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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time. Time time, time, luck and load. Michael
Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Welcome, get over here.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Ain't over smart, He's strong as a bull.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
An right, no, no, no sense. Well they make your
mark what I just signed him over to you.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
If you're willing, I'd like you to make your market.
I don't do.
Speaker 5 (00:41):
Well.
Speaker 6 (00:41):
I think the bed is one of the great scandals.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Of our time.
Speaker 6 (00:45):
The auto ben was our was our president ought to
put it in a different way. Whoever operated the ben
was our president. This is not allowed. And they gave
a pardon to the Unselect Committee. After the Unselect commit
he realized that that whole situation was a hoax, that
it was all therefore, including Nancy Pelosi turning down security
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and all you know turning down sology.
Speaker 7 (01:23):
Got the.
Speaker 8 (01:36):
Biden White House deployed an auto pen to a fix
President Biden's signature to pardons, prison commutations, executive orders, and
presidential proclamations.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
The Oversight Project's research.
Speaker 8 (01:47):
Has found that the Biden White House first deployed the
autopen to a fix President Biden's signature to a proclamation
on day five of his administration, and that there were
at least three different auto pen signatures in use throughout
rest President Biden's tenure.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
In the White House.
Speaker 8 (02:03):
In June twenty twenty two, the Biden White House began
deploying the autopen to sign clemency warrens and executive orders.
Auto pen use byrocketed from there.
Speaker 9 (02:14):
Yeah whoa, we got we got a Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
I'm not thanks, I'm not.
Speaker 9 (02:41):
I'm yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Get well.
Speaker 7 (03:02):
I thought I was vindictive with an elephant's memory for
people who wronged me.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Trump is a breed apart. I mean, I forget about
all these things. Boy, he hasn't. They are going after
the autopin.
Speaker 7 (03:19):
If you basically overturn every signature that was printed using
the autopin, meaning that Joe Biden himself did not sign
the documents that carried the president's seal of approval, that
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means you undo everything he did. It is now clear
that not only did he not personally sign them, he
was not aware of them.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
That makes it.
Speaker 7 (03:56):
Somewhere in the electronic forgery. And really, this is such
a great analogy for the entirety of the Biden presidency.
The Establishment the machine put him up as the front.
They needed a white male who could pull, who could
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keep the base they'll handle that and could pull some
white labor. That was the plan. Well it starts falling apart,
as he started falling apart during the campaign. So you
go get a black woman that's going to stabilize it.
But that didn't help. So you engage in the virus release,
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and yes, China would go to that much trouble to
unleash a virus to get rid of the president that
has caused China more problems than anybody since and including Nixon.
You have the George Floyd incident, which wasn't George Floyd,
it was going to be somebody else that was part
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of establishment is or law and order is bad. Republicans
are bad blacks.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
They're all coming to kill you. Vote for us.
Speaker 7 (05:18):
And using Wuhan, you're then able to engage a lot
of the mail in voting, and the mail in voting
was the absolute must. You cannot beat a popular Trump
without the mail in voting because that's what allows you
to cheat. That's where the cheating occurs. Well, now Trump's
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going back, as we will discuss, and taking efforts to
undo everything related to the auto pin and punish those
who would use it to circum effectively our Constitution and
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our laws. Biden hadn't a clue. Well, this isn't a
harmless thing. When Lisa Cooke, the Fed governor who Trump
fired when her mortgage frauds with an S became clear,
there were those in the media and their guests who said, oh,
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this is like cheating on your homework in third grade. Well,
I don't know about you, but cheitating on your homework
in third grade is wrong. Does the teacher say, well,
we're not really gonna worry about it because she's a
black girl. Well, the truth is, we know they probably
did say that. They probably said that over and over
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and over again. But chitting on your homework should be punished,
and there should be a proportionate punishment for the crime
she committed. And yes, mortgage fraud is a crime. Mortgages
in Georgia. And where was the other one? Somewhere like
twelve states away. And it turns out now that Adam Shift,
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they're very close to indicting him for the same crime,
Big Tish in New York, same crime.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
You see what's happening.
Speaker 7 (07:23):
Once one crime is investigated and exposed, you start seeing
the Democrats are living lives of crime. This is who
and what they are. This is indicative of their character
or lack thereof. These are the sorts of self dealing
people who do not follow the very laws they write
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and demand you be.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Punished over, often wrongfully.
Speaker 7 (07:53):
This whole concept receiving USAID funds for an NGO that
actually just filters it right back to them in the
state of Michigan where they've discovered how many is it
five billion dollars of self dealing laundered money through the government.
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This is why they don't want you to shut down
the fraud. Not because they're in favor of fraud. They're
in favor of self dealing. They're the beneficiaries of it.
Michael Berry shaken from us far too soon for all
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the screeching and hollering about President Trump.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
And he's not nice.
Speaker 7 (08:39):
Remember how nice we were told Joe Biden was. He
was so nice, about as nice as Ellen DeGeneres, where
her entire staff stepped forward and said, this is a
toxic environment. She's an abusive bitch. Remember when Taylor Swift
broke down into tears over her digging into her personal
life and said, please stop. Maybe not the best example.
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Now you're going, oh oh, but she did die kind
of well a lotar Taylor as well or Taylor Swift
either me neither, but.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
You get the point.
Speaker 7 (09:09):
Remember when she pressured Mariah Carey to tell whether she
was pregnant or not, Mariah Carey had a breakdown. She
thought about suing Ellen DeGeneres over that because she blames
her miscarriage on Ellen degennerous I'm up on my People
news from twelve years ago. Hermon, I'm up on my People,
on my People magazine news. Man, I'm gonna tell you something.
As a kid, I'll never forget. As a kid, you
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don't have the ability to put things into context. You
don't understand quite what the world means, and you take
things literally. And I can remember we'd be checking out
at the grocery store and all of those National Geographic
and all the other crazy stuff. They're about eye level
for a kid, and you're reading it and you're going,
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oh my god. And that was back before you realize
that most of what's printed is bunk. So you're reading
this stuff. Oh man, someone else.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
President Trump told reporters that the Biden auto pin is
one of the great scandals of our time, and he's right.
