April 28, 2018 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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how we always do Christmas and New Year's.
In between Christmas Day and New Year's Eve, we always post the top 10 moments of TPC's year that was.
And I don't know what's going to be coming for us and what's waiting for us over the course of the next few months, but I'll tell you right now, if the year ended today, tonight's show would be on that top 10 list.
What a wonderful night we've had on the radio, broadcasting live from the American Renaissance Conference for the first two hours.
And then now wrapping up Confederate History Month 2018.
And it has been a wonderful month of Confederate history here on TPC.
It all started on April the 7th with Kirk Lyons.
He kicked it all off.
And then Gene Andrews with the first of his two-part series on the life of Nathan Bedford Forest.
Then the following week, we had Dr. Michael Hill on.
Last week, Michael Gaddy, a well-known columnist and writer, was on to celebrate Confederate History Month.
Jason Kessler was on.
And I guess I should say it really started even the week before that on Easter weekend, Easter weekend, March 31st.
We had Pastor John Weaver on, a native of Georgia, who was on to talk about the Easter message, but he also gave us a soft launch to Confederate History Month.
Well, it all ends tonight.
Now, we do celebrate Confederate history year-round here on TPC, as you well know.
But as far as the formal Confederate History Month series that we host each April, that ends tonight with Brad Griffin, our good friend.
A lot of good friends on the show tonight.
Brad Griffin, OccidentalDescent.com.
He's the founding editor there.
Brad, thanks for coming on with us and helping us celebrate the men who sacrificed far more than we ever have and men who, as good as we are compared to men of the current year, they were far better than us.
Brad, thank you.
Thanks for having me, James.
No problem.
Well, listen, we're wrapping up Confederate History Month this hour with you, my friend.
Tell us what being a Southerner means to you.
This is the question I've asked, I think, of each of our guests that we've had on this month, and each have had a unique and somewhat different response.
What does being a Southerner, being born to a Southern family, descending from this line of fighting men, what does it mean to you?
Well, it means a great deal.
It's foundation, one of the foundations of my identity.
You know, Our ancestors are stretched out from Virginia to Texas.
Most of had an ancestry DNA test.
The people I'm most closely related to in the world are in southern Georgia and North Florida, it turns out.
So pretty much all my people live here.
And as for being a Southerner, you know, I don't think that's the same thing as being an American.
I think Southerners are much more rooted in certain places than other Americans are.
The typical American moves around quite frequently.
And, you know, I think it just gives a greater connection to the past and to specific places to being a southerner.
Well, I think you hit on something right there, Brad, that I'd like to add on to.
We have listeners all over the world tonight.
We have listeners in the North.
We have listeners in the South, the East, the West, out of the country, all over the world, Australia, Europe, Canada, you name it.
But I would tell all of them, and I don't mean this as an insult or a dig or anything like that, but I don't consider myself to be an American.
I'm a Southerner.
I am a Southerner.
That's what I identify as.
I don't consider myself an American.
I know this even is somewhat controversial even for this audience, but I don't consider the American flag to be my flag.
I don't have any goodwill towards the American flag.
I see it as a flag of occupation, a flag that has sanctioned the murder of tens of millions of babies in the wombs of their mother, a flag that has sanctioned homosexuality and any degeneracy you could imagine, a flag of tyranny.
That's not my flag.
I'm a southerner, first, second, and third.
Am I off the rocker there, or is that something you agree with?
Yeah, definitely.
Same is true of me.
I agree with it.
And of course, the American flag was different.
I still, maybe I shouldn't, but I still feel somewhat of a chill when I hear the Star-Spangled Banner.
But the Star-Spangled Banner, the flag that flew at Fort Ticonderoga and the flag that flew over the United States of America up until Lincoln's savage war against the South, that was the flag of our forefathers and the founding fathers, which I have a great deal of respect for.
But that's not the same flag now.
No, no.
It's completely, I mean, even back in those days, I mean, it's completely changed from what it even was then.
I mean, the system we live under now is so much worse than even our Confederate ancestors had to live under.
Well, that's right.
Well, it's certainly worse than our founding fathers.
You know, George Washington and all of those great pits.
You know, they locked and loaded over some unfair taxes.
Yeah.
You know, it was more than what we face now and what we endure now is far worse than they endured.
And they had a revolution over it.
And of course, our southern forebears were the descendants of those people by and large.
And certainly what we suffer now is even worse than what they suffered.
And now our people are just complacent and they take it.
Yeah, that's very true.
