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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time time time lucking load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
The Michael Verry Show is on the air, joking into
Mica week.
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Gotta feed a beard.
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I don't plan to shave, and it's good the thing,
but I just gotta see I'm doing all right?
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Will I make me sport me?
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Its beating verdictue.
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And that's the true.
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It's neither drink nor drug and snool.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
I'm just turning, all right.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
It's a great tad bede. I know the sun's still shining.
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On a close eyes.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
It's hot times.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
In the neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Look wiking every day.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Ask God, well, what.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
A weekend it was? What a weekend it was?
Speaker 5 (01:08):
With Bunker Busters, President Trump going deep into Lindsey Graham's
Black Book to name the effort, Operation Midnight Hammer. Three
sites were hit, presumably nuclear capability diminished.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
If not destroyed.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
One suggestion that it was a setback to thirty five
years ago. We won't know yet. We'll talk about that
and a whole lot more. But the big news was,
let's first talk procedure with the Dan Patrick THHC band,
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which would be something that Irani government would approve of.
The more restrictions on the people, you can impose. Maybe
we'll cover women and only their eyes can be seen,
that morality is preserved. We won't let the people make
decisions for themselves. Well, I must admit I thought I
was a touch out of line with the average Republican voter,
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who I assume is more socially conservative, at least with
regard to what laws should be made. But it turned
out no folks were in line with where I am,
which is the belief that adults should be able to
make decisions for themselves.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Not Dan Patrick.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
So a law was passed by the House and the Senate,
and as it turned out, the former chiefs of staff
for the governor and the Lieutenant governor were on the
payroll as lobbyists for the interests it wanted.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
It passed.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
Not surprising, the laws passed, and then they went to
the governor to be signed, and if the governor did
not sign those bills by midnight last night, or that
bill in particular, it would become law. Well, you remember
when you were in school learning about the pocket veto.
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The pocket veto was a power the president had. Typically
if a if a law in Congress has passed, it
goes to the president, and if he vetos that President,
I mean that law, then the bill goes back to
Congress and they can override the veto. It almost never
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happens with a two thirds vote in both houses. That's
really not going to happen. Unless you have a Ronald
Reagan president with a Democrat House and Senate, it's almost
never going to happen.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
His own party is not going to do that.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
So you wouldn't expect to see that in modern day
America or in this particular constitution of Republicans in the
House and the Senate, except in the last ten days
of the session. If Congress sends a bill to the
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President and then adjourns within that ten day period, the
president can effectively kill a bill by simply not signing it.
They didn't give him the requisite time, so all he
has to do is not sign it and it is vetoed.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
That is a pocket veto.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
He puts the bill in his pocket, and if he
does not take action, then it is automatically vetoed.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
The state of Texas is exactly the opposite. If a
bill is passed by the House.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
And the Senate, which the Hymp bill was, and goes
to the President, to the governor who's the chief executive
of the state, just as the president is of the nation.
And he does not sign the bill, the most passive
aggressive move you can make, then it becomes law. So
he can say he didn't sign the bill, but nor
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did he veto it. It's the sort of Barack Obama
as a US Senator voting president on anything controversial, so
then his votes couldn't be used against him.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
So as the witching hour was upon.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Us last night at midnight, the Hip Bill would be passed.
Dan Patrick did not do Greg Abbott any favors with
this bill. As I've told you many times, Greg Abbott
desperately wants to be president and he intends to run
for president in twenty twenty eight. His original calculation was,
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with Trump running in sixteen, that when Trump won in sixteen,
he would run and win again in twenty because presidents
who are elected once are usual elected twice if they
run for reelection. There are very very few exceptions, Jimmy
Carter being the most recent. So well, actually that's not true,
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George H. W. Bush being the most recent, and Jimmy.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Carter before that. But typically if a president runs and wins,
he'll run and win again.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
And so Abbot's calculation was the White House race would
be wide open in twenty twenty four, and being the
governor of Texas, he would be a front runner. And
so everything he does is with an eye toward running
for president. Then they steal the election from Trump twenty
of course, and Trump runs in twenty twenty four. There
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was actually an internal meeting by Abbott and his folks
to consider a run in twenty twenty four, because the
thought in late twenty twenty two was Trump's not actually
going to run again. He's got too many legal problems.
They're going to send him to prison. And that was
the meeting that desantisis people had in Florida, and it
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was a real game of chicken, do we run or not?
Because we don't run and he doesn't run, and the
things wide open in a week, candidate wins. This is
what happened in nineteen ninety two and how Clinton got
the Democrat nomination. But long story a little bit shorter.
Abbot had a tough situation. We'll talk about that in
the next segment, and with ten minutes to spare, he
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vetoed the bill. Now it's a partial win because there
will be a special session called, and it will be
called in very short order, and the bill will eventually
pass again, and there will be some restrictions, and dare
I say it, I think that's okay, depending on what
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those restrictions are age related restrictions. I am very comfortable
with restricting products for miners, very comfortable with that is
below the age of eighteen. At the age of eighteen,
you can serve in war, you can make adult decisions,
you can vote.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
I don't agree with making it twenty one.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
You're old enough to serve, but not choose whether you
want to smoke a cigarette.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
That stupid. We'll talk about it coming up. At least
chairs can rolling around. Damn it all right?
