Dec. 10, 2016 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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You're listening to the Liberty News Radio Network, and this is the Political Cesspool.
The Political Cesspool, going across the South and worldwide, as the South's foremost populist conservative radio program.
And here to guide you through the murky waters of the Political Cesspool is your host, James Edwards.
Talking about live radio, ladies and gentlemen, this is real life.
So, and of course, we're real people and we have real issues in families and we do the work that most Americans refuse to do, which is tell the truth on controversial taboo topics while raising children.
And so, during that last hour with Brad, we had a little injury.
My kids got into a, well, not even a fight.
Apparently, Henry was getting his diaper serviced, and Isabel reached over to give him a hug, and he swatted at her and scratched her eye.
And so I've been scrambling to coordinate things here from the studio with home with regard to that.
And anyway, probably nothing.
Joys of parenthood.
But when it happens, you got to deal with it.
When it's your kids, obviously, it's always much more serious than it is on the outside looking in.
So, Keith, I'm going to rely heavy on Keith this hour while I attend to pressing affairs of state on the home front.
And we were talking with Brad that last hour about some of these very underwhelming, if not highly concerning, picks that Trump has made other than Jeff Sessions.
It's just not good at all.
But Pat Buchanan remains optimistic.
Pat Buchanan wrote an article, which we will actually feature on our website on Monday at thepolitical cesspool.org.
Give us the title of it, Keith.
I've read through it, make some good points.
Pat's still highly, I guess you could say, enthused about the potential.
Well, the name of this article is Has the Trumpian Revolution Begun?
And let me read a little bit of it.
He still is looking for the silver lining in the cloud, much more so than Ann Coulter, for example, or Brad.
That's a half empty, half full type of scenario.
For example, Betsy DeVos is against Common Core.
Well, you know, that's good.
Common Core is not that good.
But on the other hand, on a much more important topic, affirmative action, she's with the enemy.
And that's the way it is.
Here's what Pat Buchanan said.
The wailing and keening over the choice of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to head the EPA appears to be a lead indicator of a coming revolution far beyond Reagan's.
Trump taps climate skeptic for top environmental post.
And I think it's legitimate to say that Scott Pruitt, the Oklahoma Attorney General, being from an oil-producing state, is a skeptic of climate change or global warming or however you want to say it, which is almost like a matter of religious faith with the left nowadays.
The Wall Street Journal said climate change denial balled a disbelieving New York Times, which urged the Senate to put Pruitt in a dustbin.
Clearly, though, his victory was narrow.
Donald Trump remains contemptuous of political correctness and defiant of liberal ideology, but crypto-liberals are sneaking into his cabinet when you have Jeb Bush applauding his announced appointments or nominations.
You know, there's real cause for concern, in my opinion.
For environmentalism, back to Pat Buchanan's article, for environmentalism, as conservative scholar Robert Nisbet wrote in 1982, is more than the most important social movement of the 20th century.
It is a militant and dogmatic faith that burns heretics.
Environmentalism is well on its way to becoming the third great wave of redemptive struggle in Western history, wrote Nisbet in 1982.
The first being Christianity, the second, modern socialism.
In picking a climate denier to head the EPA, Trump is rejecting the revealed truth.
Well, that is a good sign.
We do need somebody in charge of EPA primarily to sweep out the regulations that have prevented the United States from building a new oil refinery since the 1970s.
They've made it so onerous that no one undertakes it.
And it doesn't matter how much petroleum we pump out of the ground.
We're very limited in the amount that we can turn into gasoline, for example, because of the lack of refining capacity.
We are lucky enough here in Memphis, Tennessee, to have a refinery, and that thing is going full bore 24-7, keeping up with the demand.
So practically speaking, we need somebody in there.
We certainly don't need an Al Gore type.
But then, as Brad pointed out in the last hour, why in the world is Trump meeting with Al Gore?
Do you think that if Hillary won, she would be having scheduling meetings with Brad Griffin or James Edwards or members of the alt-right?
I don't think so.
Well, that's a good point, Keith.
I don't think that that would happen either.
And this is what we talked about.
Trump needs to be equally ruthless in the best sense of the word.
In fact, I made many comments about this very issue immediately after his win.
