McCarthy Being Pitched as RNC Chair

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Well, hello, everybody. Welcome to the Todd Stearns Radio Program.

So very happy to have you with us today. And wow, do we have a great show lined up for you? Wow. All right, let's get right to it.

So, coming up a little bit later on, Carl Higby from Newsmax. Congressman Ben Klein's going to be here. Former Governor Scott Walker, a president of Young America's Foundation, he's going to drop by a little bit later on. What? A lot of breaking news last night.

I mean, a lot of breaking news. And we need to it's you could you could just pick one out of a hat and go for it today. We knew and we were trying to prepare you for this. But we knew that Alejandro Mayorkas was not going to be impeached last night. And what a big mess that was.

And we're going to get to that in just a moment. That is a serious situation. We have some big problems within the Republican Party. But we also have a major problem within the RNC, and Ronnie McDaniel. The reporting is that she is stepping down.

The RNC is in financial disarray. They don't have any money. There is no vision. But the the bigger problem is not even that. The bigger problem is voter registration.

Getting out the vote. Getting younger people involved in the Republican Party. I just, I hate to say this, but it needs to be said. And if I have to be the bad guy, I will say this. But whenever I go to a Republican meeting, I feel like I'm at a senior citizen center.

I feel like I'm at a nursing home. I don't see anybody, very few people under the age of 60 there. What are you saying, Todd? Are you saying that people who are 60 or old or decrepit? Need to be in a nursing home.

No, I'm just saying you're not young. I mean, where are all the young people? And by young people, we got any thirty-year-olds? We got any 40-year-olds? And I'm telling you, I look, I don't.

I may look old, older, I don't know, but I feel young, thanks to balance of nature. I feel young. Promo code Starns, or Todd, rather. I'm just telling you that there's just not energy, there's not excitement. The Republicans hold a gathering and people uh No, it's the You know, I want to be able to go to a gathering where they actually serve food.

You don't have to, it's like soup and soft pudding. You gotta watch out for the. I'm just saying, it's no dentures. I'm just saying you gotta, it's. Yeah.

We need some ute and vitality in the Republican Party. Is that fair to say? that we need some ute and vitality in the Republican Party. We do, and that's all on Ron and McDaniel. I travel all over America.

And I don't see young people coming to these Republican gatherings. I don't. Everybody's just old fogies. We need young people. We have a guy who's my CEO, and he's on the city council in Wichita, Kansas, just got elected.

has been very involved in young Republicans. And uh Dalton Glascock. And I'll just say this. I think whoever is running the RNC needs to be picking up the phone and talking to to Dalton. And say, How do you win?

How do you get all these young people to come out and be a part of your campaign? How do you do that? Because he's been very successful at it. Very successful. And he has a career of being at least.

Since the kid was in high school, of being a Republican, he came up through the ranks.

So at least we know where he's speaking, where he's coming from. The reason I bring this up is because there's a lot of talk on social media about who should replace. Who should be the next? Chair of the RNC. And I'm just gonna there are two names I want to share with you.

And I am concerned about both. Number one, the talk, the scuttlebutt is, and this is coming from Congressman Matt Gates. Matt Gates, who hates Kevin McCarthy's guts, who was responsible for leading the coup to remove. Kevin McCarthy from the speakership now believes that Kevin McCarthy should be the chairman of the RNC. That we should put the fate of Donald Trump's presidency into the hands.

Of Kevin McCarthy. Do you think that's a good idea, America? You think it's a good idea to have a man who will do anything to save his own hide in that position? It just seems to me that if you're chair of the RNC, you need to be someone who can embrace the party platform. You need to be someone who can not only embrace the party platform, but someone who can fundraise.

Who can who can get out there and raise money? And that brings me to the second person that's being mentioned. And unless you're on, if you're on social media, you know who this person is. His name is Scott Pressler. mister Pressler was born in either 1987 or 1988.

Unclear.

Son of a U.S. Navy captain. He's like, what, seven, eight feet tall? This guy, he's huge, very tall. I've seen him at the CPAC gatherings.

Has hair down. He's kind of got that. Oh, oh, oh. Who was it? Crystal Gale.

He's got Crystal Gale hair, right down to his badonka donk. And he has been out there doing a lot of the fundraising. And so a lot of the MAGA America First World say that Scott Pressler should be the next RNC chair because he's getting out the vote, he's registering people, and I guess he's done a good job of it. I have no reason to doubt the information that's been sent to me. But Mr.

Pressler is in his 30s. And they believe, and the America first, and this is where we are setting ourselves up for a perfect storm in the Republican conservative world. Yeah. and I will just read his bio to you. And by the way, I don't He hasn't been that active in Republican politics that long.

But a big component of all of this A big component is fundraising, and I'm wondering if Mr. Pressler. is capable of raising money. Mr. Pressler?

Co-founded the LGBTQ coalition Gays for Trump. was reported to be its chairman in 2017. He frequently tweeted. I'm just reading from the Wikipedia bio here. Frequently tweeted supportive messages using the hashtag GAZE for Trump and tweeted messages attacking Democratic Party presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

Um He um was present at the Gays for Trump Deplora Ball in Maryland after the inauguration of Trump. And in twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen, he was with the group Act for America. According to the reporting. He Uh was He had come out as gay in June of 2016 after the Orlando nightclub shooting. And that's pretty much all we know about this guy.

That's it.

So he's either 35 or 36 years old. We don't know much about him before Trump. Yeah. And I say this because and this is important. And I'm saying nothing disparaging about him.

And Crystal Gale had lovely hair.

So that's not a slam. Again, I know nothing about this guy, and that's the problem. That is a problem. Not knowing a lot about who this guy is, how he became a Republican, what his platform is, will he be able to defend the party platform, will he be able to endorse the party platform, will he be able to fundraise off of the party platform? But The America First Movement is all in on this guy.

And then you've got the establishment and the Matt Gates crowd all in on Kevin McCarthy.

So I'm curious to hear from you. Who would you like to see as the next RNC chair? Who does that person and if you like Scott Pressler, I'm curious, why Scott Pressler? What do you like about Scott Pressler that would cause you to say this guy could be the next leader of the RNC? You know who I like?

I like Mike Huckabee for the job. I don't think he'd take it, but I think Huckabee would do a great job. I think. I think Vivek Ramaswamy would do a great job. I mean, but but again, the the point of the RNC chair is not to go out there and be somebody's attack dog.

Your job as the RNC chair is to get out the vote, to set out the apparatus to help people get elected, candidates get elected. That's your job. And it hasn't been done well. Ronna McDaniel. is a loser.

You hate to say it. I'm sure she's a very lovely lady, but she is a loser. And they can blame Trump all they want all day long, but she is a loser. And what concerns me is when all of this is happening. The change is happening in the throes of what should already be a very vibrant, well-funded, Republican machine.

Raising money for candidates, finding the right candidates and getting out the votes. And I will just say this. And this is to all of the America First Crowd. And I'm one of those people, by the way. I'm a Republican.

I'm an America First Republican. But I want to talk to the America first crowd. You guys are doing. Let me stop. We guys are doing a lousy job of picking candidates.

And some of these congressional races, We've elected some doozies and we've nominated some people who have no business being anywhere in elected office. But Todd, they fly all of the flags. outside of their their homes. But Todd, they have a MAGA bumper sticker on the back of the Beewick. It doesn't matter.

That doesn't make them a good candidate. Right, we've got to be able to. We've got to be able to pick people who are in fact electable. Can we get real again? I.

I've got to be careful how many people I hack off today. But This needs to be said. There are a lot of grifters in the America First Movement. There just aren't. A lot of people who are pretending to be conservative to get their, um, to get their brand or to get their book published or.

I don't know, cosmetic line out there. I don't know why the reasons are, but we have a lot of grifters, and you've got to do your homework. You've got to sort of sift through all of these people. And it can be a little challenging at times. It can be a little frustrating.

So I'm curious to hear from you. As we start this process, who would you like to see As the next RNC chair. Our telephone number is 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. The website, ToddStarnes.com, and we have all sorts of great information there.

But again, the news is that Kevin McCarthy. Andor Scott Pressler may be, may be, their names may be in the mix. Also, The chair of the North Carolina Republican Party may be in the mix as well.

So, we'll be talking about that today. We're going to get to what happened with my orcas yesterday. This. Folks, the Republicans are a mess right now. It's a hot mess.

It's kind of like a bravo reality T V series. It really is. The real Congressman of DC. It's a mess. Got to take a break, Wilbur IP.

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That the Republicans need to completely abandon all of the culture war stuff.

So, the abortion issue, the LGBT stuff, gay marriage, the whole thing. They just need to shove all of that right out of the party, and that we should be the party of fiscal responsibility and strong military and a secure border. Those are the issues that the Republican Party needs to embrace. Everything else gets shoved aside. That's the thinking right now within a very large swath of the Republican caucus.

