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right, my friends, welcome to this hour, this episode of the Tod
Huff Show. It is a pleasure to be here. I thank you for
joining us. You know, in a previous previously, a previous hour,
I had referenced something that I don't know, I just feel like is something
that I want to talk about here today. It's a message I got.
I don't do this often. We get a fair amount of messages and feedback
from those in the audience, but this one hit me a little bit differently,
I guess. And it came up just organically through the conversations that we've
had pertaining to just the problems that we have in this country. And I
was talking about some of the gubernatorial the governor candidates here in the state of
Indiana, and I see some of these campaigns and I think, man,
some of these things might be good to do. But we are facing a
much more I don't know, serious battle. We can't even get to some
of these things we have. We're in an all out battle for the survival
of this country. We really are. I mean, that's where the left's
not wrong there. The left is wrong about their faux outrage about the dangers
that Trump poses to that the real danger is the growing out of control government,
the weaponization of the Department of Justice, are wide open borders, the
inflation rate, the financial turmoil, the heavy boot that the government has placed
on the neck of the American taxpayer. That's the transagenda. All these things
are the real threat to this society, to this culture, to this constitutional
republic. And so I said, I said that I typically don't. I
never thought I would endorse a candidate during the primary, even though the primary
is unofficially over, because Trump's got enough delegates to be the Republican nominee and
Biden has enough delegates to be the Democrat nominee. As crazy as that might
sound to people, but we're going to have a rematch of Trump versus Biden
twenty twenty four, Trump versus Biden two point zero. I guess, although
in many ways it's not going to be two point zero, and that seems
to suggest, imply that there's an improvement. There's definitely not an improvement in
one of those candidates, Joseph Robinette Bribery. But this is Trump v.
Biden two. Maybe not two point zero, but two. And so I'm
good with that. I'm good with the Trump part of that. I think
that in order to fix these problems, you have to understand the scope of
them. You have to understand what you're fighting against. And I brought up
the Indiana governors because I'm not always sure that these individuals really recognize the real
threat that's being posed to our constitutional republic. Again, some of these things
that are on their list of things to do as potential governors of our state
might be good to do, but you can't do any of it. It's
all academic. If the country is going to hell in a handbasket as it
is, you have to be willing to fight and ready to fight. I'm
talking not even day one, before day one. And that's what is appealing
to me about Trump is that he understands, really, especially after being there
for four years and now he's had a four year intermission to where he could
almost in a way, regroup and reorganize, restructure, and go back,
go back at it again. So that's what I want to talk about today.
And I want to read a comment that I got from a listener who
I did reach out to and say, well, let's talk about this.
I don't do that a lot, although that's something that might be coming more
here in the future, especially for those of you who want to call in.
There's going to be a way that we're going to let you do that
for some of you if you want to have conversations with me, raise questions,
that sort of thing. But for the time being, we're not there
just yet. Although we're knocking. I think we're knocking on the door.
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me read this. This what I want to say this message. I guess
that I got well over over the weekend. Over the weekend, this was
someone it's not it's it's not long, but it's not short, so it's
it's mid. I guess here it is the message. Hi, I listened.
This is by the way. Melissa is the name of the individual writing
I don't have a I don't have a city. But Melissa, I wrote
in Hi, I listened to your show for quite a while. Yesterday I
came on when you were speaking about how our country was founded and how it
had gone away from a monarchy or dictatorship, and we were the first ones
to do that. Yeah. So basically what I was saying was we were
living under, of course, the King of England and his heavy hand,
his dictatorship. They were forcing the colonists to do all sorts of things against
their will. They were in impeding upon their liberty and so forth. And
our founders, once we fought and eventually won the declar or excuse me,
won the American Revolution, we did not do what typically happens. We didn't
have the group that won established themselves as the new ruling class, the new
Folks, the new Folks, or the new The Founders who rebelled against England
led the rebellion actually said you're not subjects to any to any crown. You
are actually citizens. You have freedom, you have liberty. You don't answer
to us, you answer to your creator. Your rights come from God,
they don't come from government. And so that was a revolutionary thing. So
back to her message here, she said, the whole time I am listening,
I'm thinking, this guy's really smart. See that is where if I
can just tell you, for those of you who are thinking of writing in
to this program, when I say the appropriate amount of adoration and praise,
I mean, she's hit the bull the bulls I hear. Really, she
didn't just say smart, she says really smart. This guy is really smart.
