June 17, 2023 - 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.
Welcome back, everybody.
I want to thank again our attendees and contributors to tonight's program that attended the recent gathering of Countercurrents Countercurrents Summer Conference in Eastern Europe.
Also, Rich and Janice, who were at the Nathan Bedford Forest Boyhood Home today for the annual Forest Homecoming annual event there to help raise funds, to maintain the grounds, and expand the facilities to have meeting space and more there.
Gene Andrews doing a wonderful job, one of our regulars.
And we move on now to John Fassbender, who is the executive director of the American Freedom Party.
His position in the party hierarchy is second only to the chairman.
And he's a young guy with vigor, and he reminds me a lot of myself at that age.
And for reasons, not the least of which being that I cut my teeth in third-party politics.
That was actually my entry into this whole thing, as you know, with the Reform Party back in 99 and 2000.
I was 19 and 20 years old, respectively, when Buchanan made his last run for the presidency.
So that is still something that is near and dear to my heart.
It's how I got my start, and I think it's a wonderful and valiant effort.
So we're going to say hello to John Fassbender.
We're going to give you a little bit more about his background in the next segment.
But John, how are you doing tonight?
And thanks for being with us.
It's my pleasure.
Thank you so much for having me.
It really is a pleasure to be here, and I hope you're doing well.
I'm doing great myself.
Well, we are.
And thank you so much.
I was excited about your accession to executive director, and I was feeding off of the enthusiasm that I've seen from some of your messages.
So certainly excited to have you on tonight to talk a little bit more about it.
So I think, of course, the question has to be, in America, which is certainly very different to Europe in terms of its electoral process, you have, you've got to go back a long time.
You've got to go back to Ross Perot to have a third-party candidate that made a big impact on the presidential level.
But of course, not winning any states.
Got to go all the way back to George Wallace to find a third-party candidate who won states in the presidential primary.
But that may or may not be necessarily the goal of American Freedom Party.
Tell us what the intentions are there.
Absolutely.
And it's an excellent question.
I mean, you know, the idea of dissident right, duly registered political parties isn't really something that we've seen in quite some time.
And the American Freedom Party has existed in some form or fashion for a little bit now, just about over a decade.
But in recent times, we've gone ahead and revamped it.
We've swapped up the iconography to really bring it into sort of the, and bring it into the 21st century, you know, bring it into 2023.
You know, and ultimately, what it is that we're trying to accomplish here is, you know, there's not any one particular goal as far as, you know, we don't exist exclusively to run candidates.
Candidates is a big part of what we're doing.
In fact, and this is the first time it's being publicly announced with permission from the chairman, we are going to be running congressional candidates in all nine districts in Tennessee.
And we can look forward to that coming up soon.
Yes, and that's something we're extremely proud of and excited about, something that we encourage everyone to really jump on board with.
And we're also looking, we do not have a candidate for each district yet.
This is a call for candidates.
If you're interested in running, please do reach out and we're more than happy to sponsor your campaign.
But other than campaigns, the American Freedom Party exists both as a networking and a think tank module.
We're here not only to, I mean, some people question, and this is understandable, the viability of a political party for the dissident right, given the amount of flack that we receive for simply existing, for simply even being who we are,
nevertheless being proud of it, is enough to say, well, is it worth putting yourself out there, putting your face and your name and all this personal information out there for people who hate you basically paint a target on your back?
And the answer ultimately is that if you're not interested in taking that avenue of things, first of all, I do believe there is viability in it.
If we just stop trying, we're certainly not going to win anything.
But the other aspect, too, is there's the idea of fraternal bonding, organizing family events, really celebrating our culture as heritage Americans in this country.
And that's something we don't see a lot of.
So the American Freedom Party does exist for many, many reasons.
And I would argue that no matter what your reason is, so long as you're well-intentioned, there's a place for you here.
Well, I would say this, and I want to toss it over to you, Keith.
But again, there would be no TPC for whatever good we've done, whatever good you think we've done, whatever good we've actually done over the course of the 19 years we've been on the air, would not have happened had it not been for the third party initiative.
That's what got me into politics and from there I followed one broken trail and open door to another and it led me into radio and that's where i've been ever since.
