November 7, 2025 • 40 mins
Todd breaks down why the now 38-day government shutdown has become the longest in U.S. history and how a narrow change to the Senate filibuster could reopen the government with a clean continuing resolution. He pushes back on the Left’s narrative and plays a CNN clip featuring Rep. Hakeem Jeffries with Jake Tapper and Dana Bash, noting how even legacy media is challenging Democratic talking points. Todd also digs into America’s growing dependency on federal benefits, cites Reagan’s measure of welfare success, and closes with James Carville’s 2028 prediction about packing the Supreme Court. Plus: reminders about Todd Talks and The Inner Circle at ToddHuffShow.com. It’s Conservative Not Bitter—clear, direct, and focused on winning at the ballot box.
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I still having trouble getting over this. Anyway, it's a
pleasure to be here with you on this Friday, my friends,
last day here before we wrap it up for the week,
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and it is my absolute pleasure to be here. I
want to talk about the now what is the longest
government shut down in US history. I want to talk
about the Democrat narrative for all of this, which is
getting pushed back from the media, which we've talked about.
This leads into conversations about how do you end this thing?
The filibuster and all of that that leads into something
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James Carvill has been out there saying, which I want
to get to as well, regarding the twenty twenty eight election.
His optimism, I guess regarding that for Democrats and what
that could mean heading into life in America in twenty
twenty eight. All these things just highlight how important it
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is for us to win elections and to govern and
legislate as efficiently and as proactively as possible. We are
in the midst, as I've said before on this program,
my friends, a cold civil war. The only way through
this is to defeat them, the left, at the ballot
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box as much every time we can, every time there's
a vote. And of course there were some leftist victories
here earlier this week, which we've talked about. So that's
where we're headed today, my friends, I want to remind you.
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liberty and business for all. All right. I mentioned we're
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on what today's November seventh, So this is the seventh
day of November. Case a leftist is listening, that's how
that works. You've got thirty one days in October thirty
one plus seven thirty eight. This is the thirty eighth
day of the government shutdown, which started on October first midnight,
in fact, the morning of October first, now thirty eight
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days ago. This is now the longest shut down in
US history. Democrats believe that they have a political winner here.
Democrats believe that this was part of the reason that
they had some electoral victories, election victories on Tuesday. You know,
you say to your voters, the Republicans are trying to
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destroy our country. They can't get the government open. What
is going on. They control the House, they can troll
the Senate, they control the presidentcy, they control the Supreme Court. Ah,
we got to stop it. And they can't even keep
government open. And so you got to go out there
and you got to vote for some unhinged, radically insane
socialists who's going to give you government run grocery stores
thirty dollars an hour minimum wage utopia in the city
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of New York. He says that there's no problem too
big for the government to solve, no problem too small
for the government not to care about. This guy, I mean,
this guy is just a perfect example of what Karl
Marx teaches. I mean, from each according to his ability,
to each according to his need, that of course, being
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a well known quote from Karl Marx. And this is
how they do it. This is how they do it.
He speaks very well. People love listening. They cheer for
stuff that is just a rewarding of what actually turns
into tyranny. But again, the masses seem to love it.
He's going to be the mayor of New York City.
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And they think, the Democrats think that they have a
political winner with the American people. And what does that
political winner require, Well, my friends, it requires suffering from
the American people. They want Americans to not get paid,
they want Americans to lose access to benefits and all
that sort of stuff, which I want to get into this,
by the way, I want to get into there's more
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than meets the eye here, and I want to talk
about some of this. We've brought ourselves to this brink,
but I want to I want to break this down
and talk a little bit more that about that here
in a moment. But again, one of the major takeaways
for me is that we're on day number thirty eight,
and unless you've been caught up traveling in a extra
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long and extra slow tsa security point, or maybe one
of your flights has been canceled, you may have seen
that the federal government has asked or requested, I guess demanded,
that that airlines nationally reduced their domestic flights to I
believe it's the forty most forty busiest or certain airports
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in the United States cut those by ten percent. As
we navigate further navigate the government shut down, and this
has real impact on travel. Unless it's something like that,
or you work for the government, you're an air traffic controller,
something along those lines, you've not felt any of this,
which to me, which to me says that this that
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we don't need the government to do the vast majority
of what it does. That's one of the lessons that
I think we should take away from this. In fact,
if I was to put together a list of the
top five lessons to learn from the government shut down,
this would be one of them. The average person doesn't
need the government to do I'm going to pick a
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percentage here, a little bit for hyperbolic effect, but I'm
going to say ninety percent of what it does none
of us need. Now, if you're directly involved, if you
work for the government, if you contract with the government,
if you're on government benefits, it's a different story. And
there's real pain that's being created. And dare I say
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created by these folks, because that's exactly what is happening.
It's being created by the Democrats in the US Senate.
They think they've got a political victory when you suffer
and that's what they want.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Don't lose sight of that they're the ones causing this.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Republicans, yes, have a majority in the House, in the Senate,
and of course the White House, as you well know,
because they the media, the left freaks out about this
every day, telling us that the end is near and
that Trump is a Nazi hitler everything you can possibly imagine,
that's bad and wicked and evil. And we are just
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days and hours, just hanging on by the skin of
our teeth, by the very tips of our fingertips, my friends,
from falling into the abyss and losing this democracy.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
As the left would say, that's what they want you
to believe.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
But even though we have the majority, we don't have
the super majority. It requires three fits. I've told you this.
You know this. It requires sixty votes, not a simple majority.
That means that we have to have at least at
least seven Democrats join the Republicans to end this. So
the Republicans aren't responsible. It's out there, it's obvious for
those who want to follow it. In fact, this was
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a clip. I'll play this really quickly. This is a
clip from well, got the wrong clip here? How's that possible?
Speaker 3 (10:07):
I know what happened here.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
I'm going to keep talking here because I will find it.
But I have a clip here from election night, post election,
well election night coverage post election.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
On CNN.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
I think it was Dana Bash had she had Haquem
Jeffries House Minority Leader Hakim Jeffries on the program, and
she was talking with him about about the government shutdown.
