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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load from
Michael Veri show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
I want everybody to stop dying.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
That dying.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Finally, I want to deliver a message to the long
suffering people of Iran. The people of America stand with you.
It has now been almost forty years since this dictatorship
seize power and took a proud nation hostage. Most of
Iran's eighty million citizens have sadly never known an Iran
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that prospered in peace with its neighbors and commanded the
admiration of the world. But the future of Iran belongs
to its people. They are the rightful heirs to a
rich culture and an ancient land, and they deserve a
name that does justice to their dreams, honor to their history,
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and glory to God.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Would have never happened if I was president.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Putin would have never done it. And I spoke to
him yesterday and I said, you know, he actually offered
to help mediate.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
I said, do me a favor, mediate your own.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Let's mediate Russia first, Okay, I said, Vladimir, Let's mediate
Russia first.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
You can worry about this later.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Now I hear is you just went out because they
felt it was violated by one rocket that didn't land anywhere.
That's not what we want, I'll tell you, and I'm
telling you I'm not happy about that Israel either. Two
countries that have been fighting so long and so hard
that they don't know what they're doing.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Do you understand that Donald Trump was once the King
of New York in New York, where he developed a
New York that was booming, a New York that Jesse
Jackson once called a slur for Jews, followed by the
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term town. I won't say it, there's no reason to
It rhymes with stemy, and Jews in New York know
that that's a very very nasty phrase thrown at them.
There is a dirty little secret in American politics that
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black nationalism is very much at odds with Jews, which
creates for an awkward bedfellow between the radical black left
and liberal Jews. In the Democrat Party. There has long
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been this pretend that it's not there, but it is.
The Last time it reared its ugly head it was
just a few months ago. Josh Shapiro was, without a doubt,
the most popular Democrat candidate to replace Joe Biden, but
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the decision was made him being Jewish and all that
that would upset the Muslims.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Why does that matter? There are now more.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Muslims than Jews in this country, but more importantly, it's
where they live. In the critical state of Michigan, which
now has cities that look more like Lebanon than America,
the very active, aggressive radical Muslim community would never tolerate
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having a Jewish nominee, and that was openly talked about
amongst the Democrat donor base and the insiders, who decided
that Kamala, wounded and broken as she was, would have
to be the choice.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
It was also the case.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
That her being at least painted as a black woman,
that passing over her would alienate the entitled blacks, which
is not all blacks, but it's some who feel we
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got to have one of our own up there, and
Kamala is as close as we've gotten.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Now.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Do they love Kamala Harris, No, they don't. She's not
a power figure to them. She's not an inspiration to them.
But people tend to internalize politics. It's not about whether
they had a love affair with Kamala Harris as a
person or she an inspiration to them.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
It was.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
If you will put a black woman atop the ticket,
that's to my benefit because now a black woman will
be president. And that don't mean that I can do
things as a black woman. Well, but she's an idiot
and you don't like her.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
I know, I know, I got that.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
But I'll take her because if I can make you
put her there and you don't want to, I can
make you. I can make you put me somewhere you
don't want to. And that's the calculation as to how
that works. She's only half black, she's from Canada. She's
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married to a white guy who knocked up the babysitter
with his daughter, which now is his daughter.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
She is an.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Absolute nut and voted for Zora and Mumdani. And that
brings us to New York, and that brings us to
the chickens coming home to roost. For white liberals, white
liberals have long kept counsel with anybody and everybody who
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wasn't a conservative, tax paying, god fearing white male.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Or their awful wives.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
So it didn't matter what broken group, where you were from,
who you pledged allusiance to, what bombs you set off,
who you hated, who you raped, who you murdered. What
awful things you did, what awful things you claimed, what
awful things you promised? You were part of the Democrat coalition. Well,
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eventually the white liberals thought they would stay in charge
of this forever.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
And now they got on that tiger and it got
out of control.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Zorn Mumdani, Oh, you're going to hear this name. He's
going to become New York's first Muslim mayor, first Asian mayor,
first millennial mayor.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
And boy, is this going to be interesting. You're on
the pulse.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
But kingting continues on the Michael Berry Show. So sitting
mayor Eric Adams, sixty four year old black men former
police officer who was targeted by the Biden administration. His
case was dropped by the Trump administration. He's been accused
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of corruption. He has run a foul of the liberal elite,
there by cooperating with ICE to remove illegal aliens. He's
certainly not been a perfect mayor, to be clear, but
he's managed to garner some support by the more Trump
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leaning New York voters because he's run a foul of
the left. So now we have Zorn Mamdani.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Who.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Is a socialist, a nutjob, an America hater.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
He is. He is exactly.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Where on the continuum white liberal politics lead you, whether
that be in England or Sweden or France. Eventually, when
you say there will be no law in order white officeholder,
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the white liberals are eventually going to give way to
the coalition of misfits that are everybody but the white
law and order people. And you will notice we saw
this in twenty twenty four in the presidential election, a
lot of white moderates who vote Democrat once they see
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the consequences of where this trend is heading. You see,
everything was about the non white people. Let's give more
welfare to the non whites, let's give let's give more
power to trainees and foreigners, let's legalize the illegals. And
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anyone who says otherwise is fear mongering. Y'all should be
eaten up with guilt as we are. And we need
to welcome the whole world into here, legal or illegal,
terrorists or not, Muslim or not, and violent or not,
and everything will always be okay, except it won't. The
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question is do you wake up to that before you
reach critical mass. So what you're noticing now in New York.
