December 29, 2025 • 40 mins
As 2025 comes to a close, Todd Huff breaks down the five most consequential stories that will shape America not just next year, but for years to come. This isn’t a simple year-in-review — it’s a forward-looking analysis of the events already changing the political, economic, and cultural trajectory of the nation. From redistricting battles and economic recovery to border enforcement, the return of Donald Trump to the White House, and the shocking assassination of Charlie Kirk, Todd explains why these moments matter far beyond the headlines. Plus, honorable mentions that nearly made the list, including the administrative state, judicial overreach, foreign policy shifts, and restoring law and order. Clear-eyed analysis, big-picture thinking, and unapologetic conservative truth.
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All right, my friends, welcome back to this the Todd
Huff Show, the first day back after Christmas. Here we
are between Christmas and the New Year. By the way,
as an order of housekeeping, we will be in today, Tomorrow, Wednesday.
We will be off on Friday, New Year's Day, excuse me, Thursday,
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New Year's Day and Friday as well, and then we'll
be back at it full speed ahead in the new
year on Monday. I hope you had a wonderful Christmas holiday.
We had a great holiday here as well, my friends. Today,
what I want to do is I want to go
through the five most consequential stories of twenty twenty five. Now,
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I'll explain what that means here as we get that
locked and loaded. But that's what I want to do today.
Kind of a not just a recap of what happened
in twenty twenty five. It's really a discussion of the
things that I think are going to matter tremendously, not
just the impact they had this year, but the impact
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these stories will have in twenty twenty six and in
the years to come. So that's where we're headed today,
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me explain what I mean by consequential. I kind of
mentioned it earlier. We're going to talk about the five
most consequential stories headlines of twenty events of twenty twenty five.
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That's what I want to do today. And by consequential,
I mean not just the stories that had the biggest
impact on a specific point in time. These are stories
that change things for the future as well. These are
things that have tremendous impact or the potential to have
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tremendous impact for the years to come. Now, it is
difficult to categorize these sorts of things I've you know,
I think you know this just intellectually by thinking about it.
How do you How do you decide what constitutes a story?
How much of that story can I combine other things
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into it? Do I have to separate things that might
be connected into two separate groups or two separate stories.
It's very subjective, my friends. And let me tell you
that this is not etched in stone. For me. This
is the way that I look at it right now.
I think I think that's how I look at it
right now. I've gone through this several times, and there's
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a lot of there's a lot of candidates, frankly, that
you could put in these top five. But I've got
my top five. I've also got some honorable mentions here.
I've got six out or oh no, five honorable mentions
that I'm gonna hit really quickly, really quickly, so we
can get into the top five. So honorable mentions for
the most consequential stories of twenty twenty five. Now, some
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of these quote unquote stories are going to be larger topics.
This first one's a good example. As an honorable mention,
I say, the administrative state versus the presidency. This is
one that we have taught talked about on this program
for some time, the administrative state versus the presidency. A
lot of folks believe, without even realizing they believe this,
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my friends, that there is a fourth branch of government.
That there is the executive branch, which is the presidency,
the legislative branch, which is Congress, the judicial branch, which
is the courts, the Supreme Court and the federal courts,
and that there is a fourth branch which is not
constitutionally but some people act as though that there is
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that there's this administrative state that the Department of Justice,
for example, is separate from the executive branch. It is not.
And I understand. I understand, well, Todd, what are we
supposed to do. We don't want we don't want the
part of the government that's overseeing law and order to
look like it's at the whim of the president. That's
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not what the founders wanted. Well that's true, maybe to
a point, but they did want it this way because
because they created it this way. You know, there's always
attempts to move the executive branch away from the Department
of Justice away and you start doing that with other
things as well. People actors or think as though that
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you know, hey, this is the way that the administrative
state works. It shouldn't be touched. It's its own branch
at government. No, it's the branch, part of the executive branch.
And it's the prerogative of the President of the United
States to manage his or her branch. That's the way
that this is set up to work, my friends. And
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that's just not the way that it's been done over time.
And I think it's subtle. I think it's a lot
of people don't stop and think about it, but they
just assume that, Hey, these organizations are doing their own thing,
but they're not independent of the executive branch. For example,
if the president wants to cut the size of those offices,
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why can't he. Now you can say, well, Congress has
the ability to set up and have oversight. That is true,
and there can be a fight as to where some
of these lines are drawn. But to act as though
that this that this branch can't be touched is a
very very It's very naive and it's a far cry
from reality as far as what the founders had put
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into place. That is a big deal because this is
where DOGE comes in. This is where cutting waste, fraud
and abuse comes in. This is where restoring limited government
comes into play. And I think this is a big
one and I hate to not put it in the list,
but as we get into this, you're going to realize,
like I did, man, there's a lot of contenders here.
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There's also a battle over the role of courts. Over
the courts. So you may have noticed these are things
that we hit on from time to time. I don't
spend a lot of time here, but it's constantly in
the background you have a court ruling. By the way,
this is the second These honorable mentions are not listed
in order. They're not in any specific order. These are
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just five things that could have made the top five.
So the battle over the role of our courts are
is critical. It's you could you could combine this with
what I just mentioned before, the administrative administrative state versus
the presidency. You could say that overall these things combined
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could be a fight over the role of our government,
which may be the better way of saying it. But
I wanted to get into the specifics just because these
things matter tremendously anytime the Trump administration issues in executive
order or changes a rule or issues a tariff. And listen,
I'm not saying that these things shouldn't go to court.
