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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
You.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Michael Varry Show is on the air.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
It's Charlie from BlackBerry Smoke.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
I can feel a good one coming on. It's the
Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 5 (00:27):
Any attempt to restrict drinking and driving here is viewed
by some as downright undemocratic.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Two six packs shit or this is gonna be clipped
six on one moan. It's an MSNBC report. This is
two disparate pieces of audio I'm going to share with
you this segment, but they're part of the same theme.
They work thematically perfectly, and that is the idea of
the government taking your money and using it toward evil ends,
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sometimes just putting in their pocket, sometimes funding things that
cause you harm, that silence you, that sicken you. Sometimes
funding things that harm their political enemies and aid their
campaigns and their causes. Sometimes just buying bigger houses and planes.
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So this MSNB receive report is that the USAID staff
were told to shred and burn documents so that Elon
and his doge team couldn't get to them. This is
what the Chinese embassy did in the Chinese consul did
in Houston when it was learned that they were spying
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on the Texas Medical Center during the COVID situation. They
literally shut all the doors and started burning documents. It
was smoke billowing out of the console.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
NBC News is reporting this USAID staff is being told
to shred and burn all they're classified documents.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Quote.
Speaker 6 (01:56):
The US Agency for International Development is instructing its staff
in Washington to shred and burn documents, according to an
email obtained by NBC News. The document destruction was set
to take place Tuesday. According to an email from Erica Carr,
the agency's acting executive secretary, quote, shred as many documents first,
and reserve the burn bags for when the shredder becomes
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unavailable or needs a break. Car wrote, I worked in
government for most a decade. I've never heard of so
much shredding being required that you would know ahead of
time that quote the shredder would become unavailable or need
a break.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
What is that about, right?
Speaker 7 (02:33):
I actually this morning I got a message from somebody
who left USAID earlier this year and passed along this
email to me, and my response is naturally as a
standard operating procedure, and this individuals had known that they
had never heard about burning or shredding of federal records
at USAID. But then again, this individual told me they've
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never heard of the entire agency being gutted in their
headquarters at the Ronald Reagan Building being shut down. When
are documents burned by.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
The State Department or USAID.
Speaker 7 (03:06):
Typically at an embassy when it is about to be overtaken.
Marines have the authorization as a means of ensuring the
classified records and personnel data do not get in the
hands of individuals of who.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Are seen as threats.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
They do go and.
Speaker 7 (03:21):
Burn documents, but that's not what this situation is here.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
And next quickly we turn to how the CIA uses
the quote National Endowment for Democracy. Sounds like such a
nice thing, doesn't it. Let's go back to nineteen ninety five.
This fella's name is Philip ag He's a former CIA
agent turned whistleblower. This was going on a long time ago,
and I believe still goes on. Listen carefully. This is
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very disturbing.
Speaker 8 (03:48):
And so nowadays, instead of having just a CIA going
around behind the scenes and trying to manipulate the process
secretly by inserting money here and instructions there and so forth,
they have now a psychic which is this National Endowment
for Democracy Needy and UH. This organization dates from nineteen
sixty seven. A lot of people don't realize because it
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was just established in the I think eighty three or so,
but the idea emerged from a series of scandalous revelations
in nineteen sixty seven, the worst ones to that point
to hit the CIA. And I was in headquarters at
the time that these UH scandals broke, and the gloom
there was something you could you could touch almost because
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what happened was the long running CIA's control and manipulation
of the international program of the National UH Students Association
in this country, which was the National Organization of University
Students came out. It was revealed, and that led to
revelations of a lot of other CIA operations because they
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were using the same bogus and real foundations to channel
money into all these different or all of these organizations.
And I remember very well that Time magazine at the time,
or newsleagu it was time they published a wheel with
all these folks going out and the CIA was the center.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
And then halfway out where.
Speaker 8 (05:08):
All these these corporates are, these foundations and American organizations.
And then now at the end were the foreign groups
that got the money and the instructions. Actually, they don't
give away money without being sure if they's spent the
way they want to spend. And so this was a
catastrophe for the CIA and the next month of the
month after that, this started in February sixty seven, and
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then by April, I think it was Dante Fachelle, the
congressman from Florida, was proposing the establishment of an open
system to finance these overseas organizations. And we're talking about
some government organizations abroad, some political parties, some media organizations,
youth organizations and student organizations, all these kinds of so
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called pluralist organizations, when in fact they weren't really free
organizations because to the degree that they took money and
instructions from the CIA to that to be enough for
at all. Right, But anyway, fachel came up with this idea,
but nothing, It didn't go anywhere because the so called
consensus between the two parties had broken down over Vietnam,
and so it wasn't until the early eighties when Reagan
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made his speech in the House of Comments about the
Democracy Project worldwide that this began to take on steam again,
and finally they decided to copy the German example.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Each of the major.
Speaker 8 (06:26):
German political parties has a foundation which is financed by
the German government. Before it was West Germany, now the
whole country, and for example, the Friedrich Ebertstiffton is the
SPD or the Social Democratic Parties foundation, and they financed
projects all over the place and for years in the
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fifties and sixties, and I would guess even into the seventies.
In fact, I know into the seventies, even to the
early eighties, the CIA was channeling money through these German foundations.
I bought, for example, some money money. I think it
was a million dollars in more, but I'm a little
hazy on the amount. But anyway, it went through the CIA,
money which went through the Conrad Adnauerstiftol that's the Christian
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Democrat Union. It went from there to Eveppo, which is
a foundation of the Coupe the Christian Democrats in Venezuela,
and from there it went to the Christian Democrats in
Elsalvador to Duarte for use in the elections. I've forgotten
which year, maybe eighty four or something. Like that, and
it was traced some journalists did this, and so that
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is the way they would use these German foundations in
the past. So now we've got our own, we don't
have to use the Germans unless we really want to anymore.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Because in nineteen eighty.
Speaker 8 (07:40):
Four we established this National Endowment for Democracy, which is
nothing but a mega conduit, and the millions or the
tens of millions that are set aside for the meddling
in the internal affairs of other countries goes to this conduit.
It's like a bank account or something, but they have
a board of directors and they do reports and stuff
like that. But then it goes from there to one
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of four private foundations, one of the Democratic Party won
the Republican Party or two three the AFLCIO, and four
the US Chamber of Commerce. These groups then pass it
out to recipients in foreign countries. And in the nicer
Argan elections of nineteen ninety I believe the figure was
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something like twelve point five million that went from the
National Movement.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
You're listening to the Michael Berry Show. This is something
I've been talking about for a while, and I don't
know that we actually played it so I'll do it now.
I call her Gargamel from the Smurf. She's the manly
looking creature. I don't know what it really is underneath
all that, and I'm not going to check. But I
found out her name is Rosa Delaro, not that it matters.
She's a Democrat from Connecticut and she's nuts well. She
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was one of the group that made one of these videos.
Hers is probably the most disturbing, not the pick your
Fighter Democrat video where they all do they're punching like
their video game. Hers because she's an old man or woman.
