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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load for
Michael Dairy Show.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Heroes everyone, Heroes by the million men who abandon home
in vocations that they may be ready to defend democracy
if necessary. Sturdy of body, firm and spirit, seamen, marine, soldiers,
and flyers.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Memorial Day is the day that we honor and remember
those who died serving our country. Armed Forces Day is
the day that we honor those currently serving. Veterans Day
is the day that we honor those who have served.
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It's observed every year now consistently on this day, November eleventh.
It began as our miss just Stay, recognizing the end
of World War One nineteen eighteen. It was to be
the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of the eleventh
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month that the fighting would stop, the guns would fall
silent at that moment. In nineteen fifty four, the United
States renamed it Veterans Day to honor all who have
served in our Armed forces, in every branch, in every era.
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Dwight David Eisenhower, interestingly, was the president at that time.
That was the moment we went from honoring those who
had served into war to end all wars, which it
wasn't World War One, and we incorporated World War II
as well. Since then, of course, in terms of conflicts,
we've had a lot of We've had Vietnam most notably,
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but we've had Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, and so many more.
The Korean War, the era during which my father served.
So many served our country with valor and honor, and
we recognize that.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Today there were ceremonies.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
President Trump delivering a beautiful speech following JD. Vance himself
a veteran, is Jadvance. And today we honor each and
every one of you, and every one of your family
members who served in any branch of the United States military.
Your service is noted, appreciated, loved. So we go back
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to begin the program to nineteen eighty five. We'll get
to President Trump's remarks today. I think they were quite poignant.
We go back to nineteen eighty five, and I invite
you to say a prayer with me. With President then
President Ronald Reagan.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
A few moments ago, I placed a wreath that the
tomb of the unknown Soldier, and as I stepped back
and stood during the moment of silence that followed, I
said a small prayer and it occurred to me that
each of my predecessors has had a similar moment, and
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I wondered if our prayers weren't very much.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
The same, if not identical.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
We celebrate Veterans Day on the anniversary of the armistice
that ended World War One, the armistice that began on
the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.
And I wonder, in fact, if all America's prayers aren't
the same as those I mentioned of home ago. For
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all we can ever do for our heroes is remember
them and remember what they did, and memories are transmitted
true words. We see these soldiers in our mind as
old and wise. We see them as something like the
founding fathers, grave and gray. But most of them were
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boys when they died, and they gave up two lives,
the one they were living and the one they would
have lived when they died. They gave up their chance
to be husbands and fathers and grandfathers.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
They gave up their chance to be revered old men.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
They gave up everything for our country, for us, and
all we can do is remember. There's always someone who
is remembering for us, no matter what time of year
it is or what time of day. There are always
people who come to this cemetery, leave a flag or
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a flower or a little rock on a headstone, and
they stopped and bow their heads and communicate what they
wished to communicate. I think sometimes of General Matthew Richway,
who the night before d Day tossed sleepless on his
cot and talk to the Lord and listen for the
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promise that God made the Joshua. I will not fail
thee nor forsake thee. We are surrounded today by the
debt of our wars. We owe them, a debt we
can never repay. All we can do is remember them
and what they did and why they had to.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Be brave for us.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
All we can do is try to see that other
young men never have to join them. Today, as never before,
we must pledge to remember the things that will continue
the peace Today as never before.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
We must pray for.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
God's help in broadening and deepening the peace we enjoy.
Let us pray for freedom and justice at a more
stable world.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
And let us make a compact.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Today with the debt, a promise in the words for
which General Richway listened, I will not fail Thee nor forsakety.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
They remain scared the death of you, and they remain
scared to.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Death of Trump. That Michael Berries shows you're not going
anywhere even if Trump does.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
You're not.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
We did something we don't often do, which is take
President Trump's remarks today, which we listened to most of
them live. He started before we were off the air,
but we well, I guess not live, but slightly delayed,
and then as a group we listened to them and
we cut them up. We could literally play President Trump
speaking to you every single day. We choose not to
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because we think it's important to highlight particularly important statements
or speeches that he gives, and today I think was
one of those. I'm going to start in reverse order
in his speech because he started by honoring our veterans.
But then and this will be five ZHO six or
rowe then he talked about why we honor our veterans.
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So this wasn't just a tribute to the veterans. This
is this is really and I think it's important to
do this. This is really putting into perspective why we
do this, and.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
Under my leadership, we're also fighting for the great veterans
who have always always been there for us, and especially
when we needed them and.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Needed them most. In nine months, the Trump.
Speaker 6 (07:26):
Administration has cut the backlog.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Of VA betefit claims in half.
Speaker 6 (07:35):
That's a big achievement, and Doug is going to get
it down to zero. During the Biden administration, the backlog.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Exploded like we had never seen before.
Speaker 6 (07:45):
And I'm going to eliminate one hundred percent of that backlog.
We're moving at that pace and already we've processed more
than three million backlog claims, the most of any year
in the history of the VA.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
We've added more than one.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
Extra service hours across the VA centers, and we've opened
twenty new facilities in thirteen states, something that people said.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Just not possible to do.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
We also have brought back vight choice and VA accountability
taken away by the Biden administration, so that when you
have to wait online, you go out and you get
yourself a doctor.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
We pay for the doctor if you have to wait.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
And the other thing is we fired thousands of people
who didn't take care of our.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Great veterans.
