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where you can look at the articles that we will be referencing today. Some
of these we of course won't get to throughout the course of the program.
Others we will get to. I try to put everything there that I think
that at least has informed my thinking as I have kind of started started the
program here today. It's an average sized stack of stuff, maybe slight,
sometimes it's short. But there's a couple of things that I want to make
sure that we that we get to today. Number One. Number one vvak
Ramaswamy, who everyone who's listened to this program knows that I like him.
I like vvak Ramaswami, you know, for several reasons. Number One,
I think he's a principled limited government conservative. I think number two, he
is a good communicator, which is important to be able to communicate ideas and
policies and to cut through some of the some of the misconceptions and misunderstandings that
people have. I think I think he's not he's not afraid. He's not
afraid to go into media outlets that are not, of course favorable to conservatives.
And there's lots of other reasons too. But he has qualified. He's
qualified for the August twenty third debate, which that's the first debate, which
is a month away. We are thirty days days away. You just you
look back in the rear view mirror and time goes fast, and I understand
we're all getting older, at least I am. Some of you may not
think you are, but you know, as time as I as I age,
I've noticed the speed at which time seems to move, and it continues
to go faster and faster and faster, to the point where it's hard to
believe. It's hard to believe that four years ago we were entering into the
twenty twenty campaign, right, I mean, that's that's really where where we
are, and all the things that have transpired since then, all of the
things that have happened since of course Biden became president and so forth, it's
just crazy to think we're back at the point in time where we have a
chance to regain control of the White House. And I don't want to make
I don't want to lead any confusion here. I normally don't do this.
We've been through. This will be the third presidential election cycle that we have
been through. Two thousand we started this program. Actually we're coming up on
the eight year anniversary August what is it, August tenth, two fifteen is
when we launched our podcast and been on the radio since twenty sixteen, So
we've been on here for a while. And there's some more news to come
about that hopefully, hopefully in the next ten days, I can tell you
about this. I've been really, really, as I say, chomping at
the bit to do this. So I've got some some things to share with
you about that. But in due course and due course we'll get there.
So then as I look back, twenty sixteen, we went through that elect
cycle, twenty twenty, we went through that election cycle. Now we're on
the twenty twenty four and typically I would say, I don't think it's advantageous
for someone well for me to endorse or to really support a candidate during the
primary season, because especially twenty sixteen, I think I think that was a
good thing for the Republican Party. Remember there were seventeen i think, people
who were running for the Republican nomination, and the one that won the nomination,
Donald J. Trump, was mocked as having been someone who had no
statistical chance at winning even the nomination, let alone the presidency. So I
think it's good for those things to happen. And I think it's good to
not really endorse in general terms prior to the general election, not during the
primary season. I think maybe talking out thinking through some of the pros and
cons of each candidate is a good a good thing that being set. I
think vivek Ramaswamy, he may be. He may be my second choice right
now for the Republican nomination, and I think it's clear who the front runners
should be. Some of you disagree vehemently with me about this, and that's
okay. I understand a little bit. Um. I think Vivek Ramaswamy is
a guy that can come in once this next layer of fighting is actually taken
care of. I think what we have to do. I don't know how
many people have the stomach to lead the I almost want to call it the
revolution, and I don't mean it in some in some dramatic way, but
it is going to be dramatic. The level of corruption at just take the
FBI for example, is out of this world. Is out of this world.
And with that in mind, I'll pause the conversation on the vac Ramaswami,
the Republican presidential nomination and so forth the primary season, which starts with
the debate here in thirty days, literally thirty days, we'll be having our
first debate. I'll pause it and tell you that now in the background,
it should be in the foreground. But now Republicans are openly not just and
I don't mean this, and don't misunderstand. It's not just Lauren Bobert.