Now is not the time for reconciliation.
It's the time for, the lack of a better word, retribution in terms of no quarter to the enemies of our homes and firesides.
He's going to put his boot on their neck and keep it there.
He needs to let them know that he won, they didn't.
And he's got to stop this.
You know, I think the basic problem comes down to this, James.
I've been trying to figure out why he is being so touchy-feely with these establishment types when he promised to drain the swamp.
He's from New York.
New York, you know, despite the fact that he was wildly popular throughout the interior of the United States, so-called flyover country, he only got 18% of the vote in New York City.
He lives in enemy territory, but he loves enemy territory.
And he's basically going to do most of his hanging out at Trump Tower on Manhattan, one of the five boroughs, the belly of the beast, basically.
And I have the feeling that for some reason, he wants to get along with these people, but he is going to have a very, very difficult time staying true to the principles that got him elected if he puts too high a value on staying friends or being friends with the enemy.
And look, don't beat yourself up, folks.
We did the right thing.
We did the right thing in going all in for Trump versus Hillary.
Now, the only way that you could argue that it wasn't the right thing is if we could have had the foresight to know that if Hillary had won, it would have gotten so bad that there would have been a secession movement in Texas, that maybe we could have had a new Southern independence that maybe, but you know what?
What was much worse?
Or if Pat Buchanan had been the vice presidential candidate.
Well, that's right.
Yeah, something like that.
But what I'm saying is, other than that very long shot, obviously what was almost certain to happen is if Hillary had won, it would have been much, much worse than anything Trump could possibly do.
It would have been much, much worse, and there wouldn't be any tangible silver lining for our people.
Now, again, if she had won and in some miraculous alternate universe, there would have been a secession movement and we would have had our own little piece of it.
That would have been one thing.
But that's obviously probably not what would have happened.
So we did the right thing in going all in for Trump versus Hillary.
We always said that there was the risk that he would get in and not be who we thought that he was, but what was the alternative?
To let the media gloat?
To let Hillary win?
There's nothing in that for us either.
So we did the right thing with Trump.
What he did with the opportunity that our people and people like us around this country gave him, the populace, the nationalists, the working class, the middle class, what he does with that opportunity that we gifted him remains to be seen.
So far, it's a mixed bag at best, and we'll continue our discussion about this going to be a good idea.
We need to ring the alarm bell.
But I absolutely do not regret anything or take back or wish we'd have done differently anything that we did in the previous year with regard to our support of his candidacy.
On the issues, we'll be back.
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James Edwards, Keith Alexander.
Talked to a couple of great guests tonight.
I think we've spent probably enough time talking about Trump's shortcomings.
But as far as balance, it was good to work in this piece by Buchanan, who is still quite favorable.
Well, there are several good things.
I can say this.
The New York Times has something negative to say about virtually every one of them.
So they're not entirely bad.
It's not like we're getting Hillary's cabinet by having these people in.
But there are a lot of very, very important issues.
You know, for example, what is the signature issue of the Trump campaign?
It was immigration, third world immigration, build the wall.
People weren't chanting end Obamacare.
They weren't channing, you know, lower the marginal rates on the income tax.
They were chanting build the wall.
And if he doesn't come through with that, that's why this Kelly appointment to Homeland Security is so alarming.
This is the one thing he can do and he can do easily.
It's just a matter of appointing the right person with the right will to do what Trump has promised to his followers.
He said he was going to build the wall.
We don't need to go to Congress and ask Mother May I and get all sorts of new laws passed.
The laws are on the books.
They've just gone unenforced for decades now.
We just need to get somebody that knows how to read the law, says this is what the law says, and this is what we're going to start doing.
And if we did that, we could drain that particular swamp right away from day one, as soon as he gets in.
And if he's not going to appoint somebody that will do that, but somebody that will hem and haul and try to, you know, when all the more things change, the more they stay the same when it comes to the border, then people will justifiably say they've been snookered, the people that support him.
The people of America have spoken loud and clear.
The citizens of the United States today are his primary client class.
Those people have said they want the border controlled.
They do not want new immigration.
Nobody's voted to have the majority white nation that we all grew up in transformed into a minority nation or into another third world nation.