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I'm just saying that they when they go to court
or a judge makes some order in some cases that applies,
they try to make it apply everywhere. There's real problems
here and this again. You know, it's interesting we talked
about the problems in our system of governance. We talk about,
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you know, the fight for our democracy. The left says
this all we're fighting to save our democracy. Folks, we're
fighting to save this republic. We're fighting to determine to
what degree we are going to follow the letter of
the law of our constitution. That's really what's at stay
here or what's it at risk here. And we're talking
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about just this overall battle of the rule of law.
And there's a battle happening in our courts, in our
courts over their role, what these judges can do, how
much power they have. There's a fight over the judicial
authority and just how it applies to things that this
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president any president obviously, but this is the one where
you see all of the tricks pulled out of the bag.
And when you factor in how much time that these
legal fights can add to the agenda being fulfilled, I
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guess then this is a real problem. You don't want
the courts to interfere with politics. You also don't want,
obviously the administrative the executive branch, excuse me, to overstep
constitutional authority. So there's a legitimate fight here. But I
think that it's very clear that there has been abuse
judicial malpractice in certain instances as well. That's another These
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are consequential because these fights are going to shape what
Trump's going to be able to do in his next
three years, and the direction of this country is going
to be headed now another third honorable mentioned candidate. Foreign
policy resets that we've seen. We've seen wars that are ended,
We've seen peace that has been pursued, peace that has
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been achieved to some degree. This is not Listen. I'm
not here to tell you that there's everlasting peace. I'm
not one that jumps on that bandwagon, especially between the
peace between Israel and Hamas. I mean, these things are
so deeply rooted, and there is so much, so much
evil that's being openly, openly embraced by these radicals in
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Hamas that it's listen. I don't have any hope that
this is going to be a lasting piece. But nonetheless,
the things that have happened even in Trump's first twelve
months here, we're almost we're eleven months or so in
to the first year of a second term, and there's
been some remarkable things that have happened. Between ending wars
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and protecting American interests abroad, is real Hamas, the peace
still there. We have negotiations to end the Russian Ukraine War.
You may have seen even recent headlines Zelensky and Trump
are supposed to be meeting here. Zelensky says he's prepared
to end this war no matter what it takes sort
of thing. We'll see where this goes. But there's a
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lot of headway that's been made there, headway that was
never made previously under the Biden administration. Of course, we
also have new conflict with Venezuela, but that's a whole
that's it's like peeling the layer of an onion. A
lot of folks that this may come as a shock
to see how much, how quickly that this is escalated.
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But a lot of Americans, you know, we don't, we
don't always even here talk a lot about international relations
or what's happening on a larger, you know, an international
scale here. But Venezuela, South America, folks. We the the
the number of countries in South America over the past
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decades who have gone to the dark side as far
as it concerns politics or political ideology. They've been heavily
influenced by the Chinese and the Russians and the well
the communists. You see leftist governments that have been established
and of course collapse, which is what they do you've
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seen those things happen Maduro, of course, in Venezuela. But
we've also seen in recent years some of these countries
move back to the right places like Argentina and not Chile.
There are movements back away from those things. And South
America is our Look, they're in our hemisphere, they're part
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of the Americas. This is so to speak, our I
guess you could say our backyard metaphorically speaking. So what
happens there has tremendous impact, especially if they're working with
well narco terrorists, they're working with the Chinese. These things
matter tremendously, and so this does listen the story of
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what happens in Venezuela. Who knows where this could eventually
take us. But if South America begins to reverse the
trend of going to the political left, moving to socialist
and communists, and that has stopped Central and South America,
and that has reversed, my friends, that is good for
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of course American interests and for the entire world. You know,
a lot of the problems, you know, we listen. It's
like some people have problems putting the pieces of the
puzzle together. When you think of those countries that I
just was referencing in Central and South America that have
gone to the extreme left and have suffered tremendously because
of that. Now you look at the countries, the places
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where people have migrated from illegally crossed our borders, fleeing
repressive regimes and poverty and drug lords and all this
violence and so forth, they come from those places to
hear because those places have been destroyed, because the ideology
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produces nothing but poverty, violence, poison, oppression. And so I've
said for a long time. I've said for a long
time the best way to ultimately, ultimately stop the droves
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of illegal immigrants wanting or trying or attempting or actually
coming into this country is to export the ideas that
made America great. And so, while this conflict with Venezuela
is ratcheting up, this is in fact what we're trying
to do. This isn't always pretty. I'm certainly not hoping
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for anything beyond what we've seen as far as the
conflict is concerned. But to see pressure put upon these
places and to try to clean up the corruption and
fix these problems is a interest. This is in the
interest of the United States of America. And freedom loving
people around the world. You could also say, as a
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fourth honorable mention, here New York City turning to the left,
trying to imitate I guess the folks in Venezuela and
they elect the communists zoron, Mom, Donnie. I don't want
to talk much about this, you know, depending upon how
you look at this, you can say, well, this is
an isolated incident in the city of New York. We
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could also look at this and say, hey, this is
something that could be a bell weather of things to come. Now.
I certainly stand by my belief that the vast majority
of Americans are not prepared willing to accept an open
socialist but that being said, that doesn't mean that doesn't
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mean that there are not pockets of people who do
want those things in their particular city. So again, this
could have consequences. There's not much to this story right
now other than just to say he's been elected and
we'll see where this goes. But it could be planning
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the seeds of more socialism, hopefully not but certainly around
the Democrat Party and maybe even other pockets of leftist
lunatics around this great nation as well. We all know
how the story ends, but again, it's a siren song
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to so many on the left. They love what they
hear from these socialists and they just can't help themselves
because it sounds so good, and of course it fails
miserably every single time. So that's a top story as well.
The last honorable mention that I would say most consequential
stories of twenty twenty five would be the returning, the restoration,
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i should say, of law and order in our capital city, Washington, DC,
because Trump deployed the National Guard there, cleaning up things
rather dramatically, rather quickly. And you think about this on
a larger scale, talk about the issue of law and order.
