October 21, 2025 • 40 mins
Todd breaks down the optics and fallout of the nationwide “No Kings” protests, arguing why the spectacle risks alienating moderates while only firing up the far left. Then he digs into day twenty one of the government shutdown—what the Senate filibuster means, the real strategy behind a longer continuing resolution, and who’s feeling the economic pinch. Finally, a rare twist from the Ninth Circuit: a panel decision that opens the door to federalizing the Oregon National Guard in Portland—what it means and what comes next. Plus, a quick note on gerrymandering battles and why the left suddenly wants a truce. Conservative not bitter, straight talk you won’t get from the legacy media.
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number twenty one, now, day number twenty one of the
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All right, let's get here. Let's start here with the
potential fallout from the No Kings protests. Now, the No
Kings protests, as you know, and as we talked about yesterday,
these were held nationwide, nationwide. Now reports are, reports are
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that there were seven million participants. Now some people think
that that number is blown out of the water, a
gross distortion of reality. I don't know. I mean, listen,
I do I think that there are seven million people
who would take to the streets over something. Yes, I do.
On the on the one hand, you could say that's
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you know, four it's under five percent of the number
of registered voters. And I think that there's a certain
percentage of people in this country that have lost through
every loving minds. Now, I'm not given up on them.
It's one of the reasons we're conservative, not bitter. We
come on here proclaim the truth. We try to we
try to reach folks who are in this wild state
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of mind. But I believe that there could be that many. Now,
other people say it's much less than that. Some people
are even estimating under one million people. I'm not going
to get into that. You can decide for yourself on that.
I don't have an opinion. I believe that there certainly
could have been, because again, I think that there are
seven million people who would fall for any of this
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garbage and think that it's the most important thing in
the history of their lives to protest and say that
Trump's a king and they're trying to stop it and
all that sort of stuff. A lot of this, a
lot of this is rooted in virtue signaling, which is
when you try to show the world how virtuous you
are by going and protesting things that the narrative says
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you got to be against. This is why if you
ask any of these folks, Now there might be some exceptions,
but if you ask a lot of these folks any
question whatsoever about what they're protesting, what Trump's ever done
to declare himself a king or a dictator, what that
even means, you'll find really quickly a lot of these
folks have no idea. They have no idea, They don't
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know what they're talking about. Some people can't. Some people
can't explain. It's delusional explanations. But they can explain, at
least verbally why what they're protesting, even though it is
a straw man, even though it is a delusional argument,
it's not here in reality with the rest of us.
They can at least explain it, but a lot of
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people can't. Now they've come up with some demographic data
of these people who protested. Now, this is from a
DC This is from the DC Survey, a DC event's survey.
Demographic data in that particular event in Washington, DC is
estimated to be the protesters were estimated to be eighty
six percent white. Eighty six percent white. This is whiteness
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on display. These are white liberals. All that matters. Listen,
I don't care. I don't care what the color the skin, color,
of the ethnicity of the people who were there. It
makes no difference to me. What matters to me is
the quality of the argument or the content of what
they're actually trying to communicate, which is absolute garbage if
you ask me. But for the people in the media,
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people on the left side of the aisle, they are
wanting you to believe that this is the white people
in this country are all racists, have supported Trump, and
that the folks who are ethnic or racial minorities are
having to defend against Trump's tyranny. But the protesters are
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eighty six percent white in Washington, the fifty seven percent women,
So we're talking about white liberal women. The average age,
the median age, according to the demographic data that we're
seeing here. And I think I found this at RedState
dot By the way, RedState dot Com I have every
day on the website if you want to see, we've
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really spent some time here improving this page. I'm actually
pretty happy with it. Every day we post us a
series of links to articles that are relevant to what
we discuss on. Here, we post the full transcript of
the show. We post where you can listen. We post
a summary of the show, and each page is called
the Stack. Now it's called the Stack, and you can
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find it on the website. Again, all this stuff's free.
But if you want to read more, dig more into
some of this stuff what I've talked about here, you
can find it there. I call it the Stack in
honor of my personal I don't want to see hero,
but you know, in a sense, just the person I
looked up to the most who did this, and that
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was Rush Limbaugh, who, of course I try to honor
his memory and legacy here on the program from time
to time. But he was wonderful at it, and every
day he would bring a stack of papers. Back when
he started back in nineteen eighty eight, he had to
print off or have physical copies of these articles. This
was before the digital age hit, so he had a
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stack of stuff that he was prepared to talk about.
This is named in honor of him. But if you
go there, you'll find a stack where you can read
about this stuff. But the age of the average age.
The median age of these protesters is reported to be
forty four years old. So you can say the protesters
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were very disproportionately white, slightly disproportionately women, and middle aged.
So you have middle aged, white liberal women who are
running these no Kings protests, at least in Washington, DC. Now,
as I mentioned before, these were largely peaceful. Now, when
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I say largely peaceful, I'm looking at this from a
I'm looking at this from a macro level. I'm looking
at this from a thirty thousand foot level. I'm seeing
that they didn't burn cities to the ground, which unfortunately
in today's world. I have to say kudos to the
leftists out there for not sitting fire setting your cities
on fire, for not looting your stores. Applaud you here
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behind the microphone for not doing that. That's what I mean.
There were no I didn't have to do when a
protest turns into a riot. I didn't have to do
that bit, which I've done on here before, which I enjoy,
I don't enjoy doing I enjoy doing it, but I
don't enjoy why I have to do it. Because I
have to do it, because literally there are riots in
our cities that are media calls oftentimes protests. In fact,
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Chris Cuomo, I'll never forget this tough guy, Chris Cuomo,
who's left after his leaving CNN, has developed a little
bit more of a brain on some things, but he's
still still crazy on some stuff. I'll never forget when
he said, where in our constitution does it say protests
have to be peaceful? Well, by definition, Chris, protests are peaceful.