Speaker 6 (10:12):
The box well, I think the auto pen is one
of the great scandals of our time.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
The auto pen was our was.
Speaker 6 (10:21):
Our president, or to put it in a different way,
whoever operated the auto pen was our president. It's not allowed.
It's just not allowed. And they gave a pardon to
the Unselect Committee after the Unselect Committee realized that that
whole situation was a hoax and it was all therefore
in putting Nancy Pelosi, turning down security and all, you know,
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turning down salty, it all came out bad for them.
They burned everything, they got rid of everything. There's absolutely
nothing there. It's all gone. And that was based on
an auto pen. You know, they gave they gave those
members of Congress that were on the Select Committee, they
gave him pardon. What do you think so, I think
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that I think it's a big.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
I think it's a tremendous scandal.
Speaker 8 (11:06):
What do you think of Medio would say, if you
part in your kids the last day in office, don't
you think of Medio and go well, I think it
would have been a big story.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Victoria would have been about I like this guy.
Speaker 7 (11:18):
So what you're seeing is what we knew all along.
And Biden was weekend at Bernie's. Is this old man
they propped up and put in there to take naps
and sleep on the beach so that they could control
the country, so that they could do what they wanted
to do. And there was a price to be paid,
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you know. They had to give millions of dollars to Hunter.
The Ukrainians gave him million, The mayor of Moscow gave
him millions, Chinese gave him millions. And then when when
people were on to the scent of that, there was
an article. I'll never forget it, Chad brought it in.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Look at this.
Speaker 7 (11:58):
It was that Hunter Biden had rented an estate I
think it was in Sonoma or Napa or some idyllic
Bucolic place out in the country, and Hunter Biden just
wanted to be away from the public for a while
after all of his drugs, scandals, baby mamas, pregnancies and children.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
He wouldn't acknowledge.
Speaker 7 (12:21):
After everything had come out, the pistol waving, the Russian prostitutes,
the claiming the Russians were listening in, the scandals, the
millions of dollars in bribes, then he goes silent for
about two weeks. That's long enough, they'll have forgotten by
then and then we can rightfully pen an article. They
probably auto penned this as well. Hunter Biden is reinventing himself.
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He's leaving public life and pursuing his first love art.
What is this, dude, Hitler. All of a sudden we
find out, Oh, he's actually an artist. Don't think about
anything after that.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
An artist? What art has he ever produced?
Speaker 7 (13:01):
So he rented this very very very expensive You can
buy a car cheaper than the monthly payment on this
expensive retreat that he rents in California. The article is
out there and it's it's covered by everybody the way
it's supposed to. Oh, Hunter Biden is becoming an artist. Okay,
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he's going to be an artist. And then a couple
of months later, because they didn't have a lot of
time to kill because they needed to, you know, run
these bribes. So there Joe might die any day, they're
demanding their money, you know, crack angle to smoke itself.
And so Hunter Biden, after about two months, we find out, Oh,
during his time and while while Threau was on Walden Pond,
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he during that time would write or in this case,
paint his masterpiece yes, his artistry has seen its its
full legs.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
And as it turns out, they're going to have a gallery.
Oh my god, you won't believe this.
Speaker 7 (14:03):
As luck would have it, Hunter's greatest skill is not
bunking his dead brother's wife while his dead brother is dying,
or getting her addicted to crack, or smoking crack himself
and riding out all his teeth, or making babies.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
No, it turns out his great skill is he's an artist. Oh, yes,
he's an artist.
Speaker 7 (14:26):
And then what they do They sold the art. Turns
out he's the hottest artist on the planet. He's getting
five hundred thousand to a million dollars per finger painting. Yes,
it looks like it took him three or whoever did
it three minutes to do it. Can you imagine the
lowly schlub whose job it was honeywood you today?
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Oh, he won't believe this.
Speaker 7 (14:50):
They've got a money laundering scheme and they're running millions
of dollars to Hunter to keep him quiet because otherwise
he's gonna expose the whole deal. And they're selling his art.
Apparently people just can't get enough of his art. Million
dollars a pop. What's wrong with that. Well, I'm the
one having to do the fingerpainting, but I didn't know
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you were an urse.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
I'm not, I'm not.
Speaker 7 (15:14):
And that is where we are in this whole darned affair.
That is the sad, scandalous, disgusting part of all this.
So Hunter is taking bribes from Ukraine, China, the mayor
of Moscow. You've got cocaine found in the White House,
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but we can't figure out who's it would be.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 7 (15:42):
The safest place on the planet, more security, more cameras
than anywhere on the planet, and you can't figure out
after you've found the coke who it belongs to. Well,
let's see the gardener. No, not the gardener, the cook. No,
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it was in It's like a game of clue.
Speaker 9 (16:07):
It was in the ADUs in here listening to Michael Berry.
Speaker 7 (16:15):
A little longer cliff than we normally place certain meal
in the morning show. But next you will hear from
Theodore Wold, former Idaho solicitor general.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Just so you know, the solicitor general. I'll tell that later. Yeah. Well,
Ted Cruz was a solicitor General of Texas. Was the
first public position he held.
Speaker 7 (16:37):
The Attorney General is the individual who runs basically the
justice department for a state. In the state of Texas,
that is obviously currently Ken Paxton, and it has been
a launching pad to governor or in the case of
John Cornyn, Senator. But it's an incredibly importan job, incredibly
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important job. That is the person who handles the lawyers
for the state within the state. The attorney general, an
elected position, appoints as part of his team the solicitor general.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
A solicitor as in no solicitors.
Speaker 7 (17:21):
No soliciting is asking people at their door for money
for your you know, to buy your world's greatest chocolate
or whatever else you're soliciting. You can solicit sex. That's
the legal charge for asking a prostitute. I guess what
twenty bucks will get you. I don't know what the
term is. But the solicitor general is the individual who
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represents the state in cases Texas versus So and So
before the Supreme Court. You can imagine how good Ted
Cruz would be at that. Obviously, so Theodore Wold was
the solicitor general for the state of Idaho, and he
was the US Assistant Attorney General. He's currently at the
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Heritage Foundation a conservative think tank. He's a visiting fellow
for Law and Technology, and in June he spoke this
happens to be an area of expertise for him before
the Senate Majority Committee about the Biden administration's use of
the auto pin. Now you're going to need to pay
close attention to understand the full import of what he's saying,
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but it's worth it.