And this happened in Houston with Lena Hidalgo. Harris County,
which is the county Houston is in, was it has
four county commissioners plus the county judge it's called but
it's actually.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
The mayor of the county.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
And for decades that was four Republicans and one Democrat.
And then the Democrat, who was happy to go along,
to get along, get along, to go along, he died
and he was replaced by very, very shrewd, conniving, wily,
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corrupt state senator named Rodney Ellis, and in just a
matter of a few years he managed to redistrict, replace
cheat and now it's flipped four to one Democrat and
people are fleeing. Harris County, a once great, well run county,
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law and order oriented, is now Democrat dominated. And you
can look at Philadelphia, Detroit, Atlanta. You can see what
happens when you look at the large cities of this
country and their trend line. The trend line was to
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go from white conservative mayor to liberal conservative mayor to
black corrupt mayor.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
And the next phase is zorn Mundani.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
But in that process, what ended up happening is when
you went from the white liberal mayor, the Mitch Landrew
of New Orleans to the black corrupt mayor. And by
the way, it was probably corruption. You know, Richard Daley
was corrupted in Chicago. Once you get to the black
mayor who's elected on the basis that he's black, you
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generally have to get to about thirty five percent black
in a major urban environment to be able to elect
the black mayor. Once that happens, you start with a
thirty five percent lead because you fire up the blacks
to vote for the first black whether that be Harold Washington,
whether that be Mark Morial, whether that be Ray Nagan,
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whether that be what's the name in Baltimore, Philadelphia, New
York Dinkins. And once that happens, then they surround themselves
with a black leadership and white cognizanti. The conciliaries are
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these white liberals. What's the guy's name that would Dave?
Is it David Pluff? The guy that was part of
Obama's leadership team, Axelrod, and he said that our goal
was to take over the major cities, and the way
we would do that is we would mobilize the black
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vote on the basis of race, and then we would
convince white people to vote against their own best interests,
because urban whites are very self righteous virtue signalers. And
he said, we talked them into voting against their own
best interests. So voting for a mayor Karen Bass in
Los Angeles, great example, who won't give you a permit
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to rebuild after the fire, won't put good people in
place to keep the fire from spreading, won't stop the protests.
So how do you get white liberals to vote against
their own best interests so that they end up living
in a war zone. You convince them that they are
good people for vot voting against their own best interests. Now,
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this sounds crazy, but it works because white liberals, especially
rich white liberals, are so guilt ridden as they drive
around in the city where they see poor black people
on the street, corners dealing drugs, shooting each other, children
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not wearing shoes, fatherless homes, decrepit buildings, abandoned, neglected spaces,
graffiti everywhere. So these people feel such guilt that, in
order to feel better about themselves, they vote for candidates
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who are horrible for the city, not imagining it could
even get worse. And then you see a great city
like Portland fall into squalor. A great city like Seattle
become squalor, a great city like Mogadishu, Minneapolis fall into squalor.
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And so you go on the continuum to the liberal
white mayor and move on to the black mayor who's
elected on the basis of race with a black base.
And by the time they were elected, they've already fulfilled
their promise. I promise I'd be black and be mayor,
and they did. And then the corruption begins, and then
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the white flight begins. And you don't turn these trends
back around.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Always say it on the Michael Verie Show. So here's
what's about to happen. It's going to be a nasty
wake up call.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
New York has the largest Jewish population in the United
States by far. New York has long been a beacon
for Jewish culture, Jewish writers. I mean, Woody Allen created
an entire genre of movies where people in Middle America
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who've never been to New York got a glimpse into
the Woody Allen.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Zeitgest right, it's it's from museums to coffee shops to music.
Simon and Garfunkel, New.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
York was the cradle of Jewish culture in America by far,
and that Jewish culture largely repudiated Christian middle class values,
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and that was okay in the Ed Koch era. And
then David Dinkins was erected elected, not erected, he was.
