
been in the history of our country? Isn't that a
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nice statement.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
That I got to hear it again? I've I've waited.
So this is what we work for, and it's happening.
The Republicans told us it couldn't happen. The Democrats solus,
that couldn't happen. You couldn't. Wouldn't no reason to build
a wall. They'll go over it and under it. Well,
you know, the problem isn't them running through the through
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the desert, or the problem is at the border where
they're coming over asym. If you stop that, they'll just
run through the desert. Okay, we'll stop that. You can't
stop them desert. Can't possibly catch them all. We will,
we are. Well, it wouldn't matter, None of that matter
until you stop people from hiring them. You got companies
that hire them, all right, we can just stop that. Well,
if you do that, did you? They kept telling us
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it was too comprehensive, it was too big a problem,
too many moving parts, right, Trump showed, no, once you
start cracking down. Over the weekend, Christy Noam announced that
they're flying people back. You want to self depart to port,
we'll fly you. We'll fly you out of the country
to where you want to go. We will fly you
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out because you know, Trump said that the boys playing
in women's sports and boys in women's bathrooms, and he said,
I don't actually know anyone who publicly has this opinion.
You ever noticed that's the case. It's only freak shows
that'll show up at a school board meeting and say that.
And you know they're five hundred pounds, purple and green hair,
bone through their nose, born a man, want to be
a woman. They're nuts right Well, anyway, because he picks
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important issues that matter deeply to people, the vast majority
of people are on the side of and care deeply
about He puts the Democrats into a position of having
to take up the issue opposite him because they can't
support him, just like at his Joint Session of Congress
opening speech where he said, it doesn't matter what I do,
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they will never stand up and clap for what we're
going to do and what we have done. They will
never do it. And then he brings Houston's young man,
DJ Daniel, and he has him stand up. He has
other heroes stand up and they sit on their hands.
They weren't going to cheer no matter what he said,
and he knew it, and he made a fool out
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of him. So here he is. As a result of that,
the Democrats are in absolute and utter disarray. And as
a result, they've got people like ilhan Omar rising to
the top, AOC rising to the top. Bernie Sanders do
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not even not even officially a Democrat because he's too
far to the left of the Democrats. He's a socialist,
although the party has moved to him. Now they've got
Jasmine Crockett. That woman is becoming the face of the party.
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The more dumb stuff she says, the more airtime she gets.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
And you know what, I can't name I can't name
one Democrat. I mean, I look at the Democrats there
in total this array. They have a new person named Crockett.
I watched her speak to the other day. She's definitely
a low IQ person and they said she's the future
of the party. I said, you have to be kidding.
I don't know what they're going to do. And I
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really believe in a two party system because it's good
to be challenged. It's really good to have a two
party you know, it's good being challenged, is okay? It
keeps you sure. I don't know what they're going to do.
They have nobody. Bernie's eighty seven years old or something,
and you know, Biden is the worst thing that ever
happened to old people because he was grossly incompetent. And
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I think maybe for artificial reasons, generally an operation something,
so maybe that's an artificial But I know people that
are unbelievably sharp and they're older than eighty seven. But
I watch Bernie Sanders. He's a nut job, but he's
still sharp, be sharp as he's the same guy he was.
He hasn't gone down. But Biden is really he's the
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worst thing to happen to old people.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Michael Berry. Michael Berry, sticking with our theme on SINCO
to my own of President Trump in his own words,
he gave the commencement address at the University of Alabama,
and I got to tell you, this was as fine
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a line as he is ever uttered. Congratulations to the
University of Alabama on a real high point, a nice
moment that the President made happen over the weekend. And
I want you to listen to him talk about the
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Crimson Tide versus the Harvard Crimson. And I love this line.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Graduates of the Alabama class of twenty twenty five, standing
here before you in this magnificent arena, it is clear
to see the next chapter of the American story will
not be written by the Harvard Crimson. It will be
written by you. The Crimson Tide. True, that's true, that's true,
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that's true. I thought that was rather clever. If you
look at what's going on. You know, they get their
five billion dollars a year. That is not going to
be so forthcoming, now, ken you, wasn't that a clever one?
