1 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:11,680 Speaker 1: It's that time time, time, luck and load. So Michael 2 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:21,800 Speaker 1: Berry Show is on the air. I'm all jaked up 3 00:00:21,840 --> 00:00:26,279 Speaker 1: on Mountain Dew. This is the Thornton Finch wishing you 4 00:00:26,360 --> 00:00:31,000 Speaker 1: a good morning. Good morning, Michael Berry. You, good morning, 5 00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:35,639 Speaker 1: Michael Berry. Good morning, Michael, Good morning, Michael, Good morning, Zar, 6 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:41,320 Speaker 1: Good morning, Michael, Zay Sailor, Good morning, El Casino, Good morning, Michael. Hello, 7 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:45,479 Speaker 1: Hello are you there? Good morning you, Michael Berry. How 8 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:46,560 Speaker 1: you learned that? 9 00:00:46,720 --> 00:00:47,320 Speaker 2: I read it? 10 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:50,920 Speaker 1: Tomorrow money, good mornay. 11 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:52,320 Speaker 3: Listen to. 12 00:00:53,720 --> 00:01:01,680 Speaker 4: Good morning, Tex, Morning, your car, good mornings, his day. 13 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:07,680 Speaker 5: We're happy to be here to talk about everything. 14 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:17,640 Speaker 1: Good morning, We're not wearing this. Good morning Tex. Good already, Tex, 15 00:01:20,920 --> 00:01:37,039 Speaker 1: Good by Tex. Good morning. Wake, Let's speak content. Good morning. 16 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:41,560 Speaker 1: Oh do we have a lot to talk about? 17 00:01:44,920 --> 00:01:45,160 Speaker 3: Wow? 18 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:52,440 Speaker 1: Well, I got my automatic staple is not working. I 19 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:55,200 Speaker 1: was going to stable one thing right before the show started, 20 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:59,120 Speaker 1: and they can't get to work. What's that I'm out 21 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:01,080 Speaker 1: of bullets. I be out of bullets. It might be 22 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:03,160 Speaker 1: out of bullets. That might just be the problem. That's 23 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:08,160 Speaker 1: exactly the point. What do we make of the mayoral 24 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:14,400 Speaker 1: race in Minneapolis, in New York? What do we make 25 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:25,200 Speaker 1: of the terrible losses in Virginia, New Jersey. We'll talk 26 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:31,800 Speaker 1: about all of that. There was a race for Sheila 27 00:02:31,919 --> 00:02:39,480 Speaker 1: Jackson Lee's old seat the eighteenth Congression and Christian Minefie 28 00:02:40,639 --> 00:02:47,680 Speaker 1: is Rodney Ellis's puppet, his boy, and they put him 29 00:02:47,760 --> 00:02:55,639 Speaker 1: in that seat. And the field didn't have well, you 30 00:02:55,760 --> 00:03:00,079 Speaker 1: had Jolanda Jones, who's been a city councilman and a 31 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:04,640 Speaker 1: state rep. Some thought maybe she would make the runoff 32 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:09,000 Speaker 1: with him, but instead it was Amanda Edwards. Amanda Edwards 33 00:03:09,919 --> 00:03:14,600 Speaker 1: is a very well spoken She is as white people 34 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:18,040 Speaker 1: are wont to say of black people. She is articulate. 35 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:22,800 Speaker 1: She served on city council. She was running for mayor 36 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:25,480 Speaker 1: and made the mistake of getting out of the race 37 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:33,120 Speaker 1: when Sheila jacksonally offered to endorse her for congress if 38 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:35,360 Speaker 1: she would get out of the race and help and 39 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:39,800 Speaker 1: thereby opening the lane for Shila to win the mayor's race. Then, 40 00:03:39,880 --> 00:03:44,600 Speaker 1: of course, the minute she did and Sheila lost, Sheila 41 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:49,000 Speaker 1: jumped back into the congressional rate race, betraying that promise, 42 00:03:50,840 --> 00:03:56,480 Speaker 1: leaving Amanda Edwards in the lurch. Well, Amanda Edwards has managed, 43 00:03:57,200 --> 00:04:01,160 Speaker 1: which is quite impressive actually, to make the runoff against 44 00:04:01,320 --> 00:04:05,200 Speaker 1: Christian Menefee, but something was brought to my attention that 45 00:04:05,320 --> 00:04:07,520 Speaker 1: I had not noticed. I don't live in that district, 46 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:10,720 Speaker 1: so it didn't show up on my ballot. For those 47 00:04:10,760 --> 00:04:13,440 Speaker 1: of you who did, or you can see it on Aline, 48 00:04:17,160 --> 00:04:21,480 Speaker 1: Christian Menefee does not appear on the ballot as just 49 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:32,280 Speaker 1: Christian Menifee. No, Christian Menefee chose to use all three 50 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:37,840 Speaker 1: of his names, which is odd. I've never seen all 51 00:04:37,960 --> 00:04:42,159 Speaker 1: three of his names in print before. I don't believe 52 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:44,480 Speaker 1: he used all three of his names when he ran 53 00:04:44,560 --> 00:04:46,400 Speaker 1: for county attorney, but he may have, and I didn't 54 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:51,480 Speaker 1: notice it then, but I definitely realize now what he 55 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:54,320 Speaker 1: has done in his congressional race, or what Rodney has 56 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:59,760 Speaker 1: told him to do. Christian Menefee used all three names, 57 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:04,799 Speaker 1: which are Christian Dashawn Benefite. 