WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.919 --> 00:00:05.960 Greetings and a very good morning to all of you 2 00:00:06.519 --> 00:00:09.640 and those of you listening on the podcast or on 3 00:00:09.720 --> 00:00:13.919 other versions later on good Day, wherever you may be. 4 00:00:14.800 --> 00:00:19.239 This is your guest host, humble immigrant Chris Dunham, filling 5 00:00:19.280 --> 00:00:22.480 in for my dear friend Todd Huff on the Home 6 00:00:22.640 --> 00:00:29.239 of Conservative Not Bitter. If you listen to the ranting 7 00:00:29.320 --> 00:00:31.839 and raving that I gave on the last time I 8 00:00:31.960 --> 00:00:37.159 was up, probably before the weekend. If I am guessing right, 9 00:00:37.320 --> 00:00:40.600 this is airing on Monday, as Start is taking a 10 00:00:40.640 --> 00:00:45.280 well deserved break visiting some family, getting rejuvenated so that 11 00:00:45.479 --> 00:00:48.240 he can hit this home stretch of the next one 12 00:00:48.320 --> 00:00:51.719 hundred or so days, as we see our nation on 13 00:00:51.840 --> 00:00:57.600 the precipice of something incredible, something important, something great, something historic. 14 00:00:58.600 --> 00:01:02.640 I'm a history buff an apologist by training, an evangelist 15 00:01:02.719 --> 00:01:07.719 by burden, and a patriot by urgency. As I've alluded 16 00:01:07.760 --> 00:01:11.120 to before, my name is Chris Dunham. I am a 17 00:01:11.159 --> 00:01:14.719 first generation immigrant to these here United States of America, 18 00:01:14.840 --> 00:01:18.560 having arrived on these great shores with nine dollars to 19 00:01:18.640 --> 00:01:21.799 my name many many moons ago. Dallas, Texas has been 20 00:01:21.879 --> 00:01:25.840 home for all this duration, and when I spoke to 21 00:01:25.879 --> 00:01:28.159 you guys. Last time, I was coming to you from 22 00:01:28.200 --> 00:01:33.200 the brand new minted campus of Patriot Academy in Fredericksburg, Texas, 23 00:01:33.640 --> 00:01:39.040 where the preservation of liberty and the efforts therein garnered 24 00:01:39.159 --> 00:01:42.519 an incredible amount of hope in my own soul. As 25 00:01:42.599 --> 00:01:46.319 wary as it is, by the sound of my voice, 26 00:01:46.359 --> 00:01:49.200 you have probably already guessed that I'm a little older 27 00:01:49.319 --> 00:01:53.640 in the demographic Dan Todd, and as a result of 28 00:01:53.680 --> 00:02:01.599 that may sound a little a little less enthusiastic about 29 00:02:01.640 --> 00:02:06.400 some things, but more hopeful about some other things. As 30 00:02:06.439 --> 00:02:11.000 we are embarking into this week, we've had some historic 31 00:02:11.080 --> 00:02:16.199 announcements regarding the presidential ticket. Again, who knows what they 32 00:02:16.240 --> 00:02:19.680 may decide to do at their convention when they gather together, 33 00:02:21.120 --> 00:02:25.639 as everything else seems to have been done in the 34 00:02:25.759 --> 00:02:28.800 quietness of the night, when they made one person exit 35 00:02:28.840 --> 00:02:31.520 and another person take on the elm and mantle and 36 00:02:31.599 --> 00:02:35.080 almost as if a conferring of the title took place, 37 00:02:35.159 --> 00:02:38.800 and apparently we are weird and I'm a threat to democracy. 38 00:02:39.719 --> 00:02:43.240 It is quite fascinating that when the parade of characters 39 00:02:43.280 --> 00:02:48.000 that is represented in the administration actually does look weird, 40 00:02:48.319 --> 00:02:54.919 visually speaks incoherently, cannot conjure up a sentence, cannot answer 41 00:02:55.120 --> 00:02:59.639 a question with a legitimate answer without always hearkening back 42 00:02:59.680 --> 00:03:03.120 to the die tribe will when we took over all 43 00:03:03.120 --> 00:03:07.319 this nonsense. At some point, leadership requires an ownership like 44 00:03:07.360 --> 00:03:11.120 in times past. And one of the pictures that I 45 00:03:11.360 --> 00:03:15.280 was shown this past week when I was at that 46 00:03:15.319 --> 00:03:19.960 Patriot Academy was a picture of George Washington basically resigning 47 00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:24.159 his commission as commander in chief. He had seen the 48 00:03:24.280 --> 00:03:28.479 nation through the revolutionary war, took it upon himself, told 49 00:03:28.520 --> 00:03:33.479 