November 5, 2025 • 40 mins
Todd reacts to Zohran Mamdani’s New York City victory speech and the roaring crowd that cheered the line “no problem too large for government to solve.” In this episode, Todd contrasts big-government promises with Reagan’s warning—“I’m from the government and I’m here to help”—and unpacks why identity-politics rhetoric resonates with voters despite its lack of substance. You’ll hear multiple clips from Mamdani’s speech with Todd’s live interjections, then a candid discussion on first principles: limited government, individual responsibility, justice vs. “social justice,” and why trying to make the state a stand-in for God always fails. Plus, a quick tour through what last night’s results signal for conservatives and why winning the battle of ideas matters more than ever.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:36):
My friends, Do not be dismayed, do not be well.
You can be disappointed, do not be crushed here after
what happened yesterday, it was not a good day for
Republicans politically, but this is I look, this is the
battle that we find ourselves in. This is far from over,
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and I want to talk about this today. I want
to talk specifically about the virtual communist that has been
elected in New York City today, Zorn Mom Donnie. I
want to play some of his victory speech that leads
me to talk you know, at the core, at the
core of what I want to get to when I
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do this show. When I when you go back to
the days of when I was brainstorming this show, or
you know, when I was on the horse farm as
I was listening to talk radio. I remember This is
a long time ago now, twenty five plus years ago.
I remember having mock interviews in my head that even
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though the people that I was interviewing as I was
trimming that fence line or painting that fence may be
different today than they were twenty some years ago, the
questions and the thoughts that I have that they can
be traced back to well when I was doing those
mock inn reviews in my mind as as a horse
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farmer on the fence, listening to talk radio and so forth.
But when I thought about this show and what I
wanted it to be, I always wanted it to be
about ideas. I always wanted to be able. And today
today is great for me because this is a This
is an example of being able to talk about what
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has happened and in the on the one hand, I
hate that it has happened. I hate the New York
City has elected a quote unquote democratic socialist mayor because
it's going to cause problems the chances of this working.
Hear me say this, what do we doe? November fifth,
twenty twenty five. Here on today's program, hear me make
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this proclamation. There is zero percent. Listen, I literally mean zero.
I'm a guy who thinks in terms of probability a lot.
I think in terms from when I'm watching a Pacers
game and the Pacers are down on twenty three points,
was seven minutes to go or whatever? I think in
terms of probability, I think if some people just turn
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it off and they end up missing some of the
greatest comebacks in history, of which the Pacers had quite
a few last season. But I think in terms of probability, yeah,
are they going to lose? In probability, sure, is there
a chance they could win? Yeah, so I there's never
It's never fair to say a zero percent chance in
the world of sports. I mean, if there's three seconds
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left then you don't have the ball and the clock's ticking, sure,
but short of that, there's never truly a zero percent
chance until the game is over. Hear me say this,
There is a zero percent chance, and I mean literally
zero percent chance that what New York just did by
electing zoron mom Donnie is going to work. I mean,
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if he does what he says he's going to do,
the chances of things improving for New Or is literally zero.
Now you'd say, well, Todd, that's not possible. You just
told us, you know that the game's not over. But see,
the game is over. See that's that's the thing. The
game is over because the ideology has already been exposed
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as something that is not true, is not beneficial, does
not reflect the way that things work this side of heaven,
and it is set to fail. This is a certainty.
This will not work. This will be an utter disaster.
Some people out there say that this is what New
York deserves. I don't like to say that. I mean, yes,
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they voted for it, so in that sense, I guess
you get, you reap what you sew, and I don't
feel sorry. I feel sorry for the people who voted
against it, who see what's coming and they can't do
anything about it. Maybe they can't get out of the city.
I do feel for those people, for those who have
voted this in buying into this narrative, this Obama two
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point zero sort of candidate someone who's you know, well
spoken and can and can you know, just generate enthusiasm
by saying nothing by the way it is remarkable to me,
or saying things that would be laughed out of any
place that has people with brains sitting around the table
listening to this stuff that they he has built a following.
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I mean, it is, it is, it's something to behold.
It's terrifying in another sense because the guy can say
anything and he gets cheers. And I'm going to play
some of his some of his speech. But it lets
us get into some philosophy, some of these ideas which
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I'm gonna pull up this link. Now this I listened
to this full speech. Oz heard it too. I think
I heard. Yes, I'm gonna say I heard Oz roll
her eyes a few times as she was overhearing zoron
Mom Donnie during his victory speech last night in New
York City as he won the mayor's race. Now the
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final tally here, well, I guess this was I'm looking
on screen here, Mom. Donnie won by about about two
hundred thousand votes. He had over a million, Cuomo had
under nine hundred thousand, and then the rest of the
characters were down way below that. Donnie had over half
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the vote. Just at half the vote, fifty four point
four percent is what I'm looking at here on this
still shot this with ninety percent of the precincts reporting.
So he takes to the podium to proclaim his victory.
Now I listened to this whole thing. It's twenty two
minutes or something like that. There's a place here, This
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is in the latter half, right at the midway point,
slightly past it that I want to talk about. It's
a chunk of what I want to get to. We'll
get through as much of this as we can, because
I do want to get to some of these ideas
and so forth. But I want you to listen to
this speech, and I want you to listen to some
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of the botatious claims that this guy makes. I want
you to listen to the reaction of the crowd. They
cheer anything, And I just want you to try to
take a step back. Try to take a step back
to where you're a spectator. I tell I coach. I
coach a couple of girls basketball teams, and there are
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times that the players become spectators. And I'll tell them,
do not become a spectator. Right If you're on the court,
If you shoot the shot and then suddenly you just
watch it to see if it goes in instead of
going to the basket to try to get the rebound,
you've become a spectator, right, And sometimes you can become
a spectator, or some players have the propensity to become
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a spectator on the floor. So normally, I would say,
in a system like we have where we have the
right to self governance, it's a constitutional republican republic, representative republic,
and so forth, where we're electing people that we want
to represent us in Congress and so forth, I would say,
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don't be a spectator. But for this small moment in time,
try to remove yourself, remove yourself from the feelings that
you have, the fears that you have, the concerns that
you have, and try to just step back. First of all,
let me say it's all going to be okay. The
one way through this is through victory. One side of
this is going to have to win. We have gotten
so far apart. I'm not against compromise. I am against
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compromising with people who require us to accept things that
are just outside the realm of what is reasonable and acceptable.
