Dec. 22, 2018 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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I see the presents underneath the good old Christmas tree.
And I'll wait on light till Santa comes to wake me from my dreams.
Oh, why?
Because that's Christmas to me.
I see the children play outside like angels in the snow.
While mom and daddy share a kiss under the mistletoe.
And we'll cherish all these simple things wherever we may be.
Oh, I. That's Christmas to me.
Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to tonight's live broadcast of TPC.
I'm your host, James Edwards, this Saturday evening, December the 22nd.
And I am on it, and I do notice the echo.
So we're going to work on that.
I want to take you quickly to South Africa.
We have one of our good friends, Rich, from right here in Tennessee, is in South Africa tonight, spending Christmas in South Africa.
On the evening of December the 8th, Rich called in just before he boarded that plane.
And ever since then, he has been over there in the dark continent.
And we want to know what he has seen, what he's observed, what he's participated in.
Rich, take it away and take all the time you need.
First off, Merry Christmas from the banks of the Orange River.
We're having a great time.
And a Merry Christmas to you, too.
I'm finding.
Thank you.
We're having a great time over here, my wife and I. We're meeting with primarily with the Sightlanders organization, which our friend Simon Roche is a member of.
And I've met some of the finest people in the world here.
It's good to know.
Well, Rich, tell us about...
Food is great.
Yeah, sorry about that, buddy.
I was trying to work on the echo here.
I think we've got it a little bit better now.
I want to know what you've seen.
So take us behind a southerner's eyes as you go over there.
It's always wonderful to have Simon Roche of St. Landers on to give us the perspective from that of a South African.
But I want to know what it would be like if you dropped one of us, one of our kind, one of our people, over there into that cauldron that is South Africa.
So what have you been doing?
Well, we've been going around and visiting.
I visited a couple of farm sites, the very farms that are targets of the black marauders.
We've traveled quite a bit around the eastern Cape Province, and we're currently domiciled in the very top of the northern Cape on the south bank of the Orange River, which is the largest river in South Africa.
And it flows from where we are westward to the sea.
And we're right by, we're in the city of Von der Kluf, which is right by a big hydroelectric power plant here that was built by the nationalist government before the ANC took power.
We've been down the river to Arania, which everybody, a lot of people are familiar with if they're familiar with South Africa at all, which is an all-white town.
And it's sort of like the United States used to be back in the 60s, where you could sleep at night and not lock your doors.
You could leave your keys in the car and not worry about it being stolen.
And the fences are only, you know, waist high or whatever the heights you need just to keep your animals in and your chickens in, you know, or your horses in.
None of these mammoth fences you see in places like Johannesburg or any of the larger cities with electrified barbed wire on top and all that kind of stuff.
Meeting with the people is great.
I had an extensive supper with Gustav Muller, night before last, who is the chief of the Sightlanders Organization, which, as you may know, is the world's largest self-defense organization organized under international law in a completely legitimate way, the international law, which has been adopted into the South African Constitution.
And they are gearing up for what they fear is going to be a civil war slash race war.
The political situation here is like a pressure cooker.
The ANC government is threatening and rallying their troops daily.
Elected politicians are getting up in parliament and making statements like, for every black person killed in a traffic accident, we need to kill five white people in retaliation, kill their pets, destroy their families, burn their property, and all that kind of stuff.
We are in a relatively safe area.
We really haven't seen any problems here.
But we passed through Johannesburg on the way to coming where we are.
And I was told before I left the United States, under no circumstances, going to downtown Johannesburg.
So we didn't have that problem because we were taken care of by the lady that helped arrange our trip down here.
And we were shuttled into a very nice boutique hotel for the first night.
We had a layover because the airlines wouldn't run.
We couldn't catch a flight.
We got in too late to catch a flight down to Bloemfontein.
And then from there, we had a car into Vanderclouth.
But we were shuttled back and forth from the airport in their own vehicle.
But you could just observe Johannesburg.
Kind of reminds me of driving in downtown Memphis.
I believe it.
I believe it.
And folks, let me just tell you something.
Remind you again that we're talking with our good friend Rich, who is live in South Africa.