Congress repeatedly that he considered himself the least qualified person 50 00:03:33.599 --> 00:03:36.280 to lead. This went through a lot of defeats in 51 00:03:36.319 --> 00:03:39.960 the early stages, but yet when his time came and 52 00:03:40.080 --> 00:03:42.520 the treaty was signed, he says, I don't want to 53 00:03:42.560 --> 00:03:45.039 move on from where I am and become another king. 54 00:03:45.479 --> 00:03:47.800 I'm going to retreat to the quietness of my own 55 00:03:47.840 --> 00:03:50.840 home and go back to doing what I was doing 56 00:03:50.879 --> 00:03:54.439 before the nation called me for this solemn duty. It 57 00:03:54.560 --> 00:03:57.159 is a travesty and a tragedy that some of the 58 00:03:57.240 --> 00:04:02.280 left wing media and the proponents of the mainstream punditory 59 00:04:03.039 --> 00:04:07.319 or equating President Joe Biden's decision to not run again 60 00:04:07.960 --> 00:04:11.800 to the decision that George Washington made. And when I 61 00:04:11.919 --> 00:04:15.080 heard that comment from the media, I almost thought to myself, 62 00:04:15.159 --> 00:04:18.680 how much of history have you actually studied? How much 63 00:04:18.720 --> 00:04:23.480 of George Washington's life have you actually evaluated to even 64 00:04:23.560 --> 00:04:26.560 come close to making a claim that after three years 65 00:04:26.959 --> 00:04:30.879 of a debacle of an economy where the inflation is rampant, 66 00:04:30.920 --> 00:04:34.720 the borders are open, and every policy decision that has 67 00:04:34.759 --> 00:04:39.399 been made has been made as against the American people 68 00:04:39.439 --> 00:04:43.879 and the legal citizenry of this nation. Every suggestion made 69 00:04:43.959 --> 00:04:48.120 was to equip an arm and almost give benefits to 70 00:04:48.199 --> 00:04:53.600 those that came here illegally. To equate those decisions with 71 00:04:53.720 --> 00:04:57.079 the stature of George Washington, come what it may, I mean, 72 00:04:57.120 --> 00:04:59.360 you know, I know how they will always dance back 73 00:04:59.360 --> 00:05:02.800 to that equation of ownership and all of this other 74 00:05:02.839 --> 00:05:05.240 stuff and who had slaves and who didn't and all 75 00:05:05.240 --> 00:05:09.759 that nonsense. But the reality is this current president has 76 00:05:09.800 --> 00:05:12.480 been in office continually, if I'm to get it right, 77 00:05:12.519 --> 00:05:15.560 since he was twenty nine years old. He's been in 78 00:05:15.600 --> 00:05:19.600 public service for fifty years. He is not resigning anything 79 00:05:19.639 --> 00:05:22.560 and walking away in the zenith of his life, having 80 00:05:22.639 --> 00:05:25.720 left the country better off than when he took it. 81 00:05:26.240 --> 00:05:31.279 To equate that decision to the decision of General George Washington. Eventually, 82 00:05:31.360 --> 00:05:35.480 President George Washington, who himself again after two terms, said 83 00:05:35.920 --> 00:05:40.000 that should be enough. It's a travesty. I just wish 84 00:05:40.120 --> 00:05:42.839 some of these punditory who come down and make these 85 00:05:42.879 --> 00:05:48.800 Democrat talking points and call conservatives weird and call names 86 00:05:48.879 --> 00:05:53.160 and display that and then have the audacity to somehow 87 00:05:53.360 --> 00:05:57.759 merge their own side with history and elevate themselves to 88 00:05:57.800 --> 00:06:01.680 a position of grandeur. I said often on this program 89 00:06:01.720 --> 00:06:04.319 when I filled in for Todd on numerous occasions, that 90 00:06:04.360 --> 00:06:07.480 I'm but a humble immigrant. I'm a spectator in this 91 00:06:07.600 --> 00:06:10.480 journey for a majority of it, having benefited from the 92 00:06:10.519 --> 00:06:14.000 American dream. When I stand in front of the youths 93 00:06:14.000 --> 00:06:16.759 today to speak, the first thing I do is apologize 94 00:06:16.800 --> 00:06:19.279 to them. I said. The country I inherited that had 95 00:06:19.279 --> 00:06:22.319 the great Ronald Reagan as president when I arrived in 96 00:06:22.399 --> 00:06:24.639 this nation is a far cry from the one I'm 97 00:06:24.720 --> 00:06:28.000 leaving this next generation. And when I apologize to them, 98 00:06:28.040 --> 00:06:30.279 I apologize to them not for the fact that I 99 00:06:30.319 --> 00:06:34.240 have been