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Always include the adoration and praise. I can't I can't just let that
go. That's got to be in there. And it's a pleasure to be
here today. A couple of things that I want to share here off off
the top this weekend, this past weekend, actually yesterday was Constitution Day,
and you know, we try to hit some of the well the important days
I think on the calendar. I think that that's an important thing to do.
We always talk about Easter, we talk about Christmas. We've got Thanksgiving
coming up here in a couple of months. We talk about all those all
those days, Independence Day, Memorial Day, Veterans Day, and I you
know, they're all there for a reason. They're all those are holidays that
well that means a lot for a variety of reasons to the average American,
to individual families and folks scattered all across this fruited plane. And one of
those days that doesn't get enough attention is Constitution Day, right, the ratification
of the Constitution of the United States of America. I know that you know
this. I know that you know this, but that document is the single
most important secular, i'll say secular document, governing document that's ever been created.
That in the Declaration of Independence of my friends, and those are full
of important concepts and ideas, things that frame the foundation of this country.
And yesterday we celebrated that. Now, I want to say this, I
don't want to get too much into this today because I want to get into
other things. But I find it ironic to say the least that over the
Constitution Day weekend headline here Western Journal dot com. This as always, my
friends, we pause. For those of you who maybe knew listeners to the
program, we have a list of the articles I guess you would say that
we may or may not be referencing throughout the program. It's called the Stack
of Stuff. And for those of you that listened to the late great Rush
Limball, you will know that that that is a hat tip to him.
I spent a lot of time as a younger man listening to Rush, and
he had what he called the stack of stuff. It was articles back in
the day it was printed. It was newspaper clippings of things that he wanted
to get to as things that he eventually printed off on his computer. We
keep those digitally on our website, the articles of things that we have looked
at, read that are I guess in the background. We may not directly
mention these things during the program, but what we sometimes we do sometimes we
do, but it at least gives you information even of things that we don't
have time to get to, and you can check it out. It's on
the website Todd Huffshow dot com. Just go to the Stack of Stuff.
But there's an article in there today Western Journal dot Com headline Governor Gavin Newsom.
Yes, Governor Gavin Newsom, the governor of the People's Republic of California.
Now, Governor Newsome still, I think is holding out some degree of
hope that Biden will not be the Democrat Party nominee, that they will be
calling upon him to come in and swoop in and save the Democrat at parties
hopes here in twenty twenty four, I'm still not seeing that as a likely
thing, but I think he's hopeful for that. But even if it's not
twenty twenty four, Gavin Newsom is a name that Americans and people who care
about the Constitution are going to have to be on the lookout for in the
years to come. And he's a dangerous politician. I mean the sad reality.
Well, first, most politicians are potentially dangerous politicians, but especially politicians
coming from the People's Republic of California. So the headline here says Governor Gavin
Newsom officially calls for convention to change the US Constitution. Now what is he
wanting to do? Now? You will know, for those of you that
have followed politics and just different things happening in this great nation. There's been
a move a movement towards having a Convention of the States to ratify amendments to
the Constitution. That's been something that has been talked about in the past.
But most of the time, most of the times, the folks that are
calling for a constitutional or a convention of states to ratify the constitution, to
change the constitution, meaning typically to add amendments to the Constitution. Some of
these amendments, of course, can strike or change previously stated amendments to the
Constitution and so forth, or just other articles of the Constitution anyway, things
that we want to add to the Constitution. But typically those are things that
are led by people who want to reign in our government. But that's of
course not the case with the radical leftist governor from the People's Republic of California,
Gavin Newsom. According to this article, the States led to Slature on
Thursday of last week approved a resolution and support of Newsom's call for a twenty
eighth constitutional amendment. Now this is according to the Los Angeles Times, but
every once in a while they actually do report something that's factually happened. This
has, by the way, so there's currently twenty seven amendments of the US
Constitution, so this would be the twenty eighth. This would be the twenty
eighth amendment to the Constitution. Now, this absolutely, unequivocally should not happen.