He might have been erected, but he was elected. And
crime skyrocketed and it became the case that muggings were common,
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and a lot of people flew South Florida for the
summer or for the winter.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
And never came back.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
That's what Palm Beach became a bunker, a refuge for
people from New York. Donald Trump among them who left
New York and really never came back, maybe didn't even
announce it, they just didn't come back. And they created
this well to do culture in Palm Beach, of many
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of them Jewish, and they had their clubs, mar A
Lago among them. But there are others, the breakers, private
country clubs, their restaurants, their famelias, their yachts, and they
bemoaned what had become of New York. But they weren't
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going back because too many people were getting the Bernie
Gets treatment and they didn't want it anymore. The subways
became more and more dangerous. John Rocker talked about that
having played ball there. The streets became more and more dangerous.
And so Rudy Giuliani runs for mayor and in a
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last gasp of hope for New York, gets elected because
people wanted him, even though it's like a lot of
people who voted for Trump, they didn't like him, too conservative,
but they wanted their streets back. So Giuliani gets elected.
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But he's too conservative, he's too law and order. They
think they don't want law and order once they have it.
So Rudy Giuliani and I think his wife was j
Nathan at the time, are separated. He's not even living
in Gracie Mansion, which is the mayor's residence. He's living
out back of a gay couple who were friends of his,
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and I'm not insinuating anything.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
They were friends of his, in.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Little apartment out back, sitting on a on a popularity
rating of less than fifteen percent. He's riding out the
end of his term when all of a sudden nine
to eleven happens and Rudy is the man for the moment.
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He's America's mayor. He shows strength and resolve, and this
former US attorney prosecutor who went after the the.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Mafia was the man.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
So people forget how unpopular he was among the citizens
of New York. He wasn't unpopular for anything other than
doing exactly what he promised. White liberals are very conflicted.
They will tell you at a dinner party about getting
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mugged and how the city's going to hell and the
taxes are too high and the corruption is too great.
And you say, wait a minute, that's the guy you
voted for, and in fact you're hosting an event for.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Him next week. Yeah, I'm really unhappy with him.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Okay, there's a cognitive dissonance, not just to your thoughts
and words, but to your actions. White liberals commit political
suicide daily.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
So Rudy goes on.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
To enjoy incredible popularity and the rest of the country
thought he was popular in New York. He wasn't prior
to nine to eleven. Again, it wasn't until Muslims attacked
the city and the city was crumbling and needed leadership
that the people who didn't like him for what for
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restoring law and order got behind him. But it was
too late, too late for him to be re elected.
So he's going to run for the Senate against Hillary,
but he has prostate cancer.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
It's not the right time.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
He becomes associated with Trump, kind of moves off practice
law makes some money, okay.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Well.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
In the meantime, the city of New York was growing
more and more foreign owned, foreign influenced, particularly Muslim influenced,
and there became a growing faction of people who find
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New York to be a very comfortable place to do business.
Whatever that business may be. They are able to blend in,
many of them illegal. That's why New York has become
such a bastion for illegal immigration. Many of them engaged
in forms of corruption, whether that be medicare, fraud, you
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name it. And the white liberal kept pushing for this
more and more and more, all the while not understanding
that the white liberal is only useful until the pets
that he's collecting devour him or her. I think we've
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reached that point in New York. The election of Zora
or the victory by Zoron Mandani last night, I believe
is the critical mass they needed now that might just
ensure that Eric Adams wins reelection because he's scheduled to
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announce that he's running again tomorrow as an independent. I
don't know, we shall see, but we're going to see
this trend across the country.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
We are at that point in the phase.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Of every major city where we've moved from the white
mayor who's sort of a centrist, to the white liberal mayor,
to the black mayor. And now they too will be
replaced by the very, very radical elements that were once
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just a piece of the coalition of what is now
on the streets in Los Angeles and what is defund
the police in New York.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Now they're ready to leave. And this is going to
be something to behold. Walden, all great cities in between
the Michael Berry Show is nichwide.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
So you should be reasonably asking, well, Zaar, who is
this boogeyman Zoron Mamdani you keep talking about. Let me
tell you his campaign platform on includes free city buses,
because why wouldn't you.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Public childcare?
Speaker 4 (24:30):
Because when you have these babies, because by the way,
it's an act of great valor to have the baby.
You could have just aborted it. So now everybody else
has to pay for your baby. City owned grocery stores,
you see, every socialist will tell you that capitalism is
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the exploitation of the individual by the rich, and that
sounds good if you don't have as much money as
you'd like to and the guy over across the street does,
I'd like some of what he has.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
But you can't steal from the.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
Rich and give to the poor for very long because
the things that made the rich rich will cause him
to either flee or no longer produce. If you've ever
traveled to a socialist or communist country, you know that
there's nothing on the shelves, because when you produce without
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being able to profit, you stop producing, and that becomes
the problem. Therein lies the problem. We take for granted
there is so much food on the shelves in this country.
Our biggest problem isn't the lack of food. It's too
damn much of it. That's why we're so fat. We
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take for granted that there's so many items on the shelves.