Take the National Guard out of it for a moment,
but just look at what it means when a government
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actually enforces the law consistently, again, not just puts things
on paper. It's remarkable to me how many people on
the left are impressed by what politicians say or by
what is written on some piece of paper. If you
don't have the enforcement mechanism or the will to enforce it,
it is completely and utterly meaningless. And that's what we've seen.
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And when and when you have a leader like Trump,
this is something Listen. You don't have to like Trump,
but I just you ought to be able to see this,
to have a guy who's serious about enforcing these laws
and protecting Americans living in these places. All Americans are everywhere,
but specifically the places where crime is rampant and out
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of control. And you see what happens. You see what
happens when the law is actually enforced. You see what
happens when you realize that the person making the decisions
is actually focused on results, not just getting approval, not
just getting invited to some fancy parties and given some award.
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He wants to see results. It's amazing to me. And
we'll get to this. Will this will be a recurring
theme with another issue I want to get to that's
actually in our top five, but the the restoration of
law and order in our nation's capital when Trump deployed
the National Guard is another honorable mentioned story for twenty
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twenty five. Those are our five top honorable mentions. Now
I want to get into get into the top five
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looking at the clock here, I'm gonna try to at
least start. The number five most consequential story in twenty
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twenty five is something we've talked a lot about recently,
and it was a major story in my state is
the issue of redistricting. Redistricting and the fight for political power.
These mid decade fights over maps in multiple states now
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not just Indiana, that are changing the electoral landscape. And
it is consequential because these things are being done in
advance of the twenty twenty six midterms and what happens
in twenty twenty six in those midterms is going to
have tremendous impacts on these other things. Some of these
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other things I'm going to talk about in a moment.
It's going to have impact on other things that I'm
not going to talk about here at the moment. It's
going to have impact on the economy. It's going to
have impact on the advances improvements that Trump's administration has
made in this first year of his second term in office.
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So this is a big deal. It's the number five,
in my opinion, most consequential story of twenty twenty five,
the battle over redistricting, the fight for political power as
we move into the midterm elections. This will impact all
of us in the elections here in twenty twenty six,
which are just a little over what eleven months away now,
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So got four more to get to, my friends. Doing
my best to be as quick and as succinct as possible,
but I've got to take a time out. You're listening
here to the home of Conservative not Better Talk. I'm
your host toat huff Back in just a minute. Welcome back,
my friends. We are going through the most well, the
five most consequential stories of twenty twenty five. We had
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five honorable mentions that I talked about in the first
segment as well. I just covered number five on our
list of top fives, top five list, I should say
redistricting in the fight for political power, that is number
five that will have an impact. This will absolutely you know,
for I always listen. This is like when I come
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in here, I'm speaking what I say, singing to the choir,
right preaching to the choir. I know you all get
this stuff, but a lot of everyday average Americans don't,
And so they might that this idea, this fight over
redistricting and how that impacts elections and so forth. It
might have seemed like some sort of a theoretical sort
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of thing that we've had these fights here the past
few months, and they're going to be into the new
year as well with the states that are continuing to
seek this potential outcome prior to the midterms of twenty
twenty six. But it will make it self known, the impact,
how important this is, will make it self known in
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November of twenty twenty six. Mark my words. You know this,
you know this, but a lot of people don't connect
those dots. It seems like a theoretical, ambiguous sort of
I don't know, just kind of a strange fight about
things that are just in this nebulus of ambiguity. But
this is something that will have a lot of practical
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most consequential story of twenty twenty five is simply the economy.
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You may have seen what's what was inflation? I just
saw it the other the other day. Ohs, do you
pull up I'm not inflation. Pull up a GDP for November.
November GDP. I can't do this on the fly. I
think I know the number, but I don't want to
say it. So we've seen under the previous administration what
it looks like to have to have poloes that are
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damaging to an economy. We see what happens when people
in the market are yeah, it's four point three that's
what I thought. It was four point three percent GDP. Now,
I know there's a lot of asterisks and things like
that that go along with this, but on paper, the
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reality is it measured four point three percent GDP. That
is fantastic. I'll remind you. During Obama's years, we were
told that two percent. We made us have to accept
as Americans that two percent GDP growth is the new normal.
Do you remember this? I do. I've been following this
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stuff for a long time. Two percent GDP growth, we
were told is normal. Now we have four point three
percent GDP. Remember we were going to be led into
a recession by Trump, and these tariffs were going to
be paralyzing in all these things. And now you're even
seeing now you're seeing reports about, hey, well maybe these
tariffs aren't as bad. You know, how did we get
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it all wrong? You've probably seen stories like this. Trump
was right. These other folks, these experts, these pointed headed
elitists were wrong. So growth inflation, you've got the amount
of money coming in in the form of tariffs, You've
got we're still spending out of control. That's still a problem,
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but the economy is headed on a much better path.
