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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Very Show is on the air. We were doing

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most underrated songs, and I asked Chad for the most
underrated Hawaiian song of an American pop rock or country tune,
and he said, Josh to Tophi, the Hawaiian Luther Vandross

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did a cover of Gladys Knight's Best Thing that happened
to me, But I think you would like come up me.
A group called Copena in the eighties and they did
buck Owens just act naturally with incredible yodling. Do you
see that you said in his message, See if you

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can find that that'd be interesting here. The movie They're
gonna make APIs Sorra me lads all had the man
been said, Holy all I gotta do is sack Natalie.

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The movie there's a make epix Sorroby Lands. A man said,
holy all, I gotta do his nagnastically. Then in the
movie there was a Mags mixed story. Rosphy, you all

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got to do this well, win an auser. You can
taps it bags and you need to get to the
yodeling earlier we go. You know, I think my favorite

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use of yodeling in a song in the last twenty
five years Shiny Ribs Song of Lime, Juice and Despair
with yodeling to boot. As he said, we wrote a
song about why not a judge's daughter, Grace Kelly, stealing

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the ugly green church bus from in front of the
pastor's house. When I say we, I mean last night.
I had dinner with Matt Brice, the owner of Federal
American Grill, and he we were He said, did you

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see this story? And I said no, let me check
this out. And I saw it and I couldn't help
but think. I mean Chance McLean makes heavy metal versions
of Christmas carols, so I thought there's got to be

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a song in there somewhere for Chance. This is kind
of a Merry Christmas from the family re Lease a
type deal. So I sent it to him rather late
last night, because when you have pneumonia and the doctor
tells you to get some sleep and not to be,
you know, hanging out late, you hang out late and

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then wonder why you can't ever heal. But I should
probably also tell you in favor of my argument and
against Mary taly Boden, who gave strict orders to my
wife for me to go to bed early. That when
you put me on steroids, I can't go to sleep.
So there's that little detail that maybe we ought to
bring in there. But anyway, so late last night, while

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sitting at the bar at a restaurant called Credence, which
is Levi Good's new restaurant, which is just down the
street from Federal American Grill and nine ten and is wonderful.
If you go there, I'll tell you what to order
because you might not know. Number one. You want to
order the wild golf snapper because you dated a wild

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golf snapper. Oh my goodness, I don't even know where
to go with that. Anyway, because Levi knows his Texas
cuisine and his Texas fish and his wild golf snapper
at Credence is incredible to start with number one and
number two. Oh but number two, which I'm going to

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send him a nasty email today he doesn't have wild rice.
And so a couple of days ago nothing, I stopped
at Federal American Grill, the one at Hedwig, and I
can't remember what we ordered, and I said, can you
put that over? I asked Jay Read, the manager, can

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you put that over? A bed of wild rice. And
he said, well, that's not how it comes, but we'll
figure something out. So he brings the food out and
I forget to check it, and I drive home and
I get home and Ramona, I am not kidding you.
That is the best wild rice I have had. And

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I'm a wild rice eater in ten years. And that
is saying something that was Charles Clark quality wild rice.
That it was. It was moist, it was moist, Ramon,
is what it was. And the problem is most people

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let their dry their wild rice dry out, and I
don't want my wild rice to dry out. I want
it to be colorful with a lot of dark color
mixed in there, and I want it to be moist,
very moist. And it was. But anyway, so there was
that story. How long is is Chance's song that he

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wrote up? So I sent that story to Chance last
night at nine o'clock and I said, have us a
song written by eight o'clock in the morning. Knowing good
and well, he goes to bed early, and at seven
forty five this morning, this song arrived with that set
of facts. Well, I look up song morning. The preacher

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calling my name, said, the church fan's gone and I
think your lane. I was just trying to make it
to the county line by new gown in a strip jumpsuit,

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singing a shell house too. O grace like word, thinking
girl stealing that church man walking my world. Mama's up
on stage singing love can do the Bridge while I'm
behind boss living all me. You weren't no MERCEDI sprinter,

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just a feat up chevy man. But I took it
from the pastor's traveling. It was part of God's plan.
And now the choe's all the praying for my redemption song.
But the Good Lord knows this story's all kind of wrong.

