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know a couple of things I want to get today. I want to talk a little bit about this mccarth excuse me, the Matt Gates motion to vacate the chair. I want to talk a bit about that. I also want to talk a bit about the southern border. My friends. We've actually border security has won the political debate. We've actually won on this issue. Now, I know we haven't won in reality. I just mean that this is too much for even anyone on the left to basically defend any longer. People
want a secure boarder. This is something that we can actually agree on. It's just that there's games being played for a couple of different reasons, or a couple of potential potentially different reasons anyway, we'll get to that in due course. If you want to be part of the conversation, you can email Todd at todd huff Show dot com. You can also text three one seven two one zero two eight three zero. Just make sure you include the appropriate
amounts of adoration and praise, which candidly is pretty high. It is pretty high. So let's talk about this motion to vacate. So there is a battle that has been brewing in the Republican Party for some time. There is a battle, by the way, that is brewing within the Democrat Party. And these battles are by and large the same, it's just on different ends
of the political spectrum. And the Republican Party, the battle is between what we would call, I suppose the establishment Republicans, maybe the moderate Republicans, maybe the rhino Republicans, versus the conservative or limited government types or more libertarian types of Conservatives or more libertarian types of Republicans, I should say, in the Republican Party. And on the left, on the Democrat side, the battle is between the radical left and again the degree that moderate I would say,
the liberal Democrats. There's not there's not many sitting moderate Democrats in Washington. In fact, I don't know if there's any right now. A lot of those folks were pushed out of office, the moderate Democrats, the blue dog Democrats, the Reagan Democrats. Those folks were pushed out of office. A lot of them were pushed out during the Obamacare vote. I know several of them felt the impact here in the state of Indiana and elsewhere across the
country. And there was this basically, the blue dog Democrat who is insistent that here she has a home of the Democrat party is candidly way wrong. They have so much more in common with people like me and you than they're ever gonna have in common with these radical leftists. But anyway, so both parties have within themselves this battle for control. Again. This is the left versus the liberals. And let me talk about that for a minute. Some
people use those terms interchangeably, and those are not interchangeable. Terms in my world are the way that I intend them to be to be used. So let's start with what a liberal is. You know, a classical liberal, if you go back and understand terminology, a classical liberal is actually what a conservative is today. And that's not what we mean today when we use the word liberal, but a classical liberal is what you would call someone who's a
limited government, freedom loving conservative libertarian type today. So, but that word had morphed into being in common American political vernacular to mean those who want to be liberal with I guess the types of social programs and s services and so forth that are provided by our government, and so liberal in the I guess in the sense that there would be you know, when given the choice between having potentially too little or too much, then let's give liberally, as I
bump the mic here liberally, or give more than maybe we should. Let's
always err on the side of more. And this, of course, is where the term bleeding heart liberal originated, which means if you never have any desire to say no to any problem because you care so much, or the virtue signaling is the temptation, I guess to virtue signal is there to where you want to show the world I care so much that I want to spend someone else's hard earned tax dollars on this particular issue or problem or whatever.
Then that's where the term came from. And so but a liberal is not necessary, I would say, a liberal doesn't A liberal doesn't hate this country. They they want to push it to the max. As far as what the government should be doing. They actually want to blast way past the line.
They've never seen a problem that the government can't solve. I think that they have a problem with understanding the proper role and function of government, the proper role of what an individual should be responsible for versus what society is responsible
for, and so forth. A liberal always tends to excuse the behavior of the individual, blaming society, therefore saying that we have to somehow make amends, pay more money, provide more services because they care the problem needs to be fixed, and so forth, and it's the job of the government to do that. But they don't hate America as founded. They do again push it to its limits. They push it past its limits. They talk about
the Constitution being a living, breathing document. I don't want to give them a pass and to say that there's no danger in the things that they teach or anything like that or believe. I just want to they don't openly hate this country, at least as I define and use these terms. However,
so that's group one. So they still they don't. They don't. They might think that workers aren't being paid enough, or they might be thinking that the wealthy needs to be punished, but they're not prepared to drive a well, the death knell into capitalism. They don't hate this country. There's things about it that they're embarrassed about. There's problems there, but they haven't crossed the line into radically wanting to transform this place into something different. That,
my friends, is what the left is. The left, the radical left. These are people that hate the United States of America. These are people who seek to break the system so as to remake America into something that is more palatable for their preferences, ideally something that's socialistic. Dare I even say communistic. They believe the government should have ultimate say. They don't like the concept of limited or actually, excuse me, I should say enumerated you know
rights that we have. They don't. They don't. They won't openly come out and say this, but they think instead of what we have. When you look at the Bill of Rights, for example, when you look and you see that the Bill of Rights are a list of inherent freedoms that we have been given by our creator. That the writers of the Constitution actually took
a moment to just define some of those. They want to say that people should have that government has responsibilities back to the citizens, or that the citizens of a country are entitled to other things that cost other taxpayers money. This is why they talk in terms of democracy and not an individual liberty and freedom or a constitutional republic. They don't want to talk about the right. They talk about minorities and minority rights and how minorities they would argue being targeted by
systemic racism or anything else. But they're talking about a group of minorities because again they're trying to put together a majority by assimilating or I should say, not assembling, I should say groups of minorities that actually in total surpass some other it become the majority basically, and so and so this is this is You won't hear them talking about the of the true minority, which is the individual. You won't hear them talking about those things. They use these things.
