Dec. 28, 2019 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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Well, welcome, everyone, to our final broadcast of the year, our final broadcast of the decade, our first show since Christmas.
Welcome indeed to TPC.
I'm your host, James Edwards, along with Keith Alexander.
It's Saturday evening, December the 28th.
And Keith, it is a little hard to let go of that Christmas spirit that we talked so much about last week.
What a great show last week with Sam Dixon, followed by Lacey Lynn and Courtney from Alabama, and then my pastor presenting the biblical accounting of the Christmas message.
That all happened last week.
It is hard to let go of that Christmas spirit, but thankfully, I heard from a listener that in Hawaii, because of the time zone differential, Christmas has not yet occurred.
So I don't know if that's accurate or not.
But anyway, we're going to Jimmy Buffett Christmas song there just to hang on a little bit longer.
Well, we love Christmas, but I tell you what, the fact that we are starting a new decade, by the next show, it will be the first show of not only a new year, but a new decade, is something that, you know, it's kind of intimidating.
Where are we going to be in 10 years?
Are we going to still be here in 10 years?
Or are we going to be in a much better position?
And honestly, I could see alternate versions of the future that could just as easily go in either direction.
That's right.
What's the Chinese curse about you live in interesting times?
I think we're definitely living in interesting times right now.
Well, you touched on it, Keith, what this show is going to be about.
This is the last show of the year is always a year-in-review show for TPC.
And because of that, it's always a fun show, as so many of the shows are between Halloween and New Year's.
But this one is a little different because it's not just our last show of the year.
It's our last show of the decade.
So we'll look back on the year that was and even some of our greatest triumphs and successes over the course of the tens as we now head into the 20s.
And so that's pretty much what we're going to be doing tonight.
Next week, in our first show of the new decade, our first show of 2020, a nice even number.
We are going to have a parade of guests on one per segment to give us their predictions on the decade to come.
So we're going to do a lot of that next week.
Tonight, maybe a little more reflection on the year and decade that was.
But I actually appeared on the Red Ice Christmas stream a few days ago, and they too were having a wide variety of guests on to ask this exact same question of.
And we went over, you know, the fact that it was our 15th year on the radio.
They asked what we've been up to.
Henrik and Lana did, some of the highlights.
But in talking about what's coming up, of course, this time of year always just reflexively gives you the opportunity to pause and reassess and reevaluate and take stock and inventory on the year you've had, and in this case, the decade you've had, and it is the dawn of a new year, a new decade.
I think it's amazing, Keith, how quickly time has gone by, too, by the way.
I think Albert Einstein was on to something when he said that time has the ability to slow down and speed up.
So I don't know.
But it was, we're heading into an election year.
You know, of course, everybody knows that, but I mean, take a moment to pause and just let that sink in.
It's another election year.
And, of course, this is a very different feeling going into January of 2020 than we did going into January of 2016.
I remember that year, obviously, so vividly for so many reasons, but I remember that transition from 2015 into 2016, how excited we all were about the potential that Trump might represent.
And he certainly had the potential.
I can remember the first show of 2016, Sam, was up in Oregon, and we had that whole Milur Wildlife Refuge incident.
And we were in the news, I mean, right from Jump Street that year and all the year with the Trump campaign.
Very different vibe this year going into Trump's reelection for our movement at large, for our feelings towards the president, his promise versus what he's been able to deliver.
Totally different ballgame 2020 compared to 2016 for that reason, among many others.
Well, you know, I'm with one of my sons watched an old movie this past.
Absolutely startling how applicable it is to what's happening today with the attempted impeachment of Donald Trump.
It's the movie, All the King's Men, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1950.
And Broderick Crawford, of all people, you know, known primarily for his 50s TV series, Highway Patrol, got the best actor.
It was about Huey Long.
It was written by a professor here at what is now Rhodes College in Memphis, Robert Penn Warren.
