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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Because we close out the work week for most people.
Tip of the hat to those of you who work weekends,
overnights shifts, and there are a lot of them who
do twenty one on twenty one off seven on fourteen
on fourteen off platform workers, you do it. A lot
of tasks have to be performed to keep our society rolling,
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and thank god somebody is willing to do them. And
whatever it is that you do, thank God for you,
and do not minimize the contribution to our society you make.
If you are a stay at home mom who raises kids,
that's not nothing. I will sometimes ask people what they do,
not what you do for living, but what do they do,
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and they'll say, oh, nothing, What does that mean? I
stay home? That's not nothing. That's not nothing, because you
are raising the people who, when I am old, are
going to hopefully be there to treat my medical conditions
if I live that long, and to serve on the
jury when some Democrat knocks me in the head, and
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to do all the other functions that need to be performed. Yeah,
you're doing that. That is noble, That is good, that
is noteworthy. The head of NPR, national Public Radio that
was funded by your tax dollars. Was giving a speech
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at one point where she said, our reverence for the
truth might have become a distraction. And in the speech
she talks about the fact that when you have a
noble goal, a noble cause you are fighting for, like oh,
I don't know, destrowing Donald Trump, you're not required to
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tell the truth. The truth is overrated. You do whatever
needs to be done. You remember when Harry Reid in
twenty twelve that inside sources, inside the IRS told him
that Mitt Romney doesn't file tax returns and that on
those he did file, he cheated, and that the IRS.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Knew it and they were going to get him.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
And then when the election came and went, turns out
that wasn't true and he'd never actually heard it, but
people believed it because Senate Majority Leader he would know.
And they said, do you feel bad? Do you want
to apologize? He said, no, Obama won, didn't he The
point was, it's okay to tell a lie, it's okay
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to smear someone's name, it's okay to defraud the American people.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Truth doesn't matter. Winning is all that matters.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
So when the director of MPR says, our reverence for
the truth might have become a distraction. See, we weren't
willing to lie to win every point, and we have
to be able to do that. I am reminded of
the speech that the great Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas
gave back in twenty twenty two, and this is my
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advice to you, and should be your advice to your children.
He said, you can be in the middle of a hurricane,
or you can be on a calm day. North is
still north. You could be in a thunderstorm. North is
still North. People can yell at you. North is still north.
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It doesn't change fundamental things. And in this business, right
is still right, even if you stand by yourself. Of
all the speeches people give, ted talks, lectures and graduation
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Benediction remarks that comment has really stuck with me as
certainly more than most do, and I think because it
was so perfect for our times. And so I offer
that to you because wherever you are, whether you are
a public person or completely private, whether you're a pastor
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the head of a company, a personality on radio television,
a writer, a teacher, professor, or a person who doesn't
interact with a lot of people, maybe your words aren't
heard by quite as many. Find truth, find the facts,
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find principle and character, and hold firm to that. And
no matter what storm blows through. If you say I'm
not taking a shot that hasn't been tested because you
believe that scientific principles, say that's purely experimental. And you
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have questions, reasonable questions, no matter who wants to fire you,
insult you, or worse, stand by your principles. If you
believe Donald Trump is doing a great job for this country,
the Michael Berry, stand by your principles.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
North is always North.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Friday New six o'clock and all my friends with twisting
all if I'm at the house just turning on the TV.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Steve Toad is a state rep.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Who is a Tea party guy, constitutional conservative, and the
kind of guy that the grassroots loves, who always struggles
to win against the establishment candidates. Every year that John
Cornyan runs for reelection, there's always one of these guys,
and they just never have the money to get there.
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And because they don't have the money, because the moneyed
interest doesn't give money to people like this, then they
can't get their name out. So they're left to run
a campaign of themselves in a truck driving around, showing
up at debates, and there's this great frustration. But this
time is going to be different because Steve Toath has
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represented his district well, because he has taken tough, strong stances,
and because people understand. People now know who he is,
and just as importantly, they know who Dan Crenshaw is.
And the more people know of Crenshaw, the less they
like him. With Steve Toat sitting down with Tucker Carlson,
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we're gonna be playing some clips from that interview. It's
a fantastic interview, and we'll be talking to Toad again
before election day.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
But here is the question of how Crenshaw got.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Elected, and I'll bear some of I'll bear responsibility for this.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
You're in the Texas House. You represent an area that
overlaps with Crenshaw's district. Obviously you live there. It's one
of the most conservative districts in Texas.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
I think it's always Montgomery County is absolutely the reddest
of red counties. Yes, Terran County is bigger, but it's purple.
You're the biggest red county left in Texas. And one
of my district is inside congressional district too, so that
would mean.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
It's probably the biggest by population Red county in the
United States.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
Absolutely absolutely, once we lost Harris County to voter fraud.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Yes, so how does that the biggest I'm just guessing
one of the biggest Republican counties in the United States
get dam Crenshaw as a member of Congress, Like, how
does that happen?
Speaker 3 (08:03):
So this is my maya copa? Is that how you said?
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Mia?
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Yeah, it's your knitting fault.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
In twenty eighteen, when Dan Crenshaw came around, it was
kind of a man crush for me.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
Yeah, Navy Seal War hero, and I only knew one person.
They're like eight people in that race, and there was
only one person that was kind of emerging as is
the person that was going to win, and he was
kind of a rhino. He was he was very weak.
And this guy comes along that says, look, I'm going
to upend the Apple card. I'm going to be a
disruptive influence. I am going to absolutely stand against the swamp.
