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	Welcome to the base report with Breaking Stocks here on the Stew Peters Network.
	I'm your host, Frankie Stocks.
	Thanks to everyone out there for joining me this evening, whether you're watching on Monday or whether you're watching on Thanksgiving Thursday.
	Either way, happy Thanksgiving.
	Thank you for joining me for the Baste Report special edition Thanksgiving episode.
	We're doing a two-time run, once on Monday, once on Thursday.
	We're going to take a break from the regular grind of the news cycle and we're going to talk about the origins of Thanksgiving.
	We're going to talk about the importance of Thanksgiving in the American national identity.
	We're going to talk about the important connections of Thanksgiving to our founding generation, to our Christian faith, to our ancestors who came before us and forged the American national identity that we all hold so dear to us today.
	Thanksgiving has played a large part in that, especially in the past 150 years.
	So we're going to jump into some of that this evening.
	But before we do, I want to give a big thank you to everybody out in the audience.
	This Thanksgiving, I truly am thankful for all of you for making the Baste Report a reality, for tuning in and watching the show, whether you're watching five nights a week or a couple nights a week or once or twice every other week, in which case you need to be watching a whole lot more bass report.
	You need to be watching a whole lot more Stew Peters Network.
	But either way, I'm thankful to have you and I'm thankful for Stu giving me this platform and for the entire team at the Stew Peters Network, the production guys, everybody who has made this show a possibility.
	This really is a dream come true and this is going to be my most based Thanksgiving yet.
	So really and truly, I'm thankful to each and every one of you out there watching.
	Thank you so much to Stu and the guys and the gals over at the Stew Peters Network, really from the bottom of my heart to each and every one of you out there for making the bass report a reality.
	But look, with all of that, I want to jump into our Thanksgiving episode here.
	Because like I said, we're going to take a break from the regular news cycle and we're going to look back through American history.
	We're going to look at our national identity and how it ties in to this Thanksgiving holiday that we've all celebrated for our entire lives.
	But we really, we haven't been given a true rundown, a true definition of what Thanksgiving really is and where Thanksgiving even comes from.
	Because like so many other things in our society, like so many other things in the narrative of history that we've been fed, whether it's 9-11, whether it's the John F. Kennedy assassination, or more recently, the Charlie Kirk assassination, the story that we've been given regarding the origins of Thanksgiving is completely and totally fake.
	Thanksgiving in America did not begin with a bunch of pilgrims holding hands with Squanto and the Indians and singing kumbaya and thanking the red man for teaching the white man how to survive on the North American continent.
	Really, the story is the exact opposite of that.
	And that is where we're going to begin this evening with the true story of the first Thanksgiving in American history, at least in Anglo-American history.
	And at the end of this topic, we'll get into some other versions of Thanksgiving that were held here in the United States.
	And actually, you know what?
	Before we go on, I do think that it's important that we mention Thanksgiving has a massive tie-in to Christianity.
	The entire idea around the holiday is giving thanks to God for everything that we have.
	Thanks for our families, thanks for our friends, thanks for our country, thanks for the harvest.
	We're thanking God for everything that we have.
	That's what Thanksgiving centers around.
	You're not giving thanks to yourself.
	You're not giving thanks to Squanto the Indian.
	You're giving thanks to God.
	Thanksgiving.
	It's all right there in the name.
	But let's go ahead and jump in.
	This is an article over on Washingtonian.com.
	Now, I've seen this article kind of pop up in my social media feed every year for years now.
	And it says it was first published in 2015.
	And this article is titled, The First Thanksgiving Took Place in Virginia, Not Massachusetts.
	Let's go ahead and share the screen here.
	Here we have some fine Englishmen landing in the North American continent.
	Years of elementary school history lessons taught us that Plymouth, Massachusetts was the site of the first Thanksgiving.
	Those lessons were false.
	See?
	They were fake, just like so many other stories that we've been fed for our entire lives.
	A year and 17 days before those pilgrims ever stepped foot upon New England soil, a group of English settlers led by Captain John Woodleaf landed at today's Berkeley plantation, 24 miles southwest of Richmond.
	After they arrived on the shores of the James River, the settlers got onto their knees and gave thanks for their safe passage.
	There was no traditional meal, no love fest with the Native Americans, the Indians.
	We're the Native Americans.
	We're the American people.
	It wasn't America before our people established the United States of America.
	We're the Native Americans.
	They're the Indians.
	They're the previous inhabitants of this continent.
	But regardless, there was no love fest, no turkey.
	America's first Thanksgiving was about prayer, not food.
	America's first Thanksgiving was a Christian holiday.
	Again, it wasn't about joining hands with the engines.
	It wasn't about celebrating diversity with Squanto.
	It wasn't about thanking them for teaching us how to live.
	It was about giving thanks for a bunch of Englishmen having a successful voyage to North America, to the King's Dominion, as it was called at that time, which is now Virginia.
	On September 16th, 1619, the Margaret departed Bristol, England, bound for the New World.
	Aboard the 35-foot ship were 35 settlers, a crew, five captains' assistants, a pilot, and Woodleaf, a much experienced survivor of the 1609, 1610 Jamestown starving time.
	The mission of those aboard Margaret was to settle 8,000 acres of land along the James River that had been granted to them by the London-based Berkeley Company.
	They were allowed to build farms, storehouses, homes, and a community on company land.
	In exchange, they were contracted as employees, working the land and handing over crops and profits to the company, which that was an extremely common way that people would come into the colonies at that time, especially into Virginia.
	After a rough two and a half months on the Atlantic, the ship entered the Chesapeake Bay on November 28, 1619.
	It took another week to navigate the stormy bay, which I think that's one of the craziest parts about that.
