April 20, 2019 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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Welcome, everybody, to a very special edition of TPC.
I'm your host, James Edwards, Keith Alexander.
As always, in the studio with me this Saturday evening, April the 20th.
And I think all of the elements that we so often refer to with regards to what makes this show unique and special among its contemporaries on the AM radio and even elsewhere are going to be on full display tonight.
Each of them in the three respective hours.
During the first hour tonight, you're going to get the usual commentary on current events that you've come to expect from this particular program.
Specifically, we're going to be talking about the symbolism that overshadows the destruction of Notre Dame Cathedral and the spiritual rot that is hollowing out our culture.
So current events, the first hour.
Second hour, we continue our annual Southern Salute that we present to you each and every April, as always, with Mr. Kirk Lyons, the attorney of the Southern Legal Resource Center.
And he is going to be on as we continue that series, which actually wraps up next week, folks.
If you can believe it, how fast has that gone this month?
And then in the third and final hour tonight, very special hour to me, as my pastor will be back on the show to share with the audience the biblical accounting of the resurrection of Jesus Christ on this holy weekend.
Easter is tomorrow.
So you're going to get all of that and more tonight.
Keith, we've had a good day.
We've had a good afternoon, have we not?
Yeah, had some good fellowship.
We went over to Bozo's Barbecue, which is like, it's in Mason, Tennessee.
Mason is famous for two restaurants, Gus's Fried Chicken and Bozo's Barbecue.
Bozo's in particular is just like getting into a time capsule and time traveling back to 1950 around here.
The decor hasn't changed.
And surprisingly, you know, even though there are updated hairdos and things like this, the people, I'm sure, are very similar to the ones that were in there in 1950s.
Great manners, very polite, the typical southern culture you'd come to expect or hope to find when visiting the rural South.
And we did have a great afternoon visiting over there and had an early, I don't know, early dinner, late lunch, whatever you're going to call it.
We started eating at about 3.30, 4 o'clock, but real good time.
Well, let's talk about really the only issue we're going to be getting into tonight with so many other topics on, or rather, how would you put it, special events on the docket this evening.
The Notre Dame Cathedral, interestingly burning during Holy Week.
So the team at Occidental Descent posted a series of articles about the destruction of Notre Dame, and we compiled a couple of them for you.
So I have actually collected a handful of hot takes on the situation over there.
We'll read a few and let Keith respond.
So this is one that we found referring to the destruction of Notre Dame Cathedral.
This is a blow that hurts, whether you're a Catholic, a Protestant of any type, or someone who just doesn't adhere to religious faith altogether.
Something that has stood through the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, both world wars, and the beginnings of a new Islamic conquest has fallen this week through something an insurance claim would call an act of God.
I'm a former Catholic, this author writes, was raised Catholic all through my confirmation and still holds sympathy with the church and the impact it has had on European civilization for the best part of 2,000 years.
I've said and will continue to say harsh words towards modern Catholicism.
But everyone who is still practicing knows that it comes from a desire to save what has endured through centuries and not out of a nihilistic temper tantrum.
I do the same with Protestantism.
That being said, I can't help but wonder if out there in a time and place beyond man's comprehension, if God himself is looking down upon those created in his image and struggling to contain his righteous rage.
What took our ancestors well over 100 years to construct in honor of God is now lost to a great extent.
It really makes you think that this tragedy symbolizes the destruction of religion itself in the West.
Suppressed, infiltrated, watered down into a mockery of its original, a mockery so awful and cartoon-like that millions have begun to abandon the faith of their forefathers in despair.
Keith?
Yeah, it is symbolic, unfortunately.
It's like the Muslim invasion that was started first in 700s and stopped by Charles Martel, and then later on in 1600, it was stopped by Prince Don Juan of Austria at the Battle of Lepanto and by King John Sobieski of Poland at Vienna.
It's like it's been resumed.
It's been resumed as a clandestine, sneaky war rather than the forthright clash of arms that it was previously.
And this new infiltration seems to be working not because of the strength of the enemy, but because of the weakness of the defenders of Western civilization, which of course includes Christianity.