As we always say on this show, you can't have a first world nation with a third world population.
We're getting our third worlders primarily from the South, Hispanics, because they're the easiest for the left to pump in here.
We're also getting them from the Middle East.
We're getting these Muslims.
And they're basically, they're like fire ants.
It's one thing to be infested with ants.
It's another thing to be infested with fire ants.
These are dangerous people.
One, they're polygamous.
They can have more than one wife, which means they can have absolutely enormous families.
And two, these people are violent and militant.
They don't like one Christianity and they do not like our Western culture and they do not like our society.
And when their ways don't jive with our ways, their reaction is to behead people, to kill people, to cause violence.
So that we've got the fire ants coming in from the Muslim nations and we've got the others coming in from, you know, we're just being swamped with people from the third world.
And, you know, the third world people from the Hispanic regions, you know, South America, Mexico, Central America, those people, many of them come here wanting to work.
They want a better deal for themselves.
They're not really refugees from political oppression.
They're just basically economic refugees, as they say.
But as soon as they get here, the leftist establishment gets a hold of them primarily through organizations like Catholic charities that basically give them tutorials on how to scam the American public and the welfare system and get all their kids on welfare and on disability and get them crazy checks and this, that, and the other, so that they can basically become a tremendous burden on the taxpayers.
And we've already run out of taxpayers.
So what we're doing now is we've got a government that's just printing money.
And of course, we know what will happen with that type of bubble.
And, you know, Trump has said we're going to have good jobs.
We're going to turn our back on free trade.
As we've said before, being the only nation in the world that believes in free trade is like being the only woman in town that believes in free love.
Well, we know what happened to her.
Well, that's exactly what's happening to us as the citizens of the United States when it comes to these free trade deals.
We're getting the daylight screwed out of us in all of these free trade deals, and it's hurting our middle class, our blue-collar middle class, most of all.
Those are the people, those were the ancestors of, or I mean the successors of the Reagan Democrats that Ronald Reagan depended on to get elected.
Donald Trump depended on the same class of people to get elected.
Is he going to deliver real, good-paying, middle-class, sustaining jobs to replace the slob jobs that these people have now, these jobs that pay no more than $10 an hour with no benefits?
You can't raise a family on that type of income.
So this is what the expectation is, but you can't get change if you bring the same people in.
You know, what do they say?
Insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results.
You get the same old Washington insiders staffing the Trump administration, and then you're shocked and surprised that nothing really changes.
That's what we're all fearful of, and that's why we think it's time to sound an alarm.
All right.
So again, I thought it was necessary that we bring this up, that we'd be brutally honest with you about the way we see things as we are every week and as we have been every week for 12 years.
And so this is where it stands right now.
Keith, your guess is as good as mine or anyone listening to us tonight, but do you think that in four years' time there will be a wall of any significance on our border?
I will say this.
There will either be a wall of significance on the border or else Trump will not be reelected for a second term.
That's interesting.
Do you think he'll be able to combat these trade deals that Pat Buchanan was warning us about 20 years ago?
Do you think he'll be able to implement trade policies that will bring back manufacturing and industrial jobs?
Well, he's going to have to provide the good jobs, the good paying jobs, or else he won't get that northern firewall of states again that took him over the top.
He had to have him.
He had to have them or he would have lost.
Yeah, and if he doesn't bring in good jobs that pay like $40, $50 an hour plus benefits to those people, they won't vote for him again.
And if they don't vote for him again, he's lost the election in four years.
That's right.
Now, if he is going to do those two things that I just asked you with regards to trade and immigration especially, it looks as though he will have to do it in spite of his own cabinet.
Well, see, that's why he apparently is not getting the right advice, or if he's getting the right advice, he's not taking it.
He's forgetting all of the loyalists.
It basically reminds me of Hitler with the brown shirts.
You know, the brown shirts brought him to power, and then he had the knight of the long knives and killed them all off.
Well, we're not having that, but we're having that symbolically.
What we're having is Donald Trump.
That's actually a pretty good analogy.
Donald Trump has all of these people, loyalists like Rudy Giuliani, Chris Christie, people that really had a revolutionary fur to their outlook that wanted to change the federal government.
