PM Show Hr 1 | The U.S. Senate Seat in Texas

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The Michael Barry Show is on the air. It's Charlie from Blackberry Smoke. I can feel a good one coming on. It's the Michael Barry Show. Oh, yes, it is. Yes, it is. I think you're going to love our show today. I hope so. I was just looking at our list of affiliates. We have more affiliates in Texas than anywhere. I think Alabama's number two. And different states have a different number of affiliates. But just looking at that list, you're in California, Pennsylvania, Delaware, D.C., Florida, Arizona, Washington, Colorado, Ohio, Oregon, Tennessee. Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky, Rhode Island. No, not Djibouti. Djibouti is not in Massachusetts, New York, Oklahoma, did I say Kentucky, West Virginia. Trying not to repeat, because some of these we have multiple. Maryland, Missouri, Mississippi, just going down the list, Louisiana. So we have been talking a lot about the U.S. Senate seat in Texas that in a little over 70 days will begin early voting and then we'll have in, you know, 80-something days, 85, 86 days, we'll have the election day. And we've put more emphasis on the Texas Senate seat. than any other show in the country. The reason is we're kind of similarly, we're kind of uniquely situated to talk about it. And unfortunately, whether you like it or not, how Texas votes on that U.S. Senate seat is going to have an effect on your life. We're going to have, it's going to go down to the wire who has control of the U.S. Senate after the November election. and the U.S. House. And I'm going to tell you, and I know you know this, if the Democrats take control of the House, all they're going to do for the final two years of the Trump administration is impeachment hearings. Nothing else will get done. That will be all they do. Impeachment hearings, impeachment hearings, impeachment hearings, and the media will cover every one of them. And they will pass articles of impeachment, and they will send it over to the Senate. And the Senate will have to deal with that. And if that Senate is a Democratic-controlled Senate, they will pass impeachment. That's real. That's going to happen. And so out of those hundred Senate seats, there's only one in Texas that's up. You remember the lower House, the House of Representatives, the members there are up every two years. The 450 of them. Sorry, 435 of them. But the U.S. Senate, they're only up every six years. So if you lose a seat, you're stuck with a Democrat in that seat for six years. And if we start losing what were secure seats, we're in real trouble. You know, Arizona was a solid red state.

And this will appeal and apply to many of you. And he would often refer to the fact that most of his listeners, like him, never went to college. They weren't, quote, unquote, educated. But there was a time before universities. It was a time before formal education, and like most everything else, weddings, funerals, bar mitzvahs, kinsignettas, graduations, proposals. Things take on a life that's much bigger than the actual thing itself. Is it so important to go to the university? I don't know. It's pretty cool. I mean, Cory Booker T. Washington lost his mind at the thought of getting to just sit and read all day. We take that for granted in this country. We have to beg our kids to read, right? You have to beg your kids to read and to study and all that. In most countries, you're put to work at a very young age as soon as you can. Start contributing because you're a drain on the resources of the family. So start contributing. And before you know it, You wake up in the morning and you're working, whether you want to or not. Usually you don't. It's a drudgery. And you have just enough food to sustain you. And in order to dull, to kill the pain, the anguish. the sense of drudgery, you pick up some sort of a weed you can smoke or chew in India, a beetlenut, a drink, some sort of drugs, something to escape from the reality of your hell. But the university was designed, the college, to be a place to read and to study and to share ideas. If you didn't have that experience, don't think you're not educated. Because whatever you did in lieu of instead of during that time is also your education. You have an education. You've raised children. That in and of itself. There's a course. You've fixed things. You've failed. You've tried. You've worked. You've had to comply with laws, taxes, and everything else. You've had to comply with a code of ethics by which we exist. You've had to watch some people fail and some people succeed. You've had to deal with death and life, obligations and responsibility, commitments. These are all your education. And you learned more on the streets in life than you would have in a university. And I can say that as a guy who got a four-year degree in undergraduate, a three-year law degree, and then another degree in England in another law degree.

So let's dispense with the notion that there's an educated and an uneducated. But we can say that when you were being taught a lot of important things in life, you might not have paid attention. You wouldn't be alone. So you find yourself noticing that the kind of people who are pushing for, say, socialism and communism are nut jobs. And you say, well, I don't agree with that. I like capitalism. I just, I can't articulate it. Let's see if we can't improve on that. Antonin Scalia is my all-time favorite Supreme Court justice. I had a very fortunate opportunity. I was working for a law firm in Washington, D.C., called Hyman Phelps and McNamara. They were an FDA law firm, Food and Drug Administration. And what they did is they took drugs to market. At the time, this was in mid-90s, they had brought Tagamette MD to market. My very first project I worked on was an attempt to bring some consistency and structure to the idea of calling something kosher. And at the time, there were over 100 different entities, including individual rabbis, who were putting a stamp of kosher on a product.