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O grace one word, thinking girl stealing that shirt fan
rocking my world. Mama's on the radio singing about the light,
but I'm cruising to the Big House on a stall
this night. Now every hockey talking Nashville singing this tune

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about a preacher's fan, a Judd kid and the full
It's the kind of story you just can't make. My
cocon Puppy Van Winkle from the Dixie come Hoch, that's
sufficiently awful. He hit the spot. It's the King of

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Dan and this other guy, Michael Barry, You're a submission
to the subject. You take this off the list, but
this song gets better. You're just trying to be provocative. Now,

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all right, we haven't spoken about Texas politics in a
while because of the election, but it's time we do so.
And this is important. So Dade Feeling was the puppet

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to be the Speaker of the House. I'm gonna say
some things. They're gonna upset people, and that's okay. I
want you to understand it's not inadvertant that I happen
to upset some people, some of whom I respect a
great deal. But I also want to make clear I'm
not saying things that upset people, some of whom I've

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respected in the past and to some extent still respect.
It's not intentional. I don't have it nothing. I assure
you it's nothing personal. Now, what happened was the state
legislature has been dominated by Republicans because we've done our

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work for years. And this goes back to the early nineties.
It goes back statewide to the George W. Bush when
in nineteen ninety four, and those wins were consolidated election
after election after election after election, and you have and

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I'm going to name them. You have some very very powerful, important,
visionary people who were responsible for funding and organizing the
campaigns to make Texas a reliably republican conservative state. Texans

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for Lawsuit Reform was at the absolute forefront of that,
and that continued four ninety eight with the Bush wins.
But really Bush gets all the credit and all the
press because that's easy. But what you saw was which

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started in the early two thousands, is you saw Laney
defeated as Speaker of the House. Credit was put in,
and now you had a reliably Republican majority House and Senate.
And I got to tell you, I never expected Dan
Patrick to be as good as state senator as he
turned out to be. He turned out to be a

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hell state center. And I never expected him to be
the lieutenant governor that he's turned out to be. Although
that's less surprising because I saw what he did as
a senator. I did not think he would be able
to bend the Senate to his will in the manner
that he has. I did not see that coming. We're

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talking Bob Bullet level leadership. Why do I say that
because Dan Patrick didn't have that experience. Dan Patrick had
made his name as a sportscaster and then as a
conservative talker on the radio. I like to think I
have pretty good leadership and organizational skills, but I don't

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think most people that do what I do do because
they never had that experience before they got into radio.
But if you actually look at what Dan Patrick did
in building up KPRC, which he then sold to Clear Channel,
making himself a fortune, and then he buys KSV and

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then he sells it I guess to Lowel Liberman, and
then buys it back to run an independent radio station
as he did, and build it as he did, competing
against the fifty thousand watt blowtorch of Clear Channel. When
he lost the same Rush Limbaugh that he had brought

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to town, he brought rush Limbaugh to Houston. He sells
the company to Clear Channel. Cash is out. He could
have just gone off into the sunset, but instead he
takes his team over to KSEV, and there was a moment,
but I'm not sure they didn't have the best lineup

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in local talk on the airwaves from Dan Mike Richards.
And I know everybody makes fun of him because he
went to prison, but he was a dimn good talk host.
What was the one that did the Rebel Route, that
did a Dwayne Eddie song, John Matthews. I loved John
Matthews song. I mean John Matthews's show. And when I

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say that now people laugh like they didn't. I can
tell you at city Hall we talked about John matthews show.
It was a good show. Mike Richards, John Matthews, Dan Patrick.
And then who did they have in the evening? You
remember or was it Dan in the evening? Who was
on in the mornings. I don't remember the lineup, but

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I would tell you I'm missing somebody, but I will
tell you that he did a great job. All by
way of saying he did actually have leadership experience. He
did corral together It's tough, little bitty tiny independent stations
with a night with the daytimer stick to have succeeded
in that the way he did. He opened that Dallas station.