They're kind of corrupt.
I think, you know, corrupted by luxury, is how I would put it.
That's right.
You know, it has that, you know, luxury has been known to have that effect on people to make them lose their morality, their identity.
And that's just how things have gone over there.
That is, of course, the cycle of civilizations.
I don't have it in front of me.
It was put far better than I can recite it now, but the cycle of civilization is basically threefold.
First, you're a barbarian, you're lean and you're hungry, and then you move into the stage where you're dominant, and then you move into the stage of just degeneracy and lavish wealth and success, and you become fat and indecent, and you give it all away, and then the cycle begins all over again, and somebody else takes it.
And it's a shame that it's come that far here in America.
And part of it was because of the defeat of the true descendants of the American experiment, the Confederates.
Well, we got to take a break.
We've got Brad Griffin for the entire hour, so we're just getting started with Brad.
And when we come back, we're going to talk about Southern heroes.
We're going to ask Brad his favorite Southern hero.
We're going to ask to tell us about his Confederate ancestors.
And Brad is a historian in his own right.
So we're going to get into matters of southern history.
It is Confederate History Month, after all.
Stay tuned.
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Ladies and gentlemen, I have that is my national anthem.
I stand and salute and put a hand over the heart.
I still get chills and sometimes tear in the eyes when I hear Dixie being played because I know that was the song of my great, great, great grandfather at Shiloh.
That was the song of so many of my, I had two great-great-great-grandfathers that fought.
One lived, one didn't.
I had many other relatives that fought, and that was their anthem.
That was their song.
And we honor them this month on the political cesspool.
Brad, tell us about your own southern ancestors, if you don't mind.
Well, it's an interesting story.
I've, you know, recently gotten into genealogy and had some investigation of that.
And I found that my ancestor, Thomas Griffin, immigrated from Wilmington, North Carolina to Alabama in 1840.
And he had six kids at the time.
And when he got to Alabama, it's a southeast Alabama, so Henry County at the time, near Abbeyville.
He had seven more kids.
So he had 13 kids.
It's an incredible number.
And he had eight sons.
And I've learned that all eight of them fought for the Confederacy.
Two died.
Wow.
During the war, my direct ancestor, John Griffin, was one of the brothers, but two died in the war.
And that's on my paternal line.
And also on my paternal line through my, I was through my grandfather's line, but through my grandmother's line, I have another Confederate ancestor.
I know his name was Sean O'Neill, and he was from around Dublin, Georgia.
He was one of the Irish, Georgia Irish.
And he died in Camp Douglas in Chicago in a Confederate POW camp, I found out.
So it's a wonderful thing.
Go ahead.
I enjoy sharing my own personal lineage.
And that's another thing that I've asked of some of our guests this month in our Confederate History Month series, because I know it's personal.
And it's personal.
And because it's personal, that is why, as I've written before, that the enemies, the enemies of our people, the ones that would want to stamp out our own flesh and blood, the ones that are currently trying to destroy our fiber, our flags, our stone, our monuments.
You know, they destroy your fiber.
They destroy your monuments.
The next they come for your flesh and blood.
It's why they can't understand why we're so unwilling to just let them do it.
It's because it's personal.
These were our families.
And a man who won't stand up for his family, who won't stand up for his ancestors, who won't stand up for his father, is no man at all.
And for us real men, we have nothing but the duty to defend their honor.
And boy, were they not honorable people.
And that gets us to our heroes, Brad.
This is another question I've asked.
Other than your relatives and other than the easy selections, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Nathan Bedford Forrest.
Tell us about a Confederate hero that our audience might want to know about this evening that is a hero of yours above and beyond the usual suspects and personal family members.
Who would you pick?
I would pick the Virginian writer George Fitzu.
And the reason I would pick George Fitzu of all people is because I don't think anyone, to my knowledge, articulated better the reason why the South had to secede from the Union and why it was justified in doing so.
And in his books and his essays in the Southern Literary Messenger and DuDowell's Review and, like I said, his many books, he, I think, nailed exactly where this country was going, unlike anyone I've come across in all my years of research.
He articulated exactly like how liberty and equality could be taken to, and democracy could be taken to extremes to the point where it would become a dystopia.
And that's where we're at.
He predicted all kinds of things that later came true in the United States.
And he is definitely someone I think your audience should look up.
You could, Lorna definitely has learned a lot from him.
He's kind of overshadowed by all the famous generals and the members of the government.
But fantastic answer.
No, fantastic answer.
