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zero, twenty eight thirty And it's my pleasure to be here today. I
want to start a couple of things I want to get to today. I
want to start with the debt ceiling. I want to talk about this and
I want to hit on something. And we've talked about this in the past,
but I feel like it's an appropriate thing to discuss because because sometimes when
we are in the midst of the drama, we forget what I think is
the absolute obvious thing, which this well, which is that this so called
crisis is one hundred percent self created. This is a self created crisis.
This we have had an incredible amount of fiscal mismanagement, We have had an
incredible amount of radical ideas and agenda items. We have had a plethora of
stupidity and bad decision making in Washington, DC for a very, very long
time. And we are here, as I've spoken to earlier this week and
elsewhere over the course of the weeks and months leading up even til today,
we are in this crisis because we have a spending problem. We have a
spending problem. It's not that this country brings into little revenue is that this
nation spends to much money. That is exactly what we have, and that
is effectively why we're in this mess today. What further compounds the fact,
and it's all really intertwined, it's all kind of tied together. But what
compounds the fact or compounds the problem, is the fact that we have politicians
who like giving away things in return for votes. We have voters and American
citizens. Heck, sometimes people who are not American citizens who would be perfectly
content with getting a freebee now, regardless of the cost. People are willing.
Remember when Benjamin Franklin was leaving the Constitutional Convention, he was asked,
sir, do we have a republic or a democracy? He says, a
republic if you can keep it, if you can keep it. And so
part of keeping our constitutional republic intact means that we must hold true to I
mean, folks, we have to have values, and we have to have
ethics and a type of morality I would say, a biblical morality that basically
allows for us to be free while using our own collective individual will and choices
to make choices that are not inflicting direct harm upon other people in our society
and culture and The truth is, my friends, we've watched our government do
this and candidly capitalize on it for general rations. Now, politicians giveaway things
and in return, there's a little wink in a nod from the base,
from their voting base that is totally fine with taking something that someone else earned
and then saying that that is suddenly an entitlement for them. So you have
them, on a massive scale, over a long period of time, well
outside the confines of the guardrails of the constitution, government doing things the government
was never intended to do, either by our constitution or by Almighty God Eve.
I mean, folks, this, you know. I'm amazed sometimes when
I hear people and I don't want to get too far into this today,
but I do think it's worth mentioning as it's coming up here in the opening
monologue here, But I think that there's something to be said about about the
notion that it's not charitable to give someone else's money away. That's not charity,
my friends. Charity is giving away our individual money or time or whatever
it is, something that belongs to us. I don't know if you've seen
these man on the street interviews or just little clips of things where people have
stood out there with a clipboard looking for signatures. I've seen I've seen a
couple of these, or one or two of these, and they're saying things
like, you know, go ahead and put your name here if you want
to see college be free. And the person who's being asked says, oh,
yeah, that's great, and they start filling out the information, and
the person who has handed them the clipboard start saying, yeah, you put
your first name here, your last name there, you put your phone number
here, your email, your address, and then in this column here you
put the percentage of your salary of your annual income that you want to see
diverted into this program. And every one hundred percent of the people stop at
that point and say do what. Oh, I can't afford that, I
can't do that. I've seen another one where an individual went to a really
a rally that was for open borders effectively, and this individual walked around with
the clipboard and said, hey, you know, if you want to see
you know, open borders and more more migrants led into this nation and so
forth, go ahead and sign this. And then at the end he said,
and then put down the number of individuals that you would be willing to
house yourself. And again they all said, well I can't do that,
I can't afford this. And see that's the problem, right, that's that's
the problem. We have had. Politicians that behave just like that, politicians
who have created this scenario where it's a political game where they're giving out things
for free, but they don't want to bear the responsibility themselves. And so
every time that the debt ceiling, the debt ceiling comes up, which again
basically just means someone's in the back corner shouting, hey, guys, I
can't pay the bills that are coming in next month or whatever, even though
even though there are people out there that will tell you that that's not entirely
true what's happening. But the point effectively is we're running out of money that
someone is authorized to spend, and so we have to say, well,
they've got to go, we've got to go borrow more. And again,
it is completely reasonable, it is completely logical. It is completely necessary for
there to be spending cuts that a company an increase in this debt limit.
But it is a self created crisis. It is created by these politicians,
it is created, it's not just the dramacrats, it's also the Republican crats,
I guess, the folks who again are putting on a performance for us.
But yet when it comes to spending, they are totally fine with it
because because it keeps them in power, because it gets them votes, because
it gets them funds raised to stay in power, to stay in Washington,
DC, to basically to have a cush job, right, I mean,
if you get right down to it. So I don't want to hear about
public service and all this stuff. No that I know people who have been
public servants, my friends, like real public servants. People that have given
of themselves personally to provide something of great importance to a particular community. People
who have started churches, started charities, whatever, hospitals. You know.
