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Speaker 1 (00:02):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
The Michael Arry Show is on the air. It's Charlie
from BlackBerrys Motor. I can feel a good one coming on.
It's the Michael Berry Show. What a difference today makes?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Skinny diving in around moving, So situation couldn't.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Be mod the elon Trump. Hugh Yes coming knows the
big news story.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
So I thought waking up this morning open line Friday.
We do a morning show from eight am to eleven
am Houston time, Central Time, and I thought, well, that's
what people are gonna want to talk about. We are
not a caller driven show. There are shows that way,
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and we are not a breaking news show. Sean Hennity
will often say he's a breaking news show. We're a
different kind of show. I'm not saying one is better
than the other. I think it's good to have different
kinds of shows. Our shows are more of a magazine
than a newspaper. I like to step back from subjects
and give it some time before addressing it, because often
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when you let it breathe a little, you learn details, context,
the bias of who is reporting that news in such
a way that you realize there was more than originally
was reported, and so that colors judge often changes your
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judgment dramatically, and now you're already out there having said
this or that. I don't believe there needs to be
an immediate reaction to most news stories. I don't, and
so we don't so interestingly talk about letting a story breathe.
All anybody want to talk about yesterday was Elon and Musk.
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Fast forward to today, even on Fox, where you would
think that would be the biggest deal. I monitored Fox
today in our studio more than I usually do, and
it was maybe the fifth most covered story. You know
they tend to have. It's not a newswheel per se.
(02:34):
Old radio hands will know what that means. Not a
newswheel per se, but it is a rotating set of
of news sport ESPN Sports Center.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Which I loved when I was in law school.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
I watched the ESPN Sports Center every morning thirty minute program,
and then I watched it again. Then I studied for
thirty more minutes, and I watched it again. Three out
of the four times they looped it, and by the
third time I watched it, I would finish off Chris
Berman's statement or whatever. Fox News does not operate on
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that basis, but they do keep kind of a you know,
what's the hottest news brewing, and they'll keep looping back
into that story and they'll replay some stories. All of
this by way of saying, I figured this morning and
this evening would be all about Donald Trump and Elon Musk,
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and fortunately I think that has mostly passed, and I'll
work from the back forward. Bill Ackman, who is an investor,
pretty influential guy in the investment, corporate raider, takeover kind
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of guy. He's he's something of a of a of
a Bell Weather in terms of investors, and you'll see
him on CNBC and different financial shows often. He was
very influential in the Harvard Jewish issue. It's interesting because
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Bill Ackman was always kind of left leaning until he
didn't like what was being done to Jews at Harvard
or Columbia, and all of a sudden, no it was Harvard,
and all of a sudden he jumped up and became
kind of a Trump Republican or maga, which is.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Always interesting, right.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
It wasn't until someone with whom you identified was being
targeted that you believed that, you know, these crazy people
on the left were dangerous. You didn't mind until maybe
it was people who looked like you or worship the
way you do.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
I have a problem with that, you know.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
I see this all the time, where business owners will
give money to Democrats until their industry is in the
crosshairs of the crazy cancel left, and then all of
a sudden they go, yeah, we're over here a maga.
Wait a minute, You weren't maga last week. Oh? I
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see when the left was attacking other businesses, you were
still funding them when they turned on you.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Oh I see, I see how that works.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Speaking of people turning, Carine Jean Pierre Affirmative Action, left
handed lesbian press secretary for Joe Biden. She has announced
her Are you ready for this? She has announced that
she is no longer a member of the Democrat Party.
We needed you to know this. She no longer remember
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Democrat Party. She is now an independent and as luck
would have it, she's thrown together a book and hoping
to cash in on it about being an independent. And
the book is called Independent. Oh okay, wow. I went
to bed last night wondering, I wonder if Jean Pierre
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is still a Democrat.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Oh wonder.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
I wish I knew her so I could ask her
and then lo and behold, there she was making the
circuit with all her little friends. I'm no longer a Democrat.
Now here's the funny thing. The reason she's no longer
a Democrat is not because the Democrats have destroyed the country.
It's not because of bad policies. It's not because they're crazy,
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because she's crazy. The reason she's no longer a Democrat,
and she is officially an independent, y'all need to pay
attention to her she's officially an independent and buy her
book as well, is because all the Democrats turned on
Joe Biden. Wait, so the Democrats weren't Democrat enough. Oh
that's really not your best. Try again. Conjunction junction? What yap?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
The Michael Berry Show conjunction junction? How's that function?
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Like everybody else, We're going to move past the elon
Donald Trump spat yesterday. You know, many of you listened
to a number of different shows, and so we are
just one voice among many of you, hear, And I'm
mindful of that, And I don't think we all need
to agree. I think it's very important that we disagree.
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There was a It was a very very tense, an
interesting argument fewed whatever you want to call it, disagreement
between Tucker Carlson and Mark Levin that went on this week,
and Tucker tweeted that Mark.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Levin was at the White House last night. I think this.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
I think Tucker tweeted this on Tuesday or Wednesday, that
Mark Levin was at the White House last night lobbying
for war with Iran, and that he was doing this
because this is his only concern is Israel. And these
are Tucker's words. His only concerns are Israel, and he's
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trying to drag the United States into war and don't
buy it. Don't send our boys to war in Iran.
