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be my family and I will be out of town next week. I know I could hear the collective sigh, the collective moan of regret there knowing that I won't be here. But you're in good hands. We've got some guest hosts who will be filling in for us here. I've had several of them here before. One of them is a first time filling for us. We've got Chris Dunham, who I know many of you have enjoyed for several years now when he has filled in on this program. We've got John Crane who's
also filled in. I know many of you listen enjoy listening to John as well. And we've also got first time that he's done this for us. His name is Gary Varvil. He is a syndicated political cartoonist and he will be filling in as well. So I'll be back that first week in March. There's a chance we might not be in on Monday, which I think is March fourth. But anyway, just a little bit of housekeeping off of the top of the program here today. So lots of stuff that discuss,
especially with that in mind, but I want to start here today. I want to start here today by talking well, I want to talk about just how much the left has kind of burn itself out now. I want to be abundantly clear here I am in no way shape manner form. I am absolutely not. And if anybody is out there doing this, I would tell you to metaphorically smack some sense into them, because we are nowhere near. We're nowhere near securing a political victory. Here. We have the lead,
if you want to look at it that way. I don't even know if that's the correct way of looking at it. Because votes haven't been cast. Everything we talk about is based upon polling and trends, approval ratings and that sort of stuff, just the general sentiments of the country, and people are well, they're sick of what we've been subjected to under the Biden administration,
under the Democrat agenda and playbook. They're sick of it. Now. They're not lining up to support Republicans necessarily, although things were clearly unequivocally better under President Trump than they are under this Biden administration. And remember, remember the whole reason that people had to vote for Biden back in twenty twenty. We were told was to save America. Right, we had to save America for Trump are from Trump. We weren't sure that we could get through another four
years. It could be the end of our democracy as we know it. It could be the last election. Trump's gonna assert himself as king and put an end to elections. This is the sort of stuff that was being discussed Trump. Remember the final days of Trump's administration, Nancy Polow, he was trying to keep the nuclear codes from the guy. I mean, it was all political theater. And it wasn't even good political theater, but it was
political theater nonetheless. But we were supposed to Those that were convinced to vote for Biden were told that they were to do so in order to save our democracy, to save America, to re establish America's standing in the world. And of course none of that has happened. Everything, as we've gone through pretty relentlessly here on this program, everything is demonstrably worse. There is not a single solitary thing that is better today than it was when Trump was in
office. It was. It has been an unmitigated disaster, right, and there's no denying this. And so we're learning here, we're learning here that the anti Trump movement, which is really where a lot of this of course started, but the anti Trump movement is simply running out, running out of
fuel, running out of gas. They have basically been so negative for so long that they can no longer, they can no longer continue keeping up the amount of negativity necessary to fuel to fuel a never Trump, anti Trump sort of movement. This has been talked about, actually written about in the New York Times. They're basically admitting that, hey, this is the anti Trump movement has been so negative for so long it is taken. I mean,
you were not designed to live that way, my friends. This is one of the problems with some well with some of the positions of the radical left. It requires people to deny reality, It requires people to accept a reality that is not the way that things work this side of heaven. And so it's no surprise that they've eventually they haven't reached the point or close to the point where they have been so negative for so long. They've basically burnt themselves
out. They've lived in fear, they've lived with hatred in their hearts for so long they just can't keep it up. It's burnt people out. People realize that, hey, we are gonna have to find another reason, another reason to go out and vote in twenty twenty four, because there is no reason we can't keep this negativity of just hating Trump up. Now, I think that they're gonna dig deep here. I think they're gonna find a here to continue this. This is all that they've got. But it is worth
noting that this is not how human beings are meant to exist. You can't live with this level of animosity, hatred, rage, bitterness, just overall negativity. You cannot do that and not expect there to be some type of consequence. So all that being said, now they are doing a couple things. Remember we talked yesterday about how they are trying to make us think and of course this is good luck with this, they're trying to convince us that
everything is totally fine with Biden. He's vigorous, he's healthy. You know, if you have something to say about Biden's mental fitness to be president of the United states, that's simply because you don't know Biden. That's right, That's what the narrative is. That's the storyline. You know, behind closed
doors, the guy's as sharp as attack. He's you know, just firing off rapidly questions to people who are advising him, giving him answers and updates almost so quickly that these folks who are updating him cannot even begin to keep up with the agility, the mental agility that Joseph robin At Biden has. That's what we're supposed to believe. Remember Kreeen John Pierre told us a couple
of weeks ago that Biden does more in an hour. She said this, he does more in an hour than the average American does in a day, which is I mean, just beyond preposterous and candidly insulting. So as they're doing that, as they're doing that, they realize that another problem they have, another problem they have comes in the form of the economy that we have.