Do you believe that's the right move here, folks? Because they're saying that the party's conservative stance on the culture war issues is hurting their chances of being elected and reelected. And they say we got to get we got to get rid of this. And their bet is, their strategy is that. the Christians and the whoever the Christians, the Evangelicals and the Catholics, they will all still support the Republican Party even if they abandon all of these issues that they consider to be controversial.

No, look, I don't think we should do that. I think this is what makes us who we are. These are important issues. And I don't think we want to be godless heathens, right? Like the Democrats.

Oh, by the way, Mike Johnson. Says, hey, look, in spite of everything that's happened, his job is he's doing a hunky-dory job, Cut 14. Mr. Speaker, what would you say to Americans concerned that Congress isn't able to do basic functions?

Well, it's just simply not true. We're governing here.

Sometimes it's messy. The framers anticipated that you would have a system where people with very different philosophical viewpoints that come from different parts of the country and different constituencies would have different ideas on how to resolve their problems. But what they also anticipated is that we'd be able to get in a room and arm wrestle over public policy and come to consensus to move the ball forward for the most people. That is what's happening here. You're seeing the messy sausage making, the process of democracy play out.

And it's not always clean, it's not always pretty, but the job will be done at the end of the day.

So, Mike Johnson is out there saying that Congress is performing its basic function. I'd be curious to know what that basic function is. What does he think? that function of Congress is. Because it's not working.

And Speaker Johnson is trying. I think he's trying. I'm just not sure that he is. I just don't know if he's up to the task. Mm-hmm.

Because the staff that he surrounded himself with, they're problematic. They really are. But the fact that we went into last night, and this is what happened here, folks, they went into last night. Knowing they did not have the votes to to impeach my orcas. And they're so terrified of the Twitter mob That they went ahead and did it anyway.

And the concern here is that the majority of the matter Is that somebody in that In that group, that inner circle of Mike Johnson did not did not have the courage to go to the speaker and say, Mr. Speaker, We've got Steve Scalise out having surgery. We don't have the votes today.

Now here's what I think would have happened. I think Johnson could have come out and said, you know what, we need to postpone this vote because we don't have enough Republicans here. And people may have groused about that. They've been, there they go again. That well that may have happened.

But at least they're not going to have egg on their face. Today they got a gombace. And they're going to try it again, which, by the way, is the congressman from Utah who stepped in at the last minute. He's the hero here. Had he not voted no, it would have been a tie, and they would not have gone back to be able to visit this for another vote.

But McClintock, and I heard him on another talk show earlier today on KWAM, our flagship station. And the Clintock is saying, well, what my orchestra is doing does not rise to the level of. High Crimes and Misdemeanors. Really? We've got almost 30 million illegal aliens occupying America right now.

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By the way, and we're going to get to 10 crews in just a moment. The problem is a leadership vacuum within the Republican Party right now. Nobody wants to be a leader. Nobody.

So here's Ben in cut five. But Speaker Johnson, and I don't know if it's Gates, I don't know who's, I don't know if Stefanik, I don't know, somebody's got to get in and help this guy because he's bleeding out. And he's bleeding out now just from the basic mechanics of what you have to do. And as I say, Gallagher told Hugh Hewitt this morning. I told the whip A month ago I was a no.

That's just inexcusable. Right, exactly. It is inexcusable. If you are look, if if you are Opposed to impeaching myorcus. You have an obligation as a Republican, as a member of the Congress, to go to your leadership and say, guys, Here's my position on this and You know what?

You don't even have to explain why, but I mean, that's always good. It's good to know, and you can say, and here's why.

So we understand now that Congressman Gallagher actually did that a while back. As did Ken Buck and McClintock.

So, what happened yesterday was not some sort of an issue of, oh, we just got hosed by these guys who changed their minds at the last minute. What's happening is that the people surrounding the speaker are not doing their jobs. Or the people surrounding Johnson are sabotaging the Speaker of the House. It's one or the other. It's one or the other.

But as it now stands, Speaker Johnson and the question remains. Is he the guy? It does he have the wherewithal. To be the speaker, to be the leader of the party in the House of Representatives. 901-260-5926.

Let's start our day in Tennessee, Jackson. Jerry listening to us on KWAM. Hi, Jerry. What's on your mind? You know, you were talking a while ago about No young people at the Republican Uh He's being yet.

I remember back to the tea party. I went to several of them. Man, they were thousands of 30 to 50-year-old people there, and they were energetic about being Republicans. But when the media and the DMs started lambasting them, none of the Republicans stood up for. And you know, you you get in a situation where you can't count on the people that you elect.

when they didn't have control of the House and Senate, I don't know remember how many times they voted to repeal and replace Obamacare. Then, when we got control of the House and the Senate, they did nothing about it. And so you get sick of being lied to so much and you finally just say, Well, I'm done. Jerry, I actually have first-hand knowledge of situations where young Republicans bringing energy and excitement and new ideas into the party have literally been told: your job is to wait your turn. You go and help take out the trash.

You go help set up the tables. And I got no problem with that. I mean, I think we all ought to lend a helping hand. I mean, that's beneath nobody. But the idea, Jerry, that.

You're going to be just because you're a young person that you have to wait until you're 60 or 70 years old before you can have a say. Jerry, I don't know of any young person who's going to do that. Absolutely.

So how do we fix it, Jerry? What do we need to do? How do we bring young people? And by young people, you know, a lot of people think, oh, we're talking about 17, 8 year olds. No, I'm talking about the 30 and 35 and 40 year olds.

How do we get those people involved? I'm gonna make some people mad, but Newt Gingrich, when he did the contract with America. And the people signed onto that. They meant it. When they got elected, they did exactly what they signed on to do.

But you can't trust anybody that runs now in the Republican Party to do what they say they're going to do once they get elected. And I don't know the answer to it, but I know I am one of the people that is just, I'm sick of it. that you cannot trust who you're elected to go up there and do what they say they're going to do. It's a fair point. And I will say this, you look at the Republic or you look at the Democrats, and I disagree with them on everything, everything.

But Jerry, they've got young people plugged into their party in very strategic places. And that is making a difference for the Democrats. And right now, we can't even. We have a guy. We have a guy right now as Speaker of the House, and he didn't have the foresight to make sure he had the votes before bringing that to a vote last night.

That's unacceptable in my boyfriend. That's lunacy. That's absolute lunacy. Mike Johnson embarrassed the entire party. By doing that, the entire party.

All right, Jerry, appreciate that call. And you're it's it's a good thought, ladies and gentlemen. Jerry's he's got a good thought there. Let's go to Sonny in Ocala, Florida, listening to us on WOCA. Hi, Sonny.

What's on your mind? Well, what's on my mind is the fact that this Rona Barrett in twenty twenty sat on sat on the millions of dollars and she couldn't go out there and help some of the struggling candidates for the Republican House. That's number one. Number two, the new Candidate the replacement for her I would go along with Mike Huckabee. I think he would do an excellent job of Well I Recruiting and helping new candidates for awe.

Congress. This is just boggles my mind that the This is going on. they could have done a lot more to help the up and coming candidates for the Republican Party. As far as the Republican from New York, Santos, oh yeah, he lies and he did this and he did. Wait a minute.

How about Uh Adam Schiff. The congenital layer. How about Nancy Pelosi and Bowser? Ooh. through a mysterious law that was invented.

Took the power away from the Commander-in-Chief as far as calling out the National Guard. for Washington DC. How about the other speakers of the House not sticking up for and maybe possibly expelling rhinos. We don't have any of that in the Republican Party. And as far as the White House is concerned.

This is run by Obama and Soros. Types. Yeah, look, the problem I got with the, and we'll get to that, we're going to play that Biden audio from yesterday in just a little while here, Sonny. When you go back and listen to that press conference yesterday, that is frightening. The fact that the President of the United States could not even identify who Hamas was.

It's just unacceptable, that level of incompetency. And the people see it. They truly see it. And we've got that video up on our website, ToddSterns.com. I encourage you folks to go and check it out for yourself.

Sonny got a run. Appreciate that call. Let's go to Little Rock, Arkansas. Jerry is on the line. Hi, Jerry.

What say you? Sir, I'd like to choose their vet where I'm a swami. for RNC. But I'd like to so I'll second the back, but uh I'd like to nominate somebody I think better and get your thoughts. How about Charlie Kirk?

So As in the the head of Turning Point USA. Yes, sir.

So what do you like about Charlie Kirk? Why do you think Charlie Kirk should be the chairman of the R N C? I like that he has done a fantastic job of pointing out the R and C's shortcomings. Hypocrisy. He's a young guy, he's America first, he loves the work he's done with Turning Point.

And not only does he point out everything that they do wrong, he offers real solutions that make sense every time. All right.

So Jerry, we're going to put you down for Charlie Kirk. I will say this. My question I would have for Charlie Kirk, what has he done to get out the youth vote, the young people vote in America? I will say that they've put a lot of A lot of effort. They've raised a lot of money, and they were very ineffective in a lot of the congressional races that they tried to target in the last election cycle.

