Speaker 1: Greetings and a very good morning to all of you
Speaker 1: and those of you listening on the podcast or on
Speaker 1: other versions later on good Day, wherever you may be.
Speaker 1: This is your guest host, humble immigrant Chris Dunham, filling
Speaker 1: in for my dear friend Todd Huff on the Home
Speaker 1: of Conservative Not Bitter. If you listen to the ranting
Speaker 1: and raving that I gave on the last time I
Speaker 1: was up, probably before the weekend. If I am guessing right,
Speaker 1: this is airing on Monday, as Start is taking a
Speaker 1: well deserved break visiting some family, getting rejuvenated so that
Speaker 1: he can hit this home stretch of the next one
Speaker 1: hundred or so days, as we see our nation on
Speaker 1: the precipice of something incredible, something important, something great, something historic.
Speaker 1: I'm a history buff an apologist by training, an evangelist
Speaker 1: by burden, and a patriot by urgency. As I've alluded
Speaker 1: to before, my name is Chris Dunham. I am a
Speaker 1: first generation immigrant to these here United States of America,
Speaker 1: having arrived on these great shores with nine dollars to
Speaker 1: my name many many moons ago. Dallas, Texas has been
Speaker 1: home for all this duration, and when I spoke to
Speaker 1: you guys. Last time, I was coming to you from
Speaker 1: the brand new minted campus of Patriot Academy in Fredericksburg, Texas,
Speaker 1: where the preservation of liberty and the efforts therein garnered
Speaker 1: an incredible amount of hope in my own soul. As
Speaker 1: wary as it is, by the sound of my voice,
Speaker 1: you have probably already guessed that I'm a little older
Speaker 1: in the demographic Dan Todd, and as a result of
Speaker 1: that may sound a little a little less enthusiastic about
Speaker 1: some things, but more hopeful about some other things. As
Speaker 1: we are embarking into this week, we've had some historic
Speaker 1: announcements regarding the presidential ticket. Again, who knows what they
Speaker 1: may decide to do at their convention when they gather together,
Speaker 1: as everything else seems to have been done in the
Speaker 1: quietness of the night, when they made one person exit
Speaker 1: and another person take on the elm and mantle and
Speaker 1: almost as if a conferring of the title took place,
Speaker 1: and apparently we are weird and I'm a threat to democracy.
Speaker 1: It is quite fascinating that when the parade of characters
Speaker 1: that is represented in the administration actually does look weird,
Speaker 1: visually speaks incoherently, cannot conjure up a sentence, cannot answer
Speaker 1: a question with a legitimate answer without always hearkening back
Speaker 1: to the die tribe will when we took over all
Speaker 1: this nonsense. At some point, leadership requires an ownership like
Speaker 1: in times past. And one of the pictures that I
Speaker 1: was shown this past week when I was at that
Speaker 1: Patriot Academy was a picture of George Washington basically resigning
Speaker 1: his commission as commander in chief. He had seen the
Speaker 1: nation through the revolutionary war, took it upon himself, told
Speaker 1: Congress repeatedly that he considered himself the least qualified person
Speaker 1: to lead. This went through a lot of defeats in
Speaker 1: the early stages, but yet when his time came and
Speaker 1: the treaty was signed, he says, I don't want to
Speaker 1: move on from where I am and become another king.
Speaker 1: I'm going to retreat to the quietness of my own
Speaker 1: home and go back to doing what I was doing
Speaker 1: before the nation called me for this solemn duty. It
Speaker 1: is a travesty and a tragedy that some of the
Speaker 1: left wing media and the proponents of the mainstream punditory
Speaker 1: or equating President Joe Biden's decision to not run again
Speaker 1: to the decision that George Washington made. And when I
Speaker 1: heard that comment from the media, I almost thought to myself,
Speaker 1: how much of history have you actually studied? How much
Speaker 1: of George Washington's life have you actually evaluated to even
Speaker 1: come close to making a claim that after three years
Speaker 1: of a debacle of an economy where the inflation is rampant,
Speaker 1: the borders are open, and every policy decision that has
Speaker 1: been made has been made as against the American people
Speaker 1: and the legal citizenry of this nation. Every suggestion made
Speaker 1: was to equip an arm and almost give benefits to
Speaker 1: those that came here illegally. To equate those decisions with
Speaker 1: the stature of George Washington, come what it may, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, I know how they will always dance back
Speaker 1: to that equation of ownership and all of this other
Speaker 1: stuff and who had slaves and who didn't and all
Speaker 1: that nonsense. But the reality is this current president has
Speaker 1: been in office continually, if I'm to get it right,
Speaker 1: since he was twenty nine years old. He's been in
Speaker 1: public service for fifty years. He is not resigning anything
Speaker 1: and walking away in the zenith of his life, having
Speaker 1: left the country better off than when he took it.
