Black Lawmaker Says She’s Triggered by Whiteness

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Uh Well, hello, America. Welcome once again to the Todd Sterns radio program. Hope you're doing well. Wow, do we have a lot going on today? and a lot to get to.

And I will say this. Right out of the gate. We're going to talk about this reparation story. We have a major update to share with you about reparations in America. But we um I I want to start out by talking about President Trump for just a moment.

You know, a lot of people are out there giving the former President a lot of grief. A lot of you Republicans are out there, and you're saying, you know, He did a great job. He made America great again. And we have no doubt that he could make America great again. But it's time for him to move on.

He needs to step off to the side. His time has passed. He needs to be the kingmaker. We need to usher in fresh blood in political politics. In well, all politics is political in Republican politics here in America.

So they say, Mr. President, thank you. But you're you're done here. A lot of you are upset with the president's demeanor. You don't like the tweets.

You don't like the language. I get it. But I'm telling you, there's no one more effective on the campaign trail than Donald Trump. I'm just telling you, there is no one who is as effective as he is. And there's a reason for that.

And it's a word you don't hear a lot of in politics. It's called authenticity.

Now, there was a time, and I'm going to tell you, you want to know where Fox News went astray. I'm going to tell you, this may sound like a tangent, but it all ties. Ties in together.

Now, we've been telling you about the issues with Fox in recent days, where the anchors will tell you one thing on the air and then they believe something else, and that is their right under the Constitution. If you're okay with Fox deceiving you, okay, that's fine. That's between you and Fox. But there was a time when that would not have happened. And I think the problem with Fox is they got too big for their britches.

No britches with an R. That's what I said, please. This is family friendly.

So they got too big for their britches. Yeah. And there was a time when a lot of those people at Fox weren't chowing down at Roots Chris Steakhouse. They weren't having the steak and the lobster. You know where they were at?

They were down at the local McDonald's. But they got too big for that. They got too powerful for that. They were making millions of dollars. And so now they're part of the elitist class.

And there are elitists in all parties. Republican, Democrat, there are elitist. There are elitists in the media. And that's why, by and large, if you're going to find someone who is authentically a constitution loving conservative, then those people are probably working in some sort of a small television market. Where people still know what it's like to have to live paycheck to paycheck, where people still struggle to pay their bills.

Where a fancy dinner out on the town is actually the red lobster. Or the Olive Garden. Remember those days? But now people who eat at the Red Lobster or Olive Garden are somehow mocked. By the elites.

Uh So, I think in some way, the conservative movement, you look at James O'Keefe, the Project Veritas. This is just an example, and I'll get to my broader point here in a moment. But look at James O'Keefe. And he started out, you know, grew this Project Veritas from nothing in his parents' garage, or if you're British, garage. And he grew this to a multi-billion-dollar nonprofit.

And they're spending a lot of money. And they're living high on the hog. But there was a time when they weren't living high on the hog. And I think a lot of people in the conservative movement forget that. Oh, I see all the photographs of people wearing the fancy clothes and partying down at Mar-a-Lago, and I keep thinking to myself.

Those people don't have that kind of money. That money is coming from donors. That money is coming from you, the folks that are going out and eating at McDonald's for dinner. That's where that money's coming from. And that's one of the reasons why, when I started my company, we're not a nonprofit, we're a for-profit company.

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And you've got so many conservatives coming at you these days, and man, they've got their hand out and they're wanting money for this and for that. And the sad reality is a lot of those organizations, they're not winning elections. They're just taking your money. And that's fine. If they're allowed to do that, they can do that.

But again, the broader issue here, I think the conservative movement has gotten a little too big for the Britches. They forgot who brought them to the dance, and you can't forget who brought you to the dance. Donald Trump never forgot. And I was reminded of this yesterday. The president shows up in East Palestine, Ohio, a city that has been forgotten by the Democrats.

And it's not like they just, oops, wow, we forgot there was some sort of a major environmental disaster there. No, it's not that kind of forgetfulness. They intentionally forgot that. It's that they don't matter, they don't exist. Yeah.

Oh, those are just a bunch of white Trump supporters. They basically get what they deserve. And so that's why honestly, that's why Biden has not been to visit. That's why little Petey Booty Jedge has not been to visit the Transec. Pardon me, Transportation Secretary.

But I want you to think about this for a moment and ask yourself: just look, look, let's do a personal time, let's just do a personal time of self-reflection. Look deep inside your inner bowels and ask yourself this question. If that train had derailed in the Castro district of San Francisco or West Hollywood, Or the East Village in New York City, Pete Buttigieg would have been there the next day with a hazmat suit on. Right? But you know what?

The good people. And East Palestine are not his kind of people. Yeah. Good. Church going.

Trump supporters. No, they're not his kind of people. Yeah. But you know what? Those people are Donald Trump's people.

They are. I want to play some audio here. Audio of what happened when Donald Trump flew to town. And Donald Trump, he landed Trump Force One, and they unloaded thousands of pounds of supplies and gallons of Trump water, which is a delicious water that is just I don't know what God bless that water, and it just has a sweetness to it, a beautiful taste. It's delicious water.

Uh And then he went over to the local McDonald's. And I want you to hear what happened inside. Enjoy your meal, and we're going to get the meals for the fire department. Hello, everybody. What's your specialty today?

How are you today? Nice to meet you. Hello, everybody. That's a nice, beautiful-looking group of people.

So, I know this menu better than you do. I probably know it better than anybody in here. We're going to take care of the fire department.

Okay. We're going to take care of the police department. And what we do is all the people that are eating. I'm the owner, Mr. Chairman.

I don't have to give you a fire. That's right. It's a good one to own, right? Yes, it is. One of the best.

So, we're going to take care of your fire force. Plus, the people that are in here, they're going to get a nice free meal. All right? Thank you, everybody. Thank you.

Nice. Good one, huh? Yes, it's very my first store. Oh, really? How many do you have?

I have eight stores. Whoa, he's a wealthy guy. Is he a good boss? He's a wonderful boss.

So, we'll take care of everything. We appreciate it. Knock it out fast. For us. Thank you.

We'll be eating it on the plane back. Thank you, everybody. Have a good time. I'm glad you came down here. We're happy you came down here today.

Thank you. It's a great honor. I appreciate it. Mr. Trump, why are you visiting today?

Why are you visiting today?

Well, we brought a lot of people with us, and more importantly, we brought the federal government with us because when they heard I was coming, they all came. They weren't going to come. They were to leave you abandoned. And now they're not. The owner over here, he saw the.

I helped out all the responders and everything the first week. I was out here making egg McMuffins myself Saturday morning. You did a good job. These guys. He did a good job.

So give us a nice array of stuff. Take care of the people. And I'll see you later, okay? Thank you all. Can I get a picture with you?

What do you think about what's going on in Eastern TV? Get a picture, please. Sir, what do you think about Palawani's Palestine? President Trump, what do you think about Biden going to Ukraine for coming in?

Well, I think he should come here. Steve Tim. I think he should. Oh, God. Come take a picture of Monk.

No, come. I got it. He chose to. I got a brother. President Trump, do you think Paul Modern is safe to have a hard time?

It will be safe. It will be safe soon because FEMA's now coming in. FEMA was not coming. I got that coming in. And it will be safe.

My mom loves it. I know. And do you know why, ladies and gentlemen, do you know why this? This works for Trump. What you are looking at is a beautiful thing.

Now, a couple of things that I want to point out here, because we're going to play some audio from Little Petey Booty Judge. And a booty judge just arrived in East Palestine with his entourage.

Now, you heard Trump there surrounded. There was standing room only in the McDonald's restaurant. You had the firefighters there. You had the police officers. You have the townfolk.

And they were all wanting to touch the hem of the garment of Donald John Trump. And they wanted to pat him on the back and hug him and get a picture and a selfie. And they wanted to shake his hand. Yeah. And this man was beloved.

Hundreds of people lining the streets of the city to welcome this man, not the current President, the former President of the United States. And he said a couple of things that I want to point out here. But I think the one that really got me is when he talked about. The menu. And he said that he probably knew the McDonald's menu better than they did.

Do you understand what he was saying with that one line? First of all, it's true. He loves McDonald's, also loves KFC. Don't understand that. I'm a Popeyes guy, but whatever.

It's America. All I'm telling you is that Donald Trump, this multimillionaire many times over, is a regular guy. He likes to hang out with us, and what he was trying to tell us is: I am one of you. I'm one of these. I don't go and eat at the Ruth's Chris Steakhouse like the Fox News people do.

No, I go down to the Mickey D's. That's what I do, and I eat something in between those beautiful golden arches. That's what he was telling us.

Well, then comes Pete Bootyjetch and his little press secretary at, the lady press secretary, and they're coming in and they're trying to ask questions because he is the Transec, pardon me, Transportation Secretary, but here's what the Transex people had to say. Many, why did it take you an entire two and a half weeks to actually get here to respond to these Palestine? Will you apologize to the residents of this city for the slow response to the government's slow response? Do you have any apology? Sure, sure, sure, sure.

So, can we ask why it took him almost three weeks to get here? I'm sorry, I don't want to do this on camera. What was his personal time off while there was a tragedy happening here? And can we also ask too why it, you know, he waited until President Donald Trump came here to actually make an appearance? This is a very important question that people across America would like to know.

