October 28, 2025 • 40 mins
Day 28 of the so-called “Schumer shutdown” and the chaos isn’t an accident—it’s a strategy. Today Todd breaks down why Senate math and Rule 22 matter, how the 17th Amendment rewired federalism, and why repealing it could change everything about modern shutdown politics. We also hit Indiana’s surprise special session on redistricting, the left’s campus and street activism from Antifa to AOC rallies, and Biden’s latest speech about “protecting institutions.” Todd makes the case for restoring the Founders’ safeguards so states—not parties—regain a real voice in Washington. Plus: flight delays, filibusters, and why low-information narratives keep winning.
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Speaker 2 (00:36):
All right, my friends, plenty to get to today, day
number twenty eight of the Schumer shut down. We've got gridlock,
We've got turmoil. We've got all sorts of things out
there that are created, by the way, created by the
members of the extreme radical left who are content on
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causing as much harm for the average American as possible
if they think it can give them a political advantage.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
I want to talk about this today.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
In fact, yesterday, if you missed my conversation with Micah Beck,
with Lieutenant governor here in the state of Indiana, we
talked about redistricting. In fact, I've known Mike. If you've
listened to this program, you know that I've known Micah
for I don't know, five or six years, is my guess.
He's been a guest host on this program in the past.
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We met through Senator John Crane, who's also a guest
host here on the program when I am taking much
deserved time away from the microphont here, but known Micah
for a bit and we talked about redistricting. I didn't
know it at the time when he and I set
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this up. I knew it was getting close, but I
didn't know that there was going to be an announcement
yesterday that there would be a special session. At least
I didn't know that when I reached out to Micah,
So we talked about that yesterday. That actually happened as
he and I were on the phone with one another
for the interview before the second segment. It just it
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was announced by Governor Brown that there would be a
special session in which the state legislature was going to
be considering redistricting. Now, I don't want to make this
Indiana centric. What I do want to say is that
this is important for the national fight that we have
for the midterm elections. This is about this is one
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way that we can within the confines of the law
and constitutional power. This is one way that conservative red
states can't fight back against the national chaos that's been
launched upon us, has been weaponized, and it's being used
for political purposes. That's being waged by the radical leftists
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in control of Congress. And make no mistake, they the
radical left, are the ones responsible for this shutdown. They
want it, they think it helps them. They want to
stick with the narrative that says Republicans control the House,
the Senate, and the Presidency and they can't figure out
how to keep the government open. When that, of course,
as I've debunked countless times on here, it takes thirty
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seconds to debunk it.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
All you have to say is the Senate.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Rule, what is it Rule twenty two or whatever that
says that it takes three fifths super majority to end
debate in the Senate and to call a vote on
a particular issue. Republicans don't have sixty senators that are
in they have fifty three, and they don't have enough votes.
This is very simple, it's very simple to understand. It's
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not even an inch deep.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
But in this.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Conversation with Mikey yesterday, he mentioned something about the seventeenth Amendment,
which is something that we've talked about on this program
before as well, and it just got me to think,
and as I was preparing for the program, what might
this turmoil look like or would we have this if
we still had the seventeenth Amendments. I want to talk
about this today because listen, I think in today's world,
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you know, used to back before I don't know, social media,
back before President Trump, back before, everything was political and
politics just dominates. Politics dominates everything. Now it's not even
just important to people. And you know, people know that
they have different ideas and they're debating these things and
trying to elect the people that are advancing their political
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what they think is politically best for this country and
so forth. This is, this is every This is the
survival of the constitutional republic. And I think everything in
some degree is on the table here. And I'm going
to tell you I think why not now as any
just in general, I think now is as good a
time as ever to say that the seventeenth Amendment is
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a terrible amendment. And I want to go through that.
And it's relevant to this because I will tell you
how the seventeenth would help us avoid if it was
not if it was not ratified, if we didn't have
the seventeenth Amendment, we wouldn't be where we are today.
The Left wouldn't be able to weaponize the government against
people and cause havoc and turmoil like they do if
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all right, let's talk about this. Let's talk about the
turmoil that's been created. We got day twenty eight of
the government shutdown I mentioned earlier.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
We know this.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
You know this, if you've listened to this program. You
probably know this just from figuring it out on your
own as well, because this isn't complicated to figure out.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Democrats have hijacked the process.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Democrats have refused that the funding that was in place
that they voted for previously on the funding that was
in place on September thirtieth, twenty twenty five was unacceptable
to the Democrats on October first, twenty twenty five, the
very next day, the day this shutdown began midnight on
October one, twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
And so the.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Democrats have been trying to use this to their political advantage.
They've actually been out there saying They're on record saying,
Chuck Schumer's on record saying that every day this goes
on politically helps the Democrats. That's what they think, that's
what their focus groups point to. And you know, in
some respect that makes sense because because I think everybody
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knows the adults in the room are in the Republican Party.
This is not a blanket endorsement of the Republican Party.
But they're not the childest instigators that we see coming
from the extreme radical left to of course find a
home in today's radically left Democrat Party. And so people,
I guess recognize that the adults in the room are
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going to have to be the ones to solve the problem.
What they don't account for are the temper tantrums being
thrown by the children. The children and the Democrat Party. Infantile, juvenile,
just pure tantrums is what these things are. And they're
hoping to politically get an advantage.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Off of this.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
They want to stir people into a frenzy. They want
to cause them to hate Trump. They want to cause
them to either Again, it's whatever strategy they can get
that gets people mad at something that they say, we've got.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
The solution to.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
If you can get people to hate this country has founded,
they don't care. They're happy to tear it down. They
want to rebuild it into something that's more socialistic, something
that's more consistent with the morally bankrupt worldview of Zoron
Mom Donnie, who, by the way, is on his way
to becoming the mayor of the City of New York
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and when he crashes and burns that city to the
ground metaphorically here, remember that we told you so. It's coming,
New Yorkers, It's coming. It's unfortunate that you are voting
for your own demise, but that looks to be what
the folks in New York City are going to be doing.
This party is becoming increasingly radical, out of control, and
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they are going to get They're going to get what
they voted for here in short order. A lot of people
cheer for this because they think that this is somehow
going to cause people to realize, Wow, these ideas really
don't work.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Bet me, that is not There's going to be some excuse.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Mon.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Donnie didn't have enough time, he didn't have enough money.
