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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Why do you say you feel trapped in a man's body.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Well, sometimes I get the minstrel crabs real hard.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
For me, sports is about belonging. It's about inclusivity.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
It's about allowing everyone to be their authentic self.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
You know, I'm big on that.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Just because I have been criticized for my height, for
my ethnicity. I've been in those you shouldn't belong here
many times, and for me, I don't want that space,
especially Gold and State, to ever feel like that. So
I'm all about women, little girls deserving to play, and
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that includes trans women.
Speaker 5 (00:58):
There's a lot of people for around trans athletes and
what they can compete in. I would welcome a trans
applet on my team more against my team anytime. I
don't think it's a problem in the world. It's just
another way to kind of attack trans people.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
I'm strong and.
Speaker 6 (01:21):
Simply declaring who you are is all that's required that
I meet every single requirement necessary to compete in the WNBA.
My team and I have carefully examined the WNBA's eligibility
criteria and government framework surrounding self identification and inclusion. Based
on the current guidelines, I can and am officially declaring
my eligibility for the upcoming WNBA draft in May twenty
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twenty seven. I am definitely not here to mock, make
fun of, or disuspect any community or personal choices. I
am simply asking that the current rules be applied equally
to everyone, the rules that represent the very values many
WNBA players and coaches have publicly advocated for my team,
and I are prepared to insure these guidelines are applied
equally consistently. And we got exception, and I look forward
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to WMB honoring its state of principles.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
I've always trusted the science, and I thought I was
a man my entire life. But you know, after further review, I,
you know, look strong look at my personal preferences, it
would appear that I am indeed sometimes identifying as a
transgender woman. And I think it's only fair I get
a chance to play with some of my queens here
in the twilight of my career, at my athletic prime.
Speaker 7 (02:36):
We embrace justice, equity, diversity and inclusion. The Players Union said,
those are the values that unite this union and allow
it to protect women's sports while creating transformational change. Hate
abuse and demonization of any person or group of people,
including transgender people, only fuel fear, division and harm. We
will continue to have hard conversations, but we will not
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be used as political power.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
And of course, Sophie Cunningham, the enforcer for Caitlyn Clark
came Mountain said that men should not be in women's sports.
The coach of one of the women's teams. I don't
know which city or which mascot who does. I think
it was in Seattle, but I'm not sure that wore
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a shirt about that. As you know, there are some
black lesbian players in the league who have basically mauled
and accosted violently Caitlyn Clark and Sophie Cunningham's job is
to give it back when they do that. With all
his talk about Sophie Cunningham bearing the brunt of saying, hey,
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I thought we were about women's empowerment here. If you're
gonna let men boys to men from the earliest to
the professional leagues, if you can let them come in
and be women, you're going to destroy the strides that
we've made. Martine and Avertilova a couple of months ago said,
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and she's been a big, big advocate for you know,
this feminazi philosophy, the women's strength whatever. She came out
and said, what are we doing, ladies? If we allow
men to declare themselves to be women, they're going to
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come into women's sports and dominate it. There's a reason
we don't play the men. There's a reason women don't
play in the NFL or the NBA because they're not
as strong, they don't have the bone density, they don't
have the size. Everyone knows this, but you're real what
we're arguing now. Give the left credit, Give Soros credit.
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He's got us arguing over whether capitalism works. Sitting in
the wealthiest country in the world in history. He's got
us arguing over whether a man can be a woman
because he decides it would be advantageous to him. And
we're actually having to argue these sorts of things. It's crazy.
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So President Trump will go back to twenty twenty two,
four years ago, said I'd be the greatest women's coach
in history because he'd get men like Lebron to just
declare they were women wherever.
Speaker 8 (05:29):
I'd be the greatest women's basketball coach at history.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Because I don't like Lebron James.
Speaker 8 (05:35):
I like Michael Jordan much about it, but i'd.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
But I'd go up to Lebron James. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 8 (05:42):
I say, Lebron, did you ever have any desire to
be a woman? Because what I'd love you to do
is star on my team that I'm building up.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
I will have the greatest team in history. They'll never lose.
Speaker 8 (05:53):
Nobody who will come within seventy points of this team. Now,
we have to change that, and we have to make
it okay to talk about it. You know, the young
lady I was talking about is afraid to talk about it.
She's shunned and she's canceled when she talks about it.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
This is crazy. It is crazy. We were imagining Milo
Hamilton and Charles Barkley calling a WNBA game with a
bunch of guys on the court.
