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Oh, yeah. Happy Friday to you, America. It is Open Line Friday on the Todd Stearns Radio Program. We're going to have a lot of fun for the next three hours, and thank you for making the choice to hang out with us. We greatly appreciate it.
We take nothing for granted here on this program, and we would really be nothing without you, the great listeners of this show, from border to border, coast to coast, across the fruited plain.
Now, Open Line Friday, it's very simple. You know, a lot of you folks want to call in during the week, and the reason we decided to do this is because so many of you would call in and you want to talk about an issue, and it was a little off topic or a lot off topic.
So, we decided to make one day out of the week the opportunity for you to call in and ask me a question or talk about whatever is on your mind. And the telephone number is 844-747-8868. That's 844-747-8868. I'm very excited today for a number of reasons, and of course, the show is number one, but a very close second. The World Barbecue Cooking Contest is underway right now in Memphis, Tennessee.
We have nearly 200 teams from all over America that are smoking pork butts right now.
So, if I'm somewhat distracted, it's because I just caught a whiff of something on the smoker.
So, don't mind me. You just have to. Give me a little bit of grace today if I'm somewhat distracted. But I want to start with this story that took place yesterday outside of the U.S. Capitol building.
And There's a lot of controversy surrounding Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Now, Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Congresslady from Georgia, has done nothing wrong. And I want you to hear that right out of the gate. MTG has done nothing wrong here.
So there's a guy in Congress, his name is Jamal Bowman, he's from New York City, and he's making his mark by screaming and cursing at other lawmakers. And then when other lawmakers call him out, like MTG did, he starts crying and he's alleging that he's the victim, that he's been the victim of a crime.
So, I want to explain what happened yesterday, because this is mind-blowing. And it's really a continuation of an issue that occurred when Trump showed up in court in New York City to be arraigned. And MTG was there as a Republican leader.
So, um Let's start. Let's. I'm trying to see. I'm struggling with where we should start. And I think what we're going to do is play the allegations levied last night on.
MS DNC, where Jamal Bowman Called out MTG.
So he goes out of his way. He's yelling and screaming at MTG. George Santos, the liar from New York, interrupted his press conference and he was causing a huge scene. And all MTG did was. was respond to his screaming.
But here's how and she said that he was intimidating and that he was being very aggressive, which he was. Here's cut number 12, Jamal Bowman on MSDNC. Oh, my goodness. I mean, it's so nonsensical that it's comical. You can see clearly in the video that we were like.
Playfully jousting with each other. She was laughing, I was laughing. We were talking about each other's party and certain issues.
So the demeanor and the disposition on the steps, it was playful. We were going after each other.
So for her the next morning to say what she said, I mean, it's a complete one eighty number one. It's no longer comical now because now you are using historical racist tropes toward black men, menacing his mannerisms. I'm afraid. That's the stuff that got, you know, Trayvon Martin killed, Tamir Rice killed, Michael Brown killed. I mean, I believe Officer Darren Smith literally talked about his presence and his strength as an excuse for killing him.
And this has happened to black men historically. And so now we're in a dangerous space. And that's why I wanted to be really, really clear to reporters today how reckless and dangerous her statements were. And she should know better. I believe she knows better.
This is another reason why we need to teach the accurate history of America in our schools and make sure African American history is a part of that because her rhetoric and her behavior in Congress outside of me, pictures with the AR-15, with the squad behind her, chasing David Hogg and stalking him as he engaged in activism around gun violence. Her rhetoric, her language, her behavior has been aggressive and intimidating since she's gotten into Congress.
Now she's trying to display. It onto me.
Okay, so here's what MTG said after being attacked yesterday on the steps of the Capitol by Jamal Bowman. Cut 14. What concerns me about Jamal Bowman is he has a history of aggression, not just towards others, but towards me in particular. And I'm very concerned about it. But I will tell you what's on video is Jamal Bowman shouting at the top of his lungs, cursing, calling me a horrible, calling me a white supremacist, which I take great offense to.
That is like calling a person of color the N-word, which should never happen. Calling me a white supremacist is equal to that, and that is wrong. I feel threatened by him. He not only let a mob there, but his boisterous lies. And I'll tell you another thing he said outside there.
He was saying, save your party. I kept telling him, no, save the country. It's not about political parties. We shouldn't care about political parties. All right, so that's what he's demanding.
So, Jamal Bowman is demanding that MTG apologize for all this, all right?
So, why is she so concerned? Because MTG does the CrossFit. I mean, she could bench press a Buick. She's, I mean, she can take care of herself.
So why is MTG so concerned?
Well, again, you have to go back to what happened in New York City in April. The voice you are hearing is Jamal Bowman. Going after MTG and stirring up a mob to attack her. Cut number seven. The crime should be held accountable.
Congressman. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Sorry. Make your notes.
Now, let's talk about the truth.
Now, let's talk about the truth.
Get out of here. Get out of here. Get out of here! Get out of here! Now let's talk about the truth.
Get it out of here! What inspired that you're Jamal Bowman? What inspired that you take care of me? I was born and raised in New York City. This is the city that I love.
It's a city focused on hard work and love for all people. We will never accept hateful rhetoric in our city. Any rhetoric that is divisive, any rhetoric that uplifts white supremacy, we are pushing back against that in all its forms. Marjorie Taylor Greene needs to take her ass back to Washington and do something about gun violence. Do something about affordable housing.