	I think that's absolutely crazy.
	Today, we have a bridge going over the Chesapeake Bay.
	We have tunnels going under the Chesapeake Bay.
	And we had guys taking a week to navigate it.
	And granted, this was 400 years ago, but I think it's crazy that they sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in a matter of, what was it, 90 days, 60 days, something in that range?
	And then it takes an additional week to navigate the Chesapeake Bay.
	I understand you have different currents and things like that, but that's crazy to me, given that you can now drive across it.
	But let's jump back in.
	But you know what?
	But before we do jump back in, let me just say that that is yet another reminder of the lengths that our ancestors went to in coming to this country and seizing this land and building on it our civilization, our Christian European white civilization.
	Not European as in we're in Europe, not European as in we want to be part of the European Union.
	Hell no.
	We fought a war to get away from that filth.
	to get away from that cabal, which we've been sucked back into, unfortunately.
	But we'll break back out of it and we'll talk about that before we end this episode.
	But either way, what I'm saying is European peoples establishing a civilization on the North American continent.
	Look at the lengths that our forebears went to just to get here.
	I mean, you navigate the Chesapeake Bay for a week and then you land in an area populated by Indians where your captain has already seen a bunch of guys starve to death and get scalped.
	And then here you are, you come off your ship, and the first thing that you do is you give thanks to God for bringing you to this land, for giving you your safe passage to Virginia, to what will become America, and allowing you to establish this beachhead of Western Christian civilization in the New World.
	Most importantly, through this context here, Anglo-Saxon Christian civilization in the New World.
	But let's jump back into the article.
	They disembarked and prayed on December 4th when they arrived at the Berkeley 100, later called Berkeley Plantation.
	Historians think there was nothing but old ship rations to eat.
	So the settlers may have concocted a meal of oysters and ham out of necessity rather than celebration.
	At the behest of written orders given by the Berkeley Company to Captain Woodleaf, it was declared that their arrival must be yearly and perpetually kept holy as a day of thanksgiving to Almighty God.
	And that's exactly what they did for two years.
	On March 22nd, 1622, the Powhatan, who'd realized the settlers intended to expand their territory and continue their attempts to convert and civilize them, attacked Berkeley and other settlements, killing 347.
	Woodleaf survived, but soon after, Berkeley 100 was abandoned.
	For three centuries, Virginia's Thanksgiving was lost to history.
	Graham Woodleaf is a direct descendant of Captain Woodleaf.
	While he's known his family's history since being a teenager, he's devoted a considerable amount of energy and research since he retired in 2009.
	Today, Woodleaf is president of the Virginia Thanksgiving Festival, which is held annually since 1958.
	Woodleaf says he thinks the major reason that Plymouth, not Berkeley, is universally thought to be the site of the first Thanksgiving is that they had better PR than we did.
	He also said the emphasis on prayer instead of Plymouth's festive harvest meal also made Virginia's Thanksgiving a bit less appealing, though more accurate.
	In fact, most Thanksgivings in the early days were religious services, not meals, Woodleaf says.
	And I think that's a very important aspect in all of this.
	That's the Thanksgiving, again, as I mentioned earlier, the story that we've been spoon-fed our entire lives, it's as fake as the JFK assassination, as fake as the 9-11 narrative, as fake as the Charlie Kirk narrative.
	It's fake.
	It's used to bestow this sense of obligation toward diversity on young American children.
	I can remember well being in kindergarten and doing a Thanksgiving play, and it all centers around Squanto.
	And they had the biggest teacher's pet in the entire school play Squanto.
	Everybody who's gone to kindergarten in a public American school the past 50 years probably knows exactly what I'm talking about.
	They have the biggest teacher's pet playing Squanto.
	They've got some other kids as pilgrims.
	And then they've got everybody else in various pilgrim or Indian costumes back on the stage singing little songs.
	They've got the stars of the show up here, and Squanto is teaching all the other little teachers' pets how to live, teaching them how to survive.
	They've got to learn from the noble savage because the white man just don't know.
	The white man just can't help himself.
	And then the white man throws a big party with all the crops that the Indians taught him how to grow, and they invite the Indians and they hold hands in a big diversity fest, as they called it in the article we're reading through, a love fest.
	That is the narrative that serves a certain worldview.
	It serves a certain end goal that we've been fed here in the United States the past, what, 50 years, 60 years, 70 years, probably since the end of World War II.
	Because before that, Thanksgiving really was much more religiously oriented holiday, even as they centered it around this whole Plymouth Rock story.
	Because as we'll discuss, and not just religious-oriented, but national identity-oriented.
	Because as we'll discuss here in a little bit, Thanksgiving, once it was really brought back to the forefront nationally during the Civil War, in the decades thereafter and leading up to World War II, it was seen as an important day of the year in which everybody around the country celebrated this similar holiday based on American culture, American history, American religion,
	and American unity as the nation really reunited after the Civil War.
	And again, we'll get into that here in a few minutes.
	I don't want to go too far down that road.
	What I wanted to drill home here before we jump back into the article is that Thanksgiving, it's been pitched to us as this, again, kumbaya celebration.
	And that's really not what it was.
	I mean, you see, it's the exact opposite.
	These guys come ashore, they drop to their knees, they thank God, they hold a feast in Thanksgiving for their safe voyage for this land that they're on in the New World.
	And within two years, hundreds of them are slaughtered by Indians.
	That is totally opposite of the whole red man teaching the white man what to do, gesture of goodwill, salute to diversity celebration that we've all been beaten over the heads with.
	But let's jump back into the article.
	309 years after the 1622 battle with the Powhatans, Berkeley Plantation's missing history was rediscovered.
