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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's that time time, time time, luck load. The Michael
Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Good morning, Captain, good morning, Captain, good morning, Captain, good morning, Captain,
good morning, good morning.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Then Captain's good morning out and we got some shot
share these radi.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Smiling, so we see.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
As by friendly see and going downtown Brady, everybody scene,
good morning, good morning.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
Centerpoint Energy's earnings report showed an income of two hundred
and twenty eight million dollars for the quarter ending June third.
That's up from one hundred eighteen million in the previous year.
They almost doubled their wapping profits. The wopping earnings almost
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doubled them. And then the big storm came in and
we know they weren't prepared, and we know they didn't
respond in time, and we know a lot of people died.
They first dug in their heels and said, we're great.
(02:04):
We're like the railroad. You can't question us. Everyone loves us.
You can't question us. We did what we were supposed
to do. And then they had to come before the PUC,
then they had to come before the Senate. So they
even deigned to try to get ahead of this to
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send out one of their flunkies. Well that went badly,
so because it was getting really bad, they had to
roll out the eight and a half million dollar.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Man, and he was going to make this go away.
He didn't want to.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
He wanted to hide. But we're going to have a
sit down with him. Not in his office because it's
too lavish and that would send the right message. So
we'll put him out in the lobby. Well that's kind
of weird, but that's all we got because if it's
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in his office, we'd have to move everything out because
it would be ghost for people to see.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
How fancy his office is.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Well, let's not put him in an expensive suit or
a sweater, some slip on shoes like he owns a
sailing team. Let's put him in a button down, you know,
a real common man kind of stuff. So they did,
and the days before they had been calling on us
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not to use much of our air conditioning. I mean,
the fact that you have power, if you're lucky enough
to have power, with Centerpoint being our provider, if you're
lucky enough to have power, then sit inside your.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
House with it kind of warm.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
At least it won't be swelteringly hot. You know, run
that air conditioning up to seventy six or so.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Yeah, yeah, do that. So he sat down for the interview.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Because in the lobby, in a little more common clothing,
maybe you won't hate him. So then from there the
camera began to roll and just over his shoulder. They
had forgotten the key detail. The thermostat was on seventy.
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You don't say seventy for me, but not for the well,
they didn't send the men in once they arrived. We
know that because we photos of them. They denied it,
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but it's true. They didn't cut back the vegetation for
which they have right away. Protections have been made to
ensure this doesn't happen, just as with happened at PG
and E, where the CEO came to us from.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Way to go to a board.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Hey, let's get the guy. Let's find the guy that
was at PG and E. I mean that guy that
was kind of a burn baby burn kind of guy.
I mean that guy that'll really stick it to him.
As if we can get h it's gonna cost us
eight million a year.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Let's give him eight and a half.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Well, after all of this, the deaths, the suffering, and
their record profits, Center Point wants you to foot part
of the one point eight billion dollar storm recovery bill
they face with a two percent rate hike over the
next fifteen years. That is as perverse as the Olympic
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opening ceremony. You got to almost halfway admire the goal
these people have. ABC thirteen with the story, you.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Just kind of want to know.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Where is my money going? How is it being spent?
Speaker 7 (06:19):
So want to solid asking a question many Houstonians have
when it comes to Center Point. She's one of the
more than two million customers in the dark after Hurricane Barrel.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Without powerful of us six days, so pretty uncomfortable.
Speaker 7 (06:35):
Center Points restoration efforts after Beryl have been widely considered
a failure, so much so that state lawmakers and the
Public Utility Commission are investigating the power provider.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
I'm not real happy Center Point. I'm not a fan.
Speaker 7 (06:48):
The company says between the Dricho and May and the
hurricane in July, they're looking at an estimated one point
eight billion dollars in stormulated costs, costs they want custom
to pay for through a two percent rate hike over
fifteen years.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
I think there's probably a better business model out there,
like charging people that have been impacted by it probably
not the best way to make money back.
Speaker 7 (07:12):
Legislators on both sides of the isle have expressed opposition
to Centerpoint recovering it's hurricane related costs. On Tuesday, centerpoints
earning report showed an income of two hundred and twenty
eight million for the quarter that ended June thirtieth, up
from one hundred and eighteen million in the year before.
Speaker 8 (07:31):
Talking and be nice about it is over. This is
the public utility. They get a guaranteed profit. They need
to get the job done and otherwise we have to
guarantee that they're going to have less of a service
area or we're going to find somebody else that.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Could do the job.
