The Stack: Democrats’ Shutdown Showdown and the Fight Over Filibusters, Debt, and Districts
Day 23 of the government shutdown, and Todd isn’t mincing words. On this episode, he brands the standoff as the “Schumer shutdown,” arguing that Democrats are weaponizing gridlock for political theater rather than good governance. With the federal debt blasting past $38 trillion, Todd says the left’s refusal to accept even a “clean continuing resolution” reveals the heart of their strategy: use crisis to score points, not to fix problems.
He calls Democrats “dramacrats,” staging a performance designed to maximize frustration among voters while shielding themselves from accountability. “They want the pain,” Todd insists, “because pain fuels their narrative.” Meanwhile, federal workers and contractors face uncertainty as Washington’s spending addiction becomes another hostage in partisan brinkmanship.
But this isn’t just about the shutdown—it’s also about how government rules enable it. Todd presses Republicans to suspend or eliminate the filibuster for budget votes, arguing that it’s being misused to stall and obstruct rather than promote debate. Even Democrat John Fetterman, Todd notes, has floated similar ideas. Ending the filibuster for funding bills would, in Todd’s view, expose Democrats’ obstructionism and force accountability for runaway spending.
Then Todd takes listeners closer to home with an Indiana twist: the growing push for mid-cycle redistricting. Following Trump’s lead in states like Texas, Todd says Indiana could redraw its nine congressional districts to secure an additional Republican seat—or even two. Democrats, he argues, have mastered the art of redistricting to entrench power for decades, and it’s time for conservatives to “play hardball within the rules.”
Critics call it gerrymandering; Todd calls it strategy. “If survival of the nation is at stake,” he says, “then you use every legal tool available.” The debate underscores a broader point—Republicans often fail to match Democrats’ aggressiveness in shaping systems that determine who holds power.
Throughout the show, Todd blends political analysis with trademark humor—riffing on his kids’ excitement for the Pacers’ season opener, joking about his “truth cam” and new haircut, and sprinkling in sponsor breaks that keep the show’s conversational rhythm.
By the episode’s end, his central theme is clear: America needs adults in the room. Leadership, he argues, means confronting hard truths—about debt, spending, and structural reform—rather than staging partisan stunts. Whether it’s reforming Senate rules or redrawing political maps, Todd calls for conservatives to stand firm, act boldly, and reclaim control from what he sees as a morally bankrupt, godless radical left.
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Schumer Accuses Trump and GOP of “Blackmail” During Shutdown
Merkley Warns of “Authoritarian Power” During Filibuster Speech
McConnell Says “Democrats Taking Government Functions Hostage for Partisan Demands”
Democrats, Media Clutch Pearls Over President Trump’s Perfectly Above-Board Ballroom Build
9 Things to Know About the $250 Million Ballroom Trump Is Adding to the White House
📝 Transcript: Democrats’ Shutdown Showdown and the Fight Over Filibusters, Debt, and Districts
The Todd Huff Show – October 23, 2025
Host: Todd Huff
Todd Huff: Well, that is right, my friends. You've successfully and ever so wisely tuned in to America's home for conservative, not bitter, talk. I'm your host, the one, the only. The ever so benevolent dictator here behind the microphone. Todd Huff. It's my, again, pleasure to be here today. If you want to be part of the conversation, you can email your thoughts, questions, feedback, adoration, and praise always at todd@toddhuffshow.com. That's the best way to do it. You can sign up for the newsletter. That's probably the best way to do it.
Todd Huff: To email us back there with thoughts and questions about the actual content, but you can do it however you wish. The newsletter is free. You can get it at toddhuffshow.com/innercircle — just go to the main page and you'll find it. So anyway, friends, it's good to be here. So. There are several things I want to get to today. Several things that I want to get to.
Todd Huff: First, this is day number—what is it? 23. Day 23 of the Schumer shutdown. We're going to talk about the filibuster today. We're going to talk about U.S. debt. Federal debt has eclipsed 38 trillion with a T — $38 trillion. We've got, of course, this government shutdown that's out there, which is now the second longest in U.S. history.
Todd Huff: We have all this pandemonium—or what? I want to say pandemonium, I want to say meltdowns—about the White House ballroom project. The left thinks that it has another message winner by going after Trump. But again, what do they rely on? What do they always rely on? They rely upon, for these stories to be effective, for their narrative to take root, they rely upon ignorance.