Christianity is imagined throughout all of the world as the white person's religion.
In fact, the alternative name for Europe during most of the two millennia since the death of Christ was Christendom.
And Notre Dame Cathedral is one of the primary monuments to white Christianity in the world.
And we see that it suffered a devastating blow, a fire.
Hopefully we can build back on it.
But it's like 9-11.
That was a destruction that we know was masterminded by Muslim enemies of the West.
Now this, we don't know, but there are other churches that are being destroyed by enemies of the Christian faith.
Well, we talked about this at dinner tonight, too.
I think there have been as many as 10 in very recent years that it has been because of Muslim arson or arson committed by Muslims.
Now they're saying here, of course, and they were quick to say that it was an electrical fire, but you still maintain some skepticism.
Well, you had a work crew up there, and I'm sure that they are required to hire a duke's mixture of people in Europe, just like they are here in America, for those crews.
All that person had to do is to leave a blowtorch on or an arc welder on or, you know, cause those.
Well, they're saying there's a short circuit, right?
You can create a short circuit pretty easily, too, if you want to do that.
And this is all speculative, of course.
Yeah, right.
But on the other hand, what isn't speculative is how quickly and adamantly the French authorities have come forward to say that, no, no, no, this was totally innocent.
This is not something that is an act of terror.
And that's before they've had any investigation at all.
Voltaire, who is a Frenchman who I can't endorse totally, but on the other hand, even a blind hog finds a good acorn every once in a while.
Well, with Voltaire, he said, if you want to know who rules over you, ask who you're not allowed to criticize.
Well, you know, think about that in terms of the Notre Dame fire.
And even if it was just one of those things, as I say, there are plenty of other incidents that are not just one of those things.
But again, you speak about them in France and in the Western world generally at your own peril.
Again, we're looking at the destruction of Notre Dame.
And of course, we lament it, as so many people do, but we lament it on, I guess, a spiritual realm more than just the fact that it was an iconic church at one time.
I don't even know if it's been a church in a long time.
But in any event, they do have daily masses there.
Well, right.
But in any event, if it is symbolic of the de-Christianizing of the West, we will continue that in a more general, broad-based discussion on the hollowing out of our faith and our culture, even here in America.
As we continue, but a little more on Notre Dame when we come back first.
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All right, and just again, a quick recap, or rather I should say an outline of what's still to come this evening.
The first hour, we're going to be talking about current events, focusing mainly on the destruction of Notre Dame Cathedral.
Second hour, the Southern Salute continues in April, as it always does each and every week on this show.
During that particular month, Kirk Lyons will be with us from the Southern Legal Resource Center.
Great guest, good godly guy, a good Southern man, son of the South.
And then in the third hour, we're going to shift our focus on that which our focus should be shifted this weekend, Easter weekend, Holy Weekend.
And my pastor, one of my closest friends, is going to be back to share with the audience the biblical accounting of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
And I know a lot of shows out there won't cover things like that.
And even the shows that do claim to be Christian, they may mention God.
But we're going to really get down into it tonight.
And we're going to read from the scriptures.
And we're going to mention the name of Jesus Christ, which I think is left out of a lot of conservative talk shows, even, well, especially now, I guess you could say.
But that's coming up in the third hour.
Looking forward to that.
Our last hour before Easter Sunday.
So getting back to Notre Dame, and we covered that in the first segment.
Continuing on here, our friend Brad Griffin listed some of his initial reactions, and he had five of them, and this is what they were.
I'm going to wait and see what caused this, although I suspect it was arson.
Now, this was written, of course, just hours after the burning was reported or the fire was reported.
Just a few days ago, I wrote a lengthy article about the faith and morality of a Western man, and I used Notre Dame Cathedral to illustrate what life was like in the high Middle Ages.
Notre Dame has since become just a pretty building in modern France, and that spiritual void is the greater tragedy.
We've been through worse, like the Great Fire of London in 1666, and finally, Jesus Christ is your Savior.
Love one another and reflect on the culture and your heritage that once caused our ancestors to build such towering monuments.