58 00:05:06,160 --> 00:05:13,159 Speaker 6: You can't make this up. You got kind of white, 59 00:05:13,839 --> 00:05:19,600 Speaker 6: You got kind of white dude's name, Christian Christian Minifee. 60 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:23,200 Speaker 6: That sounded like some white dude live it over at Montrose. 61 00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:30,880 Speaker 1: Well, my middle name DeShawn, that's the ticket, or maybe 62 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:39,040 Speaker 1: they added that later Christian Dushon Menifee. Isn't that interesting? 63 00:05:40,440 --> 00:05:42,960 Speaker 1: I mean, that would be racist. If a white people 64 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:46,040 Speaker 1: made a joke to that effect. I don't know if 65 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:50,480 Speaker 1: Christian Menifee can win a black congressional seat with a 66 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:54,120 Speaker 1: name like Christian Menefee weighing in at about a buck 67 00:05:54,240 --> 00:05:59,120 Speaker 1: twenty eight, with little wiry glasses, even if Rodney Ellis 68 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:04,359 Speaker 1: is indoor and Lord knows, doing what else? Christian Menifee, 69 00:06:05,520 --> 00:06:12,040 Speaker 1: little little little frail fella, little light skin fella, Christian 70 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:16,800 Speaker 1: What a white name that is? I guess we're gonna 71 00:06:16,839 --> 00:06:19,080 Speaker 1: have to go get him something that'll selling the hood. 72 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:30,400 Speaker 1: How about DeShawn Christian Dashawn Menifee. You have to kind 73 00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:34,160 Speaker 1: of say it right. You can't just be Christian Dashaun Menefee. 74 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:40,640 Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, Christian Dashawn Menefee. But he didn't 75 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:46,719 Speaker 1: win as big as was expected. The results clip number 76 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:51,240 Speaker 1: sixteen mister Robliss from Khou. 77 00:06:52,640 --> 00:06:55,720 Speaker 5: Yesterday at the Acres Home Multi Service Center, one of 78 00:06:55,839 --> 00:06:59,600 Speaker 5: several polling locations in District eighteen. The two frontrunners in 79 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:02,800 Speaker 5: this race, Christian Menafie and Amanda Edwards, were both there 80 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:06,520 Speaker 5: speaking to dozens of voters before they were casting their ballots. 81 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:09,600 Speaker 5: And now this congressional race will go back to voters 82 00:07:09,680 --> 00:07:12,680 Speaker 5: early next year. Let's talk more about that. So voters 83 00:07:12,720 --> 00:07:16,040 Speaker 5: will decide between Christian Menafie and Amanda Edwards, who have 84 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:19,000 Speaker 5: gotten a lot of voter support in polls leading up 85 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:22,160 Speaker 5: to election date yesterday, and now the focus shifts to 86 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:25,160 Speaker 5: round two. Last night, kto U eleven was at both 87 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:29,320 Speaker 5: candidates watch parties. Menifee thinked supporters and talked about community 88 00:07:29,440 --> 00:07:33,520 Speaker 5: and accountability. Edwards also thinks supporters. She also spoke about 89 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:36,560 Speaker 5: early vote totals and staying focused on momentum. 90 00:07:38,280 --> 00:07:41,600 Speaker 7: This campaign has been about the communities like akers homes, 91 00:07:41,640 --> 00:07:43,800 Speaker 7: where you see little kids walking in the middle of 92 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:46,000 Speaker 7: the street to a corner store because they have no 93 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:48,120 Speaker 7: sidewalks and no grocery. 94 00:07:47,720 --> 00:07:49,160 Speaker 1: Stores in their communities. 95 00:07:49,440 --> 00:07:51,960 Speaker 7: There's something to be said about seeing people and the 96 00:07:52,080 --> 00:07:55,520 Speaker 7: issues that they're facing and basing your campaign around them 97 00:07:55,640 --> 00:07:56,720 Speaker 7: and not around yourself. 98 00:07:57,160 --> 00:08:01,640 Speaker 4: It has always been about making that we create an 99 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:05,760 Speaker 4: eighteenth Congressional district where each and every single person, no 100 00:08:05,880 --> 00:08:08,960 Speaker 4: matter what their background, no matter where they live, has 101 00:08:09,040 --> 00:08:12,040 Speaker 4: the opportunity not just to get by day to day, 102 00:08:12,200 --> 00:08:15,200 Speaker 4: but our goal is to truly have people thrive. 