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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and loud.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
The Michael Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
I wants you to know us over well. But audios, mofo.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
The votes for President of the United States are as follows.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Donald J.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Trump of the state of Florida has received three hundred
and twelve books.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
We are going to the border. We've been to the border.
So this this whole, this whole thing about the border.
We've been to the border. We've been to the border.
You haven't been to the border, and I haven't been
to Europe.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
You know, we have to stay woke, like everybody needs
to be woke, and you can talk about it if you're
the wokest or woker, but just stay more woke than
less woke.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
When it comes to the economy, do you believe Americans
are better off than they were four years ago?
Speaker 4 (01:13):
So I was raised as a middle class kid. An
undocumented immigrant is not a criminal, and we have to
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correct course in this conversation, Buona persona not es criminals.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
I will snatch their cabin so that we will take over.
Yes we can do that, Yes, yes we can do that.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
But more important, I'm vice president of the United States.
A thing that I handle is because it's a tough
of shop.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
If I was in Japan with my family having a
wonderful vacation when Jimmy.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Carter passed, there is not a thing that comes to mind.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
So I didn't get to I didn't get to uh
opine on the passing over former president. Now, I fully
understand that some of you are cringing right now lest
I say something negative about the deceased. And I also
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understand that some of you are still operating under the
old rules where the most important thing is that you
be nice, like you're Patrick Swayzee at the bar in Roadhouse,
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because you've been taught at the most important thing, and
this is particularly a white person thing. Got to be nice.
Somebody slaps you in the face, be nice. Someone kicks
you in the gut, be nice. Someone steals the election,
be nice. That's why so many people are afraid to
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speak out about election fraud, because we.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Don't seem nice.
Speaker 6 (03:32):
Why so many people don't want criminals sent to prison.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
When the media shows you.
Speaker 6 (03:39):
Well, he's got babies that he's made, they would lose
their daddy.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Oh, we got to be nice.
Speaker 6 (03:47):
We'd like to deport these people because a lot of
them are criminals up. Some of them are gonna cry
and they have friends here. Gotta be nice. Being nice
has been the death of our report. It's better you
be principled. Let me ask you this. If Hitler died
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tomorrow instead of when he did at the end of
World War Two, would you the next day say we
should be nice. No, you shouldn't, because he was a devil.
It is important that we're honest about things. Did you
notice that upon his death the left attacked Rush Limbaugh
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and it upset you because they weren't being nice. And
what did you say? You said, well, we.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Didn't do that when your people died. We're always nice
to your people. And you criticize one of our heroes.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Exactly.
Speaker 6 (04:49):
Well, now I'm going to not be nice about Jimmy
Carter because it's important that people who did not live
through his presidency I did, people who have not studied
his presidency, his post presidency I have. It's important that
you understand that this was a very, very bad person.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
And before you turn off saying.
Speaker 6 (05:09):
Ooh, I don't want to listen to him speak ill
of the dead, did you know that when Donald Trump
was elected Jimmy Carter called him an illegitimate president. Jimmy
Carter was the biggest election denier in America, the most
prominent election denier in America. He claimed he didn't really win. Oh,
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but that was the least of what he did. He
did so many awful things. And so I'd like to
spend some time setting the record straight on Jimmy Carter.
Jimmy Carter was regarded by modern historians accurately as the
worst president in US history, certainly in modern US history,
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until Joe Biden came along. By the way, there's a
reason they were both one term presidents. This is a
glowing report by Leslie Stall of sixty minutes after Jimmy
Carter's passing. And I want you to notice that she
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uses the same compliment for Carter Democrats that they use
for Joe Biden today. They're going to use the same
argument to prop him up, because it's important that that
be repeated in the living room, at the dinner table,
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in the classroom. You know, Carter didn't win a second term,
but he was a good man. No, he wasn't, and
I'll prove it. But first listen to this glowing report
on how great his presidency was.
Speaker 7 (06:50):
Oh my gosh, she was so unique, A peanut farmer
from Plains Georgia. He won the presidency. I think because
he was the unnixed. We'd just gone through Watergate. Jimmy
Carter said, I'll never lie to you over and over
and over. People think that he was unsuccessful, but he
passed more than most presidents, doing two terms.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
In one term, I.
Speaker 8 (07:13):
Had the best batting average in the Congress in recent
history of any president except Linda Johnson.
Speaker 7 (07:21):
He saved every hostage that was held in Iran. He
passed landmark legislation, big things like energy policy and giving
back the Panama Canality. He put solar panels on the
roof of the White House back then. I think he's
most proud of the fact that there was peace for
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the four years that he was president.
Speaker 8 (07:43):
We never fired a bullet, we never dropped the bomb,
we never launched a missile.
Speaker 7 (07:47):
I think he thought he was a great president. President
Carter's lasting legacy comes out of his post presidency. No
one would die. He's one of the great post presidents
we've ever had. He devoted himself to poor people. He
built houses for poor people. He spent his life trying
to get rid of certain diseases in Africa that were
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killing people unnecessarily.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
He won the Nobel Peace Prize, not.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
When he was president, but after he died, knowing that
he had lived a good life.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
No, that he did.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
A bad man who did bad things, and I'll prove
it coming up. So Leslie Stall of sixty minutes, what
have you believed that the four years of the Carter
presidency were fantastic? First he led on the issue of energy.
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There was an energy crisis during his administration. Get to
that in a moment. He gave the Panama Canal back.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
That's terrible for us.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
We built it. He put so panels on the White House.
Can you believe it?
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (09:04):
And then they were removed when he left, and Obama
did it again when he became president. Solar doesn't work.
Would just stop with that already? He brought peace to
the world, he said, are you aware that Iran destabilized
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during his presidency? The stable, secular Iran collapsed and the
most disturbing, dangerous Muslim regime in the world replaced it.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
To this day we are dealing with that threat.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
That's not peace.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
How about inflation?
Speaker 6 (09:51):
Inflation the likes of which we hadn't seen since the
Biden administration. My goodness, do they have so much in common?
How about the creation of the Department of Education. Rag
on that for a moment, because it's an absolute and
utter bust. Jimmy Carter was remembered for one speech he
gave his president. It is commonly called the Crisis of
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Confidence speech, but political scientists and media members remember it
as the Malaise Speech. Interestingly, he never used the word malaise.
