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. So let's see. We've got Joy Behar who has called Chris Christie, one of the Republican Republican candidates for president. She's called him, what is it
here, champion to the left. That's what she called him on a behind the scenes podcast for The View. I don't even know how the View stays on. How on earth are people tuning in to a behind the scenes podcast of the nonsense and the hatred being spewed on a daily basis at The View. So we've got that. We've also got Mike Pins out there, another nominee or excuse me, another candidate I should say, for president for the
Republican Party. The nomination he's out there talking about we're trying to position himself saying that populism is a pathway of defeat for the Republican Party. We'll get into that and a lot of other things today, my friends emails, would you want to be part of the conversations today, and of course why wouldn't you? Todd at Todd huff Show dot com. You can also text three
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know, I know, but I'm going to tell you something. When I see so much, so many people in government against TikTok, it makes me think maybe that's the one platform. It's actually the one platform that censors us the least. It blows Instagram out of the water, It blows face in that regard Facebook, it blows YouTube out of the water. We have a Rumble channel as well, where you can watch full you can watch you can see that I do have a face for radio on Rumble. Anyway, you
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I like those channels better. I like you communicating directly with us. Although I did have an interesting dialogue with someone late last night it was late or I should say, Tuesday night on TikTok that we might get to as well. But I want to I want to start here today. I'm not gonna play the the SoundBite. I'm just gonna kind of frame the discussion because I think that this is relevant. Here we are in the still the early stages
of the twenty twenty four campaign. We have a candidate who is the it's his nomination to lose. I see no way he loses the nomination he being Trump. But you know, there's other things that are good about some of these these candidates. I'm gonna say I'm not gonna say all of them. In fact, when Joy Behart describes Chris Christy as what you say, champion of the left or something like that, I'm not. I'm I tend to
think. Yes, I've said on this program, I think he's being funded by people that are Democrats or leftists, and his job is I don't know this, but this is just my hunch or he's at least encouraged by these people. Maybe it's strategy. I don't know, but they like this, They certainly like it. He's the only one that's really at this point directly going head on against President Trump, and he pays for it massively in the
polls. To see someone to see someone polling like that and doubling and tripling and quadrupling down on a tactic and strategy, it says to me that something else is going on there, because it's not about trying to win the nomination. There's no way this guy well. His net favorability rating, we talked about it the other day amongst GOP primary voters, was very much in the negative. Pinces wasn't much better. Pences was almost It was twenty seven or
some such things, negative twenty seven. I think Christy was higher than that, maybe in the thirties. I can't remember the exact number. Negative, meaning for example, that if there were fifty percent who had a positive rating of him, that means or as suiting me a negative rating, that means twenty percent had a positive rating, thirty percent fewer than had the negative ratings. So anyhow, So but we've got this, the jockeying here going on, you know, and Pence is in this mix. Pence, of course,
is not jockeying for position to be vice president. Pence is of course not jockeying for a position in a Trump cabinet, should that be the case. Pence is going for the nomination because he thinks he can win. I guess I don't understand. I truly don't understand. I don't understand how you get people to give money to this. I just how much. And look he's he's from our state. I do not mean for this, None of
this is personal. I just please grant me the leeway who say my thoughts without I'm not trying to be you know, personal with it with Pence or anything. I've met him a couple of times, never been anything but nice to me. Wouldn't even have remembered meeting me. It was years ago. Anyway. The point is, it's what he's what he's trying to do.