Talking about how the world has changed since Trump went into office. Now,
she says, I'm a lifelong Republican, by the way, sitting there
thinking the whole time, Yes, exactly, Trump feels that he is our
king, and somehow has all these people believing that he has that he is
what we need. Then all of a sudden, so she thinks, I'm
saying these things, and I'm saying that Trump is the danger. Trump is
the threat. So she's saying, that's right on target, You're exactly right.
But then I dropped something on her. She said, then all of
a sudden, you start talking about supporting Trump. So I was completely caught
off guard because everything you were saying seemed like you were definitely not pro Trump.
Now I want to pause there. Now, this is perplexing to me
because it really is. And I don't know if I just view this differently,
if it's just clearer to my way of thinking. I don't know.
I mean, I really don't don't know. But let me say a couple
of things. The founders, the founders were. The founders were some There
were some big personalities amongst the founders. I mean, you had to be
to do what they did, right, I mean from I'm a big fan
personally of Samuel Adams. You know, you had the group of people that
were in the you know, in the halls, working out writing the specifics
of the documents, the Thomas Jeffersons with the Declaration, James Madison eventually with
the Constitution. Of course, they were all involved in some degree in these
conversations that shape this stuff. But then you had the people that were out
in the streets. And I love I love me some Samuel Adams. This
is the guy that was going to the bars. And it's in a way
I kind of feel more that that's how that's what we do. Now.
I'm not a drinker. I don't drink. Me and Trump that's something we
do have in common. We don't drink, But I do think that that's
my role, is to be out in amongst the common, everyday Americans talking
about these issues. When Samuel Adams went to the to the bars, to
the pubs, the taverns, wherever else he was going, that's what they
were discussing. He was meeting with people, he was call you know,
making the case for some of the you know response or the the moved independence
and all that. He was actually out there having the difficult conversations while some
of them were more behind. And I'm not minimizing it. There's a rule
for all of us, right, And some of them were out there crafting
things like the Declaration of Independence, which of course were incredibly important as well.
And so when I think about this, I think about it through a
very common sense sort of perspective. The founders when they were thinking about the
threats to our constitutional republic, the threats to our liberty, they weren't so
afraid of a personality type they were afraid or not afraid. They were concerned.
They were concerned with certain behavior, meaning certain actions that the government tried
to take against the people, things that infringe directly upon their liberty. And
so while it is the case many times that authoritarians, dictators, tyrants,
they might have some of these personality traits, they might have a big ego
and so forth. I mean, they do. They think that they're basically
God's gift to humanity. They we shouldn't confuse the personality type with the behavior.
And the behavior the founders were concerned with, the behavior of a tyrant,
for example, is not to cut taxes. That's not what tyrants do.
Tyrants put the boot and apply it to the on the neck of the
American people, and they well upon the people that they're trying to control,
and they apply pressure. Cutting taxes alleviates that pressure. Tyrants don't try.
And by the way, Trump cut taxes. To complete that sequence of thoughts,
Trump also cut bureaucratic red tape. You'll remember Trump instituted a rule that
says, if you have a new bureaucratic rule that's introduced in our government,
you have to eliminate. I want to say it was three, it was
two or three rules. And so they came out one day at a press
conference and they had a bunch of paper stacked up and they demonstrated how many
pages of rules had been eliminated through that process. Dictators do not do that.
