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Too night. Michael Brown joins me here the former FEMA director.
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It's always a lot of things. It's usually pretty wild
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over on next at Michael Brown USA, the Vice President
that we don't often hear from JD. Vance, but when
we do hear from him, it's always worthwhile. This past week,
he leveled a blistering critique at Europe in general, Germany
in particular, but Europe in general. He accused it of
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something I think we have been doing but which we
are trying to reverse. And I've you know, it's it's
I'm not patting myself on the back here, just not
doing that. But I have long before Trump and Vance
became president. For the almost twenty years now that I've
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been on radio, I've been taught talking about how this
country Western civilization in general, but in particular, this country
has been committing national suicide. So of course I was
ecstatic when this critique that Vance blasted over in Europe.
It was essentially accusing them of quote committing civilizational suicide
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and really directed at Germany. And claiming that they were
bringing about their own demise. He said this quote, if
you have a country like Germany, excuse me, if you
have a country like Germany where you have another few
million immigrants coming in from countries that are totally culturally
incompatible with Germany, then it doesn't matter what I think
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about Europe. Germany will have killed itself. And I hope
they don't do that because I love Germany and I
want Germany to thrive.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Now those.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
You know, I was thinking, I'm writing an editorial for
USA today, and I came up with something about you know,
people have already established you can imagine what the subject's about.
People have already decided on their own facts, and they've
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decided what they think about those facts. And so it
doesn't make any difference what some people say or how
logically you can be, what kind of data you can
show them. We live in a world where people make
up their own facts, whether there's any truth to those
facts or not, that becomes embedded in their brain and
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you can't and you can't jar it loose. And I
think part of that is because, going back to civilizational suicide,
we've allowed Marxism to so infuse education in this country.
That and one of the tenets of Marxi. Of course,
you've got to kill religion, but you also have to
kill critical thinking because Marxism, socialism, communism, fascism cannot survive
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when people think for themselves, and they certainly can't survive
if they have a belief in something higher and more
powerful than themselves, and that something is not God but
the government. If you believe in government as being the
higher power that can solve all your problems, then that
feeds right into Marxism and socialism. I say that because
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a lot of people, when they heard Vance's remarks immediately
dismiss those remarks as yet just another post Munich security conference.
Jab remember when he was at that security conference shortly
after the election and he talked about how Europe was
killing itself. Well, Vance persists that his concerns for Germany
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were and still are sincere, and he seems to have
a point because while the United States watches, while you
and I watch these developments from Afar, the cabal exists
in Germany too, and the German mainstream media continues to
push the narrative that the country needs four hundred thousand
skilled workers annually. We've got to import these workers from somewhere. Now,
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that's despite the fact that there are nearly four million
able bodied people of working age that already receive benefits.
Almost half of that four million are non German citizens. Now,
when you include those who have German passports who were
born overseas, the number rises to over sixty four percent.
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So where did it go wrong? Where did it go
wrong for Germany on immigration or, to be technically very
specific here, refugee policy. It began with something called in
this country, we call it the H one B visa,
a guest worker visa and H one B visa. Ostensibly
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in its original form was if we needed very specific,
very narrowly defined skills, say a well we were talking
about doctors earlier. You need a very skilled surgeon or
researcher in a very particular area. But the only skill
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set that you can find that a doctor has, that
person happens to be in Switzerland or Austria or perhaps Germany.
So we regrant them in H one BE visa to
come and work in this country because we needed that skill. Well,
that's kind of been bastardized since then. But Germany started
with the same thing. They called it guest workers. I
don't speak German, but it looks like in germanstrobider, something
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to that effect. It began with their guest program where
they invited them during the post war economic boom under
Chancellor Adenauer and his Minister of Economic Affairs and a
future future chancellor by the way, Erhard. So let's go
back to nineteen fifty five. Starting in nineteen fifty five,
Germany recruited labor from Greece, Italy, Spain and Turkey, and
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what began with a mere three hundred thousand workers in
the nineteen sixties ballooned to more than two point six
million workers by nineteen seventy three. Then you had the
introduction of family reunification, which turned those guests into permanent residents. Now,
there were some efforts to curb immigration and tried to
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encourage return migration as Lais of the nineteen nineties, but
that was met with very little success. And I think
it was met with little success because primarily Germans were
by when you think about by the nineteen nineties, we're
approaching you know, y to okay, we're approaching the you know,
twenty first century, and we were already seeing wokism, We
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were already beginning to see what we called them political correctness.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Well, you know we're trying to get these families to,
you know, migrate back out of the country. Well, why well,
because they weren't assimilating. So those efforts to curb immigration
and encourage return migration didn't have well, I shouldn't say
didn't have any success, but have very little success. Why well,
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because of the If you've ever been to Germany, it's
a lot nicer place to live than say, even Turkey.
Would you rather live in Munich or Istanbul? Istanbul is
a beautiful city to visit. It's a wonderful place to visit.
Anchor No, I don't really want if if you tell
me I've got to choose between Turkey or India, that matter,
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turk here, India and Germany, I'll pick Germany every single day.
Now if broaden my choice, I still want to live
in this country. But some people made that choice when
they opened up the guest worker program. Do I want
to leave Turkey my home country and go to Germany?
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (09:22):
And I can get all these benefits. Boom, show me
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Go for it.
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So let's go back to this hole, this kerfuffle that
jd Vance has caused, which I think is just truth telling.
But oh my gosh, we can't tell the truth anymore. Well,
fast forward to twenty fifteen, back from the nineteen nineties,
or actually back from the nineteen fifties, when Germany really
started using the guest worker program well in twenty fifteen,
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Angela Merkel, who was the chancellor at the time, just
threw open the floodgates. She's the one that decided to
allow the Syrian immigrants to enter Europe. So that resulted in,
I mean kind of what we saw in the Biden era,
when you announce to the world, either old Mission or Comission,
that the gates are open, and by the way, we're
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not going to do anything. And in fact, we'll even
give you an app. And if you're coming through the
dairyen gap through Central America, we'll help you load the app.
We'll even give you a damn phone. We had all
sorts of NGOs handing out phones and then showing them
how to put the CBP one app on, which would
allow them to start, you know, bypassing you know anything,
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just check in with your app, and then they'll get
you a hearing date, you know, sometime in the next century.
