WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.440 --> 00:00:04.639 Attention. You're listening to the Todd Huff radio show, America's home for Conservative 2 00:00:04.759 --> 00:00:09.320 not Bitter Talk radio. Be advised the content of this program has been documented 3 00:00:09.359 --> 00:00:12.720 to prevents and even cure liberalism, and listening may cause you to lean to 4 00:00:12.720 --> 00:00:36.880 the right. Here's your conservative but not Bitter host, Todd Hoff. Well, 5 00:00:36.960 --> 00:00:42.799 thank you Gwenn, Conservative not Bitter indeed tuned in here to America's home 6 00:00:42.840 --> 00:00:45.719 for Conservative not Bitter Talk. I am your host, the one, the 7 00:00:45.840 --> 00:00:50.759 only, the beloved Todd Hoff Email. Should you want to be part of 8 00:00:50.799 --> 00:00:56.840 today's conversation, you can do that by emailing us your thoughts and questions. 9 00:00:56.960 --> 00:01:03.759 Your FEEDMAC always always, always be sure to include the appropriate amount of adoration 10 00:01:03.799 --> 00:01:07.480 and praise, which I should let you know is about ten to fifteen percent 11 00:01:07.599 --> 00:01:11.040 more than you would think it is at first glance. You can also text 12 00:01:11.079 --> 00:01:15.879 us those same things again, adoration and praise. You know, it's the 13 00:01:15.920 --> 00:01:19.319 same thing on text messaging. It's still ten to twenty or ten to fifteen 14 00:01:19.319 --> 00:01:23.439 percent. You know, text messages actually have a tendency to be a little 15 00:01:23.480 --> 00:01:27.959 bit shorter, so you might want to move fifteen to twenty percent more adoration 16 00:01:27.959 --> 00:01:32.480 and praise they're regardless. The text number three one seven, two, one 17 00:01:32.719 --> 00:01:37.519 zero, twenty eight thirty And it's my pleasure to be here today. I 18 00:01:37.599 --> 00:01:40.280 want to start a couple of things I want to get to today. I 19 00:01:40.280 --> 00:01:42.959 want to start with the debt ceiling. I want to talk about this and 20 00:01:44.000 --> 00:01:47.079 I want to hit on something. And we've talked about this in the past, 21 00:01:48.079 --> 00:01:53.079 but I feel like it's an appropriate thing to discuss because because sometimes when 22 00:01:53.079 --> 00:01:59.280 we are in the midst of the drama, we forget what I think is 23 00:01:59.280 --> 00:02:04.719 the absolute obvious thing, which this well, which is that this so called 24 00:02:04.840 --> 00:02:15.520 crisis is one hundred percent self created. This is a self created crisis. 25 00:02:16.919 --> 00:02:24.719 This we have had an incredible amount of fiscal mismanagement, We have had an 26 00:02:24.759 --> 00:02:36.199 incredible amount of radical ideas and agenda items. We have had a plethora of 27 00:02:36.439 --> 00:02:44.000 stupidity and bad decision making in Washington, DC for a very, very long 28 00:02:44.080 --> 00:02:50.319 time. And we are here, as I've spoken to earlier this week and 29 00:02:50.520 --> 00:02:53.680 elsewhere over the course of the weeks and months leading up even til today, 30 00:02:54.560 --> 00:03:01.360 we are in this crisis because we have a spending problem. We have a 31 00:03:01.400 --> 00:03:07.800 spending problem. It's not that this country brings into little revenue is that this 32 00:03:07.919 --> 00:03:14.560 nation spends to much money. That is exactly what we have, and that 33 00:03:14.759 --> 00:03:22.840 is effectively why we're in this mess today. What further compounds the fact, 34 00:03:23.039 --> 00:03:28.159 and it's all really intertwined, it's all kind of tied together. But what 35 00:03:28.240 --> 00:03:34.680 compounds the fact or compounds the problem, is the fact that we have politicians 36 00:03:35.479 --> 00:03:43.599 who like giving away things in return for votes. We have voters and American 37 00:03:43.719 --> 00:03:50.240 citizens. Heck, sometimes people who are not American citizens who would be perfectly 38 00:03:50.360 --> 00:03:57.439 content with getting a freebee now, regardless of the cost. People are willing. 39 00:03:58.520 --> 00:04:02.560 Remember when Benjamin Franklin was leaving the Constitutional Convention, he was asked, 40 00:04:02.599 --> 00:04:09.960 sir, do we have a republic or a democracy? He says, a 41 00:04:10.000 --> 00:04:13.639 republic if you can keep it, if you can keep it. And so 42 00:04:14.120 --> 00:04:23.079 part of keeping our constitutional republic intact means that we must hold true to I 43 00:04:23.120 --> 00:04:25.959 mean, folks, we have to have values, and we have to have 44 00:04:26.160 --> 00:04:34.879 ethics and a type of morality I would say, a biblical morality that basically 45 00:04:34.920 --> 00:04:44.360 allows for us to be free while using our own collective individual will and choices 46 00:04:44.439 --> 00:04:48.759 to make choices that are not inflicting direct harm upon other people in our society 47 00:04:48.759 --> 00:04:54.959 and culture and The truth is, my friends, we've watched our government do 48 00:04:55.079 --> 00:05:03.040 this and candidly capitalize on it for general rations. Now, politicians giveaway things 49 00:05:03.279 --> 00:05:09.240 and in return, there's a little wink in a nod from the base, 50 00:05:10.000 --> 00:05:15.160 from their voting base that is totally fine with taking something that someone else earned 51 00:05:16.040 --> 00:05:20.000 and then saying that that is suddenly an entitlement for them. So you have 52 00:05:20.040 --> 00:05:24.519 them, on a massive scale, over a long period of time, well 53 00:05:24.600 --> 00:05:30.199 outside the confines of the guardrails of the constitution, government doing things the government 54 00:05:30.279 --> 00:05:39.240 was never intended