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to the right. Here's your conservative but not Bitter host Tod Huff. You know, my friends, the longer and more frequently I hear that conservative not bitter, the more I realize just how lucky you are and just how rare that is, my friends, in today's world of angry, bitter, divisiveness, and rage. It is definitely there's no alternative to this on the left.
As we've seen play out here in the past day or so. Since the House of Representatives has now formally elected Speaker Mike Johnson, representative from the great state of Louisiana, they now have a speaker, that problem is over. Of course, it's not over, because now it's going to be a battle to define who he is. They're going to, of course demonize. They've already done this. This is predictable stuff, and I want to explain
why. I want to give some background as to what is really going on here, what is really at stake, and I want to go through this. It's an important thing. And by the way, I think it's a victory. It's a victory for the conservative element in this country, those who love this country, and it's founding those who believe in the principles of the Declaration of Independence, those who believe in the Constitution, the separation of powers, a return to limited government. We got a lot of work cut out
for us, but it's a very good first step in the process. By the way, if you want to be part of this discussion, I welcome you to do that. You can email me Todd at Todd hubshow dot com. You can text three to one seven two one zero twenty eight thirty. Yes, message in data rates may apply, not apply, not from us, of course, from your potentially from your carrier. So anyway, let's get into what's going on here. The House has finally elected speaker, a
Speaker of the House, Representative Mike Johnson from the state of Louisiana. As you know, as we've as you've heard reported, and as we mentioned a moment ago, and I would begin by saying, it turns out that Matt Gates was right. That's the first thing I think we need to stop and do is to to applaud the work of Matt Gates. Now this is I've used this analogy before. I think though that it is an apt analogy.
I think it applies, I think it's relevant. I think it actually sets the stage for what is about to ensue, what is about to transpire here in the Congress of the United States of America in Washington, d C. Matt Gates was right to call out the poor leadership of Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Matt Gates was right to stand in opposition to attacks from fellow Republicans. I would even say demonizing attacks in some ways from fellow Republicans, from the media,
from some of the American public. But Matt Gates was right. The former leadership of the Speaker of the House was not going to get it done. As I've said before and as I'll say again, in order to fix America's problems, we have to look at this as a multi step process. We can't think we're gonna flip a switch. We cannot think. We cannot and should not think in any way, shape, manner, or form that a Republican victory in any election year, or a Trump victory in twenty twenty
four is going to single handedly fix this problem. To the extent that that is in the minds of the American people, to the extent that that is how some people look at this, we have to completely throw that out of our thinking. That is antiquated thinking, that is not truly recognizing the realities of what we're dealing with today. This, my friends, is a battle, like it or not. We got to strap up our big boy and big girl pants, or I should say, or big boy or big girl
pants. You can choose, but you gotta strap them on and get ready because this battle is never This battle is never going to end. This battle now, the specific battle over the Speaker of the House, or what's the next issue on the docket in the House of Representatives, or how we campaign about this or that or whatever, that is all of course going to change
over time. But the fundamental truth that we have to wrap our heads around, take a deep breath, stare in the eye, and accept the responsibility. There is no turning away from this responsibility, my friends. This is a necessary responsibility. As I've said before, As you've heard Reagan's quote from back in the nineteen eighties when he was President. Then he pointed out He pointed out that liberty is not something that we pass along to the next generation
in our bloodstream. It doesn't go from generation to generation by virtue of human DNA. This is something we must agree is important. We must accept the responsibility in defending it and proclaiming it and explaining it, and pass that along to the next generation. The next generation must accept the responsibility at hand and say, you know what, we are going to continue this fight in defense of liberty, in defense of this great nation, in hopes of creating a
more perfect union. We are going to continue to carry that mantle and this will go on indefinitely. When it stops going on is when we have problems. And I would say that that's part of what we've got going on here today. Somewhere along the way, Americans metaphorically and quite literally in some ways have gotten fat and lazy. We've collectively gotten fat and lazy. We don't understand what the alternative, the true antithesis of what America is. We don't
live that. We can see it, but sometimes there's a disconnect in what that really is like day in and day out. We can see it in places around the world, like the in the Islamic Republic of Iran, for example, we can see it. We can see it in the People's Republic of North Korea. We can see these things. We can witness them on television. We can read stories or watch videos online. But that's something altogether
