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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Good morning Michael, Benny, but no, you cannot use my bathroom.
Hello Genever, buddy, this is my old Hamilton, and a
good morning to the TZAR. Good morning, Michael, it's the
Mexican cart there. You're just checking in. I hear your
shows all right. They are ready to my mono. More
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morning excess. Listen to good morning exence.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Mourning your card mon.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Excess and we're happy.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
You don't allow everything.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Good morning where no wake Bestrea, goddamn good morning. Well.
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As domestic terrorism spreads across the country, cooler heads prevailed
in one sense. Elon Musk at two to four overnight
just a few hours ago, tweeted, I regret some of
my posts about President Donald Trump last week. They went
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too far. Hopefully that is the end of that nonsense
and we can move on down the road. However, the
media understand that it is a good distraction from the
terrorism to focus on Elon and President Trump. And they
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understand that President Trump, if he doesn't stay focused, will
allow himself to say some things that will dominate the
news cycle. He's very good at that. The problem is
the news cycle needs to be dominated by the terrorism,
not by an internacine spat elon with a strong statement
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there and hopefully that will go a very long way.
The mayor of Los Angeles instituting a rather restrictive curfew
last night in downtown Los Angeles, having to finally acknowledge
things are out of control, stores being looted, officers being wounded.
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We shall see how that develops. Meanwhile, President Trump was
speaking at Fort Bragg and he was talking about the
LA riots, and he had the following clip, number seventeen removed.
He had the following to say, I want.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
To say a few words about the situation in Los Angeles, California.
Have you heard of the place where I've deployed thousands
of National Guard troops and hundreds of Marines to protect
federal law enforcement from the attacks of a vicious.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
And violent mob.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
And some of the radical left they say, oh, that's
not nice. Well, if we didn't do it, it wouldn't
be a Los Angeles'd be burning today, just like the
houses were burning a number of months ago. Generations of
army heroes did not shed their blood on distant shores
only to watch our country be destroyed by invasion and
third world lawlessness here at home, like is happening in California.
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As commander in chief, I will not let that happens.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Never going to happen.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
When you're witnessing in California is a full blown assault
on peace, on public order, and a national sovereignty carried
out by rioters bearing foreign flags with the aim of
continuing a foreign invasion of our country.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
We're not going to let that happen.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Remember, millions of people were allowed to come into our
country totally unchecked and unvetted by stupid people or radical
left people or sick people. But regardless, open border policy
the dumbest policy yet, I would say, even dumber than
men playing in women's sports, transgender for everyone.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Even dumber than that.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
They're hurling bricks and cinder blocks at law enforcement. Did
you see that, breaking up the sidewalks and the curbs,
breaking it up with big strong hammers. These guys are professionals.
These are not amateurs. They're breaking it up because they
took the bricks away from them. They came in with bricks,
red bricks that they could throw at our military and
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at the police in LA who are very good, but
they weren't aggressive like our soldiers. Our soldiers really were aggressive,
but they all worked together.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Meanwhile, in Texas, Governor Abbott has deployed the National Guard
to sen and Tone ahead of planned anti ICE events
this weekend. The story from Ken's five in San Antone.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
These are the images in Los Angeles generating strong reaction. However,
mostly Tuesday, anti ICE protest across the nation were peaceful.
This as today, President Trump defended his decision to deploy
the military to Los Angeles, and this is how he
characterized some protesters in LA.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
These are animals, but they proudly carry the flags of
other countries, but they don't carry the American flag.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
It is a.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Destruction in vandalism that also has local law enforcement preparing
on social media. Bear County Sheriff Hobbio Salazar in a
one hundred and sixty two word statement writing about the
scenes in LA and planned rallies, the sheriff saying, in
part quote, the men and women of the BCSO stand
ready to support and defend those rights for Bear County residents,
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and we urge everyone to exercise the rights, but please
do so safely and responsibly. Meantime, San Antonio Police Chief
William McManus telling us, in part quote, the San Antonio
Police Department remains steadfast in its commitment to safeguarding the
constitutional rights of individuals and groups to hold peaceful and
lawful demonstrations.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Meanwhile, Harris County's county judge has fled town. She's in Paris. Remember,
she was very worried that she and be able to
have enough handmaidens to carry her purse and laugh at
her jokes, maybe keep up with with her medication. So
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when the county would not give her her when her
fellow commissioners would not give her the twenty five thousand
dollars she wanted to take all her lackeys on the trip,
she decided to pay for it out of her campaign funds. Yeah,
I think that would be a nice thing to do.
She arrived and posted an unfortunate photo because it shows
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her cloven hoofs. She's got boots that make her look
like an ungulates. She's got the hoof that like there's
I guess you'll just have to We'll post it in
the Blast today for those of you who are signed
up for the Blast. It's free whenever share or sell
your information but you need to see this. This I
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don't know if it's a pair of boots or she's
you know, this is like a mermaid. She's half ungulate,
half I don't know, but she's in Paris. And the
Houston Chronicle quotes the professor saying, that's going to be
really good for Houston. We're gonna get a lot of
big deals out of this one.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
Yeah, because I didn't get a start here that our
country is failing you today invest in Kleenex, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
And this is the Michael Berry Show. With everything that's
been going on with the terrorism in America, we didn't
get a chance to comment yesterday. We had intended to.