I'm honestly not sure which trying to sound like a
gen Zer and which one is gen z. That's how
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it was described to me. I don't actually know what
gen z or gen X or I know the baby boomers,
and then I think, I'm not sure I'm born in
seventy I forget. If I have the chart in front
of me, I can tell you. I just know what
the baby boomers were. That's and then the millennials, and
that's kind of everything else is a little lost on me.
Not sure it's important to the story, but this is
the cringe that we hope they will continue yo.
Speaker 9 (09:34):
This is the ranking wrizzler on appropriations serving Connecticut's third district.
It's time to enter your dark academia Congress era.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
All right, bestie house. Appropriation is the.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Money moves in Congress.
Speaker 9 (09:47):
We are not chasing the bag.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
We are the bag.
Speaker 9 (09:51):
Democrats are making lives further for government funding.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
It's giving, it's giving it.
Speaker 9 (09:56):
So Sigma main character Energy Republican's project twenty twenty five
is mad sucks. Eliminating the Department of Education negative are
appoints basically the biggest fandom tax on the environment, on
your education and your rights. Big l posting it online, buddy.
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Democrats understood the assignment, but go off, see how I
keep you informed? Very cute, very debut.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
So somebody twenty three years old in her office looked
up all the terms that people young people use and
had them say that. And what's interesting about that is
it's the ultimate insult to the intelligence of people. I
hate to be lied to, not because of the passionate
love of the truth, which I think you have to
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have for systems to work, but I hate to be
lied to because it's an insult to my intelligence. It's
an insult on a very deep level when you ask
someone you know, did you perform this task and they
say yes, knowing they didn't. It's not that the task
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isn't performed, because it's very rarely that important. It's the
idea that you had so little respect for me that
you would rather lie, which is a very bad thing.
We have to remind we take for granted that the
next generation knows what we know. People will tell me
all the time, Man, I can't raise my kids like
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I was raised. Why not? Oh they won't listen? Did
you listen? See you forget? It wasn't easy for your parents.
It wasn't easy for their parents of them, but they
did the hard work. They did the difficult things. And
if you're unwilling to do that, then you're the problem.
Do you understand that you're the problem? Here is a
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flashback to Nancy Pelosi's this is gonna be four h
three Vermont, and this goes back to Ash Doug and
I forgot to put the year down. I think it
was eight nine ten. Maybe she's being asked if it's
if she if it's all right or the speaker to
receive a very lucrative stock deal, which we know her
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trades you know there's an app. Now I don't have it,
but I've been told about it. I need to get it.
There's an app that you can track her her stock trades,
and you can track Dan Crenshaw's stock trades. And I
don't just mean track, as in you can follow them
and see what they're trading. You can actually execute a
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trade the moment it picks up that that person has
executed a trade, which is it's both funny and it's telling,
and it's rather disturbing, isn't it. What if they are
out trading the general public, which by all accounts they are,
how did they get to be so good? It's almost
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as if they have inside knowledge that might affect the
price stop. I wanted to.
Speaker 10 (13:01):
Ask you why you and your husband back in March
of two thousand and eight accepted and participated in a
very large IPO deal from Visa at a time there
was major legislation affecting the kind of card companies making
its way through the through the House. And did you
consider that to be a conflict of interest?
Speaker 11 (13:20):
I don't know what your point is of your question.
Is there some point that you want to make with that?
Speaker 10 (13:24):
Well, I guess what I'm asking is do you think
it's all right for a speaker to accept a very preferential,
favorable stock deal.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Well, we did.
Speaker 10 (13:32):
You participated in the I p O time you were
Speaker of the House. You don't think it was a
conflict of interests or had the appearance.
Speaker 11 (13:38):
Now it has appearance if you decide that you're going
to have elaborate on a false premise, but it's not true.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
And that's that I don't understand what part's not true. Yes,
that that I.
Speaker 11 (13:49):
Would act upon an investment.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
But it's pretty clear, isn't it. It's pretty clear. Does
anybody doubt this? Does it? Anybody doubt this? And then
we go to we go actually, you know what, let's
go to five oh four Congressman timber Shit. He was
on CNN. He's Republican from Tennessee with Brionna Kyler Keeler.
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I don't know her name, and I don't care what
her name is. And he's talking about the cuts to
government and that these people should be in prison. It
should be in prison for a lot of reasons. Look
at the math.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
If Elon Musk says that he thinks he could find
a trillion dollars with a waste abuse and fraud. Why
don't we let him try this, see if he can
find it.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
What does that hurt?
Speaker 1 (14:33):
You know, everybody's trying to be critical, they're attacking the
message career, and you know the problem is is that
this money, you're going to see it and going to
politicians and I mean going out to these NGOs and
all these these organizations that are they claim they're doing
a good job, and it's coming right back to Washington
and possibly both parties. And I think that's what a
lot of these people are afraid of. They're going to
get caught with their hand in the cookie jar. And
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some of these people need to be in handcuffed because
medicative medicare should be a sacred, sacred group of people
and we should not be stealing from any any group
that is trying to help that that community. And that
is what has happened. We just had a meeting just
now in oversight. There're seven days. Somebody said, well, there's
just so infantized, so small, and then it turned out
I asked, wasn't a percentage and they said seven to
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eight percent, one hundred and fifty over one hundred and
fifty billion dollars that is as being misdirected or stolen
or whatever through fraudulind or.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
I'm trying to why don't you embrace that?
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Why don't you all at CNN one, Why don't you
all CNA one trying to do.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
A little cut that's with you.
Speaker 12 (15:31):
I'm just I'm trying to do some math with you
talking about mountains.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
You all do not support one cut.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Want you at CNN, you all do not support one
daddumb cut.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
In any of this stuff.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
You're you're trying to use the word the lowest denominator.
You're trying to scare the most people to drive the
train against Trump, and it's not working.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
The American people are not buying it. And you all
have made a.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Huge error in this because we're looking unbelievable way.
Speaker 12 (15:56):
I'm looking at the numbers man you're doing it looking mind,
I'm looking at the numbers that Doose just put out themselves.
They say they're cutting contracts that have already ended.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
They say they're cutting.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
A big amount.
Speaker 12 (16:06):
It turns out it's actually a smaller amount.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
That's just math.
Speaker 12 (16:10):
Congressmen, and we're going to continue.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Are you're saying there's not are you saying there's not, well,
look at the math. Are you saying there's not billions
of dollars of waste Houston product in federal government?
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Are you trying to.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Say that because everybody out.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
There, you don't need to tell you that there's a CBO.
Speaker 12 (16:26):
That's what we're trying to discuss is the actual number.
We're trying to have at least, I'm trying to have
an honest conversation with you about the numbers and CBO
estimates and the numbers that experts on this topic expect
there to be. Congressman Tim Burchett, thanks for joining.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Us named experts. Thank you so much. You've got the
Michael Berry's Show. Senator Rick Scott on CNN with Jake Tapper,
he rattled off a statistic and I'm going to replay
for you and then we will discuss it. I want
you to pay attention to this because I'm always mindful
when I see something or hear something. I'm always mindful
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that when we play that on the show, almost everybody
is driving, and so holding numbers in your head is
not easy. It's not like looking at a graphic, which
also might have an accompanying chart, would show you you
know whether something is large or small that really makes
a visual impression. I am an auditory learner primarily these days,
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not when I was a child, because there wasn't much
auditory back then. I was a reader. But as my
vision has declined with age, as most of you, most
of ours does, I have found that more so than
reading or even watching, I have found that I learn
best and I enjoy learning most in an auditory setting.