And of course Aquem Jeffries does what Haiquem Jeffries always does,
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and the left always does. They get into this political drama,
they make it. They focus on the narrative more than
anything else. And to their credit, the folks CNN are
now actually pushing back. This has happened now for some time.
They say, wait a minute. The problem here is that
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Democrats are voting against this, and they've at first they
were caught off guard that Democrats never have questions about
this stuff then, or never have to answer about this
stuff because they're not pushed back on.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
But they do now, at least in this instance.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Jake Tapper, Dana Bash here with the Kim Jeffries, and
I'll play this for you so you can hear. You know,
you've heard things similar to this already, but this is
the narrative at the left wants to push. They think
they've got a political winner. Here's the keem jeffries On
with Dana Bash and Jake Tapper on CNN Election Night
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coverage earlier this week, furthering continuing to push his ridiculous
narrative about the government shutdown being the fault of the Republicans.
What is your response to what President Trump had to say.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
They're saying that the reason that Democrats said such a
good night is because A he wasn't on.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
The ballot and be the government shutdown.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Well, Donald Trump and Republicans shut the government down and
refused to reopen. And Donald Trump spent the last thirty
five days more time on the golf course, more time
talking to Hamas, and more time talking to the Chinese
Communist Party than to Democrats on Capitol Hill who represent
half the country.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Well, let me say here, the Democrat Party does an
awfully good job of carrying the talking points of Hamas
if I can throw that in their hakim, But these
are lines that they rehearse. You know, most people think
that the job of a politician is to figure these
problems out and to vote for things that are the
best interest of the American people. Not when Democrats are
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in charge, not when political people who are engaged in
political theater.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Not.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Not these folks who are interested in pushing in a
into at all costs, people who are politically divisive, like
Hakeem Jefferies. Their main objective is to basically to spout
lies and lines that they have practiced and rehearsed in
front of focus groups and so more so forth. And
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that's what he's doing here, spitting out these stupid talking points,
thinking he's sounding, you know, brilliant and smart. But it resonates,
of course with a certain element, maybe even the majority
of the CNN audience. But to their credit, Jake Tapper
Dana Bash kind of pushed back here, this.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Is literally you guys are voting no on opening the government,
not not Republicans.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
I know you're asking for specific things, and it's much
more complicated than that.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
We'll get to that in.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
One second, because that's to be clear about that. American
people clearly understand who's responsible for shutting down there. They
did shut down the government. They have the House to
send it and the presidency. So Donald Trump has spent
the last few days saying to Republicans in the Senate.
You have the power to reopen the government. They refuse
to do it.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
I want to talk about it, but pause for a minute.
We'll get into that. Donald Trump has been saying that
you know why this is. This is just remarkable to me.
They expect you to be stupid. They He is speaking
to people who are either intentionally not aware of what's
going on, or people who have been uneducated or who
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have bought into the lies and don't know what's what
the truth is because they accept the narrative. Donald Trump
has been saying that you have the power change the filibuster. See,
that's the problem, is the filibuster. The filibuster says, you
don't need a specit. Well, it's a simple majority to
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pass things out of the Senate. I guess technically you
still just need a simple majority, but you have to
have three fists of the Senate say that will even
vote on an issue, and so they of course, I've
gone through this. I don't want to go through. You
can go to previous episodes in the past couple of
weeks where we've talked this. I just want to hit
the high points. The filibuster was designed in theory to
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have more debate about an issue, not to shut down
the government so that you can throw a temper tantrum
and to try to get political points and to well
to harm the American people. That's not what it was
done for. I don't want to go down that path today.
I've done that a few times recently on this program.
Hakeem Jeffreys is factually wrong. He's depending upon you, his viewers,
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the audience at CNN. He's counting on them being ignorant,
or stupid, or just blinded by political allegiance. Yes, the
Republicans have a political majority, they don't have a supermajority.
The only way that they can govern with a simple
majority is to do something about the filibuster rule. I
think that Republicans should absolutely change the filibuster rule, narrowly, narrowly.
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This is something else that's out there happening, that that's
what we're being gas lit and lied to. No one. Well,
I'm not calling for I'm not calling for the complete
abolition of the filibuster. I'm calling for changes to the
filibuster rule so that this sort of thing, a clean resolution,
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a clean continuing resolution, cannot be filibustered. Now, if there's
anything that's new in it, at the parliamentarian says this
is not a clean cr then you should be able
to filibuster it if you know, if it's in it
keeps the filibuster rule, which I think both parties still
want to do that out of the fear of as
to what the other party will do if they're in power,
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what they'll do to force across the finish line and
put into.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Law and so forth.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
You can have a discussion about ending the filibuster even
in general, but specifically here I would say, I would
say that the filibusters should be and Trump's right on
this changed to address change, to address this government shutdown.
This should not be something that the filibuster is used.
It's being abused. And so if you factor in that
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bit of information which Hakim Jeffries does not want the
viewers to see, it nd to know that it's absolutely
right that Republicans have the majority, they have the votes
to do this if they changed the filibuster. The problem
is they still don't have the rules to change the
filibuster because I mean, there's several reasons. Again, I would
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say the most obvious reason is that if they change
the filibuster, then Democrats might change the filibuster even further,
preventing it from being used on other types of votes.
Both Democrats and Republicans have changed the filibuster rule here
in the past ten to twelve years or so, starting
back I think in twenty thirteen when Democrats prevented Republicans
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from using the filibuster for federal appointment, and then in
twenty maybe seventeen when Republicans used it to prevent the
Senate from filibustering Supreme Court nomination, Supreme Court nominees, and
so forth. Now we've got a situation where the government's
being shut down because again it's to someone on the
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outside looking in, this is absurd. This is truly absurd.
You've got more than half of the legislature trying to
open the government without changing anything, without making any new
you know, expenditures in this continuing resolution, without cutting anything
in the continuing resolution, just operating status quo as you
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did on September thirtieth. You want to continue that on
October first, or now we're onto November seventh, and you
can't reopen the government with the majority. That is crazy,
That is you talk about an inability, I will I
will say that. I would say to the Republicans, that's
your fault. That's your fault. We got to change that rule.
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That cannot be done. It needs to be narrowly defined.