And I'm thinking about Arizona especially.

So I'm, I, I'm. Curious to hear, I mean, I'm not objecting to Charlie Kirk, but I'm curious, ladies and gentlemen. Jerry here in Little Rock says. Charlie Kirk might be a good pick. What say you?

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Anne is listening to us on WDUN today. Hi Ann, what's on your mind?

Well Todd, I really think that we You have the head of the RNC. being the daughter of somebody who loves Trump, then that telling you a whole heck of a lot. They're not concerned at all. And what that gives me is an information. That says They don't care.

about Trump. They don't care about him. I'd be very suspect of what's going on in the RNC right now. I don't like it. I'm like the other fellas.

I am just beside myself about these kinds of things. Um Uh it's gotten to the point where Young people, and I'm talking about young people, they're not really that young. They're in their thirties, forties, fifties, thirties and forties in particular. And Johnson. our our Speaker of the House.

He's not that far away from that. He's a young guy, too. And so I don't it doesn't make any sense to me. Yeah. on at all.

But Charlie Kirk He's a he's a tough bird. I think uh I don't know. I don't know if he take it though. I don't know if he he would agree to any of his stuff because he's you know, he's living the life. Yeah.

He's got a nice show that he listened, you know, that we all listen to. I don't know if he would do it. I don't know if something hit that would yeah, that would be a tough call for him. Um But you know This is stop. Yeah.

We're being lied to all the time by our own party in the media. is knee deep in a lot of this stuff. Just really worn out. I'm older. You know, I'm coming to the end of my life.

And I have seen this stuff going on now for a long time. And it it really does have to stop And and I have one question for you and I'll let you go. Sure. Who voted? for Johnson.

Well, they all did. They had to, at least the majority of them.

So What happened? Ann, it's a great question, and appreciate your call. I just think they were exasperated. Um at the at the end of the day, as much as McCarthy had to go. This may have been the wrong time.

Because it's all chaos, and we we've been warning people about this for a very long time. And especially when it comes to the Majorca vote yesterday. But this could have all been prevented, right? This was a stupid decision that was made. It really is that simple.

Now, on the Senate side, things are even worse because they've had plenty of opportunities to get rid of Mitch McConnell. Here's Senator Ted Cruz cut four. Is it time for Mitch McConnell to go? But I think it is. What Everyone here also supported a leadership challenge to Mitch McConnell in November.

I think A Republican leaders should actually lead this conference and should advance the priorities of Republicans. I can tell you what I said. When we had that leadership election in November of 2022, it was right after. A very disappointing election. twenty twenty two, the wind was at our back.

It should have been a phenomenal Republican election year. Republicans should have won the Senate. We should have won a big majority in the House. Instead, we lost a seat in the Senate. And we barely got a majority in the House.

And I stood up and said, Look, in any ordinary organization, when you are faced with failure, if you're running a business, And you lose $50 million, you don't just say, hey, everything's great, let's keep doing it. No, you sit down and say, what are we doing wrong? And at that meeting, I turned to Mitch McConnell then and I said, look, we spent the last two years with a group, a handful of Republicans, joining with Democrats to pass the Democrat agenda. And I said, maybe that's a good idea. I don't think it is.

Well, there you go.

So, the question now is: who are the leaders in the Republican Party, right?

So, if they're going to get rid of McConnell, who's. Who's that person? that's going to lead the Republicans in the Senate. And I just don't think we have a very deep bench. Ted Cruz, he's a.

I mean, the guy is a great spokesman. Is he a good leader? Would he be a fo would he be a good leader for the the Senate? I don't know. But we've got big problems, ladies and gentlemen, in the Republican Party.

And I'm going to posit this theory. that this is actually all intentional. I I have a hard time believing that the Republicans are this incompetent. And I'm beginning to wonder if all of this is meant. To sabotage.

Donald Trump and his campaign. That if the party elders have come together and they're playing the long game here. And in their minds, regardless of what happens in 2024, there is one truth. Trump will not be on the ballot in 2028, one way or the other.

So maybe it's possible that the the The money people in the Republican Party. The the elders of the party. Have gotten together and they've decided, you know what? Let's just Let's just call 2024 a wash. We're going to do whatever we can behind the scenes to sabotage Trump.

And it's not just this election cycle, folks, it's been the last several election cycles. That something has just seemed off. And maybe that's it. Maybe ultimately they just don't want Trump to win. That they feel like they would be better off being in the minority because it sets themselves up for whoever.

Whichever rhino candidate they want to install as the next nominee of the party. Whoever that person may be. Because keep in mind. This was supposed to be a Jeb Bush presidency, right? We should be in the second term of a Jeb Bush presidency.

That was the goal of the party elders back in 2016. That's who they wanted. Donald Trump they thought was an anomaly. They thought he was going to be a non-player. And it turned out they were wrong, right?

It turned out they were wrong.

So, not only are the Democrats winning payback because Hillary was supposed to be the first female president. Not only did that go Go out the window, but Jeb lost too.

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Well, hello, everybody. Welcome to the Todd Starring's Radio Program, hour two of the big show. Good to have you with us. Coming up, Governor Scott Walker is going to be here, Congressman Ben Klein. Your calls as well.

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Somebody said, Why are you doing the Jim Jordan look today? Because it's warm in here, right? Who needs the suit coat?

So I may be a ditching the time momentarily. Look, it it's a mess in in Washington, folks. It absolutely is a mess. RNC in turmoil, the House in turmoil, the Senate Republicans in turmoil. It's a great big mess.

And It's especially It's especially frustrating when you see what's happening on the Democrat side, where so many of their affinity groups have decided, you know what, we're done here. We're done with the Democrats. We're done with the promises. We're done with the lies. That's all they do is deliver lies.

And we are seeing massive shifts of people now. from from blacks, from Hispanics. The um the the young people, they're done. And what is the Republican Party doing to embrace all of these affinity groups? Why are we not out there spending our time, our money, our effort?

Out there attracting these new voters, voters that could guarantee Republican victories and majorities on Capitol Hill for generations to come. And I think it goes back to one of two things. They either really are this incompetent, or. They're sabotaging Donald Trump. It's got to be one or the other.

So we're taking your calls on that 901-260-5926. I want to go to the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line. Carl Higby, the host of Newsmax, is hugely huge. Hugely popular program. Carl Higby Frontline joins us.

Carl, hope you're doing well today, my friend. Todd, thanks for having me on.

So I'm curious to get your take on this. Do you think this is. Incompetence, what's happening in the Republican Party right now? Or do you think this is intentional to shut down Trump? No, Trump hinted on a bunch of stuff.

He hinted on big changes coming the other day. And I think, look, at the end of the day, Um you have A huge swath of Republican Party, myself included, that would rather do nothing than something stupid. And for so long, the Republican Party has just done really dumb things on a lot of like easy layups. I mean, everything the Democrats do, everything they touch, turns to absolute steaming piles of crap.

So it is, the bar is so low, and yet we still have 50-50 propositions on our elections.

So, look, I think having Ronna McDaniel out of the RC does not create turmoil, respectfully. I think it actually gives us new opportunity. Matt Gates is out there saying, Hey, I'd endorse. Kevin McCarthy for this. And look, Kevin McCarthy was a great fundraiser.

His policy was terrible. He didn't have a backbone, but he can fundraise like nobody else.

So great job for him. You want to stay in? You want to glad hand and smile for pictures? Perfect job.

So I'm pretty optimistic about this, Todd. Who do you like as the next speaker? I'm sorry, not the next speaker, the next chair of the RNC. Who do you like? We're going to get to that in a second.

I think, you know, look, Kevin McCarthy will be good. He can raise money. You know, it's not a policy position. He was generally pretty simpatico with Trump. Um Look, you also could bring in a business person, someone who actually is like, you know, I mean, super rich people get tired of stuff all the time.

I mean, look, Elon Musk would make a great RNC share, I think, who run this thing like Tesla or SpaceX, and you're off to the races. But you bring in a businessman who's rich and bored, who has a real passion for this. I mean, he's going to be able to raise a ton of money, but also he's going to bring real, he's actually going to run elections like they're a company, like there's an objective and a bottom line, and fiscal responsibility, not like Rana spending $120,000 on hair and makeup last year. They will run that place like it's an actual business, and there will be deliverables. And if deliverables aren't met, people and consultants and grifters will be fired.

It wouldn't be a bad thing. And in all fairness, I mean, she looks good, right? The hair makeup, I don't, it was money well, it was money well spent on that, but I'm like, why are we spending that money? And that's the and that's the point. We're squandering resources.

She should spend her money on that. That's right. That's right. Go down to super cuts like the rest of us. You're going to be good.

Carl, I am concerned, though, about the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, nice guy. He is just, it's way over his skis, I'm afraid. Sure. And I always say like I had really high hopes for him because he was he was a huge like diehard conservative during the impeachment hearings and stuff like that, trolling all the Democrats. Um you know I I really you look I'm sure he'd be a great neighbor if he needed to borrow a rake.

or a cup of sugar. But look, at the end of the day, I think that he didn't deliver as much as he said. He said he would release all the January 6th tapes. He released 90 hours. There's like another 14,000 hours that he didn't release.

