June 4, 2022 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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You're listening to the Liberty News Radio Network, and this is the Political Cesspool.
The Political Cesspool, known across the South and worldwide as the South's foremost populist conservative radio program.
And here to guide you through the murky waters of the political cesspool is your host, James Edwards.
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to tonight's broadcast of TPC.
I'm your host, James Edwards.
It's Saturday evening, June the 4th.
We kicked off summer last week with the Memorial Day extravaganza, five great guests.
And now I am ready to lead you into the season with a full head of steam right here on TPC where there are smiling faces.
And we're not lying to the races.
We smile because we're telling you the truth.
And the truth makes us happy.
And I'm going to make you happy tonight because we've got a true barn burner that matches the rising temperatures outside coming your way on these airwaves this evening.
I am very excited about this show.
But first, let's get to some more good news and then I'll tell you who's on deck tonight.
So we learn by repetition, do we not, ladies and gentlemen?
Johnny Depp wins his defamation lawsuit.
Now, Johnny may or may not be our guy, as we say from time to time, but I'm sure happy he beat the Me Too movement there.
So as Hunter Wallace writes, Brad Griffin at OD, don't get too black pilled, bros.
BLM has peaked and crashed in popularity.
Me Too has peaked and with the Depp defamation win just suffered a devastating defeat.
The great replacement has gone mainstream.
Twitter is about to fall under the control of Elon Musk and become a siege engine of misinformation, quote unquote, in the culture war.
The woke lash is sending the permanent progressive majority into the dustbin of history.
Roe versus Wade is about to be struck down by the Supreme Court.
The handmaid's tale is coming true.
Young men are rejecting feminism.
The new woman made her debut a century ago, and the culture could easily start now trending in the opposite direction.
You heard it here first, ladies and gentlemen.
And with that, Brad is referring to an episode in which he appeared on TPC a little over a year ago.
It was in the spring of 2021.
And Brad was citing the statistics.
Even then, nine out of ten Trump voters agree with us that white people and Christianity are under attack in America and that the mainstream media is identical with the Democratic Party.
Since the term racism was defined by Wokes to mean any white person in America who is guilty of complicity in systemic racism, six out of 10 Trump voters have developed an explicit sense of white racial consciousness.
We're also the peaceful ones, not the ones who have been radicalized to the point where they now say in the polls that more extreme measures might be necessary to save America.
That is true with regards to what happened at January 6th.
Those are regular Trump people, not white nationalists.
I'm feeling optimistic about 2022 and 2024.
Brad writes, I've encouraged James Edwards to run for the United States Senate.
But if I did that, Brad, I wouldn't be able to have all this fun on the radio with all my fine friends in the TPC listening audience.
But it is true that the Republican Party, the base of the Republican Party, is now seeing things more our way than they do the way of George Will or Mitch McConnell.
And so these are the trends.
We've been documenting it for a year and a half now.
White populism is the future of the GOP.
In hindsight, of course, the George Floyd rights and Trump's defeat in 2020 were a major turning point.
We didn't get what we wanted out of the Trump administration.
Things kind of froze in place under Trump.
It was a deeply frustrating speed bump.
But public opinion has rapidly changed in our direction under Joe Biden.
And that goes back to what we were talking about with regards to these mass shootings.
In light of all of this, why would you pick up a gun and shoot random people to make a point about the great replacement?
It just doesn't make sense.
It makes more sense to continue to let things run their course.
Millions of people are coming around.
They're joining our ranks.
They're coming into an agreement with us on these issues that we've been talking about on this program for now 18 years.
So everything that was once associated with the so-called alt-right, isolationism, protectionism, immigration restriction memes, iconoclastic attitude, relishing the smashing of the precious politically correct norms.
That's all mainstream now, folks.
People are catching up to us, and we've played a role in that here on TPC.
As you well know, even Jared Taylor, even Jared Taylor is getting on the good news party bus.
I say even Jared Taylor.
I mean, Jared is a glasses half-full warrior.
I shouldn't have said even.
I should say Jared is also publicly on the good news party bus with a new video, Good News White People.
And he writes, yes, there's been some, and there will be more.
