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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Verie Show is on the air. One of
the newsletters I follow and read daily is a guy
named Peter Attia, and he's a doctor and he's kind
of into wellness and longevity and all this sort of stuff.
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But one of the things he does is he tries
to sort fact from fiction and hype from truth on
all the medical developments, because every day there's some new
shot or pill or procedure and diet. And I'm a
big believer in reading and studying, you know, our body.
Focusing on our body, which we're told is a temple right,
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treating it with respect, it's the one God gave us
is important. But one of the things he does is
when he does an interview that is important, like a
New Year's resolution interview, he plays that again at the
beginning of the next year and he says, Hey, I'm
proud of this interview. I think it's useful. I want
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to renew it well. Over the years, we used to
replay a lot of our audio. If I had a
good interview, we'd play it in the morning, we'd play
it in the evening, and we got a lot of complaints,
But the only people who complained were people who listened
to the Morning and the evening or who listened to
the podcast, because they would hear it twice and it
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made him upset and they'd tell us we were lazy
or whatever else. And it wasn't that we were trying
to recycle our best content. TV stations do that. I
mean a lot of and so we've steered clear of it.
But we talked about Jimmy Carter's death and all the
praise it's been heaped on him the other night, and
we got so much of a response. I wasn't going
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to do it on the morning show, and I don't
think I could do it as well as we did
it that first time, that we are going to replace
something from the other night. I'm spending all this time
telling you because I know people will get upset. But
I don't want Jimmy Carter to be hailed as a
hero and sanctified, beatified, because I don't think he's a
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good man, and I want to make the case that
he's not. So here it is I didn't get to
opine on the passing of the former president. Now I
fully understand that some of you are cringing right now
lest I say something negative about the deceased. And I
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also understand that some of you are still operating under
the old rules, where the most important thing is that
you be nice, like you're Patrick Swayzee at the bar
in Roadhouse, because you've been taught that the most important thing,
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and this is particularly a white person thing, gotta be nice.
Somebody slaps you in the face, be nice. Someone kicks
you in the gut, be nice. Someone steals the election,
be nice. That's why so many people are afraid to
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speak out about election fraud, because we don't seem nice.
Why so many people don't want criminals sent to prison
when the media shows you, well, he's got babies that
he's made, they would lose their daddy. Oh, we gotta
be nice. We'd like to deport these people because a
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lot of them are criminals. Uh, some of them are
gonna cry and they have friends here. Gotta be nice.
Being nice has been the death of our reports. It's
better you be principled. Let me ask you this. If
Hitler died tomorrow instead of when he did at the
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end of World War two, would you the next day
say we should be nice? No? You shouldn't because he
was a devil. It is important that we're honest about things.
Did you notice that upon his death, the left attacked
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Rush Limbaugh and it upset you because they weren't being nice.
And what did you say? You said, Well, we didn't
do that when your people died. We're always nice to
your people, and you criticize one of our heroes.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Well, now I'm going to not be nice about Jimmy
Carter because it's important that people who did not live
through his presidency I did, people who have not studied
his presidency and his post presidency I have. It's important
that you understand that this was a very very bad person.
And before you turn off saying ooh, I don't want
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to listen to him speak ill of the dead, did
you know that when Donald Trump was elected, Jimmy Carter
called him an illegitimate president. Jimmy Carter was the biggest
election denier in America, the most prominent election denier in America.
He claimed he didn't really win. Oh, but that was
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the least of what he did. He did so many
awful things. And so I'd like to spend some time
setting the record straight on Jimmy Carter. Jimmy Carter was
regarded by modern historians accurately as the worst president in
US history, certainly in modern US history, until Joe Biden
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came along. By the way, there's a reason they were
both one term presidents. This is a glowing report by
Leslie Stall of sixty minutes after Jimmy Carter's passing. And
I want you to notice that she uses the same
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compliment for Carter Democrats that they use for Joe Biden today.
They're going to use the same argument to prop him up,
because it's important that that be repeated in the living room,
at the dinner table, in the classroom. You know, Carter
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didn't win a second term, but he was a good man. No,
he wasn't, and I'll prove it. But first listen to
this glowing report on how great his presidency was.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Oh my gosh, he was so unique, a peanut farmer
from Plains, Georgia. He won the presidency I think because
he was the unnixed and we'd just gone through Watergate.
Jimmy Carter said, I'll never lie to you. Over and
over and over. People think that he was unsuccessful, but
he passed more than most presidents doing two terms in
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one term.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
I had the best batting average in the Congress in
recent history of any president except Linda Johnson.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
He saved every hostage that was held in Iran. He
passed landmark legislation, big things like energy policy and the
giving back the Panama Canality. He put solar panels on
the roof of the White House back then. I think
he's most proud of the fact that there was peace
for the four years that he was president.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
We never fired a bullet, we never dropped a bomb,
we never launched a missile.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
I think he thought he was a great president. President
Carter's lasting legacy comes out of his post presidency. No
one would disagree that he's one of the great post
presidents we've ever had. He devoted himself to poor people.
He built houses for poor people. He spent his life
trying to get rid of certain diseases in Africa that
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were killing people unnecessarily. He won the Nobel Peace Prize,
not when he was president, but after he died, knowing
that he had lived a good life.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
No that he is a bad man who did bad things,
and I'll prove it coming up and you did it
out live so Leslie Stall of sixty minutes. What have
you believed that the four years of the Carter presidency
were fantastic? First, he led on the issue of energy.
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There was an energy crisis during his administration. Get to
that in a moment. He gave the Panama Canal back.
That's terrible for us. We built it. He put solar
panels on the White House. Can you believe it? Yeah?
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And then they were removed when he left, and Obama
did it again when he became president. Solar doesn't work.
Would just stop with that already? He brought peace to
the world, He said, are you aware that Iran destabilized
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during his presidency? The stable, secular Iran collapsed and the
most disturbing, dangerous Muslim regime in the world replaced it.