Speaker 6 (08:34):
They were say this, they were sick people, they were thieves,
they were everything you want to name, and we got
rid of over nine thousand of them, and then when
Biden came in, he hired them back, many of them,
but we got rid of him, and I think we
got rid of them permanently. We replace them with people
who love our veterans, not people who are sick people.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
We'll get to the issue in greater depth, but how
we treat our veterans when we come home says a
lot about us as a people. President Trump talking about
the challenge of veteran homelessness, which is a real, real problem,
the scale of this problem.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
We're also confronting the challenge of veterans homelessness, and earlier
this year I signed in order establishing the National Center
for Warrior Independence to house up to six thousand.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Veterans in need.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
And we will not stop until we have ended the
tragedy of homeless veterans once and for all. I'd see
in New York where people that came into our country illegally,
they came in illegally, would be put up in hotels,
and veterans would be sitting on the sidewalk outside of
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that hotel where these other people are put in. And
many of the people that came in were put in
from prisons. They were murderers, they were drug dealers, they
were people so we didn't want in our country.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
They were staying in.
Speaker 6 (10:02):
Hotels, luxury hotels that our veterans were sitting on the
sidewalks watching them go in. I said, that's ever going
to happen under this administration. I also signed the VA
Home Loan Program Reform Act because no veterans should be
kicked out.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Of their home for what they call a late payment.
That's not happening. And I please report this.
Speaker 6 (10:26):
Since January, the veterans unemployment rate has fallen by more than.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Twenty six percent. That's amazing. Work hard on the.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Stories. Stories are important. The story of Major John Turnbull
was President Trump's next part of his speech. And yeah,
it's a story, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 6 (10:56):
And I also want to give a very special thanks
to all of the Veterans Service organizations that work so hard.
They're all represented here today, but they worked so hard
on behalf of our great veterans. And one of the
heroes who reminds us of why we fight for those
who served.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
And uniform his Army.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
Major West Point grad Jonathan Turnbull. In twenty nineteen, Jonathan
was conducting an operation in Syria when a suicide bomba
approached and detonated his vest, leaving Jonathan gravely wounded, so
so badly wounded, they thought he had no chance. The
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injuries were so severe. The doctors gave him everybody they
just looked to. They all cried. They knew him, they
loved him, and they were just crying. They said no chance.
He was resuscitated three separate times, and he underwent twenty
two surgeries, but he refused to give up. He wanted
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to live. He loved his country, he loved his family.
He wanted to live. He was going through hell. I
visited Jonathan and Walter Reed in twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
He remembered so well. And today I'm delighted.
Speaker 6 (12:10):
To say that Jonathan is not only alive, he is
here with us, back at his feet and living a
great life alongside his beautiful wife, Samantha and their three
incredible children. Jonathan, Samantha, Please, God, bless you, God, bless you.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Where are you?
Speaker 5 (12:32):
There?
Speaker 6 (12:33):
He is.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
There, He is beautiful. Thank you very much. Thank you.
You're a tough guy. You're a tough one.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
Nobody could have gone through what you went through. He's
doing good, isn't he Huh, Samantha, thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Both.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
President Trump, as executive producer of Celebrity of the Apprentice,
understands the reveal. He understands how to create a moment,
and it's such a moment fraught with tensity, attention, intensity,
and he creates those moments. And I love that he
does that around everyday people, not just famous people, but
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everyday people. And he brings such such attention, such pageantry,
such pomp, to individuals who otherwise are never extolled, and
he lifts them up in that way with this grand
reveal in that manner.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
That makes you feel good. It makes me be proud.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
It makes me proud to be an American that our
president is honoring people like this, because that's not just
Major John Turnbull's moment. It's his family and it's other
people in uniform. And they say, well, if they love him,
they love me, Yes, we do. Thank you, mister President.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Michael Berry's show.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Failed to mention but at the beginning of the show,
in the beginning of the next hour, that montage is
a collection of musicians who served the United States, who
served in the United States military.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
So thank you to Jim Mudd for putting that together.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Last quote from Trump I'll play in this hour from
his Veterans Day speech today, he makes a point. I'll
tell you this, I have no patience, zero for people
who come to this country and criticize who we are
and what we've done. If you don't like it, go
back to your hellhole, whether that be Somalia or Europe,
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or Asia or Mexico or wherever else. If you don't
like this country, go home. And I won't have people
criticizing the history of this country because people, my people,
your people have served, some of them have died for
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other people's lands and freedom, and that is a noble goal.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
No greater love.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Hath any man. And I want that honored. And when
it's not honored, I have no patience for it. And
my criticism is swift and righteous. Ramon, do you hear me? Righteous?
I feel it. I am unashamed of it. It's just
President Trump talking about the fact that when God asked
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who would defend the land of the free, the American
veteran stood up.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
From the very beginning of our country, our great American
flag has always been shielded and protected by a special
cast of citizen who has stepped forward to safeguard Liberty's
cause when danger came, when duty called, when Almighty God asked,
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I had the will and the strength to defend the
land of the free, Each and every American veteran stood
up and said, here I am, Send me here I am.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
They've come from.