We're not getting rid of the filibuster for everything. For
those who are out there saying that that's the choice
that's being considered, certainly that can be discussed, but that's
not what This can be done simply by saying narrowly
defining the type of legislation that the filibuster cannot be
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used for, and that would be I would say, for
a clean continuing resolution, no changes to the bill, you
should not be able to filibuster that. If there's no
political changes or additions to government expenses and so forth,
that should be able to go straight through with the
simple majority without having to deal with the filibuster. Because
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this is what we deal with. This is what we
deal with, and we have we have the political games,
we have the real pain caused for average Americans. We
have the political consequences of this. Right, There's going to
be people who get elected because of this that might
not have won otherwise. You may have a party in
control that would not have been in control if they
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weren't allowed to abuse this. This is ridiculous. This is
strategically stupid in my estimation, to not just fix this immediately.
This is on that part is on the Republicans. That
is on the Republicans, but it's not Again, when you
have tiny majorities. Fifty three seats is what they have
in the Senate, that's only a three seat majority, it's
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going to be hard to get this done if just
a couple of people have reservations. And we know that
a lot of these folks are scared of their shadows.
Some of these folks, I'm telling you, they don't understand
what I just told you. They think that it's an
all or nothing sort of thing. I would not surprise
me one bit if someone sitting in Congress thought that
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it was either get rid of these filibuster completely or
keep it and allow the Democrats to abuse it. That's
that's just a false choice, my friends. More to say
about this now, I do want to spend as we
get to the next segment, I want to spend some
time talking about how did we get here as a country?
How did we get here as a country where the
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impacts of the shutdown. While it still does not hit
a lot of people directly, I'm guessing many of you,
it certainly hits some of you. And I don't mean
to throw everybody into one, you know, one bucket, so
to speak, metaphorical bucket here. But the question, the question
to me comes up as to why did we get
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to the point where so many Americans are incapable of
living their lives without the government. I still know many
many people don't have that problem, the vast majority don't,
but it's a growing number who do. And listen, I'm
not talking about you if you have a job with
the federal government. I'm talking about people who are connected
to the benefits of the federal government.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
How on earth do we get here? How on earth
do we have so many.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
People who are basically at the mercy of getting checks
and benefits from the federal government. So that's what I
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Speaker 3 (23:22):
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Speaker 2 (23:24):
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Speaker 3 (23:36):
And so that's the plan.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
That's what we're doing, all right, So let's shift gear.
We're not shifting gears a lot. We've been talking about
what's happening in the government. But and I've said, I
stand by what I've said. The vast majority of people
you have to remind you have to remind them unless
they're traveling or something very specific to where they've you know,
maybe had to do something involving the federal government and
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so forth. Unless it's something like that, they just they
have to be reminded that the government is shut down altogether.
And so that is where most Americans land. However, however,
there are certainly people who depend upon the government. Millions
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of people depend upon the government, my friends, millions and
millions of people. This is a dependency. I feel this
is important to point out a dependency that has been
manufactured and created by the lovers of big government. You know,
there's a quote that I want to read you. There's
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a couple Reagan said this. President Reagan said this a
couple different times, a couple of different ways. Reagan said this.
We should measure Welfare's success that's just one federal program. Right. Course,
back in his day, we didn't. We had much fewer
federal programs in this sort of thing, but we certainly
had some. Reagan said we should measure welfare. That's, of
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course one of those programs. Measure its success by how
many people leave welfare, not by how many are added. Man,
that is a very very important distinction. And see, this
is where it gets into. This is where you begin
to have the feelers in society separate from the thinkers
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in society, because the feelers say, my goodness, you shouldn't
you know, talk about people who need a program like that.
These are people who are in desperate need. We want
them to be able to access this program without feeling,
you know, sort of any sort of guilt or hesitation
about accessing it. That's what it's there for. To that,
I would say, fine, I'm not here to say, Look,
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we can have larger discussions about these programs. This is
not meant to be a discussion to say that we
need to completely eradicate, completely eradicate the you know, some
of these programs today that that's not even the discussion.
The discussion is how did we get here? How did
we get to the point where forty two million people
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look to the government every month and say feed us,
and that is a terrified Well, there are three hundred
and thirty some million people, three hundred and thirty five
I think million people in this great nation. To have
forty two million of them basically say we're depending upon
you for our survival is just it. It's to me,
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that's crazy. And that's just one of this that's snap benefits.
That doesn't take into account some of these other things. Right,
we have a massive problem here, a massive problem here. Now,
I'm going to say some things, and I want you
to know. I want to say a couple things.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Number one.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Number one that as a Christian, we're commanded to take
care of those who are in need. We're just to
take care of the poor and the needy. We're told
to help the widows and the orphans, primarily because these
were you know, a lot of times it's easy to
get caught up on the specific type of person. You know,
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I'm just going to help an orphan, I'm just going
to help a widow. The concept really is to take
care of people who are in situations where they are
they're powerless or that they there, it's difficult to survive.
And if you look back historically throughout the history of
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the world and you see that, you know a lot
of times it was hard for it was required that
women have a husband to not because they weren't allowed
to worry. It was just the society was such that
that's how it was. It was done. Yes, there was
There's often been sexism and all that throughout history. I'm
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not saying that that's not the case. But some things
men needed to do because women couldn't physically do them,
or women had other responsibilities at the home, and you know,
they had to do all those things themselves with raising
the children, tending the home.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
It just you couldn't do all those things.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Today you can, of course hire housekeepers and nannies and
people to help with certain things, and you know, sometimes
tap into family. But at certain times throughout the history
of the world, you didn't have that luxury. You know,
your mother and father in law, they didn't go retire
and play golf like we do today. Right, The standard
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of living was much much different in those days. Everybody
was surviving and so they would they would work together,
but everybody was working for themselves. They didn't have large
sums of money where they could just you know, pay
other people to produce food. They had to go often,
you know, oftentimes plant it themselves, grow it themselves, harvest
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it themselves. On top of everything else. I mean, life
in this country, life in the modern times, is much
easier from a physical perspective than it has been throughout
much of history. And so, pardon me, excuse me, my friends.
