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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Vari show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I mean, the polie would not tell you that our
party is in good shape today. Any We are historically unpopular,
and part of that is just, you know, people expressing
their frustration about Trump's lawlessness.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
It is an honor, of course, to be with you
this week as we celebrate Indigenous People's Day, as we
speak truth about our nation's history. Since nineteen thirty four,
every October, the United States has recognized the voyage of
the European explorers who first landed on the shores of
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the Americas. But that is not the whole story. That
has never been.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
The whole story.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Those explorers ushered in a wave of devastation for tribal nations,
perpetrating violenceiling land, and spreading disease. We must not shy
away from this shameful past.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
I would have picked up my daughter from water Pool
of practice, and she's twelve, and she got in the
car and she was crying, and I said, did someone
punch you?
Speaker 1 (01:14):
That waterpool's a rough fort.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
I was like, did someone hit you?
Speaker 1 (01:17):
To the coach?
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Yell at you what happened? And she said, Mom, Trump won,
Trump's gonna win. And what if I get raped and
I need to have an abortion. This is from a
twelve year old, my twelve year old daughter as what
was really a reminder of how scary this time is
for people. The allegation of rumor and pophile. It is
alleging that a person is criminal somehow and engaged in
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criminal acts merely because of their identity.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
There's identity talking and maya mamdani when you welcome Prime
Minister to New York City for the for whatever he
comes full given.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
The US is not the signature to the ICC, so
he can travel to.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
The US un like a lot of other country. He's
with a ma'am, I'm doney. Welcome Benjamin in the unit
of the city. No as mayor New York City with
arrest Benjamin Yahoos is a city that our values are
in line with international law. It's time that our actions
are also.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
No more subsidies for fossil fil industry. No more drilling
on federal lands, no more drilling, including offshore, no ability
for the oil industry to continue to drill period ends.
Speaker 6 (02:20):
Such a consequential president of the United States, a Mount
Rushmore kind of president of the United States.
Speaker 7 (02:27):
Want to know what comes next.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
That he belongs up there on Mount Rushmore Lincoln and
Joe Biden. But you got Teddy Roosevelt up there, and
he's wonderful. I don't say taken down, but he can
add Biden well.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
By now, most folks know that Graham Plattner withdrew from
the Senate race. He was the Democrat nominee in Maine,
and he did that last night. Now what's interesting about
this is that they could not require him to get
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out of the race, and that race became very interesting
in the sense that Susan Collins, the squish Republican, was
going to beat Platiner, and the Democrats realized that, and
so it required a pivot in very short order because
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within a couple of days they wouldn't be able to
replace Platner as their nominee in November. They were not
in love with Platiner. He wasn't the future of the party.
They just want to win the seat, and they had
decided he was the guy to win the seat, and
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so no matter what he did, they were going to
defend him, and they were going to make every excuse
for it. They've gone from believe all women to well,
let's check into that some of the women you know
that might be they might be questionable women. In fact,
the woman who first claimed that Platner had raped her,
the New York Times tore her apart and they said, well,
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she's a Republican voter. What happened to believe all women?
And then once they realized they need him out of
the race because they need to replace him, just as
they did in California with Eric Walwell, they went from
he's a great guy, show him some grace. He's not perfect,
but nobody is too. He's the worst. We can't support him.
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He's a monster. He's got to get out. But we
go back to what we have talked about again and
again and again. The Democrat Party is broken. The people
calling the shots want an agenda that you cannot get
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the American people to support. And the only way they
can get that supported is to import enough people. That's
what a legal immigration was about, and to buy those people.
You bring those people the rest of the world does
not buy and large share our political view. What has
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made America wondrous and wonderful is a culture. It was
the culture that was there at its founding. It was
a culture that created an environment where magic could occur.
Freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom to engage in commerce,
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freedom to invent and develop and grow and invest in
a rule of law that said, don't hesitate to invest
your inner, your savings, your assets into chasing your dream
to cure cancer or invent a car or invent an airplane.
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Don't hesitate to do that, because when you do, you
will be able to keep the lion's share of it
for you and your family to enjoy. These sorts of
things over a period of time mattered and nobody else
was doing that to the extent we were, and it
made a world, a world of difference. Well, the Democrat
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Party is pushing a plan through Mamdani that's been tried
again and again and again. But the only way they
can sell that is find a new audience or dress
it up to look like the audience that they're trying
to get the vote of. And that's what Platner was.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
It is.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
What's the name you say? Michael Buddy one of the
most distinctive openings of a song. This morning, a guy
emailed in about Van Morrison and the song Brown Eyed Girl,
and he was Sam's one of his ten favorite songs
of all time, and then it was general generationally released.
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I did not realize the song had been released with
some number of years in between for a new market
a re release that the that the that the label
had done. And we were talking all day about songs
that are hot for one generation. And then you know,
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songs that my kids liked that I liked, and not
just the ones that I exposed them to, but like
Sweet Caroline or take Me Home, Country Roads like everybody
you know, young kids like those, Old people like those.
It's an older song that that is that is still there,
which is pretty cool. Anyway, let's talk to Ricky. Ricky,
you're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 7 (07:53):
My question was, do you think this uh, this new
thing that Democrats are doing. You think it's a strategy
are run real bad candidates and then ripping the rug
off from underneath them so they can put in who
they want.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
No, no, I don't give them that much credit. What
has happened, Ricky is the Democrats, we don't really our
side does not know how to win. We are so
used to being beaten down and feeling like wherever we
go everything is horrible. It's kind of a prodigal sun thing.
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We got our ninety nine sheep, but we want that
one and so our people can can can make one
hundred billion dollars, own a business that's successful, have a
happy marriage, kids are doing great, everybody's healthy. But some
guy cut them off in traffic today a world going
a hell driving like whoa hey, hey, let's let's focus.
