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THE UNCOOL FELON Dinesh D’Souza Podcast Ep852
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Coming up, I'll reveal the implications of Hunter Biden's conviction.
I'll make the point that the felony club isn't so cool anymore.
Eric Prince, the CEO of the military company Blackwater, joins me.
We're going to talk about the elections in Europe over the EU.
We're going to talk about Ukraine and also Israel.
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I want to talk in this segment about the uncool felon.
And I'm talking, of course, about Hunter Biden.
He is making felony very uncool indeed.
I was beginning to feel, well, as you know, I am a former felon.
A very odd category, because you can't really call me a felon.
Some people go, well, yeah, Dinesh, you are a felony, and despite your pardon, because pardons don't really overturn what you did, they merely give you a pardon.
But the truth of it is, what does it even mean to be a felon?
Well, it actually means things like, you can't vote.
Or you can own a gun.
You are restricted in your rights.
But I'm not.
I can vote.
I can own a gun.
I have all my rights back and my record is completely clear.
So what does this make me if not a former felon?
But nevertheless, for a while, I was feeling like a pretty cool member of the felon club.
Because I was like, wow, I'm in very distinguished company.
Solzhenitsyn was a felon.
Martin Luther King was a felon.
Mandela was a felon.
Trump, of course, a felon.
I was a felon when felony wasn't cool.
It's becoming cool.
But now, alas, it's becoming uncool again.
Why?
It's like you're in a nice club, you're having drinks, you go to a bunch of cool characters, Solzhenitsyn is telling us all about the Gulag archipelago, and so on.
And then in comes Hunter Biden.
I mean, talk about ruining the party.
Talk about everybody getting up and leaving.
What is the only crackhead?
Yeah, so suddenly you've got this depressing crackhead.
And so...
So Hunter Biden, yes, the left is trying to turn this to their benefit by saying, oh, you know, look at this picture of Joe Biden.
He's already suffered enough.
And now his undying love for his son is now being tested.
And so here's a post on social media showing Joe Biden hugging Hunter Biden.
You can feel the emotion in this photo.
And I'm looking at the photo and it looks to me like it's straight out of The Godfather.
surviving son has got to be gutting for Joe Biden.
And I'm looking at the photo and it looks to me like it's straight out of The Godfather.
You know, it's sort of like Don Corleone hugging his son Michael.
Now no one denies that Don loves Michael.
I mean, who says that mafia families don't have normal human affections?
These people aren't like automatons or robots.
Yeah, but when the Dawn is hugging Michael, he's whispering something into his ear like, you know, I'm going to make sure they never find you.
And I think in this case, Joe is whispering to Hunter, listen, like, yeah, I'm really glad you took the hit.
This keeps me off the hook.
So this is actually the words being exchanged, you know?
So we shouldn't develop too dewy-eyed and romantic a picture of all this.
Now, our friend Laura Loomer has waded into this because Joe Biden issued a statement and his statement was just unbelievably, unbelievably shameless, basically talking about the fact that he and Jill are, you know, mourning what's happening with their son and so on.
And so here comes Laura Loomer, guns blazing in her normal fashion.
And she basically says, She makes a series of points which we we've known about but we should be reminded of and it shows you because they're trying to make it look like Joe Biden is like best dad ever.
That's basically the theme.
They're trying to convert this three felony guilty count into an exhibition of Joe's unbelievable and Jill's unbelievable parenthood.
So Laura Luma comes in and goes, Joe Biden was having an affair with Jill Biden at the time that his wife got into a suspicious car accident and was killed.
So basically what happened is that Joe was having this flagrant affair with Jill.
Source, by the way, Jill's husband.
Jill's husband is the source.
He's confirmed that this is in fact what was happening.
And Joe's wife was so distressed that she crashed her car and was killed.
Now, the circumstances of that are not entirely known.
Joe Biden has been going around saying that the other guy was drunk.
This is simply a flat-out lie.
There's no evidence that the other guy was drunk.
It looks like this was a certain type of a suicide imposed by Joe's cruel treatment of his own wife.
