Dec. 21, 2019 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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You're listening to the Liberty News Radio Network, and this is the Political Sesspool.
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everybody, what an appropriate way to kick off our final broadcast before Christmas this Saturday evening, December the 21st.
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But first, but first, we have one of our all-time favorites, the renowned attorney and orator, one of my very good friends, Sam Dixon, is back to talk about the impeachment of Donald Trump and other current events.
Sam, Merry Christmas.
I know you've been under the weather this week.
It really means a lot that you're with us tonight.
Well, I'm happy to be.
I'm happy to be feeling better.
I've had the flu for the last 10 days, and I'm still not quite entirely over it, but at least I'm feeling a whole lot better than I did five days ago.
Braving the flu to be with you tonight, the incomparable Sam Dixon.
The fever's gone, and the last lingering effects of congestion.
Try not to be packing and coughing and bothering your listeners.
We'll try not to put too much stress on your mind tonight, but let's get right down to it.
This will be, I guess, just about the last political issue we tackle here on a show that promises to be as informative as it is festive.
We're going to mix the two this evening.
But Donald Trump has been impeached, and he's one of three American presidents to have been so.
They're saying he abused his power.
I like you, Sam.
My opinion of Trump has waned from the promise we thought he might, could possibly have some years ago, even though then it was still a long shot.
I would say you've used the word lukewarm.
I'm lukewarm towards Trump, but I don't think he's abused his power.
I don't think he's done really much of anything except run his mouth of all the things that Trump has done in office, briefly delaying foreign aid to Ukraine in support of its ongoing military conflict with Russia over Crimea, which is utterly none of our business, is about the last thing that makes him morally unfit to be president.
I think there's some projection going on here.
I think between the two, if anyone is abusing power, it's Madam Speaker.
But what do you make of this whole political pageant, Sam?
Well, I take a long-range view of it.
I see it as somebody who grew up as who first became aware of Paul Vixen as a seven, eight, twelve year old in the 1950s.
And it is inconceivable to people what the psychological mood and the atmosphere was about politics at that time.
It was an era of total trust, total trust of the government, American exceptionalism.
We're just God's little darlings.
God works 24-7 to cater to America because it's the greatest country on earth and all this other stuff that is so harmful and so bad for people.
And it was just sterile.
The so-called stability was suffocating.
Nobody really thought of anything.
It was just dead, dead, dead with people trusting a government that, as it has been now for generations, is the enemy of the American people.
But people were thrilled to pay income tax.
There's even a song about how great it was to pay your income tax.
I remember a kid in elementary school named Chuck Thorpe, whose father got audited by the IRS.
The very fact that his father got audited caused real hostility to Chuck and his family among all of these wasp southerners because he might have done something wrong.
And some of that ended in Vietnam.
Vietnam did a lot of the good things of Vietnam is it undermined the idea of American invincibility and unlimited resources and all this kind of stuff.
And it caused widespread distrust in the government.
But the problem with that was the distrust caused in the government mainly arose from people on the left.
And the good thing about the chaos in government now, the stuff that has come out, the Snowden information, for instance, which is now virtually totally forgotten, it's never discussed.
But the Snowden stuff, the behavior of the FBI, the general plan, the very fact that the term deep state is now part of the political vocabulary.
These are all good things, Ross.
For those of us who regard the system as the enemy of the American people, which I think it is.
All of my life, I've had to live with people who worship the FBI.
J. Edgar Hoover, J. Edgar Hoover, back in the 50s and 60s, the John Burst Society sold J. Edgar Hoover's book about the masters of the seat.
He was quoted as he had written the fifth gospel.
And I knew enough to know that the FBI was the political police of the system and not from the American people.
Now, with the stuff that's gone on, the Russia investigation, the revelations of how the FBI was trying to influence the election, help Hillary Clinton, and the outrageous behavior of the FBI and storming that guy's house with 40 or 50 agents with holding guns and raiding it at 5.30 in the morning or something,
having tipped off the press so it could show these glamour boys, the heroes of the FBI.
