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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Lock and load. The Michael Derry Show is on the air.
For the mayor of New York City and Chicago, President
Trump made it clear two weeks ago. We're going double
down and triple down the sanctuary cities.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
ICE will now have a larger budget than all but
15 of the world's militaries. Its four-year total is more
than every military except for the United States and China.
This is a direct assault on the civil liberties of
all Americans and will fundamentally undermine our rights. It's a
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day like today.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
I want folks to know we have your back and
we'll continue to come back and do what we can
to protect our diverse communities, to protect the spirit that
defines the best of this city and our state, and
to push back against this cruelty, to push back against
this cruelty that is being perpetuated by the president of
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the United States.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
What you see in those pictures, is it making America safer? No,
it's terrorizing Americans, our friends and neighbors, otherwise known as immigrants,
many of them. But these are folks who, they go
to our churches, they work at our grocery stores, they
work on construction sites, they work in childcare, they worked
in many jobs that would not be filled had they
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not done it. And I also just sit back and ask,
Who asked for this? Americans were told that the most
violent individuals would be deported, and we're now seeing in
the numbers that that is a very small percentage of
who is being targeted.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
We're not helpless.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
You should meet their chaos with chaos.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I told you yesterday that I often like to start
the show with a particular news story that I think
represents something larger than what's in the news today. And
that sounded really high-minded. So let me balance that with
the complete confession that what I'm about to do is
give you ear candy. The first story I'm going to
start with today is of no practical use to your life.
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It's not particularly important. It does not reflect anything other
than the fact, which is a bit of a distraction,
that we create media stars and darlings out of people
that are idiots in this country, sometimes who we absolutely
despise but we can't look away from. One of those
is Hunter Biden. Hunter Biden, the son of Joe Biden,
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who used his son during his administration as the bag
man for foreign governments, for corruptocrats, for nefarious interests because
somebody had to receive the cash. And how do we
know this? Because his stupid son left his laptop in
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a cracked induced haze with a repair shop that then
handed it over to the FBI. And when they didn't
want it, handed it over to people who would make
it public or they didn't want to make it public anyway.
So I guess Hunter Biden is craving some attention because
if he doesn't get attention, he can't get paid. So
he went on a podcast called The Luke Beasley Show.
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I can't give any context. Never heard of it before,
where he said he's probably a little gay.
Speaker 6 (03:30):
Are you gay?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Only a little bit. More or less than 50%. What?
Speaker 1 (03:35):
More or less than 50%.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
48.6. 48.6? You know, I know they drove Andrew Dice
Clay from the public conversation, but Dice had some interesting
and useful things to say. Most of them started with
hickory dickory talk. But that aside, do you remember? I
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miss Andrew Dice Clay and I miss an America that
embraced Andrew Dice Clay. I do know. I know it
was stick. I get that. I get that. But but
it was raw, toxic masculinity in its purest form. It
was comedy. It was comedy in the way Sam Kinison
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was comedy, in the way Richard Pryor was comedy, in
the way that George Carlin was comedy, although I never
found him to be particularly funny. I found him to
be much more political than funny. Lenny Bruce. You go
back and study Lenny Bruce. I don't find Lenny Bruce
to be funny, but he did push boundaries, and you
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do need that. Wouldn't want my daughter dating him. Then again,
I don't have a daughter. Is it Tom Hicks, the comedian?
What's Bill Hicks? Yeah, Bill Hicks, who died to you.
I never found Bill Hicks to be that funny. But
I understand the importance of pushing boundaries. I do get that.
Speaker 6 (04:59):
All right.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
So Hunter Biden, play the clip for us again, please, Ramon.
Speaker 7 (05:04):
Are you gay?
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Only a little bit. More or less than 50%.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
What?
Speaker 7 (05:09):
More or less than 50%.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
48.6. which calls to mind the line by Andrew Dice Clay, bisexual, bisexual.