We don't have to go to the shelves anymore have
them delivered to us. Visit a socialist nation, there's nothing
for sale. Nobody makes anything. He wants A rent freeze
on rent stabilized units. Thomas soul in Basic economics. You
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can look up Thomas Soul and rent subsidies, and you
will find that what sounds like a great idea.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Remember the rent is too damn high, guy.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
Well, the idea that you don't want to pay more
in rent, so the government won't allow the landlord to
charge more for rent seems like a great idea.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
If you're a renter.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
And this is the part that's hard for people to
understand because they never studied economics. If the goal is
to lower rents and make housing more affordable, rent caps.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Do not accomplish that. And now here's the part follow me.
They do exactly the opposite. Why is that.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Because rent control means a landlord can't make money, or
can make money, can put his capital to use somewhere else.
So the landlord says, I've got one hundred units in
New York and I've had rent control imposed on me,
so I can only charge three hundred dollars a unit.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
For my units.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
It cost me too much to build more, So I'm
not going to build more because I can't charge more.
I'm not going to make improvements. Why would I make improvements.
I can't charge more. It's money lost. So the buildings
become dilapidated and derelict. That's number one. Number two. A
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study done on rent controlled units in New York owned
that a number of units were actually owned by people
who didn't live in them.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Follow me here.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
What happens is somebody gets a rent controlled unit in
New York.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
They've had it since nineteen seventy eight.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
Let's say they never give it up because it's so
cheap they can afford to hold onto it. They live
in Florida, but when they come to town, they stay
in their rent controlled unit. In many cases they sublet
their rent controlled unit to someone else, but they ain't
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about to give it up.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
But the problem is, tenants.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
Have so many rights visa via the landlord that you've
got to be real careful who you rent to because
they'll get in there and effectively become a squatter and
you can't beat them in court, you can't evict them.
And by the way, you weren't supposed to sublet when
you don't build more units, because why would you. You can't
charge more in rents when you don't build more units,
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then you create a shortage. Well, you know enough of
economics to know this. If demand remains the same, or
in this case increases because the population is increasing but
supply remains static. It doesn't change. You don't add to it.
More demand, same supply. What happens on the price curve,
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it goes up, but there's no way for price to
go up because remember you got rent control. So now
how do you decide who gets a unit because nobody
ever moves out.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
You can't afford to move out. It's too cheap.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
If you move out, there's no housing available, so you
have to move outside the city. So what ended up
happening was the few people who had a rent controlled
unit kept the rent controlled unit. Everybody else had to
move out a rent controlled unit, and your whole family
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lives there, and your daughter turns eighteen or twenty two
or twenty five, and she gets married and they have
a child or three or four. The unit was too small,
so she has to find her own place. But there's
no housing in New York, So now she has to
move to New Jersey. And so what you saw was
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people having to move out of the city. People priced
out of the city because there's insufficient inventory of housing
in New York. Because there's no incentive for anyone to
build housing. Government can't build housing not very well. What
it would cost the government to build a unit is
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far in excess of what the free market could build
it for. So the people who are good at building apartments,
they just move their apartments out of the city. Well,
now you've rent controlled the rent, so you've rent control.
Now you've put a cap on the taxes you can
charge for the ownership of that unit. That can't increase
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because you've kept the taxes low. So the valuation is
low because the valuation of an investment property is what
you can get as an investment from a renter. So
now you've got properties valued at what they were in
the eighties. But you've increased your costs. You've got more
illegal aliens, you've got more cops you have to pay.
You've got more cops on retirement. You've got more firefighters,
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you've got payments to be made from firefighters who had
to leave after nine to eleven. You've got road repairs,
you've got rats as big as raccoons, which became a
national story. So you start noticing that as a result
of a well intended policy, it sounds good. We're not
going to let landlords raise the rent because landlords are
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evil and tenants are victims. So what starts as a
rent control with the best of intentions ends up spiraling,
as all liberal ideas do. It ends up spiraling into
something that ends up hurting the very people it was
designed to help.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Because I had news for you that landlord.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
He'll survive because he's a survivor. But the next investment
he makes will not be in New York. He will
move and come down to Texas. He'll go down to Florida,
he'll go down to Alabama and yes, Mississippi, and we'll
see a building.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Boom in places like that, which is exactly what we've experienced.
Speaker 4 (32:44):
Oh, if Zora Mundani wins, it's going to be bad
in New York, and I'll be the guy saying I
told you so.
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load from
Michael Veri show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
I want everybody to stop dying.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
That dying.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Finally, I want to deliver a message to the long
suffering people of Iran. The people of America stand with you.