Todd Huff: Ignorance amongst the American people—ignorance about the truth, ignorance about reality, ignorance about the Constitution, ignorance about—you name it—reality altogether. This is, of course, a prerequisite to buy into the narrative of the radical left. And then, time permitting, I want to talk a little bit about the redistricting push here. It really ties more into the government shutdown, people calling for the filibuster—just that whole situation. So I'll probably talk a little bit specifically about Indiana.
Todd Huff: And the redistricting—the calls for redistricting this state, and there’s other states too, but I’m just in Indiana. Many of you who listen to this program are Hoosiers as well. And so that’s where we’re headed today, my friends. So that’s what we’re going to do.
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Todd Huff: Okay, so government shutdown. You know this. October 1—here we are, October 23, by the way. Just a little tidbit because I’m excited about this. The kids and I are going to watch the Pacers opening night at Gainbridge Fieldhouse, taking on the defending NBA champions, the Oklahoma City Thunder. Should be fun tonight—should be a raucous environment.
Todd Huff: The last time they played in the Fieldhouse, they were playing the Thunder in Game 6. They blew the Thunder out, forced a Game 7, which of course they ultimately lost and lost their star player Tyrese Halliburton with the torn Achilles, losing Game 7 of the NBA Finals. But that’s where we’re headed tonight, so I’m a little bit excited about that. So I know it’s October 23 because I knew that my kids have been counting down—actually, on this board right over here.
Todd Huff: It says—well, they were counting down. I don’t see it now—Pacers game night, opening night, one day. That was yesterday, so here we go. So, 23 days since the government shut down. It’s a Schumer shutdown, as we’ve gone through repeatedly and illustrated on this program. There’s no denying this. There’s no doubt about this.
Todd Huff: Even though I see people like the—what is it? The Lincoln Project? These formerly make-believe Republicans criticizing the Republican Party for the shutdown. It said, I saw them post something like, if you have control of the House, the Senate, and the White House and the government shuts down, it shows that you’re incapable of governing, basically.
Todd Huff: Now, what it shows is that the Democrats—who I’ve called “dramacrats”—I’ve called “dramacrats” for a long time, a term that we coined here, and it’s a term that is spot-on accurate. I told Oz, of all the things that we say to prove a point—getting into, I don’t know, hyperbole or just the nicknaming of people or things and so forth—I think “dramacrat” is good. And I know it’s ours. I’m not bragging. Maybe a little bit. But it’s good, because it’s exactly what they are.
Todd Huff: They are engaging in political theater. This is a performance for them. This is not rooted in any sort of reality. They’re looking to find a narrative that they can exploit for political purposes. This is political theater at its core. This is all they know how to do. I’m telling you right now—it’s all that they know how to do.
Todd Huff: So they’re engaging in some political theater, and I’m not—listen, there’s a time for political theater. If everything your party does is political theater, though, I think you should ask yourself the question: why? I mean, Trump’s open to some good political theater. I’m open to some good political theater. But your whole performance can’t feel like it’s fabricated, manufactured, scripted, and not real.
Todd Huff: And see, friends, that is what we have in the Democrat Party—partially because the ideas they tell us that they want to support, or that are good for the American people, seem like it’s pure, utter fantasy. And it actually is pure and utter fantasy. Part of it is because of their behavior, being “dramacrats.”
Todd Huff: So they’ve pretended like they have nothing to do with this. They’ve pretended like they’ve been entering into this negotiation or trying to negotiate with Republicans in good faith—none of that has been true. They’ve shut down the government. And actually, eclipsing the $38 trillion debt yesterday—which we have, we’re over $38 trillion in debt now—that’s not a good thing, by the way, but it’s a good reminder as to what really is at stake here.
Todd Huff: And see, ultimately, the government is being shut down. Now again, in this case, it’s being shut down because the Democrats wouldn’t—the Democrats, think about it this way—the Democrats are not happy with the pace of spending that puts us at $38 trillion, because the spending pace that hit $38 trillion yesterday is the status quo. That is all Republicans said that we were going to do by passing the clean resolution.