And the preening of the so-called good guys in this movie is just absolutely an accurate reflection of the outlook of the Democrats and liberals towards Trump.
And, you know, I would suggest, I would recommend to anyone, if you got some time, you know, with a family and want to watch something, watch that movie.
It's on Netflix.
It's on probably on just YouTube plane without having to pay anything to see it.
And watch that.
And just, you know, they have these brave crusading journalists who basically sees everything with crystal clarity and sees where the mixed bag of Huey Long is going wrong.
And, you know, it's just really, it's incredible when you think of that in connection with what's going on.
I don't know if it's life imitating art or art imitating life, but it's right on the point.
And that's kind of scary.
Look at that and take that to heart in light of what's going on with the impeachment.
Plus, then on the other hand, just when you're about to get sympathetic for Trump, he does something like this executive order where basically you can say no wrong about the state of Israel or Zionism.
If you're on a college campus, a college that tolerates freedom of speech on those topics is going to lose its funding.
Wouldn't it be nice if you're not going to be able to do that?
We're going to talk about that more in depth in the next hour.
But finish your thought by all means.
Going to say, wouldn't it be nice if Trump passed an executive order that said that if a college discriminates against white Gentiles, it's called affirmative action that they would lose their funding.
Of course, if he wants to go a religious route, why wouldn't he just say, if you criticize Christianity, you know, the people who actually voted for him, evangelical, throw them a bone.
Now, they think that he is and doing this because they are.
Well, certainly.
See, you see everything from the viewpoint of an evangelical, and you're right.
The evangelicals seem to be all over in spots about this.
You know, if you curse Israel, you're cursed.
If you bless Israel, you'll be blessed and whatnot.
Mainstream Protestants are, quite frankly, a little more traditionally standard issue liberals.
And if they were asked to take a position on the two, they'd probably come down on the side of the Palestinians.
But, you know, you're absolutely right.
You know, why Christians are the people that voted for him?
Most Jews did not vote for him.
But he's throwing all of his bones to the Jews and nothing to the people that supported him.
More on that in the next hour.
But first, we are going to cover a variety of stories tonight.
Looking back on the decade and year that was, looking forward to the year and decade to come, it's going to be a busy show.
Our last one of 2019.
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Well, mom and daddy share a kiss under the mistletoe.
And we'll cherish all these simple things wherever we may be.
Oh, because that's Christmas to me.
Well, my pastor was right when he said last week, there is just nothing like the Christmas spirit.
And no, we're not going to continue to play Christmas music for several more weeks.
In fact, this will be the last night we do it.
But I do hope that you've enjoyed, in addition to the commentary that we've been giving you and the guests we've been presenting to you throughout the month of December, that these little snippets of songs that we like at the top of each segment has also been something that's added to your listening experience throughout the month of December.
Well, you know, if you're an Orthodox Christian or a liturgical Christian, Christmas isn't over.
It's just begun.
Oh, maybe we can do it.
Yeah, we can do it all the way up to January the 6th.
But nonetheless, we're not going to apologize about being fans of Christmas and playing Christmas music because, quite frankly, we think most of the media ignores Christmas except as a generic winter holiday or something.
It's almost like we've gone back to what would you call it, Odinism or something like this.
It's about snow.
It's about gift-giving.
And you know what, though?
It's not about Christ.
I do like the weather.
I mean, don't get me wrong about that.
I love the cold and the dark and the long nights.
You don't like this Christmas in Memphis.
Well, it is 70 degrees on Christmas Day.
But in general, I love winter weather because that's, of course, the climate that our people thrived in for so many centuries.
It's the weather of the Northern European.
And in case you didn't know, folks, that's us.
It's the weather that turned Northern Europeans into the juggernaut culturally and intellectually that they are today.
You had to really use your head to survive in that harsh climate.
That's it.
Well, anyway, as we continue to weave in and out of Christmas along with our commentary this evening, I will be like the Harold Angel who said with regard to where we're going, what lies ahead for our people as we enter into this new decade.
