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Hope you're doing great today. We've got a lot to go through. We are still not at war yet, which is great news.
So the shooting war has not started between Russia and Ukraine. There has been a development across the northern border where Justin Trudeau, the prime minister and acting thespian, has ordered his goon squads to begin taking down the Freedom Convoy. And late last night, we actually have some video that was sent to us showing the leaders of the Freedom Convoy being taken into custody. And they're also going to be cracking down throughout the day there in Ottawa as the story. Stormtroopers, the jack-booted thugs, go in and arrest all of these truckers.
You know what's fascinating about this? There was a major attack, really a terrorist attack, on a pipeline in Canada. Trudeau has yet to respond to that. And the reason why is he doesn't care about that. In his estimation, the freedom-loving Canadian truckers are the true domestic terrorists.
So we're going to be monitoring that story for you as well throughout the day. I want to start with a crazy story, a crazy story over at ToddSterns.com. And it's. At first, I did not believe this story to be true.
So, as we often do here, whenever something seems a bit incredulous, we will investigate. And sure enough, what I thought to be someone pulling my leg, trying to prank Todd Starns, turned out to be the God's Honest Truth.
So, it turns out that California could become the first state in the nation. Yeah. to give your pets civil rights. No, let me say that again. Just so you understand here, the legislation would give little Fluffy, Little Spot, Little Merlot the same rights and privileges as human beings.
California Assemblyman Miguel Santiago has introduced the Dog and Cats Bill of Rights. This is the God's honest truth, ladies and gentlemen. Mr. Santiago is a Democrat. He is also a pet owner, and he wants to give pets in his state the same legal rights and protections that human beings have.
So he's posted a statement. I've got to read some of this to you. And I'm just curious. Do you agree with this? Do you believe that we should be treating dogs and cats?
On the same level as human beings. Yeah. 844-747-8868 is our telephone number. There's a point to all of this that is relevant to where we are in the culture. And I'm going to get to that in a minute.
Again, 844-747-8868. Mr. Santiago says that as the owner of two dogs, I am proud to author the Dog and Cat Bill of Rights to help our furry friends live happier, healthier lives. Our dogs and cats deserve to be loved and cared for, and the Dog and Cat Bill of Rights will help inform potential adopters of the care needed to create a healthy environment for their adopted pets.
Now the legislation would specifically give would protect Fluffy and Spot and give them freedom from neglect and abuse, the right to health care, The right to be spayed or neutered. And can I just stop there for a moment? I don't know any pet, I don't know any animal that would willingly want itself to be spayed or neutered. Maybe that's just me, but I can't think of anyone who would. I don't know any cats running out there, you know, and just begging their owner to take them down to the vet and get the snip snip.
I don't know. I may be wrong there. Yeah. Um It also allows pets to have access to medical care and access to nutritious food.
Now, Grace Baker, you own a dog. Named Merlot, the Dalmatian. She's my sunshine. What do you feed your dog? I feed her high-quality kibble, and I put salmon oil in it.
So, what would be like, I mean, what are some because I don't own a dog, so I have no idea what they eat, but like milkbone dog food. Is that like the little milkbone treats, the doggy treats? Do you give them Oreo cookies? No. But you could.
I could. You could give your dog an Oreo or something of that nature. Definitely not Oreos because that could hurt her. But yeah, when I'm cooking, I'll give her like, you know, here's a piece of meat. Here's some veggies.
And I bet the dog is very appreciative. Oh, she loves it. But just in your basic observation of Merlot, does Merlot prefer meat or veggies? Um, meat, but she'll eat anything. She's one of those dogs that she will literally eat anything.
She's not picky.
So, as I'm going through all of this, I'm realizing, Grace, that. That dogs and cats in California will soon have more constitutional rights than unborn babies in California. Yeah, that's right. Just think about that. Yeah.
You had Gavin Newsom, what is it, a couple of months ago saying they wanted to be the abortion. You know, we want the abortion industry.
So when you come to California, we want you to come and. Kill your unborn baby, and then you can recover by poolside. Disgusting. I mean, this was, and this is not made up. This was in the news not too long ago.
I remember. But it does Van Jones, who's on CNN, the most profane name in news. Crying Negro Network. Oh, thanks, Judge. Always there with a comment.
Van Jones, years ago, Grace, before he got plugged into CNN, was actually an advocate. He wanted to allow dogs and cats and pets to sue their owners in court.
So he wanted to give civil rights to the animal kingdom. at large. But that goes directly against what the good book says, where man has dominion over the animals, which means we're supposed to protect God's creation and we're supposed to eat God's creation. Tasty animals. Yes.
Nothing wrong with that. I'm not a vegetarian. No, it's in the Bible. I mean, I'm just telling you, this is what the good book says.
So, anyway, now Mr. Santiago wants to give Merlot.
So, if let's just say, and you and Merlot, I guarantee you that Merlot loves you. Yes. And you guys, and you love Merlot. Yes. But what if one day you say to Merlot, oh, you're getting a little too pudgy there, Merlot?
You've got to go on a diet. No more kibbles and bits for you. I'm putting you on a salad diet. And Merlot gets upset and sues you. I don't think she's physically capable of doing that.
Doesn't matter. Under California law, Merlot could do that. If this thing becomes law, Merlot, she could have an advocate. A surrogate. I will say that I sometimes think Merlot's smarter than some humans I meet, but I digress.
I have no doubt about that. No doubt at all.
So, Mr. Santiago, I've got to read this quote here, folks. The rights go beyond just food, water, and shelter. Dogs and cats have the right to be respected as sentient beings.
So he is now elevating little Merlot to the level of a human being. That's what he's doing. He said they are sentient beings that experience complex feelings that are common among living animals, while being unique to each individual. We are thrilled to be codifying this into law. Yeah, that's a little much for me.
I mean, look, they they do they have feelings and can they feel pain and things? Yes, but they don't have souls.
Well, mister Santiago would disagree with you. And look, these Democrats are crazy in California. Yeah. I think it's the juice they drink at the juice bars.