You're talking about the raid of Roger Stone's home, if if anyone's right, Roger Stone.
These things have caused profound changes.
Not just a little political theater, which is all the impeachment thing is, but they caused a great change, a loss of faith in the CIA, in the FBI, in the Pentagon, the whole deep state, among the very people who are the core of the nation, the people the government hates the most, the Anglo-Saxon.
and related ethnic groups.
For the first time, a significant percentage of these people now view the FBI and the deep state with distaste.
That's a very important problem.
Hold on right there, my friend.
We're going to give you a quick breather.
We're going to take our first break of the night.
Nobody can set up a commentary like Sam Dixon.
Did you hear the path he took to ease into that transition?
We're talking with him about the impeachment of Donald Trump.
And we will continue that discussion in three minutes' time.
Don't go anywhere.
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.
Whenever 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.
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It's time to jump back into the political cesspool.
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All right, everybody.
We have been granted a plastic tub full of Christmas cards when my wife went to the post office a couple of days from listeners across the country and around the world.
Email correspondents as well coming in from Brandon and Colorado just a few minutes before the show tonight, in fact.
Hello, James and TPC crew.
Just wanted to wish you all a Merry Christmas.
I appreciate your Christmas music during this season on the show.
Money's been tight, but please accept my small contribution.
More should be forthcoming in the new year.
Well, thank you so much for that, Brandon.
I'm glad that some of you out there enjoy the fact, appreciate the fact that we do play a little music at the top of each segment to help stir your heart during this special and spiritual time of giving and goodwill.
Steve in New York.
Dear James, I want to wish you a Merry Christmas.
Thanks for all your hard work.
Even though we've never met, I'm proud to call you my friend.
Well, we certainly have that familial bond that we share with our audience.
Those of you we've met in person, even those of you we've never met.
I'm glad you feel the same way we do about you.
We continue on now with Sam Dixon talking about the impeachment of Donald Trump.
It did indeed happen.
We're going to impeach the expletive, said Rashida Tlaib.
And on Wednesday night, Nancy Pelosi delivered the goods.
Now, it should be remembered that this is so far a wet noodle, Sam.
The House has impeached Trump.
It has not been delivered to the Senate.
It may not be delivered to the Senate.
There has been no trial.
He has not been convicted.
But of the alleged abuse of power, they don't list anything.
No treason, no bribery, no extortion, no high crimes.
What kind of impeachment is this?
It's just political fear.
It's just the kind of nonsense that the system has evolved.
Government is no longer dignified.
Like I was saying, it's lost the faith of the people.
And this is a good thing.
Lack of faith in the system is the sign of hope for our people.
And the impeachment thing, you've heard things you know.
This thing irritates on the listeners.
I'm sorry about that because you and I are all friends.
But if the situation were reversed and it was Hillary Clinton who was caught calling Ukraine, the Republicans would be calling for impeachment and the Democrats would be poo-pooing.
By and large, these people in Congress and the Senate are people, but they have no principles.
They can't redo anything.
So I'm really not interested in it.
I haven't wasted much time following it.
It is silly, like you were saying about Biden.
The old saying goes that when you point a finger at somebody else, you have three fingers pointing back at yourself.
You know, Biden made a call to Ukraine, and his call was to stop criminal investigations into corruption involving a company where his totally unqualified son was getting, I've heard these fantastic figures of money to somebody who should only be a matter of buying political influence.
So the same people who are sitting on these impeachment committees who are just in a state of shock that Trump made this call, they don't care at all that Biden paid the call to stop corruption investigation.
And you see institutions like NPR, for some time after when this story broke, they would breathlessly, invariably say that Biden did nothing wrong.
It was a facial policy.
It's like a little mantra.
They all have that.
Well, I'm sorry.
The official law of the United States makes bribery and corrupt business practices by American corporations in foreign countries a serious crime.
And that law sets the policy, not some collusive thing within the Obama administration saying, yeah, we're going to have an official policy of stopping corruption investigations.
It's just pathetic.
There's a guy named, I think his name is Ken Punk.