These guys say they're bisexual. Either you or you don't.
So he's 48.6% gay. As I said, this is not uplifting.
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This segment is not uplifting. It's pure hilarity to laugh
at Hunter Biden. Have you ever heard the saying, there's
a grain of truth in every joke? That's kind of
like saying you're a little bit pregnant. If you're gay,
you're gay. I don't know what to think about all this.
I don't. But I know who does. The governor of Minnesota, Mr.
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Jazz Hands himself. Timmy Waltz.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Hello, America.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
It's your boy, Timmy Waltz.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Now you people know by now when something comes out
in the news, your boy Timmy's got something to say.
And apparently this involves a close personal friend. I'm looking
at you, Hunter Biden. Producer Bruce, turn that frown upside down.
Speaker 7 (06:22):
It's okay.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
You're still my number one. So sensitive.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Anywho, Hunter has come out and said that he might
be a little gay.
Speaker 6 (06:30):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
He says he's probably 48.6% gay.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Now, you know me.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
I'm the old ball coach. And I'm into analytics. And
I say if you're gay 48.6% of the time, by God,
you're gay all the time.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
And that's okay.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Hunter is a fellow alpha male, just like myself. We
can be both a man's man and a fan of
the man. I mean, I always knew that Hunter was
into crack. I just didn't know.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Now, can you smoke butt crack?
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Dear chat GPT, smoking butt crack.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Wow!
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Oh!
Speaker 8 (07:04):
Uh-oh.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
I've done stepped in it now. I'm in a deep
rabbit hole. Who is McAfee and why is he so upset?
I gotta go. This little tablet is angry. When you
look at me and.
Speaker 6 (07:18):
The whole world fades, I'll always remember Hunter's game.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Car speakers.
Speaker 7 (07:32):
Smart devices.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
From Michael's brain, every single one of them, to your ears,
this is The Michael Ferry Show.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
What is wrong with America's education system? It doesn't seem
to work for anyone. And most importantly, it costs more
money than it ever has, and it appears to be
delivering a worse product than it ever has. Rahm Emanuel
was the chief of staff to Barack Obama. He was
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the mayor of Chicago after that. He's not a fellow,
he's not your traditional classic, or should I say, he's
not your typical conventional liberal. He has actually been on
occasion willing to speak out about the failures in public policy,
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even as delivered by Democrats, right? He's talking about the
number one college freshman class in America is remedial reading.
He was on Morning Joe when he said this. The
number one class in college today for freshmen is remedial reading.
That's an indictment of what's happening in this country. We
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need as adults to wake up to it. Remedial reading.
So we've got people going to college, spending a lot
of money, either the taxpayer's money Or borrowing money that
they'll have to pay for the rest of their lives,
even if they don't ever graduate. And they're going there
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to take remedial reading. So you're going to college and
you're not a proficient reader? What in the hell? But
does it surprise you? You ever seen the video of
Ben Crump? The race baiting lawyer who gets involved in
every case where there's a black person involved and gets
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everyone all fired up over racism and then gets paid
to go away. He was involved in George Floyd. He's
involved in all these big race cases. Did you ever
see the video? Just look up Ben Crump can't read
and just spend a minute watching him try to read
in front of the camera. But he can scream racism
and that pays a lot of money. And that's what
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we've allowed our country to devolve into. Stupid people making
stupid claims, and a lot of people who are conflict-averse
simply writing a check to make it go away. Schools
that are failing and costing more money. We see two teachers'
unions leaders all over the news. They're big political power brokers.
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Randy Weingarten leading the charge against Target is now the
evil company. And so she's demanding that Target be boycotted.
What happened to teachers? What happened to creating a good
atmosphere in the classroom for teachers to teach? That's not
what teachers unions care about at all. And increasingly, people
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are getting into teaching who don't care about teaching. It's
a job. It's an opportunity to work fewer hours. It's
an opportunity to indoctrinate kids because that's what their cult does.