And so, this is Laura Loomer.
Biden ruined a man's life to cover up the fact that he was cheating on his wife at the time of her death that also killed his newborn baby daughter.
Wow.
And then she goes on to point out, again, the obvious, which is that Hunter Biden is... Jill Biden keeps calling him her son, but she's not his son.
In fact...
And then, of course, here comes a whole bunch of leftists, from Brian Krasenstein to a bunch of other guys.
They basically go, you know, Laura Loomer is a horrible person, Laura Loomer is a liar, all kinds of foul language on X about Laura Loomer, what a miserable waste of a human being, blah blah blah.
But, the point here is, Laura Luma is actually right on the money.
I mean, look at this dysfunctional family, and I just point out a small tidbit, right?
Here is, so Beau Biden, this is part of the Biden family tragedy, Beau Biden dies.
What does his wife do?
She immediately takes up a sordid relationship with Hunter Biden.
So, what a way to mourn, right?
And Joe Biden and Jill Biden are obviously presiding over this utterly broken, dysfunctional operation.
Of course, Joe's part of it.
He's taking inappropriate showers with his daughter, and climbing into the shower, and she's what, 11 years old?
And this is, by the way, all now confirmed.
Ashley Biden's diary is verified as accurate.
It is, in fact, her diary.
So all the leftist lies, it's not her diary, this is all made up.
All of this is now having to come face-to-face with reality.
So compare the Biden family with the Trump family.
Trump's family, Pretty normal.
Not perfect, but hey, look at Eric Trump.
Very successful.
Look at Laura Trump.
Great marriage, great kids.
And Donald Trump Jr.
is doing just fine.
And Barron Trump seems to be growing up into a very smart and poised young man.
So, as you go down, look at the Trump family and compare the Biden family, which is really the dysfunctional family?
Which is the family riddled with addiction, adultery, assorted semi-incestuous affairs, showering with inappropriate showers with underage girls.
I mean, pawing all kinds of young girls, which is what Joe Biden does.
So, Laura Loomer basically tells it like it is.
She basically goes, worst dad ever.
Worst dad ever.
And I wouldn't bring up any of this if we weren't getting this syrupy diet of propaganda from the left on the marvelous paternal qualities of Joe and Jill Biden.
They are not exactly role models for anybody.
We need not necessarily talk about their disgusting behavior, but let's not try to pretend like it's some sort of a model for America and the world to aspire to.
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The trans phenomenon in America is a very strange one and it is being pushed aggressively by the left and pushed aggressively by the LGBTQ movement and it's a little bit unclear why that is the case.
I say this because Trans people are few in number, and they're certainly not the center of the LGBTQ movement.
That would probably be the gays and the lesbians.
And in some ways, these groups are undercutting the rationale for their own claims by promoting trans ideology.
Why is that?
That's because the whole claim of the gays and the lesbians was, we're not choosing to follow these lifestyles.
It's not as if someone goes, hey listen, I think I would like to be gay.
Their point is, this is the way we are.
Now, we're not really sure if this is something that was wired by nature or by biology.
We're not sure if this is something we developed in early childhood.
But either way, it's not something that we control.
It's not something that we determine.
It's something that is determined for us.
And therefore, we are helpless in this situation when we're asking for a recognition of our right to be gay or to marry or to pass on inheritance and have the same legal rights.
It's partly because our situation is not of our making and not of our choice.
This was key.
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But along comes the trans phenomenon and suddenly you have the claim that sexuality and gender is a matter of subjectivity.
I can be born male and I can decide that I quote identify as a female and that makes me a female and imposes demands on other people that they should now respect that.
Well, if you think about that, well, why doesn't a gay person identify as straight?
And then you don't have to be gay, and the problem is solved, and you don't need gay rights, because identifying as straight makes you straight.
And other people then treat you as straight, and the whole controversy evaporates.
So you can see here that there is a radical disjunction between, on the one hand, claiming that sexuality is a given, And on the other hand, claiming that it is a matter of options, or a matter of choice, or a matter of, quote, identification.