And meanwhile, get on your bus or you're playing or
wherever and go to Chicago, La, go to Denver, wherever,
and settle in and buy gully. We'll just throw tax
dollars at you. That's feeding the stray cats, and the
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cats talk among themselves. Well, the Syrians talked among themselves
and then ended up with millions of asylum seekers and
economic refugees if you will, that made their way off
Europe no vetting, no vetting whatsoever. And then the Syrian
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Civil War came to an end, and guess what, huh shocker,
none of them wanted to go back home. Even though
the Syrian Civil War had come to an end, nobody
wanted to go home, and a combination of family reunion
and lacks borders means that those asylum seekers would keep
coming in large numbers. Why would you go again, I've
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never been to Syria, I've never been to Damascus, and
I have no desire to go, particularly under current circumstances.
But if you've been living in a war torn country
for decades and suddenly the word spreads among your little
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village that oh, if you can just make your way
to Germany, not only will you will they help you
find a a really nice flat or an apartment or
whatever to live in, but you know they'll they'll give you,
they'll put you on their social welfare system. And if
you want to make even more money, yeah, you could
probably find a job doing something, but you.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Don't have to.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
So of course they're going to they're going to start
migrating and they're all going to be economic refugees. And
of course they had the civil war, and that that
was an even better reason to be a refugee, because
you're escaping a civil war and you're you're escaping, and
in Syria in particular, you're escaping that you're being discriminated against,
you're being targeted, and there's genocide going on. And Germany
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just through the door open. So work with consequences. Well,
you can see them for yourself. It's very easy to
see rising crime rates, violent crime rates, public schools where
students of foreign backgrounds make up forty two percent of
the pupils. Some schools upwards of ninety percent are foreign born.
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But stop right there for them. If if you're a
German citizen and your child's classroom is almost fifty percent
in some cases ninety percent Syrian refugees or just foreign reads.
I shouldn't pick on Syrians here, just foreign immigrants to
your country. Don't speak German, haven't been brought up in
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the German culture, have no idea about German mores standards,
how you conduct yourself in society or anything. How German
law works, how the German constitution works, even German history,
including the Nazi history. What's the teachers, what's going to
happen in the classroom. Those German students are either going
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to be pushed aside or depending on the teacher, the
refugee students are going to be pushed aside. Either way,
kids don't get educated. Then you have in addition to that,
you have the cultural fragmentation, an overburdened welfare and an
overburdened healthcare system. Even Germany, they're once abundant tax revenues
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no longer enough. A one hundred and seventy two billion
euro budget, that's about one hundred and nineteen billion US
dollars budget hole, a budget deficit, and it gets worsened
because they make promises such as special pension for mothers.
So meanwhile, the government's floating the idea of a boomer
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solely a new tax on big pensions. So if you
make more than if you have a pension of more
than the equivalent of about eleven hundred dollars a month, yeah,
they're going to impose a tax on that the warning
lights are flashing, the government continues to kick the can
down the road. All the necessary reforms to the welfare state,
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to the pensions system, to the immigration policies are all
into the postponed and even ignored. But policy makers, although
they debate introducing, you know, new quotas in public schools,
some of which serve only whole aw of food and
have reportedly abandoned Christmas celebrations in favor of mandatory ramadame events. Meanwhile,
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thousands of individuals in Germany are facing lawsuits. Now you
might ask yourself what personal injury lawsuits, defamation lawsuits, what
kind of lawsuits are they facing? When you allowed that
kind of influx of people who don't share your standards,
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your culture, and even in a melting pot like this country,
we were saying, hey, you know what, we celebrate all cultures,
but we still expect you to assimilate as an American,
or at least they thought we did, or at least
we should. When you have when when you end up
with the cultural fragmentation, that is in and of itself
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a form of suicide. Because countries develop their own cultures
and those cultures are something to be celebrated. Those cultures
are something to be recognized. Now again, we have all
sorts of different cultures in this country, ethnic cultures, religious cultures,
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societal cultures, political, economic cultures of all sorts. But we
still see ourselves, or at least we should see ourselves
singularly as Americans, as citizens of the United States. And
what that means all we have to do is look
across the Atlantic at what's happening in Germany. But I
could have picked France, I could have picked the UK,
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but I picked Germany because of what the Vice President said.
So what's happening in terms of these lawsuits? Well, hang tight,
that's next.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Tonight. Michael Brown joins me here, the former FEMA director.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Of talk show host Michael Brown.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Brownie, no, Brownie, You're doing a heck of a job
the Weekend with Michael Brown.
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Hey, welcome back to the Weekend with Michael Brown. Glad
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Speaker 1 (18:22):
Chop chop, chop job.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
So there's all these lawsuits going on that Germans are
facing and before I tell you about the lawsuits. Just
to give you a little perspective, Let's go back to
when jd Vance was at the security conference in Munich
in February and said this Britain.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
And across Europe, free speech, I fear is in retreat.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
US Vice President J. D Vance accused European leaders on
Friday of censoring free speech and failing to control immigration
in an address at the Munich Security Conference in Germany.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
I really do believe that allowing our citizens to speak
their mind will make them stronger still, which, of course.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Brings us back to Munich, where.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
The organizers of this very conference have banned lawmakers representing
populist parties on both the left and the right from
participating in these conversations.
Speaker 6 (19:23):
The comments drew a sharp rebuke from Germany's Defense Minister
Boris Pistorius and overshadowed discussions on the war in Ukraine.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Dize de Mukhaki.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
This democracy was called into question earlier by the US
Vice President for the whole of Europe. He spoke of
the cancelation of democracy and if I understood him correctly,
he compared conditions in parts of Europe with those in
authoritarian regimes, ladies and gentlemen. That is not acceptable.