different to experience it. These are dark places. It's communists Russia. The communist Soviet Union was absolutely antithetical to what we have here in this nation, and so we must defend this. We must pass this on, we must we must accept this responsibility with a little bit of eagerness. It's our moment, it's our time. We have to ensure that it goes on to the next generation. And the first step in that process is getting the right people
on the metaphorical ship. It's fielding the right team. It's getting the right people in the right positions. If you run a business, you know what I'm talking about. If you are in leadership at a church, you know what I'm talking about. You need people who see and believe in the mission,
the cause, and so forth. You need to make sure that they are equipped, that they are motivated, that they have a clear perspective, a clear understanding on what the objectives are, what the what the hurdles are, the barriers are, the challenges are, and you've got to get them in positions of leadership and let them get to work right. That's I mean. Even in a family, a well run family, people have their responsibilities,
they buckle up and get it done. Now, I know that that's a little bit different, especially if you've got little ones, But the bottom line is, the bottom line is we have to first in order to move things in the right direction, get people in positions of power, in positions of leadership that are willing to set the coordinates, set the gps to the
correct place that we're trying to go. And so again, I don't want to I'm cautiously optimistic because there have been countless people who have looked the part in the past. They have checked a lot lot of boxes as far as what they say, they believe what they say is important to them. And Representative Mike Johnson checks a lot more boxes in that regard on that checklist than Kevin McCarthy ever possibly could. And it's not meant to be an attack on
Kevin McCarthy. I'm just trying to communicate the difference. The difference between one type of leader who has one type of worldview, who is willing to capitulate on any number of issues, versus someone who seems to have who seems to have the goods on being a principled conservative. By the way, I didn't know this. I didn't know too much about Mike Johnson before he was nominated
here and now elected as Speaker of the House. But Mike Johnson, and maybe i'm a little but he was a talk show host at one point in time. But then again, I'm reminded of some others that had talk shows as well that have disappointed politically here in this state. Mike Pence had a political talk show back years ago. Anyway, So he was a talk show host. He's been he's had some roles with organizations that I respect, and of course he's being maligned and attacked, and this is to be expected.
In fact, he's being called a anti gay representative, who's trying to who has tried to overthrow, overthrow the twenty twenty election, and the results those perfect results. Of course, that there can be no question about you raise a question. You are the equivalent of an insurrectionist. You are trying to overthrow our government and elect Trump to be a tyrannical dictator and king for life.
That's the crazy narrative that, of course, when I say it, seems utterly laughable and ridiculous, but that is the narrative that a healthy part of this country has believed because they have been led astray by the deceivers, the professional deceivers in the mainstream media. So we've got a lot of things
to deal with here. I want to paint the picture of what is going on, and first and foremost, the first step in ensuring that we head in the right direction is making sure that we have the right people in the right positions. And I'm cautiously optimistic that we have that with Representative Mike Johnson, now Speaker Mike Johnson, now he has the knives are out for him. The knives are out for him in the in the swamp, the knives are out for him in the radical left, in the media, the knives
are out for him even within the Republican Party. Although he won with all two hundred and twenty Republican votes, he won that election for Speaker in the House. But this is a guy who's relatively quiet, who has said he did not have any ambitions to be Speaker of the House. In fact, he didn't even really consider it, he said, until he was approached about filling the position. And so we'll see, right, I mean, here's here's someone who again there's a lot of positive signs in my estimation as to
what he will do. But there's a difference between being a member of the House being a relatively quiet member of the House. Although I'm not criticizing, I mean, he did challenge the electors in the twenty twenty election. I'm not saying he's not done anything that's controversial. I'm just saying there's a difference to be in being one of four hundred and thirty five members and being the
guy right and being the one who's actually running the House of Representatives. And so not everybody can can rise to the occasion, not everybody can deal with the pressure. Not everybody can remain principled in that particular position. There's going to be knives coming out for him, both directly from the front and of course from behind as well, and that's where the Republican knives will often come. But as it now stands, two hundred and twenty votes, all the
