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show is on the air. Don't talk like one of them. You're not. Even if you'd like to be. To them, you're just a freak. Like me. I think he'll go on to defeat a very defective candidate, a candidate that believes in six genders, and he takes hits to Jesus Christ. He's wearing a mask six months ago. Where's a guy? Anybody wearing a mask six months ago doesn't get it. And he's a vegan. He's a vegan in Texas. And you can't get elected as a vegan in Texas. Before we go further, I want to acknowledge that our trans community needs abortion care too. Defending trans-Texas is something we have to do every day at the state capital. And you better believe I'll be giving sermons on that, too. So when I use the word woman, it should not be understood as an exhausted term, but rather as a lens through which to understand, examine, and interrogate patriarchal. Christian nationalists like to say this is a Christian nation. Now let's discuss an awful human being who lives in Houston. His name is Dr. Peter Hotez. He's a vaccine scientist. He takes himself very seriously. This was him in 2021 saying, quote, we're going to halt transmission with vaccines. I have a lot of optimism we can vaccinate our way through it. Oh, he loves vaccines. He loves big, big pharma. Do you want to guess why? He said the vaccines are stopping asymptomatic transmission. So you've got it, but you don't know it. And the vaccines are stopping over 90% of it. How do you know? As we move to a fully vaccinated population, we will halt transmission. He was insisting that you listen to the science and you get that jab in your arm that will destroy your life and kill a lot of people. They're also halting PCR positive infection. They're actually stopping asymptomatic transmission over 90%. And I think that's going to be true of all of the vaccines released through Operation Warp Speed. And if that is the case, what it means is that as we move to a fully vaccinated population in the United States, we're going to halt transmission. I have a lot of optimism. We can vaccinate our way through it. Now let's go to the same Peter Hottes calling for mandates. He says we've done everything we can do by encouraging you to take the shot. But that's not enough. Quote, this is why we have to have mandates. He's an authoritarian.
He wants to control you. He says you will take this shot that's unproven. He says you'll do it, and you're not doing it. Like Joe Biden said, we're losing our patience with you. You're not doing what you're told, you sheep, you stupid cattle, you peasants. And then he goes further. The internet is full of anti-vaccine content. They're not doctors like him. The center for countering digital hate has a plan to de-platform the major offenders. Boy, that's science, isn't it? Anyone who questions Peter Hotez and this beautiful vaccine, we'll just get them kicked off of social media. And they did. I was one of them. The, quote, far-right activities, end quote, at CPAC and on conservative news channels need to be worked harder. And then Russia. The Russian government is piling on anti-vaccine content as a wedge issue. We need Homeland Security, the Commerce Department, the Justice Department, and the State Department, an interagency task force to manage what Americans read about vaccines. You should only get to hear what Peter Hotez says and not anyone who questions him. Does that sound like science? It sounds to me like an authoritarian with a fetish for fascism. This man should be held to account for what he said. I'm embarrassed that he's from Houston. I'm ashamed that he's from Houston. I hope his conscience torments him for the rest of his life. We've done everything we can to encourage people to get vaccinated in terms of... pro-vaccine messaging. I think the next, and this is why we have to have mandates, I think it was the right move not to push too hard on this, at least in the beginning. But as we run out of options, this may be the only one left. I just think it's going to be very hard to do this successfully when you have all of the anti-vaccine content dominating the internet right now. I think we need to be looking at, you know, the Center for Connery Digital Hate has a plan to deep platforms some of the major offenders than the non-governmental level and we've got to work harder with some of the far right activities like we saw at CPAC around the conservative news channels And we have to work harder with the Russian government. Now, the U.S. and British intelligence reports that the Russian government is piling on anti-vaccine content as a wedge issue to divide our country. And what I've called on the Biden administration to do is to get, bring in some people from outside the health sector to get advice on how to take this down and create an interagency task force that includes the health and human services agencies. But we need help. We need help from Homeland Security. We need help from the Commerce Department from the Justice.
