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had to make a decision. I told you I was not able to watch the debates prior to yesterday's program, or the debate singular, I should say so, I had a decision to make prior to coming onto this program today. With the limited time that we have available on this program. Well, there's a lot going on. There's a lot going on behind the scenes, some of which we've shared with you. We've launched our merch store, which, by the way, by the way, you can go to our online
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simply not true at all at all. I know I make it look effortless and easy, my friends, But there's a lot to this, and that's why also I should mention that while I'm just talking about all the stuff happening here, the other thing that we've got, the other thing that we've got but we've been blessed with, is I've got an individual that's become a good friend of this program who's helped us taken the ad sales portion off my plate.
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going by the way, let me finish that. Sales arbitter dot com, Sales Arbiter dot com, a ARB I T E R. Sales arbiter dot com. His name's Crispin CRUs. Look him up, look him up. He does great work. Thoroughly impressed with his what he's done, how he's helped us. But it's allowed me to get into these other things. But I'm still not able. That's the point. Today. I'm still not able to watch both the debate and Trump's interview with Tucker and so I had to
make it an executive decision. And I have to tell you, as I'm guessing the majority of you did, maybe even the vast majority, I opted to watch Trump on Tucker Carlson, which is I think symbolically a beautiful thing. I think this is a fantastic Just to juxtapose these two situations, You've got what you have eight Republicans on stage with Fox News, right the Fox News used to have Tucker Carlson. The Republican debate stage used to have Donald
Trump. Now they pull out of the mix, or in the case of Tucker, whatever happened there, they terminated that agreement. That was a messy situation. So now you've got these two groups of people that at the end of the day, we're going to have to figure out how to work together.
There's no doubt about it. We're going to have to figure out how to work together with those that we're on that debate stage again without compromising principle, and without I would say, with also at the same time making sure that we are opposing their efforts in general, there's exceptions, but opposing their efforts to try to take a leadership role because of where we stand and what
is necessary. There are still people and I've seen clips and so forth of the debate, So I don't want you to think I'm not I'm not aware. From what I saw and from what I can ascertain, it looks like Ramaswamy just killed it. Ramaswamy is the I guess you could say the Trump of that he's not Trump. I don't mean that that can be considered disrespectful.
I don't mean it that way. Just he's coming in with I mean he was swinging for the fences, right, I mean he was taking strong stances about eliminating parts of the government and challenging people like Chris Christie and kudos, kudos. We have to find a way to work with people who for the sake of winning elections, my friends, I understand, and I think
this is where the Democrats are better than we are. The Democrats. I've said this before, the amount of single issue Democrat voters that are out there today. My dad, for example, just celebrated his birthday this week. You've heard me say he's the most likable, funny guy. I think, I know, I know I'm biased, He's my dad, but I think there's a lot of people that know him that would echo those sentiments. My dad's a union Democrat, But my dad is not a radical leftist. My
dad's not even a liberal. My dad is a common sense conservative human being who is who votes. When he votes Democrat, or to the degree of which he votes Democrat, he does so because he does so because he is concerned that Republicans or the Republican Party policies are going to hurt people who are
blue collar workers. Now we can debate that and talk about that and so forth, but that's where he's coming from, and that's just one so's he's a single issue voter on the issue of I would say, maybe maybe unions, organized labor, maybe some policies that he believes Republicans would institute implement that harm the working class, the blue collar workers, as my dad would probably describe it. You have the same with the teachers unions. You have this
are people who are in education. They are reasonable people who love this country and are conservative. I would say, and I don't know that's that's a bad word for some people to have that applied to them, but I think it's because they misunderstand. It's just someone who believes, someone who believes that
they, first and foremost are best in control of their life. They need to be making the decisions that affect them and how they want to live, and to live in accordance with their conscience, to worship or not worship as they choose, to be secure in their homes and in their cars, without government abusing their powers and doing warrantless searches and seizures. All these sorts of things, right, I mean, the sorts of things that go back to
