Can America Be Saved?

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Sorry. Hey, it is the Todd Stars program. Jeff Katz, so happy to be sitting in for my friend Todd Boy. Oh boy, we have so much that we are going to deal with as we plow through the next couple of moments. One of the unique things about Todd's program is as you're following it, whether it's on Toddstarns dot com or you're on Getter or you're on Twitter or you're on Facebook, you will notice that each and every time There is a Todd Starnes program, which thank God is each and every day, plus the commentaries that air all the time.

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Now this is different than other tools. Talk radio. Personalities.

Sometimes you simply put things up and it says, Hey, it's the Jeff Katz Show, hour number one. Or it's this particular host Blah blah blah. But each and every day Todd has a name for the program.

Now, you know, I've been doing this talk radio thing for a long time. Really is. I thought the other day, I thought, really? Could I be that old? I guess so, because I've been doing it about thirty some years, which is, as I think about it, older than anybody who actually is working on this program besides me as we speak.

But the most difficult part is not thinking, gosh, what should I talk about? How do I maintain the high standards of Todd's program? I think I'm pretty good at that. I I consider myself a professional and and and I have such such appreciation for, love for Todd, because I've known Todd a long time. I would never do anything to.

hurt his program or give half of an effort But the toughest part for me Coming up with a name for the program. How do I come up with a name for a particular show?

Well Grace, who does wonderful work and has done wonderful work for Todd's program for such a long time. She's the taskmaster on this. She sent me, you know, hey, what are we going to name the show? What's the name for the show? I thought, well, uh I I I I I don't know.

What do you mean you don't know?

Now she said it much nicer than that, 'cause she's a good person, but A name? What is the name? What's the Todd Starns program? Yeah, it's Jeff Katz sitting in for Todd Starn. Yeah.

And then I thought You know what this is really all about. This entire program today, and every program that Todd does. Every local program that I do in Central Virginia at News Radio WRVA, which.

So happy, so proud to be Todd's affiliate in Central Virginia. But what do we do every day? We ask a question, can America be saved? I know it sounds over the top to some. Oh, come on, Jeff.

Well, I got news for you. That's what this is. Can our great nation? Be saved Can it be redeemed? Former President Trump spoke about making America great again.

That's that evil. He's orange. He's that orange guy with the mean tweets. Oh, I can't listen to anything he says.

Okay. But wasn't he right when he said that was his mission to make America great again? I mean, goodness gracious, we had We had eight years of Barack Obama and Joe Biden screwing things up. going out of their way to tell The world. America ain't that great.

We're not a really good country. Yeah, you can hate on us all you want and you don't have to worry. I mean, we're not gonna fight back or anything.

So when Donald Trump candidate said. Let's make America great again.

Some people looked at it, read it, examined it, and said Yeah, that's that's exactly what this is all about.

So you and I somehow have come through two years. with this presidential meat pup. Yeah. This delusional Dude in the White House Slow-mo Joe. Joe Biden.

Who I swear Each and every day puts on his terrycloth bathrobe and his fuzzy bunny slippers and wanders aimlessly around the White House, talking to ghosts apparently. Pretending that he knows what's going on. Or not even knowing that he doesn't know what's going on, so he can't even pretend that he knows what's going on. But you know what is. Really in the balance here?

It is our nation. It really is. And so I tried to come up with a good title. Grace. And that's what I decided on.

Can America be saved? Yes or no is not the way we answer this question, by the way. That's far too easy. Course, it can be saved, Jeff. By the way, what's for dinner?

Nope, Jeff, it's a done deal. It's just forget about it. What's for dinner? No, there's more to it than that. Can America be saved?

Frankly, puts the onus on you, and it puts the onus on me, and it puts the onus on Todd to stand up. and do the hard work and the heavy lifting, and call out the nonsense that we see unfortunately on a regular basis. I take a look as an example at the So-called transgender. community, the transgender Agenda. And I think to myself, Okay.

Tell me what's going on. Seriously, tell me what's going on. You just you hate people. I don't hate people. But I don't fully understand exactly.

What's going on?

Now, if you want to tell me That you are. Guy. But you really think you should be a gal? And you want to dress a certain way, or change your name, or do this, or do that. I I can't stop you from doing that.

And who knows? Maybe Maybe we shouldn't be stopping anybody from doing any of these things if they're doing them in their own home and they're not hurting anybody, right? But when you decide that small children Need to be part of this. I've got a problem with that because I'm a dad. I've got three kids.

Right, my oldest guy is twenty one years old. Believe it or not. You attend Stanford University. He's brilliant. Just ask him, seriously.

He's brilliant. Junior, finishing up his junior year at Stanford University. My little guy, who frankly is not so little any more, is eighteen, senior in high school. He's got another couple of months and then he'll be off to college somewhere.

So, I've done the best I could do with those guys, and I hope I've. taught them well and given them the ability to have a grounding? Grounding in faith? A grounding that says, hey, this is a pretty good country. We ought we we ought to be on guard to protect this.

It's a pretty good country.

Well, every once in a while you get a little ding over there, a little ding over there. It's like an old car that your father, your grandfather passed on to you. Right? You don't trash the car. You might get a little bondo.

Maybe you need a new paint job. Maybe you just need to hammer out some of those dents and dings, but you certainly don't trash the car. But you better make sure the fluids are checked, make sure the tires are good.

So I hope I've given them that grounding. And if you are doing the math, you're saying, hey, wait a minute, Jeff, you said you had three kids, you mentioned two. That's right. I mentioned two. I mentioned my boys.

Because my boys are In the world, as you would say, right? They got to go out there. They've got to get an education. They have to find a skill. Hope and pray they find a spouse.

Have some kids, you know, live a life, good for them, great. Child number three?

Well, child number three is our middle. Child. Julia Now Julia is uh is going to be twenty years old. You think, well, what's she studying in college? Not studying anything in college because she's never going to college.

'Cause Julia, even though she's turning twenty years old developmentally is about eighteen months old. She doesn't speak. Really doesn't walk all that well. She is, in many ways, the baby of the family, even though she's 20 years old. She's always going to be our little baby.

My little girl. And she's always going to be with us. She's going to be with me and with Heidi as long as we are alive. And then you know what our obligation is? Our obligation is to take care of her even after we're gone.

That's a Big obligation, by the way. And that's why I care so much about this country. I want to pass on to my boys a great country. that they will stand on guard for, if you will And I want to pass on to those who care about my daughter a great country. that allows them to care about my daughter because in other places Children like Julia?

Well, they they don't get a life. They don't. You've got. Countries, you've got nations, you've got societies that throughout history have said, oh, well, she's. you know, she's like a baby.

She's never going to, quote, contribute anything and and and her quality of life, gosh, her quality of life is not all that good, so let's just be done with her, dispatch her. That's why I stand on guard. Can America be saved? I would say to you, the answer is yes, and America must be saved. You and I, my friends, I've got a job.

And that is saving this country. Oh, I'm going to address more about this transgender community because that's part of this. The idea that women are being cancelled. That's inherently wrong, isn't it? We're going to talk about that.

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I'm telling you right now, the books. That Todd has written through the years fill up a good chunk of one of my bookcases. They're great reads, and frankly. They're they're they're prescient in many ways. You know, Todd talked about a a cultural jihad in America.

People mocked him. Oh, I can remember people mocking him. I reckon it's crazy talk. Ah, stars and catch, catch a star. They're crazy right-wing guy.

Blah blah blah blah blah blah. Oh, I got news for you. Take a look around the country right now. Do you not see the most basic American principles now? Not only under attack, but actively being worked against.

We've got so-called educational system telling. Students.

Well, there's nothing special about America, and you shouldn't be particularly proud of being an American. And you you sure as heck shouldn't be helping out. Your fellow Americans. It gets crazier and crazier each day. And the further they push the line, the more most of us stand back and just look, and we shake our heads and go, Really?

You Can't. Possibly. Believe what you're saying. And then they double down and double down again. And that's why I keep coming back to this whole transgender issue.