He went on to talk about how the Christians of old, the Christians who built monuments like Notre Dame, weren't the muling pacifists, as he puts it, that so many leaders are in the church today.
And he talked about some of the Christians of Europe over the centuries that would fight for the faith and they would not back down from any aspect of the faith, though the world may fall apart around them.
Politically, he points out, of course, that political correctness and all of this other stuff didn't really exist as it does now back then.
Keith?
Just think, if you will, for a moment, what the official reaction to this fire would be if there was any question whatsoever of involvement by so-called white nationalists or white supremacists or racists.
If there was, I mean, they would be on it like a duck on a June bug.
On the other hand, in this, you know, because there is some suspicion that it might be someone other than one of us people, you know, white people, that might be responsible, we're not even talking about it.
Now, Brad made a good point.
He thinks it's arson.
Well, there's a good chance that it is.
That's the first thing that you eliminate.
I've defended arson cases for insurance companies before, and I can tell you that arson is easy to prove.
The hard thing to prove is who was the arsonist.
But we're not even hearing anything about arson.
There's been some kind of categorical hypothesizing about it possibly being an electrical short.
But somebody needs to be investigating this, and I'm sure they are.
But will that investigation ever come to light if it involves implicating the wrong people?
I doubt it.
Some other takes that we've picked up, and this is a little bit surprising to me that this was the reaction, although I certainly understand it.
First of all, a lot of people question whether or not it would be rebuilt at all, at least as a Christian church.
Now, it's interesting, I believe, in France that all churches are property of the state.
It's very different than it is here.
And it did become reported very early on that already hundreds of millions of dollars have been donated by the world to rebuild this church.
Now, exactly how it will be rebuilt and what its role will be when it is rebuilt using these funds remains to be seen.
One commenter writes, Notre Dame Cathedral ablaze is the perfect symbol for the modern age.
It's almost as if the building set itself on fire to be done with seeing Christians replaced and spat on, the spiritual life of Europe crushed and mocked, the continent turned into a supermarket.
Another person writes, better to maintain it as a wound with the scar tissue visible to remind us what's happened to Europe and what we've done to Europe through neglect and self-loathing.
Another, I hope France doesn't rebuild Notre Dame.
Rebuilding it in the current year means transforming the cathedral into a multicultural faith center or just another tourist attraction.
But this one comes from our friend Zula B. Law.
And let me pull up what she wrote.
And she is a practicing Catholic, and she writes this.
The official site for Notre Dame Cathedral, whether in English or French, repeatedly refers to the Cathedral of Notre Dame as a monument, not a church.
The Arc des Triomphe is a monument, and I don't want to worship at it.
It is no mistake that the government takeover of all church buildings in France, we were just talking about that, during the French Revolution has reduced the churches of France to mere monuments, relics of Christianity, as the modern Frenchman now worships the state.
The heroic yellow vest movements, who have been in continuous and peaceful protest for 24 straight weeks, are protesting the fundraising for the restoration of Notre Dame, as am I, because all the monies will essentially go to the state, which owns the so-called monument.
I fully expect Macrone to lead the path for an inclusive international remembrance center.
Who knows, maybe they will rebuild the spire, but christen it as a minaret.
I am a Catholic and French, and I say don't give one red franc to the rebuilding of Notre Dame.
Interesting takes, I think.
I think so, too.
And I think Zula, as usual, hits nail on the head and drives it straight, as we say, on this.
You know, I was almost afraid to say that they might turn this into some type of multicultural worship space.
What an abomination that would be.
Now, let's just get down to it.
We've said this before, but I'll say it again for emphasis.
Christianity is regarded by most of the people of the world as the white man's religion.
And when you have groups like the black Muslims crop up, it's not because they are so attracted to Islam.
It's because they're looking for something other than Christianity to express their contempt for white people.
Now, God chose white people to protect and propagate his religion, the one true religion.
If you're a Christian, you believe that.
If you don't believe that, I don't see how you can call yourself a Christian.
But see, that's where the rub lies on this.
I don't think that if God's chosen people or the, let's say, the people that propagated and protected the faith had been in sub-Saharan Africa, I doubt that they would have built something like Notre Dame Cathedral or if Asians or if Latin Americans, whatever.
