December 31, 2025 • 40 mins
As 2025 comes to a close, Todd Huff reflects on what lies ahead—not predictions, but purposeful hope. In this New Year’s Eve ToddCast, Todd shares what he hopes to see in 2026 and beyond for America: a stronger economy, restored law and order, real accountability in government, renewed respect for truth, and a deeper commitment to the principles that built this constitutional republic. This episode challenges listeners to understand hope not as wishful thinking, but as something tied to action, responsibility, and engagement. Todd also explains why rejecting truth leads to chaos—and why conservatives must continue to speak clearly, boldly, and faithfully in the year ahead. A timely, motivating message to end the year and prepare for what’s next.
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All right, my friends, here we are New Year's Eve,
twenty twenty six. It's amazing to think that we've got
another year behind us. It's amazing. Well, New Year's Eve
twenty twenty five for New Year's the new year of
twenty twenty six, I guess is the right way of
saying that. Anyway, I hope you've had a great year.
You know, Yesterday, excuse me, Monday, we talked about the
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most consequential stories of twenty twenty five. These were the
things that happened in twenty twenty five that I believe
are going to have the greatest impact in twenty twenty
six and some far beyond that. Yesterday we talked about
what we should expect in twenty twenty six, which maybe
elaborated or added to some of the consequential stories. It
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also gave us the opportunity to talk about things that
maybe weren't stories yet or through twenty twenty five, that
will be or possibly can be in twenty twenty six.
And today I want to talk about what I hope,
what I hope happens in twenty twenty six and beyond
for this great constitutional republic. These are not predictions per se.
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These are things that candidly we're fighting for, trying to
do influence here on our program, on the Toodcast, each
and every step of the way. My friend, so you
know a word about hope to hope. When I talk
about hope, I'm assuming or I'm the starting point for me.
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Isn't that it's just something that we just wish happens
and then just go about our merry business. Hope to
me is tied to what we're intentionally shooting for as well.
It's tied to what we the responsibility that we have
in I guess those hopes becoming a reality, the action
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that is required to get us there, the engagement from
us with our government, with our culture, in our communities,
our churches, whatever that's I talk about this. We're not
helpless and I know you know that, but I do
feel like that needs to be set. It's not I hope,
you know, I speak out these hopes or I write
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them on a list that I put them up and
just say, man, I really hope those come to be. No,
we have a role in this as well, and that's
really I think at the core of what I want
to talk about here today. It's kind of the thread
that holds all these things together. So that's where we're
headed today, my friends, thank you for tuning in here.
This the last day of twenty twenty five. I should
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tell you as well, we will not be in either
tomorrow or Friday. There also will not be an issue
of the Inner Circle newsletter going out tomorrow or Friday.
We will hit the ground running full speed on Monday.
What is that? January fifth? I guess is that right?
Hard to believe, but that's when we'll be back at
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it here, my friends, at the program, both for the podcast,
the radio show and the newsletter The Inner Circle, which
by the way, you can get for free at tidefshow
dot com if you want to subscribe. All right, friends,
are you tired of spending your hard earned money at
businesses that then turn around and support causes supported by
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well leftist causes. You're tired of spending money getting something
you need and then realizing that the profits that we're
generated from your purchase are fueling causes that are antithetical
to what you believe. Well, that's exactly why we created
Freedom Marketplace. It is a free searchable directory for you,
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directory of businesses that share your values. These are businesses
that have made a vow, a pledge to not support
leftist candidates, leftist causes, and you can find them at
Freedom Marketplace dot net. This is something that we created.
It's actually something we created so that folks could find
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our radio and podcast advertisers easier. And then we realize, look,
we can have other people who want to have a
listing here who share these same values, but maybe aren't
a fit for radio or podcasts, and so that's kind
of where this idea is started. These are good, patriotic
businesses pushing in the same direction you are. Check it
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out today again. It's a freedom Marketplace dot net, Freedom
Marketplace dot net, liberty and business my friends for all. Okay,
what do I hope for in twenty six Some of
these are obvious, but I'm just going to state them
reiterate them, because I think this is the direction that
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we are heading and the direction we need to be heading.
Some of these things, some of these things are going
to be a direction maybe that we aren't heading yet,
or we need more support for or whatever. But let's
start with the obvious and the simple. I hope that
the economy continues to improve. I think that it will.
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As I shared yesterday on the podcast, I think that
the conditions for twenty twenty six that exist potentially will
lead it to being a phenomenal economic year. I think
that is a very real possibility. In twenty six, inflation
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has been well, We've gotten it under control. It's not
out of control like it was in the Biden administration years.
We talked about inflation yesterday. I don't want to get
into that again today in detail, but I do want
to say it's not something when you get inflation out
of control, you just slow its growth. You didn't undo
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the damage that it's done. That's where GDP growth comes
into play. You've got to grow your way out of
these problems. Once the economy's mismanaged, you have to grow
yourself out of them and that's what we're seeing. We
had great economic numbers, great GDP numbers for November, gross
domestic product that is growing, that's on the headed in
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the positive direction. I think momentum is building. I think
that if we continue to stay on this trajectory, which
is an environment of well business friendly environment, basically, families
will benefit. Workers are going to benefit. You see wages
of starting to increase. Businesses will benefit, people will begin
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to have confidence, put more investment into their business, hire people,
develop new products, solutions, whatever. All those things will happen.
And even the business side of what we do here benefits.
This is as Reagan said, a rising tide lifts all ships.
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And I think that that's the direction we're headed in
twenty twenty six. It creates a strong economy, creates opportunity
and stability. These are good things for free people, and
we will all reap the rewards of that, my friends,
if we continue down this path. If we continue down
this path. Number two, I hope the law is continued.
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I hope we continue enforcing the law and immigration policy,
which again I'm very confident that Trump will in the
country again. I think we have for a long time.
I've talked about this before, the lawlessness of the Left.
It never ceases to amaze me the way that the
left thinks about these things. It's depraved, thinking, candidly, and
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a lot of a lot of instances that the left
believes that we are all collectively responsible for every problem
in society, but none of us are somehow individually responsible
for anything, when the exact opposite is actually the truth.