And he just seemingly doesn't have a hold on the party. And the problem is, it's like, can you get elected? Like, that's the nuts and bolts of it. And you have people like Matt Gates, who, by the way, I think he would make a great speaker. Why?

Because he's not afraid to throw up his hands and make everything crash if it doesn't work for the American people. We have people who are more interested in the progression of government than they are the progression of our economy in the United States and things that are good for you and I. On the Senate side, you've got Cruz out there yesterday saying it's time for McConnell to go.

Well, it was time for him to go a long time ago. And I'm not really hopeful that th things are going to change on the Republican side of the aisle there in the Senate. No, and we actually did a thing on this a couple of weeks ago on my show where we added up all the congressmen in. Congress right now that have ever campaigned in some fashion Yeah. Term limits.

And if you added all these people up, you would have way more than enough votes. Who passed term limits, yet none of them vote for term limits once they get elected. They campaign on it, and that's the thing. You get people like Mitch McConnell, who's been there since the invention of the light bulb, and they're so out of touch, they don't understand. what you and I, the normal people, are feeling every single day.

Carl Higbee on the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line today. And, Carl, I know you've served in our military and you have a passion for the young people that are currently in our military. Air Force, there's a story up on Daily Caller: the Air Force now offering an eight-hour workshop on resolving unidentified biases through allyship. What is this all about? Yeah, hard pass.

Look, I realize the Air Force is not a frontline combat force on the ground generally, minus a couple individual units like the CCTs and things like that.

However, Teach our military how to kill bad guys and break their stuff. I don't like, we're in the business of killing bad guys, Todd. And we're supposed to worry about our microaggressions, our diversity feelings. And, you know, did someone hurt your feelings by telling you you were bad at your job? Hey, instead of going to a convention about it for eight hours, how about you just be better at your job?

Because people's lives depend on the military and the ability for them to do their jobs. I'm so sick of this woke DEI stuff. It's like, you wonder why there's a recruiting problem because we used to have commercials about people going up and blowing stuff up, which was cool. That's why I joined the military.

Now we got ones like, I have two moms that I'm cisgender and special. And all it's like, dude, this is, you don't have warfighters join because of that. No, you're right. And clearly, that is the case. I can't tell you how many times we've had parents call up and they're advising their kids: do not go into the military.

And especially if you're a white Heterosexual male, you're not welcome in the military. And by the way, Carl, that's actually reflected in a lot of the, when they're looking at the numbers of recruiting efforts, you know, straight white guys aren't signing up. Right. And it's like it's weird study, Todd. I mean, imagine that.

You tell a bunch of white, straight people that they're bad, and then they don't join your club. I mean, who could have possibly seen that time? It's a great point. All right, folks. We've got a link to that story up on our live show blog.

Carl, always good stuff. What's coming up on the show today? Oh man, we are going to torch Last night's thing, and the three Republicans that defected. The one of those four negative votes was a patriot. He did so for a procedural reason to help read post this vote again.

But we are going to torch these guys and we are going to explain how we don't want the Republican base does not want the garbage that the business as usual from Washington, D.C. We want to blow up the system and actually start working for the people. By the way, and just so you know this, Carl, Hugh Hewitt had Gallagher on the show, one of the no votes. This was not a surprise. Apparently, he told them over a month ago that he was a no-vote.

So I'm again, this goes back to the Marine. And this goes back to Mike Johnson, though. He knew going in yesterday they didn't have the votes.

So why hold the vote? If you don't have the votes, you hold off. Yeah, but I think this might have been somewhat of a smart play because they knew that Steve Scalise was coming back. They knew all this. This is a chance to get the rhinos on the record and let the press and people like me and the outrage blow them out of the water.

All right.

Well, it'll be a great show tonight, everybody. Take a look, Carl Higby, host of Carl Higby Frontline. That's coming up later tonight on the big channel. All right, Carl, appreciate you. My man.

All right, there you go. Great show, by the way. Got to check that out. Yeah, Gallagher told Hugh Hewitt I whipped no for over a month, says he did not surprise GOP leadership and that House Republicans did not need to barrel into the vote and embarrass themselves when the math wasn't there. And Gallagher.

is um maybe maybe a rhino. I mean, clearly, anybody who doesn't support a secure border in this country is a rhino. On the Republican side. But the fact of the matter is, this guy was at least honest and open about it.

So if you're hearing reports out there, oh, Gallagher surprised her, but no, he didn't. He was telling them. He told them all along. He was a no vote.

So that was not just, I mean, that wasn't silly, that was just stupid. Absolutely stupid. Our telephone number is 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. This is the Ton Stern Show.

I did a 180 on the border bill. Afraid that my career it was about to kill. My flip-flop didn't work. Cause here's what the folks are saying. It's too late.

You miss it's too late. You're backstabbing, we won't take it. We know in the end you aren't our friend. There's no need to try and fake it. I close it up to Schumer, try to ram it through.

Turn my back on MAGA, but what else is new? Got caught with my pants down, cause this is what I keep hearing. It's too late for you, Mitch. It's too late. You reverse away.

You just aren't buying. Where Seika, you, Mitch, you are true. Enough of your non-stop lying. It's too late. I hear it.

It's too late. Why? Well done, uh Jim Consider down in the blue room. At the holiday inn. Good job, Jim.

Yeah, look, I think it is too late. Look, Mitch McConnell tried to pull a fast one, and it was very clear from the start that it was not going to work. It's honestly, folks, we need leaders. We need leaders. And I think we're going to need some leaders of the Vivek Rama Swami mindset.

Let's go to the phones here, 901 260-5926. Let's talk to Steve in Arkansas, listening to us on KWAM, our flagship station. Hi, Steve, what's going on? Yeah. I'm going to kind of be a wise guy today.

I know I do that sometimes, and say this a little tongue-in-cheek, that there's a whole lot of truth. Yeah. I think good person for the new head of the RNC would be Vince McMahon. Is he what? Our pop our politics that the people get to actually see has a whole lot of similarities to the way he ran Professional wrestling in the WWE.

You got your Fabricated storylines and your fabricated catastrophes and everybody getting up there and working with a used maybe in the their little uh choreograph spills and and rolls and stuff. Might as well go ahead and get somebody that knows how to really make that operation work and can make some money off of it. Are you trying to tell me, Steve, that wrestling is fake? Oh, well, uh if you belie If you believe our politics, what What we're getting to say about our politics is real and the truth, then you probably believe wrestling is the truth. All right, Steve, appreciate that call.

It's a mess, isn't it, folks? It's an absolute mess. Our telephone number is 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. I have a question for you.

We've been following the story about Jennifer Crumbley, the mom found guilty yesterday. Her son shot up a school. Cut number nine, please. Yeah. Um, individually?

Sure. Okay. Um On Count 1 of involuntary manslaughter as to Madison Baldwin, we find the defendant guilty of involuntary manslaughter. On Count two of involuntary manslaughter in regards to Tate Muir, we find the defendant guilty of involuntary manslaughter. On count three, as to involuntary manslaughter regarding Hannah St.

Juliana, we find the defendant guilty of involuntary manslaughter. And encounter Oh, wow.

Okay. Um Yeah.

So let me explain what just happened here. Her son, Oxford High School, this is in Michigan. And um A number of people were shot and killed at this school.

Now, Jennifer Crumbler, her son is seventeen, pleaded guilty. To murder. terrorism, other crimes, was sentenced to life in prison without parole. And the parents are being held accountable here. And I'm just curious.

If you believe this was the right call, that this woman should spend, this mother should spend a lot of time in jail, maybe the rest of her life. She is yet to be sentenced. But the verdict is that she's responsible.

Now, the family of one of the kids who was killed says it was m it was monumental history. And it just seems to me, and there's some talk about this in the Memphis area, and we're going to get into this story a little bit later on. But it seems to me that we need to start holding parents accountable. If you are a parent and you raise your child to be a monster, Then you bear responsibility. If you if you as a parent are Are not there.

You're not at home, you're not raising your child, you're just sending them out onto the streets, you bear responsibility for that, in my estimation. We've got eight-year-olds and nine-year-olds carjacking people in Memphis, Tennessee. Where are the parents? What are they doing? 901-260-5926.

Do you think the jury made the right call here? You think the mom here bears responsibility for what her teenage son did? nine oh one two six zero five nine two six. This is the Todd Stern Show. All right, welcome back to the Tom Sherman's Radio Program.

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Say hello to a member of the House Freedom Caucus, Congressman Ben Klein from Virginia. Congressman, good to have you with us today. Todd, always good to be with you.

So let's talk about what the heck happened last night. Were you surprised that Majorkas was not impeached? You know, it was one of those few times that it was a coin flip, and we knew we had. A three vote margin, and we had two. Who were explicitly against it, Buck and McClintock, and we had.