To this day, we are dealing with that threat. That's
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not peace. How about inflation, inflation the likes of which
we hadn't seen since the Biden administration. My goodness, do
they have so much in common? How about the creation
of the Department of Education. Brag on that for a moment,
because it's an absolute and utter bust. Jimmy Carter was
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remembered for one speech he gave as president. It is
commonly called the Crisis of Confidence speech, but political scientists
and media members remember it as the Malaise Speech. Interestingly,
he never used the word malaise. Malaise is one of
those words you don't hear very often. And when I
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hear the word malaise, being a political junkie as I am,
the first thing I think of is Jimmy Carter. In
that speech, a malaise is defined as a general feeling
of discomfort, illness, or uneasiness whose exact cause is difficult
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to identify, so kind of fibromyalgia, if you will. The
Carter administered stration was plagued by flu like symptoms upon
the nation. You can think of it that way. The
speech was delivered July fifteenth, nineteen seventy nine. People were down,
they were depressed, they were listless. There was a malaise,
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and so Jimmy Carter decided, Joe Biden one point zero,
that he would give a speech talk about the fact
that it was Americans who were at fault here. It
was your fault that you weren't happy.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
It is a crisis of confidence. It is a crisis
that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit
of our national will. We can see this crisis in
the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives
and in the loss of a unity of purpose for
our nation. The erosion of our confidence in the future
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is threatening to destroy the social and the political fabric
of uncle. The confidence that we have always had as
a people is not simply some romantic dream or a
proverb and a dusty book that we read just.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
On the fourth of July.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
It is the idea which founded our nation and has
guided our development as a people. Confidence in the future
has supported everything else, public institutions and private enterprise, our
own families, and the very constitution of the United States.
Confidence has defined our course and has served as a link.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Sounds inspiring, doesn't it? Real inspiring? The economy was so
bad under Jimmy Carter that Dan Ackroyd, a star of
Saturday Night Live at the time, explained inflation while impersonating
then President Jimmy Carter on Saturday Night Live.
Speaker 6 (12:59):
Inflation is our friend. For example, consider this in the
year two thousand, if current trans continued, the average blue
collar annual wage in this country will be five hundred
and sixty eight thousand dollars. Think what this inflated will
of the future will mean? Most Americans will be millionaires.
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Everyone will feel like a big shot. Wouldn't you like
to own a four thousand dollars suit and smoke up
seventy five dollars cigar, drive a six hundred thousand dollars car.
I know I would. But what about people on fixed incomes?
They have always been the true victims of inflation. That's
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why I will present to Congress the Inflation Maintenance Program,
where by the US Treasury will make up any inflation
cost losses through direct tax rebates to the public in cash. Now,
you may say, won't that cost a lot of money?
Won't that increase the deficit? Sure it will, But so what,
We'll just print more money. We have the papers, we
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have the mints. I can just call up the Bureau
engrave it and say, hi, this is Jimmy.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Roll Off.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
Some of them twenties trend up a couple of thousand
sheets of those century notes. Sure the glot of dollars
will cause even more infliction, but who cares. Everybody'll be
a millionaire.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
So yes. The Carter presidency was a terrible four years
for America. January of seventy seven until January of eighty one,
when Ronald Reagan took over and the company the country
went into a boom. Companies boomed, individuals boomed. But wait,
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what about since he was president he was such a
good man, right, Scott Jennings laid that clear, laid that
low on CNN.
Speaker 7 (15:00):
Well, let me preface my take by offering condolences to
the Carter family and on his death. He was obviously
one of the most unique post presidencies we ever have
because he lived so long and he did so much.
That having been said, he was a terrible president. That's
why I lost in a landslide after his one term.
And if it's possible, I think he was even a
worse ex president because of his meddling in US foreign policy,
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because of his saddling up to dictators around the world,
because of his vehement views anti Israel views, and more
than dabbling in anti Semitism. Over the years, he often
vexed Democrats. Obama didn't even have him speak at Hiseight Convention.
He put Bill Clinton in a terrible foreign policy box
on a North Korea nuclear issue. I think he was
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a guy who had a huge ego and believed that
he was uniquely positioned to do all these things, even
after the American people had roundly and soundly rejected his leadership.
So I respect people who are for president and get
elected president, but in his particular case, I think he
time it again proved why he was never suited.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
For the office.
Speaker 7 (16:06):
In the first before you jump up to the Persian
Gulf War, he wrote letters, yeah, I know about this,
all of our allies and to Arab states asking them
to abandon their cooperation and coalition with the United States
of America. If it's not treason US, it's borderline treasons.
And so I hear what you're saying about the humanitarianism.
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But when you're an ex president and you have served
in that office, I think you have a duty to
the United States and only to the United States. And
when he did that and other instances, to me, it
showed that he cared more about his own legacy than
he did about the country.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
And I think that is long listening to Michael Barry,
so Jimmy Carter, you may not agree that his presidency
was great, but he was a good man after he
was president. So we're told, how about when he said
this after Donald Trump was elected.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
There's no doubt that there did interfere in the election,
and I think the interference, although not yet quantified, if
fully an investigated, would show that Trump didn't actually win
the election in twenty sixteen. He lost the election and
he was put in the office because the Russian's interfere
on his.
Speaker 7 (17:15):
Behalf said, you believe President Trump is an illegitimate president.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
Face on what I just said was I can retrict.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Remember when Ronald Reagan defined what recovery means.
Speaker 8 (17:30):
That Carter record is a litany of despair, of broken promises,
of sacred trusts abandoned and forgotten.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
His answer to.
Speaker 8 (17:37):
All this misery, he tries to tell us that we're
only in a recession, not a depression, as if definitions
words relieve our suffering.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Let it show on the record that.
Speaker 8 (17:50):
When the American people cried out for economic help, Jimmy
Carter took refuge behind the dictionary. Well, if it's a
definition he wants, I'll give him one. A recession is
when your neighbor loses his job, a depression is when
you lose yours, and recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
His speaking of Reagan, there's an appearance that Ramon came
across The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson a while back,
and we've been looking for an opportunity to play it.
Let's do it here. All these years later, it's a
little longer than we would normally play. All these years later,
it is still as relevant as ever today. This was
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Ronald Reagan on The Tonight.
Speaker 9 (18:31):
Show when you and I were boys. Back in the Midwest.
Government's federal, state, and local. We're only taking about fifteen
cents out of every dollar earned. Today, they're taking almost
half of every dollar earned in the United States. Most
people don't realize it because the taxes are hidden in
the so called business taxes. You know, the politician that
stands up and yells, oh, let's save the little man.