to do, either by our constitution or by Almighty God Eve. 55 00:05:39.319 --> 00:05:42.720 I mean, folks, this, you know. I'm amazed sometimes when 56 00:05:42.720 --> 00:05:45.600 I hear people and I don't want to get too far into this today, 57 00:05:46.920 --> 00:05:49.480 but I do think it's worth mentioning as it's coming up here in the opening 58 00:05:50.199 --> 00:05:58.759 monologue here, But I think that there's something to be said about about the 59 00:05:58.839 --> 00:06:09.759 notion that it's not charitable to give someone else's money away. That's not charity, 60 00:06:09.839 --> 00:06:15.959 my friends. Charity is giving away our individual money or time or whatever 61 00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:18.160 it is, something that belongs to us. I don't know if you've seen 62 00:06:18.199 --> 00:06:26.759 these man on the street interviews or just little clips of things where people have 63 00:06:26.839 --> 00:06:31.079 stood out there with a clipboard looking for signatures. I've seen I've seen a 64 00:06:31.079 --> 00:06:34.839 couple of these, or one or two of these, and they're saying things 65 00:06:34.879 --> 00:06:39.639 like, you know, go ahead and put your name here if you want 66 00:06:39.639 --> 00:06:44.160 to see college be free. And the person who's being asked says, oh, 67 00:06:44.240 --> 00:06:46.199 yeah, that's great, and they start filling out the information, and 68 00:06:46.319 --> 00:06:50.360 the person who has handed them the clipboard start saying, yeah, you put 69 00:06:50.360 --> 00:06:55.000 your first name here, your last name there, you put your phone number 70 00:06:55.000 --> 00:06:59.519 here, your email, your address, and then in this column here you 71 00:06:59.680 --> 00:07:04.360 put the percentage of your salary of your annual income that you want to see 72 00:07:04.399 --> 00:07:11.240 diverted into this program. And every one hundred percent of the people stop at 73 00:07:11.279 --> 00:07:14.519 that point and say do what. Oh, I can't afford that, I 74 00:07:14.560 --> 00:07:19.519 can't do that. I've seen another one where an individual went to a really 75 00:07:20.000 --> 00:07:26.399 a rally that was for open borders effectively, and this individual walked around with 76 00:07:26.399 --> 00:07:29.600 the clipboard and said, hey, you know, if you want to see 77 00:07:30.120 --> 00:07:34.879 you know, open borders and more more migrants led into this nation and so 78 00:07:35.040 --> 00:07:39.319 forth, go ahead and sign this. And then at the end he said, 79 00:07:39.480 --> 00:07:44.600 and then put down the number of individuals that you would be willing to 80 00:07:44.759 --> 00:07:48.519 house yourself. And again they all said, well I can't do that, 81 00:07:48.639 --> 00:07:53.600 I can't afford this. And see that's the problem, right, that's that's 82 00:07:53.639 --> 00:07:58.800 the problem. We have had. Politicians that behave just like that, politicians 83 00:07:59.279 --> 00:08:03.720 who have created this scenario where it's a political game where they're giving out things 84 00:08:03.920 --> 00:08:09.199 for free, but they don't want to bear the responsibility themselves. And so 85 00:08:09.360 --> 00:08:15.040 every time that the debt ceiling, the debt ceiling comes up, which again 86 00:08:15.120 --> 00:08:20.519 basically just means someone's in the back corner shouting, hey, guys, I 87 00:08:20.560 --> 00:08:26.040 can't pay the bills that are coming in next month or whatever, even though 88 00:08:26.720 --> 00:08:30.720 even though there are people out there that will tell you that that's not entirely 89 00:08:30.759 --> 00:08:35.440 true what's happening. But the point effectively is we're running out of money that 90 00:08:35.519 --> 00:08:39.759 someone is authorized to spend, and so we have to say, well, 91 00:08:39.799 --> 00:08:43.720 they've got to go, we've got to go borrow more. And again, 92 00:08:43.919 --> 00:08:52.960 it is completely reasonable, it is completely logical. It is completely necessary for 93 00:08:54.799 --> 00:09:00.320 there to be spending cuts that a company an increase in this debt limit. 94 00:09:00.679 --> 00:09:03.559 But it is a self created crisis. It is created by these politicians, 95 00:09:05.080 --> 00:09:11.000 it is created, it's not just the dramacrats, it's also the Republican crats, 96 00:09:11.039 --> 00:09:15.000 I guess, the folks who again are putting on a performance for us. 97 00:09:15.840 --> 00:09:18.360 But yet when it comes to spending, they are totally fine with it 98 00:09:18.399 --> 00:09:24.759 because because it keeps them in power, because it gets them votes, because 99 00:09:26.000 --> 00:09:31.519 it gets them funds raised to stay in power, to stay in Washington, 100 00:09:31.600 --> 00:09:35.679 DC, to basically to have a cush job, right, I mean, 101 00:09:35.159 --> 00:09:39.000 if you get right down to it. So I don't want to hear about 102 00:09:39.399 --> 00:09:43.799 public service and all this stuff. No that I know people who have been 103 00:09:43.879 --> 00:09:50.240 public servants, my friends, like real public servants. People that have given 104 00:09:50.279 --> 00:09:58.720 of themselves personally to provide something of great importance to a particular community. People 105 00:09:58.720 --> 00:10:03.159 who have started churches, started charities, whatever, hospitals. You know. 106 00:10:03.200 --> 00:10:07.000 We know some of these people. We know people who have dedicated their lives 107 00:10:07.000 --> 00:10:13.679 to going into the mission field to share the gospel of Jesus Christ or whatever 108 00:10:13.720 --> 00:10:18.360 the ministry or the mission is. That is service. It's not service. 