It has now been almost forty years since this dictatorship
seize power and took a proud nation hostage. Most of
Iran's eighty million citizens have sadly never known an Iran
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that prospered in peace with its neighbors and commanded the
admiration of the world. But the future of Iran belongs
to its people. They are the rightful heirs to a
rich culture and an ancient land, and they deserve a
name that does justice to their dreams, honor to their history,
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and glory to God.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Would have never happened if I was president.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Putin would have never done it. And I spoke to
him yesterday and I said, you know, he actually offered
to help mediate.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
I said, do me a favor, mediate your own.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Let's mediate Russia first, Okay, I said, Vladimir, Let's mediate
Russia first.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
You can worry about this later.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Now I hear is you just went out because they
felt it was violated by one rocket that didn't land anywhere.
That's not what we want, I'll tell you, and I'm
telling you I'm not happy about that Israel either. Two
countries that have been fighting so long and so hard
that they don't know what they're doing.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Do you understand that Donald Trump was once the King
of New York in New York, where he developed a
New York that was booming, a New York that Jesse
Jackson once called a slur for Jews, followed by the
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term town. I won't say it, there's no reason to
It rhymes with stemy, and Jews in New York know
that that's a very very nasty phrase thrown at them.
There is a dirty little secret in American politics that
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black nationalism is very much at odds with Jews, which
creates for an awkward bedfellow between the radical black left
and liberal Jews. In the Democrat Party. There has long
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been this pretend that it's not there, but it is.
The Last time it reared its ugly head it was
just a few months ago. Josh Shapiro was, without a doubt,
the most popular Democrat candidate to replace Joe Biden, but
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the decision was made him being Jewish and all that
that would upset the Muslims.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Why does that matter? There are now more.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Muslims than Jews in this country, but more importantly, it's
where they live. In the critical state of Michigan, which
now has cities that look more like Lebanon than America,
the very active, aggressive radical Muslim community would never tolerate
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having a Jewish nominee, and that was openly talked about
amongst the Democrat donor base and the insiders, who decided
that Kamala, wounded and broken as she was, would have
to be the choice.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
It was also the case.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
That her being at least painted as a black woman,
that passing over her would alienate the entitled blacks, which
is not all blacks, but it's some who feel we
(04:35):
got to have one of our own up there, and
Kamala is as close as we've gotten.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Now.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Do they love Kamala Harris, No, they don't. She's not
a power figure to them. She's not an inspiration to them.
But people tend to internalize politics. It's not about whether
they had a love affair with Kamala Harris as a
person or she an inspiration to them.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
It was.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
If you will put a black woman atop the ticket,
that's to my benefit because now a black woman will
be president. And that don't mean that I can do
things as a black woman. Well, but she's an idiot
and you don't like her.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
I know, I know, I got that.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
But I'll take her because if I can make you
put her there and you don't want to, I can
make you. I can make you put me somewhere you
don't want to. And that's the calculation as to how
that works. She's only half black, she's from Canada. She's
(05:42):
married to a white guy who knocked up the babysitter
with his daughter, which now is his daughter.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
She is an.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Absolute nut and voted for Zora and Mumdani. And that
brings us to New York, and that brings us to
the chickens coming home to roost. For white liberals, white
liberals have long kept counsel with anybody and everybody who
(06:20):
wasn't a conservative, tax paying, god fearing white male.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Or their awful wives.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
So it didn't matter what broken group, where you were from,
who you pledged allusiance to, what bombs you set off,
who you hated, who you raped, who you murdered. What
awful things you did, what awful things you claimed, what
awful things you promised? You were part of the Democrat coalition. Well,
(06:51):
eventually the white liberals thought they would stay in charge
of this forever.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
And now they got on that tiger and it got
out of control.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Zorn Mumdani, Oh, you're going to hear this name. He's
going to become New York's first Muslim mayor, first Asian mayor,
first millennial mayor.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
And boy, is this going to be interesting. You're on
the pulse.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
But kingting continues on the Michael Berry Show. So sitting
mayor Eric Adams, sixty four year old black men former
police officer who was targeted by the Biden administration. His
case was dropped by the Trump administration. He's been accused
(07:39):
of corruption. He has run a foul of the liberal elite,
there by cooperating with ICE to remove illegal aliens. He's
certainly not been a perfect mayor, to be clear, but
he's managed to garner some support by the more Trump
(08:00):
leaning New York voters because he's run a foul of
the left. So now we have Zorn Mamdani.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Who.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Is a socialist, a nutjob, an America hater.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
He is. He is exactly.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Where on the continuum white liberal politics lead you, whether
that be in England or Sweden or France. Eventually, when
you say there will be no law in order white officeholder,
(08:50):
the white liberals are eventually going to give way to
the coalition of misfits that are everybody but the white
law and order people. And you will notice we saw
this in twenty twenty four in the presidential election, a
lot of white moderates who vote Democrat once they see
(09:17):
the consequences of where this trend is heading. You see,
everything was about the non white people. Let's give more
welfare to the non whites, let's give let's give more
power to trainees and foreigners, let's legalize the illegals. And
(09:40):
anyone who says otherwise is fear mongering. Y'all should be
eaten up with guilt as we are. And we need
to welcome the whole world into here, legal or illegal,
terrorists or not, Muslim or not, and violent or not,
and everything will always be okay, except it won't. The
(10:05):
question is do you wake up to that before you
reach critical mass. So what you're noticing now in New York.