Department and the State Department to do something about the weaponized health communication that's coming out of Russia. And until we also do that, things are going to not, things are going to be really rough now for the next few weeks and months over these mandates. Ken Paxton is running for the U.S. Senate. He toppled the 24-year establishment Republican John Cornyn. He was part of the Lindsey Graham Nasty, Mitch McConnell, John Thune Caball. But the Republican voters of Texas said, we've had enough. We want a MAGA guy in there. That's Ken Paxton. Donald Trump endorsed him. Well, this is his policy rollout as we get close to the election. Protecting Texas promise. A $25,000 tax deduction for out-of-pocket medical expenses, including insurance premiums, a $50,000 home down payment deduction, a $5,000 healthy living deduction for staying active and eating right, a doubled child tax credit with Trump accounts locked in. He says, look. We're trying to get the government out of your life. We're trying to reduce your taxes for doing the things that you're doing to protect your health, your family, your children, your business. Here's his ad. As Attorney General, I've fought for Texas. Washington is making it harder than ever to get ahead, and the American dream is slipping away as a cost of everything from housing to health care rises. I believe every Texan should be able to buy a home, raise a family, and live a healthy life without struggling to make ends meet. That's why I'm unveiling my protecting Texas promise agenda. It establishes a landmark $25,000 tax deduction for all out-of-pocket medical expenses, including insurance premiums. It creates a historic $50,000 home down payment deduction to make it easier to buy a home. It institutes a $5,000 healthy living tax deduction to help Texans stay active, eat healthier, and invest in their well-being. It doubles the child tax fitter and makes the Trump accounts permit. I'm running because I believe the American dream is still worth fighting for it. I hope you all will join me as I travel across our state, share my plan, and make that train. This is The Michael Bari Weiss Show. One of the things that Trump did, starting in 2016, well really starting in 2015. is he had his finger on the pulse of real Americans, which is crazy because he rides around in a Trump helicopter and a Trump jumbo jet with his name across the side and lived in New York most of the time back then.
But here was a guy who understood what drove you and me and talked about it. And he made the politicians look silly. That's why Jed Bush had to read one of these lines from people who probably wrote for his brother and his daddy before him. And at the end of the line had to say, please clap. That's why. Because he didn't understand real Americans because he had no sense of what drives us. Trump does. Well, Marco Rubio has been quietly his understudy, as have some others. And he was asked a question by Laura Trump on Fox News. And this is the sort of answer. This is the sort of sentiment, whether it's true or not. that Trump taught Republicans to say, appeal to the people that are our voters, that are real Americans. Full week off, without having anyone access you, what would you do? If I had a full week off, I'd be wondering what was going on. I'm being honest. And maybe that'll change when I'm out of this job. But if I could make the world stop for a minute and have nothing going on, I'd love to like, well, my wife's going to hate this answer. But I'd love to sit down and like watch like every college football game starting at noon Eastern until when the West Coast games end at 2 a.m. our time Eastern. I'd love to be able to do that at least one weekend. I doubt I'll be able to do that anytime soon. James Talarico was at a campaign event held in a church. He invokes Jesus. He says health care is a human right. Oh, yes, we have human rights now. You don't have a right to your gun. He authored three bills, his first term in the state house, to take away your guns. You don't have a right as a parent to keep the school and the doctors and the weirdo organizations from chopping off your kids. Willie, you don't have any of those rights, but you have a human right to health care. Well, who will pay for it? Not a privilege. And how do we know? Because of Matthew 25. He's asking you to read the scripture because he's about half pastor, you see. Jesus, he says, spent most of his time healing the sick. And that's how we'll be judged. In other words, Obamacare on steroids. We need government-run health care. And by this measure, by the way, by this measure, there's no more Christian nation in Cuba. where the government handles your health care. We can finish the work of President Obama and pass a public option so that every single American has access to the health care they deserve. Because health care is a human right. It is not a privilege. I just since we are in church, and because I said BS earlier, if you read our scriptures, if you read the New Testament, What does Jesus spend most of his time doing? It's not, well, you already know, okay. It's not preaching, it's not teaching. It is healing. Healing the sick. And in Matthew 25, Scripture says that's how we will be judged and how we will be saved by healing the sick, by feeding the hungry, by welcoming the stranger, by visiting the prisoner. Now we've got the same James Talarico. For every Texan,