Speaker 8 (18:28):
The US Constitution vests executive power in a single person,
the President. At the founding, the president exercised the executive
power through only a small group of trusted advisors and personnel.
In fact, President Washington had a four member cabinet. Today,
the president directs a leviathan executive branch with fifteen cabinet
departments and at least four million full time executive branch employees.
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The executive branch proliferation has a single source of democratic
legitimacy that, by order of the US Constitution's Article two,
the President is both elected by the American people and
vested with the executive power all of it. Traditionally, the
president takes positive actions and authenticates those actions through his signature.
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His signature is required for the most significant actions he
may undertake. To sign an executive order, to take any
action invested in him by the Constitution, as in granting
a pardon, and to take the most important action of all,
to sign a bill into law. In all these cases,
the president's signature is itself the protection of democratic principle.
When the president signs, he communicates his assent and endorsement
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of the action he takes. The autopen is a device
that signs the president's signature to a document. The Oversight Project,
of which I am a board member, has discovered that
the Biden White House deployed an autopen to affix President
Biden's signature to pardons, prison commutations, executive orders, and presidential proclamations.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
The Oversight Project's research has that.
Speaker 8 (20:00):
The Biden White House first deployed the autopen to a
fixed President Biden's signature to a proclamation on day five
of his administration, and that there were at least three
different autopen signatures in use throughout rest President Biden's tenure
in the White House. In June twenty twenty two, the
Biden White House began deploying the autopen to sign clemency
warrants and executive orders. Autopen used skyrocketed from there, we
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found that of the fifty one clemency warrants issued during
the Biden presidency, over half thirty two in total, were
signed with an autopen, and these include some of the
most controversial acts of clemency of the Biden presidency, including
death row commutations and the pre preemptive pardons of members
of the Biden family, doctor Anthony Fauci, General Mark Milly,
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and more, that were issued in the final days of
the Biden presidency.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
We reviewed President Biden's schedule in.
Speaker 8 (20:51):
His publicly available media and were unable to find any
record of President Biden's personally approving these actions, such as
a statement issued by the President himself to reporters. In addition,
we found that the Biden White House used the autopen
to a fix presidents of Biden's signature to clemency warrants
and executive orders while the president.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Himself was in Washington, d c.
Speaker 8 (21:10):
For at least some of that day and thus was
presumably available to sign important executive actions.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Finally, we found.
Speaker 8 (21:17):
Multiple days where President Biden we signed a bill into law,
but used an autopen to issue an executive order or
for other important executive actions.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
The Biden White House is widespread.
Speaker 8 (21:27):
Use of an autopen to affix President Biden's signatures to
documents that exercise executive powers belonging solely to the president
poses significant constitutional, legal, and practical considerations. Once the president's
signature is copied and loaded into the autopin the machine
can signed documents as the president himself. Would to be
blunt by using the autopen, anyone can sign documents as
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the president himself. Now, to be clear, I'm not here
today to suggest that the autopen is bad. It's just technology.
I'm here today because of questions concerning president byiaen capacity
and whether the autopen was used to usurp presidential power
or to conceal the president's decline. As the sitting president's
mental acuity declined, potentially to the point of incapacitation, his
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administration's expansion of the powers of the presidency raises more
questions than answers. Any investigation if this matter should focus
not only on whether President Biden directed or authorized subordinate
staff to take action in certain instances, but whether he
had the capacity to do so at all. The twenty
fifth Amendment lays out clear procedures for what to do
when the president is incapacitated. It was carefully drafted and
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informed by our nation's history. The Biden administration ignored it
all to aggrandize executive power and push the country further
in their preferred ideological direction. It is our obligation at
this point to get to the bottom of these issues
and to ask the important question as to whether or
not the autopen and other devices were used to cover
and ob secure President Biden's mental decline, undermining our national
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security and also the constitution.
Speaker 7 (23:03):
It is staggering. It's absolutely staggering. You've got the autopin
serving as the president, and whoever's running the autopin is
running the country.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Remember we talked about this.
Speaker 7 (23:20):
If Biden's not writing what's on the teleprompter that he's reading,
then the real president is whoever is loading the teleprompter.
Even the autopin is thinking to itself, wait, I'm doing
all the work here.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
Autopen chronicles, daily log, dear diary. The life of an
autopen has more ups and downs than calligraphy.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
What a run.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
It was, commuting drug dealers, pardoning those low Lifehouse Committee members.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
That investigated January sixth. Hell, I commuted most of the
Biden family.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
I did so many great things, while geriatric Joe just
napped his way through a Presidents taking all the credit.
You know how many times I had to pin a
paper that was covered in jeweled Here I go again,
and he might ink all smeared over sleeping Joe Biden.
I can do anything Joe Biden can do. I have
a sleep mode. It just makes me so angry that
I don't get any of the credit. People thought Joe
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Biden was the Wizard of Oz or something.
Speaker 10 (24:20):
No, Joe was simply Oscar Diggs.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
The Michael Barry Show, fu.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Lach Holm and Dante.
Speaker 7 (24:40):
At her State of the County speech, says we need
another property tax hike. Then she admits that she can't
afford property taxes because she doesn't own a home, despite
making over one hundred and ninety thousand dollars a year. Oh,
by the way, her husband, that little what did John
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Whitmeer call him? He apparently makes good money. He ain't
much for looks weighs about eighty seven pounds, sopping wet,
skinny pasty dude, looks like he's in a Phineas and
ferb episode. But he makes good money. She makes a
buck ninety on the books. That's what she declares, all
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the while she can't afford to own a home because
she can't afford property taxes. You see what happens here.
Rodney writes this speech, and he says, Oh, the natives
are restless, so real upset about property taxes. So what
I want you to do is say property taxes are
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so high, and we also need to raise them. She
winds about the two hundred million dollar deficit resulting in
less money forbles Noe, the sheriff's deputy is not a
chance streets, roads, infrastructure. Nah, the library, Ah, yes, we
bring out the library, the library and the children. Oh yes,
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it's always for the children. She didn't bring out the children.