I'm happy to have a conversation with you. I do not want to be on camera.

Well, please put your cameras away. I'm sorry, we're on a public area, so we are allowed as press. You guys, I would like you guys to turn your cameras off. You're on a microphone.

Well, I'm on a camera. I would like your cameras to be off, and then I'm happy to talk to you guys.

Well, if you're the press secretary of the Secretary of the Department of Transportation, Transportation, don't you think you should be able to ask questions from the American public? Absolutely. I would like to do it without the camera on. Can I ask why? I think that is a little bit aggressive.

That's why. Why is it aggressive? On behalf of the American people, I'm just asking why he has not been here until Donald Trump several times for them to turn the cameras on. What are they going to do? Throw him in jail?

She's been able to walk away. Would you like to go inside? Maybe not. I will walk this way.

So, can I ask what the secretary is going to do with the picture of Jenny Kerr? He took her the other day when he asked, she's asking if you guys are in Washington, D.C. I'm happy to answer your questions. I would love to not have your cameras on. I had my camera up a minute ago.

If I turn it up, you all have your cameras on. I can see them. You guys don't have this. I'm happy to have this on.

Okay, enough of that, enough of that. All right, so here's what you need to know: they want to throw these people in jail. They want to throw the reporters in jail. How dare you, how dare you film me? You're being aggressive.

Aggressive. Yeah. I'm triggered.

Well, you know what? Be triggered, baby. Be triggered. But this is what happens when you put a lady press secretariat in the position that doesn't know what she's doing. Pete Booty Judge doesn't want to answer any questions, but you know who does?

Donald John Trump, the President of these great United States. And I'm telling you, this was a great example of the America first versus America last policy. President Trump standing on American soil, giving American heroes quarter pounders with cheese. And what is Joe Biden doing? He's giving a quarter billion dollars of our tax money to the Ukrainians.

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Uh I love what Cher is writing over on the Facebook live stream. And by the way, you can access that at ToddSterns.com. Cher says, Todd, I was comforted when I saw Trump with the prayer emoji, heart sign, brought me back to when I felt safe. You know, Cher, I think there's a lot to that. I think a lot of people really felt this very comfortable.

It was a comforting presence, like everything was going to be okay. That at least Donald Trump, and he's right, and Trump is right about something. Had he not gone to East Palestine, there's no way Booty Judge would be there right now. None whatsoever. No way FEMA would have shown up.

Again, the Biden administration, the white people and the Trump supporters, they don't count. They do not count. All right, let's go to the phones real quick. 844-747-8868. Let's go to Ronald in North Carolina.

What say you, Ronald? I agree with what you said about Trump one hundred percent. We need Trump as president. Uh the Governor of Tech of Florida as Vice President And then after Trump finishes his term, we need eight years of him. It's going to take twelve years to straighten out The garbage I'm trying to keep my language clean for the radio.

They're garbage. You can call it horse hockey. You can call it bull hockey. You can call it, I don't know, grade A fertilizer. But, Ronald, I think we get your point.

And I like this idea. And I think our leaders need to stop this. Just stop. Nikki Haley, Lord Lover, doesn't have a shot. This needs to be a Trump-DeSantis ticket.

And as you said, let's have him in there four years and then DeSantis eight years after that. And you know what could happen, Ronald, is we could actually go back to the Reagan years where you had Reagan and then George H.W. Bush got his term in office and then blew it, of course, with the Read My Lips line. But I think that's the way to go. Ronald, God bless you.

Thank you for the call. Folks, we're going to be opening up the phone lines on this one. But I'm telling you, I don't see anybody else that's even talked about as a potential contender doing what Trump did in East Palestine. That tells me that the people love this man and the people. Believe that he deserves a second chance.

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Great to have you with us. A lot of folks wanting to weigh in today. And I want to get to your calls. We're going to get to this reparation story. This is fascinating, just fascinating.

By the way, I have decided And we'll we'll talk to This is going to be confusing for the affiliates that carry the Todd Stearns radio program. But moving forward, I am actually changing my name and my skin color.

So moving forward, I will be known as LeBron Stearns. LeBron Stearns.

So if you call in, I know it's traditional, you're going to want to call me Todd, but if you can work in LeBron, I would greatly appreciate it. I'm going to identify, self-identify, pulling a Rachel Dolezalt because I want to get my reparations money. All right. All right, let's go to the phones here. 844-747-8868.

I want to go to Dan in Maine, listening to us on WLOB. And Dan, you have an interesting thought about Pete Booty Judge. Uh yes, I do. Uh how is it that when He was pressed. about why he didn't show up until after Trump He sent it to his press secretary, and then, you know, she told him to turn the cameras off.

But the other day, when he's walking down the road, And he's getting uh asked when that reporter was asking him questions, Why did he pull out his camera? Dan, that's a great question. And I want to set this back up for folks. And we played this audio, I believe, yesterday on the show. You had Booty Judge, he was out there with his husband, and they were just walking down.

They were taking a stroll together, and a reporter comes up because nobody's been able to ask him questions. That's the problem here. He's not facing the media. And so this reporter asked questions, and he turned around and brushed her aside. And then he demanded to take her photograph, which was honestly, that was just a bullying tactic right there.

So it looks to me like Booty Judge and his team feel like they're above having to talk to local or national news reporters, Dan. Yeah, I mean, that's that's what it sounds like to me. And that was I thought that was creepy, to be honest with you. Me too. Me too.

But you know what? He feels he can treat women that way. And that is something Don Lemon does the same thing, and Pete Buttigieg does the does the exact same thing. Yeah. Hey, I just wanted to l uh I know you're stacked here, but I just wanted to say I heard you on Ray Richardson this morning, and I love it when you come on, and I'm a big fan of your show.

Well, you're kind to say that, Dan. Thank you very much. I'm one of your Gen Z listeners. Oh, that's even better. How old are you, Dan?

I'm 19.

Well, good for you.

Well, we appreciate you listening, and you feel free to call in any time. All right. Have a wonderful day. All right. You too.

Thank you for that. By the way, Ray Richardson is the host of WLOB's Morning Show. And every week we do a lot of these morning two-way hits.

So we're pretty busy around here, but we love being able to hang out with our friends. And Ray is the best in the business. We love Ray Richardson. All right. Let's go to Chris in North Carolina, listening to us on WSIC.

Hi, Chris. What's up? Hey, LeBron, good to talk to you. Thank you, my brother. Yeah, um Yeah, Donald Trump, he's he's he's the only one that can do what he does.

Um Everything was fixed in this country when he was president. The border was fixed. We were energy independent. for the first time in like forty years. And he was for the American people, the Keystone pipeline was thousands of union jobs.

that were that were we had going on, and Biden just wiped that out in his first day of office. And I I just don't understand why It's like all he wanted to do was just reverse every policy every good policy that Donald Trump put in place that was for the good of this country. And Yeah. No doubt about that. No doubt about that, Chris.

And I think that's why when you saw Trump really just barreling into East Palestine, he was bringing answers. But Trump also knew that if he showed up, the federal government would have to respond at that point. They had no choice but to respond.

Well, that's right, because they don't like him anyway, so they're not going to let him outdo them. No, that's that's why, that's why. That's why. You like Trump in 2024, Chris? You like Trump?

Oh, definitely. Therefore Mary. And I just wanted to say one more thing about him. I don't know if you know who John Ponder is. John Ponder started the prison reform program when John Ponder was in prison for whatever he did.

And when he got out, His first graduating class of his prison reform program had just twelve people in it. And guess who showed up for that graduation of just twelve people? Donald John Trump. He's that kind of a man, Chris. I'm telling you, people do not know the real Trump.

And I've got a chapter in my book about that. And I got to spend enough time with this president to know who he is and where he's coming from. And he's that kind of a guy. Chris, appreciate that call. And thank you for listening.

844-747-8868. Let's go to Stephen in Maine listening to us on WLOB. A lot of Maine listeners today. Hey, Stephen, what's up? LeBron, I'd just like to thank you for everything that you do.

I would like to also tell you that. With your listeners and stuff, I hope they listen to this. You are spot on on Fox News. It is apparent left and right every day what they're doing, even when you hear little intermissions with the news. They pretty much sound like mainstream media.

And you know, for the fact is, is you know, if they didn't have Mark Levin and Hannity and folks like you. They wouldn't have an audience because probably I'd estimate about 60% of the people that are on. Fox News. They don't trust them because we remember what they did in 2020.

So you're spot on on that one for sure. There are no ifs, ands and buts. And yes, I'm a Trumper, and there's a bunch of Trumpers in the state of Maine. You see, Stephen, I'm with you. I just again think that even the conservative media is underestimating the amount of support that this president still has.

And the only reason is because they don't Think that we matter, the folks out in the hinterlands. But we do matter. And what we saw happen in 2016 is we, the people, went out and we sent a very clear message to the establishment that we're not going to take it anymore. We're just not going to take it anymore. No, and I hope the establishment Republicans are listening to this because they're in on it with Fox News.

Oh, big time on the other side.