Fear not, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
I still think, folks, look, nobody knows.
Nobody follows this stuff more than we do.
Perhaps you could as much, but this is what we do.
I know all of the absurdities that are going on out there, but we're going to be okay.
Our people are going to be okay.
Look, our fear right now of being called racist, that's nothing compared to what the people of Eastern Europe have overcome.
The Russians, all of those people who suffered under communism, they overcame that.
We can overcome our fear of being called a name by a reporter who is simply virtue signaling and whose belief in their system is a mile wide and an inch deep.
Our belief in our ideas goes to the very marrow of our bones.
Our biggest problem here is that we're too comfortable.
I know it's hard to see.
What do they say?
The darkest hour is just before dawn.
I don't know how the next decade's going to do any more than the rest of you.
But what I can say is I could just as easily, and I said it already, I could just as easily see us making some huge breakthroughs as in the next decade, just as much as I could see the repression and the censorship and all the other things we've been dealing with getting that much worse.
It could also get that much better because this whole liberal nightmare we've been living under, it will collapse under the weight of its own gravity sooner or later.
It has to.
And you know it will.
Well, you know, James, it may get better, it may get worse, but the one thing that is certain is change.
It's not going to stay the same.
It cannot do it.
It's got to either move.
We've got to get into a better situation or we'll have a crackdown of repression.
Nothing say static.
That's exactly right.
And the flow of civilization.
As a matter of fact, Courtney from Alabama, who was on last week.
If you missed last week's show, because it was right before Christmas, go back and listen to it, folks.
It was a fantastic broadcast.
They all are.
But anyway, Courtney was on.
And by the way, she's sort of joined the team in a quasi-official capacity.
So she's going to be making some phone calls.
You may be lucky enough to receive a phone call from her on behalf of TPC.
But in any event, she was telling me a story the other day about, you know, she has these very attractive female friends who vote liberal and they spout the liberal talking points, but they are having large families and they eat healthy and so on and so forth, all of these other good attributes.
And I said, Courtney, don't worry about it.
I said, that's great because, you know, all of this stuff is so many people's investment into a belief system is just born.
I say this all the time, but it's true.
It's just born out of experience and convenience.
And as soon as our people take back control, all your cute friends that are having the big families, we can work with them.
And they'll fall back in line.
Most people do.
Most people are fashionistas, and it's very fashionable now to be leftists, and it's unfashionable because of the power that the left wields to be conservative.
I mean, truly conservative, not this, you know, cuckservatism that you see emanating from the National Review and the Heritage Foundation and people like that.
Look, I remember back when it was fashionable for white people in the South to be segregationists.
Okay.
Things change with time, and it's amazing how people have.
And things can change back with time.
Exactly.
Yeah.
And in fact, we were talking about retro culture in the past few weeks.
Lacey Lynn, who was on your show last week, and Courtney and others, basically, they are living a retro life.
For example, we have a radio station in Memphis that plays not only rock and roll from the 50s and 60s and 70s, but also some pre-rock and roll pop from the 40s and mid-50s.
You know, rock and roll really didn't hit until about 55.
And the first part of that decade was pre-pop, pre-rock pop.
So we listen to that.
We, you know, we dress like that to a large extent.
We live our lives like that.
Lacey Lynn likes Leave It to Beaver.
She likes The Donna Reed Show and things like that, which are quintessential icons of the 50s of a better time.
Now, some people go back even further than the 50s.
I think we had one of our listeners a couple of weeks ago say, why stop at the 1950s?
Why not go back to the 850s?
Well, the 850s was kind of rough.
In fact, I've been reading about that thanks to Brad Griffin.
The best things I can say about Brad is that he uses his time wisely.
He guts back and he reads and he writes, and that's all he does.
He just does a deep dive into our history and the dark ages, the Viking, the period of the Vikings is a specialty that he's worked on in the past week.