an imbecile who is ambivalent to what has 100 00:06:34.279 --> 00:06:36.920 happened or has not participated in the cause of freedom 101 00:06:36.920 --> 00:06:42.639 and liberty. It is saying that the nation we inherited morally, righteously, religiously, 102 00:06:43.040 --> 00:06:47.160 fundamentally civic, was a far different one that did not 103 00:06:47.360 --> 00:06:50.839 have the vitriol that we now seem to espouse. When 104 00:06:50.879 --> 00:06:55.000 even thoughts and questions and ideas are opened up for debate, 105 00:06:55.879 --> 00:06:58.560 it's almost as if if you have a counterpoint of 106 00:06:58.639 --> 00:07:01.639 view that hearkens back to anything other than what the 107 00:07:01.680 --> 00:07:06.120 mainstream pummels and pushes that you're a bigot, you're a misogynist, 108 00:07:06.199 --> 00:07:09.839 you're a prejudicial individual who is not fit to be 109 00:07:09.959 --> 00:07:12.319 in society. And yet the people who seem to have 110 00:07:12.439 --> 00:07:15.800 my opinion, my idea seem to be the ones who 111 00:07:15.800 --> 00:07:18.920 are functioning, have jobs and actually go to the jobs, 112 00:07:19.720 --> 00:07:24.639 maintain their insurance, which cast an astronomical amount, don't receive 113 00:07:24.759 --> 00:07:28.040 the handouts that are passed down. I've never taken an 114 00:07:28.120 --> 00:07:31.519 unemployment insurance check, even though I've had gaps in my employment. 115 00:07:31.879 --> 00:07:33.839 I mean, I'd rather dig a ditch than try to 116 00:07:33.879 --> 00:07:36.480 stand in line and ask someone else to determine how 117 00:07:36.519 --> 00:07:38.680 much dignity I have in my life and how much 118 00:07:38.759 --> 00:07:42.319 it is worth. But anyhow, you know today, as we 119 00:07:42.399 --> 00:07:45.720 embark on our show today, going back to conservative is 120 00:07:45.759 --> 00:07:49.360 not bitter. You're probably wondering, I'm not bitter. I'm just venting, 121 00:07:49.399 --> 00:07:51.839 and I'm venting in a positive way and trying to 122 00:07:51.959 --> 00:07:55.360 use action, axioms and words that can connect the dots 123 00:07:55.399 --> 00:07:59.120 of human history. So what shall we talk about today 124 00:07:59.120 --> 00:08:02.600 that will give us the glimmer of hope amidst the rabid, 125 00:08:03.079 --> 00:08:07.720 rousing nonsense that is constantly paraded on all channels that 126 00:08:07.800 --> 00:08:10.720 seemed to get our attention almost to rile us up. 127 00:08:11.560 --> 00:08:14.680 For example, yesterday's headlines were about this pick of the 128 00:08:14.720 --> 00:08:17.480 new governor of the governor of the great state of Minnesota, 129 00:08:17.519 --> 00:08:21.399 a state I visited many, many times, wonderful, wonderful people, 130 00:08:22.240 --> 00:08:25.319 But somehow the twin cities of Saint Paul and Minneapolis 131 00:08:25.360 --> 00:08:29.199 seemed to elect always someone who is blue, who is radical, 132 00:08:29.240 --> 00:08:33.240 who is fundamentally opposed to anything else. This guy actually 133 00:08:33.279 --> 00:08:36.519 stood watch while his city burned. I happened to visit 134 00:08:36.559 --> 00:08:40.000 Minnesota shortly after all of those riots took place and 135 00:08:40.039 --> 00:08:42.600 all of that looting took place, and one of my 136 00:08:42.679 --> 00:08:46.519 friends took me to the downtown area which had been revitalized, 137 00:08:46.559 --> 00:08:49.679 and it was made into a almost like a paradise, 138 00:08:50.200 --> 00:08:53.519 and a lot of investment and money went into revitalizing 139 00:08:53.559 --> 00:08:56.200 that downtown area which in a span of seventy two 140 00:08:56.200 --> 00:09:00.879 hours was torched beyond oblivion. This guy, this governor, who 141 00:09:00.919 --> 00:09:04.320 is now the vice presidential nominee on this new ticket, 142 00:09:04.759 --> 00:09:07.679 is the one who stood watch. And somehow, if we 143 00:09:07.720 --> 00:09:10.320 call him radical or call him someone who is left 144 00:09:10.320 --> 00:09:13.039 of common sense, we are considered people who don't seem 145 00:09:13.080 --> 00:09:16.919 to understand. And this is what I want to ask ourselves. 