Well, Paul Ryan. They don't want Trump back because Trump knows who they are. Excellent. Excellent point, Stephen. Appreciate that call.

Let's go to Michelle in North Carolina. Hey, Michelle, what's on your mind? Hey, I just wanted to make a comment about Trump. The reason that people feel like they do about Trump is because he's not fake. He has the sincerity about him that is real And you can't fake that and the people See it?

And that's why they respond. to him like they do? And, you know. He was my President before, and as far as I'm concerned, he's still my president. And I will vote for him again.

Michelle, I hope that the Republican Party sees the importance here of just going ahead. And I get it. People want to have a healthy primary process. That's all well and good. But do you see anybody else out there who can do what Trump does?

Oh, absolutely not. You know, um He he brings people together in a way Unlike I I've never seen Um A politician. Why camp? course he's not I know he's not naturally a politician, but He's just like I said, he's just he has that sincerity about him. and and each real.

And And he he I really feel like he cares about the people, you know. Um, and and people like us, they look at us like we're garbage. You know, we're nothing to them. As horrible as that is to say, Michelle, you're absolutely right. That's exactly what they think about.

And Fox News thought about, that's what they thought about their audience. And that's why they started the Fox Nation OTT platform. They wanted a brand new, hipper, cooler, younger, edgier audience. And you know what happened, Michelle? All the people that actually, and there were not that many people that subscribed to Fox Nation, most of those people were over the age of 50.

Go figure. It didn't quite work for them. Didn't quite work out well. Michelle, God bless you, and thanks for that call. And I'm sure the president is loving your comments right now.

And again, folks, this is, I know that people are wanting something new and shiny here, but I just don't see new and shiny being able to connect to middle America, average America, like Trump does. I just don't see it. Let's go to Thomas in North Carolina. Hey, Thomas, what's up? I just want to say that President Trump's doing just like he done for four years when he was President.

They still working for the American people. and not getting paid a penny for it. You know what rubbed me the wrong way? There was a lot that rubbed me the wrong way about Pete Bootijudge yesterday when he brushed aside that reporter and then demanded to take her photograph. But you know what got me the most, Thomas, when he said he was on his personal time.

You know what, Pete Buttijudge? You're not on personal time. You're in the President's cabinet. You work for us, we the people. There is no personal time, sir.

There's no way he'd even be there if they weren't paying him.

Well, that's true. And they think this guy is going to be president one of these days. Heaven help us if that happens. That's for sure. All right.

Thomas, appreciate that call, and thank you for listening.

So, there you have it, folks. Again, I. The Trump. Trump is the guy. He is the guy.

When it's all said and done, he's going to be the guy. I don't see anybody else being able to do what he does out there. All right, we got to take a break here. 844-747-8868. That's our toll-free telephone number.

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Okay, we're going to be talking about this in depth at the top of the next hour, but there has been a raging debate across the nation about reparations. And Fox News has plugged into what's happening here in Memphis. Yesterday, county commissioners voted to spend $5 million of your tax dollars to study a reparations plan.

Now, the plan would actually provide money for every black citizen, but if you are white, Hispanic, Asian, you won't get a penny. The white people, Hispanic people, and Asian people will have to pay blacks their reparation. And I presume that would be in the form of a tax, but we don't know because they haven't launched the study yet. But they're actually taking the money from pandemic cash. In other words, this is money that was given.

Two Shelby County, Tennessee, by the federal government for the China virus pandemic.

Now, the lawmakers say they're able to get around that and use that money for the reparation study because they believe racism is a global pandemic. And therefore, if it's a pandemic, you can use the cash for the reparation study. No, I'm not making this up. I know it sounds ludicrous. What do you want me to do?

So, anyway, there's a lot to unravel here, but it got pretty ugly at this meeting yesterday.

Now, I want you to understand. That Memphis Is an example of what's going to happen nationally.

Now, Memphis is a majority-minority city. They and the Democrats have controlled this city for generations. Generations. It's the Democrats, by the way, who opposed the civil rights movement. It's the Democrat Party that created the Klan.

So I'm not sure why all these black commissioners are members of the Democrat Party, but it is what it is. We have a majority black city council, a majority black county commission. We have a black police chief. And again, the entire city is controlled by the black community. And I'm not saying that to be negative or positive or anything.

That's just the reality. That's the facts. This is the context.

So now they're saying that even though we control everything, it's not enough. We need more. And so they want to give black citizens a reparation. Folks, this could be billions of dollars just in the Memphis area. And we have some great audio.

We're going to play a lot of this in the next hour. It's going to blow your mind. But one of the lawmakers said that And she called out white. There are only a handful of Republicans on the county commission, and they're white. And one of them said it was just un-American.

And the other said, look, this is dividing us. Why are we going down this path of reparations? We need unity in this city. We don't need further division. And so one of the black commissioners got up and just reamed her out and said that the Republicans' whiteness was triggering her.

That her white experience of living in the suburbs was triggering. And we've got all of this on audio, and we're going to play a lot of this coming up in the next hour of the program. But I'm sitting here and I'm watching all of this in real time, and then I went back and watched it again. And I was thinking to myself, wow, if. If a white Lawmaker had gotten up and said, You know what?

Your blackness triggers me. Do you realize that would have been wall-to-wall news coverage? I mean, everybody would be talking about it.

So why is it okay for this black lawmaker to say the color of your skin is triggering to me? Does that make any sense to you? Yeah. One lawmaker who is a school teacher brought up, well, the Japanese got reparations that were interred during World War two. Yes, they did, but those were the Japanese who were literally interred in in these camps.

And don't forget, going back to the post-Civil War era, where reparations were in fact given to slaves who were freed. You could either accept it or reject it, but it was 40-what is it? 40 acres and a mule. You were given 40 acres of land and a mule. But apparently, that's not good enough for this new generation.

And as I point out, a lot of these people talking about their grandparents who were enslaved.

Okay, well, let's think about this for a second. Their grandparents grew up in the 1970s and 80s. There were no slaves in America in the 70s or 80s. I know I trigger a lot of people because I share facts with you, but that's the reality of it. This is a very dangerous path this country is about to go down.

Anyway, this audio is going to blow your minds. And nobody's saying anything about this, except for us. All right, 844-747-8868. That's our toll-free telephone number. And I'm just going to.

This is a very straightforward question: Do blacks living in modern-day America dollars. deserve reparations. And if they do, How much? 844-747-8868. That's our toll-free telephone number.

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And by the way, happy was this Black History Month.

So, and my favorite, you know, a lot of people say, who are your favorite heroes? Of course, Clarence Thomas. The chick from Star Trek and Urkel, among others. And but. No.

No. You're saying, what is going on? Did Todd put something in the sweet tea today? No, Todd has not. Todd has spent the last 24 hours engrossed in audio from a commission meeting where they were discussing reparations.

In other words, they want to take money away from Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, and honky Americans, and they want to give that money to black Americans, specifically here in Memphis, Tennessee.

Now, we've got a lot of audio to cover on this, and we're going to get to your calls. I hope Beverly has been holding on. Hang tight, Beverly. We're going to get to you, and Mark, and Janice. But I have a question for you: Do you believe that black Americans are deserving of reparations?

And if so, how much? 844-747-8868. That's our toll-free telephone number. That's 844-747-8868. Now, I know the little boys over at Media Matters, the ones who live in their mother's basements, they have the bad skin problems and eat the funions, and they monitor this program.

I know they just soiled themselves because they said Todd Starnes just identified as a black man. And yes, that is true, but the reason I'm doing that is because I want my reparations. And as we all know, you are allowed to self-identify. Just ask Elizabeth Warren, Pocahontas herself.

So, yesterday, there was a big meeting about this with the Shelby County Commission. And the commissioners were debating whether or not to spend five million dollars of your tax money to study this issue of reparations.

Now there are only three Republicans on the commission Who voted against this? One of them. She is rock solid. She's a conservative, and she is a fierce warrior, this lady. Because I'm telling you, to be a conservative in Memphis, Tennessee, you got to have thick skin and you got to have boxing gloves.

Her name is Amber Mills. She's a county commissioner, and she just laid it out. She says, Look, what are we doing here, people? Cut number six. I wasn't sure what I was going to say.

I knew I needed to say something, and I'm not going to say much. I feel like. All this is doing is dividing a community in a desperate time when we really need to unite with all the issues we have going on. Um And it's just come to a point where. our skin color is you can't even have a conversation with people.

I tried to have a conversation with a fellow commissioner, and she felt a little triggered by my whiteness. I mean, that's where we are these days. And now we're doing resolutions Where certain people get Reparations All right, that is Amber Mills, the commissioner.

Now, my question was: well, geezaloo, who did she trigger? And by the way, Commissioner Mills lives in the suburbs. And I did a little bit of research, and we found out who it was. It was a fellow Commissioner. Yeah.

And her name is Brittany Thornton. She is a black Democrat.

Now, Brittany Thornton is a wackadoodle leftist, but she laid it all out there. She's making the argument for why we need reparations. And she's specifically targeting, and you're going to hear a phrase, Orange Mound.

Well, that is an impoverished, crime-riddled area of Memphis. And Amber Mills lives in the suburbs. And you need to understand that so you can understand the context of what she has to say, cut number one. Commissioner Thornton. Thank you, Mr.