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They're not peaceful. They become riots. They become riots. That's
when things like national Guard discussions and deployments and ways
to make the peace in cities begin to those things
begin to develop. Happened because that's what the result is
is when you have violence. Violence is not speech, and
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speech is not violence. Speech can be used to try
to incite violence, which it is oftentimes that some of
these radically deranged riots or protests that are on the
verge of becoming a riot. But nonetheless, these were largely peaceful.
Arrests were minimal. They had some protests in major cities,
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d C. New York City, Austin, Chicago, San Diego, They're
all over the place. But inside of it, you still
found there were people. There some conservatives, grassroots sort of reporters,
if you will, who were asking questions. Some of them
were certainly dealing with anger and rage and bitterness and
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a little bit of violence from individual protesters. So there
was that. I saw videos of that. They don't like
to answer questions. They you know, surround people, try to
intimidate them, knock their hats off, that sort of stuff.
But again, no cities burning to the ground, which I commended.
These are these are big steps of growth for the
radical left. We'll see how long this lasts, but at
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least it lasted for this particular protest. Now, this whole thing,
as you know, is framed, and I the word framed
is correct. I think it's it's these are intentional, These
are think about this as this is political theater. This
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is staged. This is framed to look a certain way,
supposed to look like a group of grassroots, everyday normal
Americans who are rising up to protest the authoritarianism, the
tyranny of one Donald J. Trump that they are experiencing
here in his second term, although they certainly would have
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said they were experiencing the same thing in his first term.
We talked about this a little bit yesterday. But according
to this article at red State, some Democratic senators are
privately and in some cases publicly expressing concern that the
movements optics may alienate moderates. Will no kidding, no kidding.
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You don't think that people who are moderate, who are
not brainwashed by the delusional, godless worldview of the radical left,
you think that they might look at this and think,
what are they protesting? They're standing if you think about it,
They're protesting the rights of people to be here who
are supposed to be deported. They are protesting the well,
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they're standing in favor. They're standing alongside of people who
have allowed violence to exist in these Democrat run cities,
well cities of all colors in this country. They have
allowed this. That's the side that these protesters are. What
are they really against with President Trump? As I said before,
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if Trump was a true king, there would not have
been any protest. If Trump was a true king, he
wouldn't be fighting anything in court. He would just simply
move on, make his declarations, his personal wants be the case,
and move on with life. The government would not be
shut down if Trump were a king. This is silly
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nonsense and Democratic senators are just now realizing that maybe
people in the middle, maybe people who are not blinded
by this again, this morally bankrupt ideology that fuels the
radical left, maybe these folks don't buy into the narrative,
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which they're not. So, of course, the protests coincided with
the continuing government shut down, and that's where that's where's
where we are. So the left is beginning to ask
questions about this. You know, they're in a tough position.
I don't feel sorry for them. They've created this, they've
created this, and so what they've created is a scenario
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whereby you have to be deranged or a lunatic to
be a part of their base. Now, you might be
in the middle and vote Democrat because you make a
tough decision for yourself at the end. But the people
who are out there, who are active and mobile, who
are part of this grassroots movement, who have bought into
this narrative, who are channing the chance and whatever they're
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doing out there, these folks are committed leftists. They're angry,
they're illogical, they don't want to talk. They want to
silence either. The people that if you try to speak
at one of their rallies. If you try to ask
a question at the rally, they come up with a whistle,
a bullhorn, they start screaming, they start telling other people
not to take your questions. I've seen this all over
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social media and elsewhere. They don't want to engage. They
just simply want to throw their tantrum. And as I
think about it, throwing a tantrum is a very very
accurate way to describe what is happening with these protests.
If you ask, I bet, if you ask ten people
what they're protesting, now, they might say that Trump were
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protesting that Trump's declared himself a king. Okay, that's a
talking point. What does that mean? I bet there's hardly
any consistency as to what you would get in response.
You would probably get if you ask ten people, you
would get ten different answers. Now, you might say that's
because Tyler's so many examples. Okay, you can say that.
I guess. I think that that's crazy in and of itself.
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I think that that's a misunderstanding of what a monarchy is,
which we talked about yesterday on the program as well.
But this is what is going on, and you know
you've got the base that they need the base energized.
They need the base energized. They need the base to
show up in November, in twelve months. They need the
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base to show up to get them re elected and
from their vantage point to help them when the majority
in the House of Representatives may be. Who knows outside
chance majority in the Senate as well. They they just
want the majority of one of the houses so that
they can stop Trump and his agenda. Trump, of course,
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has doubled, tripled, quadrupled down on doing anything he can legally, ethically,
morally to give himself an advantage to win, which is
why he's calling on states to redistrict Republican states to redistrict.
In fact, that's something that the state of Indiana has
gotten some pressure to do. We'll see where that ends up.
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But to squeeze as many conservative or at least Republican
seats out of the maps as is possible. As I've
said before, and I stand by it, the left has
done this for a long time, squeezing as as many
blue states as possible in many of their states from
their maps, the way that they draw their districts and
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so forth. Now that they've squeezed virtually everything they can
out of it. They want to prevent Republicans from doing
the same, so they want to they suddenly want a
truce on jerrymandering. To that, I say, listen, too bad, too, sad.