But let me just tell you what this is. This is, according
to the article here. You may or may not have heard this, the
proposed right to safety amendment. That sounds nice, the right to safety that
we're gonna spend a moment to talk about. Let's talk about rights here in
in a minute. But this is essentially what the quote right to safety amendment
is. It would limit legal gun ownership to adults twenty one and older.
It would enact universal federal background X on gun sales. It would create a
mandatory quote reasonable waiting period for gun purchases, and ban the purchase of many
forms of semi automatic rifles. Now, what is a right? By the
way, it's interesting to me I had this. Actually I wrote about this
in last week's Conservative Not Bitter column, which you can get for free by
email Tanushow dot com. But I wrote about this last week. Most Americans
still accept the idea, accept the idea that that our rights come not from
government, but those rights come from our creator. Now, there are of
course, varying opinions on what creature means. Someone like myself would say that
Creator refers to the God of the Bible, that is exactly who I believe
created mankind. There are other opinions and beliefs. By the way, we
can't all be right, but nonetheless there's different beliefs, and this idea says,
and it's an important idea. You know what, Even for people who
are atheistic, I think it's important for them to know or have the belief
that this idea of rights, even though this would fall apart someplace logically,
actually, any standard of morality falls apart for the atheist at some point,
actually pretty quickly, because what standard are they measuring morality against. If there's
no moral law giver, there can be no moral law. But anyway,
that's another discussion for another day. But the point is, it's still better
to think that our rights come from something outside of government, the creative force,
whatever you want to call it, even if you don't want to call
that creative force God, which I clearly think it is to be. To
be very to be very concise here, I believe that But even if you
don't. It's better to believe that the rights that you have are inherent to
your being a human being than to allow your rights to be dictated by people
who are in control politically at any given moment. Or to the democracy,
to the majority rule says one of the important reasons why America is not a
democracy. A democracy says majority rule. A constitutional republic says, absolutely,
we want the will of the people to decide important political matters. But there's
an important distinction. The constitutional republic says that we're going to have a document
and we're going to have this type of government that says that individual human beings
the smallest minority right, the minority of one, the minority of the individual,
not the minority of someone's race or ethnicity, or gender or anything else.
The minority of one, the smallest minority we can have. The individual
has certain rights. And if every other person in the United States of America,
in their exercise of democracies, say you cannot have that right, our
founders said, that's not true, because those rights were given to you by
your creator, by God himself. And I had someone actually laugh at that
idea. It's crazy to me that someone would laugh at the idea that our
rights come from something outside of government. If our rights, my friends,
come from government, our rights are not really rights at all, because they
can change, like the shifting winds, like the sinking saying, there is
no bedrock upon which we can build our lives. They are at the well.
The rights are determined by the will of the of the political class at
the moment, and that is not the way that a right should be interpreted.
And so rights are things that we have that are that are inherent.
Rights effectively are the things that we are free to choose. For example,
in the First Amendment, we are free to choose if and how we will
worship God. We are not dictated by the state how we will do so.
We are given the freedom or we recognize that we have the freedom to
say those things that we believe to communicate the ideas that we want to communicate
freely without government telling us to shut up or that we can't say it.
We're free to assemble with people that we choose to assemble with. We're free
to tell our government, Hey, we don't like what you're doing. We
think this is a problem. We can protest, we can talk about our
political leaders that's what we do on I don't like the term leaders, but
you know, all the politicians, the people who have political authority in this
country, we talk about those things, and you should be able to do
so without fear of repercussion. We have to be able to have robust exchange
of ideas, debates and so forth. Those are all freedoms that we have,
not because the government has given those to us, but because we have
that right given to us by simply by virtue of being a human being,
by being created in the image of God. We have these rights. I
don't mean that in some sort of a I think some people mean it in
some selfish way. This is just to live our lives. This isn't to
like say, well, I'm not gonna do this, because I have the
right to say no, so therefore I'm gonna say no. There's a certain
amount of truth there, but really it's about the opportunity to live our lives
in accordance with our conscience. And I would add the Second Amendment just as
an example to the right to choose to protect ourselves up to it, including
the use of a firearm in order to provide protection, whether that be protection
from a common criminal, someone trying to break into our home, or someone
who is trying to force us to comply with tyranny, whatever shape that takes.