He and his beautiful wife are spending Christmas in South Africa with Simon and other leaders of the Saint Landers organization.
We wanted to go to him right out of the gate this evening because it is past 2 a.m. over there as we broadcast live at 6 o'clock p.m. on Saturday evening.
It's Sunday morning early time in South Africa.
But as soon as we let Rich go after the next segment, we are going to move on with the show tonight.
A lot of stuff to talk about this evening, including the recent activity out of the Trump administration.
Great guest in the second hour, third hour.
We're going to go to the mailbag and read some of these beautiful Christmas cards that have poured in to our studio from people all over the world.
But what Rich is doing right now, I think, is just extraordinary, spending Christmas in South Africa.
Rich, that's going to be a Christmas you'll always remember.
And you just took part in a very special anniversary last week.
Tell us about that.
Yes, it's the celebration which used to be a national holiday called the Day of the Covenant.
And it was the 180th, I believe, anniversary of the Battle of Blood River in which 460 Boers and four Englishmen held off a Zulu army of approximately 30,000, which attacked them.
And the circumstances of the attack are nothing short of miraculous.
It was like divine intervention.
And because of the way this thing came out, in which the Zulus were thoroughly trounced, these are the same Zulus who had treacherously killed a group of settlers less than a year before who had come in there to assist them in recovering some stolen cattle and then were given an agreement of safe passage and some land to occupy.
And then the Zulus treacherously murdered them all.
And this expedition was led by Andreas Pretorius, for whom Pretoria is named, made a stand on the banks of the Blood on the Ncomo River, which became known as Bloody River afterwards, and which over 3,000 Zulus perished, and the Fortrekers only lost.
They didn't lose anybody.
They only had three or four wounded.
And it was, and the circumstances, as they describe it, it just is nothing short of a miracle.
The hand of God was on them.
And because of that, they pledged themselves to remember the anniversary and to dedicate them to the service of the Lord and have continued to this day.
The new ANC government, the new rainbow government, of course, has called it, renamed the holiday, the Day of Reconciliation.
Of course they did.
Well, I tell you, what a wonderful time to be over there.
If you had to be over there, if there can be a good time to be in modern-day South Africa, to be there with a friend like Simon, with your wife celebrating Christmas, and then that miraculous anniversary of that battle.
One more segment with Rich when we come back.
He's going to tell us a little bit more about what he's seen and what he's done in South Africa, and then we're going to get on with the show.
Stay tuned, everybody.
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Oh, why?
Because that's Christmas to me.
Oh, why?
Because that's Christmas to me.
December 22nd, it is our last broadcast before Christmas.
And we are going to put the whole show on hold when it comes our third hour this evening.
And we are going to reflect on the majesty of the season.
We're going to be reading some of the Christmas cards you've sent in.
We're going to be dedicating that hour to our beloved audience.
And of course, sharing a biblical reading of the Christmas story, as we always like to do before the end of our last hour before Christmas.
So that's coming up tonight.
A great guest in the second hour and a fantastic first-hand accounting taking place right now with Rich, our good friend from right here in Tennessee, who is over in South Africa.
Well, he'll be spending his Christmas holiday.
And Rich, you mentioned in the previous segment Irania.
Now, I guess it should go without saying that most people probably know a little bit about Irania.
But for the benefit of those who may not, share with us a little more about exactly what Irania is and what you did while you were visiting there a couple of days ago.
Right.
Well, we were there this evening, actually.
We were there at the Africaners like to barbecue, and they call it Abraham, B-R-A-A-A-I.
So we came from a bra this evening in South Africa prior to this show.
Irania was a work village that was built in conjunction with some irrigation projects down here.
The part of South Africa we're in is what they call the high veldt or a high felt.
And it resembles greatly parts of West Texas and New Mexico and Arizona is what I've been told.
But it's very dry.
In fact, they're in the eighth year of a series of droughts, although it did rain a few days ago for about half an hour.
But the countryside is brown.
It's kind of scrubby.
And it's totally dependent on what they call borehole farming, which is using well water or irrigation water sucked out of the Orange River, which flows through here.
And Irania started out as a town constructed to house the workers that were building these projects.
And then it was purchased by private individuals right at the beginning of the transition to the Rainbow Republic.