Malaise is one of those words you don't hear very often.
And when I hear the word malaise, being a political
junkie as I am, the first thing I think of
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is Jimmy Carter. In that speech. A malaise is defined
as a general feeling of discomfort, illness, or uneasiness whose
exact cause is difficult to identify. So kind of fibromyalgia,
if you will. The Carter administration will plagued by flu
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like symptoms upon the nation.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
You can think of it that way.
Speaker 6 (11:06):
The speech was delivered July fifteenth, nineteen seventy nine. People
were down, they were depressed, they were listless. There was
a malaise, and so Jimmy Carter decided Joe Biden one
point zero that he would give a speech talk about
the fact that it was Americans who were at fault here.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
It was your fault that you weren't happy.
Speaker 9 (11:30):
It is a crisis of confidence. It is a crisis
that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit
of our national will. We can see this crisis in
the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives
and in the loss of a unity of purpose for
our nation. The erosion of our confidence in the future
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is threatening to destroy the social and the political fabric
of America. The confidence that we have always had as
a people is not simply some romantic dream or a
proverb and a dusty book that we read just on
the fourth of July. It is the idea which founded
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our nation and has guided our development as a people.
Confidence in the future has supported everything else, public institutions
and private enterprise, our own families, and the very constitution
of the United States. Confidence has defined our course and
has served as a link.
Speaker 6 (12:38):
Sounds inspiring, doesn't it real inspiring? The economy was so
bad under Jimmy Carter that Dan Ackroyd, a star of
Saturday Night Live at the time, explained inflation while impersonating
then President Jimmy Carter on Saturday Night Live.
Speaker 10 (12:58):
Inflation is our friend. For example, consider this in the air.
Two thousand. Of current trends continued, the average blue collar
annual wage in this country will be five hundred and
sixty eight thousand dollars. Think what this inflated world of
the future will mean? Most Americans will be millionaires. Everyone
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will feel like a big shock. Wouldn't you like to
own a four thousand dollars suit and smoke up seventy
five dollars to god drive a six hundred thousand dollars
cor I know I would. But what about people on
fixed incomes? They have always been the true victims of inflation.
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That's why I will present to Congress the Inflation Maintenance Program,
where by the US Treasury will make up any inflation
cost losses through direct tax rebates to the public in cash. Now,
you may say, won't that cost a lot of money?
Won't that increase the deficit? Sure it will, But so what,
We'll just print more money. We have the papers, we
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have the mints. I can just call up the Bureau
of Engrave it and say, Hi, this is Jimmy.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Roll off some of them twenties.
Speaker 10 (14:16):
Print up a couple of thousand sheets of those censory notes. Sure,
the glot of dollars will cause even more inflection, but
who cares.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Everybody'll be a millionaire.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
So yes, the Carter presidency was a terrible four years
for America January of seventy seven until January of eighty one,
when Ronald Reagan took over and the company the country
went into a boom. Company's boomed, individuals boomed. But wait,
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what about since he was president? He was such a
good man, right? Scott Jennings laid that clear, laid that
low on CNN.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Let me preface my take by offering condolences to the
Carter family and on his death. He was obviously one
of the most unique post presidencies we ever had, because
he lived so long and he did so much that
I hadn't been said. He was a terrible president. That's
why I lost in a landslide after his one term.
And if it's possible, I think he was even a
worse ex president because of his meddling in US foreign policy,
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because of his saddling up to dictators around the world,
because of his vehement views, anti Israel views, and more
than dabbling in anti Semitism. Over the years, he often
vexed Democrats. Obama didn't even have him speak at his
oweight convention. He put Bill Clinton in a terrible foreign
policy box on a North Korea nuclear issue. I think
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he was a guy who had a huge ego and
believed that he was uniquely positioned to do all these things,
even after the American people had roundly and soundly rejected
his leadership.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
So I respect people.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
Who run for president and get elected president, but in
his particular case, I think he time it again proved
why he was never suited.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
For the office. In the first before you jump up
to the Persian.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
Gulf War, he wrote letters, yeah I know about this
to all of our allies and to Arab states, asking
them to abandon their cooperation and coalition with the United
States of America. If it's not treason US, it's borderline treasons.
And so I hear what you're saying about the humanitarianism.
But when you're an ex president and you have served
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in that office, I think you have a duty to
the United States and only to the United States. And
when he did that and other instances. To me, it
showed that he cared more about his own legacy than
he did about the country.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
And I think that is long. This is at to
Michael Berry.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
So Jimmy Carter, you may not agree that his presidency
was great, but he was a good man after he
was president. So we're told, how about when he said
this after Donald Trump was elected?
Speaker 11 (16:56):
There's no doubt that the Russians did interfair in election.
I think the interference, although not yet quantified, I have
fully an investigated, would show that Trump then actually win
the election. In twenty sixteen, he lost the election and
he was put in the office because of Russian's interfare
on his behalf.
Speaker 6 (17:14):
See do you believe President Trump is an illegitimate president?
Speaker 11 (17:19):
Face on what I just said was I can retrct.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Remember when Ronald Reagan defined what recovery means.
Speaker 12 (17:28):
That Carter record is a litany of despair, of broken promises,
of sacred trusts abandoned and forgotten. His answer to all
this misery, he tries to tell us that we're only
in a recession, not a depression, as if definitions words
relieve our suffering. Let it show on the record that
when the American people cried out for economic help. Jimmy
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Carter took refuge behind a dictionary. Well, if it's a
definition he wants, I'll give him one. A recession is
when your neighbor loses his job, A depression is when
you lose yours, and recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses.
Speaker 6 (18:08):
His Speaking of Reagan, there's an appearance that Ramon came
across The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson a while back,
and we've been looking for an opportunity to play it.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Let's do it here.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
All these years later, it's a little longer than we
would normally play. All these years later, it is still
as relevant as ever today.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
This was Ronald Reagan on The Tonight.
Speaker 13 (18:29):
Show when you and I were boys back in the Midwest.
Government's federal, state, and local. We're only taking about fifteen
cents out of every dollar earned. Today, they're taking almost
half of every dollar earned in the United States, and
most people don't realize it because the taxes are hidden
in the so called business taxes. You know, the politician
that stands up and yells, oh, let's save the little man.