146 00:09:17.000 --> 00:09:19.639 Maybe we talk about for God and country and get 147 00:09:19.679 --> 00:09:22.600 back to some of the basics that begin to define us. 148 00:09:23.000 --> 00:09:25.639 Maybe we have some of the common sense gumption of 149 00:09:25.720 --> 00:09:30.600 asking ourselves, does history actually have something to say about 150 00:09:30.639 --> 00:09:34.399 these pivotal moments in this nation's history? I know it 151 00:09:34.519 --> 00:09:38.679 being recorded. I cannot get your opinion in real time 152 00:09:38.720 --> 00:09:41.080 if you text the show, But if you want to 153 00:09:41.240 --> 00:09:44.360 communicate with me as you're listening to this or listen 154 00:09:44.440 --> 00:09:47.360 on Friday, just drop me a line at Krish at 155 00:09:47.440 --> 00:09:50.360 Chris Dunham dot com. That's k R I s H. 156 00:09:50.559 --> 00:09:54.879 Chrish at Krish Dunham k r I s H d 157 00:09:55.120 --> 00:09:58.360 H A N A M dot com. Todd has asked 158 00:09:58.360 --> 00:10:01.080 me repeatedly to share that in But I don't like 159 00:10:01.120 --> 00:10:03.799 giving shameless plugs for the simple reason that this is 160 00:10:03.840 --> 00:10:07.679 his audience, his microphone, and something that I have seen 161 00:10:07.759 --> 00:10:10.840 him passionately work on building for the last decade that 162 00:10:10.919 --> 00:10:14.360 I have had the privilege of knowing him in this journey. 163 00:10:15.399 --> 00:10:18.159 But drop me a line, tell me if I'm right 164 00:10:18.279 --> 00:10:21.120 or wrong. Ask me a question as to why, as 165 00:10:21.120 --> 00:10:24.080 an immigrant to this country, I see this world radically 166 00:10:24.120 --> 00:10:27.039 different from the way others are seeing it. Why I'm 167 00:10:27.080 --> 00:10:30.480 apologetic to a generation saying that I'm sorry that I 168 00:10:30.519 --> 00:10:34.080 allowed this to happen on my watch. Why I'm almost 169 00:10:35.480 --> 00:10:38.919 bewildered when I see other immigrants who are being flooded 170 00:10:38.960 --> 00:10:43.120 into this nation and somehow convinced to be left leaning. 171 00:10:43.919 --> 00:10:46.600 Why would you run away from anybody as or any 172 00:10:46.639 --> 00:10:49.840 place as a refugee and come to this glorious land 173 00:10:49.879 --> 00:10:53.759 and take of this land in terms of benefits and opportunities, 174 00:10:53.799 --> 00:10:56.639 and then stand in line and mack those that made 175 00:10:56.679 --> 00:11:00.519 that possible, the hard working men and women, the people 176 00:11:00.559 --> 00:11:03.240 who when you look at the map of the United 177 00:11:03.279 --> 00:11:05.840 States and you see all of that red, and you 178 00:11:05.919 --> 00:11:09.919 even wonder, how does a liberal actually get elected in 179 00:11:09.960 --> 00:11:12.879 this nation. And then you go back to the genius 180 00:11:12.919 --> 00:11:15.399 of the founding fathers, because they had to make it 181 00:11:15.480 --> 00:11:19.600 based on populace and where the density was. Otherwise, you know, 182 00:11:19.679 --> 00:11:22.240 if they didn't give us that fair shake, New York 183 00:11:22.279 --> 00:11:26.080 and California would elect every time everywhere everyone, and you 184 00:11:26.159 --> 00:11:28.360 and I would be left holding the bag of making 185 00:11:28.399 --> 00:11:32.080 that decision for ourselves as to whether we wanted to 186 00:11:32.120 --> 00:11:35.159 continue to live here or not. But when you look 187 00:11:35.200 --> 00:11:37.279 at that map of red, and you look at how 188 00:11:37.399 --> 00:11:41.080 much what percentage of this country in terms of geography, 189 00:11:41.639 --> 00:11:44.840 actually believes in the American dream, and then you look 190 00:11:44.919 --> 00:11:48.960 at those small little slivers of blue about people who 191 00:11:48.960 --> 00:11:53.039 are radically opposed to individualism, who are radically opposed to 192 00:11:53.120 --> 00:11:56.360 dignity of labor, who are radically approached to the fact 193 00:11:56.399 --> 00:12:00.200 that we need an id to vote. One of the 194 00:12:00.240 --> 00:12:03.440 great ironies of ironies was apparently the other side had 195 00:12:03.480 --> 00:12:08.320 a rally recently that was fairly large because they added 196 00:12:08.360 --> 00:12:11.559 a new person another person anointed. Notice how these two 197 00:12:11.559 --> 00:12:13.679 people who are now on the ticket going to save 198 00:12:13.759 --> 00:12:18.200 democracy are actually the people who never participated in anything democratic. 