Pretty pretty sharp tongued. You know, Tucker doesn't hold back.
And aside from the personalities, you know, a lot of
people it's kind of like when the parents fight. A
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lot of people will say, why can't y'all just get along?
But I don't think that's what we should be doing.
You know, pick your favorite football team, the Steelers, the Patriots,
the Cowboys, the Texans, the Titans. Before the game, you
don't say to the guys, hey, y'all, don't try to win,
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Just just play nicely.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
You don't do that.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Dead, you say, go out there and run up more
points than they get. Because I want the feeling of victory. Now,
not saying the cheat, but I want the feeling of victory. Well,
the war, the battle of ideas, has winners and losers
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which are constantly changing, and it matters, in fact, it
matters a whole hell of a lot more than a
football game, whether we go to war or not, how
we spend your dollars, whether industries are driven out of
existence or subsidized to the point of wealth, Whether and
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to what extent illegal aliens are going to be allowed
into this country, and then once they're here, what they're
going to be given, Whether we're going to bomb Iran
or make a deal with them, whether we're going to
subsidize Israel or refuse to have anything to do with them,
or Ukraine or Russia or Syria or anything else. These
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things matter, and they're so important that I think is healthy.
It's very healthy to be passionate about these things. I
know Mark living pretty well, used to guest host for
him years ago before we were syndicated, and I've known Marco.
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There's been nothing but nice to me, and Mark is
passionate in his views on Israel.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
I don't know Tucker Carlson.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Well, he says nice things to me when I meet him,
but we're not texting buddies by any stretch. But he's
also very passionate. And we're talking about war here. Opinions
should get inflamed. You should be going to the mat
for your opinions, whatever side you're on. Well, that's sort
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of what happened yesterday with Elon and Trump. Now the
spectrum of opinions on what happened yesterday, and I'll assume
most of you know what happened, but I'll make it
very brief. Yesterday morning, President Trumps meeting with Thursday morning.
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I've realized some of you listen on podcasts. Thursday morning,
President Trump is meeting with the new leader of Germany,
Friedrich Merse I believe is the name. And it's a
good meeting. And he's asked about Elon, because that's what
they do. They don't ever ask about what's actually.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Going on at that time.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
And he said, and just to rewind, Elon has very aggressively.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Stated that the big beautiful bill that's.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Passed out of the House and awaiting Senate confirmation, which
it should have just before July fourth. That's the president's goal.
That it's bloated, that it doesn't fulfill the Doge findings,
that it the deficit spending is too high. That's driving off,
driving us off a financial cliff. That's Elon's position. You
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can take whatever position you want. Well, then he started
saying Republicans no better. They know they shouldn't vote for this.
They should be ashamed of themselves. It's not what they
campaign on. President Trump is invested in this bill. He
worked hard, He worked Congress. I was in DC the
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day he went over. He went over and twisted some
arms to get this thing. He called in some favors,
he made some threats to get the thing passed. Because
his margin is so slim, and Mike Johnson, it was
a feather in Mike Johnson's cap to get.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
The bill passed.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Now it goes to the Senate, same process, right, and
a holdout Republican like Rand Paul has a lot of
influence at a point like this. So anyway, Trump says,
I'll make this quick because I'm almost out of time.
In the seven Trump says, you know, Elon was supposed
to be my buddy.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
He sure did enjoy being around here. He's mad he
didn't get the EV credit.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Well, that made Elon mad because now he made it
personal about him, and he said, I didn't want the
EV credit. You even tweeted about it, and he showed that,
and they go back and forth, and then he says
Trump is in the Epstein files and that's why we
won't see him.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
That's pretty nasty.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Trump says, you know, we'll decommission space AX, will do this,
and so he got pretty nasty. Elon late last night
made a statement. Bill Ackman said, hey, why don't you
get it's good for the country if you guys don't
spat like this, right, and Elon said, I agree, striking
a conciliatory tone.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Trump is the master of mending and healing wounds.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
I wouldn't be surprised if Elon's back in the White
House next week and they hug it out and they
laughed at him.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
That's really where I think that's going to go. I'm
dead serious, imas this is Michael Ferry show. Enjoy It.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Organizations send us emails all day. Everybody that shows up
on some stupid media that you can't get off, and
you sort of chuckle at these things, and I couldn't
help but chuckle. Today I got a message from a
woman named Rachel Kellser and then it had her pronouns
which were she they, and the pronouns were a hyperlink
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and Papa, I'll tell you what a hyperlink is because
I'm a pop on myself. Hyperlink is when you're reading
something online and there's a line under it. It's like
it's underline not but it's not under line and it's blue.
You click on that, it'll take you to a weblink
that has been embedded in there. Sometimes it'll have a
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line under it when it does that, sometimes it'll just
be blue. You read an article online and you'll notice
it the is the font is black until that word
is blue. You click on that and it'll take you
for more research or for the source of.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
That, or number of different things.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Well, Rachel has as after that, she has she slash they.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
And it's a hyperlink. So I had to click what
is okay?