He realizes that the problem of New York City are
deeper than he first realized. He just you know, you
need to be a lifetime mayor to even begin to
fix the problems there. Believe me, if you're committed to
the ideology some people listen, there's no changing some mind,
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no changing certain minds out there. My friends, they are
committed to their ideology. It's part of their identity. Admitting
that they are wrong is something that is incredibly hard
to do. Just think about it from your perspective, and
especially how hard is it to admit when you're wrong?
How hard is it for me to admit when I'm wrong?
Some of us are better at that than others, I guess.
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But it's not something that humans take lightly because it's
it's eaten the humble pie, so to speak. It's not
something we look forward to doing. And so when you
build your whole life around a worldview, in an ideology
that's built upon nothing but lies, de seat propaganda.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
No one wants to admit this, but that's what's happening.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
It is collapsing everywhere, all around us, everywhere that it's tried,
and it has caused this country, specifically in our federal government,
well in other areas as well. Portland, Oregon, which of
course was the topic of today's Todd Talk. With antifa,
what's going on out there. People believe, because they use
the term anti fascists, that they're fighting fascism, when in reality,
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these people are the fascist. Trump is exactly right to
declare these this group a terrorist domestic terrorist organization. So
we've got chaos that has been sown here, chaos that
they want to use for political purposes. They don't care
who they hurt, they don't care what the consequences. All
they care about is using it for political advantage and
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for the low information voter, the person who listens to
the mainstream news, the people who don't listen to content
programs like this. Of course, there's not many like that,
truly like this. People just buy the lies. They buy
the lies. They go on their merry way. There's there's
the kind of the social component of this, where people
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don't want to be outside on the wrong side of
this issue and get mocked and ridiculed and attacked and
called a fascist and everything else, and so it's just
easier to go along. There's a bunch of people that
find themselves moving in that direction, allowing this nonsense to
take over in this country. And so we find ourselves
here at this crossroads. The government has been shut down
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for twenty eight days now. Federal employees, air traffic controllers,
and SNAP recipients are now missing paychecks. Travel delays had
been reported seven thousand flights had been delayed nationwide. That
was reported by Reuters yesterday. Day mess mess on our hands.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
So I want to take you back. I'm not going
to play the clip.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
But yesterday I had Mike and Beck with on and
we were talking about a lot of things. We were
talking about redistricting in particular. That was the main thrust
of what we were talking about yesterday. But in this
process we ventured really quickly into the issue of the
seventeenth Amendment. The seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
was ratified on April eighth, nineteen thirteen, So this is
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one hundred and twelve years ago.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
And what it did.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
What it did was that it changed how the senators
going to the United States Senate. So each state, as
you well know, has two senators. They have representatives. The
number of representatives that are proportional to their percentage of
the overall population in this country. It's basically, there's four
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hundred and thirty five seats. Those are reallocated every ten
years based upon the census data that says the state
has a higher population than this state, the state gains
a seater two, this state loses a seater two based
upon where people are moving and migrating and so forth
within the United States of America. And so that's how
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the House is divided. But the Senate, everybody gets two seats.
The left doesn't like the Senate, by the way, they
don't like that Wyoming, for example, gets two senators when
California only gets two senators, and they say, California is
multiple times bigger than the state of Wyoming, why do
we only get two senators. That means that the vote
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of the people that those senators represent is watered down
because two senators divided over the millions of people in
California is not the same proportion, not even we're close
to the same as two senators from Wyoming split amongst
the several hundred thousand people that you'll find in that
particular state. And so that's how they begin to chip
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away at this to day, that's how they're chipping away
at this. They're trying to change the way it's done
even the further their electoral to give themselves more of
an electoral advantage and listen, more power to you. But
that's not how senators were initially elected. Initially, senators were
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elected by the legislatures of the states. And the founders
were brilliant in this. This is this is the kind
of thing that I think the level of detail and
thought the founders put in to actually just again the
minutia and the details. The founders wanted this to be
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a constitutional federal republic, so meaning there's still states rights,
states still have a voice. They wanted there to be
democratic aspects. Certainly, the House of Representatives is elected directly
by the people, but it is a constitutional republic, and
we've gone through that before on this program. I don't
want to get into that at the moment, but it's
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a constitutional federal republic, states rights and a focus. I mean,
in a lot of ways, when we founded this country,
it wasn't quite like there were thirteen individual countries coming together,
but certainly in a way it was like that people
considered themselves residents of a state, Pennsylvania, Virginia, whatever, and
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they were joining this federation of states that they would
call the United States of America. I mean, it's in
the name too, right, It's right there for everybody to see.
These are states that were united federally ultimately under the
Constitution of the United States, and so initially states, so
the people elected representatives, and every two years the people
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could elect a new representative, because all four hundred and
thirty five members of the House of Representatives are up
for re election every two years. In theory it'll never happen,
but in theory, all four hundred and thirty five seats
could be flipped. That's just in theory, not in practice.
But the Senate is different. The Senate is elected by
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Originally in the Constitution, it was elected by state legislatures,
and so the thinking was we wanted states to have
a voice in Congress as well. The people had their
voices through the House of Representatives the Senate. Excuse me,
the states had their voice through the Senators. Now, by
the way, people in the States would still indirectly be
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electing these senators because they would be electing their state legislature.
So the Congress did away with this country, did away
with that through a constitutional amendment. Progressive era reformers, they
get blamed for tearing this country down in so many ways,
and rightfully so.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
They advocated this.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
To senators to be elected directly by the peace, which
is crazy, right, Why would you have two different houses represented,
The Senate and the House of Representatives have the same
method by which the people were elected. What is the difference?
Why have two If this is how it's done, it's
not the intention. It broke a fundamental I would say,
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safeguard in our system when this amendment was ratified one
hundred and twelve years ago. So they said they wanted
to do this to reduce deadlocks, to reduce corruption claims.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
I mean, give me a break. It's funny.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Like I understand, certainly, I understand that there could be
people who are running for Senate when they were elected
by the state legislatures who said, look, let me bribe
a couple people in the state legislature to help me
get this position. But the idea that there's no bribery
or no other shenanigans happening because you're directly elected by
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the people, that that cuts off any opportunity for there
to be any funny business is just living with your
head in the saying there's all sorts of ways that again,
integrity of elections, the integrity of our elections can be compromised.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
That's why we have to have election integrity.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
That's why we have to have voter ID That's why
we have to have safe, secure ways. We have to
have ballots that are once received, have the proper chain
of custody, the procedures followed all of that, because there
are certainly opportunities for these things to be.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
For bad things to happen.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
No matter what the system, no matter how it's done,
there's always an opportunity for.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Bad things to happen.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Critics back in the time that this was passed argued
that this weakened federalism and shifted loyalty from states to parties.