But Sylvester Stewart, known as sly Stone as in the
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front man of the great band sly and the Family,
Stone passed away two days ago, living to the ripe
old age of eighty two. Now who would have guessed
that sly Stone would live to be eighty two. Credited
as the founder of the progressive soul movement when Music
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Magazine said that James Brown may have invented funk, but
sly Stone perfected it. Born in Denton, Texas, raised, of
course in the Bay Area city of Vallejoe sly In,
the family Stone had a lot of success and a
lot of problems. You know, part of me thinks, if
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they'd been able to keep those problems at Bay, wow,
what could have happened? But then you sort of think
that's kind of who he and they were speaking of.
Lena ad All go a look, a cursory look at well, okay,
a little more than a cursory look at her campaign
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finances suggest that she's not raising money, and not very
much of it. She's raised less than the other than
her peers on Commissioner's Court. She is up for reelection.
Her term will end at the end of twenty twenty six,
so if she is running for reelection, you would think
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that she would be raising money in earnest and she's not.
Now you might think, well, who would want to give
her money? People doing business with the county? Is who
the people who give to municipal races. If you were
to actually look and see who gives to city and
county races, it's engineering firms. Because the single largest discretionary
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expenditure that municipal and county governments make is on engineering projects.
So the firms that give money are engineering firms, architecture firms,
law firms will get in on that because there's some
money to be made, especially under this administration defending cases.
There's also some money to be made off getting involved
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in bond deals, right, and Elis is very familiar with that,
and so that's where most of the money comes from.
That is as pro incumbent incumbent friendly as you can
possibly get because and this is sort of like the
Cornan the John Cornyn dilemma that President Trump has at
president and I'll pivot to that for a moment to
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come back to this. President Trump wants Ken Paxton to
be our next United States Senator. He does very much
wants him to be our next senator. President Trump does
not like John Cornyn. He can't count on John corn
and he knows John Cornyn's to sleeves. He knows John
Cornyn has betrayed him. He's Fredo and he would love
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nothing more than to see John Cornyn have to eat
crow and exit in humiliation from the United States Senate
where he has sold us down the river. He would
love that. He would love to be the force behind
Paxton with his wrong endorsement that gets Paxton over the
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finish line. That finish line is not next November. That
finish line is next March and the Republican primary, So
you've got less than a year. That race will heat
up by the fall, and it's going to be nasty
because Cornyn has all the big DC money, He's got
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the Karl Roves. And not only do they want to
keep Cornn there because he's one of theirs. He is
he is in the leadership of the swamp. But they
hate Ken Paxton because he's an outsider, maga guy, and
they don't like that because that represents you. So with
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that in mind, President Trump can't jump out and support
Paxton right now because he needs Corn's vote between now
and next March, and that's going to the Senate majority
is so narrow that he can't afford to half corn
and working behind the scenes. So instead he has set
it up where Cornan is having to pretend to be
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the biggest Donald Trump supporter in backed. A couple of weeks,
I almost felt sorry for him. I know I'm getting
weak in all the days. I almost felt sorry for
him because a couple of weeks ago, he took a
picture of himself with a thumbs up and a hamburger
in front of Trump Burger on Chimney Rock. Just stopping
into Trump Burger to have a delicious burger and support
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Donald Trump at trump Berger in Houston. So he gets
to check the box. He's, uhon, can we get the
Mitt Romney hot dogs? He's stopped in Houston, so Houston
knows he's made a visit, you know, because he spends
most of his time in DC, so he stopped in Houston.
He gets a I sure do love that Donald Trump
fellow that you all love so much, and he's eating
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a hamburger just like you remember Mitt Romney.
Speaker 7 (13:53):
Well, as you all know, today is National hot Dog Day,
and perhaps you also know that hot dog is my
favorite meet.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
I love hot dogs.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
I love them and buns. I love them outside of buns.
I love them with baked beans.
Speaker 7 (14:07):
I just like hot dogs.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
It's the best mess.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Beat there is.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Ronan and John Corny and they're just like you. They
are I swear they are really like hot dogs and firecrackers.
Texas original Coca Cola National Treasure go messing around with.
This is the Michael Barry Show. So I mentioned that
President Trump has a real delicate balance with regard to
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the Senate race in Texas. President Trump likes Ken Paxton
a lot. He wants him to win, but he does
not need John Cornyan working against him in the Senate.
But Trump is also a student of in a a wielder,
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a master of power. He knows that Cornan cannot publicly
vote against him and have a chance going into next March.
Which is why you see Trump taking, I mean a
corn taking much more public conservative positions that he's never
taken before. It's why you see him back in Texas
now eating his burgers. There is something I find absolutely
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disgusting about people like John Cornyn and Mitt Romney, who
are the ultimate swamp creatures, selling you down the river
and in such a complex way that most people in
the base will never see what they're doing. They will
keep a vote from making it to the floor. Once
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it's killed, speak out on how we need that bill.
