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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Democrats are desperate for anything they can put forward at
this point, anything that they can sell to the American people.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
But here's the problem.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
It turns out when they get to the whiteboard with
their dryer race markers, when they start writing those things down,
the bullet points are all deeply, deeply totalitarian and anti democratic.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Look, this is a moment where there are no bad ideas,
no bad idea brainstorm is what I'd like to call it.
And in that no bad ideas brainstorm, we talk about
what we need to do and think about doing around
the electoral college. We talk about the idea of Supreme
Court reform, which includes expanding the Supreme Court. We invite
(00:57):
a conversation about multi members districts. Let's talk about stay
to look for Puerto Rico and DC. These are the
things I think that we've got to do. We've got
to neutralize these risks.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
It is time for the North to pull up to
the South.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
It is time for New York to pull up to Alabama.
Speaker 6 (01:19):
It is time for all.
Speaker 5 (01:21):
Of us to come to Georgia, to Louisiana, to Tennessee
to Mississippi and let them know exactly what they have
on cript with this injustice. They think they can draw
us out of power. They do not know the sleeping
giant that they just awakened, because what they thought was
the final blow is actually just the opening. Sylum.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
We all have agencies.
Speaker 7 (01:46):
We can shape the future. There's still a lot of Look,
I've said this before, Saul repeated, I don't anticipate this
need to be the case, but there is a like
break the glass scenario, and there's so many people that
have a deep understandable but it would look like if
Democrats were locked out, and we're gonna do everything to
make sure that doesn't happen.
Speaker 8 (02:05):
We have put together, I think the most extensive and
inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Alexandria Cassio Cortez're talking about all the states you're going
to go to and screaming them out like that reminded
me of Howard Dean in what was that two thousand
and eight when he did his scream Oh that was money, gosh,
that was good. We started today early voting in the
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Senate run in the state elections in Texas, and that
is to send folks to the county positions, state positions
in Austin, and of course national representation in Washington, d C.
This is our runoff for those who did not get
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a majority of votes in the primary, a run off
to see who our Republican candidates will be this November.
I have posted my ballot choices should you want to
see them at Michael Berryshow dot com. That is Michael
Berryshow dot com. The choices of who I will be
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voting for, and in races where I don't live in
that district, who I would vote for if I lived
in that district, and that is Don Hooper for Harris
County Party Chairman. That is Ken Paxton for the US Senate.
That is Alex Meeler for US Congress, John Bank for
US Congress, Mays Middleton for Attorney General, Bo French for
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a railroad Commissioner, Thomas Smith for Court of Appeals, and
Zach Gibson Court of Appeals. And I will just dedicate
one segment to this and then we'll move on to
national issues. But let me say this, A number of
folks will tell me that Ken Paxton went through a divorce.
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That's very nasty, and in fact, his opponent, John Cornyn
wants you to vote on that basis, and there will
be a lot of what I call Mike Penn's voters
who will say, tisc Ken Paxton, he was in an
unhappy marriage. He's not a good husband, and therefore he
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cannot be a good senator. Now, John Cornyn, we don't
know what he did. There's been allegations, but we don't know,
nor is it terribly relevant to what we're talking about.
You see, Donald Trump went through several divorces and had
an imperfect personal life. It's been documented. But he's the
only president who closed the border. We never heard that
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George W. Bush had dalliances outside his marriage, but we
were overrun with illegal aliens who were killing our wives
and children. But old George, he was honorable. Understand, folks,
that you are hiring someone to do a job, you're
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not choosing the man who's going to marry your daughter.
I gave the example this morning. I wouldn't want Lawrence
Taylor to marry my daughter, but if I wanted to
win a football game, I'd want him as my outside linebacker.
This is why we don't ask about the sex life
of who's going to be the quarterback of our football team,
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because we want that guy to be a winner. This
is why we don't ask about the sex life of
somebody that we send in to kill Obama Osama bin Laden,
because we want Osama bin Laden killed. We need a
job done. And you understand as well as I do,
how difficult it's going to be to keep the day
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Democrats at bay. They will stop at nothing, and we've
got a lot of Republicans who will stand idly by
and not stand up to them. They will make nice
with them. They will call us insurrectionists. The kind of
people who will fight them no matter the cost are
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sometimes imperfect, like Donald Trump or Ken Paxton. You will
also notice that there will be lies told, truths stretched.
There will be things said that are not based in
reality if they sound good, and you'll hear people replace them.
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You will hear people attempt to become political consultants. Well,
I'd like to vote for Ken Paston, but I'm going
to vote for John Corny because Paxton can't win in November.
He can't in a red state. Ted Cruz was having
popularity issues and he beat Beto. You keep telling me
you think Obama coming to Texas for toall Rico is
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gonna help TLRA vote for the candidate you think would
be the best in the office, and stop letting Carl
Rove choose how you vote. The Michael Berry Show, George
Strait's seventy fourth birthday today and what I'm the King?
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And yet another song written by the great poet This
is Dean Dylon and Carson Chamberlain. When You're seven, Ye're
in seventh heaven. If I saw that written my friend
Doug Miller, who's a singer songwriter, I have many times
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pondered what is it about George Strait that makes him
so special? And people get mad at me for this.
