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weekend ourselves. Email should you want to be a part of today's discussion Todd at Todd huffshow dot com. You can also text this three one seven two zero twenty eight thirty. You know the routine. Just make it count once in a lifetime opportunity, Do not let it pass by. Make sure that you include the appropriate amount of adoration and praise. So, as usual, mondays, lots of things to cover, lots of things to talk about that
happened over the weekend. Maybe some things we didn't get to. Got a question from a listener in the audience, and have that on the list of things, or dare I say the stack of stuff to get to as well? Today? But I want to start with the story that we referenced talked about a little bit, not this part of it. We talked in general about this story. Last week, New York City Mayor Eric Adams, leftist,
radical, leftist democrat. Remember we briefly shared with you that he was accusing Governor Abbot of the state of Texas of being racist because Abbot and other conservative or Republican governors were sending illegal immigrants to cities that were run by black mayors. That's he said, Hey, this is racist. Abbot and others that are doing this, probably undoubtedly to Santists, which again where we are in Florida currently as well. I don't know that he mentioned to Santis by
name, but anyone that's doing it. According to Eric Adams, leftist running the city of New York, said that it's it's racist if you're sending illegal immigrants or those who are seeking asylum, which folks, even I look, I understand, I've gone through this before, and I think sometimes this gets lost in translation, and I've said this on this program before, but I'm
going to say it again before we talk specifically about Eric Adams. But I understand, I understand why people want to come to this nation in general. With Look, I don't have problems with this nation. I think that this nation is a city on a shining hill or shining light right just for all of the world to see. Not that it's perfect. Heaven knows that there are problems in this country, but they're not foundational problems. Those foundational problems
we have have been eradicated and fixed. It does not mean, though, that we have perfect people who are living in this country, right, And this goes that that's the case no matter no matter where you're going to live, right, no matter which country, which part of the world you're going to have. This is the nature of humanity. This is our fallen and broken and sinful nature. We're not going to be perfect. So case by case, of course, there are going to be problems as the As it's
been said before by conservatives in the past. And I don't know who gets the credit for this one. It's not me. I'm I'm taking it from someone else. I think it may have been William Buckley, but he said, whoever said it, I think it was Buckley said, the problem with socialism is socialism. The problem with capitalism are capitalists. In other words, the system of Socialism itself is broken. It's the system that is the problem.
If you want to talk about something that's systemically the problem, look at socialism. Socialism causes an equality of suffering. Socialism, as Churchill said, as the it's the creative of envy, right, this is it's a morally bankrupt worldview and ideology. Now that's because of the force aspect. If folks willingly decide to share things as human beings, that is their prerogative, but under the force of government where folks do not have a choice, and where
it actually incentivizes people to not work or provide for themselves. We talk about this every year we talk about the story of Thanksgiving. There's an element of that that we can find in the real or the true story of Thanksgiving that Rush Limbaugh used to share that we've continued in his honor on this program.
But this this problem that we have as it pertains to Eric Adams, or just in general, with kind of the hypocrisy that we see from the left, criticize people for wanting to have a secure border, criticizing people for wanting to tighten down some of the issues that we have, criticizing people who want things like the remain in Mexico policy, criticizing people who have pointed out that AOC engaged in pure political theater when she went to the border to pretend that
she was crying outside of cages that children had been locked in by President Trump himself. Virtue, basically, that's basically the idea. And so we've we've got this this false narrative, and we've got the hypocrisy. But at least people like me and the vast majority of you, we understand why people want to come here. The leftist, if they're being honest with themselves, that they're being consistent, if they're not being hypocritical, would say they don't.