So, the question I have, again, you're going to give cats and dogs civil rights. Yes. It's not going to be, what about the hamsters? What about the people who live in San Francisco, the gerbils? They love pet snakes.
A lot of people own gerbils in San Francisco. I don't know why. It's very odd. What about the lizards? Everybody's going to be demanding, you know.
The Geico lizard. The Geico. What about the parrots? I mean, he's going to want to unionize. You know, once you give him the right to vote, it's downhill from there.
And then the right to vote is just around the corner. Oh, boy. And you know, the Democrats will be. The Democrats will be after every stray wandering the streets in Los Angeles. You say, Todd, what does this have to do with the state of where we are in America right now?
Well, it has a lot. A lot to say about it. Because ultimately, we are still turning our back on the values that made this country great in the first place. This idea that we are a Christian nation, that we follow the tenets of the good book, the Holy Bible, that we believe that there is a God. And that we obey the Ten Commandments.
These are things, these are concepts that are woven into every single one of our founding documents, every single one of them. These are ideas and concepts that are written about in letters written by our founding fathers.
So when you go out there, like Mr. Santiago does, and says, you know what, there's no difference, and in his mind, there is no difference between a dog and a cat and a human being. Yeah. Equal under the law. This is not a new concept.
What's new about it is somebody's actually trying to get this codified into law. But these ideas have been out there for a very long time. It's not that they're elevating the cat and the dog, they're dehumanizing. people. They're dehumanizing God's creation.
male and female. That's what this is really all about. All right, we got to take a break here. We've got so much to talk about in politics. And as it is, sometimes these stories sort of get lost in the pile.
And this is a fascinating story. And I want to see how this is all going to play out. But this is. This is disturbing, but this gives you an idea of the mindset of why we have such disregard for human life. The reason we have disregard for human life is because of people like mister Santiago, who believes we are you know we are no better than a dog or a cat.
Or if you're in San Francisco, a gerbil. 844-747-8868. That is our toll-free telephone number. We're going to go to the phones. 844-747-8868.
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Yeah. But Republican leadership stood in the way. Yeah. And Congressman Chip Roy is just livid, just livid over this. As a matter of fact, writing on Twitter, he says, I am done playing with these asshats.
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Now, was it just simply a coincidence that four Republicans decided not to show up? Is that just a coincidence?
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That's 844-747-8868. Want to give you an update on the um The breaking news here. Kim Potter, remember her? Kim Potter, she's the police officer. She thought she was using her taser gun and she killed Dante Wright.
She pulled out her service revolver instead. This news just in. She has been sentenced to 16 months behind bars.
So she's going to prison for the killing of uh Dante Wright. Mm-hmm. The judge handed down the sentence over the objection of prosecutors after. Uh Kim Potter apologized to the victim's family. You know, I was watching that court case.
The woman is destroyed. She is devastated. Clearly. Clearly, um She is a good and decent person who made a horrible mistake. The judge said that Potter had served her community for 26 years and hundreds of letters.
Painted a portrait of a woman who touched a lot of people in a good way. Yeah. The judge said that Potter was clearly remorseful. She showed that today, she showed that when it happened.
Now the Senate's A range on first degree manslaughter. Is, and I'm reading this as the breaking news comes out here. Um The sentencing range on first-degree manslaughter is slightly more than six years to about eight and a half. And the judge can have some the judge has some wiggle room.
Now, what's going to be interesting? is How the city reacts. Because there are a lot of people who wanted this woman to be Um to be sent to prison for the rest of her life. This happened right outside of Minneapolis in an area called Brooklyn Center. Officer Potter had a 26-year career on the police force, a spotless record.
And of course, all of this was captured on video, and almost immediately the media made this all about all about race because she's white. The victim here a black man. Do you agree with this innocence? I mean, they wanted to throw her, they wanted to throw her in jail for the rest of her life. The judge, and I'm surprised because this judge was.
She was pretty tough during the trial. 16 months behind bars for Kimberly Potter. Is that enough? Should she go to jail for more time? 844-747-8868.
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Download their free investors guide at legacypminvestments.com. All right, the Twitter world is blowing up, exploding in rage. They wanted Kim Potter, the police officer who shot and killed a black suspect. They wanted her thrown in jail for the rest of her life. The judge, 24 months, 16 in prison, and the left on probation.
And she has to pay a thousand dollar fine, and people are going bonkers. Let's just hope, let's just hope that the well, if you own a business in Minneapolis, you might just want to get ready. You know how these things go. I mean, you know what happens when something like this occurs, the peaceful protests break out. And that normally means you need a good insurance policy and a fire extinguisher.
All right, let's go to the phones here, eight four four, seven four seven eighty eight sixty eight. Murph on the line, Germantown, Tennessee, listening to us on our flagship station, KWAM. Murph, what's going on?
Well, Dr. Starnes, things are going pretty well. I have a commentary on what you're discussing here. A twenty six-year spotless record, one mistake. And she gets you know, put on the rack.
No one that I can find in the media or whatever, whatever you want to call it. has focused any attention on this right kit What was he doing to deserve a police interdiction? Breaking some minor laws. you know, two-bit stuff. All he had to do was sign the ticket, and go about his merry way.
But obviously, he chose defiance instead of obedience.
Now in our government classes years and years ago, we used to spend a day with a Germantown police officer when we discussed the Bill of Rights specifically search and seizure, the Fourth Amendment, and the Fifth Amendment about incriminating yourself. And a police officer would spend the day with us or a detective And his major theme was When a police officer asks you a question, Tell him the truth. because he already knows The answer. And when you go in the opposite direction, All you do is bring Wrath and judgment upon your head, and that's not what police are designed for. That young lady is getting I guess she's getting a decent sentence for what she did, and she's been remorseful about it.
du dutifully repented of the situation.
So I mean, she's behaving to me, Murph, it just seems to me she's behaving as a person who is incredibly remorseful would behave. I mean, she was horrified. I mean, no doubt she's going to have to pay some sort of a price. And I don't know if 16 months in jail is that price. I mean, the defense was hoping for probation, but for her to be spending the rest of her life in prison would have been a travesty.