	In 1931, retired William and Mary president and son of President John Tyler, Dr. Lyon G. Tyler, was working on a book about early Virginia history.
	While doing research, he stumbled upon the Nibley papers, documents and records taken by John Smith of Nibley, Gloucestershire, about the 1619 settlement of Berkeley.
	These people's names were such a mouthful.
	Originally published by the New York State Library in 1899, the paper's historical significance has gone undetected.
	According to Virginia historians, the papers are concrete proof that the New World's Day of Thanksgiving originated in their region.
	Upon his discovery, Tyler told Malcolm Jameson, who had inherited Berkeley Plantation in the 1920s, the plantation was already considered one of the more historic homes in the state, once a residence to a signer of the Declaration of Independence, as well as the birthplace of a U.S. president.
	Now, it had another father in its historic hat.
	Jameson, with the help of descendants of Captain Woodleaf, instituted the first Virginia Thanksgiving festival in 1958.
	It's been celebrated ever since.
	While locals are convinced about Berkeley's place among Thanksgiving lore, the rest of the country has been a tougher sell throughout the 1960s, again, because it doesn't have that cultural Marxian component.
	You don't have a bunch of Jewish media moguls who want to pick up the Christian version of Thanksgiving, the version in which Anglo-Saxon Christians landed in the New World, gave thanks, and were then slaughtered by Indians who later got their asses kicked by a different group of these same Anglo-Saxon Christians.
	Throughout the 1960s, Virginia State Senator John J. Wicker Jr. Took it upon himself to tell the world the real story of the first Thanksgiving.
	He pleaded Virginia's case to Massachusetts Governor John A. Volpe.
	He went on the tonight show with Johnny Carson, dressed in full 17th century settler garb.
	When President Kennedy gave his 1962 Thanksgiving proclamation and said that Plymouth was the site of the first Thanksgiving, it was Wicker who chastised the White House for ignoring Virginia.
	Much to his surprise, he received a reply from Arthur Schleischinger Jr., Kennedy's appointed historian and speechwriter.
	Schleisinger's response, I wonder what his persuasion was, was also amazingly candid.
	The president has asked me to reply to your telegram.
	You were quite right, and I can only plead an unconquerable New England bias on behalf of the White House staff.
	I can assure you the error will not be repeated in the future.
	And it wasn't.
	In Kennedy's 1963 Thanksgiving proclamation made 17 days before his assassination.
	The president acknowledged Virginia's claim, saying over three centuries ago, our forefathers in Virginia and Massachusetts, far from home in a lonely wilderness, set aside a time of Thanksgiving.
	In 2007, President George W. Bush also noted the history while visiting Berkeley Plantation, commenting that the folks, the good folks here say that the founders of Berkeley held their celebration before the pilgrims had even left port.
	As you can imagine, this version of events is not very popular up north.
	Yes, George W. Bush with his little, you know, southern tie-ins there, even though he's from a Yankee family who carpetbagged in Texas, and everybody laughs and giggles and forgets that the guy's a war criminal.
	You know, but again, we don't have to go down that road.
	It's Thanksgiving.
	Let's have a pleasant discussion.
	Today, hundreds of people attend the Virginia Thanksgiving Festival every year on the first Sunday of November.
	It was originally held in December, but moved years ago in hopes of having better weather.
	We want to set history straight, Woodleaf says.
	It is such an important historical event that happened in Virginia and needs to be recognized as such.
	And yeah, it needs to be recognized as such, but not just as an event that occurred in Virginia, but it needs to be recognized as exactly what it was.
	As English Anglo-Saxon Christians landing in the New World, staking their claim, staking our people's claim, and then giving thanks to God and continuing to give thanks to God until they were wiped out by the Indians, who then, don't worry, as I said a moment ago, they later got theirs.
	We're here now.
	Here we are in Virginia, in America.
	This is ours now.
	And Thanksgiving, it's an important component in all of that.
	Again, this is not some social justice holiday.
	This is really and truly, this is a holiday to salute our people, our ancestors, what they did, and then follow in their example of what else they did, of thanking God for their fortune, for what they had been able to accomplish, what they had been able to achieve.
	You know, it's kind of funny in a roundabout way.
	You have all these crybabies who year after year, they say, oh, we can't celebrate Thanksgiving.
	They want to turn it into a new Columbus Day.
	They want to say we can't celebrate Thanksgiving.
	It's mean to the Indians.
	It reminds them of getting their land taken by the pilgrims, the social justice warrior pilgrims who held hands with them and fed them.
	That's always the white man's downfall.
	You feed these people.
	We've fed the third world in the modern era.
	And look at what's happened.
	Now we're under a full-scale invasion.
	We need to take up the mantle of our ancestors who conquered this land, and we need to take it back.
	Think about that this Thanksgiving.
	But regardless, in a roundabout way, it's kind of funny how these people say, oh, Thanksgiving, it's so mean to the Indians.
	It's so mean to us Native Americans.
	It's all about the white man coming in and taking our land.
	And you know what?
	We should look at it at least partially through that lens.
	We should be proud that our ancestors, our forebears on our land, the land that we conquered, that our people conquered, we should be proud that they landed here, that they expanded.
	This was an act of Anglo-Saxon Christian expansion into the new world.
	And they thanked God for it.
	And we should be proud that they did.
	We should be happy and glad that that's exactly what they did.
	Because if they didn't, we wouldn't be here right now.
	We wouldn't be celebrating Thanksgiving 2025 here in the United States of America.
	If they had tucked tail and went home when it took them a week to get through the Chesapeake Bay, or if they had tucked tail and ran home after the first time they starved to death, or if they had ran home after they got slaughtered by a bunch of savages, we wouldn't be here today.