Speaker 1 (15:22):
So she slash they linked to a website called pronouns
dot org.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Oh okay.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
The page has the shape of body, shape of heads,
but everyone is blunt is blurred out and it says
pronouns matter.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
That's the only thing on the page.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
And then at the top left it says pronouns dot
Org resources on personal pronouns. Man, They're putting a lot
of time into personal pronouns. And then there's a learn
more Click on to learn more and it says what
and why what are personal pronouns and why.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Do they matter?
Speaker 1 (16:08):
And then it goes through that you can I've given
you enough information if you want a good laugh, and.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Go see us for yourself.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
But let me implore you if you are the type
of person that is going to go to pronouns dot
org because I mentioned it and laughed at it, and
you were going to sit there and you are going
to stew.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
You are going to be so angry at what they say.
How can these people be so crazy? And don't go there.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
If you get twisted off all day every day by
something or the other on Fox News or Newsmax or
any other show or site or newsletter or buddy that
you talk to.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
That's not healthy.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
It's not physically healthy, it's not mentally healthy, and it
tends to make you a less good husband or wife, father,
or mother, son or daughter, employer, employee, friend, neighbor. You
do understand, you do understand. There's a lot of crazy
out there. We should work, we should endeavor to change
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the crazy or to defeat the crazy. Can't change a
lot of all these people. It's not about the pronoun.
It's about how a busted childhood. It's about insecurity, about anger.
I was watching I was listening to a podcast the
other day and it was I can't remember the name,
oh Slate had the podcast, and it was about headlights
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and the glare of headlights and how the headlights are
ten times brighter than they used to be and people
were upset about it and all that, and I mean,
I've noticed the headlights seem brighter. There was a guy
who came on who's one of the guests, and he
runs a reddit age or subredditor or I'm not on Reddit,
so I don't know the proper lingo. I often get
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the lingo wrong. You don't have to correct me. If
it's not something I care about.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
I don't bother to learn it.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
So anyway, he runs a Reddit or subreddit called if
your Headlights. He's very angry that headlights have gotten brighter.
And it has twisted him off. He is man, he's
mad about it, and he, in the course of talking
about brighter headlights, talked about how it makes him want
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to murder someone.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
And this wasn't hyperbole.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
He was saying that he's worried he's going to murder
someone because they're headlights, factory headlights they just bought a
new car.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Are too bright.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
And the rage that he feels is so great that
he's going to murder them. And later he feels bad
that they won't know why they were murdered, that a
mother or father won't have their child anymore, or child
won't have their parent anymore because he will have murdered
that person. And he went to great detail to explain, Hello,
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when ramone and I go have a burden beer together
on the way, he'll say, I'm a murder a double
meat double cheeseburger, right, or so and so got clean
up on I'll a so and so murdered the other
person on Twitter with a clever quip.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Right.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
He was talking very seriously, and what I sensed in
him it was your typical white liberal. Was the anger
and rage of white liberals today and many black activists
and black Democrats, and that has been.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
It has become commonplace, it has become normal.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
And these are people that go into Antifa and Black
Lives Matter, but these are also people who joined nonprofits
who use their pronouns. The state of Colorado, Colorado, one
of the most beautiful states in the Union, State of Colorado,
has now criminalized quote unquote misgendering someone. Do you know
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what it means to misgender someone? To call them by
the sex that God gave them?
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Putting that crazy?
Speaker 1 (20:39):
If God sends you into this world as a man
and you go, no, I'm.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Not a man, I'm a lie. Yeah, I know you're
a man. You're a man. You got a winner? Or
don't you on a line? That's not what makes you
a warm on man?
Speaker 1 (20:55):
That kind of does kind of does it really really
kind of does. I saw a meme the other day.
You put one hundred women and ten men on an island.
Come back in five years, you'll have a thriving community
that will have more than one hundred and ten people
on it. You put one hundred women or men who
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call themselves women and ten men who still call themselves men.
In five years, the population will not have grown. You
cannot defy nature. Nature is undefeated. You can call it
what you want. You can create new terms. And isn't
it interesting that the people who said you can't call
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Gulf of America it's been called Golf of Mexico for
a long time, are the same people who call men
women and women men.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Isn't that weird?
Speaker 1 (21:51):
No, it's not weird at all. It's the sign of
great instability. And so I will wrap the conversation back
to the beginning. Understand that there is craziness afoot. Understand
that there are mentally unstable people, and understand you can't
change them. Don't let them change you. Don't let their
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weirdness craziness live your life, find your joy, manifest it
as a great friend, brother, mom, dad. But understand the
crazy is out there and it will always be out there.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
It's dot org.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Id of someone proverb now quoted by Sheila Jackson.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Leanst the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
So I try to provide more perspective, and that is
something I think we lack a lot of. There was
a lot of squawking across the public sphere over this
newest indignity or this newest story, and very few people
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step back and go, wait a second. You've been screeching
all day, every day the end of the world, and
it's just it changes from one.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
To the other. Oh my god, we're go going to die.
