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three zero. Yesterday we talked most of the program, if not all the
program, about Mike Pence entering entering the race. Today, well, I
guess yesterday we got news of another individual entering the race. This time we
hear that Chris Christie is going to be running against President former President Trump to
become the Republican nominee for president of the United States. And there's a story
in particular that I want to reference, and it's actually going to lead me
to reference another story that I didn't talk about yesterday, but I do feel
that it's appropriate to bring up now these are being reported. I can't obviously
personally vouch for these things. I do know that these sorts of things happen
in Washington, DC. They happen in politics, they happen in business,
they happen in churches and Little League sports and everything else. This drama behind
the scenes. But the Dailymail dot Com is reporting, Actually, they have
an exclusive story as of yes it was yesterday headline how Chris Christie vowed to
quote get into the ring for twenty twenty four in quote secret meeting with New
Hampshire GOP bigwigs. I love the term bigwigs. By the way, if
you can throw the word bigwigs into a sentence today, give yourself a couple
of bonus points. But bigwigs where he furiously ranted about Trump for forty five
for forty five minutes. Now that's the story. It's an exclusive again with
the Dailymail dot Com. It's on our stack of stuff if you want to
read these articles. Again, I always most of the time there's some exceptions
to things that don't end up there, but Toddhuffshow dot com. Just go
to the stack of stuff. Hat tip to the late great Rush Limball on
that. But that's where you can read the things that we talk about,
should you have an interest in reading what I'm talking about on this program,
the things that we're looking at for a particular for particular day. So we
know, we know that these things happen again, not just politics, but
obviously politics. We know that there are big wigs within the Republican Party.
We know that there are big wigs within the Democrat Party. We know there
are big wigs outside the United States of America in the globalist community. There
are big wigs in any form of government, politics, whatever, country,
culture, people who are trying to consolidate their power, increase, multiply their
influence, and a lot of that's I mean fine in general. I mean
as long as as long as there's no manipulation, deceit, stealing, you
know, lying, I mean that that's that's all fine. Right. I
mean, we come onto this program, you know, we've we get this
program on certain radio stations and outlets, podcasts and so forth around the country,
and we're trying to persuade I make no mistake or no, I keep
this. This is completely out in the open, completely transparent. We want
I want to persuade people to accept the truths of constitutional conservatism. Even more
importantly, I want to I want folks to consider the truth to the Gospel
of Jesus Christ. But I look, this is we talk about culture and
worldview and politics, and then that inevitably leads to these these other issues that
we that we talk about because one's worldview, one's worldview determines or has a
major influence on how we then view the political you know, politics in general,
which party we're going to support, that sort of thing. Politics is
downstream of worldview worldview. You will hear me say this. And if you're
new to the program or new to politics or whatever, what that basically means
is that the the political landscape is where we have the I guess the battle
is fought, the metaphorical battle or the political battle is fought as an extension
of one's worldview. So, for example, if you believe, if you
believe that what the founders believed, that all men, all people are created
equal, that they are endowed, that they are provided, that they are
given by their creator, certain unalienable rights, meaning that not because of the
government that's been instituted by the people. It's not because of the government.
It doesn't come from the government. We have certain rights by virtue of being
created in the very image of Almighty God. If you believe those things,
and you believe that, you know that there is a creator that has an
impact that influences how you think. You know, people are best designed I
guess to behave and it's it follows that people are created in the image of
God and that they are free to pursue life life as they see fit.
They can choose to have a relationship with God or to worship or to not
worship. I mean, we can get into the you know then trying to
influence the personal choices. But we have those personal choices, right. We
can be atheist or Hindu, or Christian or Muslim or whatever, any any
combination whatever, right, and we have those those values or that that choice
is inherently tied to what it means to be human. That if you have
that worldview, then you're more likely going to be sympathetic or I guess,
supportive of the concepts that we find in this country limited government, maximum liberty.