I'm just saying that may be the next trick. This
all comes days after they voted to spend nearly five
hundred thousand dollars to sponsor the Gay Softball World Series.
But they're out of money. Here she is she can't
afford property taxes.
Speaker 5 (26:34):
The county is facing a budget deficit. Why not go
to the voters with a proposal to fund everything? So
we are at a two hundred million dollar deficit, is
not normal? Enormous amount of money and I'll talk about
that more with Steve later.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
But so what happened is one of.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
My colleagues and I we proposed in twenty twenty four
August Twe twenty four or September twenty four, August Tree
twenty five. We knew that the we our revenue is
decreasing more and more and more as our population is increasing,
so we're gonna have to start looking at cuts. And
so we said, well, why don't we go to the
voters and see if they would like to keep those
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services basic services. We could not get the support of
the rest of our colleagues, so I knew that I
didn't have the support to ask for us to make
up those cuts. And if you guys remember the first
chart on the law enforcement investment increases. Before I took office,
it was larger overall because they had more money.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
The tax rate was.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
Always the same under my predecessor. We've had to decrease
the tax rate. And I know taxes are high, trust
me don't. I so can't afford property taxes.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
I don't own a home. I rent an apartment.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
But a lot of it has to do with the
school districts in anyway, that's another conversation.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Wait, what.
Speaker 7 (27:54):
Rewind those last thirty seconds? I so know about Really
are we talking like we're back at your therapy session
in college when you had that major meltdown and then
you wander off into I live in an apartment, not
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a home, and that has to do with the school district.
Does this unfortunate weasel she's married to have kids already,
because if he doesn't, why is she talking about school districts.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
She doesn't have a child.
Speaker 5 (28:33):
We've had to decrease the tax rate, and I know
taxes are high.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Trust me, I don't hold.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
On holy trust me. Trust me. Hey, hey, listen, I.
Speaker 7 (28:42):
Know every one of you in here is getting a
government affairs salary. I know none of you in here
are actually suffering, which is true. I know you're all
former city council aids and county commissioner aids and you're
all self dealing. But I know that out there the
slubs are hurting, or so I've been told. So I've
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been told those people I hate so much. But let
me tell you. Trust me, nobody knows about this. Really,
you're an expert on this as well. Okay, go ahead, how.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Taxes are high? Trust me?
Speaker 5 (29:17):
I don't. I so can't afford property taxes.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
I don't own a home.
Speaker 5 (29:21):
I rent an apartment.
Speaker 7 (29:22):
Hold on, I so can't afford property taxes. I don't
own a whom Do you notice how awkward that word
was for her to say? It's because it's not her word.
That's a practiced rehearse Back that up. Notice how awkward
the word home is.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Just just listen to this property taxes.
Speaker 5 (29:40):
I don't own a home. I rent an apartment. But
a lot of it has to do with the school
districts in any way. That's another conversation.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Yeah, a lot of it has to do it's all
very vague.
Speaker 7 (29:51):
We're gonna have to raise property taxes because we need
a bunch more money. We squandered five hundred thousand of
it on the Gay Softball World Series sponsorship. But now
we're gonna need a bunch more of your money. Even
though we're spending more now than we ever have, even
though we're collecting more now than we ever have.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
We took advantage. Rodney's a smart guy.
Speaker 7 (30:10):
We took advantage of a loophole in the idiot Republicans
in Austin wrote a bill that allowed after a storm
you can rape your constituents and they don't even get
a vote on it.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
And so they did, and oh we made a real
boo boo. There, we're going to close the loophole.
Speaker 7 (30:29):
You ever notice how there are always won election behind
actually ever stopping the Democrats? You ever noticed that? And
then and then are you ready for this? Well, there's
two hundred million dollar deficit. If we don't have every
dollar that we want to hand out to elevate strategies
for the self dealing thing that got three of her
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top staffers indicted, If we don't have five hundred thousand
dollars to give the gay Softball World Series, If we don't.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Have all that, you know what else? You know what
else will suffer? You know what will suffer people?
Speaker 7 (31:03):
Oh, dear God, don't let it be the constables and
deputies crimes through the roof. No, No, not that, I
don't worry about that. You know what else will suffer?
Not the infrastructure, Not the flooding. We're already it sprinkles
and we're flooding. No libraries, Oh no, how will we
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live without the library?
Speaker 5 (31:26):
Now we're two hundred million dollars in a deficit, And
so what do you do?
Speaker 11 (31:32):
County Judge Lena Hidalgo warning the community about what's at
stake as commissioners look to get the county out of
the budget shortfall come Tuesday.
Speaker 5 (31:41):
The ninth is where your library is not going to
have enough staffing. The ninth is where we're not going
to put enough money on our rainy day fund in
the middle of hurricane season. The ninth is where we're
going to impact the budget of our public health department
for basic services.
Speaker 11 (31:55):
The county's budget director, also acknowledging the over two hundred
million dollar deficit last month, Hadoggo says, part of the
reason the county is in the hole is because of
the pay raises approved by commissioners for law enforcement.
Speaker 5 (32:07):
But there's this unilateral decision, no chance for discussion, to
invest one hundred million dollars in some pay raises that
we cannot afford as a country, and so I think
that why not let.
Speaker 11 (32:19):
The voters decide, Hodogo telling ABC thirteen she supports a
raise only when the county can afford it, and says
she believes it should be up to the voters. But
Hadogo has clashed with commissioners during the budget process. Most
notably after they rejected her penny tax proposal for early.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
Childhood education last month.
Speaker 11 (32:37):
Commissioners Adrian Garcia and Leslibrionez has said that critical services
will not be impacted.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Library hours, as I mentioned earlier, are not being cut.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
To me, raising taxes is the last last resort.
Speaker 11 (32:50):
We have to put in the work to see what
we can do to be more strategic and more effective.
Speaker 7 (32:55):
With will, honest truth, how has been since you've been
to a county library.
