Nov. 12, 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 test pool is your host, James Edwards.
Ladies and gentlemen, we've already given you an incredible show tonight.
I mean, truly.
Yours truly and Keith Alexander.
The first hour breaking down our opinion and commentary on what happened last Tuesday, but then in the second hour, Lauren Witzke, Greg Johnson, Kevin McDonald, all in one hour.
But now we're going to have a lot of fun bringing you a guest making his debut appearance tonight, closing out our election review show in grand fashion with Ethan Ralph, the host of the Kill Stream, a long-running internet talk show.
Now, Ethan was banned from YouTube in late 2018 after raising $27,000 for St. Jude's Children Research Hospital.
His show at the time was the number one late-night talk show on YouTube at the time of the censorship.
A lot of online personalities and political commentators have appeared with Ethan Ralph on the Killstream over the years.
If you're familiar with that constellation of our universe, Ethan has got an incredible show, big following, broadcast five days a week, sometimes on the weekends too.
He's overside of his own solar system.
That's right.
He's over there at cozy.tv.
And, you know, I got to give it to you, Ethan.
You know, I came at this a more conventional way.
I came in it with Buchanan.
I'm 42 years old.
I joke that I'm the world's youngest boomer.
Keith, how old are you?
I'm 71.
I'm the Keith 71.
I'm the world's oldest teenager.
Keith 71, he's my youngest friend.
But in any event, what you guys are doing over there is amazing.
I mean, y'all can stream for like 12 hours a day, five days a week.
I've never seen content production like that.
Ethan, welcome to the show.
Well, yeah, I was going to say, first off, thanks for having me here.
And yeah, we do, you know, it's a little bit different, the live streaming thing.
You know, just recently over the last, I guess I would say maybe a year or so, have I started doing like the long, you know, maybe here or there I would do a long stream.
But, you know, recently, the last, you know, six to 12 months, I've gotten into where, you know, some days it might be eight to 10 hours of streaming.
And, you know, we have a lot of different things.
We have a kill stream.
Yeah, it's a little bit different.
It's a month of a month's work of work for us.
Yeah, it's a little bit different.
Now, you know, I will say, you know, we have guests, we have debates.
You know, sometimes I go on location.
I was doing some streaming from in front of the Supreme Court after Roe v. Wade was overturned.
And, you know, so I've done some stuff like that.
But a lot of times on the longer streams, maybe you're going over some other drama or some political story or we're covering news events live as they happen during the day.
We've done some court coverage.
So that does make it a little bit easier, I guess, because sometimes it's, you know, you can do like watch party sections kind of where you're kind of going over material with the audience and kind of breaking it down and critiquing.
So, yeah, it is a little bit, it is a little bit different because you're kind of just on camera.
You know, I'm on camera too.
So I'm just kind of on camera all the time.
Almost, I won't say reality show style, but it is, you know, once you're on for that many hours, it does kind of have a different effect, I guess.
Get a little more uh, comfortable with it.
It's a different thing.
I mean that that's I sort of, I guess, in a way, bridge the gap between the old and and what's come uh since my time, I mean here as a middle-aged guy and uh again, Keith being my youngest friend at one years old, uh.
But you know, I got my start with Buchanan and so I I that was sort of how I tried to emulate my uh career in radio.
But what's going on now with, of course, the younger generation with Nick Fuentes and the whole group over there at Cozy is entirely different and not in a bad way.
I mean, it's just different, but it's bringing in huge audiences.
And so that's just very impressive of what you guys are doing, going about it a different way, but doing it in a way that's drawing in a crowd that, you know, certainly we can't.
So it's great to have this collaboration.
Kidnapping the youth of America.
Well, I tell you what, the youth of America is they're well, what is the reaction that you're getting over there, Ethan?
You know, obviously covering a lot of the same issues that we cover, a lot of the same topics from the same perspective, but bringing in a different demographic, a different age group.
And obviously there is a large and growing discontent within whatever generation we're, what generation are we on now?
Is it X or Z?
No, no, I'm X. I'm Z or Millennials or whatever.
Well, whatever the current generation is.
They're coming over to people like you.
That's right.
We do, you know, we do have, you know, especially since I went over on Cozy.
I would say we've, you know, we do have a younger audience.
But, you know, I'm a little bit, I'm, what, 37?
So we have people my age watching too.
But we do, you know, it's the internet.
So one thing I like about the live stream game, I guess you could say, is the freedom.
You know, I can kind of change tact on a whim.
You know, we decide fully what we're going to cover.