Dictators people who want to be king, do not vote people onto the
US or, I should say, nominate people to the United States Supreme Court
who have an originalist interpretation. See. Dictators are people who, in a
point I should say, they appoint activist judges. That's who they want to
appoint. They want people on the court who implement their policies, the policies
that are held by the dictator or the person who has a thirst for power.
They want someone there that will use the legal system to their advantage,
thereby circumventing the entire political process and actually implementing the policies. Have said,
tyrant directly to the American people without in this case of America, but whatever
country they're in, bypassing, bypassing the court, or bypassing the real process,
the constitutional process, which is legislation, has to come from Congress,
not from a court. And see, tyrants will use the court any means
necessary, my friends, they'll use any means necessary to achieve what they want.
Tyrants demonize people. Tyrants pit people against each other so as to so
as to divide and conquer the people. Trump doesn't Now people will say Trump
does that, Trump will attack the people that are attacking him. But if
you're not attacking Trump, I mean Trump Trump is. Trump has an ability,
folks, to just find a way to connect with just about anybody.
He's pretty remarkable at it. Doesn'tn't get enough credit amongst some. But so
to me, this is an obvious, obvious reason why I'm not talking about
Trump. Trump. Trump wasn't even remotely in my mind when I was talking
about this. I'm gonna continue reading reading what she's written to me and share
that with you because I feel like there's some things in there that are interesting
and I just want to respond, and I thought this is a good way
to do that while protecting her. You know her. I'd given her first
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I'm looking at the time here, I've got time to go a little
bit further before I take a break. So she was surprised that I was
quote unquote pro Trump. I don't know specifically what she means by pro Trump.
I know that there's that that conjures up a lot of imagery, but
I'm definitely at I'm definitely an individual who is in favor of Trump being president.
Again, I made that. I made that pretty clear for a long
time. So she continues, the way you were speaking was as if you
were trying to make people understand that Trump was exactly what our founding fathers had
established our country against. Just letting me know that you had me really confused
because most of these things you were saying were wrong. We're describing Donald Trump.
So she's saying the things that and I've already addressed this largely with my
commentary there a couple of minutes ago. But she's saying that the problems I've
identified in the country should be ascribed to Trump, and she's confused as to
why I haven't done that, which again I've responded to. I wish we
had a better Republican choice this time around. You know, I'm this is
interesting. What does that mean? We had a primary? We had who
all do we have Nikki Hayley, Chris Christy. I'm not saying Mike Pince,
none of these folks should have run. Ronda Santis. Ronda Santis was
a very promising candidate. So this campaign came along and it's I mean,
he underperformed in every conceivable way. I was on this program saying because I
like Rnda's I know some of you don't. And look, I saw the
people that were kind of coming together and supporting him, and some of the
folks that were supporting him definitely are people that I'm not aligned with. So
that concerned me. But I'm not ready to throw Ronda Santis out of the
mix. I think he hurt himself incredibly badly during this campaign. I don't
think he ever should have run. I said that at the beginning. I
wish Ron would have listened old Todd here behind the microphone so that we would
have a better chance of having Ronda Santis maybe in twenty twenty eight, I
don't know, Or you could say maybe his lack of success helped us realize
he wasn't a good Canada politically on a national stage. I don't know.
I'm not prepared to go there. But he made some really, really bad,
bad choices and decisions in this campaign. But he's done a great job
as governor of Florida, and he's been right on a lot of things.
I'm not going to say right on everything. I mean, there's things that
you know, nobody's one hundred percent, not even yours truly here on the
Tod huff Show. I miss it on very very rare occasions. So anyway,
I don't know what the better choice would be. I mean, it's
I wish we had some I wish we had more conservative candidates who had fight.