the founding of this nation. You've got people who are pro choice, which that's again I'm not defending any of these issues, these single issues that I think these I'm pro life. I'm pro life, and so I'm not defending the position. But these people are conservative in every other conceivable way. But yet they vote for Democrats because they believe that Republicans are trying to quote unquote get into the bedroom of women and tell women what they can do with their
bodies and all this sort of stuff. I don't think any Republican at least I don't. I don't care what a single woman does with their body, so long as it doesn't kill the body of another and so these are things single issue voters flock to the Democrat Party. And it's crazy that if you look around the table of Democrats like a rank and file, the people who vote I don't mean the people who are in Washington, because they typically behave
in general, the same sorts of ways. They're dressed, similarly, they use the same lingo because they strategize about this, I don't mean it. They look the same as far as gender and race, although that's you know, it's still there. Still is a lot more of that than people sometimes realize in the Democrat Party. But anyway, that's why they In twenty sixteen, I used to say, four old white guys in a Clinton. The party that told us they were all about skin deep superficiality and diversity. Just
on the skin level. All they could provide for us was four old white guys in a Clinton. Of course, my favorite old white guy was sexy sexy sexy Martin O'Malley boy. I miss mentioning that nickname. That's been the one of all the nicknames I've given. I think that's the one that seems to get the most favorable response. And there was a reason I called him that. By the way he wasn't. He was pulling it like one percent.
I don't think people even knew who he was. And then one day he decided to go shirtless in a beach or on a beach in Maryland, and suddenly his popularity skyrocketed. Now it went to like two or three percent, but he doubled or tripled is the polling results that he had been getting. And so that's why I called him sexy, sexy, sexy, And you gotta put the emphasis on the last sexy Martin O'Malley, because that's when he became relevant. Well, it still wasn't relevance. It was a momentary
blip on the radar. Of course, we knew how that story was ending anyway. That was you talk about a rigged election. That was the rigged primary of twenty sixteen, which I would contend with, was followed by the rigged Democrat primary of twenty twenty. Right, the power brokers said they wanted Hillary and sixteen the power brokers said that they wanted Joe Biden. In twenty
twenty. Although it's a head scratcher, he is the best. He is the best in the minds thinking about that, he's the best option and the minds of the people making decisions for the Democrat Party that if you just simply accept that reality on its own, you can understand why they're going at Trump with everything they've got, because the opposition to Trump is a much more attractive reason for these leftists or even for the mind numb rank and file disinformation low
information voters Rush used to call them. It's more attractive to them to be pushed away from Trump than to be pulled toward Biden. Right, That's how the campaign was running twenty twenty twenty, and I would suspect that that sounds going to be running twenty sixteen or excu me twenty twenty four as well.
Biden hyden in the closet and the basement, wherever he can hide, wherever he's not going to face plan on the stage or have to walk up the stairs to air Force one, or have to tell stories about his kitchen fire to people who lost families and homes in MAUI just atrocious some of this stuff that happens. Anyway, So I watched this debate, or not debate,
but this conversation with Trump. I chose that over the debates, Although there were things that I'm definitely that have piqued my interest in curiosity during the debates. But it is it's a contrast. It's such a stark contrast between and I think it's symbolically perfect. You got again Trump and Tucker versus Fox and the establishment candidates, and I it is mind boggling to me, my truly
mind boggling to me. And I'm gonna put vvak Ramaswami in a little bit different category because from what I've seen, he really kicked heinie during the debate on Wednesday night. So I think, I actually think he's doing a lot of good things. He's he's I think, squaring up to be maybe the future, a future candidate in the Republican Party. Some people think maybe Trump will consider him as VP. I don't. I think. Look, I don't like to make these predictions this far out, but I think someone to
keep your eye on would be carry Lake. That's just just me. I know Trump has made comments in the past about wanting someone that's good on television and so forth, so of course, she was a television news anchor. She's a phenomenal communicator. You may not like her personally. I think She's a pitbull and a fighter. She is articulate, she is fearless, she is so much. She is like Trump in a lot of ways, but yet maintains her own personality. She's not mimicking the hand gestures and the style.