Republicans should absolutely have serious considerations of redrawing their state
maps that puts things in their favor. I would not
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hesitate one bit on this. This is the way that
it goes. If the voters have a problem with this,
they can hold the Republicans responsible for redrawing these districts
during the next elections. That's the way that this can
happen anyway. So that's what's going on. And they've got
to they've got to get the base riled up, very emotional,
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so that that carries them through, carries them through with
the energy of these midterm elections. But when they do that,
when Democrats do that, they risk the very real possibility
that they're going to alienate people in the middle. And
this is what happens when you create a base that
is radical, because in order to speak to that base,
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you got to speak to them where they are. You've
got to get them, give them some red meat to
go after. And then if the people who are moderate
hear this, They're going to think what on earth is
going on in the Democratic Party. And so that's the
dilemma that Democrats are facing. Make no mistake about it.
This is a real thing. Now. There'll be other articles
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which you'll also find in the stack of stuff that
talk about how this is an advantage for Democrats and
so forth. I don't think that. I think that there
are real problems with navigating this and threading this needle.
And I think that more and more people are realizing
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Welcome back, my friends. There's a couple of loosens. I
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want to tie up on this, on these new no
kings protests. First, First, we've already kind of explained the
potential political fallout of this. So do you think that
this is helpful? I mean, I'm guessing the vast majority
of you don't agree that this is helpful to the
left because what are they really protesting? You know, this
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is like the Boy who Cried Wolf. We went through
that story here in the huff household with ourch I
got three children sixteen, fourteen, and eleven, and my son's
the oldest, and then we've got two daughters who are younger,
and we were talking about it. We have a little
family Bible study, and we were talking about the boy
who cried Wolf. It came up with one of I
think we were studying proverbs and it talked about, you know,
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making sure that you're It was it was a verse
that was I can't remember the verse exact, but it
was talking about, you know, being honest and speaking the truth,
something along those lines. And one of the kids we
started talking about the boy who cried Wolf, and of
course one of my daughters is incredibly creative, and so
she has she has a name for the boy who
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cried Wolf. I forget what it is, but she started
explaining the story because I said, what is that story?
What do we learn from the story? Tell the story?
So she told the story in ways that she only
she can. And so the point is that that's exactly
what the Democrats have been doing. They've been crying wolf
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about the dangers of Donald Trump for so long that
people who are reasonable, who may not even like Trump,
may not like his politics, at some point begin to say,
what is the real threat here? I don't like his policies,
but I'm not going to be used as a political
pawn to enter into this nonsensical political theater. I'm not
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going to be going to these protests screaming like a
madman and a lunatic, talking about Trump being a dictator
simply because he's enforcing policies and standing for things that
I don't agree with. I mean, that's not me saying that,
that's me summarizing what these other folks believe. Middle of
the road folks, Folks that still have sense, Folks that
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have not completely accepted the godless, morally bankrupt worldview of
the radical left. I have a hard time finding how
this will be helpful to their cause. Now, the people
on the left want you want the people in the
middle to see this as a genuinely pro democracy, anti authoritarian,
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grass roots movement of civil civil disobedience of sorts, or
just where people are involved in the political process engaging
in speech that returns us restores us to something that
they want you to believe. Trump has taken us away from.
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People on the conservative side of this, the Republican side
of this, see this as a bunch of incoherent temper tantrums.
I mean, that's what I see this as rejecting, maybe
not rejecting, but at least trying to interfere with the
outcome of elections. They're trying to prevent Trump and the
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Republicans from doing what they were clearly elected to do.
And it involves for them, say conservatives like myself, temper
tantrums where they throw themselves. You've all seen this, right.
Many kids do this, not all, but any kid who's
not disciplined will do this. Some kids who are disciplined
will still do this from time to time. You're at
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the grocery store, you're at the whatever the mall, some store,
they see something they want, You tell them no. They
begin to make a spectacle on a seat. I mean,
this is exactly what this is. This is the boy
who cried Wolf combined with a childish temper chantrum. That's
what these rallies, these protests, these no King's protests are.
So they throw themselves on the ground, They kick, they scream,
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They basically try to manipulate the adult, the parent, typically
into saying, fine, just get it. Stop acting like this.
You're embarrassing me. That never worked with my mother. I'll
tell you that if I threw a dancer as a
little kid, it happened once or twice because you were
not gonna win that battle with my with my mother. Yet,
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you know, some people, some some kids, never never grow
up because it works for some people, and if it works,
you're encouraged to continue to do it. That. By the way,
just FYI a little tidbit here. This is one of
the reasons why having, uh, you know, losing or suffering
defeat is actually one of the best things you can
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have a great experience. While it may not feel like
it at the time, it causes you to change your
behavior the things that you're doing so that you're able
to win, you're able to grow. But people who have
been encouraged and never discouraged from throwing these temper tantrums
are out there now in the streets of our cities
doing that very thing. Again. I don't know the numbers.
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They say there were seven million. I'm incredibly skeptical of that.
I've also seen people who say there weren't more than
a million. I'm skeptical of that as well. I don't know.
It probably was between those numbers combined that we're showing
up at these protests. But nonetheless, we'll see how if
this impacts the midterms, Will this resonate with any people
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in the middle Will this only serve to motivate and
encourage and light an emotional flame under those who are
already sold out to the godless cause of the radical left.