I mean, I will define it that far and say, now,
where are they? You know, Vivek Ramaswami, I don't know. Some
of you have very serious questions about him because of his past connections to some
scholarships and all that with a George Soros organization and so forth. These are
fair questions, and we can't be bamboozled. We can't be blinded to the
realities that some of these candidates. You know who they are, what they
believe, but we can't. We've got to be understanding and give them the
opportunity to explain context here as well. So anyway, anyway, I'm gonna
pause here because there's a lot of good stuff here in this comment. So
this was well written, and she disagrees with me, Melissa hearing this in
her message to the show, which she's sent through the website. But folks,
all these come to my email Todd at toddhofshow dot com if you want
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up where we left off here with the message I received from Melissa, who
disagrees with me, by the way, but she's doing it the right way,
and so I want to talk about this a lot of good stuff there.
We'll do this on the other side of the break. Sit tight,
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conversation or this I guess this message that I received from Melissa, which again
is again she disagrees with me on some things and I think, as I
said earlier, I offered to have this conversation with her on air. I've
not heard back, and some people just don't want to. I don't typically
do that, so if you write in thinking that the next thing is invitation
to come talk on the show, doesn't usually go that way. But I
did to her because I thought there were so many things here that we could
discuss. We could certainly discuss, so let me pick up where we left
off. She says, I wish I mentioned that she said she wished we
had better Republican candidates this time around. Then she says this, I have
such a hard time understanding how so many people can still support him and believe
he did a good job running our country. I personally found his presidency more
of a joke or a theatrical performance than that of a leader. I did
vote for him the first time, and shortly after had major regrets. See
I would like to ask her why what were the regrets, Because here's the
way I see it, Here's the way I see it, and I would
say that this is the way I think, this is clearly the way that
it is. And I've said this on here before in I mean something like
this. But let me state this what I think is obvious. I want
to state this clearly Trump when he was elected Trump received the same sort of
pushback that any Republican gets, and that is this, that is, we
are going to come after you in the media, in the seven pillars of
propaganda. We are going to We're going to kind of coordinate our efforts to
come at you with everything that we've got. We're going to come at you
from every direction. We're going to have you know, entertainment is going to
mock you, the government, the bureaucratic state is going to work to oppose
you, maybe even target you. I mean that that gets ramped up over
time. Well, some of it happened initially. Some of it happened initially,
but what we've had in recent days with these political prosecutions, I guess
those things developed over time. Right, impeachment didn't happen day one, although
on day eleven we know that some of these leftists in Congress were calling for
his impeachment already. So typically what happens when a Republican's in power, a
Republican that they really fear might try to undo some of the things that the
left has established in this country. Typically what happens is the media and the
other folks in the seven pillars of propaganda turn up, turn up the hate,
turn up the heat a little bit, the heat and the hate,
and typically typically the Republican who is in the metaphorical crosshairs here says, I
don't want to deal with this. I don't like negative press. I want
to go back to kissing babies. I like it when everything you know,
people people don't hate me. They did this with Bush, they did this
with Reagan, they did this with George H. W. Bush. I
mean, folks, they've done this for a long long time, a long
long time, and typically what happens, and they've done it with a lot
of other not just president, for other candidates as well, in Newt Gingrich
for example, plenty of others. Clarence Thomas, you don't have to be
even necessarily in politics, just someone who has a position that can impact the
direction of this country. The left hates this country as founded. That is
a core fact that you got to come to grips with. They hate it
as founded, and they are going to do whatever it takes. The Seinfeld
Newman strategy is whatever it takes as long as it takes them, so long
as it takes anyone from out of political office who is a threat to undoing
what they've accomplished. They don't want to seed one inch of ground to Republicans
when they lose an election. That's why this stuff about all of the spending
cuts that never materialize are maddening to someone like me and probably to the vast
majority of you as well. When the left is in control, they make
steps towards their absolutely morally bankrupt ideology. When Republicans take control, Republicans they
there's too many whimps, there's too many people that don't believe in the ideas,
or it just cost them too much. They're not down. They wouldn't
have signed that document with the Founders. They wouldn't have signed the Declaration of
Independence. They wouldn't have said we mutually pledged to one another our lives,
our fortunes, and our sacred honor. Maybe they would have signed it,
but the second the heat got turned up they would have They would have just
put their hands up, wave the white flag and given in. That's the
average Republican today, But it's not Trump. It is not Trump. Trump
is going to fight back, and so you have a media that, in
the rare event that someone else did punch back before Trump, which happened on
occasion, some of them would. Reagan's strategy was always to ignore it.
