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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
James Tallerco came out and opposed voter ID laws, and
he did so because he said, Texans don't have driver's licenses.
This is a subject I happen to know a fair
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amount about because the law went into effect in twenty
fourteen in the first Secretary of State who implemented the
law happened to be my wife. And that's why she
traveled all two hundred and fifty four counties to speak
in every black church that would have her, every Spanish
language church that would have her, every white conservative church
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that would have her, every high school, every college, you
name it. It was a whirlwind of explaining that there
are seven forms of identification that are permissible to be
used to vote, and if you do not have one
of those, then it is absolutely free to you. The
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state will pay for it for you to go to
the nearest DPS station and they will make you an identification.
Now you might say, well, it just feels unfair to
poor people. What don't have no identification? Before you allow
yourself to believe that, I want you to consider this.
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Don't we want poor people to have welfare. If anybody's
going to have welfare, do you know that you have
to have ID to have welfare to get welfare. Do
you know why? Because otherwise we'd run out of welfare.
You go to if you go to get the government cheese,
and you show up and go, hey, I need some
government cheese. We need ID, I'll have none. Give me
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so many. Okay, well here's some five minutes later more
government cheese. Please, no, you were here, just no, you
gotta give me more. There would be no way to
stop it. Right, you run out of gum cheese in
five minutes. So you have to have ID. If you
don't have ID, they'll take you and get you ID
so you can get your welfare. If you don't have ID,
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you can't get your welfare. You can't live in Section
eight housing, You can't get your government cheese, you can't
go to school, you can't do you can't ride the bus,
you can't do anything. You were as off the grid
as it gets. Well. Nobody ever said, hey, wait a second,
why are we requiring identification to get welfare? Why are
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we requiring identification to get a monthly check to live
in Section eight housing? To get your government cheese, because
everybody understands that it's the absolute pa. You got to
give the Democrats credit. They've got us arguing over whether
this sky is blue. They have got us arguing over
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the most ridiculous. It's so absurd and so blatantly obvious. Well,
how come we have to have ID? How could you
function without it? How would it not be the case
that people would just vote ten times? It's almost as
if that's what they want. Right, So, Tallarico says he's
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against voter ID, you know, leaving aside his creepy sexual style,
whether he did or didn't from sixth grade to ninth grade,
the fact that his church that he's so proud of
has transgender books and graphic books in there, the fact
that his pat they scream out when the apostle Paul
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is mentioned. They scream out villain at the church. It's
a freak show. It's not a church, it's a perversion
of church. It's a weird freak show. Leaving all that aside,
this really matters because we're talking about an individual who
does not share your values, who does not who would,
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as you wonder, why couldn't we close the border everybody said,
we got to close the border. Even the Democrats would say,
oh yeah, yeah, we're for closing the border. We're all
for closing the border. Got to have a closed border,
but only if we can get comprehensive immigration reform. You
make things so complicated that they can't be done. This
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is like an adult taunting a kid, right, goofing around. Yeah,
we'll do immigration reform. I mean we'll fix the border.
Yeah yeah, I mean I don't know. And then the
other thing you do, you make it so complicated it
can't be done. Because if it's so complicated it can't
be done, then we'd love to. We love it's going tomorrow.
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They just can't do it. Yeah, Ken Trump proved it.
That's it. Close the border book. We don't even talk
about it anymore.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
So.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Talla Rico has talked about voter idea is racist because
these poor, dumb black people. I will be so glad
when black people stop letting white liberal politicians treat them
like imbeciles, because they do. They do. It's insulting. It's terrible. Nobody.
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You know what leads people to do Think that black
people aren't smart, think that black people are not capable,
because that's how the Democrats talk about them, and nobody
argues otherwise. We made this bit eight years ago about
black people voting eight years ago, it's just as accurate,
if not more. Today, voting is hard, from the long,
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byzantine single file line to the alien complexity of the
voting machine.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Just think about those two buttons and that big dial
with a fingerpad. It goes clockwise and counterclockwise. Yes, voting
is hard for anyone. Now, imagine you are black. How
imagine imagine is you? You are black? After navigating the
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confounding labyrinth of a line, you step into the mysterious booth,
and before you is a futuristic.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
World of confusion. No more, no more.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Today is National Teach a Black person how to vote day.
If you are white or even Asian, it is your
noble duty today to find a black person of any
shade and teach them how to vote, guide them step
by step through the rigorous process of casting a ballot.
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Black people have the right to vote. It's time to
teach them how. National teach a black person how to vote,
base person about a cut of party people, dont.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Usa from organization. If you're like to find a white person.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
I hope you to pronounce you.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
This is the Michael Berry Show. Locked and loaded, black
didn't loaded? Follow You're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, Sorry, yes, sir,
go ahead? Hey Mike.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Uh. A couple of comments on talafreco. Uh. Firstly, is
he really the best that the Democrats can field see?
Really the best candidate that they can pump come up with?
And the second thing is, and this is sort of
a test for you, Uh, you know what what me
worry means? Or there's a magazine in the sixties that
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the character where the main character is a mad magazine. Yeah,
doesn't he look like Alfredy Newman?
