Attention. You're listening to the Todd Huff Radio show, America's home for conservative not Bitter talk radio. Be advised. The content of this program has been documented to prevents and even cure liberalism, and listening may cause you to lean to the right. Here's your conservative but not Bitter host, Todd Huff. All right, my friends, I hope you had a wonderful Independence Day and
Independence Day weekend. You know, I didn't. Normally we talk and I'm gonna start the program today by kind of talking about what we normally talk about around Independence Day in particular. But when we got off the air on Friday, I gotta be honest, I wasn't. I've got he knows down, head down, marching straight ahead as we move into all sorts of things which I'm dying to tell you about. I didn't. It didn't even occur to me that we would not be back until today, as we took off yesterday.
Excuse me, well, obviously yesterday and Monday. So I said we'd see it Monday, and I we didn't because I didn't at the time realize that we were off on Monday because of the holiday falling on Tuesday. Anyway, it's good to be back, and I want to start today. I want to start today by talking about some of the things that we normally talk about on Independence Day. Independence Day here in one of the greatest nations, if not the absolute greatest nation on well, in the history of the earth,
history of the world. We have the privilege of living in that place. And normally we talk about these things on you know, the day before
Independence Day or a couple of the last broadcast day before Independence Day. Likewise, we also we also talk about Thanksgiving in the days preceding to Thanksgiving, we talk about it obviously Christmas, near the end of the year, we'll probably start, you know, wrapping up and looking in the rear view mirror, so to speak, and also looking ahead at where we're headed, and those sorts of things as a nation, as a program, as a community.
And you know, Easter we do some good Friday, we do some talking about the importance of that day, which I maintain is the most important day in the history of the world. But I want to talk about Independence Day today, and I'm I know I'm doing this on the other side of the fourth which the fourth of course was was yesterday, and there's some things in the news that I want to I guess intersect my thoughts with and just
us. In fact, there's this w NBA player, which I know, Oh goodness, I the boldness of people that are own we'll get into this, that they only have a platform in this country because of well, because of capitalism and because of the I don't know the power I guess you could say of of a business to be able to support a business that doesn't I don't even think makes money yet does it. I don't think it does. The w NBA. But there's an NBA player that called America trash. Gosh,
trash in so many ways, is what she said. And I'm look, I'm not here to say America is perfect, but I am here to say that the founding principles as laid by our founding fathers are good. In fact, they're very good. In fact, we should thank God Almighty that we have the privilege of living in this country today. You know, as I think back, you know where sometimes you've been asked, I've been asked questions from time to time asking what is the if you could go back in
time, what era would you like to go to? And I'm entertaining the ideas of different eras and times and all this sort of thing, and it's it's an interesting conversation to say the least. But I'm gonna be honest with you. While I would like to go back and have an idea and be in the room with the founding fathers as they were putting together this constitution, the Declaration of Independence and all of that. I mean, my friends,
I'm modern life is pretty good. Modern life is pretty good, and we see the world through the lens of having for those of us that have been I know, we're talking to people all over the world, and some folks who have integrated to this country from other places, so your perspective is much much different than then mine might be in this from the perspective of what you have personally witnessed and experienced. But I'm talking to people who obviously the vast
majority are people who have been born and raised in this country. This is what we know. We might have traveled to different parts of the world, we might have studied different cultures and governments, we might have been aware of things that have happened throughout the history of the world, and well we should be. But to experience them in real time. To experience them in real time without knowing how the story ends is something altogether different, you know.