Speaker 7 (06:20):
Hello again, everybody, this is Milo Hamilton And as we
come to the end of the third quarter here at
the Climate Pledge Arena by broadcast partner, Charles Barkley will
get you scores from around the league. But first stepping
in for the storm, it's ENO's cantour Freedom eleven years
in the NBA, and tonight she's listed in your program
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at five foot eight, ohly Toledo. That woman looks a
lot taller than that, Charles. Yeah, something don't add up here, Mallow.
There are more beards on this court than a lumberjack convention.
Freedom takes the inbounds, turns and slams at home. Boo, baby,
you can put a blue star all over that one.
Dang mallo. This defense has no answer for Enis. They
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look terrible now, folks. I had lunch with Enis canto
A Freedom this afternoon. Chicken fried steak, cream, gravy, and
she ordered three. Reminds me of a fell I broadcast
with back in fifty one Whitey Pinkerton. Ooh, Whitey could eat,
but Whitey could not jump.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Oh.
Speaker 7 (07:20):
I gotta tell you, Charles, it's hunter than a deep
post stove in this building. While the grounds crew wipe
sweat off the court, I want to tell you about
my friends at Trader Joe's. They've got a sail going
on Adam's apples. Speaking of Adam's apples, this lady Enis
canto A Freedom has an Adam's Apple on her. You
can hang a lantern from Bob's like a cork and
a rain barrel.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
But these are the fruit. These are the eating kind,
crisp sweet.
Speaker 7 (07:45):
Bread as a cardinal's cap, and they're on sale this
week at your Trader Joe's.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Holy Toledo, that's a good apple.
Speaker 7 (07:53):
I had four of them with my lunch today, had
a chicken salad sandwich too. Arlene would have said, that's
too much apple for one manute and ar Lean would
have been right.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
So go see him.
Speaker 7 (08:03):
Tell a Milo sent you Trader Jones and put a
blue star all over that produce section.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Hey Malo, it says here next Tuesday's not a dog night.
Speaker 7 (08:10):
I didn't think sausage was that popular with this crowd.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Definitely seems to be gaining traction.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Snowflakes did prepare for a complete meltdown with more of
the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
The number of people are extraordinarily frustrated with the Paxton campaign.
And let me let me start by saying, I have
never supported a campaign ever that I did not figuratively
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and in most cases literally cuss out the candidate at
least one good time before the action. That is who
I am. I don't mean to say, I'm Bill Belichick
or Nick Saban, but I believe you got to get
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up somebody's ass to get them to do what you
want them to do. That, for whatever reason, they're scared, worried,
incapable of doing so, rest assured without naming names every
candidate you've ever heard me talk about. If I've said
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their name five times and you're having a drink with
them and you said, you know, I get the impression
that when he's off the air, Michael Berry can be
a complete and I mean stage five hazardous material ass.
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And they go, well, I'll tell you some but don't
repeat it. They will tell you I don't view elections
as a game. It's not a fun thing. I actually
hate it. I hate it because I hate the opponent
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and I I don't like their supporters. But nothing makes
me matter. Then people who will vote against their own
interests because invariably, one without a doubt, it never fails.
They will come back later and tell me they regret it.
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It's like raising teenagers. Don't touch that it's hot? Why'd
you touch that? I told you it was hot, That's
why you touched it, right, It's what teena that's what
I did. That's what you did. Don't hang out with
so and so. You'll get you were hanging out with it.
Ah man, don't drive over this pit you do, oh man,
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when you tell somebody this is what's gonna happen, and
they go, But I like Rayvos, butterflies and compromise, that's
what gets us a lull. And then they've elected Barack Obama. Well,
once the guy's elected, you don't get another chance to
knock him down a peg. Now he takes on a
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whole new fundraising system. The power of incumbency. If Tylerico
gets in there at thirty seven, unless he runs for
president or dies or something crazy happens, he'll be there
for life. The power of incumbency is almost impossible to
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ever overcome. So you're putting Tallerrico in there for at
least forty years. In Texas, you've only got a shot
at Senate seats. In so many states. We've managed to
squander Arizona, a Republican state, Barry Goldwater state, we've managed
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we have two Democrats in there. Now we've managed to
squander Georgia. Even Sam Nunn would be conservative in today's
Republican party even though he's a Democrat. That was a
Southern Democrat that would today be a Republican. We at
one point squandered a seat in Alabama. Cassidy lost his primary,
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so we've got because he was terrible. So now we've
got a Paxton type situation where we've got a real
challenge on our hands. The only good news is in Michigan,
a solidly Democrat seat. I saw an internal poll that
was eighty five to fifteen. There's no way that's true.