Let's tax business and everybody else are ready. They haven't
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figured out that every tax on business is just a
part of the cost of production, and the customer winds
up paying it when he buys the product. It's a
hidden sales tanp There's one hundred and sixteen of them
in the suit of clothes that each one of us
is learn.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Suppose a lot.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Of the economists who suggested, and I don't know they'll
ever come to be in this country, that they're if
they closed all of the loopholes and for corporations and
maybe tax loopholes, and even on their rich certain loopholes,
and made a percentage income and made a flat feed
without all of the deductions, that the government might raise
as much money as they do now.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Oh sure, And really the loopholes. This has been overdone
by the politicians too.
Speaker 13 (19:29):
The bulk of the money that is taken by what
are called loopholes, and the legitimate deductions with which if
the people didn't have them, they couldn't pay their income tax,
interest on their mortgage, interest on the installments on their car,
their property taxes on their home if they have one,
and so forth. These are politicians as loopholes. But we
ought to have tax reform, and we ought to start
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by making it so simple that you don't have to
hire a lawyer to find out.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
How much you owe every year. That's for sure. It
used to be we could bet a little setifiate by
at Johnny.
Speaker 13 (19:58):
We live in the only country in the world it
takes more brains to figure out your income tax than
it does earn the income.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
I'd be right.
Speaker 13 (20:05):
We've gotten in the habit over the last forty years
of thinking the government has the answers. There's very little
that government can do as efficiently and is economically as
the people can do themselves. And if government would shut
the doors and sneak away for about three weeks, we'd
never miss them. Our biggest problem is that we have
built a permanent structure of government, federal, state, and local.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
The permanent employees.
Speaker 13 (20:25):
And that come to the place that they actually determine
policy in this country more than does the Congress of
the United States.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
There are fourteen and.
Speaker 13 (20:32):
A half million public employees in the United States. That's
quite a voting block. And the bureaus and agencies not
in Washington. I heard you talking earlier about some of
the research programs. What would you say if I told
you about one a study in which this was called the.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Demography of Happiness.
Speaker 13 (20:52):
And in this study, the government found out that young
people are happier.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
In older people.
Speaker 13 (21:00):
They found out that people that earn more or happier
than people that earn less. And they found out that
well people are happier.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Than six people. That's good.
Speaker 13 (21:08):
Life was two hundred and forty nine thousand dollars to
find out it's better to be rich, young and healthy
than old poorns. A poll was taken recently that found
out that only forty six percent of the people in
the pool could name their United States congressman.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
But what was worse, eighty six percent of.
Speaker 13 (21:26):
Those who could name him couldn't tell you a single
thing that he represented or stood for.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
They just knew that he represented the faith. But he
was a congressman. But what's he doing while he's up there?
Speaker 13 (21:35):
And the same is true at the at the local
levels of government and all the rest.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
So you say people really.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Have to take an active interest, You have to have
citizensation groups locally and let them know.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
It's certain specialist groups.
Speaker 13 (21:47):
Now, the special interest groups, as everyone thought, big powerful
business interests are something that are going to persuade government
to do things. As a matter of fact, I don't
know anyone with less influence today in government than business.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
They're just a convenient whipping point.
Speaker 13 (21:58):
But it's the groups that have got a particular acts
to You can't have a power plant because it might
interfere with the seagulls. Now, I think I'm an environmentalist,
and I do not agree with those people way over
in the edge who paved the whole country over in
the name of progress. But also I don't like those
on the other extreme that will let you build a
house unless it looks like a bird's nest.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Well someplace in.
Speaker 13 (22:17):
The middle, we got to allow people are ecology too well,
this kind of group, and they want their particular program.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Hundreds of dollars have been added to the.
Speaker 13 (22:25):
Cost of an automobile putting gadgets on it to clear
up the air. We're the only country in the world
that's set out to do it that way. When budget
deficits are what's causing inflation, I don't see that there's
any room to be on either.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Side of that argument.
Speaker 13 (22:37):
I think the answer to curing inflation is a balanced budget.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
No, how do you do that?
Speaker 13 (22:43):
I mean, it's not how do you balance the budget. Well,
balancing the budget is like protecting at more. Let me
take it right now, it's like protecting your virtue. You
have to learn to say no, there's got to be
other way. What's the second option? Well, no, there's some
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ways that this could be brought about. First of all,
the limitation here, here's another one. Why shouldn't we have,
in addition to a simplified income text, why shouldn't we
also have a law that says that anytime a legislator
or a congressman introduces a spending program, he has to
introduce with it a tax program to pay for it,
and let the people find out. There was a woman
that from a financial firm that was back at the
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President's Economic Council, and her words weren't quoted.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Everybody else's words got in the.
Speaker 13 (23:34):
Paper, all the Heller's and the gall Breaths and all
the so called economists. And I have a degree in economics,
so I can say this.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
I think an economist is.
Speaker 13 (23:43):
Someone who has a phive data kapake on one end
of his watchchain and no watch on the other. This
woman said that you go to the polls and you
ask the people do they want some social service, some
program that government can give and the people in the
polls are apt to read and say that sounds good. Yeah,
But she says that isn't exactly accurate.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
She says, put a one hundred dollars.
Speaker 13 (24:01):
Bill in each person's hand and then show them the
program and say, now, isn't that a nice program?
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Do you want it? Give me the one hundred dollars,
And she says, see what the poll.
Speaker 13 (24:10):
Says then, and how many people hang on with one
hundred dollars instead of the program?
Speaker 1 (24:14):
In other word, that it's rather hidden than someone doesn't
know exactly where it go.
Speaker 12 (24:17):
I come.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
They all start all the government programs.
Speaker 13 (24:18):
Start a dollar down and we'll catch you later, and
they multiply all of those things that you were. The
Office of Management and Budget in Washington that's responsible for
the budget putting the budget together, cannot even tell you
how many boards, commissions, agencies, bureaus, and departments there are
in the federal government. But all of them can pass regulations,
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and those regulations have the force of law. And the
difference is when you break the law, you're innocent until
proven guilty. When you break a regulation, the fellow the
charges you with breaking the regulation, you're guilty, and if
you want to take him to court and prove your innocent,
that's up to you. And all of these are things
that yes, we can trim the budget. There's enough fat
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in the federal government that if you rendered it, you
could wash the world. Maybe it's time for realignment between
people who might be find themselves in the wrong parties.