That's what liberalism is today, a cult. Elon Musk says
the indoctrination in schools and universities is far beyond what
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you realize. Here he is talking to Bill Maher.
Speaker 8 (11:10):
The amount of indoctrination that's happening in schools and universities is,
I think, far beyond what parents realize. And I sort
of came to realize this somewhat late. The experience that
we had in high school and college is not the
experience that kids today are having. I suppose in some
cases that parents, but I think parents are just generally
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not aware of what their kids are being taught or
what they're not being taught.
Speaker 7 (11:36):
They're letting the kids think that they're equal.
Speaker 8 (11:39):
Yeah, let me give you an example that a friend
of mine told me. His daughters go to high school
in the Bay Area. And he was asking them, so
who are the first few presidents of the United States?
They could name Washington. And I said, well, what do
you know about him? Well, he was a slave owner.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
What else? That's all they could name of George Washington
is that he was a slave owner. The left has
reduced people to whether they are good or bad based
on the left's own standards. This is a ridiculous view
of history. This is a ridiculous view of right and wrong.
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These are not the hallmarks of great generations, of great civilizations.
We will lose our country in a civilization. I mean,
we'll lose our country in a generation. I don't know
why I was transposing those words. If we allow this
to continue. Our schools are no longer the place we're
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sending our kids to learn the skills of analysis through math.
The skills of communication, spoken and written. The skills of
research and learning more. The scientific method. How to solve
problems in life. In a relationship, or with a tire
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that's gone flat, or with water you need to boil.
That's what the school was for. That's what great civilizations do.
They advance one on the other. That's the reason Isaac
Newton famously said, if I have seen further, it is
only by standing on the shoulders of giants. He understood that.
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that for his advancements that he would contribute to the world,
and then he would be a giant that others after
him would stand upon, that we had to look to
those before him. And the great advancements, the great discoveries,
the great theories that were proffered, the challenges to those theories,
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the advancements in science and mathematics and technology, all of it,
is that what we're doing today? Are we getting better?
Are we getting better? Is that what we're doing? Are
our kids learning? Are they building upon our legacy of learning?
Or are they being taught that boys can be girls
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if they say so? Are they being subjected to pressure
by peers and counselors and teachers to have their wiener
cut off? Or if they're a girl, to have their breasts,
their mammary glands removed and be butchered below the waist?
Is that what we've devolved to? Because we're letting it happen.
And what happens when you lose a generation? Look at
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nations like Russia and Germany that lost a generation of
young men to war and the toll that takes on
a people and a culture. That's what's happening. We're getting
the call for help and it's coming from within the house.
It's our schools. It's our educational system. It has become
a massive big business in this country. And when you study,
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I've been looking at polling results. Harry Enten does a
pretty good job for CNN, and they've been breaking out
as the variable college, we'll call it college educated, that's
the term they use, and non-college educated, assuming that what
you're getting is an education in college. If a young
person goes to college, they come out a liberal. If
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a young person goes in the military or straight to work,
they come out a conservative. What does that tell you
about college? Does that really suggest that this is something
we should continue to invest in under these terms? Do
you know what a wealth redistribution it is from you
to the people who work there for your kids to
go there? And for what purpose? So that the values
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of your culture and your family will be demeaned and
your child will come out hating you and them? That
doesn't seem like a good bargain, does it? Sometimes it
just feels like things in America don't work. And they
don't work Because we are afraid to do difficult things.
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I only have one friend who's ever dug a ditch
for a living. He's a plumber, a one-man shop. And
it's fascinating to me because he does things that young
people today don't want to do. And this was one
of the challenges, one of the conversations we would have about,
you know, who's going to dig the ditches and who's
going to work in the kitchens. You know, it used
to be the case that you could be white, black,
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or Hispanic, American-born, and you would do these jobs. Somewhere
along the way, we said, oh, no, not our people,
not our people. We can't do these jobs. Why? Why
would we do that? What was wrong with hard work?