They get really upset. I'm trying to dig into the
fun of him. That's like asking, Hey, I really love
this cake that was determined to be the greatest cake
of all time. I need to understand what the taste
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is that. I need to understand why this combination of
flavors is making it a bet you can't act? Why
are you it's the greatest? I need to so people
will say, well, it's the lyrics, okay, But there are
songs that other people have recorded that didn't it weren't
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a hit for them. Well, it's his voice. I don't
think his voice is so different than the other neo
classical guys of the era. What is it? Because Clint
black Black has a great voice, Mark Chestnut has a
great voice, Tracy Bird has a great voice, and they
all were very successful. What made him the king? And
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my friend doub Miller said, it's vocal phrasing. I'd never
heard that musical term before. Vocal phrasing. It is where
he raises his voice and lowers his voice. It is
the way he says things. It's when he pauses. It's
the lilt, it's the pacing. It is that unique delivery
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he offers that, for whatever reason reason is pleasing to
our ears. And I think he's right. State of Louisiana
said to the swamp enough enough. Bill Cassidy, your boy,
Your swamp boy who wanted to take down Donald Trump.
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He didn't even make the runoff primary. He was one
of seven Republicans to vote in favor of convicting Donald
Trump during his second impeachment trial, and he paid for it.
ABC News.
Speaker 9 (09:55):
Republican Senator Bill Cassidy lost his bid for a third
term after two primary challengers finished ahead of him. Now, Cassidy,
the incumbent, got about twenty five percent of the vote.
No elected senator has lost a primary since twenty twelve,
and this was a major victory for President Trump. Cassidy
drew the President's i Or five years ago as one
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of the Republicans who voted to impeach Trump during that
second trial. And in this race, Trump endorsed Representative Julia Letlow,
who posted the strongest finish with about forty five.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Percent of the vote.
Speaker 9 (10:28):
She'll now face off with state Treasurer John Fleming in
a June twenty seventh runoff. Cassidy's campaign acknowledged this race
was sort of Julia's to lose in the first round. However,
the senator was confident that he'd make a runoff, and
this was a test of the weight of the Trump
endorsement in a solidly read state. The President getting revenge
on another one of his perceived political enemies, cheering Cassidy's
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loss on social media, writing disloyalty to the man who
got him elected is now part of legend. Now what's
interesting here is cassidy loss means just three of the
seventeen Republicans who voted to convict or impeach President Trump
in twenty twenty one after January sixth are still in
office on Capitol Hill. The rest either retired, are retiring,
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or have lost primaries.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Interesting. It's interesting that the Houston Chronicle and other liberal
newspapers offer endorsements in the Republican primary, and they always
endorse the candidate the Republican who they most like, and
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then in November, when that Republican, the same one they
endorse in the primary, is up against the Democrat, they
then endorse the Democrat over the Republican. They want to
have their cake and eat it too, so they don't
want the Republican to win. Let's say the US Senate
seat from Texas. They want the Democrat to win, and
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they'll write articles all year long Republicans are bad, Democrats
are good. But then in the Republican primary, they'll be
four the person who is least maga, most establishment because
they can work with the establishment. Remember, the Democrats can
work with the establishment. They're good with the establishment. The
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establishment is how we were overrun with the legal immigration.
The establishment was how we ended up with Bob Dole.
Then George W. Bush in eight years of Forever Wars.
Then John McCain is our nominee. Then Romney is our nominee.
Then they wanted Jeb Bush. So you have these you
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have these editorial boards at these liberal newspapers endorsing in
Republican primaries. That's who you know not to vote for.
Whoever your enemy wants is who you don't want. That's
the way that works. So of course they've endorsed John Cornyn. Meanwhile,
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Attorney General Ken Paxton announces that Texas Children's Hospital will
create the country's first detransition clinic after they have had
to pay ten million dollars to settle a state investigation
into sex change care at their health system. They also
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agreed to fire five doctors who pushed transition care. So
this is why Ken Paxton will win the Republican nomination
to be the US Senator from Texas. And this is
why some people, including Republicans, hate him because as Attorney General,
he went after Texas Children's Hospital, a fine establishment institution
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that provides fantastic care for children, but they were also
engaged in allowing This is where you get this left wing.
There are a lot of supposed Republicans, solid rich, socially
prominent Republicans in business, corporate, church, and politics who will
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allow the left to get away with everything. They will
impose DEI. They will do things that will shock you
because they're not things that you stand for. And when
someone like Trump or Paxton brings it up and demands
that it stop, there will be plenty of Republicans who
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will try to destroy you from within your own party.
And that's what they've done to Ken Paxon. I'll tell
you that story. I'll play that story and tell you
the details. This is a big deal in Houston. It's
a big win for Paxton. It's a big deal in Houston.