Maybe there's some people still voting. I was a Democrat
most of my life. I became a Republican only not
too many years ago. And I had the pleasure of
telling some of those people that are saying the Republican
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Party ought to broaden this base the other day that
when I switched parties, I didn't do it because the
two parties were alike.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
I did it because they were different from Michael Berry jokes.
Speaker 6 (25:32):
So breaking news today, Malania Trump New York Post reports
signs whopping forty million dollar documentary deal with Amazon with
cameos from Baron and Donald. A forty million dollar deal.
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My friend Buck Sexton notes that means the widespread corporate
boycott of all things Trump has been broken.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
This is just the beginning.
Speaker 6 (26:06):
You see, Fascism is when you have private companies, but
they are run at the direction of the government. The
Chinese Communist Party engaged in some private company ownership rather
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than state ownership as a hybrid to jumpstart their economy,
and it worked. But make no mistake, they still have
to do the bidding of the government. This is what
happened during COVID when the government would use their power
over companies, not just government employees, to stay. Hey, you
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want that bailout, you want that subsidy, you want this
regulation to continue to be eased off, you better require
the clock shop. Companies wouldn't touch Trump or you because
you were evil, and they would be boycotted, all the
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while undertaking DEI programs.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Well, now you've.
Speaker 6 (27:17):
Seen the list of companies that have rolled back their
DEI policies, Companies that never should have had them in
the first place.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Tractor supply, are you kid?
Speaker 6 (27:28):
You ever been in a tractor supply Nobody that believes
in DEI nonsense is shopping at tractor supply for what
tractor supply offers. Well, Meta, which is Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg
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has been begging at the feet of Donald Trump to
get back amongst respectable company So we got Amazon. Jeff
Bisos signing a big deal with Milania. Oh, his liberal
buddies aren't gonna like that. And now you've got Mark
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Zuckerberg at Facebook saying, I see the writing on the wall.
We're going to do away with our fact checkers. It
was a bad program and it didn't work. Think you
would have done that if Kamala went one, of course not.
They banned my biggest account. I had to start back over.
They banned it at this election. They did it in
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twenty twenty. They let me back on after twenty twenty.
Now they took away my biggest account, so I had
to start over from scratch.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Well, Michael, how come you don't leave them behind? I should.
Speaker 6 (28:40):
But Facebook is an opportunity for me to share articles, graphics, photos,
engagement with listeners in a way that I can't do
on the radio. So I got all these radio listeners
and most people email me. They know, go to Michael
Berryshow dot com and email me. But if I want
to post a picture and share it, I do that
on my daily Blast, which is my mail outlist, and
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I do it on Facebook. And I did that with
a lot of political commentary, and they were fine with
me doing it. They were monetizing it all the way
up till the first week of October, right before the election,
and they shut me down. Apparently I had violated their policies.
They wouldn't tell me how, but that's what they do.
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So here is Mark Zuckerberg begging and saying, maya culpa,
maya culpa. You know, the fact checking that we were doing,
which was censorship. We weren't really getting it right.
Speaker 14 (29:35):
It's time to get back to our roots around free
expression on Facebook and Instagram. I started building social media
to give people a voice. I gave a speech at
Georgetown five years ago about the importance of protecting free
expression and I still believe this today. But a lot
has happened over the last several years. There's been widespread
debate about potential harms from online content. Governments and legacy
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media have pushed to censor more and more. A lot
of this is clearly political, but there's also a lot
of legitimately bad stuff out there. Drugs, terrorism, child exploitation.
These are things that we take very seriously and I
want to make sure that we handle responsibly. So we
built a lot of complex systems to moderate content. But
the problem with complex systems is they make mistakes. Even
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if they accidentally censored just one percent of posts, that's
millions of people, and we've reached a point where it's
just too many mistakes and too much censorship. The recent
elections also feel like a cultural tipping point towards once
again prioritizing speech. So we're going to get back to
our roots and focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies,
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and restoring free expression on our platforms. More specifically, here's
what we're going to do. First, we're going to get
rid of fact checkers and replace them with community notes
similar to X. Starting in the US, after Trump first
got elected in twenty sixteen, the legacy media wrote non
stop about how misinformation was a threat to democracy. We tried,
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in good faith to address those concerns without becoming the
arbiters of truth, but the fact checkers have just been
too politically biased and have destroyed more trusts than they've created,
especially in the US. So over the next couple of months,
we're going to phase in a more comprehensive community notes system. Okay,
we're going to simplify our content policies and get rid
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of a bunch of restrictions on topics like immigration and
gender that are just out of touch with mainstream discourse.
What started as a movement to be more inclusive has
increasingly been used to shut down opinions and shut out
people with different ideas, and it's gone too far. So
I want to make sure that people can share their
beliefs and experiences on our platforms.
Speaker 6 (31:47):
So what he's saying is Facebook is going to become
more like Twitter because Twitter is blowing up and Facebook
is dying. Facebook is mostly left to grandma's posting pictures
of their grandkids and kids who've moved away from home
posting pictures of their kids for grandma to see. And
that's fine, there's a place for that. In fact, that's
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mostly what I still use it for. But it's not
a place to engage, to share ideas. To iron sharpens
iron a crucible of concepts. Because you heard what he said,
our attempts to be inclusive turned out to have the
opposite effect. That's what the left does. Oh don't say
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that you've hurt my feelings is a nice way of saying,
only say what I say, and everything else should be
shut down. And by the way, what I say today tomorrow,
I might decide up that wasn't good, So that's not
allowed to be said anymore. You can only say what
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I say, which is Biden is great, Kamala is great,
Liberalism is great. Chopping off your kids weener is great,
making your daughter into a boy is great.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
White people can't have any jobs.
Speaker 6 (33:03):
Only blacks, and preferably black lesbian.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Dudes who were born as men.
Speaker 6 (33:11):
Boys should be allowed to play against girls and injure
them and have unfair advantages. Welfare should boom, but not
for white people.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Our border should be wide open.
Speaker 6 (33:22):
That's anything other than that is not sufficiently inclusive. That
is Unamerican. And I am so proud of you because
you won this election. You took back your workplaces. You
as a consumer, as an employer, as an American, fought
back and this is a win.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Congratulations
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and loud.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
The Michael Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
I wants you to know us over well. But audios, mofo.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
The votes for President of the United States are as follows.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Donald J.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Trump of the state of Florida has received three hundred
and twelve books.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
We are going to the border. We've been to the border.