Speaker 1: To equate that decision to the decision of General George Washington. Eventually,
Speaker 1: President George Washington, who himself again after two terms, said
Speaker 1: that should be enough. It's a travesty. I just wish
Speaker 1: some of these punditory who come down and make these
Speaker 1: Democrat talking points and call conservatives weird and call names
Speaker 1: and display that and then have the audacity to somehow
Speaker 1: merge their own side with history and elevate themselves to
Speaker 1: a position of grandeur. I said often on this program
Speaker 1: when I filled in for Todd on numerous occasions, that
Speaker 1: I'm but a humble immigrant. I'm a spectator in this
Speaker 1: journey for a majority of it, having benefited from the
Speaker 1: American dream. When I stand in front of the youths
Speaker 1: today to speak, the first thing I do is apologize
Speaker 1: to them. I said. The country I inherited that had
Speaker 1: the great Ronald Reagan as president when I arrived in
Speaker 1: this nation is a far cry from the one I'm
Speaker 1: leaving this next generation. And when I apologize to them,
Speaker 1: I apologize to them not for the fact that I
Speaker 1: have been an imbecile who is ambivalent to what has
Speaker 1: happened or has not participated in the cause of freedom
Speaker 1: and liberty. It is saying that the nation we inherited morally, righteously, religiously,
Speaker 1: fundamentally civic, was a far different one that did not
Speaker 1: have the vitriol that we now seem to espouse. When
Speaker 1: even thoughts and questions and ideas are opened up for debate,
Speaker 1: it's almost as if if you have a counterpoint of
Speaker 1: view that hearkens back to anything other than what the
Speaker 1: mainstream pummels and pushes that you're a bigot, you're a misogynist,
Speaker 1: you're a prejudicial individual who is not fit to be
Speaker 1: in society. And yet the people who seem to have
Speaker 1: my opinion, my idea seem to be the ones who
Speaker 1: are functioning, have jobs and actually go to the jobs,
Speaker 1: maintain their insurance, which cast an astronomical amount, don't receive
Speaker 1: the handouts that are passed down. I've never taken an
Speaker 1: unemployment insurance check, even though I've had gaps in my employment.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'd rather dig a ditch than try to
Speaker 1: stand in line and ask someone else to determine how
Speaker 1: much dignity I have in my life and how much
Speaker 1: it is worth. But anyhow, you know today, as we
Speaker 1: embark on our show today, going back to conservative is
Speaker 1: not bitter. You're probably wondering, I'm not bitter. I'm just venting,
Speaker 1: and I'm venting in a positive way and trying to
Speaker 1: use action, axioms and words that can connect the dots
Speaker 1: of human history. So what shall we talk about today
Speaker 1: that will give us the glimmer of hope amidst the rabid,
Speaker 1: rousing nonsense that is constantly paraded on all channels that
Speaker 1: seemed to get our attention almost to rile us up.
Speaker 1: For example, yesterday's headlines were about this pick of the
Speaker 1: new governor of the governor of the great state of Minnesota,
Speaker 1: a state I visited many, many times, wonderful, wonderful people,
Speaker 1: But somehow the twin cities of Saint Paul and Minneapolis
Speaker 1: seemed to elect always someone who is blue, who is radical,
Speaker 1: who is fundamentally opposed to anything else. This guy actually
Speaker 1: stood watch while his city burned. I happened to visit
Speaker 1: Minnesota shortly after all of those riots took place and
Speaker 1: all of that looting took place, and one of my
Speaker 1: friends took me to the downtown area which had been revitalized,
Speaker 1: and it was made into a almost like a paradise,
Speaker 1: and a lot of investment and money went into revitalizing
Speaker 1: that downtown area which in a span of seventy two
Speaker 1: hours was torched beyond oblivion. This guy, this governor, who
Speaker 1: is now the vice presidential nominee on this new ticket,
Speaker 1: is the one who stood watch. And somehow, if we
Speaker 1: call him radical or call him someone who is left
Speaker 1: of common sense, we are considered people who don't seem
Speaker 1: to understand. And this is what I want to ask ourselves.
Speaker 1: Maybe we talk about for God and country and get
Speaker 1: back to some of the basics that begin to define us.
Speaker 1: Maybe we have some of the common sense gumption of
Speaker 1: asking ourselves, does history actually have something to say about
Speaker 1: these pivotal moments in this nation's history? I know it
Speaker 1: being recorded. I cannot get your opinion in real time
Speaker 1: if you text the show, But if you want to
Speaker 1: communicate with me as you're listening to this or listen
Speaker 1: on Friday, just drop me a line at Krish at
Speaker 1: Chris Dunham dot com. That's k R I s H.
Speaker 1: Chrish at Krish Dunham k r I s H d
Speaker 1: H A N A M dot com. Todd has asked
Speaker 1: me repeatedly to share that in But I don't like
Speaker 1: giving shameless plugs for the simple reason that this is
Speaker 1: his audience, his microphone, and something that I have seen
Speaker 1: him passionately work on building for the last decade that
Speaker 1: I have had the privilege of knowing him in this journey.
Speaker 1: But drop me a line, tell me if I'm right
Speaker 1: or wrong. Ask me a question as to why, as
Speaker 1: an immigrant to this country, I see this world radically
Speaker 1: different from the way others are seeing it. Why I'm
Speaker 1: apologetic to a generation saying that I'm sorry that I
Speaker 1: allowed this to happen on my watch. Why I'm almost
Speaker 1: bewildered when I see other immigrants who are being flooded
Speaker 1: into this nation and somehow convinced to be left leaning.