You know, the collective is really nothing more At its core,
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the collective is really nothing more than the aggregate of
how individuals live. If we all individually live responsibly, if
we all individually live with integrity and character and a
desire to follow the rule of law and a respect
for liberty, then collectively we have politicians and policies that
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are in line with those things. When we begin to
make excuses for when we begin to demonize people for
things that they're not responsible for. For example, if you
think my problems are because of billionaires and millionaires, it's
just it's silly talk. That's not at all how this works.
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I had a long conversation with my son about this
the other night about economics, about I think I shared
a little bit about this about about taxes and so forth.
But this the the collective the collective response that we have,
and I don't mean in some communistic way, but as
we come together as a as a community, as a state,
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as a nation, and we begin to pursue laws and
policies that are good, it has to start. It has
to start with us. It has to start individually. We
have to have we have to be pursuing the right things.
We have to be willing to call the things that
are good good, and the things that are not so
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good and not so good, and the things that are
outright evil. We have to be willing to say that
as well. And enforcing the law is a fundamental thing
that has been ignored in a lot of ways. This
is enforcing the law has lack of law enforcement has
permeated our cities. You see, people. I saw a horrific
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story the other day, and I don't remember every detail,
but I'm going to give you the gist of it.
I read a story about a man who this was
many years ago. I don't know how many years ago,
but say fifteen to twenty ish years ago something like that,
broke into this house, went to the kitchen and got
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a knife, walked upstairs. I think it was upstairs to
the bedroom and he killed. I think it was a
nine year old boy in his sleep. They find the guy,
they arrest him, they try him, he's found guilty. He's
sentenced to whatever he sentenced to. I just saw the
story the other day that he's released nine years. I
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think it's nine years early for good behavior. Now, listen,
I believe I want to be clear here. I believe
in the grace afforded to us through Jesus Christ, our Lord.
I believe that mercy can be mercy is we all
need mercy from time to time. I'm not against these things,
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but I'm also for justice. And that is a wicked,
heinous crimes. That's not some sort of accidental sort of thing.
This is intent. This is something done in cold blood.
This is as bad as it gets. And to me,
it makes no difference how well he behaved in prison
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for nine years. That is well for whatever time he
was in there. You should not be released for good behavior.
That's just crazy to me. And you hear you've heard
the stories of other violent crimes where people are basically
just given community service. In some of these instances where
these extreme leftist judges exist and there's no sense of
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law and order. There is no sense of that in
our justice system at times, and there's no sense of
that in our federal government or amongst the people on
the left when it comes to enforcing immigration law. We're
a nation of laws where you know, you should respect
the people that are in positions of a respect the
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office at least, but we're not subject to any person.
Where a nation of laws that's created, those laws are
created through a very systematic process where there's separation of
powers and there's different branches of government that have different responsibilities.
We get to those laws in a certain way, and
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the law is what we're all subjected to. We should
really have respect for the law. You don't always have
to agree with the law. You can seek to change
the law, but when the law exists, it needs to
be enforced. I hope Donald Trump continues enforcing immigration law
deportation law as he has been consistently comprehensively. We need
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to see a return to law and order, to national sovereignty.
We're headed in that direction. Trump is certainly taking us there.
A nation cannot survive, my friends, without respect for its laws.
When laws that are written that had been passed, the
proper procedures and processes. When those are just ignored and
thrown out the window, bad things are happy well happen.
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What else do we have to stand upon if the
law itself can just be changed at the whim of
the next administration. Friends, the obvious is I hope Republicans
win the midterms in twenty twenty six. In fact, more accurately,
I hope conservatives when in the mid terms of twenty
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twenty six, I hope that they challenge the current Republican
leadership at all levels. I hope that Republican leadership itself
becomes more conservative, or at least that they become more
responsive to the accountability from the conservative base. You know,
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people like Milton Friedman, the Great Economist, talked about things
like this. He talked about, you know, you don't have
to have a circumstance where a politician agree with all
of your core beliefs. What you need is to have
the politician know that he's being held accountable who have
those beliefs, and if he fears or she fears or
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respects I don't mean in a shaking way, but if
there's a healthy respect for the people here she serves,
and the people here she serves are paying attention and
know what's going on, then they can sometimes even do
things that they don't want to do that their constituents
demand that they do in a good way. And that's
how we hold these people accountable. But we need to
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have more conservatives in office, or at least people who
are more responsive to being held accountable by the conservative base.
There's going to be some primaries in twenty twenty six.
I believe that are going to be contentious. There's going
to be established rhino Republicans that are going to want
to hold on to seats, and there are going to
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be conservatives who are going to enter the race trying
to restore restore conservative leadership or conservative a conservative seat
at the table in these districts, in these for these
certain offices all around the country, from local elections to
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city elections to state and federal elections, there needs to
be more conservatives in these. I hope more conservatives win
in twenty twenty six. I owe more Americans accept the
truth in twenty twenty six. What's the old saying out
there that says, if you want to if you want
to offend a Republican, Tell him alive. If you want
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to offend a leftist, tell him the truth. Tell him
that men are not women and they cannot be, and
that men and women are different. Watch their head explode,
my friends. Tell them that liberty is precious and must
be protected. Tell them that capitalism has done more. Free
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market capitalism has done more to lift people out of
poverty around the world than any government program could ever
dream of doing. Tell them that America as founded is
a good thing. That the principles of the Declaration, the
principles in the Constitution. Obviously, I'm not talking about the
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issue of slavery. That's a reprehensible thing that's part of
America's history. I'm talking about the ideas and concept actually,
the ideas and concepts that were laid forth in our
founding documents. They eventually fixed the atrocious nature of slavery
here chattel slavery in the United States. So the ideals
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were always there, the ideas, the principles, the beliefs, but
yet we fell short in actually fulfilling those for a
long time when it came to that issue. But the
ideas of the Constitution, the framework of the Declaration of independence,
what it stood for, what it meant tremendously good things.
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I hope more Americans accept that truth. Liberty is good.
Government control is bad. It always leads to well socialism,
and eventually it leads us to communism. We are not
created to live that way this side of heaven. We
do not need government to be our God that rule.