When Chuck Norris's parents had nightmares, they would come to
his bedroom with Michael Perry.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Time waits for no man unless that man is Chuck Norris.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
The dreams feed by AOC I've been everywhere. Theme of
rattling all states reminded me of the Howard Dean scream
in two thousand and four. I looked it up during
the break two thousand and four. He did this, and
I'll remind you what happened. Howard Dean, a liberal progressive
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doctor from Vermont think Bernie Sanders politics had projected or
had predicted for himself a win in Iowa the Iowa Caucus,
but John Kerry beat him. John Kerry was more of
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a moderate, and Howard Dean was more extreme left progressive,
but he couched that in the face of a guy
who would look like he would be more moderate, but
his politics were very progressive, so he thought that a
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populism progressivism would work in Iowa. It didn't and John
Cary won. So Howard Dean was attempting at the end
of the evening to say, that's all right, we're fired up.
He was trying to reassure his supporters that they were
about to catch fire. Don't you worry about this, And
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when he did, he went off so unhinged that not
only that line of him screaming and that yeah at
the end was played six hundred and thirty three times
on national news networks and cable channels. That was viral
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before viral was viral, and it sunk him. He would
drop out of the race by Wisconsin because at that
point he became a punchline. You never want to become
a punchline. But we thought it'd be fun to make
a little mash up of what AOC just did and
what Howard Dean did twenty two years ago.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
It is time for all of us to come to Georgia.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
We're going to California and Texas.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
To Louisiana, to Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
New York.
Speaker 8 (17:19):
We going to South Dakota and Oregon, Tonississippi.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
And Washington and Michigan, and then we're going to Washington See.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
To take the White House.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Watching them screen, I know it makes some of you crazy.
I understand. I will get emails later tonight for people say,
don't do that again. Don't play them doing that. It
upsets me. It's very important you understand something. The basis
of a vaccine is that you get a little bit
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of something bad so that your body swa, warms it
and kills it off. You gotta have a little of
the bad for our people to remember how awful the
left really is. So what I'm doing is giving you
a little of that bad. Give me, give me a
little more of that roomle.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
It is time for all of us to come to Georgia.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
We're go to California and Texas.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
To Louisiana, to Tennessee, New York.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Were going to South Dakota and Oregon, to Mississippi.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
And Washington and Michigan, and then we're going to Washington
See to take the White House. Here is the story
I told you about in Texas, and this is the
type of thing that Ken Paxton has done as our
attorney general. That is the reason he's going to beat
John Cornyn in the primary runoff this week, and the
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reason he's going to beat Tallarico in November. Because we
want a pit bull, an imperfect pit bull. Trump's an
imperfect pit We want a pitbull. He has put an
end to the weeny chopping that Texas Children's Hospital denied
they were doing. He caught him doing it, and he
punished him for it.
Speaker 6 (19:11):
A controversial settlement over transgender care for minors reached today
between Texas Children's Hospital in Houston and Attorney General Ken Paxton.
After years of back and forth and the involvement of
the US Department of Justice, Texas Children's is agreeing to
pay ten million dollars to the state, provoke the privileges
of several doctors, and create what Paxton calls the nation's
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first de transition clinic.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
This all stems from a twenty twenty three state.
Speaker 6 (19:37):
Investigation into allegations that the hospital improperly build Texas Medicaid
for some of the care. In a statement, Paxton says,
in part quote, this settlement will ensure that the durianed
child mutilators who hurt our kids are fired and held accountable,
adding that the detransition clinic will help provide free care
to those who have been victimized by twisted, morally bankrupt
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transgender ideology.
Speaker 10 (20:01):
Ken Paxson has been using the Attorney General's office to
attack transgender people in a really obsessive way.
Speaker 6 (20:06):
Equality Texas CEO Bred Pritchett tells me he's disappointed by
the settlement, saying a clinic focused on detransitioning instead of
gender affirming care doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 10 (20:17):
The type of healthcare that is specific for trans people
is continually being reduced, and those lanes are being narrowed,
and they're being pushed aside in favor of healthcare that
isn't a priority. There is no huge group of people
who are seeking this type of healthcare for trans healthcare.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
The regret rates are incredibly low.
Speaker 10 (20:35):
I mean we're talking one percent, sometimes less, depending on
the study.
Speaker 6 (20:38):
Texas Children's maintains they follow the law, but in a
statement they say, quote, we are settling to protect our
resources from endless and constantly litigation. This settlement will allow
us to redirect those precious resources to focus on the
life saving care and groundbreaking discoveries of our exceptional clinicians
and scientists.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
What's your reaction to Texas.
Speaker 10 (20:58):
Children saying that that that's a really good argument. And
if the argument is we know what we did was right,
but we're just going to settle with something that's not right,
I don't think that's a valid argument.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Michael Berry's show, it was on this day in nineteen
eighty forty six years ago the Mount Saint Helen's erupts
in Washington, killing fifty seven people, causing three billion dollars
in damage. I remember when this happened. I remember it well.
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I was only nine years old, but I remember talking
about it at school. This was the news. This was
news we could understand, This was news we could bring
home that made sense to us. Natural phenomena. And every
boy gets excited about volcano eruptions, right. That's why if
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you go to the science fair, it's always the boys
that have volcano eruptions. Now I had something to keep
my eyes peeled for it. Now we don't have volcanic
eruptions and in Southeast Texas on the Louisiana border. But
I didn't know that it was one more thing I
needed to be on the lookout for. There was strangers
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offering candy, Oh, no stranger danger. There was quicksand there
was quicksand in every movie, so I was always looking out.