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I will often go back and listen to our show
on the podcast to see just as a listener, and
I will notice sometimes that I thought I leaned something
really well, and I listen on the podcast and I say,
you did you never wrap that up? You got distracted,
or you didn't make the point clearly enough, or I
don't think I would have understood that if I was
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a listener. So I am mindful when we use numbers
in audio bits, and that's why I try to wrap
a bow around it so you pay extra attention to it.
So again, Senator Rick Scott on CNN with Jake Tapper, I.
Speaker 13 (18:25):
Talked to Alon Mouse quite a bit about what he's doing,
and he's doing what I did when I became Governor
of Florida.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
You're looking at every program. So here's what he said.
Speaker 13 (18:33):
He is looking at every program he can. He's given
information to agency heads and they're making a decision how
to go forward. But let me tell you, Americans are
fed up. Six hundred thousand and four mentrol study cycle
or study mistro cycles at Transander men three hundred million
dollars for a cement manufacturering Gaza.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
I mean you.
Speaker 13 (18:53):
Eight hundred thousand dollars for gardening in El Savador. I
mean tell you, I just went through the campaign trail.
People are fed up with wasteful government spending.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
And we've had.
Speaker 13 (19:03):
A two percent increase in population in five years and
fifty three percent increase in spending. We will not get
interest rates down, we will not get inflation under control
until we balance a budget. That's what we have to do,
and Elon Musk is part of the process of balancing
the budget.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Three hundred thousand dollars for menstrual cycles to what the
bloody hell is going on here? This was sure Michael
Singleton on CNN.
Speaker 14 (19:28):
They don't like it, right, because fine, it's fine until
it comes for that.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Sure, now it's coming. Who's cutting Medicaid? Medicas security.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Not taking that away from anybody there is, We're not,
but we're we're.
Speaker 14 (19:39):
Not taking that away from it using.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
This talking point. It's as a scare tactic.
Speaker 14 (19:44):
Elon Musk, the President, the House Majority leader.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
The Senate leader. We have not cut anyone.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
How are you cutting?
Speaker 14 (19:51):
How are you cutting eight hundred and eighty billion dollars
from the Energy and Commerce Appropriation Committee until from the
Everagery Commerce Committee unless you cut medicaid?
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Do you think those things are solvent? Excuse me?
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Do you think answer my question?
Speaker 14 (20:03):
We're after Do I think you're not needing the level
of Sorry, let me ask you a question. You're saying
we're not cutting medicaid.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
We're not. We're not.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Congress, what is this budget.
Speaker 14 (20:14):
Blueprint that every single Republican everybody has an idea? Julia
doesn't mean that I actual not an idea. It is
a blueprint that they said, go back to Julia. You're
doing right now, just your Michael. We're making Michael the cuts.
Why why have there why the Congress? Why the Congress
bother wasting everybody's time voting for a blueprint that said
cut eight hundred and eighty million dollars billion dollars. Excuse
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me from Energy and Congress. The only way to achieve
that is to cut medicaid. How are they going to
do that?
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Colors exist? Where have we made the cuts? It's a
simple question. Where have we made the cuts where? And when? Well,
we haven't, and everyone knows that. Next to week clip
five oh two, Ramona, I'll give you a moment to
find it. Five two. It's Congressman Brandon gil from Texas
and he says, the GAO has identified five hundred billion
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dollars in fraudulent payments. Folks, there is so much of
this that it's going to drive you crazy because it's
going to come out, and sadly, it's going to come
out to such an extent so frequently that it's all
going to blend together. If one of these things came out,
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it would infuriate you. But because so much of this
is going to come out, you're not even going to
be able to process it. You won't be able to
muster sufficient outrage. In this sense, you will be tired
of winning because you can't keep getting mad over everything,
not sufficiently. And yet the IRS is going to pester
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you and ask you for a receipt on a twenty
eight dollars venmo or a twenty eight dollars purchase, or
they're going to question this or that, and then look
what our government is at actually doing with your money.
You've got the Pentagon losing planes and tanks, leaving dozens
of billions of dollars of our arsenal in Afghanistan. You've
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got billions of dollars wasted in fraudulent payment. Here's Brandon
gil Well.
Speaker 15 (22:18):
I can tell you what the nonpartisan GAO has identified,
and we had a hearing on this earlier today. They've
identified what they believed to be about five hundred billion
dollars just in fraudulent payments across the federal government that
Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. This is not payments that
are legitimately going to people who deserve it and actually
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should be getting this money.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
This is fraud.
Speaker 15 (22:41):
They've identified on top of that, one hundred and sixty
one billion dollars just last year and what they believed
to be improper payments. So there's an enormous amount of waste, fraud,
and abuse in our federal government.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
That's why the.
Speaker 15 (22:53):
Dose should work that they're doing is so important. You know,
for for decades, Congress has been trying to figure out
out what's going on at the executive branch where they're
spending and going out all of this money. And finally
we're getting some answers. And I think that the American
people are shocked by it. And you know, I think
in the coming months you're going to see some action
from Congress to get rid of this.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Says, well, everyone knows this, not just Elon, he's just
given you receipts. This was Bernie Sanders, Communist, Bernie Sanders,
all the way back in two thousand and eight. Listen
to this. There is no question.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
That there is an enormous amount of waste and fraud
and abuse in this government. There is no question to
my mind that Congress has not been vigilant enough in
rooting out that waste and fraud to the tune of
billions and billions of dollars. I would simply say that
while it is absolutely appropriate to condemn the Congress, it
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is also important to note that we have an administration
in this city, in Washington Dtree, DC, and the function
of an administration is to administer, and that means that
when there is waste and fraud. You have an administration
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who should also be on top of that situation.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Not only Bernie Sanders. It's another annoying accent, Nancy Pelosi.
This was her two years later, twenty ten.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
We cannot keep our promises on Medicare. We simply must
make the cuts and waste fraud and abuse in medicare
so that the benefits and the premiums are untouched. We
owe it to our seniors, we owe it to our country.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
And since we're on the subject, to take us to
the break, Chuck Schumer is going to be clipped four
O three saying back in twenty thoy ten, we need
to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse in medicare.
Speaker 16 (24:57):
Huh. If we're going to eliminate the way brought an
abuse in medicare, it does mean we're going to cut.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Some of that out.
Speaker 16 (25:05):
And when I hear my friend Dave Camp say you
cannot cut money out of Medicare, well, we don't want
to cut the good stuff that you point out. One
third of Medicare doesn't go to patient care.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
You can't just get up.
Speaker 16 (25:17):
There and say we don't want to cut anything out
of Medicare. We want to cut the bad stuff and
keep the good stuff.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
I will die for the country. I will die for
discrabt Michael Berry Show. He's the big honor to be
living in the United States. I cannot remember if we
played this before, and so I'm going to play it anyway.
It's a woman who posts on TikTok. I'm not on TikTok.