They will work behind the scenes to whip for votes
to kill a measure, and they'll decide which of the
Republicans gets to vote for it. Because they're up for
reelection in the base will need to see them vote
for it, even though they're working behind the scenes to
whip votes to kill it. And so people will say, no, no, no,
(16:09):
I checked on Corning. He voted right on that. Michael,
You're wrong. Yeah, but I got sources telling me what
he was doing behind the scenes. And here's what he
was doing, ensuring that it was defeated. You're going by,
You're assuming that they cast their votes and go home.
There's a lot that goes on behind the scenes. But
now we're at the phase where where Corner's coming back
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to Texas putting on that kid will hat He just
like you, I put his boot you know what? Thing
about may I just put my boots on. One at
a time, one step at a time. We just take
it one day at a time, you know, just do
the best I can serve the people and all. You know,
that level of pandering is so grotesque and insulting to decent, literal, honest,
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earnest people. And that's that that's what makes me angry.
You remember when Mitt Romney was running for president. Remember
when Mitt Romney was running for president, he had to
try to identify with the people. Remember this, I see
the lake, but also lace the cars. It's just free
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association with whatever you stupid people out there. I love
this place. I mean, the trees are the right heights,
you know, the trees, and and the leaves on the trees,
and and and the birds that fly in and hang
out on the trees, and and the marsupials and also
the branches of the trees. And and cars. I have
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lots of cars, Gym cars. You know, my daddy was
the chairman of Gym. And I'm rich and have lots
of cars and just like you, and their American cars
are good cars. And then we played you. They they
filmed him with a baseball cap on National hot Dog Day.
They were looking for a way to show that Mitt
was one of the guys.
Speaker 7 (18:15):
Well, as you all know, today is National hot Dog Day,
and perhaps you also know that hot dog is my
favorite meat.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Oh. I love hot dogs.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
I love them wearing buns. I love them outside of buns.
I love them with baked beans. I just like hot dogs.
It's the best, you know, mess meat there is without question.
So to all of you who like me, are celebrating
National house on this today, congratulations to you and may
many many more hot dogs served in our wonderful land.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Yeah, I mean, you know what if you're not for
hot dogs. You know we can still be friends. But
I gotta tell you, I'm drawing the line because because
I love a good lips and bungholes me. You know,
I love the poor man's meat man, I really do, now,
you know, And that's how you know I'm one of you.
You know, I'm just like you. Love me some hot dogs, yep,
most lips and bune holes, and I love it. I
love it. Oh more thirty more seconds? Okay, let's see doctor.
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What would Doctor Seuss say? I like my hot dog
on a bun. I like my hot dog on the run.
I'll eat my hot dog with a nun. Eating hot
dog is so much fun. Did that get us there?
Does that get us to thirty seconds? It's absolutely disgusting.
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I cannot stand when they do this. It was a
great scene in Anchorman. Remember I mean, I love carpet,
I love desk, brick. Are you just looking at things
in the office and saying that you love them? I
love lamp. Do you really love the lamp? Or you
just saying it because you saw it? I love lamp.
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I love lamp. So I said all that to say this.
If Lena hidoggo runs for reelection. If she runs for election,
Rodney will go to the engineering firms and raise her
a lot of money. Rodney's sitting on six and a
half million dollars in his own account. The way he's
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gerrymander of the district. You can't beat him his own district.
So he will do what he's done before and transfer
money into Lena Hidalgo's acount. All of these things would
know to be true. So he's sitting on a cash pile.
He is the county judge. He puts her there as
a is it a regency? They have it where they
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have the person who kind of serves as a proxy
as a weak position. Well that's what Rodney uses Lenna
Hidalgo for. But her breakdowns and instability have become so
bad and I don't think she can hold it together again. However,
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now we have the development coming up. In a matter
of minutes, former Houston mayor and he's porker, will be
making an announcement. Grant Martin, her political consultant who's been
her consultant for decades, with a media advisory. This morning,
former mayor, a niece Porker, will make an announcement about
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her political plans on Wednesday morning at ten am on
the steps of the Harris County Civil Courthouse. If you're
going to announce that you're running for Harris County judge,
that'd be the kind of place where you would announce it.
And she's got the gang back together. She's got Catherine McNeil,
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who she's worked with for a long time, Grant Martin,
who's her strategist. These folks have been with her for
as long as I have known a niece, which goes
back a very long time. When I first ran for
city council in two thousand and one and one, she
was four years into her six year eligibility. She had
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been running for her office. She'd run a couple of
times and lost, and then she had run and won.
She she did that, Then she became a controller, then
she became mayor, all you know, six year terms each
sort of eighteen year run. Since then, she has been
the executive director of the LGBTQ Plus Victory Fund. She
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has stepped down from me. Now the question becomes can
she beat Lena had all go in the Democrat primary
and discussed that kind of.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Think Qucy super Chef met the Michael Berry.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Dusty Rhodes mistake ten years ago. All right, So I'm
gonna give you some good insight on what's going to
happen in Harris County politics over the next year. Ceteris paribus,
as the economists would say, all things being equal, when
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there are people and egos and the like involved, things
can change. But this is what's going on right now.
So Nie Porker is set to announce in an hour
that she is running for county judge next year. The
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first battle for her will be the Democrat nomination in March.