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By the way, the role of God is already taken
by our creator, Yahweh himself, and he's doing a perfectly
good job. He certainly doesn't need knuckleheads and clowns in
Congress or anywhere else in our government trying to say
that they, in fact are God. I hope more Americans
accept truth. There's a lot when it comes to the
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issue of truth, my friends, that people need to accept,
but they can begin to accept it in little bity bites.
That's okay, little bitty nuggets, that's fine. But I hope
more Americans accept the truth in twenty twenty six. Want
to pause there. I want to pause there for a
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you know a little a little bit more about truth
here before I get to the break, listen the message
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or the mission of this program of the Toad Show. Truly,
if you look at the mission of the program, that
this stuff doesn't always I might mention it all. I
know I've mentioned it on here. But the mission in
our you know, in our actual mission statement, is this
to help others hear and receive truth. And the left
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hates truth. I've talked about this before, the left one.
It listen, when you look at the political continuum, you
know you have, of course, the way I look at
it is you have anarchy on one end, you have
absolute government control on the other. That's the left side,
the right side. As you move towards the center from
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the right, you go from anarchy to a limited government.
That's where that's where conservatism, that's where America candidly landed.
You go on the other end of the spectrum, you've
got you know, uh hardcore communism and all types of
government regimes that that force control over people. And then
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you move away from strict control, maybe from say communism,
to say more socialistic or uh semi uh semi controlled
forms of government. The problem is, once you've opened that
that box, you always go that direction. How do you
give government absolute control over some aspect of society but
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not over all of it. It's where we put our focus.
It's listen, it's an insidious sort of thing. It's it's
an unstoppable force in many ways. But when I speak
about leftists, they're not All liberals are not leftists. Leftists
are people. What's a really peculiar thing going on. It's
not just that they it's not just that they want
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to have a certain political outcome or have certain political beliefs.
They want to fundamentally change nature, human nature, the way
that life works, what's true and good and so forth.
They want to fundamentally change that. And there's reasons for that.
And I guess I'm looking at the clock here. I
thought I could get this in. I can't. I'll do
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that on the other side of the brick. Quick time
about though, my Fridgid listen to conservative not better Talk.
I'm your host, Todd Huff back here in just a minute.
Welcome back, my friends. I want to wrap up what
I was saying last segment. By the way, welcome to
the Todd hubshowf you ten. Then we're going through We're
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going through here the things I hope happened in twenty
twenty six and beyond. I guess it's the third day
that we've kind of done something similar. Monday we did
what the kind of went through the top most what
was the word I used, the most consequential stories of
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twenty twenty six. Then yesterday I told you what I'm
looking to expect, what I expect happening in twenty twenty six,
or the most sorry sorry Monday was the most consequential
stories of twenty twenty five. They were going to have
an impact in twenty twenty six and some far beyond that.
Yesterday we talked about what we should expect in twenty
twenty six, and today we're talking about what I hope
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for and what I think many of you hope for.
Something very similar to this, or at least in some respects,
maybe very much like this. I don't know, but this
is what I hope for in twenty twenty six. And
as we were wrapping up the last segment there, I
was talking with you about the left and what I
mean about who the left isn't. This isn't every liberal,
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This is certainly not every Democrat. A leftist is someone
who wants to fundamentally change the nature of truth. In fact,
some of them they'll either seek to deny truth exists.
They've kind of stopped doing that in a way. When
I was in college there were people who were moral relativists.
I think you spend five minutes in that camp and
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you realize you've got a major problem because they'll say
truth is relative, to which you can say, are you
absolutely sure that that's true? And then they're stuck because
because if they say it's not relative, or excuse me,
that it's not absolute, then you say, fine, it doesn't
what you're telling me about anyway, what are you trying
to convince me of? If it's not absolute, then why
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are you trying so hard to get me to believe
it is something that is true. You're You're conflicted, You're conflicted,
you're contradicting yourself. If they admit that it is absolutely
true to say that truth is relative, then they've of
course self that they've defeated their own argument themselves. So
there's really no place to go there. It's silly, it's
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absolutely silliness. In fact, I remember a story I think
Chris who fills in Chris Dunham, who's from India. I
think he's the one that told the story. It might
have been someone else, but someone I think he was
telling a story about Robbie Zacharias, who I know that's
a whole situation for those of you who followed him.
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He's of course passed away here recently in the past
couple of years, and there was a lot of fallout
from some things he was involved with, and I don't
want to get into that, but he was a brilliant
He was brillian in the way that he defended truth
and Christianity and that sort of things explain things. And
he was in a debate with somebody, I think it
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was Robbie. He was in a debate with the professor,
who was trying to tell Robbie, who of course is
from the East, how people in the East look at truth.
It can be a both and sort of thing. And
Robbie responded, when I crossed the street, he said, I
look both ways because it's either me or the bus
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and the professor. The professor nodded his head and he
said it is kind of unavoidable, isn't it, And to
which Robbie said, yeah, absolutely. That's kind of the whole
point here is that you can't be a moral relativist.
At some point you have to accept that it's either or.
And the Left doesn't like that. They fought that, but
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they realize that's a losing proposition as well, so they
continually try to find new ways to move away from
people accepting truth because I'll tell you, at their core,
at their core, what they're afraid of more than anything
is well, they're afraid of the truth. And they don't
like the idea that truth comes from God. See you
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start connecting these dots, you accept truth. Truth must come
from a moral lawgiver, a final arbiter of what is true,
someone who's control and in control of the universe. I
think these things are inextricably linked. Certainly, people can make
the case that they're not, but you have a lot
of problems, You have a lot of problems making moral
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arguments if you don't have a moral lawgiver. But whatever
the case may be, I think people on the left
are so convicted, are so convicted of what is true internally,
and I would say that that comes by the spirit
of God, our creator, but they don't like it. They
want to live another way. And listen, if we're all
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being true, we all are like that, We've all been
like that, we all maybe you're currently like that with
something I don't know, but I do know this, I
do know this that when you know you're doing something
that is in violation of what is good or true
or wholesome or whatever, it's hard to live there. Intellectually,
it's hard. It's hard to not have problems and to
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have that gnaw at you. And so they've decided, look,
we want to live in this space, but we want,
you know, we'll bring all these people together who want
to reject all these truths and we'll say, basically, listen,
we all get together and we'll go out there and
we'll tell we'll make arguments defending one another, even if
we don't relate, even if you're you're fighting a truth
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that I don't really care about, and I'm fighting something
I'm trying to violate truth and God's design it. Another way,
we'll defend each other because we're all kind of pushing
in the same general direction, which is to get out
of this situation where we we have this these convictions,
where we have these uh that this this guilt or
this conviction is really what it is for doing the
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wrong thing. And they set themselves up as enemies of
the truth, and they start telling us all sorts of nonsense,
I mean, the literal nonsense you may have seen Matt
Walsh does a great job with what is a woman?
