PM Show Hr 2 | The Many Cultures that Make America Great

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time, luck and load. So Michael
Verie Show is on the air. You know why nothing

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gets fixed in this country because everybody wants to be nice.
Nobody wants to be the turd and the punch bowl.
You're standing outside at a concert, waiting in a line,

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and then here's come somebody, real smooth, strolling up to
say hello to their friend, and that's going to be
their over. If somebody says, hey, fella, get to the
back of the line. We were waiting for hours, and
they'll go, oh, I will I'm just saying hello to
my friend. But what they hope is nobody else saying anything.

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And if nobody actually calls them out, they'll talk for
a while, maybe put their arm around them and hug
them a little, and then after a while it just
kind of it's just kind of broken line, and lots
of people behind them will grumble under their breath. God er,
I hate it makes me show the man break that

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he goes back along. Well enforce the rule. It's a
social rule. Either enforce the rule, or go up and
stand right in front of them and force them to
enforce the rule, or sit there quietly like a mouse.

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Because God knows you don't want to rock the boat.
You know, if you watch winners versus losers, you will
notice that winners demand excellence. Steve Jobs is often described
as being mean, built the greatest company. You don't do

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that being a nice guy and mediocre. People don't understand that.
Government employees don't understand that clock punctures don't understand that
excellence is not the state of nature. Mediocrity is entropy.

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You know, if you just allow and accept whatever people do,
that will become the standard. It won't be a high performance.
So with that in mind, that is my motivational speech
to you to join with me as we go on

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a journey. Ron, can we get some journey going music?
You know, maybe I don't know an englishman with his
driving glasses and his his scarf around his neck. Okay,
I didn't mean that kind of journey music. I mean
music for us to go on a journey and hold on,

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amos getting our music? U'ed up here. We're gonna go
on a journey together, all of us together, or maybe
we're not. Uh, we're driving an MG. We're driving an MG.
In the mid sixties, it's we're going fast but not
real fast. I'm really a straight, little four cylinder, a

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little English you know. We're not going that fast. It's
little bitty, you know, but we're out on a English
country road. Say here we go on our journey, so
earlier today, and remember, if you get your feelings hurt,
you're not welcome on our journey. Because in order to

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embrace excellence, we're going to have to step on some toes. Right,
we'll make an omelet. We're gonna have to break some eggs.
I posted on Facebook, You're welcome to follow me there
the following statement. I said, I'm making a list of
things where I think at least twenty five percent of

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the people doing it are frauds and don't actually qualify.
And here was my list. I started with the list
of seven. Number one, disabled parking. I think at least
twenty five percent of the people with a disabled parking
pass or are parking disabled parking are not disabled. Now,

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what I will do in response is mag my friend's
got to disabled parking spot and he doesn't have a limp,
but his doctor gave it to him. Well, let me
be very clear, you're parking in a spot at the
front that I'm not able to park in if I
arrived before you. We have agreed as a society that

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first come for a cert open parking spot, you can
park there. In fact, if every spot in the lot
is open, I mean it is taken, I'm not allowed
to park there. I got a circle for a while
or leave, But that person has it reserved for them.
So we've decided, well, yeah, because some people can't walk

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very far, well, there's improper enforcement. There's a lot of people,
not one hundred percent of them, So people start feeling
guilty when you say that's all fair. I have a
disabled spot and I'm very disabled. I said twenty five percent.
Maybe you're part of the seventy five percent. Maybe you're
part of the twenty five number two emotional support animals.

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This has become perhaps the most abused social norm. You
see these people walking through the airport with their ankle biters,
a lots of opso a poodle. What is your emotional
support issue? Maybe you should go to counseling and get

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off this plane. You just want to bring your pet
with you so people will get upset. Mick, I believe
you said that. I've been through a lot and I
have a dog. Okay, maybe you're part of the seventy
five percent who qualifies for their emotional support animal, but
maybe you're part of twenty five meals on wheels. This

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was what set me off. I had a college classmateer
her dad was a multimillionaire and he got meals on wheels.
So a woman said to me, Well, the meals on
wheels isn't just for poor people, it's also people who
could cook. He could cook. He took advantage of every
government benefit he possibly could have disgusted his daughter. Number

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four EBT cards, need us say more, We know that's
a scam. Number five the scooter at Walmart. Listen, I
get it. You're fat as hell, but you can walk
around like the rest of us because you're taking up
too much space. Oh, Michael, that's rude. Yeah, I'm rude.
That's me. Number six the wheelchair at the export at

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the airport. I'm going to tell you because my wife's Indian,
I feel like I can speak to this. Old Indian
people abuse this. They're the worst, and they get pushed
right up to the front when they're not disabled at all.
And finally, stuff that gets put on the cardboard sign
when people bag in the Median If you're claiming that