And in a way, it was described to me today as sort of a Potimkin village in that it is the showpiece, which is actually part of the Rainbow Nation, the new South Africa.
And therefore, it's tolerated by the government.
The sightlanders think that it's full of Freemasons and globalists and people like that.
And the people that live in Irania, for the most part, are very cautious.
They're not very flamboyant.
And they don't particularly care for the sightlanders.
But be that as it may.
Irania is like an oasis throughout South Africa.
There's no other town quite like it where the life is as calm and crime-free as it is in Orania.
So we've been there Probably four times in the last week and a half that we've been here.
And so we feel like we're getting to know the place.
But it's very small.
It's only about maybe 1,600 residents, but it's expanding.
They are building houses down there for people to move in.
And we've met some people that have moved there from other places like Johannesburg or further to the east, and they just got there to get away from the crime and to get away from the blacks.
Orania does not have a township associated with it that I could see.
So it's mostly white people doing all the work down there.
It's a very interesting place.
Rich, this is Keith Alexander.
How are you doing?
Doing, sir?
There you go, Keith.
Can you hear me?
Keith?
Merry Christmas to you, Rich.
Well, I remember a couple of years ago at an Amran conference, Jared had as a speaker somebody who was there basically to tell us all about Irania.
And it's interesting to hear your take on it.
It's kind of a Potemkin village.
Yep.
Yeah.
And, you know, looking back on it, it's not, you know, it's really not surprising that Amran hosted them, if you know what I mean.
Yeah, I know exactly what you mean.
On the other hand, since you've been to the Potemkin village, has anybody taken you to the site of one of these actual farm massacres while you've been over there?
We haven't been to a farm massacre yet, although we spent two nights in a farm near where there was a massacre.
One thing that brings up an interesting point.
I am absolutely impressed with the Boer farmers.
They are some of the toughest people I have met on the face of the earth.
I mean, the Boers remind me so much of the Confederacy, the people that made up the Confederacy.
They are tough.
They never give up.
And believe me, they're not going to give up this country without a fight.
I mean, they're not going to leave.
Most of them can't leave because they don't have the resources, but they're not inclined to.
One farm we went to is now occupied by the ninth generation of the same family.
Another farm we went to is occupied by the eighth generation of the same family.
So, I mean, their blood is in the soil.
And they are totally devoted to it.
Very pious people.
They think that God's on their side and they just got to stay in their principles and not compromise.
And they'll prevail in the end.
And they want the world to know about the situation down here in South Africa and what they're suffering under and what the potential is.
And so somehow maybe pressure can be brought to bear on the South African government not to carry out what they have seemed to have every intention of doing, which is to wipe out the white population.
Well, Rich, you know, I understand, and of course, talking to Simon, we know this too, how committed they are to making a last-ditch stand there.
But if worst came to worst, I was very interested in your comments about the landscape and the climate.
It sounds like we have land that is underutilized in America, notably in New Mexico and West Texas, that would be an ideal match with what they're used to over there.
I wonder if anyone has ever got a contingency plan about trying to come over here somewhere else.
To be quite honest, it perished the thought.
I mean, let me ask you.
Yeah.
I know that Simon is, you know, he gets quite agitated if somebody mentions that.
But on the other hand, and of course, we understand that very well being Southerners.
Yeah.
And Richard is calm.
Yeah.
Simon is calm to the reaction you'll get from others when you bring that up.
All right.
So that's dead on arrival.
Let me ask you this because we only have a couple of seconds remaining.
I want to be sure to get this in.
You may have to answer both of these at once.
Number one, what is the overall disposition?
You just touched on this.
The overall disposition of the people over there, the white South Afrikaners, are they happy?
Are they hopeful?
Fearful?
Do they believe that tomorrow is going to be better than yesterday was?
And then tell us how you're going to spend the rest of your time over there.
They've got a feeling of foreboding.
And I've asked several people what kind of timetable do you think is going to happen?
And they invariably the answer is four or five months.
There are elections coming up, and the government has been firing up their supporters.
The rhetoric is getting more and more violent.
The attacks are happening all the time.
