WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.440 --> 00:00:04.400 Attention. You're listening to the top Huff radio show, America's home for conservative 2 00:00:04.559 --> 00:00:08.480 not bitter talk radio. Be advised. The content of this program has been 3 00:00:08.480 --> 00:00:12.039 documented to prevents and even cure liberalism, and listening may cause you to lean 4 00:00:12.080 --> 00:00:35.119 to the right. Here's your conservative but not bitter host, Tod Huff Conservative 5 00:00:35.560 --> 00:00:40.439 not Bitter. Indeed, my friends, it is a pleasure to be here 6 00:00:40.679 --> 00:00:46.280 in the studio behind the microphone. Yes, serving as your benevolent dictator here 7 00:00:47.079 --> 00:00:50.640 in the studio. But remember I'm benevolent, so you have nothing to worry 8 00:00:50.640 --> 00:00:54.719 about. Just trust me. Just trust me, my friends. Give us 9 00:00:54.799 --> 00:00:59.280 complete authority over your lives like the government wants. Trust us. We are 10 00:00:59.280 --> 00:01:03.320 here for your own good anyway, it's a pleasure to be here. Email 11 00:01:03.759 --> 00:01:07.239 Tod at totofshow dot com three one seven one zero twenty eight thirty. That's 12 00:01:07.239 --> 00:01:11.040 where you can text us. Just make it count, my friends. Most 13 00:01:11.040 --> 00:01:14.680 of you do, some of you don't. It's a once in a lifetime 14 00:01:14.719 --> 00:01:19.480 opportunity, so think it through and make it count. So you know, 15 00:01:19.519 --> 00:01:25.319 there's a common theme, a common refrain that's been out there for a long 16 00:01:25.400 --> 00:01:32.200 time, and this debate that's coming up on Thursday night. This debate is 17 00:01:32.680 --> 00:01:37.879 here to, I guess, give us opportunity to resume this common discussion. 18 00:01:37.879 --> 00:01:42.400 In fact, there's a piece that I have in the stack of stuff today 19 00:01:42.599 --> 00:01:48.000 at totofshow dot com, a piece that's in the stack of stuff which I'm 20 00:01:48.000 --> 00:01:52.079 going to get to today, which we're going to talk about here off off 21 00:01:52.120 --> 00:01:57.879 of the top of the program. But is there a chance this is a 22 00:01:57.120 --> 00:02:02.840 spectator? Dot org is the website Spectator, the American spectator. Spectator dot 23 00:02:02.959 --> 00:02:06.599 org is the website. It's listed in the stack of stuff if you want 24 00:02:06.599 --> 00:02:12.759 to see it at todepshow dot com headline. Here could a Biden debate disaster 25 00:02:12.879 --> 00:02:16.319 propel Newsom to the nomination? You could take Newsom's name out specifically here, 26 00:02:16.360 --> 00:02:22.400 although it could be Newsome. And this is another form of the age old 27 00:02:22.639 --> 00:02:31.159 discussion and pontification and prognostication and prediction that Biden will not either a complete his 28 00:02:31.319 --> 00:02:37.039 term as first term as president, which he's all but done. Biden's not 29 00:02:37.120 --> 00:02:39.680 going to be, the predicators say, not going to be the nominee for 30 00:02:40.400 --> 00:02:44.719 the Democrat Party in twenty twenty four. There are still people who stand by 31 00:02:44.759 --> 00:02:49.599 this. Hec Vivek Ramaswami was out there saying that this debate, they wanted 32 00:02:49.599 --> 00:02:53.120 to move it earlier. The Democratic National Committee wanted to move it earlier so 33 00:02:53.159 --> 00:02:57.960 that they could basically give Biden. It's like a job, it's like an 34 00:02:57.960 --> 00:03:01.080 interview. It's like a fine interview. If Biden goes out on the stage 35 00:03:01.080 --> 00:03:08.280 and completely flops, then so goes the argument. People in the Democrat Party 36 00:03:08.280 --> 00:03:10.680 are going to say, look, there's no way this guy can win. 37 00:03:10.759 --> 00:03:15.759 We're going to have to come up with the plan B and then nominate, 38 00:03:15.800 --> 00:03:19.240 which they can do, by the way, nominate someone else besides Biden. 39 00:03:19.319 --> 00:03:23.520 Even though the people have cast their ballots for Biden, he's won the nomination 40 00:03:23.680 --> 00:03:30.680 by votes in the primary and caucus process, that doesn't mean that the folks 41 00:03:30.800 --> 00:03:38.560 at the convention cannot change their vote based upon something like Biden being incapable from 42 00:03:38.560 --> 00:03:44.719 a cognitive or mental capability perspective of fulfilling the role of President of the United 43 00:03:44.759 --> 00:03:47.560 States. So that can happen. But will it happen? Will it happen? 