People people have lived with, lived with the realities of this Biden economy, Biden nomics, bidenflation for several years now, and people know in politics, you start getting close to a general election day, which were not that many months away. What are we eight eight nine months away? Something like that? You start getting close. And if the economy is not good, remember back when Clinton Clinton campaign back in what was it ninety two? I
guess it's the economy stupid, right, That was the thing. It's the economy stupid. That was James Carvill's invention, those folks that were on the Clinton campaign and so forth. But it's the economy stupid. That was the message, that was the campaign, that was That was actually what got the attention of people to say, well, And of course we had George H. W. Bush who promised the American people read my lips, no new taxes, you remember that, And so they came in as the economy stupid.
It's very straightforward, very simple, kitchen table politics sort of thing, and it resonated with people because the economy needed to improve. And so here we are and by the way, much worse condition now economically speaking, than we were back in the days when the Democrats were saying, it's the economy stupid. And I understand, if you're the party in power, you don't want to admit anything's going wrong. And if you're the party who's out of
power, you want to say everything's going wrong. I understand that. I try to be fair minded about this, and the reality is we've all lived with this for a while now. The reality is is that the economy is not good. Inflation has wreaked havoc on the average Americans. In fact, it's stolen personal finances. It's stolen thousands of dollars from the average American family
inflation. And that is one hundred percent, no matter what they tell you, no matter what John Stewart on The Daily Show tries to tell you, no matter what Paul Krugman tries to come out and tell you some sophisticated answer on why something other than government decisions on how to spend money. They want to blame anything besides government for inflation, but government, federal government specifically, as we went through the other day, the federal government is solely responsible for
inflation. One. They can complain and try to pass the buck all that they want, but they by definition, by very definition, by having the power to spend and to spend more, right to spend more than well, then they're bringing in in taxes and then to then create an influx of money, and the money supply to basically cover that it's a hidden tax. When
there's too much money supply. We went through this. When there's too much money supply created for the actual value economic output that's been generated in an economy, you have inflation. That's what it is. It's not you can be mad at these businesses for other reasons. You can think that they're crooks, you can think whatever. But it's not Walmart's fault and Apple's fault, not Target's fault. It's not these big corporation's fault. That the government is creating
more money. The government is responsible for that. The government is responsible for this, and we're all living with this. We all know what this is, what this is like. We all have to deal with this. They want you to believe that you've been tricked into believing the economy is bad, probably by people like me, probably by your own experience sitting around the table, trying to balance your checkbook, trying to pay for gas, trying to
send your kid to college. Maybe you're looking to buy a new house and you think, my goodness, the cost of housing has gone through the roof. You're looking at your tax bill, your property tax bill, I mean, you name it. You sit around and you feel the impact economically speaking of what's going on. But they want to tell you that you are being
misled. You and my friends are in a very healthy, very vibrant economy led by a very vibrant President of the United States who's out there out working everybody every day, getting more done in an hour than the rest of us are getting done in a day. This economy is great. What is wrong with you? So there's a montage here, a montage here that I want to play for you of a various news outlets, news anchors, people in well in the business of deceiving you. Candidly. They want you to think
the economy is great. This goes on for minu and a half or so. I just want you to listen to this montage of them trying to again gaslight you, gaslight me on just how healthy the economy is allegedly, allegedly is today in spite of the realities that we all live it and experience it and know something altogether different. But listen to this montage real story about the US economy. Nobel Prizeman of Paul Krugman lays out the dollars and cents for
why Americans are wrong to feel so down about it. How's the economy doing well? There's the difference between how it looks and how it feels. Actually, the economy is doing okay right now. If you actually take a step back, the wist economy is strong. The economy by all objective measures, is doing pretty damn well. The economy has actually been incredibly strong. The Biden economy is great. Yes, how does it look honestly pretty damn fantastic?