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People will often send me things on TikTok. I chose
not to be on TikTok, and it's not some big
statement just because the company's Chinese. It's just because I
didn't want to add another thing to my life. So
I'm only saying that because I'll have to hear from people.
Am I Relax? Relax, Relax. You can only be upset
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about so many things. But our team is often sent
things from listeners and will share it. And the source
of where this was posted is not important. The platform
is not important. The individual is talking about criticizing the
Democrat Party because this person just left being a Democrat.
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And I will tell you it is known in evangelical
Christianity as the zeal of the recently converted. No one
is more on fire for Jesus than the recently converted
and it's exciting actually to watch after a revival in
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a small town, to see people absolutely on fire, I mean,
getting after it and this conviction. This manifests itself in
evangelical activity in such a way that it's amazing to watch.
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But the zeal of the recently converted is true about
a number of things. If you see somebody who's just
stop smoking and you notice, you know that these are
the people that are dangerous because now they want to
kick down everybody's door and take their cigarettes away from them,
Or a person who has just become healthier, a person
who's just begun lifting, or any number of other things
(27:39):
like this. The zeal of the recently converted, and what
you're going to hear here is the zeal of the
recently converted of someone who has had enough of the
Democrat Party and now wants everybody to realize how nutty
that place is.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
Reason I am so critical of the Democratic Party right
now is because I literally just left it. Just like
a lot of other people, I was a bleeding heart
liberal like all of you. I mean, blue hair in everything.
Speaker 13 (28:06):
I mean.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
Believe me, I have plenty of pictures proving that I
was all in. If you would have asked me a
year ago, I would have said, there is no way
in hell I will ever vote for Donald Trump. But
let me tell you what changed my mind. The big
moment for me was when the left started trying to
push this like Nazi Hitler fascism narrative that they're trying
to push right now. Like what y'all actually did is
made a lot of us really go research Trump even harder,
(28:28):
and we started to realize that a lot of things
that you guys had shown us about Trump and things
that he had said were taken way out of context.
A lot of us started noticing a pattern where you
guys were showing us like little ten second clips of
a ten minute conversation that did not reflect the entirety
of that conversation at all. So that was number one.
And then around Thanksgiving, all of a sudden, you guys
(28:48):
are telling us that it would be better for us
to sit at home and spend the holidays with no
one then it would be to go home to your
family who voted for Trump. When I heard that, I
was like, Okay, now y'all are wilt because you cannot
tell me that it is better for your mental health
to sit at home alone than it is to go
and spend time with your friends and family. Y'all had
actual therapists getting on TV and telling you guys this.
(29:10):
And the sad thing is is that it would have
been better for them to encourage you to do something
like find other people that believe the same as you
to spend the holidays with. But they didn't. They told
you to stay in your home and spend the holidays
with no one. When that happened, I was like, Okay,
I got to give this party a second look because
something is not right here. But honestly, if you want
to know the truth, what really did it for me
(29:32):
is realizing how freaking depressed I was when I was
functioning as a liberal. Liberalism will literally make you hate yourself.
It will make you hate your family, it will make
you hate your friends, it will make you hate everything
about the world. And I'm not saying that you should
just be ignorant to everything that is going on in
the world, but the way that the left chooses to
internalize everything that is going on in the world is
(29:54):
detrimental to their mental health. And this is why people
try to tell you that empathy is dangerous, but even
that you want to take out of context. Empathy itself
is a great quality to have. Empathy without discernment is detrimental.
You have got to be able to discern when you
are carrying too much and you need to take a
step back, and none of you are doing that. Believe me,
(30:15):
it is possible to care about everything that is going
on in the world and not let it consume every
single thought that you have and every single conversation that
you have a lot of us are leaving the party
in droves because you guys have made it impossible to
have any sort of individual thought whatsoever. Like for instance,
if I say that I like RFK Junior because I
want bad chemicals out of my food and because I
(30:36):
want to know what's in my vaccines, you will assume
that I am someone who is anti VAXX and anti science,
when in fact, all three of my kids and myself
have been vaccinated. I just want to tell you guys something.
Every Republican most likely voted for Trump. Every person that
voted for Trump is not a Republican. The fact that
you guys are so against Trump's administration right now when
(30:57):
most of his administration is former Democrats who have now
left the party.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Y'all look wild.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
I mean, the Democratic Party has brainwashed people so hard
that they are actually advocating against world peace right now.
People on the left would rather us keep giving money
to Ukraine to fund a war than to even fathom
getting Ukraine and Russia at the table to try to
agree to peace. A party that I joined because they
were so anti war and I was so against war
(31:24):
now loves war. All of a sudden. They have convinced
you to love war so much that you are actually
fighting for transgender people to be in the military, when
lots of groups of people are excluded for the military
for very valid reasons. For instance, people like me who
suffer from anxiety and depression. And even though I'm not
currently medicated, I used to take medication for this and
that would disqualify me from serving in the military. And frankly,
(31:48):
I don't have a problem with that. I know dan
well that somebody like me has no damn business being
on the front lines. Me having the conditions that I
have make me a liability to the safety of this country. Like,
don't get me wrong, I am all four trans rights, Okay,
I believe that you have the right to be whoever
you want to be in whatever way makes you comfortable.
But you really want the right to fight in the military,
(32:09):
Like that's the right, that's the hill that you want
to die on. Like, bro, people don't get accepted to
the military because they have phone spurs on their feet,
and you were complaining about the fact that a transgender
person can't make it into the military. Like at this point,
the left has convinced you to be so anti Trump
that they will get you to argue for things that
you used to be against. All of this summed up
is exactly why you are losing people every single day.
(32:31):
As bad as you think that you are making Trump look,
all you are doing is making yourself look ten times worse.
And this last election very clearly showed that because Trump
increased his numbers across every single demographic, across women, across
young voters, across Black Americans, across Hispanic Americans, like everyone
came out to vote for Trump. And it is because
(32:53):
we just cannot stand y'all anymore. If you guys want
to continue living in that kind of miserable existence, like
that is on you. We are not participating in that anymore.
And by saying that. I'm not saying that we're not
going to be participating and changing the state of the world,
but we don't have to be miserable while we're doing it.
So at this point, just forget everything that you have
ever heard about Republicans, because I promise you, if you
(33:13):
get a group of Trump voters in the room, you
will not be able to put them all in one box.
I promise you that the Democratic Party is no longer
the party of tolerance and inclusion and diversity. It's the
New Right. I heard someone else call us that, and honestly,
I think we should start calling ourselves that because we're
not Republicans. I don't consider myself a Republican. I don't
consider myself a Democrat anymore, but I damn well, I'm
(33:35):
not going to consider myself a Republican. But I think
we should coin ourselves as the new Right because that
is so fitting. But that's you, then, I am so
glad you're here and welcome to the New Right. We
would love to have you.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Good Night,
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
You.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Michael Varry Show is on the air.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
It's Charlie from BlackBerry Smoke.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
I can feel a good one coming on. It's the
Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 5 (00:27):
Any attempt to restrict drinking and driving here is viewed
by some as downright undemocratic.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Two six packs shit or this is gonna be clipped
six on one moan. It's an MSNBC report. This is
two disparate pieces of audio I'm going to share with
you this segment, but they're part of the same theme.