It's not just Marjorie Taylor Green. It's now Jim Banks, a very highly
respected Republican congressman from the great state of Indiana, home to the Todd huff
Show. But this is Look, this is a program that this is if
you're from flyover country, the heartland. I mean, that's you know,
that's the perspective that we bring to these discussions. We're not coming to you
from New York City or Washington, DC or some of these other larger metropolitan
areas. This is this is any town, USA, and I would say
Jim Banks, and to a large degree, is from a district that's much
like that as well. Here in Indiana. He's now running for the US
Senate as well. For those of you that have followed Who's Your Politics,
you know that Senator Mike Braun is running for Governor Eric Holcombe, who is
not the type of Republican anybody needs here in Indiana. He's about to be
finishing his term as governor. He's he cannot run again because of term limits.
And so anyway, Mike Braun is running for governor. Eric Holcombe,
I'm still not convinced is not going to run for Senate, but so far
he has not, and Jim Banks is doing that. But Jim Banks is
out there calling for Biden now to be impeached. He's calling for Biden to
be impeached, and Jim Banks is correct. In fact, what did Jim
Banks say here? Let me see if I pull this up. He said,
he's it's the most Let me sure I get this right. Well,
this isn't a bright Bart article again, it's in the stack of stuff.
Representative Jim Banks. It's time to impeach Biden, and not only that,
but to expunge President Trump's impeachments, which I think is a good good thing
to do as well. Now these are things that are I mean, they
just have they're kind of symbolic, but then again, so were the impeachments
to begin with. That was the main purpose the Democrats. Of course,
they never had a legitimate chance of removing Trump from office, but this was
all part of a state strategicy, as Bush would say, a strategicy to
remove the possibility of Trump or to try to inhibit his ability to win in
twenty twenty four, which they may have actually given him more fuel to add
on to the fire. Because for those of us who believe that the main
problem is the eradication of people that could be loosely termed as part of the
deep state, the swamp, the bureaucratic corruption in Washington, d C.
It is abundantly clear that the person to do that job is Donald J.
Trump. Now I've said before, and I know some of you getting back
to the campaign or to the primary here, some of you prefer to see
Rhoda Santis as the nominee. De Santis is not in a good position,
but he's still I mean, he is relative to Trump, but Trump is
is dominating. Although I did see that Trump lost lost nine points of ground
in some New Hampshire poll, so that's that's an early state in the primary,
So a lot of this has to shake out still. But for those
of us, those of you like me who believes the number one job is
to eradicate the corruption, not that that's a bold statement to say eradicate,
but to at least flush the rats out of the corners, to get them
as best we can exposed to the light of day, get them scurrying for
some other places to run to besides these strongholds that they have erected for themselves
within our within our government, namely the FBI, not just the FBI and
the CIA. I mean, there's all all sorts of places anywhere that is,
you know, a higher level position in the federal government. You're I
mean, you're safe, and you have a lot of power, unfortunately,
and no accountability to the American electorate. This is one of the massive problems
that we have in this country today. This is why people feel helpless because
they vote for one thing and then the bureaucratic state is operating behind the scenes
and pushing this nation in a direction that no one voted for. But we
don't know how to get rid of it because it's some nameless, faceless individual
within some bureaucratic state that we can't get rid of. So anyway, So
weaving back to vivak Ramaswamy, the twenty twenty four primary for the Republican Party,
vivak Ramaswamy has announced that he is going to he has met the requirements
to be on the debate stage on August twenty third, and thirty days.
But guess who hasn't yet. I got a list of those on the website
of stuff. Mike Pence as of right now, at this moment, has
not gotten enough, has not checked off I guess the requirements to do so,
which is remarkable to think. And I know I know he's I know
that he has the January sixth situation hanging over over his head and so forth.
But even so, even so, the threshold to get to these debates
is not that not that large. So the ones who are on track to
qualify, I don't know if they've technically qualified, but they're on track to
qualify in the next thirty days. Of course Trump, Rnda Santis, Nicki
Haley, Viva Ramaswamy, Tim Scott, and Chris Christy notably. The ones
that have not yet they don't appear yet to be on track include Mike Pence,
Will Heard, Doug Bergham, Asa Hutchinson, who I remember back from
the Clinton impeachment days. In fact, my class met back in the day.