It's that time. Time time, time, luck and load. Michael
Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Welcome, get over here.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Ain't over smart, He's strong as a bull.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
An right, no, no, no sense. Well they make your
mark what I just signed him over to you.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
If you're willing, I'd like you to make your market.
I don't do.
Speaker 5 (00:41):
Well.
Speaker 6 (00:41):
I think the bed is one of the great scandals.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Of our time.
Speaker 6 (00:45):
The auto ben was our was our president ought to
put it in a different way. Whoever operated the ben
was our president. This is not allowed. And they gave
a pardon to the Unselect Committee. After the Unselect commit
he realized that that whole situation was a hoax, that
it was all therefore, including Nancy Pelosi turning down security
(01:08):
and all you know turning down sology.
Speaker 7 (01:23):
Got the.
Speaker 8 (01:36):
Biden White House deployed an auto pen to a fix
President Biden's signature to pardons, prison commutations, executive orders, and
presidential proclamations.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
The Oversight Project's research.
Speaker 8 (01:47):
Has found that the Biden White House first deployed the
autopen to a fix President Biden's signature to a proclamation
on day five of his administration, and that there were
at least three different auto pen signatures in use throughout
rest President Biden's tenure.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
In the White House.
Speaker 8 (02:03):
In June twenty twenty two, the Biden White House began
deploying the autopen to sign clemency warrens and executive orders.
Auto pen use byrocketed from there.
Speaker 9 (02:14):
Yeah whoa, we got we got a Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
I'm not thanks, I'm not.
Speaker 9 (02:41):
I'm yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Get well.
Speaker 7 (03:02):
I thought I was vindictive with an elephant's memory for
people who wronged me.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Trump is a breed apart. I mean, I forget about
all these things. Boy, he hasn't. They are going after
the autopin.
Speaker 7 (03:19):
If you basically overturn every signature that was printed using
the autopin, meaning that Joe Biden himself did not sign
the documents that carried the president's seal of approval, that
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means you undo everything he did. It is now clear
that not only did he not personally sign them, he
was not aware of them.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
That makes it.
Speaker 7 (03:56):
Somewhere in the electronic forgery. And really, this is such
a great analogy for the entirety of the Biden presidency.
The Establishment the machine put him up as the front.
They needed a white male who could pull, who could
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keep the base they'll handle that and could pull some
white labor. That was the plan. Well it starts falling apart,
as he started falling apart during the campaign. So you
go get a black woman that's going to stabilize it.
But that didn't help. So you engage in the virus release,
(04:46):
and yes, China would go to that much trouble to
unleash a virus to get rid of the president that
has caused China more problems than anybody since and including Nixon.
You have the George Floyd incident, which wasn't George Floyd,
it was going to be somebody else that was part
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of establishment is or law and order is bad. Republicans
are bad blacks.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
They're all coming to kill you. Vote for us.
Speaker 7 (05:18):
And using Wuhan, you're then able to engage a lot
of the mail in voting, and the mail in voting
was the absolute must. You cannot beat a popular Trump
without the mail in voting because that's what allows you
to cheat. That's where the cheating occurs. Well, now Trump's
(05:42):
going back, as we will discuss, and taking efforts to
undo everything related to the auto pin and punish those
who would use it to circum effectively our Constitution and
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our laws. Biden hadn't a clue. Well, this isn't a
harmless thing. When Lisa Cooke, the Fed governor who Trump
fired when her mortgage frauds with an S became clear,
there were those in the media and their guests who said, oh,
(06:25):
this is like cheating on your homework in third grade. Well,
I don't know about you, but cheitating on your homework
in third grade is wrong. Does the teacher say, well,
we're not really gonna worry about it because she's a
black girl. Well, the truth is, we know they probably
did say that. They probably said that over and over
(06:47):
and over again. But chitting on your homework should be punished,
and there should be a proportionate punishment for the crime
she committed. And yes, mortgage fraud is a crime. Mortgages
in Georgia. And where was the other one? Somewhere like
twelve states away. And it turns out now that Adam Shift,
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they're very close to indicting him for the same crime,
Big Tish in New York, same crime.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
You see what's happening.
Speaker 7 (07:23):
Once one crime is investigated and exposed, you start seeing
the Democrats are living lives of crime. This is who
and what they are. This is indicative of their character
or lack thereof. These are the sorts of self dealing
people who do not follow the very laws they write
(07:46):
and demand you be.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Punished over, often wrongfully.
Speaker 7 (07:53):
This whole concept receiving USAID funds for an NGO that
actually just filters it right back to them in the
state of Michigan where they've discovered how many is it
five billion dollars of self dealing laundered money through the government.
(08:14):
This is why they don't want you to shut down
the fraud. Not because they're in favor of fraud. They're
in favor of self dealing. They're the beneficiaries of it.
Michael Berry shaken from us far too soon for all
(08:34):
the screeching and hollering about President Trump.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
And he's not nice.
Speaker 7 (08:39):
Remember how nice we were told Joe Biden was. He
was so nice, about as nice as Ellen DeGeneres, where
her entire staff stepped forward and said, this is a
toxic environment. She's an abusive bitch. Remember when Taylor Swift
broke down into tears over her digging into her personal
life and said, please stop. Maybe not the best example.
(09:01):
Now you're going, oh oh, but she did die kind
of well a lotar Taylor as well or Taylor Swift
either me neither, but.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
You get the point.
Speaker 7 (09:09):
Remember when she pressured Mariah Carey to tell whether she
was pregnant or not, Mariah Carey had a breakdown. She
thought about suing Ellen DeGeneres over that because she blames
her miscarriage on Ellen degennerous I'm up on my People
news from twelve years ago. Hermon, I'm up on my People,
on my People magazine news. Man, I'm gonna tell you something.
As a kid, I'll never forget. As a kid, you
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don't have the ability to put things into context. You
don't understand quite what the world means, and you take
things literally. And I can remember we'd be checking out
at the grocery store and all of those National Geographic
and all the other crazy stuff. They're about eye level
for a kid, and you're reading it and you're going,
(09:51):
oh my god. And that was back before you realize
that most of what's printed is bunk. So you're reading
this stuff. Oh man, someone else.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
President Trump told reporters that the Biden auto pin is
one of the great scandals of our time, and he's right.
