The Stack: Leverage and Shutdowns: How Democrats Are Using the Pain of Americans
The Schumer shutdown has entered its 30th day, and Democrats are saying the quiet part out loud. Todd exposes top party leaders — including Rep. Katherine Clark, Senator Chris Coons, and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse — admitting that the suffering of working Americans provides “leverage” for their political goals. Todd plays the soundbites and analyzes how the left’s strategy of weaponizing hardship reveals a deeper moral decay in Washington.
He also highlights viral clips from SNAP recipients threatening looting if benefits stop and explains how entitlement culture has taken root. Plus, Todd touches on Obama’s call for a government “truth police” and why conservatives must resist efforts to control speech.
It’s a powerful episode reminding us that truth, faith, and personal responsibility are the antidotes to political manipulation.
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📰 Stack Links
Obama: We want government-censored “diversity of opinion” in journalism — HotAir
SNAP Users Erupt on TikTok — Promise Looting Sprees If Food Stamps Are Cut Off — Townhall
Here Are 8 Creepy Ways Biden’s Handlers Tried To Hide His Mental Decline — The Federalist
And We Have ANOTHER Dem Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud About the Schumer Shutdown — Townhall
Another Democrat Just Said the Quiet Part Out Loud About the Schumer Shutdown — Townhall
Obama faces backlash after calling for “regulatory constraints” — Yahoo News
Report: White House pounces after Katherine Clark “leverage” comment — Washington Examiner
SNAP recipients threaten looting if benefits dry up (video roundup) — New York Post
📝 Transcript: Leverage and Shutdowns: How Democrats Are Using the Pain of Americans
The Todd Huff Show – October 30, 2025
Host: Todd Huff
Todd Huff: All right, my friends, this battle, this fight over the government shutdown is continuing. I want to play some sound bites. From, well, people on the left, people in the Democrat party who have basically admitted to the media which is wild to me that they are. Intentionally trying to. Well, I guess you could say get as much of. The political advantage they can as much leverage as possible. From this shutdown telling us that they have.
Todd Huff: I mentioned this yesterday, but I thought some of you aren't going to believe me. Some of you believe that this is hyperbole. Some of you believe that the Democrats really aren't rooting or. Rooting for or using the suffering of everyday Americans. But the truth is, they are in this shutdown. That's what they're doing. And that is. Where we're headed today.
Todd Huff: I also want to spend a little bit of time. The House Oversight committee has introduced or released. A what? I want to say a report. As odds. Hands me a paper here. They've released a report outlining the ways the previous administration had hid the mental fitness of former. President Joseph Robinette's bribery.
Todd Huff: I'll get into that as well. And time permitting. I did this in the Todd talk today because. I didn't think I would have time to get to it, but at least when I put it out there. And for those of you that want to know what I'm talking about. You can listen to the Todd talk. I might write a little bit more about this. In fact, I think I will if we don't. Get to it. I will commit to that today.
Todd Huff: I will write about it in the newsletter, which is free. You can get that on our website. Todd have show. It's called the inner circle.
Todd Huff: Obama is out there telling folks that I guess the government needs some truth police. There needs to be some regulation, he says, to make sure that truth is being told by the media. And I guess on social media as well. So that's where we're headed. I doubt I'll get to that last one. I'll try. I will try if I. Don't. The Todd talk is about it. And talks about that, and I'll write about it in the newsletter if we get to it. I probably won't do that.
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Todd Huff: All right, let's now get to this. I said. Yesterday. We spent a lot of time yesterday talking. About some things. Going on? With. The government shutdown. By the way, we're on day number 30. Sorry to tell I something. All kinds of crazy things happening here today. Hold on.
Todd Huff: So. The government shutdown day number 30 day number 30 in the government shut down. And. It's, of course the Democrats shut down. I've mentioned this. It's the Schumer shutdown, in particular in the senate. And I know some people think, well, we're being a little too hard. This is hyperbole. No, it's not. It's not hyperbole. This is what they want.
Todd Huff: I saw this a couple of weeks ago. We haven't talked about it yet. And it's not because. For anything other than there's just. A lot going on. This clips all over the place, but I've pulled it up here in an article from town hall headline here. “This democratic lawmaker just admitted how they feel about those affected by the government shutdown.”