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Right?
Speaker 2 (29:15):
And you see these people, they've studied these things for
years and they can't tell you when you ask them
what is a woman? They act to Paul, I can't
believe you'd ask me that question. What do you mean?
What is a woman? And I'm just asking you. You
tell me you're a woman, you're clearly a man. You mean,
won't use the word woman for some reason? What do
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you mean when you say that? What does that word mean?
It means I'm a woman? Well, what the world does
that mean? Did you not go to third grade when
they said when you're defining something, you can't use that
term to define itself. What is a woman? Well, it's
a person who presents and identifies as a woman. What
the world does that mean? What are they presenting as? What?
And this goes on. You've seen this done, He's done
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this countless times from the These are people who are
in positions at universities whose job it is to study
gender and to tell us about all these differences and
to educate us old fashioned hay seed hicks to understand
gender properly. And what do they tell us. They tell
us that a woman is a person who identifies as
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a woman. It's absolute madness and nonsense. But this is
ultimately where refusing to accept truth leads us. And that's
just one example. But how many other things have you
seen people doing mental backflips over to try to prevent
from acknowledging the truth. I'm reminded when we went into
a recession during Biden's term in office, a short one,
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that's two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth. We technically
hit that it wasn't by much, and maybe it wasn't.
You know, you could make the case that the numbers
were close enough to wear whatever, it wouldn't be truly
identified as such. But they told us they tried to
redefine what they what the terms were. They tried to say, well,
that's not really what a recession is. I remember all this.
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How many times do they change definitions in the dictionary,
literally change definitions of things because they don't like to
establish or I should say, accept established truth. So we
have I hope more people come to accept the truth
in twenty twenty six. But at its core, at its core,
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the rejection of truth, I believe, I believe this firmly.
I believe when people openly reject an obvious truth, it
is because they are at They're in open rebellion with
the creator of the universe. They are so convicted that
what they are doing is not a good thing. What
they're believing, teaching whatever is not good and those convictions
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and voices are so strong inside their mind and head
and so forth that they can't stand to hear another
person say something that's reinforced internally, and so they scream
and act like lunatics when you try to present truth
to them. That's what's happening, my friends, And speaking of
that out more conservatives continue to engage or start to engage,
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even in twenty twenty, since we can't all do everything.
I remember when I was in school when I played
football for Tom Blank, one of my favorite people that's
that I've ever had the encounter or the chance to
encounter and to get to know. He was my high
school football coach nineteen ninety three. In nineteen ninety four.
I believe he was instrumental in helping me learn about
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Jesus by getting me to a Fellowship of Christian Athletes
football camp in nineteen ninety three, where I accepted Jesus
as my Lord and savior ed. He used to have
us say something, and I'm going to say it really
quickly here he said. This was at practice. He would say,
I am one, I am only one. I can't do everything,
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but I can do something. And that which I can do,
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about the what I hope for in twenty twenty six,
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I just mentioned that I hope conservatives continue either start
to or continue to engage. I've mentioned that's that's one
of the things that we try to do on this
show to give confidence and clarity and tools and insight
to help people become better conservative communicators, better conservative persuaders,
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whatever you want to call this, more effective communicators, helping
to clarify all the noise that's out there, all the clutter,
all the nonsense, all the lies. You can continue, of
course to see more of that in twenty twenty six.
In fact, maybe even some things where we do deeper
dives on as we continue to build out things like
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the newsletter and just different things like that. I also
hope that there's a renewed commitment in twenty twenty six
to America's founding. I think that we are at a
point here where we're likely living through what could be
considered historically as the second Great American Revolution. America will
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be two hundred and fifty years old next year. Two
hundred and fifty years old. That's an incredible thing. Most
democracies you've probably heard collapse around two hundred years and
you can see why, right, I mean, this is what
we're experiencing here in this society. You can see it's
been dealt with in other societies as well. And I'm
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one of the things I think that we need to
really think about. And I know that this one hurt,
this one gets personal, But if you read the Declaration
of Independence, the founders put this line. It's it's hard
to say what my favorite line is in the declaration,
but this is definitely a contender. In the declaration, they
write this, we the people of course, signing the declaration,
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said this, we mutually pledged to one another our lives,
our fortunes, and our sacred honor. And those weren't just words.
They made a commitment. They made a commitment to basically say,
we were going We're willing to die for this. We're
willing to lose everything we have for this. We're putting
our name, our reputation on the line. Things have gotten
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this bad, we are prepared to do whatever it takes.
And that's hard to find today. And you put these
were these were influential, successful men who had a lot
to lose, who made this statement, who signed on to
this document in seventeen seventy six. That commitment is incredibly intimidating.
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But here's the truth, my friends. Without that sort of resolve,
without that level of resolving commitment, we are going to
lose everything anyway. This is it's almost what the paradox.
If you're not willing to if you're not willing to
risk it all, you're going to lose it all anyway.
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The tighter you try to hold it, the more it's
going to be snatched from your hand. It reminds me, again,
not in a strict sense, but it reminds me of
similarly when Jesus told the people following him, he said,
he who loses his life will save it. Right. Basically,
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you there's something that's required here where you have to
give up. You have to submit, in the case of Christianity,
everything to Christ and his lordship. You can't hold on
to things. And I'm not saying look, the commitment to
the Constitution is the same as that, but I am
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saying there's something similar there to the concept that says, look,
a tyrannical government that we've been moving toward for a
long long time now, and out of control, bloated bureaucracy
that's got control over everything. They've got technology, now, they've
got all sorts of things. If we're not prepared, we're
not prepared to sacrifice everything in defense of liberty, we're
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all going to lose everything. And I know, listen, I
know that there's a king in the Bible who is
basically told of destruction that was coming, and when he
inquired and found that that was not in his lifetime,
he basically said, cool, I can eat, drink and be merry,
and that's someone else's problem. And that's not the way
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that we should be looking at this. I mean, this
is this. This is our children's future, our grandchildren's future,
and we have to be willing to engage in the fight.