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Let's let's not get that upset. We have beaten them
in three successive presidential elections with the same candidate. They
know we beat them in twenty. They're not stupid. They cheated,
they know they cheated. They know they cheated, and that
was the margin of victory. And that is why it
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is so important that you never say Trump won in
twenty because if you say Trump, that's why they will.
They will. They they reserve their greatest, harshest judgment for
anyone who still believes Trump one in twenty. They will
try to prevent them from being appointed to an office
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that they'll try to run them out of town, they'll
try to boycott their bit. You can never say that,
so they know they've won three They've lost three successive
elections to Trump, and Trump supporters not Republicans, Trump and
Trump supporters, and that's the group of people they hate
the most. They despise not just Trump, they despise Trump
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supporters because Trump supporters largely don't live in la New York, Chicago, Miami.
They live in rural communities, in the extended suburban communities.
Many of them are working class, many of them own
their own businesses. These are people that can't be bought.
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They can't be manipulated, they can't be browbeaten. They didn't
get the COVID shot, they didn't get the boosters. They
don't believe global warming. These are people that cannot be controlled,
and that makes the left crazy. But they realize that
what they want more than anything else is power, and
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in order to get power, they're going to have to
fool these people who don't like them and their policies.
They're going to have to fool these people with candidates
that look like the voter that they're trying to get. Now,
that candidate will be beholden to them and will do
what they want most of the time, but they need
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somebody that looks like the voter they're trying to get
around the country they're trying that's why in Texas they
go get tallerco because they go, well, he's eight generation Texan. Well,
it depends on which dad you claim, But I don't
know that that matters to anybody. Charles Manson could have
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been eight generation Texan. He's still a monster. That doesn't matter.
He's a he can quote the Bible. They love to
say that, Well, yeah, he quotes the Bible to tell
you why little boys ought to get their wiener cut
off and become a girl. He's a freak show and
Texans are going to learn that, and we've got plenty
of time for them to learn it and not vote
for him, which is what will happen. Well, he's a
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white male. We needed to put a white male up.
The best they've done in a state wide race in
the last thirty two years was in twenty eighteen when
they ran Beto against Ted Cruz. The difference was Beto
was a much better candidate. If Beto was their candidate
in twenty twenty six, I'd be terribly worried, But I'm
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not as Talafrico is untested and there's a lot out
there that you're going to learn between now and November
that's going to lead you to go, my god, it's
going to lead to the theory you just asked me about.
Did they put this guy up as a stalking horse
so they could replace him at the last minute with
the candidate they really want. Now, that didn't happen with
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anybody with Kamala Harris, but it would be following that model, right.
You kept anyone from running for the Democrat primary nomination.
Remember Robert F. Kennedy was trying to run. You had
other people trying to run, and they wouldn't hold primaries,
and so Biden got to be the nominee. Well, in June,
they start figuring out Biden might not be alive by November.
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We got to put another candidate in there. So they
agree to the debate, which they never would have done.
It was the earliest debate we've ever had in presidential history,
the earliest bipartisan debate that we've ever had in history.
And they did it because they needed the grassroots to know, hey,
you don't want Biden as your nominee, and they needed
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the money guys to call them because they wanted Biden
out anyway. They knew Biden couldn't win, so they did
that In June, which was unheard of, so that there
would be the next day everyone would be calling for
Biden to be out. Well, it took a little time
because Biden didn't want to be out or Jill didn't
want to be out. It took a little time, and
then you had the folks take the reins and get
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him out. Well, they weren't sure what they were going
to do. Then there were competing philosophies. Obama did not
want Kamala. The Clintons wanted Kamala because they could control Kamala.
So Obama was not a Kamala person. So he didn't
respond and everyone knew what was happening. He had his
own candidates in mind. So then she gets put in.
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I can't remember how many days it was, one hundred
and fourteen. Her book is about how many days of
the campaign it was, but it was really late in
the day. I guess the short answer to your question
is no, I don't believe that they put Platner and
these bad and Eric Swalwell in California. I don't think
they put those candidates out there with the intention that
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at the last minute they yank them out and put
in the candidate they really want. It's harder to pull
that off than you might imagine. I think they thought
they would win with Platner, and it turns out he's
one of the worst candidates they've ever had. I'm bummed
out he's not going to be on the ballot now
because I was really looking forward. We spent the last
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two days on the evening show alone. We spent a
combined probably three out of the four hours that we
have for the evening show, and we've probably spent two
hours combined on the morning show. So I've probably spent
five hours out of the last two days of ten
hours of radio programming talking about Platner and not even
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focusing on Tellafrico yet, which I'm really looking for.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
My first I've been destroying the black community is to dismantle.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
The black fam To Michael Berry Show, why don't we ask.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Missus Willie Brown if Comala Harris cares about black families.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Jim, I don't know if you were intending to play
generational releases as bumps, but that's definitely a generational release.
You know. Guitar Hero was an interesting thing my kids.
I don't know when that came out, but it feels
like it was probably about ten years ago or so.
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And what was cool for me is music is very
important to me. I'm not a musician. I don't have
any vocal skill. I'll get up and sing with the
band if they ask me to, but it'll be bad,
but I don't care. It's always funny when I do that.
When you own a club and the bands know you
like to get up with them, a lot of them
will let you get up there because they want to
be invited back. And so what's funny about that is
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I'd get up there and sing terribly, no pitch, no nothing, no,
not tuneful at all, and people would feel the need
to tell me that it wasn't good, and I would say, yeah,
and you're really fat. Do you want me to point
that out? Do you think I think I'm a good singer.
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I'm up there to have fun. There's I lived my
life not to make you think I'm good at anything,
but to enjoy it for myself and hopefully accomplish some things.