Check out some of those video clips that he has.
You know, some are about an hour, some are about a half hour.
They will give you all of the nuts and bolts about that particular period of time.
Well, I like what Brad's doing over there at Occidental Descent.
I mean, we probably mention or reference Brad or quote something from his website just about every show, but he's not getting so hung up on the absurdities of our age, and he's posting things that are uplifting, searches for new planet, science.
It's retro culture.
He's embracing retro culture, whether he recognizes or not.
He is critical of boomers.
But then, on the other hand, boomers were the people that were the first victims of the triumph of the left, you know, people in my generation.
So, and he likes this, you know, retro viewpoint.
And most of it, you know, very, I would say probably about 80% of what he does is diving back into our history, trying to recover that spark of genius that is in our race.
So, you know, we need to remember that.
We need to look at our history.
We need to know our history.
Who knows about Ethelstan, for example?
Who knows about Rollo the Walker?
What they're with is he knows all of this stuff.
And quite frankly, the northern European society and civilization that we admire is basically a Viking production.
And that 200 years from 800 to 1,000, really about 1,066, was, you know, for example, Russia was the land of the Rus.
Who were the Rus?
They were Vikings.
The Norman, Normandy in France, was the Normans.
Who were they?
The Normans were Vikings.
Well, Keith, we have to immerse ourselves in knowledge because I could see, I mean, again, it could go a couple of different ways.
There could be a future in which the average intelligence of the citizenry is so low that society itself ceases to function.
It may be there on the less master plan.
They're on it.
They're working towards it.
That's for sure.
We're working for something better.
We'll be right back.
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Oh, why?
Because that's Christmas to me.
I've got this Christmas song in my heart.
I've got the candles bluring 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.
Getting one more week's worth of this beautiful, uplifting music, and that is such a good song.
And it talks about family, as we have certain, it certainly has been a common refrain throughout the month of December.
And our listening family, my goodness, I believe I made mention of the fact last week that my wife had come home with just a plastic bin of cards and well-wishes from listeners all over the world.
But Keith, I selected a few tonight to share, and I thought you would really appreciate this one, especially so.
And it reads, to the gallant and brave gentlemen of the political cesspool, James Edwards and Keith Alexander, please continue your fight for Western civilization.
You both remind me of Davey Crockett and Jim Bowie at the Alamo, the Knights Templars, and Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, all fighting the forces of darkness that is trying to destroy our people and our Christian faith.
You motivate and inspire me to do more for our cause.
May God bless you both and strengthen you.
And that comes from Ralph in Arkansas, who sent in a very generous contribution, Keith.
Well, he inspires us.
If we inspire him, it's a never-ending circle there because hearing praise like that is the type of thing that, you know, will lift you up when you are about to throw up your hands.
Arkansas was well represented in our correspondence this week.
Brian, our good friend in Arkansas, Merry Christmas to you and your kin.
I hope y'all are doing okay.
I'm sending you this donation because you are the most effective at standing up for us in the face of a hate-filled world for all things good.
Brian is so right about that.
Well, at least what we're fighting against.
I appreciate his opinion that we're very effective.
But he's certainly right about what we're up against.
Look, Arkansas is a great place.
In fact, that would be the bug out place that I would go to, you know, someplace like Harrison, Arkansas.
It's a beautiful place, beautiful people over there.
God's country in every way.
This one comes in from one of our regular guests, Gene Andrews.
And he's sending a nice little Hallmark card with some Holly on it.
Thank you again for inviting me to be part of the PC 15th anniversary celebration.
It's always so uplifting to be around so many great people.
Merry Christmas.
And that's from Gene.
And I have a feeling when we do our top moments of the year, when we review those later on in the program, that that conference may just be mentioned.
Well, I tell you what, I feel just like Gene does.
Every time we have one of those conventions, it is, you know, it lifts me up higher and higher, like Jackie Wilson says.
All right, Keith, let's do a quick hit here.