But I can remember uh, that Buchanan campaign, that third and final Buchanan campaign for presidency uh, for the presidency, getting him on the ballot, the intricacies of the ballot access requirements, as it varies so wildly from state to state.
So I have a lot of nice trip to California.
I was out there in California as a delegate for Buchanan and as that, a national uh, a member of the National Committee FOR THE Reform Party, which was still getting public funding uh, taxpayer funding, because of Perot's showing in 96.
Uh was still getting uh matching taxpayer funds for its percentage of the vote that Perot had received in 96.
So you know that we thought we had a chance to do something there.
But when they blocked Buchanan, when they changed the rules for getting Buchanan into the debate uh that uh, you know, certainly was a uh, it was a blow uh, amongst other things, but uh nevertheless uh, there are.
There are things that can come from, from activism that you just don't know and that you can't imagine.
But I am not so sure Austin, that third-party candidates, independent candidates whether you have a ballot access line that says American Freedom Party or independent candidate because again, that's something that varies from state to state whether they will give you your party's name or if you have to run as an independent, it changes From state to state.
I'm not so sure that candidates, especially on, I mean, it's wonderful to get the publicity that comes from running for president or senator or congressman.
But I am not so sure party candidates could not win on lower-level local elections.
And that's something that's something that the party's considering.
Oh, absolutely.
That's, I mean, let's be real with ourselves.
Starting off running dissident political candidates, we're not going to throw all our money behind somebody running for president right off the bat.
It's a waste of resources and it's frankly just a bit whimsical.
It would be wonderful if that was viable, but at that stage, it's not.
One day we would love for it to be.
But as it stands right now, especially in maybe more easy-to-win areas, are that are a little bit more, you know, with a bit healthier American demographics, are more willing to listen to the ideas of people like us, people who preach what we preach.
And it's absolutely, I believe, to be a viable, a viable thing.
We've seen it, in fact, if you're familiar with the fellow Judd Blevins, who won.
Yes, I am familiar.
I believe it was very hard.
That's Tulsa, Oklahoma, or near Tulsa, I believe.
Yes, Anita, that's where you're in it.
Yeah, in it, in it, that's right, in it, Oklahoma.
So, this was a guy who was out as having been a Unite the Right participant, and he ran for a local election and won, even with that thing on his record, even with that being something that they were using against him.
He won.
And he won.
Was it a city or a county commissionership?
I believe it was city, but I can't recall off the top of my head.
That's right.
I believe it was City of Enoch.
I believe you are correct.
All right, stay tuned right there.
Austin, we want to get, excuse me, Austin was earlier.
We've got John Faspiter.
Yeah, of course, John Faspiner.
I was going to say, I wanted to remind everybody of Austin's appearance.
We'll be right back with John Faspiner right after this.
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We're back with John Fassbender.
And I'm going to give you a little bit more about John's background.
He was appointed to the American Freedom Party's board of directors in August of 2021 and to executive director in 2022, just a few months ago.
He began his career in dissident politics at the age of 17, but was politically minded in identitarianism and nationalism ever since becoming interested in politics as a child.
He joined Identity Europa in 2018, quickly becoming an interviewer for the organization.
This went until the launch of the American Identity Movement, in which he earned his way into prominent leadership positions.
John went on to reach the rank of chapter leader for the state of Connecticut, eventually encompassing all of New England, before finally reaching the rank of regional overseer for the entire North Atlantic region of the United States.
So you see, this is a young man who is determined.
This is a young man who is ambitious.
He rises up the ranks and of the ladders of any organization with which he is involved.
And now, to the benefit of the American Freedom Party and my longtime friend, Bill Johnson, he is there serving in the position of executive director.
Now, I want to thank you, John, for reminding me of Judson Blevins.
Now, I looked it up during the break.
I know Judd, I've heard his story, I should say.
He has been elected to the Enid, Oklahoma City Commission.
You say, well, we can't turn the rudder of the cause, you know, but where do you start if not with elections you can win?
Now, that's not to say, that is not to say that running for federal positions, president, senator, United States congressman, you can't have ancillary effects of raising awareness because these do get covered by the press a little more often and in a little bit bigger way.
So there are things you can do that come from that that are beneficial to the cause, but winning is not necessarily one of them.
But this is a man who won.