We know some of these people. We know people who have dedicated their lives
to going into the mission field to share the gospel of Jesus Christ or whatever
the ministry or the mission is. That is service. It's not service.
When you go to Washington, DC, can wear a hoodie. Hat tip
to Senator John Fetterman there, who's you know showing up in a hoodie in
shorts every day? By simply avoiding We talked about this the other day,
avoiding actually walking onto the Senate floor because there is a dress code for the
Senate floor. He stands in the doorway. This was reported. I got
it in I think it was Yesterday's Stack of Stuff, maybe Wednesdays. But
it's a game. It's a game, is the point. It is one
big game and performance for these jokers and clowns or people in both parties that
bear responsibility but make no mistake at this particular time, at this particular fire
over the debt ceiling, the Democrats are to blame as far as adding to
the fiscal mismanagement. There's absolutely been cases examples of Republicans doing it as well.
But in this particular instance, when you come to the table and you
say, under no scenario will we cut spending in order to raise the debt
limit, that is not responsible. In fact, reference a poll here.
Really quickly I saw what is this poll? This was being reported in news
backs. Actually it was reported first at CNN. I got the Newsmax story
in the Stack of Stuff, which, as always you can go to the
stack Toadhoff Show dot com. You can read the articles that I'm referencing.
I put those there on the stack of stuff page, which you can find
right off of the homepage. But anyway, a majority sixty percent of Americans
say spending cuts should accompany a debt ceiling in so three out of five.
Again, if someone from the Bernie Sanders or the Democratic Socialist or the straight
up Socialist and Communist Party is in here today, tuned in, welcome,
by the way, we can be friends. So far is that as that
is up to me. But if you don't have a firm handling on math
or reality. Kidding but not entirely sixty three out of five, So three
out of five Americans are now saying we should be cutting spending if we're going
to continue to raise raise the debt limit, that's absolutely what should be happening.
I remember a couple of was it last week? I played a SoundBite
from Kareen Jean Pierre, I guess it could have been two weeks ago,
and she basically was making the argument and all you know, by getting Congress
to raise the debt ceiling, all we're really doing, she argued, is
paying our paying our bill, and she likened it to paying your car payment
or your mortgage. But that's not true, my friends, that's not a
true analogy because it breaks down at this one key point. Maybe in other's
but if you have a thirty year mortgage, you don't have to every six
months or every year go and ask the bank for more money to keep paying
your mortgage. Right. That's first of all, it wouldn't work that way
because at some point the people responsible for lending you money are going to start
questioning your ability to pay it back. And now we're getting to the heart
of the problem here in this great nation is that there's no real way that
we're ever going to pay this stuff back. And that's why another headline here
in the stack of stuff, some top rating agencies are may possibly be downgraded
in the US credit rating even if a deal is made to raise the debt
limit. But it's not like again, not a proper analogy, as Karen
John Pier has stated before, to say, this is like continuing to pay
your mortgage, because again, what you do when you pay your mortgage is
you get your loan, you see how much it is, and then you
earn the income that's necessary to pay for that mortgage. You don't go and
borrow more money every year or every six months to continue to pay your mortgage.
At some point, at some point you say, I've either got to
cut other expenses, or I've got to get a new job, I've got
to get a raise, i got to get a side hustle something, or
if you can't afford it, you sell the house. You don't go out
and borrow more money to continue to pay the debt on your mortgage or to
pay your mortgage payment. That's not how that works. And Americans are catching
on to this, and again it's a self created crisis. These jokers and
clowns created this if they lived in the real world, if they didn't have
what's akin to a printing press or today which is more like a digital press
of the button to generate dollars out of thin air. The government, the
government, which of course that means inflating money when they created out of thin
air when there's no real value associated with it, or that was created in
the marketplace, when they make money out of thin air. The government can
do that and well through our banking system. But it's i mean, it's
all intertwined. But they can do that, and it's the only group of
people that can do it in the well in the United States, even states
can't can't do that, and so they constantly let themselves off the hook because
again, it personally helps them to go out to their constituents to say,
look at what I've done for you, Look at what I've given you.
Look at all the freebies I brought back. Look at all of the dollars
I brought back into the state, which is just crazy because they're taking them
from somewhere else, running them through the government. So the government takes it,
they have their administrative cost, so that dollar is worth less when it
gets reassigned to the person the government thinks should have it. But nonetheless,
this is what passes as good politics today. This is what passes as acceptable
legislation or legislating, I should say, by these jokers and clowns. That's
why it's a self created crisis. They're one hundred culpable in this scenario.