Speaker 5 (08:23):
This is Mark Chestnut and jar Bizaar of Talk Radio
The Move thought the bunker Buster was a new versos
from Dairy Queen's Very disappointed, very disappointed, Probably not as
disappointed as the Ayatola was.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Once the bombs started dropping.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
The story out of Austin, Greg Abbott vetoed Senate Bill three,
then Patrick's nanny state anti HEMP bill from k View
TV out of Austin.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
The governor's decision to veto SB three comes as a
bit of a surprise, as he remained come completely silent
on the issue throughout the legislative session, and now he
is calling for a special session to revise the bill,
as well as a few others, asking lawmakers to strictly
regulate the substance now. In a statement explaining his veto,
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Abbott argued that SB three would not have survived, addressing
the legal challenges it would face if it passed, He
says lawsuits would have postponed the enforcement of the bill
for years. He instead urges lawmakers to consider creating stricter
regulations similar to how alcohol is enforced, in order to
better keep it away from children. Kav spoke to local
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THHC sellers last night who are worried about closing their doors,
losing employees and the people who rely on their products
for medical conditions.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
So we know we sent them off with you know,
handshakes and all that stuff, but our employees are our
family to us. So that's why we're turning this into
a bar. We don't want to be e bar. We
want to be a wellness company.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, who's let the charge on banning
THHC products, citing it as a public safety issue. Condemned
Abbot's decision shortly after the bill was vetoed. In a
statement he posted to social media, he said, quote, I
feel especially bad for those who testified and poured their
heart out on their tragic losses. I will have much
more to say at a press conference tomorrow in Austin, unquote.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
And that is expected this afternoon.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
So Dan Patrick lost a lot of support at a
desperate press conference in May. He had been pitching this
bill as a keep THCHC away from children. If he
had remained there, he would have had the high ground.
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We all agree. Children shouldn't be allowed to get tattoos,
but adults can decide for themselves. Children shouldn't be allowed
to drink alcohol, but adult skin decide for themselves. Children
shouldn't be allowed to drive, but adults can decide for themselves.
Children should not be able to have sex with adults, right.
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That's why we call them statutory or that's why we
call it statutory rape. A child cannot consent to sex
with an adult someone more than two years their elder,
because they're not ready emotionally to make such big decisions.
If dan Patrick had stuck with that provision, the bill would.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Have passed, but he didn't.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
And do you know why, because this has never been
about children. This is about the market for drugs that
adults take to ease their pain, slow their mind, go
to sleep, whatever the reasoning is. And this product began
competing with liquor with alcohol based products beer, wine, whiskey.
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When that happened, the people aligned with the liquor industry
wanted this shutdown. So how do you do it? You
do it the way democrats always do it. You say
it's for the children. But when he was asked by
a reporter, hey, shouldn't adults be allowed to make decisions
for themselves? We understand for the children, but this affects adults.
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And Dan Patrick held it up as if it was
a nuclear weapon. Don't let this thing drop or we'll
all be dead. And he said, are you crazy, man?
Would you take this? You'd be dead in the morning.
What what are you talking about? What a ridiculous thing,
What an insulting thing to say, Because this has never
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been about the children. This is a barrier to entry
for an alcohol competitor product, That's.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
What it is.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
And out of the woodworks came veterans for whom alcohol
has not provided relief the way HIM based product have.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
That's fact.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
They're out there, and there's a lot of them HIM
based product stores. They've exploded because there is a big
market for this. Are some children, by which I mean
miners going in and buying this product.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Probably is that a good idea?
Speaker 5 (13:18):
No, Simply restrict that and enforce the restriction. We've learned
with the legal immigration it's not what the law says,
it's what you actually choose to enforce. The law has
said you can't come into this country illegally. You have
to follow the rules. But we know that we've had
an explosion of illegal aliens, including Irani cells that could
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be coming here and now are prepared to commit terrorist activity,
and they came in illegally. We didn't need a law change,
We needed the enforcement of the law. But then he
said adults that was a problem. There are Actually there's
actually a split of opinion here because liquor stores, who
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are retailers rather than makers of the product. Liquor stores
have actually said it's good for sales because the Delta
eight derivative products are actually bringing people into the liquor store.
A lot of people, and I know a fair number
of them, have started drinking these products and find them
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far preferable to alcohol. No liver damage, as I understand,
no hangover, as I understand, and I'm not being coy.
Marijuana doesn't do anything for me. If it did, I
would use it. But it doesn't. Here was Dan Patrick's
press conference, and I think he did himself a lot
of harm here.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
That's clip number two. Ramon, this is a serious business.
Speaker 6 (14:54):
This is not Dan's folly, This is not Dan's priority.
This is to save an entire generation of being hooked
on drugs. And I need for y'all to take the
story seriously, because does anyone want to try any of this?
Would you buy anything off the shelf that you didn't
know what was in it that could change your whole
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mental state for the rest of your life.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Would you want that?
Speaker 6 (15:18):
Anybody want this bag? Okay, do you want it? I
don't think you want it. You wouldn't dare buy it.
You wouldn't let your children, your grandchildren buy it.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
I understand wanted to protect children. Grown adults were using
these pods.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
So is there a way to do this where grown
adults could still have a no, Look, we don't want
adults having this either. What are you crazy?
Speaker 5 (15:42):
Hold on right there, We don't want adults having this either.
There was the mistake. This isn't about children. I've been
saying for children. We don't want adults having any uh Oh,
that was the boo boo. He went off script.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
That's why I had probably out of tune. You might
have to edit that.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
This is Mark Chestnut and Joy Bizaar of Talk Radio.
Some folks think that we consimply split the political world
in America between left and right, Republican and Democrat. Would
that it were that easy, But in a world where
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Democrats didn't exist, they walked off into the zombie apocalypse.
We would not have agreement on every issue. People have
splits of opinion there at a different point on the continuum.
