WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.400 --> 00:00:04.559 Attention. You're listening to the top Huff radio show, America's home for conservative 2 00:00:04.719 --> 00:00:08.800 not bitter talk radio. Be advised. The content of this program has been 3 00:00:08.800 --> 00:00:12.560 documented to prevents 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, Tod Huff. 5 00:00:36.880 --> 00:00:42.359 All right, my friends, welcome, you have found talk radio's safe space. 6 00:00:42.439 --> 00:00:46.399 That's right. We are conservative not bitter here. Now, we certainly 7 00:00:46.399 --> 00:00:52.399 have elite well, we believe in truth and conservative principles and values and all 8 00:00:52.439 --> 00:00:57.119 of that. But I welcome into this program regardless of your beliefs. We 9 00:00:57.280 --> 00:01:00.679 might have, well, we will have. We will have a little bit 10 00:01:00.679 --> 00:01:07.879 of fun talking about some of these crazy things at the left and liberals believe. 11 00:01:07.959 --> 00:01:10.719 But it's never personal, my friends, and I'm glad that you tuned 12 00:01:10.760 --> 00:01:14.040 in here. Whether you agree with me or not, we can be friends. 13 00:01:14.120 --> 00:01:17.840 I promise you, as much as it is up to me, we 14 00:01:17.920 --> 00:01:21.799 can do that. And I invite you to be a part of the conversation. 15 00:01:21.879 --> 00:01:25.480 Todd at todoshow dot com is where you can send your thoughts, questions. 16 00:01:25.519 --> 00:01:30.599 Feedback always include the appropriate amount of adoration and praise, which is about 17 00:01:30.599 --> 00:01:38.239 ten to fifteen percent more than you might deem necessary. Or you can text 18 00:01:38.319 --> 00:01:44.480 us three one seven two one zero twenty eight thirty it's good to be here 19 00:01:44.519 --> 00:01:49.000 today. Also housekeeping tip off the top of the program. Here we will 20 00:01:49.040 --> 00:01:53.840 be my family and I will be out of town next week. I know 21 00:01:53.959 --> 00:02:01.799 I could hear the collective sigh, the collective moan of regret there knowing that 22 00:02:01.840 --> 00:02:05.879 I won't be here. But you're in good hands. We've got some guest 23 00:02:06.040 --> 00:02:09.719 hosts who will be filling in for us here. I've had several of them 24 00:02:09.719 --> 00:02:14.199 here before. One of them is a first time filling for us. We've 25 00:02:14.240 --> 00:02:19.280 got Chris Dunham, who I know many of you have enjoyed for several years 26 00:02:19.280 --> 00:02:23.800 now when he has filled in on this program. We've got John Crane who's 27 00:02:23.840 --> 00:02:29.280 also filled in. I know many of you listen enjoy listening to John as 28 00:02:29.319 --> 00:02:32.919 well. And we've also got first time that he's done this for us. 29 00:02:32.960 --> 00:02:40.240 His name is Gary Varvil. He is a syndicated political cartoonist and he will 30 00:02:40.240 --> 00:02:45.599 be filling in as well. So I'll be back that first week in March. 31 00:02:45.639 --> 00:02:49.159 There's a chance we might not be in on Monday, which I think 32 00:02:49.240 --> 00:02:53.120 is March fourth. But anyway, just a little bit of housekeeping off of 33 00:02:53.319 --> 00:03:00.240 the top of the program here today. So lots of stuff that discuss, 34 00:03:00.319 --> 00:03:05.240 especially with that in mind, but I want to start here today. I 35 00:03:05.319 --> 00:03:10.520 want to start here today by talking well, I want to talk about just 36 00:03:10.879 --> 00:03:17.919 how much the left has kind of burn itself out now. I want to 37 00:03:19.000 --> 00:03:24.199 be abundantly clear here I am in no way shape manner form. I am 38 00:03:24.360 --> 00:03:30.520 absolutely not. And if anybody is out there doing this, I would tell 39 00:03:30.599 --> 00:03:38.800 you to metaphorically smack some sense into them, because we are nowhere near. 40 00:03:38.639 --> 00:03:45.280 We're nowhere near securing a political victory. Here. We have the lead, 41 00:03:45.360 --> 00:03:46.159 if you want to look at it that way. I don't even know if 42 00:03:46.199 --> 00:03:51.280 that's the correct way of looking at it. Because votes haven't been cast. 43 00:03:51.319 --> 00:03:55.599 Everything we talk about is based upon polling and trends, approval ratings and that 44 00:03:55.680 --> 00:04:00.879 sort of stuff, just the general sentiments of the country, and people are 45 00:04:02.080 --> 00:04:06.680 well, they're sick of what we've been subjected to under the Biden administration, 46 00:04:06.879 --> 00:04:13.120 under the Democrat agenda and playbook. They're sick of it. Now. They're 47 00:04:13.159 --> 00:04:21.959 not lining up to support Republicans necessarily, although things were clearly unequivocally better under 48 00:04:23.000 --> 00:04:29.120 President Trump than they are under this Biden administration. And remember, remember the 49 00:04:29.160 --> 00:04:31.439 whole reason that people had to vote for Biden back in twenty twenty. We 50 00:04:31.439 --> 00:04:34.639 were told was to save America. Right, we had to save America for 51 00:04:34.720 --> 00:04:41.319 Trump are from Trump. We weren't sure that we could get through another four 52 00:04:41.439 --> 00:04:45.199 years. It could be the end of our democracy as we know it. 53 00:04:45.199 --> 00:04:51.199 It could be the last election. Trump's gonna assert himself as king and put 54 00:04:51.240 --> 00:04:55.759 an end to elections. This is the sort of stuff that was being discussed 55 00:04:56.720 --> 00:05:00.319 Trump. Remember the final days of Trump's administration, Nancy Polow, he was 56 00:05:00.319 --> 00:05:01.920 trying to keep the nuclear codes from the guy. I mean, it was 57 00:05:02.040 --> 00:05:08.319 all political theater. And it wasn't even good political theater, but it was 58 00:05:08.800 --> 00:05:15.560 political theater nonetheless. But we were supposed to Those that were convinced to vote 59 00:05:15.560 --> 00:05:21.040 for Biden were told that they were to do so in order to save our 60 00:05:21.279 --> 00:05:29.199 democracy, to save America, to re establish America's standing in the world. 