So this this whole, this whole thing about the border.
We've been to the border. We've been to the border.
You haven't been to the border, and I haven't been
to Europe.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
You know, we have to stay woke, like everybody needs
to be woke, and you can talk about it if you're
the wokest or woker, but just stay more woke than
less woke.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
When it comes to the economy, do you believe Americans
are better off than they were four years ago?
Speaker 4 (01:13):
So I was raised as a middle class kid. An
undocumented immigrant is not a criminal, and we have to
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correct course in this conversation, Buona persona not es criminals.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
I will snatch their cabin so that we will take over.
Yes we can do that, Yes, yes we can do that.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
But more important, I'm vice president of the United States.
A thing that I handle is because it's a tough
of shop.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
If I was in Japan with my family having a
wonderful vacation when Jimmy.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Carter passed, there is not a thing that comes to mind.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
So I didn't get to I didn't get to uh
opine on the passing over former president. Now, I fully
understand that some of you are cringing right now lest
I say something negative about the deceased. And I also
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understand that some of you are still operating under the
old rules where the most important thing is that you
be nice, like you're Patrick Swayzee at the bar in Roadhouse,
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because you've been taught at the most important thing, and
this is particularly a white person thing. Got to be nice.
Somebody slaps you in the face, be nice. Someone kicks
you in the gut, be nice. Someone steals the election,
be nice. That's why so many people are afraid to
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speak out about election fraud, because we.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Don't seem nice.
Speaker 6 (03:32):
Why so many people don't want criminals sent to prison.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
When the media shows you.
Speaker 6 (03:39):
Well, he's got babies that he's made, they would lose
their daddy.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Oh, we got to be nice.
Speaker 6 (03:47):
We'd like to deport these people because a lot of
them are criminals up. Some of them are gonna cry
and they have friends here. Gotta be nice. Being nice
has been the death of our report. It's better you
be principled. Let me ask you this. If Hitler died
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tomorrow instead of when he did at the end of
World War Two, would you the next day say we
should be nice. No, you shouldn't, because he was a devil.
It is important that we're honest about things. Did you
notice that upon his death the left attacked Rush Limbaugh
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and it upset you because they weren't being nice. And
what did you say? You said, well, we.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Didn't do that when your people died. We're always nice
to your people. And you criticize one of our heroes.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Exactly.
Speaker 6 (04:49):
Well, now I'm going to not be nice about Jimmy
Carter because it's important that people who did not live
through his presidency I did, people who have not studied
his presidency, his post presidency I have. It's important that
you understand that this was a very, very bad person.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
And before you turn off saying.
Speaker 6 (05:09):
Ooh, I don't want to listen to him speak ill
of the dead, did you know that when Donald Trump
was elected Jimmy Carter called him an illegitimate president. Jimmy
Carter was the biggest election denier in America, the most
prominent election denier in America. He claimed he didn't really win. Oh,
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but that was the least of what he did. He
did so many awful things. And so I'd like to
spend some time setting the record straight on Jimmy Carter.
Jimmy Carter was regarded by modern historians accurately as the
worst president in US history, certainly in modern US history,
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until Joe Biden came along. By the way, there's a
reason they were both one term presidents. This is a
glowing report by Leslie Stall of sixty minutes after Jimmy
Carter's passing. And I want you to notice that she
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uses the same compliment for Carter Democrats that they use
for Joe Biden today. They're going to use the same
argument to prop him up, because it's important that that
be repeated in the living room, at the dinner table,
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in the classroom. You know, Carter didn't win a second term,
but he was a good man. No, he wasn't, and
I'll prove it. But first listen to this glowing report
on how great his presidency was.
Speaker 7 (06:50):
Oh my gosh, she was so unique, A peanut farmer
from Plains Georgia. He won the presidency. I think because
he was the unnixed. We'd just gone through Watergate. Jimmy
Carter said, I'll never lie to you over and over
and over. People think that he was unsuccessful, but he
passed more than most presidents, doing two terms.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
In one term, I.
Speaker 8 (07:13):
Had the best batting average in the Congress in recent
history of any president except Linda Johnson.
Speaker 7 (07:21):
He saved every hostage that was held in Iran. He
passed landmark legislation, big things like energy policy and giving
back the Panama Canality. He put solar panels on the
roof of the White House back then. I think he's
most proud of the fact that there was peace for
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the four years that he was president.
Speaker 8 (07:43):
We never fired a bullet, we never dropped the bomb,
we never launched a missile.
Speaker 7 (07:47):
I think he thought he was a great president. President
Carter's lasting legacy comes out of his post presidency. No
one would die. He's one of the great post presidents
we've ever had. He devoted himself to poor people. He
built houses for poor people. He spent his life trying
to get rid of certain diseases in Africa that were
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killing people unnecessarily.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
He won the Nobel Peace Prize, not.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
When he was president, but after he died, knowing that
he had lived a good life.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
No, that he did.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
A bad man who did bad things, and I'll prove
it coming up. So Leslie Stall of sixty minutes, what
have you believed that the four years of the Carter
presidency were fantastic? First he led on the issue of energy.
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There was an energy crisis during his administration. Get to
that in a moment. He gave the Panama Canal back.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
That's terrible for us.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
We built it. He put so panels on the White House.
Can you believe it?
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (09:04):
And then they were removed when he left, and Obama
did it again when he became president. Solar doesn't work.
Would just stop with that already? He brought peace to
the world, he said, are you aware that Iran destabilized
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during his presidency? The stable, secular Iran collapsed and the
most disturbing, dangerous Muslim regime in the world replaced it.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
To this day we are dealing with that threat.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
That's not peace.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
How about inflation?
Speaker 6 (09:51):
Inflation the likes of which we hadn't seen since the
Biden administration. My goodness, do they have so much in common?
How about the creation of the Department of Education. Rag
on that for a moment, because it's an absolute and
utter bust. Jimmy Carter was remembered for one speech he
gave his president. It is commonly called the Crisis of
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Confidence speech, but political scientists and media members remember it
as the Malaise Speech. Interestingly, he never used the word malaise.
Malaise is one of those words you don't hear very often.