Do something about childhood poverty. Do something about pilot change. Do your freaking job, Marjorie Taylor Greene. You don't need to be in New York City talking that nonsense. Go back to your district.
What are you doing here? You're here for politics. You're here because you want to be VP. You're here for your own fundraising. You're here for your own nonsense.
New York City stood up to Marjorie Taylor Greene today to let her know, get the hell out of here. Don't open one word in our freaking city. Hmm. Would you feel intimidated by that, ladies of the Todd Sterns radio program audience? Take yo ass out of here, woman Get the hell out of here, white woman.
That's what he was saying. By the way. May I just ask a question? Could you imagine if that was Senator Ted Cruz? Telling Ilhan Omar or Rashida Talib.
Yeah. Or Iana Presley. or any of the other members of the squad. To get the hell out. or to take their asses somewhere.
How do you think the mainstream media would have responded to that? But because MTG is a woman, and because she is a conservative woman, and because she is an outspoken conservative woman, and because she is an outspoken conservative Republican woman, Then the media says it's okay. For a Democrat to verbally harass her. to threaten her. That's what MTG was concerned about, what you just heard.
Now you're not going to hear that played on MSDNC. You're not going to see that video on CNN, the most profane name in news, but it's important for you to understand the rest of the story. And there's a lot to it.
So yeah. MTG is right to be concerned because this guy actually Got together a mob to chase her off the streets of New York City. And if the r if the races had been reversed and the political parties had been reversed. This would still be on national news. By the way, Jamal Bowman is not the he's not just targeting MTG.
He's going after all the conservatives. This is Jamal Bowman. You might remember this. This is Jamal Bowman and Thomas Massey. Poor Thomas Massey just walking down the hallway and he ran into this, cut fifteen.
And they go to the Senate and ask the same questions. They're cowards. They're all cowards. They won't do anything to save the lives of our children at all. Cowards.
Pressure them. Forced them to respond to the question, why the hell won't you do anything to save America's children? And let them explain that all the way up until Election Day in 2024. Let them explain it all the way up to Election Day.
Okay, enough. Enough with the screaming, my lord, man. And by the way, while he was doing this, all the conservative lawmakers were walking by. They were trying to get out of the building, and this guy's screaming at them.
So So there's more to this, and I want to play this audio. Hang tight, we're going to get to your calls in just a moment. We've got to talk about this because MTG is being called a racist. and a white supremacist. Joel Bowman.
Says now that he believes MTG should apologize. He is due an apology. COP 13. You know, when I first got to Congress and I had my first conversation with the squad, remember they were coming off of Donald Trump. They would talk about the number of death threats they would receive after Trump would say something about them.
Send them back or something like that. Rise in death threats have to increase security.
So this is dangerous territory we're walking in here. We got to be very clear about that. And we need her to say on the record, one, she should apologize to me on the record. Two, ask her directly: do you want physical violence to be inflicted upon Congressman Bowman? And let her answer that question.
Because at the end of her statement, it was, we need to watch him. That's almost like Donald Trump stand by and stand back to the Proud Boys in that debate a couple of years ago. We need to watch him. What are you saying? It's just it's crazy.
And again, this is why we have to teach history accurately so we can all be more enlightened as we govern. My name is Jamal Bowman, and I'm just a Democrat member of Congress trying to do my very best. I'm a middle school teacher, and I did nothing wrong, and this woman, this white woman, just came up to me and started yelling and screaming at me, I've done nothing wrong. And they believe it. They believe it.
But you heard the truth. Get your ass out of here, woman. Get your ass out of here. Would you be concerned, ladies and gentlemen? 844-747-8868.
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Good to have you with us today on this open line Friday. Let's go right to the phones: 844-747-8868. That's a toll-free telephone number. Let's start in Iowa. Jerry hanging out with us on our Rumble channel.
Jerry, what's on your mind today? Ah, hello, Brother Todd. I think yesterday you were talking about purportedly pro life evangelicals turning their back on Trump. And in particular, you mentioned Bob Vanderplatz from Iowa. He's known as the Evangelical kingmaker for the caucus time.
So you should people know. Then in Iowa, the evangelicals don't routinely choose the the GOP nominee sometimes. But we often eliminate Um abortion, pro abortion candidates or anti-Israel candidates. But I just want to say beware of Bob Vanderplatz. I've been to his family leader a bunch of times because he may very well try to cancel Trump the same way he canceled very pro-life Congressman Steve King.
Bob Vanderplatz, he was using cancel culture Before cancel culture was cool. Tucker Carlson showed up here during a family leader and brought up the unmentionable. That a New York Times, New York Slimes, that's a Markov in term, did a hit piece, a lying hit piece. Saying that Steve King was a racist and a white supremacist. And well, evangelical Bob Vanderplatz jumped all over the story.
And really made darn good and sure everybody believed that Steve King was a racist. And this was before all the cancel culture hit.
So if Bob Vanderplant wants to uh Get rid of Trump as in Iowa. It's really possible, but I just don't. I mean a white a lot of things Vanderplatz has done, bringing great leaders to To Iowa, but he, you know, he I think he likes to go along to get along with the rhinos. And I think he's I think of him as like a Mike Pence. He looks good and he's appears squeaky clean, but he he'll throw you under the bus if it's the politically Expedient.