61 00:05:29.360 --> 00:05:31.399 And of course none of that has happened. Everything, as we've gone through 62 00:05:32.000 --> 00:05:36.000 pretty relentlessly here on this program, everything is demonstrably worse. There is not 63 00:05:36.160 --> 00:05:44.240 a single solitary thing that is better today than it was when Trump was in 64 00:05:44.360 --> 00:05:47.839 office. It was. It has been an unmitigated disaster, right, and 65 00:05:47.879 --> 00:05:55.560 there's no denying this. And so we're learning here, we're learning here that 66 00:05:55.800 --> 00:06:00.439 the anti Trump movement, which is really where a lot of this of course 67 00:06:00.639 --> 00:06:06.160 started, but the anti Trump movement is simply running out, running out of 68 00:06:06.560 --> 00:06:12.720 fuel, running out of gas. They have basically been so negative for so 69 00:06:12.959 --> 00:06:21.279 long that they can no longer, they can no longer continue keeping up the 70 00:06:21.360 --> 00:06:30.399 amount of negativity necessary to fuel to fuel a never Trump, anti Trump sort 71 00:06:30.439 --> 00:06:34.279 of movement. This has been talked about, actually written about in the New 72 00:06:34.360 --> 00:06:41.800 York Times. They're basically admitting that, hey, this is the anti Trump 73 00:06:41.839 --> 00:06:46.839 movement has been so negative for so long it is taken. I mean, 74 00:06:46.879 --> 00:06:50.519 you were not designed to live that way, my friends. This is one 75 00:06:50.560 --> 00:06:57.399 of the problems with some well with some of the positions of the radical left. 76 00:06:58.160 --> 00:07:06.519 It requires people to deny reality, It requires people to accept a reality 77 00:07:06.560 --> 00:07:12.839 that is not the way that things work this side of heaven. And so 78 00:07:14.160 --> 00:07:18.279 it's no surprise that they've eventually they haven't reached the point or close to the 79 00:07:18.319 --> 00:07:25.160 point where they have been so negative for so long. They've basically burnt themselves 80 00:07:25.240 --> 00:07:31.480 out. They've lived in fear, they've lived with hatred in their hearts for 81 00:07:31.519 --> 00:07:39.199 so long they just can't keep it up. It's burnt people out. People 82 00:07:39.480 --> 00:07:45.800 realize that, hey, we are gonna have to find another reason, another 83 00:07:45.800 --> 00:07:49.560 reason to go out and vote in twenty twenty four, because there is no 84 00:07:49.680 --> 00:07:56.480 reason we can't keep this negativity of just hating Trump up. Now, I 85 00:07:56.519 --> 00:08:00.480 think that they're gonna dig deep here. I think they're gonna find a here 86 00:08:01.160 --> 00:08:07.000 to continue this. This is all that they've got. But it is worth 87 00:08:07.079 --> 00:08:11.040 noting that this is not how human beings are meant to exist. You can't 88 00:08:11.160 --> 00:08:20.600 live with this level of animosity, hatred, rage, bitterness, just overall 89 00:08:20.720 --> 00:08:26.480 negativity. You cannot do that and not expect there to be some type of 90 00:08:28.079 --> 00:08:33.080 consequence. So all that being said, now they are doing a couple things. 91 00:08:33.120 --> 00:08:37.320 Remember we talked yesterday about how they are trying to make us think and 92 00:08:37.360 --> 00:08:41.320 of course this is good luck with this, they're trying to convince us that 93 00:08:41.440 --> 00:08:46.919 everything is totally fine with Biden. He's vigorous, he's healthy. You know, 94 00:08:48.039 --> 00:08:52.840 if you have something to say about Biden's mental fitness to be president of 95 00:08:52.919 --> 00:08:58.000 the United states, that's simply because you don't know Biden. That's right, 96 00:08:58.080 --> 00:09:01.799 That's what the narrative is. That's the storyline. You know, behind closed 97 00:09:01.799 --> 00:09:07.399 doors, the guy's as sharp as attack. He's you know, just firing 98 00:09:07.440 --> 00:09:13.879 off rapidly questions to people who are advising him, giving him answers and updates 99 00:09:13.519 --> 00:09:20.799 almost so quickly that these folks who are updating him cannot even begin to keep 100 00:09:20.879 --> 00:09:24.960 up with the agility, the mental agility that Joseph robin At Biden has. 101 00:09:26.039 --> 00:09:28.120 That's what we're supposed to believe. Remember Kreeen John Pierre told us a couple 102 00:09:28.159 --> 00:09:33.480 of weeks ago that Biden does more in an hour. She said this, 103 00:09:33.080 --> 00:09:37.519 he does more in an hour than the average American does in a day, 104 00:09:37.799 --> 00:09:46.159 which is I mean, just beyond preposterous and candidly insulting. So as they're 105 00:09:46.200 --> 00:09:50.159 doing that, as they're doing that, they realize that another problem they have, 106 00:09:50.879 --> 00:09:56.279 another problem they have comes in the form of the economy