Todd Huff: The clean CR, I should say—the clean continuing resolution. All they were saying was, “Let’s keep spending levels at the current pace,” which yesterday eclipsed $38 trillion in debt. And Democrats weren’t happy with that. They decided to basically take the government hostage, take their ball and go home, and shut things down.
Todd Huff: Now, I think the government is way over-bloated. I think that the shutdown doesn’t impact the average person in many, many ways. The fear of this has gone in a lot of ways. People are not bothered by this. But I also understand that it hits some people directly, and it hits them hard—it hits them hard if they’re employed by the federal government, if they’re contractors, if they’re doing work with the federal government, and then—
Todd Huff: As this drags on, you’ve got some other services that are potentially at risk as well. So this is what we’re dealing with. It is manufactured. It is a manufactured crisis. And to cite—to quote—the Democratic leader Rahm Emanuel, who worked with Obama in the White House, Democrats are, quote, “never to let a crisis go to waste.” Never let a crisis go to waste. He said that. They believe that, and that’s what they’re doing now.
Todd Huff: They’ve created a crisis, and they’re hoping to get political points from this. Pure and simple. Now, what should happen—and I talked about this yesterday—what the Republicans are going to have to do. I don’t see any way around this, and I think it’s time. I think it’s time to play hardball. If you’re Republicans, you have to understand who you’re up against.
Todd Huff: You’re up against a group of people that have no goodwill. There is no good faith in negotiations—don’t even trust that for a second. There’s no goodwill. They are there to cause chaos and havoc. Chaos and havoc—that’s actually probably names they should give their children, Chaos and Havoc, because this is how they live. This is how they operate. This is what they want.
Todd Huff: It is remarkable to me—the number of people who purportedly pretend, anyway, to know a lot of things about the world, to know a lot of things about government and everything else—yet they fall for this nonsense. This is a spectacle. This is a stunt. This is sophistry. This is political theater. Make no mistake.
Todd Huff: So Republicans, as I talked about yesterday on the program—the Republicans have really, I think, no choice. I don’t know where the end of this is; this can’t continue. They are being infantile—the Democrat Party, the Democrats—they’re being infantile, childish babies who are throwing temper tantrums over nothing. Over nothing.
Todd Huff: Over their objection to fund the government at the current unsustainable levels. So Republicans have already met them in the territory of the insane—or I should say, the territory of insanity. Republicans have met them there at their place, where they live and abide on a regular basis—the Democrat Party. The Democrats are there in the middle of insanity. Republicans have met them there, and they refuse to sign on to reopen the government.
Todd Huff: So Republicans have to toughen up now. I’ve talked about this on this program for a long time. There are two main reasons Republicans are not trusted by conservatives, or not liked oftentimes by conservatives, or have disappointed conservatives. Two main reasons. One—they’re not conservative enough. The other—they’re wimps.
Todd Huff: And I think that Donald Trump’s not a “principled conservative,” but on these main issues today—and I’m talking about the first, I don’t even know, hundred issues—Donald Trump’s position is in alignment with conservatism. Now, there might be an example of one or two here and there that I would disagree with, but in general terms, Donald Trump is governing as a conservative.
Todd Huff: He has for his entire—now term and a quarter—now almost term and a quarter. So the problem that Trump solved was that he was a fighter, and look at how it ignited people. People loved the guy. And I know people hate the guy too, but people love him in major part because of his willingness and desire to fight.
Todd Huff: Now, there are some people who are never going to like him. I recall a conversation I had with someone who would be open to voting Republican, but she just can’t bring herself to vote. Of course now—it’s not going to happen. There are no more votes for Trump, no matter what they want you to say, and no matter what Trump’s level of trolling is, saying “Trump 2028,” which I love, by the way.
Todd Huff: I say stick it to these clowns, these dramacrats. Give them a dose of their own medicine. But some people would never vote for him. But others have come out of the woodwork to support this guy because they see a guy who doesn’t address these problems as a typical politician. In fact, they see a guy that’s trying to solve problems—he’s trying to solve problems boldly.
Todd Huff: Who’s calling out the shenanigans and the nonsense—a guy who is standing upon just common sense a lot of times, and a willingness to solve problems, not create them and then go out and campaign on them and then go out and fundraise on them. That’s not what Trump does. You might not like some of the things Trump says or some of his policies or whatever, but that’s not how Trump operates.