This is how you've noticed that Republicans are split on
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the bombing of Iran. You've got the Rand Paul's and
the Thomas Massey's, and the Tucker Carlson's and Marjorie Taylor
Green and a number of other folks who've been very
vocal that this bombing should not occur. And then you've
got the mart levinz and Ted Cruz's and Tammy Bruce's
and folks like that who said, oh yes it apps,
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and Lindsey Graham, who's having a wargasm over all of this.
I mean, even in his honor they named the thing
Operation Midnight Hammer. This is the best weekend of his life,
this guy. I mean, this is Epstein Island and practically legal.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
But when you look.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
At Texas politics, you have to be careful that you
govern in such a way that people are proud they've
supported you, and that you don't mistake support for.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Your candidacy.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
And common sense policies with everybody being on.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Thee when you.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
Start doing that, because Republicans haven't lost a state wide
election since nineteen ninety four, you make sure that we do.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Which is interesting.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
Because what we saw for the first time was that
the Republican base is, as Ronald Reagan asserted nineteen eighty
that the heart and soul of conservatism is libertarians, not
self described conservatives. There are certain people who believe you
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ought to have a curfew every night. There are certain
people who believe that commerce should not be conducted on
Sunday and that government should restrict that because that's the
lord's day, it's our day of rest. Shouldn't be allowed
to do any business on Sunday. That's where you get
the blue laws. The practice of religion is a personal
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act of faith, expression of faith. It is not the
domain of government to restrict such things. The protection of
our children. Yes, we all agree on that. And that's
why I want to go back to clip number two,
because this was the moment dan Patrick lost the battle.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
This was the moment.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
I'll tell you when ramon, this was the moment when
Dan Patrick said everything I've told you about protecting the
children that was just a front. I'm actually going to
protect the adults from themselves as well. And that was
the goof because he was under a lot of stress.
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The base was cracking, he was getting a lot of pushback.
His former staffers were being enriched. I'm sure Alan Blakemore
is in on this somewhere. I haven't seen for sure.
I know the Texas Bary Alliance is supporting him. But
when you're top a advisors are also lobbyists, that's going
to be a problem. And when your top advisor is
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also a lobbyist and his name is Alan Blakemore, I
will say today what I told dan Patrick when he
went into the runoff for Lieutenant governor against David Dewhurst.
Low so many years ago. You will regret any association
you have with Alan Blakemore, you will regret it. That
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goes back to the to the spring of twenty fourteen.
It was Dan Patrick, Jerry Patterson, David Dewhurst. You'll remember
that in twenty twelve, Ted Cruz defeated then Lieutenant Governor
David Dewhurst in the primary election to be Republican Senator. Right,
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Dewhurst was still the Lieutenant governor, but the wind was
out of his sale. He had been shown to be vulnerable.
Dan Patrick had done a great job as Senator. He
was well respected amongst the base. Remember this was pre Trump.
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Trump was beginning to make a name nationally beyond the
core of people who had a sense of him as
a celebrity. I'll bet you Dan Patrick was more popular
than Donald.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Trump at that moment. I bet you he was. He
was extremely popular.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
And Jerry Patterson was trying to help David Dewhurst against
Dan Patrick, and Jerry Patterson, who had been in that
race and hadn't made the runoff, decided he was going
to fall on his sword to keep dan Patrick from
being Lieutenant governor, and Jerry Patterson released the details of
dan Patrick having been hospitalized for psychiatric problems, and dan
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Patrick was furious. Now, good candidates take things like that
and turn them to their advantage, and he did. He
pivoted on a dime. How dare you say this? And
it worked his advantage. But that wasn't clear at first. Well,
Alan Blakemore is he is prone to do pitch to
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fit because he needed dan Patrick to win so that
he could get all the lobbying business. Because he is
on Monday a political consultant that helps you win win elections,
and on Wednesday he is the lobbyist who's scooping up
all the money from you being in office, and now
he sells his access to you.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
He is extraordinarily corrupt.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
He's evil. Anybody who knows Alan Blakemore, he is the
worst of Texas policy. He's as bad as any Democrat.
I'm sorry, that's not fair to me.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
He is worse than.
Speaker 5 (22:50):
Any Democrat because all the while he stands up tall
with the perfectly polished shoes, his hair perfectly combed, and
he claimed to be here representing God and country He
is an absolute crook crook, and a lot of people,
not only myself, have told Dan Patrick, you're playing with
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fire with Alan Blakemore. But the problem is Blakemore, who's
just like Carl Rove, is perceived to be a very
nasty person. You'd rather have him with you than against
you because he plays dirty. So Dan Patrick continued to
associate with him, and here we are ten years later
and he's paying the cost. So that's why Alan Blakemore
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is signed up with the Texas Beer Alliance.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
He's getting paid to lobby for.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
Them, which is really weird, really weird that he's supposed
to be a political advisor and consultant but he's also
getting paid as a lobbyist.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
And he's not the only one.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
This is Tracy Bairr and welcome to the lifestyles of
the not so rich and famous are as.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
I call it the Michael Berry Shows. I see you
know they're prettier, richer voices.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
But Doug Stone sings as pretty a song with the
tools he was given as anybody in country music.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Like who.
Speaker 7 (24:25):
I'm not even going to tell that story because most
people don't remember it. And you know what he was
in a bad way. He cleaned up after that. So
I want to go back to what dan Patrick said.
And this was the moment.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
That really exposed that this bill, this THHC nuclear bomb,
was not about the children anymore. This was the moment
that that the kimono was opened and there was no
defending it anymore. And this this was the moment. The
the problem was dan Patrick was hoping they could pass
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this bill, move past it, maybe put on a flag lapel,
wave of flags, say we're not gonna let anybody burn
the flag in Texas, and we love God and America
and the troops, and we would just forget that he
had done this. And there was a lot of pressure.