I'm usually quite good at hitting the mute button, but
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I missed it there. But I would say, I would
say that you know that this this modern dependency. I mean,
we are so prosperous in this country to where people
that produce have so much excess that they can have
it taken by an inefficient government, where there's often waste, fraud,
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and abuse, they can have it taken from them. Not
you know, maybe not like that it's done. Nobody likes
high taxes, maybe not be able to do other things,
start other businesses, take other vacations, do other things for
their families, whatever that they want to do. And that's
a problem. I'm not saying it shouldn't be done, but
you end up you end up funding, you end up
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funding people who are paid by the government to do
it and have enough on top of that to give
out money to large groups of people who aren't either
able to or don't in some cases provide for themselves. Now,
there's a verse in the Bible, second Thessalonians, Chapter three,
verse ten. It says this, I mean, it says, if
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you don't work, you don't eat.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Now.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
I bet some people are surprised that that's in Now,
most of you, or.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Not, most of you know the Bible.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Most of you know that God isn't trying to have
a bunch of lazy people in his family. He wants
us to work. He doesn't want us to work ourselves
to death. He wants us to rest. That's what the
Sabbath was about, trust in him and all those sorts
of things.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
But we have a role too where God's.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Workmanship, the Bible says, and so we're supposed to do
some things. Adam and Eve were created to tend the garden.
They weren't just created to prop their feet up and
you know, just do some sunbathing all day. This is
we have a role and a responsibility. And if you
don't work, you don't eat. Now, Notice something here, and
this is important I always like to point this out.
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It doesn't say if you can't work, you don't eat.
It says if you don't work, you don't eat. And
so there's a certain amount of expectation that if you're able,
you should be producing, you should be taking care of yourself,
you should be taking care of your.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Family, and as you have more.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
That you are producing, you should be able to be
mindful of those in need. That's the way that that
things were designed to work. But once you create this
entitlement mentality, you shoot all of that down. You have
people who believe that they are literally in titled to
having a certain amount given to them by the federal government,
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Speaker 2 (33:36):
So when we get back from the break, a couple
of other things I want to get to. I want
to kind of wrap up this, wrap up this conversation
here and share with you what James Carvill says is
coming in twenty twenty eight, which I want to share
with you. In closing, We'll get to that, my friends,
in the next segment. You're listening here to conservative not
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Build your legacy, secure your future, all right. I'm not
here today to argue against these government programs. That's another
discussion for another time. I will say this. I will
say this that I do believe that these problems, in
the vast majority of cases, are best solved by churches
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and communities, the private the private sector, nonprofits, churches, other organizations,
other methods that can help meet these needs, offering compassion
without enabling people creating a mentality that that's an entitlement mindset.
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I think that there's a lot of things that we
could do a lot better, a lot of different a
lot of better explanations or i should say, solutions to
these problems. This shutdown could serve as a wake up
call to show how many people are self reliant in
this country and how many people who are dependent exist
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in this country. And I think it could serve as
an eye opener to churches as well, because again, every
problem in society is not up for you to fix.
Sometimes problems exist because people are doing bad things, but
there are people who also have genuine needs as well,
and that's why we should be making sure that we're
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doing our part responsibly and wisely. Of course, so but
a lot of these these things are eye opening, could
be eye opening to people if they paid attention. Beyond
just you know, arguing about how many people are going
to be going hungry? How about we say, why are
we in a situation where this impacts so many people?
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Why aren't we doing doing things that are better, things
that we know work. Certainly understanding that the number will
never go to zero, but should it really be forty
two million? And everything in my instincts say absolutely not.
But again, perhaps I'm wrong. I don't think so, but
who knows. All Right, I wanted to shift gears and
the very limited time I have available, I told you
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that I think that Republicans should do away with the filibuster,
specifically for clean continuing resolutions to keep the government open
and not to be not to have the filibuster used
as a tool to shut down the government. I think
that the Republicans should absolutely move on that. This to
me is a no brainer. The poor leadership. I don't
know what Thune is doing this, This is just to
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me a joke that this this part is This is
the one thing that I would say in this situation
is the fault of the Republicans.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
That's what I will I think that that's the truth.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
So I hope they do that. Now, keep in mind,
I'm talking about narrowly redefining what the filibuster can be
used for or not used for.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
Not in all instances. The filibusters can still be used
in the.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
Vast majority of situations, just not here, just not for
government shutdowns. When a clean continuing resolution is introduced on
the Senate floor, this should be a no brainer. Now,
I say all of that to say this, and the
limited time I have available, James Carvill has predicted. This
is in the stack of stuff at the website, so
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you can read it. I won't have time to get
into the details, but he says that Democrats will win
in twenty twenty eight. And when they win, he says
they're going to pack the Supreme Court. They're going to
go from nine justices to thirteen justices, he predicts. He
says he's going to bet big money. I think part
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of this strategy is depending upon Democrats being able to
do away with the filibuster rule, because because you can't
pack the Supreme Court, you're not going to get away
with that if the filibuster prevents it.
Speaker 3 (39:04):
Now, will they change the rules?
Speaker 2 (39:05):
He says they're going to argue and say, Democrats, excuse me.
The Supreme Court has lost the confidence of the American people.
So in order to combat that, we need to create
four more seats. And of course the purpose here is
to put four more liberal justices on there so that
they lose what conservatives would lose, constitutionalists more importantly, would
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lose these six three or five four majority that they
currently have. This is a bad in a lot of ways,
bad in a lot of ways. But they're they're tipping
their hand here, they're showing us what they're trying to accomplish.
And I wanted to make sure a I put this
on your radar because that's a big deal.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
That is a humongous deal. Number one.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
Number two. It also illustrates just how important these redistricting
fights are that we're having in my state right now,
the state of Indiana. Republicans have to do whatever is legal, ethical,
and moral to win elections. This is what the left
is prepared to do. They are telling us who they are.
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They are telling us their intent. And it's not just
that they want to institute ideas with which we have
some disagreement. They want to fundamentally change this nation as founded.
They want to fundamentally do whatever they can to remake
this great nation in the image of dare I say,
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the likes of Karl Marx and the other socialists out
there across the world, they've never met a government too big,
my friends, that's what they seek to build. And we
had better wake up and beat this thing back. Get
victory at the polling booth. I gotta go have a
great weekend.