The headline reads here in the Enid News and Eagle, the local paper for Enid, Oklahoma, city candidate accused of white nationalist ties.
Keith, you'll remember that when you ran for assessor.
What's the percentage of the vote did you get when you ran as an outed white nationalist associated with Trump?
Over 40%, which was kind of incredible.
You know, I guess I'm well known in this community, and it really startled Newsweek.
I'll tell you that.
They ran a special article on it.
That's right.
So you won 40% in the Republican primary.
This guy actually did just enough better to win.
And he won with the headlines reading, accused of white nationalist ties.
He had attended Unite the Right, and he is now a sitting member of the Enid City Commission.
So let's again go back to that, John.
There are good things that can come from running for higher office, but there are practical things that can come from running for these type of offices.
Are those offices, and is the American Freedom Party seeking candidates to run for such offices?
Yes, yes, we are.
We are always looking for like-minded individuals, people with intellectuals and even blue-collar workers who have our interests, the interests of our people in mind.
We are willing to go ahead and scoop them up and give them a platform where they may not have one otherwise.
And that's really part of what makes the American Freedom Party so unique is we have the opportunity to do that, to sponsor these dissident candidates.
And as you said, there's extreme viability in it.
You see, you know, running for something like Dog Catcher, even, you know, running uncontested.
It's small little bites, but in time, that can culminate to something huge.
It's just a matter of moving in that direction.
Saying, you know, while throwing your hands up in the air and saying, well, there's no point is a surefire way to make sure we don't win.
John, this is Keith Alexander.
Let me ask you this.
We run your website on our daily reads.
Tell us or tell our audience, if you would, what's your plank?
What's your platform?
What are you for and what are you against at the American Freedom Party?
Absolutely.
Well, I mean, our platform is something that we've recently revamped.
The American Freedom Party, part of what we came into, being myself and some of the other young folks who jumped in was we weren't too happy with the way that the platform was laid out.
We didn't think people would get great ideas to what it is that we believe.
We have an 11-point platform now, and it can be found on our site, amfreeparty.org.
And you can read it there in full.
But our 11 points essentially cover the basics, the fundamentals of what it is that we believe.
We are, and I'm going to read this directly off of the site.
The American Freedom Party stands on a platform that is predicated on the preservation of our traditional European roots as well as a much needed revolutionary change.
We are strong in our conviction that when our policies addressing these 11 points are enacted by a government of the true American people, we will usher a new age for this country and bring America to new heights greater than she has ever been before.
So based upon that, and to build off of that, something that we're very much invested in is the right to bear arms, protecting the American people, that is the true heritage American people, those of European descent, ending the numerous anti-white programs that there are sprouting up around the country, the sovereignty of our people, rejecting the notion of we must be involved in every foreign war that comes our way.
War must be reserved only in the defense of our nation and of our people, not for financial gain.
Protecting the environment is another big one.
Law and order, preserving law and order, this country has fallen into a state of anarchy, and it will only get worse.
And we need to rise up and prevent such a terrible, prevent things from getting any worse than they already are.
the limiting of corporations on these, these, you know, globalist corporations that seek to, uh, you know, undermine and, and, and financially destroy, uh, individuals and, uh, you know, uh, collective groups.
Uh, and of course, you'll go ahead and give us the last two.
Give us the website again where people can read the entire party platform and mission statement and all of that on their own time.
Yes, the last two would be posterity, meaning our children, the future of our children is integral and the rebuilding of our culture, something that is, I mean, that's massive.
I don't think it needs explanation.
But the website is amfree, A-M-F-R-E-E, P-A-R-T-Y dot org.
AmfreeParty.org for the American Freedom Party.
And again, I say there are undoubtedly local offices that are ripe for the taking.
Offices that are not being heavily sought after, offices that can be won.
Because here's the thing, our issues, John, now, more than at any time at any point in my lifetime, I truly believe this.
Our issues resonate with voters in selected districts.
If you get the right candidate who doesn't have a lot of baggage, whether he has to be independent on the ballot or whatever, and a lot of these county and city and county races, everybody runs with no party affiliations.
That's interesting to know, too.
If you know anything about ballot access, a lot of these small town and county races, you don't put Republican or Democrat or anything else.
So you run, you could have a little bit of support.