Speaker 7 (24:05):
Though?
Speaker 3 (24:05):
How would think of that? It is.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
Because this.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
The Ivy League schools sitting on there billions and endowments
getting taxpayer dollars from the people of Alabama who are
working very hard and can't get in. Ninety nine point
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nine percent can't get in. It's wrong the idea that
we would favor these schools because the legacy they built
as great institutions upon which a legacy upon which they
rely today, which is no longer true. Google doesn't hire
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out of Harvard or Yale. They hire programming nerds that
didn't go to college. The universities, by and large don't
have anything to teach the self taught autodidact programmer. There
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are kids in high school that can out program university
professors of computer programming. And that's a fact. And this
idea that Harvard was so special is gone. Their graduates
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are not outperforming. In fact, Harvard used to be a
place that the major wealthy family scions all wanted to go.
And that's how you kept the power. That's how the
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aristocracy of America, and yes there was one still is.
There is a political aristocracy. The Romney's, the Clinton's, the Bushes,
the Obama's, they're all part of it, the mccains. But
that's how they kept the power. Was they intermarried in College.
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You look at the marriage of the Eisenhowers to the Nixons,
literally the marriage those who aren't happened by accident. They
go to the same schools the friends in Washington, d C.
They go to the same schools. They start at kindergarten,
they start before kindergarten. They make the right friends, they
vacation in the right places. Their life is ordained for them.
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And the university is a major major part of that. Well,
they had a huge ch had start, they had wealthy families,
they had they had donors who would leave in in
their in their estate, massive contributions to the endowment. But
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a nation doesn't run off of the Ivory Tower institution.
That is really a social network. It's not surprising that
Facebook actually started as a social network at Harvard by
the Winklevosses, and then once Zuckerberg pried his way in there,
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he managed to grab it away from him. Allegedly, the
Winkle bosses made some cash off that deal, so it
must be something to it, huh. And now they clear
bitcoin trades. They're one of the biggest. They're not Coinbase there,
I forget which one they are. Anyway, we have we're
not going to play a lot of President Trump's address
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at Alabama here on the show today, because we're playing
the full speech as our Saturday podcast to give it
the attention it deserves. Because our listeners tend to be,
especially those who listen to the podcast the meant they
come out, they tend to slow down a little on Saturday.
They're not rushing to work or russian get the kids.
They might be cleaning out the garage or gardening or
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griding their bike, and they'll be able to listen to
it more. But this one is this line right here.
I would like to know who his speechwriter is for
this line, because this is good. This is really really good.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
It helps when you know that borders are not racist,
speech is not violence, America is good. Terroorists are bad,
men can never become women, police are not criminals, and
criminals are not victims.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Compare that to the hoodrat congressman from Texas, Jasmine Crockett.
She put her wig on and gave the commands to commit.
It's been addressed at Tugaloo College in Mississippi, where she said,
if they won't give you a seat at the table,
use a chair on them.
Speaker 8 (29:09):
There going to be people that tell you that you
don't belong, and I am here to tell you over
and over.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
And over that you absolutely belong.
Speaker 8 (29:18):
There are people that are going to tell you that
there is not a table in which there is a
seat for you. But I am here to remind you
of Montgomery and those folding chairs. Let me tell you,
did we know how to use a chair? Whether we
pulling it up, are we doing something else with it?
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Let me hear the Let me be the first one
to tell you that I know that y'all are ready
to put your boots on the ground.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
That's your cue, verry out. I guess she represents a
certain demographic of this country in Congress. I think most
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black people when they see that thing, dear God, they're
going to think that all of us are as stupid
as you are. My goodness, allile. I don't it really
the idea of going to historically black colleges and universities
and telling the future graduates that they are all victims.