Gallagher, who had spoken negatively about the bill at conference and was likely to be a no. And so. I was uh disappointed, but Scalise, our majority leader, is out getting treatment for cancer, and he is. willing to come back if necessary to provide that winning vote for the resolution next week.

So let's talk about Gallagher. He was on a Hugh Hewitt show earlier today. He said that the Whips known for at least a month, over a month, that he was going to be a no vote on this.

So he's pushing back on the claim that people were surprised by this. He said they knew all along that he was going to be a no-vote. Is that what you heard as well? I had not heard. I'm not on the WIP team.

Nobody from the Freedom Caucus really is on the WIP team. All right, let me stop you right there. What do you mean by that?

So the the majority whip, uh Tom Emmer, is uh the one who essentially counts the votes and and determines where bills are going to fall when the vote happens. And if we are needing votes, then he explains the merits of bills to members and tries to convince them to vote for the leadership's agenda. But because so often Freedom Caucus members have a different perspective, especially when it comes to spending, we find ourselves on the outs a lot of times. And so we work with leadership where we can, but we're not afraid to stand up to them when we have to.

So I'm just curious here on the again from behind the scenes how this works. Does the Speaker of the House have the authority to say, hey, Tom, you need to put some Freedom Caucus guys and gals on this team, on your team? I think it would be the speaker would have a lot of say in that. I think it's ultimately up to the whip, but and I'm there may be one member of Freedom Caucus, but I'm not aware of any. Here's the problem I've got, Congressman.

It just seems to me that there is a leadership vacuum in the House of Representatives right now. And if you didn't have the votes, and I think that Johnson knew they didn't have the votes, I think he was afraid not to have the vote because of the backlash it might have gotten. But the reality is, if you don't have the votes, you should know how people are voting when you do something like this.

Well, you should. And the leadership probably didn't anticipate every Democrat being in the House to vote. Usually, there's four or five who are absent. They whipped their own members and got them there to oppose.

So the vote fell where it did. But that doesn't mean the bill is the resolution is dead. It means it's just going to be a little messy as it comes up next week. And we are very, very determined. to impeach Alexander Mayorkas.

He has Willfully violated the laws willfully. lied to Congress and it is an important tool for For the the people's house. to use when you have a rogue member of the President's administration who will not resign and who the President will not fire. Have you had any conversations with McClintock? I know that his argument is this doesn't rise to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors.

He says he's afraid of Republicans or Democrats using this same argument against a Republican president's cabinet.

Well, that's like trying to taking a sweater that's been stretched out and trying to make it fit again.

So essentially, what you've got is Uh An argument that what the Democrats have done with impeachment, what What Democrats may do with impeachment is something that Republicans shouldn't do. And essentially Uh when you're dealing with failure to enforce the laws I th that that rises to the level of an impeachable offense. And so uh when Majorkis Uh takes our parole system and uses it Uh For broad groups of illegals instead of in a case by case Uh method then that is contrary to the law. And so you know, you you look at other this is not simply w a cabinet secretary uh in the Commerce Department saying, well, we're just uh not going to enforce Um some obscure rule. This is about the national security of this country.

This is about the humanitarian crisis that's been created. And uh I we have a responsibility to protect our country and our constituents, and that's why he has to be removed.

So let's talk about next week. You say you guys are going to give it another go. Do we have guarantees? I I have to tell you, I was surprised by Gallagher and I was surprised by McClintock. I thought it would be somebody like Hadon Bacon out of Nebraska.

So are we sure that we're going to have enough votes next week to do this? We're never one hundred percent sure, but I can tell you the advantage of having this vote, even though it did fail. is that everybody's on the board. And so the Don Bacons of the world, and we have some in the caucus who are Unsure or nervous about that vote took the vote and voted to impeach. And so Republicans.

Uh overwhelmingly voted to impeach, and it will be hard for any of them To say, well, I got it wrong last time, and now I'm flipping and gonna vote a different way.

So you can expect most of them to vote this, or well, all of them, to stick. with the vote they took yesterday. And uh And then with Majority Leader Scalise coming in to cast the final vote, we should be able to pass it. and send those articles to the Senate. And then watch and see what the Senate does because, as you know, they're not required to hold a trial.

But I would think that they would want to hear the evidence on behalf of. The residents of their individual states and those who are concerned about the border and the protections of the border would want them to have a trial of this individual in the Senate. Congressman, I want to play this audio. This is from Steve Bannon earlier today. Let's take a listen.

But, Speaker Johnson, and I don't know if it's Gates, I don't know who's, I don't know if Stefanik, somebody's got to get in and help this guy because he's bleeding out. And he's bleeding out now just from the basic mechanics of what you have to do. And as I say, Gallagher told Hugh Hewitt this morning. I told the whip A month ago I was a no. That's just inexcusable.

So Bannon says Speaker Johnson's got to get some help. Do you agree with that assessment? I agree that we need to work with the speaker to make sure that. We are successful in putting forward a conservative agenda and passing a conservative agenda. And so, Where I can be helpful to the speaker's office, I have been and will continue to be.

I think that. the those who would say that uh Rolling the dice on a vote, taking a a vote when you aren't sure of the outcome is not Uh Failure in and of itself, and the failure to pass the bill in the short term. Uh where We now have everybody on the record, and we are likely to pass it next week. and in the long term, move the ball forward. Is is uh messy, but that's the way that the house works.

So I d I wouldn't view it as a Uh uh somehow a lack of leadership Uh I would view it as Just a part of a long-term strategy. It's very similar to the Israel bill, where you look at. the failure to pass a standalone Aid bill for Israel. Uh which most Republicans voted for and most Democrats voted against You know, those who recognize Israel as our ally. Are going to recognize that Republicans are the ones standing up for Israel and.

that Democrats are not. All right.

So and and the reason why is because they insist on Ukraine aid.

Well We recognize that Ukraine is not a The sole democratic ally in the Middle East. Ukraine is Yeah. Historically corrupt, whereas Israel has been an ally for many years. And Ukraine doesn't have an end game with regard to this war that they're in and have already spent over $100 billion in U.S. taxpayer dollars, whereas Israel has a goal.

It is the eradication of Hamas, and we should stand in support of that. All right.

Well, Congressman, we're going to leave it there. Good luck next week. And let's hope. I hope that Steve Scalise can make it back. But it's, wow, let's hope things work out in our favor next week.

Absolutely.

All right, Congressman Ben Klein, everybody, from the great Commonwealth of Virginia. I would contend, and I get it. I I get it. I would contend, and I hope the Republicans in Congress understand that what happened last night was a colossal fire. Failure and embarrassment.

That's what that was. And it's all on the speaker. It is all on the speaker. We should never be in a position where you have to roll the dice. You should be going into votes knowing the outcome of those votes.

And that's why I'm concerned about next week. I don't know that there are any guarantees that even next week is going to work. And if they fail again, Folks This is going to impact the races, the down ballot races in 2024. It really is that simple.

901-260-5926, our telephone number, that's 901-260-5926. And the fact that we have no conservatives. On the Whip Committee. Huge, huge, huge problem. We'll be right back.

All right, hello. No, I'm not a negative dancy.

Somebody said me on the day, stop being so negative. I'm not negative, I'm a realist. And I think you expect me to be a realist. But I This was stupid last night. There was no reason.

We look really pathetic and weak. That's the problem because of this vote last night. And Speaker Johnson's got to get it together. And I've been catching, by the way, I've been catching a lot of blowback. From um You know, he's real popular in the evangelical Christian world, which is a world that I exist in as well.

And people, Todd. Why are you attacking a fellow evangelical? Who do you think you are? I think you're a classic.

Well no, I'm not. I'm not. I take issue with that. I'm not a Methodist. No, I like Methodists.

I'm not a Methodist, though. But this has nothing to do with it. Just because somebody's an evangelical, I'm supposed to just roll over and applaud every time they do something? No, I'm not that I'm not built that way.

Well, you're not going to get invited to the Christmas party. Fine! I don't like going to those parties anyway. I'd rather stay home. All right, let's go to Connor in Boston.

Hey, Connor, what's going on? What's on your mind? I'll tell you, you probably won't don't want to drink their eggnog anyway. They might spike it on you. I don't like that eggnog stuff anyway.

Get me some you know what? Give me some Prairie Farms chocolate milk. I'll drink that. Oh, that sounds tasty. But I'm going to tell you, last night, you said this so eloquently, but it was complete and utter embarrassment what happened last night.

And I was totally I mentioned this to Lydia on the phone, but I am so sick and tired of these rhinos who get in there, talk a big game. You know, they're they're all tough when they're on the campaign trail or trying to get elected to a certain position. And then they get up there and they completely they're they're a flop. you know, Wake Johnson, I'm sure he's a very nice person, but You know, it's like in the private sector, if you don't do your job, you get the the heave ho, you know, you're gonna still chill boot right out the door. It has nothing to do with him as a person, but if he's not going to do the job, quite frankly, you got to get out of there and let somebody in there who can.