If you understand if you if your worldview is that humanity is imperfect,
if you believe in truly understand what human nature is, and you understand that
every person, we're all subject to this concept that says power corrupts and absolute
power corrupts absolutely. When you understand those things, and if that is your
worldview, then you want to create safeguards. You want your government to be
balanced. You don't want power consolidated. This is why the Founders did some
of the things that they did. Conversely, if you believe that, you
usually you that This is what I've always found interested about interesting about the socialists
and the radical left. They believe that they have special privileges, authority,
power, and so forth over other people. So they might believe that the
average person is incapable of making the quote unquote right decisions. So that's why
they think they are there in that position to help influence a certain behavior.
By the way, CEO of Black Rock, in fact, I should pull
that up, that was in that was in my stack of stuff. Maybe
you know what I looked at that recently. I don't know if I put
that in the stack of stuff. Actually terrifying words. It's something I wanted
to get to. So I need to make a note ods remind me,
remind me next break to pull that SoundBite of the CEO of Black Rock talking
about their responsibility to influence certain human behavior, because that's antithetical to what I've
just been talking about. So it turns out the worldview. Worldview matters,
right, So if someone believes that certain behavior must be manipulated in the people
in the average, amongst the average everyday citizen, they're going to be more
sympathetic to the concept that we need to elect people who are the technocrats.
We need to elect the people who are these so called experts. We need
to let them make all of the decisions, and then because by virtue of
who they are, by virtue of their intellectual prowess, by virtue of just
how insightful and wise and wonderful these folks are. This is, by the
way, I think, is complete and utter nonsense. But some people believe
this. They believe we should elect people who effectively tell us every detail of
how to live our lives, for example, what to drive, what to
eat, what to wear. The Left is never tired of telling you,
of telling me what we must do, you must do it. It's not
enough for the left to for you or I to say we can peacefully exist
with anyone who believes anything, so long as they do not try to infringe
upon my freedoms or force their worldview and beliefs upon me. I don't.
I don't have a problem with people who I mean, I'm diametrically opposed to
the idea of some of these, say the transagenda. If someone wants to
believe that privately, if someone wants to even persuade me as an adult,
that's fine. Try to explain to me why I'm wrong. I'm not,
by the way, But if they want to, okay, that's fine.
I can respect that. But that's not what happens. They want to silence
you if you disagree. They want to punish you if you don't comply.
They want to personally intimidate and malign and insult and verbally assault, sometimes physically
assault people who disagree, and that of course creates the problem. But the
worldview politics is downstream of worldview, and so people who are inside these big
wig circles, of course they have their worldview and ideology, but they also
have Many of these folks also have an inclination to well, to just have
their fingers on the levers of power. They just want and again, there's
nothing wrong with wanting to influence it if you are again, not manipulating or
deceiving. This is my problem with the far left. If they want to
try to persuade on some of these issues, that's one thing. But they
want to they want to lie, and they want to silence the other side,
and that's that's the problem. But we've got these big wigs and they
exist everywhere, and every political party and every every ideological group. There are
big wigs, and they've gotten together and they've made their choices. Now the
big wigs, Boy, how many times can you say big wigs in a
program? I want to set the record today for that. But the big
wigs in the Republican Party, at least in the state of New Hampshire has
per this article here. They've gotten together and they want In general, the
big wigs the party establishment does not want President Trump. Now there are some
exceptions, because from twenty sixteen to twenty twenty, Trump actually won some of
those folks over and he should have, by the way, because of what
he did as president of the United States. For those first four years.