They don't even understand why someone would want to come here, because the way that they talk about this nation, the way that they talk about the founders, the way that they talk about the liberty that we have, the constitution that we have. They don't outright just badden out the constitution, but they
pull out principles, the principles of liberty and freedom of fact. I got a story in the stack of stuff where again the politicians, the leftists, and the state of this time is Virginia, are doubling down on the idea that parents have no business deciding what their kids are learning in the public education system, which is insane, which is absolutely ludicrous, that we have gotten to the point where the government believes are certain people in the government, people
who are making decisions in this government, believe that parents do not have a right or a role in public education what their children are learning. Instead, they want to hand it over to the technocrats, the education experts, and so forth, who are undoubtedly, without a question, always education and taught and trained by radical, extreme leftists. And I'm not talking individual teachers that sometimes the case. I'm talking about the people that run the people that run
these things, like teachers unions. By the way, that's another story in the stack of stuff. Colorado, the state teachers union there has recently passed
a that I can't they've passed. They voted to basically condemn capitalism the teachers union in Colorado, which, by the way, even though those teachers are in the socialists, you know, type of little economic or i should say, educational bubble where they think they should be compensated based upon how many years they've been to school, regardless of the value that they bring to the classroom. How effective they are at teaching students and so forth. They are paid,
they have money to operate their schools because of capitalists. So now they're out there actually publicly denouncing capitalism. And this is the sort of thing that's happening in this country. And so how can the leftists do those sorts of things repeatedly hate on America as founded, hate on the American principles and ideas, hate on the idea of parents being in control of their children's education,
hate on the idea of actually believing in free market capitalism. How can they hate all of those things and still explain to us why people want to come here. Because they hate everything that this nation was built upon and what this nation stands for, what this nation represents. They want to see this nation rebuilt in the image of something other than the US Constitution, something other than Western thought and Western civilization, something other than the founding documents, something other
than jude and Cres principles and beliefs and so forth. They want something altogether different. And you can see what they want. They want a morally bankrupt and depraved worldview determining where we go. It's the transagenda, It's the the I hate America. The blame America first crowd is the anti capitalists, the woke, the antifa, the pro abortion radicals. I'm not just saying folks
who are even pro choice, though I'm very much pro life. I'm talking about people who are actually celebrating to take microphones and cheer and celebrate the fact that they've had abortions or that women are going through at abortions. I'm talking what do they what do they have if they were being honest, what do they have to say about this nation that would explain to anyone why people want to come here? Why would they What redeemable quality in the mind of a
leftist is there that makes people want to come here? The answer is there aren't anything. There aren't anythings that make people want to come here if they see this country through the eyes of a radical leftist, because they hate this country. And so but we clearly have the problem people fleeing their countries, which again I understand right, and part of it is because their countries are
being run by corrupt individuals. There's violence everywhere, there's poverty. I am absolutely positively sympathetic to people in those situations, and I think the best way to solve those problems is to export the ideas that made this country great. And how can you do that if you're a radical leftist? How can you do that because you don't believe in those ideas? And so what are we what are they proclaiming? How are they being ambassadors for liberty and free them?
How are they doing that? They're not, They're not doing that. Instead, they're out there apologizing for America or coming up with some other ridiculous policy. Which again, something else in the stack of stuff today is the
state of California. There's been an advisory board that has recommended that they move forward with reparations, reparations packages that include a minimum, as I understand it, of three hundred and sixty thousand dollars for every black resident who can demonstrate prove I guess that they're actually I'm gonna pause because I don't even know if that's true. I think there's actually a couple of a couple of ways you might be able to someone might be able to qualify for that money, should