Speaker 6 (16:11):
Every corner of this nation, from the cornfields of Iowa
to the hills and valleys of California, from the steel
towns of Pennsylvania to the vast plains of Texas, from
the banks of the Mighty Mississippi to the Five burroughs
of New York City. With selfless commitment and unyielding conviction,
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they made themselves Americas ramparts and became the shield between
our homeland and those who would do us harm.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
With everything they had, they did one thing above all else.
Speaker 6 (16:48):
They put America first on the decks of destroyers, beneath
the thunder of cannon fire and the cockpits of our
beautiful beat TB bombers. Aren't they beautiful?
Speaker 5 (17:02):
Now?
Speaker 2 (17:03):
We respect them so much?
Speaker 6 (17:06):
What a job they did that, in an instant completely
obliterated Iran's nuclear capability, of which we have just ordered.
I have to say many more of the updated versions
of that incredible.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Piece of art.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
They defended the American Republic, dispensed American justice, crush the
enemies of freedom, and vanquished the forces of wickedness and evil.
That's what we've been doing. Because of what every veteran
has done. Today, the flame of liberty shines bright, the
people of our nation sleep safe, the American dream surges forward,
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and our magnificent destiny stands more splendid and glorious than
ever before. So I want to say thank you once
again to every American veteran. You have very very special
people and always in our heart.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Thank you very much, and God.
Speaker 6 (18:07):
Bless you, and God bless the United States of America.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Thank you very much. Thank you everybody, Thank you very much.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
You don't have to be a Republican or in the
Republican Party to love this country. But I think it's
important to remember there are Democrats today who are getting
the support of the Democrat Party. We're getting the support
of their fellow Democrats. We're getting money from Democrat donors,
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some of them abroad who hate this country and they've
said it, they want this country to fall. There are
Democrats who are elected today serving in the highest halls
of American power, who will talk about that their primary
allegiances to a foreign country. They will talk about this
country as evil. They will talk about you as evil.
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I have no patience for this. I will criticize it.
I will call it what it is, which is pure evil.
And whatever these people and their well trained operatives will
say of people like me, I will not stop calling
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them and what they say exactly what it is and
what they are.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
They are subversive, they.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
Are anti American, they are ungrateful, and they are evil.
They are a cancer on our country.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Listen.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
I don't think every conflict we've been involved in we
had any business being involved in. But those who went
and served did so nobly, patriotically, selflessly. They don't give
the orders, they take them of late, save but the
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handful of people still around from World War Two, those folks.
Almost everyone signed up to serve. Although Vietnam did have
a draft, it's important to remember that there were people
who managed to get out of that draft by hook
or by crook, by political affiliation, and there were people
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who justifiably get out of the draft due to physical
health problems and other issues. There were people who fled
to Canada and to a lesser degree to other countries,
but by and large, the people who were called to
serve served and that is what we honor today. That
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is as noble as anything we honor today. I've been
involved with an organization. All I do is talk about it.
I don't do anything useful. Many of you have contributed,
and the veterans make it run. It's called the PTSD
Foundation of America, and we have a residential facility in
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Houston that has grown and developed over our thirteen years
now and.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
It's a beautiful, wonderful thing.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
Veterans suffering with PTSD, who are feeling suicidal can call
the number, which is eight seven seven seven one seven
PTSD eight seven seven seven one seven PTSD, and it
won't be a psychiatrist, a psychologist, a VA councilor on
the other end. It won't be a case intake officer.
It'll be a combat veteran who himself has come through
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the program on the other side of the phone. And
they can talk in their specific language that they understand
from experience, that they understand, and they've talked guys off
a ledge, they've talked them off of roofs. They've talked
them off of bridges where they call, They've talked to
them out of take the pistol out of your mouth.
Your life is important and valuable and meaningful and significant,
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and we're going to save your life and you're going
to have a good life. And they bring them in
free to them. We raised the money. Lots of you
give the money. It does not cost them a penny. Now,
we shouldn't have to do that. Our government should provide that,
but they're not providing that, and we're losing too many
veterans to PTSD. So if you know someone who needs help,
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write this number down to have them call. If they'll
just make the call, they'll never have to pay a penny.
Nothing will ever be asked of them. They've earned it already.
Eight seven seven seven one seven PTSD. And to everyone
who has given to, contributed to, volunteered for worked at
Camp Hope as part of PTSD Foundational America, thank you.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
The Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Let's turn our attention to the government, government and politics,
where the shutdown has ended. But Democrats are having an
internal fight and this is an interesting moment for the
Democrat Party as to who's going to win the Democrat Party.
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They now have rabble rousers in their myths who are
open socialists and some open communists, and those people have
been carefully recruited, heavily funded, promoted through media. And what's
happening is they're being sold to the American public and
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particularly to the constituent groups as they're cool, they're hip,
this is exciting, this is trendy, and so you want
to get on board this because this is AOC, this
is Mamdani. These people are fun, they're cool, they're hip,
They're not old white guys. And this is a real
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challenge for people like Shumer. And so within their party
is a fractious environment as the various factions are battling.
There are Democrats who were saying the shut down is
Trump's fault. He just wants the kids to starve. And
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then once a clean cr was put before the Senate
that you could vote for, and then supposedly the kids
who were starving wouldn't starve anymore. And they were Democrats
who said, no, no, no, we're not going to agree to that,
which means if you believe the kids were starving, they weren't,
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then you're choosing for them to starve, and that's when
they said, well it's okay.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Some people are just going to have to suffer for
us to do what we need to do.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
This is Senator Chris Murphy, who was Joe Biden's campaign chairman.