44 00:03:47.560 --> 00:03:51.800 There's been a lot of, what I want to say, predictions that 45 00:03:51.840 --> 00:03:53.759 this would happen for a long time. In fact, I've heard even for 46 00:03:53.919 --> 00:03:59.319 many of you giving dates. I don't think Biden will make it past whatever 47 00:03:59.479 --> 00:04:02.800 Labor Day of twenty twenty three. The first two years, he won't make 48 00:04:02.840 --> 00:04:08.759 it to the mid term elections or whatever he's done all of that. There 49 00:04:08.759 --> 00:04:12.840 were some people who thought he wouldn't finish the first six months of his campaign 50 00:04:13.080 --> 00:04:15.960 center of his term in office. This reminds me too of Trump. I 51 00:04:15.000 --> 00:04:17.720 remember, and you can go back and look, I remember talking about this. 52 00:04:17.800 --> 00:04:25.839 There were people that predicted that Trump would not serve more than one hundred 53 00:04:25.920 --> 00:04:29.720 days in office. In fact, I remember someone saying it would be the 54 00:04:29.839 --> 00:04:38.040 second shortest stint of a president ever after William Henry Harrison passed away shortly after 55 00:04:38.079 --> 00:04:43.079 getting into the office. Back what was he the ninth president? Is that 56 00:04:43.160 --> 00:04:47.480 right? Something like that? Anyway, So that's a common discussion point, 57 00:04:47.839 --> 00:04:51.199 and I want to talk about that today. So before we do that, 58 00:04:51.240 --> 00:04:58.160 though, my friends, you know that we all are ultimately responsible for our 59 00:04:58.319 --> 00:05:01.879 own health. 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It's a little bit different than the State of 86 00:07:18.079 --> 00:07:23.240 the Union address. Biden was just reading off a teleprompter for roughly ninety minutes 87 00:07:24.920 --> 00:07:29.920 at that time. This is not a back and forth with Trump. They've 88 00:07:29.959 --> 00:07:33.079 tried to insulate him a little bit by the rules, by the rules that 89 00:07:33.079 --> 00:07:38.279 they've agreed to. They want Trump's microphone, both sides agreed to this, 90 00:07:38.319 --> 00:07:42.399 by the way, but they want the microphone shut off of the opposing person 91 00:07:42.480 --> 00:07:47.120 so that they can complete their thought. But Obviously Trump excels in this format. 92 00:07:47.639 --> 00:07:53.959 The more it feels like a metaphorical street fight, the better that Trump 93 00:07:54.000 --> 00:07:59.800 typically does comes up with these one liners on the spot wrong right, Remember 94 00:07:59.839 --> 00:08:05.000 the sorts of things where the nicknames come out or some sort of an insult 95 00:08:05.040 --> 00:08:09.399 and a one liner hits it just the right time. I mean, Trump's 96 00:08:09.399 --> 00:08:11.920 the master of that. So a lot of that's going to go away, 97 00:08:11.959 --> 00:08:16.360 and I think that that's going to be a bigger factor then we might realize 98 00:08:16.399 --> 00:08:22.519 to see that on full display, where there won't be that capability if they 99 00:08:22.560 --> 00:08:26.040 follow the rules and if the mics are shut off, you're going to lose 100 00:08:26.040 --> 00:08:28.480 some of that. You're also going to lose some of the entertainment factor which 101 00:08:28.480 --> 00:08:33.519 this draws in people who don't normally watch these things, which, as weird 102 00:08:33.519 --> 00:08:35.679 as it might sound, I think is a good thing for the country. 103 00:08:35.679 --> 00:08:41.720 I don't think we should turn it into American gladiators or American Ninja Warrior or 104 00:08:41.720 --> 00:08:45.519 something, although that's what Biden seems to want to do, have push up 105 00:08:45.559 --> 00:08:50.159 contests and everything else, as he's challenged people in the past to things like 106 00:08:50.200 --> 00:08:56.720 that. But I do think that when these are entertaining, and I don't 107 00:08:56.759 --> 00:09:01.639 mean like slapstick comedy shows. I just mean there's something going on there to 108 00:09:01.720 --> 00:09:05.120 attract the average American. That's a good thing because one of the things we 109 00:09:05.159 --> 00:09:11.240 need in this country is for average Americans, for all Americans to be engaged, 110 00:09:11.320 --> 00:09:15.559 or at least as many as possible, aware, engaged, and active 111 00:09:15.759 --> 00:09:22.320 making sure that we hold our elected representatives accountable. So so there's going to 112 00:09:22.360 --> 00:09:26.159 be that that's going to help Biden, right, where Trump can't just jump 113 00:09:26.200 --> 00:09:28.799 in and really throw Biden for a loop. But in spite of all of 114 00:09:28.840 --> 00:09:33.720 that, the expectation, and I agree with this, is that anybody who's 115 00:09:33.840 --> 00:09:39.679 unbiased is going to likely see a massive difference between Trump and Biden, not 116 00:09:39.759 --> 00:09:43.480 just based upon their style and personalities, not as based upon their policies. 117 00:09:43.519 --> 00:09:50.919 But I do believe that there's going to be a difference in perceived competence. 118 00:09:50.919 --> 00:09:54.759 This is why Trump's out there saying the only way Biden's getting through a debate 119 00:09:54.840 --> 00:09:58.519 is if they pump this guy full of drugs or something that gets him jacked 120 00:09:58.600 --> 00:10:01.720 up for ninety minutes. That's why I'm going to subject myself to a drug 121 00:10:01.759 --> 00:10:05.879 test if he does, right. That's why all that rhetoric's going on, 122 00:10:05.600 --> 00:10:11.879 and so it's possible that Biden gets through relatively unscathed, especially with some of 123 00:10:11.919 --> 00:10:16.200 the rules that are in place that make the debate a little less chaotic, 124 00:10:16.279 --> 00:10:20.080 that make it more structured, that at least in theory, that can help 125 00:10:20.120 --> 00:10:24.720 Biden stay on task a little bit, a little bit easier. So that's 126 00:10:24.759 --> 00:10:30.600 what the conventional wisdom is, Hey, this is going to be obvious and 127 00:10:30.919 --> 00:10:35.200 the Democrats are going to have to do something about this. So that's kind 128 00:10:35.240 --> 00:10:39.320 of where this piece starts off. Democrats must know Thursday's debate could be a 129 00:10:39.399 --> 00:10:43.679 disaster for Joe Biden. After all, the president can't go anywhere without tripping 130 00:10:43.679 --> 00:10:50.279 over himself with quote gaffes that are really the result of his prolonged cognitive decline. 