You know who I'm talking about?
His first name?
No, I know.
Ken, I'm sorry, that's time, but he is a Republican from Colorado.
He's a Republican congressman.
I heard him today on the internet.
He really was very good.
For the first time, somebody dealt with putting this impeachment inquiry in the context of American history and the things that other presidents have done.
And the same thing can be done with the Russian investigation.
All of this hullabaloo about Trump making a phone call about trying to get a company investigated that was involved with Biden's son.
That's pretty damn thin suit to begin with.
It may be wrong, but if you impeached presidents for that kind of thing, there would never have been a president who would have stayed in hospital.
It'd be like a revolving, it'd be like a game of- Well, no, no, you bring forth, this is a great point.
I mean, you're talking about Hunter Biden, though.
I can't remember the exact figure, whether it was $50,000 or $30,000 a month he was getting to do nothing for this company in Ukraine.
I mean, that's a salary I could win with.
If I was getting that kind of money, I could go out and win.
It's indispensable.
But here again, the breakdown of the system at large is such that the Democrats, the base of the Democratic Party, will support that.
These are supposed to be the people who historically, if there was Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt for the little man and all that.
The thing just stinks from the very beginning.
A guy with no education getting $50,000 a month, more than a school teacher made.
In a year.
The only thing he could bring to the table is political influence.
I mean, if I were a liberal Democrat, I would admit that.
Yeah, it stinks.
One of them will.
Well, this brings up another point, Sam, that I want to work in very quickly before the break, which we're about to hit, is that they're impeaching Trump.
And again, I'm not rushing to Trump's defense.
I think he's been a great disappointment.
But to impeach him over this, and you have untold numbers of members of Congress who are criminally corrupt.
I mean, to the point where I don't think treason is putting, you know, being overly dramatic.
There is any number of elected officials you could impeach for a very good reason.
But this is the one that we find.
I mean, out of all the presidents we've had in recent years.
It's all phony on both sides.
It's just insincerity and maneuvering and posturing.
And, you know, don't forget Ed Snowden.
Under the Obama, under the Obama administration, members of the administration went and swore under oath to a Congress that there was no monitoring of Americans' email.
And then Snowden and Chelsea Manning blew the wind.
Listen to that.
They were intercepting and recording every email that American Associates sent.
A massive violation of the Fourth Amendment prohibition against illegal searches and seizures.
Did anybody suggest impeaching any of these people yapping about Trump?
When any of them step forward and say Obama should have been impeached, I sure as hell.
To me, somebody that is lying under oath about an unconstitutional program in direct violation of the Bill of Rights that invaded the privacy of every American citizen in this country, that just dwarfs by a factor of millions what they say that's from.
I agree.
We're going to continue this once more in the next segment.
Then we'll shift gears with the final segment we have Sam on for in a few minutes' time and talk about something that I think is interesting.
And I think Sam will have an interesting take on it.
But one more segment on the impeachment with Sam Dixon right before Christmas.
We'll be back.
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Really is a beautiful time of year, a time for family to be together, Christmas time.
And we have a great Christmas message for you coming up later on in the show.
And I do consider our guest tonight to be a member of my family.
We love him dearly, Sam Dixon, talking about the impeachment of Donald Trump.
And Sam, I have to ask, I mean, we know that this is political theater, but who benefits?
I think if Trump has done one thing effectively, it is that he has really unmasked the end game of what the media and the most radical of the Democrats had in mind all along.
He has absolutely sent them into fits of hysterics.
They're apoplectic.
And I don't know if this whole impeachment pageantry is just a bone to throw to their most rabid of supporters.
I still am not convinced that the Impeachment will be delivered to the Senate.
I don't even know if they're actually going to go through with this.
We'll see.
But I think most likely, I mean, Trump was facing a ticking clock, demographically speaking.
But I think the Democrats may have gone so far to the left of the primaries and so over the top and off the rails with this impeachment charade that they could deliver Trump's reelection.
What do you think about that?
He may squeak back in.
The demographics is destiny.