There's no way that's true. It was eighty five to
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fifteen Democrat versus Rogers. If Haley Stevenson went There's no
way that's true. The person who sent me that, I
think doesn't verify the sources, so I strike that from
the record. I don't even sa but suffice it to
say Michigan was solidly Democrat. Trump can win Michigan. We
didn't have a candidate who could win the Senate seat.
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And that gets into the Trump coalition. Trump manages to
get people to the polls to vote for him that
no other Republican alive has been able to do that,
not Ted Cruz, no other alive Reagan managed to do it.
And that is working class, socially conservative, socially conservative to
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moderate parents who typically would pull the blue level lever
but would vote for Trump. That was the Trump phenomenon.
Hillary didn't see it. Almost twenty candidates in the Republican
primary didn't see it. Hillary didn't see it. Biden saw it.
That's what they had to cheat. Kamalo was overwhelmed by
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He has an appeal now. I think Trump's approval is
down right now. I know there's the fire breathers out there,
and you're I'm gonna have to hear from you, which
is fine. Hey, get it off your you get it
off the block button takes one second. I don't think
Trump's coattails are going to be in November, at least
right now, what we need them to be. So we're
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not going to have that in our favor. I will
argue till I'm blue in the face. Here's how this
argument goes. I say Iran is hurting us. In November,
we to get out of Iran. In the emails go
like this, I do, We'll get out of brun nineteen
seventy nine. They took our hostages. Michael, okay, is that?
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What are we fighting for? The hostages in seventy nine?
Is that what we're doing right now? They took our heartes.
I ain't like them sins, but blow them to smotherings.
Are we gonna blow the smither ens? Is that what
we're gonna do? Because the President says we're gonna blow
the smithereens. You say we're gonna Why don't we blow
the smithereens? I keep hearing this? Is that? What are
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we blowing them to smithereens? No, we're not dirty, little secret.
We've lost twenty men and women over there. You don't
think the Democrats know that. Wait till the first week
of October. The only thing you're gonna hear about is
inflation and Iran. Get out. Now we gotta whoop them, Michael,
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We're gonna whoop them and whoop them. No, you're not.
It's so much more complicated than that. This is not
a bumper stick. You got that. You've got inflation and
now if the Fed raises rates, we've got our work
to do. But it's our job. It's not Paston's job.
It's our job to win this. With the goodness of
real jello buddies, let me try to explain what My
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point is because talk radio is not always conducive to
a conversation with multiple layers. And I'm as guilty as
the next guy. If I'm listening to a podcast, say
Thomas Soul, which I do a lot of, I have
to keep rewinding because his arguments well, very direct and succinct,
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can be layered and I have to go back to
what he was saying, or Milton Friedman even more so.
And you don't get that benefit with what I'm saying.
And I'm not sure what I'm saying is it's so
high level. Anyway, My intention is to say that it
is not Ken Paxton's race to win or loose. Let
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me be direct. Let me be as direct as I
can be, as much as this will not sit well
with some people, this race is not Ken Paxton's race.
If Ken Paxton loses this race, he will go off
and practice law and he'll be fine. He'll do whatever
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he does. He'll still go have lunch or dinner, he'll
still go to church, he'll still see his kids. He's
very close with him, and he'll show up to an
office and he'll talk about the old days with his buddies,
and that'll be fine. And I'll reach out, Hey, how
you doing? But he will go on, and as people do,
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Dan Crenshaw will move on, John Cornyn will move on.
What's the guys that ran for ag Ramon? Ted Cruise's buddy,
Gosh dog, My memory is not good today. I can't
remember his name anyway, bald headed we got into it
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with him anyway. These candidates move on, and they always
will because you have no alternative, Ken Paxton, if he
loses this race, we'll move on. You and I and
our children and his children will be left to pick
up the pieces of what happens in this country that
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is hanging by a delicate threat. If the Democrats get
controlled again, this will be a form of Democrats that
we have never seen before. They are going for the jugular.
If you thought they were bad, unprovoked, they've been provoked. Now.
The good news is Trump stuck it up their ass.
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The bad news is they're coming with a vengeance. Now
you should be scared. But in my years of political
observation and participation, one thing I have learned about our side.
We get very, very sloppy and complacent when we win.
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This is how we ended up with Obama. Every red
flag was there on Obama Rush Limbaugh was frustrated. You
go back and listen those shows. I was listening to
Rush last night. You go back and listen those shows
in two thousand and eight, and he says, I don't
like John McCain. I've never liked John McCain, but I
dislike John McCain. Oh lot lesson. I dislike Barack Obama.
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And nobody listened. Chiproy that was his name. Yeah, uh,
And Chip will be back. He'll be back in an
other position. He's very ambitious, he's hard working, he's smart.
My problem with Chip was he said some really nasty
anti Maga things, and frankly, I think he learned from it.