	But they kept on coming back because they knew that they had God on their side, because they knew that they were a strong-willed people, because they knew that they were going to manifest their destiny, the destiny of their descendants here on this land, on the land that is now the United States of America.
	And look, we've mentioned it here in this first half of the show.
	And Thanksgiving, the origins are far from being isolated in that colonial era.
	For decades thereafter, for a century, over a century thereafter, up until the time of the Civil War, Thanksgiving was mostly a regional holiday around New England.
	They used this narrative of the pilgrims.
	As that article went over in Virginia, it was kind of lost.
	It wasn't being celebrated.
	And it took up this sort of social justice warrior framing in certain parts of New England where abolitionists embraced Thanksgiving.
	And where then in other parts of the country, abolitionist organizations held Thanksgiving celebrations.
	And it kind of got a bad connotation across parts of the South.
	So it wasn't really celebrated.
	But Thanksgiving persisted in pockets all over the country, but especially in New England.
	And it wasn't just isolated as an abolitionist sort of celebration.
	It was celebrated by all types of people in New England and in the Northeast.
	But as it expanded around the country, it had that sort of reputation.
	It had that sort of flavor to it.
	So it wasn't widely adopted.
	But then in the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln, he saw Thanksgiving as something to seize.
	He saw it as an opportunity.
	This is a holiday here that's based off of colonial America.
	It's based really, even with that pilgrim narrative, off the survival of the American people and our forebears.
	This is a country that's in the middle of its fight for survival, whether through modern day, through our modern lens, when you look back on it, whether you side with the Union or the Confederacy, it doesn't matter, where we had to forge through that.
	You know, we lost.
	The Confederacy lost.
	We had to forge through that and come out the other side as a new America and forge this national identity going forward.
	And a lot of your more badass Confederates, actually, let's go off on a little tangent here.
	A lot of your more badass Confederates, like John Mosby, they embraced that idea after the war.
	He became like an ambassador or a member of the U.S. government after the war because he wanted to forge ahead and say, we're one people.
	We had a noble cause.
	We lost.
	Let's move on and forge this new national identity in this post-war era.
	And we did in large part in Thanksgiving.
	It played a big part in that, both in the North and in the South.
	Lincoln declares Thanksgiving a holiday in the Civil War, right after, and we're going to jump more into this after the break here.
	But Lincoln declares Thanksgiving a holiday in the middle of the Civil War, just after Gettysburg.
	We've had massive losses on both sides, Union and Confederate, thousands of Americans just slaughtered.
	The North is in disarray domestically, civil unrest everywhere.
	The Confederacy is on the retreat.
	The South is starting to realize this is coming home.
	This is coming back on us now.
	We're going to see a massive retreat.
	We're going to see massive bloodshed in the process.
	Everything is about to change.
	This is a momentum shift, but both sides have just had massive losses.
	And so Lincoln steps in.
	And full disclosure here, through my like, I'm a huge history buff and through my history lens, I'm not a huge fan of Lincoln.
	There's some things about Lincoln that I find incredibly interesting.
	And I think if Lincoln hadn't been assassinated, this would be an entirely different country.
	And it's very interesting when you look in to the motivations behind the Lincoln assassination and who was John Wilkes Booth and who sent John Wilkes Booth to assassinate Abraham Lincoln after the Confederacy had surrendered.
	After Robert E. Lee had surrendered to Grant at Appomattox, after the Confederacy had been defeated on the battlefield, the war's over.
	John Wilkes Booth is sent in to kill Abraham Lincoln.
	Why was that?
	That's a topic for a different day, but it didn't happen organically.
	And just like the story of the first Thanksgiving, the story of the Lincoln assassination that we've been fed has been a complete and total hoax.
	A commit to just be expedient and send us on our way and get us off the road that we were on.
	But again, topic for a different day.
	Let's not get too far off here.
	Lincoln, while I look back through history, I'm not some huge fan of this guy.
	This, I think, was an interesting and smart move to say, look, we're going to take this holiday, this regional holiday, and we're going to say, at our worst hour, in our country's darkest hour, we're going to give thanks to God.
	We're going to continue this American tradition established by colonial settlers, by pilgrims, by colonists, whatever you want to call them.
	We're going to take up this mantle.
	We're going to give thanks to God.
	We're going to rally around this national celebration and we're going to go forward.
	And then after the Civil War, this started spreading all over the country.
	And World War II is when it really, really started to take off.
	But we're going to talk more about that after the break here, guys.
	I'm Frankie Stocks.
	This is the base report on the Stew Peters Network, this special Thanksgiving episode.
	I thank you all for joining me.
	I again want to wish everybody a happy Thanksgiving and thank you all from the bottom of my heart for your support of the base report and for tuning in to this episode, whether it's Monday, whether it's Thursday.
	Happy Thanksgiving to everybody out there.
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	Welcome back to The Base Report with Frankie Stocks here on the Stew Peters Network.
	I'm your host, Frankie Stocks.
	Thank you all for joining me for this special Thanksgiving edition of the show.
	Whether you're watching on Monday, whether you're watching on Thursday, or any day in between or thereafter, thank you all for joining me.
	Happy Thanksgiving to you and to your families and to all of your loved ones out there.
	And look, I mentioned, meant to mention this at the start of the show, but I'm sure you've all noticed by now I don't have the regular bass report background going.
	I've got this home style background.
	I figure I'd do a little shift for the holidays.
	It honestly, I'll be honest here, it doesn't look as cool as I thought.
	I thought being in front of the window, you know, with the blinds cracked, it'd look cool.
	We'd have some light action going on behind us.
	But, you know, it's whatever.
	I think it looks okay.