So consequently, I think the attacks on churches, regardless of whether Notre Dame was one of them or not, is an attack on white people and their religion.
That's what the people that have desecrated these other 10 churches in France would probably, that's probably the animus.
You're saying that that's what may be motivating the people who are destroying it, not that not everyone can come to the city.
No, no, no.
Yeah, right.
And on the other hand, you know, it's just incredible ingratitude that they want to come to your land and then they want to spit on you and on your religion.
But that, unfortunately, seems to be not only allowed, but encouraged nowadays by the multicultural left.
Does it surprise you that so many of the world's millionaires and billionaires have donated such great sums of money to rebuild the church?
Well, you know, somebody needs to tell Macron that with the benefits of ownership, the burdens come with it, really the French government ought to be doing it.
If they're going to own it, otherwise they need to turn it over to the church.
Hey, that's a fantastic observation as we wrap up that particular line of commentary.
When we come back, we'll talk about some apostasy here a little more closer to home.
We'll tell you what it's about when we come back.
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All right, so we spent the first half hour of this hour talking about the situation over there with Notre Dame.
We're going to move over here to America now.
And Keith, what I'm going to do here is I'm going to read a bit of a column here, and I'll give you the high sign when I'm done, and then you come in and offer the commentary on it.
But it's Pat Buchanan's most recent article, Mayor Pete and the Crackup of Christianity.
So we're staying, as you can see, on a common thread this Easter weekend.
The decline and fall of Christianity, basically.
What an encouraging thing.
Well, but not all hope is lost, of course.
And we're going to give you that hope and the promise of Easter in the third hour.
And this is really, I think, a show that we'll circle at the end of the year as being one that kind of stands out for several different reasons.
But this is what the column reads.
He says God made him that way, and he's living the life God intended for him.
Raising the same-sex marriage issue himself, the mayor defiantly taunted Mike Pence.
Now, we're talking about Mayor Pete of South Bend, Indiana, the Democrat's new darling.
This is what— And Mike Pence, of course, is the vice president of the United States.
That's right.
And Mayor Pete is a homosexual who has a man posing as his husband in the whole 90 years.
Mike Pence is not.
That's right.
Yes, Mr. Vice President, it has moved me closer to God.
That's the thing I wish the Mike Pencees of the world would understand, that if you have a problem with who I am, your quarrel is not with me.
Your quarrel, sir, is with my creator.
Nothing like a little blasphemy on Holy Week.
But this weekend, the column continues, general social survey data revealed that Americans who profess to have no religion, 23.1% of the population, now exceeds Catholics, our largest religion, with 23%, and evangelicals at 22.5%.
The nuns have grown by 266% since 1991.
We are becoming another people, Buchanan continues, and a post-Christian America appears to be our destiny well before the end of this century.
Divorce was once a rarity.
Now, half of all marriages are dissolved.
In the lifetime of many Americans, homosexuality and abortion were still scandalous crimes.
Today, they are cherished constitutional rights.
Yet Mayor Pete's assertion that God made him homosexual and God intended that he live his life this way and that this life is moral and good is another milestone and the road to that new America.
For what Mayor Pete is saying is that either God changes his moral law to confirm for the changing behavior of mankind or that for 2,000 years, Christian preaching and practice towards homosexuals has been bigoted, injurious, and morally indefensible.
If Pete is right, Since the time of Christ, Christians have persecuted gays simply for being and behaving as God intended.
And if that is true, what is then the defense of Christianity?
Now, according to Mayor Pete's logic, the West is also guilty of centuries of hateful homophobia toward people living as God made them and intended them to live.
While Democrats defend Mayor Pete's same-sex marriage as moral, they will also insist that a women's reproductive rights, quote-unquote, remain sacrosanct and that the unborn infants, 60 million of whom have been killed in the womb since Roe versus Wade in 1973, still have no rights at all, not even the right to live.
America is today as powerful, prosperous, and free as any nation the world has ever seen.
And we have used that wealth and freedom to create a culture and a society many of our own people and much of the world now see as decadent.