Todd Huff: Representative Catherine Clark. She's the democratic whip from the People's Republic. Of Massachusetts. She sat down with Fox News, Fox News’ Chad Pergrim. And. She admitted. She admitted it's wild stuff. I mean, this sort of thing used to be politically devastating for you.
Todd Huff: In today's world, they have so stirred up people to hate Trump, to be afraid of all these wild and crazy conspiracy theories and everything else. They have so created. This spirit of fear that people. Are just. They're bought in. They just have bought into this narrative and they will do nothing. They won't question it. They are committed to trusting whatever the Democrats tell them, even when they tell them.
Todd Huff: In plain language. That they are using the hurt of people. As leverage. This is literally what she said. I'm going to play it for you. This was posted. Last week. I think this interview might have happened last. Well, not this past weekend. The weekend before. But I'm playing this now because again, some people are out there. Still insisting that this is a republican shutdown. Listen.
Todd Huff: I am no committed Republican here. I am a conservative. I care about the Constitution. I care about liberty. I support those politicians who want to push in the right direction. Sometimes it's difficult. Sometimes you got to say the best I've got right now. Is this option? Sometimes there's candidates you can get more excited about. I don't know, but the reality is I'm not here to defend the Republican Party.
Todd Huff: My job, in fact, I wrote about this yesterday in the newsletter. My job is not to help people win an election. Fact, we'll invite people on this program who. Are well, who may not agree with what we say, things that I might not agree with them. I might agree with 0%. That's unlikely, but it might be single digits.
Todd Huff: Regarding the percentage of things I agree with these guests about. It might be a very high number. It might be anything in between. But this program is to help people. I've made this abundantly clear. To help people. Hear and receive truth.
Todd Huff: And I wrote in the newsletter, I have rules for guests because we're starting to get more guests. We've got some, we've got people that have reached out to us. That might surprise you, but. We have rules here. My rules are to let the guests talk. My rules are to never engage in this personal attack sort of thing.
Todd Huff: I've got some rules, but one of the rules is. Just because I bring you on the show doesn't mean that. I am endorsing you. It just means that you have something to bring to the table.
Todd Huff: As far as something that interests me, which if it interests me and I do my job right. It should be interesting to you as we discuss it, because the mission here is to help others. Hear and receive truth. We're trying to get to truth, my friends and I. Don't just mean factual truth, I mean foundational. Bedrock truths upon which we should be. Making big decisions. Right truths about the universe, about the way life works. This side of heaven.
Todd Huff: Truth that we can trust in, that can be. Well, that's been revealed to us that we sometimes have to be reminded of. Sometimes it might be a new revelation or a lesson, but regardless, you have to have. These engaged discussions to get to truth, you can't silence. A part of it. You can't prop up one side and try to destroy the other. And play on an unlevel playing foot. I want these folks to have a way to speak to you, but it is in no way, shape, manner or form meant to be an endorsement. Of the person.
Todd Huff: That's not the point of this. The point of this is to get. To the truth, get to the bedrock, bottom line truth. And this might upset some people because there might be someone I agree with 3% of the time who says something that. Is absolutely true. And I'm going to agree with that truth.
Todd Huff: And if it's a person who comes from the other side of the political aisle. Some people who are politically focused first will say wow. You shouldn't be giving that person. A platform. And I would say, look, I think it's good that we're actually discussing truth and. We're trying to get people to agree and then move in a direction in which. We can act in such a way as a government, as a society that reflects and embraces that truth.
Todd Huff: And so, anyway. Elections are for the politicians to win. So Republicans ought to have a field day with this. What I'm about to play you. Here. I don't know how much it's been used out there yet, but this is. Literally what we're up against.
Todd Huff: In our government. Where they believe that they are justified, that they are in a position of moral authority. They have the moral high ground. to leverage the suffering of Americans—suffering that they have caused.
Todd Huff: Now she's a representative. She's not a senator, so technically, she can't solve this. I will tell you. She didn't vote for this in the house. So the continuing resolution, so she would have done the same thing in the senate, so she still is the problem.
Todd Huff: It's just that she's not in a position to get us here right now. Into this position because it's the Democrat senators who have put us here. Anyway, listen to what she says. I'm just going to let her talk.
Katherine Clark (Soundbite): “I mean, shutdowns are terrible. Of course. There will be families that are going to suffer. We take that responsibility very seriously. But it is one of the few leveraged times we have.”
