PM Show Hr 1 | Why the Presidential Election Is Not the Most Important

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Time, time, luck and load.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
The Michael Vary Show is on the air.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
Let me start with.

Speaker 4 (00:40):
A little story to make a point about the purpose
of this first segment of the show, which I hope
you will take to heart.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
I'll make it quick. So do you know the name
Sandra more than Probably not, especially if you're not from Florida.
Do you know the name Karen Geevers, an attorney from Miami.

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Probably not, unless you're one of our Florida listeners, including
our folks in say, Pensacola. What are our call letters
in Pensacola. I just lost my sheep. Either way, you
don't know their name. But I'll bet you you do

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know the name Catherine Harris. If you've been following the
process for a while political process, you know the name
Catherine Harris because in nineteen ninety eight she ran far
and was elected to the position of Secretary of State
in Florida. Not something that gets a lot of attention,

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but when she was elected and office January fifth, nineteen
ninety nine, the course of history would change dramatically. Had
she lost that election, our history of the last twenty

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three years would be twenty two years, would be very
very different. And the reason is because in a down
ballot race that most people don't pay much attention to,
certainly not the rest of the country, and very few
people in Florida. Catherine Harris managed to defeat Karen Geevers,

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a Democrat from Miami, and be the last person to
be elected secretary of State in Florida. After that, a
constitutional change occurred where the Secretary of State would now
be appointed by the governor, as it is in Texas,

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but at that time it was elected. And then in
two thousand November, the closest election we've had, and it
all came down to the state of Florida. And first
they said Bush one, then Gore won. Then they went

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back and forth all night, and then Gore conceded, and
then he said, oh no, no, no, maybe I didn't concede.
And it all came down to the paper ballots in Florida,
and what was known as a butterfly ballot. Remember the
old spiral notebooks. You would have not the three ring binder,

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but the one with the entire spiral, the slinky through
the middle of the papers. Well, the way that was done,
some voters, it was alleged, wouldn't push the paper all
the way through, so that became what was known as
a dimpled chad, and all of this effort went into

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a few hundred votes. It was insane because whoever won
Florida would win the White House, and whoever lost Florida
would lose the entire election. Forty nine other states and
everything came down to who could get to two seventy
and neither one of them could get to two seventy
electoral votes without Florida. And so there was if you

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remember some of you around the hanging chads, that was
a chad that had been pushed through but not completely
disconnected from the paper. I was kind of involved in
that election, can you tell? I get excited? And then
there was a dimple chat. A dimple chad was something
you remember when you were in school and you'd write
a note to a girl, or if you were a girl,

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to a guy, and you would take a piece of
paper and put another paper over the top of it,
and you'd write on that top paper and you'd kind
of press down. That'd be enough under the underside that
if you handed that to somebody, somebody just glancing like
a blank piece of paper, But if she took that
piece of paper and ran a pencil across it, it

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would reveal the indentation in the paper and you could
send a message kind of in this coded way. And
then we had invisible link ink. But that's a different deal. Well,
that was what a dimple chad was. It was pushed
probably from an earlier vote on another issue. So all
this comes down. All this comes down to the Secretary

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of State and the decision she makes. Of course it
would end up with the Supreme Court. But if the
Secretary of State hadn't been Catherine Harris who made the decisions,
she did her truth, honest, fairness, judgment, objectivity, which is
what our party does. A Democrat would have just swung

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the election to go and Gore would have been president,
and who knows how life would have been different, but
it would have been worse. Should be sure of that.
Not that I'm the biggest fan of George W. Bush.
He made a lot of mistakes, But the point is
how much elections matter, and elections that don't get any attention.

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The course of America's history was changed because the people
of Florida voted for Catherine Harris instead of some woman
that is relegated to the scrap peep of history. I
say all that to say this, The most important elections
in this country are not the presidential election. It gets
all the attention. Most government is local government. But because

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you don't go home after work and turn on Fox
News and they talk about who's running for city council, dogcatcher, sheriff,
county treasurer, county judge, county courts. Because that's not easily
told to you, because that is not spoon fed to you.
Most people don't give a damn about the local elections.

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They don't know who their school board is. And that's
why when little Billy comes home and says, Mama, this
happened at school today, and they call up to the
school and the school hangs up on them. They go
to the school board and the school board cuts off
their mic and calls a Biden administration says this person
should be reported to the FBI as a terrorist. And
you go, what's happening? Why is my school so crazy?