Some good things are happening, large and small, and I'm not even talking about all the people who refused to be bullied about COVID or rose up in fury when men stated that they were going to start using ladies' restrooms and competing in women's sports.
So Jared has a new video out, and we cross-posted it at thepolitical cesspool.org, encouraging overlooked triumphs of sanity.
So go check it out.
Go check it all out at thepoliticalspool.org.
And now, let me tell you who's coming up tonight.
If you can handle it, if you can handle it, you may not survive the show.
That's how much talent we're power packing into the next three hours.
Coming up with me in the very next segment, we're going to go back to London.
A little mini-march, I guess you could say.
We're going to bounce around from London and to Moscow tonight.
Yes, I said so.
That's where we're going.
Adrian Davis, the British barrister, will be back with us for the remainder of this, our first hour, to talk about the results of the recently held French presidential elections and why you should care what happened over there and its significance.
Also, a big commemoration of the Queen, and we'll find out what's going on with that.
It's a holiday in the UK all week, or at least I think it's a four-day holiday.
We'll find out about it from Adrian in just a second.
But then in the second hour, if all goes according to plan, and you never know with live radio, connecting with somebody in Russia, more difficult now than it used to be.
But Sam Dixon is going to co-host an interview with Charles Balzman.
So Sam Dixon, our TPC fan favorite, going to co-host an interview with Charles Balzman.
Sam not appearing so much as a guest tonight, but rather as a co-host, Charles Balzman, the editor-in-chief of Russia Insider.
He's going to be back with us.
He was on with us in March, but Charles is back tonight for another thoughtful and fact-based follow-up conversation about the ongoing situation in Ukraine and much more.
It'll be another honest inquiry, the likes of which the establishment media is refusing or unable to have.
And then, and then, yes, there's more.
Third hour.
The conversation about Ukraine continues with Mark Weber, another one of these top fivers, one of the top five all-time guests on TPC in number of appearances logged.
And the director of the IHR, Mark Weber, will be with us to continue that conversation by making references to World War II and the larger trajectory of U.S. foreign policy.
So talk about a fab for Adrian Davis, Sam Dixon, Charles Bosman, Mark Weber.
God willing in the creek don't rise.
If we can connect to everybody across all of these different countries and time zones, knock on wood.
That's the show I have planned for you tonight, anyway.
We'll see if the practice holds up to the theory, but it's all coming your way and it's all coming your way next.
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All right, well, I'm glad I knocked on wood a second ago.
We're having a little bit of issue connecting with Adrian Davis, but I know he's standing by because I just received an email from him.
So, Mr. Producer, as you continue to work on making that call, let me know when he joins us.
And if we continue to have trouble, I will just email Adrian and tell him to give us a call.
In fact, well, I can't do that.
You know what?
I can't write an email and talk at the same time.
I can't think that fast.
So while we're waiting on Adrian to connect, and it should be very easy just to dial the number and put in the call and card number and then just dial the, that's how we have to do it with these international calls.
But anyway, I would just remind you then, ladies and gentlemen, that the first board of fundraising drive, I actually wanted to spend another moment on that before we get really busy tonight with each and every one of the guests.
That it is underway, and it is important that you respond.
So I was looking back.
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James, this is what they said in 2006, 2007.
Think of all the accomplishments this program has made, thanks to you and to God's grace, of course.
Nothing stands up without the audience, but that this program has done more than any in America to promote what they call extremists, extremists.
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The week before the election, the last fundraiser they put out at HillaryClinton.com had my face on it that we would be, this is how we would shape the country if given the chance.
We would be using deportation forces and we would cut the funding to sanctuary cities.
But this is a show, though, I think, folks, that you can agree plays where the action is.
It is a program that punches above its weight class and gets you access to the big league.
So we would ask that you support us, and we've got some great incentives.
And with that being said, we will go now to our guest, the aforementioned British barrister, Adrian Davis.
Well, you know, you're not always who you are is not always what you do.
But with Adrian, he is not only a successful barrister, but he is also a very capable and effective advocate, spokesman, and representative for our people and our issues.
And it's great to have him back on tonight.
Happy holiday to you, Adrian.