Todd Huff: Yeah, we take it seriously, but it’s one of the few leverage times that we have. That’s butchered how she says it, but she’s basically saying, look, we have an opportunity here. To leverage the hurt of people to get what we want politically. That’s what she just said.
Todd Huff: We know. In fact, it's even worse than that. We take it seriously. In fact, didn’t she say at the beginning? Did she say responsibility? I don’t know. But it seemed to me that in a way, she was almost betraying the narrative to a point because she was saying, it seemed to me that. They're responsible for causing this, which is true.
Todd Huff: We're responsible for causing this. But, hey, we got some leverage here, so we're. Going to take it. And. I'll apologize if it caused your family great hurt and harm. But. It's one of the few points in time in which we have some political leverage here. As the minority party in Washington, DC.
Todd Huff: And so we're going to make the most of this. We're going to not let a crisis, as Rahm Emanuel has said in the past. We're not going to let a crisis go. To waste. That's what she just said. I mean, there's no two ways about. It. But it's not just her.
Todd Huff: Soon after she made these comments. Senator Chris Coons said, basically, effectively the same sort. Of thing. Chris Coons was on. Looks like C-SPAN here. And he was asked specifically. Now, this has been reposted, retweeted, if you will by the Senate GOP, Senate Republicans.
Todd Huff: And the caption for the post of this video says this: “Chris Coons believes that denying Americans their SNAP benefits may be, quote, unpleasant, but it's worth doing because it gives Democrats political leverage.”
Todd Huff: “Absolutely deranged,” is what the Republicans wrote when they posted this video. Here’s the video itself. Chris Coons saying much the same thing that we just heard in the previous segment.
Chris Coons (Soundbite): “Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the White House. Frankly, this is our only moment of leverage. And although a very unpleasant tool to use—”
Todd Huff: The clip cuts off there. So it's unpleasant. It's got some. They've got some leverage. They're victims. You notice that? Look, we have no political power here. Unfortunately, we're forced to do this. We're forced to take away the SNAP benefits or whatever else. They're causing meltdowns about.
Todd Huff: In the media in our nation's capital. By the way, more and more media figures are catching on to this, and they're calling out these Democrats on their programs. And I love it. It's exactly what needs to happen. It's something that rarely happens when there's accountability.
Todd Huff: Required from the media. Well, the media is requiring it. Of the folks who are actually responsible for this. In this case, of course, the Senate Democrats, but. This is something that they've, I mean, they've talked about this. This is apparently. Their strategy.
Todd Huff: This is apparently what they've figured out. In some messaging with. The folks who determine how to. Communicate the messages, the narrative of the Democrat party. Here's Senator Sheldon Whitehouse walking through the halls of Congress, he looks like. He's being approached. By citizen journalists of some sort. I see here on this video.
Todd Huff: It says Nicholas Ballasy — B-A-L-L-A-S-Y. So he approaches Senator Whitehouse and asks about this very thing. And Senator Sheldon Whitehouse responds much like these first two individuals did in these previous clips. Listen for yourself.
Nicholas Ballasy (Soundbite): “Why are working families the leverage the Democrats need to get Obamacare fixed—to get the Republicans to fix Obamacare? Why is that the place you guys have to go that far?”
Sheldon Whitehouse (Soundbite): “It’s the only lever we have. And frankly, it wouldn’t be a lever at all if Republicans were being reasonable and doing exactly what they should be doing for the sake of their own constituents, so many of whom depend on the Affordable Care Act.”
Todd Huff: And then he walks on. The elevator to go up to a meeting or his office or whatever, but that's what they're telling us, my friends. Don't tell me this is not a Democrat shutdown. Don't tell me that they're not politicizing the hurt of American people. That's literally in their message now.
Todd Huff: Their message is, “We have to cause this hurt because we’re trying to get leverage to prevent more hurt from people losing their Obamacare subsidies” — or whatever narrative of the moment they want to push on the American people. But that, no doubt, is what they are saying. This is a Democrat shutdown. The Schumer shutdown. This is intentional. They are trying to get political bonus points from the hurt of American citizens.
Todd Huff: Now, listen, you may have problems. You may have problems with some of these programs. Government expenses overall. That’s not even the point right now. This is just not the way to deal with it. They are throwing a tantrum. They are petulant children, these folks that I’ve played.