We're going to do three stories as quick as we can.
I'm making a hand gesture to Keith right now, and it's not the one-finger salute.
Keith, what's the hand gesture that I'm signaling to you right now?
The A-O-K signal that people have been using for, I can't say millennia, but they've been using it for over 100 years.
Anyway, so it's the OK hand gesture where you have your pinky ring and middle finger extended, and then your index finger and the thumb come together to make a circle.
That is the okay symbol.
Divers use it.
It's universally known to signal that you're okay, everything's good.
If you can't hear, if you're in a loud place, you give the signal, everything's fine.
You would think that would be one of the least controversial things in the world, but now it has become one of the most.
Well, and it is because just a couple of months ago, only recently did it become known that that was such a hate-filled symbol.
Well, I was talking to Keith about this before the show, and the ADL had released a report earlier this year saying that the OK symbol is now a symbol of hate and white supremacy.
And Keith said, well, how in the world do they come up with that?
And I gave him the signal and I said, well, what the ADL says, Keith, is that the three fingers extended are making a W for white, and then the two fingers that form the circle, along with your forearm, make a P.
And so you put them together, and it's not really an OK symbol.
As you can clearly see now, it's a WP for white power.
Now, the ADL put that.
We're not making this up either, folks.
Well, this is just another example of why ultimately this whole thing is going to collapse on them.
It's like you said a couple of weeks ago.
Now they're just trying to do things to see what they can get away with.
It's like a game now.
But anyway, the reason we're bringing it up is that the Army-Navy football game, you know, we had college bowls season here recently.
I guess it may still be ongoing.
But the Army-Navy game was recently held.
The president was there, and there was a live shot of some of the cadets behind the announcers.
And, you know, when you get on TV, everybody waves and hollers.
And a couple of the cadets did that symbol that signifies okay.
And it was a huge investigation because the ADL says that means white power now, don't you know?
And a huge investigation in the Army apologetic, the Army, the United States Army.
They're afraid there might be diversity of opinion among their student bodies.
Wow.
Imagine such a horrible thing.
You know, there was a 0% chance that those kids were doing that symbol because they were flashing white power signs.
I mean, for the 99.99999 people who don't work for the ADL, that means okay.
And there's no doubt about it.
Those kids intended it to not mean anything like that.
Do you think they would do that on TV?
Give me a break.
No, no, they're not that suicidal.
Well, anyway, so but this is what we have to get to be put up with.
And the theme parks have caught on, too.
I think we may have mentioned this in a show a few months ago, but one of the characters, you know, at Disney World, one of the characters did this, you know, in a picture with a kid, and they fired the character.
I mean, there's no way the actor playing that character was, you know, that they were.
They also have their screening shots of people going down the roller coaster.
And if somebody gives that sign as they're going down the roller coaster, they're allowed to be interrogation.
They were banned for life.
There was a story about that.
Well, anyway.
In Disney World, somebody was banned for life from Disney World because they made that sign, knowing that there would be a picture taken of people going down the shoot, so to speak, on a roller coaster ride.
So anyway, this just is another example to illuminate the ridiculousness of what we're up against and why I believe it's just going to fall apart sooner or later.
There was a story in West Plains, Missouri.
I was telling you this before the show as well.
West Plains, Missouri.
We know West Plains.
It's right across the border from northwest Arkansas.
Sam Bushman and I, along with Kirk Crosby and Eddie the Bible Derek Miller, went up to West Plains to a church up there for the Copperheads' baptism some years ago.
Nice little small southern town in Missouri, West Plains, Missouri.
Well, a few days ago, the school administration or some pep club or whatever was passing out pride flags, pride.
And you know what they mean when they say pride.
That is another word that's been co-opted.
Not pride in anything you should have pride in, but pride in degeneracy and all of that.
Well, they were passing out these rainbow pride flags, and a few of the students the next day came back with Confederate flags.
And a big news story came out about it.