We also stopped being willing to enforce the law. Thomas
Sowell has talked a lot about how liberal ideology glamorizes,
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almost idolizes criminals. And we know that Adam Smith famously
said that mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
When you see these stories of the Susan Sarandons and
these different activists who are out there telling us, and
James Talafreka, the Democrat nominee in Texas, telling us how
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criminals are not so bad and that prison is evil. Well,
let's hear from the victim or if they're dead, their family.
You know, you hear the sympathetic story of the man who,
you know, he's a good guy. He had a rough life.
And maybe we should parole him. And here he is.
And he met God in prison. And he really wants
to turn his life around. He's a good man. And
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you start digging in and you find out he beat
his girlfriend to death over a course of five hours.
She suffered. He tortured her. It turns out he has
beaten women his entire life. He has a long rap sheet.
Speaker 8 (17:41):
So.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Why are we making these people into some sort of
victim or victimhood as greatness? And then you see these stories,
and this is happening in big cities across the country,
where homeless people will hang out on the stoop of
a building, a business, and they'll poop the place up,
they'll smash in the windows, they'll steal their products. And
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you see these business owners, they're literally crying, asking for help.
And police departments are told, don't fool with that. And
nobody cares. What if you were that small business owner?
So what happens? They close the small business. And a
lot of these small businesses are first-generation immigrants. They can't
just put in an application and go to work in
corporate America. They may not speak good English. And you
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see this. You saw this when Marion Barry would talk
about he didn't like the Asians that had opened shops
in his black district. Well, then open them yourself. What,
because they work there? Their whole family works there? You
see these Indians who come here and live in these
little motels till they can build up. Or they work
in gas stations. You see Asians who come and work
in these stores. And you think, well, isn't that the
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American dream? Why are we celebrating people who were born
here and refused to work and terrorize those people? What's
wrong with us? What's wrong with this country that we're
allowing this nonsense? So there's a story out of North Texas.
The Dallas County Assistant District Attorney, Amber Moore, has gone
after a serial squatter. He has more than 20 evictions.
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He keeps getting kicked out of places. She's managed to
get him 20 years in prison. Since squatting is not
considered a criminal offense in this county, she got creative
and went after him for fraud. And good for her
that she did. The story from CBS DFW.
Speaker 9 (19:25):
Heather Schwab had no visible reaction as she received the
maximum sentence for fraud. But the victim of that crime,
Jessica Davis, isn't.
Speaker 7 (19:38):
Hiding her relief.
Speaker 9 (19:43):
Three years ago, Davis reached out to CBS News Texas
after Schwab rented her home in Rowlett using the identity
of Ray's royal someone with a record of no evictions.
Speaker 7 (19:52):
Three days later.
Speaker 9 (19:54):
Checks immediately started bouncing, and Davis soon discovered it was
Schwab living in her home, a woman who's been evicted
26 times in North Texas alone. Hi, this is Andrea
Lucia with CBS News Texas. After we started asking questions,
the city of Rowlett turned off water to the home.
Speaker 7 (20:09):
Water off? And police launched an investigation.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
It was just almost like homeless people living in here.
Speaker 9 (20:16):
Schwab eventually moved out more than a month later, leaving
behind a mess of rotting food, cigarette butts, and beer bottles.
Speaker 7 (20:22):
I'm pretty sure that was pee in the bottle. We've
been covering Schwab since 2017. We'd like to talk to
you about all your evictions. We found at least 20
over the last 17 years.
Speaker 9 (20:30):
After our first report, she and her then-husband moved to
Colorado and racked up even more evictions.
Speaker 7 (20:36):
She had been doing this for decades.