Speaker 1: Why would you run away from anybody as or any
Speaker 1: place as a refugee and come to this glorious land
Speaker 1: and take of this land in terms of benefits and opportunities,
Speaker 1: and then stand in line and mack those that made
Speaker 1: that possible, the hard working men and women, the people
Speaker 1: who when you look at the map of the United
Speaker 1: States and you see all of that red, and you
Speaker 1: even wonder, how does a liberal actually get elected in
Speaker 1: this nation. And then you go back to the genius
Speaker 1: of the founding fathers, because they had to make it
Speaker 1: based on populace and where the density was. Otherwise, you know,
Speaker 1: if they didn't give us that fair shake, New York
Speaker 1: and California would elect every time everywhere everyone, and you
Speaker 1: and I would be left holding the bag of making
Speaker 1: that decision for ourselves as to whether we wanted to
Speaker 1: continue to live here or not. But when you look
Speaker 1: at that map of red, and you look at how
Speaker 1: much what percentage of this country in terms of geography,
Speaker 1: actually believes in the American dream, and then you look
Speaker 1: at those small little slivers of blue about people who
Speaker 1: are radically opposed to individualism, who are radically opposed to
Speaker 1: dignity of labor, who are radically approached to the fact
Speaker 1: that we need an id to vote. One of the
Speaker 1: great ironies of ironies was apparently the other side had
Speaker 1: a rally recently that was fairly large because they added
Speaker 1: a new person another person anointed. Notice how these two
Speaker 1: people who are now on the ticket going to save
Speaker 1: democracy are actually the people who never participated in anything democratic.
Speaker 1: They were just enshrined and enthroned overnight and somehow you
Speaker 1: know that is now normal. The media doesn't talk about
Speaker 1: the fact that somehow the democracy is not a threat
Speaker 1: when you install people and don't elect people who voted
Speaker 1: in the primary elections throughout the country. But when this
Speaker 1: rally was being organized and some people were being a thing,
Speaker 1: one guy was very proud to be in the rally,
Speaker 1: and he says how much the security ah, how happy
Speaker 1: he was that the security was so tight, and that
Speaker 1: unless you were registered as a person who could actually
Speaker 1: attend the rally, you were not even allowed. You were screened.
Speaker 1: And not only were you screened, you were screened with
Speaker 1: an ID. In that fasting to elect a person to
Speaker 1: the highest office in the nation, you can let anybody
Speaker 1: come and vote without an ID. You can give that
Speaker 1: ID to anybody who has not been vetted in any
Speaker 1: process and just crossed over the border, and somehow when
Speaker 1: you want to come see them at their rally, you
Speaker 1: have to produce an ID. I just boarded a flight
Speaker 1: from San Antonio to Dallas a day and a half ago,
Speaker 1: and guess what I had to show an ID. And
Speaker 1: not only do you show your ID, the ID is
Speaker 1: actually put through a machine that confirms you are who
Speaker 1: you say you are. I have to do that to
Speaker 1: board a plane. But let's say I was returning from
Speaker 1: one city to another, to go back to the city
Speaker 1: where I was born and where my voter ID is
Speaker 1: currently valid. I'll have to show an ID to get
Speaker 1: on the plane to go to that city. I'll have
Speaker 1: to show an ID to rent a car to go
Speaker 1: and get to my city. I'll have to prove myself
Speaker 1: nine different times from Sunday to make sure that I
Speaker 1: am who I am. But apparently when I go in
Speaker 1: to vote, I don't need an ee. Folks, this is
Speaker 1: no longer Democrat or Republican. This is no longer conservative
Speaker 1: or liberal. This is no longer this is absolute stupidity
Speaker 1: versus common sense. This is right and wrong, this is
Speaker 1: up and down. This is black and white. But let's
Speaker 1: look at that through that lens. And obviously I'm covering
Speaker 1: some ground here, and I want to try to put
Speaker 1: us through the funnel and look at some of the
Speaker 1: names that history has given us as responsible people who
Speaker 1: stood up at a very difficult time, and in their
Speaker 1: desire to stand up at a very difficult time and
Speaker 1: go against the grain of everything that was being offered.
Speaker 1: These people participated in a journey that changed the fate
Speaker 1: of a nation. When you look at it from that standpoint,
Speaker 1: you'll begin to realize that there is something amazing that
Speaker 1: is truly happening in this world at this time. I
Speaker 1: remember some years ago, so I had the privilege of
Speaker 1: reading some of the excerpts in a speech that Patrick
Speaker 1: Henry gave on the twenty third of March in seventeen
Speaker 1: seventy five, and I would like to read this again
Speaker 1: for you. No man thinks more highly than I do
Speaker 1: of the patriotism as well as the abilities of the
Speaker 1: very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the house. But
Speaker 1: different men often see the same subject in different lights,
Speaker 1: and therefore I hope it will not be thought disrespectful
Speaker 1: to those gentlemen if entertain, as I do, opinions of
Speaker 1: a character very opposite to theirs. I shall speak forth
Speaker 1: my sentiments freely and without reserve. This is no time
Speaker 1: for ceremony. And I'm taking excerpts from that very famous speech.