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It is such a disservice to people. My children are black,
and I tell them you are a conqueror if that
is what your will is to be. But white liberals
they love to tell them how pitiful and sad? Do
are Remember when Joe Biden went to Morehouse College, The.
Speaker 7 (30:51):
Ressed your high school graduation to start a college, just
as George Floyd was murdered as a reckoning on race.
What is democracy? The black men are being killed in
the street? What is democracy? To trail of broken promises?
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Soon the black communities behind? What is democracy?
Speaker 7 (31:15):
You have to be ten times better than anyone else
to get a fair shot. Most of all, what does
it mean, as you've heard before, to be a black
man who loves his country even if it doesn't love
him back in equal measurement.
It's that time time time, time, wucking loud. Michael Very
Show is on the air right now. There's a lot of.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Fallacies about Latinos.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
We want to clear that up.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Oh yeah, like what officer, Well, first of all, not
every single Latino is Mexican.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
I'm glad you noticed different kind of Mexicans.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Puerto Rican Mexican is Nick rodin Mexican A minute in Mexican.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
I knew nothing in Mexican culture. I'm originally from the Midwest.
I moved to Los Angeles like Sinko Tomo. I didn't
even know what it was. My neighbor's Mexican. I asked him.
I mean in Midwest we call it Tuesday, you know.
I asked him, I go, what is it? He goes,
it's our Independence Day. I go, who'd you beat? He
goes the French. I'm like, well, who didn't you know?
I don't know if it's something to get quite this
wound up about Jose, But if Martin readers or have price,
(01:01):
I'm all the markers ain't going to.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Thank Bookay.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Sake, Bookay sank book day, birkay.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
The French forces in the Battle of Puebla sack in
eighteen sixty two. It's also an excuse to drink to
kill on a Monday morning at work for Lewis. President
Obama will mark the holiday with a reception at the
White House.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
You have to drink the whole thing and eat the worm.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
You wanted to take a moment right here because on
Monday stink with the mile way too early. Meet sarcastic
references to the way some Americans celebrate the holiday, and
it was not our intention to be disrespectful, and we
sincerely apologize for those references. You know, after twenty years
in this business, anyone who knows me knows where I
stand on diversity and inclusion. So to those I let
down or feel betrayed, I hear you, and I'm sorry.
We're want to go over to Lewis now, but look
at the stories in the cold of this morning, and
(01:48):
I know you are contract as.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Well, Thomas.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
I want to express my sincere apologies as well.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
I truly it was never my intention.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
To offend anyone, and if I did, and I know
I did, I'm very sorry.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
The President had a very very strong showing this weekend.
Surprise right what we're going to expect, But it's just
a good reminder how good he has he how good
he is at this. Before I get to some of
the audio of that and a deconstruction of it. Today
(02:28):
is a big day in Texas. It is the fifth
of May. Yesterday for you Star Wars Nerds was the
May the fourth be with you. I grew up on
Star Wars and I must admit I still enjoy trolling
Star Wars and Star Trek people.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
I always been kind of a jackass. I've always been
one of those guys that does a lot of pranks.
You know, me and a nerd. I know how to
pissed Nerds off. I know what gets to him. They
hate it when you get there session wrong. You know,
when you get the thing they've wasted their life on wrong.
So all these guys are waiting for the Star Wars
movie and I lean out of my car.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
And go Star Trek sucks. The car's a loser.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Star Trek blues, just knowing they would pisiness to get
pissed off one of them, and it worked. You know,
one of them steps up and goes it's Star Wars
Get Right s George Lucas's vision based on the original
trilogy and I'm like sitting in my car haha, stupid nerds.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
And today May fifth is a big deal, particularly in Texas.
I don't know how much y'all celebrated there, Sinko to Mayo.