Speaker 9 (20:38):
Dallas County DA Amber Moore said multiple homeowners were willing
to take the stand to recount how Schwab had turned
their lives upside down. I think they were just surprised
that she was finally being possibly held accountable. Moore said
this was a challenging case because squatting generally isn't dealt
with here in the criminal courts. It's a civil offense
that requires homeowners to go through the eviction process. So instead,
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Moore went after Schwab, not for the squatting, but for
the fraud she committed to get away with it. By
her using her dad's information, she was able to circumvent
what any background check. Schwab's attorney argued she was a
mother of five stuck in a cycle she used to survive.
Speaker 7 (21:14):
But the judge didn't offer any leniency.
Speaker 10 (21:16):
I'm all about second, third chances, but this is like
her 20th, her 30th chance. Thank you again for your
help at the beginning, too, because we want to be
able to get to the beginning of court without you guys.
She's been able to do whatever she wants with no
repercussions for such a long time. And now there's finally
some real serious repercussions.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
There was an article that came out in 1982. It
was written by two criminologists, one named George Kelling and
the other, whose name is much better known, James Q. Wilson.
And it introduced what came to be known as the
broken pane theory or the broken windows theory, the pane
being the pane in a window. And the theory went
that if you have a window that's busted out, that
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tells passersby and residents outside That this is a place
that no one cares about. This is a place that
lacks any order. This is a place that is unclean.
This is a place that encourages more crime. So that
rather than just focus on the worst forms of crime
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and letting the little crimes go, you start focusing on
the little crimes. And you change the mindset of people. Well,
it's an interesting idea because if you look at what's
happened in major cities across the country, the explosion in
homelessness has been attendant, correlative with, if not causative of,
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an explosion in crime in major cities. When you see
the squalor in San Francisco, a once great city of
homeless people laying around, The crimes that occur are almost
so bad they can't be fixed. You get those homeless
people off the street. You pressure wash those streets. You
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end that level of crime. You'll take the city back.
And that's what we do. Kirk Cameron of the famous
Growing Pains.
Speaker 7 (23:13):
Man, if it weren't for Growing Pains, I wouldn't be
on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
You have a rose. The Michael Berry Show. Our rose.
An interesting circle of life is I will often take
a peek at emails during the break. One will be,
my son just died. My wife just got cancer. My
father is in hospice. We're expecting him to go today.
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And another one will be, since I've encouraged people to
brag on their kids that somebody's son just got promoted
in the Air Force or Somebody's daughter just got accepted
to a nursing program or somebody else just started a
company or got the job of their dreams or or
whatever else. And it is, as I said, I think
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it's it's the circle of life. And it just depends
on which day, whether you're the bug or you're the windshield,
I suppose. And we don't we don't always know which
of those is. is going to be which. The Federalist's
Sean Fleetwood wrote a piece on the establishment turning their
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back on Ken Paxton, saying that Senate Republicans have spent
years building a political apparatus that works not to their voters' benefit,
but to their own benefit. It's a good old boys
club where the status quo of doing the bare minimum
is considered sacrosanct. And this is what Mitch McConnell represents.
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This is what John Cornyn represents. This is what Bill
Cassidy represents. And look, it's going to be painful. I
said it earlier and I will say it many times again.
It's going to be painful to fix this problem. There
is a surgical removal of this cancer in the body politic.
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We can continue on the way we were continuing with
Bush's and McCain's and Romney's. But that's not how we're
going to get the country we want. We unfortunately are
in a situation where we have Republicans who, if they
don't get their way, will work against us and work
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for Democrats. It's binary. Once you get through the primary,
it's a Republican or a Democrat that's going to win.
And what you see very clearly is the establishment Republicans,
the Karl Rove Republicans, if they're not the nominee, they're
going to work for the Democrats. I will say to
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his credit, Dan Crenshaw has been very consistent after losing
his primary election. to support Republican candidates. I don't know
if he has encouraged people to support Steve Toth. I
don't know that. But I do know that every time
someone has sent me something, he has been consistent. And
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that's what we should expect of everyone. When you vote
for Donald Trump or Ted Cruz or John Cornyn or
Ken Paxton or any other Republican, you expect that they
believe as you do. That we share the same values.