I also I talk about this from time to time, and those that don't believe indulge me for a moment. Those who do, I think can relate to this to your faith as well as we read stories I'm in the Old Testament, the stories of Abraham, the stories of Isaac and Jacob and Moses and Noah and all these stories that we read about individuals who didn't know, they did not know how the story would end, and it's a different perspective. We have the perspective of seeing who won the fight in the case of
the American Revolution. If it's biblical, we can look back on the life of Moses and say, Moses, why didn't you just listen? It's the big deal, man, get it together. But we have the benefit of having seen how the story ended. The same with Abraham, the same with any I mean, any story you can even take. You can even take fiction stories to a degree, it's obviously much different when it's a real thing. And I'm I'm not comparing the stories of Moses and Abraham and the founding
fathers to fiction. But what I am saying is just being fair to the character when they're experiencing it at the moment, it's a much different situation. And so when I'm asked what era would you like to go to? Of course I would like to see the founders. Of course I would like to talk with Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson and meet George Washington. I would like
to watch some of those historical events. I would not like, as I dare to think none of us would like to have to be the ones who didn't just pen to paper that pledge that we all need to make today, to mutually pledge to win another our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor in defense of true human rights, true liberty for all people. It would have been quite another thing to experience. It would have been quite another
thing to be on the battlefield. It would have been quite another thing, even to be Paul Revere in the Midnight Ride, whatever the case may be. It would have been a different experience altogether. Had we had to walk in the shoes of the individuals who did not know, they did not know how the story ended. And so when we look back on these folks,
imperfect though they absolutely are. While simultaneously accepting that truth, we should also be able to accept the reality that what they came up with, what they developed, what they created as the foundational bedrock of the United States of America is absolutely a thing of beauty. Now, as I've said countless times before, and I'm gonna say again, I'm not going to belabor this. This goes without saying, they did not. I just said this recently, remember
saying it on this program. They the Founders did not live up to the ideals that they wrote in the Declaration, even in the Constitution, in the early stages of this history. In fact, I remember now as I'm saying those words, I said this. If you want to go back and look at the episode when we talked, it was late last week. I think
the episode where we talked about affirmative action. We talked specifically about how the Founders did not live up to the values and standards that they wrote about as it pertained to slavery, as it pertained to civil rights, as it pertained to race, in the history of this nation. This nation is not perfect, but to pretend that it is not a shining city on a hill is
absolutely ludicrous. May I remind you, May I remind you of the Soviet Union and a guy named Joseph Stalin who killed more than what twenty some million of his own people. May I remind you of another communist lunatic dictator thug named Mao se Dong. May I point out that Mao killed. I think I've seen estimates of sixty million people that Mao killed of his own people in
communist China, Pulpot, Fidel Castro, Adolf Hitler. I mean, the list goes on and on, and the number of people in particular in the twentieth century, which if we've got a Bernie Sanders fan in here who doesn't have a very good history with numbers, which is why they're a so called democratic socialist, you'll need to just be reminded that the twentieth century includes the
years that begin with nineteen. So nineteen, I'm just playing, by the way, take it easy, I walk him into the program, nineteen whatever. If you look at the nineteen hundreds and you look at the people, the brutal dictators that existed on planet Earth, that existed in I mean within the lifetime of some of the people who are still here with us today.
Now, granted those individuals are getting older as we all are getting older, but we're not going to have those people who have who experience World War Two, even if they were little, they can remember some of the stories and so forth of Adolf Hitler or the Battle of the Bulge or Normandy or the bombing of Pearl Harbor or what have you. Right, this is that's been, that's been a long time ago. Bombing of Pearl Harbor was what eighty
almost eighty two years ago? Is that right? Nineteen forty one to twenty twenty three, that's sixty yeah, plus twenty two six eighty two years so almost it'll be that this December. But the point is we have something special, and I don't know now, I know many of you in this audience recognize and respect that oftentimes, like me, from a just from an a viewpoint, a perspective of not having lived under, thank goodness, these brutal
regimes, but having studied them, having read about them, having understood what life in this nation could be had this nation taken the typical path. The typical path was when a group of people defeated or broke free from a government. They would then establish themselves as the ruling class of a nation. And our founders did not do that. And I just that needs to be recognized,
that needs to be acknowledged. And I know you do, but collectively in this country because for some wmb NBA player here, Natasha Cloud, I have no idea who she is. Take that for what it's worth. She said that our country is trashed in so many ways. I just you tell me you have no perspective of history, Tell me you have no understand ending of governments around the world how brutal life has been for many For the vast majority of people on planet Earth, the vast majority of people on planet Earth
that have lived have experienced either and sometimes it's all of the above. Sometimes it's many of the above. Sometimes it's one of the above. But they have experienced things like tyranny, they have experienced oppression, they have experienced extreme poverty and disease, and just wickedness. Wickedness has unfortunately been a part of