Speaker 6 (19:51):
The clash underlined the divergent worldviews of US President Donald
Trump's new administration and European leaders, making it hard for
long time allies the United States and Europe to find
common ground on issues, including Ukraine. The war torn country's
president Vladimir Zelenski told the conference that he would talk
to Russian President Vladimir Putin only once Ukraine had agreed
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on a common plan with Trump and European leaders.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Know how has that been working out so far? It
isn't interesting German The German Foreign Minister's Defense Minister's response, Well,
that's not the Germany.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
I know.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Well, what about this, mister minister. There are thousands of
individuals in Germany. They're facing lawsuits for these horrific, horrific
crimes of sharing memes, voicing criticisms or insulting you, insulting politicians. Now,
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most of those cases were brought by politicians from the left,
the Green Party, the Freedommocrats and the Social Democrat Party.
But nonetheless, I mean it helps reinforce my point that
those on the left, the Marxists, are have no interest
whatsoever in free speech. They have no interest whatsoever in
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people critically thinking. You know, memes are funny that oftentimes
memes expose a really ugly truth that most people just
don't want to face politicians hey, criticism, They despise criticism
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and insulting them. Oh my gosh, you might as well
just have your head chopped off if you insult a politician.
You know what's interesting, that's part of our DNA. That's
kind of why we get it. We kind of get
our jollies off insulting politicians because they set themselves up
so easily to be insulted. Let me give you a case.
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A pensioner was subjective to a police search and then
later sentence simply for sharing a meme. You know, be
careful what you share with me on X because well,
you know, you may end up getting sued. A journalist
from a right wing populist publication got a suspended prison
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sentence and a fine for posting an image of the
former Interior Minister Nancy Fasier added to so that she
was holding a sign that said I hate freedom of speech.
Isn't that kind of deliciously ironic? So you get a
suspended prison sentence and a fine. For posting an image.
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You know you've seen these pictures. In fact, my advice
to you is don't ever let anybody take a photograph
of you holding any sort of sign in front of
your face and in front of you, like you know,
just under your neck or in front on your chest,
because that can be photoshopped to say anything that they
wanted to say, whether you say it or not. Just
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a little friendly advice there. But think about how ironic
it is that the former Interior minister gets really pissed
off and so goes to the prosecutors and says, look,
I didn't say that. Well, first of all, you're a
public official, so at least in this country, we could
put anything on that stupid piece of paper. We could
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say anything, We could say that you said anything. But
you're a public official. Now you can come out and
deny it. But when you start criminalizing speech, and then
you go criminalize speech because someone said that, you hate
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freedom of speech, so then you have them prosecuted for
exercising freedom of speech, isn't that the very definition of
I hate freedom of speech? When you start doing that
in your country, which is not just in Germany, it's
in the UK, it's in France and it's coming to
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a jurisdiction near you too. Then you're losing the culture
and you're empowering the state. Because when, for example, when
now you know somebody made a comment because I've I
posted something on X this week, the corporation, the Corporation
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for Public Broadcasting, which received hundreds of millions of dollars
from US taxpayers, has announced that, well, since we don't
have that money anymore, we're probably going to have to
shut down. And I said, welcome to the free markets.
Welcome to free markets where businesses live and die every
single day on the product or the service that they
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offer to the public. And if you can't sustain your
business except for or but for receiving taxpayers subsidies, and
you probably don't deserve to be in business, or if
you really want to, if you think your product in
this case the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, if you think
that the product that you offer is so wonderful, why
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aren't you going to your donors and asking them, hey,
we're gonna lose all this money and have to shut
the doors unless you poney up. Why don't you go
to advertisers? You know why don't you change your business model. No,
they don't want to do that. They just want they
just want to be able to put their product into
out there, funded by taxpayers. Well, they're gonna they're gonna fail. Well,
I said, welcome to the free world, the free world
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of free markets. And somebody's response to that was, oh,
but don't you work in an industry where the FCC
tells you what you can say and not say. No,
they don't tell me what I can say and not say.
They tell me there's seven words over here that I
can't use. And I'm well, I don't like it. I'm
okay with that because we're using public air waves. So
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if they don't want me to drop an F bomb,
if they don't want me to say out the word bs,
then regulatory agency has a right to do that. Now,
if there were a great swell to allow me to
say the word bull, you know what, Oh, i'd lovely,
I'd happily do that. I have no interest in dropping
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F bombs, but I do have an interest in using
the word bull, you know what. Economically, things look equally
bleak in Germany after a disastrous trade deal between the
EU and the Trump administration, Germany's once mighty automotive industry
faces another blow amid already collapsing revenues. Well maybe if
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they would, you know, quit focus so much on evs.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
You know, I own a German car. I own a BMW.
I love that car. Is it over engineered? Probably?
Speaker 4 (26:51):
So?
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Sporty as hell, fine as hell to drive. But now
that's same company is trying to force. Now they're trying
to force me. They're trying to persuade me that, oh
I need to trade that car in. I'm going to
drive that car till it falls apart, because it'll go
for two hundred thousand miles or more. I don't want
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an EV so I don't care what incentives you throw
at me. You've over manufactured, produced way too many evs,
and now the price of those are dropping because nobody
in this country wants it. Even the unions in Germany
seem more focused on climate activism in the class struggle
than they do their own job security. That's how warped
their brains. Are well paid industrial jobs they hope are
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going to preserved be preserved by the green economy. Well
I'd find something else to hope about. So now, after
five years five full years without significant economic growth, any
rational politician in Germany ought to be deeply alarmed. Instead,
the current Chancellor Mertz touts vague promises that sixty one
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companies are ready to invest about seven hundred and thirty
billion dollars in Germany. He seems to hold the misguided
view that subsidies alone can salvage what remains a Germany's
crumbling economic model. It's a sobering reality, absolute sobering reality
when the vice president of a foreign country from this
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country appears more concerned about Germany's future and the problems
with its own political class than Germans do. And you
know why, because they've created a monster with the German
social welfare system, with mass migration into their country, with
the adoption of the calamitous green new energy fiasco.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
And now they're struggling.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
So what do we do, Well, we just arrest people
for posting means as opposed to really dealing with the
actual problems. Now, why do I spend that much time
talking about Germany? Look around? Because but for Donald Trump
and JD. Vance, and but for the fact that the
Republicans said, look, I don't like everything the Republicans do
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I'll criticize them in a New York minute, but right
now they're the bulwark against us becoming another Germany. I'll
be right back. Hey, welcome back to the beginning with
Michael Brown, so A speaking of the culture and cultural
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you know, degeneration. Kamala Harris appeared on SO the woman
that lost to Trump and the woman that ran through
what a billion dollars and lost an election appeared on
a program that loses forty million dollars a year with
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one hundred million dollar budget and can't guinea ratings is
being canceled. Seems like a perfect pair to sit down
and talk to each other, right.