that we have. 107 00:09:56.320 --> 00:10:05.559 People people have lived with, lived with the realities of this Biden economy, 108 00:10:05.600 --> 00:10:13.360 Biden nomics, bidenflation for several years now, and people know in politics, 109 00:10:13.399 --> 00:10:18.240 you start getting close to a general election day, which were not that 110 00:10:18.360 --> 00:10:22.720 many months away. What are we eight eight nine months away? Something like 111 00:10:22.759 --> 00:10:26.519 that? You start getting close. And if the economy is not good, 112 00:10:26.639 --> 00:10:31.440 remember back when Clinton Clinton campaign back in what was it ninety two? I 113 00:10:31.480 --> 00:10:35.720 guess it's the economy stupid, right, That was the thing. It's the 114 00:10:35.799 --> 00:10:43.360 economy stupid. That was James Carvill's invention, those folks that were on the 115 00:10:43.440 --> 00:10:48.000 Clinton campaign and so forth. But it's the economy stupid. That was the 116 00:10:48.200 --> 00:10:52.279 message, that was the campaign, that was That was actually what got the 117 00:10:52.320 --> 00:10:56.559 attention of people to say, well, And of course we had George H. 118 00:10:56.720 --> 00:11:00.519 W. Bush who promised the American people read my lips, no new 119 00:11:00.679 --> 00:11:05.240 taxes, you remember that, And so they came in as the economy stupid. 120 00:11:05.279 --> 00:11:09.039 It's very straightforward, very simple, kitchen table politics sort of thing, 121 00:11:11.360 --> 00:11:18.320 and it resonated with people because the economy needed to improve. And so here 122 00:11:18.360 --> 00:11:26.000 we are and by the way, much worse condition now economically speaking, than 123 00:11:26.039 --> 00:11:28.559 we were back in the days when the Democrats were saying, it's the economy 124 00:11:28.600 --> 00:11:31.919 stupid. And I understand, if you're the party in power, you don't 125 00:11:31.919 --> 00:11:37.000 want to admit anything's going wrong. And if you're the party who's out of 126 00:11:37.080 --> 00:11:39.960 power, you want to say everything's going wrong. I understand that. I 127 00:11:41.039 --> 00:11:46.039 try to be fair minded about this, and the reality is we've all lived 128 00:11:46.080 --> 00:11:50.120 with this for a while now. The reality is is that the economy is 129 00:11:50.159 --> 00:11:56.720 not good. Inflation has wreaked havoc on the average Americans. In fact, 130 00:11:56.799 --> 00:12:03.679 it's stolen personal finances. It's stolen thousands of dollars from the average American family 131 00:12:03.720 --> 00:12:07.519 inflation. And that is one hundred percent, no matter what they tell you, 132 00:12:07.559 --> 00:12:11.360 no matter what John Stewart on The Daily Show tries to tell you, 133 00:12:11.799 --> 00:12:16.919 no matter what Paul Krugman tries to come out and tell you some sophisticated answer 134 00:12:16.960 --> 00:12:24.600 on why something other than government decisions on how to spend money. They want 135 00:12:24.600 --> 00:12:30.679 to blame anything besides government for inflation, but government, federal government specifically, 136 00:12:30.720 --> 00:12:35.480 as we went through the other day, the federal government is solely responsible for 137 00:12:35.639 --> 00:12:41.279 inflation. One. They can complain and try to pass the buck all that 138 00:12:41.320 --> 00:12:45.840 they want, but they by definition, by very definition, by having the 139 00:12:46.000 --> 00:12:56.840 power to spend and to spend more, right to spend more than well, 140 00:12:56.919 --> 00:13:01.519 then they're bringing in in taxes and then to then create an influx of money, 141 00:13:01.559 --> 00:13:07.639 and the money supply to basically cover that it's a hidden tax. When 142 00:13:07.639 --> 00:13:09.799 there's too much money supply. We went through this. When there's too much 143 00:13:09.840 --> 00:13:16.919 money supply created for the actual value economic output that's been generated in an economy, 144 00:13:16.960 --> 00:13:20.080 you have inflation. That's what it is. It's not you can be 145 00:13:20.200 --> 00:13:24.480 mad at these businesses for other reasons. You can think that they're crooks, 146 00:13:24.519 --> 00:13:31.200 you can think whatever. But it's not Walmart's fault and Apple's fault, not 147 00:13:31.320 --> 00:13:35.559 Target's fault. It's not these big corporation's fault. That the government is creating 148 00:13:35.600 --> 00:13:41.639 more money. The government is responsible for that. The government is responsible for 149 00:13:41.720 --> 00:13:46.519 this, and we're all living with this. We all know what this is, 150 00:13:48.000 --> 00:13:50.279 what this is like. We all have to deal with this. They 151 00:13:50.360 --> 00:13:54.600 want you to believe that you've been tricked into believing the economy is bad, 152 00:13:54.679 --> 00:14:01.159 probably by people like me, probably by your own experience sitting around the table, 153 00:14:01.200 --> 00:14:03.399 trying to balance your checkbook, trying to pay for gas, trying to 154 00:14:03.440 --> 00:14:07.360 send your kid to college. Maybe you're looking to buy a new house and 155 00:14:07.399 --> 00:14:11.679 you think, my goodness, the cost of housing has gone through the roof. 156 00:14:13.679 --> 00:14:16.720 You're looking at your tax bill, your property tax bill, I mean, 157 00:14:16.759 --> 00:14:22.200 you name it. You sit around and you feel the impact economically speaking 158 00:14:22.240 --> 00:14:26.039 