Speaker 7 (07:44):
Republican State Senator Paul Bettencourt is wondering, like select, where.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
The money is going.
Speaker 7 (07:50):
Democratic State Senator Carol Alvarado says Centerpoint can no longer
hide from accountability and says it all starts with following
the money.
Speaker 6 (07:59):
Moving forward, everything has to be looked at with the microscope,
and the PUC has got to do their job be
much more aggressive on looking at everybody's budget.
Speaker 7 (08:15):
So let says she's hopeful lawmakers will do their part
in making sure Center Point doesn't fail customers like this.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Again, it's a good show on the camera, but what
are you really doing? That's that's my question, that's everybody's question.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
The leader of the Secret Service at least had the
decency to step down after her failure. Mattress, Mac and
others have called for the CEO of Centerpoint to step down.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
He said, I make eight and a half million the year. No,
that's why I had so my guitar. Probably out of team.
You might have to edit that. This is Mark Chestnut,
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Speaker 9 (09:08):
I just got a text from Matt Bryce. Well, I
guess it was some time ago. I don't check my phone,
but I just happened to check it during the break
and it says here a few things coming up the
next few months. August Houston Restaurant weeks Lunch, runch and dinner.
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September inflation relief menu and discount on the lunch September seventh,
All new brunch menu. It's four times the size of
our current menu. And bottomless mimosas. Oh sorry, fifteen dollars
mimosas plus one dollar refills. TABC no longer allows you
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to call them bottomless.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Okay. I mean it's the same on seven, isn't it uh?
And then do you want the menu now, Ramon or not?
My problem is.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
Crockett and Nanha and I had this conversation at dinner
last night. There are certain foods that I eat that
in my mind are time of day foods, and I
never eat them out of that time of day. So
if he'd sent me a barbecue menu in this early
in the morning, I would have thought, oh, I'll check
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that out later. There's an academic exercise. But when you
send me a brunch menu this early in the morning, that's.
Speaker 6 (10:38):
All right.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
I'm gonna pick your first course. Are you ready? You ready? Okay?
You can have yogurt parfeit with what you're stupid. Listen,
what's in it? First?
Speaker 5 (10:53):
Yogurt, granola, candy, pecans, sliced almonds, honey, cinnamon, citrus, and
fresh berries. Okay, thank you. Okay, you have five choices here,
you only have one, or you have a buttermilk pancake
with maple syrup. I have the buttermilk pancake, no maple syrup,
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thank you, But put me three fried eggs over medium
on top. I'll bust the oak and use as my syrup.
Number three, if you're some pervert, bang bang shrimp tossed
in sweet and spicy sauce. I love his bang bang shrimp.
I don't want that for a brunch.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
I guess if you get there late. Okay, No, bangbang
shrimp was not the spot from China.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
That was fang banging with Eric Swowell Nashally is a
fried cheeseburger edgroll. You had that fried cheeseburger erroll, haven't you.
That's just something man that'll mess you up. That's good
with sweet and sicedge spicy sauce. And then you got
buttermilk biscuits and gravy. Buttermilk biscuits, sausage, country gravy. Would
you say sausage country gravy or country sausage gravy country.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
I'm gonna I'm gonna send macon. Would could you keep
some notes on these?
Speaker 5 (12:03):
Okay, let's change sausage country gravy to country sausage gravy.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
All right, Second course, so what did you pick for those?
For one another?
Speaker 5 (12:11):
You went with the biscuits, okay. I thought you'd go
with pancake, all right. Number two is you can have
bacon egg and cheese omelet, four eggs, bacon, and mixed cheese.