If you do not approve wholeheartedly then somehow you are a hater. Most of us are sitting back and saying, well, no, I don't really hate anybody. But I think you're A guy, or I think you're a gal. And I'm I'm more than willing to let you live your life as as you deem appropriate for you, so long as it kind of fits into this uh society we've created, embracing Judeo-Christian values and Ideals? And what you can't do Is tell me that XX equals XY, or that XY equals XX, because that's what this all comes back to.

I have been listening. to a champion collegiate swimmer. She's a girl, by the way. Oh, she's a young lady. She's a woman now.

She tells these horror stories. of this guy, who is now known as Leah Thomas, Walking around the University of Pennsylvania locker room naked, Now he says he's a girl. But it is clear to everybody there. Rat ain't a girl. But she's the bad person.

In this Thomas When he was swimming as a guy. was at best a mediocre swimmer. Wasn't setting any records, wasn't really winning. I mean, he was hundreds and hundreds of places out of first place. Then all of a sudden he says, Oh, you know what?

Actually a girl. Starts swimming as a girl.

Now, ordinarily. There will be somebody say, Whoa, hang on a second there. You're not you've you've checked the wrong box on this form. You you're trying to join the wrong team. We have a men's swim team, and that's where you belong.

Instead they said, Sure, come on in. And so he suits up. in a girls' bathing suit. and all of a sudden is winning all sorts of competitions and Setting all sorts of records, and breaking other records But he's just Not a Not a girl. He's not a woman.

If you decide, as I think it was the World Boxing Federation, decided. That there are now enough transgender athletes that you want to have a separate category, then you have at it. If the NCAA says Listen, we want everybody to compete. But the essence of competition is that somebody's going to win and somebody's going to lose. And underpinning that has to be that we've essentially got And even Field, right?

Okay, this is going to be the female team, it's going to be the male team, there are weight classes, there are these classes, there are other things.

Okay. You want to have a separate transgender? Competitive class, you go for it. But please stop canceling women. ToddStarns.com, that's the website you always follow, Todd.

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I'm going to use that term fascinating. And it implies in many ways. That uh Well Something is sort of bizarre, right? Fascinating. There's something about it that just draws your attention in and will not let you.

turn away. And that's where we are. That's where we are on a lot of these things. A reminder: we're joining you from the Liberty University studios. Jeff Katz, happy to be sitting in for my friend Todd Starnes today.

844-747-8868 is the number. And of course, ToddStarnes.com. One of the things that I find fascinating. is the The bigotry and the discrimination and the racism that we are seeing in America. These days.

Somebody who is looking into that and really involved in it is Ethan Blevins. He's an attorney with the Pacific Legal Foundation. He is joining us on the Patriot Mobile newsmaker line. Ethan, thank you for being here. Thanks for having me.

Can you give us a little background on this particular case? It's a small business administration, which, as memory serves, is designed to help small business people, right? Doesn't matter who they are, they're trying to start a business, but apparently now there's a different agenda. Sure, yeah.

So we represent a small business owner named Marty Heierholzer. He is A Navy veteran owns a small business and contracts with the federal government in providing various services. The Small Business Administration, as you know, helps small businesses and they have a program. called the eight A program that provides various benefits to socially disadvantaged business owners. And so Marty applied to this program because he's a service disabled veteran.

He has various physical disabilities that really limit his ability to run his business. Thinking he's an obvious shoe-in for being considered disadvantaged, and he was rejected several times. Because that was not the disadvantage that the Small Business Administration was looking for.

Meanwhile, the Small Business Administration just lets anybody into the program who happens to be a racial minority. Marty is not a racial minority, so he has to. Prove his disadvantage rather than just Get into the program automatically. And of course, unfortunately, his disability is not considered enough.

Now can you explain because I'm just I'm flummoxed as I listen to this. What exactly is Marty's disability that is so that's so puzzling apparently to the Small Business Administration?

Well, like many veterans, he suffers from postcombat depression, PTSD.

So he is a he was a deep sea diver for the Navy, achieved the highest rank you can as a deep sea diver. And diving a thousand feet below sea level Puts some extraordinary strain on your body.

So he has a lot of back pain, hearing problems, knee problems. You name it.

So he's considered 60% disabled by the Veterans Affairs Administration. None of this is enough, though.

Meanwhile, you know, a perfectly able-bodied person. Who happens to be a racial minority gets into the program automatically. And we are arguing Marty deserves equal treatment. It should be as we as we have long known, his his disadvantages in life should be based on the content of his character, his past experience, not the color of his skin. Absolutely.

Ethan Blevins is joining us. Ethan is an attorney for the Pacific Legal Foundation. This is such a disturbing case, Ethan. Is it just the one outlier? Did Marty just have bad, bad luck with this and everybody else in his situation is okay?

Or is this really the way in 2022, 2023, that the Small Business Administration is functioning? It's the latter. I mean, there are a number of veterans who apply to this program. Marty's not the only one. Women regularly apply to the program.

Other individuals, immigrants who happen to be white often apply, and it's frequent that they get rejected. It's difficult to prove, apparently, that you're disabled or that you're disadvantaged. I think mainly because The Small Business Administration really just considers this a a racial benefit primarily.

So they almost everyone who gets into the program is a racial minority and just is presumed to be disadvantaged. That's incredible.

So so y you say now Pacific Legal Foundation stepping in, you're you're representing him. What exactly is the process? Who do you sue? Who do you file paperwork with?

So we have sued the Small Business Administration's director. And the case is still very early. We've only filed a complaint, so it'll be a while before we have additional news. But we brought an equal protection claim, obviously, that Marty's rights to equal protection are being violated as well as some claims that the government has exceeded its authority by creating these racial preferences.

So it's in its early stages. It's important to note that this program has actually been around for a long time. And there have been a number of legal challenges to it, but we believe that We have a Supreme Court now that's more skeptical of racial preferences than we've seen in a long time. And so there's a hope that we can renew this. attempt to achieve equal treatment.

Now, when you talk about that claim, does that automatically get filed with the Supreme Court? Or does that have to work its way up the channels? It works its way up. It's currently in United States District Court in Virginia. And of course, it's always a long shot getting to the Supreme Court.

But we think that this is an issue the court cares about right now. We had the Student for Fair Admissions Students for Fair Admissions case recently. And I think the time is right for the court to address Um you know we've had a uh Uh over as uh we've had half a century or more now of these racial preferences programs that are supposed to be benign, but the promise has been that we would be receiving equal treatment under the law regardless of race. Absolutely. Ethan, for folks who want to learn a little bit more about the Pacific Legal Foundation, maybe learn about cases.

They might have a case that might be of concern to Pacific Legal Foundation. What's the best way for them to do that? Our website is the easiest route, which is pacificlegal dot org. Pretty simple.

So please check it out and you make people can submit inquiries on our website. I love it. Ethan, thank you so much for being with us. We'll look forward to chatting with you again. That's Ethan Blevins from the Pacific Legal Foundation joining us, of course, on the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line.

What a fascinating case, and what a disturbing case. Small business administration is supposed to help. people. Just people, Americans. Right?

You want to open a business. You want to operate a business. You want to live out your American dreams. See, this is what people forget. We have so demonized entrepreneurs Business people That everybody just assumes that business people are all fabulously wealthy.

I I always look at couple of friends of mine. Locally. You know, I talk about local business. I don't necessarily talk about small business. I sometimes think the.

The title Small Business is a misnomer, because the goal of every local business is to grow, but but understand. Why are they looking to grow? They just want to be fat and rich and lazy. They want to be like Scrooge McDuck, Jeff. They just want to sit on top of a big pile of dollar bills and light their cigars with hundred no.

What they're trying to do is live their American dream. And by living their American dream, they help other people to live their American dream.

So I look at these two local folks that I know. One couple owns and operates a restaurant. Uh well, I don't know. mile and a half, two miles, let's say. From my house, we eat there all the time.

We get their food and bring it back here all the time. Another Couple Dear friends They own and operate a an auto repair shop.

Now let me tell you something. each of those couples works unbelievably hard. And here's what I've learned. They get paid last. They're no millionaires or billionaires.

They work hard, and if somebody calls out, guess who takes over that shift? Guess who covers that shift? They do. It's their business. They're the last ones to get paid.