Be careful over you go out into the woods, be careful.
There might be quick sand over if there is, I
know what to do. Whirlpools. You want to get in
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the water because it might be when in whirlpools whip
up on you. You never know. African killer bees. You
didn't know if I was going to happen. There's lots
of things to look out for. And now I had
to add to my list volcanoes. And forty was it?
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Forty six years later, I've never come across any of
these dangers, but I've been on the lookout. Maybe that's it.
Maybe I've managed to avoid him on that basis alone.
Born on this day in eighteen eighty nine, Thomas Midgeley Junior.
He was an American mechanical and chemical engineer. You probably
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don't know his name, but he did affect your life.
He played a major role in developing gasoline. That gasoline
at that time was just gasoline. We've come to call
it leaded gasoline because they were later able to extract
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the lead from the gasoline. Some of the first chlorofloro
carbons were part of his developments CFCs. They were better
known by the brand name free On. Both of those
products affected in a dramatic way, the growth, development and
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comfort of our country. The ability of our people to
generate our own energy, to move about freely allowed us
to make advancements far superior than what anyone else was doing.
The United States catapulted itself over the world's powers dramatically,
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almost overnight and quietly, so goods and services could be
moved from the West coast to the East coast and
everywhere in between. People could live further from where they worked,
They could travel and visit family, could go and seek
medical care. Because of these fuel sources, we were able
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to cool spaces that were hot. Now, the wacko environmentalists
will tell you these were awful things. You know, it's awful.
A Houston summer with no air conditioning. That's awful. Free
On was a game changer. A magazine called The New
(25:28):
Scientist called him a quote, I mean a scientist called
a New Scientist referred to him as a one man
environmental disaster. This man helped change the face of our
country and the world for the better refrigeration of goods, refrigeration,
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air conditioning for our homes. We're going to see the
rever facts. We're going to see the real negative impacts
of environmentalism very soon because what they've done to our
air conditioning systems with the changeout and the requirements and
regulations regarding free on. Ask an ac repair man if
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that's going to help or hurt the comfort of your castle.
The left really wants you to live a life where
when you pull up to a stop sign, your car
goes dead and then starts up again. The left really
wants you to turn off your air conditioning. You're keeping
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it too comfortable in your home. That's what Jimmy Carter said,
and that's what Jimmy Carter two point zero Barack Obama said.
The left believes that your insurance coverage is too good.
Those are Cadillac plans. So they destroy them as part
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of Obamacare. Obamacare did not make health care better for anybody. Nobody, ohbody.
It was going to be health care for everybody. No,
it wasn't. It was never going to be health care
for everybody. That's socialized medicine. There was no funding for it.
What it did do is say, if you're not buying
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basic health insurance, we're going to require you to buy it,
and if you don't buy it, we're going to charge
you anyway. How did they get away with that? You
cannot compel someone to conduct commerce. The constitution prohibits such
a thing. You cannot make someone go out and buy something.
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So how did they compel it? Well, Justice John Roberts,
the Republican nominee. Republican nominated by a Republican president. He
didn't want to overturn Obamacare. He didn't want this is
what you get with the John Cornyn, this is what
you get with the John mccaina meant, Romney is what
you get with milk toast Republicans. He did not want.
He was an establishment Republican, a Botai guy, a country
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club repol He didn't want to overturn Obamacare because that
would be very upsetting. No, no, no, no, no, as
bad as this is, let's just do it and move
on down the road. We'll figure it out. It'll be fine.
So he and he alone said, uh, okay, it's a
terrible idea, but we're not going to say that it's
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compelling commerce. It is. It's requiring you to buy insurance, yes,
but if you don't buy it, it's a tax. And
Congress does have the authority to tax you, so it's
not really compelling. Conon, it was just a tax increase.
When they came to Obama at the White House before
the decision had just been made, Obamacare had been upheld,
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but they didn't know that it had been uphel because
you had to read the ruling. So one of his
legal advisors comes to Obama and says, oh, they declared
that they upheld Obamacare. Are you sure, because it doesn't
look like they did. No, they did. They called it
at tax, and what did Obama say? We don't want
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them to call it attacks. It either was a tax
or it wasn't. If it was a tax, it was
constitutional but politically unpopular. If it was not a tax,
it was unconstitutional. So Roberts decided to call it attacks
politically unpopular, but it remains in effect. Oh the games
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they play to avoid overturning the apple cart, the establishment
always wins. But is anybody's healthcare actually better as a
result of it.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
No,
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Democrats are desperate for anything they can put forward at
this point, anything that they can sell to the American people.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
But here's the problem.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
It turns out when they get to the whiteboard with
their dryer race markers, when they start writing those things down,
the bullet points are all deeply, deeply totalitarian and anti democratic.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Look, this is a moment where there are no bad ideas,
no bad idea brainstorm is what I'd like to call it.