109 00:10:18.559 --> 00:10:24.000 When you go to Washington, DC, can wear a hoodie. Hat tip 110 00:10:24.039 --> 00:10:28.000 to Senator John Fetterman there, who's you know showing up in a hoodie in 111 00:10:28.039 --> 00:10:31.399 shorts every day? By simply avoiding We talked about this the other day, 112 00:10:31.440 --> 00:10:35.519 avoiding actually walking onto the Senate floor because there is a dress code for the 113 00:10:35.559 --> 00:10:39.080 Senate floor. He stands in the doorway. This was reported. I got 114 00:10:39.120 --> 00:10:43.039 it in I think it was Yesterday's Stack of Stuff, maybe Wednesdays. But 115 00:10:43.120 --> 00:10:46.039 it's a game. It's a game, is the point. It is one 116 00:10:46.320 --> 00:10:52.159 big game and performance for these jokers and clowns or people in both parties that 117 00:10:52.240 --> 00:10:58.919 bear responsibility but make no mistake at this particular time, at this particular fire 118 00:11:00.159 --> 00:11:07.960 over the debt ceiling, the Democrats are to blame as far as adding to 119 00:11:07.120 --> 00:11:13.759 the fiscal mismanagement. There's absolutely been cases examples of Republicans doing it as well. 120 00:11:15.639 --> 00:11:18.600 But in this particular instance, when you come to the table and you 121 00:11:18.679 --> 00:11:24.759 say, under no scenario will we cut spending in order to raise the debt 122 00:11:24.759 --> 00:11:28.960 limit, that is not responsible. In fact, reference a poll here. 123 00:11:28.000 --> 00:11:33.120 Really quickly I saw what is this poll? This was being reported in news 124 00:11:33.200 --> 00:11:35.759 backs. Actually it was reported first at CNN. I got the Newsmax story 125 00:11:35.840 --> 00:11:39.399 in the Stack of Stuff, which, as always you can go to the 126 00:11:39.399 --> 00:11:45.960 stack Toadhoff Show dot com. You can read the articles that I'm referencing. 127 00:11:45.960 --> 00:11:50.159 I put those there on the stack of stuff page, which you can find 128 00:11:50.240 --> 00:11:54.279 right off of the homepage. But anyway, a majority sixty percent of Americans 129 00:11:54.480 --> 00:12:03.799 say spending cuts should accompany a debt ceiling in so three out of five. 130 00:12:03.919 --> 00:12:09.639 Again, if someone from the Bernie Sanders or the Democratic Socialist or the straight 131 00:12:09.720 --> 00:12:13.720 up Socialist and Communist Party is in here today, tuned in, welcome, 132 00:12:13.799 --> 00:12:16.159 by the way, we can be friends. So far is that as that 133 00:12:16.279 --> 00:12:22.399 is up to me. But if you don't have a firm handling on math 134 00:12:22.559 --> 00:12:31.159 or reality. Kidding but not entirely sixty three out of five, So three 135 00:12:31.159 --> 00:12:35.600 out of five Americans are now saying we should be cutting spending if we're going 136 00:12:35.639 --> 00:12:39.240 to continue to raise raise the debt limit, that's absolutely what should be happening. 137 00:12:39.279 --> 00:12:43.519 I remember a couple of was it last week? I played a SoundBite 138 00:12:43.519 --> 00:12:46.519 from Kareen Jean Pierre, I guess it could have been two weeks ago, 139 00:12:48.559 --> 00:12:52.159 and she basically was making the argument and all you know, by getting Congress 140 00:12:52.200 --> 00:12:58.240 to raise the debt ceiling, all we're really doing, she argued, is 141 00:12:58.279 --> 00:13:01.919 paying our paying our bill, and she likened it to paying your car payment 142 00:13:03.519 --> 00:13:05.720 or your mortgage. But that's not true, my friends, that's not a 143 00:13:05.759 --> 00:13:11.399 true analogy because it breaks down at this one key point. Maybe in other's 144 00:13:11.200 --> 00:13:16.240 but if you have a thirty year mortgage, you don't have to every six 145 00:13:16.320 --> 00:13:20.799 months or every year go and ask the bank for more money to keep paying 146 00:13:20.799 --> 00:13:24.919 your mortgage. Right. That's first of all, it wouldn't work that way 147 00:13:26.399 --> 00:13:30.440 because at some point the people responsible for lending you money are going to start 148 00:13:30.519 --> 00:13:33.480 questioning your ability to pay it back. And now we're getting to the heart 149 00:13:33.480 --> 00:13:39.480 of the problem here in this great nation is that there's no real way that 150 00:13:39.519 --> 00:13:43.159 we're ever going to pay this stuff back. And that's why another headline here 151 00:13:43.159 --> 00:13:48.480 in the stack of stuff, some top rating agencies are may possibly be downgraded 152 00:13:48.480 --> 00:13:56.120 in the US credit rating even if a deal is made to raise the debt 153 00:13:56.159 --> 00:14:01.679 limit. But it's not like again, not a proper analogy, as Karen 154 00:14:01.799 --> 00:14:05.639 John Pier has stated before, to say, this is like continuing to pay 155 00:14:05.639 --> 00:14:11.159 your mortgage, because again, what you do when you pay your mortgage is 156 00:14:11.840 --> 00:14:13.840 you get your loan, you see how much it is, and then you 157 00:14:13.919 --> 00:14:20.080 earn the income that's necessary to pay for that mortgage. You don't go and 158 00:14:20.159 --> 00:14:26.559 borrow more money every year or every six months to continue to pay your mortgage. 