WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.440 --> 00:00:04.599 Attention. You're listening to the Tod Huff Radio Show, America's home for conservative 2 00:00:04.759 --> 00:00:08.839 not bitter talk radio. The advice that the content of this program has been 3 00:00:08.839 --> 00:00:12.560 documented to prevent and even cure liberalism, and listening may cause you to lean 4 00:00:12.599 --> 00:00:33.320 to the right. Here's your conservative but not Bitter host, Todd Huff. 5 00:00:37.159 --> 00:00:40.560 Welcome, my friends to the home of Conservative not Bitter Talk. I am 6 00:00:40.600 --> 00:00:43.799 your host, the one, the only, the ever so beloved Todd Huff 7 00:00:43.840 --> 00:00:46.840 Email. You know the game, You know the drill if you've been listening 8 00:00:46.840 --> 00:00:52.759 for any link to time Todd at Todd Huffshow dot com three one seven, 9 00:00:52.960 --> 00:00:56.560 two one zero twenty eight to thirty. That's the text line. Thoughts, 10 00:00:57.119 --> 00:01:04.959 questions, feedback, adoration, and praise needs to accompany whatever you send to 11 00:01:06.239 --> 00:01:08.879 either one of those, either the email or the number. It's good to 12 00:01:08.920 --> 00:01:11.599 be here today. So you know, if you really want to know what 13 00:01:11.640 --> 00:01:18.000 the left thinks about where we stand in this election, you really want to 14 00:01:18.079 --> 00:01:26.000 know where, well what the left is preparing itself to deal with. I 15 00:01:26.000 --> 00:01:30.680 think there's no better example of that, no better example of that than what 16 00:01:30.840 --> 00:01:38.000 I heard what I heard from Jake Tapper the other day. Sorry, my 17 00:01:38.799 --> 00:01:45.920 SoundBite has skipped the I have to reload it here. But Jake Tapper on 18 00:01:46.519 --> 00:01:53.719 CNN is inviting well, let me just read you. This is a tweet 19 00:01:53.799 --> 00:02:00.079 from a gentleman named Curtis how Curtis Holck is the managing editor of new NewsBusters 20 00:02:01.120 --> 00:02:06.959 NewsBusters. In fact, you'll hear us from time to time reference NewsBusters on 21 00:02:07.079 --> 00:02:10.360 here. But Curtis Howck tweeted this out. It's a clip from CNN. 22 00:02:10.960 --> 00:02:16.879 Here's what the tweet reads from Curtis Howck, CNN's Jake Tapper and the cast 23 00:02:17.000 --> 00:02:23.080 of the ultra elites at the Atlantic. That's a very radical leftist publication that 24 00:02:23.120 --> 00:02:28.080 thinks it's much smarter than everybody in this audience. Want you to know that 25 00:02:28.120 --> 00:02:34.000 they're very disappointed in you numbskulls who don't or won't, excuse me, vote 26 00:02:34.080 --> 00:02:39.680 Democrat. In twenty twenty four, they just did fifteen minutes on why America 27 00:02:39.800 --> 00:02:45.960 and the world would cease to exist if Trump wins. They truly hate you 28 00:02:46.360 --> 00:02:52.120 and don't care you know it should there be an if in there. Maybe. 29 00:02:52.159 --> 00:02:55.639 So they've got these elitists, these leftists, these radicals on here, 30 00:02:55.680 --> 00:03:04.080 and so they're in panic mode. They're an outright, unmistakable panic mode. 31 00:03:05.000 --> 00:03:09.199 So they've written in the Atlantic, which I'll put in today's show notes, 32 00:03:09.879 --> 00:03:15.039 but they've gotten in this publication in the Atlantic, they've got a series of 33 00:03:15.159 --> 00:03:21.840 I don't even know how many. It's like a If you go to the 34 00:03:21.879 --> 00:03:25.879 digital version of this, there's so many articles about all the dangers of Trump. 35 00:03:27.879 --> 00:03:30.000 It's like a landing page. So if you can, for those of 36 00:03:30.039 --> 00:03:35.080 you that are tech savvy, or if you know what I mean from a 37 00:03:35.120 --> 00:03:38.199 marketing perspective, So you click on the link to the article, and it's 38 00:03:38.280 --> 00:03:45.120 not just the article, it's a link then to like sections of the article. 39 00:03:45.919 --> 00:03:50.520 So for example, it would have one person writing about Trump's threat to 40 00:03:50.840 --> 00:03:54.879 I don't know journalism. It would have another section, another link, and 41 00:03:54.919 --> 00:03:59.159 this is at the top. I don't even think when I click on the 42 00:03:59.199 --> 00:04:01.319 link that I can see any of the article. It's a series of articles. 43 00:04:01.319 --> 00:04:04.840 It's like a it's like a mini series. It's like a book, 44 00:04:05.599 --> 00:04:12.599 and it's got all of these threats. Trump on misogyny, trump on you 45 00:04:12.599 --> 00:04:19.800 know, journalism, trump on who probably authoritarianism, trump on whatever, overthrowing 46 00:04:19.839 --> 00:04:25.360 our democracy, which of course you know, we have a constitutional republic. 47 00:04:25.399 --> 00:04:29.639 But the point is, the point is there's there's like ten or fifteen. 48 00:04:29.680 --> 00:04:31.079 I don't even know how many. I didn't take the time to count. 49 00:04:31.120 --> 00:04:36.120 It's just and it'll say, like you know, Author A on Trump's threat 50 00:04:36.199 --> 00:04:43.920 to misogyny, Author B on Trump's threat to journalism, Author C. And 51 00:04:44.000 --> 00:04:51.959 it's just a list of radical leftists, self appointed experts, elitists who loathe 52 00:04:53.120 --> 00:04:59.000 the average rank and file American. And so this is designed, as is 53 00:04:59.040 --> 00:05:04.199 everything that the left u is designed to further their agenda, further their cause, 54 00:05:04.279 --> 00:05:12.759 to try to give someone some reason to vote for Biden, to not 55 00:05:13.040 --> 00:05:17.399 vote for Trump. I mean, these things just taken on their own and 56 00:05:17.439 --> 00:05:23.879 looked at for face value. My friends, these folks need to be evaluated 57 00:05:23.920 --> 00:05:29.319 for some sort of a mental breakdown. This stuff is so ridiculous and so 58 00:05:29.480 --> 00:05:34.240 