And whether you like it or not doesn't matter. And
if everybody had more of that approach, I think we
probably you'd have people willing to try more things, to
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invent more things, whether that's a new way to make
bread or a new way to prepare meat, or a
new way to travel to space, or a new way
to solve cancer. Yeah, having the confidence in what you're
doing and getting your own joy out of it. It's
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always funny. People say to me, joke you told the
other day that wasn't funny, And I'll say, yeah, it was.
Oh no it wasn't. I like funny, I like comedy,
I like humor, but but that wasn't funny. And I'll explain.
If you can't see, you're blind. If you can't hear
your death, If you can't speak, you're mute. We used
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to say dumb. It's the same. That's where the word
dumb comes from. Dumb didn't mean stupid. It means you
couldn't speak. But whatever, if you can't hear, see, speak,
And if you don't have the sensory perception for comedy,
you are said to lack a sense of humor.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Or.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
If you find humor in things where others don't, you
have a heightened sense of humor. That's what that's called.
It's not a bad thing that you don't have that sense,
but you don't have that sense and I don't run
around if I don't have a a If if I
was deaf, I wouldn't run around saying there's no noise
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being made out there anywhere because I couldn't hear it.
I would understand, you know, like Tommy and Pall Pinball Wizard.
Do you remember Jim how he played the pinball? Do
you remember what sense he used to play pinball? He
was deaf, dumb and blind, but he used his sense
of smell. Yeah, you want to hear a funny story.
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So I read an article about that song that that
whole rock opera and Pete Townsend who wrote that they
needed a hit. They weren't big in UK, they weren't
big in the US. They were just kind of average
and they needed a breakout. So he comes up with this,
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It's a concert album on concept album, on steroids, a
rock opera. They weren't the first to do it. They
were the third of the of the bands to really
try this, but originally because Pete sound Pete Townsend. Remember
this is sixty nine and the Beatles have just done
the whole uh you know, Yogi Guru thing with the
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Indian mysticism and all this sort of stuff and that
was new at the time. This was before the airports
had a bunch of Harray Christmas running around making fools
of themselves. But he uh, he had this deaf, dumb
and blind boy was uh was going. The reason he
needed to have a following other teenagers wanted to follow him.
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And the reason they wanted to follow him originally was
he was a guru. He was a mystic, a spiritual
man like Sai Baba, who who Pete Townsend was was
big behind And so a report a the the most
influential music reviewer at the time, who I think was
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with The Guardian. It wasn't Jan Winter at at at
Rolling Stone. But he goes this guy, the guy's last
name is Cone, and he pitches the concert album to
him and he plays some of the music and the
guy who apparently this guy could make you or break you,
and he said, I can't give that five stars. Why
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And he said, the Beatles already did the mystic, the
spiritual guy, the guru, the whole that's already been done.
You can't do that now. People have had enough of that.
I had enough of that early too, but people have
had enough of the whole. Indian you know, spiritual advisor thing.
You can't have him do that. It's it's passe now
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or cliche if nothing else. And so he said, okay, Well,
it turns out that that music critic was a big
fan of pinball, and so was Pete Townsend. And he said, well,
what if the reason all the teenagers follow him, the
reason he he has this following even though he's def
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done blind, is he's really good at pinball. And Cohn said,
now I could get behind that. I could give you
a five star review if the reason that Tommy is
so popular and has this cult following is he's so
good at pinball. Because this particular music critic was a
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pinball nut. And so that's how the whole thing came out,
which is an interesting way for art to end up,
especially mass audience art, to end up being birthed out
for the rest of us. In other words, it didn't
come from an artistic place. It came from a place
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of pandering. And I say all that to say this.
Every single thing the Democrats are saying now, everything that
they will put in the mouth of James Tallerico in
Texas that they would have put in the mouth of
Graham Platner. Now they'll replace him. Everything they say to
you is based on spoon feeding you what they think
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you want to hear. Rich people are bad, hey guys.
So they send the message out, and I'm not kidding.
They literally send the message out, Hey guys, attack the
rich people. We got Bernie traveling the country. We got
AOC traveling. Rich people are bad, and those rich people
are giving a lot of money to the Democrats. The
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Democrats are not funded from the grassroots up. They are
funded and directed from the wealthy down. So these are
stooges who are hired. AOC was chosen, Graham Platner was
picked by the three goofballs. I'll play that in a minute.
I forgot Jim. These people are chosen to reflect you
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in the mirror. Whatever they think you are. They give
you that. Oh you need a white male, right, here's Glenn.
Here's here's James Tallerico. You need a farmer Maine, an
oyster farmer. Oh, here we go, here's here's here's one
just like you. Now, when they get into office, they
do the craziest things and people feel so betrayed. It's
like Dinny Green said, they are who we thought they
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were it's rocketscientry. So there's a fellow named Terrence Williams,
and Terrence Williams is a commentator. He's a personality. I
don't know how he pays his bills. I don't know
how a lot of people pay their bills. I don't
know how it pays. I'm not saying it doesn't, I
just don't know how it pays. So he will post
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to YouTube and different platforms funny little bits that he does,
and they're very funny, and it's hard. Funny's the hardest
thing to do. David let Theman, used to say, funny
is the hardest thing to accomplish. You know, in radio,
there are a lot of guys that just pound their
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fists on the table and screamed that America's going to hell.
And there's a market for that, there's airtime to fill.
But Rush was funny, and that's a hard thing to
pull off. Well. Terrence Williams is very funny, but in
the midst of being funny, he also inserts some very
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clever things. And as a black fellow, he talks a
lot about race and he uses terms and logic that
I think a lot of white folks are scared to use.
But he posted something today talking about Texas and I
want to read what he read. What he wrote, Black
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people need to be paid before James Talerico gets their support.
According to Texas State Representative Joelonda Jones, funny thing is
when I left Houston City Council in January of eight
because I was term limited out, Joelanda Jones was the
state was the candidate who ran for my seat and
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won it. That seat was known as a black seat.