But there were other people, and I've watched it. I mean I watched
otherwise intelligent people who went from never Trump to in twenty sixteen, to reluctantly
Trump in twenty twenty to now never Trump again. People who I'm not going
to mention any name. Some of these names you absolutely would know. It's
just it doesn't make any sense to me. Now people are free to support
whichever nominee that they want. I don't have a problem. You can support
a different nominee than than I will. That's don't We need to advance the
cause of liberty and the constitution again. But this group of people they get
together, they meet in secret, and Chris Christie, Chris Christie apparently gets
together with them, goes on a rant, rants about Trump, bashing Trump,
talks about how he wants to, you know, politically take him out
and defeat him and so forth. And I don't know, you know,
yesterday I kind of painted a picture for Pence and and I do think that
again, I do think that there is a faith component, but there's also
there's also the human component. And I don't want to whitewash this. I
don't want to sanitize it because there are conversations that happened like this behind closed
doors all the time in the Republican Party and the Democrat Party at the World
Economic Forum. And the more power that the group has that's meeting behind closed
doors, the more problematic that that meeting or the results of that meeting can
be. So but anyway, this apparently, this whole story that that that's
been breaking about Chris Christie is effectively to me, it highlights just the desperation
and the thinking or the hopeful thinking of people that are just still in that
anti Trump camp. They're looking to a Chris Christie, They're looking to a
Mike Pince. There's something else about Pence that I want to share as well.
Again, I'm not saying that it's it's accurate, but there's always another
side. I think, you know, as I said, I think there's
the faith component, but there's also the strategy. There's also the conversation behind
behind closed doors. And there's been an individual on Twitter who's saying he has
inside sources, and so for someone that i've you know, follow his tweets
and see from time to time, So there's always politics can is politics is
not for the faint of heart. Politics is a dog eat dog world.
I mean, it is a very intense, intense world, and we see
parts of that sometimes, but we're seeing the sanitized, polished um well maybe
maybe not all the time with Trump, and that's kind of his strategy.
But you know, we're not necessarily seeing we're seeing the results of the strategy
when they when they go to debate, when they start their campaign, they're
positioning themselves. They're trying to differentiate themselves from the competition. They're trying to
look like the new shiny thing. They're trying to fill a void that the
Republican Party may have perceived within itself over the past four or eight years or
whatever. And that's what this is all about. And so these big wigs
get together and they kind of want to pick their guy. They're trying a
lot of these big wigs are trying to find anyone that can win that's not
named Donald Trump. And that's still a factor all of these folks. I
don't I don't foresee any way whatsoever. Even if Trump, in the worst
case scenario, is unable to run, the Left gets him, which I'm
not predicting. I don't think that's gonna happen. But the Left is able
to get him removed from the ballot or separated from fundraising, and he's just
unable to get going again. I don't think it's gonna happen. But to
me, the next logical person is is de Santis. I don't even think
de Santis should be in there, but anyway, De Santis is in there.
Let alone Chris Christie, Tim Scott, Nicky Haley, Mike Pence,
Vivek Ramaswamy. I like things about some of those folks, but there's a
lot of things not to like about some of these folks as well, a
lot not to like about Chris Christie, I think. But anyway, so
this is how politics. This is. This is the making sausage part of
politics, I guess, the the ugly parts behind the behind the stage,
the big wigs getting together, trying to hand pick someone that they think they
can get to beat President Donald Trump in the primary process. And I think
it's important. It's also I want to say this to point out and I
want to stop and then we'll talk about Pence next segment. But I also
think it's indicative. It shows us the importance you hear me say the time
to the time to pick our candidate is between these primary seasons. We can
complain and whine and moan about who's on the ticket each election cycle, but
the time to pick it is in this time between elections, right, And
that's what we see these big wigs. Yet again that had to set the
record, But the big wigs meeting to somehow, you know, pick Chris
CHRISTI the group in New Hampshire that's trying to coalesce around him, which is
not a big enough group. But the point is they're able to put that
together because they've got access to resources, they're politically connected, they're able to
get people that can help with campaigning and so forth. Help I get a
little bit with fundraising, a little bit maybe with volunteers, and they get
that. They get the metaphorical plane off the ground. Wheels are up with
this campaign, even though I do think it's going to crash and burn pretty
quickly. But anyway, Chris Christie thinks he can win, we'll just see
about that in due course. Nothing personal, but I don't see any way
possible that that's even remotely anywhere near a reality that he's going to win the
nomination. But here we go. Chris Christy's now in the races while time
mounts in orderlong in the segment, my friends sit tight. You're listening to
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tide. Hugh back in just a minute, Welcome back, my friends.