Connor, I'm curious. Who do you like for the RNC? I mean, who what do they need in that position to turn them into winners? I think really the biggest issue with the Republicans for a while is their messaging. And their communication, it's like when you put them in front of the average American voter.

their policies and their positions wins hands down. But they have to work on their messaging and their communication. They need somebody, quite frankly, you lead them accounts like President Trump. He is a master communicator. You know, that's, Connor, as you were saying that, I kept, I started thinking, that's Donald Trump.

You're describing Donald Trump. Because he connects with the average American voter, I mean, like even independent.

So if they have more people, maybe Don Jr., who knows, who are out there who can you know, connect with the average American voter. We win hands down in a landslide, and you know, it's the fastest they can clean out with these rhinos. primary them, get them out of there, give them the a first class ticket to the unemployment line. the better off the party will be. Connor, it's something to think about.

Wow, you know, it makes sense. And maybe, just maybe, Donald Trump's lasting legacy would be to create a modern RNC. Maybe that's the the move here. All right.

Connor, appreciate that call. Thank you. Let's go to Dale listening to us on AM960. Is that K-R-O-F Dale? Yes, sir, it sure is.

Great radio station. Yeah. So anyhow, thanks uh for uh being the boss today, but I what I want to share is I hear a lot of anger towards the Republicans, but I tell you, I think it's misplaced. I see him at least they're trying to reverse course the majority of the House uh Republicans voted to reap the in pitch markers. And then at least some of them stood up against the this crazy Senate deal.

So I said we got to give them a little credit for trying. They have to have the votes to really change things. But what I don't hear is the anger towards these Democrat hypocrites. Uh You know, they got these Their communities are hollering Or screaming and hurting. Their constituents are being murdered and raped.

and yet they voted one hundred percent In unity. to not impeach This This this this man. And the Democrats, Schumer. to advance a bill They don't. They don't give a crap about the border bills.

All they care about is the Ukraine. And that's the only reason why they had this bill. And so anyhow, my final word is I think we need to give these Republicans who try to reverse course A little credit and a little acknowledgement. And that's all I have to say, and I'll go ahead and hang up. Dale, thank you for that call, and thank you for listening to our great affiliate down in Cajun Country, K R O F.

Good people down there. Folks, we're going to continue this. We got to take a quick break. Our telephone number, 901-260-5926, going right to your calls after your top-of-the-hour news. That's 901-260-5926.

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Todd starts. All right, well. Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Tom Sharon's Radio Program. Happy to have you with us today.

Our telephone number: 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. Now, we're going to get to your calls in just hang tight. Don't go anywhere. But I want to set the stage for this hour by talking about this.

The school shooting and the aftermath in Oxford high school, Oxford, Michigan, Oxford High School. where the mother of the shooter was charged. She was found guilty of manslaughter. The shooter's father, James Crumbly, her name's Jennifer Crumbly, by the way, James Crumbly, set to go to trial next month. The parents were charged after their son opened fire.

at this school.

Now they We were accused of wrongdoing because they're the ones that signed their son's application for a gun card. Even though They knew that this kid was like not right.

Something was not right with this kid. The um The judges in the case, and there was an opinion filed last March about the case. And the level of severity in this case is very different.

So Jennifer Crumbly said the fact that um That the fact that her son did this, she should not bear any responsibility.

Now the four person said lives under the balance. We took that very seriously. She said that um the thing that really hammered it home is that she was the last adult with the gun.

So I'm curious to know from you, should we should we now consider targeting the moms and the dads of these criminal th you know little thuglings? And is that the way to go here? In Memphis, Tennessee, we've got. Juvenile crime is off the charts. And the judges here, juvenile court, they're not doing anything.

They're literally just tagging the kids. like you would do wildlife, And You hope and pray they don't go out and commit another crime. But we've had a number of instances where kids have been caught with ankle monitors committing crimes in the community again. And we're talking about violent crimes. We're talking about teenagers.

We're talking about children who are out there. Carjacking, and this is the same thing's happening in Washington, D.C. right now. It's just off the charts. Is it time to start charging mom and dad?

If they're not going to raise their kids. If they're just going to turn the kids into animals, and that's what they're doing here, right? You have to teach a kid right from wrong. But you've got parents out there who refuse to do that. A lot of people are just going out there and they're.

I mean no disrespect here, but they're whoring themselves. For These welfare checks. They're going out and they're popping out the babies because they know it's not a, they don't see it as a baby, they see it as a welfare check. Right, more cash. And that's why you've got a lot of these people living in public housing, and they're having, you know, 7, 8, 9, 10 kids because they want the welfare checks.

And then people are surprised when these kids turn around and they end up in, you know, in jail. Committing these heinous crimes.

Now, when I was a kid, I'm just going to tell you, we've got a big problem in this country. Huge problem.

Now, when I was a kid growing up in the 70s and 80s, you did something wrong at school. Guess what happened? You got your butt whipped. That's right. Back in my day, and I don't know, maybe this was an anomaly.

Maybe my school was the only one that did it. But when I was a kid in grade school at Hope P. Sullivan Elementary in South Haven, Mississippi, we had a principal who would patrol the halls. He was a very nice man, but we feared him. And the reason why we feared him is he had a big fiberglass paddle attached to his belt.

And if you're screwed up. You were summoned out of the classroom. You were told to bend over in the hallway, and boom, diddy, boom, boom, boom. The Badonka Donk got Badonka Donked. That's the way it was back in the day.

And then guess what they did? They called your parents. They said, Mrs. Starnes, Tod was a bad boy to day. And he got paddled.

And guess what happened when I got home? This happened one time, by the way. I got home, I got it twice as hard. That's the way Things used to be in this country. But, Tod, you shouldn't live in fear.

Your parents, your mommy, and your daddy should be friends, you should be parents. Pals, you should be b No. Where is where is that? Who says that? If you are one of those people who says God, I just I want my I want my son, I want my daughter to be friends.

We we want us to we want to pal around together. No, you don't want to pal around together. You're supposed to raise your kids. Teach 'em right from wrong. But now, if you look at a kid the wrong way, you get sent to jail.

You get fired as a teacher. I feel bad for teachers, I really do. I mean, can you imagine having to have the I mean, it's a classroom full of like little spawns of Satan. It's terrible. Honest to goodness, you go into some of these public schools and it's like one classroom.

I was a couple of years ago. I was doing some story and I was in a classroom.

Well, I went over to the classroom, and I'm thinking to myself, good Lord, every child in this classroom should be like on a poster. They're the poster children for abstinence. I mean, it's really that bad out there. I feel bad for you guys. But we're not disciplining our kids, right?

Instead, what are we doing?

Well, we're letting them just sit and play video games all day. And I don't have a problem with video games at all. I really don't. May I just answer your question though, and this is I Yeah. Man, I have made so many people irritated today.

I don't mean to, but I just want to ask this question. When we were growing up, Back in the 70s and 80s. We didn't have the mass shootings. We didn't have the school stuff. I mean, it was, you would have fights, right?

That's the nature of growing up. But she didn't have school shootings. You didn't have this massive carnage that you see. You didn't have all of that. I'm just kind of wondering why.

And I look. I like video games. We had video games when I was growing up. We had games like, you know, Pac-Man. asteroid, right?

We had Donkey Kong. Frogger And those were great fun games. We weren't sitting around pretending to be soldiers. Just slaughtering people. every single day.

for hours on end. We didn't have the video games that just, I don't want to say glorify the violence, but it's glorifying the violence. And I'm wondering if as a society, as a generation, have we become sin desensitized to this kind of violence, this level of violence? Because of the movies and the music And the video games? I'm just asking a question here.

Because we didn't have that level of carnage when I was growing up. We just didn't. But I'm also telling you that Children were taught. To behave.

Now, we may have acted the fools away from our parents. But if that was the case, guess what happened? The neighbors would call. And then little little stars acting up again.

So there was always, you had grown-ups always had their eyes on people, but a lot of parents these days. And and hear me out here. A lot of parents these days. believe it is more important to make $250,000, $300,000, $400,000 a year. And live in a giant house and have multiple cars and go on fancy vacations.

They believe that is more important than having a parent at home raising the children.

So as a society, we have made those decisions. As parents, many people have made the decision to take their kid to soccer practice on Sunday morning as opposed to Sunday school.

Now, I'm not saying that makes you a bad person. I'm just saying that we have strayed from the moral foundations of the country. That's what I'm trying to say here. But I'm curious. Should we now hold mommy and daddy responsible for what little little you know, hellion, little hell boy, little hell girl is doing.

Let's go to Scott listening to us on WLOB. Hi, Scott. What's going on? How you doing, Dodd? Say I'm kind of the devil's advocate for a minute here.

Sure. Alright, so this woman who just got convicted, okay, Now, you you just brought up yourself a minute ago. Have you been to a school as of late? You can't tell the difference between the little freaks and It's it's weird, you know, the blacks the Different color hairs and the bl the black nails, and they're all I mean, so how would she know her kid was that crazy? Oh, the black fingernails, yeah.