Speaker 2 (09:08):
He does. Trump has made that point. Yeah, yeah, I
would Pete butter Gig.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Yeah, but I think Trico looks even more. And I
think there'd be an AI video in there somewhere to
point that out.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
What people keep telling me that? And look, when I
ask questions, my wife says, I asked questions aggressively and
that that's why people react this way. But let me
ask you this question, and I'm not trying to insult
you or call you an idiot or apparently whatever my
questions do to people. That's not my intention. Why would
that matter? So is it your thought that if people
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see that that they have such a negative reaction to
that cartoon character and then his resemblance will make people
not want to vote for him, Because I don't think
that's the case.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
I think it's just a humorous I mean, I don't
think it's going to be a political yes much, but
I think it'd be funny to see, especially that you know,
the people who are familiar with Mad magazine.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Yeah, I just I don't. I don't think that character
has a negative connotation. So so if you were to say,
you know, he looks like Andy Griffith, we need to
point out he looks like Andy Griffith. Why, because you
have to remember, you only has so much time. You
know this, this is a prize fight, and you only
get to throw so many punches, and if you don't
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knock him out, you'll end up losing to him. So
you got to be real careful that every punch you
throw has the chance to soften him up or knock
him out. So people will email me often and they'll say, hey,
we need to point out that he combs his hair
to the side. Okay, remember you don't had twenty five
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percent of the people vote in this total primary process,
which is the highest we've ever had. So you only
have one in four start with. You've got a non
presidential election year. And I know I'm off into weeds here,
but I think this is important for people to remember.
You only have people's attention for a split second. Think
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about how much time we spend. I don't what other
people do. We got a vote that's voting, Well, it's important,
and I vote. Everybody needs a vote. Nobody's vote, right on,
what are you people doing? You're not voting. They're living
their lives, all right, So their life does not include
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being concerned with who's in the United States Senate. They
can't name three senators, all right. And most people believe,
whether you think this is right or wrong, most people
believe it doesn't make a dime's worth of difference who's
in there. And maybe Trump hass and maybe negatively Obama has,
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but by and large it doesn't make that big of
a difference. Especially the US Senate. What do they even
do and how many It's like a bunch of them
aren't there, and we're always having to vote because in
the middle of all this Remember, they're being asked to
vote for the school board and the county commissioners and
the mud board, and the state reps and the district
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attorneys and the tax assessor collector and the comptroller and
the lieutenant governor whatever that is, and the attorney general
and the county attorney and you go. They need to
know it is important. It's not important to them. Are
you aware when pitchers and catchers show up? Tar Rico
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is are you aware when pictures and catchers show up?
Because you get a hardcore Astros fan or baseball fan generally, Ay,
it's a Saturday mans catched, pictures and catchers are in
Florida already. What are you talking about? What are you
talking about? Yeah? Do you know when the NFL Draft
is the day? There are people that live for that day.
There are people who live for the NBA draft. It's
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really important to them. Everybody else not so much. So
my point is, I mean, I suppose it's a passing
whim that yes he does, but why would you devote
any actual because people say, how come we don't point
out that? And then the thing that's that is in
my opinion number seven. So you have to prioritize what
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the knockout shot is because you have a lot of
voters between now and November that have to decide between
the two candidates, and they've just seen one hundred and
fifty million dollars. That's a lot of money devoted to
telling you that Ken Paxton is awful okay, and not
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in a complicated way a divorce, a marriage gone wrong,
an imperfect man. People say, well, why do they focus
on that because everybody can understand it. You want to
dumb every political criticism down to a level that everyone
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can understand. And who is most bothered by a sexual indiscretion.
It's not men, it's women. You're going after white women.
And how do you go after white women. You don't
go after white women with financial schemes. You don't go
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after white women with complicated votes on complicated issues that
they may or the big beautiful bill or this tax
policy or this comprehensive immigration bill, an immigration plan vote.
You go after women. As to how we are programmed
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as creatures, as organisms, women are naturally jealous, not an insult.
It's a fact. Men are naturally built differently. That's why
if there's cheating in a relationship. Nine times out of ten,
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it's the man, not the woman. Women are not wired
to cheat. They value not cheating. Men are wired. Let's
take the animal kingdom to be different. So they're going
to hit that here is this imperfection. Well then we
look up one day and we go, well, what's wrong
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in this country? Well, our elections are fraudulent. Our country
is spinning us into oblivion. The border was wide open. Well,
how come we can't fix it. Let's get the Senate
to fix it. We can't because we elected senators on
something other than the actions they tell. Say what you
will Ken Paxton's actions as Attorney General, going after Facebook,
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going after Google, going after Big Pharma. That's what you
actually wanted. Vote for what you want. This is a
very important point I'm about to make, So I'm putting
a bow on this one for you to pay attention.
Lena had Allgo posted the other day. So many of
us have put a brave face while feeling inexplicably awful inside. Anxiety,
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depression and other mental illnesses can be managed, but not
if we don't acknowledge them. And she's talking about the
Mental Health Summit, And I will tell you I think
that there are people walking around with real mental health problems,
real if we're going to use the health point, real
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mental illness, and I think she's one of them. This
is not a criticis this is not a political criticism.
I would say this if it was true of Trump
or Ted Cruz or anyone else. She has a real
mental illness that is documented. That mental illness meant she
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was hospitalized during her term when they hid that fact
for several months while she was gone. Now, mostly she's
just a joke. She misses votes and all that. But
the Harris County judge does not sit on a court
where they rule and wear a black robe. It's a
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political position. It is the mayor, but it's the chief
executive of the county. It is the mayor of the county.
So what Rodney did to wire around that is he
brought in an administrator. And that meant that Lena was
free to take junkins and go all over and nobody
was expecting her to make a decision or sign anything
because she's alone and everybody knows it. It's acknowledged. Well,
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it turns out that that's been the case the entirety
of her adult life. We find out she's had these breakdowns.
We find out she's been hospitalized before. Okay, hey, I'm
not going to make fun of somebody for being hospitalized.
I'm not going to make fun of somebody for having
a meltdown. A breakdown that happens, that's real. I don't
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think people choose that it's an actual medical issue. I
don't make fun of people having cancer. By the way,
I have argued with a number of folks in my
emails and in person who make jokes about Crenshaw's I
being missing. I think it's I think it's awful. I
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have criticized Crenshaw, and I hope fairly that's the intention.