103 00:08:16,920 --> 00:08:19,240 Speaker 5: And so far we do know that more than sixty 104 00:08:19,240 --> 00:08:22,400 Speaker 5: eight thousand ballots were capped in District eighteen. 105 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:26,320 Speaker 1: This is Tracy Baird and welcome to the lifestyles of 106 00:08:26,440 --> 00:08:29,280 Speaker 1: the not so rich and famous are as. I call 107 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:33,439 Speaker 1: it the Michael Berry Show. What do you make? What 108 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:37,160 Speaker 1: if we two make what we saw last night? And 109 00:08:37,360 --> 00:08:43,479 Speaker 1: let's consider the context, shall we? That's an off year contest. 110 00:08:43,679 --> 00:08:46,160 Speaker 1: It's not even a midterm It's an off year contest 111 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:57,160 Speaker 1: held amid a prolonged government shutdown. The government shutdown matters 112 00:08:57,559 --> 00:09:03,240 Speaker 1: more to earwellers than rural dwellers, not surprising, the more 113 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:05,199 Speaker 1: likely to work for the government, they're more likely to 114 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:09,280 Speaker 1: live off the government. So you're going to hear that 115 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:13,160 Speaker 1: this was a referendum on President Trump's second term. Not true. 116 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:22,160 Speaker 1: We'll get to that. You had key races in Virginia, 117 00:09:23,320 --> 00:09:28,439 Speaker 1: New Jersey, New York City, That's where all the attention was. 118 00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:35,199 Speaker 1: Turnout was not high, but it it could have been lower. 119 00:09:35,920 --> 00:09:39,599 Speaker 1: I would call it moderate. You had early voting that 120 00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:45,280 Speaker 1: was strong in Virginia. I went back and checked because 121 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:47,679 Speaker 1: I thought Trump had won Virginia and he did not. 122 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:52,320 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris won it by six percentage points, but tells 123 00:09:52,360 --> 00:09:59,079 Speaker 1: you a lot. So analysts are describing what happened as 124 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:05,880 Speaker 1: they used the world word thermostatic backlash against Republicans, which 125 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:10,000 Speaker 1: is the party in power, which is typical Democrats. They're 126 00:10:10,040 --> 00:10:14,360 Speaker 1: claiming gained momentum for twenty twenty six mid terms. They'll 127 00:10:14,440 --> 00:10:19,599 Speaker 1: claim it. I don't think they necessarily have it. I 128 00:10:19,640 --> 00:10:27,720 Speaker 1: think what you saw was painful. Reality is that without 129 00:10:27,960 --> 00:10:33,160 Speaker 1: Trump running, the Republican Party is not fielding candidates who 130 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:38,400 Speaker 1: can win. The Republican Party does not have a good infrastructure, 131 00:10:39,520 --> 00:10:43,000 Speaker 1: and unlike the Democrats, the Republican Party does not have 132 00:10:43,360 --> 00:10:53,360 Speaker 1: any force to recruit and promote its candidates. Trump is 133 00:10:53,400 --> 00:10:58,080 Speaker 1: a one off, and when Trump is gone, I fear 134 00:10:59,160 --> 00:11:04,160 Speaker 1: you will see the gains we've made evaporate. Let's not 135 00:11:04,440 --> 00:11:09,800 Speaker 1: forget who our Republican Party candidates have been, going back 136 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:19,040 Speaker 1: to nineteen ninety two. George HW. Bush, a former CIA director, 137 00:11:20,559 --> 00:11:25,240 Speaker 1: a wealthy psion of a US senator, a guy with 138 00:11:25,440 --> 00:11:32,920 Speaker 1: no charisma, an absolute insider who headed the party. Clinton 139 00:11:32,920 --> 00:11:41,679 Speaker 1: beat him nineteen ninety six, the Senate Majority leader, a 140 00:11:41,800 --> 00:11:47,200 Speaker 1: guy that's been cutting deals for decades. Nuke Gingrich called 141 00:11:47,240 --> 00:11:51,240 Speaker 1: him the tax collector for the welfare state. Bob Dole. 142 00:11:52,400 --> 00:11:57,720 Speaker 1: Bob Dole did not represent America's Hopes and Dreams two thousand. 143 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:03,839 Speaker 1: George H. W. Bush's son, handpicked by the establishment that 144 00:12:03,960 --> 00:12:09,520 Speaker 1: brought you. George HW. Bush worried that he won't be 145 00:12:09,559 --> 00:12:13,040 Speaker 1: able to govern. We'll put Dick Cheney in there. We 146 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:16,400 Speaker 1: know we can trust him. He's the former chief of 147 00:12:16,440 --> 00:12:22,800 Speaker 1: staff to to Presidents, Cabinet secretary and chairman and CEO 148 00:12:22,880 --> 00:12:29,839 Speaker 1: of Halliburton, a reliable warmonger. Re election two thousand and four, 149 00:12:31,280 --> 00:12:39,319 Speaker 1: two thousand and eight, John McCain. John McCain's entire resume 150 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:44,760 Speaker 1: was war veteran. Then he came home, joined the United 151 00:12:44,800 --> 00:12:48,319 Speaker 1: States Senate and proceeded to cut deals like Nan Crenshaw, 152 00:12:48,520 --> 00:12:55,120 Speaker 1: John Cornin or Mitch McConnell, absolutely selling us out. This 153 00:12:55,360 --> 00:12:57,280 Speaker 1: was a man who was part of the Keeping Five, 154 00:12:58,120 --> 00:13:04,320 Speaker 1: remember those. Remember that's This was an open borders establishment 155 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:10,360 Speaker 1: Republican who left Arizona and never came back. His role 156 00:13:10,960 --> 00:13:15,600 Speaker 1: was to be the Washington generals to Barack Obama's Harlem globetrotters. 