That's my instinct. But hey, we'll see time, my friends
will tell So that's all I want to say about
that today. I want to get into the government shut
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Government shutdown is now in day number twenty one, as
we're on October twenty first. This is one of the
longest full government shutdowns in US history. The Senate has
repeatedly failed to pass a continuing resolution, not because they
don't have a majority of senators, but because they don't
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have a supermajority, which is required three fifths or sixty
votes in the Senate. Is required to give the to
call an issue to the floor for a vote. It's
being filibustered. So now that's what's preventing this. So again
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all the people who claim and this is this is
so superficial and so overly simplified. But you'll hear leftist
I've seen Jasmine Crockett say this. I've seen a lot
of people. Bernie Sanders AOC said something along these lines
that Republicans have the majority. If they have the majority,
they can do whatever they want. They didn't keep the
(31:40):
government open ergo. Republicans don't want the government open. They
wanted to be shut down. That, of course, is the
distortion of reality. We've gone through this in previous episodes
because Republicans don't have they have a majority, but they
don't have a super majority. So that means in order
to have an issue called to a floor vote, which
by the way, they don't have to fill a buscher.
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There's nothing written that says you have to filibuster every issue.
You can say, let's call this to a vote, and
then when it's voted on, vote against it. But see,
they don't want to do that because they know Republicans
will pass will pass it, which again is strategic, but
quit I want to say something that is not It's
(32:21):
just I probably shouldn't say it on here, but don't
try to convince us that you're fighting to keep the
government open when quite literally, your vote was to keep
the government closed when you voted against the Continuing Resolution.
National Nuclear Security Administration has furloughed fourteen hundred workers. Treasury
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estimates that there is a fifteen billion dollars per week
economic hit and economic loss because of the shutdown. The
Republicans are internally discussing debate a longer stop gap bill.
Remember their first bill was supposed to take us through
November twentieth or something. I forget the exact date now,
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but it was seven weeks, seven weeks from the start
of this shutdown, so it would have taken us through
around getting close to Thanksgiving. Now there's talk of having
this stop gap bill go longer in the twenty twenty
six to buy time to handle the real negotiation. Remember,
all the Republicans are trying to do is say we're
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going to keep the government open at current levels and
then we'll negotiate all these other things that Democrats are
wanting to negotiate. Now will negotiate those during that period
between when the government reopens and the ultimate deadline, whatever
deadline they choose for the government for that next continuing
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resolution to come to an end. I've come to the end,
my friends of the segment, so tight listening to Conservative
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just a minute, Welcome back, my friend's third and final
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Iz just told me that the boy who cried Wolfe's name,
according to our eldest daughter when she retells the story,
his name was Jeremy. So she said, she said, now listen,
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but yeah, she's got some strong feelings about that. Anyway.
So last segment here, I want to again put the
shut down. I just kind of wanted to give you
an update on that last segment. I mentioned off the
top that I wanted to get to a court ruling
in the Ninth Circuit, and that's what I want to
(34:54):
get to. This segment a court ruling in the Ninth
Circuit because, first of all, it's a little bit surprising
to me, given that the Ninth Circuit Court, I think
Rush used to call it the Ninth Circus Court just
a leftist court. But they voted, they voted two to
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one to effectively lift the block. Boy, this is a
little hard to explain, but basically, the lower courts said
that they were enforcing an injunction that would prevent the
Trump administration from deploying the National Guard to Portland. The
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Ninth Circuit Court heard this and they voted to lift
the to lift the injunction. So they didn't say outright
that the Trump administration won this argument. They basically said,
we're lifting the injunction, which opens up the door at
least for a period of time for Trump to do
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this very thing where he could actually, in theory, send
the National Guard into Portland. Maybe he will, I don't know,
but I just want to talk about that briefly in
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talk about this really quickly. District Court in Portland initially
issued two temporary restraining orders blocking the federalization of the
Oregon National Guard and any deployment of Guard troops into Portland.
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Then yesterday the Ninth Circuit Panel voted two to one
they issued a stay of the first temporary restraining order,
the federalization block. So they issued a stay basically saying
that they're ruling by the lower court that prevented Trump
from federalizing the Oregon National Guard was temporarily which was
(37:55):
a temporary restraining order that's lifted. So there's nothing, according
to the current court rulings that's preventing that right now.
The majority said, quote likely, it was likely the President
lawfully exercise the authority under and there's some legal mumbo
jumble here the code and so forth, that he exercises
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his authority. This would temporarily or it does temporarily allow
President Trump to federalize the Guard, but does not permit
deployment because the second temporary restraining order is still in effect,
which prevents the deployment of Guard troops into Portland. This
can be confusing. That's my current understanding of this. This
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as many issues are today in this political, politically volatile
world that we're living in. That's where we find ourselves.
That's my understanding of where this stays or where this lands.
Right now. It's an active case. The panel's decision is
not final. The Ninth Circuit, the full Ninth Circuit may
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rehear this case in Monk and the Descent, who was
one judge in this particular case, said that allowing federalization
quote risks eroding constitutional boundaries between state and federal authorities. So,
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as with most things, we'll see where this ends up,
my friends, But this is at least a temporary victory,
especially in a very unlikely place for President Trump and
his authority, his discretion to use National Guards troops national
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Guard troops to well, to federalize them and to help
protect and to clean up some of these cities. And
that's the issue. You know, I don't have a lot
of time here, but it is remarkable to me. I mean,
I understand, I've been a conservative for a long long time.
I have been a guy that is in favor of
limited government for a long long time, and I'm still
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a guy who's in favor of limited government. But limited
government does not mean that there is no federal authority
or that the president doesn't have constitutional discretion and powers
that he can execute and use in situations like this.
We went through this a little bit yesterday on the program,
talking about how the founders framed the Constitution and that
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government is forced, and that the executive branch has a
certain amount of power that it can actually put some
meat behind some of these things. So it's just bizarre
and wild to me to stand for the lawlessness and
crime that we have in some of these cities. But
I'm out of time here, got to go. Thanks for listening. STG.
