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want to start today by I guess first echoing a little bit of what we
talked about yesterday, and that is that the Santist is now officially filed to
run for president of the unit United States. He's running for the Republican nomination,
of course, and he's on a collision course with former President Donald J.
Trump. Trump, of course, is getting out in front of the
situation as he as he is known to do. He's out there saying that
does Santis. I'm looking here at an article from bright bart again. All
the stuff that we talk about almost all. Sometimes I miss some things.
Sometimes I don't put it in the stack of stuff. I read it and
then it comes up organically. But typically you'll find what we're talking about on
the website. If you want to read these articles or see what we're talking
about, just go to titifshow dot com and look at the stack of stuff.
Hat tip to the Great Rush Limball. But Trump's out there saying that
does Santis cannot win because of his record on entitlement programs. This is an
interesting, an interesting debate. I guess how this is going to play out,
but get ready for more of this stuff. Obviously this is we've nowhere,
We've come nowhere close to reaching the fevered pitch that this that this is
about to take as Trump goes head to head or as de Santis maybe he
goes head to head with Trump here, but he's officially filed, so we'll
see where it goes from there. As told me the other day, she
said, you know, hey, I knew De Santis was running because he's
I mean, DeSantis is lost some weight, which good for him. But
that, of course is a clue in presidential politics in two thousand and twenty
three when the average and I'm not this, do not misunderstand. This is
not a slight to de Santis. I actually would probably you know, most
people would do the same thing, try to look their best and so forth.
So I don't mean it like that, but I do mean it in
the sense that says too many people make their decision on who the commander in
chief should be based upon gee whiz. I remember when Obama one in two
thousand and eight, people were talking about things like his jump shot. People
were talking about the way that he spoke. People were talking about anything except
his ideas. They were talking about how historic it would be to have America's
first black president, although I thought that was Bill Clinton. Ruin they called
Clinton America's first true story. They did America's first black president. Anyway,
So we've been a long ways to go here, but that is now.
That is now official. As we talked about that much. If you want
to know my thoughts on that, you can listen to yesterday's show. But
I want to start really today with this fight on the debt ceiling, raising
the debt ceiling. So there's a lot of things happening and going on here,
but I want to start with one particular part of this, of this
debate. So McCarthy is negotiating with basically Biden or Biden's handlers, because Biden
again has no idea what's it's it's bad, what's happening in the White House.
But Biden's team, Biden's handlers, or maybe even people that aren't even
on Biden's team, people who are well, they are influencing and making decisions
on behalf of this country. Through the executive branch. We don't even necessarily
know who they are. They might be on for all we know, they
might be one of the folks that have cut some paychecks to Hunter Biden.
But that's another story for another day. I'm kidding to a point. I
mean, there's enough corruption to make you make you ask those questions. Anyway,
So you've got the fight on raising the debt limit and basically what this
is, and you know from following this, you know from listening to the
show, America, my friends, has a spending problem, a spending problem,
and the only way that America can continue financially is at what it's currently
doing, at the things that she is currently doing, which are at the
direction of the federal government, which currently is being led by the extreme fringe
of the radical left. These folks have gotten a bigger and bigger voice in
today's party, today's Democrat Party, and by extension, over this country as
well. So McCarthy, of course is the Speaker of the House. He's
attending these meetings. They're trying to come to some conclusion and McCarthy, and
to his credit, right to his credit, I am I was one If
you remember back when there was a fight about McCarthy and his being speaker.
I was actually very pleased with Matt Gates and others Lauren Boebert, those were
the two primary drivers, the folks that essentially said, we are not going
to support a Kevin McCarthy speakership unless we get some certain types of guarantees.
And by the way, I remember the left in the media at the time,
it's important to go back and look at what they told us was going
to happen, and then we actually see what does happen. Because they told
us that these negotiations and concessions really that McCarthy made with Bobert, with Matt
Gates, with the group of people that were not prepared to vote for him
a speaker without certain guarantees and so forth. They told us that this was
some great threat, that this was going to drive this nation into just utter
chaos. The Republican Party was further over as we knew it, you know,
the typical talking points and so forth. And in reality, what's happened.