These folks have to be defeated. Zoran mom Donnie has
to be defeated. What's about to be unleashed upon the
city of New York is going to be the fault
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and responsibility of Zoran mom Donnie and those who elected him,
So I'm going to play this. This is roughly, I
don't know what is this eleven twelve minutes, maybe thirteen
minutes into his speech. This will be the full speech,
will be on the show notes if you want to
go there, Todd have show dot com. It's called the Stack.
I misspoke, or you can google it. This is at
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CNN dot com if that's easier, whatever the case. But Mom,
Donnie takes to the podium and I just want you
to listen to this. Try to step back and try
not to be judgmental. I'm going to be criticizing these
ideas and all that sort of stuff that's coming. Don't
worry about that, but just try to We need to
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first understand what it is, because you and I hear
this and we think what universe is this coming from?
Who does this appeal to? We have to get into
the mindset. Just try to understand who it is and
why it is that this sort of thing resonates. And
we'll talk about this as the program unfolds. But I just,
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to the best of your ability, remove yourself from the
emotions of this. Try to step back to the thirty
thousand foot view and just take this in and as
a student, try to understand what it is that is
appealing to people about this, because that's the first step
in trying to defeat this. We have to understand what
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it is that is appealing, why it is appealing, how
they talk about things, how we should talk about things
and explain things to people who I would say are
brainwashed in a sense into believing that what he's about
to say has any semblance and reality whatsoever. That being said,
here is mom Donnie in his victory speech last night.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Listen up, Excellence will become the expectation across government, not
the exception.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Really woo yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
In this new age we make for ourselves, we will
refuse to allow those who traffic in division and hate
to pit us against one another.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Now, listen, I know that there are people that do that.
I know that there are people This has been the
strategy of the left. This is why there's identity politics.
To get one group stirred up and to say, hey,
that group over there is causing you to have problems.
Let's organize here, let's vote for a person. Let's stick
it to that group. That's exactly what they've been doing.
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In fact, I would encourage you to listen to what
he's about to say here in a minute, and I
would say, is he not the one that's doing this
very thing? But he continues here to the cheers.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
In this moment of political darkness, New York will be.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
The light you want to bet you want to bet.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Here, we believe in standing up for those we love,
whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community,
one of the many black women that Donald Trump is
fired from a federal job.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Yeah, and this is a very specific a.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Single mom still waiting for the cost of groceries to
go down, or anyone else with their back against the wall.
Your struggle is ours, too.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Bullwy, it absolutely is not. This is the sort of
thing I know. I want you to listen to this objectively,
but I can't help myself as well. This is one
of the lies of socialism. I remember having debates with
people or watching debates where somebody will say, for example,
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that they care about it's you know, our children, right,
it's the community's children, and we all love Listen. I
get it. I understand to a point what's being said here.
I want to protect and stand up for the kids
in my community. But I'm not the parent of every kid. Right,
and so the idea that the government or some elected
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official loves your children as much as you do, and well,
unless someone out there is just a horrible parent, this
is not true. It isn't true. In fact, I remember
watching one debate where a parent said, oh, you think
you love my children as much as I do? And
the person said yes, and he said, well, when's their birthday?
And of course this person doesn't know. And the point is, listen,
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I understand what you're saying to a point here, that
you care about children and all that, but you don't
love my child. What's his favorite color, what's his favorite
ice cream? And what does she like to do in
her spare time? Right? This is part of what it means.
We have the we don't have the capacity. I understand.
The Bible even tells us to love our neighbor as ourselves,
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to love people. But I can't love people in some abstract,
abstract way. I have to love a person as an individual,
and I can do things that are loving towards humanity
in general. But to think that that somehow replaces the
familial or parental type of love that only comes from
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someone who's close to the person, who's intimate, who understands
who they are, what they want, who walks through those struggles.
We homeschool here. I've watched, you know, as my wife
is sat down with our kids with the run. Everybody
has struggles right and works these things out with them
in ways that the government just simply cannot. But they
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tell you that they love everybody and that they're standing
up for everybody and fighting for everybody. It also assumes
that people like you and me on the other side
of the aisle are opposing these people. Listen, I have
no problem God. Every single person has made in the
image of God. This is not a hard concept. I
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think to grasp and understand every person that deserves to
be treated with respect. I'm even ordered by God to
love my enemies in the Bible, so even if they
were my enemies, I'm still God says to love them,
so I don't hate anybody. That they're conflating different things,
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and if you look at what he's doing, he's trying
to grab different groups of people that have been convinced
that they have been targeted by another group of people
and that their problems exist because the other group of
people created the problems. For them, and that's not how
you solve anyway anything. This is one of the fundamental,
one of the many fundamental problems with socialism. It's remarkable
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to me, I've said on this program before socialism or
this sort of mentality teaches us that everyone is collectively
responsible for everything, but no one is individually responsible and
accountable for any specific thing that they've done. And it
is exactly that's the inverse, that's the opposite of how
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we are to live our lives. I'm not responsible for
the decisions and choices of other people. I'm responsible for me.
I'm responsible for the things I do, the things I say,
the attitudes I have, dare I say biblically. I'm responsible
for the thoughts, the motivations, not just what I do outwardly.
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And it's good sometimes to bite your tongue, but it's
even better to not have to bite your tongue because
your heart has been renewed by your savior. And I
just listen. This stuff appeals to people because it says
someone else is responsible, someone else hates me. Whatever ruggles
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I face is because of some other group of and
it's and again it's always some nameless, faceless group. Now,
they have certain characteristics. They're white men or whatever. So
if you see a white man walking down the street,
you're supposed to hate them, but you don't know why
you're supposed to hate them. Look, there are some bad
people out there, bad people who are white, bad people
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who are every color whatever. But the idea, the idea
that this is appealing and at its root substantive, considered
substantive by people, is crazy. But it is. He continues
here though, Mandani at the microphone. And we will build.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
A city hall that stands steadfast alongside Jewish New Yorkers
and does not waiver in the fight against the scourge
of anti Semitism, where the more than one million Muslims
know that they belong not just in the five boroughs
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of this city, but in the halls of power.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
No more will New York.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Be a city where you can traffic in Islamophobia and.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Win an election all emotion. Listen to the crowd sharing.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
This new age will be defined by a competence and
a compassion that have too long been placed at odds
with one another. We will prove that there is no
problem too large for government to solve, and no concern
too small for it to care about.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Now, that's what I wanted to get to. There's a
lot of troubling things about this. Notice the cadence, Notice
the emotion this. You know, one of the biggest I
think misunderstandings in modern politics is that, you know, I
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long for this to be about ideas, and it's ideas
that are actually being voted on. But what you end
up having are people. You have vehicles who are delivering
the message, and the message is oftentimes not about the idea.