There'd never been anybody white to win citywide in the
city of Houston. So in major cities, you will have
districts that are what are called single member districts, like
they're a portion of the city, and then you'll have
at large. So you can have a conservative Republican when
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one of the few single member districts the small, little
little portions of the city, but you can't have a
conservative Republicans when citywide. So when I did, it was
a big deal because a white Conservative Republican had not
won citywide before, and that was twenty five years ago.
But it still almost doesn't happen at all. So then
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it went back to being a black seat after me,
and there's a whole long story about that. But Jolanda
Jones went on from there to becoming a state rep.
She's run for Congress. She's very outspoken and she's somewhat influential.
She has a strong following. She's an impressive lady. I
think she was an Olympian. She was a sprinter at
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the University of Houston when they had the best track program,
one of the best track programs in the country. That
Carl Lewis and Leroy Burrell. She's a fighter, she's tough,
she's loud, she's actually really smart. She's got a law degree.
She's practiced law. But Terrence Williams goes on to say
that she said that tall Rico, this white little Weasley Democrat,
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he can't win the support of the black Democrats in Texas.
That he has to have to win unless he pays
for it. Terrence goes on to say she says he's
giving money to white GOTV organizations. GOTV is get out
the vote. That's what you do to get people to
go from yeah, I want to vote for you, to
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get them to the hole to actually vote. She says
he's given money to white GOTV organization's white infrastructure and
Hispanic infrastructure, but not Black infrastructure. Tall Rico needs to
pay for us to get our voters out. Only then
does Taal Rico have a chance to win. So that's
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what Terence wrote, and he's not wrong. That's exactly what
she said. And I want you to realize that this
is how politics is being played in the Democrat Party today.
Here are her actual comments on this fat bloviating idiot
Roland Martin's show.
Speaker 8 (27:37):
Do I think that tall Rico's refusal thus far to
engage black electives in the black infrastructure has putting him
at a disadvantage, Absolutely, because there's not a lot of
time to try to rally us. But we actually had
a meeting today, Roland earlier today where black people, like
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thought leaders, elected officials from Dallas and Houston met and
we are getting together and we're going to stand together.
And hopefully Tallo Rico and the textas Democratic Party will
see that and they will listen to us, because tall
Rico is giving out money to white GOTV organizations and
white infrastructure and Hispanic infrastructure, but he's not giving it
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to black infrastructure. And so either they'll listen or they won't. Again,
even though I knew I could lose votes. I did
it anyway because sometimes in life you got to pick
a side, and I need to know if the Texas
Democratic Party is going to.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Pick our side.
Speaker 8 (28:43):
I did speak with Kendall Scudder, the chair of the
Texas Democratic Party, and he told me he would be
meeting with me again. Meetings do nothing if we don't
have action into it. But I have already told them Roland,
they need to pay for black infrastructure. They need to
pay for media with you and not just seeing it
and other people like you. I've told them that we
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have people like using hit strategies with Terres Woodberry, who
no one polls black people better than him. We don't
want no white posters. They don't know how to poll us.
And for the most part, I've told them it takes
money to get the vote out right, and inspiration doesn't
get the vote out, So tall Rico needs to pay
for us to get our voters out. Only then does
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tallar Rico have a chance to win. If he continues
to do what he has been doing. I believe tal
Rico is going to lose, so we'll see a tall
Rico's campaign has not reached out to me even though
the most talked about speech from the Texas Democratic Convention
from what I see on social media and from what
I hear, is the speech that I made, because that's.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
The big elephant in the room.
Speaker 8 (29:51):
Because again, Tall Rico and everybody statewide and the Democratic
Party has a black problem, whether they acknowledge it or not.
And inspiration is get us to the polls.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Inspiration is not going to get us to the polls
us as black people see, you're not going to be
able to talk about pine this guy, ideas or policies.
You're gonna have to pay the people who get people
to vote. That means the pastors, but they're one step down.
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You're going to have to pay the elected officials and
the consultants. Because this is the way the process works.
And this is the theme of the day. You might
have noticed, and that is that on the Democrat side,
and frankly, the Republicans that had put Jeb Bush up,
we'd have been doing this as well. They did the
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same thing with Romney in twenty twelve. The idea is
that you the voter, will not choose who is in
a position to make decisions for the for the government.
There will be people it is an industry, it is
an insular group of people. They will choose, they will
get paid. Karl Rove does this on the Republican side.
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They will bump off candidates who don't play the game,
who don't pay them, who don't hire their people, who
don't spend money with them. None of it is about
a government that functions well and serves its people and
protects its people. Do you understand this? Do you understand
how sad and pitiful this is. This means that when
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you find a Trump, when you find a Ken Paxton
in Texas, when you find people who are doing the
right thing for the right reasons, you don't focus on
all the nonsense. You elect the people who, when they
get in the job, will do their job and don't
let anybody distract you from them.
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Vari show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I mean, the polie would not tell you that our
party is in good shape today. Any We are historically unpopular,
and part of that is just, you know, people expressing
their frustration about Trump's lawlessness.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
It is an honor, of course, to be with you
this week as we celebrate Indigenous People's Day, as we
speak truth about our nation's history. Since nineteen thirty four,
every October, the United States has recognized the voyage of
the European explorers who first landed on the shores of
(00:43):
the Americas. But that is not the whole story. That
has never been.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
The whole story.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Those explorers ushered in a wave of devastation for tribal nations,
perpetrating violenceiling land, and spreading disease. We must not shy
away from this shameful past.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
I would have picked up my daughter from water Pool
of practice, and she's twelve, and she got in the
car and she was crying, and I said, did someone
punch you?
Speaker 1 (01:14):
That waterpool's a rough fort.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
I was like, did someone hit you?
Speaker 1 (01:17):
To the coach?