But I will never criticize the fact that he wears
an eye patch because a bomb blew up while he
was serving our country in uniform and he's missing an eye.
What are we running around making fun of a guy
that's missing an arm. Hey, Bobby, let me throw you
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these two balls you can't catch. That'd be we'd be
freaked out by that anyway. So mental health and mental
illness is acknowledged, it's real. Okay, all of these things. Now,
we start with the premise that mental illness was something
we didn't want to talk about. But we all knew,
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right remember h ross Paro when he's running for president,
everybody's got a crazy ant that lis a the attic.
He was talking about mental illness in the same way
that people used to talk about being gay, in the
same way that people would talk about race or retardation,
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which is a totally different category. So you had to
get people comfortable talking about mental illness. And we had
insane asylums. Reagan open those up. The reason for insane
asylums was not really treatment. It was prison for crazy people,
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so they didn't terrorize other people. That's what the focus
was always has been the whole history of Bedlam and
the history of Western civilization's approach to this. In the institution,
there's a lot of comedy, a lot of language. There's
a whole vocabulary around it. There are a lot of
things that reference when you know, when your wife's act
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and nutty. A lot of the language we use comes
from that whole body of literature and experience. So we
had to as a society, or it was perceived that
we needed to be able to talk about mental health
mental illness, because there's no point to talk about mental
health unless you're acknowledging that there is illness. You had
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to be able to talk about that in public and
it not be something discussed only in hushed tones, because
you needed to make public policy about it. Are we
going to spend money on mental health? How are we
going to deal with somebody who commits a crime who
is supposedly suffering a problem with mental health, because everyone's
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going to claim it, right, that's the insane defense, which,
by the way, you don't have to paint it. When
somebody does that, almost nobody ever wins with it. But
it makes people crazy. Oh my god, it's going to
get off very rarely. But so this issue of mental
illness became something that we needed to talk about publicly
and get comfortable with and acknowledge. And part of the
idea was that there are people who are suffering from
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this and they need to understand that there is help
for them, because if we never talk about it, they'll think, well,
I'm just crazy. I'm going to kill myself, and some
people did. So we were going to use the social
science term normalize mental health. Well, what generally happens when
we normalize it's sort of like we started with Hey,
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guy served in war. He's got an emotional support dog.
The guy's really struggling, but the emotional support dog helps
him through it. So the airline said, we will make
an exception to our no pets outside of a kennel
on the plane. Well what happens, No good deed goes unpunished.
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Then somebody says, huh, I can bring Fefe with me. Well,
if it's an emotional support animal. So woman puts Fife
puts a little says, oh, they go up. Fefe's got
to be in a kennl No, no fefees with me.
Fife's emotional support animal. Well, Fife didn't have a doesn't
have a vest on. Okay, so people would and they
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saw they watched that. Aha, they go and get a vest.
So then everybody starts bringing their their pets on. Okay,
their dog on, okay, emotional support Animal've got to have
a vest all right, y'all are y'all are making a
mockery of this whole thing. You got to have a
doctor's note. Okay, So we go get a doctor's note. No, no, no, no,
there's a doctor willing to write you a disabled Everybody
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can get a disabled parking ticket, I mean a disabled
parking tag. If you want it, just go get the
doctor to ask. You've won. It could be temporary, but
that's what they do, all right. This doctor don't want
to tell you no. So before long everybody's bringing their
dogs out in public emotional support dog okay. Well then
people were like, well, I got a goat. I won't
carry my goat with me. And nobody wanted to say, look,
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you're not bringing you a damn dog on. You're not
bringing your damn goat on. You're not bringing your lama on.
You're not bringing your hip on. No, knock it off.
Nobody wanted to do that because who's going to do
it the CEO of the company, the HR director, the
guest services director sitting in the headquarters. You can have
any policy you want. Where the rubber hits the road
is some poor schlub, some woman that lost her job
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doing something else, and now she's got to put on
the little uniform like she's the professional coach of a
baseball team, and she's got to be the one that
comes over and says, hey, sorry, you can't bring your
llama on the plane. Emotional support. I know, but even
an emotional support, Lama, we can't. And so then you
saw these series they were bringing donkeys on they were
why because no, because any time you normalize discussion, which
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might have been a good thing in the beginning, there
will be people who will abuse it, and it's difficult
for people to then say, knock it off. You're abusing
what started off as a good plant. There's more to this.
Lenah Doggins sty to.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
Forget.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
I got the set.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
Michael Berry's not your.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
God.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
So Lena had allgo ran for office. Nobody who knew
who she was. It was twenty eighteen. It was the
last of the Blue Waves. It was the last time
we had straight part of it. Act Blue, a national organization,
decided they were going to win Texas. The prize was
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for Beto to win Ted Cruz's Senate seat. So they organized,
they mobilized, They had a digital effort, They went door
to door, they spent a lot of money. They had
what was called an air war in the political world
of television and radio, a lot of TV, and they
came very close. It's the closest they've come to winning
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that Senate seat. All right. So, and by the way,
Beto was a much better candidate than Taller. Rico's going
to turn out to be much better candidate than Taller.
Rico's going to turn out to be. Now, you could
argue Cruise was a better candidate than Paxton. You could
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argue it Cruz had some baggage and eighteen he had
run against Trump. In sixteen he had not endorsed Trump.