Let's tax business, and everybody else are reay. They haven't
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figured out that every tax on business is just a
part of the cost of production, and the customer winds
up pay it when he buys the product. It's a
hidden sales tax. There's one hundred and sixteen of them
in the suit of clothes that each one of us.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Is un suppose.
Speaker 9 (19:07):
A lot of the economists have suggested, and I don't
know there'll ever come to be in this country that
they're if they closed all of the loopholes and corporations
and maybe tax loopholes and even on their rich certain loopholes,
and made a percentage income and made a flat fee
without all of the deductions, that the government might raise
as much money as they do now. Oh sure, And
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really the loopholes this has been overdone by the politicians too.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Now the bulk of the money that is taken.
Speaker 9 (19:33):
But what are called loopholes are the legitimate deductions with
which if the people didn't have them, they couldn't pay
their income tax, interest on their mortgage, interest on the
installments on their car, their property taxes on their home
if they have one, and so forth.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
These are in politicians as loopholes.
Speaker 9 (19:49):
But we ought to have tax reform, and we ought
to start by making it as simple that you don't
have to hire a lawyer to find out how much
you owe every year.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
That's for sure.
Speaker 10 (19:56):
It used to be a little simplified.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
A lot of them are Johnny.
Speaker 9 (20:01):
We live in the only country in the world where
it takes more brains to figure out your income tax
than it does earn the income.
Speaker 10 (20:06):
That'd be right.
Speaker 9 (20:07):
We've gotten in the habit over the last forty years
of thinking the government has the answers. There's very little
that government can do as efficiently and as economically as
the people can do themselves. And if government would shut
the doors and sneak away for about three weeks, we'd
never miss them. Our biggest problem is that we have
built a permanent structure of government, federal, state, and local,
the permanent employees, and they've come to the place that
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they actually determined policy in this country more than does
the Congress of the United States. There are fourteen and
a half million public employees in the United States. That's
quite a voting block. And the bureaus and agencies not
in Washington. I heard you talking earlier about some of
the research programs. What would you say if I told
you about one a study in which this was called the.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Demography of Happiness.
Speaker 9 (20:54):
And in this study, the government found out that young
people are happier in old people, and they found out
that people that earn more or happier than people that
earn less. And they found out that well people are halfier.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Than six people. That's good lie.
Speaker 9 (21:11):
It was two hundred and forty nine thousand dollars to
find out it's better to be rich, young, and healthy
than old poorts. A poll was taken recently that found
out that only forty six percent of the people in
the pool could name their United States congressman.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
But what was worse, eighty six percent of.
Speaker 9 (21:28):
Those who could name him couldn't tell you a single
thing that he represented or stood for.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
They just knew that he represented the fav.
Speaker 9 (21:35):
He was a congressman, But what's he doing while he's
up there? And the same is true at the at
the local levels of government and all the rest. But
so you're saying people really have to take an active ventures.
You have to have citizen action groups locally and let
him know. It's certain special interest groups. Now, the special
interest groups are as everyone thought, big powerful business interests
are something that are going to persuade government to do things.
As a matter of fact, I don't know anyone with
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less influence today in government than business. They're just a
convenient whipping boy. But it's the groups that have got
a particular acts to grind. You can't have a power
plant because it might interfere with the seagulls, now I
think I'm an environmentalist, and I do not agree with
those people way over in the edge who pave the
whole country over in the name of progress. But also
I don't like those on the other extreme that will
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let you build a house unless it looks like a
bird's nest someplace in the middle.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
We got to allow people are ecology.
Speaker 9 (22:22):
Too well, this kind of group, and they want their
particular program. Hundreds of dollars have been added to the
cost of an automobile putting gadgets on it to clear
up the air.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
We're the only country in the world that's set out
to do it that way.
Speaker 9 (22:33):
When budget deficits are what's causing inflation, I don't see
that there's any room to.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Be on either side of that argument.
Speaker 9 (22:39):
I think the answer to curing inflation is a balanced budget.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Now, how do you do that? I mean, it's not
how do you balance the budget?
Speaker 9 (22:47):
Well, balancing the budget is like protecting spend more than
you take in right now, it's like protecting your virtue.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
You have to learn to say no.
Speaker 10 (23:02):
There's got to be an other way. What's the second option.
Speaker 9 (23:10):
Well, well, there's some ways that this could be brought about.
First of all, the limitation here, here's another one. Why
shouldn't we have, in addition to a simplified income text,
why shouldn't we also have a law that says that
any time a legislator or a congressman introduces a spending program,
he has to introduce with it a tax program to
pay for it.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Then let the people find out.
Speaker 9 (23:29):
There was a woman that from a financial firm that
was back at the President's Economic Council, and her words
weren't quoted.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Everybody else's words got.
Speaker 9 (23:36):
In the paper, all the Heller's and the gall breaths
and all the soballed economists. And I have a degree
in economics, so I can say this. I think an
economist is someone who has a phive beta kapakey on
one end of his watchchain and no watch on the other.
This woman said that you go to the polls and
you ask the people do they want some social service,
some program that government can give? And the people in
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the polls are apt to read and say that sounds good. Yeah,
But she says that isn't exactly accurate. She says, put
a one hundred dollars bill in each person's hand and
then show them the program. And say, now, isn't that
a nice program?
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Do you want it? Give me the one hundred dollars,
And she says.
Speaker 9 (24:12):
See what the poll says then, and how many people
hang on with one hundred dollars instead.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Of the program?
Speaker 9 (24:16):
In other words, that it's rather hidden than someone doesn't
know exactly where when I come to they all start
all the government programs. Start a dollar down and we'll
catch you later, and they multiply all of those things
that you were. The Office of Management and Budget in
Washington that's responsible for the budget up putting the budget together,
cannot even tell you how many boards, commissions, agencies, bureaus,
and departments there are in the federal government. But all
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of them can pass regulations, and those regulations have the
force of law. And the difference is when you break
the law, you're innocent until proven guilty. When you break
a regulation, the fellow the charges you with breaking the regulation,
you're guilty. If you want to take him to court
and prove your innocent, that's up to you. And all
of these are things that, yeah, we can trim the budget.