We have the God given right to protect our selves. You can choose
to not exercise that right, but you can choose also to exercise it.
If you so choose, you are not basically to say otherwise would mean that
someone else, someone else automatically their life has more value if they decide that
they're going to harm your life or in the worst case scenario, try to
take your life. You ought to be able. If you can't do anything
about that, then we're by default saying that someone else has more intrinsic value
than we have. And that's not of course, it's of course not true
as well. So these these rights are things that are given to us by
God. And something else that's important to understand about it. Right or right
is something that we have within us. The freedom to choose something a right
is not a right, is not trying to force someone else to provide something
to us. That's why I would say, for example, some are going
to disagree with this, I encourage you to listen to this and think this
through, because this is correct By the way, I'm just going to say
that we don't have a right, so to speak, a right in the
constitutional sense, or right in what I'm saying to healthcare. Of course we
should, that's something we should strive for. We should strive to create the
environment where all Americans have access to it. But to say that you have
a right to something that someone else has to provide you is a fundamental misunderstanding
of what a right is or right is your ability, my ability to live
our life and to make choices that we want to make in order to fulfill
or whatever our dreams, ambitions, priorities, how we want to live this
side of heaven. Now, this twenty eighth amendment that's proposed here by Gavin
Newsome has a lot more tucked away in this it's I mean, it's it's
got specific rules. This is not if you read the Bill of Rights.
The Bill of Rights are the first ten amendments. These amendments are concepts that
apply to the way that we should live as a free people. It doesn't
go into detail like this stupid amendment here does. Talking about the age and
you know, the requirements for being able to have a firearm and that sort
of thing. But this sort of stuff is always going on. He has
announced it that he is in support of this. He's out there sitting in
the wings, waiting for his opportunity to be a candidate for president of the
United States. I have no doubt that at some point you're going to see
his name thrown into the hat. Probably at this point will not be twenty
twenty four, but who knows. And it's gonna be hard because California Democrats
are so radical. There's gonna be a lot of middle of the road folks
who're gonna have a hard time moving to Newsome. But he's out there.
He's a threat, he is dangerous. This amendment is of course at odds
with the Second Amendment. You can tell just from the things that I've shared
with you about that. But I wanted to share that with you today since
yesterday was Constitution Day. Quick time out is in order, my friends.
You're listening here to conservative not bitter talk. I'm your host to Hugh back
in a minute. Welcome back, my friends. So, one of the
things that happened last week but we did not talk about, was this,
well, were these Hunter Biden indictments, These Hunter Biden indictments here because I'm
trying to get back to my stack of stuff. Here we go, here
we go. So we didn't talk about this late last week because of the
timing and everything. We didn't just have the timing was off for when I
would have been able to talk about it. But the Hunter Biden indictments,
it's an interesting thing, right because we've gone a long time. We've gone
a long time. You look back at the timeline of the Hunter Biden report
and everything. I mean, these things happened. These things happened well before,
well before the so called insurrection on January sixth, and there were,
of course, there was the deal. Remember there was the deal that was
struck between Hunter Biden and so forth, and there were obviously questions about this.
Then the deal fell through. Then you know, none of these things
can be seen in a vacuum. You've got you have the criminal indictments of
Hunter Biden, the first kind of negotiated agreement, the sweetheart deal that he
was given. The media, of course, wanted you to think if he
was not named Hunter Biden, nothing would have even happened in this scenario,
which I find incredibly peculiar because this is the same crowd. Remember last segment,
we talked about this constitutional amendment that Gavin Newsom wants to see implement,
and that's really antithetical in many ways to the Second Amendment. And these are
the same folks the left, the Bidens, the Neosoms of the world,
the pelo Sees, the Schumers and so forth. These are the folks that
tell us constantly, if we just have another law on the books about gun
control, about some rule, about some background this, or waiting list that,
or red flag law for something, you know, all these things.