But well, voters give President Biden credit for it. The question for Biden reddits is will voters give him credit? Well, we report on how great the economy is doing. What do you do feel that? Why aren't voters giving President Biden credit? Americans don't seem to be giving him the credit. Why is that? And what does he have to do to turn that around? If people aren't paying attention to it, then it's very hard to go out and take credit. Voters don't understand, essentially your grasp. But
he's had these legislative wins. Most voters don't understand what you're trying to tell them. Are we going to get to the point where facts do not matter? And for the economy example, people are going to feel the way that aligns with their political party. Republicans are never going to say the economy is good historically while there's a Democrat in office, if you ask him about the economy, they start looking at through these pots and lenses and they tell themselves
stories to completely at all with the reality. Nobody wants to give Joe Biden credit for what is really a remarkable situation with the economy. Why don't people give well, I don't know. That's the American psyche right now. We're in a bad sort of mood. Do you think there's an element you know, people just like being unhappy? Do people just like being unhappy? Why aren't they giving Biden credit? This was put together by NewsBusters, by the way, It'll be on our stack of stuff. But I gotta take a
time out. I want to talk a little bit about this on the other side of the break, my friends, but I've got to take that time out. You're listening here to conservative not better talk. I am your host, the one, the only, ever so beloved Todd Huff. This is our last day here. Will be out next week and of course returning that first week in March. Be back in just a minute, welcome back,
my friends. So this is the strategy. These are the tactics that the left, the media, I should say, of course they are the left, but this is what they employ against well. They handle it differently when they are talking about a Republican administration than they are for a Democrat administration. You might remember, if you go back in your memory bank, if you remember when President Bush, when President George W. Bush was reaching the end
of his first term. Of course we had all sorts of chaos. That was in the days following nine to eleven. We had wars and all sorts of stuff. But you'll remember, and I think they might may have done this. They always do this when Republicans are in office. They start talking about what happens if a recession hit. Suddenly you hear that constantly. You hear about, you know, things are good now. I remember these news reports. I don't have I don't have the soundbites, but I remember these.
I remember listening to these on rush people say hey, the economy is good now, but there are signs, you know, we can't keep this up up, that we may be looking at a recession. There's a recession coming. What about the recession is there a chance of a recession. The
exact opposite happens when the Democrats are in office. The Democrats when they're in office when things are bad, when you're investing everything you have in convincing people that their life experience is much better than they believe it is that the administration's impact on economics, on just the whole myriad of things is not what they've experienced it to be. No, no, no, no, They've been tricked, they've been hoodwinked, they've been led astray, I guess by people
like me. I don't know. But the thing is, the thing is they people know right, People have their own experiences. People live through this world where forced to live in the world of reality, government can well,
they really can't. And that's honestly the source of a lot of this, A lot of these problems in tension is that the government wants to live in a fairy tale alternate universe where they can just give stuff away, have no consequence for their actions, be wildly applauded by people for just giving stuff away without any consequences. Now, sometimes those consequences take a long time to catch up because this economy is so prosperous is so powerful. We've been so blessed.