of what's going on. But they want to tell you that you are being 159 00:14:26.080 --> 00:14:33.000 misled. You and my friends are in a very healthy, very vibrant economy 160 00:14:33.080 --> 00:14:39.080 led by a very vibrant President of the United States who's out there out working 161 00:14:39.120 --> 00:14:43.159 everybody every day, getting more done in an hour than the rest of us 162 00:14:43.200 --> 00:14:46.879 are getting done in a day. This economy is great. What is wrong 163 00:14:46.960 --> 00:14:50.519 with you? So there's a montage here, a montage here that I want 164 00:14:50.519 --> 00:14:56.440 to play for you of a various news outlets, news anchors, people in 165 00:14:58.120 --> 00:15:01.360 well in the business of deceiving you. Candidly. They want you to think 166 00:15:01.399 --> 00:15:03.759 the economy is great. This goes on for minu and a half or so. 167 00:15:05.320 --> 00:15:09.200 I just want you to listen to this montage of them trying to again 168 00:15:09.320 --> 00:15:16.559 gaslight you, gaslight me on just how healthy the economy is allegedly, allegedly 169 00:15:16.679 --> 00:15:20.919 is today in spite of the realities that we all live it and experience it 170 00:15:20.960 --> 00:15:26.919 and know something altogether different. But listen to this montage real story about the 171 00:15:28.039 --> 00:15:33.200 US economy. Nobel Prizeman of Paul Krugman lays out the dollars and cents for 172 00:15:33.279 --> 00:15:37.200 why Americans are wrong to feel so down about it. How's the economy doing 173 00:15:37.799 --> 00:15:39.679 well? There's the difference between how it looks and how it feels. Actually, 174 00:15:39.679 --> 00:15:43.919 the economy is doing okay right now. If you actually take a step 175 00:15:43.919 --> 00:15:48.440 back, the wist economy is strong. The economy by all objective measures, 176 00:15:48.519 --> 00:15:52.879 is doing pretty damn well. The economy has actually been incredibly strong. The 177 00:15:52.919 --> 00:15:58.919 Biden economy is great. Yes, how does it look honestly pretty damn fantastic? 178 00:15:58.080 --> 00:16:02.879 But well, voters give President Biden credit for it. The question for 179 00:16:03.000 --> 00:16:06.879 Biden reddits is will voters give him credit? Well, we report on how 180 00:16:06.879 --> 00:16:10.519 great the economy is doing. What do you do feel that? Why aren't 181 00:16:10.559 --> 00:16:14.759 voters giving President Biden credit? Americans don't seem to be giving him the credit. 182 00:16:14.919 --> 00:16:17.080 Why is that? And what does he have to do to turn that 183 00:16:17.120 --> 00:16:18.519 around? If people aren't paying attention to it, then it's very hard to 184 00:16:18.519 --> 00:16:22.120 go out and take credit. Voters don't understand, essentially your grasp. But 185 00:16:22.240 --> 00:16:26.960 he's had these legislative wins. Most voters don't understand what you're trying to tell 186 00:16:27.000 --> 00:16:32.279 them. Are we going to get to the point where facts do not matter? 187 00:16:32.360 --> 00:16:37.039 And for the economy example, people are going to feel the way that 188 00:16:37.120 --> 00:16:40.919 aligns with their political party. Republicans are never going to say the economy is 189 00:16:40.960 --> 00:16:45.000 good historically while there's a Democrat in office, if you ask him about the 190 00:16:45.000 --> 00:16:48.080 economy, they start looking at through these pots and lenses and they tell themselves 191 00:16:48.080 --> 00:16:52.200 stories to completely at all with the reality. Nobody wants to give Joe Biden 192 00:16:52.240 --> 00:16:56.279 credit for what is really a remarkable situation with the economy. Why don't people 193 00:16:56.279 --> 00:17:00.600 give well, I don't know. That's the American psyche right now. We're 194 00:17:00.600 --> 00:17:03.519 in a bad sort of mood. Do you think there's an element you know, 195 00:17:03.559 --> 00:17:10.480 people just like being unhappy? Do people just like being unhappy? Why 196 00:17:10.519 --> 00:17:14.240 aren't they giving Biden credit? This was put together by NewsBusters, by the 197 00:17:14.240 --> 00:17:17.680 way, It'll be on our stack of stuff. But I gotta take a 198 00:17:17.720 --> 00:17:18.440 time out. I want to talk a little bit about this on the other 199 00:17:18.480 --> 00:17:21.880 side of the break, my friends, but I've got to take that time 200 00:17:21.920 --> 00:17:25.160 out. You're listening here to conservative not better talk. I am your host, 201 00:17:25.160 --> 00:17:26.920 the one, the only, ever so beloved Todd Huff. This is 202 00:17:26.960 --> 00:17:30.039 our last day here. Will be out next week and of course returning that 203 00:17:30.079 --> 00:17:41.920 first week in March. Be back in just a minute, welcome back, 204 00:17:42.079 --> 00:17:48.960 my friends. So this is the strategy. These are the tactics that the 205 00:17:48.279 --> 00:17:52.039 left, the media, I should say, of course they are the left, 206 00:17:52.079 --> 00:17:59.039 but this is what they employ against well. They handle it differently when 207 00:17:59.079 --> 00:18:06.480 they are talking about a Republican administration than they are for a Democrat administration. 