They weaponize language, they weaponize thought, they weaponize the government. They are completely content with using any means at their disposal to cause havoc and chaos within our system. Because a broken system requires something to replace it. A broken system requires the quote unquote experts, right, the self appointed experts to come in and to provide solutions on how to deal with something that's broken. And they want to position themselves as the experts and low and behold, what
do the experts always tell us? The experts always tell us that what is required to fix a problem is more government, less liberty, more tax dollars, more control for them. And that's the direction that they want to go. So that's a fight between those two factions in the Democrat Party today. Now I'm happy to tell you, I'm happy to tell you that we have
that that is the fringe minority. But but as you've heard me talk about here before, those folks in the radical left actually hold the levers of power
in the seven pillars of propaganda. This is where things like well the government, for example, if you look at some of the people, look at some of the people in the FBI, right, I mean, these are people who have either become well, as the term goes, useful idiots or people who are bought into the notion that we need to push this thing, this system, to the point where it breaks, just as I said previously, so that they can present something as a solution that's different, different from
what we have in our founding and more in line with what a tyrant would want. Or they're ideologically they're either a useful idiot or they're an ideologue who is pushing for that to be the end result. And you can see, you can see with some of the people just in the FBI who I mean, their behavior is on stage for anybody to see who wants to see it,
from James Comey to Peter Struck to fill in the blank. I mean, you can go to James Clapp or I know it D and I. There's plenty of people to list, but there's a whole bunch of people, even in the bureaucratic state, that are nameless, faceless individuals who are pushing for this thing constantly. So they have control in government, in the bureaucratic state, they have control in media. This is where people like George Soros
and George Soros a son is at Alex. I think it's Alex Soros coming into the picture, buying media outlets, buying I think they've bought a ton of radio stations and so forth. And of course the intent is to control what's in the media narrative, to control what people are hearing to set a
priority on which bits of information the American people need to hear about. And so you can go on down the list from media and government to Hollywood to all the other seven pillars of propaganda, and the left controls it so that big Tech right, they control those platforms, they control those different pillars, if you will, and they make it appear like there's a lot more than than there really are. So that's going to be relevant in our conversation when
we talk about the border. In a moment, we'll put that aside for a minute, and well, I've got to take a break. But there's a similar problem or fight happening in the Republican Party as well, and that fight has led to the ouster or the potential auster, the attempt at ouster of Speaker McCarthy, and I want to paint the picture as to what's going on there as well. I think if we understand these things, we'll have a clearer picture of what's really going on and really, more importantly, how
to fix those things. So time out is in order. My friends, you are listening here to conservative not better talk. I am your host, Todd Huff. We'll pick it up right where we left uf on the other side of the break back in just a minute. Welcome back, my friends. So let's pick up where we left off. Let's talk about let's talk about the battle for control of the Republican Party, and let's talk about what
that means and how that is manifesting itself. Of course it could be there's more to this, but how it could be manifesting itself in this battle to remove Speaker McCarthy as Speaker of the House. So, just as there is a battle for control of the Democrat Party, there is control for the battle for control the Republican Party. And you have the rhino types. You have the country club republican types, establishment republican types, even liberal Republican types.