Yes. And like I said, no one is like we discussed What was this right kid doing to begin with? Why was he in trouble? Why was he there? Why was he violating the law?
Well, he had a warrant. Yeah, well, he had a traffic. There was a traffic violation, but he actually had a warrant out for his arrest as well.
So, I mean, we're not dealing with an Eagle Scout here. We were dealing with somebody who had been involved with some legal issues. Yeah, his parents ought to be ashamed more than anything. But anyway, that's another story for another day. You take care and keep up the good work.
All right, Murph, appreciate the call. And again, we'll follow the developments here out of Minnesota. But people are pretty enraged over this sentence. And they say it's further evidence of racism in America. All right, 844-747-8868.
Let's go to North Carolina. Mike on the line, WSIC. Mike, what's on your mind? Hey, Todd, love your show and what you do. You're opening, you're welcome.
Keep up the good work, keep up the good fight. I your opening story was giving rights to dogs and cats, correct? That is correct, yes.
Well, as I'm listening.
So Shock. I was instantly reminded of an old Radio Um add um you know a bit by comedian Jerry Seinfeld. Uh I have, and on a side note, I've never watched a single episode of Seinfeld. Everybody I tell looks at me like I got three eyes. Anyhow, He's a great comedian, certainly respect him.
But The the ad went, the bit went like the commercial went like Oh You remember talking to grandpa, and grandpa says, Oh, back in the day, a bread was a nickel, a car was a quarter, et cetera. And then he said, and I'm paraphrasing, he says, well, And this is like thirty years ago, and it sticks in my mind.
So you go, well, what are we going to be telling our grandkids? fifty years from now. And then he goes in and says Dogs voting? We had 'em on chains. And so the bit was a commercial for something, and of course.
completely ludicrous. But here we are, twenty twenty two, and civil rights to dogs and cats. And don't forget the cockatiels. We had a nice cockatiel I think they deserve equal rights as four legged creatures. And yeah, pretty soon they're going to be able to vote, et cetera, et cetera.
So that was my contribution to yourself. Look, it's, Mike, I'm telling you, it's years ago, Van Jones was out there advocating for this. And I wrote a, oh, gosh, it was three or four books ago. I wrote a whole chapter about how I, it was a parody chapter, that if Van Jones' recommendations had become law, that I had been put on trial for the mass genocide of chickens. You know, I love fried chicken, Mike.
And it was. We do. The CSI team, they had me dead to rights. They found a bucket of KFC. The crime scene was pretty dramatic.
Taught red-handed. That's it. Taught red-handed. Oh, it was finger looking good. All right, Mike.
Appreciate the call. Enjoy your weekend. Keep up the good fight. Thank you. All right.
Thanks a lot. That's Mike from North Carolina. It's honest to goodness true, folks. That was a fun chapter to write. You know, a lot of people ask me, Todd, who can trust in the media?
That is a great question. A recent study finds Americans just don't trust big media. 65% of Republicans don't trust them at all. But the source I trust is Newsmax. I go online to newsmax.com for breaking headlines.
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Trust me, folks, you're never going to go back. All right. Before we go to break, I want to hit the phones again. Craig from Maine, listening to us on WLOB, wants to weigh in on the cats and the dogs. Hey, Craig, what's up?
Hey, how we doing? I I just wanted to kind of go over a few things.
Now, how far does that go with the animal rights?
Now, if you know, if an animal runs out in the middle of the road or something like that and you hit them, does that is it murder at that point? How do you do you go to jail for that? I mean, how how far where does this go and where does this stop? You know, you know, they're getting health care. We have We have people on the street that don't have that.
So I'm just not understanding how that law is going to help anybody. My concern is that it gives those dogs and cats more constitutional rights than unborn babies in the state of California. And to your point, Craig, it's a fair question. I mean, let's say, God forbid, you know, you're driving down and you hit a pot.
Well, the possums aren't covered, but a cat or a dog would be. I mean, it's conceivable that you might face some sort of a fine or penalty for doing something like that. Yeah. It it blows my mind. Oh, I just thought about this, Craig.
Wait a sec. What's the big rage? It's cultural appropriation, right, among humans, right?
Well, what about the furry community? I mean, all those furries, the humans dressing up like dogs and cats. I mean, you know, that could be a civil rights violation. It could be. And there's no line to draw in the sand there.
It's it's just going to keep going and going. And you know, we th we I thought we were backing ourselves into our corner. You're just opening ourselves up to even worse things that are going to come down the line. I mean, what's next, really? It's a fair question, Craig, and that's why we need to pay very close attention to what's going on over there.
Craig, God bless. Have a great weekend, and thanks for calling in.
Well, we were just doing a story a couple of days ago about people who identify now as cats. And they're walking around on all fours and doing Lord knows what. And then you've got the whole furry community.
So there are a lot of components to this California legislation you're going to have to pay attention to, folks. Dante Wright, you're not. I just feel like it's always important to have context. And the left accuses me of racism, Islamophobia, xenophobia. You know, homophobia, the whole nine yards.
Whenever I provide context to a very lopsided story here, and as we go through the next, you know, if you're going to watch cable news tonight, you're going to be hearing about Kim Potter and how the judge hates black people and wanted to, you know, wanted to give Kim Potter a hug. That's what you're going to hear on the news tonight. But you need to understand, and Murph from Germantown raised a great point. Who is Dante Wright? Why was he stopped?
Well, first of all, he was stopped because of a traffic violation. He had an expired tag. You get an expired tag, you're going to get pulled over. I mean, that's just that's going to happen. But it's more than that.
He also had a warrant out for an assault case. This is Dante Wright's, and again, I'm not saying this did not give Kim Potter the right to gun the guy down. She made a mistake. A very tragic, horrible mistake.
Okay. But Dante Wright, the that he was twenty years old, was involved in the shooting of two of his high school friends. He has also been accused of burglarizing a home. He had previously assaulted and robbed a woman at gunpoint. Jennifer LeMay said Wright shot her son, Caleb Livingston, in the head at a gas station, left him to die.
That happened in 2019. Her son cannot speak. He survived. He cannot speak. Requires twenty four seven care.
