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been in office, but it's been about three and a half. We've somehow stumbled and stammered our way to this point in time. We've survived. We see the election on the horizon. We're talking about debates. In fact, we've got a debate here scheduled in about six weeks, is that right? Six weeks I think the end of June. So, but since Biden has been in office, the cumulative inflation rate, because anytime you hear the inflation
rate, it's for a twelve month period. It's so when April's inflation rate came out and it was three point four percent, we just talked about this. It comes out about two weeks after the end of the of the month that they're tabulating and calculating the inflation rate for it's normally well, under Biden, it's been as high as what's the highest been. This has been nine percent or something, I think, and then it's now three point four.
In March it was three point five percent, but that's for the previous twelve months, that's for the year. The previous twelve months ending on April thirtieth. That's what the last inflation numbers were, so May one, twenty twenty three through April thirty, two thousand and twenty four. But if you take all of that, all of that cumulative increase from the time Biden took office,
inflation has hit twenty percent. Twenty percent. Now that's not the again the year over year inflation, right, I want to be clear, is the cumulative effect of what living under Bidenomics is. And I want to talk about that. I want to talk about You won't believe if you haven't seen this what Governor Newsom has blamed his state budget shortfall on. I mean, you could conjure a guess and you might be close, you may even hit
it. But I've got that in the stack of stuff. Biden, by the way, is falsely claiming when he took office, and I'll get to this as well, that inflation was already at nine percent. That's not correct, factually incorrect. Some other things out there as well. Peru, by the way, is classified transgender, non binary and intersects people as mentally ill. So we'll get to these things and more in the stack of stuff, and I've got a story. I don't know if I'll do that in this
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Trump supporter in Georgia. He is approached by MSNBC sitting here kind of as a panelist, if you will, being asked they have Trump supporters. I thought she said there were five, but I guess there might have only been three. But regardless, she this journt well, the so called journalist on MSNBC, is asking them questions, and she asks them a question about the impact that the hush money trial has had on their support for President Donald Trump.
And this, this is this is fantastic. This is absolutely fantastic. I think she's she the reporter here. I believe she is on with Chuck Todd. I don't see Chuck Todd on the clip, but I think I hear his voice. I think he's got a program at at MSNBC. This correspondent, this quote unquote journalist. Her name is Blaine, Alexander Blaine Alexander. So she's she goes to Georgia. She gets some Trump supporters together in a room and she begins to ask them, what do you think about Trump?
Especially after these legal cases and all of that. I want you to hear this exchange, because this, my friends, is the sort of thing that gets me going in the morning. Love. I absolutely love this, this sort of thing, This sort of thing is just perfect. This guy, if I knew his address, his name is Antonio what Antonio Jones. If I knew his address, I probably would send him a In fact, they got a todd Have Show's shirt on. I'd send him a shirt or
something. This guy, this guy needs to be rewarded for what he says here, because this journalist's mind has to be about to explode on MSNBC. Listen to this exchange. This is absolutely fantastic. Well, guys, good morning to you. You know, this is one of the most closely watched
counties here in the key battleground state of Georgia. So it seemed like the perfect place to come out and talk to Republican voters and see all of the coverage all of the things that we're talking about with this New York hush money trial? How is it impacting them down here? So I spoke with about five different Republicans and they represent a very wide cross section, a very diverse group of Republican voters here in this county, and I ask them, how
are they being impacted by this trial? Are they paying close attention? And what impact might a guilty verdict have on their decision to support the former president. Here's what they told me, Las this is fantastic. Antonia, do each of you support Donald Trump? I do, yes, yes, yes, for all three of you. Has this trial changed your opinion even caused you to waiver or question that at all? Antonia here is actually caused me
to support him more. I just don't believe that's a coincidence that we have a trial happening in Atlanta we have one happening in York. So the question people are beginning to ask themselves, like I did, is like why now it's pretty much your right says they're picking up. Okay, so now there's another that was Antonio. He tells the journalist, No, no, actually it hasn't. In fact, if I'm getting down to brass tacks, it's
actually caused me to support him. Even more, they they, I mean, this makes the left's minds, well what's left of their of their minds explode. So Antonio, well done, my friend. In fact, if someone knows Antonio uh and can connect us, I'm going to send him something. But anyway, this is I mean fantastic stuff, absolutely fantastic, fantastic
stuff. It is to me when I watched the implosion of this worldview, this ideology that has been cramm down our throats, this godless worldview, morally bankrupt worldview that is perpetrated by the radical left they have hijacked and taken over today's Democrat Party, when I see this completely collapse, because it is an ideology, a worldview that is built upon the sinking sand. There is nothing here, in fact, in the stack of stuff. You all remember that