The message is about creating an emotion, and then once
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you have the emotion, you can just push whatever idea
because you've got the heart of the person. When you've
got this connection, they're cheering for things. Listen, I'm not
saying everything he said is bad. That's not my point.
What I'm saying some of it is, by the way,
But what I'm saying is that he's not even talking
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about any substance hereies talking about groups of people. We
got a single black mother, I've got you know, the Muslims,
I've got Jews, I've got this group, I've got that group.
And what the unspoken words are here, The unspoken intent
of this is to say I've got your back because
someone else has created problems for you. And you know what,
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sometimes people have created problems for individuals within these groups.
But the problems, the problems we should be addressing, are
when someone is directly responsible for causing harm to someone else,
they should face the consequences. By the way, these are
the folks that the left often wants to protect from
having to face the consequences in our criminal justice system,
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making excuses for them all the way home as where
they end up. And they do this, they do this
again with the mentality that says we're all collectively responsible
in some sort of way for the actions of an individual,
but no one is responsible for the actions of himself.
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It's a scary place to live. But this is what
New York York City is going to be. And I
want to take what he just said there as a
springboard to talk about some political philosophy, some ideas, some
things that I think matter even more than the content
of this stupid speech, because it exposes what these folks believe.
And I'll re queue that up and play that on
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Todd Huff back in just a minute. Welcome back, my friends.
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I want to cueue up what mom Donnie said there
last segment during his victory speech last night. One of
the most terrifying words, you remember, Reagan? This reminds me
of Reagan's quote. Let me get this right, Oh boy,
how exactly did he say that? He said the most terrifying?
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The seven was seven most terrifying words in the English language.
I may have the number wrong. Maybe it's nine. I'm
gonna count as I say, am the whatever, the whatever?
The number of most terrifying words in the English language are.
I'm from the government and I'm here to help. That's nine,
I'm from the government and I'm here to help. We
went from that mentality with Ronald Reagan, by the way,
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spot on accurate in his assessment of how we should
be afraid of the government trying to solve our problems
to literally literally zoron mom. Donnie speaking at the podium
in New York City last night during his victory speech,
saying this, to massive cheers from the audience.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
We will prove that there is no problem too large
for government to solve, and no concern too small for
it to care about.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Wild wild stuff. We will prove that there is no
problem too large or no problem too small for government
to care about, no problem too big for government to solve.
There's nothing that It's crazy to me, it is absolutely crazy. Again.
Contrasts that, juxtaposed that with what Reagan said back in
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the nineteen eighties when he said that that the nine
most terrifying words in the English language are I'm from
the government and I'm here to help. Now we've got
cheers saying there's no problem too big or small for
government to do something about. I beg to differ my friends,
and I want to talk about that. I want to
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talk about these fundamental ideological problems, and why it is
absolutely true what I've been telling you for a long
time that we are in the midst of a cold
civil war and you can't compromise. Listen, you can compromise
with liberals. You can compromise with Democrats, you can compromise
with moderate you can compromise with blue dog Democrats and
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establishment Republicans conservatives. There can be compromise there. But when
you have people who have abandoned the core ideological foundation
of this great nation, it becomes incredibly difficult and at
some point impossible. That's why, well, let me finish the
thought there impossible to compromise because it is so dramatic.
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I mean, is the compromise between total government control, you know,
the compromise with someone I should say, who wants total
government control of the economy? Is it half control? Is
that acceptable? See this we have to defeat this. This
is this is not something you can compromise with. And
that's not something they want to compromise with us on.
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They'll say it at the podium, But the truth is
they're incompatible. At some point, these are philosophically incompatible ideas.
The idea of liberty the idea, the ideas upon which
this country was built, and what Mom Donnie is talking
about here, that there's no problem too big for government
to solve and no problem too small for it to
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care about. What on earth is going on here? Now
I knew this, You knew this, but to hear someone
saying this from the podium, it is wild. I mean
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let's get into what I like to really talk about here,
which are the differences, these very very important differences in ideologies.
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So the philosophical foundations, our worldview, these sorts of things
determine what we think makes sense politically during election season,
and of course yesterday was election day for New York,
well the mayor of New York and by the way,
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lost governors race in Virginia, Republicans lost governor's race in
New Jersey, California voted to redistrict, which again I don't listen,
that's a political choice, and my state's about to embark
upon that here in Indiana as well. I know many
of your fellow Hoosiers, and it's it's the reason why
we have to be prepared to fight. We have to
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do this as well, we have to do anyway. We'll
get to that. We've talked about that a lot lately.
I want to I want to stay on topic here.
So what's the proper role of government? You know, if
you look at our founding documents, if you look at
the Declaration of Independence, if you look at the Constitution,
you can see that our founders and read their writings right,
read the Federalists or the even the anti federalist papers.
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Read just just some of the thoughts and excerpts from
diaries and letters from some of these founders and so forth,
early presidents. They understood, They understood a lot of things.
Number one, that the primary function of government is to
secure liberty, uphold law, deliver justice. That is what our
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government should seek to be doing. And if you look
at the Constitution, you look at the Declaration for a
little bit of background, but the constitution is it understands
the nature of humanity. The nature of humanity, the founder said, Look,
rights are given by our creator. So what's the very
first thing, The very first thing, most important foundational component
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of our system of government is a belief in God.
Now people say that's separation at church and state and
all that, but listen, you have to have a foundation
upon which your society functions and even makes sense. Our
society was built on Judaean Christian values, beliefs, morality that
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is baked into it. There is no getting that out.