And this happened in Houston with Lena Hidalgo. Harris County,
which is the county Houston is in, was it has
four county commissioners plus the county judge it's called but
it's actually.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
The mayor of the county.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
And for decades that was four Republicans and one Democrat.
And then the Democrat, who was happy to go along,
to get along, get along, to go along, he died
and he was replaced by very, very shrewd, conniving, wily,
(10:48):
corrupt state senator named Rodney Ellis, and in just a
matter of a few years he managed to redistrict, replace
cheat and now it's flipped four to one Democrat and
people are fleeing. Harris County, a once great, well run county,
(11:10):
law and order oriented, is now Democrat dominated. And you
can look at Philadelphia, Detroit, Atlanta. You can see what
happens when you look at the large cities of this
country and their trend line. The trend line was to
(11:30):
go from white conservative mayor to liberal conservative mayor to
black corrupt mayor.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
And the next phase is zorn Mundani.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
But in that process, what ended up happening is when
you went from the white liberal mayor, the Mitch Landrew
of New Orleans to the black corrupt mayor. And by
the way, it was probably corruption. You know, Richard Daley
was corrupted in Chicago. Once you get to the black
mayor who's elected on the basis that he's black, you
(12:10):
generally have to get to about thirty five percent black
in a major urban environment to be able to elect
the black mayor. Once that happens, you start with a
thirty five percent lead because you fire up the blacks
to vote for the first black whether that be Harold Washington,
whether that be Mark Morial, whether that be Ray Nagan,
(12:33):
whether that be what's the name in Baltimore, Philadelphia, New
York Dinkins. And once that happens, then they surround themselves
with a black leadership and white cognizanti. The conciliaries are
(12:56):
these white liberals. What's the guy's name that would Dave?
Is it David Pluff? The guy that was part of
Obama's leadership team, Axelrod, and he said that our goal
was to take over the major cities, and the way
we would do that is we would mobilize the black
(13:18):
vote on the basis of race, and then we would
convince white people to vote against their own best interests,
because urban whites are very self righteous virtue signalers. And
he said, we talked them into voting against their own
best interests. So voting for a mayor Karen Bass in
Los Angeles, great example, who won't give you a permit
(13:41):
to rebuild after the fire, won't put good people in
place to keep the fire from spreading, won't stop the protests.
So how do you get white liberals to vote against
their own best interests so that they end up living
in a war zone. You convince them that they are
good people for vot voting against their own best interests. Now,
(14:03):
this sounds crazy, but it works because white liberals, especially
rich white liberals, are so guilt ridden as they drive
around in the city where they see poor black people
on the street, corners dealing drugs, shooting each other, children
(14:23):
not wearing shoes, fatherless homes, decrepit buildings, abandoned, neglected spaces,
graffiti everywhere. So these people feel such guilt that, in
order to feel better about themselves, they vote for candidates
(14:44):
who are horrible for the city, not imagining it could
even get worse. And then you see a great city
like Portland fall into squalor. A great city like Seattle
become squalor, a great city like Mogadishu, Minneapolis fall into squalor.
(15:05):
And so you go on the continuum to the liberal
white mayor and move on to the black mayor who's
elected on the basis of race with a black base.
And by the time they were elected, they've already fulfilled
their promise. I promise I'd be black and be mayor,
and they did. And then the corruption begins, and then
(15:26):
the white flight begins. And you don't turn these trends
back around.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Always say it on the Michael Verie Show. So here's
what's about to happen. It's going to be a nasty
wake up call.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
New York has the largest Jewish population in the United
States by far. New York has long been a beacon
for Jewish culture, Jewish writers. I mean, Woody Allen created
an entire genre of movies where people in Middle America
(16:06):
who've never been to New York got a glimpse into
the Woody Allen.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Zeitgest right, it's it's from museums to coffee shops to music.
Simon and Garfunkel, New.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
York was the cradle of Jewish culture in America by far,
and that Jewish culture largely repudiated Christian middle class values,
(16:48):
and that was okay in the Ed Koch era. And
then David Dinkins was erected elected, not erected, he was.