They work thematically perfectly, and that is the idea of
the government taking your money and using it toward evil ends,
(00:56):
sometimes just putting in their pocket, sometimes funding things that
cause you harm, that silence you, that sicken you. Sometimes
funding things that harm their political enemies and aid their
campaigns and their causes. Sometimes just buying bigger houses and planes.
(01:18):
So this MSNB receive report is that the USAID staff
were told to shred and burn documents so that Elon
and his doge team couldn't get to them. This is
what the Chinese embassy did in the Chinese consul did
in Houston when it was learned that they were spying
(01:39):
on the Texas Medical Center during the COVID situation. They
literally shut all the doors and started burning documents. It
was smoke billowing out of the console.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
NBC News is reporting this USAID staff is being told
to shred and burn all they're classified documents.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Quote.
Speaker 6 (01:56):
The US Agency for International Development is instructing its staff
in Washington to shred and burn documents, according to an
email obtained by NBC News. The document destruction was set
to take place Tuesday. According to an email from Erica Carr,
the agency's acting executive secretary, quote, shred as many documents first,
and reserve the burn bags for when the shredder becomes
(02:17):
unavailable or needs a break. Car wrote, I worked in
government for most a decade. I've never heard of so
much shredding being required that you would know ahead of
time that quote the shredder would become unavailable or need
a break.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
What is that about, right?
Speaker 7 (02:33):
I actually this morning I got a message from somebody
who left USAID earlier this year and passed along this
email to me, and my response is naturally as a
standard operating procedure, and this individuals had known that they
had never heard about burning or shredding of federal records
at USAID. But then again, this individual told me they've
(02:55):
never heard of the entire agency being gutted in their
headquarters at the Ronald Reagan Building being shut down. When
are documents burned by.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
The State Department or USAID.
Speaker 7 (03:06):
Typically at an embassy when it is about to be overtaken.
Marines have the authorization as a means of ensuring the
classified records and personnel data do not get in the
hands of individuals of who.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Are seen as threats.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
They do go and.
Speaker 7 (03:21):
Burn documents, but that's not what this situation is here.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
And next quickly we turn to how the CIA uses
the quote National Endowment for Democracy. Sounds like such a
nice thing, doesn't it. Let's go back to nineteen ninety five.
This fella's name is Philip ag He's a former CIA
agent turned whistleblower. This was going on a long time ago,
and I believe still goes on. Listen carefully. This is
(03:47):
very disturbing.
Speaker 8 (03:48):
And so nowadays, instead of having just a CIA going
around behind the scenes and trying to manipulate the process
secretly by inserting money here and instructions there and so forth,
they have now a psychic which is this National Endowment
for Democracy Needy and UH. This organization dates from nineteen
sixty seven. A lot of people don't realize because it
(04:08):
was just established in the I think eighty three or so,
but the idea emerged from a series of scandalous revelations
in nineteen sixty seven, the worst ones to that point
to hit the CIA. And I was in headquarters at
the time that these UH scandals broke, and the gloom
there was something you could you could touch almost because
(04:29):
what happened was the long running CIA's control and manipulation
of the international program of the National UH Students Association
in this country, which was the National Organization of University
Students came out. It was revealed, and that led to
revelations of a lot of other CIA operations because they
(04:50):
were using the same bogus and real foundations to channel
money into all these different or all of these organizations.
And I remember very well that Time magazine at the time,
or newsleagu it was time they published a wheel with
all these folks going out and the CIA was the center.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
And then halfway out where.
Speaker 8 (05:08):
All these these corporates are, these foundations and American organizations.
And then now at the end were the foreign groups
that got the money and the instructions. Actually, they don't
give away money without being sure if they's spent the
way they want to spend. And so this was a
catastrophe for the CIA and the next month of the
month after that, this started in February sixty seven, and
(05:28):
then by April, I think it was Dante Fachelle, the
congressman from Florida, was proposing the establishment of an open
system to finance these overseas organizations. And we're talking about
some government organizations abroad, some political parties, some media organizations,
youth organizations and student organizations, all these kinds of so
(05:51):
called pluralist organizations, when in fact they weren't really free
organizations because to the degree that they took money and
instructions from the CIA to that to be enough for
at all. Right, But anyway, fachel came up with this idea,
but nothing, It didn't go anywhere because the so called
consensus between the two parties had broken down over Vietnam,
and so it wasn't until the early eighties when Reagan
(06:14):
made his speech in the House of Comments about the
Democracy Project worldwide that this began to take on steam again,
and finally they decided to copy the German example.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Each of the major.
Speaker 8 (06:26):
German political parties has a foundation which is financed by
the German government. Before it was West Germany, now the
whole country, and for example, the Friedrich Ebertstiffton is the
SPD or the Social Democratic Parties foundation, and they financed
projects all over the place and for years in the
(06:47):
fifties and sixties, and I would guess even into the seventies.
In fact, I know into the seventies, even to the
early eighties, the CIA was channeling money through these German foundations.
I bought, for example, some money money. I think it
was a million dollars in more, but I'm a little
hazy on the amount. But anyway, it went through the CIA,
money which went through the Conrad Adnauerstiftol that's the Christian
(07:09):
Democrat Union. It went from there to Eveppo, which is
a foundation of the Coupe the Christian Democrats in Venezuela,
and from there it went to the Christian Democrats in
Elsalvador to Duarte for use in the elections. I've forgotten
which year, maybe eighty four or something. Like that, and
it was traced some journalists did this, and so that
(07:31):
is the way they would use these German foundations in
the past. So now we've got our own, we don't
have to use the Germans unless we really want to anymore.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Because in nineteen eighty.
Speaker 8 (07:40):
Four we established this National Endowment for Democracy, which is
nothing but a mega conduit, and the millions or the
tens of millions that are set aside for the meddling
in the internal affairs of other countries goes to this conduit.
It's like a bank account or something, but they have
a board of directors and they do reports and stuff
like that. But then it goes from there to one
(08:00):
of four private foundations, one of the Democratic Party won
the Republican Party or two three the AFLCIO, and four
the US Chamber of Commerce. These groups then pass it
out to recipients in foreign countries. And in the nicer
Argan elections of nineteen ninety I believe the figure was
(08:22):
something like twelve point five million that went from the
National Movement.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
You're listening to the Michael Berry Show. This is something
I've been talking about for a while, and I don't
know that we actually played it so I'll do it now.
I call her Gargamel from the Smurf. She's the manly
looking creature. I don't know what it really is underneath
all that, and I'm not going to check. But I
found out her name is Rosa Delaro, not that it matters.
She's a Democrat from Connecticut and she's nuts well. She
(08:50):
was one of the group that made one of these videos.
Hers is probably the most disturbing, not the pick your
Fighter Democrat video where they all do they're punching like
their video game. Hers because she's an old man or woman.
I'm honestly not sure which trying to sound like a
gen Zer and which one is gen z. That's how
(09:11):
it was described to me. I don't actually know what
gen z or gen X or I know the baby boomers,
and then I think, I'm not sure I'm born in
seventy I forget. If I have the chart in front
of me, I can tell you. I just know what
the baby boomers were. That's and then the millennials, and
that's kind of everything else is a little lost on me.