She's actually I think instead, I think she's inspired by the opposition that Trump has taken, and she's you know, adapted that to her own personality. Anyway, So you've got these these this dueling situation. Why would someone folks, If there is, if there is one unifying force in this political climate we're in, it is that everybody, everybody is mad at the establishment. Now, I will point something out to you. I will point something
out to you. Congress always polls incredibly low, right, Their favorability is typically I think around ten percent, give or take around that area. It's terribly low. But yet incumbents get reelected constantly, and so there is an ex nation for that. And let me give you what that is. The explanation is people hate Congress, but they hate other people's members of Congress, and so they elect the person that they think is best suited to advance their
priorities and agenda and so forth. But yet you have someone else in another district. Let's say you're in Central Oklahoma and you elect a conservative Republican, right, but then you've got someone in Berkeley, California who's electing a radical leftist lunatic, and so they get together and the only things that get done, well, it seems like the only thing that gets done is there is radical growth in government, but yet it cost us more and it provides less
services. So everybody's ticked off about it. Conservatives are ticked off because the government's growing. The left's ticked off because they're still not getting enough, as they think, from somebody else. And so everybody's ticked off. But they're ticked off at a nameless, faceless Congress in general, and not their actual rep In fact, they often will reelect that person in Congress, but there is in general. The larger point is, in general, everybody's ticked and
upset at Washington, DC. I mean both sides of the out they mean different things. And that's why I talked about the Congress example, because it means different things to different people. In fact, sometimes it polar opposite. But they are ticked off at the establishment, they are ticked off at politicians. It goes again to the song. If you haven't heard it, which almost all of you probably have, but Richmond North of Richmond by Oliver Anthony,
it's all over youtubes. It's number the YouTube's is number one on iTunes, I think where it was number one skyrocketed. The guy turned away an eight million dollars radio deal or a music label deal and so forth, all that stuff to pursue well to voice his true opinion on the condition of this country, right, That's what he did, and people from all walks of life are attracted to that. I wrote about it in this week's column,
which you can get it's free tiedushow dot com. I'd get into it into a lot more detail there, but I think there's a lot of agreement in this country, and being upset at the establishment is one of those things at the top of the list. And the problem is the problem is for these other Republicans. That's why Trump was brilliant here again as usual, those other eight Republicans by being on that stage, by definition, they are again the
politicians. They are again the establishment again. I carve out a caveat for vveck Ramaswami because because of how he handled that the eight stage last night, and maybe others can work there too. But folks, you've got establishment people with Fox News that a lot of conservatives have had enough with because of how they've dealt with people like Tucker Carlson, because of how they've handled some some other issues pertending to election integrity. Fox is not. People act like Fox
is the conservative bastion of hope. That's not what Fox is. And that's okay. I don't hate Fox or anything. In fact, the guys that interviewed us on Fox I thought were some of the nicest people I'd ever dealt with. Mike Tobin, I forget the gym was a producer. I'm drawn a blank, but I just they're good people, right the heat those were I'm not saying the executives. But the point is everybody's ticked at the establishment. And so it's not a surprise that Trump and Tucker draw all of this
attention. And here Trump is yet again brilliantly carving his own path back to the nomination using this interview for Tucker. And if you haven't seen it, I'm going to post that link. And there won't be much on the show stack of stuff today on the website because a lot of it was just watching these portions of the debate and also this interview with Trump the Tucker had anyway, but I want to play some clips of both of these things today,
time permitting. But that's what we're up against. We are dealing with again. Both parties have a fight between the establishment, the political elite, and an ideological base of some sort. The Democrat Party's fight is between the radical left. And there's actually three, I think groups in the Democrat Party, the radical left, the establishment politicians, and then the rank and file Democrats who are still still somehow convinced that their party is not insane and completely off