Turns out, who would have thought economic policy and the
not just the policy, but the faith and confidence that
the people making these business decisions have in the person
leading the country is critically important. If you think next
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week there's going to be some new tax or new
burden or new regulation, or if you think that the
administration is so regressive, not progressive, but well, it is
the right word that to use is regress when we're
talking about so called progressives. But if you believe that
the administration managing these things is so regressive as such
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as quote unquote progressive, that they're actually implementing some of
these devastating economic policies, kind of like what we've seen
in South America Venezuela coming back up here to the
to the to the point of being a reference here,
but those sorts of things. It instills fear in the
folks running businesses, that makes them not take risks. That
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means growth is less likely, and at some point it's
absolutely impossible because you've terrified even the greatest risk takers
in the country. And so the economy with the growth inflation,
inflation is back under control. My friends, remember when Trump
left office, we had it was incredible. Biden took inflation
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up to nine percent. I don't even know. Part of
me thinks the true story is over is double digits,
but it's nine percent inflation. Cost of living pressures were
just devastating to people. And this is something that affects
people in their everyday lives. They're sitting around figuring out
how are we going to pay for a place to live,
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how are we going to pay for groceries and gas,
and how are we going to do these things for
the kids and the college or whatever it is that
people are planning to do. Start a business, and it
has been absolutely horrific out there. But we've made tremendous
strides in these next these past twelve months thanks to
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Trump again. And that is the fourth most consequential story
of twenty twenty five is the economy and more good
things are to come. In fact, prepare yourself for a
twenty twenty six that could be off the charts. This
could be a fantastic year coming up. We are in
a good position. There's still real problems, especially when it
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comes to our debt and deficit. I'm not here to
sugarcoat all that. But as far as it comes to
the growth of the economy, the confidence that that we
are headed in the right direction, these things are certainly
on the right path. Number three most consequential story of
twenty twenty five is border security and immigration enforcement. Folks,
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it is these these next three. I think you could
put any one of these arguably at number one, what
and possibly even the economy I don't. I think it's
probably at least number two are down. But these these
next three, I think are absolutely just unmatched in how
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in how impactful they are on the direction of this country.
Border security when Trump came into office, it is remarkable,
and of course we talked about this at the time.
We talked about this time when Biden took office, when
Biden took office and basically undid everything that Trump had
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done to secure the border, remain in Mexico policy, all
that sort of stuff, and then immediately immediately the number
of border encounters skyrocketed and it remained that way for
the next four years until Trump came into off came
into office and within a few short within thirty days,
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effectively secured the border. It is unbelievable to me how
quickly he did. I had no doubt that he could
accomplish it. What I was surprised at, even someone optimistic
little O Me, I was shocked and surprised at how
quickly he made these improvements, major improvements to border security,
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but not just to the security, not just to securing
the actual border, but also to removing individuals who aren't
supposed to be in this country by the way. This
is the enforcement of law. I referenced this earlier when
I was talking about the honorable mention of restoring law
and order to our nation's capital with the National Guard.
We've restored law in order to the issue of illegal immigration.
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All that's happening is the enforcement of law. People are
losing their minds because the law is being enforced, and
it's not been enforced for such a long time. This
has untold positive consequences when it comes to the cost
that the American taxpayer has for illegal immigration, when it
comes to drugs that have come across the border, human trafficking,
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when it comes to gangs that have come up from
places by the way, like our friends in Venezuela sending
up people. You've got trend de Aragua you've got MS thirteen.
All that that has been stopped and impacted by border security.
Human lives will be saved because of these actions. Got
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to take a break, my friends, quick time out back
in just a minute. Ah, yes, my friends, I am
quite pleased with myself today. I've got the top two stories,
the most consequential stories of twenty twenty five that I
want to get to. It's a lot to get to
and I knew that, and it's listen. I didn't get
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to talk about some of these as much as I'd like,
and I don't get to talk about the remaining two
as much as I like. But I'm doing my best
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twenty twenty five is simple. It is the return of
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Donald J. Trump to the White House. Now, I gotta
tell you, I went back and forth. Is this its
own story? Because a lot of the stories that I
talked about are there result of this being the story. So,
for example, at number three, what's happened with border security
and border enforcement? Immigration enforcement wouldn't even be a story
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without this one. So they're related in a way, but
yet they're their own separate stories. In another way, Trump
winning the election of twenty twenty four, which that doesn't
get him the headline because that was a twenty twenty
fourth story. But when he was sworn in in January
twenty twenty five, we had a presidency that well, that
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reset the federal agenda, reshaped the direction of policies, impacted
the economy, impacted the border, impacted the ability or the
willingness to enforce the law, instill a law and order
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in this country again, and so many things stem from that.
Now some of you might think, well, how is that
not number one? Well, I gotta be honest. The number again,
I said, numbers one, two, and three. I thought, could
you could make the case for all of these being
the most consequential? And initially I thought I was going
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to have Trump's being sworn in for a second term
in January of twenty twenty five. I thought that was
going to be number one. But as I sat and
thought about this, I really believe, I truly believe the
most consequential story of twenty twenty six, or event of
twenty twenty six, is the assassination of Charlie kirk I
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truly believe this September tenth, twenty twenty five, Utah Valley University.
He's assassinated. He's killed in front of students many people
have seen. It's just it's terrible stuff. Leaving behind a widow,
leaving behind all the drama that we've seen even transpire
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at turning point here that the amfest last week or
whenever that was a couple of weeks ago, just the
conspiracy theories and I just all of that stuff, right,
But the facts are that Charlie kirk Lee is behind
a widow and a couple of children. I think though,
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I think that this story and what happened, this tragedy,
oh these things are so sad and tragic. But I
think that this has the great most consequence, the greatest,
the most consequential outcome, the most the strongest impact on
change coming out of this. I think, listen, I think
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that the return of Trump to the White House has
an impact on this country for the next three years now. Absolutely,
I think it could impact even who's going to be
the president in twenty twenty eight. I think that there's
a lot of things that Trump's returned to the White
House without any doubt, without any doubt can cause. But
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I think, I think you know, when you think about
these things, there's layers to this. There's the politics of this,
but then there's the heart and the minds of Americans.
And the assassination of Charlie Kirk awakened a lot of people.
It inspired a lot of Listen, that sounds not like
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the way seeing someone stand up for their beliefs and
try to just simply articulate them and make the case.