Well, they're sitting around twiddling their thumbs.
Jeff Sessions is getting in.
I'm glad you brought up Giuliani.
Sessions, of course, deserved a spot, and I'm glad he got put in.
But Giuliani, now, this is a guy that is an establishment Republican, to be sure, but during the campaign, he redeemed himself, in my eyes, to some extent with his support for Trump.
Very well forgotten man.
I want to talk about that a little bit more.
That's interesting.
I'm glad you brought that up.
We'll talk about that a little bit more when we come back.
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So you know what we're talking about on the show tonight.
Sam Bushman has been talking about it on his program, The Liberty Roundtable, airs Monday through Friday mornings here on the Liberty News Radio Network, LibertyRoundtable.com.
And Sam's been talking about a lot of these picks as well.
And what Sam says is also spot on.
Sam's argument is that, hey, there's going to be a lot of time to criticize Trump if he fails.
He's not even elected yet.
Let's wait and give him a few months after the inauguration to see if he can carry out that 100-day plan.
Now, you remember we were talking about that 100-day plan immediately after he won on November the 8th.
Let's give him the first 100 days to see how serious he is about carrying out his policies.
Also, as we've always said, that once ideas become powerful, like Trump's ideas have, he's a civic nationalist.
He galvanized the populace of this country.
Of course, his signature issues were immigration and trade, among other things.
But once a guy assumes power, everyone else will fall in line.
So maybe these people, and we're justified in our concerns of these people, but maybe now a lot of people are opportunistic.
A lot of people will just go along with whatever the trend is.
If Trump can set the trend, maybe these people, who are certainly not our picks, would fall into line and carry out the plan.
All of that remains to be seen, but it is fair to say let's give Trump the opportunity to at least get into the White House first, give him those first 100 days, and then revisit that.
Until then, yes, it's still fair game to point this out, but that is a nuanced approach to it and something that should be interjected into the discussion tonight, Keith.
Okay, well, let me give the other side of that, okay?
The other side is this.
Nothing is set in stone yet.
Until he takes the oath of office, no one has been appointed.
Nobody's doing anything.
This is a time like the wedding ceremony where they say, speak now or forever hold your peace.
If he appoints the wrong people, he's no longer on the celebrity apprentice.
He can't just jump up and say, you're fired and get rid of all these people.
It's going to be a time-consuming process.
And he needs to hear from his supporters what they're expecting and the ways in which they find some of his appointees falling short of the mark, in their opinion, before he makes a mistake that's likely to take most of his first term in office to undo if he makes it.
This is the time to speak up.
Speak now or forever hold your peace, in my opinion.
So we've got to look at everything closely.
Nothing is really done until he becomes president.
Right now, all of this is just speculation and projection, and he may be doing this to throw his enemies off balance, just like Sam was saying.
And to be clear, I'll say it again.
I'll repeat it for the point of emphasis.
I take back nothing.
I am proud of everything we did to help Trump over the course of the campaign.
Everything we did was the right decision at the time, and I hope that he'll prove us right going forward.
But we were talking before the last break, Keith, about Rudy Giuliani, and that's what I wanted to get back to.
Rudy Giuliani was a very loyal soldier, and he's also the kind of guy who was liberal enough on the issues to be a very establishment, acceptable Republican.
But he really absorbed a lot of that with me with his fierce support of Trump, come what may, during the campaign.
He was Sean Hannity.
And he was, yeah, even Hannity.
Hannity's awful on most things, but I liked Hannity during the campaign.
But, okay, but Giuliani, this was a guy that should be rewarded.
This was a guy that was actively after Trump's election, pretty much publicly angling for the Secretary of State or some other position.
Now, he may very well still get a high position in the cabinet or in the administration, but so far, his name has been conspicuously overlooked.
Well, he's also a New Yorker like Hannity is.
And these are the people that when you get to the end of the day, these are the people that Trump feels most comfortable with.
Now, what I don't understand is why he is allowing himself to dip into this stable of talent that had been assembled by the Cruz campaign, for example.
Cruz had, you know, very little good to say about Trump and has had very little good to say about him to this day.