157 00:13:17,400 --> 00:13:24,640 Speaker 1: Twenty twelve. Mitt Romney would win between fifteen and twenty 158 00:13:24,679 --> 00:13:31,679 Speaker 1: eight percent of any given States Republican primary voters, but 159 00:13:31,800 --> 00:13:34,559 Speaker 1: he just kept chugging along with the establishment behind him, 160 00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:40,760 Speaker 1: and he became our nominee, the former governor of Massachusetts, 161 00:13:40,880 --> 00:13:44,280 Speaker 1: mister sellout, you learned a lot about who he was. 162 00:13:44,840 --> 00:13:51,920 Speaker 1: When Trump was elected. Romney Kare preceded Obamacare. Romney's top 163 00:13:52,080 --> 00:13:56,560 Speaker 1: people were secretly coming in and out of the White 164 00:13:56,600 --> 00:14:04,160 Speaker 1: House to help the Obama administration draft Obamacare because they'd 165 00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:08,480 Speaker 1: done it in Massachusetts first, the single most unpopular thing 166 00:14:08,559 --> 00:14:13,800 Speaker 1: Obama had done. Romney had done in Massachusetts. There's your 167 00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:20,360 Speaker 1: Republican Party again, twenty sixteen, Jeb Bush with an esclamation. 168 00:14:20,480 --> 00:14:25,120 Speaker 1: Don't forget to clap. He's your nominee because we need 169 00:14:25,240 --> 00:14:28,480 Speaker 1: yet another Bush, because between the Bushes and Clinton's, we've 170 00:14:28,480 --> 00:14:33,040 Speaker 1: had him on almost every ballot now for twenty five years. 171 00:14:35,480 --> 00:14:41,440 Speaker 1: Jeb Bush, there's your choice. But it didn't happen. Trump 172 00:14:41,560 --> 00:14:49,600 Speaker 1: was an outlier. People saw something. Trump wins with a 173 00:14:50,120 --> 00:14:55,480 Speaker 1: unique moment in the American electorate's mind and a candidate 174 00:14:55,560 --> 00:14:58,120 Speaker 1: the likes of which we've never seen before and I 175 00:14:58,240 --> 00:15:01,400 Speaker 1: don't think we'll ever see again, not with that skill set. 176 00:15:04,120 --> 00:15:06,840 Speaker 1: Trump gets elected. They steal it from him in twenty twenty. 177 00:15:08,160 --> 00:15:10,800 Speaker 1: In twenty twenty four, he comes back despite the fact 178 00:15:10,800 --> 00:15:13,240 Speaker 1: that they tried to put him in prison, and worse, 179 00:15:15,120 --> 00:15:17,680 Speaker 1: there has not been a Republican on the national scene 180 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:22,160 Speaker 1: since the twenty sixteen election that anyone is looking at 181 00:15:22,360 --> 00:15:29,760 Speaker 1: and saying that's a leader for our party. Well, jd 182 00:15:30,040 --> 00:15:35,640 Speaker 1: Vance Michael, that's just because Donald Trump blessed him. That's 183 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:47,760 Speaker 1: not Cot Taps Barishaw. That's only been four years, but 184 00:15:48,040 --> 00:15:51,760 Speaker 1: it's largely been forgotten. It was on this day in 185 00:15:51,800 --> 00:15:56,360 Speaker 1: twenty twenty one that ten fans were killed and hundreds 186 00:15:56,480 --> 00:16:01,480 Speaker 1: injured during Travis Scott's performance at his Astrold festival in Houston, 187 00:16:01,960 --> 00:16:05,880 Speaker 1: when the crowd of fifty thousand surged towards the stage, 188 00:16:06,600 --> 00:16:12,080 Speaker 1: killing victims. The story from ABC thirteen, Yeah I started. 189 00:16:14,680 --> 00:16:17,800 Speaker 1: Everything was cool for a split second. 190 00:16:18,920 --> 00:16:21,760 Speaker 2: Now his dad held Ezra high on his shoulders, but 191 00:16:21,840 --> 00:16:26,600 Speaker 2: when the crowd started pushing, Tristan lost consciousness and Ezra 192 00:16:26,760 --> 00:16:29,920 Speaker 2: fell to the ground and was trampled. When Blunt came 193 00:16:29,960 --> 00:16:31,960 Speaker 2: to he went to the medical tent to try and 194 00:16:32,080 --> 00:16:35,360 Speaker 2: find his son. An officer later showed Tristan a photo. 195 00:16:36,320 --> 00:16:37,440 Speaker 1: The pigeon that they sent me. 196 00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:41,160 Speaker 3: Was a. 197 00:16:44,840 --> 00:16:45,760 Speaker 1: Was him in the hospital. 198 00:16:45,920 --> 00:16:49,240 Speaker 2: Turn heer sharing this sympathy to the family this evening, 199 00:16:49,280 --> 00:16:51,880 Speaker 2: writing I am satin to learn of Ezra's death this 200 00:16:52,080 --> 00:16:55,800 Speaker 2: evening our city tonight. Praise for his mom, dad, grandparents, 201 00:16:56,080 --> 00:16:59,320 Speaker 2: other family members and classmates. At this time, they will 202 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:02,280 Speaker 2: need all our support in the months and years to come. 203 00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:03,640 Speaker 2: Make God give them strength. 204 00:17:03,960 --> 00:17:05,200 Speaker 1: Rest in peace, Ezra. 205 00:17:05,760 --> 00:17:09,680 Speaker 2: Ezra becomes the tenth and youngest victim of the Astralt 206 00:17:09,800 --> 00:17:13,560 Speaker 2: Festival tragedy. Bharti Shashawane, a Texas A and M student, 207 00:17:13,600 --> 00:17:16,359 Speaker 2: passed away just last Wednesday. The other eight victims were 208 00:17:16,359 --> 00:17:19,800 Speaker 2: pronounced dead at the hospital just hours after the tragedy. 