A solid young man sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ,
sharing the beauties and the blessings that we have in
this nation. It inspired people. And there were people who
heard that message, people that never would have heard conservative truths,
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biblical truths that were being proclaimed by Charlie Kirk that
they never would have heard outside of this. And listen,
the accident or the assassination, the act of evil should
never have happened. It's a terrible, terrible thing, but it
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reminds me of the Bible. The stories of the Bible
reminds me of the story of Joseph. He told his brothers,
what you intended for evil, God used, God used for good,
and I think that this story, this story of Charlie
Kirk's life and death, could have the greatest impact on
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a movement for years to come. I'm out of time,
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We had a great holiday here as well, my friends. Today,
what I want to do is I want to go
through the five most consequential stories of twenty twenty five. Now,
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locked and loaded. But that's what I want to do today.
Kind of a not just a recap of what happened
in twenty twenty five. It's really a discussion of the
things that I think are going to matter tremendously, not
just the impact they had this year, but the impact
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me explain what I mean by consequential. I kind of
mentioned it earlier. We're going to talk about the five
most consequential stories headlines of twenty events of twenty twenty five.
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That's what I want to do today. And by consequential,
I mean not just the stories that had the biggest
impact on a specific point in time. These are stories
that change things for the future as well. These are
things that have tremendous impact or the potential to have
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tremendous impact for the years to come. Now, it is
difficult to categorize these sorts of things I've you know,
I think you know this just intellectually by thinking about it.
How do you How do you decide what constitutes a story?
How much of that story can I combine other things
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into it? Do I have to separate things that might
be connected into two separate groups or two separate stories.
It's very subjective, my friends. And let me tell you
that this is not etched in stone. For me. This
is the way that I look at it right now.
I think I think that's how I look at it
right now. I've gone through this several times, and there's
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a lot of there's a lot of candidates, frankly, that
you could put in these top five. But I've got
my top five. I've also got some honorable mentions here.
I've got six out or oh no, five honorable mentions
that I'm gonna hit really quickly, really quickly, so we
can get into the top five. So honorable mentions for
the most consequential stories of twenty twenty five. Now, some
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of these quote unquote stories are going to be larger topics.
This first one's a good example. As an honorable mention,
I say, the administrative state versus the presidency. This is
one that we have taught talked about on this program
for some time, the administrative state versus the presidency. A
lot of folks believe, without even realizing they believe this,
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my friends, that there is a fourth branch of government.
That there is the executive branch, which is the presidency,
the legislative branch, which is Congress, the judicial branch, which
is the courts, the Supreme Court and the federal courts,
and that there is a fourth branch which is not
constitutionally but some people act as though that there is
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that there's this administrative state that the Department of Justice,
for example, is separate from the executive branch. It is not.
And I understand. I understand, well, Todd, what are we
supposed to do. We don't want we don't want the
part of the government that's overseeing law and order to
look like it's at the whim of the president. That's
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not what the founders wanted. Well that's true, maybe to
a point, but they did want it this way because
because they created it this way. You know, there's always
attempts to move the executive branch away from the Department
of Justice away and you start doing that with other
things as well. People actors or think as though that
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you know, hey, this is the way that the administrative
state works. It shouldn't be touched. It's its own branch
at government. No, it's the branch, part of the executive branch.
And it's the prerogative of the President of the United
States to manage his or her branch. That's the way
that this is set up to work, my friends. And
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that's just not the way that it's been done over time.
And I think it's subtle. I think it's a lot
of people don't stop and think about it, but they
just assume that, Hey, these organizations are doing their own thing,
but they're not independent of the executive branch. For example,
if the president wants to cut the size of those offices,
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why can't he. Now you can say, well, Congress has
the ability to set up and have oversight. That is true,
and there can be a fight as to where some
of these lines are drawn. But to act as though
that this that this branch can't be touched is a
very very It's very naive and it's a far cry
from reality as far as what the founders had put
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into place. That is a big deal because this is
where DOGE comes in. This is where cutting waste, fraud
and abuse comes in. This is where restoring limited government
comes into play. And I think this is a big
one and I hate to not put it in the list,
but as we get into this, you're going to realize,
like I did, man, there's a lot of contenders here.
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There's also a battle over the role of courts. Over
the courts. So you may have noticed these are things
that we hit on from time to time. I don't
spend a lot of time here, but it's constantly in
the background you have a court ruling. By the way,
this is the second These honorable mentions are not listed
in order. They're not in any specific order. These are
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just five things that could have made the top five.
So the battle over the role of our courts are
is critical. It's you could you could combine this with
what I just mentioned before, the administrative administrative state versus
the presidency. You could say that overall these things combined
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could be a fight over the role of our government,
which may be the better way of saying it. But
I wanted to get into the specifics just because these
things matter tremendously anytime the Trump administration issues in executive
order or changes a rule or issues a tariff. And listen,
I'm not saying that these things shouldn't go to court.
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I'm just saying that they when they go to court
or a judge makes some order in some cases that applies,
they try to make it apply everywhere. There's real problems
here and this again. You know, it's interesting we talked
about the problems in our system of governance. We talk about,
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you know, the fight for our democracy. The left says
this all we're fighting to save our democracy. Folks, we're
fighting to save this republic. We're fighting to determine to
what degree we are going to follow the letter of
the law of our constitution. That's really what's at stay
here or what's it at risk here. And we're talking
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about just this overall battle of the rule of law.
And there's a battle happening in our courts, in our
courts over their role, what these judges can do, how
much power they have. There's a fight over the judicial
authority and just how it applies to things that this
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president any president obviously, but this is the one where
you see all of the tricks pulled out of the bag.