Republicans voted for Mike Johnson to be speaker. Matt Gates again should be applauded. That's a critical he played a critical step in this process, a critical role in this process. Matt Gates made sure that we well, he did the right thing. Here we are, this is again here at the beginning of this whole process. This is on paper and based upon reason and just
what we know about individuals. This is a much better place than we were three weeks ago when we had Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who didn't do everything wrong. I don't want to paint that picture. But again, to get this nation to where we need to be, we have to stop doing the things that we have been doing so that we can actually turn this massive ship this country around and head back in the right direction. I mean, this is we're way out of whack as far as the direction that we're going. And
Speaker Mike Johnson can I think help do that. We'll see time will tell. I'm consciously optimistic. So I want to go through this. I want to paint the picture of the battle that really is being waged here, what's really going on. I want to lay kind of give a lay of the land. We've won this first step, but that is just what that is. It's just the first step. So I want to go through this and other things in the news as well, my friends, but a time out
is in order. You're listening here to the home of Conservative not bitter Talk. I am your host, the beloved, the one, the only todd of back here in just a minute, my friends. Welcome back, my friends. So we're here talking about the I guess the fallout if you're a leftist, if you're a hater of this country or some such thing. I know, I know not all liberals hate this country, but the radical left
they rapidly hate this country. They hate everything that it stands for. They want to metaphorically and of course literally sometimes they try to burn it down. But this fallout, if you're on that side of the aisle or just I guess, it comes with the territory part of the consequences of having a successful step in the House of Representatives. If you see it from the conservative side,
it's just the next part of the process. It's dealing with reality, it's dealing with the opposition that we are going to face, and this is having a speaker of the house. This is merely like winning the coin toss at the beginning of a football game. Now it's import well, the coin toss in a football game. I mean, oftentimes if you follow football, it says, hey, you get four choices, kick, defend, wait, kick received, defender, So I can I can choose to kick the
ball to my opponent, giving him the ball first. He of course will have the chance to decide what he wants to do in the second half. So normally no one picks kick. I think defend is not Receive is sometimes a common one. You receive you and we want the ball. For Defer means you defer your choice into the second half and you can pick which you
can pick which end zone that you want. That's the other option, And I've seen that one chosen once or twice in extreme weather games, like when the wind's blowing one direction, like forty miles an hour, and some teams might want to start with the wind to their back or whatever whatever the case may be. But anyhow, it's like the coin toss is the point. So now we decide that let's say we receive the ball, You're going to
kick the ball to us. We're going to go on offense. Now, as I've said before, former leaders of the House of Representatives, former leaders in our government, people who have positions of leadership within the government have run what I like to call the prevent offense, and the prevent offense. For those of you who are fans of football, it is not a thing. In football you have a four minute offense, which is designed if you're ahead,
to run the clock out. However, there is something called the prevent defense. And I need to explain this. This isn't a football analogy or it's an analogy, it's not a football lesson or anything. Just for the sake of explaining what's going on. The prevent defense is something that teams will play when they are winning the game, at the very end of the game, when the opposing team usually doesn't have any timeouts. It requires either very
little time or no timeouts. And what you do is you basically say, look, we're going to give you chunks of yards. You can have these yards, but we're going to make sure since you can't stop the clock. There's two ways to stop the clock in the NFL. One is to get out of bounds. The other is to call a timeout. Well, I guess a third way is an incomplete pass, but it wouldn't do an offense any good in those situations that they had to go seventy five yards and twelve
seconds to throw in complete passes. And what they do is they defend the sidelines and they defend deep. So they create this defense that looks like you
put players in all the positions you normally don't put them. You're putting them along the sidelines so as to keep people with the ball from running out of bounds, and you put them deep so they can't get to the end zone, and so they'll give up huge chunks of yards in simply the idea is in thinking you don't have enough time because you can't stop the clock, and we're not going to give you any way to stop the clock. So that's
a prevent defense. A prevent offense is something that doesn't exist except in politics it does. And so in this analogy, this is when a team the Republican party will take the field. We'll assume control of the ball. They want you to think we got the ball. Now, let's move this baby down the field. Let's get some first downs, let's try to get some points on the board. However, what they do is focus on making you think that without really ever doing anything to move the football to begin with.