Another woman says that Wright assaulted her, pointed a gun at her, In twenty nineteen, attempted robbery. In twenty seventeen, Wright was arrested and charged with felony first degree burglary of an occupied house. According to the Daily Mail. Before Dante Wright was shot and killed by Kim Potter, the police officer, he terrorized his local neighborhood for several years, leaving victims and their families with a lifetime's worth of trauma and suffering. The Daily Mail Investigated court records and interviewed many of Mr.
Wright's victims. They say he led a life of crime and violence. Before his death. Yeah. They said that in addition to the shooting of he was involved in the shooting of two of his high school friends, the home burglary, the assault, and the robbery.
And it led to all sorts, I mean, the media. And these activists have portrayed Mr. Wright as some sort of a saint, and the family has as well. And they act as if this is some good church-going young person, when, in fact, by the way. All over social media, had photos of himself waving around guns and calling all sorts of chaos.
So, it's important for you to understand a little bit of context. A a little bit of A background on who this guy really is. Because all of that seems to get lost.
Okay. And this. And don't forget that at the time that he was pulled over, there was an active warrant for his arrest. Let's go to the phones real quick here. Keith in North Carolina, listening to us on the talk station list to weigh in.
All right, Keith, what's going on? Hello, Todd. Thanks for taking my call. And by the way, I've been smoking butts. We're having them tomorrow at the Marine Corral Post.
Is that tomato?
So you're smoking butts at the Marine Corps outpost? No, I smoked them here all night long in the rain, and I forgot how difficult that was. That can be difficult.
Well, but the thing is, is that uh It's for veterans. The reason that I called is what you have addressed right now is something the mainstream press has, I believe, intentionally ignored They never discuss Why? The person was engaged in the initial altercation in the first place.
Now I've been arrested several times for contempt of court and a few other times for other things. Been in jail eight and a half times. I never resisted arrest. I just said, okay, give me, write me the ticket. and I'll deal with it in court.
But most of these incidences that we have had from George Floyd From uh Michael Brown. from the guy up in New York that was selling Lucy's None of this would have occurred Had the Individual Just said, okay, write me the ticket. I'll go to court and we'll argue about it. Every one of these people We're fighting back for one reason or another. And what do you expect the police to do other than to?
diffuse a situation. Look, it's a great point you're bringing up here, Keith, and that's why it's so important. And I appreciate the call. We're going to have to run for a break here. That's why it's important to provide context.
And that's what we do on this program. And then you can make a decision, an informed decision about what really went down. Got to take a break. We'll be right back. Mike Lindell has a passion to help everyone get the best sleep of your life.
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What's on your mind?
Well, I wanted to talk about this poor police officer that made a tragic mistake. I would think that after twenty some odd years of police service that if if she showed any tendency towards bigotry or Dislike of blacks. It would have come out. Oh, no doubt about that, Ernie, but it didn't. She had a spotless record.
There is no doubt in my mind that what happened was a horrible accident. Yes, and it happened in the heat of the moment and And I think we've all done things in the heat of the moment that we regret. Um But The other thing I was thinking about, the poor poor woman worked Pretty much your whole useful career. Uh towards a pension. And I'm sure that's That's gone.
Well, yes, but and it is gone. And you know what? That should be the case. I mean, if you can't tell the difference between your taser and your service revolver, and there is a difference, I mean, that one weighs much more than the other, then you do need to suffer some sort of a consequence. I have no problem with her losing her job.
But we go back to the heat of the moment thing and yes, yes, it was a huge mistake. Um but The justice systems work They just couldn't let her say, I'm sorry, it was a huge mistake and just let her go at that.
So Oh, it's not the justice system. That's mob rule right there, Ernie. Mob rule.
Well, I think in this day and age, that serves as justice and. That's as bad as That's how she could be expected to be treated. Ernie, got a run. Thank you for calling. And I hate to cut that short.
Al Sharpton, during the funeral, called Dante Wright the Prince of Brooklyn Center. But that was clearly not the case at all. We're talking about. We're talking about a guy who is a very bad dude. It was a tragic thing that happened, but Yeah.
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All right, folks, good to have you with us. Welcome to the Todd Stearns Radio Program on this Friday. As we told you in the last hour, word came down from Minneapolis: the verdict, the judge deciding. That Kim Potter, the police officer who shot and killed Dante Wright, will spend 16 months in jail. It's a two-year sentence, 16 of those behind bars.
And the people are going bonkers. As I told you, do not be surprised if things take an ugly turn. And sure enough, there are already people calling for violence on social media. This item, I hope y'all know we're going straight to that mall. It means we ride at dawn, so board them store windows back up.
And others are already calling for acts of violence in response to this sentencing, which they wanted her thrown in jail for the rest of her life.
So, we're going to get to your calls on that. I know we have Bill in Cordova, Daniel in Gainesville, Georgia. Hang tight, guys. We're going to get to that. Want to go to the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line?
Always good to talk with our friend from Newsmax TV, Hogan Gidley. Hogan, welcome to the show. Hey, Todd, thanks so much. I am coming to you live from the airport in the swamp, trying to get out of here. I've got some speeches and some conversations to have with the good folks over in the great state of North Carolina this weekend.
So if you hear some ambient noise and some announcements overhead, I can't do anything about that. It's just delight. of going back and forth trying to fix our elections, being in airports constantly. Look, I understand you're out there doing the Lord's work, as they say, Hogan, and so we appreciate that. I want to switch gears real quick.
We've been weighing in on this Kim Potter situation, but there are so many other stories of importance, not the least of which what's happening honestly across our northern border.
Now we're hearing that truckers in America are getting ready to stage their own freedom convoy called the People's Convoy. What's going on here, Hogan, and what should we pay attention to that's happening up in Canada? I think that what's happening in Canada and Australia and America is that people are getting sick and tired of being. dictated to in a country that Um you know, allows for personal freedoms. and you're seeing a complete repudiation and rejection of Democrat policies.