The fifth of May is a very We have a
we have a huge population of folks who came here
from Mexico. Now, before you blow up and go yeah,
they need to be sent back, I'm not talking about
legal aliens. I'm talking about people who lived here longer
(03:56):
than my family has. And there are cops. A lot
of Hispanic men are cops, firefighters, marines, US Army, and
they are a major, major contributor to the culture that
is the state of Texas. The state of Texas is
primarily a German slash check. A group of settlers in
(04:21):
the central part we call the Hill country, Hispanics who
populate the border and who have moved to the big
cities as well, multiple generations and what we call Kunases.
I grew up in a Louisiana border. I can say that,
which is people from Louisiana, the Thibodeaux Equipidos and the
(04:42):
culture they brought and then a Southern black culture that
I would argue is different than you find in other states,
and those tend to be the most obvious influences on
the melting pot. That is the unique Texas. Cinco to
Mayo is the date that celebrates not Mexican independence, as
(05:05):
many people believe, but the Second French Empire. The French
had loaned money to the people of Puebla, the people
of Pueblo who are known as Poblano's, which is where
you get the Poblano peppers from both the pepper from
there and the people from there known as Poblanos. The
people didn't want to repay the debt. They fought the
French and won. No, don't get that excited over beating
(05:28):
the French. But still it was eighteen sixty two. It
was so stronger France, and there was a celebration, and
that celebration has morphed into the Cinco de Mayo celebration
in Houston is like the Saint Patrick's Day celebration on
the Hudson in New York. It is a really, really
big deal.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
All right to the.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
President we go. President Trump was on Meet the Press
with Kristin Welker and she was being, as he has
said in the past, a very very nasty lady, and
he was ready. He was loaded for bear. She asked
about the stock market, and this is what you have
to learn to do. This is the master. He doesn't
answer her question. He makes the statement he wants to make.
(06:13):
This is brilliant media relations, one on one brilliant.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
If I own stock and something and I do a
good job and the stock market goes up, I guess
I'm profiting. But who really profits? To somebody like Nancy
Pelosi who uses inside information. She worked for one hundred
and seventy five thousand dollars a year, and that's at
the high end, and she's worth one hundred and fifty
(06:37):
two hundred million dollars. Okay, you had to look at
Nancy Pelosi, and you are to look at some of
these politicians at a stone called crooks. I was very
wealthy when I came in being president. I probably cost
me money.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
If you really look bizarre is on? Well done, sir,
This is the Michael Berry Show. President Trump's the best
to do it. There are people who train in media.
My wife was associate general counsel of a company called
El Paso Energy is a big well, a big pipeline company.
(07:16):
And it was a rival of en Run at one time,
at the turn of the century, turn of the millennium.
And one of the things she did was she trained employees,
executives and pipeline employees on media and how you deal
(07:36):
with the media if someone gets hurt on the job,
if there's an explosion, if there's and one of the
people she felt was the best at this time this
is you know, the year was two thousand, was the
best at what he did was Bill Clinton. And she
used to play a clip for people and the clip
(07:59):
would go like this. They would say, Mster President, did
you have sex with with Monica Lewinsky? Because Linda Tripp
has a dress and it's got a stain on it,
and she's got phone conversations recorded where Monica says, you
did this, this, and this, and your wife hadn't talked
to you in three months and da dah da da
(08:21):
da da. And he would say, you know, not one
hungry child is going to be fed tonight by that question.
Not one single mom that's working hard to raise her child.
It's going to be taken care of by that question.
(08:42):
What I'm doing is trying to help people. And by
the time you got to the end of the answer.
You didn't even notice that he didn't answer the question.
Trump doesn't avoid their questions because he can't give the answer.
He avoids their question because he knows what he wants
to talk about, and he's going there. You get into
(09:06):
trouble where you go, well, I feel like I have
to give them. This is why Republicans lose, because you
feel like you've got to play their game. Trump understands
crush them. What's the video game that has to finish him?
What more to combat?