We've tried, I say, we others have tried, and they've
they failed miserably because it's intertwined. It's baked into the
final product. And so the worldview is critically important. The
government should be limited people. You know, biblically, when Jesus
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was crucified. This is well, there's so many beautiful things
I've shared with you. I do this Bible study called
the Bible Recap with Tarry Lee Cobble. I think it's
absolutely fantastic stuff. And there's a lot of things. There's
a lot, there's a whole lot in the scriptures. But
one of the most amazing things to me is when
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Jesus was crucified. One of the first things that happened,
it says, is that the curtain in the temple was
torn in two. This curtain was big and thick, and
it separated the Holy of Holies from the rest of
the temple, and that the High Priest was supposed to
go beyond that curtain once a year, and only the
High Priest. He was the only one who was ceremonial prepared,
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ceremonially prepared and cleansed to go before God and to
seek to atone for the sins of the people every year,
once a year. In fact, even when he would go
behind that curtain, they would tie a rope to him,
I think on his arm or his leg in case
he had a heart attack or died behind the curtain.
They were not going to go retrieve him. They were
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not allowed to go back there. And if you know
much about the Old Testament, you'll know that there are
examples of bad things happening when people violated what God
had told them not to do, don't touch the ark
of the Covenant or whatever. And so they would have
that rope there, the pull to pull them out. Well,
that curtain was torn in two And what did that mean?
Why did those words even put there, Well, they're put
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there because what it said was, what it signified, was
that what the work that Jesus just did on that
cross tore down the need for that curtain. What happened
on the other side of that curtain no longer to
humanity need a high priest to stand between them and God.
Because Jesus had done the work on the cross, the
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perfect sacrifice for our sins. There no longer was that burden,
or that I should say, barrier between us and so
and so. The same is true. Our founders would say,
the government doesn't stand between you and your God, you
and your choices. You live out your life as you
see fit. Your freedoms come from Him, the Creator. They
don't come from a bunch of people in Washington, d c.
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Or your state house or anywhere else. They come from God.
You can live freely. You have those rights that are
given to you. The government exists to secure those rights
and make sure that you have those rights. That there
is law and justice, and there's some basic functional things
that the branches of government does, and it's clearly outlined
and put into place, but it is a limited government,
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because the government doesn't exist to be all these other things.
Your government is not God. I've said on this program before.
The left believes that government is God. They do. I've
had them tell me that. I've had some tell me
that it is the closest thing they have to religion
that politics is, which is mind boggling to me, and
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that leads to some candidate like Zoron Mamdani. I've got
to make a break, my friends. Long the segment back
in just a minute. Welcome back, my friends. Third and
final segment. This is the day, by the way, you know,
we've we've reduced because of some things that were some
new things we're doing, and some changes. We've cut down
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to one hour of the podcast today, and who knows
that might change at some point. There might be bonus
content for Inner Circle plus members at some point. I
don't know what we're working through that. But this is
a day that I could talk about. I could talk
about this for a long long time, and I just
don't have the time. Unfortunately. I'm going to do my
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best here to get to continue what we talked about
last segment, because I think this of all the things,
of all the things going out there, all going on
out there, all the things that are happening in this country.
I think that understanding these major differences between the ideologies,
between the worldviews that fuel these political movements and parties,
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differences between the mindset that says Reagan, again juxtaposing Reagan's
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comments that said the nine most terrifying words in the
English language are I'm from the government and I'm here
to help. Comparing that to what Mamdanie just said, who
said that there's no problem too big for government to
solve or too small for government to care about. See,
this is a perfect example of government trying to fill
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the void of well, the human need for God. That
is exactly what is happening here. Government is not your provider.
Government is not designed to fix all of your problems.
Government is designed again to secure your liberties, to ensure
law and order, to ensure justice. If someone directly harms you,
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that person should face the consequences of that and deal
with the re percussions. The government is not there to
try to figure out who is responsible for whatever struggle
that an individual is dealing with and then come up
with some policy or plan to make it right. But
it sounds so good, It sounds so good, and if
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you think about it, this is government trying to fill
the role of God. This is government trying to seek
out vengeance. If you will, the Bible says vengeance is
mine declares the Lord. The government shouldn't seek to be
out there seeking to promote vengeance and so forth. The
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government should be out there trying to promote equality under
the law and actually pursuing justice, which again, the left
doesn't want true justice. They'll say they want justice, they'll
want different types of justice. I hate, I don't like
when there's any word attached to the word justice, social justice,
environmental justice, whatever. It's just justice. And some of those
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things aren't even remotely connected to justice. But they've conditioned
people to think this. They've conditioned people to believe that
the governments out there are trying to make things right,
and I guess to get even to redistribute wealth to
create this utopia. It will fail, and it will fail miserably.
In fact, many people are preparing to leave New York
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City because of the ideology the politics of Zoran Man Dami, Mom, Donnie,
I should say so, socialism always fails, always of the time.
And just because you've heard me say this, if you
listen to this program for long, but just because you
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tack the word democratic on the front of it, which
is again is another little sub subtle trick that's used
by the people who are talking about protecting our democracy.
Now they tack the word democratic in front of socialism,
and now they say, look, we're here. If we got
the fifty percent plus one, if we have the majority,
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then we can basically do whatever we want. We can
take something that belongs to one person and give it
to another. And the audience applauds. The people that are takers,
applaud the people who are desiring big government, applauds the
people who are desiring a government take the rule of
our creator, of our God, applaud That's what's happening in
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this morally bankrupt ideology and worldview. You always run out
of other people's money. Though, that's why our founders also
said liberty was the objective. The smallest minority, by the way,
is the minority of the individual, one person. That's why
you have rights that you are secure in. You should
be secure in that you've been given by your creator,
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that our government should help secure and make sure all
people have that. But instead what we have is some
of that to now where we say, well, we're going
to take from the smallest group and give to the
biggest group of supporters and voters I can have so
I can win their votes and basically pay them off.
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This is anything but just and good and wholesome governance
and politics, my friends. This is an ideological battle. This
at its core, at his core, again, as I've said before,
is a spiritual battle. Government is not your God. Government
is not the well, the benevolent force that many believe
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that it is. Government has done more atrocities, committed more
atrocities than we can possibly talk about, especially in the
time remaining, which is not much. Gotta go, SDG.
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My friends, Do not be dismayed, do not be well.