And I'll tell you where the pressure was coming from.
There are a lot of veterans, combat veterans who have
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struggled with mental and physical pain, and hemp based products
have helped them. And it's the only thing that has
helped them. Well, we have something called the CUP, the
Compassionate Use Program. Let me tell you what's really going
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on here. This isn't a moral issue, this isn't a
drug addiction issue. There's the money issue, but nobody wants
to admit that. Nobody wants to admit that what they
really want is they want to make more money, and
if I can make more money by shutting down my competition,
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which is exactly how a lot of people get elected
in politics. If you can't get people to elect you
on the basis that they.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Like you, then you get them to elect you on the.
Speaker 5 (26:25):
Basis that the other guy is a bad guy.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
And that's exactly what they're doing here.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
They're shutting down the other side. And by the way,
this was a tough call for Greg Abbott as well,
because Lewis Signs, who was his immediate.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Past chief of staff.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
Here are his clients, Action Behavior Centers, Atria Client Services
and Affiliates, Philip Morris, John Middleton and American Property Casualty Insurance, Ascension,
Texas Association of Dental Support Organizations, Jacob Bender, Superior Health Plan,
Chime Financial, Charter Communications, Christa's Health, City of McCallan, Enterprise
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Products Partners, Firefly Aerospace, Forward Global, GDP Holdings, Caseware, Leo Technologies,
Mackenzie News Corp, Nueces County Hospital, Okeepie Environmental Services, Open
AI Protecting American consumers. But he's got some folks in
there that are the Chicksaw Nation. So it's a great,
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great example, Chickasaw Nation.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
If you have.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
A casino, you're going to have the governor's chief of
staff prevent any good casinos from coming in, because, let's
be honest, the Indians aren't as good at running a
casino as when or for Tita are. But hey, the
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Lord doesn't want us to gamble in the state of
Texas because gambling is sinful, we're told by the lobbyists
for the people who run the second tier reservation casino. See,
God doesn't mind you have in gambling in Texas as
long as it's run by the Indians who then pay
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the Republicans, or as long as it's run by the
state through the lottery. But you can feel good about
the fact that the lottery has changed their name. They
have rebranded. See they were originally g Tech, remember that
scandal Ben.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Barnes and all that.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
Well, they kept the contract to to run the lottery.
They just changed the name, rebranded because that made it
all of a sudden ethical. So let's go back to
the clip from Dan Patrick, and I want you to
listen to the very important part where he says, we
don't want adults to be able to do this.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Go ahead.
Speaker 6 (29:05):
This is a serious business.
Speaker 5 (29:06):
This is not.
Speaker 6 (29:07):
Dan's folly, This is not Dan's priority. This is to
save an entire generation of being hooked on drugs. And
I need for y'all to take the story seriously, because
does anyone want to try any of this?
Speaker 1 (29:19):
No?
Speaker 6 (29:20):
Would you buy anything off the shelf?
Speaker 1 (29:23):
No that you didn't know what was in it? No,
I'd be scared to death.
Speaker 6 (29:26):
That could change your whole mental state for the rest
of your life.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
God want for madness?
Speaker 6 (29:30):
What's it bag? No? Do you want to know?
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Don't even you should?
Speaker 5 (29:34):
Don't want you to hold it.
Speaker 6 (29:36):
You wouldn't look children, your grandchildren by it.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
I always wanted to protect children, your own. Adults are
using these products to Is there a way to do this?
Listen to this.
Speaker 6 (29:47):
No, Look, we don't want adults having this either.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
What are you crazy? There? You go? You want to
you want to go home and need a bag of
this tonight? No, if you're here tomorrow, no you won't.
Speaker 6 (29:56):
This is it. We focus on kids because that's where
they built shops, but adults are buying this stuff too.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Make no mistake.
Speaker 6 (30:03):
We want to protect the twenty and the thirty and
the forty and the fifty year old. SOO, we don't
want anybody buying anything off the shelf. They could kill
them or ruin their mental state for the rest of
their lives. The young man, it was twenty two.
Speaker 5 (30:14):
Here's that's good. Here's what you need to know. There
is something called the compassionate use program. So this marijuana,
it'll kill you. Let's be very clear. If you're even
in the room with it, it's like anthrax. The dust
of the marijuana will kill you. He's holding that thing
only because he's brave. The rest of us would die
from it. Marijuana will absolutely kill you. It's the deadliest
thing ever. We cannot allow it to happen. However, we
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have something called the compassionate Use program, and that means
if you follow the protocols for all of the pharmaceuticals,
they'll give you a little marijuana in there too.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Now, how come them to give you marijuana? Marijuana's deadly, folks.
Speaker 5 (30:54):
Why do we have a compassionate use of this deadly program,
this deadly drug?
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Because it works.
Speaker 5 (31:02):
But if you go through the compassionate use program, you've
got some Republican staffers, chief of staffs for Dan Patrick.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
And Greg Abbott, who are a lobbyists for that.
Speaker 5 (31:12):
But if we just allow it on the shelves at
the store, you won't go through all the hassle of
the medical program that people are getting paid big money for.
You see, we don't want you to have aspirin. We
want you to have to go to the doctor to
get a prescription for asper. If we just put it
on the shelf, you will get an aspirin, which at
one point was what you had to do. Throwing roadblocks
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in your way gives us the ability to charge you
what we want for it.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
There's a lot of things in life going on that way.
This was an embarrassment.