Now, I was thinking about all of this as I read an article in the Tennessee Star, which is the newspaper in the Nashville area, and they have obtained some additional pages of the trans shooter, this is Audrey Hale, This is the journal of the trans shooter.
Now, as you know, the FBI did its best to suppress this journal, suppress the information from coming out, and I think for the obvious reason that the motives of the trans shooter were clearly revealed.
To be anti-American, coming from the left, very hostile to Christianity, and so this all made it look like there is a trans cycle problem.
There's a problem of trans homicide.
Trans people not just killing themselves, which is also a problem, but trans people going nuts and shooting up other people.
Now the FBI has tried to make it look like the threat in America of this kind of domestic terrorism comes Mainly, if not exclusively, from the right.
So shooters are going to be like white, Christian, patriarchal types, and not leftist, trans types.
And so, for this reason, I think the FBI was like, well, whenever we come up with a case that doesn't fit our propaganda, Then we just pretend it doesn't exist.
We don't release the information that would reveal that our thesis, our general description of what is happening in the country, needs to be modified, if not changed altogether.
So, it's always of interest to see what is in this trans journal.
Well, I want to highlight just a couple of things and comment on them.
The first is that Audrey Hale writes, I am the most unhappy boy alive.
So this is interesting because you've got somebody who is admitting that they're a boy and is saying I'm a boy but I'm not a happy boy and so interestingly the desire to sort of get out from being a boy seems to come from that.
I mean instead of asking the question I'm an unhappy boy what could I do as a boy to be more happy The question is framed as, I'm an unhappy boy, maybe if I'm not a boy I would be happier.
So you begin to see right here that you're dealing with a psychological misreading and in fact a mental problem.
Then, says Hale, repeatedly in the journal, everything hurts.
Everything hurts.
And this is not specified as to what hurts, but it seems that Hale was on a whole cocktail of medications, taking all kinds of medications for anti-anxiety, anti-depression, not to mention a whole bunch of other things, maybe even a certain sexual dysphoria.
And so the side effects of these medications, which by the way are written like on the bottle, are abnormal dreams, outbursts of anger, tremors, delusions, physical weakness.
So, it looks like some of the symptoms that Hale was experiencing were coming right from the medication.
So, you've got a mental problem, you take certain medications to deal with that problem, and the medications exacerbate, well, they don't necessarily exacerbate the problem, but they produce side effects that are in themselves problematic and even dangerous.
I find it interesting that Audrey Hale wrote an entry in a journal called My Imaginary Penis.
Whoa!
Now, what's really weird about this is that at the time that this was written, Audrey Hale had not transitioned.
Audrey Hale had a real penis!
But Audrey Hill is somehow acting like my penis is imaginary.
I mean, think about this.
You've got a person looking at themselves.
It's like if I were to look and say, my imaginary arms.
Well, they're not imaginary.
I have arms.
Anyone can feel them.
They're here.
I see them just like everyone else.
And yet, I'm so messed up in the head that I begin to think that my arms are not really there.
They're imaginary.
And so, And then finally, in probably a moment of self-revelation, writes Hale, God, I'm such a pervert!
I didn't say it.
This is Audrey Hale reflecting on herself, recognizing that she or he or that you're dealing with a massively screwed up person.
Now, none of this by itself is a full explanation of going into a school with automatic weapon and shooting up to school and getting shot yourself and killed.
But it's clear we are dealing with a serious problem of mental dislocation, mental illness.
And the fact that this kind of mental illness is being promoted, valorized, celebrated, incubated in our society, shows that there's something wrong not just with Audrey Hale, but with society at large.
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Guys, I had Eric Prince on the podcast, gosh, probably just a few weeks ago, and delighted to have him back.
He's a former Navy SEAL officer, founder of the private military company Blackwater.
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Eric, welcome, thanks for joining me.
Lots of stuff going on on the international front and I thought I would ask you to comment on some of it.
I want to start by just talking about these elections that are happening all over Europe.
In connection with the EU, this is elections notably in France, which seem to have shaken the Macron government.