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There's enough fat in the federal government that if you
rendered it, you could wash the world. Maybe it's time
for realignment between people who might be find themselves in
the wrong parties. Maybe there's some people still voting. I
was a Democrat most of my life. I became a
Republican only not too many years ago. And I had
the pleasure of telling some of those people that are
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saying the Republican Party ought to broaden its base the
other day that when I switched parties, I didn't do
it because the two parties were alike.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
I did it because they were different.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Coman did you vote Xanna do? Oh my goodness, we
do not deserve Olivia Newton John.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
My life.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
When I were watching Greece the other day. True story.
It's so ridiculous, it's so absurd, and that's what makes
it perfect. But to be fair for anybody who thinks
this isn't real music, You've got Jeffrey Lynn of Elo
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in the background singing harmonies. That makes it real. That
makes it legit. Milania Trump New York Post reports signs
whopping forty million dollar documentary deal with Amazon with cameos
from Baron and Donald a forty million dollar deal. My
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friend Buck Sexton notes that means the widespread corporate boycott
of all things Trump has been broken. This is just
the beginning. You see, Fascism is when you have private
companies but they are run at the direction of the government.
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The Chinese Communist Party engaged in some private company ownership
rather than state ownership as a hybrid to jumpstart their economy,
and it worked. But make no mistake, they still have
to do the bidding of the government. This is what
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happened during COVID, when the government would use their power
over companies, not just government employees to stay he you
want that bailout, you want that subsidy, you want this
regulation to continue to be eased off, you better require
the clock shot. Companies wouldn't touch Trump or you because
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you were evil, and they would be boycotted, all the
while undertaking DEI programs. Well, now you've seen the list
of companies that have rolled back their DEI policies, Companies
that never should have had them in the first place.
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Tractor supply, are you kid? You're a been in a
tractor supply. Nobody that believes in DEI nonsense is shopping
at tractor supply for what tractor supply offers. Well, Meta,
which is Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg has been begging at the
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feet of Donald Trump to get back amongst respectable company.
So we got Amazon, Jeff Bisos signing a big deal
with Milania. Oh, his liberal buddies aren't gonna like that.
And now you've got Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook saying I
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see the writing on the wall. We're going to do
away with our fact checkers. It was a bad program
and it didn't work. Think you would have done that
if Kamala went one. Of course not. They banned my
biggest account. I had to start back over. They banned
it at this election. They did it in twenty twenty.
They let me back on after twenty twenty. Now they
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took away my biggest account, so I had to start
over from scratch. Well, Michael, how come you don't leave
them behind? I should. But Facebook is an opportunity for
me to share articles and graphics, photos, engagement with listeners
in a way that I can't do on the radio.
So I got all these radio listeners and most people
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email me. They know, go to Michael Berryshow dot com
and email me. But if I want to post a
picture and share it, I do that on my daily Blast,
which is my mail out list, and I do it
on Facebook, and I did that with a lot of
political commentary, and they were fine with me doing it.
They were monetizing it all the way up till the
first week of October, right before the election, and they
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shut me down. Apparently I had violated their policies. They
wouldn't tell me how, but that's what they do. So
here is Mark Zuckerberg begging and saying, maya culpa, maya culpa.
You know the fact check in that we were doing,
which was censorship. We weren't really getting it right.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
It's time to get back to our roots around free
expression on Facebook and Instagram. I started building social media
to give people a voice. I gave a speech at
Georgetown five years ago about the importance of protecting free
expression and I still believe this today. But a lot
has happened over the last several years. There's been widespread
debate about potential harms from online content. Governments and legacy
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media have pushed to censor more and more. A lot
of this is clearly political, but there's also a lot
of legitimately bad stuff out there. Drugs, terrorism, child exploitation.
These are things that we take very seriously, and I
want to make sure that we handle responsibly. So we
built a lot of complex systems to moderate content. But
the problem with complex systems is they make mistakes. Even
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if they accidentally censored just one percent of posts, that's
millions of people, and we've reached a point where it's
just too many mistakes and too much censorship. The recent
elections also feel like a cultural tipping point towards once
again prioritizing speech. So we're going to get back to
our roots and focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies,
(31:27):
and restoring free expression on our platforms. More specifically, here's
what we're going to do. First, we're going to get
rid of fact checkers and replace them with community notes
similar to X. Starting in the US, after Trump first
got elected in twenty sixteen, the legacy media wrote NonStop
about how misinformation was a threat to democracy. We tried,
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in good faith to address those concerns without becoming the
arbiters of truth, but the fact checkers have just been
too politically biased and have destroyed more trusts than they've created,
especially in the So over the next couple of months,
we're going to phase in a more comprehensive community notes system. Second,
we're going to simplify our content policies and get rid
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of a bunch of restrictions on topics like immigration and
gender that are just out of touch with mainstream discourse.
What started as a movement to be more inclusive has
increasingly been used to shut down opinions and shut out
people with different ideas, and it's gone too far. So
I want to make sure that people can share their
beliefs and experiences on our platforms.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
So what he's saying is Facebook is going to become
more like Twitter because Twitter is blowing up and Facebook
is dying. Facebook is mostly left to grandma's posting pictures
of their grandkids, and kids who've moved away from home
posting pictures of their kids for grandma to see. And
that's fine. There's a place for that. In fact, that's
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mostly what I still use it for. But it's not
a place to engage to share ideas. To iron sharpens
iron a crucible of concepts. Because you heard what he said,
our attempts to be inclusive turned out to have the
opposite effect. That's what the left does. Oh don't say
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that you've hurt my feelings is a nice way of
saying only say what I say, and everything else should
be shut down. And by the way, what I say
today tomorrow I might decide up that wasn't good, So
that's not allowed to be said anymore. You can only
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say what I say, which is Biden is great, Kamala
is great, Liberalism is great. Chopping off your kids weiener
is great. Making your daughter into a boy is great.
White people can't have any jobs. Only blacks, and preferably
black lesbian dudes who were born as men. Boys should
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be allowed to play against girls and injure them and
have unfair advantages. Welfare should boom, but not for white people.
Our border should be wide open that anything other than
that is not sufficiently inclusive. That is Unamerican. And I
am so proud of you because you won this election.
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You took back your workplaces. You as a consumer, as
an employer, as an American, bought back and this is
a win. Congratulations
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Verie Show is on the air. One of
the newsletters I follow and read daily is a guy
named Peter Attia, and he's a doctor and he's kind
of into wellness and longevity and all this sort of stuff.