Post-Christian America, in many ways, is beginning to mirror what we were once taught that pre-Christian Rome looked like.
Indeed, if the mayor's lifestyle is moral, Christianity got it wrong for 20 centuries.
Well, it's like what Mark Weber said on our show several months ago.
He said, if you really just want to extol and pat yourself on the back for freedom, we certainly have a freer society than we've ever had before.
We're free to blaspheme God.
We're free to get not only no punishment, but the support of the cultural powers that be for doing that.
That's what's happening.
And it's, you know, Christianity is becoming a minority default position in America.
And, you know, as much as certain churches want to try to pander to the culture, want to try to, you know, somehow be in with the in crowd, the in crowd doesn't include Christians, folks, at least not true Christians.
And this is becoming plainer and plainer with each passing day.
To talk a little bit about this guy that is the Democrats' new darling and certainly the media's new darling, and he is a sweetheart.
He brings out this guy that's his husband and kisses him on stage.
And this is just so wonderful.
And the media is just laughing it up.
And they're saying that this is how the Democrats are going to recapture the Christians, that they are going to reconfigure Christian.
And he is now all Christians are going to say, hey, you know, the Democrats, they were the real Christians all along.
That's right.
We've seen that a time or two in other aspects of culture.
But this is what I found interesting about this guy, Mayor Pete.
So when he comes out, the first thing he's asked about in most of his appearances is his homosexuality.
And they'll ask him questions such as, what would it be like to be the first, well, they call it gay, of course, a misinterpretation of the true meaning of that word.
But what would it be like for you to be the first gay president?
And he'll lay it on thick about how wonderful it would be and how far America's come and how great we are.
But to me, the thing that I picked up on that was we are not allowed to have an identity.
We are not allowed to have an identity and who our ancestors are, even the true application of our faith or any of the other things that makes us as southerners unique.
We're told that that's bad to have identity.
Identity politics is bad.
But this guy, his identity is his sin.
His identity is, and let me just say, and I was saying this before the show tonight.
I am a sinner.
I deserve an eternity in hell, but through grace, I can be forgiven.
So I'm not saying that I'm necessarily better than anybody else, but what I'm saying is this man, Mayor Pete, his identity is his degeneracy.
And that is an identity that they will allow him to have.
And in fact, celebrate him and push him on for having that.
And that is his identity.
His homosexuality is his identity.
That is what he wants people to know him for.
Well, just think of how far we've come in so short a time.
Back during the waning years of the Clinton administration in the 1990s, they were pushing for don't ask, don't tell.
And I'm sure there are plenty of Christians said, yeah, that's nice, and we ought to go along with that.
You know, that's good.
Well, that's the camel's nose in the tent once more.
You know, once they got you to that point, they weren't about to rest there.
You've got to understand you're negotiating with the Ayatollah Homeani.
If he gets half a loaf in his negotiations today, he will be back tomorrow to claim the rest of the loaf.
That's what they're doing now.
Don't ask, don't tell is terribly bigoted and biased.
What you need to do instead is validate this and basically put your Christian principles, make them modified so that they're in with the in crowd and the groovy folks that tell you now that let's get with it.
You know, let's be modern in every way.
Well, it's coming.
I mean, this is the latest onset of radical liberal egalitarianism, this homosexual movement.
I mean, it's been building for at least the last 10, 15, 20 years now.
I think in the 90s, it really started to get a foothold in the media, and you started seeing more and more of it on television and in movies.
But unfortunately, we don't have those strong Christian leaders.
Well, we do.
Unfortunately, we do.
They're being marginalized.
But they're not in the positions of power and authority in the churches.
And just like every other radical egalitarian movement, they're going to trim their sails to take the path of least resistance.
Why put our neck out and risk our sinecure in our position?
We'll stop talking about that.
And I think we've seen it go that way.
Look at our Southern Baptist church.
Well, conservatism has lost every battle it's claimed to be fighting for decades upon hundreds of years now.
It's what Dabney said.
He said that modern Christianity is just a sparring partner of modern liberalism.
Well, I think he was talking about conservative.
Well, conservatism and Christianity.
A lot of times they overlap.