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Yell at you what happened? And she said, Mom, Trump won,
Trump's gonna win. And what if I get raped and
I need to have an abortion. This is from a
twelve year old, my twelve year old daughter as what
was really a reminder of how scary this time is
for people. The allegation of rumor and pophile. It is
alleging that a person is criminal somehow and engaged in
(01:42):
criminal acts merely because of their identity.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
There's identity talking and maya mamdani when you welcome Prime
Minister to New York City for the for whatever he
comes full given.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
The US is not the signature to the ICC, so
he can travel to.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
The US un like a lot of other country. He's
with a ma'am, I'm doney. Welcome Benjamin in the unit
of the city. No as mayor New York City with
arrest Benjamin Yahoos is a city that our values are
in line with international law. It's time that our actions
are also.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
No more subsidies for fossil fil industry. No more drilling
on federal lands, no more drilling, including offshore, no ability
for the oil industry to continue to drill period ends.
Speaker 6 (02:20):
Such a consequential president of the United States, a Mount
Rushmore kind of president of the United States.
Speaker 7 (02:27):
Want to know what comes next.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
That he belongs up there on Mount Rushmore Lincoln and
Joe Biden. But you got Teddy Roosevelt up there, and
he's wonderful. I don't say taken down, but he can
add Biden well.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
By now, most folks know that Graham Plattner withdrew from
the Senate race. He was the Democrat nominee in Maine,
and he did that last night. Now what's interesting about
this is that they could not require him to get
(03:00):
out of the race, and that race became very interesting
in the sense that Susan Collins, the squish Republican, was
going to beat Platiner, and the Democrats realized that, and
so it required a pivot in very short order because
(03:27):
within a couple of days they wouldn't be able to
replace Platner as their nominee in November. They were not
in love with Platiner. He wasn't the future of the party.
They just want to win the seat, and they had
decided he was the guy to win the seat, and
(03:48):
so no matter what he did, they were going to
defend him, and they were going to make every excuse
for it. They've gone from believe all women to well,
let's check into that some of the women you know
that might be they might be questionable women. In fact,
the woman who first claimed that Platner had raped her,
the New York Times tore her apart and they said, well,
(04:12):
she's a Republican voter. What happened to believe all women?
And then once they realized they need him out of
the race because they need to replace him, just as
they did in California with Eric Walwell, they went from
he's a great guy, show him some grace. He's not perfect,
but nobody is too. He's the worst. We can't support him.
(04:36):
He's a monster. He's got to get out. But we
go back to what we have talked about again and
again and again. The Democrat Party is broken. The people
calling the shots want an agenda that you cannot get
(04:57):
the American people to support. And the only way they
can get that supported is to import enough people. That's
what a legal immigration was about, and to buy those people.
You bring those people the rest of the world does
not buy and large share our political view. What has
(05:19):
made America wondrous and wonderful is a culture. It was
the culture that was there at its founding. It was
a culture that created an environment where magic could occur.
Freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom to engage in commerce,
(05:46):
freedom to invent and develop and grow and invest in
a rule of law that said, don't hesitate to invest
your inner, your savings, your assets into chasing your dream
to cure cancer or invent a car or invent an airplane.
(06:10):
Don't hesitate to do that, because when you do, you
will be able to keep the lion's share of it
for you and your family to enjoy. These sorts of
things over a period of time mattered and nobody else
was doing that to the extent we were, and it
made a world, a world of difference. Well, the Democrat
(06:31):
Party is pushing a plan through Mamdani that's been tried
again and again and again. But the only way they
can sell that is find a new audience or dress
it up to look like the audience that they're trying
to get the vote of. And that's what Platner was.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
It is.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
What's the name you say? Michael Buddy one of the
most distinctive openings of a song. This morning, a guy
emailed in about Van Morrison and the song Brown Eyed Girl,
and he was Sam's one of his ten favorite songs
of all time, and then it was general generationally released.
(07:12):
I did not realize the song had been released with
some number of years in between for a new market
a re release that the that the that the label
had done. And we were talking all day about songs
that are hot for one generation. And then you know,
(07:32):
songs that my kids liked that I liked, and not
just the ones that I exposed them to, but like
Sweet Caroline or take Me Home, Country Roads like everybody
you know, young kids like those, Old people like those.
It's an older song that that is that is still there,
which is pretty cool. Anyway, let's talk to Ricky. Ricky,
you're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 7 (07:53):
My question was, do you think this uh, this new
thing that Democrats are doing. You think it's a strategy
are run real bad candidates and then ripping the rug
off from underneath them so they can put in who
they want.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
No, no, I don't give them that much credit. What
has happened, Ricky is the Democrats, we don't really our
side does not know how to win. We are so
used to being beaten down and feeling like wherever we
go everything is horrible. It's kind of a prodigal sun thing.
(08:27):
We got our ninety nine sheep, but we want that
one and so our people can can can make one
hundred billion dollars, own a business that's successful, have a
happy marriage, kids are doing great, everybody's healthy. But some
guy cut them off in traffic today a world going
a hell driving like whoa hey, hey, let's let's focus.
(08:48):
Let's let's not get that upset. We have beaten them
in three successive presidential elections with the same candidate. They
know we beat them in twenty. They're not stupid. They cheated,
they know they cheated. They know they cheated, and that
was the margin of victory. And that is why it
(09:09):
is so important that you never say Trump won in
twenty because if you say Trump, that's why they will.
They will. They they reserve their greatest, harshest judgment for
anyone who still believes Trump one in twenty. They will
try to prevent them from being appointed to an office
(09:30):
that they'll try to run them out of town, they'll
try to boycott their bit. You can never say that,
so they know they've won three They've lost three successive
elections to Trump, and Trump supporters not Republicans, Trump and
Trump supporters, and that's the group of people they hate
the most. They despise not just Trump, they despise Trump
(09:52):
supporters because Trump supporters largely don't live in la New York, Chicago, Miami.