who's willing to let the Californians fund the campaign so that they can own the Texas senator with leftist sentiments. Here he is at that same church, and a Navy veteran, black woman named Amanda, stands up and tells him about being at a Juneteenth celebration when the Popeau shut it down two hours early with no explanation because cops are all racist. Something that he has said. She says she has more trauma living back here in the U.S. than in Afghanistan. Oh, really? Did you walk the streets alone in Kabul? Talariko tells her that he was in Houston the night before. At a prayer vigil for Lorenzo Salgado, he's the illegal alien who in the process of deportation tried to ram the cops and was killed. And... He says from Juneteenth shutdowns to immigration enforcement, every resource going after construction workers like Lorenzo Salgado is a resource. It's not going after folks who are actually committing crimes. Although he has said our prisons are actually violence. He doesn't believe in prisons. He believes in cutting bad guys loose. And then he says, If he's elected, a U.S. Senator, he will build the political will to take federal action to ensure, quote, law enforcement is actually protecting and serving all of us, not just some of us. That's James Talarico, not running for the U.S. Senate in Texas, running, I mean, in California, but running for the U.S. Senate in Texas. My God, California, Reid Hoffman, George Soros, it is impressive, the hutzpah you have. to try this in Texas. Hello. Hi. I'm Amanda Meredith. I'm a veteran of the U.S. Navy. Hey. Thank you. I'm from South of Cliff. My question is, since I've been back since 2017, I have noticed over policing in our neighborhoods, especially during Juneteef. I myself was attending an event in Lancaster, and our event was closed down two hours prior to it actually ending. We were doing nothing. We were just having a very joyous occasion, and yet we were told to leave without even giving a proper explanation. Every sense that Trump had ended. the investigations and two civil rights investigations, police investigations, the craziness in this country has gotten worse. Our people have getting killed left and right. Carmilla Anthony's case is just a tracity. Excuse my language. But it is. But it is. So what are we going to do to fix those harms? There should be no reason why I can't go to a cookout and enjoy myself amongst my people. I have more trauma from living here, coming back here than I did when I was in Bahrain, Kuwait, Afghanistan.
And that's the anxiety. That's what I was most worried about. I came back here because my family is here for my son so he can get to know them. But that was what I'm going to be like now when I'm driving around. Am I going to get harassed by the police and state troopers? And he has got to stop. Thank you. Thank you for your question. And thank you for your service. This is unacceptable. I was proud to march in Dr. Opelese Walk for Freedom in Fort Worth for Juneteen. It was one of the most beautiful celebrations I've participated in in the whole campaign. So many Texans showing up, black, white and brown all together, marching for justice, marching for progress, marching for freedom. It was a joyous, beautiful thing to see. And I'm so sorry that... Law enforcement felt the need to shut down a joyous festival for you in this community. It is unacceptable. Law enforcement is here to serve us. It is here to protect us. And too often we see law enforcement weaponized against black and brown communities in this state. We have a deeply broken justice system. We have a deeply broken approach to policing. And I do want to just mention this. I was in Houston last night and we had a prayer vigil for Lorenzo Salgado Arajo, who was murdered by ICE on the streets of Houston. Our immigrant community is also facing a similar threat from being over-policed. Every resource going after construction workers like Lorenzo Salgado is a resource that's not going after folks who are actually committing crimes. And so we have to get back to a place where police, where law enforcement, where ICE, where they are actually fighting for public safety, not fighting. Michael Bari Weiss, known as the Tsar, also known as El Ticino. Thanks for your support of our podcast. Thanks for telling people about it. Thanks for your messages to me through our website, Michaelberry Show.com. I read every one of them. We're here because you're here because you support what we do and you support our sponsors. You know, we call them sponsors because they're not advertisers. There's people who believe in what we do. They want the kind of country that we want. When Ray Breyer has reached out the Pipeyard Inc, he buys and sells pipe on a big level. I said, look, I don't know if we can move any pipe for you, get you some pipe to buy or find you people to buy your pipe. He said, I don't care. I believe in what you do. Well, since then, we've been able to find him pipelines across several states. Listeners, one listener in Georgia called in and said, I'm a Michael Bari Weiss show listener. You're the pipe guy. I'm calling you. And it was a huge deal. So people that need to buy and sell pipe. Huge amounts of pipe, call Ray Breyers now. 409-788, pipe. He supports our show, and you do too, and I thank you for that. Pipeyard, Inc. 409, 788, pipe. I'm on testosterone, and I encourage everybody else to be on testosterone. If you're below 350 on your testosterone level, a very good chance your insurance will pay for you to have it. You know why? There's a lot of studies that say it's very good for you, not just your sex life, but your energy, your strength, all sorts of good things.