She's running against an incumbent Lena Dalgo has not said
she's not running, but to my knowledge, she's not said
that she is running. As you know, she has had
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a lot of problems, legal problems with her top tier
being indicted by Kim aug Everybody knows what happened with
the Elevate Strategies deal. Everybody knows it that took its toll,
and that manifests itself by bubbling over by her cussing
at Adrian Garcia and saying, you know, I don't know
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if she's got you by the whatever, and cussing and
just really really making herself look like a nut, which
we know she is. Now, this is a battle that
has to be fought. There is this idea that if
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you are extremely mentally unstable, all you have to do
is go, hey, I'm unstable over here, and nobody is
allowed to question the decisions you make or the behaviors
you undertake, because you know it's very brave to do that.
Wait a second, No, No, that's that's nuts. Literally, well
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that's wearing on all of this. She's made a lot
of enemies, including two of her peers, Leslie Brionis, who
was put there by John Arnold's group, and Adrian Garcia,
who represents this sort of East ind Hispanic coalition. And
so Lena, who never had a base in local politics,
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was just the place marker because she looked good on paper, immigrant,
Hispanic female, highly controllable, she knows she's dumb, and she
relied on Rodney to do everything. Well, I'm not saying
she's blameless, but Rodney got her in deep water, in
hot water, and I think there had to be moments
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where she understood that Rodney got her in this mess
and needed to get her out. I think that Lena
had all go that a place could be found and
will be found for Lena Hidalgo, because she has secrets
to go off and be the executive director of Oh,
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what's the name of that thing? It's it's been a
it's been a fraud pushed through for years. Not Harbor House.
It's uh. Oh. Everybody had been involved with local politics
knows what I'm talking about. They always take a former
city councilman or two who's who's Hispanic and put them
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in charge of it, and they put their family members
on the board and they get a bunch of big grants.
I'll think of it in a minute, but they could
they could put her over there. It's something house, it's
a big fraud, and they get a bunch of like
they'll get sixty million dollars in federal grants, and it's
passed around all the former city councilmen, you know, power
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structure over there, and everybody involved with it knows exactly
what I'm talking about. But anyway, so here's the question.
An ease porker is running against basically Rodney Ellis because
he controls that position using as his proxy his stead
Len Nadalgo. So for anice porker to come forward Okay,
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then this is going to be a civil war in
the local Democrat party. I'm not friends with Grant Martin.
We're not enemies. I mean, he probably doesn't like me,
but that's okay. He shouldn't. I'm usually against his candidates.
But Grant Martin is very smart. He's very very smart,
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and he's a damn good strategist. I have watched him
over the years. Grant Martin was partially responsible for getting
a nice porker elected mayor. And for him to do that,
he had to go to a lot of old white
engineers and convince them that, hey, you may not like
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her lifestyle. We'd never had a gay mayor like her lifestyle.
You may not, you know, that may be odd for you,
but she will be a good steward of city funds
and you'll have a good environment to work and things
will be done well in the city. And she was
better than Sylvester Turner, that's for sure. So Baker Ripley House, Yeah,
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Baker Ripley House is what it's called. Yes, So she'll
be found a job and she'll go over there. She'll
be probably not put her in charge of it, because again,
she'll have another breakdown, but they'll put her over there
as executive director of development, you know whatever, hide her away,
give her two hundred thousand dollars a year. Her little
nerd boyfriend makes a little money, and she can show
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up at a party ever so often, and people can
pretend they like her, and she'll get to still feel
like you know that one of the local glossy magazines
will name her best Dressed or something. They'll have a kid.
At some point. She can ride off into the sunset,
and at least she didn't go to prison. So Grant
Martin and Anise Parker are a very very formidable team.
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He's very smart. A niece is very smart, very smart.
She worked for Rob Mossbacker's company as an analyst. Don't
sell a niece short. She's very smart and for people
who know her, she can be very charming. She'd be
a much better County judge than Lenna at Algo. Don't worry.
I'm not supporting her. I'm just giving you the lay
of the land. But there's been a falling out between
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Grant Martin and Rodney Ellis and Grant always controlled the
gay groups, and now Rodney has taken control of the
LGBTQ Caucus, and that's important because that's where a lot
of the white liberals are. And Rodney has also taken
control of the Harris County Democrat Party, so Grant is
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on the outside of that, but he has very strong relationships.
Grant is running Joelnda Jones's campaign for the seat that
Sheila Jackson Lee held for so long that Sylvester was
in Jolanda Jones wanted to run in that race, and
Rodney kept her out of that race and then broke
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his promise. And this is about I'll explain this in
just a moment. This is about to get very very interesting.
It's going to be about more than just the county
judges race. There's the congressional seat, which frankly, people think,
especially in the black community, they think a congressional seat
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is important, a first term congressional seat. Look, Sheila didn't
even have any power, believe it or not, she had
no formal power. She came back into town and she
cut deals with people who didn't know. But a congressional
seat is not that important unless you have a bully
bullpit than she did. But anyway, this is about to
get into sys
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Good morning Michael, Benny, but no, you cannot use my bathroom.
Hello Genever, buddy, this is my old Hamilton, and a
good morning to the TZAR. Good morning, Michael, it's the
Mexican cart there. You're just checking in. I hear your
shows all right. They are ready to my mono. More
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morning excess. Listen to good morning exence.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Mourning your card mon.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Excess and we're happy.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
You don't allow everything.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Good morning where no wake Bestrea, goddamn good morning. Well.