There are civil disturbances where the blacks will go on a rampage and burn up trains or they'll burn up parts of the town.
And this stuff is just rotating all over the country.
And the media, the press down here, South Africa is beset with the same kind of problems we are.
I mean, it's not a joke when Simon says, I have seen this movie play out before, you know, and it's not going to have an happy outcome because the same kind of things that are going on here are going on in the United States.
The parallels are eerie.
And very sober.
It's just sobering.
Yeah, they're preparing.
They're preparing for the worst.
I mean, they got to get the answer.
They're stockpiling food and water, and they're scouting out places to escape to, to take care of their families.
And they're girding their loins for a struggle.
They're not going to go quietly.
Not an answer that we wanted to hear, but it is an honest answer.
And that's what you're over there doing, Rich.
You're seeing for yourself exactly what the situation is, and you're reporting it to us tonight.
And very well, very, very capably done, I might add.
Just literally seconds remaining.
The music's going to start any second.
Rich, you're over there for a few more days, and there it is.
What are you going to be doing for the next week or two?
We're going to travel around some more.
We may go hunting and some other things.
And we're flying back out on the circus.
And I hope to be able to report to you again next weekend.
We'll talk to you this week.
Merry Christmas.
If I don't talk to you again before Tuesday, my best to your wife.
Why don't we say to the government writ large that they have to spend a little bit less?
Anybody ever had less money this year than you had last?
Anybody better have a 1% pay cut?
You deal with it.
That's what government needs, a 1% pay cut.
If you take a 1% pay cut across the board, you have more than enough money to actually pay for the disaster relief.
But nobody's going to do that because they're fiscally irresponsible.
Who are they?
Republicans.
Who are they?
Democrats.
Who are they?
Virtually the whole body is careless and reckless with your money.
So the money will not be offset by cuts anywhere.
The money will be added to the debt, and there will be a day of reckoning.
What's the day of reckoning?
The day of reckoning may well be the collapse of the stock market.
The day of reckoning may be the collapse of the dollar.
When it comes, I can't tell you exactly, but I can tell you it has happened repeatedly in history when countries ruin their currency.
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I've got the candles glowing in the dark.
Hanging on the stockings by the Christmas tree.
Oh, why?
Because that's Christmas to me.
Oh, why?
Because that's Christmas to me.
It's the time of the year that we hold our family a little more closely.
And I am so thankful for this listening family, people like Rich, who was calling in tonight, staying up till past two in the morning in South Africa to give us that report, his observations.
And I want to thank everybody out there who has supported our Christmas fundraising drive and the Christmas cards we've received from all over the world.
Folks, you're going to want to stay tuned for the third hour tonight when we dip into the mailbag.
We're going to take a deep dive into the TPC mailbag and we're going to feature your letters and your cards and some of the things you've sent in this month.
It is going to be, I think, a heartwarming hour with Eddie the Bombardier Miller in the third hour tonight.
So stay tuned for that.
And you know, one thing we like to do in these months that we're having our quarterly fundraising drives is to give a shout out to some of the cities that we have received support from, listeners in these cities.
And instead of doing 50 of them at a time, we're just going to do 10 a time, 10 a segment.
I want to give out my gratitude and appreciation to the listeners in Marietta, Georgia, Chino, California, Callahan, Florida, Beaver County, Alberta, Canada, Ephraida, Washington, Kernersville, North Carolina, Bromley, Kent over there in the UK, Sugarland, Texas, Mesquite, Nevada, San Marcos, California, all have sent in support this month.
And we're going to be shouting out a lot more cities before the end of the broadcast.
But first, Keith, we have got to talk about what in the world is going on in the Trump administration.
When we met for lunch a couple of days ago, we were just saying, well, here he goes again.
He's going to sign off on this package, the wallet and getting funded, but $11 billion going to Mexico and to Central America.
And then, are we having, are we witnessing a Christmas miracle here out of Trump?
Is he beginning to resemble the candidate for whom we voted?
Or is this just more political theater and pageantry before the inevitable surrender?
Well, obviously something is afoot.
And my take on it is this.
He realizes, hopefully, he should have realized this from day one, but better late than never.