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All right, let's get here. Let's start here with the
potential fallout from the No Kings protests. Now, the No
Kings protests, as you know, and as we talked about yesterday,
these were held nationwide, nationwide. Now reports are, reports are
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that there were seven million participants. Now some people think
that that number is blown out of the water, a
gross distortion of reality. I don't know. I mean, listen,
I do I think that there are seven million people
who would take to the streets over something. Yes, I do.
On the on the one hand, you could say that's
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you know, four it's under five percent of the number
of registered voters. And I think that there's a certain
percentage of people in this country that have lost through
every loving minds. Now, I'm not given up on them.
It's one of the reasons we're conservative, not bitter. We
come on here proclaim the truth. We try to we
try to reach folks who are in this wild state
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of mind. But I believe that there could be that many. Now,
other people say it's much less than that. Some people
are even estimating under one million people. I'm not going
to get into that. You can decide for yourself on that.
I don't have an opinion. I believe that there certainly
could have been, because again, I think that there are
seven million people who would fall for any of this
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garbage and think that it's the most important thing in
the history of their lives to protest and say that
Trump's a king and they're trying to stop it and
all that sort of stuff. A lot of this, a
lot of this is rooted in virtue signaling, which is
when you try to show the world how virtuous you
are by going and protesting things that the narrative says
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you got to be against. This is why if you
ask any of these folks, Now there might be some exceptions,
but if you ask a lot of these folks any
question whatsoever about what they're protesting, what Trump's ever done
to declare himself a king or a dictator, what that
even means, you'll find really quickly a lot of these
folks have no idea. They have no idea, They don't
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know what they're talking about. Some people can't. Some people
can't explain. It's delusional explanations. But they can explain, at
least verbally why what they're protesting, even though it is
a straw man, even though it is a delusional argument,
it's not here in reality with the rest of us.
They can at least explain it, but a lot of
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people can't. Now they've come up with some demographic data
of these people who protested. Now, this is from a
DC This is from the DC Survey, a DC event's survey.
Demographic data in that particular event in Washington, DC is
estimated to be the protesters were estimated to be eighty
six percent white. Eighty six percent white. This is whiteness
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on display. These are white liberals. All that matters. Listen,
I don't care. I don't care what the color the skin, color,
of the ethnicity of the people who were there. It
makes no difference to me. What matters to me is
the quality of the argument or the content of what
they're actually trying to communicate, which is absolute garbage if
you ask me. But for the people in the media,
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people on the left side of the aisle, they are
wanting you to believe that this is the white people
in this country are all racists, have supported Trump, and
that the folks who are ethnic or racial minorities are
having to defend against Trump's tyranny. But the protesters are
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eighty six percent white in Washington, the fifty seven percent women,
So we're talking about white liberal women. The average age,
the median age, according to the demographic data that we're
seeing here. And I think I found this at RedState
dot By the way, RedState dot Com I have every
day on the website if you want to see, we've
(09:52):
really spent some time here improving this page. I'm actually
pretty happy with it. Every day we post us a
series of links to articles that are relevant to what
we discuss on. Here, we post the full transcript of
the show. We post where you can listen. We post
a summary of the show, and each page is called
the Stack. Now it's called the Stack, and you can
(10:14):
find it on the website. Again, all this stuff's free.
But if you want to read more, dig more into
some of this stuff what I've talked about here, you
can find it there. I call it the Stack in
honor of my personal I don't want to see hero,
but you know, in a sense, just the person I
looked up to the most who did this, and that
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was Rush Limbaugh, who, of course I try to honor
his memory and legacy here on the program from time
to time. But he was wonderful at it, and every
day he would bring a stack of papers. Back when
he started back in nineteen eighty eight, he had to
print off or have physical copies of these articles. This
was before the digital age hit, so he had a
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stack of stuff that he was prepared to talk about.
This is named in honor of him. But if you
go there, you'll find a stack where you can read
about this stuff. But the age of the average age.
The median age of these protesters is reported to be
forty four years old. So you can say the protesters
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were very disproportionately white, slightly disproportionately women, and middle aged.
So you have middle aged, white liberal women who are
running these no Kings protests, at least in Washington, DC. Now,
as I mentioned before, these were largely peaceful. Now, when
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I say largely peaceful, I'm looking at this from a
I'm looking at this from a macro level. I'm looking
at this from a thirty thousand foot level. I'm seeing
that they didn't burn cities to the ground, which unfortunately
in today's world. I have to say kudos to the
leftists out there for not sitting fire setting your cities
on fire, for not looting your stores. Applaud you here
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behind the microphone for not doing that. That's what I mean.
There were no I didn't have to do when a
protest turns into a riot. I didn't have to do
that bit, which I've done on here before, which I enjoy,
I don't enjoy doing I enjoy doing it, but I
don't enjoy why I have to do it. Because I
have to do it, because literally there are riots in
our cities that are media calls oftentimes protests. In fact,
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Chris Cuomo, I'll never forget this tough guy, Chris Cuomo,
who's left after his leaving CNN, has developed a little
bit more of a brain on some things, but he's
still still crazy on some stuff. I'll never forget when
he said, where in our constitution does it say protests
have to be peaceful? Well, by definition, Chris, protests are peaceful.
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They're not peaceful. They become riots. They become riots. That's
when things like national Guard discussions and deployments and ways
to make the peace in cities begin to those things
begin to develop. Happened because that's what the result is
is when you have violence. Violence is not speech, and
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speech is not violence. Speech can be used to try
to incite violence, which it is oftentimes that some of
these radically deranged riots or protests that are on the
verge of becoming a riot. But nonetheless, these were largely peaceful.