I know you guys do too, but, you know, you can just pick up stuff and drop it just depending on the crowd reaction.
You can see it live too because there's a live chat.
Always wind up being the older generation.
I remember back when I was in my 50s and went to Council of Conservative Citizen meetings.
I was one of the young Turks.
It's different.
I'm telling you, no, that's not true.
Ethan and Nick Fuentes and all of these people over there, they're bringing in teenagers bringing in 20s and older 30s.
I mean, there are him.
We have teenagers who watch the show for sure.
And especially since Nick and I kind of linked up a little bit.
And when I joined Cozy.tv, that's his project.
But he's 23, 24, I think, and he had kind of built a young audience.
And I already had some, but I do think when I linked up with him, we added even more, honestly.
And, you know, they're on the cutting edge.
They're big on TikTok.
I don't even use TikTok, right?
But, you know, they're on there and they're sharing clips of Nick.
They're sharing clips of me.
They're, you know, getting stuff to go viral.
So, yeah, we definitely have a lot of youth viewers.
I think that, you know, it's the freedom that I talked about, but also, you know, there's no censorship either or very little.
So we do have some freedom in that area that you don't have.
You can have that to get the younger group in, don't you?
Yeah, I do too.
Yeah, I do.
I agree.
That's, yeah, I think it's pretty big.
And, you know, you just can't really find it on television.
And, you know, the radio, there's certain rules you have on radio, too.
So.
I mean, not that we know.
Right, there are certain rules, you know, but it's a lot of people.
We were talking about that in Q a moment ago.
You know, we first went on the air.
Just celebrated, just a couple of weeks ago, our 18th year of the year.
We went on the air in October of 2004 for the first time, and it wasn't until you know, from a Pro-white perspective until about 10 years ago not even that long, really about 2014 15, 16 where you had this proliferation of content producers with this irreverency and this.
It was like a marauding group of irreverent content producers who were just putting out stuff that was so wonderfully fresh and unique and it just brought in a whole, it opened up a whole new world of doors and Ethan, you've been certainly with the kill stream and with your live streams Tequila Sunrise we'll talk about all of this as the hour goes on.
It's certainly a catalyst in the development of this new generation of people who are coming to our ideas as a result of this alternative or new media.
Well, we're with Ethan Ralph right now.
We're going to take our first break of the hour, but we will be back and we're going to talk about the election and so much more.
Now that introductions are beyond us, we'll be right back.
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So happy tonight to bring to you Ethan Ralph of...
WELL, you can find him at twitter at the Ralph Retort, at the Ralph Retort, and from there you can you can link over to killstream and his telegram and all the other ways to contact uh.
Ethan and uh.
He is truly, as we mentioned in the last segment, been producing phenomenal content.
I mean the killstreams, pitting uh, Putting two people together to debate the issues, and Ethan serves as your moderator.
I mean, it's totally different than what we do here.
And that's a good thing.
I mean, we need all types of variety.
Ethan, I want to toss over to you the midterm elections and give you the opportunity to go in any way you want, any take you'd like, any angle you'd like.
Good thing, bad thing, indifferent.
What is it?
With all of the other guests, we've done that, and we've had some good guests.
But before we do that, I just should mention that I had known of Ethan Ralph and his work for years before having this opportunity to have him on tonight.
And you too, Ethan, had learned of the political cesspool.
We were just talking about that a moment ago.
Well, yeah, we mentioned that when we were talking before we came on air, and I actually knew of the political cesspool long before I got into any of this stuff.
You know, I'm thinking maybe like 2008 or something like that.
I don't know.
It was a while back.
There was some kind of, you know, it was some SPLC backstory or whatever.
I don't know.
I saw it on CNN.
I knew you guys.
Yeah, and particularly Pat Buchanan.
I always like Pat Buchanan a lot, too, because when I was growing up, I was actually a lefty, you know, young leftist.
Wow.
Yeah, when I was a kid in early college years.
And one of the things that kind of began to open me up, I guess, to breaking free from that, if you want to be dramatic, was Pat Buchanan.
And I'll never forget this.
It was during the fall of 2002, and he had a show on MSNBC with Bill Press, actually.
And I used to watch it every single day.
And the Bush administration was dead set on taking us into Iraq.
And I remember Pat Buchanan, I think it was maybe August.
I don't know.
It was even before Andy Card had came out with the quote, I think, right around that time.
And he said, we're going to war in Iraq.
He said, there's nothing they can do to stop it.
They've already decided.
We're going in.