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Where's Ted Cruise called at the Washington Cartel. I'm going
to stop it. I'm going to fight it. And so
we got behind him, and damn, I would have voted
for him too. Yeah, said that, So I encouraged our
local tea party to mail into the district, to spend
money into the district and help them raise money to
move move mountains to get Dan Crenshall acted. So feel
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a sense of responsibility for this major screw up, because
no sooner did he get there than he became part
of the problem.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Oh, he became a leader of the problem. And I
have so what year was that, twenty eighteen. I'm sure
he has official opinions on issues related to Texas or
the United States, but it's also very obvious to me
watching him carefully, that his real interest, all his main interests,
are outside this country. It doesn't seem like his agenda
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really has anything to do with America. It's a self
interest more than anything.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
You see this revolving door on the part of people
in Congress that line themselves up for lobbying positions as
soon as they leave Congress, and so in order to
get those kind of cushy jobs, you've got to do
the lobby's bidding upfront early on. He's a young guy, right,
and he's not the kind of person that's going to
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be there for twenty or thirty years. He is the
kind of person though, that's going to line himself up
for a cushy lobbying position once he gets out, And
so you've got to go along. You cannot you cannot
ruffle feathers. You can't go against leadership, and you can't
go against the lobby.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
Not only is he not go against the lobby, I
mean his campaigns are the most we pulled the numbers.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
The most recent.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
One that I saw suggested that his two biggest donors
are giving him money because of his foreign policy views.
One is a foreign lobby I think is his biggest donor,
one of them literally a foreign lobby, and the other
is a hedge fund guy called Clifford Asnes, who's.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
You know, it's one of the sleazier people in American business.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
There's that, but also is not paying Dan Crenshaw for
anything related to the United States. It so only has
to do with influencing his vote on questions pertaining to
other countries.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
I mean, it's the opposite of America. First, it's America.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Last, Then there is a question of the southern border,
the southern border of Texas, and how Dan Crenshaw cares
nothing about our southern border, but he is obsessed Ukraine.
And I got to tell you this pisses people off
as much as anything. It's been my greatest heartburn is
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his total disregard for the border and what we've been
dealing with at the Texas border, and yet his obsession
with Ukraine's border.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
Yes, what is that? I mean, I can't get my
arms around it. So three years ago we went down
to the border and pretty much all of the Texas
delegation was there. Mike Johnson came from Alabama or from Louisiana,
the Southern state congressional members came down to be with us,
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and we interviewed ICE agents, we interviewed Border Patrol, we
interviewed US Border Patrol, Union, we interviewed Ranchers. The only
person from the congressional delegation that was not there, Dan Crenshaw.
It's like, why don't you want to know about what's
going on down here? This is not a about working
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with the Mexican government. This is about on boots in
the ground right down on the border, understanding what we're
dealing with down here, so you understand firsthand what's really
truly going on. Because he has no clue what's really
going on.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
But you're in Houston. I mean it's not that far.
Houston has been completely I have family there at night,
so I go completely transformed by illegal immigration completely. It's
unrecognizable and it hasn't gotten better. It's gotten much worse.
That's my read as a visitor. But how could he
ignore that fifty eight percent of the births in Texas
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or medicaid births fifty eight percent? So think about this
as second Tucker. Twenty years ago, Medicaid was three percent
of the Texas budget. Now it's the number two driver
of the budget, and it's doing large part to illegal immigration.
People come across the border, have their babies, sometimes they
go back, sometimes they don't. So that's like collapse. I mean,
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that's not sustainable, not even in the short term. Is
that sustainable.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
Good hearted people want to say, well, we should do this,
and to which I say, I think God would say
we should do it. We should do it, not the
government exactly, we should do it. The church care so much,
use your own money. The church should do it. We
used to go down to the Mexican border, I mean
to the border towns in northern Mexico and build churches,
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we would build schools, we would build homes, we'd go
down there and do medical missions work. We can't go
down there anymore because Mexico, for all intense purposes, a
failed state. I mean it really truly is. It's a
failed state. And so you can't go down there anymore.
And so people say, well, we can't go down there anymore.
There for the United States government needs to bail this
all out.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
No, it's.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
We're destroying our children and grandchildren's ability to have any
kind of future whatsoever.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
We're drilling holes in the bottom of the ploy.
Speaker 6 (13:55):
This is the Michael Berry Show, Locked and loaded.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
The next return of.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
The issue in the Dan Crenshaw second Professional District is
up for reelection and he's being he's being challenged by
Steve Toath and Toth is right on all the issues,
and Crenshaw is wrong on all the issues. And even
when he's supposedly right because he checks the box, he
won't do anything about anything.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
And we've all had enough.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
And Toth is the best chance we have of beating
Dan Crenshaw. Here he is laying out he's been a
state rep. He's been working hard, he's in the minority,
so he can't get the majority to do what he
wants done. But he is constantly constantly nagging, cajoling, exposing, threatening,
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and in that sense, he makes the House better than
it was because even though they don't like the Freedom Republicans,
they know the Freedom Republicans have access to folks who
do what I do talking to you, and that scares
the Republican establishment.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
They don't like that, not one bit.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
So here is Steve Toe talking with Tucker Carlson about
illegal immigration and its effects on Texas.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
And this relates to the fact that.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Dan Crenshaw was supposed to be a guy fighting to
close our border and he's done anything.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
But Tucker, he came to a town hall meeting three
years ago when the Senate bipartisan which anytime you hear
a Senate bipartisan border bill, run run fast right. Democrats
are looking for any kind of solution on the border.
Democrats are not looking to close the border. They created this,
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and they completely created this, and so they have this
wack adoodal bill that allows five thousand people into the
country a day, eight one point eight million a year.
And if you look at the bones the bill, yes,
the bones of the bill say, it did call for
more ICE agents, but it wasn't to close the border, Tucker.
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It was to process people coming into the country. So
all it did was to just streamline their ability to
come into the country and be lost into the system. Okay,
show up for your court date in a year and
a half, two years which they don't show up for
They're gone. They're lost into the fabric of the nation.
And you know, they are a drain on our schools,
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They're a drain on our structure. They're drain, really huge
drain on our criminal criminal justice system in Texas and
across the United States. It's killing us. Well.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
They also make it impossible to have a cohesive country.