From a campaign perspective is of course strategic. He's saying, Look, there's populism and then there's principled conservative policies and so forth, and I want to talk about that today. So in other words, Trump has become kind of the standard bearer of populism amongst the Republican nominees, although I would say De Santis has kind of piggybacked on that as well. Some people would say De Santis is more of a the principled conservative. Trump is not. I'm gonna
say, don't misunderstand what my word are saying here. Trump's not coming at this from a ideological perspective. Trump comes at this from a perspective of common since we've been through this before. He comes at this U through the perspective of this is this is how I think things should be done, and he does. He has he has a reverence for the Constitution. And I know people, I know people don't think that, but I mean, why else
he has a reverence for liberty the individual and the constitution. Why else do you cut taxes? Why else do you weaken the bureaucracy? Why else do you stand firmly on things like well, some of these conservative ideals he's standing on he's in supportive conservative policies without being a constitution or a conservative I should say, ideologue, if you will. Pence is saying that, that's populism. Pence is saying and let's pause there, Let's let's talk a little bit
about populism. Now. This is this is interesting because, as it is with most terms, the definition might might differ depending upon who you who you're asking. But populism, populism, the concept is really to say, look, we're not coming at this from a strictly ideological position or perspective. We're trying to govern accord in accordance with the popular will of the people. And so ideas are talked about more in a practical sense, not so much an
ideological sense. But it does not mean and this is important, I think for the context here, someone can be a populist in a sense but also still adhere to a particular ideology. In this case, in our case, in this country, I'm telling you it's still conservative principles. There are so many people in this country today and I know names, monikers, labels, they people cringe when you try to apply them, especially when they don't like
the label themselves. Or they have a negative connotation, but the majority of these people live more. The majority of people in this country live their lives as conservative people. We simply do. We simply do, and for some
reason we are hypnotized. I know very smart people who believe that somehow you get a group of people in charge of the government or in positions of political power, and suddenly they've got some sort of a crystal ball, a magical wand somehow they can defy everything that applies to everyday life, that the rest of us follow, the principles and so forth, that the rest of us
follow day and day out. And they people think, well, you get into government, and government, can you know, just make things happen, snap their fingers and things. For example, do you remember when we were this was this was floated a couple of years ago. People were saying, well, we've got all this trillion dollars of debt, why don't we just why don't we just mint a coin out of whatever it was, titanium or some some precious metal and say the coin is worth a trillion dollars. Who's
gonna say that we can't? And then we we cash it in and suddenly it becomes you know, reality, it's really worth a trillion dollars or whatever the number is, and we can just pay down our debt lickety split, no problems whatsoever. And that's not the way that reality reality works, right, And that's that's where people outside of government we have to say they don't have they don't have a magical want. They don't just because they don't like
the way that things are in real life on planet Earth. They don't like human nature or whatever. You can't just say, well, we're not going to follow those rules and accept that reality when we're in positions of government. But we've allowed that, we've allowed that to happen. But most people the
point is, most people live their lives as conservative people. For starters, we don't have a printing press or a digital way to create currency just out of thin air, well not legally anyway, and say, hey, you know what, I've got fifty trillion dollars in the bank. How to get there? Todd, don't ask those questions. Just let me pay with my funds. That's what the federal government does. And by the way, that's why there's inflation. They've overproduced the money, the amount of money and the
money supply, which is something I was talking with someone on TikTok. Never thought I would utter those words late last night anyway. So there's this difference between conservative the ideology someone who's a conservative ideologue coming at issues from a very methodical position, and then populism. Populism says, hey, these are things that are popular with the American people. Let's use those things. I see nothing wrong. Let me say this as a person who would consider myself,
I would say a practical ideologue meaning meaning I don't think. I think that we need to look at moving the needle back to the Constitution and conservative principles and so forth. It's not an all or nothing proposition. We're going to have to get there. It's a journey. We might not get as far as we would like at a particular point in time, and we've got to throw aside, throw aside this idea that says, hey, it's either perfect or nothing, because if we stay where we are, we're closer to the
radical left's crazy positions in worldview. We just have to move back methodically and some things people aren't ready to accept yet. And as much as I might not like that about a conservative truth, the constitutional principle. I'm not saying to abandon it or anything. I'm just saying, if you can't get it done, get what you can done, and see the view this as a
long game, and populism is a way that you can do that. I've even said on this program, and I'm going to take a break here, but I've said on this program that this is this battle is never going to end. Reagan said it best when he said that freedom is always a single generation away from extinction, and it is up to us to make sure that the next generation receives it, understands it, and then carries it on to the next generation. That's how this works. It needs to be passed along
to the next generation by getting them to understand. That's why we have to proclaim truth. Wrote about this a little bit in the column that went out yesterday. But we have to get people who understand. We have to communicate what the truth is. We have to identify it. Then we have to explain it, articulate it, make sure that people are able to receive it, understand it, and then we move on so that they can accept greater truths. I mean, these are things that are good for individuals, good