I'm against it, but we're going in.
And I didn't like, you know, I was just trained to think Pat Buchanan was kind of, you know, out there, whatever.
You know, this guy's the old right-wing guy, right?
You know, okay, you're not supposed to like him, right?
And so, but, you know, I kind of perked my ears up.
I was like, wow, that's kind of, I didn't expect that.
And then, you know, I was young, right?
I didn't know all his history and everything back then.
But I'll never forget that.
And, of course, he ended up being completely right.
And I've, you know, read a lot of Pat Buchanan stuff since then.
He and Sam Francis were two of our big North stars.
I'll tell you this, Ethan.
I mean, that's an incredible genesis story there.
Anybody who's a longtime listener to this program knows my history with Buchanan.
I mean, up close and in person.
And on the radio, I mean, he appeared every time I asked him to come on.
And he just celebrated his 84th birthday last week.
And he would never back down when they tried to do that.
No, I tell you, they asked him on national public radio, what about your appearances on the political subsidy?
He said, let me tell you something.
And they said, you know, the ADL has condemned you for your appearance at the political session.
He defended us.
He defended us all the way to the hilt.
And I tell you what, I got my start with the guy.
And without him, I wouldn't be here, and we wouldn't be talking tonight.
So it's just so interesting that that had a role.
He played a role in your evolution as well.
And so now, I mean, here you are with the kill stream.
I mean, look, 50,000 followers on Twitter.
I mean, it's an amazing accomplishment.
And so that's Ethan Ralph.
And that's who we're talking to right now.
With that being said, Ethan, let's talk about the election now.
Give you the opportunity that we gave to Lauren Witzke and Grant Johnson and Kevin McDonald.
Where do we start?
I mean, what was your biggest takeaway from what happened on Tuesday?
I mean, well, one, you have to talk about Fetterman winning.
I mean, this is just insane, right?
We haven't yet talked about that a lot, but let's go.
Yeah, you can.
And I just looked at the results.
You know, we cover a bunch of stuff on the show.
We did an all-day election show and Roger Stone and Loomer and a bunch of other people.
Laura Loomer, excuse me.
I was being too casual.
We know.
No, we know.
No, no, we know.
We know here.
We know.
Right.
And so, but, you know, we jump around.
Sometimes we cover a little internet drama here and there.
A lot of times it's political streamers, but not necessarily, you know, top of the line stuff.
You know, it's kind of garbage streaming a little bit, right?
We're kind of having fun, making fun of people and stuff, right?
We're having fun.
Yeah, so that's part of the show, too, right?
So I said, well, I'm going to brush up on the results and make sure I'm kind of on track here before I go on the show.
And I was looking, and I guess it's went up since election night.
I didn't think it was.
Fetterman won by five points, a full five points over Dr. Oz, who I don't like.
I mean, Dr. Oz is terrible.
Yeah, pretty late.
That's right.
Yeah, but I mean, still, that's not.
Dr. Oz is, I mean, you would think maybe.
Yeah, he's terrible.
I'm not going to lie.
You know, I saw somebody break it down his performance in the debate.
And they go, how do you basically he was too eager to show him up?
And if he would have just fell back a step or a half step, it would have came across even more, right?
Like child abuse.
Yeah, exactly.
It's like, oh, you're a business guy.
Like, just hang back.
He's blowing it on his own, right?
You don't have to.
But he did.
I mean, that's the thing, Ethan.
I mean, we talked about this in brief passing, and we didn't mention it with any of the three aforementioned guests in the second hour.
But with regards to what happened in Pennsylvania, I mean, for God's sake, yes, Oz was not the best candidate.
It's not like Napoleon said, when you see your enemy making a mistake, don't interrupt him.
This guy, though, Fetterman, I mean, he had a stroke, and that's awful, but he is brain damaged, and he's absolutely brain-damaged.
There's no requirement to be a Democratic candidate for a guy.
I mean, Biden is obviously drifting into senility.
There's no doubt about that.
That's just due to old age.
But this guy is relatively young, and he is brain damaged.
And they elected him.
And I told Keith in the first hour, though, if the shoe was on the other foot, Ethan, if we had a retarded Republican candidate or a retarded white nationalist candidate or whatever you want to call them, and they could block the Democrat, I would vote for them.
I don't have any qualms with that.
But the fact of the matter is that this guy won and he's unlikely to even survive his term, but he won and he can't even speak.
And he's going to be a United States Senator.
I mean, that really speaks to, I think, the ridiculousness of the entire system, this entire nation.