159 00:14:28.000 --> 00:14:31.080 At some point, at some point you say, I've either got to 160 00:14:31.080 --> 00:14:33.320 cut other expenses, or I've got to get a new job, I've got 161 00:14:33.320 --> 00:14:37.519 to get a raise, i got to get a side hustle something, or 162 00:14:37.559 --> 00:14:41.559 if you can't afford it, you sell the house. You don't go out 163 00:14:41.600 --> 00:14:48.399 and borrow more money to continue to pay the debt on your mortgage or to 164 00:14:48.399 --> 00:14:52.279 pay your mortgage payment. That's not how that works. And Americans are catching 165 00:14:52.320 --> 00:14:56.559 on to this, and again it's a self created crisis. These jokers and 166 00:14:56.600 --> 00:15:05.039 clowns created this if they lived in the real world, if they didn't have 167 00:15:05.879 --> 00:15:11.840 what's akin to a printing press or today which is more like a digital press 168 00:15:11.840 --> 00:15:18.320 of the button to generate dollars out of thin air. The government, the 169 00:15:18.399 --> 00:15:22.759 government, which of course that means inflating money when they created out of thin 170 00:15:22.840 --> 00:15:28.039 air when there's no real value associated with it, or that was created in 171 00:15:28.080 --> 00:15:31.320 the marketplace, when they make money out of thin air. The government can 172 00:15:31.360 --> 00:15:37.440 do that and well through our banking system. But it's i mean, it's 173 00:15:37.480 --> 00:15:43.480 all intertwined. But they can do that, and it's the only group of 174 00:15:43.480 --> 00:15:46.799 people that can do it in the well in the United States, even states 175 00:15:46.840 --> 00:15:52.440 can't can't do that, and so they constantly let themselves off the hook because 176 00:15:52.440 --> 00:15:56.080 again, it personally helps them to go out to their constituents to say, 177 00:15:56.639 --> 00:15:58.919 look at what I've done for you, Look at what I've given you. 178 00:16:00.759 --> 00:16:03.559 Look at all the freebies I brought back. Look at all of the dollars 179 00:16:03.600 --> 00:16:08.000 I brought back into the state, which is just crazy because they're taking them 180 00:16:08.000 --> 00:16:14.360 from somewhere else, running them through the government. So the government takes it, 181 00:16:14.440 --> 00:16:17.919 they have their administrative cost, so that dollar is worth less when it 182 00:16:17.960 --> 00:16:22.440 gets reassigned to the person the government thinks should have it. But nonetheless, 183 00:16:22.519 --> 00:16:29.000 this is what passes as good politics today. This is what passes as acceptable 184 00:16:30.000 --> 00:16:33.799 legislation or legislating, I should say, by these jokers and clowns. That's 185 00:16:33.799 --> 00:16:38.080 why it's a self created crisis. They're one hundred culpable in this scenario. 186 00:16:40.080 --> 00:16:42.080 I hope McCarthy holds firm. I'm gonna talk about that in a moment, 187 00:16:42.080 --> 00:16:48.519 but he needs to hold firm. We have to have accompanying reduction and spending 188 00:16:48.320 --> 00:16:52.559 in order to raise the debt limit. Sixty percent of Americans agree. I 189 00:16:52.720 --> 00:16:57.600 find that to be a bit of a silver lining in this massive storm that 190 00:16:57.679 --> 00:17:03.799 Biden and the left causing to be to wreak havoc here on this great nation 191 00:17:03.519 --> 00:17:07.440 economically and in so many other ways. But I'm gonna take a time out 192 00:17:07.480 --> 00:17:10.039 here. Time out is in order. We're gonna come back. I want 193 00:17:10.039 --> 00:17:14.720 to talk a little bit about McCarthy being encouraged by conservatives to stand up, 194 00:17:14.759 --> 00:17:21.920 to stand strong, and to see through actual real spending cuts. I'm not 195 00:17:22.079 --> 00:17:26.880 I'm not optimistic that we'll get there, but so far, so good, 196 00:17:26.920 --> 00:17:30.240 at least as of the time I'm speaking right now. Depending upon when you're 197 00:17:30.279 --> 00:17:33.119 listening, I may have a different opinion if something else has happened. But 198 00:17:33.160 --> 00:17:37.440 anyway, timeouts in order listening here to conservative not better talk. I'm your 199 00:17:37.440 --> 00:17:45.839 host to huff back in just a minute. Back, my friends. So, 200 00:17:47.799 --> 00:17:52.839 I mentioned before the break that McCarthy McCarthy is getting some encouragement speaker McCarthy 201 00:17:53.880 --> 00:18:02.000 from conservatives around the country, including the one hosting this program, and I'm 202 00:18:02.039 --> 00:18:07.160 guessing the vast majority of you as well. And the argument is the encouragement 203 00:18:07.240 --> 00:18:15.359 is stand tall, be strong, don't capitulate, and that I don't know 204 00:18:15.400 --> 00:18:18.240 where this is going to end up. I mean, I have my hunches. 205 00:18:19.680 --> 00:18:25.119 I do you know. It's interesting when you look at the polling and 206 00:18:25.240 --> 00:18:30.240 you see that Americans sixty percent according to that poll I referenced earlier, which 207 00:18:30.240 --> 00:18:33.599 I think was a CNN poll. Heck, I sixty percent of CNN audience 208 00:18:33.680 --> 00:18:37.000 members think it. Then, my goodness, this has got to be an 209 00:18:37.000 --> 00:18:42.599 easy victory. But Americans are I think, waking up. I think they're 210 00:18:42.640 --> 00:18:48.599 seeing the silliness of this game that we're being subjected to. I hope that 211 00:18:48.680 --> 00:18:52.880 they know that it is, in fact a self created crisis. These folks 212 00:18:52.920 --> 00:18:59.759 can change this today. They could stop the problem immediately. And I know 213 00:19:00.000 --> 00:19:03.880 when I started to say this a moment ago last segment. But what compounds 214 00:19:03.920 --> 00:19:07.079 the problem is not just that they well, there's several things. One, 215 00:19:07.160 --> 00:19:18.319 they want to give things away so that they can basically trade benefits or entitlements 216 00:19:18.359 --> 00:19:23.759 to the American people in exchange for their vote. It's but it's it's more 217 00:19:23.839 --> 00:19:30.039 than that. It's not just that. And there's also the factor that says, 218 00:19:30.640 --> 00:19:34.160 some of these folks do