We've seen what has happened now, what I want to
talk about today. I don't want to go too much
in the weeds here, but currently it's important to note
that right now, right now, there are twenty nine states
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that have Republican controlled the legislature. There are eighteen states
that have Democrat control of the legislature. If both of
those if all of those states, if the Democrat controlled
state legislatures sent two Democrat senators, that would mean there
are thirty six Democrat senators today. If we didn't have
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the seventeenth Amendment and the state legislature still elected senators,
there would be thirty six Democrat senators. Republicans controlled twenty
nine state legislatures, so there would be fifty eight. And
then there's three. There are three states that have divided legislatures,
meaning that one of the parties, one of the political parties,
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controls the House and the other controls the Senate. And
so it would be reasonable in my way of thinking,
to think that each of those states would have one
Democrat and one Republican go to Washington, d c. To
represent their respective states. And so when you do all
the math this, if senators were elected the way that
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they are elected, or that they were elected initially there
would be sixty one Republican senators and thirty nine Democrat senators.
Suddenly the filibuster becomes totally a moot point because if
once there are sixty votes in the Senate, you can
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invoke cloture and cause the debate to end. And so
simply by changing this mechanism by how senators were elected,
that has impacted this as well, because.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Now you have a.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
System that allows for the manipulation of individual voters. Do
you have a situation where people, I mean can politically
engage in theater all the time and voters just fall
for the nonsense.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
So more on this, my friends.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
I want to talk about this and the chaos that
the Left has caused us here in just a moment.
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Speaker 3 (22:58):
In just a minute. Welcome back, my friends. Chaos has
ensued in this country.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Chaos has been able to get a foothold in this
country in part. I'm not blaming all of this chaos
that we have in this country on this, but in
part because of the gradual eroding.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
The erosion I should say of the system.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
And framework that our founders had put in place, the safeguards.
Not all of them, of course, some of them have
remained firm and true over time. Some of them have
been chipped away at, like the seventeenth Amendment, which I've
talked about. I don't want to get into that too much.
I just simply wanted to say this for two reasons.
Number One, it's relevant to the conversation. It helps understand
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how changes to things that might seem insignificant or even
to some degree to be a benefit for the country
oftentimes can have the exact opposite effect. Remember this when
they talk about takeing away the electoral college. Remember this
when they start talking about giving states like California more
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senators or having Wyoming have fewer senators. Remember that one
of the compromises made by big states in small states
that allowed them all to sign on to the Constitution
was the way that the House and the Senate was elected,
the different ways that they were elected, and so remember
that these things are done for a purpose. It doesn't
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mean the founders are flawless. The Founders were brilliant. I
would be very hesitant to change too much of the
way that they set up the government to function, as
far as with these checks and balances and so forth.
Regarding the way that they thought about liberty and talked
about the issues in the Bill of Rights, for example.
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That doesn't mean that they're they're infallible. We know that
they are. We know that they The obvious one is
how they handled the issue of slavery at the founding
of this nation.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
It's terrible, reprehensible.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
But that doesn't mean that there are not very very
good things that they did when they framed this nation
how it would operate. By the way the nation was allowed,
by the way that the founders framed it, the nation
was able to ultimately fix the issue of slavery and
get it addressed and eliminated.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Address that issue.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
The system that we live in that even though they
didn't set it up properly at the beginning, made some
really really bad mistakes, did not respect the dignity, the humanity,
the human rights of Black Americans.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
It was atrocious.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
They still built a mechanism by which we were able
to fix that situation. And so the system has a
lot of good things in it, but there are risks.
There are certainly risks if we start making these dramatic changes,
and people today there's so much frustration that people are saying, well,
something has to be wrong with the system. I take
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a totally different viewpoint on that. The problem is not
the system. The system has prevented the chaos from spreading further.
What has caused this problem to happen are the people
who are in these positions of political power and the
way that people have been manipulated and propagandized out there.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
That's what's happened.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
We've allowed people who are in positions of political power
to get away with some very very big statements. In fact,
I'm about to play a sound by Biden's out there.
Someone invited him to speak. I have no idea why
they would, but they did. He's up here at the
podium talking about well again, painting this picture, trying to
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blame Trump for all of this tension and turmoil. I'm
not to say, not here to say that Trump hasn't
engaged in things that lead to tension and turnoil. Well,
I'm saying the real problems that we have in this
country have been percolating behind closed doors for decades, in fact,
over a century, if you go back to the seventeenth Amendment,
even further back in some instances, how people have been
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moving towards moving this country towards a nation that goes
further and further to the left. That is certainly a
problem that has existed for a long long time. And
so they want to blame Trump. They want to cause
the chaos, they want to cause the shutdown. They want
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to inspire the folks and Antifa. They want to defend Antifa.
They wouldn't defend college professors who say some reprehensible things,
who have totally disregarded the free speech rights, the academic
you know, just academic truth on campuses, silencing the opposition.
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The left defends these people routinely on a regular basis,
and this is the stuff that's been contributing to this societal.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Just degradation.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
I guess we've been degrading our society over time, moving
from things that were rooted in truth and academic integrity,
and now we just got pure propaganda out there.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
You go to college.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Today, you go to college today, there are many professors
who view it as their personal job to make you
a little committed leftist when you leave that university. That
is not education, my friends, That is programming. That is
not teaching someone how to think. That's teaching them what
to think. And so many people, because they are intimidated
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by what happens if they disagree with the professor, or
they're afraid socially what happens if they make a statement
in the classroom, they sit quietly and they contribute. They
contribute to the nonsense. Friends, you're either opposing that sort
of thing or you are complicit. You might not say
I'm not I'm not actively pushing in that direction, but
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you certainly are not keeping those from doing that and
pushing this nation. Whether it's in the classroom, whether it's
in the halls of our government, whether it's in woke
business wherever you're either pushing in the right direction, which
is towards truth, constitutional conservative principles and values, liberty, pushing
in that direction, pushing towards the truth of the scriptures,
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or you're pushing in the wrong direction, which is wokeness,
which is well, that sums it up. I think best
just wokeness, anti guide mindset, this angry, self entitled rage
that exists out there today. Then there's a group of
people who think I'm just in the middle. I'm not
going to get involved in this. Well, congratulations for finding
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yourself in a position that doesn't prevent the people from
pushing it in the wrong direction. So you're really not
helping anything by not standing up. We need more of this,
We need more strong people willing to stand up. It
actually encourages more people to do the very same thing.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
My friends.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
There's more of us out there than we even realize.