Todd Huff: That’s how most politicians operate—but not Trump. And so here we are, facing this situation where the only way through this, I think, is to specifically end the filibuster for this sort of thing—to shut the government down. There’s no way—this is not the intent of the rule. The intent of the rule is to keep debate open. The intent of the rule is to encourage more debate, not to shut things down, take your ball, throw a temper tantrum, and go home.
Todd Huff: That’s not the intent of the filibuster rule, and we’ve got to quit pretending like that’s what it’s being used for now. This is—will, undoubtedly, when they—hope they don’t, but if and when they get political power, they’ll look at ways to potentially remove the filibuster in other ways. This has been gradually happening over time, but there’s no way, there’s no reason we should continue to do this.
Todd Huff: And I’ll tell you something else—there’s no reason that these clowns—we played the sound bite yesterday from Sara Haines on The View, talking with Bernie Sanders about this very thing—but there’s no way that these senators and congressmen should be getting paid. If anybody should not be getting paid, it is the people who are involved in deciding whether or not this actually continues or comes to an end.
Todd Huff: And the idea that other people aren’t getting paid, and they are, is maddening to me. It also goes to show you—it also goes to show you that they have some discretion about how they set up what happens in the event of a shutdown. And note what they want to do—they want to have a way, these lovers of big government who pout and kick and throw tantrums, they want to have a way to cause the maximum amount of harm for the American people.
Todd Huff: That’s why they’re dragging this out. They want it to hurt people so that it helps them politically next November. And it is disgusting, my friends. Disgusting. This is not leadership. Leadership is doing the hard things that are necessary. Leadership right now is to piggyback on what John Fetterman—who, by the way, is a Democrat—what he said yesterday or recently, we talked about it yesterday, which is to eliminate or suspend the filibuster for this particular thing: the government shutdown, passing funding bills, continuing resolutions.
Todd Huff: And if that happens, the Democrats are going to be in a woeful state whenever they try to negotiate, because now, suddenly, the 60-vote threshold on the next continuing resolution isn’t necessary. If you can get it to 51 and there’s no filibuster, then suddenly this game that’s being played with your government, with your tax dollars, that doesn’t hurt these jokers and clowns at all—it actually gives them days off of work and paid vacations, paid by you, by the way.
Todd Huff: It puts an end to the shenanigans. I think that this should absolutely be the next step—to suspend or eliminate the filibuster regarding this inability to pass funding to keep the government open. There’s no reason—they have demonstrated that they are infantile children throwing temper tantrums. There’s no reason to let this continue.
Todd Huff: This is black and white. This is not even open for debate. The reality is Democrats have repeatedly voted against a clean CR. This is facts. Them’s the facts. Democrats have voted time and time again against a clean, continuing resolution that would keep the government funded at current levels—nothing added, nothing taken away. Then negotiation starts. That’s the way that this should be done.
Todd Huff: Instead, they voted to shut it down. Their intent is to inflict as much pain as possible to cause people to be upset with the Republicans, who they will then blame and who the low-information voter, as Rush used to say, will listen to the narrative, won’t question anything, and will say, “Republicans have majority of both houses and the presidency—why can’t they keep the government open?”
Todd Huff: Because of this thing called the filibuster that they’ll never take a moment to understand—not unless the Democrats and the media start telling them how important it is, which they won’t, because it hurts their cause in this case. This is why we’re here, and I say, look—that’s right. If they’re right to one degree, the left is correct in saying Republicans, they have control of both houses and the presidency, and if they can’t get this done, they’ve shown an inability to govern.
Todd Huff: Okay, fine. Then let’s get it done, and let’s remove the filibuster, and then let’s stick it to these clowns when they try to negotiate and play hardball on some of these things moving forward—no more filibuster that applies to government shutdowns. We have to have the adults in the room take control. By the way, this leads me to what I want to talk about throughout this conversation as well, which is the redistricting push.
Todd Huff: The redistricting push. The Indiana Republicans—and I know, listen, I’m in Indiana. This has never been an Indiana-centric program. I’ve always talked about national issues from the perspective of a Hoosier, right? Someone here in flyover country. Someone here who has common sense and reason. Someone who’s just from the heartland, right? And we’ve not spoken a whole lot specifically about Indiana, but I am today going to do that.