	It's a nice break from the normal pace.
	We're off of the usual everyday news setup and we're cracking into some American history, to some Thanksgiving origin stories, some meanings behind this holiday that really our people, our country, we need to embrace, we need to carry as a nationalistic Christian America first American torch going forward.
	This is our holiday.
	This holiday is about our country and about our country's unique relationship with God and history with God.
	Our people came, put their faith in God and conquered this continent, expanded Western Christian civilization into the new world.
	And we need to remember and give thanks for all of that when we celebrate Thanksgiving.
	So I hope that this episode of the Bass Report has been able to put that information out there, serve as either a reminder or as an as an informational, whatever the case may be.
	But this is an American holiday.
	This is an important day in our history.
	And it's an important day in our national identity.
	As we were talking about before we went to break regarding the Civil War and President Lincoln installing Thanksgiving as a national holiday, really in this country's darkest hour in 1863, just months after the Battle of Gettysburg, and in a really dark time in his own personal life as well.
	And that's where we're going to begin with this segment.
	We're going to jump in to a New York Times article.
	This is from several years ago.
	It's from back in 2014.
	And this is detailing the history around Thanksgiving.
	It begins, of course, with a lot of that same, you know, diversity myth.
	But it goes in to the Lincoln angle.
	And that's where we're going to start.
	So let's go ahead and share the screen.
	That fall, the fall of 1863, Lincoln had precious little to be thankful for.
	The Union victory at Gettysburg the previous July had come at a dreadful cost, a combined 51,000 estimated casualties with nearly 8,000 dead.
	Enraged by draft laws and emancipations, rioters in northern cities like New York went on bloody rampages.
	And the president and his wife Mary were still mourning the loss of their 11-year-old son, Willie, who had died the year before.
	So it might seem odd that Lincoln chose this moment to announce a national day of Thanksgiving to be marked on the last Thursday in November.
	His October 3rd, 1863 proclamation read: In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere, except in the theater of military conflict.
	But it took another year for the day to really catch hold.
	In 1864, Lincoln issued a second proclamation, which read, I do further recommend to my fellow citizens, Afersaid, that on that occasion they do reverently humble themselves in the dust.
	Around the same time, the heads of Union League clubs, Theodore Roosevelt's father among them, led an effort to provide a proper Thanksgiving meal, including turkey and mince pies, for Union troops.
	As the Civil War raged on, four steamers sailed out of New York laden with 400,000 pounds of ham, canned peaches, apples, and cakes, and turkeys with all the trimmings.
	They arrived at Ulysses S. Grant's headquarters in City Point, Virginia, then one of the busiest ports in the world, to deliver dinner to the Union's galliant soldiers and sailors.
	Now, I want to point something out here with the Union League aspect in all of this.
	And this is kind of a side issue here, but the Union Leagues were brutal.
	They were absolutely brutal, militant organizations, anti-Southern.
	These were Masonic groups who went in and they just killed people.
	They beat people into submission.
	They confiscated land.
	They engaged in humiliation rituals during and after the Civil War.
	In conquered Southern territory, these Union Leagues came in and they presented themselves as some kind of auxiliary to the U.S. government, some kind of auxiliary to the U.S. military, and then after the war as an auxiliary to these freedmen's bureaus.
	But these guys were terrorists.
	These guys were thugs.
	I'm glad that they were able to play a nice story, part in the story there of feeding the troops, even though they were invaders of my homeland of Virginia.
	But at the end of the day, these were all Americans pitted against each other by an elite class who was jockeying for the type of economy, the type of economic zone that this country was going to be turned into going forward.
	The troops on either side had no way of knowing that.
	So those men on either side are really to be admired.
	But there were some really brutal Masonic types, including these union leagues, who, by the way, Masonic types, oh, who else ties into the Masons?
	John Wilkes Booth, the guy who killed Abraham Lincoln.
	And so these people, every time they're linked on both sides.
	But Lincoln, separate from these union leagues, declared Thanksgiving a national holiday during the Civil War, and it really started to spin off from there.
	This became an extremely important part of, again, of American identity.
	Thanksgiving is a day each year where Americans sit down and they're having this common experience of having dinner with their families.
	And it was an important part of this national reunification and the establishment of a national identity in post-Civil War America.
	Even after Lincoln was killed, and these thug types from the Union League wanted Lincoln killed so that they could inflict a brutal and humiliating reconstruction on the southern United States, which is then exactly what they went on to do.
	And they were able to weaponize the freed slaves against the native white southern population.
	And they were able to weaponize the U.S. government against the southern population and drive a wedge, both a political wedge, a physical wedge, a developmental wedge between two parts of this country, a massive cultural wedge that then wrecked havoc on America going forward through the next century, straight up through the 1960s and the 1970s.
	And obviously, there's still cultural differences today, but everybody knows what I'm talking about, the social chaos that ensued through the Civil War through the 1960s while America was remade.
	And so that angle of this, that plays right back in to the assassination of Lincoln and these union leagues and the embrace of Thanksgiving as some kind of diversity, anti-white even type of holiday.
	The white man couldn't take care of himself.
	He had to bring in the trusty red.
	The white man is evil.
	We've got to go beat his brains in down south somewhere and overtake his economy and subjugate his people and then celebrate Thanksgiving with the Union League, this new version.
	Not the Lincoln version, not the Christian national identity American version, but this pilgrim version.
	So unfortunately, as Thanksgiving picked up and spread across the country, that's the narrative, this highly politicized type of narrative that was attached to it.
	And it remains attached to it to this day.
	But I think that now we're at a point where we've got enough information here that we can look past that.
	And I think we're also at a point where me, at least myself, I never thought of Thanksgiving really as this whole pilgrim story.