And when I hear the word malaise, being a political
junkie as I am, the first thing I think of
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is Jimmy Carter. In that speech. A malaise is defined
as a general feeling of discomfort, illness, or uneasiness whose
exact cause is difficult to identify. So kind of fibromyalgia,
if you will. The Carter administration will plagued by flu
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like symptoms upon the nation.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
You can think of it that way.
Speaker 6 (11:06):
The speech was delivered July fifteenth, nineteen seventy nine. People
were down, they were depressed, they were listless. There was
a malaise, and so Jimmy Carter decided Joe Biden one
point zero that he would give a speech talk about
the fact that it was Americans who were at fault here.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
It was your fault that you weren't happy.
Speaker 9 (11:30):
It is a crisis of confidence. It is a crisis
that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit
of our national will. We can see this crisis in
the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives
and in the loss of a unity of purpose for
our nation. The erosion of our confidence in the future
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is threatening to destroy the social and the political fabric
of America. The confidence that we have always had as
a people is not simply some romantic dream or a
proverb and a dusty book that we read just on
the fourth of July. It is the idea which founded
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our nation and has guided our development as a people.
Confidence in the future has supported everything else, public institutions
and private enterprise, our own families, and the very constitution
of the United States. Confidence has defined our course and
has served as a link.
Speaker 6 (12:38):
Sounds inspiring, doesn't it real inspiring? The economy was so
bad under Jimmy Carter that Dan Ackroyd, a star of
Saturday Night Live at the time, explained inflation while impersonating
then President Jimmy Carter on Saturday Night Live.
Speaker 10 (12:58):
Inflation is our friend. For example, consider this in the air.
Two thousand. Of current trends continued, the average blue collar
annual wage in this country will be five hundred and
sixty eight thousand dollars. Think what this inflated world of
the future will mean? Most Americans will be millionaires. Everyone
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will feel like a big shock. Wouldn't you like to
own a four thousand dollars suit and smoke up seventy
five dollars to god drive a six hundred thousand dollars
cor I know I would. But what about people on
fixed incomes? They have always been the true victims of inflation.
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That's why I will present to Congress the Inflation Maintenance Program,
where by the US Treasury will make up any inflation
cost losses through direct tax rebates to the public in cash. Now,
you may say, won't that cost a lot of money?
Won't that increase the deficit? Sure it will, But so what,
We'll just print more money. We have the papers, we
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have the mints. I can just call up the Bureau
of Engrave it and say, Hi, this is Jimmy.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Roll off some of them twenties.
Speaker 10 (14:16):
Print up a couple of thousand sheets of those censory notes. Sure,
the glot of dollars will cause even more inflection, but
who cares.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Everybody'll be a millionaire.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
So yes, the Carter presidency was a terrible four years
for America January of seventy seven until January of eighty one,
when Ronald Reagan took over and the company the country
went into a boom. Company's boomed, individuals boomed. But wait,
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what about since he was president? He was such a
good man, right? Scott Jennings laid that clear, laid that
low on CNN.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Let me preface my take by offering condolences to the
Carter family and on his death. He was obviously one
of the most unique post presidencies we ever had, because
he lived so long and he did so much that
I hadn't been said. He was a terrible president. That's
why I lost in a landslide after his one term.
And if it's possible, I think he was even a
worse ex president because of his meddling in US foreign policy,
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because of his saddling up to dictators around the world,
because of his vehement views, anti Israel views, and more
than dabbling in anti Semitism. Over the years, he often
vexed Democrats. Obama didn't even have him speak at his
oweight convention. He put Bill Clinton in a terrible foreign
policy box on a North Korea nuclear issue. I think
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he was a guy who had a huge ego and
believed that he was uniquely positioned to do all these things,
even after the American people had roundly and soundly rejected
his leadership.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
So I respect people.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
Who run for president and get elected president, but in
his particular case, I think he time it again proved
why he was never suited.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
For the office. In the first before you jump up
to the Persian.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
Gulf War, he wrote letters, yeah I know about this
to all of our allies and to Arab states, asking
them to abandon their cooperation and coalition with the United
States of America. If it's not treason US, it's borderline treasons.
And so I hear what you're saying about the humanitarianism.
But when you're an ex president and you have served
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in that office, I think you have a duty to
the United States and only to the United States. And
when he did that and other instances. To me, it
showed that he cared more about his own legacy than
he did about the country.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
And I think that is long. This is at to
Michael Berry.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
So Jimmy Carter, you may not agree that his presidency
was great, but he was a good man after he
was president. So we're told, how about when he said
this after Donald Trump was elected?
Speaker 11 (16:56):
There's no doubt that the Russians did interfair in election.
I think the interference, although not yet quantified, I have
fully an investigated, would show that Trump then actually win
the election. In twenty sixteen, he lost the election and
he was put in the office because of Russian's interfare
on his behalf.
Speaker 6 (17:14):
See do you believe President Trump is an illegitimate president?
Speaker 11 (17:19):
Face on what I just said was I can retrct.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Remember when Ronald Reagan defined what recovery means.
Speaker 12 (17:28):
That Carter record is a litany of despair, of broken promises,
of sacred trusts abandoned and forgotten. His answer to all
this misery, he tries to tell us that we're only
in a recession, not a depression, as if definitions words
relieve our suffering. Let it show on the record that
when the American people cried out for economic help. Jimmy
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Carter took refuge behind a dictionary. Well, if it's a
definition he wants, I'll give him one. A recession is
when your neighbor loses his job, A depression is when
you lose yours, and recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses.
Speaker 6 (18:08):
His Speaking of Reagan, there's an appearance that Ramon came
across The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson a while back,
and we've been looking for an opportunity to play it.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Let's do it here.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
All these years later, it's a little longer than we
would normally play. All these years later, it is still
as relevant as ever today.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
This was Ronald Reagan on The Tonight.
Speaker 13 (18:29):
Show when you and I were boys back in the Midwest.
Government's federal, state, and local. We're only taking about fifteen
cents out of every dollar earned. Today, they're taking almost
half of every dollar earned in the United States, and
most people don't realize it because the taxes are hidden
in the so called business taxes. You know, the politician
that stands up and yells, oh, let's save the little man.