In fact, Macron looks like he's not going to call a national election.
But the reverberations go beyond France.
Do you think that people in Europe are getting restless or waking up or moving right?
What's happening?
This is 100% driven by the out-of-control illegal migration they've had flowing out of Africa and out of the rest of the world.
You know, the AFD, which is considered a threat to democracy in Germany by the globalist leftist parties there, and they're demanding foreigners out.
And in the same in France, you have cities in France that are unrecognizable, overrun with Islamists and with people that just don't have anything to do with French culture, and demanding an end to French culture, and the people are saying, enough.
I even think the next big upset you'll see is in the UK.
The Tory government is going to get pounded in the next election they have because they've done such a lousy job of stopping illegal migration.
People are going to throw it to labor and see if they can do any better, because it's been that pathetic.
Even Maloney in Italy, with the Brothers of Italy party, significantly expanded their scope, and it is 100% about migration.
Why do you think, Eric, that... I mean, it's kind of interesting, right?
You have Maloney, who sort of ran on a right-of-center platform.
You have the Tories in Britain.
You would think that it doesn't take a genius to see that this is a politically volatile issue.
This is actually hurting them politically.
Why would even conservative-leaning governments Yes, they would, but the Tories have been absolutely pathetic.
and run the risk of the country going from the frying pan into the fire.
In other words, you bring in the labor government, presumably they would be worse.
Yes, they would.
But the Tories have been absolutely pathetic.
They've been like a bunch of rhinos in America, talking one thing and just doing nothing.
And the other thing I've noticed about Europe is how shockingly servile they are to the US.
government, and not really sticking up for their own interests, but they've been quite I think Germany is obedient to this globalist lie, whether it's on green mandates and making electricity much more expensive.
Germany is really massively losing competitiveness in their industries because their costs of electricity have gone so high.
You know, I talked to the Italians, and I remind them, because they wonder, what do we do about Libya?
And they're just all looking to whatever the State Department ridiculous opinion is, and I remind the Italians, guys, you used to run the entire world from this city!
Why are you waiting for Washington?
If you step forward and say, enough, we're going to solve this border disaster in Libya, and move out smartly, you know, lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way, They all need to get back to that attitude because Washington is largely the problem at an international scale, not the solution.
I assume that another area where the Europeans have been very servile, very pliant, very obedient, to use your term, is Ukraine.
And so you've got this kind of Western alliance on Ukraine, but it looks, at least to someone like me, an untutored observer watching from a distance, that This really isn't going the way that they said it would.
These weapons that we're supplying look like they're going into a kind of an endless pit.
The Russians appear to keep coming, and there's no end in sight.
And more recently, there have been some reports to the effect that Biden is increasing the level of provocation by saying, in effect, go ahead and hit Russia in the interior with weaponry supplied by the United States.
I mean, it reminds me of, you know, you've got a big burly bully.
That's Putin.
And let's say he's in a fight with a little guy, but behind the little guy is a big guy, kind of egging him on and handing the little guy a stick and going, you know, go beat the big guy.
Well, at some point the big guy recognizes that I'm going to go after the guy who's supplying the stick.
Do you agree that we are moving into a pretty dangerous situation vis-a-vis Russia?
What should we be doing?
Look, as I said before, all we're doing now is grinding up the next generations demographically of Ukrainian men into a rototiller of Russian artillery, and it is not in Ukraine's interest to continue a pointless slaughter.
You know, as for the NATO allies, you have Germany, which is, what, the third largest economy in the world?
And they're only spending like 1.2, 1.3% of their GDP on defense, even though this has been going on in Ukraine since, um, February of 2022 for more than two years now.
And so they haven't really snapped too.
I was in Germany just a couple of weeks ago.
Life is, um, life is good and people are out and about enjoying a beautiful spring and they're not too worried about what's going on in Ukraine.
And I think even greater worry should be that our weapon systems, the very overpriced US tech, is not working that well on the front.
And they're not even in super high demand because they're not that effective, in many cases, against the Russian electronic warfare, which jams the navigation signals and the command signals so that these weapons are not hitting.