And then you have those who are more conservative libertarian who want to actually see the government govern as it was intended well as it was intended to do right. And so this is where you have a fight, if you will, over say spending. You know, the conservative types, the limited government types,
the libertarian types say this is way out of control. Whatever we are dealing with, whatever the short term pain is of a shutdown, whatever that might be, that is simply a microcosm of what tiny, tiny, insignificant microcosm in comparison to where this spending is taking us in down the road. Right, this so whatever short term pain we have to endure now is worth it, because the problems created by a government that's spending out of control is
going. I mean, we're talking about massive, major, life altering sorts of scenarios, right, We're talking about the collapse potentially of the dollar down the road, or the collapse of just our system of government. Again, I'm not saying these are right on the doorstep, but the signs are all there, right, the problems. It's like, it's the way I think about it is, if you're let's just say you're pre diabetic, and you look at all of the you know, the warning signs and so forth,
You've got a choice to make. You can either take the steps that are necessary to stop or to get out of that pre diabetic range, find a healthier weight lifestyle, a one C level or whatever. Right, that's option number one. Now that's gonna that's has some short term pain, right, there's some short term pain involved with taking those steps. Maybe it's dietary changes, maybe it's exercising, maybe it's any number of things, but there is
some short term pain. But what do you avoid? You avoid in the worst case, And I mean it's some really bad things can come from diabetes. And I'm not saying it can't be managed or anything, but you know, I'm just painting the picture of to try to give you an analogy as to what's really going on here. So there might be some pain and discomfort and things we don't like in the short term to get healthier to avoid the
prediabetic stage. But if you take full blown, unchecked diabetes to its extreme, I mean people have had to have limbs, you know, parts of their body amputated, and you can get into massive problems with I mean, you can be on dialysis and any any number of things. Vision. There's all sorts of symptoms that that can come, some massive health problems and things that really take away the quality of life or even even can end to life. And so when you look at that, that's what we're looking at as
I see it. When we look at the financial fight that we have today, are we going to take the necessary steps to get back into shape? And by the way, we're way overweight metaphorically speaking. Here It's not like we got to lose five pounds. I mean, we gotta be on we gotta be on the version of America's Biggest Loser, that's all. That's what we've got to be on. We've got to be on some extreme diet. We're gonna have to have a team of dietitians, a team of trainers.
We're gonna have to have weightlifting put into the routine. We're gonna have to probably start training for triathlons, gonna probably have to have people like David Goggins on site screaming at us to get I mean, this is serious work, right. I'm not just saying we have to lose five pounds for the class reunion or some such thing. I'm saying we've got to get back into shape. And it's gonna it's gonna hurt, it's gonna suck, candidly. But
the alternative, the alternative is disastrous. The alternative could lead to I mean some of those examples I mentioned earlier up to an including death metaphorically here right, when we look at the the economy, and so that's what this fights about. When you so you have the people who want to see government restored to its original intent. You're going to see people who are you know,
want wants to move away from massive debt and deficit spending. In the fiscal year that just ended in two thousand twenty three, fiscal year twenty twenty three, we were a trillion dollars in the red for that year's income and expenses. If you look at it that way, revenue tax, tax revenues versus money going out. It's projected that in fiscal year twenty twenty four, which has just gotten underway here for a couple of days, it's projected that we're
going to be twice that in the red. Two trillion dollars in the red, and trillion has what twelve zeros behind it. That's a big number. I've said on here before. I think we need to change the words million, billion, and trillion to make them sound like or look like when you write them out so drastically different from one another, because they're multiple, they're
multiples of a thousand of each other. A thousand millions is a billion, a thousand millions is a thousand billions is a trillion, A million millions is a trillion. Thing about that So anyway, anyway, so this is the fight within the Republican Party. You've got a group of Republicans who are a little bit more measured than the Democrats are as far as spending goes. But they're really not super interested in that, you know, stopping the direction that
we're on. They're more about managing managing the disease right, managing the diabetes that they've assumed that we are going to metaphorically get here, and so they're fine with that. They're fine with that. This would be people, by the way, like Mitch McConnell, like Mitt Romney who's not running for re election, like Todd Young, like Lisa Murkowski, like Susan Collins, and
those were all all that I mentioned. There were sinners, But like Kevin McCarthy too, he's in the House, and so in the House there's a more of a divide there is. There are actually quite a few or a decent amount of people who say that they're conservative. They want to see this country get back on the right track financially, fiscally, constitutionally, all this stuff, and but the problem is there's still not enough. There's still not
enough. And so if you go back to January when we were when they were fighting over who the speaker was going to be. They tried to set up rules to accommodate for that. They tried to set up rules that would kind of in a way box McCarthy inn so that he had to at least be willing to work with, meet with, negotiate with, try to find solutions, you know, include that these conservative limited government types in the discussion. And so they they set up some rules that they thought would help that.