(00:31):
But one of the things he does is he tries
to sort fact from fiction and hype from truth on
all the medical developments, because every day there's some new
shot or pill or procedure and diet. And I'm a
big believer in reading and studying, you know, our body.
Focusing on our body, which we're told is a temple right,
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treating it with respect, it's the one God gave us
is important. But one of the things he does is
when he does an interview that is important, like a
New Year's resolution interview, he plays that again at the
beginning of the next year and he says, Hey, I'm
proud of this interview. I think it's useful. I want
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to renew it well. Over the years, we used to
replay a lot of our audio. If I had a
good interview, we'd play it in the morning, we'd play
it in the evening, and we got a lot of complaints,
But the only people who complained were people who listened
to the Morning and the evening or who listened to
the podcast, because they would hear it twice and it
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made him upset and they'd tell us we were lazy
or whatever else. And it wasn't that we were trying
to recycle our best content. TV stations do that. I
mean a lot of and so we've steered clear of it.
But we talked about Jimmy Carter's death and all the
praise it's been heaped on him the other night, and
we got so much of a response. I wasn't going
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to do it on the morning show, and I don't
think I could do it as well as we did
it that first time, that we are going to replace
something from the other night. I'm spending all this time
telling you because I know people will get upset. But
I don't want Jimmy Carter to be hailed as a
hero and sanctified, beatified, because I don't think he's a
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good man, and I want to make the case that
he's not. So here it is I didn't get to
opine on the passing of the former president. Now I
fully understand that some of you are cringing right now
lest I say something negative about the deceased. And I
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also understand that some of you are still operating under
the old rules, where the most important thing is that
you be nice, like you're Patrick Swayzee at the bar
in Roadhouse, because you've been taught that the most important thing,
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and this is particularly a white person thing, gotta be nice.
Somebody slaps you in the face, be nice. Someone kicks
you in the gut, be nice. Someone steals the election,
be nice. That's why so many people are afraid to
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speak out about election fraud, because we don't seem nice.
Why so many people don't want criminals sent to prison
when the media shows you, well, he's got babies that
he's made, they would lose their daddy. Oh, we gotta
be nice. We'd like to deport these people because a
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lot of them are criminals. Uh, some of them are
gonna cry and they have friends here. Gotta be nice.
Being nice has been the death of our reports. It's
better you be principled. Let me ask you this. If
Hitler died tomorrow instead of when he did at the
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end of World War two, would you the next day
say we should be nice? No? You shouldn't because he
was a devil. It is important that we're honest about things.
Did you notice that upon his death, the left attacked
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Rush Limbaugh and it upset you because they weren't being nice.
And what did you say? You said, Well, we didn't
do that when your people died. We're always nice to
your people, and you criticize one of our heroes.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Well, now I'm going to not be nice about Jimmy
Carter because it's important that people who did not live
through his presidency I did, people who have not studied
his presidency and his post presidency I have. It's important
that you understand that this was a very very bad person.
And before you turn off saying ooh, I don't want
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to listen to him speak ill of the dead, did
you know that when Donald Trump was elected, Jimmy Carter
called him an illegitimate president. Jimmy Carter was the biggest
election denier in America, the most prominent election denier in America.
He claimed he didn't really win. Oh, but that was
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the least of what he did. He did so many
awful things. And so I'd like to spend some time
setting the record straight on Jimmy Carter. Jimmy Carter was
regarded by modern historians accurately as the worst president in
US history, certainly in modern US history, until Joe Biden
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came along. By the way, there's a reason they were
both one term presidents. This is a glowing report by
Leslie Stall of sixty minutes after Jimmy Carter's passing. And
I want you to notice that she uses the same
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compliment for Carter Democrats that they use for Joe Biden today.
They're going to use the same argument to prop him up,
because it's important that that be repeated in the living room,
at the dinner table, in the classroom. You know, Carter
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didn't win a second term, but he was a good man. No,
he wasn't, and I'll prove it. But first listen to
this glowing report on how great his presidency was.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Oh my gosh, he was so unique, a peanut farmer
from Plains, Georgia. He won the presidency I think because
he was the unnixed and we'd just gone through Watergate.
Jimmy Carter said, I'll never lie to you. Over and
over and over. People think that he was unsuccessful, but
he passed more than most presidents doing two terms in
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one term.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
I had the best batting average in the Congress in
recent history of any president except Linda Johnson.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
He saved every hostage that was held in Iran. He
passed landmark legislation, big things like energy policy and the
giving back the Panama Canality. He put solar panels on
the roof of the White House back then. I think
he's most proud of the fact that there was peace
for the four years that he was president.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
We never fired a bullet, we never dropped a bomb,
we never launched a missile.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
I think he thought he was a great president. President
Carter's lasting legacy comes out of his post presidency. No
one would disagree that he's one of the great post
presidents we've ever had. He devoted himself to poor people.
He built houses for poor people. He spent his life
trying to get rid of certain diseases in Africa that
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were killing people unnecessarily. He won the Nobel Peace Prize,
not when he was president, but after he died, knowing
that he had lived a good life.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
No that he is a bad man who did bad things,
and I'll prove it coming up and you did it
out live so Leslie Stall of sixty minutes. What have
you believed that the four years of the Carter presidency
were fantastic? First, he led on the issue of energy.
(08:44):
There was an energy crisis during his administration. Get to
that in a moment. He gave the Panama Canal back.
That's terrible for us. We built it. He put solar
panels on the White House. Can you believe it? Yeah?
(09:05):
And then they were removed when he left, and Obama
did it again when he became president. Solar doesn't work.
Would just stop with that already? He brought peace to
the world, He said, are you aware that Iran destabilized
(09:26):
during his presidency? The stable, secular Iran collapsed and the
most disturbing, dangerous Muslim regime in the world replaced it.