So they might come up with a series of football plays that look like a lot of razzle dazzle. It's a double reverse, a double pass, a hook and ladder, some sort of fancy trick play. But when the player is tackled or when the whistle is blown, maybe the offense picked up one yard. In fact, maybe sometimes the offense went backwards. But man, it really looked like they were trying. Man, they really put on a performance for us. Wow, that looks really impressive. But they never advanced
the football. And that's the game, my friends in DC. The game is never for the Republicans, not all of them. And I hope that it doesn't include I hope that Mike Johnson is not in this group. Matt Gates is not in this group. Kevin McCarthy, I would say, is in this group. They never want to advance the football. McCarthy doesn't want to advance the football. He wants the power, he wants the position.
He will talk a good game, he'll put in some plays on offense that really look like, man, you really look like you were trying to do something huge there, but nothing ever happens. Thirty three trillion dollars in debt becomes thirty four trillion dollars in debt, an open border becomes an open border that terrorists are presumably ostensibly reportedly crossing. Right, it doesn't get any better. There's a lot of motion, a lot of promises and platitudes when the
emails go out to fundraise. When it's time to get people to the polls, oh, they're all about it. But when it comes time to actually put in the work and do what is necessary to advance that metaphorical football crickets silence, nothing, capitulation, weakness, no principle. That is what happens, and that is the game that we have been subjected to. Now there's
other games going on going on as well. One of those other games going on is control for the Republican Party, which I've gone through extensively on this program. There's conservatives, there's country clubbers, there's the establishment Republicans. That's one group to me, the establishment Republicans, the country Clubbers, those are the ones that are in that have maintained control of the party for a long
time. Then there are the conservatives, the people who really want and believe and think that their representatives should actually be doing things that the constitution says they should be doing, and candidly not anything more. Do what the constitution says, restore a limited government, get this government headed back in the direction it needs to go. That's what we think, that's what we expect. And that's why, by the way, they come up with what I call the
prevent offense because they want you to think it. They want the headlines to make it look like they're doing the things that you expect them to do, but they never actually get them done. All they ever actually get done is raising some money, getting elected, serving there for a lifetime, ignoring a lot of responsibilities until they're forced to by their constituents. The political pressures get so high, like for this Biden inquiry, for example, a lot of
these guys don't want to do that. A lot of these guys absolutely do not want to do that. That's not fun, and that puts them in at odds with the media, that gets them called names, that subjects them to having their lives gone through with the fine toothed clone to see if they've done anything that they're ever embarrassed forget illegalities are something they should be impeace for. I'm just saying something to embarrass them. They don't want that, and
we have to understand that that's human nature. Don't make me do the hard stuff, right, don't make it difficult on me. Just let me go to Washington, cast some votes, go and speak where they invite me to speak, get praised as being a senator, a congressman, whatever. I don't want to do the hard work. But folks, this is exactly why
we're in the mess we're in today. And so the big money Republicans, the establishment Republicans, the Republicans who are embarrassed by conservative principles and values, the Republicans who really just want to see the rate of government growth slowed down from where it is. They don't really want to see it go back to where it should be. Those folks are the ones that are making the decisions in DC. Those folks are the ones who gave us a speaker, Kevin
McCarthy. Those are the ones that don't stand up to the Democrats when the Democrats are in power or when the Democrats aren't in power. These are the ones that go running running for the hills. Anytime the pressure gets tight, anytime the heat in the kitchen gets too hot to bear, they go running and whining, and they're nowhere to be seen. And so that is the other battle that's happening in our nation's capital, in the House of Representatives.