I remember we met with Asa Hutchinson when he was a representative. He
was representative from Arkansas back in those days, the late nineties. Ryan Binkley
Francis Suarez and Larry Elder. Those are the folks that are not yet on
pace to secure their spot on the Republican debate stage. Which if the vice
president, I mean, if the former vice president of the United States cannot
make the first debates because of minimum requirements, I mean that campaign and I
said it from the beginning, that campaign has no chance. But it's officially
over. It's officially over. If he can't do that, how are you
going to fundraise? There's already uncertainty within the Republican Party about Pence even taking
us or putting aside those that were not real thrilled with how he handled the
way that these slates of electors were presented and his just approval of those whatever
you think of that, that's a reality that people are not happy about that.
But even putting that aside, you know, he should he should be
hitting the ground running. He should not be talking about the reality or the
possibility that he's not going to be on the debate stage on August twenty three.
That's going to sink this thing from the very beginning. So we're quickly
approaching, quickly approaching the debate season, the primary season, and again to
me, there's a clear choice, a clear first choice. There's other promising
things about a lot of these other folks. I just think the timings,
timing's not right. They're looking for opportunities that would present themselves should President Trump
get himself into trouble with some of these indictments or just some of the fallout
from that. That's what the bets are on. And so we're squaring up
to begin to move into these discussions, you know, pretty quickly, pretty
pretty short order, we'll be talking about debate performances, fundraising, and just
what I expect to be the systematic, the systematic removal of candidates by president
former President Trump. That's what I see happening. I think that that is
the safe bet until we have something that proves otherwise. But there you have
it. Vvak Ramaswami, though, is going to be on that debate stage.
I've got to take a time out, my friends, quick time out,
get back. Plenty of other things I want to get to today.
You're listening here to conservative not bitter talk. I'm your host, Toth half
back in a minute, Welcome back, my friends. Last segment, I
had mentioned that the calls to peach President Joe Biden are getting louder from members
of Congress. Now, of course there are senators in particular, but also
other Republicans in the House of Representatives that have not joined in the chorus yet,
and you know, for separate reasons. But one of them, the
one I don't have respect for, are the people, honestly, like the
Todd Young's, like the Lisa Murkowski's, who just are never going to be
on board with it because they well, I think it's ultimately because they are
they are weak, and because they don't want to have to do the heavy
lifting and hold the well, the other branch of government accountable. You know,
if you listen to some of these jokers and clowns, they've got more
bad things to say about Trump. I'm talking Todd Young, I'm talking Lisa
Murkowski, I'm talking even Mitt Romney. I mean, you know, they
have more bad things to say about Trump, more opposition to Trump than what
they see to Biden and or what they have what they have to Biden and
his behavior and so forth. And what's what's troubling about this. What's troubling
about this is what Representative James Komer has recently. He's recently said, and
he's on record is saying that this is the I mean, make sure I
get it exactly right here. He's criticizing the corruption in this administration. This
is, folks, this is this is the most corrupt politician potentially, if
what if, what we've seen on this laptop leads to where I think it
inevitably will lead for those who actually care about seeking truth and getting following where
the evidence actually leads. But James Comer, represented from the state of Kentucky,
said that he believes the President Joe Biden, has been selling access this
is a quote, access to our enemies for decades. I think he said
this on a podcast on Senator Ted Cruise's podcast called Verdict, and just I
know that he's from the Republican Party, and I know that it's heading into
a campaign season. I get that, and I get that politicians will say
things to get the fired result politically. In fact, I caution us about
that on a regular basis. I think that one of the problems we have
from the Republicans is that when election season gets close, they'll say the sorts
of things that they need to say for fundraising. They'll say the sorts of
things they need to say for getting re elected or getting elected the first time,
which of course is a part of their job. I mean, like
it or hate it, it doesn't matter. We have to accept the reality
that they have to get elected in order to have political power, and that
is a necessity in any society, but in particular this culture that we live
in today, this government that is being run by radical leftists who are completely
comfortable, completely ready to use their position in government to spy on US senators,
state senators, state judges. That's a story that's in the stack of
stuff. The FBI was illegally surveilling, spying on as a US senator.