To this day, we are dealing with that threat. That's
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not peace. How about inflation, inflation the likes of which
we hadn't seen since the Biden administration. My goodness, do
they have so much in common? How about the creation
of the Department of Education. Brag on that for a moment,
because it's an absolute and utter bust. Jimmy Carter was
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remembered for one speech he gave as president. It is
commonly called the Crisis of Confidence speech, but political scientists
and media members remember it as the Malaise Speech. Interestingly,
he never used the word malaise. Malaise is one of
those words you don't hear very often. And when I
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hear the word malaise, being a political junkie as I am,
the first thing I think of is Jimmy Carter. In
that speech, a malaise is defined as a general feeling
of discomfort, illness, or uneasiness whose exact cause is difficult
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to identify, so kind of fibromyalgia, if you will. The
Carter administered stration was plagued by flu like symptoms upon
the nation. You can think of it that way. The
speech was delivered July fifteenth, nineteen seventy nine. People were down,
they were depressed, they were listless. There was a malaise,
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and so Jimmy Carter decided, Joe Biden one point zero,
that he would give a speech talk about the fact
that it was Americans who were at fault here. It
was your fault that you weren't happy.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
It is a crisis of confidence. It is a crisis
that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit
of our national will. We can see this crisis in
the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives
and in the loss of a unity of purpose for
our nation. The erosion of our confidence in the future
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is threatening to destroy the social and the political fabric
of uncle. The confidence that we have always had as
a people is not simply some romantic dream or a
proverb and a dusty book that we read just.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
On the fourth of July.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
It is the idea which founded our nation and has
guided our development as a people. Confidence in the future
has supported everything else, public institutions and private enterprise, our
own families, and the very constitution of the United States.
Confidence has defined our course and has served as a link.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Sounds inspiring, doesn't it? Real inspiring? The economy was so
bad under Jimmy Carter that Dan Ackroyd, a star of
Saturday Night Live at the time, explained inflation while impersonating
then President Jimmy Carter on Saturday Night Live.
Speaker 6 (12:59):
Inflation is our friend. For example, consider this in the
year two thousand, if current trans continued, the average blue
collar annual wage in this country will be five hundred
and sixty eight thousand dollars. Think what this inflated will
of the future will mean? Most Americans will be millionaires.
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Everyone will feel like a big shot. Wouldn't you like
to own a four thousand dollars suit and smoke up
seventy five dollars cigar, drive a six hundred thousand dollars car.
I know I would. But what about people on fixed incomes?
They have always been the true victims of inflation. That's
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why I will present to Congress the Inflation Maintenance Program,
where by the US Treasury will make up any inflation
cost losses through direct tax rebates to the public in cash. Now,
you may say, won't that cost a lot of money?
Won't that increase the deficit? Sure it will, But so what,
We'll just print more money. We have the papers, we
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have the mints. I can just call up the Bureau
engrave it and say, hi, this is Jimmy.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Roll Off.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
Some of them twenties trend up a couple of thousand
sheets of those century notes. Sure the glot of dollars
will cause even more infliction, but who cares. Everybody'll be
a millionaire.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
So yes. The Carter presidency was a terrible four years
for America. January of seventy seven until January of eighty one,
when Ronald Reagan took over and the company the country
went into a boom. Companies boomed, individuals boomed. But wait,
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what about since he was president he was such a
good man, right, Scott Jennings laid that clear, laid that
low on CNN.
Speaker 7 (15:00):
Well, let me preface my take by offering condolences to
the Carter family and on his death. He was obviously
one of the most unique post presidencies we ever have
because he lived so long and he did so much.
That having been said, he was a terrible president. That's
why I lost in a landslide after his one term.
And if it's possible, I think he was even a
worse ex president because of his meddling in US foreign policy,
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because of his saddling up to dictators around the world,
because of his vehement views anti Israel views, and more
than dabbling in anti Semitism. Over the years, he often
vexed Democrats. Obama didn't even have him speak at Hiseight Convention.
He put Bill Clinton in a terrible foreign policy box
on a North Korea nuclear issue. I think he was
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a guy who had a huge ego and believed that
he was uniquely positioned to do all these things, even
after the American people had roundly and soundly rejected his leadership.
So I respect people who are for president and get
elected president, but in his particular case, I think he
time it again proved why he was never suited.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
For the office.
Speaker 7 (16:06):
In the first before you jump up to the Persian
Gulf War, he wrote letters, yeah, I know about this,
all of our allies and to Arab states asking them
to abandon their cooperation and coalition with the United States
of America. If it's not treason US, it's borderline treasons.
And so I hear what you're saying about the humanitarianism.
(16:27):
But when you're an ex president and you have served
in that office, I think you have a duty to
the United States and only to the United States. And
when he did that and other instances, to me, it
showed that he cared more about his own legacy than
he did about the country.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
And I think that is long listening to Michael Barry,
so Jimmy Carter, you may not agree that his presidency
was great, but he was a good man after he
was president. So we're told, how about when he said
this after Donald Trump was elected.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
There's no doubt that there did interfere in the election,
and I think the interference, although not yet quantified, if
fully an investigated, would show that Trump didn't actually win
the election in twenty sixteen. He lost the election and
he was put in the office because the Russian's interfere
on his.
Speaker 7 (17:15):
Behalf said, you believe President Trump is an illegitimate president.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
Face on what I just said was I can retrict.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Remember when Ronald Reagan defined what recovery means.
Speaker 8 (17:30):
That Carter record is a litany of despair, of broken promises,
of sacred trusts abandoned and forgotten.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
His answer to.
Speaker 8 (17:37):
All this misery, he tries to tell us that we're
only in a recession, not a depression, as if definitions
words relieve our suffering.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Let it show on the record that.
Speaker 8 (17:50):
When the American people cried out for economic help, Jimmy
Carter took refuge behind the dictionary. Well, if it's a
definition he wants, I'll give him one. A recession is
when your neighbor loses his job, a depression is when
you lose yours, and recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
His speaking of Reagan, there's an appearance that Ramon came
across The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson a while back,
and we've been looking for an opportunity to play it.
Let's do it here. All these years later, it's a
little longer than we would normally play. All these years later,
it is still as relevant as ever today. This was
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Ronald Reagan on The Tonight.
Speaker 9 (18:31):
Show when you and I were boys. Back in the Midwest.
Government's federal, state, and local. We're only taking about fifteen
cents out of every dollar earned. Today, they're taking almost
half of every dollar earned in the United States. Most
people don't realize it because the taxes are hidden in
the so called business taxes. You know, the politician that
stands up and yells, oh, let's save the little man.