Speaker 5 (31:41):
Now the bill will end up passing and some of
the restrictions will be good, and I will give credit
where it's due.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Greg Abbott did the right thing. Bravo Greg Abbott
It's that time time time time lucking load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
The Michael Verry Show is on the air, joking into
Mica week.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Gotta feed a beard.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I don't plan to shave, and it's good the thing,
but I just gotta see I'm doing all right?
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Will I make me sport me?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Its beating verdictue.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
And that's the true.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
It's neither drink nor drug and snool.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
I'm just turning, all right.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
It's a great tad bede. I know the sun's still shining.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
On a close eyes.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
It's hot times.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
In the neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Look wiking every day.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Ask God, well, what.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
A weekend it was? What a weekend it was?
Speaker 5 (01:08):
With Bunker Busters, President Trump going deep into Lindsey Graham's
Black Book to name the effort, Operation Midnight Hammer. Three
sites were hit, presumably nuclear capability diminished.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
If not destroyed.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
One suggestion that it was a setback to thirty five
years ago. We won't know yet. We'll talk about that
and a whole lot more. But the big news was,
let's first talk procedure with the Dan Patrick THHC band,
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which would be something that Irani government would approve of.
The more restrictions on the people, you can impose. Maybe
we'll cover women and only their eyes can be seen,
that morality is preserved. We won't let the people make
decisions for themselves. Well, I must admit I thought I
was a touch out of line with the average Republican voter,
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who I assume is more socially conservative, at least with
regard to what laws should be made. But it turned
out no folks were in line with where I am,
which is the belief that adults should be able to
make decisions for themselves.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Not Dan Patrick.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
So a law was passed by the House and the Senate,
and as it turned out, the former chiefs of staff
for the governor and the Lieutenant governor were on the
payroll as lobbyists for the interests it wanted.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
It passed.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
Not surprising, the laws passed, and then they went to
the governor to be signed, and if the governor did
not sign those bills by midnight last night, or that
bill in particular, it would become law. Well, you remember
when you were in school learning about the pocket veto.
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The pocket veto was a power the president had. Typically
if a if a law in Congress has passed, it
goes to the president, and if he vetos that President,
I mean that law, then the bill goes back to
Congress and they can override the veto. It almost never
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happens with a two thirds vote in both houses. That's
really not going to happen. Unless you have a Ronald
Reagan president with a Democrat House and Senate, it's almost
never going to happen.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
His own party is not going to do that.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
So you wouldn't expect to see that in modern day
America or in this particular constitution of Republicans in the
House and the Senate, except in the last ten days
of the session. If Congress sends a bill to the
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President and then adjourns within that ten day period, the
president can effectively kill a bill by simply not signing it.
They didn't give him the requisite time, so all he
has to do is not sign it and it is vetoed.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
That is a pocket veto.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
He puts the bill in his pocket, and if he
does not take action, then it is automatically vetoed.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
The state of Texas is exactly the opposite. If a
bill is passed by the House.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
And the Senate, which the Hymp bill was, and goes
to the President, to the governor who's the chief executive
of the state, just as the president is of the nation.
And he does not sign the bill, the most passive
aggressive move you can make, then it becomes law. So
he can say he didn't sign the bill, but nor
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did he veto it. It's the sort of Barack Obama
as a US Senator voting president on anything controversial, so
then his votes couldn't be used against him.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
So as the witching hour was upon.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Us last night at midnight, the Hip Bill would be passed.
Dan Patrick did not do Greg Abbott any favors with
this bill. As I've told you many times, Greg Abbott
desperately wants to be president and he intends to run
for president in twenty twenty eight. His original calculation was,
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with Trump running in sixteen, that when Trump won in sixteen,
he would run and win again in twenty because presidents
who are elected once are usual elected twice if they
run for reelection. There are very very few exceptions, Jimmy
Carter being the most recent. So well, actually that's not true,
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George H. W. Bush being the most recent, and Jimmy.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Carter before that. But typically if a president runs and wins,
he'll run and win again.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
And so Abbot's calculation was the White House race would
be wide open in twenty twenty four, and being the
governor of Texas, he would be a front runner. And
so everything he does is with an eye toward running
for president. Then they steal the election from Trump twenty
of course, and Trump runs in twenty twenty four. There
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was actually an internal meeting by Abbott and his folks
to consider a run in twenty twenty four, because the
thought in late twenty twenty two was Trump's not actually
going to run again. He's got too many legal problems.
They're going to send him to prison. And that was
the meeting that desantisis people had in Florida, and it
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was a real game of chicken, do we run or not?
Because we don't run and he doesn't run, and the
things wide open in a week, candidate wins. This is
what happened in nineteen ninety two and how Clinton got
the Democrat nomination. But long story a little bit shorter.
Abbot had a tough situation. We'll talk about that in
the next segment, and with ten minutes to spare, he
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vetoed the bill. Now it's a partial win because there
will be a special session called, and it will be
called in very short order, and the bill will eventually
pass again, and there will be some restrictions, and dare
I say it, I think that's okay, depending on what
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those restrictions are age related restrictions. I am very comfortable
with restricting products for miners, very comfortable with that is
below the age of eighteen. At the age of eighteen,
you can serve in war, you can make adult decisions,
you can vote.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
I don't agree with making it twenty one.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
You're old enough to serve, but not choose whether you
want to smoke a cigarette.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
That stupid. We'll talk about it coming up. At least
chairs can rolling around. Damn it all right?