Now, I think it's smart for him to keep his enemies off balance and interview people like Mitt Romney and Ted Cruz and people like this for positions, just so long as they don't get selected for those positions.
We've got to get people that have a different outlook.
And quite frankly, you're not going to find government insiders that have a different outlook.
They have been promoted through the ranks specifically because they think the way that they're supposed to think.
For example, free trade is supposedly this great conservative principle.
Everybody believes in it.
Global warming is this established science.
Only knuckleheads would disbelieve it.
We can't have people like that in the positions of by the levers of power in government because if we do, it's going to be what Republicans have been basically since Reagan, which is liberalism light.
George H.W. Bush, remember, said, read my lips, no new taxes.
He predicted that the left would be after him, after him, after him relentlessly to raise taxes, and he pledged during his campaign that he wouldn't do it.
Then he got in.
What did he do?
His old skull and bones buddies got on him.
All the insiders that he knew, all the people down at the country club called Washington, D.C. got after him, and then he raises taxes.
And basically, after that, his presidency was a downhill slide.
I don't want to see that happen to Donald Trump.
We can't afford as a nation to have that happen to the Trumpian revolution that's happened, James.
And why is this happening?
Who is the source of all this, you know, embracing ideas that are not either truly conservative, nationalist, or populist?
I have an idea myself.
We've talked about this.
I think it may well be Jared Kirshner, his son-in-law, Ivanka's husband, who supposedly is one of his most trusted insiders and allies.
I don't know how much influence he's having on Trump, why this is happening or if it's happening, but something is happening.
He's not listening.
He's not going out on this celebration tour or this victory tour asking the people what they think.
And, you know, I don't see a lot of people being consulted for input from flyover country.
And flyover country elected Donald Trump, and he needs to realize that.
And he needs to realize those are his people.
The Democrats, you can always depend on them rewarding their supporters.
The Republicans, you can always depend on them for ignoring or giving a wet mitten across the chops to their supporters.
Let's hope that Donald Trump doesn't prove to be the typical Republican in that regard.
It definitely would appear as though he may be morphing in that direction.
But we'll give him the first 100 days.
I think that's only fair.
We'll give him the first 100 days to see how serious he is about implementing the plan that he said he would do in the first 100 days, which was incredible.
I think we covered that extensively last month.
Well, I know we did.
And I can't think of anything in that contained therein that we disagreed with.
Well, you know, you have a fourth branch of government now, the bureaucracy.
He's going to have to basically replace all of these bureaucrats or else they'll slow motion every change he intends to make and nothing will ever wind up getting done.
And we'll be at the end of his first term and people will say, well, let's take stock what changes have been made and we'll find that the more things change, the more they've stayed the same.
We've got to get his term drain the swamp is perfect.
You've got to, and the swamp is largely the bureaucracy in D.C. If you go to D.C. and its suburbs, you would think that America is the most prosperous place ever in the history of mankind.
You get outside of that beltway, out of the Acela corridor, as they call it, and America is suffering.
The people in that government are leftists.
The people that are staffing the EPA, the EEOC, all these other government, federal governmental agencies are leftists, and they need to be replaced with anti-leftists, nationalists, populists, conservatives.
All right.
So if Trump gets in there and he implements the 100-day plan or even half of it, honestly, that the last hour and a half of this particular program will be an outlier and we'll just say, hey.
But considering the people that he has said he is going to appoint, I don't see, you know, I don't think those people are on board with that 100-day plan.
Well, this is the rub.
Will they be on board with it now that it's proven to be a winning position on the issues?
That's the thing because most of these people don't really have any core beliefs at all, one way or the other.
They do whatever's politically expedient.
Now that it may be politically expedient to be a nationalist, to be a populist, to have these America-first viewpoints on the big issues, maybe they'll morph because let's face it, real men are few and far between.
Most people are just going to go with the tide.
In this case, let's hope that that weakness can be our strength and that these people will go along with Trump tide.
And let's hope that Trump will go along with the Trump tide.
We can only hope and pray.
But it would be a lot easier to assume that he would had he appointed the kind of people that we hope that he would.
But maybe he'll whip these into shape.
We'll find out along with everyone else, I guess.
But we'll be covering it here on the radio.