131 00:10:50.320 --> 00:10:56.080 A comparison with Biden's performance in the debates from twenty twenty will only accentuate 132 00:10:56.120 --> 00:11:03.559 the obviousness of his mental collapse. And so basically that's that's the part. 133 00:11:03.639 --> 00:11:05.639 The point of this piece is to say, look, if it's if it 134 00:11:05.679 --> 00:11:09.480 is as bad as it can be, if it is as bad in reality 135 00:11:09.639 --> 00:11:15.000 as I can envision it being, then what are the Democrats going to do? 136 00:11:15.120 --> 00:11:16.519 Are they going to continue to push this guy out there. Are they 137 00:11:16.600 --> 00:11:20.919 going to nominate him officially at their convention here in whatever it is, a 138 00:11:20.960 --> 00:11:26.519 couple well in August now a couple of months away, or are they going 139 00:11:26.600 --> 00:11:35.200 to somehow just acknowledge that their candidate has clear deficiencies mental lack of mental fitness 140 00:11:35.200 --> 00:11:39.600 and so forth, and say we have to go a different route, and 141 00:11:39.639 --> 00:11:43.159 then that opens up the possibilities She's mentioned here in her piece, Gavin Newsome. 142 00:11:45.000 --> 00:11:46.759 But again, the the one that they're holding out the most hope for 143 00:11:46.840 --> 00:11:52.600 is Michelle Obama. And again some people think she's playing games, that she 144 00:11:52.759 --> 00:11:56.919 really wants the role, but she's been pretty consistent. She's consistently refused to 145 00:11:56.000 --> 00:12:01.759 take the offer to be the party's nominee, and that appears to be where 146 00:12:01.799 --> 00:12:05.080 she's where she finds herself today. The other another person that they I think 147 00:12:05.240 --> 00:12:09.600 I think would fawn over would be Oprah Winfrey, but it's gonna it would 148 00:12:09.639 --> 00:12:11.799 be someone like that. So to me, the first problem is I've shared 149 00:12:11.840 --> 00:12:16.480 on here with you before. There is no bench, right, there is 150 00:12:16.679 --> 00:12:20.919 no bench. You look down the bench and you look at who's sitting there, 151 00:12:22.159 --> 00:12:26.600 and there's no obvious choice there's no obvious candidates. Gavin Newsom, she 152 00:12:26.679 --> 00:12:30.879 mentions her in her piece, is that really the best choice? This guy 153 00:12:30.960 --> 00:12:33.039 has managed California, which you could say, Look, it's one of the 154 00:12:33.039 --> 00:12:37.600 greatest economies in the entire world, right, I mean, this is California. 155 00:12:37.679 --> 00:12:43.840 This this country has a better, stronger GDP economy than a lot of 156 00:12:43.200 --> 00:12:46.039 countries have. I mean, it's up at the top. Just list. 157 00:12:46.159 --> 00:12:50.360 If you pull that out on its own, it can hold its own. 158 00:12:50.799 --> 00:12:54.120 I would say that's in spite of Gavin Newsom, in spite of what they've 159 00:12:54.159 --> 00:12:56.600 tried to do. In fact, I would point out many of the flaws 160 00:12:56.639 --> 00:13:01.000 in the way that he's governed and led his state. They're at a budget 161 00:13:01.039 --> 00:13:07.799 deficit, They've got all sorts of problems regarding I mean things like well, 162 00:13:07.960 --> 00:13:15.240 things like managing power lines as they pertain to forest fires, the out of 163 00:13:15.279 --> 00:13:20.600 control laws and regulations. You know. I talked with people here in my 164 00:13:20.759 --> 00:13:24.080 state, fellow business owners, and it can be tough to run a business 165 00:13:24.120 --> 00:13:28.720 in any state, right. Sometimes the law is just not business friendly. 166 00:13:28.799 --> 00:13:33.960 I think maybe anywhere, but especially in California. I can't imagine trying to 167 00:13:33.000 --> 00:13:39.840 start a business in California We have some partners on this program who are based 168 00:13:39.840 --> 00:13:43.279 in California, and I ask them about some of these things, and some 169 00:13:43.360 --> 00:13:46.840 of them are, you know, people who I've just had other conversations with. 170 00:13:46.879 --> 00:13:50.360 And there are real challenges to running a business in California, and that's 171 00:13:50.399 --> 00:13:54.840 because of policies that are enacted, that are led, that are pushed by 172 00:13:54.840 --> 00:14:00.720 people like Gavin Newsome. The tax rates outlandishly high, the amount of homelessness 173 00:14:00.720 --> 00:14:07.120 and problems that they have in certain places like San Francisco, the sanctuary state 174 00:14:07.200 --> 00:14:09.720 position, of course, the mess that's caused in Los Angeles due to illegal 175 00:14:09.759 --> 00:14:15.759 immigration, which of course they want to stop that, while at the same 176 00:14:15.799 --> 00:14:20.159 time telling