I hope McCarthy holds firm. I'm gonna talk about that in a moment,
but he needs to hold firm. We have to have accompanying reduction and spending
in order to raise the debt limit. Sixty percent of Americans agree. I
find that to be a bit of a silver lining in this massive storm that
Biden and the left causing to be to wreak havoc here on this great nation
economically and in so many other ways. But I'm gonna take a time out
here. Time out is in order. We're gonna come back. I want
to talk a little bit about McCarthy being encouraged by conservatives to stand up,
to stand strong, and to see through actual real spending cuts. I'm not
I'm not optimistic that we'll get there, but so far, so good,
at least as of the time I'm speaking right now. Depending upon when you're
listening, I may have a different opinion if something else has happened. But
anyway, timeouts in order listening here to conservative not better talk. I'm your
host to huff back in just a minute. Back, my friends. So,
I mentioned before the break that McCarthy McCarthy is getting some encouragement speaker McCarthy
from conservatives around the country, including the one hosting this program, and I'm
guessing the vast majority of you as well. And the argument is the encouragement
is stand tall, be strong, don't capitulate, and that I don't know
where this is going to end up. I mean, I have my hunches.
I do you know. It's interesting when you look at the polling and
you see that Americans sixty percent according to that poll I referenced earlier, which
I think was a CNN poll. Heck, I sixty percent of CNN audience
members think it. Then, my goodness, this has got to be an
easy victory. But Americans are I think, waking up. I think they're
seeing the silliness of this game that we're being subjected to. I hope that
they know that it is, in fact a self created crisis. These folks
can change this today. They could stop the problem immediately. And I know
when I started to say this a moment ago last segment. But what compounds
the problem is not just that they well, there's several things. One,
they want to give things away so that they can basically trade benefits or entitlements
to the American people in exchange for their vote. It's but it's it's more
than that. It's not just that. And there's also the factor that says,
some of these folks do not like this nation is founded, and so
they're happy to just totally destroy it, which is what they're doing. And
I would grant you that there are factors there as well, there's truth there
as well. Some of these folks want to destroy this nation from the insight
out. In fact, some would argue, many would argue that that's really
the only way to take down a superpower like the United States of America is
to destroy it from within, you know, push things like incredibly insane transagenda
on young people, cause its citizens to hate one another, make basically financially
break the nation, and so forth. So there's there's all of these there's
those realities, those those factors. But the other thing is the other thing
is they don't want how do I how do I say this? There is
a financial catastrophe that is brewing in this nation, and so there's a real,
a realistic viewpoint as well, and that is, if we do what
needs to be done to fix the financial problem, it is going to inflict
difficulty, financial harm on the American people because it's going to mean that we
have to stop doing the crazy stuff. And so they don't want that.
They would rather, the politicians would rather kind of hypnotize or put people into
a trance into thinking everything is fine because it feels okay, but they just
continue to inflate everything and kick the metaphorical can down the road because they don't
want to actually address the root cause of the of the problem. Today.
It's like having a splinter. This would be a massive splinter, but you
know, having a splinter in your finger, which I got one. I
got one recently. I say recently, a couple of months ago. I
was standing next to a I think it was a palm tree, and I
was sitting on the street corner on the curb, and I stood up,
and when I reached my handback or move my arm or whatever, there's a
splinter from the tree that literally stuck directly under my finger nail. And it
was a pretty big splinter, and it was not easy to get out because
I think the back of it broke off, so it was kind of wedged
under there, and it was nasty looking. But when you have a splinter
like that, you've got a choice to make. You can ignore it and
it might for a moment, might not be super painful until the infection sets
in. And if it's a really really bad splinter or an object that causes
massive infection, you may have some really serious problems on your hand. In
the most dramatic of cases, you could be looking at things like I mean,
that could jeopardize your health or your ability to keep the appendage. And
so but if you take the tweezers, even though, and you dig it
out with a needle or whatever you do, you pull this baby out now,
you avoid greater problem down the road. But it's painful in the short
term. But that's what we have to do. And none of these jokers
and clowns want to do this. None of them do. And so I
like the position McCarthy's in because people like Gates and we talked about this earlier
in the week as well, Gates, Lauren Bobert, they are looking at
him and basically saying, you know, we expect you to try to cut
spending. We're not going to let you off easy. If you're going to
if you're just going to be basically a piece on the checkerboard for the radical
left in the Democrat Party, we will we will have a vote to vacate
the chair and potentially remove you a speaker. That's a potential reality for McCarthy.