The fact is that America becoming a non-white country, we're going to have to find another country.
And people are going to have to go outside the system and think of new and imaginative programs for our people to survive.
And the clearest of those is we need a partition of the country and an ethno-state.
We have the same right to an ethnostate that Jews have to an ethno-state.
If Jews have a right to an ethnostate in Israel, we should have a right to one here.
And the numbers are just such that people like AOC and the others, they are going to run America and they hate us.
And nothing we can do is ever going to stop their hating us.
And so the system itself is our enemy, and the system itself is doomed.
And the thing we need to be thinking about is what the future holds and how we will lead our people out of this chaos.
But I was pleased, I looked up the name of this Republican congressman.
If anyone can, you know, people should Google this.
His name is Ken Buck.
And he's the only one I've heard that has put these charges into the perspective of American history.
He even attacks Lincoln from Colorado, of all places.
You know, one of the great idols of the sheeple, the worship of Abraham Lincoln.
You know, he even attacks, he brings out the stuff that Lincoln did.
When you look at it, you take these people that are calling for Trump's impeachment.
If I were a Republican, the House represents, I think I might have made a proposal that, oh, all right, I'll agree to vote for the impeachment if you agree to take Franklin Roosevelt off the dime and shut down his monument.
We know things that Roosevelt did.
That's at Yalta, talk about conspiring with foreign leaders and stuff for political advantage, all this Russia thing.
It's well known, it's indisputable that Franklin Roosevelt made an agreement at Yalta to turn half of Poland over to the Soviet Union.
And he did that with full knowledge that only about three years before, the Soviet Union had massacred and killed virtually every officer in the Polish Army.
You know, you, you, you know, and they and he asked Stalin to keep this secret, don't let it out, because I need the votes of the Polish Catholics in the upcoming election.
Now, talk about collusion, and that's Stalin, who the people like AOC and Adam Schiff, they probably like Stalin.
They hate Putin, but they like, they probably like Stalin.
But in terms of just what it is, that's Roosevelt conspiring with the bloodiest dictator in history, far, well, except now, far beyond anything Hitler did, and knowing he was turning 10 million plus people over to people that had perpetrated horrific massacres of priests and officers and landowners only three years before.
And don't let anybody know, because help me, help me, Brother Stalin.
We got to keep this away from those stupid Polaks.
I'm going to get their votes.
That guy should be on the dime, and Trump should be impeached, please.
Sam's a massive position, you know what you're dealing with when you talk to somebody that takes that position.
Like I was saying, you know, I voted for Trump.
I will vote for Trump again.
But, you know, he's done things that I have no problem looking at the facts and saying this is wrong.
If you want to talk about impeaching somebody, I think partnering this American, supporting this American soldier who was caught on film stabbing to death a prisoner of war in the neck and carrying this guy around and embracing him, I'm sorry.
I am an American.
I am not a bleeding heart.
But killing prisoners of war, it does not fit my definition of Americanism.
And I'm not happy with President Trump for doing that.
I'm not happy with him having this little meeting with a bunch of mega Zionists to try to prevent criticism of Israel on our college campuses in violation of our sense.
I can vote for Trump and be someone who generally votes for Republicans.
And I can look at those things and I can say, that's wrong.
And I hope most of the listeners can do that and not get mad at me for criticizing Trump.
But the kind of people that support the base of people like AOC and Schiff and the New York Times editorial board and the Washington Times editorial.
These people don't give a fig about Franklin Roosevelt doing that with Stalin.
They could care less because, in fact, they may even, I don't secretly like it because it involves killing white European Christians.
And I think a lot of them get their jollies that way.
Ladies and gentlemen, when we come back in the next segment, you will see how masterfully Sam segued the topic, the conversation about the impeachment into what will be our next topic with him.
We only have him for one more segment.
Then we're going to let him continue his recuperation from the flu.
But the next segment we've got coming up deals with the anniversaries that are commemorated every December of Pearl Harbor and the Battle of the Bulge, which I believe the 75th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge took place on December 16th, which is the beginning of that battle.