And in that no bad ideas brainstorm, we talk about
what we need to do and think about doing around
the electoral college. We talk about the idea of Supreme
Court reform, which includes expanding the Supreme Court. We invite
(00:57):
a conversation about multi members districts. Let's talk about stay
to look for Puerto Rico and DC. These are the
things I think that we've got to do. We've got
to neutralize these risks.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
It is time for the North to pull up to
the South.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
It is time for New York to pull up to Alabama.
Speaker 6 (01:19):
It is time for all.
Speaker 5 (01:21):
Of us to come to Georgia, to Louisiana, to Tennessee
to Mississippi and let them know exactly what they have
on cript with this injustice. They think they can draw
us out of power. They do not know the sleeping
giant that they just awakened, because what they thought was
the final blow is actually just the opening. Sylum.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
We all have agencies.
Speaker 7 (01:46):
We can shape the future. There's still a lot of Look,
I've said this before, Saul repeated, I don't anticipate this
need to be the case, but there is a like
break the glass scenario, and there's so many people that
have a deep understandable but it would look like if
Democrats were locked out, and we're gonna do everything to
make sure that doesn't happen.
Speaker 8 (02:05):
We have put together, I think the most extensive and
inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Alexandria Cassio Cortez're talking about all the states you're going
to go to and screaming them out like that reminded
me of Howard Dean in what was that two thousand
and eight when he did his scream Oh that was money, gosh,
that was good. We started today early voting in the
(02:38):
Senate run in the state elections in Texas, and that
is to send folks to the county positions, state positions
in Austin, and of course national representation in Washington, d C.
This is our runoff for those who did not get
(03:00):
a majority of votes in the primary, a run off
to see who our Republican candidates will be this November.
I have posted my ballot choices should you want to
see them at Michael Berryshow dot com. That is Michael
Berryshow dot com. The choices of who I will be
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voting for, and in races where I don't live in
that district, who I would vote for if I lived
in that district, and that is Don Hooper for Harris
County Party Chairman. That is Ken Paxton for the US Senate.
That is Alex Meeler for US Congress, John Bank for
US Congress, Mays Middleton for Attorney General, Bo French for
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a railroad Commissioner, Thomas Smith for Court of Appeals, and
Zach Gibson Court of Appeals. And I will just dedicate
one segment to this and then we'll move on to
national issues. But let me say this, A number of
folks will tell me that Ken Paxton went through a divorce.
(04:10):
That's very nasty, and in fact, his opponent, John Cornyn
wants you to vote on that basis, and there will
be a lot of what I call Mike Penn's voters
who will say, tisc Ken Paxton, he was in an
unhappy marriage. He's not a good husband, and therefore he
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cannot be a good senator. Now, John Cornyn, we don't
know what he did. There's been allegations, but we don't know,
nor is it terribly relevant to what we're talking about.
You see, Donald Trump went through several divorces and had
an imperfect personal life. It's been documented. But he's the
only president who closed the border. We never heard that
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George W. Bush had dalliances outside his marriage, but we
were overrun with illegal aliens who were killing our wives
and children. But old George, he was honorable. Understand, folks,
that you are hiring someone to do a job, you're
(05:17):
not choosing the man who's going to marry your daughter.
I gave the example this morning. I wouldn't want Lawrence
Taylor to marry my daughter, but if I wanted to
win a football game, I'd want him as my outside linebacker.
This is why we don't ask about the sex life
of who's going to be the quarterback of our football team,
(05:39):
because we want that guy to be a winner. This
is why we don't ask about the sex life of
somebody that we send in to kill Obama Osama bin Laden,
because we want Osama bin Laden killed. We need a
job done. And you understand as well as I do,
how difficult it's going to be to keep the day
(06:00):
Democrats at bay. They will stop at nothing, and we've
got a lot of Republicans who will stand idly by
and not stand up to them. They will make nice
with them. They will call us insurrectionists. The kind of
people who will fight them no matter the cost are
(06:22):
sometimes imperfect, like Donald Trump or Ken Paxton. You will
also notice that there will be lies told, truths stretched.
There will be things said that are not based in
reality if they sound good, and you'll hear people replace them.
(06:44):
You will hear people attempt to become political consultants. Well,
I'd like to vote for Ken Paston, but I'm going
to vote for John Corny because Paxton can't win in November.
He can't in a red state. Ted Cruz was having
popularity issues and he beat Beto. You keep telling me
you think Obama coming to Texas for toall Rico is
(07:05):
gonna help TLRA vote for the candidate you think would
be the best in the office, and stop letting Carl
Rove choose how you vote. The Michael Berry Show, George
Strait's seventy fourth birthday today and what I'm the King?
(07:26):
And yet another song written by the great poet This
is Dean Dylon and Carson Chamberlain. When You're seven, Ye're
in seventh heaven. If I saw that written my friend
Doug Miller, who's a singer songwriter, I have many times
(07:48):
pondered what is it about George Strait that makes him
so special? And people get mad at me for this.