The partner who was giving this to me was a very prominent Jewish lawyer in the country. And so what they were trying to do was get the FDA to agree that before you can stamp kosher on something, it has to meet certain standards that by rabbinical law... would make it kosher. That's where you get the term keeping kosher. It's proper. Certain foods don't touch other foods is a big one. And, of course, you can't have anything bacon related, any pork products, which is also true of Muslims, but for Jews, that was the case. Anyway, so as a baby lawyer, I had a friend who was a prominent journalist thinker. He ended up editing the Wall Street Journal opinion pages. He wrote books named Rich Minter, and he was a member of the university club. And as a member of the university club, he went to the board and asked, they had just a handful of rooms upstairs from the club, which was next door to the Russian embassy. And a guest could stay there overnight or a few nights. He spoke for me and he got me where I could rent a room at the university club for the summer. And I did. And so every night I would go downstairs and you could smoke cigars inside. It was the coolest thing ever. It was an old-fashioned men's club for dinner and cigars and telling stories. And it was in D.C. and it was a power structure there. And Clarence Thomas would come there and Antonin Scalia would go there. And I got to meet both of them, which was at a smoking dinner that was held. And I have long admired Antonin Scalia for the things he wrote, for the things he said, for the way he said them, for the strength of his conviction. So what I thought we would do today is let's have a little university course, not taught by me, taught by Antonin Scalia. So set aside your sense that you're not educated. You're about to be. Antonin Scalia died February 13, 2016. He was at a hunting lodge in Texas, a very prominent Texan bring prominent people there, and you have these exotic hunts. And his seat on the nine-member Supreme Court, nominated by the president, confirmed by the Senate. has never been filled and never will be the number two justice in my opinion greatest justice uh on the court at that time was Clarence Thomas who himself then ascended to be the brains the leader the thought leader of this court in the national conversation It is now Clarence Thomas, who has taken the role of talking about getting back to the foundation of what made our nation special. Well, what we're going to do today is explore a lecture by a Supreme Court justice who was a thinker, a writer, a Christian, Catholic, a father, an American.

And what you're going to hear here, you couldn't hear from Elena Kagan or Ketanji Brown Jackson, or for that matter, John Roberts. You're going to hear his worldview in a speech he gave to a Christian group. And the topic was, is capitalism or socialism more conducive to Christian virtue? And I think, I think you're going to like this. This is DJ Hicks of your fighting Texas Aggies. You're listening to my uncle, Zarr, Michael Bari Weiss. You have reached the Michael Bari Weiss 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 Breyers, 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. 409-78 pipe. 409-78 pipe. Did you know that most... Insurance companies will pay for a man to have testosterone replacement if he's below 350? Isn't that interesting? You've probably heard that testosterone will, well, invigorate you. Your wife may enjoy that, or she may want to be left alone, but your wife may enjoy that. You may enjoy that. But there's so much more. Let me tell you, more energy, more strength, you feel better. Synergenics. Go get your blood tested. I get the nicest emails from listeners of our podcast and our show who say they called Petru in Home Fitness, and it changed their lives. They were able to get off their walker. They were able to get out of their wheelchair. They're into their 90s, and they're going to be able to walk their granddaughter down the aisle. They're going to be able to stand. They're going to be able to walk. They're going to be able to move around. Petru in-home fitness comes to your home. You don't need a gym. They can bring bands with them. They want to get you back up and stronger for life. Petru in Home Fitness. So let's talk about... Christian virtue. Now, leaving aside when we have the conversation is socialism or capitalism more suitable to Christian virtue? Leaving aside that in this country, there is an onslaught of Islam. We've seen that in Michigan. We've seen it in Mogadishu, Minnesota. Hell, we've seen it in Massachusetts. We're seeing it in Texas.

And so we've got real challenges as to what kind of country we're going to be. But this was a speech by Antonin Scalia that I really wanted to focus on today. Because I think we spent so much time on this news story and this news story and this true story that sometimes we had to step back and say, what do we believe and why do we believe this? And Rush did a good job of that. And so that's what we do today. Antonin Scalia gave a speech. It was a lecture. And it was fortunately recorded in 2013. It's not great audio, but it's good enough. He's speaking on the subject of, is capitalism or socialism more conducive to Christian virtue? And the very first argument he makes, and this is Scalia, is that the question is not terribly relevant. And stay with us. A Christian, he says, should no more choose a government based on which saves souls than he should choose his toothpaste on that subject, on that basis. Government is not meant for saving souls. It is meant for protecting life and property. And then he lands the line that stops the room. Hear this. Having finally defined my topic, the first thing I wish to say about it, is that I do not believe it is terribly relevant. That is to say, I do not believe that a Christian ought to choose his form of government on the basis of which will be most conducive to his faith. any more than he ought to choose his toothpaste on that basis. To be sure, there are certain prohibitions. A Christian should not support a government that suppresses the faith, or one that sanctions the taking of innocent human life, just as a Christian should not wear immodest clothes. But the test of good government, like the test of well-tailored clothes, is assuredly not whether it helps you save your soul. Government is not meant for saving souls, but for protecting life and property and assuring the conditions for physical prosperity. Its responsibility is the here, not the hereafter. And the needs of the two sometimes diverge. It may well be, for example, that a governmental system which keeps its citizens in relative poverty will produce more saints. The rich, as Christ said, have a harder time getting to heaven. But that would be a bad government nonetheless. This recognition of the separate spheres of church and state is not just the teaching of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, it is also, I think, the teaching of Jesus Christ, who spoke of rendering to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and who was not regarded as having indicated any preference about government, except one. He did not want the people to make him king.