Speaker 7 (24:56):
I didn't want this shutdown. I want to end but
not at any cost. And of course I wish that
there was a path to saving this democracy and saving
people's health care that didn't involve pain. This shutdown hurt,
it did, But unfortunately, I don't think there is a
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way to save this country, to save our democracy without
there being some difficult, hard moments along the way.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
See, y'all are just going to have to suffer for
them to get their way, And you're gonna have to
suffer over legal immigration because that's what we're gonna do.
And you're gonna have to suffer as crime victims because
we're going to leave the we're gonna let the Crome
victims out, and you're gonna have to suffer with no
heat in your in your in your home because you know,
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we have to save the environment all and you're gonna
have to suffer for us to serve our masters, which
is not you voter. That's what the Democrats are telling you.
Senator Tim Kaine, who was you'll remember in twenty sixteen,
Hillary Clinton's running mate, voted against ending the Schumer shutdown
every time it came up for a vote, although I
think he ended up being one of the eight who
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voted for it at the last minute. But a couple
of days ago, he was asked why he kept voting
no every time? Why do you refuse to end the shutdown?
He had no idea. He had no idea why he
was voting that way.
Speaker 7 (26:27):
Listen, do you wish that you would have started looking
for this all frame sooner?
Speaker 8 (26:32):
He said that Republicans were never going to change in
their position.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
I didn't.
Speaker 8 (26:37):
I didn't fully understand how dug in they were. Again
because I was so focused on the Virginia elections. I
wasn't in this discussion on the healthcare to see how
dug in they were. But I even as I was
not part of these discussions, I was saying to Thune
and others on the floor, going back, listen, I needed you,
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some of you heard me say this. In all, I
need a more attornim my mischief. Others are working on
the healthcare thing. I trust them. Others are working on
the approached thing. I trust them. I need a more
term on mischief because if we vote to open and
then the immediate step next week is Donald Trump fires
a lot more people.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
It's going to blow up trust to get the full
year deal.
Speaker 8 (27:15):
And so I've been preaching this moratorium on mischief for
a month. But I think partly why did they finally
give me the moratorium on mischief on riffs? They needed
my vote, but they also saw the election on Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
He has no idea what he's saying and neither do we.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
So the view the Hen Party that nobody watches but
people talk about afterwards. Sonny Houston, she's a not very
smart woman, but somebody feeds her Democrat talking points. She's
not happy that Chuck Schumer lost the shut down battle
with Donald Trump because she hates Donald Trump. You know,
she reminds me, these women, these Hen Party women, They
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remind me so much of the woman whose husband has
dumped her for the secretary and run off on her.
And she just bitter at men. You see, these women,
just very very bitter at men. She thinks it's time
now for Schumer to go. Well, the only way Schumer
goes is if AOC runs against him. And I think
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now there are professional operatives who are planting that and
pushing that, so it looks like AOC is being recruited.
But make no mistake, this is the phase two of
their plan.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Even commitment to have a vote.
Speaker 9 (28:34):
So the bottom line is the Democrats went into this
after a blue wave out of the American people saying
we do want the opposition, the working people want the
Democratic Party to fight for them, and now they just
cave and surrendered. I think Chuck Schumer his days are
over and he cannot and he cannot keep tracts together,
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and he cannot keep this Clucketts together.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
He needs to go.
Speaker 4 (28:59):
That did not come on her own. She doesn't know
how to announce that Chuck Schumer needs to step down.
This is a coordinated campaign by people paid by Soros.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
This is how these things are made to look organic.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
President Trump told Laura Ingram that not only did Shump
did Schumer, the Schumer of Schumer shut down lose his
battle to keep the government shut down because he wanted
the government shut down.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
He wanted pain because.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
His thought was if people are suffering, then they will
blame Trump, so he wanted to ensure that people suffer.
But in addition to losing his battle to keep the
government shut down, he's lost something else as well.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
President Trump says.
Speaker 6 (29:50):
He thought he could break the Republicans, and the Republicans
broke him. But he did think that we have Look,
we have good policy to have been policy. And there's
something I don't know if it's Trump derangement or are
they just craze. They're like crazed lanataics. But you know,
we have just great policy. We have good people. They
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have some good people too. I know a lot of
Democrats are not all crazy then at all, but you
have some that are absolutely terrible. I look at this crocket,
This is a very low IQ person. And I look
at somebody that comes from Somalia, who where they don't
have anything. They an't a police, they don't have military
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there or have anything.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
All they have is crime.
Speaker 6 (30:33):
And she comes in and tells us how to run
our country. The constitution says this, the constitution.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
The whole thing is crazy.
Speaker 6 (30:41):
I feel badly because I've known Chuck Shum. I knew
him when he was a person who loved Israel, and
now he's a Palaestinian. He's become a Palestinian and it's amazing.
I've never seen a politician change so much. Also, he
doesn't have You know, he was a pretty talented guy.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
He's lost his talent.