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I don't know how well that did, but it certainly
lost his career to come out of nowhere as a candidate.
There was a guy named Joe Nixon and that thing
was wired. Next thing had been the state rep and
Dan Patrick beat him there. Anyway, let me get to
the point. Dan Patrick's done a great job as Lieutenant Gowner, fantastic,
but our state legislator, state House, and frankly a lot

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of very powerful people in the state. What happened was
they got drunk on power and some of them just
decided that the values that we had all shared they
didn't share anymore, and they grew very aristocratic and elitist
in their views. And if you want to know who

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I'm talking about, just go read the list of people
who hosted the Nicky Haley event in Texas. And I
want to be very clear, I disagree with what they've
been up to for the last few years wholeheartedly. I
think they're destroying the state party in Texas. And I
don't mean party by an organization that meets in a building.

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I mean people that vote Republican. And I think they're
going to lose US an election. And I blame Karl Rove.
And it's not the first or the last time Karl
Rove will do this. Kral Rove destroys everything he touches
because that fat bastard is out to is out for
two things. His own back pocket and his own fat

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ego got more chins in the Chinese phone book and
out there just causing nothing but problems. Now you had
Dennis Bonning as the speaker. Bonning blew up, ego maniac.
I've known Dennis a long time. Whatever, and then Bonning

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is then the Feeling family. I'm sure there's nothing, nothing,
no Hunter Biden going on here. By the way, Dade
Feeling is the Hunter Biden of Texas politics. I wanted
to get that point across. So Dade Feeling, who's not
very smart, nice enough guy, old fellowell met you know,
he looks like a little Abercrombie and it looks like
a Vineyard Vines model. He's a nice enough guy. And

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his family's got all the money in Beaumont and they're
an old you know. In fact, I'm told that's his
cousin that just was named an ambassador some very very
wealthy art collector in Palm Beach. But anyway, Trump just
named his cousin something. So Dade Feeling started naming committee

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chairman Democrats as committee chairman because he didn't like being questioned.
And the people who were running this and it's Karl
Rove behind the scenes, and it's a lot of guys
that were great. I want to make sure I'm being
clear on this people on whose shoulders we now stand
as a successful Republican majority. That being said, they've lost

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their way and there's a lot of reasons behind it.
But feeling started putting Democrats as committee chairman. And the
vote is this Saturday, and he's going to lose, but
he has committed every Democrat. All he needs is fourteen
Republicans if he wins on this basis, it's over to
Michael Barry Show. This was Chad's submission to the started

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strong went down, and I have to disagree because I
don't even think it started strong Man's cross MONI rights
z are, when was the last time you read the
lyrics to Crazy Training. I use it as a meditation

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in Catholic women's many retreats that I get invited to facilitate,
last time for female military veterans that served in the
Gulf War. I received many blessings for my quote thinking
outside the Catholic box, except for the Vietnam vet. She
was not a fan. Imagine getting everyone relaxed, eyes closed,

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I asked them to release everything in their heads and
focus on the meditation song. I gave them the lyrics
post song to discuss and all I can attest is
the Holy Spirit opened many hearts through none other than
Ozzy Osbourne, the other Prince of Darkness. Amalia aka missus Clause.

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I know her because she comes on our palm beach
and Aspen trips. Her husband does Sandy Claus. Her husband
is Puerto Rican, but he looks Nordic and he's got
I mean, he's a proper santy Claus, like you can't

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see him being anything other than santy Claus. So we
have a big reckoning that's going to happen in Texas.
It's already happening, and I'm very hopeful that this ends well,
but I recognize it could end badly. So you have

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the powers that be that were extraordinarily effective and not
solely responsible for, but largely responsible for the ascendants of
the Republican Party in the nineties leading to by the

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turn of the millennium domination. And what tends to happen
in either party when you become a one party state
is that now the fighting becomes within that party because