Speaker 1: But here's what he goes on to say. Should I
Speaker 1: keep back my opinions at a time such as this
Speaker 1: through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as
Speaker 1: guilty of treason towards my country and an act of
Speaker 1: disloyalty towards the majesty of Heaven, which I revere above
Speaker 1: all earthly kings. Mister President, it is natural to men
Speaker 1: to indulge in the illusion of hope. Besides, so we
Speaker 1: shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just
Speaker 1: God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who
Speaker 1: will raise our friends to fight our battles for us.
Speaker 1: It is. And I've used the second part before, and
Speaker 1: I may have used this entire part before because I'm
Speaker 1: just a big fan of the speech. It's something I
Speaker 1: read when I came very early to this nation. Recently,
Speaker 1: I was thinking about another speech that was made by
Speaker 1: an African American preacher in a predominantly Black church, and
Speaker 1: he went back to the morality. He says, you know
Speaker 1: what I know. I am expected to act a certain way,
Speaker 1: talk a certain way, behave a certain way, and even
Speaker 1: vote a certain way. But I cannot, with my faith
Speaker 1: and fear in God, I cannot vote for a party
Speaker 1: that says that there is no moratorium on the killing
Speaker 1: of babies. I cannot and will not vote for a
Speaker 1: party that says there is no limit to the number
Speaker 1: of people who can waltz into an area and take
Speaker 1: away the benefits from people who are citizens of this nation.
Speaker 1: He says, I cannot and will not vote for somebody
Speaker 1: who does not care about our homelessness and yet brings
Speaker 1: people who are undocumented and house them in nice, luxury hotels. Folks,
Speaker 1: this is what we are dealing with. If you want
Speaker 1: to understand something called for God and country, maybe we
Speaker 1: need to get away from the diet tribe that is
Speaker 1: political and all this rhetoric that seems to be meaningless
Speaker 1: banter of right and left, and get back to right
Speaker 1: and wrong morally speaking, What are we obligated to do
Speaker 1: for our children? What are we obligated to do for
Speaker 1: our children's children. The amount of debt that we are
Speaker 1: being saddled on or that is being incurred is crazy.
Speaker 1: It is untenable. It is something that does not work
Speaker 1: at a kitchen table when my bride and I balance
Speaker 1: our books and we realize because we are salespeople and
Speaker 1: commission only, or that's the nature of our world. Our
Speaker 1: worth is dependent on how much work we do. If
Speaker 1: I look at my calendar and I see some fewer
Speaker 1: engagements than others. And I may be speaking twice or
Speaker 1: thrice less than the other month. My bride will look
Speaker 1: at me and say, hey, our intake is going to
Speaker 1: be down by twenty percent, so our output is going
Speaker 1: to be down by thirty percent. Common sense, you always
Speaker 1: spend less when you earn less, and you spend and
Speaker 1: you budget it accordingly. So if you're spending twenty dollars
Speaker 1: when you earn forty dollars and you next month are
Speaker 1: going to earn thirty dollars, don't spend ten. Make sure
Speaker 1: you only spend five. The equation has to match up
Speaker 1: to common sense. But I hear the former Speaker of
Speaker 1: the House standing up and talking about the fact that
Speaker 1: unemployment insurance actually drives up spending. I mean, they just
Speaker 1: throw these things out like nobody is watching, and the
Speaker 1: person who is actually interviewing them goes along with it
Speaker 1: because they don't want to upset the card. When the
Speaker 1: current presidential candidate is asked a question about the state
Speaker 1: of the economy, she says, prices are going up, and
Speaker 1: that's a problem. And since prices are going up, that's
Speaker 1: a priority for us to look into the fact that
Speaker 1: since prices are going up family, and she just goes
Speaker 1: off on this tangent and somehow she ends up at
Speaker 1: the fact that because prices are going up, we need
Speaker 1: to ensure that the rights of women are protected. What
Speaker 1: I'm just asking myself as I'm listening to this, and
Speaker 1: I'm thinking to myself, Man, I'm full Indian. I was
Speaker 1: born and raised in India. And she's claiming to be
Speaker 1: half Indian. But she would be excoriated by Indian TV,
Speaker 1: which is not really known to hold you to some
Speaker 1: kind of a rigorous standard. But she would be whole
Speaker 1: held to that standard, not on the basis of policy,
Speaker 1: but on the basis of common sense. It just makes
Speaker 1: no sense. You cannot say that and get away with it,
Speaker 1: and say that over and over again. But the scary
Speaker 1: part is that anthem that is talked about, the equality
Speaker 1: and equity is a stalin Esque argument. The hinged and
Speaker 1: unhinged or bound and unbound, or whatever the word she use,
Speaker 1: is actually a Marxist argument. These are all cleverly disguised
Speaker 1: mottos that become the anthem and rally cry for people. Folks,
Speaker 1: we are tatering on the brink of disaster. I'm wondering
Speaker 1: myself why this election is even close. I was surprised
Speaker 1: the last time when he lost. And whether you're a
Speaker 1: conspiracy theorist or not, and the evidence that is coming out,
Speaker 1: different people talk about it differently, but I don't pay
Speaker 1: attention to that. I said, votes do matter. And if