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Why wouldn't it be crazy? What have you done to
ensure it's not crazy? Inspect what you expect? What made
you think that everybody but you was going to get
involved in electing a good school board that would then
appoint a good superintendent and principle and hold the teachers accountable.

Speaker 5 (07:50):
Did you just.

Speaker 1 (07:50):
Assume that everybody else that thinks like you, that's reasonable
and rational, would get involved and run for office and
support good candidates. Well, everybody's doing what you're doing. We're
all standing back, and then the thing drops because nobody
puts their hand out to stop it from dropping. Nobody
gets involved, nobody wants to care. Pick up the phone

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and start making phone calls. Ask people you trust. Sure,
you're gonna get some duds in the mix. You're going
to get some people that claim there for God, country, faith, patriotism,
who are running as Republicans because that's the only way
to win in their area. Sure, that's going to happen,
and you're going to be disappointed by some people, But
you have to stay engaged. You've got to win the

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races that matter. You got to take back your community.
When you take back your community, then you can get
integrity back in your elections, and then you can win
back to county elections, and then you can win back
to statewide elections. That has to happen right now in
elections that won't be on Fox News. I'm telling you.

Speaker 6 (08:56):
Michael Berry, the Michael Berry Show. The problem is all

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inside your head, she said to me.

Speaker 1 (09:38):
The answer is easy if you take it logically.

Speaker 3 (09:43):
I'd like to help you.

Speaker 2 (09:44):
In Yoster.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
There have been well intentioned people try to bring peace.

Speaker 6 (09:48):
Waise to leave you love her to.

Speaker 1 (09:51):
The Middle East, she said it very well intentioned people unworse,
the dot, in an act of great bravery, led Egypt
into a period of peace with Israel and was assassinated

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for it. When you consider how deeply rooted the hatred
in Gaza is for Jews from the earliest ages. A
kindergarten school performance, the children dress in paramilitary uniforms and

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pretend to kill the Jews while their parents cheer. You
don't reprogram that, mind, You just don't. The only peace
you'll ever find is through deterrence. In as long as
some people don't understand that, you will reward bad actors.

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In fact, the concept of peace through deterrence could be
used in the American criminal justice system. When you let
a turd beat somebody to death, carjack them, rob them,
shoot them, and you put them back out on the streets.
That savage understands only one thing that there's nothing wrong

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with what he's done. You throw him in a cage
and you never let him out, and I won't cry
for that. Oh but he was young, Oh but he
was wayward, Oh but he bet. If you want to
solve the problem, that's how you presolve it. There will
be collateral damage, but not solving that problem means collateral

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damage for people who didn't commit a crime. We can
make excuses for why people commit crimes and make them
into a victim once we punish them, or we can
make excuses for the fact that you're going to have
to suffer because the bad guys are allowed to win today,
because the bad guys must never be made to suffer,

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because apparently the bad guys suffered after they made other
people suffer, and that makes some people very upset. So
where do we go with this?

Speaker 2 (12:18):
What is the point?

Speaker 1 (12:20):
The point is this, It's not just that you've been
forced to suffer a slight because there will be more.
You have to actually implement a strategy. You can't always
react to what's going around you for what's going on

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around you as it happens, and then just keep reacting
in real time. You have to have a strategy. How
are you going to cope? What are you going to do?
You've got to think about a game plan for life.
And once you do that, you start making changes. You

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start seeking peace and happiness and fulfillment because that's much
more rewarding. You're not going to win. You're not going
to kill all the people that are HR directors, nor
should you. You're not going to beat them all up.
So you start looking for You start asking yourself who

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am I and who do I want to be? If
you want to go crazy, they'll drive you crazy, and
then you going crazy will be their proof that you
were at fault all along. They'll leave you broken. They do.
They're January sixth protesters in prison right now, and not

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a tear is shed for them. Not one tear is
shed for them. So you have to ask yourself this question,
how do I live my life? How do I navigate
this world? Well, first of all, you don't reward You

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don't give sugar to this cancer that it can grow.
You immediately cut it out of your life. The problem
is a lot of people are like Icarus to the fire.
They keep going in and poking that fire. You're not
changing it. You're not changing the direction of the fire.