Definitely ones on COVID. There's no rhyme or reason to it. In fact, one of the best tweets I saw The day before D.C. dropped its mask mandate and its vaccine passport mandate was someone who said, Today I cannot eat in a restaurant in Washington, D.C. Tomorrow I can, because, you know, someone.
Science. It made me laugh because there is nothing they can point to from a scientific data standpoint or new measurements or metrics with COVID. In fact, in a lot of these areas, they're much higher now than they were before because of the Omicron variant, and they're still deciding to take down masks And vaccine passports because they know politically it's an untenable position for them to hold. The American people are sick and tired of it. That's why these truckers are revolting.
That's why the American truckers are looking at what Canada is doing and say, you know what, we need to stand up for our freedoms too. And so I expect a lot more of this. before it begins to subside at all. And I think this is I think the people are going to remember on Election Day what the Democrats did to them. I know that the country we've got a bad track record of having a short term memory, but do you think that we're voters are going to remember I'm so glad you asked this question.
I was talking to someone in Mississippi, to Oxford, of course, as you know, that's where I went to college. And I was having a conversation. I said the same thing you just did, where I think people just have short memories. This person told me because he has three children, two in college, one in high school, and said, Hogan, I am telling you right now. They won't forget.
Their childhoods were stolen from them. Two years, they couldn't go to junior prom, senior prom.
Now, one's in college, they're having problems with masks there, they can't go to class there. He said, never forget, and he said, far be it for me to give you political advice doing this for so many years as you have, Logan. He said, but you need to remind people who did this to you. And it's the left and it's the Democrat Party. And I think, if I'm being optimistic here, I think a vast majority of the American people, including these moms, And these families, remember, this was not Republicans, this was the sole effort.
and the sole issue that Democrats pushed upon them and families and their own children. Yeah, I mean, I was listening earlier today. A buddy of mine, he is a talk host out in Sacramento, and they've lifted the mask, the indoor mask mandates. And so he was at a hot dog joint. I know exactly where he was at the weanery, which is a great hot dog joint in Sacramento.
But he walked in there without a mask, and he was talking to the owner. He said, You know, I don't know why, but I just feel good, you know, not wearing a mask. And the owner was like, You know, I know what you're talking about. I can't describe it, but it just feels like we're getting back to normal. And then both of them have young kids, and they said, You know, the reality is our kids have not known this as the normal.
You know, if you've got a seven or eight-year-old kid, they've spent two years of their life having to wear a mask wherever they go. I know, and I was even thinking myself, just walking down the street taking it off, to me, it felt odd because they'd kind of indoctrinated even those of us who didn't like the mandates and didn't want them. It feels odd without a mask. It shows you how quickly a country, a generation, can be indoctrinated and how quickly people can give up their freedoms. To a government that says they have their best interest at heart, when that's not true.
The government doesn't know your children, the government doesn't know your grandchildren, they don't know you. They couldn't care less. About your family structure. In fact, oftentimes their policies work to erode that family structure. But in all seriousness, You know, I think the American people are starting to get back to understanding what it's like to have those freedoms.
And I don't just mean from a tyrannical government. I also mean from the masks. When you take it off and you're outside, you can feel the breeze hit your face. You can see other people. You can see their expressions.
It just works better just from a mental standpoint, but also just from a practical standpoint. And so I think the people in this country, once they get a taste of that freedom, I think they're going to grab back a hold of it and not let go. I'm with you. And ultimately, that's what the Freedom Convoy is all about. And it's tough in Canada because they do not have free speech there.
I mean, there are some pretty significant laws on the books, and it's tough. And not to mention the Second Amendment issues. But I'm excited to see the truckers here in America rising up and wanting to send a message to their elected leaders. Yes, me too. And look, if anywhere is going to lead the world in the push for freedom, it ought to be America.
When you see people taking down mask mandates and not masking their children in places like Ireland and England, You start to wonder if Ireland and England are out America in America. And they have been now for several months, even for the better part of a year. It's time for America to step up and lead the world in democracy and show that we still stand for freedom. I'm with you. And Hogan, I'm telling you, when you look at the polling data and that god-awful poll for Biden, where less than what, 35%, 34% of the country actually approve of the job he's doing, that tells me that Democrats are bracing for what could be, like, I don't know, an apocalyptic event for their party in the fall.
I sure hope so. I think, again, it's the policies that matter to the American people, and they're impacting our Joe Biden's policies, our citizenry, in a negative way. And you can't get around that. These aren't happening to Joe Biden. These are his policies that are making it impossible to pay for gas and for groceries.
And I do think the American people are going to remember that in November. All right. Well, Hogan, safe travels out there, and some exciting news. If you fly back into Memphis, the brand new concourse has opened up. They haven't done anything to that airport in what, 60 years, and it looks amazing.
I was just there and I couldn't believe. How it looks.
So, hopefully, the new Concourse is done. I can't wait to get out there. They just got to put a barbecue joint back in there, and we'll be back to normal. All right, Hogan. God bless.
Take care now. God bless. Thank you. All right. Hogan Gidley from Newsmax, everybody, out there traveling around and doing his part to save this country from the Democrats.
All right. Here's what we're going to do: we're going to take a quick break here. When we come back, we're going right to the phones. Bill in Tennessee, Daniel in Georgia want to weigh in on this Kim Potter verdict. They're already beginning to brace for.
what could happen as a result of this decision by the judge sending Kim Potter to jail sixteen months, and people are enraged over this. Eight four four seven four seven eighty eight sixty eight. This is the Todd Stern Show. All right, good to have you back with us on this Friday edition of the program. Let's get right to the phones: 844-747-8868.
A lot of folks weighing in on this Kim Potter. Decision. Daniel, Gainesville, Georgia, WDUN, our great affiliate there. Hey, Daniel, what's on your mind? Yeah, just real quick, I'd like to see that.
Love your show. Um i if Officer Potter was sentenced to two years in what was admittedly an accidental shooting. Don't you think maybe Alec Baldwin's getting a little bit nervous about his situation.
Well Well, that could be. That's a fair point. But Alec Baldwin has not even taken responsibility. He has expressed no remorse and said he's not responsible.