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:28):
So President Trump was asked by Christen Welker, omit the
press about tariffs causing prices to rise? And what I
want you to listen to here is this is Kristen
Welker trying to corner President Trump into giving her a
sound bite. Most broadcast media today gets more views by
(09:58):
links to social media then they do native broadcast format.
So if you're un meet the press, more people will
see if you get a quote unle quote, more people
will see that on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, TikTok. Then we'll
(10:18):
have watched it on TV. So of your interview, if
it's an hour long interview, let's say you're trying to
find one line. Everybody out there, for some reason that's
obsessed with Bill Belichick and his sex life knows that
this woman he's dating said, we're not going to answer that.
(10:42):
When asked how they met, that reporter paused so he
didn't step on her line because he knew right there,
that's the moment the anchor, the questioner, the interviewer and
his camera, that's the moment you make eye contact, because
(11:03):
you know if you're that person, that's what's going to
come out. That's what they're going to write stories about.
Nothing else that is said here is going to matter.
That's going to be the whole story. Right She's trying
to make a moment. Trump is too good. Listen to
what he says.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
E logically, I mean, the fake news was giving me
such press on the tariffs. The teriffs are going to
make us rich. We're going to be a very rich country.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
So let's talk about the tariffs.
Speaker 6 (11:34):
And I want to ask you about something you said
this week got a lot of attention. You are at
your cabinet meeting. You said, quote and to quote what
you said, maybe the children will have two dollars instead
of thirty dollars, and maybe the two dolls will cost
a couple of bucks more than they would normally. Are
you saying that your tariffs will cause some prices to
go up?
Speaker 3 (11:53):
No, I think a tariff's is going to be great
for us because it's going to make us rich.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
But you said some dolls are going to cost some more.
Isn't that an acknowledge some price up.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
I don't think a beautiful baby girl needs that's eleven
years old, needs to have thirty dollars. I think they
can have three dollars or four dollars, because what we
were doing with China was just unbelievable. We had a
trade deficit of hundreds of billions of dollars with China.
Speaker 6 (12:20):
When you say they could have three dollars instead of
thirty dollars, are you saying Americans could see empty store shelves.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
No, No, I'm not saying that. I'm just saying they
don't need to have thirty dollars. They can have three.
They don't need to have two hundred and fifty pencils.
They can have five.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
But you're basically saying there could be some supply.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
They can't waste money on a trade deficit with China.
For things we don't need for junk that we don't need.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
President Chump told Kristin Walker that he wants to treat
people fairly, whether they voted for him or not. I
believe that to be true. He wants to unify the country,
but the fake news medium makes it very difficult. These
people flourish in chaos, mayhem, misery, and suffering, and that's
(13:12):
a fact.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
I want to think people fairly, whether they're voted from
me or not. I want to have a unified country.
It's very hard because the media is so fake, including
like even the way you ask questions. Every question is
asked in a negative vein. There's a toy company that
took a toddler's you know whatever. But you don't talk
about the fact that gasoline is down at numbers that
(13:35):
nobody believes possible. You know why they're down, by the
way drilled with drilling like crazy.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Did you know that? You know how you know gas
prices are down? There's no ways talking about them. You
know how you know the economy is improving because they're
not reporting on it. That's how you know they've got
people so scared. Sure, there is volatility in the stock market,
(14:03):
absolutely guess what was it, NBC? I think, talk to
the cartels the other day is you know this's got
to be bad for y'all. Trump's cutting off your drug supply.
But y'all are man? Are you serious? People are dying
on America streets teenagers. I've had listeners email me. They're fourteen, fifteen, sixteen,
(14:26):
seventeen year old kids die from fitnel overdoses at the
cartel's trafficked in here. You don't give a damn about
those people. I have a hate tread for the drive
by media hatred because they bring about suffering and pain
(14:48):
and misery, all while saying, but let about that victims.