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You're just getting burned to varying degrees. And it starts
with arguing with them on social media. It starts with,
oh yeah, well you think that's right. Well, uh yeah, okay,
so you don't like trouble? Uh what about Bill Clinton?
How y'all look over here. I burned him with the
Bill Clinton. Maybe you did, but then he's going to

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come back with something else, and eventually he's gonna hurt
your feelings. You know the old line, don't wallow in
the mud with the pig, because the pig enjoys it.
You're in the mud now, you're on his turf because
you can't let it go. You don't have a strategy

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for how to let it. It doesn't make you happy.
You went on the Facebook machine to reconnect. See what
Tom from high school's up to if his wife got fat.
You went and looked at your ex wife, See how
she's what she's all that liar? Oh yeah, oh and
she's so happy, and he knew, well, good for her.
You went there for, you know, some personal enjoyment, and

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you end up getting sucked into somebody criticizing Trump or
whatever else. And you were going to and before you
know it, your eight messages in and you're furious you
didn't win anything. No nobody came over to you side.
No independent voter was trolling and saying, I shall watch

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the joust TwixT left and right, and from that I
will cast my vote. So just stop. I block people
every day, every day, and there are people, Oh, you're
not brave, you're whatever. Guess what. You're not coming to
my door, knocking on my door and harassing me. You're

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not riding in my car. You don't get my cell
phone number. I block you on my cell phone. I
don't need you in my life. There is nothing that
enriches my life by you getting to bother me. And
so nothing you can do makes them more mad than
blocking them. But you can't do it. People will. They
just keep going on and on. But it's more than this,

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more than social media. It's every aspect of your life.
It is learning. First of all, never give them the
benefit of the doubt, because that scorpion is going to
turn and bite you after you take it. I see
this every day. Well I thought i'd be nice. I

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thought i'd hire this guy, thought i'd give him a chance,
and now he's dragged me to court after I fired
him for all these problems because I'm a bad guy
for whatever his protected classes. Shame on you, Shame on you.
Why did you put yourself in that situation. I go
out of my way. I don't do business with those people.

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I don't. I don't do business with the types of
people who spout the kind of venom that I think
is horrible.

Speaker 5 (17:43):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (17:44):
I know longer. Let me say this. I no longer
buy into this. Well, we're all Americans. We're in this together.
We can disagree sometimes, but at the end of the day,
we're all of it. I don't believe that anymore. I
think those people would turn on me in favor of
a Palestinian. I think that turn on me in favor
of an Islamic terrorist. I think that turn on me

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in favor of an illegal alien from anywhere in the world.
I think that turn on me for ten dollars from
a Chinaman. I think that turn on me and take
everything I have and give it to the Ukrainians.

Speaker 5 (18:19):
I do.

Speaker 1 (18:20):
And once I came to that conclusion, I understand I
don't value the people who are evil in this country.

Speaker 3 (18:29):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (18:30):
I'm not going to do them any harm. If I'm
not gonna do them any good either, I'm gonna go
out of my way not to do them any good.

Speaker 5 (18:55):
I guess who just got that today? The weak.

Speaker 1 (19:02):
Every couple of years, I am reminded that Alexandria Ocasio
Cortez became a congressman.

Speaker 5 (19:08):
Do you remember?

Speaker 1 (19:09):
Do you remember this? And I'll mention it to a
couple of people and see the reaction. And every time
I do this, every few years in between, I realize
a lot of people don't know the story behind this.
It's crazy. Long before she was the Democrat nominee for
Congress in her congressional district, Sandy As was her nickname.

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All of it was created, just as Barack Obama was
Barry Setero. All of it was created by people for
a narrative. But hers is really crazy. Let me tell
you the story in case you don't know. Alexandra Rojas

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serves as the executive director of Justice Democrats. So she
leads a team dedicated to identifying and preparing primary challengers.
And by the way, this is something Republicans don't do.
And the problem is the Democrats have the Democrats don't

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leave elections. The Democrats don't leave elections to the voters.
The voters think they have a choice. It's kind of
like when a business ends up buying all the competitor businesses,
but they keep them operating under their own name. So
consumers think they have a choice. I'm not going to

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buy that anymore. I'm going to go ahead and buy this. Well,
you're buying it from the same people, but it's they
give you the illusion you have a choice. So this group,
the Justice Democrats, their focus is on recruiting individuals, usually young,
from working class backgrounds, particularly black and brown folks, and

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they go against incumbents in the Democrat primaries. The incumbents,
just as we want to get rid of the moderate Republicans,
they want to get rid of the moderate Democrats. They
want radical progressive ideology. And the way to do that
is not to try to go beat Republicans. That's too hard.
You go into a district that's Democrat and you offer