executive at NPR, that leftist running NPR. I found something, I think on bon Gino. This is about a month old, but she's given a Ted talk or something very similar to that, and she's basically lecturing the audience about the subjectivity of truth, which is again one component, just one component of the absolutely morally bankrupt and just logically unsound component of the left's radical worldview, and it's collapsing upon itself. It's collapsing upon itself, and it is
a beautiful thing to behold. Now what do I mean by that? Do you remember back in two thousand and eight. I remember this for those of you that this is a long time ago for some people who are newer to politics. But two thousand and eight, that's been. G whiz, that has been. We're approaching twenty years sixteen years ago. That is just hard to believe. But Obama won that election, of course, and some publication I forget who it was. It might have been the New York Times,
it might have been the Washington Post. Somebody reached out to the late great Rush Limbaugh and they asked him to write something, to write what their hopes were for an Obama administration, and he said, I don't need that. They gave him a certain number of words. I don't know if it was eight hundred or thousand was and he said, I don't need that many. I need four. I need four words. I hope he fails. And people lost their minds over this. People lost why you had you racist?
Because you want the first black president to fail. No, everybody knew what the man meant. What he meant was the things that he is saying on the campaign trail, the person in the the the ideas that he embraces, the things that he wants to make America become. I hope he fails at that at that objective. That's what Rush was saying. Rush was not saying
he hopes America fails. In fact, from Russia's perspective, America was failing by choosing a man to implement an agenda that went against the founding principles of this nation. Rush viewed that as a threat. I view that as a threat. Many of you view that as a threat. And so when I say, when I say, it is a glorious thing to behold the collapse of a worldview that we have been told is the way that America should go.
When the seven pillars are propaganda, have all been communicating, messaging in unison, the pillars of media, academia, the pillars of big tech, of woke business, of science, entertainment. These folks continually pushed the narrative upon us that says, this is the direction America needs to go. And that's what we've been doing as a country. That's what we've been doing that. We haven't had conservatism running this nation for a long long time. A
long long time. People act as though George W. Bush was enacting conservative policies across the board. While there's certainly were some, I don't want to say that there weren't. Government has consistently been growing, Government has consistently been given more and more authority power. We've had less liberty, we have less money because again inflation, which is a direct impact. It is the sole responsibility of the federal government anyway. So it's a beautiful thing to behold.
It is fantastic to watch, not because I'm cheering against my country, because I want people to see the truth. By virtue of chasing this utopian nonsense, that is the path that's actually put us into danger. People have been lulled asleep, and I'm just happy that there are lots of people like Antonio
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took office. This is looking here at the Washington Examiner. Biden headline here looks to pivot on inflation, but it may be too late. Haston Willis wrote this, listen to this, President Joe Biden wants to talk about falling inflation now. It's from what it's amazing. This reminds me again, as most things tend to do, of the episode of the Office where Dwight is tasked by Michael Scott because Michael Scott does not want the wrath of the Office
upon him for choosing a lesser health plan than they currently have. So many things popping into my mind. Why this is why even back then, premiums have gone up, have gone up. It's why I talk with you about Eric Wilson of isl Health to help prevent you from getting stuck with some of these plans or this out of control premium increase anyway, But Dwight has been tasked with this because Michael doesn't want to select an inferior plan. He wants
a scapegoat. Dwight's the scapegoat, and so he picks a terrible plan. And Jim and Pam go and talk with him and say why why would you pick an inferior plan? And he says, I've got superior genes. I don't need it. I don't get sick. I can raise and lower my cholesterol at will. And this is the part that makes me think of Biden and inflation. I can raise and lower my cholesterol at will. And I believe Jim asks him, maybe Pam one of them asks why would you raise
your cholesterol? To which he responds, so that I can lower it? My friends, that's what we have. That's what we have with President Biden. He is applauding himself. He's applauding himself for lowering inflation. But the problem is he's only lowered it from what he's responsible and his policies are his policies and the mindset that government. Again, we talked about inflation extensively, extensively yesterday or one day this week, I can't remember. I think it
was yesterday anyway, but we talked about this extensively. Inflation is one hundred one h the responsibility or the consequence of our federal government doing two things, spending too much money and then creating money that putting too much money into the money supply to pay for the things that they have they've spent money on that they didn't have. That's what causes inflation. And there's a lot of people you could blame, but Biden is in that mix. Biden is Biden could