What's happened is and I will give McCarthy credit because I was on the
side of Gates, I was on the side of Bobert. Because the truth
is the truth is if they wanted a slam dunk. They the establishment Republicans,
if they wanted a slam dunk for their choice of speaker, which is
McCarthy for whatever whatever series of reasons, that doesn't even matter. At the
moment he was, you know, he was the leader of the of the
party as the minority leader, and it's his turn or whatever he's positioned himself
internally to get that vote. That's not even the point to me. The
point is. The point is that if the Republicans, the establishment Republicans,
had performed anywhere even remotely close to the expectations that were established leading into the
twenty twenty met twenty twenty election, they would have had enough votes to not
need Lauren Bobert, to not need Matt Gates votes. And so they won
by just enough to where they effectively needed every single Republican. There's a little
room for error. And from the conservative group, a conservative group of representatives,
they got together and they put up enough of a resistance to say,
hey, we're not going to vote for you as speaker to lead this body
until we get some guarantees and assurances from you. Because mister McCarthy, now
Speaker McCarthy with all due respect, we have seen we have seen you and
others that are similar to you make concessions in cave all the time when standing
before conservative Republicans. You'll say the right thing, you'll make the right appeal
for money, or you will try to make the argument when it's time to
get votes. But it's what happens between those times that actually moves the needle
in this country. And so they were skeptical, and I was skeptical.
But I think that where we are right now, which again is subject to
change at a moment's notice, but I think where we are right now,
having these negotiations, having the talks about actual spending cuts, these aren't these
are good things. Now the proof is in the pudding. We'll see how
far McCarthy is willing to take this. But effectively, that's the impass,
the temporary impast that they've reached right now, is that the Republicans want to
cut future spending and the Democrats do not. And that's effectively where we are.
So Democrats say we don't want to cut this. In fact, I've
got an article here from bright Bart that says extreme left warns of huge backlash
in the streets. This is the peaceable, loving crowd, huge backlash in
the streets of Joe Biden negotiates any budget cuts. So these are the radical
leftists, These are the aocs, these are the gee who else is in
this group? The Corey Bush other extreme radicals. And I mean, there's
there's a lot to choose from today because they've grown, they've prone in number
in Washington, DC within the Democrat Party. And so this is what this
fight is about. So in order for the government to continue blowing through money
that it doesn't have, that it doesn't have, they're going to have to
come to some agreement over the debt limit. And so basically they're trying to
increase their I guess their line of credit. Maybe that's one way of looking
at it, increase their ability to borrow more money as they continue to lead
us into financial oblivion with this ridiculous spending problem that they've created. As I
set off the top, we have, unequivocally, undeniably, mathematically scientifically,
we have a spending problem, pure and simple. That is what this is.
So we have the spending problem. The left refuses or at least strongly
resists, any demands by McCarthy, who is really being pressured by people like
Gates and Bobert and others who want to see true, true spending cuts.
They're pushing him to stand firm on this. All the while he knows that
if he ventures too far off of the principles that he's agreed to with these
folks, and if he just arbitrarily or through a moment of weakness, agrees
that the debt limit will be raised without any in career, any cuts in
spending, I should say, then he knows that he is moving himself ever
so closely to the possibility of having someone It just takes one. Now,
remember these were things that the House Republicans negotiated with with Speaker McCarthy before they
gave him their vote. It just takes one member of that House to introduce
a motion to vacate the chair, which basically means he has pressure on him.
It doesn't take five or some number of congress people to come up with
this desire. It just takes one. And so if he's not going to
do the tough work necessary, if he is going to capitulate and roll over
too quickly to the left, that is a possibility. Although I will say
one of the articles in the stack of stuff shows that Matt Gates is saying
that that's not where they are unless McCarthy does something really unpredictable or just really
totally abandons everything that he's been standing for and pushing standing on and pushing forward
this far into this process. So it's a political, politically an interesting situation.