Speaker 6 (30:05):
You know?
Speaker 7 (30:05):
When I was a young young in my career, I
had to defend my decision to become a prosecutor with
my family. And one of the points that I made is,
why is it then, when we.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Think we want to improve the system.
Speaker 7 (30:18):
Or change it, that we're always on the outside on
ben dednee or trying to break down the door. Shouldn't
we also be inside the system? And that has been
my career, and recently I made the decision that I
just for now, I.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Don't want to go back in the system. I think
it's broken.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Well, you were there for four years, isn't it amazing
how in four years you really did break the system.
And Trump's now been in office a little more than
six months, and he's really kind of straightening out the system.
Maybe you know, Trump was right, We just we don't
need a new law. We just needed a new president,
and we got it.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
I think it's there's so much.
Speaker 7 (31:02):
I mean, there are so many good people who are
public servants who do such good work, teachers and firefighters
and police officers and nurses and scientists, scientists, and.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
So it's not about them. But you know, I believe,
and I always.
Speaker 7 (31:27):
Believed, that as fragile as our democracy is, our systems
would be strong enough to defend our most fundamental principles.
And I think right now that they're not as strong
as they need to be. And I just don't want
it for now. I don't want to go back in
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the system. I want to I want to travel the country.
I want to listen to people. I want to talk
with people, and I don't want it to be transactional
where I'm asking for their vote.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
How's that going to go?
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Do you think? How do you think that'll go? I
at least very well. But she's gonna write a book.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Months months.
Speaker 7 (32:12):
I am you know, I'm just not into self mutilation.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
And I just lots of cooking shows.
Speaker 7 (32:21):
Oh good Breakoff and is one of my favorite.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
Sure, yeah, yeah, Well one question on everyone's mind right now,
how's Doug?
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Uh was that on your list of questions to ask?
Kamala Harris? How's how's your husband?
Speaker 7 (32:48):
He's really well, well, he's back practicing law, and he's
really he's great.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
He's he's great, And thank you for he's.
Speaker 6 (32:57):
Back practicing wall For a second, but you said he's backpacking.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
I thought you said he was back backing. Oh.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
She said that everything terrible was going to happen if
she lost to Donald Trump. Has now happened, so, you know,
relatively strong economy and you know, world peace. But the
worst thing is that her fellow Democrats have capitulated somehow
to Trump's so called fascist program of trade protectionism and remaining,
you know, renaming everything after himself. Really what of course
(33:28):
she's now she's not running for California governor, says she
probably won't run for president in twenty twenty eight either.
I just for now, I don't want to go back
into that system because I think it's broken.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Hmmm.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
I think I would say that she's decided that she
doesn't want to go back into the system, not because
it's broken, because I simply cannot win. I can't answer questions,
I can't do interviews. But she does want people listen
long enough for her to try to get her to
get them to buy her new book. One hundred seven days,
(34:03):
which is exactly how long she and her supporters maintained
the illusion that she really might become president for one
one hundred and seven days. Her you know, her statement
was harrowing. Well, a copy of the book sat there
on the desk between her and Stephen Colbert. I'm always
going to be part of the fight. Who had just
(34:24):
said that she was not going to be part of
the fight? Another word salad. In other words, democracy's dead.
Go by my book. In other words, democracy is dead.
I'm not going to get back in the system. I'm
going to go travel around the country. It's not going
to be transactional. I'm not going to ask for your vote,
but I just want to listen to you. Well that's good,
because we don't want to listen to you. We don't
(34:47):
want to listen to any more word salad. California's dodged
a bullet, and quite frankly, I think she made the
right decision not running for governor of California, because I
think CALIFORNI if you look what's going on in San
Francisco with the new mayor in San Francisco, who has
incredible approval ratings because he simply said, you know what,
(35:07):
San Francisco needs to be fixed, and I'm going to
fix it.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
He's a doer like Trump and a Republican and.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
He's coming in there and he's actually doing stuff, and
the approval ratings are soaring. I don't think the Democrats
have quite yet figured out that we just want things fixed,
we just want things done, no more talking, no more bs,
and just actually doing stuff. So she comes on Colbert
a dying program and says the democracy is dead. I'm
(35:36):
no longer to be a part of the system. I'm
going to travel around the country and just listen, which
is kind of like a you know, a listening tour,
kind of like, you know, I really do want to
go listen.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
I want.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
I wonder whether she'll go to Iowa, because if she
goes to Iowa. If she goes to New Hampshire, you
know she's running, but it's not going to be transactional.
The only transaction that she's engaged in right now is
she wants you to buy her book. Are you going
to buy her book?
Speaker 1 (36:01):
You know?
Speaker 3 (36:02):
I told my Weekday audience that when Jake Tapper came
out with his book about the Biden presidency and how
he really was out of it and really wasn't running
the country, I didn't want to spend a nickel on it.
So I bought the book, took very good care of it,
and then returned it to the Barnes and Noble and
got my money back. But in this case, I don't
(36:23):
even want to spend the time doing it. I didn't
even want to spend the time reading. I mean, first
of all, I'd like to know who wrote the book
with her, because I can't imagine her putting together whatever
the is in the one hundred and seven days. I
don't know that she could put those words together in
any sort of coherent manner. So maybe, just maybe we
(36:44):
can write Kamala off as she had her one hundred
and seven days. Some people get fifteen minutes, she got
one hundred and seven days and now we've been saved.
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over on next at Michael Brown USA, the Vice President
that we don't often hear from JD. Vance, but when
we do hear from him, it's always worthwhile. This past week,
he leveled a blistering critique at Europe in general, Germany
in particular, but Europe in general. He accused it of
(01:35):
something I think we have been doing but which we
are trying to reverse. And I've you know, it's it's
I'm not patting myself on the back here, just not
doing that. But I have long before Trump and Vance
became president. For the almost twenty years now that I've
(01:58):
been on radio, I've been taught talking about how this
country Western civilization in general, but in particular, this country
has been committing national suicide. So of course I was
ecstatic when this critique that Vance blasted over in Europe.