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you're a veteran and you're not, that's stolen valor. And
there are people a lot of veterans will pull up
and go, hey, where'd you serve? What unit? And then
I forget you and walk off because they know they've
been exposed. I want to go back to one of
these women. Are chief Thecklberriage. I think that there might be,

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so I've got nothing going on down there. Probably it's
just as important that we retain German music, whether that
be yodeling or the various Texas has a lot of
old German dance halls, festivals, and then you get the Bohemian,

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the Czech culture. My wife being Indian, I can tell
you that somehow they think I want to go to them.
There's a there's a festival in the Greater Houston area
alone every week of some part of Indian culture. I
love it. So if you're new to the show, this

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just a warning. We talk about music because we love
music and we enjoy listening to it and talking about
it and how it reflects. But Flaco Jimenez, who you
heard right there is a major influence in a musical
style known as conjunto co o n j u nt

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o conjunto. And it was on this day in nineteen
eighty four, forty years ago that Floco, which means skinny,
that Flaco him Inez's father passed away in San anton
Now San Antone is technically San Antonio, and some people
get upset that I say san Antone. But you have

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to understand, back in the day, white men would refer
to San Antonio as San Antone. It's they did. That's
what my grandfather said, and I hold on to that,
so you don't have to send me an email and
say it's San Antonio. There is no right way to
say a word. I want to be very clear on this.

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There is no right way to say a word. There
is the socially accepted way. There is the most common way.
But words were created and are always being created as
a means to express ideas. So when a word is

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pronounced a certain way and other people pronounce it that
certain way over a period of time, that becomes the
accepted way that you say it. And people love to
say that's not how you say that, it's said this way. No,
it's just how you say it. I could correct your
pronunciation of Spanish words, or some Hindi words, my wife's

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native language, or some French or German words. It's not
important that we determine that a word is said this
way or that this is correct, because the understanding is
as we talk, words and sounds develop, you don't have

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to be a maven about it. You don't have to
be obnoxious about it. I love to play with grammar,
I love to play with the spellings of words. But
if you have the bigger view of history, you understand
that the way we spell words, especially in English, our
language is so awesome because our our language is like paeya.

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You know, it's it's it's the pot luck, it's it's
the dish. Every culture has a dish. You can call
it whatever you want. Every culture has the dish that
whatever is left in the fridge, you just throw it
all in there because the poor people in that culture
don't have enough. You can't have steak every night, you

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can't have this or that every night, so you just
throw it all in there. So with that being said,
it's important to me that you understand how we run
our show. Forty years ago today, Santiago Jimenez, Senior passed
away in San Anton and he had been born in
San Anton in nineteen thirteen, a very different time in

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a beautiful, wonderful city. If you've never been to San Antone,
I encourage you to visit. It's so one. I still
call it a town because when I was a kid,
it still felt like a town. Santiago him Inez was
eight years old when he took up playing the accordion
and his first record nineteen thirty six was a huge success,

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and he became known for his inventive use of something
called do lo locho sorry do lo loch which is
a Tejano contrabass that became very common in that style
of music known as conjunto. And anybody who has ever
listened to Wayne Toops or any other what's the darn

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music out of Louisiana Romont zydeco music, you'll notice a
difference in how they play the accordion. But Jimenez was
known for his use of what's called the two row
button accordion, and there were developments in accordion technology and
he refused to change, and he he would move to

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Dallas because he couldn't make a living with his music.
He worked as a school janitor, and eventually late in
his life, he moved back to San Anton started playing
music again, and the reason was his sons, Santiago and Flacco,
had made conjunto music a regional, a treasure, the kind

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of thing that people started to realize, Hey, do we
want every song to sound like the same Clive Davis
pop song that's written by some guy out of New
York and jam down our throat. No, we want to
hold on to music that represents different backgrounds, different histories.

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So I say all that because we should if. I'm
not a diversity guy, but I am for celebrating all
the awesome things that our people bring to the table.
But I'm reminded of someone proverb now quoted by Sheila
Jackson leanus I Michael Berry show Ah, Yes, the great

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Wayne too from Southwest Louisiana. They cover of a Louisiana's
LaRue song which was New Orleans ladies, but of course
who did it in French. I really do love the

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varying cultures that make America great. Living in Texas, we
have such a unique combination, and you have some you know,
wherever you are, you have that as well. Florida's influence,
particularly in the South in Miami, especially of the Cubans,

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has such an influence on that culture. But Pennsylvania, you've
got the Quakers, for instance, and you've got the Amish.
These people, the way they have integrated into American society
and in most cases intermarried, given up some parts of

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their culture but retained the rest, while the rest of
society has sort of picked up some of those things
as well. It was a stupid notion a few years
ago that the Left was pushing, calling it cultural appropriation.