That was also my wife's birthday, so that's why it stands out to me just a few days ago.
But, you know, my talk, if we could spend an hour talking with you about that, Sam, I'm going to let this marinate with you while we wait for the music to begin, and then we'll have your response to that.
But when you look at those anniversaries, you were in the Army.
So you know, you can certainly give credit where credit is due for the gallantry and the valor of our soldiers.
I say this a lot when we talk about topics like this.
I would not have wanted to get off one of those boats at Normandy.
And even though I think, as Buchanan put it, they were fighting an unnecessary war, it doesn't take away the fact that they did what they thought was their duty.
But just thinking about those wars, and you were talking, you touched on it just a few moments ago in your commentary, it's so heartbreaking to me.
Talk about nuanced.
Both sides clearly lost the world wars in catastrophic fashion.
The best and most fit of European mankind were decimated, and it created a vacuum that has been filled by the weak, the timid, and the apologetic.
So we're going to get Sam Dixon's take on that, those sacrifices, how those wars forever changed the history of the West, and how we can recover from them going forward to a broader future at Christmastime and all the time.
We'll be right back.
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What a beautiful English hymn, Good King Wenceslas.
And every time, I've listened to that song countless times, and every time I do, what a stirring piece of art.
It always brings a tear to my eye.
That's the spirit I wish Western man could embrace once more and embrace it towards one another, unlike what we have seen over the course of the last century, especially.
Talking about the World War, Sam, Conrad Lorenz, who was a Nobel Prize-winning German sociobiologist, he had talked about in his books about genetic decay and the effeminated phenotypes of the EU ruling class.
And I think a lot of this is because the best and most fit of our people were, especially on the European side, were massacred in those wars.
Even the legacy of the First World War, it destroyed the colonial system, smashed all European nobility, ushered in the communist era, the communist era, and psychologically neutered nations.
Talking about the Christmas spirit, though, Sam, this is what I want you to respond to.
You think back on the Christmas truce, the series, of course, of unofficial ceasefires along the Western Front around Christmas 1914 in the week leading up to the holiday.
German and British soldiers, as our audience should know, crossed trenches to exchange seasonal greetings and talk in areas men from both sides ventured into no man's land on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day to mingle and exchange food, play football, prisoner swaps, carol singing even, giving one of the most enduring images of the truce.
I think the people who survived those wars have to make themselves believe that what they did was just and right.
I mean, how else could you deal with it?
I don't know if the men who died in those wars would have agreed that it was worth it considering what is happening now in the United States and in Europe.
But I think it's one of the greatest tragedies in the history of Western civilization that the world wars didn't end with that Christmas truce in 1914.
Sam, what could it have looked like if it had?
Well, it should not only have ended Christmas of 1914, it never should have begun to begin with.
It was not inevitable, the way you claim it was.
The relations between the European powers were becoming friendlier.
The French were finally accepting the loss of Alsace and Lorraine.
The Germans and the British had reached an agreement to stop their naval arms race, which had embittered relations.
And the radical war-mongering French parties were losing ground in the elections, and life was moving on.
But I call World War I and World War II the First and Second Modern Peloponnesian Wars in reference to the Peloponnesian Wars that destroyed ancient Greece, where the Spartans and Athenians went at it for a decade or so and destroyed Greece.
And that's what we did.
I mean, we are all one common religion, we have one common culture, stretching all the way around the world from San Francisco to Vladivostok and Russia across Siberia to Moscow and St. Petersburg to Berlin to Paris to London and then to America and Charleston and Nashville and Memphis and Los Angeles.
We have to see ourselves as a part of a European civilization.
And this has been one of the great failings of American history.
The revolution, I think, was a mistake.
America had to leave Britain.
The idea that removed the North American continent from London, no, that could not be.
But instead of some sort of negotiated, affectionate parting for Paris, we ended up with this war with our own people.
And it became ingrained in American mythology about British tyranny.
Well, Britain was the freest country on earth in 1776.