absurd. In fact, the starting point of these series of articles is, 59 00:05:34.240 --> 00:05:39.199 well, Trump was terrible in twenty sixteen in his first term, but he's 60 00:05:39.240 --> 00:05:42.720 going to be so much worse. He's going to be so much worse in 61 00:05:42.759 --> 00:05:46.680 his second term. We don't even know. Trump had every chance to figure 62 00:05:46.720 --> 00:05:51.079 out all the ins and outs, and now he really knows, he really 63 00:05:51.160 --> 00:05:56.879 knows how to navigate the system. In fact, you'll remember I've said on 64 00:05:56.920 --> 00:06:04.639 this program, I'm pausing to think. You know Rush. I know Rush 65 00:06:04.759 --> 00:06:10.680 used to say this. He says, I know these people like the back 66 00:06:10.720 --> 00:06:14.079 of my hand. And he would also say, which is a much more 67 00:06:14.120 --> 00:06:16.439 colorful way of putting it, Rush with this is Rush saying it. He 68 00:06:16.759 --> 00:06:23.639 would say, I know these people like every square inch of my glorious naked 69 00:06:23.680 --> 00:06:28.439 body. Is what he would say. And he did. He did, 70 00:06:28.560 --> 00:06:33.639 and I think we all do too. We know who these these folks are, 71 00:06:34.199 --> 00:06:39.000 and we've pointed out that this is what they were going to do. 72 00:06:39.240 --> 00:06:42.800 They have no other option, my friends, they have no other option. 73 00:06:42.879 --> 00:06:47.720 They cannot tell us reasons to vote for Biden. They cannot give us reasons 74 00:06:48.199 --> 00:06:53.560 in our day to day life of things that are better. They cannot point 75 00:06:53.600 --> 00:06:58.360 to something and say wow, look at They try to. They try to 76 00:06:58.360 --> 00:07:00.920 do this with January sixth. They try to act as though we were on 77 00:07:00.959 --> 00:07:06.360 the verge of our government collapse and give me a break. Absolutely, just 78 00:07:08.399 --> 00:07:13.720 the ridiculousness of that entire argument. And again, people that broke the law 79 00:07:13.800 --> 00:07:17.199 need to face the consequences. We would be nice to know how many people 80 00:07:17.279 --> 00:07:24.959 were FEDS there understand really all the evidence of what was going on that day. 81 00:07:25.439 --> 00:07:29.040 But no matter who broke what law, there needs to be consequence. 82 00:07:29.120 --> 00:07:32.639 But that does not mean the only two options, the only two options for 83 00:07:32.720 --> 00:07:39.600 January sixth, are not It was either the near death of the American governing 84 00:07:39.680 --> 00:07:45.160 system or just a tour of the Capitol building that day. Those are not 85 00:07:45.279 --> 00:07:49.519 the only two options. Reasonable people understand that, yes, there was a 86 00:07:49.560 --> 00:07:54.439 protest, Yes there were plenty of people that didn't do anything wrong. There 87 00:07:54.439 --> 00:07:59.600 were people that did do things wrong, and the ones that did need to 88 00:07:59.600 --> 00:08:03.199 be held accountable. But they shouldn't. They shouldn't have things ginned up, 89 00:08:03.519 --> 00:08:09.040 they shouldn't have a lack of access to due process. And that's what's happening. 90 00:08:11.439 --> 00:08:15.720 And so they point to January sixth, they've compared January tomorrow. By 91 00:08:15.759 --> 00:08:20.720 the way, today today is one of the days they compare to January sixth, 92 00:08:20.839 --> 00:08:24.000 and I usually talk about this day. If you go back through the 93 00:08:24.120 --> 00:08:30.519 archives of December seventh, you'll hear where we've talked about Pearl Harbor Day. 94 00:08:30.519 --> 00:08:33.759 We'll probably do that for a bit. It's an important day in the history 95 00:08:33.759 --> 00:08:41.960 of this great nation. It was an incredibly destructive and sad day for this 96 00:08:41.000 --> 00:08:48.279 great nation in no universe. Should December seventh, nineteen forty one be compared 97 00:08:48.480 --> 00:08:52.960 to January sixth, twenty twenty one the other day they like to throw around 98 00:08:54.679 --> 00:09:03.279 flippantly without regard for reality. In comparing to comparison to January sixth is September 99 00:09:03.279 --> 00:09:11.000 eleventh, two thousand and one. They literally compare those two days, those 100 00:09:11.000 --> 00:09:16.519 two days where thousands of Americans were killed. My enemy force is won by 101 00:09:16.559 --> 00:09:22.480 the Imperial Japanese, the other at the hands of the radical Islamic terrorists, 102 00:09:22.360 --> 00:09:28.440 by the way, the kissing cousins of Hamas, who they also currently defend 103 00:09:28.480 --> 00:09:33.000 today. It's just remarkable the series, the series of events that have gotten 104 00:09:33.080 --> 00:09:39.000 us to where we are today. But they cannot make this election about anything 105 00:09:39.080 --> 00:09:46.039 besides the un mitigated fear of Donald J. Trump. And that's what these 106 00:09:46.120 --> 00:09:50.159 articles, that's what this article or series of articles I guess in The Atlantic 107 00:09:50.399 --> 00:09:54.519 is about. So with that being said, good old Jake Tapper CNN, 108 00:09:54.559 --> 00:09:58.320 he wants to wants you to believe he's a real, fair minded, objective 109 00:09:58.360 --> 00:10:05.360 journalist. He invites some of these folks on. He wants his viewers few 110 00:10:05.399 --> 00:10:09.080 and far between, though they may be. He wants his viewers to listen 111 00:10:09.279 --> 00:10:16.600 to just how serious this really is. We're this isn't a game anymore. 