not like this nation is founded, and so 219 00:19:34.359 --> 00:19:38.720 they're happy to just totally destroy it, which is what they're doing. And 220 00:19:38.799 --> 00:19:48.839 I would grant you that there are factors there as well, there's truth there 221 00:19:48.039 --> 00:19:53.400 as well. Some of these folks want to destroy this nation from the insight 222 00:19:53.480 --> 00:19:56.680 out. In fact, some would argue, many would argue that that's really 223 00:19:56.720 --> 00:20:03.319 the only way to take down a superpower like the United States of America is 224 00:20:03.359 --> 00:20:10.839 to destroy it from within, you know, push things like incredibly insane transagenda 225 00:20:10.960 --> 00:20:18.759 on young people, cause its citizens to hate one another, make basically financially 226 00:20:18.839 --> 00:20:26.599 break the nation, and so forth. So there's there's all of these there's 227 00:20:26.640 --> 00:20:33.640 those realities, those those factors. But the other thing is the other thing 228 00:20:33.720 --> 00:20:41.200 is they don't want how do I how do I say this? There is 229 00:20:41.200 --> 00:20:47.240 a financial catastrophe that is brewing in this nation, and so there's a real, 230 00:20:48.359 --> 00:20:52.720 a realistic viewpoint as well, and that is, if we do what 231 00:20:52.920 --> 00:20:57.680 needs to be done to fix the financial problem, it is going to inflict 232 00:21:00.359 --> 00:21:04.039 difficulty, financial harm on the American people because it's going to mean that we 233 00:21:04.119 --> 00:21:10.039 have to stop doing the crazy stuff. And so they don't want that. 234 00:21:10.720 --> 00:21:17.880 They would rather, the politicians would rather kind of hypnotize or put people into 235 00:21:17.920 --> 00:21:22.839 a trance into thinking everything is fine because it feels okay, but they just 236 00:21:22.920 --> 00:21:30.079 continue to inflate everything and kick the metaphorical can down the road because they don't 237 00:21:30.119 --> 00:21:34.480 want to actually address the root cause of the of the problem. Today. 238 00:21:34.480 --> 00:21:38.359 It's like having a splinter. This would be a massive splinter, but you 239 00:21:38.440 --> 00:21:44.759 know, having a splinter in your finger, which I got one. I 240 00:21:44.880 --> 00:21:48.119 got one recently. I say recently, a couple of months ago. I 241 00:21:48.200 --> 00:21:53.160 was standing next to a I think it was a palm tree, and I 242 00:21:53.240 --> 00:21:57.319 was sitting on the street corner on the curb, and I stood up, 243 00:21:57.920 --> 00:22:03.480 and when I reached my handback or move my arm or whatever, there's a 244 00:22:03.480 --> 00:22:08.559 splinter from the tree that literally stuck directly under my finger nail. And it 245 00:22:08.599 --> 00:22:11.960 was a pretty big splinter, and it was not easy to get out because 246 00:22:11.960 --> 00:22:15.359 I think the back of it broke off, so it was kind of wedged 247 00:22:15.440 --> 00:22:18.119 under there, and it was nasty looking. But when you have a splinter 248 00:22:18.240 --> 00:22:22.200 like that, you've got a choice to make. You can ignore it and 249 00:22:22.279 --> 00:22:29.759 it might for a moment, might not be super painful until the infection sets 250 00:22:29.799 --> 00:22:33.519 in. And if it's a really really bad splinter or an object that causes 251 00:22:33.599 --> 00:22:40.400 massive infection, you may have some really serious problems on your hand. In 252 00:22:40.440 --> 00:22:44.759 the most dramatic of cases, you could be looking at things like I mean, 253 00:22:44.880 --> 00:22:48.680 that could jeopardize your health or your ability to keep the appendage. And 254 00:22:49.920 --> 00:22:55.000 so but if you take the tweezers, even though, and you dig it 255 00:22:55.000 --> 00:22:57.559 out with a needle or whatever you do, you pull this baby out now, 256 00:22:59.319 --> 00:23:03.200 you avoid greater problem down the road. But it's painful in the short 257 00:23:03.319 --> 00:23:07.240 term. But that's what we have to do. And none of these jokers 258 00:23:07.240 --> 00:23:11.240 and clowns want to do this. None of them do. And so I 259 00:23:11.400 --> 00:23:17.160 like the position McCarthy's in because people like Gates and we talked about this earlier 260 00:23:17.160 --> 00:23:19.640 in the week as well, Gates, Lauren Bobert, they are looking at 261 00:23:19.720 --> 00:23:25.480 him and basically saying, you know, we expect you to try to cut 262 00:23:25.480 --> 00:23:29.240 spending. We're not going to let you off easy. If you're going to 263 00:23:30.240 --> 00:23:36.759 if you're just going to be basically a piece on the checkerboard for the radical 264 00:23:36.839 --> 00:23:40.599 left in the Democrat Party, we will we will have a vote to vacate 265 00:23:40.640 --> 00:23:45.640 the chair and potentially remove you a speaker. That's a potential reality for McCarthy. 266 00:23:45.680 --> 00:23:52.240 I don't think McCarthy principal from a principal perspective is really is serious about 267 00:23:52.319 --> 00:23:57.519 cutting spending like you and I are. I think it's politically expedient and it's 268 00:23:57.599 --> 00:24:03.559 good for him to, you know, to satisfy the people who put him 269 00:24:03.599 --> 00:24:07.200 in this position. And that's I mean, I would prefer that it was 270 00:24:07.240 --> 00:24:11.240 a principled position that he had taken. But I'll take this one if we 271 00:24:11.319 --> 00:24:17.720 can apply the right amount of healthy political pressure for him to do for him 272 00:24:17.759 --> 00:24:19.640 to do the right thing, and so we'll see where it ends up. 273 00:24:19.680 --> 00:24:26.160 I'm I'm not overly optimistic that he's going to see this thing through, but 274 00:24:26.279 --> 00:24:30.839 there are tools and mechanisms in place, and may I take you back in 275 00:24:30.880 --> 00:24:34.559 time. That's precisely why, exactly why macart excuse me, Matt Gates, 276 00:24:34.680 --> 00:24:41.279 Lauren Boebert, and others in the Republican House, after what two in January 277 00:24:42.160 --> 00:24:48.160 when they voted for their speaker, It's exactly why they put some of these 278 00:24:48.200 --> 00:24:52.960 safeguards and rules and so forth in place, because they wanted to be able 279 00:24:52.960 --> 00:24:59.319 to hold in the cart the accountable. Because the desire here from all these 280 00:24:59.359 --> 00:25:02.839 parties that are involved this negotiation is to is to get out of this thing. 