And you know, to a certain amount or to a certain extent, I think that that's probably happened. But it's of course not who Kevin McCarthy is. And when push comes to shove, when push comes to shove, when McCarthy's feeling the heat, when McCarthy's feeling the heat for telling the American people and when it comes to these government shutdowns, we gotta go on a diet, we gotta start working out. And Americans say, I don't want to go on a diet. I like sitting on my couch, I like
eating bomb bonds. I don't care that I'm pre diabetic. Right, that's down, that's tomorrow's problem, that's not today's problem. So as McCarthy feels the heat, from that, he thinks, man, what the heck, guys, You guys can make that argument all you want, But I'm just I'm not built for that. I'm not. McCarthy would say, I'm not. I just don't believe it, or I don't care enough about it. It's easier to capitulate and to give in, right. The heat is too
much for me to bear. And so that's what's happening, and Matt Gates being one of these look and I don't want to get into the personality stuff up because there's a whole there's a whole nother route you can go with that. McCarthy's out there saying this is personal between he and Matt Gates. Matt Gates doesn't personally like him. He wants to personally remove him as speaker. He never was on board with Speaker McCarthy, and fairness, I was never
completely on board with Speaker McCarthy. You can go back as well. Many of you were not completely on board with Speaker McCarthy. And by the way, by the way, I don't look at it that way. I look is Speaker McCarthy fully on board with the ideas and the things that need to be done. That are constitutionally sounded and in the best interests of the United States of America and the taxpayer, the American citizen. So I'm not for
or against the guy. I'm for the people who want to advance the cause of liberty, advance a return to the constitution, advance policies and spending to the point that it actually lives in reality. And that's not what we're having right now. And that's not McCarthy's fault, because he is coming from a position of reason and logic. But he's not prepared to die on that metaphorical hill because because it's just too easy. There's still not enough political pressure.
I guess internally, there's not enough Republicans in that House that are going to demand that this is what we do, or there's not enough people in that Republican House to actually say we are going to effectively force the issue here, We're going to force the fact that we're going to go on a diet and
start working out and not continue blind laid down this path into oblivion. There's not enough, and so Gates is basically calling McCarthy's bluff to a point, I guess are basically calling him out for his lack of falling on the side of this debate, the side this side of this battle for control of the Republican Party, because McCarthy has chosen the elitist side, the country club or side, the rhino side, the liberal Republican side. Matt Gates says,
that's fine. If that's the side you've chosen, then you've you've crossed a line with being able to work with us on this side. So I want
a new speaker. Now there's certainly the personal aspect and all those other things as well, but that being said, that's what's going on in the House, and so Matt Gates is called for is going to be He's made made the motion known that he's going to try to vacate the chair and we'll see what happens, because now we could go back through the entire thing that we had back earlier this year where we were determining who the speaker would be,
though McCarthy may certainly have the votes and we not get to that point. But that's what Gates is trying to do. Like him, love him, hate him. I'm just trying to paint the picture of what's going on, and it all stems from these ideas and these beliefs that are at war or at odds with each other within the Republican Party and also within the Democrat Party.