We hear how we have to we've got to increase the minimum wage. Why?

Well, it's too low. Anybody ever examine and say, okay, so. Let's do some math. Two years ago, you're working for minimum wage. What's your minimum wage?

Let's pick an easy, arbitrary number 'cause math is not my strong suit. Let's say your minimum wage two years ago was $5 an hour.

Okay. What could you buy? With $5. You've worked one hour and you've earned $5. What can you buy with that $5?

Well, I can buy a uh A sandwich? And a soda? At a fast food place. I'm gonna add in I'm gonna go with the uh the package route. I can add in a small fries.

Okay, so you get lunch. $5. You work one hour, you earn $5, you have enough to buy that sandwich, the fries, and the soda. Fantastic now. Your minimum wage gets bumped up.

Now you're making seven fifty an hour. Man, you are happy as all get out 'cause you're making more money. And then you go to that fast food joint. And you're gonna get a sandwich, and you're gonna get a fry. and you're gonna get your soda.

Guess how much it cost? It costs you $750. Huh. And here you are, you got this big minimum wage increase, and yet still buys the same thing. Another year goes by, and now you're up to $10 an hour.

You think that you have just hit the flippin' lottery. You go to that same fast food joint. When you're getting a sandwich, and the soda. and an order of fries, and it's setting you back now. Ten bucks.

Nobody ever looks at purchasing power. I mean, that's the real important thing. And in fact, We take a look at the terrible bide inflation that everybody's suffering with. That $10 that you have isn't even worth $10 anymore, thanks to Joe Biden and the assorted left-wing lunatics in D.C. Every once in a while, we got to examine stuff like that and go, oh, yeah, maybe that is important.

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It is Jeff Katz, it for my friend Todd. This is the Todd Starring Show. Yeah. It's the TI starting show. Jeff Gadds happy to be sitting in for Todd.

Always a pleasure, quite frankly, to spit in for my friend Todd. Can America Be Saved? That's the title, our overarching title for the program today. Everything we talk about is somehow some way. related to that.

It's one of the reasons it's so wonderful to join everyone from the Liberty University studios because Liberty University, every single day, is working hard to make sure that you and I and future generations can save America. Maintain America. Keep America where. where it ought to be, right? Dave Bratt, old friend of mine.

God, I love Dave. He was our congressman in this area. I'm Central Virginia, News Radio WRBA, every afternoon. We're proud to be Todd's affiliate in Central Virginia. But Dave Bratt was congressman for this area, and now he's the dean of the business school at Liberty and educating Another generation saying, Hey, Be aware of what's going on.

844-747-8868 is the number. Jerry is listening to us. He's actually listening to us online, ToddStarnes.com. Jerry, welcome to the Todd Starnes Show. We have to disagree.

Yeah. on your position on transgender. I'm not talking about like transgender in sports. I can see that if a transgender woman has an unfair advantage over women. That's a separate question is someone being transgender.

Natural. And identical twin studies show that if one twin is transgender, then much more likely than in non-identical twins. That the other twin will be transgender. I believe. Let me stop you for a second, Jerry.

It is. They don't just choose. I'm sorry, Jerry. Jerry, Jerry, Jerry, Jerry, take a breath because you're telling me you disagree with me. You're not disagreeing with anything that I said.

We're talking specifically about the athletic competitions. And apparently, you agree with me that a biological male competing against a female is an unfair situation. We are actually in agreement. Right, I do well.

Well, that yes, you could argue that i i if it's unfair. That's fine. But again, that's people should be clear. It's entirely separate, is it a good or a bad thing being transgender? Is it natural?

Jerry, nobody used any of the words. Jerry, Jerry, listen, I'm sure that you have your talking points written out, and I know you want to get to the point. No, I don't. And I wish you, listen, I wish you were. Jerry, Jerry, Jerry, I wish you well.

But you're using, excuse me, you're using language that nobody has used. The discussion here has been about sports competitions, and you and I are actually in agreement.

So, Jerry, I appreciate the call. Let me get quickly to Charles. He's listening on our affiliate, WSIC in North Carolina. Charles, welcome to the Todd Starden Show. Hey, good afternoon, Jeff.

Jeff, uh, I believe the country can be saved, but unless we get control of our public schools again. And start promoting Judeo-Christian values, we're lost. It doesn't matter how much money we spend on defense or anything else. gradually, everything is eroding and being shipped away.

So I think two things need to happen. One, these state legislatures need to go in and cut off funding for all these school districts that are promoting The transgender, that they're promoting the, you know, the man-made climate change and socialism. And in place of that, I think what we need to do is we need to actively promote Judeo-Christian values. And I'll tell you how we do that. Because people are going to say, Well, that's illegal.

and separation of church and state. But the fact of the matter is back in seventeen eighty seven. The Second Continental Congress passed something called a Northwest Ordinance. It's one of the four organic documents of the United States besides the Declaration, the Bill of Rights and the Articles of Confederation. and Article three of the Northwest Ordinance.

which organized territories, uh anything northwest of the Ohio River. It specifically says that religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary to good government, the happiness of mankind. All right. I do appreciate the call. You are listening to the Todd Starnes Show.

Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, it's America's conservative blowtorch. That's us! That's why I love this American. Tawn of storms. It is the Todd Starring Show.

Jeff Kat, so happy to be sitting in for my friend Cona. I don't want you to be upset. Everything remains. In place, we are still joining you from the Liberty University Studios. Happy, happy to have been asked to cover for Todd today.

I am a longtime fan. I've told Todd that. I've enjoyed his writing and his speaking and his broadcasting for years and years and years. Just a great, great guy. I am.

Multi-time visitor to ToddStartens.com each and every day, as you should be. There are important issues that you and I are dealing with. There are important things that we need to be on guard for and on guard against. I mentioned to you the The insanity right now. of the transgender athletics issue.

And it puzzles me. Why are there not more moms and dads standing up on behalf of their daughters? See, I shared with you my daughter. Julia is is is severely disabled.

So so maybe I just wasn't tied into this. Julia was never going to compete for an athletic scholarship.

So maybe this just wasn't on my radar. But I would have to imagine that moms and dads Cross America. have daughters who are great athletes. Whether it is uh swimming or Softball or basketball, whatever it is. And those young ladies had the opportunity to get collegiate scholarships, and they're now losing out on them because there are guys who are saying, Oh, no, no, no.

I'm a girl. And therefore, I'm entitled to this scholarship, or I'm entitled to be on this team, or my time doing this, that, or the other beats all the other girls. And people Certainly on the left or standing back oh, that's wonderful. And then we have folks like the uh swimmer from University of Pennsylvania, young lady who is testifying to Congress and has has been out and about saying, Hey, wait a minute The other swimmer on the team, this now Leah Thomas. Leah Thomas is walking around the the locker room.

And it's pretty clear Leah Thomas is a guy. And we, the girls on the team, don't feel safe, don't feel comfortable, don't feel protected. And instead of protecting us, we were told, oh, there's something wrong with you. You should go get counseling. Anybody standing up against that?

Well, yeah. The American Principles Project says. We need to embrace certain principles. We are examining the executive orders that former President Trump has pledged if, in fact, he is once again elected president. John Schweppe is the Director of Policy and Government Affairs for the American Principles Project.

I'm happy to say John's joining us. John, thank you for being here. Hey, thanks so much for having me. Can you fill us in number one, let's talk about these executive orders that President Trump has pledged to enact. What are they about and what is he really promising?

It's actually pretty sweeping stuff and really impressive to those of us who follow this issue. As you said, there is a little bit of a courage issue on the right in taking on the transgender movement. And we've seen that, which is why I think it's been so successful. But President Trump came out and said, you know, if he was elected, That first of all, he would call on Congress to ban sex changes for kids.

Now, that might seem like a common sense thing, but it's something that nobody's really talking about right now. You know, Republicans. Um that you know, they'll pay lip service a little bit to it, but but that's a that's a tough issue. Trump came out and said he wants to do a full sweeping ban. He wants to defund These medical institutions that are using Medicaid funding and Medicare funding to fund sex change procedures.