281 00:25:03.039 --> 00:25:10.119 Nobody wants to watch the government shut down, although I'm telling you that's 282 00:25:10.559 --> 00:25:14.359 with some with a couple of exceptions, things that they could fix and address 283 00:25:14.400 --> 00:25:18.000 in Congress. The idea that the government shut down is not that huge of 284 00:25:18.000 --> 00:25:26.039 a deal. The much larger deal is for us to spend money like it's 285 00:25:26.160 --> 00:25:30.759 water, which is what we've been doing for decades. We have to fix 286 00:25:30.839 --> 00:25:34.680 this, we have to write this ship. I'm saying, every program in 287 00:25:34.720 --> 00:25:38.359 this nation can have some cut, some degree of cuts. Some of them 288 00:25:38.359 --> 00:25:44.119 can have massive cuts. Some of them can be totally removed from the federal 289 00:25:44.160 --> 00:25:49.519 budget altogether. Departments can be removed and so forth, Department of Education, 290 00:25:49.640 --> 00:25:52.839 for example. I'd love to see the i RS gone. I know that 291 00:25:52.880 --> 00:25:57.880 these are these are things that take a lot of political momentum to get to. 292 00:25:59.599 --> 00:26:03.119 But the point is we need to start moving in the direction of fiscal 293 00:26:03.160 --> 00:26:08.240 responsibility and using this, even though it's self created, using this crisis as 294 00:26:08.240 --> 00:26:14.519 a means by which to get there. I'm okay with if McCarthy actually sees 295 00:26:14.559 --> 00:26:17.440 this through. So we'll see where it ends up. But here in the 296 00:26:17.480 --> 00:26:19.599 next what the next week or so is it June first? I think is 297 00:26:19.599 --> 00:26:23.640 that what they're predicting now, They gotta have this thing settled. So hopefully 298 00:26:23.839 --> 00:26:29.680 they do. Hopefully McCarthy stands firm. Hopefully the American people get what they 299 00:26:29.720 --> 00:26:33.799 want, most importantly, what we need, which is government spending to be 300 00:26:33.880 --> 00:26:36.559 reined in. So that being said, I'm going to take a time out, 301 00:26:36.599 --> 00:26:38.440 my friends, shifting gears on the other side of the break, be 302 00:26:38.519 --> 00:26:56.599 back here in just a minute. Welcome back, my friends. Do you 303 00:26:56.640 --> 00:27:02.920 remember we didn't talk about this on this program, and it wasn't because we 304 00:27:02.920 --> 00:27:04.720 were ignoring it. There's just so many things to talk about. As I've 305 00:27:04.720 --> 00:27:10.319 shared before, when I started this program, it'll be eight years ago, 306 00:27:11.200 --> 00:27:14.880 coming up in August August fifteenth, I remember thinking, how am I going 307 00:27:14.960 --> 00:27:18.039 to talk for the whole time? I hadn't done this before. How do 308 00:27:18.079 --> 00:27:21.680 you do then? What if there's not something to talk about on a given 309 00:27:21.799 --> 00:27:26.799 day? Give me a break? That was beyond naive. The reality is 310 00:27:27.319 --> 00:27:32.079 you have to pick and choose what you discuss. But do you remember, 311 00:27:32.839 --> 00:27:37.799 was it last week there was an individual who had rented a U haul threw 312 00:27:37.920 --> 00:27:45.640 himself a Nazi flag in the front seat or some such thing. He was 313 00:27:45.759 --> 00:27:56.359 from Chesterfield, Missouri, nineteen year old, and he allegedly was trying to 314 00:27:56.519 --> 00:28:00.880 crash in and harm the president and vice president with the U haul truck. 315 00:28:00.960 --> 00:28:07.160 Remember this, And at first, at first there was a you know, 316 00:28:07.400 --> 00:28:12.039 they saw the Nazi flag or whatever he had in the front seat or wherever 317 00:28:12.079 --> 00:28:17.839 this thing was, and they were saying white supremacy was the motive. And 318 00:28:17.839 --> 00:28:23.200 of course that fits nicely into Biden's agenda and what they're talking about. The 319 00:28:23.359 --> 00:28:29.000 race baiting crowd and the folks that just want to talk about identity politics. 320 00:28:30.559 --> 00:28:37.160 Folks, they have given whatever small percentage of true white supremacists there are in 321 00:28:37.200 --> 00:28:45.160 this country, they have magnified their voices so many times because they simply are 322 00:28:45.200 --> 00:28:48.279 acting like there's a lot, infinitely more of them than there actually are. 323 00:28:48.359 --> 00:28:52.559 This is a fringe group of people, and I don't know the motivations. 324 00:28:52.599 --> 00:28:56.799 I don't want to even get into that, but just the logic of this 325 00:28:56.880 --> 00:29:04.079 falls apart when you realize this individuals not a white individual. His name is 326 00:29:04.680 --> 00:29:12.079 a Si Varshath Condula. I'm pronouncing that correctly, I hope. So and 327 00:29:12.160 --> 00:29:15.759 so, there was all this talk about white supremacy, and you know, 328 00:29:15.799 --> 00:29:19.319 you don't even have to be white to be a white supremacist. These are 329 00:29:19.319 --> 00:29:26.240 the sorts of gems you find while watching stupid programs like The View and anyway. 