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load for
Michael Dairy Show.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Heroes everyone, Heroes by the million men who abandon home
in vocations that they may be ready to defend democracy
if necessary. Sturdy of body, firm and spirit, seamen, marine, soldiers,
and flyers.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Memorial Day is the day that we honor and remember
those who died serving our country. Armed Forces Day is
the day that we honor those currently serving. Veterans Day
is the day that we honor those who have served.
(00:52):
It's observed every year now consistently on this day, November eleventh.
It began as our miss just Stay, recognizing the end
of World War One nineteen eighteen. It was to be
the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of the eleventh
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month that the fighting would stop, the guns would fall
silent at that moment. In nineteen fifty four, the United
States renamed it Veterans Day to honor all who have
served in our Armed forces, in every branch, in every era.
(01:35):
Dwight David Eisenhower, interestingly, was the president at that time.
That was the moment we went from honoring those who
had served into war to end all wars, which it
wasn't World War One, and we incorporated World War II
as well. Since then, of course, in terms of conflicts,
we've had a lot of We've had Vietnam most notably,
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but we've had Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, and so many more.
The Korean War, the era during which my father served.
So many served our country with valor and honor, and
we recognize that.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Today there were ceremonies.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
President Trump delivering a beautiful speech following JD. Vance himself
a veteran, is Jadvance. And today we honor each and
every one of you, and every one of your family
members who served in any branch of the United States military.
Your service is noted, appreciated, loved. So we go back
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to begin the program to nineteen eighty five. We'll get
to President Trump's remarks today. I think they were quite poignant.
We go back to nineteen eighty five, and I invite
you to say a prayer with me. With President then
President Ronald Reagan.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
A few moments ago, I placed a wreath that the
tomb of the unknown Soldier, and as I stepped back
and stood during the moment of silence that followed, I
said a small prayer and it occurred to me that
each of my predecessors has had a similar moment, and
(03:12):
I wondered if our prayers weren't very much.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
The same, if not identical.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
We celebrate Veterans Day on the anniversary of the armistice
that ended World War One, the armistice that began on
the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.
And I wonder, in fact, if all America's prayers aren't
the same as those I mentioned of home ago. For
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all we can ever do for our heroes is remember
them and remember what they did, and memories are transmitted
true words. We see these soldiers in our mind as
old and wise. We see them as something like the
founding fathers, grave and gray. But most of them were
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boys when they died, and they gave up two lives,
the one they were living and the one they would
have lived when they died. They gave up their chance
to be husbands and fathers and grandfathers.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
They gave up their chance to be revered old men.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
They gave up everything for our country, for us, and
all we can do is remember. There's always someone who
is remembering for us, no matter what time of year
it is or what time of day. There are always
people who come to this cemetery, leave a flag or
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a flower or a little rock on a headstone, and
they stopped and bow their heads and communicate what they
wished to communicate. I think sometimes of General Matthew Richway,
who the night before d Day tossed sleepless on his
cot and talk to the Lord and listen for the
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promise that God made the Joshua. I will not fail
thee nor forsake thee. We are surrounded today by the
debt of our wars. We owe them, a debt we
can never repay. All we can do is remember them
and what they did and why they had to.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Be brave for us.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
All we can do is try to see that other
young men never have to join them. Today, as never before,
we must pledge to remember the things that will continue
the peace Today as never before.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
We must pray for.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
God's help in broadening and deepening the peace we enjoy.
Let us pray for freedom and justice at a more
stable world.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
And let us make a compact.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Today with the debt, a promise in the words for
which General Richway listened, I will not fail Thee nor forsakety.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
They remain scared the death of you, and they remain
scared to.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Death of Trump. That Michael Berries shows you're not going
anywhere even if Trump does.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
You're not.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
We did something we don't often do, which is take
President Trump's remarks today, which we listened to most of
them live. He started before we were off the air,
but we well, I guess not live, but slightly delayed,
and then as a group we listened to them and
we cut them up. We could literally play President Trump
speaking to you every single day. We choose not to
(06:37):
because we think it's important to highlight particularly important statements
or speeches that he gives, and today I think was
one of those. I'm going to start in reverse order
in his speech because he started by honoring our veterans.
But then and this will be five ZHO six or
rowe then he talked about why we honor our veterans.
(07:01):
So this wasn't just a tribute to the veterans. This
is this is really and I think it's important to
do this. This is really putting into perspective why we
do this, and.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
Under my leadership, we're also fighting for the great veterans
who have always always been there for us, and especially
when we needed them and.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Needed them most. In nine months, the Trump.
Speaker 6 (07:26):
Administration has cut the backlog.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Of VA betefit claims in half.
Speaker 6 (07:35):
That's a big achievement, and Doug is going to get
it down to zero. During the Biden administration, the backlog.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Exploded like we had never seen before.
Speaker 6 (07:45):
And I'm going to eliminate one hundred percent of that backlog.
We're moving at that pace and already we've processed more
than three million backlog claims, the most of any year
in the history of the VA.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
We've added more than one.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
Extra service hours across the VA centers, and we've opened
twenty new facilities in thirteen states, something that people said.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Just not possible to do.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
We also have brought back vight choice and VA accountability
taken away by the Biden administration, so that when you
have to wait online, you go out and you get
yourself a doctor.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
We pay for the doctor if you have to wait.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
And the other thing is we fired thousands of people
who didn't take care of our.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Great veterans.