Let's say you got about seven things here. Full Federal
has two eggs, any style, French toast and bacon. Next
is crimberlet, French toast, bacon, and maple syrup. Next is
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buttermilk pancakes. Oh oh, so you could go with something
on the front end. You could do a little sweet
and savor. You could go yogurt parfe and then hit
your buttermilk pancake in your second course. And that one
is where do I lose it? Buttermilk pancas, four pancakes, bacon,
maple syrup. Next is the Freedom Burger with American cheese,
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let us, tomato, pickles, onion, bacon, federal sauce. Choose your
bun option hola or jalapeno, sheeddar bun and served with
a hand cut fries. This is your second course. Mind
you so pace yourself here. Don't get this where women
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get this wrong? I don't understand tie shrimp and grits,
blackened citrus shrimp, manchego cheese grits, thaie citrus glaze. Next
is a Philly cheese steak with saute onions and peppers,
cagun cheese sauce and served with handcup fries, and finally,
chopped salad with chicken with cucumber, heirloom tomato, red onion, fetta,
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blue cheese, pecans, croutons, champagne, vinaigrette, and bacon. I just
want you to know I know how to read, but
on my screen this is really small and I'm struggling
to be able to read it. Okay, which one did
you choose? I'll give you the options again. And by
the way, the bacon, egg and cheese omelet, the Full Federal,
the Crimber lay French toast, and the buttermilk pancakes. Say
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is a lead to beelantha bottom. They are also served
with breakfast potatoes. Okay, hold on, I'll give you your options.
So you got the bacon, egg and cheese omelet, the
Full Federal, which was eggs, French toast, bacon, the Crimber
late French toast, the buttermilk pancakes, the Freedom Burger, the
tie shrimp and grits, the Philly cheese steak, or the
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chopped salad with chicken. You're still sticking with the omelet,
but see, I need a bread product with that don't you.
It doesn't say you get toast. It says four eggs, bacon,
and mixed cheese. You know what's funny, you moved just
to improved with that food talk.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
I noticed you. You became more engaged, You woke up
from your Now you're really gonna pick the bacon, egg
and cheese omelet over Huh? That surprises me.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
See, he's almost just aggravating me with this because everything
on there, I want to add something to it, and
he knows it. Like that bacon, egg and cheese almond.
I need a bread product with that, and I'm gonna
have to throw some grits in. The potato is not
going to get me there. Eggs and potatoes is not.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Going to get me there.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
I mean, this is already a wopping amount of food.
But I've got to have my food groups represented. The
full federal the two eggs, any style, French toast, and bacon.
I still gotta have grits, and they make good grits there.
The crim brew let, French toast, bacon, and maple syrup. See,
don't you shouldn't do savory. I mean, you shouldn't do
sweet as your as your main course anyway. I don't
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trust people do that. That's kind of a girly thing
to do. Next is buttermilk pancakes for bacon. Four pancakes,
bacon and maple syrup. I'm probably still gonna need an
egg with that, a couple of them. Next is the
Freedom Burger, Now that I don't need anything with because
you got the burger and the fries and it's a
pretty wopping burger. Next you've got the tay shrimp and grits.
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I don't trust people to get that. They're not from
the South. They don't have three miles to feed you, me,
your brother, six hundred pounds of men. Yeah, I don't
anybody gets tay shrimp and grits.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
That's for Yankees.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
That's for people that have clients in from out of
town or they you know, they married somebody from New
York or something, because we don't. That's not what Southerners
eat for. But he's got to have it on there,
you know, like every steakhouse got to have a couple
of vegetables on there because somebody's got some. Next he's
the Philly Cheese Steak.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
I'm fine with that.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
You know, he worked in a very exclusive New York steakhouse.
That's where a lot of his recipes come from. And
then is the chop salad with chicken. That person eating
the chopp s chicken, they're gonna drink an entire bottle
of rose.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Entire bottle.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
See this the first course, second course. Now, this has
put me through a lot of struggle because you gotta you.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Gotta pick wise, Like you don't want to pick buttermilk
pancake for your first course because you could have got
that through your technics.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
This is own year old.
Speaker 10 (17:18):
What you say, Well, we will finally get an update
on what HPD is going to do to the people
who should have been responsible.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
For the thousands of cases that they simply dismissed at
the top ranks.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
Thousands of cases that were just dismissed as mah uh,
we didn't do anything with that case.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Uh sorry, we need a code for it. Uh, just
say we had any people. We didn't have any We
didn't have any law enforcement officers to investigate these heinous crimes. Yeah,
why not?
Speaker 5 (18:09):
What are they going to do to us? H? Well,
first of all, it was never supposed to come to light.
Now that it did, you're going to find out what
they're going to do to them. Pay close attention because
it ain't much. Let's go to Joyce The Sage of Sunnyside,
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always a treat at ninety forgive me, I'm losing my memory.
Just ninety two, ninety three, one.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Oh, just ninety one. Oh, you got a long way
to go. How are you, sweetheart?
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Hello?
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Yeah, I said, how are you, sweetheart?