So this is hard for people to understand because people who are not particularly deep thinkers will say, Scalia doesn't want us to be Christians. That's not what he said. Many people will jump to conclusions, not based on what you said, but based on their fears, based on their inability to take 2 plus 2 and see 4. They see 2 plus 2. And they're confused. And they say, you're saying 220. No, no, that's not what we're saying here. What Scalia is talking about, and let's take capitalism versus socialism, which is really the subject he undertakes, is leave people to themselves. Less government is better government. Less is more. This is an originalist position. This is the position of our founders, the majority of them, when they created our Constitution. Remember, all these rights that were enumerated, which means written down, the First Amendment, the Amendment to speak, to press, to gather, to worship. That wasn't in the original Constitution. The Second Amendment, the ability to keep and bear arms, the ability to defend yourself with a tool that you need. Whether you're a little old lady or a young person, you're tiny, you're infirm, you still can have as given by God. the power to defend yourself, the Third Amendment, the Fourth Amendment, the Fifth Amendment, third and fourth dealing with issues related to when our means of law enforcement or investigating crimes, how far can they go? How many of our rights can they abridge and what rights do we have to keep them from just kicking in our door and digging through our house to see if maybe we committed the crime? Because there's always going to be a temptation to do that. How about the Fifth Amendment? How about we put you up on the stand and we say, were you at that house and you know that if you say yes, it looks like you did it, but it's so much more complicated than that. So that was another. The Sixth Amendment, the Seventh, the eighth, the ninth, the tenth, the tenth, saying those powers not given to the federal government. will be reserved to the state. Why did we need these first 10? There were actually 12 that were proposed, but two fell off. Only 10 were passed, a nice clean number, which came to be known as the Bill of Rights. That is because our founders in 1787 believed that our rights didn't come from government. And this is what Scalia is talking about. Our rights didn't come from government. Our rights came from God. That's why they're called natural rights. They exist in nature. A human being comes into this world with the right not to be abused, not to be murdered, not to be tortured, not to be enslaved, not to fill in the blank. A human being comes into this world with natural rights. You don't have to spell those out to have them.

You necessarily limit government because government is in the business of taking rights not giving them. Do you see in the state of California they're giving rights? The only thing they're giving is free stuff to illegal aliens to come here, so they'll vote for them. They are constantly in the process of taking your rights. You don't want to take an experimental jab that will shoot your spike proteins up and potentially kill you, called a clot shot. Will they take away your ability to defend against that? They're constantly taking away your ability to run your air conditioning. to idle your car at the intersection so it doesn't die, to buy the kind of gasoline you want. So what Scalia is talking about here, is that government should not be in the business of, and this was the separation of church and state. Government was not like the king of England, the Anglican church. I declare myself the king because the Catholic church won't let me annul my marriage, and I want to take on a new wife, and this is Beckett, and this is his time for choosing, and his great conscience, and the Canterbury, the conscience of Canterbury saying, I will not be part of that. So the Americans, and this is the tradition that Scalia is from, and make no mistake, I don't care what little Maldi Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or Ilhan Omar, any of these little Democrat socialists say, our system is great, and that is why it has lasted. And Scalia is true to that heritage and that tradition, and we'll explore more of that. This is Coach Baumsellas, and you listen to the Michael Bari Weiss show. Good night, Irene. So Antenance Scalia, the Justice, the greatest justice of all time, my favorite justice as well, is directly addressing a crowd of Christians in front of him, and he's challenging them. He's not pandering to them. The argument, the question was, is socialism or capitalism more amenable to Christian virtue? And this is funny word, the reason I brought this up, is that James Talarico, the Democrat candidate for Senate in Texas, says that the Bible wants us to be socialist. No, it doesn't. The argument that socialism is the more Christian system, because it means well, it says nice things, because it cares about the poor, and rich people and business owners, they don't care about the poor. He says that's not supported by the evidence. And then he gives you the evidence in one sentence. I know of no country, he says, in which the churches have grown fuller as the governments have moved leftward. In fact, the opposite. The churches of Europe are empty. The most religious country, the most religious country in the Western world by every standard, belief in God, church membership, church attendance, is the one that has been, as he puts it, least diluted.