But that being said, I'm going to get to Joseph
Robinett Bribery here behind the microphone, of course, talking about
the chaos that he and his party have helped create,
deliberately help create, and again trying to blame Trump for this,
trying to scare people into thinking the real risk, the
real threat is Trump, when the real threat, again is
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short sound bite from Joseph Robinette Bribery at the podium here.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
I think it was yesterday again.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Someone invited this guy for some reason. I'm not sure why,
but he's speaking at the podium. And just listen how
he maligns Trump and blames Trump and the Republicans and
you really for what is happening here in this country today.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
Take a listen for yourself.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
I know the idea of America depends on our respect
for the institutions that government and guarantee you free society.
It depends on a presidency with limited power at us.
Depends on the functioning in Congress, It depends on autonomous judiciary.
(32:30):
It depends on a free and independent press, institutions to
reflect the timeless words. We hold these truth to be
self evident. You know the thing and we the people
ongoing debates about the power and the exercise of power,
Debates about the about whether we lead that we lead
by the example.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Of our power, or the power of our.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
Example, where we show the courage stand up to the
abuse of power, or We're going to yield to it,
these existential questions again. Today we remained in a battle
for the soul of our nation. Of my view, I
agree we all of us, and I mean all of us,
have an enormous responsibility protect the institution of the problem
(33:13):
which the fate of our nation rests.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Okay, you get the idea that was put together. I
don't know who put that clip together. I think it
says w CVB Boston. He was actually he addressed an
audience in Boston Sunday after winning the Lifetime Achievement Award
from the Edward M. Kennedy Institute. That's what that's from.
Of course, prepared remarks that he was reading from a teleprompter.
(33:38):
If you remember, he cited the Declaration there. And the
reason I said, you know the thing is because that's
what he said. He forgot on the campaign trail, started
to cite the Declaration, forgot what he was saying, and
just told the audience, you know the thing. Unfortunately the
audience didn't know because they're voting for this, these folks
in the Democrat Party today.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
I got to take a time out. My friend's quick
time out back here in just a.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
Minute, welcome back, my friends. Third and final segment of
the program today, I want to get to this SoundBite
of AOC again again.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
They have wreaked havoc on this nation.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
They have sowed seeds of discord, they have sown propaganda,
they have lied, deceived. For a long long time, they've
been moving this country further from its founding principles, away
from the Constitution, away from the declaration that Biden quoted
in his speech. There a little clip that I played
(34:40):
last segment. They've moved further and further away from that
over the course of decades. Now they are trying to
tell you. They're trying to tell you that all this
chaos is the result of President Trump, and if you
don't stand up and oppose him, you're a fascist, your hitler,
you're the problem. That's what they want you to believe.
(35:01):
It's hogwash, it's silliness, it's not for it shouldn't have
an impact on people who are well read, who understand
the truth, who understand the Constitution. It's a game that's
being played. That's what's being happening. That's what's happening here.
So I've got AOC, she's got a zoron Mom Donnie
(35:22):
Rally in New York, and she's going off. I just
want to play this clip. I found this on Red State.
By the way, all these things, If you want to
go to the Stack of Stuff page on our website,
you can find the original links of things that I
talked about here on this program. Just go to toddebshow dot
com look for the stack and you'll find the information
from today's episode, the articles and so forth. So she
(35:44):
is going off here at the podium, and she's basically
trying to make all of these problems that we face today,
all the tensions, the turmoil, the insecurity, things that have
been caused in many cases, I don't want to blame
every problem on the radical that would be that would
be disingenuous, But a lot of them, a whole lot.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
Of them, are caused by the radical left.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Some problems we have because of other factors, some problems
we have because we live in a fallen world. But
many problems we have, my friends, are because the left
has created them. And then they want to tell you
to vote for them and they'll solve them. And so
now they're taking to the podium and I'll play this
in a minute. It's a short clip where she's trying
to get all ethnic groups, racial groups fired up to
(36:32):
basically say without saying it directly, and maybe she does elsewhere.
I can't listen to the entire speeches here, but the
idea is that the Republican Party and Donald Trump have,
according to these leftist lunatics, waged war on people who
are not white, conservative males or whatever, and so they
(36:53):
are stirring people into a frenzy, in this case to
vote for mom Donnie in New York no reason other
than just again superficial stuff. They want to point to
his ethnicity and religion if you ask him tough questions
about some of those things, especially in New York City,
(37:13):
especially as it pertains to nine to eleven your call
the islamophobe and everything else. But they want to use
these things, that these pieces of identity to stir people
into a frenzy to vote for someone based upon an
emotion that has nothing to do with logic and what
makes sense because zoron Mom Donnie is an absolute disaster
(37:36):
of a politician. I mean, this guy is a is
practically a Marxist running for mayor in the city of
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here we go. We've got AOC at the microphone or
don't have long to play this.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
I'm getting to the end of the segment, but I.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
Want you to listen to this, and yeah you can,
you can chuckle that at how every time she says
Latino she has to get the accent or what ever. Okay,
that's fine, but really, in another sense, this is this
is the This is a little bit concerning in a
sense that they are driving people into I would say
(39:15):
a blind rage. Now people have been here for a
long time, but it's it's it's being amplified even more.
I just want you to listen to this, how she
stirred these folks into a frenzy to vote for a Marxist.
Speaker 3 (39:26):
I don't know what else to say about this. Here
it is Joos.
Speaker 5 (39:29):
Escaping Holocaust, Black Americans fleeing sand slavery, and Jim Crow,
Latinos then seeking a better life, Native people standing for themselves,
Asian Americans coming together in Queens in Brooklyn and Brouns
and Manian It's sun Islands in this country in Okay.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
You get the idea, right, All emotion, lots of sharing,
no content there, there's nothing of since it's relevant to
this moment today. Obviously, he's talking about things historically and
people that have had, in some cases with terrible situations,
and I recognize that. But what I don't recognize is
(40:13):
how she wants to put everybody into a group. I
know it doesn't make the same level of SoundBite. I
know that I can't get up here and do that
sort of that that cadence and tell you the truth.