I don't think McCarthy principal from a principal perspective is really is serious about
cutting spending like you and I are. I think it's politically expedient and it's
good for him to, you know, to satisfy the people who put him
in this position. And that's I mean, I would prefer that it was
a principled position that he had taken. But I'll take this one if we
can apply the right amount of healthy political pressure for him to do for him
to do the right thing, and so we'll see where it ends up.
I'm I'm not overly optimistic that he's going to see this thing through, but
there are tools and mechanisms in place, and may I take you back in
time. That's precisely why, exactly why macart excuse me, Matt Gates,
Lauren Boebert, and others in the Republican House, after what two in January
when they voted for their speaker, It's exactly why they put some of these
safeguards and rules and so forth in place, because they wanted to be able
to hold in the cart the accountable. Because the desire here from all these
parties that are involved this negotiation is to is to get out of this thing.
Nobody wants to watch the government shut down, although I'm telling you that's
with some with a couple of exceptions, things that they could fix and address
in Congress. The idea that the government shut down is not that huge of
a deal. The much larger deal is for us to spend money like it's
water, which is what we've been doing for decades. We have to fix
this, we have to write this ship. I'm saying, every program in
this nation can have some cut, some degree of cuts. Some of them
can have massive cuts. Some of them can be totally removed from the federal
budget altogether. Departments can be removed and so forth, Department of Education,
for example. I'd love to see the i RS gone. I know that
these are these are things that take a lot of political momentum to get to.
But the point is we need to start moving in the direction of fiscal
responsibility and using this, even though it's self created, using this crisis as
a means by which to get there. I'm okay with if McCarthy actually sees
this through. So we'll see where it ends up. But here in the
next what the next week or so is it June first? I think is
that what they're predicting now, They gotta have this thing settled. So hopefully
they do. Hopefully McCarthy stands firm. Hopefully the American people get what they
want, most importantly, what we need, which is government spending to be
reined in. So that being said, I'm going to take a time out,
my friends, shifting gears on the other side of the break, be
back here in just a minute. Welcome back, my friends. Do you
remember we didn't talk about this on this program, and it wasn't because we
were ignoring it. There's just so many things to talk about. As I've
shared before, when I started this program, it'll be eight years ago,
coming up in August August fifteenth, I remember thinking, how am I going
to talk for the whole time? I hadn't done this before. How do
you do then? What if there's not something to talk about on a given
day? Give me a break? That was beyond naive. The reality is
you have to pick and choose what you discuss. But do you remember,
was it last week there was an individual who had rented a U haul threw
himself a Nazi flag in the front seat or some such thing. He was
from Chesterfield, Missouri, nineteen year old, and he allegedly was trying to
crash in and harm the president and vice president with the U haul truck.
Remember this, And at first, at first there was a you know,
they saw the Nazi flag or whatever he had in the front seat or wherever
this thing was, and they were saying white supremacy was the motive. And
of course that fits nicely into Biden's agenda and what they're talking about. The
race baiting crowd and the folks that just want to talk about identity politics.
Folks, they have given whatever small percentage of true white supremacists there are in
this country, they have magnified their voices so many times because they simply are
acting like there's a lot, infinitely more of them than there actually are.
This is a fringe group of people, and I don't know the motivations.
I don't want to even get into that, but just the logic of this
falls apart when you realize this individuals not a white individual. His name is
a Si Varshath Condula. I'm pronouncing that correctly, I hope. So and
so, there was all this talk about white supremacy, and you know,
you don't even have to be white to be a white supremacist. These are
the sorts of gems you find while watching stupid programs like The View and anyway.
So there was a bunch of hubub about this. But then suddenly after
he was arrested, well, I should say this, I'm looking here at
an article at American wire News dot com again in the stack of stuff.
But in he was initially charged with threatening to kill, kidnap, or inflict
harm on a president, vice president or family member, as well as assault
with a dangerous weapon, reckless operation of a motor vehicle, trespassing, and
destruction of federal property. That was according to an article in the New York
Post. But as this article at American wire News points out, something extraordinary
happened at that point. Prosecutors dropped every single charge against mister Kundula with nothing
but quote, a single count of depredation of property of the United States and
excess of one thousand dollars. Friends, What in the world is going on
here? When this was first when this was first reported, I mean this
was they acted like this was akin to catching Lee Harvey Oswald and parading him
out in front of the cameras for Jack Ruby and all this, and I
don't want to get into that hole assassination of JFK, but it was it
was such a it was just such a dramatic sort of event, right you
had, you had all the I guess response to this, and it just
fit nice and neatly in with the narrative. And then suddenly nothing one charge
damaging property and access or depredation of property of the United States and an access
of a thousand, a thousand dollars? What the world is going on here?