Well, in this case, the traditional view, which would be the conservative view, is also the true Christian view on this.
So, you know, and I'll stand by that.
But see, this is the situation we've got now.
You're no longer, there are a lot of people that would have welcomed a don't ask, don't tell situation.
They don't want to be judgmental.
They want to, you know, have conflicts all the time.
But on the other hand, now you're required, and your church is required, to absolutely endorse it.
Like, you know, do we have to mention it again?
The current moderator of the Southern Baptist Convention, J.D. Greeter, said that what, James?
He said that Southern Baptists, and this is what he said in a sermon.
So this isn't hearsay.
I mean, this isn't, I mean, this is what it is.
He said that the Southern Baptists should be the most ardent supporters of the LGBT community.
You can't just turn a blind eye to it even.
You've got to be out there pressing people.
Like I heard, well, another thing, I heard a Steve or a report of a Steve Gaines sermon recently where he said that the two greatest sins troubling America today is abortion and racism.
Well, I'll agree on abortion.
Racism is this moving target.
You never know what it is, but it's changing daily.
And I guarantee you, he will abandon the fight against abortion just as quickly as he fought as he abandoned the fight against government.
You know how much?
Well, and it's not, it's not, it's everybody.
I mean, you can focus on one person, but if the media turns up the heat and if you are running a risk of losing your position if you don't back down, a lot of people are going to back down.
And that is unfortunately human nature.
That's why heroes rise and the rest of the people are forgotten.
Rather than what would Jesus do, it's what would George Soros do?
Do you know where the solution can be found, Mr. President?
In churches, in wedding chapels, in maternity wards across the country and around the world.
More babies will mean forward-looking adults, the sort we need to tackle long-term, large-scale problems.
American babies, in particular, are likely going to be wealthier, better educated, and more conservation-minded than children raised in still industrializing countries.
As economist Tyler Cowan recently wrote, By having more children, you're making your nation more populous, thus boosting its capacity to solve climate change.
The planet does not need for us to think globally and act locally so much as it needs us to think family and act personally.
The solution to so many of our problems at all times and in all places is to fall in love, get married, and have some kids.
Have we realized the assault against our lives, our liberties, our faith?
To defeat this assault, Christians and all people of goodwill should have strategies to prevail in our faith and principles, which are simple.
No need for a complex formula.
One goal, one aim.
A strategy like the heroic Christians of the past.
We win, they lose.
Nothing less.
Big Q Little Q: The Calm Before the Storm.
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I'd advise 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.
Whenever things are going badly for you and you lose, you start blaming somebody else.
And you don't have what it takes to be in this job.
Welcome back.
To get on the show, call us on James's Dime at 1-866-986-6397.
All right, well, this first hour is certainly going by very quickly, but it is just a precursor of the things to come tonight.
This is the only hour, in fact, that we'll be talking about any current issues.
Second hour, Kirk Lyons.
Salute to the South continues.
And then third hour, Easter.
We're going to talk about the resurrection of Jesus Christ, which is what Easter is all about.
Resurrection Day, if you want to call it that, as we do sometimes.
That's tomorrow, and we're going to tell you why it's so important and why it should be remembered, not just on this show, but by all good people.
Okay, one more thing about Mayor Pete that I picked up on this week.
I don't know.
There's just some real fuzzy math.
I think Dick Cheney once called it fuzzy math.
There's some fuzzy math going on here.
I can't pronounce his last name, but we'll just call him Mayor Pete.
The headline read, Mayor Pete's meteoric rise in the polls.
Mayor Pete's meteoric rise in the polls.
And this is a CNN article.
And again, it begins by listing his name, Pete Budigag, I guess is his name.
We'll just call him Mayor Pete.
But listen to this.
So we're talking about his meteoric rise in the polls.
Mayor Pete just scored his highest Democratic primary national poll number today.
This is an article that came out this week.
At 4%.
That wouldn't be very high if you didn't start awfully low at 1%.
Well, if he went to 2%, he would have doubled, right?
That's right.
I guess, yeah, you could have the headline, Pete doubles his poll numbers.