I mean, if a huge percentage of the population just
got here, then what is it to be American? No
one is pausing to ask that question. And when there's
a financial downturn or a national disaster, or we're tested
as a nation, how do we hold together?
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (17:11):
Twenty years ago, a friend of mine they grew up
in Toronto, said the great thing about America is the
hero melting pot, where Canada is more like a quilt
and we're tearing a part of it.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Seams. Yes, y'all have a common language. Did I just
say y'all? Yes? I did.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
It's okay you have a common language. We don't have
a common language. In Canada, we have French and we
have English. And in America now we have English and
we have Spanish. And we are becoming a quilt that
is tearing apart at the seams. Yes, and do you
feel that where you live?
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (17:47):
Terribly, yeah, terribly. You see it, especially see it in
the classroom. Right now, we keep hearing the left say
we're losing teachers in public education because they're not being
paid enough. Well, it's not what the pulling saw us.
I sat down with Texas Classroom Teachers Association in twenty
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nineteen and I said, quality of the life, violence in
the classroom, teacher pay what's the most important issue. Quality
of the life and violence in the classroom. Violence in
the classroom. Violence in the classroom. Teachers are being assaulted
like you have never seen before. I mean, there is
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one school in the state of Texas and I think
it was on TikTok, seventy two assaults I'm sorry, seventy
two fights on that were recorded. So that's basically two
fights a week in the school that were recorded, and
then we're on TikTok and those are just the ones
that they've caught. And you see this in classroom after
classroom after classrooms. So you bring you bring children together
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that can't speak the language, and then you poison them
with critical race theory, tell them that the children of
color are oppressed and the white kids are oppressors.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
What could go wrong? Right?
Speaker 4 (19:05):
I mean, it's just got a lot of attacks on whites.
As a result of that, you.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
Have a lot and a lot of attacks on white
teachers as well. And again, a lot of this it
stems from what we've done with the border and our
unwillingness to close the border. This is not about understanding
better understanding what's going on in Mexico. Mexico's a failed
state and we've got to treat it like a failed state.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
We've got to close the border.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Here is Steve Toth talking to Tucker Crossing about the
bipartisan border bill. Now, let me ask you this. Democrats
have made very clear that they don't believe anybody is illegal,
and they don't want anybody removed from this country because
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they're illegal. We've got some of them out there encouraging
h citizens to shoot at Ice. We know that the
cartels are now taking out bounties on ICE commanders. This
has become a cartel war because look, cartels have billions
of dollars at stake care, and we know that the
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Democrats are not standing up to this. The Democrats don't
want the border shut down because the Democrats have made
their decision that they're going to be supported by the
groups who make money off of illegal immigration, and there
are powerful people in the midst of all that who
support Dan Crenshaw. So when Crenshaw says we need a
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bipartisan border bill, there's nothing that can pass that it's
good for you and me that Democrats would support.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
So when you hear bipartisan, you go, oh good.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Everybody agrees. No, That's how you know it's bad Crenshaw.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
Every time I've seen him speak, it's about Ukraine's sacred borders.
It's territorial integrity, standing up for democracy, fighting putin Hitler
or whatever.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
What is that? Why the emphasis?
Speaker 4 (21:06):
I mean, I think it's fair to have views on
all kinds of foreign questions, but in his case, it's
so much the center of his focus.
Speaker 5 (21:13):
Why you know, and I get that you can go
from Trump was, you know, Russia went into crimea right
under Barack Obama in his silly line in the sand,
and Trump came in and where Obama had given them
blankets and band aids, Trump came in and gave them,
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you know, anti tank missiles, and he gave them serious
weaponry to stall the Russians. And then Biden comes in
and does the exact opposite, right, but starts talking tough.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
And so I guess I can.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
Get initially saying okay, I want to get back to
doing what Trump did. But the obsession that he that
he displayed in the midst of it was was sickening,
was absolutely sickening, especially again when you call into account
the fact that we have an open border in the
South and he was doing nothing to help us. In fact,
when the Senate deal came about, he held a town
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hall for elected officials in our district and I put
my hand up and I said, Dan, you're allowing five
thousand people into the country a day. And he just
absolutely was totally pissed really that I was bringing this up.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
And I'm not the only one.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
Center Creighton also was like, we cannot do this, and
he said, you guys should be absolutely thankful that we're
doing something now to close the border, because you can't
do it. I'm like, we have done it. We just
need you, guys, stay the hell out of the way.
We could close Texas on its own, could close the border.
We just need you to keep out of our business.
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If you're not going to help us, get out of
the way. And he was just in fact that we
couldn't do it. We needed we needed to pass this legislation. Meanwhile,
Trump was saying, you don't need any legislation. You just
need to close the border. You just sneach to some
some stones, some backbone it. Close the borders from the nation.
You don't have a national bard in Texas.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
We're gonna be changing the name of the Gulf of
Mexico to the Gulf.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Of michael Berry, which has a beautiful.
Speaker 7 (23:12):
Way one bread and butter beans and you cross the table,
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eating them.
Speaker 6 (23:46):
Beans and making love and long time holl and corn
and cotton to and man the days over rid mewle
and cuckoo and love in all over good. Don't cry,
I'm going easy. And the bay Koon dog gonna be Mathews.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
The Steve Toath challenge of Dan Crenshaw is going to
get some of my time with your indulgence between now
in the primary, because I did as much as anything
as I did as much as anyone to help Dan
Crenshaw get elected, and he has not turned out to
be who he said he was, and I am embarrassed
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by that. I will tell you I am embarrassed by that.
I'm disappointed by that. And I'm also going to do
everything I can to help Steve Toth win that race.