the history of this world. Now, obviously there have been people, there have been people who have been beacons of light and hope, and dare I point out that many, many, many in fact, I would even say the vast majority have been people who have committed their lives to the God of the Bible, not saying that there haven't been people that have accomplished good things outside of that, But my goodness, my friends, the number of the
number of people who profess Christ who have done wonderfully good things on this planet,
it's a major major portion of those. But the point is, there has been a lot of the bad and in this country, in this country, while it is not perfect, while there have been and still are racists, while there have been and still are people who are trying to find ways to take away your liberty, to take away your choice, to put the boot of government or whatever upon your throat so that you cannot do what you want to do instead doing what you excuse me, what they want you to
do. That is a reality of life on planet Earth. And our founders were brilliant insofar as they said, we are not subjects to any sort of crown, any sort of king, monarch, dictator. We are a free citizenry. We are granted rights by our creator, gasp. Our creator is the one that gave us rights, not the US Constitution, not any other dictator, around the world, not doctor Fauci during COVID, not Joseph Biden when he's in the White House, or Donald Trump or Ronald Reagan or anybody
for that matter. Our rights come first and foremost from Almighty God. This government says, we are going to recognize that it is our job. The
government says to I'll have to read the preamble of the Constitution. It lays out some of the things, some of the things that they seek that they seek to do, and effectively, what they try to do is create an environment where liberty is protected, where the rule of law stands, where people are free to choose whatever they want to do with their lives, whatever dreams, ambitions, name it, you, name it whatever, and pursue those
commit their individual lives to whatever venture or lifestyle or belief or what have you, that we want. And some of the consequences, I guess you could say the consequences cares a negative connotation. I just mean some of the I guess you take this along with it. You also have the freedom to do things like speak and the freedom to disagree. And some people think, oh
my goodness, this is where it starts to get sticky. No, this is where it's This is where freedom must be must be managed and maintained, and where we must be allowed to to be ourselves and to say what we want and to express ourselves, and to let these things be determined in the marketplace of ideas, not by some bureaucrat in Washington, DC, or in Indianapolis, Indiana, or Sacramento, California, Austin, Texas, some other
state capital. These are decisions that are reserved to the people. And this is something that so many people that have lived throughout the history of the world never had anything close to this. They were so worried about getting through the day or the week, the hour, trying to prevent themselves from getting under the thumb of brutal dictators, or dealing with their extreme poverty, or dealing with health crises, or you name it. War. We have been largely
insulated from these things. And to call your country trash is this w NBA player Natasha Cloud did is beyond my wildest understanding. Tell me you don't understand a thing about history, Tell me you don't understand what is great about this country without directly telling me you don't understand. And that's what this NBA player at Natasha Cloud did on Twitter sometime over the weekend. We're gonna get to
that in the next break, but I'm long here in this segment. We knew it would happen first day back from the not just the weekend, but the extended weekend with the Independence Day holiday. So forgive me. We'll get back on track as the program unfolds, my friends, but sit tight in the meantime, you're listening to conservative not better talk. It's good to be back. I'm your host, Tod huff back in a minute, come back
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America trash. Now she tweets out it looks like she started tweeting out on I guess it would have been Friday. Is that the thirtieth I think that's right. The first tweet is a doozy. Let me just read it to you in its entirety so you can just chew on its profundity and brilliance. Here it is our country is trash in so many ways. Instead of using our resource ursus to make it better, we continue to oppress marginalized groups capital
m that we have targeted since the beginning of times times plural. I don't know what that means, but nonetheless, she continues, new paragraph, black slash brown communities. Black is capitalized, brown is not. I'm gonna suppose that's because the black is the first letter of the first word of the sentence. But according to the what is it? The writing pros tell us, now we're supposed to capital you know this, You're supposed to capitalize black when
referring to race, but not white. If you capitalize white, that's a sign of white supremacy. And we just be consistent. My goodness, I don't capitalize any white black. We're just it's just it's not the main it's not the main way that we should seek to define ourselves anyway. She continues, black brown communities and lgbtwo Q plus. Man, what does that mean? Man? I don't know. I don't know what that means. I'm gonna skip that part and assume that's a typo or I don't know what that
means. But she says we are too powerful to still be attacking issues, separate, despite the despite some of the obvious problems grammatically, and just try to following the try to follow the flow there. I mean, she's she's calling our country trash, the United States America, which I talked about in the previous segment. Just the beauty of what we have been given, the beauty of what we have inherited, my friends, the beauty. Now, I know, I know that some of you listening to my voice, you
are you are military veterans. You have served in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard, maybe even Space Force. It's a newer branch, but nonetheless, you might have served in any of those. A couple of you might have served in multiple of those branches. So you did actually defend and protect this country. But a lot of us, a lot of us did simply were born here and we're raised in this great nation.