Remember there was the National Republican Convention, and you know
he's leaving there and he had given a speech and
hadn't indorsed to People were very angry at him. So
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it's not like Cruse was perfect in eighteen and still
managed to beat Beto. But anyway, let's go got Lena
was elected and nobody knew who she was. I've said before,
and it's true. Democrats were contacting me and said, who
is this woman? She's your candidate. I never heard of
her before. But she was recruited by Rodney. There was
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an old white guy who had already filed and they
got him to pull out and he ended up going
to work for her instead. That there was a lot
behind the scenes going on, and they knew what nobody
else knew. That there was going to be a blue
wave and Harris County was part of it. And whoever
was a Democrat in a seat that Democrats had won
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in decades was going to win. It wasn't going to
beat ed emmittt. Ed Emmett wasn't anybody's favorite in the world,
but nobody disliked at Emmett. He was a good administrator,
not very particularly political. So Lena wins, and almost immediately
Cracks began to show she's not stable. There's an uneasiness
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to her voice, and I don't just mean nervousness in
speaking in public. There was a seeming imbalance. This woman's weird,
this woman's not stable, and that became more and more
and more apparent, and it was almost like a nineteen
eighties movie where there was an like you're learning that
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she's not stable by her tone and her words. And
then she began snapping at people and breaking down, and
the pressure got to her and you started noticing more
and more and more. Now, if you go back to
the last segment, everybody made this. You know, supposed we
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don't make fun of mental health. If somebody has mental illness,
it's okay, they tell us, and we all swarm in
behind them. That developed into we don't criticize people with
mental illness. Even if the person with mental illness is
the quarterback of our team and we haven't won a
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game in four years and they fumble every snap, you
don't criticize because that's mental illness. Well, but that has nothing.
But the whole team is losing, the whole city is losing.
Everything is going to hell. It doesn't matter. You don't
criticize a person with mental illness, even if it extends
beyond the mental illness. So that became the rule with Lena,
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and so every time she failed, she ran off, she
went missing for two months. Oh, oh heroic, Oh, mental illness,
she's talking about it publicly. No, she's not. She's melting down.
She's not able to do her job. If the pilot
on the plane crashes the plane, we go to the
black box and he says, I'm crazier in a bad
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bug ha, I'm nut her butters and I'm taking this
plane down. Nobody says so bold, so bold, But my
family just died on the plane.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
I know.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Let's okay, let's be supportive. He was suffering from mental illness.
Oh okay. So now mental illness became something we celebrated.
It's not just tolerated. It's not just acknowledged and then tolerated,
it's celebrated. And so that is part of the reason
that Lena Hidalgo has never been criticized properly is because
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we always retreat to the oh, mental illness. She goes
missing for several months, mental illness. And I will tell
you that this phenomenon right here is the reason we
have so many problems in our government and our corporations.
Small business less so government corporations. This is why you
have so many World Star videos at the grocery store
where a black person is losing their mind at a
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white person, or where a transgender person is losing their mind,
and it's somehow all okay, Here is the way this works.
You can't criticize Lena because mental illness. You start with
acknowledge mental illness, and then we move as a society.
You can see this with every movement. Then we move
as a society to tolerate mental illness, normalize mental illness,
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and then celebrate mental illness and then worship mental illness.
Oh okay, So the fact that she's too unstable to
do the job, which is the case that's a core
component to her job. Judgment, measured judgment, consistency, resilience. She
has none of those. She's completely nuts and we all
know it now and we've seen the results of it. Right,
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She's yelling at people, she's at people, she's missing votes,
she's flying off over here, she's screaming at kids, she's
cussing people out, she's dropping f bombs on television live,
all of these things. Anybody would recognize this is the
worst possible scenario. Yeah, and it was tolerated because of
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mental illness. Okay, this is what happens when you don't
use competence in a meritocracy. Jackie Robinson first black man
to play in professional baseball. When Jackie Robinson came in,
sports is intolerant of anything other than meritocracy. You would
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never say, hey, this year for the Texans, we're going
to bring in a blind lesbian midget who's disabled to
be the quarterback. Well, we're gonna lose every game. Shame
on you. Blind lesbian midgets have never had an opportunity
to quarterback in the NFL, and I think it's about time.
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You would never do that, right, Jackie Robinson comes in
he's the first back black player. He's twenty eight. He's
Rookie of the Year. He's twenty eight years old, so
he's been waiting to get into the league but honing
his skills. He's twenty eight years old. He bats two
ninety seven almost three hundred the gold standard, twelve home runs,
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forty eight RBIs one hundred and twenty five run scored
in one hundred and fifty one games out of one
sixty two. He almost plays in tirecities. As I said,
he's Rookie of the Year. He leads the league in
solen bases, he leads the league in run score. He
has thirty one doubles, helps the Dodgers win the National
League Pennant, fifth place in MVP of voting. Not because
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he's black, he's that good. He had an amazing season,
especially for first year in Major League baseball. Jackie Robinson
was a standard for a baseball player. Nobody had to say, yeah,
he's a black guy, let's make him Rookie of the Year.
His numbers were there. If Jackie Robinson had never gotten
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a hit, struck out every time he went up, had
an error every time he had the ball, basically been
Lena had all go, nobody would have said we got
to put black players at every position, and frankly, nobody
ever did. That was meritocracy. The argument was, why not
let black players play baseball. They're good. Nobody says that
about Lena or anyone else
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
James Tallerco came out and opposed voter ID laws, and
he did so because he said, Texans don't have driver's licenses.
This is a subject I happen to know a fair
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amount about because the law went into effect in twenty
fourteen in the first Secretary of State who implemented the
law happened to be my wife. And that's why she
traveled all two hundred and fifty four counties to speak
in every black church that would have her, every Spanish
language church that would have her, every white conservative church
(01:48):
that would have her, every high school, every college, you
name it. It was a whirlwind of explaining that there
are seven forms of identification that are permissible to be
used to vote, and if you do not have one
of those, then it is absolutely free to you. The
(02:12):
state will pay for it for you to go to
the nearest DPS station and they will make you an identification.