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somebody wants to be king of the hill. So you
no longer needed everybody that was in your coalition in
order to win so you stop doing the things that
got you to the to the table. You know, this

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is this is Belichick telling Brady he can go if
he wants to, because he's done with him and he
thinks he can win without him. Spoiler alert, he couldn't
not anymore. So this Saturday will be the big the

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big vote. Dade Feelin is running for reelection as the
Speaker of the House. Now left into his own devices,
Dade phil is not very smart. I don't think he's
a bad guy. I think he's actually a Joe kind

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of if you've ever met the scion of a wealthy
family that's not very smart, that hangs out and everybody likes,
you know, there's always that character in a movie as date.
And he was never really meant to be the Speaker
of the House. But he's not a strong personality the

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way a Pete Laney was, or for that matter, Tom Krattick.
And so there was a group of guys that had
been insider dealing and cutting their own deals and rewarding
the lobbyists, including Karl Rove, Mike Toomey and these guys,

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and it got to the point that they and their
big donors and these are big boys. These are boys
that participate at the at the national level and have
Trump's attention. They're that big of donors. And again, I
have the great deal of respect over the years, but

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they've screwed up and they've got to stop. And it
goes back to about I don't know, twenty fourteen, maybe
twenty and maybe it was twenty fourteen, and they wanted
Dan Branch, they wanted a Senate seat, state Senate seat,

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and Kim Paxton ran against him. And you might have noticed,
Kim Paxton rubs a lot of people the wrong way,
and much like Trump, or for that matter, in a
different way, much like w people think he's not very
smart and he can be a little brash. So Paxton

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ran for Speaker of the House when no one else
because he wanted to point out that there was an
insider cabal that had been choosing the speaker. And it
never gets any press, but every two years there's always
an outsider. I think Scott Turner, this black guy ran
one year and they get about twenty votes, and they

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run on the basis that we Republicans are in charge
of the party, but we're giving it over to the
Democrats and there's about twenty to twenty five really conservative
kind of tea Party America. First MAGA state Reps. But
they have no authority. They never get a committee chairmanship
because the lobby doesn't like this. The lobby is just

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like DC, even though it's Republican controlled, it's just as
bad and they don't want to be questioned. And so
Paxton beats them for State rep. Then he beats them
for attorney General. Now they got a heart on for him.
They want to destroy him. They run George P. Bush
against him. He beats them again. They try to indict him.

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He beats them again. Then they at the last minute,
on the last day of the session, they file articles
of impeachment and toss it to the Senate. And they
think we got him. Now, well they didn't, and they
got their ass and it is time for it to
be over. So what do they do. They bring in
Mike to me. They bring in Rick Perry, the former governor,

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is supposed to be somebody I consider a friend and
a very good It's become embarrassed again, and it's got
to stop. I don't seem to get from other places
the Michael Barry Show. I've asked somebody else to count
the votes for me. But here is what I have

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for Speaker of the House. So this Saturday, the House
Republican Caucus for just the Republicans will meet in Austin
to vote on the next speaker. Democrats don't get to

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participate in that. Now, Dade Feeling wishes they would his
committee chairman, some of whom are Democrats, wish they would.
Karl Rove wishes they would. Let me remind you of
what happened in the Republican primary in the district I

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grew up in that that was made up of the
of Orange, Beaumont, and Jasper counties. Dade Feeling, the sitting
Speaker of the House, lost in a three way race.
He came in second in the first round of voting.

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Republican voters did not want to send drunk Dade back
to Austin. Now, let me explained to you the gravity
of that vote. When you grow up in Orange, Texas
or Jasper, Austin is a million miles away, both the

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town and the culture, and the big university and now
the tech companies and the state government, you don't matter.
You're just an outpost almost to Louisiana. They don't care
about you. You don't think they care about you. That's

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just that. However, for the first time ever, there's real
influence significant The speaker of the House of Representatives out
of one hundred and fifty districts across the state is
from Lilo Beaumont representing Lilo, Orange and Jasper County. That