	I knew that was going on in the background.
	But to me, Thanksgiving was a day where I met up with my cousin.
	When I was a kid, my cousin lived in D.C.
	And so we would go to DC on Thanksgiving.
	So it was always like a big like day because I got to go up to the big city and we would take this long drive and then I would play with my cousin all day and then we would eat and we would always have, I'm always a fan of ham on Thanksgiving.
	I'm a way bigger fan of ham than I am turkey on Thanksgiving.
	And then there's this debate.
	And let me throw this out there and people can say something in the comments about this, about the dressing versus stuffing of what you call it.
	And I've always, I get both sides of this because to me, it's always been stuffing if it's in the bird, but dressing if it's out of the bird.
	So that, I mean, and that makes sense, you know, either way.
	But yeah, it's always been stuffing in the bird and dressing out of the bird to me.
	But I think most people call it one way or the other.
	And then everybody else in my family, I'm pretty sure, and this is probably why I say it that way, calls it stuffing in the bird or dressing out of the bird.
	But that's a big, a big Thanksgiving vernacular debate that I hear thrown around every year when it comes to these different types of Thanksgiving food.
	But again, that's a part of this being part of America's national identity.
	And so it all encompassing the foods, the terminology, the origin stories.
	But we've got to move away from this kumbaya, hands around the fire type of story of Thanksgiving and say this is an important fixture of American history.
	And when Lincoln installed Thanksgiving, he had in his mind, this is a day where the country collectively thanks God.
	This is a day where the country collectively gathers and takes a break and has a meal with their families.
	And again, gives thanks to God.
	But, of course, especially in post-World War II America, it's Thanksgiving has been anything but that.
	It's become this hyper-commercialized, and not just post-World War II, that's when everything began, really picked up, but more modern era than that, even past couple of decades.
	Thanksgiving has become this hyper-commercialized, you know, way beyond just the Macy's parade where they're advertising stuff, which they've done for decades.
	Way beyond that, into it's just the first day of the Christmas shopping season.
	And that was always kind of troubling to me, even when I was young.
	And Christmas was always my family's biggest holiday.
	Thanksgiving, it was like fun because I got to go hang out with my cousin and take this little trip.
	But it wasn't like I didn't wait all year for Thanksgiving.
	That wasn't even like our biggest meal.
	Like our biggest family meal was always the Christmas, a huge spread, and everybody from the family comes into my grandma's house and we're all like on the farm having this big Christmas holiday together.
	So that was the, that was the big holiday for me.
	But Thanksgiving, you know, obviously an important fixture in all of this too.
	But where I'm going with that and with Christmas is to say we need to have, when we have a Christmas episode of the bass report, instead of a window backdrop, we're going to do a my Christmas tree backdrop.
	I think we'll do this like in front of my Christmas tree, but I have a really little Christmas tree because it's just me and my son.
	So we just have a little Christmas tree, but it makes the presents look way bigger and it makes it look way more intense presents because they're around this little tree that's like two feet tall.
	So I definitely have that going for me.
	But as far as the commercialization of Thanksgiving and rolling it in to this Christmas holiday, Christmas shopping, which in and of itself, the whole commercialization of Christmas, obviously a deviation from that holiday and the meanings of that holiday.
	Everything has been commercialized and turned into some consumerist fest.
	It's all about consumerism and selling the most stuff.
	And they're able to sell a whole lot of stuff off of Thanksgiving, being a fun little diversity tale, especially as the years go on.
	And then on top of that, they're able to sell more and more stuff each year as the Christmas shopping season continues to expand.
	But that's what I really want to touch on because this is a very interesting phenomenon to me with the whole Christmas shopping season.
	Now, even when I was younger, like, I don't know, what was the peak of Black Friday?
	I was talking, I was talking to my son about this the other day because he was saying, you know, what's up with Black Friday basically?
	He just turned 13.
	And so he was asking about Black Friday shopping.
	I'm like, man, a few years ago, like, it's really calmed down because of online shopping.
	But I don't know, 10 years ago, like the height of Black Friday, I mean, people were being trampled to death.
	People were being killed over deals on laptops and PlayStations.
	Like it was absolutely just wild.
	Like it was demonic.
	It was like a demonic occupation of Thanksgiving, hybridized with the demonic occupation of the Christmas season.
	And it would begin on Thanksgiving.
	And you would, if you drove, you know, you're eating dinner with your family on Thanksgiving and then you've got to drive through town to get back home and you would see these people just lined up, these consumers lined up outside of the stores, outside of Kohl's, outside of Target, outside of Belk, any place like that.
	And I'm just naming off like the three big type of places at the height of Black Friday in the area that I live where they would have these absolutely, you know, massive types of lines.
	And look, I'm not above admitting when I'm wrong.
	And I hate to admit this, but I was one of those people at least one of those years I can think of.
	I went out after Thanksgiving dinner with my sister, and we bought this gigantic toolbench, a toy toolbench for my son at Target.
	That's why I mentioned Target, this black and decker toy toolbench, like one of those plastic toolbenches.
	And we had that bad boy under the tree on Christmas.
	And you could go up to this toolbench, you know, and you pull the little button or the little lever and the saw goes down.
	It's like, and you have these little boards that you put them on that saw and they break in half, and then you can put them back together and you can do it again.
	And so this thing was sweet.
	It had a working vice grip and everything.
	But I hate to admit that I did indeed, I bought that in Black Friday shopping on Thanksgiving night.
	It's degenerate as hell.
	I genuinely would not do that now.
	But you look back and I think back about this in my own life with my own stuff that I've done, stuff that I've experienced, whatever.