take decisive action. He could propose a budget that cut expenses. Of course they don't want to for several several reasons, but Biden could certainly do that. He won't. That's the only way, that's the only way that inflation is actually going to get in check is if we begin well, if we stop spent creating too much money, and we have to. One of the things that will take pressures off of us creating too much money is that we're
spending too much money. These are things that politicians do not want to do anything about. So cumulatively, here, let me read a quote in this article on Wednesday. This is from CEO of the Job Creators Network, Alfredo Ortiz. He said this on Wednesday, the country hit a sad milestone. Inflation under Biden hit twenty percent. Hit twenty percent. As a result, he says, ordinary Americans face a cost of living crisis and declining living standards
with price increases outpacing wages. No doubt whatsoever. So Biden has tried everything in the world. He's tried to He's trying to get credit and applause for lowering inflation, but lowering it only from the high numbers that he and his policies and the thinking of more and more government spending could that was the result. These are things that are leftists or big government centric. These are ideas and policies and behavior that create inflation. So at first they acted like it
was no big deal. At first, they acted like wages were going to surpass the impact of inflation. They've tried everything in the world. They've tried everything in the world. They wanted to be applauded for lowering it, but it's still massively higher from when Trump was in office, dramatically higher. It's a three point four percent right now, and they want credit for bringing it down from three point five, but it's still dramatically higher. Trump's was usually
in the was in the twos. I think some years some of the reports were one point something. So it's dramatically higher than Trump's. They want applause and praise for bringing it down one tenth of a percent, and they're still at it's still high. It's still high. There's still pressures that are inflationary
pressures that show us that this is not going to end anytime soon. So Biden's latest trick, and we'll have to talk about this more after this break here in the moment, But Biden's latest trick is to say, no, it was nine percent. Inflation was at nine percent when I came into office. This is demonstrably false. This is a absolute lie. And we're going to talk about this on the other side of the break. Got the article here, It's in the stack of stuff at toddhofshow dot com if you want
to see it. But I'm going to talk about it here after the break. You're listening to conservative not better talking. Am your Ho's Tod Huff back in just a minute, my friends. Yes, yes, yes, indeed Biden is now blaming Trump. That's right, Trump is responsible, Biden says for the high inflation numbers. In fact, he's out there repeating a lie, repeating a multiple times. It's not a gaff, it's not a slip
of the tongue. He didn't misspeak. This is deliberate and intentional. Biden is out there claiming that inflation was at nine percent when he took office. By the way, this originally posted at the Washington Post. Imagine that the Washington Post, this stuff's behind a paywall. So that's why in my stack of stuff you'll find the town Hall article that references that references this article in that references the original Washington Post article. So let's take a look at this
headline. Even the Washington Post is calling Biden out for his claims about nine percent inflation, written by Rebecca Downs. In recent weeks, President Biden has claimed repeatedly now that inflation wasn't nine percent when he took office in January twenty twenty one. Last week's comments came in an interview with CNN's Aaron Burnett, which touched upon inflation. Biden tried to push Americans into being more grateful about the economy, including through such a false claim. Okay, as he then
even bragged about the matter. The Washington Post's Glenn Keussler has more examples of such false claims about it inflation, though, including and especially about the nine percent figure. So basically, Biden has been saying this multiple times. The nine percent claim she writes here in this piece that Biden made to Burnett wasn't
the first and it wasn't the last. Time. On April tenth, while giving a press conference with the Japanese Prime Minister, the President claimed that, quote, we have dramatically reduced inflation from nine percent down to close to three percent, even bragging we're supposedly, quote in a situation where we're better situated than we were when we took office, where inflation was skyrocketing, and that
was and that we have a plan to deal with it. When Biden took office, are you ready for this, the inflation rate was oz You got a guess, no loss, one point four percent. One point four percent. Now this here says that go banking rates. Analysis of the inflation rates from the most recent presidents since Lyndon B. Johnson, who was a character. You talk about a perv, you talk about somebody that me tooed everybody in the building. This guy, my goodness, just a total just so
many not a good dude anyway, was in office. How former President Donald Trump had the second lowest rate of inflation, while Biden has had one of the highest. So basically, the data shows that inflation under Trump was the second lowest under any president since Lyndon Johnson, and Biden is among the highest. I mean, this is pretty cut and dry. So Biden's out there claiming inflation was at nine percent. When he took office, it was at