I know that that may sound extreme to a lot
of people, but I would say that the reason it
sounds extreme is because we've wanted to have the blessings
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that come from having liberty without taking the responsibility collectively.
I don't mean you specifically, but maybe somebody out there.
But the bottom line is we want the blessings of
the liberty without having to pay the cost to protect it,
to defend it, to pass it on to the next generation. So, folks,
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those are my hopes for twenty twenty six and beyond.
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All right, my friends, here we are New Year's Eve,
twenty twenty six. It's amazing to think that we've got
another year behind us. It's amazing. Well, New Year's Eve
twenty twenty five for New Year's the new year of
twenty twenty six, I guess is the right way of
saying that. Anyway, I hope you've had a great year.
You know, Yesterday, excuse me, Monday, we talked about the
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most consequential stories of twenty twenty five. These were the
things that happened in twenty twenty five that I believe
are going to have the greatest impact in twenty twenty
six and some far beyond that. Yesterday we talked about
what we should expect in twenty twenty six, which maybe
elaborated or added to some of the consequential stories. It
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also gave us the opportunity to talk about things that
maybe weren't stories yet or through twenty twenty five, that
will be or possibly can be in twenty twenty six.
And today I want to talk about what I hope,
what I hope happens in twenty twenty six and beyond
for this great constitutional republic. These are not predictions per se.
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These are things that candidly we're fighting for, trying to
do influence here on our program, on the Toodcast, each
and every step of the way. My friend, so you
know a word about hope to hope. When I talk
about hope, I'm assuming or I'm the starting point for me.
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Isn't that it's just something that we just wish happens
and then just go about our merry business. Hope to
me is tied to what we're intentionally shooting for as well.
It's tied to what we the responsibility that we have
in I guess those hopes becoming a reality, the action
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that is required to get us there, the engagement from
us with our government, with our culture, in our communities,
our churches, whatever that's I talk about this. We're not
helpless and I know you know that, but I do
feel like that needs to be set. It's not I hope,
you know, I speak out these hopes or I write
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them on a list that I put them up and
just say, man, I really hope those come to be. No,
we have a role in this as well, and that's
really I think at the core of what I want
to talk about here today. It's kind of the thread
that holds all these things together. So that's where we're
headed today, my friends, thank you for tuning in here.
This the last day of twenty twenty five. I should
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We will hit the ground running full speed on Monday.
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Hard to believe, but that's when we'll be back at
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what do I hope for in twenty six Some of
these are obvious, but I'm just going to state them
reiterate them, because I think this is the direction that
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we are heading and the direction we need to be heading.
Some of these things, some of these things are going
to be a direction maybe that we aren't heading yet,
or we need more support for or whatever. But let's
start with the obvious and the simple. I hope that
the economy continues to improve. I think that it will.
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As I shared yesterday on the podcast, I think that
the conditions for twenty twenty six that exist potentially will
lead it to being a phenomenal economic year. I think
that is a very real possibility. In twenty six, inflation
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has been well, We've gotten it under control. It's not
out of control like it was in the Biden administration years.
We talked about inflation yesterday. I don't want to get
into that again today in detail, but I do want
to say it's not something when you get inflation out
of control, you just slow its growth. You didn't undo
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the damage that it's done. That's where GDP growth comes
into play. You've got to grow your way out of
these problems. Once the economy's mismanaged, you have to grow
yourself out of them and that's what we're seeing. We
had great economic numbers, great GDP numbers for November, gross
domestic product that is growing, that's on the headed in
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the positive direction. I think momentum is building. I think
that if we continue to stay on this trajectory, which
is an environment of well business friendly environment, basically, families
will benefit. Workers are going to benefit. You see wages
of starting to increase. Businesses will benefit, people will begin
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to have confidence, put more investment into their business, hire people,
develop new products, solutions, whatever. All those things will happen.
And even the business side of what we do here benefits.
This is as Reagan said, a rising tide lifts all ships.
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And I think that that's the direction we're headed in
twenty twenty six. It creates a strong economy, creates opportunity
and stability. These are good things for free people, and
we will all reap the rewards of that, my friends,
if we continue down this path. If we continue down
this path. Number two, I hope the law is continued.
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I hope we continue enforcing the law and immigration policy,
which again I'm very confident that Trump will in the
country again. I think we have for a long time.
I've talked about this before, the lawlessness of the Left.
It never ceases to amaze me the way that the
left thinks about these things. It's depraved, thinking, candidly, and
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a lot of a lot of instances that the left
believes that we are all collectively responsible for every problem
in society, but none of us are somehow individually responsible
for anything, when the exact opposite is actually the truth.
You know, the collective is really nothing more At its core,
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the collective is really nothing more than the aggregate of
how individuals live. If we all individually live responsibly, if
we all individually live with integrity and character and a
desire to follow the rule of law and a respect
for liberty, then collectively we have politicians and policies that
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are in line with those things. When we begin to
make excuses for when we begin to demonize people for
things that they're not responsible for. For example, if you
think my problems are because of billionaires and millionaires, it's
just it's silly talk. That's not at all how this works.
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I had a long conversation with my son about this
the other night about economics, about I think I shared
a little bit about this about about taxes and so forth.
But this the the collective the collective response that we have,
and I don't mean in some communistic way, but as
we come together as a as a community, as a state,
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as a nation, and we begin to pursue laws and
policies that are good, it has to start. It has
to start with us. It has to start individually. We
have to have we have to be pursuing the right things.
We have to be willing to call the things that
are good good, and the things that are not so
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good and not so good, and the things that are
outright evil. We have to be willing to say that
as well. And enforcing the law is a fundamental thing
that has been ignored in a lot of ways. This
is enforcing the law has lack of law enforcement has
permeated our cities. You see, people. I saw a horrific
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story the other day, and I don't remember every detail,
but I'm going to give you the gist of it.