Well, whether he admits responsibility or not, is beside the point. It was an accidental shooting And uh Maybe everybody ought to be held to the same standards. I know police officers are. The person that Alec Baldwin shot didn't have a wrap sheet that was five pages long. Um and this this These police officer situations take me back.
being fresh out of the holiday season. to a movie, uh It's a Wonderful Life. to a to a thing where Jimmy Stewart and his alternate uh Reality there jumps up and punches Ward Bond in the face. And Ward Bond, what does he do? He he as Jimmy Stewart's running off, Ford Bond pulls out his gun and he fires off about four rounds.
And it just makes me think We have We have hamstrung our law enforcement officers this year. Same way we've hamstrung our Education uh professionals and we have just made it so that they cannot do their jobs. I will not Daniel, I may stir the pot here a little. I don't think she needed to go to jail. This was an accident.
Should she have been fired? I got no problems with that at all. I think that's reasonable. But the issue here is if Dante Wright had done as he was instructed to do, then he would still be alive. But there was a fight with the police officers.
That's why Kim Potter pulled out what she thought was the taser.
So clearly there was something else going on here.
So it's not as if she just casually walked up and shot the guy. There was, he was fighting with police officers. And at that point, I when you decide you want to fight with a police officer, all bets are off. There's a mentality in this country that when you wake up in the morning, There is a chance you might have to. Get shot by a police officer.
And I just don't Believed it. Yeah. I believe that. People Make the choice on how they behave, and one hundred percent. Percent.
Of the opportunity to put yourself in a situation of that happening. It's on the individual itself. herself. And I just I think That we need to reevaluate things in this country. I just, it, it's, it's.
come to a ridiculous Daniel, thanks for the call. I know people here in the Memphis area. I mean, we are, this is, we're living in some very difficult days here in Memphis because the Democrats will not give the police officers the resources they need to fight crime. We're down almost 700 police officers from our complement.
So, a lot of people in places that are Whitehaven, which is a Beautiful, just once beautiful area of Memphis, now riddled with crime. There are people in Whitehaven who will drive miles away just to fill up their gas tanks because they're afraid of going to the neighborhood gas station because they might get carjacked. And this is a reality all over our city.
So I, I mean, and people don't want to talk about, they don't want to talk about the war on police officers. They don't want to talk about that. Hey, let's go to Cordova, Tennessee. Bill listening to us on KWAM. All right, Bill, what's on your mind?
Good morning again, Todd. It was nice to see you guys again this morning and everything. But I wanted to weigh in on this Kim Potter verdict. I think that. As I was telling Grace, I think it goes a lot deeper than just her and a gun and an accidental shooting.
This is a culture of of um This respect in our country that's been created by our government, by members of former government people like the Obama administration. who basically said In no uncertain terms, to like the Baltimore rioters, to continue doing what you're doing. You don't have to defy, you can defy authority, you don't have to listen to people. And it's been an underlying message. For about twelve, fifteen years.
Now, we had problems before Obama. Don't get me wrong, I'm not blaming everything on him. But I think his administration in that time period Really propagated all of this stuff that we're having and having happen today. It just weakened our respect system for law enforcement and military, and it's given these people an emboldened power. To do whatever they want to do because they don't have to face any consequences.
And that's why Dante Wright resisted arrest and ran and fought that officer like he did. Because he was taught Somewhere along the line, he didn't have to listen to authority.
Now, Bill, here in the United States, Bill, here in Memphis, there is going to be a brutal political fight. The district attorney, Amy Weyrick, who is one of the few whites in leadership, a leadership position, she has come under attack by George Soros and his organization. They're accusing her of putting just hundreds and hundreds of black people behind bars. And they're saying they've got the percentages, you know, 90%, what is it, 98% or whatever of all the people she's thrown in jail are black.
Well, the reason why is that's who's committing the crime. But what they fail to realize and what they fail to talk about, and this is the argument the Republicans ought to be making in Memphis, is that 98% of the victims are black.
So the argument should be that Amy Weyrick, who is the district attorney, the only Republican in a high Elected position in this area that Amy Weirick is actually defending the black victims of crime. But they don't want to have that conversation. They want to make this all about race. And it's not about race. Everybody that lives in this town and every other town in America, Bill, they want to be able to send their kids out to the park and not have to worry about them getting shot or kidnapped or something worse.
Right, black males make up 6% of the population in this country and they commit 44% of the crimes. That's a statistic, it's a fact. And That's why we have higher numbers of black incarcerations. it's a sad thing. But again, that goes back to me To Government policy that was put in place decades ago that.
created homeless environments for these children, fatherless environments. And they had no guidance, no No decent upbringing because everything was about getting that next paycheck from the government and having more kids so you could get it. And all these policies brought us to the point where we are here today. And Todd, every one of them are Democrat policy. Oh, every single one of them.
Bill got a run. I appreciate the call. Good to see you this morning. Always nice when our listeners drop by the station to say, howdy, do. We love that.
But, folks, again, you've got to pay attention and you've got to understand the context of everything. When you hear reports, oh my goodness, a white district attorney is putting in 98% of the people she's put in jail are black.
Okay, well, that was who committed the crimes. But then you look and realize that 98% of the victims were black.
So she's actually doing her job and she's protecting the good law-abiding citizens of Memphis, black and white, and Hispanic, and Asian. All right, got to take a break. We'll be right back, America. Folks, now more than ever, it is so vitally important that we support companies, businesses that share our values. And that's why we support Patriot Mobile.
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During the month of January, they apprehended 153,941 people at the border. That's nearly double the numbers back in 2020, the worst January at the border in over 20 years. I want to go to the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line. Our good friend Congressman Andy Biggs joins us. Congressman, your reaction to those numbers?
Mm-hmm. Well, it's outrageous, of course, but this is what we expected, something very similar to this because the Biden team, they have done nothing, nothing but emasculate policies that worked, and they're not making any changes as we've seen record numbers last year.
So So I while I'm aghast and agog, Um I'm not surprised. And the reality is the people that it hurts the most initially are in fact those people, those Americans who live in the border states, but we also know that they're shipping all of these illegals to places all over America.