Speaker 1: we stayed home as a result of that, because we
Speaker 1: just thought it was in the bag and then the
Speaker 1: margin of error came down to a thing. You can
Speaker 1: blame it on nine different things. But as conservatives, if
Speaker 1: you want this election to work the way you think
Speaker 1: it should go to save a republic, every one of
Speaker 1: us should vote. Were saying this past weekend that Charlie Kirk,
Speaker 1: the gentleman who were in a turning point USA and
Speaker 1: all the other good work, he says, he waited till
Speaker 1: the very last day to vote because that's what he
Speaker 1: always did. And this last presidential cycle when he went there,
Speaker 1: there was a glitch and the electronic or the electrical
Speaker 1: surge or something like that, and as a result, the
Speaker 1: voting machines were or for some reason they just said that,
Speaker 1: you know, we can't do the vote today or whatever
Speaker 1: it is, and some other place had flooded, so there
Speaker 1: were thousands of people who were not allowed to vote
Speaker 1: on the election day because of some glitches. Folks, don't
Speaker 1: leave it to the last minute. I shared this with
Speaker 1: you the previous time I was with you, and I'm
Speaker 1: sharing this with you now again. If it does come
Speaker 1: down to one vote or two votes making a difference
Speaker 1: in your regional election, that is the person who goes
Speaker 1: and becomes the deciding vote where a bill eventually will
Speaker 1: become a law and the fate of a nation will
Speaker 1: be dependent on that. So don't just make sure that
Speaker 1: you're voting for the President of the United States and
Speaker 1: that's your cause, celeb because that's the one in the media,
Speaker 1: and that's the one in the news, and that's the
Speaker 1: one that gets you most excited. Make sure you're voting
Speaker 1: in every election up and down. Your vote is sacred.
Speaker 1: Every time you get a chance to vote, go out
Speaker 1: there and vote. And again, this is as much as
Speaker 1: I wanted it to be about apologetics and God and morality.
Speaker 1: For some reason, I keep getting drawn back to making
Speaker 1: the argument about elections and election interference and all of
Speaker 1: the things. I go back to the basics, and I'm
Speaker 1: asking myself, I'm pinching myself how can this thing even
Speaker 1: be close when you understand the record of the other
Speaker 1: side and you understand what they stand for, how can
Speaker 1: this thing be even close? Well, when we come back
Speaker 1: after the breaker for the next segment, let's address some
Speaker 1: of those issues until then. This is christ Dunham filling
Speaker 1: in for Todd Huff on the Home of Conservative Not Bitter.
Speaker 1: Welcome back, dear friends to segment two. This is chrish Down.
Speaker 1: I'm filling in for Todd huff on the Home of
Speaker 1: Conservative Not Bitter. We talked about elections. We talked about votes,
Speaker 1: we talked about the blasphemy of how you would equate
Speaker 1: what's going on now and the gallant decision of a
Speaker 1: former prayer of the current president to step down from
Speaker 1: seeking election again to George Washington, and I probably went
Speaker 1: on a completely unhinged rant there, but that's the passion
Speaker 1: behind the voice. I wish I had more time with you,
Speaker 1: one on one, and maybe that day will come where
Speaker 1: we can sit across a table from each other and
Speaker 1: just feel questions and go through the answers. But every
Speaker 1: time I'm given this opportunity by Todd, I think to
Speaker 1: myself of how much I would love to do this
Speaker 1: on an ongoing basis and just deal with one topic.
Speaker 1: So I guess I get excited, and I do apologize
Speaker 1: if I go off on a tangent here and there.
Speaker 1: But like I said earlier, that's just the passion. But
Speaker 1: as we engage in this and try to look at
Speaker 1: this great republic that is worth saving, and I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe that's just nostalgia for me. I've been forty years
Speaker 1: into this journey, and I constantly asked myself the question,
Speaker 1: what would my life have been had there never been
Speaker 1: in America? What would my life have been had there
Speaker 1: never been great people who fought in the wars and
Speaker 1: eventually liberated It was part of the Allied liberation and
Speaker 1: changed the face of Europe. See, the world would have
Speaker 1: been radically different if it wasn't for America. But today,
Speaker 1: for some reason, she is not only vilified, she is
Speaker 1: torn down at home by her own people. And these
Speaker 1: are people who benefited by her. Not one of these
Speaker 1: guys who stands up and talks about equality and equity
Speaker 1: would make it a minute in another nation because they
Speaker 1: don't have any specific skill to offer. This is what
Speaker 1: the political process in this country seems to have become.
Speaker 1: Nobody serves with the desire to better the constituencies. Nobody
Speaker 1: does what the original founding fathers did when they signed
Speaker 1: their death warrant on that declaration, pledging to give up
Speaker 1: their lives, their treasures, and their sacred honor. I mean,
Speaker 1: none of the people now would do that. In fact,
Speaker 1: everything is questioned, everything is suspect, and the moment someone
Speaker 1: says I want to run for office, if you don't
Speaker 1: fit the narrative of the machine that thinks that they
Speaker 1: approve of you, then men, the tearing down does begin.