They just think, if we just do more right. It's the reason that
this radical governor in New Mexico has taken the steps she's taken. She's even
said someone's got to do something, which to someone who cares about the Constitution,
to someone who cares about freedom, to someone who cares about logic and
understands cause and effect, someone has to do something is one of the most
annoying things to hear. Why at first, who should be acting, meaning
it's not just someone and something. What are they doing and why are they
doing it? Those things, those things actually actually matter. So if if
the left cares about these gun laws, and if they constantly want to introduce
a new gun law. Why then, why then are they so quick to
want to excuse Hunter Biden for breaking a federal gun law. Federal gun law
says that if you are when he was applying for the purchase of that gun,
he said that he was not under not taking illicit drugs or whatever the
question is, and by evidence on his own laptop, it's clear that he
was a clear violation of federal law. Actually, there's a ton of evidence
on that laptop about I should say, a decent amount of evidence about that,
about the gun charges. But the Left doesn't seem to be concerned about
that, right, It's like they're again, it's remarkable to me how they're
quick to excuse specific the specific incident all the time. You've heard me say
this before. The radical left teaches something that is sub but that is damaging,
is all get out, and they teach this it's the exact opposite of
reality. They teach that everyone is collectively responsible for the actions of everyone else,
but no one is directly responsible for the actions he takes himself. Let
me say that again, because it is absolutely true. You can write this
down in stone. The left teaches the lie that no one, no one.
Well, let me say it the other way, that everyone is responsible
for the actions of everyone else. This is why things like climate change the
way that they want everybody to have like this, I don't know this us.
It's not a very rational approach. And I'm gonna do my part,
right, I'm gonna do my part. I'm not gonna eat beef, and
my carbon footprint is going to be less because I'm not eating beef that needs
to when it's alive as a cow to be passing gas out there adding to
the greenhouse gases. Right, this is literally a thing, by the way,
or I'm not going to have children. People say this, by the
way, I've got a story, a story personal, really quick story to
tell you about one of my kiddos who I'm proud about here that happened over
the weekend. But some people literally have said they've put off having children,
or they have had their decisions to have children impacted by the idea that children
are polluters. They're putting off carbon. Oh yes, so we're all doing
our part now individually we know that this is complete absurdity. Even if you
buy into the madness over carbon in the atmosphere, whether or not you choose
to have a Hamburger once a week or not is not It's beyond laughable to
me. Now you can say, well, Todd, collectively, it's a
big deal. But when you understand the amount of carbon in the atmosphere and
how much carbon each country or each individual is potentially responsible for, I mean,
it's truly insane to think that this is something that we have massive direct
responsibility for. But that's the idea, is to make us feel all collectively
responsible for everything, but then individually, right, and Hunter Biden can break
all the gun laws he wants, and he gets a pass. But but
if someone creates or acts in some horrific way with a firearm in another state,
in another part of the country, in a city, we don't even
know their motivations, how they got the firearm within five seconds, we're blamed.
If you believe in freedom and you believe in the Second Amendment, And
they then want to say you're at fault for that, that I'm at fault
for that, And so they don't assign any of the responsibility to the individual.