First of all, God bless these kids for standing up.
But when the story came out, it was that this was a hate-filled reaction by these students to bring that controversial Confederate flag in there a day after they were giving out the pride flags.
I mean, they're going to stamp around heterosexuality altogether when they get banned their way.
You can have pride in degeneracy.
You cannot have pride in anything righteous and good and anything eternal in your family and in your traditions and in your culture.
Well, the reason I tied these two stories together, it just goes to show that even with all of the censorship and repression and the absurdity on top of absurdity now, the OK symbol will get you kicked out of school or banned from a theme park because the ADL says it means something that I have never heard anybody say it means outside of the ADL.
But just right underneath the surface, here's these kids.
And that, I tell you, there is a simmering, a simmering amount of discontent coming from good, middle-class, hard-working, God-fearing Americans, and all we need is a catalyst.
It will not let you alone if you have pride as a Southern person in the Confederacy, or anything that even is mildly suggestive of the Confederacy.
They will root it out, you know, root and branch, and they're going to outlaw it.
And they're going to start coming in with the punishment phase of this next.
I mean, you're going to be kicked out of school.
Somebody was banned from Disney World, as you said, for using the OK sign, which I guarantee you, 99 out of 100 people that would use that sign have no idea of this weird explanation that the ADL is.
Of course not.
But can you imagine the Army having to launch and take seriously an investigation and wring its hands in front of the media and say, we're so sorry they used this symbol.
We did a full, our admirals did a full investigation and our generals looked into it and the kids, we believe that the kids didn't mean it to mean that.
Yeah, well, heaven help us if we get into a real shooting war with a real adversary with the armed forces that is better than I cow with things like this.
That cowed.
Yeah, you're supposed to go out and win a war when you're that cowed by a hate group like the ADL?
Give me a break.
Hey, we got to take a break.
I need a break.
So we'll be right back.
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.
Hey, listen up.
This is a deep state alert.
Former Texas Congressman Steve Stockman, who moved to arrest Lois Lerner for contempt of Congress, has been imprisoned by the very office that Lerner led.
You heard right.
Stockman hit the Obama administration hard and they hit back with the full force of the federal government.
The guy who said he wanted Mark Levin as Speaker of the House was the first to threaten Obama's impeachment, exposed Hillary's selling steel to the Iranians, and blocked both Obama's immigration and gun bills from even reaching the House.
But Obama holdovers came after him in federal court with trumped-up charges and have locked our guy up.
Like many others, he was on Obama's hit list.
Steve fought for us in Congress.
Now we need to fight for him.
Don't abandon this wounded hero on the battlefield.
Let's help cover his massive legal costs.
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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, quote, 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.
Slay bells ring, I understand, in the lane Snow is glistening, a beautiful sight Pizza maid, walking in a winter wonderland Gone with a bluebird, here to stay A new bird, sings a love song Walking in a winter wonderland
Just a snowman, and pretend that he is passing around They'll say, are you married?
We'll say no, man.
But you can do the job when you're in town.
All right.
Well, Christmas may be over, Keith, but winter is not.
So get out with your family, get out with your kids, enjoy the winter weather when you can find it.
You're not going to find it in Memphis this week, but presumably it'll be back.
Regardless of, you know, this is good all-purpose weather right now.
Get out with your children and your family right now.
But if it does snow, you know, nobody can complain about this weather, at least.
Well, I could.
Well, yeah.
I want it to be.
Well, it's just, look, I want it to be snowy all winter.
But if it does snow where you're at, go build a snowman, go sledding with your kids.
I got to say, there's one job I wouldn't want to have, and that's a garbage man the week after Christmas.
I mean, my house looks like it's been turned upside down.
That's all part of it.
I'm going to have a word with Santa about leaving toys in the boxes.
You know, I know he's a busy man, and it's a lot to do that night, and I certainly couldn't hit that many houses in one night, but come on, buddy.