199 00:12:18.279 --> 00:12:21.840 They were just enshrined and enthroned overnight and somehow you 200 00:12:21.919 --> 00:12:24.200 know that is now normal. The media doesn't talk about 201 00:12:24.240 --> 00:12:26.919 the fact that somehow the democracy is not a threat 202 00:12:27.279 --> 00:12:31.399 when you install people and don't elect people who voted 203 00:12:31.440 --> 00:12:35.000 in the primary elections throughout the country. But when this 204 00:12:35.159 --> 00:12:38.840 rally was being organized and some people were being a thing, 205 00:12:39.200 --> 00:12:42.039 one guy was very proud to be in the rally, 206 00:12:42.039 --> 00:12:45.919 and he says how much the security ah, how happy 207 00:12:45.960 --> 00:12:49.159 he was that the security was so tight, and that 208 00:12:49.320 --> 00:12:52.159 unless you were registered as a person who could actually 209 00:12:52.240 --> 00:12:54.759 attend the rally, you were not even allowed. You were screened. 210 00:12:55.080 --> 00:12:57.519 And not only were you screened, you were screened with 211 00:12:57.679 --> 00:13:02.559 an ID. In that fasting to elect a person to 212 00:13:02.639 --> 00:13:05.559 the highest office in the nation, you can let anybody 213 00:13:05.600 --> 00:13:08.440 come and vote without an ID. You can give that 214 00:13:08.559 --> 00:13:11.159 ID to anybody who has not been vetted in any 215 00:13:11.240 --> 00:13:14.919 process and just crossed over the border, and somehow when 216 00:13:14.960 --> 00:13:17.840 you want to come see them at their rally, you 217 00:13:17.919 --> 00:13:21.039 have to produce an ID. I just boarded a flight 218 00:13:21.080 --> 00:13:23.480 from San Antonio to Dallas a day and a half ago, 219 00:13:23.559 --> 00:13:26.039 and guess what I had to show an ID. And 220 00:13:26.120 --> 00:13:28.279 not only do you show your ID, the ID is 221 00:13:28.320 --> 00:13:31.600 actually put through a machine that confirms you are who 222 00:13:31.639 --> 00:13:33.960 you say you are. I have to do that to 223 00:13:34.000 --> 00:13:36.559 board a plane. But let's say I was returning from 224 00:13:36.639 --> 00:13:38.960 one city to another, to go back to the city 225 00:13:38.960 --> 00:13:41.799 where I was born and where my voter ID is 226 00:13:41.840 --> 00:13:44.639 currently valid. I'll have to show an ID to get 227 00:13:44.679 --> 00:13:46.960 on the plane to go to that city. I'll have 228 00:13:47.000 --> 00:13:49.159 to show an ID to rent a car to go 229 00:13:49.519 --> 00:13:52.720 and get to my city. I'll have to prove myself 230 00:13:52.840 --> 00:13:55.480 nine different times from Sunday to make sure that I 231 00:13:55.519 --> 00:13:58.200 am who I am. But apparently when I go in 232 00:13:58.279 --> 00:14:02.240 to vote, I don't need an ee. Folks, this is 233 00:14:02.320 --> 00:14:06.039 no longer Democrat or Republican. This is no longer conservative 234 00:14:06.240 --> 00:14:10.960 or liberal. This is no longer this is absolute stupidity 235 00:14:11.120 --> 00:14:14.039 versus common sense. This is right and wrong, this is 236 00:14:14.240 --> 00:14:18.200 up and down. This is black and white. But let's 237 00:14:18.240 --> 00:14:21.519 look at that through that lens. And obviously I'm covering 238 00:14:21.559 --> 00:14:23.679 some ground here, and I want to try to put 239 00:14:23.759 --> 00:14:26.600 us through the funnel and look at some of the 240 00:14:26.759 --> 00:14:32.559 names that history has given us as responsible people who 241 00:14:32.600 --> 00:14:36.519 stood up at a very difficult time, and in their 242 00:14:36.559 --> 00:14:39.320 desire to stand up at a very difficult time and 243 00:14:39.480 --> 00:14:42.799 go against the grain of everything that was being offered. 