by socialism or deluded you could say as in a delusion and the reason is we'll let him tell you it is hard to understand that attraction surely it does not rest upon the teachings of experience i know of no country in which the churches have grown fuller as the governments have moved leftward the churches of europe are empty The most religious country in the West, by all standards, belief in God, church membership, church attendance, is that bastion of capitalism, least diluted by socialism, the United States. When I say least deluded by socialism, you must understand that I say it in a modern context in which we are all socialists. In the United States, that battle was fought and decided with the New Deal. No one, even in the most conservative quarters of American society, now denies that there should be a so-called safety net provided by the government for our citizens. The only real argument is over how many services that safety net should provide, and how poor must one be in order to qualify. Few of us even understand anymore what a truly non-socialist mentality was like.

None of us understand anymore what a truly non-socialist mentality looks like. Because we've been in the water so long we can't imagine dry land. He found it by accident, researching sovereign immunity as a young law professor, the idea that the government can't be sued because they're the government. They are the sovereign, right? He came across a debate in the Massachusetts legislature from the 17th century. A woman had been seriously injured through the negligence of a state employee. Legislators argued against compensating her, but not on legal grounds, on moral grounds. It was morally wrong, they said, to use public funds for private benefit, for a purpose that did not benefit the public at large. The Commonwealth owed this woman nothing in law. and to agree to pay her out of public funds would be, in effect, a private gift. And this, Antonin Scalia notes, for a woman the state itself had harmed. He says, you can imagine what their attitude would have been toward dispensive public funds to the poor, because the poor had not been harmed by the state. So if someone harmed by the state is not due money from the state, which is the people, for a harm done by a representative of the people, then why on earth would the people give money for the private benefit of someone who is poor when that person hasn't even been wronged? I happened to encounter it by accident many years ago when I was a young law professor doing research for an article on sovereign immunity, the legal doctrine which says that a state cannot be sued without its consent. I came across a debate in the Massachusetts legislature during the 17th century concerning a proposed bill that would provide compensation to a woman who had been seriously injured to the negligence of one of the agents of the state, a policeman or a fireman or whatever. Those members of the Massachusetts legislature, opposing the legislation, argued that they had no right. that it was morally wrong to use public funds for private benefit, for a purpose that did not benefit the public at large. Because of the doctrine of sovereign immunity, they said the Commonwealth of Massachusetts owed this woman nothing in law, and to agree to pay her out of public funds, money that was not legally owed, was in effect to use public funds for a private gift. And this, I point out, was a woman who had been injured by the Commonwealth. You can imagine what their attitude would have been towards dispensing public funds to the poor. In the United States, a remnant of that non-socialist attitude lasted into the present century. Our federal constitution, you may recall. gives Congress not a general power to expend funds, but only the power to expend funds, quote, for the general welfare, close quote. Until the triumph of the New Deal, there were many who thought that that text prohibited the expenditure of funds for any private assistance, neither to the rich nor to the poor. But that fight, as I have said, is over.

So imagine the mindset that it is not, we take money from 50% of the people. It's about 50% of the people who pay taxes. And it turns out the rich pay way more, a much higher percentage. But we take money from about 50% of the people who pay, that's the people who pay taxes. And we redistribute it to the 50% of the people who don't. And the reason for that is that's how the Democrats get elected. If you ended every redistribution of wealth, and that's what welfare is, you take money from X and you give it to Y. They take money from you and they give it to someone over here. If you did away with that program, Democrats would never win another election. It's just that simple. If you kept every illegal alien from voting, Democrats would never win another election. There are certain things that are the lifeblood of the Democrat Party without which. What? Great example. The Democrat Party is bankrupt right now. They've had to put their headquarters up as collateral to take a loan to fund their campaigns right now. Do you know why? Well, it... corresponds to Elon Musk exposing that the USAID funds were not going to the needy or the poor or anyone else. They were going to Democrat causes, newspapers, and NGOs and organizations that were the lifeblood of the Democrat Party. See, the Democrats are always talking about helping people. But what they're really doing is getting rich off of it themselves. And sadly, poor people are just gullible enough to keep believing this nonsense. Because why wouldn't they? At least one party is telling them, I'll pay your bills. We're not even telling them that. We're saying work harder and make more money like the rest of us did. And unfortunately, for a lot of poor people, that's not a message they want to hear. You have reached the Michael Bari Weiss 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. 409-78 pipe. 409-78 pipe. I'm on testosterone, and I encourage everybody else to be on testosterone. If you're below 350,

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