I don't think it named a senator, US senator, a state senator,
and a state judge. And that's just what we know again from the ever
so corrupt FBI. I mean that you talk about herritage, is right.
The FBI needs to I know that these I know that these things sound sound
radical and extreme. I understand what I'm about to say. Some people think
that that's extreme, but I do believe the FBI has been compromised so much.
It needs to be It needs to be done away with, and we
need to remake something that is of course constitutional in doing a specific necessary function,
but not all this other crap that they've gotten themselves into where they getting
into corrupt activity after corrupt activity. This of course can be done. This
is not. I mean, we start in a new branch of the of
the military called Space Force, and it's the point is it can be done.
I don't want to, let me be clear, I don't want to
simply add parts to the federal government. I'm saying to eradicate the FBI,
get rid of it, dismantle it. I don't even think who are you
going to promote within that have, you know, the the level of experience
and things that we would be that they would be looking for. I don't
think that there's anybody at those levels that has the necessary integrity and willingness to
really do the dirty work required to fix this. That's why again, I
think Trump's so important to be elected president again because I think this takes,
this takes this takes a certain type of person, and it's something that a
lot of people are just not prepared to do. So we've got James Comer
out there saying that the Biden family, Biden, Joe Biden in particular,
has been selling access to our enemies for decades. That's what his belief is,
for decades selling access. This didn't just go back. He would tell
you too when he was vice president under Barack Obama. This goes back decades.
And for those I just had a conversation this weekend was well, a
very short one, just in passing talking about Biden, and this individual was,
you know, basically pointing out how completely inept just forget about policy based
upon their inability to finish a thought, a sentence, to find the podium,
to not face plant on the stage. This person was saying, Hey,
you know, I don't mean this personally. I don't want to attack
him. I'm not trying to. You know, it's sad when this happens
to older, older people. And I said that that's true, but we
also can go back in time and we can look at the type of person.
And I'm not cheering. Don't misunderstand. I'm not cheering for this to
happen to him. But we it's easy to say, well, Biden is
just this grandfatherly old figure, nice old guy. We you know, he
likes certain flavors of ice cream and it's you know, just this, this
gentle old man who's just you know, he's got some problems, and that's
not the truth. This guy's been a bad dude for a while. I
mean it just go back and look, he ran for president back in nineteen
eighty eight. He had to stop because he was picking off speeches pretending that
that they were his own. He was plagiarizing. This guy's been I mean,
he's been in DC. I've said it before, I'll say it again.
He's been in our nation's capital in positions of political power for twenty percent
of this nation's existence, twenty percent of America's history. Joe Biden has been
in Washington, DC, and Representative Comber says he's been using those positions in
Washington, DC. Now Comber may be proven wrong here, but he's looked
into this. He's making these bold claims. Maybe he doesn't have the evidence,
and maybe he's wrong, but to make the claim that he thinks Biden
has been selling American secrets or giving access to our enemies for decades, plural
plural decades. That's at least twenty years. If a Bernie Sanders fan has
tuned in, take it easy, Bernie fans, I love you. But
twenty years at least is what that means. Decades decades of doing that.
So you can bind this. You got the republic in primary already, You've
already got tensions in this country, of course, stemming from worldview and politics
and Trump and January sixth and impeachments and all this sort of stuff. And
then you throw into this, throw into this a Congress that just a Republican
Congress that's only been in a position of power now for what six months or
so. Who's now looking into these things that the media and the Democrats ignored
when Joe Biden was running for president. In fact, they lied about those.