	And I'm like, man, we just didn't know.
	It was like, we've had such a national awakening over the past few years.
	Like we really just didn't know how far off the rails things had gone.
	And now we do.
	And the crazy thing is, at that time, I thought that I was like, you know, awake.
	I thought that I was truthed up and that I was this, I was outside of the, you know, consumerist Republican Democrat corporate media duopoly or whatever.
	You know, I read the Drudge Report.
	I wrote on a blog.
	So I was like, oh man, I've got it figured out.
	I'm outside of the regime, baby.
	And there I am, like some kind of degenerate consumer in line on Thanksgiving night, ready to run into Target and hope that I can get some toy before some other guy does or before I get trampled or whatever.
	So it's, it's, I don't, I don't say this to get back to it.
	I don't say this from some position of like, oh yeah, you, you stupid idiots shopping on Thanksgiving for Black Friday.
	Like I was, I was there.
	I was doing that.
	But I find it to be a very interesting phenomenon that I don't see that as much anymore.
	I don't see it because of online shopping.
	And so it's like, are people going back to devoting this whole evening and this whole dinner to their families?
	Or are they just not doing it at all?
	Or are you still like breaking this whole thing up like real early?
	I don't know.
	It's just an interesting phenomenon to me because it had become dominated where people were foregoing entirely having any kind of Thanksgiving dinner and they were just all going out sometimes even as a family.
	It was like this family like exercise of usury for Thanksgiving.
	You would go out and everybody would run up the credit cards doing their Black Friday shopping instead of sitting at home and eating and talking and thinking.
	So now we're not seeing this same mad rush.
	We're not seeing people get trampled to death.
	That's a good thing.
	But I, and I don't know the answer to this.
	You guys will have to leave comments and let me know or tell me down in the chat.
	I don't know answers to the answer to this, but have we seen a resurgence?
	Is there an uptick in the sheer number of people who are back to a traditional style of Thanksgiving?
	Or are we to just everybody is sitting there doing their online shopping?
	Maybe they all like have a turkey sandwich or something.
	And it's just you kind of hang out in your separate ways, your separate corners of the house.
	I know that people still have, you know, big Thanksgiving gatherings, but I'm talking over the scale of millions upon millions upon hundreds of millions of people all across the country.
	You know, what has become the average consumerist type of Thanksgiving, I guess, is what I'm saying.
	Are we seeing a turn back to the table or are we seeing a turn to like just hanging out online shopping type of thing?
	I don't know.
	Let me know.
	But I do find that to be very interesting as far as the rise and fall of this Black Friday shopping.
	And this does, honestly, this does give us a good opportunity, I think, to kind of come charging back into Thanksgiving.
	It's like, look, if you want to shop, if you want to run up the credit card, so you've got to pay some Jewish bank a bunch of interest after the holiday season, then you're going to do that.
	But look, if you're going to do it online, maybe you should take the time to have a nice traditional Thanksgiving dinner.
	And during that time, we can take this look back through the history of Thanksgiving and through the history of this country.
	And we can take some steps to reclaim our national identity, even just within ourselves.
	Even if you're not doing the whole dinner thing, if the only thing that you're doing is you're getting up and you're watching the parade or whatever.
	And I know, like, and the thing is, you know, and this is another important distinction to make here.
	People don't just get Thanksgiving off anymore.
	So you can't even be presumptuous with people of like, oh, what's the matter?
	You're not having some Thanksgiving dinner.
	What's wrong with you and your family?
	People can be working.
	I mean, it's not, as this country has become corporatized and enslaved, people have stopped getting these once sacred days off.
	And as they've become more and more commercialized, there's been more and more excuses for people to have to work.
	And then in a lot of ways, you're bribed in.
	And you know what?
	I've been guilty of this before too.
	Back when I was an HVAC guy.
	And you go in and you work and you get holiday pay.
	It's like, I don't think that we got double time.
	I don't think that I ever got double time for anything, but it was more than time and a half.
	It was like a little more than time and a half.
	And so you were incentivized to come in on these holidays and just like sit there, just sit there and make sure that there were no emergency calls, that nothing came in.
	And now on the other hand, if you were working for like a little small private company, those types of guys, they were usually off on Thanksgiving and were encouraged to be off.
	Maybe you have somebody on call in case somebody in the community is like, oh my gosh, we're having Thanksgiving dinner and the furnace just went down or the heat pump just blew up or the toilet just backed up, you know, whatever.
	It's so, you know, you got somebody on call in case of an emergency and they're getting some kind of standby pay.
	That stuff's going to happen.
	That's, you know, essential.
	That term was like made filthy during the scandemic, calling human beings essential and non-essential.
	But obviously, there's certain sectors of the workforce that are essential to functioning in our society and people being able to do things.
	And so you're always going to have some people in some way, shape or form that are sort of on the clock, so to speak, or on standby or on call.
	But there's definitely been a huge incentivizing through large-scale corporations and through government agencies to say, hey, you know what?
	Come on into work on Thanksgiving.
	Leave your family at home.
	Come on in.
	We know we're taxing the hell out of you.
	We know you've got to pay to park here.
	We know you've got to pay for the privilege of going down that toll road to get to work.
	So you know what?
	Why don't you just come in after you already paid for that toll roads construction with your taxes, by the way?
	So, why don't you just come on in?
	We'll give you your time and a half.
	We'll give you your time and three quarters or whatever, or we'll let you bank the day.
	Just come on in and work Thanksgiving and don't worry about it.
	I mean, that's a big thing.
	And a lot of people can't get around that.
	And a lot of people, it's advantageous to choose to work Thanksgiving.
	I've done it.
	So it's like, I see all of that.