And I'm going to pause because the next what's remaining of the show, I want to talk about how the Democrat ideological differences within their party is manifesting itself on another issue. It's just interesting and I think it's helpful to understand. It makes it easier to converse and so forth, and to just have a I guess, an understanding of what's really going on. So that being
said, I'm a little bit long to segment. Quick time out. You're listening here, my friends, to conservative not better talk back here in just a minute. Welcome back, my friends. So let's talk a little bit about what I want to spend the rest of the program talking about, which
is this issue of illegal illegal immigration. I mentioned off the top that we have reached a point in this country where the open border policies that we have, and make no mistake, we have open border policies, and make no mistake here as well, the administration is actively ignoring the laws on the books, issuing their own memos and rules and interpretations and rationale and so forth as to why they can just arbitrarily refuse to enforce border law. That's what's going
on. It's not because suddenly there's no laws about who can come across the border. This is what the left wants you to think about. This is what the media what you to think is happening. It's not the case. It's not the case at all. It's gotten so bad, in fact, that governors and mayors across this city, this country, and blue states and blue cities, they've actually been complaining Governor Hocal, state of New York complaining saying that we need limits on immigration. Now, wait a minute, we
do have We do have these sorts of things. We have a legal process. The problem is you can't limit how do I say this, You can't limit. Okay, you have an open border, so we have limits on how many people are coming in the process the country legally, that's not the issue here. We have a problem with people who are coming across the border illegally or who are working the system so as to take advantage of it. And again, I understand why people want to be here. I've said this,
I'm incredibly consistent on this. I think the left is very inconsistent. The way they talk about this country, the way that they describe it as absolutely being horrendous. I don't know why in their worldview there shouldn't be one single person coming to the border. In fact, they should all be fleeing south or north. They should be getting out of here as quickly as possible. If they were consistent and actually acted consistently in regards to what how they
talk about their country, they would be fleeing. There would be a mass exodus of people from this country. If they're the way that they paint this country is actually accurate, people would not want to be fleeing to come here. But people do want to come here. I understand why they want to come here. This is still the greatest country on earth. This is still the land of the freed, and there are tremendous opportunities here, right,
I understand that. But we are breaking the system. We are being completely haphazard with the system. We are having no regard whatsoever for the system, and so and so it's gotten so bad again that these governors and mayors are actually saying, hey, we've got to have something here. Well, you can't limit something that you're not trying to enforce at all. You can't limit people crossing the border illegally if you say we have an open border. And
that's what's happening. And so it's gotten so bad that they have to, of course acknowledge even the Democrats are having to acknowledge this. I think, folks, we've clearly won on this issue, and I know we haven't won
in reality, because again, the seven pillars are propaganda. The people that are in our government, the people that are in the wine house, people that are in the media are pushing things that either our lies and misconceptions, or they are outright using their power to continue to metaphorically flip the bird of the American people and say this is what we're going to continue to do while
they take the podium, and of course they tell us something else. They blame Trump, they blame something else, or they say that they can't do anything about it, while want Republicans come in and work with us on how to fix this. None of that's true. There are laws on the books that the Biden administration is outright refusing to enforce. This is what's happening.
And so this stems from you begin to see a divine. Now you begin to see the radicals who are in control, who are content with allowing these things to happen, because again, what is the intent of the radical the radical left. Their intention is to break this country so that it has to be fixed. And when it's fixed, quote unquote fixed, it will be fixed to be more socialistic, more communistic, whatever, more tyrannical, more big government. It's not going to be less government. It's not going to
be more liberty or less taxes. It's going to be more control for them, less freedom for you. And they are trying to deliberately break this because they don't like this country's That is a factor for the d that is the driver for the radical left. There are papers and things on this stuff. Read Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals. That's a book. There's another paper that I can tell you about after. I just got to take a time out
here. But this is what's going on, and it's manifesting itself with the Democrat Party. You've got Clinton out there saying and even Bill Clinton, former president right of the United States, out there saying that this is unsustainable. You've got Democrats like again Hocol, You've got mayor Adams in New York City saying the same thing. You've got people all over the Karen Bass Los Angeles
all saying the same thing. This is unsustainable, and it's even so bad that it's forcing some of the leftists with political power who have to get reelected. Some of these folks are leftist. Karen Bass is a leftist, but it's gotten so bad that she needs her position, and the will of the people is not for open borders, so she's got to make it look like
we got to fix something, and that's what she's saying. And so the point is these battles within the parties, they are creating problems that we're dealing with in real time. And you factor in the deceit and the lies and all that stuff that happens in politics and through the seven pillars of propaganda and
deceits, and you can see we have a massive problem. Meanwhile, the rest of us, normal Americans with brains and sins, are saying, why don't we secure the border, Why don't we secure the border, Why don't we actually do something to stop this? We can't. We might disagree with how many people should be allowed to come in legally, but there is no one outside of a radical leftist who's either completely insane or who wants to break
our system. Nobody wants to have purely open borders. Given the setup that we have that we have today, given the realities that we have today, in a bit of a nanny state, and so forth, it's just unsustainable. You cannot sustain this. It will be broken, which is what they want, so they can replace it with something that is more closely aligned with their broken worldview and ideology. Quick time out, my friends back here in just a minute. Welcome back, my friends. By the way, here
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