Todd Huff: But there are a couple of reasons for that. One, it’s relevant to other states. What’s happening here—the potential redistricting push—is relevant to other states, and it, I think, illustrates some things that we’re going to have to do, we’re going to have to understand. If you’ve ever read Sun Tzu’s The Art of War—if you haven’t, I would encourage you to read it. It would tell you a lot about the Democrat Party.
Todd Huff: The Democrat Party plays by those rules. The Republican Party oftentimes doesn’t, and as a result, they get metaphorically slaughtered sometimes—at least when it comes to messaging and the narrative and so forth. But it’s time that we play hardball with these guys. These guys are harming—they’re actively harming the country right now. They’re actively harming the country. They’re wanting to inflict pain upon people through the government shutdown, and we can’t have these people having their way in Congress.
Todd Huff: I’m not here—listen, I’m not saying to take away their rights to cast these ballots or whatever. But it’s time for us to start stacking things in our favor that we have control to do, that we have the legal authority to do, which includes drawing districts. The Democrats have done this for decades. We’ve sat back and said we’re not going to do that, and it’s done nothing but hurt us.
Todd Huff: It’s empowered people to be in the Democrat Party like AOC, like Ilhan Omar, like Rashida Tlaib, like Bernie Sanders. These are the types of people that you’ll see more of because the Democrats will push every opportunity to their advantage—and we don’t. And we should. I think that we should. But the politics fall where they may here—the survival of this nation is at stake, my friends.
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Todd Huff: Welcome back, my friend. Sporting a new haircut here, which I just looked up and saw myself here on the Truth Cam in the studio. Sporting a new haircut. I had a lot taken off—it had been a while since I’d gotten my hair cut. I tell the folks who cut my hair, there was a day when that hair was all black, and it is not now.
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Todd Huff: All right, here in this state, Indiana has nine congressional districts. Every ten years, you know this—every ten years, there is a U.S. Census that is conducted. And it’s a count—it is a count of the people. Well, I would have said it’s a count of the citizens, but that’s not even true anymore because the census counts people who are here illegally as well, which—it is absolutely preposterous to me that this is even something that we would consider.
Todd Huff: That the census is designed to count people who aren’t even supposed to be here, because a couple of things happen from that. Number one, I think—well, most importantly, I guess the other one’s important too—but most importantly, you actually decide how many congressmen a state gets based upon the population. And if you’re counting illegal aliens, which they are, and they’re not putting them in another bucket that says, “These people are here but they’re not going towards the citizen count”—they are going towards the entire count of the census.
Todd Huff: They’re not broken out. They’re being factored in to how many representatives a state gets. This is insanity. This is not the way that it’s supposed to be. Those are not constituents. Constituents are people who are legally allowed to be here. Illegal aliens are not supposed to be able to vote because they’re not supposed to be able to participate—as the left loves to say—in our “democracy.”
Todd Huff: The left is just insane. But we’ve done this—Biden signed an executive order back in 2020, when the census was taken, saying that these folks were going to be counted. And so it factors into representation. It also factors in—the census does—factors into how many federal dollars come back to an area.
Todd Huff: And so again, if you have a higher population of illegal immigrants, actually, you’ll get a higher number of dollars coming back from the federal government. I don’t like how that whole thing is, how that’s set up. That was never the intention of our founding fathers. It’s been turned on its head, but that’s the way that it operates today.
Todd Huff: So, Indiana has nine House seats. And currently there are seven Republicans—these are U.S. Congress seats, right? These are the people that we elect here to send to Washington, D.C. Nine House seats. Two of them are currently controlled by Democrats, or have elected Democrats. The other seven have elected Republicans.
Todd Huff: Now, this is precisely what Trump did with Texas. He called up Governor Abbott, and he said, “Hey, I think we can squeeze some more seats out of Texas. Would you guys look at redistricting?” And they did, and they passed it. And it looks like they’re going to have the possibility—look, there’s no certainty here. There’s no certainty. There’s nothing that says any seat is going to belong to either party.