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was a point of considerable pride. Now think how bad
he had to screw that up to get his own
to get the Republican voters, the party he's supposed to
be in in his own primary, to vote for David Covey,

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who a guy most people didn't know, ran a good campaign.
Half of Beaumont is Davee Feelin's cousins. For him to
lose in the primary, however, you have to win a majority,

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not a plurality. So there was a woman from Jasper
came out of nowhere, first time candidate, hairdresser deep East
Texas accident, seemingly a wonderful person. I don't know her,
think her on the show. I think we did. I
know I tweeted about her. If she hadn't run, Covey

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wins in the first round. But because there are three candidates,
Covey's from Orange County, feelings from Beaumont, from Jefferson County.
I did I say Beaumont County, Just sorry, Jefferson County.
And that woman I forget her name is from Gasper County.
She gets just enough votes to keep Covey from He's
at forty nine point five percent or so. Now there's

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a runoff. Feeling at this point has raised and spent
more money than has ever been spent on any campaign
in that area for Congress or anything else. Now, why
did so many major Dallas, Houston and lobbyists in Austin,
Why were they so interested in one little piddly state

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Rep race in Lilo, Southeast Texas. You got one hundred
and fifty of them. You're now a pro. One hundred
state reps are Republicans. You will have that hopefully in
a few years. So why on earth are they spending
five seven we have a nine million dollars on one
little state Rep race because they have to keep Daide

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Feeling as a speaker. Well wait a second, if Feeling
loses his seat, he's gonna lose it to a Republican.
So we still have a Republican speaker. Don't you just
want a Republican speaker. Oh no, no, no, no, no.
We have to keep DAID. You know why, because DAID
can be controlled, and so they spend a fortune. Rove

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got involved. Trump endorsed against Dade Feeling. Why for the
same reason that that Dan Patrick endorsed against Dade Feeling.
Same reason I did, same reason Trump did. Because Dade
Feeling as speaker was putting Democrats as a committee chairman.

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And you may say, well, how does that happen? I
forget what the numbers were, But let's say the numbers
were seventy six seventy four. Wasn't that close. Let's say
it's eighty seventy. The Democrats actually control the House of
Representatives by this measure. They put all their votes together,
they got seventy. All they need to get is six

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Republicans to come over to their side, even though they're
in the minority party. Are there six Republicans willing to
sell out? You better believe it. So you end up,
and this has been going on for years, You end
up with the Republican speaker in name only, and the
Democrats are really running things. So that's where and a

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lot of these rich Republican donors now absolutely hate talk radio,
Michael Quinn, Sullivan at Texas Scorecard, Luke Massius, Brandon Walton's
they hate. They really don't like Dan Patrick, but they
can't afford to go against him. But they hate the

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base and they hate the peasants. Karl Rove has always
hated the peasants. He's always hated the Tea Party, and
he's worked incessantly to defeat the Tea Party at every turn.
That's why Trump hates him. That's why he hates Trump.

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These people hate outsiders. They don't believe that the commoners,
they want your vote. In every couple of years, they'll
they'll find this. Road was a master of this. Hey, y'all,
show up and voter. The gays are going to take over.
Oh homo, sho up and vote. That's what he used
to do with George. That's how he would get you

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to vote for George W. Bush because he didn't have
an issue that mattered to everyday people. So it was
a homo hate. Hey, them homos are out there, You
better shop and vote Republican, okay, And it worked. It worked,
and it wasn't until those issues were taking off the
ballot that people started seeing. Wait a second, we keep

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voting for these bushes, We keep voting for these Republicans
that don't give us anything. That the budget grows bigger,
the deficit grows larger, and the agencies don't want don't
do what we wanted to do, and we go to war. Well,
Daid Feeling refused to close the border, and there's a

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reason for that. The Chamber of Commerce crowd does not
want to close the border. That's a dirty little secret.
There are a lot of prominent Republicans in this country,
donors who do not want to close The Republicans but
do not want to close the border. They don't say
it out loud. Raoh, So we got a big vote
this Saturday, and it is very important that David Cook

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beat Dad Feeling. I think he will