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a message that is not so crazy and radical as
you're going to govern, that is based on aspirational vision
and idealism that voters can buy into, especially ethnic voters.
So in twenty eighteen. They were responsible, sorry, they were
responsible for the election of the group now recognized as

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the Squad. And this degenerate group of women, I'm not
going to call them lazy, includes Alexandria Casio Cortez, Ilhan Omar,
the the Brother Banger, Rashida Taliban, and Ayana Presley. Presley
doesn't get mentioned as much, but about once a year

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she'll raise her head up and say something real stupid
and then they'll be go, oh, I forgot you were
over here. Yeah, you're stupid too, and this she kind
of go quietly back into So in the case of AOC,
this is not a parody. We do a lot of
jokes and we don't tell you it's a joke ahead
of time, and you're going to think this as a joke.
But I swear to you, I want you to understand
this is not a joke. They held a casting call,

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like who wants to play the role of congressman. Come
in and read for the role, and we'll pick the
person we're going to support to win this election. This
is real.

Speaker 5 (22:41):
Alexandria Okazio Cortenets is not really the congresswoman of New
York's fourteenth congressional district. She is essentially an actress. She's
merely playing the part of a New York congresswoman. I
know this sounds crazy, but bear with me. In twenty seventeen,
a group called the Justice Democrats held auditions for potential

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congressional candidates that they would run on their platform for
various congressional seats throughout the country. Alexandria Okazio Cortes's brother Gabriel,
submitted her for the role. Now, I've auditioned for many
acting roles in my day. I've also cast many of
my own projects. I know how this works. If you
find somebody with star power, even if they don't one

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hundred percent fit the part, you go with it. Obviously,
AOC has star power. Just look at her. She's a superstar,
the most famous person in Congress. Maybe ever, their casting
was perfect. Now I didn't have to go digging for
evidence for this because they freely admitted. They brag about it.

Speaker 1 (23:42):
Back in twenty sixteen, we put out a call for nominations.
We got over ten thousand nominations. Out of those ten
thousand nominations, we found Alexandria.

Speaker 7 (23:53):
My brother told me that he had set my nomination
in the summer. But I was like literally working out
of a restaurant.

Speaker 5 (23:59):
Them in real way a casting call. They had a
casting call. They cast Alexandria Casa Cortes in the role
of congresswoman.

Speaker 1 (24:09):
This would explain her bouts of mental ineptitude. She wasn't
meant to do this.

Speaker 7 (24:16):
I am told this is a garbage disposal. I've never
seen a garbage disposal. I never had one in any
place I've ever lived. It is terrifying. I don't know
what to use it for or what its purpose is,
like food scraps, Like is this environmentally sound?

Speaker 1 (24:40):
I don't know. It's actually kind of fun to watch
AOC learn about new things. It's like watching a baby
eat ice cream for the first time. Because she has
no clue.

Speaker 3 (24:53):
A no socialist Congresswoman Alexandria Casio Cortes discovers a new invention.

Speaker 8 (25:01):
You guys aren't gonna believe this, But I just made
the craziest discovery. I wanted to make some juice, but
all I had was carrots. Then someone told me, you
can put the carrots inside this thing called a blender
and it'll make carrot juice. It's like some kind of
futuristic convention.

Speaker 1 (25:15):
Weird, right.

Speaker 3 (25:16):
That was Socialist congress Woman Alexandria Casio Cortes discovering a
new invention.

Speaker 1 (25:26):
Makes you wonder what else has she discovered in her
role as a congress I don't say congresswoman as a
role in her role as a congress I'm looking at
a picture of it right now, in her role as
a congressman. I'm not playing the congresswoman game.

Speaker 5 (25:41):
No and no.

Speaker 3 (25:44):
Socialist Congresswoman Alexandria Casio Cortes discovers a new invention.

Speaker 8 (25:51):
Oh my god, you guys. I thought I had to
walk up the stairs, but then I found out about
this thing. It's like a little room that you walk
inside of. See these buttons. You just push one of
these and it takes you to a different floor. It's
called an elevator. I have no idea if this is
good for the environment, but I'm pretty sure.

Speaker 1 (26:08):
This is witchcraft.

Speaker 3 (26:09):
That was Socialist Congresswoman Alexandria Casio Cortez discovering a new invention.

Speaker 1 (26:22):
Michael Barry in the system modern day.

Speaker 2 (26:49):
Cogic. Thank so, guys, from working with the job for you,
And granted he's not an inside the air conditioning, working
kind of guy.