208 00:18:06.599 --> 00:18:10.200 You might remember, if you go back in your memory bank, if you 209 00:18:10.319 --> 00:18:21.000 remember when President Bush, when President George W. Bush was reaching the end 210 00:18:21.079 --> 00:18:25.839 of his first term. Of course we had all sorts of chaos. That 211 00:18:25.880 --> 00:18:27.920 was in the days following nine to eleven. We had wars and all sorts 212 00:18:27.960 --> 00:18:33.400 of stuff. But you'll remember, and I think they might may have done 213 00:18:33.440 --> 00:18:38.039 this. They always do this when Republicans are in office. They start talking 214 00:18:38.079 --> 00:18:45.720 about what happens if a recession hit. Suddenly you hear that constantly. You 215 00:18:45.759 --> 00:18:48.359 hear about, you know, things are good now. I remember these news 216 00:18:48.359 --> 00:18:52.160 reports. I don't have I don't have the soundbites, but I remember these. 217 00:18:52.200 --> 00:18:56.559 I remember listening to these on rush people say hey, the economy is 218 00:18:56.559 --> 00:18:59.759 good now, but there are signs, you know, we can't keep this 219 00:18:59.880 --> 00:19:03.720 up up, that we may be looking at a recession. There's a recession 220 00:19:03.759 --> 00:19:07.440 coming. What about the recession is there a chance of a recession. The 221 00:19:07.519 --> 00:19:14.000 exact opposite happens when the Democrats are in office. The Democrats when they're in 222 00:19:14.039 --> 00:19:21.920 office when things are bad, when you're investing everything you have in convincing people 223 00:19:22.319 --> 00:19:29.319 that their life experience is much better than they believe it is that the administration's 224 00:19:29.440 --> 00:19:36.359 impact on economics, on just the whole myriad of things is not what they've 225 00:19:36.440 --> 00:19:37.720 experienced it to be. No, no, no, no, They've been 226 00:19:38.000 --> 00:19:42.640 tricked, they've been hoodwinked, they've been led astray, I guess by people 227 00:19:42.720 --> 00:19:48.000 like me. I don't know. But the thing is, the thing is 228 00:19:48.279 --> 00:19:56.559 they people know right, People have their own experiences. People live through this 229 00:19:59.400 --> 00:20:04.079 world where forced to live in the world of reality, government can well, 230 00:20:04.200 --> 00:20:10.680 they really can't. And that's honestly the source of a lot of this, 231 00:20:11.599 --> 00:20:15.000 A lot of these problems in tension is that the government wants to live in 232 00:20:15.039 --> 00:20:21.480 a fairy tale alternate universe where they can just give stuff away, have no 233 00:20:21.640 --> 00:20:27.640 consequence for their actions, be wildly applauded by people for just giving stuff away 234 00:20:27.680 --> 00:20:33.480 without any consequences. Now, sometimes those consequences take a long time to catch 235 00:20:33.559 --> 00:20:38.799 up because this economy is so prosperous is so powerful. We've been so blessed. 236 00:20:40.400 --> 00:20:45.920 The ideas upon which we built this country are so firmly routed ground that 237 00:20:47.000 --> 00:20:55.759 I should say in truth that people that even when governments get in and start 238 00:20:55.839 --> 00:21:02.200 messing with things, sometimes it isn't always obvious. Sometimes sometimes the impact and 239 00:21:02.240 --> 00:21:07.960 the cost and the pain can be spread out so much that it's sometimes imperceptible. 240 00:21:07.960 --> 00:21:14.440 But when they have complete control and they've been mismanaging things for a long 241 00:21:14.480 --> 00:21:18.799 time, and I'll throw the entire political ruling class into this. It's not 242 00:21:18.920 --> 00:21:22.519 conservatives, but there are Republicans, and there certainly are Democrats, but they 243 00:21:22.519 --> 00:21:27.920 have mismanaged this country, and I'm telling you, in every conceivable way for 244 00:21:29.000 --> 00:21:36.519 a long long time, and you begin to experience it those things when it 245 00:21:36.599 --> 00:21:45.920 is so mismanaged, when decisions are so terrible, and they have the ability 246 00:21:45.960 --> 00:21:48.160 to have a massive impact, Like you look at the border policies, for 247 00:21:48.240 --> 00:21:52.920 example, the things that we have done well, not we the Biden administration, 248 00:21:52.039 --> 00:22:00.000 the actions they have taken have been so contrary to reason, enforcing borders 249 00:22:00.039 --> 00:22:07.920 security and just just logical, a logical way of dealing with the problem of 250 00:22:07.000 --> 00:22:14.559 border surgeons and so forth. Those policies have impacted all of us in a 251 00:22:14.599 --> 00:22:18.720 massive way, so much so in fact, Governor Hokel, which we might 252 00:22:18.759 --> 00:22:23.000 get to that here in the latter half of the program, but Governor Hokel 253 00:22:23.039 --> 00:22:27.359 from New York, she's out there saying, hey, we've been basically overwhelmed, 254 00:22:27.720 --> 00:22:30.839 we've been inundated with illegal aliens. Of course, she wants to blame 255 00:22:32.519 --> 00:22:38.680 Republicans, she wants to blame someone besides Biden, which honestly Biden in this 256 00:22:38.839 --> 00:22:45.039 case of the border, and we're talking about the economy, we're also referencing 257 00:22:45.079 --> 00:22:52.079 the border, lack of border security, lack of just autonomy of the border, 258 00:22:52.240 --> 00:22:56.319 sovereignty along the border, talking about these things that he's mismanaged. They 259 00:22:56.359 --> 00:23:02.799 have impacted us, and we know notice it. Our cities are now saying 260 00:23:02.839 --> 00:23:04.839 we're gonna have to cut other services, We're gonna have to do something because 261 00:23:04.880 --> 00:23:11.680 the impact of an open border