You can be disappointed, do not be crushed here after
what happened yesterday, it was not a good day for
Republicans politically, but this is I look, this is the
battle that we find ourselves in. This is far from over,
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and I want to talk about this today. I want
to talk specifically about the virtual communist that has been
elected in New York City today, Zorn Mom Donnie. I
want to play some of his victory speech that leads
me to talk you know, at the core, at the
core of what I want to get to when I
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do this show. When I when you go back to
the days of when I was brainstorming this show, or
you know, when I was on the horse farm as
I was listening to talk radio. I remember This is
a long time ago now, twenty five plus years ago.
I remember having mock interviews in my head that even
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though the people that I was interviewing as I was
trimming that fence line or painting that fence may be
different today than they were twenty some years ago, the
questions and the thoughts that I have that they can
be traced back to well when I was doing those
mock inn reviews in my mind as as a horse
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farmer on the fence, listening to talk radio and so forth.
But when I thought about this show and what I
wanted it to be, I always wanted it to be
about ideas. I always wanted to be able. And today
today is great for me because this is a This
is an example of being able to talk about what
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has happened and in the on the one hand, I
hate that it has happened. I hate the New York
City has elected a quote unquote democratic socialist mayor because
it's going to cause problems the chances of this working.
Hear me say this, what do we doe? November fifth,
twenty twenty five. Here on today's program, hear me make
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this proclamation. There is zero percent. Listen, I literally mean zero.
I'm a guy who thinks in terms of probability a lot.
I think in terms from when I'm watching a Pacers
game and the Pacers are down on twenty three points,
was seven minutes to go or whatever? I think in
terms of probability, I think if some people just turn
(03:07):
it off and they end up missing some of the
greatest comebacks in history, of which the Pacers had quite
a few last season. But I think in terms of probability, yeah,
are they going to lose? In probability, sure, is there
a chance they could win? Yeah, so I there's never
It's never fair to say a zero percent chance in
the world of sports. I mean, if there's three seconds
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left then you don't have the ball and the clock's ticking, sure,
but short of that, there's never truly a zero percent
chance until the game is over. Hear me say this,
There is a zero percent chance, and I mean literally
zero percent chance that what New York just did by
electing zoron mom Donnie is going to work. I mean,
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if he does what he says he's going to do,
the chances of things improving for New Or is literally zero.
Now you'd say, well, Todd, that's not possible. You just
told us, you know that the game's not over. But see,
the game is over. See that's that's the thing. The
game is over because the ideology has already been exposed
(04:16):
as something that is not true, is not beneficial, does
not reflect the way that things work this side of heaven,
and it is set to fail. This is a certainty.
This will not work. This will be an utter disaster.
Some people out there say that this is what New
York deserves. I don't like to say that. I mean, yes,
(04:37):
they voted for it, so in that sense, I guess
you get, you reap what you sew, and I don't
feel sorry. I feel sorry for the people who voted
against it, who see what's coming and they can't do
anything about it. Maybe they can't get out of the city.
I do feel for those people, for those who have
voted this in buying into this narrative, this Obama two
(05:01):
point zero sort of candidate someone who's you know, well
spoken and can and can you know, just generate enthusiasm
by saying nothing by the way it is remarkable to me,
or saying things that would be laughed out of any
place that has people with brains sitting around the table
listening to this stuff that they he has built a following.
(05:24):
I mean, it is, it is, it's something to behold.
It's terrifying in another sense because the guy can say
anything and he gets cheers. And I'm going to play
some of his some of his speech. But it lets
us get into some philosophy, some of these ideas which
I love to get into. That's where we're headed today.
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I'm gonna pull up this link. Now this I listened
to this full speech. Oz heard it too. I think
I heard. Yes, I'm gonna say I heard Oz roll
her eyes a few times as she was overhearing zoron
Mom Donnie during his victory speech last night in New
York City as he won the mayor's race. Now the
(07:16):
final tally here, well, I guess this was I'm looking
on screen here, Mom. Donnie won by about about two
hundred thousand votes. He had over a million, Cuomo had
under nine hundred thousand, and then the rest of the
characters were down way below that. Donnie had over half
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the vote. Just at half the vote, fifty four point
four percent is what I'm looking at here on this
still shot this with ninety percent of the precincts reporting.
So he takes to the podium to proclaim his victory.
Now I listened to this whole thing. It's twenty two
minutes or something like that. There's a place here, This
(08:01):
is in the latter half, right at the midway point,
slightly past it that I want to talk about. It's
a chunk of what I want to get to. We'll
get through as much of this as we can, because
I do want to get to some of these ideas
and so forth. But I want you to listen to
this speech, and I want you to listen to some
(08:21):
of the botatious claims that this guy makes. I want
you to listen to the reaction of the crowd. They
cheer anything, And I just want you to try to
take a step back. Try to take a step back
to where you're a spectator. I tell I coach. I
coach a couple of girls basketball teams, and there are
(08:43):
times that the players become spectators. And I'll tell them,
do not become a spectator. Right If you're on the court,
If you shoot the shot and then suddenly you just
watch it to see if it goes in instead of
going to the basket to try to get the rebound,
you've become a spectator, right, And sometimes you can become
a spectator, or some players have the propensity to become
(09:05):
a spectator on the floor. So normally, I would say,
in a system like we have where we have the
right to self governance, it's a constitutional republican republic, representative republic,
and so forth, where we're electing people that we want
to represent us in Congress and so forth, I would say,
(09:28):
don't be a spectator. But for this small moment in time,
try to remove yourself, remove yourself from the feelings that
you have, the fears that you have, the concerns that
you have, and try to just step back. First of all,
let me say it's all going to be okay. The
one way through this is through victory. One side of
this is going to have to win. We have gotten
so far apart. I'm not against compromise. I am against
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compromising with people who require us to accept things that
are just outside the realm of what is reasonable and acceptable.
These folks have to be defeated. Zoran mom Donnie has
to be defeated. What's about to be unleashed upon the
city of New York is going to be the fault
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and responsibility of Zoran mom Donnie and those who elected him,
So I'm going to play this. This is roughly, I
don't know what is this eleven twelve minutes, maybe thirteen
minutes into his speech. This will be the full speech,
will be on the show notes if you want to
go there, Todd have show dot com. It's called the Stack.