Todd Huff: Look, and I welcome — if you’re a Democrat, a rank-and-file Democrat — I played yesterday that caller who called in to C-SPAN, who basically said what I’m saying right now. It’s the Democrats who have caused this. She was a lifelong Democrat. I believe she was a union leader in Philadelphia. And she said, “This is the Democrats’ creation. This is the Democrats’ fault.”
Todd Huff: They want a political point to score here, and again, what are they trying to do? They’re trying to stir people up into a frenzy, and they’re trying to get people to somehow move to the Democrat Party, move to the Democrat side of things. I don’t know if you’ve seen polling data, but polling has not been good for the Democrats here. The polling has been moving toward the Republicans.
Todd Huff: The Republicans are winning this fight. The Republicans are standing on business, as some people would say. What the Republicans are trying to do here is exactly what needs to be done. You have to hold the line. And again, I'm telling you, they’re going to have to consider — I mentioned this last week — they’re going to have to consider the so-called nuclear option.
Todd Huff: Where they say that basically the filibuster cannot be applied to avoiding these continuing resolution bills and to shut the government down. That is going to have to be a serious point of consideration here, as they are dealing with petulant children who aren't getting their way, who have no political power, but they have enough political power to prevent this from passing the Senate, and that's why we're in this particular condition that we're in now.
Todd Huff: People who are receiving SNAP benefits — SNAP recipients — have been threatening on social media to loot if they lose their benefits. Now, this is again, what we’re being told in reality is not exactly aligned, but the narrative is the narrative. What they're saying out there is that — I think it's 42 million Americans are going to lose their SNAP benefits, I think as soon as Saturday.
Todd Huff: Now, that’s a little deceiving. If you look at the numbers, who’s actually receiving the benefits and all this. But that’s the narrative, and some of these folks have taken to social media apparently and have said, “We’re going to loot if we don’t get our way.” Not kidding. That’s where we’re going to head next.
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Todd Huff: I got to take a timeout, though. Quick timeout. Back in just a minute.
Todd Huff: Welcome back, my friends. I mentioned before the break here that there are SNAP recipients out there. This is an article again in Townhall today. You can always find the articles that we reference here in today’s stack of stuff. Hat tip to the late, great Rush Limbaugh.
Todd Huff: Headline here: “SNAP Users Erupt on TikTok, Promise Looting Sprees If Food Stamps Are Cut Off.” If you want a definition of what an entitlement mindset creates, here it is. Now, this is not every person. This is where you lose a lot of people on the left.
Todd Huff: You lose a lot of people on the left, because if you point out the truth here that some people are prepared to do what I’m about to — well, or at least threatening to do what I’m about to describe to you — they’ll be quick to say, “Well, yeah, but that’s not everybody. These are the bad examples. These are the bad apples.” Okay. I will grant you that.
Todd Huff: I understand that. But I also understand that entitlements create an entitlement mindset. You have to actively fight against that. That is the default position.
Todd Huff: Employers know this. And I know, again, this audience is probably filled with a much higher percentage of high-quality employees than you’ll find in the general population. People who are on the conservative side of things, take personal responsibility. So I’m not saying that this applies to you. I mean, if it does, I would say hopefully change the mindset.
Todd Huff: But it’s not necessarily directed at you or anyone. It’s just to point out, I think, what’s a truth. And you’ve probably seen business owners, they’ll tell you. When you start doing things that are not in your agreement — let’s say you give a big Christmas bonus at the end of the year, just as an example — it becomes an expectation of a lot of people.
Todd Huff: Now, I’ll ask you this. I remember years ago, and I want to tell, I want to be up front here. I only did this because I was told to do this by my mom and my grandma. A) I was a kid, I didn’t know better. B) I didn’t appreciate it the way that I should have. But there used to be a gentleman in our community — and I don’t remember when this was, I was little. I mean, elementary, I think. Maybe I might have been in early junior high.
Todd Huff: And I remember there was a gentleman, I believe he used to be a principal in the school. He would send out, I think it was savings bonds, if you made the honor roll. So he had read the paper or whatever it was back in the day, find these kids who were on the honor roll and send them — it wasn’t a huge amount, but he didn’t have to do any of it. It was a very kind gesture.