And I can assure you that Tucker Carlson feels exactly
the same way. He did a sit down interview with
Steve Toathe. That's the best explanation of that race and
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why Crenshaw has to go that there is. He also
did an interview with the guy who created the Pelosi Tracker,
which is the uh the that shows you what Nancy
Pelosi is trading so you can trade it because it
gets amazing returns. Imagine that it's almost as if she
has inside information. But what inside information would she have? Oh,
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I don't know that this particular company is about to
get approval on something that this particular company is being
investigated All of that is inside information that she should
not have access to, and if she does, then she
can't trade on it. That's insider trading. I assure you
that what's the woman's Martha Stewart went to prison.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
For far less than that.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Well, one of the things Republicans do, like Crenshaw is
they pour money into these rhino groups who call themselves Republicans,
but their establishment Republicans. These are kind of people who
support John Corner. These are the kind of people who
supported Nicki Haley in her running against Trump last year,
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and so they helped raise money for these groups, and
then these groups go no.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
No, No, Dan's a good Dan Crenshaw is.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
A good Republican.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Not the kind of Republican you want.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
Listen, But I'm interested in his reaction. I've seen this
with him a lot, and it suggests that there's something
I think he's mentally. I'm just going to say that,
I'm not saying that a's an attack. I'm saying that
with sympathy, there's something really wrong with him. I think
he was damaged by his service. I think it's partly
our faults as a country for sending these guys into
these horrible positions, and then I'm not helping them when
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they come home. I know that you help run Mighty Oaks,
which is a group dedicated to helping servicemen when they
come back so they don't kill themselves. So I know
you spend a lot of time on this. So I
don't want to attack him too much personally because I
want to be compassionate. But boy, I've never seen any
elected official respond to criticism the way he does.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
I mean, it's like anyone who asked him a question,
it's like, you're evil.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
I saw him recently say, if you don't agree with
beyond this foreign policy is you're evil?
Speaker 3 (27:02):
What is that you?
Speaker 5 (27:03):
You can't enter into any kind of dialogue with him.
He just takes it personally. He gets offended. He's completely
thin skinned over it. I just can't at you and
then attack you and attack your integrity or character and
your and your intellectual capacity.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
I can't.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
I can't put words to it. So who's for him?
I think the lobby is absolutely for him. I think
establishment Republicans and you know the Karl Rove, the Associated
Republicans of Texas are foreign it should be called the
Associated Rhinos of Texas. But it's so sick these guys
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Associated Republicans, Associated Republicans of Texas. So they come after
conservative Republicans every two years. I've got one of the
most conservative voting records in the TEXASAU like in the
top five, top four. My last four sessions, I've passed
some really important, critically important, comprehensive legislation that's part of
the Republican priorities, banning critical race theory in the classroom,
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banning the social transition of children. And yet this group
comes after me every two years. Two election cycles ago,
they spent three four hundred thousand dollars against me, and
we're able to get thirty six percent of the vote.
This last election cycle, the Associated Republicans of Texas spent
seven hundred thousand dollars against me and got thirty four
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percent of the vote. Really, but Dan Crenshaw helps fund him.
Why so he takes his lobbying money and he writes
checks tens of thousands of dollars the Associated Republicans of
Texas that isn't doing anything to help us expand the
majority in the Texas House. They just come after the Conservatives.
It's trying to make you more like Democrats completely. Yeah,
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So what is it and who runs it and where
does its money come from? It's Karl Rove and it's
it's just kind of big establishment money, lobby money.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Next, we have the issue of gambling in Texas.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
I'm not actually against gambling in Texas, but what I
don't approve of is taking gambling lobbyists money. Here is
Steve Toath talking to Tucker Crossing about turning down gambling
special interest money. This I do respect, even though we
disagree on the issue of gambling. I do respect the
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fact that he doesn't he's not bought and paid for
by lobbyists Karl Rove.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
Every time I ask someone involved in Texas politics, how
does this conservative this great state get such horrible like
how does a John Cornyn or Dan Crenshaw get elected
in Texas?
Speaker 5 (29:40):
They always mentioned Karl Rove. Texas is the eighth largest
economy in the world. Our economy is bigger than Russia.
Our economy is bigger than Australia. It's a bigger than Canada,
it's bigger than Mexico. It's a huge economy. We have
a three hundred plus billion dollar budget, right, and so
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when you're taking a Budget's state budget over three hundred
billion dollars. Yeah, damn per buyennium. And so when you're
talking about that kind of money, it attracts a lot
of bottom dwellers. So you hear about the Washington cartel, Well,
it's pretty much the same thing in Austin, Texas. There's
just a lot of money, just a ton of money,
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and they will get fixated on things like bringing gambling
to Texas. As an example, the neo cons desperately want
to bring gambling to Texas.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
I'm very libertarian on this issue.
Speaker 5 (30:36):
Like, if you want to have a card game and
you want to gamble, what you do in your in
your house is up to you.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
It's not agree it's none of my business.
Speaker 5 (30:44):
But at the end of the day, if you're going
to say this is state sponsored and we're only going
to give out two or three licenses and we're going
to give them out to our friends that have given
tons of campaign money, right, then it's corrupt. It's it's
crony capitalism to the max. Did improve people's lives, doesn't
improve people's lives. And at the end of the day,
look at any you look at any of the states
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that have implemented it, and we have we have a
national treasure in Houston by the name of Jim mcinveil.
His name is Mattress Mack and he owns gallery furniture.
He's the most amazing man in the whole world. And
he's a gambler and and uh, he would say, the
worst thing that Texas could possibly do would be to
bring gambling to Texas. Why they build these billion dollar
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resorts right with cash, these multi multinational corporations. What happens
to that money? People go and gamble, and that money
leaves our economy. Of course, you have less money moving
within the economy. They'll say, well, yeah, but it's a
it's a great uh tax revenue. It's there's great tax
revenue from it. Yeah, but eventually the pool in which
you're drawing from drives up.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Next, you're gonna hear Steve Toad talk about a very,
very troubling trend in Texas and that is how the
Republican margin of victory has shrunk in the past ten years.
And this should scare every single Republican. Oh, I don't
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have time for that. I'll get to that in just
a moment. Stay tuned.
Because we close out the work week for most people.