It was essentially accusing them of quote committing civilizational suicide
(02:22):
and really directed at Germany. And claiming that they were
bringing about their own demise. He said this quote, if
you have a country like Germany, excuse me, if you
have a country like Germany where you have another few
million immigrants coming in from countries that are totally culturally
incompatible with Germany, then it doesn't matter what I think
(02:46):
about Europe. Germany will have killed itself. And I hope
they don't do that because I love Germany and I
want Germany to thrive.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Now those.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
You know, I was thinking, I'm writing an editorial for
USA today, and I came up with something about you know,
people have already established you can imagine what the subject's about.
People have already decided on their own facts, and they've
(03:22):
decided what they think about those facts. And so it
doesn't make any difference what some people say or how
logically you can be, what kind of data you can
show them. We live in a world where people make
up their own facts, whether there's any truth to those
facts or not, that becomes embedded in their brain and
(03:44):
you can't and you can't jar it loose. And I
think part of that is because, going back to civilizational suicide,
we've allowed Marxism to so infuse education in this country.
That and one of the tenets of Marxi. Of course,
you've got to kill religion, but you also have to
kill critical thinking because Marxism, socialism, communism, fascism cannot survive
(04:09):
when people think for themselves, and they certainly can't survive
if they have a belief in something higher and more
powerful than themselves, and that something is not God but
the government. If you believe in government as being the
higher power that can solve all your problems, then that
feeds right into Marxism and socialism. I say that because
(04:34):
a lot of people, when they heard Vance's remarks immediately
dismiss those remarks as yet just another post Munich security conference.
Jab remember when he was at that security conference shortly
after the election and he talked about how Europe was
killing itself. Well, Vance persists that his concerns for Germany
(04:58):
were and still are sincere, and he seems to have
a point because while the United States watches, while you
and I watch these developments from Afar, the cabal exists
in Germany too, and the German mainstream media continues to
push the narrative that the country needs four hundred thousand
skilled workers annually. We've got to import these workers from somewhere. Now,
(05:23):
that's despite the fact that there are nearly four million
able bodied people of working age that already receive benefits.
Almost half of that four million are non German citizens. Now,
when you include those who have German passports who were
born overseas, the number rises to over sixty four percent.
(05:47):
So where did it go wrong? Where did it go
wrong for Germany on immigration or, to be technically very
specific here, refugee policy. It began with something called in
this country, we call it the H one B visa,
a guest worker visa and H one B visa. Ostensibly
(06:08):
in its original form was if we needed very specific,
very narrowly defined skills, say a well we were talking
about doctors earlier. You need a very skilled surgeon or
researcher in a very particular area. But the only skill
(06:31):
set that you can find that a doctor has, that
person happens to be in Switzerland or Austria or perhaps Germany.
So we regrant them in H one BE visa to
come and work in this country because we needed that skill. Well,
that's kind of been bastardized since then. But Germany started
with the same thing. They called it guest workers. I
don't speak German, but it looks like in germanstrobider, something
(06:56):
to that effect. It began with their guest program where
they invited them during the post war economic boom under
Chancellor Adenauer and his Minister of Economic Affairs and a
future future chancellor by the way, Erhard. So let's go
back to nineteen fifty five. Starting in nineteen fifty five,
Germany recruited labor from Greece, Italy, Spain and Turkey, and
(07:20):
what began with a mere three hundred thousand workers in
the nineteen sixties ballooned to more than two point six
million workers by nineteen seventy three. Then you had the
introduction of family reunification, which turned those guests into permanent residents. Now,
there were some efforts to curb immigration and tried to
(07:43):
encourage return migration as Lais of the nineteen nineties, but
that was met with very little success. And I think
it was met with little success because primarily Germans were
by when you think about by the nineteen nineties, we're
approaching you know, y to okay, we're approaching the you know,
twenty first century, and we were already seeing wokism, We
(08:07):
were already beginning to see what we called them political correctness.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Well, you know we're trying to get these families to,
you know, migrate back out of the country. Well, why well,
because they weren't assimilating. So those efforts to curb immigration
and encourage return migration didn't have well, I shouldn't say
didn't have any success, but have very little success. Why well,
(08:36):
because of the If you've ever been to Germany, it's
a lot nicer place to live than say, even Turkey.
Would you rather live in Munich or Istanbul? Istanbul is
a beautiful city to visit. It's a wonderful place to visit.
Anchor No, I don't really want if if you tell
me I've got to choose between Turkey or India, that matter,
(09:01):
turk here, India and Germany, I'll pick Germany every single day.
Now if broaden my choice, I still want to live
in this country. But some people made that choice when
they opened up the guest worker program. Do I want
to leave Turkey my home country and go to Germany?
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (09:22):
And I can get all these benefits. Boom, show me
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So let's go back to this hole, this kerfuffle that
jd Vance has caused, which I think is just truth telling.
But oh my gosh, we can't tell the truth anymore. Well,
fast forward to twenty fifteen, back from the nineteen nineties,
or actually back from the nineteen fifties, when Germany really
started using the guest worker program well in twenty fifteen,
(10:42):
Angela Merkel, who was the chancellor at the time, just
threw open the floodgates. She's the one that decided to
allow the Syrian immigrants to enter Europe. So that resulted in,
I mean kind of what we saw in the Biden era,
when you announce to the world, either old Mission or Comission,
that the gates are open, and by the way, we're
(11:04):
not going to do anything. And in fact, we'll even
give you an app. And if you're coming through the
dairyen gap through Central America, we'll help you load the app.
We'll even give you a damn phone. We had all
sorts of NGOs handing out phones and then showing them
how to put the CBP one app on, which would
allow them to start, you know, bypassing you know anything,
(11:26):
just check in with your app, and then they'll get
you a hearing date, you know, sometime in the next century.