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (18:53):
I'm doing good, Old Michael. Probably before last one I
called in. That was trouble with my phone and it
was going off, and I don't know what you were
trying to ask for anything. So it was my phone,
it was me.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
We knew that, and it happens, and you know, we
Today's another day. Hold on, let me get Ramond cup.
But before you start, I just just a real quick question.
Is everything going okay in your world?
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (19:19):
Okay, all right, here we go, and now I present
hold on, hold on, I'm gonna bring you to the
rest room. And now I present to you a friend,
a leader, a hero of the show, the honorable, the esteemed,
the Sage of Sunnyside Joyce.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Okay, Michael, you know I'm still I'm medieval. I still
take the chronicle. You know, I just can't shape fifty
years for morning paper as sorry as it is. So
I picked it up this morning and on the front
page it says Biden ties his political legacy to black
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leaders and black voters. And now I know there are
blacks that will read this and they will just feel
proud as a peak. But it just made me sick
to my stamach. And remember how many blacks got angry
with me and accused me of white people telling me
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what to say when I said that Biden was president
because of black voters, you got angry with me. And
I told you then, I said, he I call a
captain common. She was already out of the primary three percent.
Biden was on his way out. They got he was.
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He was on his way to the topping block. They
got a black elected official in the name of James
pad Owner to go to South Carolina and get missing
farmed black voters and black voters resuscitated by them. And
not that he won no election, but he's the president
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because of black voters. And I wonder how long can
we as blacks allow ourselves to be used all this racist,
the racial things that this man has said about blacks.
And now we could read this this morning and we
feel so proud. We weren't responsible, but how did it
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work out? They kicked him out and you are proud
this morning, and you know, Michael, it just it just
it just saddens me that as I've been on this
road a long time trying to get my people to
understand that the Democratic Party don't give a damn about
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us nothing the far I vote and we will take
this this morning and feel proud, and I feel it
just made me sit to my stomach. I couldn't even
finish reading it. Michael, That's just how it affected me.
And we did look around in our communities and the
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just crime everywhere, and even before the hurricane. And I
understand the hurricane debris stuff up, I can understand that,
but before the hurricane came, garbage trash state stapped up
in our neighborhood much at a time without being picked
up that I've shed. You go to the grocery store
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and now it's not a basket for you to bring
your groceries out. And they finally got wise and they
put poles on them, and so you can't bring your
stuff out of the store in a basket. You go
to that. I've said before, you go to the many
times you go to the ATM machine is bashed in,
you go to the drive in prescription to get the
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prescription and it's boarded up. And I've shared this beny clients. Michael,
I'm in the store at ninety one years old, in
the line paying for my goods, and I'm not having
seen a young black lady do this. How many times
I've seen young black men come in that door and
get what they want and walk out that door. I
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wouldn't do it, but they wouldn't allow me to do it.
But they do it on a regular basis in Sunnyside.
And it seemed that the war Brings is going to
close one hundred and fifty stores, but they're not gonna
close no store near River Hooks. But they're closed up
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that I go to. And we are sitting here proud
that we vote Democrat because you know, the Democrats love us,
but they do not love us. And get this in
your in your head, Black people, you know you know
now there are a few of us, not enough of us,
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but there are a few of us that know that
this this is a bunch of molocha because you know
you can fool you know, some of us sometimes, but
you can't fool all of us all the time. And
so you just can't fool all of us.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
But this is on.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
Unnecessary. But this shouldn't even be in the paper. And
then we are going to accept this as brecks and
on fine neighborhoods are ghettos today?
Speaker 3 (24:40):
What time very he.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
And I'll often explain why we play the music when
we play that's Ramon's domain.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
There's a reason behind it, sometimes he tells me. Sometimes
he doesn't to see if I can figure it out.
Speaker 5 (25:05):
But this one, there is. There is a reason, but
it's not one that you would get. So for that
one percent of you who catches the show behind the show,
I just have to tell you because it's completely random.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
I asked Ramon if he remembered the movie.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
I mean the restaurant Pinos that was at twenty seven
eleven Hillcroft, and I had a friend who loved Pinos.
Pinos was a little before my time. It was it
was in Houston, but I think it was on its
last leg by the time I came in eighty nine.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
But by the time I came and.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
Got established and could afford to eat out at a restaurant,
and I remember my wife and I went and bought
our buddy a gift card to Pinos because he had
helped me out with something move.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
I think we were moving apartments. We're always moving apartments.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
Whatever it was he wouldn't take, and I asked him
what his favorite restaurant it was, and he said, Pinos.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
You ever been there?