Other folks tried to address it head on. And if you you know,
it's it's a dangerous thing, especially if you don't have, if you don't
have a connection to a group of people, a personal like a bond.
And Trump has that with his base, and it's all so ironically. The
reason he has it with his base. One of the reasons he has it
with his base is because they believe he's going to have this fight. And
these folks who voted for him, myself included, have been We were so
turned off by politicians we kept we were sick and tired of hearing about the
conservative, so called conservative candidate. The best we could get is a Mitt
Romney or a John McCain or whatever. It's just awful. Bob Dole was
my first he was the first person I voted for for president, was Bob
Dole or Bill Clinton. And so Trump's different. Trump fights back, and
so when we hear these things about he didn't do a good job running the
country, I mean, he cut taxes, the economy was roaring, the
stock market did well. There were not any wars. The first president that
didn't get us into war. He appointed three justices to the United States Supreme
They were instrumental in overturning Roe versus Weight. I don't know what part of
this is not a good job running the country if you're a conservative. He
cut the bureaucratic red tape, which we talked about previously. He demonstrated American
strength on stage. Sure, you might not like the tweet, you might
not like the stuff about Rocketman and everything else, but there was a method
to his madness. You don't have to like his style to also simultaneously understand
that there were good things that happened in the country, especially when you can
compare it and contrast it to this absolute debacle that we're facing the day.
How is this hard? That's what I want to say, is how is
this hard to see? I'm perplexed if someone can't see this drastic change.
It's crazy. And let's see. I'm going to continue reading here because she
says something else that I really feel is important to address. She says,
I did vote for him the first time she says she had major regrets shortly
after. Our country has been more divided since he came in to office then
probably since the Civil war. So ask yourself why. Actually, that's the
question that I probably want to talk about the rest of the time here.
Let me actually let me read the rest of this, but we're probably going
to circle back to that, just so you get the totality of what she
says here. I feel that everything becoming so political as actually heard us as
a country. I agree with that, by the way, that's true.
Please go back and listen to maybe the twenty minutes before you started discussing in
pr and then being biased, and listen to yourself again and see if you
picture Trump and a king's crown as I did. We can all be biased
in some way. It's so true. Just wanted to say that I enjoyed
your show and I felt like we were on the same wavelength. So maybe
she doesn't now, and that's okay, that's unfortunate. That's unfortunate that you
would like a show until there's a point of differentiation and disagreement. So I
would say that's not on me. But regardless, regardless, I appreciate the
message here. It's a kind sentiment, Melissa. But I want to talk
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I've got to take a break, my friends. When we get back,
i want to finish responding to this message that I got, but a
quick time outs in order to sits tight back in just a minute. Welcome
back, my friends. Just kind of going through a message that I got
that was very kind, very kind from an individual named Melissa. Melissa liked
some of what she heard, and then when she realized I was not,
I don't know, an anti trumper, maybe she was a little dismayed,
confused, perplexed. And so I've been responding to the message. These things
are to me teachable moments. I love hearing. I know this may come
as a shock to some of you, but I like hearing if it's done
right, if it's done respectfully. I like to hear alternative perspectives that are
different than mine. Sometimes you teach me some things. Sometimes you inspire me
to address it directly, because I know, first of all, I don't
agree with and I don't agree with this one. Although I appreciate it,
it's not personal. I just disagree with it. She disagree with me,
I'm going to disagree with her in return, not because she disagreed with me,
but because I'm not persuaded by the merits of what she's saying. Here.
