Speaker 1: Welcome to the three Stories version of the Todd Hermer Show.
Story number one ARFs K missions or part of his
mission is to help farmers hobble farmer our hobble pharma
and feed our future. Getting a slow start. Gave a
speech yesterday. Story number two, Tom Holman says the thing
we all want to say to this heretical pope. And
story number three, what about forgiveness in comparison to reparations?
Why is it that so many Christian leaders forget that
part about forgive your enemies. We'll do this with the
help of God Almighty. Thank you Lord for the opportunity.
Speaker 2: The Todd Herman Show is one percent disapproved by big
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Free America. Here's the Emerald City exile Todd Herman.
Speaker 1: Today is in fact to day the Lord has made
and these are the times to which God has decided
we shall live. Part of the mission of RFK Junior
is something that is not getting enough attention, and I
want to pay attention to it because I want to
encourage it. You're to encourage behavior, you want to see
more of. Let's just step back for a second from
politics and looks look at something that's just about as
big as God. Nothing is as big as God, just
about because it relates to common blessings. So water, sunshine, air, food,
These are all things that God provides to the righteous
and the unrighteous. And let's do this thing. There are
people who hate the phrase unpack, and I get it
because it's a silly phrase. But let's unpack this. Let's
start with water. Water, of course, is life. You die
without it. In three days. Without water, you're dead. Water
of course is important for plants as well, because they
also die without it. Water security is life security. Food
is something you die without in about thirty to ninety days.
Depending on how much fat reserves you have, you'll eventually die.
Your brain will give in, you'll have a heart attack,
something will happen to you. Starving to death doesn't mean
that you just die. It means organ failure. So food
is life security, and food is sustained by water and air, etc.
You could then say, if we're going to look at
our nation, those two things are also national security because
you think about sometimes the taxic of warfare, and this
goes way back. It wasn't Stalin who invented starving people
to death. If you think about armies that are invading
a country, they may decide to burn all the farmland
behind them. They may decide to kill all the farm animals,
any of the food animals that they find. There was
the March to the Sea and the Civil War, and
their accusations of that are just burning everything down. Then
there's the course the acts of starving out your enemy, right,
why waste the bullets? That's what stolen Solid did. So
if we were to look at all of this, you
could say all these things are national security. Well, it
is a fact that the people who ran Joe Biden
and others Obama, and I think that they even got
away with this during President Trump's first term because I
don't think people really structly paying attention to this. People
and organizations and nations that do not mean us well
are buying farmland, and they're buying it to use it
for things that are a going to be very very
profitable for them and be very harmful to us. One
example are the carbon dioxide sequestering pipelines that Christie Nome
sold out in her state to let the Chinese Communist
Party in South Korea and big time leftists steal farmland
in order to build carbon dioxide pipelines. What go back
to this analysis. When they get the farmlands, what else
do they get water rights? Okay, water is life. It's
life for us and plants. It is therefore life for food.
Water security and food security are national security issues, because
if you're going to destroy a country, why not start
at the food level. As Chinese Communist Party owns entities,
or at least approved entities, and big time leftists who
do not mean us well are purchasing farmland and the
inherent water rights. People like Bill Gates and other billionaires
are simply purchasing water rights. I have a friend of
mine who is a very very wealthy man, truly entrepreneur,
nothing to do with government. In fact, he can't stand government.
He's about as libertarian as they come, and he's becoming
an actual conservative. His brother left the practice of intellectual
property rights, and he'd made a mint as an intellectual
property attorney out of Hollywood and then expanded into software
property rights IP rights. He left that behind to invest
in water rights. The investor best known in the movie
The Big Short is the guy who was really aggressively
shorting housing stocks. He is investing in almost only water
rights because it's a precious resource. It's the most precious resource.
Energy is required to process and deliver these things food
and water. Energy is required to turn some foods into
something we can eat. It's required in order to cook
foods so that we don't get sick. So water, food
and energy are life security and they are national security.
This isn't getting enough detention. Remember that whole thing, control
the healthcare, control the people. Well, if you've controlled their
food and water and taken it away from them, there
ain't no health care. So I want to talk about
something that RFK Junior is doing. And of course he's
going to get attacked for this because the Democrats are
going to put themselves on the side against RFK Junior
because RFK Junior is aligned with Trump. Control the food,
control the people, control the health care, control the people.