It doesn't, it doesn't translate that way. But the truth
is we are Americans. We are human beings first. The
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things that unify us are much greater than the things
that separate us, unless, of course, we want to take
from one group to fund our lifestyle and live as
we want.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
My friends, but I have to go. SDG
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Speaker 2 (00:36):
All right, my friends, plenty to get to today, day
number twenty eight of the Schumer shut down. We've got gridlock,
We've got turmoil. We've got all sorts of things out
there that are created, by the way, created by the
members of the extreme radical left who are content on
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causing as much harm for the average American as possible
if they think it can give them a political advantage.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
I want to talk about this today.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
In fact, yesterday, if you missed my conversation with Micah Beck,
with Lieutenant governor here in the state of Indiana, we
talked about redistricting. In fact, I've known Mike. If you've
listened to this program, you know that I've known Micah
for I don't know, five or six years, is my guess.
He's been a guest host on this program in the past.
(01:26):
We met through Senator John Crane, who's also a guest
host here on the program when I am taking much
deserved time away from the microphont here, but known Micah
for a bit and we talked about redistricting. I didn't
know it at the time when he and I set
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this up. I knew it was getting close, but I
didn't know that there was going to be an announcement
yesterday that there would be a special session. At least
I didn't know that when I reached out to Micah,
So we talked about that yesterday. That actually happened as
he and I were on the phone with one another
for the interview before the second segment. It just it
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was announced by Governor Brown that there would be a
special session in which the state legislature was going to
be considering redistricting. Now, I don't want to make this
Indiana centric. What I do want to say is that
this is important for the national fight that we have
for the midterm elections. This is about this is one
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way that we can within the confines of the law
and constitutional power. This is one way that conservative red
states can't fight back against the national chaos that's been
launched upon us, has been weaponized, and it's being used
for political purposes. That's being waged by the radical leftists
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in control of Congress. And make no mistake, they the
radical left, are the ones responsible for this shutdown. They
want it, they think it helps them. They want to
stick with the narrative that says Republicans control the House,
the Senate, and the Presidency and they can't figure out
how to keep the government open. When that, of course,
as I've debunked countless times on here, it takes thirty
(03:15):
seconds to debunk it.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
All you have to say is the Senate.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Rule, what is it Rule twenty two or whatever that
says that it takes three fifths super majority to end
debate in the Senate and to call a vote on
a particular issue. Republicans don't have sixty senators that are
in they have fifty three, and they don't have enough votes.
This is very simple, it's very simple to understand. It's
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not even an inch deep.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
But in this.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Conversation with Mikey yesterday, he mentioned something about the seventeenth Amendment,
which is something that we've talked about on this program
before as well, and it just got me to think,
and as I was preparing for the program, what might
this turmoil look like or would we have this if
we still had the seventeenth Amendments. I want to talk
about this today because listen, I think in today's world,
(04:07):
you know, used to back before I don't know, social media,
back before President Trump, back before, everything was political and
politics just dominates. Politics dominates everything. Now it's not even
just important to people. And you know, people know that
they have different ideas and they're debating these things and
trying to elect the people that are advancing their political
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what they think is politically best for this country and
so forth. This is, this is every This is the
survival of the constitutional republic. And I think everything in
some degree is on the table here. And I'm going
to tell you I think why not now as any
just in general, I think now is as good a
time as ever to say that the seventeenth Amendment is
(04:53):
a terrible amendment. And I want to go through that.
And it's relevant to this because I will tell you
how the seventeenth would help us avoid if it was
not if it was not ratified, if we didn't have
the seventeenth Amendment, we wouldn't be where we are today.
The Left wouldn't be able to weaponize the government against
people and cause havoc and turmoil like they do if
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all right, let's talk about this. Let's talk about the
turmoil that's been created. We got day twenty eight of
the government shutdown I mentioned earlier.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
We know this.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
You know this, if you've listened to this program. You
probably know this just from figuring it out on your
own as well, because this isn't complicated to figure out.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Democrats have hijacked the process.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Democrats have refused that the funding that was in place
that they voted for previously on the funding that was
in place on September thirtieth, twenty twenty five was unacceptable
to the Democrats on October first, twenty twenty five, the
very next day, the day this shutdown began midnight on
October one, twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
And so the.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Democrats have been trying to use this to their political advantage.
They've actually been out there saying They're on record saying,
Chuck Schumer's on record saying that every day this goes
on politically helps the Democrats. That's what they think, that's
what their focus groups point to. And you know, in
some respect that makes sense because because I think everybody
(08:18):
knows the adults in the room are in the Republican Party.
This is not a blanket endorsement of the Republican Party.
But they're not the childest instigators that we see coming
from the extreme radical left to of course find a
home in today's radically left Democrat Party. And so people,
I guess recognize that the adults in the room are
(08:39):
going to have to be the ones to solve the problem.
What they don't account for are the temper tantrums being
thrown by the children. The children and the Democrat Party. Infantile, juvenile,
just pure tantrums is what these things are. And they're
hoping to politically get an advantage.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Off of this.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
They want to stir people into a frenzy. They want
to cause them to hate Trump. They want to cause
them to either Again, it's whatever strategy they can get
that gets people mad at something that they say, we've got.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
The solution to.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
If you can get people to hate this country has founded,
they don't care. They're happy to tear it down. They
want to rebuild it into something that's more socialistic, something
that's more consistent with the morally bankrupt worldview of Zoron
Mom Donnie, who, by the way, is on his way
to becoming the mayor of the City of New York
(09:28):
and when he crashes and burns that city to the
ground metaphorically here, remember that we told you so. It's coming,
New Yorkers, It's coming. It's unfortunate that you are voting
for your own demise, but that looks to be what
the folks in New York City are going to be doing.
This party is becoming increasingly radical, out of control, and
(09:52):
they are going to get They're going to get what
they voted for here in short order. A lot of people
cheer for this because they think that this is somehow
going to cause people to realize, Wow, these ideas really
don't work.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Bet me, that is not There's going to be some excuse.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Mon.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Donnie didn't have enough time, he didn't have enough money.
He realizes that the problem of New York City are
deeper than he first realized. He just you know, you
need to be a lifetime mayor to even begin to
fix the problems there. Believe me, if you're committed to
the ideology some people listen, there's no changing some mind,
(10:31):
no changing certain minds out there. My friends, they are
committed to their ideology. It's part of their identity. Admitting
that they are wrong is something that is incredibly hard
to do. Just think about it from your perspective, and
especially how hard is it to admit when you're wrong?
How hard is it for me to admit when I'm wrong?
Some of us are better at that than others, I guess.