that be turned into law. And by the way, the same state who has recently defaulted defaulted on a paying back a federal own to the US government for what was it for unemployment coverage? Like twenty billion dollars during COVID. They can't pay that. But yet now now they're looking at strongly considering an eight hundred million dollar package, excuse me, billion dollar package, which is like two and a half times their annual budget. Yet they are prepared to
funnel money into reparations. I mean, this is all messed up. And again, if you look at the worldview and you look at the thinking and the action, well the thinking, I guess that gets people to these beliefs. It's clear that they do not love this country and they cannot explain why people want to come here. Conservatives actually can because we understand what it is that it's appealing about this country. And so our problem is not with people
who want to come here. Our problem is that we have established a a social safety net that cannot be sustained if we simply have open borders. It is another way, it is another way to break the backs of the American taxpayer. And at some point along this path, at some point along this journey, someone is going to have to say, we are going to think of and be concerned with America first. Now, that does not mean America only. That does not mean America at the expense of everything else on planet
Earth. The folks, they have their boot on the necks, on the throat of the American taxpayer. Don't let them lie to you for a second. These open borders create They create a burden on the taxpayer. They absolutely do. They also give the government more reason to money, which then hurts us in another way by creating more inflationary pressures because the government's creating money out of thin air as they love to do, which is a silent and secret
tax that's paid by the US taxpayer, the American citizen. And all that being said, and I want to take a break here, but Eric Adams, mayor of New York City, who told the media last week that Governor Abbott from Texas was racist for sending illegal immigrants or folks seeking asylum in this country. He said he was racist. Abbot was racist for sending them to New York City because New York City cannot take care of them, they don't
have the resources. And so now the hypocrisy and the double standard here, folks, is just off the charts. Now. Eric Adams is supposedly supposedly going to start sending the illegal immigrants out of New York City and into the suburbs outside of his actual jurisdiction. So I guess is this racist? I mean, do we need to know the race of the mayors or the city council members in these suburbs to determine if this is a racist action being taken
by Eric Adams? Of course we know that. Of course, many on the left will never even admit that it's possible for Eric Adams to be racist because of his skin color. We're just living in a completely delusional, upside down world where truth is rejected, at least ignored, sometimes many times outright rejected. And this is what we get. So we've got hypocrisy on display
in many, many ways. And again it also highlights just sounds serious this problem is because if New York City can't take care of the portion, the small overall portion of illegal immigrants that have been shipped there, what is this doing to other cities and towns that don't have that don't have the infrastructure or the tools, or the equipment or the personnel to do what Eric Adams is doing once these folks are in their cities in their towns. I mean,
it's clear what needs to happen. We need to secure the border, and we also need to start being proud of what it is, not in a bad way, but proud in a sense that, hey, this is what is good, this is what is right. These principles of liberty, a limited government, the rights of the people, coming not from government but from God. We're going to write some of those down, don't have to write all of them down, and we're going to protect those regardless of someone's race,
ethnicity, gender, whatever. That's what we're going to do, and we want to export those ideas. We want to see these governments that are corrupt. We want to see them eradicate well the people that are in them to be eradicated, and if they need to face punishments, legally, they should do that. We want to see the violence all cities, whether it's in the United States, Central America, Afghanistan, whatever. Obviously, violence is a big part of the problem. And what do the left policies lead
to. Every time again I've mentioned Afghanistan. The way that we left that country created a vacuum and now once again that is a stage in ground for Taliban and terrorist activities. That is another way of saying there's violence that's being basically protected in that region. Now we talked about that in recent recent weeks as well. Anyway, hypocrisy here is thick. I gonna take a time
out really long in this segment. You're used to that. It's a Monday, especially so OZ has tried our best here, but I'm gonna take a time out. My friends were to come back. Plenty of things to get to. I might have a word or two to say about this before we move on to something else, but just wanted to share this with you as well, And as always, you can see any of these stories that we talk about on this program in our stack of stuff at tahufshow dot com.