I mean, he's been. Basically, there's like eight or nine proposals there. that are really, I would say, a sweeping offensive against Gender ideology writ large. And it's really powerful stuff. You talk about the the transgender industry, and it it does seem as if this has just become one gigantic business operation in many ways.

Oh, absolutely. It's the collusion and we've seen it in other ways too, but it's the collusion of corporate America with the woke left activists And what you're seeing here, especially, is the pharmaceutical industry. People don't realize this when kids quote unquote transition. You know, what ends up happening is they have to be on special hormones the rest of their life to mimic the sex they want to be. though you know, if you're a girl, a biological girl, you go on testosterone.

Your body will shut I mean, there'll be issues if you don't take testosterone the rest of your life, right? And so this is, I mean, a huge boon to the pharmaceutical industry. And Trump, one of the things he said, he wanted to investigate them. And find out if they were illegally marketing these puberty blockers and these cross-sex hormones. For the purpose of transition, which is illegal, because they're not prescribed for that.

And that's exactly what's happening.

So again, just You know, I'm somebody who works in this, I'm an activist. That we come up with all these things we ask politicians to commit to. And what was so impressive about President Trump's Video is that he actually came up with a couple things we weren't thinking of, and we're going to have to add to our list. Really? Because it's, yeah, I mean, it was really creative and you know, a full throated commitment.

And now you know, this is the thing that's exciting. Between him and Governor DeSantis, we have two leading candidates in the Republican primary, both of whom have really committed to taking on this industry. One of the things that strikes me, John, is that if you do not offer 110% approval for this, somehow you're a hater and you just are a thisophobe and a thatophobe.

So there's no discussion, right? The means by which the left operates, the woke community operates, is simply to say, if you disagree with us, you're an evil person and you got to be canceled. Yes, it's totally, frankly, I think really authoritarian. And you're even seeing it, we hear from parents all the time, including parents with trans kids. uh who you know have gone to the doctors and the doctors have bullied them saying, hey, do you want a dead kid or a trans kid?

Implying that the kid will kill themselves if you don't give them this testosterone, don't sterilize them and prevent them from ever having a family in the traditional way. And Look, we have to push back against this. It's not enough. to expect individuals to do it on their own. because of how powerful these interests are.

We really need to have the federal government have attorneys general have these guys standing up for families and saying, no, we're not going to let you exploit these people and hurt these kids like this. John Schweppe is joining us. He's the Director of Policy and Government Affairs for the American Principles Project. John, one of the things that I thought was really telling, a couple of weeks back, the National Health Service in England, which had really been at the forefront of this and it really seemed like they were pushing it on an agenda over and over again. They actually came out and said, you know, we're pulling back from all of these so-called gender-affirming surgeries and all of this so-called transition stuff because our research is showing us that the vast majority of these kids are, quote, just going through a phase.

Right? Yeah. Well, actually, here in the United States, they try to suppress the studies that show that kids who are suffering from gender dysphoria often desist and grow out of it when they get older. They try to suppress that. But we believe in science here, right?

But you know, this is really encouraging. I mean, I think you're seeing this not just in the UK, but in other European countries. I think that's a good question. There haven't been longitudinal studies, I mean, over several years, seeing how these kids perform. Here's what we know happens when they go on these medications.

They won't ever be able to reproduce. They won't ever be able to have a traditional family. Often their happiness, their satisfaction, they don't go up or down.

Sometimes they even go down. And then you even have suicide rates, which is one of the things the left always yells at us about. That's why you have to do it. Heritage Foundation actually released a report that showed that there was a negligible effect on that. And so I think ultimately you gotta slow down, right?

This is a new fab that everyone's trying to push. And we can't be experimenting on kids. you know, if you want to if you're twenty five and you want to do that to yourself, I mean, oh, okay, I guess. Yeah, I don't think taxpayers should fund it. But like there's no excuse in a civilized society to be doing this to 12-year-olds.

And that's what we're doing here in the United States of America. One of the other things, John, that I'm looking at, some folks, Scotland, as an example, Scotland now is making it so easy to, quote, change your gender. You need no medical exam, you don't need any interaction with a doctor. You can just check it on the form, and now all of a sudden you were a girl yesterday, you're a guy today, or vice versa. And it just, gosh, it's just devoid of common sense.

Yeah. Yeah, it's it's almost, I think, feminism taken to its radical conclusion, right, that there are no differences whatsoever on biological sex. And we don't need to separate anything in life according to that. And that's actually just not. And I think this is where we're at.

We really have, I think, I was just. Reading Emperor's New Clothes to my kid the other day, and I think that's what's going on. We have these people are insisting that we deny reality, and we have to push back against that and say absolutely not. There are differences between men and women. Women should be able to have segregated spaces where they feel safe, where they don't have to strip naked in front of men.

And I think we need to protect that. And hopefully, Europe will turn around and hopefully will turn around because, frankly, I think in places like California, our policies are even crazier than Europe. Oh, I think so. John, you mentioned Governor DeSantis in Florida. What about Utah?

Utah seems to be pushing back against this, too. That was incredibly surprising. Governor Cox, as some of your listeners might know, he's a pretty liberal Republican governor. He actually vetoed a women's sports bill last year. But he felt that this issue was so important that it was so dangerous for kids that he actually supported a ban on sex changes for kids, which You know, again, I think that kind of tells you where the politics are going on this.

This is something that the Democrats don't realize it yet, but it's a huge liability for them. and the Republican candidate in twenty twenty four, you better believe that they'll be highlighting that difference between themselves and their Democrat opponent. And I think it'll be a big winner for them. I think so too. Hey, John, for folks who want to learn more about the American Principles Project, best way for them to do that?

American Principles Project.org is our website, and we're on Twitter at APproject. Uh that's AP project. I love it. John, I appreciate you being here. Thank you so much.

Hey, thanks for having me. That is John Schweppe. He's the Director of Policy and Government Affairs for the American Principles Project. I think this is a fascinating discussion. Again, there's nobody that hates anybody.

Don't don't buy in to the left-wing lunatics, to the woke crowd. They're just filled with hate. I don't hate you. I may not understand it. I may not appreciate it.

I don't hate you. I promise you that. I I try and live as a as a man of faith. I've got nothing but love and compassion for you, but what I don't want to see are children used as some sort of experiments. And now that you have pushback from organizations like the National Health Service in the United Kingdom, The biggest socialized medicine operation in the world.

And they're saying no. This seems to be a phase and a fad, and we're not going to be part of it. I think that speaks volumes. My friend Todd Starnes has books that speak volumes, and you ought to be checking them out. ToddStarnes.com.

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The mighty nine ninety in Memphis as the story was unfolding. I'm an ex-cop and I watched those videos and I thought, oh my gosh. I'm appalled. What's the reasoning behind this? What happened?

What really happened? Best reporting on it, I'm just telling you, bar none came from Todd and the crew at the Mighty 990 KWAM in Memphis. One of the issues Appears to be A lowering of standards. When it came to hiring police officers for the Memphis Police Department.

Well, I want to address that. I want to address training standards. I want to address all of this. And joining us on the Patriot Mobile newsmaker line in just a couple of moments. Rob Chadwick retired from the Federal Bureau of Investigation a.

Multi-talented law enforcement trainer. I'm really looking forward to getting his insight. It's Jeff Katz, it for Todd. This is the Todd Starring Show. It is the Todd Starnes show.

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I mentioned to you that for my local program, NewsRadioW. WRBA in Central Virginia. Watching the events in Memphis, Tennessee unfold. As a former police officer, I was simply appalled. I don't know any other way to describe it.

I was appalled by what I saw. And I wanted to get as much information as was possible. And so I reached out to Todd and the the team at the Mighty 990. K Wham in Memphis and and God bless them. Todd and his crew were able to provide me with the information.

And one of the things that. That has emerged relates to the hiring standards and the training standards.

Now, I went through the Academy a thousand years ago, so I just don't think I'm qualified at this point to chat a lot about this. But Rob Chadwick is retired from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, served as the head of the FBI's tactical training program at the Academy in Quantico, serves as the principal training advisor to Taser. He was also, I should point out, the special agent in charge for Attorney General William Barr's protection detail. And God bless him, he's joining us today. Rob, thank you for being here.