you that they care so much about people and they will make Los 177 00:14:20.200 --> 00:14:24.559 Angeles a sanctuary city, California a sanctuary state. I mean, in a 178 00:14:24.559 --> 00:14:31.039 lot of ways, a lot of ways. Gavin Newsom I maintained that that 179 00:14:31.080 --> 00:14:39.960 Biden is effectively one of the most leftist presidents that we've had. If you 180 00:14:39.000 --> 00:14:41.399 listen to what he says, he doesn't sound like that. But if you 181 00:14:41.440 --> 00:14:46.799 look at if you look at the things that he's doing, if you look 182 00:14:46.840 --> 00:14:50.879 at how he's weaponized the Department of Justice, I mean this is what lovers 183 00:14:50.879 --> 00:14:54.799 of big government do. I think that this is a very this is a 184 00:14:54.840 --> 00:15:01.559 stalinistic type of a move. So I think he's certainly amongst the most radically 185 00:15:01.639 --> 00:15:05.399 left that we've had in practice, maybe not in true ideology, but in 186 00:15:05.440 --> 00:15:09.360 practice. And so, but the average American is not a leftist. They're 187 00:15:09.399 --> 00:15:16.279 not prepared for some of the things on a national level that people like Gavin 188 00:15:16.320 --> 00:15:22.480 Newsom have proposed have tried to execute in their respective city, states or whatever. 189 00:15:22.519 --> 00:15:26.879 But in Newsom's case in particular, this would put the radical left agenda 190 00:15:26.960 --> 00:15:33.559 basically right there on the national stage, and it's not a popular ideology. 191 00:15:33.600 --> 00:15:37.200 Now, they would avoid some of the other problems they have now, which 192 00:15:37.240 --> 00:15:43.240 is a candidate that can't that's clearly not capable. But I think that they 193 00:15:43.279 --> 00:15:46.559 run into problems here as well, and they run into problems everywhere on down 194 00:15:46.600 --> 00:15:52.200 the line. From Elizabeth Warren, who pretends to be a Native American, 195 00:15:52.240 --> 00:15:56.159 I can say that because I am documented to be the thirteenth great grandson of 196 00:15:56.240 --> 00:16:00.519 Pocahontas, so I can say that I also have no problems with people calling 197 00:16:00.559 --> 00:16:03.759 her Pokahonas. She's the one that's made a deal out of something that shouldn't 198 00:16:03.759 --> 00:16:08.799 even matter in American politics, pretending to be Native American. She's on that 199 00:16:08.879 --> 00:16:15.519 list. Pete boot Edge Edge, Pete Boodhage Edge has looked completely incompetent as 200 00:16:15.559 --> 00:16:19.679 the Transportation secretary. Who, my friends, is on the list. Amy 201 00:16:19.720 --> 00:16:23.639 Klobuchar, she was running for president in twenty sixteen. I haven't seen her. 202 00:16:23.840 --> 00:16:30.840 She's vanished from the national stage. Bernie Sanders. The Democrat Party hates 203 00:16:30.879 --> 00:16:36.679 Bernie Sanders. They know he's not electable either. He's the nutty professor. 204 00:16:37.200 --> 00:16:41.679 But that's a He's not even a Democrat right now. He's technically an independent. 205 00:16:41.240 --> 00:16:45.399 He only becomes a Democrat every four years when he decides to run for 206 00:16:45.440 --> 00:16:51.039 the Democrat Party's nomination for president. Who is the candidate? I mean, 207 00:16:51.080 --> 00:16:56.159 where are they Beto or Rourke? Is he going to come back on the 208 00:16:56.200 --> 00:17:00.559 scene. Who is this person? I just don't think that they have one. 209 00:17:00.679 --> 00:17:03.920 So that's a big problem. Now. If Biden comes up and really 210 00:17:04.039 --> 00:17:10.200 embarrasses himself on Thursday night on the debate stage, these conversations, which by 211 00:17:10.240 --> 00:17:14.960 the way, have certainly happened, have transpired. 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They're in disarray. 246 00:19:56.200 --> 00:20:02.359 They're hoping that Biden can somehow not embarrass himself on the debate stage, but 247 00:20:02.400 --> 00:20:07.839 there exists a very real possibility that he will embarrass himself. And more importantly, 248 00:20:07.839 --> 00:20:10.680 they don't care so much that he embarrasses himself. They care that he 249 00:20:10.799 --> 00:20:17.200 embarrasses the Democrat Party because again, it's hard to clamor and argue for more 250 00:20:17.400 --> 00:20:22.480 government when the people who are clamoring for more government don't have their act together, 251 00:20:22.559 --> 00:20:25.799 right. So that's a problem. So you've got to look like you 252 00:20:25.839 --> 00:20:27.319 know what you're doing, you have your own act together, so that you 253 00:20:27.400 --> 00:20:32.200 can take over everyone else's act. That's kind of the idea, and so 254 00:20:33.160 --> 00:20:37.160 that is at risk with Biden. But again, if there's no bench, 255 00:20:37.240 --> 00:20:42.640 where do you turn? Is Gavin Newsom the next best option? Are they 256 00:20:42.680 --> 00:20:48.240 still clamoring and begging Michelle Obama? What about someone like Oprah Winfrey. I 257 00:20:48.240 --> 00:20:52.000 don't know. I don't know, but I do know this. There's been 258 00:20:52.039 --> 00:20:55.200 predictions about this for a long time, and I know, you know, 259 00:20:55.240 --> 00:20:56.519 I think about this