The ideas upon which we built this country are so firmly routed ground that I should say in truth that people that even when governments get in and start messing with things, sometimes it isn't always obvious. Sometimes sometimes the impact and the cost and the pain can be spread out so much that it's sometimes imperceptible. But when they have complete control and they've been mismanaging things for a long
time, and I'll throw the entire political ruling class into this. It's not conservatives, but there are Republicans, and there certainly are Democrats, but they have mismanaged this country, and I'm telling you, in every conceivable way for a long long time, and you begin to experience it those things when it is so mismanaged, when decisions are so terrible, and they have the ability to have a massive impact, Like you look at the border policies, for
example, the things that we have done well, not we the Biden administration, the actions they have taken have been so contrary to reason, enforcing borders security and just just logical, a logical way of dealing with the problem of
border surgeons and so forth. Those policies have impacted all of us in a massive way, so much so in fact, Governor Hokel, which we might get to that here in the latter half of the program, but Governor Hokel from New York, she's out there saying, hey, we've been basically overwhelmed,
we've been inundated with illegal aliens. Of course, she wants to blame Republicans, she wants to blame someone besides Biden, which honestly Biden in this case of the border, and we're talking about the economy, we're also referencing the border, lack of border security, lack of just autonomy of the border, sovereignty along the border, talking about these things that he's mismanaged. They
have impacted us, and we know notice it. Our cities are now saying we're gonna have to cut other services, We're gonna have to do something because the impact of an open border is hitting us in the pocketbook. We have problems that have arisen from the open from people coming here that aren't supposed to be here. And so when these things start to happen, it's no longer some academic issue. It's no longer you know, the economy is not just
some sort of an idea. It's actually coming up in your paycheck, the way that you balance expenses and income, the way that you know how hard it is to get a job, a good job, how hard it is to grow a business, whatever it is. You feel these things, and you've experienced these things for so long, and then you can compare and contrast to what it was like prior to these jokers and clowns coming in and making
it worse. Now you look, you look and compare and contrast, and you say, uh, it's worse, much worse, demonstrably worse in every conceivable way. And now the media comes in. It's remarkable, really, the media comes in and says, hey, you know, you just you're not You're not smart enough to see, you're not sophisticated enough to see how brilliant these actions that have been taken by Joseph Biden really are the Democrat Party. You don't see just how much these policies have saved you, have helped
you. The economy strong. As they said in the clip that I played, it's damn strong, except for it's not and we we are experiencing it. Who in the world do they think they are to come in and tell us what our experiences. It's like Biden. Biden did the same thing when he was on that show with what Charlemagne the God whatever that's supposed to mean, and he told Charlemagne, you ain't black if you don't vote for me,
if you vote for Trump instead of me, you ain't black. So they're gonna tell you you don't have as bad a problems as you think you have. Economically, you're not being fair. You've been misled by who. That's the other thing, by who? Who has misled you? Because all these people in media are like singing the same chorus. They are all in Unison telling you the economy is great. Your experience tells you that it's not.
It's it's the way that they do it. And I, you know, for the life of me, I don't understand how this is effective on people. I don't know if people just don't trust their own abilities to process and think things out. I don't know if they feel pressure. I don't know if they feel like they're not that they're on the wrong side, if they're not on you know, the media is the side of the media narrative. I'm not sure all the time what makes people come to these conclusions.
But it is abundantly clear that if people look at their own circumstances and their own situations financially economically, the vast majority of people have felt negative impacts by the decisions made by Biden, created by Biden nomics, created by leftist economical or economic principles. I should say, ideas, it's all. It's broken. It's like building your house on sand. It is not a solid foundation, and we know it because we've experienced it. But if they're gonna tell
you, they're gonna tell you that you're wrong. So timeout is in order. Timeouts in order. Are gonna shift gears a little bit here as we move into the latter half of the program. Again, I want to remind you if you just tuned in, we're gonna be out next week, but we will be back the first week of March. So sit ti, my friends, be back here in just a minute, and welcome back, my friends. I told you we're gonna shift gears a little bit this segment.
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Here is a little bit from that article. New York Democratic Governor Kathy Hockel said on Tuesday that her state has been overwhelmed by the number of illegal aliens who have arrived in recent months and blamed the border crisis on congressional Republicans. Why not, of course. Hokel, who's v that favorability rating has dropped by eight points, made the remarks during an interview with leftist MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell. She says this, I still believe that there can be bipartisan
solutions. The institution is capable of it if you get the right people in there. And I'm going to work to make sure that we have the right people in there. And also even before next November's election, when I believe we will pick up the House. The Republicans in the state of New York, and there are a ton of and there are ten of them, they have the power to caucus together, march down to Speaker Mike Johnson's office and say we demand that you do something about the border. Bring it to the
floor, and we will support it. So again, what's the problem here, she says, it's the Republicans. It's the Republicans. Republicans just in the New York members of the Congress, the Federal Congress, the US Congress in New York, she says, need to band together and say, look, let's fix this problem. We know we have been through this a lot. The border is a mess because of Biden's decisions, his executive actions, his policies along the border. Again, this is not hard to figure out.