112 00:10:16.320 --> 00:10:20.679 There's real risk here for this country. I want you to listen. I'm 113 00:10:20.679 --> 00:10:22.600 not going to play this whole thing. It's several minutes. In fact, 114 00:10:22.639 --> 00:10:26.080 the whole thing I think maygo fifteen minutes, So don't worry about that. 115 00:10:26.519 --> 00:10:31.320 I just want you to listen to get a feel about what's being said. 116 00:10:31.840 --> 00:10:35.600 Hey, let's start done here. Warning twenty four. Leave a special issue 117 00:10:35.600 --> 00:10:39.159 of the Atlantic magazine so that he lays at a detailed, compelling case that's 118 00:10:39.159 --> 00:10:45.080 specifically helling what could happen if Donald Trump returns to the Oval office by Atlantic 119 00:10:45.080 --> 00:10:50.000 writers outline how the threats to democracy will be bigger than ever before. Stop 120 00:10:50.080 --> 00:10:52.200 that, now, listen. I don't care if there's two million essays, 121 00:10:52.279 --> 00:10:56.720 Jake. What matters is the context. He acts as though the number of 122 00:10:56.840 --> 00:11:01.480 essays that the starting point here is that. I mean, we've got this 123 00:11:01.639 --> 00:11:05.600 regular journalists out there doing their work, and they were all just independently working 124 00:11:05.639 --> 00:11:11.320 here, just you know, taking the day's events where the day's events might 125 00:11:11.360 --> 00:11:16.080 take them, and they stumbled onto this, and they all realized Hey, 126 00:11:16.320 --> 00:11:20.360 we're all writing about the same thing. Now he's not saying that directly, 127 00:11:20.360 --> 00:11:24.000 but that's kind of the feel here, is it not we had twenty four? 128 00:11:24.039 --> 00:11:28.559 Why else would he point out twenty four? Otherwise? Otherwise he could 129 00:11:28.639 --> 00:11:33.320 have simply said the Atlantic called a meeting like we did here at CNN, 130 00:11:33.759 --> 00:11:37.080 and they said, hey, I want each of you to take a subject 131 00:11:37.200 --> 00:11:41.519 that's going to be worse when Trump is president, and a well, should 132 00:11:41.519 --> 00:11:45.559 Trump be president in twenty twenty four? In fact, if James O'Keefe was 133 00:11:45.600 --> 00:11:52.279 there, if he had the log in credentials for the Atlantics Zoom meeting Zoom 134 00:11:52.320 --> 00:11:56.799 meeting room, then we might have actual evidence of this. It wasn't as 135 00:11:56.840 --> 00:12:03.559 though these journalists just all happened to just by chance be writing about these things. 136 00:12:03.120 --> 00:12:09.600 This is exactly the strategy, This is the intention, this is what 137 00:12:09.720 --> 00:12:15.159 it is by design. And I've got a break. I've got a break 138 00:12:15.159 --> 00:12:16.440 here, so we'll play this thing. More of this thing on the other 139 00:12:16.480 --> 00:12:24.759 side of the break. The faux outrage, the fake panic too much for 140 00:12:24.840 --> 00:12:28.279 me to take today, my friends, sits out. You're listening to conservative, 141 00:12:28.320 --> 00:12:30.759 not better talk. I am your host, Todt huff back in a 142 00:12:30.759 --> 00:12:43.679 minute. Welcome back, my friends. Sue listening here to this SoundBite, 143 00:12:43.799 --> 00:12:52.720 be ever so panicked, Jake Tapper, I want you to know that democracy 144 00:12:52.759 --> 00:12:56.639 as we know it. Of course, I know we have a constitutional republic. 145 00:12:56.679 --> 00:13:00.639 I'm simply using their words. By the way, that is a code. 146 00:13:01.960 --> 00:13:07.039 That's when they say democracy, and this applies anytime I say it on 147 00:13:07.080 --> 00:13:11.559 this program. Just hear me out, democracy as we know it is at 148 00:13:11.639 --> 00:13:15.960 risk when they say that, when they say Trump is a threat to our 149 00:13:15.960 --> 00:13:20.799 democracy. Trump's going to end our democracy. Trump's going to overthrow our democracy. 150 00:13:20.840 --> 00:13:28.440 Whatever I am hereby giving myself in this day today, December seventh, 151 00:13:28.480 --> 00:13:35.519 twenty twenty three, this free pass up is going to apply to all points 152 00:13:35.879 --> 00:13:41.000 at all shows that I've ever done that I talk about this so basically, 153 00:13:41.039 --> 00:13:45.519 when they use that phrase, what they're trying to do, they don't really 154 00:13:45.559 --> 00:13:52.320 get bogged down and defining words. They they try to find the words in 155 00:13:52.679 --> 00:13:58.639 the way to phrase it that has the ability to elicit the strongest emotional response, 156 00:13:58.000 --> 00:14:03.679 the strongest desired emotional response from those who hear it, and that is 157 00:14:03.720 --> 00:14:07.960 one of fear. They want you to be so afraid. They want the 158 00:14:07.000 --> 00:14:11.360 American people to be so afraid that they will cast a ballot for anybody who's 159 00:14:11.440 --> 00:14:16.720 not associated with whatever scary term they've come up with. And so the term 160 00:14:16.840 --> 00:14:26.240 is overthrowing our democracy, a danger to our democracy, danger to our institutions, 161 00:14:26.279 --> 00:14:28.960 which suddenly they care about. They've been destroying these things for decades. 162 00:14:30.159 --> 00:14:33.879 It's all a facade, it's all make believe, it's all faux outrage. 163 00:14:33.360 --> 00:14:37.879 None of this is real. It's all about salvaging if they can the twenty 164 00:14:37.960 --> 00:14:45.039 twenty four election. They are terrified of Trump in multiple ways. One way 165 00:14:45.039 --> 00:14:48.519 that we'll get to as the program unfolds, that we've already touched. I 166 00:14:48.559 --> 00:14:50.960 tell you some days I read the news and I think you guys are lucky 167 00:14:52.000 --> 00:14:56.320 because we've talked about these things, in some cases years in advance of the 168 00:14:56.360 --> 00:15:01.120 things that are in the news today. Because it's predictable, it really is. 169 00:15:01.200 --> 00:15:05.240 And so none of this is real. And when they say again, 170 00:15:05.559 --> 00:15:09.960 our democracies at risk, I know that we live in a constitutional republic, 171 00:15:11.080 --> 00:15:15.720 and that matters. It's not a pure democracy, and there's some key differences. 