They get really upset. I'm trying to dig into the
fun of him. That's like asking, Hey, I really love
this cake that was determined to be the greatest cake
of all time. I need to understand what the taste
(08:12):
is that. I need to understand why this combination of
flavors is making it a bet you can't act? Why
are you it's the greatest? I need to so people
will say, well, it's the lyrics, okay, But there are
songs that other people have recorded that didn't it weren't
(08:33):
a hit for them. Well, it's his voice. I don't
think his voice is so different than the other neo
classical guys of the era. What is it? Because Clint
black Black has a great voice, Mark Chestnut has a
great voice, Tracy Bird has a great voice, and they
all were very successful. What made him the king? And
(08:54):
my friend doub Miller said, it's vocal phrasing. I'd never
heard that musical term before. Vocal phrasing. It is where
he raises his voice and lowers his voice. It is
the way he says things. It's when he pauses. It's
the lilt, it's the pacing. It is that unique delivery
(09:20):
he offers that, for whatever reason reason is pleasing to
our ears. And I think he's right. State of Louisiana
said to the swamp enough enough. Bill Cassidy, your boy,
Your swamp boy who wanted to take down Donald Trump.
(09:42):
He didn't even make the runoff primary. He was one
of seven Republicans to vote in favor of convicting Donald
Trump during his second impeachment trial, and he paid for it.
ABC News.
Speaker 9 (09:55):
Republican Senator Bill Cassidy lost his bid for a third
term after two primary challengers finished ahead of him. Now, Cassidy,
the incumbent, got about twenty five percent of the vote.
No elected senator has lost a primary since twenty twelve,
and this was a major victory for President Trump. Cassidy
drew the President's i Or five years ago as one
(10:16):
of the Republicans who voted to impeach Trump during that
second trial. And in this race, Trump endorsed Representative Julia Letlow,
who posted the strongest finish with about forty five.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Percent of the vote.
Speaker 9 (10:28):
She'll now face off with state Treasurer John Fleming in
a June twenty seventh runoff. Cassidy's campaign acknowledged this race
was sort of Julia's to lose in the first round. However,
the senator was confident that he'd make a runoff, and
this was a test of the weight of the Trump
endorsement in a solidly read state. The President getting revenge
on another one of his perceived political enemies, cheering Cassidy's
(10:52):
loss on social media, writing disloyalty to the man who
got him elected is now part of legend. Now what's
interesting here is cassidy loss means just three of the
seventeen Republicans who voted to convict or impeach President Trump
in twenty twenty one after January sixth are still in
office on Capitol Hill. The rest either retired, are retiring,
(11:13):
or have lost primaries.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Interesting. It's interesting that the Houston Chronicle and other liberal
newspapers offer endorsements in the Republican primary, and they always
endorse the candidate the Republican who they most like, and
(11:40):
then in November, when that Republican, the same one they
endorse in the primary, is up against the Democrat, they
then endorse the Democrat over the Republican. They want to
have their cake and eat it too, so they don't
want the Republican to win. Let's say the US Senate
seat from Texas. They want the Democrat to win, and
(12:03):
they'll write articles all year long Republicans are bad, Democrats
are good. But then in the Republican primary, they'll be
four the person who is least maga, most establishment because
they can work with the establishment. Remember, the Democrats can
work with the establishment. They're good with the establishment. The
(12:26):
establishment is how we were overrun with the legal immigration.
The establishment was how we ended up with Bob Dole.
Then George W. Bush in eight years of Forever Wars.
Then John McCain is our nominee. Then Romney is our nominee.
Then they wanted Jeb Bush. So you have these you
(12:46):
have these editorial boards at these liberal newspapers endorsing in
Republican primaries. That's who you know not to vote for.
Whoever your enemy wants is who you don't want. That's
the way that works. So of course they've endorsed John Cornyn. Meanwhile,
(13:08):
Attorney General Ken Paxton announces that Texas Children's Hospital will
create the country's first detransition clinic after they have had
to pay ten million dollars to settle a state investigation
into sex change care at their health system. They also
(13:28):
agreed to fire five doctors who pushed transition care. So
this is why Ken Paxton will win the Republican nomination
to be the US Senator from Texas. And this is
why some people, including Republicans, hate him because as Attorney General,
he went after Texas Children's Hospital, a fine establishment institution
(13:50):
that provides fantastic care for children, but they were also
engaged in allowing This is where you get this left wing.
There are a lot of supposed Republicans, solid rich, socially
prominent Republicans in business, corporate, church, and politics who will
(14:11):
allow the left to get away with everything. They will
impose DEI. They will do things that will shock you
because they're not things that you stand for. And when
someone like Trump or Paxton brings it up and demands
that it stop, there will be plenty of Republicans who
(14:33):
will try to destroy you from within your own party.
And that's what they've done to Ken Paxon. I'll tell
you that story. I'll play that story and tell you
the details. This is a big deal in Houston. It's
a big win for Paxton. It's a big deal in Houston.