I mean, where are we now with this where this is important?
The whole thing, I mean, you know, and I was thinking about going from there to here.
The fact, you know, Fetterman winning is bad enough, but they can't even count the votes.
I mean, it's Saturday night, and we don't have winners in many states, many districts.
Like, this is unacceptable.
You know, I cover sometimes, I'm a little kind of amateur anglophile here and there, and I'll follow British politics.
And we did an election in 2019, they had their general election, and so we covered that.
And that was the one where Boris Johnson kind of swept the deal.
Of course, he's gone now.
And so we covered it, and they kept counting until all the votes were counted.
I know that this is a shocking concept, but they kept going.
And if it took however long it took, they just kept doing what they needed to do.
Well, the thing is, over here, they don't know how to count.
Well, and then you see they try to blame it on state laws, and, you know, the candidates blame it on the election officials, and there's all this finger-pointing back and forth, and things aren't getting better.
They're absolutely getting worse.
Election fraud is the 800-pound gorilla in your living room on the couch.
That's what Lawren Witzke was talking about last hour.
I mean, you know, the whole thing, Ethan, this was Tucker Carlson.
I've mentioned this once before, but there was one thing I didn't mention.
And that was the fact that Tucker Carlson had mentioned that the day after the election, oh, my God, here's Adam Laxalt winning by 20,000 votes.
Oh, we found 50,000 drop box ballots.
Well, that just happened.
That minister found 10,000 ballots in the trunk action.
Well, here they are.
And so now, I mean, now, you know, the story writes.
Yeah, no, no, it did.
It did happen.
But then Tucker Carlson mentioned that on the air, that they had found 50,000 votes the day after the election with the Republican winning by 20,000 and the rest is history.
But he also mentioned that during the war between the states, we all know the good guys lost that war.
But even then, with the war raging, they were able to count with hand-raised balance by candlelight quicker than they can do in Arizona and Nevada now.
I mean, that's unacceptable.
And it's just, look, how can anybody trust this system?
You know, like what you just described just happened in Clark County.
And Roger Stone was on our show on election day, and he said, look, if fraud happens, it's going to be either Philadelphia or Clark County, Nevada, is literally what he said.
You know why it's going to be, by the way, right, Ethan?
It started with the Voting Rights Act of 65.
They knew that blacks did not vote with the same regularity as whites, so they had to handicap it some way.
And the way they did it was absentee battle.
A month worth of early voting, mail-in ballots, absentee ballots.
That's why we keep a boomer on staff here.
Thank you.
Yeah, really.
That's what happened.
And it's still going on.
You know, it will not die.
Take a break.
Ethan Ralph, the one, only Ethan Ralph, we'll be right back.
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Ladies and gentlemen, we are back to wrap up the show, the last two segments anyway, with Ethan Ralph.
And so Ethan, throughout the night tonight, we have had a diversity, in the best sense of the word, of takes on what happened last Tuesday night.
I think Lauren Witzke, when she was on, she was shining a light on the potential of election fraud.
Greg Johnson of Countercurrents was on talking about, hey, it actually serves our interests that the Republicans didn't have a red wave because it keeps us on our game.
Well, it keeps whites from becoming complacent and going back to sleep and things like that.
And then Kevin McDonald was a little more melancholy about the situation that manifested on Tuesday night.
So where do you fall in that spectrum, Ethan?
I mean, you know, in terms of lasting ramification, I mean, just from purely political horse race standpoint, you know, beyond that national divorce, I know that that was something that was talked about earlier a little bit.
You know, I don't know if there's, yeah, and I've seen Scott Greer have arguments.
That's another friend of mine.
He's been on the show a couple of times with people on Twitter.
You know, I kind of fall with him a little bit.
Like, I just don't know if there's really, is there really going to be impetus for that?
You know, people can't even stop watching football.
I mean, I still watch football myself, so I can't really, you know, like, right?
I can't worry.
This is the first O Miss home game Keith has this whole year, I can tell you.
So it's like, I have a good excuse.
But, you know, maybe that's where it eventually leads.
But I think the, you know, mindset of the people in control is kind of hold this thing together with bubblegum and whatever they have to for the next 20 or 30 years.
And then opiate of the masses, college football must be.
That's right.
Well, you know, I can't, I am an SEC guy.
I won't talk about the game today if you're an old Miss fan.
But hey, Keith, where'd you go to college, Keith?
Keith, where'd you go to college?
I went to Rhodes College when it was Southwestern, Southwestern, the school by the zoo where the girls are girls and the boys are too, which later became Rhodes College.