Quick time out through my friends, Tight back in just a minute, Welcome back, my friends. I had referenced a couple of stories last segment. I want to touch on here as I get us back on track. As you know, that is my new Year's resolution, and I'm not doing very good at that, not doing a very good job today at that. But I want to hit on a couple of the stories that I referenced last segment. I mentioned Colorado Teachers Union adopts anti capitalist resolution. This isn't a story
from just thenews dot com. Colorado Education Association adopted a statement saying it believes quote capitalism inherently exploits children. Oh, my gosh, exploits children, public schools, land, labor, and resources. This, my friends, sounds like it is taken straight from Karl Marx's communist manifesto. Let me read, Let me read another portion of this. This again is in today's stack of stuff if you want to read the whole article. Capitalism, it says,
is an opposition to fully addressing systemic racism. In parentheses, the school to prison pipeline, the school to prison pipeline. I mean, this sounds like it is a thesis statement from one of these radical leftist teacher unions, doctoral statement or a thesis for the doctorate. So capitalism it says is an opposition to fully addressing systemic racism, the school to prison pipeline, climate change, patriarchy. In parentheses. Here it says gender and LGBTQ disparities, education inequality,
and income inequality. Well, socialism will address income inequality. It'll make you all poor, that's what it'll do. There won't be any more inequality of income. None of us will have a deadly darned thing. We'll all be begging the government to provide something for us as they live in the lap of luxury. By the way, this is how it works out every single time, every single time, if this crap has tried. So I'm gonna say this too. And I know we've got teachers in the audience, and
look you hear me badmouth I baden moounth the education system. I think we've got some really, I think we've got some really good teachers. I think I think we have some really good teachers that are not the really good ones are the ones that you don't read the stories about, right, And it's just like average America, meaning if you open I was going to say, open the newspaper, but that makes me look like a dinosaur here. Actually,
you know, I was never a newspaper reader. Really, I was by the time I I kind of grew up or graduated high school in the beginnings, the very beginnings of the digital age, and so I never got into My dad did read the newspaper. I remember him flipping through that thing. At least over the weekends he'd get the Sunday paper. Maybe we would get it. I don't know if we got it other days of the week or not, but he would read the paper, watch the evening news,
that sort of thing. But this, if you read the headlines today, there's a lot of negative news. And part of that's because there's a lot of negative news to be told. But the other part of it is is that you know, what's what's the old saying, if it bleeds, it leads. So the the idea that we're all drawn a little bit, almost like the train wreck analogy, we're all a little bit inclined to look for some of the negative. That's I suppose, to some degree, part of
part of our nature. So I get that there's a lot of good teachers that don't get credit. There's not going to be stories that are talking about how a teacher followed the policy and told parents, I'm gonna tell you what we're gonna do in my class, and you know, if you have a problem with it, you can communicate with me that that doesn't have drama in
it, that doesn't sell. So there's a lot of good teachers. But I've also said, and I'm gonna quadruple down on this, I'm gonna quadruple down on this or however many times, and I'm gonna more than double double down on this. This radical mindset is in every school. It's at least
it's in at least a classroom or two in every school district. It's potentially building wide if you've got woke principles, and it's potentially even worse system wide if you've got woke people in the administration, as we talked about on this
program recently past couple of weeks. In fact, I need to look back into that story, the story of superintendence around not far from where I live back in Indiana, who had been busted by an undercover journal list talking about bragging about how they were avoiding having to deal with parents because they were basically lying to them about what was happening in the classrooms, keeping it from them or naming, you know, changing the nomenclatures so that they don't have to
use the same terms and catchphrases to circumvent the will of the parents to not have this crap shove down the throats of their kids and the taxpayers of the communities that they don't want their community students to go through this jump and so there's all these stories floating right out there. Now we've got we've gotten to
where these they're bold. I mean, so we've got the Colorado of Teachers Union now that has adopted the anti capitalist resolution basically saying that capitalism's a bunch of buk and that we need to get more woke, I guess. And this is one example, right, this is just one example. But I'm gonna say this, and I'm talking to the good teachers out there. Your local teachers union may be okay. There there were times when I was on
the school board that our teacher's union was okay. In fact, one of the folks that was the lead negotiator was a very reasonable, just decent, good person, and maybe maybe others. There may have been others as well. I'm just remembering that there's one in particular that's not radical or anything anything like that. But these the money ultimately goes to crap like this, And so I think, if you're a teacher, and far be it from me,
I've never been a teacher. I did sub I was a substitute teacher when I served on the school board, and I will point out I had to do that for free. Technically free because as a member of the school board, I could not accept money for subbing. But we still a couple of us would sub And I was young. I was twenty, in my early to mid twenties. So it's been a while ago, but I you know, I can I can somewhat relate to some of the challenges, not
obviously all of them. I was in there for one day at a time, usually maybe a couple of times back to back. I can't remember if I did two days in a row, so it's a different situation, I understand. But I you know, I have been in the classrooms. I have been a school board member. I have I'm familiar with how schools work and so forth overall, or unfortunately in many cases, don't work. But if you're a teacher, I think I would straight up, there's no way.