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She's talking about capitalism, racism, white supremacy, colonialism, all working together. Then she gets to October 7th. The day the Americans and the Jews were killed without calling it that. She says she finds it reprehensible that she is asked to apologize for, quote, a terror attack that a couple of people did. Gosh, that's exactly how Ilhan Omar described the 9-11 attacks in the U.S. And she says there have been no apologies for genocides and slavery. She's had it. And finding that, like, you know, the system of capitalism and racism and white supremacy, et cetera, have all, and Islamophobia have all been used, you know, to colonize lands, right, to take resources from other people. And so this is, like, a long trajectory. And we're just seeing the manifestations of that continuation, right, with 9-11. And so. A lot of times when people are asking us to respond about, you know, attack, right? When, if you look back, like, historically, right, you know, a lot of us come from lands that were colonized, lands where wars are being waged, right? A lot of times because of U.S. policy or the policies in Europe. And so I find that we can connect over that, but then also that... The idea that we have to apologize for like a terror attack that like a couple of people did. And then there is no apologies or reparations for genocide and for slavery, et cetera, is something that I kind of find like represents. James Carville, along with his then business partner, Paul Begalla, was the brains behind the Clinton victory in 1992. Now, it might seem like a foregone conclusion today, but in 1992, It had been 16 years since the Democrats had won a presidential election. And that election, they barely won with Jimmy Carter nosing out Gerald Ford, who was closing at the very end. And the only reason he beat Ford is because Nixon had resigned after Watergate, and he had pardoned Nixon. The Democrats had won in 76. Because of the Nixon smear, you would have to go back to Democrats winning in 64, which LBJ won after the nation was mourning the young president of Camelot who was assassinated. You'd have to go back to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in 60 to have a straight up race where Robert F. Kennedy Jr. beats Nixon. And then you had eight years before that of Dwight David Eisenhower. So you'd have to go back to 52 the end of Truman's term as president or his full term as president. So the Democrat Party was struggling. They had moved too far to the left under LBJ in 1965. The social programs, the affirmative action, the busing, all of this was very unpopular. So Carvel and Begalla put together a plan to dupe southern working men to vote for Bill Clinton. And in fact, if Gore had followed that strategy in 2000, he didn't. He would have beaten George W. Bush. But Carville was at one point the brains behind the Democrat Party. Now, he sounds like a madman. And on some issues, he is a madman. But make no mistake, he has a good understanding of his party and the American electorate. Here he was on Newsmax when he was asked.