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As domestic terrorism spreads across the country, cooler heads prevailed
in one sense. Elon Musk at two to four overnight
just a few hours ago, tweeted, I regret some of
my posts about President Donald Trump last week. They went
(01:49):
too far. Hopefully that is the end of that nonsense
and we can move on down the road. However, the
media understand that it is a good distraction from the
terrorism to focus on Elon and President Trump. And they
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understand that President Trump, if he doesn't stay focused, will
allow himself to say some things that will dominate the
news cycle. He's very good at that. The problem is
the news cycle needs to be dominated by the terrorism,
not by an internacine spat elon with a strong statement
(02:37):
there and hopefully that will go a very long way.
The mayor of Los Angeles instituting a rather restrictive curfew
last night in downtown Los Angeles, having to finally acknowledge
things are out of control, stores being looted, officers being wounded.
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We shall see how that develops. Meanwhile, President Trump was
speaking at Fort Bragg and he was talking about the
LA riots, and he had the following clip, number seventeen removed.
He had the following to say, I want.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
To say a few words about the situation in Los Angeles, California.
Have you heard of the place where I've deployed thousands
of National Guard troops and hundreds of Marines to protect
federal law enforcement from the attacks of a vicious.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
And violent mob.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
And some of the radical left they say, oh, that's
not nice. Well, if we didn't do it, it wouldn't
be a Los Angeles'd be burning today, just like the
houses were burning a number of months ago. Generations of
army heroes did not shed their blood on distant shores
only to watch our country be destroyed by invasion and
third world lawlessness here at home, like is happening in California.
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As commander in chief, I will not let that happens.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Never going to happen.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
When you're witnessing in California is a full blown assault
on peace, on public order, and a national sovereignty carried
out by rioters bearing foreign flags with the aim of
continuing a foreign invasion of our country.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
We're not going to let that happen.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Remember, millions of people were allowed to come into our
country totally unchecked and unvetted by stupid people or radical
left people or sick people. But regardless, open border policy
the dumbest policy yet, I would say, even dumber than
men playing in women's sports, transgender for everyone.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Even dumber than that.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
They're hurling bricks and cinder blocks at law enforcement. Did
you see that, breaking up the sidewalks and the curbs,
breaking it up with big strong hammers. These guys are professionals.
These are not amateurs. They're breaking it up because they
took the bricks away from them. They came in with bricks,
red bricks that they could throw at our military and
(05:13):
at the police in LA who are very good, but
they weren't aggressive like our soldiers. Our soldiers really were aggressive,
but they all worked together.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Meanwhile, in Texas, Governor Abbott has deployed the National Guard
to sen and Tone ahead of planned anti ICE events
this weekend. The story from Ken's five in San Antone.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
These are the images in Los Angeles generating strong reaction. However,
mostly Tuesday, anti ICE protest across the nation were peaceful.
This as today, President Trump defended his decision to deploy
the military to Los Angeles, and this is how he
characterized some protesters in LA.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
These are animals, but they proudly carry the flags of
other countries, but they don't carry the American flag.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
It is a.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Destruction in vandalism that also has local law enforcement preparing
on social media. Bear County Sheriff Hobbio Salazar in a
one hundred and sixty two word statement writing about the
scenes in LA and planned rallies, the sheriff saying, in
part quote, the men and women of the BCSO stand
ready to support and defend those rights for Bear County residents,
(06:27):
and we urge everyone to exercise the rights, but please
do so safely and responsibly. Meantime, San Antonio Police Chief
William McManus telling us, in part quote, the San Antonio
Police Department remains steadfast in its commitment to safeguarding the
constitutional rights of individuals and groups to hold peaceful and
lawful demonstrations.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Meanwhile, Harris County's county judge has fled town. She's in Paris. Remember,
she was very worried that she and be able to
have enough handmaidens to carry her purse and laugh at
her jokes, maybe keep up with with her medication. So
(07:10):
when the county would not give her her when her
fellow commissioners would not give her the twenty five thousand
dollars she wanted to take all her lackeys on the trip,
she decided to pay for it out of her campaign funds. Yeah,
I think that would be a nice thing to do.
She arrived and posted an unfortunate photo because it shows
(07:34):
her cloven hoofs. She's got boots that make her look
like an ungulates. She's got the hoof that like there's
I guess you'll just have to We'll post it in
the Blast today for those of you who are signed
up for the Blast. It's free whenever share or sell
your information but you need to see this. This I
(07:56):
don't know if it's a pair of boots or she's
you know, this is like a mermaid. She's half ungulate,
half I don't know, but she's in Paris. And the
Houston Chronicle quotes the professor saying, that's going to be
really good for Houston. We're gonna get a lot of
big deals out of this one.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
Yeah, because I didn't get a start here that our
country is failing you today invest in Kleenex, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
And this is the Michael Berry Show. With everything that's
been going on with the terrorism in America, we didn't
get a chance to comment yesterday. We had intended to.