So I mentioned break that they're kind of going hand in hand with what we
just talked about with Chris CHRISTI. There is a there's another story that again
someone on Twitter has has shared and of course my Internet is acting a fool
right now. But Mike Pence, this is actually from a guy on Twitter.
I think the Twitter handle is DC drain No DC, here we go,
DC draino, and he posted again he's claiming to have sources. I'm
just I'm just pointing this out. I'm not trying to say that this is
definitive, definitively the case or anything. I'm just pointing out that these are
the sorts of things that happen behind the scenes in Washington, in Washington,
d C. There is I do think, I do think that there's a
faith component in my Mike Pence's team. I've seen it at events and so
forth. I think they're they're wrong in their desire to run here, I
think it's I think it's a bad play and short of guide calling Mike Pence
to run, this is a bad play. But anyway, there's also they're
definitely our strategic conversations as well. And this is what DC Drano said on
Twitter. I think it was would have been maybe Monday, whatever day Pence
announced, I get Monday. He says this, now that Mike Pence is
into the race, let me tell you all some insight info. In the
days leading up to j six that's January sixth, I was informed by trusted
sources that Pence wasn't going to contest the rigged electoral College results. I couldn't
believe it. How could he backstab seventy four million people and allow fraud to
overthrow our executive branch? But that I was told old Why now this is
what he's saying. He was told. Now, he might have been told
this, and this is a fabricated story. He might have been told this,
and there be some I don't know, some element of truth or all
truth, or I'm just saying that this is the sort of thing that happens
in DC. And these are the sorts of conversations that are that are had,
and this is what he's saying firsthand sources told him. He says that
he Mike Penns cut a deal with the Coke Fundraising Network. That's the Coke
Brothers, Koch, not Coca Cola. They wouldn't be caught dead supporting any
Republican. But anyway, he says here that Mike Penns could have deal with
the Coke Fundraising Network to be their lead horse in twenty twenty four if he
backstabbed at Trump and the MAGA movement in twenty twenty To those that say he
didn't have the power to contest fraudulent ballots and allow state legislatures to conduct for
their review, then why did they change the Electoral College Act in twenty twenty
two to explicitly state the VP can no longer facilitate that exact process because Pence
could and he knew it, but he took the blood money. Anyway,
this is again, these are not my words. I'm just telling you,
this is what. This is what someone on Twitter who's not I mean,
he's he's you know, um, he's got his sources and so forth.
He's he's a regular comment commentator on these things. He said that Pence took
the quote blood money. Anyway, we are not in this situation because of
President Trump. When you're here because a powerful force has worked to fortify the
twenty twenty election, and coward rhinos like Mike Penn's partnered with them. Let's
show judas he says, what we think of his backstabbing in the life join
us for Wisconsin's private College. So that being said, that that is we
know that there's strategy involved, and we also know that the people who are
in positions of power, people who are the big wigs. I throw that
in there again. The people who are the big wigs, they are trying
to find their candidates to beat Mike or excuse me, Donald Trump. That
is one hundred percent the case. Whether this specific thing happened. I'm not
suggesting that you know, this individual on Twitter made it up, but maybe
he was fed false information. I mean, it's it's an unnamed source,
but he says it's a trusted source. There's, folks, the stuff that
happens behind those closed doors in politics are I mean, it's it's ruthless,
it's hard to believe sometimes, but nonetheless it's it's going on, and what
we do know. The takeaway from this for me is that we know at
when we see names like Chris Christie, like Mike Pennce, like Nicky Haley,
like Tim Scott, these are folks, even even the Sciantis, and
I'm not again, everyone should be able to try to get the candidate that
they want elected. But it is from a position of more it's more about
it not being Trump, the candidate not being Trump, than it being some
of these other people kind of kind of in a way the opposite of what
the Democrats did in twenty twenty, which was I mean they were they were
wanting it, you know, to elect anyone that could beat Trump as well,
and they were just looking for anyone that they thought that the party could
coalesce behind and organize behind. On the Republican side, they're trying to find
that one person. It's the same thing, really, I guess depending on
how you look at it, but they're trying to get someone that they can
that everyone can support, and they're hoping they will leave Donald Trump and Droves
and go to these other these other individuals who candidly and my estimation, just
don't have don't have the fortitude or the strength or the just the renegade spirit
almost that's required to deal with what is wrong in Washington, DC. So,
anyway, this stuff is happening, whether this particular one is what you
know happened behind closed door with Pence, I don't know. I'm not there.