the rails. And the Republican Party. You've got the establishment Republicans, and you've got the limited government people, the conservatives, the libertarian types, whatever that umbrella is that says, hey, we don't want more of the same. We don't want more lip service, we don't want more rhinos. We don't want more people who are gonna, you know, nod and have a
little certain look on their face, who fit the definition of politician. We want someone who's going to go in and actually begin to try to eradicate the problem, which is massive, which is why there's an appeal to Trump. We've been through this a lot, and I'm super long in this segment. Timeouts in order sit time. My friend's next segment will be truncated. I violated my New Year's resolution by being long in this segment. But quick time
out back here in just a minute. Welcome back, my friend. And so we are. I'm actually queuing up. I've got several sound bites I want to play from the Trump interview on Tucker Carlson. Okay, so this is there, we go, Yes, yes, we've got this queued up. So okay, So Tucker is talking with Trump. He's talking with Trump, and he's basically painting. I mean, it's a lot of the things that we talk about on here, right. I mean, they've they've gone
after Trump since day one. They have completely thrown everything at him. I mean, from spying on his campaign to impeachment one impeachment to Russian collusion. Trump is a you know, let's invoke the twenty fifth Amendment all this stuff, right, it was, and then of course, what's happened in the wake of his departure. So, but Tucker directly asks him, you know, if they are this intent on stopping you? Isn't this the next step? I want you to hear the question and the response from Well, the
question from Tucker, the response from Trump. Here it is it all and then one there. It started with protests against you, massive protests, organized protests by the left, and then it moved to impeachment twice and now indictment. I mean the next stage is violence. Is are you worried that they're going to try and kill you? Why wouldn't they try and kill you? Honestly, they're savage animals. They are people that are sick, really sick.
You have great people in the Democrat Party. You have great people that are Democrats. Most of the people in our country are fantastic. And I'm representing everybody. I'm not just Republicans, a great I represent everybody of the
President, of everybody. But I've seen what they do. I've seen the lengths that they go to when they make up the Russia Russia, Russia, and when that's exposed and they go down, and bar should have gone after them, and other people should have gone after and they did very late. Because the Durham report came out. It was fairly good. It could have been a lot tougher, I guess, but it was fairly good, but it explained how corrupt it was. I'll tell you who did a great job
was the Inspector General Harrowitz. He did a phenomenal report. You didn't have to go to door. He did it on Komi and I guess McCabe and some others, and it was a vicious heart. It was basically a true report how bad they are. But these people are sick people. These are people that I think they hate our country. You want to know the truth. When you see open borders, when you see these policies that they have, and so many other things, it's so sad to see. You know,
we have a country that's very fragile right now. I've never seen, I will say, look policies that they have. And you know, anytime I have Trump on here, well like sound bite from Trump, it's always it's always tricky to know where to stop it because it just goes on. So I stopped it there because you know, he starts getting into the Durham Report, he starts getting into the to other reports and so forth. But what he hits on there I think is exactly true, and it's it echoes
a lot of what we've been saying on this program. There are evil people. There are evil people who are enemies of this country. They hate this country, and some of them have attained great positions of authority or positions of political power. Some of these folks work as elected representatives. Some of these folks work as bureaucrats. Some of these folks work in your child school district. Some of the these folks, I mean, they work in positions of
power, maybe at a university. Again, think the four pillars of deceit as Rush used to call them, academia, media, government, Rush says science, I throw in entertainment. But these are folks who have influence or some sort of power to institute rules, or to manipulate people, or to silence opinions on social media, big tech, so forth. And sometimes they can just run amok. Now, sometimes they are led by the people who want these objectives that are contrary to the will of the people. There's no
doubt, but sometimes in fact. There's another part in this interview where Tucker asked Trump, I don't know that we'll be able to get to it. But he asked him, he said, can you you know, do you think you're gonna be able to rein in the CIA, the FBI, these these organizations that are part of the executive branch, but that are doing these things that are sometimes even outside of the knowledge of the President. As terrifying as that sounds, because he asked him, did you even know? And