I remember one Christmas when I decided I was going to get the children, had some toy that had to be assembled, and I was going to have it all assembled and ready to go.
Well, Christmas morning comes, and there's this half-assembled mess on the floor rather than a nice toy in a pretty box.
So be careful what you wish for, James.
Your wish might come true.
Well, Santa left all my kids' toys in boxes this year, and so when they woke up, you know, very excitedly, they ran in and we were opening the boxes.
And man, I've got boxes that could pretty much pretty much, they're pretty much as tall as the house out there on the curb.
That gets back to why I wouldn't want to be a garbage man this week because I doubt I'm the only one.
Lots of boxes, lots of wrappers, lots of paper.
If anybody's moving, come over to James's house so you can get all the boxes.
It's like a liquor store over here.
It's got all these empty boxes outside.
Well, there was a message that came out of the White House this week, and I'd like to share it with you.
Melania and I, this is presumably written by Trump, or at least, you know.
For him.
For him, yes.
Melania and I send seasons greetings to those observing Kwanzaa both in the United States and around the world.
For more than 50 years, this week-long celebration has been used to honor the heritage and culture African Americans share around the country and worldwide.
Every aspect of American life has been enriched by the countless contributions of African Americans.
We hope the light of the Kanara fills your homes with hope and joy, and we send our best wishes for a new year filled with good health and much happiness.
Wouldn't it be nice?
You know, we have the lighting of the national menorah in December.
We have the Kwanza Proclamation.
Wouldn't it be nice if he would give a similar, you know, explicit promotion of the religion of most of his supporters, which is Christianity?
Well, I think he did tweet Merry Christmas, Keith.
Well, I know, but Merry Christmas now has been, you know, through Jewish power and influence from Irving, Berlin, and on, for example, White Christmas is basically telling you that Christmas is a holiday about snow or a generic, has no specific religious significance.
It's not about the birth of Christ.
But he can, you know, the menorah is definitely a religious Jewish artifact, and he does that.
He does Kwanza.
Wouldn't it be nice if he did the same thing or even more, which would be justified since more people are adherents to Christianity than either Kwanza or Judaism?
But, you know, again, you know, we're the last served.
We're at the low men on the totem pole now in American society.
Trump has his bosses too, right?
So his bosses aren't going to allow him to do that.
But it's interesting, though, talking about this.
I was going to get into this with Lacey Lynn last week.
I'm adopting a new motto that nothing ever goes wrong in live radio.
Whatever happens, it was meant to be.
And anyway, Lacey got cut off right at the tail end of her appearance last week, and she apologized for about two or three days for it.
Bad phone connection, it happens.
But I was going to ask her about the Christianity Today.
So this was, you know, in name only anyway, a Christian publication, a magazine founded by Billy Graham.
And it's a so-called Christian magazine, and it has called for Trump to be removed from office for his quote-unquote profoundly immoral conduct.
But of course, the magazine very conveniently failed to call out any pro-homosexual, any pro-abortion politician, just pure disgusting virtue signaling.
I've never heard of Christianity Today to call for the removal of Barack Obama or any of these politics.
What about Bill Clinton, for heaven's sake?
You know, if Donald Trump was a reprobate, then, you know, Bill Clinton would be a reprobate to the third power.
But here's what it is.
And yes, I mean, Trump sickens me for a lot of reasons.
And then you see something like this, and, you know, you want to close ranks.
You want to close ranks.
But instinctively, I mean, he makes it hard to do.
But as, well, we go back to the A.W. Tozer quote.
Religion today is not raising the moral level of society.
It is descending to society's own level and congratulating itself that it has scored a victory because society is smilingly accepting its surrender.
Kevin McDonald responded to that tweet I put out with regard to the Christianity Today, condemnation of Trump.
Now, what they're condemning him for is his immoral behavior.
They're talking about the fact that he had girlfriends, you know, before probably during and after he got married, but not to say that they don't know.
Long before his presidency.