I see where she's coming from. I think she's I don't think she's
far from really getting it, but she's not there yet. But I appreciate
hearing from people with different viewpoints, so you don't have to write in to
agree with me. I do throw in there the adoration and praise thing,
but really, what I mean is just be just be respectful. If it's
if it's written like you're a jerk, which most of these are not,
ninety nine point nine percent, I just don't. I won't read it.
I just won't, So you're just waste. I've gotten some. I see
how long they are, but there's so condescending and arrogant, self righteous and
hateful at the beginning. I just don't read them. It's just an utter
waste of your time. But you can do it. You're free to send
whatever you want. But I'm free to do what I want to do too.
So let's go here. Back to what she says that I think needs
to be addressed. Our country, she says, has been more divided since
he came into office than probably since the Civil War. Now I would say
she's right, but the connotation here is that he is responsible for it.
No, my friends, I'm telling you the responsible party for this are the
people that are in the I call it the seven Pillars of propaganda. You
can call it the bureaucratic state, the deep state, but it involves all
these people that have invested interest in the success of the Democrat Party, the
advancement of the leftist ideology so called progressive, which is actually regressive worldview and
ideology. By the way, a lot of Democrats don't want anything to do
with the term progressive. By the way, I saw that in some of
these folks running for office here in twenty twenty four are distancing themselves from from
that term. But anyway, but the reason it became it had been divisive
behind the scenes for a long time. It was it was only pushed out
into the mainstream when somebody fought back. So I look at it this way.
If I'm mining my own business, if I'm mining my own business and
there's a bully in the mix, a bully is someone who wants to force
their will upon me, and I stand up to that bully, and that
bully, you know, instead of just backing down, Let's say the bully
pushes me. Let's say the bully takes a swing, and I swing back
and then suddenly you say, why did you swing back? Well, because
someone got to stop the bully. Someone's got to stop the bully. I
remember a couple of years ago when I was in Washington, d C.
I saw with my son and my brother and my sister in law and another
friends from actually from Albania, friends of my brothers that we met, just
great people. Anyway, we were in DC. We were going to dinner.
We were walking down the sidewalk and I saw this young man and this
young woman and this man was they were. She was trying to get away.
She would he was facing her. He was kind of walking backwards and
she was. He was walking sideways, trying to block her, going back
and forth, and she was just trying to get away, and he kept
grabbing her. And I see this. I see this on the sidewalk,
and I'm looking around and there's lots of people walking around. No one's to
doing anything about this but me. I don't know, small town USA,
I don't know sort of thing. I just go up to the guy.
I walk right up. Actually I walked up to her and well, both
of them, and my son was with me. My son was a lot
smaller. If he was as big as he was now, the guy definitely
would have probably backed off, because my son's become a pretty good sized fellow.
Anyway, So go up to him to the girl, and I pointed
to the guy. I was right in his face pretty much, and I
said, is this guy bothering you? And she didn't say anything to me,
and I asked her again, I said, is this guy bothering you?
The guy then proceeds to tell me she's my girlfriend. We're just having
a disagreement. And I said to him, I said, it doesn't look
like your girlfriend. And I put my hand up to him and I asked
her one more time, is this guy bothering you? Because see, in
my mind, I don't want to find this could have been something that went
really bad. I don't know. It was an intense It was pretty intense.
And she didn't respond as she walked away, and there's nothing I could
do. But the point is, the point is you can't blame the person
for intervening, for standing up for something that's good and right. You can't
blame them for the prime And look, Trump is no, ain't us an
angel or saint or anything like that. None of us are. But the
reality is is that's what's erupted here. So what has divided our country is
that the side that stands up for truth and justice and goodness has finally decided,
finally to fight back. And so how in the world is that Trump's
fault? Yes, everything has become political. Yes, everything that has had
a very detrimental effect on our culture, on our society. I wish it
weren't so. I don't fight every battle the way Trump does, but there's
a time and a place for it to absolutely be fought the way that Trump
is fighting it, and to blame him, to me is beyond naive as
to the real cause of the problem. I've got to go, but Melissa,
thank you for your message. Quick I gotta go, SDG.