Speaker 6 (08:34):
They were say this, they were sick people, they were thieves,
they were everything you want to name, and we got
rid of over nine thousand of them, and then when
Biden came in, he hired them back, many of them,
but we got rid of him, and I think we
got rid of them permanently. We replace them with people
who love our veterans, not people who are sick people.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
We'll get to the issue in greater depth, but how
we treat our veterans when we come home says a
lot about us as a people. President Trump talking about
the challenge of veteran homelessness, which is a real, real problem,
the scale of this problem.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
We're also confronting the challenge of veterans homelessness, and earlier
this year I signed in order establishing the National Center
for Warrior Independence to house up to six thousand.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Veterans in need.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
And we will not stop until we have ended the
tragedy of homeless veterans once and for all. I'd see
in New York where people that came into our country illegally,
they came in illegally, would be put up in hotels,
and veterans would be sitting on the sidewalk outside of
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that hotel where these other people are put in. And
many of the people that came in were put in
from prisons. They were murderers, they were drug dealers, they
were people so we didn't want in our country.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
They were staying in.
Speaker 6 (10:02):
Hotels, luxury hotels that our veterans were sitting on the
sidewalks watching them go in. I said, that's ever going
to happen under this administration. I also signed the VA
Home Loan Program Reform Act because no veterans should be
kicked out.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Of their home for what they call a late payment.
That's not happening. And I please report this.
Speaker 6 (10:26):
Since January, the veterans unemployment rate has fallen by more than.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Twenty six percent. That's amazing. Work hard on the.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Stories. Stories are important. The story of Major John Turnbull
was President Trump's next part of his speech. And yeah,
it's a story, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 6 (10:56):
And I also want to give a very special thanks
to all of the Veterans Service organizations that work so hard.
They're all represented here today, but they worked so hard
on behalf of our great veterans. And one of the
heroes who reminds us of why we fight for those
who served.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
And uniform his Army.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
Major West Point grad Jonathan Turnbull. In twenty nineteen, Jonathan
was conducting an operation in Syria when a suicide bomba
approached and detonated his vest, leaving Jonathan gravely wounded, so
so badly wounded, they thought he had no chance. The
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injuries were so severe. The doctors gave him everybody they
just looked to. They all cried. They knew him, they
loved him, and they were just crying. They said no chance.
He was resuscitated three separate times, and he underwent twenty
two surgeries, but he refused to give up. He wanted
(11:58):
to live. He loved his country, he loved his family.
He wanted to live. He was going through hell. I
visited Jonathan and Walter Reed in twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
He remembered so well. And today I'm delighted.
Speaker 6 (12:10):
To say that Jonathan is not only alive, he is
here with us, back at his feet and living a
great life alongside his beautiful wife, Samantha and their three
incredible children. Jonathan, Samantha, Please, God, bless you, God, bless you.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Where are you?
Speaker 5 (12:32):
There?
Speaker 6 (12:33):
He is.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
There, He is beautiful. Thank you very much. Thank you.
You're a tough guy. You're a tough one.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
Nobody could have gone through what you went through. He's
doing good, isn't he Huh, Samantha, thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Both.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
President Trump, as executive producer of Celebrity of the Apprentice,
understands the reveal. He understands how to create a moment,
and it's such a moment fraught with tensity, attention, intensity,
and he creates those moments. And I love that he
does that around everyday people, not just famous people, but
(13:17):
everyday people. And he brings such such attention, such pageantry,
such pomp, to individuals who otherwise are never extolled, and
he lifts them up in that way with this grand
reveal in that manner.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
That makes you feel good. It makes me be proud.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
It makes me proud to be an American that our
president is honoring people like this, because that's not just
Major John Turnbull's moment. It's his family and it's other
people in uniform. And they say, well, if they love him,
they love me, Yes, we do. Thank you, mister President.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Michael Berry's show.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Failed to mention but at the beginning of the show,
in the beginning of the next hour, that montage is
a collection of musicians who served the United States, who
served in the United States military.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
So thank you to Jim Mudd for putting that together.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Last quote from Trump I'll play in this hour from
his Veterans Day speech today, he makes a point. I'll
tell you this, I have no patience, zero for people
who come to this country and criticize who we are
and what we've done. If you don't like it, go
back to your hellhole, whether that be Somalia or Europe,
(14:46):
or Asia or Mexico or wherever else. If you don't
like this country, go home. And I won't have people
criticizing the history of this country because people, my people,
your people have served, some of them have died for
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other people's lands and freedom, and that is a noble goal.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
No greater love.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Hath any man. And I want that honored. And when
it's not honored, I have no patience for it. And
my criticism is swift and righteous. Ramon, do you hear me? Righteous?
I feel it. I am unashamed of it. It's just
President Trump talking about the fact that when God asked
(15:33):
who would defend the land of the free, the American
veteran stood up.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
From the very beginning of our country, our great American
flag has always been shielded and protected by a special
cast of citizen who has stepped forward to safeguard Liberty's
cause when danger came, when duty called, when Almighty God asked,
(16:00):
I had the will and the strength to defend the
land of the free, Each and every American veteran stood
up and said, here I am, Send me here I am.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
They've come from.