Hey, Jeff, I appreciate the opportunity and Been a big fan, obviously listened to you at RVA. I'm a Virginia guy as well. Just appreciate what you and, of course, Mr. Starnes and your program stand for.

So, thanks for having me.

Well, the pleasure is mine, and that's awfully kind of you to say. Rob, you at Quantico you were training the best of the best. Local police departments don't necessarily have the same resources, may not have the same standards. What's your gut check reaction as you watched what unfolded in Memphis with those officers and these questions now are being raised about hiring and training standards?

Well, one of the things I'd love to share with your audience that many people either either just don't know or may not understand is the one of the primary missions for the FBI, especially at Quantico, is to train not only our agent, but State, local, tribal, other federal. and our international police partners. And my unit at Quantico, that was That was my favorite part of the job.

So my unit and our instructors were on the road. Almost every day of the year, anywhere around the country in the last several years, we've had the opportunity to train in in all fifty states and in a bunch of different international uh partner countries as well. And I will say that that it's been less than two years, about a year and a half ago, I was personally in Memphis leading a class with some instructors and got to train with some of the. Fine men and women with the Memphis Police Department and officers from that region. And the first thing I want to say is what we all saw on that video.

I do not believe is reflective at all of the rest of that department. And of course, it's certainly not reflective of law enforcement in general. Memphis has a very fine training academy, excellent facilities.

Now I think what we're seeing, unfortunately, in the post defund the police Movement Is, as you know, a mass exodus of experienced police officers and sheriff's deputies. the pulling back uh of law enforcement, uh which is reflected in increased response times and additionally, A lack of Manpower.

So staffing on the streets, on average, in the United States, is anywhere from twenty percent to sometimes forty percent below What really is safe.

So you've got just a drastic increase, you've got a stretching of resources. And unfortunately, because of that, mission always comes first You have police and our partners who just are not afforded an opportunity for training. because they have to man the street. There's forced overtime so much and So we're seeing, I think, what is coming home to Roost is a direct result of the movement that that is it was the the defund the police movement Is a bell that cannot be unrung. It happened, it's the reality.

And I'm not trying to be political. Uh, I just think that that people in this country Need to have a very sober assessment of the reality in which we live. Our security environment in the United States. on the whole has changed fundamentally in the last several years. I can't argue with any of that, and I just think you're spot on.

I remind everybody, Rob Chadwick is joining us, retired from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, founder of the Hold Fast Security Group. You talk about the whole defund the police movement, and there was this There was this rush to, quote, reimagine policing. And I don't know anybody, again, Rob, as an ex-cop, I don't know anybody who's ever worn the badge or pushed a squad car around who could look at the videos coming out of Memphis and say, oh, yeah, that was just a fine piece of police work. I watched it and I thought, my God, it looks like a street fight when you've got the one officer in particular coming up and kicking Tyree Nichols in the head twice that I saw. And so that's what I wondered.

I mean, my gosh, was there just something as a result of that defund the police movement combined with the reimagining policing that said, we're just going to go out and get as many young guys as possible to join the police department? And we found out yesterday, Rob, that Memphis has a policy where you have basically a mulligan for a felony conviction and you can still join the police department.

Well, and unfortunately, there's nothing new under the sun.

So I was a Fairfax County, Virginia police officer. When I started my law enforcement career thirty years ago, and absolutely loved every second of that. And as you know, Jeff, it's a It's a wholly different world for policemen and policewomen. and policing in general than it was even just a few years ago. But You know, it whatever happened in Memphis on that video Is not reflective of any training that anyone ever gave.

I mean, that was just. people, officers that were completely out of control and not acting at all responsibly. I mean, just as a human being, much less as a sworn police officer.

So I don't want to chalk it up to You know, poor training or lack of training, that was that was just simply abhorrent. Uh, now, that being said, the we are going to see and we're already seeing The fruits of Yes. movement and this kind of I guess retrenching one of the most significant steps That jumped out to me recently is, I think it was Police One or one of these major. uh groups did us did a poll And polling current police officers. And the question was, Would you recommend your child get into police work?

And I want to say it was somewhere south of 10%. Answered in the affirmative.

So think about that, right? Here's a job that obviously you probably enjoyed tremendously. I know I loved every minute. That I was a law enforcement officer. But my son, who's now at Quantico going through his Marine Corps training, Uh I could not in good conscience Tell him or counsel him.

to uh to join policing right now. It's just It is just such a a a uh You gamble. Even if you do the right thing, you could still be held up to the court of public opinion. You know, the doxing and the online, just the character assassination that goes with something, and we've seen.

So many examples. of officers' lives being ruined. Even though they did. Exactly what they were trained to do in the manner they were trained to do it.

So it's a it's a tough Time to be a policeman. And I think that's also reflected in the numbers we're seeing in the numbers of officers. Killed in the line of duty. and injured in the line of duty. based on the training we saw in the last couple of years and we're doing with these men and women.

They are hesitating and hesitation will get you hurt and will get you killed. in a critical situation. No doubt about that. Rob Chadwick is joining us on the Patriot Mobile newsmaker line. Rob has, to put it mildly, a distinguished law enforcement career, retired from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

He's the founder of the Holdfast Security Group, principal training advisor to Taser. And Rob, it pains me when I hear you say that your son, who clearly has a servant's heart as he is training for the Marines, Would not be someone that would be counseled by you to join the ranks of law enforcement. And I wish I could tell you I felt differently. I've got two sons, and I couldn't, in good conscience, say to them, by all means, yes, go and pursue a career in law enforcement, even though 30-plus years that I've been not wearing a uniform, that I've not carried a badge. Rob, I am still friends and talk with, probably on a weekly basis, a number of the guys that I worked with.

The bond was thick then. It's as thick now. But Like you, I couldn't tell my sons, yeah, go out and do that in this day and age. I think, I just think it's too dangerous in all regards. Yes, you're right.

It's always been and will always be a dangerous job physically. But now it's dangerous to your livelihood, it's dangerous to your reputation.

So yes, it's sad. And as you hit it, there's nothing like Training together, there's nothing like literally risking your lives together to bond with other humans and my closest friends, of course. are from my various units with law enforcement, both the police department, And the FBI, and you know, which is you know, you mentioned that I contract and advise Taser. Which is, of course, you know, under Axon, they do a lot for law enforcement. They're working on.

Improving training, and we're trying to come up with technologies that are going to help keep law enforcement officers. out of trouble, right?

So that I love that piece of it. It allows me to keep my hand in the game and keep associating with some of the finest people I've ever been around.

Well, I appreciate that you are still willing to go out and help train the next generation of the next generation. I have to ask a personal question because you were on Attorney General Bill Barr's protection detail. Did you start as a bagpipe lover or end as a bagpipe lover after that detail?

Well, I will tell you this. I began I went into it. I have a Scottish heritage myself, and I've always enjoyed the pipes. And that's just one more thing that I absolutely love about Mr. Barr, just that.

a wonderful person. He is exactly who you see In front of the camera is who you see behind the camera and in the limousine and all that. And one of the highlights is. of his early tenure, he had a a a Convening of all the United States attorneys. And we had the New York City pipe and drum band open the ceremony.

And my job was to help. Hand Mr. Barr as a surprise from backstage his set of pipes. And and as these guys are marching through the the great hall of DOJ, Mr. Barr whips out the pipes and joins right in and got a standing ovation.

It was amazing. Oh, I love it. Rob, thank you so much for taking a couple of moments for us, and I hope it'll be okay. We call on you again. any time.

It's an honor, sir, and great to be on your program. Thank you for the opportunity. Thank you. Thank your son for all that he's doing as well. That is Rob Chadwick.

Rob is an amazing guy.

So happy he could join us on the Patreon Mobile newsmaker line. Retired from the FBI, started his law enforcement career with the Fairfax County, Virginia Police Department. And I think some great insight. I really do.

Some great insight into what law enforcement officers in this day and age are facing. It's. It's not just scrutiny. I mean, there's always been scrutiny, and appropriately so. But the demonization of every law enforcement officer.