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Imitation is the greatest form of flattery. Imitation is the
greatest form of flattery. My mother always said that no, no, no,
no moan. That was not my mother's phrase. Actually, I
think the original phrase was Oscar Wilde. I don't like.

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I don't like his actual phrase. It has a whole
different meaning. But what Oscar Wilde said is immit. What
did he say? See if I can remember this? Imitation
is the sincerest form form of flattery that mediocrity can
pay to greatness. I think that's right. Imitation is the

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sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.
Think about that for a moment. But imitation is I'll
go with this sort of close enough version, and that
is that imitation's the greatest form of flattery. When you

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you know, if dog breeds in America will be you'll
have a dog breed, a Chihuahua, for instance, It'll be
the hottest breed one particular year because Paris Hilton had
one in a movie, or you know the uh, what

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are those beautiful? What was Lassie as a colleague? Yeah,
So when I was growing up, a lot of people
would have a Collia. They look just like Lassie because
it was such a popular it was such a popular
character of the screen. When you when you really like something,

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whether we realize it or not, we imitate it, whether
that's an accent or a dance, or a dressing style
or a presentation. And sometimes we don't even mean to
do that. One of the things that I feel like
we've put behind us that the Left was using to
destroy the culture in this country, the fabric, the sense

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of nationhood, the sense of community that we should have
that unites us, was this idea that non white people
are all victims, and that if white people celebrated those
cultures that in some way they were insulting those cultures.

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It was cultural appropriation, whether that was American Indians or
whether that was something that was presumed to be distinctively black. Listen,
the influence of certain elements of what are considered black

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culture over the last fifty years massive. But you know
who else has had an amazing influence. And in my
state of Texas, you see this is Hispanics or Latinos
or whatever word you want to use, especially in Texas,
and I don't mean illegal aliens. First of all, if

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you know how many white boys marry Hispanic women in
the state at time. Now, a lot of his Fanics
in Texas call themselves Mexicans, but they're fifth generation Texan.
They're more Texan than I am. But they'll refer to
themselves as Mexican. Ramon will sometimes say, oh, he just
don't like me because I'm a Mexican. He doesn't think

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anybody doesn't like him for being Hispanic. That's just a joke.
Or he'll say, well, us Mexicans are going to do something.
And again, when you get the left out of your conversation,
you realize that we make jokes like this. This is
we have fun. Nobody gets their feelings hurt. The idea
of cultural appropriation was one of the most cancerous concepts,

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and so it was based on the idea that white
people were insulting non white people, non American born people
by what ay, imitating them? What you don't want the

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majority culture to in any way embrace that which comes
from outside the culture. That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
If you want a balkanized nation of people who share
nothing in common, then what you want is not a nation,

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it's not a community. You won't have patriotism. And this
is how, by the way, this is how patriotism has
been tamped down for many blacks in America. You see this.
You see this woman who I can't remember what university
she was at, but she comes up and this was

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the big story this week. She comes up to get
her diploma and shake the hand of the university president
a time on her tradition. Right, Well, she does her dance.
They call it a sway or something, these black fraternities.
And they get up there and act a fool and
they do their you know, shake their ass and have

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to work and all that. And then he puts his
hand out to shake her hand, and she does the
heisman to him like nope, and then they all interview her.
Oh why didn't she shake his hand? Well, the reason
is because she doesn't like that the university is doing
away with DEI programs because the state government is no

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longer funding them, and this was her big moment. Well,
if acting like an ass is what diversity looks like,
that's exactly why we don't want more quote unquote diversity.
So he throng Michael Bays good Shoa on Poplump. So

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I posted earlier and many of you have been emailing in.
I said, here's a where I think at least twenty
five percent of the people doing it are frauds and
don't actually qualify. And what's amazing is how many people
then do one of these things and feel the need
to defend themselves. You don't need to defend yourself. And

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I'm going to explain to you that that phenomenon. For instance,
if I say we have a very high rate of
young black men compared to the other demographics in society
who are committing murders, I will have blacks who will
email me and go, you know what, I don't commit murders.

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I'm a good guy. I got a job, and I
take whoa, whoa, whoa. I wasn't talking about you. Why
would you assume I am the same mindset of that is, Look,
if you've got to disabled parking placard, you and only
you know whether you're a scam or not. But I
do believe a lot of people are scamming the system.