And meanwhile, get on your bus or you're playing or
wherever and go to Chicago, La, go to Denver, wherever,
and settle in and buy gully. We'll just throw tax
dollars at you. That's feeding the stray cats, and the
(11:46):
cats talk among themselves. Well, the Syrians talked among themselves
and then ended up with millions of asylum seekers and
economic refugees if you will, that made their way off
Europe no vetting, no vetting whatsoever. And then the Syrian
(12:07):
Civil War came to an end, and guess what, huh shocker,
none of them wanted to go back home. Even though
the Syrian Civil War had come to an end, nobody
wanted to go home, and a combination of family reunion
and lacks borders means that those asylum seekers would keep
coming in large numbers. Why would you go again, I've
(12:32):
never been to Syria, I've never been to Damascus, and
I have no desire to go, particularly under current circumstances.
But if you've been living in a war torn country
for decades and suddenly the word spreads among your little
(12:53):
village that oh, if you can just make your way
to Germany, not only will you will they help you
find a a really nice flat or an apartment or
whatever to live in, but you know they'll they'll give you,
they'll put you on their social welfare system. And if
you want to make even more money, yeah, you could
probably find a job doing something, but you.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Don't have to.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
So of course they're going to they're going to start
migrating and they're all going to be economic refugees. And
of course they had the civil war, and that that
was an even better reason to be a refugee, because
you're escaping a civil war and you're you're escaping, and
in Syria in particular, you're escaping that you're being discriminated against,
you're being targeted, and there's genocide going on. And Germany
(13:38):
just through the door open. So work with consequences. Well,
you can see them for yourself. It's very easy to
see rising crime rates, violent crime rates, public schools where
students of foreign backgrounds make up forty two percent of
the pupils. Some schools upwards of ninety percent are foreign born.
(14:04):
But stop right there for them. If if you're a
German citizen and your child's classroom is almost fifty percent
in some cases ninety percent Syrian refugees or just foreign reads.
I shouldn't pick on Syrians here, just foreign immigrants to
your country. Don't speak German, haven't been brought up in
(14:28):
the German culture, have no idea about German mores standards,
how you conduct yourself in society or anything. How German
law works, how the German constitution works, even German history,
including the Nazi history. What's the teachers, what's going to
happen in the classroom. Those German students are either going
(14:51):
to be pushed aside or depending on the teacher, the
refugee students are going to be pushed aside. Either way,
kids don't get educated. Then you have in addition to that,
you have the cultural fragmentation, an overburdened welfare and an
overburdened healthcare system. Even Germany, they're once abundant tax revenues
(15:15):
no longer enough. A one hundred and seventy two billion
euro budget, that's about one hundred and nineteen billion US
dollars budget hole, a budget deficit, and it gets worsened
because they make promises such as special pension for mothers.
So meanwhile, the government's floating the idea of a boomer
(15:38):
solely a new tax on big pensions. So if you
make more than if you have a pension of more
than the equivalent of about eleven hundred dollars a month, yeah,
they're going to impose a tax on that the warning
lights are flashing, the government continues to kick the can
down the road. All the necessary reforms to the welfare state,
(15:59):
to the pensions system, to the immigration policies are all
into the postponed and even ignored. But policy makers, although
they debate introducing, you know, new quotas in public schools,
some of which serve only whole aw of food and
have reportedly abandoned Christmas celebrations in favor of mandatory ramadame events. Meanwhile,
(16:20):
thousands of individuals in Germany are facing lawsuits. Now you
might ask yourself what personal injury lawsuits, defamation lawsuits, what
kind of lawsuits are they facing? When you allowed that
kind of influx of people who don't share your standards,
(16:41):
your culture, and even in a melting pot like this country,
we were saying, hey, you know what, we celebrate all cultures,
but we still expect you to assimilate as an American,
or at least they thought we did, or at least
we should. When you have when when you end up
with the cultural fragmentation, that is in and of itself
(17:08):
a form of suicide. Because countries develop their own cultures
and those cultures are something to be celebrated. Those cultures
are something to be recognized. Now again, we have all
sorts of different cultures in this country, ethnic cultures, religious cultures,
(17:28):
societal cultures, political, economic cultures of all sorts. But we
still see ourselves, or at least we should see ourselves
singularly as Americans, as citizens of the United States. And
what that means all we have to do is look
across the Atlantic at what's happening in Germany. But I
could have picked France, I could have picked the UK,
(17:49):
but I picked Germany because of what the Vice President said.
So what's happening in terms of these lawsuits? Well, hang tight,
that's next.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Tonight. Michael Brown joins me here, the former FEMA director.
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Of talk show host Michael Brown.
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Brownie, no, Brownie, You're doing a heck of a job
the Weekend with Michael Brown.
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Speaker 1 (18:22):
Chop chop, chop job.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
So there's all these lawsuits going on that Germans are
facing and before I tell you about the lawsuits. Just
to give you a little perspective, Let's go back to
when jd Vance was at the security conference in Munich
in February and said this Britain.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
And across Europe, free speech, I fear is in retreat.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
US Vice President J. D Vance accused European leaders on
Friday of censoring free speech and failing to control immigration
in an address at the Munich Security Conference in Germany.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
I really do believe that allowing our citizens to speak
their mind will make them stronger still, which, of course.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Brings us back to Munich, where.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
The organizers of this very conference have banned lawmakers representing
populist parties on both the left and the right from
participating in these conversations.
Speaker 6 (19:23):
The comments drew a sharp rebuke from Germany's Defense Minister
Boris Pistorius and overshadowed discussions on the war in Ukraine.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Dize de Mukhaki.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
This democracy was called into question earlier by the US
Vice President for the whole of Europe. He spoke of
the cancelation of democracy and if I understood him correctly,
he compared conditions in parts of Europe with those in
authoritarian regimes, ladies and gentlemen. That is not acceptable.