He might have been erected, but he was elected. And
crime skyrocketed and it became the case that muggings were common,
(17:09):
and a lot of people flew South Florida for the
summer or for the winter.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
And never came back.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
That's what Palm Beach became a bunker, a refuge for
people from New York. Donald Trump among them who left
New York and really never came back, maybe didn't even
announce it, they just didn't come back. And they created
this well to do culture in Palm Beach, of many
(17:40):
of them Jewish, and they had their clubs, mar A
Lago among them. But there are others, the breakers, private
country clubs, their restaurants, their famelias, their yachts, and they
bemoaned what had become of New York. But they weren't
(18:04):
going back because too many people were getting the Bernie
Gets treatment and they didn't want it anymore. The subways
became more and more dangerous. John Rocker talked about that
having played ball there. The streets became more and more dangerous.
And so Rudy Giuliani runs for mayor and in a
(18:28):
last gasp of hope for New York, gets elected because
people wanted him, even though it's like a lot of
people who voted for Trump, they didn't like him, too conservative,
but they wanted their streets back. So Giuliani gets elected.
(18:49):
But he's too conservative, he's too law and order. They
think they don't want law and order once they have it.
So Rudy Giuliani and I think his wife was j
Nathan at the time, are separated. He's not even living
in Gracie Mansion, which is the mayor's residence. He's living
out back of a gay couple who were friends of his,
(19:10):
and I'm not insinuating anything.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
They were friends of his, in.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Little apartment out back, sitting on a on a popularity
rating of less than fifteen percent. He's riding out the
end of his term when all of a sudden nine
to eleven happens and Rudy is the man for the moment.
(19:38):
He's America's mayor. He shows strength and resolve, and this
former US attorney prosecutor who went after the the.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Mafia was the man.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
So people forget how unpopular he was among the citizens
of New York. He wasn't unpopular for anything other than
doing exactly what he promised. White liberals are very conflicted.
They will tell you at a dinner party about getting
(20:18):
mugged and how the city's going to hell and the
taxes are too high and the corruption is too great.
And you say, wait a minute, that's the guy you
voted for, and in fact you're hosting an event for.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Him next week. Yeah, I'm really unhappy with him.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Okay, there's a cognitive dissonance, not just to your thoughts
and words, but to your actions. White liberals commit political
suicide daily.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
So Rudy goes on.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
To enjoy incredible popularity and the rest of the country
thought he was popular in New York. He wasn't prior
to nine to eleven. Again, it wasn't until Muslims attacked
the city and the city was crumbling and needed leadership
that the people who didn't like him for what for
(21:14):
restoring law and order got behind him. But it was
too late, too late for him to be re elected.
So he's going to run for the Senate against Hillary,
but he has prostate cancer.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
It's not the right time.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
He becomes associated with Trump, kind of moves off practice
law makes some money, okay.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Well.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
In the meantime, the city of New York was growing
more and more foreign owned, foreign influenced, particularly Muslim influenced,
and there became a growing faction of people who find
(22:00):
New York to be a very comfortable place to do business.
Whatever that business may be. They are able to blend in,
many of them illegal. That's why New York has become
such a bastion for illegal immigration. Many of them engaged
in forms of corruption, whether that be medicare, fraud, you
(22:22):
name it. And the white liberal kept pushing for this
more and more and more, all the while not understanding
that the white liberal is only useful until the pets
that he's collecting devour him or her. I think we've
(22:45):
reached that point in New York. The election of Zora
or the victory by Zoron Mandani last night, I believe
is the critical mass they needed now that might just
ensure that Eric Adams wins reelection because he's scheduled to
(23:06):
announce that he's running again tomorrow as an independent. I
don't know, we shall see, but we're going to see
this trend across the country.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
We are at that point in the phase.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Of every major city where we've moved from the white
mayor who's sort of a centrist, to the white liberal mayor,
to the black mayor. And now they too will be
replaced by the very, very radical elements that were once
(23:47):
just a piece of the coalition of what is now
on the streets in Los Angeles and what is defund
the police in New York.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Now they're ready to leave. And this is going to
be something to behold. Walden, all great cities in between
the Michael Berry Show is nichwide.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
So you should be reasonably asking, well, Zaar, who is
this boogeyman Zoron Mamdani you keep talking about. Let me
tell you his campaign platform on includes free city buses,
because why wouldn't you.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Public childcare?
Speaker 4 (24:30):
Because when you have these babies, because by the way,
it's an act of great valor to have the baby.
You could have just aborted it. So now everybody else
has to pay for your baby. City owned grocery stores,
you see, every socialist will tell you that capitalism is
(24:50):
the exploitation of the individual by the rich, and that
sounds good if you don't have as much money as
you'd like to and the guy over across the street does,
I'd like some of what he has.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
But you can't steal from the.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
Rich and give to the poor for very long because
the things that made the rich rich will cause him
to either flee or no longer produce. If you've ever
traveled to a socialist or communist country, you know that
there's nothing on the shelves, because when you produce without
(25:30):
being able to profit, you stop producing, and that becomes
the problem. Therein lies the problem. We take for granted
there is so much food on the shelves in this country.