Speaker 5 (26:07):
And I said no, I hadn't, and it was in
the colors of the Italian flag and he said, ah,
it's great. So we went to Pinos and got a
gift card. And that singer's name is Pino Donielle. And
I figured a reference to Pinos for some of you
might make you happy. Sean writes, I'm a forty four
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year old hardcore conservative. I want you to know that
liberals do not respect immigrants. I know because my wife
is from John Joe, China. She loves Trump more than
I do. She sees through the bs. She hates the
Chinese leader. That's why she's here with me. She will
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be getting our green card in months after already waiting
two and a half years. She's the happiest woman in
the world. I can't wait to see her face when
she sees that residency card.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
It's true.
Speaker 5 (27:06):
Liberals hate immigrants. They hate blacks too, by the way.
They hate immigrants because immigrants disprove their theory that non
whites can't make it here, that non whites are put
down and held back. Knowing a lot of Africans through
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our Ethiopian connections and beyond, but particularly through Ethiopian connections,
is a frequent topic that in people's workplace, in the
kitchen or in various places, a black employee will want
a person to side with them on some issue, and
when they don't, oh, you think you're too good for us.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Why on earth do you think you have anything to
do with how I feel about.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
Cultural, political, economic, personal just because we have the same
skin color, We're from very different backgrounds, and there is
this idea, and sadly, a lot of American blacks feel
in that way outcast from Blackdom from quote the black community,
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a term that no longer is accurate or applicable as
people have moved, like an African diaspora that no longer
lives in the third word, they've.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Moved all the way up to Myerland. But it's true,
it's true.
Speaker 5 (28:43):
You hear them when they call our hell. You hear
it with Joyce calls. Joyce is ninety one years old.
Think what she's been through. Think how she feels. When
you've got one person lying in state, that's only the
second person in Houston's history, and you know what that
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person did day in and day out being extolled as
a great leader. They won't state it on the record,
but I have unverifiable authority that a demand was made
that Shila Jackson lee Lion state in the US Congress,
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and that Speaker Mike Johnson said absolutely not. If every
member doesn't lie in state, then she doesn't. I was
looking through my Facebook memories yesterday and it tells you,
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for those of you not on Facebook, it tells you,
on this day, these are some of the things you
posted a year ago, two years ago, and it goes back.
It's incredible how many things we forget about. And I
had posted, Hey, I'm perfectly fine with John Lewis being
treated as if he was the head of state and
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the greatest man in American history instead of the corrupt,
self dealer race baider that he was. But shouldn't every
person be treated to such a remembrance, such a memorial,
such a tribute. Why put politicians among nineteen twenty year
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old kids who leave high school and go to a
war zone and come home dead?
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Who served their country?
Speaker 5 (30:42):
Really?
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Who showed the selfless?
Speaker 5 (30:48):
For God so loved the world that he gave his
only begotten son, that whosoever shall believe it in him
shall not perish, but shall have everlasting life.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Who showed?
Speaker 5 (31:01):
Because they both claim to be followers, no greater love
hath any man than to lay down his life for
a friend who laid down their life.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Who really served? Who really served?
Speaker 5 (31:17):
How many people who grace the halls of Congress would
you say accurately served? Not themselves? You see how many
of them walk in. They're dead, broke, living with their parents,
don't have a job, And in a few years they
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got some money and they stay for twenty and they're rich.
They have more money than if they had practiced law,
grinding long hours. They have more money than if they
had practiced medicine. I think I'm kidding. Look at their
stock trades. You know I got a message yesterday. I
made the point that if you're in Congress, you shouldn't
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be able to sell books, gift speed none of that.
You shouldn't get paid for any of it, shouldn't be
able to write on somebody's playing.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
It's public service.
Speaker 6 (32:08):
Right.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
It's like the priesthood.
Speaker 5 (32:10):
You take a vow of peniering that that that's how
how we should do it right. I had somebody who
worked at the Bureau of Indian Affairs and said, you
were not allowed to take a dollar gift. You're paid,
you have a job, you cannot take any gifts because
they were worried that was gonna was going to leave.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
The corruption
Speaker 2 (32:29):
H