I understand it's a bit of a festive time over there in the mother country.
It's a public holiday in England, yes.
We're having the 70th anniversary of the coronation for some reason.
The coronation actually took place in February 1952.
So exactly why we're having this celebration in June is rather lost on me, but there we are.
Yes.
Well, you know, I brought you on tonight, Adrian, to talk about the recently held French elections.
And you had shared something with me that it was interesting to me, so I hope it will be interesting to our audience as well.
That don't get necessarily too caught up in the presidential election because there are some other elections coming up in France in June that may be more important.
But before we get to that, and I'll let you explain that.
If you would indulge me, my friend, could we spend a little bit more time on the royals here?
I just think for us here in the States, it's just such a novelty.
It's just such an oddity and not necessarily a bad way.
I would just like to know a little bit more about what's going on and how people in London and Greater England view the royals and what power, if any, I mean, I guess they're just figureheads now, right?
I mean, what's going on there?
Yeah, explain it to us.
The monarchy is little more than a rubber stamp for decisions taken by the government, exercises no real power.
I actually have a very negative view of it myself, which may sound surprising, but my view is that it serves a role from the point of view of the British establishment, which is to give the impression of continuity in an era of revolutionary change.
The England of today bears no resemblance to the England of 1952 when the present Queen was crowned.
There have been improvements, and those improvements are all the result of progress in science and technology.
We can cure diseases that kill people then, and public health is better, and so on.
And materially, people are much more prosperous now than they were then.
And there has been deterioration.
There are levels of crime, social problems, and so on, those have just been unimaginable in the London of 1952.
The idea that there'd be daily stabbings and robberies and rapes and murders and whatever, just part of the rich diversity of our exciting multicultural society, which people at that time seemed unimaginable.
So all the deterioration has been the work of those who misruled this country, and all the improvements have been the result of advances in science and technology for which they are not in any sense responsible.
What the royal family does is give a veneer of continuity to a society that has been transformed out of recognition.
And I do not admire them for it at all.
They themselves enjoy vast privileges.
No particular problem with people enjoying privilege, but it's privilege in return for which, so far as I can see, all that they do is act as the system's frontmen, not to make too fine a point of it.
Well, it's interesting that you say that because obviously those were the conclusions that I had drawn.
They are basically just celebrities and tabloid celebrities now, and it's a shame because it can be literally a majestic institution.
I romanticize about the idea of an absolute monarchy.
I think it would be a superior system to this hellish system we have here in America now with so many different races and cultures squabbling.
And you just got to be hard to course correct with the system we've got here as it presently stands.
But I have an expat, a friend and a supporter of this program who is an expat who had lived in the UK for over 30 years.
And he wrote that I learned that a significant minority, if not perhaps 50%, of the Brits are not royalists, but they do enjoy the soap opera stories out of the palace, even though they might not necessarily support the Windsors.
Is that sort of your finger to the pulse of it all?
Yeah, the whole thing just bores me riches.
It interests foreigners far more than it interests most British people.
And as you say, it is largely a vulgar soap opera.
Obviously, we've reached new depths with Harry and Meegan, who, by the way, the great environmentalists have flown into London from Los Angeles in their private jet to take part in the celebration.
It is astonishing.
They have no insight or sense of irony, though, that particular pair.
The idea that you jet across from LA to London for the weekend in a private jet and then give people lectures about looking after the environment is so bizarre that anyone with any sense of how bad this looks would have made some sort of effort to find another way of getting here.
But oh no, not those two.
Well, I was actually going to ask that as my final question, and we'll wrap up this segment and then we'll get down to some brass tacks and some real substance.
With it being the holiday over there, and as you said, it was the commemoration of the coronation, I guess, and it came a little bit later than when it actually occurred, but the weather's nicer, right?
So, how is Megan doing?
I think that's the reason why we actually have a warm day today after the coldest May in 20 years in England and about the wettest.
We actually have an early summer day today.
It's not freezing cold and chucking down with rain, which makes a pleasant change this year.
Well, you got to get out and enjoy that stuff, my friend.
But indeed, the most important question that could be asked is, how is Megan doing?
I'm sure everybody tuned in to that.