Trump basically said, no, we didn't, We didn't know. And just think about that. We have created a bureaucratic, bureaucratic state now that is operating virtually the same, no matter who's in office, what they're being instructed, what the leadership is, the priority is, the objections are. But there are evil people. Now I don't mean every person in a position like that is evil, but there certainly are, and they are prepared to do
whatever it takes to further their agenda, their worldview and so forth. But as Trump sat here and I don't want to overlook this, this is critically important, he says, there's a you know, a lot of good people in the Democrat Party. I think sometimes Republicans I mentioned earlier, how Democrats,
excuse me, are good and having single issue voters. You may agree with the Dinner Party on one issue and they will say you're part of this family, even though the person across from you, I mean, you've got you've got the trans the transigenda movement, You've got you know, organized labor. You've got environmentalist whackos as Rush would have called them. You've got all
these groups that in many ways have nothing in common. The pro abortion crowd, right, the radical communists, they're all in this group, and yet there's they somehow can get them to vote Democrat, even though they have so much the normal people in that group, say, say, people who are laborers, you know, blue I don't even like using these terms that people
who are blue collar workers. There's human beings. But the people who are members of unions, they have so much more in common with me than they have with the radical leftist a communist. And I know that there are certainly people in the unions that want to make it a communist movement. But most of these guys just are there to take care of their families. They're not
there for some ideological struggle in the workplace. They're just trying to do their job, do their job, earn a living, to care their families, provide take vacations, enjoy their lives, help their children get a leg up on them. That's what happened to me. I mean, that's how I was raised, right, and so many of you can can relate to that, I'm sure. But there are good people in the Democrat Party. It's
it's a certain subset. But they're people that are doing these things going after Trump have the power, and they are manipulative and evil and duplicitus scoundrels, I might say. To the point now where Tucker Cross and literally had to ask the former president of the United States if he was essentially afraid or concerned or thinking about the possibility that some of these lunatics would engage in possibly the
highest form of violence against him. So timeouts in order sit tight, my friends, so much more to get to we obviously won't get to it all. Put the link to this show, this interview with Tucker on our show notes excuse me, and our stack of stuff on the website Todd Huffshow dot com. Just go to the stack of stuff for today, August twenty fourth and you can check it out. Quick time out though, my friends back in back in just a minute. Welcome back, my friends again. We
had kind of dueling Wednesday night. We had dueling narratives or dueling realities. In a sense, we had the reality that says that the establishment Republican Party is still involved in determining who its nominee is. And of course, in the sane world, that is how that would I mean, that is how that would work. However, however, that's not the case when the candidate, the candidate that is running, the candidate that is leading, the former
president is actually not on your debate stage. And so you got that two diametrically opposed groups, not diametrically posts. We're gonna have to figure how to work together. But we have two versions of how you get to the presidency. One is the old school way. That is, again I'm not saying it shouldn't matter. I am saying I am saying that it shouldn't matter.
It shouldn't matter what we're up against a little bit more. And Republican, the Republican Party as a whole is just refused, just refused to embrace questions about election integrity. They've refused to really as a group. Now there are of course individuals who are exceptions to this, but in general, my friends, they haven't come out in full force. Remember Cassidy Senator Cassidy from Louisiana came out and said Trump should not be the nominee. He should drop out
of the race because of these indictments. They look the establishment doesn't like Trump anymore than the left, well maybe a little bit more. They're embarrassed by him. They don't like that he can get the nomination without them, and we're again, we'll have to find a way to get to get together on
this. Once Trump is, I believe, in inevitably going to be the nominee, even if he's God forbid and jail or something, which I'm not saying is going to happen, but it certainly could put nothing past these jokers and clowns and evildoers, duplicitous people here that are just pretending like they're doing justice when in reality they're making this a banana republic anyway. So that's what was on display Wednesday night. Lots of people watch Tucker. Was it forty?