They live in rural communities, in the extended suburban communities.
Many of them are working class, many of them own
their own businesses. These are people that can't be bought.
(10:13):
They can't be manipulated, they can't be browbeaten. They didn't
get the COVID shot, they didn't get the boosters. They
don't believe global warming. These are people that cannot be controlled,
and that makes the left crazy. But they realize that
what they want more than anything else is power, and
(10:34):
in order to get power, they're going to have to
fool these people who don't like them and their policies.
They're going to have to fool these people with candidates
that look like the voter that they're trying to get. Now,
that candidate will be beholden to them and will do
what they want most of the time, but they need
(10:55):
somebody that looks like the voter they're trying to get
around the country they're trying that's why in Texas they
go get tallerco because they go, well, he's eight generation Texan. Well,
it depends on which dad you claim, But I don't
know that that matters to anybody. Charles Manson could have
(11:15):
been eight generation Texan. He's still a monster. That doesn't matter.
He's a he can quote the Bible. They love to
say that, Well, yeah, he quotes the Bible to tell
you why little boys ought to get their wiener cut
off and become a girl. He's a freak show and
Texans are going to learn that, and we've got plenty
of time for them to learn it and not vote
for him, which is what will happen. Well, he's a
(11:36):
white male. We needed to put a white male up.
The best they've done in a state wide race in
the last thirty two years was in twenty eighteen when
they ran Beto against Ted Cruz. The difference was Beto
was a much better candidate. If Beto was their candidate
in twenty twenty six, I'd be terribly worried, But I'm
(11:59):
not as Talafrico is untested and there's a lot out
there that you're going to learn between now and November
that's going to lead you to go, my god, it's
going to lead to the theory you just asked me about.
Did they put this guy up as a stalking horse
so they could replace him at the last minute with
the candidate they really want. Now, that didn't happen with
(12:20):
anybody with Kamala Harris, but it would be following that model, right.
You kept anyone from running for the Democrat primary nomination.
Remember Robert F. Kennedy was trying to run. You had
other people trying to run, and they wouldn't hold primaries,
and so Biden got to be the nominee. Well, in June,
they start figuring out Biden might not be alive by November.
(12:43):
We got to put another candidate in there. So they
agree to the debate, which they never would have done.
It was the earliest debate we've ever had in presidential history,
the earliest bipartisan debate that we've ever had in history.
And they did it because they needed the grassroots to know, hey,
you don't want Biden as your nominee, and they needed
(13:03):
the money guys to call them because they wanted Biden
out anyway. They knew Biden couldn't win, so they did
that In June, which was unheard of, so that there
would be the next day everyone would be calling for
Biden to be out. Well, it took a little time
because Biden didn't want to be out or Jill didn't
want to be out. It took a little time, and
then you had the folks take the reins and get
(13:24):
him out. Well, they weren't sure what they were going
to do. Then there were competing philosophies. Obama did not
want Kamala. The Clintons wanted Kamala because they could control Kamala.
So Obama was not a Kamala person. So he didn't
respond and everyone knew what was happening. He had his
own candidates in mind. So then she gets put in.
(13:46):
I can't remember how many days it was, one hundred
and fourteen. Her book is about how many days of
the campaign it was, but it was really late in
the day. I guess the short answer to your question
is no, I don't believe that they put Platner and
these bad and Eric Swalwell in California. I don't think
they put those candidates out there with the intention that
(14:09):
at the last minute they yank them out and put
in the candidate they really want. It's harder to pull
that off than you might imagine. I think they thought
they would win with Platner, and it turns out he's
one of the worst candidates they've ever had. I'm bummed
out he's not going to be on the ballot now
because I was really looking forward. We spent the last
(14:30):
two days on the evening show alone. We spent a
combined probably three out of the four hours that we
have for the evening show, and we've probably spent two
hours combined on the morning show. So I've probably spent
five hours out of the last two days of ten
hours of radio programming talking about Platner and not even
(14:52):
focusing on Tellafrico yet, which I'm really looking for.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
My first I've been destroying the black community is to dismantle.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
The black fam To Michael Berry Show, why don't we ask.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Missus Willie Brown if Comala Harris cares about black families.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Jim, I don't know if you were intending to play
generational releases as bumps, but that's definitely a generational release.
You know. Guitar Hero was an interesting thing my kids.
I don't know when that came out, but it feels
like it was probably about ten years ago or so.
(15:29):
And what was cool for me is music is very
important to me. I'm not a musician. I don't have
any vocal skill. I'll get up and sing with the
band if they ask me to, but it'll be bad,
but I don't care. It's always funny when I do that.
When you own a club and the bands know you
like to get up with them, a lot of them
will let you get up there because they want to
be invited back. And so what's funny about that is
(15:52):
I'd get up there and sing terribly, no pitch, no nothing, no,
not tuneful at all, and people would feel the need
to tell me that it wasn't good, and I would say, yeah,
and you're really fat. Do you want me to point
that out? Do you think I think I'm a good singer.
(16:13):
I'm up there to have fun. There's I lived my
life not to make you think I'm good at anything,
but to enjoy it for myself and hopefully accomplish some things.
And whether you like it or not doesn't matter. And
if everybody had more of that approach, I think we
probably you'd have people willing to try more things, to
(16:37):
invent more things, whether that's a new way to make
bread or a new way to prepare meat, or a
new way to travel to space, or a new way
to solve cancer. Yeah, having the confidence in what you're
doing and getting your own joy out of it. It's
(16:57):
always funny. People say to me, joke you told the
other day that wasn't funny, And I'll say, yeah, it was.
Oh no it wasn't. I like funny, I like comedy,
I like humor, but but that wasn't funny. And I'll explain.