I'll play this thing from RFK Junior for you in
just a second. Your healthcare is being controlled as being
controlled by entities who do not mean you. Well, there
are things you're not allowed to do for your own body,
or at least if you do them, you have to
pay on your own it's only recently that you can
put gym memberships on health Samy's accounts. And there's nothing
better for you than exercise and combination to eating right,
et cetera. But if you've been catastrophically injured, let's say
that you've had a traumatic brain injury, or you have
been hobbled with a back situation, which is saying it's
only surgery. In case of the traumatic brain injury, they've
told you you're just done. Just get used to being
in a wheelchair. They won't allow you to use real
live stem cells from placentas in umbilical cords, not the
dead stem cells they use in America. And you can
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great results. It's e nue dot Healthcare. Stop letting entities
that don't mean you well, control your healthcare, Control your healthcare,
control your future. RFK Junior is a guy with a
lot on his plate. He's come out to say he's
going to ban the MR and injections. He's finally said
that Thomas Massey says, do it now. He's going to
ban glio phosphates and foods and harmful chemical. He's also
out to defend farmers, and this is a fantastic time
for farmers because RFK Junior has said he's going to
defend him. When he says something like this, we need
to pay attention to it because RFK Junior's statement stands
and start contrast to what we're being told by Democrats
that he's just all about banning the injections, that he's
all about banning the vaccines. But RFK Jr. Is not
just about that. If you look at his whole body
of work, it's about health. His whole body of work
is about maintaining access to things that the party's taken
away from us. The party, because remember this, Mitch McConnell
and others had plenty of time to stop the Chinese
Communist Party from buying up farmland from buying up access
to water rights. They had all sorts of time for
that that it takes someone like RFK Junior to make
this a reality. No one did a little promo video.
I think he wants some eyes on him. I think
he still intends to run for president. So he dressed up,
got into his best hand thing. And by the way,
someone when I was in Seattle was noticing that I
still tan. Yeah, I still do, but I'm not quite
as tan as RFK Junior. He went outside the Department
of Agriculture to make a statement about something he's going
to be doing, and it's almost a commercial. When we
run this, I'm going to compare it to a montage
of Democrats because we do a contrast and compare thing here,
because the side by side of what the Democrats are
doing with the side by side of what they're training
is they want transparency. We was so do. I I'd
like transparency in terms of why they're going to be
against what you're about to see or hear from RFK Junior.
Speaker 3: Hi, this is Robert F. Kennedy Junior, and I'm here
outside of the United States Department of Agriculture to tell
you about a win win policy that I'll be pushing
in the Trump administration. It's a win for farmers, for consumers,
and for the environment, and the purpose is to make
them America healthy again. America's current agg policy is destroying
America's health on every level. Is destroying the economic health
of farmers by forcing them to get big or get
out big corporate farms do just find while the small
and medium family operators are a squeezed to the point
of collapse. It also destroys the health of America's soil
and water by tilting the playing field in favor of
more chemicals, more herbicized poor insecticides, or concentrated monocrops and feedbacks.
And finally, it destroys the health of consumers. Not only
do the chemicals glute our bodies the same way that
they glute the soil, the corporative trends have hijacked the
USDA's dietary guidelines to make natural, unprocessed foods barely in afterthought.
That's one reason why seventy percent of the American diet
now consists of ultra processed foods.
Speaker 1: We're going to change that.
Speaker 3: We're going to give farmers an off ramp from the
current system that destroys their health, recks the soil makes America,
and destroyed family farms. We're going to rewrite the regulations
they give a smaller operators a break. We're going to
encourage sustainable regenerative farming that can build soil and we
replenish agri first. We're going to ban the worst agricultural
chemicals that are already prohibited in other countries. And we're
going to remove conflicts of interest from the USDA dietary
panels and nations.
Speaker 1: I've seen some of five America's.
Speaker 3: Most innovative regenerative farmers are doing today. They can literally
green deserts. They rebuild depleted soils well and dry for
thirty years, start flowing again.