There's not enough water.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Next day, hey, we discovered that there's ten times more
water than we thought.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Oh my god, we'rero go going to die. The bees
are well.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
It doesn't matter, right, it just it just the rage
becomes the new trient. It sustains people. So we go
back to our story here from Rachel who has the
she they and then the link to the pronouns. She
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is the communications manager for knock Aseck in a KA
S E C. Now, I didn't know what knock Aseck was. So,
but the headline was knock Aseck condemns travel ban quote
steeped in racism and white supremacy. Well, I just want
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you to know that the Trump travel ban, knack Aseck
is against it. They have sent out a message. Their
position is clear. They're against it. So I don't know,
you know, if that's more important to you than rearranging
your sock drawer or what. But knock Aseck is against
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the travel ban because it is racist and white supremacist.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Okay, let me read this to you.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
On June four, the Trump administration are NOOWND sweeping travel
bands that represent over four hundred and seventy five million
people from nineteen countries. Nationals from twelve, mostly African, Caribbean
and Muslim majority countries are fully barred from entering the US. Oh,
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you lost me. When you use impact as a verb,
You've lost me. Impacting people from Afghanistan. Let's say, why
would we be letting people from Afghanistan and Burma, Chad,
Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan,
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and Yemen, well Ilha and Omar the Brother Effort is
uh from Somalia. So I don't think you're going to
get a lot of kickback on that. The city of Mogadishu,
which used to be Minneapolis, we've renamed it Mogadishu, is
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made up of Somali's.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
It is insanely.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Corrupt, the largest medicaid fraud I believe occurred unless it's
been top up there. They elected a member of their
own community, elin Omar the Brother Effort, and she has
done nothing but trash America and talk about the fact
that she represents Somalia here, not the United States, not Americans.
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She has talked about wanting to go back to Somalia
because she'd rather live there, which is not true. She
could if she wanted to, And she's basically been a
force for evil. Now for the Democrats to keep her
in their caucus as a Jew hater as she is
along with Rashia, with Rashida Taliban, and for that matter,
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Bernie Sanders. I've had people tell me, why do you
keep saying he's a Jew hater? He's a Jew. Some
of the worst Jew haters are Jews, self loathing individuals
who want to show their virtue of how much.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
They hate use because the new training I don't if
you know this.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
The new training is Hamas loving, so boys and girls, sports,
transitioning kids, all of those things that has been replaced
by Hamas loving. If you love Hamas and Middle Eastern terrorists,
that is now, that's a virtue signal above above training loving.
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They've sort of dumped training loving back. I mean it's
as if it is as if they go find the
most unpopular causes that you could possibly mount, and they
just one after the other, ring them out there. At
least with global warming, you could appeal to small minded people,
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your naive neighbor and children.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
We're saving the earth.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
We don't want the earth to burn up, leaving a
lot of people to go.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Well. I don't want to burn up either, but I
don't want to do what y'all do.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
No, we have to do this, Greta Thornburg said, So,
so you understand the unholy alliance between their perversions of
their party. When you see Greta Thornburg or Thornburger or
whatever her name is, don't correct me. I don't want
to get it right. That's an insult. Understand that if
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I get someone's name wrong that I don't like, I'm
not correcting it.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
So, oh, Greta. There she is on a.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Raft, a boat whatever, on her way to Hamas because
nothing is going to solve the problem. Like this naive
little girl whose daddy is getting rich off parading her
around and her saying.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
You should be ashamed? Was it ashamed? What was the word?
Speaker 1 (28:55):
No?
Speaker 2 (28:55):
How dare you? That was it? You got it? How
dare you?
Speaker 1 (29:01):
So? Back to the issue, knock a sack whatever that is.
But their communications manager has a she they or her
or her pronouns. They don't like this band on people
from countries that are countries that have fed terrorism to
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the United States.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Okay, well we've heard you. But you know, the question of.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
The day in the Trump administration is is this what
you voted for?
Speaker 2 (29:36):
This is what I voted for.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
You know, the left did a very powerful thing when
they convinced Americans that it's our job to become the
dumping ground.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
For the rest of the world.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Hey, if you tell me people can't live in Somalia anymore, fine,
put them somewhere else. Why ruin the greatest country on
Earth by sending some number of terrorists, uneducated people, unhealthy people,
criminal people. Why would you send them to the greatest
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healthiest nation on earth, wealthiest nation on earth.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Why would you do that?
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Why don't we just move them from Somalia to another
African country, you know, because the racism is so bad here.
Move them to another African country where they'll feel more
at home. And then when Somalia gets its stuff right.
You know, we've had this since the Barbary pirates. You know,
in a thousand years or so, they won't have far
to go back home. We don't want them to come.
Here's so much racism at all. Remember, it's the worst
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place on earth. President Trump is doing exactly what we
voted for. Put a pause on people coming to this
country and causing terrorism.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
As simple as that. Bravo.
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
The Michael Arry Show is on the air. It's Charlie
from BlackBerrys Motor. I can feel a good one coming on.
It's the Michael Berry Show. What a difference today makes?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Skinny diving in around moving, So situation couldn't.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Be mod the elon Trump. Hugh Yes coming knows the
big news story.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
So I thought waking up this morning open line Friday.