It was much worse. I should say, it was much better under Trump. It's gotten much worse under Biden. When Biden took office, things were better than they are now, and he made changes day one. He made what is it, sixty four, sixty five changes, reversing policies that Trump put in place that actually improved border security. Biden then reversed many of those, reversed again sixty four to sixty five decisions that were made pertaining to
border security. Those decisions have made things much much worse. This is the worst that it has ever been. And now they want you to believe that it's the Republican's fault because the Republicans didn't go along with the so called border bill, right, the border security bill, which was what one sixth one sixth of those funds were actually four border security, five out of six of them. It might have been seven out of eight. Now that I stop
and think about it, I think it was seven out of eight. Seven out of every eight dollars was not for border security. But yet they want you to believe that the bill was about border security. They want you to believe that Republicans abdicated their responsibility to secure the border. I am not here to say that there's nothing Republicans can do to secure the You know that Congress I should say, should do to secure well, to make improvements as it
pertains to illegal immigration. I am here to say that the immediate problem of border security, of actually securing the border and stopping the madness right now, which is the most important thing. That is one hundred percent under the purview of President Joseph Biden one hundred percent. That is what needs to happen. That has not happened, and that's why we find ourselves in this problem.
And that, by the way, is why they also are suggesting Biden might enact an executive order prior to the State of the Union address here in a couple of weeks. Actually, when I the week I get back, that's when Biden. So we've got what two weeks I guess it is March seventh, March seventh. The State of the Union address is now in March. I don't remember it ever being and Mario it was always in January. It keeps getting pushed out. They think that this State of the Union address is
going to save Biden's campaign. We're all going to see how on top of it he is. We're going to see how profound and brilliant he is, and then we're going to see that he suddenly realizes that he has the power to take executive action, and who knows what he's going to do with that actual action. But by taking the action, he's demonstrating what we all have known all along, was that he could take action to fix this problem,
begin the process of actually securing the border immediately. This has overwhelmed cities, not just in New York, It's overwhelmed them all over the place. And a lot of this is deserved because these cities and states have made themselves sanctuary cities and sanctuary states a form of virtue signaling until the bills start coming due. Suddenly they realize we don't have enough money. It's the Republican's fault. Just totally remarkable if you stop and think about it. But I've got to
get a break, my friends. Sit sight back here in just a minute, and welcome back, my friends. So so so so the we're talking about New York. We're talking about the problems there. Of course, we've hit on the fact that Kathy Hockel, Governor hokel is blaming Republicans for the mess there. Of Course, New York is also the state city that just find Trump whatever it was getting close to a half billion dollars right, and
there was a three hundred and fifty five million dollars. And then there's fifteen million dollars in interest or some such thing. So a couple things about that number one. Number one. I don't know if you know Grant cardone. He's a you might have seen him on social media. He's become a pretty
well known social media figure, business and so forth. He's actually come out and said that he's going to immediately discontinue real estate investments in New York City due to the Trump verdict, which, again, folks, it's unbelievable what has happened in this particular case, Trump being found guilty. There was no one that was harmed, no one that was harmed by this. And it's not just See when I say that, it makes it sound like, well,
I'm excusing illegal behavior. But the thing is Trump, folks, the value of real estate is subjective. It can change rapidly. The value of real estate is determined by what a buyer and a seller agree. It's just like anything. What we agree is a price that we can engage in commerce. So when Trump says that my properties are worth X, the bank that he was getting alan with actually sent people out and didn't announ aalysis themselves.
So this whole, the whole notion falls apart just at that point alone. So the bank send somebody out, they analyze the value, determine what they're going to loan him against that particular property or series of properties. They come to an agreement, He pays the money back with the interest. Nobody was harmed. The banks admitted to this in trial. They admitted to this during the trial. We would loan the Trump again. He did not do anything wrong. We agreed on the value. We had our own folks to go
out in the praise. But yet he's still going to be fined, which, by the way, we talked about yesterday maybe well definitely an Eighth Amendment worthy challenge for an excessive fine. Three hundred and fifty five million dollars. It's incredible. And so now people are saying, I don't want to be a part of that anymore. I'm not going to do real estate deal in New York City. This is what happens. This is what happens. Plus, a new poll shows that seventy percent of New Yorker say Biden is now
unfit for office. It's bad news at every turn for the left. Out of time here, my friends, sits eight back in just a minute, all right, my friends, I know perhaps the saddest that you're going to be in a long long time here. This is the last few minutes of well hearing from me until the week after next. We will be gone again. We've got guest hosts filling in next week. You're in good hands, and we'll be back that first first full week of March. I'll either be
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