Speaker 1: It's absolutely brilliant. And yes, he's promoting RFK junior, and
yes this requires USDA approval, and hopefully he's going to
be able to lead. If it's a team of ribals,
convince them. People should be applauding this across the political spectrum.
Liberals who like the little micro farms in the cities
you've seen these, they should be applotting this. The sustainable
food people should be applying this. People who walk into
the natural foods or whatever store that's organic with their
canvas bags, which by the way, aren't that great for
the environment. They should be applauding this. Democrats are going
to stand against it. Think about this. Democrats have put
themselves on the position of being against free speech because
literally Hitler was a proponent of free speech. Hitler who
led to the murder of people for speaking against them,
who ordered that liberals are standing against transparency. We can't
have the American people knowing where their money's being spent.
They're standing against this tax rebate that President Trump has
talked about in terms of finding all this corrupt money
that's been stolen from us. They floated the idea, he
to Elon Musk, of a five thousand dollars tax refund
to Americans since this money's been stolen. Jasmine Crockett, who
somehow got through law school, said she's against that because
the government's not in the business of handing out money.
Did you hear that? The government says a radical leftist
is not in the business of handing out money. So
they're going to have to move themselves on the side
a big agri farming because they put themselves into the
position that says this, if President Trump is for it,
or anyone who works for him is for it, we
have to be against it. We have to oppose everything.
Orange Man bad favors. RFK Junior, in taking this step
to at least encourage for small farming, should go a
step further. He should absolutely encourage and incentivize every single
American with a backyard who can do it, to grow food,
and we should get a tax rebate for doing it.
Because let's go back to this, Water is life. Water
is life for us, it's life for plants, and plants
are of course life for many animals. Water and food,
therefore are life security. And what good is the nation
if you're not preserving the lives of the people in
the nation. We should be giving tax rebates and encouraging
people to grow their own foods and in fact to
store their own water. Any sane nation would do this.
It also is beautiful because it actually recognizes the blessings,
the common blessings that God Almady gave us. Thank you Lord.
Story number two. The advent of Trumpian media approaches is
something that's vitally, vitally important, and I'll tell you why
Because there's a psychological aspect to this. I'm someone who
has well from time to time harm myself because I'm
the guy who is often willing to say the things
other people want to say. And sometimes it can pay
great dividends. Sometimes it's super, super frustrating. But there's a
psychological impact to this when you say it. I'll give
you a couple of examples, because I think Tom Holman
the borders are. I think he's a guy who's winning
hearts and minds because he's willing to say things to
people A we would never get to speak to.
Speaker 4: B.
Speaker 1: If we did speak to them, it wouldn't matter. And
see most people would never say so let me give
you a couple of examples because this is a psychology
I've observed in human beings. When I worked at Microsoft,
I was in a meeting. Drawn into this meeting where
Microsoft was going to build its own YouTube, and it
was stupidity walking. There was no way that we would
do this because we would not allow people to post
these sorts of videos that YouTube did. We wouldn't allow
people to post clips of TV shows or music, and
YouTube has been they did this so smart. I talked
one time to the VC who backed YouTube. The main
VC's name was roll Off Botha, and I was talking
to him about doing getting a job there and coming
under the team, and we got into a negotiation, and
his negotiation was, Yep, yep, we could agree to money,
we could agree to all this equity. You need to
leave Microsoft before I put it in writing. And my
response was, actually, no, I'm not going to do that.
You are making yourself hard to sue. Microsoft's not going
to sue you, so I'm not going to do that.
They set YouTube up so it only had about half
a million dollars in the bank at any one time. Therefore,
if CBS or ABC sued YouTube, the most they could
get would be half a million bucks. Smart move. When
I was in this meeting at Microsoft organized by senior
vice presidents, they were talking about building their own YouTube,
and as I listen through this, I finally said and
raised my hand to this guy who'd been very good
to me, I'll just use his first initial was why.
I said, Hey, why is this a feedback meeting? He goes, yeah, absolutely.
I said, we can't do this. This is unbelievably stupid.
Microsoft will never let this happen. We're not going to
allow the sort of viral videos that go up there.