Tip of the hat to those of you who work weekends,
overnights shifts, and there are a lot of them who
do twenty one on twenty one off seven on fourteen
on fourteen off platform workers, you do it. A lot
of tasks have to be performed to keep our society rolling,
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and thank god somebody is willing to do them. And
whatever it is that you do, thank God for you,
and do not minimize the contribution to our society you make.
If you are a stay at home mom who raises kids,
that's not nothing. I will sometimes ask people what they do,
not what you do for living, but what do they do,
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and they'll say, oh, nothing, What does that mean? I
stay home? That's not nothing. That's not nothing, because you
are raising the people who, when I am old, are
going to hopefully be there to treat my medical conditions
if I live that long, and to serve on the
jury when some Democrat knocks me in the head, and
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to do all the other functions that need to be performed. Yeah,
you're doing that. That is noble, That is good, that
is noteworthy. The head of NPR, national Public Radio that
was funded by your tax dollars. Was giving a speech
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at one point where she said, our reverence for the
truth might have become a distraction. And in the speech
she talks about the fact that when you have a
noble goal, a noble cause you are fighting for, like oh,
I don't know, destrowing Donald Trump, you're not required to
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tell the truth. The truth is overrated. You do whatever
needs to be done. You remember when Harry Reid in
twenty twelve that inside sources, inside the IRS told him
that Mitt Romney doesn't file tax returns and that on
those he did file, he cheated, and that the IRS.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Knew it and they were going to get him.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
And then when the election came and went, turns out
that wasn't true and he'd never actually heard it, but
people believed it because Senate Majority Leader he would know.
And they said, do you feel bad? Do you want
to apologize? He said, no, Obama won, didn't he The
point was, it's okay to tell a lie, it's okay
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to smear someone's name, it's okay to defraud the American people.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Truth doesn't matter. Winning is all that matters.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
So when the director of MPR says, our reverence for
the truth might have become a distraction. See, we weren't
willing to lie to win every point, and we have
to be able to do that. I am reminded of
the speech that the great Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas
gave back in twenty twenty two, and this is my
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advice to you, and should be your advice to your children.
He said, you can be in the middle of a hurricane,
or you can be on a calm day. North is
still north. You could be in a thunderstorm. North is
still North. People can yell at you. North is still north.
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It doesn't change fundamental things. And in this business, right
is still right, even if you stand by yourself. Of
all the speeches people give, ted talks, lectures and graduation
(04:01):
Benediction remarks that comment has really stuck with me as
certainly more than most do, and I think because it
was so perfect for our times. And so I offer
that to you because wherever you are, whether you are
a public person or completely private, whether you're a pastor
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the head of a company, a personality on radio television,
a writer, a teacher, professor, or a person who doesn't
interact with a lot of people, maybe your words aren't
heard by quite as many. Find truth, find the facts,
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find principle and character, and hold firm to that. And
no matter what storm blows through. If you say I'm
not taking a shot that hasn't been tested because you
believe that scientific principles, say that's purely experimental. And you
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have questions, reasonable questions, no matter who wants to fire you,
insult you, or worse, stand by your principles. If you
believe Donald Trump is doing a great job for this country,
the Michael Berry, stand by your principles.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
North is always North.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Friday New six o'clock and all my friends with twisting
all if I'm at the house just turning on the TV.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Steve Toad is a state rep.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Who is a Tea party guy, constitutional conservative, and the
kind of guy that the grassroots loves, who always struggles
to win against the establishment candidates. Every year that John
Cornyan runs for reelection, there's always one of these guys,
and they just never have the money to get there.
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And because they don't have the money, because the moneyed
interest doesn't give money to people like this, then they
can't get their name out. So they're left to run
a campaign of themselves in a truck driving around, showing
up at debates, and there's this great frustration. But this
time is going to be different because Steve Toath has
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represented his district well, because he has taken tough, strong stances,
and because people understand. People now know who he is,
and just as importantly, they know who Dan Crenshaw is.
And the more people know of Crenshaw, the less they
like him. With Steve Toat sitting down with Tucker Carlson,
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we're gonna be playing some clips from that interview. It's
a fantastic interview, and we'll be talking to Toad again
before election day.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
But here is the question of how Crenshaw got.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Elected, and I'll bear some of I'll bear responsibility for this.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
You're in the Texas House. You represent an area that
overlaps with Crenshaw's district. Obviously you live there. It's one
of the most conservative districts in Texas.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
I think it's always Montgomery County is absolutely the reddest
of red counties. Yes, Terran County is bigger, but it's purple.
You're the biggest red county left in Texas. And one
of my district is inside congressional district too, so that
would mean.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
It's probably the biggest by population Red county in the
United States.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
Absolutely absolutely, once we lost Harris County to voter fraud.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Yes, so how does that the biggest I'm just guessing
one of the biggest Republican counties in the United States
get dam Crenshaw as a member of Congress, Like, how
does that happen?
Speaker 3 (08:03):
So this is my maya copa? Is that how you said?
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Mia?
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Yeah, it's your knitting fault.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
In twenty eighteen, when Dan Crenshaw came around, it was
kind of a man crush for me.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
Yeah, Navy Seal War hero, and I only knew one person.
They're like eight people in that race, and there was
only one person that was kind of emerging as is
the person that was going to win, and he was
kind of a rhino. He was he was very weak.
And this guy comes along that says, look, I'm going
to upend the Apple card. I'm going to be a
disruptive influence. I am going to absolutely stand against the swamp.