Arrests were minimal. They had some protests in major cities,
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d C. New York City, Austin, Chicago, San Diego, They're
all over the place. But inside of it, you still
found there were people. There some conservatives, grassroots sort of reporters,
if you will, who were asking questions. Some of them
were certainly dealing with anger and rage and bitterness and
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a little bit of violence from individual protesters. So there
was that. I saw videos of that. They don't like
to answer questions. They you know, surround people, try to
intimidate them, knock their hats off, that sort of stuff.
But again, no cities burning to the ground, which I commended.
These are these are big steps of growth for the
radical left. We'll see how long this lasts, but at
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least it lasted for this particular protest. Now, this whole thing,
as you know, is framed, and I the word framed
is correct. I think it's it's these are intentional, These
are think about this as this is political theater. This
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is staged. This is framed to look a certain way,
supposed to look like a group of grassroots, everyday normal
Americans who are rising up to protest the authoritarianism, the
tyranny of one Donald J. Trump that they are experiencing
here in his second term, although they certainly would have
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said they were experiencing the same thing in his first term.
We talked about this a little bit yesterday. But according
to this article at red State, some Democratic senators are
privately and in some cases publicly expressing concern that the
movements optics may alienate moderates. Will no kidding, no kidding.
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You don't think that people who are moderate, who are
not brainwashed by the delusional, godless worldview of the radical left,
you think that they might look at this and think,
what are they protesting? They're standing if you think about it,
They're protesting the rights of people to be here who
are supposed to be deported. They are protesting the well,
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they're standing in favor. They're standing alongside of people who
have allowed violence to exist in these Democrat run cities,
well cities of all colors in this country. They have
allowed this. That's the side that these protesters are. What
are they really against with President Trump? As I said before,
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if Trump was a true king, there would not have
been any protest. If Trump was a true king, he
wouldn't be fighting anything in court. He would just simply
move on, make his declarations, his personal wants be the case,
and move on with life. The government would not be
shut down if Trump were a king. This is silly
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nonsense and Democratic senators are just now realizing that maybe
people in the middle, maybe people who are not blinded
by this again, this morally bankrupt ideology that fuels the
radical left, maybe these folks don't buy into the narrative,
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which they're not. So, of course, the protests coincided with
the continuing government shut down, and that's where that's where's
where we are. So the left is beginning to ask
questions about this. You know, they're in a tough position.
I don't feel sorry for them. They've created this, they've
created this, and so what they've created is a scenario
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whereby you have to be deranged or a lunatic to
be a part of their base. Now, you might be
in the middle and vote Democrat because you make a
tough decision for yourself at the end. But the people
who are out there, who are active and mobile, who
are part of this grassroots movement, who have bought into
this narrative, who are channing the chance and whatever they're
(17:35):
doing out there, these folks are committed leftists. They're angry,
they're illogical, they don't want to talk. They want to
silence either. The people that if you try to speak
at one of their rallies. If you try to ask
a question at the rally, they come up with a whistle,
a bullhorn, they start screaming, they start telling other people
not to take your questions. I've seen this all over
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social media and elsewhere. They don't want to engage. They
just simply want to throw their tantrum. And as I
think about it, throwing a tantrum is a very very
accurate way to describe what is happening with these protests.
If you ask, I bet, if you ask ten people
what they're protesting, now, they might say that Trump were
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protesting that Trump's declared himself a king. Okay, that's a
talking point. What does that mean? I bet there's hardly
any consistency as to what you would get in response.
You would probably get if you ask ten people, you
would get ten different answers. Now, you might say that's
because Tyler's so many examples. Okay, you can say that.
I guess. I think that that's crazy in and of itself.
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I think that that's a misunderstanding of what a monarchy is,
which we talked about yesterday on the program as well.
But this is what is going on, and you know
you've got the base that they need the base energized.
They need the base energized. They need the base to
show up in November, in twelve months. They need the
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base to show up to get them re elected and
from their vantage point to help them when the majority
in the House of Representatives may be. Who knows outside
chance majority in the Senate as well. They they just
want the majority of one of the houses so that
they can stop Trump and his agenda. Trump, of course,
(19:25):
has doubled, tripled, quadrupled down on doing anything he can legally, ethically,
morally to give himself an advantage to win, which is
why he's calling on states to redistrict Republican states to redistrict.
In fact, that's something that the state of Indiana has
gotten some pressure to do. We'll see where that ends up.
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But to squeeze as many conservative or at least Republican
seats out of the maps as is possible. As I've
said before, and I stand by it, the left has
done this for a long time, squeezing as as many
blue states as possible in many of their states from
their maps, the way that they draw their districts and
(20:07):
so forth. Now that they've squeezed virtually everything they can
out of it. They want to prevent Republicans from doing
the same, so they want to they suddenly want a
truce on jerrymandering. To that, I say, listen, too bad, too, sad.
Republicans should absolutely have serious considerations of redrawing their state
maps that puts things in their favor. I would not
(20:30):
hesitate one bit on this. This is the way that
it goes. If the voters have a problem with this,
they can hold the Republicans responsible for redrawing these districts
during the next elections. That's the way that this can
happen anyway. So that's what's going on. And they've got
to they've got to get the base riled up, very emotional,
(20:52):
so that that carries them through, carries them through with
the energy of these midterm elections. But when they do that,
when Democrats do that, they risk the very real possibility
that they're going to alienate people in the middle. And
this is what happens when you create a base that
is radical, because in order to speak to that base,
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you got to speak to them where they are. You've
got to get them, give them some red meat to
go after. And then if the people who are moderate
hear this, They're going to think what on earth is
going on in the Democratic Party. And so that's the
dilemma that Democrats are facing. Make no mistake about it.