I read a story about a man who this was
many years ago. I don't know how many years ago,
but say fifteen to twenty ish years ago something like that,
broke into this house, went to the kitchen and got
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a knife, walked upstairs. I think it was upstairs to
the bedroom and he killed. I think it was a
nine year old boy in his sleep. They find the guy,
they arrest him, they try him, he's found guilty. He's
sentenced to whatever he sentenced to. I just saw the
story the other day that he's released nine years. I
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think it's nine years early for good behavior. Now, listen,
I believe I want to be clear here. I believe
in the grace afforded to us through Jesus Christ, our Lord.
I believe that mercy can be mercy is we all
need mercy from time to time. I'm not against these things,
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but I'm also for justice. And that is a wicked,
heinous crimes. That's not some sort of accidental sort of thing.
This is intent. This is something done in cold blood.
This is as bad as it gets. And to me,
it makes no difference how well he behaved in prison
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for nine years. That is well for whatever time he
was in there. You should not be released for good behavior.
That's just crazy to me. And you hear you've heard
the stories of other violent crimes where people are basically
just given community service. In some of these instances where
these extreme leftist judges exist and there's no sense of
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law and order. There is no sense of that in
our justice system at times, and there's no sense of
that in our federal government or amongst the people on
the left when it comes to enforcing immigration law. We're
a nation of laws where you know, you should respect
the people that are in positions of a respect the
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office at least, but we're not subject to any person.
Where a nation of laws that's created, those laws are
created through a very systematic process where there's separation of
powers and there's different branches of government that have different responsibilities.
We get to those laws in a certain way, and
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the law is what we're all subjected to. We should
really have respect for the law. You don't always have
to agree with the law. You can seek to change
the law, but when the law exists, it needs to
be enforced. I hope Donald Trump continues enforcing immigration law
deportation law as he has been consistently comprehensively. We need
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to see a return to law and order, to national sovereignty.
We're headed in that direction. Trump is certainly taking us there.
A nation cannot survive, my friends, without respect for its laws.
When laws that are written that had been passed, the
proper procedures and processes. When those are just ignored and
thrown out the window, bad things are happy well happen.
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What else do we have to stand upon if the
law itself can just be changed at the whim of
the next administration. Friends, the obvious is I hope Republicans
win the midterms in twenty twenty six. In fact, more accurately,
I hope conservatives when in the mid terms of twenty
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twenty six, I hope that they challenge the current Republican
leadership at all levels. I hope that Republican leadership itself
becomes more conservative, or at least that they become more
responsive to the accountability from the conservative base. You know,
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people like Milton Friedman, the Great Economist, talked about things
like this. He talked about, you know, you don't have
to have a circumstance where a politician agree with all
of your core beliefs. What you need is to have
the politician know that he's being held accountable who have
those beliefs, and if he fears or she fears or
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respects I don't mean in a shaking way, but if
there's a healthy respect for the people here she serves,
and the people here she serves are paying attention and
know what's going on, then they can sometimes even do
things that they don't want to do that their constituents
demand that they do in a good way. And that's
how we hold these people accountable. But we need to
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have more conservatives in office, or at least people who
are more responsive to being held accountable by the conservative base.
There's going to be some primaries in twenty twenty six.
I believe that are going to be contentious. There's going
to be established rhino Republicans that are going to want
to hold on to seats, and there are going to
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be conservatives who are going to enter the race trying
to restore restore conservative leadership or conservative a conservative seat
at the table in these districts, in these for these
certain offices all around the country, from local elections to
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city elections to state and federal elections, there needs to
be more conservatives in these. I hope more conservatives win
in twenty twenty six. I owe more Americans accept the
truth in twenty twenty six. What's the old saying out
there that says, if you want to if you want
to offend a Republican, Tell him alive. If you want
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to offend a leftist, tell him the truth. Tell him
that men are not women and they cannot be, and
that men and women are different. Watch their head explode,
my friends. Tell them that liberty is precious and must
be protected. Tell them that capitalism has done more. Free
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market capitalism has done more to lift people out of
poverty around the world than any government program could ever
dream of doing. Tell them that America as founded is
a good thing. That the principles of the Declaration, the
principles in the Constitution. Obviously, I'm not talking about the
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issue of slavery. That's a reprehensible thing that's part of
America's history. I'm talking about the ideas and concept actually,
the ideas and concepts that were laid forth in our
founding documents. They eventually fixed the atrocious nature of slavery
here chattel slavery in the United States. So the ideals
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were always there, the ideas, the principles, the beliefs, but
yet we fell short in actually fulfilling those for a
long time when it came to that issue. But the
ideas of the Constitution, the framework of the Declaration of independence,
what it stood for, what it meant tremendously good things.
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I hope more Americans accept that truth. Liberty is good.
Government control is bad. It always leads to well socialism,
and eventually it leads us to communism. We are not
created to live that way this side of heaven. We
do not need government to be our God that rule.
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By the way, the role of God is already taken
by our creator, Yahweh himself, and he's doing a perfectly
good job. He certainly doesn't need knuckleheads and clowns in
Congress or anywhere else in our government trying to say
that they, in fact are God. I hope more Americans
accept truth. There's a lot when it comes to the
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issue of truth, my friends, that people need to accept,
but they can begin to accept it in little bity bites.
That's okay, little bitty nuggets, that's fine. But I hope
more Americans accept the truth in twenty twenty six. Want
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you know a little a little bit more about truth
here before I get to the break, listen the message
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or the mission of this program of the Toad Show. Truly,
if you look at the mission of the program, that
this stuff doesn't always I might mention it all. I
know I've mentioned it on here. But the mission in
our you know, in our actual mission statement, is this
to help others hear and receive truth. And the left
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hates truth. I've talked about this before, the left one.
It listen, when you look at the political continuum, you
know you have, of course, the way I look at
it is you have anarchy on one end, you have
absolute government control on the other. That's the left side,
the right side. As you move towards the center from
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the right, you go from anarchy to a limited government.
That's where that's where conservatism, that's where America candidly landed.
You go on the other end of the spectrum, you've
got you know, uh hardcore communism and all types of
government regimes that that force control over people. And then
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you move away from strict control, maybe from say communism,
to say more socialistic or uh semi uh semi controlled
forms of government. The problem is, once you've opened that
that box, you always go that direction. How do you
give government absolute control over some aspect of society but
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not over all of it. It's where we put our focus.