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All right, we had a very interesting conversation during the commercial break with Sam Bushman, and he brought forth really probably the best question of the night, and really one that brings everything into summation into focus.
Into focus.
So the question was basically, what is the bar for Trump being a success in the eyes of us and people like us.
In other words, if Trump secured the border but did nothing else, if he built the wall and did nothing else that he campaigned on, would that have been worth it?
Would that have been a success?
If Donald Trump got rid of the IRS, I don't even think that's really been one of his issues.
But I mean, what could we say if he just did this and this and nothing else?
Because obviously, realistically, for him to do everything he laid out in the 100-day plan, if he did that in 100 years, it'd be incredible.
But 100-day.
So we got to be realistic.
You can further elaborate on that, but I thought that really was a pitch-perfect way to end this show.
Okay.
The question, as I understand it, is he's got a 100-days program that he says he wants to accomplish a whole panoply of things within the first 100 days.
Most realistic people would concede that it's unrealistic to expect him to succeed on all that.
On the other hand, what essential achievements does he have to show in order to deserve a second term, in order to be able to say that his presidency was a success and not a failure?
Well, that's easy for me.
What was his signature issue in this campaign?
Immigration.
He's got to build the wall.
He's got to start deporting illegal aliens.
And he needs to stop birthright citizenship.
If he does those three things, basically he's going to preserve America's demographic of heritage.
We're not going to be transformed into a third world nation, and then better changes are possible.
It doesn't matter if he succeeds in everything else that he proposes.
If the flood of third worlders into America remains unabated, it's just a matter of a short period of time.
You know, the UN has projected the year 2041 as being the year when whites become a minority in the United States of America.
And if a Hillary gets in, that will be accelerated.
Once that change happens, once we've reached the tipping point, it doesn't matter what laws we've had got in place.
They'll all be changed.
We'll be in a third world welfare state, and white people will be a hated and despised minority.
So the first and foremost issue is immigration.
The second issue that basically won the election for him by getting the four firewall states on the northern perimeter of the United States, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, is jobs, not just any jobs, not slob jobs, not jobs in fast food restaurants, but jobs that pay a good middle-class sustaining wage that have employee benefits like health insurance.
There are basically two sources traditionally for those types of jobs in America.
A government job, that's what black people like, that's why they flock to government employment.
And the other Type of job are manufacturing sector jobs.
We've been promised by Obama, we've been promised by Bill Clinton, we've been promised even by George W. Bush and his father, George H.W. Bush, that there would be technological jobs coming to America that would replace the manufacturing sector jobs.
Well, as George Gershwin wrote in the musical Porgy and Bess, it ain't necessarily so.
None of these jobs have materialized, and where they have materialized, foreigners are getting them.
We've got American techno geeks like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs when he was alive importing people from India on H2B visas to do this new technical work.
They're not getting these jobs to Americans.
So basically, the American worker has every right to be skeptical.
We've got to get those manufacturing jobs back in here.
That's going to involve passing a tariff.
And it's also going to involve a lot of hands-on, in-your-face negotiations to prevent jobs from going overseas.
And furthermore, if people want to sell manufactured goods in the United States, they need to manufacture them here.
We have the largest consumer market in the world.
Manufacturers are not going to want to be shut out of that market.
They will grumble and complain, but they'll come to heel.
And if you get the tax, the corporate income tax in America now is the highest in the world.
If we reduce it to the lowest in the world, that will facilitate the importation of manufacturing jobs greatly into this country.
Those are the two signature issues, immigration and jobs.
And jobs, of course, is related to trade policy.
We don't need NAFTA and GATT.
We don't need the Trans-Pacific Partnership TPP.
What we need are bilateral trade agreements with specific nations that can be tailored to the interests of the United States citizenry.
And that's, if he does that, he will have succeeded based on the promises, the primary promises he made in his campaign.
If he doesn't, he has fallen short.
All right, there you have it.
Now, that being said, I want to come back full circle now and remind you, leave you with something that we mentioned at the very top of the show, that we are indeed in the midst of our fourth quarter Christmas fundraising drive, and we need your help.
So, folks, we need your help.
It's just that.
Santa, please come to the ghetto, as James Brown said.
Look, you donate $100 or more.