Yeah, you're running as yourself.
And that's how you build a party.
You start picking off some of these low-hanging fruits, the non-sexy races, but then you start to win, and these people have power.
I mean, you're one of a handful of people that are governing a city.
This is a wonderful opportunity for our people.
And I think this is the best role American Freedom Party could play for our cause right now, Keith.
Just think about a non-sexy position like Election Commissioner.
Think of how vital that might be in this age of electoral fraud that we're enduring at the present time.
That would be a wonderful way to come in there and basically throw a turd in the punch bowl, as they used to say.
But we want to do more than that.
I mean, we certainly want to win.
And I think there are, if you selectively identify candidates, the right candidate in the right district, there's a lot of people we could plug and play right now that's just waiting to happen.
As we mentioned from Eden, Oklahoma, it did happen.
We got one minute remaining, John.
You went to Europe recently.
I wanted to have a whole segment for this.
You got one minute.
You went to Europe recently just on holiday, but people have already figured out who you are.
When you came back home, you got a warm reception.
What happened?
60 seconds.
Yeah, absolutely.
So what happened was I'd gone to Poland on a leisure trip and returned to my warm reception, was being detained and harassed by CBP agents for about three and a half, close to four hours.
This included searching my bags and going through my personal belongings and interrogating me about my beliefs and grilling me on these different things.
Now, ultimately, this is something we all need to be prepared for.
And this is not something that's unusual.
It's not something new.
It's not something that only I have been through.
You could be, I don't have something as much as a parking ticket in my 23 years of living, but I was still stopped and treated as some criminal off the street.
And that goes to show that being a law-abiding citizen does not restrict you from being harassed, from being targeted by these people.
They are a menace.
And you need to be prepared for that.
They did not intimidate him, though.
He's still here and he's still kicking and more determined than ever.
And freeparty.org.
Ladies and gentlemen, if you're thinking about running for elected to office, you got a small county or city seat, run, affiliate with the American Freedom Party and help out the cause.
Keith, I want you to go to Poland and come back and tell us what happened.
I hope I make it back like John did.
All right.
Thank you, John.
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Well, I was asking Keith what we should play for intro music for Father's Day, and he said the intro to My Three Sons.
And I played it, and it said My Three Sons.
Now, I think my father knows best would probably be the best title.
But on the other hand, there's a lot of music that doesn't give you a lot of descriptions about fatherhood or anything like that.
We're really straining tonight trying to find bumper music for Father's Day.
Mother's Day, Mother's Day, we got covered.
We got that.
Here's what Keith wanted to play.
Let's just, here we go.
That's what, I mean, I don't know if anybody.
They at least said my three songs at the very beginning.
Well, I gotta go.
Here's what he's talking about.
My Three Sons.
That's it.
That's the song.
Well, thank you, Keith.
It's been a long time.
Yeah.
Wonderful suggestion.
Well, that was 1960.
That was 1961, so maybe you forgot.
Well, you know, Mother's Day, we got it covered.
And we got my mother's eyes.
We've got all these songs that are.
What a million things she gave me.
Father's Day.
I always say on Mother's Day, I wouldn't be here without my mom, but I wouldn't be here without my dad either.
But they don't give him any songs.
Well, you know, maybe we're just uncovering a glaring deficiency in American culture.
There's nothing for Father's Day, basically, in terms of music or, you know, cultural appreciation like that.
But it's, on the other hand, as you said, we both had great fathers, and we are very thankful that we did.
We know that a lot of people didn't, but you know, particularly in today's world.
But since we did, I can tell you this: I had nothing but utmost respect for my father and the sacrifices he made for our family and for us to get a good education.
He created you.
Well, don't hold that against him.
I know it was his pleasure, I'm sure.
But anyway, have you ever seen the movie Stay Tuned?
No, I have not.
Well, here's the thing: it's an early 90s comedy with John Ritter, who we love from Three's Company.
We like John Ritter.
Jeffrey Jones plays like an agent of the devil.
And what happens is, and Stay Tuned, they go and they sell satellite dishes that are connected to hell to willing consumers.
And so John Ritter's character buys a satellite dish, and every show is like some sinister twist on the real show.
And when you watch it, you get sucked into hell and you have to fight your way out.