sometimes. You know, I could go on this show 260 00:20:56.559 --> 00:21:00.680 and we could pontificate, and I think some people in enjoy this, I 261 00:21:00.759 --> 00:21:03.519 mean, and they listen to people who make all these predictions. How many 262 00:21:03.519 --> 00:21:10.759 people have predicted things like this, predicted that you know, Biden wasn't going 263 00:21:10.759 --> 00:21:12.359 to finish his first term, or he wasn't going to be the nominee, 264 00:21:12.400 --> 00:21:15.160 he wasn't going to make it past the Labor Day or whatever. It's fine 265 00:21:15.200 --> 00:21:22.079 to have these ideas and opinions, but to stake a claim in the ground 266 00:21:22.839 --> 00:21:26.880 and for it not to happen, and then to come back only then to 267 00:21:26.920 --> 00:21:29.880 say, well, next year it won't be the case or next month. 268 00:21:32.119 --> 00:21:37.519 This is one of my problems with the people who have I talked about, 269 00:21:37.839 --> 00:21:40.759 you know, the election integrity stuff. And I don't mean the people who 270 00:21:40.960 --> 00:21:44.160 raise the questions, but people who have made predictions. Oh man, if 271 00:21:44.200 --> 00:21:48.519 you just wait until next month, the lid's going to be blown off of 272 00:21:48.559 --> 00:21:52.160 this thing. Everybody's going to be exposed. We got them right. This 273 00:21:52.240 --> 00:21:56.880 is this sort of talk happens every every time it's always tomorrow, it's always 274 00:21:56.920 --> 00:22:00.680 next week, it's always next month, next year. Just wait. Well, 275 00:22:00.680 --> 00:22:06.440 we can't just wait. We don't have the ability for life to have 276 00:22:06.519 --> 00:22:11.680 a pause button these things. Time moves along. The debate is going to 277 00:22:11.920 --> 00:22:19.160 happen as scheduled. Election day will arrive as scheduled. Candidates for the election 278 00:22:19.480 --> 00:22:22.119 have to be on the ballots at certain times. I mean, there are 279 00:22:22.519 --> 00:22:29.000 realities here and people. I don't know how people can listen on a regular 280 00:22:29.039 --> 00:22:33.079 basis to people who make dire prediction. You know, these these bold predictions 281 00:22:33.079 --> 00:22:37.039 that never that never come true, unless they just want to be entertained, 282 00:22:37.759 --> 00:22:41.559 just to be have some mental exercise. Oh that'd be interesting. No, 283 00:22:41.599 --> 00:22:44.599 I don't care about what's interesting. I mean I do care about what's interesting, 284 00:22:44.680 --> 00:22:47.160 right, I mean, we talk about things that I find interesting, 285 00:22:47.200 --> 00:22:49.640 But that's not the main driver. I care about what's interesting. That matters. 286 00:22:51.359 --> 00:22:53.160 I care ultimately about saving this country. That's what I care about. 287 00:22:53.559 --> 00:22:56.880 Care about saving this country. So anyway, my friends, I'm long in 288 00:22:56.880 --> 00:22:59.359 this segment. Got to shut up and take a break, quick time out 289 00:22:59.359 --> 00:23:10.039 back in just a minute. Welcome back to my friends. I'm want to 290 00:23:10.039 --> 00:23:14.680 shift gears a little bit here. I don't look, but we talked about 291 00:23:15.160 --> 00:23:18.960 last segment. Certainly is a possibility. I certainly believe that it could happen. 292 00:23:21.559 --> 00:23:26.240 The Democrats are not idiots, and by the way, they have complete 293 00:23:27.640 --> 00:23:30.440 it's up to them. I mean, they can decide to do this. 294 00:23:30.519 --> 00:23:34.119 I just simply want to point out that this has been something that has been 295 00:23:34.160 --> 00:23:38.440 promised for a long time, something similar to this. Biden was not going 296 00:23:38.480 --> 00:23:42.759 to finish the first term, or be the nominee or anything else, and 297 00:23:42.480 --> 00:23:48.359 we've gone through all those dates and predictions and so forth. I still think 298 00:23:48.480 --> 00:23:52.599 the safest bed is to assume that Biden is going to remain the nominee. 299 00:23:52.720 --> 00:23:56.279 Now, I also believe that there's a possibility that he would not be the 300 00:23:56.319 --> 00:24:00.160 nominee. But then they're still faced They the Democrat Party, are still face 301 00:24:00.200 --> 00:24:03.759 with a massive problem as to who they pick. In reality, it's not 302 00:24:03.960 --> 00:24:07.559 just some theoretical exercise where they can say, well, yeah, we don't 303 00:24:07.599 --> 00:24:11.200 want Biden to be the guy, because he's an absolute train wreck. He's 304 00:24:11.240 --> 00:24:14.599 got a he's got a record. Now it's a record that we can't defend. 305 00:24:15.319 --> 00:24:19.319 He's clearly not capable of doing the job. Average Americans now realize this. 306 00:24:19.640 --> 00:24:23.079 He's the butt of jokes. I mean, you know, when this 307 00:24:23.160 --> 00:24:27.119 stuff gets its way into pop culture and find its way to the low information 308 00:24:27.279 --> 00:24:32.720 voter, as Rush used to say, it creates problems for the Democrat Party. 