I misspoke, or you can google it. This is at
(10:37):
CNN dot com if that's easier, whatever the case. But Mom,
Donnie takes to the podium and I just want you
to listen to this. Try to step back and try
not to be judgmental. I'm going to be criticizing these
ideas and all that sort of stuff that's coming. Don't
worry about that, but just try to We need to
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first understand what it is, because you and I hear
this and we think what universe is this coming from?
Who does this appeal to? We have to get into
the mindset. Just try to understand who it is and
why it is that this sort of thing resonates. And
we'll talk about this as the program unfolds. But I just,
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to the best of your ability, remove yourself from the
emotions of this. Try to step back to the thirty
thousand foot view and just take this in and as
a student, try to understand what it is that is
appealing to people about this, because that's the first step
in trying to defeat this. We have to understand what
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it is that is appealing, why it is appealing, how
they talk about things, how we should talk about things
and explain things to people who I would say are
brainwashed in a sense into believing that what he's about
to say has any semblance and reality whatsoever. That being said,
here is mom Donnie in his victory speech last night.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Listen up, Excellence will become the expectation across government, not
the exception.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Really woo yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
In this new age we make for ourselves, we will
refuse to allow those who traffic in division and hate
to pit us against one another.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Now, listen, I know that there are people that do that.
I know that there are people This has been the
strategy of the left. This is why there's identity politics.
To get one group stirred up and to say, hey,
that group over there is causing you to have problems.
Let's organize here, let's vote for a person. Let's stick
it to that group. That's exactly what they've been doing.
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In fact, I would encourage you to listen to what
he's about to say here in a minute, and I
would say, is he not the one that's doing this
very thing? But he continues here to the cheers.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
In this moment of political darkness, New York will be.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
The light you want to bet you want to bet.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Here, we believe in standing up for those we love,
whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community,
one of the many black women that Donald Trump is
fired from a federal job.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Yeah, and this is a very specific a.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Single mom still waiting for the cost of groceries to
go down, or anyone else with their back against the wall.
Your struggle is ours, too.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Bullwy, it absolutely is not. This is the sort of
thing I know. I want you to listen to this objectively,
but I can't help myself as well. This is one
of the lies of socialism. I remember having debates with
people or watching debates where somebody will say, for example,
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that they care about it's you know, our children, right,
it's the community's children, and we all love Listen. I
get it. I understand to a point what's being said here.
I want to protect and stand up for the kids
in my community. But I'm not the parent of every kid. Right,
and so the idea that the government or some elected
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official loves your children as much as you do, and well,
unless someone out there is just a horrible parent, this
is not true. It isn't true. In fact, I remember
watching one debate where a parent said, oh, you think
you love my children as much as I do? And
the person said yes, and he said, well, when's their birthday?
And of course this person doesn't know. And the point is, listen,
(14:42):
I understand what you're saying to a point here, that
you care about children and all that, but you don't
love my child. What's his favorite color, what's his favorite
ice cream? And what does she like to do in
her spare time? Right? This is part of what it means.
We have the we don't have the capacity. I understand.
The Bible even tells us to love our neighbor as ourselves,
(15:03):
to love people. But I can't love people in some abstract,
abstract way. I have to love a person as an individual,
and I can do things that are loving towards humanity
in general. But to think that that somehow replaces the
familial or parental type of love that only comes from
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someone who's close to the person, who's intimate, who understands
who they are, what they want, who walks through those struggles.
We homeschool here. I've watched, you know, as my wife
is sat down with our kids with the run. Everybody
has struggles right and works these things out with them
in ways that the government just simply cannot. But they
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tell you that they love everybody and that they're standing
up for everybody and fighting for everybody. It also assumes
that people like you and me on the other side
of the aisle are opposing these people. Listen, I have
no problem God. Every single person has made in the
image of God. This is not a hard concept. I
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think to grasp and understand every person that deserves to
be treated with respect. I'm even ordered by God to
love my enemies in the Bible, so even if they
were my enemies, I'm still God says to love them,
so I don't hate anybody. That they're conflating different things,
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and if you look at what he's doing, he's trying
to grab different groups of people that have been convinced
that they have been targeted by another group of people
and that their problems exist because the other group of
people created the problems. For them, and that's not how
you solve anyway anything. This is one of the fundamental,
one of the many fundamental problems with socialism. It's remarkable
(16:57):
to me, I've said on this program before socialism or
this sort of mentality teaches us that everyone is collectively
responsible for everything, but no one is individually responsible and
accountable for any specific thing that they've done. And it
is exactly that's the inverse, that's the opposite of how
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we are to live our lives. I'm not responsible for
the decisions and choices of other people. I'm responsible for me.
I'm responsible for the things I do, the things I say,
the attitudes I have, dare I say biblically. I'm responsible
for the thoughts, the motivations, not just what I do outwardly.
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And it's good sometimes to bite your tongue, but it's
even better to not have to bite your tongue because
your heart has been renewed by your savior. And I
just listen. This stuff appeals to people because it says
someone else is responsible, someone else hates me. Whatever ruggles
(18:00):
I face is because of some other group of and
it's and again it's always some nameless, faceless group. Now,
they have certain characteristics. They're white men or whatever. So
if you see a white man walking down the street,
you're supposed to hate them, but you don't know why
you're supposed to hate them. Look, there are some bad
people out there, bad people who are white, bad people
(18:22):
who are every color whatever. But the idea, the idea
that this is appealing and at its root substantive, considered
substantive by people, is crazy. But it is. He continues
here though, Mandani at the microphone. And we will build.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
A city hall that stands steadfast alongside Jewish New Yorkers
and does not waiver in the fight against the scourge
of anti Semitism, where the more than one million Muslims
know that they belong not just in the five boroughs
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of this city, but in the halls of power.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
No more will New York.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Be a city where you can traffic in Islamophobia and.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Win an election all emotion. Listen to the crowd sharing.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
This new age will be defined by a competence and
a compassion that have too long been placed at odds
with one another. We will prove that there is no
problem too large for government to solve, and no concern
too small for it to care about.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Now, that's what I wanted to get to. There's a
lot of troubling things about this. Notice the cadence, Notice
the emotion this. You know, one of the biggest I
think misunderstandings in modern politics is that, you know, I
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long for this to be about ideas, and it's ideas
that are actually being voted on. But what you end
up having are people. You have vehicles who are delivering
the message, and the message is oftentimes not about the idea.