Now you might say, well, it just feels unfair to
poor people. What don't have no identification? Before you allow
yourself to believe that, I want you to consider this.
(02:36):
Don't we want poor people to have welfare. If anybody's
going to have welfare, do you know that you have
to have ID to have welfare to get welfare. Do
you know why? Because otherwise we'd run out of welfare.
You go to if you go to get the government cheese,
and you show up and go, hey, I need some
government cheese. We need ID, I'll have none. Give me
(02:59):
so many. Okay, well here's some five minutes later more
government cheese. Please, no, you were here, just no, you
gotta give me more. There would be no way to
stop it. Right, you run out of gum cheese in
five minutes. So you have to have ID. If you
don't have ID, they'll take you and get you ID
so you can get your welfare. If you don't have ID,
(03:22):
you can't get your welfare. You can't live in Section
eight housing, You can't get your government cheese, you can't
go to school, you can't do you can't ride the bus,
you can't do anything. You were as off the grid
as it gets. Well. Nobody ever said, hey, wait a second,
why are we requiring identification to get welfare? Why are
(03:43):
we requiring identification to get a monthly check to live
in Section eight housing? To get your government cheese, because
everybody understands that it's the absolute pa. You got to
give the Democrats credit. They've got us arguing over whether
this sky is blue. They have got us arguing over
(04:08):
the most ridiculous. It's so absurd and so blatantly obvious. Well,
how come we have to have ID? How could you
function without it? How would it not be the case
that people would just vote ten times? It's almost as
if that's what they want. Right, So, Tallarico says he's
(04:31):
against voter ID, you know, leaving aside his creepy sexual style,
whether he did or didn't from sixth grade to ninth grade,
the fact that his church that he's so proud of
has transgender books and graphic books in there, the fact
that his pat they scream out when the apostle Paul
(04:53):
is mentioned. They scream out villain at the church. It's
a freak show. It's not a church, it's a perversion
of church. It's a weird freak show. Leaving all that aside,
this really matters because we're talking about an individual who
does not share your values, who does not who would,
(05:18):
as you wonder, why couldn't we close the border everybody said,
we got to close the border. Even the Democrats would say,
oh yeah, yeah, we're for closing the border. We're all
for closing the border. Got to have a closed border,
but only if we can get comprehensive immigration reform. You
make things so complicated that they can't be done. This
(05:40):
is like an adult taunting a kid, right, goofing around. Yeah,
we'll do immigration reform. I mean we'll fix the border.
Yeah yeah, I mean I don't know. And then the
other thing you do, you make it so complicated it
can't be done. Because if it's so complicated it can't
be done, then we'd love to. We love it's going tomorrow.
(06:04):
They just can't do it. Yeah, Ken Trump proved it.
That's it. Close the border book. We don't even talk
about it anymore.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
So.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Talla Rico has talked about voter idea is racist because
these poor, dumb black people. I will be so glad
when black people stop letting white liberal politicians treat them
like imbeciles, because they do. They do. It's insulting. It's terrible. Nobody.
(06:36):
You know what leads people to do Think that black
people aren't smart, think that black people are not capable,
because that's how the Democrats talk about them, and nobody
argues otherwise. We made this bit eight years ago about
black people voting eight years ago, it's just as accurate,
if not more. Today, voting is hard, from the long,
(07:05):
byzantine single file line to the alien complexity of the
voting machine.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Just think about those two buttons and that big dial
with a fingerpad. It goes clockwise and counterclockwise. Yes, voting
is hard for anyone. Now, imagine you are black. How
imagine imagine is you? You are black? After navigating the
(07:32):
confounding labyrinth of a line, you step into the mysterious booth,
and before you is a futuristic.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
World of confusion. No more, no more.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Today is National Teach a Black person how to vote day.
If you are white or even Asian, it is your
noble duty today to find a black person of any
shade and teach them how to vote, guide them step
by step through the rigorous process of casting a ballot.
(08:09):
Black people have the right to vote. It's time to
teach them how. National teach a black person how to vote,
base person about a cut of party people, dont.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Usa from organization. If you're like to find a white person.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
I hope you to pronounce you.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
This is the Michael Berry Show. Locked and loaded, black
didn't loaded? Follow You're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, Sorry, yes, sir,
go ahead? Hey Mike.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Uh. A couple of comments on talafreco. Uh. Firstly, is
he really the best that the Democrats can field see?
Really the best candidate that they can pump come up with?
And the second thing is, and this is sort of
a test for you, Uh, you know what what me
worry means? Or there's a magazine in the sixties that
(09:03):
the character where the main character is a mad magazine. Yeah,
doesn't he look like Alfredy Newman?
Speaker 2 (09:08):
He does. Trump has made that point. Yeah, yeah, I
would Pete butter Gig.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Yeah, but I think Trico looks even more. And I
think there'd be an AI video in there somewhere to
point that out.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
What people keep telling me that? And look, when I
ask questions, my wife says, I asked questions aggressively and
that that's why people react this way. But let me
ask you this question, and I'm not trying to insult
you or call you an idiot or apparently whatever my
questions do to people. That's not my intention. Why would
that matter? So is it your thought that if people
(09:48):
see that that they have such a negative reaction to
that cartoon character and then his resemblance will make people
not want to vote for him, Because I don't think
that's the case.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
I think it's just a humorous I mean, I don't
think it's going to be a political yes much, but
I think it'd be funny to see, especially that you know,
the people who are familiar with Mad magazine.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Yeah, I just I don't. I don't think that character
has a negative connotation. So so if you were to say,
you know, he looks like Andy Griffith, we need to
point out he looks like Andy Griffith. Why, because you
have to remember, you only has so much time. You
know this, this is a prize fight, and you only
get to throw so many punches, and if you don't
(10:34):
knock him out, you'll end up losing to him. So
you got to be real careful that every punch you
throw has the chance to soften him up or knock
him out. So people will email me often and they'll say, hey,
we need to point out that he combs his hair
to the side. Okay, remember you don't had twenty five
(11:01):
percent of the people vote in this total primary process,
which is the highest we've ever had. So you only
have one in four start with. You've got a non
presidential election year. And I know I'm off into weeds here,
but I think this is important for people to remember.