But Sylvester Stewart, known as sly Stone as in the
(08:45):
front man of the great band sly and the Family,
Stone passed away two days ago, living to the ripe
old age of eighty two. Now who would have guessed
that sly Stone would live to be eighty two. Credited
as the founder of the progressive soul movement when Music
(09:07):
Magazine said that James Brown may have invented funk, but
sly Stone perfected it. Born in Denton, Texas, raised, of
course in the Bay Area city of Vallejoe sly In,
the family Stone had a lot of success and a
lot of problems. You know, part of me thinks, if
(09:28):
they'd been able to keep those problems at Bay, wow,
what could have happened? But then you sort of think
that's kind of who he and they were speaking of.
Lena ad All go a look, a cursory look at well, okay,
a little more than a cursory look at her campaign
(09:50):
finances suggest that she's not raising money, and not very
much of it. She's raised less than the other than
her peers on Commissioner's Court. She is up for reelection.
Her term will end at the end of twenty twenty six,
so if she is running for reelection, you would think
(10:12):
that she would be raising money in earnest and she's not.
Now you might think, well, who would want to give
her money? People doing business with the county? Is who
the people who give to municipal races. If you were
to actually look and see who gives to city and
county races, it's engineering firms. Because the single largest discretionary
(10:36):
expenditure that municipal and county governments make is on engineering projects.
So the firms that give money are engineering firms, architecture firms,
law firms will get in on that because there's some
money to be made, especially under this administration defending cases.
There's also some money to be made off getting involved
(10:58):
in bond deals, right, and Elis is very familiar with that,
and so that's where most of the money comes from.
That is as pro incumbent incumbent friendly as you can
possibly get because and this is sort of like the
Cornan the John Cornyn dilemma that President Trump has at
president and I'll pivot to that for a moment to
(11:21):
come back to this. President Trump wants Ken Paxton to
be our next United States Senator. He does very much
wants him to be our next senator. President Trump does
not like John Cornyn. He can't count on John corn
and he knows John Cornyn's to sleeves. He knows John
Cornyn has betrayed him. He's Fredo and he would love
(11:42):
nothing more than to see John Cornyn have to eat
crow and exit in humiliation from the United States Senate
where he has sold us down the river. He would
love that. He would love to be the force behind
Paxton with his wrong endorsement that gets Paxton over the
(12:02):
finish line. That finish line is not next November. That
finish line is next March and the Republican primary, So
you've got less than a year. That race will heat
up by the fall, and it's going to be nasty
because Cornyn has all the big DC money, He's got
(12:22):
the Karl Roves. And not only do they want to
keep Cornn there because he's one of theirs. He is
he is in the leadership of the swamp. But they
hate Ken Paxton because he's an outsider, maga guy, and
they don't like that because that represents you. So with
(12:43):
that in mind, President Trump can't jump out and support
Paxton right now because he needs Corn's vote between now
and next March, and that's going to the Senate majority
is so narrow that he can't afford to half corn
and working behind the scenes. So instead he has set
it up where Cornan is having to pretend to be
(13:05):
the biggest Donald Trump supporter in backed. A couple of weeks,
I almost felt sorry for him. I know I'm getting
weak in all the days. I almost felt sorry for
him because a couple of weeks ago, he took a
picture of himself with a thumbs up and a hamburger
in front of Trump Burger on Chimney Rock. Just stopping
into Trump Burger to have a delicious burger and support
(13:28):
Donald Trump at trump Berger in Houston. So he gets
to check the box. He's, uhon, can we get the
Mitt Romney hot dogs? He's stopped in Houston, so Houston
knows he's made a visit, you know, because he spends
most of his time in DC, so he stopped in Houston.
He gets a I sure do love that Donald Trump
fellow that you all love so much, and he's eating
(13:50):
a hamburger just like you remember Mitt Romney.
Speaker 7 (13:53):
Well, as you all know, today is National hot Dog Day,
and perhaps you also know that hot dog is my
favorite meet.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
I love hot dogs.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
I love them and buns. I love them outside of buns.
I love them with baked beans.
Speaker 7 (14:07):
I just like hot dogs.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
It's the best mess.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Beat there is.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Ronan and John Corny and they're just like you. They
are I swear they are really like hot dogs and firecrackers.
Texas original Coca Cola National Treasure go messing around with.
This is the Michael Barry Show. So I mentioned that
President Trump has a real delicate balance with regard to
(14:38):
the Senate race in Texas. President Trump likes Ken Paxton
a lot. He wants him to win, but he does
not need John Cornyan working against him in the Senate.
But Trump is also a student of in a a wielder,
(15:00):
a master of power. He knows that Cornan cannot publicly
vote against him and have a chance going into next March.
Which is why you see Trump taking, I mean a
corn taking much more public conservative positions that he's never
taken before. It's why you see him back in Texas
now eating his burgers. There is something I find absolutely
(15:24):
disgusting about people like John Cornyn and Mitt Romney, who
are the ultimate swamp creatures, selling you down the river
and in such a complex way that most people in
the base will never see what they're doing. They will
keep a vote from making it to the floor. Once
(15:46):
it's killed, speak out on how we need that bill.
They will work behind the scenes to whip for votes
to kill a measure, and they'll decide which of the
Republicans gets to vote for it. Because they're up for
reelection in the base will need to see them vote
for it, even though they're working behind the scenes to
whip votes to kill it. And so people will say, no, no, no,
(16:09):
I checked on Corning. He voted right on that. Michael,
You're wrong. Yeah, but I got sources telling me what
he was doing behind the scenes. And here's what he
was doing, ensuring that it was defeated. You're going by,
You're assuming that they cast their votes and go home.