The message is about creating an emotion, and then once
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you have the emotion, you can just push whatever idea
because you've got the heart of the person. When you've
got this connection, they're cheering for things. Listen, I'm not
saying everything he said is bad. That's not my point.
What I'm saying some of it is, by the way,
But what I'm saying is that he's not even talking
(20:51):
about any substance hereies talking about groups of people. We
got a single black mother, I've got you know, the Muslims,
I've got Jews, I've got this group, I've got that group.
And what the unspoken words are here, The unspoken intent
of this is to say I've got your back because
someone else has created problems for you. And you know what,
(21:14):
sometimes people have created problems for individuals within these groups.
But the problems, the problems we should be addressing, are
when someone is directly responsible for causing harm to someone else,
they should face the consequences. By the way, these are
the folks that the left often wants to protect from
having to face the consequences in our criminal justice system,
(21:36):
making excuses for them all the way home as where
they end up. And they do this, they do this
again with the mentality that says we're all collectively responsible
in some sort of way for the actions of an individual,
but no one is responsible for the actions of himself.
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It's a scary place to live. But this is what
New York York City is going to be. And I
want to take what he just said there as a
springboard to talk about some political philosophy, some ideas, some
things that I think matter even more than the content
of this stupid speech, because it exposes what these folks believe.
And I'll re queue that up and play that on
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Todd Huff back in just a minute. Welcome back, my friends.
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I want to cueue up what mom Donnie said there
last segment during his victory speech last night. One of
the most terrifying words, you remember, Reagan? This reminds me
of Reagan's quote. Let me get this right, Oh boy,
how exactly did he say that? He said the most terrifying?
(23:26):
The seven was seven most terrifying words in the English language.
I may have the number wrong. Maybe it's nine. I'm
gonna count as I say, am the whatever, the whatever?
The number of most terrifying words in the English language are.
I'm from the government and I'm here to help. That's nine,
I'm from the government and I'm here to help. We
went from that mentality with Ronald Reagan, by the way,
(23:47):
spot on accurate in his assessment of how we should
be afraid of the government trying to solve our problems
to literally literally zoron mom. Donnie speaking at the podium
in New York City last night during his victory speech,
saying this, to massive cheers from the audience.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
We will prove that there is no problem too large
for government to solve, and no concern too small for
it to care about.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Wild wild stuff. We will prove that there is no
problem too large or no problem too small for government
to care about, no problem too big for government to solve.
There's nothing that It's crazy to me, it is absolutely crazy. Again.
Contrasts that, juxtaposed that with what Reagan said back in
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the nineteen eighties when he said that that the nine
most terrifying words in the English language are I'm from
the government and I'm here to help. Now we've got
cheers saying there's no problem too big or small for
government to do something about. I beg to differ my friends,
and I want to talk about that. I want to
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talk about these fundamental ideological problems, and why it is
absolutely true what I've been telling you for a long
time that we are in the midst of a cold
civil war and you can't compromise. Listen, you can compromise
with liberals. You can compromise with Democrats, you can compromise
with moderate you can compromise with blue dog Democrats and
(25:23):
establishment Republicans conservatives. There can be compromise there. But when
you have people who have abandoned the core ideological foundation
of this great nation, it becomes incredibly difficult and at
some point impossible. That's why, well, let me finish the
thought there impossible to compromise because it is so dramatic.
(25:46):
I mean, is the compromise between total government control, you know,
the compromise with someone I should say, who wants total
government control of the economy? Is it half control? Is
that acceptable? See this we have to defeat this. This
is this is not something you can compromise with. And
that's not something they want to compromise with us on.
(26:08):
They'll say it at the podium, But the truth is
they're incompatible. At some point, these are philosophically incompatible ideas.
The idea of liberty the idea, the ideas upon which
this country was built, and what Mom Donnie is talking
about here, that there's no problem too big for government
to solve and no problem too small for it to
(26:30):
care about. What on earth is going on here? Now
I knew this, You knew this, but to hear someone
saying this from the podium, it is wild. I mean
it really and truly is wild. My friends, and I
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let's get into what I like to really talk about here,
which are the differences, these very very important differences in ideologies.
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So the philosophical foundations, our worldview, these sorts of things
determine what we think makes sense politically during election season,
and of course yesterday was election day for New York,
well the mayor of New York and by the way,
(28:44):
lost governors race in Virginia, Republicans lost governor's race in
New Jersey, California voted to redistrict, which again I don't listen,
that's a political choice, and my state's about to embark
upon that here in Indiana as well. I know many
of your fellow Hoosiers, and it's it's the reason why
we have to be prepared to fight. We have to
(29:05):
do this as well, we have to do anyway. We'll
get to that. We've talked about that a lot lately.
I want to I want to stay on topic here.
So what's the proper role of government? You know, if
you look at our founding documents, if you look at
the Declaration of Independence, if you look at the Constitution,
you can see that our founders and read their writings right,
read the Federalists or the even the anti federalist papers.
(29:27):
Read just just some of the thoughts and excerpts from
diaries and letters from some of these founders and so forth,
early presidents. They understood, They understood a lot of things.
Number one, that the primary function of government is to
secure liberty, uphold law, deliver justice. That is what our
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government should seek to be doing. And if you look
at the Constitution, you look at the Declaration for a
little bit of background, but the constitution is it understands
the nature of humanity. The nature of humanity, the founder said, Look,
rights are given by our creator. So what's the very
first thing, The very first thing, most important foundational component
(30:11):
of our system of government is a belief in God.
Now people say that's separation at church and state and
all that, but listen, you have to have a foundation
upon which your society functions and even makes sense. Our
society was built on Judaean Christian values, beliefs, morality that
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is baked into it. There is no getting that out.