172 00:15:15.720 --> 00:15:20.480 A constitutional republic is designed to protect the rights of the smallest minority, 173 00:15:20.519 --> 00:15:28.159 which is the individual, and so they enumerated some of the liberties. Some 174 00:15:28.240 --> 00:15:33.120 of the liberties the founders would say, we're given to us by our creator. 175 00:15:33.480 --> 00:15:37.759 Oh my goodness, gasp. Our creator is the one that give us 176 00:15:37.840 --> 00:15:43.080 rights. Not the government, not someone who's been elected, not some elitist, 177 00:15:43.159 --> 00:15:48.399 not someone who's a writer for the Atlantic. Our rights, your rights, 178 00:15:48.440 --> 00:15:52.960 They don't come from any person. They come from Almighty God, a 179 00:15:52.120 --> 00:15:58.320 virtue of being a human being. You have those rights no matter what Joseph 180 00:15:58.679 --> 00:16:03.840 Robinette Bribery says about them, no matter what these authors at the Atlantic say 181 00:16:03.840 --> 00:16:11.000 about them, no matter what take your pick, no matter what anybody says 182 00:16:11.039 --> 00:16:15.720 about them, you have them. A democracy, looking, there are democratic 183 00:16:15.799 --> 00:16:21.799 aspects in a constitutional republic. We have the right to be self governed through 184 00:16:21.840 --> 00:16:30.399 representation and through the constitution, which is the rules. Them's the rules, 185 00:16:30.559 --> 00:16:36.080 right, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights. We can self govern ourselves, 186 00:16:37.279 --> 00:16:40.440 but there are certain things we can't do, and we cannot take away 187 00:16:40.480 --> 00:16:44.879 the rights of the individual. It doesn't matter if ninety nine percent of the 188 00:16:44.879 --> 00:16:48.799 people want to take away someone's rights. That's not the way that it works. 189 00:16:48.720 --> 00:16:52.639 But that's not how the left. Now, the left has dumb people 190 00:16:52.679 --> 00:16:57.399 down. The left has deceived people as to what a democracy really is. 191 00:16:57.440 --> 00:17:03.720 There's a risk. There's certainly that the idea of self government governance is a 192 00:17:03.720 --> 00:17:07.799 great thing, but there's a risk there's a thing called the tyranny of the 193 00:17:07.839 --> 00:17:11.839 majority that the founders were terrified of. And if you if you look at 194 00:17:11.839 --> 00:17:17.880 the landscape of today, it's these These are reasons why they were because people 195 00:17:17.880 --> 00:17:22.480 can be stirred into a frenzy by these leftists, by these members if you 196 00:17:22.519 --> 00:17:26.799 will, of the Seven Pillars of Propaganda, who are out there lying and 197 00:17:26.839 --> 00:17:32.559 deceiving each and every day, stirring people into a frenzy, getting people to 198 00:17:32.640 --> 00:17:37.240 abandon principles overnight because they're so afraid of something whatever. They've been stirred into 199 00:17:37.279 --> 00:17:42.240 a frenzy over and the founder said, we want something that's not at the 200 00:17:42.279 --> 00:17:48.440 whim of the tyranny of the majority. And so when I if I ever 201 00:17:48.480 --> 00:17:52.440 say on here they're worried about our democracy, it's to use their own phraseology. 202 00:17:52.440 --> 00:17:57.599 But it's also I'm not going to stop every time and explain that because 203 00:17:57.640 --> 00:18:03.119 they don't have the time. And sometimes I see comments about people who think 204 00:18:03.160 --> 00:18:06.440 I'm saying it. I'm simply saying the phrases. They're saying, we absolutely 205 00:18:06.559 --> 00:18:12.720 unequivocally live in a constitutional republic. It absolutely positively matters. But I can't 206 00:18:12.720 --> 00:18:17.680 stop and do that every time. So anyway, so what Jake Tapper here, 207 00:18:17.720 --> 00:18:19.960 going back to this SoundBite, is that what he's doing, what they 208 00:18:21.039 --> 00:18:26.960 are doing collectively. Maybe there was another meeting at CNN. Who knows chances 209 00:18:26.000 --> 00:18:30.559 are probably better than not that they had a meeting and they said, okay, 210 00:18:30.599 --> 00:18:34.440 guys, look, let's sit down here and let's talk about what we 211 00:18:34.480 --> 00:18:37.880 can do to stop Trump in twenty twenty four because he's kicking our butts in 212 00:18:37.920 --> 00:18:41.920 the polls. Biden is out there getting, you know, needing help off 213 00:18:41.920 --> 00:18:47.119 of stages. We have no viable candidate. There's nothing good that hope. 214 00:18:47.119 --> 00:18:51.839 We got open borders, we've got Yeah, we've stopped the rate of growth 215 00:18:51.839 --> 00:18:56.119 of inflation, but we've done disastrous our policies. Of course they wouldn't admit 216 00:18:56.119 --> 00:19:00.480 this, but the truth is their policies have done dramatic harm, great harm 217 00:19:00.519 --> 00:19:04.400 to this country, to our economy. Everywhere we look, the world is 218 00:19:04.440 --> 00:19:11.359 on fire courtesy of the leftist running this country. American weakness, it turns 219 00:19:11.359 --> 00:19:15.640 out, is, as I've said for a long time American weakness is what's 220 00:19:15.680 --> 00:19:23.279 truly provocative in this country. And so they go back to the playbook of 221 00:19:23.319 --> 00:19:29.000 twenty sixteen and twenty twenty. Let's get people terrified of Trump. Remember in 222 00:19:29.039 --> 00:19:33.480 twenty twenty, what did they say Trump? Everybody who died with COVID as 223 00:19:33.519 --> 00:19:38.079 a reason on their death certificate was basically we were told Trump murdered them. 224 00:19:38.480 --> 00:19:42.480 There are people that said that. There are people who said Trump murdered However, 225 00:19:42.519 --> 00:19:48.519 many people finally had COVID as a cause of death and their death certificate. 226 00:19:49.559 --> 00:19:55.440 We had people saying that Trump staged an insurrection and a coup on January 227 00:19:55.519 --> 00:20:00.000 sixth. We've had people say all sorts of things, that he was collude 228 00:20:00.319 --> 00:20:03.359 with Russia in twenty sixteen. You know the routine, you know the drill. 