244 00:14:43.320 --> 00:14:47.480 These people participated in a journey that changed the fate 245 00:14:47.679 --> 00:14:51.120 of a nation. When you look at it from that standpoint, 246 00:14:51.159 --> 00:14:54.519 you'll begin to realize that there is something amazing that 247 00:14:54.679 --> 00:14:58.759 is truly happening in this world at this time. I 248 00:14:58.840 --> 00:15:01.200 remember some years ago, so I had the privilege of 249 00:15:01.279 --> 00:15:05.120 reading some of the excerpts in a speech that Patrick 250 00:15:05.200 --> 00:15:07.639 Henry gave on the twenty third of March in seventeen 251 00:15:07.720 --> 00:15:11.360 seventy five, and I would like to read this again 252 00:15:11.440 --> 00:15:14.519 for you. No man thinks more highly than I do 253 00:15:14.639 --> 00:15:17.080 of the patriotism as well as the abilities of the 254 00:15:17.200 --> 00:15:20.360 very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the house. But 255 00:15:20.440 --> 00:15:22.960 different men often see the same subject in different lights, 256 00:15:23.000 --> 00:15:26.840 and therefore I hope it will not be thought disrespectful 257 00:15:26.879 --> 00:15:30.120 to those gentlemen if entertain, as I do, opinions of 258 00:15:30.159 --> 00:15:33.600 a character very opposite to theirs. I shall speak forth 259 00:15:33.639 --> 00:15:37.360 my sentiments freely and without reserve. This is no time 260 00:15:37.399 --> 00:15:41.559 for ceremony. And I'm taking excerpts from that very famous speech. 261 00:15:41.679 --> 00:15:43.360 But here's what he goes on to say. Should I 262 00:15:43.399 --> 00:15:45.440 keep back my opinions at a time such as this 263 00:15:46.360 --> 00:15:48.879 through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as 264 00:15:48.879 --> 00:15:51.240 guilty of treason towards my country and an act of 265 00:15:51.279 --> 00:15:54.879 disloyalty towards the majesty of Heaven, which I revere above 266 00:15:54.879 --> 00:15:58.279 all earthly kings. Mister President, it is natural to men 267 00:15:58.360 --> 00:16:01.879 to indulge in the illusion of hope. Besides, so we 268 00:16:01.879 --> 00:16:04.120 shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just 269 00:16:04.200 --> 00:16:07.200 God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who 270 00:16:07.240 --> 00:16:09.600 will raise our friends to fight our battles for us. 271 00:16:10.799 --> 00:16:13.279 It is. And I've used the second part before, and 272 00:16:13.320 --> 00:16:15.799 I may have used this entire part before because I'm 273 00:16:15.840 --> 00:16:17.679 just a big fan of the speech. It's something I 274 00:16:17.720 --> 00:16:21.320 read when I came very early to this nation. Recently, 275 00:16:21.360 --> 00:16:24.360 I was thinking about another speech that was made by 276 00:16:24.679 --> 00:16:29.120 an African American preacher in a predominantly Black church, and 277 00:16:29.159 --> 00:16:31.840 he went back to the morality. He says, you know 278 00:16:31.919 --> 00:16:35.559 what I know. I am expected to act a certain way, 279 00:16:35.639 --> 00:16:37.919 talk a certain way, behave a certain way, and even 280 00:16:38.039 --> 00:16:41.720 vote a certain way. But I cannot, with my faith 281 00:16:41.840 --> 00:16:44.720 and fear in God, I cannot vote for a party 282 00:16:44.840 --> 00:16:48.360 that says that there is no moratorium on the killing 283 00:16:48.399 --> 00:16:51.679 of babies. I cannot and will not vote for a 284 00:16:51.720 --> 00:16:55.360 party that says there is no limit to the number 285 00:16:55.360 --> 00:16:57.919 of people who can waltz into an area and take 286 00:16:57.960 --> 00:17:01.759 away the benefits from people who are citizens of this nation. 287 00:17:02.679 --> 00:17:05.160 He says, I cannot and will not vote for somebody 288 00:17:05.200 --> 00:17:08.640 who does not care about our homelessness and yet brings 289 00:17:08.680 --> 00:17:14.240 people who are undocumented and house them in nice, luxury hotels. Folks, 290 00:17:14.279 --> 00:17:16.519 this is what we are dealing with. If you want 291 00:17:16.559 --> 00:17:20.519 to understand something called for God and country, maybe we 292 00:17:20.599 --> 00:17:22.880 need to get away from the diet tribe that is 293 00:17:22.960 --> 00:17:26.640 political and all this rhetoric that seems to be meaningless 294 00:17:26.759 --> 00:17:30.000 banter of right and left, and get back to right 295 00:17:30.039 --> 00:17:34.519 and wrong morally speaking, What are we obligated to do 296 00:17:34.640 --> 00:17:37.680 for our children? What are we obligated to do for 297 00:17:37.759 --> 00:17:41.960 our children's children. The amount of debt that we are 298 00:17:41.960 --> 00:17:47.559 being saddled on or that is being incurred is crazy. 