Folks, we won on this one. If you're a limited government constitutionalists, conservative libertarian type, you one because Mike Johnson is much closer to what you believe than Kevin McCarthy is. We've won this. But again, we shouldn't overly get overly excited here, because it's just like we've won the coin toss. Now we get the football. Now we have to see what we're gonna do with it. All that other stuff matters on setting the stage, on
putting people in the right positions. But now, what are we going to do now that we have a leader who at least says that he agrees with the concepts of constitutional conservatism. I'm not implying he doesn't. I'm saying now we will find out. Now he's gonna have to I mean, look, he's gonna have to negotiate at times, and sometimes it's gonna have to be
a little bit you know, We're gonna have to accept that. But in general, is he going to be pushing for conservative principles or is he going to capitulate and run and cower and not actually try to do his part in turning this nation around. I think he will do the right things. Only time will tell we've won this particular battle, but it is truly just the very beginning. These battles will never end. Buckle up, accept it, get ready for that. Embrace it. What the special forces say, embrace
the suck. If you don't like the fight, just embrace the fact that it's going to suck. I don't see it that way. I find it a little fun sometimes. But the point is that we're at the beginning. This is not going to get easier. It is only going to get harder, my friends. It's only going to get harder because we have to understand who we're ultimately fighting against, and that is a godless, rabid radical left. Timeout is in order, my friends, sit tight back here in just
a minute. Welcome back, my friends. So this is the lay of the land in the reality of political consequences here in two thousand and twenty three, right, this is what we've been going over. The lay of the land. We've talked about the problems, we've talked about where we are in the process, where we are in the fight. Now. Of course that speaker Mike Johnson has won and become speaker, which by the way, wasn't
supposed to happen. Right again, Still, I think we need to take a moment and I briefly mentioned this earlier, but I think we need to really take a moment to thank Matt Gates. He's faced a ton of backlash and criticism, and I guarantee, folks, what's been happening behind closed doors, the phone calls, he's been getting, the pressure that's been mounting on him because he's the one that caused this, Right, that's what they say. No, you know who caused this. The people who caused this are
the people who led us to thirty four trillion dollars in federal debt. The people who cause this are the ones who allowed this nation to have a porous and open border. The ones who caused this are the ones that gradually, over time, step by step, inch by inch, have seeded ground to the radical leftists. The ones who caused this are the ones who did not stand and defend the nonsense that Trump was accused of when he was President of
the United States when he was a candidate. The ones who caused this are the ones that stood by and did nothing or very little, or only paid lip service to what we wanted to hear. The President of the United States and others have been targeted by a weaponized Department of Justice. Don't blame that on Matt Gates. And I understand again that we didn't have all of the levers of power and government, so we couldn't necessarily stop it. But I
guarantee, my friends, we could have done more. Gates. Gates was a one man show in opposing McCarthy for a while, and now look at what's happened. And you may not like Gates. I don't know. You may have a problem personally with Gates. I can't speak to any of that. I'm just looking at outcomes here and I'm saying he needs to be commended for what he did. It wasn't supposed to turn out this way. Republicans weren't going to be able to find a leader. What's going to happen?