Are the Democrat Socialists of America a problem for the Democrat Party? The Democratic Socialist America, are they a problem for the Democratic Party going into midterms or an asset or neither? I think they have a problem. I mean, I think pretty clearly they have a problem. I think they're mostly urban oriented. I think they're way further to the left and the average Democrat. Democratic voter, yeah, I don't have any cell problem. Same James Carville, this time on CNN, and of course with a sexual reference because he does love those. Let's take in Michigan. Now, Abdul El-Sayed is highly competent, but he's way left. I see challenges from the quote, progressive left, unquote. And these people... They're too hard-headed to know that they're not popular. People don't like them. But if you get a skewed turnout in a primary, you might end up losing a race that you should have never lost in the first place. When you say progressive left, there's a tone of contempt there. Yeah, so you were very wise. Hope the camera was able to pick up the contempt. The biggest? Most powerful voice against the Democrat Socialists of America right now in America is not a Republican. It's not a writer or thinker on our side. It's actually a long time liberal, non-practicing, Jewish, white talk show host. who is absolutely nightly shredding the socialists of the Democrat Party. It's Bill Maher. Here he is reading from the DSA's own documents. The Marxist unity group within the DSA, which is now in ascendance, as he notes, their stated commitment, the long-term struggle for a fully liberated, classless society. That's communism. Now the coalition within the DSA called the Marxist Unity Group is in ascendance, and I must take them at their word when their words include, our commitment is to the long-term struggle for a fully liberated, classless society in a word communism. What do they have to do? Tweet out, elect more communists? Oh, yeah, see, a Weaver did that. Yes. Good, I'm glad you're shot. People got to realize this is going on. Yes, my vote is in place. You've got a Michael Barry show. Two Democrat congressmen drafted a pledge. Simple words. We are capitalist. We are not socialist. We believe in safety, not lawlessness. We are proud, not ashamed of America. Straightforward, not hard to sign, right? Out of 212 Democrats in Congress, eight of them signed. Eight, because the others are scared to death of the muscle in the party that does not agree. Two Democratic congressmen released an open pledge. They wanted their fellow Democratic members to sign. It said, we are capitalist, not socialist. We want safety, not lawlessness. We are proud, not ashamed of America. These should not be hard words for a congressional Democrat to sign on to. You know how many did?
Eight, eight out of two hundred and twelve. Guys, really, there's got to be an easier way to lose the swing state. Just for good measure since we're on the subject to Bill Maher, and I've been watching some of his stuff and cutting it up for the show. This is Bill Maher on gambling. Whatever you may think of gambling, he points out that Nevada was the one place you could legally gamble in his lifetime. Now over 50% of people under the age of 50 have a gambling account. That's a lot. Over half Americans. He says we spend more money gambling than on movies, TV, music, books, theater, and museums combined. Not any one of those. All of them combined. Here's a big one. We are now in a place in this country where gambling. We spend more money gambling than on everything else combined. Movies, TV, music, books, theater, museums. Well, I never spent a lot of money in a museum. Okay. All of it combined, not as, I mean, this is, in my lifetime, gambling has gone from a place where you did it in one place in America, Nevada. You could do it in one place to now. It's so ubiquitous that, first of all, it's ruining sports, but I know, as I always say when you're on the show, you think a lot about young boys. And it is... It is mostly a disease of young men. Over 50% of people under 50 have a account, have a gambling account. And I mean, the floodgates opened in 2018 when the Supreme Court said that we could do this. We could have this kind of online gambling and sports gambling. I think that's going to look worse than the Citizens United decision. Yeah. Maybe worse than the one where you said the president could do anything. That's a really bad decision, and now this is the world we're living in. Then Bill Maher makes the statement, because apparently Sarah Palin is the devil herself, that he would vote for Sarah Palin before the Democrat Socialists of America. James Carvel says he's done with the Democrats. But Gavin Newsom says, It's a big tent. We got a little bit of everything in here. Pedophiles, rapists, sex traffickers, cartel members. Bill Maher says, you know what else you find in a tent? Clowns. Yeah, Carvel said, I'm done. I'm not in that political party. Now, Gavin Newsom disagrees. He says he's good with it because the party is a big tent. Well, you know what else you find in a tent? Clowns. It's so funny. Somebody who lube... themselves. Every time Trump puts gold on something in the Oval Office, it's historic. And the separation of powers isn't? Get your head out of your ass. I would vote for Sarah Palin before this... Trace Gallagher notes... that in a Wall Street Journal poll, 39% of American adults would vote for a Democrat socialist for president. Four out of ten. It gets worse. Among Democrats, 75% would vote for a candidate willing to abolish the police and prisons and abolish the Senate and abolish the Supreme Court and abolish ICE and the border. We'd be wide open again.