And when you factor in how much time that these
legal fights can add to the agenda being fulfilled, I
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guess then this is a real problem. You don't want
the courts to interfere with politics. You also don't want,
obviously the administrative the executive branch, excuse me, to overstep
constitutional authority. So there's a legitimate fight here. But I
think that it's very clear that there has been abuse
judicial malpractice in certain instances as well. That's another These
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are consequential because these fights are going to shape what
Trump's going to be able to do in his next
three years, and the direction of this country is going
to be headed now another third honorable mentioned candidate. Foreign
policy resets that we've seen. We've seen wars that are ended,
We've seen peace that has been pursued, peace that has
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been achieved to some degree. This is not Listen. I'm
not here to tell you that there's everlasting peace. I'm
not one that jumps on that bandwagon, especially between the
peace between Israel and Hamas. I mean, these things are
so deeply rooted, and there is so much, so much
evil that's being openly, openly embraced by these radicals in
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Hamas that it's listen. I don't have any hope that
this is going to be a lasting piece. But nonetheless,
the things that have happened even in Trump's first twelve
months here, we're almost we're eleven months or so in
to the first year of a second term, and there's
been some remarkable things that have happened. Between ending wars
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and protecting American interests abroad, is real Hamas, the peace
still there. We have negotiations to end the Russian Ukraine War.
You may have seen even recent headlines Zelensky and Trump
are supposed to be meeting here. Zelensky says he's prepared
to end this war no matter what it takes sort
of thing. We'll see where this goes. But there's a
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lot of headway that's been made there, headway that was
never made previously under the Biden administration. Of course, we
also have new conflict with Venezuela, but that's a whole
that's it's like peeling the layer of an onion. A
lot of folks that this may come as a shock
to see how much, how quickly that this is escalated.
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But a lot of Americans, you know, we don't, we
don't always even here talk a lot about international relations
or what's happening on a larger, you know, an international
scale here. But Venezuela, South America, folks. We the the
the number of countries in South America over the past
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decades who have gone to the dark side as far
as it concerns politics or political ideology. They've been heavily
influenced by the Chinese and the Russians and the well
the communists. You see leftist governments that have been established
and of course collapse, which is what they do you've
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seen those things happen Maduro, of course, in Venezuela. But
we've also seen in recent years some of these countries
move back to the right places like Argentina and not Chile.
There are movements back away from those things. And South
America is our Look, they're in our hemisphere, they're part
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of the Americas. This is so to speak, our I
guess you could say our backyard metaphorically speaking. So what
happens there has tremendous impact, especially if they're working with
well narco terrorists, they're working with the Chinese. These things
matter tremendously, and so this does listen the story of
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what happens in Venezuela. Who knows where this could eventually
take us. But if South America begins to reverse the
trend of going to the political left, moving to socialist
and communists, and that has stopped Central and South America,
and that has reversed, my friends, that is good for
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of course American interests and for the entire world. You know,
a lot of the problems, you know, we listen. It's
like some people have problems putting the pieces of the
puzzle together. When you think of those countries that I
just was referencing in Central and South America that have
gone to the extreme left and have suffered tremendously because
of that. Now you look at the countries, the places
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where people have migrated from illegally crossed our borders, fleeing
repressive regimes and poverty and drug lords and all this
violence and so forth, they come from those places to
hear because those places have been destroyed, because the ideology
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produces nothing but poverty, violence, poison, oppression. And so I've
said for a long time. I've said for a long
time the best way to ultimately, ultimately stop the droves
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of illegal immigrants wanting or trying or attempting or actually
coming into this country is to export the ideas that
made America great. And so, while this conflict with Venezuela
is ratcheting up, this is in fact what we're trying
to do. This isn't always pretty. I'm certainly not hoping
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for anything beyond what we've seen as far as the
conflict is concerned. But to see pressure put upon these
places and to try to clean up the corruption and
fix these problems is a interest. This is in the
interest of the United States of America. And freedom loving
people around the world. You could also say, as a
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fourth honorable mention, here New York City turning to the left,
trying to imitate I guess the folks in Venezuela and
they elect the communists zoron, Mom, Donnie. I don't want
to talk much about this, you know, depending upon how
you look at this, you can say, well, this is
an isolated incident in the city of New York. We
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could also look at this and say, hey, this is
something that could be a bell weather of things to come. Now.
I certainly stand by my belief that the vast majority
of Americans are not prepared willing to accept an open
socialist but that being said, that doesn't mean that doesn't
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mean that there are not pockets of people who do
want those things in their particular city. So again, this
could have consequences. There's not much to this story right
now other than just to say he's been elected and
we'll see where this goes. But it could be planning
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the seeds of more socialism, hopefully not but certainly around
the Democrat Party and maybe even other pockets of leftist
lunatics around this great nation as well. We all know
how the story ends, but again, it's a siren song
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to so many on the left. They love what they
hear from these socialists and they just can't help themselves
because it sounds so good, and of course it fails
miserably every single time. So that's a top story as well.
The last honorable mention that I would say most consequential
stories of twenty twenty five would be the returning, the restoration,
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i should say, of law and order in our capital city, Washington, DC,
because Trump deployed the National Guard there, cleaning up things
rather dramatically, rather quickly. And you think about this on
a larger scale, talk about the issue of law and order.
Take the National Guard out of it for a moment,
but just look at what it means when a government
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actually enforces the law consistently, again, not just puts things
on paper. It's remarkable to me how many people on
the left are impressed by what politicians say or by
what is written on some piece of paper. If you
don't have the enforcement mechanism or the will to enforce it,
it is completely and utterly meaningless. And that's what we've seen.
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And when and when you have a leader like Trump,
this is something Listen. You don't have to like Trump,
but I just you ought to be able to see this,
to have a guy who's serious about enforcing these laws
and protecting Americans living in these places. All Americans are everywhere,
but specifically the places where crime is rampant and out
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of control. And you see what happens. You see what
happens when the law is actually enforced. You see what
happens when you realize that the person making the decisions
is actually focused on results, not just getting approval, not
just getting invited to some fancy parties and given some award.