for our nation, good for the world. We clean up things here, there will be there will be an effect outside of our borders. But we can't start trying to change everything. And I'm say I don't mean that in some you know way where we're forcing our will upon people. I just mean through prosperity, through the promotion of ideas that lead to liberty and freedom for people around the globe, being ambassadors and for the light of truth that is
embodied in conservative principles. Like those things are good, but we can't start there. We've got to clean house. We've got to see those things and and be accepted here. We have to make some progress internally. And what's so bad. I would ask to former Vice President Mike Pence, if the vehicle by which we get there is populism, I would say that that's exactly where you should start. You should start where there's the most agreement. You
should start on the things that people largely agree about. Folks. That's a foundational principle for what I talk about on this show every day. I think eighty percent of the country would agree with eighty percent of the things I say, and the vast majority of those folks would not consider themselves principled conservative conservative ideologues. And so the question is why because those ideas are popular, those
ideas are popular. They may not know them, you know, or think of them the same way as a conservative scholar would, but they still see the value and still accept it and still know it to be true. And so what is wrong with starting there? Why must we split hairs and say no, no, no, you've got to be too Again to Mike Pence's comments here saying that he's it's important we can't be having the Republican Party led
by populace, I just I don't agree with that. I don't agree with that, especially especially when the ideologues are so far away from being able to meet people where they are and communicate in a way that they can understand, connect with people, personally, articulate things, and so forth. Who cares if Trump doesn't articulate it exactly the same way that a conservative ideologue is if
we end up at the same place. I mean this again, when you look at this as a continuing push towards truth and towards what is good for liberty and humanity and so forth, It's not like you just check it off the list and you're done. You've got to continue to educate. Maybe Trump is only articulating it ten percent of what it needs to be, but we don't have to be at one hundred percent today if people are ready to implement it. I just don't understand this. Populism is not something that we should
shy away from. Vice President Pence is absolutely wrong here. In fact, if you're too scholarly, if you're too boring, if you're too far away from where the common person is, they're not going to want to join you in what you're trying to accomplish and the mission that you're on. We need someone who can connect. We need someone who understands the things that we can
get done easiest and first, and we move, we move anyway. Timeouts in order a little bit long in this segment, my friends sit tight listening to conservative not bitter talk. Caution, my friends, My vast, vast, vast teaming of attorneys has reminded me. But I've got to tell you that listening to this program can cause you to lean to the right. So exercise extreme caution. If you're operating heavy machinery or driving a vehicle today,
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arb I T e R. Sales arbiter dot com. Be sure to tell Crispin that you heard him out, heard about us here on he heard about him here on the show, and give him a hard time for me as well. But let's get back here to this issue of the issue of populism versus just this this concept of being a principled conservative, because it does, it matters, and how we're going to take steps step forward. I remember
in twenty sixteen, and even during Trump's presidency. I'll say his first term because I'm hoping for a second term, but I remember, I remember talking about the idea that there is a great amount of commonality. There are many things that many Americans are on board with that they know needs to happen. And Trump was, in a lot of ways, I think, uniquely positioned to help them accomplish that, or to help us accomplish that. And this
is exactly why they demonize the guy. This is why they try to stop him in so many, so many ways. Is because they know that it's effective and they know that it resonates with people. And so that's why we have this world of superficiality, That's why we have the world of identity politics.
All this is used against us because I think that they know that there is unity on some of these key principles, dare I say, principles that are conservative, and so that's why they want to separate, divide and conquer, create envy between classes. I don't like the term classes of people,
because in my mind we're all equal. But I guess, for the sake of painting the picture here different socio economic groups of people and so forth, if you get one group to hate the other, then they're not going to want to work together for the common good. You make them skeptical of one another, You demonize one group or both groups, pit them against each other, make everything about race and gender and ethnicity and all of these things.
At the core of all of that tension and disagreement is this idea that I mean, they know that they're dividing and conquering us. That's what they know. That's what they know, and they're content to do that. And I say, we've got to stop it. We've got we've got to get past that. And I think people are ready to get past that. I think the average person, in fact, it's one of the next things you'll hear about in the column, but one of the average person is tired. It's
done with identity politics. It is so poisonous, so venomous. It can be weaponized so easily. It's used as a way to silence people who have political who are in the political opposition, who have a different political opinion. You attack someone's idea, you attack someone someone's idea who's a leftist, if they are a minority, they're there. You're not allowed to say it.
You're called a racist or a homophobe or whatever it is, when in reality, all you're trying to say is, look, I'm just talking about their ideas. You're the ones that are bringing these things into it. It's it got to do with anything. And of course we've gotten to the point in our society where that's all the matters to people. Superficiality. It's sick, it's sad, it's unfortunate, and it's used as a way to drive a
wedge between the American people. But populism in and of itself, especially given the truth that people are naturally inclined to conservatism, when we understand that and accept it, we know that populism can be a tool to advance this country. So Pence is wrong, He's strategic. I mean every the campaign, it never had a chance to begin with, it's crazy to do this.