I'm I'm only saying that these conversations do happen. We do know that
there's strategic conversations, not just there's more to it than just some of the
things we talked about yesterday. But perhaps most importantly, we know that they're
desperately the establishment is desperately looking for someone that they can make the Republican nominee
who's not named Donald Trump. I guess it would be similar, now that
I think this through and rephrase what I was saying about the Democrats, it
would be akin to the Democrats saying we want anybody to be our candidate besides
besides Bernie Sanders, which is what's happened in that party for for some time.
Anyway, timeout is in order, my friends, sit tight. You're
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back in just a minute. Welcome back, my friends. I want to
shift gears here a little bit I mentioned earlier in the program. We were
talking about worldviews and politics being downstream from worldviews, meaning again I went through
that, but effectively someone's belief system, what they believe human nature is,
how they believe we got here, what they believe the purpose of life is.
Those things all impact politics, which, by the way, I will
say this, and I don't want to speak too much about this today,
but it's it's one of the reasons why it's one of the reasons why the
left wants to silence conservative well, conservatives of any type. But if they
can get a group like conservative Christians to not engage in the political discussion because
hey, man, that's your religion, don't be pushing that on me.
But meanwhile, meanwhile, the radical left that world worldview absolutely as a religion,
a religion that they are forcing down the throats of the American people.
They just don't want us to see it that way anyway. But worldview is
upstream of politics, and how you view the world obviously depends upon what you
think how you think politics should be handled on well this side of Heaven.
So I mentioned CEO of Black Rock, Larry Fink, this is I think
this is from It looks like this is from a couple of years ago,
but this is just something that's been circulating that I've just seen lately. He's
talking about particular here EESG scores, which we've gone through, actually a couple
I think it was last week. We spent a lot of time talking about
ESG scores, d EI scores, CEI scores, and how those are being
used against the American business. We talked about this when we talked about Chick
fil A, Chick fil A now having what a vice president I believe of
diversity, equity, and inclusion, and we talked about the reasons the pressures
that exist to force to force the hands of businesses. Now. I don't
want words to be put in my mouth. I certainly I'm not the true
meaning of a lot of these words. I would say is a good thing.
Although I don't like the constant focus on superficial diversity. I think there
should be diversity of thought. That should be something that we that we look
for to make ourselves well rounded, whether as an organization or whatever. But
of course, in the day of identity politics, that's not what most people
mean. But you know that the concept of what d D EI means and
CEI and ESG. The context when we understand it completely is basically, it's
another avenue where the woke, radical left worldview is forced upon the American people
through their employment, maybe through the place that they're trying to buy something from.
So that is kind of the the I guess backdrop of this is that
there's so much pressure put on individuals. I Again, to me, the
best analogy or the best example, I should say, is the vaccination situation,
because a lot of people were forced to make a decision between getting vaccinated
and keeping keeping their jobs. I mean, they really amped up the pressure
on people. And I know people you do too that got vaccinated that just
didn't want to but they were afraid of losing their jobs. That might describe
you as well. It's terrible that this was what happened anyway, So that's
the same sort of thing they're trying to do with these other woke ways of
thinking, I don't want to say thinking, woke ways of being. They
want to force this radical, woke leftist agenda through the business community, through
your employer, just like they did COVID vaccinations. Because it's another way to
move America in the direction that the big elites want us to go, which
is ultimately globalism, or at least a nation that is not built, that
is not any longer I guess, seek to find liberty, defend liberty for
all people, and that's because that empowers them more. So. Here's Larry
Fink. They're talking about ESG scores, and he's basically up on this stage
saying, you know, the time has come sometimes you just have to force
behaviors. He thinks that Americans should be forced to accept certain I guess gender
ideology. He doesn't quite say that explicitly, but he comes kind of close
anyway. Here he is saying it's okay to sometimes force behavior. And when
you understand that they can how much money black Rock controls, how much pressure
they put on companies who you people like Black black Rock or Vanguard to get
access to funding to operate, they're very very I don't want to say influential,
it's manipulative. They're making putting demands on these folks to change behavior.