There's a lot that goes on behind the scenes. But
now we're at the phase where where Corner's coming back
(16:31):
to Texas putting on that kid will hat He just
like you, I put his boot you know what? Thing
about may I just put my boots on. One at
a time, one step at a time. We just take
it one day at a time, you know, just do
the best I can serve the people and all. You know,
that level of pandering is so grotesque and insulting to decent, literal, honest,
(16:57):
earnest people. And that's that that's what makes me angry.
You remember when Mitt Romney was running for president. Remember
when Mitt Romney was running for president, he had to
try to identify with the people. Remember this, I see
the lake, but also lace the cars. It's just free
(17:30):
association with whatever you stupid people out there. I love
this place. I mean, the trees are the right heights,
you know, the trees, and and the leaves on the trees,
and and and the birds that fly in and hang
out on the trees, and and the marsupials and also
the branches of the trees. And and cars. I have
(17:54):
lots of cars, Gym cars. You know, my daddy was
the chairman of Gym. And I'm rich and have lots
of cars and just like you, and their American cars
are good cars. And then we played you. They they
filmed him with a baseball cap on National hot Dog Day.
They were looking for a way to show that Mitt
was one of the guys.
Speaker 7 (18:15):
Well, as you all know, today is National hot Dog Day,
and perhaps you also know that hot dog is my
favorite meat.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Oh. I love hot dogs.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
I love them wearing buns. I love them outside of buns.
I love them with baked beans. I just like hot dogs.
It's the best, you know, mess meat there is without question.
So to all of you who like me, are celebrating
National house on this today, congratulations to you and may
many many more hot dogs served in our wonderful land.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Yeah, I mean, you know what if you're not for
hot dogs. You know we can still be friends. But
I gotta tell you, I'm drawing the line because because
I love a good lips and bungholes me. You know,
I love the poor man's meat man, I really do, now,
you know, And that's how you know I'm one of you.
You know, I'm just like you. Love me some hot dogs, yep,
most lips and bune holes, and I love it. I
love it. Oh more thirty more seconds? Okay, let's see doctor.
(19:05):
What would Doctor Seuss say? I like my hot dog
on a bun. I like my hot dog on the run.
I'll eat my hot dog with a nun. Eating hot
dog is so much fun. Did that get us there?
Does that get us to thirty seconds? It's absolutely disgusting.
(19:26):
I cannot stand when they do this. It was a
great scene in Anchorman. Remember I mean, I love carpet,
I love desk, brick. Are you just looking at things
in the office and saying that you love them? I
love lamp. Do you really love the lamp? Or you
just saying it because you saw it? I love lamp.
(19:49):
I love lamp. So I said all that to say this.
If Lena hidoggo runs for reelection. If she runs for election,
Rodney will go to the engineering firms and raise her
a lot of money. Rodney's sitting on six and a
half million dollars in his own account. The way he's
(20:10):
gerrymander of the district. You can't beat him his own district.
So he will do what he's done before and transfer
money into Lena Hidalgo's acount. All of these things would
know to be true. So he's sitting on a cash pile.
He is the county judge. He puts her there as
a is it a regency? They have it where they
(20:31):
have the person who kind of serves as a proxy
as a weak position. Well that's what Rodney uses Lenna
Hidalgo for. But her breakdowns and instability have become so
bad and I don't think she can hold it together again. However,
(20:53):
now we have the development coming up. In a matter
of minutes, former Houston mayor and he's porker, will be
making an announcement. Grant Martin, her political consultant who's been
her consultant for decades, with a media advisory. This morning,
former mayor, a niece Porker, will make an announcement about
(21:13):
her political plans on Wednesday morning at ten am on
the steps of the Harris County Civil Courthouse. If you're
going to announce that you're running for Harris County judge,
that'd be the kind of place where you would announce it.
And she's got the gang back together. She's got Catherine McNeil,
(21:36):
who she's worked with for a long time, Grant Martin,
who's her strategist. These folks have been with her for
as long as I have known a niece, which goes
back a very long time. When I first ran for
city council in two thousand and one and one, she
was four years into her six year eligibility. She had
(21:59):
been running for her office. She'd run a couple of
times and lost, and then she had run and won.
She she did that, Then she became a controller, then
she became mayor, all you know, six year terms each
sort of eighteen year run. Since then, she has been
the executive director of the LGBTQ Plus Victory Fund. She
(22:20):
has stepped down from me. Now the question becomes can
she beat Lena had all go in the Democrat primary
and discussed that kind of.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Think Qucy super Chef met the Michael Berry.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Dusty Rhodes mistake ten years ago. All right, So I'm
gonna give you some good insight on what's going to
happen in Harris County politics over the next year. Ceteris paribus,
as the economists would say, all things being equal, when
(23:07):
there are people and egos and the like involved, things
can change. But this is what's going on right now.
So Nie Porker is set to announce in an hour
that she is running for county judge next year. The
(23:28):
first battle for her will be the Democrat nomination in March.