How are we going to function as a government. The government's going to shut down, and it's going to be blamed on Republicans because they won't have a speaker. Blah blah blah. None of that happened. None of that happened. Remember that the next time that there is fear mongering when Republicans are fighting within the party and conserv Look, this is all designed to stop the conservative movement, or dare I say even forget about the conservative movement. How about
we just say the will of the American people. This is about stopping that from becoming from having a political voice in this nation. The establishment Republican Party, while not as bad as the radical left, they still do not want to give a voice to those who oppose what they're doing. I mean, this is kind of common sense, right. They don't want to empower those
folks. They don't want to empower that. And when they see it come through someone like Matt Gates, hopefully with someone like Speaker Mike Johnson, other members of Congress, Jim Jordan, or whoever else, they get nervous. They get nervous. Now we've got enough pressure that has been exerted. Matt Gates and others stood firmly enough. The Byron Donald's of the world. Kudos to all these guys. They did the right thing. They were led by Gates. Here we are. Gates needs to be commended for this. Gate
needs to be credited for where we are today. It's just the first step, but it's an important first step. There's a crack in the armor, my friends, a crack in the armor of the swamp of the establishment Republicans, and they want they will throw every resource they have at preventing that crack from getting larger. We have to exploit it. We have to push with
all of our might. We have to come together and push those individuals, and I hope it includes Speaker Mike Johnson, get behind these folks and push, help them expand upon that gap, that kink, that chink in the armor of the deep state, of the bureaucratic state, of the Republican establishment. It's good that we've made this first step, but we've got many,
many more steps to take. And you know what, sometimes there's going to be people that are pushing alongside of us that we may have future disagreements with. I don't care about any of that right now. What matters. What matters is that I think eighty percent of this country, if they can have things framed properly and explained properly and not screamed at or whatever else. I think a time, I think eighty percent of the country could get behind what's
going on now. I don't think that ultimately they will because of politics and the emotional aspect of you know, being a Democrat or whatever however they identify and so forth, and the demonization of Trump and other Republicans and so forth. That's why they go to this. I got a list, by the way, on the stack of stuff of some negative coverage that's happening here with of course Kevin excuse mean, Mike Johnson. So anyhow, we've got a
band together and continue to push through. I think we can. I think that this is the most This is one of the things to be the most optimistic about. Got a ton of work left to do, But there's a chink in the armor, man that can be exploited. My regular everyday people coming together and pushing forward with a message that says enough to Congress, enough enough empty promises, enough debt, enough open borders, enough radical leftist politics,
enough of the weaponization of the Department of Justice. Enough We've had it. We're done. We will not take it any longer, but I've got to take a break. My friends, sit tight listening here to conservative not bitter talk. I'm your host, Todd huff Back in a minute. Chinked in the armor, my friends, that is what we have in the Republican part in a good way, and the establishment wing of the Republican Party in the swamp in maybe DC. In total, I think that we have an
opportunity here to power our way through that proverbial chink in the armor. It's a place of weakness. It has been exploited thanks to Matt Gates, thanks to the Republicans that held firm over these past three weeks in spite of incessant out of control just end of the world dire predictions by people who said that the United States of America will cease to be. I mean, we're not going to be able to function without House of Representatives for a couple of weeks.
It's almost as though they don't know. They go on recess and so forth anyway. So we have to expel with that. And I think a lot of people want to exploit that we're tired of this, We're tired of what we've been subjected to. There's lots of reasons to be encouraged here to step in the right direction. Of course, the left has gotten they've lost their minds on this, on their attacks on now Speaker Mike Johnson again calling
him an anti gay representative because he's against the gay marriage. That makes you apparently anti gay. They say he's basically an insurrectionist who tried to overthrow the twenty twenty election. I saw someone on Twitter on Wednesday, I believe it was, who said that since no one who is engaged in insurrection can hold a position like Speaker of the House, is the Speaker of the House chair still vacant? Has it been vacated? Because we can't, of course,
have people who are insurrectionists with these hold these positions of powers forth. It's pure sophistry. It's nonsense, it's absurd, it's ridiculous. Trump says, by the way, Johnson's going to be a great sweeper a speaker. I was reading Swamp as I said that he's gonna be a great sweeper speaker. Leftist and the swamp, by the way, are absolutely panicked over this.
They don't want to deal They don't want to deal with what the American people have on their agenda, and I think I think, my friends, that can be pushed through a speaker Mike Johnson. I'm cautiously optimistic. Sit tight, though my friend's got to take a break back to wrap up here in just a minute. Welcome back, my friends. I was just reading this is in the stack of stuff if you want to see it at Todd Hufshow dot com. But I was just reading Representative Gary or Jerry Connolly, Democrat
from Virginia. He says this, Mike Johnson isn't a household name. People are googling him just to find out who he is. But let me warn you right now, he's as dangerous as anyone in the speaker's chair. I would agree with that. I would agree with that if you're coming from the position of defending radical leftist ideology, or if you're someone who is defending the swamp in Washington, DC. So, mister Connelly, thank you for letting us know who you are is though we didn't already anyhow. So, folks,
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