Chairman. I've been in and out of this conversation, and I just want to own that the conversation at hand, though it's steeped in racial identity, you know, there are just some basic social justice elements to it that we all should be sensitive to. You know, today has been a really polarized day, but I don't think that though some of us in our delegation have never lived a single day as a black person, though some people in our delegation have never lived a single day as a poor black person, that that should prohibit you from being able to see a clear opportunity to right some ills. And all day today, I have been pointing out how the practices of our government are disenfranchising a certain subgroup of our population, which happens to be the majority here. And I just think that when you see phenomenons like this that just should not make sense.

That shows a clear imbalance that we should do our due diligence to try to right those wrongs.

So, to Commissioner Mills, I own the fact that today your whiteness triggered me because it is actually an identity that I recognize postures you differently from me. It comes with privileges that I simply just do not have. And every single day that you get to go in one direction and I get to go to Orange Mound, I notice the differences in what those experiences are, and I bring those experiences here to say that if I'm triggered, I mean, it just is what it is, right? And if this type of reparation conversation needs to start, unfortunately, in 2023, then it just needs to start, which it should have already done. Because on my way here, I looked on the wall and I saw the very first picture of an exclusive delegation of white men on the wall for 1962.

So it took some time for us to even get here to be able to create this space. Had our predecessors valued It than it would have been created a long time ago.

So it is very much so unfortunate and to our dismay as a county for us to have to wait so long for us to be able to right wrongs. And this is what the racial wealth gap tells us. It tells us that in my lifetime, in anybody's lifetime in this room, and some of us combined, that we will not be able to close this gap.

So why wait any longer than today? We already should have done it. And if you cannot understand it, then there is so much information out there for you to study. It is not my responsibility to teach you, it is your responsibility to educate yourself on these issues and take responsibility in the seat that you possess. Thank you.

All right. Thank you, Commissioner Thornton. By the way, those white men that she mentioned on the wall all happened to be Democrats. The party. Of Miss Brittany Thornton.

So, my question to her is: why are you a Democrat, dear? But Commissioner Thornton, and I've invited her to come on this program, and I hope she does to explain herself. But what this woman said is flat-out racist. Flat out racist. Could you imagine the national outrage if a white commissioner would have said, Well, you know what?

Your blackness is triggering to me. You can't say that, by the way, but you're not allowed to. It's illegal or something. But there you go, Brittany Thornton, a black progressive Democrat, putting whites in their place.

Now I want you to hear me, and I want to make sure that all the folks that are monitoring the program in the liberal world are listening to this. I believe that reparations is in fact a form of slavery. I do. I believe you are forcing people to get out there, get a job, go to work, and then turn that money over to somebody else. That, in my estimation, Is an equivalent To a modern version of slavery.

And it's appalling. The fact of the matter is that they have elected people like this woman, Brittany Thornton, in Memphis, Tennessee, with these racist with this racist ideology, and that's okay. This kind of garbage is not only tearing Memphis apart, it's tearing apart the entire nation. The entire nation. Yeah.

And you ought to be. Outraged over this. Outraged.

So we're going to be going to the phones. And I want to get your take on this. And I also want to hear from folks from Memphis. We have full lines right now.

So if you get a busy signal, keep dialing. Let's go to Beverly in Georgia, listening to us on WTUN. Bemberly. Do you support or do you oppose reparations? I oppose referendums, and I'll tell you one big reason why.

I have several branches in my family tree, as most of us do. And One of the branches of my family three contains Cherokee Indians and one contains Irish people.

Now The Cherokee Indian. If you remember, got this nice free uh walk on trip to out west. After giving up there. Calm way. The Irish got Blairy.

They were A lot more, um Oh, the Irish were despi the Irish were despised and hated when they came to this country. I mean, it was terrible. Yes, they were. And and you could get a an Irish slave cheaper than you could get a black slave.

So people did that. And then I started uh crossbreeding the Irish and the blacks to make Nobody wanted to.

So the question is: do all of those folks are they eligible for the reparations? Because this is Beverly, we keep electing Democrats to Washington, D.C. This will be a federal-national discussion we're having here.

So I think we can all agree that slavery was wrong. It was this nation's, one of this nation's greatest sin, if not the greatest sin of this nation. And what happened? We fought a war over it. And what happened?

The Republicans pushed the issue and they were able to outlaw slavery. It was the Republicans who did that. And I know people like to do revisionist history, but those are the facts. And I think we can all agree that there are horrible blemishes in American history, horrible blemishes in world history. But the great thing about this thing we call this experiment, this great American experiment, is that we learn from our past and we try to do better.

And yet there are. Are people in office right now that would literally have you believe that people were enslaved in the 1980s and 1990s? It's just unbelievable. Beverly, thank you for that call. Let's go to Jane in North Carolina.

Hi, Jane. What say you? And hi, it's wonderful to be on your show. Thank you. I just want to comment on the uh issue of uh black rest restorations and all this other stuff that they've been asking for.

Um It I'm Irish. I came across with the Irish. We were well hated and, um And I can go back in my history and look at it. But the bottom line is: don't listen to me, don't listen to other people, listen to the facts. Look up history, not the rewritten history.

So go actually look at the documents and you'll see. That their claim on sixteen nineteen is Jamestown and three hundred thousand slaves that were brought over. Actually, it was indentured servants that were brought over. The first slave law brought into this country was a black uh plantation owner on a black indentured slave.

So and at the same time, they have actual records coming from Scotland and Ireland and a lot of your northern areas of two point five million white slaves and indentured servants coming over.

So the three hundred thousand to the millions. is is white In the millions, blacks in the hun in the hundreds of thousands. And I think I guess what bothers me the most is We're Americans. I don't see color. I wasn't raised to see color.

We're raised as American. We're the American melting pot. We work together. And we create a better society. And when I listen to these people getting time on the air.

I mean, it's good to listen. But it's history. You can't change it. You can't decided to write a book called sixteen nineteen and then change everything without Documentation to back it up, and they don't have it. And Jane, that's exactly for a member.

And that's, yeah, this is terrible. This is a beautiful town. But there are fascists. There are fascists that have been elected to office, and they are shoving this agenda because they know that they can divide people along racial lines. I mean, it's just pouring gasoline.

And it's coming from China and this world order 'cause they need to divide this country and that was a hot topic. It it's always been a hot topic and it and they've been able to do it.

So I think there's more power behind this with the Soros people and this world order and the Chinese than people realize. There's money being poured into keeping this topic alive.

Well, and yes, because it will create chaos in the culture, which is exactly what it's doing here. Jane, appreciate the call. And this is why we're bringing this to your attention as a nation, because they are using Memphis as some sort of a test. To see if they can sow dissension and unrest across this nation. And right now, it's working in Memphis.

And we've just got to stand up, call it out, and put a stop to it. But I'm tired of these people, these professional race baiters, trying to divide all of us along racial lines. All right, we're going to take a break. Lines are full. Keep calling 844-747-8868.

This is the Todd Stern Show. All right, let's get to the phones. A lot of folks wanting to weigh in on this one today. Let's go to Ohio. Harold on the line.

Hi, Harold. What say you? How are you doing, Todd? Real good. You know, a lot of people talk about the differences in contributions at different races.

Here's something nobody's ever thought about and it's so obvious. civilization itself was brought to this country and the rest of the world by uh Western Europeans. The the phones we're talking on now, the cars we drive, the homes we live in, the electricity, the running water, airplanes was all brought to us by white men. And you know, and the blacks came over and they got to enjoy it. But you know, everything even the welfare system that they generationally abused.

like crazy for many years. On you, that's reparations right there that they got that they didn't deserve. But I'm saying civilization was brought to us by the white race.

Well, hold on. Hold on, Harold. Hold on. I want to push back a little bit here because when you look at world history, and David Barton and our friends over at Wall Builders have done a terrific job of laying out what all races have contributed to our society. It's not just the white man, but it's the black man, it's Hispanic, and it's the Asian.

We all, everybody contributes. I agree.

Now, as far as. Yeah, hold on, but as far as the welfare system here, this was a devious plan that was put forward by Lyndon Johnson to control an entire race of people. It was evil. They want everybody to get sucked into the welfare because they want people to be dependent, the white man and the black man. They want all of us to be dependent on the government for everything.

And this has been the greatest force of evil in our nation in the modern history. Yeah, I know. I remember hearing a guy a black guy that worked for General Motors And uh his wife would go to the grocery store and fill the shopping carts up with steaks. And I used to say, I know you work at General Motors, but how can you afford that? And he said, well, me and my wife got divorced on paper.

And she took uh herself and six or seven of the kids, not all of them his. down to welfare and signed up and now they you know and then they Lived apart for a while in case anybody came around to check on him.

Well, I know this huge welfare checks, and he makes money at General Motors. And uh they were laughing about it, you know, that uh That's that's the way you gotta be, these uh Well, I know there are a lot more white people on welfare than there are other minority groups in America. And I've seen a lot of white folks do the same thing with their debit cards. And we've got to get people weaned off of the welfare system. Harold.