They assign it collectively to the entirety of this nation. And it makes
people feel guilty, And it's crazy to me because I'm from the school that
lives in reality, that says I'm responsible for me. I'm responsible for the
choices I make, the way I respond, the way I react, what
I do, how I live my life. I'm not responsible for someone else
who uses their God given freedom for horrific things. Now, I think they
should face consequences. I think that there should be actions taken for justice to
be enforced, or that we should seek justice in those circumstances. But I
absolutely, I absolutely take no responsibility for someone exercising their rights to do to
do evil. I think we overcome evil with good, and that's one of
the things this nation. You know, there are evils that are being used
upon us from all corners of our culture right now. Seven pillars of propaganda,
as I call them. It's all over the place. We're pumping in
evil. And then we wonder why evil is what we manifest, what this
culture is manifesting. It's because we're pumping it in, right, I mean
we are what we continually think about at some point. I mean that is
that these are not complicated concepts anyway. So time out here Oz is pointing
out I am a little bit long, a little bit long in this segment,
but I want to take a time out pick up on the other side
of the break where we left off here. But that is that's one of
the battles that we are we're facing here in this nation, in this nation
today. So let's pause that. Let's pick back up with Hunter after the
break. My friends, you're listening here to conservative not bitter talk. I'm
your host, Todd Huff back here in just a minute, coom back of
my friends. So Hunter was indicted again late last week, and that's why
we got back into the gun discussion again with Gavin Newsom's proposed amendment and all
that stuff. This is a real thing. By the way, New York,
the state of New York, has now passed legislation has now passed legislation
that include background checks and purchase fees in order to buy ammunition. If you
want to see that again. That's in the stack of stuff. So I
don't want to make this whole episode. These things matter. There's so many
there's so many tentacles that have infringed upon the liberties of Americans. You know,
we we could take a deep dive into any any one of these.
And I don't want to get too far down this today because I do want
to talk about or into the areas of guns, which is still very important.
I'm just saying I want to stay on Hunter Biden. I want to
talk about what Jim Jordan has said about this. But this is important to
understand. So you had the indictments on Hunter, well, the initial Sweetheart
deal that fell through. Now suddenly seemingly out of the blue, out of
the blue, totally coincidental with all this stuff going on. Now we got
a Hunter Biden indictment again at the end of last week. Now you might
say wow, That's one response is wow, it's good to see that the
Department of Justice is trying to actually be impartial again. I think that that's
a crazy, crazy way of looking at it right now. I don't think
we're dealing with a Department of Justice under the leadership of Merrick Garland that is
worth trusting whatsoever. I think the correct way of looking at it is seeing
it again, not within a vacuum, but also what's going on in other
parts of the narrative, other things that are happening and so forth. And
one of those areas of course, is the impeachment inquiry into Hunter Biden.
Now these things intersect very very deeply, very very deeply. In fact,
Politico has a piece out late last week or over the weekend. They argue
that the only evidence, the only evidence against Joe Biden. It's crazy.
By the way, this is a quote. The only evidence against Joe Biden
and this impeachment inquiry, why he should have this inquiry into possible impeachment is
quote and I'm reading a quote here some text messages that Hunter sent while he
was addicted to crack cocaine. So, in other words, the only evidence
are some messages he got from his son who has a drug problem. I
don't even know if if these messages were real legit, right, And so
the defense is on and I've got some words to say about that as well.
The narrative here, the stages of the way that they're going to try
to defend this, in fact, the way that they've already tried to defend
this, or to change the narrative or whatever. But you can't see the
Hunter indictments on its own. You have to look at it and understand that
it's happening. At the same time, this impeachment stuff is, and so
I think it's clear the Department of Justice wants to stay in front of this,
and they know that as the House of Representatives begins to make things public,
as they have their hearings and so forth in the impeachment inquiry, I
think that they know that if the American people see all of the incriminating things
on Hunter Biden's laptop, if they see all of those things, if they
if they're forced to report on them, because all of this is taking is
happening under this impeachment inquiry, and there's only I mean, they're going to
try to do a lot of things here, but I don't think they can
get away with completely ignoring this. I think that now it's reached a level
that they're going to have to address it, and they know they know it's
going to be so damning in spite of what they're saying. In spite of
what they're saying, they know that it's going to be so damning, at
least for Hunter. It's almost like this indictment says, we have to understand
that our job is still this is I tell you how they think about it,
because Biden still wants them to protect his son and so forth as well.
They're they're not throwing in the towel on Hunter just yet, but they
are setting it up to where they say, we're going to try to defend
him. We're going to try to make him out to be the victim or
whatever it is here that they're going to do. There's several avenues that they're
looking at taking here. But they also know that they are about to be
exposed for overlooking a whole lot of potentially criminal, allegedly criminal felonious activity,
and so they have to get out in front of this. In fact,
that's what Jim Jordan basically alluded to. I got that article in the stack
of stuff as well. Jim Jordan, the Republican from the Great State of
Ohio, says, the DOJ's indictment of Hunter Biden is a face saving exercise.