If you can't see, you're blind. If you can't hear
your death, If you can't speak, you're mute. We used
(17:19):
to say dumb. It's the same. That's where the word
dumb comes from. Dumb didn't mean stupid. It means you
couldn't speak. But whatever, if you can't hear, see, speak,
And if you don't have the sensory perception for comedy,
you are said to lack a sense of humor.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Or.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
If you find humor in things where others don't, you
have a heightened sense of humor. That's what that's called.
It's not a bad thing that you don't have that sense,
but you don't have that sense and I don't run
around if I don't have a a If if I
was deaf, I wouldn't run around saying there's no noise
(18:03):
being made out there anywhere because I couldn't hear it.
I would understand, you know, like Tommy and Pall Pinball Wizard.
Do you remember Jim how he played the pinball? Do
you remember what sense he used to play pinball? He
was deaf, dumb and blind, but he used his sense
of smell. Yeah, you want to hear a funny story.
(18:26):
So I read an article about that song that that
whole rock opera and Pete Townsend who wrote that they
needed a hit. They weren't big in UK, they weren't
big in the US. They were just kind of average
and they needed a breakout. So he comes up with this,
(18:47):
It's a concert album on concept album, on steroids, a
rock opera. They weren't the first to do it. They
were the third of the of the bands to really
try this, but originally because Pete sound Pete Townsend. Remember
this is sixty nine and the Beatles have just done
the whole uh you know, Yogi Guru thing with the
(19:08):
Indian mysticism and all this sort of stuff and that
was new at the time. This was before the airports
had a bunch of Harray Christmas running around making fools
of themselves. But he uh, he had this deaf, dumb
and blind boy was uh was going. The reason he
needed to have a following other teenagers wanted to follow him.
(19:33):
And the reason they wanted to follow him originally was
he was a guru. He was a mystic, a spiritual
man like Sai Baba, who who Pete Townsend was was
big behind And so a report a the the most
influential music reviewer at the time, who I think was
(19:53):
with The Guardian. It wasn't Jan Winter at at at
Rolling Stone. But he goes this guy, the guy's last
name is Cone, and he pitches the concert album to
him and he plays some of the music and the
guy who apparently this guy could make you or break you,
and he said, I can't give that five stars. Why
(20:15):
And he said, the Beatles already did the mystic, the
spiritual guy, the guru, the whole that's already been done.
You can't do that now. People have had enough of that.
I had enough of that early too, but people have
had enough of the whole. Indian you know, spiritual advisor thing.
You can't have him do that. It's it's passe now
(20:37):
or cliche if nothing else. And so he said, okay, Well,
it turns out that that music critic was a big
fan of pinball, and so was Pete Townsend. And he said, well,
what if the reason all the teenagers follow him, the
reason he he has this following even though he's def
(20:59):
done blind, is he's really good at pinball. And Cohn said,
now I could get behind that. I could give you
a five star review if the reason that Tommy is
so popular and has this cult following is he's so
good at pinball. Because this particular music critic was a
(21:22):
pinball nut. And so that's how the whole thing came out,
which is an interesting way for art to end up,
especially mass audience art, to end up being birthed out
for the rest of us. In other words, it didn't
come from an artistic place. It came from a place
(21:44):
of pandering. And I say all that to say this.
Every single thing the Democrats are saying now, everything that
they will put in the mouth of James Tallerico in
Texas that they would have put in the mouth of
Graham Platner. Now they'll replace him. Everything they say to
you is based on spoon feeding you what they think
(22:07):
you want to hear. Rich people are bad, hey guys.
So they send the message out, and I'm not kidding.
They literally send the message out, Hey guys, attack the
rich people. We got Bernie traveling the country. We got
AOC traveling. Rich people are bad, and those rich people
are giving a lot of money to the Democrats. The
(22:28):
Democrats are not funded from the grassroots up. They are
funded and directed from the wealthy down. So these are
stooges who are hired. AOC was chosen, Graham Platner was
picked by the three goofballs. I'll play that in a minute.
I forgot Jim. These people are chosen to reflect you
(22:54):
in the mirror. Whatever they think you are. They give
you that. Oh you need a white male, right, here's Glenn.
Here's here's James Tallerico. You need a farmer Maine, an
oyster farmer. Oh, here we go, here's here's here's one
just like you. Now, when they get into office, they
do the craziest things and people feel so betrayed. It's
like Dinny Green said, they are who we thought they
(23:15):
were it's rocketscientry. So there's a fellow named Terrence Williams,
and Terrence Williams is a commentator. He's a personality. I
don't know how he pays his bills. I don't know
how a lot of people pay their bills. I don't
know how it pays. I'm not saying it doesn't, I
just don't know how it pays. So he will post
(23:39):
to YouTube and different platforms funny little bits that he does,
and they're very funny, and it's hard. Funny's the hardest
thing to do. David let Theman, used to say, funny
is the hardest thing to accomplish. You know, in radio,
there are a lot of guys that just pound their
(24:01):
fists on the table and screamed that America's going to hell.
And there's a market for that, there's airtime to fill.
But Rush was funny, and that's a hard thing to
pull off. Well. Terrence Williams is very funny, but in
the midst of being funny, he also inserts some very
(24:22):
clever things. And as a black fellow, he talks a
lot about race and he uses terms and logic that
I think a lot of white folks are scared to use.
But he posted something today talking about Texas and I
want to read what he read. What he wrote, Black
(24:44):
people need to be paid before James Talerico gets their support.
According to Texas State Representative Joelonda Jones, funny thing is
when I left Houston City Council in January of eight
because I was term limited out, Joelanda Jones was the
state was the candidate who ran for my seat and
(25:05):
won it. That seat was known as a black seat.