(10:54):
But it's not something that humans take lightly because it's
it's eaten the humble pie, so to speak. It's not
something we look forward to doing. And so when you
build your whole life around a worldview, in an ideology
that's built upon nothing but lies, de seat propaganda.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
No one wants to admit this, but that's what's happening.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
It is collapsing everywhere, all around us, everywhere that it's tried,
and it has caused this country, specifically in our federal government,
well in other areas as well. Portland, Oregon, which of
course was the topic of today's Todd Talk. With antifa,
what's going on out there. People believe, because they use
the term anti fascists, that they're fighting fascism, when in reality,
(11:36):
these people are the fascist. Trump is exactly right to
declare these this group a terrorist domestic terrorist organization. So
we've got chaos that has been sown here, chaos that
they want to use for political purposes. They don't care
who they hurt, they don't care what the consequences. All
they care about is using it for political advantage and
(11:58):
for the low information voter, the person who listens to
the mainstream news, the people who don't listen to content
programs like this. Of course, there's not many like that,
truly like this. People just buy the lies. They buy
the lies. They go on their merry way. There's there's
the kind of the social component of this, where people
(12:20):
don't want to be outside on the wrong side of
this issue and get mocked and ridiculed and attacked and
called a fascist and everything else, and so it's just
easier to go along. There's a bunch of people that
find themselves moving in that direction, allowing this nonsense to
take over in this country. And so we find ourselves
here at this crossroads. The government has been shut down
(12:42):
for twenty eight days now. Federal employees, air traffic controllers,
and SNAP recipients are now missing paychecks. Travel delays had
been reported seven thousand flights had been delayed nationwide. That
was reported by Reuters yesterday. Day mess mess on our hands.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
So I want to take you back. I'm not going
to play the clip.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
But yesterday I had Mike and Beck with on and
we were talking about a lot of things. We were
talking about redistricting in particular. That was the main thrust
of what we were talking about yesterday. But in this
process we ventured really quickly into the issue of the
seventeenth Amendment. The seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
was ratified on April eighth, nineteen thirteen, So this is
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one hundred and twelve years ago.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
And what it did.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
What it did was that it changed how the senators
going to the United States Senate. So each state, as
you well know, has two senators. They have representatives. The
number of representatives that are proportional to their percentage of
the overall population in this country. It's basically, there's four
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hundred and thirty five seats. Those are reallocated every ten
years based upon the census data that says the state
has a higher population than this state, the state gains
a seater two, this state loses a seater two based
upon where people are moving and migrating and so forth
within the United States of America. And so that's how
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the House is divided. But the Senate, everybody gets two seats.
The left doesn't like the Senate, by the way, they
don't like that Wyoming, for example, gets two senators when
California only gets two senators, and they say, California is
multiple times bigger than the state of Wyoming, why do
we only get two senators. That means that the vote
(14:35):
of the people that those senators represent is watered down
because two senators divided over the millions of people in
California is not the same proportion, not even we're close
to the same as two senators from Wyoming split amongst
the several hundred thousand people that you'll find in that
particular state. And so that's how they begin to chip
(14:58):
away at this to day, that's how they're chipping away
at this. They're trying to change the way it's done
even the further their electoral to give themselves more of
an electoral advantage and listen, more power to you. But
that's not how senators were initially elected. Initially, senators were
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elected by the legislatures of the states. And the founders
were brilliant in this. This is this is the kind
of thing that I think the level of detail and
thought the founders put in to actually just again the
minutia and the details. The founders wanted this to be
(15:42):
a constitutional federal republic, so meaning there's still states rights,
states still have a voice. They wanted there to be
democratic aspects. Certainly, the House of Representatives is elected directly
by the people, but it is a constitutional republic, and
we've gone through that before on this program. I don't
want to get into that at the moment, but it's
(16:03):
a constitutional federal republic, states rights and a focus. I mean,
in a lot of ways, when we founded this country,
it wasn't quite like there were thirteen individual countries coming together,
but certainly in a way it was like that people
considered themselves residents of a state, Pennsylvania, Virginia, whatever, and
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they were joining this federation of states that they would
call the United States of America. I mean, it's in
the name too, right, It's right there for everybody to see.
These are states that were united federally ultimately under the
Constitution of the United States, and so initially states, so
the people elected representatives, and every two years the people
(16:51):
could elect a new representative, because all four hundred and
thirty five members of the House of Representatives are up
for re election every two years. In theory it'll never happen,
but in theory, all four hundred and thirty five seats
could be flipped. That's just in theory, not in practice.
But the Senate is different. The Senate is elected by
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Originally in the Constitution, it was elected by state legislatures,
and so the thinking was we wanted states to have
a voice in Congress as well. The people had their
voices through the House of Representatives the Senate. Excuse me,
the states had their voice through the Senators. Now, by
the way, people in the States would still indirectly be
(17:35):
electing these senators because they would be electing their state legislature.
So the Congress did away with this country, did away
with that through a constitutional amendment. Progressive era reformers, they
get blamed for tearing this country down in so many ways,
and rightfully so.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
They advocated this.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
To senators to be elected directly by the peace, which
is crazy, right, Why would you have two different houses represented,
The Senate and the House of Representatives have the same
method by which the people were elected. What is the difference?
Why have two If this is how it's done, it's
not the intention. It broke a fundamental I would say,
(18:19):
safeguard in our system when this amendment was ratified one
hundred and twelve years ago. So they said they wanted
to do this to reduce deadlocks, to reduce corruption claims.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
I mean, give me a break. It's funny.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Like I understand, certainly, I understand that there could be
people who are running for Senate when they were elected
by the state legislatures who said, look, let me bribe
a couple people in the state legislature to help me
get this position. But the idea that there's no bribery
or no other shenanigans happening because you're directly elected by
(18:56):
the people, that that cuts off any opportunity for there
to be any funny business is just living with your
head in the saying there's all sorts of ways that again,
integrity of elections, the integrity of our elections can be compromised.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
That's why we have to have election integrity.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
That's why we have to have voter ID That's why
we have to have safe, secure ways. We have to
have ballots that are once received, have the proper chain
of custody, the procedures followed all of that, because there
are certainly opportunities for these things to be.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
For bad things to happen.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
No matter what the system, no matter how it's done,
there's always an opportunity for.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Bad things to happen.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Critics back in the time that this was passed argued
that this weakened federalism and shifted loyalty from states to parties.