So I just wanted to comment on that. All right, well, you talked about it. Yeah, Jerry, no, I appreciate you doing that. And I don't know, Bob. That is the one evangelical group that has refused to come on this program.
We're good friends with Ralph Reed, Tony Perkins, Elias Defending Freedom. The list goes on and on and on. But we just haven't been able to crack through. And I think there's this sort of elitist mentality surrounding that organization. I don't know.
But again, it's very clear based on the interviews that Bob Vanderplatz does not want Trump to be the nominee and is going to do whatever is necessary there in Iowa to stop him.
So we'll see how that goes. Jerry, appreciate the call. And again, the allegation is that because Donald Trump is concerned that pro-lifers are going too far too soon, that it could end up upending the entire. Entire election that somehow that makes him pro-abortion. I don't think Trump is pro-abortion.
I mean, he's the only president. In American history, to actually speak in person at the National Right to Life March. But they're now saying that Ron DeSantis is more pro-life than Donald Trump. By the way, and we'll get to this a little bit later, but Politico publishing a nasty, low-blow hit piece. on Ron DeSantis's wife, calling her Lady Macbeth, And the allegation there is that it's Mrs.
DeSiantus who is actually calling the shots. And so if we elect Ron DeSantis, in effect, The wife is going to be running things. We'll get into more of that, but it's a low blow, I'll tell you that much. Pretty nasty, too. All right, 844-747-8868 on this open line Friday, we'll be taking your calls.
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That's just the way it's going to be. And Hannity clearly throwing in. For Deciantis last night. Degan McDowell was on a Handity show and he sh and she shocked him. Because he thought that she was in the tank for DeSantis as well.
And so Hannity was throwing softball questions. And Megan McDow or rather Degan McDowell came back and said, Well, wait a second. Ron DeSantis has some big potholes he's got to fill. And it shot Hannity. What do you mean, potholes?
He's the perfect candidate. He is a younger version of Trump. That's he's he cannot be he cannot be denied what he is owed.
So Degan McDowell comes and says, Well, look, here's the deal. Ron DeSantis has to have an economic plan. He's got to have a foreign policy plan. We're in the middle, or at least in the brink, of several wars, major wars. China, Russia, Iran.
Now Hannity comes back and says, No, no, no, the economy is not the issue. Hannity says that the issues, the major issues facing voters. In 2024, and he says the issues that are going to compel you to go and vote on Election Day. Are what's happening inside the public schools? Talking about gender identity.
Talking about CRT, critical race theory. that kids can't read or write or do math or science.
So is that true? Is that true? Are you going to the poll because of culture war issues? Are you going to the polls? For the economy and foreign policy.
What's going to motivate you to get out and vote? And folks, the challenge we have as Republicans, and yes, what's happening in the schools has to be fixed. It has to be addressed. But if that's going to be the number one policy issue for you, guess what's going to happen? You will immediately mobilize.
A lethargic Democrat base. That's what's going to happen. And maybe that's what maybe that's what the Republicans want to do. But again, when you go back and keep in mind. that uh this was the same television host who once said that Mitt Romney was a good conservative.
So you just have to do your homework. That's the lesson here. You just have to do your homework. All right, 844-747-8868 is our telephone number. What is it that's going to compel you to go and vote on Election Day in 2024?
844-747-8868. Sam in Asheville, North Carolina. Sam, what's on your mind today? Yeah, Todd. What's on my mind is the fact that the media is constantly lying about Trump in a slanderous way.
I haven't heard much talked about it. But during the town hall with Caitlin Collins, She falsely accused Trump of calling Brad Rassensberger and telling him to find eleven thousand seven hundred and eighty votes. Why would and Trump, of course, denied that he did that. Why would Caitlin Collins make such a false accusation.
Well, she works for CNN for starters, Sam. I would have to say that's the starting point. What do you Do you think Trump Called Brad Ratfinsberger and said, find me 11,780 votes. I mean, that's preposterous. Who would be silly enough to believe that?
Well, clearly C and N the most profane name in use. Yeah, but Todd, he actually did that. Why are you lying to his audience to your audience? Sam, I'm not lying to my audience, but you certainly lied to my call screener by getting on and wanting to talk about something that you're not talking about.
So why did you do that, Sam? Why are you lying to my audience? Because it's fun screwing with you. Oh, of course it is.
Well, Sam, you know, this is the problem. Sam, this is the problem with people like yourself, who I suspect is a far leftist. Why do you do that? Why do you come on? I've been curious to know, why do you come on and knowingly lie?
You could have told our call screener, here's what I want to talk to Todd about, and he would have put you on the air.
So, why did you have to deceive my good and decent call screener? I beg to differ on that. But you don't think he's good and decent? The call screener is a fine American. All right, Sam, we're done.
I'm not going to let you disparage my team here. Goodness off off get him off my phones You see, this is the problem with leftists. You see they're not honest. They're deceitful people, evil. I feel bad for that guy.
If he has a wife and kids, I feel bad for them. I mean, come on, people. At least be on. Look, if you're going to disagree with me, guess what? You go right to the top of the line.