309 00:24:32.759 --> 00:24:36.519 And so they I know that they understand it. But it's not just 310 00:24:36.680 --> 00:24:40.279 enough to say, well, this guy's clearly not our guy. There has 311 00:24:40.359 --> 00:24:42.799 to be someone else, right, There has to be someone else, And 312 00:24:42.839 --> 00:24:48.680 since they can't yet quite turn to AI to be their candidates, which I'm 313 00:24:48.720 --> 00:24:52.680 sure will be coming at some point in the future, some AI candidate. 314 00:24:52.759 --> 00:24:56.720 As I've shared on here before, there was a gentleman in I think he 315 00:24:56.799 --> 00:25:02.440 was in England that's starting an AI. He's using AI to communicate with his 316 00:25:02.519 --> 00:25:07.599 constituents and then letting AI basically tell him what certain policies should be. That's 317 00:25:07.680 --> 00:25:11.720 another discussion for another day. But we've we've got to deal with the real 318 00:25:11.759 --> 00:25:15.680 people, and there's not a clear cut choice. She mentions Gavin Newsom in 319 00:25:15.720 --> 00:25:22.599 the article. I think that that's I mean, ideologically a major a major 320 00:25:22.680 --> 00:25:25.279 problem, a major problem. And part of the reason is for what I'm 321 00:25:25.319 --> 00:25:29.079 gonna play here. I'm gonna play here now this is townhall dot COM's where 322 00:25:29.119 --> 00:25:34.880 I found this headline. CNN's Van Jones explains explains why the Obama coalition is 323 00:25:34.920 --> 00:25:40.000 collapsing right now. Van Jones is, I mean, Van Jones is a 324 00:25:40.039 --> 00:25:44.759 radical leftist, I mean, I basically a communist. But he's out here 325 00:25:44.799 --> 00:25:51.680 explaining politically what's going on and why there are so many electoral problems for Biden 326 00:25:51.799 --> 00:25:57.000 right now. And so he talks about what's called this Obama coalition. Right 327 00:25:57.000 --> 00:26:02.640 when Obama was elected in eight In twenty twelve, he had a coalition of 328 00:26:02.720 --> 00:26:11.079 voters that the left, the left has basically forced the modern Democrat Party to 329 00:26:11.160 --> 00:26:14.400 not go after. In fact, there was a time after the twenty twelve 330 00:26:14.480 --> 00:26:21.079 election where or sometime around there where it was kind of accepted, maybe even 331 00:26:21.119 --> 00:26:23.400 after the twenty ten midterms, when a lot of these blue dog Democrats were 332 00:26:23.519 --> 00:26:30.359 raced from the scene because they supported Obamacare, and so people in conservative or 333 00:26:30.440 --> 00:26:34.799 at least not radical districts, those Democrats lost their seats because the people in 334 00:26:34.839 --> 00:26:41.640 their districts didn't want Obamacare and so and so there's really not such a thing 335 00:26:41.680 --> 00:26:45.960 as a blue dog Democrat anymore. And the Democrat Party largely admitted to abandoning 336 00:26:48.079 --> 00:26:52.640 blue dog Democrat or Reagan Republican. And what I mean by that is really 337 00:26:52.680 --> 00:26:56.279 these conservative Democrats. It's really not a thing anymore. Democrat has become synonymous 338 00:26:56.319 --> 00:27:00.079 with the radical left. Now that's not always the case. Certainly, my 339 00:27:02.119 --> 00:27:04.039 dad's been a Democrat. He's a Union Democrat. He's far crive from the 340 00:27:04.119 --> 00:27:08.200 radical left. A lot of these Union Democrats are nothing but conservatives who vote 341 00:27:08.240 --> 00:27:12.720 for Democrats because they trust Democrats on the issue of labor. They don't trust 342 00:27:12.759 --> 00:27:18.000 Republicans in big business. They think that they're going to drive down their wages 343 00:27:18.039 --> 00:27:21.160 and hurt their families and so forth, which I can respect. I don't 344 00:27:21.200 --> 00:27:23.599 agree, but I respect that. These aren't people that are unhints. These 345 00:27:23.599 --> 00:27:26.640 aren't people that hate their country. These aren't people who are against the Second 346 00:27:26.640 --> 00:27:32.160 Amendment. These aren't people who are snowflakes. They're not part of the cancel 347 00:27:32.240 --> 00:27:36.160 culture right. They believe in the freedom of religion, the freedom of speech. 348 00:27:36.200 --> 00:27:38.799 They embrace America has found that I was raised in a very patriotic home. 349 00:27:40.599 --> 00:27:44.119 It's a Union Democrat home. There are still plenty of people rank and 350 00:27:44.200 --> 00:27:49.000 file that fall under that umbrella, but in positions of power and in the 351 00:27:49.039 --> 00:27:53.079 elected offices, the people who run offices, who run campaigns, who have 352 00:27:53.160 --> 00:27:56.640 the political power, the vast majority of them are a vowed leftists. In 353 00:27:56.640 --> 00:28:00.279 fact, if you listen and take notes of the things that they've been caught 354 00:28:00.359 --> 00:28:06.119 by people like Project Veritas saying, it's always, it's always that they're more 355 00:28:06.240 --> 00:28:07.880 radical than they want the people who vote for them to know. And it's 356 00:28:07.880 --> 00:28:11.599 because of reasons like this. It's because this country is still a center right 357 00:28:11.680 --> 00:28:15.799 country. It's not a radically left country, and that's where candidate like Gavin 358 00:28:15.839 --> 00:28:19.319 Newsom's gonna have problems. So I got this clip from Van Jones. It's 359 00:28:19.319 --> 00:28:22.720 about ninety seconds long. I'll get to that in a minute. But before 360 00:28:22.720 --> 00:28:26.000 I do that, my friends, let me remind you Nick Knack Naturals is 361 00:28:26.039 --> 00:28:29.799 here to help you crush your vice. 