But I went to law school at Ole Miss.
Oh, that's a good question.
Hey, wait, wait, hang on, Ethan.
Keith, what hat are you wearing right now?
An old miss hat.
I swear to you, Ethan, as I look at him here in the studio with a Confederate flag as our backdrop, he's got an old miss hat on.
What do we like about Ole Miss, Keith?
The Confederate flag in Dixie.
But what do we not like about Ole Miss?
Everything else.
All right.
Well, anyway.
I won't even go there.
But rich history that the University of Grades worked with the states, Ole Miss had a 100% casualty rate.
They gave their all.
But you know, just from a.
I'm an Alabama fan, actually, because that's what I thought.
You were doing for the winner today.
Rapid Jammer, Yellow Hammer.
That's right.
But I didn't see it.
You wanted to see the game.
I did, but I was streaming during the game because I told people I was going to do a stream.
So I was just following the score off to the side of the screen.
I almost turned the game on.
I've done that before because they can't see, right?
I can actually have the game on the screen.
I didn't do that.
Yeah, I was afraid.
Well, they were losing at first, and then I didn't know if I even wanted to see that because it was going to make me angry during the stream.
I was kind of distracting.
And then I started seeing them coming back, and I thought, okay, all right, I'll keep monitoring the situation, as Trump says.
And they did come back and win, but I didn't actually get to see it.
I just saw the.
Well, see, Ole Miss lost their old coach, Hugh Freeze, because he made the old teachers at Briarcrest Christian School in Memphis.
Right.
Well, he made the cardinal sin of defeating Alabama two years in a row.
If you're an SEC coach and you defeat Alabama two years in a row, you'll find drones flying around town.
We've totally gone off the rail.
I don't even know how to redeem the program tonight.
Okay, my original answer.
Yeah, I shouldn't have.
I'm a college football guy myself.
Although, like I said, I haven't gotten to watch as many games as I'd like this year.
But just, you know, from a macro, leaving aside national divorce and stuff and all that.
But just the horse race side of it, to me, the Republican Party is just completely decrepit and not really worthy of much support as it's currently constructed.
You have, they're trying to go back to Mitch McConnell in the Senate.
That's an absolute joke.
Kevin McCarthy, we were talking about the family.
I mean, come on.
Yeah, come on.
Frank Lunch is removed.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
Kevin McCarthy doesn't inspire any confidence in anybody in history, right?
I mean, you just look at the guys.
I don't even like him.
Yeah, I don't.
That doesn't get anybody fired up.
And, you know, I think they need to move on.
I don't know that they will be able to, probably not.
But that I'm going to be able to do that.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Ask directions from John Fetterman.
Move on or move back because I know you retweeted something, and this has been a topic of discussion tonight with the other guest.
You retweeted.
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And you retweeted what would be the dream of the GOP establishment to capture the essence of Trump and place it into a man that can be controlled.
And this strikes at the heart of it.
That's the strikes at the heart of the Trump DeSantis potential.
Even the quartet of guests we've had on the night are of a difference of opinion on how this plays out.
Well, and again, you know, that was the second part of it from the macro, you know, analysis would be Trump.
Obviously, you don't have to have a rocket science degree or political science degree, even, which I do.
Unfortunately, I shouldn't have taken out all his lines.
But, yeah, I mean, it's Trump versus DeSantis.
Look, I don't have necessarily all that much faith in Trump, honestly.
You know, he kind of blew it in some ways.
Look at all those bad appointments.
Yeah, but.
The Republican base would not be as implicitly pro-white as it is 100% inadvertently or purposefully, Trump made that happen.
And the reason we have Marjorie Taylor Green and Paul Goser and people like that doing what they're doing.
What Trump proved is that being dumb is no impediment to success.
Well, you say that, but I mean, look, I mean, the Republican Party base is where it is because of Trump, no matter how you say it.
It is.
He got it started.
Conventional Republicanism.
And I think DeSantis would take us back to that.
I like a lot about him.
But I think he takes us back more than he accelerates what needs to happen.
I think a loss with Trump is more beneficial to the goals of you, people like me, alternative type sources and thought leaders or whatever you want to call it.
A Trump loss is better than a DeSantis win.
I agree.
I agree with that.
He advanced the ball more between 2020 and 20 and today than he did between 2016 and 20.
Because here's the thing, Ethan, now agree or disagree with me, and don't be, you know, certainly disagree with me if that's where your heart is.
I say, well, let me find out exactly where I put it.