330 00:29:26.880 --> 00:29:30.920 So there was a bunch of hubub about this. But then suddenly after 331 00:29:30.960 --> 00:29:33.480 he was arrested, well, I should say this, I'm looking here at 332 00:29:33.480 --> 00:29:37.960 an article at American wire News dot com again in the stack of stuff. 333 00:29:37.400 --> 00:29:44.319 But in he was initially charged with threatening to kill, kidnap, or inflict 334 00:29:44.359 --> 00:29:48.720 harm on a president, vice president or family member, as well as assault 335 00:29:48.359 --> 00:29:53.039 with a dangerous weapon, reckless operation of a motor vehicle, trespassing, and 336 00:29:53.119 --> 00:29:59.359 destruction of federal property. That was according to an article in the New York 337 00:29:59.400 --> 00:30:06.119 Post. But as this article at American wire News points out, something extraordinary 338 00:30:06.200 --> 00:30:15.680 happened at that point. Prosecutors dropped every single charge against mister Kundula with nothing 339 00:30:15.720 --> 00:30:22.519 but quote, a single count of depredation of property of the United States and 340 00:30:22.680 --> 00:30:29.160 excess of one thousand dollars. Friends, What in the world is going on 341 00:30:29.200 --> 00:30:34.000 here? When this was first when this was first reported, I mean this 342 00:30:34.160 --> 00:30:44.599 was they acted like this was akin to catching Lee Harvey Oswald and parading him 343 00:30:44.599 --> 00:30:47.200 out in front of the cameras for Jack Ruby and all this, and I 344 00:30:47.240 --> 00:30:52.000 don't want to get into that hole assassination of JFK, but it was it 345 00:30:52.079 --> 00:31:00.440 was such a it was just such a dramatic sort of event, right you 346 00:31:00.599 --> 00:31:06.039 had, you had all the I guess response to this, and it just 347 00:31:06.079 --> 00:31:11.319 fit nice and neatly in with the narrative. And then suddenly nothing one charge 348 00:31:12.720 --> 00:31:18.880 damaging property and access or depredation of property of the United States and an access 349 00:31:18.920 --> 00:31:23.240 of a thousand, a thousand dollars? What the world is going on here? 350 00:31:23.720 --> 00:31:27.279 Now? I have thoughts on this, but I just want to ask. 351 00:31:29.160 --> 00:31:34.000 I just want to ask people who who believe that for some reason that 352 00:31:34.079 --> 00:31:37.799 we have reasons to trust the media, that we have reasons to trust the 353 00:31:37.880 --> 00:31:41.400 narrative for the people that do that, just why what in the world happened 354 00:31:41.440 --> 00:31:47.960 here for there to be such a change in the way that this was reported, 355 00:31:48.000 --> 00:31:48.960 not just the way that it was reported, but also the things that 356 00:31:49.000 --> 00:31:56.720 were being done from a legal perspective. Why what's the explanation here? Crazy 357 00:31:56.759 --> 00:31:59.599 stuff? For sure? Time out though is in order? My friends? 358 00:31:59.640 --> 00:32:00.319 I was going to say one of the thing too, what was I gonna 359 00:32:00.359 --> 00:32:05.720 say? Let's see, yeah, right there, this falls in line that 360 00:32:05.920 --> 00:32:08.880 story. When I was talking about the narrative and so forth. I have 361 00:32:08.920 --> 00:32:12.720 it also in the stack of stuff, there's an article or a poll that 362 00:32:12.839 --> 00:32:16.200 was recently released that said nearly two thirds or found that nearly two thirds of 363 00:32:16.200 --> 00:32:22.400 Americans now see the media as the quote enemy of the people. And so, 364 00:32:23.759 --> 00:32:28.440 to kind of echo what I said last segment, there's a silver lining 365 00:32:28.480 --> 00:32:34.799 here. And all this chaos and all this tumult and all of this craziness 366 00:32:35.319 --> 00:32:39.240 and all of this very heightened state that we find ourselves living here this highly 367 00:32:39.279 --> 00:32:45.680 intense time, there's a silver lining. And the silver lining is people are 368 00:32:45.720 --> 00:32:53.680 coming around to seeing things in a logical perspective. Now some certainly cannot see 369 00:32:53.720 --> 00:33:00.799 it logically. They've effectively given up their ability to think for themselves, or 370 00:33:00.839 --> 00:33:04.039 they just don't want to fight the narrative or whatever, they've had the wool 371 00:33:04.759 --> 00:33:07.640 hold over their eyes, whatever you want to say. But more and more 372 00:33:07.680 --> 00:33:15.039 people because they've been engaged, because they've watched performances like the never ending debt 373 00:33:15.119 --> 00:33:22.599 ceiling, fight, like the never ending accusations of race and white supremacy every 374 00:33:22.599 --> 00:33:27.400 time anyone does anything at all anywhere in this nation of three hundred and thirty 375 00:33:27.440 --> 00:33:34.119 plus million people in the era of identity politics, in the era where people 376 00:33:34.119 --> 00:33:37.839 can actually see what it looks like when the left governs, when the left 377 00:33:38.000 --> 00:33:45.920 legislates, when the left responds to nominees for the Supreme Court that they don't 378 00:33:45.960 --> 00:33:47.279 like, and so forth, when they can see all this craziness, when 379 00:33:47.319 --> 00:33:51.400 they can see Antifa, when they can see Black Lives Matter, who, 380 00:33:51.400 --> 00:33:54.720 by the way, is in financial turmoil, except, of course, allegedly 381 00:33:54.759 --> 00:33:59.839 the leaders who seem to do quite well from the money that they raise the 382 00:34:00.200 --> 00:34:04.519 past many years. It's there