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Where's Ted Cruise called at the Washington Cartel. I'm going
to stop it. I'm going to fight it. And so
we got behind him, and damn, I would have voted
for him too. Yeah, said that, So I encouraged our
local tea party to mail into the district, to spend
money into the district and help them raise money to
move move mountains to get Dan Crenshall acted. So feel
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a sense of responsibility for this major screw up, because
no sooner did he get there than he became part
of the problem.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Oh, he became a leader of the problem. And I
have so what year was that, twenty eighteen. I'm sure
he has official opinions on issues related to Texas or
the United States, but it's also very obvious to me
watching him carefully, that his real interest, all his main interests,
are outside this country. It doesn't seem like his agenda
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really has anything to do with America. It's a self
interest more than anything.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
You see this revolving door on the part of people
in Congress that line themselves up for lobbying positions as
soon as they leave Congress, and so in order to
get those kind of cushy jobs, you've got to do
the lobby's bidding upfront early on. He's a young guy, right,
and he's not the kind of person that's going to
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be there for twenty or thirty years. He is the
kind of person though, that's going to line himself up
for a cushy lobbying position once he gets out, And
so you've got to go along. You cannot you cannot
ruffle feathers. You can't go against leadership, and you can't
go against the lobby.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
Not only is he not go against the lobby, I
mean his campaigns are the most we pulled the numbers.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
The most recent.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
One that I saw suggested that his two biggest donors
are giving him money because of his foreign policy views.
One is a foreign lobby I think is his biggest donor,
one of them literally a foreign lobby, and the other
is a hedge fund guy called Clifford Asnes, who's.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
You know, it's one of the sleazier people in American business.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
There's that, but also is not paying Dan Crenshaw for
anything related to the United States. It so only has
to do with influencing his vote on questions pertaining to
other countries.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
I mean, it's the opposite of America. First, it's America.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Last, Then there is a question of the southern border,
the southern border of Texas, and how Dan Crenshaw cares
nothing about our southern border, but he is obsessed Ukraine.
And I got to tell you this pisses people off
as much as anything. It's been my greatest heartburn is
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his total disregard for the border and what we've been
dealing with at the Texas border, and yet his obsession
with Ukraine's border.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
Yes, what is that? I mean, I can't get my
arms around it. So three years ago we went down
to the border and pretty much all of the Texas
delegation was there. Mike Johnson came from Alabama or from Louisiana,
the Southern state congressional members came down to be with us,
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and we interviewed ICE agents, we interviewed Border Patrol, we
interviewed US Border Patrol, Union, we interviewed Ranchers. The only
person from the congressional delegation that was not there, Dan Crenshaw.
It's like, why don't you want to know about what's
going on down here? This is not a about working
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with the Mexican government. This is about on boots in
the ground right down on the border, understanding what we're
dealing with down here, so you understand firsthand what's really
truly going on. Because he has no clue what's really
going on.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
But you're in Houston. I mean it's not that far.
Houston has been completely I have family there at night,
so I go completely transformed by illegal immigration completely. It's
unrecognizable and it hasn't gotten better. It's gotten much worse.
That's my read as a visitor. But how could he
ignore that fifty eight percent of the births in Texas
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or medicaid births fifty eight percent? So think about this
as second Tucker. Twenty years ago, Medicaid was three percent
of the Texas budget. Now it's the number two driver
of the budget, and it's doing large part to illegal immigration.
People come across the border, have their babies, sometimes they
go back, sometimes they don't. So that's like collapse. I mean,
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that's not sustainable, not even in the short term. Is
that sustainable.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
Good hearted people want to say, well, we should do this,
and to which I say, I think God would say
we should do it. We should do it, not the
government exactly, we should do it. The church care so much,
use your own money. The church should do it. We
used to go down to the Mexican border, I mean
to the border towns in northern Mexico and build churches,
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we would build schools, we would build homes, we'd go
down there and do medical missions work. We can't go
down there anymore because Mexico, for all intense purposes, a
failed state. I mean it really truly is. It's a
failed state. And so you can't go down there anymore.
And so people say, well, we can't go down there anymore.
There for the United States government needs to bail this
all out.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
No, it's.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
We're destroying our children and grandchildren's ability to have any
kind of future whatsoever.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
We're drilling holes in the bottom of the ploy.
Speaker 6 (13:55):
This is the Michael Berry Show, Locked and loaded.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
The next return of.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
The issue in the Dan Crenshaw second Professional District is
up for reelection and he's being he's being challenged by
Steve Toath and Toth is right on all the issues,
and Crenshaw is wrong on all the issues. And even
when he's supposedly right because he checks the box, he
won't do anything about anything.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
And we've all had enough.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
And Toth is the best chance we have of beating
Dan Crenshaw. Here he is laying out he's been a
state rep. He's been working hard, he's in the minority,
so he can't get the majority to do what he
wants done. But he is constantly constantly nagging, cajoling, exposing, threatening,
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and in that sense, he makes the House better than
it was because even though they don't like the Freedom Republicans,
they know the Freedom Republicans have access to folks who
do what I do talking to you, and that scares
the Republican establishment.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
They don't like that, not one bit.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
So here is Steve Toe talking with Tucker Carlson about
illegal immigration and its effects on Texas.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
And this relates to the fact that.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Dan Crenshaw was supposed to be a guy fighting to
close our border and he's done anything.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
But Tucker, he came to a town hall meeting three
years ago when the Senate bipartisan which anytime you hear
a Senate bipartisan border bill, run run fast right. Democrats
are looking for any kind of solution on the border.
Democrats are not looking to close the border. They created this,
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and they completely created this, and so they have this
wack adoodal bill that allows five thousand people into the
country a day, eight one point eight million a year.
And if you look at the bones the bill, yes,
the bones of the bill say, it did call for
more ICE agents, but it wasn't to close the border, Tucker.
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It was to process people coming into the country. So
all it did was to just streamline their ability to
come into the country and be lost into the system. Okay,
show up for your court date in a year and
a half, two years which they don't show up for
They're gone. They're lost into the fabric of the nation.
And you know, they are a drain on our schools,
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They're a drain on our structure. They're drain, really huge
drain on our criminal criminal justice system in Texas and
across the United States. It's killing us. Well.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
They also make it impossible to have a cohesive country.
I mean, if a huge percentage of the population just
got here, then what is it to be American? No
one is pausing to ask that question. And when there's
a financial downturn or a national disaster, or we're tested
as a nation, how do we hold together?