You only have people's attention for a split second. Think
(11:24):
about how much time we spend. I don't what other
people do. We got a vote that's voting, Well, it's important,
and I vote. Everybody needs a vote. Nobody's vote, right on,
what are you people doing? You're not voting. They're living
their lives, all right, So their life does not include
(11:44):
being concerned with who's in the United States Senate. They
can't name three senators, all right. And most people believe,
whether you think this is right or wrong, most people
believe it doesn't make a dime's worth of difference who's
in there. And maybe Trump hass and maybe negatively Obama has,
(12:06):
but by and large it doesn't make that big of
a difference. Especially the US Senate. What do they even
do and how many It's like a bunch of them
aren't there, and we're always having to vote because in
the middle of all this Remember, they're being asked to
vote for the school board and the county commissioners and
the mud board, and the state reps and the district
(12:28):
attorneys and the tax assessor collector and the comptroller and
the lieutenant governor whatever that is, and the attorney general
and the county attorney and you go. They need to
know it is important. It's not important to them. Are
you aware when pitchers and catchers show up? Tar Rico
(12:48):
is are you aware when pictures and catchers show up?
Because you get a hardcore Astros fan or baseball fan generally, Ay,
it's a Saturday mans catched, pictures and catchers are in
Florida already. What are you talking about? What are you
talking about? Yeah? Do you know when the NFL Draft
is the day? There are people that live for that day.
There are people who live for the NBA draft. It's
(13:12):
really important to them. Everybody else not so much. So
my point is, I mean, I suppose it's a passing
whim that yes he does, but why would you devote
any actual because people say, how come we don't point
out that? And then the thing that's that is in
my opinion number seven. So you have to prioritize what
(13:36):
the knockout shot is because you have a lot of
voters between now and November that have to decide between
the two candidates, and they've just seen one hundred and
fifty million dollars. That's a lot of money devoted to
telling you that Ken Paxton is awful okay, and not
(13:57):
in a complicated way a divorce, a marriage gone wrong,
an imperfect man. People say, well, why do they focus
on that because everybody can understand it. You want to
dumb every political criticism down to a level that everyone
(14:18):
can understand. And who is most bothered by a sexual indiscretion.
It's not men, it's women. You're going after white women.
And how do you go after white women. You don't
go after white women with financial schemes. You don't go
(14:41):
after white women with complicated votes on complicated issues that
they may or the big beautiful bill or this tax
policy or this comprehensive immigration bill, an immigration plan vote.
You go after women. As to how we are programmed
(15:02):
as creatures, as organisms, women are naturally jealous, not an insult.
It's a fact. Men are naturally built differently. That's why
if there's cheating in a relationship. Nine times out of ten,
(15:23):
it's the man, not the woman. Women are not wired
to cheat. They value not cheating. Men are wired. Let's
take the animal kingdom to be different. So they're going
to hit that here is this imperfection. Well then we
look up one day and we go, well, what's wrong
(15:45):
in this country? Well, our elections are fraudulent. Our country
is spinning us into oblivion. The border was wide open. Well,
how come we can't fix it. Let's get the Senate
to fix it. We can't because we elected senators on
something other than the actions they tell. Say what you
will Ken Paxton's actions as Attorney General, going after Facebook,
(16:06):
going after Google, going after Big Pharma. That's what you
actually wanted. Vote for what you want. This is a
very important point I'm about to make, So I'm putting
a bow on this one for you to pay attention.
Lena had Allgo posted the other day. So many of
us have put a brave face while feeling inexplicably awful inside. Anxiety,
(16:29):
depression and other mental illnesses can be managed, but not
if we don't acknowledge them. And she's talking about the
Mental Health Summit, And I will tell you I think
that there are people walking around with real mental health problems,
real if we're going to use the health point, real
(16:52):
mental illness, and I think she's one of them. This
is not a criticis this is not a political criticism.
I would say this if it was true of Trump
or Ted Cruz or anyone else. She has a real
mental illness that is documented. That mental illness meant she
(17:16):
was hospitalized during her term when they hid that fact
for several months while she was gone. Now, mostly she's
just a joke. She misses votes and all that. But
the Harris County judge does not sit on a court
where they rule and wear a black robe. It's a
(17:36):
political position. It is the mayor, but it's the chief
executive of the county. It is the mayor of the county.
So what Rodney did to wire around that is he
brought in an administrator. And that meant that Lena was
free to take junkins and go all over and nobody
was expecting her to make a decision or sign anything
because she's alone and everybody knows it. It's acknowledged. Well,
(18:01):
it turns out that that's been the case the entirety
of her adult life. We find out she's had these breakdowns.
We find out she's been hospitalized before. Okay, hey, I'm
not going to make fun of somebody for being hospitalized.
I'm not going to make fun of somebody for having
a meltdown. A breakdown that happens, that's real. I don't
(18:23):
think people choose that it's an actual medical issue. I
don't make fun of people having cancer. By the way,
I have argued with a number of folks in my
emails and in person who make jokes about Crenshaw's I
being missing. I think it's I think it's awful. I
(18:46):
have criticized Crenshaw, and I hope fairly that's the intention.