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Not everybody who gets vanquished Corn is not. Everybody who's
been defeated this season has learned from that the way
you should learn. I ran for mayor in two thousand
and three. I learned a lot from that failure. It
was the first real failure I'd ever had in my life.
I got the girl I wanted, I got into every
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school I wanted to get into. I got the career
I wanted, and then another career, and then another career.
I had never failed. I didn't think I could fail.
It was important to who I am today that I
fail and fail so fabulously, so famously so that it
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be all over the news I had been defeated. I
mean I didn't actually lose. Let's be clear, I pulled
out of the race, but I wasn't gonna win, and
that we were out of cash. So back to the point.
If Paxton loses this race, you lose so once you
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understand that. See, politics in this country has become a
way to get famous and as a result of that
fame and celebrity and power to get rich. So let
me look at it another one. We think of CJ.
Stroud as the quarterback of the Texans, and you want
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him to do well. But if he doesn't do well,
it's not really gonna affect your life, right, I mean,
a team's not any good, your ticket, somebody wants your
tickets anymore. Nobody's hyped up about the season. If CJ
doesn't have a good season, If CJ turns out not
be any good, it went. Deshaun Watson flamed out. By
the way, he's back with Cleveland. Now you know that
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it's very likely he's going to beat out Shador it's
very likely that Deshaun Watson is going to be back
starting an NFL team. It's the Browns, mind you. But
the point is your life didn't change when Deshaun absolutely
flamed out. They just went you know, you had you
had a bad season, and your tickets aren't good, and
you weren't excited about going to the game. You don't
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want to talk about the game, you listen to sports radio,
you didn't care about who we drafted, blah blah blah blah.
But it didn't change your life. If Paxton loses, this
ain't about Paxton. That's what I keep telling people. Well,
I get all these people who all they want to do.
I don't want to talk politics when I'm off the air,
but all they want to do is talk politics. And
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it goes like this, Wachael, what are we gonna do
about the Democrats doing this and Democrats doing that? And
what are they saying? Now? Hey, Michael, I don't know
about Paxton. Please never speak to me again. That little
hole in your mouth, close it and never speak again,
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because you've got really, really, really stupid things going on
in your head. But I don't know it. If all
you do is blink. But when you speak, you remind
me that you've learned nothing. This race is not about
Ken Paxton. I'm gonna say that until election day. I've
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told him that get out of the way, don't be
a distraction, and let us beat Tallafrico. That's it, and
that's all. Well, But Michael, he went through a divorce,
and what do you think tall Rico has been doing.
He's a thirty seven year old single man who's never
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been seen with a woman. And now you know how
bad the truth is for Tallafrico. Did you see what
they did in order to manufacture a girlfriend, the love
of his life. They brought out his chief of staff,
his most loyal political supporter, I'm his girlfriend, and in fact,
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in order to make it believable, they made it a
violation of every nepotism policy. He's banging the help and
you go, that's terrible. He's banging help, And they go, yeah,
but it's a whole lot better than the reality. So
we're going with that one because it's believable. He ain't
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banging any well, he ain't banging the help, not this help.
You don't care about Tellafreco's background. You care about Ken
Paxton because you want the perfect candidate. This ain't about
the perfect candidate. This is about who you can send
to Washington, d C. To do the least damage. And
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that's Ken Paxton period in the store. I'm not sure
trying to make him out to be God. I'm not
trying to make him out to be Donald Trump. I
just want to beat Talafrico to Michael Berry show, simple man.
There is a lot of attention right now on abdul
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l said in Michigan some of the things he has said,
his association with Hassan Piker, who is this Muslim Hitler
type fellow. I mean, he is a monster of a
human being, and he's one of these angry Muslims who
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has really really accumulated a lot of wealth and power
by talking about how much he hates Christians and white
people and Americans, and it's all Americans that he's getting
paid from. There is a certain amount of self loathing
amongst college kids in this country that they like when
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someone hates everything about it's kind of how they deal
with their white guilt. And then it's not all white guilt.
You've got non whites who do hate whites and he's
saying what they'd like to say. So it's like a
rapper with a really really dangerous message. They feel edgy
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liking it. Well, he has talked about illegal immigrants coming
here and they should come here and rape the white
college girls. I mean, he's said some really brutal, cruesome stuff, awful.
And this is Lsied's you know, right hand man, campaign manager,
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dear friend, top advisor. And so now we've got a
situation where a really radical, really dangerous person, Mom, Donnie's
just as dangerous, actually more so, because he can hide
it better, he can talk prettier. This Abdullah l said,
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he's on records saying some really really awful things. And
what I have said is you've got to understand politics
is binary in this country. When you go to the
legislature as a member of the House or a much
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more powerful member of the Senate, because there's only one
hundred of them, are you going to vote with Trump?