And that we're not like the Democrats. They are different.
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They want Democrat socialist stuff. That isn't just what we
say to acquire power. That isn't just what we say
because we think people want to hear that. We believe that.
And when we say we believe in these values and
we don't want those people running the country, that should
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mean something. And the moment you don't win your own
election and you basically start working against the candidate we
have chosen, it tells me a lot about it validates
the decision we made not to support you. Sean Fleetwood
writes in The Federalist. Whenever an establishment-backed crony wins the
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Republican nomination in any given primary, conservative voters are told
to fall in line and back the party's candidate. No
questions asked. But when Republican voters nominate a grassroots candidate
who will actually fight for their interests, those same establishment
voices are more than happy to leave that candidate out
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to dry. Fleetwood writes,' Cornan' s childish behavior since losing re-election
is all but confirmation of this. No longer having to
pretend to be someone he's not, the senior senator has
openly trashed Paxton, refused to campaign or fundraise on his behalf,
and become a regular thorn in the side of the
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Trump administration. Similar antics by outgoing establishment allies Tom Tillis
of North Carolina, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, also fit into
this category. While pretending otherwise, Senate Republicans' biggest gripe with
Paxton isn't his personal issues or campaign style. It's that
he dared to challenge one of their do-nothing foot soldiers
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and won. Senate Republicans have spent years building a political
apparatus that works not to their voters' benefit, but to
their own. It's a good old boys club, where the
status quo of doing the bare minimum is considered sacrosanct.
A challenger like Paxton, who has a track record of
acting on his voters' wishes, seeks to disrupt that dynamic.
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which is why the establishment has virtually no interest in
seeing him win. In their eyes, Senate Republicans have worked
too long and too hard cementing their entrenched system to
just hand it over to outsiders like Paxton. They will
do whatever it takes to keep it in power. And
if that means surrendering Texas and the Senate to Democrats
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in the short term, then so be it. And I'll
go back to the story, and forgive me if you
heard me tell it again and again because it's important.
The year was 2010. There was a doctor named Todd Aiken,
and he beat the establishment Republican for the Missouri primary
for the U.S. Senate. Aiken wins the primary against Karl
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Rove's candidate. Karl Rove has to win because he also
gets paid to influence these people, and he can't. can't
influence what was before MAGA called the Tea Party. So Dr.
Todd Akin is running against Claire McCaskill, the sitting senator,
and he's leading. And he was asked a question about
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rape and abortion. He's pro-life. Claire McCaskill is not. He's
asked a question about rape. And he said, if the
rape claim turns out to be legitimate, then, and he
finishes the sentence, well, that was the worst of the
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me too. That was the idea that he had said
that someone could claim rape that wouldn't be rape. Well,
we know that does happen. His point was, you can't
just scream rape and then there's an abortion. Because we
know that some women will say that they were raped
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because they were embarrassed that they got pregnant. Tawana Brawley,
who Al Sharpton got famous over, claimed that she had
been raped by these white men and left out and
the N-word put smeared in poop on her back. Turned
out she had just run away with her boyfriend for
a few days and needed to come up with an excuse.
We had the stripper in North Carolina who claimed that
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she'd been raped, but she hadn't. But she'd been away
from her kids, and she was afraid she was going
to lose custody. But what did Karl Rove do? He defeated.
He worked hard with the Democrats to defeat the Tea
Party Republicans. Folks, we've got a real challenge here because
we're not just battling Democrats. We are battling the establishment
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that the Democrats are part of, but so are the
Republican candidates like Cornyn, like Mitch McConnell, like Tom Tillis
in North Carolina, like Cassidy, who was defeated in his
own primary. They're going to tell you you're idiots. They're
going to tell you you can't win in November, and
maybe sometimes they'll be right. But doing the right thing
is the right thing to do.