I think someone texted me forty. I don't want to say the number. I want to confirm it. But lots of people watch the debate that Trump had with Tucker. I would think it pulled a ton of people away from the debate, and then of course the person that runs away with the debate is vvak Ramaswamy, who's out there basically parroting and I don't mean that in a bad way, but saying the same sorts of things that Trump's been
saying. So the person you have Trump on Tucker, who's pulling your audience away, who's taking away some of the I guess power of the Republican party itself, then that you got your actual debate where people are trying to work with the Republicans in the traditional process, and the guy, the guy that's on stage there is also kind of an outsider, is basically challenging everything that the party and most of those other people on that stage agree with. And
you know, there's reasons for it. There's reasons that that's how this is shaken out. But at the end of the day, what matters is that we as people who care about this country, who are not radical, insane leftists, we have to be able to get to the point where we can where we can still win this election. And we're gonna have to draw folks. There's gonna be Republicans who are never Trumpers. That's just gonna be the
case. I don't know how they can reconcile that in their minds. But okay, but there's also going to be rank and file Democrats that are going to vote for Trump. Trump, there are, and we have to embrace that. And that's why this concept of not viewing the other side as just all part of the being the enemy here, it's a small faction of that group. It's a small faction, a small vocal faction, a small faction that is magnified, amplified their voices profoundly in ways that do not represent or
i should say, align in any way with reality. So that's where we are. I get other sound bites here. I'd like to play from this interview the Trump had with Tucker. But I'm gonna take a break here. A quick time out is in order. My friends sit tight. You're listening to conservative, not better talk. I'm your host to back in a minute. I'll get back to my friends. So much to pull from this interview again, I'll put the whole thing on our stack of Stuff page on the
website Toddhufshow dot com. But here's Trump just again comparing gets kind of summarizing what's what's going on. One of the places in this interview. Towards the end, he goes and I don't have a pulled up here again, there's it's just a lot of information that that's good. But he talks about really what was being asked or what he had hoped Pence would do, which Pence
did not do. Pence did not do. But to just outright arbitrarily decide Trump was president is not what Trump and his team were asking Pence to do. They were asking him to send back votes electoral votes to states that there were questions about, which seems totally reasonable. By the way. I think I think Trump's right about this whole thing. I do. I think Pence
is the one that didn't follow through right, you know. I just think maybe he didn't agree, and I can I can see that because there was always an issue on this particularly how to view that the role of the vice president. But be that as it made to act like Trumps arbitrarily was ready to throw this election out the window is not at all. It's misrepresented. But just listen to him kind of summarize the support, the feel, the movement, and so forth. Here we got millions and millions more votes,
you know it wasn't even a contest. People said, well, what do you think of twenty I said, we did much better. We did. We got to base it on the number of votes. We got many more votes in twenty than we did in sixteen. But the election was rigged. It was a rigged election. But and with COVID. They used COVID to cheating a lot of different things. And we have so much on it. It's like, don't forget so easy. But we had judges that didn't want
to look. We had people didn't want to get involved. They could. He's a conspiracy theorist if you say anything about the election. But I have never seen spirit like there is right now, even coming down here, just at the people on the road that are just absolutely going crazy. And the reason is, I think they like me, and I know they love my policies. I hope they liked me too. You know a lot of people say they don't like me, but they like my boy. I think they
liked me. But I have never seen spirit like it is right now. And the reason is because Crooked Joe Biden is so bad. He's the worst president in the history of our country. I don't think I have to stop
it just for the second time. But again, I think one of the things for those who act like Trump can't win and all that, I think we forget because Trump's not been He's going to be thrust back into the limelight here when he's out doing this on a regular basis, just at stump speeches, at rows, on whatever social media platforms he decides to use, which I know he's doing some of that, but when it becomes front and center for everyone to see, it is compelling to listen to the guy, especially
when you're comparing it with a guy who can't finish the sentence and Joe Biden timeouts in order, my friends, sit tight back in a minute. Wellcome back, my friends. I will tell you now at the end of the program here that I am working sans Oz. Sans Oz today without oz Oz is not able to be here today, and I feel it on those days I do. It's a lot to a lot to manage back here, I can tell you that. So not complaining, just sharing with you the folks.
We are in a position now, this election, of course, is huge. It's gonna start again. We're gonna start brick by brick, rekindling what we had before with Trump as far as communication, and it's gonna change this debate. It's gonna the folks on that debate stage for the Republican Party are in for a root awakening, I think. But anyway, my friends, I've gotta go have a great weekend. SDG.