We do a morning show from eight am to eleven
am Houston time, Central Time, and I thought, well, that's
what people are gonna want to talk about. We are
not a caller driven show. There are shows that way,
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and we are not a breaking news show. Sean Hennity
will often say he's a breaking news show. We're a
different kind of show. I'm not saying one is better
than the other. I think it's good to have different
kinds of shows. Our shows are more of a magazine
than a newspaper. I like to step back from subjects
and give it some time before addressing it, because often
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when you let it breathe a little, you learn details, context,
the bias of who is reporting that news in such
a way that you realize there was more than originally
was reported, and so that colors judge often changes your
(01:47):
judgment dramatically, and now you're already out there having said
this or that. I don't believe there needs to be
an immediate reaction to most news stories. I don't, and
so we don't so interestingly talk about letting a story breathe.
All anybody want to talk about yesterday was Elon and Musk.
(02:11):
Fast forward to today, even on Fox, where you would
think that would be the biggest deal. I monitored Fox
today in our studio more than I usually do, and
it was maybe the fifth most covered story. You know
they tend to have. It's not a newswheel per se.
(02:34):
Old radio hands will know what that means. Not a
newswheel per se, but it is a rotating set of
of news sport ESPN Sports Center.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Which I loved when I was in law school.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
I watched the ESPN Sports Center every morning thirty minute program,
and then I watched it again. Then I studied for
thirty more minutes, and I watched it again. Three out
of the four times they looped it, and by the
third time I watched it, I would finish off Chris
Berman's statement or whatever. Fox News does not operate on
(03:07):
that basis, but they do keep kind of a you know,
what's the hottest news brewing, and they'll keep looping back
into that story and they'll replay some stories. All of
this by way of saying, I figured this morning and
this evening would be all about Donald Trump and Elon Musk,
(03:28):
and fortunately I think that has mostly passed, and I'll
work from the back forward. Bill Ackman, who is an investor,
pretty influential guy in the investment, corporate raider, takeover kind
(03:49):
of guy. He's he's something of a of a of
a Bell Weather in terms of investors, and you'll see
him on CNBC and different financial shows often. He was
very influential in the Harvard Jewish issue. It's interesting because
(04:09):
Bill Ackman was always kind of left leaning until he
didn't like what was being done to Jews at Harvard
or Columbia, and all of a sudden, no it was Harvard,
and all of a sudden he jumped up and became
kind of a Trump Republican or maga, which is.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Always interesting, right.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
It wasn't until someone with whom you identified was being
targeted that you believed that, you know, these crazy people
on the left were dangerous. You didn't mind until maybe
it was people who looked like you or worship the
way you do.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
I have a problem with that, you know.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
I see this all the time, where business owners will
give money to Democrats until their industry is in the
crosshairs of the crazy cancel left, and then all of
a sudden they go, yeah, we're over here a maga.
Wait a minute, You weren't maga last week. Oh? I
(05:04):
see when the left was attacking other businesses, you were
still funding them when they turned on you.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Oh I see, I see how that works.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Speaking of people turning, Carine Jean Pierre Affirmative Action, left
handed lesbian press secretary for Joe Biden. She has announced
her Are you ready for this? She has announced that
she is no longer a member of the Democrat Party.
We needed you to know this. She no longer remember
(05:36):
Democrat Party. She is now an independent and as luck
would have it, she's thrown together a book and hoping
to cash in on it about being an independent. And
the book is called Independent. Oh okay, wow. I went
to bed last night wondering, I wonder if Jean Pierre
(06:02):
is still a Democrat.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Oh wonder.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
I wish I knew her so I could ask her
and then lo and behold, there she was making the
circuit with all her little friends. I'm no longer a Democrat.
Now here's the funny thing. The reason she's no longer
a Democrat is not because the Democrats have destroyed the country.
It's not because of bad policies. It's not because they're crazy,
(06:28):
because she's crazy. The reason she's no longer a Democrat,
and she is officially an independent, y'all need to pay
attention to her she's officially an independent and buy her
book as well, is because all the Democrats turned on
Joe Biden. Wait, so the Democrats weren't Democrat enough. Oh
that's really not your best. Try again. Conjunction junction? What yap?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
The Michael Berry Show conjunction junction? How's that function?
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Like everybody else, We're going to move past the elon
Donald Trump spat yesterday. You know, many of you listened
to a number of different shows, and so we are
just one voice among many of you, hear, And I'm
mindful of that, And I don't think we all need
to agree. I think it's very important that we disagree.
(07:26):
There was a It was a very very tense, an
interesting argument fewed whatever you want to call it, disagreement
between Tucker Carlson and Mark Levin that went on this week,
and Tucker tweeted that Mark.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Levin was at the White House last night. I think this.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
I think Tucker tweeted this on Tuesday or Wednesday, that
Mark Levin was at the White House last night lobbying
for war with Iran, and that he was doing this
because this is his only concern is Israel. And these
are Tucker's words. His only concerns are Israel, and he's
(08:10):
trying to drag the United States into war and don't
buy it. Don't send our boys to war in Iran.