is hitting us in the pocketbook. We have 262 00:23:11.920 --> 00:23:15.319 problems that have arisen from the open from people coming here that aren't supposed to 263 00:23:15.359 --> 00:23:21.559 be here. And so when these things start to happen, it's no longer 264 00:23:21.680 --> 00:23:26.000 some academic issue. It's no longer you know, the economy is not just 265 00:23:26.559 --> 00:23:30.319 some sort of an idea. It's actually coming up in your paycheck, the 266 00:23:30.359 --> 00:23:37.200 way that you balance expenses and income, the way that you know how hard 267 00:23:37.240 --> 00:23:41.000 it is to get a job, a good job, how hard it is 268 00:23:41.039 --> 00:23:45.519 to grow a business, whatever it is. You feel these things, and 269 00:23:45.559 --> 00:23:49.599 you've experienced these things for so long, and then you can compare and contrast 270 00:23:49.640 --> 00:23:53.000 to what it was like prior to these jokers and clowns coming in and making 271 00:23:53.039 --> 00:23:59.440 it worse. Now you look, you look and compare and contrast, and 272 00:23:59.480 --> 00:24:04.039 you say, uh, it's worse, much worse, demonstrably worse in every 273 00:24:04.079 --> 00:24:08.319 conceivable way. And now the media comes in. It's remarkable, really, 274 00:24:08.880 --> 00:24:11.200 the media comes in and says, hey, you know, you just you're 275 00:24:11.200 --> 00:24:18.000 not You're not smart enough to see, you're not sophisticated enough to see how 276 00:24:18.079 --> 00:24:23.079 brilliant these actions that have been taken by Joseph Biden really are the Democrat Party. 277 00:24:23.119 --> 00:24:29.960 You don't see just how much these policies have saved you, have helped 278 00:24:30.119 --> 00:24:33.880 you. The economy strong. As they said in the clip that I played, 279 00:24:33.920 --> 00:24:40.599 it's damn strong, except for it's not and we we are experiencing it. 280 00:24:41.319 --> 00:24:44.960 Who in the world do they think they are to come in and tell 281 00:24:45.079 --> 00:24:49.279 us what our experiences. It's like Biden. Biden did the same thing when 282 00:24:49.319 --> 00:24:55.319 he was on that show with what Charlemagne the God whatever that's supposed to mean, 283 00:24:55.880 --> 00:24:59.920 and he told Charlemagne, you ain't black if you don't vote for me, 284 00:25:00.119 --> 00:25:03.000 if you vote for Trump instead of me, you ain't black. So 285 00:25:03.039 --> 00:25:07.160 they're gonna tell you you don't have as bad a problems as you think you 286 00:25:07.200 --> 00:25:11.319 have. Economically, you're not being fair. You've been misled by who. 287 00:25:11.359 --> 00:25:15.960 That's the other thing, by who? Who has misled you? Because all 288 00:25:15.000 --> 00:25:22.440 these people in media are like singing the same chorus. They are all in 289 00:25:22.759 --> 00:25:26.640 Unison telling you the economy is great. Your experience tells you that it's not. 290 00:25:29.200 --> 00:25:33.000 It's it's the way that they do it. And I, you know, 291 00:25:33.039 --> 00:25:34.880 for the life of me, I don't understand how this is effective on 292 00:25:34.960 --> 00:25:40.759 people. I don't know if people just don't trust their own abilities to process 293 00:25:40.799 --> 00:25:45.599 and think things out. I don't know if they feel pressure. I don't 294 00:25:45.640 --> 00:25:51.880 know if they feel like they're not that they're on the wrong side, if 295 00:25:51.920 --> 00:25:55.880 they're not on you know, the media is the side of the media narrative. 296 00:25:56.000 --> 00:25:59.680 I'm not sure all the time what makes people come to these conclusions. 297 00:26:00.440 --> 00:26:04.839 But it is abundantly clear that if people look at their own circumstances and their 298 00:26:04.839 --> 00:26:14.400 own situations financially economically, the vast majority of people have felt negative impacts by 299 00:26:14.440 --> 00:26:23.400 the decisions made by Biden, created by Biden nomics, created by leftist economical 300 00:26:23.799 --> 00:26:30.960 or economic principles. I should say, ideas, it's all. It's broken. 301 00:26:32.079 --> 00:26:37.160 It's like building your house on sand. It is not a solid foundation, 302 00:26:37.519 --> 00:26:40.359 and we know it because we've experienced it. But if they're gonna tell 303 00:26:40.400 --> 00:26:45.039 you, they're gonna tell you that you're wrong. So timeout is in order. 304 00:26:45.359 --> 00:26:48.440 Timeouts in order. Are gonna shift gears a little bit here as we 305 00:26:48.480 --> 00:26:52.480 move into the latter half of the program. Again, I want to remind 306 00:26:52.519 --> 00:26:55.319 you if you just tuned in, we're gonna be out next week, but 307 00:26:55.359 --> 00:27:00.319 we will be back the first week of March. So sit ti, my 308 00:27:00.400 --> 00:27:17.160 friends, be back here in just a minute, and welcome back, my 309 00:27:17.319 --> 00:27:19.680 friends. I told you we're gonna shift gears a little bit this segment. 310 00:27:21.839 --> 00:27:25.559 We are going to do that. 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While 326 00:28:48.119 --> 00:28:52.680 there, use promo code Todd that's my first name, of course, promo 327 00:28:52.759 --> 00:28:56.039 code Todd save or I shouldn't say save. You get a two hundred and 328 00:28:56.039 --> 00:29:03.559 fifty dollars credit. Two hundred fifty dollars credit when using promo code Todd again 329 00:29:03.720 --> 00:29:12.359 Harvardgoldgroup dot Com promo code Todd two hundred and fifty dollars credits. So I 330 00:29:12.440 --> 00:29:19.680 mentioned that I want to talk about what's happening in New York City, New 331 00:29:19.759 --> 00:29:26.759 York City. This is at the Daily Wire dot Com. Governor Hokel says 332 00:29:26.000 --> 00:29:33.279 New York is absolutely overwhelmed by illegal aliens and they need a break. And 333 00:29:33.359 --> 00:29:38.799 of course, my friends, it is the fault of none other than Republicans. 