209 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:27,720 Speaker 1: State of Virginia carried the trifecta winning governor, lieutenant governor, 210 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:31,879 Speaker 1: and Attorney general, with the governor winning by eleven percent, 211 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:35,440 Speaker 1: lieutenant governor by ten and the Attorney general only winning 212 00:17:35,520 --> 00:17:43,359 Speaker 1: by three percent, but winning nonetheless. Nonetheless, Jay Jones was 213 00:17:43,560 --> 00:17:47,480 Speaker 1: confirmed to have sent a text to a friend and 214 00:17:47,600 --> 00:17:53,800 Speaker 1: fellow Democrat that he wanted the children of his opponent 215 00:17:54,920 --> 00:17:57,119 Speaker 1: to be murdered in front of him and his wife 216 00:17:58,200 --> 00:18:02,400 Speaker 1: so they would have to suffer. The Democrats didn't back 217 00:18:02,440 --> 00:18:08,840 Speaker 1: away from him. There were calls for his resignation. Republicans 218 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:13,000 Speaker 1: love to do this. We call for his resignation. He's 219 00:18:13,040 --> 00:18:15,040 Speaker 1: not going to resign. He's got nothing else to do. 220 00:18:16,240 --> 00:18:19,760 Speaker 1: These people make so much money off of government. He 221 00:18:20,240 --> 00:18:22,440 Speaker 1: needs to resign. And so now they all look like 222 00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:29,840 Speaker 1: they've done something, but he doesn't, and he wins. Democrat 223 00:18:29,920 --> 00:18:37,920 Speaker 1: voters don't care. I've watched friends who've had a daughter 224 00:18:38,040 --> 00:18:42,120 Speaker 1: who dates a turd, and they just wring their hands 225 00:18:42,160 --> 00:18:44,800 Speaker 1: over this. They don't know what to do. She's dating 226 00:18:44,880 --> 00:18:51,080 Speaker 1: this turd. He's a terrible person. Bad people are bad people. 227 00:18:53,960 --> 00:18:58,800 Speaker 1: You can talk yourself into some other explanation. You can 228 00:18:58,880 --> 00:19:01,679 Speaker 1: try to love them to but when they get across 229 00:19:01,760 --> 00:19:03,760 Speaker 1: the way, they're still going to turn and stand you. 230 00:19:04,400 --> 00:19:10,000 Speaker 1: It's who they are. That's what Democrat voters are. They're 231 00:19:10,080 --> 00:19:15,880 Speaker 1: very low information. Many of them are racists. In fact, 232 00:19:16,320 --> 00:19:22,200 Speaker 1: racism drives a Democrat party, followed closely by jealousy. That's 233 00:19:22,280 --> 00:19:26,760 Speaker 1: what that party is. And as frustrating as that might seem, 234 00:19:28,280 --> 00:19:34,280 Speaker 1: however prescient, the argument is that sways your vote. They 235 00:19:34,480 --> 00:19:40,560 Speaker 1: don't get swayed. They just vote Democrat. Our voters love 236 00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:43,159 Speaker 1: to think through the forty five different ways they can 237 00:19:43,240 --> 00:19:45,879 Speaker 1: perhaps maybe not vote for our candidate. Democrats don't do that. 238 00:19:47,160 --> 00:19:49,200 Speaker 1: They show up and vote how they're told, and that's it. 239 00:19:49,280 --> 00:19:54,359 Speaker 1: And that's all they have. Discipline, it is their livelihood, 240 00:19:55,040 --> 00:20:01,440 Speaker 1: it's what they do. The Virginia House of Delegates Democrats gained. 241 00:20:02,359 --> 00:20:07,399 Speaker 1: They're now up eighteen seats, fifty nine to forty one. 242 00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:13,439 Speaker 1: The New Jersey Governor's race, despite the fact that there 243 00:20:13,560 --> 00:20:19,440 Speaker 1: was incontrovertible evidence that Democrat Cheryl had traded stocks like 244 00:20:19,600 --> 00:20:23,160 Speaker 1: Dan Crenshaw, that she'd enriched herself for seven million dollars, 245 00:20:23,880 --> 00:20:31,200 Speaker 1: the Republican candidate still could not win. He had Trump's endorsement, 246 00:20:32,160 --> 00:20:36,040 Speaker 1: but every county trended more Democrat than in twenty twenty four. 247 00:20:37,760 --> 00:20:44,280 Speaker 1: The gains of Trump did not carry to his candidate 248 00:20:44,359 --> 00:20:51,560 Speaker 1: of choice, Rick Chitdarelli. New Jersey General Assembly Democrats held 249 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:58,399 Speaker 1: on to their majority with a two point hold. With 250 00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:03,359 Speaker 1: a plus two seat gain and a Democrat hold. Of course, 251 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:08,119 Speaker 1: you got the New York City Mayor's race where you 252 00:21:08,280 --> 00:21:12,719 Speaker 1: had Zorn Mumdani. Last numbers I saw had him up 253 00:21:12,800 --> 00:21:17,760 Speaker 1: by twenty six percent over Cuomo and then Sliwa. It's 254 00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:23,960 Speaker 1: a great example. I had Houston's had Democrats coming to 255 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:27,119 Speaker 1: be in Houston and said, what are we going to 256 00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:30,320 Speaker 1: do about Sheila Jackson Lee. She's going to win the 257 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:36,639 Speaker 1: mayor's race. You're a Democrat, I know, but I'm worried 258 00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:42,159 Speaker 1: about her. Sheila Jackson Lee is your party. You're not 259 00:21:42,359 --> 00:21:47,240 Speaker 1: white liberal. They let you have your moment because you 260 00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:52,720 Speaker 1: were useful as they clawed and scratched. This is Ridney 261 00:21:52,760 --> 00:21:57,920 Speaker 1: Elysis party. This isn't your party. This is Zorn Mumdani's party. 