Because we like to debate. We like to have those conversations. By the way, on that note, there is an update on the situation in Georgia where the Fulton County the Fulton County District Attorney in Atlanta suggesting that charges could come sometime in August.
So we'll keep you updated on that. This is all an attempt to destroy Donald Trump. With fake news. That's all it is. Fake news.
All right, 844-747-8868. New update from Charlemagne. Is that Charlemagne the God? The God? Charlemagne the God, says Marjorie Taylor Greene, is out of her white devil damn mind for comparing the term white supremacist to the N-word.
Well, is that true? I mean just think about this for a minute. They call white people a white supremacist because they want to smear. And in my estimation, the most heinous, vile thing you can do. Is to call somebody a racist when, in fact, they're not a racist.
I think that is. One of the most evil things a person can do.
So in that estimation, I believe that term white supremacist is akin to the N-word. I believe it is.
Well, Todd, how dare you? If you really believe that to be true, then why did you just say the W S word? Hm? Why did you just say the W S word, Todd, if it's that bad? Answer my question Okay, calm yourself.
I'm happy to answer the question because you see, I am a white person, so therefore I can say the words white supremacist. Much like a rap artist or Quentin Tarantino can say the N-word. They're allowed to say that, right? Don't we live in a society where. Only certain demographics or pigmentations are allowed to say certain words, right?
We're just playing by their rules, right?
So, yes, I do believe that saying that phrase white supremacist coming from a minority to a white person. is considered I think it would be a hate crime. Why would it not be? How many times have we seen people, good and decent, innocent people, being falsely accused of being white supremacists? There's one situation underway right now In New York City, Where some woman was trying to rent one of those bikes.
She happens to be a nurse. And this woman's life Is being destroyed.
So here's the backstory on this. It's a bizarre story.
So in New York City, you can walk up to. A bank of Bicycles, and you can swipe your credit card, and you can purchase a bike, so you can rent a bike. And it takes your credit card information. And then when you get to your destination, you find another bike rack and you park the bike and then it stops charging.
So anyway, there is uh there's a nurse. And this nurse, they're calling her Karen. That's not her real name. The nurse is pregnant, she works at Bellevue Hospital. And This was all on video.
You've probably seen it on social media. And she accused This uh group of black guys Of taking a bike that she paid for. And of course, they said that was a lie, that was not true. Yeah. And it turns out That it was true.
And she had the receipts to prove it.
So now this poor lady has been placed on leave. They're accusing her of being a racist. The lawyer says they've got the receipts. as a matter of fact, provided the receipts to the New York Post, and it shows that she was the one who purchased the bike that the black guys said was her said w was hers. And by the way, she happens to be of the Caucasian persuasion.
So, where does this woman go to get her good name back? The hospital employee, six months pregnant. She's a physician's assistant, and she was placed on leave. She did nothing wrong. By the way, it turns out that the video that was released was only the partial video.
So you don't get to see the whole thing. Just like Nicholas Sandman, the white kid who was accused of attacking minorities in Washington, D.C. And it turned out not to be true. According to the attorneys. One or more of the individuals in the group physically pushed her bike with her on it.
One of the individuals then covered the bike's QR code, stopping her from paying for it again so she could leave. Unbelievable that they would do this to a pregnant woman.
So, anyway, the woman is screaming, help, help, get off me, get off me, you're hurting my fetus. That's what she was screaming because the guys would not leave her alone. And now they're calling her a racist Karen. You see what's going on here, folks? Do you see how all of this plays out?
This is really appalling and heinous and shame on these monsters.
So yes, I believe MTG is correct to refer to the term white supremacy as the N word. Let's go to the phones here. Gainesville, Georgia, WDUN, Susie on the line. Hi, Susie. What's going on today?
Hey, Todd, I haven't talked to you since you were in the hospital. I just wanted to tell you I missed you so much and I'm so thankful you're okay. And I just appreciate you so much and everything you do for America. Susie, you are very kind to say that, and we love all of our great listeners in the Gainesville area, and it is good to be back among the living, as they say. Um About Marjorie Taylor Greene, I agree with that woman, she's a fireball.
And she's right what she said. And I'm from Georgia, and I'm proud to be, and I'm proud that she's one of the representatives from Georgia. And one of the best white supremacists Has Biden looked at his skin color lately? That's a fair point. I mean, Biden may not even know that he's a white guy, to be perfectly honest with you.
It's sad. By the way, he tried to. Yeah, go ahead. I was gonna say, and I thought ever since I've been listening to talk radio, and I used to watch T V but don't anymore. I thought Sean Hannity.
was a friend of Donald Trump.
Well, I think he is. But at the end of the day, Sean's got to follow the rules and the regulations set forth by the bosses at Fox News Channel. And they've decided they're going to be a pro-DeSantist channel. Nothing wrong with that, but it's good for people to know that if they want to get fair and balanced news about Donald Trump, they're going to have to watch Newsmax and not Fox News Channel. Right.
And one more thing, Kyle. People need to know about this, what Biden wants to do at the end of the month about. the World Health Organization. Sign us over to the World Health Organization. And next time something happens, you have to have this ID.
And if you don't get it, you can't do anything. That's right. Susie, we were talking about that on yesterday's show, Congressman Ralph Norman trying to stop that from happening. But the idea that we would turn over Our nation to the World Health Organization. Ought to wake up every member of Congress on both sides of the aisle.