It's listen, it's an insidious sort of thing. It's it's
an unstoppable force in many ways. But when I speak
about leftists, they're not All liberals are not leftists. Leftists
are people. What's a really peculiar thing going on. It's
not just that they it's not just that they want
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to have a certain political outcome or have certain political beliefs.
They want to fundamentally change nature, human nature, the way
that life works, what's true and good and so forth.
They want to fundamentally change that. And there's reasons for that.
And I guess I'm looking at the clock here. I
thought I could get this in. I can't. I'll do
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that on the other side of the brick. Quick time
about though, my Fridgid listen to conservative not better Talk.
I'm your host, Todd Huff back here in just a minute.
Welcome back, my friends. I want to wrap up what
I was saying last segment. By the way, welcome to
the Todd hubshowf you ten. Then we're going through We're
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going through here the things I hope happened in twenty
twenty six and beyond. I guess it's the third day
that we've kind of done something similar. Monday we did
what the kind of went through the top most what
was the word I used, the most consequential stories of
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twenty twenty six. Then yesterday I told you what I'm
looking to expect, what I expect happening in twenty twenty six,
or the most sorry sorry Monday was the most consequential
stories of twenty twenty five. They were going to have
an impact in twenty twenty six and some far beyond that.
Yesterday we talked about what we should expect in twenty
twenty six, and today we're talking about what I hope
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for and what I think many of you hope for.
Something very similar to this, or at least in some respects,
maybe very much like this. I don't know, but this
is what I hope for in twenty twenty six. And
as we were wrapping up the last segment there, I
was talking with you about the left and what I
mean about who the left isn't. This isn't every liberal,
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This is certainly not every Democrat. A leftist is someone
who wants to fundamentally change the nature of truth. In fact,
some of them they'll either seek to deny truth exists.
They've kind of stopped doing that in a way. When
I was in college there were people who were moral relativists.
I think you spend five minutes in that camp and
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you realize you've got a major problem because they'll say
truth is relative, to which you can say, are you
absolutely sure that that's true? And then they're stuck because
because if they say it's not relative, or excuse me,
that it's not absolute, then you say, fine, it doesn't
what you're telling me about anyway, what are you trying
to convince me of? If it's not absolute, then why
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are you trying so hard to get me to believe
it is something that is true. You're You're conflicted, You're conflicted,
you're contradicting yourself. If they admit that it is absolutely
true to say that truth is relative, then they've of
course self that they've defeated their own argument themselves. So
there's really no place to go there. It's silly, it's
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absolutely silliness. In fact, I remember a story I think
Chris who fills in Chris Dunham, who's from India. I
think he's the one that told the story. It might
have been someone else, but someone I think he was
telling a story about Robbie Zacharias, who I know that's
a whole situation for those of you who followed him.
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He's of course passed away here recently in the past
couple of years, and there was a lot of fallout
from some things he was involved with, and I don't
want to get into that, but he was a brilliant
He was brillian in the way that he defended truth
and Christianity and that sort of things explain things. And
he was in a debate with somebody, I think it
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was Robbie. He was in a debate with the professor,
who was trying to tell Robbie, who of course is
from the East, how people in the East look at truth.
It can be a both and sort of thing. And
Robbie responded, when I crossed the street, he said, I
look both ways because it's either me or the bus
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and the professor. The professor nodded his head and he
said it is kind of unavoidable, isn't it, And to
which Robbie said, yeah, absolutely. That's kind of the whole
point here is that you can't be a moral relativist.
At some point you have to accept that it's either or.
And the Left doesn't like that. They fought that, but
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they realize that's a losing proposition as well, so they
continually try to find new ways to move away from
people accepting truth because I'll tell you, at their core,
at their core, what they're afraid of more than anything
is well, they're afraid of the truth. And they don't
like the idea that truth comes from God. See you
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start connecting these dots, you accept truth. Truth must come
from a moral lawgiver, a final arbiter of what is true,
someone who's control and in control of the universe. I
think these things are inextricably linked. Certainly, people can make
the case that they're not, but you have a lot
of problems, You have a lot of problems making moral
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arguments if you don't have a moral lawgiver. But whatever
the case may be, I think people on the left
are so convicted, are so convicted of what is true internally,
and I would say that that comes by the spirit
of God, our creator, but they don't like it. They
want to live another way. And listen, if we're all
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being true, we all are like that, We've all been
like that, we all maybe you're currently like that with
something I don't know, but I do know this, I
do know this that when you know you're doing something
that is in violation of what is good or true
or wholesome or whatever, it's hard to live there. Intellectually,
it's hard. It's hard to not have problems and to
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have that gnaw at you. And so they've decided, look,
we want to live in this space, but we want,
you know, we'll bring all these people together who want
to reject all these truths and we'll say, basically, listen,
we all get together and we'll go out there and
we'll tell we'll make arguments defending one another, even if
we don't relate, even if you're you're fighting a truth
(28:42):
that I don't really care about, and I'm fighting something
I'm trying to violate truth and God's design it. Another way,
we'll defend each other because we're all kind of pushing
in the same general direction, which is to get out
of this situation where we we have this these convictions,
where we have these uh that this this guilt or
this conviction is really what it is for doing the
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wrong thing. And they set themselves up as enemies of
the truth, and they start telling us all sorts of nonsense,
I mean, the literal nonsense you may have seen Matt
Walsh does a great job with what is a woman?
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Right?
Speaker 2 (29:15):
And you see these people, they've studied these things for
years and they can't tell you when you ask them
what is a woman? They act to Paul, I can't
believe you'd ask me that question. What do you mean?
What is a woman? And I'm just asking you. You
tell me you're a woman, you're clearly a man. You mean,
won't use the word woman for some reason? What do
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you mean when you say that? What does that word mean?
It means I'm a woman? Well, what the world does
that mean? Did you not go to third grade when
they said when you're defining something, you can't use that
term to define itself. What is a woman? Well, it's
a person who presents and identifies as a woman. What
the world does that mean? What are they presenting as? What?