Speaker 6 (10:12):
The box well, I think the auto pen is one
of the great scandals of our time.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
The auto pen was our was.
Speaker 6 (10:21):
Our president, or to put it in a different way,
whoever operated the auto pen was our president. It's not allowed.
It's just not allowed. And they gave a pardon to
the Unselect Committee after the Unselect Committee realized that that
whole situation was a hoax and it was all therefore
in putting Nancy Pelosi, turning down security and all, you know,
(10:43):
turning down salty, it all came out bad for them.
They burned everything, they got rid of everything. There's absolutely
nothing there. It's all gone. And that was based on
an auto pen. You know, they gave they gave those
members of Congress that were on the Select Committee, they
gave him pardon. What do you think so, I think
(11:03):
that I think it's a big.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
I think it's a tremendous scandal.
Speaker 8 (11:06):
What do you think of Medio would say, if you
part in your kids the last day in office, don't
you think of Medio and go well, I think it
would have been a big story.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Victoria would have been about I like this guy.
Speaker 7 (11:18):
So what you're seeing is what we knew all along.
And Biden was weekend at Bernie's. Is this old man
they propped up and put in there to take naps
and sleep on the beach so that they could control
the country, so that they could do what they wanted
to do. And there was a price to be paid,
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you know. They had to give millions of dollars to Hunter.
The Ukrainians gave him million, The mayor of Moscow gave
him millions, Chinese gave him millions. And then when when
people were on to the scent of that, there was
an article. I'll never forget it, Chad brought it in.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Look at this.
Speaker 7 (11:58):
It was that Hunter Biden had rented an estate I
think it was in Sonoma or Napa or some idyllic
Bucolic place out in the country, and Hunter Biden just
wanted to be away from the public for a while
after all of his drugs, scandals, baby mamas, pregnancies and children.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
He wouldn't acknowledge.
Speaker 7 (12:21):
After everything had come out, the pistol waving, the Russian prostitutes,
the claiming the Russians were listening in, the scandals, the
millions of dollars in bribes, then he goes silent for
about two weeks. That's long enough, they'll have forgotten by
then and then we can rightfully pen an article. They
probably auto penned this as well. Hunter Biden is reinventing himself.
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He's leaving public life and pursuing his first love art.
What is this, dude, Hitler. All of a sudden we
find out, Oh, he's actually an artist. Don't think about
anything after that.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
An artist? What art has he ever produced?
Speaker 7 (13:01):
So he rented this very very very expensive You can
buy a car cheaper than the monthly payment on this
expensive retreat that he rents in California. The article is
out there and it's it's covered by everybody the way
it's supposed to. Oh, Hunter Biden is becoming an artist. Okay,
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he's going to be an artist. And then a couple
of months later, because they didn't have a lot of
time to kill because they needed to, you know, run
these bribes. So there Joe might die any day, they're
demanding their money, you know, crack angle to smoke itself.
And so Hunter Biden, after about two months, we find out, Oh,
during his time and while while Threau was on Walden Pond,
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he during that time would write or in this case,
paint his masterpiece yes, his artistry has seen its its
full legs.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
And as it turns out, they're going to have a gallery.
Oh my god, you won't believe this.
Speaker 7 (14:03):
As luck would have it, Hunter's greatest skill is not
bunking his dead brother's wife while his dead brother is dying,
or getting her addicted to crack, or smoking crack himself
and riding out all his teeth, or making babies.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
No, it turns out his great skill is he's an artist. Oh, yes,
he's an artist.
Speaker 7 (14:26):
And then what they do They sold the art. Turns
out he's the hottest artist on the planet. He's getting
five hundred thousand to a million dollars per finger painting. Yes,
it looks like it took him three or whoever did
it three minutes to do it. Can you imagine the
lowly schlub whose job it was honeywood you today?
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Oh, he won't believe this.
Speaker 7 (14:50):
They've got a money laundering scheme and they're running millions
of dollars to Hunter to keep him quiet because otherwise
he's gonna expose the whole deal. And they're selling his art.
Apparently people just can't get enough of his art. Million
dollars a pop. What's wrong with that. Well, I'm the
one having to do the fingerpainting, but I didn't know
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you were an urse.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
I'm not, I'm not.
Speaker 7 (15:14):
And that is where we are in this whole darned affair.
That is the sad, scandalous, disgusting part of all this.
So Hunter is taking bribes from Ukraine, China, the mayor
of Moscow. You've got cocaine found in the White House,
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but we can't figure out who's it would be.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 7 (15:42):
The safest place on the planet, more security, more cameras
than anywhere on the planet, and you can't figure out
after you've found the coke who it belongs to. Well,
let's see the gardener. No, not the gardener, the cook. No,
(16:04):
it was in It's like a game of clue.
Speaker 9 (16:07):
It was in the ADUs in here listening to Michael Berry.
Speaker 7 (16:15):
A little longer cliff than we normally place certain meal
in the morning show. But next you will hear from
Theodore Wold, former Idaho solicitor general.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Just so you know, the solicitor general. I'll tell that later. Yeah. Well,
Ted Cruz was a solicitor General of Texas. Was the
first public position he held.
Speaker 7 (16:37):
The Attorney General is the individual who runs basically the
justice department for a state. In the state of Texas,
that is obviously currently Ken Paxton, and it has been
a launching pad to governor or in the case of
John Cornyn, Senator. But it's an incredibly importan job, incredibly
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important job. That is the person who handles the lawyers
for the state within the state. The attorney general, an
elected position, appoints as part of his team the solicitor general.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
A solicitor as in no solicitors.
Speaker 7 (17:21):
No soliciting is asking people at their door for money
for your you know, to buy your world's greatest chocolate
or whatever else you're soliciting. You can solicit sex. That's
the legal charge for asking a prostitute. I guess what
twenty bucks will get you. I don't know what the
term is. But the solicitor general is the individual who
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represents the state in cases Texas versus So and So
before the Supreme Court. You can imagine how good Ted
Cruz would be at that. Obviously, so Theodore Wold was
the solicitor general for the state of Idaho, and he
was the US Assistant Attorney General. He's currently at the
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Heritage Foundation a conservative think tank. He's a visiting fellow
for Law and Technology, and in June he spoke this
happens to be an area of expertise for him before
the Senate Majority Committee about the Biden administration's use of
the auto pin. Now you're going to need to pay
close attention to understand the full import of what he's saying,
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but it's worth it.