They had intelligence experts, former professional know at all it is from the
intelligence community write that letters signed it and said that the Hunter Biden laptop was
basically rushing disinformation. Of course, they'll tell you that what I'm telling you
is not true, but that's what they wanted you to believe. They know,
they knew at the time they wrote that letter that it was authenticated as
an actual that it was actually Hunter's laptop, but they didn't want that to
be in people's minds when they were casting. When they were casting ballots,
they In fact, with the help of people like Facebook and Twitter, they
interfered with the twenty twenty election, undermining, as they would say, our
democracy, which of course is a constitutional republic. But nonetheless, nonetheless,
you factor all these things together and you can see that America has reached a
boiling point. We have reached We're in the midst of a cold civil war.
We need a leader who is prepared to go in even before day one.
Better armor yourself up, you get ready for what's about to happen and
what needs to happen. It is a necessary fight. They the deep state,
they the radical left, They the Democrat Party have positioned themselves firmly against
the American people, firmly against liberty. They are willing to use government in
any way, shape, manner, or form to weaponize it to take out
their political adversaries and opponents. And we've got to We're gonna have to fight
against it, my friends. There's no easy way through this. We gotta
go straight through the belly of the beasts. And Trump's prepared to do that,
my friends. Timeouts in order. You're listening to conservative not better talking.
I'm your host, Tod huf Back in just a minute. Welcome back,
my friends. I need to clear something up. Oz told me before
or during the break, right when we went to the break, she said,
you just basically endorse Trump there, and I said, well, yeah,
I did. And she said, but you said earlier you weren't endorsing,
and I said, that's not and that's not what I was saying.
I was saying normally. Normally in twenty sixteen, I didn't endorse. I
thought it was important to work through that we were at a crossroads. Bush
was the last time we had a Republican president. We had been through Obama.
We'd had McCain run against Obama, we had Mitt Romney run against Obama,
and so I thought sixteen was a good time. It actually gave the
party a chance to get actually to the conservative side, and it did with
Trump much more than it ever dreamed of doing with Mitt Romney or with John
McCain. And I know he's passed, and I'm not trying to, you
know, be hateful to the memory at John McCain. That's not my intent
at all. My intendants to be honest with you, and I'm saying this
time, this time is different. This time in twenty six excuse me,
twenty twenty four, not twenty sixteen. We know what we need, what
we've learned since twenty sixteen, which is what we many of us have known
all along, or suspected all along. The level of corruption stinks to high
heaven. It's worse than I think we ever possibly imagined. It's still worse
than we think right now. And I think that's why I feel like I've
been actually quite remarkably consistent on this. That's why I said De Santis shouldn't
run. That's why, Well, there's several reasons why I don't think Pence
should run, but that's one of the main reasons why. That's why for
all these people that have thrown their names in, there might be good things
about some of them, most probably something in comparison to Biden. They're all
the greatest politicians ever. But but in comparison to what we need, what
this country needs, they're not necessarily they have a percentage of it. But
I think the biggest percentage of it is the willingness and the understanding that this
is going to be a metaphorical take it easy out there not. I don't
this is all metaphorical. This is going to be a bloody brawl. It's
going to have to be, because these people are entrenched in our government.
They are not going to go This is their livelihood. For the guideless radical
left, this is their god, for the lifetime politicians of both parties,
the ruling class, the people who just are not comfortable with Trump for reasons,
well a lot of times they pretend it's for some other reason, but
basically they don't like the fact that he's trying to actually get rid of some
of the crap that goes on in the government. When someone comes in and
actually makes you work, and when someone comes in and actually tries to reduce
the size and scope of the government of the bureaucracy, these police clowns don't
like that. Bigger government means bigger amounts of power in their hands. And
they like that. Oh they'll pretend like they don't, but they do like
it. And so to be clear, I am I don't. I normally
don't. And that's what I was trying to say earlier. Perhaps I didn't
say it correctly, although it's very possible Oz was not paying as close of
attention as she should have been. But maybe I didn't communicate clearly. Normally,
I don't think it's helpful to endorse during the primary, but I think
it's different this time because I think it's abundantly clear what we need. There's
two there's one clear fighter, and I would say a second person that I
think has demonstrated that as well, the Santists, but he's followed in Trump's
shoes. As far as you know, Trump was the trailblazer on this approach.