I'm telling you right now, there's no way I would join the teachers union. There isn't And I know that there's pressures, and I get it. I understand that money. That money is going to this crap right here. I don't guarantee it one hundred percent. It's going to elect politicians like Joe Biden. It's going to fund people who want to pass resolutions that are anti capitalists, bad mouthing the very system that funds their very existence, and
the taxpayer. You know what, Well, there's so many things I want to say about this, but I just very kindly inform me that I need to take a break again. But I do think if you're a teacher out there, I would not be a part of it. I just I wouldn't. That's that's me. I'm not It's not like it's morally wrong. I'm
not suggesting that, but I am saying I would really rethink it. Getting a few scowls and condescending looks is absolutely worth it when we're talking about the survival of this nation and what's being taught enforced on our on our students, and we got to break the chokehold that these radicals have who are a part of the upper echelon leadership of the teachers unions. Whether that's in Colorado,
whether it's nationally, whether that's wherever you are. Timeouts in order that, my friends, gotta take a break, sit tight listening to a conservative not better talking. I'm your host, Hugh back in. We gotta there. We go back in just a minute. Welcome back, my friends. Another story that I referenced earlier in the program, Where did that go? Where did that go? I just said, here we go, Here we go.
I mentioned that California has a task force that had met that has now made us recommendation that they should the state should force well, they should force the state to pay reparations. Headline here California task Force Okay's reparation plan that could cost the state eight hundred billion with a B eight hundred billion dollars. Now that story should unt be understood in relationship to another story, which is the story that I I referenced earlier as well. I know we've referenced several
today. These things are all related. In my mind. Once you talk about the ineptitude of leftism, the radical left, and when you talk about just this, I mean it's the race to the bottom. These are these are ideas and policies that are going to well. First of all, in the case of reparations, I think if you if it was your mission, if someone said I want you plump, please understand me. I'm not I'm just using, I'm just explaining. I'm just articulating an idea. I think
this is true. By the way, I think that this is demonstrably true. I think if you said, if you said to someone, hey, let us come up with a plan to increase racial tensions and bring us to the verge of a boiling point, you would then you would say, hey, well, how about we get one of the races of people paying the
other race of people a humongous amount of money. And I think that that would be the plan, which of course begs the question is what are these conversations that these tasks force, task forces and so forth are having here? But the Californy, the state of California, had a task force that was
researching and looking into the idea of reparations for its black residence. They came back on I believe it was Saturday, according to this article here with some recommendations that could it says here that could cut a minimum of three hundred sixty thousand dollars in checks to its eligible black residents. Now, Barbara Lee, a lunatic radical leftists from the state of Florida are actually the state of California, said that reparations are not only morally justifiable. Okay, she just makes
that statement. Please pray tell miss Lee Pray tell how a group of people who never had anyone, who never had a single slave, thank goodness, how they are then morally justified in paying for another to paying another group of people that did not serve that we're not put under the bondage the evils of slavery. How is that morally justifiable anyway? But she continues here with her delusional statement, But they had the potential to address long standing racial disparities and
inequalities. So there are a couple of ways that people can qualify for this in the state of California if this becomes law, which it may or may not. But economists estimate that this will cost the state eight hundred billion dollars. That's two and a half times its annual budget. And this is a state, as I referenced I mentioned earlier, that has recently defaulted on a federal government loan of twenty billion dollars I think, to pay for unemployment benefits
during during the COVID meltdown in crisis that we were subjected to. Here's what it says in this article. To be eligible eligible for reparations here, it is to be initially eligible. Applicants must be a descendant a descendant of enslaved or free black people who were in the country by the end of the nineteenth
century. So it's if you have if you're a descendant according to this, and who knows where this will end up according to this, if you're a descendant of someone, whether or not they were slave or free, who were in the country by the end of the nineteenth century, and if there's any leftist listening, that's at the end of the eighteen hundreds, take it easy. I'm just playing just a little bit, though, So that's enough to qualify, which is going to create all sorts of all sorts of problems.
I mean, there's some obvious questions. What happens if if one of the if you're descending also from someone who who owned God forbid the idea who was a slave owner? Right? What what about that? What if you're i mean by racial does that make have an impact? Three hundred and sixty thousand dollars I mean sounds like that's the minimum what I'm reading here. Who really qualifies and who's on the who's on the who who's footing the bill here?