Now? I have thoughts on this, but I just want to ask.
I just want to ask people who who believe that for some reason that
we have reasons to trust the media, that we have reasons to trust the
narrative for the people that do that, just why what in the world happened
here for there to be such a change in the way that this was reported,
not just the way that it was reported, but also the things that
were being done from a legal perspective. Why what's the explanation here? Crazy
stuff? For sure? Time out though is in order? My friends?
I was going to say one of the thing too, what was I gonna
say? Let's see, yeah, right there, this falls in line that
story. When I was talking about the narrative and so forth. I have
it also in the stack of stuff, there's an article or a poll that
was recently released that said nearly two thirds or found that nearly two thirds of
Americans now see the media as the quote enemy of the people. And so,
to kind of echo what I said last segment, there's a silver lining
here. And all this chaos and all this tumult and all of this craziness
and all of this very heightened state that we find ourselves living here this highly
intense time, there's a silver lining. And the silver lining is people are
coming around to seeing things in a logical perspective. Now some certainly cannot see
it logically. They've effectively given up their ability to think for themselves, or
they just don't want to fight the narrative or whatever, they've had the wool
hold over their eyes, whatever you want to say. But more and more
people because they've been engaged, because they've watched performances like the never ending debt
ceiling, fight, like the never ending accusations of race and white supremacy every
time anyone does anything at all anywhere in this nation of three hundred and thirty
plus million people in the era of identity politics, in the era where people
can actually see what it looks like when the left governs, when the left
legislates, when the left responds to nominees for the Supreme Court that they don't
like, and so forth, when they can see all this craziness, when
they can see Antifa, when they can see Black Lives Matter, who,
by the way, is in financial turmoil, except, of course, allegedly
the leaders who seem to do quite well from the money that they raise the
past many years. It's there for people to see, and some people are
coming around to see it. We just got to get more. We've got
to get more to the point where they can see the reality that these leftists
are driving us knows first, at a high rate of speed, directly into
the ground. So I just wanted to share that story before I take a
brief time out. My friends, you're listening conservative not better talk. I'm
your host, Todd Huff Back in just a minute, Come back, my
friends, excuse me. So, as you know, as you know,
this weekend is Memorial Day weekend, and I like to I like to take
moments around these these holiday special occasions to talk. Just just a moment about
this, because this nation, my friends, is the greatest nation on on
the face of this planet, and it is the greatest nation in large part.
And you got the fact of you know, what the founders did,
how they built this nation, what they recognize, that we are citizens,
not subjects, that rights come not from government but by God. That we
have not a democracy, though there are certainly democratic aspects. Instead, this
is the constitutional republic where the rights of the individual, the smallest minority is
protected, the individual, the single person. You want to talk about minority
rights, talk about the rights of the individual. And they took efforts,
they went to great links to debate some of these issues and to write down
what some of our rights are, not all of them, but some of
them. And some of those ideas are that we're free to live in accordance
with our conscience, whether we worship God or whether we don't believe that there
is a God, whether we choose one career path or another, whether we
choose one style of life. Maybe, for example, we homeschool and we
live in an RV as we travel the country, though we will be back
in Indie at least for a bit here beginning well here pretty soon, so
we have choices, and they recognize us. They recognize that we have the
right to protect ourselves, whether it's from an intruder, someone trying to harm
us or our families, or whether it's the actual government, tyrannical government.
And so they recognize things that we're not really recognize in the past. Typically,
I've said before, and I've said before that normally when one group has
military victory over another, that group establishes itself as the next I don't know,
the next group of dictators or the next oligarchy or whatever you want to
call it, some group that establishes itself as well as the overseers of society
and the new folks in power that we all have to basically bend our need
to and our founders did not do that. Our founders did not do that,
and has resulted in the greatest nation on the face of this planet.
And my friends, this weekend, this weekend is the time that this nation
takes to remember the fallen, to remember those who gave the ultimate sacrifice in
defense of this great nation. And I this is a holiday that should be
near and dear to all of our hearts for those who have lost loved ones
our prayers are with you. We honor their sacrifice, friends, loved ones,
family members, be honor to sacrifice. This nation simply would not be
possible without people willing to defend freedom, liberty, opportunity, this great nation
and be willing to sacrifice. Aul. So, I hope you have a
happy Memorial Day. My friend's quick time out come back and wrap up here
in just a minute. Welcome back, my friends, and I hope you
have a wonderful Memorial Day weekend. This again nation, this nation again was
the result in large part to those willing to pay the ultimate sacrifice. So
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