Yeah, well, the towering intellect of our era will no doubt have some profundities to share with us, along with her even more intellectually gifted husband.
Yes.
Well, I'll tell you what's going on.
Can you imagine?
Imagine being royalty and settling for that and trading in your brain.
I'm not going to worry about Harry bringing the good house of Hewitt into disrepute in this way.
It must be very embarrassing.
That's very embarrassing.
You watch how he carries himself, and this is actually a teachable moment.
Men, don't let that happen to you.
I mean, he is not in charge.
He really is an example of how abject, pathetic, and henpecked a husband can be.
Sad, sad specimen of a man.
Literal royalty marrying this Z-list biracial fading celebrity, older than himself and whose career was on its way out anyway.
It's not good taste.
It really isn't.
But we've got good taste, and that's why you're going to be hearing from Mark Weber, Adrian Davis, Sam Dixon, and Charles Bosman for the end of the night.
We got the first of that magnificent quartet right now.
Adrian Davis, what we're going to be talking about in France when we come back with Adrian, live from London, right now.
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We're having a little laugh with my producer and our esteemed guest and friend, Adrian Davis, in the last break about coordinating the different time zones.
And he was making mention of the fact, well, Tennessee has two time zones.
And then there's Arizona that doesn't go by daylight savings time rules.
And a show like tonight, where we've got Adrian on in the UK, and then in the next hour, Charles Bosman from Russia, Sam Dixon in the East Coast.
I'm on Central.
And you just want to make sure you get it all right.
And then, of course, Adrian, when we do the March Around the World series, half of the world starts observing daylight savings time at a different time than the other.
And just doing the math.
I mean, it's easy to get wrong.
And if you get it wrong, your show is shot.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's another fun thing.
The U.S. and Europe do not change from a change over daylight saving the same weekend.
That's really entertaining.
That is.
It's quite remarkable.
As you said, it's all done to keep us on our toes.
And thank goodness we're nimble because here we are.
Well, let's get down to the meat of the purpose for your most recent appearance tonight, Adrian.
And thanks again for being with us.
But the French elections.
Let's go back to the actual presidential aspect of it.
At the end of the day, you had Le Pen versus Macron.
You were a Zamor guy, though.
Yeah, I personally have a lot of respect for Maureen Le Pen in many ways.
I've met her.
She's an immensely courageous woman.
She's dedicated her life to the cause which she didn't have to do.
She had a successful career as an avocado, which is the French equivalent of a trial lawyer, and had absolutely no need to get involved in politics.
But she did out of conviction, not ambition.
Nevertheless, it would be difficult not to voice some criticisms.
She has at least as authoritarian a leadership style as her father, who was not a man known for tolerating dissent or even differing opinions at some of the time.
And although she's actually only in her early fifties, she does frankly give the impression of having been there a very, very long time, shall we say.
Not new and exciting.
Now, I'm not in favour of novelty for its own sake, otherwise you you chase a candidate like equivalent of Barack Obama or something who who who for whose principal selling point was novelty.
There wasn't anything else that was actually very interesting about him.
But it is even before this presidential election it was difficult to see what she was going to do that she hadn't done already.
And I will give her credit for having run a presidential campaign which actually went quite well considering that that was the perceived difficulty and various other problems that she had,
like being dependent for campaign finance on banks with curiously close links to Russia, for example, which is a little bit difficult when the war with the Ukraine broke out and sanctions were imposed on all such institutions.
But Zamur was interesting and he's quite a provocative person, much more radical than she is.
His line on immigration was far, far harder than hers, his line on racial issues.
She nevertheless clearly beat him by a substantial margin in the first round of the presidential election, went through to the second, and I thought acquitted herself well in many ways, but ultimately proved unable, although she significantly increased her vote, getting anywhere near President Macro.
She polled 43% of the vote, which is an astonishing score for a candidate who was ostracized by a lot of the mainstream media, but still was nowhere near the kind of vote that she would have to score to win.
And I never thought that she had any prospect of winning.
You know, I guess you could look at it if you're observing trends in trajectory and say, well, with each of her subsequent runs for the presidency, she has gotten a little bit closer.