But I will never criticize the fact that he wears
an eye patch because a bomb blew up while he
was serving our country in uniform and he's missing an eye.
What are we running around making fun of a guy
that's missing an arm. Hey, Bobby, let me throw you
(19:06):
these two balls you can't catch. That'd be we'd be
freaked out by that anyway. So mental health and mental
illness is acknowledged, it's real. Okay, all of these things. Now,
we start with the premise that mental illness was something
we didn't want to talk about. But we all knew,
(19:27):
right remember h ross Paro when he's running for president,
everybody's got a crazy ant that lis a the attic.
He was talking about mental illness in the same way
that people used to talk about being gay, in the
same way that people would talk about race or retardation,
(19:48):
which is a totally different category. So you had to
get people comfortable talking about mental illness. And we had
insane asylums. Reagan open those up. The reason for insane
asylums was not really treatment. It was prison for crazy people,
(20:09):
so they didn't terrorize other people. That's what the focus
was always has been the whole history of Bedlam and
the history of Western civilization's approach to this. In the institution,
there's a lot of comedy, a lot of language. There's
a whole vocabulary around it. There are a lot of
things that reference when you know, when your wife's act
(20:29):
and nutty. A lot of the language we use comes
from that whole body of literature and experience. So we
had to as a society, or it was perceived that
we needed to be able to talk about mental health
mental illness, because there's no point to talk about mental
health unless you're acknowledging that there is illness. You had
(20:52):
to be able to talk about that in public and
it not be something discussed only in hushed tones, because
you needed to make public policy about it. Are we
going to spend money on mental health? How are we
going to deal with somebody who commits a crime who
is supposedly suffering a problem with mental health, because everyone's
(21:14):
going to claim it, right, that's the insane defense, which,
by the way, you don't have to paint it. When
somebody does that, almost nobody ever wins with it. But
it makes people crazy. Oh my god, it's going to
get off very rarely. But so this issue of mental
illness became something that we needed to talk about publicly
and get comfortable with and acknowledge. And part of the
idea was that there are people who are suffering from
(21:36):
this and they need to understand that there is help
for them, because if we never talk about it, they'll think, well,
I'm just crazy. I'm going to kill myself, and some
people did. So we were going to use the social
science term normalize mental health. Well, what generally happens when
we normalize it's sort of like we started with Hey,
(22:02):
guy served in war. He's got an emotional support dog.
The guy's really struggling, but the emotional support dog helps
him through it. So the airline said, we will make
an exception to our no pets outside of a kennel
on the plane. Well what happens, No good deed goes unpunished.
(22:24):
Then somebody says, huh, I can bring Fefe with me. Well,
if it's an emotional support animal. So woman puts Fife
puts a little says, oh, they go up. Fefe's got
to be in a kennl No, no fefees with me.
Fife's emotional support animal. Well, Fife didn't have a doesn't
have a vest on. Okay, so people would and they
(22:47):
saw they watched that. Aha, they go and get a vest.
So then everybody starts bringing their their pets on. Okay,
their dog on, okay, emotional support Animal've got to have
a vest all right, y'all are y'all are making a
mockery of this whole thing. You got to have a
doctor's note. Okay, So we go get a doctor's note. No, no, no, no,
there's a doctor willing to write you a disabled Everybody
(23:08):
can get a disabled parking ticket, I mean a disabled
parking tag. If you want it, just go get the
doctor to ask. You've won. It could be temporary, but
that's what they do, all right. This doctor don't want
to tell you no. So before long everybody's bringing their
dogs out in public emotional support dog okay. Well then
people were like, well, I got a goat. I won't
carry my goat with me. And nobody wanted to say, look,
(23:32):
you're not bringing you a damn dog on. You're not
bringing your damn goat on. You're not bringing your lama on.
You're not bringing your hip on. No, knock it off.
Nobody wanted to do that because who's going to do
it the CEO of the company, the HR director, the
guest services director sitting in the headquarters. You can have
any policy you want. Where the rubber hits the road
is some poor schlub, some woman that lost her job
(23:55):
doing something else, and now she's got to put on
the little uniform like she's the professional coach of a
baseball team, and she's got to be the one that
comes over and says, hey, sorry, you can't bring your
llama on the plane. Emotional support. I know, but even
an emotional support, Lama, we can't. And so then you
saw these series they were bringing donkeys on they were
why because no, because any time you normalize discussion, which
(24:21):
might have been a good thing in the beginning, there
will be people who will abuse it, and it's difficult
for people to then say, knock it off. You're abusing
what started off as a good plant. There's more to this.
Lenah Doggins sty to.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
Forget.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
I got the set.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
Michael Berry's not your.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
God.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
So Lena had allgo ran for office. Nobody who knew
who she was. It was twenty eighteen. It was the
last of the Blue Waves. It was the last time
we had straight part of it. Act Blue, a national organization,
decided they were going to win Texas. The prize was
(25:12):
for Beto to win Ted Cruz's Senate seat. So they organized,
they mobilized, They had a digital effort, They went door
to door, they spent a lot of money. They had
what was called an air war in the political world
of television and radio, a lot of TV, and they
came very close. It's the closest they've come to winning
(25:33):
that Senate seat. All right. So, and by the way,
Beto was a much better candidate than Taller. Rico's going
to turn out to be much better candidate than Taller.
Rico's going to turn out to be. Now, you could
argue Cruise was a better candidate than Paxton. You could
(25:56):
argue it Cruz had some baggage and eighteen he had
run against Trump. In sixteen he had not endorsed Trump.