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He wants to see results. It's amazing to me. And
we'll get to this. Will this will be a recurring
theme with another issue I want to get to that's
actually in our top five, but the the restoration of
law and order in our nation's capital when Trump deployed
the National Guard is another honorable mentioned story for twenty
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twenty five. Those are our five top honorable mentions. Now
I want to get into get into the top five
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looking at the clock here, I'm gonna try to at
least start. The number five most consequential story in twenty
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twenty five is something we've talked a lot about recently,
and it was a major story in my state is
the issue of redistricting. Redistricting and the fight for political power.
These mid decade fights over maps in multiple states now
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not just Indiana, that are changing the electoral landscape. And
it is consequential because these things are being done in
advance of the twenty twenty six midterms and what happens
in twenty twenty six in those midterms is going to
have tremendous impacts on these other things. Some of these
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other things I'm going to talk about in a moment.
It's going to have impact on other things that I'm
not going to talk about here at the moment. It's
going to have impact on the economy. It's going to
have impact on the advances improvements that Trump's administration has
made in this first year of his second term in office.
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So this is a big deal. It's the number five,
in my opinion, most consequential story of twenty twenty five,
the battle over redistricting, the fight for political power as
we move into the midterm elections. This will impact all
of us in the elections here in twenty twenty six,
which are just a little over what eleven months away now,
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So got four more to get to, my friends. Doing
my best to be as quick and as succinct as possible,
but I've got to take a time out. You're listening
here to the home of Conservative not Better Talk. I'm
your host toat huff Back in just a minute. Welcome back,
my friends. We are going through the most well, the
five most consequential stories of twenty twenty five. We had
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five honorable mentions that I talked about in the first
segment as well. I just covered number five on our
list of top fives, top five list, I should say
redistricting in the fight for political power, that is number
five that will have an impact. This will absolutely you know,
for I always listen. This is like when I come
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in here, I'm speaking what I say, singing to the choir,
right preaching to the choir. I know you all get
this stuff, but a lot of everyday average Americans don't,
And so they might that this idea, this fight over
redistricting and how that impacts elections and so forth. It
might have seemed like some sort of a theoretical sort
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of thing that we've had these fights here the past
few months, and they're going to be into the new
year as well with the states that are continuing to
seek this potential outcome prior to the midterms of twenty
twenty six. But it will make it self known, the impact,
how important this is, will make it self known in
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November of twenty twenty six. Mark my words. You know this,
you know this, but a lot of people don't connect
those dots. It seems like a theoretical, ambiguous sort of
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this is something that will have a lot of practical
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most consequential story of twenty twenty five is simply the economy.
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You may have seen what's what was inflation? I just
saw it the other the other day. Ohs, do you
pull up I'm not inflation. Pull up a GDP for November.
November GDP. I can't do this on the fly. I
think I know the number, but I don't want to
say it. So we've seen under the previous administration what
it looks like to have to have poloes that are
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damaging to an economy. We see what happens when people
in the market are yeah, it's four point three that's
what I thought. It was four point three percent GDP. Now,
I know there's a lot of asterisks and things like
that that go along with this, but on paper, the
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reality is it measured four point three percent GDP. That
is fantastic. I'll remind you. During Obama's years, we were
told that two percent. We made us have to accept
as Americans that two percent GDP growth is the new normal.
Do you remember this? I do. I've been following this
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stuff for a long time. Two percent GDP growth, we
were told is normal. Now we have four point three
percent GDP. Remember we were going to be led into
a recession by Trump, and these tariffs were going to
be paralyzing in all these things. And now you're even
seeing now you're seeing reports about, hey, well maybe these
tariffs aren't as bad. You know, how did we get
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it all wrong? You've probably seen stories like this. Trump
was right. These other folks, these experts, these pointed headed
elitists were wrong. So growth inflation, you've got the amount
of money coming in in the form of tariffs, You've
got we're still spending out of control. That's still a problem,
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but the economy is headed on a much better path.
Turns out, who would have thought economic policy and the
not just the policy, but the faith and confidence that
the people making these business decisions have in the person
leading the country is critically important. If you think next
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week there's going to be some new tax or new
burden or new regulation, or if you think that the
administration is so regressive, not progressive, but well, it is
the right word that to use is regress when we're
talking about so called progressives. But if you believe that
the administration managing these things is so regressive as such
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as quote unquote progressive, that they're actually implementing some of
these devastating economic policies, kind of like what we've seen
in South America Venezuela coming back up here to the
to the to the point of being a reference here,
but those sorts of things. It instills fear in the
folks running businesses, that makes them not take risks. That
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means growth is less likely, and at some point it's
absolutely impossible because you've terrified even the greatest risk takers
in the country. And so the economy with the growth inflation,
inflation is back under control. My friends, remember when Trump
left office, we had it was incredible. Biden took inflation
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up to nine percent. I don't even know. Part of
me thinks the true story is over is double digits,
but it's nine percent inflation. Cost of living pressures were
just devastating to people. And this is something that affects
people in their everyday lives. They're sitting around figuring out
how are we going to pay for a place to live,
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how are we going to pay for groceries and gas,
and how are we going to do these things for
the kids and the college or whatever it is that
people are planning to do. Start a business, and it
has been absolutely horrific out there. But we've made tremendous
strides in these next these past twelve months thanks to
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Trump again. And that is the fourth most consequential story
of twenty twenty five is the economy and more good
things are to come. In fact, prepare yourself for a
twenty twenty six that could be off the charts. This
could be a fantastic year coming up. We are in
a good position. There's still real problems, especially when it
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comes to our debt and deficit. I'm not here to
sugarcoat all that. But as far as it comes to
the growth of the economy, the confidence that that we
are headed in the right direction, these things are certainly
on the right path. Number three most consequential story of
twenty twenty five is border security and immigration enforcement. Folks,
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it is these these next three. I think you could
put any one of these arguably at number one, what
and possibly even the economy I don't. I think it's
probably at least number two are down. But these these
next three, I think are absolutely just unmatched in how
(31:43):
in how impactful they are on the direction of this country.