I hate them. They can all lose their jobs. I
won't feel bad about it, not one bit. Michael Perry,
thinking about great frustrations for many, many years, was that
(15:09):
when we would explain things to people as to what
the Democrats actually wanted, the Democrats never admitted to that.
We don't want more illegal immigration, we don't want criminals
freed to create more crime. We don't want more pedophiles
on the street, we want more traveling. You want you crazy,
and you sound crazy saying it until Trump was able
(15:33):
to force them and force them. He did, and now
people see that and finally they have to admit. They
want to hide behind things, Oh we're just disagreeing over
this or that, or you people are crazier. But when
forced to make the decision because he deports violent criminal
(15:54):
aliens and they have to oppose him, they have to admit.
And when he says this, this has been such a lot,
he created an inflection point where he painted them into
a corner where they had to admit it.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
Do you see descent as an essential part of democracy?
Speaker 3 (16:11):
It's a part of democracy. It is You're always an
important part of democracy. You're always going to have Christ
and you're always going to have descent. There's nothing you're
going to do about that. It's am I going to
get one hundred percent unified? It would be a strange place.
I don't I can't even imagine it where one hundred percent. Look,
you have people that are good people, they're very smart people,
and they honestly believe we should have open borders and
(16:33):
the entire world should be allowed to pour into our country.
I think it's a ninety five to five issue, but
they believe it to not even bad people, some of
them are bad. You have people that honestly believe that
men should be allowed to play in women's sports. Some
of these people I really actually I don't know any.
I haven't been able to find any, but they exist.
They say it's an eighty twenty issue. I don't believe that.
I think it's a ninety seven to three issue.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Next. Next, Kristin Wilker us something very odd. She says
border crossings are at their lowest level ever recorded. I mean,
is she wanting him to serve a third term? Let's
talk about the border. Let's talk about deportations.
Speaker 6 (17:14):
Border crossings are at their lowest level ever recorded.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Is the border good?
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Is the border now secure?
Speaker 3 (17:21):
It's really secure? When you say that, doesn't that just
sound good? After being abused for years by an incompetent
president that allowed people to pour through an open border,
criminals from all over the world, murders and insane people
from mental institutions and in Santa Sallum's Is it a
beautiful thing when you say it's the most secure it's
ever been in the history of our country. Isn't that
(17:42):
a nice statement?
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Well? Play that again, because I've waited a long time
for this.
Speaker 6 (17:50):
Let's talk about the border. Let's talk about deportations. Border
crossings are at their lowest level ever recorded.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Is the border good?
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Is the border are now secure?
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Yes, it's really secure. When saying that, doesn't it just
sound good? After being abused for years by an incompetent
president that allowed people to pour through an open border,
criminals from all over the world, murders and insane people
from mental institutions and insane asatum's isn't it a beautiful
thing when you say it's the most secure it's ever
been in the history of our country? Isn't that a
(18:22):
nice statement.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
That I got to hear it again? I've I've waited.
So this is what we work for, and it's happening.
The Republicans told us it couldn't happen. The Democrats solus,
that couldn't happen. You couldn't. Wouldn't no reason to build
a wall. They'll go over it and under it. Well,
you know, the problem isn't them running through the through
(18:45):
the desert, or the problem is at the border where
they're coming over asym. If you stop that, they'll just
run through the desert. Okay, we'll stop that. You can't
stop them desert. Can't possibly catch them all. We will,
we are. Well, it wouldn't matter, None of that matter
until you stop people from hiring them. You got companies
that hire them, all right, we can just stop that. Well,
if you do that, did you? They kept telling us
(19:06):
it was too comprehensive, it was too big a problem,
too many moving parts, right, Trump showed, no, once you
start cracking down. Over the weekend, Christy Noam announced that
they're flying people back. You want to self depart to port,
we'll fly you. We'll fly you out of the country
to where you want to go. We will fly you
(19:27):
out because you know, Trump said that the boys playing
in women's sports and boys in women's bathrooms, and he said,
I don't actually know anyone who publicly has this opinion.