Speaker 3 (40:48):
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I still having trouble getting over this. Anyway, it's a
pleasure to be here with you on this Friday, my friends,
last day here before we wrap it up for the week,
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and it is my absolute pleasure to be here. I
want to talk about the now what is the longest
government shut down in US history. I want to talk
about the Democrat narrative for all of this, which is
getting pushed back from the media, which we've talked about.
This leads into conversations about how do you end this thing?
The filibuster and all of that that leads into something
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James Carvill has been out there saying, which I want
to get to as well, regarding the twenty twenty eight election.
His optimism, I guess regarding that for Democrats and what
that could mean heading into life in America in twenty
twenty eight. All these things just highlight how important it
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is for us to win elections and to govern and
legislate as efficiently and as proactively as possible. We are
in the midst, as I've said before on this program,
my friends, a cold civil war. The only way through
this is to defeat them, the left, at the ballot
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box as much every time we can, every time there's
a vote. And of course there were some leftist victories
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liberty and business for all. All right. I mentioned we're
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on what today's November seventh, So this is the seventh
day of November. Case a leftist is listening, that's how
that works. You've got thirty one days in October thirty
one plus seven thirty eight. This is the thirty eighth
day of the government shutdown, which started on October first midnight,
in fact, the morning of October first, now thirty eight
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days ago. This is now the longest shut down in
US history. Democrats believe that they have a political winner here.
Democrats believe that this was part of the reason that
they had some electoral victories, election victories on Tuesday. You know,
you say to your voters, the Republicans are trying to
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destroy our country. They can't get the government open. What
is going on. They control the House, they can troll
the Senate, they control the presidentcy, they control the Supreme Court. Ah,
we got to stop it. And they can't even keep
government open. And so you got to go out there
and you got to vote for some unhinged, radically insane
socialists who's going to give you government run grocery stores
thirty dollars an hour minimum wage utopia in the city
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of New York. He says that there's no problem too
big for the government to solve, no problem too small
for the government not to care about. This guy, I mean,
this guy is just a perfect example of what Karl
Marx teaches. I mean, from each according to his ability,
to each according to his need, that of course, being
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a well known quote from Karl Marx. And this is
how they do it. This is how they do it.
He speaks very well. People love listening. They cheer for
stuff that is just a rewarding of what actually turns
into tyranny. But again, the masses seem to love it.
He's going to be the mayor of New York City.
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And they think, the Democrats think that they have a
political winner with the American people. And what does that
political winner require, Well, my friends, it requires suffering from
the American people. They want Americans to not get paid,
they want Americans to lose access to benefits and all
that sort of stuff, which I want to get into this,
by the way, I want to get into there's more
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than meets the eye here, and I want to talk
about some of this. We've brought ourselves to this brink,
but I want to I want to break this down
and talk a little bit more that about that here
in a moment. But again, one of the major takeaways
for me is that we're on day number thirty eight,
and unless you've been caught up traveling in a extra
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long and extra slow tsa security point, or maybe one
of your flights has been canceled, you may have seen
that the federal government has asked or requested, I guess demanded,
that that airlines nationally reduced their domestic flights to I
believe it's the forty most forty busiest or certain airports
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in the United States cut those by ten percent. As
we navigate further navigate the government shut down, and this
has real impact on travel. Unless it's something like that,
or you work for the government, you're an air traffic controller,
something along those lines, you've not felt any of this,
which to me, which to me says that this that
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we don't need the government to do the vast majority
of what it does. That's one of the lessons that
I think we should take away from this. In fact,
if I was to put together a list of the
top five lessons to learn from the government shut down,
this would be one of them. The average person doesn't
need the government to do I'm going to pick a
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percentage here, a little bit for hyperbolic effect, but I'm
going to say ninety percent of what it does none
of us need. Now, if you're directly involved, if you
work for the government, if you contract with the government,
if you're on government benefits, it's a different story. And
there's real pain that's being created. And dare I say
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created by these folks, because that's exactly what is happening.
It's being created by the Democrats in the US Senate.
They think they've got a political victory when you suffer
and that's what they want.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Don't lose sight of that they're the ones causing this.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Republicans, yes, have a majority in the House, in the Senate,
and of course the White House, as you well know,
because they the media, the left freaks out about this
every day, telling us that the end is near and
that Trump is a Nazi hitler everything you can possibly imagine,
that's bad and wicked and evil. And we are just
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days and hours, just hanging on by the skin of
our teeth, by the very tips of our fingertips, my friends,
from falling into the abyss and losing this democracy.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
As the left would say, that's what they want you
to believe.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
But even though we have the majority, we don't have
the super majority. It requires three fits. I've told you this.
You know this. It requires sixty votes, not a simple majority.
That means that we have to have at least at
least seven Democrats join the Republicans to end this. So
the Republicans aren't responsible. It's out there, it's obvious for
those who want to follow it. In fact, this was
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a clip. I'll play this really quickly. This is a
clip from well, got the wrong clip here? How's that possible?
Speaker 3 (10:07):
I know what happened here.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
I'm going to keep talking here because I will find it.
But I have a clip here from election night, post election,
well election night coverage post election.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
On CNN.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
I think it was Dana Bash had she had Haquem
Jeffries House Minority Leader Hakim Jeffries on the program, and
she was talking with him about about the government shutdown.
And of course Aquem Jeffries does what Haiquem Jeffries always does,
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and the left always does. They get into this political drama,
they make it. They focus on the narrative more than
anything else. And to their credit, the folks CNN are
now actually pushing back. This has happened now for some time.
They say, wait a minute. The problem here is that
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Democrats are voting against this, and they've at first they
were caught off guard that Democrats never have questions about
this stuff then, or never have to answer about this
stuff because they're not pushed back on.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
But they do now, at least in this instance.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Jake Tapper, Dana Bash here with the Kim Jeffries, and
I'll play this for you so you can hear. You know,
you've heard things similar to this already, but this is
the narrative at the left wants to push. They think
they've got a political winner. Here's the keem jeffries On
with Dana Bash and Jake Tapper on CNN Election Night
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coverage earlier this week, furthering continuing to push his ridiculous
narrative about the government shutdown being the fault of the Republicans.