Look, here's: I was the guest on Mary Walters' podcast last night. A lot of fun. And I was asked this question, Scott. And it seems to me if you're a parent, And all of a sudden, your sweet little Brooks brothers child comes home, and instead of wearing khaki pants and the blue blazer, they're wearing all black and they've got the black fingernails, and you know, they've filed down their teeth to look like Dracula. Seems to me, as a parent, you're kind of like, you should know that.

You should think, you know, maybe something's wrong with little Carl today. Yeah, you'd think, but then if you do, if you say something to the school, though, they tell you, oh, well, he's just fine. He's just expressing himself. It's like, no, he's a weirdo. It was right.

She Yeah. And nobody wants to know that, but I mean, you know, the reality is some there are weirdos out there, and your kid may be one of them. Right. I mean, I I, you know, I don't know. I don't understand why it's so difficult for people to understand that part, but.

And I I didn't want to disagree with it, but I was just trying to trying to Look, I love it when people disagree. I weren't disagreeing with anything. I really think she's a she's a fruitcake too, so But Yeah. All right.

That could have been a legal c uh case though and to say I didn't know he was a weirdo 'cause every other kid looks just like him. Maybe they're all just they're all that way. I don't know. See what I'm saying? I no, I hear what you're saying.

I no, I do hear what you're saying.

So maybe in today's society, the kid wearing the Brooks Brothers jacket and blazer with the Akankis, maybe that's the weirdo. Maybe maybe Mm-hmm. Don't you dare go to school with Langless. You're not going to know. That's it.

All right.

Scott, God bless. Thank you. Again, who. Do we go after the parents here? 901-260-5926 is our number.

That's 901-260-5926. Let's go to Mike listening to us on WCBM in Baltimore, Maryland. Hi, Mike. What's on your mind? Hi, Todd.

I just wanted to say, what do you think about me Starting today, committing to be a prayer warrior, to go to God through our Lord Jesus Christ and ask God. to save the United States of America. I listened to Mark Levan. He said we're Two we have two. Uh two hundred.

or three hundred trillion dollars in unfunded liabilities. We have an invasion at the border. Uh We're The United States is on the verge of destruction. We can't endure this much more. And I think Rather than worry about it, I need to go to God.

and pray for the saving of our nation. It it it means God. Look, Mike, what a noble thing. And I suspect a lot of other people would like to join you in that effort. I think we need as many prayer warriors in this country as we can get.

And I say, good for you, sir. I'm gonna I'm gonna do that time. Um I I listen to a lot of talk radio. I listen to Mark Levin. Todd Starnes, Rob Carson, and so on.

And I need to pray. I need to pray for the United States. that God restored and protect it. We have corrupt judges Ah, corrupt legislators. a corrupt administration.

And we need God to change all that. Mike, we do. And what a great note to end this segment on. Thank you for calling in and thank you for listening to us on WCBM, our great affiliate in Baltimore, Maryland. All right, folks, we do have to take a break here: 901-260-5926.

We'll be right back. All right, welcome back, everybody. Let's go right to the phones. Alabama. Essie is watching us on Newsmax 2 today.

Hi, Essie. How are you, and what's on your mind? How are you doing? All right, Essie, what's on your mind? You're on the air.

Um I was talking about you was talking about that mod. Give him kill him. You know, when we came along, I was only the fifty. There now. Everybody was everybody's eighty month.

Respect All this, you know. Mikhail, you know your doubt, Mitchell. But she's like, man, I stared the road. I saw the child and stared at the road. I think Again.

This rule. She may skip this video, make sixty two. And like Well she had her choice. She didn't do her chillin' like I did, huh?

So, Essie, you it sounds like you had the same kind of up upbringing I had and uh we used to call those uh every now and again you get a good old fashioned butt whooping. Oh, whichever. In no down the road to Calvin Lud. And it's about one from the schoolhouse, from the teacher, teacher, mum wins so teach teachers. Cut the hole to go.

Yeah. I hear you, Essie. I appreciate you calling in, and thank you for that. It's true, though. Essie.

Essie, our parents may have known each other. Let's go to Crystal in Florida. Hi, Crystal. What's on your mind? Hi, good morning.

I just was speaking with some parents that have school children. Um They were telling me that well actually I asked them um What kind of literature are on the classrooms in their elementary school children's Worms And they was like, well, we're not allowed to the classrooms.

So I'm just Wandering. They're not allowed to the classrooms.

Now, a days where when my kids were in school, we were really kind of considered. Mm, not the best parents, you know, if you wasn't at the school. From time to time, and now you're not even allowed in the classroom.

So I'm just. I'm I'm really disgusted but um it tells me that something's not brought there. Um Uh Anyhow, that's what I wanted to say. Yes, look, I'm with you, Crystal, and it makes a lot of sense, but we've got to get a handle on this. I mean, we're raising a generation of kids that are out of control.

And it's almost like, remember the movie The Purge? Have you seen The Purge movies? That's what we're, Crystal. Thank you for that call. That's what I'm talking about here, folks, is that we're getting to a point where it's almost becoming acceptable, this level of violence.

I mean, Washington, D.C., poor Greta Van Sestret over at Newsmax. Warning people, whatever you do, don't come to DC. It's just too dangerous. And the reason why is we've got these kids out there. And you notice people are hollering about racism.

We haven't mentioned anything about race. I mean, it doesn't matter. Race should not matter here. This is about right and wrong. Not a matter of black and white.

All right, gotta take a break. This is the Todd Stern show. All right, welcome back to the Todd Search Radio Show. Happy to have you with us today. Our telephone number 901-260-5926.

Let's go to the Patriot Mobile newsmaker line, say hello to our good friend. He is president of the Young Americas Foundation, YAF. Governor Scott Walker. Governor, hope you're doing good today. Hey, Todd, I'm doing well.

It's cold in Wisconsin, but I'm doing well otherwise. You know, Congressman, we've been looking at some new data showing President Biden losing significant support among young people in America. And I'm curious, how do we take advantage of that? And is there a chance that we could actually see a shift in voting patterns in 2024? Yes.

And we in fact we talked about on your show before where we did a poll at Young America's Foundation before the first presidential primary debate. Found the number one issue amongst college students. Is not what the media tells us overwhelming. It's not climate change. It's not abortion.

It's the economy. And that's what's driving these numbers across the country. In Wisconsin, where it's Dead heat in Michigan, where it's just at the other day, where Trump is up by eight, and similar numbers in Georgia. And so we can build on that not only in the presidential election, but I think. Every conservative running, and for that matter, not just those candidates, but conservatives out campaigning.

Need to make a point to reach out to young people and tell them how much better things were before Joe Biden, how much better they could be going forward. And that a big part of that is not expecting the government to do everything because when they spend all that money, it drives the cost of goods and services up. And that's the last thing folks are worrying about, the rent or paying for their gas or their food need. We can make those inroads, but we've got to connect the dots. And the problem with inflation being, what, 17%, a lot of these kids who have graduated college, who are in this Gen Z category, they can't even afford to put a down payment down on a house.

They're having a hard time. You know, some of them are even and we're hearing from these kids working sometimes two and three jobs just to make ends meet.

Well, you're exactly right. I I've got one of my sons and my daughter-in-law just got married this year. They're looking for a house. They both have good jobs, but they work extra on the side to save up for a house. Their mortgage payment on the house they're looking at is going to be almost $1,500 more a month, a month, as to where it was before Joe Biden took office.

So when I sit on shows like Meet the Press and some of these panelists next to me say, oh, well, the stock market's better, GDP is up. They don't connect to the reality that out in the rest of the country, not only are people overall paying almost $900 more per month just to live the way they did before Biden, but young people, exactly like you mentioned, like my son, like my daughter-in-law, trying to buy a home, trying to start out in their little Peace of the American dream, they're paying so much more than they did before Joe Biden. And I think there's a real opportunity for conservatives, not just in this election, but long term, make inroads with those younger voters. You know, it's funny. I was on a tangent here.

So excuse me, Governor, but I've been looking for a condo in Memphis. I don't like mowing grass. And so I found one, and I was waiting for the prices to go down a little bit. It was like in the $600,070,000, no, it was in the $500,000 or $600,000 range. Most of the condos in this building.

So I hadn't been on in about a month or so on the Zillow, and I was on last night. Holy cow, all of these condos are like $1.3 million, $1.4 million. It's insane. The prices are just skyrocketing. And if it's tough for somebody like me, I can't even imagine for the young kids out there.

What's amazing, and this is the reality of bidenomics. You know, you get people like Elizabeth Warren want to blame it on corporations and others out there. People are smart. It's why not only with young people, but with many other nontraditional Republican voting groups, are paying a lot more attention, not only to Donald Trump, but to others, because they feel like. You know, nobody people don't hear what they're saying.