When Chuck Norris's parents had nightmares, they would come to
his bedroom with Michael Perry.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Time waits for no man unless that man is Chuck Norris.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
The dreams feed by AOC I've been everywhere. Theme of
rattling all states reminded me of the Howard Dean scream
in two thousand and four. I looked it up during
the break two thousand and four. He did this, and
I'll remind you what happened. Howard Dean, a liberal progressive
(15:22):
doctor from Vermont think Bernie Sanders politics had projected or
had predicted for himself a win in Iowa the Iowa Caucus,
but John Kerry beat him. John Kerry was more of
(15:43):
a moderate, and Howard Dean was more extreme left progressive,
but he couched that in the face of a guy
who would look like he would be more moderate, but
his politics were very progressive, so he thought that a
(16:05):
populism progressivism would work in Iowa. It didn't and John
Cary won. So Howard Dean was attempting at the end
of the evening to say, that's all right, we're fired up.
He was trying to reassure his supporters that they were
about to catch fire. Don't you worry about this, And
(16:28):
when he did, he went off so unhinged that not
only that line of him screaming and that yeah at
the end was played six hundred and thirty three times
on national news networks and cable channels. That was viral
(16:48):
before viral was viral, and it sunk him. He would
drop out of the race by Wisconsin because at that
point he became a punchline. You never want to become
a punchline. But we thought it'd be fun to make
a little mash up of what AOC just did and
what Howard Dean did twenty two years ago.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
It is time for all of us to come to Georgia.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
We're going to California and Texas.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
To Louisiana, to Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
New York.
Speaker 8 (17:19):
We going to South Dakota and Oregon, Tonississippi.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
And Washington and Michigan, and then we're going to Washington See.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
To take the White House.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Watching them screen, I know it makes some of you crazy.
I understand. I will get emails later tonight for people say,
don't do that again. Don't play them doing that. It
upsets me. It's very important you understand something. The basis
of a vaccine is that you get a little bit
(17:56):
of something bad so that your body swa, warms it
and kills it off. You gotta have a little of
the bad for our people to remember how awful the
left really is. So what I'm doing is giving you
a little of that bad. Give me, give me a
little more of that roomle.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
It is time for all of us to come to Georgia.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
We're go to California and Texas.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
To Louisiana, to Tennessee, New York.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Were going to South Dakota and Oregon, to Mississippi.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
And Washington and Michigan, and then we're going to Washington
See to take the White House. Here is the story
I told you about in Texas, and this is the
type of thing that Ken Paxton has done as our
attorney general. That is the reason he's going to beat
John Cornyn in the primary runoff this week, and the
(18:52):
reason he's going to beat Tallarico in November. Because we
want a pit bull, an imperfect pit bull. Trump's an
imperfect pit We want a pitbull. He has put an
end to the weeny chopping that Texas Children's Hospital denied
they were doing. He caught him doing it, and he
punished him for it.
Speaker 6 (19:11):
A controversial settlement over transgender care for minors reached today
between Texas Children's Hospital in Houston and Attorney General Ken Paxton.
After years of back and forth and the involvement of
the US Department of Justice, Texas Children's is agreeing to
pay ten million dollars to the state, provoke the privileges
of several doctors, and create what Paxton calls the nation's
(19:33):
first de transition clinic.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
This all stems from a twenty twenty three state.
Speaker 6 (19:37):
Investigation into allegations that the hospital improperly build Texas Medicaid
for some of the care. In a statement, Paxton says,
in part quote, this settlement will ensure that the durianed
child mutilators who hurt our kids are fired and held accountable,
adding that the detransition clinic will help provide free care
to those who have been victimized by twisted, morally bankrupt
(19:59):
transgender ideology.
Speaker 10 (20:01):
Ken Paxson has been using the Attorney General's office to
attack transgender people in a really obsessive way.
Speaker 6 (20:06):
Equality Texas CEO Bred Pritchett tells me he's disappointed by
the settlement, saying a clinic focused on detransitioning instead of
gender affirming care doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 10 (20:17):
The type of healthcare that is specific for trans people
is continually being reduced, and those lanes are being narrowed,
and they're being pushed aside in favor of healthcare that
isn't a priority. There is no huge group of people
who are seeking this type of healthcare for trans healthcare.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
The regret rates are incredibly low.
Speaker 10 (20:35):
I mean we're talking one percent, sometimes less, depending on
the study.
Speaker 6 (20:38):
Texas Children's maintains they follow the law, but in a
statement they say, quote, we are settling to protect our
resources from endless and constantly litigation. This settlement will allow
us to redirect those precious resources to focus on the
life saving care and groundbreaking discoveries of our exceptional clinicians
and scientists.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
What's your reaction to Texas.
Speaker 10 (20:58):
Children saying that that that's a really good argument. And
if the argument is we know what we did was right,
but we're just going to settle with something that's not right,
I don't think that's a valid argument.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Michael Berry's show, it was on this day in nineteen
eighty forty six years ago the Mount Saint Helen's erupts
in Washington, killing fifty seven people, causing three billion dollars
in damage. I remember when this happened. I remember it well.