I don't know why people give money to his campaign. I don't even think he would well, I'm almost certain he wouldn't be the nominee even if Trump was out of the race. It's just it's been very, very poorly run. It's not helpful. And meanwhile, there's real problems out there that need to be addressed by someone who's willing to, I mean, to just fight
for these things. So to me, the choice is clear. But the Republican Party, the two that we've talked about today, Christie and Pence, you know, not the greatest ways, I think to either be described in the case of Chris Christie by Joy Behar as a whatever she said of Darling of the left or something. I can't remember the phrase exactly, but basically the left likes him, which means we shouldn't not personally, but we shouldn't
be behind it. And then for Pence to come out against populism when conservative values, at least a lot of the core bedrock American principles are widely accepted, I think people are dying to see that. Return to criticizing populism makes no sense to me as well. So timeouts in order other things to get to today. Sit tight, my friends back here in mere moments, Welcome back, my friends. I mentioned that I had a bit of a discussion
I used to call I used to call them Facebook faceoffs. But that's back when Facebook actually let people share their ideas. I don't even know if that's allowed. Let me get you shut down in and of itself. But Facebook faceoffs happen on different platforms, and I had an individual on TikTok. We basically the good bad guy public health experts agree there we go, sorry about
that triggered the next break. So but the good bad guys said that, Well, he pulls clips of the show, puts them on social media. You can see my mug on there again, seeing that I got a face for radio. But it was Rush used to say it was a he said, a throwaway line. Now, of course, we don't have any throwaway lines here. Every line is designed to matter and count. But it wasn't
central to what we were talking about. But it just it was a short sound bite of something that was I was talking about inflation, and I was referencing the Inflation Reduction Act, which we had just gotten. What we just passed the one year mark here recently of that law being passed, and I was just referencing that, and I was also going back in time to the
Congressional Budget Office, the CBO. They had given some financial numbers on that particular issue, or that particular bill, I should say, and they came to the conclusion that the Inflation Reduction Act never actually reduced inflation over ten years. And I said that in the clip. And then of course some people say some things that, well, why did it go down? Well for
starters, how about this for starters? If you look at the history of inflation, let's go back to Trump or even back slightly before that, you'll you'll see the inflation is typically between in recent times, and there's been times you go back, I think over history, it's been three point something three point eight, I want to say, I just read this. But over Trump's term, it was in the neighborhood of one to two percent. I think it was over two percent a couple of times, but it was in
the ones quite a bit, quite frequently. So Biden comes into office and within a couple of months inflation is literally at what eight or nine percent or some such number. Now that sounds. So when you're talking about percentages, you can talk about the growth as a number of percentage points. So for example, you can say from two percent inflation to eight percent inflation, you can say is a six percentage point increase. But that is not really explaining
the magnitude of the problem. That's really say from two to eight is quadrupling. It's quadrupling the amount of inflation because it goes from two to eight. And sometimes it seems insignificant because you're talking about smaller numbers. Just like some people, it sounds insignificant the differences between million billion and trillion, even though trillion is what a million, million millions? Right, So I think that's right, Yeah, that's right. So anyway, the point is there is
a misunderstanding just because something is called the Inflation Reduction Act. When it was scored by the Congressional Budget Office, they said that in the first couple of years inflation would actually tick up a little bit from the effects of the bill, the effects of the legislation, and then over the next I forget seven or eight years, whatever it was they do these In ten year, they look at a ten year period of time, they said it would come down
a little bit over those years, but if you look at the net effect from beginning of end over that ten year period, there would be no effect, no noticeable effect on inflation. I said that it's factually accurate. That was the report. You can go back and look Congressional Budget Offices initial or
might have been their final analysis of the Inflation Reduction Act. And I said, why are we calling something of course I know why, but why do we let them get away with the calling something the Inflation Reduction Act that has nothing with reducing inflation. In fact, if you listen to what they've been saying out on the i'm gonna say campaign track, even though it's coming from the administration, from I forget which one it was. It wasn't it wasn't
blinking, it wasn't. I can't remember which someone in the administration was talking about. The real benefits quote unquote benefits of the Inflation Reduction Act were that it was a massive expense into grain, energy and stuff like that. It's a massive bill that's that paid for a bunch of a bunch of stuff,
which is not how you reduce inflation. Inflation go back and study Milton Friedman, who's much much much smarter than I on these on these issues, and others like him, other economists, but Milton Friedman, he's since passed away, but just a brilliant man. He says, in no uncertain terms, inflation is caused by federal governments. It can't even be caused by state governments
because state governments don't have the printing press. And I know the printing press is an antiquation, did notion, because we're moving into you know, electronic transfer of dollars and eventually it's you know, the digital currency stuff, which we haven't talked about a ton on here. But the point is, the point is that these the Inflation Reduction Act was never designed to reduce inflation. Now, but inflation has come down. In fact, the most recent numbers
they actually ticked back up slightly. But the annual numbers ending in August, I think is I want to say three point one eight. It's just over three percent the year ending in July. The month before was like two point something two point eight or nine. So they're getting back down to close to what it was when Trump was president. We're still higher than that. In fact, if it's at three percent and Trump's were all on the two percent
range. It's one percentage point higher, but it is fifty percent, right, fifty percent higher. The rate itself is from two percent to three percent anyway, So inflation, my friends, is not decreasing because of the Inflation Reduction Act. In fact, even the media, even the media cannot they don't even try to spread that lie, which means it's apparently. It's so apparent they don't even think they can get away with it. Now. This goes back about a month or so, three weeks anyway, headline ABC News
dot Go dot com. Yes, inflation is down. This is ABC. Yes, inflation is down. No, the Inflation Reduction Act doesn't deserve the credit. And this article goes through and explains the inflation rate is dropped from nine percent to three point two percent. Most economists say little to none of the drop came from the law. So there's correlation and there's causation. Causation
means that X caused why. Correlation means why was doing its thing. X was doing its thing, and they just both happened to say, in the case of decreasing, they both decreased, or whatever the case may be. In comparative terms, they both did their thing, and they didn't necessarily have anything to do with one another. It wasn't one didn't cause the other.