So everybody's feeling the pain, but not as much as the people in, for example, states like yours, Arizona. That's right. We're we're in the front line of it and I I was talking to one of the local uh sheriffs last night uh for a bit and And they're talking, he was telling me about the amazing work that they're trying to do, but. Everybody thinks of this as just individuals. don't forget that we're talking about massive amounts of drugs That are coming through, and um uh and and so you got drugs coming through.
They're going all over. Then you have some of the violent criminal types.
So if you've been able to see this, you're finding a lot of these folks. Coming through in places like Tucson, in the Tucson sector, which has the highest drug and And the bad guys, the gotaway numbers are in my state. Congressman, we've been following some shenanigans going on in the Senate. They came within two votes of defunding Joe Biden's vaccine mandates. The word we're getting, and Congressman Chip Roy is alleging this as well, is that McConnell reached an agreement with Schumer, and so Lindsey Graham, Mitt Romney, Richard Burr, and Jim Einhoff were not there to vote, which defeated the whole thing.
People are very upset about this, but they're also pointing out that had that succeeded, it would also have defunded the Border Patrol. What's going on here? And I think the average American is just really throwing their hands up in frustration with all of this political nonsense. Yeah, so So what people need to understand is Uh It would have been a technical defunding of not just the Border Patrol, but the government, because they would have basically shut down the government. The amendments themselves.
were righteous amendments, those are good amendments. We they were necessary. this notion that that oh, well it would it Yeah. shut down the border patrol. That is a talking point.
from the establishment and the Democrats. Because the reality is This was to continue the short-term spending for another thirty days. We're going to go through the same. ritual the same rigamarole In in thirty days. And um You know, this was deliberate.
I mean, it looks deliberate. Looks deliberate, doesn't it? I mean, that they would set it up this way, but to make this argument, oh, well, yeah, you would have defunded the Border Patrol. Um No. No.
Um The Board of Patrol would have continued just like everybody else in government would have continued. We took care of A lot of that. previously in previous shutdowns But this was their choice, their call to make. And they chose to make these deals to keep Funding the government. They took a pass.
They took a pass. They walked away. I mean, that tells you a lot about the state of affairs in the United States Senate, and that's a sad thing. But you know what? That's leadership.
They follow their leadership, and that's what their leadership wanted, and that's what they got. Yeah. I mean, but but here's the you know, the the good news, of course, is If you had The vast majority, I mean, like what? In one vote, it was 47, one vote it was 46 Republicans. made the right vote, but then you had these these few folks wa walk away.
And ultimately, then they passed this. this short term spending bill.
Now uh That the butt very notion that you're in a short term spending bill which is what we've done ever I haven't seen ever a real budget since I've been in Congress. That shows you how broken the process is because we should be doing a real annual budget every year, and that's not what's happening. Congressman Shiproy summed it up like this, and then I want you to weigh in on the Freedom Convoys. He says, I am done playing with these asshats. Believe me, uh uh God, uh he and he was giving me some uh A piece of his mind all day yesterday about his our colleagues across the compound there in Washington, D.C.
I'm glad somebody is. I'll tell you that much. Real quick on these freedom convoys, the crackdown is underway. Late last night, they arrested a couple of the organizers. They're threatening to take away the children of the truckers, their pets.
And now we understand they're going around threatening arrest and handing out fines for people who do not leave Ottawa. Yeah, I mean, this is the words that come to my mind are evil. Tyrannical authoritarianism. And quite frankly, we begin to look and say what's happened to Canada. Their leaders there have really crossed the Rubicon into authoritarianism.
And uh Trudeau. He should be the vote of no confidence should be taken immediately. This is a guy who's abusing Basically, what is a civil And the peaceful protest. That's a right of assembly, right to speech. I mean, they have this.
They have the notion of those same rights. in Canada. And there he's basically usurping those rights. and acting like a total tyrant. No doubt about it.
No doubt about it. And the word is, a people's convoy is going to be mobilizing and driving across America, urging truckers to get involved. That ought to be quite a sight to behold on American highways and byways. I'd love to see it. I would love to see it because it would It would be just a great clarion call to to millions and millions of Americans.
And it would also light of fire, I hope. under the Biden administration and the left wingers. that are that are basically controlling the country right now. All right, Congressman, we're going to leave it there. Hope you have a great weekend, sir.
Thanks, Todd. You too. Thanks. All right, Congressman Andy Biggs there in the great state of Arizona. 844-747-8868 is our toll-free telephone number.
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You can also download our newsletter. It comes out every day or just a few minutes after the show concludes, about 3:05 Eastern. Let's go to the phones here: 844-747-8868. Let's start with Ronnie in Salem, Oregon, listening to us on KYKN. Hey, Ronnie, what's going on?
Oh, Lee, I got a whole bunch of things cooking in my steak, you know. More the crim let the criminals become more empowered than everything else, let the illegal aliens and Child trafficking keep continuing in my state without the state or federal support? Because we gotta make sure we diversify America. What you're going through down there, my God bless the district attorney down there in Memphis. We're going through in this state the Emasculating of our youth, emasculating our law enforcement.
Justice has not been done. We have a law that they're trying to pass in my state by Janelle, Representative Janelle Bynum of Portland area. And she's black like I am, you know me. I don't care about color. I'm just an American first.
And We are part of the Hillary of God vice. Amen. And the thing is this. Go through, you know, shut up. How do you determine if somebody's a criminal?
I mean, you see shadiness, you see somebody got us painted up Honda, busted windows and looking creepy, got glasses on in the middle of the night, no headlights on. If I was law enforcement, that'd be problem calls for me or about the taillight to pull that rig over. She wants to take away that power from law enforcement even further. Yes. Right out of here in the Jezebel Crow state of Oregon that lockdown number two behind old Fear himself Pierre Trudeau of Canada.
We have to make sure we have people got to stand up. You know what I'm gonna do? And like I told Republicans, if you don't get a backbone, I will help you because God's going to give it to me. I'm going to go down and see Pastor Murillo down in his tempered Bible. We're going to get filled with the Holy Ghost.