Does that mean France is trending in the right direction?
There is a hilarious meme that some of Zamur's supporters have put out.
It's the presidential election of 20 years' time.
And in this election, they've got those campaign posters for President Macron, who by that stage looks like Joe Biden, and Maureen Le Pen, who by that stage looks about as aged as Hillary Clinton.
And this time the result is 51.49.
And Maureen's slogan is one more heave next time and we'll be there.
It's th th the there's clearly an unfortunate situation that this division exists.
But the the division I think is is the result of objectively different ways of looking at the situation.
And Marine de Pennsylvania very, very particular strategy, which is her strategy.
She has moderated her party's line on race and immigration very significantly.
She has completely repudiated anything in in in in terms of a a revisionist line on French history, etcetera, with which her father applied rather oddly because he was actually hero of the French resistance.
This was a strange thing that the the old man Le Pen was decorated by General de Gaulle.
But she essentially moves the party to a relatively more centrist position in terms of her views on immigration demographics, etc.
While at the same time moving the party sharply to the left on economic issues, she she has very much positioned herself as a champion of those who have suffered as a result of globalization and suffered as a result of the economic policies of the Macron government and indeed its predecessors, which are seen as making the well-off even more well-off and the poor very significantly poorer.
That strategy has got her a large amount of support and she comes across well in that respect.
She's plainly thought by ordinary people to be empathetic and does very well as a campaigner.
In some aspects of this are actually quite ironic because she herself had a very comfortably off-middle-class upbringing, whereas Samur grew up in one of the poorest and hardest suburbs in northern Paris.
So the irony is that she's actually her Woman of the People Act is a very good shtick, but it doesn't actually reflect the reality of the Le Pen family's own economic circumstances, which were nothing of the sort.
I have to say that I found her niece, Marion Maréchal, a much more intellectually impressive and exciting person than Marine, with all due respect to Marine.
She backed Zamour and failed, despite the considerable Phillip that her backing was supposed to give his campaign to push him into the second round supposed to art.
They've had a serious falling out, as you can imagine.
So there is the Le Pen family remains as factious as ever.
Marine, of course, expelled her own father from the party which he founded.
So this intergenerational feuding of the Le Pen family is nothing new.
But there will now be elections to the National Assembly after the presidential elections, in which, surprise, surprise, the Assemblement Nationale, Marine Le Pen's Party, has refused to contemplate any form of alliance with other right-wing populist parties, and especially Notwood Zamour's Conquette party.
So the two will put up about 550 candidates against one another in the different electoral districts of France.
It actually matters rather less in France than it does in some countries because they have a two-round elimination process.
So that any candidate who polls less than 15% of the vote is eliminated after the first round.
That'll take place, I think, on the 12th of June, so Sunday week.
There's then a second round.
This time it's only one week's interval, for some reason, the two weeks' interval between the two rounds of the presidential election, only one week between the two rounds of elections, National Assembly.
And any candidate who pulls more than 15% of the votes entitled goes through to the second round.
At that point, it just goes to whoever pulls the largest number of votes in that constituency's answer, the elimination rounds.
So it's a kind of hybrid system.
But because of the continuing differences between the Zamour camp and the Marine Le Pen camp, far fewer candidates from a nationalist patriotic background will be elected to the National Assembly than would have happened if they'd reached an agreement.
That is a very, very unfortunate situation.
But it is a deliberate decision of Marine Le Pen and the leadership of the Assemblement Nationale.
They would rather that overall far fewer candidates were elected to the National Assembly than that their rivals also do well and have a significant representation in the National Assembly.
I disapprove of that choice, but that is their choice and that they have made it as a strategic decision.
An expert breakdown that you're hearing right now on the radio airway is presented by Adrian Davis about the political situation as it is developing real time in France.
We are beyond the presidential election, but the very important and perhaps in some cases more important National Assembly elections are coming up, and he's going to tell us when.
I know it's just a few days away.
We'll find out more.
We've got one more segment with Adrian and we'll get right back to him in just a couple of minutes.
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Adrian Davis with us live from London, and we're talking about the French presidential elections, which happened a couple of weeks ago, or a few weeks ago now, as it were.