You ever noticed that's the case. It's only freak shows
that'll show up at a school board meeting and say that.
And you know they're five hundred pounds, purple and green hair,
bone through their nose, born a man, want to be
a woman. They're nuts right Well, anyway, because he picks
(19:55):
important issues that matter deeply to people, the vast majority
of people are on the side of and care deeply
about He puts the Democrats into a position of having
to take up the issue opposite him because they can't
support him, just like at his Joint Session of Congress
opening speech where he said, it doesn't matter what I do,
(20:18):
they will never stand up and clap for what we're
going to do and what we have done. They will
never do it. And then he brings Houston's young man,
DJ Daniel, and he has him stand up. He has
other heroes stand up and they sit on their hands.
They weren't going to cheer no matter what he said,
and he knew it, and he made a fool out
(20:40):
of him. So here he is. As a result of that,
the Democrats are in absolute and utter disarray. And as
a result, they've got people like ilhan Omar rising to
the top, AOC rising to the top. Bernie Sanders do
(21:00):
not even not even officially a Democrat because he's too
far to the left of the Democrats. He's a socialist,
although the party has moved to him. Now they've got
Jasmine Crockett. That woman is becoming the face of the party.
(21:20):
The more dumb stuff she says, the more airtime she gets.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
And you know what, I can't name I can't name
one Democrat. I mean, I look at the Democrats there
in total this array. They have a new person named Crockett.
I watched her speak to the other day. She's definitely
a low IQ person and they said she's the future
of the party. I said, you have to be kidding.
I don't know what they're going to do. And I
(21:46):
really believe in a two party system because it's good
to be challenged. It's really good to have a two
party you know, it's good being challenged, is okay? It
keeps you sure. I don't know what they're going to do.
They have nobody. Bernie's eighty seven years old or something,
and you know, Biden is the worst thing that ever
happened to old people because he was grossly incompetent. And
(22:09):
I think maybe for artificial reasons, generally an operation something,
so maybe that's an artificial But I know people that
are unbelievably sharp and they're older than eighty seven. But
I watch Bernie Sanders. He's a nut job, but he's
still sharp, be sharp as he's the same guy he was.
He hasn't gone down. But Biden is really he's the
(22:31):
worst thing to happen to old people.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Michael Berry. Michael Berry, sticking with our theme on SINCO
to my own of President Trump in his own words,
he gave the commencement address at the University of Alabama,
and I got to tell you, this was as fine
(22:57):
a line as he is ever uttered. Congratulations to the
University of Alabama on a real high point, a nice
moment that the President made happen over the weekend. And
I want you to listen to him talk about the
(23:17):
Crimson Tide versus the Harvard Crimson. And I love this line.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Graduates of the Alabama class of twenty twenty five, standing
here before you in this magnificent arena, it is clear
to see the next chapter of the American story will
not be written by the Harvard Crimson. It will be
written by you. The Crimson Tide. True, that's true, that's true,
(23:49):
that's true. I thought that was rather clever. If you
look at what's going on. You know, they get their
five billion dollars a year. That is not going to
be so forthcoming, now, ken you, wasn't that a clever one?
Speaker 7 (24:05):
Though?
Speaker 3 (24:05):
How would think of that? It is.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
Because this.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
The Ivy League schools sitting on there billions and endowments
getting taxpayer dollars from the people of Alabama who are
working very hard and can't get in. Ninety nine point
(24:39):
nine percent can't get in. It's wrong the idea that
we would favor these schools because the legacy they built
as great institutions upon which a legacy upon which they
rely today, which is no longer true. Google doesn't hire
(25:00):
out of Harvard or Yale. They hire programming nerds that
didn't go to college. The universities, by and large don't
have anything to teach the self taught autodidact programmer. There
(25:25):
are kids in high school that can out program university
professors of computer programming. And that's a fact. And this
idea that Harvard was so special is gone. Their graduates
(25:46):
are not outperforming. In fact, Harvard used to be a
place that the major wealthy family scions all wanted to go.