Todd Huff: He was an educator. He cared about academic success. And I remember I got one of these savings bonds from him. His name was Niles Denny, and I think he used to be the principal of the school, maybe when my mom was in school. And he had retired, but education remained important to him.
Todd Huff: And I remember I got that and I thought, oh, that’s nice, or whatever. I was a teenage kid, didn’t think much about it, and then I remember my mom had asked my grandma — or, excuse me, my grandma had asked my mom — if I had sent in or written a thank you letter or card. And so mom asked me, and I said, no, I didn’t.
Todd Huff: And so, at their request, I did so. It wasn’t me, I want you to understand. I’m not saying I’m the one that did that. I mean, I’m the one that wrote it, but it wasn’t my idea. It didn’t even occur to me.
Todd Huff: The point is that there is something that happens with people at some point, if you start getting stuff for free, you get these bonuses. It gets kind of baked in sometimes. There’s not a proper amount of appreciation, which is what I had in that instance, or understanding about someone had to work for that. Someone had to produce that to give that.
Todd Huff: I didn’t earn it, even though you could say, well yes, Todd, you did, because you were on the honor roll. No, there’s nothing there that said I should have gotten a benefit, a savings bond, I think, is what it was, because of that. That’s not the case at all. He did it out of the good nature of his heart. I didn’t earn anything.
Todd Huff: And there’s this instant human nature, we move towards entitlement quickly. And so that’s not all these recipients, I want to be clear. Some people are grateful. Some people understand that this is the only thing that’s preventing them from major problems — at least having to find other solutions, maybe food banks or other folks who help get food to people who are in need in the community.
Todd Huff: But this is something that no one has the right to. I know it’s been there for so long. We’ve put so much money toward it that people think it’s an automatic given, that they’re entitled to it because they’re an American. That’s completely the wrong way of looking at it.
Todd Huff: It is something that, yes, has been established by rule of law, by force of law, and they’re taking tax dollars from people by force to then fund this. And it’s like I’m not here to just uniformly, across the board, criticize it. What I am here to criticize is the mentality that entitlements create.
Todd Huff: An entitlement mentality creates what I’m about to read for you. At Townhall.com, Dimitri Bolt wrote this article. Yesterday, several people on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — that’s SNAP, by the way — took to TikTok, threatening to riot and loot if their food stamp payments don’t continue through November 1. That’s just in two days, my friends.
Todd Huff: I’m going to read some of what he’s cited in his article here. I’m going to read it just as it’s written. Do my best. I’m going to tell you straight. “Wait. I’m going to tell you all straight up like this. I just got that text that the link is definitely cut the blank off for November. You all better stay the blank out of my way in these stores because I’m walking out with carts, and I’m not paying for excrement.” One SNAP recipient raged.
Todd Huff: Another said, “You know what? Since they want to take food stamps away, I’m going to go to blanking Walmart, grab anything I blanking want, and let’s see. Put that excrement right in the basket and walk right up out that b-word. I’m not paying for a blank thing.” These are actually quotes.
Todd Huff: Nearly one in eight Americans, the article says, about 42 million people, rely on SNAP for assistance. The program provides an average of $350 per month and is distributed to recipients on debit cards. The money can be used to buy groceries and other food products at supermarkets and convenience stores.
Todd Huff: Due to the Schumer shutdown, the funding for those benefits is set to be cut off on November 1. That is Saturday. Here’s another quote: “I’m just having these quotes. Here we go.
Todd Huff: I’m going to be stealing like it ain’t no tomorrow. I’m going to have one of my cousins with me that’ll punch your blank so hard, you’ll think a jet two holiday hit your b-backside if you ain’t going to walk out that store.”
Todd Huff: Another woman blamed President Trump, who has let Democrats fall flat on their face for shutting down the government for the lack of funding. This woman said, “Trump done blanked up, man.”
Todd Huff: The amount of expletives that have to be tossed in here is remarkable. Let’s just make this clear, okay? He’s talking about people not getting food stamps in November. And probably not in December. “He better get ready because it’s about to go down. What you’re going to learn is you don’t play with black people’s food stamps, okay? So get ready, because people are about to just start taking excrement.”