This interview has been a few weeks in the making.
I've been wanting to have Adrian back on to talk about this since it happened.
And this was the first available opportunity we could do that.
And he was sharing with us a little background, some great insights on the situation over there, the background of the Le Pen family.
And he personally had supported Zamour in one of the early rounds.
And then, of course, when it came down to Le Pen and Macron, Adrian voted, rather, Adrian didn't vote.
He, of course, is a citizen of the UK, but would have supported, was supporting Le Pen.
And I remember, you know, hoping for the best, hoping for a miracle, hoping that she would unseat Macron and understanding, of course, that it was a long shot.
But Adrian, you had emailed us on a little private group email that we've got with some of our colleagues and said, hey, you know, what could be more important is the National Assembly elections, and that's what we're talking about now.
Unfortunately, I don't know if it was known to you at that time.
It certainly wasn't known to me that there's a little bit of infighting between people of very similar mind.
And I think what you would have liked to have seen, and in some of these seats, they come to an agreement.
You're stronger here.
You run your guy.
We'll withdraw.
We're stronger here.
Let us run and take the lead.
And you withdraw.
And then collectively you can make some real advances.
You've got the two-round system there, which could be beneficial.
So with it being as it is, though, Adrian, how is it looking for us?
Is it possible for the good guys to make some gains in the assembly?
There's no doubt that what might be called the patriotic or nationalist or populist camp will make gains.
It can almost scarcely fail to do so.
One of the reasons why is that the mainstream Conservative Party, L'Épée Publica, curiously, its name, obviously very similar to your Republicans, is in a state of absolute disarray.
Their candidates did humiliatingly badly in the presidential election and they're in terrible, terrible trouble.
Their more liberal supporters have tended to gravitate towards macron.
They're more socially conservative and patriotic supporters to one or other of the various right-wing parties.
And they themselves are suffering from support emerging in both directions, which is actually an extremely good thing.
It will allow the populist right to institutionalize itself more.
But there is no doubt, as I say, that the decision taken by Marine Le Pen and the leadership of the Soviet Nationale has been a policy of complete non-cooperation with other rightist parties.
They would far rather see, what can I say, they would far rather be rid of their competitors than themselves make greater progress.
And that would be what their strategy is.
It's not even concealed.
They think the short-term loss of potential, well, by saying, not to make such big gains in the short term is from their perspective worthwhile to put themselves in a hegemonistic position in terms of the movement in France.
It's a brutal and cynical strategy, but it might work for them, although at a cost.
It is very obvious what they're doing and very controversial in rightist circles in France, but they are absolutely determined upon it.
They won't beating about the bush.
is what they are doing okay so that's where we stand and uh there is some reason for hope that some of these more local elections will will go our way even if the presidential election These are elections, the French equivalent of the House of Representatives.
Yes, correct.
These are important elections.
These are not elections to merely local politics where there are an enormous number of elected positions that are equivalent of county and state level and so on in France.
These are to the National Assembly, which is precisely the equivalent of the lower house of Congress.
Yeah, it's the equivalent of the House of Representatives.
Adrian, when do these elections take place?
They take place over two weekends.
The 12th of June is the first round, the 19th of June, the second.
I do not know for what idiosyncratic reason it is that the French space out the two rounds of the presidential election over a fortnight and the two rounds of the elections of the National Assembly over a week.
Rather like the matters we were talking about earlier.
I suppose it just keeps you on your toes, doesn't it?
You've got to remember.
You've got to remember that this time it's seven days between voting the first time and voting the second time, not 14.
So it keeps you lively.
We will tap dance.
We will tap dance with all of these different eccentricities in our systems.
But how bad is Macron?
I mean, break that down for an American listening audience.
Is he as bad as it gets?
Is he a little bad?
You know, I know some people, obstensibly on our side, say, you know, there is, if you could look at him through a certain lens, he could be used.
Is that possible?
Well, I think he can be used.
He's certainly not the worst possible.
The worst possible was the far-left candidate with a somewhat unpronounced name of Mélanque, who really makes Bernie Saunders seem like a country Republican and it is deranged Marxist playing to the lowest elements of the population and complete danger to frankly pretty well anyone who isn't a Marxist extremist.