Well, you've got to get them away from the victim mentality, too. I mean, everything they got, even like Lyndon Johnson came up with that welfare system, you're right. But everything that the black race enjoys, the cars they drive, the homes they live in, everything was brought to them by white civilization. Nope. Harold, going to disagree with you on that, sir.

And we're good. We're done here. Thank you, Harold. But again, folks, it's that kind of thing. No, that's not right.

Yeah. All of us contribute. No matter the color of our skin. But I'm tired of this victim mentality out there. And he's right about that.

Harold is right about that. All right, we got to take a break here, pay some bills. 844-747-8868. That's our toll-free telephone number. That's 844-747-8868.

We'll be right back. All right, I uh triggered a few folks. In Memphis, when I asked this question. The $5 million in tax money that we're going to be spending on the reparation study. Are they using the tax dollars from white people or black people?

Do we know? Because, again, it seems to me that that might be triggering for people like Commissioner Thornton, who says that blacks are owed a reparation. Therefore, their tax dollars should not be spent on something like that. I don't know. Again, another piece of the puzzle.

Here is another county commissioner. Her name is Brandon Morrison. She's a Republican. And man, did she catch fire for saying this? Cut number two.

We can all agree that each of us or maybe we can agree that each of us and most societies throughout history have had failings. And um I would just say, from my humble vantage point, I would just say the human condition is depraved, and we've heard many a minister stand up here and tell us to pray for revival, and I will be doing that as long as I live. And I think that's where the answer is. I think that this, personally, I see this resolution as un-American in a lot of ways. Yeah.

I don't think it really I believe it would not help the black people, but rather it would hurt them. the way I see it. And I think the money would be much better spent with workforce initiatives and. finding ways to elevate. As we've been trying, I think we've been trying to do all along.

I just wanted to state my opinion.

Well, there you go. And that immediately triggered another blank commissioner by the name of Erica Sugarman, cut number four. It sads me every time we hear someone stand up, they're accused of being un American. In going back to history, I'm a social studies teacher. It was a President who sent Japanese Americans to internment camps Okay.

Later on, it was Ronald Reagan who said he was sorry and gave them reparations. The Jews received reparations, and when Black people stand up and say, look, We want an opportunity to study the situation, to make some differences, to implement five pillars and to put forth some initiatives, then all of a sudden we're an American. I don't accept that. I don't accept that. M my mother's cousin.

A black man. whose father was one of the presidents of More house. was liched.

So don't tell me I'm un-American. I've had grandfathers, my father, my daughter. We have generations after generation of people who serve this country. Don't dare say I'm un-American. Because I support this.

Don't dare do that. All right, is she going to double-dog dare? Because I'm going to call you an American lady. I'm going to call you not only un-American, I'm going to call you what you are doing is unconstitutional. And I will also say this: I believe that it's a sin.

And here's the reason why. The good book lays it all out for us. We are not responsible for the sins of our fathers. Yeah. But what this does, and what these Democrats want to do, is they and this is what the whole critical race theory movement is about, ladies and gentlemen.

They want you to atone for the sins of your forefathers. Yeah. That is un-American, it is unconstitutional, and it is unbiblical. All right, let's go to the phones here. 844-747-8868.

Let's start in Memphis. Bill listening to us on KWAM Radio. Bill, what say you? Yeah um yeah, what's up, Tottenham I mean um You know, I figure I was wondering waiting for somebody here in Memphis, one of these. And of course, Edmund Ford, you figured he'd be the one to come up with this.

Yeah, it's obviously You know, the point is, here we go again. They're just trying to Pit us against each other, basically. It's like, well, if you don't support this, well, then you're racist. If you do support it, well, you know. A lot of these African-American people that just live their life like I do, like you do.

They just go to work, just want security, safeness in their neighborhoods, be able to come home. Let their kids get a decent education, not worry about getting attacked at school on the way home from school. They were not looking for handouts or anything. They were busting their butts every day like you and I do. But then you have these people at the top.

trying to instigate stuff and they use this to their advantage and this Whoever came up with this reparations all of a sudden now, they're taking full-blown, you know, Black Lives Matter. made millions of dollars off of this falsity. And then they come up with this fake 1619 projects, not based on any histor history, definitely not of this country. I mean, it's all basic. Create income flow, free money.

These activists and these people at the top, they're getting all this money. They're not letting this money trickle down. And even this reparations project here in Memphis, Edmund Ford suggested, is to create a website.

Now, who's going to get the money off that website? Who's going to get paid that money? It's going to be probably him or some of his family members.

So that's not even really that five million, it's not even going to people who supposedly need it. It's to create a website. to have them be able to make a um a a request for that stuff.

So it's it's all a scam. But, you know, you have all these People these Caucasian white folks, whatever you want to call it, feel guilty for whatever reason, all the time feeling guilty about something. or fall for this crap all the time and It's like you know, the normal people, they're just trying to keep us fo like Donald Trump was probably the most Fair president, he created an economy that benefited everybody across every racial. And um ev ev everybody, for everybody. And yet they they termed him as like the most racist president in history.

And it's such a farcical lie and people are falling for this, and I'm so sick of it. I'm sick of it. Good for you, Bill. And people need to hear that. They need to hear it.

I'm not sure they're going to accept what you have to say, but they need to hear it. Bill, appreciate the call. Thank you for listening. 844-747-8868. Lines are open now.

Let's go to John in Georgia. Hi, John. What's on your mind? Hello, mister Starrs. Thanks for the opportunity.

Just an observation in another lifetime. I traveled to Africa. probably fifty times would work and Um I should I would say that again, I'm a white man, but just my observation that People calling for reparations Shouldn't Black people calling for reparations should be on their knees praying to whoever they prayed to. that their ancestors were conquered by other tribes traded to the Portuguese who sold sold them to the British. And brought slaves to the United States.

Because Africa today is hell on earth. The poverty The corruption the the tribalism It it it it just It's mind-boggling. The that a continent with so much wealth and riches. can be so poor.

So Maybe uh it's a good thing that they were brought here.

Well I've got a I've I've got a uh Um PhD, a friend with a PhD in aeronautical engineering. From Nigeria. Um okay. And he he is racist. towards black Americans.

Because Yeah. He I would be walking down the street in Los Angeles. What's up, brother? Wh what what do you mean, what's up? I'm not your brother.

And you should know what's up. Mm-hmm. He had no respect for it for anybody that wasn't educated, didn't try to better themselves.

Well, John, look, and I appreciate the call here. And look, on this program, we respect everybody. You know, we want to respect people. We want to hear debate. We want to hear the other side.

And, you know, I was watching a movie a couple of days ago on the Netflix called The Woman King. Have you heard about this movie? It was interesting. I wouldn't exactly recommend it. It's not a page turner, that movie.

But one of the interesting components and the backstory here, it's about a true story based on an army of African women who fought and defended their tribes. A central theme of this is that when the tribes were defeated in war, the other tribe was sold off into slavery.

So you had Africans selling Africans into slavery. That part of the story seems to get lost in history. And I know we have people out there saying, well, Well, we need to be teaching history. Yes, we do, but we need to be teaching all of history, the good and the bad. Yeah.

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which ultimately will do nothing but divide America. A cut number ten, please. I wasn't expecting to speak on this topic, but after the preceding two people that live in the same county as me decided that they should come and flex their privilege, I thought I should speak up as well. Systemic racism is real. I'm here because I wanted to talk about Tyree Nichols, a black person who was murdered.

White people aren't getting murdered by police. That's systemic racism. Systemic racism is real. Check your privilege, please. You have a lot of work to do.

Please vote yes on this resolution. Thank you. Jesus Lou. You know, I wonder if she's a vegan. Wow, that one.

You know, there are people out there that believe this nonsense. And the reality is, I don't know what it's like in your neighborhood, but about 99% of the crime, it is black on black. And it is awful and terrible. And my question is: who's going to stand up for the black victims of crime? Who's going to do that?

All right, let's go to the phones. Let's go to Mark in the Villages, America's friendliest hometown. Hey, Mark, what's going on? Hey, Todd, I need to come over there and spend the day with you. We'd have a lot of fun.

Um Your past caller has already touched on the Native American Indians, you know, what they've gone through and the pain and suffering. You don't see them out there looking for reparation. They work hard every single day. Also wanted to touch basis on pal Sarah Paling in this the stances Um, seeing I live in Florida, we really like the Santa's, as do many other people that I know. We have to go.

which we have to go with someone that has a proven has proven himself time and time again. on taking on the task of dealing with failed policies, corruptions and lies. And that person is Trump. Palin is right, DeSantis needs to sit this one out. And maybe vice presidents, what I you know, what I recommend.

I just think that. These people that are against Trump right now better sit down and kind of look at things and look at the way this country is right now. Do you want to take a chance on somebody to? hasn't been there yet like Trump has. DeSanas has done good with Florida, but when you start dealing with These third world countries or states like California, New York, that's a whole different animal.

Whole different animal. I just want to see if DeSantis can take a political punch. That's what I'm waiting to see. And I don't think he's had to do that just yet in Florida. And he needs to we need to find out if he's going to be able to truly be a fighter.

Yeah, we just don't know what he can do yet. And you know, you like this Pete Buddha judge. He is a train wreck. And those other idiots running this country, they're off their rails as well. I mean, this country's just falling apart.