Not sure it's important to the story, but this is
the cringe that we hope they will continue yo.
Speaker 9 (09:34):
This is the ranking wrizzler on appropriations serving Connecticut's third district.
It's time to enter your dark academia Congress era.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
All right, bestie house. Appropriation is the.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Money moves in Congress.
Speaker 9 (09:47):
We are not chasing the bag.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
We are the bag.
Speaker 9 (09:51):
Democrats are making lives further for government funding.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
It's giving, it's giving it.
Speaker 9 (09:56):
So Sigma main character Energy Republican's project twenty twenty five
is mad sucks. Eliminating the Department of Education negative are
appoints basically the biggest fandom tax on the environment, on
your education and your rights. Big l posting it online, buddy.
(10:17):
Democrats understood the assignment, but go off, see how I
keep you informed? Very cute, very debut.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
So somebody twenty three years old in her office looked
up all the terms that people young people use and
had them say that. And what's interesting about that is
it's the ultimate insult to the intelligence of people. I
hate to be lied to, not because of the passionate
love of the truth, which I think you have to
(10:48):
have for systems to work, but I hate to be
lied to because it's an insult to my intelligence. It's
an insult on a very deep level when you ask
someone you know, did you perform this task and they
say yes, knowing they didn't. It's not that the task
(11:10):
isn't performed, because it's very rarely that important. It's the
idea that you had so little respect for me that
you would rather lie, which is a very bad thing.
We have to remind we take for granted that the
next generation knows what we know. People will tell me
all the time, Man, I can't raise my kids like
(11:31):
I was raised. Why not? Oh they won't listen? Did
you listen? See you forget? It wasn't easy for your parents.
It wasn't easy for their parents of them, but they
did the hard work. They did the difficult things. And
if you're unwilling to do that, then you're the problem.
Do you understand that you're the problem? Here is a
(11:52):
flashback to Nancy Pelosi's this is gonna be four h
three Vermont, and this goes back to Ash Doug and
I forgot to put the year down. I think it
was eight nine ten. Maybe she's being asked if it's
if she if it's all right or the speaker to
receive a very lucrative stock deal, which we know her
(12:14):
trades you know there's an app. Now I don't have it,
but I've been told about it. I need to get it.
There's an app that you can track her her stock trades,
and you can track Dan Crenshaw's stock trades. And I
don't just mean track, as in you can follow them
and see what they're trading. You can actually execute a
(12:35):
trade the moment it picks up that that person has
executed a trade, which is it's both funny and it's telling,
and it's rather disturbing, isn't it. What if they are
out trading the general public, which by all accounts they are,
how did they get to be so good? It's almost
(12:56):
as if they have inside knowledge that might affect the
price stop. I wanted to.
Speaker 10 (13:01):
Ask you why you and your husband back in March
of two thousand and eight accepted and participated in a
very large IPO deal from Visa at a time there
was major legislation affecting the kind of card companies making
its way through the through the House. And did you
consider that to be a conflict of interest?
Speaker 11 (13:20):
I don't know what your point is of your question.
Is there some point that you want to make with that?
Speaker 10 (13:24):
Well, I guess what I'm asking is do you think
it's all right for a speaker to accept a very preferential,
favorable stock deal.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Well, we did.
Speaker 10 (13:32):
You participated in the I p O time you were
Speaker of the House. You don't think it was a
conflict of interests or had the appearance.
Speaker 11 (13:38):
Now it has appearance if you decide that you're going
to have elaborate on a false premise, but it's not true.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
And that's that I don't understand what part's not true. Yes,
that that I.
Speaker 11 (13:49):
Would act upon an investment.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
But it's pretty clear, isn't it. It's pretty clear. Does
anybody doubt this? Does it? Anybody doubt this? And then
we go to we go actually, you know what, let's
go to five oh four Congressman timber Shit. He was
on CNN. He's Republican from Tennessee with Brionna Kyler Keeler.
(14:14):
I don't know her name, and I don't care what
her name is. And he's talking about the cuts to
government and that these people should be in prison. It
should be in prison for a lot of reasons. Look
at the math.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
If Elon Musk says that he thinks he could find
a trillion dollars with a waste abuse and fraud. Why
don't we let him try this, see if he can
find it.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
What does that hurt?
Speaker 1 (14:33):
You know, everybody's trying to be critical, they're attacking the
message career, and you know the problem is is that
this money, you're going to see it and going to
politicians and I mean going out to these NGOs and
all these these organizations that are they claim they're doing
a good job, and it's coming right back to Washington
and possibly both parties. And I think that's what a
lot of these people are afraid of. They're going to
get caught with their hand in the cookie jar. And
(14:55):
some of these people need to be in handcuffed because
medicative medicare should be a sacred, sacred group of people
and we should not be stealing from any any group
that is trying to help that that community. And that
is what has happened. We just had a meeting just
now in oversight. There're seven days. Somebody said, well, there's
just so infantized, so small, and then it turned out
I asked, wasn't a percentage and they said seven to
(15:16):
eight percent, one hundred and fifty over one hundred and
fifty billion dollars that is as being misdirected or stolen
or whatever through fraudulind or.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
I'm trying to why don't you embrace that?
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Why don't you all at CNN one, Why don't you
all CNA one trying to do.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
A little cut that's with you.
Speaker 12 (15:31):
I'm just I'm trying to do some math with you
talking about mountains.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
You all do not support one cut.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Want you at CNN, you all do not support one
daddumb cut.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
In any of this stuff.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
You're you're trying to use the word the lowest denominator.
You're trying to scare the most people to drive the
train against Trump, and it's not working.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
The American people are not buying it. And you all
have made a.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Huge error in this because we're looking unbelievable way.
Speaker 12 (15:56):
I'm looking at the numbers man you're doing it looking mind,
I'm looking at the numbers that Doose just put out themselves.
They say they're cutting contracts that have already ended.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
They say they're cutting.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
A big amount.
Speaker 12 (16:06):
It turns out it's actually a smaller amount.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
That's just math.
Speaker 12 (16:10):
Congressmen, and we're going to continue.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Are you're saying there's not are you saying there's not, well,
look at the math. Are you saying there's not billions
of dollars of waste Houston product in federal government?
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Are you trying to.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Say that because everybody out.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
There, you don't need to tell you that there's a CBO.
Speaker 12 (16:26):
That's what we're trying to discuss is the actual number.
We're trying to have at least, I'm trying to have
an honest conversation with you about the numbers and CBO
estimates and the numbers that experts on this topic expect
there to be. Congressman Tim Burchett, thanks for joining.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Us named experts. Thank you so much. You've got the
Michael Berry's Show. Senator Rick Scott on CNN with Jake Tapper,
he rattled off a statistic and I'm going to replay
for you and then we will discuss it. I want
you to pay attention to this because I'm always mindful
when I see something or hear something. I'm always mindful
(17:05):
that when we play that on the show, almost everybody
is driving, and so holding numbers in your head is
not easy. It's not like looking at a graphic, which
also might have an accompanying chart, would show you you
know whether something is large or small that really makes
a visual impression. I am an auditory learner primarily these days,
(17:27):
not when I was a child, because there wasn't much
auditory back then. I was a reader. But as my
vision has declined with age, as most of you, most
of ours does, I have found that more so than
reading or even watching, I have found that I learn
best and I enjoy learning most in an auditory setting.