Are you going to vote with with the crazies? That's
really that's the only thing that matters where you're from.
If you're a nice guy, your family photo, the speech
you gave the debate, none of that matters. The only
thing that matters is the vote you cast. President Trump
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put his new Attorney General Canada up the other day.
It passed fifty two forty nine. We lost Susan Kahle
and Lisa Rotowski. One more vote and it would have
been a tie.
Speaker 7 (28:03):
JD.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Evans would have had to go in and break the tie.
John Cornyn, who's mad that he lost his Republican primary,
was holding out to the last minute. So was Tom Tillis.
Tom Tillis doesn't have to face the voters again. He's retiring,
so his seat is up. So they both extracted demands
from the President because if they didn't vote with the president,
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president can't get his attorney general over the finish lane.
Speaker 9 (28:30):
So it doesn't matter where they went to school, whether
they came to your church, whether they came to your
Veterans Day parade, whether they came to your July fourth parade,
whether they wrote you a nice letter, whether they took
a meeting with you, whether.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
None of that matters. None of it matters. The only
thing that matters is how they vote. And the Democrats
have a different strategy in every state. In Michigan, put
a Muslim socialist out there. Why are excited because you
got a radical Muslim. But how do you get the
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Democrats who are not radical Muslims to vote for a
radical Muslim? Where you lead with a socialism, socialism is
a great opportunity for radical Islam to win over the
hearts and minds of the Bernie Sanders supporters, the AOC supporters.
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So you are digging your own grave literally if you
are a socialist and a lot of these, by the way,
are Jews, if you are a socialist sympathizer, and now
you're voting for like Bernie Sanders told you to voting
for this clown. And that's how they do it. That
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is the trojan horse that they use. Well in Texas,
they a white guy. They put him in boots, his
feet hurt a lot. He lives with his mother. He's
thirty seven years old. You never had a woman. And
they rented a truck for him to drive, a big
truck which is not his vehicle, and they put a
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cowboy hat on him, brand new it. Yeah. Yeah, that's so.
It's depending on the audience, you pick a different candidate
to appeal. But at the end of the day, they
all go to d C and do the same exact point.
All right, back to the point. I'm speaking very plainly
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and very blunt here because I don't want to be misunderstood.
I don't do this often. All right, I'm laying it
out there. Yes, I am worried. I am not worried
because this is a question of is uh is uh
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Tallarico a genius? Then hold the Senate. So I had
someone yesterday say to me, well, Beto never led Ted
Cruz in twenty eighteen. I don't want to overstate my
importance here, but at periods of time, especially twenty eighteen,
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I was talking to Ted Cruz every day. I went
back and looked this was September nineteenth. In today's August tenth,
September nineteenth headline Texas Tribune, Beto O'Rourke leads Ted Cruz
by two among likely voters in US Senate race. New
Pole Fines. O'Rourke has been closing the gap over the
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last several months, but this is the first poll that
puts him ahead of Cruise. That language is language that
is used for insiders. There are a lot of people
who will give money to whoever they think is going
to win, a lot of people who won't give money
to a candidate they think is going to lose, and
money becomes very important around September nineteenth because you got
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to make that final buy, that final push. So this
is the media trying to say to the money guys, hey,
stay out, he's going to lose. Hey give to Beto,
he's going to win. You are showing what in political analysis,
is the buzzword the most important thing. Who's got the juice,
who's got the big mo, who has momentum? If Beto
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had been trailing, but closing the gap, closing the gap,
closing the gap, you never want to know what's happening
in a static moment. You want to know what the
trend is showing. The trend here was showing Beto is
rising and Cruise is falling. Beto's about to win. It
didn't win. It was disturbingly closed. I think it was
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fifty one forty eight with obviously not everybody votes for
either one of them, but that was a dreadfully close
race and Beto was ten times better than tula Rico.
Beto scares me. If Beto had run this time, Beta
would have won. Talafrico is not going to win if
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we do our jobs. But here's the park that upsets me.
Everybody thinks it's ten Paxton's shop. You know you don't.
You don't say to CJ. Stroud, Hey, I'm gonna call
the plays and I'm gonna you just you support them,
you cheer for them. Campaigns are grassroots. You are the campaign.
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Paxton's gonna spend money. There's a new ad that just
ran that's based on a flip of the sixty four
out of they ran against Goldwater. Paxton's gonna do his job.
Don't worry, you do yours. That's what I'm wanting. LSD,
thank you, I have good night,