And I just we need to get Trump back into office. And it for four more years, and we'll we'll love to put DeSanthus in there. I am not going to take a chance, nor is a lot of people here in Florida that I personally know, going to take a chance and saying, okay, we're going to put him in there. knowing what Trump's already done. That's a good point.

That's a great point. Mark, appreciate that thought. Thank you for listening. Good hearing from you, friend. Let's go to James in North Carolina and wants to wait on the reparations.

Hi, James. What's on your mind? Yes, sir. How you doing? I'm good.

Thank you for the scenario on you. What if you your great, great, great grandmother was a white woman living near Savannah, Georgia? When Sherman came through, Your husband got killed at Gettysburg. You had three kids. Sherman burned your house, burned your farm.

burned your animals, took everything you had and left you with nothing. Do you think maybe they should qualify for reparation?

Well, yes, at the time, sure, I have no problem with that. I mean, they didn't get forty acres and a mule. No, they should have. I mean, but what yeah, what you I'm not I'm not sure I'm understanding your point here, James. I'm saying that how are you going to evenly distribute reparations?

There's people that deserve it. People that joined the Confederate Army were made to join the Confederate Army. They didn't have a choice, so they get hung.

So What if you were the descendant of that woman her husband was killed? She her house was burned. She was probably financially set back because of that and her ancestors. Should she get reparation?

So, look, I think Ronald Reagan gave us a great example of how this should work. You had Japanese, innocent Americans, who were thrown into prison camps during World War II, and a reparation, a payment was made to those people, to those people, not their great-grandkids or their great-great-grandkids, to those people.

So, again, looking at what happened after the Civil War, when black citizens were offered 40 acres and a mule, some took it, some did not. Were the people whose farms were burned out by Sherman, were they offered reparations? No, I don't believe they were.

So, look, James, this is an ugly argument, and it's offensive that people are trying to bring this issue of reparations up. It is. The Irish were mistreated. The Chinese that worked on a railroad were mistreated. You could go on and on and on.

Yep. My ancestors were sharecroppers. I think we were poorer than we were broke, poor, poor, broke. We were bad off. But you know what?

Each generation has an opportunity to get a leg up. If you ain't never pulled tobacco, man, you ain't never worked a day in your life. I had to bail hay once during college, and I can promise you, James, it made me study a whole heck of a lot harder. You didn't start till after one o'clock because it had to be dry, right? That's it.

That's it. So that's some hard work right there. James, got to run. Appreciate that call. Appreciate your thoughts.

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Well, hello, America. Welcome to the Todd Stearns Radio Program. We made it to our three, ladies and gentlemen. Wow, you folks are fired up today. By the way, just moments ago.

Just moments ago we got word of The first lady of these great United States That would be First Lady Dunter, Mrs. Jill Biden She's making some headlines because she apparently ordered reporters out of her van so she can conduct a private interview with CNN, the most profane name in news. Crying Negro Network. Thanks, Judge Joe Brown. By the way, a lot of people, I got to stop for a second.

A lot of people say, Todd, what is that? That's offensive. No, that's Judge Joe Brown. Yeah. One of the pride and joys of Memphis, Tennessee, homegrown talent.

Anyway, he was talking on, and he was doing an interview about CNN and talking about their propensity to break out in tears.

So that's why we use Judge Joe Brown. And he's always there to offer his pithy opinion about that.

So, anyway, First Lady, and the thing is about the Biden administration, I want to read this. This is coming from Simon Atiba, who is a chief White House correspondent for Today News Africa. He said journalists who traveled to Nambia with First Lady Dr. Mrs. Jill Biden were surprised moments ago.

When they were asked to leave the site of an event and were held in the van, while Jill Biden did a private interview with CNN. She's in Africa on a two-nation six-day trip. Not surprising because we've seen this with the Biden administration. They simply do not like to do interviews with the press corps. Donald Trump, if he's ordering a Big Mac and a side of fries at McDonald's, he's happy to do an interview.

And we played that audio in the first hour of the show. Pete Booty Judge, again, he does not like to do interviews.

So there you have it.

Meanwhile, just moments ago, KJP launching her press conference, and she made a serious faux pas. Take a listen. I have two more for you and I promise we'll get to your questions.

Okay, so today, as you all saw, just an hour or so ago, President Obama announced that pardon me, President Biden, whoa! Whoa! That is news. I know, I know. We're going back, not forwards.

We've got to go forwards.

Okay, President Biden announced that the United States is nominating AJ Banga to be president of the United States. That's what you needed to hear right there. That's what you needed to hear. I don't think that was a mistake. I think she accidentally let the cat out of the bag.

Meow. Obama's still running things, folks. I'm just telling you, he is still running things. 844-747-8868. A lot of you are wanting to weigh in on this story, and I want to go to the phones here.

Let's head to Janice in Georgia, listening to us on WDUN. Janice, what's on your mind today? I know you want to talk about Trump. I think he has done more for our country he's more concerned about the citizens here than he is Um President. Present T.

And um Putin. Even though he's got the di diplomacy, he came into the White House with diplomacy. And he still has that. He's very, very in you know, highly intelligent. Yeah.

And um but he plays himself down because he realizes that he's got to deal with all the people. His humor is very self-deprecating at times, and people don't understand that. But see, you know, the the left I mean, I have A lot of friends here in the South, and yet I have a few that are not. They have not chosen him as the president. They find little things and they'll just make a mountain out of a molehill.

But getting back to the president, he has done great, great things for our. our state even though it seems like the more good he does, the more they go after. And they don't stop to think, this man doesn't even he doesn't even get a paycheck. No, you look at all the things he does. Janice, that's a great point.

During his presidency, he never accepted the paycheck. He always donated it to someone or some organization. And also the things that he did before he got the White House. I mean, it it's amazing. If you re you can you can even go to YouTube or just Google it, some of the wonderful stories that people have told.

And this is just this is There's half of it. It is. Janice. I think people are overlooking his capabilities and his abilities. Yeah, I think you're right.

And he is a good and decent man, and he doesn't go out there bragging about the good deeds he does across this nation. Janice, appreciate that call. Thank you for listening. I want to go to the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line, a very odd story out of Miami Beach. You know, we talk a lot about religious liberty on this radio show.

But it's not just of the Christians, the evangelicals who are under attack. Also, people of the Jewish faith are under attack. Our friends over at First Liberty Institute are knee-deep in a story there. I want to go to the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line and say hello to Ryan Gartner. Hi, Ryan.

How are you today? I'm doing well. All right. I'm well, thank you. I want you to tell our listeners what's happening in Miami Beach.

What's going on down there? Absolutely. So the Freedom from Religious Foundation have basically been on a letter writing campaign for the past two months, sending Multiple threatening letters to the Miami Beach City Commission. Because this commission is giving grants To both secular organizations and religious organizations. And in this case, the recipients have been Jewish organizations.

And the Freedom from Religion Foundation is saying this is against the law? Exactly. They they are claiming that it is unconstitutional, but in doing so, they are applying precedent that the Supreme Court has explicitly overruled So, so, Ryan, again, you guys have fired off a letter. What have you told the good people there in Miami Beach?

Well We told the Miami City Commission that what they are doing is perfectly constitutional. There have been a trio of Supreme Court cases in the past six years addressing this exact issue. And the court has held that neutral government benefits Can be given to both rel can be given to religious organizations alongside their secular neighbors. And in fact, if a city were to deny a grant to a religious organization. based solely on the fact that it is religious.

That in itself would be a constitutional violation. All right, do we have any indication here, Ryan, about the group itself, what they want to do with the grant, any of that information? We do not have that information at this time. But religious groups all over the country. just want to help out their communities and be good neighbors like everybody else.

No doubt about that. All right. Well, Ryan, we appreciate you calling in and giving us an update. And we'll be following this story. Folks, you can get more information at firstliberty.org.

That's firstliberty.org. Ryan, thank you very much. Thank you. Have a good day. All right.

You too. All right. Wow.

So we're going to, before we take a break, I want to play some audio. We've got a lot to get through today.

So we've been we've noticed around the nation this war on this war on victims.

So they don't want to society, these George Soros-funded district attorneys, they don't want to target the criminals. They want to make the victims the bad guys here. There is a story. About an 11-year-old.

Now, hear me on this: an 11-year-old arrested nine times for 19 crimes. In just over two months, and the kid is still walking the streets. We've been talking in the newsroom about this stunning statistic that we learned yesterday from our police chief. There have been over 2,200 car thefts in the city of Memphis this year. Shocking statistic.

Yeah, shocking indeed, indeed, Joe. And listen to this: an 11-year-old, 11-year-old was charged with the crimes last week. Our Walter Murphy Live in Studio Now with the latest about this child's rap sheet. Walter, to say that an 11-year-old has a rap sheet says a lot within itself. Yeah, it does, Joy.

That 11-year-old was charged on February 10th with stealing a car and robbing a business. But over the last two months, the child has been arrested nine times with 16 charges. It all started on December 2nd when the kid was charged with arson.

Now, six days later, that same kid was accused of carjacking someone with a weapon. Six days after that, on December 14th, the juvenile was charged with those same crimes again. And on December 15th, the 11-year-old was charged and was arrested. And charged with robbing someone and stealing another vehicle.