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If that's not you, then bully for you. I said,
disabled parking, emotional support, animals, meals on wheels, EBT cards,
the scooter at Walmart, the wheelchair at the airport, and
the stuff people put on their cardboard sign when they
beg in the median. I think a lot of those
guys are not veterans. I got a soft spot for

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a veteran, especially with PTSD issues mental health issues. There's
a lot of people that fake being a veteran. We
know that there's a lot of people that fake a
lot of things in order to make themselves more attractive.
I'll never forget the first time I was in India
and I noticed that people had their foot hyper extended

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that were begging. And I said, ma'am, what condition causes that?
My wife said, when they're a child, their mother will
break the foot and screw it up because it makes
them more sympathetic for you to give money to. Because
if you're begg in India, you can't say, you know,
lost my job, could use some money. You got to

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be more pathetic than the next guy. And you got
people with polio or like. You got to really outdo somebody.
I mean, you got to really outdo somebody. Donny writes,
your list is spot on. I remember a few years
ago that lady called into the show. Her child was
profoundly disabled and she was having hell getting the school

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district to do anything about it. She was hindered by
all the other parents and their fake disabled kid nonsense.
She said, everybody wants to be disabled nowadays. Yep, you're
exactly right. Lucas writes, speaking of meals on wheels, I
was in a neighborhood on the far north side of Houston,

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custom built homes two million dollars in up, and there
was meals on wheels making their deliveries. So someone said,
well you can get meals on wheels that you can't
make food. Maybe they're just old, so be it. Meals
on wheels takes government money, not exclusively. We get to
decide where our money goes okay, and we get to

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criticize things that we don't like. Another one that Mark
wrote is the open hov high occupancy vehicle lanes. Ten
items or less can be added to this. That's the
person at the grocery store that's got twenty items and
goes through the ten items or less line. Paper license plates.

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I don't know where you live, but I can tell
you in Houston, this is a big deal now, the
paper license plate scam. Oh, it's a real, real deal.
Lynette joins with what you would expect. I agree, but
after having long COVID and breathing issues, I will never

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pass judgment on someone else who has a handicap sign. Okay,
So if you're never going to pass judgment on anybody
has a handicap sign, that means one hundred percent of
people can go get a handicap sign and there will
be no handicapped spot for you because you don't want
the rules enforced, so you will never have a spot

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to park. And when you pull into the parking lot
and there's always too many handicapped parking spots, that's why
there are always some open, and you go, well, is
it not right? I've got breathing issues and I'm having
to park four blocks away because there's no parking spots.
I'll say, yeah, and that's fine with me. And you'll say,

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but I'm not sure all of those people, Uh, don't
pass judgment, Lynette. Remember, we don't want to pass judgment.
We don't ever want to pass judgment on anybody that's
getting EBT, anybody's getting welfare, anybody that says that's their
emotional support animal, anybody that does anything. We don't want
to pass judgment. How dare we pass judgment? Well? Who

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am I to say? If you murder somebody that you
weren't just having a bad day? Who am I to say?
If you're driving one hundred miles an hour through a
school zone where kids could get killed, maybe you're having
a bad day. Who are we to pass judgment? Yeah?
Who are we? Because then that doesn't want to pass judgment?

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The I don't want to pass judgment crowd who feels
so good about themselves? People like you are the problem.
You're the naive neighbor I speak of. You're the one
that allows people to cut in line. You're the one
that allows fraud and waste because you don't dare want
to ask, Wait a second, where's all that money going.

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You're the one that allows bad things to happen. Oh,
preschool at public schools. Yeah, that's true. The das passes
at Disney. See, Disney's had a problem with that because
what happened is people fake a disability in order to
move to the front of the line. They'll even they'll
even hire somebody with the disability, and people go, yeah,

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I don't care, man, I just want to go to
the front of the line. Okay. What if everybody hires
someone with a disability, you're still cutting in the line. Okay,
can we admit that you're still cutting in the line? Yeah,
but I don't want to wait in line. Well, who
does you think other people want to wait in line?
And for everybody who cuts, the people who don't cut

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are actually pushed further back. There's illegal immigration one oh one.
People don't want to pass judgment. You know, who am
I to say you can't come into this country? Okay,
so they can come into the country. What about if
they take up residents on your front porch? Well, I

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don't want them there. Wait a second, who are you
to pass judgment on? Where they sleep. In fact they
need to is the restroom. And you know we don't
let people pee out in public, So open your door
and let them pee, and say no, no, no, they
can't do it. Who are you to pass judgment on
where somebody from another country who didn't choose where they're
from gets to pee. At some point, you're gonna have

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to pass judgment because if you don't, you don't enforce
any rules, and then you've got pure anarchy. See what
you want is you want somebody else to pass judgment.
You want somebody else to keep people from cutting in life,
You want somebody else to stand up for the truth. Well,