Oh, my God.
I'll have to scroll back for days now.
Maybe I should paraphrase.
I had a pretty good take on this with regards to Trump and DeSantis.
I know exactly how that goes where you have to scroll and tweeted way more than I thought I did.
I found it.
It's behind bars, it looks like.
There's nothing that I could say here that would be better than what I wrote in my tweet.
I wrote this.
DeSantis running and winning would be the best thing for the Republican Party.
Trump running again would raise the political stress level and create additional instability.
I prefer the latter.
I agree with that 100%.
And that's pretty much what I said on my show yesterday, the day before.
Trump is still the real threat to the system.
And there's a reason they get it.
He's a bad boy.
Yeah, there's a reason they get so agitated by Trump.
There's a reason they literally, you know, are paralyzed by fear, some of these people, of him coming back.
And it's not that he's always going to do everything we want him to do or maybe he's going to listen to the wrong people here and there.
And he has.
And I criticized him myself.
But he's still that guy who is willing to break the mold out of the establishment mold, I guess.
Back in my day, you used to get licks when you were a boy for misbehaving class.
Trump would have been the kid that got the most licks.
Well, I agree with Ethan 100%.
I mean, listen, Trump is a mixed bag.
I mean, I would love to come on one of your podcasts and tell you my association with the Trump campaign in 2016, how all of that happened with Donald Trump Jr. and my credentialing and all of that that happened.
You know, what's funny is they credentialed me for a couple press junkets, and then later on.
But later on in the campaign, there was a change in leadership, and they didn't credential me for something in the fall.
There was no change in leadership.
They just pulled the rug out for my family.
Right.
Well, something happened.
Yeah, something happened because they credentialed me, and I was kind of surprised, honestly.
And then later in the fall, I'd been credentialed for two events, and then later in the fall, all of a sudden they didn't want to.
So I just was like.
We've got to talk about that.
That we got to share stories because it was the strangest thing.
And you know, you got to turn in to get your credentials, you got to turn in your information to the Secret Service.
No, you get vetted by the Secret Service before you get to go in that close.
And so, all right, we will continue.
Put a pen in it.
I would definitely like to talk about it with you.
We're going to continue with this in the next segment.
But Ethan Ralph, we'll share a story, a couple of war stories.
And this will be a lot of fun to end up this first show in the post-election era of the 2022 midterm.
We'll be right back.
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All right, let's just share some stories now with Ethan Ralph, and he'll share some stories with our listening audience.
This isn't anything the ADL and the SBLC doesn't know already, of course.
But the fact of the matter is, Ethan, Donald Trump was coming to Memphis to give one of his rallies.
Rallies, yes, that's right.
In February of 2016, it was right before Super Tuesday in March of that year.
And so we applied for press credentials and we got them.
And we got them.
And we were allowed.
Not only did we get them, I then, and then, you know, we had to turn everything over to the Secret Service.
And I asked, I said, you know, actually, Donald Trump is appearing of all days in Memphis on a Saturday night, right in our broadcast time.
And so we were going to get the press credentials to go into the press pen with Katie Tour and all of the others.
Kind of like a pig pen.
And I asked, I said, actually, we broadcast live.
Can I broadcast my show live for the press?
I said, yeah, no problem.
And so we did it.
And then the very next day, and that got a lot of publicity.
Oh, my God.
The very next day.
See, went out, spun out of control.
Well, it wasn't just the SBLC with the entire national media.
From that point forward, in March all the way through Election Day, just Google James Edwards, Donald Trump.
You'll see.
But the very next day after that, I got an email from the Trump campaign soliciting a Donald Trump Jr. interview on the show.
We didn't ask him to come on.
They asked to come on.
And so we had Donald Trump Jr. on.
And it was a great interview.
He agreed with everything that we said.
Tell him what Donald Trump Jr. said, though.
Well, I mean, I said, listen, I want your dad to be Charlemagne.
I want him to be our Charlemagne.
He said, yeah, man, we got to get to get to that.
Well, anybody who's listened to it has heard that.
But then, you know, when the media called him, he's like, I had no idea who that guy is.
Well, I said, you didn't know who I was, but you asked to come on the show.
You emailed me at jamesedwards at thepolitical session.org to come on the show.
But okay, plausible deniability, whatever.
He won't ever live that.
Now, he did say after Donald Trump's election that that interview will follow him for the rest of his life.
But we still got to go to the Republican National Convention, and we still got to go to the inauguration.
I had a plus one for the inauguration.