That's exactly the kind of answer I was hoping for.
And we've dropped this name a couple of times, but I'd like to read this if I could.
We are getting close on a break.
Maybe I'll save it.
Maybe I'll maybe I'll start.
And then if I don't get to the end of it, we'll get to it after the break.
But this celebration of Confederate History Month, we're talking about the legends of the Confederacy.
Yes, I mean, the people we mentioned, Jefferson Davis, Patrick Clayburn, yes, our own family members, yes, but of equal importance, the individual that Brad just mentioned, the man that Brad just entered.
The stories of heroism that perhaps you've never heard of before.
I know Kirk Lyons brought up the sacrifice of the crew of the Hundley.
That's the story that we've covered before.
We've also mentioned in the past that Tennessee governor Isham Harris, who while still governor, fought in the trenches at Shiloh.
Can you imagine a sitting governor today going to war?
I mean, it just wouldn't happen because these aren't men that we have in office today, but they were men that we had in office in that day.
And the Confederate governors, they may have given Davis hell on some accounts, but I love the wartime governors of the South.
And if you've never heard of these incredible true stories before, I encourage you to research and learn more.
Confederate history is something that should be honored and celebrated year-round, not just in April.
We're going to tell you when we come back from the break the story of DeWitt Smith Job.
Now, we've dropped his name before.
He was a Confederate scout whose sacrifice was one of amazing courage, almost biblical-like courage.
And we're going to tell you his story next, but we don't have time to get into it before the break.
So, Brad, with just seconds remaining, is there anything else you'd like to add before the music starts?
Oh, no, we'll get into the next segment.
I'm looking forward to it.
All right, and so when we come back, we're going to talk about the Whit Smith Job, and I would also like Brad to be thinking about this before the music starts, to be thinking about some matters historical in nature about the South, about the development of the South.
And as we mentioned, the history of the South, we talked about this with Dr. Michael Hill, certainly predates even the Confederacy.
The Southern heritage in history didn't begin in 1861.
It went far beyond that and even back before even America was founded, even before the first pilgrims and colonists landed on the East Coast.
It goes all the way back to the Celts.
It goes back to Boudica.
It goes back to those ancient people of the windswept isles of Northern Europe.
And so I would like Brad to be thinking about that as we go into the break.
Talk about the history of the South even before the South was the South.
And Brad is, of course, a historian in his own right.
There has never been anyone who has put forth a better, more researched, more historically accurate accounting of Black History Month than Brad Griffin.
His series at OccidentalDescent.com in February was just incredible.
And we talked about it a little bit then.
We retweeted some of it.
But go back to occidentaldescent.com in the month of February if you want to learn about black history.
We're going to ask Brad about the history of the South even before the South was the South when we come back.
But before we even do that, we're going to talk about the sacrifice of the Whit Smith Job.
We're going to go into detail about that as Confederate History Month wraps up on TPC 2018.
Stay tuned.
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Dixie, played by the Edison Symphony Orchestra.
Classic version of Dixie.
How about that, ladies and gentlemen?
We've given you all kinds of versions of Dixie.
We've given you the war version.
We've given you new versions, old versions, really old versions.
We've had a great assortment of renditions of Dixie during Confederate History Month, that's for sure.
Along with some other Confederate music as well.
And music is a part of our show, that's for sure.
Hey, Brad, Brad Griffin, our guest right now, the founding editor of VossadelDescent.com, certainly a brother of mine.
And I'll look forward to seeing you, Brad, down in Alabama in June.
It looks like we're both going to be speaking at the League of the South conference.
Oh, can't wait for it.
And I've got one of our female listeners from Missouri tonight.
She says she's written in since you've appeared this evening, writing that Brad was one of my favorite Twitter accounts.
Twitter just isn't the same without him.
What would you say to that?
I agree.
I agree.
It is not as fun without you on there.
You were a machine.
Yeah, yeah, they had to shut me down.
They had to change the rules.
And I was the first to go even before Jared Taylor, I think, on December 17th, which was the day that, you know, Twitter was lost to the Social Justice Warriors.
And now it's just constant censorship.
I would say get on Gab.
That's who I am.
Get on Gab.
That's the mantra.
Well, maybe you could throw in with Jared's lawsuit and make it a class action.
I don't know.
But we'll table that for another discussion.
But yeah, DeWitt Smith joke.
So we're talking about Confederate heroes.
This is one, and I wanted to save this.
We've talked about it in previous years during Confederate History Month, but Bill Rowland.