But it's a pretty good comedy.
It's a pretty good movie.
Now, some of the movies, but some of the shows they play, like some of the takes on the things that some of the shows that John Ritter's character has to survive.
And if you survive the show in hell, you get to move on to the next show.
And if you survive enough, you get to come back to earth again.
One of them is My Three Sons of Bitches.
That's one of the show.
And another one is David Dukes of Hazard.
That sounds like heaven.
I have meant to ask David Duke about that for 15 years.
Has he ever seen my three sons?
Has he ever seen Stay Tuned with John Ritter and Jeffrey Jones?
The people that think that David Duke belongs in hell are probably the people that belong in hell themselves.
Okay.
I don't know if David Duke is himself in hell, but the show is produced by the Hell Network.
Look, David Duke's a hazard sounds like heaven to me.
It's got a picture of the General Lee Carr with the, and it just says instead of Dukes of Hazard, David Dukes of Hazard.
And then there's other shows.
That shows you where Hollywood's head is, right on his ass, as usual.
All right.
I've been meaning to ask every time I talk or see David, I mean to ask him about has he ever seen Stay Tuned?
I've never asked him ever.
But I got to ask him.
Some obscure trivia now.
I'll have to hand that on to everybody.
If you've seen it, you can send me an email.
Stay tuned.
Well, let's look it up now.
This is one of those segments, I guess.
Stay tuned.
I'm typing it in.
John Ritter.
You know, John's been called home to his final award, 1992.
So he's the son of Tex Ritter, by the way, the famous grand old Opry star of Nashville back in the day.
All right.
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Right.
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Well, you never know what you're going to receive.
I think we have unique gifts.
That's the thing.
We have unique incentives.
It's not just like the random book of the month club, although we do have books and signed books and DVDs and audio CDs and all kinds of things that we send out.
We try to mix it up.
So it's not just book, but photo art, pieces of Jefferson Davis's home, and then, of course, the signed photograph of the German World War II veterans that we gave away last Christmas.
He had that framed as well.
See, you're going to get a real Duke's mixture of stuff.
No pun intended.
Right.
David Duke's mixture.
But we've offered all kinds of things over the years, four times a year, every year for 19 years.
That's a lot of different incentive gifts.
And this month, this quarter, we have Jared Taylor's audio book.
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Keith, you received one of those signed books tonight.
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And quite frankly, we really do appreciate the people that do go to the trouble to contribute to us because you had to jump through a bunch of hoops.
You had to write a check or a money order and mail it in.
I mean, that's the only way we can receive it.
So if you're not doing that, we don't get it.
And we certainly appreciate the people that make that effort.
That's right.
If you've done it once or many times or every quarter, or maybe you will, we appreciate your considerations.
We don't exist without you.
I hate wasting a segment fundraising or reminding you that we're in our fundraising appeal, our quarterly season to bring in the fruits.
But we have to or we wouldn't be here.
And we don't have grants.
We don't have bequests to prop us up.
We have just our donors.
And every quarter we feel if you say, hey, they're too big, $25, $50 won't matter if I don't send in my contribution this quarter, they'll be okay.
We feel it all.
$5 would be great, folks.
A dollar would pay for the stamp to send you the solicitation.
So does the dollar cover it anymore at the post office?
I don't know.
Yeah, I think it does.
Barely.
More will go for the stamp than will come.
It's more than 50 cents for the stamp.
No, it's 60-something.
You haven't bought a stamp in a while, my friend.
No, I have.
I think it's 65 or 60.
It's too much.
But anyway, folks, believe me, we need it.
We feel it.
We feel it when it doesn't come in, but we certainly feel it when it does.
And we would appreciate your support.
And thanks to everyone who has donated this quarter and all of our loyal and faithful donors.
We'll be back one more segment this Father's Day weekend.
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Well, welcome back, everybody.
One more segment, and it's going to be a fun segment.
I wish it had been two segments, but we had to fundraise because, well, because we have to.
It's the lifeblood of the mother's milk and all of that.
Well, my dad is texting my dad.
Happy Father's Day again, Dad.
And I wish we had better music for the dads out there.
Happy Father's Day to you, Keith, and to Scoop Stanton, who's with us right now.
Happy Father's Day to you.