	And it really is a totally different type of landscape that we have now than we've had at any other time.
	But I think that regardless, this whole holiday, if you can, if you're able to, it's important to even take a moment to just pause and think, what is the real meaning of this?
	What is the real origin of this?
	It's not the start of the shopping season.
	It's not Kumbaya Day.
	This is an American day for American people to acknowledge the sacrifices and give thanks to the good fortunes of our forebears and of our country and to pray for guidance going forward so that then we can again give thanks to all of the good things that have happened to us as we've continued to move our people and our civilization forward and as we continue to take our country back.
	This is a, and we're almost out of time here, guys.
	But before we go, I mean, I want to remind everyone because this is a, or not even remind everyone, I want to leave everyone with this.
	It's, we're at one of those stop in the road points in the year.
	There's Thanksgiving and you get to Thanksgiving and you kind of look back and you've got this whole year behind you.
	2025 is all behind us.
	And then we look out and we've got what, a month, a month and a half left to go, less than a month and a half left to go at this point of 2025.
	So we just kind of get through Thanksgiving.
	We go on this cruise control mode.
	We coast to Christmas and then we go into the new year.
	And it's, we'll take a break.
	We'll stop for Thanksgiving.
	We'll pause.
	We'll enjoy time with our families, give thanks to God, think back on America, think back on our forebears.
	But we can't afford to coast into Christmas and coast into the New Year's.
	We've got to take this pause for Thanksgiving, like we're doing here on the Bass Report.
	Take this pause for Thanksgiving if you're able to.
	And then come back refreshed, rejuvenated after spending time with your family, having fun with your family and friends, eating good food, et cetera, et cetera, and just full steam ahead for the rest of the year, right up to the Christmas holiday.
	Just punching the cabal in the face each and every day, just slicing like a sword of truth through these occupiers, through these subverters of our country.
	That's what the Baste Report is all about.
	This is a nationalist show.
	That's what we set out to do each and every day.
	And I hope that everybody out there who tuned in, I hope that you can take something, any facet, because we jumped all over a lot of places with this, but any facet of this Thanksgiving edition of the Baste Report, I hope that you can take and have gotten something out of it.
	I've enjoyed going through it.
	I've enjoyed kind of breaking from normal pace and looking back through history.
	I mean, as I've mentioned, as everybody who watches the show knows, I'm a huge fan of American history.
	Every single day, I try to look back and learn something or read something or refresh myself on something about American history.
	And these moments, these landmark moments in our years, I think it's always a good time to do it because it's not just a landmark moment for us in our current year.
	It's been a landmark moment for the people who came before us in their years.
	We can look back and see the state of affairs in this country on Thanksgiving 2004 or 1986 or 1962 or 1898.
	And we can see where this country's been and where this country's gone and where this country's going and the changes, the redirections that we need to make, where we need to redirect force, where we need to focus our energy and our attention.
	This is an important day for us to be able to regroup, an important week for us to be able to regroup and recover and set our sights going forward.
	So I encourage everybody to do that this Thanksgiving week, this Thanksgiving holiday.
	And as for the show this week, we've got this episode tonight, Monday night, Thursday night, Thanksgiving night.
	Tuesday, we're going to do a rerun of the first episode of the bass report.
	We're going to do a little blast from the past.
	Kind of, I'm actually looking forward to watching that.
	I'm sure I'm going to laugh at how far, you know, the flow of the show and kind of getting into the zone and things like that have come and being able to go through and actually balance out the full time slot of the show.
	I'm sure that I'm going to laugh looking back at that when I watch that on Tuesday night.
	So we'll replay the first episode on Tuesday.
	We'll go with another rerun of another episode yet to be determined, but one that we can all look back on and still hopefully get something out of this week.
	We're going to run that on Wednesday.
	We're going to rerun this episode again on Thursday.
	So if you're watching and it's Thursday right now, happy Thanksgiving.
	Thanks for joining.
	Thanks for watching.
	And then on Friday, we're going to take the day off, take the weekend off as we always do.
	This is a five-night a week show, but we're going to take Friday off, let everybody recover from the holiday, and then we're going to come blitzing back next Monday, 7 p.m. Eastern Time here on the Stew Peters Network with the base report.
	And we'll be followed up, as usual, by the Stew Peters show at 8 p.m. Eastern Time.
	Again, guys, I thank everybody out there from the bottom of my heart this Thanksgiving, this based Thanksgiving.
	I truly am thankful for each and every one of you out there watching the show.
	I'm thankful for Stu.
	I'm thankful for all of the guys on the production crew, everybody at the Stew Peters Network who makes this show a possibility five nights a week.
	Thank you guys.
	Thank all of you so, so very much.
	God bless you.
	God bless your families and happy Thanksgiving.
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	Researchers found was that vaccinated children had 4.29 times the rate of asthma, 3.03 times the rate of atopic disease, 5.96 times the rate of autoimmune disease, and 5.53 times the rate of neurodevelopmental disorders.
	A number of different diagnoses, including diabetes and ADHD, and a number of them in the unvaccinated group, they were zero.
	In other words, all these chronic diseases that we're accepting, the reality is maybe 99% of them don't have to exist.
	And children, that's not the way God made us.
	They looked at over 47,000 Medicaid claims between 1999 and 2011.
	Those who are vaccinated versus unvaccinated, I say an odds rate should be like 2.81.
	2.81 to 1.
	So that would be 181% increase.
	Epilepsy seizures, 252%.
	Learning disorders, 581%.
	If you look at all these different diagnoses, they're all higher.
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	Learning disorders in the full term is 581%.
	In the preterm, the ones who are vaccinated, 884% increase.
	Every single vaccine has an excipient that is a human toxin.

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