Pete quadruples his poll numbers.
But this is supposed to be a meteoric rise.
They'll go from 0 to 4%.
Well, 4% is still within the margin of error of most polls.
And I can tell you something.
When I was working for Pat Buchanan in 2000 in his last presidential run, he was polling around 4% for a while.
And no one called it a meteoric rise in the polls for Pat.
But 4% whose side they're on.
But yeah, I mean, talk about going all in for this guy.
And it just says that former Vice President Joe Biden continues to lead the Democratic field at 29% according to this Quinnipiac poll.
Bernie Sanders at 19%.
Beto O'Dork at 12%.
Senator Kamala Harris at 8%.
And Mayor Pete still standing lands him in fifth, tied with Elizabeth Warren there at 4%.
Although he is ahead of Corey Booker at 2%.
Anyway, I'm telling you, Keith, we talked about this before.
This is going to be, I think, as one of our listeners in Oklahoma wrote into us or commented to me, this is going to be the nastiest election since the election of 1860.
And it is going to get real dirty.
I mean, if you thought the Trump and Hillary matchup was dirty politics, wait until these guys start going after it.
It's basically a bunch of little putians that are going to savage and destroy one another in the Democratic Party.
I've got a great new name for Beto O'Rourke.
How about Beta O'Rourke?
Yeah, that's a good one.
Yeah, because he is a beta, if there ever was one.
But that's what's going on there in the Democratic Party.
But just the fact that they're positioning this guy to be the exemplar of Christianity, I thought was a fitting story here on Holy Week.
Mike Pence leads a lot to be desired, but I mean, he's right on that.
And Mayor Pete isn't.
So we'll just leave it there.
Hey, I got to remind you, folks, now that we got everybody's packages sent out, which we did a couple of weeks ago, for those of you who contributed to the program in the month of March, now that we got all those gift incentives sent out, why not roll out a special supplemental appeal, which was the brainchild of our friend Scott Goldsmith in Traveler's Rest, South Carolina, there at Dixie Republic.
So I was talking to Scott.
He said, you know, that t-shirt we made for y'all a couple of years ago, I got it now.
Well, we can do it in Confederate gray.
We'll change the color from royal blue, which is what you had a couple of years ago, and Confederate gray, and it could tie in with your Confederate History Month series, which we're doing this month.
And so there they are available.
So we have them available for anybody who can contribute $100 or more.
You're going to get two shirts.
So it can be one for you and your sweetie or one for you and a friend or a brother or a son or whatever.
They come in all sizes, from youth all the way up to triple, quadruple X, I guess you could say.
And so we can get you those, $100 or more, and you're going to get two of those T-shirts.
So let us know when you contribute, whether it be online or if you send in a check, put it in the memo of the check what sizes you need.
If you contribute online, email us.
And a lot of people have already ordered these.
And we're splitting the profits with Dixie Republic because they're a great company.
They've got great gifts.
It's a great, great gift shop.
And it's one of a kind, truly.
And they have been supporting us for years.
I think they're the only people we've got that's run a commercial, the same commercial, 10 plus years on a radio show.
But some things, when you get it right the first time, you don't change it.
Well, I hope everybody is patronizing them because they really deserve it.
They are a voice crying in the wilderness.
And you can order from them, by the way, online at DixieRepublic.com.
You can order straight from them.
They've got all sorts of different gift items there from shirts.
Well, you hear it in the commercials.
You know what they got.
From shirts all the way down to barbecue sauce, keychains, hats, all kinds of apparel, flags, bumper stickers, lighters.
I mean, anything you need.
They can put a Confederate flag on it.
And while everybody, all the rest of society is running away from Confederate monuments, they're running to the sound of the fire.
That's right.
They're engaging the enemy and unapologetically honoring our ancestors.
And they have, of course, as I said, we've partnered with them to create the official TPC t-shirt.
And it's a nice t-shirt, 100% cotton.
It has a nice radio microphone.
I was wearing it around the house yesterday.
I should have worn it tonight so Keith could describe it to you.
But it's got this old-timey, well, we put a picture of it on the website, so you can go check it out there.