You remember Bill, of course, Brad.
And Bill Rowland was one of our longtime co-hosts until he went on to heaven, where he's with so many of our Confederate heroes tonight looking down on us.
And Bill was a member of the D.S. Job camp of the Sons of Confederate veterans.
Now, that camp got that particular camp got disbanded because they actually tried to do something.
But nevertheless, he was a member of it, and this is why.
It was because of the sacrifice of D.S. Job.
This is the history of D.S. Job, and I'm going to read it and get Brad's reaction.
DeWitt Smith Job enlisted in 1861, became part of Company B of the 20th Tennessee Regiment, commanded by Colonel Joel Battle and his cousin Thomas B. Smith.
Job was wounded and captured at the Battle of Fishing Creek and fought at Stones River.
Job was hand-picked as a scout about the time Major General Braxton Bragg began his retreat out of Middle Tennessee and into Georgia.
As a scout, Job did escape the doldrums of routine military life, but his new role with the Army of Tennessee was far more dangerous.
Many of the members of Coleman's scouts were shot, killed, or imprisoned.
And each of the scouts knew about Sam Davis's end on the Union gallows near Pulaski, Tennessee.
In August of 1861, Job and his fellow scout Tom Joplin were far behind Union lines and reconnoitering near College Grove, Triune, and Nolansville.
On Monday, August 29th, Job was hiding in a cornfield after eating breakfast at the home of a family.
He had an important message hitting on his person.
With Yankee patrols in the area, Confederate, the Confederate was hiding during the day and traveling at night.
Now, listen to this, ladies and gentlemen.
He was spotted by a patrol of 15 men from the 115th Ohio Regiment of the Union Army of the Cumberland.
Seeing that he was about to be captured, Job tore up the note, chewed, and swallowed it.
So he ate and swallowed his dispatches so they couldn't fall into the hand of the enemy.
Angered by the near miss, the Union patrol first threatened Job and then began to torture him in an effort to get the scout to divulge the content of the dispatch.
The Ohio troops first hanged Job from a bridle rein and then pistol-whipped him, knocking out his teeth.
Bound and disarmed, helpless and bleeding, Job revealed nothing.
They were dealing with a man in gray who held the welfare of the Confederacy above his life.
According to reports, the torture went on.
The Yankees were whooping now, yelling so loudly that they could be heard at distant farmhouses.
They gouged out his eyes.
Perhaps it was then that Job heaped epiteths upon them.
How much courage did it take to do that?
Then they cut out his tongue.
The Union patrol finished him off by dragging him to death behind his own galloping horse.
So once again, Brad, we can compare and contrast the nobility, the dignity, and the honor of the Confederate soldier to the savage Union soldier.
D.S. Job was hanged, pistol-whipped, had his eyes gouged out and his tongue cut off before being dragged to death behind a horse, but he never gave up his countrymen.
He never gave up his fellow soldiers.
He chose to die a painful death rather than betray his principles.
How many of today's business and political heavyweights would do the same, Brad?
The only response to that is laughter.
None, of course.
You know, say we live in an age when we have illegal alien soldiers and stuff work as mercenaries for an empire to prosecute wars and on distant on distant continents.
And I mean, I can't, I can't, I mean, it would surprise me to see someone of that character, you know, today in one of those theaters of war, the kind of people we produce today, to be tortured like that and to die.
I mean, to die for their country like that.
It's just not something we would see today, I don't think.
And that is, of course, why, because that sacrifice, there are so many men in the world today, but there are very few heroes.
And most men are not even men at all.
But even of the ones that we can claim to be men, very few rise to the level of hero.
And it is because of that heroism that we honor and that we built monuments to these men in the first place.
And their heroism and their sacrifice and their duty and call to duty and their honor is still as evergreen today as it was back then.
And that's why we should never surrender their history and their memory.
And that's what we're here for, Brad.
And Brad, you've been a big part of it for a long, long time.
What does the celebration of Confederate history mean to you and the crew at OD?
Well, you know, it's about honoring our ancestors.
And, you know, for me personally, it's still my mind finding out so much detail about my own past.
We saw, you know, the League of the South, we recently held a little public demonstration, not like protesting anything, but to celebrate Confederate History Month in Wetunka, Alabama earlier this month.
We wanted to show people that there are still people who identify with our ancestors and their traditions and want that to be publicly known.
And we were out there with Confederate flags.
And we just had a massive positive response from the public.