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Now, yesterday, we had a caller, and she was really upset because she said that her grandkids can't even write, they can't write their names in cursive.
So let's go to the phones here. Foy in Gainesville, Georgia, wants to weigh in on that. Hi, Foy, what you got for us? Hi, Charlie. I'm sitting on the front porch with you again.
Enjoying the program.
Well, thank you. Uh the lady named Patricia. Young lady. Said that schools are not teaching handwriting anymore. I have a tendency to agree with that.
She was lamenting that and I too Uh kids nowadays call it real writing. And cursive writing is what it is. I communicate with children from age two all the way to fifth grade in a church group that I have called Awana. a workman and not ashamed is the name of that group. And so I write little notes to them to encourage them.
And Sometimes I'm in a hurry. I oftentimes, most of the time, I will write in manuscript or printing. But one day I had been in a hurry and I hurriedly wrote a little note to a boy, seven years old, And I was just trying to encourage him.
Well, when he received it, his mother told me later. That she saw that it was written in Cursive writing.
So She said to her son, I'll just read this for you. And he said, Mum, That's okay. I speak cursive. Yeah. He speaks cursive.
That's great. But it was so cute. I had to share that with you. I love it. Foy, that's a great story.
Thank you for sharing that, and thanks for hanging out with us on the big front porch on the radio. I love it. Always, every day. Thank you, Todd. All right.
That's Foy from Georgia. You know, I was doing a book signing in Georgia at the beautiful Smokehouse BBQ. And there was a long line of folks. One of the ladies brought me honest to goodness there was a platter of home made biscuits and about a five pound slab of butter. It looked amazing, and the biscuits were great.
But I was signing books, and a lady went, got her book signed, walked out. Came back in and she opened up the book. She says, Mr. Starrings, can you tell me what this is? I'm an English teacher and I can't understand this.
I said, Yes, ma'am, that's my John Hancock. That's my signature. She says, Young man. You need better penmanship. And she walked out.
So Well, it is what it is. What are you going to do? All right, 844-747-8868. That is our number. This is Open Line Friday.
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Welcome to the Todd Stearns Radio Program. Trust you are doing well today. We are broadcasting just a few miles away from the World Barbecue Cooking Contest here in Memphis, Tennessee. I thought I caught a whiff of A smoked pork butt outside. It's a good day to be in Memphis.
No gunshots, only smoke and pork butts. We've got a lot happening this hour of the program. Congressman Eric Burleson from Missouri is going to drop by, wants to weigh in on this FBI hearing yesterday. It was just shocking, the whistleblowers. Also, Congressman Scott Perry will be here a little bit later on, and Congresswoman Diana Harshbarger from Tennessee's 1st Congressional District.
We're going to be taking your calls as well. This is Open Line Friday, and that means you can talk about whatever you want to talk about today. 844-747-8868 is our toll-free telephone number. That's 844-747-8868. Well, all over the nation, people are beginning to talk about reparations.
For the longest little while, we've been telling you about what's happening in California, where literally. Every black person in the state of California could become a multimillionaire overnight, courtesy of the American taxpayers. But it's not just in California. I want you to hear a man in Tampa, Florida. Addressing government leaders there, cut number one.
all this nonsense, homelessness, and all this other garbage y'all talk about police violence and all this stuff don't nobody care about that. Don't nobody real care about that. We care about our reparations, and we have to put white people on notice. That we want our reparations. That our foreparents and us, we didn't work for free and underpaid and all this nonsense.
And the white folks get away with it. And they talk about the great city they're building. No, we want our reparations three million dollars per person. $3 million per person right here in this city. That's the only thing black people got to care about.
All this other little nonsense y'all talk about we do not care about. All right, so they want reparations. Cory Bush, the Congress gal from Missouri. Is also leading the charge on the congressional side, cut number seventeen. United States has a moral and legal obligation to provide reparations for the enslavement of Africans, black people in our country.
Cannot wait any longer for our government to begin addressing each and every one of the extraordinary. Bits of harm. of the harm it has caused since the founding.
So there you go. She's wanting $14 trillion set aside, $14 trillion set aside for reparations.
Now, here's. Here's my question. I we did a we did a a little bit of math and when you Divide up the number of black citizens in America. Every man, woman, And child. And you divide that um That number Buy the what, the 14 trillion.
You're gonna, everybody gets about 300 and some odd thousand bucks a piece. You think people are going to be satisfied with that? Do you really think that? Do you think people would be satisfied? I don't think they will.
My question is. What do we do this? Is this something that happens with the birth of every black child in America?
So, for example, you pay everybody. What happens when a black child is born? Are they automatically do a reparations payment?
Now, all you Hispanic folks, sorry. You're just going to have to work, you're going to have to work alongside the white folks to pay for all of this. All you Asian Americans, Tough cookies. You're going to have to work alongside the Hispanics and the white folk to pay for all of this. You don't get diddly or squat.
So there you have it, Corey Bush winning $14 trillion. The guy in Tampa says $3 million.
Now It's our understanding that the The latest from San Francisco Would be what, $8 million, I believe? $5 to $8 million. Oh, I'm sorry, $5 million. San Francisco's Reparations Task Force has now come up with a new plan. This report came out yesterday, where they want to tax billionaires to get the five million dollar per city resident payment.