So the Inflation Reduction Act did not cause the decrease in inflation. In fact, I think it could be argued that inflation would be less without the Inflation Reduction Act. I think that there's a strong argument to be made for that. But I just wanted to say that it came up on social media, and it's something that has been in the new since. We just recently surpassed that mark, and there's this push to declare Bidenomics the greatest thing since slice
bread. And we have to make sure, friends, that we understand the truth. Bidenomics is disastrous. Inflation Reduction Act was a ruse designed to trick the American people into another massive spending bill that had absolutely nothing. Even the media won't try to make the claim that it had anything to do with reducing inflation. Timeout is in order, my friends. Now it's time to take the break. Sit tight back in a minute. Here's a headline for you.
Had this in the stack of stuff. I wanted to get to this today. We don't have a lot of time, but here we go. You'll get a kick out of this national pulse. Jake Welch is the rider here headline scientists, Oh boy, scientists exaggerated climate change threat to get published. So of course this is not surprising. This, of course, is why one of the reasons why we are in the mess that we're in today as it pertains to climate change. What do I mean by that? I
mean the government's response. What the government is trying to get you to believe, get me to believe, get us to do, get us to comply with, get us to say, yeah, that sounds like a great thing in order to save the planet. Who wants to say, who wants to kill the planet? Who wants to watch baby's sea turtles die? I don't want to be responsible for that stuff. I love the sea turtle, you know. And then suddenly suddenly people can and I'm throwing a lot of things
into this mix. But the whole climate is the way that we approach the climate. Do you remember a few weeks ago, I don't know that I talked about this, but I had it in the stack of stuff, and maybe a couple of weeks ago now, researchers found that plastic straws were actually better for the environment than paper straws, which is music to my ears because I've had the paper straws. That's the most disgusting thing that I've ever had
to endure while drinking a drink in a restaurant. Paper straws are absolutely gross. And there's some states you can't get. I don't think you can get a plastic straw in the state of California. There's obviously, when we were in Florida, the same sort of thing. Of course, it's beaches you don't want. There's plastic straws to end up in the sea and they go up there. What are they What are they getting the turtles? Anyway?
Anyway, scientists exaggerated climate change threat according to this piece, in order to get published scientists, I'm gonna read this first paragraph. Scientists are exaggerating the impact of quote climate change on natural disasters. Obviously, this is what's happening. Is this is apparent to any person who's lived any amount of time and
can just see how they talk about these hurricanes and everything else. But they've been exaggerating the impact of climate change on natural disasters to have the research published and prestigious scientific journals forcing them to intentionally omit other crucial contributing factors, and of course that's where the money is as well. But timeouts in order, my friends. Just want to share that with you. Quick time out back here in just a minute. Welcome back to my friends. Not a lot
of time. There's other things in the stack of stuff, including a piece from front Page magazine for wokeism to live, free speech must die. That's exactly right, by the way. In order to get the rest of us to go along with the crazy, insane things that they're trying to push down our throats, they have to get us to shut up about it. That's the only way to get us to go along with it. It simply will not work any other way. We're not going to go along with it.
It's because it's insane, the things that they're trying to push down our throats. Every person with a brain and experience knows these things are insane. The only way to get away with it is to shut people up. Don't let them express their true ideas, keep forcing these things upon them, eventually breaking them. I say good luck to that whop. That's not gonna happen. I've got to go, my friends, Thank you, for listening. We'll see tomorrow. STG