Speaker 6 (19:51):
The clash underlined the divergent worldviews of US President Donald
Trump's new administration and European leaders, making it hard for
long time allies the United States and Europe to find
common ground on issues, including Ukraine. The war torn country's
president Vladimir Zelenski told the conference that he would talk
to Russian President Vladimir Putin only once Ukraine had agreed
(20:15):
on a common plan with Trump and European leaders.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Know how has that been working out so far? It
isn't interesting German The German Foreign Minister's Defense Minister's response, Well,
that's not the Germany.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
I know.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Well, what about this, mister minister. There are thousands of
individuals in Germany. They're facing lawsuits for these horrific, horrific
crimes of sharing memes, voicing criticisms or insulting you, insulting politicians. Now,
(20:55):
most of those cases were brought by politicians from the left,
the Green Party, the Freedommocrats and the Social Democrat Party.
But nonetheless, I mean it helps reinforce my point that
those on the left, the Marxists, are have no interest
whatsoever in free speech. They have no interest whatsoever in
(21:15):
people critically thinking. You know, memes are funny that oftentimes
memes expose a really ugly truth that most people just
don't want to face politicians hey, criticism, They despise criticism
(21:36):
and insulting them. Oh my gosh, you might as well
just have your head chopped off if you insult a politician.
You know what's interesting, that's part of our DNA. That's
kind of why we get it. We kind of get
our jollies off insulting politicians because they set themselves up
so easily to be insulted. Let me give you a case.
(21:57):
A pensioner was subjective to a police search and then
later sentence simply for sharing a meme. You know, be
careful what you share with me on X because well,
you know, you may end up getting sued. A journalist
from a right wing populist publication got a suspended prison
(22:18):
sentence and a fine for posting an image of the
former Interior Minister Nancy Fasier added to so that she
was holding a sign that said I hate freedom of speech.
Isn't that kind of deliciously ironic? So you get a
suspended prison sentence and a fine. For posting an image.
(22:41):
You know you've seen these pictures. In fact, my advice
to you is don't ever let anybody take a photograph
of you holding any sort of sign in front of
your face and in front of you, like you know,
just under your neck or in front on your chest,
because that can be photoshopped to say anything that they
wanted to say, whether you say it or not. Just
(23:03):
a little friendly advice there. But think about how ironic
it is that the former Interior minister gets really pissed
off and so goes to the prosecutors and says, look,
I didn't say that. Well, first of all, you're a
public official, so at least in this country, we could
put anything on that stupid piece of paper. We could
(23:24):
say anything, We could say that you said anything. But
you're a public official. Now you can come out and
deny it. But when you start criminalizing speech, and then
you go criminalize speech because someone said that, you hate
(23:47):
freedom of speech, so then you have them prosecuted for
exercising freedom of speech, isn't that the very definition of
I hate freedom of speech? When you start doing that
in your country, which is not just in Germany, it's
in the UK, it's in France and it's coming to
(24:09):
a jurisdiction near you too. Then you're losing the culture
and you're empowering the state. Because when, for example, when
now you know somebody made a comment because I've I
posted something on X this week, the corporation, the Corporation
(24:31):
for Public Broadcasting, which received hundreds of millions of dollars
from US taxpayers, has announced that, well, since we don't
have that money anymore, we're probably going to have to
shut down. And I said, welcome to the free markets.
Welcome to free markets where businesses live and die every
single day on the product or the service that they
(24:51):
offer to the public. And if you can't sustain your
business except for or but for receiving taxpayers subsidies, and
you probably don't deserve to be in business, or if
you really want to, if you think your product in
this case the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, if you think
that the product that you offer is so wonderful, why
(25:13):
aren't you going to your donors and asking them, hey,
we're gonna lose all this money and have to shut
the doors unless you poney up. Why don't you go
to advertisers? You know why don't you change your business model. No,
they don't want to do that. They just want they
just want to be able to put their product into
out there, funded by taxpayers. Well, they're gonna they're gonna fail. Well,
I said, welcome to the free world, the free world
(25:35):
of free markets. And somebody's response to that was, oh,
but don't you work in an industry where the FCC
tells you what you can say and not say. No,
they don't tell me what I can say and not say.
They tell me there's seven words over here that I
can't use. And I'm well, I don't like it. I'm
okay with that because we're using public air waves. So
(25:59):
if they don't want me to drop an F bomb,
if they don't want me to say out the word bs,
then regulatory agency has a right to do that. Now,
if there were a great swell to allow me to
say the word bull, you know what, Oh, i'd lovely,
I'd happily do that. I have no interest in dropping
(26:19):
F bombs, but I do have an interest in using
the word bull, you know what. Economically, things look equally
bleak in Germany after a disastrous trade deal between the
EU and the Trump administration, Germany's once mighty automotive industry
faces another blow amid already collapsing revenues. Well maybe if
(26:40):
they would, you know, quit focus so much on evs.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
You know, I own a German car. I own a BMW.
I love that car. Is it over engineered? Probably?
Speaker 4 (26:51):
So?
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Sporty as hell, fine as hell to drive. But now
that's same company is trying to force. Now they're trying
to force me. They're trying to persuade me that, oh
I need to trade that car in. I'm going to
drive that car till it falls apart, because it'll go
for two hundred thousand miles or more. I don't want
(27:14):
an EV so I don't care what incentives you throw
at me. You've over manufactured, produced way too many evs,
and now the price of those are dropping because nobody
in this country wants it. Even the unions in Germany
seem more focused on climate activism in the class struggle
than they do their own job security. That's how warped
their brains. Are well paid industrial jobs they hope are
(27:38):
going to preserved be preserved by the green economy. Well
I'd find something else to hope about. So now, after
five years five full years without significant economic growth, any
rational politician in Germany ought to be deeply alarmed. Instead,
the current Chancellor Mertz touts vague promises that sixty one
(28:01):
companies are ready to invest about seven hundred and thirty
billion dollars in Germany. He seems to hold the misguided
view that subsidies alone can salvage what remains a Germany's
crumbling economic model. It's a sobering reality, absolute sobering reality
when the vice president of a foreign country from this
(28:22):
country appears more concerned about Germany's future and the problems
with its own political class than Germans do. And you
know why, because they've created a monster with the German
social welfare system, with mass migration into their country, with
the adoption of the calamitous green new energy fiasco.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
And now they're struggling.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
So what do we do, Well, we just arrest people
for posting means as opposed to really dealing with the
actual problems. Now, why do I spend that much time
talking about Germany? Look around? Because but for Donald Trump
and JD. Vance, and but for the fact that the
Republicans said, look, I don't like everything the Republicans do
(29:10):
I'll criticize them in a New York minute, but right
now they're the bulwark against us becoming another Germany. I'll
be right back. Hey, welcome back to the beginning with
Michael Brown, so A speaking of the culture and cultural
(29:33):
you know, degeneration. Kamala Harris appeared on SO the woman
that lost to Trump and the woman that ran through
what a billion dollars and lost an election appeared on
a program that loses forty million dollars a year with
(29:55):
one hundred million dollar budget and can't guinea ratings is
being canceled. Seems like a perfect pair to sit down
and talk to each other, right.