(17:50):
I will often go back and listen to our show
on the podcast to see just as a listener, and
I will notice sometimes that I thought I leaned something
really well, and I listen on the podcast and I say,
you did you never wrap that up? You got distracted,
or you didn't make the point clearly enough, or I
don't think I would have understood that if I was
(18:12):
a listener. So I am mindful when we use numbers
in audio bits, and that's why I try to wrap
a bow around it so you pay extra attention to it.
So again, Senator Rick Scott on CNN with Jake Tapper, I.
Speaker 13 (18:25):
Talked to Alon Mouse quite a bit about what he's doing,
and he's doing what I did when I became Governor
of Florida.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
You're looking at every program. So here's what he said.
Speaker 13 (18:33):
He is looking at every program he can. He's given
information to agency heads and they're making a decision how
to go forward. But let me tell you, Americans are
fed up. Six hundred thousand and four mentrol study cycle
or study mistro cycles at Transander men three hundred million
dollars for a cement manufacturering Gaza.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
I mean you.
Speaker 13 (18:53):
Eight hundred thousand dollars for gardening in El Savador. I
mean tell you, I just went through the campaign trail.
People are fed up with wasteful government spending.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
And we've had.
Speaker 13 (19:03):
A two percent increase in population in five years and
fifty three percent increase in spending. We will not get
interest rates down, we will not get inflation under control
until we balance a budget. That's what we have to do,
and Elon Musk is part of the process of balancing
the budget.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Three hundred thousand dollars for menstrual cycles to what the
bloody hell is going on here? This was sure Michael
Singleton on CNN.
Speaker 14 (19:28):
They don't like it, right, because fine, it's fine until
it comes for that.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Sure, now it's coming. Who's cutting Medicaid? Medicas security.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Not taking that away from anybody there is, We're not,
but we're we're.
Speaker 14 (19:39):
Not taking that away from it using.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
This talking point. It's as a scare tactic.
Speaker 14 (19:44):
Elon Musk, the President, the House Majority leader.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
The Senate leader. We have not cut anyone.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
How are you cutting?
Speaker 14 (19:51):
How are you cutting eight hundred and eighty billion dollars
from the Energy and Commerce Appropriation Committee until from the
Everagery Commerce Committee unless you cut medicaid?
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Do you think those things are solvent? Excuse me?
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Do you think answer my question?
Speaker 14 (20:03):
We're after Do I think you're not needing the level
of Sorry, let me ask you a question. You're saying
we're not cutting medicaid.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
We're not. We're not.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Congress, what is this budget.
Speaker 14 (20:14):
Blueprint that every single Republican everybody has an idea? Julia
doesn't mean that I actual not an idea. It is
a blueprint that they said, go back to Julia. You're
doing right now, just your Michael. We're making Michael the cuts.
Why why have there why the Congress? Why the Congress
bother wasting everybody's time voting for a blueprint that said
cut eight hundred and eighty million dollars billion dollars. Excuse
(20:36):
me from Energy and Congress. The only way to achieve
that is to cut medicaid. How are they going to
do that?
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Colors exist? Where have we made the cuts? It's a
simple question. Where have we made the cuts where? And when? Well,
we haven't, and everyone knows that. Next to week clip
five oh two, Ramona, I'll give you a moment to
find it. Five two. It's Congressman Brandon gil from Texas
and he says, the GAO has identified five hundred billion
(21:06):
dollars in fraudulent payments. Folks, there is so much of
this that it's going to drive you crazy because it's
going to come out, and sadly, it's going to come
out to such an extent so frequently that it's all
going to blend together. If one of these things came out,
(21:29):
it would infuriate you. But because so much of this
is going to come out, you're not even going to
be able to process it. You won't be able to
muster sufficient outrage. In this sense, you will be tired
of winning because you can't keep getting mad over everything,
not sufficiently. And yet the IRS is going to pester
(21:50):
you and ask you for a receipt on a twenty
eight dollars venmo or a twenty eight dollars purchase, or
they're going to question this or that, and then look
what our government is at actually doing with your money.
You've got the Pentagon losing planes and tanks, leaving dozens
of billions of dollars of our arsenal in Afghanistan. You've
(22:13):
got billions of dollars wasted in fraudulent payment. Here's Brandon
gil Well.
Speaker 15 (22:18):
I can tell you what the nonpartisan GAO has identified,
and we had a hearing on this earlier today. They've
identified what they believed to be about five hundred billion
dollars just in fraudulent payments across the federal government that
Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. This is not payments that
are legitimately going to people who deserve it and actually
(22:38):
should be getting this money.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
This is fraud.
Speaker 15 (22:41):
They've identified on top of that, one hundred and sixty
one billion dollars just last year and what they believed
to be improper payments. So there's an enormous amount of waste, fraud,
and abuse in our federal government.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
That's why the.
Speaker 15 (22:53):
Dose should work that they're doing is so important. You know,
for for decades, Congress has been trying to figure out
out what's going on at the executive branch where they're
spending and going out all of this money. And finally
we're getting some answers. And I think that the American
people are shocked by it. And you know, I think
in the coming months you're going to see some action
from Congress to get rid of this.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Says, well, everyone knows this, not just Elon, he's just
given you receipts. This was Bernie Sanders, Communist, Bernie Sanders,
all the way back in two thousand and eight. Listen
to this. There is no question.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
That there is an enormous amount of waste and fraud
and abuse in this government. There is no question to
my mind that Congress has not been vigilant enough in
rooting out that waste and fraud to the tune of
billions and billions of dollars. I would simply say that
while it is absolutely appropriate to condemn the Congress, it
(23:54):
is also important to note that we have an administration
in this city, in Washington Dtree, DC, and the function
of an administration is to administer, and that means that
when there is waste and fraud. You have an administration
(24:16):
who should also be on top of that situation.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Not only Bernie Sanders. It's another annoying accent, Nancy Pelosi.
This was her two years later, twenty ten.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
We cannot keep our promises on Medicare. We simply must
make the cuts and waste fraud and abuse in medicare
so that the benefits and the premiums are untouched. We
owe it to our seniors, we owe it to our country.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
And since we're on the subject, to take us to
the break, Chuck Schumer is going to be clipped four
O three saying back in twenty thoy ten, we need
to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse in medicare.
Speaker 16 (24:57):
Huh. If we're going to eliminate the way brought an
abuse in medicare, it does mean we're going to cut.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Some of that out.
Speaker 16 (25:05):
And when I hear my friend Dave Camp say you
cannot cut money out of Medicare, well, we don't want
to cut the good stuff that you point out. One
third of Medicare doesn't go to patient care.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
You can't just get up.