Practically, it's a terrifying situation because this is real money that's being spent,
that's being raided, I should say, from your children's, our children's,
your children's, our grandchildren's, our great grandchildren's, probably several years of
great great great great grandchildren are going to be paying for this. And at
some point the adults in the room have to get controlled by whatever means I
mean. Look, I don't if I say any means necessary. I don't
mean something that the left would mean, where it's a more immoral or unethical
or some such thing. I just mean there comes a moment in time when
you have to hold people accountable. And that's what that's why Gates and Bobert
and others did what they did back in January when they were talking about or
going through the negotiation of electing Speaker McCarthy and now McCarthy's out there. McCarthy,
of course, in my opinion, I think it demonstrably so. But
he has a tendency to want to grandstand on these issues from a talking point
perspective, but then seems all too interested to completely abandon his principle in order
to prevent some government shutdown or some such things. So what, we're a
week away from this impending financial disaster as they're painting it in the media.
Of course, it's dramatized dramatically, but but it can be a situation.
It can be a negotiation that actually begins to alleviate some of the I shouldn't
say alleviate. It just slows down the amount of financial craziness that's happening in
DC. So we'll see where it goes. I'm not super hopeful that McCarthy's
going to stand firm. If he doesn't stand firm, he is setting himself
up to possibly be at some point, I don't think just yet, but
at some point possibly challenged and possibly removed as Speaker of the House. So
there's politically a lot of interesting things going on. But practically we've got a
real problem that affects your real dollars, your children's real dollars, your descendants
for generations, they are real dollars as well. And this is unfolding in
real time before our very eyes, in this dramocrat sort of performance, this
performance of politicians. And that's what we've got going on. So timeout is
in order, my friends, more to say on this issue of the debt
limit, more to say on the position that the extreme left is taking,
which is no budget cuts whatsoever. There's going to be rioting in the street,
I guess, but anyway, we'll talk about that on the other side
of this break. My friends, you're listening here to conservative not Better Talk.
I'm your host, the one, the only Todd Huff back in just
a minute. Welcome back, my friends. So I want to spend a
little time talking about this basically, this fundamentally well, this fundamental difference between
conservatism and the lovers of big government, the radical left even I would say,
to some extent, just a liberal or a even an establishment moderate republican.
And again it's it's it is a continuum in this sense, so it
is a spectrum. So there are people who believe this more than others.
But there is this belief in Washington, DC, amongst some some of the
folks that again, they love big government, they don't like freedom and liberty,
they don't like free markets, they really don't. Sometimes they posture like
they do because they know they need to, they need to win votes and
so forth. But if you look at how they behave, if you look
at how much they've rolled over, maybe they're not always the ones that are
pushing these radical agenda items through. But too many times they are not standing
strongly enough in opposition, and then they'll come back and tell us, well,
I just didn't have just didn't have enough votes, or whatever the case
may be. And I'm wondering why I didn't see this particular person on every
single news outlet making the case for constitutional conservatives or whatever you want to call
it. This limited government right, just this notion that we are a nation
that is filled with people who have individual liberties recognized by the government, granted
however by our creator God. And but there are people who, of course
have an opinion that's completely antithetical to what I just laid out. And those
folks typically find themselves in the extreme radical left. And that's where we get
headlines like this, again from bright barred extreme left warns of huge backlash in
the streets of Joe Biden negotiates any if he negotiates any budget cuts. So
they're promising basically riots in the streets. Backlash, of course, is to
the left. I mean, what is a backlash from the left. It's
riding in the streets. Incidentally, I saw I saw a comment from Jordan
Peterson that I really enjoyed the other day. I saw a clip of it
and he said, I found out how to be able to speak at a
campus like Berkeley without being greeted by radical protesters that are trying to shut down
my speech. And the individual who was speaking with him said, well,
what did how do you do that? He said, I now schedule all
of my all of my speeches at eight am because these radicals, these radicals,
they say that they're radical, they say that they're principled, they can't