262 00:21:59,040 --> 00:22:03,879 Speaker 1: This is Baracco Alma's party. The white liberals played with 263 00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:10,600 Speaker 1: fire and now it is consuming them. I'm actually surprised 264 00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:15,359 Speaker 1: that Jacob Fry held on in Minneapolis. I thought Faute 265 00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:18,960 Speaker 1: might end up beating him. He didn't, but I thought 266 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:25,520 Speaker 1: he would. Bruce Harral, the incumbent, will remain the Democrat 267 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:31,280 Speaker 1: mayor there. Pretty low drama campaign, didn't get a lot 268 00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:38,440 Speaker 1: of attention. Pennsylvania Supreme Court not much, not much to 269 00:22:38,520 --> 00:22:43,360 Speaker 1: say there. California Proposition fifty a sixty to forty win 270 00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:48,520 Speaker 1: for Democrats, which would mean they stand to gain five 271 00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:55,680 Speaker 1: congressional seats. I read where Fox was saying that that 272 00:22:55,880 --> 00:23:00,399 Speaker 1: means that Republican states will now do away with the 273 00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:07,440 Speaker 1: jerry mandering that was created to elect more Democrats. But 274 00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:13,119 Speaker 1: they won't. They won't. At the pick your Fighter phase 275 00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:19,040 Speaker 1: of this game. We're not picking well, we're not drafting 276 00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:25,679 Speaker 1: a good team. Our people don't fight their people do period. 277 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:36,000 Speaker 1: End of story. Six states had statewide measures California, New Jersey, Virginia, Maine, Texas, 278 00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:42,879 Speaker 1: and Pennsylvania. Every proposition on the Texas ballot, all seventeen passed. 279 00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:48,120 Speaker 1: That is the power of the process. You write them 280 00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:49,800 Speaker 1: in a way that a voter goes in art I'm 281 00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:51,680 Speaker 1: going to read this and I'm going to cast a 282 00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:55,560 Speaker 1: good vote. More money for dementia research. Well, heck yeah, 283 00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:58,840 Speaker 1: I think that's a good idea. How much more I 284 00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:03,560 Speaker 1: don't know, but my Eastern law had dementia. Even the 285 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:07,320 Speaker 1: liberal voters in Austin want some fiscal restraint, and that's 286 00:24:07,359 --> 00:24:11,280 Speaker 1: saying So Prop Q, the largest tax hike in the 287 00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:14,480 Speaker 1: city's history, was defeated sixty three point thirty seven. I'd 288 00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:19,680 Speaker 1: say that's handily soundly. Would have raised property taxes on 289 00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:23,680 Speaker 1: the average homeowner by three hundred dollars, with nearly half 290 00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:25,640 Speaker 1: of the one hundred and ten million in new revenues 291 00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:31,680 Speaker 1: going to more homeless initiatives. So I got two really 292 00:24:31,840 --> 00:24:36,960 Speaker 1: exciting things to offer you. Number one, we're going to 293 00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:40,359 Speaker 1: raise your property taxes way you think of that. And 294 00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:44,440 Speaker 1: number two, we're going to use the money to attract 295 00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:48,360 Speaker 1: more homeless people to throw pooh at you while you're 296 00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:52,440 Speaker 1: walking around. City's already spent more than three hundred million 297 00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:58,359 Speaker 1: dollars on homeless initiatives since twenty nineteen. Golly gee whizz. 298 00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:03,040 Speaker 1: Of course you'd want to spend more. It's going swimmingly. 299 00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:04,879 Speaker 1: Fox seven at Austin. 300 00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:10,320 Speaker 8: Here we had a broad bipartisan coalition that start off, 301 00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:13,359 Speaker 8: they'd said no, we are not standing up for this. 302 00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:16,680 Speaker 1: And when the words are mad, enough is enough. 303 00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:21,119 Speaker 8: The spending must stop. We do not need more taxes 304 00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:24,920 Speaker 8: and this city council needs to get the message to 305 00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:26,920 Speaker 8: get their house in order. 306 00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:31,880 Speaker 3: Austin City Mayor Kirk Watson released a statement about thirty 307 00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:32,440 Speaker 3: minutes ago. 308 00:25:32,520 --> 00:25:34,040 Speaker 1: It starts Swiss quote. 