My question is: what happens if the billionaires are like radical leftists? whose uh families uh never owned slaves. California, by the way. Never actually had slaves. California was designated as a free state when it joined the Union in eighteen fifty.
So, the question is, what the heck is going on?
So the panel said that the only way that the only way to make things right is to is to pay back for undermining black wealth and displacing the city's black population. The San Francisco African American Reparations Advisory Committee. and the local chapter of the NAACP. All supporting this. And I'm curious.
If any of our black listeners actually support this nonsense, do you believe that you are owed a reparation? According to the committee of all these billionaires in San Francisco, you could establish a reparations fund.
So they're basically wanting to take away money from the billionaires. This is what we would call a redistribution of the wealth. San Francisco's black population has shrunk from thirteen percent in nineteen seventy to about five percent to day. And why do you think that is? I'm just going to throw this out there.
It's because nobody I don't care if you're black, white, Hispanic, or Polka Dot, you can't afford to live in San Francisco. The rent's too darn high. I'm just telling you.
So Thomas Soule, who is a Great, great author and thinker. Rote a book And in this book, he talks about the tragedy of slavery. Mr.
Sowell is a black man. And he said, people may not realize this, but people of every race and color were enslaved and enslaved others. White people were still being bought and sold as slaves in the Ottoman Empire. decades after American blacks were freed. He goes on to write: Everyone hated the idea of being a slave, but few had any qualms about enslaving others.
Slavery was not just an issue, but not even among intellectuals, much less among political leaders, until the eighteenth century, and then it was an issue only in Western civilization. Among those who turned against slavery, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry? You could research all the eighteenth century Africa or Asia or Middle East countries without finding any com comparable rejection of slavery there. But who is singled out for scathing criticism today? American leaders of the eighteenth century.
Sowell goes on to write: deciding that slavery was wrong. was much easier than deciding what to do with millions of people from another continent, of another race, and without any historical preparation for living as free citizens in a society like that of the United States. where they were twenty percent of the population.
So it is an interesting thought here. What about What about white people? What about the descendants of white people who were slaves? According to the National Geographic article, Twenty-First Century Slaves. There are an estimated twenty seven million men, women and children in the world who are enslaved right now, physically confined or restrained and forced to work or controlled through violence.
How come nobody's calling for their freedom? Right? He says, Therefore, there are more slaves today. than were seized from Africa in four centuries of the transatlantic slave trade. The modern commerce in humans rivals illegal drug trafficking in its global reach.
So where is the moral indignation? For all of the slaves that are being held. Today. Hmm? Let's go to Gene in Iowa.
Hi, Gene. What's on your mind?
Well, not a whole lot other than I want to know where my reparations are. I'm Irish American. Look at the way the concentrated uh my for uh fathers when they got here.
So, Gene, that is a fair question. A lot of people may not realize that the Irish faced great. Severe persecution. when they came to America. That's right.
And Breton owes me some too because he's got Scottish background in me, too. Oh, boy. You got a little Scottish in you? Yeah. Well, that's not good.
Yeah, Gene Gene, I'm telling you, people don't realize that the Irish the white Irish were sold into slavery. And so, yeah, I mean, that's a fair question. Where do you go to get your reparation payment? I don't know, maybe to the railroad, because the railroad to We build along with the Chinese people. Oh, there well, and again, I'm surprised we haven't heard from Chinese Americans.
You know, where are they where are they going to go to get their reparation? But they're not asking for one. They're keeping their heads down. We got enough trouble with China already. Maybe they get a free TikTok account.
We'll just call it even. I just There you go. All right. Gene, appreciate that call and good luck there on the reparations. 844-747-8868.
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Tyler in Richmond, Virginia. Tyler, what's on your mind? Hey, Tod. I want to talk about reparations, but I heard that goofball earlier call you and ask about Trump calling Raffensberger looking to look for eleven thousand eight hundred seventy votes. That didn't really happen, did it?
All right, so again, folks, if you're a leftist and you call in. And you get caught lying, we're just going to drop the call. I mean, it's really that simple. And we're a pretty easy-going bunch around here. But we just don't tolerate liars.
And unfortunately, there's some sort of a group out there. We don't know if this is Media Matters or whoever, and they like to target folks like Levin and Beck, and yours truly. And they try to make a mockery of what we do. And we're not going to let him get away with it. All right, let's go to Don on the Talk Station.
Hi, Don. What's going on? Oh, I I just had a question here since we're you were talking about the reparations stuff. Um I was curious as to find out what your thoughts were On The reparations for those people who were the owned by the first Slave owner in the United States, who's documented in the royal courts of Virginia. His name was Anthony Johnson, he was a black man from Angola.
Yeah, isn't that fascinating, Don? And that is a little weird part of American history that people don't like to know about. But blacks actually own slaves in America as well. I think it was Kamala Harris said one of her ancestors owned slaves. And I'm shocked that she was actually able to get elected vice president.
But again, one set of rules for, well, you know the drill. But yeah, Don, to your point, yeah, blacks did own slaves, and it's a fair question. Will those descendants be required to pay a reparation?
Okay. I just was fascinated by that. Plus, the fact that nobody bothered to look at what the actual definition of the word reparations is, apparently. since it's supposed to go directly to the victims, not to Anybody else?