Speaker 1: But I love American history, and I really do believe
Speaker 1: that America's best days may be in front of her
Speaker 1: if the people just pay attention at this stretch. It
Speaker 1: is not like we have not been in this position before.
Speaker 1: We have go back to the time when the taxation
Speaker 1: without representation cry began. The Stamp Act never went in
Speaker 1: because the people rallied around it. The crown was upset
Speaker 1: that the taxation needed to be more from the colonies
Speaker 1: because of the work they were doing around the world.
Speaker 1: Think about it, similar situation. We've got all these wars,
Speaker 1: we're invested in, all these countries that need billions of dollars.
Speaker 1: All these social programs that warrant were unfettered spending. So
Speaker 1: because of the good we are doing that pat on
Speaker 1: the back. We are the ones taking care of the migrants.
Speaker 1: We are the ones housing the asylum seekers. We are
Speaker 1: the ones you know, footing the bill in Ukraine. We
Speaker 1: are the ones. We are the ones. We are the
Speaker 1: ones fighting for Palestine that do goody pat on the
Speaker 1: back is just like the King of England. We are
Speaker 1: the empire where the sun will not set. We're doing
Speaker 1: good all over the world. The East India Company rules
Speaker 1: the trade routes between Malaysia and the Middle East. India
Speaker 1: is a big hub for us. The crown Jewel of
Speaker 1: the British raj and all of this stuff. And then
Speaker 1: you have this colony, this colony that is now the
Speaker 1: thirteen colonies that so far had had their independence. They
Speaker 1: were individual people, and the Crown decides that, hey, you
Speaker 1: know what, maybe we need to tax them a little more.
Speaker 1: They've had too much liberty. So the loyalists agree with it,
Speaker 1: the patriots disagree with it. But you know, to the
Speaker 1: best of my knowledge, many of the people say, hey,
Speaker 1: I don't think the Stamp Act ever got off Brown.
Speaker 1: They did the same thing with the Boston tea. They
Speaker 1: wanted to tax tea because the tea was coming out
Speaker 1: of India and they needed to charge a premium for
Speaker 1: that tea that was being consumed quite quite rampantly by
Speaker 1: the people and the colonies. The same thing. We've been
Speaker 1: here before. That was seventeen seventy five when the thought began,
Speaker 1: when Patrick Henry began those words, I don't care what
Speaker 1: path others might take, but for me, give me libery
Speaker 1: or give me death. This led up to the reading
Speaker 1: by Richard Henry Lee in June of seventeen seventy five,
Speaker 1: the Declaration drafted by Thomas Jefferson and signed by a
Speaker 1: couple of people, and then the majority signed on August
Speaker 1: two in seventeen seventy six. What was the fight, The
Speaker 1: same fight. They want more of what you own. They
Speaker 1: want to tax your property. Even if your house is
Speaker 1: paid off, you still pay taxes because the government, through
Speaker 1: some old land deeds, probably owns sixty percent of the
Speaker 1: land anyway. But if you go back study that issue,
Speaker 1: there's a case coming up in the Supreme Court pretty soon,
Speaker 1: and you will realize that all of the land owned
Speaker 1: by the United States government probably has more mineral resources
Speaker 1: and enough oil on them that would make America independent,
Speaker 1: energy independent for the next five hundred years, but the
Speaker 1: government owns it and they don't want it because of
Speaker 1: the same issue. If you allow that prosperity to be
Speaker 1: under take in and achieved at that very basic level,
Speaker 1: you find yourself not needing those who lead you. That's
Speaker 1: why the Declaration of Independence said the rights. Governments are
Speaker 1: instituted amongst men to predict these rights, the right of what,
Speaker 1: the inalienable right of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,
Speaker 1: the pursuit being the only one with a qualifier. But
Speaker 1: the way that was drafted is those that are elected
Speaker 1: in a republic are inconsequential. They are elected to go
Speaker 1: their checks and balances within them, the Congress, the Senate,
Speaker 1: the Presidency, all of that. But they are there to
Speaker 1: represent your honor because the rights are with the governed.
Speaker 1: So why then do we have this unending regulation constantly
Speaker 1: being thrust down our throat. And the reason is not
Speaker 1: too far from where we were in seventeen seventy five
Speaker 1: when that revolution began. It began with the same thing
Speaker 1: is that we need to be in control of this thing.
Speaker 1: If there is taxation, there has to be representation. So
Speaker 1: if you're going to tax me to the tune of
Speaker 1: thirty eight percent of my income, you're going to give
Speaker 1: me capital gains tax. You're going to tax me on
Speaker 1: the income I received. Then you're going to tax me
Speaker 1: on the sales I may, the products I buy. Then
Speaker 1: you're going to tax me on the fuel that I pump.
Speaker 1: You're going to tax me on the registration for the car.