So we didn't do anything to earn it. But you darned well better believe we all better accept this, that we better do something about it. If our children are going to inherit this, if our grandchildren are going to inherit this. This is why Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan said that freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction because we do not pass it down to our children and to our children's children through the bloodstream. We have to
pass along the concepts, the ideas, the principles, the whys. Those things have to be passed down to the next generation. And when you call our country trash, as Natasha Cloud did some w NBA player, I don't even I don't know if she's good, I don't know anything about her. I don't care other than to say this has permeated parts of parts of our
culture, parts of our huge part of our education system at large. You go to any college campus, you walk into a political science class or I don't know, some something in the liberal arts and sciences, and you will find a professor, a professor almost certainly talking about these things, just as Natasha Cloud has here. So she says, it's trash. She goes on, apparently she got some she got some responses, so she says, hey, also, I need y'all to come up with something better than move to
Russia or China. You all basically that's been played out. It's tired. She's tired of hearing that she should move to China or to live with Putin. She then says, I'm so blessed to travel the world from my career.
These are all tweets. By the way, I've been in plenty of countries that I would have my human rights, healthcare, free assisted schooling, don't have to fear mass shootings or white supremacists, don't have to be concerned about the highest maternal mortality rates, less police murders, no mass incarceration based on race. Is she running for office? Adequate minimum wage? Is she gonna be on the debate stage with Biden rights to my body as a woman,
I mean, I can keep going, says the woman. This is what blows in my mind, says a woman. Now, I do not misunderstand me. This is not meant to imply she may have other, you know, talent, She may be able to apply herself and be successful in
the myriad of careers and so forth. So I'm not saying that. But what I'm saying is she has a platform here because of the w NBA, which is made possible because of the United States of America, because of this system, because of the prosperity that we have here, not only that the w NBA. I'm gonna have to check this. I have to take a break here, but I'm gonna check this out during the break. I know that the w NBA has traditionally severed tons or i should say hemorrhaged tons of
money, and that the NBA subsidizes it. The NBA subsidizes the WNBA, and the players often complain that they're not paid as much as their male counterparts, and of course the male counterparts, not having any idea how to handle this, trying to stay on the correct side of this issue from a just a guess, a political correctness position. They will sit there and scratch their heads and blame people. I don't know why they're not getting paid more.
Give me a break. The reason they're not paid as much is because no one goes to watch the games. I mean this, Why can't we say this? I shouldn't say no one, not nearly the same number of people go to a w NBA game that go to an NBA game. I mean, since when when did we stop having the I don't know, the courage or the desire to say true things. I mean, that is the truth. That is why there's not debates on TV about the fifty or one hundred
greatest w NBA players of all time. You get that debate all the time if you follow sports. Is that Lebron is at? Michael Jordan? Is it? Kobe is at Kareem? Is it? Well? Does it? Bill Russell? Is it? Where's Larry Bird? Where's Magic Johnson on the list? Who do you have in your top ten? This is a common common thing. Where's Oscar Robertson on the list? All these things? Right? We don't have that for the w NBA because candidly, you can think
about you could come up with your own reasons as to why. But it's just not a priority for Americans to follow it like they do the NBA, the NFL, Major League Baseball, the NHL, NASCAR, IndyCar And she has this platform because of the United States of America. She just I mean, there's just no doubt about it, that's been subsidized by the people, at least by some of the people that she's demonizing and calling trash. And she doesn't even I don't think have the slightest, slightest idea or care.