There'd never been anybody white to win citywide in the
city of Houston. So in major cities, you will have
districts that are what are called single member districts, like
they're a portion of the city, and then you'll have
at large. So you can have a conservative Republican when
(25:30):
one of the few single member districts the small, little
little portions of the city, but you can't have a
conservative Republicans when citywide. So when I did, it was
a big deal because a white Conservative Republican had not
won citywide before, and that was twenty five years ago.
But it still almost doesn't happen at all. So then
(25:53):
it went back to being a black seat after me,
and there's a whole long story about that. But Jolanda
Jones went on from there to becoming a state rep.
She's run for Congress. She's very outspoken and she's somewhat influential.
She has a strong following. She's an impressive lady. I
think she was an Olympian. She was a sprinter at
(26:14):
the University of Houston when they had the best track program,
one of the best track programs in the country. That
Carl Lewis and Leroy Burrell. She's a fighter, she's tough,
she's loud, she's actually really smart. She's got a law degree.
She's practiced law. But Terrence Williams goes on to say
that she said that tall Rico, this white little Weasley Democrat,
(26:38):
he can't win the support of the black Democrats in Texas.
That he has to have to win unless he pays
for it. Terrence goes on to say she says he's
giving money to white GOTV organizations. GOTV is get out
the vote. That's what you do to get people to
go from yeah, I want to vote for you, to
(26:59):
get them to the hole to actually vote. She says
he's given money to white GOTV organization's white infrastructure and
Hispanic infrastructure, but not Black infrastructure. Tall Rico needs to
pay for us to get our voters out. Only then
does Taal Rico have a chance to win. So that's
(27:19):
what Terence wrote, and he's not wrong. That's exactly what
she said. And I want you to realize that this
is how politics is being played in the Democrat Party today.
Here are her actual comments on this fat bloviating idiot
Roland Martin's show.
Speaker 8 (27:37):
Do I think that tall Rico's refusal thus far to
engage black electives in the black infrastructure has putting him
at a disadvantage, Absolutely, because there's not a lot of
time to try to rally us. But we actually had
a meeting today, Roland earlier today where black people, like
(28:00):
thought leaders, elected officials from Dallas and Houston met and
we are getting together and we're going to stand together.
And hopefully Tallo Rico and the textas Democratic Party will
see that and they will listen to us, because tall
Rico is giving out money to white GOTV organizations and
white infrastructure and Hispanic infrastructure, but he's not giving it
(28:23):
to black infrastructure. And so either they'll listen or they won't. Again,
even though I knew I could lose votes. I did
it anyway because sometimes in life you got to pick
a side, and I need to know if the Texas
Democratic Party is going to.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Pick our side.
Speaker 8 (28:43):
I did speak with Kendall Scudder, the chair of the
Texas Democratic Party, and he told me he would be
meeting with me again. Meetings do nothing if we don't
have action into it. But I have already told them Roland,
they need to pay for black infrastructure. They need to
pay for media with you and not just seeing it
and other people like you. I've told them that we
(29:03):
have people like using hit strategies with Terres Woodberry, who
no one polls black people better than him. We don't
want no white posters. They don't know how to poll us.
And for the most part, I've told them it takes
money to get the vote out right, and inspiration doesn't
get the vote out, So tall Rico needs to pay
for us to get our voters out. Only then does
(29:25):
tallar Rico have a chance to win. If he continues
to do what he has been doing. I believe tal
Rico is going to lose, so we'll see a tall
Rico's campaign has not reached out to me even though
the most talked about speech from the Texas Democratic Convention
from what I see on social media and from what
I hear, is the speech that I made, because that's.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
The big elephant in the room.
Speaker 8 (29:51):
Because again, Tall Rico and everybody statewide and the Democratic
Party has a black problem, whether they acknowledge it or not.
And inspiration is get us to the polls.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Inspiration is not going to get us to the polls
us as black people see, you're not going to be
able to talk about pine this guy, ideas or policies.
You're gonna have to pay the people who get people
to vote. That means the pastors, but they're one step down.
(30:25):
You're going to have to pay the elected officials and
the consultants. Because this is the way the process works.
And this is the theme of the day. You might
have noticed, and that is that on the Democrat side,
and frankly, the Republicans that had put Jeb Bush up,
we'd have been doing this as well. They did the
(30:46):
same thing with Romney in twenty twelve. The idea is
that you the voter, will not choose who is in
a position to make decisions for the for the government.
There will be people it is an industry, it is
an insular group of people. They will choose, they will
get paid. Karl Rove does this on the Republican side.
(31:09):
They will bump off candidates who don't play the game,
who don't pay them, who don't hire their people, who
don't spend money with them. None of it is about
a government that functions well and serves its people and
protects its people. Do you understand this? Do you understand
how sad and pitiful this is. This means that when
(31:30):
you find a Trump, when you find a Ken Paxton
in Texas, when you find people who are doing the
right thing for the right reasons, you don't focus on
all the nonsense. You elect the people who, when they
get in the job, will do their job and don't
let anybody distract you from them.
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Betrayal Weekly is back for a new season. Every Thursday, Betrayal Weekly shares first-hand accounts of broken trust, shocking deceptions, and the trail of destruction they leave behind. Hosted by Andrea Gunning, this weekly ongoing series digs into real-life stories of betrayal and the aftermath. From stories of double lives to dark discoveries, these are cautionary tales and accounts of resilience against all odds. From the producers of the critically acclaimed Betrayal series, Betrayal Weekly drops new episodes every Thursday. If you would like to share your story, you can reach out to the Betrayal Team by emailing them at betrayalpod@gmail.com and follow us on Instagram at @betrayalpod and @glasspodcasts. Please join our Substack for additional exclusive content, curated book recommendations, and community discussions. Sign up FREE by clicking this link Beyond Betrayal Substack. Join our community dedicated to truth, resilience, and healing. Your voice matters! Be a part of our Betrayal journey on Substack.