Speaker 1: You're going to tax me on buying the car. Tax, tax, tax,
Speaker 1: It's almost like the tax Man song that George Harrison
Speaker 1: wrote with the Beatles, and it's almost become laughable in
Speaker 1: a mockery. But that's the low hanging fruit. That's what
Speaker 1: these governments are saying. That's why a conservative government that says,
Speaker 1: you know what a trickle down, we're going to give
Speaker 1: you a tax break is a threat to the people
Speaker 1: in power because that's the only way they can fund
Speaker 1: themselves into superiority. Do you think they really care about
Speaker 1: you and I? The pothole on the road is still
Speaker 1: the pothole on the road. But they pass all these
Speaker 1: resolutions at the state level saying we're doing this stuff
Speaker 1: for you, and then will take care of the roads,
Speaker 1: will take care of the buildings, and will take care
Speaker 1: of the clean air. You look at everything that went
Speaker 1: on with climate change, same thing. The changes are not
Speaker 1: as drastic as they said they would be, but the
Speaker 1: taxation has been as drastic as they want. So that's
Speaker 1: the world we are living in, the same seventeen seventy
Speaker 1: five world that told one small group of people thirteen
Speaker 1: colonies that took on the mighty British Empire. The war
Speaker 1: lasted a long time. There were battles that were won,
Speaker 1: there were battles that were lost. But the reality is,
Speaker 1: my friends, we have been there before throughout human history.
Speaker 1: We have been there. During the Civil War. We were
Speaker 1: again there a nation on the precipice of collapse on
Speaker 1: the one single issue of slavery. But that same issue
Speaker 1: was tabled in eighteen seventeen eighty seven when Theress, when
Speaker 1: the Constitution was ratified, they said, if we cannot do it,
Speaker 1: let's table it. They tabled it for twenty years. They
Speaker 1: came back and revisited it. In twenty years they passed
Speaker 1: it saying no new slaves can be a coqu But
Speaker 1: the Southern slave owners fought them, and as a result,
Speaker 1: even though four hundred million dollars was appropriated, people said,
Speaker 1: not enough. It's never enough. It's never enough. But when
Speaker 1: I met Mother Teresa all those years ago and I
Speaker 1: asked her what is success, she said, until you know
Speaker 1: how much is enough. No matter how much you get,
Speaker 1: it will never be enough. That's why Ronald Reagan's great words,
Speaker 1: the scariest words in the English language are I'm from
Speaker 1: the government and I'm here to help you. I'm talking
Speaker 1: about a conspiracy theory of any kind. I'm talking about
Speaker 1: practicality of earning a paycheck, earning a living, putting some
Speaker 1: money in the bank, buying some investments for yourself, trying
Speaker 1: to preserve your presence, trying to make sure that your
Speaker 1: budget is balanced, and trying to make sure that you
Speaker 1: put away something for posterity and a rainy day. But
Speaker 1: the issue is that you never let go on skid right.
Speaker 1: That's what Steve Forbes kept saying when he says that
Speaker 1: our tax code is so complicated that they tax you
Speaker 1: from the moment you arrive on earth, and even when
Speaker 1: you're dead in your grave, they will find a way
Speaker 1: to tax you in some way. Because they do not
Speaker 1: want to leave you unaccounted for, not as a denizen
Speaker 1: of this great Republic, but as someone they can squeeze
Speaker 1: like a lemon till the last drop comes out. So,
Speaker 1: since we now know that this has happened before, since
Speaker 1: we now know that what is being offered around in
Speaker 1: terms of smoke and mirrors and this hoodwinking of overnight electing,
Speaker 1: putting someone in position of power and then saying we've
Speaker 1: taken a secret ballot and we've taken a virtual ballot,
Speaker 1: all of this is gone back to that concept of
Speaker 1: how much power do we need and where are we
Speaker 1: going to put this concentration of power. When we come
Speaker 1: back in the last segment of the first hour, let's
Speaker 1: dissect where your money does go. Let's dissect how much
Speaker 1: of it is really coming back to you. Let's dissect
Speaker 1: how much you have to work in this world just
Speaker 1: to consider yourself to be a part of this world.
Speaker 1: More after this break again, this is christ Dunham filling
Speaker 1: in for Todd Huff. All right, welcome back. This is
Speaker 1: Chris Dunham filling in for Todd Huff on the Home
Speaker 1: of Conservative Not Bitter. Chris Krish. Dunham da Nam. I
Speaker 1: have a YouTube channel which a ton of videos. I'm
Speaker 1: an apologist by training, a Christian apologist, and an evangelist
Speaker 1: by burden. But I've dabbled in American history and the
Speaker 1: American process for the number of years I've been in
Speaker 1: this country as an immigrant, and i have some very,
Speaker 1: very personal and passionate opinions about immigration, having done it
Speaker 1: the right way. My bride was born in Michigan but
Speaker 1: raised in India. She's the opposite of any anchor baby
Speaker 1: you've ever met, because she became an American citizen while
Speaker 1: in India, and as a result, we came here with
Speaker 1: the permits to work, and work we did, worked very hard.
Speaker 1: Minimum wage was three thirty five an hour when we
Speaker 1: began this journey, and when we look back now, I
Speaker 1: marvel at how people when you're when they are too
Speaker 1: their worth, they almost succumb to the lowest common denominator.
Speaker 1: So in the previous segment, we talked a little bit
Speaker 1: about the taxation and the power of that taxation and
Speaker 1: the power of the purse that comes with the elected.