But it's got an old-timey radio microphone with some lightning bolts coming out of it, and it reads the voice of the South.
No retreat, no surrender, no apologies.
That's our motto.
And so you can check it out.
This is a limited edition t-shirt, this Confederate gray in color, only available to fans of the show until April 30th.
So make your contribution, get two of these t-shirts.
They're going to be shipped to you directly from Dixie Republic in South Carolina.
So there's going to be very little weight on that.
And like I said, get one for yourself, another for a friend or family member, and help keep our show on the air and help support Scott and the good people over there at Dixie Republic.
And so we thank you for your support of this supplemental fundraising appeal, this special appeal that coincides with our Confederate History Month series.
And again, if you donate online or check $100 or more, just be sure to let us know what sizes you need.
And Scott, we'll fulfill that order.
Now, I want to read one more thing because I'm not going to take away time from our guest in the third hour.
But I did put up something that I wrote several years ago, and we rerun it every Good Friday.
And if you don't mind, ladies and gentlemen, with just a couple of minutes remaining this hour, as our focus really is on the eternal tonight, with it being Easter Eve, as it were, I wrote, reposted an article yesterday on Good Friday entitled The Promise of Easter.
I'd like to read it for you, if you'd let me do that.
I wrote yesterday that today is Good Friday, which marks the beginning of the weekend where most of the Christian world commemorates what was the pivotal point in history, the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Imagine what it must have felt like for his mother, disciples, and the small band of family and friends to watch as he agonizingly gasped for air on the cross.
What was going through their minds as they witnessed the most unspeakable act of injustice the world had ever seen unfold right before their eyes?
How often do we find ourselves lamenting the slow grinding death of our nation, our culture, and our very flesh and blood kinsmen in this degenerate age?
At our gatherings, we recount horror upon horror as we feel our way of life slipping from our grasp.
But yet at the very darkest of hours, we must remember the words spoken so long ago at the empty tomb.
He is not here.
He is risen.
To the degree those words resonate in our hearts, they should strike fear in the hearts of our enemies.
The more we take them to heart, the more those who oppose us lose heart.
They know instinctively what we too easily forget.
It only takes one.
We don't have to take over the Republican Party or the media, and we don't have to outnumber them.
It only takes one.
It can happen because it did happen.
And he promised that we would do even greater things than he because he would be working through us.
So I ask that you take time to ponder that promise and have a very blessed and happy Easter weekend.
And Keith, I want to give you the opportunity with only two minutes remaining this hour before we shift gears to our southern salute as that series continues.
The third week of our four-week series this year coming up tonight with Kirk Lyons and then Pastor Rogers in the third hour to basically give us a radio version of an Easter sermon.
Keith?
Well, what I was going to say was going to be to tie this in with Confederate History Month.
I don't think we would be confronting these incredible issues that we're talking about in this first hour in America today if the South had won the war.
I don't think that the liberalism of the Northeast would have taken over the South.
I think the South would have remained a bastion of Christian conservative orthodoxy.
And we would not have to be even considering the issues that we've been talking about today and every week on our show.
Can you imagine how bad, on the other hand, and certainly I wish we would have won, but can you imagine how bad the United States would be had it not been for that moral rudder in the South doing everything it could to keep it from going at a breakneck speed towards degeneracy?
Well, what happens?
There is a lesson to be drawn, and that's that you don't want to settle for being a beautiful loser, as Sam Francis said.
We were, our ancestors were beautiful losers.
You know, there are untold numbers.
Only one Union town was burned by Confederate troops, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, or Maryland, I forget which one it was, by Jubal Early's forces to protest Sherman's march to the sea.
The North, and particularly Sherman and Grant, engaged in total warfare, destroying crops, raping women, destroying livestock, trying to starve people to death.
Mississippi was not even a major theater in the war, but 43 towns in Mississippi alone were burned to the ground by Union troops.
We could say we took the moral high ground, but is anybody giving the Confederates any credit for that in today's world?
It would have been if we had not been beautiful losers, but had won.
And if we won, I don't think America would be in the dire straits it's in today.
We'll take a break with that, ladies and gentlemen.