And so was America under their idea that King George is a tyrant is just ridiculous.
But it means just totally untrue.
But this idea of America versus Europe is an extremely dangerous and pernicious thing that's always been there for people like Franklin Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson to use to con people into wars, the purpose of which have been very different from the official purpose.
In every case.
This is a great point.
Yeah, in both of those wars, there was the official reason, and then there would be the ostensible reason, and then there were the real reasons.
And Americans are just suckers for this type of stuff.
Anti-monarchist rhetoric, how terrible the kings were.
Can you imagine if King George had extracted 47% of the entire wealth and production of the nation for taxes as our much voted democracy?
Again, hey, I'd rather live under the House of Lords and a House of Commons elected by 10% of the people and a constitutional monarch like King King like George III and pay the tea tax than to live in a country in which 47% is taken from us.
It's just, but it's there.
That Mitt Romney character, that very, very bad person, you know, the never Trump guy.
Maybe he'll vote for his teacher.
I don't know.
But he one of his little favorite things is, we don't want to be like Europe.
Well, I've been to Europe.
You've probably been to Europe.
I have a very high opinion of you.
That's beautiful.
We're having a very fine time in St. Petersburg and Moscow and Berlin and Vienna and Rome and Paris and London.
What is this?
We don't want to be like Europe.
Europe's a great place.
It's where our people are.
People who look like you and me, our distant cousins, blood of our blood, the religion of our religion.
But why do we want to hate them?
Why do we not want to be like them?
But here again, like Wilson and Roosevelt, Romney was appealing to this twisted form of American patriotism: we fought against Europe, fought against Britain.
We escaped tyranny.
Every 4th of July, the system counts out the very useful lies in which young Americans are marinated.
So, to prepare them to be useful servants of a system that hates them.
You hear every year that America was found on the principle that all men are created equal.
Well, as you and I know, there's never been an equal man in the history of humanity.
No one is equal, even Dennis Lindsey might.
A lot of mistakes have been made since the American experiment kicked off.
And I hope that the egregious mistakes that have been made over the course of the last century, especially, can be rectified as we go forward into a brighter future.
Sam, you're like a fine wine.
An hour of commercial talk radio only scratches the surface.
I wish we could.
I know that I offend a lot of people, and I don't get joy in offending.
I want to help people.
But before we leave, here's a little area that's very interesting to explore.
Hold that thought right there.
Hold that thought.
I have to work this in.
I want you to have the last word.
I just want to tell you, and I told our two of our listeners in Nashville that I would share this with you.
They wrote as they're listening to the show right now: tell Sam, I was so inspired by his speech on Sunday.
They're talking about the speech you gave at our event a few weeks ago, that I bought the book, The Forsaken, and have since read two memoirs of Americans caught up in the gulag.
I told him I would be sure to share that with you while you're on the air.
That's exactly what I was going to say.
I was going to ask our listenership who have been miseducated and misinformed by the school system of media a question.
How many Americans did Adolf Hitler kill before we entered the war?
The answer, I'll give the answer.
The answer is zero.
How many Americans did our great ally, the Soviet form of democracy, as Frankman and Alan Roseman like to call it, Marshall Stalin?
How many Americans do you think Stalin killed before World War II?
And I'll give the answer to that.
At least 10,000, and perhaps as many as 100,000 Americans were by Stalin.
There's a book about it called The Forsaken, written by not by some nutcase like Sam Dixon and James Edwards, published by some obscure sectarian publishing company like Countercurrents or something.
This guy teaches at Oxford University in Great Britain.
And he goes all into it.
These were people who were foolish enough to go and to help build the utopian workers' paradise in the Soviet Union.
And they arrived and they discovered that it wasn't what they thought it was.
And the Russian administration's policy was not to help these people come home and to cover up the fact that they were being killed by the NKVD.
Sam, Merry Christmas.
You've left us wanting more, and I look forward to the next time already.
We love you.
Sounds great.
All right.
Thank you, both.
Take care.
Sam Dixon, everybody.
We'll be back with Lacey and Courtney in the second hour.