I took Jared Taylor.
So all the way through, I mean, it was just an amazing thing.
There was Jared and I in the media.
The only two people who wanted Trump to be elected and the whole contingent there of the media at the inauguration.
I was about as far from Donald Trump as I am from Keith right now.
I think you could have lobbed a baseball to him.
Everybody else is growsing and clenching their teeth.
Jared and I are there, you know, yeah, let's go.
Anyway, it was a fun year, Ethan.
It was a fun year.
He pretty shared it as well.
So I used to be a blogger, and I still have my blog, the RalphfordTorge.com, but I just don't blog that much anymore.
I'm just too confident.
That's not what the game is anymore with Twitter and live streams.
Right.
Yeah.
You know, I just, quite frankly, I just, I'm more suited to streaming, I guess, and it's more lucrative, too, just to be honest.
And so I just kind of shifted from the kill stream being a promotional for my blog to basically it being the main deal.
But that's how I came up through blogging, Gamergate.
You mentioned 2014, 2015.
To me, Gamergay is kind of what, I guess, loosened things up, kind of created that sector you talked about online with the content creators and bucking the establishment and Breitbart played a role and all that, et cetera.
But during that time period, so I was blogging about the election.
We had several big stories.
But this was in February, and he was doing a rally in Radford, Virginia.
And I said, well, okay, I'll just apply and see.
And they did.
They gave me credentials.
Exactly how it starts.
Yeah, and I went there and I just, you know, kind of live tweeted from, I didn't really have any.
I didn't think I was going to get the credentials.
I didn't have that big a plan, really.
I just went there, ended up writing a blog post, tweeted out some stuff, you know, some pictures.
But while I was there, there was a disturbance.
And some reporter, I don't know if you remember this, but there was a reporter trying to lean over the guardrail to take a picture of some protesters or something getting let out.
And a Secret Service agent grabbed him.
He was leaning over the press pen barrier, like you'd see in a wrestling event or something.
And he grabbed him by the throat and threw him down to the ground because he told the Secret Service agent to F off, you know, right to his face, which was not a good idea to do to a Secret Service agent.
Just full info there for anybody.
And so I was there for that.
That was pretty crazy.
There was a rally in Richmond I got credentialed for later.
And then there was something, I think towards the end of the campaign, I tried to get credentialed again, and I didn't get credentialed.
I just think they didn't send anything back.
So I don't know if that was, you know, because of any controversial stuff.
Negligence or intentional.
Yeah, and I didn't follow that.
Surely not.
Surely they were too busy.
It must have been just lost in the mail, but I didn't follow up or make a big deal about it or anything.
But yeah, that whole thing.
But I'll tell you, I mean, you know, it suffices to say, Ethan, I've been in this 18 years.
That's several, that's at least four presidential cycles.
And not one of the other candidates in the primaries or general or otherwise has ever given us the time of job.
Donald Trump did.
I don't know if DeSantis would.
I doubt it.
I think that Donald Trump was so desperate to get people in the media to cover him positively.
Well, he covered it.
He got covered.
That was one of the great things, Ethan, of it all.
His total lack of respect for the media.
The fact that they would call him a neo-Nazi, a white supremacist, a racist, a bigot, a xenophobic, every single day, and he never apologized.
I mean, a lot of it is due.
Where we are now, a lot of it is due over the evolution of the Republican base, the white voting base in the Republican Party of the last five, six, seven.
What year are we now?
It's been about six years now, right?
Sevens?
By seven.
It goes by too fast.
But it's due to Trump.
And so, again, all of that aside, going forward, we've absorbed what has happened.
And again, I think if you look at it objectively, a week ago, the Democrats owned the White House, the Senate, and the House.
Now they own the White House and the Senate.
And it looks like they just have called the Senate even while we're live on the air tonight for the Democrats.
I mean, we sort of expected that a little bit.
The Republicans will narrowly take the House, and I think that empowers people like Marjorie.
Trump will accelerate making the Republicans a party of the working class.
Well, before you get to that, I should say the Republicans stand better now than they did a week ago.
The Democrats don't.
Not really.
As long as we can rely on Manchin and Cinema.
I think they dodged a bullet, though.
Going forward, yeah, they do.
But going forward, what needs to happen?
What would you like to see happen?
Well, first off, something to get, you know, there's a lot of, I just feel like it should be way more energized even than it is.
And I think a lot of that is the GLP leadership just completely out of step with the base.