He realizes that there's nothing to be gained by trying to pacify his enemies or even his lukewarm so-called friends among the neocons.
So one thing that he did, which is infuriating the neocons, in particular in the Jewish community more generally, is he's removing our troops from Syria and Afghanistan, or at least that's been announced.
And this has caused defections of various highly placed neocons in his administration.
And this, it has also provoked a loud amen from Moscow.
And of course, neocons hate Russia, right?
Hating Russia is their full-time job.
That's where all of this negativity towards Russia and the so-called Russian interference in the election of 2016 comes from.
It comes from our old friends, the Jewish Quarter.
And in particular, neocon.
Neoconservatism is a Jewish movement.
There are a few, I guess you would call them stooges like William Bennett Williams and others that are not Jewish, that are supposedly neoconservatives, but almost all of the neoconservatives are Jewish.
All of the institutions that they took over from authentic conservatives during the Reagan administration, like the Heritage Foundation, the Weekly Standard, the National Review, things like this, are headed up by Jews at the present time.
So he's really a risk on this.
Of course, he did cave in to the fifth columnist within his own household, Jared Kushner and his daughter, Ivanka.
They are, of course, Jews now, Ivanka by conversion and Jared by birth and heritage.
And of course, this is putting the brakes on things for him with his populist nationalistic message.
Now, I think he's trying to tell the people that he realizes he's going to have to have really strong grassroots support in the time to come because after the first of the year, with the Democrats in control of the House of Representatives, it's a foregone conclusion that there are going to be impeachment charges brought against him.
Hopefully, if he doesn't have the mass defections, well, not even mass defections.
It would take just kind of minimal defections on the part of the Republicans in the Senate to actually get him booted.
But I think he sees this.
You know, we've been saying for years here that they're going to follow the Watergate blueprint.
That's how they got one Republican president that they didn't approve of out of office, and they plan to use the same blueprint on Trump.
Trump realizes he's going to have to batten down the hatches, so he's starting to try to come through with some of the promises that he made to the people that actually voted for him and the people that show up at these rallies for him and fly over country in Red State America.
And that's what's happening right now.
I think you're seeing the first indications of that.
But that's, I think his strategy, and it's about the only strategy he has left.
He's never going to pacify or make converts of his enemies in the Democratic Party or the neocons in the Republican Party.
Well, he has shut down the government, or at least a partial shutdown, which I haven't noticed anything at all because the government hadn't done much for me as a middle-class worker and provider.
But a couple of things.
Let's not get too excited about this.
I mean, I am excited at the prospects.
Don't get me wrong.
I wouldn't go all in on this because we've seen this before where it looks like Trump is actually going to take a serious action.
And then he always falls on his sword.
We have had some good nuggets from Trump, such as the, well, let's just call it the scat hole comment.
There were good guys and bad guys on both sides of the Charlottesville question.
Those were some good things.
But this, if he is serious, and that is a huge if.
If he stays the course here, American politics in my lifetime just became more interesting than ever before.
Actions like he's taking right now, they don't get you impeached.
They could get you killed.
And if he's serious, now you don't pay the ferryboat captain until he gets you to the other side of the shore.
Of the shore.
And so what we have right now is he's holding out for the border wall funding, seemingly so.
And he has called back 7,000 troops from Afghanistan.
I don't think they've actually landed on the soil here yet.
So here's the thing.
Well, he's also asked for Afghanistan, too.
I mean, Afghanistan, Syria, what, 5,000 from Syria and 15,000 from Afghanistan?
Well, I think it was 7,000.
It may have gone up, but it was half of what was there.
I think so it was 7,000, if I'm not mistaken.
But those numbers could change.
That is probably the one single thing he could do that would mend fences with Russia.
Well, that was big.
Well, and what's good for Russia is good for us.
They should be our greatest ally.
Absolutely.
And so, of course, anti-war Trump, that was a big ticket for him in the primary when he was such a breath of fresh air on the question of these interventionist wars.
So he has just, again, it would appear, fired a couple of shots across the bow of the two single biggest issues that propelled him into the White House, his pledge to secure and his pledge to bring the troops home.
But again, nothing's happened yet.
And Sam Bushman did a show on it today, LibertyRoundtable.com, for the other side of this argument.