Our Kung Fu is not nearly as good as we think it is, and that should cause our Congress to withhold money and redirect it into more productive weapons development, especially cheaper, better, faster, because the Russians are getting a lot smarter from this fight, and I would say the Russian army is far more capable than we get a credit for.
And for the Ukraine to try to just out conventional war the Russian bear is a fool's errand because in a war of attrition, when you outnumber someone three or four to one with weapons parity at best, the bigger guy is going to win.
And especially when the Russians have proven that they will spend millions of their people as they did in World War II for what they consider their vital interests.
I mean, in some ways, it reminds me of the... I mean, this is in no way a direct analogy, but the war between the North and the South and the Civil War, because you obviously had, you know, in a lot of the battles, you had about the same number of people killed on both sides, but ultimately, that was to the benefit of the North, just because they had a lot more men.
So, ultimately, the big guy, the guy with more resources, more munitions factories, more troops, is going to wear out the little guy who's gonna run out.
And isn't that what happened to Robert E. Lee?
Yeah, look, Robert, the Civil War turned into a war of attrition with effectively trench warfare, a very second generation style war.
But worse than that, Russia is very much backed by China and North Korea.
Producing more shells, the Russian industry has fully mobilized, and they're producing artillery shells for about a third the cost of what the West is.
And China is providing a lot of the propellants and energetics, and I would probably even argue artillery shell casings, moving that stuff across the Trans-Siberian Railway into Russia.
So that is one that needs to be brought to an end.
I would be surprised if they don't try to come to some kind of a ceasefire.
I predict some kind of a call to peace and prayer by the Pope on the tail end of the Olympics this summer in France.
And I'll be surprised if Biden really doesn't try to end this by the Democratic Convention in mid-August.
Bye!
Very interesting.
Eric, let's pivot to Israel because I gotta say that this war in Israel, this war really over in Gaza to root out Hamas, it seems to have dragged out a little bit.
I don't know if this is something that was anticipated, that this would in fact take many, many months.
But it looks like politically, the Biden administration is beginning to pull away from its initial unequivocal support for Israel.
Do you think that, where is Biden now on the spectrum?
Is he somewhere between Israel and Hamas?
Is he somewhere between Israel and Palestine?
Does he even know where he is on this?
Like the Shah of Iran said after he was toppled, it's very dangerous to be America's friend under uncertain leadership.
And I would say that it has dragged out way too long.
The IDF played into and gave the fight that Hamas wanted.
Hamas wants to maximize civilian casualties, to maximize international opprobrium against killing civilians. And of course, nobody wants to go out and kill civilians, at least they shouldn't.
But I offered very directly to the IDF the ability to drill into the tunnels and flood with massive amounts of seawater, a strategy that would have prevented the necessity of all this bombing.
Because if you're bombing tunnels and there's civilians living on the surface, the civilians are going to get damaged in the process.
And that certainly has hurt the international reputation of the IDF.
But I think because of either hubris by their generals and probably some pressure from the Pentagon to go with the most conventional, most clueless option, they have been bombing and really been stuck in a quagmire.
The IDF did pull a significant rescue off last week, rescuing four live hostages.
A lot of civilians were killed.
Well, a lot of Palestinians were killed.
Don't know if they were innocent civilians.
Don't know if they were Hamas gunmen fighting, attacking the rescue force.
But again, Hamas.
There's even statements recorded by The Hamas leader, that his goal is to maximize Palestinian casualties because it creates more sympathy for the Hamas cause.
And so the ninja move would have been for the IDF early on to say, all right, we're not going to bomb, but we're going to flood everything.
We're going to literally turn Gaza into a duck impoundment and take away all their ability to operate underground.
Sadly, they didn't do that and they are paying the price for it.
politically and internationally for, I would say, months and probably years to come.
I mean, I'm really surprised at the clumsiness of the Israeli approach here.
I mean, first of all, just the vulnerability that allowed this attack to happen, it seems utterly undetected in the first place.