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So as you think about the 387 00:30:19.480 --> 00:30:22.519 debates, and you think about Bidens as a candidate, you think about this 388 00:30:23.160 --> 00:30:27.480 debate that is about to happen on Thursday, and you think, what are 389 00:30:27.519 --> 00:30:32.960 the Democrats supposed to do if Biden flops? Can they replace him with somebody? 390 00:30:33.640 --> 00:30:37.000 Just listen to this and the people that the Democrat Party has have lost 391 00:30:37.279 --> 00:30:42.319 over time, which is compounding this electoral problem that they have. So this 392 00:30:42.440 --> 00:30:51.000 is Van Jones explaining to us. This is called the Milken Institute's Global Conference, 393 00:30:51.039 --> 00:30:52.519 by the way, where he's answering this question. But he's explaining a 394 00:30:52.599 --> 00:31:00.559 little bit about the Obama coalition that helped elect Obama in twenty eight, twenty 395 00:31:00.720 --> 00:31:07.160 eight and twenty twelve and how this is at risk of basically collapsing for Biden 396 00:31:07.200 --> 00:31:12.200 today here it is does seem to be appealing to significant numbers and particularly lat 397 00:31:12.200 --> 00:31:17.960 scene the voters, but also Black men. What's going on. The Obama 398 00:31:18.079 --> 00:31:22.559 Biden coalition is in trouble. It's in trouble, and I get beat up 399 00:31:22.559 --> 00:31:26.240 every time I say it, but you know, it's obviously it's in trouble, 400 00:31:26.480 --> 00:31:30.720 and it has to do with a number of things. Number One, 401 00:31:32.680 --> 00:31:37.640 the white working class guys left for your campaign in twenty sixteen the Democratic Party, 402 00:31:38.240 --> 00:31:45.319 and now black and Latin working class guys are falling along and they don't 403 00:31:45.359 --> 00:31:48.359 have to follow in massive numbers against razor edge stuff. So I mean, 404 00:31:48.400 --> 00:31:51.160 let's the vast majority of Black people are going to vote for President Biden, 405 00:31:51.400 --> 00:31:52.880 the vast majority of Black women are going to vote for President Biden, the 406 00:31:52.920 --> 00:31:56.240 vast majority of Black men are going to vote for preident Biden. But that's 407 00:31:56.279 --> 00:32:01.079 not the point. The point is you have a origin that is hurting and 408 00:32:01.240 --> 00:32:07.119 uncertain among Black and Latin men as to whether we have a place in this 409 00:32:07.240 --> 00:32:15.160 party. It's not easy to talk about, but there is a sense among 410 00:32:15.240 --> 00:32:19.799 a lot of guys that you talk to that they're just tired of being lectured, 411 00:32:20.720 --> 00:32:23.839 tired of being wrong, tired of being criticized, tired of being called 412 00:32:23.880 --> 00:32:30.200 toxic, tired of, frankly, a lot of other groups getting more out 413 00:32:30.200 --> 00:32:36.480 of Biden administration than black books got. So that's his explanation there is for 414 00:32:36.599 --> 00:32:43.200 what is happening with this the coalition that helped elect Obama back in twenty two, 415 00:32:43.240 --> 00:32:45.920 thousand and eight and twenty twelve. He's sitting on stage by the way 416 00:32:45.920 --> 00:32:49.799 with Kelly and Conway. So when he says your campaign got this vote or 417 00:32:49.960 --> 00:32:53.920 portion of this vote in twenty sixteen, this blue collar vote, talking about 418 00:32:53.920 --> 00:33:00.400 Trump's twenty sixteen campaign, he's right on that. And so that the problem 419 00:33:00.519 --> 00:33:07.559 is is that the rhetoric that is spewed by these devoted leftists who have taken 420 00:33:07.640 --> 00:33:09.759 over the Democrat Party in large part, at least the elected offices. They're 421 00:33:09.799 --> 00:33:15.839 the loudest, they have a lot of power. They don't always win. 422 00:33:15.960 --> 00:33:21.039 Jamal Bowman just lost his primary in New York in spite of AOC up there 423 00:33:21.119 --> 00:33:23.079 putting on a concert or whatever. She was embarrassing what she was doing up 424 00:33:23.079 --> 00:33:29.519 there anyway. So this is the reality. And so you bring in a 425 00:33:29.559 --> 00:33:34.039 candidate like a Gavin Newsom or even a Bernie Sanders, and these folks that 426 00:33:34.279 --> 00:33:40.400 they're already losing to Trump. Now, is that candidacy going to bring in 427 00:33:40.519 --> 00:33:44.720 more Will it push more of these folks away? That's a very real problem. 428 00:33:44.759 --> 00:33:49.400 And I appreciate the candor and the transparency here by Van Jones, because 429 00:33:49.400 --> 00:33:52.119 I do think that that's this is the calculation. So got to take a 430 00:33:52.160 --> 00:33:54.039 break, care of my friends. Sit tight. You're listening to conservative not 431 00:33:54.279 --> 00:33:58.559 bitter talk. I'm the man behind the microphone. Here, the benevolent dictator 432 00:33:59.119 --> 00:34:19.199 back in just a minute. Here we are in the last segment of this 433 00:34:19.400 --> 00:34:22.480 hour of the Todhove Show. I know it's tough. 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Check it out again. 