What is your response to what President Trump had to say.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
They're saying that the reason that Democrats said such a
good night is because A he wasn't on.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
The ballot and be the government shutdown.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Well, Donald Trump and Republicans shut the government down and
refused to reopen. And Donald Trump spent the last thirty
five days more time on the golf course, more time
talking to Hamas, and more time talking to the Chinese
Communist Party than to Democrats on Capitol Hill who represent
half the country.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Well, let me say here, the Democrat Party does an
awfully good job of carrying the talking points of Hamas
if I can throw that in their hakim, But these
are lines that they rehearse. You know, most people think
that the job of a politician is to figure these
problems out and to vote for things that are the
best interest of the American people. Not when Democrats are
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in charge, not when political people who are engaged in
political theater.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Not.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Not these folks who are interested in pushing in a
into at all costs, people who are politically divisive, like
Hakeem Jefferies. Their main objective is to basically to spout
lies and lines that they have practiced and rehearsed in
front of focus groups and so more so forth. And
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that's what he's doing here, spitting out these stupid talking points,
thinking he's sounding, you know, brilliant and smart. But it resonates,
of course with a certain element, maybe even the majority
of the CNN audience. But to their credit, Jake Tapper
Dana Bash kind of pushed back here, this.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Is literally you guys are voting no on opening the government,
not not Republicans.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
I know you're asking for specific things, and it's much
more complicated than that.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
We'll get to that in.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
One second, because that's to be clear about that. American
people clearly understand who's responsible for shutting down there. They
did shut down the government. They have the House to
send it and the presidency. So Donald Trump has spent
the last few days saying to Republicans in the Senate.
You have the power to reopen the government. They refuse
to do it.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
I want to talk about it, but pause for a minute.
We'll get into that. Donald Trump has been saying that
you know why this is. This is just remarkable to me.
They expect you to be stupid. They He is speaking
to people who are either intentionally not aware of what's
going on, or people who have been uneducated or who
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have bought into the lies and don't know what's what
the truth is because they accept the narrative. Donald Trump
has been saying that you have the power change the filibuster. See,
that's the problem, is the filibuster. The filibuster says, you
don't need a specit. Well, it's a simple majority to
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pass things out of the Senate. I guess technically you
still just need a simple majority, but you have to
have three fists of the Senate say that will even
vote on an issue, and so they of course, I've
gone through this. I don't want to go through. You
can go to previous episodes in the past couple of
weeks where we've talked this. I just want to hit
the high points. The filibuster was designed in theory to
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have more debate about an issue, not to shut down
the government so that you can throw a temper tantrum
and to try to get political points and to well
to harm the American people. That's not what it was
done for. I don't want to go down that path today.
I've done that a few times recently on this program.
Hakeem Jeffreys is factually wrong. He's depending upon you, his viewers,
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the audience at CNN. He's counting on them being ignorant,
or stupid, or just blinded by political allegiance. Yes, the
Republicans have a political majority, they don't have a supermajority.
The only way that they can govern with a simple
majority is to do something about the filibuster rule. I
think that Republicans should absolutely change the filibuster rule, narrowly, narrowly.
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This is something else that's out there happening, that that's
what we're being gas lit and lied to. No one. Well,
I'm not calling for I'm not calling for the complete
abolition of the filibuster. I'm calling for changes to the
filibuster rule so that this sort of thing, a clean resolution,
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a clean continuing resolution, cannot be filibustered. Now, if there's
anything that's new in it, at the parliamentarian says this
is not a clean cr then you should be able
to filibuster it if you know, if it's in it
keeps the filibuster rule, which I think both parties still
want to do that out of the fear of as
to what the other party will do if they're in power,
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what they'll do to force across the finish line and
put into.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Law and so forth.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
You can have a discussion about ending the filibuster even
in general, but specifically here I would say, I would
say that the filibusters should be and Trump's right on
this changed to address change, to address this government shutdown.
This should not be something that the filibuster is used.
It's being abused. And so if you factor in that
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bit of information which Hakim Jeffries does not want the
viewers to see, it nd to know that it's absolutely
right that Republicans have the majority, they have the votes
to do this if they changed the filibuster. The problem
is they still don't have the rules to change the
filibuster because I mean, there's several reasons. Again, I would
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say the most obvious reason is that if they change
the filibuster, then Democrats might change the filibuster even further,
preventing it from being used on other types of votes.
Both Democrats and Republicans have changed the filibuster rule here
in the past ten to twelve years or so, starting
back I think in twenty thirteen when Democrats prevented Republicans
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from using the filibuster for federal appointment, and then in
twenty maybe seventeen when Republicans used it to prevent the
Senate from filibustering Supreme Court nomination, Supreme Court nominees, and
so forth. Now we've got a situation where the government's
being shut down because again it's to someone on the
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outside looking in, this is absurd. This is truly absurd.
You've got more than half of the legislature trying to
open the government without changing anything, without making any new
you know, expenditures in this continuing resolution, without cutting anything
in the continuing resolution, just operating status quo as you
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did on September thirtieth. You want to continue that on
October first, or now we're onto November seventh, and you
can't reopen the government with the majority. That is crazy,
That is you talk about an inability, I will I
will say that. I would say to the Republicans, that's
your fault. That's your fault. We got to change that rule.
(19:01):
That cannot be done. It needs to be narrowly defined.
We're not getting rid of the filibuster for everything. For
those who are out there saying that that's the choice
that's being considered, certainly that can be discussed, but that's
not what This can be done simply by saying narrowly
defining the type of legislation that the filibuster cannot be
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used for, and that would be I would say, for
a clean continuing resolution, no changes to the bill, you
should not be able to filibuster that. If there's no
political changes or additions to government expenses and so forth,
that should be able to go straight through with the
simple majority without having to deal with the filibuster. Because
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this is what we deal with. This is what we
deal with, and we have we have the political games,
we have the real pain caused for average Americans. We
have the political consequences of this. Right, There's going to
be people who get elected because of this that might
not have won otherwise. You may have a party in
control that would not have been in control if they
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weren't allowed to abuse this. This is ridiculous. This is
strategically stupid in my estimation, to not just fix this immediately.