Pretty pretty sharp tongued. You know, Tucker doesn't hold back.
And aside from the personalities, you know, a lot of
people it's kind of like when the parents fight. A
(08:30):
lot of people will say, why can't y'all just get along?
But I don't think that's what we should be doing.
You know, pick your favorite football team, the Steelers, the Patriots,
the Cowboys, the Texans, the Titans. Before the game, you
don't say to the guys, hey, y'all, don't try to win,
(08:55):
Just just play nicely.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
You don't do that.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Dead, you say, go out there and run up more
points than they get. Because I want the feeling of victory. Now,
not saying the cheat, but I want the feeling of victory. Well,
the war, the battle of ideas, has winners and losers
(09:21):
which are constantly changing, and it matters, in fact, it
matters a whole hell of a lot more than a
football game, whether we go to war or not, how
we spend your dollars, whether industries are driven out of
existence or subsidized to the point of wealth, Whether and
(09:41):
to what extent illegal aliens are going to be allowed
into this country, and then once they're here, what they're
going to be given, Whether we're going to bomb Iran
or make a deal with them, whether we're going to
subsidize Israel or refuse to have anything to do with them,
or Ukraine or Russia or Syria or anything else. These
(10:04):
things matter, and they're so important that I think is healthy.
It's very healthy to be passionate about these things. I
know Mark living pretty well, used to guest host for
him years ago before we were syndicated, and I've known Marco.
(10:24):
There's been nothing but nice to me, and Mark is
passionate in his views on Israel.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
I don't know Tucker Carlson.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Well, he says nice things to me when I meet him,
but we're not texting buddies by any stretch. But he's
also very passionate. And we're talking about war here. Opinions
should get inflamed. You should be going to the mat
for your opinions, whatever side you're on. Well, that's sort
(10:59):
of what happened yesterday with Elon and Trump. Now the
spectrum of opinions on what happened yesterday, and I'll assume
most of you know what happened, but I'll make it
very brief. Yesterday morning, President Trumps meeting with Thursday morning.
(11:21):
I've realized some of you listen on podcasts. Thursday morning,
President Trump is meeting with the new leader of Germany,
Friedrich Merse I believe is the name. And it's a
good meeting. And he's asked about Elon, because that's what
they do. They don't ever ask about what's actually.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Going on at that time.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
And he said, and just to rewind, Elon has very aggressively.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Stated that the big beautiful bill that's.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Passed out of the House and awaiting Senate confirmation, which
it should have just before July fourth. That's the president's goal.
That it's bloated, that it doesn't fulfill the Doge findings,
that it the deficit spending is too high. That's driving off,
driving us off a financial cliff. That's Elon's position. You
(12:11):
can take whatever position you want. Well, then he started
saying Republicans no better. They know they shouldn't vote for this.
They should be ashamed of themselves. It's not what they
campaign on. President Trump is invested in this bill. He
worked hard, He worked Congress. I was in DC the
(12:32):
day he went over. He went over and twisted some
arms to get this thing. He called in some favors,
he made some threats to get the thing passed. Because
his margin is so slim, and Mike Johnson, it was
a feather in Mike Johnson's cap to get.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
The bill passed.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Now it goes to the Senate, same process, right, and
a holdout Republican like Rand Paul has a lot of
influence at a point like this. So anyway, Trump says,
I'll make this quick because I'm almost out of time.
In the seven Trump says, you know, Elon was supposed
to be my buddy.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
He sure did enjoy being around here. He's mad he
didn't get the EV credit.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Well, that made Elon mad because now he made it
personal about him, and he said, I didn't want the
EV credit. You even tweeted about it, and he showed that,
and they go back and forth, and then he says
Trump is in the Epstein files and that's why we
won't see him.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
That's pretty nasty.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Trump says, you know, we'll decommission space AX, will do this,
and so he got pretty nasty. Elon late last night
made a statement. Bill Ackman said, hey, why don't you
get it's good for the country if you guys don't
spat like this, right, and Elon said, I agree, striking
a conciliatory tone.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Trump is the master of mending and healing wounds.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
I wouldn't be surprised if Elon's back in the White
House next week and they hug it out and they
laughed at him.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
That's really where I think that's going to go. I'm
dead serious, imas this is Michael Ferry show. Enjoy It.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Organizations send us emails all day. Everybody that shows up
on some stupid media that you can't get off, and
you sort of chuckle at these things, and I couldn't
help but chuckle. Today I got a message from a
woman named Rachel Kellser and then it had her pronouns
which were she they, and the pronouns were a hyperlink
(14:33):
and Papa, I'll tell you what a hyperlink is because
I'm a pop on myself. Hyperlink is when you're reading
something online and there's a line under it. It's like
it's underline not but it's not under line and it's blue.
You click on that, it'll take you to a weblink
that has been embedded in there. Sometimes it'll have a
(14:54):
line under it when it does that, sometimes it'll just
be blue. You read an article online and you'll notice
it the is the font is black until that word
is blue. You click on that and it'll take you
for more research or for the source of.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
That, or number of different things.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Well, Rachel has as after that, she has she slash they.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
And it's a hyperlink. So I had to click what
is okay?