Three out of four Democrats. This is Trace Gallagher with Fox News. The new Wall Street Journal poll instructive. The question is, quote, would you consider voting for a Democratic socialist for president? 39% of U.S. adults said yes. So four out of 10 adults in a capitalist country would vote for a socialist president. It gets worse. The same poll says that 75% of Democrats would vote for a socialist president. Three out of four Democrats would vote for a candidate willing to abolish police and prisons, abolish the Senate and Supreme Court, abolish ICE and borders. And when common sense showed video to a socialist candidate of thousands of migrants flooding into Spain, creating mass chaos, the candidate... shrugged. And because of his hatred for ICE, he also downplayed any concerns about illegal immigrants raping and killing Americans, saying it was only, quote, a few. Common sense would point out it's a lot more than a few. But when that DSA candidate was pressed on how many rapes and how many murders by illegal immigrants are acceptable, the answer was Trump. Because when the left doesn't have an answer, the answer is always Trump. Common sense thinks at some point, even the 75% of socialist voting Democrats are going to have problems. They're going to want answers. And Trump will no longer be the answer. David Friedberg is a Silicon Valley investor and a podcast host. He's not a conservative. And he's talking about how alarmed he is. This isn't me. This isn't Fox. This is a guy who is, as I said, not a conservative. He's talking about Zohran Mamdani's free grocery stores in New York. And he thinks they're going to work in the short term. He says, look, they're going to pay above market wages. The food will be cheaper than whole foods. Everyone will want one across the country. The 60 Minutes piece will come, happy shoppers, happy employees, and it will be deemed a utopian dream come true. And it will light a fire for socialism around the country. He calls this the multi-level marketing scheme of socialism. I think that people have it wrong. I think these grocery stores are going to be wildly popular. They're going to pay their employees above market wages. Employees are not going to have to work very hard to work there. So they're going to be a better place to work. Everyone's going to want to use them. They're going to outperform Whole Foods. They're going to outperform Safeway. They're going to outperform Albertsons. They're going to be so in demand that what will end up happening is that over the next 24 months, every other city in America will look to these grocery stores and say, we want the same. Why does only New York get these grocery stores? Why can't I have these grocery stores, too, where I can have discounted food, where I can have the service provided to me by people that are getting paid above average wages, above market wages? Health care. Why does this not become available to be in my city? So, you know, I think that everyone's being a little bit too, I would say, long-sighted.
in their view on what's going to happen with these grocery stores with the, you know, basic, obvious economic arithmetic that someone has to pay for this and who's going to pay for it and... Rich people. Blah, blah, blah. Well, I mean, the point is, I don't think it really matters. Because over the near term, what the cheap grocery stores do is create an incredible success story for socialism that will help to support and fuel the socialist waves in urban centers around this country. And I think that there will be media coverage of these grocery stores on how great they are. And it'll be a 60 minutes piece. And everyone said Zohran Mamdani was crazy. But let's go in and take a look at this beautiful grocery store, and they're going to walk through the grocery store. And there are going to be happy people taking food off the shelves, checking out with happy employees working at the grocery stores. And it is going to be deemed a utopian dream come reality, and everyone's going to want one. And it will help seed the next couple of years, and it will be part of, as I've highlighted in the path, a big part of the multi-level marketing scheme of socialism. Ladies and gentlemen... has left the building thank you and good night you have reached the Michael Barry podcast and I'm honored to have you here if I could just take a few seconds to tell you a little bit about our show how we do it, why we do it. We are big believers in American excellence. We are big believers in old-fashioned culture, treating a woman properly, being respectful to your parents, being attentive parents to our own kids. Those are the values that underpin more than party or anything else, everything that we do. And hopefully you hear that in every show that we put on. And in the process, hopefully we make you laugh a little bit as well. I want to say thanks to our show sponsor, Ray Breyer's, at The Pipeyard Inc. He buys and sells pipe. So if you've got a pipeline that you're abandoning, they'll come and rip it out and sell it. If you need to buy or sell pipe, this is my guy, you will talk to the top guy, and they will buy everything you have and loads of it. Thepipyard Inc.com. 409-788 pipe. 409-78 pipe. Turns out, at least according to my urologist, that all that talk about taking testosterone is bad for your prostate. That was based on one study that's been debunked. But you know what? Don't trust me. Do your own reading. Cross-reference. Learn more. Go to fixmylowtie.com. That's synergenics. That's who I use for my testosterone replacement. It makes me energetic. It makes me happy. I lost some belly fat out of it, which was really nice. And yes, it does that too. Fix my lowt.com. You paid your insurance premiums hoping that you would never get fire, smoke, damage, water damage, hail damage, hell, we have so many.
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