for people to see, and some people are 383 00:34:04.519 --> 00:34:07.319 coming around to see it. We just got to get more. We've got 384 00:34:07.319 --> 00:34:10.960 to get more to the point where they can see the reality that these leftists 385 00:34:10.960 --> 00:34:15.079 are driving us knows first, at a high rate of speed, directly into 386 00:34:15.079 --> 00:34:19.039 the ground. So I just wanted to share that story before I take a 387 00:34:19.159 --> 00:34:22.280 brief time out. My friends, you're listening conservative not better talk. I'm 388 00:34:22.280 --> 00:34:34.800 your host, Todd Huff Back in just a minute, Come back, my 389 00:34:34.920 --> 00:34:39.400 friends, excuse me. So, as you know, as you know, 390 00:34:39.679 --> 00:34:47.519 this weekend is Memorial Day weekend, and I like to I like to take 391 00:34:47.639 --> 00:34:53.280 moments around these these holiday special occasions to talk. Just just a moment about 392 00:34:53.320 --> 00:35:00.039 this, because this nation, my friends, is the greatest nation on on 393 00:35:00.920 --> 00:35:07.239 the face of this planet, and it is the greatest nation in large part. 394 00:35:07.639 --> 00:35:12.039 And you got the fact of you know, what the founders did, 395 00:35:12.119 --> 00:35:17.119 how they built this nation, what they recognize, that we are citizens, 396 00:35:17.239 --> 00:35:22.119 not subjects, that rights come not from government but by God. That we 397 00:35:22.199 --> 00:35:27.079 have not a democracy, though there are certainly democratic aspects. Instead, this 398 00:35:27.159 --> 00:35:32.239 is the constitutional republic where the rights of the individual, the smallest minority is 399 00:35:32.320 --> 00:35:37.840 protected, the individual, the single person. You want to talk about minority 400 00:35:37.920 --> 00:35:44.480 rights, talk about the rights of the individual. And they took efforts, 401 00:35:44.800 --> 00:35:51.960 they went to great links to debate some of these issues and to write down 402 00:35:52.079 --> 00:35:54.159 what some of our rights are, not all of them, but some of 403 00:35:54.159 --> 00:36:00.480 them. And some of those ideas are that we're free to live in accordance 404 00:36:00.480 --> 00:36:05.719 with our conscience, whether we worship God or whether we don't believe that there 405 00:36:05.800 --> 00:36:10.679 is a God, whether we choose one career path or another, whether we 406 00:36:12.039 --> 00:36:16.519 choose one style of life. Maybe, for example, we homeschool and we 407 00:36:16.599 --> 00:36:21.519 live in an RV as we travel the country, though we will be back 408 00:36:21.519 --> 00:36:28.039 in Indie at least for a bit here beginning well here pretty soon, so 409 00:36:29.639 --> 00:36:31.960 we have choices, and they recognize us. They recognize that we have the 410 00:36:32.039 --> 00:36:36.719 right to protect ourselves, whether it's from an intruder, someone trying to harm 411 00:36:37.119 --> 00:36:42.239 us or our families, or whether it's the actual government, tyrannical government. 412 00:36:42.280 --> 00:36:49.199 And so they recognize things that we're not really recognize in the past. Typically, 413 00:36:49.400 --> 00:36:53.960 I've said before, and I've said before that normally when one group has 414 00:36:54.079 --> 00:37:00.519 military victory over another, that group establishes itself as the next I don't know, 415 00:37:00.599 --> 00:37:06.760 the next group of dictators or the next oligarchy or whatever you want to 416 00:37:06.800 --> 00:37:13.000 call it, some group that establishes itself as well as the overseers of society 417 00:37:13.039 --> 00:37:17.320 and the new folks in power that we all have to basically bend our need 418 00:37:17.360 --> 00:37:22.559 to and our founders did not do that. Our founders did not do that, 419 00:37:22.599 --> 00:37:27.320 and has resulted in the greatest nation on the face of this planet. 420 00:37:27.599 --> 00:37:32.519 And my friends, this weekend, this weekend is the time that this nation 421 00:37:32.599 --> 00:37:38.679 takes to remember the fallen, to remember those who gave the ultimate sacrifice in 422 00:37:38.800 --> 00:37:45.559 defense of this great nation. And I this is a holiday that should be 423 00:37:45.039 --> 00:37:50.000 near and dear to all of our hearts for those who have lost loved ones 424 00:37:51.159 --> 00:37:57.559 our prayers are with you. We honor their sacrifice, friends, loved ones, 425 00:37:57.639 --> 00:38:01.639 family members, be honor to sacrifice. This nation simply would not be 426 00:38:01.800 --> 00:38:10.360 possible without people willing to defend freedom, liberty, opportunity, this great nation 427 00:38:10.760 --> 00:38:15.719 and be willing to sacrifice. Aul. So, I hope you have a 428 00:38:15.719 --> 00:38:19.000 happy Memorial Day. My friend's quick time out come back and wrap up here 429 00:38:19.360 --> 00:38:30.440 in just a minute. Welcome back, my friends, and I hope you 430 00:38:30.480 --> 00:38:37.599 have a wonderful Memorial Day weekend. This again nation, this nation again was 431 00:38:37.159 --> 00:38:42.199 the result in large part to those willing to pay the ultimate sacrifice. So 432 00:38:43.679 --> 00:38:50.760 I want to also share with you for those who are considering ways to help 433 00:38:51.960 --> 00:38:53.800 advance the conservative movement, one way you can do that is to support the 434 00:38:53.840 --> 00:38:59.039 advertisers on this program. One of those is our good friend Eric Wilson with 435 00:38:59.079 --> 00:39:02.840 I Cell Health Health Insurance. You've got a pro life health plan. Check 436 00:39:02.920 --> 00:39:07.119 him out at at I sellhealth dot com. 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