Todd Huff: What you’re doing is, you’re redistricting in such a way that it looks like, based upon the internal data you have, that the people in that district are more likely to vote Republican. Or, if the Democrats are redistricting, more likely to vote Democrat. Democrats have done this for years. In fact, that’s why they’re panicking now.
Todd Huff: I’ve gone through this—and maybe we need to do a deep dive. Maybe—listen, one of the things I’m going to do on our website as we continue to grow and evolve this program—there’s some things that have really come into clear focus for me that we’re trying to get to. And one of those will be some deeper dives on issues on the website.
Todd Huff: Maybe we do those on here as well, I don’t know. It’s hard, especially when you’re talking about numbers and data, to talk about it over the airwaves or on a podcast. But maybe some of these things we can do a deeper dive on.
Todd Huff: But you can go state by state here, and you can find—remember, we just talked about this last week—Harry Enten of CNN said that if all these things, Supreme Court decisions, redistricting, court rulings that say a certain amount of districts have to be majority black districts and all that stuff—if those things get stricken from the current legal interpretation here in this great nation, and if Republicans redistrict things in all the states…
Todd Huff: And even if Democrats redistrict, and they both try to maximize whatever they have out there to the best of their ability—when all of the dust settles, Harry Enten of CNN, through his analysis, said that Democrats—excuse me, Republicans—could gain 19 seats in the House of Representatives. And I think that wasn’t even including a couple of other little details that could make that number even higher.
Todd Huff: So potentially into the 20 seats they could gain, which is massive, my friends. A massive, massive swing there, if that were to happen. And the reason—this is the point—the reason the Republicans stand to gain so much is because they’ve not been doing this. At least, I’m not saying they’ve never done it, but they’ve not been doing it at the clip Democrats have been doing it.
Todd Huff: If you hear Democrats say, “Look, we’re trying to put an end to the gerrymandering,” this is the truth. Republicans won’t come out and universally stand against gerrymandering. We’re the ones who are trying to be in favor of—Democrats would say—the “dramacrats” would say, “We’re in favor of fair districting,” right? That’s what they want you to believe.
Todd Huff: But the only reason they’re ready to do that now is because they’ve maxed it out, and the numbers I just told you are evidence of that. The reason Republicans have more to gain is because they’ve done it less in the past. This is right there for anybody who wants to see.
Todd Huff: And so now they’re upset. Now they’re bothered. And as Trump actively and openly calls for states like Indiana, like Texas, to redistrict—this is just not the way it’s done. These are normally backroom phone calls that people will deny having; it doesn’t even make the news, because again, these are backroom deals that typically happen outside of the limelight. But not when President Trump is in the White House.
Todd Huff: Talk about transparency. By the way, Trump says, “Look, I’m trying to get a political advantage. I’m trying to make sure the House of Representatives stays in Republican hands in 2025, after the 2026 midterms, so that our agenda doesn’t get derailed.” This will be his—he would say—this would be his last chance to make America great again.
Todd Huff: “We’re trying to get momentum here, fix these problems, right? We’re trying to deal with things, not have hearing after hearing in the House,” which is certainly going to happen—putting a wrench in the gears of anything Trump wants to do. And so Indiana has been approached about this, but apparently, according to the spokesperson from the Senate Pro Tem’s office, Rod Bray—who’s actually, believe it or not, in our district. He’s our state senator.
Todd Huff: I know Rod a little bit, and I’ve known him for some time. Maybe I’ll invite him on the program. But he says that there’s no votes, there’s not enough votes to make the redistricting effort happen. If they did redistrict, it’s believed Republicans could squeeze one more Republican district out of these nine, making it eight to one.
Todd Huff: And there’s, I suppose, a chance—some people would say—that they could get two seats out of this, and Indiana could be a nine-to-zero Republican state when it comes to how many Republican congressmen versus Democrat congressmen the state will send to Washington, D.C.
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Todd Huff: Welcome back, my friends—third and final segment of this, the Todd Huff Show. I’m not going to be able—this is two days now—I’ve wanted to get to the White House Ballroom Project and the reaction of Democrats and the media.
Todd Huff: Not going to have time to get to that today. I’m not sure—I’m learning here, and I’m actively learning. So when I get to that point when I can’t get to a topic, there’s two things that can happen. One, I can hold it to discuss the next day. The problem is, none of us know what’s going to happen overnight, and sometimes these things get pushed out to where at some point it becomes irrelevant to talk about it because it gets pushed out so much.