Let's tax business and everybody else are ready. They haven't
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figured out that every tax on business is just a
part of the cost of production, and the customer winds
up paying it when he buys the product. It's a
hidden sales tanp There's one hundred and sixteen of them
in the suit of clothes that each one of us
is learn.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Suppose a lot.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Of the economists who suggested, and I don't know they'll
ever come to be in this country, that they're if
they closed all of the loopholes and for corporations and
maybe tax loopholes, and even on their rich certain loopholes,
and made a percentage income and made a flat feed
without all of the deductions, that the government might raise
as much money as they do now.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Oh sure, And really the loopholes. This has been overdone
by the politicians too.
Speaker 13 (19:29):
The bulk of the money that is taken by what
are called loopholes, and the legitimate deductions with which if
the people didn't have them, they couldn't pay their income tax,
interest on their mortgage, interest on the installments on their car,
their property taxes on their home if they have one,
and so forth. These are politicians as loopholes. But we
ought to have tax reform, and we ought to start
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by making it so simple that you don't have to
hire a lawyer to find out.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
How much you owe every year. That's for sure. It
used to be we could bet a little setifiate by
at Johnny.
Speaker 13 (19:58):
We live in the only country in the world it
takes more brains to figure out your income tax than
it does earn the income.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
I'd be right.
Speaker 13 (20:05):
We've gotten in the habit over the last forty years
of thinking the government has the answers. There's very little
that government can do as efficiently and is economically as
the people can do themselves. And if government would shut
the doors and sneak away for about three weeks, we'd
never miss them. Our biggest problem is that we have
built a permanent structure of government, federal, state, and local.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
The permanent employees.
Speaker 13 (20:25):
And that come to the place that they actually determine
policy in this country more than does the Congress of
the United States.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
There are fourteen and.
Speaker 13 (20:32):
A half million public employees in the United States. That's
quite a voting block. And the bureaus and agencies not
in Washington. I heard you talking earlier about some of
the research programs. What would you say if I told
you about one a study in which this was called the.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Demography of Happiness.
Speaker 13 (20:52):
And in this study, the government found out that young
people are happier.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
In older people.
Speaker 13 (21:00):
They found out that people that earn more or happier
than people that earn less. And they found out that
well people are happier.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Than six people. That's good.
Speaker 13 (21:08):
Life was two hundred and forty nine thousand dollars to
find out it's better to be rich, young and healthy
than old poorns. A poll was taken recently that found
out that only forty six percent of the people in
the pool could name their United States congressman.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
But what was worse, eighty six percent of.
Speaker 13 (21:26):
Those who could name him couldn't tell you a single
thing that he represented or stood for.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
They just knew that he represented the faith. But he
was a congressman. But what's he doing while he's up there?
Speaker 13 (21:35):
And the same is true at the at the local
levels of government and all the rest.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
So you say people really.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Have to take an active interest, You have to have
citizensation groups locally and let them know.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
It's certain specialist groups.
Speaker 13 (21:47):
Now, the special interest groups, as everyone thought, big powerful
business interests are something that are going to persuade government
to do things. As a matter of fact, I don't
know anyone with less influence today in government than business.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
They're just a convenient whipping point.
Speaker 13 (21:58):
But it's the groups that have got a particular acts
to You can't have a power plant because it might
interfere with the seagulls. Now, I think I'm an environmentalist,
and I do not agree with those people way over
in the edge who paved the whole country over in
the name of progress. But also I don't like those
on the other extreme that will let you build a
house unless it looks like a bird's nest.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Well someplace in.
Speaker 13 (22:17):
The middle, we got to allow people are ecology too well,
this kind of group, and they want their particular program.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Hundreds of dollars have been added to the.
Speaker 13 (22:25):
Cost of an automobile putting gadgets on it to clear
up the air. We're the only country in the world
that's set out to do it that way. When budget
deficits are what's causing inflation, I don't see that there's
any room to be on either.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Side of that argument.
Speaker 13 (22:37):
I think the answer to curing inflation is a balanced budget.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
No, how do you do that?
Speaker 13 (22:43):
I mean, it's not how do you balance the budget. Well,
balancing the budget is like protecting at more. Let me
take it right now, it's like protecting your virtue. You
have to learn to say no, there's got to be
other way. What's the second option? Well, no, there's some
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ways that this could be brought about. First of all,
the limitation here, here's another one. Why shouldn't we have,
in addition to a simplified income text, why shouldn't we
also have a law that says that anytime a legislator
or a congressman introduces a spending program, he has to
introduce with it a tax program to pay for it,
and let the people find out. There was a woman
that from a financial firm that was back at the
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President's Economic Council, and her words weren't quoted.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Everybody else's words got in the.
Speaker 13 (23:34):
Paper, all the Heller's and the gall Breaths and all
the so called economists. And I have a degree in economics,
so I can say this.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
I think an economist is.
Speaker 13 (23:43):
Someone who has a phive data kapake on one end
of his watchchain and no watch on the other. This
woman said that you go to the polls and you
ask the people do they want some social service, some
program that government can give and the people in the
polls are apt to read and say that sounds good. Yeah,
But she says that isn't exactly accurate.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
She says, put a one hundred dollars.
Speaker 13 (24:01):
Bill in each person's hand and then show them the
program and say, now, isn't that a nice program?
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Do you want it? Give me the one hundred dollars,
And she says, see what the poll.
Speaker 13 (24:10):
Says then, and how many people hang on with one
hundred dollars instead of the program?
Speaker 1 (24:14):
In other word, that it's rather hidden than someone doesn't
know exactly where it go.
Speaker 12 (24:17):
I come.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
They all start all the government programs.
Speaker 13 (24:18):
Start a dollar down and we'll catch you later, and
they multiply all of those things that you were. The
Office of Management and Budget in Washington that's responsible for
the budget putting the budget together, cannot even tell you
how many boards, commissions, agencies, bureaus, and departments there are
in the federal government. But all of them can pass regulations,
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and those regulations have the force of law. And the
difference is when you break the law, you're innocent until
proven guilty. When you break a regulation, the fellow the
charges you with breaking the regulation, you're guilty, and if
you want to take him to court and prove your innocent,
that's up to you. And all of these are things
that yes, we can trim the budget. There's enough fat
(24:59):
in the federal government that if you rendered it, you
could wash the world. Maybe it's time for realignment between
people who might be find themselves in the wrong parties.