229 00:20:03.039 --> 00:20:06.319 And so they say, let's go back to that. Let's get to 230 00:20:06.400 --> 00:20:10.720 that. The people that are in our audience, CNN says, aren't gonna 231 00:20:10.720 --> 00:20:15.640 be savvy enough to realize that what we're doing here is the same thing we've 232 00:20:15.680 --> 00:20:18.119 done in the past. We're just gonna change it. In case they do 233 00:20:18.240 --> 00:20:22.839 think of it, We're just gonna tell them it's gonna be worse we're gonna 234 00:20:22.839 --> 00:20:26.799 tell them it's gonna be a little bit more dangerous than before because Trump's been 235 00:20:26.839 --> 00:20:30.599 there. Trump is, you know, kind of got the blueprint of how 236 00:20:30.640 --> 00:20:36.599 this whole presidency thing works. So we're just gonna we're gonna scare them into 237 00:20:36.640 --> 00:20:38.640 thinking, yeah, well we were trying to tell you before if it comes 238 00:20:38.759 --> 00:20:41.920 up at all. But if it comes up, we can say, yeah, 239 00:20:41.960 --> 00:20:45.240 well we did tell you before, and yeah, well the country didn't 240 00:20:45.279 --> 00:20:48.240 collapse, but it could have if it wasn't for Biden, it could have. 241 00:20:48.960 --> 00:20:51.960 And this time Trump's gonna be worse. This time. Trump's gonna care 242 00:20:52.039 --> 00:20:56.720 less about the constitution. This time, Trump's gonna care less about any consequences. 243 00:20:56.759 --> 00:21:00.559 He knows it's his second term. Well I thought you told me he 244 00:21:00.640 --> 00:21:06.119 was going to be the autocrat, the dictator for life. Well, that 245 00:21:06.160 --> 00:21:07.920 too will make up your mind. Does he either not care because he knows 246 00:21:07.960 --> 00:21:11.519 he's only got four years, or is he establising him establishing himself as the 247 00:21:11.519 --> 00:21:15.279 eternal king of this country? Make up your mind. But it doesn't matter. 248 00:21:15.480 --> 00:21:19.039 None of this matters because it's all designed to evoke fear. That's the 249 00:21:19.079 --> 00:21:22.960 point. It's not to give you any information it's not to give you anything 250 00:21:23.000 --> 00:21:30.319 of substance. It is to terrify you on an emotional level. And I 251 00:21:30.359 --> 00:21:34.039 know, I say you, but you're above their abilities anyway. So here 252 00:21:34.079 --> 00:21:37.079 we go. I'm going I rewinded this thing. I guess I'm born in 253 00:21:37.160 --> 00:21:41.240 the I'm a child of the eighties. So I rewound it. And we're 254 00:21:41.279 --> 00:21:48.720 starting this clipover. This is Jake Tapper introducing this scary series of articles in 255 00:21:48.720 --> 00:21:52.160 The Atlantic. Listening Stark, starting in our twenty twenty four League Dark Morne 256 00:21:52.200 --> 00:21:57.359 issue of The Atlantic magazine Today, lays out a detailed, compelling specifically, 257 00:21:57.400 --> 00:22:02.400 what could happen if Donald Trump turns to the Oval office. Two dozen essays 258 00:22:02.400 --> 00:22:07.279 by Atlantic creditors outline how the threats to democracy will be bigger than ever before, 259 00:22:07.319 --> 00:22:11.680 potentially changing America forever. Some of those Atlantic editors and contributors join us 260 00:22:11.680 --> 00:22:15.279 now. Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor, let me start with you these essays. 261 00:22:15.559 --> 00:22:21.079 How Trump could carry out a revenge a retribution presidency, what might happen 262 00:22:21.119 --> 00:22:25.079 to NATO, How women could be targets, How Trump will get away with 263 00:22:25.119 --> 00:22:26.880 it all this time? And an editors note, you write, the country 264 00:22:26.880 --> 00:22:32.160 survived the first Trump term though not without sustaining serious damage. A second term, 265 00:22:32.200 --> 00:22:37.160 if there is one, will be much worse. Tell me about why 266 00:22:37.200 --> 00:22:41.359 you decided to publish that's a sprawling account of what might happen. The impetus 267 00:22:41.359 --> 00:22:47.400 of this list to this. I think that people have normalized the possibility of 268 00:22:47.400 --> 00:22:51.720 Trump coming back to office. We get used to anything that's one of our 269 00:22:52.240 --> 00:22:55.559 To the credit of human beings, we can get used to anything. And 270 00:22:55.599 --> 00:22:57.559 I think we're too accustomed to the idea that he's coming back. And I 271 00:22:57.599 --> 00:23:03.720 don't think people understand that that the Trump who comes back is going to be 272 00:23:03.799 --> 00:23:07.039 very different than the Trump we had the first time. And the Trump we 273 00:23:07.079 --> 00:23:11.839 had the first time culminating in January sixth was a pretty troubling phenomenon. But 274 00:23:11.000 --> 00:23:17.319 I think this time he is coming bent on revenge. David Frum has a 275 00:23:17.400 --> 00:23:22.519 very excellent essay about that. He's coming with the idea of revenge. He 276 00:23:22.640 --> 00:23:26.680 knows how government works, he knows how he was thwarted the last time. 277 00:23:26.920 --> 00:23:30.119 He's not going to be hiring the so called grown ups to run the cabinet. 278 00:23:30.400 --> 00:23:33.880 You know, you remember Jamadis and Rex tillersoner John Kelly, all these 279 00:23:33.000 --> 00:23:37.920 establishment figures who were there to Bill Bill Barr to keep him in check. 