get up and get themselves together in time to protest something that's apparently on principle
that's at eight am versus eight pm. Just as an example, anyway,
that came to mind as I was thinking about the radical left and the way
that they create havoc. Maybe in the streets, or, as this article
says, backlash in the streets. But why would any rational person, Why
would any fair minded, rational person take the position that we should not have
any budget cuts. Now, maybe we disagree on what should be cut or
how much of it should be cut. I understand that, But what rational,
reasonable, fair minded individual is actually going to take the stand as these
leftists have take the position that Biden should not negotiate any budget cuts. What
type of crazy, extreme radical nonsense is this? If you applied these numbers
to the average Americans personal household finances and you explained it in terms, and
I'm not done the math to do that, but it would be a kin
It would be it's as though you're making fifty thousand dollars a year. Say,
for example, you're making fifty seventy five thousand dollars a year and you
need to increase your credit card limit by I don't know the numbers, but
some massive amount twenty thousand dollars or some such thing to where it doesn't even
make So that's how we've been living. Again. I'm not please don't hold
me to the numbers. I'm just trying to paint a general picture to where
you're making seventy five thousand dollars and whatever you're spending the money on in your
life. You look at the situation and you don't. You say to yourself
and you say to your wife, you know, we're not going to cut
anything. We're going to continue doing this exactly as we are. And in
fact, we're just going to continue on this path, on this trajectory.
And I'm not talking about investing, you know, investing in launching a business
in the hard years or anything like that. I'm talking about just regular life,
right, We're just living life. Is this is the path that we
have plotted out, This is where we plan on staying, and just the
path we plan on taking. No one in his or her right mind would
would say if I'm making seventy five thousand dollars a year, I'm already in
debt. I don't know what the percentage of that is. It's probably well,
the annual budgets revenues in the four trillion dollar range, and we have
thirty one trillion in debt, so it's getting close to ten times. We're
already in debt to ten times the amount of our income, so it would
be close to saying, you know, seven hundred thousand dollars in debt and
making seventy five thousand dollars a year, I'm just again painting a picture.
Don't hold me to the specifics, and then saying, instead of cutting expenses
or finding another way to mathematically make this makes sense, you say, to
heck with that, we're going to increase our credit limit by another some figure,
twenty thousand dollars or forty thousand dollars or some such thing, and then
tell the American people that that's solving the problem for now. How in the
world is that, excuse me, solving the problem. That is, my
friends, adding to the problem. That is making the problem much bigger,
making problem much worse. This is why I use the phrase on this program.
I want to semi regular basis kicking the can down the road. There's
a legitimate problem today. They don't want to deal with politically solving it.
They want to say, hey, you can have all of your entitlements,
you can have everything. That we're doing is perfectly fine. The real problem,
as the left would argue, and of course, is complete utter nonsense.
The real problem, they'll tell you, is that the wealthiest Americans are
not paying their quote fair share, and of course you do the math on
this, you take every penny that the wealthiest Americans have, which I'm not
endorsing, it's not it's so beyond the scope of government and what it should
be doing, especially when it's targeting, specifically targeting people almost by name,
to say, you're now on the you're not going to foot the bill,
You're now on the hook for paying for this obligation that you candidly in many
cases, had absolutely nothing to do with in the first place. But that
is considered fair and just and right. Of course, it's not in any
reasonable universe with freethinking people who have logic and reason and just a little bit
of curiosity. This makes literally no sense. But this is the position they've
taken. Do not negotiate any budget cuts, and so it begs the question,
and I'm gonna take a time out here, but I want you to
think about this during the break. What what are they doing this for?
They really think this through, because any person with a basic calculator and a
third grade math education can figure out that this is unsustainable. There is nothing
that's going to fix this short of actually cutting spending. So what's going on
here? What is the problem. We'll talk about that on the other side
of the break. My friends, sit tight, you're listening to conservative not
better talk. I'm your host, Todd Huff back in just a minute.