You know, I was at some of these Stop the Steel rallies on the ground, and I can tell you, one thing that kind of surprised me, you know, I thought I was edgy sometimes on air saying some stuff.
And, you know, a lot of these, they call them the, well, I won't repeat the term, but the boomer army, I guess.
And, you know, they kind of, you hear some stuff out amongst the rank and file that actually it's the elected officials that are completely out of step with the rank and file voter in the Republican Party.
And it's startling, actually, when you actually examine it.
That's a matter of money talks and B.S. Wallace.
Yeah.
Right.
So, I mean, I don't know.
They're probably going to continue to get in.
I don't see anybody unseating McCarthy or McConnell, unfortunately.
So that's kind of a pie in the sky thing.
Trump DeSantis, though.
I mean, you want Trump to announce this week?
Yeah, I'm Trump.
I want him to announce on Tuesday.
I want him to go all in.
I'm supporting Trump over DeSantis for sure.
Like I said, I think a Trump loss is more beneficial for our goals than even a DeSantis.
Let's talk about as white advocates.
See, he'll call us fade a dirty shovel as my wife's crying.
Well, he needs to start mentioning what he'll do for whites.
I mean, you know, interestingly, Ethan, even though Trump certainly made a lot of mistakes.
No, no, no.
He did.
I mean, we all do.
But, I mean, he certainly ushered in this new Republican base.
But he never mentioned, you know, and even now, you have people like Ron DeSantis who will use the term anti-white Trump never used that as president.
He's using it now a little bit more, but maybe.
But, you know, so he needs to come back and be stronger on that.
But yes, I think with regards to our future as a people, I am not interested in the well-being of the Republican Party.
In the well-being of our people.
And I think our people's interests is better served with Trump going in there as a chaos candidate.
As a bullet in the China shop.
So whether he wins or loses, it's going to raise awareness of our issues.
I think DeSantis starts to, I like a lot about DeSantis.
I've said this several times tonight, but I think he starts to taper us back down to rank and file Republicans versus Democrats.
One good thing about DeSantis, though, is he knows how the government operates and how to translate public feelings into government policies.
Trump, that's why candidate Trump was so much better than President Santa Claus.
Well, maybe he hasn't.
But we got a minute remaining.
It is yours.
Ethan, we could have gone a full three hours tonight.
We've had a lot of this is yours.
We certainly could.
I mean, to me, the thing with Trump is he's kind of like the Pandora's box, too.
You know what I mean?
Where he allows a lot of people to operate.
A lot more voices get heard when he's running, when his influence is out there versus a DeSantis type or a more established.
John McCain or Bob Dole.
Right.
Yeah.
So that's another reason why I just feel like he's good for this whole sphere, all of us, just in general, just him running.
So I'd say that.
And then I would just also say thanks for having me on tonight.
I don't know how much time we got left, a few more seconds.
We need to get you off for three hours.
Yeah, I know.
I really do.
I mean, this has been fun.
I mean, we've done this for a long time.
They're all fun.
They're all meaningful.
But this has just been freewheeling fun.
Shooting from the hip, and I think that's the best time.
Well, I'm looking at two different monitors here in the studio.
One says 858, one says 856.
If the 856 is Central Time, we got two more minutes, actually.
Okay, we do have a couple minutes.
So yeah, go ahead.
Go ahead, Ethan.
Yeah.
Well, I was going to say, some of your viewers, if they have some free time during the day or night, I broadcast on cozy.tv.
It would be a bad move for me not to promote that because tell us more about it.
Right.
Well, I got banned off YouTube kind of at the top of our game there when we were the number one late night show.
And I've been living a nomadic lifestyle as far as the show where it's broadcast since then.
I'm talking to Jimmy Kimmel.
Right, that's right.
That's kind of what we were doing.
But we found a home on cozy.tv.
It's an alternative media streaming site.
And so I want to promote it as much as I can.
We have a lot of other good streamers over there.
Nick Fuentes, you mentioned him earlier, of course.
He's the boss.
Basically, it's his site.
So I'll shout him out as well.
I thank you guys for having me on.
Check us out during the day and hope to come back.
Hope to have some of you guys on, too.
Thanks.
Hey, we got to do Eric passing through West Ephesus again.
Look us up.
Yeah, that's right.
We'll be here holding down the fort, my friend.
And Ethan, it has exceeded expectations, the already high expectations.
Let's continue to collaborate.
Let's continue to work together.
Godspeed to you and all you're doing.
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And from there, you can link over to all of his good stuff.
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Good night, Godspeed.
Keep the faith, folks.
Onward we go.
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