Our biggest problem isn't the lack of food. It's too
damn much of it. That's why we're so fat. We
(25:54):
take for granted that there's so many items on the shelves.
We don't have to go to the shelves anymore have
them delivered to us. Visit a socialist nation, there's nothing
for sale. Nobody makes anything. He wants A rent freeze
on rent stabilized units. Thomas soul in Basic economics. You
(26:17):
can look up Thomas Soul and rent subsidies, and you
will find that what sounds like a great idea.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Remember the rent is too damn high, guy.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
Well, the idea that you don't want to pay more
in rent, so the government won't allow the landlord to
charge more for rent seems like a great idea.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
If you're a renter.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
And this is the part that's hard for people to
understand because they never studied economics. If the goal is
to lower rents and make housing more affordable, rent caps.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Do not accomplish that. And now here's the part follow me.
They do exactly the opposite. Why is that.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Because rent control means a landlord can't make money, or
can make money, can put his capital to use somewhere else.
So the landlord says, I've got one hundred units in
New York and I've had rent control imposed on me,
so I can only charge three hundred dollars a unit.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
For my units.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
It cost me too much to build more, So I'm
not going to build more because I can't charge more.
I'm not going to make improvements. Why would I make improvements.
I can't charge more. It's money lost. So the buildings
become dilapidated and derelict. That's number one. Number two. A
(27:57):
study done on rent controlled units in New York owned
that a number of units were actually owned by people
who didn't live in them.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Follow me here.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
What happens is somebody gets a rent controlled unit in
New York.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
They've had it since nineteen seventy eight.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
Let's say they never give it up because it's so
cheap they can afford to hold onto it. They live
in Florida, but when they come to town, they stay
in their rent controlled unit. In many cases they sublet
their rent controlled unit to someone else, but they ain't
(28:36):
about to give it up.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
But the problem is, tenants.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
Have so many rights visa via the landlord that you've
got to be real careful who you rent to because
they'll get in there and effectively become a squatter and
you can't beat them in court, you can't evict them.
And by the way, you weren't supposed to sublet when
you don't build more units, because why would you. You can't
charge more in rents when you don't build more units,
(29:04):
then you create a shortage. Well, you know enough of
economics to know this. If demand remains the same, or
in this case increases because the population is increasing but
supply remains static. It doesn't change. You don't add to it.
More demand, same supply. What happens on the price curve,
(29:24):
it goes up, but there's no way for price to
go up because remember you got rent control. So now
how do you decide who gets a unit because nobody
ever moves out.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
You can't afford to move out. It's too cheap.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
If you move out, there's no housing available, so you
have to move outside the city. So what ended up
happening was the few people who had a rent controlled
unit kept the rent controlled unit. Everybody else had to
move out a rent controlled unit, and your whole family
(30:01):
lives there, and your daughter turns eighteen or twenty two
or twenty five, and she gets married and they have
a child or three or four. The unit was too small,
so she has to find her own place. But there's
no housing in New York, So now she has to
move to New Jersey. And so what you saw was
(30:24):
people having to move out of the city. People priced
out of the city because there's insufficient inventory of housing
in New York. Because there's no incentive for anyone to
build housing. Government can't build housing not very well. What
it would cost the government to build a unit is
(30:45):
far in excess of what the free market could build
it for. So the people who are good at building apartments,
they just move their apartments out of the city. Well,
now you've rent controlled the rent, so you've rent control.
Now you've put a cap on the taxes you can
charge for the ownership of that unit. That can't increase
(31:10):
because you've kept the taxes low. So the valuation is
low because the valuation of an investment property is what
you can get as an investment from a renter. So
now you've got properties valued at what they were in
the eighties. But you've increased your costs. You've got more
illegal aliens, you've got more cops you have to pay.
You've got more cops on retirement. You've got more firefighters,
(31:34):
you've got payments to be made from firefighters who had
to leave after nine to eleven. You've got road repairs,
you've got rats as big as raccoons, which became a
national story. So you start noticing that as a result
of a well intended policy, it sounds good. We're not
going to let landlords raise the rent because landlords are
(31:56):
evil and tenants are victims. So what starts as a
rent control with the best of intentions ends up spiraling,
as all liberal ideas do. It ends up spiraling into
something that ends up hurting the very people it was
designed to help.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Because I had news for you that landlord.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
He'll survive because he's a survivor. But the next investment
he makes will not be in New York. He will
move and come down to Texas. He'll go down to Florida,
he'll go down to Alabama and yes, Mississippi, and we'll
see a building.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Boom in places like that, which is exactly what we've experienced.
Speaker 4 (32:44):
Oh, if Zora Mundani wins, it's going to be bad
in New York, and I'll be the guy saying I
told you so.
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