Border security when Trump came into office, it is remarkable,
and of course we talked about this at the time.
We talked about this time when Biden took office, when
Biden took office and basically undid everything that Trump had
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done to secure the border, remain in Mexico policy, all
that sort of stuff, and then immediately immediately the number
of border encounters skyrocketed and it remained that way for
the next four years until Trump came into off came
into office and within a few short within thirty days,
(32:27):
effectively secured the border. It is unbelievable to me how
quickly he did. I had no doubt that he could
accomplish it. What I was surprised at, even someone optimistic
little O Me, I was shocked and surprised at how
quickly he made these improvements, major improvements to border security,
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but not just to the security, not just to securing
the actual border, but also to removing individuals who aren't
supposed to be in this country by the way. This
is the enforcement of law. I referenced this earlier when
I was talking about the honorable mention of restoring law
and order to our nation's capital with the National Guard.
We've restored law in order to the issue of illegal immigration.
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All that's happening is the enforcement of law. People are
losing their minds because the law is being enforced, and
it's not been enforced for such a long time. This
has untold positive consequences when it comes to the cost
that the American taxpayer has for illegal immigration, when it
comes to drugs that have come across the border, human trafficking,
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when it comes to gangs that have come up from
places by the way, like our friends in Venezuela sending
up people. You've got trend de Aragua you've got MS thirteen.
All that that has been stopped and impacted by border security.
Human lives will be saved because of these actions. Got
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to take a break, my friends, quick time out back
in just a minute. Ah, yes, my friends, I am
quite pleased with myself today. I've got the top two stories,
the most consequential stories of twenty twenty five that I
want to get to. It's a lot to get to
and I knew that, and it's listen. I didn't get
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to talk about some of these as much as I'd like,
and I don't get to talk about the remaining two
as much as I like. But I'm doing my best
here just to get through these today. And I would
like your thoughts. What do you think about my list?
What do you think I have right? What do you
think I have wrong? What have I forgotten? How would
you change the list? Whatever? As I told you, I
told you some things off the top. This is my
list as of now. I can be persuaded that maybe
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something needs moved up down whatever. So friends, you know,
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work for your values. Number two most consequential story of
twenty twenty five is simple. It is the return of
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Donald J. Trump to the White House. Now, I gotta
tell you, I went back and forth. Is this its
own story? Because a lot of the stories that I
talked about are there result of this being the story. So,
for example, at number three, what's happened with border security
and border enforcement? Immigration enforcement wouldn't even be a story
(36:10):
without this one. So they're related in a way, but
yet they're their own separate stories. In another way, Trump
winning the election of twenty twenty four, which that doesn't
get him the headline because that was a twenty twenty
fourth story. But when he was sworn in in January
twenty twenty five, we had a presidency that well, that
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reset the federal agenda, reshaped the direction of policies, impacted
the economy, impacted the border, impacted the ability or the
willingness to enforce the law, instill a law and order
(36:57):
in this country again, and so many things stem from that.
Now some of you might think, well, how is that
not number one? Well, I gotta be honest. The number again,
I said, numbers one, two, and three. I thought, could
you could make the case for all of these being
the most consequential? And initially I thought I was going
(37:18):
to have Trump's being sworn in for a second term
in January of twenty twenty five. I thought that was
going to be number one. But as I sat and
thought about this, I really believe, I truly believe the
most consequential story of twenty twenty six, or event of
twenty twenty six, is the assassination of Charlie kirk I
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truly believe this September tenth, twenty twenty five, Utah Valley University.
He's assassinated. He's killed in front of students many people
have seen. It's just it's terrible stuff. Leaving behind a widow,
leaving behind all the drama that we've seen even transpire
(38:04):
at turning point here that the amfest last week or
whenever that was a couple of weeks ago, just the
conspiracy theories and I just all of that stuff, right,
But the facts are that Charlie kirk Lee is behind
a widow and a couple of children. I think though,
(38:28):
I think that this story and what happened, this tragedy,
oh these things are so sad and tragic. But I
think that this has the great most consequence, the greatest,
the most consequential outcome, the most the strongest impact on
change coming out of this. I think, listen, I think
(38:52):
that the return of Trump to the White House has
an impact on this country for the next three years now. Absolutely,
I think it could impact even who's going to be
the president in twenty twenty eight. I think that there's
a lot of things that Trump's returned to the White
House without any doubt, without any doubt can cause. But
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I think, I think you know, when you think about
these things, there's layers to this. There's the politics of this,
but then there's the heart and the minds of Americans.
And the assassination of Charlie Kirk awakened a lot of people.
It inspired a lot of Listen, that sounds not like
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the way seeing someone stand up for their beliefs and
try to just simply articulate them and make the case.
A solid young man sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ,
sharing the beauties and the blessings that we have in
this nation. It inspired people. And there were people who
heard that message, people that never would have heard conservative truths,
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biblical truths that were being proclaimed by Charlie Kirk that
they never would have heard outside of this. And listen,
the accident or the assassination, the act of evil should
never have happened. It's a terrible, terrible thing, but it
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reminds me of the Bible. The stories of the Bible
reminds me of the story of Joseph. He told his brothers,
what you intended for evil, God used, God used for good,
and I think that this story, this story of Charlie
Kirk's life and death, could have the greatest impact on
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a movement for years to come. I'm out of time,
my friends, I gotta go, SDG
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