Now, the day after Christmas, the child was charged with robbing someone else. And in the new year, on January 5th, the 11-year-old was accused of stealing a car and stealing from a car, also with vandalism. During the longest break between the charges, the juvenile waited 28 days before allegedly stealing another car. On February 2nd, that same day, the kid was charged with three counts of burglary and theft of property.

Now, that brings us to February 10th, when the 11-year-old was charged with stealing a car and robbing another business. Memphis Police Chief C.J. Davis addressed city council yesterday saying that MPD must be able to work with juvenile court. She's requesting that juvenile courts give MPD Real-Time Crime Center access to ankle monitors, which they don't have right now. It's unclear whether or not the kid was wearing an ankle monitor.

It's also unclear if the child is back on the streets tonight, but we did request an interview with juvenile court judge Tarek Sugarman, and a representative with him said that he was too busy with court cases today. Reporting live in studio tonight, Joe Joy back. Back to you. All right. And back to you.

Thank you, there, reporter.

So, again, here we have yet another example of George Soros at work in America, where you have an 11-year-old career criminal. There's really no other way to describe the kid. I mean, 11 years old, arrested nine times for 19 crimes in a little over two months. May I ask a question? Nobody bothered to ask this question.

They wanted to get a comment from this person or that person. Nobody wanted to get a comment from mommy or daddy. If daddy is even in the picture. But I'd like to hear from mom and dad here.

So what's going on, mommy and daddy? That little uh that little Johnny here has been arrested nine times for nineteen crimes. Seems to me mommy and daddy ought to be in jail right alongside their little Hellion. Just take a look at that. But the great irony here is that kid is back out on the streets.

That's the news nugget here: you've got an 11-year-old career criminal who's probably back in school harassing people. All right, 844-747-8868. Let's go to Minnesota. James on the line. Hi, James.

What's on your mind today? Hey, Jay. I'm Todd. You're James. It's all good.

Well, you know what, you uh I'm from North Carolina and when you said James in North Carolina, I tried to answer the phone.

Well, there you go. All right, James, let's get to it. We don't have a lot of time here, so let's get to it. My ancestor, John Carruthers Stanley. Was the largest black slaveholder in Newbern, North Carolina.

And by all accounts, he was as big a tyrant as any white slave owner.

So if you want it in a nutshell, there it is.

So so you're telling me that you have an ancestor who was black who owned slaves. Correct. And Anne was a tyrant on top of that.

Well, that is a conundrum right there. I mean, what do you do? Wow.

Do does he does his does his family get uh reparation? Wow, that's a head scratcher right there, James. We ought to bring you down here to Memphis and have you ask that question of the Shelby County Commission. Yeah. Surely somebody would be triggered.

Todd, if you have some spare time, look up John Wright Stanley. He was my great-great-great-grandfather and the father of this black soldier. slave owner. He was an American patriot essentially. responsible for your and my freedom.

Well, you know what, James? I will do that. But right now, we've got to take a break.

So I appreciate your call. 844-747-8868. Again, that is a toll-free telephone number. That's 844-747-8868. Coming up in just a few moments, we're going to be chatting with our good friend from Fox News, Liz Peake.

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All right, some very good news. And super majority. Tennessee, where the House of Representatives, all controlled by Republicans, voted overwhelmingly to pass a ban on gender transition health care for minors. This is the gender mutilation surgeries. And the this is pretty important, and this is a blueprint for other states to follow.

By the way, there was bipartisan support for the legislation.

So it will require transgender children to end their current medical treatment by March of twenty twenty four. And again, once you become an adult and you can make those decisions for yourself, fine, great. What is it they say the average human brain is not fully mature until age 25?

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Good for you, Tennessee Republicans.

So, the New York Times editorial board, Mara Gay, serves on that body, and she's now calling out social media companies. I want you to, you know what, we're going to hold off on this because it's a little bit lengthy, and we will play this when we come back from the break. But she's saying that social media companies. Yeah. need to crack down on free speech.

She goes on to say that free speech is an outdated concept.

Now why is she saying this? Mainly because nobody's reading the New York Times anymore. Yeah. As a matter of fact, our website among all the talk radio hosts, all the major hosts in America, we're the number one. Radio website.

ToddStarnes.com. And that's really because of you guys. We do nothing but provide good content. And we appreciate you guys coming into our website every single day, reading our stories, listening to the podcast, and downloading our newsletter. And we have professional, conservative journalists that are providing that news for you.

But Ms. Gay says that free speech is outdated. The internet is rife with disinformation, most of it coming from the left, by the way. And she says only professional journalists should be allowed to disseminate news and information online. When, in fact, professional journalists are responsible for most of the misinformation on the internet right now, right?

Anyway, I find it interesting. She called free speech an outdated concept, but it's not a concept, it's a constitutional right. And by the way, a constitutional right that lets her spew this nonsense on national TV. All right, got to take a break. We'll be right back.

Both information and misinformation injected into this situation, none of which is to the benefit of the community when it comes to that misinformation.

So I think.

So I lost my train of thought. Um Oh, for heaven's sakes. That was Transec Transportation Secretary P. Butajej saying he lost his train of thought at the railroad disaster in East Palestine. Wow, this is a great example of how dismissive and they treat these good people with such disrespect and disdain.

Yeah. And as I've been telling you, and I know I've been getting some pushback, I've been telling you that the mainstream media and the Democrats, the reason why they're not more attentive to what's happening in East Palestine is because these are a bunch of white Trump supporters. Over 70% of that area voted for Trump in the last election. And to that point, just moments ago, Joy Behar from over at The View actually said the people there in East Palestine get what they deserve for voting for Trump. Said that on national television.

Just want to point that out there. All right, let's go to the Patriot Mobile newsmaker line. Good to have with us our great friend, the incredible columnist, Liz Peak. Liz, hope you're doing good today. I'm doing very well.

I hadn't heard that comment from Joy Behar, but honestly, that is so disgusting, it just it horrifies me. I mean, really, these are all citizens of the United States. Joe Biden promised to be a President for all Americans.

Well, these Americans have waited three weeks For the White House to notice that they had an absolute calamity in their community. Honestly, occasionally, this White House has such a misstep politically. It just boggles the mind because, after all, Todd, all these people do is politics. Not one of them knows how to run a restaurant or. Roof a house or raise chickens.

All they do is politics, and this is the worst political blunder. Yet, almost. I I don't know, that's quite a long list. Give it a day, Liz. Give it a day.

I know. I know. You know, did you see Trump, though, in the McDonalds? What a masterful moment that was. And a lot of people weighing in on that, they said they just felt they felt comforted by the President's demeanor.

Well, look, I mean, this was a made for Trump moment because he handled it exactly well. No one ever accused Trump of having bad political instincts. After all, he came from nowhere and became President of the United States, for heaven's sake, in his first ever political campaign.

So And by the way, against a politician, a lifelong politician, who was dead on Oz favorite to win.

So he obviously has good instincts, but also He did what needed to be done. He went and again, I don't understand how Other, you know, Biden and Pete Buttigieg really kind of missed this moment, but he went there and he did what was. appreciated by the community. He handed out stuff, food and everything else and water. I I mean, how is that How is that I mean, good for him for doing it, but how could the other guys not have seen that that's what they should have been doing?

It's a good point. I mean, you buy a guy a cheeseburger, you got him for life. I mean, that's just the way that goes. I don't want to deify President Trump, but I heard rumors that after he left, the ice cream machines actually started working again at that McDonald's. I don't know if that's true or not.

So, Liz, look, a couple of great columns you have here. And I want to start in Ukraine. You say that Joe Biden needs to answer three questions about Ukraine. What are those three questions?

Well, the first one is: what's our strategy? Are we trying to win this war? And believe me, I write this column not for. From a place of being Negative necessarily on the war. I get it that we have interest in pushing back against Putin, who is undoubtedly a really terrible person and, by the way, who will undoubtedly go ahead and invade another country if he's allowed to run riot in Ukraine.

So I get the rationale here. What I don't get necessarily is the strategy. And I point out in the column Biden never talks about winning this war. It's not a W word that ever shows up in any of his speeches, for example, that he just made in Ukraine or in Poland.

So if we're not going to win. What are we doing? Are we just going to fight to the last Ukrainian is breathing and the last building is still standing? I ask honestly, genuinely, I don't know what the strategy is. But, Todd, he needs to talk to the American people.

I don't think people are paying attention to the fact. That we have now committed $113 billion, more than our budget this year for the Department of Homeland Security in our own country, to this country, which is far away, and where, by the way, our much-vaunted allies of fifty nations. Are doing what? I mean, rarely have they come through with anything like the commitments that they have talked about.

So that's number one. The number two. And well, hold on, hold on there, because I want to play some audio here to your point. This is Janet Yellen. Announcing even more money going to Ukraine.

Take a listen, cut seven. Economic assistance is making Ukraine's resistance possible by supporting the home front, funding critical public services, and helping keep the government running. In the coming months, we expect to provide around $10 billion in additional economic support for Ukraine. Putin himself thought he would achieve a victory at minimal cost, in the words of CIA Director Bill Burns. One year later, Putin's war has been a strategic failure for the Kremlin.