This is on that part is on the Republicans. That
is on the Republicans, but it's not Again, when you
have tiny majorities. Fifty three seats is what they have
in the Senate, that's only a three seat majority, it's
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going to be hard to get this done if just
a couple of people have reservations. And we know that
a lot of these folks are scared of their shadows.
Some of these folks, I'm telling you, they don't understand
what I just told you. They think that it's an
all or nothing sort of thing. I would not surprise
me one bit if someone sitting in Congress thought that
(20:55):
it was either get rid of these filibuster completely or
keep it and allow the Democrats to abuse it. That's
that's just a false choice, my friends. More to say
about this now, I do want to spend as we
get to the next segment, I want to spend some
time talking about how did we get here as a country?
How did we get here as a country where the
(21:17):
impacts of the shutdown. While it still does not hit
a lot of people directly, I'm guessing many of you,
it certainly hits some of you. And I don't mean
to throw everybody into one, you know, one bucket, so
to speak, metaphorical bucket here. But the question, the question
to me comes up as to why did we get
(21:38):
to the point where so many Americans are incapable of
living their lives without the government. I still know many
many people don't have that problem, the vast majority don't,
but it's a growing number who do. And listen, I'm
not talking about you if you have a job with
the federal government. I'm talking about people who are connected
to the benefits of the federal government.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
How on earth do we get here? How on earth
do we have so many.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
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and benefits from the federal government. So that's what I
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back in just a minute. Welcome back, my friends. Second
segment here on this Friday. I know Fridays are tough
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Speaker 3 (23:22):
I'd love you to go there and share your thoughts
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Speaker 2 (23:24):
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And so that's the plan.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
That's what we're doing, all right, So let's shift gear.
We're not shifting gears a lot. We've been talking about
what's happening in the government. But and I've said, I
stand by what I've said. The vast majority of people
you have to remind you have to remind them unless
they're traveling or something very specific to where they've you know,
maybe had to do something involving the federal government and
(24:00):
so forth. Unless it's something like that, they just they
have to be reminded that the government is shut down altogether.
And so that is where most Americans land. However, however,
there are certainly people who depend upon the government. Millions
(24:23):
of people depend upon the government, my friends, millions and
millions of people. This is a dependency. I feel this
is important to point out a dependency that has been
manufactured and created by the lovers of big government. You know,
there's a quote that I want to read you. There's
(24:44):
a couple Reagan said this. President Reagan said this a
couple different times, a couple of different ways. Reagan said this.
We should measure Welfare's success that's just one federal program. Right. Course,
back in his day, we didn't. We had much fewer
federal programs in this sort of thing, but we certainly
had some. Reagan said we should measure welfare. That's, of
(25:06):
course one of those programs. Measure its success by how
many people leave welfare, not by how many are added. Man,
that is a very very important distinction. And see, this
is where it gets into. This is where you begin
to have the feelers in society separate from the thinkers
(25:28):
in society, because the feelers say, my goodness, you shouldn't
you know, talk about people who need a program like that.
These are people who are in desperate need. We want
them to be able to access this program without feeling,
you know, sort of any sort of guilt or hesitation
about accessing it. That's what it's there for. To that,
I would say, fine, I'm not here to say, Look,
(25:51):
we can have larger discussions about these programs. This is
not meant to be a discussion to say that we
need to completely eradicate, completely eradicate the you know, some
of these programs today that that's not even the discussion.
The discussion is how did we get here? How did
we get to the point where forty two million people
(26:13):
look to the government every month and say feed us,
and that is a terrified Well, there are three hundred
and thirty some million people, three hundred and thirty five
I think million people in this great nation. To have
forty two million of them basically say we're depending upon
you for our survival is just it. It's to me,
(26:38):
that's crazy. And that's just one of this that's snap benefits.
That doesn't take into account some of these other things. Right,
we have a massive problem here, a massive problem here. Now,
I'm going to say some things, and I want you
to know. I want to say a couple things.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Number one.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Number one that as a Christian, we're commanded to take
care of those who are in need. We're just to
take care of the poor and the needy. We're told
to help the widows and the orphans, primarily because these
were you know, a lot of times it's easy to
get caught up on the specific type of person. You know,
(27:19):
I'm just going to help an orphan, I'm just going
to help a widow. The concept really is to take
care of people who are in situations where they are
they're powerless or that they there, it's difficult to survive.
And if you look back historically throughout the history of
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the world and you see that, you know a lot
of times it was hard for it was required that
women have a husband to not because they weren't allowed
to worry. It was just the society was such that
that's how it was. It was done. Yes, there was
There's often been sexism and all that throughout history. I'm
(28:02):
not saying that that's not the case. But some things
men needed to do because women couldn't physically do them,
or women had other responsibilities at the home, and you know,
they had to do all those things themselves with raising
the children, tending the home.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
It just you couldn't do all those things.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Today you can, of course hire housekeepers and nannies and
people to help with certain things, and you know, sometimes
tap into family. But at certain times throughout the history
of the world, you didn't have that luxury. You know,
your mother and father in law, they didn't go retire
and play golf like we do today. Right, The standard
(28:43):
of living was much much different in those days. Everybody
was surviving and so they would they would work together,
but everybody was working for themselves. They didn't have large
sums of money where they could just you know, pay
other people to produce food. They had to go often,
you know, oftentimes plant it themselves, grow it themselves, harvest
(29:06):
it themselves. On top of everything else. I mean, life
in this country, life in the modern times, is much
easier from a physical perspective than it has been throughout
much of history. And so, pardon me, excuse me, my friends.