Sam lays out a compelling case as to how this is all just political theater, wait and see.
And Sam is right about that.
We haven't seen anything yet, but we've seen more than we thought we were going to get earlier in the week.
Well, what I'm really anxious to see is who he appoints to replace these defections like Mad Dog Mattis.
Whereas we call him Mad Cuck Mattis.
But now that is real.
I mean, is that political theater?
Mad Cuck is going on.
Well, we got to see who replaces him.
If there's somebody that is going to actually support the proposal to bring the troops home to America and see, also, you know, a lot of this money, something like $10 billion is going into Central America to prop those regimes up.
That $10 billion could build the border wall twice.
Well, they're going to send $10 billion.
Well, Trump said it too this week.
Now, this is true.
We can secure all of these borders, but we can't secure our own.
I know Schmuck Schumer was in a meeting with, and Pelosi was in a meeting with Trump.
They were saying how counterproductive a wall is, that walls don't work.
And he just shot the room dead silent when he said, well, it works for Israel.
And it was just a dead silence.
So I don't know.
I do think that Trump probably has some traditionalist instincts.
Now, that doesn't mean he's a moral paragon.
I think it means nothing more perhaps than he realizes, as I've said on some live streams this week, that the country he was born into was far superior to the country that he now presides over.
And did you read Ann Coulter's column this week?
Think that Coulter.
I think she really provoked it.
I think Trump thrives off of condemnation from his enemies, but when his allies, his real allies, his erstwhile allies, condemn him, I think he is sensitive to that, as he should be.
Because Coulter did as much to get him in there as well.
He's like a bucket of cold water thrown in his face, hopefully.
But see, that's objective criticism.
Coulter isn't anti-Trump.
She wants Trump to be what he said he was.
And now that he's seemingly taken some action, she has praised him in turn and in kind.
We'll be right back.
Anyone who challenges their control is deemed a sexist, a racist, a xenophobe, and morally deformed.
They will attack you.
They will slander you.
They will seek to destroy your career and your family.
They will seek to destroy everything about you, including your reputation.
They will lie, lie, lie.
And then again, they will do worse than that.
They will do whatever's necessary.
The Clintons are criminals.
Remember that.
They're criminals.
I'm going to open up our libel laws so when they write purposely negative and horrible and false articles, we can sue them and win lots of money.
We're going to open up those libel laws each week.
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I'd invite Mr. Trump to stop whining and go try to make his case to get votes.
The press has created a rigged system.
They even want to try and rig the election.
Well, I tell you what, it helps in Ohio that we got Democrats in charge of the machines.
And poisoned the mind of so many of our voters.
At the polling booth, where so many cities are corrupt and voter fraud is all too common.
And then they say, oh, there's no voter fraud in our country.
I come from Chicago.
So I want to be honest.
It's not as if it's just Republicans who have monkeyed around with elections in the past.
Sometimes Democrats have to.
You know, whenever people are in power, they have this tendency to try to tilt things in their direction.
There's no voter fraud.
You start whining before the game's even over.
things are going badly for you and you lose you start blaming somebody else then you don't have what it takes to be in this job
And then for years to come, we'll always know one thing.
That's the love that Christmas can bring.
Oh, I, because that's Christmas to me.
All right, everybody.
Welcome back to the show.
So we'll see what happens with Trump.
I mean, what else can we do?
I would tell you this, though.
TPC's best year yet is just about in the books.
Can you believe it, folks?
This show and then next week, which will be our year in review show, is going to be it.
That's going to be a wrap for 2018.
I want to tell you to go to thepolitical cesspool.org and go back to earlier this week, I believe it was Monday, and we posted the up-to-date list of each guest and each special report that we featured on the broadcast for all of this year going up to last week's show, which, of course, featured Paul Nalen again.
And it's just been a marvelous year.
And we've been busy outside of TPC as well.
Keith Alexander on the Sonny Thomas show today for their Christmas special.
And I have done about 30 live streams on YouTube in the last, or rather, 20 in the last 30 days is what it's been, including three in the last 24 hours with Red Eyes TV yesterday.
Richard Spencer, we went two hours last night.