299 00:17:48.400 --> 00:17:51.960 It is untenable. It is something that does not work 300 00:17:52.000 --> 00:17:54.440 at a kitchen table when my bride and I balance 301 00:17:54.480 --> 00:17:57.079 our books and we realize because we are salespeople and 302 00:17:57.119 --> 00:18:00.319 commission only, or that's the nature of our world. Our 303 00:18:00.359 --> 00:18:03.880 worth is dependent on how much work we do. If 304 00:18:03.920 --> 00:18:06.039 I look at my calendar and I see some fewer 305 00:18:06.039 --> 00:18:08.599 engagements than others. And I may be speaking twice or 306 00:18:08.640 --> 00:18:11.160 thrice less than the other month. My bride will look 307 00:18:11.160 --> 00:18:12.960 at me and say, hey, our intake is going to 308 00:18:13.000 --> 00:18:15.279 be down by twenty percent, so our output is going 309 00:18:15.319 --> 00:18:20.119 to be down by thirty percent. Common sense, you always 310 00:18:20.200 --> 00:18:24.000 spend less when you earn less, and you spend and 311 00:18:24.480 --> 00:18:28.480 you budget it accordingly. So if you're spending twenty dollars 312 00:18:28.519 --> 00:18:31.160 when you earn forty dollars and you next month are 313 00:18:31.200 --> 00:18:34.160 going to earn thirty dollars, don't spend ten. Make sure 314 00:18:34.200 --> 00:18:38.680 you only spend five. The equation has to match up 315 00:18:38.720 --> 00:18:42.559 to common sense. But I hear the former Speaker of 316 00:18:42.599 --> 00:18:44.920 the House standing up and talking about the fact that 317 00:18:45.160 --> 00:18:51.839 unemployment insurance actually drives up spending. I mean, they just 318 00:18:51.920 --> 00:18:54.720 throw these things out like nobody is watching, and the 319 00:18:54.759 --> 00:18:58.559 person who is actually interviewing them goes along with it 320 00:18:58.599 --> 00:19:01.720 because they don't want to upset the card. When the 321 00:19:01.960 --> 00:19:05.319 current presidential candidate is asked a question about the state 322 00:19:05.400 --> 00:19:07.960 of the economy, she says, prices are going up, and 323 00:19:08.000 --> 00:19:11.200 that's a problem. And since prices are going up, that's 324 00:19:11.240 --> 00:19:13.880 a priority for us to look into the fact that 325 00:19:13.960 --> 00:19:17.240 since prices are going up family, and she just goes 326 00:19:17.279 --> 00:19:19.880 off on this tangent and somehow she ends up at 327 00:19:19.880 --> 00:19:23.079 the fact that because prices are going up, we need 328 00:19:23.160 --> 00:19:26.119 to ensure that the rights of women are protected. What 329 00:19:27.519 --> 00:19:30.079 I'm just asking myself as I'm listening to this, and 330 00:19:30.119 --> 00:19:32.440 I'm thinking to myself, Man, I'm full Indian. I was 331 00:19:32.480 --> 00:19:35.440 born and raised in India. And she's claiming to be 332 00:19:35.480 --> 00:19:38.680 half Indian. But she would be excoriated by Indian TV, 333 00:19:38.839 --> 00:19:41.519 which is not really known to hold you to some 334 00:19:41.680 --> 00:19:44.480 kind of a rigorous standard. But she would be whole 335 00:19:44.519 --> 00:19:47.680 held to that standard, not on the basis of policy, 336 00:19:47.720 --> 00:19:51.720 but on the basis of common sense. It just makes 337 00:19:51.759 --> 00:19:54.519 no sense. You cannot say that and get away with it, 338 00:19:54.559 --> 00:19:57.799 and say that over and over again. But the scary 339 00:19:57.920 --> 00:20:01.039 part is that anthem that is talked about, the equality 340 00:20:01.079 --> 00:20:06.160 and equity is a stalin Esque argument. The hinged and 341 00:20:06.240 --> 00:20:09.680 unhinged or bound and unbound, or whatever the word she use, 342 00:20:09.799 --> 00:20:14.799 is actually a Marxist argument. These are all cleverly disguised 343 00:20:14.960 --> 00:20:19.680 mottos that become the anthem and rally cry for people. Folks, 344 00:20:19.720 --> 00:20:25.200 we are tatering on the brink of disaster. I'm wondering 345 00:20:25.279 --> 00:20:29.759 myself why this election is even close. I was surprised 346 00:20:29.799 --> 00:20:31.880 the last time when he lost. And whether you're a 347 00:20:31.920 --> 00:20:35.039 conspiracy theorist or not, and the evidence that is coming out, 348 00:20:35.079 --> 00:20:38.039 different people talk about it differently, but I don't pay 349 00:20:38.039 --> 00:20:40.599 attention to that. I said, votes do matter. And if 350 00:20:40.599 --> 00:20:44.000 we stayed home as a result of that, because we 351 00:20:44.160 --> 00:20:46.240 just thought it was in the bag and then the 352 00:20:46.240 --> 00:20:48.480 margin of error came down to a thing. You can 353 00:20:48.519 --> 00:20:52.160 blame it on nine different things. But as conservatives, if 354 00:20:52.160 --> 00:20:54.799 you want this election to work the way you think 355 00:20:54.839 --> 00:20:57.960 it should go to save a republic, every one of 356 00:20:58.079 --> 00:21:03.240 us should vote. Were saying this past weekend that Charlie Kirk, 357 00:21:03.319 --> 00:21:06.119 the gentleman who were in a turning point USA and 358 00:21:06.160 --> 00:21:08.440 all the other good work, he says, he waited till 359 00:21:08.440 --> 00:21:10.480 the very last day to vote because that's what he 360 00:21:10.559 --> 00:21:14.680 always did. And this last presidential cycle when he went there, 361 00:21:14.720 --> 00:21:17.799 there was a glitch and the electronic or the electrical 362 00:21:17.920 --> 00:21:20.599 surge or something like that, and as a result, the 363 00:21:20.720 --> 00:21:24.759 voting machines were or for some reason they just said that, 364 00:21:25.319 --> 00:21:27.920 you know, we can't do the vote today or whatever 365 00:21:27.960 --> 00:21:29.880 it is, and some other place had flooded, so there 366 00:21:29.880 --> 00:21:32.680 were thousands of people who were not allowed to vote 367 00:21:32.759 --> 00:21:36.799 on the election day because of some glitches. Folks, don't 368 00:21:36.880 --> 00:21:39.400 leave it to the last minute. I shared this with 369 00:21:39.480 --> 00:21:41.359 you the previous time I was with you, and I'm 370 00:21:41.440 --> 00:21:44.359 sharing this with you now again. If it does come 371 00:21:44.400 --> 00:21:47.400 down to one vote or two votes making a difference 372 00:21:47.400 --> 00:21:50.160 in your regional election, that is the person who goes 373 00:21:50.200 --> 00:21:53.519 and becomes the deciding vote where a bill eventually will 374 00:21:53.559 --> 00:21:55.759 become a law and the fate of a nation will 375 00:21:55.799 --> 00:21:59.000 be dependent on that. So don't just make sure that 376 00:21:59.039 --> 00:22:02.240 you're voting for the President of the United States and 377 00:22:02.279 --> 00:22:05.000 that's your cause, celeb because that's the one in the media, 378 00:22:05.039 --> 00:22:06.839 and that's the one in the news, and that's the 379 00:22:06.880 --> 00:22:10.759 one that gets you most excited. Make sure you're voting 380 00:22:10.759 --> 00:22:13.759 in every election up and down. Your vote is sacred. 381 00:22:13.880 --> 00:22:16.039 Every time you get a chance to vote, go out 382 00:22:16.039 --> 00:22:19.640 there and vote. And again, this is as much as 383 00:22:19.640 --> 00:22:22.960 I wanted it to be about apologetics and God and morality. 384 00:22:23.039 --> 00:22:27.160 For some reason, I keep getting drawn back to making 385 00:22:27.240 --> 00:22:32.079 the argument about elections and election interference and all of 386 00:22:32.119 --> 00:22:36.279 the things. I go back to the basics, and I'm 387 00:22:36.319 --> 00:22:39.880 asking myself, I'm pinching myself how can this thing even 388 00:22:39.960 --> 00:22:43.680 be close when you understand the record of the other 389 00:22:43.920 --> 00:22:47.319 side and you understand what they stand for, how can 390 00:22:47.400 --> 00:22:51.119 this thing be even close? Well, when we come back 391 00:22:51.160 --> 00:22:53.960 after the breaker for the next segment, let's address some 392 00:22:54.039 --> 00:22:56.839 of those issues until then. This is christ Dunham filling 393 00:22:56.880 --> 00:23:00.000 in for Todd Huff on the Home of Conservative Not Bitter. 394 00:23:02.759 --> 00:23:06.720 Welcome back, dear friends to segment two. This is chrish Down. 395 00:23:06.799 --> 00:23:08.960 I'm filling in for Todd huff on the Home of 396 00:23:09.039 --> 00:23:13.960 Conservative Not Bitter. We talked about elections. We talked about votes, 397 00:23:14.039 --> 00:23:17.880 we talked about the blasphemy of how you would equate 398 00:23:18.000 --> 00:23:21.400 what's going on now and the gallant decision of a 399 00:23:21.440 --> 00:23:24.079 former prayer of the current president to step down from 400 00:23:24.160 --> 00:23:28.240 seeking election again to George Washington, and I probably went 401 00:23:28.359 --> 00:23:33.039