280 00:23:37.119 --> 00:23:41.240 No more people keeping him in check, right, and so you know it 281 00:23:41.279 --> 00:23:45.119 wouldn't be surprising, and is an expert on this, it wouldn't be surprising 282 00:23:45.880 --> 00:23:52.359 to find him pulling out of NATO and your say, focus is on NATO, 283 00:23:52.440 --> 00:23:55.200 which is the European aregra stuff? You get the idea. I'm not 284 00:23:55.240 --> 00:24:00.240 going to play that. That garbage goes on for I think fifth the clips 285 00:24:00.279 --> 00:24:03.279 five minutes, but I think that whole conversation, I believe is something like 286 00:24:03.319 --> 00:24:08.119 fifteen minutes. You get the idea, timeouts in order, got some other 287 00:24:08.200 --> 00:24:12.960 They actually brought up some terms there that you've heard on this program in the 288 00:24:14.000 --> 00:24:17.480 past. I don't know if Jake Tapper listens in Jake, you need to 289 00:24:17.480 --> 00:24:18.519 take some notes, buddy, because you got a lot of work to do. 290 00:24:18.559 --> 00:24:22.200 But anyway, quick timeout is in order. All in good fun, 291 00:24:22.279 --> 00:24:25.720 my friends, but we need to be aware. We need to be aware 292 00:24:25.759 --> 00:24:30.000 of what we're up against. This is it. They are not masking themselves 293 00:24:30.039 --> 00:24:33.359 anymore. They're actually showing us. The irony is so thick to me. 294 00:24:34.079 --> 00:24:37.759 They think they're coming all serious to the podium and that America is sitting there 295 00:24:38.279 --> 00:24:42.799 just with baited breath, waiting for them to tell us just how dangerous, 296 00:24:42.880 --> 00:24:47.400 how serious is it Atlantic And they get all serious to the microphone. But 297 00:24:47.480 --> 00:24:52.279 in reality reality, as they step up to that microphone, what they're telling 298 00:24:52.359 --> 00:24:56.440 us is how dangerous they are, how dangerous, and how far they will 299 00:24:56.440 --> 00:25:04.359 go to deceive the American people into making or manipulating the American people into choosing 300 00:25:06.680 --> 00:25:10.599 what they want them to choose. Quick time. And this is what real 301 00:25:10.640 --> 00:25:11.680 interference looks like, by the way, which by the way, they can 302 00:25:11.720 --> 00:25:15.000 say whatever they want, but it's not real. This is fake, this 303 00:25:15.119 --> 00:25:19.279 is made up, this is gender, this is not sincere. These are 304 00:25:19.359 --> 00:25:25.200 jokers and clowns and professional deceivers and sophists. That's what we're dealing with. 305 00:25:25.279 --> 00:25:44.000 Quick time. Out back in a minute, and welcome back, my friends. 306 00:25:45.119 --> 00:25:48.920 As I was perusing for show prep these past few days, I came 307 00:25:48.960 --> 00:25:56.720 across an article that said gold has reached an all time high. Gold has 308 00:25:56.759 --> 00:26:03.160 reached an all time high, and they expect gold to go even higher. 309 00:26:03.119 --> 00:26:07.839 Did you know that gold has outperformed the S and P five hundred and the 310 00:26:07.960 --> 00:26:14.000 Dalla since nineteen seventy one? Important here, when the US took the dollar 311 00:26:14.039 --> 00:26:21.440 off the quote unquote gold standard. Have to ask yourself, is that a 312 00:26:21.519 --> 00:26:26.640 coincidence? When the US government allowed people to own money, excuse me gold 313 00:26:26.680 --> 00:26:37.079 again, they reclassified gold as a commodity rather than a paper currency backstop. 314 00:26:38.640 --> 00:26:45.599 Even though the US itself hoards and holds the highest amount of physical gold in 315 00:26:45.640 --> 00:26:49.759 its reserves, all the countries, all the central banks, major institutions, 316 00:26:49.799 --> 00:27:00.480 and even the IMF, the International Monetary Fund owned substantial gold holdings. If 317 00:27:00.519 --> 00:27:04.559 all the entities that control fiat money paper money, money that's not backed by 318 00:27:07.160 --> 00:27:11.839 by gold, physical gold, if they have that gold, doesn't it make 319 00:27:11.960 --> 00:27:15.359 sense to consider owning gold yourself. 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So, as we 325 00:27:47.640 --> 00:27:52.799 discussed last segment, we have, of course panic on the left, and 326 00:27:52.839 --> 00:27:57.400 they're starting to use terms, they're starting to repeat things that I have said 327 00:27:57.440 --> 00:28:03.400 on this program, things that you know, in fact, the day Biden 328 00:28:03.480 --> 00:28:07.480 walked into office, I was gonna pull this sound bite, and I forget 329 00:28:07.519 --> 00:28:11.720 exactly which there's one or two phrases I used. I think I called it 330 00:28:11.920 --> 00:28:21.759 payback politics. The era of payback politics have begun retribution politics. So the 331 00:28:21.799 --> 00:28:29.279 irony here is that we are currently in the period of political retribution. This 332 00:28:29.440 --> 00:28:34.599 is something I condemn one hundred percent. This is something I don't want Republicans 333 00:28:34.640 --> 00:28:38.599 to do. I don't want Trump to do. I want justice to be 334 00:28:38.920 --> 00:28:45.480 done. If it is just that the things that were done to Trump or 335 00:28:45.519 --> 00:28:51.160 to conservatives, if justice demands certain consequences, that I'm one hundred percent on 336 00:28:51.200 --> 00:28:56.880 board with that. But I do not, I unequivocally refuse to support the 337 00:28:56.920 --> 00:29:00.640 idea that because they the left have a bu used the powers of government, 338 00:29:00.680 --> 00:29:07.440 that we should That's again, when we look at this impeachment situation, it's 339 00:29:07.440 --> 00:29:11.359 the same sort of thing I've said before. Obviously, Congress has a constitutional 340 00:29:11.400 --> 00:29:18.920 responsibility and a constitutional right to impeach the president of the United States, but 341 00:29:18.039 --> 00:29:26.119 context matters. Just because Trump was impeached twice, by the way, doesn't 342 00:29:26.160 --> 00:29:30.559 mean that the starting point is that we need to by definition, just automatically 343 00:29:32.799 --> 00:29:36.920 impeach the next president if it's not a Republican, that is going to cause 344 00:29:37.039 --> 00:29:42.559 more harm on this nation than necessary, and arguably it could cause more harm 345 00:29:42.599 --> 00:29:49.559 to this nation than she can survive. But context matters. Context matters. 