Speaker 5 (08:23):
This is Mark Chestnut and jar Bizaar of Talk Radio
The Move thought the bunker Buster was a new versos
from Dairy Queen's Very disappointed, very disappointed, Probably not as
disappointed as the Ayatola was.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Once the bombs started dropping.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
The story out of Austin, Greg Abbott vetoed Senate Bill three,
then Patrick's nanny state anti HEMP bill from k View
TV out of Austin.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
The governor's decision to veto SB three comes as a
bit of a surprise, as he remained come completely silent
on the issue throughout the legislative session, and now he
is calling for a special session to revise the bill,
as well as a few others, asking lawmakers to strictly
regulate the substance now. In a statement explaining his veto,
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Abbott argued that SB three would not have survived, addressing
the legal challenges it would face if it passed, He
says lawsuits would have postponed the enforcement of the bill
for years. He instead urges lawmakers to consider creating stricter
regulations similar to how alcohol is enforced, in order to
better keep it away from children. Kav spoke to local
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THHC sellers last night who are worried about closing their doors,
losing employees and the people who rely on their products
for medical conditions.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
So we know we sent them off with you know,
handshakes and all that stuff, but our employees are our
family to us. So that's why we're turning this into
a bar. We don't want to be e bar. We
want to be a wellness company.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, who's let the charge on banning
THHC products, citing it as a public safety issue. Condemned
Abbot's decision shortly after the bill was vetoed. In a
statement he posted to social media, he said, quote, I
feel especially bad for those who testified and poured their
heart out on their tragic losses. I will have much
more to say at a press conference tomorrow in Austin, unquote.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
And that is expected this afternoon.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
So Dan Patrick lost a lot of support at a
desperate press conference in May. He had been pitching this
bill as a keep THCHC away from children. If he
had remained there, he would have had the high ground.
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We all agree. Children shouldn't be allowed to get tattoos,
but adults can decide for themselves. Children shouldn't be allowed
to drink alcohol, but adult skin decide for themselves. Children
shouldn't be allowed to drive, but adults can decide for themselves.
Children should not be able to have sex with adults, right.
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That's why we call them statutory or that's why we
call it statutory rape. A child cannot consent to sex
with an adult someone more than two years their elder,
because they're not ready emotionally to make such big decisions.
If dan Patrick had stuck with that provision, the bill would.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Have passed, but he didn't.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
And do you know why, because this has never been
about children. This is about the market for drugs that
adults take to ease their pain, slow their mind, go
to sleep, whatever the reasoning is. And this product began
competing with liquor with alcohol based products beer, wine, whiskey.
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When that happened, the people aligned with the liquor industry
wanted this shutdown. So how do you do it? You
do it the way democrats always do it. You say
it's for the children. But when he was asked by
a reporter, hey, shouldn't adults be allowed to make decisions
for themselves? We understand for the children, but this affects adults.
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And Dan Patrick held it up as if it was
a nuclear weapon. Don't let this thing drop or we'll
all be dead. And he said, are you crazy, man?
Would you take this? You'd be dead in the morning.
What what are you talking about? What a ridiculous thing,
What an insulting thing to say, Because this has never
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been about the children. This is a barrier to entry
for an alcohol competitor product, That's.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
What it is.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
And out of the woodworks came veterans for whom alcohol
has not provided relief the way HIM based product have.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
That's fact.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
They're out there, and there's a lot of them HIM
based product stores. They've exploded because there is a big
market for this. Are some children, by which I mean
miners going in and buying this product.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Probably is that a good idea?
Speaker 5 (13:18):
No, Simply restrict that and enforce the restriction. We've learned
with the legal immigration it's not what the law says,
it's what you actually choose to enforce. The law has
said you can't come into this country illegally. You have
to follow the rules. But we know that we've had
an explosion of illegal aliens, including Irani cells that could
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be coming here and now are prepared to commit terrorist activity,
and they came in illegally. We didn't need a law change,
We needed the enforcement of the law. But then he
said adults that was a problem. There are Actually there's
actually a split of opinion here because liquor stores, who
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are retailers rather than makers of the product. Liquor stores
have actually said it's good for sales because the Delta
eight derivative products are actually bringing people into the liquor store.
A lot of people, and I know a fair number
of them, have started drinking these products and find them
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far preferable to alcohol. No liver damage, as I understand,
no hangover, as I understand, and I'm not being coy.
Marijuana doesn't do anything for me. If it did, I
would use it. But it doesn't. Here was Dan Patrick's
press conference, and I think he did himself a lot
of harm here.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
That's clip number two. Ramon, this is a serious business.
Speaker 6 (14:54):
This is not Dan's folly, This is not Dan's priority.
This is to save an entire generation of being hooked
on drugs. And I need for y'all to take the
story seriously, because does anyone want to try any of this?
Would you buy anything off the shelf that you didn't
know what was in it that could change your whole
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mental state for the rest of your life.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Would you want that?
Speaker 6 (15:18):
Anybody want this bag? Okay, do you want it? I
don't think you want it. You wouldn't dare buy it.
You wouldn't let your children, your grandchildren buy it.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
I understand wanted to protect children. Grown adults were using
these pods.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
So is there a way to do this where grown
adults could still have a no, Look, we don't want
adults having this either. What are you crazy?
Speaker 5 (15:42):
Hold on right there, We don't want adults having this either.
There was the mistake. This isn't about children. I've been
saying for children. We don't want adults having any uh Oh,
that was the boo boo. He went off script.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
That's why I had probably out of tune. You might
have to edit that.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
This is Mark Chestnut and Joy Bizaar of Talk Radio.
Some folks think that we consimply split the political world
in America between left and right, Republican and Democrat. Would
that it were that easy, But in a world where
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Democrats didn't exist, they walked off into the zombie apocalypse.
We would not have agreement on every issue. People have
splits of opinion there at a different point on the continuum.