And then second of all, not factoring in the obvious things.
I mean, we've known beforehand that they, Hamas, use civilians as human shields.
We know that they want to leverage world opinion and they've got, you know, there are just a lot more Muslims than Jews around the world, and so you're able to play the politics of this against Israel.
So you'd think that the Israelis would be like, listen, number one, we need to have a really fast operation, mobilizing the outrage over the initial attacks, Can we get this done in three weeks?
Pulverize these guys.
In fact, I think a much higher amount of civilian casualties would be tolerated if it was closer to the attacks.
As time goes on, the kind of emotional force of the attacks diminishes, right?
And so now people focus on what the Israelis are doing.
Time is not their friend, and I don't think Hamas would have expected 12,000 horsepower pumps moving 60,000 gallons a minute into those areas and flooding it.
It would have taken away all their underground arms caches, it would have prevented maneuver, and it would have literally made them flush the hostages out of the tunnels, because dead hostages are of no use to Hamas.
It would have made them move them above ground.
And, but sadly they didn't do that.
They were predictable, and to the detriment of their campaign.
Wow, good stuff, Eric Prince.
Guys, I've been talking to Eric Prince, the founder of the military company Blackwater.
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Eric, really appreciate it.
Thanks for joining me.
One more quick statement.
Recently, in the last two days, Apple announced that they're combining chat GPT onto every operating system of an Apple iPhone.
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It's shocking.
What big tech is doing to the average citizen.
I mean, I saw something that Elon Musk posted on this where he basically said, you know, that if Apple makes itself vulnerable in this way, he's going to cut Apple out from all of his companies.
And so, Elon, like you, is sounding the alarm about the stuff that Apple is doing right now.
Agreed.
Thank you, Eric.
Thank you, sir.
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I'm talking about the four British folkways that shaped America.
We're on number four, which is the people of the borderlands moving to the backcountry of Maryland, of Pennsylvania, even West Virginia, and then pushing into further south and further west.
Through Mississippi to Texas and to New Mexico, even to Southern California.
And my plan is to complete my discussion of the fourth group, and in fact, of the book, this week.
I should mention that I'm going to be out for three weeks after this week, but continue to check out the podcast.
Danielle, my daughter, is going to substitute for me for the next two weeks, meaning next week and the week after, and then Kyle Serif in the week after that.
Now, the reason is I'm going to Australia To be part of a lecture program that is called the Freedom Tour.
It's been put together by an Australian, well I think he's a former member of parliament.
And a billionaire.
His name is Clive Palmer.
And he's invited Tucker Carlson and me to speak from America.
He's going to speak as well as another speaker from Australia.
So the four of us are going to be speaking in a bunch of Australian cities.
Really all the main ones.
Cairns, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Sydney, of course.
I think the tour ends in Melbourne.
So pretty exciting stuff and after that I'm doing a week with family.
Actually some of my family in India were going to rendezvous for a family reunion in London.
So a little bit of Dinesh out.
off the podcast for a short while, but I'll be back on, I think we get back on the 7th of July, so I'll be back here on the 8th. All right, now we're going to talk about the rednecks and I want to begin with a travel account of a fellow named James Parton in the 19th century passing through Appalachian country.
And he's describing the way that the people there talk.
And he says, it sounds very strange to the ear.
These are people who, and I'm going to give you several examples of what he says.
He goes, they don't say there, they say there.
He says, they don't say certain, they say certain.
Instead of going, I'm going there.
They say, I'm a-going.
I'm a-going.
They say far instead of fire.
They say, they say rassle instead of wrestle.
He's gonna rassle him.
They say young'uns instead of young ones.
And they also use a kind of strange grammar.
He come in.
They is judged.
He don't have none.
The double negative.
Or they use words in strange ways.
He went till Charleston.
Now the word till is not normally used that way.
Till is actually short for until.
But he went till means as far as.
He went as far as Charleston.
Or there never was seen the like of him for mischief.