346 00:29:49.559 --> 00:29:53.160 So if you have people running the government who are corrupt, which we do, 347 00:29:55.480 --> 00:29:57.880 let's just say, let's just say, for the sake of discussion, 348 00:30:00.200 --> 00:30:04.000 say that we have a group of people that are actively trying to weaponize the 349 00:30:04.039 --> 00:30:10.519 Department of Justice, as I think we do, which basically means they are 350 00:30:10.519 --> 00:30:18.440 doing precisely what precisely what should not be done with government. The most terrifying 351 00:30:18.559 --> 00:30:22.960 use of government when one political party gets control of government, they use it 352 00:30:22.000 --> 00:30:26.599 to go after their political enemies on the other side. That is, folks, 353 00:30:26.640 --> 00:30:33.519 we are nearing the day of death for the Republic if that is in 354 00:30:33.559 --> 00:30:37.519 fact where we are. But let's say, let's say one side is actively 355 00:30:37.640 --> 00:30:41.279 using the government to do that, and then the other side comes in and 356 00:30:41.359 --> 00:30:48.000 there's objective evidence that that's what the previous folks in the government were doing. 357 00:30:48.440 --> 00:30:52.759 There should be consequences for that. But we shouldn't then use the government to 358 00:30:52.759 --> 00:30:59.359 say, Okay, let's just go after anyone who didn't like us last time, 359 00:31:00.160 --> 00:31:03.319 right, And that's it. It's like a pendulum swinging back and forth, 360 00:31:03.559 --> 00:31:06.960 except for this pendulum. You know, eventually, if you just release 361 00:31:07.000 --> 00:31:11.039 a pendulum and let it go, it will eventually lose this momentum and subtle 362 00:31:11.400 --> 00:31:15.480 at a complete stop. This one is picking up momentum. It's being pushed 363 00:31:15.519 --> 00:31:18.200 by the powers on one side. It's being shoved, and then when it 364 00:31:18.359 --> 00:31:21.960 blasts into the people on the other side, they say, oh yeah, 365 00:31:21.960 --> 00:31:23.480 well what about this, and they push it further. So instead of it 366 00:31:25.200 --> 00:31:30.039 settling at an equilibrium, it's actually going further and further. It's more like 367 00:31:30.079 --> 00:31:37.519 a wrecking mall than it is a pendulum. And so that's what's happening, 368 00:31:37.519 --> 00:31:41.039 and that that is what is happening in the in this government. But they 369 00:31:41.079 --> 00:31:45.119 are the ones that are doing this. It's not that they are warning us 370 00:31:45.119 --> 00:31:48.680 that Trump might They are actually by by virtue of how they are going after 371 00:31:48.720 --> 00:31:52.640 Trump. They are the ones that are doing this. They have weaponized, 372 00:31:52.720 --> 00:31:57.440 clearly, they have weaponized the Department of Justice. Clearly, they have used 373 00:31:57.559 --> 00:32:04.599 the government to insulate and for tech the Biden administration and the Obama administration when 374 00:32:05.240 --> 00:32:12.759 President Bribery was then Vice President Bribery. Did you see that Joe Biden used 375 00:32:12.880 --> 00:32:17.559 alias emails to send three hundred I forget the number, three hundred and fifty, 376 00:32:17.559 --> 00:32:24.359 three hundred and sixty some odd emails to one of Hunter's business associates over 377 00:32:24.480 --> 00:32:29.000 nine years and email alias, right, So they didn't He didn't want you 378 00:32:29.039 --> 00:32:31.839 to know who it was coming from. Tried to throw people off the trail. 379 00:32:32.319 --> 00:32:36.160 When you do the math, it's almost an email a week. It's 380 00:32:36.160 --> 00:32:40.799 really it's three emails a month, basically three out of four weeks. He 381 00:32:40.960 --> 00:32:45.359 was emailing over nine years, just on average. I'm not saying that that's 382 00:32:45.359 --> 00:32:47.720 how. If you look at it wasn't every week on the dot, you 383 00:32:47.799 --> 00:32:54.480 know on the dot. And there's emails that were going between Joe Biden and 384 00:32:54.559 --> 00:33:01.960 Hunter's business associate when Joe Biden was in Ukraine, when Joe Biden was throwing 385 00:33:02.039 --> 00:33:07.680 down verbally threatening Ukraine to withhold funding if they didn't get rid of the prosecutor 386 00:33:07.680 --> 00:33:13.759 that was going after Bearisma. Of course Hunter was involved with Bearisma, and 387 00:33:13.839 --> 00:33:19.039 there's plenty of reason to see that. There's lots of evidence of corruption here, 388 00:33:20.480 --> 00:33:25.079 lots of evidence of corruption, paid to play sort of stuff. Now, 389 00:33:25.680 --> 00:33:29.359 if there wasn't evidence of any of this, you would not hear me 390 00:33:29.599 --> 00:33:35.920 arguing for impeachment. But there is evidence, there is evidence. Now we're 391 00:33:35.960 --> 00:33:42.640 going to be accused of targeting Biden for political retribution because they impeached Trump. 392 00:33:43.000 --> 00:33:47.160 They're going to say that we're weaponizing the government. Whatever. Context matters. 393 00:33:47.799 --> 00:33:52.519 Context matters, and there's a rationale, a reason. I just laid it 394 00:33:52.519 --> 00:33:54.160 out. It's pretty clear. It's pretty straightforward for anyone who wants to be 395 00:33:54.200 --> 00:33:57.920 objective about it. In fact, one of the things I've got I don't 396 00:33:57.920 --> 00:34:01.400 have time to do it is I was looking and comparing and contrasting Trump's first 397 00:34:01.440 --> 00:34:06.559 impeachment, Trump's second impeachment, and then what might might be happening here with 398 00:34:06.559 --> 00:34:10.239 Biden. And the difference is stark, my friends, as Jake Tapper would 399 00:34:10.239 --> 00:34:15.679 say, stark differences. Oh my goodness, there's such dramatic. There are 400 00:34:15.760 --> 00:34:20.360 dramatic differences here. Though, timeouts in order a little bit long this segments. 