You're going to get the great book, Downtown White Police, which was written by our good friend and political accessible correspondent, Jim Lancia.
And so you helped Jim, you helped the show.
You helped the network.
You're helping three entities in one.
You're helping, obviously, keep us on the air, which is needed, which is essential.
You're going to help Jim Lancia, who wrote the book.
And of course, we always offer a tithe of our quarterly returns to the network without which we wouldn't be here either.
So it's all for one one for all.
But do give what you can.
It all adds up, folks.
Listen, $5, $20, $25, it all adds up.
It's all kept us on the air for more than a decade.
12 years, in fact, a little more than that now, Ethan.
But $100 or more entitles you to the special incentives.
And if you're just looking for a Christmas stocking stuffer, I've got the perfect idea.
How about racism-schmacism?
Fits inside of stocking pretty good.
It's a small book that'll fit in your standard sized stocking, a great gift for your friend or family member.
And an icebreaker, the type of thing that is liable to set them on the path of becoming like James Edwards.
One could hope.
You know, Richard Spencer's been in the news a lot.
Richard Spencer was actually one of the ones that I asked to write an endorsement, which is included in the book.
He, Virginia Abernathy, and Paul Godfrey.
It was well reviewed by Jared Taylor, Kevin McDonald, Steve Saylor, and so many others.
But the three reviews that I actually included in the book was Paul Gottfried, Virginia Abernathy, and Richard Spencer.
Here's what Richard wrote about the book when it was released.
Richard writes, Peter Brimelow once observed that the modern definition of a racist is someone who's winning an argument with a liberal.
As James Edwards demonstrates in his enjoyable book, this definition has recently been expanded to cover conservative white people and even white person who meets with other white people in groups.
Linguistically speaking, the word racist is borderline babble.
Politically speaking, it's a powerful weapon used to squash dissent and humiliate traditional Americans.
Luckily, Richard writes, James is here to show us how to fight back.
European Americans, the majority that dare not speak its name, should be proud of their identity and cultural heritage.
Being racist means holding views that were once characterized as being American.
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And by the way, I just got an email, even as we were broadcasting, tomorrow morning, the Sunday edition of the New York Times, that interview I did with Serge Kovaleski will be published.
So they were holding out for a Sunday edition of the New York Times, Keith.
That's a high-priced real estate Sunday edition of the New York Times.
It doesn't get any bigger than that.
And we'll be there thanks to the support of our audience.
We'll continue to be there.
Yes.
There's no apology, no retreat, no surrender here at the political cesspool.
We will give the ideas a voice that everybody thinks but is afraid to say.
Remember what you said.
You said something the other day that was really good.
It said, I don't know who you were quoting, but you said, my grandfather didn't fight the Nazis and risk his life so that I would be called a Nazi for thinking thoughts like my grandfather held.
Yeah, that's basically what the, that was actually a meme on Twitter, but it's, it's right.
So all of these people went to war against the Nazis, and that's a whole nother conversation.
Just so you would be called a Nazi for holding the basic fundamental ideas about your grandfather that those people had.
That's right.
Well, this reporter emailed me back just tonight asking, is it fair for me to be called a white nationalist in the peace tomorrow?
I said, no, it's not fair.
I don't identify as that.
It's used interchangeably with white supremacists.
So you're a populist conservative.
You're a populist conservative.
I said I'm a paleoconservative and a European American advocate.
That's exactly what I said.
So we'll see what comes out in the paper tomorrow.
At least he asked, if he still writes I'm a white nationalist after whatever, then it would just be par for the course.
But we'll see in the Sunday edition of the New York Times, ladies and gentlemen.
And the New York Times has read in every major city.
That is such a crazy moniker, by the way.
White nationalists, where is this white nation going to be?
Wherever you have a nation that is almost all white, it's almost all liberal and it's almost all crazy.
That's really not what we want.
You need to have a leavening of minorities so that you can have common sense prevail.
Donate to the show tonight.
Read the New York Times tomorrow.
We'll see how bad it is together.
But no matter what, we'll be with you next Saturday.
We hope to be with you in January, but we need your support.
We love you, everybody.
God bless you.
We'll talk to you next week.
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