Speaker 6 (30:05):
You know?
Speaker 7 (30:05):
When I was a young young in my career, I
had to defend my decision to become a prosecutor with
my family. And one of the points that I made is,
why is it then, when we.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Think we want to improve the system.
Speaker 7 (30:18):
Or change it, that we're always on the outside on
ben dednee or trying to break down the door. Shouldn't
we also be inside the system? And that has been
my career, and recently I made the decision that I
just for now, I.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Don't want to go back in the system. I think
it's broken.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Well, you were there for four years, isn't it amazing
how in four years you really did break the system.
And Trump's now been in office a little more than
six months, and he's really kind of straightening out the system.
Maybe you know, Trump was right, We just we don't
need a new law. We just needed a new president,
and we got it.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
I think it's there's so much.
Speaker 7 (31:02):
I mean, there are so many good people who are
public servants who do such good work, teachers and firefighters
and police officers and nurses and scientists, scientists, and.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
So it's not about them. But you know, I believe,
and I always.
Speaker 7 (31:27):
Believed, that as fragile as our democracy is, our systems
would be strong enough to defend our most fundamental principles.
And I think right now that they're not as strong
as they need to be. And I just don't want
it for now. I don't want to go back in
(31:48):
the system. I want to I want to travel the country.
I want to listen to people. I want to talk
with people, and I don't want it to be transactional
where I'm asking for their vote.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
How's that going to go?
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Do you think? How do you think that'll go? I
at least very well. But she's gonna write a book.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Months months.
Speaker 7 (32:12):
I am you know, I'm just not into self mutilation.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
And I just lots of cooking shows.
Speaker 7 (32:21):
Oh good Breakoff and is one of my favorite.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
Sure, yeah, yeah, Well one question on everyone's mind right now,
how's Doug?
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Uh was that on your list of questions to ask?
Kamala Harris? How's how's your husband?
Speaker 7 (32:48):
He's really well, well, he's back practicing law, and he's
really he's great.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
He's he's great, And thank you for he's.
Speaker 6 (32:57):
Back practicing wall For a second, but you said he's backpacking.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
I thought you said he was back backing. Oh.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
She said that everything terrible was going to happen if
she lost to Donald Trump. Has now happened, so, you know,
relatively strong economy and you know, world peace. But the
worst thing is that her fellow Democrats have capitulated somehow
to Trump's so called fascist program of trade protectionism and remaining,
you know, renaming everything after himself. Really what of course
(33:28):
she's now she's not running for California governor, says she
probably won't run for president in twenty twenty eight either.
I just for now, I don't want to go back
into that system because I think it's broken.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Hmmm.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
I think I would say that she's decided that she
doesn't want to go back into the system, not because
it's broken, because I simply cannot win. I can't answer questions,
I can't do interviews. But she does want people listen
long enough for her to try to get her to
get them to buy her new book. One hundred seven days,
(34:03):
which is exactly how long she and her supporters maintained
the illusion that she really might become president for one
one hundred and seven days. Her you know, her statement
was harrowing. Well, a copy of the book sat there
on the desk between her and Stephen Colbert. I'm always
going to be part of the fight. Who had just
(34:24):
said that she was not going to be part of
the fight? Another word salad. In other words, democracy's dead.
Go by my book. In other words, democracy is dead.
I'm not going to get back in the system. I'm
going to go travel around the country. It's not going
to be transactional. I'm not going to ask for your vote,
but I just want to listen to you. Well that's good,
because we don't want to listen to you. We don't
(34:47):
want to listen to any more word salad. California's dodged
a bullet, and quite frankly, I think she made the
right decision not running for governor of California, because I
think CALIFORNI if you look what's going on in San
Francisco with the new mayor in San Francisco, who has
incredible approval ratings because he simply said, you know what,
(35:07):
San Francisco needs to be fixed, and I'm going to
fix it.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
He's a doer like Trump and a Republican and.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
He's coming in there and he's actually doing stuff, and
the approval ratings are soaring. I don't think the Democrats
have quite yet figured out that we just want things fixed,
we just want things done, no more talking, no more bs,
and just actually doing stuff. So she comes on Colbert
a dying program and says the democracy is dead. I'm
(35:36):
no longer to be a part of the system. I'm
going to travel around the country and just listen, which
is kind of like a you know, a listening tour,
kind of like, you know, I really do want to
go listen.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
I want.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
I wonder whether she'll go to Iowa, because if she
goes to Iowa. If she goes to New Hampshire, you
know she's running, but it's not going to be transactional.
The only transaction that she's engaged in right now is
she wants you to buy her book. Are you going
to buy her book?
Speaker 1 (36:01):
You know?
Speaker 3 (36:02):
I told my Weekday audience that when Jake Tapper came
out with his book about the Biden presidency and how
he really was out of it and really wasn't running
the country, I didn't want to spend a nickel on it.
So I bought the book, took very good care of it,
and then returned it to the Barnes and Noble and
got my money back. But in this case, I don't
(36:23):
even want to spend the time doing it. I didn't
even want to spend the time reading. I mean, first
of all, I'd like to know who wrote the book
with her, because I can't imagine her putting together whatever
the is in the one hundred and seven days. I
don't know that she could put those words together in
any sort of coherent manner. So maybe, just maybe we
(36:44):
can write Kamala off as she had her one hundred
and seven days. Some people get fifteen minutes, she got
one hundred and seven days and now we've been saved.
Hang Titus the weekend with Michael Brown. Text lines open
three three one zero three keyword Mike or Michael. I'll
be back after the news.
Speaker 4 (37:00):
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