401 00:34:20.400 --> 00:34:21.800 It's tight, my friends. When we get back, I want to 402 00:34:21.800 --> 00:34:24.400 talk. I told you this is December seventh. This is Pearl Harbor Day, 403 00:34:24.440 --> 00:34:30.599 a day that the Left compares to January sixth, which is absolutely atrocious. 404 00:34:30.639 --> 00:34:36.719 It's not laughable because the American lives were lost on Pearl Harbor and it 405 00:34:36.800 --> 00:34:42.239 started World War Two, which ultimately ended in US dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima 406 00:34:42.280 --> 00:34:45.960 and Nagasaki in nineteen forty five. And anyhow, I want to talk about 407 00:34:45.960 --> 00:34:50.119 that today, as we normally do on December seventh. Quick time about my 408 00:34:50.119 --> 00:35:04.239 friends back here in just a minute, welcome back to my friends. Today 409 00:35:04.320 --> 00:35:10.000 is December seventh, December seventh, twenty twenty three. On December seventh, 410 00:35:10.159 --> 00:35:16.000 nineteen forty one, America was officially well because of the acts taken on that 411 00:35:16.079 --> 00:35:24.920 day, America officially entered World War Two. America had been you could say, 412 00:35:25.000 --> 00:35:31.280 begged by Winston Churchill to join the war for some time, as Hitler 413 00:35:31.840 --> 00:35:37.679 was on a rampage in Europe, but America stayed out for a good reason. 414 00:35:37.719 --> 00:35:42.559 I mean, look, it's complicated. Obviously, you want to when 415 00:35:42.559 --> 00:35:45.559 you understand and come to grips with the fact that Hitler wanted to truly rule 416 00:35:45.599 --> 00:35:51.559 the world through his maniacal regime, of course you would want to stop that. 417 00:35:51.639 --> 00:35:57.400 But it's understandable too that America had just gone through World War One. 418 00:35:57.760 --> 00:36:01.559 It was not some thing America wanted to get back into. They didn't want 419 00:36:01.559 --> 00:36:06.360 to be fighting Europe's wars. There's some I mean, we should at least 420 00:36:06.440 --> 00:36:10.039 understand that it's a good thing to try to avoid war at all costs. 421 00:36:10.079 --> 00:36:19.320 But Churchill was pleading with America to enter FDR would not and until December seventh. 422 00:36:19.760 --> 00:36:22.519 December seventh, nineteen forty one. Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. I don't 423 00:36:22.519 --> 00:36:28.719 know if you've had the opportunity to go there. I did visit Pearl Harbor 424 00:36:30.039 --> 00:36:36.679 twenty some years ago, and it's surreal in a sense. You can, 425 00:36:36.719 --> 00:36:43.639 of course see the USS Arizona directly beneath the memorial, not very far where 426 00:36:43.679 --> 00:36:49.760 there are still well where American soldiers lost their lives, where there are still 427 00:36:50.679 --> 00:36:57.639 what became their their grave, and you can still see oil coming to the 428 00:36:57.679 --> 00:37:02.119 surface from the ship. And it's, you know, I don't know what 429 00:37:02.239 --> 00:37:07.400 I was expecting when I went there, but it's I think it's smaller than 430 00:37:07.480 --> 00:37:13.480 I had anticipated. The body of water. It's and when you see it 431 00:37:13.639 --> 00:37:16.880 and you see pictures of you know, overhead of the of the harbor where 432 00:37:16.880 --> 00:37:22.320 the ships were located and stuff. During that particular day or you know, 433 00:37:22.400 --> 00:37:27.599 time, you can see how the plan was to Basically, the Japanese plan 434 00:37:27.760 --> 00:37:31.719 was to blow the ships up, so especially those that were by the entrance 435 00:37:31.719 --> 00:37:37.880 and exit of the harbor, so that they had nowhere to go. And 436 00:37:37.920 --> 00:37:42.599 it was basically like I mean, shooting fish in a barrel. They had 437 00:37:42.719 --> 00:37:45.679 nowhere to go. They of course, the Americans fought back valiantly and everything 438 00:37:45.679 --> 00:37:50.679 else. But to compare that again today, I'm normally we talk about that 439 00:37:50.800 --> 00:37:55.119 and how that led to World War to the American involvement the South Pacific, 440 00:37:55.159 --> 00:38:04.639 and everything eventually led to the atomic bombs being dropped at Nagasaki and Hiroshima. 441 00:38:05.320 --> 00:38:10.719 But to compare that to January sixth, twenty twenty one is amongst the most 442 00:38:10.960 --> 00:38:20.679 deceptive, manipulative, ridiculous comparisons that I can think of. Today's December seventh, 443 00:38:20.719 --> 00:38:24.920 nineteen forty one. Let's remember those who valiantly fought and defended this country, 444 00:38:24.960 --> 00:38:29.639 giving their lives ultimately at Pearl Harbor. Quick time out my friends back 445 00:38:29.639 --> 00:38:43.360 in a minute. Welcome back to my friends. So I mentioned I alluded 446 00:38:43.400 --> 00:38:46.440 to Pearl harbor Day. Last segment, we talked about it, but this 447 00:38:46.559 --> 00:38:52.679 again. When America entered the war, she fought through well two fronts, 448 00:38:52.800 --> 00:38:59.599 the European theater and the Pacific theater. And this led I mentioned to World 449 00:38:59.599 --> 00:39:04.840 War Two, whose well to fight in Japan dropping the atomic bombs, which 450 00:39:04.920 --> 00:39:07.880 was a terrible decision, but the calculations that were made as Americans were island 451 00:39:07.960 --> 00:39:13.400 jumping regaining the territory that had been taken over by the Japanese, the losses, 452 00:39:13.480 --> 00:39:17.719 the casualties that would have been inflicted upon the American forces were astronomically high, 453 00:39:17.760 --> 00:39:22.880 and so they made the very very tough decision too that it was a 454 00:39:22.920 --> 00:39:27.920 better strategy to drop those weapons. Years later. Anyway, today's for Harbord. 455 00:39:27.920 --> 00:39:29.079 They gotta go friends. STG.