By the way, we saw that with every politician that's in office right now at the highest levels: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. I've got a few things I'll share with you that just a couple of little sound clips, a couple of snippets that you really do need to hear. And coming up in a few moments on the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line, Congressman Matt Rosendale is going to join us from Montana talking about the debt ceiling and northern border issues. Remember, you go to ToddStarnes.com for everything, Todd. Whether you're listening to the program there or you're getting yourself some of Todd's books, get all of them.

I'm telling you, great, great reads. Jeff Katz, happy to be sitting in for my friend Todd. This is the Todd Starnes Show. It is the Todd Staring Show. Chef Cats happened to be sitting in for my friend Todd.

A couple of moments from now, joining us the Patriot Mobile newsmaker line, Congressman Matt Rosendale, talk about this debt ceiling crisis. Why is it always a crisis? How come nobody ever thinks ahead of time says, huh, maybe we ought to figure out how to. Balance the checkbook for goodness sakes. I don't know.

We are joining you from the Liberty University studios, and one of the things that we have been talking about, the transgender athletes, and I've got a snippet here. Just if you would, please. Cut number two. No one has asked us how we felt. We exist to validate a male's identity.

But the Ivy League, Leah Thomas's teammates actually, when they were concerned about the locker room situation and they sent an email to the Ivy League and the NCAA. Their response was Here are some counseling resources you should seek if you feel comfortable seeing Mel Genitelia in your locker room. And then they were referred to the LGBTQ Education Center to educate themselves on the oppression that these athletes are dealing with. No one within the NCAA is willing to Acknowledge. Us, our feelings, our safety, our privacy.

I've really tried. I feel like it's really only happened like the past couple weeks where I get emotional talking about like. the locker room scene because it is just So wild, That you can turn around and see a 6'4 biological man pull his pants down watching you undress, and no one is willing to stick up for you? It just I've I've done a good job not getting emotional, but it just I see what all is on the line. I see who fought for this.

I am. Fortunate or hopeful one day that I'll be able to have little daughters, and I do not ever want to have to imagine them in a situation where. They're faced with that. That's Riley Games. Riley Gaines is a woman.

She's a young lady. Tremendously talented athlete, an incredible swimmer, an all-American swimmer. and smart. University of Pennsylvania. And she's been subjected.

To a swimmer who now uses the name Leah Thomas. He is six foot four inches tall. Six feet four. walking around naked in her locker room, in the locker room of all of the other, female swimmers and the female swimmers are told if you're not good with this there's something wrong with you Anybody else remember Superman from when you were a kid? The Bizarro world?

Oh, it looked just like planet Earth, but man, everything was. backwards and inside out and crazy. Do you not feel sometimes like you're in the bizarro world? It is Jeff Katz in for my friend Todd Starnes. This is the Todd Starnes Show.

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We have so much. that we have been trying to unpack. It's always an interesting phrase, by the way. That didn't used to be a thing, but all of a sudden, everybody talks about unpacking this and unpacking that, and I try and stay away from fad phrases. But I thought to myself, you know, that actually makes a lot of sense.

It does seem as if we we've just got this big battle. All sorts of information, all sorts of material. And you think, all right, well. You gotta unpack it. Gotta take a look at it.

Gotta see what's going on.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, right? Jeff Kant's happy to be joining you, by the way. Happy to be sitting in for my friend Todd. Normally heard on Newsradio WRVA in Central Virginia. We are very, very happy, very proud to be Todd's affiliate in Central Virginia.

Some of the things that we have addressed Cut pretty close to home for a lot of us, don't they? When I asked you to think about your Your daughters. If they're competing for scholarships. Do you really want A guy competing with your daughter for an athletic scholarship. That's the question.

I mean, it's a pretty straightforward, pretty simple, pretty direct question. And for most moms and dads, the answer would be. No. That doesn't make ye. A hater or a bigot or a this a phobe or a that a phobe.

It just says, you know? My daughter deserves the opportunity to compete. against other girls. And there are differences between Men and women. Male and female.

It's not that complicated. Not even close to complicated, if you ask me.

So how exactly did this become a A point of contention. Where exactly is the disconnect. How can anyone say this is a fair thing? Fight. World Boxing Council a couple of weeks ago said, you know, this will never be a fair fight.

A male versus a female. And so, what did they do? World Boxing Council said, listen. Here's what we figured out. There seem to be an emerging class of transgender athletes, transgender folks who want to box.

And we want to give them every opportunity to box if they would like to box. But They will box other people who are in the same situation.

So, the World Boxing Council talking about. A male division, a female division, and a transgender division. Which if you do the common sense approach Makes an awful lot of sense. That is common sense right there. There's no hatred, there's no bigotry, there's no racism, there's no phobia, there's nothing except a desire to acknowledge the truth.

And to give everyone an opportunity to compete On that Even level playing field. That's all it is. I have been following the case I don't know if you have as well down in Florida, Governor Ron DeSantis, who let's face it, is probably running for president. And at the moment on the Republican side of things, former President Donald Trump has already announced he is running Nikki Haley Is scheduled, I think, what, February 15th, to announce that she's going to run. Mike Pompeo appears as if he is going to run.

Senator Tim Scott from South Carolina is making visits, I think, to Iowa and New Hampshire. That would indicate, sure, he's going to run. And Ron DeSantis. Ron DeSantis, I think, has been spot on when he said Florida is the place that woke goes to die. He has said it's about common sense, it's about shared values, it's about an intelligent approach to stuff and not buying into the left wing woke nonsense.

So one thing that Governor DeSantis did was to say Hey. We love education. We love advanced placement courses, but they actually have to be related to the subject. You know what I'm talking about, right? The Advanced Placement African American Curriculum.

Advanced placement, African American history, black history, which we're in February, is. Black History Month. I don't know why we would limit it to one month. I think that is ridiculous. I understand highlighting things.

But my thought, my feeling? has always been black history. Part of American history. It's all American history, is it not? Governor DeSantis said, We want to study history.

We want it in our schools. We love the idea of an advanced placement curriculum, but this doesn't do that. And the college board actually stood up and said, Okay. And they've changed it now. and they're changing the curriculum.

And that means they're going to change it all around America, which is a huge victory for Governor DeSantis. And Americans. NBC News, however, oh my goodness, they are outraged. They are appalled. Take a listen to this, cut number one.

An update now on a story we brought you last week. The college board today unveiling a stripped-down version of its AP African American Studies class. The move comes after Florida Governor Ron DeSantis rejected it, claiming it pushed a political agenda. Zinkle essemoir now on what's changed. It's Langston Hughes.

Who knows who Langston Hughes is? Tonight, the College Board unveiling a new framework for advanced placement African American studies after pressure from critics to not include topics like Black Lives Matter and sexual orientation. A critique many students in the pilot course resisted. It really hurt. Like, I thought we were moving forward in life.

The college board saying its new syllabus includes the study of black artists, inventors, and gay Americans, pivotal in the civil rights movement. This is the beginning of a process that will more democratize American education. This latest chapter of U.S. education debate sparking protest and legal pushback in Florida last week. Black history is American history.

Republican Governor Ron DeSantis banning the pilot AP course in Florida, his latest move restricting the teaching of race and sexuality in public schools. When you try to use black history to shoehorn in queer theory, you are clearly trying. To use that for political purposes. The College Board's new curriculum will no longer include authors flagged by Florida officials as scholars of concern, but it says the revisions were made independently from political pressure, adding it consulted with more than 300 professors of African American studies and piloted the course in 60 schools across the country. Do you believe this updated course framework will be enough for Florida to lift their current ban?

I do not believe that Florida is going to lift the ban because it's never been about this course. The governor was very clear: African-American studies doesn't have educational value. And I think that the government has led with that. The government has demonstrated that through policy, through comments, and so forth. The course is set to launch nationwide in the upcoming school year.

Sorry for the uh spoke Woke. Professor there. Governor DeSantis never said anything of the sort. Governor DeSantis never, ever, ever, ever, ever said anything even close to that, even remotely like that. in fact, quite the contrary.