Speaker 16 (25:17):
There and say we don't want to cut anything out
of Medicare. We want to cut the bad stuff and
keep the good stuff.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
I will die for the country. I will die for
discrabt Michael Berry Show. He's the big honor to be
living in the United States. I cannot remember if we
played this before, and so I'm going to play it anyway.
It's a woman who posts on TikTok. I'm not on TikTok.
(25:45):
People will often send me things on TikTok. I chose
not to be on TikTok, and it's not some big
statement just because the company's Chinese. It's just because I
didn't want to add another thing to my life. So
I'm only saying that because I'll have to hear from people.
Am I Relax? Relax, Relax. You can only be upset
(26:08):
about so many things. But our team is often sent
things from listeners and will share it. And the source
of where this was posted is not important. The platform
is not important. The individual is talking about criticizing the
Democrat Party because this person just left being a Democrat.
(26:34):
And I will tell you it is known in evangelical
Christianity as the zeal of the recently converted. No one
is more on fire for Jesus than the recently converted
and it's exciting actually to watch after a revival in
(26:54):
a small town, to see people absolutely on fire, I mean,
getting after it and this conviction. This manifests itself in
evangelical activity in such a way that it's amazing to watch.
(27:16):
But the zeal of the recently converted is true about
a number of things. If you see somebody who's just
stop smoking and you notice, you know that these are
the people that are dangerous because now they want to
kick down everybody's door and take their cigarettes away from them,
Or a person who has just become healthier, a person
who's just begun lifting, or any number of other things
(27:39):
like this. The zeal of the recently converted, and what
you're going to hear here is the zeal of the
recently converted of someone who has had enough of the
Democrat Party and now wants everybody to realize how nutty
that place is.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
Reason I am so critical of the Democratic Party right
now is because I literally just left it. Just like
a lot of other people, I was a bleeding heart
liberal like all of you. I mean, blue hair in everything.
Speaker 13 (28:06):
I mean.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
Believe me, I have plenty of pictures proving that I
was all in. If you would have asked me a
year ago, I would have said, there is no way
in hell I will ever vote for Donald Trump. But
let me tell you what changed my mind. The big
moment for me was when the left started trying to
push this like Nazi Hitler fascism narrative that they're trying
to push right now. Like what y'all actually did is
made a lot of us really go research Trump even harder,
(28:28):
and we started to realize that a lot of things
that you guys had shown us about Trump and things
that he had said were taken way out of context.
A lot of us started noticing a pattern where you
guys were showing us like little ten second clips of
a ten minute conversation that did not reflect the entirety
of that conversation at all. So that was number one.
And then around Thanksgiving, all of a sudden, you guys
(28:48):
are telling us that it would be better for us
to sit at home and spend the holidays with no
one then it would be to go home to your
family who voted for Trump. When I heard that, I
was like, Okay, now y'all are wilt because you cannot
tell me that it is better for your mental health
to sit at home alone than it is to go
and spend time with your friends and family. Y'all had
actual therapists getting on TV and telling you guys this.
(29:10):
And the sad thing is is that it would have
been better for them to encourage you to do something
like find other people that believe the same as you
to spend the holidays with. But they didn't. They told
you to stay in your home and spend the holidays
with no one. When that happened, I was like, Okay,
I got to give this party a second look because
something is not right here. But honestly, if you want
to know the truth, what really did it for me
(29:32):
is realizing how freaking depressed I was when I was
functioning as a liberal. Liberalism will literally make you hate yourself.
It will make you hate your family, it will make
you hate your friends, it will make you hate everything
about the world. And I'm not saying that you should
just be ignorant to everything that is going on in
the world, but the way that the left chooses to
internalize everything that is going on in the world is
(29:54):
detrimental to their mental health. And this is why people
try to tell you that empathy is dangerous, but even
that you want to take out of context. Empathy itself
is a great quality to have. Empathy without discernment is detrimental.
You have got to be able to discern when you
are carrying too much and you need to take a
step back, and none of you are doing that. Believe me,
(30:15):
it is possible to care about everything that is going
on in the world and not let it consume every
single thought that you have and every single conversation that
you have a lot of us are leaving the party
in droves because you guys have made it impossible to
have any sort of individual thought whatsoever. Like for instance,
if I say that I like RFK Junior because I
want bad chemicals out of my food and because I
(30:36):
want to know what's in my vaccines, you will assume
that I am someone who is anti VAXX and anti science,
when in fact, all three of my kids and myself
have been vaccinated. I just want to tell you guys something.
Every Republican most likely voted for Trump. Every person that
voted for Trump is not a Republican. The fact that
you guys are so against Trump's administration right now when
(30:57):
most of his administration is former Democrats who have now
left the party.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Y'all look wild.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
I mean, the Democratic Party has brainwashed people so hard
that they are actually advocating against world peace right now.
People on the left would rather us keep giving money
to Ukraine to fund a war than to even fathom
getting Ukraine and Russia at the table to try to
agree to peace. A party that I joined because they
were so anti war and I was so against war
(31:24):
now loves war. All of a sudden. They have convinced
you to love war so much that you are actually
fighting for transgender people to be in the military, when
lots of groups of people are excluded for the military
for very valid reasons. For instance, people like me who
suffer from anxiety and depression. And even though I'm not
currently medicated, I used to take medication for this and
that would disqualify me from serving in the military. And frankly,
(31:48):
I don't have a problem with that. I know dan
well that somebody like me has no damn business being
on the front lines. Me having the conditions that I
have make me a liability to the safety of this country. Like,
don't get me wrong, I am all four trans rights, Okay,
I believe that you have the right to be whoever
you want to be in whatever way makes you comfortable.
But you really want the right to fight in the military,
(32:09):
Like that's the right, that's the hill that you want
to die on. Like, bro, people don't get accepted to
the military because they have phone spurs on their feet,
and you were complaining about the fact that a transgender
person can't make it into the military. Like at this point,
the left has convinced you to be so anti Trump
that they will get you to argue for things that
you used to be against. All of this summed up
is exactly why you are losing people every single day.
(32:31):
As bad as you think that you are making Trump look,
all you are doing is making yourself look ten times worse.
And this last election very clearly showed that because Trump
increased his numbers across every single demographic, across women, across
young voters, across Black Americans, across Hispanic Americans, like everyone
came out to vote for Trump. And it is because
(32:53):
we just cannot stand y'all anymore. If you guys want
to continue living in that kind of miserable existence, like
that is on you. We are not participating in that anymore.
And by saying that. I'm not saying that we're not
going to be participating and changing the state of the world,
but we don't have to be miserable while we're doing it.
So at this point, just forget everything that you have
ever heard about Republicans, because I promise you, if you
(33:13):
get a group of Trump voters in the room, you
will not be able to put them all in one box.
I promise you that the Democratic Party is no longer
the party of tolerance and inclusion and diversity. It's the
New Right. I heard someone else call us that, and honestly,
I think we should start calling ourselves that because we're
not Republicans. I don't consider myself a Republican. I don't
consider myself a Democrat anymore, but I damn well, I'm
(33:35):
not going to consider myself a Republican. But I think
we should coin ourselves as the new Right because that
is so fitting. But that's you, then, I am so
glad you're here and welcome to the New Right. We
would love to have you.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Good Night,
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