YouTube has built a snowball. We can't catch up to
the snowball. Algorithmically speaking, we can't get there. They have
a thousand times more video being loaded every single day.
Tomorrow's going to be two thousand times more, the next day,
it's going to be three thousand. By the end of
the year, they're going to have more video assets than
all the networks in film studios and music studios combined
in the world. We're not going to catch up. We
can't be done. The only thing we can do is
buy them. And I'm telling you right now, because I've
met with Chad and the team, nothing short of three
or four billion dollars is going to get that deal done.
People didn't back me up. They just sat there and
why I said, Okay, thank you for being the one
who'll say no and speak clearly. That's what I wanted
to hear. I left the meeting and a GM came
up to me in the hallway goes, dude, thank you,
thank you, and I looked at him and said, and
I wasn't disciple at the time, so I used an
expert of something blank you. He goes, pardon me, I said,
blank you. I'm new here and I'm the guy who
had to speak out, and you're a GM with all
this juice and you didn't say anything. Why did I
have to do that? After that, I got a lot
of other thank yous of people coming to me and
saying thank you, and I had a very similar response,
blank you, Why didn't you back me up? I had
the same thing happen in talk radio when the speech
codes came along and we told we couldn't say this
or that, and I was in a group discussion and
I said, in this meeting, I'm not going to use
that phraseology. I'm not going to speak these lies. I
refuse to do it. And everybody knows that people are
lying on our air, we get called out on it.
I won't be called out because I'm not going to
lie on your behalf once again. After that session, I
got to text messages and emails from colleagues another radio
station saying, oh my gosh, thank you for standing up.
And I was a believer in Jesus at the time,
not fully discipled, so I didn't tell him blank off.
But I wrote back and said it had been really
really nice if you had stood up and backed me
up and said something. But you couldn't do that, could
you See? There's this psychological thing that people admire those
who are willing to speak up, and this is happening
within the Trump administration, and I think it's a very
very good sign because there's going to have to be
a lot of speaking up. I want to show you
something that Tom Holman's done, some things that Carolyn Levit's
done in the way of speaking up, and it's Trump inspired.
But I want to start here with a guy called
Dick Blumenthal, sorry, Richard Blumenthal, and a Richard Blumenthal, of course,
was a guy who pretended to have been in combat
in Vietnam. He's talking about Cash Patel, who you know
was approved and is the new FBI director panicking Washington, DC.
Here's Dick Blumenthal talking about Cash Patel and listened to
the comparison he makes.
Speaker 5: I've never seen any nominee to a position of significant
responsibility that has as many disqualifying factors in his or
her background.
Speaker 1: But I think that wait, can we just stop that?
For a second? Air holder who was a leftist radical
from day one, didn't have those as qualifications. Hillary Rodham
Clinton as Secretary of State with zero qualifications, who purchased
her seat. Brock Hussein Obama, who had been a State
senator and then a United States Senator for a few years.
A leftist organizer born straight out of the Salolinsky school
of leftist organizing, Joe Biden, a leader of a crime family.
Cash Patel has served his country in multi sltiple capacities. Right,
I'm gonna try not to interrupt us anymore, Dick Bluemouth.
One comment about him that strikes me whenever I read
it is the full quote from former National security advisor
John Bolton. Oh wait, so, I'm sorry I'm interrupting again,
aren't I? Was John Bolton part of the crew who
later said President Trump was a Russian plant? Was he
part of the crew who decided that we should fund
both sides of the war between Iraq and Hamas? Was
he one of the guys who decided that we should
do everything we can to get Ukraine and Russia into war?
That John Bolton? Am I thinking to the right guy,
I'm sorry, I'm gonna stop interrupting. Dick Plumuth was a
very important man.
Speaker 5: Part of that quote has been cited by previous speakers.
Speaker 1: I want to read the whole quote.
Speaker 5: Cash Betel's conduct in mister Trump's first term and thereafter
indicates that as FBI director, he would operate according to
Secret Police Chief Lavrenti Barriers reported Tom and to Joseph Stalin,
show me the man and I'll show you the crime.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm sorry, I'm interrupting Dick Blumenthal, who's vitally important.