Todd Huff: So the other thing that I do—and have done and will continue to do—is put this in our newsletter. Something that I just didn’t have time to get to today. But some things I like talking about, some things are easier to write about, some things are easier to talk about. This is one I think I would like to talk about, but I don’t want to push it off, so I might put it in today’s newsletter.
Todd Huff: I don’t know. Those are the two things I do with topics or issues that I don’t have time to get to. So that one I’m not going to be able to get to. So let’s get back here—we talked about redistricting, we talked about the Senate, the leader, well, the Senate Pro Tem, Rod Bray, who said that there are not enough votes in the Senate for redistricting. That’s what a spokesperson from his office said.
Todd Huff: So, as I said off the top, one of the things we have to come to grips with quickly—and I’ve got to tell you, I like Rod, by the way, so this isn’t directed at Rod—maybe, I don’t know specifically, we would have to find out. That’s why we might reach out to him. I don’t know. We might see about having him on the program. That’s a possibility.
Todd Huff: But there’s a lot of Republicans out there that still don’t acknowledge what we are up against. We are up against—listen, I’m not saying every Democrat—I have an olive branch permanently in my hand for people on the left, even liberals who want to engage in figuring out these problems and not hating America and not going completely bonkers with some of these policies, staying away from wokeness.
Todd Huff: But we have to understand what that is. I talk about it on a regular basis. The radical left is a godless—it is a godless ideology. It is morally bankrupt. The entire ideology is built upon lies, built upon—at its core, my friends, I mean—it is an anti-God state of mind. I know that sounds harsh to some people, but I am telling you, the woke, extreme radical left—which is not all Democrats, hear me say that.
Todd Huff: I don’t know the percentages. The percentage is growing amongst the radical left, even though the percentage and proportion of Democrats is decreasing. I think proportionally there’s more people that are on the radical left. It’s becoming a more and more polarizing movement and party. The reality is we have to understand what we’re up against.
Todd Huff: And we have to do whatever it takes—legally, ethically, morally. I’m not saying anything that’s beyond those things. But it is within the power of Republican state legislators to redistrict at this particular point in time. I know it’s not common. I know it’s not the normal practice. But I know what stands on the other side.
Todd Huff: I know what stands on the other side, and that is godlessness and lawlessness and absolute moral depravity. That’s what we’re up against. And so we have to defeat these folks. We have to be willing to use whatever tools are at our disposal. I understand that you might be held politically accountable for this—explain it. Articulate it. That’s your job as a politician.
Todd Huff: But weak Republican candidates, weak Republican elected officials, have a lot of blame in this situation. They haven’t fought back. They have given way too much of the benefit of the doubt to these people who are the extreme, radical, godless left. They’ve trusted these people who cheer for the murder of American citizens.
Todd Huff: Who—we’ve seen the videos. I saw that there was another teacher who was at a “No Kings” protest or something, and she was putting her finger up to her neck, acting like she was pulling a trigger of a gun, metaphorically or symbolically here, shooting herself in the neck like Charlie Kirk. These are people who oftentimes end up being in our public education system. I think that one was—that individual was.
Todd Huff: This is what we are up against. You cannot negotiate with these people. You have to defeat them—and I mean defeat them at the ballot box. I mean defeat them out here in the free marketplace of ideas. I don’t want these people harmed or anything like that. I want their ideology stamped out of existence, is what I want—not by law or by force, but by winning.
Todd Huff: So much—by overwhelmingly just annihilating their viewpoints and their positions and communicating it to the American people and winning elections. That’s what needs to happen, and we have to be very aggressive about this. And we sat on our hands for far too long. I’m in favor of this redistricting situation, my friends. I’m in favor of having this happen.
Todd Huff: I know it’s not popular amongst some, especially for the Republicans who believe that they can somehow make sense and work with some of these people who are extremely unhinged—who want boys in girls’ locker rooms, boys in girls’ sports, people who claim that abortion is not murdering a human being, which they say those things as well. That’s just scratching the surface anyway.
Todd Huff: I’m out of time. I’m out of time. The music is telling me it’s time to wrap up. Folks, have a great day. Thank you for listening. SDG.