We've seen what has happened now, what I want to
talk about today. I don't want to go too much
in the weeds here, but currently it's important to note
that right now, right now, there are twenty nine states
(20:05):
that have Republican controlled the legislature. There are eighteen states
that have Democrat control of the legislature. If both of
those if all of those states, if the Democrat controlled
state legislatures sent two Democrat senators, that would mean there
are thirty six Democrat senators today. If we didn't have
(20:27):
the seventeenth Amendment and the state legislature still elected senators,
there would be thirty six Democrat senators. Republicans controlled twenty
nine state legislatures, so there would be fifty eight. And
then there's three. There are three states that have divided legislatures,
meaning that one of the parties, one of the political parties,
(20:51):
controls the House and the other controls the Senate. And
so it would be reasonable in my way of thinking,
to think that each of those states would have one
Democrat and one Republican go to Washington, d c. To
represent their respective states. And so when you do all
the math this, if senators were elected the way that
(21:15):
they are elected, or that they were elected initially there
would be sixty one Republican senators and thirty nine Democrat senators.
Suddenly the filibuster becomes totally a moot point because if
once there are sixty votes in the Senate, you can
(21:36):
invoke cloture and cause the debate to end. And so
simply by changing this mechanism by how senators were elected,
that has impacted this as well, because.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Now you have a.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
System that allows for the manipulation of individual voters. Do
you have a situation where people, I mean can politically
engage in theater all the time and voters just fall
for the nonsense.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
So more on this, my friends.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
I want to talk about this and the chaos that
the Left has caused us here in just a moment.
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Speaker 3 (22:58):
In just a minute. Welcome back, my friends. Chaos has
ensued in this country.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Chaos has been able to get a foothold in this
country in part. I'm not blaming all of this chaos
that we have in this country on this, but in
part because of the gradual eroding.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
The erosion I should say of the system.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
And framework that our founders had put in place, the safeguards.
Not all of them, of course, some of them have
remained firm and true over time. Some of them have
been chipped away at, like the seventeenth Amendment, which I've
talked about. I don't want to get into that too much.
I just simply wanted to say this for two reasons.
Number One, it's relevant to the conversation. It helps understand
(23:45):
how changes to things that might seem insignificant or even
to some degree to be a benefit for the country
oftentimes can have the exact opposite effect. Remember this when
they talk about takeing away the electoral college. Remember this
when they start talking about giving states like California more
(24:06):
senators or having Wyoming have fewer senators. Remember that one
of the compromises made by big states in small states
that allowed them all to sign on to the Constitution
was the way that the House and the Senate was elected,
the different ways that they were elected, and so remember
that these things are done for a purpose. It doesn't
(24:28):
mean the founders are flawless. The Founders were brilliant. I
would be very hesitant to change too much of the
way that they set up the government to function, as
far as with these checks and balances and so forth.
Regarding the way that they thought about liberty and talked
about the issues in the Bill of Rights, for example.
(24:51):
That doesn't mean that they're they're infallible. We know that
they are. We know that they The obvious one is
how they handled the issue of slavery at the founding
of this nation.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
It's terrible, reprehensible.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
But that doesn't mean that there are not very very
good things that they did when they framed this nation
how it would operate. By the way the nation was allowed,
by the way that the founders framed it, the nation
was able to ultimately fix the issue of slavery and
get it addressed and eliminated.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Address that issue.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
The system that we live in that even though they
didn't set it up properly at the beginning, made some
really really bad mistakes, did not respect the dignity, the humanity,
the human rights of Black Americans.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
It was atrocious.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
They still built a mechanism by which we were able
to fix that situation. And so the system has a
lot of good things in it, but there are risks.
There are certainly risks if we start making these dramatic changes,
and people today there's so much frustration that people are saying, well,
something has to be wrong with the system. I take
(26:05):
a totally different viewpoint on that. The problem is not
the system. The system has prevented the chaos from spreading further.
What has caused this problem to happen are the people
who are in these positions of political power and the
way that people have been manipulated and propagandized out there.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
That's what's happened.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
We've allowed people who are in positions of political power
to get away with some very very big statements. In fact,
I'm about to play a sound by Biden's out there.
Someone invited him to speak. I have no idea why
they would, but they did. He's up here at the
podium talking about well again, painting this picture, trying to
(26:51):
blame Trump for all of this tension and turmoil. I'm
not to say, not here to say that Trump hasn't
engaged in things that lead to tension and turnoil. Well,
I'm saying the real problems that we have in this
country have been percolating behind closed doors for decades, in fact,
over a century, if you go back to the seventeenth Amendment,
even further back in some instances, how people have been
(27:14):
moving towards moving this country towards a nation that goes
further and further to the left. That is certainly a
problem that has existed for a long long time. And
so they want to blame Trump. They want to cause
the chaos, they want to cause the shutdown. They want
(27:34):
to inspire the folks and Antifa. They want to defend Antifa.
They wouldn't defend college professors who say some reprehensible things,
who have totally disregarded the free speech rights, the academic
you know, just academic truth on campuses, silencing the opposition.
(27:55):
The left defends these people routinely on a regular basis,
and this is the stuff that's been contributing to this societal.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Just degradation.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
I guess we've been degrading our society over time, moving
from things that were rooted in truth and academic integrity,
and now we just got pure propaganda out there.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
You go to college.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Today, you go to college today, there are many professors
who view it as their personal job to make you
a little committed leftist when you leave that university. That
is not education, my friends, That is programming. That is
not teaching someone how to think. That's teaching them what
to think. And so many people, because they are intimidated
(28:42):
by what happens if they disagree with the professor, or
they're afraid socially what happens if they make a statement
in the classroom, they sit quietly and they contribute. They
contribute to the nonsense. Friends, you're either opposing that sort
of thing or you are complicit. You might not say
I'm not I'm not actively pushing in that direction, but
(29:03):
you certainly are not keeping those from doing that and
pushing this nation. Whether it's in the classroom, whether it's
in the halls of our government, whether it's in woke
business wherever you're either pushing in the right direction, which
is towards truth, constitutional conservative principles and values, liberty, pushing
in that direction, pushing towards the truth of the scriptures,
(29:26):
or you're pushing in the wrong direction, which is wokeness,
which is well, that sums it up. I think best
just wokeness, anti guide mindset, this angry, self entitled rage
that exists out there today. Then there's a group of
people who think I'm just in the middle. I'm not
going to get involved in this. Well, congratulations for finding
(29:46):
yourself in a position that doesn't prevent the people from
pushing it in the wrong direction. So you're really not
helping anything by not standing up. We need more of this,
We need more strong people willing to stand up. It
actually encourages more people to do the very same thing.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
My friends.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
There's more of us out there than we even realize.