(21:36):
I was only nine years old, but I remember talking
about it at school. This was the news. This was
news we could understand, This was news we could bring
home that made sense to us. Natural phenomena. And every
boy gets excited about volcano eruptions, right. That's why if
(21:59):
you go to the science fair, it's always the boys
that have volcano eruptions. Now I had something to keep
my eyes peeled for it. Now we don't have volcanic
eruptions and in Southeast Texas on the Louisiana border. But
I didn't know that it was one more thing I
needed to be on the lookout for. There was strangers
(22:21):
offering candy, Oh, no stranger danger. There was quicksand there
was quicksand in every movie, so I was always looking out.
Be careful over you go out into the woods, be careful.
There might be quick sand over if there is, I
know what to do. Whirlpools. You want to get in
(22:42):
the water because it might be when in whirlpools whip
up on you. You never know. African killer bees. You
didn't know if I was going to happen. There's lots
of things to look out for. And now I had
to add to my list volcanoes. And forty was it?
(23:03):
Forty six years later, I've never come across any of
these dangers, but I've been on the lookout. Maybe that's it.
Maybe I've managed to avoid him on that basis alone.
Born on this day in eighteen eighty nine, Thomas Midgeley Junior.
He was an American mechanical and chemical engineer. You probably
(23:27):
don't know his name, but he did affect your life.
He played a major role in developing gasoline. That gasoline
at that time was just gasoline. We've come to call
it leaded gasoline because they were later able to extract
(23:52):
the lead from the gasoline. Some of the first chlorofloro
carbons were part of his developments CFCs. They were better
known by the brand name free On. Both of those
products affected in a dramatic way, the growth, development and
(24:20):
comfort of our country. The ability of our people to
generate our own energy, to move about freely allowed us
to make advancements far superior than what anyone else was doing.
The United States catapulted itself over the world's powers dramatically,
(24:43):
almost overnight and quietly, so goods and services could be
moved from the West coast to the East coast and
everywhere in between. People could live further from where they worked,
They could travel and visit family, could go and seek
medical care. Because of these fuel sources, we were able
(25:07):
to cool spaces that were hot. Now, the wacko environmentalists
will tell you these were awful things. You know, it's awful.
A Houston summer with no air conditioning. That's awful. Free
On was a game changer. A magazine called The New
(25:28):
Scientist called him a quote, I mean a scientist called
a New Scientist referred to him as a one man
environmental disaster. This man helped change the face of our
country and the world for the better refrigeration of goods, refrigeration,
(25:54):
air conditioning for our homes. We're going to see the
rever facts. We're going to see the real negative impacts
of environmentalism very soon because what they've done to our
air conditioning systems with the changeout and the requirements and
regulations regarding free on. Ask an ac repair man if
(26:16):
that's going to help or hurt the comfort of your castle.
The left really wants you to live a life where
when you pull up to a stop sign, your car
goes dead and then starts up again. The left really
wants you to turn off your air conditioning. You're keeping
(26:40):
it too comfortable in your home. That's what Jimmy Carter said,
and that's what Jimmy Carter two point zero Barack Obama said.
The left believes that your insurance coverage is too good.
Those are Cadillac plans. So they destroy them as part
(27:00):
of Obamacare. Obamacare did not make health care better for anybody. Nobody, ohbody.
It was going to be health care for everybody. No,
it wasn't. It was never going to be health care
for everybody. That's socialized medicine. There was no funding for it.
What it did do is say, if you're not buying
(27:22):
basic health insurance, we're going to require you to buy it,
and if you don't buy it, we're going to charge
you anyway. How did they get away with that? You
cannot compel someone to conduct commerce. The constitution prohibits such
a thing. You cannot make someone go out and buy something.
(27:44):
So how did they compel it? Well, Justice John Roberts,
the Republican nominee. Republican nominated by a Republican president. He
didn't want to overturn Obamacare. He didn't want this is
what you get with the John Cornyn, this is what
you get with the John mccaina meant, Romney is what
you get with milk toast Republicans. He did not want.
He was an establishment Republican, a Botai guy, a country
(28:07):
club repol He didn't want to overturn Obamacare because that
would be very upsetting. No, no, no, no, no, as
bad as this is, let's just do it and move
on down the road. We'll figure it out. It'll be fine.
So he and he alone said, uh, okay, it's a
terrible idea, but we're not going to say that it's
(28:28):
compelling commerce. It is. It's requiring you to buy insurance, yes,
but if you don't buy it, it's a tax. And
Congress does have the authority to tax you, so it's
not really compelling. Conon, it was just a tax increase.
When they came to Obama at the White House before
the decision had just been made, Obamacare had been upheld,
(28:51):
but they didn't know that it had been uphel because
you had to read the ruling. So one of his
legal advisors comes to Obama and says, oh, they declared
that they upheld Obamacare. Are you sure, because it doesn't
look like they did. No, they did. They called it
at tax, and what did Obama say? We don't want
(29:13):
them to call it attacks. It either was a tax
or it wasn't. If it was a tax, it was
constitutional but politically unpopular. If it was not a tax,
it was unconstitutional. So Roberts decided to call it attacks
politically unpopular, but it remains in effect. Oh the games
(29:37):
they play to avoid overturning the apple cart, the establishment
always wins. But is anybody's healthcare actually better as a
result of it.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
No,
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