So, I mean, there are plenty of people out there who are still just as passionate about this as we are.
You know, it's harder to reach those people now that Twitter and everything has been shut down, but we still got to keep doing it.
I'm glad you brought up what you just brought up because we did mention that a couple of weeks ago.
We may have mentioned it when Dr. Hill himself was on.
But yes, y'all had a very public Confederate flag rally.
And by your own count, the reaction from the public, and by that I mean the motorists that were driving past with regards to honks and thumbs up and displays of support that you were getting from the passersby, that heavily outweighed those who jeered it.
Is that an accurate assessment?
Yeah, I think I saw all, I think it was only like two or three blacks who passed by who jeered us.
That was it.
I mean, every single, you know, every single other person who, you know, came by and reacted, you know, reacted positively.
It was one of the most positive receptions I've seen in a while.
And we need to do more of these events, I think, during Confederate History Month.
I think it's encouraging.
I think, as I've always said, Brad, the number of people in the general public who fundamentally agree with us on the issues far outweighs those who don't, at least fundamentally on some levels.
And of course, there's always varying degrees to which someone will agree with you.
But on the whole, I think the majority of whites in this country still fundamentally agree with us.
And I think in their heart of hearts, in their souls of souls, in the privacy of their living room where it's safe to be honest, I think we are still the majority of our own people.
And in that, I invest a little bit of hope.
And I think Brad and the League of the South put that to the test when they did this public demonstration, and the results are in, and those were the responses that they got.
And that adds a little bit of evidence to my suspicions.
Hey, we got to take a break.
One more segment tonight in Confederate History Month.
We're going to talk about the Confederate sniper, Jack Henson.
If you haven't heard his story, stick around.
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Welcome back to the last segment of Confederate History Month 2018.
I told you we're going to end it with D.S. Joe, but no, we're not.
We're going to end it with Jack Henson, a one-man war.
He was a sniper.
And if you don't know the history of Jack Henson, I'm going to read it to you, and then we're going to get Brad's reaction and some final thoughts from Brad before we take a break and rejoin you in the first Saturday of May.
I hope you enjoyed this.
Jack Henson was approaching 60 years old when his life changed forever.
He was a successful farmer near the Tennessee-Kentucky border and a devoted family man.
But on one horrific day, a Union cavalry troop appeared at his door.
They had captured two of Jack's boys.
The boys were caught with hunting rifles, and they had been taken for suspected guerrillas and were summarily executed.
But much more than that, the Union soldiers decapitated the boys who were out hunting.
They were not Confederates.
They were not soldiers.
They were out hunting.
They were executed, having been suspected as guerrillas.
But much more than that, they cut off their heads and impaled their decapitated heads on Jack Henson's front gateposts.
After the family buried the children's remains, Henson swiftly turned his attention to exacting revenge.
He freed his slaves, moved his family west, and carefully oversaw the manufacture of a specially crafted sniper rifle.
Certain that his surviving family was safe, he initiated his highly personalized war of retribution.
Whatever the details, the Federals had sown the wind, and for the rest of the war, they would weep the whirlwind.
Hidden deep in Henson's Scottish heritage raised the impulse for blood and retribution.
The first person Henson hunted down was the hated Union lieutenant who gave him word of what had happened to his sons.
His second kill was the sergeant who seemed to take delight in impaling the boys' heads to his family's gateposts.
Moving freely throughout the wooded hills, Henson continued his unique brand of warfare.
He set up camp at the base of what is now known as Jack's Ridge.
We're talking about Jack Henson, the sniper here, overlooking the northern flowing Tennessee River.
There, at a branch known as Towhead Chute, the Union boats plowed upstream against the current.
Listen to this, ladies and gentlemen.
There, presenting a near stationary target, Henson shot the boat's captains and their other officers.
As time passed, his killing reputation grew.
He was hunted by the local army units and a combined Marine, Navy, amphibious force.
In one truly remarkable moment in the history of naval military, the captain of a transport loaded with armed Union soldiers hove and attempted to surrender, thinking he had been accosted by a swarm of rebels.
The captain beached his boat and rapidly struck his colors.
Alone with no infantry support, Jack Henson reluctantly passed on the officer and quietly faded to the countryside.
It is said that by the end of the war, Jack Henson alone killed more than 100 Union soldiers.
Now, that is the blood of a true Scotsman flowing through those veins, is it not, Brad?
And that brings me to my last question for you.
The history of the South predates the Confederacy.
It goes all the way back to Scotland.