I was on with Ramsey Paul today.
Faith Goldie was on there, and it was just a good cast.
And then Sam Bushman earlier this week for two hours with my monthly stop at Liberty Roundtable.
So it has been a very busy week.
Well, we've been a very busy year, too.
We've actually gone out and tried to win political office.
Well, don't give away next week's show because that's in our top 10 moments.
So we're definitely going to talk about that.
But see, that's the type of thing, you know, and you mentioned, is there anyone else in our movement that has run for public office and gotten around 40% of the vote before?
So, you know, we've had some success, even though not the ultimate success of getting elected.
But we see the need to do things like gain political power, James.
This is, you know, there's a lot of people that, you know, want to run and, you know, garner some headlines and whatnot, but we're in it to win it.
We're in here to try to get political power.
This is what people in our movement need to do, because if we don't have any political power, we're just, you know, we're whistling Dixies.
Well, and that's, of course, what TPC has always been on the cutting edge, even in media, with the AM radio credibility and the legitimacy that comes with that and all the things we've been able to do.
And of course, people have taken notice of that.
That's why we have received support this week for our Christmas fundraising drive from Bluntville, Tennessee, Ocala, Florida, Quarter d'Alene, Idaho, Washington, D.C. via Hazard, Kentucky.
And by the way, we've got a listener in Kentucky right now driving through Kentucky, listening to the show on his car as he drives through Kentucky.
So we want to shout out to Bill in Kentucky, Seattle, Washington, Louisville, Kentucky, Nashville, Tennessee, Caldwell, Idaho, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Rockville, Maryland, TPC listeners in all of those cities.
And I got to tell you, Keith, we said we were going to make mention of this.
A couple of things going on this week that sort of some way involve TPC.
Know they say you're everybody's six degrees separated from Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt.
Well, in the political world, TPC is filling that vacuum, because it seems like there's always a TPC connection.
Now we've been around so long, but this was interesting.
So everybody remembers my, my case, my libel lawsuit, and and what happened there.
Well, and and in that situation it was a case of, we had the precedents behind us.
We not only had the precedents behind us, we had the quintessential definition of what libel was behind us, according to the restatement of torts and a lot of people left.
Well apparently, don't let a little thing like the law, all um uh, derail the leftist juggernaut well.
But the, the panel of judges ruled that yes, the precedent and the the, the textbook definition of libel supports James Edwards' claim here.
But we're going to dismiss the lawsuit and rule in favor of the defendants, because Aesop's Fables instructs us to judge a man by the company he keeps.
That was literally the decision of the Michigan Court OF Appeals.
So the precedent didn't matter there, because they didn't want to rule in favor of it because of their political bias.
Well, now there is another free speech case.
There's another free speech case in Michigan right now, and guess what's going on up there now.
Now they're saying, well uh, we're going to have to go by the precedent and the precedent that was set in the Edwards decision suggested we have to dismiss this lawsuit.
It's almost like the Brown Versus Board OF Education decision, which was pure sociology.
No legal precedent whatsoever for what the Supreme Court did in Brown on may 17 1954.
But then, after they had that decision, then the ultimate precedent of all time was the Brown decision.
So precedents might not matter, or they might matter.
It just depends on on whether or not it it jives with the judge's political leanings.
But I, I couldn't.
I got a real kick out of that when I heard about it earlier this week.
Those are just so painly dishonest, intellectually it's just, it's breathtaking and the education.
In my case precedents didn't matter at all.
And in this next case, now that they set that precedent with with that egregious ruling against me, now precedents can decide cases.
Now we've gone back to uh, starry decisives, as they call it.
It's good to know my name will live on after i'm gone and in in some shape, form or fashion.
But here's another one.
So you know, Trucker Carlson is losing a whole lot of sponsors, I think at last count, this was a couple of days ago, so maybe even more now he's lost 18 of his uh, premier sponsors for the Turker Carlson Show there on on FOX NEWS and he took the O'reley slot.
So that's their, that's their prime uh, their primetime show, and he's lost all of his big sponsors.
Because he said that the people coming into this country are making it poorer and dirtier.
Well, let's fact check that.
Fact check, true.