Todd Huff: By the way, I’m just reading the words here. I have no idea about people’s race, ethnicity, gender. I’m just reading the words. Unless it says it’s a woman or this or that. But a lot of expletives. A lot of entitlement, a lot of misunderstanding.
Todd Huff: And I remember, too, if you listen to the Democrats, they’ll point out that Republican states — these poor states in the South — they’ll often point to poorer white communities for this and say that this is Republican voters and Trump’s base and so forth. They’re all over the place here.
Todd Huff: It doesn’t matter to me who these folks are. But it does matter personally. But this is caused. This whole thing has been caused by the Democrats. So. Got to take a break here, my friends.
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Todd Huff: Welcome back, my friends. Last segment here of today’s program, talking about the threats of people out there on TikTok, social media — threatening to riot and loot if SNAP benefits are cut off by Democrats, by Chuck Schumer and the Senate Democrats, this weekend, November 1.
Todd Huff: And I’m just sharing those with you. I’m sharing with you the anger, the rage, the expletives that are in all of these, the way that these are just written, the aggressiveness. It’s really a sad situation. What the entitlement mentality has created, along with the Democrats trying to stir this pot up.
Todd Huff: I mentioned someone’s post that made it about race. These things don’t even cross my mind. But that was what the last person that I read said — “Don’t take Black people’s benefits, their food away.” Whoever’s getting these, by the way, this whole thing is just messed up.
Todd Huff: The way the education system, the entitlement, the arrogance, the anger, the self-righteousness — these folks believe, the people who are threatening to do this, they believe that they are doing something that’s moral and virtuous by threatening to riot, thinking that someone owes them something. It’s just a mess in every conceivable way. It’s pathetic, really.
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Todd Huff: My friends, I told you I’m going to write about it in the newsletter today. I won’t have time to get to Obama’s comments — his comments about trying to basically have the government come in and ensure that the media is being honest because of some regulations and some oversight.
Todd Huff: I guess we’re going to talk about that and free speech. I’ll write a little bit about that. I won’t have time to get to it, but I want to spend a little bit more time here just as we go. Let’s see if there’s any more — yeah, there’s some of this. I can’t — well, that’s about all that I can get to with that. I can’t play a clip.
Todd Huff: But the entitlement mentality is a real thing and there are people who are threatening to loot and riot. We probably have to take it seriously in the sense that there are people who are already enraged or angry, and they’ll use this as an opportunity to do this very thing. The entitlement is real.
Todd Huff: The expectation that someone else provides for them is real. Again, this is not every person. Please don’t misunderstand me, but if you don’t actively guard against that mindset — a mindset of entitlement — if you don’t have a mindset of gratitude, a mindset that says, “You know what, I’m being provided something that I didn’t, I don’t deserve” — if you don’t actively pursue that mindset, this is the default mindset.
Todd Huff: And when we teach people basically the things that we’re teaching them today, which in many ways, it just leads to more depravity like this. They’re not on the moral side of this argument.
Todd Huff: Yes, the situation regarding — we shouldn’t be in this position right now because of this stupid shutdown. It’s also true that the spending for these programs is out of control. It’s also true that if you dig deeply into some of the numbers on any program, you’ll find that a lot of people, a lot of people who are receiving benefits, aren’t even supposed to be here.
Todd Huff: They’ll deny that, of course. But if you dig deeper, you’ll find that in many, many cases, it’s just an absolute, utter disaster. And on one hand, from an earthly perspective, I don’t know what the way out of this is.
Todd Huff: I mean, I do know — you have to enforce the law if people do loot and riot. They have to be arrested. They have to face charges. We have to hold Congress accountable for what they’ve done here. In the short term, we should get the government reopened so that we’re not intentionally — they’re intentionally doing this.
Todd Huff: I mean, this is what the Democrats want. They think angry people make them hate Republicans, make them cause unrest in the streets. And they want this. They long for this. It’s sickening and sad, but this is what they’re really after.
Todd Huff: It’s a dangerous mentality, a dangerous ideology. So we need the government open now so that this chaos stops now. But we also have to fix the underlying problems — that we’re funding all this stuff. This country is bankrupt in many, many ways.
Todd Huff: There’s going to have to be dramatic changes to what we spend our money on, which is going to have to affect some of this stuff as well.
Todd Huff: Anyway, we’ve got a mess here, my friends. We need Jesus more than anything. I got to go. SDG.