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (17:11):
Twenty years ago, a friend of mine they grew up
in Toronto, said the great thing about America is the
hero melting pot, where Canada is more like a quilt
and we're tearing a part of it.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Seams. Yes, y'all have a common language. Did I just
say y'all? Yes? I did.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
It's okay you have a common language. We don't have
a common language. In Canada, we have French and we
have English. And in America now we have English and
we have Spanish. And we are becoming a quilt that
is tearing apart at the seams. Yes, and do you
feel that where you live?
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (17:47):
Terribly, yeah, terribly. You see it, especially see it in
the classroom. Right now, we keep hearing the left say
we're losing teachers in public education because they're not being
paid enough. Well, it's not what the pulling saw us.
I sat down with Texas Classroom Teachers Association in twenty
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nineteen and I said, quality of the life, violence in
the classroom, teacher pay what's the most important issue. Quality
of the life and violence in the classroom. Violence in
the classroom. Violence in the classroom. Teachers are being assaulted
like you have never seen before. I mean, there is
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one school in the state of Texas and I think
it was on TikTok, seventy two assaults I'm sorry, seventy
two fights on that were recorded. So that's basically two
fights a week in the school that were recorded, and
then we're on TikTok and those are just the ones
that they've caught. And you see this in classroom after
classroom after classrooms. So you bring you bring children together
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that can't speak the language, and then you poison them
with critical race theory, tell them that the children of
color are oppressed and the white kids are oppressors.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
What could go wrong? Right?
Speaker 4 (19:05):
I mean, it's just got a lot of attacks on whites.
As a result of that, you.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
Have a lot and a lot of attacks on white
teachers as well. And again, a lot of this it
stems from what we've done with the border and our
unwillingness to close the border. This is not about understanding
better understanding what's going on in Mexico. Mexico's a failed
state and we've got to treat it like a failed state.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
We've got to close the border.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Here is Steve Toth talking to Tucker Crossing about the
bipartisan border bill. Now, let me ask you this. Democrats
have made very clear that they don't believe anybody is illegal,
and they don't want anybody removed from this country because
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they're illegal. We've got some of them out there encouraging
h citizens to shoot at Ice. We know that the
cartels are now taking out bounties on ICE commanders. This
has become a cartel war because look, cartels have billions
of dollars at stake care, and we know that the
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Democrats are not standing up to this. The Democrats don't
want the border shut down because the Democrats have made
their decision that they're going to be supported by the
groups who make money off of illegal immigration, and there
are powerful people in the midst of all that who
support Dan Crenshaw. So when Crenshaw says we need a
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bipartisan border bill, there's nothing that can pass that it's
good for you and me that Democrats would support.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
So when you hear bipartisan, you go, oh good.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Everybody agrees. No, That's how you know it's bad Crenshaw.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
Every time I've seen him speak, it's about Ukraine's sacred borders.
It's territorial integrity, standing up for democracy, fighting putin Hitler
or whatever.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
What is that? Why the emphasis?
Speaker 4 (21:06):
I mean, I think it's fair to have views on
all kinds of foreign questions, but in his case, it's
so much the center of his focus.
Speaker 5 (21:13):
Why you know, and I get that you can go
from Trump was, you know, Russia went into crimea right
under Barack Obama in his silly line in the sand,
and Trump came in and where Obama had given them
blankets and band aids, Trump came in and gave them,
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you know, anti tank missiles, and he gave them serious
weaponry to stall the Russians. And then Biden comes in
and does the exact opposite, right, but starts talking tough.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
And so I guess I can.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
Get initially saying okay, I want to get back to
doing what Trump did. But the obsession that he that
he displayed in the midst of it was was sickening,
was absolutely sickening, especially again when you call into account
the fact that we have an open border in the
South and he was doing nothing to help us. In fact,
when the Senate deal came about, he held a town
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hall for elected officials in our district and I put
my hand up and I said, Dan, you're allowing five
thousand people into the country a day. And he just
absolutely was totally pissed really that I was bringing this up.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
And I'm not the only one.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
Center Creighton also was like, we cannot do this, and
he said, you guys should be absolutely thankful that we're
doing something now to close the border, because you can't
do it. I'm like, we have done it. We just
need you, guys, stay the hell out of the way.
We could close Texas on its own, could close the border.
We just need you to keep out of our business.
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If you're not going to help us, get out of
the way. And he was just in fact that we
couldn't do it. We needed we needed to pass this legislation. Meanwhile,
Trump was saying, you don't need any legislation. You just
need to close the border. You just sneach to some
some stones, some backbone it. Close the borders from the nation.
You don't have a national bard in Texas.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
We're gonna be changing the name of the Gulf of
Mexico to the Gulf.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Of michael Berry, which has a beautiful.
Speaker 7 (23:12):
Way one bread and butter beans and you cross the table,
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eating them.
Speaker 6 (23:46):
Beans and making love and long time holl and corn
and cotton to and man the days over rid mewle
and cuckoo and love in all over good. Don't cry,
I'm going easy. And the bay Koon dog gonna be Mathews.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
The Steve Toath challenge of Dan Crenshaw is going to
get some of my time with your indulgence between now
in the primary, because I did as much as anything
as I did as much as anyone to help Dan
Crenshaw get elected, and he has not turned out to
be who he said he was, and I am embarrassed
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by that. I will tell you I am embarrassed by that.
I'm disappointed by that. And I'm also going to do
everything I can to help Steve Toth win that race.