one point four percent. Now I'm going to give you a caveat here, I'm going to give you a caveat and say I'm not blaming Biden took office and the inflation rate was low. But some of what hit the caused inflation to skyrocket was how we responded to the COVID crisis, the COVID crisis, So Biden's not responsible for that. So sometimes sometimes things hit your administration when previous things had happened and we were spending money left and right, like money
just grew on trees. Money was water. That's how we were treating it during COVID, and so some of this was going to be cooked and no matter what. However, however, and this is where Biden and the left and the Democrat Party and the Rhino Republicans, this is where they have contributed to this even further. Instead of instead of cutting expenses, instead of raining and spending, they have continued acting as though they have a blank check from
the American people, that money is no big deal whatsoever. They can get as much of the as they want, spend it however they want, and they act as though it has no impact on the overall economy. It does,
and it's stealing from you, my friends. I've been through this with the inflation discussion we went through earlier earlier this week, which again, if you missed it and you want to listen to that it was, just go to the listen page on the website totefshow dot com slash listen, and you can hear the discussion a much more, you know, a lot more information about inflation, what it is, what causes it, sound bites from what a SoundBite from Milton Friedman, the great economist, who I'm telling you,
if you've got some if you haven't interest in this, even if you don't, even if you don't have an interest in economics and it just seems a little dull and boring, I'm telling you if you listen to go back and look at some of those YouTube videos of Milton Friedman. Search out some of those that he did with Phil Donahue on The Donahue Show. There's lots of examples of him standing on stage and giving speeches and answering questions that sort of
thing, or being in on television. He had some remarkable things to say, and he made it entertaining and understandable, did a great job. He's just a wonderful individual to learn from. That's something that's that's worth doing. But inflation was not at nine percent. Inflation was not at nine percent when Biden took office. That happened on Biden's watch. And so but that's the latest, the latest trend here, the latest way to deal with this. At first, it was not supposed to be a big deal. I mean,
this is how the left deals with all sorts of problems. They deny that there's a problem if it's something that can be pinned to them. If they have to acknowledge there is a problem, they minimize it. If they have to acknowledge that it's a bigger problem than than what they're saying it is, then they look for other excuses. They blame their political predecessors. They
want to mess with the numbers and reality in some other way. This is what it means, unfortunately, to be engaged in politics here in twenty twenty four, and so nobody wants to deal with the blame. I told my son, politics is the art. I think this is pretty accurate. Politics is the art of taking credit for anything happening in the country that is good, and trying to pin anything that is bad that's happening in the country on
your political opponents. That's it. It's all about positioning and posturing. It's all about messaging. It's all about narrative, all about creating this storyline that makes you the hero and the other side the villain. And look, I get that again sometimes something. We live in a world now where there are two diametrically opposed worldviews, and the story must be told. The story must be told regarding the dangers of one of those ideologies and the blessings that come
from adhering to the other. And a story is necessary. We have to be able to tell it. We have to be able to articulate, to give context and to give depth, and to explain these things and to teach those are a very very important thing. The fact I've references before, I
got storyteller Tactics sitting right here on my desk. It's a great little set that helps, that gives pointers on how to how to tell the story, and not in the way that that professor I had told me to make stuff up, but just the art of using story and narrative to explain things, to make it clearer, so that people have a better grasp of it and they understand truth and reality. And we've got to get better at that. We've got to get better at that, especially when you factor in the reality
that the ideology of the left is rooted in emotion. So they don't need to tell lots of stories. They just need to say, Ooh, I don't like that government, fix it, right, But there's context. When you're a limited government conservative, you have to be able to explain why that shouldn't be the case, why government just shouldn't come in and try to fix
everything, Why that's a threat to your liberty. Anyway, talking here about the economy reminds me to tell you a little bit about our friends at Harvard Gold Group. My friends Harvard Gold Group. They can help you. They can help you add gold to your investment portfolio, and in an economic climate like this, and that might be a really wise move. It's at least
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dot com slash Todd. By the way, use my name Todd should you decide to make a purchase, and you will get a two hundred and fifty dollars credit. I'm gonna take a break, my friends. Sit tight back here in just a minute. Welcome back, my friends. So you've got a mess here that is almost exclusively well, it's caused by the lovers of big government. It's caused by it's caused by Rhino Republicans. It's caused by the left, definitely, the left, the Democrat Party, the Biden administration.