Do you think that the people from Mexico and Central America and Guatemala do you think that they're coming in here because they're so rich in Mexico they have to walk across their border?
No, they're poor.
Nor are they paragons of hygiene, and are they?
Are they clean or dirty after, after doing, you know, swimming the Rio Grande?
Uh, they are poor, they are dirty and uh, it's a trade down and it's and it will become a flop house.
You can't have a first world nation with a third world population.
So we told the truth.
But here here's, here's the kicker, go down to the border, if you want to, and see what it looks like at these transit points and uh, if you have any questions how, how Dirty it is.
Well, and in any event, that's not really anything that you might not hear on Tucker's show on any given night.
But what's going on in this case is that Media Matters picked up on it.
Our friends over at Media Matters, and so they have been tweeting it out and doing all this, encouraging the boycott of these sponsors.
So they've gotten all of their lackeys and their acolytes to go in and email all of these sponsors, and they put a nice, convenient list for everybody with all the email addresses that you need in order to.
Why don't we ever do that?
Well, that's what I give them credit for that.
They actually are organized and they get a job done.
But they encouraged their millions of readers and subscribers and Twitter followers to go and take this action.
And now they are, you know, effectively really putting Tucker in a tight spot.
Well, Media Matters, this is the tie-in to TPC.
Media Matters was also the organization who claimed that the political cesspool, and yours truly, were one of the 20 most prominent right-wing media fixtures responsible for Donald Trump.
Now, it's just a case, I guess, an example of they can build you up or they can tear you down.
And it served their purpose to lump us in with people like Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly.
They were building us up accidentally.
They thought they were tearing down Sean Hannity and all these other people by associating them with us.
Well, they were building us up by putting us into that camp.
I sure wish I made the money that those guys do.
And there's no doubt that TPC affected the presidential campaign, to what extent can be debated, but we were in the news every week that year.
And we still get some residuals from that.
But yeah, so they were saying we were one of the top 20 responsible for Trump, but now Tucker Cross said they're trying to shave down to the core.
No, they're trying to take him out just like they want to take out any authentic conservative voice.
Whenever conservatism lifts its ugly head above the trench line, they are, you know, they're ready with the machine guns to try to blast it out of existence.
But nonetheless, the truth lives and will prevail, just like the ghost of Christmas Past said in Dickens' Christmas Carol.
And it will continue to perk its head up and to brave the firestorm of the Jewish left.
But, you know, we know where it's all coming from.
We've said this many times before: that in any left-wing movement, the foot soldiers might be brown, black, yellow.
They might be women.
They might be homosexuals.
They may be any marginalized group.
But the generals are always Jewish.
And I would imagine there's a Jewish generalship there in Media Matters that is responsible for this as well.
I wouldn't be surprised.
Let's take a quick note from the mailbag.
We have so many tonight.
We'll try to work them in when we can.
We got a minute or two before the end of this hour.
We're going to go to our second hour.
And the featured guest for tonight's show is a man that I know well.
And he is the author of a book entitled Born Guilty.
And you can take a look at the cover art for this book at my Twitter handle.
Very provocative.
And we're going to learn all about this book in the next hour.
But first, how about this letter we received, Keith, from a listener in Suffolk County, New York?
He writes, Hey, James, as usual, I'll be sending in a donation by the end of the year.
I'm in the cause and make no apologies, much like TPC.
Other than your charismatic personality and similar beliefs, it's your steadfast, unapologetic, non-PC, never leave a friend behind mentality that draws me to TPC and its family.
I'm a believer in you, and if you ever betray us, it will go down as my biggest disappointment.
No pressure.
Hope to still meet you and the staff one day.
Keith, would you respond to that?
Are we going to let him down?
Are we going to betray him or anyone else?
And how much would we like to meet this gentleman?
No, what we want to do is we're going to be effective.
We're going to try to actually win some power politically and to cast a shadow or have an influence on public events.
We're not here just to try to collect money like some organizations have been accused of doing in our thing.
Because if we did, we would be abject failures.
But we're not.
We're successful in our mission, which is to make a difference.
And we will be there for you.
We'll be right back for you in the second hour.
Stay tuned.
Just getting started tonight.
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