Let's tax business, and everybody else are reay. They haven't
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figured out that every tax on business is just a
part of the cost of production, and the customer winds
up pay it when he buys the product. It's a
hidden sales tax. There's one hundred and sixteen of them
in the suit of clothes that each one of us.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Is un suppose.
Speaker 9 (19:07):
A lot of the economists have suggested, and I don't
know there'll ever come to be in this country that
they're if they closed all of the loopholes and corporations
and maybe tax loopholes and even on their rich certain loopholes,
and made a percentage income and made a flat fee
without all of the deductions, that the government might raise
as much money as they do now. Oh sure, And
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really the loopholes this has been overdone by the politicians too.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Now the bulk of the money that is taken.
Speaker 9 (19:33):
But what are called loopholes are the legitimate deductions with
which if the people didn't have them, they couldn't pay
their income tax, interest on their mortgage, interest on the
installments on their car, their property taxes on their home
if they have one, and so forth.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
These are in politicians as loopholes.
Speaker 9 (19:49):
But we ought to have tax reform, and we ought
to start by making it as simple that you don't
have to hire a lawyer to find out how much
you owe every year.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
That's for sure.
Speaker 10 (19:56):
It used to be a little simplified.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
A lot of them are Johnny.
Speaker 9 (20:01):
We live in the only country in the world where
it takes more brains to figure out your income tax
than it does earn the income.
Speaker 10 (20:06):
That'd be right.
Speaker 9 (20:07):
We've gotten in the habit over the last forty years
of thinking the government has the answers. There's very little
that government can do as efficiently and as economically as
the people can do themselves. And if government would shut
the doors and sneak away for about three weeks, we'd
never miss them. Our biggest problem is that we have
built a permanent structure of government, federal, state, and local,
the permanent employees, and they've come to the place that
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they actually determined policy in this country more than does
the Congress of the United States. There are fourteen and
a half million public employees in the United States. That's
quite a voting block. And the bureaus and agencies not
in Washington. I heard you talking earlier about some of
the research programs. What would you say if I told
you about one a study in which this was called the.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Demography of Happiness.
Speaker 9 (20:54):
And in this study, the government found out that young
people are happier in old people, and they found out
that people that earn more or happier than people that
earn less. And they found out that well people are halfier.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Than six people. That's good lie.
Speaker 9 (21:11):
It was two hundred and forty nine thousand dollars to
find out it's better to be rich, young, and healthy
than old poorts. A poll was taken recently that found
out that only forty six percent of the people in
the pool could name their United States congressman.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
But what was worse, eighty six percent of.
Speaker 9 (21:28):
Those who could name him couldn't tell you a single
thing that he represented or stood for.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
They just knew that he represented the fav.
Speaker 9 (21:35):
He was a congressman, But what's he doing while he's
up there? And the same is true at the at
the local levels of government and all the rest. But
so you're saying people really have to take an active ventures.
You have to have citizen action groups locally and let
him know. It's certain special interest groups. Now, the special
interest groups are as everyone thought, big powerful business interests
are something that are going to persuade government to do things.
As a matter of fact, I don't know anyone with
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less influence today in government than business. They're just a
convenient whipping boy. But it's the groups that have got
a particular acts to grind. You can't have a power
plant because it might interfere with the seagulls, now I
think I'm an environmentalist, and I do not agree with
those people way over in the edge who pave the
whole country over in the name of progress. But also
I don't like those on the other extreme that will
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let you build a house unless it looks like a
bird's nest someplace in the middle.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
We got to allow people are ecology.
Speaker 9 (22:22):
Too well, this kind of group, and they want their
particular program. Hundreds of dollars have been added to the
cost of an automobile putting gadgets on it to clear
up the air.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
We're the only country in the world that's set out
to do it that way.
Speaker 9 (22:33):
When budget deficits are what's causing inflation, I don't see
that there's any room to.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Be on either side of that argument.
Speaker 9 (22:39):
I think the answer to curing inflation is a balanced budget.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Now, how do you do that? I mean, it's not
how do you balance the budget?
Speaker 9 (22:47):
Well, balancing the budget is like protecting spend more than
you take in right now, it's like protecting your virtue.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
You have to learn to say no.
Speaker 10 (23:02):
There's got to be an other way. What's the second option.
Speaker 9 (23:10):
Well, well, there's some ways that this could be brought about.
First of all, the limitation here, here's another one. Why
shouldn't we have, in addition to a simplified income text,
why shouldn't we also have a law that says that
any time a legislator or a congressman introduces a spending program,
he has to introduce with it a tax program to
pay for it.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Then let the people find out.
Speaker 9 (23:29):
There was a woman that from a financial firm that
was back at the President's Economic Council, and her words
weren't quoted.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Everybody else's words got.
Speaker 9 (23:36):
In the paper, all the Heller's and the gall breaths
and all the soballed economists. And I have a degree
in economics, so I can say this. I think an
economist is someone who has a phive beta kapakey on
one end of his watchchain and no watch on the other.
This woman said that you go to the polls and
you ask the people do they want some social service,
some program that government can give? And the people in
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the polls are apt to read and say that sounds good. Yeah,
But she says that isn't exactly accurate. She says, put
a one hundred dollars bill in each person's hand and
then show them the program. And say, now, isn't that
a nice program?
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Do you want it? Give me the one hundred dollars,
And she says.
Speaker 9 (24:12):
See what the poll says then, and how many people
hang on with one hundred dollars instead.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Of the program?
Speaker 9 (24:16):
In other words, that it's rather hidden than someone doesn't
know exactly where when I come to they all start
all the government programs. Start a dollar down and we'll
catch you later, and they multiply all of those things
that you were. The Office of Management and Budget in
Washington that's responsible for the budget up putting the budget together,
cannot even tell you how many boards, commissions, agencies, bureaus,
and departments there are in the federal government. But all
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of them can pass regulations, and those regulations have the
force of law. And the difference is when you break
the law, you're innocent until proven guilty. When you break
a regulation, the fellow the charges you with breaking the regulation,
you're guilty. If you want to take him to court
and prove your innocent, that's up to you. And all
of these are things that, yeah, we can trim the budget.