And that's how you kept the power. That's how the
(26:07):
aristocracy of America, and yes there was one still is.
There is a political aristocracy. The Romney's, the Clinton's, the Bushes,
the Obama's, they're all part of it, the mccains. But
that's how they kept the power. Was they intermarried in College.
(26:27):
You look at the marriage of the Eisenhowers to the Nixons,
literally the marriage those who aren't happened by accident. They
go to the same schools the friends in Washington, d C.
They go to the same schools. They start at kindergarten,
they start before kindergarten. They make the right friends, they
vacation in the right places. Their life is ordained for them.
(26:53):
And the university is a major major part of that. Well,
they had a huge ch had start, they had wealthy families,
they had they had donors who would leave in in
their in their estate, massive contributions to the endowment. But
(27:15):
a nation doesn't run off of the Ivory Tower institution.
That is really a social network. It's not surprising that
Facebook actually started as a social network at Harvard by
the Winklevosses, and then once Zuckerberg pried his way in there,
(27:36):
he managed to grab it away from him. Allegedly, the
Winkle bosses made some cash off that deal, so it
must be something to it, huh. And now they clear
bitcoin trades. They're one of the biggest. They're not Coinbase there,
I forget which one they are. Anyway, we have we're
not going to play a lot of President Trump's address
(27:59):
at Alabama here on the show today, because we're playing
the full speech as our Saturday podcast to give it
the attention it deserves. Because our listeners tend to be,
especially those who listen to the podcast the meant they
come out, they tend to slow down a little on Saturday.
They're not rushing to work or russian get the kids.
They might be cleaning out the garage or gardening or
(28:21):
griding their bike, and they'll be able to listen to
it more. But this one is this line right here.
I would like to know who his speechwriter is for
this line, because this is good. This is really really good.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
It helps when you know that borders are not racist,
speech is not violence, America is good. Terroorists are bad,
men can never become women, police are not criminals, and
criminals are not victims.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Compare that to the hoodrat congressman from Texas, Jasmine Crockett.
She put her wig on and gave the commands to commit.
It's been addressed at Tugaloo College in Mississippi, where she said,
if they won't give you a seat at the table,
use a chair on them.
Speaker 8 (29:09):
There going to be people that tell you that you
don't belong, and I am here to tell you over
and over.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
And over that you absolutely belong.
Speaker 8 (29:18):
There are people that are going to tell you that
there is not a table in which there is a
seat for you. But I am here to remind you
of Montgomery and those folding chairs. Let me tell you,
did we know how to use a chair? Whether we
pulling it up, are we doing something else with it?
(29:38):
Let me hear the Let me be the first one
to tell you that I know that y'all are ready
to put your boots on the ground.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
That's your cue, verry out. I guess she represents a
certain demographic of this country in Congress. I think most
(30:11):
black people when they see that thing, dear God, they're
going to think that all of us are as stupid
as you are. My goodness, allile. I don't it really
the idea of going to historically black colleges and universities
and telling the future graduates that they are all victims.
(30:32):
It is such a disservice to people. My children are black,
and I tell them you are a conqueror if that
is what your will is to be. But white liberals
they love to tell them how pitiful and sad? Do
are Remember when Joe Biden went to Morehouse College, The.
Speaker 7 (30:51):
Ressed your high school graduation to start a college, just
as George Floyd was murdered as a reckoning on race.
What is democracy? The black men are being killed in
the street? What is democracy? To trail of broken promises?
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Soon the black communities behind? What is democracy?
Speaker 7 (31:15):
You have to be ten times better than anyone else
to get a fair shot. Most of all, what does
it mean, as you've heard before, to be a black
man who loves his country even if it doesn't love
him back in equal measurement.
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