Speaker 6 (16:11):
Every corner of this nation, from the cornfields of Iowa
to the hills and valleys of California, from the steel
towns of Pennsylvania to the vast plains of Texas, from
the banks of the Mighty Mississippi to the Five burroughs
of New York City. With selfless commitment and unyielding conviction,
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they made themselves Americas ramparts and became the shield between
our homeland and those who would do us harm.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
With everything they had, they did one thing above all else.
Speaker 6 (16:48):
They put America first on the decks of destroyers, beneath
the thunder of cannon fire and the cockpits of our
beautiful beat TB bombers. Aren't they beautiful?
Speaker 5 (17:02):
Now?
Speaker 2 (17:03):
We respect them so much?
Speaker 6 (17:06):
What a job they did that, in an instant completely
obliterated Iran's nuclear capability, of which we have just ordered.
I have to say many more of the updated versions
of that incredible.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Piece of art.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
They defended the American Republic, dispensed American justice, crush the
enemies of freedom, and vanquished the forces of wickedness and evil.
That's what we've been doing. Because of what every veteran
has done. Today, the flame of liberty shines bright, the
people of our nation sleep safe, the American dream surges forward,
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and our magnificent destiny stands more splendid and glorious than
ever before. So I want to say thank you once
again to every American veteran. You have very very special
people and always in our heart.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Thank you very much, and God.
Speaker 6 (18:07):
Bless you, and God bless the United States of America.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Thank you very much. Thank you everybody, Thank you very much.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
You don't have to be a Republican or in the
Republican Party to love this country. But I think it's
important to remember there are Democrats today who are getting
the support of the Democrat Party. We're getting the support
of their fellow Democrats. We're getting money from Democrat donors,
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some of them abroad who hate this country and they've
said it, they want this country to fall. There are
Democrats who are elected today serving in the highest halls
of American power, who will talk about that their primary
allegiances to a foreign country. They will talk about this
country as evil. They will talk about you as evil.
(19:00):
I have no patience for this. I will criticize it.
I will call it what it is, which is pure evil.
And whatever these people and their well trained operatives will
say of people like me, I will not stop calling
(19:21):
them and what they say exactly what it is and
what they are.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
They are subversive, they.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
Are anti American, they are ungrateful, and they are evil.
They are a cancer on our country.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Listen.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
I don't think every conflict we've been involved in we
had any business being involved in. But those who went
and served did so nobly, patriotically, selflessly. They don't give
the orders, they take them of late, save but the
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handful of people still around from World War Two, those folks.
Almost everyone signed up to serve. Although Vietnam did have
a draft, it's important to remember that there were people
who managed to get out of that draft by hook
or by crook, by political affiliation, and there were people
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who justifiably get out of the draft due to physical
health problems and other issues. There were people who fled
to Canada and to a lesser degree to other countries,
but by and large, the people who were called to
serve served and that is what we honor today. That
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is as noble as anything we honor today. I've been
involved with an organization. All I do is talk about it.
I don't do anything useful. Many of you have contributed,
and the veterans make it run. It's called the PTSD
Foundation of America, and we have a residential facility in
(21:13):
Houston that has grown and developed over our thirteen years
now and.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
It's a beautiful, wonderful thing.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
Veterans suffering with PTSD, who are feeling suicidal can call
the number, which is eight seven seven seven one seven
PTSD eight seven seven seven one seven PTSD, and it
won't be a psychiatrist, a psychologist, a VA councilor on
the other end. It won't be a case intake officer.
It'll be a combat veteran who himself has come through
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the program on the other side of the phone. And
they can talk in their specific language that they understand
from experience, that they understand, and they've talked guys off
a ledge, they've talked them off of roofs. They've talked
them off of bridges where they call, They've talked to
them out of take the pistol out of your mouth.
Your life is important and valuable and meaningful and significant,
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and we're going to save your life and you're going
to have a good life. And they bring them in
free to them. We raised the money. Lots of you
give the money. It does not cost them a penny. Now,
we shouldn't have to do that. Our government should provide that,
but they're not providing that, and we're losing too many
veterans to PTSD. So if you know someone who needs help,
(22:23):
write this number down to have them call. If they'll
just make the call, they'll never have to pay a penny.
Nothing will ever be asked of them. They've earned it already.
Eight seven seven seven one seven PTSD. And to everyone
who has given to, contributed to, volunteered for worked at
Camp Hope as part of PTSD Foundational America, thank you.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
The Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Let's turn our attention to the government, government and politics,
where the shutdown has ended. But Democrats are having an
internal fight and this is an interesting moment for the
Democrat Party as to who's going to win the Democrat Party.
(23:11):
They now have rabble rousers in their myths who are
open socialists and some open communists, and those people have
been carefully recruited, heavily funded, promoted through media. And what's
happening is they're being sold to the American public and
(23:34):
particularly to the constituent groups as they're cool, they're hip,
this is exciting, this is trendy, and so you want
to get on board this because this is AOC, this
is Mamdani. These people are fun, they're cool, they're hip,
They're not old white guys. And this is a real
(23:54):
challenge for people like Shumer. And so within their party
is a fractious environment as the various factions are battling.
There are Democrats who were saying the shut down is
Trump's fault. He just wants the kids to starve. And
(24:18):
then once a clean cr was put before the Senate
that you could vote for, and then supposedly the kids
who were starving wouldn't starve anymore. And they were Democrats
who said, no, no, no, we're not going to agree to that,
which means if you believe the kids were starving, they weren't,
(24:38):
then you're choosing for them to starve, and that's when
they said, well it's okay.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Some people are just going to have to suffer for
us to do what we need to do.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
This is Senator Chris Murphy, who was Joe Biden's campaign chairman.