And I can assure you that Tucker Carlson feels exactly
the same way. He did a sit down interview with
Steve Toathe. That's the best explanation of that race and
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why Crenshaw has to go that there is. He also
did an interview with the guy who created the Pelosi Tracker,
which is the uh the that shows you what Nancy
Pelosi is trading so you can trade it because it
gets amazing returns. Imagine that it's almost as if she
has inside information. But what inside information would she have? Oh,
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I don't know that this particular company is about to
get approval on something that this particular company is being
investigated All of that is inside information that she should
not have access to, and if she does, then she
can't trade on it. That's insider trading. I assure you
that what's the woman's Martha Stewart went to prison.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
For far less than that.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Well, one of the things Republicans do, like Crenshaw is
they pour money into these rhino groups who call themselves Republicans,
but their establishment Republicans. These are kind of people who
support John Corner. These are the kind of people who
supported Nicki Haley in her running against Trump last year,
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and so they helped raise money for these groups, and
then these groups go no.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
No, No, Dan's a good Dan Crenshaw is.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
A good Republican.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Not the kind of Republican you want.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
Listen, But I'm interested in his reaction. I've seen this
with him a lot, and it suggests that there's something
I think he's mentally. I'm just going to say that,
I'm not saying that a's an attack. I'm saying that
with sympathy, there's something really wrong with him. I think
he was damaged by his service. I think it's partly
our faults as a country for sending these guys into
these horrible positions, and then I'm not helping them when
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they come home. I know that you help run Mighty Oaks,
which is a group dedicated to helping servicemen when they
come back so they don't kill themselves. So I know
you spend a lot of time on this. So I
don't want to attack him too much personally because I
want to be compassionate. But boy, I've never seen any
elected official respond to criticism the way he does.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
I mean, it's like anyone who asked him a question,
it's like, you're evil.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
I saw him recently say, if you don't agree with
beyond this foreign policy is you're evil?
Speaker 3 (27:02):
What is that you?
Speaker 5 (27:03):
You can't enter into any kind of dialogue with him.
He just takes it personally. He gets offended. He's completely
thin skinned over it. I just can't at you and
then attack you and attack your integrity or character and
your and your intellectual capacity.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
I can't.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
I can't put words to it. So who's for him?
I think the lobby is absolutely for him. I think
establishment Republicans and you know the Karl Rove, the Associated
Republicans of Texas are foreign it should be called the
Associated Rhinos of Texas. But it's so sick these guys
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Associated Republicans, Associated Republicans of Texas. So they come after
conservative Republicans every two years. I've got one of the
most conservative voting records in the TEXASAU like in the
top five, top four. My last four sessions, I've passed
some really important, critically important, comprehensive legislation that's part of
the Republican priorities, banning critical race theory in the classroom,
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banning the social transition of children. And yet this group
comes after me every two years. Two election cycles ago,
they spent three four hundred thousand dollars against me, and
we're able to get thirty six percent of the vote.
This last election cycle, the Associated Republicans of Texas spent
seven hundred thousand dollars against me and got thirty four
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percent of the vote. Really, but Dan Crenshaw helps fund him.
Why so he takes his lobbying money and he writes
checks tens of thousands of dollars the Associated Republicans of
Texas that isn't doing anything to help us expand the
majority in the Texas House. They just come after the Conservatives.
It's trying to make you more like Democrats completely. Yeah,
(28:48):
So what is it and who runs it and where
does its money come from? It's Karl Rove and it's
it's just kind of big establishment money, lobby money.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Next, we have the issue of gambling in Texas.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
I'm not actually against gambling in Texas, but what I
don't approve of is taking gambling lobbyists money. Here is
Steve Toath talking to Tucker Crossing about turning down gambling
special interest money. This I do respect, even though we
disagree on the issue of gambling. I do respect the
(29:22):
fact that he doesn't he's not bought and paid for
by lobbyists Karl Rove.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
Every time I ask someone involved in Texas politics, how
does this conservative this great state get such horrible like
how does a John Cornyn or Dan Crenshaw get elected
in Texas?
Speaker 5 (29:40):
They always mentioned Karl Rove. Texas is the eighth largest
economy in the world. Our economy is bigger than Russia.
Our economy is bigger than Australia. It's a bigger than Canada,
it's bigger than Mexico. It's a huge economy. We have
a three hundred plus billion dollar budget, right, and so
(30:00):
when you're taking a Budget's state budget over three hundred
billion dollars. Yeah, damn per buyennium. And so when you're
talking about that kind of money, it attracts a lot
of bottom dwellers. So you hear about the Washington cartel, Well,
it's pretty much the same thing in Austin, Texas. There's
just a lot of money, just a ton of money,
(30:22):
and they will get fixated on things like bringing gambling
to Texas. As an example, the neo cons desperately want
to bring gambling to Texas.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
I'm very libertarian on this issue.
Speaker 5 (30:36):
Like, if you want to have a card game and
you want to gamble, what you do in your in
your house is up to you.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
It's not agree it's none of my business.
Speaker 5 (30:44):
But at the end of the day, if you're going
to say this is state sponsored and we're only going
to give out two or three licenses and we're going
to give them out to our friends that have given
tons of campaign money, right, then it's corrupt. It's it's
crony capitalism to the max. Did improve people's lives, doesn't
improve people's lives. And at the end of the day,
look at any you look at any of the states
(31:06):
that have implemented it, and we have we have a
national treasure in Houston by the name of Jim mcinveil.
His name is Mattress Mack and he owns gallery furniture.
He's the most amazing man in the whole world. And
he's a gambler and and uh, he would say, the
worst thing that Texas could possibly do would be to
bring gambling to Texas. Why they build these billion dollar
(31:30):
resorts right with cash, these multi multinational corporations. What happens
to that money? People go and gamble, and that money
leaves our economy. Of course, you have less money moving
within the economy. They'll say, well, yeah, but it's a
it's a great uh tax revenue. It's there's great tax
revenue from it. Yeah, but eventually the pool in which
you're drawing from drives up.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Next, you're gonna hear Steve Toad talk about a very,
very troubling trend in Texas and that is how the
Republican margin of victory has shrunk in the past ten years.
And this should scare every single Republican. Oh, I don't
(32:13):
have time for that. I'll get to that in just
a moment. Stay tuned.
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