Well, they sincerely believe and why do they believe they're their victims, why do they feel like they've been oppressed on? It's because that's what they've been taught in their public school, paid for by your tax dollars. And the other question that I was curious about, I'd love to sit there and have the interesting conversation with that group in California since California, the only way they became a state in the Union was to be a free state. That was mandatory and it was. which means anyone that w went to California did there of their own volition.
Which means that nobody there was ever a slave, no one there owned any slaves. No one there ever did anything that would could justify that.
Well, Don, you know, again, I'm of the opinion that we just need to give California back to the back to the Mexicans. That's what I think we need to do. I think that we need to honor we need to honor Mexico's reparation and just let them have it. We'll throw in the liberal parts of Oregon, too, while we're at it.
So Don You wouldn't want to do that because those belonged to the Russians originally.
Well, that's true. That's fair enough. Fair enough. Clearly, I think some of the thinking still exists. Don, appreciate that call, and thank you for listening.
844-747-8868. That is our toll-free telephone number. That's 844-747-8868. This is an interesting story in the world of TV. There's a big broadcast company called Nextstar Media, they own a lot of local TV stations.
Now there is a TV station in Knoxville, WATE. And they had a meteorologist. They hired a weather gal. Her name is Tabitha Bartow. As in, I stub my toe in a bar.
That's how you spell it. Tabitha Barto. Anyway, she's a recent college grad and she was hired as the weekend morning weather anchor. And she seemed to be doing just fine, but she was called in one day And they said, all right, look, we got to do something about your hair, and we have to do something about your clothes.
So, like in many of these T V stations, they give you a budget and you go out and you buy clothes that they think will look good on T V and they do something with your hair.
So apparently, Miss Bartow has naturally curly hair. And the The program director and her supervisor had problems with this. And let me preface this by saying there are no men involved in this story, which I am very grateful for.
So we're talking about women.
So, all the women are in charge, and they don't like the way she looks. That's pretty much it. And they told her that you got to straighten out your hair. They don't want curly hair.
So she has this look where she's got all this curly hair, but her bangs are straight. It was kind of weird. To be honest with you. Anyway. Uh long story short.
They still didn't like the way she looked, and so she got the heave ho. And now she's very upset, and people are complaining, and they're saying that the station had no right to get rid of Miss Bartow simply because. Of the way she looked.
Now I get it. But let's get real. I mean, when you look at, let's just take Fox News, for example. Do you think it's just a coincidence that all of the female anchors are fashion models with blond hair who became Miss America. And they wear skirts that you would not even wear to a church house, but you would probably wear at a nightclub.
Do you really? Do you think that's just a coincidence? Do you think it's a coincidence that all of the tables, all of the anchor tables on TV, on Fox News, are see-through? Do you think it's a coincidence they literally have a camera angle that they called the leg shot? And it all Whenever you go to break, it just zooms in on the female anchor's legs.
Do you think that's a coincidence? I mean, I hate it for this lady, this weather person, who I'm sure is very capable, but ultimately, and you hate to say this, it comes down to a question: do you want somebody that you're attracted to on the TV to tell you the world's about to blow up, or do you want an ugly person? This is the Todd Stark Show. All right, welcome back, everybody. Open Line Friday.
Looking forward to taking your calls. 844-747-8868. That is our telephone number. That's 844-747-8868. Let's go to the phone lines from the great state of Missouri.
Honored to have with us Congressman Eric Burleson. Congressman, hope you're doing well today. I'm doing great. Congressman, yesterday we were watching the hearings and these FBI whistleblowers, and it's just shocking to me that the FBI can punish these brave men simply for coming forward and exposing what's really going on at FBI headquarters. Yeah, the whole system is is rotten to the core.
And it's become cancerous, and we have to reform the Department of Justice Justice Department. It's just absolutely horrific that But you've got peop brave men and women who are coming forward to blow a whistle and point out things that are happening And then and then for them to be punished. The problem is that is goes all the way to the top. The Biden administration is corrupt. And they're all it's all interwoven into that Justice Department.
Justice Department just as for example, we know from an IRS whistleblower That They Okay. They were told to back off. and quit the investigation into Hunter Biden's taxes. Been taken off of that investigation from the Justice Department, which is just absolutely. Awful.
And horrific. There are reports that the FBI, that Bank of America, gave. Private banking information about American citizens to the FBI right around January the 6th. Democrats are weaponizing everything, and they're saying that these individuals are not whistleblowers. What say you?
And how concerned are you that the FBI is going around and asking for private banking intel on average Americans? Yes, if the FBI is tragic. categorized patriots as terrorists.
Okay, I guess and th this is the same institution that is categorizing Catholics and try to infiltrate the Catholic Church. and label them and try to get informants within the Catholic Church.
Okay. Since Wynn is being a Christian and a patriot, Um anti-American. This is the the truth is that this institution is has become corrupt to the core. They uh They are trying to go after political adversaries. And They run it on due.
the fabric of the United States of America. And so So we have to we have to reform the entire We have to perform the FBI and the Department of Justice. in order to in order to fix this. And we need to elect a new president who is going to come in and and fire everybody. and start over.