(25:01):
There's enough fat in the federal government that if you
rendered it, you could wash the world. Maybe it's time
for realignment between people who might be find themselves in
the wrong parties. Maybe there's some people still voting. I
was a Democrat most of my life. I became a
Republican only not too many years ago. And I had
the pleasure of telling some of those people that are
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saying the Republican Party ought to broaden its base the
other day that when I switched parties, I didn't do
it because the two parties were alike.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
I did it because they were different.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Coman did you vote Xanna do? Oh my goodness, we
do not deserve Olivia Newton John.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
My life.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
When I were watching Greece the other day. True story.
It's so ridiculous, it's so absurd, and that's what makes
it perfect. But to be fair for anybody who thinks
this isn't real music, You've got Jeffrey Lynn of Elo
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in the background singing harmonies. That makes it real. That
makes it legit. Milania Trump New York Post reports signs
whopping forty million dollar documentary deal with Amazon with cameos
from Baron and Donald a forty million dollar deal. My
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friend Buck Sexton notes that means the widespread corporate boycott
of all things Trump has been broken. This is just
the beginning. You see, Fascism is when you have private
companies but they are run at the direction of the government.
(27:02):
The Chinese Communist Party engaged in some private company ownership
rather than state ownership as a hybrid to jumpstart their economy,
and it worked. But make no mistake, they still have
to do the bidding of the government. This is what
(27:24):
happened during COVID, when the government would use their power
over companies, not just government employees to stay he you
want that bailout, you want that subsidy, you want this
regulation to continue to be eased off, you better require
the clock shot. Companies wouldn't touch Trump or you because
(27:49):
you were evil, and they would be boycotted, all the
while undertaking DEI programs. Well, now you've seen the list
of companies that have rolled back their DEI policies, Companies
that never should have had them in the first place.
(28:10):
Tractor supply, are you kid? You're a been in a
tractor supply. Nobody that believes in DEI nonsense is shopping
at tractor supply for what tractor supply offers. Well, Meta,
which is Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg has been begging at the
(28:36):
feet of Donald Trump to get back amongst respectable company.
So we got Amazon, Jeff Bisos signing a big deal
with Milania. Oh, his liberal buddies aren't gonna like that.
And now you've got Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook saying I
(28:56):
see the writing on the wall. We're going to do
away with our fact checkers. It was a bad program
and it didn't work. Think you would have done that
if Kamala went one. Of course not. They banned my
biggest account. I had to start back over. They banned
it at this election. They did it in twenty twenty.
They let me back on after twenty twenty. Now they
(29:18):
took away my biggest account, so I had to start
over from scratch. Well, Michael, how come you don't leave
them behind? I should. But Facebook is an opportunity for
me to share articles and graphics, photos, engagement with listeners
in a way that I can't do on the radio.
So I got all these radio listeners and most people
(29:38):
email me. They know, go to Michael Berryshow dot com
and email me. But if I want to post a
picture and share it, I do that on my daily Blast,
which is my mail out list, and I do it
on Facebook, and I did that with a lot of
political commentary, and they were fine with me doing it.
They were monetizing it all the way up till the
first week of October, right before the election, and they
(30:01):
shut me down. Apparently I had violated their policies. They
wouldn't tell me how, but that's what they do. So
here is Mark Zuckerberg begging and saying, maya culpa, maya culpa.
You know the fact check in that we were doing,
which was censorship. We weren't really getting it right.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
It's time to get back to our roots around free
expression on Facebook and Instagram. I started building social media
to give people a voice. I gave a speech at
Georgetown five years ago about the importance of protecting free
expression and I still believe this today. But a lot
has happened over the last several years. There's been widespread
debate about potential harms from online content. Governments and legacy
(30:43):
media have pushed to censor more and more. A lot
of this is clearly political, but there's also a lot
of legitimately bad stuff out there. Drugs, terrorism, child exploitation.
These are things that we take very seriously, and I
want to make sure that we handle responsibly. So we
built a lot of complex systems to moderate content. But
the problem with complex systems is they make mistakes. Even
(31:05):
if they accidentally censored just one percent of posts, that's
millions of people, and we've reached a point where it's
just too many mistakes and too much censorship. The recent
elections also feel like a cultural tipping point towards once
again prioritizing speech. So we're going to get back to
our roots and focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies,
(31:27):
and restoring free expression on our platforms. More specifically, here's
what we're going to do. First, we're going to get
rid of fact checkers and replace them with community notes
similar to X. Starting in the US, after Trump first
got elected in twenty sixteen, the legacy media wrote NonStop
about how misinformation was a threat to democracy. We tried,
(31:49):
in good faith to address those concerns without becoming the
arbiters of truth, but the fact checkers have just been
too politically biased and have destroyed more trusts than they've created,
especially in the So over the next couple of months,
we're going to phase in a more comprehensive community notes system. Second,
we're going to simplify our content policies and get rid
(32:10):
of a bunch of restrictions on topics like immigration and
gender that are just out of touch with mainstream discourse.
What started as a movement to be more inclusive has
increasingly been used to shut down opinions and shut out
people with different ideas, and it's gone too far. So
I want to make sure that people can share their
beliefs and experiences on our platforms.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
So what he's saying is Facebook is going to become
more like Twitter because Twitter is blowing up and Facebook
is dying. Facebook is mostly left to grandma's posting pictures
of their grandkids, and kids who've moved away from home
posting pictures of their kids for grandma to see. And
that's fine. There's a place for that. In fact, that's
(32:54):
mostly what I still use it for. But it's not
a place to engage to share ideas. To iron sharpens
iron a crucible of concepts. Because you heard what he said,
our attempts to be inclusive turned out to have the
opposite effect. That's what the left does. Oh don't say
(33:14):
that you've hurt my feelings is a nice way of
saying only say what I say, and everything else should
be shut down. And by the way, what I say
today tomorrow I might decide up that wasn't good, So
that's not allowed to be said anymore. You can only
(33:35):
say what I say, which is Biden is great, Kamala
is great, Liberalism is great. Chopping off your kids weiener
is great. Making your daughter into a boy is great.
White people can't have any jobs. Only blacks, and preferably
black lesbian dudes who were born as men. Boys should
(33:58):
be allowed to play against girls and injure them and
have unfair advantages. Welfare should boom, but not for white people.
Our border should be wide open that anything other than
that is not sufficiently inclusive. That is Unamerican. And I
am so proud of you because you won this election.
(34:19):
You took back your workplaces. You as a consumer, as
an employer, as an American, bought back and this is
a win. Congratulations
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