We've tried, I say, we others have tried, and they've
they failed miserably because it's intertwined. It's baked into the
final product. And so the worldview is critically important. The
government should be limited people. You know, biblically, when Jesus
(30:55):
was crucified. This is well, there's so many beautiful things
I've shared with you. I do this Bible study called
the Bible Recap with Tarry Lee Cobble. I think it's
absolutely fantastic stuff. And there's a lot of things. There's
a lot, there's a whole lot in the scriptures. But
one of the most amazing things to me is when
(31:17):
Jesus was crucified. One of the first things that happened,
it says, is that the curtain in the temple was
torn in two. This curtain was big and thick, and
it separated the Holy of Holies from the rest of
the temple, and that the High Priest was supposed to
go beyond that curtain once a year, and only the
High Priest. He was the only one who was ceremonial prepared,
(31:41):
ceremonially prepared and cleansed to go before God and to
seek to atone for the sins of the people every year,
once a year. In fact, even when he would go
behind that curtain, they would tie a rope to him,
I think on his arm or his leg in case
he had a heart attack or died behind the curtain.
They were not going to go retrieve him. They were
(32:03):
not allowed to go back there. And if you know
much about the Old Testament, you'll know that there are
examples of bad things happening when people violated what God
had told them not to do, don't touch the ark
of the Covenant or whatever. And so they would have
that rope there, the pull to pull them out. Well,
that curtain was torn in two And what did that mean?
Why did those words even put there, Well, they're put
(32:25):
there because what it said was, what it signified, was
that what the work that Jesus just did on that
cross tore down the need for that curtain. What happened
on the other side of that curtain no longer to
humanity need a high priest to stand between them and God.
Because Jesus had done the work on the cross, the
(32:46):
perfect sacrifice for our sins. There no longer was that burden,
or that I should say, barrier between us and so
and so. The same is true. Our founders would say,
the government doesn't stand between you and your God, you
and your choices. You live out your life as you
see fit. Your freedoms come from Him, the Creator. They
don't come from a bunch of people in Washington, d c.
(33:09):
Or your state house or anywhere else. They come from God.
You can live freely. You have those rights that are
given to you. The government exists to secure those rights
and make sure that you have those rights. That there
is law and justice, and there's some basic functional things
that the branches of government does, and it's clearly outlined
and put into place, but it is a limited government,
(33:32):
because the government doesn't exist to be all these other things.
Your government is not God. I've said on this program before.
The left believes that government is God. They do. I've
had them tell me that. I've had some tell me
that it is the closest thing they have to religion
that politics is, which is mind boggling to me, and
(33:53):
that leads to some candidate like Zoron Mamdani. I've got
to make a break, my friends. Long the segment back
in just a minute. Welcome back, my friends. Third and
final segment. This is the day, by the way, you know,
we've we've reduced because of some things that were some
new things we're doing, and some changes. We've cut down
(34:15):
to one hour of the podcast today, and who knows
that might change at some point. There might be bonus
content for Inner Circle plus members at some point. I
don't know what we're working through that. But this is
a day that I could talk about. I could talk
about this for a long long time, and I just
don't have the time. Unfortunately. I'm going to do my
(34:37):
best here to get to continue what we talked about
last segment, because I think this of all the things,
of all the things going out there, all going on
out there, all the things that are happening in this country.
I think that understanding these major differences between the ideologies,
between the worldviews that fuel these political movements and parties,
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differences between the mindset that says Reagan, again juxtaposing Reagan's
(36:06):
comments that said the nine most terrifying words in the
English language are I'm from the government and I'm here
to help. Comparing that to what Mamdanie just said, who
said that there's no problem too big for government to
solve or too small for government to care about. See,
this is a perfect example of government trying to fill
(36:30):
the void of well, the human need for God. That
is exactly what is happening here. Government is not your provider.
Government is not designed to fix all of your problems.
Government is designed again to secure your liberties, to ensure
law and order, to ensure justice. If someone directly harms you,
(36:55):
that person should face the consequences of that and deal
with the re percussions. The government is not there to
try to figure out who is responsible for whatever struggle
that an individual is dealing with and then come up
with some policy or plan to make it right. But
it sounds so good, It sounds so good, and if
(37:16):
you think about it, this is government trying to fill
the role of God. This is government trying to seek
out vengeance. If you will, the Bible says vengeance is
mine declares the Lord. The government shouldn't seek to be
out there seeking to promote vengeance and so forth. The
(37:37):
government should be out there trying to promote equality under
the law and actually pursuing justice, which again, the left
doesn't want true justice. They'll say they want justice, they'll
want different types of justice. I hate, I don't like
when there's any word attached to the word justice, social justice,
environmental justice, whatever. It's just justice. And some of those
(38:01):
things aren't even remotely connected to justice. But they've conditioned
people to think this. They've conditioned people to believe that
the governments out there are trying to make things right,
and I guess to get even to redistribute wealth to
create this utopia. It will fail, and it will fail miserably.
In fact, many people are preparing to leave New York
(38:24):
City because of the ideology the politics of Zoran Man Dami, Mom, Donnie,
I should say so, socialism always fails, always of the time.
And just because you've heard me say this, if you
listen to this program for long, but just because you
(38:46):
tack the word democratic on the front of it, which
is again is another little sub subtle trick that's used
by the people who are talking about protecting our democracy.
Now they tack the word democratic in front of socialism,
and now they say, look, we're here. If we got
the fifty percent plus one, if we have the majority,
(39:07):
then we can basically do whatever we want. We can
take something that belongs to one person and give it
to another. And the audience applauds. The people that are takers,
applaud the people who are desiring big government, applauds the
people who are desiring a government take the rule of
our creator, of our God, applaud That's what's happening in
(39:30):
this morally bankrupt ideology and worldview. You always run out
of other people's money. Though, that's why our founders also
said liberty was the objective. The smallest minority, by the way,
is the minority of the individual, one person. That's why
you have rights that you are secure in. You should
be secure in that you've been given by your creator,
(39:52):
that our government should help secure and make sure all
people have that. But instead what we have is some
of that to now where we say, well, we're going
to take from the smallest group and give to the
biggest group of supporters and voters I can have so
I can win their votes and basically pay them off.
(40:15):
This is anything but just and good and wholesome governance
and politics, my friends. This is an ideological battle. This
at its core, at his core, again, as I've said before,
is a spiritual battle. Government is not your God. Government
is not the well, the benevolent force that many believe
(40:40):
that it is. Government has done more atrocities, committed more
atrocities than we can possibly talk about, especially in the
time remaining, which is not much. Gotta go, SDG.
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