But that being said, I'm going to get to Joseph
Robinett Bribery here behind the microphone, of course, talking about
the chaos that he and his party have helped create,
deliberately help create, and again trying to blame Trump for this,
trying to scare people into thinking the real risk, the
real threat is Trump, when the real threat, again is
(30:26):
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a half century, in some cases much much longer. Before
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that being said, let's play this quick sound bite, this
short sound bite from Joseph Robinette Bribery at the podium here.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
I think it was yesterday again.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Someone invited this guy for some reason. I'm not sure why,
but he's speaking at the podium. And just listen how
he maligns Trump and blames Trump and the Republicans and
you really for what is happening here in this country today.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
Take a listen for yourself.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
I know the idea of America depends on our respect
for the institutions that government and guarantee you free society.
It depends on a presidency with limited power at us.
Depends on the functioning in Congress, It depends on autonomous judiciary.
(32:30):
It depends on a free and independent press, institutions to
reflect the timeless words. We hold these truth to be
self evident. You know the thing and we the people
ongoing debates about the power and the exercise of power,
Debates about the about whether we lead that we lead
by the example.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Of our power, or the power of our.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
Example, where we show the courage stand up to the
abuse of power, or We're going to yield to it,
these existential questions again. Today we remained in a battle
for the soul of our nation. Of my view, I
agree we all of us, and I mean all of us,
have an enormous responsibility protect the institution of the problem
(33:13):
which the fate of our nation rests.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Okay, you get the idea that was put together. I
don't know who put that clip together. I think it
says w CVB Boston. He was actually he addressed an
audience in Boston Sunday after winning the Lifetime Achievement Award
from the Edward M. Kennedy Institute. That's what that's from.
Of course, prepared remarks that he was reading from a teleprompter.
(33:38):
If you remember, he cited the Declaration there. And the
reason I said, you know the thing is because that's
what he said. He forgot on the campaign trail, started
to cite the Declaration, forgot what he was saying, and
just told the audience, you know the thing. Unfortunately the
audience didn't know because they're voting for this, these folks
in the Democrat Party today.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
I got to take a time out. My friend's quick
time out back here in just a.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
Minute, welcome back, my friends. Third and final segment of
the program today, I want to get to this SoundBite
of AOC again again.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
They have wreaked havoc on this nation.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
They have sowed seeds of discord, they have sown propaganda,
they have lied, deceived. For a long long time, they've
been moving this country further from its founding principles, away
from the Constitution, away from the declaration that Biden quoted
in his speech. There a little clip that I played
(34:40):
last segment. They've moved further and further away from that
over the course of decades. Now they are trying to
tell you. They're trying to tell you that all this
chaos is the result of President Trump, and if you
don't stand up and oppose him, you're a fascist, your hitler,
you're the problem. That's what they want you to believe.
(35:01):
It's hogwash, it's silliness, it's not for it shouldn't have
an impact on people who are well read, who understand
the truth, who understand the Constitution. It's a game that's
being played. That's what's being happening. That's what's happening here.
So I've got AOC, she's got a zoron Mom Donnie
(35:22):
Rally in New York, and she's going off. I just
want to play this clip. I found this on Red State.
By the way, all these things, If you want to
go to the Stack of Stuff page on our website,
you can find the original links of things that I
talked about here on this program. Just go to toddebshow dot
com look for the stack and you'll find the information
from today's episode, the articles and so forth. So she
(35:44):
is going off here at the podium, and she's basically
trying to make all of these problems that we face today,
all the tensions, the turmoil, the insecurity, things that have
been caused in many cases, I don't want to blame
every problem on the radical that would be that would
be disingenuous, But a lot of them, a whole lot.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
Of them, are caused by the radical left.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Some problems we have because of other factors, some problems
we have because we live in a fallen world. But
many problems we have, my friends, are because the left
has created them. And then they want to tell you
to vote for them and they'll solve them. And so
now they're taking to the podium and I'll play this
in a minute. It's a short clip where she's trying
to get all ethnic groups, racial groups fired up to
(36:32):
basically say without saying it directly, and maybe she does elsewhere.
I can't listen to the entire speeches here, but the
idea is that the Republican Party and Donald Trump have,
according to these leftist lunatics, waged war on people who
are not white, conservative males or whatever, and so they
(36:53):
are stirring people into a frenzy, in this case to
vote for mom Donnie in New York no reason other
than just again superficial stuff. They want to point to
his ethnicity and religion if you ask him tough questions
about some of those things, especially in New York City,
(37:13):
especially as it pertains to nine to eleven your call
the islamophobe and everything else. But they want to use
these things, that these pieces of identity to stir people
into a frenzy to vote for someone based upon an
emotion that has nothing to do with logic and what
makes sense because zoron Mom Donnie is an absolute disaster
(37:36):
of a politician. I mean, this guy is a is
practically a Marxist running for mayor in the city of
New York. So I'll play that in a moment, friends,
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here we go. We've got AOC at the microphone or
don't have long to play this.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
I'm getting to the end of the segment, but I.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
Want you to listen to this, and yeah you can,
you can chuckle that at how every time she says
Latino she has to get the accent or what ever. Okay,
that's fine, but really, in another sense, this is this
is the This is a little bit concerning in a
sense that they are driving people into I would say
(39:15):
a blind rage. Now people have been here for a
long time, but it's it's it's being amplified even more.
I just want you to listen to this, how she
stirred these folks into a frenzy to vote for a Marxist.
Speaker 3 (39:26):
I don't know what else to say about this. Here
it is Joos.
Speaker 5 (39:29):
Escaping Holocaust, Black Americans fleeing sand slavery, and Jim Crow,
Latinos then seeking a better life, Native people standing for themselves,
Asian Americans coming together in Queens in Brooklyn and Brouns
and Manian It's sun Islands in this country in Okay.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
You get the idea, right, All emotion, lots of sharing,
no content there, there's nothing of since it's relevant to
this moment today. Obviously, he's talking about things historically and
people that have had, in some cases with terrible situations,
and I recognize that. But what I don't recognize is
(40:13):
how she wants to put everybody into a group. I
know it doesn't make the same level of SoundBite. I
know that I can't get up here and do that
sort of that that cadence and tell you the truth.
It doesn't, it doesn't translate that way. But the truth
is we are Americans. We are human beings first. The
(40:35):
things that unify us are much greater than the things
that separate us, unless, of course, we want to take
from one group to fund our lifestyle and live as
we want.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
My friends, but I have to go. SDG
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