Speaker 1 (15:22):
So she slash they linked to a website called pronouns
dot org.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Oh okay.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
The page has the shape of body, shape of heads,
but everyone is blunt is blurred out and it says
pronouns matter.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
That's the only thing on the page.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
And then at the top left it says pronouns dot
Org resources on personal pronouns. Man, They're putting a lot
of time into personal pronouns. And then there's a learn
more Click on to learn more and it says what
and why what are personal pronouns and why.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Do they matter?
Speaker 1 (16:08):
And then it goes through that you can I've given
you enough information if you want a good laugh, and.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Go see us for yourself.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
But let me implore you if you are the type
of person that is going to go to pronouns dot
org because I mentioned it and laughed at it, and
you were going to sit there and you are going
to stew.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
You are going to be so angry at what they say.
How can these people be so crazy? And don't go there.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
If you get twisted off all day every day by
something or the other on Fox News or Newsmax or
any other show or site or newsletter or buddy that
you talk to.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
That's not healthy.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
It's not physically healthy, it's not mentally healthy, and it
tends to make you a less good husband or wife, father,
or mother, son or daughter, employer, employee, friend, neighbor. You
do understand, you do understand. There's a lot of crazy
out there. We should work, we should endeavor to change
(17:20):
the crazy or to defeat the crazy. Can't change a
lot of all these people. It's not about the pronoun.
It's about how a busted childhood. It's about insecurity, about anger.
I was watching I was listening to a podcast the
other day and it was I can't remember the name,
oh Slate had the podcast, and it was about headlights
(17:42):
and the glare of headlights and how the headlights are
ten times brighter than they used to be and people
were upset about it and all that, and I mean,
I've noticed the headlights seem brighter. There was a guy
who came on who's one of the guests, and he
runs a reddit age or subredditor or I'm not on Reddit,
so I don't know the proper lingo. I often get
(18:03):
the lingo wrong. You don't have to correct me. If
it's not something I care about.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
I don't bother to learn it.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
So anyway, he runs a Reddit or subreddit called if
your Headlights. He's very angry that headlights have gotten brighter.
And it has twisted him off. He is man, he's
mad about it, and he, in the course of talking
about brighter headlights, talked about how it makes him want
(18:34):
to murder someone.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
And this wasn't hyperbole.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
He was saying that he's worried he's going to murder
someone because they're headlights, factory headlights they just bought a
new car.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Are too bright.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
And the rage that he feels is so great that
he's going to murder them. And later he feels bad
that they won't know why they were murdered, that a
mother or father won't have their child anymore, or child
won't have their parent anymore because he will have murdered
that person. And he went to great detail to explain, Hello,
(19:16):
when ramone and I go have a burden beer together
on the way, he'll say, I'm a murder a double
meat double cheeseburger, right, or so and so got clean
up on I'll a so and so murdered the other
person on Twitter with a clever quip.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Right.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
He was talking very seriously, and what I sensed in
him it was your typical white liberal. Was the anger
and rage of white liberals today and many black activists
and black Democrats, and that has been.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
It has become commonplace, it has become normal.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
And these are people that go into Antifa and Black
Lives Matter, but these are also people who joined nonprofits
who use their pronouns. The state of Colorado, Colorado, one
of the most beautiful states in the Union, State of Colorado,
has now criminalized quote unquote misgendering someone. Do you know
(20:28):
what it means to misgender someone? To call them by
the sex that God gave them?
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Putting that crazy?
Speaker 1 (20:39):
If God sends you into this world as a man
and you go, no, I'm.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Not a man, I'm a lie. Yeah, I know you're
a man. You're a man. You got a winner? Or
don't you on a line? That's not what makes you
a warm on man?
Speaker 1 (20:55):
That kind of does kind of does it really really
kind of does. I saw a meme the other day.
You put one hundred women and ten men on an island.
Come back in five years, you'll have a thriving community
that will have more than one hundred and ten people
on it. You put one hundred women or men who
(21:17):
call themselves women and ten men who still call themselves men.
In five years, the population will not have grown. You
cannot defy nature. Nature is undefeated. You can call it
what you want. You can create new terms. And isn't
it interesting that the people who said you can't call
(21:39):
Gulf of America it's been called Golf of Mexico for
a long time, are the same people who call men
women and women men.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Isn't that weird?
Speaker 1 (21:51):
No, it's not weird at all. It's the sign of
great instability. And so I will wrap the conversation back
to the beginning. Understand that there is craziness afoot. Understand
that there are mentally unstable people, and understand you can't
change them. Don't let them change you. Don't let their
(22:15):
weirdness craziness live your life, find your joy, manifest it
as a great friend, brother, mom, dad. But understand the
crazy is out there and it will always be out there.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
It's dot org.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Id of someone proverb now quoted by Sheila Jackson.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Leanst the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
So I try to provide more perspective, and that is
something I think we lack a lot of. There was
a lot of squawking across the public sphere over this
newest indignity or this newest story, and very few people
(23:03):
step back and go, wait a second. You've been screeching
all day, every day the end of the world, and
it's just it changes from one.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
To the other. Oh my god, we're go going to die.