Speaker 8 (18:28):
The US Constitution vests executive power in a single person,
the President. At the founding, the president exercised the executive
power through only a small group of trusted advisors and personnel.
In fact, President Washington had a four member cabinet. Today,
the president directs a leviathan executive branch with fifteen cabinet
departments and at least four million full time executive branch employees.
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The executive branch proliferation has a single source of democratic
legitimacy that, by order of the US Constitution's Article two,
the President is both elected by the American people and
vested with the executive power all of it. Traditionally, the
president takes positive actions and authenticates those actions through his signature.
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His signature is required for the most significant actions he
may undertake. To sign an executive order, to take any
action invested in him by the Constitution, as in granting
a pardon, and to take the most important action of all,
to sign a bill into law. In all these cases,
the president's signature is itself the protection of democratic principle.
When the president signs, he communicates his assent and endorsement
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of the action he takes. The autopen is a device
that signs the president's signature to a document. The Oversight Project,
of which I am a board member, has discovered that
the Biden White House deployed an autopen to affix President
Biden's signature to pardons, prison commutations, executive orders, and presidential proclamations.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
The Oversight Project's research has that.
Speaker 8 (20:00):
The Biden White House first deployed the autopen to a
fixed President Biden's signature to a proclamation on day five
of his administration, and that there were at least three
different autopen signatures in use throughout rest President Biden's tenure
in the White House. In June twenty twenty two, the
Biden White House began deploying the autopen to sign clemency
warrants and executive orders. Autopen used skyrocketed from there, we
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found that of the fifty one clemency warrants issued during
the Biden presidency, over half thirty two in total, were
signed with an autopen, and these include some of the
most controversial acts of clemency of the Biden presidency, including
death row commutations and the pre preemptive pardons of members
of the Biden family, doctor Anthony Fauci, General Mark Milly,
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and more, that were issued in the final days of
the Biden presidency.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
We reviewed President Biden's schedule in.
Speaker 8 (20:51):
His publicly available media and were unable to find any
record of President Biden's personally approving these actions, such as
a statement issued by the President himself to reporters. In addition,
we found that the Biden White House used the autopen
to a fix presidents of Biden's signature to clemency warrants
and executive orders while the president.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Himself was in Washington, d c.
Speaker 8 (21:10):
For at least some of that day and thus was
presumably available to sign important executive actions.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Finally, we found.
Speaker 8 (21:17):
Multiple days where President Biden we signed a bill into law,
but used an autopen to issue an executive order or
for other important executive actions.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
The Biden White House is widespread.
Speaker 8 (21:27):
Use of an autopen to affix President Biden's signatures to
documents that exercise executive powers belonging solely to the president
poses significant constitutional, legal, and practical considerations. Once the president's
signature is copied and loaded into the autopin the machine
can signed documents as the president himself. Would to be
blunt by using the autopen, anyone can sign documents as
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the president himself. Now, to be clear, I'm not here
today to suggest that the autopen is bad. It's just technology.
I'm here today because of questions concerning president byiaen capacity
and whether the autopen was used to usurp presidential power
or to conceal the president's decline. As the sitting president's
mental acuity declined, potentially to the point of incapacitation, his
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administration's expansion of the powers of the presidency raises more
questions than answers. Any investigation if this matter should focus
not only on whether President Biden directed or authorized subordinate
staff to take action in certain instances, but whether he
had the capacity to do so at all. The twenty
fifth Amendment lays out clear procedures for what to do
when the president is incapacitated. It was carefully drafted and
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informed by our nation's history. The Biden administration ignored it
all to aggrandize executive power and push the country further
in their preferred ideological direction. It is our obligation at
this point to get to the bottom of these issues
and to ask the important question as to whether or
not the autopen and other devices were used to cover
and ob secure President Biden's mental decline, undermining our national
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security and also the constitution.
Speaker 7 (23:03):
It is staggering. It's absolutely staggering. You've got the autopin
serving as the president, and whoever's running the autopin is
running the country.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Remember we talked about this.
Speaker 7 (23:20):
If Biden's not writing what's on the teleprompter that he's reading,
then the real president is whoever is loading the teleprompter.
Even the autopin is thinking to itself, wait, I'm doing
all the work here.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
Autopen chronicles, daily log, dear diary. The life of an
autopen has more ups and downs than calligraphy.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
What a run.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
It was, commuting drug dealers, pardoning those low Lifehouse Committee members.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
That investigated January sixth. Hell, I commuted most of the
Biden family.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
I did so many great things, while geriatric Joe just
napped his way through a Presidents taking all the credit.
You know how many times I had to pin a
paper that was covered in jeweled Here I go again,
and he might ink all smeared over sleeping Joe Biden.
I can do anything Joe Biden can do. I have
a sleep mode. It just makes me so angry that
I don't get any of the credit. People thought Joe
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Biden was the Wizard of Oz or something.
Speaker 10 (24:20):
No, Joe was simply Oscar Diggs.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
The Michael Barry Show, fu.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Lach Holm and Dante.
Speaker 7 (24:40):
At her State of the County speech, says we need
another property tax hike. Then she admits that she can't
afford property taxes because she doesn't own a home, despite
making over one hundred and ninety thousand dollars a year. Oh,
by the way, her husband, that little what did John
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Whitmeer call him? He apparently makes good money. He ain't
much for looks weighs about eighty seven pounds, sopping wet,
skinny pasty dude, looks like he's in a Phineas and
ferb episode. But he makes good money. She makes a
buck ninety on the books. That's what she declares, all
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the while she can't afford to own a home because
she can't afford property taxes. You see what happens here.
Rodney writes this speech, and he says, Oh, the natives
are restless, so real upset about property taxes. So what
I want you to do is say property taxes are
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so high, and we also need to raise them. She
winds about the two hundred million dollar deficit resulting in
less money forbles Noe, the sheriff's deputy is not a
chance streets, roads, infrastructure. Nah, the library, Ah, yes, we
bring out the library, the library and the children. Oh yes,
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it's always for the children. She didn't bring out the children.