Congressman, we are getting word, and this is the reporting of the Washington Post. I think theHill.com also has the story that the Freedom Caucus is calling on McCarthy to suspend debt ceiling negotiations. Pretty clear Biden's not moving an inch. And look, I say we've got to stand our ground here. Can you give us any insight into what's going on, any rumblings behind the scenes?
Yeah, the The idea is that we we're we're trying to get show give McCarthy the strength. and encouragement. to stand strong. And to at the end of the day, you know how negotiations work. Why would we be negotiating against ourselves, right?
We submitted our our proposal to the Senate It's their turn to to respond. It's not time. It would be negotiating against ourselves if we. Do we blink or We're back down. Or flinch and submit a moderated version of what we've already spent over there.
This is at the and if I were McCarthy, I would tell them. We're not going to stick around. Because we have a summer recess coming up in August. And I if I were McCarthy, I would say We Mr. President?
You know, Chuck Schumer. This is the deadline. And we've put that on your desk. If you if you want to negotiate, you've got a limited time. But once that time's over, we're done.
We sent you a bill. Your only recourse would be to sign that bill that we sent you. That's what I would do. And it's a fine bill. It does what needs to be done.
It raises the debt ceiling, but it also implements significant cuts in spending, which is what we've got to do. Look, we've got to balance our own personal budgets. There's no reason why the government can't do the same thing. Absolutely. We can't get there immediately.
Um which I would love to just to just cut off the the spending of Immediately, but it's just going to take time to unwind out of this horrible death spiral that we're in. And so but the amount of cuts that we're doing up front with this bill Is why I supported it because when you're cutting Some of the is discretionary spending cuts. Yeah. twenty, thirty percent cuts. In some particular area.
Basically, the non-veteran, non-military discretionary. expenditures. Things like the World Health Organization you know, I'd say cut all every bit of that stuff. All right. Well, Congressman, we appreciate you fighting the good fight, and we appreciate you coming on the program today.
Have a great weekend, sir. Thank you, Todd. You too. All right, Congressman Eric Burleson from Missouri. And the deadline coming up here, folks, June first.
Republicans are they're just going to have to stand their ground. And God bless the House Freedom Caucus because their numbers are large and they are in charge. And that is a good thing. Trust me on that. All right.
Let's go to the phones here: 844-747-8868. Rick and Fresno, California. Listening to us on the Talk Right app. Hi, Rick. What's on your mind today?
How you doing, Todd? Just had a quick thing to say to you. I'm a black man, and there's a lot of other black people who actually agree with what you're saying about reparations and slavery. And there's one thing I don't understand is how they could blame Trump or accuse Trump of being a racist with no proof. But like you said, Kamala owns slaves and And Joe Biden made a lot of racist comments back in the day, you can still see on YouTube, but they continue to vote for that guy and not for Trump.
It just boggled my mind. Yeah. I'm just trying to tell you that there's a lot of people out there, especially black people, who actually agree with you.
Well, thanks, Rick. And yeah, look, and I live in Memphis, Tennessee. We're a majority, minority city, and there are a lot of black conservatives here in this part of the country. And a lot of them are just afraid to speak out because of the backlash and the blowback they would get from the Democrat Party. But I suspect most of them would say the same thing, that they are not owed a reparation and they don't want a reparation.
So it's really tragic. And to your point, I never have understood why Joe Biden continues to boast about having lunch with segregationists. That, in my mind, is sickening. And I can't imagine why anybody would eat a meal or share a table with anybody who is trying to prevent black people or anybody else from voting and engaging in their freedoms. That's true, Todd.
And I'm not one of those people who's scared. I spoke out a lot, and family members want to disown me, but hey, the truth hurts.
So keep doing what you're doing, and you have support out there.
Well, thanks, Rick. But I got to be honest with you. For that much money, what, $8 million, $5 million in San Francisco? I may have to hit the tainting salon, try to claim my reparation. All right, Rick.
All right, have a good one, Todd. All right. God bless. Thanks for calling.
Okay. We got to take a break here. 844-747-8868. That is our toll-free telephone number. That's 844-747-8868.
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All right, want to give you an update on a story we first told you about. Um This week on the Time Stearns Radio program. About the homeless veterans. who were apparently kicked out of hotels there in the suburban New York area. Covered on Fox News, New York Post, everywhere.
We had the state lawmaker on who was leading the charge, a state representative. By the name of Um Brian Mayer. From a Republican from Walden, New York.
So, anyway, here's the deal, folks. Turns out not to be true. It turns out not to be true. The Assemblyman telling the Albany Times-Union newspaper last night. That the more he dug into the story, he discovered that the non-profit that originally made the allegations.
Basically lied about it. The hotels did in fact Give the boot, give the heave-ho to a couple of wedding parties to make room for the illegals, but apparently not veterans. The veterans were not a part of any of this. The assemblyman who was on our radio program says he was devastated and disheartened. He says that he is now calling for the organization To be investigated by the State Attorney General's Office and the Orange County District Attorney as well.
In other words, looks like. Um this non-profit That is allegedly set up to help veterans maybe in a lot of hot water. The YIT Foundation. The YIT. Want to share that with you.
That is the update. And as you look, this is going to happen every now and again, and hopefully it doesn't, but it does happen when you have people trying to pull a fast one. And these people look like they did, and they got caught. And we want to share that information with you. And that's how we do it.