309 00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:37,520 Speaker 3: When the council put Proposition Q on the ballot, I 310 00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:40,800 Speaker 3: said it's time to trust the voters. Tonight the voters 311 00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:44,920 Speaker 3: spoke by rejecting Prop Q. Austin voters made their decision, 312 00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:48,480 Speaker 3: and they did so clearly. I trust their decision and 313 00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:49,320 Speaker 3: I hear them. 314 00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:50,040 Speaker 1: End quote. 315 00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:53,159 Speaker 3: Prop Q included a huge amount of funding for a 316 00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:56,040 Speaker 3: lot of different things. So here's how the city wanted 317 00:25:56,040 --> 00:26:00,720 Speaker 3: to spend your taxpayer dollars. Proposition Q aims to put 318 00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:04,320 Speaker 3: about one hundred and ten million dollars towards public safety 319 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:08,320 Speaker 3: and social services. However, the potential for a property tax 320 00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:11,800 Speaker 3: increase to foot the bill is something mini voters are 321 00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:12,800 Speaker 3: not on board with. 322 00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:16,680 Speaker 1: We should continue to make Austin affordable for everyone, and 323 00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:19,160 Speaker 1: prop to you is just going to make it more expensive. 324 00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:23,320 Speaker 3: If pass, the average homeowner would be paying an additional 325 00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:27,040 Speaker 3: three hundred and three dollars annually on a half a 326 00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:30,879 Speaker 3: million dollar home. Opponents argue that the city already has 327 00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:35,080 Speaker 3: enough revenue and say they can't afford higher taxes, especially 328 00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:36,040 Speaker 3: senior citizens. 329 00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:37,760 Speaker 8: Part to all the ones I had to do with 330 00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:41,280 Speaker 8: and or on property taxes because as they go up 331 00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:44,440 Speaker 8: and incomes don't go up, that affects us all. 332 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:47,760 Speaker 3: The city wants to spend the largest chunk of that 333 00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:52,119 Speaker 3: money on expanding homeless programs, allocating thirty five and a 334 00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:53,320 Speaker 3: half million dollars. 335 00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:56,040 Speaker 1: Prop Q is about allowing this work to continue so 336 00:26:56,240 --> 00:26:56,560 Speaker 1: we can. 337 00:26:56,480 --> 00:26:58,359 Speaker 5: Reach more of the people suffering on our streets and 338 00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:00,840 Speaker 5: prevent struggling Austin residents for becoming homeless. 339 00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:04,520 Speaker 1: Close to twenty three million would. 340 00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:07,920 Speaker 3: Go to improving public safety by adding EMS positions for 341 00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:12,480 Speaker 3: mental health response and paying more support services for victims 342 00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:16,320 Speaker 3: of crime. Than ten million dollars is allotted on climate 343 00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:21,000 Speaker 3: change response projects, as well as improving and maintaining public 344 00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:23,040 Speaker 3: parks and recreation facilities. 345 00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:25,000 Speaker 8: We live in a time when the federal government and 346 00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:27,879 Speaker 8: the state government others deny all about the realities of 347 00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:28,600 Speaker 8: climate change. 348 00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:32,600 Speaker 3: Plus another seven point seven million dollars on public health services, 349 00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:38,120 Speaker 3: including delivery of HIV or STI testing. Lastly, one point 350 00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:41,639 Speaker 3: three million first City of Austin employee benefits. 351 00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:48,840 Speaker 1: Will it was defeated. I guess there's that sixty three 352 00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:55,840 Speaker 1: thirty seven. There is something about liberal white people and 353 00:27:55,960 --> 00:28:01,440 Speaker 1: the causes that they take up global warming. Kamala Harris 354 00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:04,399 Speaker 1: said the other day that we should drop the voting 355 00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:12,160 Speaker 1: age to sixteen because teenagers are suffering climate change anxiety. 