The roots of Jack Henson were in Scotland and they are in us as well.
What can you tell us about that?
Yeah, I mean, well, I mean, you could say that the South was people from two different directions.
There was a lot of English who came over and settled the lowland South and Virginia and Carolina and Georgia.
And also, you know, you have the Scott Irish and the Scottish, you know, who came over through Philadelphia and immigrated down through the Great Valley, Appalachian Valley, and spread out over the countryside into the highland Upper South.
And the people who came to the South, I would, you know, my impression from everything I've read is, you know, they came for, you know, it seems like mostly two reasons.
They came for in search of a better life for themselves and their children than they had in England or Scotland or Ireland.
And they also came to really to practice their religion, freedom of religion.
And they didn't come here for any to create any God-forsaken utopia as a lot of the ancestors of people who settled New England and Pennsylvania, or at least Philadelphia, did.
They were normal people with normal aspirations.
They came from pretty much the mainstream parts of southern and western England and also from the borderlands and Northern Ireland now, Ulster.
And I mean, this lack of, you know, this lack of a strain of rabbit utopianism is, you know, very characteristic of the South.
That's what one of the things that made it a much more conservative place than the Northeast.
What do you have to say about that?
Well, I appreciate you sharing that history, Brad.
That's exactly what I was asking, what I was hoping for.
And we talked about it a little bit with Michael Hill, but I wanted to go back to that as well because we have to remember it's our past and present and future that we're fighting for.
And it's not just a four-year period, although that was a big part of it, because it was the last time a group of righteous men came close to overthrowing tyranny.
And for that, they should always be remembered.
But certainly our history predates that by many, many generations.
And it's important to remember that, and it will endure long into the future.
So long as there is life in us, these people will live.
These people live in us today.
Our Confederate ancestors are alive in us.
We have their DNA.
We have their blood in our bodies.
And they're still alive.
And we have to keep them alive.
We have to keep their spirit alive because it was the spirit that founded this nation.
And for whatever time that this nation was good, it was because of people like this.
And whatever decency remains in this nation today, even though it's on live support, it still exists predominantly in the South.
And there are good people all over the country.
But as a whole, it exists predominantly in the South.
Brad, I want to ask you two final questions before we run out of time.
First of all, what did you think about the ⁇ I know you've heard the story before, but what did you think about the sacrifice and the commitment of Jack Henson?
So that's an amazing story of Yankee brutality and justified revenge, in my view.
It's incredible, just like the previous one.
I've vaguely heard of it, but I hadn't researched that particular person before.
Well, that must be the first time we ever knew something Brad didn't know, because I'm telling you, Brad is a scribe and Brad is a scholar.
And that actually leads me to my second question.
What are your forthcoming exploits on Occidental Descent going to entail?
Because I know you have become somewhat disenchanted with politics as usual, with the setbacks that have been suffered by some of our colleagues and comrades in recent months.
And so you're kind of refocusing and recommitting Occidental Descent and the work of OD in a little bit of a different direction.
I say different.
It's really going back to your roots.
Tell us a little bit about some of the stuff people can expect to find at occidentaldescent.com in the coming weeks and months as we continue to charge forward together.
Okay, well, I haven't run, you know, noticeably haven't been rotting much lately, but it's not because I'm disenchanted.
This is a great period of, I would say, going back and looking at fundamentals, which I think we've kind of gotten away from.
In particular, my big project now is morality and ethics is the big thing I've grown interested in.
I think there's a very, there's been a nihilistic streak in our movement lately.
And I want to kind of develop an alternative to that.
And hopefully that will point the way to a new style and a new way of presenting our message to the public.
Well, the tagline on Occidental Descent is Nationalism, Populism, Reaction.
It's one of my favorite websites as a daily read.
Obviously, Brad Griffin, Hunter Wallace, as he writes under at OD, is the chief personality there.
But there are other great writers, including Jack Ryan, who has become a weekly contributor to the Political Cest Pool every week since November.
And he does a great job for us every week.
And it's great to have a couple of the OD crew on with us tonight.
And Brad, I appreciate you coming on and in grand fashion helping us wrap up our coverage of Confederate History Month 2018.
Ladies and gentlemen, I hope you have enjoyed it as well.
It has certainly been, it is something I look forward to all year round.
And I guess the countdown, 11 months and, well, 364 days starting tomorrow until we get to Confederate History Month again.
Brad, thanks for being with us and to help us send us into May.
We appreciate it, brother.
Thanks, brother.
Anytime.
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