This is a real thing. Now. There'll be other articles
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which you'll also find in the stack of stuff that
talk about how this is an advantage for Democrats and
so forth. I don't think that. I think that there
are real problems with navigating this and threading this needle.
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that the Democrats are not a solution to anything. They're
actually the problem. And I'm happy to say that because
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Welcome back, my friends. There's a couple of loosens. I
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want to tie up on this, on these new no
kings protests. First, First, we've already kind of explained the
potential political fallout of this. So do you think that
this is helpful? I mean, I'm guessing the vast majority
of you don't agree that this is helpful to the
left because what are they really protesting? You know, this
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is like the Boy who Cried Wolf. We went through
that story here in the huff household with ourch I
got three children sixteen, fourteen, and eleven, and my son's
the oldest, and then we've got two daughters who are younger,
and we were talking about it. We have a little
family Bible study, and we were talking about the boy
who cried Wolf. It came up with one of I
think we were studying proverbs and it talked about, you know,
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making sure that you're It was it was a verse
that was I can't remember the verse exact, but it
was talking about, you know, being honest and speaking the truth,
something along those lines. And one of the kids we
started talking about the boy who cried Wolf, and of
course one of my daughters is incredibly creative, and so
she has she has a name for the boy who
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cried Wolf. I forget what it is, but she started
explaining the story because I said, what is that story?
What do we learn from the story? Tell the story?
So she told the story in ways that she only
she can. And so the point is that that's exactly
what the Democrats have been doing. They've been crying wolf
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about the dangers of Donald Trump for so long that
people who are reasonable, who may not even like Trump,
may not like his politics, at some point begin to say,
what is the real threat here? I don't like his policies,
but I'm not going to be used as a political
pawn to enter into this nonsensical political theater. I'm not
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going to be going to these protests screaming like a
madman and a lunatic, talking about Trump being a dictator
simply because he's enforcing policies and standing for things that
I don't agree with. I mean, that's not me saying that,
that's me summarizing what these other folks believe. Middle of
the road folks, Folks that still have sense, Folks that
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have not completely accepted the godless, morally bankrupt worldview of
the radical left. I have a hard time finding how
this will be helpful to their cause. Now, the people
on the left want you want the people in the
middle to see this as a genuinely pro democracy, anti authoritarian,
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grass roots movement of civil civil disobedience of sorts, or
just where people are involved in the political process engaging
in speech that returns us restores us to something that
they want you to believe. Trump has taken us away from.
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People on the conservative side of this, the Republican side
of this, see this as a bunch of incoherent temper tantrums.
I mean, that's what I see this as rejecting, maybe
not rejecting, but at least trying to interfere with the
outcome of elections. They're trying to prevent Trump and the
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Republicans from doing what they were clearly elected to do.
And it involves for them, say conservatives like myself, temper
tantrums where they throw themselves. You've all seen this, right.
Many kids do this, not all, but any kid who's
not disciplined will do this. Some kids who are disciplined
will still do this from time to time. You're at
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the grocery store, you're at the whatever the mall, some store,
they see something they want, You tell them no. They
begin to make a spectacle on a seat. I mean,
this is exactly what this is. This is the boy
who cried Wolf combined with a childish temper chantrum. That's
what these rallies, these protests, these no King's protests are.
So they throw themselves on the ground, They kick, they scream,
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They basically try to manipulate the adult, the parent, typically
into saying, fine, just get it. Stop acting like this.
You're embarrassing me. That never worked with my mother. I'll
tell you that if I threw a dancer as a
little kid, it happened once or twice because you were
not gonna win that battle with my with my mother. Yet,
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you know, some people, some some kids, never never grow
up because it works for some people, and if it works,
you're encouraged to continue to do it. That. By the way,
just FYI a little tidbit here. This is one of
the reasons why having, uh, you know, losing or suffering
defeat is actually one of the best things you can
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have a great experience. While it may not feel like
it at the time, it causes you to change your
behavior the things that you're doing so that you're able
to win, you're able to grow. But people who have
been encouraged and never discouraged from throwing these temper tantrums
are out there now in the streets of our cities
doing that very thing. Again. I don't know the numbers.
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They say there were seven million. I'm incredibly skeptical of that.
I've also seen people who say there weren't more than
a million. I'm skeptical of that as well. I don't know.
It probably was between those numbers combined that we're showing
up at these protests. But nonetheless, we'll see how if
this impacts the midterms, Will this resonate with any people
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in the middle Will this only serve to motivate and
encourage and light an emotional flame under those who are
already sold out to the godless cause of the radical left.
That's my instinct. But hey, we'll see time, my friends
will tell So that's all I want to say about
that today. I want to get into the government shut
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Government shutdown is now in day number twenty one, as
we're on October twenty first. This is one of the
longest full government shutdowns in US history. The Senate has
repeatedly failed to pass a continuing resolution, not because they
don't have a majority of senators, but because they don't
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have a supermajority, which is required three fifths or sixty
votes in the Senate. Is required to give the to
call an issue to the floor for a vote. It's
being filibustered. So now that's what's preventing this. So again
(31:20):
all the people who claim and this is this is
so superficial and so overly simplified. But you'll hear leftist
I've seen Jasmine Crockett say this. I've seen a lot
of people. Bernie Sanders AOC said something along these lines
that Republicans have the majority. If they have the majority,
they can do whatever they want. They didn't keep the
(31:40):
government open ergo. Republicans don't want the government open. They
wanted to be shut down. That, of course, is the
distortion of reality. We've gone through this in previous episodes
because Republicans don't have they have a majority, but they
don't have a super majority. So that means in order
to have an issue called to a floor vote, which
by the way, they don't have to fill a buscher.