Speaker 7 (24:56):
I didn't want this shutdown. I want to end but
not at any cost. And of course I wish that
there was a path to saving this democracy and saving
people's health care that didn't involve pain. This shutdown hurt,
it did, But unfortunately, I don't think there is a
(25:18):
way to save this country, to save our democracy without
there being some difficult, hard moments along the way.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
See, y'all are just going to have to suffer for
them to get their way, And you're gonna have to
suffer over legal immigration because that's what we're gonna do.
And you're gonna have to suffer as crime victims because
we're going to leave the we're gonna let the Crome
victims out, and you're gonna have to suffer with no
heat in your in your in your home because you know,
(25:51):
we have to save the environment all and you're gonna
have to suffer for us to serve our masters, which
is not you voter. That's what the Democrats are telling you.
Senator Tim Kaine, who was you'll remember in twenty sixteen,
Hillary Clinton's running mate, voted against ending the Schumer shutdown
every time it came up for a vote, although I
think he ended up being one of the eight who
(26:13):
voted for it at the last minute. But a couple
of days ago, he was asked why he kept voting
no every time? Why do you refuse to end the shutdown?
He had no idea. He had no idea why he
was voting that way.
Speaker 7 (26:27):
Listen, do you wish that you would have started looking
for this all frame sooner?
Speaker 8 (26:32):
He said that Republicans were never going to change in
their position.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
I didn't.
Speaker 8 (26:37):
I didn't fully understand how dug in they were. Again
because I was so focused on the Virginia elections. I
wasn't in this discussion on the healthcare to see how
dug in they were. But I even as I was
not part of these discussions, I was saying to Thune
and others on the floor, going back, listen, I needed you,
(26:57):
some of you heard me say this. In all, I
need a more attornim my mischief. Others are working on
the healthcare thing. I trust them. Others are working on
the approached thing. I trust them. I need a more
term on mischief because if we vote to open and
then the immediate step next week is Donald Trump fires
a lot more people.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
It's going to blow up trust to get the full
year deal.
Speaker 8 (27:15):
And so I've been preaching this moratorium on mischief for
a month. But I think partly why did they finally
give me the moratorium on mischief on riffs? They needed
my vote, but they also saw the election on Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
He has no idea what he's saying and neither do we.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
So the view the Hen Party that nobody watches but
people talk about afterwards. Sonny Houston, she's a not very
smart woman, but somebody feeds her Democrat talking points. She's
not happy that Chuck Schumer lost the shut down battle
with Donald Trump because she hates Donald Trump. You know,
she reminds me, these women, these Hen Party women, They
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remind me so much of the woman whose husband has
dumped her for the secretary and run off on her.
And she just bitter at men. You see, these women,
just very very bitter at men. She thinks it's time
now for Schumer to go. Well, the only way Schumer
goes is if AOC runs against him. And I think
(28:20):
now there are professional operatives who are planting that and
pushing that, so it looks like AOC is being recruited.
But make no mistake, this is the phase two of
their plan.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Even commitment to have a vote.
Speaker 9 (28:34):
So the bottom line is the Democrats went into this
after a blue wave out of the American people saying
we do want the opposition, the working people want the
Democratic Party to fight for them, and now they just
cave and surrendered. I think Chuck Schumer his days are
over and he cannot and he cannot keep tracts together,
(28:56):
and he cannot keep this Clucketts together.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
He needs to go.
Speaker 4 (28:59):
That did not come on her own. She doesn't know
how to announce that Chuck Schumer needs to step down.
This is a coordinated campaign by people paid by Soros.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
This is how these things are made to look organic.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
President Trump told Laura Ingram that not only did Shump
did Schumer, the Schumer of Schumer shut down lose his
battle to keep the government shut down because he wanted
the government shut down.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
He wanted pain because.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
His thought was if people are suffering, then they will
blame Trump, so he wanted to ensure that people suffer.
But in addition to losing his battle to keep the
government shut down, he's lost something else as well.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
President Trump says.
Speaker 6 (29:50):
He thought he could break the Republicans, and the Republicans
broke him. But he did think that we have Look,
we have good policy to have been policy. And there's
something I don't know if it's Trump derangement or are
they just craze. They're like crazed lanataics. But you know,
we have just great policy. We have good people. They
(30:10):
have some good people too. I know a lot of
Democrats are not all crazy then at all, but you
have some that are absolutely terrible. I look at this crocket,
This is a very low IQ person. And I look
at somebody that comes from Somalia, who where they don't
have anything. They an't a police, they don't have military
(30:30):
there or have anything.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
All they have is crime.
Speaker 6 (30:33):
And she comes in and tells us how to run
our country. The constitution says this, the constitution.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
The whole thing is crazy.
Speaker 6 (30:41):
I feel badly because I've known Chuck Shum. I knew
him when he was a person who loved Israel, and
now he's a Palaestinian. He's become a Palestinian and it's amazing.
I've never seen a politician change so much. Also, he
doesn't have You know, he was a pretty talented guy.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
He's lost his talent.
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