356 00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:16,080 Speaker 1: You know, when I was growing up, this was the 357 00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:20,280 Speaker 1: kind of stuff that adults and especially men, would say, 358 00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:23,920 Speaker 1: stop being such a little sissy. What in the world 359 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:29,880 Speaker 1: are you doing. We need more of that. We need 360 00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:34,720 Speaker 1: fewer men acting like women. We need more men to 361 00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:37,560 Speaker 1: buck up and stand up and say no, we're not 362 00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:40,000 Speaker 1: going to do that stupid thing here at the office. No, 363 00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:41,960 Speaker 1: we're not going to do that stupid thing at the house. 364 00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:44,400 Speaker 1: No we're not going to do that stupid thing at 365 00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:47,560 Speaker 1: the school district. I'm on the board. No we're not 366 00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:51,120 Speaker 1: going to do that stupid thing in the government. I 367 00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:55,240 Speaker 1: don't know when Dylan mulvaney took over running things in 368 00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:59,920 Speaker 1: this country, but that's what it feels like. It's ridiculous. 369 00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:07,600 Speaker 1: And the whole deal the obsession with homelessness. First of all, 370 00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:10,400 Speaker 1: there is the idea that somehow this is an expression 371 00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:15,880 Speaker 1: of empathy. It's not if at eight years old your 372 00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:19,840 Speaker 1: kid says he wants to stay out all night or 373 00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:24,320 Speaker 1: sleep at Michael Jackson's house in his bed. As a parent, 374 00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:31,840 Speaker 1: you say, no, you don't keep empowering and funding this nonsense. 375 00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:38,280 Speaker 1: But what nobody seems to recognize is when you create 376 00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:41,760 Speaker 1: a fund for will use homelessness here. There are a 377 00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:44,880 Speaker 1: lot of other things. This is true. For you create 378 00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:48,080 Speaker 1: a market for it, there will never be an end 379 00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:52,440 Speaker 1: to homelessness because you will create all these agencies and 380 00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:57,000 Speaker 1: social programs and they live off of homelessness. Well, that 381 00:29:57,200 --> 00:30:00,680 Speaker 1: means that homelessness has to keep growing and the more 382 00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:03,160 Speaker 1: it grows, the more they say, oh my god, we 383 00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:08,480 Speaker 1: need more money. And so what you are really doing 384 00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:17,200 Speaker 1: is subsidizing the accelerated growth of homelessness. The white liberal 385 00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:20,520 Speaker 1: obsession with homelessness because it's not a black thing. The 386 00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:25,000 Speaker 1: white liberal obsession with homelessness is akin to the global 387 00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:32,080 Speaker 1: warming and drag Queen's story hour in kindergarten. It is 388 00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:37,800 Speaker 1: really weird. There has been an explosion in homelessness in 389 00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:41,880 Speaker 1: the urban cities of this country. Part of the reason 390 00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:44,440 Speaker 1: is funding it more. We're about to do it in 391 00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:50,160 Speaker 1: Houston too. And the second reason is this is this 392 00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:59,200 Speaker 1: EmPATH mentality that somehow, in some odd way, we're celebrating 393 00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:05,920 Speaker 1: the homeless because there's nothing the white liberal loves more 394 00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:16,160 Speaker 1: than the celebrated victim. They absolutely love the celebrated victim 395 00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:25,840 Speaker 1: and that guy staggering around like a zombie, wearing no clothes, 396 00:31:29,080 --> 00:31:34,720 Speaker 1: screwing in the tent, feet hanging out or under the overpass, 397 00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:42,840 Speaker 1: laid out, passed out with some dog, smelling like ass, 398 00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:49,080 Speaker 1: committing petty crimes all day long. White liberals love that guy. 399 00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:53,240 Speaker 1: Love it. That to them is the best thing ever. 400 00:31:55,720 --> 00:32:02,000 Speaker 1: Needles everywhere, crime filth more. Let's throw more money at 401 00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:04,400 Speaker 1: it because what we've done's work so well. 402 00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:08,600 Speaker 4: H