Maybe there's some people still voting. I was a Democrat
most of my life. I became a Republican only not
too many years ago. And I had the pleasure of
telling some of those people that are saying the Republican
(25:20):
Party ought to broaden this base the other day that
when I switched parties, I didn't do it because the
two parties were alike.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
I did it because they were different from Michael Berry jokes.
Speaker 6 (25:32):
So breaking news today, Malania Trump New York Post reports
signs whopping forty million dollar documentary deal with Amazon with
cameos from Baron and Donald. A forty million dollar deal.
(25:54):
My friend Buck Sexton notes that means the widespread corporate
boycott of all things Trump has been broken.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
This is just the beginning.
Speaker 6 (26:06):
You see, Fascism is when you have private companies, but
they are run at the direction of the government. The
Chinese Communist Party engaged in some private company ownership rather
(26:27):
than state ownership as a hybrid to jumpstart their economy,
and it worked. But make no mistake, they still have
to do the bidding of the government. This is what
happened during COVID when the government would use their power
over companies, not just government employees, to stay. Hey, you
(26:49):
want that bailout, you want that subsidy, you want this
regulation to continue to be eased off, you better require
the clock shop. Companies wouldn't touch Trump or you because
you were evil, and they would be boycotted, all the
(27:10):
while undertaking DEI programs.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Well, now you've.
Speaker 6 (27:17):
Seen the list of companies that have rolled back their
DEI policies, Companies that never should have had them in
the first place.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Tractor supply, are you kid?
Speaker 6 (27:28):
You ever been in a tractor supply Nobody that believes
in DEI nonsense is shopping at tractor supply for what
tractor supply offers. Well, Meta, which is Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg
(27:48):
has been begging at the feet of Donald Trump to
get back amongst respectable company So we got Amazon. Jeff
Bisos signing a big deal with Milania. Oh, his liberal
buddies aren't gonna like that. And now you've got Mark
(28:08):
Zuckerberg at Facebook saying, I see the writing on the wall.
We're going to do away with our fact checkers. It
was a bad program and it didn't work. Think you
would have done that if Kamala went one, of course not.
They banned my biggest account. I had to start back over.
They banned it at this election. They did it in
(28:29):
twenty twenty. They let me back on after twenty twenty.
Now they took away my biggest account, so I had
to start over from scratch.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Well, Michael, how come you don't leave them behind? I should.
Speaker 6 (28:40):
But Facebook is an opportunity for me to share articles, graphics, photos,
engagement with listeners in a way that I can't do
on the radio. So I got all these radio listeners
and most people email me. They know, go to Michael
Berryshow dot com and email me. But if I want
to post a picture and share it, I do that
on my daily Blast, which is my mail outlist, and
(29:02):
I do it on Facebook. And I did that with
a lot of political commentary, and they were fine with
me doing it. They were monetizing it all the way
up till the first week of October, right before the election,
and they shut me down. Apparently I had violated their policies.
They wouldn't tell me how, but that's what they do.
(29:23):
So here is Mark Zuckerberg begging and saying, maya culpa,
maya culpa. You know, the fact checking that we were doing,
which was censorship. We weren't really getting it right.
Speaker 14 (29:35):
It's time to get back to our roots around free
expression on Facebook and Instagram. I started building social media
to give people a voice. I gave a speech at
Georgetown five years ago about the importance of protecting free
expression and I still believe this today. But a lot
has happened over the last several years. There's been widespread
debate about potential harms from online content. Governments and legacy
(29:58):
media have pushed to censor more and more. A lot
of this is clearly political, but there's also a lot
of legitimately bad stuff out there. Drugs, terrorism, child exploitation.
These are things that we take very seriously and I
want to make sure that we handle responsibly. So we
built a lot of complex systems to moderate content. But
the problem with complex systems is they make mistakes. Even
(30:20):
if they accidentally censored just one percent of posts, that's
millions of people, and we've reached a point where it's
just too many mistakes and too much censorship. The recent
elections also feel like a cultural tipping point towards once
again prioritizing speech. So we're going to get back to
our roots and focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies,
(30:41):
and restoring free expression on our platforms. More specifically, here's
what we're going to do. First, we're going to get
rid of fact checkers and replace them with community notes
similar to X. Starting in the US, after Trump first
got elected in twenty sixteen, the legacy media wrote non
stop about how misinformation was a threat to democracy. We tried,
(31:04):
in good faith to address those concerns without becoming the
arbiters of truth, but the fact checkers have just been
too politically biased and have destroyed more trusts than they've created,
especially in the US. So over the next couple of months,
we're going to phase in a more comprehensive community notes system. Okay,
we're going to simplify our content policies and get rid
(31:25):
of a bunch of restrictions on topics like immigration and
gender that are just out of touch with mainstream discourse.
What started as a movement to be more inclusive has
increasingly been used to shut down opinions and shut out
people with different ideas, and it's gone too far. So
I want to make sure that people can share their
beliefs and experiences on our platforms.
Speaker 6 (31:47):
So what he's saying is Facebook is going to become
more like Twitter because Twitter is blowing up and Facebook
is dying. Facebook is mostly left to grandma's posting pictures
of their grandkids and kids who've moved away from home
posting pictures of their kids for grandma to see. And
that's fine, there's a place for that. In fact, that's
(32:08):
mostly what I still use it for. But it's not
a place to engage, to share ideas. To iron sharpens
iron a crucible of concepts. Because you heard what he said,
our attempts to be inclusive turned out to have the
opposite effect. That's what the left does. Oh don't say
(32:29):
that you've hurt my feelings is a nice way of saying,
only say what I say, and everything else should be
shut down. And by the way, what I say today tomorrow,
I might decide up that wasn't good, So that's not
allowed to be said anymore. You can only say what
(32:50):
I say, which is Biden is great, Kamala is great,
Liberalism is great. Chopping off your kids weener is great,
making your daughter into a boy is great.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
White people can't have any jobs.
Speaker 6 (33:03):
Only blacks, and preferably black lesbian.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Dudes who were born as men.
Speaker 6 (33:11):
Boys should be allowed to play against girls and injure
them and have unfair advantages. Welfare should boom, but not
for white people.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Our border should be wide open.
Speaker 6 (33:22):
That's anything other than that is not sufficiently inclusive. That
is Unamerican. And I am so proud of you because
you won this election. You took back your workplaces. You
as a consumer, as an employer, as an American, fought
back and this is a win.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Congratulations
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