Welcome back, my friends. So, if it is so abundantly obvious,
and I think that it, well, I take the I think out.
It absolutely is abundantly obvious that the problem that we have in this country is
a spending problem. You don't consistently have the need to raise your ability to
borrow money. If you don't have a spending problem. Now you could say,
look, I would understand if our revenues were not at or near all
time highs. I would understand that maybe it potentially is a revenue problem.
But my friends, we have ventured so far from what the founders have envisioned
in this country that this bears no semblance whatsoever to what they had actually envisioned.
They envisioned a government with very clearly defined roles, responsibilities, very clearly
to find lanes. They've laid these out in the Constitution. The average person
doesn't care whatsoever her and so now many there are more and more who do.
But in the course of a day, our day to day existence in
day to day life, A lot of folks could not care less about these
things, and so then it becomes a matter of well, I think it's
great to give this group of people this, let's vote for that, or
it sounds good, we should help people her doing that. But the problem
is the problem is there's not an infinite money supply. The problem is some
of these actually the vast majority, if not potentially all of these programs,
are mismanaged, unnecessarily expensive, inefficient. There's lots of ways to do them
better. It always starts with a one size fits all approach versus a series
of ideas say that the free market comes up with, and then the market
gets to decide which idea or which solution they prefer. That's what happens when
you have a marketplace battle over a new product. You know, you've got
Samsung an iPhone, and there's you've got PC and Mac and you need obviously
it's better to have more choices, but there's different alternatives, and people can
be persuaded to try one product over another based upon some feature or some little
whatever it is. Right, I mean, some of these things are a
big deal and some of them are small deals like the colors available or whatever
anyway, So but the government doesn't approach things like this. The government says,
here's your option, and it's going to be more expensive than if we
would have had the private sector do it, it'll be less efficient, and
it ultimately is not going to solve your problem. The founders did not envision
any of that to be the case, and so we have this literally running
rampant in every conceivable corner of our government. I'm going to go on record
to say that every single every single part of our government can find a way
to cut something. I'm not saying that we have to cut certain areas of
legitimate spending by massive amounts, but I'm saying every every single group to tell
me there's no waste, There's no waste in every part of the of the
budget or the categorizations of how we spend money is preposterous to me. Of
course there is, of course there is waste and inefficiencies and so forth,
and that needs to we should be cutting. That's what we should seek to
do. This is what happens in the in the private sector. Right they
realize, hey, we don't have enough money for this, or hey,
we need to cut spending because of their you know, there's going to be
a recession, even though we've defined redefined what that is today, the media
and the folks that are extreme leftists, they've they've redefined those terms. But
if there are recessionary pressures and the potential or even the likelihood of a recession,
then that's when you see companies make these other steps. They cut their
workforce by some percentage. They just say this is what we have to cut,
and then they delegate it to the management to figure out which which people
actually get acts and which don't. And it's terrible for the people going through
it, but it's necessary for the business to survive. We don't have any
of those pressures, and a lot of it's because we have people like this
who are saying there's going to be basically riots if you do any if you
make any cuts to spending whatsoever. So then the question is why do they
do this? And there's two reasons. I think it's one or two reasons.
Number one, Number one, they are so caught up some of them
in the way that you buy votes. This is what you do. You
basically try to find a majority of people that want a certain benefit or a
series of benefits, and then you promise, if you elect me, I
will implement these sorts of entitlements. And then if you have enough people who
are on the receiving end of the entitlement in your district, they are inclined,
they are rewarded financially to vote for you. That's one of the reasons.
But then there's another group, another group that's even more nefarious than that
group. That's just a disgusting political or politician's attitude approach to things. I
want to do something for personal gain, even if it means I'm doing something
that's not principled. I don't like it. It's been bad for this country.
It's been It's a huge problem, I don't want to understated. But
even more so of a problem is when we have people who openly hate this
country. They hate the system that it's built upon, free market capitalism.