So the like of him he's the point is he's kind of a mischievous guy a mischievous guy and that's how fixing I already mentioned before fixing means getting ready to do something and So this is the argot, this is the dialect, if you will, of the backcountry.
What about the architecture?
Well, it turns out that in the English borderlands it was very difficult to build permanent dwellings because there were armies running back and forth and things just got knocked over and knocked down.
And so the style of architecture became build simple, use simple materials, that way if your cabin is run over or knocked over, no big deal, you can put it back together again.
And so small and impermanent dwellings become the feature of the borderlands and guess what?
You begin to see the same kind of thing popping up now in the backcountry in America, which is, we're talking about the invention of the small cabin.
These cabins were initially just made from dirt and rocks, but later they became what we now call the log cabin.
So the people of the borderlands, I won't say they invented the log cabin, but I'll say that they transport, they transplanted the idea of log cabins from the borderlands of Great Britain to the back country of the United States.
And sure enough, you can now see these kinds of cabins.
You see them in West Virginia, you see them in Mississippi, even very stylish log cabins of the kind you'll find in Colorado, in the mountains, even in chic places like Aspen and Breckenridge and so on.
You find these log cabins and they've become more decorative and they've become more stylish.
But the idea goes back to the primitive log cabin A bunch of logs tied together, and the idea, as I say, is that if you need to move it, you can easily do it.
If it gets knocked over, you can rebuild.
And of course, getting knocked over in the backcountry meant something different.
You don't have a British army overrunning you, but you could have inclement weather, you could also have attacks from the native Indians, and so the people of the backcountry Developed a sort of a lifestyle not radically different from what they brought from Great Britain.
Now, even large homes, which were built by the elite of the back country, these are larger families, people who are more successful.
I mentioned several yesterday.
These are people like the Calhouns, people like the Polks, people like the Houstons.
I'm talking about the family of Sam Houston.
And they would have larger homes, but made of the same kind of stuff.
So instead of having a small cabin, you have a big cabin.
But made of the same kind of materials.
You don't find New England architecture or the kind of stately mansions that you see in Virginia.
You're not going to find that, by and large, in the back country.
Now, the sense of family was very strong among these people.
And by family, they typically meant something of extended family.
Very often there were... The families included cousins, and these are people who lived together.
They included barns and stables that usually attached to the homes.
Cattle were kept in cow pens.
And so, these were...
In the borderlands, they were clans.
They were extended families that sometimes made up small armies.
And here in America, they also retained, well, they didn't retain the military clans, but they retained the clannishness.
Now, marriage customs among the people of the borderlands, very rowdy, very informal, and also, in a sense, you would always say very inappropriate.
Something that you'd never find in Puritan marriages with their sort of frugal simplicity, or even elaborate Anglican marriages, which were ceremonial, but very decorous.
Everyone is following manners.
Whereas in these sort of redneck marriages, there's a lot of sexual jokes that go on at the wedding.
There's sometimes food that is thrown around.
You have people following the bride and groom to the bedroom afterward and trying to peek in in the window on them.
All this kind of craziness is very redneck behavior, even today.
And of course, it was brought by the people of the borderlands.
They were like that.
Also, people, by the way, in redneck culture, marry young.
So, even by the standards of the day, in the 19th and 18th century, of course, people didn't wait till their 30s and 40s, they married in their 20s, but the rednecks married in their teens.
So you have young marriages and you have also a fair amount of illegitimacy.
This is an important point because illegitimacy, which is now unfortunately rather epidemic in our society, it is absolutely epidemic in the black community.
It's very prevalent in the Hispanic community.
It's also risen to disturbing levels in the white community.
But this is uncommon in American history.
Illegitimacy was extremely rare in Puritan America.
It was also very rare in Anglican America, and no surprise, it was pretty rare in the Quaker-influenced culture of the Midwest.
But here, in the backcountry, you did have a fair amount of illegitimacy, more than anywhere else in the In the country.
So, I think I'll pause here.
I want to talk about the relationship between men and women on the frontier.
It's kind of a feminist myth that men and women were equal on the frontier.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
But this is a topic I will take up tomorrow.
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