These things are not caused by President Donald Jay Trump. That's not the case. Well, I mean COVID response factored into this, but nothing has been done. Nothing has been done to fix the COVID res. Well had been done to address the massive spending that we had done during COVID. We continue to live life as though everything's peachy over here in the United States. So anyway, Biden is bearing the political consequences of that. So I want
to share with you another story here in the final segment. Not a lot of time, but this is in the stack of stuff. I love this as well. Newsom. This is Governor Newsom. This is one of the guys that the left thinks is their next big successful Democratic candidate. Newsom. Gavin Newsom says climate change partly to blame for California's budget deficit. This is
a Brightbart dot com. So this I'm gonna read from the article California Governor Newsom has turned to climate change to explain how the state went from a one hundred dollars one hundred billion dollar surplus two years ago to a twenty eight billion dollar deficit, which would have been even higher prior to drastic actions last month. As col matters, noted deficit estimates ranged from thirty eight billion to seventy three billion, and so that is those are the facts. Those are the
facts. And if you, if I skimmed down in this article, they asked him a question, can we explain to Californians how we move from a one hundred billion dollar surplus to such a significant, significant deficit in just a matter of a few years. And this is what Newsom said, Well, it's yeah, let me, let me explain three hundred and forty nine billion dollars of unprecedented capital gains eleven point six percent when traditional capital gains is around
five point one eight percent on average, is almost double. So you have massive volatility. You have requirements under Prop two the Gan, you have requirements under Prop. Ninety eight which require that set aside we use ninety three percent of our surplus, which is I want to be careful either on the higher
end or without precedent for one time purposes. So he's going through this list of this list of problems, this list of reasons for why, for why there's there's problems with the California economy, which, by the way, he's mentioning a lot of things that are our laws. And one of the things that I can say with certainty is that California has created this mess, this mess itself. Then he says, he says, where did I leave this
thing? We did. What we didn't expect is these rain bombs. You know, California has gotten a lot of rain, which of course is being blamed on climate change. We got these rain bombs in December, January, February and March, these atmospheric rivers that led to a federal declaration that led to FEMA and the irs moving in a direction where we couldn't collect our taxes
until I believe November sixteenth as opposed to April fifteenth. So therein lied this blackout period that beguiled all of us at the LAO, finance economists, experts, blah blah blah. You get the idea. So, I mean, it's climate change, right, It's it's the weather. It's a lot of rain in California. That's why, that's why we couldn't do it. It's not because of government mismanagement, which if you look at the state of California, it is mismanaged in ways that folks, it is it is beyond California
is it's an economic powerhouse because it is. I mean, it's one of the biggest economies in the world, but when you look at how the state manages it, it's it could be such a such a much more impressive economy and a freer place to live if these tyrants weren't involved in doing all of the big government nonsense that they do in California, all the nonsensical stuff.
I mean, we've got San Francisco, We've got so much, so much waste, human waste on the streets that an app was actually developed so that you could it's called snapcrap. That's a true story. I I that's how bad the state is. Mismanaged. State is mismanaged and dramatic. Of course, it's a sanctuary state. We've got illegal immigration, which of course is a massive part. A big reason why California is dealing with economic problems is
because of the cost of illegal immigration. I don't know if he mentioned that. I certainly did not see it. But the idea that it's climate change, I mean, it's remarkable how they will blame it on some theory instead of on reality, the facts right before our very eyes. They deny that on a regular basis, and people eat this stuff up. They eat it up, and they vote for this guy, at least out there, I don't think nationally, or at least I don't hope, but who knows.
Anyway, my friends, there's the music telling me it's time to wrap up this hour of the program. I hope you have a wonderful day. Thanks for listening, SDG