They hate the concept of a constitution that talks about the rights of the ultimate
minority, which is the single human being. They like government power, they
like authority. They like making the shots make or calling the shots, making
the decisions. They like that, and so they know that if they break
the system. Eventually they're going to be calls to replace the system, and
they want to be sitting there at the ready. They want to be sitting
there at the ready when the opportunity arises to fix something that is quote unquote
broken. Of course, why is it broken because because of the pressures they
have put on it, not because it's a bad idea, not because it's
philosophically unsound or anything like that. It's actually a very sound The problem is
is if you have kama kazies at the helm, political kama kazies. That
term just came to me on the spot. I think it's a good one.
Political kama kazes. We're gonna take this We're gonna take this thing down.
We are gonna metaphorically burn it down, and then the intent is to
gather the pieces and rebuild something that is more in line with what these lovers
a big government want, which is not a constitutional republic that focuses on the
rights of the individual, that focuses on things like private property, that focuses
on things like traditional values. Even they want something, they want something that's
much more nineteen eighty four ish, right, brave New World ish, that's
what they want. That's what they desire, and some of them this is
one their tactic. It's sad, it's sick. It's even tough to swallow,
a tough pill to swallow realizing that there are people in the halls of
the United States government that are casting votes that hate it. I know I
remember going through that process years ago, twenty three years ago, whatever it
was. But the sooner we realize that, the sooner we can fix and
address the real problem here, which are again these political kami kaze. So
that said, timeouts in order, my friends, sit tight. You're listening
to conservative not better talk. I'm your host to Hugh back in just a
minute of stuff in the stack of stuff, a couple of things I want
to hit on really quickly. You can again always read more about him at
Toadhof show dot com. Just look at the stack of stuff. But Senator
Fetterman, you may have seen that he shows up to the Senate wearing hoodies,
tennis shoes, Jim Shortz looks like he's just gotten a workout at the
local club or whatever, and everyone else is in suit jackets and ties.
And you may have wondered, what is going on here? Isn't there a
dress code. There is a dress code for the US Senate. But one
of the articles I got posted on the stack of stuff pointed out something that
candidly I did not know. You have to wear a suit and tie or
a jacket and tie if you are a male member of the Senate, which,
oh, good luck with enforcing that in twenty twenty three. But that's
another discussion. But what he does to avoid the dress code is that he
stands in the doorway of the Senate. Think about this. He stands in
the doorway so that when it's time for him to vote, he can kind
of yell and over here sort of thing. You know, they're probably used
to it by now, and he votes from the doorway without going out to
the Senate floor. That's what this article said. So I wanted to pass
that to pass that along as well. And since we talked a little bit
about Target and all that's going on with the trans clothings and tucking this and
that into swimsuits and so forth, the calls to boycott Target are growing.
I know many of you out there listening to my voice, well, some
of you are already on the boycott Target bandwagon. Others of you I know
there are women I know that if the idea of never going to Target again
would send them into a deep depression. So I know we've got people all
over the place on that butt, but they are definitely there are definitely caused
to increase the increased cause I should say to boycott Target. Over what is
going on Timehouse in order to along the segment my friends back in just a
minute, Welcome back my friends, waiting moments of the program. This is
coming up. This is a Memorial Day weekend and we'll talk a little bit
about that on tomorrow's program. So just a heads up on that. I
know that we'll be off Monday. Just for the record, I know some
of you need to heads up on that to process your emotions of not being
able to end for the day, and I understand that tremendously. The other
thing I would tell you is being that it's Memorial Day weekend, maybe a
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but we'll talk more about Memorial Day tomorrow. I like to do that around
these these holidays, to talk about again the meaning, the impact that these
holidays, what they represent, I've actually had on this country. We are
fortunate and blessed in tremendous ways, my friends. So we'll talk about that
tomorrow, along with whatever comes up between now and then. But the music
is telling me it's time to wrap it up. Have a great day. STG.