Speaker 1: The word that keeps throwing or being thrown around is
Speaker 1: a word that nobody is challenging on face value, this
Speaker 1: will be the death of democracy. Well, democracy always dies
Speaker 1: because it's marbocracy. It's majority rules. That's why a constitutional
Speaker 1: republic has legs. If you say this is the death
Speaker 1: of democracy, if you think that the people you're going
Speaker 1: to elect or can be unfittered totalitarian people, that's what
Speaker 1: marbocracy is. So any culture that has had that in
Speaker 1: a parliamentary form and a presidential form still has instituted
Speaker 1: within their own rights what we call those limits of
Speaker 1: four and five years, so that the people have a
Speaker 1: chance to recheck their cho choices, re elect choices that
Speaker 1: are better, review their own choices that have or have
Speaker 1: not worked, and ask yourself why. But that having been said,
Speaker 1: I'm fascinated that there are some people that, no matter
Speaker 1: what happens in this world, will never choose be, never
Speaker 1: cease being conservative. And I may be one of them
Speaker 1: because I believe in simplicity. There are some people that
Speaker 1: will never ever leave the Democratic Party because they don't
Speaker 1: believe in simplicity. They believe in complexity. Everything has to
Speaker 1: have a philosophical bent. If wishes were horses and some
Speaker 1: kind of a utopian thinking saying that you know what,
Speaker 1: unless I have someone who is willing to promise me air,
Speaker 1: I technically cannot breathe. Excuse me, I technically cannot breathe
Speaker 1: because I want people to constantly promise me stuff. The
Speaker 1: fact that whether I deserve it or not is secondary.
Speaker 1: I'm entitled to it. I'm entitled to it because someone
Speaker 1: took it from me, and as a result of it,
Speaker 1: I want it back. But that's not the new victim
Speaker 1: is it. When I look on television and I look
Speaker 1: at who is actually complaining, the script seems to have
Speaker 1: been flipped. They were a bunch of people who were
Speaker 1: forced to have white guilt. No, I'm brown skin and
Speaker 1: I'll always be brown skin. I was born in India,
Speaker 1: raised in India, and I came to the United States
Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty six. When I came to America, it
Speaker 1: had a different cultural bent to it. The people who
Speaker 1: were marginalized, the people who were disenfranchised, claim victimization in
Speaker 1: terms of color, opportunity, diversity, etc. But the people who
Speaker 1: felt bad for them didn't feel bad for them because
Speaker 1: they could idea with them. They felt bad for them
Speaker 1: because they thought their ancestors had done something wrong, and
Speaker 1: they were beaten down into believing that good, bad, or indifferent.
Speaker 1: They did election after election catered to that same victim card.
Speaker 1: Ninety to ninety two percent of the African American community
Speaker 1: always voted for Democrats. Now, whether you talk about it
Speaker 1: as a switch, or whether you talk about it as
Speaker 1: great society, or whether you talk about it as a
Speaker 1: new deal or Lyndon Johnson's all of this stuff, it
Speaker 1: doesn't really matter. The fact is when you look at
Speaker 1: your pocketbook every four hours and you realize you're worse
Speaker 1: off than you were four years ago, not four hours.
Speaker 1: Four years you were worse off, and someone else comes
Speaker 1: in and promises you something different, and your community is
Speaker 1: improved marginally, education changed, historically, Black university has got more funding.
Speaker 1: And suddenly you found out that the person doing this
Speaker 1: was not the person you had historically cast your vote for,
Speaker 1: but someone who had actually built a business, done some things.
Speaker 1: Now he's got moral flaws. Who doesn't. As a Christian,
Speaker 1: I only see to the verse of not who I'm
Speaker 1: going to vote for. But all of us have sinned,
Speaker 1: and there's not one perfect, not one. We have all
Speaker 1: fallen short of the glory of God. Now, suddenly, when
Speaker 1: you look at the television screens, the script has been flipped.
Speaker 1: You have Latinos who are voting for the Conservative Party.
Speaker 1: These are also immigrants and migrants who have come up
Speaker 1: the ranks. Most recently in Fredericksburg, Texas, I met a
Speaker 1: young man who is an immigrant from Guatemala, who is
Speaker 1: an asylum seeker in the eighties. But he looked at
Speaker 1: me very differently. I said, what do you think of
Speaker 1: the asylum seekers now? He said, all are fake? And
Speaker 1: again I go back to that the flip the script
Speaker 1: has flipped. We have a very different concept of equality now.
Speaker 1: The minority communities in this world, whether it's African American,
Speaker 1: whether it's Latino, whether it's Asian American, whatever it is,
Speaker 1: the minority communities in this world are saying, wait a minute.
Speaker 1: I like the Conservative platform because it is founded on dignity, discipline, dedication, devotion, direction,
Speaker 1: and not just based on destruction, dereliction and debauchery, which
Speaker 1: the other side seems to parade in the name of equality.
Speaker 1: So now that the flip the script is flipped, when
Speaker 1: we come back for that second hour, let's ask ourselves
Speaker 1: why these monumental cultural changes have taken place and we're
Speaker 1: watching it in front of our eyes. Why is the
Speaker 1: cry for raising taxes and all of that now falling
Speaker 1: on deaf years from those that historically were marginalized more
Speaker 1: after the break