It's a taxpayer. I mean, if you want to get right down to it. It's it's I hate talking about these things. This is used as such a wedge to divide people. We're all human beings created in the image of God, but this is an issue that is used to drive people apart. Blame one person. I don't, it doesn't matter to me the group. You know what the groups are. It's just used to cause so much hatred and dissension and animosity. It's just it's really sickening, to be quite
honest, And it's what it's. The redistribution of wealth is what this is. And you can think or you can know, because it's absolutely true that slavery is a despicable, evil thing, while also at the same time thinking that reparations is completely out of line and crazy. Anyway, maybe what's happening in California, who knows, who knows where that's headed. But I've got to take a time about my friends. Sit tight. You're listening here to
conservative not better talk. I'm your host, the one, the only Todd huff back in a minute. Welcome back, my friends. I got a question, and we've been getting more and more questions here. I try to get to some of them during the program. I try to respond some of those directly. Again, you can ask whatever you want, and this is wide open. I mean we cover a lot of things here. But you can ask about politics, you can ask about history, you can ask I
don't know, personal questions. I reserve the right to not answer some, but I certainly will will do my best to answer answer those. Or you know, the other thing you could do is ask if if you've got a question about your your faith or something that you just never felt comfortable asking someone in who's a pastor or someone who's in an official church capacity. We can take those two. We can certainly try our best. We get a well,
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the question I was asked. OZ has given me staring at me back here as they should get you think it's more than ten to fifteen percent oz is a firm no on that she's she's thinking it's about one hundred percent too much. That's something else altogether. Here's a question we got last I think it was Friday. What happens We were talking about, uh, just the economy, taxes, just a bunch of things in that in that realm, question
was what happens when the American dollar collapses? Will be will we be Venezuela all over again? That's I mean, look, this is we are heading in a direction where this is now. Some people act as though that's a
foregone conclusion. Some people act as though that will never happen. I take the position that says we're closer, we're still at a point where the dollar, while it is definitely weakened, and there's a lot of reasons for that, it is weakened because ultimately, because our politicians have spent it like it was just monopoly money, and the dollar is ultimately a representation, I guess or your confidence in the dollar is rooted in your confidence in the American system,
and we've seen a tremendous erosion of that over the past couple of past couple of years. In some ways, you could say the past couple of decades, and you can go back all the way to the gold standard and all these things, and I don't want to do that at the moment, but I think we're closer to It's it's it's still a highly unlikely situation, but you have people in positions of power who would happily see us move from the dollar to some other say digital currency or you know, maybe even some
common currency that's that's global. So we're moving edging slightly towards the dollar, you know, being in big trouble. But again, this is still in spite of the fact that we have countries going towards the Chinese currency away from the dollar, and then we have the whole issue with the petro dollar and all that, which I don't have time to get into. But the fact of the matter is, the fact of the matter is that we are moving
towards that situation. And what happens, what happens it is chaos because ultimately it's now if the currency collapses, what also collapses is everything that's created or the government that's created that. So there, I mean, massive problems would arise from this. Some currency is going to have to come out of you know, people are going to continue to buy and sell and barter and all
this sort of stuff. But it would be a massive, massive problem, and it would create, perhaps most importantly, a tremendous opportunity for people who want to remake this nation into something else. And they've been salivating at that for a long long time. Anyway, that's all the time. There's so much more I want to say to that, but I just I don't have time. Can I take a break? So type of my friends back in a minute, Welcome back my friends again. Look, I don't want,
I definitely don't want. I still think we're at a point where there's a lot of things to be hopeful for. I think that this nation has a lot of people that have been awakened, that are not woke, that have been awakened to the fact that we have massive problems here and that they've been brought on by people who hate this country, who want to force your kids to learn things that are just crazy, crazy stuff. And I think that
there's there's a good work. We have great opportunities here, but there are also are serious problems. And I would be doing a disservice if I didn't point some of those out. But anyway, that's the question that I got asked. I've got to go, just out of time, my friends, thanks for listening. To have a great day SDGC tomorrow