I'm usually quite good at hitting the mute button, but
(29:27):
I missed it there. But I would say, I would
say that you know that this this modern dependency. I mean,
we are so prosperous in this country to where people
that produce have so much excess that they can have
it taken by an inefficient government, where there's often waste, fraud,
(29:51):
and abuse, they can have it taken from them. Not
you know, maybe not like that it's done. Nobody likes
high taxes, maybe not be able to do other things,
start other businesses, take other vacations, do other things for
their families, whatever that they want to do. And that's
a problem. I'm not saying it shouldn't be done, but
you end up you end up funding, you end up
(30:13):
funding people who are paid by the government to do
it and have enough on top of that to give
out money to large groups of people who aren't either
able to or don't in some cases provide for themselves. Now,
there's a verse in the Bible, second Thessalonians, Chapter three,
verse ten. It says this, I mean, it says, if
(30:35):
you don't work, you don't eat.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Now.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
I bet some people are surprised that that's in Now,
most of you, or.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Not, most of you know the Bible.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Most of you know that God isn't trying to have
a bunch of lazy people in his family. He wants
us to work. He doesn't want us to work ourselves
to death. He wants us to rest. That's what the
Sabbath was about, trust in him and all those sorts
of things.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
But we have a role too where God's.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Workmanship, the Bible says, and so we're supposed to do
some things. Adam and Eve were created to tend the garden.
They weren't just created to prop their feet up and
you know, just do some sunbathing all day. This is
we have a role and a responsibility. And if you
don't work, you don't eat. Now, Notice something here, and
this is important I always like to point this out.
(31:22):
It doesn't say if you can't work, you don't eat.
It says if you don't work, you don't eat. And
so there's a certain amount of expectation that if you're able,
you should be producing, you should be taking care of yourself,
you should be taking care of your.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Family, and as you have more.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
That you are producing, you should be able to be
mindful of those in need. That's the way that that
things were designed to work. But once you create this
entitlement mentality, you shoot all of that down. You have
people who believe that they are literally in titled to
having a certain amount given to them by the federal government,
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Speaker 2 (33:36):
So when we get back from the break, a couple
of other things I want to get to. I want
to kind of wrap up this, wrap up this conversation
here and share with you what James Carvill says is
coming in twenty twenty eight, which I want to share
with you. In closing, We'll get to that, my friends,
in the next segment. You're listening here to conservative not
(33:57):
better talk. I'm your host, Todd Huff Back in just
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Build your legacy, secure your future, all right. I'm not
here today to argue against these government programs. That's another
discussion for another time. I will say this. I will
say this that I do believe that these problems, in
the vast majority of cases, are best solved by churches
(35:29):
and communities, the private the private sector, nonprofits, churches, other organizations,
other methods that can help meet these needs, offering compassion
without enabling people creating a mentality that that's an entitlement mindset.
(35:51):
I think that there's a lot of things that we
could do a lot better, a lot of different a
lot of better explanations or i should say, solutions to
these problems. This shutdown could serve as a wake up
call to show how many people are self reliant in
this country and how many people who are dependent exist
(36:14):
in this country. And I think it could serve as
an eye opener to churches as well, because again, every
problem in society is not up for you to fix.
Sometimes problems exist because people are doing bad things, but
there are people who also have genuine needs as well,
and that's why we should be making sure that we're
(36:38):
doing our part responsibly and wisely. Of course, so but
a lot of these these things are eye opening, could
be eye opening to people if they paid attention. Beyond
just you know, arguing about how many people are going
to be going hungry? How about we say, why are
we in a situation where this impacts so many people?
(36:58):
Why aren't we doing doing things that are better, things
that we know work. Certainly understanding that the number will
never go to zero, but should it really be forty
two million? And everything in my instincts say absolutely not.
But again, perhaps I'm wrong. I don't think so, but
who knows. All Right, I wanted to shift gears and
the very limited time I have available, I told you
(37:19):
that I think that Republicans should do away with the filibuster,
specifically for clean continuing resolutions to keep the government open
and not to be not to have the filibuster used
as a tool to shut down the government. I think
that the Republicans should absolutely move on that. This to
me is a no brainer. The poor leadership. I don't
know what Thune is doing this, This is just to
(37:40):
me a joke that this this part is This is
the one thing that I would say in this situation
is the fault of the Republicans.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
That's what I will I think that that's the truth.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
So I hope they do that. Now, keep in mind,
I'm talking about narrowly redefining what the filibuster can be
used for or not used for.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
Not in all instances. The filibusters can still be used
in the.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
Vast majority of situations, just not here, just not for
government shutdowns. When a clean continuing resolution is introduced on
the Senate floor, this should be a no brainer. Now,
I say all of that to say this, and the
limited time I have available, James Carvill has predicted. This
is in the stack of stuff at the website, so
(38:27):
you can read it. I won't have time to get
into the details, but he says that Democrats will win
in twenty twenty eight. And when they win, he says
they're going to pack the Supreme Court. They're going to
go from nine justices to thirteen justices, he predicts. He
says he's going to bet big money. I think part
(38:49):
of this strategy is depending upon Democrats being able to
do away with the filibuster rule, because because you can't
pack the Supreme Court, you're not going to get away
with that if the filibuster prevents it.
Speaker 3 (39:04):
Now, will they change the rules?
Speaker 2 (39:05):
He says they're going to argue and say, Democrats, excuse me.
The Supreme Court has lost the confidence of the American people.
So in order to combat that, we need to create
four more seats. And of course the purpose here is
to put four more liberal justices on there so that
they lose what conservatives would lose, constitutionalists more importantly, would
(39:27):
lose these six three or five four majority that they
currently have. This is a bad in a lot of ways,
bad in a lot of ways. But they're they're tipping
their hand here, they're showing us what they're trying to accomplish.
And I wanted to make sure a I put this
on your radar because that's a big deal.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
That is a humongous deal. Number one.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
Number two. It also illustrates just how important these redistricting
fights are that we're having in my state right now,
the state of Indiana. Republicans have to do whatever is legal, ethical,
and moral to win elections. This is what the left
is prepared to do. They are telling us who they are.
(40:11):
They are telling us their intent. And it's not just
that they want to institute ideas with which we have
some disagreement. They want to fundamentally change this nation as founded.
They want to fundamentally do whatever they can to remake
this great nation in the image of dare I say,
(40:33):
the likes of Karl Marx and the other socialists out
there across the world, they've never met a government too big,
my friends, that's what they seek to build. And we
had better wake up and beat this thing back. Get
victory at the polling booth. I gotta go have a
great weekend.
Speaker 3 (40:48):
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