All right, there you go. Another $10 billion on top of that. Yeah, and keep in mind, this is not armaments. This is not rounds of ammunition. This is cash.

This is cash. going on top of I think the prior to this, it was thirty billion in cash, going to pay government salaries and so forth. What's interesting is that in twenty nineteen, just to pick a date, The entire GDP of Ukraine was about $140 billion.

So we are now providing them with money equivalent to, what is that, over 30% of their annual GDP. And by the way, it's not like the entire country isn't Running. I mean, Kyiv is apparently a very vibrant city right now. Restaurants are full, et cetera, et cetera. What's worrisome about sending this much cash, and I'm sure they need a substantial amount of money to help right now.

is that we have now sent three Inspectors General from three different groups, State Department, Pentagon and USAID, Over to Ukraine on january twenty-third to see what was happening in terms of monitoring the cash, monitoring the weapons. Because in the days prior to that, Zelensky actually fired many top officials and one Undersecretary in their infrastructure division department in Ukraine was found guilty or fired for fraud. The reason this is all concerning is obviously this has been a very corrupt country. Volensky ran on trying to stamp out corruption. That does not happen overnight.

And what's pretty clear from the big shake-up in his government that went on just three weeks ago. There's still rampant corruption, rampant fraud. And when you send, remember that whole expression, pallets of cash, that's kind of what we're doing to Ukraine. uh it it is really uh an invitation to theft. Todd, we can't even keep track of the aid we dished out because of COVID.

Remember, one hundred billion dollars is missing?

Okay. So I just encourage people to ask Biden How much of our our Are not just the cash, but also weapons are going missing because I think Americans need to know. All right, Liz Peake on the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line. And Liz, I interrupted you, but we were on to question number two. That was question two.

I'm sorry. How much is going missing? Question number three. Question number three is what's the end game? I mean, are we just going to is next year going to be another one hundred billion dollars?

Do we have any limits? Do we have any idea about What's the stop date? I remember. In Afghanistan, many years ago, being at a Council of Foreign Relations meeting, and I think it was the treasurer of Afghanistan in our Countries saying basically we would need to have assistance for the next 60 years, 6-0 years. And I remember thinking, holy mackerel, the American people are never going to stand for that.

Well, we're only in this, Ukraine's only a year behind us now. But I think it'd be nice to have some idea of what's the plan. What's the plan going forward? Is there a point at which we just say enough, you have to settle, you have to agree with Putin on various guidelines? I don't know the answer, Todd, but Basically, my message to Biden is: talk to Americans.

We need to know what's happening here. It is concerning on a number of levels. We certainly do not want boots on the ground, at least American boots on the ground there. And of course, we don't want to get pulled into a war against Russia, maybe even China.

So this is a pretty precarious thing, and it's going to take some deft foreign policy to figure all of this out. And deft is not exactly in the Biden vocabulary.

Well, I think that's right. Um but and and so far you know, Biden keeps taking victory laps. Or what? Basically writing and giving away tens of billions of dollars of American taxpayers' money. I mean, that doesn't seem to me like a victory.

Now is it great that Putin didn't run roughshod over Kyiv in the first three weeks of the war? Absolutely. That was great. I I may be wrong, but I put that down more to the valor And courage and resistance provided by Ukrainians than really anything we did. Remember, I mean, going back to the beginning of all this, we leveled a lot of sanctions on Russia ahead of the invasion.

What else did we do? I don't think we provided enormous frontline materiel and armaments. We may have provided some, but I think it was Ukraine who basically stopped Putin because Putin's army was a ragtag badly managed, badly thought out. Uh grill And America has been kind of behind the curve in trying to get the military advantage here. You know, like with the tanks, obviously, as the most recent example, being pushed and pushed and pushed to provide them.

And then, when it appears that, yeah, it's a really critical issue. And the war could go very badly, quite swiftly without them. Then we kind of say, okay, we'll do that. But it's not. I don't know, it's not clear to me that we have a strategy.

And I think I think that's worrisome. All right, Liz, real quick, you've got another piece on FoxNews.com, which I'm fascinated by. And we just have a few minutes here, but violence spiked in our failing schools thanks to these policies. We just told our listeners about the situation in Memphis, my hometown, where you have an 11-year-old arrested nine times for 19 crimes in a little over two months, and the kid is back on the streets. And there's just rampant violence among our young people these days.

And you point this out in the column. Yeah, I mean, what's happening across the country, certainly in blue cities and states, is that. They're passing bills called raise the age, which means kids that are not kids usually sixteen, seventeen, eighteen years old cannot be tried as adults. And the problem with this is it's a well meaning thing because The argument is these kids' brains aren't fully developed. They're not really adults.

That may be true, but the problem is, kids respond. To incentivize sticks and carrots. If there's no stick. They're not going to behave well. And any child psychologist will tell you this.

If there's no punishment, like this, was it 13-year-old you just mentioned? twelve year old, if there's no punishment the first eight times he's getting arrested, of course, he's going to be arrested a ninth time. And that's what we're seeing. The recidivism level in these youth offenses is gigantic. But what's really tragic to me, Todd, and and sort of part of a bigger picture For years now, at least five years, Most school officials across the country have been trying to dumb down the punishments for misbehavior just in terms of class disruption, punching a kid in the playground, et cetera.

Suspensions are a rare event these days.

So you're starting with this kind of weakening of the discipline of schools. and it's now morphed into weakening of criminal offenses So the kids, I mean, you know, in Chicago, 60 kids were killed, shot dead last year. Unbelievable. 6-0 kids. And does nobody care about that?

I mean, we have these. nationwide vigils When a kid is sadly killed, tragically killed by a cop. How about The 60 kids in Chicago, don't they deserve a vigil? Because bad policies. And bad communities have led to these kids dying.

I mean, I find this. I know. It's just utter hypocrisy and tragedy. And Democrats do not care about our kids. They don't care about the fact they're getting killed.

They don't care that they're not getting educated and that they will forever be trapped in the lowest echelons of American opportunity. And I got to tell you, I think in 2024, Republicans have to hammer on this. hammer on education, hammer on kids' safety. And turn this thing around. I think it's an incredibly important political message.

From the GOP.

Well said. All right, Liz, we got to leave it there. Folks, we have links to both of those terrific columns over on our live show blog. Liz, good stuff. You came loaded for Bear today.

Thanks very much for having me. I appreciate it. All right. Take care. Liz Peak, everybody.

We got to take a break. We'll be right back. All right, folks, coming up this afternoon, be sure to watch yours truly. I'll be on Newsmax with Chris Salcedo. Looking forward to that conversation coming up about 04:45 Eastern time today.

Let's go right to the phones. Brandon in Memphis on the line. Brandon, how's it going today? Hey, Todd, doing great. I appreciate you letting me close the show out with you today.

Yeah, so Brandon, I understand you're pretty fired up over this reparations nonsense.

Well, Todd, I'm pissed off. And let me explain why. We've got a virus that's brewing in Memphis, and no, it's not COVID-19. It is liberal liberal. Awokeness moving from LA County, California, Chicago, and New York.

to our city. We just had our Shelby County Commission approve five million dollars, five million dollars of our tax dollars. to look at a study To to see if they should pay out reparations, Todd. It's absolutely outrageous.

So again, the challenge here is you've got commissioners who are flat out racist, and they were going after one commissioner, Amber Mills, and saying they were triggered by her suburban whiteness. They didn't say suburban, but we knew we could we know code when we hear it. listen, Kai, reparations are nothing more than modern day slavery. It's the most evil and most un American and most unconstitutional thing that's going on in our country right now. it's it's it's offering preferential treatment to citizens based on their skin color.

It's everything that we stand for against here in America, and it's happening right in our city in Memphis, Tennessee. And it's moving further to the left. It's becoming more liberal and more woke on a daily basis. These liberal Democrats, and they're racist as can be, are destroying our country. I'll say this, and I've had some issues with one of the other Republicans on the commission, but she flat out called reparations un-American.

And I say good for her. And that's what it's going to take, Brandon. I know you're a millennial. Do you see hope that your generation is going to be able to stand in the gap here and put a stop to this? I sure hope so, Todd.

But you know, I feel like every single day I'm a little bit more hopeless, and there's a lot of great young millennials. Gen Zers out there that are pushing. I think there's never been a better time to stand up for freedom. I think that President Trump brought that into our country and brought that feeling back, especially in a lot of these younger people. But it's hard.

It's hard to fight these liberal woke mobsters. But, Todd, we're not going to give up. We're going to every single day pound the pavement, and we're not going to give in to them. We're not going to let them cut off our children's genitals. We're not going to continue to let them do these things to our society.

All right, good stuff.

Well, Brandon, we appreciate you calling in there. We've got to ramp it up for the day. Don't be a stranger. That's Brandon Tony, ladies and gentlemen. A good political voice, conservative political voice in this part of the country.

All right, folks. Wow.

What a day. You know what? We're going to do this all over again tomorrow, Open Line Fridays.

So get your questions ready. You're going to be able to talk about whatever is on your mind tomorrow on the program. All right. Be good, everybody. This is the Todd Star Show.