Well, thank you.
Thank you.
George and I both had three children.
My dad wants you to know that Tex Ritter was a singing cowboy.
Did you know that?
Absolutely.
I knew you'd know that.
But in any event, TBC is sort of like the mothership of Liberty News Radio's Saturday night lineup.
We have two spin-offs: one that comes on immediately before us, one that comes on immediately after us.
And both are certainly worth listening to.
Three hours before TPC goes live on the air, our old friend, or still friend, but old co-host Eddie DeBombadier-Miller is doing Blood River Radio.
And immediately after us for an hour, you've got Scoop Stanton, who we met.
I can't even remember.
He's our man from the D.C. area.
He was like our man from Havana.
Well, he was in Spain when we first met him, still in the Navy.
And Scoop goes back.
I think Scoop was on at least as long as you've been, Keith.
He's been there forever.
And Scoop left the.
We got some great information.
We got some great news stories from him.
I remember the time he had Sean Bergen.
He broke some stuff.
I mean, Scoop was a great guy.
Well, that's why he's got his own show now.
Yeah, that's right.
You got comfy here up at the cockpit, but some of these other guys just go on and do their own thing.
I mean, you were doing the field role.
I need two guys to pilot the CSS Cesspool.
But anyway, anyway, let's get to Scoop.
I mean, we first met Scoop back in just a couple of years after we went on the air, maybe a year or two.
Great memories with him for so many years.
The last segment of every show was his.
He took the last segment of every show for years and years and years.
Got his own show now that comes on immediately after us.
So when we go off the air, you stay tuned eight more minutes, and then you're on with Scoop and Walter Yerku.
Scoop, how are you doing tonight?
Outstanding James.
Good evening, Political Cesspool family.
James, I need to correct you for one thing.
You make it sound like I just left the Cesspool to do my own thing.
If you go on the website, I am still the Washington, D.C. correspondent for the political cesspool.
He's right.
You go to the staff and crew section of thepolitical cesspool.org.
You'll see his beautiful, beautiful face and body.
And there it is.
And you're at a gravesite, I believe.
Are you not in that particular picture?
That is at Perliche Cemetery.
I'm at the gravesite of one Jim Orrison.
There you go.
There you go.
But in addition to still being our D.C. correspondent, although we woefully underutilize you these days, you're hosting your own show.
Now, when the show first started, you were with our good friend and fellow criminal justice correspondent, Jim Lancia.
Now you're with Walter Yerku, who for a while starred in what was then at the time the biggest documentary in the history of Netflix.
Right.
It still is a huge documentary.
You can catch on YouTube.
It's on the Tubi Network and everywhere else.
It's called The 7-5.
We call the radio show 7-5 Radio because of Yerku's involvement with the 75th Precinct.
However, our show is not just talking about old tales back in the day with members of New York's finest.
So if we have run a story where it involves police involvement or some law enforcement issue, like with St. George of Fentanyl or Eric Gardner or something else, we could, you know, Walter, I can relate, possibly relate to it, but we don't just, you know, we do current events, law enforcement issues, personal issues, so on and so forth.
Well, let me ask you this: what is going on in D.C. that we need to know about?
That should be all kidding and monkey shots aside.
I mean, Trump's saying he can't get a fair trial in D.C. for when he gets indicted there.
Are there any whites left in D.C. at all?
Besides Jesus.
And certainly there's not any in positions of power, though.
But actually, there are white people on the D.C. council, but again, they're traitors.
The District of Columbia has been going through gentrification.
A lot of the people who've been there for a while, they're upset because the chicken shack, the rib shack, the liquor store have been replaced with Starbucks, a micro brew, and a yoga studio.
So they're upset.
The percentage is like Scoop, you know, between white and black.
92 to 8, isn't it?
Well, actually, it's been changing a lot.
Don't be too surprised in the next couple of election cycles that the new next mayor of the district is white.
Well, so you say they're gentrifying, which I wrote whites are around 50%.
Is that what you're doing?
Well, in my book, I wrote this in 2010.
If it's white flight, it's racism.
If it's gentrification, it's racism.
You can't move at all without being raised.
Whatever it is, it's racism.
Tell us what it is.
What is the percentage?
I'm surprised to hear this.