334 00:29:38.880 --> 00:29:42.839 Here is a little bit from that article. New York Democratic Governor Kathy 335 00:29:42.880 --> 00:29:48.720 Hockel said on Tuesday that her state has been overwhelmed by the number of illegal 336 00:29:48.759 --> 00:29:56.160 aliens who have arrived in recent months and blamed the border crisis on congressional Republicans. 337 00:29:56.160 --> 00:30:00.920 Why not, of course. Hokel, who's v that favorability rating has 338 00:30:02.000 --> 00:30:07.480 dropped by eight points, made the remarks during an interview with leftist MSNBC host 339 00:30:07.279 --> 00:30:14.200 Lawrence O'Donnell. She says this, I still believe that there can be bipartisan 340 00:30:14.319 --> 00:30:18.720 solutions. The institution is capable of it if you get the right people in 341 00:30:18.759 --> 00:30:21.720 there. And I'm going to work to make sure that we have the right 342 00:30:21.759 --> 00:30:26.119 people in there. And also even before next November's election, when I believe 343 00:30:26.200 --> 00:30:30.279 we will pick up the House. The Republicans in the state of New York, 344 00:30:30.680 --> 00:30:33.039 and there are a ton of and there are ten of them, they 345 00:30:33.079 --> 00:30:37.559 have the power to caucus together, march down to Speaker Mike Johnson's office and 346 00:30:37.599 --> 00:30:41.240 say we demand that you do something about the border. Bring it to the 347 00:30:41.279 --> 00:30:45.279 floor, and we will support it. So again, what's the problem here, 348 00:30:45.319 --> 00:30:51.400 she says, it's the Republicans. It's the Republicans. Republicans just in 349 00:30:51.480 --> 00:30:56.079 the New York members of the Congress, the Federal Congress, the US Congress 350 00:30:56.119 --> 00:31:00.240 in New York, she says, need to band together and say, look, 351 00:31:00.319 --> 00:31:03.480 let's fix this problem. We know we have been through this a lot. 352 00:31:03.880 --> 00:31:11.480 The border is a mess because of Biden's decisions, his executive actions, 353 00:31:11.680 --> 00:31:17.000 his policies along the border. Again, this is not hard to figure out. 354 00:31:17.440 --> 00:31:21.880 It was much worse. I should say, it was much better under 355 00:31:21.880 --> 00:31:27.799 Trump. It's gotten much worse under Biden. When Biden took office, things 356 00:31:27.799 --> 00:31:33.599 were better than they are now, and he made changes day one. He 357 00:31:33.640 --> 00:31:37.480 made what is it, sixty four, sixty five changes, reversing policies that 358 00:31:37.519 --> 00:31:44.519 Trump put in place that actually improved border security. Biden then reversed many of 359 00:31:44.559 --> 00:31:48.359 those, reversed again sixty four to sixty five decisions that were made pertaining to 360 00:31:48.759 --> 00:31:56.480 border security. Those decisions have made things much much worse. This is the 361 00:31:56.480 --> 00:31:59.960 worst that it has ever been. And now they want you to believe that 362 00:32:00.039 --> 00:32:07.720 it's the Republican's fault because the Republicans didn't go along with the so called border 363 00:32:07.119 --> 00:32:16.039 bill, right, the border security bill, which was what one sixth one 364 00:32:16.160 --> 00:32:21.119 sixth of those funds were actually four border security, five out of six of 365 00:32:21.160 --> 00:32:22.680 them. It might have been seven out of eight. Now that I stop 366 00:32:22.680 --> 00:32:27.279 and think about it, I think it was seven out of eight. Seven 367 00:32:27.319 --> 00:32:30.799 out of every eight dollars was not for border security. But yet they want 368 00:32:30.839 --> 00:32:32.519 you to believe that the bill was about border security. They want you to 369 00:32:32.519 --> 00:32:38.200 believe that Republicans abdicated their responsibility to secure the border. I am not here 370 00:32:38.200 --> 00:32:44.279 to say that there's nothing Republicans can do to secure the You know that Congress 371 00:32:44.279 --> 00:32:47.240 I should say, should do to secure well, to make improvements as it 372 00:32:47.240 --> 00:32:53.799 pertains to illegal immigration. I am here to say that the immediate problem of 373 00:32:54.279 --> 00:33:00.160 border security, of actually securing the border and stopping the madness right now, 374 00:33:00.200 --> 00:33:06.440 which is the most important thing. That is one hundred percent under the purview 375 00:33:06.480 --> 00:33:10.319 of President Joseph Biden one hundred percent. That is what needs to happen. 376 00:33:10.640 --> 00:33:15.799 That has not happened, and that's why we find ourselves in this problem. 377 00:33:17.039 --> 00:33:22.240 And that, by the way, is why they also are suggesting Biden might 378 00:33:22.519 --> 00:33:28.759 enact an executive order prior to the State of the Union address here in a 379 00:33:28.839 --> 00:33:32.319 couple of weeks. Actually, when I the week I get back, that's 380 00:33:32.319 --> 00:33:36.160 when Biden. So we've got what two weeks I guess it is March seventh, 381 00:33:37.000 --> 00:33:38.519 March seventh. The State of the Union address is now in March. 