This is how you've noticed that Republicans are split on
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the bombing of Iran. You've got the Rand Paul's and
the Thomas Massey's, and the Tucker Carlson's and Marjorie Taylor
Green and a number of other folks who've been very
vocal that this bombing should not occur. And then you've
got the mart levinz and Ted Cruz's and Tammy Bruce's
and folks like that who said, oh yes it apps,
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and Lindsey Graham, who's having a wargasm over all of this.
I mean, even in his honor they named the thing
Operation Midnight Hammer. This is the best weekend of his life,
this guy. I mean, this is Epstein Island and practically legal.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
But when you look.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
At Texas politics, you have to be careful that you
govern in such a way that people are proud they've
supported you, and that you don't mistake support for.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Your candidacy.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
And common sense policies with everybody being on.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Thee when you.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
Start doing that, because Republicans haven't lost a state wide
election since nineteen ninety four, you make sure that we do.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Which is interesting.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
Because what we saw for the first time was that
the Republican base is, as Ronald Reagan asserted nineteen eighty
that the heart and soul of conservatism is libertarians, not
self described conservatives. There are certain people who believe you
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ought to have a curfew every night. There are certain
people who believe that commerce should not be conducted on
Sunday and that government should restrict that because that's the
lord's day, it's our day of rest. Shouldn't be allowed
to do any business on Sunday. That's where you get
the blue laws. The practice of religion is a personal
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act of faith, expression of faith. It is not the
domain of government to restrict such things. The protection of
our children. Yes, we all agree on that. And that's
why I want to go back to clip number two,
because this was the moment dan Patrick lost the battle.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
This was the moment.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
I'll tell you when ramon, this was the moment when
Dan Patrick said everything I've told you about protecting the
children that was just a front. I'm actually going to
protect the adults from themselves as well. And that was
the goof because he was under a lot of stress.
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The base was cracking, he was getting a lot of pushback.
His former staffers were being enriched. I'm sure Alan Blakemore
is in on this somewhere. I haven't seen for sure.
I know the Texas Bary Alliance is supporting him. But
when you're top a advisors are also lobbyists, that's going
to be a problem. And when your top advisor is
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also a lobbyist and his name is Alan Blakemore, I
will say today what I told dan Patrick when he
went into the runoff for Lieutenant governor against David Dewhurst.
Low so many years ago. You will regret any association
you have with Alan Blakemore, you will regret it. That
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goes back to the to the spring of twenty fourteen.
It was Dan Patrick, Jerry Patterson, David Dewhurst. You'll remember
that in twenty twelve, Ted Cruz defeated then Lieutenant Governor
David Dewhurst in the primary election to be Republican Senator. Right,
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Dewhurst was still the Lieutenant governor, but the wind was
out of his sale. He had been shown to be vulnerable.
Dan Patrick had done a great job as Senator. He
was well respected amongst the base. Remember this was pre Trump.
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Trump was beginning to make a name nationally beyond the
core of people who had a sense of him as
a celebrity. I'll bet you Dan Patrick was more popular
than Donald.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Trump at that moment. I bet you he was. He
was extremely popular.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
And Jerry Patterson was trying to help David Dewhurst against
Dan Patrick, and Jerry Patterson, who had been in that
race and hadn't made the runoff, decided he was going
to fall on his sword to keep dan Patrick from
being Lieutenant governor, and Jerry Patterson released the details of
dan Patrick having been hospitalized for psychiatric problems, and dan
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Patrick was furious. Now, good candidates take things like that
and turn them to their advantage, and he did. He
pivoted on a dime. How dare you say this? And
it worked his advantage. But that wasn't clear at first. Well,
Alan Blakemore is he is prone to do pitch to
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fit because he needed dan Patrick to win so that
he could get all the lobbying business. Because he is
on Monday a political consultant that helps you win win elections,
and on Wednesday he is the lobbyist who's scooping up
all the money from you being in office, and now
he sells his access to you.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
He is extraordinarily corrupt.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
He's evil. Anybody who knows Alan Blakemore, he is the
worst of Texas policy. He's as bad as any Democrat.
I'm sorry, that's not fair to me.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
He is worse than.
Speaker 5 (22:50):
Any Democrat because all the while he stands up tall
with the perfectly polished shoes, his hair perfectly combed, and
he claimed to be here representing God and country He
is an absolute crook crook, and a lot of people,
not only myself, have told Dan Patrick, you're playing with
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fire with Alan Blakemore. But the problem is Blakemore, who's
just like Carl Rove, is perceived to be a very
nasty person. You'd rather have him with you than against
you because he plays dirty. So Dan Patrick continued to
associate with him, and here we are ten years later
and he's paying the cost. So that's why Alan Blakemore
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is signed up with the Texas Beer Alliance.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
He's getting paid to lobby for.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
Them, which is really weird, really weird that he's supposed
to be a political advisor and consultant but he's also
getting paid as a lobbyist.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
And he's not the only one.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
This is Tracy Bairr and welcome to the lifestyles of
the not so rich and famous are as.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
I call it the Michael Berry Shows. I see you
know they're prettier, richer voices.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
But Doug Stone sings as pretty a song with the
tools he was given as anybody in country music.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Like who.
Speaker 7 (24:25):
I'm not even going to tell that story because most
people don't remember it. And you know what he was
in a bad way. He cleaned up after that. So
I want to go back to what dan Patrick said.
And this was the moment.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
That really exposed that this bill, this THHC nuclear bomb,
was not about the children anymore. This was the moment
that that the kimono was opened and there was no
defending it anymore. And this this was the moment. The
the problem was dan Patrick was hoping they could pass
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this bill, move past it, maybe put on a flag lapel,
wave of flags, say we're not gonna let anybody burn
the flag in Texas, and we love God and America
and the troops, and we would just forget that he
had done this. And there was a lot of pressure.