Speaker 1 (27:08):
He wears boots, jeans. He's from a small town. He
might smoke. Oh wow, but I guess we have to
have a few of those around here. He wears out
in the heat all day. He doesn't complain. Truck may
not have air conditioning. He might have had a divorce.
He might have a dwi. He might have more than

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one of each. He might have a mustache. He might
look older than his age. He might speak in a
manner unbecoming of the corporate boardroom. But he's the front
line of the company. You've got to have him, and

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that's the only reason they keep him. And the people
like him, but they cringe. His very existence makes them cringe.
You couldn't have him come to the offices, to the
corporate headquarters. We make movies about things like this. You

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know the guy that comes in from the wild. He
doesn't know which button to mash, where to get off,
and everybody giggles at him. We know the te in
his big old truck with his bumper stickers on it
about guns and god knows what else. And he doesn't

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have the right views. He doesn't tell the right jokes,
he doesn't use the right fork. He doesn't live the
way you're supposed to live. There's a lot of him.
And by the way, it wasn't the guy's on the

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eighteenth floor of the corporate headquarters that went and fought
in Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam. You didn't mind him then, but
as he's gotten older since he came back, you don't
want him around. It's not just that you don't want

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him around, mister Hr or missus HR or missus that
used to be mister Hr. It's that he represents the
north Star and you hate that because he never pretends
to be anything he's not. He's not an evolutionary character.

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He's not desperately trying to keep up with the trends
of the fads. Right the opposite. He doesn't seek your
approval and he kind of disdains you because he has
a clarity of purpose to his life and conscience and
he doesn't do things he doesn't want to do.

Speaker 2 (30:11):
He is.

Speaker 1 (30:13):
The savage. He is what the Christians saw in the
savages that they went to evangelize to. He has to
be changed, he has to be molded into what must
he be molded why missus HR director says he must

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be molded into the image I have crafted. He must
be learned. He must learn to use the language I use.
He must learn to behave in the manner that I do.
He must learn that everything about his very existence is
wrong and always has been. He was raised wrong. The

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cowboys and Indians, the shooting the bb gun, the killing
the deer to go and fishing, all of those things,
those must be destroyed. Every part of him. She resents
every part of him, and that's okay until it comes

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time that for whatever reason, and occasionally he does do
some things wrong. He's dragged down to hr think she's
going to give him a fair hearing her lesbian buddy
three doors over that's been harassing the secretary. She didn't
get her fired, She didn't require her to go to
sensitivity training. I've seen some lesbians, homos, blacks, Arabs, you

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name it, that are the meanest, nastiest, vicious people that
they don't get sensitivity training. Why would they? They are culture,
You're not so after a period of time, the guys
like him individually, they never gather individually. They start deciding

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they're angry. Now many of them turn inward. The bottle
helps if you can get drunk enough, fast enough at
the minute you get off of work. It makes life bearable.
Of course, that also makes personal relationships difficult, and then
that can complicate your whole life. So what are we

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doing to these people? What are they doing to you?
You can turn that to the women. What about a
woman who decides that, like her mother or mine, they
want to stay home and raise the kids. They don't

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want to go to a workplace, to stay home and
keep a clean house where the family's well fed. The
bills are paid, the plumbing and electrical works, they meet,
the people there, Things are done. There's a lot of

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tasks in the house. They're not left undone. The beds
are made, breakfast is made, bedtimes are met, homework is done.
That's what they want to do. That's what makes them
feel whole and wholesome and fulfilled. Is that honored? No? No,

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they're marginalized. They're lesser people. You remember Hillary Clinton when
she lost in twenty sixteen. Remember the nasty speech she
gave in Chicago about these stupid women who just voted
the way their husband did. She's always had a disdain

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for these women, those women, for many of you. Are
you so you just keep you just keep saying these things,
and you just keep doing these things, and you're noticing
the world is changing around you and they're constantly and
your opinion doesn't matter. And how dare a black person

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a transgender if they say, hey, this is screwed up.
If you do it, you're somehow a threat. You're treated
everyone's against you. And the minute you start pointing out
what is actually true, now now it's laughable that you're
crazy and you think all these things. But you know
what you see, you know what you feel, you know

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what you're going through. Listeners who will email and say,
I'm surprised, I'm surprised more white people aren't pissed off
watching what people say about it. We're kind of like
the white Avengers of them. We might need you to
be Mexican next week, just for diversity