Governor DeSantis has said, This is American history. And we're all going to learn American history. You know, we're going to take an AP course, we're going to have an advanced placement. Look at this. That's great.

But let's focus on the real material. And it's the woke crowd, the leftists, that are outraged by that. How dare you force kids? to learn the truth. This is the discussion that's been had by so many.

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We've got so much that we have been addressing. Congressman Matt Rosendale is going to join us, represents the 2nd District. In Montana, a couple of very interesting items that he has to fill us in on. Uh one of them is this this this debt ceiling thing. It just boggles the imagination to think that anybody.

Looks at how our federal government does budgeting. and thinks to themself, Oh, this is a good idea. I like this. Could you get hired anywhere with that sort of a mindset? I mean, look, I am responsible for what?

We got to pay the mortgage. We have no car payments. I'm one of those guys who really does embrace that whole sort of Dave Ramsey thing. You know, I I don't want to owe you anything if I don't have to, except my my gratitude for something nice you did or my service to you, but I'd prefer not to owe you any money if at all possible. Uh so we gotta we gotta pay the mortgage, we've got our utilities and uh uh foodstuffs.

That's pretty much it.

Well, every once in a while you get something pops up that you didn't expect, right? We had a water heater go out, I guess, a week or so ago. Just psst. Stopped. And I don't mean like, oh, I think it's getting kind of, it's not nearly as hot.

I mean, it just boom, done, over. And as we were chatting with the guys from the HVAC company, and I happened to be friendly. With the guy that owns the company, I said, you know, so what should we do? Because we had talked for a long time about those tankless water heaters, right? You've heard of them.

And you put them in your house, and then you basically never run out of hot water. It doesn't have a big tank, and all the rest of that. I said, Oh, you know, maybe that's something that we should do. Maybe this sort of forces our hand a little bit. Instead of just talking about it like we have for the last couple of years, maybe we do something.

And he said, Well, you know, a couple of things. First of all, if you want to do that, There's a lot of plumbing work and a lot of gas work that needs to be done, and it's going to be on the other side of the house. And I got news for you. I don't know that it can be done. I said, okay, well, that may take it off the table.

He said, well, don't take it completely off the table, but. The other guy, the plumber who had his hands on the hot water heater, said, You know what, Jeff? I think we probably could do the whole tankless thing, but I got news for you. Your current heater's just not going to last that long. This thing is is is going to be done In a day or two.

So you got to act.

Okay, so that's an unexpected expense. We have to prepare for those things. That's what you do as a responsible human being.

Sometimes, listen. Expenses are so out of whack. Maybe there's a medical condition, and you really are just sort of blindsided.

Now imagine that you're running a multi-trillion dollar operation. And every time you act surprised. Every time that they voted a budget, it's like, what? The water heater's gonna die. Oh, my we why we we never imagined this.

Well, last year your water heater died and the year before that and the year before that and the year before that. You can't react this way every single time you've got your budget due. But that's how these folks in DC operate. It's always a crisis. It's like they're surprised consistently.

Whoa, we gotta pay the military. Oh my gosh. Then it becomes the circus.

Somebody somewhere. At some point, it's going to have to say, We got to get a handle on this. We've really got to look at this and say, okay, maybe we should be, you know, prepared for things.

So, Congressman Matt Rosendale is going to talk a little bit about that, this debt. Limit And imagine for a second you could just raise your own debt limit, which is what they want to do again and again and again and again, right? You're like most people, you've got You've got a certain line of credit. I don't know how you do it. Maybe you've got some credit cards.

Most of us have one or two, some people have ten, whatever it is. But you know what the limit is. And the limit is set by the folks who give you that credit, because they say, Look, we know how much you make, and we know what your other obligations are, and we get it. You might have a surprise n water heater every once in a while. But this is this is the line.

Imagine for a second you say, yeah, I don't like that line anymore. I'm just going to raise it. And I'm going to raise it again. And you're not raising it because you just want to have access to additional credit. You're raising it because you maxed out the first card.

Nobody in the real world gets to do that. But everybody in DC does that time after time after time. They max it out And then say Give us more, and it's easy for them to say, Give us more. You know why? Because it's not their money, it's your money, and it's my money.

You and I are working for this every single solitary day. And they're not. You're not going to see Uncle Sam. At the quickie mart stocking shelves is a second job. Uncle Sam, in this case, Slow-Mo Joe, he's going to reach into your pocket, take more money.

and do with it whatever whatever he or she wants to do, right? That's what Congress does every single solitary time.

Now I'm hoping Hoping against hope that Kevin McCarthy, as the Speaker of the House, is going to put the kibosh on this. I do think. That those rock-solid conservatives who, frankly, made it very difficult for Kevin McCarthy to get to the speakership. I think they are going to hold him accountable on this. I don't think he's going to like it necessarily because I think that Kevin McCarthy in the past has been one of these guys who went along with the whole governance by crisis situation.

I hope. that he's going to be constrained now by the rock solid conservatives. Maybe it's only a handful, but boy, they said to him, you got to focus, you got to be a responsible adult, you got to be a careful steward. a responsible steward of the people's money. We'll see.

So, Congressman Matt Rosendale joins us on the Patreon Mobile newsmaker line in just a moment on that issue and the issue of northern border situations. Man, you never think about that. Apparently, it is an issue, right? Remember, go to ToddStarnes.com. It is Jeff InforTodd.

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There's nobody in America that could run their family budget the same way that Congress runs. Our Government. It just couldn't happen. It couldn't happen. You could keep saying, well, I'm going to raise my debt limit over and over and over again, and not because you've decided you want access to more credit, it's because you already maxed out the card.

Now you want access to even more. It's just irresponsible to me.

So, my sincere hope is that with Republicans in control of the House now, we're going to address that. Joining us on the Patriot Mobile newsmaker line, Congressman Matt Rosendale represents the 2nd District in Montana. Happy that he's here. Congressman, thanks for joining us. Chad, thanks for having me on today.

Appreciate it. Absolutely. The pleasure is mine.

So I'd love for you to weigh in. Let us know what the heck is happening in D.C. these days in terms of that debt ceiling we keep hearing about.

So Jeff, I will tell you that as you said, I represent Montana's second district, which is just about three quarters of the state, the Eastern side. And there's a lot of agriculture that is in that area, whether it's cattle or different grains and crops. And every single producer I know has What they call line of credit, and that is to get them through the inputs at the beginning of the year until they have their harvest at the end of the year. There is not. a bank in this country, okay, That if you took The United States of America off the top of the balance sheet that we are looking at right now.

that would continue. to lend money out to this organization Oh. To continue to acquire this debt. We are over thirty one trillion dollars, thirty one point five. Think about this.

The last debt stealing was about four hundred days ago is when they raised it, and they raised it by two trill over two trillion dollars. And it took them just over a year to To match that out again. And so. These people continue. These people, you know, the Democrats continue to spend at just an alarming rate.

And there's no banker in the world that would look at their customer and say, I'm going to extend more credit to you. They just wouldn't do it. They would put the foreclosure sign up in front of the property. Uh they're asking us to do that. Body.

It is reckless. To even make this request without saying that we have to address the out-of-control spending.

So here's my hope. even though the house, we're one third of this equation, we've got two problems. the Senate and the White House. Yeah, you know, and they're both controlled by the Democrats now. We're going to have basically Two bites at this apple as we go through this year.

We're going to have the debt ceiling, and then we're going to have the budget. and in the appropriations process, which will be later in the year. The debt ceiling right now, it literally is this line of credit.

So Yellen has said, okay, I can continue to pay the bills because we still have revenue coming in, right? And so The debt ceiling stays the same at the 31 and 15 trillion. They're allowed to go up against that. And so they get up close to it, and then some revenue comes in and they pay it down a little bit. And then they get up close to it again.

Okay? And then they have some revenue come in, they pay it down a little bit.

So she's making some decisions about what gets paid and when it gets paid, but That is going to expire. It's going to run out. There's going to be more money going out than coming in. which will then clear that debt ceiling somewhere between May and July. And so what we would like to do in the House is say, okay, If you want to increase this debt ceiling, because clearly we have obligations.