We're going to come back. We're going to knock on some doors through my precincts. And other precincts, and we're going to get the tide turning back because we need lions and lions, bears, and grizzlies. And we needed mama bears to protect their cubs in schools. And if we don't, I li did this fifty years ago maxing wars with my uh She was a deputy assistant for my city councilman and watched LA, north side of south central, middle class, go to crap.
That's right. Just like what you're seeing in Whitehaven down there. And it's insulting. Dishonorable. But I don't care what color.
If you people don't get off your butt. And get participatory in your local county and city governments. You won't have a city. You let the criminals make, you let the drugs run, and you go through, and then you're gonna say, Oh, somebody's gonna do lifting, but you'll give up your liberties for. security and I'm not going to go through that again.
The light. God of glory. Amen. Don't give up. Amen.
Don't give up, Todd. You are the light. Rough. You're a big lion that's bringing out the big beacon of truth. You never waver.
And I hope you will come out here to my area. If you do, I'm in the Republican Party in Polk County. Come on out. We will invite you. be nice to have a little dinner with you sometime.
Hey, now, that right there, we're going to make that happen, Ronnie. I can promise you that.
So we're working on a West Coast swing, and we're going to give you we're going to give you advance warning and maybe we can grab a meal together. That'd be fine. I'd be honorable to do that. May God bless you, Todd. Keep doing what you're doing.
God bless the truckers of Canada. And hopefully, the rest of the people will open up their eyes, get the scales off their eyes, walk to the light, get the feel of the spirit of what made this country great. It's the people, our faith, And accountability. If you take away one of those three things in that three-legged stool, we won't have a country. May God bless you and keep you, sir.
All right, Ronnie. That was a great sermon right there. God bless you, my friend. As a matter of fact, speaking of that, we've got a great guy coming on the program next week. He's running for office.
His name is Fred Tappin, and he wants to represent that area we were talking about, Whitehaven, Tennessee, wants to represent that predominantly black district. And he's a black Republican conservative. And we're excited to have him on. Just has a great story. And this is, but again, we're not about race.
Like Ronnie just said, the left made it about race, but we're not about it. All right. Let's go. You know, let's stay in Oregon. We've got Charlie on the line from KYKN.
Hey, Charlie, how are you today? Doing really good. I sure as heck can't speak like Ronnie did, but I'm not one to bring Yeah. I wanted to bring up the craziness also that's going on in Oregon. You're talking about the law that they either passed or wanting to pass in California about the animals.
Well, Oregon just recently is going to be having to vote on whether or not we want to criminalize people for killing of animals, which includes. Killing for food, hunting, fishing. And most breeding practices such as um Artificial intimidating animals, they want to criminalize that as a sexual assault to animals. And then that Yeah, that even goes so far as fishing, trapping, and pest control.
So, like, if you have mice in your house and you want them gone, you're supposed to capture them and release them back outside. You cannot kill them. You know, Charlie, we're going to have to come to Oregon. We're going to have to mobilize everybody against this nonsense. Unbelievable.
Yes, I'd be more than happy to have you here, just like Ronnie. We need every help we can get. Yeah, wow.
Okay, we're going to look into that law. But there is a fringe group out there, and they've got a lot of power. And the reason why they get power, Charlie, is that people just dismiss them as being loony-toot. But the problem is, these Democrats embrace folks like that.
So we're going to look into that Oregon law. And there may be something bigger going on around here. But the idea that you can't even exterminate mice from your home, geez, a loo.
Well, you know what PETA stands for, don't you? I'm I'm all ears, Charlie. People eating tasty animals. Delicious. I like mine with barbecue sauce.
Of course. Good time. God bless. Have a great weekend. Grace, I think we just pretty much committed to going to Oregon.
Hey, I've never been there. Hey, the last time I was there, Michelle Malkin, Dinesh D'Souza, and I on the stage together at the Portland Convention Center there in Portland, Oregon.
Okay. Man, did we trigger some people? Oh, I bet you did. That was a lot of fun. They had about, I'd say, about a thousand conservatives, and it was a lot of fun.
And you know why? Because those people are hardcore. I mean, you want to be a conservative in Oregon. You better have some thick skin. Dang.
I like them. Cool. We need more conservatives like the conservatives out there in Oregon. I like Ronnie. Ronnie's a good guy.
He gets me fired up. I bet he knows where to find some good barbecue joints. In Oregon? In Oregon. They're barbecue in Oregon?
They're out there. Okay. You know, I get in trouble with the barbecue stuff all the time because I'm a dry rub guy, but I'm ecumenical.
So I know that here in Memphis, some people take offense at that. But dry rub is my preference. But as long as it's a good barbecue, I'm not a dry rub kind of gal. Sweet baby race. Yeah, it's okay.
What do you mean it's okay? That's great barbecue sauce. It's good.
Well, I have a lot of local options around here. I'll put that on a tuna fish sandwich. Ew.
Okay, maybe not too. But it's still that good. I'm just saying. Hope no one was eating while you said that. Speaking of that, Grace Baker, I have a bone to pick with somebody.
So, again, our good friend from the Wolf River Popcorn Company brings by these huge bags, huge bags of their incredible popcorn. And they're gone. Yeah. I might have had a little bit of a bit to do.
So you know what happened. Maybe. Go down there looking for some caramel corn. Nothing. Nothing.
Just nothing. By the way, folks, we do have in our live show blog, we'll post a link. Wolf River Popcorn Company. You got to go check them out. Great friends.
They're not paying us to say it. They're a family-owned company, and they've got the best popcorn in America. I'm telling you. It's amazing. Hands down.
I go for the caramel corn, but they have other flavors that people eat. What if they got the cheddar? And they've got a barbecue one. Oh, yes. And it's a Memphis, everything, these are all unique spices and stuff they've created here in Memphis.
Exactly. Unbelievable. Family-owned, family-operated, and they are conservative. And best of all, they're a good Christian family, and they put a good Christian phrase on every single package of the popcorn. Folks, hey, gotta take a break here.
That gives you time to go order some popcorn. And also, check out our website, ToddSterns.com. Stick around, hour three coming up next.