It is a face saving exercise. And it's not just to save the
face of the DOJ. It's to save the face of the administration. Is
to try to make people say, because people just read headlines, wow,
the DOJ decided to do something. You know, Biden's DOJ Bidendoj's fair.
They're going after his child, his son. So therefore the attempts that they've
taken to go after Trump cannot be political because they're shown to be very unbiased.
Remember, their hand was forced here in this situation with Hunter Biden,
so that's important to understand. That's what I think is going on here.
They're trying to save face, but they're still going to try to defend Joe
Biden and the administration. Of course, that's the a number one priority.
They still want to defend Hunter as well. These folks are all part of
this small elite network. They're going to try to defend each other at all
costs. But ultimately, if there's nothing they can do to save Hunter,
I mean, they're they're going to abandon him. I mean there will be
a scapegoat, there will be a fall guy if that gets to that point.
But they've got several several attempts, are several different tactics they could take
to try to protect this guy here as things begin to unfolding the impeachment inquiry.
But Odds is right, it's time to take a time out. My
friends sit tight back in a minute. Welcome back to my friends. So
let's really quickly here look at the defense strategy, if you will. The
mean it's not just the defense in the House of Representatives if this, of
course goes to impeachment, this situation with President bribery, but it's the whole
approach to the way that they're going to be defending this in the public sphere,
which is ultimately what they care the most about, especially in an election
year. They're superficial to begin with. They care about how things look because
if they can manipulate it to look a certain way, that's a lot easier
their minds and actually have the character to be the things that people really desire
deep down to be a character in the character of their leaders. So let's
look at the state. And I don't even know if I want to call
these stages of the defense, because it's not a linear thing. These things
can be happening simultaneously. But here's a series of things that are going to
happen that are some have already happened. First, they're going to act as
though Biden had zero percent, or I should say that the Hunter situation,
his business dealings, and all the stuff on the laptop. They're going to
try to convince they've already tried to do this try to convince the American people
that that has nothing to do, zero percent to do with President bribery.
They want the people, they want people to believe that this is an attack
on the president's son, because he's the president's son. They want you to
believe that this is a act of political retribution for what happened to Donald J.
Trump. They want you to believe that Hunter Biden, and they'll do
this to weaken you know, some people just they'll they'll back off when this
is when some of these tactics are used. They want you to believe that
Hunter Biden got into drugs. It's something that's a personal battle. It's a
sad situation. Why are they They want the American people to think, why
are they going after this poor guy. He's struggling. He lost his brother,
you know, he and his father were just trying to and the whole
family was trying to cope. Hunter got into some bad things. Why can't
they just leave the guy alone. They're going to try that sort of thing.
They've already done that as well. They'll outright deny that there's any evidence
and they'll laugh it off. And that's what the fashion icon. Senator John
Futterman did last week. Didn't pull it off very well. That was so
bizarre. I played that clip last I don't know, Wednesday, Thursday,
Friday, something like that. If they're forced to acknowledge that evidence exists,
they're gonna say it's nothing serious. In fact, that's what they're out there
saying today. And I've got something in the stack of stuff. I don't
have time to play it, but PBS has a couple of folks on there
who are based on One of them was saying this is basically I forget the
word he used, and it was I think it was David Brooks basically saying
is this is really weakening the true intent of what impeachment should be. You
know, Yeah, there's some stuff that's on there that maybe shouldn't have been
done, but doesn't have a lot to do with Biden. It's not serious.
This weakens the whole concept of what impeachment should be about. If there's
more evidence, they will start throwing people under the bus. They're gonna tell
us that this is just how politics works. Like it or leave it.
They're gonna say that this is not worthy of an impeachment. They're gonna acknowledge
Hey, this is problematic, but impeachment would only further drive the division between
this country. And of course, if they have to, they're going to
claim that what we're experiencing with President bribery is nothing in comparison with Donald J.
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