Bills have to be paid. You can't go into default. We've got an additional two trillion dollars worth of spending on government programs that Democrats passed during the two years of the Biden administration, we've already survived through, that we need to start clawing back. And so we need to say, we're going to call this back. And then we will give a small increase to the debt ceiling.

And then I really believe that we should give just enough to get us through the budgeting process. which at that point, Jeff, we could say We also want to, as part of the budgeting process, increase our domestic oil production, our domestic energy production. We want to put these provisions in to make sure that we secure our southern border because we've had five million people come into the country illegally over the last two years. And then we can start attacking those policies as well. You know, Congressman, it's fascinating to listen to this, and it would be.

I would say laughable, except I'm living right here on planet Earth in the United States of America, and I've got kids who ultimately are going to be saddled with this out-of-control spending. Even Joe Biden, is it 2011, 2012, when they were talking about this debt ceiling then said, Yeah, yeah, we should cut some stuff. And now he's like, Well, I don't even want to discuss any sort of cuts, right? Yeah, and that and again, this is that is just flat reckless. Speaker McCarthy went into the White House yesterday, sort of having just some discussions.

And the media, of course, is in a feeding frenzy. What do you call success? What do you expect to come out of this? I said, look. To me, success would be right here at this point, at this juncture, for the President to just simply recognize.

We have to reduce spending as part of the debt ceiling increase. And if he can acknowledge that, That's a step in the right direction. The first thing you have to do is recognize you have a problem, right? Not digging the hole. Stop digging the holes.

Say we've got a problem here and recognize that. And if we can do that, then we can start clawing back There's somewhere between $400 and $600 billion of additional COVID money that hasn't even be been spent yet.

Okay, let's call that back. Let's figure out. How long does that get us through?

Somebody give me a time line. Let me find out. We're going to be able to go through, and this is what's getting ready to take place. Myself and several the other members of the House sat down. We're going to be requesting from the agencies the information about the different accounts that they have set up and the amount of revenue that is in each one of those accounts.

For all the different programs that they have, there's not just like one big, very big checkbook. There's all these different accounts set up, and we're going to start scrutinizing those to find out how much additional revenue is built up in them that we can start transferring back in. As you say, this. This isn't j bills that just our children are going to pay off. This is Inflation that we are experiencing now by having all of that additional revenue pushed out.

Okay. dollar right now. And that's why when you go to the store, that what used to get you two or three bags of groceries, that one hundred dollars, is probably only going to get you a bag's worth of groceries right now. Yeah. Yeah, that's exactly what's happening.

Congressman Matt Rosendale is joining us on the Patriot Mobile newsmaker line. Congressman, that's exactly right. People in the real world, and I think some of the folks in DC, they kind of forget what the real world is like, right? They they get there, they've got that rarefied Potomac air, you've got some pretty cool cufflinks and the code to the secret subway, and the next thing you know, you're not standing in line of the grocery going, holy mother of God, there's nothing on that belt. Yeah, they need to get in touch with the people, and I assure you that's what I do.

One of my favorite quotes is from President Dwight Eisenhower. He said, You know something? Farming looks very easy when you live a thousand miles away from a cornfield and you use a pencil for a plow. If you're not going to the grocery store and feeding a few mouths around the table besides your own, you're spending too many time at buffet tables and receptions that are being put on by lobbyists, then you don't know what the average American is dealing with right now. I do.

I go back home. I have two sons that live in Montana. I have another son that lives in North Dakota. We're in the real world. Yeah.

Yeah. Congressman, let me ask you about this vote, uh, was it yesterday? Uh, on socialism and the Democrats just couldn't bring themselves to say, Yeah, that's a pretty bad system over there. No, they can't do it. And this is again, this is where we have seen the Democrat Party has finally devolved into, that they have embraced At least it's publicly now, okay?

Now they're on the record. We've been saying it for years, right? And now we actually have seen them go on the record about it. They do believe in redistribution of wealth. They do believe in the race to the bottom.

They do believe in the tyranny that comes from a socialist society. And so now they're on the record stating so. Nothing comes good from a socialist society. It will devolve to a tyrannical government where you have a few elitists sitting at the top of the heap, making the decisions for everyone else. And it will be equality.

You will be equally at the bottom of the heap. That's it. We could all be miserable and hungry and cold together. Boy, that sounds like a great recipe, doesn't it? Yeah, yeah.

And that's, you know, they that's why the communes didn't work back in the 60s. Even the hippies, even the hippies figured it out. It wasn't going to work after some of some of those guys were working, and some of those hippies were not going out to work every day. That's right. That's right.

Congressman, I appreciate you being here, and I look forward to having the chance to chat you soon. Please, chat again soon. Please keep up the good fight in D.C., will you? Jeff, thank you so much. And listen, pray for us all.

And hopefully, we can get a couple of these provisions passed and bring some sanity, some fiscal sanity to Washington, DC. I love it. Congressman Matt Rosendale. Congressman Rosendale represents the 2nd District of Montana, kind enough to join us on the Patriot Mobile newsmaker line. It's a disaster in D.C.

when you've got, and at least Congressman Rosendale points out, and I'm happy he pointed out, that at least now the Democrats are on record as saying they like socialism. They have embraced socialism. This is, you know, Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, the Soviet Union. There's nothing good about that. There's nothing that helps people in that system.

But Democrats in DC now forced to vote publicly and say that they like it. In all fairness to them, it wasn't all of them. It wasn't all of them. but it was certainly more than many expected. And if that doesn't wake you up to exactly what the Democrats in the year 2023 are all about, then, well, frankly, I don't know what else I can tell you.

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Jeff Katz, happy to be sitting in for my friend Todd. I've got a. piece of information I want to uh share with you as we join you from the Liberty University studios. This is just coming across the last couple of moments. John F.

Kerry, you'll remember him, right? John F. Kerry has apparently been engaged in some sort of secret negotiations with the Chinese Communist Party, and he used the cover of his Global climate change, change, warming, cooling, wha whatever it is that we're calling it these days. Uh he used that. as cover.

Under the guise of climate advocacy. This is according to Congressman James Comer. from Kentucky.

Now, I don't trust John F. Kerry, I never have. I've never thought much of him. I think he's a hack. And I know of what I speak because I lived for many, many, many years in Massachusetts.

and I watched Kerry operate as a senator. I can remember John F. Kerry as the lieutenant governor, In Massachusetts? John F. Kerry was never about anybody except John F.

Kerry, make no mistake about it. When you can have a fire hydrant moved so that you can park one of your overpriced. vehicles closer to your mansion, you know that you're a hack. And that's John F. Kerry.

So, I frankly am not the least bit surprised to hear. That he has apparently been chatting with the Chinese Communist Party leadership. This is a real threat to America. We don't want to acknowledge that. And every time that somebody raises a concern, somehow, some way, we all get poo-pooed.

Oh, cabad. Ratch, it's not really a big deal. It is a huge deal. Take a look at Joe Biden's dumbest son, Fredo, Fredo Biden. Who has made a career out of being named Biden?

Right? No discernible marketable skills at all, except that his last name is Biden. And it's it's pretty clear that that's what's gotten him. His money This operation of Joe Biden, I look at it and I think, man, it's like watching watching a mob movie. It's like La Josa Nostra.

And his dumbest son, Fredo.

Well, Fredo now says he wants a federal investigation. related to his laptop.

Well He's joining with us? No He is acknowledging that the laptop is his. You'll remember that the legacy news media hacks, the Democrat Party water carriers who have been deployed to newsrooms around America, the social media giants, the legacy social media hacks, they shut it all down. They closed the account temporarily of the New York Post, the oldest. continually publishing newspaper in America.

We were told, oh, that's a Russian campaign, it's fake news, it's this. It was all true.

Well, Fredo Biden apparently now wants a federal probe of the Republicans in the House who would like to know what's really going on with the laptop. And do you Or do you not find it odd? That Joe Biden visited his vacation home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. And then a couple of days later, it was announced by Merrick Garland that there would be a search of that home, announced by the Department of Justice. And then a few days after that, it happened.

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