It is under 50%.
D.C. is still a majority black city.
The personnel who do draw a paycheck from the district are black.
The council members, it's about 50-50.
But as you can imagine, all the council members for the district are absolute traitors.
Well, that's the thing.
I mean, that's the thing.
Just because they're white don't mean they're allies.
I mean, they're white.
We certainly don't want D.C. becoming all the government jobs have been snarfed up by the blacks.
We certainly don't want D.C. getting its own two senators or anything like that.
Right, exactly.
And but Mayor Maryland Bowser, she's doing her best to drive the whites out because with the help of the U.S. attorney, 66% of all arrestees in the District of Columbia do not get charged.
D.C. is different than any other territory jurisdiction.
They have U.S. attorneys as their prosecuting attorney.
They don't have a sheriff's officer.
They have U.S. Marshals act as the sheriff.
So you have a 66% chance of not getting charged, number one.
And now people are not coming into the district because of the carjackings through the roof.
There's been over 100 homicides.
It looks like Mogadishu.
On Mother's Day, a 10-year-old girl was shot and killed while riding the backseat of the family SUV.
And then in Suitland, Maryland, the funeral director for the funeral home or that 10-year-old girl shot a pallbearer from a rival, so-called rival funeral home over God knows what at the cemetery.
So this mother's trying to bury her baby girl, and the funeral director shoots a pallbear from another funeral home.
But Paul, the funeral director is gunning him down, huh?
I guess he's making business for himself.
Right.
And just recently, a pregnant woman was shot and eventually died sitting in her car.
Fortunately, she was able to give birth, and the baby's in serious condition, but she was shot and killed.
And the two guys that did it just turned the car into Swiss cheese.
So, I mean, it's D.C. is just actually falling apart.
Some things never change about D.C., do they?
How you survive?
Well, I was going to ask.
Well, you know, we sent you that wonderful mayor, Marion Berry.
He was from Memphis.
Did you know that?
Well, I was going to ask Scoop how he survives there, but then I ask ourselves, how do we survive here?
It's the same thing.
Well, because I survived by not going into the district.
I have no, other than work, which, you know, we all have to work.
I have no reason to go in the districts.
When I do Uber, I take trips out of the district.
I don't go into neighborhoods east of the Anacostia River or in Prince George's County because it's a safety issue.
And our buddy Stas, who's delivering on DoorDash on his bicycle, I keep telling him, Stas, find something else.
It's not worth it because these animals will shoot and kill Stas just for some pork-fried rice.
They'll steal the quarters off a dead man's eyes, as we say down here in Memphis.
Yep.
So that's, I mean, and then the city council decriminalized farebeating.
New York, we called it the New York Olympics when they jumped over the turnstile.
So instead of a criminal offense where you can face jail time, it's a civil offense like a parking ticket because too many young men of color are affected by the Metro Transit Police cracking down on farebeating.
So nobody pays in the District of Columbia because the cops are like, why do it?
It's just a parking ticket.
It doesn't mean anything.
So as they're walking through the gates, smoking weed on the trains, exposing themselves on the trains, fighting on the trains, discharging weapons on the trains.
So needless to say, I drive.
Sounds like a criminal's paradise here.
All right.
So folks, we're remembering Scoop tonight.
Our still DC correspondent, although not on every week, to say the least, because he's got his own show now that follows DPC.
We call it affectionately the fourth hour.
Now, if you stay tuned to this feed you're currently listening to, if you're listening live, in a couple of minutes, Scoop's going to be on with his own show as he is every week for years and years and years now.
Scoop, give us a one-minute preview.
Oh, give us a 10-second preview.
What do you got coming up tonight?
the music that sounded like what Keith It sounded like a harpsichord.
With a cat stuck in it.
Folks, help us out.
And thanks to everybody for tuning in.
And for everybody who participated tonight, Scoop, I don't know what happened there.
You were a little garbled.
But I'm going to stay tuned at the fourth hour, affectionately known as Scoop Show with Scoop and Walt.
And for everybody else, we'll talk to you next week.
Happy Father's Day.
Do something for your dad tomorrow.
And we'll talk to you next week.
What's going on next?
Oh, big show next week.
Mark Weber, Roger Devlin, and a few other tricks and surprises.