Without just trying to influence the culture, They're trying to force it to change
through external circumstances, through keeping companies from getting you know, cash flow or
loans for expansion to where they're you know, they're they become dependent upon this
this money and black Rock and Vanguard and others can put a lot of pressure
on them to force them to change the culture, their company culture and by
extension, the American culture. So here's what he has to say about this.
Stop the tape, I tell you what this has happens. I'm taking
a break. I'm gonna reconnect this stinking thing during the break. Timeout is
needed anyway, I just tested this. Be back in a minute, my
friends. All right, I it worked as soon as I went to its
commercial break last time. I told Oz, I don't understand what's going on
here, so I literally just listen to this. So hopefully it works.
If not, I'm just gonna have to tell you what he says. But
again, this is CEO of Black Rock, Larry Fink. It looks like
this happened a couple of years ago, but it's just now surfacing as this
esg pressure on businesses and of course the di CEI scores all those things,
which effectively there are just different ways of saying we're gonna make you become woke
businesses. It's the reason why one of the main one of the main driving
forces why target Walmart whoever is actually doing some of these crazy things things that
their customers don't like, because it's they would rather lose market share or watch
their market capitalization drop versus versus lose access to much much larger chunks of capital.
Anyway, that being said, this better work. I just listen to
this. Here's an exchange Larry Thinks, CEO black Rock. He's on stage
talking with I don't know who the individual kind of leading this panel is,
but I just he asks him a question and he responds with the basic idea
that says force is sometimes necessary, well changing the culture. Basically here it
is you. You now make a point of that that's an investment criteria for
you. Well, behaviors are going to have to change. And this is
one thing we're gonna We're asking companies asking you have to force behaviors. And
at black Rock we are forcing behaviors. Fifty four percent of the incoming class
or women. We added four more points in terms of diverse employment this year,
and it will if you know what we're doing internally is if you don't
achieve these levels of impact, your compensation could be impacted. Okay, we're
doing the same thing. And so it's just you have to force behaviors.
And if you don't force behaviors, whether it's gender or race or just any
way you want to say, the composition of chism, you're going to be
impacted. And that's not just not recruiting. It is development, as Ken
said, and ultimately it's still going to take time. But I am just
as much shocked as Ken is that we have shot seen more opportunities and we're
going to have to force change. He's going to have to force change.
Right, These are people that now he was it sounded like moving back and
forth between talking about their internal team but also talking about their investments. Right.
They want to use the means of force, the means any means necessary
effectively within the world of financing or within the world of manipulation coercion. They're
prepared to do it to generate a desired results. And when you realize how
much money these folks control, how much power they have, it's understandable why
these companies sometimes make decisions to do things like promote some of the apparel or
whatever that target does. For example, it may hurt them with their customers,
but it appeases the big money lenders and investors. Quick time out,
my friends, back in a minute. All right, my friends, that's
about all of the time that we have today. I will say this in
closing today, there's some there's some developments here behind the scenes for us that
in by extension, for you, some things that we've been working on,
relaunching a lot of things that I'm actually very very eager. Eager is not
even the word. What's what's more, we're excited than eager, That's what
it is. I'm just very much looking forward to being able to share that
with you. So lots of the grace of God, lots of good things
on the horizon, and of course the listeners, each and every one of
you as listening to this program, have helped us with these things that I'm
going to sure about with you in short order in the days to come.
But I've got to go, folks, Thanks so much. Have a great
day. SDG.