So I think it's clear I do what needs to happen. The idea
that these people are all throwing their name in the hat is crazy to me.
It is it's crazy. I can understand the Santists, although I think
it's wrong. I said that at the time, and I don't dislike him
some of you, some of you are incredibly skeptical of him. I'm in
an average way skeptical because we're still learning some things, and I'm always skeptical
when I see certain people coalescing around I candidate been anyway, So I just
wanted to make that clear since I was kind of called me out on it,
and I guess we went to break last segment anyway, timeouts in order
see what else she calls me out for this segment. Quick time out,
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about him here on the Todd huff Show. So other things to get to
as well. Here today, in the time that we have remaining, I
do want to I wasn't going to do this, but I glanced down and
I saw this here pulled up in the stack of stuff, or actually in
the I got it pulled up here. It's a sound by Nancy Pelosi's on
State of the Union with Dana Dana Bash is that her name? And you
talk about delusionals. We've been talking about the Republican primary and debate stage and
so forth. The other side of this is people trying to campaign for Biden,
people trying to set the stage up for Biden. And of course there's
no reason that anyone would have to actually vote for Biden or to truly give
you as a reason to do that, other than he's not named Donald J.
Trump. But this is what they come up with. They're trying to
convince you that the economy is good and the rest of us are just so
stupid we can't understand how brilliant Biden is. This is Nancy Pelosi on with
Dana Bash. Listen to this. I want to ask about the economy.
Inflation. It looks good. Let me look at the numbers. Inflation is
down to just three percent. The labor market is steadily adding jobs, wages
are up. Consumer sent just got to stop it. I know some of
you don't like that. I have to stop it. It's down. It's
like if someone goes on a binge eating spree and gains fifty pounds and then
they say I lost twenty and they say it's they're down twenty pounds, but
there's still up a net of thirty. And I'm not saying we can't gain
weight. I'm not picking on weight gain. I'm just saying it's not a
true analysis of where we are. It's coming down because he drove it up
to maximum heights, like Dwight k Shrewt wanting to raise his blood pressure so
that he can lower it. I mean, it's absurd, but here's the
rest of the stupid conversation is the highest since September of twenty twenty one.
So there's a lot for President Biden to tout, give me a break.
So the question is about why Americans don't seem to be giving him the credit?
Why are we going to all? This week found nearly six and ten
Americans still disapprove of his handling of the economy. Why is that? And
what does he have to do to turn out a reality? A lot of
it is about messaging. Of course, I'm so proud of this president.
In the two years that we were in problem majority working with him, he
broke all records on the level with it King Johnson, A Franklin Roosevelt,
in terms of the caliber of legislation that he passed into Christian drugs. Again,
cutting in half gives you indicet cutting in half unemployment, So why isn't
what this is all? Bs? They are? They were measuring it from
measuring those cuts from the height of COVID. Cut unemployment in half from the
heights of COVID when they shut down the world, My goodness, I hope
they could cut it in half. Should have cut it a lot more than
that if you remember, Trump said there was going to be a V shape
recovery. They laughed about that. Anyway, I got to take a break.
It's out of time for my friends, so tight. This is what
we're up against, though back in just a minute. All right, my
friends. Unfortunately, that is about all of the time that I have with
you here today, so apologize for that. There's always more stuff that you
can look at at the stack of stuff, things, including something I wanted
to get to and maybe we'll get to it later this week, including a
SoundBite from an individual a SoundBite from an individual on MSNBC who was basically telling
us that Trump should be locked up in jail prior to prior to his trial,
which has been set. They moved the date for that into May.
I believe perfect right right in the beginning, right the end of potentially the
Republican campaign season. As far as naming the nominee, I've got to go,
folks. STG