And I'll tell you where the pressure was coming from.
There are a lot of veterans, combat veterans who have
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struggled with mental and physical pain, and hemp based products
have helped them. And it's the only thing that has
helped them. Well, we have something called the CUP, the
Compassionate Use Program. Let me tell you what's really going
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on here. This isn't a moral issue, this isn't a
drug addiction issue. There's the money issue, but nobody wants
to admit that. Nobody wants to admit that what they
really want is they want to make more money, and
if I can make more money by shutting down my competition,
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which is exactly how a lot of people get elected
in politics. If you can't get people to elect you
on the basis that they.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Like you, then you get them to elect you on the.
Speaker 5 (26:25):
Basis that the other guy is a bad guy.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
And that's exactly what they're doing here.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
They're shutting down the other side. And by the way,
this was a tough call for Greg Abbott as well,
because Lewis Signs, who was his immediate.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Past chief of staff.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
Here are his clients, Action Behavior Centers, Atria Client Services
and Affiliates, Philip Morris, John Middleton and American Property Casualty Insurance, Ascension,
Texas Association of Dental Support Organizations, Jacob Bender, Superior Health Plan,
Chime Financial, Charter Communications, Christa's Health, City of McCallan, Enterprise
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Products Partners, Firefly Aerospace, Forward Global, GDP Holdings, Caseware, Leo Technologies,
Mackenzie News Corp, Nueces County Hospital, Okeepie Environmental Services, Open
AI Protecting American consumers. But he's got some folks in
there that are the Chicksaw Nation. So it's a great,
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great example, Chickasaw Nation.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
If you have.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
A casino, you're going to have the governor's chief of
staff prevent any good casinos from coming in, because, let's
be honest, the Indians aren't as good at running a
casino as when or for Tita are. But hey, the
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Lord doesn't want us to gamble in the state of
Texas because gambling is sinful, we're told by the lobbyists
for the people who run the second tier reservation casino. See,
God doesn't mind you have in gambling in Texas as
long as it's run by the Indians who then pay
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the Republicans, or as long as it's run by the
state through the lottery. But you can feel good about
the fact that the lottery has changed their name. They
have rebranded. See they were originally g Tech, remember that
scandal Ben.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Barnes and all that.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
Well, they kept the contract to to run the lottery.
They just changed the name, rebranded because that made it
all of a sudden ethical. So let's go back to
the clip from Dan Patrick, and I want you to
listen to the very important part where he says, we
don't want adults to be able to do this.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Go ahead.
Speaker 6 (29:05):
This is a serious business.
Speaker 5 (29:06):
This is not.
Speaker 6 (29:07):
Dan's folly, This is not Dan's priority. This is to
save an entire generation of being hooked on drugs. And
I need for y'all to take the story seriously, because
does anyone want to try any of this?
Speaker 1 (29:19):
No?
Speaker 6 (29:20):
Would you buy anything off the shelf?
Speaker 1 (29:23):
No that you didn't know what was in it? No,
I'd be scared to death.
Speaker 6 (29:26):
That could change your whole mental state for the rest
of your life.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
God want for madness?
Speaker 6 (29:30):
What's it bag? No? Do you want to know?
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Don't even you should?
Speaker 5 (29:34):
Don't want you to hold it.
Speaker 6 (29:36):
You wouldn't look children, your grandchildren by it.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
I always wanted to protect children, your own. Adults are
using these products to Is there a way to do this?
Listen to this.
Speaker 6 (29:47):
No, Look, we don't want adults having this either.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
What are you crazy? There? You go? You want to
you want to go home and need a bag of
this tonight? No, if you're here tomorrow, no you won't.
Speaker 6 (29:56):
This is it. We focus on kids because that's where
they built shops, but adults are buying this stuff too.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Make no mistake.
Speaker 6 (30:03):
We want to protect the twenty and the thirty and
the forty and the fifty year old. SOO, we don't
want anybody buying anything off the shelf. They could kill
them or ruin their mental state for the rest of
their lives. The young man, it was twenty two.
Speaker 5 (30:14):
Here's that's good. Here's what you need to know. There
is something called the compassionate use program. So this marijuana,
it'll kill you. Let's be very clear. If you're even
in the room with it, it's like anthrax. The dust
of the marijuana will kill you. He's holding that thing
only because he's brave. The rest of us would die
from it. Marijuana will absolutely kill you. It's the deadliest
thing ever. We cannot allow it to happen. However, we
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have something called the compassionate Use program, and that means
if you follow the protocols for all of the pharmaceuticals,
they'll give you a little marijuana in there too.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Now, how come them to give you marijuana? Marijuana's deadly, folks.
Speaker 5 (30:54):
Why do we have a compassionate use of this deadly program,
this deadly drug?
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Because it works.
Speaker 5 (31:02):
But if you go through the compassionate use program, you've
got some Republican staffers, chief of staffs for Dan Patrick.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
And Greg Abbott, who are a lobbyists for that.
Speaker 5 (31:12):
But if we just allow it on the shelves at
the store, you won't go through all the hassle of
the medical program that people are getting paid big money for.
You see, we don't want you to have aspirin. We
want you to have to go to the doctor to
get a prescription for asper. If we just put it
on the shelf, you will get an aspirin, which at
one point was what you had to do. Throwing roadblocks
(31:33):
in your way gives us the ability to charge you
what we want for it.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
There's a lot of things in life going on that way.
This was an embarrassment.
Speaker 5 (31:41):
Now the bill will end up passing and some of
the restrictions will be good, and I will give credit
where it's due.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Greg Abbott did the right thing. Bravo Greg Abbott
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