She's running against an incumbent Lena Dalgo has not said
she's not running, but to my knowledge, she's not said
that she is running. As you know, she has had
(23:49):
a lot of problems, legal problems with her top tier
being indicted by Kim aug Everybody knows what happened with
the Elevate Strategies deal. Everybody knows it that took its toll,
and that manifests itself by bubbling over by her cussing
at Adrian Garcia and saying, you know, I don't know
(24:11):
if she's got you by the whatever, and cussing and
just really really making herself look like a nut, which
we know she is. Now, this is a battle that
has to be fought. There is this idea that if
(24:32):
you are extremely mentally unstable, all you have to do
is go, hey, I'm unstable over here, and nobody is
allowed to question the decisions you make or the behaviors
you undertake, because you know it's very brave to do that.
Wait a second, No, No, that's that's nuts. Literally, well
(24:58):
that's wearing on all of this. She's made a lot
of enemies, including two of her peers, Leslie Brionis, who
was put there by John Arnold's group, and Adrian Garcia,
who represents this sort of East ind Hispanic coalition. And
so Lena, who never had a base in local politics,
(25:23):
was just the place marker because she looked good on paper, immigrant,
Hispanic female, highly controllable, she knows she's dumb, and she
relied on Rodney to do everything. Well, I'm not saying
she's blameless, but Rodney got her in deep water, in
hot water, and I think there had to be moments
(25:46):
where she understood that Rodney got her in this mess
and needed to get her out. I think that Lena
had all go that a place could be found and
will be found for Lena Hidalgo, because she has secrets
to go off and be the executive director of Oh,
(26:10):
what's the name of that thing? It's it's been a
it's been a fraud pushed through for years. Not Harbor House.
It's uh. Oh. Everybody had been involved with local politics
knows what I'm talking about. They always take a former
city councilman or two who's who's Hispanic and put them
(26:30):
in charge of it, and they put their family members
on the board and they get a bunch of big grants.
I'll think of it in a minute, but they could
they could put her over there. It's something house, it's
a big fraud, and they get a bunch of like
they'll get sixty million dollars in federal grants, and it's
passed around all the former city councilmen, you know, power
(26:50):
structure over there, and everybody involved with it knows exactly
what I'm talking about. But anyway, so here's the question.
An ease porker is running against basically Rodney Ellis because
he controls that position using as his proxy his stead
Len Nadalgo. So for anice porker to come forward Okay,
(27:15):
then this is going to be a civil war in
the local Democrat party. I'm not friends with Grant Martin.
We're not enemies. I mean, he probably doesn't like me,
but that's okay. He shouldn't. I'm usually against his candidates.
But Grant Martin is very smart. He's very very smart,
(27:36):
and he's a damn good strategist. I have watched him
over the years. Grant Martin was partially responsible for getting
a nice porker elected mayor. And for him to do that,
he had to go to a lot of old white
engineers and convince them that, hey, you may not like
(27:57):
her lifestyle. We'd never had a gay mayor like her lifestyle.
You may not, you know, that may be odd for you,
but she will be a good steward of city funds
and you'll have a good environment to work and things
will be done well in the city. And she was
better than Sylvester Turner, that's for sure. So Baker Ripley House, Yeah,
(28:21):
Baker Ripley House is what it's called. Yes, So she'll
be found a job and she'll go over there. She'll
be probably not put her in charge of it, because again,
she'll have another breakdown, but they'll put her over there
as executive director of development, you know whatever, hide her away,
give her two hundred thousand dollars a year. Her little
nerd boyfriend makes a little money, and she can show
(28:43):
up at a party ever so often, and people can
pretend they like her, and she'll get to still feel
like you know that one of the local glossy magazines
will name her best Dressed or something. They'll have a kid.
At some point. She can ride off into the sunset,
and at least she didn't go to prison. So Grant
Martin and Anise Parker are a very very formidable team.
(29:03):
He's very smart. A niece is very smart, very smart.
She worked for Rob Mossbacker's company as an analyst. Don't
sell a niece short. She's very smart and for people
who know her, she can be very charming. She'd be
a much better County judge than Lenna at Algo. Don't worry.
I'm not supporting her. I'm just giving you the lay
of the land. But there's been a falling out between
(29:24):
Grant Martin and Rodney Ellis and Grant always controlled the
gay groups, and now Rodney has taken control of the
LGBTQ Caucus, and that's important because that's where a lot
of the white liberals are. And Rodney has also taken
control of the Harris County Democrat Party, so Grant is
(29:46):
on the outside of that, but he has very strong relationships.
Grant is running Joelnda Jones's campaign for the seat that
Sheila Jackson Lee held for so long that Sylvester was
in Jolanda Jones wanted to run in that race, and
Rodney kept her out of that race and then broke
(30:07):
his promise. And this is about I'll explain this in
just a moment. This is about to get very very interesting.
It's going to be about more than just the county
judges race. There's the congressional seat, which frankly, people think,
especially in the black community, they think a congressional seat
(30:27):
is important, a first term congressional seat. Look, Sheila didn't
even have any power, believe it or not, she had
no formal power. She came back into town and she
cut deals with people who didn't know. But a congressional
seat is not that important unless you have a bully
bullpit than she did. But anyway, this is about to
get into sys
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