461 00:36:37.079 --> 00:36:40.559 Solty dot com is the website my name Todd will save you. I'll get 462 00:36:40.599 --> 00:36:45.639 you that special discount that I've that I shared so and the time we have 463 00:36:45.880 --> 00:36:50.760 left, I want to toot my own horn. I just have fun with 464 00:36:50.880 --> 00:36:52.320 this. You know, Rush used to have a segment that well, he 465 00:36:52.400 --> 00:36:54.519 would say, see I told you so. That was the name of one 466 00:36:54.599 --> 00:37:00.760 of his books. I don't do that because, of course that would be 467 00:37:00.880 --> 00:37:05.840 that would be uncouth, my friends. But with that being said, see 468 00:37:05.880 --> 00:37:10.000 I told you so. NBA legend Magic Johnson wais in the Caitlin Clark Angel 469 00:37:10.079 --> 00:37:15.280 Reese rivalry is great for the WNBA. Of course we know this, but 470 00:37:15.480 --> 00:37:21.079 specifically, if you read the article and I don't have the SoundBite here. 471 00:37:22.559 --> 00:37:28.920 Magic Johnson, who I set on this program sometime sometime ago. His rivalry 472 00:37:29.119 --> 00:37:32.440 with Larry Bird in the nineteen eighties, well it started back in nineteen seventy 473 00:37:32.519 --> 00:37:37.840 nine when they played one another for the National championship, Magic of course playing 474 00:37:37.880 --> 00:37:44.800 for Michigan State in Larry Bird of course playing for Indiana State competing for the 475 00:37:44.920 --> 00:37:52.039 National championship. It was a rivalry. I mean, it was a great 476 00:37:52.159 --> 00:37:57.000 rivalry, a great rivalry. And if you remember, or if you've read, 477 00:37:57.119 --> 00:38:00.800 I was a tiny fella in those days, so I don't remember. 478 00:38:00.880 --> 00:38:05.559 I just have read and familiarized myself with the story. But the background is 479 00:38:05.639 --> 00:38:08.559 the NBA was in trouble in those days. The NBA was in big trouble. 480 00:38:09.400 --> 00:38:14.199 They have two guys come into the league who have a rivalry, who 481 00:38:15.599 --> 00:38:21.559 are both incredible players, arguably both top ten NBA basketball players of all time. 482 00:38:22.840 --> 00:38:30.599 They both are players that people want to watch. Magic Johnson and the 483 00:38:30.760 --> 00:38:36.679 showtime era for the Los Angeles Lakers, Larry Bird and his clutch performances and 484 00:38:36.800 --> 00:38:42.079 trash talking with the Boston Celtics. It was great for the sport and as 485 00:38:42.119 --> 00:38:45.360 a result, I went through this when we talked about Caitlin Clark and Angel 486 00:38:45.400 --> 00:38:47.960 Reese and all that stuff. I don't know a month or so ago, 487 00:38:49.079 --> 00:38:53.239 is my guess, but there's a lot of similarities between what happened, how 488 00:38:53.360 --> 00:39:00.400 those two helped put the NBA onto to solid ground, how contracts beg to 489 00:39:00.519 --> 00:39:05.239 become bigger because more people began to watch the NBA. It became a product 490 00:39:05.320 --> 00:39:08.519 that people cared about, connected with, wanted to follow. I talked about 491 00:39:08.559 --> 00:39:13.239 some of those things. I talked about the intensity of the rivalry. I 492 00:39:13.280 --> 00:39:16.800 talked about the intensity of the game back in the eighties, where players would 493 00:39:17.320 --> 00:39:21.960 I mean, it was a different game than it was today. There'd be 494 00:39:22.079 --> 00:39:24.760 fist fights and I don't even know the technicals arose from all of the fist 495 00:39:24.840 --> 00:39:31.159 fights, let alone someone getting ejected and endless reviews on the monitor whether somebody 496 00:39:31.280 --> 00:39:36.079 hit someone too hard or whatever. The case may be just a different world, 497 00:39:36.760 --> 00:39:40.000 and fans loved it, and fans loved it. But magic is out 498 00:39:40.039 --> 00:39:44.000 there. So he said this. Larry and I talking about Bird heightened the 499 00:39:44.079 --> 00:39:49.199 NBA's overall popularity. The Lakers and Celtics sold out arenas throughout the league and 500 00:39:49.280 --> 00:39:55.440 increased television viewership exponentially. The higher viewership numbers led to NBA to the NBA 501 00:39:55.559 --> 00:40:00.719 signing significant larger TV contracts, which then led to the higher salaries for the 502 00:40:00.800 --> 00:40:06.280 players. Caitlin and Angel are now doing these same things, selling out arenas 503 00:40:06.360 --> 00:40:12.239 and increasing the viewership. They have taken women's basketball by storm, and with 504 00:40:12.599 --> 00:40:16.960 expiring TV deals on the horizon, the WNBA is now in a position to 505 00:40:17.079 --> 00:40:25.400 negotiate hire TV contracts, hire TV contracts which then lead to higher salaries. 506 00:40:27.119 --> 00:40:34.400 You know, you got the They're doing the same thing basically. So I 507 00:40:34.599 --> 00:40:37.039 just wanted to point that out, and I can only conclude after reading those 508 00:40:37.119 --> 00:40:42.519 words that Magic Johnson listens to this program. So welcome Magic to the program. 509 00:40:42.679 --> 00:40:45.320 I appreciate it. Guys, have a great day. Thanks so much 510 00:40:45.360 --> 00:40:46.960 for listening. We will talk again soon. SDG