(32:01):
There's nothing written that says you have to filibuster every issue.
You can say, let's call this to a vote, and
then when it's voted on, vote against it. But see,
they don't want to do that because they know Republicans
will pass will pass it, which again is strategic, but
quit I want to say something that is not It's
(32:21):
just I probably shouldn't say it on here, but don't
try to convince us that you're fighting to keep the
government open when quite literally, your vote was to keep
the government closed when you voted against the Continuing Resolution.
National Nuclear Security Administration has furloughed fourteen hundred workers. Treasury
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estimates that there is a fifteen billion dollars per week
economic hit and economic loss because of the shutdown. The
Republicans are internally discussing debate a longer stop gap bill.
Remember their first bill was supposed to take us through
November twentieth or something. I forget the exact date now,
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but it was seven weeks, seven weeks from the start
of this shutdown, so it would have taken us through
around getting close to Thanksgiving. Now there's talk of having
this stop gap bill go longer in the twenty twenty
six to buy time to handle the real negotiation. Remember,
all the Republicans are trying to do is say we're
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going to keep the government open at current levels and
then we'll negotiate all these other things that Democrats are
wanting to negotiate. Now will negotiate those during that period
between when the government reopens and the ultimate deadline, whatever
deadline they choose for the government for that next continuing
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resolution to come to an end. I've come to the end,
my friends of the segment, so tight listening to Conservative
not Better talk on your host Todd huff Back in
just a minute, Welcome back, my friend's third and final
segment of today's program. Oz just told me during the break.
(34:11):
Iz just told me that the boy who cried Wolfe's name,
according to our eldest daughter when she retells the story,
his name was Jeremy. So she said, she said, now listen,
I'm sorry for your name's Jeremy out there. But she
said that just sounds like something Jeremy would do. I
don't know why. She doesn't even know what Jeremy she said,
(34:33):
but yeah, she's got some strong feelings about that. Anyway.
So last segment here, I want to again put the
shut down. I just kind of wanted to give you
an update on that last segment. I mentioned off the
top that I wanted to get to a court ruling
in the Ninth Circuit, and that's what I want to
(34:54):
get to. This segment a court ruling in the Ninth
Circuit because, first of all, it's a little bit surprising
to me, given that the Ninth Circuit Court, I think
Rush used to call it the Ninth Circus Court just
a leftist court. But they voted, they voted two to
(35:15):
one to effectively lift the block. Boy, this is a
little hard to explain, but basically, the lower courts said
that they were enforcing an injunction that would prevent the
Trump administration from deploying the National Guard to Portland. The
(35:38):
Ninth Circuit Court heard this and they voted to lift
the to lift the injunction. So they didn't say outright
that the Trump administration won this argument. They basically said,
we're lifting the injunction, which opens up the door at
least for a period of time for Trump to do
(36:02):
this very thing where he could actually, in theory, send
the National Guard into Portland. Maybe he will, I don't know,
but I just want to talk about that briefly in
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talk about this really quickly. District Court in Portland initially
issued two temporary restraining orders blocking the federalization of the
Oregon National Guard and any deployment of Guard troops into Portland.
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Then yesterday the Ninth Circuit Panel voted two to one
they issued a stay of the first temporary restraining order,
the federalization block. So they issued a stay basically saying
that they're ruling by the lower court that prevented Trump
from federalizing the Oregon National Guard was temporarily which was
(37:55):
a temporary restraining order that's lifted. So there's nothing, according
to the current court rulings that's preventing that right now.
The majority said, quote likely, it was likely the President
lawfully exercise the authority under and there's some legal mumbo
jumble here the code and so forth, that he exercises
(38:16):
his authority. This would temporarily or it does temporarily allow
President Trump to federalize the Guard, but does not permit
deployment because the second temporary restraining order is still in effect,
which prevents the deployment of Guard troops into Portland. This
can be confusing. That's my current understanding of this. This
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as many issues are today in this political, politically volatile
world that we're living in. That's where we find ourselves.
That's my understanding of where this stays or where this lands.
Right now. It's an active case. The panel's decision is
not final. The Ninth Circuit, the full Ninth Circuit may
(39:02):
rehear this case in Monk and the Descent, who was
one judge in this particular case, said that allowing federalization
quote risks eroding constitutional boundaries between state and federal authorities. So,
(39:23):
as with most things, we'll see where this ends up,
my friends, But this is at least a temporary victory,
especially in a very unlikely place for President Trump and
his authority, his discretion to use National Guards troops national
(39:44):
Guard troops to well, to federalize them and to help
protect and to clean up some of these cities. And
that's the issue. You know, I don't have a lot
of time here, but it is remarkable to me. I mean,
I understand, I've been a conservative for a long long time.
I have been a guy that is in favor of
limited government for a long long time, and I'm still
(40:06):
a guy who's in favor of limited government. But limited
government does not mean that there is no federal authority
or that the president doesn't have constitutional discretion and powers
that he can execute and use in situations like this.
We went through this a little bit yesterday on the program,
talking about how the founders framed the Constitution and that
(40:30):
government is forced, and that the executive branch has a
certain amount of power that it can actually put some
meat behind some of these things. So it's just bizarre
and wild to me to stand for the lawlessness and
crime that we have in some of these cities. But
I'm out of time here, got to go. Thanks for listening. STG.
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