Remember there was the National Republican Convention, and you know
he's leaving there and he had given a speech and
hadn't indorsed to People were very angry at him. So
(26:18):
it's not like Cruse was perfect in eighteen and still
managed to beat Beto. But anyway, let's go got Lena
was elected and nobody knew who she was. I've said before,
and it's true. Democrats were contacting me and said, who
is this woman? She's your candidate. I never heard of
her before. But she was recruited by Rodney. There was
(26:39):
an old white guy who had already filed and they
got him to pull out and he ended up going
to work for her instead. That there was a lot
behind the scenes going on, and they knew what nobody
else knew. That there was going to be a blue
wave and Harris County was part of it. And whoever
was a Democrat in a seat that Democrats had won
(27:00):
in decades was going to win. It wasn't going to
beat ed emmittt. Ed Emmett wasn't anybody's favorite in the world,
but nobody disliked at Emmett. He was a good administrator,
not very particularly political. So Lena wins, and almost immediately
Cracks began to show she's not stable. There's an uneasiness
(27:25):
to her voice, and I don't just mean nervousness in
speaking in public. There was a seeming imbalance. This woman's weird,
this woman's not stable, and that became more and more
and more apparent, and it was almost like a nineteen
eighties movie where there was an like you're learning that
(27:50):
she's not stable by her tone and her words. And
then she began snapping at people and breaking down, and
the pressure got to her and you started noticing more
and more and more. Now, if you go back to
the last segment, everybody made this. You know, supposed we
(28:11):
don't make fun of mental health. If somebody has mental illness,
it's okay, they tell us, and we all swarm in
behind them. That developed into we don't criticize people with
mental illness. Even if the person with mental illness is
the quarterback of our team and we haven't won a
(28:31):
game in four years and they fumble every snap, you
don't criticize because that's mental illness. Well, but that has nothing.
But the whole team is losing, the whole city is losing.
Everything is going to hell. It doesn't matter. You don't
criticize a person with mental illness, even if it extends
beyond the mental illness. So that became the rule with Lena,
(28:54):
and so every time she failed, she ran off, she
went missing for two months. Oh, oh heroic, Oh, mental illness,
she's talking about it publicly. No, she's not. She's melting down.
She's not able to do her job. If the pilot
on the plane crashes the plane, we go to the
black box and he says, I'm crazier in a bad
(29:15):
bug ha, I'm nut her butters and I'm taking this
plane down. Nobody says so bold, so bold, But my
family just died on the plane.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
I know.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Let's okay, let's be supportive. He was suffering from mental illness.
Oh okay. So now mental illness became something we celebrated.
It's not just tolerated. It's not just acknowledged and then tolerated,
it's celebrated. And so that is part of the reason
that Lena Hidalgo has never been criticized properly is because
(29:49):
we always retreat to the oh, mental illness. She goes
missing for several months, mental illness. And I will tell
you that this phenomenon right here is the reason we
have so many problems in our government and our corporations.
Small business less so government corporations. This is why you
have so many World Star videos at the grocery store
where a black person is losing their mind at a
(30:11):
white person, or where a transgender person is losing their mind,
and it's somehow all okay, Here is the way this works.
You can't criticize Lena because mental illness. You start with
acknowledge mental illness, and then we move as a society.
You can see this with every movement. Then we move
as a society to tolerate mental illness, normalize mental illness,
(30:35):
and then celebrate mental illness and then worship mental illness.
Oh okay, So the fact that she's too unstable to
do the job, which is the case that's a core
component to her job. Judgment, measured judgment, consistency, resilience. She
has none of those. She's completely nuts and we all
know it now and we've seen the results of it. Right,
(30:58):
She's yelling at people, she's at people, she's missing votes,
she's flying off over here, she's screaming at kids, she's
cussing people out, she's dropping f bombs on television live,
all of these things. Anybody would recognize this is the
worst possible scenario. Yeah, and it was tolerated because of
(31:19):
mental illness. Okay, this is what happens when you don't
use competence in a meritocracy. Jackie Robinson first black man
to play in professional baseball. When Jackie Robinson came in,
sports is intolerant of anything other than meritocracy. You would
(31:39):
never say, hey, this year for the Texans, we're going
to bring in a blind lesbian midget who's disabled to
be the quarterback. Well, we're gonna lose every game. Shame
on you. Blind lesbian midgets have never had an opportunity
to quarterback in the NFL, and I think it's about time.
(32:02):
You would never do that, right, Jackie Robinson comes in
he's the first back black player. He's twenty eight. He's
Rookie of the Year. He's twenty eight years old, so
he's been waiting to get into the league but honing
his skills. He's twenty eight years old. He bats two
ninety seven almost three hundred the gold standard, twelve home runs,
(32:24):
forty eight RBIs one hundred and twenty five run scored
in one hundred and fifty one games out of one
sixty two. He almost plays in tirecities. As I said,
he's Rookie of the Year. He leads the league in
solen bases, he leads the league in run score. He
has thirty one doubles, helps the Dodgers win the National
League Pennant, fifth place in MVP of voting. Not because
(32:45):
he's black, he's that good. He had an amazing season,
especially for first year in Major League baseball. Jackie Robinson
was a standard for a baseball player. Nobody had to say, yeah,
he's a black guy, let's make him Rookie of the Year.
His numbers were there. If Jackie Robinson had never gotten
(33:06):
a hit, struck out every time he went up, had
an error every time he had the ball, basically been
Lena had all go, nobody would have said we got
to put black players at every position, and frankly, nobody
ever did. That was meritocracy. The argument was, why not
let black players play baseball. They're good. Nobody says that
about Lena or anyone else
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