There's not enough water.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Next day, hey, we discovered that there's ten times more
water than we thought.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Oh my god, we'rero go going to die. The bees
are well.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
It doesn't matter, right, it just it just the rage
becomes the new trient. It sustains people. So we go
back to our story here from Rachel who has the
she they and then the link to the pronouns. She
(23:44):
is the communications manager for knock Aseck in a KA
S E C. Now, I didn't know what knock Aseck was. So,
but the headline was knock Aseck condemns travel ban quote
steeped in racism and white supremacy. Well, I just want
(24:07):
you to know that the Trump travel ban, knack Aseck
is against it. They have sent out a message. Their
position is clear. They're against it. So I don't know,
you know, if that's more important to you than rearranging
your sock drawer or what. But knock Aseck is against
(24:29):
the travel ban because it is racist and white supremacist.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Okay, let me read this to you.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
On June four, the Trump administration are NOOWND sweeping travel
bands that represent over four hundred and seventy five million
people from nineteen countries. Nationals from twelve, mostly African, Caribbean
and Muslim majority countries are fully barred from entering the US. Oh,
(25:01):
you lost me. When you use impact as a verb,
You've lost me. Impacting people from Afghanistan. Let's say, why
would we be letting people from Afghanistan and Burma, Chad,
Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan,
(25:25):
and Yemen, well Ilha and Omar the Brother Effort is
uh from Somalia. So I don't think you're going to
get a lot of kickback on that. The city of Mogadishu,
which used to be Minneapolis, we've renamed it Mogadishu, is
(25:49):
made up of Somali's.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
It is insanely.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Corrupt, the largest medicaid fraud I believe occurred unless it's
been top up there. They elected a member of their
own community, elin Omar the Brother Effort, and she has
done nothing but trash America and talk about the fact
that she represents Somalia here, not the United States, not Americans.
(26:18):
She has talked about wanting to go back to Somalia
because she'd rather live there, which is not true. She
could if she wanted to, And she's basically been a
force for evil. Now for the Democrats to keep her
in their caucus as a Jew hater as she is
along with Rashia, with Rashida Taliban, and for that matter,
(26:43):
Bernie Sanders. I've had people tell me, why do you
keep saying he's a Jew hater? He's a Jew. Some
of the worst Jew haters are Jews, self loathing individuals
who want to show their virtue of how much.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
They hate use because the new training I don't if
you know this.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
The new training is Hamas loving, so boys and girls, sports,
transitioning kids, all of those things that has been replaced
by Hamas loving. If you love Hamas and Middle Eastern terrorists,
that is now, that's a virtue signal above above training loving.
(27:30):
They've sort of dumped training loving back. I mean it's
as if it is as if they go find the
most unpopular causes that you could possibly mount, and they
just one after the other, ring them out there. At
least with global warming, you could appeal to small minded people,
(27:52):
your naive neighbor and children.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
We're saving the earth.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
We don't want the earth to burn up, leaving a
lot of people to go.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Well. I don't want to burn up either, but I
don't want to do what y'all do.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
No, we have to do this, Greta Thornburg said, So,
so you understand the unholy alliance between their perversions of
their party. When you see Greta Thornburg or Thornburger or
whatever her name is, don't correct me. I don't want
to get it right. That's an insult. Understand that if
(28:25):
I get someone's name wrong that I don't like, I'm
not correcting it.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
So, oh, Greta. There she is on a.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Raft, a boat whatever, on her way to Hamas because
nothing is going to solve the problem. Like this naive
little girl whose daddy is getting rich off parading her
around and her saying.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
You should be ashamed? Was it ashamed? What was the word?
Speaker 1 (28:55):
No?
Speaker 2 (28:55):
How dare you? That was it? You got it? How
dare you?
Speaker 1 (29:01):
So? Back to the issue, knock a sack whatever that is.
But their communications manager has a she they or her
or her pronouns. They don't like this band on people
from countries that are countries that have fed terrorism to
(29:22):
the United States.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Okay, well we've heard you. But you know, the question of.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
The day in the Trump administration is is this what
you voted for?
Speaker 2 (29:36):
This is what I voted for.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
You know, the left did a very powerful thing when
they convinced Americans that it's our job to become the
dumping ground.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
For the rest of the world.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Hey, if you tell me people can't live in Somalia anymore, fine,
put them somewhere else. Why ruin the greatest country on
Earth by sending some number of terrorists, uneducated people, unhealthy people,
criminal people. Why would you send them to the greatest
(30:12):
healthiest nation on earth, wealthiest nation on earth.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Why would you do that?
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Why don't we just move them from Somalia to another
African country, you know, because the racism is so bad here.
Move them to another African country where they'll feel more
at home. And then when Somalia gets its stuff right.
You know, we've had this since the Barbary pirates. You know,
in a thousand years or so, they won't have far
to go back home. We don't want them to come.
Here's so much racism at all. Remember, it's the worst
(30:41):
place on earth. President Trump is doing exactly what we
voted for. Put a pause on people coming to this
country and causing terrorism.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
As simple as that. Bravo.
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