Then we'll get to Tom Olman. Show me the man
and I'll show you the crime. Hey, here's a picture
of an eighty two year old woman who took a
selfie inside the Capitol and then walked out. Never vandalized anything,
stayed within the velvet ropes. There's the person. What's the crime? Sedition? Now,
very few people remember.
Speaker 5: Secret Police Chief Barrier and the terror he caused in
carrying out Joseph Stalin's edicts to destroy people's lives, to
execute them, to eliminate their families. But the mantra of
Buria and Stalin show me the man and I'll show
you the crime.
Speaker 1: Are we literally listening to this in the area of
January sixth, in the era of taking a bookkeeping error
or even bookkeeping lie that President Trump might have committed
in relation to Stormy Daniels and taking an expired misdemeanor,
a paperwork misdemeanor, passed the Statute of Limitations and magically
turning it into a national level felony. Forty six of them.
The blindness, the willingness to lie at this level. It's
so good to have people who push back on this
for what it is, people like jd Vance who push
back on this, People like Carolyn Loved who's pushed back
on this. And Tom Holman said something, and he spoke
to a person to whom most of us will never
get to speak, and that's the pulp. And if you're
I don't mean to offend you. The people who brought
me to the Lord Jesus are Catholic. My dearest brother
is Catholic, so I don't mean to offend you. I
just mean to point out the fact that your pope
is an absolute heretic and I don't think he's even
a Christian, but he does have strong opinions about the border.
And I want to hear what our borders are said
to him. And some people have said that the borders
are Tom Holman is ungodly for saying this. I don't
think so. I'll play this in a second. We have
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Tom Holman in response to the fact that the heretical
Pope has been lecturing America that we need to have
open bord.
Speaker 4: I got howuse words for the pope. Pope all fixed
the Catholic Church. I'm saying this is a lifelong Catholic.
I was baptized cafeter O. The first community is a
Catholic confirmation as a Catholic, you ought to fix the
Catholic Church and concentrate on his work and lead border
enforcement to us. He wants to attack us from securing
our border he's got a wall around the Vatican.
Speaker 2: Does he not?
Speaker 4: So he's got a wall around protect his people and himself.
But we can't have a wrong round in the United States.
So I wish he'd sticked to the Catholic Church and
fix that and leave border enforcement to us.
Speaker 1: There's a genuineness to this, and there are a lot
of Catholics because I've seen the comments. I got notes
from my dear Catholic friends and family members. Finally, someone
in the American government has stood up to the pope
and said, buddy, you have your own border. Carolyn Levitz
been doing some of this. She spoke up to reporters
who are saying, you're killing our free speech because we're
not allowed to be in the White House.
Speaker 6: Which White House official made the decision to bar the
AP reporter from the Oval Office and the diplomatic reception
room last night. Well, first of all, let me just
set the record straight. It is a privilege to cover
this White House. It's a privilege to be the White
House Press secretary. And nobody has the right to go
into the Oval Office and ask the President of the
United States questions.
Speaker 1: That's not Maybe they should have the right. Maybe we
should all have the right, and you could debate that,
but they don't. There was no protest from CNN when
a journalist who worked for Alex Jones was put in prison.
There was no protest when a journalist who went into
film January sixth was put in prison. It's good to
see people inspired by President Trump's treatment of the media
delivering the same thing. In other words, God is truth,
so let's tell truth. Story Number three. In all of
the talk about reparations, there's something missing, and it's something
that's hard to do, but it should be a part
of the discussion if we're going to discuss reparations now
as a matter of policy, I can't get behind reparation,
and it's the same reason probably you can't. Number one.
If we're going to do reparations, we need to go
all the way back into Africa, and we need to
find the tribe that captured the other tribe, and we
need to take reparations all the way back down to
the tribal level, because very often when white people were
taking black people captive, it's because other black people helped.
If we're going to do this with black people, then
of course we need to do it with white people,
you know, Scottish people, Irish people who are made indentured
servants over here, Chinese people. We'd also have to do
this with Native Americans because sometimes they were enslaved. Oh
but wait, stop reversed that. The Native American culture made
a habit of enslaving their captives and the people against
whom they wred. They did that with white people the most. Probably, Well,
I'm not successful, but I think legitimately famous and yes successful.