And this goes on. You've seen this done, He's done
(29:57):
this countless times from the These are people who are
in positions at universities whose job it is to study
gender and to tell us about all these differences and
to educate us old fashioned hay seed hicks to understand
gender properly. And what do they tell us. They tell
us that a woman is a person who identifies as
(30:19):
a woman. It's absolute madness and nonsense. But this is
ultimately where refusing to accept truth leads us. And that's
just one example. But how many other things have you
seen people doing mental backflips over to try to prevent
from acknowledging the truth. I'm reminded when we went into
a recession during Biden's term in office, a short one,
(30:43):
that's two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth. We technically
hit that it wasn't by much, and maybe it wasn't.
You know, you could make the case that the numbers
were close enough to wear whatever, it wouldn't be truly
identified as such. But they told us they tried to
redefine what they what the terms were. They tried to say, well,
that's not really what a recession is. I remember all this.
(31:03):
How many times do they change definitions in the dictionary,
literally change definitions of things because they don't like to
establish or I should say, accept established truth. So we
have I hope more people come to accept the truth
in twenty twenty six. But at its core, at its core,
(31:24):
the rejection of truth, I believe, I believe this firmly.
I believe when people openly reject an obvious truth, it
is because they are at They're in open rebellion with
the creator of the universe. They are so convicted that
what they are doing is not a good thing. What
they're believing, teaching whatever is not good and those convictions
(31:46):
and voices are so strong inside their mind and head
and so forth that they can't stand to hear another
person say something that's reinforced internally, and so they scream
and act like lunatics when you try to present truth
to them. That's what's happening, my friends, And speaking of
that out more conservatives continue to engage or start to engage,
(32:08):
even in twenty twenty, since we can't all do everything.
I remember when I was in school when I played
football for Tom Blank, one of my favorite people that's
that I've ever had the encounter or the chance to
encounter and to get to know. He was my high
school football coach nineteen ninety three. In nineteen ninety four.
I believe he was instrumental in helping me learn about
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Jesus by getting me to a Fellowship of Christian Athletes
football camp in nineteen ninety three, where I accepted Jesus
as my Lord and savior ed. He used to have
us say something, and I'm going to say it really
quickly here he said. This was at practice. He would say,
I am one, I am only one. I can't do everything,
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but I can do something. And that which I can do,
I will do, and that which I will do, by
God's grace, I'll give credit. We can't all do everything.
We can all do something, my friends, and we'd better
get to work in twenty twenty six and continue to
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about the what I hope for in twenty twenty six,
(35:26):
I just mentioned that I hope conservatives continue either start
to or continue to engage. I've mentioned that's that's one
of the things that we try to do on this
show to give confidence and clarity and tools and insight
to help people become better conservative communicators, better conservative persuaders,
(35:48):
whatever you want to call this, more effective communicators, helping
to clarify all the noise that's out there, all the clutter,
all the nonsense, all the lies. You can continue, of
course to see more of that in twenty twenty six.
In fact, maybe even some things where we do deeper
dives on as we continue to build out things like
(36:09):
the newsletter and just different things like that. I also
hope that there's a renewed commitment in twenty twenty six
to America's founding. I think that we are at a
point here where we're likely living through what could be
considered historically as the second Great American Revolution. America will
(36:35):
be two hundred and fifty years old next year. Two
hundred and fifty years old. That's an incredible thing. Most
democracies you've probably heard collapse around two hundred years and
you can see why, right, I mean, this is what
we're experiencing here in this society. You can see it's
been dealt with in other societies as well. And I'm
(37:00):
one of the things I think that we need to
really think about. And I know that this one hurt,
this one gets personal, But if you read the Declaration
of Independence, the founders put this line. It's it's hard
to say what my favorite line is in the declaration,
but this is definitely a contender. In the declaration, they
write this, we the people of course, signing the declaration,
(37:22):
said this, we mutually pledged to one another our lives,
our fortunes, and our sacred honor. And those weren't just words.
They made a commitment. They made a commitment to basically say,
we were going We're willing to die for this. We're
willing to lose everything we have for this. We're putting
our name, our reputation on the line. Things have gotten
(37:45):
this bad, we are prepared to do whatever it takes.
And that's hard to find today. And you put these
were these were influential, successful men who had a lot
to lose, who made this statement, who signed on to
this document in seventeen seventy six. That commitment is incredibly intimidating.
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But here's the truth, my friends. Without that sort of resolve,
without that level of resolving commitment, we are going to
lose everything anyway. This is it's almost what the paradox.
If you're not willing to if you're not willing to
risk it all, you're going to lose it all anyway.
(38:28):
The tighter you try to hold it, the more it's
going to be snatched from your hand. It reminds me, again,
not in a strict sense, but it reminds me of
similarly when Jesus told the people following him, he said,
he who loses his life will save it. Right. Basically,
(38:53):
you there's something that's required here where you have to
give up. You have to submit, in the case of Christianity,
everything to Christ and his lordship. You can't hold on
to things. And I'm not saying look, the commitment to
the Constitution is the same as that, but I am
(39:15):
saying there's something similar there to the concept that says, look,
a tyrannical government that we've been moving toward for a
long long time now, and out of control, bloated bureaucracy
that's got control over everything. They've got technology, now, they've
got all sorts of things. If we're not prepared, we're
not prepared to sacrifice everything in defense of liberty, we're
(39:39):
all going to lose everything. And I know, listen, I
know that there's a king in the Bible who is
basically told of destruction that was coming, and when he
inquired and found that that was not in his lifetime,
he basically said, cool, I can eat, drink and be merry,
and that's someone else's problem. And that's not the way
(40:00):
that we should be looking at this. I mean, this
is this. This is our children's future, our grandchildren's future,
and we have to be willing to engage in the fight.
I know that that may sound extreme to a lot
of people, but I would say that the reason it
sounds extreme is because we've wanted to have the blessings
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that come from having liberty without taking the responsibility collectively.
I don't mean you specifically, but maybe somebody out there.
But the bottom line is we want the blessings of
the liberty without having to pay the cost to protect it,
to defend it, to pass it on to the next generation. So, folks,
(40:44):
those are my hopes for twenty twenty six and beyond.
I've got to go Happy New Year, SDG.
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