I know she doesn't have the slightest care about that because she's heard these talking points, she regurgitates them, she spits them out on a tweet she calls our country track, which, by the way, any leftist Democrat in office, I'm not talking about rank and file, but any Democrat in office who is consistent, who is consistent in their attacks on this country, what it stands for the people who live here, they should say the same thing,
because that's what they're saying each and every day. If you follow the Democrat line of logic from the politicians, there's no reason why, there's no reason why anybody would want to migrate or immigrate to this country because it's the worst place on earth. If you listen to people like aoc describe it. If you listen to people like Chuck Schumer describe it, Corey Bush describe it. Biden's wine house just cringe. John Pierre, I would say Biden, but
I don't even know Biden knows what he's saying half the time. By the way, did you see there was cocaine found in the wine house over the weekend? Yes? Hunter was there. I mean, I don't know. I don't know what to say. I don't but that's the first question. I pause because I'm sure the vast majority of you, if you didn't know that already, that was your first question. Did Hunter Biden? Was he there? Yes, he was, He was there. I'm not saying he's
the one that had it, but I'm saying it was there. They found it. It's been determined to be cocaine. Anyway. Dumpster fire is what this place is, and people like this w NBA player Natasha Cloud want to destroy or attack this country when the exact opposite should be happening. We should be praising this country is founded and attacking not in a personal sense, but attacking what this administration, what our politicians, what the political elites, what
the globalists, what these corrupt wope corporations are doing to this country. This country has been able to endure all of this so far, maybe not much more, been able to endure because of the strong foundations upon which she was built. Quick time out, my friends, still long in this segment, you're listening to conservative, not better talk. I'm your host. Thought off back in a minute. If you were asked, if you were asked in a poll, if you are extremely proud to be an American, what would
you answer? How would you answer that? See, I know how I would answer that. You know what? This reminds me? This reminds me of a high school football story. Bear with me for a moment. Senior year high school football, the Monrovia Bulldogs, which is where I played, played the Tri West Bruins. I think, yeah, Oz is indicating they are the Bruins. And we went to Try West's field to their they had the home field that day, and we got our rear ends kicked and at
halftime I remember, I mean they handed it to us. They were good. By the way we were. We were trying to turn a program around had a pretty good season, but I think try West went to the They went very far, and they might have gone to the state that year. They were a slightly smaller school, one class down anyway, So we were playing the game. Halftime comes around, we were getting our rear ends just hammered, and our coach comes in. Our coach was was old school in
a lot of ways. I liked him old school and he picked out one of the seniors. Was not me, He said to one of the fellow senior classmates of mine. I was a senior that year, And he says, are you proud to be a bulldog right now? And this particular player said no, and my coach lost it. He lost it in ways I don't think you could lose anymore without facing some so and he didn't do anything. You just know, today's world is so different. But he lost it.
He was over his and again I understand he meant it in the sense of, you know, not just are you. Can you hold your head high right? And when my teammate said no, he lost it because he said, under no circumstances should you let what happens out there on the field impact that now you might not have performed, well, you might need a foot up the rear end when we get back to practice on Monday or Tuesday.
By the way he did that, we called it black black Monday or black Tuesday because it was just um a heavy day in the Monrovia football world. He was basically trying to make people quit. It was. It was rough, the roughest practice I think I've ever been to, and that's including college. But anyway, the point is is that I to me, I am a proud American no matter who is in in office, I am I am proud of this country. Not in some egotistical sense, but I am
very, very pleased and agree with this nation as founded. Now we have jokers and clowns running the show, but it's not the jokers and clowns that I ever am proud of. That's not where that sense of and that's not the best word to use, but you know what I mean, that sense of dignity or or of just being pleased with the country that you live in. I don't place it in the individuals. I place it in the ideas and so to me, and I see here that sixty percent of Americans still
claim to be very patriotic. After nine to eleven, I think the numbers were eighty six percent. Eighty six percent said that they were extremely patriotic. But now it's it's sixty percent, and it's almost like, I don't know, it's it's almost like we're proud and please when our guys in the White House. And I understand that there's real problems with the other side's ideology.