They don't understand what's really going on. And when you get these. pundits trying to say, well, the economy's better. You can't even if inflation's leveled off, It has gone up so much during Biden's tenure that even with wages in some places going up somewhat, there's still such a gap between what families are bringing home versus what it costs them, again, not to live above and beyond where they were, but just to live where they were just a few years ago. That's why, again, we think there's a tremendous opportunity to reach out, again, not just to voters, but the work we do at YF.org at Young America's Foundation is to reach out to college, high school, and even middle school students now and tell them the message that long term has an impact.

If we're going to sustain, not just win in 24, but have kind of those sort of sustained victories. Really, get this country back on track, it's going to be a key factor in that is going to be reaching young people. And this is one of the things I love about YAF because sometimes people bristle when they hear, oh, politics or. Republican. And yet, Yaff, there are so many opportunities from the great journalism programs that you guys offer to the seminars and workshops on entrepreneurship.

And I think especially, you know, trying to introduce conservative precepts to minority young people and minority voters, going in and saying, hey, we've got some great, we're big friends of entrepreneurs, and introducing young people to the conservative value system that way, I think, is so incredibly effective. It really is. I mean, in the end, if somebody wants to start up their own business, it's a great thing to remind them that the left is the ones, they're the ones that want to tell you what to do, when to do, and how to do it. Those of us on the right, we want you to live your Peace of America dream. As long as you don't hurt the health and safety of your neighbor, go out and do your own thing.

And I think unfortunately, many in the corporate media, certainly almost all the voices in higher education, even some in kids through twelve, try to reverse that course and say that, well, no, it's the you know it's conservatives that want to stop you. No, that couldn't be further from the truth, which is precisely why they try to cancel conservative ideas on campus and block them on social media platforms. Because the truth is on our side. We get the message out, and we can resonate with young people as we do with others. Good stuff.

Yaff.org, ladies and gentlemen, great website. Introduce your kids, grandkids to it. And young people listening to us, homeschoolers, go check out. There may be a YAF chapter in your neighborhood, in your high schools, middle school, college. Get involved and get plugged in.

And, Governor, you know, again, when you look at. Looks like we're going to be having new leadership in the RNC. What does the RNC need to be doing to reach those younger voters?

Well, overall, they've got to be more aggressive. They've got to have a game plan to do that. It can't just be sending digital ads out a couple of weeks before an election. It's got to be a long-term strategy, working with partners. There's plenty of other groups like ours and others working with young people.

And I would say a step even beyond young people. They need to be more aggressive. There's a lot of things that I think both the state and federal national parties should be doing to deal with election integrity. But the worst time to do it is after the election. The time to do it is now.

Go to court, make sure that election officials are following the law, particularly in key states like mine. And that will go a long way towards good things happening in the fall. All right, good stuff.

Well, Governor, appreciate it. Looking forward. I'll be speaking to young people out at the Reagan Ranch Center. It's going to be a lot of fun, and I'm looking forward to visiting. Thanks, Todd.

We always appreciate you talking with our young people. All right.

Governor Scott Walker, everybody, in the colds of Wisconsin right now. And good man, and they're doing great work over at Young America's Foundation.

Now look. You do have an opportunity here on what groups that you want to support. May I just say that YAF is one of those groups you need to support. You know, if you've got money that you can invest in something, why not invest it in young people and the great work they've been doing since the 1960s, founded by William F. Buckley Jr., who really is the father of the modern conservative movement in America, Ronald Reagan, William F.

Buckley Jr., Goldwater, all part of the incredible work that's being done at YAF.

Alright, here's the deal. We're going to take a break. When we come back, going right to the phones. And I am curious to hear your thoughts on this situation out of Oxford, Michigan. Were the parents, or rather, did the jury do the right thing here?

By punishing mom. And sending her to jail. Do parents bear responsibility for the sins that their children are committing out there, the evil their kids are committing out there under their watch? 901-260-5926. We'll be right back.

Mm-hmm. All right, welcome back. The show, everybody. Let's get right to the phone lines. Let's talk to.

Melissa in Arkansas. Hi, Melissa. You are on the air. Hi, Todd. Thank you.

I just want to make a comment on What you you know, definitely the question that you were asking about the mother, I am all for the parents being held responsible. Why is that, Melissa? Why do you believe parents ought to be held responsible?

Well For one, I actually can say that I live by this. And I see this every day. problems, problems, problems. And if you go to them and you're Open and say Whoops. I think we lost Melissa.

Sorry about that, Melissa. Let's go to Jack in Midtown Memphis, listening to us on KWAM, Wentstaway and on the Border. Hi, Jack. What's on your mind? Hey, I like I like what you stand for, man.

And I appreciate you being there. And I'm going to say this. We got no criminals. Both black and white, every blue. And then Jones opened the gate for more to come in.

I heard that some Chinese are coming in too. Oh, a lot of Chinese. Yeah, Jack, a lot of Chinese. You know what I suggest? Paul, I suggest, and I'm a real guy.

retired, real H Railroad Van. But I what I said yesterday, um electrify the sense.

Now that's a that's the word that I I made up, now Chinese are coming in and whatever. And they're they're not real poor people. They're coming in with some education and they know how to set up business. laundress and stuff like that, they're coming in, but it's still hurting Our people, black and white. We already got enough criminals here.

When you hit up the more across the border, man. You can see I'm mad, don't you? I'm mad about this. Jack, I hear it. And if you live in Memphis, so you probably live it every day like all the rest of us here.

We see the crime. I mean, just last night, looking at the violence in Memphis, it's unacceptable. And I'm concerned that Biden is dumping a lot of these criminals into communities across the country. We have enough of our own, Jack. We don't need more.

Do you think that he's letting the men so they can vote Democrat? I've been voting for Republican for the last three years. Do you think he's letting them in like that?

So they came out. Democrat for his party amassed in this course. Yes, but not only that, Jack, the reason they're moving the illegals around, you know, for example, in Chattanooga, Tennessee, they're literally flying the illegals to Chattanooga and just releasing them from the airport into the community. And the reason they're doing that is to skew the census numbers so they can redraw congressional districts.

So it's all political, and it is a matter of getting you know, they're counting on these individuals voting Democrat, but it's also a matter of actual numbers of people. Yeah. But tell I heard that some of our there's men of our people, black and white, on the street that can't find homes. I mean, and I heard on the news the other day That places like New York and big cities like Chicago are housing some of these people and they can get welfare and stuff like that that go for and and uh Black and white cannot get. Jack, it's even worse than that.

There's reporting out of New York City where the federal government is now saying that illegals are getting 40% more SNAP money than, say, an American citizen who would need that help. And again, the whole point of SNAP, you know, you don't need generations of families living on it, but a lot of people may need it because they lost their job and they hit a rough patch in life. And the whole point of that is to lend a helping hand. But when you're telling these illegals, hey, you come to America and we're going to give you free housing, free food, free clothes, free health care, you better believe they're making a beeline for that border.

So, Jack, I got to run, but you're right. It's not right. And it's not a black or white issue. That border situation is an American issue, ladies and gentlemen. All right.

Let's go to. Uh Let's go to Ken in Wisconsin. Hi, Ken. What's on your mind? I just want to weigh in on the parents that were convicted.

I think Where are they in? and draw the line. I mean, you could be convicted if The kid steals your keys. and kill somebody 'cause they stole your car. and hit somebody on the road.

I mean, where's it in?

Well, it's a good question. And again, I think it goes back to what was the home environment like? I mean, it's one thing if a kid decides, okay, I'm going to go and grab a gun and go shoot somebody. It's another if you're actually giving the kids access to the guns. You know, providing them with all of the ammo, knowing that your child has some sort of a problem.

Well, that goes the same with the It's a car. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's cars there, the keys are on it. kitchen table or on your dresser.

or even in your medicine cabinet where you have uh drugs that Kids will steal. And then somebody gets dies from it, what are you gonna do? I mean, is that responsible of parents or is that the kid?

Well, it's the kid, but it's the parent too. And Ken, I would make the argument, and I just remember me growing up. You know, my parents put a good, healthy amount of fear into my life as a child, and that kept me out of a lot of trouble. And I think that's the issue here: is that who in their right mind as a kid? Would you ever imagine going, stealing the keys to the car and getting in the car and driving around town?

I never in a million years would have done that because I know what my parents would have done to me once they caught me. Oh, I'm with I'm with you 'cause my mom always told me when she grabbed my ear and said, Hey, you're never too big for me. And hey, I had she put a fear of life in me. that, hey, you you do something wrong, you're gonna have to deal with me. No, that's look.

I hear you. I hear you, Ken. But again, it is something that you, I think you have to look at the particulars. I don't think it's a blanket thing, but clearly, in this particular case, the parents were egregiously at fault. And if I were the dad, I'd be working on some sort of a plea deal right now because it's not looking good for him.

Ken, got to run. Appreciate that call, and thank you for watching Newsmax. All right, folks, again, we are encouraging all of you to. To go and pre-order a copy of my new book. It's called Twilight's Last Gleaming: Can America Be Saved?

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