Well, in any event, they're talking about his tweets being uncouth.
I didn't see them go after any of these senators and congressmen that are truly doing things that are immoral.
What about Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky?
Was that uncouth?
Well, forget about the stuff in the 90s.
I mean, what about actually in the presidency while he was president?
What about the stuff right now?
They didn't go after, why not go after a leading proponent of transgenderism or homosexuality?
I mean, there's countless, pretty much all of them.
But as Kevin McDonald said, but they're not going to do that because this Christian magazine wants to be pat on the head by its societal overseers.
And they want society to tell them that they're good and they're acceptable and that they're part of it.
Kevin said, at least since the 1960s, with few exceptions, Christian religious organizations have followed elite opinion on social issues rather than let it a consequence of the rise of our new elite that really started flexing its muscles in the 1960s.
And that elite controls these churches, and it's a shame.
This is a Christian program.
I'm proud of the hour we did last week with pastors sharing the biblical story of the Christmas miracle.
But what's going on in these churches and Christianity today, this article really exacerbates it.
Their true religion is liberalism, not Christianity.
And it's liberalism that comes from Jewish power and influence.
They are the yeast that makes the door rise in every left-wing movement from the civil rights movement forward.
Without it, none of this would have happened.
None of it would have transformed society in the way that it does.
But, you know, we've got to understand who our enemies are, and we've got to be able to, you know, fight on their terms.
For example, the thing about identity politics, I've ran into a couple who are basically conservative over the holidays that told me, oh, you can't have identity politics for white people.
Well, that'd be like telling the Indians they've got to use bows and arrows while their conquerors are using machine guns.
You cannot win if you don't have identity politics for white people.
And that's one of the great coups of liberalism in the modern time is that they have made it against propriety and the law now, basically.
You don't like Trump's most recent executive order on criticizing Judaism or Zionism or whatnot.
They've made it so that you, basically they've told us that we've got to be back in the new stone age in terms of critical culture and whatnot, and we've got to not use identity politics when everyone else is using identity politics to great effect against us.
Well, and it's killing the church.
I mean, you know, the church, do you think that the church, Christianity, is going to survive without the people who gave life to it, without our people?
You know, these silly, these silly, silly, never Trumper Christians.
And I say this as a person who takes a very nuanced approach to Trump, and to say my feelings towards him are lukewarm.
I think that'd be the nicest way I could put it.
But this same magazine promotes mass immigration, which would result in Christian liberties being outlawed.
As, you know, there's a great quote out there.
We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us from seeing it.
And that's what the church has done.
I'm going to read that again for effect because that's a great quote.
We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us seeing it.
This Christianity Today article calling for Trump's removal continues a longstanding trend of weakness and capitulation from so-called Christian leaders.
And, you know, of course, we here at TPC, Keith, we could write a book detailing how much the modern church craves to be accepted by its enemies.
Well, you know, we hear all the time that Christianity is diminishing and people are wringing their hands about it.
Quite frankly, after that article in Christianity Today and the general currents of our culture over the past 65 years, I don't, it's not surprising at all.
In fact, I'd be disappointed in Christians if they embrace this.
Thank goodness a lot of people are getting out of these rotten churches with rotten denominational headquarters, and they are going back to the catacombs.
Like Pat Buchanan said, they're having home churches.
You know, there are good churches out there, though, folks.
You need to find them.
But on the other hand, when it comes to denominational headquarters, you can maybe convince me otherwise, but I think that almost all of these denominational headquarters have sold out lock, stock, and barrel to the left.
Folks, we're going to continue this conversation into the second hour.
This is our last show of the year.
And as a final Christmas treat to our audience, this will be the only show of the year that does not have a guest.
It's going to be me and Keith for the entire three hours and a little Jack Ryan 2.
We're going to unveil our top moments of the year here at TPC later on in the broadcast.
No guests tonight, just the crew.
Last show of the year, last show of the decade, and it's just going to be us.