I understand that there are real threats to liberty, but that isn't that doesn't make me lose that sense of pleasure or happiness or pride, if you'll use that word in my country because someone else is in charge. This country is great because it's built upon truth. It's built upon truth, truth about liberty for all people. And I've said what I need to say about that in the earlier earlier segments and in the show last week when we talked about the
ways the Founders did not live up to that. But the ideas that they that they wrote about are absolutely positively light to this world. The amount of people that have been raised up out of poverty, given opportunities of all backgrounds, my friends, of all races, religions, genders, whatever, people that have been given an opportunity. This is the place, this country is the place where that is the sky's the limit. And there's been studies.
Remember I remember when I used to listen. I don't listen so much anymore for because I just don't have time. But I used to listen to to Dave Rams and he used to say that ninety percent of millionaires, our first generation millionaires, they didn't inherit their wealth. They went out and they did something. I defy you to find a type of society where there's that much upward mobility. And I don't like to use that phrase because I don't like
to look at people as part of classes. But just for the sake of explaining the principle, there's no other place that allows upward mobility. And by the way, downward mobility. Just because you do have wealth doesn't mean you'll always have wealth in this country. If you're in a socialist dictatorship, a communist regime, you're going to be wealthy and your people are going to be miserable and they have no way out. That's not the case here. Yes
there's bad people. Yes there are bad people who call themselves Republicans, Democrats, independence, Christians, Atheist, Buddhist, Muslims, you name it. There's some people that are doing horrific things. But that does not mean that what we have here in this country is not special. And that does not mean that we should not be pleased with the principles upon which this nation is built, no matter who is in the White House, no matter who is
controlling Congress, no matter who is issuing decisions from the Supreme Court. Though those things matter tremendously, and at some point, if they fundamentally change this nation, I suppose the answer needs to be adjusted as appropriate. But so far, so far, while they have certainly heaped assault upon assault on this great nation, these people who are lovers of big government and haters of liberty, we still have something special here, my friends. It's at risk.
It is under extreme assault, but it's something that we can still and should be very pleased and proud of. But we gotta do something to defend it, my friends, and pass it on to the next generation. Timeouts in order to type my friends back in a minute. Friends, So not a lot of time left here today, But there's a couple other things I do want to hit on. Did you see in the in the fallout I guess
of the Supreme Court decision regarding affirmative action in college admissions. There is a group of people online who are basically saying, well, I'm basically saying there are saying let's not, let's not do business with Trump supporters. So their
response, let this sink in for a minute. Again, they have no idea what is going on here, but their response to the Supreme Court ruling that showing favor to someone because of their race and admissions to college violates the equal protection clause of the US Constitution, their response to that is to discriminate against Trump supporters. I mean, it is apps absolutely astonishing the way that these people that these people think it doesn't do what they think it does.
There the confusion, the amount of the amount of just complete, I don't know, just a mess we got on our hands here, my friends. But anyway, I just wanted to share that with your timeout is in order, my friends, sit tight back in a minute. Welcome back, my friends. So off the time clock here did not stay in line with my
new year's resolution. Here we are, so I do want to kind of again pick up a little bit of what I mentioned last last segment, briefly, this this notion that says, if someone does not agree with me in totality and I should not, I should not deal with them, I should not have any interactions with them. That's where we are when it comes to many people in this country today, and someone will say, well, but time, that's what the Supreme Court case was about. No, it's not.
It's not you to say to someone I want you to use your professional talents to support something that you disagree with biblically, fundamentally, whatever, ideologically, and you have to do it. That's what had to be done here. With this website designer in the Supreme Court case which came out Friday, I think as well, we didn't talk much about that one, but just this idea that says, if you're a web designer, you better be willing
to do the same sex wedding website or else. Supreme Supreme Court said, no, they were right. These lunatics are wrong. I've got to go stg my friends,