So Macron is certainly not as bad as it gets.
He can be a lot worse than that.
I think he's a very strange person.
He's a very bizarre, narcissistic personality, immensely vain.
On the other hand, as will be all French leaders, he has at least some independence of mind.
He doesn't necessarily blindly follow the same line as the United States, for example, on every subject.
He's tried to maintain some margin for maneuver in relations with Russia, for example.
Although rumour has it that the things to which President Putin looks forward the least are his heart-to-heart chats with Macron, which are roughly equivalent to having a tooth extracted without an anesthetic.
Macron's egotism and vanity are such that dealing with him is disagreeable to other international leaders.
He's a fairly centrist candidate.
He was elected on the promise of bringing about some form of ill-defined change that would cure France's various social and economic problems, which he's completely failed to do.
And his second term is unlikely to be a particularly happy experience for him, simply because the guilt has come off the gingerbread, as they say.
He's no longer a new, shiny, exciting candidate.
And the problems remain.
The problem is very intractable.
It's a country where people have an expectation of frankly in many ways better lives than people in England and the US have because you retire at 55 on a full pension in a great number of state-controlled industries and the full pension is really rather lavish and you don't work that hard even when you're working.
So condition put it this way, the condition of a great many people in France is a lot better than their equivalents in England and the US.
The trouble is that this is all funded by selling the debt of the French state to whoever will buy it, which at the moment it has to be said they have little difficulty in doing, and not properly funded through the taxation system or any other way.
So it's a country with long-term problems.
People have very, very high expectations.
It has traditionally had very, very high levels of public services.
Socialized medicine in France is far better than England.
I've been in French hospitals and English hospitals.
There's no comparison.
The standard there is infinitely higher.
The standard of French infrastructure, the roads, railways, and so on, has traditionally been very high.
But it is not necessarily economically sustainable.
It has poor demographics with an aging population, a shrinking tax base.
And how they're going to carry on with this sort of thing, I don't know.
Equally, the French population, unlike the English population, is apt to go mad and start rioting and smashing things up and fighting the police at the heard better of almost any provocation.
And one of the joys of being president of France is that you never know who's going to kick off next.
So Probably Macron had in his first term.
And he's not going to be any more popular in the second term.
His second term, he'll have the Spyma situation.
You have a lively far right and a lively far left.
It's not a good combination to be a centrist president presiding over that.
Well, it's why we talk to you, Adrian.
Well, one of many reasons, of course.
Every time you're on, it's a fantastic program.
And I really appreciate your expert analysis on what has taken place in France.
Of course, as you know, ladies and gentlemen, why do we interest ourselves in this?
Our race is our extended family, so our extended family extends beyond borders and beyond oceans.
And Adrian coming on tonight to talk about what's happening in France.
It is important.
It is a world leader from his view across the channel there in London.
And Adrian, we hope for good news later this month with those General Assembly, National Assembly elections, rather, which, as you mentioned, is basically akin to the lower house of Congress here in the United States.
Important seats where we and our ideas can make gains.
And if it goes well, they will make gains, but I have to say to you that they are not going to be what could be achieved.
They will not reflect the aggregate votes for the right-wing parties because they cannot agree amongst themselves.
And as a result, that vote will be fragmented.
It is a very, very unfortunate situation.
But it is not an unusual one, unfortunately, within our ranks.
And it is something that we're going to have to do better about.
We've got to do better, folks.
It isn't unusual, but its impact varies from country to country.
In Italy, for example, where there's a pure proportional representation, party list system doesn't matter because the number of seats that you win reflects the number of votes cast for you in aggregate.
That is not so in France, still less in England, where we have a constituency-based system similar to your congressional district-based system.
Adrian?
Sorry to cut you off, my friend.
We're just about out of time.
I know you'll enjoy the rest of your holiday there, and we look forward to talking to you again soon.
We're going to head over to Russia now with Charles Balsman and our good friend Sam Dixon will be on with us from Atlanta to join in on that.
Adrian, always, always a pleasure talking to you, and I look forward to the next time already.
And with you, and I also look forward to speaking to you soon.