I'm just saying that may be the next trick. This
all comes days after they voted to spend nearly five
hundred thousand dollars to sponsor the Gay Softball World Series.
But they're out of money. Here she is she can't
afford property taxes.
Speaker 5 (26:34):
The county is facing a budget deficit. Why not go
to the voters with a proposal to fund everything? So
we are at a two hundred million dollar deficit, is
not normal? Enormous amount of money and I'll talk about
that more with Steve later.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
But so what happened is one of.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
My colleagues and I we proposed in twenty twenty four
August Twe twenty four or September twenty four, August Tree
twenty five. We knew that the we our revenue is
decreasing more and more and more as our population is increasing,
so we're gonna have to start looking at cuts. And
so we said, well, why don't we go to the
voters and see if they would like to keep those
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services basic services. We could not get the support of
the rest of our colleagues, so I knew that I
didn't have the support to ask for us to make
up those cuts. And if you guys remember the first
chart on the law enforcement investment increases. Before I took office,
it was larger overall because they had more money.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
The tax rate was.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
Always the same under my predecessor. We've had to decrease
the tax rate. And I know taxes are high, trust
me don't. I so can't afford property taxes.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
I don't own a home. I rent an apartment.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
But a lot of it has to do with the
school districts in anyway, that's another conversation.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Wait, what.
Speaker 7 (27:54):
Rewind those last thirty seconds? I so know about Really
are we talking like we're back at your therapy session
in college when you had that major meltdown and then
you wander off into I live in an apartment, not
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a home, and that has to do with the school district.
Does this unfortunate weasel she's married to have kids already,
because if he doesn't, why is she talking about school districts.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
She doesn't have a child.
Speaker 5 (28:33):
We've had to decrease the tax rate, and I know
taxes are high.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Trust me, I don't hold.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
On holy trust me. Trust me. Hey, hey, listen, I.
Speaker 7 (28:42):
Know every one of you in here is getting a
government affairs salary. I know none of you in here
are actually suffering, which is true. I know you're all
former city council aids and county commissioner aids and you're
all self dealing. But I know that out there the
slubs are hurting, or so I've been told. So I've
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been told those people I hate so much. But let
me tell you. Trust me, nobody knows about this. Really,
you're an expert on this as well. Okay, go ahead, how.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Taxes are high? Trust me?
Speaker 5 (29:17):
I don't. I so can't afford property taxes.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
I don't own a home.
Speaker 5 (29:21):
I rent an apartment.
Speaker 7 (29:22):
Hold on, I so can't afford property taxes. I don't
own a whom Do you notice how awkward that word
was for her to say? It's because it's not her word.
That's a practiced rehearse Back that up. Notice how awkward
the word home is.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Just just listen to this property taxes.
Speaker 5 (29:40):
I don't own a home. I rent an apartment. But
a lot of it has to do with the school
districts in any way. That's another conversation.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Yeah, a lot of it has to do it's all
very vague.
Speaker 7 (29:51):
We're gonna have to raise property taxes because we need
a bunch more money. We squandered five hundred thousand of
it on the Gay Softball World Series sponsorship. But now
we're gonna need a bunch more of your money. Even
though we're spending more now than we ever have, even
though we're collecting more now than we ever have.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
We took advantage. Rodney's a smart guy.
Speaker 7 (30:10):
We took advantage of a loophole in the idiot Republicans
in Austin wrote a bill that allowed after a storm
you can rape your constituents and they don't even get
a vote on it.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
And so they did, and oh we made a real
boo boo. There, we're going to close the loophole.
Speaker 7 (30:29):
You ever notice how there are always won election behind
actually ever stopping the Democrats? You ever noticed that? And
then and then are you ready for this? Well, there's
two hundred million dollar deficit. If we don't have every
dollar that we want to hand out to elevate strategies
for the self dealing thing that got three of her
(30:51):
top staffers indicted, If we don't have five hundred thousand
dollars to give the gay Softball World Series, If we don't.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Have all that, you know what else? You know what
else will suffer? You know what will suffer people?
Speaker 7 (31:03):
Oh, dear God, don't let it be the constables and
deputies crimes through the roof. No, No, not that, I
don't worry about that. You know what else will suffer?
Not the infrastructure, Not the flooding. We're already it sprinkles
and we're flooding. No libraries, Oh no, how will we
(31:24):
live without the library?
Speaker 5 (31:26):
Now we're two hundred million dollars in a deficit, And
so what do you do?
Speaker 11 (31:32):
County Judge Lena Hidalgo warning the community about what's at
stake as commissioners look to get the county out of
the budget shortfall come Tuesday.
Speaker 5 (31:41):
The ninth is where your library is not going to
have enough staffing. The ninth is where we're not going
to put enough money on our rainy day fund in
the middle of hurricane season. The ninth is where we're
going to impact the budget of our public health department
for basic services.
Speaker 11 (31:55):
The county's budget director, also acknowledging the over two hundred
million dollar deficit last month, Hadoggo says, part of the
reason the county is in the hole is because of
the pay raises approved by commissioners for law enforcement.
Speaker 5 (32:07):
But there's this unilateral decision, no chance for discussion, to
invest one hundred million dollars in some pay raises that
we cannot afford as a country, and so I think
that why not let.
Speaker 11 (32:19):
The voters decide, Hodogo telling ABC thirteen she supports a
raise only when the county can afford it, and says
she believes it should be up to the voters. But
Hadogo has clashed with commissioners during the budget process. Most
notably after they rejected her penny tax proposal for early.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
Childhood education last month.
Speaker 11 (32:37):
Commissioners Adrian Garcia and Leslibrionez has said that critical services
will not be impacted.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Library hours, as I mentioned earlier, are not being cut.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
To me, raising taxes is the last last resort.
Speaker 11 (32:50):
We have to put in the work to see what
we can do to be more strategic and more effective.
Speaker 7 (32:55):
With will, honest truth, how has been since you've been
to a county library.
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