Comanchi chief was part white. His mother was a white captive,
and he was one of the best leaders of the
Comanche people who held back Western expansionism for thirty years
against all odds. Comanchi took captives. Do we need to
extend that? So that's one part of my argument against reparations.
The other is this, I never held slaves my family history.
Near as we can tell, no one in our family
ever held slaves. Therefore we had nothing to do with
the slave trade. How then, can I be forced to
pay reparations when I didn't do it? How can people
who are black whose families were never held in slavery
receive the reparations? And shouldn't we also do a balancing
out should very successful black people receive reparations if say
they're billionaires, shouldn't that be somehow subtracted. But there's an
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It requires a belief that is justice. I don't believe that.
But there's something in this discussion that never ever ever
gets discussed. This is Brian Lordes. He's deputy pastor to JD.
Speaker 2: Greer.
Speaker 1: JD. Greer, very successful Southern Baptist pastor, who said some
pretty socially justicy things.
Speaker 7: Some of our white siblings and these race conversations. They
want to push back, They want to offer a Contraririan perspective.
But the temperature is so hot that man, my white
siblings just keep their mouth shut. I get it, and
you just stuff it because I don't want to be
misunderstood and I don't want to contribute, so you're not
going to say anything. So many of my people of
color siblings, man, you know there's hurt there and things
have happened, and I don't think this is a safe
place for me to even talk about these things, to
watch it.
Speaker 8: The same people go to the same church, oftentimes sit
on the same row, and we're just not saying it,
which means we have we have, we have settled for
the veneer of.
Speaker 7: Reconciliation, sort of like gosh, stupid clock, sort of like,
let's just say, for the sake of argument, this isn't true.
Let's just say it's not true. Let's just say sexual
assault is a part of my wife's story. And my
wife and I are sitting there one night in Harvey
Weinstein comes up on the.
Speaker 1: TV or Diddy.
Speaker 7: My wife goes berserk, she goes off, she's bearing her soul.
And my response is is everything always about sexual assault
with you? I feel like you're blaming me. I wouldn't
have a part of that that happened years ago, and
that wouldn't me. I'm gonna guess. I'm gonna I guess.
That's not going to go well for me. If I
want oneness with my wife, I have to lean in
and listen, even if I personally had nothing to do
with it.
Speaker 2: So in these.
Speaker 1: Even if you had nothing to do with it, I'll
listen all day long. Do you intend to forgive us
even though we had nothing to do with it? Does
your wife owe you forgiveness for not raping her, for
never having sexually assaulted anybody, for never having treated her poorly?
Does she owe you forgiveness? The discussion and continual presentation
of black people as victims is number one a disservice
to black people. In my judgment, it dehumanizes black people
permanent victims. Number two from a Christian perspective, we're to
forgive our enemies. How many times? Peter said to the
Lord Jesus, how many times do I have to forgive?
Up to seven times? And the Lord Jesus said, I
tell you, not just seven, but seventy seven. Seven is
a number of perfection in Biblical culture. Seventy seven is
well infinite. You need to forgive infinitely. This is not
the discussion in race based discussions of reparations. Wait, shouldn't
we forgive instead of paying back? And isn't that coveting
If you're coming to me who never held slaves to
get money as someone who never was a slave, aren't
you just coveting? And to extend that metaphor that he
used about his wife, and they're watching TV and did
he comes on and she was a victim of sexual assault,
and so she's very, very upset, and he turns and says,
does everything have to be a sexual assault to you?
And she turns to him angry and says, I want
you to be sexually assaulted. Not as bad as I was,
but I want you to allow yourself to be sexually assaulted,
and then we'll be even because I've had my revenge.
I hear some things there that stand contrary to the Lord.
Revenge is God's alone. Coveting refusal to forgive. We are
told to forgive our enemies. Sin is rebellion against God.
Refusing to forgive, then, I would suggest, is a sin.
I would suggest that reparations then, as we've discussed it here,
is a sin. But then again, much of the world
loves us, but Christianity as ignacious of Antioch said, is
that its greatest when it's hated by the world. This
is the Todd Hermannshaw. Please go, be well, be strong,
be kind, and please make every effort to walk in
the light of Christ.