382 00:33:38.920 --> 00:33:43.480 I don't remember it ever being and Mario it was always in January. It 383 00:33:43.559 --> 00:33:45.400 keeps getting pushed out. They think that this State of the Union address is 384 00:33:45.440 --> 00:33:50.279 going to save Biden's campaign. We're all going to see how on top of 385 00:33:50.319 --> 00:33:52.640 it he is. We're going to see how profound and brilliant he is, 386 00:33:52.960 --> 00:33:57.440 and then we're going to see that he suddenly realizes that he has the power 387 00:33:57.559 --> 00:34:00.680 to take executive action, and who knows what he's going to do with that 388 00:34:01.240 --> 00:34:09.119 actual action. But by taking the action, he's demonstrating what we all have 389 00:34:09.280 --> 00:34:14.440 known all along, was that he could take action to fix this problem, 390 00:34:14.800 --> 00:34:20.960 begin the process of actually securing the border immediately. This has overwhelmed cities, 391 00:34:21.039 --> 00:34:24.039 not just in New York, It's overwhelmed them all over the place. And 392 00:34:24.119 --> 00:34:29.559 a lot of this is deserved because these cities and states have made themselves sanctuary 393 00:34:29.599 --> 00:34:35.559 cities and sanctuary states a form of virtue signaling until the bills start coming due. 394 00:34:35.639 --> 00:34:38.440 Suddenly they realize we don't have enough money. It's the Republican's fault. 395 00:34:38.719 --> 00:34:42.960 Just totally remarkable if you stop and think about it. But I've got to 396 00:34:43.000 --> 00:34:53.880 get a break, my friends. Sit sight back here in just a minute, 397 00:34:55.760 --> 00:35:07.199 and welcome back, my friends. So so so so the we're talking 398 00:35:07.239 --> 00:35:10.679 about New York. We're talking about the problems there. Of course, we've 399 00:35:12.320 --> 00:35:16.079 hit on the fact that Kathy Hockel, Governor hokel is blaming Republicans for the 400 00:35:16.159 --> 00:35:23.199 mess there. Of Course, New York is also the state city that just 401 00:35:23.639 --> 00:35:31.760 find Trump whatever it was getting close to a half billion dollars right, and 402 00:35:31.960 --> 00:35:37.039 there was a three hundred and fifty five million dollars. And then there's fifteen 403 00:35:37.800 --> 00:35:42.599 million dollars in interest or some such thing. So a couple things about that 404 00:35:42.719 --> 00:35:46.639 number one. Number one. I don't know if you know Grant cardone. 405 00:35:46.679 --> 00:35:52.159 He's a you might have seen him on social media. He's become a pretty 406 00:35:52.159 --> 00:35:58.920 well known social media figure, business and so forth. He's actually come out 407 00:35:58.960 --> 00:36:02.320 and said that he's going to immediately discontinue real estate investments in New York City 408 00:36:02.440 --> 00:36:09.280 due to the Trump verdict, which, again, folks, it's unbelievable what 409 00:36:09.400 --> 00:36:15.760 has happened in this particular case, Trump being found guilty. There was no 410 00:36:15.800 --> 00:36:20.079 one that was harmed, no one that was harmed by this. And it's 411 00:36:20.119 --> 00:36:22.840 not just See when I say that, it makes it sound like, well, 412 00:36:22.199 --> 00:36:29.800 I'm excusing illegal behavior. But the thing is Trump, folks, the 413 00:36:29.920 --> 00:36:35.800 value of real estate is subjective. It can change rapidly. The value of 414 00:36:35.840 --> 00:36:43.039 real estate is determined by what a buyer and a seller agree. It's just 415 00:36:43.079 --> 00:36:49.519 like anything. What we agree is a price that we can engage in commerce. 416 00:36:50.360 --> 00:36:54.119 So when Trump says that my properties are worth X, the bank that 417 00:36:54.199 --> 00:37:00.119 he was getting alan with actually sent people out and didn't announ aalysis themselves. 418 00:37:01.000 --> 00:37:06.760 So this whole, the whole notion falls apart just at that point alone. 419 00:37:06.840 --> 00:37:13.079 So the bank send somebody out, they analyze the value, determine what they're 420 00:37:13.119 --> 00:37:16.960 going to loan him against that particular property or series of properties. They come 421 00:37:17.000 --> 00:37:22.000 to an agreement, He pays the money back with the interest. Nobody was 422 00:37:22.039 --> 00:37:28.079 harmed. The banks admitted to this in trial. They admitted to this during 423 00:37:28.119 --> 00:37:32.519 the trial. We would loan the Trump again. He did not do anything 424 00:37:32.559 --> 00:37:37.679 wrong. We agreed on the value. We had our own folks to go 425 00:37:37.719 --> 00:37:43.320 out in the praise. But yet he's still going to be fined, which, 426 00:37:43.320 --> 00:37:47.800 by the way, we talked about yesterday maybe well definitely an Eighth Amendment 427 00:37:49.719 --> 00:37:53.519 worthy challenge for an excessive fine. Three hundred and fifty five million dollars. 428 00:37:53.599 --> 00:37:57.920 It's incredible. And so now people are saying, I don't want to be 429 00:37:57.920 --> 00:38:00.719 a part of that anymore. I'm not going to do real estate deal in 430 00:38:00.760 --> 00:38:05.079 New York City. This is what happens. This is what happens. Plus, 431 00:38:05.320 --> 00:38:08.440 a new poll shows that seventy percent of New Yorker say Biden is now 432 00:38:09.000 --> 00:38:15.039 unfit for office. It's bad news at every turn for the left. 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